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0. B FREEMAN, Editor.
CEDARTOWN. GA , JUNJ^lO. 1880
TgE Semite hist week passed the
River and Harbor Bill coitaining
appropriations for over $9,000,000.
There are said to be 27 uewspa
pers in the State advocating the
claims of Hon. It. E. Lester for Gov
ernor. r
Is America thoroughly civilized ?
asks one of onr exchanges. For an
answer we would respectfully refer
you to the proceedings of the Chica
£0 Radical Drvtivr.nfinn.
Judge tiKnutwoun, of Rome;
Col. J. S. Boynton, cf Griffin ; Major
J. Ganahl, of Augusta, and Col.
Willis Hawkins, of Americas, an
proposed as good men for Attorney'
General.
The price of paper is not to be re.
dnced. The Printing Paper-makers’
Association had their regular month
ly meeting in Springfield,Massachu
setts,on the 2d and voted to maintain
the present rates firrnlv.
Although the Senate Appropria-
■ tkm Committee has about decided
that Congress can adjourn between
the 10th and 15th of June, the im
pression prevails in Washington that
the session will be considerably pro
longed.
The first vote of Senator Brown,
of Georgia, was against the Win-
dom proposition to add $000,000 to
the pension deficiency bill to pay
United States marshals. The ques- race ‘
tjon was decided in the negative by a
strict party vote.
The Republican Nags.
The Republican National Conven
tion which n et at Chicago on the
2d inst., ended its work on Tuesday
by the non.illation of James A. Gar
field, of Ohio, for flip Presidency ar.ri
Chester A. Arthur, of New York,
for the Vice Presidency. The nomi
nation was reached on tte 3G.h bal
lot. We have little to say now of the
nomination more than that we had
hoped that Grant would le selected,
as the Democrats could have defeat
ed liihi easier than any other candi
date from his party. As it is we
oelieve success lies within the grasp
of the Democrats if the proper man
is chosen at Cincinnati. Garfield is
a strong mar. in his party, and like
many of the leading men of his pa
ty, has no special love for the South.
If edected President lie would be but
the willing tool of 6uch litter par
tisans as Blaine, Conkling, el. al.
STATE SCRAPS.
Hurrah for Mrs Colonel Bob. In-
gersoll! She must l ave felt for once
“truly loyal” and imagined she was
donning Uncle Sam’s great big pan
taloons as she stood in the midst of
the great Chicago mob encircled in
the folds of the stars and strifes.
Augusta News ; This is about the
proper analysis of (he whole affair:
Gen. Gordon had a perfect right to
resign, Gov. Colquitt had the un
doubted right to appoint whom he
pleased as his success jr, and Joe
Brown is not to be blamed for ac
cepting the situation. Now, what is
the use of saying-anything more on
the subject? This is a free country.
President Hayes has appointed
upou the recommendation of the
Governor of the State ot Georgia,
Col. W. T. Thompson, of Savannah,
and N. P. T. Finch, of Atlanta,Coin-
.inissioners of the State of Georgia to
the International Exhibition to be
held in New York in 1SS3, with Col.
Wilberforce Daniels, of Augusta, and
J, Monroe Ogden, of Macon, as al
ternates.
There have been held conven
tions of every sort and now the un
dertakers are to assemble and delib
erate. They convene in Utica, New
York,some time in June. They will
doubtless expect to bury their per-
perplexities, discuss grave questions,
every man will be required to Ynakean
unvarnished statement of hjs case,
end no one allowed to coffiin the
the meeting.
New York Sun: All sensible per
sons know that hot weather is no
time to be guzzling fi-ry liquors, no
Blatter how craftily and temptingly
they may lie disguised as cooliug
beverages. But intemperance is also
to be avoided in the use of the milder
potables. The less lager, the less
claret, the better; the less lemonade,
Soda water, or ice water, the better.
Death lurks in the Good Templar’s
cooler as well as in the drunkard’s
demijohn.
Washington Post: Not less than
/-Al,000,000,000, more than half
«b<Stigh to pay the National debt as
the figures ‘Stand to-day, has been
paid from the earnings of our indus
tries in the last fifteen years, into the
hands of foreign ship owners to
transport onr products to market and
bring back the returns. How to
check this enormous drain and put
the stars and stripes in their former
position on the seas, is a problem
that statfsmen should wrestle with
instead of thrashing over and over
again the straw of dead issues.
A CORKEsl'ON DENI ol the Atlanta
Consti'.utiun, writing from New
York, says that it is impossible to re
main in the city any great length of
time and not become convinced that
Mr. Tilden cannot be relied on to
carry the State. August Belmont
says he cannot come within 70,000
votes of doing it; aid the general
impression seems to be that his nom
ination would be tquivalent to
throwing away all chance of New
York. There is another strange
thing about the matter; I have talk
ed with Mr. Tilden and with his
friends and I have never yet found
any one who was authorized to say
that Mr. Tilden is a candidate and
would remain so till the end of the
On the contrary, there s eras
to be a general feeling that he will
decline at some time or other. Mr.
Tilden’8 friends say that he has tak
en a noble view of the situation,
and feeling that lie cannot count on
carrying New York with certainly
will give way to some one who can.”
As to the choice of Mr. Tilden’s
friends they say it is useless to talk
of Bayard or Thurman. As for oth
ers, says the writer, “It cannot be
that they will take Hendricks, who
has acted unhandsomely aud ungen
erously, both to the party and to Mr.
Tilden, and who has no 8 >rt of
strength outside of New York. It
cannot be Randall, who is not heavy
enough timber for a Presidential
race, and lor whom there is no sen
timent at all. It cannot be Hancock,
for the Demociuts will not be foolish
enough to put up a lower general
against a greater, and besides, the
fight in Pennsylvania has so embit"
tered the Tildenites against the Ilan-
cockites that fusion is impossible.”
The letter closes with a prediction
that the coming man is Judge Ste
phen J. Field, of California.
The last nnmher of the weekly
publication called Cotton, printed in
New York, has the following to say
about fa'ctories in the South: “The
building of new mills of the largest
capacity, anJ with the latest and
most improved machinery, at Augus
ta, Columitis, Atlanta and other
Southern poiuts, the investment of
large sums by Northern capitalists
who have looked into the subject,
and the really extraordinary rote of
dividends that have been earned *by
the well managed Southern mills, are
facts that have at last forced them
selves upou the attention of New
England mill owners and capitalists
interested in cotton manufacturing
The result is.that they now contem
plate the whole subject wi'h lively
interest. Some of the New England
cotton manufacturers have investi
gated the matter quite thoroughly,
and we know of one or two who do
not hesitate tq say that we .are cn
the eve of an' extensive transfer o f
this great'industry from the North
to the S.-ntb."
Radicals Ran Mad—Scenes Enacted in
the Chicago Convention.
During a debate upon the adoption
of the report upon credentials, Storrs,
of Illinois, while in possession of the
floor wrought his hearers, the assem
bly and the gallery crowds, to a very
high pitch of enthusiasm when he
made some allusion to Grant and the
3oldiers. One of our daily exchanges
described it as a scene uut-quuleU.
Mr. Oonkiing aud his group of
New Yorkers stood upon chairs and
waved their hankerchiefs, and Mr.
Conkling himself waved the New
York banner.
Mr. Storrs stroked his beard as one
amazed. Umbrellas, parasols, coats
and banners were waved high iu the
air rn the ends of staves on which
State banners had hung. Conkling
auswered the galleries and they
cheered again. The Chair abandon
ed hammering his dt-sk in disgust,
and the policemen were lost iu the
crowd.
The New York delegation started
the songs, “Year of Jubilee” and
“Marching through Georgia,” which
ware taken up by the crowd. When
Storrs made his third eff >rt to renew
his speech the crowd broke out ag in
and the noise was deafening and
could be heard a mile away. The
second out burst was greater than the
first. Mem seemed drunk with ex
citement and sprang ou benches,
rusbit.g into each others aims shak
ing hands and eutbraci- g and laugh
ing, crying and shouting. Five hun
dred men took off their coats and
swung them in the air. The infee*
tiou extended to every doubtful dele
gation on the floor. Illinois, Ohio
and the others joined the jubilee.
Among the incidents was that of Co
lonel Robert G. Iogersoll standing on
a chair and waving a flag aud a red-
colored handkerchief.
Maine at last fell into line aud up
went all her delegates to the top of
the benches, shouting at the top of
their voices, waving their hats, coats
and umbrellas, Mrs. Col. Ingersoll
sprang on a chair ou the stage near
the G ddess of Liberty, draped her
self in one American flag and waved
another above her head. The band
endeavored to start up, but were not
heard ten feet away. At one time
thirty of the State ,banners were
waved together in the center of the
hall, 20 leet above the heads of the
people, borue upon the standards
which divide the delegation. Every
one s enied crazed wita the enthusi
asm and excitement of the moment.
The delegates from Maine, Cali for-
tiia, Virginiaand other States march
ed about the hall over benches and
through the aisles waving their D.iu-
uer3.
It was a contest between the gal
leries and the delegates, and between
the delegates and . the stage to see
which could cheer the loudest and
make the most extravagant exhibi
tions. Maine’s banner was the last
to come down. The tumult was h
nally partially stilled, when Green
B. Uauin sprang upou the back of a
bench aud said order could be restor
ed by three cheers for the nominee
of the Convention. They were given
with a will. The excitement lasted
; thirty- five minutes.
Elberton is to have a new hotel.
Rome is organizing* a military
band.
BITS OF GENERAL SEWS.
Cut worms are playing havoc with
young cotton plants about Elberton.
They are talking about light ng
up the Catoosa Springs grounds with
the electric light.
The Crawfurdville Democrat
tliinks that Hon. Augusta Reese
would make a good Governor.
They have a hardened old repro-
brate in Columbus. He claims to be
one hundred years old, and can out-
enrse a sailor.
A disagreement between rival ice
manufacturers in Augusta lias caus
ed manufactured ice to be furnished
to the citizens of that city for half a
cent a pound.
Two negroes got into a fight at
Conyers the other day, and one of
t em struck the other over the head
with an iron skillet. The skillet was
broken all to piic< 8.
A numbeg of last year's cr.tlon
stalks are sprouting out iu various
par’s of tlie State. This is said to be
a sight which has not heeli seen since
the years 1S42 or 1843.
Tiie Talbotton Register reminds
its readers that this is the regular
year for the appearance cf the seven
teen year locusts. The last visita
tion of these pests was io 1S63.
The Rome Tribune says that the
negroes in that city, ora majority of
them, are living on dewberries and
fish, and it is almost impossible to
get them to do any kiud of work.
Sparta Ishmaelite: The largest
strawberry we have seen this season
is of the Sharpless variety and from
a slip planted in January. It is
about the size of a guinea egg and
has a delightful flavor.
Quite a number of citizens of Ma
rietta have, sr.y3 the Journal, united
in sending to New York for twenty-
five white female servants. The un
reliability of negro s-rvants has ren-
de ed this step necessary.
Since ;he passage of the act at the
last general assembly appropriating
money to furnish legs and arms to
those of onr State who lost them in
the Confederate army, Georgia has
paid $66,240 for that purpose.
Preparations on a large scale are
being made for the reception of the
Seventh Regiment New York Vol
unteers, on their expected visit to
Atlanta iu October next, at which
time the corner-stone of the Memo,
rial Armory, to be erected by the
Gate City Guards, will be laid.
Raisiug this season a hundred
bushels of oats to the acre, corn so
tall it takes a step ladder to gather
the ears, and over forty squashes on
a vine, makes the editor of the
Lumpkin Independent a little enthu
siastic on amateur farming, and he
feels inclined to join the G:angers,
provided some subscriber who is iu
arrears will pay the initiation fee.
The Dahiouega Mountain Signal
reports that on last Tuesday as two
men were cutting a ditch in the
street iu front of a residence in that
town for the purpose of turning wa
ter from the street, they discovered a
gold vein, which was four inches in
thickness and immensely •■tou.
tral pieces of rock were taken out,
which were literally s'ndded with
gold. A test of the value of the ore
was made and showed a yield of
eighty to one hundred dollars per ton
iu a mill process.
Oglethorpe Echo: “A few years
since a gentleman of this county, to
gether with his sick wife, embarked
on the train at Union Point, which
proved to be so crowded that a seat
could not be had. In passing up the
aisle a gentleman and lady arose and
made the husband and sick lady ac
cept their seats', saying they had as
soon stand. Our friend asked a pas
senger the name of the couple who
so generously yielded ui> their seats,
and was told they were General John
B. Gordon and wife.
The Right pf an Officer to Kill.
The Albany Law Journal has the
following, which will be of great im
portance to officers in the discharge
of their duties, especially in the mat
ter ol escaping prisoners. The Jour
nal says: While defendant (in a case
in the Tennessee supreme court,) a
constable was conveying to jail a
prisom r convicted of assault and
b.vterv, the prisoner attempted to
escape-. To prevent the escape, de-
teniiant, after giving the prisoner no
tice to hal', shot and killed" him.
Held that the homicide was not jus
tifiable. In cases where the person
slain is arrested or la Id in custody
for misdemeanor, aud he fiy or at
tempt to escape, it will be murder in
the officer to kill him, although he
cannot be otherwise taken. Yet un
der some circumstances it may be
only manslaughter as if it appears
death was not intended. It is con
sidered better to allow one gnily of
only misdemeanor to escape altogeth
er thau to take his life.
Here is what the Atlanta Republi
can has to say about Radical pros
pects in Georgia this fall. “There are
80,000 colored voters in Georgia, and
130,000 whitt-s. A full vote-will, b-
polled this year, and not one colored
man in a thousand will vote the
Democratic ticket. Admitting that
there wili be fair elections, that every
Republican will be permitted to vote
and have his vote counted, and that
25,00 whites from various causes may
not vote at all, from I5,0u0 to 20,000
must be had to enable the party to
march to victory. These white votes
we believe can, with the right sort of
effort, be had. These votes we are
working for, and from the present
outlook would judge that the last
one of them will be polled in next
November.” The above calculation
reminds us of the boy who, on being
asked how p any fish he had caught,
replied : “Wheu I catch the one that
is nibbling now and two more I wili
have three ”—Savannah News.
There are 3,000 Knights of Honor
in Mississippi.
The last Mississippi legislature
passed 700 pages of new laws.
There Bre now five hundred ton?
of silver iu the government vaults.
The population of Richmond, Va.'
is 80,000, of which only 46,000 are
whi’e.
Clark Mills proposes to undertake
an equestrian statue of Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston.
The finest grade of Sea Island cot
ton, called nonrareil, has sometimes
sold as high as $2.50 per pound.
Why Don't the Immigrants Go South J
[New York Son ]
Mr. Francis For taine.theCi'mmis
sioner of Immigration from Georgia,
showed recently iu the Sun what
great inducements that State offe/s
to new settlers. Yet with immigra
tion going on at the rate of two thou
sand a day, it is impossible for him
to get a score of domestic servants
for Georgia. The freshly arrived Ger
mans, Scandinauan*, English, and
Irish are crowding the trains for the
West, ten or fifteen thousand proceed
ing thither weekly. But it is hard to
get a car load of them for the South.
Senator Brown ■■ His Explanation of
His Republican Totes.
Savannah News ]
“On three different occasions I
hare had occasion to disagree with
the Democratic party ot Georgia and
to vote against it, and ou all three ol
these poiuts the subject of recon
struction after the war was the hinge
of difference. Andrew Johnson, il
you remember, entered upon a plan
of reconstruction of his own with
out consulting Congress. Tnis plan
included neither of the am. ndments
to the Constitution. I urged its
It is true that, as Mr. Fontaine 1 adoption, despite the opposition ol
sajs, most immigrants buy tickets j leading Georgians. When Congress
T , . ,, ... 4, 1 . ,, belore leaving Europe, which carry ! assembled it adopted a plan of recon-
It is thought in Texas that the I fhpm , n ! Btruel i 0 „ all its own. and ignored
. V’ ,e"„i them to distant points in the West, i struction all its own, ,
vMl Tlf 1 St-ite%rn nnfl n venr i They come in companies organized | President Johnson altogether. Tills
W,H y ield the State ^ G0 ’ 000 a year. , ,. - ti; a vjew ^ iet jj cmeat £ 8onle 1 plan include,1 the amendments, and
specific'Tegio(Fin the far Western was objectionable to mos ol our
When you take your next meal or
der tea instead of c ffee, and iu this
way help to ease the pressure of tea
that this country is at present suffer
ing under. There are 10,000,000
pounds of last year’s tea left over,
and there are 34,000,000 pounds of
Japan tea coming. When it arrives
there will b'e more tea iu this coun
try than ever there was before, aud
millions of pounds more than are j
need-, d.
The sole surviving descendant of
Count Pulaski, a woman, is trying
to recovi r a claim against the Gov
ernment due since 1777.
It is thought that Keene, the New
York speculator has already nearly
doubled the $5,000,000 he brought
with him Irom California.
Payne, one of the Ohio Demo
cratic candidates for the Presidential
nomination, is worth $3,000,000, and
his son, who is an oil man, is worth
$3,000,000, more.
The decrease in the public debt for
the mouth of May, is fifteen millions,
nine hundred and twenty-eight thou
sand and thirty-three dollars a: d
eighty-seven cents.
Lieutenant Knight, the counsel
for Cadet Whittaker, thinks that
Whittaker will pass examination
without trouble, as lie i3 dangerously
deficient only in philosophy.
Postmaster General Maynard is a
native of Massachusetts, and his
wife is a native of Verm >nt, a daugh
ter of the Rev. A. Washburns,a Con
gregational clergyman in Royalton.
Miss Beatrice Ord, the eldest
daughter of Gen. Or l, is said to be
engaged to marry Gen. Travino, of
the Mexican army. The ceremony
will take place at Galveston, shortly.
Chattanooga Times: All the saw
mills along the South and North Al
abama railroad are kept busy supply
ing order9 for lutnb -r. Large quan
tities cf this lumber are shipped to
Northern markets.
Justice S. J. Field is Said to be
regarded as the handsomest mail o-i
the bench of the United Suites Su
preme Court IU has a Shakesp-.-r-
ean head, with bald forehead and
pointed chin and board.
A notic; of appeal to the Supreme
Court of California has been tiled
from the order of the Superior Court,
sustaining the demurrer, to the com
plaint and dismissing the pr ceedings
instituted to r move Mayor Kallocu
from office.
Clark Mills, the sculp'or, has been
presented by the Tennessee Histori
cal Sod ty with a beautiful gold-
headed cane made of hickory wood
from the “Hermitage.” This is the
first testimonial ever given to any |
one by this society.
Accounts have been ree-ived by j
telegraph of a dri adful state of fain-1
ine existing in Armenia and West |
Persia. Hundreds of the inhabitants i
are dying of starvation, and without j
specdv help. wtiiCb *s n-rpl-A-e.
banquet <>| death will be general in
the ill-fated districts.
The bnPal prise fight between
Goss and Ryan, far the heavy weight
championship, was fought on toe 1st
ar Colli
St\tes. Therefore it is useless to ap
proach them after their arrival with
inducements to make their homey
elsewhere. - •
Unques' ionably it is a great advan
tage for them that they should em
bark for the New World with their de
finite des illation fixed in advance.—-
The organizations of recent years for
bringing over these companies of for
eigners, many of whom are neigh
bors, and placing them in prearrang
ed settlements, are a decided im
provement on the old unsystematic
way, when so many of tlie immi
grants crossed with only a great idea
of making for themselves homes
somewhere in the republic. They
give to immigration the system it
needs, and benefit bath the new
comer and ourselves. Though Cas
tle Garden is n w receiving a much
larger number of arrivals than ever
before in its history, its business
proceeds after an oiderly fashion,
and but a few h m r s intervene be
tween the landing of the immigrants
and continuance of their journey to
the West. They an thus protected
against the runners who once plun
dered them, and are no longer a Jaz
ed crowd, without leadership or a
definite purpose.
But why do they not learn the ad
vantages of the Smth as a place for
settlement before they leave Europe?
Why do they cuoose the West and
neglect the fertile S-nitl ? The
agents of Southern States can pre
sent inducements as well as the agents
who organize the c wipiuies who go
to Iowa and Wisconsin, Minnesota
aud Kansa~; but why do they find
it so hard to get the lHtending emt
grants to listen to them ?
Undoubtedly Mr Fontaine is right
in saying that Georgia and otiur
Southern States are ready to cordial
ly receive immigrants. Of Course
they want them, for the amount of
improved laud throughout the South
which is Seeking purchasers is enor
mous, and ot unimproved laud there
is a still greater supply, 'i he more
good citiz ns are ad led to the differ
ent States, the richer will be those
who are already there.
In Virginia, iu Georgia, in No'tli
Carolina, and iu other Southern
States, there is also an abundance of
mineral wealth which needs develop
ment. Morover, an increasing popu
lation will stimulate and require the
building of new railroads, and the
increas -and improvement of ordina
ry toads, whic-li are now in a bad
stale throughout the South. In mar
ket gardening alone thousands of
G i'T'vjns, who understand economi
cal agricu 'ore, could speedily earn
ng in the many
mlortabl
vino, near t;oln rs station, 1 1Uvorabll! l, JOa lit,es ai~Atlantic
West A lrginm, m-ar the Pennsylva- , ClMSt . This 8ort uf h,V b een
ma bounda-y line,and resulted in the developed since the in
defeat of Goss, after a severe contest, p. ir ^ Virginia, m Suit h_CaroVr*a,
of eighty-five rounds. j iUU ) Florida, i ut it can be profitably
A Pennsylvania paper says that. T. I extended much further. Along the
A. Scott has never been a heavy hold-! Gulf coast of Alabama there t
er of Pennsylvania took until ro- * u.-itnirutile regi -n for it. Florida is
now sending tis a supply of early
cently. when he increased his hold
ings to a matter of two thousand
shares. He i« believed to be worth
$4,000,000 to $5 000,000, and his in
come is put at $200,000.
Gen. W. W. Luring, formerly in
the service of the Khedive of Egypt,
hut who returned to this country
several years ago and settled in Flor
ida, is being pressed for the Demo
cratic nomination for Cungnss in
the s'-cond district of that State,witli
good prospects of success.
At the Madison Square Theatre
the air is cool d by passing it over
two tons of ice. During the present
week mechanism will be introduced
which will still further reduce the
temperature. Mr. Mack aye say3 that
he can make the auditorium cool
enongb to keep butter solid.
The tide of summer travel to the
watering-places having set in, the
Southern general passenger and
ticket agents m- t in c nventi"D at
Chattanooga on tlie 4th to fix the
rates. They endorsed the action ot
the Cincinnati Southern in fixing
two cents per mile as the basis of
through rates.
Tin re is a firm at Vicksburg of
Montgomery & Sons, c->tnp >sed of a
father and two sons. They are col
ored men and were once the slaves of
Jefferson Davis’ brother. They have
paid two-thirds of $75,000, the pur
chase price of a plantation, are lessees
of the Davis plantations, and employ
1,000 hands. The sons are educated
and capable and all highly respected.
Mr. Brown, the new Georgia Srna-
ator, lias a clerical look, and wears
long, white whiskers tapering to a
point He is a Baptist, anil lately
presented $50,000 to his denomina
tion. General Gordon is also an ac
tive church member, often praying
and preaching in camp and church.
Governor Colqutt is a member of tlie
Methodist General Conference, Pres
ident of the International Sunday-
school Association, and a gaod lay
preacher.
Athens Banner: “The first step
of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad
after completing its road to Chatta
nooga, is to c nnect itself with Enox-
ville. Vve are informed bv the Chat
tanooga Times that, the Knoxville,
and Ohio Railroad will be extended
from Clinton, about forty miles from
Knoxville, to connect with the Cin
cinnati Southern at Emory Gap.—
The surveys have been made, aud
the work will commence in a few
days. Athens is looking toward Cin
cinnati through Rabun Gap aud
Knoxville.”
Pat: “ Do you buy
bones here ?”
Merchant: - “ We do, sir.'
rags
and
vegetables, lor which the demand
large and steady, and i ; s oranges
Command a higher price than any
otners. The profit from a Florida
orange grove when once it has been
brougot into hearing is said to be
one of the best within the reach of the
agriculturist, and the cultivation of
oranges may be many timed increased
there and in Alabama without over
stocking llie market.
We leave entirely out of considera
tion the grain and cotton crops ol
the Sou'h, for what can be done
with them is well oudersttood. IfTeX-
as alone raised the crop of cotton it is
capable of producing, its yield would
tqiml the whole crop now produced
at the South.
Aud yet immigrants shun the
South. Mr. Johu Bright says it is
b- cause the old temper of the poeple
continues to exist, and tinqu •stiona-
bly there is a feilit gabroad that this
is the case. Immigrants ar- afraid
that they will not get. hospitable treat
ment at the South ; that the Stigma
of slavery put upon labor will stand in
the way of their equality. They
hear from their friends in tin United
States reports of the South which
makes them avoid it, and they have
greater hopes of social as well as ma
tt rial advancement in tiie West. It is
the old curs - of slavery that haunts
the South, which is now plac-.d un
der the necessity of proving us hos
pitality towards free labor, and its
disposition to give it the place of
honor it deserves.
Mr. Fontaine, we well Know,
speaks only the truth when he says
that the industrious immigrant is
sure of proper consideration m Geor
gia; aud that his chances of profita
ble employment in that State and in
other Sou-hern States are in many
respects untqualed at the West, is.
indisputable. A faruu-r with a little
capital has au unexcelled opportuni
ty there.
But the South has a prejudice
against it to conquer. Wheu it has
once overcome tnat, the success ol
the companies of settler? w’ho will
arrive will advertise its advantages to
many thousands more, and the hue
of immigraton will begin to pour
that way. Rapid immigration to tlie
Sorth must take place before numy
years, for nature Jias made it ou
some accounts the most desirable
part of the couutry, and it is yet a
thinly peopled region.
“ General Pope is to succeed Gen
eral Schofield at West Point,” says
the Washington correspondent o!
the Richmond State. He will be
W. TL PHILLIPS & CO.
1
Machinery of All Kinds
MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS FOR
Sixty-four different makes of STEAM ENGINES and BOILER
ranging from 3 to 40 horse-power—new and second-hand—all at very lot
prices.
Also agents for the ALBANY and
BROWN COTTON QIIN".
mos
people, who thought that if they re
fused it the coming election would
sweep the country forthe Democrats,
nrd then all would be changed. I
thought differently. I had s udied
history, and came on io the conclu
sion from precedents that the victo
rious party in ererv civil war re
mains in power at least fifteen years.
My judgment was that we should
accept the reconstruction acts, get '
representation in Cougress and do
the best we could. I was antagoniz
ed and viliided throughout the State.
I knew I was right, and subsequent
events showed that I was. My let
ter iu favor of the reconstruction acts
was attacked by Senator ilill and all
other Georgians of prominence. I
think, however, that the final adap
tion of these was pretty good evi
dence that I was right. Wheu Gen
eral Pope was Sent down South to
enforce these acts he was made a
military emperor over Georgia, Flori
da and Alabama. He intended to
establish his headquarters at Mont
gomery. Thinking over the matter,
1 concluded that it would be the best
for my State to have him at Atlanta.
I got up a committee and met him
at the depot. We took him to a ho
tel, treated him most cordially, and
the followin night got up a banqm t
for him. After the bai quet Gener
al Pope came to the conclusion that
he might just as well st iy at Atlanta
—so there he made his headquarters.
I consulted with him almost con
stantly. I prevented hi3 arresting
General Toombs—just after the lat
ter’s return from Europe—for the
publication of a defiant letter in Cin
cinnati. While I was laboring with
him to preventGener.il Toombs’ ar
rest, General Pope wanted to knew
what in the h—l l wanted to inier*
fere for, because Geueral Toombs was
attacking me every chance lie got. 1
told him it was lor lhe principle, not
the man alone, that I fought. Al
bert (Jex, of L iGrange, made a fiery
and ill-advised speech at Athens, for
which Genera! Pope- wanted to close
ihe University. I had a good deal of
trouble iu keeping him from carrying
out this desire too. In all tins 1
acted in antagonism to the Demo
cratic party because I believed sub
mission to the conqueror, which car
ried with it a renewed n-pr. senta-
ti'.n in CungresS, was better for the
State than opposition. 1 voted and
spoke for Bull -ck for Governor. This
is the second time that 1 opposed the
Democratic party. I was Icr Bul
lock because tits ticket was that of the
reconstructionsisis. The tlnra time
that I opposed tlie Democracy was
in the first Presidential elec ion after
the war. Blair had writ en h:s let
ter d daring tirot the reconstruction
acts were iiuil and void, and that the
President had power to set them
nsidi'. Seymour and Blair were nomi
nated on a platform which suhstan
tiaMy contained that plank. I could
not support them because I Still neld
that recon,traction on any terms
and a renewal 0 f representation in
Congress was the V. £ t chance lor tile
State. Therefore 1 vo-«J lin J work
ed for L lysses to. Grant, vj : was a
ivconstructionist. I next w-ut on
the State Supreme Court bench,
have Deen until now practically out oi
public life. When Governor Smith
was nominated by the Democrats,
after reconstruction had been accoin
piisbed, I voted and worked fur him
bi-cause I was a Democrat. 1 voted
in that contP3t against one of my
dearest friends—a friend from boy
hood—and have never, on the score
of friendship, quite forgiyen myself
for it. But party conviction carried
the day. I think I have been of
some service to my party—the D mo-
cratic party—and that, without egot
ism, I may claim that Joseph E.
Brown has not been found warning
where he was needed, either in mon
ey matters or in work.”
PACKING SCRB-WS, SEPARATORS, THRESHERS, CORJ
MILLS AND FARMING IMPLEMENTS, in general. We had s fin
trade in tiiis line last year, and general satisfaction was given. We areals
Dealers in General Merchandise
ind have in store a well selected stock of
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS
CLOTHING AND ’GROCERIES
All of which we will sell low. either for cash or to -jrompt paying time cus
turners. We are agents for GEORGE A. CLARK’S
O. 3V. T."
And will sell at retail and also will job is to meichauta at regular jobber
prices.
10,000 Pounds of Wool Wanted
We will pay highest price for all the washed wool brought to ns.
Persons contemplating the erection of buildings may save money 1
calling on us for prices ol LUMBER, LATHS and SHINGLES. Gan
aud see us.
apr29tf
W. M. PHILLIPS & CO.,
Cedartown, Gra.
B IEEE & HALiLa,
DSAiiSns rsr-
GfflEEAI HARDWAEE.
SUCH A.S
Heady-Made Plowfc, FlowStocks,
Nails. Iron andJSteel, Spades,
Shovels, Hoes/Rakes, Ma
nure Forks etc.,
Buggy WMieels, Shaft s Poles anc
Circles,
, arrows,
Saws, Files, Locks, Hinges, Chains, etc.
We have just opened a Hardware House in Cedartown, and
itsk a trial in Goods and prices: We are
Strictly in the Hardware Business,
and will be prepared to furnish goods in our line as cheap as
they can be bought in any maiket. Give us a trial before going
elsewhere.
— FOR
The Kr.'g t-: of Honor.
The Charleston News and Courier
commenting on the recent session of
tlie Supreme Lodge ic that city,
says:_
Tlie growth and snceess of the
Order of Knights of llonor.during
the past five years bag been unpar
alleled in the history of aiy order or
beneficiuty institution. It sprang
into notice first in 1873, and not un
til the fall o 18^4 did it nake any
progress. In 1875 and 1876 its
growth was more rapid, aud in 1877
it numbered about 20,000 nembers.
In 1878 it grew to 40,000, aid at the
present time it numbers little less
than 60,000.
In view of the fact thit during
the years 1878 and 1879, he Order
was visited with yel'ow ever and
tried as if by fire, yet its gowth has
been steady and healthy. In 1878
the- yellow feyer swept way 193
members, but in 1879 onlv29 deaths
occurred in the Order. 'Jhe Order
con l ri bn ted in death bem-lts and in
reiiek binds in 1878 to the unities of
the mombi rs of tlie Knighj of Hon
or, $405,000. Iu 1879 i patd as
death benefits, on account f yellow
fever $58,090, aud for relietof mem
bers and their families, $10)00. By
the prompt and judicionsissue of
official circular No. 2, at tie first
breaking out of the fever 1st year,
the members were able to remove
with their families to places j" safety,
thereby saving their livesjnd the
lives of their fatniTes,and mriv thott- !
- 1 r. 1 ..IV .1 _ r\ l * I
SCHOOL. -BOOKS,
SLATES, PENCILS, PAPER,
Pens, Inks, Crayons, &c.,
C3-0 TO
BRADFORD & WALKER’S DRUG STORE
Main Street Cedartown, Ga.
Announcement Extraordinary !
Cr. W. FEATHERSTOS
Has opened out his
Spring and Summer Stock,
Which embraces a fiue line of new, neat and seasonable gvod, and will ba
a dd at prices
IjOWBR TTTATM
Be sure and call before purchasing elsewhere.
ZiOWSiST
jan8-tf.
A. KUTeHERTY,
dealer:in
First - Class Liquors, Wines,
Brandies, Beer, Cider, &c.,
sands of dollars to the Order,
CBDAHTOWN, - - - Gk£30H«IA
Politicians-are sure of noite?.—
The man who is the dark ijrse to-
bie to teach the hoys to get them- day may tv-the bray
Pat: “ Thin,
cn the schfcttles."
be
es into scrapes, and then pnt the morrow, aud the next day In nay be i recommended for medicinal purposes.
jabers. put-me J blame on somebody else, as he did in nothiug ar all b
the Ball Run business. 'donkey.—Detroit
but a disajmuted
Free Press,
>f
Buys direct from Distillers, and consequently gives customers ad van
I ‘ages none others can offer. Has the Sole Agency for “CLB V£T£RAN
, Copper Distilled KENTUCKY RYE WHISKY. A fiue Wiusky, biguiy
Keeps on hand a good line of TOEaCCO and CIGARS.
1 make a business of boyiaf ana selling mules.
jan 13 tf,