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THETHOMASTON HERALD
<7lf AsT <i. DEAnCK,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
THOMASTON, GA., FEB- 18,1871.
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Tri tlio United States Senate a reso uii >n
lms been introduced to amend the Consti
tution, eo as to exclude from the right of
suffrage all person? bptting on elections.
Hu tier for ilkv Cubiiuh
It is insisted that Gen. Butler is to be
Secre'arv of State when the Cabinet is
remodeled. Would if not be in keeping to
appoint hint Secretary of the Treasury, as
he is known to be well posted in matters
pertaining to the current coin of the realm.
Oregon iiiid tin- Fifteenth Aiaeiulmritt.
Oregon, through her senator, Mr. Will
iams, has presented a resoln'ion of her S’ate
legislature, rejecting the fifteenth amend
ment to the Constitution. It charges that
it was forced upon the States by the aid of
Fede al bayonets and should be as null ar.d
inoperative as a contract entered into by a
man under duress. It says moreover, that
each State should regulate suffrage for thy- (
self and not the general government.
Tlie liutli-r Investigation.
The New York Sun says a very interest- ■
ing investigation has been going on at
Washington in relation to Gen. Butler’s
management of the funds of the National 1
Asylum for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors.
Precisely what the Committee have discov- j
ored is not yet known ; hut i*t is a suspicions
circumstance that G<;n. Butler, though
accused of misusing the money in his
charge, has succeeded in foiling the effort
of the prosecution to bring bes ire the Com
mittee his private accounts relating to the I
suVject. Accordingly, it is probable that
he will be thoroughly whitewashed by the
report, and that the public will place very
little confidence in it.
A Statesman's Views.
A grand supper was given a few days
since, by the Young Men’s Jackson Associ
ation, of Pittsburgh, Penn., which was
attended by many prominent Democratic
politicians of the State. Among the letters
from invite I guests unable to attend, was
one from the lion. George 11. Pendleton. j
“If ever the industry of a country had
cause to complain Jof an administration, it
is now. Capital has full power, and con- I
trols absolutely its financial policy. By a 1
rapid contraction of the currency it has
brought ruin and bankruptcy on thousands
of the best men in the land. Every farmer
who voted to put it in power voted to reduce
the price of his own corn, and wheat, and
pork. Every mechanic, to reduce his wages !
and curtail his work. Every merchant, to
diminish the value of his stock and to in
crease his indebtedness. This was all fore
told, but was not believed. It is now man
ifest.
* * Mr * * Mr Mr * #
The government has been drawn away
from the moorings in which it was anchor
ed by our fathers in the past, and is now
drifting toward dangerous rocks.
Do we not need the virtues of Jackson
to restore honesty and simplicity in admin
istration ; economy and integrity in expen
ditures ; equality in taxation ; appoint
ment of good men to office, and an adherance
to the fudamcntal maxim that the reserved
rights of the States are as essential to our
system as the delegated powers of the Fed* !
eral Government?
This duty belongs to the Democratic par- j
•y ; and to its performance by its organiza- j
tion, its principles, and its traditions that
party brings extraordinary capacity. Found
ed in tho earliest days of the Republic ; led
by great men who have given to it the purity
and loftiness of their own characters, in
spired by a love of country —it has survived ;
the factions which have sprung up around
it. Fixed in its principles, it adapts their
expression to the changing condition of hu*
man society ; constant in its aims and pur
poses, it seeks to attain them by means best
adapted to exigencies of public opinion and
the shifting phases of affairs.
About tbe Public Debt.
Secretary Boutwell announces that on
the Cth of March next he will begin making
an attempt to fund the debt of the United
States at a reduced rate of interest. As
this is the great achievement for which he
has been working since he took office, and
to accomplish which be has been the steady
advocate of maintaining the most oppressive
and grinding taxation of the people, his
desire to bold his office until h 9 shall
have had the chance of reaping tbe fruits of
his policy is out natural. His scheme is to
exchange the outstanding six per cent, bonds
of tne United States for bonds, $500,000,-
000 bearing interest at four per cent, per
annum, having thirty years to run ; $500,-
00\000 four and a half per cent., having
fifteen years to run ; and $500,000,000 five
per cent., having ten years to run. He
thinks that such an exchange will be readi
ly if not Pftgerlv accepted by tho public
creditors, but we fear he is mistaken. Per
haps the national banks will avail themselves
of his offer through fear of being compelled
t) take worse terms as a condition of retain
ing their circulation, and by some private
capitalists, who prefer a low rate ot interest
with a certainty of its continuance, to a
higher one with tho liability of having their
money returned on their hands at a time
when they cannot profitably lend it out
again. . It is so plainly for the advantage of
the country to have the exchange made,
that we wish Mr. Boutwell success, much
as we differ from him as to views of finan
cial policy in other respects.— N. Y. Sun.
Mr. Peyton, ot the Tennessee Legisla
ture, from the Committee on Federal Rela
tions, reported in favor of the rejection of
the resolution favoring the removal of the
National Capitol to the Mississippi Valley,
and the Senate therefore voted to reject
said resolution.
Keeping Up the Fire*
“The war for the Union,” we see by a
resolution adopted in the United States
Senate, is not yet over, and to prove it, a
committee is to investigate events which
transpired far hick into the Johnson ad
ministration. The old record* of the De
partments are ran* ack to find material to
tiie she Nor’hern heart, and in some new
way to reconstruct ree instruction. The Gov
ernors— Holden, Bullock, Davis, Scott, and
others—are to he evoked, even against their
own messages, to turn out the contents of
the party pigeor.-boles in their State Ex
ecutive Departments, to prove what rogues
the people of the South are. and the saintly
characters of the carpet-baggers and inter
lopers who Continue to keep the people of
the South by the ears. Many outrages, no
doubt.«havew been conimitted at the South ;
but for every reaT one", ten have been fabri
cated, and of those committed, the Radicals
are in part responsible. Senator Wilson
declares that there is before that body now
“such an official record of* crime a? no
Christian or civilized land during the last
five years could present.” There may fie
such a record—but is it a true or false
record ? The Radicals have had almost
supreme power at the South through the
past five years. They have had the civil
offices, the army and navy, the patronage
and sympathy of the Federal administration
and both Houses of Congress. What has
been officially done has equally been done
in the worst spirit and the wofist manner.
Even when Conservative people have sent
Conservative Senators and Representatives
to Congress, they have not been received.
This scheme is sim-ply a revenge, because,
in spite of all the onpressions, outrages,
and robberies which they had to endure at
the hands of Radical power, the people of
the South had repudiated the administra
tion. This is the whole secret, and
bo so understood by the people. Mr.
Thurman, in the debate, held up to view
the violence and proscription of Republicans
in the Southern States, especialiv towards
negroes who were independent enough to
vote against them, and showed how gross
and flagrant were the frauds in Florida,
where eight counties were thrown nut to
consummate a Radical fraud ; how in
Texas the whole power was concentrated
in the hands of a Radical Governor, and
the people excluded from all their political
rights. lie cited the outrages c minuted
by the Radicals in South Carolina on Con
servative meetings, and alluded to the fact
how a colored man was pursued and his
life threatened, right under the eyes of
Congress, for voting the Democratic ticket.
These and worse outrages pass in silence
hy .the Radical majority. Even the mur
ders and cruelties of Kirk and his ruffians
under Holden excited not the least atten
tion, though without parallel in our history.
We deprecate all outrages, and especially
that now proposed to fabricate an excite
ment in the interests of a party and against
the peace of the country. — New York Ex
press, Jan. 20.
The Senatorial Question in the Senate.
Georgia is ptill but half way into the
Senate ; Senator Miller yet standing upon
the threshhold. The indications are favor
able, however, for his admission. When
the bill repealing the test oath had passed
Congress, it was conceded by many leading
Republicans that it removed all objections
to Mr. Miller. I heard no one interpret the
bill otherwise. But now comes forward
the Washington correspondent of the New
York Times, who is never happy unless
contradicting someone and says the bill
only applies to persons elected after its
passage. He says, however, that the spirit
of the bill and its title clearly include Mr.
Miller's case ; and he thinks that in any
event the Senate will raise technicalities.
The Republican papers generally urge Mr.
Miller’s admission, not alone upon the
ground of justice, but because they consider
him “thoroughly reconstructed.” *
You will doubtless he pleasantly disap
pointed to learn that Senator Stewart con
cedes Blodgett to be a hopeless case, lie is
at least reported to have said that Blodgett
would not be seated. This is almost too
good news to he true. lie may, however,
be appointed hy Bullock to fill the vacancy
caused by the expiration of Mr. Miller’s
term on the 4th of March ; but the Legisla
ture will meet in time to elect a Senator to
take his seat when Congress re-assembles
in December. If Blodgett thus gets two
months in the Senate, it will he a consola
tion to know that it was simply and solely
through Bollock’s agency, without the fare*
of an election by the pretended representa
tives of the people of the State.
Blodgett’s personal character is a great
bar to his admission to the Senate, even
among the Radicals, who are no', supposed
to be very particular in that respect. Even
if his claims were far better than they are,
he would find few to advocate them. The
odium which clings to Bullock, Blodgett
and others, of the “Georgia lobby” of last
session, is much greater than may have
been supposed ; nor does it come from the
Democrats in Congress alone.
Ti»e Test Oath.
Grant is reported to have stated on Sat
urday that he would sign the bill to repeal
the test oath. The Washington Patriot
states that every effort has been made by
the extreme wing of the Radicals to induce
him not to sign the bill. Members individ
ually and delegations have visited the
White llsuse for that purpose, and Grant,
who is a mere nose of wax in the hands of
reckless politicians, would consent to obey
their dictation, if he was not adv sed from
other quarters in the same party that such
a course might be ruinous to his interests.
Personally be has no feeling on the subject,
and cares nothing about the principle'in
volved or the policy of coneiliat od. lie
looks solely to its influence upon himself, or
those who direct his councils. Consequently,
if he should sign the law, his signature
would express no sentiment, while if he
should veto it, the signification would be
that he had simply obeyed the orders of the
cabal which controls him. That is the sort
of President with which this great nation
is afflicted. Desperate demagogues on the
one hand, and military subservients on the
other, shape the action of an Executive
who presides over the destinies of forty
millions of people, and who only cares for
his own selfish interests and those of his
immediate surroundings. llad he felt the
least concern for the people of the South
who are relieved by the bill in question, he
would have returned it promptly with his
signature. But Butler and his fellow-con
spirators said “no,” and he refused to per
form that plain duty, while he listened to
suggestions of hostility to any form of
conciliation.
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The West ami the Income Tax.
The West is opposed to the repeal of the
income tax. The Wisconsin Assembly—73
to 9—hasju?t voted for the continuance of
the tax, and this will explain the vote of
Frank Blair, of Missouri, against the repeal
ing bill in the United States Senate,
Synopsis of Telegraphic News.
DOMESTIC.
Washington, Feb. 10.— The lower House
of the Kansas Legislature passed a bill
allowing criminals to testify in their own
behalf, and allowing husband and wife to
testify in each other’s behalf in criminal
! prosecutions.
Frankfort, Kt., Jan. Id.—T*he Com
missioners, appointed by Governor Bullock
to visit the Legislature of Kentucky in be
haif of the Southern railway, arrived here
to-day. The pending bill was defend
yesterday in the Senate of this State amid
mueh excitement.
The delegation has been very cordially
received by the Oovernor, members of the
Legislature, and the citizens generally.
They are to attend a reception this even ng
at the Executive Mansion upun special in
vitation of the Governor.
Washington. Feb. 13 Senate. — Mr.
Sherman presented memorials asking au
thority for the Cincinnati and Southern
Railroad to pass through Kentuokv. Mr.
Sherman said be heartily concurred in the
prayers of these petitioners, and thought if
there was any occasion when the legislation
and authority of the Federal Government
might be properly exercised in the matter
of railroads, it was when one State obstin
ately placed itself in the way and refused
permission to the Northern and Southern
people to place themselves in connection by
a railroad across its territory.
The resolution seatirg Mdleron the mod
ified oath was taken up and debated aliday.
The joint resolution allowing Miller to take
the modified oath goes to the If -use for
concurrence and then to the President.
Navs on the bill modifying Miller’s oath :
Abbott, Ames, Bmwnlow, Buckingham,
Chandler, Oragin, Edmonds, Gilbert, How
ell, Morrill, Stearns, Stewart, Sumner and
Warner. Senators Bayard, Carpenter,
Sherman and Willey in the affirmative,
paired with Conkling, Hamilton id' Texas,
and Cameron and Pool in th» negative.
FOREIGN.
Lond in, Feb. 10. — A dispatch from
Beriii) says the contribution •*f two hun
dred millions of francs exacted from Paris,
have apportioned one hundred and fifty
mi'lions to North Germany and fifty mil
lions to South Germany.
Brest. Feb. 11.—The veritable cattle
plague has appeared among immense herds
of cattle going to Paris. It is impossible
to bury the dead cattle, and the carcasses
are loaded on war vessels and taken to aca
and sunk.
London, Feb. 12.—Napoleon has issued
a proclamation to the electors of France in
which he says substantially, that during
hostilities he abstained from any word
which might have caused party dissensions,
and did not protest against any violation of
his rights when the Empire, which had
been three times acclaimed, was over
thrown and abandoned. He had hoped for
a successful defense ; but now, when the
struggle is suspended, and all reasonable
chances of victory gone, it is time to call
to account the usurpers for bloodshed and
ruin and squandered resources, lie says a
solid peace is only reasonable when the
people are consulted respecting the govern
ment most capable of repairing the disas
ters to the country. For himself, he does
not claim the confirmed right, but till the
people are regularly assembled to express
their will, there is only one government in
which resides the national sovereignty
capable to heal the wounds, to bring hope
to firesides, to re-open the profaned
churches for prayers, and to restore indus
try, concord and peace.
Berlin, Feb. 13.—The Prussian Cross
Gazette judges from the results of the
French elections that the resumption of the
war is improbable, and scarcely doubts
that the armistice will be prolonged.
Florence, Feb. 13.—The Italian Parlia
ment has adopted a resolution declaring
the libraries and galleries of the Vatican
to be public property. This measure pass
ed in spite of strong ministerial opposition.
Improvnncut.
Gradually, hut with a healthy progress,
is popular sentiment preparing for a vigor
ous assertion of the public libert es. The
party of despotism, diminished in numeri
cal strength, is yet more impaired in its
moral tone. In proportion as Radicalism,
under the stress of constantly growing
difficulties, lowers its the party
of the Constitution and popular rights be
come bold and self-asserting.
The result of the Missouri election, and
the elevation of Frank B air to the Senate ’
of the United States, bv a ni jority so com
manding, are most hopelul signs of the
times. In vindicating the fundamental
principles ot free popular government, Gen
eral Blair has shown himself to he a good
and a brave man. While a man, such as he
seems to be, can stand for the cause of lib
erty, right where its worst assailants are
using power, there must still he some hope
that right and justice may once again pre<*
vail.
When we add to indication!? like this,
other strong demonstrations of revived hope
and renewed vigor and purpose, we may
well hope that liberty will really be restor
ed once more to her ancient influence in the
United States. We may even hope to see a
free people once more occupying the op
pressed States of the South.
There has rarely been such a political
change as that which has occurred recently
in the United States. The recent elections
have shown it. If neither eowaidice nor
folly arrest the result, we shall yet have a
restoration, and upon a secure basis, of free
government.— Carolina Weekly Star.
Centralization in Another Phase.
Not satisfied, says a Washington special,
with putting the whole system of state and
municipal elections under general suDer
vision and control, Mr. Edward-, of Ver
mont, proposes for the United States to take
charge of the immigrants who land in the
United States, to determine their destination
and mode of travel, and from whom they
are to buy their lands. The machinery is
a bureau at Washington City, to be held in
the War Department, and known as the
United States Immigration Bureau, with a
branch at New York. The officers of the
bureau are to make contracts with railroad
companies, furnish information and facili
ties immigrants, to act as agents for parties
who desire to settle upon public or private
lands in large tracts. The bill gives the
government nearly complete control over
immigrants, and large opportunities to
agents for jobs and money making, hut it
solemnly declares everything shall he done
in the most virtuous manner.— Mahcmina
Vindicator.
It isclaimed, says the DotmitFree Press
that Grant did not invite Greeley to the
White House, with a view to a pence alli
ance between him and Senator Fenton. He
wanted a man to swear over the Georgia
election, and ho knew that Greeley wue
adequate to the occasion.
Legislative Per Diem.
The Constitution of the State of New
York limits the per diem of members of the
General Assembly to three dollars A
movement has been made by a member ot
the II use to amend the Oonstrution. so
as to give Legislators a salary of one thous
and dollars each. The Now York Commer
cial Advertiser remarks that even upon the
existing per diem, the anxiety to occupy one
of the ItX) seats in the General Assembly,
is so intense that men will go down into
their pockets and into the gutters to secure
a re-election.
But :he bestforensic talent and the high
est social standing in the State are usually
represented in the New York Legislature.
New York State pavs her 160 Legislators
an aggregate per diem of §4BO. Georgia
pays her 219 Logislat 'rs at §9,0 ) per day
an aggregate of $1 971 The Legislators
of New York are her active and incellipent
minds at the bar, in the marts of commerce
—at her seats of learning and the foremost
representatives of agriculture and manufac
tures. In the last Legislature of Georgia
about forty of her Legislators were tie Id
hands, whose services would have been dear
at twelve dollars a month, with a moiety of
other chaps whose services would have been
dear at nothing at all. Every hundred
days’ servi *,e of the Georgia e cost
§197,100 and of the New York Legislatrue
§48,000.
But it is worthy of remark that the mem
ber who is, as we think, rightly dissatisfied
with the inadequate per diem in New York,
d<es not propose to amend by increasing
the per diem. He would establish a salary,
and thus avoid the demoralizing result of
holding out a temptation to extend legisla
tive sessions. The system established by
the Radicals of Georgia of nine dollars a
day and unlimited session, has now, or
ought to have, some check in that
portion of our Constitution which limits all
sessions, after the second, to forty days,
unless prolonged by a vote of two-thirds of
each branch. This gives a patriotic minor
ity a veto power upon outrageous spoliation.
But we look to the Democracy to set a
wholesome limitation upon the per diem, as
well as tL>e length of the session and the
excess of legislation. Let them fix, say,
five dollars a day, and that in a session of
forty days would make the gross per diem
$43,800. — Telegraph and Mesengcr.
Cotton.
Liverpool. —“Cotton dull, with down
tendency.”
wiEir York.— “ Cotton dull and lower.”
are the gloomy reports telegraphed
to us yesterday. They come simultaneously
with assurances that the war in Europe
will not be renewed at the expiration of the
armistice, and that we may now look for
peace and the full resumption of trade.
They come, also, under dates advising us of
a rise in gold at New York, and when we
have mail accounts predicting a further de
cline in tne currency—a turn that ought to
produce a corresponding (though small)
advance in cotton. The opinion of many
financiers is that gold will continue to ad
vance, unless checked by Government ac
tion, until the near approach of the time tor
the next heavy payment of coin interest,
which occurs in May.
What can cause such a depression in the
cotton market under these conditions?
Obviously the continued heavy receipts, and
the control of the market which speculators
have acquired. Planters are now about to
“pitch” for their crops, and it behooves
them to decide at this time whether they
will next winter continue to crowd an over
supplied market, or make a small crop and
get a better price for it. As to the wresting
of the control of the market from Northern
speculators, that is more difficult matter,
but we believe that direct trade with Europe
and the demand of gold or a specie-paying
currency for cotton will effectually flank
even the speculators and their “corners.”
Military Law vs. Civil Law.
The case of Wetmore against Rors was
decided in the Superior Court at Savannah,
on the 27th nit. Capt. 11. S. Wetmore was
elected Ordinary of Chatham county, but
Gen. Terry forcibly ejected him from his
office and appointed Amherst W. Stone as
Ordinary. This occurred ovoi- a year ago.
Capt> Wetmore appealed to the courts for
redress, and on the 27th ult. Judge Schley,
of the Superior Court, rendered an elabor
ate decision affirming the right .of Capt.
Wetmore to occupy the position of Ordinary
of Chatham county, and in that decision
quoted at length from the Reconstruction
acts, and proved conc'u-ively that the ac s
‘of Gen. Alfred Terry, in placing Stone into
the position of Ordinary was unwarrantable,
illegal and uniust. Judge Schley showed
most conclusively that civil law was in all
cases paramount, and that military law in
the State of Georgia was unauthorized, so
long as the people of the State upheld and
respected the laws. Thus has right tri
umphed over might.
“Ways that arc Dark.”
A Washington special says: “The out
rage committee will make a partial report
ere long, for electioneering purposes. A
senator went up the other day, on business,
into one of the committee rooms ; he found
there a negro giving his testimony on North
Carolina, and two men engaged in taking
it down. O her persons were in the room,
and he inquired what was the object, and
was told the negro’s testimony was taken
for the purpose of being used before the
select committee on outrage. The senator
states that there was not a single member
of the committee present. It is understood
that witnesses are sifted and drilled before
hand, to see if they can stand fire and tell a
straight story before going to the committee.
Senators Pool and Abbot are supposed to
be at the bottom of this business, and it
looks as if the object was to make out a
case for keeping Abbot in the Senate six
years more to represent North Carolina.
W r hitcly v». Tift.
Whitely has received his certificate from
Governor Bullock. The Committee on
Elections have taken no action on the papers
and resolutions before them in reference to
Mr. Tift’s claims to the seat. This delay
was intended to give Whitely time to got
the certificate, that he might be sworn in.
It is certainly an anomaly in the legislative
history «f this country, that a man should
hold a certificate to a seat in both the Sen
ate and House, and one day endeavor to get
into the Senate and the next to get into the
House. But one need hardly be surprised
at uriything now-a-days in which Radical
ism is concerned.
It is expected Whitely’s credentials will
be presented to morrow, and that he will
ho sworn in. General Young intends to
make a fight on the case, however.
Schenok has had the carbuncle on his
head sand-papered down so it isn't much
largor than a wash-bowl. He says ho is
going to making those English people be»
lieve that concern is lull of brains. There
is no doubt that it contains a bettor quality
of brains than his head will average.
Bald-Headed ffew York Editors.
The following curious lot of personality
is from the Troy Budget:
“It is a curious fact that nearly all the
lending ed.turs of New York City are bald
headed. 1 have prepared the following
statement with great deal of care, and you
c«u rely upon its correctness :
• s amic. tatk*. o*uk or KttwKa
James G. Bennett, Herald—Excessive warship ol the
Herald
Horace Greeley, Tribune —Wearing lea white hut
too much.
Joseph Howard, Star — VL T. »*r.
Mao.'on Marble, World—High - loned Democracy.
Chas. H. Dana, Sun - Intense rays of the Sun.
‘•Bflck" Pomeroy, Democrat—Early pietv and over
work
Wm. C. Brvnnt, Post — Old ape.
George W. Jones, Times— General aggravation
Win. G. Prince. J. of Com—Toe much gunny bap'*
“The other metropolituu editors, so fur
as I know, have hair on their heads where
the wool ought to grow.”
San Domingo Commission.
Commissioners Howe, White, and Wade,
**with theii attendants, were taken to the
Tennessee on the Collector’s barge on the
17th. Gen. Sieel, Gen. Porter, Capt. Wade,
and Frederick Douglass, senior and junior
nod two Sun reporters, accompanied the
expedition. Guard of matines received the
visitors >.s they readied the Tennessee. As
the cutter steamed away salutes were fired.
At 2 o’clock the Tennessee wus running
through the Narrows. While proceedn g
down the harbor the Commission met and
organized. They resolved to proceed and rect
ly to San Domingo City, touching at the
bay of Samana only, it the Captain should
think it advisable. Their reason for going
to the Capitol first is to show a proper re
spect tor the authorities of the country.
The l olorc-d Census.
It appears from the census of 1870 that
in 503 counties in Kentuekv, Missouri,
North Carolina, Tennessee. Virginia and
West Virginia—designated as old slave
breeding States—the colored population is
1,270,474, or near 11,000 more than in 1860
The gains io percentage are only in North
Carolina and Tennessee. In Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas
designated old slave-consuming States —in
417 counties, the colored populatiou in 1870
was 1,775.402, or 91,572 more than in 1860.
There were losses in Louisiana, South Caro
lina and Texas.
A New Party.
A pamphlet bas been circulated in
Washington, setting forth the ohjects and
purposes of the National Labor party.
Delegates fmm all the States are to meet at
Columbus, Ohio, on the third Wednesday
of October next for the purpose of nomina
ting candidates for the offices of President
and Vice President of the United States
It is the purpose of this party to take the
start in the presidential canvass. It is not
improbable that Gov. Geary, of Pennsyl
vania, will be the nominee for President.
It is decided that Diminutive Akerman
is to surrender the Attorney General’s
place. Judge Pierrepont, of New York, i*
named as his probable successor. We do
not, however, concur in this suggestion.
We believe that Mr. B. H. Hill will have
the place tendered to him, and that he will
accept it. Arrangements for this appoint
ment were commenced in November last,
and we believe it to be quite certain that
Mr. B. 11. Hill will be the next Attorney
General. —Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
New Advertisements.
P H O TOG R A P H s7
L. A. GREEN ,
OF GRIFFIN, GA.,
Announces to the citizens of Thom
. aston and vicinity that he has taken rooms in the
CHENEY
BRICK BTJILBIXCr,
and is now ready to take pictures in every style imag
inable. and at all prices. Now is your opportunity to
have fine Pictures taken—ones that will not fade in a
lifetime. Como one, come all. Remember the place,
febl 8-ts
SPRING AND SUMMER
IMFOPLT^TIOISr
1871.
RIBBONS,
Millinery and Straw Goods.
ARMSTRONG!, CATOR & CO.
IM ’OETECS AJJD JOBBERS OF
BOINET, TRIMMING, AND VELVET
RIBBONS, BONNET SILKS,
Satins and Velvets, Blonds, Netts, Crapes, Ruches,
Flowers Feathers, Ornaments,
Straw Bonnets and Ladies’ Hats
Trimmed and Untrimmed, Shaker Hoods, &o,
5237 and 5239 Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE, MD.
Offer the largest Stock to be found in this Country
and unequalled in choice variety and cheapness com
prising the latest European novelties. Orders solicited,
and prompt attention given. feblEml
FURNIT UrTb
AT
REDUCED PRICES
BY
W.A,JOHNSON.
CALL SOON.
febl 1 -2t
JoiFwork
/ \F every description promptly and neatly
X' *£. the llbrau> Orders reapect
™uy solicited. Prices very reasonable. y
LOOK, LOOK OUt’’ 5
ALL thus* that owe us f,- n *
Groceries and are a Ur, r "OOfJ. . .
Roberson ter Lumber, and for BUrk***? 5 *• I>J^
will pleas, eon,* forward .Td »
accounts >4 th.ee years' standing V* J* ?
I account* into tne hands of an
after the first d..y ot M .rct »«.*t if ~,T «*»’
; iw w. •>.'
rort" ?
Th>>rnaiton, Ga., Feb. 11. l 571.-UV I
L. COHEN ,fe Oq
i■ roarrits or
| BRANDIES, WINES, GlNj
Y* SlCGAlis, LTt
BFSLKKS IS
RYE, BOURBON AND MONONo^
W IT ISIvI E S :
I Manufacturers ot the Celebrated „
Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, GKOI{ (i| .
febl 13m *•
’SHORT-HAND "writhe
ONE Hundred nnd Fifty W op ,i
Minute can now be learned in four slw
la new l.’ghtni g Method. All that ft
greatest marvel of the age. Send two Jl-onV
. stamps for descriptive clrcnlara, testlmoollu
Information. Address Prof. a. Q&kt »
i 4.547, New York. ' • 0 V
85 TO $lO PER DAY.
! 'who engage in our new business make f r ..- n
! per day in their own localities. Full p«rUr,,i 1,1
j instructions sent free by mail Those so n » 18
; m;:nent, profitable work.’should address ' ,* f “*•
| Stinson & Cos., Portland,- Maine. 11 fc.i
1 11 1 31 i !
TO THE WORKING are now , '
to furnish all classes with constant enml,.«£!***
home, the whole of the time for :he soar* B
Business new, light and profitable. Per*,.n,° ft 0 f aiNl!l
sex easily earn from 50e. to $5 per evening . n(t rt^r
portions! sutn by devoting their whole tin .- t*
business. Boys and girls earn nearly as tnurh , *
That all who see this notice mav send their
we make this unparalleled offer: To such as»r.«i.
satisfied, we will send II to pay for the tre!! *'
writing. Full particular*, a valuable sam de whwT, ™
do to commence work on, ami a copy 0 f The i*
Literary Companion one of the largest am) b*»tr P "
newspapers published—all sent free by mail jLT
if you want permanent, profitable work. addr*..
jan4’Bm E. C. ALLEN A CO., Augusta, Main,
PATENT CHAIR ATTACHMENT
USEFUL IN EVERY HOUSKIIOI.O
OFFICE, workshop, store-in fact ev*rt
where. J. €5. ZIMMERMAN’S Pan,
Chair Attachment. A chair with thl« »c,
ment will outlast a dozen ordinary ones, la m ligfa
those in common U9e, and takes up no more roo® *
is destined to be introduced everywhere
wishing to see this Chair Attachment, and
trials to which it is subjected to tost in strength *
please call upon the subscriber. Territory mr*, ~
jan2B-5t °*
GRIFFIN CLOTHING STORE
BY
J. H. WHITE & CO.,
DEALKK9 IN
MENS’, YOUTHS' AND BOYS
CLOTHING
FURNISHING GOODS, ETC.
PIECE GOODS OF ALL KINDS,
Which we sell by the yard, or manufacture to order.
MR. I. IV. IIAIR
superintending that branch of the business. We tie
keep a good line of
HATS, CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES,
And with onr advantage* and facilities for buying,w»
fear no competition. Very respectfully,
jan7-tf J. H. IVIIITE & CO.
Os InteresUo the Farmer!
The Eureka Ammoniated Bone
SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF LIME,
Is for sale at all points of importance
I2sT GEORGIA.
We have sold it
FIVE SUCCESSIVE YEARS,
And know.it is the very article for
PLANTERS TO USE.
DAVID DICKSON, Eaq., of Oxford, says It is Supers
to any
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER
He ever applied, and
RECOMMENDS IT TO EVEBYBODI
We soid over Two Thousand Tons in Georgia laity**’
IT HAS BEEN TRIED-
And always
THE PLANTEfi
The Eurek* Ammoniated Bone Soper-Pho*pk* u *
Lime will be sold for Cotton payable next fall.
Send fora Pamphlet. An Agent may befoo 1 - 1
almost every Depot, but information can always b<k
at F. W. SIMS & CO., Savannah,
or of j. H. EOGEI&
jan7-8m Thomaston,
J. J. HECHT
(Montieello, Ga.)
Watchmaker and Jewels
THOMASTON, GA i
WOULD respectfully Inform thecifi*^
v T of Upeon and adjacent counties, that c*
located in Thomaston for tne purpose of rarrvtng
Jewelry Business Will keep constantly on ban - ,
supply of WATCHES, CLOCKS, et:., as the »»•
will justify.
repairing,
of all kinds, in my line made a specialty,
warranted. A liberal share of patronsge earn**, -
licited. Rooms, first door North of Webb’* Hott
decl7 ‘2m
DENTISTRY L
'YMIE undersigned being P erma rLos» l
X. located in Thomston, still tenders thier P r(l . . fB , i
service* in the practice of Dentistry to the cm
Upson and adjoining counties Teeth inserted
silver, adamantine or rubber. All work warn
a good fit guaranteed. Office np staim over
SAWYER'S store. aiWYE*-
deo9 ft BRYAN * SAW