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IfABTWFM,, HAST COI’NTY, A.:
Wimlih-mlhj Norninf, Jiiniuir.v 17, 1H77.
UOVKKMHI HMITH'N UNT NENNAUE.
Governor Smith’s last message is re
plete with sense and good judgment.
The financial condition of the State is in
a very healthy state. He presents it in
a clear and precise manner. The bal
ance in the Treasury, January 1,187 G,
was $511,785.21; receipts in 1876, 82,-
832,933.38; disbursements in 1876, 82,-
280,435.26; balance, January 1, 1877,
$564,283.33. The public debt amounts
to 88,447,500, exclusive of the indorsed
bonds issued by the Macon and Bruns
wick, North and South, and Memphis
Branch Railroads. The Governor next
reviews the status of education and re
commends an appropriation for the Ag
ricultural College at Dahlonega. He
speaks with pardonable pride of the
growth of popular education during his
term of office. In 1872 there were no
public schools in the State. In 1871
the school attendance was 49,578; in
1876 it had increased to 179,405, every
County having its school organization.
The value of t e services of the Agricul
tural and Geological Bureaus arc dealt
with, and the Governor urges their con
tinuance as necessary to the full devel
opment of the State’s resources.
Governor Smith then takes up the
reports of the Qtfttp jafikliils, .blit tiwjcfi k
nothing more than the usual dry docu
ments of the reports to deal with.
The subjects of direct trade and immi
gration are elaborately treated. The
advantages that would accrue to the
State are fully and tersely stated. The
Governor advises an acceptance of the
iproposition for the establishment of a
new line of steamers, at a cost to the
State of 800,000 a year in gold. The
subsidy asked for being very reasonable,
the Governor recommends that the con
tract should be entered into immediately.
Governor Smith’s remarks on Feder
al relations are patriotic and appropriate.
We will next week give some extracts
of particular interest from the message.
TIIE GENERAL ASSEMBI.Y.
The Legislature of Georgia was or
ganized last Wednesday, 10th instant.
In the Senate, Hon. Rufus E. Les
ter, of Savannah, was unanimously
elected President; Hon. Wm. A. Har
ris, of Worth, Secretary; A. J. Came
ron, Messenger; Col. J. B. Cum mi no,
Doorkeeper; and Rev. John P. Dun
can, Chaplain.
In the House, Hon. A. 0. Bacon, of
Bibb, was unanimously elected Speaker;
Col. Eugene P. Speer, of Spalding,
Clerk; Mr. B. H. Miller, of Hancock,
Doorkeeper; and Mr. J. R. Smith, of
Coffee, Messenger. C. W. Seidell, of
Hart, received fourteen votes for Clerk.
The inauguration of Gov. Colquitt
was agreed upon for Friday, 12th, at
12 m.
MOV IT IS WOW.
Messrs. Drew and Hull, the Demo
cratic candidates, have been inaugurated
respectively Governor and Lieutenant-
Governor of Florida, and the Assembly
has organized with Democratic majori
ties in both branches, without contest or
protest from the Republicans.
In Louisiana, there are dual govern
ments, like those in South Carolina,
The Republicans have possession of the
Statehouse, but nothing else. The Dem
ocrats took possession without a drop of
blood being shed. They would do the
same with the Statehuuse, if it were not
for Federal interference. The Democ
racy arc confident of success.
Though the political eauldron con
tinues to boil at Washington, not enough
has come to the surface to indicate any
precise line of action to bo pursued by
cither Party. It is the dreadful calm
that forebodes the impending storm, to
happen about the 14th of February.
THF FlilTOlt'N TABLE.
Hand-Book of the State of Georgia,
accompanied by a Geological Map of the
State. Prcpnred under the direction of
Thomas I’. Janes. A. M., M. I).. Com
missioner of Agriculture for the State of
Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., 1876.
The above is the title of a very inter
esting volume upon the industrial re
sources of Georgia, for which we are in
debted to Dr. Janes. A great many
historical facts are recorded concerning
the settlement of the State, and the ex
isting constitutional and legislative en
actments are given in a concise form.
The mineral, agricultural and manufac
turing resources are treated at length,
and form a prominent feature. The
work is very neatly and conveniently
gotten up, and Dr. Janes deserves great
credit for the energy and ability he has
displayed in the undertaking. The book
should have a large circulation through
the Northern States. We will at a fu
ture day make selections from this work.
Official Proceedings of the Nation
al Democratic Convention, held in
St. Louis, June, 1870.
We are indebted to Major George
T. Barnkh, of Augusta, member of the
National Democratic Executive Com
mittee, for a neatly executed pamphlet
containing the proceedings in full and
portraits of Tildkn and Hendricks.
We have, also, received the “Third
Annual Report of* the Commissioner of
Agriculture of the State Georgia, for the
year 1876,” which we have not had time
to examine.
t&r Grant is said to have threaten
ed to make the House act rightly on the
14th of February, when the Prosidfipfial.
vote is to he canvassed iu Congress, or
arrest the “Rebel House.” Grant is
paving the way to declare himself Dic
tator.
Bdr Ruination and Repudiation will
will be the consequences of Republican
desperation.
JKa)" 1 “ Rule or Ruin,” is the Republi
can programme for 1877.
The Radical Conspiracy.
Correspondence Xew York Sun.
WASH IN TON, .lan. 10. —While the peo
ple are sending memorials to Congress and
holding great meetings, asking for an hon
est count of the votes cast at the Presiden
tial election, and protesting vigorously
against the frauds perpetrated by the lte
publican Returning Boards, the conspira
tors at Washington pursue their plot as if
they defied all opposition, and are maturing
their plans in every detail for its consum
mation.
They take no heed of remonstrances.
They believe there will he no resistance to
the conspiracy. They mean to hold on to
power at any cost; and with the machinery
of the Government in their hands, the army
ami navy, the Treasury, and a thoroughly
organized movement extending over e\ ery
part of the Union, they believe success to
be certain. There are a few conservative
Republicans who deplore and condemn the
plot, but who have not thus far had the
courage to declare their convictions or to
stand in the way of the advancing train.
They remember the fate of Sumner,
Schurz, Trumbull, Palmer, and other emi
nent Republicans who were proscribed and
denounced merely because they opposed
usurpations of power, refused to white
wash glaring frauds, and insisted that the
professed principles of the party should be
carried out in good faith. Hence they hes
itate to take position now, and, like the
Girondins of France, may be swept away
by the coming revolution.
Meantime, the conspirators are united,
audacious, aggressive and, what is more
important still, are in possession of the
Government, which they regard as a politi
cal estate, and the revenues therefrom as
the rightful income of the managers and
officeholders of the Republican party .alone.
Without a color of justification, troops
have been brought two thousand miles
from the frontier posts, and are daily drill
ed in sight of the House cf Representatives.
The Arsenal and the War Department and
the White House have recently been col
lected. and other significant preparations
are openly made.
The intention of this military concentra
tion at the capital, in advance of the time
for counting of the votes and declaring the
President, is not disguised. It is meant to
be a menace to the House of Representa
tives ; and Don Cameron, who is one of the
most active and reckless of the conspirators,
has threatened, in presence of the Presi-
dent and other*, that some of the men who
are pursuing peaceable and constitutional
means to defend their rights may he treated j
as “ traitors !” This threat was made de
liberately, and it rellects the spirit of the
conspiracy.
Morton, Sherman, and the others not
only insist that their instrument, the tem
porary President of the Senate, shall count
the votes and he an absolute Returning
Hoard, like Wells, Anderson, and their !
two imdatto confederates, hut that the Sen- ,
ate, shall assume controlling authority in
the proceedings of the joint meeting and j
assume to itself a superior position. For ,
example, the practice has been uniform !
since Mr. Jefferson's second election that j
the Senate should go to the House of Rep
resentatives, for the ceremony of the Pres- '
idential count on the second Wednesday of j
February. The original reason for select- |
ing the House was, perhaps, that the hall
was larger than that of the Senate, and,
therefore, better adapted to the occasion,
which would he sure to attract a large at
tendance. If that was a good reason sev
enty years ago, it is a much better one now.
At all events, the custom has been conse
crated by time, and has become one of the
honored traditions, with the moral force of
law.
It is now proposed to reverse this old
practice without any good cause, and to re
quire the House of Representatives to go
to the Senate Chamber on the 14th of Feb
ruary. where the space is limited and in
sufficient. One object is to convey to the
public mind an idea that the Senate has a
function above the House in detemining
the result of the election, and that the
House is only invited to attend as a wit
ness. Another object is strategic, and the
offspring of Don Cameron's conspiring
brain, who designs in a certain contingency
to do what Grant's kitchen organ has de
clared by authority Will be done, namely,
to arrest the Speaker and the majority of
the House.
Heretofore the places of meeting to count
the electoral votes have always been deter
mined by a joint resolution of the two
Houses. They met in the Senate Chamber
at the first and second elections of Gen.
Washington. They met in the House of
Representatives at the election of John
Auams. They met in the Senate Chamber
at the first and second elections of Thomas
Jefferson in 1801 and 1805. Since then
they have invariably met in the House of
Representatives; or, in other words, four
elections have been declared in the Senate
Chamber and seventeen in the House of
Representatives, and sixteen of these meet
ings have been in an uninterrupted series.
Item* of Interest.
Vanderbilt is dead.
Raleigh claims eight een inches of snow.
Drew has been inaugurated Governor of
Florida.
Mr Hill Keith of Lake Forest, N. C.,
having lost his wife last year, was married
to her mother on Christmas day.
6W nfflrwh f^aTHT
in Pittsburgh, and was permanantly brand
ed with the words “ Base Burner."’
The tax-payers of Louisiana are imitating
the example set them by the tax-payers of
South Carolina. They will only pay taxes
to the legal State Government. This is
the proper policy. Starvation is the only
argument that thieves can understand.
Gen. Hampton says in relation to Judge
Mackey’s interview with Gov. Hayes, that
Mackey was not authorized to speak for
him or the Democracy of South Carolina.
He believes Tilden fairly elected, and the
people desire a peaceful constitutional so
lution of the question.
Tilden’s vote in the United States is
4,268,207; Hayes, 4,027,245. Cooper, 80,-
702 ; Smith, (temperance) 10,055 ; Scattering
3,791. Majority for Tilden over Hayes 241,-
022; over all 147,384, total vote 8,486,150.
Twenty-one States show Republican major
ities, seventeen Democratic. lowa is the
banner Republican and Georgia the banner
Democratic State. The smallest Democrat
ic majority is Delaware, the smallest Re
publican in Florida. All but four show
Democratic gains, the largest in Pennsyl
vania. The largest Republican gain was
in Kansas. The Democrats gained eleven
States since 1872. This vote may be alter
ed in some few particulars, but it is very
nearly accurate.
TAKE NOTICE.
ANY person or persons trespassing upon any of
my lands in or about Hartwell, will be indict
able under sec. 4,440 of the Code of Georgia. Verbum
sat savienti.
C. A. WEBB.
MUSIC.
Miss ANNIE JORDAN
"XI TILL resume her Music Class on the ‘29th day of
YY January. Having procured new text-books,
she ensures the best method of teaching the rudi
ments of this beautiful science.
Rates per mouth reduced to tM.
Use of Piano per month, 50 Cents.
DISSOLUTION.
THE firm of W. Y. HOLLAND ,t CO. lias
been this day dissolved by mutual consent, W.
Y. Holland retiring. The business will be continued
by K. P. Bradley, L. O. Williford and 1). C. Alford,
under the name and style of the Jf ARTNVEI,!,
STEAM SAW Ml 1.1. COMPANY. The old
tirm tender their sincere thanks to their friends and
customers for their liberal patronage, ami solicit a
continuance of the same to the new firm.
W. Y. HOLLAND,
R. P. BRADLEY.
January 12. 1877. L. O. WILLIFORD.
BRIDGES SMITH’S PAPER.
\ FOR
X #I.OO A YEAR. _X
A live, newsy naper from the Capital, full of chat,
gossip, original sketches, paragraphs and mentions
of all kinds. Just the kind of a paper to drive away
blues and give the world a bright and cheerful look.
A good agent wanted in every town in the South, to
whom a literal commission will lie paid. Semi stamp
for a specimen copy or enclose one dollar and receive
the paper for oue year. Address
BRIDGES SMITHS PAPER.
Atlauta. G.
D. C. ALFohi, )
K. P. BRADLEY. L. O.
HARTWELL
STEAM SAWMILL COMPANY
I HE UNDERSIGNED respectfully announce that tfuW have associated themselves
in the Lumber and Building business, and will fill all hills for Lumber wit Itch
and of the best quality. Contracts for Building will also he taken, and as poy
none hut the best of workmen, we arc prepared to do fir<t-cla.ss work with ca on
both as to price and style. Give us a trial.
Respectfully,
R. P. BRADLEY.
L. O. WILLIFORD,
91 * I). C. ALFORD.
HARWELL HIGH SCHOOL.
The Spring Session for 1877 will open on Monday 29th of January, and con
tinue for Five Scholastic Months.
RATES OF TUITION PER SESSION OF FIVE MONTHS:
Fourth Clrim—Spelling, Reading, Writing- 010.00 l
Third Class—Arithmetic, tirainnur, Geography. (Commenced) 15.00^
Second Hass—lli|fher English Brandies 20.00
First Class—Classics. Higher Mathematics, Ac 25.00
Contingent Fee per Session 1.00
Music (Extra) * 25.00
Tuition due at the close of the Session ; but if paid in advance, twenty
per cent will be deducted from the above rates.
Pupils, entering within two weeks of the opening, will pay for the entire Session ;
those entering after that time will pay for the remainder of the Session.
No deduction made tor absence, except in cases of sickness protracted for two
weeks or longer at a time.
Liberal deduction to Ministers of the Gospel of any sect.
Students will be required to conform to strict rules of discipline, both in and
out of School.
M. V. LOONEY,
MRS. A. B. LOONEY.
BARGAINS
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FURNITURE !
AT
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147,147; & 149 BROAD STREET, AOSTA, BA.
UNDERTAKING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. *
Sunday and Night calls 102 Greene Street lt
lookoutT
The FIRST BIT QiW FOTSIEBER has come and gone,
and there are a great mauy who did not settle with Little Bill Holland ; so look j
out for the proper officers to collect it. I intend to make my words good.
I NEED MONEY,
And I must have it. I have given you fair and timelv notice.
V. Y. HOLLAND.
To the Citizens of Hart and Adjoining Counties:
Bemyes J* Mimmmw
INI ITE you to call arul see them. I hey arc offering to Cish buyers, at low prices,
their stock of goods, consisting in part of ’
BA CON, SUGAR, AND COFFEE,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
BAGGING, AND COTTON TIES,
TOBACCO, &C., &C., &'C.,
A LARGE STOCK OF DRY GOODS.
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_ l4-22 REAVES & NICHOtSOIN-. Athens, Ga.
R. r. Ebkrhakt. J. G. Eberhabt. ~ w , P Vabney.
R. P. & J. G. EBERHART & CO.,
Manufacturers, and wholesale and retail dealers
IN BOOTS AND SHOES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Our nnmU , ; , -7
ing out sixty paii-s of Shoes each day. which we warrant to our customers f ? ctnn . n Department 18 t' l ™'
a full assortment of all kinds of Boots and Shoes, as cheap as theebeanest til? m our . re . tail ', tP -R\ ,nt
which we give especial attention to. we have some of thediest workmen in tWcM repairing department
pairing done or new Shoes and Boots at retail, w ill please call and examine n!!lr ? hoße
demands. Wholesale customers will receive bottom prices and warranted n- r BU T y, ° g t ' n .\
ISO. JO Broad hired, Athens*, (Georgia. 1 Warranted gooes, by calling at our Maud