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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 ‘7! •■flffjrdoQd® 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 doubtless : wdl make diiriM, ; < convince the tliK . ". / qfjjj . ' this 6 '■ r-tion is' s 18 '"tiniated ' '* • . - '■“/ ' ,5 °"'.v ' ■«. J.. •• > Z —-j 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 ' l ' and 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. ’ | »*-• 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 Dy \' i c* 4H -It • ■ wiOl