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VOL. 11l
The Qnitman Reporter
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Practicing Physician.
QiJITMAN GA.
Omop: Brick building atioiuinr stmo
of M‘isr. Briggs, Jelks & Cos., K r-ven
fctroet. L l_tf
8. T. KINUSUEiIY,
Attorney at Law,
QUITMAN, - - GEORGIA.
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Business before the U. S. Patent Otficr
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QUITMAN, .... GA
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Attorney at Law,
QUITMAN. GEORGIA.
in the Court House TVS
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Attorneys at Law,
QUITMAN, GEO.
Will giv® prompt attention to all business
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orcr Kavton’s storo.
Dr. j. S. N. Snow,
*
DENTIST
OFFICE—Front room up stairs oTer Kay
ton’s Store. Gan administered lor painless
ly extracting teeth.
ff£r Charges to suit the times.
jan 19, ly
Fretwell & Nichols,
WHOLESALE
STATIONERS
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Paper Bags, Cotton Flour Sacks,
Twines, Inks, Playing Cards, Muoi
lage, etc.
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SAVANNAH - - GA.
Tin. E. A. Jauta. Db. Hakby Mabbett,
Drs. Jelks& Mabbett,
Having purchased the drug department of
Maasra. Briggs, Jelks A Cos., would respect
fully notify their friends and the public gon
ersUr that they have juat opened a NEW
bRUO STORE, in the house formerly occu
pied by Hr. Jelka as an office, wliich they
hare considerably enlarged, and are now
supplied with a foil and complete stock of
Itrngx,
Patret Medicines,
Perfumeries,
Articles,
Oils, Paints,
Window Glass,
Putty, &eV &c.
Also a' fine stock of ftOHOOIV }lOt>KS,
BTATIONEBY, TOBACCO, SEO'A'RS,
MTOFP,- Ac.
t. A JtLKK A BARRY MABBETT.
v -e
STATE NEWS.
Peiicniniis :iud Scissoiiutfs from |
our Exchanges.
—Anil it now comes to pass that |
Kendrick confessed to one of his i
breathron in the church that lie told
falsehoods iu regard to his criminal
ity.
—The Atlanta Sunday Telegram is
no more. Thus is left an opening for j
another journalistic collapse in the
city of “wealthy and respectable.”
—The Albany News and Atlanta j
Constitution, in answer to a paragraph
from this column, assure ns that it j
trill ti£ l bo hard on them to have to J
support the Democratic, nominee for
Governor in case Gen. Colquitt is j
not the man. Frank Evans gets j
really eloquent in alluding to the
matter, and talks about “slinging”
and “singing” the name of any man J
the convention designates. We like
that, and feel glad that we have been
instrumental in drawing out the hid- 1
den pats iotisvn of a brother.
—The negro Haywood Grant, who j
was hung at Rome l.tst Friday, con
fessed to the killing of four men and
burning of half a dozen houses.
• —The Albany News issued a very!
creditable supplement, last week, con
taining the address of Hon. Nelson
Tift; giving a complete history of A l -;
bauy and Dougherty county, deliver- i
ed on the 4th of July.
—Watermelons have fallen to;
twesty and fifteen cents in Atlanta,
ajid the “wealthy and respectable” of
our Stato Capital are not the only
ones there that can afford to have the
stomach-ache.
—The BaiuVriilge Democrat will re
sume its former size this week. The
Democrat did yeoman service in the
last campaign, and we arc glad to
know that it is getting ready to run
the same lively schedule again. The
Democrat deserves a liberal patronage
and hearty.snpport, and the people of
Bainbridge and Dtoatnr county are
not doing their duty if they do not
sustain it.
—The Athens Watchman says: Hon.
B. H. Hill savs, writing to a gentle
man in Franklin county, “Tho rumor
that I would decline, to servo he peo
ple of the !)th district, after the ex
piration of the present term, is not
correct.”
-Through a correspondent at
Egypt, No. 4, Central Railroad, Effing
ham county, says the Savannah News,
of yesterday, we have some addition
al particulars in reference to the out
rage committed upon the daughter
of Rev. W. AY. Lee, near that place,
the facts of which were mentioned iu
the Morning News of the 11th inst.
The negro Monday Golding, one of
the perpetrators of this most infamous
outrage, was killed on Monday night
by unknown parties, who fled to the
woods immediately upon firing.
Golding was instantly killed. An in
quest was held upon the remains on
Tuesday, and after a searching inves
tigation, a verdict was rendered that
the deceased came to his death from a
load of buckshot fired by unknown
parties. Golding was the negro who
in the attempt to rob tho house of
Mr. "VVoolfe a short time previous to
♦he outrage, was fired upon by Miss
Lee, as has been stated, and wounded.
The jury upon examining liis body at
the inquest discovered that the young
lady’s shot had taken considerable ef
fect. Four buckshot were embedded
in the flesh of bis left side, about
three-quarters of au inch deep. He
acknowledged to having been one of
the party who attempted tho robbery,
and stated that his accomplices in the
late diabolical outrage upon Miss Lee
weue Win. Jackson and Joseph Brow n,
negroes, who belonged to bis squad.
Those scoundrels have been
arrested, lint there are strong hopes
they will be apprehended before long.
Our correspondent states that Miss
Lee is slowly recovering from the se
! vero beating she received at the
hands of tlieso black murderers and
thieves. .
Over in Florida.
.lt is said that bandy-legged .Toe
Stripling is tho political editor of the
of tho Madison Ifttcprfer,
Judging from the appeiraireif
the columns of that dirty Radical
sheet, one might suppose that Jo
seph’s brain would rattle within the
hollow of a tobacco seed.
—Agriculturist: A young lad nam
ed Wiiliam Flynn lias gone into bee
culture, near Jacksonville, with suc
cess. He has crossed the native bees
with the Italian queens. They work
well, and he gets ready sale for the
comb and swarms. He sold fifteen
swarms last week, to go up tho river,
at five dollars eaoh. AVe have insist
ed from tho first that bee culture
would be one of our profitable indus
tries, but have met with great opposi
tion from t.hoso who preteud to know
better. Here is a casein point of a
mere boV making a success of it.
—Tho Madisoh Rrdorder says that
iStoarnes has gone to Philadelphia
for the purpose of adjusting the JifE-
QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1870.
culties between tho two wings of the
Florida Radicals, and that tho proba
bility Uo*v is that the split between
Stonrnes and Conover will be speedi
ly welded. What the ileueo has any
body in Philadelphia got to do with
Florida Radicalism? Do the task
masters of these party henchmen hold
forth and issue orders that far from
the field of labor ? If it lias come to
pass that Florida is oontroled by a
ring in Philadelphia, it is certainly
tim@ a stop should be put to the reing
of all such adventurers as have held
high carnival in our sister Stato for
the past teu years; and there never
was a morn propitious time for the
people to go to work in earnest for
the accomplishment of that end.
-The Cedar Keys Journal says that
George F. Fowler, having been con
victed of performing the duties of his
office according to the requirements
of law and common decency, has been
removed from the position of County
Judge by Governor Sell-us. The re
moval of Judge Fowler from the posi
tion of County Judge leaves us with
out any one to administer justice, out
side of the town authorities. Cedar
Keys can’t boast of a single J. P. If
a Republican officeholder brings upon
himself the slightest suspicion of hav
ing any regard for right his head is as
good as in the basket. Miss Fowler
will be removed from the post office,
and someone appointed in her place
whom no ; r.ident man would trust
with a hank of rotten oyster shells.
Miss F. has resigned. Instruct your
correspondents to write nothing they
do not wish to he known; and, above
all, to send no money by mail.
Sitting Bull and tho Sioux.
Personal Sketch of the Savage Chief--
Peculiarities of the Tribe when mi the
War-Path Conversation with a For
mer Agent's Clerk.
The St. Louis Globe.-Democrat of
Saturday gives the following sketch
of the Sioux Chief in a conversation
with Mr. J. D. Keller, of that city:
•dr.Kellev was from 1888 to 1878
clerk of the agent at Standing Rock,
and hhd ample opportunities to get
acquainted with this tribe of blood
thirsty' Ravages. In fact he lived
among them so long- thet he learned
to speak their language “like s na
tive,” and was a great favorite of the
big chiefs who came to the agency.
They called him “Minnohua Ochila"
(the Writing Boy.) Tin- word Sioux
means “•it-throat.” Acci 'cling Ij
Mr. Keller’s statement, the various
bands of Sioux number from 85,000,
to 45,000, and are divided into the
following different tribes: Unkapa
pa, Black Feet, Sans Arcs, Two Ket
tles, Upper Yanktonnis, Lower Ynnk
tonais, Santee Sioux, Burgklys. Min
neconjons Galkas. Part of these live
east and part west of tho Missouri
river. Tatonka Otanka (Sittingßull),
who led the savages in the tight
against Ouster, belongs to the lrn
knpapas (dried beefeaters). Sir. Kel
ler knows him well, and describe:: him
to hh*about five feet in height. He
has a largo h.-ad, eyes and nose, high
cheek bones; one of his legs is slior
er than the other, from a gun-shot
wound in the left knee. His conn to-
nance is of an extremely savage type, j
■ betraying that blood-thirst iuess ami I
1 brutality for which ho has been so no
torious. He has the name of being
I the most successful scalpers in the Tn
-1 dian country. There has been a stand
img reward of one thousand dollars
offered for his head for the last eight
I years, by the Montana people, who
have special cause to know his fero
cious nature, some of his worst deeds
having been perpetrated in that Ter
ritory. The Sioux, when on the war
path, black their faces from their eyes
down, the forehead being colored a
i bright red. W hen in mourning, and
very eager to revenge the death of
friends or relations, they cut their
hair short, and daub their faces with
white earth. Their feats of horse
manship are wonderful. They con
sider the greatest act of valor to be
i the striking of their enemy with some
hand instrument while alive, and
| whether alive or dead, it is the first
! one that strikes the fallen foe that
j "counts the coup,” and not the one
that shoots him. They do not always
j scalp. Their object in scalping is to
furnish a proof of their deed, and
give them to their women to dance
1 over." They always attack in a sweep
ing. circling line, eagle-like, give a
volley, pass on, circle and return on a
different angle. When they kill one
of the enemy there is always a rush
: to get the first crack at him, so ch to
; “count the coup,” and then some In
dian who was disappointed in getting
J a cut at the victim white alive scalps
I him. The Sioux always camp with
tepcs (lodges) in a circle, making, as
jit were, a stockade, and when on
dangerous ground they picket their
j ponies in the centre. Mr. Ivelier is
| familiar with the ground where the
j disastrous engagement of Custer oc
curred. Concerning this he said:
j “My idea of the Custer slaughter is
that the Indians biul no women and
j children in their lodges, and had par
apets dug under the lodges out of
sight. Custer, thinking it was a fam
ily camp rushed in the centre of their
fort, where resistance would necessa
rily prove filial* His,only means of
escape was, after finding' himself iii
| this fix, to ruu right through and out,
| and not stop to light, but join Reno's
command and re treat.”
Ex-Quitmanite Again.
He (lacs to Another Country Frolic
Crops, Politics, Sir.
At.tamaHa, Tattn.it, Cos., Ga. 1
July l()th, 1878. j
Dear Reporter : —Since writing
you from Yieunal have drifted upon
the tide of time, until u few days since
T east anchor at this place. I can’t
tel! you where I am; wish I knew.
The sun seems to rise in the west,
and set in the east, and I have looked
through the maps and consulted the
almanac, and am still lost. I asked
tho gentleman I am stopping with
where I must navi am: “W-e-l-l,
don’t make much difference; just say
Altatpaha,” and he is now trying his
best to blow “Daniel Tncke” on a
gourd-neck flute, and if I “should
chance to write a little cross you must
attribute it to the gourd-neck, and
not to my disposition. 1 intend to
watch him where he puts that flute
to-night, and by this time to-morrow
there will be one gourd-neck less.
Crops are good; never were better
in this part of the country. Several
fanners have been trying to make one
hundred bushels of corn to the acre,
and I think the most of them will
fail. 1 saw an acre yesterday that
w ill, with one move rain at the proper
time, make seventy-five bushels.
There is no cotton planted in this iim
mediate section, or but very little.
Some few are still working at timber.
The farmers are all jubilant over their
fine crops, and seem to be celebrating
theis success in the way of picnics
and parties. I went to a “frolic’' the
other night under the follow ing cir
cumstances: While sittiug on the
steps thinking seriously of trying to
find thß way to Qnitman, a young
man came up and said, “Therein to
be 'a frolic over at "Mr. , to
night, and you must go; but before
you go I will tell you now, in time,
you must be very careful, the young
ladies are very sensitive, and if you
was to offend one,you might have to
look some neai 1 relative or frieuc? of
tig) insulted one in the eyes through
tuo sights of a “Smith an,! Wesson.”
1 led one of *ho fair ones on the floor
for a cotillion, I thought, but on tak
ing our position the young lady walk
ed out in fr mt of me. The music
commenced uqd the lady begun to
“shuffle.” Someone shouted to me
to dance! I took in my situation at a
glance, and commenced to do my best.
The weather was warm; i wanted to
quit; the dance was becoming monot
onous; I thought if I quit it would be
considered a slight, and then I heaved
a sigh and thought of the “Smith and
Wesson," and 1 come down with a
new step. Tile girl improved, the
fiddler was in his glory, and seemed
likely to last a week; I could foci the
drops of perspiration as large as a
marble coursing its way down my
weary frame, when just hero a string
broke and the music stopped. 1 led
her to a bench, got my hat, and left
satisfied.
The people are kind aud clever,
but, oh, so peculiar. To illustrate it:
a gentleman’s wife said, “Joliu, take
that jug and go over to Air. 's
store and get me. a jug of syrup.”
AATien John got to where the syrup
was, ho met some lively friends, and
on asking for tho syrup he made a mis
take and asked for “red eye.” On his
arrival homo his better half says,
“John, where is that syrup ?" “In
those jug.” She smelt of the stopper,
and there was a lingo lightwood knot
on the floor, and now John is recover
ing slowly and thinks his nose will al
ways be disfigured.
This county will go for Johnson for
governor. The Rev. Mr. (Idas, for
merly of Quitman, has just closed a
protracted meeting at this place. I
will give you a full account of crops,
Ac., when I see you, which I hope will
be but a few weeks.
Montgomery county has appointed
Hardeman and liibboe delegates.
Until I see you, adieu,
Yours “lastly,”
An Ex-Qiiitm \nite.
Howto Make Soap.- To make an
excellent soft soap take one and a
quarter pounds of clean, melted
grease to each gallon of lye strong
enough to bear an egg. Mix them
together in a barrel iu the cellar and
stir it for a few minutes every day un-.
til the soap is made. If one prefers
to use condensed lye (or potash) take
twelve pounds of stone potash and
the same quantity of clean grease.
Put the potash in a piece of old car
pet aud break it with a hatchet into
pieces the size of an egg; put it iu a
large kettle, with a gallon or more of
water. When dissolved in tho grease,
and when thoroughly melted pour in
to the soap barrel, fill it with hot wa
ter. and stir well, and stir occasional
ly for a day or two tkerearter.
The Democratic Platform.
Wo copy from the Missouri Repub
lican, of St. Louis, tho corrected text
of the National Democratic Platform,
which in every paragraph Was badly
mutilated in its transmission by tele
graph to all tho Southern Journals:
Mo, the delegates of tho Democrat
ic party of the United States in Na
tional Convention assembled, do here
by declare the administration of the
Federal Government to be in urgent
need of reform; do hereby enjoiu up
on fhe nominees of ibis Convention,
and of the Democratic party in each
State, a zealous effort and co-opem
tion to tills end; and do hereby ap
peal to our fellow-citizens of every
former political counoction, to under
take with us this first and most press
ing patriotic duty.
For the Democracy of the whole
country, we do here reaffirm our faith
in the permanence of tho Federal
Union, our devotion to the Constitn- i
tion of the United States with its 1
amendments universally accepted ns a 1
final settlement of tho controversies
that engender civil war, and do here j
record our steadfast confidence in the
perpetuity of Republican Self-Gov
ernment
Tn absolute acquiescence in the will
of the majority— the vital principle of
republics; in the supremacy of the 1
civil over the military authority; in
the total separation of the Church and
•State, for the sake alike of civil and
religions freedom; in the equality of
all citizens before just laws of their
own enactment; in the liberty cf in
dividual conduct, unvexed by sumptu
ary laws; iu the faithful education of
the rising generation, that they may
preserve, enjoy aud transmit these
best conditions of human happiness
and hope, wo behold the noblest pro
ducts of a hundred years of changeful
history; but while upholding the bond
of our Union and great charter of ■
these our rights, it behooves a free :
people to practice also that eternalj
vigilance which is the price of Lib
er.y !
R-’fnrm is necessary to rebuild and :
establish in the hearts of the whole ;
people, the Union, eleven years ago ;
happily rescued from the danger of a
Secession, of States; but now tube
saved from a corrupt Centralism
which, after inflicting upon ton States :
the rapacity of carpet-bag tyrannies,
has honey-combed the offices of the .
Federal Government itself with inca- j
parity, waste, and fraud; infected
States and municipalities with the
contagion of misrule, and locked fast
the prosperity of an industrious peo
ple iu the paralysis of “Hard Times.”
Reform is necessary to establish a
sound currency, restore the public j
credit, and maintain the national
honor.
We denounce the failure for all;
these eleven years of peace to make |
good the promise of the legal-tender
notes, which are a changing standard j
of value iu the hands of the people, j
and the non-payment of which is a dir.- |
regard of the plighted faith of the ua
tion.
AVe denounce the improvidence
which in eleven years of peace has ta
ken from the people in Federal taxes
thirteen times the whole amount of
the legal-tender notes and squander
ed four times their sum in useless ex
pense without accumulating any re-1
serve for their redemption.
AVe denounce the financial imbecil
ity and immorality of that party
which, during eleveu years of peacr,
has made no advance toward resump
tion, no preparation for resumption,
but instead has obstructed resump
tion, by wast ing our resources and ex- j
hausting all our surplus income; and
while annually professing to intend a j
speedy return to specie payments, has
annually enacted fresh hinderances
thereto. As such a hindrance we de
nounce the Resumption day clause of
the act of 187,n and demand its re
peal.
AVe demand a judicious system of;
preparation bv public economists, by 1
official retrenchments, and by wise fi
nance, which shall enable the nation
soon to assure the whole world of its |
perfect ability and its readiuess to
meet anv of its promises at (he call of,
the creditor entitled to payment.
AVe believe, such a system, well de
vised, and, above all, intrusted to
competent hands for execution, creat, ;
ing at no time an artificial scarcity of
currency and at no time alarming the I
public mind into a withdrawal of that
vaster machinery of credit, by which
5)5 per cent, of all business transac- .
tions are performed -a system open,
public, and inspiring general confi
dence, would from the dav of its
adoption bring healing on its wings
to all our harrasserl industries, set in
motion tho wheels of commerce, man
ufactures, and the mechanic arts, re
store employment to labor, and re
new in all its natural sources the pros
perity of the people.
Reforni is necessary in the sum and
modes of Federal Taxation, to the end
that capital mav he set free fromdis
trust, aud labor lightly burdened.
AVe denounce the present Tariff,
levied upon nearly 4.000 articles, as a
master-piece of injustice, inequality,
and hilfle pretense. It yields a dwin-1
djing, not, a yearly rising; revenue. It>
has impoverished many industries to !
subsidize a few. It prohibits imports
that might purchase the products of {
Amoricam labor. It nas degraded
American commerce from the first to
lan inferior rank on tun high seas. It
1 has out down tin sales of American
manufactures at home and abroad,
and depleted the returns of American
1 agriculture an industry followed by
; half otir people. It costs the people
| five times more than it produces to
i the treasury, obstructs the processes
jof production, and wastes the fruits
!of labor. It promotes fraud, fosters
smuggling, enriches dishonest offi
| eials, and bankrupts holiest iher
! chants. We demand that all custom
I house taxation shall be only forrcvc
. line.
Reform is necessary in the scale of
■ Public Expense Federal. State and
Municipal Oar Federal taxation
i has swollen from (if) millions gold, in
1880, to 4- 80 millions currency, in
1870; our aggregate taxation from 184
i millions gold, in 18(50. to 730 millions
| currency in 1870; or in one decade,
from less than - 8 per head to more
than $lB per head. Since the peace,
[ the people have paid to their tux
gatherers more than thrice the sum ot
the national debt, and more than
twice that sum for the Federal Gov
ernment alone. We demand a rigor
ous frugality in every department,
and from every officer of the Govern
ment.
Reform is necessary to put a stop
to the profligate waste of public lands i
and •heir diversion from actual set
tiers by the pasty in power, which has
squandered 200 millions of acres up
on railroads alone, and out of more
than thrice aggregate has disposed
of less than a sixth dir. ,-tly to tillers
of thesoi!.
R form is to correct flic
onnnissious of a Republican Congress
and the errors of our treat i sand our
diplomacy which have stripped our
fallow-citizens of foreign birth and
kindred race reerossiug the Atlantic,
the shield of American ritiz- aship, ;
and have exposed our lire,hreu of*the
Pacific coast to the incursions of a
race not sprung from the same great '
parent stock, and in fact, now by law
denied citizenship through naturali
zation as being neither accustomed
to the traditions of a progressive civ
ilization nor exercised in liberty un
der equal laws. We denounce the
policy which thus discards the liberty
loving German and tub rates the re
vival of the colic trade iu Mongolian
women imported for immoral purpo
ses, and Mongolian men hired to per
form servile labor contracts.
To form is necessary and can never
bo effected but bv making it tho con
trolling issue of the elections, and lift
ing it above two false issues with
which the office-hohliug class and the
party in newer seel: to Smother it
1. The false issue with which they
would enkindle sectarian strife in re
spect to the public schools, of which ,
the establishment and support belong
exclusively to the several States, and '
which tho Democratic party has cher
ished from the foundation, and is re
solved to maintain without prejudice :
or preference for any clans, ,seel, or
creed, and without largesses from the
treasury to any.
2 The false issue by which they
seek to light anew the dying embers
of sectional hate between kindred
peonies once estranged, but now reu
nited iu one indivisible republic and 1
a common destiny.
Reform is necessary in tho Civil Ser
vice. Experience proves that efficient
economical conduct of tho govern
mental business is not possible if its
civil service be subject to change at
every election, be a prizo fought for
at the ballot box, be a brief reward of
party zeal, instead of posts of honor •
assigned for proved competency, and
held for fidelity in the public can ploy;
that the dispensing of patronage
should neither be a tax upon tlTetini"
of all our public men, nor the instrn
inent of their ambition. Here again
promises falsified in the performance,
attest that the party in power can
work out no practical or salutary re
form .
lieforni i'b necessary even more in
tho higher grades ot the public ser
vice. Fresidmit, Vico Fix si dent,
Judges, Senators, Representatives,
Cabinet officers, these and all others
in authority .are the people's servants.
Their offices arc not a private perqui
site; they are a private trust.
When the annals of this republic
show tho disgrace and censure of a
Vice Fresideut; a late Speaker of the
House of Representatives marketing
his rulings as a presiding officer;
three Senators profiting .secretly by
their votes as lawmakers; live chair
men of the leading committees of the
late House of Representatives expos
ed in robbery; a late Secretary of the
Treasury foi'cing balances iu the pub
lic accounts; a late Attorney-General
misappropriating public funds; a Sec
retary of the Navy enriched or enrich
ing friends, by percentages levied off
the profits of contractors with his de
partment; an Embassador to England
censured iu a dishonorable specula
tion; tile President's Private Secreta
ry barely escaping conviction upon
trial for guilty complicity iu frauds
upon the revenue; a Secretary of War
impeached for high crimes and mis
demeanors, the demonstration is
complete, that the first stop iu Re
form must be the peoples choice of
honost men from aqothe.r party, lest
the disease of one political organiza
tion' infect the body politic, and lest,
by making no change of men or pai-
t.’cs wc get no change of measures
and no real Reform.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes
the product, of sixteen years ascend
anev of the Republican party, create
a necessity for reform confessed by
Republicans themselves; but their re
formers are voted down in conven
tion and displaced from the cabinet.
The party's mass of honest voters is
powerless to resist the 80,000 office
holders, its leaders and guides.
Reform can only be had by a peace
ful Civic Revolution. We demand a
change of system, a change of admin
istration, a change of parties, that we
may have a change of measures and
men.
('ill Hardeman lie tires
Macon, Jnly IS, 1878.
Eildees Telegraph and Messenger: It
is evident from the returns of primary
meetings in different counties that I
am not the choice of a majority of the
citizens of Georgia for executive hon
ors. Recognizing this fact, though'
other counties yet to act would add
to my list of supporters, it would not
change the result. It would there
fore be folly in me to continuo longer
in the canvass, thereby injuring mv
friends and creating, unnecessarily,
further division in the Democratic
party. Believing, as I do, that tho
will of the majority should govern, I
cannot consent to remain longer in an
attitude of seeming opposition to that
will, relying upon a contingency that
might happen under the operation of
the two-thirds rile, to thwart it, and
thereby place in position sonic ono
who is not tho choice of flic people,
i cannot be a party to any such ar
rangement, for it is against my sense
of justice and of right, and, therefore,
retire from the canvass, bowing sub
missively to the verdict of the people
lu so doing I would not intimate to
those friends, who have been selected
in my interest, how they should act
in the premises, for I am well aware
that their intelligence and patriotism
will guide them in that line of con
duct, which will result in good to the*
party and benefit to the people. In
retiring, allow me to say to those
eoiftities who have honored me as
their choice, I mean all that language
will convey, when I say L heartily
thank you for your generous confi
dence. I To the prise Tr t ,;ri my
grateful acknowledgements: to steamy
for their disinterested support, to ot]i
ers for i he manly, courteous ailtlk-’iid
opposition they have given me. True,
a very small number have by their
personal allusions and unkind insin
uations injured me, but in so doing
they have not elevated tli6 character
of their journals or grown iu the es
teem of a fair minded public. To
those ti tends, who for months gave
me encouraging assurances of confi
dence and support, then abandoned
me and joined my opponents, 1 will
only say 1 freely forgive yon, knowing
ns I do, that, human nature cannot
withstand the blandishments of posi
tion and tho allurements of office.
To the Democratic, party 1 would
speak one word. Let not envies or
jealousies enter your ranks and di
vide your force. The contest weave
about to enter will require united ef
forts to ensure victory. In the past;
1 have labored zealously for harmony
in our ranks, knowing it was essential
to success. For that harmony I
would sacrifice personal ambition to
day preferring party success to per
sonal elevation at the expense of that
party. I shall therefore not erttee niv
efforts in that direction in tho futifre,.
but, as a private in the ranks, will still
he found ever willing to strike “with,
might and main" for Dem ocratic unity
and victory.
Respectfully,
T’UOS. ii.AROK.VC\\, •!*
IV hat Ailed a Pilicr
White Annie was saving her prin
or ■, Nell trifled with n shadow pict
nre ou the wall. Not it.istied with
playing alone, she woum \o to An
nio, that might. of a figure in the gold
and white, golden curls and snowy
gown, bv the bed’s side.
“Now, Annie, watch !” “Annie just
see!” “OU Annie do look!” she said
over and over again.
Annie who was not to he persuad
ed, finished her prayer, anil crept, in
to bed, whither her thoughtless sister
followed, as the light must be out. in
just so inanv minutes. Presently
Nell took to floundering, panelling,
and “oh-ileariug.” Thou she lay qui
et for a while, only to begin again
with renewed energy.
“W hat is the matter?” asked An
nie.
“Alv pillow!” tossing, thumping,
kueaking, “It's as flat ns a board, and
hard as a stone; I can’t think what
ails it.” ,
“I know,” answered Annie in her
sweet wav.
“What V”
"There's no prayer in it. ’
lon - a second or two, Nell v.as an
a mouse, then she scrambled’out ou
flie floor, with a shiver, it's (rue, but
she was detennined never afterwards
to try to sleep on a prayerless.pillow.
“That must havo been what ailed
it,” she whispered, soon after getting
into lied again, “It’s all right now.”
1 think, that is what ails a great
many pillows on which restless heads,
both littlo aiwl big, nightly toss and
turn; there are no prayers ip them.
Nell’s remedy was the beat, the on'v
one. Prayer raado the pill > v s >ft,
and she sjAk to rest as ua L. a T.ieU
•.eriag wing, — Selected.
No. 21.