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TALMAO&S, :MMMM * OS., WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR ORANGE RIFLE POWDER AND NEW ARROW COTTONTIE. Bagging! Bagging! Bagging! Salt! Salt! Salt! Meat, Lard, Molasses, Syrup of all Grades, Staple Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, lower than anybody; and all kinds of Farm Supplies. Wholesale and Retail Buyers. Give us a call when you are in Athens. C|c®ccklg maimer. T. WATHRMAN, PROPRIKIOm. Athens, January 18, 1881. Ofilcial Orgai if Clarke County aid City el Athens, Our Subscription Price. Until further notice, subscrip tions will be taken to the Weekly Banner at One Dollar a year, in advance. This applies Doth to new subscribers and to old one’s who renew. Those who owe back subscriptions, however, must pay at the old rate. We cannot re ceive back subscriptions at $1.00 per annum. When President Hayes gets out of Tilden’a office, he is going to make a southern tour. An eminent scientific gentleman predicts that 1881 will be an unusu ally wet year. Gen. Grant has been made presi dent of the world’s fair, to be held in New York in 1883. A dog fight recently came off at Troy, N. Y., for 81.000 a side, with bets amounting to $10,000. New Yorkers can figure up fifty- four murders in the last twenty-eight years in which no arrests were made. After a long imprisonment Asa Gunn has at last been discharged This is one Gunn that did not go off prematurely. It ia a question now whether Conk- ling is going to control Arthur, or Arthur Conkllug. In either event, the country will be the sufferer. Sixteen soldiers met in Paris, Ky., recently, whose united ages was 1,300 years, or an average of 86$, years. The oldest was 96, and the youngest 82. ______ Mrs. Rebecca Frost, of Hart county, Ga., tells stories of the Rev' olutionary war. She is 107 years of age, and still in splendid health, re turning all her faculties. There are hundreds of entertaining writers who would be good historians it they did not know so many things that have never happened.—New Or- leans Picayune. Receipts from enstomsj internal revenue and miscellaneous sources at the United States Treasury Depart ment are for 1879,8398,553,930, and for 1880, $359,496,730. SENATOR EDMUNDS AND “ CONTROLLING FORCES IN AMERICAN POLITICS.” So far as the temper of this signifi- can 1 article in the North Americon Review for this month, is concerned, it is mild and apparently consider ate. There is evidence on the surface of its pages, that the writer is trying to look deeper than the mere facts of current poli tics and get at the principles which underlie the action of the two great parties dividing tho country. In a word, the Senator proposes to deal with his topic as a philosopher. Just now, philosophers in American states manship are much wanted; and we arc glad that no less a man ihan a Senator has had the courage to avow, that such a thing as philosophy is re garded as a surviving possibility in the governmental affairs of this land, A. L. 1881. ‘ Controlling forces; the reader will understand to mean the Philosophy of‘American Politics,’ andp of course, this philosophy is all on the side of the republican party. A fair specimen of this philosophy in one of its tranquil analytic mo ments, is contained in the following sentence, viz; ‘The Democratic party, in every effective sense, is as it was before the rebellion, no'.hiug else than a party founded and existing upon the ideas of a slave-holding system, which has always been, wherever it has exs isted, a corner-stone of arisiocratical governments.’ All the facts ot history contradict this view. All of them show that both the Federal and Democratic pai ties, or, if preterred, the Whig and Demos cratic parties, bad taken shape and had grown into complete strength, long before slavery became an issue in practical politics. Thousands of Whigs, as wise and pure men as ever lived, were slaveholders; thousands of Democrats eqnal'y wise and pare were not slaveholders. The simple fact is, that slavery had nothing to do with the original status of the Federal parly, or with that of its antagonistic party. Nor had slavery any thing to do with the relative positions of the Whig and Democratic parties as it respects the fundamental doctrines on which they were organized. For sixty years, democratic principles governed this country. The fruits of this rule FALSE MEWS ABOUT THE SOUTH. No one conversaut with facts can doubt, that a change is going on at the North and West with respect to the South, and that this change fore tokens a vast amount of good to all parts of the country. Misunderstand ings, prejudices, sectional passions, in which all parties and interests North and South, East and West, have sliar. ed and because of which all are guilty have had their day and have done their work. It has been a long day ; it has been an evil work. The bitter experiment, in which all have been participants, has had an exhaustive trial. How far one section has been more guilty than another, it is imposx sible to determine. If it were possible no good could come of it, for it would only make the most guilty party more vehemently bent on selt-jusliti cation, while it would puff up the less guilty, with silly pride and overweening vanity. The sensible thing to do is to quit all discussion of the past and to make real for once in the history of American politics the fabled waters of Lethe and its mercifnl oblivion. Now, us one step in this direction we beg to suggest to all fair-minded people North and South, that it is extremely unjust to the South to sad dle everything in southern civilization on slavery. This is constantly done. It is done now and done daily. If illiteracy is found here in our midst; if manufactures are wanting; if diver- sity of industrial pursuits does not exist; if population is comparatively sparse ; if poetry, art, and science, do not flourish among us as much as in some portious of the world ; the sup posed defects are straightway charged to account of slavery. Writers and speakers North are still harping on this string. And some of our own people too are beginning to thumb on it with more zeal than discretion. This way of looking at matters in the South is radically lalse. Slavery may or may not have increased some of these things, but slavery did not create them as so many profess to be lieve. Climate, soil, agriculture, hereditary tastes and traditions, ancesx tral blood, and fixed providential laws, have had far more to do with these resalts.than slavery. Nay ! Slavery WASHINGTON LETTER. GARG1ELD ON THE NEGBO QUESTION. The Representatives IVom the Ninth on Cot ton Manufactures. From our Special Correspondent. Washington, D. C. Jan. 15, ’81. The most notable thing of the week is the language of the president-elect to two delegations of colored citizens who have visited him at Mentor. This illustrate this. In one of the Western States they were about to hang a man who had been condemned for some offense, and a large crowd was stand ing around wnlchiug the interesting proceedings, when a citizen stepping out frem the crowd, addressed the criminal on his commanding rostrum, and said : “It will be, sir, some fifteen miuutes before you arc dropped off, and we would be very much obliged properly falls under the head of Washj, Jr ' v> ou ir you would in the mean while , . ... | itself was, in large part, a product of were order, peace, punty of adminis- the§e aulecedent condilioD8 . The An old negro barber living in Dela ware claims in his day to have shaved Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, James K. Folk, Millard Fillmore, Wm. Henry Harrison, Franklin Pierce, and John Tyler. A pure ballot would make an ah roost ideal republic. A good registra tion law would go a long way toward making a pure ballot. By all means, Georgia should have a registration law. In the House of Commons Friday, Mr. Parnell gave the lie to Mr. Viv ian. The latter may have lied, hut Mr. Parnell did bis cause no good by his rash speech. His amendment to the Queen’s address was overwhelm iagly defeated. The Irish leader needs to have a cool bead. FEW WANTS AND FEWER WISHES. A friend said to ns the other day : 11 1 have few wants and fewer wishes,” and we concluded on the spot, that this man had a “ Happy New Year” in his heart. The secret of it he did not tell us, but is there any secret about the mat ter 7 Surely none; if there is any mystery, it is in those who have what they fanoifully oall many wants and a still greater abundance of wishes. Oar friend, we take it, is a natural human being whose desires and tastes and habits are natural. What is it that makes life in 1881 so expensive ? Nature in us all is the same old-time nature—mouth no big. ger, stomach no bigger, brains no big ger—than they were in our grand fathers. They were content to satisfy their wants. We are not. The su preme thing we aim at is to gratily oar wishes. Twosthirds of these wishes are not natural; they are artificial, and, in many cases, they are absurdly foolish. Our real wants are not oost- Jy. If they were, the world won'd be depopulated. It ia our false wishes— the wishes of rivalry and energy and jealousy—tho wishes to keep up ap pearances and not to fall behind others in style and show—these are the wishes which are far stronger than wants, far more exacting, and far more tyrannical. And these self-same wishes make fools of as, ana in 1881, fools of any sort and fools of all sorts are very costly animals. tration, and immense prosperity ; and the very power which the Republican party now wields by means ot banks, corporations, and the vast wealth un der its control, is altogether due to the policy of the Democratic party, by which the material interests of the country were bo rapidly and so won derfully developed. It was not until a late day, that this supposed connection of the Dem ocratic party with slavery occurred. And it occurred precisely as its con nection with a'i anti-tariff for protecx tion and an anti-bank (the old United States Bank under Nicholas Biddle) occurred, viz: by its resolute opposi tion and determined hostility to the encroachments of the Federal gov ernment on the constitution, on the reserved rights of the States, mid on the equality and freedom of the whole people* Slavery, therefore, was a mere incident in the great career of this just, sagacious and patriotic party. And, hence, the view given by Senator Edmunds can not be anstained by the facts ot the case. The view is directly opposed to these tacts. Had there been slavery in America, the struggle be tween the two great political organi zntions, based on the widely different principles of Hamilton and Jefferson and on those of Adams and Jackson, would have been the same earnest and intense struggle. The essential doc trines of democracy date back to the colonies of the mother country on this continent. They emerged in fuller form in the old thirteen States, and they re-appeared in completed devel opment in the formation of the Fed eral Union. And we beg to refresh the Senator’s memory by reminding him, that the democracy was just as truthful to its instincts and just as energetic in ita guardianship of the interesta of constitutional liberty, when the South opposed the continuance of tho slave trade so vigorously carried on by New England, as it was when it did its best to prevent the election to the presidency of Mr. Lincoln. This is history; and history is * philosophy teaching by example.’ whole system of life and labor in the South was the necessary effect of the more extensive system ot colonization and civilization which grew up on the North American continent. Indi rectly, and in some respects directly, New England, New York and the North West have had their agency in shaping the exact form of society and industry that prevailed for generations in the South. If New England had had no codfish, salmon, and mackerel along her shores, and fewer rocks in her soil, and less winter in her atmos phere ; if New York had not been the natural maritime, commercial and fi nancial centre of the country ; if the North West had not been such an im mense producer of cereals; it is quite certain that the South would not and could not have been precisely the South she has been. Had the North and West beeD other than they were by reason of latitude and longitude and by virtue of hereditary proclivi ties, the Southern States along the Atlantic and the Gulf would have been other than they have been. In each case, the stern enforcements of provi dential law have taken effect. And hence the absurdity of charging on slavery what is simply dne to the de velopments of a very mixed and in* perfect civilization in the whole conn- try. Let us stop all this crude and onstatesmanlike reasoning. It is high time for the whole land, North, Sontb, East, West, to cultivate that sort of common sense which is only another name for a wise and broad comprehen sion of aJU the facts pertaining to a subject. Instead of this, we have too generally had that other kind of corns mon sense whioh sees bnt never fore sees ; which clutches at the immediate advantages of the present and ignores the past; and which, in the end, is a curse to most sections and to none. The Banner is much pleased to note that the Representative from this dis trict has introduced a bill into Con gress to adroit machinery for cotton manufacture free of duty. Tariff for protection ia an outrage on consum ers ; and as a vast majority of the peo ple of this anion are consumers, pro tection may be safely called an outrage on the public. Mr. Speer is on the right line, and his people will endorse all his aotlons in the direotiou of free trade; ington. news, because it is discussed more here than it is elsewhere. It has a great deal of significance. The delx egatiuii was composed of such leading colored republicans as R. B. Elliott, of South Carolina, J. B. Deveaux, of Gco-gis, and others. They made a statement of the con dition of the South, which has been frequently heard, and was very severe on the conduct of elections; hut the most material allegation was that the difficulty under which the colored peo ple labor was not so much the unwillx ingnrss as the inability of the state governments to meet the demands ot the masses of the people for the edu cation of the children. General Garfield replied. He said, among other things, “ I noted as particularly significant, one sentence in the remarks of Gen. Elliott, to the effect that the majority of the citizens, a9 he alleges, in some portions of the South are oppressed by the minority. If this be so, why is it so ? Because a trained man is two or three men in one, in comparison with an untrained man ; and outside of politics and out side of parties, the suggestion is full, brim full, of significance, that the way to make the majority powerful over the minority is to make its members as trained and intelligent as the mi nority itself. That brings the equality of citizenship, and no law can confer and maintain, in the long rnn, a thing that is not upheld with a reasonable degree of culture and intelligence.’’ These opinions of Gen. Garfield are fruitful of thought to the better class of our colored people. The ameliora tion of race conditions cannot be ac complished at one swoop of political action. The problem has to be worked out by industry, and by a right and proper discharge of all ot the duties of citizenship. There are many of the best people in the South who will be willing to aid and encourage this effort all in their power—but law can. uot make and unmake a people. These views of the president-elect clearly indicate that he has a most correct understanding of the difficult southern problem. But I will not make your letter a political treatise. A GREAT TRAGEDIAN. The gayeties of Washington life are opening finely. McCulloch has been playing gt the National theatre this week in Othello, Virginius, Richard ILL &c. McCulloch is classical in bis randition of the finest characters of Shakspeare. In Othello, he is simply superb. I have never had so vivid a conception of the genius of Shakspeare as since I saw the “Moor of Venice,’’ as rendered by this truly great trage dian, GOING OUT IN A BLAZE. The balls and receptions &c., are now in full feather. Mrs. Hayes, who has been entertaining some charming yonng ladies from the North and West, has been quite lavish in her entertainments at the White House, and the setting sun of the adininistras tion is glowing with nnwented brill iancy. HARD AT WORK. Congress, however, in spite of the fascinations of this gay capital, is hard at work, and if the 46th congress had- been distinguished in every session by the'same energy which marks this, it would have gone down into history as a more useful body than, I fear, -will now he the case. But then the curse of party spirit which was engen dered by the extra session and its mistaken policy, marred the efforts of this congress. The funding bill has been the principal subject of discussion for the oast week. favor us with some remarks on the tariff." REMINISCENCES. The Weaver-Sparks embroglio has put all of the quid nuncs in a pleasant fever of excitement, and having worn out the details of this bloodless , n- counter, they are indulging in remi niscences ol ail of the lights that have occurred in congress ia the post. Whenever one is anxious to get a breezy reminiscence his best plan is to go to Alex Stephens. Mr. Stephens was a young man when “Old Hick ory” was in the While House, and had a long talk with him in one of the rooms which are now occupied by Rutherford B, in wliicti interview “Old Hickory’’ was abusing the conv mandant at Columbus, Ga., because he didn’t marcli his troops over into Alabama, and exterminate the In dians, who had robbed the U. b. mail coach, aud massacred sundry carpet baggers of that day who were explor ing the Indian country. THE FIRST FIGHT BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH. Mr. Stephens says that he lias seen forty men fighting in the House at one time, aud fighting as hard as they could fight. I have never seen the incident in print, and 1 send it to you. There was at one time before the war a member of the house from South Carolina whose namo was Keitt. Keitt was like some other congressmen, and like some people who are not congress men, loud of the “ flowing bowl,” and on the day of the “ conflict,diie’’ was indisputably drunk. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, was then, as hi^ju now, a strong partizan, and was at that time one of the leaders of the Free Soil party. Party feeling was very high, and much more personal than it is in these “ piping times of peace.” Grow came over on tho Democratic side ou some business, and Keitt resented his pres ence, and called him a d—d abolit ionist. Grow said he had the right to go over there; but Keitt said if he did’nt go back be would make him go; and Grow, seeing that he was drunk, said something pleasant in reply; and Keitt mistaking bis meaning, jumped up to strike him, and fell down with a great crash. Grow bad not touched him, but it spread like an electric shock all over the House that Grow had knocked Keitt down, and without a word a Dumber of gentlemen on each side en gaged in the first actual battle be tween the North and the South. Mr. Stephens says that he never left his JOURNALISTIC. Mr. F. H. Richardson is here as a regular correspondent of the Consti tution, and I learn that a Ifr. Morgan is representing the P jst-Appeal. By the way, the Post-Appeal is coming out handsomely. It is bright and full of Georgia news, and its editori als pungent and pithy. We are very glad to get it in Washington. Our stale capital ought to support two good daily papeis. OLD JOE WANTS LIGHT. Gov. Brown introduced on yes terday a hill to light the Savannah river from Tyhee to Savannah. This is like old Joe. The Delaware is lighted so brightly that a ship can sail up the river to Philadelphia as well in the night as in the day time ; and the gentleman from Gaddistoun wants the same thing done with oar Savannah. He properly says that the exports and imports on that river are 852,000,000 per annum. He says, too, with l.is usual judgment that a ship that reaches the bar after 12 o’clock iu the day can’t go up tiutil the neap tide, which is the midnight tide, and as the river is not lighted it is impos sible to go up until 12 o’clock the next day, which is a loss of twenty-four hours, a vast loss in these days of speedy trans-shipment and brisk com petition. His bill provides for f40,- 000, in.l he thinks that light-houses can he erected at that cost, which will enable shipping to come up by the midnight as easily as by the mid-day tide. The Banner now reaches nj with much regularity, and is always most welcome. The sub committee ot elections having charge of the Bisbee Hull case, have unanimously reported in favor of Bisbee, and against Hull. L. C. STILSOU, A LARGE assortment of the latest designs in Jewelry and Silverware just receive.!. LARGEST STOCK of CLOCKS iu the State. Prices lower than ever. We WI BE UNDERSOLD. 03 WT1ITEIIAI.L STREET, ATLANTA, ----- G .CC” ■ TXA PILL Nor C. MORRIS, ' REMOVED In order to increase my stock of MILLINERY and FANCY DRV moved to the store formerly occupied by Snead A Co. JOODS, I have 5 BROAD STREET, Where I keep a full line of DRY GOODS, SHOES. NOTIONS, etc. MILLINERY A SPECIALTY Including the latest styles and novellica. Thanking mv customers kindly for their past patronage, and solicit a continuance of the same, I am, most respectfully CASPER MORRIS. TO THE LADIES.—My ent re Slock of Millinery AT COST, to make room for my new slock. Don’t make a mistake. I have moved from No. 13 to No. 5 Broad street. jatill Seth Thomas Clocks, Rogers & Sons cutlery, McBride’s spoons, forks, castors, champion ice-cream freezers, library lamps, Dixon’s stove polish, Maddock & Sons’ splendid English white granite ware, all tried and prov en to he as good if not the best in the world iurnished to the trade strictly at manufacturers prices by McBride & Co., Atlanta Ga. octl9w “ TUE SOUTH, THE NORTH, ASD THE NEGRO.” Under this caption, the Christian Union, of New York, has an editorial in its issue of Janaary 12th, which we transfer to our columns tbis morning. Its spirit is open, manlv and fraternal. -4t one point, it is in error, viz: “when the war closed there was not a single Southern State that had even the ruin or the seed of a true free school svs tem.’’ But let this pass. The great questions that have been pending be tween North and South, have had little or nothing to do with free schools, They have been far deeper and more vital than education. Had there been a common school system in every Southern State, it is not likely that the essential principle of northern in terference with the affairs of the South, would have been other than it seat. In this fight no blood was wa * 1 The electric light, immediately upon its general introduction, is des tined to prove a formidable competi tor with gas, because it will be sup plied at much cheaper rates. One of the New York companies is now placing its wires along ‘.hree of the principal streets ot that city—Broad- way, Wall and Broad—agreeably to the application of many owners of banking and other business houses. The price at present is only a trifle less than that of gas, but when the light comes into common use the cost will be greatly reduced. This time it is announced that Jef ferson Davis’ memoirs will be publish* ed jn April. THE MEMBER FROM THE NINTH. Mr. Blount, of Georgia, spoke in favor of a higher rate of interest than that fixed by the bill, and Mr. Speer discussed the impropriety ot making this generation pay all of tho debt, if it was determined to refund it. He stated that be was generally opposed to refunding, bnt if it was determined to continue the indebtedness of the government, be saw no reason wby posterity sbonld not bear its share of the burden ot paying th‘ debt The principal feature of Mr. Speer’s speeoh was his allusion to the bill introduced by him to exempt ootton machinery from tariff duties. - “REMARKS ON THE TARIFF." In committee of the whole every thing is in Older, and I believe it is always in order to speak on tbe tariff. I heard an anecdote once which may spilled, except from tho nose. PISTOLS IN THE. HOUSE. Mr. Stephens says that pistols have been fired in the House, and the old gentleman very clearly intimates that he saw the pistol fired. There was an investigation by the House as to who shot the pistol, but Mr. Stephens, says, “ I said nothing about what I saw.” WANTED A HAND IN IT. I believe it was at the time of the Keitt-Grow fight that a Kentuckian who was outside and wanted to come in to see the row and perhaps join in kr The door keeper stopped the Kentuckian, who incontinently pulled out his pistol and let drive at the Door-Keeper, and missing him shot a messenger through the arm. It was nothing uncommon in those days for gentlemen to summon each other to the littla dueling ground at Bladensburg, whioh may be easily seen by those who travel the Bnlu more turnpike, about four miles from Washington. Not a few gallant men in response to a notion of lalse honor, have expiated their mistaken ideas on this historic spot Now, however, there is bntlitile danger in billiugi gate. Publio sentiment has changed, and improved fire-arms have also con tributed to this result. THE UNITED STATES MARSHAL. It seems that Fitzsimmons must go. Hon. Evan Howell is here, as is also Mr. d. I. Kimball. It is well known that the Constitution has been fight ing Fitzsimmons. If Fitzsimmons is removed, H. 1. Kimball will most likely be appointed, and Kimball is by no means so bad as we used to think when the carpet-bagger was a novelty. ; got for Mayor of of Atlanta will con vince a good many people that he is a useful man, and I shall not be sur prised It be makes a good .Marshal. GREAT REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF SASH, DOORS & BLINDS. 35 PFI nr. DISCOUNT FROM HUGO POKES, BY TIIE BUILDERS’ bUPPLY HOUSE. ZiQ2TGZi!Ersr cSs E.OBXXTSOXT, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Send for Prices before ordering elsewhere. oct5 THE L Z. L MATTRESS FACTORY — IS — THE ONLY MATTRESS FACTORY IN THE STATE Tlie Highest Cash Price Paid for Shucks and Straw cr- "w. Send for Price List. nov30 I 101-2 North Bro-id Street, ATLANTA,GEORGIA. IMMENSB! STOGIE OB’ NEW CARPETS! 1880—FALL AND” WINTER—1880 PURCHASED FROM The Leading Manufacturers and Importers of the Country, And effered to*«he Trade, our Friends and the Public at ROCK. BOTTOM PRCIES 2 tcirio Aiiiuuuu^B, a iwi buu iiiuic vii viuuib. vuiuuus, Luruioes tuiu lianas, » luaow Shades, all sizes; Piano and Table Covers, Wall Papers and Borders, French Terns, Curtain Goods, Cretonnes for Lambrequius, China and Cocoa Mattings, and a big stock of goods iu my line. JAMES G. BALIE, (Not Limited) Old Original Carpet Store, 71S Broad sL, AUGUSTA, GA. FRESH Stock of GROCERIES I have in store and arriving 500 eases Conned Goods, Meats, Vegetables and Fruits ot everv variety. New Preserves, Jellies, Crackers, Mackerel, No 1 and in mess ; Salmon and Boneless Codfish. All 1 ~ Apples, Straw Tubs, Pails, C lowest prices for cash. JAMES (dk BAILIE nov9-d&w Old Stand James G. Bailie & Bro., 118 Broad st, AUGUSTA, GA. The last paragraph of the editorial *s not quite in keeping with the main body ot the Union’s article. No doubt, the North felt itself under obligation to help “fit the negro for freedom and the ballot.” If a man gets his friend into a new and difficult position, for which that friend has not the slightest pieparation and for which moreover, he has been utterly unfitted by all his antecedents, it is certainly proper, on the mere ground ot humanity, that he should stand by his friend and see him through “the untried hazards of the State.’’ And so the North wns in duty bound to “ help” the negro. On this point, Judge Cobb made no issue. The issue presented by the Judge was as to the true way, the wise way, the statesmanlike way, and above all, tbe Christian way of managing the “help” given to the negro. This and this only was the matter under discussion. The policy adopted by the North to “help” the negro has proved to be not a “help’’ but an immense hindrance, and furthermore, it lias been a most grievous wrongs to tbe white race ot the South. Nothing but the interpo sition of Providence by means of nat ural instincts and organic laws—in stincts aud laws beyond the reach of unwise legislation—has kept the scheme of “help” from being fatal to both races in the Southern States. Yet this is in the past and let it all be for gotten. A better day has dawned. North and South can only bo wise'and true by being noise and true together; and in this spirit, wo heartily recipro cate the kind temper of the Union. Merchants, look to your interest Many staple articles in crockery, glassware, lamps See., have greatly declined. McBride & Co., have by all odds tbe best and cheapest stock ever brought to the State. Their stock is crammed whh novel fast sel ling staple goods of their own direot The vote that Mr. Kimball [“importation. Hold your orders, come and select in person. McBride Sc Co., guarantee to save all freight and breakage and delay, and to not pat a single jdece of unsalable stock on yon. IMPORTED MTJSXCAIi MEB.CDCA1TDISE We import direct from tho best manufacturers in Europe, Violins, Guitars, Accordeons, Harmonicas, Strings, And all kinds of Musical Merchandise. NOBODY CAN UNDERBUY US—NOBODY UNDERSELL US. CHEAP SHEET MUSIC. We make s soccialtv of Live, Standard and Popular Sheet Maaic. All Grades—Best Authors— _>weat Prices.* Send a three cent stamp for our Catalogua containing over 8,000 different sub jects ; the best Catalogue in the country to select from. PIAIsTOS. New York Pianos lead the world. Wd are Southern Agents for all the celebrated New York makes, viz: STEINWAY Sc SONS, A. WEBER, DECKER BROTHERS. HAINES BROTHERS, THE GATE CITY PIANOS. New and Second-hand Pianos from 150 to *1,£00. Send for our prices before you buy. ESTEY OS.C3-A.IiTS! All the wholesale Estey Organ business in eight Southern Strtes la transac e l by tbe ESTEY ORGAN COMPANY at Atiauta. At oar warcrooms may always be found a complete assortment °‘ UTSTRTTME2TTS. Including fell the newest styles and latest improvements. OKGANS new and second hand from ESTEY ORGAN COMPANY, novSO.weow Corner of Broad and Alabama streets, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. '! MARKWALTRR, MARBLE IS WORKS- Broad St. Near Lower Market, AtJCKTSTA, ©SORCIA- Monuments, Tombstones and Marble Works, GENERALLY, MADE TO ORDER. A largo selection always on hand, ready for lettering and delivery