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THETHOMASTON HERALD.
CHAS. G.
EDITOB AND PROPRIETOR.
THOMASTON, GA , DEC. 10,1870.
Tlif THOXAS I'O.V I! K It,A 1.1) Ii ;t s a I,u i"c
C irrvlnfion In Up»on, pikf, Meriwether,
Talbot, Spalding, Monroe, II i lib, Muscogee
mid Rntti,
FOR CONGRESS—FOURTH DISTRICT.
HON. W. J. LAWTON,
or 8188.
FOR STATE SENATOR— 2Sth DISTRICT,
WILLIAM P. MATHEWS,
OF TALBOT.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE—UPSON COUNTY.
HON. JOHN X. HALL.
NOMINATIONS FOR CONGRESS.
First District—A. T. Mclntyre.
“ “ W. W. Paine, 41st Congress.
Second District—Nelson Tift.
Third District—William F. Wright.
Fourth District—Winborn J. Lawton.
Fifth District—D. M. Dußosc.
“ “ S. 11. Corker, 41st Congress
Sixth District—William P. Price.
Seventh District—Pierce M. B. Young.
With all the readers of the Herald we
desire a very few plain words. The sub
scription year of many of our friends
expired with the last issue. The Herald,
since its establishment a year since, has
paid weekly visits to almost every family
in the county, and to many in neighboring
counties. We feel reluctant to part with
any of our numerous friends, but must
certainly do so, unless those who are indebt
ed to us make payment for time, labor and
money devoted to their entertainment and
instruction. We pay cash for everything
employed in making up the paper —for
labor, type, paper, ink, &c., &c., and it is a
matter of impossibility for us to attempt to
do business without money. There are on
our books at this moment, four or five hun
dred dollars due on subscriptions, a very
unpleasant fact to chronicle. We have been
as lenient as possible, v. T e have waited
patiently, but we cannot furnish papers for
an indefinite period, to those who do not
even show a disposition to pay us. On tho
first of February we shall erase the names
of those who have not squared up, this step
being absolutely necessary. We can work
better for a dozen paying subscribers than
for two score thousand non-paying ones.
On Tuesday the Senate adjourned sine
die.
The True Georgian calls Bullock’s organ
(the New Era) the ‘'New Error.”
During the month of December, the
national debt is to be reduced five millions
of dollars by the purchase of bonds.
If ex-Governor Browa succeeds in get
ting control of the State Road, Judge John
TANARUS, King, of Augusta, will be President.
ArPALAcniA has been suggested as anew
name for West Virginia, by several journals
in that State.
It is said that Bullock expects the Radi
cal majority iD this State at the coming
election, to reach four or five thousand only,
unless troops are sent to ts regulate ,> affairs !
Once in a while Wendell Phillips shows
a clear streak of good sense. Recently,
during a lucid interval, he spoke of Presi
dent Grant as “a wooden-hearted, leather
headed marplot.”
Washington specials to the New York
papers announce that Governor Bullock is
to be a candidate for the United States
Senate for Uie term commencing March 4,
1871.
The municipal election in Atlanta on
Wednesday was the most exciting and
boistrous ever witnessed in that city, accord
ing to the Sun. Judge Hammond, the
candidate of the Radicals and “Bolters”
was elected by q, majority of 124 in a total
vote of 4292.
Tiie Albany News says that the abandon
ment of the Republican party, by Dr. Sam
uel Bard, is not without significance. He
was one of the shrewdest observers in the
party, its ablest Southern editor, and always
posted. Straws show the way the wind
blows, and whether we regard Bard as the
straw, or the first blast of the coming storm,
his defection forms a part of the history of
the times, and is cumulative evidence of the
approaching dissolution of the party he
served so long and so faithfully.
In relation to what is known as the Relief
Law, passed at the last session of the Gen
eral Assembly, the Chronicle and Sentinel
says the law has been attributed to the pen
of Chief Justice McCoy. We learn that
this is an error. A gentleman who return
ed from Atlanta a few days siDOe says that
it is understood there that General Henry
L. Benning is the author of the bill.
The same gentleman informs us that it is
believed in high official circles at tbe capital
that the Supreme Court will unanimously
sustain the first section of the bill, and that
a majority of the Court will sustain the
balance of the bill as it finally passed.
W t e learn from the Savannah News that
the superintendants of the several cotton
presses of that city have resolved to make
an additional charge of 20 cents per bale
upon all cotton sent to them for compress
ment after the first of December, also 25
cents per month upon every bale of cotton
sent to them for storage. The effect will be
to change the wholo system of the compress
ing business, and throw a large amount of
cotton upon the warehouse men. who will
have to take charge of it for tne time being.
Only six ‘ Smiths” appear in the Borne
Daily’s lists of municipal candidates.
TO TIIE VOTERS OF UPSON COUNTY.
On the first day of October last a Con
vention of the county was held for the
purpose of nominating a candidate for the
Legislature. The nomination was made
by ballot, and on counting the votes, it was
ascertained that I had received a majority
of all the votes cast, and was therefore de
clared the nominee of the Democratic
party. Since that time, I have heard of
dissatisfaction for various reasons, but
principally because I have resided in the
county only about two years. It is not my
purpose, nor was it the purpose of those
who nominated me, to mi;ke myself an ob
stacle to the success of the Democratic
party. This is no time for personal prefer
ences. No man should hesitate a moment
to sacrifice the claims of any man for
success in the approaching election. The
issues are too important to he overlooked,
and I would willingly sacrifice my claims,
or the claims of any friend, for the success
of the Democratic party in this contest.
To the end, therefore, that harmony may
be preserved, the party made a unit, and
a victory over misrule and curruption won,
I propose that the people, if they think
proper to do so, when they assemble on the
17th inst., take into consideration the pro
priety of a change as to the candidate for
the Legislature. I would never yield the
race because of the opposition of my per- .
sonal enemies , but I will do anything the
people may suggest for the good of the
country. John I. Hall.
Thomaston, Dec. 9, 1870.
Communicated.]
Mr. Editor : Being a citizen (or rather
a denizen) of Upson county, State of Geor
gia, I claim the privilege of speaking upon
the public affairs concerning said county
and State. I know my franchise is some
what entrammelod by our’good and gracious
conquerors, still they pretend to grant us
the privilege of voting and in some cases
submit to our exercising the right of dis
cussion in such matters, and while such is
the case, if I speak now, I must say that
political ambition is, and eve? will be, the
bane of this great republic. It was the
main-spring which brought on our causeless,
hasty and horrible war. Ido not mean to
say that the cause of the Southern States
was unrighteous ; but that the war was pre
mature, hasty and thrust upon the people
without their sanction by ambitious politi
cians, will not be denied. The result
proves the fact. The great hue and cry
about our rights, the brow-beating and the
tantalising with “submissionists” were the
levers which forced a tacit consent to the
war from the people.
In precise imitation of that event we see
another effort on the part of some of our
people, which is likely to prove, in propor
tion to its magnitude, equally disastrous to
our true interest. The great hue and cry
which has been raised over the Hon. John
I. Hall, is just the re-enactment of the old
scene. No one knows of a fault in him
until he is nominated, then here they corre,
one says “he is a Radical,” one says “he is
a lawyer,” another that “he is a bigot and
won’t speak to me,” another “he is not en
titled to the place,” and as the last resort
they say “he is not the man, he won’t do.”
Now what does all this mean? Just sim
ply unsatisfied ambition ! Am Ito damage
my account of personal piques
and preferences ? To wantonly talk a man
into the ground ? To injure his political or
private character is bad enough, but it is
nothing compared to damaging the cause of
the country. By it we elect who to legislate
for us ?
I, for one, must say to John I. Ilall,
“stand firm” and not be twited about by
every wind that blows, and if the people
are to murder their own cause, or stand still
and tacitly see it ruined, just let them do
as they have been doing for the last ten
years. The time may come when we will
learn something. L.-J. F.
NoRTn Georgia Conference Aftoint
ments. —Next week we shall publish the
list of appointment at length—this week
those only for the - Griffin Circuit:
Griffin District— J. Lewis, sr, P. E.
Griffin—Johti W. Heidt.
Griffin City Mission—R. R. Johnson.
Zebulon Circuit—W. F. Smith.
Pike Mission—W. 11. Graham.
Thomaston Circuit—W. 11. White.
Barnesvills Circuit—J P. Duncan.
McDonough Circuit—J. 11. Harris.
Jonesboro’-—L. P. Neese.
Forest Station Mission—To be supplied.
Fayetteville Circuit—D. Noland.
Culloden— M. F. Malsby.
Clinton—J. M. Armstrong.
Jackson Circuit— W. G. Hanson, David
L. Anderson.
Forsyth Circuit—J. J. Singleton.
Forsyth—F. A. Kimball.
Toe Telegraph and Messenger ofWcdnes
day the 7tb, .speaks of our worthy lriend
Dr. Rogers, and thu mill seat, a part inter
est in which is advertised for sale by him,
in the following terms :
Fagtory Property in Upson. —Dr. Rog
ers, of Thomaston, advertises to sell a part
interest in one of the most valuabls mill
seats in Upson oounty, with almost bound
less water-power and $45,000 worth of
improvements on the place. The location
is within easy drayage of the Barnesville
and Thomaston Railroad, accessible to the
best and cheapest building material, as
salubrious as any spot in the world, labor
plenty and cheap all about, provisions
abundant and low-priced, and no doubt one
of the best sites for a manufacturing busi
ness in the world. It was long occupied by
a flourshing cotton mill, which was destroy
ed in the course of the war. Dr. Rogers
wishes to find somebody who will go in with
him in re-establishing the business.. The
gentleman he refers to in his letter to us,
was a party contemplating, some time in
the course of years, the removal South of a
manufactory of cotton mill material.
Grant always begins bis appointments
in these terms: “Know all men by these
presents.”
TIIE MEETING ON TUESDAY.
In accordance with the announcement in
last week’s Herald, the people met in the
Court House to hear addresses by Messrs.
Lawton, Mathews and Ilall.
The meeting was organized by calling
Judge T. A. D. Weaver to the Chair, and
requesting Capt. J. F. Lewis to act as
Secretary.
The Lion. W. J. Lawton being present
came forward and addressed the people in
a short speech of about thirty minutes’
length, which all present were struck with
the earnestness, sincerity and the remarka
ble cropping-out of an honest man’s con
victions.
A motion was then made by Judge T. S-
Sharman to test the sense of the : meeting
whether or not there should be a nomina
tion for County Officers and it was carried
in the affirmative. Saturday, the 17th inst.,
was ageed upon as the day for the nomina
tions.
On motion of Dr. C. Rogers, a Committee
of five was appointed, to visit candidates
whoso names has been announced, and
counsel with them as to the best mode of
reconciling the political differences which
now disturb our community.
The Chair then appointed Dr. J. C.
Drake, Capt. James W. Atwater, B. G.
McKenney, Capt. W. Hightower, and
Judge Thos. F. Bethel, as the Committee.
On motion of Judge T. S. Sharman, the
Chair appointed the following gentlemen
from each District to look after the interest
of the Democratic party in their several
sections :
FLINT DISTRICT.
D. W. Wamble, Capt. Win. Brown, Jas.
Rigins, Julius C. Williams, Jas. Shattles.
BLACK-ANKLE DISTRICT.
Jesse B. Howell, Esq., Simeon King,
John W. Atwater, John G. Slaughter,
Capt. Win. Hightower.
HOOTENVILLE DISTRICT.
J. C. Zorn, J. D. Thompson, R. A. Wil
liams, Thomas Gunnels, Richard McCan.
JUG DISTRICT.
James M. Barron, Robt. M. Jackson,
Allen Williams,- Ira Clary, J. T. Momand.
UNION HILL DISTRICT.
A. G. Fambro, F. F. Mathews, Jamj3 T.
Rose, Jordan Lyons, J. T. Blalock.
RKDBONE DISTRICT.
Dr. J. W. Herring, Thos. Rose, Wyatt
Blasingame, Samuel Fullerton, J. A, Butts,
TOWN DISTRICT.
Judge T. S. Sharman, W. T. Weaver,
Judge G. J. Lewis, John F. Lewis, M. IL
Sandwich.
T. A. D. We ayer,
J. F. Lewis, Chairman.
Secretary.
TO THE DEMOCRACY OF GEORGIA.
The State Democrtic Executive Commit
tee urges you to perfect at once your coun
ty organizations. The election is near at
hand. No time to bo lost. The importance
of the result cannot be over-estimated.
Representatives in the National Congress
are to be chosen. They should be men of
prudence and patriotism ; men who will
reflect houor on the State and give encour
agement and support to that gallant band
of Northern Democrats who, amid all the
perils of the past, have been true to the
country and the Constitution. Members of
the State Legislature also, are to be elected.
They should be men us integrity and sound
judgment; men whose interests are identic
tied with theintersts of the State ; who feel
a pride in her paet glory ; who sympathize
with her present misfortunes, and whose
hopes depend on her future prosperity.
You can elect such men. Success is
within your grasp. You have but to will
it and the victory is yours. All classes of
our citizens deplore the rule cf tne regime.
Their pride and their pockets alike rebel
against its continuance. The colored peo
ple are ready to be delivered from their new
bondage—a bondage which makes them
slaves to the ambition and tho avarice of
the office-seekers who aspire to be their
leaders. They begin to realize that the
men of the South, with whom they have liv
ed so long, are their true friends ; and that
those who now govern the State are fast
enguliing them and us in a common des
truction. They will not be longer misled
by the false accusation that we wish to put
them back into slaveiy ( ,r co take away
their political rights. They well know that
we would not do either, if we could, and
that we could not if we would. Their best
interests and ours alike depend on a wise
and just administration of the Government.
And thousands of them are willing to co
operate with us in displacing from power
those whose incapacity and reckless extrav
agance have well nigh plunged the State
nto bankauptcy and ruin.
But if you will have success, you must
be united among yourselves. You must
rally around the chosen standard bearers of
the party. Independent candidates must
have the magnanimity and patriotism to
withdraw. If they will not, withdraw froth
their support—though*they be your warm
est personal friends—and leave them to
suffer the defeat they deserve. This is no
time for division m our ranks. There is too
much at stake, and the peril is too great.
Let us surrender petty jealousies and per
sonal ambitions aud dislikes, and give a
cordial support to the selected candidates of
the party. Suspend your business while
the election is progressing, and attend tbe
polls. Do not vote at any precinct—vote
only at the county site. Conform strictly to
the law in all respects. If none of the ap'
pointed managci's appear by ten o'clock on
the day oj the election , get three free-holders
to open the polls , as provided by section 1314
of the Code. Above all things, preserve
peace. And may God defend the right and
save the State!
In behalf of the State Democratic Exec
utive Committee.
Clifford Anderson,
Chairman.
There is a report that the New York
Times, perceiving which way the political
wind blows, is about to abandon the milk
and-water style in politics, and openly es
pouse the principles of Democracy. That
journal once tried the new party role (a
trial which the Chicago Tribune is now
imitating) and found it unprofitable as well
as unsuccessful. Naturally, it reaches
the conclusion that the best way to enter
the Democratic temple is to-go in boldly
at the front door, and not dodge around
thro’ tho back alley.
SYNOPSIS OF TELEGRAPHIC NEWJ
DOMESTIC.
Augusta, December 3,- —Blodgett has
been defeated in the Radical Dominations
to-day, and Tweedy thrown overboard.
Bryant and two negroes were nominated
for the Legislature. W.
Raleigh, Dec. 3 —The Democrats of the
General Assembly are caucussing nightly
upon the subject of impeaching Governor
Holden and calling a restricted Constitution
al Convention.
Washington, Dec. s.—ln the House one
hundred and seventy-three members
answered to the roll call. Duke, of Virgin
ia, is seated, taking the old oath. Sypher
is seated from the First Lousiana District.
The reading of the message caused no
sensation, and was very feebly applauded
at the close.
Washington, Dec. G.—ln the Senate, a
bill was introduced giving the Indian Terri
tory a delegate in Congress.
Bills repealing the income tax were intro
duced in both Houses to-day.
Mobile, Dec. G.—The Democratic muni
cipal ticket was elected by over one thoasr
and majority. The weather is tine.
Augusta, Ga. Dec. 6.— The North Geor
gia Conference adjourned tonigh. Athens
was selected as the next place of meeting.
FOREIGN.
Tours. December 2.—The Prussians are
concentrating at Elampes, thirty mile south
of Paris, to dispite the advance of Paladines.
Lille, December 2.—Duerat’s sortie from
Paris was successful lie is now seeking
to effect a junction with Paladines.
Washington, December 3. —Foreign acL
vices are much confused.
The impression exists in diplomatic
circles that the French have made a brilliant
effort, and at the labt authentic advices they
were pushing their advantage.
It is undeniable that the French forces
actually won the victory as claimed by them
near Orleans; but the Prussians brutally
repulsed the French attack before Paris.
ft is not true that the army of the Loire
have effected a junction with Trochu, though
the Pru6s an lines were repeatedly success
fully pierced during the engagement. The
bayonet charge of the French is described
as exceedingly brilliant.
London, December s. —lt is rumored
that Erlanger is storing vast quantities of
provisions at Havre for Paris when the
siege is over.
Havana, December 6.—De Rbod-as has
freed four thousand additional blacks,
leaving no slaves wherein the Government
is interested.
A Card to the Public.— A close obser
vation upon the condition of the country,
during my recent visit to the “Federal Cap
ital,and the Northern States, has forced
upon my mind the conviction that the mis
sion of the Republican party has ended.
The accomplishment of ail its good offices
devolves upon the statesmen of the country
the duty of det'ermining the policy of the
Government for the future. Stupendous
ISsues are now rising up, having no neces
sary connection with the measures of the
late civil war, or of Reconstruction conse
quent upon it; demanding the closest
investigation and wisest solution by the
popular mind. Many of those assumed
such shape as to make it clearly manifest
that the future welfare of the country will
be best secured by the C(tdP|[)lete triumph of
the declared principles of the Democratic
party ; as now set forth by sucb leaders as
Governor John T. Iloffman, and illustrated
by his recent triumphant eleetion.
Acting with the Republican party in sup
port of the measures for the restoration of
the States of the South to their proper
relations to the “Federal Government,” we
have but discharged a solemn duty to the
people for which we have not a single
regret to express.
Now, that Reconstruction has baen fully
accomplished, the same high regard for the
welfare and peace of the whole country,
which has always controlled my political
coarse, impels me to declare my unqualifi
ed sympathy with and adhesion to the
National Democratic party.
With this well considered determination,
we place at our masthead the name of John
T. lloffman, of New York, for the Presi
dency in 1872.
This determination has been arrived at
without consultation with Gov. Hoffman or
his friends, and without regard to personal
consequences.
On the same ground, we also hoist the
name of John B. Gordon, for the office of
Governor of the State of Georgia in 1872.
The policy of “The True Georgian” to
ward the dangerous State administration,
will continue as heretofore—one of firm
and vigorous opposition.
Samuel Bard,
Editor Daily True Georgian.
The question of removing the capital of
the nation is still agitated at the West,
whither “the course of empire takes its
way.” Such is the persistency of Western
aspirations in the matter, and such the
perseverance with which they urge their
purpose, that, reasoning from analogy,
there would seem to be danger of gaining
the suit at some period, perhaps not veTy
remote. The agitation has its ».se», proba
bly, one of which we hope will be to.
the wastefulness and extravigance with
which in this time of oppressive taxation
the money of the people is squandered in
decorating and extending and enriching
the present capital, by jobs which are con
ceived rather in the interest of the rings
than of the national credit, honor, or weU
fare. Removals are sometimes revolution
ary, radical, purifying and wholesome. If
the breaking up of the capital at Washing
ton could be a regular barn-burning
operation, and carry with it a thorough
cleansing of the Augean stable, we should
be inclined to advocate it. If the destruc
tion of all the ruling politicians and lobby
ists and party jobbers and cliques and rings
and corruptionists ofevery sort were involv
ed in the removal of the capital, it would be
a popular movement indeed. But, alas, it
is the politicians who are seeking the
change. The West is ambitious, and the
name of its aspiring politicians is legion.
St. Louis is the headquarters of the present
movement, and a candidate, of course, for
the new seat of Government; A meeting,
was held there a few days ago, at which a
permanent association was formed, called
the National Capital Removal Association
for the the purpose of urging, and promot
es by ft ll available means, the removal of
the capital from Washington to some point
in the Mississippi Valley. In view of Alas
ka and the annexation of the Sand
wich Islands and Canada, the point ought
to be within the shadow of the Rocky
Mountains.
The President’s recommendations of new
State and Var Department building will
bring up the question of removing the capi
tal in a very pointed shape.
Produce More and Buy Less. —As an
individual grows rich by what he saves
rather than by what he makes, so a com
munity thrives by the amount of its surplus
more than bv the extent of its sales, llow
often has the money received for a crop of
cotton failed to discharge indebtedness
incurred for other supplies ? How many
plantations have been mortgaged to secure
such debt? The day will come, if wise
counsel is heeded, when the products of
cotton will be all surplus, other products
paying the expenses of the farm. I have
received, officially, abundant testimony
from individual successes and of
the superior profits of mixed husbandry
with cotton. lam positive in the convic
tion that the permanent prosperity of these
States depends upon a more diversified ag
riculture. While if is true that a large
cotton crop may produce actually less
money than a small one, no sane man will
question the political economy which adds
to this source ot revenue many others,
which together, make an aggregate many
times larger.
For some years to come the cotton man
ufacturers of the world cannot contribute
to the industry of these States more than
two or three hundred millions of dollars
per annum ; while the total production
with th 9 variety required to realize the
highest capabilities us soil and climate,
should command a thousand millions, and
two thousand might be obtained within a
period of ten years, if the whole population,
with recruits from other States and from
Europe, should unite all their efforts and
their industry for the accomplishment of so
grand an object. The combined value of
all other products is even now materially
larger than the value of cotton, but the
proportion should be increased until it
shall stand five to one. The cheapest beef
and cheapest wool produced in the country
are now the product ot the grasses of the
Gulf States.
The annual sales of animal products
should soon be made to exceed greatly the
value of the cotton crop. The wine indus
try of France produces three hundred mil
lion of dollars annually, and supports a
population of six millions. Theu why
should not your sunny slopes, best suited to
wine production of any section of tne con
tinent east of the Rooky Mountains, coin
plete with the foreign vine yards, at least
in our own markets ?
There is no reason why we shuttle! send
abroad for a pound of sugar, though our
home production was last year but ten per
cent, of the consom-r-ti >n, when Louisiana
alone has s»i able land of sufficient area to
supply the present wants ot the country.
Y"our fruits in wonderful variety, including
those of the tropics, the products of which
figure largely in our imports, should annu
ally add millions of dollars to the wealth of
the country. Scores of new and useful
plants should be added to the list of those
already in cultivation. lam yearly adding
many, through the Department ot Agricul
ture, among the most popular of which the
present season, are the corchorus (or jute)
and the cinchena, which yields the qui
nine. I shall continue these experiments
of acclimatization, hoping to render you
material aid in your efforts in diversifying
your agricultural industry. In close con
nection with this idea of variety of produc*
tion, permit me to present my third item
of counsel.— Hon. Horace Capron.
The valorous Abbott has been sent to
grass by the Legislature of North Carolina,
his challenge to that body for a reelection
to the United States Senate having been as
little heeded as he was woafc to heed the
challenges of others. He now has a tit for
his tat. Whether the result will delve this
transplanted statesman raving to cbe piny
woods, there to chew gum and eke oat the
remnant of a disappointed life in solitary
misery, or he will consult his carpet-bag on
a second emigration plan, with a view to
cmltiviiting political soil in some other
State, we must patiently wait for him to
inform us himself. It will be like extin
guishing a jet in the Senate Chamber to
remove so brilliant a light from within its
walls. Samner and Drake. Cameron and
Chandler,. Conkling and Dick Yates may
invent a substitute rn their harrowed Sen
atorial feelings for his loss, bat we have no
idea that the presence of a man like ex-
Gov. Vance in his place will supply their
patrician breasts with any sort of consola
tion whatever.— Boston Post.
Features in the President’s Me-sage.
—A special dispatch to the New York Trib
une, on Monday, says ;
“It is stated that the President’s message
and Secretary Robeson’s report will be in
full accord on the subject of the repeal or
modification of our existing navigation laws,
and that they will persistently urge upon
Congress to give our commercial marine
the full benefit of the present complications
in Europe. There is reason to believe that
the Presidenl/s message will also take
stronger grounds than has been commou of
late, in favor of protection to American in
dustry, and that the recent efforts of the so
called Revenue Reformers will receive
small encouragement therefrom.”
The real cause of the President’s spite
against Mr. Motley, has transpired. It
seems that the latter had informed certain
British officials that the American Presi
dent “was the creature of accident, an
ignorant man, and wholly unfit for his
place.” True as the statement is, it was
very naaghty for Mr. Motley to make it,
and when it got to the ears*of the Presi
dent he flew into a great rage and oidcrod
him home forthwith. An ignorant man,
forsooth ! Ask Cameron or Forney if the
President is ignorant. To be sure, Charles
Sumner said Grant was ignorant, but did
not know it, but he is a Senator. For
Motley to say such a thing was impudent
as well as insoleot!
The eclipse of the sun, which will take
place on December 22d, is to be observed
by a party of astronomers, fitted out by the
United States Government and to be sent
to Spain. The parties organized by the
British Royal Society for the observation of
this eclipse will, it is stated, not be able to
perform their proposed work, as the gov
raent has refused to contribute to the
expenses, even declining to furnish trans
portation in the national vessels. In con
sequence of the war between France and
Germany, these nations will be unable to
fit out part es of astronomers, so that for
the above reasons the observation of the
coming eclipse will be conducted mainly
by the United States.
Ben Butler says, in a reported conver
sation published in the Tribune, that the
Radical party was not able at the last ses
sion to carry a single one to its measures.
If, with a two thirds majority in both
Houses, the Administration was not able to
carry a solitary measure it proposed, how
can it be expected that in the next Congress,
with a majority of owly 19 in the Hou-e, it
can carry any measure whatever ?—Knox
tilfo Whiff,
Suit Against General Pillow .
suit of Reddle, Coleman k Cos., of Pitt i r
against General Pillow and others for**
seized at the outbreak of the war tr, o ? 1
amount «.f $125,000, was commenced If*
30th ult , at Memphis Tenn. in the p*
States Circuit Court, before Judges Fr -
aud Emons. n u &5
Postmaster General Cresswell in hi*
port will recommend the adopt*,,„ 0 j T*
penny postal card, similar to those •
England and Germany. The card is b, u Z
stamped at the Government IW-nffiee *
is transmitted through the mails open/ *
DIED.
Entered the spirit world on Saturday, D*cen,k*rj.<
Mrs. Georgia Anna, wife of S. A Foster of
vtlle, Johnson county, Ga.
firm JtlfartiSMtfKt
$lO RE'W-A.lß.cj
I HAVE lost mv Pocket Book contaj,,;,.*
papers worth several thousand dollars to n >
valueless to any other person. I will give th* "*
reward to any cue safely returning these pv„m
d»cl0-tf J iMES SIIATTLftt
To Debtors and Creditors
ALL persons indebted to Mathis* w.,,-
late of Upson cotirrty, deceased, arc J,, 0t '
to make immediate payment, and all perum,^'
demands against said deceased are required tn< *
them in terms ol the law, DUKJi WII r i tu*'
JSiL
MULES! MULES!
I WILL «ay to the good people 0 f LVs
and adjoining counties that I will offer at
PUBLIC OUTCRY,
on the first Tuesday in January next, in the tew*
THOM ASTON, a fine lot of KENTUCKY MUI.K-,
a few plug Horses. All you who want stock in •
tion to the present price of cotton, come alomr,
get them without money and at reasonable prtcri
Sales positive. N. 11. liAYI.KH
Talbottoa Standard copy two times ajsdieml b< .
Hkrald. dedO-ir
Georgia —Ursox county
Thomas llnn.-fctrdt a man of color, of said enti
ty, has filed hhs pefitikm for exemption of p< r>, : ,;* t
and I wi I pawr upon the same at 10 o’clock. A. M ~n '
the 27tb distant, at my office in ThoinnitoD.
de«TtV2t W\l. A. COBB, Orditury
C\EORGIA —Upson county. Wbfnxs
T James Wilson, a man of color, of said hum,
has filed his petition for setting apart and
homestead in land lying near Atlanta, in Kulti.n cf d
ty, and for exemption of personalty and Iw H •
upon the same at 10 o’clock, A. M. on the 2Ut imuii,
at my office In Thomaston.
dec 10 2t WM. A. COBB, Ordinary
Particular Notice.
I WISH to notify all persons, that I shall
not be liable for any debts contracted hr uit»
Mrs Susan A. Cooper, after this date, ard ihulat;.
held responsible for her conduct J. N. t'OOl’Eil
Barneaville Gazette pleuae copy two tunu
bill to Herald. drcsil
FLOUR EMPORIUM
FRESH FLOUR received daily fmm
Mills, iu Quarter,Half arvd hacks—guarantee i.:«
and goo A—at
MILL PRICES FOR CASH
Have just received another bill of dwirablt PET
GOODS, Notions, Ac. Cheaper than ihe cheaj wt (or
Cash.
decS-lm G. A: WEAVE!.
JAMES W. ATWATER,
&KALKK IX
DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES,
OF ALL KINDS.
«_T. It. ADA3IS, J4nle«nian,
West Room, White’s Building,
THOM ASTON, GEORGIA.
oct22-8m
G. W. McKENNEY & CO,»
PE4LKBS JN
GROCERIES, PRODUCE, ETC.
TIIOMASTON, GA.
TN this Line we- will not be unkr>
We will always keep on hand a good »>"'* *
COFFEE, SUGAR, TEA, SYRUP,
FLOUR. BACON, LARD, BAGGING, TIW,TUB--’
COS, CIGARS,
WHISKIES, BRANDIES, WHffik
Also a large stock of CONFECTIONERIES.
thing found in a first class Grocery Store.
TWO GOOD BOOKS.
Should be Had in every Family-
Devotional and Practical i* ,
FAMILY BIBLE, containing a eopi<;“
Concordance Dictionary of Biblical Terms, at o
ical and Historical Index, Ace Fourteen hunuiwi
furnished in three stvles of binding
LA W 8 of BUSINESS for all the State* in „
By Theophilus Parsons, L L D This volume
forms for men of every trade or profession. ~ r
deeds, bills of sale, leases, bond, article* «• y l
ship, will, awards, Ac Published by tbeN 3 ’ 1
limbing Cos., Nemphis, Tenn. . ,¥■
Mr. JOHN A. COCIIKAN has taken th*
Upson and Pike counties, and wi i call "I H,n DO i*td
with these invaluable books Immediately ~
king & Alls'-
STHOLMMLI AN»
DRY GOODS & GROCER'
MERCHANT 5 I
THOMASTOS, ° A *
JJ
Keep constantly on hand a Larf®
Stock of
STAPLE & FANCY DRY
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Capa, CLOTHING, **
Coffee, Rice, Tobaceo, Lard, Flour,
CROCKERY, I
,^.-1
HARDWARE, WOODEN-WARS* P* l "
COUNTRY PROD 1 ‘, I
taken In exchange fcv Gouda