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ZNoimli Cleoririan. BELLTON, GA., AUGUST 21, 1«79. "JJL 1 ..J. ; Billy Moore sent us, last week, a copy of his sprightly Augusta Week ly News. It is like everything this gentleman serves up for the public— first-class in every particular. i 0 Col. Redwine, the live and energetic ' Representative of Hall county, is en gineering a hill through the Georgia Legislature, establishing the line be tween the States of Rabnu and North Carolina. The Legislature, while it is in the investigating business, ought to ap point a committee to investigate and analyze Atlanta whiskey, as it does not seem to agree with some of the members.—Phonograph. While the Legislature is engaged in wrestling with the State house officers, we would suggest to the body the pro priety of investigating the inspectors of comniercitil fertilizers. We believe they will strike a rich vein of“ilc.” Try it while the steam is up. The Dower Association, a vankec swindling concern, with a Gulf De partment in Atlanta, exploded a few days ago, making a fond report. Mr. Frederick Pfeffer, of Gainesville, took a nibble at the tempting bait , ami is left to mourn his irreparable loss. Exit Whitcomb. The Philadelphia Record says: “After all the agitation, while about 30,000 white settlers wore making their way into Kansas less (han 7,000 negro exodusters entered the State just enough to give a healthy sun-burn tint to the tide, of immigration.” rll 111 -- • I ■ st Texas has six cities of over 10.000 inhabitants each, thus: -Galveston, 35,000-, San Antonio, 22,000; Houston, 25,000; Austin, 17,000; Dallas,2o,ooo; and Waco, 10,000. Besides this, she has eight cities of 5,000 and upward, thus: Brenham, Fort Worth, Bryan, Sherman, Corsicana, Paris, Jefferson and Marshall. Mnj. W. J. Houston, General Pas senger n.nd Ticket Agent of the Air Line Railroad, it is more than proba ble, will be appointed one of the Railroad Commissioners, should the pending bill became a law. Maj. Houston is a good railroad man, and is one among the oldest inhabitants of Atlanta,—Augusta News. n-- - Ger>tgia is the wealthiest, happiest and most prospi’Tnns-State in the South. There is cheerfulness and thrift throughout her borders. Het people arc at work. There is no groaning over an unsettled debt. Her railroads permeate almost every nook and corner of her wide domain. She is emphatically the Empire State of the South.—Knoxville Dispatch. ... —. **-«.. The managers of the Colored Exo dus have issued an appeal for pecuni ary aid for “the destitute negroes” in Kansas, notwithstanding the recent announcement that the emigrants had all found homes and employment. The.appeail is best, understood when considered in connection with the late ly announced Republican project of colonizing a large number of Southern negroes in the close State of Indiana. And now it is said the new consti tution of Georgia is a difficult machine to adjust. As Gen. Toombs said, it was made “burglar-proof.” We hope it is so. So far as we understand it, we like the new constitution. The difficulties of legislation now, doubt less, grew out of the expansive quali ties of the constitution of 1868, which gave the Legislature too much lati tude.—Cartersville Free Press. There is no reason why the cotton planters should not be aide to control the price of the stable as easily and as profitably as the cotton speculators. It is no longer a question of supply and demand but a question of money, co-operation and manipulation. One of these days the planters will make something out of the lessons the speculators are teaching them.—At lanta Constitution. The Georgia Advocate, in speaking of the railroad commissioners, says: Mr. W. J. Houston has been sug gested as a map ip every way quali fied for the office of commissioner, and we most heartily endorse the sug gestion. His integrity, ability and Christian patriotism, makes him emi nently tit for the position. The in terests of shippers and of the railroads would be perfectly safe in his hands. Let him and one other equally trust worthy railroad mau be appointed, and let the third man be taken from among the large shippers of our State, j This will give both interests repre sentation in the commission, and will leave the balance of power with the railroads where we think it should be. THE 923 TRANSACTION. Col. 11. IV. J. Ham, of the Gaines . ville Eagle, was before the “dozen i and one.” committee of the Georgia Legislature, one day last week, and I testified to a little transaction between himself, Comptroller Goldsmith and i W.« T. Christopher, of the Atlanta Phonograph, in which Mr. Ham, as agent of Goldsmith, attempted to buy Christopher into silence with his newspaper, so far as the investigation of Goldsmith’s office was concerned. Mr. Ham and Mr. Goldsmith swore just so “X” about the money used in the transaction, and if Mr. Ham is : < reported correctly in the Constilu- i tion, we are. at a loss to see what i became of the money loaned to Ham. I We quote: After I got the money I went to see Christoph-r and mentioned the matter to him, and he said he had “thought, j the matter over” and that he “could | not afford to do it,” and “would not I, put himself in a position of that, sort.” 1 1 came back and gave the money to Goldsmith. First, I stated that I did not know what Christopher would do. Christophcu- hail said he was going to publish bis article, and he did not think it would do injustice to Gold smith. I said to let the matter stand open until I saw the article. What I said to Goldsmith was to leave the impression that. 1 was uncertain as to i what Christo] her would do. When the article' did appear, I saw it, did , 1 injustice to Gohlsmith. He wrote to 11 me at Gainesville! to “send mo hack ; the *25 I loaned you, as 1 need it.” 1 brought it back ami gave it all to him. It, would see-ni, according to this bit I of testimony, that Col. Ham paid the money bm-k to Goldsmith tunic: but | in the- same! issue of the (kmstitnliem. I Mr. Goldsmith is reported as saying 1 that “Ham has mil yet paid hack the: I money beam'd him.” The publie- hits no means of ascertaining who is right I and who wrong about the transaction, I but one thing is very certain, if the i committee believe, any part of Harn’s ; statement, Goldsmith ought ter be ini- j peached for this attempt to muzzle a 1 newspaper by the use, of money. We arc no member of the Georgia : State Agricultural Society, neither are we a Granger, hut wo would inquire, if not out of order, whatever became of the Direct Trade Union of the Patrons of Husbandry? We know some gentlemen who took stock in that, institution, so highly recom mended at the time by A. H. Col quitt, then President of (he. Georgia State Agricultural Society, who have never received any per cent on the i investhi'enF. Would it not be a good I idea to investigate that matter and see what went with the money? If our recollection serves us N> any ad vantage, the D. T. U. of the P. of 11. was chartered by the Legislature, and certainly that body would have as much power to investigate it as Con gress had to look into the Freed man’s bank. i In fact, says the Baltimore Sun, ’ “the maintenance of State rightsnot | only enabled the States north of Ma son ami Dixon’s line, to free their j i slaves, but gave them the only point \iTapptii from which they could con- 1 • duct, their attack upon slavery in the' ~ South. It furnished the original Free- I soilers with their arms and ainmuni-I tion. Chase, was a States rights Dem ocrat because a Freesoiler. Hale and Adams were States rights Whigs be cause of their antagonism to slavery. When the fugitive slave law was passed every Northern State opposed it and obstructed its enforcement by : the United States marshals—just as \ . now the Democrats are everywhere ! opposing the presence of United j States marshals at the polls—upon . the principle of States rights.” * > • . ..... The Warrenton Clipper would like ■ to see one thing. It would like to see • investigated “the motive and con duct.” of all the Executives, from ; Bullock down to the present incum bent, in making appointments to office authorized by law. We should like Io have the record overhauled, too, so as to know precisely the names of all applicants during Bullock's reign and since, directly or indirectly, and the claims they laid in for such offices. This may be interesting reading, and will doubtless develop a system for the rising generation to study, and be come thoroughly informed “how to rise to position.” On the calls of the yeas and nays in the House of Representatives, last Monday, about fifty members were absent. A constitutional vote of 88 for the passage of any bill would have required the support, of two thirds of the members present. This shows how absenteeism may be in strumental in defeating legislation ; demanded by two-thirds of the peo ple. The necessity of hereafter elect- i 1 ing men who will stick to their posts i of duty is thus made, apparent.—At- < lanta Dispatch. i SHAME—EVERLASTING SHAME.' • We take the following from the I I Athens Watchman, and-we endorse' ■ every word of it; The Legislature of Georgia—those ■ who pretend to reflect the views and : represent the interests of the people— I have recently voted that they trill not extend the aid of the State, to the pitiful amount of 820,000. to the re-! building of the Notrb Georgia Agri cultural College,' at Dahlonega, while j it is a well known fact that the chief I executive officer of the State—the I mau who is called Governor—refused ' or neglected to take out a new insur ance policy on it, and thus lost the ! whole amount of its value to the I State. We are now, and have always been, in favor of concentrating the land I scrip fund, voted by Congress to the State of Georgia, at Athens'aml Dili-I lonega—knowing that there seemsjto 1 be an envious feeling among metn bers of the Legislature against this I particular section in regard to extend ing State aid to its educational, as ' well as material development—and : in behalf of our fellow-countrymen of Northeast Georgia, as well as in Uie interest of rii/ht and juxtice, we enter ' our solemn protest against this action ! by our would-be waiters, (who are, or should be, the servants) of the people, and would gently hint to them that at. the next election the real xovereiyns of Georgia—the honest, hard-fisted yeomanry—who pay the bulk of the taxes and afford sustenance to the State government. wfHri^kLjlyyn * to a strict accountability. WHAT .UK. TILDEN THINKS. Mr Springer, a Democratic member of Congress from Illinois, recently spent a day with Mr Tilden al the lat ter’s residence in New York city. Mr. Springer reports that from Mr. Til den’s conversation he was not ini . pressed with the idea that, lie. (Tilden) was again moving for a nomination i for the Presidency. Mr. Tilden told Mr. Springer that. it. was a matter of I vital importance that the Democracy i should win at the next Presidential 1 election, for the reason that the coun try is now approaching to what prom ises to be a long era of prosperity, and if the Democracy can ride into power on this wave, to which it will have contributed so largely, it will re main in possession of the government for an indefinite period. On the other hand, should the Republicans rekin i power they mr Hable to ftofrl mt-To; a half a century to come. Whichever parly wins the next Presidency, Mr. Tilden says, will get the credit of ■ bringing about the good times that are surely coming. With regard to the Ohio campaign, Mr. Springer re ports Mr. Tilden us enthusiastically for Ewing, for the reason that Ewing’s ' election will be the entering wedge Ito success in the great Presidential 1 campaign of next year, which promi ses to be the most exciting known 1 in ! political history. To this end the Democracy must not lose a single point. The question of candidates must be a secondary matter, and only one object sought after, namely, sue , cess. About the family quarrels j among the Democracy of New York, ! Mr. Tilden expressed no concern. He said they would be settled properly when the time for action came. There would have to be a compromise, which would undoubtedly bring forth ex-( ongressman Clarkson N. Potter as the Democratic candidate for Gov i ernor of the State. Mr. Springer re ports Mr. Tilden as in excellent health. >. < <4 We hope that the present Legisla ture will go to the very bottom of every charge which lias been or may be brought against any of the State 1 officials. Let no favoritism be shown. Put every official in the crucible—if demanded -and try him as with fire, 'fhe people want only the pure gold. Consume the dross. We must sayi to radicals and Independents in the next canvas—and we must say in truth— that the Democratic party has the nerve and the honesty to expose and j punish crime, be it committed bv Democrats or any one else. The Legislature make this record. We can hear, even now, the sancti monious whines about Democratic corruption. Let us be ready to meet it. It can only be successfully met by the present Legislature probing every charge to the bottom. Let them do it fairly and unflinchingly, if they have to stay there until Christ mas to do it. Turn on the lights.— Thomasville Times. A new industry has been started in Atlanta. The Southern Newspaper Union, the Union of Cincinnati and the Sunny South of that city, have, united to form a large patent outside and inside manufactory. They fur nish these ready-made insides and outsides to over three hundred papers ' in the Southern States. A FEW WORDS ABOUT A FEW THINGS. ' Editor Georgian :It does make : : a wonderful difference whether your I bull gored my ox, or my ox gored ! your bull. , This thought is at present suggested by two editorials in a Northeast Geor gia paper—the one advocating the in ; terference of the Legislature for the 1 reduction of railroad fares and freights; the other opposing the interference of | the Legislature for the reduction of I legal advertising. The market value of railroad stocks I and the dividends declared, do not in-, i dicate that the railroads of Georgia are growing very rich at the expense I of “the dear people,” nor that their ! rates could be much lowered. The bill before the Legislature very | much resembles a patent for the con struction of a machine to feather a I few nests, at the public expense, for individual use. On the other hand, that the legal ‘advertising cun be done at- less ex pense to the public, is evident from ! the fact that the press pays the coun i ty officers from twenty-five to fifty per | cent commission on the advertise -1 ments, which money often comes out !of the small assets of widows and 1 orphans. Mr. Editor, I am strongly in favor of sustaining the -country press,’ and would like to see at least one paper i published in every county in the J State, and that paper, to the exclu- , sion of all outside competition, deriv- | tng all the benefits of its county ad- ! vertisements, at paying rates, in ad-j vance, without more commission to the comity officers than these receive ‘ for the collection of other moneys. . But I would like to see that comity : paper in possession of the jewel— i romaxtriirt/. Living in the back woods and taking ' only country papers, I do not keep up , with the proceedings of the Legisla ture, and both the bills referred to I may already have been disposed of. j However, I am not writing for the ! | Legislature. Another subject is Governor mak-' ing. Strenuous efforts meet with so ! little success in finding fault with our 1 present Executive, that I think it would be well to keep him where he is. The Georgian evidently favors I Gen. Gartrell, ami he seems to be a 1 man eminently qualified for the posi tion ; but, as prophet ies are in order, |let me say that, if G?v. Colquitt be not tiii'Tiomifiee. that SdTftTiern Geor gia will prefer h<-r claims. That, sec-1 tion has several men who would ablv > till the Executive chair, ami among them Hon. Nelson Tift, whose tin.-m --cial ability cannot be questioned, and whose persistent honesty of purpose, more than anything else, has made him enemies. Had he done nothing else, his scathing exposition of the Bullock dynasty, during the short time he was in Congress, and his re cent articles on the wild land ques tion, would be sufficient to establish his ability. But I did not commence with a view to nominating a candidate for the governorship, and will dose with out trespassing further. X. ►♦ -< - General Jesse 11. Drake, a promi nent citizen of Nash county, N. C., I died Friday last. In accordance with i his death-bed request the will was opened, and it was found that he had ! left his whole fortune, estimated at ! from SIO,OOO to 530,01 X). to three of! his former slaves. Calvin Drake.! Aaron Drake and Judah Drake, for ' their lives, with reversal to their! children. He leaves all his estate. 1 real and personal, to them, and says: “They have been my faithful slaves, and have remained with me since their freedom. nursing and earing for me in my old age. and I desire them to share my gratitude.” The Boston Herald is alarmed at ! the thought that the West is now so ! strong that it will probably be able I to secure the appropriation of 825,-1 1000,000 during the next ten years for ; the improvement of the navigation of i the Mississippi river. If the Herald i will take the trouble to make the cal-1 culation, we have no doubt it will ! find that the New England States i have within the last ten years ex-! torted from the people of other States j much more than 825,000,000 in the i shape of protective duties on their ! manufactures, fishing bounties, pav j for the depredations of their fisher men in British waters, etc. It is i about time that the West was putting in for a share of the favors of the ' government. It is estimated that the Goldsmith impeachment will cost the state 830,- 000. It looks as though the people have the worst end of the. horn any way you take it.—Dalton Headlight. ! Cotton worms have put in an ap pearance in some parts of Mississippi. I, NEWS ITEMS. The yellow fever is still raging at! Memphis. Atlanta is threatened with a cavalry ' company. Mr. Blackburn, “governor-elect” of Kentucky, is nearly ”0 years old. The Indiana wheat crop is now es timated at 55,U00,000,000 bushels. Mississippi made last year 22,500,- ; Otto bushels of corn and 484,000 bales . of cotton. Three persons in Wilmington, J North Carolina, claim to be over 100 years old. The Ledger, of T.ancaster. S. €'.,! says there was a slight frost in town 1 ou the 9th hist. Jackson county property has de- i creased in value over sixty thousand ( dollars since last year. I The Cumming Clarion suggests that I the people appoint a committee to in-, vestigate the Legislature. The Democrats in AVashington j county, Mississippi, have nominated a negro for the Legislature. The cable dispatch announcing the death of Nellie Grant Sartoris is ail an error. She is still alive and well. ' The Democratic State Convention ; of New York has been called to meet ' at Syracuse on the 10th of September. ; The quantity of registered mail i matter passing through the post offices ! lis increasing rapidly, which means business. Farmers in South Carolina, where the no fence law is in force, say that they can now make money on cotton | at 5 cents per lb. The cotton crops of the lower Ar ! kansas river this season, are said to s be the finest that have been known in ' that country for years. The Democratie party in this State j will be.united and hard to beat. It is j foolish for republicans to think other- I wise.—New York Mail. Cabarrus county, N. C., has, by j popular vote, adopted the stock law— ; that is, a law to require the fencing 1 ’ in of stock i nstead of crops. The widow of the late Gen. Brax ton Bragg is a guest of the AVhite Sulphur Springs, in Hall county. She is a fine looking, pleasant lady. ( ongres small-De La Malvr, green back champion, declared in a recent speech in Maine, that education injur-! .ed the colored people at the South 1 more than it benefit ted them. Mr. J. A. Carter has associated with him in the publication of the DeKalb County News. Mr. AV. E. Giles, and promises to enlarge and make the News a first class affair. During the year 1878, the Southern States are estimated to have produced 5,200,000 bales of cotton, an increase of 338,577 bales from 1877 ; 212,000 hogsheads of sugar, an increase of 84,247 hogsheads; and 572,000,000 lbs. of tobacco, an increase of 12,000,000 pounds. These are the three great agricultural staples of the Southern . States. These products, at wholesale ; ‘ prices, aggregate in value about four hundred million of dollars, and as ; they are all raised for sale, and not j . for consumption on the plantations, ! they constitute a vast commercial I j production such as few other regions ! of the same extent can boast of. NEUROTIC! The only remedy that will cure gXenvH.lg-i»., HE.Ib.P HE, DYSPEPSIA, ASTHMA, \ HEART DISEASE, NItIHTMARE, ! ’ i SORE THROAT, CROUP, COLIC, SPRAINS AND BRUISES. Let everybody try it. DANIEL & MARSH, Atlanta, General Agents for Southern States. “MASTIN W. RIDEN, -4 TTOHNE Y .1 T LA JU AND SOLICITOR OF CLAIMS, GAINESVILLE, GA. I (COLLECTIONS in Northeast Georgia > and Claims against the United States 'xr B P ec * He is also a Commercial i Notary for Hall county. aug2l-tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, GAINESVILLE, GA. St’ECIAL attention given to tliscaaes common to women, t will guarantee a radical cure in all eases of Hropsv, after examiu.-ng patient#. niavl-lv FOR PARTICULARS SEE im tii| ALL PERSONS LIVING AVIWT OF xV the Chattahoochee River, who des re to have their cotton ginned at my gin. will have tiee passage over my brixlge, coming and going. Gin for the seed, or the-Jltth of cotton. Splendid house to store your cotton in. Sixty-saw Gin—finest m.-i&e in the world. Everybody gets their own seed. House, Engine and Gin brand new. __ M. IXotico. ON the 9th day of March. 1878, Congress pass'd an act which gives a pension to all flold era of the war of 1812, who served 14 days, or were in any engage ment. and to the surviving w’dows of such soldiers, no matter when married. Proof of loyalty not re<ju red. Also restoring to the Pension Rolls the names of all persons now surviving who were pensioners for service in the war of i 181?, or any of the Ind.an wars, whtve . names were stricken from the Pension ! Rolls at commencement of the late war. Proof of loyalty not required. I am provided with the necessary blanks : and will give special attention to these claims. M.W. 1:1 HEX, Attorney at Law and Claim Agent, aug2l-tf Gainesville. Go. bit nn mi » BRING ON YOUR Wheat and Rye! 1 will pay the highest market price for Wliojit mid To those indebted to ine either by note or account, or exchange goods at the CASH HKICE, Call ami see me when you come to ; town, ami ; r <‘t prices before buying else where. .I N. COGGINS, julyl7-tf B-llton. Ga. ACTUAL STUDENTS ON CHANGE AT FOR (17'Circulars mailed tree to any address. n>ay2!’—tim B. F. MOORE. President oti c e . i Georgia, Banks County. Notice is hereby given that the legal advertising fur said county, on and after the publication of this notice, in accord ance with the statute in such < ascs made and provided, will he changed from the i (iainesville Eagle to the North Georgian, a newspaper published at Bellton, in said i county. July 7. 1879. B. F. Srddatk, Sheriff Banks Co. K. J. Dy.vk, Clerk Superior Court. T. F. Hill, Ordinary. TH E AT LANTAGLObS| IS THE LIVELIEST AND FRESHEST j lA'EEKLY NEWSPAPER published ! , ’ Atlanta. Issued every Saturday. : The circulation has been largely increased so that the Globe is now read l>v 2.(MK> me < chanics and others in the city of Atlanta. ■ As an advertising medium it excels all | other publications, reaching, as it docs, i the popular masses and remaining in sight during the entire week. Subscription SI per year. For advertising rates apply to J. R.& W. M. JONES? Proprietors, Atlanta, Ga WM. H. ATTORNEY AT L A HARMONY GROVE, JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA. LIAITHI-'l L ATTENTION given A A Collections and al! other Bnsine™ Clients’ money never spent, but forwarded. JOHN M. FINDLAY® !**t udon! nt I\>a® GA INES VIL L \4 H l- -i'e prompt <-.>!!< ction ot .1. 11. E'tes Son. A. 1>-