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THETHOMASTON HERALD.
OIIAS. G. BEARCE~,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
TIIOMASTON, GA., FEB. 4, 1871.
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f Irrirlmlnn <n I’p'on, Plk»-. >leriwetlier,
Talbot, Spalding, Monroe, Bibb, Mnseogre
and Bull*.
Going Oms,
On the fourth of March next, at the clone
of the Forty-First Congress, the terms of
service of twentv-four Senators will expire.
A “Liran and Hungry Cassias.”
A little pnekageof skin and bon e s, known
to the world as Alexander 11. Stephens,
weighs, it is said, but seventy-four pounds.
A Prospective Addition to the Family.
The white people of the Indian Territory
have petitioned to come into the Union
tinder the name of Yokohama. Wo are
willing to admit all hut the name.
Th«* Georgia Press.
Georgia has ninety-one periodicals—
fourteen dailies, seven tri-weeklies, five
semi-weeklies, seventy-seven weeklies, one
semi-monthly, tan monibiicß, and uno bi
monthly.
Servility.
Not one politician of prominence, has
yet dared to speak on the subject of Italy’s
emancipation from Popish rule, so careful
are they of injuring the feelings of some
body, particularly of the Irish voters, of the
country. This is cited, as an illustration
of the fact that the Americrn politician of
to-day is distinguished in the eyes of the
world, as the most outspoken, independent
and disinterested of mortals !
A Dodge.
The Providence Post notes that the
“bloody-handed rebel” dodge is now doing
duty in New Hampshire. A Radical editor
in Portsmouth assures his readers that if
the Democrats ever regain power, their first
act will be to make Cabinet officers of Wig
fall and Toombs. This is a ghastly and a
ghostly prospect indeed. But inasmuch
as Wigfall has been dead for several years,
we would ask our Radical brother if he
isn’t running the thing into the ground ?
"Why Not a Compliment I
It is said that the number of lobbyists in
Albany, where the General Assembly of
“that envenomed copperhead community”
as the Radical Congressman Julian was
wont to call the State of New Y’ork, meets,
is unprecedentedly large. Th 9 services of
some of the long-headed, conscienceless
nimble-tongued members of the ‘Third
House,’ who have been in retirement for
years, have been offered and accepted by
different rings leaving jobs to carry to suc
cessful completion. As the Assembly this
year is largely Democratic, is not this fact,
rather than establishing the corruptness of
Democratic legislators, conclusive proof of
the oft-repeated assertion, that it takes more
money to purchase the vote and influence
the judgmentof a Democrat than a Radical?
Tile Butler.
A Radical paper, the Louisiana Leader,
in an article favoring Butler and Schenck,
as candidates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency, in the election of 1872, takes
occasion, in speaking of the former, to say
that “he is a sound statesman, and if nom
inated by the National Republican Conven
tion will make a successful run, especially
if the Democrats unwisely repeat their
action of’oß and put into the field an ultra
man like Pendleton of Ohio.” The leader
expresses truth certainly when it says that
Butler is a ao-und statesman ; does not in
deed the smartness of this insolent bluster
er consists chiefly in the constant venting
of ‘sound and fury, signifying nothing?’
There is not a particle of doubt too, but he
would run well—he practiced that on the
Peninsular, at Big Bethel, Bermuda Hun
dred and at other places, where his breast
was not the part of his person most promi
nent to the enemy.
A Protest.
The Constitution savs that the Bar of
Savannah has protested against the ap
pointment of Simms, the ignorant negro,
as the District Judge. It is contended that
the Court can’t be organized until the Sen
ate confirms his nomination. The Gover
nor of Georgia can only make an appoint
ment to fill an office which has become
vacant-, and that the present case is not of
an office which has been vacated, but for
the original organization and establishment
of a court made only in the way pointed
out by the strong and peculiar language of
the Constitution, and the acts of the Legis
lature providing for such organization aud
establishment.
But they ask the bar of this country to
unite in the resolution to resist by all legal
means the imposition upon this district of
nDy officer claiming his office in violation of
the constitution and laws.
They thus wind up their protest:
Your committee forbear to express any
opinion as to the course of the Executive of
Georgia in endeavoring to force upon an
intelligent and law abiding community an
incompetent and obnoxious individual as
the occupant of a high and responsible
offico, because they consider it beneath the
dignity of the bar of Georgia to treat other
wise than with contempt the efforts of the
present incumbent of the Executive chair
to lower the position of their profession, or
to bring into disrepute the character of the
Judiciary of Georgia.
Another Colored Congressman.
The second colored member of the House
was sworn in on Tuesday from Georgia.
He is not so bright a mulatto as Rainey, of
South Carolina, nor Senator Revels, though
be is three-fourths white. The next House
will contain a genuine black represPntative
in the person of Elliott, of South Carolina.
Long, who was admitted Tuesday, was
quite warmly congratulated by several
leading Republican members. Rainey and
Long fraternized at once, and struck up a
conversation as soon as the latter was
sworn in. Long received many congraula
tions from the white Republicans also.
♦‘United we Stand, Divided we Fall.”
Communicated.]
This is as true in the financial, social,
moral, and religious, as it is in the political
world. Without this unity of action no
town, city or community can proper ; with
it the road to success is certain. Too much
individuality iu society produces anarchy
and confusion, not enough of it and man
is apt to sink the individual to tn in organi
zations. Either of these extremes are
very hurtful, but a happy medium is pro*
duetive of the highest degree of success
and prosperity. There is nothing to be
gained by members in the same town, city
or community arraying themselves agiinst
one another. There should be in every
society, unity of action as near as possible
on everything of a moral, social, financial
and religious character. It is a great mis
take that any branch of business necessarily
requires the overthrow or injury of another
in the same community; but on the con
trary, it is almost impossible to advance the
situation of any one branch of society
without benefiting the condition of the rest
of the same community.
When for instance, mechanics, laborer'-,
hotel and boarding house keepers are pros
perous, it benefits every member of the
They then have money to pay
the doctor, the lawyer, the merchant, the
blacksmith ; and all are thereby benefited.
Indeed it is astonishing what a small town
cr city can accomplish by a proper concen
tration of energy and talent with an eye to
advancing the situation of the whole. The
true policy of the inhabitants of a town
should be to foster and cultivate a desire to
advance the interest of every member of the
community, for so doing they improve their
condition.
The wretched situation of France is en
tirely owing to this want of unity of ac.ion
on the part of her inhabitants. The French
are a brave, generous and gallant people,
doomed however, to ruin. France has
fallen not by the superior power of Prussia
but by her internal strifes—by a want of
unity on Hie part of her people. With half
the men and money she possessed, with a
proper concentration of ta'ent, energy and
resources she was invincible, without this
element of cohesion she has gone down,
perhaps to rise no more The Macedonian
phalan when they joined their bucklers and
presented a united front, were absolutely
invincible, but when once broken w r as no
more formidable than any other body of
soldiers. Just so it is with a town or city,
their success depends more on a concentra
tion of effort, energy and talent than on
numbers or other natural advantages.
When a desire pervades the mind of every
individual of a town to advance the interest
of the whole community, then each one will
use his or her influence to accomplish this
end. This will cause tnem to patronize
home enterprises, so that if buildings are
to be erected they will employ mechanics
of the town. If a lawyer or doctor’s services
are required, then they will likewise em
ploy of their town for such purposes.
If goods are needed they will save both
time and money by buying from the mer
chants of the town; in this way a community
becomes self-supporting and consequently
becomes independent of the rest of the
country. Citizen.
Land Grabs.
The ventilation given in the last two
years by the entire democratic press of the
country, and a goodly portion of the radical
newspapers, has led the public to believe
that radicalism, with all its bold and hyp
ocritical effrontery would not dare to con
tinue the scheme of voting away the public
domain to rings of unprincipaled railroad
monopolists, but the public have been de
ceived in the temper and mettle of these
men. The ventilation of the land steal of
the two Pacific railroads aroused public
attention during the last political campaign
in some measure to their enormity, but the
extent of the swindle was but partially de
veloped, until the meeting of the present
Congress, and the failing of Oaks Ames, the
president of the Union Pacific company.
And yet with all this public sentiment and
public attention, the land stealing lobby is
stronger and more avaricious than ever,
and seem determined to use their power
while they possess the control of the party
in power, well knowing that the new mem
bers will be less easily managed. Sherman,
the leader of the Republican party in Con
cress, is urging a land steal for the Southern
Pacific railroad, more gigantic than any
heretofore urged. Every Western State
and territory has a land stealing lobby,
which united, will in all probability succeed
in their wicked purposes by uniting their
strength with the steamship subsidy scheme
of the Eastern States and Grant’s San
Domingo territorial steal. This condition
of legislative dishonesty and cupidity is
really appalling. The people are goaded
to the last extremity by unreasonable and
unnecessary taxation with no effect and no
prospect of relief, and our representatives
both State and Nation spend weeks and
months, complacently contriving systems
and schemes to enrich themselves, with no
thought of their impoverished constituents.
Our own Sta'e Legislature have been in
session some weeks ar.d have succeeded in
the dirty job of making John A. Logan, the
dirtiest dog of them all, United States ‘Sen
ator, and making appropriations for their
own pay, and have adjourned to recuperate
their exhausted energies. In contemplation
of the political aspect, we are almost led to
think that there is not virtue and honesty
sufficient for the maintainence of our Re
publican institutions.— lll. Free Trader.
Beast Butler in Petticoats.
On Satuiday night of last week, a re
spectably attired woman called at the house
of the Mayor of Washington, who was re
ceiving his friends; stated that she had
cal’ed to pay her respects, and added that,
as she was quite hungry, she would go to
the supper room. t>he was shown the way
to the eatables, and alter a time, having
staved so long over the refreshments hs to
excite curiosity, the hostess decended to the
dining-room, to ascertain something more
concerning her, when it was discovered
that the lady had taken her leave by the
back gate, having previously possessed
herself of a number of articles of silver
ware, such as spooDS, forks, salt-holders,
napkin-rings, etc.
Synopsis of Telegraphic New*.
DOMESTIC.
Raleigh, Jan. 30. —The impeachpent
tr al of Holden was formally cummeieed
to day—Chief Justice Parson pre-idng
Counsel for the managers and respondent
were present. The managers requited
that the Bth article of impeachment b?
amended as to substitute the of
Veathery fur Berry. Th« defense ohjeited.
The Chief Jusiiee rendered in favor u' the
managers, whereupon the deter.se asked
until Thursday to amend their resp in
accordance with the Bch artio.e. Time was
granted until Wednesday, when the Court
adjourned until 12, M. that day.
Washington, January 31.—Butler, roni
the Committee on Reco. strucuon, reported
back with a recommendation that k do
pass, the Senate bill prescribing an oath of
office to be taken by persons who partici
pated in the iu'e rebellion, but who are not
disqualified from holding < ffiee by the 14th
amendment of the Constitution. Maynaid
argued against the bill as in effect repealing
the test oath act: hs hoped the House v*uld
hesitate before taking so important* so fun
damental, and so irrevocable a step. Jlorey
argued as to the inconsistency of abolishing
the test oath for those who could no; take
it, and retaining it for those who iould.
|Farnsworth took a like view of the alaurd
ity and incongruity of the bill.
Poster argued against the pffiev of a
measure which would throw open appoint
ments to public office to ex reb-L. He
wanted to see some legislation <o protect
the loyal people of the Smth.
Cox favored the bid as * sffip towards
reconstruction arid reconciliation.
Without disposing of the question, the
IL use adjourned.
Lewis Downing, ClurokeoChief, who was
reported to hhve been as-sesdnated, is here.
The government has favorable advices
regarding Tehauntepf'c Shi l Canal.
The outrage committee,examined three
witnesses, who test fied that the most
trouble there grew out ol secret societies.
Washington, Feb. 1 —House —The abol
ition of the test oath was resumed. Platte,
of Virginia, favored it; b mg, of Georgia,
opposed it ; Morey, of Louisiana, favored it;
Maynard, of Tennessee, ipposed it; Porter,
of Virginia, opposed it. The bill finally
passed —llß to 80 and goes to the Presi
dent.
Mr. Butler, of Mass iclusetts, said he had
reported the bill as a mouthpiece for the
Reconstruction Commicee, but could not
support it.
“Be it enacted. &c , That when any per
son who is riot rendered ineligible to office
by the provisions of the 14th amendment t >
the Constitution, be elected or appointed to
‘any office of honor or trust, under the Gov
ernment of the Unite: S'ates, and shall not
be able, on account of his participation in
the late rebellion, totake the oath prescrib
ed in the act of Corgress approved July 2,
1862, said person shall, in lieu of said oath,
before entering unon the duties of said
office, take and subscribe to the oath pre
scribed in an act of Congress, entitled an
act prescribing and oa’h of office to be tnken
by persons whose legal disabilities shall
have been removed, approved July 11th,
1868.”
A bill for the relief of purchasers of lands
sold for direct taxes in insurrectionary
States passed.
Albany, Fob. I— A resolution has been
introduced in the Senate, amending the
Constitution so as to exclude from the
rights of suffrage persons betting on elec
tions, or who shall promise, give, or receive
valuable considerations lor votes.
Washington, Fob. I.—The House is
debating the bill for the repeal of the test
oath. Bingham. Platt, an! Dawes are in
favor of, and Jeff. L ng, colored, is against
it.
In the Senate the Georgia Senatorial
question was taken up.
Watson submitted Farrow for Hill in the
majority report, but failed by a vote of 19
to -36.
Hill was then sworn in as Senator from
Georgia.
The question was resumed upon seating
Mr. Miller.
Trumbull gave notice that he would offer
a resolution that Miller was duly elected,
and billow it with a concurrent resolution
prescribing a form of an oath to be taken in
his case.
FOREIGN.
Washington, Jan. 27. The State De
partment has the following from Mr. Mor
gan acting Mini ster to England, dated this
morning. The German Embassador here
has officially stated to me that the capitula
tion of all the Paris forts and an armistice
of three weeks, by sea and land, was sign
ed about 8 o’clock last night at Versailles,
bv Count Bismarck and M. Jules Favre
The army of Paris remain prisoners of war
in the city. But it is not known whether
they are to be disarmed or not. No details
have been received.
London, January 28 —Favre was in
conference with Bismark at midnight.
Bismark carried his point. The capitula
tion involves peace ; the cession of A!°ace
and German Lorraine and part of the fleet,
are among the indemnity to be guaranteed
by the municipalities; a portion of the
Germans to return home and the war to
cease.
It is necessary that some territory be re
tained to secure the fulfillment of the com
pact.
The mobiles are to be sent homo, and the
German army to enter Paris.
The Emperor will return immediately to
Berlin.
Bourbaki attempted to kill himself after
his defeat at Belford. His injuries are so
severe that his life is despaired of.
The Times publishes, by request from
Chiselhurst. a denial of its statement that
intrigues were going on between Bismark
and the Bonapartiots for the restoration of
the latter.
Versailles, Jan. 30.—The entrance and
egress from Paris is forbidden. The revit
alizing of Paris is proceeding under German
supervision. Confidence is expressed at the
German headquarters that peace is secured.
The German troops are ohagrined at be
ing forbidden to enter into Paris.
Blair’s Opinion of Grant..
Ihe New iork Sun now admits that
Gen. I rank Blair e opinion of the tyrant
Grant was nnt “far wrong.” It says:
I rank Biair has always maintained
that Gen. Grant would not leave the White
House quietly at the end of the terra, but
wouid undertake, by a military revolution,
to make himself a permanent mler mon
arch, dictator, Emperor—whatever he
might call it—of this country.
“This has always seemed to us a mis
taken opinion ; but the pig-headed obsti
nacy with which he is trying to force upon
the people this foul und odious San Domin
go job, looks os though Frank Blair might
not be so far wrong in this respect aa most
people baye thought him.”
A SCE\E IS THE WHITE HOUSE.
A Magnificent Slice of Cold Shoulder—
Washington Correspondence of the Cin
cinnati Commercial.
I was told of a rather good thing that
came off yesterday- You can rely up -n the
facta, for the same was given ine'by an e\c
witness, who, in picturing it to the little
cr« wd, was not aware that two of the same
were professional pen-drivers, ever on the
lookout for the strange or amusing.
It seems that ic was thought best that all
the gentlemen not in office who happened
to be at tho national capital from the Pacif
ic slope should, in view of the proposed
change in the Cabinet, whereby Attorney-
General Ak’erman would be rotated out and
Senator Williams rotated in, call in a body
on llis Kxeelleney and express their ap
proval of the choice, and their confidence in
every-hody. To this end a sub-committee
interviewed the High Custodian, Gen.
Dent, and secured an appointment for the
enthusias ic Slopers.
At the hour indicated eighteen solid
looking, tall, handsome men tiled into the
reception room of the Executive Volcano,
that seems to be in a perpetual stare of
smouldering inactivity, and did erupt on
this occassion, and were duly presented by
ex-G 'V. Wood of Oregon. After the expect
ant Simpers were seated ex Gov. Wood
opened as spokesman. He said that they
had called as representative men from the
Pacific slope, to express their high confi
dence in Senator Williams, and to express
the hope that, at last, the just claims of
thoir wide region would be recognized by a
Cabinet appointment.
At tfiis point, and before the Governor
could finish his well rounded sentence, the
President removed his cigar from his mouth
and broke out with :
“Hold on there—hold on, gentlemen.
You’re speaking now about my private
affairs, and on my private affairs I don’t
allow no man to interfere.”
The interruption was so abrupt, the voice
and manner so intentionally rude, that the
ex-Governor was completely dumbfounded.
A dead silence fell upon the crowd, and the
younger and the more timid moved uneasi'y
in their chairs, casting longing eyes at the
door, as if wishing to escape immediately.
“In selectihg my Cabinet,” continued
His Excellency, “I advised with no one.”
“The is well aware of that/’
drily remarked an old fellow from Montana.
“It is a family affair,” the Chief Magis
trate went on to say, “and eighteen gentle
men had flashed through eighteen represen
tative skulls the thought that it was “a d —d
sight too much so.”
“Well,” said a representative man from
California, “it is a great regret to many of
your best friends, Mr. President, that you
don’t advise with someone when it comes
to filling offices in California. We are sad
dled with a gang of carpet-baggers who
neither know our politics nor care a cent
for our country.”
To this the administration made no reply
other than scowling in wrath at the speak
er.
“I hope at least, Mr. President, that our
well meant demonstration will not injure
Senator Williams in your estimation,” said
Judge Dunn.
“lfanything could, this certainly would,”
was the churlish reply.
“I can assure you, sir,” continued the
Ju'lge, “that Senator Williams knows noth
ing about it.
“I should hope not—and I don’t believe
that he does,” said the President drily.
A long, awkard silence followed. Some
were alarmed, some were disgusted, and all
were mad. The snub was so pointed, so
infernally rude, that being administered to
men who had roughed it in the wild West,
and hoard in their times lions roar, a per
sonal encounter would have been a natural
consequence. A promiscuous rump-kick
ing in the Executive Mansion would have
been delicious. Os course, the grand master
of ceremonies. Gen Dent, would have sound
ed the alarm through his trumpet of a nose,
and all the liveried flunkies of the White
House would have sailed in to the assistance
of the royal master. I would, have bet
heavily on the representative men in such a
scrimmage. They are not good in a civil
deinonstration_such as they attempted, but
in a row on this occassion I believe they
would have given the Administration the
healthiest sort of a “hist.”
As it was, after a long, awkward silence,
the Slopers rose and sloped. They took no
order on their going, but went promiscu
ously and at once.
Some are of the opinion that the Admin
istration had taken a drop too much ;
others thatjit happened* to be in a devil of a
bad humor. I suspect that the Administra
tion had but a short time previous read
Orvill's tender epistle in print.
Certainly the selection of a Cabinet is a
delicate matter, and such demonstration
was not exactly the right thing to engage
in. But then it. was not the proper course
to insult the well-meaning gentlemen en
gaged in the affair. They will all be in the
next Nationals orninating Convention, and
a sweet lot they will prove ta be for Grant
to meet. * X) P.
The Next Presidential Election.
The New Tribune says that “all the laws
making Federal apportionments take affect
from and after the 3d of March, in the third
year from the beginning of each decade ”
Upon this the Cincinnati Enquirer suggests
the query. “Under what apportionment, old
or new, are we to hold the Presidential
election of 1872?” In 1832 the Electors
were chosen, we observe, upon the old ba
sis of 1820 and not that of 1830. It was
not until 1836 that the basis was applied to
Presidential Electors.” “Next fall we
shall vote for members of Congress under
the new apportionment of 1870, and it
would look very odd, if, at the same time,
we should choose Presidential Electors un
der that of 1860. As the new Congress and
the new President both come in on the same
day, why should there be this diset imina
tion ?”
This is a matter of importance to the
Southern and Western States whose popu
lation has been on the increase since 1860.
Under the apportionment of 1860 on’y three
fifths of the negro population of the South
was allowed in the culcu-ation in fixing our
ratio of representation. Under the appor
tionment of 1870 the full strength of that
olass of our population will bo taken into
the count. It is not probable that the pres
ent Congress will make any change in the
law upon this subject. It is but just that
the next Congress should, very early in its
first session, make such alterations in the
law as will give to each State its proper
vote under the-apportionment last made
prior to a presidential election.
r^i,K * r 9 n tails that already reach to the
I ueitie will be extended in no long period
to Alaska itself, and a tunnel under Beh
ring’s Straits, connecting the oldest with
newest continent, and forming part of an
unbroken railroad from New York to St.
1 etersburg, may be among tho possibilies
of the future.—JVeic York Times.}
Lee and TUad. Stephens.
Though a mau who was very loath to give
his views to the public, General Lee was a
man who entertained strong and decided
convictions upon political affairs. In pri
vate he would often speak of the Radicals
in Congress, and their short-sighted policy
toward the South, and say, “Poor men :
they little know what mischief they are
doing.” Not long after his arrival in Lex
ington, he was summoned, greatly against
his wishes, to appear before the Reconstruct
tion Committee in Washington. On the
morning after his arrival in the capital he
went to the room of the committee, and took
his seat before any of the members arrived.
Shortly afterwards several members of
the committee, whom General Lee reeogniz
ed as gentlemen, entered the room succes
sively and extended their hands to him, who
courteously returned their salutation, and
entered into conversation with them. At
last the door opened, and looking up Gener
al Lee saw a disagreeable, morose and ill
natured countenance in the door way—tho
physiognomy of lion. Thaddcus Stevens.
Walking up to where Lee wns standing,
Stevens ext nded his hard, but the General
could not get his consent to recognize such
a man, and proudly folding his arms he
turned his back up in the discomfited lead
er of the “God and morality party.”
About Cotton.
An interesting feature of the cotton sta
tistics of the country for the year ending
October 1, 1870, is contained in the state
ment of the relative importance of the cot
ton manufactures, North and South. During
the year there were in the North 637 mills,
working 6,851,779 spindles, and using 784 -
153 bales ; in the South, 109 mills, 292,221
spindles, and 69,Uf7 bales converted into
cloth. The increase throughout the countrv
in the number of mills, spindies, and bales
consumed over previous year is quite mark
ed. The figures show an increase of 350,-
443 spindles, and in the consumption of
cotton of 17.310 bales, or 8,066,460 pounds.
Massachusetts is, of coui>c, at the head of
the cotton spinning industry of the enuntry,
having 128 mills, 32,149 looms, and SoS,-
818 spindles, and consuming about 115,000.
000 pounds of cotton. The prospects of the
manufacturers are at present, owing to
many causes —the combined effect of a
present excess in supply and the war in
Europe —better than they have been for a
long time. Constitution.
The Georgia Victory.
The result of the electien in Georgia is a
Democratic victory. A Democratic Govern
or. a Democratic Legislature, two Demo
cratic United States Senators, and a major
ity of Democrats in the Congressional
delegation ; such, it is reported, are the
fruits that prove the complete failure of the
best laid schemes of Congressional recon
struction in the last of the reconstructed
States. Out of eleven States subjected to
the rule of the bayonet and the will of crea
tures in epaulets—suljected, humiliated,
outraged, villified, destroyed and recon*
structed, in order to give their political de
cision to the Radical party —that party still
retains South Carolina, Florida and Missi »
sippi, with a feeble foothold in Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas, —a foothold that will
certainly be lost at the next general election.
Can Radicals honestly say they think their
attempt to change the sentiments and opin
ions of American citizens by force has
paid? —Gh icago Tim es.
TnE Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald thus tells about Jeff.
Long’s admission to Congress:
“The negro is an intelligent looking man,
about medium height, of rather sp ire figure,
with a well shaped head, covered with an
abundant crop of wool. lie is a much better
representative of the negro race than Rain
ey, of South Carolina, who is more like a
Cuban than an African. Ass >on as he
was sworn n he was warmly congratulated
by Kelly, of Pennsylvania. Ben Butler and
other Radicals seemed fearful that he would
go over to the Democratic side of the House,
and accordingly set about to get him a se; t
on the Republican side. It was manifest
that he had never been in Congress before,
for he looked around with an air of bewil
derment as if he had suddenly found him
self in the wrong box.”
If confidence may be placed in outward
and visible signs, the State of New Hamp
shire is about to perform a political somer
sault. The Democrats, for the first time in
several years, are now thoioughly in
harmony among themselves and working
earnestly and vigorously to secure success.
1 heir candidate for Governor is known and
respected throughout the State, and his
liberality; high character, and eminent
abilities are conceded even’by his political
opponents. On the other hand, “Elder ’
Pike, the Radical candidate, is said to be a
religious and political bigot, believing that
all spiritual grace centres in his church,
and that all patriotism is confined to his
political party. The Democrats express the
utmost confidence in being able to defeat
him by a handsome majority.— Union and
American.
Protection of Ship.t from Icebergs.
It is well known that icebergs cool the
water around them to a very considerable
distance. An American gentlemen named
Dion has made this fact the foundation of
an invitation to protect vessels against col
lision with icebergs. He proposes to place
on the bottom of steamers or other vessels an
apparatus so arranged as to sound an alarm
on the instant the ship’s keel enters a stra
tum of cold water. The invention is said to
have been suggested by the supposed fate
of the lost steamer City of Boston.
Blodgett says the State Road is in debt
to the amount of six hundred thousand dol
lars. That is a good “pile” to steal in a
little over one year, besides the income of
the road amounting to six or eight hundred
thousand more.
y\DVEHTISEMENTS.
SHORT-HAND WRITING.
ONE Hundred and Fifty Words per
Minute can now be learned in four weeks This
is new L gbtnli g Method. Alt that see it say it is the
greatest marvel of the age. Send two 3-cent postage
stamps for descriptive circulars, testimonials and full
information. Address Prof. A. GREY P o iw
4.50, Nc» Tort. ’
Upson Sheriff’s Sale.
VVTILL be sold on the first Tue-dav in
V V March next, before the Courthouse door in
Thomaston Upson county, Ga., between the legal hours
of sale, two bales of lint cotton, levied on by virtue >■{
an execution issued from the Superior Court of said
county, in favor of Henry Brooks ag-iiust Phebe .Math
ews Property pointed out in said execution
Also, at. the same time and place, one-half interest in
a certain mill seat on Potatoe Creek together with all
water priviliges and a mill yard containing two acres,
more or lass known as the old Colquitt mill property
the same being on the east side of said creek. Levied on
as the property of the estate of Jonathan Colouitt to
satisfy seven fl fas in favor of E A Flewellen. against
Jonathan Colquitt and Ileary Colquitt Property point
e,l /; u , l by O. C. 311A EM AN,
fcb4 - td - Sheriff.
S5 TO $lO PER DAY.
who engage in our now bus| lleßa
per day in thdr own localidas vLn ,D1 **>
instructions sent free by mail Th
m nent, profitable work, should
3tisson Jt Cos., Portland, Maine.
MSM 'i 5s -I
TO THE WORKING CLASS.' I
to'furnish all classes with cousin-.H
home, the whole of the time i or
Business new, light and profitable ’ sT H
sex easily earn from ftoc. to $5 j>c r avwc 01
portlonal sum by devoting their
business. Boys and girls earn n ar'.r ‘'it? .'H
That all who see this notice may "l®' B * ■
we make this unparalleled offer: To suc k t "“ 1 '»•'fl
satisfied, wo will send *1 to p*y f or ,
writing. Full particulars, a valnabl■ 1
do to commence work on, and a K „ Vr 0 «
Literary Companion oneofthe largrst '
newspapers pifblished— all sent free by m 1
if you want periuaneut, profitable
jant 3m E. C. ALLEN & C'O in-
u «> Us k ■
PATENT CHAIR ATTACHMJ
. USEFUL IN EVERY HOUsE| to I
OFFICE. workshop, store—; n r
where J. C. ZI.MAIEim VV< ’
C hair Attachment. A chair with ,v '‘"M
ment will cutlasc a dozen ordinary »n.*„ “'
those in common use, and takes up * -■
is destined to he introduced every* t * 'B
wishing to see this Chair Attachment
trials to which it is subjected to test j 4 ',
please call upon the subscriber. Territory- fl
* c ~ z rgs>B
GRIFFIN CLOTHING STfl
bt
J. H. WHITE & co.l
DKALKSS IN
MENS’, YOUTHS’ AND BOY S I
CLOTHINqI
FURNISHING GOODS, ETC. 1
PIECE GOODS OF ALL KLVI
Which we sell by the yard, or manufactun tt J
MK. I. IV. II AIR I
superintending that branch of the bu#in eM , * I
keep a good line of
HATS, CAPS, BOOTS AND SI](I
And with our advantages and facilities for bttj
fear no competition. Very respectfully,
jan7-tf J. 11. AVHITEa(B
Os Interest to the Farml
The Eureka Amnaniated S-l
SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF 111
Is for sale at all points of importance I
I2ST OEORGIJ
We have sold it
FIVE SUCCESSIVE YEAE'I
And know.it is the very article for
PLANTERS TO I SlI
DAVID DICKSON, Eaq., of Oxford, says it USi I
to any
COMMERCIAL FERTILIIBI
He ever applied, and
RECOMMENDS IT TO EVERYT.:
We sold over Two Thousand Tons in Geo.giilu <
IT HAS BEEN TRIO
And always
PAID TIIE PLANTE!
The Eureka A ramonlated Super-Phwpttf
Lime will be sold for Cotton payable next fall.
Send fora Pamphlet. An Agent may befou::
almost every Depot, but information can always:<
at F. W. SIMS <fc CQ., Savanni!
or of J. H. P.OGEih
jun7-3m Tbomsstftc,
FURNITURE! FURNITUiS
BY whnlp«iaJe and retale at the* Lj
Furniture Rooms of
W. A. JOHNSON
where you can get beautiful Chamber setts
f!SO. I am daily expecii'g three car load o' !
Furniture when I will be able to sell nice Gotor
steads at from •'*7,-9 to SIO,OO and everything
in the way of Furnitnre at Boston Factory pr
and examine my sp endid stock of fine Furn ’c' r
janl4-4t W. A. JOHN- '
THOS. F. BETHEL
DEALEP. IN
DRV GOODS AND GROICH
WOULD inform his cus»tom prS 1
? V friends that his fall stock is now comply,
solicits from them a continuance of their f" rin *I v|l
age, at his new fire proof store on Main street, < .
ton, Ga dec.
J. J. hecht
(Monticello, Gr.)
Watchmaker and Jewel;
0
THOMASTON, GA
XV r OULD respectfully inform thec j
f T of Upson and adjacent counties, •k**.','
located In Thomaston for the purpose of l
Jewelry Business Will keep constantly on
supply of WATCHES, CLOCKS, etc., M lbe y
will justify.
REPAIRIN Gi
of all kinds, in my Hue made a specialty- A.
warranted. A liberal share of patronage es .^ D i '
liclted. Rooms, first door North of WebbJ
decl7 im
Dr. Radcliff’s Seven Sea
or, GOLDEN WONP^
AA7E challenge world to
▼ f dy superior to Dr.
SEALS ok. GOLDEN WONDFR. The*"** p
of th? age. For Sick Headache, Tooth* A t l
Wounds, Burns, Cos res. Pains in the Bsc ■
nothing has ever been found to equal it- *
to cure Rheumatism however aggravate
Read what Dr. J. O. Hunt says of**®
remedy:
‘‘l certify that I have used one smafi ’
Bevea Beals, fir, Golden Wonder, purclc*
W. A. Johnson, the agent, and with only * 1 f< , 1
it, cured a very qevere case of Neuralgia
mediate relief in cases of this nature. (
Price per bottle 50 cents ands ITO. |( Kt*
testimonials from all portico.* of the couD r ‘ 5
Store. < ome and be re iev?d »f your tr«-
cure any case of Headache in three imnu ~
W. A. JOHNSON,
For Upson. Pike, Talbot and Monroe
dec24-tf