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QUITMAN GA.
Office : Brick building adjoining store
of Messrs. Briggs, Jelks & Cos,, Screven
street. [l-tf
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v Attorney at Law,
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ly extracting teeth.
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jail 1!), ly
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Mosers. Briggs, Telks *Sr Cos., would respect
fully notify their friends and the public gon
er ally that they have just opened a NEW
DRUG STORE, in the house formerly occu
pied by Dr. Jelks as an office, which they
have considerably enlarged, and are now
supplied with a full and complete stock of
Drugs,
Patnt Medicines,
Perfumeries,
Toilet Articles,
Oils, Paints,
Window Glass,
Putty, &c., &e.
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SNUFF, Ac.
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STATE NEWS.
I Peucilings and Scissoring* from
our Exchanges.
—The Warreuton Clipper will
briug out a trade issue on the 21st.
—The full camp-meetings have com
menced in Upper Georgia.
—Senator Gordon and Hon. B. H.
Hill went to South Carolina last, week
to mako a few campaign speeches.
—The Warren ton Clipper is per
sistently advocating Judge Horsehel
V. Johnsto 1 for the XT. S. Senate.
| -—Eastman young men, and some
jof riper age, assomblo on the streets
| Sunday afternoons and indulge in
j naughty coversation.
—An ox team run-away was the
only funny thing that happened in
j Cuthbert Inst week. The Messenger
says that the driver was in the cart
when the hovines took fright, and
as he held the lines with a tenacious
grip, ho seemed to sav, “Head 11s,
somebody, dura our fool souls,” No
serious damage was done.
Rockdale county tried the new
fangled or primary election wav of
selecting candidates the other day,
and it turned out just like it did in
Atlanta—all hands got drunk, liquor
was used to buy votes, blacks and
whites jingled glasses together, the
calaboose rvi rrnn, and general
excitement prevailed. Amt ilu>
Register favors a return to the good
old convention way of nominating.
—An old planter has informed the
Augusta Constitutionalist that his cot
ton lields were suffering badly with
what is known as b’ack rust, which
made Reappearance on his place about
the middle of the month. It has lef*
My leafless in many spots, I
Pme whole plant to d;e. This j
J j-ire destructive to cotton I
;Ypillar and grasshopper,:
discovered no remedy for ,
\e. he expected to get one j
i acres if lie gets one to
ISaaergr. iTsedJl
ttmTV-ri iw. Qp S ’•*f r
poultry. A friend has sent ns a mosl
excellent receipt, and we suggest a
trial to those who are troubled with
the vermin. He says if it docs not
succeed, he will forfeit his life. His
receipt is to use gas tar on the roosts ,
-jygtlsmeared over the hen house. Tins j
afejb/iple enough, and if it docs not
yboed the life of a popular Broad
street auctioneer is at stake.
IE VS
jaw,
RGIA
w. .
The Atlanta Times says: The Agri
cultural Congress will be held in Phil
adelphia on the 12tb, 13tli and 14th of
September. Delegates appointed by j
the Georgia State Agricultural Socie- j
tv and the Georgia State Grange to j
this Congress will leave Atlanta cn
Tuesday afternoon next, the sth of'
September, for Philadelphia.
.—Atlanta Constitution: After ten |
days of real work in the investigation
before Auditor Pace of the accounts •
between the State and John Jones,
ex-Treasurer, the matter lias come to j
a stand still for the present, so far as j
active operations before the Auditor
are concerned. On Saturday, at 3
p. ru., the investigation was adjourned i
over until the first Monday in Octo- \
ber, being the second day of said!
month. The reason for adjourning
over for the length of time agreed
upon was in consequence of the case
having reached that point where it
was necessary, so consideied by the
counsel for the State, to introduce
the testimony of the parlies resident
in the State of New York. These
parties include bank officers in insti
tutions which were, or are, financial
agents for the State, and with
whom the Treasurer necessarily had
dealings. Also, the assignee and
books of the firm of Henry Clews k
Cos., who played such a gigantic part
in Georgia financial affairs at one
time. Tho counsel for the State pro
posed that the auditor and counsel
upon either side should go to New
York city and hold such sessions there
as might be necessary for the exami
nation of the witnesses, etc., desired
upon the part of either the State or
the defendent. After consultation
the counsel for the defence refused
to accede to tho proposition, Judge
John L. Hopkins, who is the repre
j sentative in part of John T. Grant,
j one of the securities upon the official
j bond of Jones, making the objection,
j Though it was claimed that much
I time would bo saved by the journey
: and work in New York, it was insist
!ed against by tho opposing counsel
! upon the ground that the auditor
would bo without jurisdiction in the
State of New York, therefore the
testimony is being sought by inter
rogatories, and while waiting for
these the court stands adjourned as
stated above. As yet the investiga
tion has but partially gone through
the matter of the twice paid Claws
bonds, as they are termed. The
bonds and a large amount of written
and oral evidence is already before
the auditor, and between this and
tho second of October he and the
counsel on both sides will have quite
enough to do to thoroughly digest it.
QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1876.
Over in Florida.
J —Bisbee*lias gone North.
—Putnam county has had a serios c"
i splendid Conservative meetings.
—The health of Tampa has been un
interrupted this season.
—Tilden k Hendricks and Hayes
! & Wheeler base ball clubs have fro
j queut matches around Jacksonville.
| —The Pensacola Gazelle asks the fol
lowing question: “Can a gentlemnn
i vote for Pnrmiin or Poorinan ?”
—Prisoners are no longer spoken
| of in Jacksonville as being confined in
I jail, but as “temporarily inhaling
stiwitied atmosphere.”
—The contract to build anew jail
for Duval county was let out at Jack
sonville on the 4th.
—Jacksonville Press: Escambia
I county is in a blaze of enthusiasm
| over the Democratic State and No
i tioual tickets. Splendid meetings
have been held at Ferry Pass, Pensa
cola, Bhilf Springs, Warrington fin 1
Alillview. The speakers were Col.
R. H. M. Davidson, Col. Wilk Call,
Hon. R. B. Hilton, Judge Stanley and
Messrs. Yonge;*AMllory and others.
-—Jacksonville Sun: A meeting of
the Nassau County Agricultural So
i ciety was held on Tuesday evening
i last at Ferilandina, at which a speech
was made by Mr. Codrington, editor
of the Agrieulurist, and a committee
appointed to re-arrange the constitu
tion and by-laws which were destroy
ed by the “great fire” of March last.
A meeting was also held 011 Wednes
iiujr <,vonii]£r, for the purpose of choos
ing delegates to im. Fruit.
C/uverC • sociation which is to meet
in T>'Haliassee, on September 13th.
Samuel A. Swann, W. J. Woodward,
and Wm. F. Wood were chosen to j
represent the society.
—Of the shooting between Tooke I
and King and tho Deputy M. rshal of |
Madison, particulars of which wove in 1
last week’s Reporter, tho R eorder,
says: On Faidav night last, Robert
Burroughs and Snowden Haynffe were j
both shot and seriously wound: un
der the following circumstances: I
Wm. Tojike and Everett King, two
joiiim nun who ha .-both hitli
. - reputat on <■! quiet,
' ■ ami
-
MPE'upt irrest j
s Tuphn b;. both, one of;
the*® f Rising effect it the left tem
ple, moiling a very serious worn: 1. In
a few minutes Haynes was shot in the !
left breast by King, apparently with
out any cause or provocation w hat
ever. Burroughs and Haynes have
both received the attention of Drs.
J. H. & W. H. Pope, and are now do
ing as well as could be expected.
Tooke and King are yet at large.
A Fat Men's Clam Bake.
[New Haven special to the Chicago Times.]
There was a great gathering of
heavy weights at Gregory’s Point,
South Norwalk, on the sound, to-day,
where the tenth annual of
the Fat Men’s Association was held.
People gathered from far and near to
see the monsters, and about 4,000
were present, the majority women.
Tho fat men themselves were only a
small fraction of the mass. The Fat
Men’s Association has had a very
prosperous and jolly existence. No
one was admitted unless he weighed
200 pounds, but this is the only qual
ification. necessary For the last two
years the president has been Willard
Perkins, of Waterbary, who is a rosy
voting grocer, 24 years old, who
weighs 303 pounds. The badge of
office is a black cane like a weaver's
beam. Before him for two years C.
W. Bradley, of the Florence House of
this city, was president. His weight
is 203 pounds, and he has a son and
wife of the weight. Among those
present to-day were several from
New York, and one who lias reduced
weight from 320 to 250 since last
April by tbe Banting system of diet
ing. The bake which the big fellows
devoured to-day contained 55 bushels
of round clams, 18 bushels of of long
shell clams, 4 barrels of lobsters, 4
barrels of blue fish, 4 barrels of sweet
potatoes, 8 barrels of Irish potatoes,
1,000 ears of corn, 85 spring chickens,
45 spring ducks, 85 bushels of oys
ters, etc. They got away with it,
their guests aiding them to some ex
tent. At the close of the dinner the
members regaled themselves with gal
lons of champagne, and the exercises
wound up with a dance, the founda
tions of the open air dancing floor
having been made seou-e.
Glass Chimneys That Won't Break!
—A Pittsburg inventor is reported to
have made a remarkable discovery in
the tempering of glass by which it is
rendered as tough as india-rubber.
Using one of his patent chimneyes as
a hammer, he drives tenpenny nails
into a 2 J-inch plank without making
a flaw in the glass.
The improvements in the glass
manufacture may possibly, in time,
enablo one to pass through a long
life not only with one set of glass
chimneys, but with one supply of
window and table glass; and we have
already read of a scheme to roof hous
es with glass—opaque, colorod and
transparent, as desired for light or
for effect-—a roof which would last
forever and be lightning proof. In
short, the invention of toughened
glass is going to revolotionize mat
ters.— Macon Telegraph.
THE AFRICAN IN THE SOUTH.
Interesting Correspondence on the
Question of Ruce.
A Clerical DcimiitoiOie hi New Hampshire
Undertakes to Instruct a Colored Mis
sionarr In Virginia, and gets a Rood
Lesson.
[From the Richmond Whig. 1
Concord, N. H., July 2(i, 187(1
Dear Prather Dunje.e: On tho 12th
iust. 1 sent you u check for 850, and
have received no receipt or anything
from you siuce.
To-day I received a letter from
Harper’s Ferry in which is the fol
lowing sentence: “The report, is cur
rent here that Bro. Dunjeo has gone
over to the rebels, and is going to
stump for Tilden and Hendricks. 1
am afraid it is so.”
My dear brother D., is there any
truth in that report ? Have you even
had a thought of doing such a thing ?
If you have, I pray you pause before
you take a single step in that direc
tion. Such a course would be a
cause of great grief to all your true
friends, and all the true lovers of
freedom and piety. In doing this
you will bring a wound and a re
proach upon your iuission-among
freedmen, and ruin your own useful- i
ness as a minister of Christ. How will I
all those feel who have contributed
for your support in our mission-work
for Richmond meeting house, etc., if
y r ou now desert your brethren and go
over to the old ltebs, tlye haters of the
colored man and the cause of free
dom, and give your influence to
strengthen the hands of such men as
Jeff Davis and those who have mur
clovoJ thousands and thousands of
your colored brethren at the Smith
within a few years past, to prevent
| them front voting for the cause of
l their own God-given rights? O, this
i can not be; I will non believe it can
jbe so till I hear more from you. Do
j write me by return mail and send re-
I ceipt for fifty dollars, and tell me if
there is any foundation for the report
to vhich I have alluded; and be en
treated to go no further in that direc
tion, if you bav'Jiakfin one step, un
til you consult J *> (bur true friends,
Brothers M< ackett, Stewart,
Burgess, A/ inse, ke.. Sic.
Do : ■ ’ ic hear from you
at the facts on this
P..' / 1 lemlrrcks are
identified Ul.t rebel party,
and will bS 1: by ex-rebels of
1 . T IT and those who
: sympathized i?B3Lein during the
war and since, just as soon
vote for Jeff Davis for / -'njident as 1
would for Ham Tilden, the *
sociate of Boss Tweed of New York,
and always a rebel sympathizer.
S. C.
Richmond, Aug. 21, 187 G.— Aur
Brother Curtis: Yours of July 2G is
before me, asking me about rumors \
which you have heard in regard to my j
going over to the “rebels. ” First, I
would state that I have tried to ful- j
fill my whole duty in my work here, j
and have not at any time neglected
my mission duties. No man is more i
interested in all that pertains to the |
best, welfare of the colored people and |
their highest development. So I
have tried to conduct myself and !
teach my people that it is their Chris- j
tiuu duty to make friends with the j
white people of the South, among
whom they live. This can be done j
without sacrificing any principle of!
in an li ood; iu fact, the Southern peo
ple do not ask tho,colored people to j
compromise a single right. But we !
who live here see the great impor-!
tauce of a full and manly reconcilia
tion between tho two races. This can
be done by dividing the colored vote j
between tbe two parties. As soon as
it is thus divided they will cease to be |
an object of osti acism and a boue |
of contention. Both parties will then
treat them with due respect. Take
Virginia, and the v' ite people of this
State are as friendly to the colored
people as they are anywhere in Amer
ica; the most friendly feelings exist
between the two races. What we
who are interested in tho great cause
of humanity are endeavoring to do is
to break down all -;olor lines, and al
together forget slavery, the war and
the pasf, and go on to higher attain
ments and a broader Christian man
hood. I believe the white people of
the South are true to tbe professions
they are now making. They do not
desire any more slavery; they will
stand by all the results of tbe war;
they are in the Union to go out no j
more forever. They are laboring no
bly in our State for public education, !
without regard to color. I have ev
ery right in Richmond that I would
have in Boston. They are doing all
for the colored people in a benevo
lent way they can do. You know tho
late war laid its withering hand upon
the South, and there are ' many poor
people, both white and black; not
withstanding, there are many of the
white gentlomen who have contribu
ted largely to mission work for our
! people in Richmond and other plaocs
in the South. There aro 31,000 col
ored people in this city who aro de
pending on the whites for the bread
they eat. Many poor people of color
would starve to death here but for
the kindness of the whites in giving
them shelter and food. You can have
no idea of the true condition of
thiugs here. Now, in the face of all
these facts, I do not. think the whito
people of tho South very dangerous
i labels.
Just a word about, some of our
j troubles. You have heard much talk
about “carpet buggers.” You have
no idea the amount of trouble these
men have given us. Men who were
of the worst characters in the North,
who were from tho lowest haunts of
New York and Boston, men as bad as
crime could make them, who were ne
] gro haters in tho North, have come
South and taken advantage of the ig
! norance of the colored people, and
have been elevated to places of high
trust in our State governments, for
| the sole pin-pose on their part to
‘ plunder the public. This same class
: of men have arrayed tho colored peo
-1 pie against the whites for political
purposes, and, When trouble comes,
desert them. All the mobs which we
i have had in the South have been got-
I ten up by bad men. I know we have
some lawless white men here, but tho
good people of the South must not I
be blamed for their acts. You have
them at the North with you. This
i wild and fruitless contest has been
going on for years, and who are the i
sufferers? The colored men, being l
the weaker party, always lose ground ;
and must at last go to tho wall if the
fight is kept up. I know you, in
New Hampshire, may not see this
matter as I do, but I tell you that
the negro of the South must go un
der if the policy of the last few years
is to be continued. Now, if the Home
Missions Board discharges me for
these sentiments, I regret it, but can
not yield my honest convictions; I am
sorry I cannot make them see the
rightfulness of my position. *
Yon ask me what the persons who
have contributed from time to time
for my support would think. To fins j
V would sji.v. if they uniDii stood my
true position they would, I think,
make those contributions more readi- :
ly than ever. The negro is now pass
ing through the most critical period
of his history, and his destiny f i
good or evil will be sealed by Ids ac
tion. If he arrays himself again A the
white people, he must, sootier o' later
bo ground to powder.
There is no natural n d'lgrmism be
tween the two races in lie South; the
whites and blacks >cre 1 >n and
brought up together, and must live:
and die together. The la A, trouble l
at Hamburg, South Can . 3a> ]
other troubles we have la] he,
SoiiGj sinoc tLu . , : , . . • .
the resnlt of any ill fot nb tit the i
part of <tur home people, but are the j
result of the action of bad men who
have come South and kept up from j
year to year the most l it*. r p, utical,
contest, and have used • effort to I
keep the white and colored people
from making friends. ()im •of their
orincipa! means is th( vln’Tiale use
of 1 whis Iso, ai /*o the
very worst 'passions tha ignorant.,
No stftsie is ft n,domed on their
part to exasperate and excite the feel-1
iugs of our poor people, which might j
at any time be kindled into a flame j
which might rest Ay in bloodshed. I
only wonder we h ive not had-ten ri
ots where we have had one. Now I
say that every good man iu the South,
white and black ought to join hands
and rid our fair section from this ter
rible state of things. I hope you will
not misunderstand me; these charges
are not against the good people of the
North. We will give the most hearty
welcome to any good man of the
North who may come among us for
good purposes. I think that if you
were to live here a few years you
would take the same stand that I have. |
We have some men from the North
who are highly respected, but all of
these take tho same stand, and are \
not the men objected to. The color- !
ed men, if they are to be citizens of
this country, must differ just as.white I
men do on all great question of the i
day, such as finance, traiff, taxation, j
and questions of law, trade, etc. Un-1
til we arrive at this point we will be
mere machines, and not men iu the I
true sense of the term.
In conclusion I would call your at
tention to the report of the Hon. B.
B. Douglas, of Virginia, on the Freed
man’s Bank fraud, and the speech of
Hon. W. S. Stinger, of Pensylvauia,
on tbesaino subject. I would also
call your attention to the large
amount of money stolen from the
widows and orphans of the colored
soldiers and sailors. The District
Ring and many other things might
be mentioned, but time and space
will not allow it. The colored voter
of the South, as ruled by the Radi
cals, has no liberty in the use of his
ballot, which liberty we claim, and
must have, or continue slaves. He
should be taught iudepeudence and
self-reliance.
Please answer me a few questions.
Who should be the best judge of the
true condition of the Southern peo
ple, I, who was born and brought up
in tho South, as I have been, and
served twenty-seven years of my life
as a slave (when a boy I played with
white boys, and know there is no nat
ural had feeling between the two ra
ces), or yourself?” What can you in
New Hampshire or Maine know of
our condition down hero ? When you
call our people “rebels” you do them a
great wrong. I believe the people of
the South are as loyal to the Union
as those of tho North. I ask you, as
a Christian, do you think it right to be
constantly abusing the Southern peo
ple ? They havo come back to the
Union and fully accepted all of the
amendments to the Constitution, with
all the results of the war. The only
reason why they have made such an
| effort to get hold of their own State
| governments is to protect themselves
from the wicked plunderings and rob
bery of carpet-baggers; and every
good man, white and black, ought to
join hands to emancipate our section
from this fearful state of things. Re
member that our homes in the South
are as dear to us as yours in New
Hampshire. Now how would you
like your State to bo infested with a
\ gang of tlioso political thieves from
j another far country, plundering the
public treasury and leaving a tax on
t be people too heavy for them to bear,
j exciting riots, causing bloodshed ? I
' ask you, would you help them to con
; Untie the work of destruction against
I your own people ? I tell you this is
our condition, and the colored peo-
I"pie-are the i-*---- agency by wiritsh
j they are enabled to do their work;
; and, in my judgement, nothing but a
division of the colored vote can bring
peace and prosperity, which we so
much need; and I feel that no pulpit
work or mission effort will enable mo
to do as much for my race as this
work.
I have given this matter eleven
years thought, and for years 1 have
taken great pains to inform myself as
to the true feeling of the people of the
South, and it is my conclusion that
the whites desire to live with the col- j
ored people in peace and quietness, i
and are doing all they can to gain I
that object They do not want all of j
the colored people to vote the Demo
cratic ticket, but believe it would be
| best to divide their vote between tho
two parties. This poin could kave
’ been gained years ag im' Tor the ter-
I ror of the Radical i 'ly and its loyal
! leagues. Then has been no intirni
| dation in the South worse than that
I practice Ibj tl carpet-bagger party
!of the South. I do not charge the
colored pe pie with this cruelty.
| They are u t to blame; they are only
tools iii he hands of those bad men.
I lin’- known some colored men to be
hipped, some turned out of their
churches, and all kinds of intolerant
, abuse have been heaped upon those
colored men who dared vote the Dem
-1 cratic ticket. In some parts of the
1 South tho life of a colored man (Dem
; ocrat) is not very safe. I submit these
facts to you as the honest conviction
of my heart, and must say I cannot
accept your advice, because in doing
so I would not do‘justice to mvsolf
and to my nice.
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How <he Germans of Cleveland
Gave Schurz the Cold Shoulder.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
Shortly after Mr. Schurz’ arrival
here he desired to renew his acquaint
ance with former prominent German
friends, of this city. He undoubtedly
desired to fiud out how ho stands
.'.'.lsV>;. “ T WMI.U.
He found out.
He had for four years been the per
sonal friend of Governor Muller
and Mr. Thieme, and justly reckon
ing them among the first citizens
of this city, he decided to call upon
them.
It is a rare circumstance for a prom
inent speaker on going to a place to
deliver an fimu-ess to leave his hotel
and make calls. It ■** courtesy and
the rule for friends to show him re
spect by calling on him at his hotel.
But iu this case the mountain
would not go to Mohammed, and con
sequently Mohammed must go to the
mountain.
So Air. Schurz first called at the
business office of Governor Muller, in
Bratenabl’s block.
He was so coldly received that be
fore attempting to call at Mr.
Thieme’s office, he sent Mr. Nicola
ahead to ascertain if he would be re
ceived.
Now a large picture of Mr. Schurz
was formerly hung in the Woeehlerof
fice, but after his apostacy it was torn
aud thrown away.
Air. Thieme positively refused to
receive Air. Schurz at tho Woeehler
office
This is the history of what tho
I Leader dresses up in this style:
“After taking breakfast and spond-
I ing a short time iu conversation, Air.
; Sehur2 left tho hotel and called upon
a number of personal acquaintances,
among whom was editor Thieme, of
the Woechtjr am Erie, aud ex-Lieut.
Governor Alueller.
Under the circumstances, it must
have been an extremely humiliating
dav for Air. Schurz.
The Silver Dollar.
i
f Cincinnati Commercial.)
The director of the mint reports all !
the mints running on subsidiary ail-1
ver, and turning out $2,500,000 a
month. The redemption of fraction-'
al currency goes on at the rate of sl,-
000,000 a mouth. But the amount
presented for redemption is steadily
falling off, while the silver small coin
is accumulating. This gives assur- j
ance that there will be no scarcity oti
small change. By the time the conn- 1
try is supplied with the subsidiary
: coin, the mints will be ready to go
; to work on the old silver dollar, with
' which to redeem the greenback prom
ises to pay in coin. That is bound to
come to pass. The old silver dollar
will be restored to the coinage. The
demand for it will be universal, and
Congress will not dare to ignore it.
The silver dollar, with the legal tender
quality, is as essential to the prosper
ity of the country, and will be of as
much service in paying off the Nation
al debt as the gold dollar.
A Lively Democracy-
OTcrwhelnilmr DcnionstraUuns in In
diana.
The Courier-Journal correspond
ence from ludiana shows a wonderful
movement in that State. Mr. Voor
bees at Columbus, last Saturday, was
greeted by twenty thousand people
and made such a pageant as was never
witnessed in that region, Tho pro
cession which welcomed him was over
a mile long. A Columbus corres
pondent of the Courier-Journal says:
j “It was a sight to stir tho enthusi
asm of the most indifferent person.
Major P. H. McCormack, of Colum
: bus, was tht chief marshal of the day.
The Columbus Cornet Band headed
the procession, followed by the Tilden
and Hendricks Guards, as fine a look
ing body of men as were ever seeu
in the ranks of a company. Then
| came the delegations from the various
townships. In the Columbus delega
tion was a large wagon, made of hick
| ory, containing 80 beautiful misses
gaily dressed in white and blue. This
was followed by another large wagon
containing 100 little boys, represent
ing the Centennial. The most hand
j some wagon in the procession was ono
! from Edingburgl . It was gotten if
lin elegan' vie, and aty-e ’
j at*: .Lion. 11. watt ata&t tt:
mug. with & double deck. In til .
j deck reseated about .vixty
-ome young ladies, and in tho u| ;
deck were, I should judge, about sli j
euty-five bright-faced young misset
Wayne township also had a large
wagon in tho procession, chock-full of
pretty girls. The same can be said of
a dozen other townships, but it was
impossible to note them all as they
passed.
BANNERS AND MOTTOES.
There was a large number of ban
ners carried in the precession, with
some capital representations: Grant
kicking Bristow out of the Treasury;
soldiers asking Grant why he repeal
ed the bounty bill. “Take the wolf
from our door ” (Upon this w:--
painted a wolf s ig to enter the
door of a poor . 's house.! The
bloody shirt. Among the mottoes w
noticed the following:
“Peace on art;; nid good will to
man.” jjgp —j —o
saved us 30,000,000
“Down with Grani m.”
“The people demand a change.”
“Tilden and HencT icks and Re
form.”
“Go thou up hi, hou great re
former of the Empire State.”
“No more Grant, Belknap, Bab
cock, Case)’, Shepherd and Orth for
us.”
••The ’Young silk-stockings sprig
tries to ride hr office on the prestige
of his grandfather.” -
“Ben Harrison has no sympathy
for the working people.”
“Harrison indorses Grant —What’s
the difference ?”
“Let by-gones be by-gones.”
“Honest, homespun Uncle Jimmy
Williams is the man for the hard,
crooked times.”
“Williams and economy.”
“Tilden and honest government—
Hayes and corrupt government.”
“Four years more of Grantism will
ruin the country.”
“A long pull, a strong pull, and a
pull altogether, and we have got
them.”
“Let us make one more brave and
noble fight to take the Government
out of the hands of the corrupt Grant
crew.”
“Help us save the ship of state.”
“Harrison is the paid attorney of
the wrisky ring.”
“Harrison and Brownlee both wear
kid gloves.”
There wete hundreds of other mot
toes that could not be obtained, al
; though I had six helping mo write
them down-
AN IMMENSE AFFAIR.
The procession was fully a mile in
length, and was composed of several
thousand people. It wound around
the entire town, and the streets and
pavements were ciA’ered with a blank
mass of humanity. The crowds on
the streets and in the procession has
been estimated at 20,000, and Repub
licans have admitted that it would
not run under 15,000. There were
nine martial hands in the procession,
and these, with the vociferous cheers
which broke forth every few minutes
from the enthused people, made things
rather lively.
The New York Tribune, in au arti
cle on the general reduction of wages
: in that city, states that any builder
can employ as many first class car
| penters as ho wants at sls per week,
and find them grateful for the chance.
; The same may be said of most of the
; other trades connected with building.
It adds that there has been no time in
the past fifteen years when building
coi*ld be done in New York at so
cheap a rate, and scarcely a time in
that interval when there has been so
little of it doing.
—Seven Indians have settled in a
cane brake at the head of Little Owe
ton Creek, within four miles ot Ellijay.
They belong to the Cherokee tribo.
No. 28.