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SOUTHERN BANNER: FEBRUARY 19, 1818. jSatttlrmt Gamier. H. H. OActLFOtf, - Editor. Ternwot -iuliMjrlption. ONE COPY, One year. SB OO ONE COPY, Six Months. ■ 1 OO ONE COPY, Thr.-.' '•I.iutha 80 LEGAL .tnvTuj tSEMENTS. ; Citation Tar Letter* oi •uardiambip —$5 00 ! Uluitaa for Lulvri nf Vduimat ration 4 00' A I'plintuiB lor Letiert .<f liLuabiion Admin* | iatcawr — - - • 8 * . Apfili’tion for Lett r» ui Di.mission Guardian S 25 ! Application for isatn to Sail Lands — 5 00 , Notice to Debtors and ''reditors 5 00 1 Sales of L»nd, Ac., p -r *-|U*ra * 50 i Sales Perishable Property, lo days, per sq... 1 50 Ealray Notice*, .to days — 8 00 I Sheriff Sales, persqii ire .. .. •• 2 50 Sheriff Marl, age ft fa sales per square. ..™ 5 00 Tax Collector'll Sales, per square 5 00 l Foreclosure per square, each time. 1 **» Exemption Notices tin idvan'-o) ... - 2 25 Rule NUi’s. per square. -lach time 1 50 ~W" The «b >ve letal rates corrected by Urdinary sf Clarke county. Itatex of A.cl vcrtlolnii. Advertise 'tents will Ho lns.rte*l at ONE OOU L A It per square .or 'hi- first insertion, and FIFTY CENTS u-r square for eac'i continuance, for any time uuder one month, '''or longer periods a lib* oral deduction will ho made. A square equal to t sn llnm, solid. . Notices in local column, less thsn a square, 20 cents a line. The Ens; i* ! i G iveriuneut has applied to t I* i" • —r a firman to allow the fl*.*t «•» enter into Turkish water*. Mr. G.id'dni'* vhii- approvim; the policy "i tin* K i jIhii Government, regards it a* ind •lini'e, and tlid not see tlie lli'**—irv f.r the vole of six millions <•: pmi <1* The runes t .i 'k- tut ill danger of the renewal "t the war between Russia ami'I nrkey is over, and that Russia is pracii'Mily the master of the situation. The total Ut-fieii in tlie German finances is put. *l»wn at 30.000,000 marks. Military and naval expendi ture is not merely m linlaiued hut increased Hem-e the lucent loan. L *rd H irtiu ;ion expressed the feeling of the whole eivi.iz *d world when he said, in answering the a'ser tion that the Matemeiits of the gov- ernm nit were m *iv generalities, that the goveriuiieiuvlid nut even know their po.icy themselva**.” The finaiieial wr -cK> reported Sat urday were Mttvne H,•<»*.. of Belfast, Ireland ; H. J. Sayers & Co., of New York; the Hayde svide (Massachu setts) Savings Bank, the Dmchester Savings B.u.k and tie* Rocktord Sav ings Bank of Massaehu-t Its. They pay their great surgeons well in England. S:r Henry Thomson** income is said to amount to 8151,000 per annum on an average. He per forms the operation of lithotomy eighty or ninety times a ye-tr, the fee for which ranges irnm two hun dred to five hundred guineas. Some of the West' Vo | apers eall Mr. Kimball tlie “ fiiiaug-d-t.’’ 11«- lias Idled «*r helped o Mil the debt of twenty-three church sol dill’ rent de- iiominations, the aggregate amount ing to §700.0n<) Hi- 1 ge-t s nice was for the Jetlerson Park Presbyte rian Cliureli, where lie r ised §21,- 100 in three Imu s. A lady in Saia'oga was atiraetcd recently to a luumif'il canarv bird by its close reiiienihranc to <>m* she had lo-t last sprng. She was in formed that the Rmigsler had been fount I one chilly morning perched upon a window -ill. The lady said that her bird had been taught to per form tin* pretty liitle feat, when given its tioeriy in a room, of picking up a |>iu an 1 sticking ii into ihccatpet. The rage door was opened and as he canaly flew forth the lady threw a pin upon the floor. The bin! imme diately flew down to it caught it in its bill, dexterously stuck it in a perpen dicular position in the carpet, and thui it hopped off a ste or two and warbled lortb some of its sweetest notes, as if in exaltation of the feat it had accomplished It was the long lost songster. For every week lost it* a strike a certain number of weeks’ work at higher wages struck for is tequired in order to avoid positive loss to tlie workmen Thus in the case of a strike of six month.-’ duration for a . td.ance of ten per cent, in wages, five years labor at the higher rate will be required ill order to make up the positive* loss incurred in the Strike. To the Public. Unexpected mislon tines in busi ness investments (apart Tom printing) and failing to make collections, hav ing embarrassed me financially, ami not having the means to meet pend ing obligations, and unwilling to further involve my friem'a, at my request, Dr. Carlt* a has resumed the proprietorship, editorial control and business management of the Banner. I leave the paper, as I found it, gaining, nay by day, public favor, and with Dr. Carlton at the helm, the time is not tar distant when it will indeed be t! e Southern Banner whose folds will wave over admiring thousands. My future course has not yet been mapped out, but whether I leave or remain in Athens, I shall always have the highest admiration for her institutions and her poop e. W. F. Combs. Ilav’iig resumed the proprietor ship of the Southern Banner, I shall likewise resume, from and after this date, the editorial end business m:t"a *ement of the -nine. Tlie name of the paper having been changed during Mr. Combs’ administration from the Athens Georgian to the Southern Banner, it will be con ducted under the latter nam--. Being so soon and -o unexpectedly recalled to the field of journalism I need only say, that trusting ti e short respite has only served a renewal of those energies,, which being fully regatherpd, shall, together with whatever of abilit y I may [tosses*, he bestowed upon tie* Banner with the view anil hope of making it more than ever a welcomed visitor to its readers. Mil. W. F. COMBS. Regretting the necessities which have made Mr Combs’ connection with the Banner of such short dura tion and recognizing in hint those qualifications which if Imt wisely aimed and well applied cannot (ad to make him a sue essful journalist I need only assure hint that the well wishes of the Banner will attend him wheresoever he may go, or in what soever sphere he may cr.gage, ever trusting that the God of Fortune may smile upon him, nwarding his efforts with unmeasured success THE TRI WEEKLY BANNER. After well nigh twelve months experiment in issuing the Tri Week ly Banner, l am sorry to announce the fact that the interest manifested therein l»v tlie citizens of Athens, has not been suificiem to justify its con tinuance. Believing under these circumstances that to longer issue it, would be attended with finaiieial embarrassments such as f am unwil ling to incur, it will be discontinued from and after thi* date. Without objections being offered the subscri bers to the Tri Weekly will, in the future, be furnished with the Weekly Banner, and where paymeu's have been made in advance, for a per o I longer than tho Tri Weekly his been emninued, the proper ere bis will he given on the subscriptions to the W eekly Banner. Respectfully, H. II Carlton. City Council. Council Chamber, Athens, noil Chamber, j Ga., Feb. Iltli 1878. f 12 o’clock it. ) A called meeting ol Council was lie d this morning, present His Honor Mayor Rucker and aldermen Burke, Kemp, Hodgson and Lucas. The Mavor stated that the meet ing had been called at the n quest ot alderman Burke, Aldcrinmi Burke then submitted ti c following resolution which was unanimously adopted: Resolved, that the City Council of Athens invite tho'Georgia Slate Ag-‘ ricuhural Society to hold its next Convention in Athens, and if possible, to attend tho next Commencement exercises of the University of Geor gia, in August next. Resolved further, That the C. ov en or of Georgia, and his s tiff, the President and Secretary ot the Slate of Georgia, and the State Comm;*- sinner of Agriculture be in.-imled m the above invitation. Council adjourned, W. A. OlLI.ELz.XD, clerk. The War in Europe ' The present aspect «f the European war vv'Mtld seem to warm t the conclu sion that Russia will secure front prostrate, gasping Turkey, all that she desires, and that, without furthe* serious opposition fri-m any quarter, the last will of Peter the Great will be executed, and the Muscovite standard w'll float in triumph over the minarets of Const ant inhpK , Russia has evidently believed that England will snhmit to her conquest ot Turkey and accept its consequen ces, rather than inettr 'he perils and losses of war. The thought that she "ould appease the dissatisfaction of Austria by giving her a substantial portion of the conquered territory; she counted on the acquiescence, if not on the co-operation of Germany in whatever disposition she might make of European Turkey ; she cal culated that France is under bonds to keep the peace, and that Italy could, if she would, offer any oppo sition. This may be, however^ a serious nrsealculation. England, ne/cssarilv prefers peace. The prosperity of her huge commercial and industrial in- ten-sts depends upon peace. But let her once believe that hoi honor, • lignity or prestige has been attacked, or that her “ interests ” are imper iled, and that the only way to main tain tl e one and defend the other, is to fight, and no nation fights more pi inaptly, with greater vigor, or with h-s seeming regatd to the cost When C:i|»t. Wilkes, of the Federal Navy, captured the confederal ecu m- ini-sion. i s, Messrs. Mason and Slidell on a Briti-h mail steamer igjtlie West Indies and took them prisoners to Fort Warren, it will he remembered wgli what enthusiastic unanimity the wnnle British people demanded their relea-e and an apology for the insult to their flag or insisted on immediate war. They knew nothing of Messrs. Mason or Slidell. As the representa tive- ot an unrecognized republic, *• in rebellion ’’ so-called, against life United Slates, it mights well be sup posed tliatthecdd practical, commer cial Englishman would hesi£ute along ii e before be would declare war on their account. Yet we kiiow he was prepared to do so. In the present complication, not only British honor and pre-tigebut British inteicsts are involved. England feels that she has been slighted and overrecached by Russia as one of the conquerors in the Crimean war and as one of the Great Powers which signed the treaty of Paris in 1850, she could not regard with unconcern the breach of every one of the stipulations of that treaty by the nation who e aggressive ten dencies Hu* war was designed to elieck, and against whose aggressions in the future the treaty was intended as a guarantee. As a great Eastern power, England lias always believe i that tin* -afet.\ of h**r oriental domin ions ..eletidid mi th maintenance ot Turkey as t lit* poss ssor ot all that territory extending from the Levant to the interior of Asia “the high road to British India”—b ■ cause Tur key would he powerless tor aggres sion. and her interests would compel her to be iricndly And thirdly, as one o the Great European Powers, j England is directly interested in the st rici mainienmice of the balance of power —in preventing any one-power acquiring such teirimrial and geo graphical predominance as to endan ger the safety and integrity of the other members of the family of na tions England feels now that her interests are threatened, that her dignity has been slighted*—that she has been “ snubbed,’’ and that by thq Son and successor of the great Emperor, whose proud will she humbled and whose power she crippled twenty-five years ago Hence the popular excitement Hence the popular indignation against Mr. Gladstone, the Daily News, aud all who even question the.expediency of England assuming a hostile alti- tud.* at once. Hence the overwhelm ing vote by w hich tho grant of six millions of pounds sterling was passed by the llou-e of Commons, aqd hence the cheer* with which the announces ui nt »f the arrival of tue fleet at the Dardanelles, was received ail over G' t*af Britain If Ilu-sia per* »ts in her present liar* i demands England will iiicvitality :fight, am] when she lu>gin-to fight, s' e will not Beyffta- out allies AnJila'anil Italy* fwo of the signatory powers of mJiMw l»f Pari-, have avowed their concur rence with England’s views. Ger many will hardly put her finger be tween the bark and the tree from a quixotic love of Russia, and France, if she takes part at all, will certainly not do so, to reverse the policy which her aqn* gloriously established in toe Crimea and tt jlic maintenance of which she pledged herself hy the treaty of Pari*. Then again, England’* pock et* are full of ready money Her pro missory note* command a premium in every quarter of the glohe. while Rus sia’s offers are empty and her paper is selling to-day at 30 to 40 cents on the dollar.' It is to be hoped that so great a edamity as a general war in Europe may be averted hy a satisfactory ad justment of conflicting interests. But the present situation, with Russian troops practically in possession of Constantinople, and England’s iron clads cleared tor action at the mouth of the Bosphorus, is full of danger. -- djoumed. The meeting called l*y Dr. R. M. Smith, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, for Wednes day. the 13th inst., the objeet of hicli was to reorganize the Execu tive Committee, w.n, owing to the continuance of the Coprt beyond th" hour specified for the meeting and the consequent small attendance, adjourned, subject to the call ot'the Chairman. Ample and extended notice of tho meeting to he held at a subsequent date will he given by ttic Oimir-on. and it is earnestly hoped and desired that every Democrat in the county will he present. Democrats, ask yourselves this question : Are you willing to submit to your party organization being broken up and destroyed hy a few who have organized them.* ves into tho “ inde pendent ring and clique,’’ simply tor personal and selfish aggrandizement ? Of course, these independent few will glorify over tho failure to secure a full attendance on last Wednesday, and will claim that they have whipped out the Democratic party. Look out for c imnninications from “Old Line Democrat,” “Straight Out Democrat,” “ One of the People,” atul sic/t like. Democrats, it is for you to say whether the Demo cratic party shall prevail, or whether the few independents and disorgan izes, stimulated solely by selfish and amhithnis motives, shall triumph. Now, when tho call shall again lie made by the Chairman of the Demo cratic Executive Committee, let every democratic citizen feel it to be his duty to attend, remembering that it only needs a positive and decided move on vourpait to place old Carke in her true and | roper political attitude be- lore the world. Sitting Bull is r< ported on Canada soil, lam<* of t w-uind JT. O. RUH^CbL, EDirOU* We were pleased to sec Mr. George Alexander in the city last week. The intermediate examinations of the students have commenced, and there is “ no rest for the weary ” We regret to state that General Browne, Col. Charbonnier and Pr. f, Rutherford are too ill to meet thenr classes. We hope they may toe speedily restored. u *t ’ ? We don’t know that others have noticed it, but we who havo an eye for the graceful and beautiful in motion, as well as in its other manifestations, have; and we affirm, without any fear of successful contradiction, that the ladies ot Athens are unsurpassed as [idlest rians. The eas^e, the precision, the grace with which they move, should put to shame our cadets. And what is more, they don’t dawdle, or loiter, or saunter though we have no dcabt that, *ith a sufficient cause by their side, they could do this most admir ably—but they move straight onward, without any unseemly haste or effort, getting over ground at a rate that would put Company “ A” to the double quick. The H<>n A. 11. Stephens is a grad uate of the University ot Georgia, and, we are proud to say. was a mem ber of the Phi-Kappa Society During his first two years in College, he does not seem to have taken a very impor tant part in the proceedings of the So ciety. But quite the contrary appears in his Junior and Senior years. In his Junior year, he was elected one of itro -A....;.. ■■rntnrjLjmdjhe next year was elected orator for the’Foutlti ot July. This last named honor has been abolished hv the Society. In addition to the afore mentioned honors, he, several tiims, served as President of the Society, and held many other offices of minor importance. The State Agricultural riocieiy, a - ter closing a very interesting cession | in Aniericu* on the 13th. adjourned' to ni'-et in Atheii- next fall. Novel Reading:. This kind of employment, generally termed a pastime, or known as a re- cteation, is productive of both good and bad results. Some, indeed, I be lieve a majority of the novels of the present age are composed of such worthless ami light literature, that they might, with the greatest justice, be said to be very injurious. For they exert such an influence, and produce such an effect upon the minds ot the people, especially the young, that they become discontented with their situa tions, and are continually sighing for a world of romance, that they may act tlie part of some hero or heroine. Novel reading also causes persons to form a distnte lor the sol d literature of the ancient and modern historians, poets and philosophers. We all, I have no doubt, heard tlie old proverb, that “ A man should drink deep at the fountain of knowledge, or not drink at all.” ’ And evety person iiUL’ht to he aware that by reading novels, they only sip the dregs of solid literature Qui. Tin* lion- i oniniitlee on Post Offiwes and Post Roads lias instructed Mr. Waldeil, of North Carolina, the Chairman «>f the committee, to re port a bill providing tor two monthly lilies from the United States to Bra zil from the port* of New York and New Orleans Senior’s Lament. A Senior last, week, no longer able to repress the tempest ot emotion that raged within his bosom, burst forth in “ the resistless eloquence ol woe” as follows: Oli, ever thus trom eliiUllio .ii'n hous I’ve neon my fondest hopt-s dec:y, I never held a trump or bower lint come other coup made n higher play. 1 never worked a problem ont And bad it uii-ely on my cuff, Bat somehow or other’t eve about 1 was called on for some other stuff. 1 never stepped in'o King Mark’s , To take a little glass of beer, But what a half dozen “sharks” Were standing by to get their prices Reduced. We, the undersigned, recognizing the lact that the price ol all eonimod* itie* has been reduced, and believing tljal a n duett'ui in »nr Imsiness, oil a eash basis, would benefit us, as well as our customers, we have, therefore, j concluded to reduce our charges as j follows, which will go into effect on the first of F b uary -next: Single shave 15 ecu s; shaving by the ticket It)cent-. Ii ur culling 25 cent-, sltampmiltu 25 cent*, and all other But what some lei uw\l interfere *. And Interrupt in nulu game, rtorh in p* p«‘ l*»ii. Very R- specially, Sapp ifc Brioyk, Rh-iuife Harris Uirliers. ■ sheer.” I never nursed • black bot-tcl To (Jail me u d to soothe u syh, But pretty s- o» 1 knew too well, The bouie and i too wus dry. 1 never -oved a little dear Ann gut b r little h'-art aflame, Tun-, ever thus, trom oaildhood’s hour, I’ve seen m\ te-mie-t in-pea tieeny, bin us’1 am u >w out of rhyme, i’ii .hi;, .ipuii' -ume other day. That eloquence is <>ne ot ib" p r p»t est, if not the greatest of Sunuaii en- dowments, is now conceded by all fai r . thinking minds. How, then, toobta'n this excellence, is an inquiry whine interest is proportional to the value of the object sought. That some are nat urally gifted with atiacuteie»« ofsen. sihitity and a high jHwer. of expression, is undoubtedly true But such men are rare They appear in the Intel-* iectual heavens as “ fierce comets of tremendous size,-to whom the 3tarsdo reverence as they pass.” But, like the comets, they appear at interval?. Demosthenes, Cicero, Botsuet, Chat- tany and Hc-nrv are instances; The great majority of orators become such by patient, persevering practice. They often fail in their maiden attempts. Bhetidan did, and D’lsriielt and a host of others, who. by fierseverauro, finally obtained a control over the passions ol their hearers more imperious chan the fabled Eoiou’s power over ths winds AH post experience shows that eloquence, when not inate, can lie ac quired. Poeta uascitur, orator fit, was the maxitu of a people whose en queues has never been surpassed And where can we better train ourselves lor becoming skillful dialecticians than in our debating societies? Let ns, then, improve our opjKirtunities. Let us gather courage even him defeat. Let no circumstances appall—no failu r es dismay. To avoid our responsibilities by casting the blame on natuie, is a subterfuge no longer wot t by of being employed. Of the many excuses ren dered for not debating, am mg the most common is this : “ Nature ii- ver intended me to lie an orator. When ever I rise to speak, I do so with rear and trembling, and feel as. if should like to vanish from the dghr of my hearers.” But this is frequen tly a favorable, rather than an unpromising sign.- TLo cauggjof such trepidation is generally found in the fact That rbo speaker is conscious of his inability to come to the high conception <d what heesteem3 tho true orator to he. But let him reflect that it MlH)lc0 fulfill bis desires, yet, it is very able and praiseworthy to make ap proaches toward their accmiiplislinu nt. In the meantime, let him lie encour aged by example. Daniel Webster, when a school boy, is said to have been unable even to declaim before his fellow- students Aud V icero, the great master of eloquence, in the prime of manhood, when his faculti- s mav be supposed to have attained their utmost expansion, and when his fame as an orator was co extensive with the limits oi his country confesses, ** .Semper cquidem may no cum me tu incipio efiecrc.'' NEW LAW HOOK..'. 4 SUPPEMENT TO THE COOE F GEOR- . Vgta, containing the Public Acts i-assul in the General Assembly since 1875, amt the Cmit'tu- tion of 1877, with annoinions, side refen-u sai d catch words, after the style of the code. T v*. !. h is added the scaling ordinance and the L.mdatum act ot IHG9, with other statutes never b-f- re orii- fied. B»’. N. E. Harris, cf t e Macon Bar. Trice S I CO. For sale by i.CKKE A FLE i PIANO ANDOKG \N tc "”7 A Batrh hold the field and cunijiete w l.i Hie world. 1,000 Superb Instruments fr. in Re.i if c Maki rs at Fac>ory Rates. Every man lis own agent. Bottom prices to all. Pin- (••,!>' $150. $179. *wO -, $41*. $:•. St Six years guarantee. Fifteen days trial. Mukiis uames on all Instruments . v i|itare dealing, the honest truth, and best bargains in tlie U S. From $50 to $100actually saved in buying from Inn") A Bums' Wholesale Piano a»o ■ * I g 41 p-t. 9a- nainati, (Ft. fcblD-liu. G eorgia—-ocoNEE county -t u-hu- rt’s Office.—Mrs. Matilda F. Coop i > la oft Thomas Cooper, (her hu.-baiid reliitiu .) applies for exemption of a homestead o im ty and pereonaltv, and I wll puss upon the same, March 21st, at" 10 o’c ock, a. m., a! my office, in Watkiusvilie, State and county aforesaid. JAMES K. LYLE, Ordinary. February 8th, 1878. febli'-P. Southern Mutual Insurance coJNffri’-A.isr'sr, Ayama, gsorgi.&. YoUNO L. O. HARRIS, Presideri* STEVEN'S 'I 0X4*, Secretary. «rmw Assets, April 1, 1877, - . $}8f,Setf tti Resident Directors. Youks L. G. Hakus, Joun H. Newton, Oa. .Henry Hull, Atims P. Uearino, . Col. Robrst Thomas. to 22*wty Stevens Thou as, Elisa L. Newton, FKjiDiNAND Putin izv De, K. M. Seitii, * John W. Nkiholsde, DISSOLUTION. The partnership heretofore exUtinv bslt'csn Stern & Ssulter is dissolved from ana after tlui 13th Inst., M. Stem retiring from the Ann. All parties having any claim* against :b« out Ann, will present them for settlement, and all those in ebted, will come forward and at once with the undersigned, an t e must »>e closed. M. Stem will have ctiarge o: the boolm, and will settle alt bns'iiva* triinaactiou'i of tlie old firm of BTERN&SAU . fKR anl5-8Jd. OB WORK OF ALi LEmT;U** tior **°sttlv ilonp *t .»tfi-*'