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mmSBBSBSBBBSBBmi ^outbeni ^amtcv. SC. H. CARLTON, - Editor. Terras <>t Hubscrlptlon. 3W r. OOHY, On® Year * *2 OO >VE OOPY, Six Months 1 OO JNE COPY, Throe Monthe .... 80 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. ktatio.'i :<>r Letters orGuardianahip $5 00 Cttatioa for Letters ef Adiuiniatration 4 00 Anplw ation lor Letters of Dismission Ailmln- utnicr 5 00 X,»t>1i’‘:nn for Letters ot Dismission Guardian 5 25 Applii atioD for Leave to Sell Lands •••• 5 00 3otic« r o Debtors and Creditors 5 00 ■kales of Land, Ac., per square 6 50 ■tales Perishable Property, 10 days, per sq... 1 50 Sttray Notice*, 30 days..., 3 00 ■Wierlit Sales, per square 2 50 ■Kiorift Mortgage ft. fa salts per square....— 5 00 lea Collector's Sales, per tquare 5 00 Foreclosure Mortgage, per square, each time. 1 90 ScempiloD Notices (in advance) - 2 25 Buie Nial's, per square, each time 1 50 •W The above legal rates corrected by Ordinary if Clarke county. Rate* of Atlvevtlslng. Ad>er:isements will be Inserted at ONE DOL LA 11 per square lor the drat insertion, and FIFTY TENTS per square for each continuance, for any '•■me under one mouth. For longger periods a lib- sral deduction will be made. A square oqual to •eo lines, solid. Notices in local column, less than a square, 20 vents a line. Ti t* c .t ton worm is on the rampage ut Alabama. V< !„vv tevor has already made its a- jH its-Tite at New Orleans and Key West. Tin* Atlanta and West Point rail way has declared a semi-annual divi de:! ! i f four percent. —- —: - At ’lie recent commencement in Oxtor 1 the deg tea of L. L. D. was rt>iriupon State School Commis sioner Oi r. * 1 am in favor of conventions and ito-ii naiinn- Let us all put down <h\i Kiii-.’’—A. II. Stephens, July 16'//. 1878. Tiie N ational or Greenback party m holding conventions and making tioaiinations in the North-west. Hon. Pan. Pittman, of Atlanta, will enter tiie race for Congress on the green back platform. I'n the Texas State Democratic Convention recently held Judge O. M Roberts was nominated for Gov ernor by acclamation, Joseph D. Sayres for Lieutenant Governor and lieu. McCormick for Attorney Gen eral. The Convention adjourned on the 23rd. Washington, July 25.—The Post publishes this morning an interview with John S. Mosby on the subject of Gen. Grant’s candidacy in 1880. Col. Mosby received a long letter from Grant several months ago, but no allusion was made in it to his future tourse or possiple candidacy. Mosby belie ves that Grant will be nomina- %id by acclamation as a republican candidate for President in 1880, and will be overwhelmingly elected. He Bays Grant can carry all the states Hayes did, and several more, and that grant is the only Republican who can carry any states in the South, because Southern men will dh.ro more and risk more to support him th in anybody else. Cheap Money Wiiat We Want. The Nashville American gives the following letter from one of the lead ing merchants of that city : “ Dear Sir—You are right. The greatest and, in my estimation, the best feature of the State bank scheme is cheap money. What the farmers, manufacturers and mechanics want is not only an abundance of money, but cheap money. They want and need a bank that will do business upon the old system, that fostered and sus tained all the producing industries of the State. They want an institution that will loan them money for four months at six per cent, interest. This will give them facilities for putting every acre of land anjir cultivation and every wheel in motion. Give the farmers means to pay their hands promptly every Saturday night until the ciops are gathered, and you will heir no mine of ‘farming on shares’ or ot unmanageable labor. The great pro ducing classes never have been nor »vt w ill be assisted in this way by na tional bank monopolists. They can- Betgivo the collaterals required, and ir they could the rate of interest is to.i high and the loan too short to do lb cm any good. Give us cheap money—money so cheap that all in dustrious men can safely borrow.’’ SOUTHERN BANNER: . 1S?8. How the Perpetrators of the Election Frauds have been Cared For. It was, says the Hartford Times, Joliu Sherman’s promise to the hesi tating Anderson and Don Weber that if they would only “stand firm,” and make false returns, a grateful party would never forget it of them, and they should be well “ eared for.’’ All hands have been provided for. Let us see. There are a good roauy of them, first and last, who were con cerned in the Florida and Louisiana iniquity; but they have all been quietly looked after and “ cared for.*’ Only look at the list for the two States: FLORIDA. Noyes, of Ohio—Minister to France. Kasson, of Iowa—Minister to Aus tria. McLin—Justice in New Mexico. Governor Stearns—Commissioner of the Hot Springs. Dennis—In Supervising Architect’s office. “Judge” Cessna—Postmaster. Black—In the Treasury. Vance—In the Postotfice Depart ment. . Clerk Howell—Collector of Cus toms. Bowles, of Leon—In the Treasu ry* “ Judge ’’ Bell—Government Tim ber Agent. Elector Humphreys—Collector, Pensacola. Stearns’ Secretary—In the Treasu ry. Striker Maxwell—Lieutenant in the Army. Phelps—Commissioner to Paris. Varnum—Receiver Land Office. Taylor, County Clerk—In Land Office. LOUISIANA. Kellogg—United States Senator Tom Anderson—Collector ot Cus toms. Marks—Tax Collector. . ; Brewster—Surveyor General. Clark—In the Treasury. Hil!—Naval Storekeeper. Campbell—United States District Attorney. Levisee—Internal Revenue Agent. There are others. And now but a few of them can remember how the returns were forged. But they have been “ well cared for.” John Sher man seems to have taken a liberal share. We find no fewer than eight he has taken under his wings. And it looks as if Mr. Hayes had “ had an eye ’’ cn things. Hon. Jefferson Davis. On the recent occasion of the presen tation to him, ai Mississsippi city, of a gold badge and certificate of mem bership of the Association of the Army of Tennessee, made a stirring speech in which he expressed bis views on secession, the results of the war, reconstruction, &c. In alluding to politics of the present time and the future of the government, he said : It was no part of my purpose, as has already been shown, to discuss the politics of the day, though the deep interest, which I must ever feel in the affairs of the country, has not allowed me to ignore them, and will net permit me to be unobservant of passing events, or indifferent to THE HUMILIATING EXPOSURES to which the Federal government has of late been subjected. Separated ■from any active participations in public affairs, I may not properly judge of those who have to bear the heat and burden of the day. Repre senting no one, it would be quite un reasonable to hold any other respon sible for the opinions which I may en tertain. How or when a restoration of the government to the principles and practices of its earlier period may be accomplished, it is not given ns to foresee. For me it remains on ly earnestly to hope and hopefully to believe though I may not see it, that THE RESTORATION WILL COME To disbelieve this, is to discredit the popular intelligence and integrity on which self government must ne cessarily depend. Though severely triet£ my faith in the people is not lost, and I trust, though I should not live to see the hope realized, that it will be permitted me to die'believing that the principles on which our fath ers founded their government WILL FINALLY PREVAIL throughout the land, and the ends for which it was instituted yet be at tained and rendered as perpetual as many institutions may be.- I have said we may not see how this may be brought to pass, but it is not so difficult to determine what means are needful to secure the result. First to order and importance—for it is the cornerstone of the edifice—the elec tive franchise must be intelligently and houestly exercised let there be no class legislation, low taxes, low sala ries, no perquisites, aud let the offi cial be held to a strict a Countability to his constituents. NEPOTISM AND GIFT'»taKJNO by a public agent deserves the sever est censure, aud the bestowal oi the people’s offices as a reward for parti san service should he held as a gross breach of trust. Let not such offense be comloned for. In a government of the people there can be no abuses permissible as useful counter-acting each other. Truth and’justice and honor presided at the birth of cur Federal Union, end. its mission can only be performed by their continual attendance upon it. For this there is not needed a condition of human perfectibility, but only so much of virtue as will control voice aud teach the mercenary and self seeking that power, and distinction, ninl honor, will be awarded to patriotism, capac ity and integrity. To your self sac rificing, self-denying defenders of im perishable truths and inalienable rights, I look for the performance of whatever men can do for the welfare and happiness of the country. The only medical college for ne groes is in Nashville. It has an am ple endowment. The Michigan agricultural college youths are armed witfC* Springfield breech-loaders. ;?f The Washington Post says when Ben Butler is waked up suddenly he is obliged to ask his private secretary which party he belongs to, and the clerk replies: “ The other party, sir.” Ben Butler is fighting Presidt ut Hayes, who found out that ButLr’s brother-in-law, Parker, was postmas ter at New Orleans and bounced him So he had a brother iti-law, too, in a snug office all these years! Sly man, that Butler. New York, July 25, 3 a. m.—A letter from Havana says: “ The yel low fever is making its usual havoc at this season of the year, and a large number of cases arc reported from the military and other hospitals.” The heated term throughout the North wound up with a grand exhi bition of fire-works in the way ol thunder and lightning. Many houses ses were struck l»y lightning and burned, and many people were killed. The melancholy intelligence reach es us that George II. Butler, a neph ew of Benjamin, has been put in j »il in Washington for stealing a suit of clothes. The nephew seems to in herit all the virtues of the uncle, but, somehow or other, he lacks his shrewdness. F. J. Moses, ex-G »v. of South Carolina, after falling so low that there was none so mean as to do him reverence, has now lost the last and dearest prop to man. His wile has sued for and obtained a divorce, the the decree having been glinted by Judge Thompson, at Sumter. Mention of the Berlin Congress In • been found in the Bible, in Zachariah, viii., 23, as follows: “In those days, it shall come to pass that ten men shall take hold of all langnages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a jew, saying, we will go with you.” The present growing crop of cot ton is estimated at about five and a half millions, some of the estimates going a good deal higher. We fear that the result of these figures will be to keep cotton very low all this fall, while our planters lave it to sell. 'Georgia News. The Georgia State Fair opens at Macon, October 28ih. and continues six days. The Georgia railroad will build new offices immediately, which, the Evening News says, will be a great improvement. Gov. Colquitt has accepted the resignations of Major Jordan F. Brooks, and Adjutant Albert S. Ba con, of.the first Regiment. In Georgia there were during the past six months 88 failures, with lia bilities amounting to $1,523,562, against ;'.6 failures, liabilities $703,- 629, during the first six months of 1877. Henry Jones, a colored farmer liv ing on the plaster farm, near Peach tree creek in Fulton county, whipped his ten-year old son to death for run ning away. Jones was arrested and committed to jail, to answer the charge of murder. The grand jury of Bibb county found a bill of indictment against the late bankers, Messrs. Cubbedge, Hazlehurst <fc Co. The offence ot which they stand accused is cheating and swindling. Messrs. Good, Small I & Co., are the prosecutors. EUijay Courier: We want to live long enough to see the last vestige of this Independent fraud dead and buried and a hickory poje raised on the coffin to keep the iid down. There are but two nation al parties that can hope to have any- tiling but an ip'itiucral existence oil this continent for years to come. Mr. D. U. Creech, of Quitman, or dered two packages of wrapping pa per—tme of them was all right, the other looked rather strange and on examination turned out to be six bolts of silk, worth some $1200 or $1500. We fear our friend D. R. will find somebody hunting up that silk be fore long* Tbe work on the Elberton Air Line road is progressing, notwith standing the delivery of iron has been delayed for several days. Franklin county will have three depots, name ly: Martin, Lavonia and Royston. Martin is near what is known as the Furguson place, Lavonia at Burgess’ and all know where Royston is lo cated. A Bright Prospect for Mercer University. —We are pleased to learn that the indications are very fa vorable for a full opening of the next collegiate year of this excellent in stitution. All the rooms and dormi tories attached to the University have already been bespoken, and the outlook is exceedingly cheerful. We learn that very shortly the popular and energetic president of the University, Dr. Battle, will make a tour through those counties and sections of country which are ttafo- rally tributary to Mercer, and appeal to the people to send in their sons that they may be properly educated and qualified for future usefulness. The catalogue of the University shows a curriculum of study equal in character and completeness to any in the South.— Telegraph <£• 3lessen - ger. Tliomaslon Enterprise: On lust Tuesday evening a little daughter of Judge Oliphant, about four years old, while at play showed sudden and alarming symptoms of suffocation. It was evident that something had passed from the month into the wind pipe for it was with the greatest difi- culty that she could breathe. Vari ous remedies were used with the hope of dislodging the foreign body but without effect. She remained iu this truly distressing condition till the next morning when the operation of tracheotomy was performed and a part of a broken glass ear bob ex tracted. Fefore the operation was completed, all signs of animation had become suspended, and she was pro nounce 1 dead. The operator, Dr. E. A Flewellen, notwithstanding, went ahead—completed the cut into the win 1-pipe and then resuscitated the pat'ent by artificial respiration. The chi d is cow running about and in a few days tbe wound will be en tirely healed and she perfectly well. B H. WALTON, EDITOR, Our Hall. We presume that it is our duty to say something about our Hall. Some mouths ago there was a committee of three appointed to raise a fund suffi cient, if possible, to repair, to a limi ted extent, the condition of our hall It was onr intention to have this re pairing done ere the meeting of the Moot Parliament and the workmen promised faithfully that they would have the work done by that time, but owing to some cau.-e unknown the work is still untouched. Iu no ticing the condition of our Hall, we find that in the first place it needs a new loof, and until this is done all the work on the ceiling is lost. We may patch the leaks, but this will on ly be a temporary repair, for soon tbe crumbling will commence in an other place. Then a goodly portion of the moulding and paneling in front is sadly in need of repair. Now, in behalf of the committee, we w'll state that they have succeeded in raising money enough to patch the roof in three places and repair the ceiling. Now we would like for some member of the faculty in ma king the report to the Trustees to as sist us in obtaining u small appropri ation for the repair of our Hall. This Hall is connected with the Col. lege and while it may rn>t be claimed as belonging to the College, yet it is upon the College grounds and under the same control. Just now we urge this for the simple reason that the Society is not able, from her own funds, to repair the building, and its utility is sufficient to urge the neces sity of its being kept in good order. Now as it is, it will not require much, but continued decay will soon place it in such a condition as to require a considerable amount. So we hope that some one will assist us iu laying our wants before the Board of Trus tees in such a manner that still may Vhe time-honored institution prosper and maintain its position as in days ot yore. News. Was there ever a set of young men so intensely interested in what the world is pleased to term news ? Every corner is decked with a half dozen students and the never ceasing ques tion is applied to every new comer, total's the news I Demosthenes chided the ancient Greeks for being forever in the streets, running from one group to another, desiring to know the latest news, but from his description nothing among the ancient Greeks could possibly equal the insatiable thirst for something that is new. And when after many unsuccessful at tempts they at last strike some one who has heard of some trifliug little incideut, how they will crowd around him with ears intent to glean every feature of news possible, and then like the great sower each strides indifferent directions to spread the sweet morsel, that all may enjoy the luxury. Thus the average college boy spends his time. This, to a certain extent, ex plains the cause of the seeming dull* ness from the time the students finish reciting to Commencement. Had they not better employ their time in reading gome good books? Wears not advocates for novel reading, but will urge even the indulgence of dime novels as a better educator than this incessant asking after and seeking into the novelties of the day. The former will fill up the head with a set of imaginative stories while the latter will only reck the mental resources without gratification to the student and without any return for his trouble in neither experience, command of language nor increase of mental love. There is to be an exercise in drilling during Commencement for the benefit of visitors We are glad that this de partment will be represented, for it appears to be the only department not represented. Wejhave a Blue-List to show the relative standing of the young men in all other branches. We would suggest that the commission officers should be noted in our Catalogues. Society. There is an enjoyment in this sphere, that can not be substituted in any other ; we find grand aud inter- | esting truths in books, but here we j find them clothed with a vivacity that forever excludes the idea that lie, who reads ouly, can in the course of time, realize both improvement and enjoy ment. There are peculiarities in the culture of thebook-worin that israrely found in the person who frequents the society of intelligent young ladies. Some claim that *• calico” and hooks do not harmonize ; but on this point we beg to differ from the assertion. To the student there must necessarily be some time spent in recreation and where can the student find more en joyment than to turn from text books and pour his very soul into the dis cussion of some point or discanting upon some interesting topic with the young ladies? We admit that ex tremists never succeed at anything— when they erler society it is at the expense of everything else. When they do, which is seldom, determine to study it is at the expense of health and physical culture; and in the end mental aud physical prostration is the result. No, we desire a life, not re galed in all the beauties that an excited imagination can picture, nor one that is entirely murky with gloom, but a life ot interest, with enough toil to give interest to past time and vigor to society, with enough relaxation to inervate the mental system. One position gives both -study gives us an appetite for the charming society of the young ladies, and their society prompts us to strive to acquire as much as we well can carry from the great store house of knowledge. H. II. J. of the Macon Telegraph & Messenger, in a late issue of that paper brings out ail article iu which occurs the pliras *, “reduced our no ble University to its present straights.'” This gentleman is no doubt gifted with profound learning. He has been for several years Chair-, man of the Board of Visitors to the University of Georgia, and during those years it has been his province to inspect the examination papers of the Senior class in Belles Lettres; and ho has taken occasion to criticise the Seniois for their deficiency in spelling. Now. since he spells stmits, straights, we naturally suppose he must be getting up a dictionary of his own. If so, by all means let it be adopted by the University in or der that the students uiay get into his way of spelling before his next annual visit. We are glad to see that some ar rangement is being made by the class ot ’68 to meet again beneath the protecting roofs of their Alma Mater. How pleasant to meet again after so iong a separation aud talk of the many changes that the ever varying goddess of fortune has weighed out. We trust that theirs may be such a success as will encourage other classes to “ follow suit.” The Seniors are filing into line very fast uow, each with his speech ; you may readily recoguizo one of that class by the radiant smiles with which he greets every passer-by. Dan McIntyre, like Demosthenes has retired to a cave near town, where he is preparing to astonish the Athenian at the approaching com mencement. All of the students who heard Mr. Stephens were highly delighted. We admired bis vindication and only sigh when we consider the tewness of such patriotic men. Lost! Fifteen pounds of solid flesh during the final examination. The finder will bo liberally rewarded by returning the same to G. G. Sale. Tige Anderson wishes to inform the ladies, that no others need apply for his photographs, as he has given them all away. Our friend Gross, we learn, has located at Buena Vista, where he in the future will wield the penile.