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VOL. XIII. [J. E ARMOR.] [J- W. WINFIELD, AaV] ' J. 1. Mill & Cl, No. S3 West Mitchell Street, ATLANTA, ------- GEORGIA Feeling grateful to our friends the public geii A crally for their liberal sup / /xport & patronage in the/ X. past, i*we hope by\ close atten-/// <4p 4 \ tion to bu-/// / siness, fi-/ f/' 0 / / a/ /custom / <# A* /prompt / /vx * /in all busi ■L / # a / ness matters, \ r ..O'/to merit a eon- V /tinuaiice of pub | X*x /lie favor and en \/couragement. Our stock is complete, and we guarantee satisfaction in both PPICE§/ ""x and quality iof goods. / */> \, n We do ' V £, $4 o<3 * Z * not FEAR ‘ •. \ • V \x>// X/ v / competition in either. ~'"x/ ,1. E. ARMOR & CO. Atlanta. Ga, June 20. 1-878. , -—ac B&swess cards. M. W. LEWIS. } 11. T. & 11. 0. LEWIS LEWIS & SONS, gltiomciis ni i)uv, GREENESBORO’, GA. W ILL practice in all the Courts State and Federal. n0v.29, i7 i:. h7lewis, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SPARTA, HANCOCK CO., GA., T\TILL give faithful and prompt attention * to allbusiness intrusted to his care. Jan. 24, 1878—4 ms McWhorter Bros., Attorneys & Counselors at Law, GREENESBORO’, - - GA. of Claims a Specialty. /John A. McWhorter. ) 1 Hamilton MeWhortei.) Sept. 27, 1877.-tf Philip B. Robinson, Attorney at Law , GREENESBORO’. . . . GA WILL give prompt attention to business entrusted to his professional care. Feb. 20, 1873—6 ms JAMES B. PARK, Attorney at Law, GREENESBORO ’, - - - GA. Prompt personal attention given to all business intrusted to liis care, in tb* Counties of Greene, Morgan, Hancock, Oglethorpe,Clark. McDuffie and Richmond. Jan. 1,1878 —ly ~@apßase Ball Bats to arrive. C. A DAVIS A SON. % bewoteb to news, politics, literature, agriculture Am GENERAL, progress—independent in ail things. W. M. Harris, Attorney & Counselor at Law, GREENESBORO’, - - - GA. OFFICE in the North East Room of the Jas. L. Brown Building. Up Stay s. March, 21, 1878—ly. W. W. LUMPKIN attorney at law, UNION POINT, - - fia. OFFERS his professional services to the people of Greene and adjoining coun ties, and hopes, by close attention to busi siness to merit and receive a liberal share of patronage. jan23 ’74 ly. Frederick H. tfeary, Attorney at Law, SPARTA, GA. TILL give prompt personal attentoin \ > to all business ' connected with Ins profession, in the Northern and Ocmulgee Circuits. attention given to_ the col lection of claims. 17, 18 8 Dr. Win. Morgan, RESIDENT T# DEMIST GREENESBOROGA feb. 1, 1874. T. Markwalter, Mirbli: Works, Near Lower Market, Broad Street. Augusta,, -* • Ga, 4 LARGE SELECTION always on hand l\. ready for lettering and shipping. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 6. 1877 —3ms mm ♦ g@“The very best 3yrup at B. VV. Allen’s. GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 15. 1878. THE CITY Paue StorE PUKE DRUGS, / fheiiurrtlSp Patent Medicines,! BUISTS TURNIP SEED CROP 1878. RUTA BAGA, WHITE GLOBE. WHITE ROCK, YELLOW ABER DEEN. etc. etc. FRESH MEDICINES AND DRUGS CONSTANTLY ARRIVING. For sale by John A. Griffin. CGr’Physicians’ prescriptions carefully dispensed. april 13, 1876-ly A Sure Pure lor Consumption, Those suffering from this fearful disease are assured that Thrash’s Consumptive Cure aud Lung Restorer will positively cure. Ask the recovered consumptive how he was cured, and he will tell you Thrash’s remedy is the only one that is a sure cure for the disease. Pleurisy, Pneumonia, Coughs, Colds readily give way where the remedy is employed. Croup and Whooping Cough lose their horror where the Con sumptive Cure has been introduced, and no family who have once used or witnessed its happy effects will ever consent to he with out it again. It is so simple in its compo sition, containing no opium or other injuri ous drugs, that the most delicate and feeble can use it without the least injury. John 11. Mead of Atlanta, Ga., writes : “It is the only remedy now extant for Consumption and diseased lungs.” Rev. l)r. Lovic Pierce says— ‘l have been speechless about two months —have been taking Thrash’s Remedy. This is the ninth day, aud I can talk now with some case.” TRIAL BOTTLE 50cts. EgyFor sale by .JOlfftT A. 4*3£gF FSAf, Greenesboro’, Ga. March 10, 1870—if .'4 BSEUII LEGICT. eian In South Carolina, years and years ago. Probably some of our old citizens re collect his fame, if not the mar.. lie died a long time ago, but he left a rich legacy to his people, in the form of his celebrated GILDER’S LIVER PILLS. If you suffer from Headache, Biliousness, Chills and Fe ver, Giddiness, or anything else, two or three of these Pills taken at bed time will relieve you at once. Sold by IV. P. Mc- Whorter, Woodville ; Haire & Latimer and J. T. M. Haire, Lexington ; Dr. Thomas, Crawford; M. ?. Briscoe, Woodstock; Tappan, Mapp &. Cos., White Plains; Thos. Fleming, Maxey’s; W. T. Johnson, Siloam; B. F. Torbert & Cos., Greenesboro’; J. F. Hart & Cos., and E. C. Bowden and M. L. Watson, Union Point. aug 11,’76-ly jujiir. William M. /Durham, Maxey’s Oglethorpe county, Ga., treats with great success all chronic diseases, In connection with the regular practice he combines that of the late distinguished Dr. L. Durham deceased of Clarke Cos., Ga. Dr. L. Dur hams's practice is not confined to his neighborhood but patients come to him from all parts of this and adjoining States. Dr. Durham does not profess to cure every case, but his great success in the majority of cases that apply to him for treatment proves his method of treating chornic dis eases superior to that of the regular prac tice. Among the diseases which he treats with the most gratifying success, mat’ be mentioned the following : Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Dropsy, Bronchitis, Incipient Consumption, Dyspepsia Scrofula or |Kings Evil, Sick and Nervous Headache, Fits, Diseases of (he Eye and Ear Diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, Heart Disease, Secret Disease. Disease peculiar to females a specialty. When you have given your fam, ily physician a fair trial, and you arc not cured, write to Dr. Durham your symptom in full, your age, &c,, with stamp, All com munications strictly confidential. January 10th 1878, 6 mt., ► -• <*0043 Higcslioi!. “Give us this day our daily bread” and good medicine to digest it, is both reverent ar.tl human, The human stomach and liver are fruitful sources of life’s comforts; or, disordered and diseased, they tingle misery along every nerve and through every artery the man or woman with good digestion see beauty as they walk, and overcome obstacles they meet ii the routine of life, where the dy-peptic sees only gloom and stumbles and growls at ev° imaginary objects. The world stii. needs two or three new kinds of medi cine bofore death can bo perfectly abol ished; but that many lives have bee, prolonged, and many sufferers from Liver disease. Dyspepsia and Headache have been cured by Merkell’s llela tin'e, is no longer a doubt. It cures Headache in twenty minutes, and there, is no question but what it is the most wonderful discovery yet made in medi cal science. Those afflicted with Bil liousnessand Liver Complaint should use Meurell’s Hepatine. It can be had at Dr. John A Griffin, Greencsboro Ga. ■ -a • anw Inventors anti Patentees Should send for instructions, terms, refer ences, etc., tolldson Brothers, Solicitors of Patents, Washington, D, C„ who furnish the same v>ithovl Charge. Edson Brothers is a well-known and successful firm of large experience, having been established since 1860. IVltnl Voorhecii Says. [Extract from a receii speech.] In the midst of its will-spread de moralization, however, a grange and violent attempt has recently been made to revive the waning fot' -bes of the Republican party by a sectional attack on the investigation now’ being made into the alleged frauds by which the present administration was placed in power. When this investigation was ordered by a Democrat,/.; House of Representatives, a sort |*f hysterical scream burst out from tin. entire Re publican press. To dispaq ionatc ears, however, it sounded more 1 ike the cry of conscious guilt and fear of detection than of patriotic apprehension]for the country. Anew word 'was coined, prophetic of evil to our government.— We were informed with oracular em phasis that our government was to be “Mexicanized.” Mexicanized! Do those who have hurled this word into our political vocabulary have any con ception of its real meaning and import? From the conquest of Cortez to the present hour Mexico has been a land ofrevolution and lawless turbulence. — One of the leading features of her his- tory lias been the usurpation of power by those who were not entitled to it, — Fraud and violence have controlled her highest official positions. The ques tion there has not been, who was elect ed President of the republic, but who had the means of chicanery or force to obtain the position. Lordo was but yesterday driven from that pi ace, and Diaz now holds it in violation of the Mexican constitution, and without the sanction of popular suffrage. But does the evil examples of Mexico apply to the conduct of a party which investi gates fraud and seeks to ascertain the true expression of the popular will ? Does it not rather apply with "rushing force to that party which, • "ring pro openly confessed means returns; now seeks to stifle all inquiry on the subject? Which policy would soonest aud most certainly Mexicanize the American government? What party is on the plainest road to that bad end ? Is it the Democratic party, which aims to discover fraud, and to hold its criminal perpetrators up to the public execration, or is it not in fact the Republican party, whose leaders have desecrated the ballot box and sapped the very foundations of popular government through the instrumental ities of the Andersons, the Webers, the McLins, the Dennises, the JeDckes and that brazen gang now so conspicuous before the public ? Who can be harm ed by investigation ? None but the guilty. Who dreads investigation ? It is my experience that the innocent have no fears, while it is the experi ence of mankind that the guilty flee even when no one pursues. How much greater, then, must be their fear and flight when they are hotly pursued by the indignation of a free people burn ing with a sense of wrong. I do not wonder, therefore, at the j not:s of alarm which filled the land when it was proposed to sift this great est political crime of the nineteenth century to the bottom. It was right that it should be done, When the electoral commission was created, the entire American people, with the ex ception of a few leaders who were in the conspiracy, expected it to make a thorough investigation of the facts, aDd to ascertain who in reality was chosen l’resident. Its refusal to perform this plain duty was a surprise and a disap pointment to every honest bisd of eve ry political party. The electoral com mission decided the great question of the popular will in the choice of a Chief Magistrate upon a meagre, bar ren technicality. When it decided not to go behind the returns, it gave a le gal title to Mr. Hayes, binding in law, but entitled to no more respect than the liberty which an offender iu court obtains by relying on a flaw in his in dictment rather than on a trial of the merits of his case. In view of this state of facts could the House of Rep resentatives do less than order an ins vestigation ? But further. The elec toral commission ha< not only failed to do its duty in this regard, but in a brief space of time the instrument which was used in tho great conspira cy to defeat tho popular will began to reveal the whole plot. This was to be expected. Sherman, Matthews, Stough- ton, Noyes and others who visited Louisiana and Florida are now under going the same fate which has always attended those whoTlo unlawful things ' by the hand of others. History is sim ply repeating itself on this point. The tool of the conspirator is always swollen with a sense of his own importance by reason of the guilty secret which he shares with meu of position and char acter. Sooner or later he seeks to make his secret a source of profit to himself, nor will he ever be satisfied. The result is inevitable; he first threat ens, and when those who are in their power find themselves unable to ap pease his constant and unsatiate de mands, ho reveals everything, as if thereby ho atoned for the original crime. Such is the philosophy of the course pursued by McLin and Dennis in Florida, and by Anderson and oth ers iu Louisiana. Nor is there any thing new in the manner in which high officials at this time bear themselves to ward those who arc giving testimony against them. John Sherman and his associates are not the first who have drawn themselves up in well affected disdain, and disclaimed all knowledge of the tools they oneo used and cast aside. Others before him have exclaim ed to their former confederates, who returned to plague them: *•Avaunt, I know you not!" But when was the world—the great thinking, intelligent world—over imposed on by such con duct? Who is McLin, of Florida?- Soon after the inauguration of Mr. Hayes he was appointed Chief Justice of the great Territory of New Mexico. There are many future States in that territory aa large as Indiana. The in fluence of the administration of her laws reaches far into the future, and become a matter of the highest impor tance. This solemn duty was intrust ed to Mr McLin. Who will say that made so important an acter of the man Tie'ajJpirrtnFfr'*! 'nfr Senate, however, being properly ad vised, rejected the nomination. McLin waited for something else, but waited in vain. Doubtless it was thought the debt due to him was paid. At any rate, whether from motives of revenge, or moved perhaps by a quickened consci, enoe, he has told the story how by his own instrumentality, and that of others a clear and distiuct majority for Tilden and Hendricks iu Florida was by per jury and forgery wiped out, and tho electoral vote [of that State given to Hayes and Wheeler, lie cited tho re cords of various precincts in corrobora tion of his statement. Then came a man by the name of Eennis, It ap pears that he has been uu object of the tendered care and solicitude on the part of the government. Ho held of fice and drew his salary without dis charging a single duty for many months. Mr. Hayes himself personal ly recommended him to the Secretary of the Treasury as a first-class person tor a position in the Revenue Depart ment. lie, too, however, guided by that law, vague and undefined though it may be, which sooner ox later re veals wrong-doing, added his statement to that of McLin’s. Auderson, in whose behalf Senators, Secretaries, Col lectors of Customs and the President himself were solely anxious for more than a year, laid open the conspiracy by which a Democratic majority of be tween five and ten thousand in Louis iana was obliterated, and a majority of between three and four thousand plac ed to the credit of Hayes and Wheeler. This state of affairs in Louisiana and Florida was made known, and an inves tigation ordered by the House of Rep resentatives. Is there a man in Indi ana who says the House could have done less ? It is asserted that this in vestigation may result in disturbing the title of the present occupant of the White House. My answer is plain and simple: Ry the forms of law he was inaugurated, tie has a legal right without the equitable right. He will remain where he is to the end of the Constitutional term, unless he should be removed by virtue of that provision of the Constitution which has applied to every President from the foundation of the government. He is liable to im peachment and to no other process for removal. If lam reminded that the President can only be impeached for acts while in office, my answer is, that is true, with this qualification : If it should be proven in the investigation, or any other, in reference to Mr. Hayes or any future President, that ho was an accomplice in the commission of unlawful acts by which he procured his place, ho would undoubtedly be liable to impeachment for such acta. In the present instance, I do not apprehend such result, whatever the real facts may bo. Tho great wrong will be re dressed at the ballot-box. The inves tigation will emphasize the crime which has beeu committed against the Amer ican people. It will go into history as a warning to future times, and the fate of those who committed it will make it less likely to ever occur again. Itic !ScsM liivcstiKiitfuif, [Washington Post ] Tho Potter committee have prov ed, beyond successful rebuttal, things believed to be true, but not absolutely proven to be true be fore, to-wit ; That the electoral votes of Florida and Lousiana, which were given to Hayes, belong ed to Tilden. Leaving out of con sideration tho State of Florida, which no honest man will deny to have been stolen, wo will take up Lousiana. A3 to this State the Potter committee has clearly prov od : 1. That a conspiracy was en tered into by certain Republican leaders. The object being to bold no election in East Felicina, Grant and other Democratic parishes. 2. That tho fact that no Repub lican votes were cast in East Feli cina was not duo to intimidation, as alleged, but was owing to Ander son’s advice to the Republican leaders not to vote, as it would have a better effect than all the affidavits that could be produced. 3. That for a period of two days leaders aatfnrtetruiGv RwwbUajMr Nicholls had carried the State by a heavy majority. 4. That when it becomes evident that the eloction of Ilayes depended upon the result of the State, delib erate preparation were made for the purpose of defeating dhe will of the people as expressed at the polls. 5. That in pursuance of this plan, protests, forged and altered to suit the occasion, wero made for the parishes of li*ast and West Felicina. whereby a Democratic majority of over 2,800 was chang ed to a Republican majority of 500. G. That the Supervisors of the abovo named parishes were pi even ted by promises of reward made by John Sherman and others from ex posing such forgeries. 7. That oil tho 27th day of November, when the Returning Board proceeded to sum up tho re sult of their labors, it was discov ered ihat while Packard and a Re publican Legislature were elected Hayes was defeated. 8. That after the above date, and in order to secure the elector al vote for Hayes, forged protosts were made for Richland and other parishes and tho returns from La fayette and other parishes so changed as to increase the repub lican vote. D. That affidavits bearing fiotß tious names, and tho names of dead men, were manufactured in tho Custom-House, and upon such affidavits various Democratic polls were thrown out. 10. That the act above recited were known to setae of the visiting statesmen, and received their ap proval. 1 1. That the electoral vote of the State, as counted before the two Rouses of Congress, was a for gery. 12. That John Sherman, now Secretary of the Treasury, and at the time the personal representa tive of Mr. Ilayes, was guilty of subornation of perjury. Id, That the leading parties ne cessary to a completion of tho fraud were promised by him pro tection and reward. 11. That the Fraudulent Presi dent in fulfillment of Sherman’s and Noyes’ promises has reward ed with office evorv scoundrel con nected with tho great crime in both Florida and Lousiana. 15. That Stanley Matthews, a Republican Senator from Ohio, and Justice Harlan, a Judge of the Supreme Court, had guilty knowl edge of tho fraudulent transactions by which the vote of Louisiana was stolen, and personally interes ted themselves to reward and pro tect the criminals. IG. That Senator Morton and den. Garfield, both members of the Electoral Commission, knew when they voted to count the vote of Lousiana for Hayes that it was both fraudulent and a forgery. 17. That senator Kellogg, who assisted at the forgery of tho Lou isiana returns, has since been guil ty of secreting the witnesses. 18. That not one of the crimi nals who assisted to perpotrate tho colossal crime of the age has been punished; but that all but two numbering over a hundred—have been provided with officers by Mr, Hayes’ direct order or request, and in some cases by and through his continued and persistent inter ference. With a few exceptions these facts are proved, exclusive of the testi mony of either Anderson or Weber, notwithstanding that the commit tee has only fairly entered upos its task. tHjitf ii VtWcN, i We publish tho following pre- plus iVppfe3T, TytuVr* could bo engraved upon the mind of every young man in the land.— Pass them around, place them be fore every boy and young man iu the city aud country I take them a3 your texts and the subject of your lectures and firside talks, and so impress them upon the mind? of all men and women, boys and girls that the) may tell to the utmost: Show us the young man who can quit the society of the young and take pleasure in listening to tho kindly voice of the aged ; show usthe man who is as polite and gives tho street as freely to a poor sewing girl as a millionare ; who values virtue, not clothes ; who shuns the company of such as gather at public places to gaze at the fair sex or make unkind re marks of the passing girls; show us a man who abhors a libertine, who scorns the ridicule of a rnoth- I er's sex, and the exposure of wo manly reputation ; show us a man who never forgets for an instant the delicacy due woman, as a wo man, in any condition or class and you show us a true gentleman. A lady en'ered a popular drug store iu Newport, li. I„ a day or two since, aud accosting one of the proprietors, inquired if there was any method by which a largo dose ot castor oil could be taken to avoid tho usual nauseous taste. ‘-Oh, yes, madam, we can ar range that for you.’ The lady cast her eyes about the store and compli mented the gentleman on its fine ap pcaram e, and was invited to takes glass of soda, whiclf she accepted, and having drank it off and waited a mo ment, reminded the man ot drugs of her errand “That is all right, mad am,” he replied, “you took it in your soda.” “OLord!” exclaimed the la dy with a look of consternation, “I wanted it for my mother 1” Tableau. Ilcv. l>r, S. Key, Pastor St. Paul Church, Columbus, j (Ja , writes: “We gave l)r. Moffetts i Teethina ( 7< rthinj to our little grandchild with the happiest rc- I suits. The effects were almost magical, land certainly more satisfactory than ; irom anything ever used.” Jno. A. J Griffin and all Druggists keep Teethis na. . Everybody ijets sailed who buys Goods of C. A. DAVIb & b*)N. NO, 3,3