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THE HON. BENJAMIN il. HILL/ What He Hhm o Nny in Kxplnn ition of llin Poklilob. From the Atlanta Constitution. JJousi: of Representatives. { ' WJkuinoton, D. C. !><v. 21,1870. I My s■•<!>■ Sir : I trust you will believe ■lie when JRasrare you that your letter is from one who - ' ' m ■ & and ... .p’ ' ’ .' -I ed, wS^BB!NBk $1.50 A YEAR. president by retbijmjng boards or bayonets. ' . m> thing is ccrtam*r 4 "U'r>Tilden cannot | and will not be made President unless he is made so by a fair It nest count of the votes of the people. That coma can be neither fair nor honest unless it be had unde* interpretations of the Constitution long 'accepted, aid by methods of procedure long established. The party that now demands new inter pretations, or anew form or method of count, will be a party in rebellion nd trea son against tho Constitution, the Union, and the people. J am, therefore, in favor of a fair and "Honest constitutional count of the votes of the peopll. lam laboring to secure that count. ami. whin secured, I shall abide its result; and so ' ill every other man North and South 4 who not willing to d"St r oyhis r 1 aiuAravc < ough to want p ace, but not cowardly e uigii to accept dishonor. P is unpivas! it now to have to write let-® tws. and, I co ess. a little wounding to hy pride to be called on by my friends to 'deny charges so plainly absurd, and so wickedly circulated. But 1 will make an allowance for a natural anxiety in these evil times. I ask you, therefore, to give this letter to the press, and 1 respectfully ask every paper in Georgia to give it an in; ertion. I make one request of the people of Georgia, and that is tiiat they will believe nothing as ribed to me unless it appears over my c£vn signature or in the otlicial proceedings of Congress. 1 can see no other possible protection from misrepre sentation. 1 believe we can avert all the calamities I now so much dread. If we can peace fully inaugurate the man elected by the people, we shall have anew and long lease of constitutional government. If we can not. then our beautifully glorious and con stitutional system will perish, and my friends will find me on the front line of the ■s defense. , Benj. 11. Hill. >n, Esq., Atlanta, Ga. ’s Love jtory. Vtica Herald. ght littlj miss of ten by- a l.nsin of the HARTWELL, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1877. A SAFE REMEDY. How the Shrewd Bumliicmm Man Ride* Over the Hard Times. Times am hard, indeed, and money is scarce; but merchants and dealers can make them a great deal harder and money much scarcer, so far. at least, as they are concerned, l>y secluding themselves from public gaze, as it were, and failing to use every means within their reach for doing at least a share of what business there is to he done. No matter how hard times may be, a certain amount of purchasing must be done daily by almost every family; and the harder the times the more .sharply are buyers looking out for bargains. And a peculiarity of the case is that in periods of great depression a large, portion of the small trade is for cash. Business men who fail to advertise, and thus make known what special inducements they have to of fer. are therefore certain to he passed by, while their energetic and enterprising com petitors are picking up what money there is in circulation. What would be thought of a farmer, who, having bought or rented his place, ploughed his fields and sowed his seed, would sullenly refuse to gather his crop because the yield happened to be light er than usual-—when, indeed, there was all the more necessity for gathering what there might be? Yet that is precisely the atti tude in which a business man places him self when he fails to advcrfi.se because mo ney is scarce and business dull. A Place Where the Surf Jumps a Day. Chatham Island, lying otf the coast of New Zealand, in the South J'acilic Ocean, is peculiarly situated, as it is one of the few habitable points of the globe where the day of the week changes. It is just on the line of demarcation between datqs. There high twelve on Sunday or Sunday noon ceases, and instantly Monday';/ meridian begins. Sunday comes into a Mian's house on the east side, and becomes 1 Monday by the time it passes out the western door. A man sits down toe dinner on Sunday and it is noon before he finishes it. There is Sunday and Sun lay s Moutlay. n lay becomes >t is good plst'-e for pe<>p avt* lost, much ripped up my face ami extended my mouth several inches.” With eyes full of sympathetic tears, he rose from the sofa, and remarked, as he made toward the door: ”My angel, you are perhaps mistaken. Probably', in the excitement of that awful moment, you left your mouth down in the basement, and ac cidentally brought up the cellar. We shall meet again in another world. Adieu.” Improvement of the Business Outlook. From the JVeu> York I‘vblic. There can he no doubt that business is steadily improving. The croakers rethse to see the facts, and dwell upon incidents which prompt gloomy forebodings, as if tliose told the whole story. In some branches of business there is reasonable complaint, but in the aggregate transac tions are very near as large as they were at this time last year. The exchanges at the clearing houses of the seven chief cit ies, for the week ending December Hi, ag gregates $55:1,266,406, against $.>60,271,077 during the corresponding week last year. These clearings, it should he remembered, represent the transactions of banks having over $808,000,000 of deposits, out of about $2,200,000,000 in all the hanks, national, State, savings and private, in the whole country. The decline is less fuan it has been in any week since October. In the aggregate the decline is barely $21,574,504 on trans actions of over $1,160,000,(MM) —about 2.7 per centum. This, too, in spite of a ma terial decline in stock speculation, which during the two weeks in question resulted in sales of only 1,122,079 shares, against 1,148.540 shares during the same weeks last year. Beyond dispute, business is better than it was last year at this time in quantities exchanged and it is steadily im proving. Political uncertainty alone re tards the recovery. ——— A Juvenile Fight A lad, narrating a light in which he had been engaged, said : "I'll tell you how it was. You see. Bill and me went down to the wharf to lisli; and 1 felt in my pocke f and found my knife, and it was gone; and 1 said. • Bill, you olemy^fc|ij^amU^ PARAGRAPHS OF THE PEtfOP. No legacy is so rich as honesty. A half loaf is better than a who* loafcr ' A Wisconsin couple named thd r s!Xt 1 boy “ Enough.” . lie who has health is a rich man an does not know it. > Many young ladies are made nncoin or able by having trouhlesotn><**is^i v on Ul< hands. . ' NUMBER 20. “ It's a mnighty fine thing to especially when your swatoheart ye,” says Pat. We may look for an exodus of carpet baggers from Florida and South Carolina within the next few months. Bishop Whipple says it cost $500,000 to kill one Indian. Mow much does it cost the Indians to kill a white man '< One hundred years ago there were no steamships, no railroads, no telegraph, no | sewing machines, no carpet-baggers. During these sudden changes in tlso j weather a little hoy should not he penmt i ted to attend church without a handker chief. Nothing will sooner tempt a bachelor to abandon his resolution to marry than to sleep in the next room to a couple with a colicky baby. —The Dublin Mercury of March, 17 ( 18, advertises "A neat and beautiful black girl, brought from tiie Carolina#, who speaks English, and is very tit to wait on a lady. To be disposed of on application to Mr. Carolan.” The Overturning Board is the name given by the J’icai/nne to the four disrcputaple colored and white politicians in houisiana who undertook the job ot electing Hayes President after Tilden had been elected by the people. A little Boston girl, four years old, cre ated a ripple by remarking to the teacher of her Sunday-school class: "Our dog s dead. 1 bet the angels was scared when they saw him coining up the walk, lie a cross to strangers. The custom in eastern Turkey is to re move the hoots and shoes on enternnj church. An American saw at Turkey, twelve hundred boots l j at the dour of the church. lP^gjSreM \. i \ III! I' -lirhl. Ihe n,7^- f.,1,! 11..: th. I! h:>l I t.i ■ 'ai" h:i :i 11 Jm Jm JBJL " A jm