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THETHQMASTQN HERALD.
OIIAB. G. WEARCE^
EDITOU AND PROPHIETOB
TTTOMAS TON , G AP’L 8 ,~18 71.
Tl»c THOM ASTOX ISBR ALD has n Large
rircrlatlon tu I’pson, Pike, Meriwether,
Tulbot, Spalding, Monroe, Dihb, Muscogee
and Units.
Still They Come
Governor James L. Alcorn, of Mississippi,
is looking forward to the Democratic nomi
nation for the Vice-Presidency in 1872,
according to the Louisville (Ky.) Ledger,
anew Democratic paper.
The Colored Troops.
Thomas Ephs, the only colored man in
the town of Wakefield, N. II , and the only
cue who ever voted in that, town, voted the
straight Democratic ticket at the late State
election. “And the colored troops fought
nobly."'
The Truth by Mistake.
The Gwinnett County Atlas has made a
singular typographical mistake and unin
tentionally stumbled upon the truth. In an
article on Butler it recently said: ‘‘Butler
is undoubtedly a bad man, but take him
uss he is," &c.
Too High.
Tiir Concord (N. II.) Chronicle (Rad.) is
discouraged at the result of the late election
in that State, and prophesies the inevitable
ruin of the party unless Grant is “placed on
the shelf." Too high 1 too high ! better
place him in the gutter, whence he was
taken.
Kuough lo Stir With.-
Since the Butler-Blaine quarrel, journ
als find considerable fault with Bomhast.es
Butler for his periodical efforts to “stir up
strife in the House of Representatives."
Os course he stirs—he is making his spoons
useful, of which he has enough, if reports
are to be relied upon, to stir up all Christen
dom.
Which is Right?
The witty Washington correspondent of
the New York World, intimates that Yates,
the Radical Senator from Illinois, is guilty
of having an occasional “tight." Ilad he
said that the lion, gentleman got on an oc
casional “sober," would he not have been
noarcr the truth ?
Cotton.
Cotton movements for the week ending
March 26th, just published, show a falling
off in receipts compared \Aith the week
previous. Exports, below those of last
week, are still in excess of corresponding
week of last year. Receipts at all ports
were 81,426 bales—against 102 484 last
week, 136,533 previous week, 126,935 three
weeks since. Receipts since September are
3,240,870, against 2,358,317 corresponding
period of previous year. Exports from all
ports 97,803, against 72,562 same week last
year. Total exports for the expired por
tion of the cotton year are 2,169,117,
against 1,467,701 same time last year.
Stock at all ports 624,419, against 459,071,
same time last year. Stocks in interior
towns 92,881, against 90,554 last year.
Stock in Liverpool’B7o,ooo, against 371,000
last year. American cotton afloat for
Great Britain 340,000, against 292,000 last
year. Indian cotton afloat for Europe
168,000 against 131.260 last year.
"White Slavery.
In the House of Representatives lately,
lion. Philadelphus Van Trump, of the 12;h
Congressional District, Ohio, presented a
bill to abolish slavery in the States lately
in rebellion. It is a palpable hit at much of
the legislation in vogue at Washington, the
past few years :
Be it enacted , etc ., That on and after the
4th day of July, A. D. 1871, there shall be
in the States lately in rebellion, neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude, except
for punishment of crime, of or among the
white denizens of said States commonly de
nominated the Caucasian race, as contra
distinguised from a higher caste of Ameri
can citizens of African descent; and that
said white persons, as a special act of grace
and favor, shall forever have, hold and pos.-
86ss, and shall as fully enjoy all the rights,
privileges, immunities and franchises as the
said dominant colored or Ethiopian race now
enjoy and possess, the same as in all the
late rebellious States as aforesaid.
Sec. 2. And be it Jurther enacted , That
the President of the United States is hereby
fully authorised to employ all the military
force of the nation to carry out the provisn
ions of this act.
Railroads aad Trade.
Many towns in Georgia which have no
railroad facilities, are making vigorous
efforts to secure so desirable an end. Thom
aston is already provided for in this partic
ular. A railroad reaches us and ends here,
and we ought to derive much benefit from
it. We shall receive this benefit if we make
the proper effort and are true to ourselves.
Our merchants are reliable and responsible
men, andean furnish any class ofgoodson rs
favorable terms as they can be obtained
anywhere. Let the people in the oountry
understand that here is the place for them
to trade. Our merchants will give them
more goods for their money—will give them
more goods for their produce—will give
them as much for their cotton, as they can
realize by going to a more distant market.
By building up a large home market all
will share in the advantage. Let trade
increase here and other branches of business
will be promoted and encouraged. Thom
aston will improve in wealth and population,
and the surrounding country will be as
much benefited as the town. Let both town
aud country remember this, and aci apon it
and we cau soon be more independent than
we have been for years, or have ever been.
The Administration and the North.
Mr. E dixok: I notice that many of the
newspapers in speaking of the recent New
Hampshire election, lav much stress upon
the removal of the lion. Charles Sumner
from hie place ns Chairman of the Sena’e
Committee on Foreign Relations. Asa
neighbor to the people of New Hampshire
and having recently been among them, I
wish to assure y r m (as any one from that
section of country could assure you) that
the rejection or elevation of Mr. Sumner,
had very little to do with the result of that
election. 1 will not go into particulars or
take up much of your spice, but allow me
to 6ay that the questions at issue in the
campaign in New Hampshire were distinctly
defined and understood ns national ques
tions, ard were abore and beyond any per
sonal considerations. Had an election
occurred in Massachusetts at this time I
have no doubt the treatment of Mr. Sumner
would have been rebuked in some mariner
by his adherents and admirers inthat State.
Ilad an election ct me off in the neighboring
State of Vermont where Judge Edmunds,
one of its Senators in Congress, h..d ojyposed
Mr. Sumner, it would not have entered into
the account at all and I do not suppose the
Sumner-Grant imbroglio effected the New
Hampshire election fifty votes one way or
the other* That election was a square
stand-up fight between Radicalism and its
opponents, and the supporters of the admin
istration went down before the vigorous
assaults of the determined Democrats, and
Conservatives of the old Granite State. It
is the importance of this election in itself,
arid in its bearing upon the future, that
makes it so hard for the Republican Press
to acknowledge its significance. A party
that is defeated in an election always at
tempts to account for its defeat in the best
manner it can ; but “ fads are stubborn
things'’ and New Hampshire redeemed, re
generated and disenthralled, is to-day a
thorough Democratic State.
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Increasing the Army.
It is remarkable how President Grant’s
favorite measures all look to the increase
of the army and of the public expendi:ures.
There is his San Domingo swindle, in con
nection with which has concentrated half
the navy around that islan 1 for use on tPie
side of Baez in his civil war. If the job of
annexation should be put through, we
should have at once to raise and send out
a force of twenty-five thousand men to
fight the llaytians and the Dominican reb
els. Thou here is Grant’s Ku-Klux hill,
now before the House of Representatives.
It is based on the assumption that a rebel
lion exists in the South, and, if it becomes
a 'aw, it will require a large and immediate
increase of the army to execute its provis
ions.
If we are to have a suspension of the
habeas corpus and the proclamation of
martial law wherever there is a murder or
a riot in that portion of the country, an
addition of twenty thousand men to the
army is the smallest number that will
suffice to give effect to the Presidential
decrees which thl« lew will empower Gen.
Grant to issue. If O* *”ess proves suffi
ciently eubservk his Ku-Klux
law at the dictate*-?* ✓—v.i President, how
can it refuse to give him the necessary
means for carrying it into effect?
Are the people prepared for this? Do
they believe that the Southern States are in
rebellion against the National Government ?
Are they ready to raise and send into the
field this new force of twenty thousand men
for warlike operations, calling for lavish
expenditures of money, carrying desp >tism
and teror through ten States of the Union,
and clothing Grant with larger powers than
L : neoln was intrusted with when the North
was resisting an armed Confederacy embra
cing ten millions of people?
Grant is plotting for a renomination.
Greedy, unscrupulous, ignorant of the Con
stitution, and reckless of consequences, he
courts power to accomplish his purposes.
He has pushed Cougresw to the verge of the
precipice ; but is it not time for the Repub
licans in the House of Representatives,
before which his dangerous measure is
pending, to pause and reflect whither their
steps are tending ? Fifteen or twenty Re
publicans in that body can defeat this
unnecessary and unprecedented bill. Let
them do this, and thus save their party by
thwarting the machinations of a man who
is ruining the great organization which, in
a confiding hour, intrusted him with the
Presidency.— N. Y. Sun.
AVliy the South is Poor.
The South is not recuperating, as was
expected, but is poorer than ever. This
will be the case as long as this generation
lives. The of the planter is a poor
thing. It don’t pay, aud will be abolished
in the South when # the present generation
is gone aud not before. Farmers are the
only'people that can do anything in this
country. A planter is a splendid humbug,
and can do more and make less than any
class of men we can have. A fanner will
make his living and have cotton to sell
besides, but a planter cannot make anything
except cotton and has his living to buy,
which keeps him poor. Bat as I have said,
there are no farmers in this country and no
material to make them. The die is cast
and this generation is doomed—doomed to
die poor and give -their places to others
who will rebel against King Cotton and
cultivate this fruitful land in a way that
the monied wealth of the Union will con
centrate here. It would be a bad thing,
however, for the States in the upper part of
the valley if the people should change their
old habits. As things now are, the entire
value o f the cotton crop, except what goes to
the East, goes above to enrich the farmers in
the States along ike Ohio and' Upper Missis*
sippi rivers. By proper management, these
thiDgs, except bacon, could all be produced
here «Dd the money would not go to your
section but remain in the South for manu
facturing the cotton into dry goods. In the
course of time the thing will be done, but
all of us will be gone before the change is
made.— Cor. Mo. Republican
England and t-lie Southern Confederacy.
London, March 21.—Earl Granville de
nied, in the House of Lords, to-night, that
there was any truth whatever in the state
ment ascribed to Baron von Gerolt, that
Russian influence alone prevented the re
cognition of the Southern Confederacy
during the war in he United States lie
declared that, as a member of the Palmer
ston and Russell Cabinets, he could say the
proposition to reeognixe the South was
never entertained. The Duke of Somerset
confirmed Earl Granville’s statement.
The Beaut.
The following sketch of the Massachu
setts champion thief is now in order:
He is fifty-three years old, slightly below
the middle abjure, and as ungainly and
misshapen in form as he is hideous and
revolting in features. 11 is round, pot belly
seem*, by long indulgence in a diet most
favorable to the abnormal development of
the abdominal viscera, to bare out grown
a pair of miserable spindle shank-*, origin
ally intended f<*r the support of the most
attenuated of human trunks, and which, by
reason of the superincumbent weight of
bowels they are compelled to sustain, have
been bent, into the shape of a pair of cafi
persopold fashioned po‘ hooks. His head,
in that portion which is supposed to he the
seat of all the baser propensities with which
human nature is sometimes so sadly uefo**m
ed, is very largely devedoped. as well as
that p ;rtion which is thought hy natural
ists to impart to certain orders of the brute
creation their intelligence and cunning;
but the top of his head, in fact all of it,
except ar und the base of the skull, is «n
--tirelv bald, us if natuie d< signed that the
world should see from the mere conforma
tion of his cranial development that he is
incapable of moral sentiment. Ilis 1 re
head is broad, low and receding, llis eyes
are simply past description, a* there is,
perhaps, not a human being alive who can
tell tho color of them.
To save hi n the pair.fa 1 nrcQ3s : ty of ’o ik
ing his fellow man in the face, they are
placed obliquely under a pair
brows and confined in a most atrocious
squint, which allows them to peep out be
tw'een the folds of a baggy skin, in which
they are concealed, in perpetual contempia
tion of his rather small, ill-shaped nos®,
which has more the resemblance of the beak
of some carrion-bird than anything else. A
small, crescent-shaped mustache hangs
over and partially conceals a sensual mouth,
while his chin recedes into a heavy, round
jowl. Although such a lusus naturae per
haps never existed, his countenanci when
in repose would remind one of a cross-eyed
snapping turtle. Winn animated it has no
similitude in the entire range of animated
nature, us even one of his abortive smiles
but serves to add distortion to his alreadv
hideous features. There may be a jewel in
the head of the toad, but, as Deity never
buries the gem of the human heart in i-ueh
an execrable casket, it rt quires no adapt in
the science of Laveter to see that deceit,
cunning, treachery, cowardice and.cruelty,
are the lending characteristics of this man.
Was it not Butler instead of Thersites whom
Homer meant to portray when he wrote:
‘ Loquacious, loud tint] turbulent of t >ngue,
And by no shame, by no respect controlled ;
In scandal busy, in reproaches bold.
With witty malice studious to defame,
Scorn all his joy and lucre all his aim;
One eye was b inking and one leg was lame ;
• His mountain shoulders half bis breast oer'spread
Thin hairs bestrewed bis long misshapen head.
Spleen to mankind his envious heart possessed,
And much be hated all, but most the best.
Long had he lived the scorn of every Greek;
Vexed when he spoke, yet still they heard him , speak,
Sharp was his voice.”
Free Trade In Congress.
In the preset!t House of Representatives
the question of Free Trade has a'ready been
fairly presented, and v-'tes have been given
which clearlv enough indicite the helpless
ness of the High Tariff ad v cates. N-d>. dy
now questions the paramount importance
of the Tariff issue in the political battles of
the future, and it is encouraging to have
evidences of the insufficiency of party dis
cipline to maintain Rad cal unity, when
thi* great issue is involved.
Asa test of party and personal affiliations
ro-pecting the subject of tariff reform, the
votes on the removal of the duties on suit
and coal, tea and coffee, are exceedingly
cheering, and would indicate a most com
plete reaction on protective issues.
The vote Dr the removal of the suit duty
was 148 to 46. the removal of the coal duty
13) to 27, and those of tea and coffee 14 1 to
48. The duty on each one of these articles
presses more or less heavily on trie great
mass of the people, and tariff reformers did
wisely in selecting them as test questions to
bring out their strength. We congratulate
the country on the result, reversing as it
docs the mistaken and mischievous policy
of protection, which was initiated during the
war for the benefit of the N -w England an 1
Pennsylvania manufacturers, to the detri
ment of the great agricultural interests of
the South and West. Notwithstanding the
crushing amount of taxation the p onle
have been eabed uoon to hear, these indi
rect taxes for the benefit of a few have
pressed still more heavily upon consumers
of every imported article, and there is not
a family in the land which has not had its
comforts- circumscribed and its incomes
diminished by this mistaken system, to call
it by the mildest flame. The South especial
ly, with its diminished resources aud its'
almost exclusive agricultural in’ere>t, has
participated in none of the benefits, of pro
tection, while it has suffered all the disad
vantages of the unequal and oppressive
protection laws. IVe trust that the days
of protection are now numbered-, and that
ere another year has passed the last rem
nant of these laws will be repealed, so that
wc may be once more permi ted to buy
what we want wherever we can purchase
cheapest and bes-, without : n‘oiTeience or
limitation — Carolina Weekly Star.
It Won’t Pass.
From the developments of the last two
days, it now seems almost certain that the
Shellabrger-Butler bill cannot pass the
House in its present shape. The criticism
to which it has been exposed here, and the
B‘ern comments of the liberal press all over
the country, have produced sufficient im
pression to stagger the former followers of
these conspirators against the peace of the
country. The indignant utterances of the
more independent Republicans in the West
and South, and even ia portions of New
England, have shaken confidence in the
Administration upon this measure, just as
condemnation from the same quarters did
iD regard to San Domingo. Every day
closes some break in the Radical column,
and an inclination to abandon the
tant policy which has provoked such intense
popular resentment. A failure on the pen
ding bid. such as is now anticipated, will
serve to increase tho demoralization, and to
hasten the doom which is now so clearly
foreshadowed.— Washington Patriot.
Gen. Lee’s Brother Head.
Charles Carter Lee, an elder brother of
General Robert E. Lee, died at Windsor,
his residence, in Powhatan county, Ya., on
the 21st u 1 1- , in the seventy-third year of
his age. Mr. Lee was almost as well known
throughout Virginia as his distinguished
brother, and Captain Sydney Sfhith Lee.
To the society of thirty years ago the de
ceased was perhaps even better known, in
which his wit, literary attainments, and
fam ly connection, made him in Virginia,
and in the brilliant circles of Washington,
New York and Boston a leader and an
ornament of uncommon attraction.
Synopsia of Telegraphic Xowii.
D
New York March 31.—A World special
from Paris, 31st. says the Government has
completed arrangements for moving against
Paris. Troops will move simultaneously
with the Germans. Learning this, the
Commune have agreed to march on \ersail
, les to-night, with thirty thousrnd National
Guards. Overcoming, or fraternizing wi;h
these, they will proceed to Versailles and
disperse the Assembly. New decrees by
the Commune declared war. The men are
wild with delight.
New York, March 31—A World special
from Prris says all is consternation. The
watchword of the Commune is. ‘‘Death to
the rich, to land nttners and to priests'’
A decree confiscating church property has
been prepared. Denunciati ms of suspected
parties are hourly made. The guillotine
will soon be erected. The inmates of many
houses are marked for the guillotine.
Drafts on the Treasury are not p tid, either
in Paris or Versailles.
Wa “lllnoton, April 1 —The IIoo«e was
in session to-day and to-night. Being
anxious t > come to a vote on the Ku-K!ox
; bill, the Mouse will meet one hour earlier
j than usual on Monday. It is doubted if the
Ku-Kdux bill will get through. Shober
ad Waddell, of North Carolina, spoke in
| opposition, to dfi'v.
Ex-Senator Howard, of Michigan, was
stricken with apoplexy at Detroit yesterday.
Senate—Tiie Committee on Privileges
and Elections .will hold a meeting on Mon
day next, when the case of the North Caro
lina Senatorship will be taken up.
Washington, April 3 —ln the Senate
the following was proposed by prominent
Northern Republicans, and approved by
many Southern Representatives, as suhsti-
I tute for Ku Klux bill : Any State officer
| whose duty it is to afford equal protection to
I all citizens, dec'ining or neglecting to do so
be liable in damages. 2. Such officer also
criminally liable. 3. Persons abetting or
advising such delinquency on the part of
State officers liable to civil and criminal
prosecution in federal courts. 4. Marshals
serving writs iri accordance with this act
may call posse comitatus. If resistance too
strong President may enforce writ by army
and navy.
In the Senate, bill passed, giving Dahl n
ega Mint to the Georgia Agricultural
College.
Philladephta, April 4—A white man
was committed to jail to-day for refusing
to serve on a jury with a negro.
Hartford, Conn., April 4 — The Times,
(Democratic), claims English’s election by
8 majority. The Courant. (Republican),
claims Jewell’s election by 37 majority.
Cincinnati, April 4 —Davis’s majority
for Mayor is 1 855. Aldermen, Republi
cans 8; Democrats 4. Councilman, II Re
publicans ; 13 Democrats.
Hartford, April 4.—Returns in the
office of the Evening Post, thisevening, from
the entire State, give English a plurality of
foi*y-five votes. Should the scattering vote
exceed this number, the election will be-by
the Legislature. Twenty scattering votes
were deposited in New Haven, and it. is not
unlikely enough, were polled to defeat the
election by the people.
The Times (Democrat) makes the plural
ity for English eight. Should the election
go to the Legislature there will be no doubt
of Jewell’s success, ns the Legislature will
be Republican in both branches.
FOREIGN.
London, March 31—The great race be
twcod ’Oxford and Cambridge takes place
on the Thames to-morrow. Betting is sj^ r *
to four on the Cambridge. y OU '
Shanghai advices report that serious c.
turbances are expected in Japan. One of
Mikado’s counsellors has been assassinated.
The act is known to have been of a politi
cal nature.
London, April 1. Bismarke consents to
the augmentation of the Paris army to
eighty thousand men.
In the boat race between Oxford apd
Cambridge, the latter won.
Paris, April 1. A London Times special
dispatch from Ver lilies, says Thiers pays
five hundred millions of francs to Prussia
on Friday evening, and the French Gov
ernment will then he allowed to receive
reinforcements from the North.
London, April 4.—Advices from Paris
to-day state that the attack of the Nation
als on the Government forces has been well
sustained. A powerful Artillery attack
was made on the left of the Bois de Mendun.
which succeeded, in a short time, in silenc
ing the Government guns. The excitement
in the city is intense, consequent upon the
determination of the insurgents and the
presence of so large a body of revolutionists
in Paris.
General McMahon has taken command
of the Government army, and has initiated
effective measures for the suppression of
the insurgents.
Toe difficulty of suppressing the insur
rection increases every hour.
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The Result of CJetting Presents arul
• Selling Offices.
The President is very rich, and getting
richer every day. This accumulation of
the world’s goods doee not come from saving
his salary or grpat business talent, for no
body ever suspected him of possessing any.
* Let us take, for example, the Seneca
sandstone quarry that has made so much
noise of late. By turning to the books of
the company you will find the name of
Ulysses S. Grant as stockholder to the ex
tent of ten thousand dollars. Now. I do
not question this, and knowingthe rnen who
make up the company, I am strengthened
in my belief that every cent of this ten
thousand dollars was honestly paid into
the treasury of the company; hut where
did the ten thousand dollars come from, :
and how does it happen that it should be !
invested in this way? In this I mean to
cast no imputation upon the company. I
have taken some pains to find out all that
could be known respecting its connection
ami operations, and all that can he said is
that the company is the fortunate possessor
of a valuable quarry near Washington, and
can furnish better material to the Govern
ment for less money than can be got else
where. One might question the good taste,
to sav the least of it, of the President of the
United States being a stockholder in a
corporation that has heavy contracts with
the Government
A Louisiana. Legislator.
The New Orleans Times tells the follow
ing :
At the meeting of the late' legislative
session, one of the Senegamhian members i
pr dessef a great anxiety to be introduced
to “de Gubernor,” which was at last grati
fied. Ushered into the Executive presence,
he met with a “glad to see you sir.” With
a flourish that emb died all the native gruce I
of a Oh mpunzee, he advanced with a pro
found dow, and then drawing himself up :
with rigid dignity, answered ; “Tank you, I
Gubernor, de depreciation is c trroborated.
I hab perspired you for a long time.” That
fellow subsequently helped to uiuke laws
for the people of Louisiana!
Georgia Nem.
Milledgevilie has whipped Macon in a
cock-fight.
The semi-weekly Albany News has sus
pended. The weekly wiM je continued.
Bainbridge editors allude to each other
as “that bag-eyed, sap-beaded, butt end of
Ignorance and presumption.”
The Georgia Baptist Convention will
meet at Cartersvilie, Georgia, on the 21st
of April next.
E 11. Grouby, of the Early county News,
having shot aod wounded a negro,*has fled
to parts unknown.
The Covington Enterprise says the S .uth
ern Masonic Female College is rapidly in
creasing in popular favor.
Mr. D W. D. Bmlly, formerly of the
Hawkinsvilfe Dispatch, is now running the
Gwinnett Atlas, at Lawrenceville, G».
The defalcation of G mid. the missing
Revenue Collector of Sav innah, is tret down
at S3 J,OOO.
Atlanta papers advertise a tremendous
Ci»ck Fight, to c me off there on the 18th
instant.
Augusta is excited over the story of a
digger who pretends to have exhumed
treasures of great value in that city.
Twenty-three ear loads of cavalry were
in Atlanta Saturday, en route for the negro
i©public of South Carolina.
It is said that it will co<t Morgan county
not less than $20,000 to repair the damage
done to its roads and bridges bv the late
storm.
Gwinnett county merchants never adver
tise in their home paper. Effect : Gwinnett
county people all purchase their goods in
Atlanta.
The Columbus merchants paid taxes on
sales to the amount of $4,500,000 during
the year 1869. The books for 1870 shows
$4,440,000 worth of goods sold.
The Georgia Medical Association will hold
its regular annual meeting in Ameiicus on
the second Wednesday in this month. Del
egates will be passed on all the railroads at
one tare.
A debating society in Habersham county
has determined that no woman should talk
about “rights” until she can show a clean
and healthy boy baby. Sensible society
that.
A little daughter of Mr. Anderson Cren
shaw, of Troupe oaunty, was burned to
death on the 24th instant. She was with
her father while he was burning off grass,
and her clothing took fire.
S x thousand one hundred and forty-one
hales of upland cotton, valued at $386,485,
62. and fifty-seven bales of sea island cot
ton valued at $8,490, were shiped from
Savannah for Liverpool, Tuesday.
The Phi Ivappa Society of the University
of Georgia has chosen ex Senator Miller to
deliver the annual address before the two
literary societies of that institution, at the
commencement in August.
Columbus is a No 1. missionary ground
for the Good Templars. The Sun says there
are 57 bar rooms in that city—9 first- class
and 48 second class. Os the latter, three
fourths are owned by negroes.
The barn of Col. S M Strong, four miles
from Thomasville, was burned last Satur
day night. He thinks it “was merely an
incident of Radical reconstruction”—which
lahtnyy good name for negro incendiarism,
may keep wille Dispatch.
•xiarris county is the proprietor of a curi
osity. Two pine trees, five feet apart at the
base, come together thirteen feet above,
forming a solid h»dv, then separate, uniting
again twenty feet above, forming a single
top.
Caps. John 11. Niebling, f>r five years
Captain of Washington Fire Company, at
Augusta, has resigned that position or the
purpose of moving to Missouri, and the
company preserved him with a handsome
silver service, last Wednesday night.
The Talbotton American says 11. M
Turner turned up there last Sunday, and
after preaching took up a collection of
cour.-e, which netted enough to keep him
from work at least a month. Turner is fix
ing up for a big loaf through the hot days
of the coming summer.
The Forsyth Advertiser says Mr. Win.
Floyd, living in the lower portion-of that
countv, while puncturing a horn, ran a hot
spindle through the palm of his hand, sev
ering one of the main arteries. It was
thought for a time that amputation would
be necessary.
An Atlanta correspondent of the Cincin
nati Commercial disposes of our Supreme
Court after the following fashion : “The
Supreme Court of the State whs in session.
It is composed of three Judges. Two, a
quorum, chew tobacco and need spittoons
'{'he other Judge does not, and I regard
him, therefore, as being disqualified under
the common law of the State of Georgia.”
Signor Alvarez De Soto, the Cuban ath
lete, is astouodirig the good people of Co
lumbus with his strange unaccountable
fea’e setting aside all the lawsffif gravitation
in their execution. He ascends a greased
pole, thirty feet high, feet foremost, and
carries at the same time a keg of nails un
der each arm ; and after reaching the ex
treinity of the, pole he descends, blindfolded,
a wire extended from the pole to a point
one hundred yards distant.
It has been elicited by the preliminary
investigation, just closed yesterday at Ogle
thorpe, in the matter of s he recent aeeai-sin
ation of the Hon. Geo. W. Fish, Judge of
the 13th District Court, that one John R,
Holsenback and one James C. Loyd, two
white citizens of that place, committed the
murder. The causes which induced the
deed on the pert of these men, are said to
have been the jealousy of the first and a
personal grudge of the other.
The accused haviug been committed to
await final trial at the next Superior Court
of Macon county, it is not regarded prudmt
and advisable to anticipate at this time with
the imperfectly known details of the trage
dy the dev • opments of that hearing.—
Sumter Republican.
As the train on the West Point Road last
evening was approaching MeWright’s Sta
tion, a few miles below East Point, the
c iw-catcher knocked off a bar of iron eigh
teen feet long, which had been laid across
the track, and two miles futher on the same
train was greeted with a shower of stones
and pieces of rock, one of which came
through the window striking a passenger
on the arm. A lamentable disaster was
providentially frustrated. The human fiend
who thus willfully place in peril the lives
of men and innocent women and children
may escape direct punishment for their mis
deeds, but their future punishment must 1 e
left tn their consciences. We hope howev
er to see them brought to speedy justice.—
New Era.
A Chaficngr— To all ii
Republican Party of iff V* I
IW I ® l l "* llnn n« you to fiTT"
wonj. n body ot men B TH m (i '
rupt and divbonest, elected ,
f amis, or sustained i 0 r „ w
more destructive of evorr T Z 7 * hr,
Republicanism, than the' , .
can State Government G 7** 1 ' 1 K»;7''
! now rules with despotic j. *
I destinies of the oof ~u n W,, J
t Ourtninn. * f * f j
| 2d We dialler. pro f{f %
party than the Republican 7
! C^K r <* 8 ,a chargeable vt-a
j prime cause of the rmoW-, „
the people of 8. nth Car a
3*l. Me chul enge the r- ?
single sound reas m why th,"- ‘ f
such a late Government l 8 !rf>r '"'•
should be quietly submitted , , * .
of 8
[ Charleston News. ° ' 1,1 fVR tu *
v>f Uiiitv ReMjr r ti| . (U 7T,
The usually well-inf , rm ’ n ‘ pir »-
of the New Y >rk Herald t
“The select H .twf c .,:ni»,pl f
which was referred the spa,.,• ! ' •
the President up*in the 1 t
South, held a meeting , 1 'f .
no conclusion. Tw<> j mr \
of the committee, Genera; /; ! f
Dawes, are absent Cr< ■ m tfo. r J; ‘ Mr
not be present at the 77\7 ; a’]
There was an informal disc 77 U r .
feature of the President's mi'..'' and
»?ks that addi ional power be 7.7'
the Ex cutive. The Republican* T‘ i
committee, with the exception " ’ ‘
Shellnbarger. the chairman, werp,
against conferring su -h p»wp r ■
President, even temporarily. Qf c
Democrats are against it i n fTm
They will oppose all legislation . f. ls
suggested by the President in his !De J *
Savannah a* u C‘oH 0 i» _\| na
It is surprising how Savannah p.
panded her cotton business r
receipts at this port from
Friday last were 624 953 be.
396 991 the year before’an her 7 ’
than 224,000 bales. 8. S. IVini ' . ::
ranks next to New Orleans H s « ...' j
market, having gotten ahead i
Charleston, which a few years
second and third in the list. ,7'
be said that Savannah is them,,
city in the South. Her pr.„ M V v 7
the important influences of « <,7 •
railroads all working together hr ;
efit of Georgia and her towns. A •
cotton crop of Georg a, with | ar /„
from S »uth Car uioaan.i Alabama tin t .
way to the Georgia town®, and t:,7
latter are enriched.
A Cute Dodge.
The New York World savs; “fi lire :
been discovered by the internal rev. .
men in the S uth. that they cannot pr
their duties in a proper manner, the > -
there are so very vioient. Imthis wav
shrewd officials pocket the lnoney th-v he
collected, and are s*cured from ,mv p| f
punishment, through the favor of Mr Gr.
He is ‘putting »jp’ another rebellion •;
wants 'em for proo 1 .”
The Perils oi Pork.
To the pig we are indebted f..r mt of !> I
most repulsive and danger us worm* for
introduced into the human sv» em
tcenia solium or tapeworm, a M tri<'.
It is to the latter that we pn-tieulan
attention, as the people of this e•tuurv ■:>
frequently the habit of p.irtnk\nf, n 3
foreign sausagesand uncimked park re Im-,
liable to contain this deadly parasiir
jFood Journal.
Dismissing flic Drummer'.
The Sun says: Many New York mer
chants are thinking of dinpensiog v
drummers or traveling agents, of whm i ;
fewer than 25,000, it is .-aid, are -e ! * .i
this city alone, whose salaries,c<aiini *• .
and traveling expenses amount, in t • - •
gregate. to between fifty and sixty ni i •
dollars h year.
Yes. diurn the papers at one-tenth ■
expense.
The Constitution does not prnv I'ftin
ILxecutive barber, and as Grant d-^s r s
like to incur the expense <>f one liir.i
employs a negro in that capacity ml •'
iiim paid as a twelve hundred . 1 lar <■ *i
in the Treasury Department. And "t
not se.Mn to be any kin to Grant, either -
Courier Journal.
Under the carpet-bag Constitution
State of North Carolina, f> ’ *
or Holden, who ha= just been im;e •
and depose! from office for malfei-» :
office, is disqualified hereafter fr m :
any office of trust or honor in the “r
How sad. that a carpet- bagger ®h"'i I 1
t > such a depth in n pit of his wn digg •
Advertisements.
Millinery, Dress-Making, f
I> Y the 14*ffi of April. ins f . I *'* *.!
)on exhibition at my rooms (Cheney E ‘
stairs) a complete assortment of
MILLIXERY AND STRAW GOOD 4
My fronds were selected with great caretnri "
to please the most fastidious. A call from a. ! ‘ .
ed. Dress making. Cutting, Fitting. &c., n“ r ' e
notice and in the latest styles.
apriiß-lm MRS. M. CHENEY PER'- 1
NOTICE TO ALL ■'
Liquors at Reduced PriK ;
I > KING df.frmine i to old" o»t n'J*
X) of Liquors. I offer splondidin (<
to thow wishing to purchase an V 0 R .. r, .
articles: Old Peach Brandv, ren h J p V *
Brandy, (‘berry Brandy, Madeira '. r [.’. ptd '- v
Domestic Wine. Jamaica Rum, Rye ’
inson Connty Whisky, RecUfled Corn "» ]
Holland Gin, Ac. All of the above Uqnort • |
low in order to closeout the stock by ‘.-gj;
Mavnext. SA
Thomaston, Ga., April S, 18T1. —2t
WATCH REPAIRING
r r'HE citizens of Upson ar 77-4 W
connties are respectfully informe. v‘‘~
moved my stock to the store o’ Mr. "o- .
am now prepared to execute work in •, , t
r.ese, on the most favorable tt-rms.
kinds done at the shortest notice and i l ' 12 - r . t r.
ner. I have facilities for turning out g oo '' t .:«>
strict attention to business hope to' rec' 1 ’
share of patronage. Very respectfuhv.
aprilS-tf y> M.
FAIR WARNING-
I HEREBY give notice to all
are imlebted to Dr. J. O. Hi nt, -
rendered up to the ist day of January, - • ~
and uccounts have been placei in ,‘.j.j S'
collection, and that if the same are no “ ‘ , c: f ’
first day of May next, I am ordered to 1 T
proceedings in each ease, irrespective oi l •
aprilS-lm J. V. ALLt^
DISTRICT COURT
XTOTTCE is hereby given . th f r .7p^
J_x monthly session of the 25th eD *‘ r ., .y t ’
Court, will be held at Thomaston.
Monday, and Tuesday after, in April- • .
time it will be held on the third Mon 'tw.
alter, in each month CliAtv H rRI ‘ . ffjd
apri!l-tf. Judge SMf 3