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Portland, Maine. ■■*"'> I FOBS YT II STIt KE T 3 f "// pank / | a s STOKE / // 1 TIIIS BUILDING is I ST(H!E 1 /jy fStafford, Blalock, & Col £™E „ell J 0 y/y ■/ L. | nm —I | • v’/V iFire Proof Ware House,| alley I i? jy •yyy Mk Ifuddi fe oi ail | H - hn and stove■ I i /JT Fv o 1 kinds, Magging, * Lffi 1 J I I / ✓ y/ | lies, Coin, Flour,|| || ° ■* j j / / / sZ'k I Lard, Bacon,Salt, | I | J^ r Stafford, j BAMESVILLE, GA, ’ |77FFFtH"H / I iß!aiociv_&_oo| in tiiis enclosl P 1 & ItitV Stafford, Blalock & Co S, _ DRY GOODS IMacon & Western JIIE ' VE nAVK A LABUK | 1 Pleas© IlotfCC tilC sigllS, aml 11* yo 11 are Clothing, Hats,Boots, Shoes, / I J I>LANIXG ’ FLOUEING AXl j (watching your interest, ami want bargains ,v " • I S MILL and cotton gin. ® iu anv kind of goods sold on the conti-Stafford, Blalcck & Co’s I I , A TER ginning your cotton wel x ueut and t||e | lig | |est markct price for cot. S*o* Mwcmr a ' 8 § u ton, or anvtiiing you Slave to sell, follow Aml all repair work. * |''l‘REE OP C H ARGL. WE i\ ILL S\V AP W IIEATS :a | - a LI an anr r,/ , 1 i ffhe streets as per diagram to STAFFORD, RLAFOCK * I FOR FLOUR, OR FLOUR FOR WHEAT; CORN| Q| e HIL I * . B I FOR MEAL, OR MEAL FOR CORN; or have youri Q WC lillTC <1 COlll lO I % t 1101 C lIOUSC Jllld €01111110(110118 g t: fe| Grinding done promptly, and guarantee satisfaction. OurJ L 4. S g . 11 .• . /• • ■ X> fi 1 Mr. FRANK REEVES, with 20 years’ expedience, has! JS l*Ot UCr OUT WarellOUSC tfCC lit all tllllCS tO OUf iriCUdS. I charge of the Mill, and will give it his personal attention.! W I] We ean and will offer superior inducements, and pledge you FAIR AND HONEST DEALINGS. We are grateful for past *=* S, B. * CO. * REEVES. I |D at ' ooa cordially solicit a continuance of the san.e. BLALOCK $ CG. Z ' | Medical Dispensary. Dr. Geo. W. Marvin again ten ders liis professional service to his old friends and the public. Dispen sary and consultation rooms, No. 1 AViate hall street, in Centennial buil ding, Atlanta, Ga., where patients can get reliable treatment for all diseases of the Throat, Lungs and Catarrh. The above diseases treated by inhalation. The Doctor treats all diseases of long standing, such as Eruptions, Gravel, Paralysis, Rheumatism, Go itiy, Dropsy, Biliousness Diseases of the Kidneys, Erysipelas, Nervous Depression, Dyspepsia, Liver Com plaint, all Diseases peculiar to Wo men, nil Private Diseases, Heart Dis ease Swollen Joints, Coughs, Gout, White swelling, St, Titus Dance, etc. Electricity .applied in eases where it is required. The Doctor is per manently located, and persons who hay e been under the treatment of oth er physicians and have not been cur ed, are invited to call, as he treats all curable diseases, and cures guarnteed or no pay. Call and see the Doctor without delay. His charges are mo derate, and consultation free. Oflice hours from 9 a.m. to 4 r.M. fvl)22-ly _ Tlifi MEW COMSTITUTIOM. It Marks a New Departure ix Georgia and the South-Tiie People of G eorgta-Rerresexta tive Mex-To What Itk Energy is Due-Kixd Words From Abroad. [New York World—E(l.] To people outside of Georgia the new Constitution of that Slate is an interesting study, in so far as it shows the drift of public sentiment in matters which affect all parts of the country, and the growth of cer tain prejudices and convictions which all prudent men should take note of. These aie of two kinds : First, those which are common to all the States more or less, and next, those which are peculiar to Georgia and other Southern States, and more particu larly to the Cotton States ; for it is a fact which ought not to be forgot ten that the civilization of the Cot ton Stales differs almost as much from that of Virginia, Kintuckyand Missouri as it does from that of Ohio or Illinois. There is one circumstan ce which gives peculiar significance to tire Constitution which has just been made by tlie Georgia Conven tion ; the fact that Georgia is the leading and most influential Cotton State—or as its people, and most peo pie at the North too, very mistaken ly put it, ‘‘the Empire State of the South.” Georgia cannot properly be called the Empire State of the South id any such sense as that in which New York is called the Empire State ! '<i\A dfFtL ft ~B.aia 'lit - M tMißiun vol. vni. HE4D-CU! ARTERY of the Union, but it is the most in fluential of the Cotton States, and leads the march of progress in the Southern Atlantic section of the Un ion Georgia owes this position to sev end causes which lie upon the sur face, and principally to the fact that its northern half is the home of a stalwart, liberty-loving race of moun taincers, quite different in character and tendencies from the more opu lent and refined population of the Southern and Atlantic regions. The action and reaction of these two pop ulations upon each other in State af fairs have made Georgia a battle field of contending ideas, and given the whole commonwealth a vigorous and varied intellectual and political life of its own. Northern people, almost without exception, attribute the energy and activity of the Georgia people to the presence in that State of a large Northern-born poj illation. Noth ing could be more wide of the mark. The Northern element is no stronger in Georgia than in Alabama ; it not so strong as it is in Alabamma. is. It is, as wo have intimated, to the vigorous race of early settlers, chiefly Scotch and Scotch-Irish, which made the mountain valleys ot Pennsylvania, Virginia and East Tennessee the homes of a rich, reso lute and prosperous people, that Georgia mainly owes its peculiar characteristics and the prominent place which it holds among the Southern State. Northern men have never controlled nor greatly in fluenced the thought or policy of the State. Its statesmen are and have always been Southern men and for the most part Georgians, To-day the men who represent the spirit of its population, and who are most in fluential among its peculiarly inde pendent people—who swear in the words of no master —are Toombs, Jenkins, Gordon, Hill, Stephens, Brown, Lawton, Smith, Hammond and Simmons —men who are pecul iarly and to the very marrow of their bones Georgians, and nothing but Georgians. Ex-Governor Brown was and possibly one other of these may have been, born among the moun tains of South Carolina, but of that same Scotch-Irish race which has sub dued the bill country of Georgia, and blending its hardy virtues with the luxury, letters and graces of the coast, has made Georgia what jt is the most powerful and the most in fluential of the Cotton States. This fact gives peculiar significance and importance, as we have said, to the action of the Convention which has just framed anew Constitution for the people of that State. Their work marks the progress of ideas and events in all the Cotton and to some extent in all the States of the Union, and particularly in the other Southern States. One other fact de 11I('MASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 22, 1877. serves mention. This new Consti tution has been made freely by Gcor gians, uninfluenced by any external consideration. Neither the fear of Federal interference nor Northern sentiment, neither the fear of offend ing and bringing down upon diem the wrath of the General Government nor the still stronger dread of hurt ing the Democratic party of the North, has controlled their action. They have made a Constitution which, in their opinion, expresses the unbiased will of the people of Georgia on all subjects of public con cern, and defines the position of that State on many matters of grave im port to the people of the whole coun try 7 , and to the people of this city above all. It is the very lirst Con stitution which has been so framed in any Southern State since 18G1. This fact and the one to which we have so often adverted, and to which the reader’s attention connot be too often called that the lead of Georgia will be followed by all the Cotton States—give to the study of its new Constitution an exceptional impor tance and interest. GEORGIA MEWS. The Augusta Chron. & Con. after an interview with prominent mer chants announces that trade in all its branches will be more satisfactory than it has been any season since the war. A man by the name of Thomas Skates who had been arrested charg ed with various misdemeanors, com mitted suicide by taking twelve grains of morphine Saturday night, leaving behind some letters and several vers es of poetry. A valuable marc belonging to Mr. W. B. Hudson of Griffin died on Friday from a fall into an old well thirty feet deep. Last week a train on the Wilming ton &AuguSta Railroad while passing a point between Belton and Green Swamp, was fired into by some un known party and the mail agent nar rowly escaped a buckshot that whiz zed hear dis head, A short time ago a freight train was fired into near the same locality. Several cases of yellow fever are re ported in Brunswick. The News says new buildings arc to be seen in every direction in Sa vannah. Last week the laborers of Gordon county in the vicinity of Beeves Sta tion met and organized a Laborers Union, numbering about seventy, and claiming that they are unjustly treated by the owners of lands in that county, that they exact an unreasona ble amount of work for an unremuner ative price. In their declaration of principles they assert that the land holders have united m an agreement to demand of the tenants higher rents than have been customary in the past, and of laberors more work and less per diem, and they therefore pledge themselves to stand by the dec laration of rights and manciples which they have laid down and in which they warn employers that the result of their present course will he to drive the laborers and poor of the coun ty to other and more remunerative fields. The Board of trade lias invited Hayes to visit Koine. Dr. James F. Boseman Assistant Georgia State Treasurer died in Atlanta on the 10th inst. Quarantines have been established against Fernandina in Savannah, St Mary’s Brunswick and Darien Quitman county had a stabbing affray in which Zack Millirons was stabbed in fourteen places by John Tolson Kev. Henry Bunn of Twiggs county has been a subscriber of the Macon Telegraph and Messenger and its antecedents since 1817. Kev. George Bull colored of Lumpkin county, who has been a Baptist preacher over forty years immersed forty candidates last week in twenty-seven minutes. Governors Colquitt and Drew will review the Georgia and Florida troops expected at the fair at Thom asville on the 23rd of October. Mr Lawry of Walton county is the possessor of three new gill babies —tripletts. The Eaton ton Messenger has no ticed farmers over that way meas uring turnip patches with guano sacks. Gainsville wants anew hotel and a dramatic club. Miss Ellen Pinckney of Atlanta cU e d last Wednesday. On Sunday of last week Willie Dearing son of one of Covingtons oldest citizens, while playing with some companions on a turn table, fell underneath it, and was instantly crushed to death. Langford who attempted a fiend crime in Walker county and stole a horse to make Ins escape, was tried last week at the regular term of the superior court, found guilty and sentenced to four years in the peni tentiary Thomas Johnson of Macon coun tv was recently thrawn from a wag on and received injuries from which lie died in a few days For the self congratulation of those who have their hog-killing and smoke houses it is stated that about eigh teen million dollars worth of meat is annually brought to the State of Georgia. Mrs Daniel Hutcherson of Glas cock county celebrated her centenni- ill on the Ist September. On the day she was fifty years old, she had a grandchild born, and a great-grand child on the amversary of her hun dredth year. London Fraser a notorious negro thief entered the house of Dr. Mid dleton at Josuj) last week and car ried off a trunk containing two hun dred aud twenty dollars in money and valuable notes and papers. Disperse ers came upon him but he eluded' them and made his escape leaving the trunk behind, unopened. lie is a fugitive from justice in Liberty coun ty having committed a murder there and is now at large. Up to September sth Columbus has received fifty-three bales of the new crop of cotton. Talbot county has 2,008 polls, 9 lawyers 1-1 physicians, and broperty to the amount of 81,420,740 of of which the blacks own 840,120. "Whitfield county wants a poor house. Two rich black lead mines have been discovered in Barton coun ty- Mr. W. T. Christopher, formcly editor of the Fort Valley Mirror will commence the publication of a com mercial journal in Atlanta on the fif teenth inst. Mr. Thomas lielton and Rebecca, his wife living on the line between Gwinnett and Jackson counties are aged respectively 92 and 914 years. They have lived together seventy years and have twelve children. Irwin ton has a criminal who was sentenced to he hung, and the time expired, hut for some unknown cause he was not hung, and it becomes now necessary for him to be resentcnccd which will shortly be done. The Constitution says alreaby the people are securing rooms for the fair. Americns ha3 shipped one hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds of dried fruit, realizing the handsome sum of thirteen thousand two hun dred and forty dollars for the same. A little girl daughter of a Mrs Cole of Chattanooga was drowned in a cistern Saturday. A young girl about 15 years of age Salliellines of Cobb county last week swore out a warrant against Joseph Glossier charging him with a mock marriage and seduction. He was arrested and carried to Marietta for trial. Ilawkinsville is to have anew de pot lion Reason Paulk ol Irwin conn died yery sudu mly of heart disease on Thursday last. Mr. Jesse Morris of -Montgomery county was shot and killed by Mr. McAllister of the same county. Rust is doing much damage to the cotton in Houston county. The editor of the Home Journal claims co have recently seen and measured a rattletsnake in Houston county that was 04 feet long, and 9 inches in circumference and had 13 rattles and a button. It was one of sixteen killed from a bed of seven teen. A little child of Mr. C. R. Meyers of Agusta was seriously burned by kerosine oil last week. It is said that among the stock burned at McPherson’s Barracks in Atlanta were two little gray nuilcs that were once owned by President Jefferson Davis. The lightning rods have been tak en down from the court-house in Meriwether county by the County Commissioners and the grand jury recommend that they be disposed of to the best interest of the coun ty- Mr. Robert Langford of Madison county was killed last week by a kick in the abdomen from a mule. LaGrange is exercised over the sale of the North and South Narrow Gauge Railroad, fearing that its ex tension will not now lie made in her direction. It is the impression that if it he continued it will he in the direc tion of Atlanta through Meriwether, by Greenville. The Old Capital says that the changes in the moon have a notable effect on the inmates of tne lunatic asylum. An officer ot Bibb county carried three lunatics to Milledgeville last week. Two were colored women, and one* white man \V. B. Lew is. Jonesboro has anew enterprise in the Toombs Light Guards. They have ordered a handsome uniform of navy blue and huff from New York. The first prize for the l*?st story, founded on incidents of the late war, contributed to the Savannah News, was awarded to S. G. Hillyer Jr. of Cuthbeit. The second prize was awarded P. A. Bryan of Screven county. The names of the stories are respectively “The Marable Family” and “Henry Sinclair or The Doctors Revenge.” The Weekly News will commence the publication of the first in the issue of the 19th inst Mr. J. M. Grey of Houston says he lias a place on which he will make fifty bales of cotton at a cost of only S7OO. The North and South Narrow Gauge Railroad was sold at auction on Tuesday at Columbus for forty thousand five hundred dollars. It was purchased by the Columbus and Atlantic Air Line Railroad Com pany, who wili extend it for ten miles. T HK , OHKAT, liAUO T MEM lAl't | -M. rbo Best. tuj<’li ••jutt and tt. iu mt j. >pu- n r. Yon ean’t afford to b- without tt. CRICKET HEARTH It U a mammoth 1• -j•_'- illudraed paper (size o HarpeiV Weekly ) filled with th ■ choice*! readimr for old an lyoung. Mortal <tu>l short stories, sketch* os, poems, useful knowledge. wi{ an humor, "an swers to correspond- u's,” pussies. Kami a, "poputar rngs." etc. Lively, ouhrtaiuiu , .uuuaiuK and iu •tractire. The !r.;eet. haodMmrtt, tent and cncap* cat puper of its class published, only $1 per year, with choice of three premiums ; the beautiful new chrome, "Yes or Xo?" size 13x19 iUchea; any one of the celebrated novels by ChtrUie I'ukcns, or aa elc (rant box of aationory. I’apcr i hont premium o.Jy 73 cts. per year. Or we sill send it tour mouths on trial for only 25 cents. 3.r~-pcimen copy seut onYeoeipt of at imp. Ag-mts wanted Aitdreas KYM. LUPTON k CO., Publishers, 31 Path Uow, N. Y NO 40. Regulation Tariff'Rule**. Washington, September o.—The following circular to collectors other officers of the customs ha* been ‘is sued from the treasury depart ment. The following rates of drawback on refined sugars and syrups, wholly manufactured from impoited raw sugar, are hereby established, to take effect on and after October Ist, 1877: On loaf, tut loaf crushed, granulated and powdered refined su gar stove dried or dr.ed by other equally effeettve process, entirely llie product of foreign duty paid sugar, three and cigdtecn-one hundaedths cents per pound. On refined white sugar, undried and above No. 20, Dutch standard in color, entirely the product of foreign duty paid sugar, two and fifty-eight one hundredths cents i>er pound. On all grades of refined coffee sugar, No, 20 Dutch standard, and below in color, entire ly the product of foreign duty paid sugar, two and eighty one hun dredths cents per pound. On symj h resulting entirely from the refining of foreign duty paid sugar, six aud one quarter cents per gallon. The al lowances on sugars will be subject to the reduction of one percent, and the allowances on syrup to the deduction of teu per cent, as pre scribed by law. The Age ofTrecs. The longevity of various trees has been stated to be in round numbers as follows: Deciduous Cypress. 0,- 000 years; boahab tree of Senegal, 5,000; dragon’s blood tree 4.000 years; yew, 3,000; cedar of Lcbanou 3,000; olive, 2,500: oak 1.G00; or ange, 1,50; Oriental palm, 1,300; cabbage palm, 300; larce, 300; pear, 300; lime, GOO; ivy, GOO; ash, 400; coeoanut palm, 300; date palm, 300; apple, 200 years. The Brazil vine palm, arrives at the age of 150 years; the Scotch fir gets its growth in about 100, years, and balm of Gilead in about 50 years. Detroit has the largest buffalo hide dressing factory in America. Ocean freights are almost 40 per cent higher than a year ago.— Ex. The Inter Ocean’s cashier loses 85,000 by Chicago’s last bank crash. If there’s anything I hate it is to break m anew tooth brush.— Twain'. Some of Be ston’d biggest wharves don’t earn enough to pay their tax es. A reaction towards ur.ornamented parasols, of rich plain silk is no ted. A lady’s shoe that resembles a foot, if worn with dark stockings, is out. Lafayette, Ind., is shipping horses to Europe.