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J. 'JT. WATERMAN,
PROPRIETOR.
HA'l J>iOP APVEHTIHING
Kilty tenl* lor cm-h atliiitioitul ium;rtioi
CONTRACT RATES:
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FAHT MAIT^ TRAIN.
mol utter Thureduv, Drern.Wr 23il, trains
North Fluster ii Kuilroml will run us tul*>
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J". T. WATERMAN,
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LYMAN WELLS. Sup’t.
Georgia Rail Road Company
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I'.tss Hirer Sihe«iiile will ojtpemtc on this rouu:
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All.
Arrive nl \Vu!*hiinft»n...
Arrive at Milic<L?«ville..,
Arrive Muccu
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Arrive Athens
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connection to
bet we
V.mmk in cilu-r direction on Snnday nights.
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S. K. Johnson, SSupt.
ATLANTA & CHARLOTTE
Air-LAne Railway.
Passenger Department
ATLANTA
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£JASTdUiUSr CITx^a I
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
On M.u alter Nov. 7th 1880, Trains will rui
on this road us follows, going Last:
DAY PAsSKNOEK TRAIN—EASTWARD.
Ainvc ul Lulu 4 55 a a
*jt*ave Lula 4.54 a m
wkstw.^ii.
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9.22 r it
9.23 p m
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YkMTWARD.
too A it
Leave 9 H a m
LOCAL PKklullT TRAIN — EASTWARD.
Arrive at Lula a m
Lc»V0 1M7 A H
Wu'.M.hD.
A rive at L.iU 1! 57 am
L uve 12.16 p u
TIIKOIGH VKLIOIII TRAIN—EASTWARD
Arr.vu ul l.ula 3.69 P it
, 4.10 P M
WSsTWAllD.
ut Lulu 7.04 a m
7.15 a
connection ut Atlanta tor ull points
ul Southwest. Connectiiur ut 1 hurlntte
all jioijit.N hoist. Through Tickets on sale
.. I.uiinsville, Seneca C*i;y, Greenville und
oartunburg to ull )H>inta Fast am West.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
II. U. CARLTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ATHENS, GA.
O FFICE on Hruad street, up stairs. Eutrancd
next door above LongV lJrug Store. Will
attend promptly to all bu.MUcs* entrusted to bis
SYLVAN US MORRIS.
& COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
ATELEITS, GEORGIA.
Will ationd promptly to any hus‘jiess entrusted
to him. Oilice tlunnirutl Mivk. HD ad direct,
dec. 1. If.
MISCELLANEOUS ADV.
500 MILE TICKETS.
(ir.ORGlA RAILROAD COMPANY, )
Ok pick Okm'l Pas. knokr Ao’t >■
Augusta, Ma.ch 2, 1880. )
(( MMINTlNti THIS DAir., this Company
will sell FIVE HUNDRED MILE TICKETS.
K'hmI over main line ami branches, at THIRTEEN
75-Umi DOLLARS each. These tickets will l>e lo
aned lo individuals, firms, or laudlies, but not to
hrinaaiid fmiillits coiuldued.
E. K. DORSEY
mhHWtf General Pamen gerAgent.
FOE SALE.
I t >FFEK lor sale all the first closa and latest
improved Slum Much incry that m found in a
Sort hern Shoe Factory. My reason for f cl ling
if that 1 have hot the money to curry ou the
bindne.-*.
1 would take n job to manufacture shoes for
the purchaser, uj* 1 thoroughly understand the
business in ulJ of ils parts.
Will sell the above cheap for cash. For
further information uddrere:
l». M. WILSON,
P. O. Lux 68, Athens, Ga. nov.2.tf.
NOTICE.
ri'IIDSl: wl.o uie Uc.l lothe nmlcrriKnod,
_L uilliiT bv lt*.le or hocoonl, will plrium cull
hi.<1 rutile Ul'. The )eur in nearly (ronr, end
cotton i. u eooj riniiineiMive ].riiw, junl 1.0 one
atn M,y tl.ttt cotton ii. too tow to eel). 1 hope
tin. uoti.e will be sutHcicnt. au.l That all who
ate behind with me will rettic at once. Those
wlio do not come up and relilc will soon find
their poles and accounts iu the bauds of an
officer for collection.
deef-wim S. C. DOBBS.
tVrom the Cbristiun Union.)
TIt< country hns apoken decisively
by the ballot. The protracted ex
citement and intense anxiety incident
to the election of 187(5 will not be
repeated. We all can and do rejoice
at this result. -liosiness is quietly re
sumed. The republican can eat his
thanksgiving turkey rejoicing that
Garhehl is elected and the countrv
bir quiet. "TfuT detfSlffW MWn <*&■
joioe that we have present quiet, and
the pledge of the republican pa: ty
that peace, plenty and prosperity
shall not be disturbed the next four
years by any reactionary political
legislation for party put pores.
The time seems auspicious to con
sider the future o! the uegr-j in this
country—especially in the South.
Just now ihe Northern mind will fie
occupied with the want-of the South,
as you are phased to tei m this negro
question in a recent editorial written
on the eve of the late election. Will
you consider what I say before form,
ing and acting upon your opinion as
to the pressing needs ot the South ?
1 hope so, for our common good—
more especially the gnni of the
negro.
I think all will admit the voice of
the country as tillered in the late
election lias no uncertain sound in one
particular— ‘leave well enough alone.’
Whatever other sounds are blended
with it, this deep undertone is un*
mistakable. Peace at home and
abroad, prosperity present and pros
pective, prompted this utterance.
And it was the pledge ot the republi
can party not to disturb the causes
which led to this prosperity whicli
secured it power for the next four
years. Other causes doubtless ope
rated U|>oii the public imud, but ull
w ill admit that this was the decisive
cause which induceU 51 r. Garfield’s
election—especially in New York.
The business interests of the whole
country demanded quiet. The repub
lican parly pledged itseli to a sound
financial policy, to domestic tranquil
lity, and to abstinence from all dis-
luibing political legislation for party
ends.
In the light of its past history the
republican party has assumed no more
grave lesjionsibilitv to the country
than that involved in its policy for the
next four years touching the future
of the negro iu the Soul h. From a
Southern standpoint the voice o* the
country on litis question is nura stai-a-
ble. The business interests of the
whole country demand quiet through
out the land. Four jears of quiet
under the administration of President
Hayes was the result ot rest from
pnrli-an political legislation—legisla
tion especially directed toward the
South. This four years’ rest front
political mtermeil.iling between the
white and black man of the South,
together w.tlt continuous abundant
harvests throughout the land, has
brought the whole country to the
high road of reluming prosperity.
Disturb the industrial interests of the
South by a repetition of the political
legislation incident to the late recon
struction days, or kindred legislation
lor similar euds, and you will check
the returning prosperity ot that sec
tion. The stmek will inevitably react
upon the^East and West. And there
cannot be conceived a mere potent
cause—single cause—to bring about
a repetition ot the ruicous financial
panic of 1873.
The country ha- condoned the bhin
dors of the repu'-li.-ati party—among
them -he politic I legislation touching
the negro incitlei-l to the passions, un
certainty and p, rplexity of the day
of emerging from war. The renew,
cd lease of power to that parly ha:
been secured hy small majorities in
many of the Northern States—ma
jorities which may ea-ily be made
minorities hy any unwise use of
(tower. Tlsese close S'ates of th
North wi.l hold the republican party
to a strict and faithful compliance
with its pledge to the country not to
disturb the peace aud growing good
will between the sections of the un
ion, so ncedtnl to the harmony aud
prosperity of the wltole country.
Thus understanding the late elec
tion, I see no special cause for alarm
to the South. If it portends evil nt
all it is to the whole Union, and tile
South in common only with other sec
lions ot the country. I accept the
result, therefore, with the firm con-
vic'ion that Mr. Garfield’s adniiuis-
traviou will be memorable in the an
nals of our country for a wise change
que-tion to be decided by simple con
sideration ot either the pas-ing busi
ness interests of the country or the
temporary power of any political
panv. The question of the ui gro in
our midst involves our industrial and
political future, and tlu-se should lie
consider d in dealing with him. But
there are deeper considerations and
higher obligations involved in his
presence here than the mere use of
the negro lor industrial or political
advantage. These are only incidents
to the higher duty to rid him iu the
full development ot his latent man-
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUES^Jg^lffQ,
JANUARY 18, 1SS1.
negro imposed a difficult duty upon
the South. Mark my words—upon
the South. For upon the South pri
manly rests the responsibility of solv
ing the pioblem imposed by the
changed condition of 4,000,OtiO ne
groes—a problem involving every ins
teresl of the South, social, industrial,
moral aud political ; a problem not of
theory or speculation, but a vital fact.
The solemn fact which the South lias
to face and handle is 4,000,000 slaves
freed in her midst iu a moment—
4,000,000 frccdtneu in one mad mom
ent made citizens and voters—only
one condition unchanged—ignorant,
wofully ignorant and depraved.
This, then, is the first great want's
the South—white and black—for tM
North to be convinced, and to M
upon the conviction, that the Saltfl
man of the South is the only meditil
through which the negro can be aides
and that sell-protection trill tual
him a willing recipient ot every ai
proffered. This work may apptl
slow, but it will prove sure an t per
inanent. The incisive policy in an
form engenders aiitagoiii-m, hate, am
pursued relentlessly must end-
chaos. The policy I indicate isj
only one which will cement
Georgia; a negro college at Atlanta,
-permanently endowed by the
^institutional Convention of 1877,
i-heu the incisive policy was dead ;
jj common-school system being stead
ier perfected throughout i he State of
»ritia, with equal privileges and
ilitie8 to the negro and white;
Itanicipal common schools in Savans
' . Augusta, Macon, Atlanta, and
lier-towns .in the State, wit h equal
jiyileges to white and black; the
problem
at host difficult and full ot tricrion;
It is not pertinent to euggesMhe
prejudices of the white, the unequal
chance of the black, etc. All this
granted only emphasisu the truth that
the white man and the black of the
South must befriends. Co-operation
is their only hope. Antagonism,
produced and continued by tbe strong
arm of the government thrust be-
tween llwro, can have but one of two
ends. Remove this- foreign powtr
w hicli sustains the negro in the un.
«]ual struggle, ami instantly superior
intelligence, wealth and character
preva'I. Continue the |>ower to it
Atlanta is again undergoing a coal
famine. ■■V-
A negro near Dublin killed another
aud fled.
Henry Lake, colored, fell dead near
Rome.
Dr. YV H Pritchard, ot Gtifin, age
90 years, is dead.
Mr. Aaron Parker, pi Conyers, aged
93 years, died recently. r
Mr. N. A. Smith, on a drunken
—.r. - I.U.j.. .- spree, Froze to death near Canton. •
Bm fell iu almost every town in
..State to iuahgiiratc coninion-
1 sjrsteras, with equal privileges
conscience and interest of white citi
zens of Georgia. Who pays the tax?
The white bears nearly the whole
burden. Has God trusted the negro
to barbarians ?
Trust the negro, under God, to the
conscience and interest ol the South,
and his future iu the South is hope
ful. Inaugurate an incisive policy,
political or other, based upon the talse
assumption that he must be protected
against the white man of the South,
and his future is hopeless. The fir-t
will guarantee free and full develop
ment of the negro’s Intent mauhood.
The seeond will end in the repression
The primary duty of the South to verted. Strife will only end thus iu
the negro, and duty of the North to | desolation of the South.
certain end, and society will b*> sub- i of the negro or desolation ot the
—*• i ■ 1 -' ’ South.
the South in her effort to discharge
her obligation to the negro in her
midst, I will discu-s in another com
munication. This is already too long
Athens, Ga., Nov. 6, 1880,
II.
I said iu my first communication on
this subject that primarily the duly
was imposed tip- n the South to devel
op the latent manhood of the negro,
It is needless now to consider who was
responsible for the sudden thrusti”g ol
The Southern white man, however,
if left to work out this problem with
the friendly co-operation of the negro,
would use every effort to develop the
uegro into an intelligent, honest,
virtuous, permanent citizen, would
accord him 'all his equal rights as a
citizen ; would permit him to reap iu
common with the while neighbor the
li nits of their united industry ; would
entourage him to become a property
owner, with its conservative power;
would educate ami elevate him mor-
, , 0 , - , ally, so that he may appreciate and
4 000.000 negres upon the South tits ; i lU . lli-eut ly discharge all his duties as
terly unfitted to discharge' the duties a , ;ilize a U d would have him grow
of citizenship unfitted alike m Intel- a8 spee(li | y ag praclic able to true mao-
ligeuce amt moral charac ter. It is | , 10rt<J raunta !| y an d politi-
equally useless to inquire who is ri- j c . l jj v J 1
O N WeUuwlav lat. day of December, I lout
a puekel book contohmiir on Un dollar bill,
and one due bill on John t>ikcs tor cue hundred
and fitly dollars, doted 2a day of November
last, and othei atnnll paper*. The party find
ing li e sonic and leaving it at this office, trill
be liberally n warded. All iwrtiea arc hereby
warned urn to trnde for said due bill, as the some
ha* oilice been paid off by said Sikes.
dtc.10.d4l.wlm. DAVID E. SIMS.
CHEAP! CHEAPER! CHEAPEST I
:e\ xtetw-is,
Fairly Giocery Store and Confectionery,
Broad Street.
A t hens. G eorc^ia,
Next door to A. S. DORSEY
Kern, on hand at all time, the finest Tobacco
‘and (*K«n. The beet and Freshest Lemons,
Ota^fres, Apples, Fmouts, Candies and Con*
’ fectionaile* yeneialty. Ana keep* on band a
constant supply of all eonntrv produce, each os
eggs, Chicken., Batter, Cutaoje, Potatoes Ota,
etc. rbeCbeepct Famil/Grootrjr Btore and
Confectionary in tbe city. .Give me Jt coll.
nov.18.v3ua >i « RILUWI&
of policy of the republican party to
ward . the South. This is a golden
opportunity to that party to atone
for pa>t hfuntlera which the country
has condoned. President Hayes con
tracted a Democratic Senate and
House. However well inclined he
may have been, his position subjects
him to the critiobm that other policy
was not open to him. Mr. Garfield
will, however, begin his administra
tion with the House certainly rtpubli
can, and possibly the Seuale. lienee
the golden opportunity to d< mon
strate the sincerity of Mr. Hayes,
and that the pacific policy of his ad-
miuisiralion represented the sprit ot
the republican party. I believe Mr.
Haj es was sincere, and I trust he. tes
presented the contrelliag sentiment of
his party. And until the contrary is
proven by its future conduct toward
the South, I cannot believe that the
republican party will, by an abuse of
the power now given, prove suicidal
to its own future, ireacherotis to its
sponsible for the negro’s low condi
lion mentally and morally. The only
practical question is upon whom rests
the obligation to liberate him speedi
ly from the thraldom of ignorance,
aud to elevate his moral character.
A correct appiehensiuu of this obliga
tion is alike vital to the negro and the
people ol this whole country. I mains
tain that this duty devolves upon the
white man of the -south ; that he mar
be trusted to discharge the duly ;aud
that all other aid to the negro must be
through that channel. 1 heir common
domicile, interests and destiny impose
this duty upon the Southern white.
The interests—industrial, social, mor
al and political—ot the white impel
him to give to the negro citizen in his
midst every opportunity for the full
development ot his mauhood. High-
er, however, than mere interest is the
Chiistaiii obligation of man to his
neighbor. The white man of the
South is the negro’s nearest neighbor,
and i his fact imposes primarily upon
the Southern white the Christian ob
ligation to aid the negro in his strag
gle tor moral and intellectual devel
opment. Conscience amt inleiesl
unite in constraining the white man
o' the South to the discharge of this
duly. The future of the negro in
volves the future of the white. Un
der God’s providence, their interests
are inseparably linked together.
Any injustiee to the negro wi!l
inevitably react upoo tbe while. Iu
industrial pursuits the interests of the
white compel, if his conscience did
not. slriet justice to and tair dealing
with tbe negro. Their mutual depen
dence imposes fidelity upon each. Iu
polit-cs, the debauched negro voter
will debauch the white. Tbe negro’s
ouly protection against tl is result is in
mental and moral training. Tite sal
vation ot the white is iu the elevation
ot the negro diameter. The negro
cannot go down alone. He must drag
the white down to his owd level. The
protection ot the negro and the white
alike from political degradation, is to
he found alone in the full development
intel.ect unity and morally o the ne
gro. And the s|teedier the elevation
of negro character, the better for the
Southern white ; any conduct of the
Southern white toward the negro re
pressive iu its effect, will inevitably
react detrimentally to his-tiwn inter
est and character.
Bear with me here, for at this point
the vital errors of the past were made
by the North. The hatred of tbe
white man of the South to the uegro
citizen was assumed—an inevitable
conflict ot races was assumed—and,
logically, legislation was enacted bring
ing to bear the strong arm of govs
Another great want ot the South
is that the North leant lo believe, and
act upon the belief, that God reigns
dirertly over the South as well as tbe
North. The North mus' Ire convinced
that the South is not devoid ot intel
ligent conscience and is not abandoned
by God. This want, which is the
greatest need of the South, I will dis
cuss in*my last communication on this
suhj-ct.
Athens, Ga., Nov. Gtb, 1880.
I have purposely discuss d this
question front a non-political stand
point. It is too gra.ve a matter to rest
upon mere business interests or politi
cal advantage. The true view of it
is seen only from the standpoint of
Christian charity—the dutv ot man to
man under God’s law, binding upon
all mankind.
It 1 am correct in my conclusions,
any aid proffered the uegro of the
South other than.thrcugh the chan
nel ot the good will and co-’*.]>eralion
of the Southern white will be unwise
and detrimental. Ami any political
legislation for party ends which again
antagonizes white and black will be
an unpardonable crime.
It may not be out of place to say.
iu conclusion, that there is one great
want ot this wli ole Union—all sec
tions. It is this: we shotild in all
things consider the good of the whole
Union. Each citizen owes a more
direct duly to his immediate section.
“ Do the duty which lies nearest to
you ^ is a wise maxim. The atm and
wish paramount in every section,
however, should be to promote the
good of the whole Union. It would
be well if we could forget there wu-
any No’th, East, West or South,
GEORGIA SEWS.
III.
J any fto’in, iv.wi, west or aoum,
save to reinembur that, io promoting
the interests of either we advance the
In Telfair county, Burroughs Mann,
a negro was killed hy another negro.
In 18S0 the ordinary of Richmond
county issued 351 marriage licenses.
Mrs. Leonard Page, of Americas,
was found dead in her bed on the 2d
Mr. J A Christian has been re elec
ted chief ot the Augusta police force.
A little son of Dr. Rice was seri
ously injured by a runaway horse in
Macon.
A little negro girl in Americus was
lett alone in a house and was burned
to death.
The News says that the report that
a negr J froze to death in the Alba"y
jail is untrue.
The gift concert at Savannah nett'
ed the Jns|>er monument association
S875.45.
A Sumter county sow Lad twelve,
eighteen ami twenty-three pigs in suc
cessive litters.
Captain John S Thomas, of Mill-
edgoville, died on the 10th at the ad
vanced age of 101 years.
The capita! of the Commercial hank
in Augusta has been increased lront
8200,000 to 8300,000.
The city council of Savannah are
divided into two factions, and muni
cipal affairs are in a stew.
Mr. W H King,of Elberton, got his
arm so badly cut in a gin that it will
have to be amputated.
Macon city council has passed an
ordinance fornidding cows to run at
large on the streets.
The dwelling of Mr. C Carroll, on
Tybee island was consumed by fire.
It was insured for $1,000.
Gcv. Smith slates that he will not
move to Gainesville but will make
Columbus his home.
Bushy; who was cut hy John Stew
art in, Atlanta, is dead. It is said l.e
I propo-e lo di-cuss in this com-
raunicaiion what I slated in my la-t
to be the greatest want of ihe South
in solving the problem (t the future
of the negro That want is that the
North be convinced that God reigns
directly over the South. The North
ern mind must be disabused of the
impression that God is the Provi
dence of the North, ami the North,
tinner God, the Providence of the
South. It is strange that the North
cannot sec God iu all this uegro ques
tion. The South recognizes God’s
presence in all this trouble. God’s
ways are not our ways—and the South
does not understand all his provb
deuces in the negro’s presence here,
but tire faith ot the Smith accepts all
as of God.
common welfare of all.
Athens, G i., Nov. 6, 1880.
Number 11.
Mr. Robert Lampkin, of Columbia
county, is reported as frozen to death
a few nights since while riding from
Augusta to his home in Columbia.
Sheriff Bussey, of Pike county,
recently arrested J. \V. Rogers, who'
killed James Smith, six years ago. in
Williamsville, Ga. Rogers was cap
tured in Tennessee.'
A difficulty oocurred near Kingston
between Audrew Thomas and John
Alford, which wound up by Andrew
Thomas drawing his pistol and shoot
ing Alford, who died in an -hour or
tvro. v . fte a
a - -A-fighter-in 3avann»h containing
600 bales of cotton was given a sud
den crcau aud 130 bales tumbled in
the river. The cotton floated out
with the tide and much of it was not
recovered.
A Millcdgeville man said he saw a
man Saturday milking a cow with a
fire built near her hind feet. Wheth
er his object was to warm his fingers
or melt the nvlk in the bag, he didn’t
stop to inquire.
On the 5th, one of the water-pipes
iu the capital hurst and deluged the
new quarter of the department ot agri
culture Some of tiie clerks hail to
hoist their umbrellas for a while until
the water could be stopped.
The Telegraph and Messenger re
ported the Central railroad was to
blame for the coal and wood famine.
The Herald, however, proves that this
line has done all that it could, and
made special exertion to accommodate
the people.
Speaking about the railroad com
mission and the efforts of the rail
roads to break it d urn through the
courts. General Alfred Austell said,
‘they had better let it aloue and live
up to the lays instead ol trying to
break them down.’
A young man in Trwinton found his
face turning blue a few days ago. He
was terribly frightened, for bethought
he was mortifying. He ran to a doc
tor, and an investigation snowed that
lie had beeu using a si'k handkerchief
d\ ed blue.
John Hanny, near Cartersville, was
arrested on the 10th, charged with
forging a $1,000 note on t he late Hon.
A T Aker.uau. Parties who have seen
the note say it is a forgery, and the
grand jury found a true bill against
him. He is iu jail.
Savannah has a double headed wo
man. One mouth can talk German
and the other English at the same
died from pneumonia.
eminent to protect the negro against
the white enemy. This was wh.it Mr.
Beecher termed the incisive policy—a
policy which his heart and head alike
condemned, but when once inaugur
ated he acquiesced iu, and even fos
tered, in the vaiu hope that peace
would ultimately be the result of
what bis reason and insliucts fore
warned him must prove unending
strife. The only peace ot that' p liey
was death. Wimt was the actual re
sult ? Distrust, alienation, antagon
ism, where trust, union, co-operation
was essential. The political revolu
tion of 1874 gave a check to the in-
chive policy. What is the result ?
The South, in common with the
North, is enjoying returning pros
perity. Tbe two races are making
strides toward cheerful co-operation
in accepting the situation, and work
ing together for their common weal
—industrial, educational, moral and
political. Let the North leara then
from facts, that any aid, by political
every
Union. We have had a period of
passion, followed by a spasm ot gush.
Now the sober second thought ot the
interests of trade prevails. This will
abide.
The future of the negro in the
Smith, however, la too momentous a growth.
pledge to the eonntrv, and ruinous to | egi8 u t ion or otherwise, uofferod the
every interest of all sections ol the ...
negro other than through the medium
of the good will and institutions of
4he Southern white man is short*
sighted, and must prove detrimental
to the common interests of the negro
and the white man. Any other course
must retard and not hasten tbe negro’s
The South firmly helicvue that God
overruled the coming of the negro
from Africa to America, his slavery
here; his drifting to a genial South
ern clime; the political agitation about
slavery; the war; the desolation of
recoiistruetiou more wasting than
war; the slave suddenly freed' and
then enfranchised. Iu all this the
South bows submissively to the \rili
ol an overruling God. The Christian
faith of the South explains her re
signation, her patient endurance, her
cheerful adaptation lo changed con
ditions, her hopeful spirit, her activity
amid desolation. The South through
exercise of this tailh, has even liorne
meekly the charge against her hy the)
North that all this patient resignation,
hopeful spirit and active iudustry only'
evidence the perverse cunning ol
willful hailarism. Candor compete
the confession that at times this last
infliction of Providence is very irk
some. Yet through faith we live in
the hope that even this continuous
chastening, though for the time it
8eemeth grievous, will eventually
yield the peaceable fruits of righteous..
ness. No one can deny tha: we I a'veT
beeu sorely exercised thereby.
If the North will recognize that
God reigns over the South; that the
South has a conscience guided by a
Christian faith; that the primary
duty to the negro devolves upon the
conscience of the South; that inteie-t
unites with conscience ; that the duty
ot the North to the South is (o leave
the while and black man to work out
together, under God, their common
destiuy; that any aid from the North
whicli may be needful must lie prof
fered through the white man of the
South—through the institutions of
the South born of the conscience and
interests ot the white—then the future
wellare ot the negro in the South is
assured. The white and black citizen
ot the South will remain friends for
ever. They were never alienated
other than by unwise aid to the
negro, tendered by the North direct
ly to the negro upon the talse as
sumption that enmity of the white to
the black citizen existed.
Do you still doubt the wisdom of
trusting the negro’s future to the con
science and interest of the South?
God has so trusted the negro’s future.
Sound philosophy and experience 3e-
niunstrute that bis only hope lies here.
Will the North assume to bo wiser
than God! Will the North turn a
deaf ear lo argument (bunded on taitb
in God, and sustained by philosophy
aud fact! ' * r
Let us see what the conscience and
interest, under God, of the Sooth has
Fancies lur the Fair Sex.
Woman is the Sunday ot man.—
Michelet.
Cleanliness is the toilet of old age.
—Neckir.
A delicate thought is the flower of
the mind.—Rolliu.
Modern |>oct8 put a gnat deal ot
wat. r in their ink.—Goethe.
In this world, one must put cloaks
on all truths, even the nicest.—Balzac.
Marriage is a lottery iu which men
stake their liberty ami women their
happiness.—.Mine, de Brieux.
Education begins the gentleman,
hut reading, good company and re
flection must finish him.—Locke.
A woman who is no blessing in her
own household, is uot likely much to
bless a husband.—Miss Mulock.
The lust census of Fiaucc embraced
nearly twenty millions ot woracu.
Happy rascal.—From the French.
A woman, set on anything, will
walk right through the moral crockery
without wincing:—Chas. Dudley
Warner.
Failure, after long pcrseverauoe is,
much grauder than never to have a
striving good enough to be culled a
failure. - George Eliot.
The less one secs and knows men,
the higher one esteems them ; for ex-
‘rience teaches their real value.—
arguerite de Valoise.
Th’ young men noo-days, tl e’re
poor, squashy things—the’ looke weel
cuoof, but the’ woon’t wear, the,
woon’t wear.—George Eliot.
A man should never blush when
coi.fesMtig errors, for he proves by his
dvow d tiiat he is wiser to-day than
yesterday.—J- J. Rousseau.
When people have good times and
keep a. - bright, pleasant fireside, and
are always glad lo see their friends,
there will always be friends to come.
—Mrs. H. B. Slone.
Throughout life our worst moan-
ne-xes and wickednesses are commit
ted for the sake'of the people whom
we most d-spise.—Dickens.
Blessed be '■ the man who first in
vented sleep; nod blcsspd be heaven
that hC'diil'iiot take out a patent, and
keep his discovery to himself—Cer
vantes. -' 1 ’
A beaut it ul woman, with the quali
ties ot a noble man, is the most perfect
thing in nature. We find in her the
merits of both sexes.—La Bruyer.
~ time. Her name is Mollie Chisline.
A colored man at Elberton, who was
thrown down in the snow, has since
died from the hurts received.
A six months old child of Mr
Abel Loyd, of Rome, crawled into
the fire and was fatally burned.
The anniversary of the emancipa
tion was celebrated by the colored
people of Savannah on the 3d insi.
Col. Wm. Tibbs, ol Dalton, put his
pet pointer in a ce'lar to protect him
from cold aud the dog froze to death.
Miss Maria Randolph left $1,000 to
the Presbyterian church in Washing
ton, Six relatives were the other lega
tees.
The body of a dead infant was
found in a caw house iu Americus.
It is thought a negro girl destroyed it
lo hide her shame.
On tbe night of the 27lh Mr. B.
E. Powell’s dwelling aud smoke
house, about six miles from Leesburg,
were consumed by fire.
Madison has a marshal who permits
a crowd of boys to incarcerate him in
jail. But then, even a marshal should
uot object lo a little fun.
St. Stephens, in Savannah, is the
only colored Episcopal church in
Georgia. On the 6th, the 25th anni
versary was celebrated.
There are in Georgia 88,522 colored
men who own, by the lax receivers’
returns for their respectives counties,
551,199 acres of laud.
Rev. Mr. Quig, of Conyers, has
keen called to the Madison Presby
terian church to sei ve them tills year,
aud has accepted the call.
The store oi Mr. Pounds, nt Mil-
ledgi'villu, was robbed of $170 by a
negro porter. The n)oney was re
covered but the thief escaped.
The first Georgia hanging this vear
comes off on the 21-t inst., when Tom
Betts, the murderer of Judge Moore,
in Clayton county, will swing.
Mr. E K'Willson, tlic express agent
who was knocked down and robbed at
West Point; is able to tie out again
and will soon be eutirely well.
It is reported that Bishop Pierce
has sold his placo in Sparta to Mr. D
Turner, and that he will move back
to his old home near Culverton.
The editor of the Recorder says he is
ready to exclaim with Artemns Ward,
‘How many are there of she?’
A pine tree wns cut down in Sum
ter county, the other day, from the
heart of which ten thousand good
shingles were made, and the frame of
a sugar mill from its lop. It measured
three feet three inches in diameter.
THE EDITOR.
If an editor omits iinyt hing he i
lazy. It be speaks of things as they
sre, people get angry. It be glosses
over or smooths down the rough
points, he is bribed. If lie calls thiogs
by their proper names, he is unfit for
the position of an editor. If he does
not furnish readers with jokes, lie is
an idiot; if he does, bo is a rattle-
head, lacking stability. If he eon
demns the wrong, he is a good telle#,
but Tacks discretion. If he lets
wrongs and'injuries, go unmentioned,
he is a coward. If be exposes a
done vand is doing voluntarily in jgipitL
alftiea, be is a blackguard; if he does
noyhts : paper te- dull Hod very * In
The steam engine of Perry'& Web
ber, at Perry’s Mills, Tatmill county,
burst its boiler, killing several men,
among whom was Mr. Webber.
A Dublin cow trying togetout of tne
way of another, fell plunging her horns
so deep into the ground as to turn a
complete sommersauit and broke her
neck.
Mr. John D. Inman, of New York,
has placed $200 lo the credit of the
Atlanta library with D. Appleton &
Co. to be used in the purchase of 11,101
books.
A force of workingmen to lay the
pipes for the water works will arrive
in Mscon in a few days. What does
Macon want with water works this
kind of weather ?
On the 27th William Young, of
Appling county, in a drunken row,
killed his mother-inJaw, Mrs. Henry
Beecher. The murderer has ab
sconded.
Things matrimonial are in a bad
ifay in Montezuma. The'towh ciS-
tains just tbiriy-five'mbre women than
'tn^nl' aiid yet one woman accuses an-
Near Greenville on the 28th nit.
Betsy Ann Martin wts accidentally
shot and killed by “ Scrap ’’ Martin.
The wound penetrated the bowels,
death resulting in about an hour.
The parties were to have been mar.
ried.
A gentleman from Michigan who
came to Dalton intending to spend
his winter vacation, alter hovering
over the fire tor several hours at the
National, was heard inquiring for the
sunny south, and not long afterwards
was seen shivering nt the office win
dow, with tickets lo Florida.
A car load of colored emigrants,
sixty-five in number, passed through
Atlanta enroute from Wilmington,
N. C., for Texes, via Montgomery,
Ala. They were quite jolly and did
not seem to care a cent for wind and
weather Tiieir fondness for rations
settles the point that they are ration
al beings.
Mr. A. T. Morrill, aged sixty years,
was found dead on the night of the
5th instant, about four miles from
Butler. He left that town on foot,
in an intoxicated condition, to go
home, and reached a point a half mile
from the house, when he succumbed.
The coroner’s jury’s inquest was that
the deceased came to his death by
freezing.
A rumrr is being circulated in At
lanta to the effect that tbe name of
Senator Joseph E. Brown, ot Georgia,
would be 3ent by the president to the
senate for confirmation as secretary of
the navy, and that Gov A. II. Col
quitt would appoint Gen. John B
Gordon as the successor of Senator
Brown Some of them think it is
true, others llmt there is nothing in
it,
B. C. Bibb & Son, Baltimore, re
presented by Col. John A Wimpy,
and James M Shaw & Co., of New
York, represented by Messrs Milledgc
& Haygood, who are holders ot large
claims against Phillips & Co., who
failed in Atlanta, and are the parries
who instituted criminal proceedings
against J W Phillips for the offense
of obtaining goods undsr talse preten
EMORY SPEER AND THE TARIFF.
.. (From thafibicagoJXiines)
.There isagre.nt deal of practical;
good sense in ttfo'vh*ws«f the Gc&rgifT
liberal, Mr. Emory Speer, upon the
tariff question, and its relations to the
evolution of political ideas on other
public questions.
Mr. Speer, it ought to be generally
known, is ono of the most advanced
political-thinkens in Georgia—a state
whioh exhibits more evidences of a
new industrial development, and ac
cordingly more pronounced symptoms
of an intellectual advancement out ot
the dismal slough ot Bnurbonism,
than any other state called southern,.
Himself a young man (only . thirty-
three), he represents the best devel-
opm*Ut of - the young, ideas that are
destined in good time to replace tho
old, notions of tbe men who, .thoiigh
living in the present, represent the
mental and political character of a
past generation. - Politically, he stands
conspicuous among that tidw father
potential class of southern! men whp
accept with some commendable pride
the liouorable distinction of pioneers
in the movement of a ‘ new south.'
It-is' a movement, as Mr.. Speer ex
presses^ agnjust the- Bourbon, ele
ment in politics. ’ Ollier Confepiiiuous
leaders of this movement are the new
senator from Georgia, Mr. Brown;
and the new senator from Virginia,
Mr. Mahone. Mr. Alexander II.
Stephens is also generally spoken of
us being in accord with the move
ment ; though, at his advauced age,
he finds it more difficult to divest his
mind of its ancient bins than is the
ease with younger men.
Economists tell us that, within.tho
next tw.cnty years, America will need
fifteen millions of new spindles, with
accompanying machinery, for tho
transformation of the chief product of
southern agriculture into other com
modities of commerce. Where should
these new spindles be set in 'opera
tion? The answer of economy is:
Where the transformation of the raw
material can be effected, aud the new
commodities be placed on the best
markets, at the lea-t cost. Obvious
ly then, the cotton-field, the cotton-
mill, and the railway centre should
he brought together. The cotton-
field can not be moved troin the south
ern latitude. Nature has given to
the southern one-third of America,
east of the coutiental backbone,- vir
tually a monopoly of this product for
tho world; for, though tho climate
and soil ot India and portions of
Mexico and South America are adapt
ed to the cultivation of cotton, ex
periment has shown that a new"civili
zation must appear j n those countries
before its cultivation can be success
fully introduced.' For an indefinite
period of the future,' tho southern
portion of America will continue to
be the chief cotton-producing region.
Why may it not also be the chief cot
ton-manufacturing region .ou this coil-
tinenp? Why should not the lact
that nature has given to that region
a monopoly of the cotton-growing in
dustry cause to spring up there the
most extensive manufacturing indus
try of this land ?
It is needless to specify the many
obstacles that have long stood, and
some of which still stand, in the way
of this. To show the changed or
changing conditions in this respect,
it is only requisite to mention that
nearly- all of thcee obstacles had their .
basis in slavery. An industrial sys
tem, long deemed necessary to the
successtui cultivation of cotton, was
an insuperable obstacle to the suc
cessful establishment, in the same
region, of cotton manufactures. At
no time, in no part of -the world, has
skilled industry of any kind gained a
fooling iu a society resting on slavery,
or on the customs polity of antiquity.
Nut only does unskilled slave ' labor
drive out skilled free labor in confor
mity to the same economic law which
causes bad money to supersede good
inon“y, but the distinctive character
which slavery gives to the society in
which it exists is an ever-active force
repelling and preventing all free in
dustrial development. i
To-day leading men of Mississippi,
Arkansas and Texas are Georgians,
and in every county and neighbor
hood. almost, in those states, the con
trolling spirit is a Georgian. The gov
ernor ot Texas is a Georgian, so are
both the senators from Mississippi.
She gave three governors to Tex is,
two to Mi-sissippi, a* governor ami
senator to Alabama, and her ablest
and best men to Ai kansas. And has
plenty more.
Doc Moon, who has been employed
at the saw mill of J B Ward, near
Ca>rollton, purchased a shot gnu
which he loaded and proceeded to the
saw niill, where he accosted Mr. Ward,
bwil I
and without an explanation^ fired, the
contents into Ward’s >6ft hip gad ah-
domtn, inflicting a terrible , wound.
Sheriff Hewitt, assisted by H Ri,Rob-
binson, arrested Itoon on tbe ,4t|i
Other or marrying acroMreyed, «ag- q^out.foiir. gi’eloc^ahli he. is ifow st!ie-
gle-todlh, bow-legged villain. , : f„, y confined in joil at Carrollton.
THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO. ' '
We are too much interested in
thinking of the future of the white
man to devote much time to specula
tion about the future of our colored
fellow citizen ; but it is a gratifying
fact that we have among us men of
broad and liberal viaws who feel a
deep intertest in this subject. The
New York Christain Union has recen
tly published a series of articles by
Judge IIowcll Cobb, of Athens, on
* The Future of the Negro in tbe
South,’ and the articles are of such a
diameter as to produce an impression
upon the public mind. Judge' Cobb
writes earnestly and forcibly^ ’ He
takes the position that ‘ the providence
ot God has entrusted the full,develop*
ment of the negro’s latent manhood
to the conscience and interest of . the
South.’
When we weigh the meaning of this
assertion, and view it in all its bear
ings, it will be seen that there is a
world of significance iu it. Judge
Cobb is undoubtedly right, and when
the people of theNorth see thebfforls
which the people ot the South aro
making to educate the negro, they
ought to be impressed with the.sincer-
ity of our peqple. The enemies of the
colored people are not to-be found in
this section. The interests of the two
races at the Sonth are nearly ideiiti-
paL—Atlanta Pott. ■ } <r , t >r
It is time, remarks the Nashville
American, for Great Britain to recog
nize that the sympathies of the world
are with the Irish in tbe present strug
gle io. that unfortunate country. Those
who are just do not underrate the
great services rendered to advancing
civilization Jby England, and they
wonld not, perhaps, undertake to say
exactly, what policy should he pur
sued, or that Parnell and the Home
Rulers are right in the plans they pro
pose, or that the Land Leaguers have
taken exactly the right way to'a solu
tion ; but they dp see . that there are
wrongs which demand, soiue remedy,
evils which are to be corrected,' griev
ances to bo redressed, oppressions
which nuist end before Ireland or En
gland c3u. prosper. It is cleats to the
rest of tbo world that England]*.policy
towards preload hgs, been a Mura.'.