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THE M)Rnj
Cnesbaj, September 21,1878.
' W. E. MTF.TENM? F.<lll<»r. ~
FOR CONGRESS
•NINTH DISTRICT,
HON. J. A. BILLUPS,
OF MORGAN.
<<H,. BIIXI'PS' APfOISTMESTS.
Jasner. Pickens county, Wednesday Sep
tember 25th.
Ellijay. Gilmer county, Saturday Sep
tember 28tii.
Morganton, Fannin county, Tuesday Oc
tober Ist. . .
Blaircsville. Union county, Friday Octo
ber 4th.
Hiwassee, Towns county, Tuesday Octo
ber Sib.
Clayton, Rabun county. Friday October
mb.
Public Speak Ing-.
I will address the people of the Ninth
District upon questions of vital public in- j
tcrest, as follows:
At Mulberry, fLysle store) Jackson conn-1
ty. Friday, September 27.
At Jefferson, Saturday, September 28. j
At Harmony Grove, Monday, Sept. 30.
At Danielsville, Tuesday, October Ist.
At Homer, Wednesdav, October 2nd.
At Carnesville, Thursday, October 3d.
At Toccoa City, Friday; October 4th.
At Clarkesville, Saturday. October sth.
At Clayton. Mond y, October "th.
At Naeoocltee, Wednesday. October 9th.
At Cleveland, Thursday. October 10th.
At Jasper, Tuesday. October, 15th.
At Ellijay, Thursday. October 17th.
At Morganton, Monday, October 21st.
At Blairsville, Monday. October 28.
The people are respectfully invited to at-
• tend tliese appointments, and the Demo
cratic papers are requested to give them
publicity. IJ. P- Bell.
Col. E. Y. Clarke, of Atlanta, lias an
nounced tbcearly publication of an evening
paper, the Post, in that city, at sl. a year.
We wish it success.
Col. John Mound-, of Talbot, is said to
have been one of the star performers at
Newnan. Those who know the Colonel
can imagine the fun lie created.
Col. Thornton refuses to come down in j
the Fifth. Now, if Jeems C. Freeman or
Uncle Billy Markham wilt come out the
race down there will be indeed lively.
A committee of Atlanta physicians visited
Chattanooga last week to determine wheth
er the yellowTcver had indeed taken a hold
in that city. Their opinion is that there
have certainly been several cases there, and
it is likely it will spread over all the place.
According to the Central Georgia Weekly,
the Macon City Council get up scenes of
the most outrageous nature and which are
a disgrace to the city. At a recent meeting
the moat profane and insulting language
was interchanged between a member of that
body and the city treasurer.
e >
Our neighbor of the Southron is crowing
before he gets out of the woods. It is well, i
though, as bis time for exultation is short.
In less than two months he will have to
reverse the position of his fowls or retire
them altogether from thepit. In November
we will show him a chicken that lias some
thing to crow over.
Western Democratic papers are pleased
with the result of the Maine election. The
Cincinnati Enquirer says: “The solid front
of Republicanism that has been massed in
the State for thirty years lias been broken
at last—broken by the combined efforts of
the Democrats andGrcenbackeis in support
of the Ohio Idea.”
The Indian war appears to be ended. The
scattered bands of hostiles are assembling
for surrender, and there is no probability of
any immediate further trouble. But until
the Government shall deal justly with all
the tribes, and sec that every engagement
with them is sacredly kept, it cannot be
expected that outbreaks will not now and
then occur.
A correspondent wiiting from Mainesays
the result of the late election in that State
was not so much the result of Greenbackisni
as it was the general disgust with Radical
ism. Democrats and others opposed to the
Radical party got together and determined
to “bust things,” careless of the consequen
ces. They did it, and in the general melee
Jim Blaine and little Eugene Hale were the
worst “busted” of anything else.
> ■
Hon. Fernando Wood, an experienced
member of Congress from New York, and
a former mayor of New York city, accumu
lated a fortune by his business sagacity and
is considered one of the shrewdest and most
sensible men in the country. It is there
fore pleasant to learn that “it is his opinion
that we are on the eve of a tremendous
reaction in trade, and that the greatest pros
perity the American people have known
is awaiting them.”
The daily reports from the yellow fever
district are still as terrible as at first. The
disease continues unabated in all the towns
first attacked, and is gradually spreading to
other places. There are twenty or more
towns and cities now suffering from the
dreadful visitation of this disease, and the
appeals for aid continue. It behooves all
who have a spark of generosity or sympathy
for suffering humanity to make a contribu
tion to these stricken places.
' NFEECHEN OF <Ol. RILIAfS AND
an. CARLTON.
At the dinner recess of the Court, on
j Thursday last, a large crowd assembled in
i the Court house to listen to speeches from
Col. Billtt|>s. the democratic nominee, and
Dr. Carlton, who had been invited here by
a very large portion of the citizens of the
city. Col. Billups’ speech was short, but
was very much to the }>oint, and a mast
successful effort. He began by stating that
| ns Dr. Carlton waste deliver the speech of
the day, he only desired to address himself
to the refutation of some of the charges
which tiad been brought against him by the
I ndejiendent candidate and his organs, lie
then entered into this work and taking up
the charges eerintim, he showed them utterly
without foundation and a batch of fabrics
tions gotten up merely betause he was a
candidate. The Independents have endeav
ored to make capital out of the fact that
Cul.Biilui>s was not in the a-my,but where
ever this gentleman lias had an opportunity
to explain the matter, lie has utterly van
i quished bis villifiers and demonstrated
I lieyond all-doubt that be was far more pa-
I triotic during the war, than the majority of
I those who try to injure him, and rendered
the Confederate cause twenty fold more
service in his work at home than he could
IHHisibly have done in the army. Col. Bil
lups bad four brothers in the Southern ar
my, two of whom now sleep in soldier's
graves. He staid at home on a plantation
because of the requirements of the law
which said that on every farm where there
were ten or more grown negro men, a
white man should sujierinteiid them. —
He stated that he raised only such things
as the people could use and not a pound of
cotton ; that besent large quantities o‘ pro
visions to the army ; that he also furnished
numbers of soldiers wives and children
with what they wanted, never receiving a
cent of pay, although he was allowed by the
government to charge for all he dispensed
in these ways. Col. Billups showed that by
his presence on his farm his hands worked
better and raised a great deal more than
they would have done in hisabsence. ( 01.
Billups next spoke of the charge made by
Mr. Speer and some of his followers in ref
erence to the claim he has before Congress
I for supplies furnished to Sherman's army
after the surrender. It is charged by the
Independents that Col. Billups Will have to
take the ironclad oath, if he gets this claim
passed. He says that such isliot the case—
that not only’ is no such oath required by
the laws of the United States, but he could
not take it if there was, as he was anything
but loyal during the war to the United
•States government, and he has not yet
reached that point when he would tell a
falsehood, much less swearto it, fora paltry
sum of money. Col. Billups referred to
other charges and successfully refuted them.
We mention only these two particularly,
because they are the ones on which great
stress has been placed by the independents.
Col. Billups' whole speech was vigorous,
pithy and forcible. He indulged in no un-
I refined language or indecent story telling,
nor did he make any personal attack on his
opponent. Those who have discounted this
gentleman’s powers as a stump orator
should have heard him on this occasion,and
become satisfied that he is a match for the
eloquent young independent, in all that
makes a speech strong and convincing.
After Col. Billups had finished, Dr. Carl
ton ascended the stand and delivered one
of the most powerful speeches of the cam
paign. He gave a masterly presentation of
the situation of the country and the neces
sity for the party to stand firm in the oppo
sition to Radicalism. We should be glad
to give a full synopsis of this speech, but
outpace will not permit. His arraignment
of Mr. Speer, on the ground of inconsisten
cy and disloyalty to the party, was irresisti
ble and placed that gentleman in.a very
unenviable position as a candidate for dem
ocratic votes. He showed that Mr. Speer
only broke loose from the party ranks be
cause of his ambition for office, and his
unwillingness to wait until he was called
for by the people.
Dr. Carlton is a good speaker, and if be
would take the stump regularly he would
accomplish much good for the cause of the
organized democracy.
We are informed that Mr. Speer says he
will carry Jackson county by two hundred
majority. When the precincts are heard
from, on the 6th of Noyember, we feel ai'M
it will be found that Billups has carried tbfl
county by about five hundred majority
least. This is the candid judgment of welw
informed citizens, who have been traveling
over the county, and who are better posted
than Mr. Speer. Organized Democrats dton’t
blow like Independents, but the whole tfeam
will pull together when the day comes, and
many will be found with the bast who are
now counted by Mr. Speer's friends as Inde
pendents.—Forest News.
Why is it that Nortli Georgia is not more
largely represented by her productions ate
the Department of Agriculture in
Strangers as well as the people of tPv ,nt <-’*tj
• visit it daily. Bend on your c
i grain, hay, potatoes, apples, p<\ ' Beaches
i etc. It will show to the worltj ,at
i Georgia is behind no other the
I State in her productions, andjL >c a ®he
advertisement mountainV? Untt y- 1
We should feel proud of our great seOTlCd
and do everything to develop it. /
> EMORY SPEER'S LAST SPEECH.
On Wednesday last, Mr. Speer, the Inde
i pendent candidate, filled his appointment
1 here, and the court, bouse was well filled
> with a large crowd of his supporters, togetli-
I er with a good sprinkling of the organized
' democracy. It is a generally admitted fact i
: that Mr. Speer is a very smart young man.
t and one of the best orators in the State. He
■ has a happy faculty for making speeches
- that take will with the populace, being very I
II plausible and much given to anecdotes and
' 1 a species of flowery flights in elocution. We
1 are forced to say, however, that when his
speeches, as far as we have heard them, are
■ closely analyzed and sifted to find out how •
much of real argument and sound facts!
they contain, they gradually vanish in a ;
cloud of vapor, and there is little left on 1
which the mind can rest with any security. 1
The s]»eech on this occasion was, with
some exceptions, very much the same as
the one delivered here on ihe4tb of July.—
It bad more and somewhat different obscene
anecdotes ami a few new features, but his
attack on Mr. Beil and on the convention
system was very much on the s me line.
Mr. Speer began by defending himself
from certain charges on his personal charac
ter, and without recounting them here, we
are free to confess we think his defense was
very successful. We never did lay much
stress on these things and do not .believe a !
campaign should be run on this line. We !
have not indulged in them and while we 1
would, of course, prefer a candidate who I
has an unblemished moral character, all '
other things being equal, still we believe Mr.
Speer, as he says himself, has always Stood
very fair in the social world, and if he has
faults, there are none without them. We
say then that Mr. Speer's defense of himself
from moral corruption was successful, and [
we hojie to hear no more such charges as I
these. At the same time there was one
charge of a political nature that we don’t I
think be gotover, and indeed he did nottrj’ I
very hard, rather admitting its truth. That ;
was that he wanted the nomination in the ■
Hill-Bell convention, though he says he !
never did antagonize Mr. Hill. We do not I
know the facts about this.
After this defense, Mr. Speer let liiniself ■
loose to rasp the nominee, Col. Bell and the |
convention. And right here lie indulged
to some extent in the very thing against
which he had to defend himself, viz: per
sonal charges. He said some hard things
of Col. Bell, but we do r.ot now recall all of
them. It is hardly necessary to print them
any way, as we do not suppose any unprej
udiced person' believes that gentleman to be
yile jmd (jorrupt. As to what was saM'of
Col. Billups, that gentleman most success-!
fully answered it the next day, and placed |
himself before the people in an attitude not |
only free from all taint ambeorruption, but;
which commands their highest admiration j
and respect. Mr. Speer should cease to in
dulge in any such flings and allusions to
his opponent unless he can better sustain
them than he has done heretofore.
The portion of Mr. Speer’s invectives
which he hurled at the convention system,
was but a rehash of most of the speeches be
has made and with which we suppose all
who have heard him are familiar. Mr.
Speer’s argument on this line is too tiimsey
to bear close scrutiny. He forgets that the
last- convention was formed on the very
plan he himself suggested and he misstates j
many facts in regard to it which are unwar
rantable and' inexcusable on the plea of
ignorance. Again, Mr. Speer’s whole light
on conventions and in favor of Independen
cy leaves the best interests of the country
out of the question and puts forward and
foremost his own inordinate desire for
office. Every true patriot who thinks for
himself and knows the present situation of
the country can see through the whole in
dependent movement and realizes that
fealty to party and country is not the gov
erning principle with them, but they arc
actuated by selfish motives, born of spite,
disappointment or desire to rule.
We give Mr. Speer credit for being a good
speaker, and personally a gentleman. We
have only three
The first is that it i' 1
vulgar allusiony'|||
to leave t r
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jyho argument, eith.T®
SHte, based on fait.-, agD
especially the last cony
I tity— that if tb'e com cur ion s JH
be offered no safe and
it, and that he gava|O
Ins candidacy wf
traced to his
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THE FOURTH DISTRICT.
As we feared and predicted, last week, the
Newnan Convention, after a session of three
days, adjourned w ithout making a nomina
tion. The vote during that time stood 21 i
i for Harris and IGJ for anybody to beat
i Harris. The whole number of ballots taken
' in the effort to make a nomination was
(•about seven hundred. The Harris men bad
over a majority and not quite two thinls.
j They claimed that the people wanted
Harris, and no one else, hence they stuck
to him to the last. The opposition were
opposed* to Harris, and determined that he
should not be nominated. They manifested
| their opposition by agreeing to vote for any
I other man of any prominence in thedistrict.
i We think both sides to blame, but believe
I it all results from the adoption of the two
i th inis rule, which is undeiiiocrat’c and un
fair. We are sorry of such a result in that
district, because we believe it will give new
strength to the indejicnden' movement in
this State. The race in the Fourth will be
free, and Harris and Persons have already
announced their intentions to run the race.
Others may come out. It may be a Radical
will take , the field, but Harris will be
elected.
BUTLER FOR GOVERNOR.
Kearney's visit to the Eastern States
served Beast Butler a good turn, if it had
•no other effect. He stirred up the Commu
nistic element and when the democratic
I convention met in Worcester, Mass., on the
117th, to nominate a Governor, this crowd
i took p ssession and forced the regular del
i e;ates to retire and cull another meeting in
Boston for to morrow the 25:h. TLe mob
then proceeded to. hold a meeting of their
own aud nominated Butler for Governor
, with a full ticket. This action has excited
the disgust and indignation of both the
I Democratic and Republican parties, for
i neither will own Butler. But while it may
j be a bitter pill, it is not unlikely they will
j have to swallow it, as the Butlerites are
probably strong enough in the State to elect
, their candidate. This all comes of the
i training these people have had in the war
j upon the South, for which those who are
' now so outraged are mainly responsible. It
• is only a case of chickens coming home to
roost and it may be that the medicine in
this ease of sickness will effect a radical
cure. Bet us ho|>e so.
A terrible tragedy occurr.-d in Clayton
county, last week, by which an old lady,
over eighty was killed, and» her daughter,
about sixty, seriously wounded. A younger
daughter escaped by not being at home
when the assault was made. After com
mitting the horrible deed the perjietrators
1 attempted to fire the house but the fire was
I discovered in time to prevent the con tlagra
! tion. Officers went to work to find out the
i murderers and a woman named Julia John-
I son and others were arrested. The evidence
was strong that this woman committed the
deed. While she and the others were being
guarded in the Court House, at Jonesboro,
ou Thursday night, the guards allowed her
to escape, and she is still at large. Great
indignation is felt over this matter and
somebody will be held to account for it, It
is probable others will also be proven as
accessories to the commission of the sicken
ing crime.
Detroit, Sept, 11.—Thursday last, Sher
man City, sixteen miles from any telegraph
station, was swept from the earth by a tor
nado. A special says that a sudden dark
ness fell upon the place, accompanied by
a deathlike stillness, and the atmosphere
was so light that respiration was difficult,
when suddenly the tornado struck, lasting
but a few moments, yet it utterly swept
away every structure in the place. The in
habitants, warned by the darkness and
stillness, had taken refuge in the cellars. A
man named Price, with his wife and two
children, were fatally injured. A Miss
Thompson was seriously injured. Many
were hurt, but not sc'iously.
The reports which have been coming from
the Mississippi Valley since Friday of last
week, though still gloomy enough, afford
reasonable ground for the hope that the yel
low fever pestilence has now done its worst,
and from this time forward will gradually
subside. Experience showing that the pe
jplsd of the epidemic is about ninety days, it
Uifjs predicted several weeks ago that the
in New Orleans
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I THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE.
e Elsewhere than in Georgia the irrepressi-
• ble Independent candidate is a bore and a
- nuisance. The following is a true picture
1 of this lately developed politician. It was
t drawn by a journalistic artist of another
> State:
s “The irrepressible Independent candi-
I date, after having been defeated in conven
tion, comes into the field with the mask of
I stern duty plastered over his face, looking
. as wise as a serpent and as harmless as a
, dove. He afflrmstbat hehasan abundance
, of common sense—that his head is level.
I He declares himself the people's choice.
, Hint to him that the democrats oppose him,
with sophisticated indifference he answers,
; ‘but not the people.’ Tell him that the
whites are down on him and he must look
for support among the radicals, he quickly
t says, ‘but you forget the Independents.’
. Then he acknowledges that be must vote
, for the rads in return, as he is working on
halves.
The Independent candidate for a paying
I office is irrepressible. He bears reproaches
' I with contentment; lie bores many voters
> with j>erseverance.
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t ANOTHER INDEPENDENT.
The Greenbackers ol the Fifth District,
i coni|>osed of a sprinkling from both parties
1 and both races, held a meeting in Atlanta,
. last week, and put forth a platform and a
■ candidate to antagonize Col. N. J. Hahi-
> mond, the democratic nominee. The plat-
I form was a very poor one financially, and
. besides embraced various other matters
i foreign to the avowed objects of their
> organization. The candidate is Colonel
r Reuben Arnold, about whom we know
very little, but we think he will hardly
1 give Col. Hammond much trouble, unless
; a Radical is put in the field, which will
r likely be done.
New Orleans, Sept. 21.—A vigorous
1 movement is on foot to convene a board
: of medical authorities as soon ns the epi- ’
demic has dis.ip)>eared, •to be composed of
' all the physicians who have practiced in
the infected cities of the South, and of del
egates from every city in the Union, to ex-\
1 change notes and collect evidence and dis
’ cuss the disease from every point of view.
Never in the past has there been such a
I
profound interest excited in regard to the
malady as this year, and the number of
physicans who have kept careful memo
, random for future reference, have been
much greater than before. There has been
• sufficient evidence to show that quinine is
: a prophylactic. One orphan asylum contain-
*ng 56 children has not had a case so far
■ since the outbreak of the epidemic. Each
- ' child has been kept constantly under the
■ I influence of the drug. There are 14 unac
: climated persons who have tbus far escaped
■ alt hough constantly exposed who have reg
: tilarly taken six grains of quinine a day in
: j conjunction with arsenic.
' Prof. William Henry Waddell, of the
. I State University of Georgia, died suddenly
. I on a train at a little point called Millord,
I | just beyond Richmond, on Thursday. He
had been on a tour of recreation that ex-
( tended to Saratoga. He had started home '
. in apparently good health, and wrote a pos
tai card to his wife announcing that he
would stop a few days at Emory and Henry
college, and would be home on the 29th.
The next news was that he was dead and
had died upon the train.
The heaviest dealer in four per cent.
: United States bonds is the First National
Bank of New York. On Monday that in
; stitution forwarded a requisition for another
$1,000,000, making theirsubscriptions with- !
in a week $3,500,000. On Monday the I
sales of four per cents by that batfk were
nearly $1,000,000.
The industry of sheep raising is steadily
on the advance in our section. The people,
especially of Worth, Berrien, Calhoun, Col
quitt and Mitchell, are buying up all the
sheep they can, and are constantly impov
ing fine bucks.—Albany News.
Col. A. F. Nunnally, a prominent citizen
of Atlanta, who was thrown from his bug
gy on the the 9th inst., and seriously hurt,
died in that city on Wednesday from the
effects of his injuries. His loss is greatly
regretted.
Hon. Allen G. Thurman has notified tlty I
1 the Secretary of the State Agricultural So-f
cicty of Ga„ that be accepts the
the Georgia State Fair,
,f next, month.
MY qUEXT.
TO
( The daylight gleatßß within your eyes;
The midnight in your hair;
! Your lips like coral-tinted shells;
Your brow like lilies fair.
• I know not if you're beautiful,
As others beauty hold— .. • ■
. .To me your beauty lies within
. Your true and tender soul.
f I dream of yon through happy days,
; I sfiat my eyes, and then
A vision bright comes o'er my dteams—
, I see you now, as when - ... -
| Standing beneath the silent heavens,
The moon with ray divine,
Shining athwart your midnight hair,
I kissed and call’d you mine.
O, since that time, when neath the stars
I kissed you mine atone,
The starlight gleaming through your hair,
To me you're fairer grown.
You’re more than beautiful, my Queen,
When with love’s ray divine.
Shining within their soul-lit .depths,
Your eyes look into mine.
I O, had I kingdoms for my own,
! I A sceptre and a crown,
I’d lay them at your feet, roy love,
j With willing homage down.
! I'd gather from Golconda’s shore
' Jewels the rarest seen,
I TO twine about your snewy
My peerless love, my Queen.
But none of these I have wm »m'e,
Gems, sceptre, crown or throne—
O, stop, within my heart, my Queen,
You shall a kingdom own;
And on a throne, as regally
As e’er sat queen of old,
Shall sit, and on your brow I'll place
A crown of Love's pure gold.
“Han Marie” B .
Atlanta, Ga., September 20, 1878.
The Legislature of Oregon has elected K.
11. Slater, Democrat, United States Senator,
to succeed Mitchell, Republican, after the
4th of March next.
Gen. L. J. Gartrell and General John H.
Gordon will stump the fifth congressional
district in the interest of the dtbn'ocratic
party.
Col. Luther J. Glenn, of Atlanta, was
elected Deputy Grand Sire of Odd Fellow-,
for two years, at the recent session' of that
' body in Baltimore.
'Kx-Gov. Sam Bard,’ formerly of -'Atlanta,
whom most of our pcople'remember; fell a
victom to yellow fever, at Baton Rouge, Li.,
. last week. .
Tliedemocracy ifttlte first district are solid
on the finances—they are for gold, silver,
greenbacks and Nicholls. , ,
Fall ? Winter.
W. M. REDWINE & CO.
Are now receiving their large stock of
r> 1- y Car O O <1 H ,
NOTIONS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS,
PIECE GOODS,
■GENTS’ READYMADE CLOTHING,
HARDWARE, WOODENWARE,
TINWARE,
Saddles, Bridles, Etc.,
which will be sold at vkry reasonable prices
We guarantee everything we sell as
j to quality and price.
Very Respectfully,
sept 24 W. M. REDWINE * <’O.
ATWhelcliel,
SOUTH SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE,
Gainesville, Ga.,
nuAT.r.R in
STAPLE AND FANCY
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