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BANNER-WATCHMAN.
PERSONAL. MEN TION.
Mrs. Howard Van Epps, of Atlanta,
is visiting her family in this city.
Mr. Gordon, of Danielsville, was in
town yesterday. He is a wheel-horse
for Candler.
We had a pleasant eall yesterday
from Prof, Barer, a warm Candler man
of Nicholson.
Judge Erwin, it is said, will upon his
retirement from the bench form a law
partnership with Hon. Po|>e Harrow.
We are glad to learn that Mr. Iaifler-
ty, who was thrown from a horse a
few days since, is recovering very rup-
idly.
A petition was circulated In the city
vesterdav favorable to tlje candidacy
of Hon. I’ope Barrow for United States
Senator from Georgia.
Co). Kohcrt <i. Ingersoll’s lectures
arc being translated and circulated by
lhidhist priests in Japan to counteract
tlie teachings oftlie ( liristianmission
aries.
Georgia papers arc -boasting that
Alexander H. Stephens 110* weighs
Ido pounds, which is tfiree pounds
more titan ever Wfore, anu'feut he has
the eye of a boy of Is.
MARKET REPORT.
OFFICE OF BANNER-WATCHMAN,
Sep. * 5, lwc2
COTTON MARKET.
Tone Market quiet.
t.oo«i Middling ••••
Middling
Middling
t.ood onlinury
ordinary
RETAIL PRICES.
TVday * (Juntation*.
Grain, Provision, £tc.
Fl.ol'K aNIM.KAIN.
FLO l’ It—Fancy
Clioice I
Extra
Superfln
Bolted Meai
ltoited Grils
Bran •
i 0 KS_*White. sacks
Mixed
Bulk 3f*4 cent* lest
OATS—Red Kn»t Proof..
M ixt'd Oat*
Rice Flour. Bilik
Pearl Grim
SUM-k Meal
1IAY—Western
Kaxleru
Northern choice
M KAT, PRODUCE, 4C.
BACON—Smoked C. H. Bide*
iu.okt d Shoulders
1»8 MEAT—C. H. Side* -
Lour Clear Sides ....
Shoulder*
Bellie*
HAMS—Canvi
>fed.
TOBACt 6-Coiniuou to Medium
Smoking
Fancy Chewing
BAGGING—Eastern Jute
TIES—Arrow
Pierced -
Su n art and others .......
11U»KS— Dry Flint
(•rceu • -•••
11ITAT0KS— Irish, jK-r barrel ...
Sweet. perbufheL • •
A PPI.ES—Choice, per barrel
Common, per barrel .
ONIONS—per barrel
OHAStiKS • -
BUTTER—Goshen Mt Edge
Good Country
I-ARP—Tierces
Tub.aund Kegs
EGGS....
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Smi.il lots .. ...
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Standard A
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White KxtraC...
Extra C
Yellow C
MOLASSES—Black Strap..
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DECAPITATED BRIEFLETS-
Candler booming.
Lots of new clerks.
Cottonjdekers wanted.
The nights are beautiful. >-
New converts every day.
One by one the roses fall.
Cotton is on the advance.
Cotton roiled in yesterday.
The mornings are <|Uitecool.
Athens should have a dog law.
Watermelons nearly played out.
Campaign subscribers rolling in.
Sunshine is opening cotton very
fast.
A fact that cannot smile la never
good. J. • * \ I 1 7 . V j
Speer may get one vote from the po
lice force.
The Georgia factory is almost solid
for Candler.
The brag cotton pickers are coming
to the front.
/ Two' ngwly discovered comets art-
now visible. : » * V it
Mat Davis' Bondsmen.—Dr. Ham-
jjtoy.^Irr AsUurydfodgjowau^ Prof.
IB. 4A Birrbw, weieara.wvnt on the
bond of Madison Davis.
V--A
We get l.othing hut good news from
every county.
-Work has commenced on t|ie new
Georgia depot.
Our bindery is turning out some
beautiful work.
Tomato juice is the latest remedy for
removing warts.
There are old circus rings scattered
all over the city.
Many of our country friends called
on us yesterday.
Make your communications short
and to the point.
All our secret societies arc in a flour
ishing condition.
Every fair day now makes hundreds
of bales of cotton.
Madison county will soon give a big
Candler barbecue.
Muscadines, cliinqucpins and '|h>s-
sums arc now ripe.
Ere long the sound of tlie college
bell will be beard.
Broad street presented a busy ap
pearance yesterday.
Eight indciieiidents are running for
congress in Georgia.
The present seems to lie an ofl year
in allium in Georgia.
The hottest days of this year were in
May and September.
The French are now eating earth
worms fried in hatter.
Mr. J. E. Talmadge has a fine crop
of young carp hatching.
The Clarke county chain-gang is
said to hi- solid for Sjieer.
Western buggy and wagon work
sells in great lots in Athens. ,
The oourt house cistern is nothing
but an uusiglitly hole as yet.
Cotton seod cleaners are attached to
many public gins this season.
One of the most beautiful girls on
the stage is supporting Bishop.
The transit of Venus, next month,
will excite world wide attention.
Bahbecuk.—'The boys Lad anoth
er stag barbecue at Helicon SpWitgg,
Monday, that was a highly enjoyable
affair. These re-unions occur every
week. ‘ ‘‘' " ' 0
Pauper Coffins.—Clarke county
has a contract by which it pays from
$1.25 to $8 per coffin for its pauper dead.
They are made of pluiu pine and only
stained.
Entomology.—This pursuit is quite
popular in Athens now, and many of
our young ladies are collecting and
arranging cabinet of worms, butter
flies, etc.
Pluck.—Don’t you know that close
application to business, coupled with
pluck, honesty and industry, wins
every time? Don’t you know Skiff,
the Jeweler?
Is It True?—We are told that
Broad street was once covered with
rock, as Is now being done, but in a
w years they sunkenytbe mud and
~d pot be found. . / _ ' | [_j
Too Thankful for Words.
CoAl. RCS CKOrMNU, ARK., Muy 23. 1SS0.
II. II. Waihikr A Co: sin—I am too thankful
to express in wont, the good your Sale Liver and
Kliianev Cure has done my family.
Rev. P. F. Xiuux
A Bio Pitli’E.—We learn that the
Georgia railroad pays the Athens fac
tory ♦130 per day for letting off the
water front its pond, so as to build
the bridge across the river.
Texas Poxies.—Mr. Toon Powell,
on Thursday, bought a drove of Texas
mares from Mr. Holman. He pur
chased them for breeding purposes,
and will go extensively into stoek-
raising.
A Generous Ac t.—When Col. Al
len Candler was teaching sellout at
Jonesboro, just after the war, he never
eliarged maimed soldiers for tuition,
and said as long as tie eould manage to
live without It he never would do so.
v grasp 1
. »r full pi
KuUoul A Co.. U> Barclay 81.. N.
Uui
TRADE NOTES
,|.d with Sundry Local llama, Laconl
cally Notoci.
Ml a it in mind tnat Ijnwe A Co. keep only the
bu»i a lid purest li<iuor. t their bur.
Con imkta iilk Led. and a tlrMl-rlar* attention
can be had at it. H. Lumpkin's. Don't footet
Tiik only place in the city you can get the la
moiis Maxey's aweetmaah whisky is Lumpkin's.
r H. Labi-kin keeps the llnest bar-room in
the city and the purest and best liquors.
Til k only ten-pin alley in the city and the best
billiard and pool tables at Lampklu's saloon.
Ik yon want to lie treated like a Lord patron-
axe the popular saloon ol It. 11. 1 umpkin.
Iaiwk A co., wholesale and retail liquor deal
ers. Ur «ud street, Athens, Pa. Kemembar.
] k you waul tlie best cigars sold in the city,
buy of Lowe A Co. Try "Punch and Judy."
THE beat keg and bottled beer, porlorale, etc,
»l» ays fresh at the bar of Lowe A Co.
bi-s Si-kino is the bestbrandolryewhiaky
a dd in Athena, although the Family Nectar is
uar-l lo eclipse. Only found at I-owe A Co's.
Lowk A Co. ran and will duplicate, If notun-
deraell. any bill ol liqnora aold In Georgia at
wholesale. A trial is all they eak.
oi k irleiids from the country can get the beat
and cheapest bottled liquors at Lowe A Co'i
uua country corn whisky has a reputation
tliroughuut the South. Try a quart or gallon.
Koit the hueat imported wines, brandies and
hquora ol all kiuda at Lowe A Co's.
I.,,w K A Co's cigars are the belt in the city.
No disurdvr characters or loafers are tolerated
around the bar ol ,1-uwe A Co. We keep there
only our l-est and purest llcuora—guaranteed.
WiitskiKs of the old Kentucky style are stead
ily increasing in favor with thoue people who
seek absolute purity combined with that fruity
and mellow llavor to be found only In the gen
nine pnaliiel ol "Old Kalmuck.” llaryer a AVI
fc, manly HViisly is an-1 has been lor yeara be
lore tlie public and has aa well merited a repu
tation in Its own State as it possesses ubroud.
Sold only by J. II. D. llcuase, Athena, Us.
liBisu your Jub printing, binding book work
etc. to the W atchman otltce. Maganines and
music tainnd. Blank hooka made. Hilling
handsomely done. We defy competition In prl
ces and class of work Irom any quarter.
Death Tiirm All.—A practical test
mailt- l)v llramblett A Bro. ut Foray tit,
shows that Cheiry’a Fruit Kvaporator
w ill do tw ice tlie work ol any in the nutr-
kc*. Write U> McBride A to., who will
give positive proof.
MY.LIQUOR
lias always commanded the com
im-ndution of tlie most fastidious con
noisseurs for its purity, healtlifulness
and delicacy, Jn which qualities I am
justified in saying that it has never
been excelled. By tlie slowness offer-
mentation the g-neration of fusil oil
is almost entirely obviated, and b:
tlie perfect manner of distillation a!
deleterious substances are eliminated
from the spirit. It is especially re
commended from Us purity and wbole-
siuiieiiess for medicinal purposes.
I. W. Haki-er, Distiller, Nelson
County, Ky. v t . i 1 If.
sole agent:
J. H. D. BKUSSE, Athens Oa.
I rand preparations are being n
Candler’s reception In Athens.
made
Sale of a Circus.—At Coup’s sale
in Detroit last Tuesday the circus
property brought $35,000. The 87
horses and 3 elephants were purchas
ed by George Case, a livery stable man
in one lot, for which he paid $18,750.
Blooming the Second Time.—
There is an apple orchard on the Wat-
kinsville road wherein the trees pre
sent the singular sight of being load
ed with ripe fruit and blooms at the
same time. It is a general thing over
the orchard.
Grand
for
The next meeting of tlie Candler
club will be at Denpree opera house.
The late storm killed large num
bers of English sparrows in the city.
We learn that Pink Morton apd
Dick Harris went on MatDavis' bond.
E. C. Long A Co. received a large
shipment of lead and paint yesterday.
Lookout for Nicholson, Sanford A
Co’s big advertisement in our weekly.
Tlie sorghum crop is unprecedented.
All over tlie country the yield is large.
The Candler club will open an oflli-e
on Broad street and employ a secretary.
A sail history is connected witli a
lonely grave on the Watkinsville
road. . .: i !
“ Vom Kippur” is the next Jewish
holiday, and occurs on next Saturday
week, r
Air-rL. F. Edwards, of Oglethonie,
says he just 500 bushels of corn by the
storm. t
.Mr. AValker, ol the Walton News,
has bought a good job press from this
oltice.
Wonder if Mr. Speer won’t now has
ten home to the rescue of “My Dear
Mat?’’
A young lady in Athens is said to
resemble Mrs. Langtry, the English
beauty.
They now say the l T . S. government
is buying up the Coulederute bonds to
sell them.
The present campaign is freer from
back-biting slanders than any one we
ever knew. “
Mr. Orr, of Jackson, thinks the late
storm has benefited the cotton crop in
his section.
Another soul mode happy! Head
the letter of “J. T. M.” Let the good
work goon!
The latest style hats and tights pants
are being donned by the average
young man.
It is estimated that the south will
make 7,0(10,000 gallons of cotton-seed
oil this year.
All the railed delegates say Ath
ens sells goods f cheaper than Atlanta
or Savannah.
If the ladies of this district could
vote Candler would he elected by a
solid majority.
The triplets lately born in Oconee
weigh only thrae pounds each, hut
are doing well.
There is a Greenback candidate for
tin- legislature in Juckson, and he will
carry a good vote.
Tlie recent lowering of freight rates
on cotton gives great satisfaction
among our cotton men.
Tlie tightness of the money market
is not expected to be relieved until Oc
tober, and perhaps not until Novem
ber.
A republican office-holder was back
ing Dr. Stewart in Athens. This looks
bad for the old man’s so-called democ
racy.
The Athens Candler club will meet
next Wednesday night at Deupree
Hall. Let all of our friends come out
and participate.
Mr. Matthews, a Speer man, con-
ceeds Jackson to Candler by 300 nut-
n ', and says little Madison is solid
ic “One-eyed Flow Boy.”
Whoever makes .a great fuss about
doing good, does very little: he who
wishes to be seeu and noticed When
doing good, will not do it loop. '
was heard to say
Our Post-Office.—On July 1st
Athens was raised to the grade of a
second-class post-office, which not on
ly gives the postmaster ail increase of
salary, but entitles him to office-rent,
fuel, etc. “My Dear Mut,” however,
has not availed himself of these bene
fits. ’ ' ’ I
Death of Major Wells.—We are
pained to learn from the Augusta
News of the death of Major Lyman
Wells, in Chattanooga. The deceased
was once superintendent of the North-
Eastern railroad and had many
friends in Athens. He was a noble
gentleman.
Bui'RRSTiTION.—There is a gentle
man In Athens who is a strong believ
er ill dreams. He says that he ilream-
ad of losing a tooth and in less than a
week his mother died. Afterwards of
losing both eye-teetli, and the next
day his father was fatally stricken
THE VERY LATEST NEWS.
‘A sharp frost has visited Minnesota.
The tarlll commission, lias arrivi
in Atlanta.
Tiie yellow fever is growing evei
day worse in Pensacola.
The Home Insurance Company, of
Columbus, O., has foiled.
A cable is to be laid between Portu
gal and the United Sates.
Madagascar is now raging.
The Crar was not crowned
cow, as had been expected. —
Tlie Khedive proposes to banish Ara-
bi Bey to the United States.
There is now a decided coolness be
tween Arthur and Conkling.
Lightning killed five persons in a
Concordia, Arizona, church.
Mrs. Garfield is splurging out on the
money given her by the people. ‘ 1 '
Next Sunday is to be observed in
England as a day of thanksgiving.
Sweet potatoes are being shipped
north from Georgia by the car-load.
The Southern Chatauqua has been
located at Monteagle Springs, Teun.
Tlie report published yesterday that which, partially dried by
Abdullah had been shot is not con- send forth vapors loaded.\
firmed.
Thomas McCabe, only sixteen years
of age, was on trial for murdering his
mother.
The cotton was not as badly damag
ed as at first reported, in southwest
Georgia.
Irish laborers on forms in England
are being frequently mobbed by Eng
lishmen.
Mr. Wm. Simmons, of Dawson, Gn.,
was found dead in his bed the other
morning.
Stephens, Colquitt and Hardeman
are new delivering speeches in south
west Georgia.
Tt now turns out that Engineer Mel
ville’s wife is a spendthrift, a drunk
ard and a shrew.
The telephone company has been
restrained from discriminating lie-
twet n customers. ,
The Georgia car com]iauy at Carters-
villc have recently declared a divi
dend of twenty-five per cent.
Matamoras and Brownvilleare again
open to eaeli other; the fever lias left
tlie former and ceased tn|lieau epidem
ic in the latter.
Sunk in the River.—Two sewing
macUfjpMM&aMINtgen are said to rest
at the I bottom of the Oconee, near the
lower bridge. Several years ago a
sewing maotAne agent ran ofl at that
point and narrowly escaped death, af
ter losing his road. Neither the wag
on or machines have ever been recov
ered
INVISIBLE POISON.
How It Works Ita Way Into tha Body and How to
Counteract It.
reatVcidfrges of tlie pres-
,11 pnrW or America has
.. This is a trouble so
treacherous in its nature and so dan
gerous in its results as to justly cause
apprehension wherever it has appear
ed. But thdife are so many erroneous
ideas upon the subject that a few
words are in order at a time when peo-
A war between the various tribes Ilf ore to subject to n^tla^lat fufiu-
■ ^i-'folaria, which meatii simply bad
in Mos*- air, is the common name of a class of
diseases which arise from spores of
decaying vegetable matter, thrown off
‘ ntdools p'r~
in g deco,
inqali
or taken into the system with water
soon eater the blood and germinating
there find a foothold, whereby the
whole system is poisoned and the va
rious functions disordered. When the
germ theory of disease was first ad
vanced that these spores were of ani
mal u&ture, and like the bacteria in
diphtheria were propagated in the
blood, but they are now conceived to
be of vegetable origin, like the fungi
found on decaying wood or in cellars.
Tlie source of this state of the air is
generally swamps or stagnant pools,
tlally dried by the hot sun,
vapors loaded.with this ma
larial poison. These vapors descend
to the earth in the night, cooled by
the loss of temperature, and breathed
by sleepers are readily inhaled.
Hence persons living near stagnant
pools or manthesare liable to beaffiict-
ed with cqiils and fever, and such lo
calities are never healthy, though
they are more so when the streams
flowing into them are pure, and also
when the water is high. Again the
drainage of houses, slaughter houses,
barns, etc., are a fertil source of mala
ria. One will often notice in coming
into the neighborhood of one of these
sluggish streams that pass through al
most every villa a most villainous
smell caused by the offensive refuse
which communicates its bad odor to
the atmosphere, especially on iiot
days. This absorbed into the system
by the lungs or taken in through wa
ter, whTcBBalso.kbsortw it through tlie
air poisons tlie blood and deranges
the whoTehystem. Tills poison is also
develnpedln force in mils grid springs
and Wellirwheu they occomefbw, and
the result of drinking these is the
same as breathing the poisonous air.
Tn the time oftlrdutli the'great quau
tilt* r.f ti.ii.iilniiovt tlini ll etna at i\” i ti $lti
tity of vegetation that dries
(fieadows, Stubblefields and
The Rountree Case.—The appeal
case of Johnson and Echols, concern
ed in the killing of Walter Rountree,
was continued untill the spring term
of the superior court. The continu
ance was based on the ground that
Judge Wright, counsel for the defense,
had got his hip broken and could not
appear for them.
Confederate Bonds.—The milk
in the cocoanut of the Confederate
bond purchase Is said to be "orders
from European capitalists, who will
make the employment of new capital
in the southern states conditional
upon the states caring for the Confed
erate promises to pay." Either this
is a lie or else the fools are not all dead
yet." ’ r . ^
Deposed from Office.—We learn
the republican convention that con
vened in Athens last Saturday took
Madison Davis, our colored postmas
ter, from the chairmanship in this
district, and elected W. H. Heard in
his stead. A white roan from Fannin
county was chosen secretary. The
meeting was harmonious, but deter
mined. ’ \ ’ T
Foit the U. 8. Senate.—We see that
the Atlanta Constitution of ■Sunday pro
poses Hon. Pope Barrow, of Clarke, -ty
succeed Mr. Bill,Mi the senate, for thi
short term. This Is a happy, suggestion,
for Mr. Barrow is one of the ablest states
men to-day in Georgia. He hits carved
a name that Is national, and will relied
honor upon his stale. We will refer to
this matter again.
At Woodstock, Ont., a young woman
committed suicide by making a fire
and standing over it until she was al
most roasted alive.
Gen. Longstreet has been interview
ed by tlie editor of tlie Atlanta Post-
Appeal. He favors independent can
didates everywhere, instead of straight-
out republicans, as the surest means
of defeating the democracy.
Philadelphia, Rcpt. 19.—Mary
Morris, aged 9 years, died this after
noon at her home from the etteets of
injuries received by being kicked in
tlie stomach by Ella Devlih, aged 13
years, last Wednesday night, during
ii quarrel between the children. Ella
has been placed under arrest.
Tlie Vicar of Hciglilngton, England,
has raised money for a chime of bells
by an exhibition game of chess. The
board was marked out on tlie turf and
the pieces were human. The cos
tumes were of the fifteenth century,
the pawns being pretty girls dressed as
pages, and it is said to have been no
wonder that the spectators willingly
paid a dollar admission fee.
HON. ALLEN D. CANDLER
The Democratic candidate T6r con
gress in the ninth district will address
the people on the issues involved-in
tlie present enmpaiguat the foliowiftg
times and plaqesto-w)t: , k /
Jefferson, Saturday, Sept. 23d.
Blairsvilie, Tuesday, Sept. 2lith.
Cleveland, Thursday,,Sept, jSith. ,
Gainesville, Saturday, Sept/SOth.
Carnesville, Tuesday, Oct. 3d.
Homer, Wednesday, Oct. 4th.
Danielsville, Friday, Oet. 6th.
Athens, Saturday, Oct. 7th. : ( J
Jasper, PiokeflS vcounty, Tuesday,
Oet. 10th
Madist>4. Morgan' county, Friday,
Oet. 13th.
r AU who desire good government
and'all who desire to hear the truth
dispassionately spoken are cordially
invited to be present.
We will publish his appointments
in the counties as soon as they are
made. It is Col. Candler’s intention
to address the people in every county
in the district.
Bv contracting a severe cough and cold, I was
coiniiclU d to give up my daily work and keep to
the nouse. A neighbor recommended me to try
a bottle of l>r. Bull’s Cough Syrup; it was pro*
cured and used; to my astonishment relief
instantaneous. Kt>. w. Clayton, Waverly, Md;
The Colored Office-Holders.—
It seems to be the idea of Speer’s negro
pets that if they can’t persuade a dar
key to vote their way to kill him.
And just abont thatlima the law steps
The Injunction.—At theconclu
sion of the argument on yesterday
Mr. Speer’s counsel asked the oourt for
time to amend his bill, which was
granted. The derision will be deliv
ered as soon as this amendtheftt is
made, unless there should be further
argument on the amendment.
Resentkxckd.—Alfred Robertson,
col., who some time since escaped
from the Clarke county chain-gang
and was recaptured, was yesterday
tried before Judge' Cobb, of 'the City
Court, and had Ills time doubled,"mak
ing 18 months yet to serve. Thisdoub-
ling a prisoner’s time for an attempt
to escape seems to us au unjust and
harsh law. " V '
up* in tlie
nil pastures,
the corn fields and forest leaves pro-
duces the same eliluvia. On tlie prai
ries when large tracts of prairie ground
are turued over, the decaying .vegeta
tion tea wide-spread cause of malaria.'
The evils which follow malarial
poisoning are almost indefinite. Dis
ease of a malignant and dangerous na
ture, aeeoiuponied by symptoms the
most distressing are certain to mani
fest themselves and life is a burden so
long as this poison remain! in tlie sys
tem. The indications ot malarial
poisaQing are loss of appetite, short
ness of breath, pains about tlie heart,
wastiug of tlesh and strength, despon
dency, nervousness, chilly sensations,
unaccountable lassitude, dull pains
in various parts of the body, head
ache, dizziness, a coated tongue and
dry mouth, night sweats, muscular
debility, puffiiug under the eyes, tin
unusual color, odor or sediment about
the fluids passed from the system, etc.
Any one of the above symptoms may
be au indication of malarial poisor. in
the body, which necessitates immedi
ate and careful attention.
But if malarial poison could not find
a lodgement in the human body, it
would be just as harmless as the oxy
gen of the air. The great difficulty is
that, after being absorbed into the sys
tem, it produces obstructions in the
stomach and lungs, clogs the circula
tion oftlie blood, uflects the kidneys,
liver and other organs, and brings on
diseases of a most dangerous charac
ter. There is only one known way by
which these diseases may be avoided
have once made
GEN. JACKSON’S SPEECH
Th« Veteran Warrior Statesman’s Eloquent
Oration upon tho Issues of tbs 8tate Cam*
pultfn What the Issues Prtnclplss and tbs
Man. 8ome Pacts of Recent History.
Friend* and feUow*ciUxcn*, ladies and gentle
men : I must confess to a feeling of embarrass*
uient In appearing before you to-night. Firat,
because by no poaubility ran I hope to briug the
original up to the flattering picture. which haa
been ao gracefully painted by the gallant gentle-
mau who haa introduced uio. And, secondly, be
cause of a natter of not the slightest interest to
the public, and yet naturally of some concern to
myself. Through a mistake of friends, who, 1 am
aure, would hare been deeply pained by the
thought or causing me the slightest embarrass
ment, it has been repeatedly announced from the
Atlanta Constitution that I proposed to speak at
different points in the state upon the political
issues before the people. Now. although It is un
doubtedly true that rarefy, of late, have I cared to
be heard upon auy political topic, yeti* is equally
true that 1 am not unwilling to apeak to any of
my people--! mean, of course, the people of
Georgia—who mat' desire to hear me, upon any
tilting occasion. But it Is doar that I cannot make
the occasion for myself, by my own appointment,
as if I were a candid ate nominated by a political
conventivii, pr werq a self-nominated todei for
penonol preferment. I am hkjfpy in the belief
that I have kind friends in Augusta* in Mi lied Se
ville, in Athens; and, should tne notice to which I
have referred chance to come to their attention, Ii
pray permission to avail myself of this occasion to
say thflt 1 purpose putting In print whatever I
shall utter to-night, andiwiU esteem its woik pf
{Headship In tbeui, and In hay of my friends any
where, to read what I sbell say at Ue.r leisure-
And now the qneetton comes up in order, what
rm 1 to aa y upon “the political Issues before the
people?” What political Issues are before tho
people of Georgia? We are repeatedly told that
men perish, but that principles are immortal and
caunot die. And we are correctly so taught, i! to
tie principles stall they must be rooted in truth.
But what principles ot that nature are now at issue
in the present political conflict? I rcisi to the con
flict for governor; for with reference to the con
gressional contest in this district, 1 shall have not
a word to say; hrat, because 1 ara not invited to
say it, but secondly and mainly because your aide
and distinguisned representative is tuan enough
to take care of himself. [Applause.] Iu my
iudgraent he needs the asaistauc of no man, and,
even if he did, he is cloaely surrounded by strong
heads and stout hearts, who will assuredly crown
with their appreciation hts success !n the post by
speeding him on to yet greater achievement in th*»
future [Applause.i In the gubernatorial cam
paign I hold that any i.eorgian has a right to apeak
auy where in the slate. And, therefore, 1 come to
speak to you here; and only constructively by in
vitation of the executive committee. I sought the
invitation for myself, und am here upon my own
motion, to say what I think ought to lie said by
me ouce for all; not, however, because! think that
Mr. Htepheus needs auy assistance from me, or
because 1 have any doubt of hia triumphant elec
tion. Phenou enal indeed, aud yet more distress
ing, would Im? the bare possibility that, at this late
day iu her history, he could be defeated tor any
thing boibre the people of Georgia. [Applause.]
But i believe that there are some things which,
u this campaign, ought to be said by some one;
and that, loukiug to my own personal antecedent*,
hum Me sod mediocre as I know them to be, I am
oue of tho men who can say, and who ought to say
them. In sliort, the candidacy of Mr. Stephens
brings certain principles and the man together,
and iwrfects a theme upon which I am store thau
willing to t>e heart!. Principles and (be tuan,
then; this will be the burdeu of the. aoitg I pur
pose singing to-night. Would 1 were a sweeter
sougsler!
FACTS OF KKCKNT HISTORY.
Principles, however, which, were we confined
to appearauces simply, are not now at issue before
the people; are to be fouud in uo ordinary politi
cal catechism, constitute planks In no partisan
platform, nre exclusively couuected with no
govern ment—state, federal, confederate or Amer
ican; but which, nevertheless, lie at the very
foundation of all republican liberty in all parts ot
the earth and in all the epochs of time, ana never
more living and practical in their character, no
where aaore imperative in their claims for recog
nition and application than now—in our day,
here in our state, and by each one of ounelye*.
Familiar to us all they may seem to be, as they
shall be unfeUledi but rest assured that here
familiarity aril! breed nocautempt. Familiar each
ouo of us must bo witb the Lord’s prayer, yet is it
not wholesome to repeat it every day; nay, every
hour of the iudlvidaal life? Familiar to tnr "
is the father’s arm, yet, if he be battling wl
waters In his early eflorts tohwim; bow n<
touch at times the father’s hand! (Jive m>
you, your attenlios; while 1 recall a-fov
recent history. j -
Mum than a fifth a century haa
hut, addrusmda polUMl <ummU
A'g candidate upon electoral
because
are the kidneys and liver. No one
whose kidneys or liver are in a per
fect condition was ever afflicted by
malarial poison. And wheu these or
gans are disordered, they not only
permit, but invite, these diseases to
make their inroads into the body. It
is now admitted bp physicians, scien
tists and the majority of the general
public that one medicine, and only
one whose power has been tested and
{ >roven. has absolute control of, and
teeps the kidneys and liver in con
stant health and hence prevents ma
larial sickness. This remedy is War
ner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the
most popular medicine before the
American people, and sold by every
druggist in tiie land. It ftilly coun
teracts the evil eitect of malarial poi
son in the system, and not only ban
ishes it, but restores the members
which that poison has weakened. How
well it does this can he learned from
the following:
Kansas City, Mo., June 26, 18S2.—
1L hYij)l/ mm i >t T B Ht 1 to 9 f N " w i> ,fl t k
totlie weslern country,! was attack
ed with mataria'Ehd general debility.
. was hardly
Cinad triad !
but nothing liet-
A republican negro
Tuesday flight that when a colored
Bad complexion sc to red with .Gj.knn’s
Sulmii'h Shap- ! i , } / J J .
“Aili.’s n.tiH Dte," bleck-ormpown^
Dike's Tootii ACiits 1 Bioiil
minute.
preventative or MA
Opinions ok Eminent PilB
iov, ok AssAjHSUa, M».—
I.,ana's Liqun> Extract of Beef and
Tonic InmookaToR U psroyUenM.su-
^■r to cod-liver oil or anything I have
used, in waltted or impaired con-
ionH^tttt^attrcmHvbcncHcia^ wall
lH-rior to
*Vt*r
Mitutions, :*t _ -
proven tali v* of WttUrUI aiWMe,
bo
N KW l88U®-r—d<
Hew issue is
a lwrtralt of
-s^ooth^obsem
side, and
relieved by the fliffli**
green. It japhrownbaclc ifistesd^l
greenback.,
Lost.*—Oi
cob’, drug
•me side with a red; the
Mack sion,.. The finder wfltBe reward
ed by leaving the same with Chas. A.
Scudder, at Brumby’s drug store.
man volfd against Mr. Speer he weut
ck on his own party and Itia own
Randall mown Was bne oftlie :
' ' i many white friends, as well as
Jored people
JCgreat sensation has been produced
inslon of Graud Tiler Clark,
of tbe Gsaud Lodge, for sending ob
scene matter through the mails,
Rev. D.
liver has accepted a po
sition wttn tne staunch firm of Tat
madge, Jones A O’Farrell, where be
will be pleated to greet his maiijf
friends. JD. C. lea wholpteam when
ever you put him'.
esville end DahlonegaRail-
is now being erected manta
oohee river, and in a few
days will he completed. Allthegrad-
ing ie done to within two mites of
Cliestatee, at Leathers Ford.
Rev. Bam Jones raid tbe congrega
tion, KMrfln dress parade Sunday
niglit* Atthe anmetlme Jones had on
a standing'Collar, white vest and i
ponderous gold chain. Nobody en
quired of J. where he picked them up,
either.
I had lost all ap
aj,(n $b move al
great many repr
tered my condition J Oh til I began
using WaruH’s 8Kidney and
Liver Cure, which seemed to help me
right away, and I feel as well as I ever
have in my life. It is a blessing to
people in this malarious country.
C. F. William,
1412 Grand Ave., of William A Co.,
Hardware. ■ ’ "
This great remedy has proven its
power in innumerable cases, and is
td-d^-more e^tesiblvely used in ma
larial districts, whether in cities or in
the country, than any or all other
remedies for the cure of the same class
of disease. No one can afford to trifle
witb tne first symptoms of malaria,
but instant care should be taken to
cheek it on tbe start before Its evil in
fluences overshadow tlie life.
A Fearful Blast.—On Monday
afternoon a blast went off at the exten
sion that threw three rocks, weighing
about 2,000 pounds each, over Ruck
er’s compress, and tore up-a large ana
of earth. Beveral persons standing
near made narrow escapes. We learn
that Mayor Rucker intends to have
those large blasts stopped, as tlieyen-
danger life and property. !
- ■ rt * ''
Dead—Alive.—Mr. Sam. Dunlap,
the engineer who was badly injured
by the run ofl oa.lhe North-Eai.ten»
railroad in August, passed dowlf* the
Air-Line yekter^ay on his-way to At
lanta. He Is able to walk tolerably
well with crutches,but his broken rjbs
have not entirely-healed. He nopSS
soon to be himself again. He express
ed himself as deeply grateful to all the
citizens of Athens and vicinity who
so ktlfdly ministered to' €6 thf,
time of-tha.aocl4en^ and requested us
to return his i sincere thauto te -all
8UCh, I
A Wise Decision.—The system of
selling goods on installments, with
the proviso that the seller may seize
tbe articles whenever a single pay
ment has been neglected, and that
irtAn tli
hbnpr obthity i
the JetveTsr.'strives'noi for wea!
the honor of being one of the best and
most reliabte Jewelers' In Georgia.
Don’t forget it when you want jewelry
or a watch repaired. ‘ * • '•■
INSO!
to visit t)
of fills gentleman, am
showen —k 1 _ .
nearly completed, for Hon. James M.
Smith, of Oglethorpe. Mr. Benson
says this wagon will hold up eight
thousand pounds any where. His
work has a reputation second to none,
ank it keeps him moving to supply the
demand. , w ^ .
The Georgia Extension.—The
blasting for the depot site was corn-
bulk of the work on the extension is
asagdMyNgffiyai
Mr. C. W. Davis, thfr Georgia Photo-
yU fa ph4r; {,) 1
graphic marqdee/xnd .aTHosoript re
porter was shown through the .place
{ /esterday, and Uke every one else, is
oudin its praise; The opening was a
perfect ovation. The, mpgnifiqent dis
play of photographs from Mr. Davis’
Georgia Gallery commanded universal^
admiration, anu the large patronage he
receives attests the public’s appreciation
of hia artistic work. • Tlie Gallery itself
is a model of elegance, and' one is im-
immense and roomy marquee was put
up by KjHug & Son, after Mr. Davis*
plans and personal supervision, the
carpeting and draperies by ShilUto,
while the scenery and backgrounds, in-
teWor and extenor, boudoir and rustic,
accessories and bric-a-brac, were by
Seavey of Sew York. Tlie Instruments
are of the very latest improved styles by
celebrated American, and English opti-
-*and range in six© trora the smallest
Mammoth. To transact his large
business Mr. Darts has assistants and
artists for the different departments;
him deliver hi* farewell address to Ills <
eats upon hi* retirement from pnblie life
of physical intimity. The nomination tor vice-
president upon the Douglas electoral ticket had
been tendered to him—had been pressed upon
him—in raiu. nut, when the fair humbler posi
tion of elector for the state was offered him, he took
it, as I now believe, impelled by the purest dic
tates of self-sacritiing patriotism. [Applause.]
Never can 1 l*»rget a scene which occurred upon
the last, iu date, ot those memorable occasions In
the midst of sn appeal to the multitude which
thronged the court house square—so powerful in
its peculiar eloquence that the very night around
us seemed to grow radiant with intellectual light
- his strength gave way; he could no longer stand;
he believed himself to be actually dying, and ex
claimed aa he sank into a chair, gaspingly: “I
could not die in a better cause.” [Applause ]
The appearance of the man, the intonation ot bis
voice, the indescribable mesmeric surroundings—
the lawyers would call them the resgestae—of the
occasion, left no possible room tor a doubt that we
were witnesses of a fare enactment in civil life of
the death scene on the Held of battle; which has
given to consummate patriotism, for all the ages,
the classical words: **Dutce et decorum est pro
pairintnoii.*’ It is sweet and honorable for one's
country to d<e. [Applause.] Stephens, as the
boy, may have been ambitious; Stephens, the
man; nay, Stephens even then, may have been
ambitions. But, ao an rely as every effect la proof
tbe most conclusive or Ita own originating cause,
it was not personal ambition wblcn gave hia name
to the Douglas electoral ticket; tt was not ambL
tlon which placed him u»on that stand that night,
if necessary to porish ther •!
But the marvelous invalid did not die. 80 far
from it the fires of (tat riotism whieh burned in his
heart renewed the life of his attenuated frame.
For hours subsequently at Savannah, for hours at
Macon when he was Introducing htt candidate,
Mr. Douglas, to tbe people of his state, in rapt at
tention 1 heard him; constrained to reflUf
tnruughout my entire being, that such eloquen.,
as lei) from liis lips, like the ringing, joyons laugh
like the pure ami genuine tear, Is allowed by the
tod «.! nature alone to tho true aud patriot heart
[Applause.] “j * , * >
STEPHSRS AT UILLKIX'.KVILLK.
Breckenridge and Douglas were both defeated
Lincoln carried the electoral college. All of ui
believed that the victor faction were attacking the
federal constitution. Most of us believed fa the
abstract right or a state to secede. To exercise
this sovereign right, or not to ^xerclae It then, that
was the question. A question of mere political
expediency, it is true, but rapidly developing it-
se'f into tho most gigantic issue that has over
shaken Georgia or the South. To be considered
and decided first by the geueral assembly at if 11-
ledgeville, the leading intellects of the state were
called thither to confer with the law-makers In
her capitol lmlls. There again I heard Mr.
Stephens. There again was 1 cons
no ordinary popular biteao, bat » «y<
from tho tropics. There, too, was t' -
etTm the *“ '
tom* too painfully apparent oven to
he was struggling in vain, when, toward the close
of his effort, he said: “You knew my country
men, that 1 do love toy native state!" the magna
nimous son* of Mr. Toomb-, which never fotlod
when touched by an adequate occasion to rise
transcendent even above the grandeur of htt In
tellect, brought him to his foot with the memor
able words upon uis lips: " Ves! Alec, by
heavens! Yon do love your native state." [Ap
plause.] Where tt the man who was then upon
that floor? where the man now upou this, who
does ndt accept the words or the chief in their
fullest significance! Yes, he does love his natire
state! like the younger Pitt, with no w f* or
children of htt own. he does love her with bis
"heart of hearts." [Applause.] And there moves
not* poor and worthy coy to-day upon her bosom,
whom he would not take, it he could, to the warm
embrace of a father's arms. [Applause.]
SECESSION*
The sovereignty of Georgia, in convention em
bodied, resolved to secede from the federal union.
Where stood Stephens theu? Htt state impas
sioned—perchance distempered—had rejected htt
counsel, and elsewhere looked for leadership.
Saddened, undoubtedly, he must have been, but
was he embittered? From htt point of view the
future before us was full of darknees and danger.
The dread, intuition of the Scotch wlsssrd who
wanted LOchiel <>t the mountains, seemed to tie
Now. I am not here to declaim against personal
ambition. God created it, and itmuethave been
mad. for . win purpoM. Hat God *1» mid.
fire, and ambition, like fire, may be au invalua
ble servant, but it la a terrific master, a t/rant tbe
most aavage! [Applause.] Not that tho ambi
tious mau neoa bo dishonest, or corrupt or un
patriotic. Sure I am that General Dartrell I,
neither of these. The trouble Is that ambition
may make a man absolutely blind. What la
closest «o us In material nature must .vet shut
out the remainder of tbe universe. Aschooi-
boy s marble placed close to theeye must eclipse
the aun In heaven. And I think General Gar-
trell haa a marble cloae to hia eye. [Applauae
and laughter.] But the atate haa a right to be
aeived by her ablest men. [Applaufe.l The
God of nature haa given them to her aa he haa
given muaclea and nerves to the Individual, and
to deprive her of them la to dwarf her, la to rob
her of her atrength,!. to cut tho locks from Sam-
son a head. Now which I ask la the ablest ot
these two med. For that would be the only fs-
sue, aa both profesa the same political faith. I
have no criticism to utter against General Gar
trcll. He bn been a brave soldier. He would
have sacrificed hia life upon the field of battle.
He la oue of the ablest lawyefa that haa lUua.
trated the bar of Georgia. It would give me
pleasure to vote for General Gartrell If an abler
■talesuan were not before the people. [Ap-
plausc.J f say abler, precisely aa General Gar-
trcll ia the abler In a court of Justice. Mr. Steph
ens could not fill General GartrcU's place in a
court rooHband j altogether aure that If
General Gartrell were before me now. he would
**>' I am right whan 1 announce that In states,
manahlp General Gartrell cannot fill the place of
'•the great commoner” for more than a whole
« gp .?T-]fi?°f..iAwUuaa.l Geueral Gartrell will
pardon the UfiMtratlon; will my audience par-
a °n 1 Jl'-- wh < ! ,? 1 say that Mr. Stephens might aa
5^»dii^& u “ t ^ 1 -' ,t,rec ' ch ' ! '’' [A "
and laughter.] Let General Gartrell stick for
the present to the court-room while we bear the
8*rat statesman to tbe helm of state. [Applnuhe]
Had I the power to make myself heard
throughout the length and bredth *»f the state I,
too, would raise a ••ring”*ing cry. I would nay
come! To the white man, come! to the colored
man. come! to the disappointed, come? to the
ambitious, come! Come all, and let tu make the
grandest ring that nas ever been seen upon our
GeoraU sky! [Applause.] Grand in number,
grand in intellect grand in ostrlotism, taking
before Stephens at Macon, before Stephens at Mil-
ledgeville, with the lurid light of S'lDsequent his
tory full upon him, would not bv constrained, as a
lover of htt stale, as the constitutional protector of
her women and her children, to follow Mr.
Stephens? [Applause.] Upon a mere question of
political expediency! to the surrender of no coo-
stitutlonal right! to the sacrifice of uo moral obli
gation: When, by the act of others, the right had
been submitted to the arbitrament of war, he, too,
gave to the cause htt hand, htt heart, his life, bis
all. When I think of him as I saw him In the dis
tance, beneath the slanging rays of the declining
sun, walking with an armed guard by htt side
aloug tbe ramparts of Fort Warren, I not permit
ted by word ot lip or pen to tell him how much I
had come to revere him; when I think of him as a
witness, a disfranchised so-called rebel, witness of
state, be (lire an examining commission of con
querors, within the walls which had rung so often
with his piercing and musical voice; when I pic
ture him to myself patiently tolling In his modest
Georgia home upon his history of the war between
thefstates; when I think of him rejected by the
national senate to which htt state had commis
sioned him: and, when subsequently defeated, be
fore her legislature in this citv, by a gentleman
much younger than himself; ana who had won hia
fkue ou the field of battle rather than ir.t’the delib
erative assembly, returning to htt old place in
the lower house; cheersully returning, though
stripped Of his old national prestige, and there
again battling, aa he has always bottled every
where, for the great principles of republican
liberty, I must con fee* that at the slightest impu
tation upon his loyalty to Georgia or the south, my
entire being, mental, moral, physical, rises in re*
volt. [Applause.] It may be natural for some to
feign hypocritical fealty to a cause they did not
original* and cannot lead; let such an one remem
ber that each of us carries within himself the
standard by which to measure our common hu-
mapity: and that tbe harshest criticism htt un
generous suspicions may pass upon another, will
meviuddy become with the honorable heart and
Intelligent mind, condemnation the most crushing
of himself Lot such an oae beware how he cuts
htt own mud at Georgia's favorite! [Applause. 1
SOME SOLID SENSE.
Before I leave the man, let me read to you a sin
gle extract from the volume which 1 hold in my
hand ; his own language recently s,H>ken and wnicn
should be token to the heart of every Georgian.
"And now, after tho severe chastisement of war,
if the general sense of the whole country shall
come back to the acknowledgment of the original
assumption that it tt for the best interests of all
tbe states to be so united, as I trust it will—the
♦tales still being separate as the billows but one as
the sea—I can foresee no reason why, under such
'efitorsLion, we, as a whMe. with peace, commerce
and honest friendship with all nations, and en
tangling alliances with none, may not enter upon
a new career, exciting increased wonder in the old
world by grander achievements hereafter to be
made, than auy heretofore attained, by the peace
ful and harmonious workings of our American in-
stitations of self government. All this 1s possible
if the hearts of the people be right. It is unr earn
est wish to see it. Fondly would I indulge my
fonev in fusing on such a picture of the future.
With what rapture may we not suppose the spirits
of our fathers would boil its opening scenes from
their mansions above. Such are my hopes resting
on fluch contingencies." The next page contains
averse which might well have made its appear
ance here:
“A land there will be toward the setting sun
Frrah as it Kden were again begun;
Two great twin oceans bathe the happy shore,
A ad fancy, looking, oould not ask for more."
"But If, instead of all this, the passions of tho
dsv shall continue to bear sway; if prejudice shall
rule the hour; if a conflict of races shall arfre; if
ambition turn tbe scale; if the sword shall be
thrown into the balance against patriotism ; if the
embers of the late war shall be kept glowing until,
with new fuel, they shall flame up again, theu our
present gloom is but the shadow, the penumbra of
that deeper and darker eclipse which is totsliy to
oliscure this hemisphere and blight forever the
anxious anticipations, and expectations of man
kind. Then hereafter by some bard it may be
sung: «»►»..'• ' • ■ ■
"The star of Hope shon? brightest in the west,
The hope of Liberty, the last, the best;
That, too, has set upon her darkened shore,
▲nd Hope and Freedom light up earth no more.”
[Applause!] *
ARGUMENTS.
And now is any one inclined to say, "You have
sung your pean of hero worship to ‘the mau,’
what have you to say absut the remainder of your
argument, the 'principle V " Indeed, indeed, I
feel that I have spoken in vain, if the moral of my
story hue not developed itself. "Go whithersoever
vour country may call you ; be preferred to serve
her in any positiou to which you may be assigned ;
recognize iu the voice of the majority, fairly ex
pressed, upon all questions that do not involve
your personal relationship to God, the soveieign
will of your country ; temper and control your per
sonal ambition; sink yourself In your country."
[Applause.} Does any one say, "Have you brought
such trite and familiar commonplaces to utter
them here to us? Go tell them to schoolboys!
We expected to hear about principles upou which
government is to be conducted." To meet some
such intimation, I will place a witness u|»on the
stand to prove to you to-night that these are the
principles, upon which, at ttst,.all true republican
civilization must depend ; it can rest on none oth
er. No willing, though an Imperial, witness is
mine *, no admirer of the republics, but a loving
devotee t* the Ciesara—of history. His name is
Louis Napoleon, ol France. His testimony is to
be found in hi* Life of Julius Cu*sar. I have
brought the book. My countrymen, Georgians,
Americans, let me say to you that, *as you hear
the sentences tail from my lips, you will come to
realise that these pages are for us, by far the most
significant of all history, ancient or modern:
"The first citizens presented the most remarka
ble examples of integrity aud self denial. Marcus
Valerius Corvus, after occupying twenty-one cur-
ule offices, returns to hia fields without fortuue,
though not without glory. Fabius Kullianua, iu
the midst of htt victories and. triumphs, forgets
his resentment towards Pa pi ri us Cursor, and names
him dictator, sacrificing thus his private feeling*
to the interests of his country.” “The senate, we
have seen, pat in practice the principles whiefo
found empires and the virtues to which war gives
birth. Thus, for all the citizens, equality of
rights; In tkei^ of danger to their country, equality
of duties aud even suspension of liberty. To tbe
most worthy, honors and the command."
"The example is furnished by the most illustri
ous and richest families. At the com bat near the
Cramers the three hundred and six otthe Fabti
who all, according to litua Livius, were capable of
filling the highest offices, perished fighting. I.ater,
at Conns, eighty senators, who had enrolled them
selves as mere soldiers, fell ou the field of battle.
Tbe triumph is accorded tor victories whieh en*
larged the territory, but not for .those which ouly
recovered lost ground. No triumph In civil wars.
In such case, success be what it may, is always*
subject lor public mourning. The consuls or pro-
consuls seek to be. useful to their country without
(also susceptibility; to-day iu the (list rank, to
morrow in the second, they serve with the same
devotion under the orders of him whom they com
manded the previous day. Servilius, consul in
2*1, becomes, the year following the lieutenant of
Valerius. Fabius, after so many triumphs, con
sents to be oaly lieutenant to his son." "The
great Scipio himself, after the defeat or Hannibal,
serve* os lieutenant under his brother in the war
against Antiochus."
utour throat »li the counties of Gwinnett,
■ Ci
gr&na in intellect, grand in patri<
for ito centre that phenominal Georgian who is
the grandest illustrator of all. [Applause ]
I remember when, for the last time, Genetal
Lee came to Savannah, and anticipated hit coming
by an urgent request that there should be no mani
festation, civil or military, that not even his
friends in numbers should meet him upon htt arri
val, I heard noon the atreet that the great heart of
the people had sent its life-blood to greet him. and
yet to embarrass him. At first I was pained, but
aa l reflected, l heard a refrain deep down in tny
heart- “The cause is lost, hut there is life in the
old land yet." [Applause.] And, at evciy step as
» moved toward home, the cry became louder and
louder, "There is life In the old land yet." And
when, recently, the tongne which, for more than
a generation, hod thrilled the state ami the coun
try, and had made the listening senate and the
listening multitude move, feel and act like a single
man, was forever silenced ; hut the same mesmeric
power passed to the toiling heart, whose every pul
iation was sending anguish through tbe arteries of
the state to her remotest confines, making of her
eotire people a single sufferer in the midst of the
gloom, the words would come "Thera is life in the
old land yet!" [Applause.]
But the lile of the state lain the lives and the
memorial of her great men. What would he Car
thage but tor the aingle name of her peerless Han
nibal? Bat Georgia nos more than one Hannitwl;
were it to be heard to-morrow morning that Alex
ander H. Stephens was dead, we all of us know
that the Mue great sob of agony would go up from
the heart’ot tb« *tate.[Applausc.j But better hou-
or the great man living than the great man dead.
[Applause.] Especially if by honoring the man you
protect and exalt your state. [Applause.] Let us.
then, bear him up on the shoulders of tne state!
Let ua take t >e soul from the wheels upon which
the body rolls, and let us place hint at Georgia's
head. [Applause.] From the hearts of ner true
sons, irrespectively of party, or color, or station,
from the mountains to the seaboard, will then
come up the joyous refrain. "There’s life, there's
life in the old laud yet!" [Prolonged applause.]
CAMPAIGN NEWS.
A Big Candler Boom from the Mountains and
the Lower Countlos.
There is no doubt about Banks gain;;
five to one for the “One-Eyed Flow-
Boy.”
The Young Democracy of Athens are
now confident that Clarke will give Can
dler a majority.
It is now coneeded that Franklin will
give Candler 300 majority, while Mad
ison is almost a unit.
They say you may travel all day and
not find a Speer man In Gwinnett coun
ty. Borne estimate Candler’s majority
at 800 there.
Col. Price says he knows Lumpkin
county like a hook, and there is no doubt
of its going tor Candler by between 300
and 400 majority.
Mr. Speer lias a radical negro making
public speeches for him through the
mountains, and he is changing hundreds
of votes to Ca idler.
They say Fannin is the only county
North of the Air-Line where there is any
possibility of Speer getting a majority,
and it will be very small even there.
Col. A. B. C. Dorsey says there is not
a shadow of a doubt about Hall giving
Candler over 1,000 majority. The col*
ored vote there is almost a unit for him.
We learn that Mr. Speer acknowledged
at Gainesville that he was defeated; but
says he will run Candler a close race.
Most of Ills friends have given up all
hope.
A gentleman who has reeently made
de>, Uke Curtin, and tbe two Decii, people bellev
ed that thev bought, at the price of their lives, tho
Hofety of others or victory. Discipline tt enforced
even to cruelty; Manlius Torquatus, after the ex
ample of Postimnlus Tuburtus, punishes with
death tho disobedience of his son though he hod
gained the victory." Now foe tho oor-clasion, pre
sented, aa 1 aay, hr an imperial wituess, and by
the most practical Europe ui of bis day. "Hence
tho improving spectacle of a town which becomes
a people, and of a people which embraced the
world." (Applause) And wtmt is the lesson
taught ? "Advance your enemy before your friend!
advance your sou before yourself! Nay; sacrifice
even your son If the food of your country require
It!" (Applause.) Hard doctrine this; not to be
carried tully Into practice ! But hard doctrine also
tbecolestial teachingsef the Christian religion!
Who can hope to live fully up to their Injunctions?
and yet, without the Christian religion, what
would become of the civilized world?
And now I ask each one of yon, my countrymen,
to look to tho truth of our own history. Point me
to the man who. above all other living Georgians
—n*v, above all other living American statesmen
—comes nearest up to the Itontau standard of pub
lic virtue. Can there a doubt ? I appeal to every
one present; I core not to wlutt party he belongs;
standing, as we do now, (n the presence of historic
troth, who, I ask. comes nearest up to this lofty
patriotism ? But one name can rest, I think, upon
the tongue of every intelligent and honest man; it
tt the name of Alexander H. Stephens. [Uenewed
applause.]
r , THE SOXIVKE OP X RING.
‘Oh !” does any one exclaim, "This is all well
boa*.’’ What ia a "riug?” la U a new thing with
from tlie court circlo down to the "Round Rob
in,” signed by mechauica contemplating a strike
for higher wugi-s. Both of these are rings. But
as we look further into It, wherfi in the civilized
world do we fiud any social or political life
which is not tbe fruit of riugs? Rest assured, fel
low-citizens, that the cry of the "rings" must, in
the very nature of things, come from a ring.
J Applause*] A riug raises the cry of ‘‘ringr’
Why, what would our friends do with all society?
Suppose that the principle of 4 -*indepen^cntism"
shall be carried out In it* ultimate results—aud
- , y-r ; extremes must always be examined in our search
his. "Afield of the dead rushed red upon his for truth—^to What point must we inevitably go?
sight.". J*ut waa^be ulmnsyet? *He h*r ]it was raceutly announced In the streets of Sa-
drafaJrda» the federal eongra^ whmw, rmwasont* vannah by one of our colored fel low-citizens,
ing a constituency which almost adored hiui, in who was disgruntled about something done its a
political club to which be belonged—"Bob,” he
said, "I'm tired ob datclub. ig wipe quit dot
club. Igwine makeoncclubobiiiydwn.” [Ap
plause and laughter. > » •
1 bold In raylumd a paper which I have read
iu a speech, and 1 must confess that, with the
material he had at hand, the effort is worthy of
a master. It tt a speech of Geu. GartrcU’s from
which I will read but a single paragraph. "I
am against political bosses." he says, "and riug
rale. I am against all sorts of bosses in this free
country. Lei every man stand upon htt merit*
and defand hia rfghtt.;’ “
‘Let erenr man make <
Now, Mr. Webster was iu the habit of referring
to a Boston aeaugiutauee of his whose ambition
waa singularly modest. He wished that the
United State* might rule the civilised world;
that Massachusetts might rale the United States;
that Boston might rule Massachusetts, und his
humble aaibition would be quite satisfied by be-
lug the MaVor of Boston [Laughter.] "Here
would be Doasttm and ring rule with a ven
geance; and yet Gen. Gartrell haa announced
himself most decidedly for it Were it possible
for his views to be carried out they must inevi
tably lead to .one of two political or social .re
sults, despotism the most ohsolute, or barbarism
the moss dcgr&dod- Everybody knows that
combined actmiw organ tart ton, la other words,
the forming of rings, U the greatest terror of the
Hence the right
power. In prestige, In the opening of a yet more
glorious future, he sto >d with the foremost. Did
he now retire to Liberty hall, there to sulk in
personal security? Did he even mutter a. petulant
complaint? Not a bl* of it! Never more loyal to
the state which had given him birth; never more
devoted to the cardinal principles of republican
liberty which he had learned from the great
master, Jt-tterson, he recognised in the vole of the
majority, constitutionally expressed, the Imperial
behest of htt liege sovereign. The cause which
she had preferred became absolutely htt. He
held himself read* to serve her in anypcsltlon
which might be assigned him And there Is not
one of us here to-nignC who will reflect upon the
peculiar manhood which has charactertsod htt
entire Individual life, and foil to believe that, had
he possessed the bodily strength, like Early, of
Virginia, he, too, would have been among the fore
most upou the horrid frout of war. [Applause.]
Stephen - lukewarm to the cause ot Georgia and tne
south! Where breathes the Georgian, *> blinded
by personal prejudice to the teachings of histor3
unjusiT^TEsre tt an okl*4afo UiiJ^traws*sho^
which way thfi w^nd r bloWs.*» And, II you will
permit a personal reference, 1 will venture to point
* Returned from Utt QOQfBdenOe congress at Mol.
goiuery, in attendance upon tbe state convention
at savannah, Mr. Stephens chanced toW that!
here it rarely exceeds £5 centa. Our
cotton men do a great deal of wort
themselves, own thelrown warehouses
and can afford to work for Res, ' It is
predicted that our cotton receipts will
without' refunding anything, iyospw- Increase over 60 per cent this year: ! for
Hers in this great art city assures Mr.
Davis that his great -butlay will be re-
E id- At SWfoiiWl? Hr.rpavls’ ork
« always received the first premium,
fcnd at tlie Great Internationa! Cotton
, Exposition held St tfttlanta, Qa., ho oh-
the staple is. not eaten uiMrith exhosbi j ^ nl ,j t(, e highest award—the beautiful
tautrTffiMRe,. Dj AssgRstiCAtlwrV, SA7 ffinlomu of that* world's fair he carries
vannah and ojber trade, central it vptta T ~ ti, ‘
from $15Ctd 0 tof haqdlS aTUii,A^lle
Athens *0 a Cqtton Market.—
The reason that Athens ranks as the
best' cotton market la Geoiida ia that
with him—gufficldnV, evidence. that hte
ha* justly earned the,title of the premium
photographer of 'Oeorgia.—Cincinnati
t That’s our Davis—Davis of Athens the
btemium Artist of Georgia, and every-
M? ***•• the P. r W,1& .»«d.
mium
ceived‘,a blow In an EnglUh coiinl?
court. The Judge described the agree
ment In common use almost info-
mous. and ordered a nonsuit, declin
ing to hear the plaintiff’s solicitor, or
' appeal. If this do
having her sewing machine taken by
sob» swindling company, after ahe
had more than paid the wo th of same. Athens.
farmers find that ffjla money by
wagoning their drop from even on the
main Unp,of the <Jeoffifo,rtl4pfd.ail.
distance of-Sfi or 40 miles,' rather than *
$
One leading basinasa man, w-rialogato
to opr late 1 railroad boto'rtfr.tfoid; re-'
marked that It would pay-thefrurateot
of even 1 Warden, Mopufffe and Rich
mond counties to sell iheir Cotton In i
with the newest and most lm
They, WlU alao
add a department /for the repair of
‘tattroad <. ears and > the caetfng of
vrtihels; etc. 1 This establishment lb
new overran witb work and can keel
, power Hence the risht of the people
nblo »ud petition" aaeccureu by insgnu
. Con
Mt my acbool, that ANtW UUNk eOMtnu
■late*. But m* both Of draw* tb. maeallesd
confederate,*
And now let ns take another view of II. .U
ltent’II yo« can, or aa oraaa WMbbut a Mees.
blow,it* water intomotloa, withoutnbillow to
roll or a breaker todaah Intoaprayt,auocaao
made up ot tadtvklaal drops, each tfrop a ring
baa Mid rhStfeWnaenrof a frS^li prfieralila
to tho torper oj a despotic government. Rat
hat despotic government ever exnf —
Jackson, Banks, Madison and Franklin,
says he found but two Speer men, and
they were drunk.
Col. Dorsey says Candler will come to
tlie Air-Line with at least 2,000 majori-
Ity; and the lower counties will meet
him there with 1,000 more. Paste this
estimate in your hat.
Even the 8peer men concede Haber
sham to Candler. The “Plow-Boy of
Pigeon Roost” made a splendid Impres
sion there, ar.d changes from Speer are
being made by the hundreds.
In Forsyth, Gilmer and Union coun
ties Candler has twenty supporters to
.Sjteer’s one. We get this from a gentle
man who has just returned from that
8'jctlon, and investigated the matter.
There are but three Speer men in
Xacoochee valley, and two of them will
doubtlesschange. White county is almost
aunit for “the mountain cracker,” as the
Speer men down this way call Col. Can
dler.
A party of 40 representative men from
Jackson county met the other day to
clean ofTCabin Creek association ground.
The claims of Candler and Speer came
up, when a vote was taken anil the count
tound to stand, Candler, 40; Speer, 0000.
At a camp-meeting held above Gaines
ville, a few days since, of tbe immense
crqwd present Speer did not have but
three supporters. Some one took the
eeusus. It was a regular Candler meet
ing, and Uie gathering was from sever
al mountain counties.
The chaigemade by Speer’s friends
in Athens, that a mountaineer hasn’t
sense enough to represent this district in
congress, is diiving hundreds of the
wool-hat boya to their own candidate.
These “country crackers," as the inde-
IienderU term them down here, are
mighty clanish, and will show to the
world that they can raise just as good
and smart men a*. Mr, Emory Speer.
“The one-eyed mountalu hoosier," as
some of t>e Speerites now term Col-
Candler, will carry nine-tenths the farm
ers and nearly every old Confederate In
tho -ninth district. His enemies are
welcome to all tlie capital they can make
cut of the facts that Col. Candler was
,ouee a pbor plow-boy and had an eye
s.iot out in defence of his country.
Neither ot these disgraoesf ?) will count
for any thins with the intelligent maseee.
WftllW «JM»»Q
tus vicswaaamaay. | v ir
At that time KK Stephen, wm himsdr vice-
president of th. confederate atatw. Position of
greet honor; but what lem could bate bean ac
corded to tbe leader of the napectable minority
vkokart rotated the act ortecemlon? A position
of honor, bat of no sorenmiantal power. He
eould adrltt, bat ha oould not ootatnannd; nor
OMild bo br held reepontikte tor Ikllure where no
e the too flunillar
picture which waa rapidly unfckted—oar country
orerraa; our waalta destroyed; oratjr houreholil
made dcaslate; tbe entire Cue of tbe und .potted
jri .—
torpor aa thlar It la the torpor of ab*o!
t>m—ev«ry aun -standing on hia own merite”
and “defending hb right..” Uen. UartreU'a war
agetnat the rfnn would redace u. to tbe condi
tion of the Mrtnman of Africa or the rooteating
Indian, of the Rocky mountain. AJ1 the effbrta
of clvllUatipn have been directed toward, drag
ging the human race ont of such Individualiza
tion, and the intellectual and moral torpor at
way. consequent upon it. And bow oould the
work be done exeeptby ring*? Without organi
zation there can be no aoeiaty; without aoel.ty
° < And 1 nowfet\b see what harm haa come to uz
from ring■ rate. Hat not tbe itate been wen
gorerned during the hut two yaare? t appeal to
upon himself and tho loztcnuM?'' lining I
upon the loat cauae! no,ne-er,reUagm body •
foal .hall ellng together! lApplauM.] But.
another may have been wtwr or worthier, then,
IK! lamgolag hack upon mymlLand I propore
fo ’dOi re th* bounce of my 'life. [Applause.]
Where, I ask, la tho bond Georgian, who, If the
wheel, of time cooldho backward rolled, and ha
eould lie placed before Mr. Stephen, in AujtuU,
f
Turner, mount, I iln.li MS
In the bmire, where, 1 rek, 1» tho Mate in
whole union more nbly rep mental? IA; ■
1 know of but one reason wl ’ '
perfectly entbfled. and I WtllHi
ytw. . Itb beeaiuo I hold no office my.elf! [Ap-!
pluuie and laughter.] Heat .Mured my oountjrj-1
men. that pereonal|amblU-' u U the mu of lnde-
pendeutiam.
Si-Ebb Admits tiik Ciuusty Letters to
Be Titii.—In the injunction case Mr.
Speer amended his MU'and admitted that
the letters we proposed to puMish were
Correct copies—and thus made his in-
junction ''stick! "What say ye voters of
the ninth ; do yon endorse a man' who
appeals to the court to prevent what he
admits h'e'has written from being pub
lished, tind at the same time 1>e is using
luttefs of others in every speech he
makes?' M ‘ ■ ’’ " '
,,, . ■, i ... ■
A Singular. Accident .—A taw-
days ago Mr. Ed. Sharp, of Jackson
county, waa washing the legs of a bone
to cure the scratches, when the'ani- •
mal broke loose from the hitching post ' 1
qhd attacking Mr. JSharp, bit his ear
off. a The mistdng weather could not
afterwards he fitund, and it Is thought-
fee haraejwalspwod it
When you giye take to yourself no.
credit for generosity, finless you have
ideated yourself'something, so thatr -»
you could bestow fee gift..