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Soluble Pacific Guano and Whann’s Raw-Bone Super-Phosphate—Price Reduced to $72 TIIE SUN. ii ahtwiii Hat • .vrr. ® Wrfßcwl*;. April •. l*7l>. BENSON A McGILL, Editor*. A. 0. MoCPNRY, Aaaociate F Utor. Thin paper may be found on file at Geo. p. Rowell 4 Co.'a Newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce Street), where adver tising contractu may ba made for it in New York. THE OLD I'Rl OF REVOLUTION. Such member* of Congress as Garfield, of Ohio, and those of his creed have been making the old arch chntnbers ring with the cry of " Revolution !" since the con vening of the present Congress. They think to baffle patriotic public servant* from a faithful discharge of their duties by the false cry of •* Wolf!” when there is no wolf. The majority in Congress know their right* and have the manhood to maintain them, and no matter how much the stalwarts may prate of revolution, and may threaten the power behind the throne, the people in their sovereignty, yet in de manding a repeal of the law authorizing the use of the annv to intimidate and over awe Americans in the free use of the bal lot box they are striking at the very evils which, in their tendencies destroy the liberties of the people of this country. If it he revolution to guarantee to all the people of this country free elections, with out the intimidations of the sword and bayonet, then the majority in Congress should be willing to acknowledge the cum as to proposing revolution. And if these revolution cryers want to appeal to the verdict of the people in IKKO a* to whether they prefer free elections, or elections un der the dictation of an army, let the ap peal be entered at once, and we are w illing to abide by the enlightened sovereignty of these United States. The freedom of the ballot is the grand bulwark of our liber ties ; it is the lighthouse to beacon the storm-driven manners amidst the surging billows of oppression. Through all the ordeals of the past, through oppression, cruelty and tyrannic sway, our people have patiently endured, trusting to their ulti mate redemption through the peaceful in strumentality of the ballot box. Our hopes have not been in vain. That justice which was crushed to earth has risen again, and it has arisen because the people in their sovereignty have decreed that o|>- pression shonhl cease. The Belshazzars in Congress have, with horror-stricken hearts, beheld the mystic writing on the wall, and they think, as a last extremity they can assuage the tide that is hurrying thee- onward into the gurgling deep by tho wild cry of revolution. If there is any danger of revolution it is a revolution that will establish liberty over oppression and a government of civil law and order over a military despotism to which the party so long in power was fast carrying it. With such a revolution the people of this coun try will rest content. PISTOLS AGAIN. In our issue of the 28th ultimo, we sug- i posted the propriety of restricting the sale of pistols as one of the means to remedy the prevalent evil of carrying them con cealed. Since then we are glad to sec the views ol Major A. 0. Bacon, Speaker of | the House, given to a reporter of the Con stitution. which show him to he thorough ly on the same line ; indeed he plants him self flat-footed on the idea of banishing pistols from the State. A condensation ol j Major Bacon's views is about us follows : Our people are opposed to law breaking. Recent events and the outspoken ut terances of the press is reforming public sent intent on the question. Legislation can be done to break up.the evil. Prompt trial j should he given those who violate the law. ; Nearly ail the acts of violence are sudden ; outbreaks which would not have occurred had it not been for the concealed pis tols. The use of this weapon retards our civilization, lie is one who thinks pistols should be outlawed or banished from the State. Asa member of the Leg islature, lie has not moved in the mat ter because he did not think public senti ment was prepared for the reform ; is in clined to think public feeling is ripe for the measure now. As long as pistols can be easily purchased, a large number of per sons will carry tlietn. There is no good use to which the pistol can be applied where an instrument with longer barrel would not answer. The greatest use of the pistol is to kill people with; take this use away and pistol factories would soon be stopped. It should be made a penal otieuse to bring a pistol into the (state, or to offer to sell one. If he bad the power, would drop nil the pistols ;n the middle of Atlantic Ocean, He thinks such a law would be constitutional. Law can regulate how arms shall be carried, and thinks the law can regulate what kind of arms shall he carried, provided it doe* not amount to a practical denial of the right to bear arms. Major Bacon then urges the propriety of giving offenders a more speedy trial than is at present admin istered. We have no doubt the next ses sion of the Legislature w ill thoroughly con sider the question and provide some means to check the alarming evil that is becoming a blot upon our civilization and deluging our fair land with blood. A great public policy, the rights and liberties of our peo ple demand that a reform should he effect ed, and while It is true Mr. Blackstonc. the English commentator, does say that the law passed during the reign of Edward the Fourth, vfhieh torbade the tint gentle men of those times, under the degree of a Lord, from wearing pikes upon their alioes or boots of more than two inches in length was a law that savored of oppression, yet tin* wholesale flooding the country with instruments of death is a matter of much more serious consideration, and from the great public policy involved it would seem that a law preventing the evil would be sustained by the court*. MR. DAYIS INTERVIEWED. A correspondent of a Boston psper re cently had an interview with Mr. Jefferson Davis, in which, after giving his views in general, he went on to say that he was not the devil they hail painted him. that he neither had hoafs nor horns, and that the readers of the Northern papers on ac quaintance would find him pretty much a* one of themselves. This language was a very just rebuke to that bitter feeling that has singled our Mr. Davis as a subject of special hatred and opprobrium as well as invidious distinction on the part of the Government. As one of our able repre sentatives in Congress remarked, the crime of Mr. Davis was the crime of every true Southern patriot who embarked in the | Confederate Cause. And when the nar row and splenetic fanaticism hurls bitter i epithets into the face of Mr. Davis they are hurled into the faces of all the true Southern heroes who imperiled life and fortune in a cause they believed to be just. What was the crime of Mr. Davis ? At the outbreak of the struggle he was a leading light in the United States Congress, from Mississippi. His reputation and abil ities caused him to be selected a* the most competent leader to head the struggle the Southern States were determined to make to seek redress against the many grievances under which they felt they were laboring. The only crime, then, was the abilities which he possessed for leadership, and this was no crime. And after the struggle has long passed away, nnd the time has come for its hitter memories to be forgotten, wo lind Mr. Davis reviled, and singled out as an object of hatred among the Northern fanatics. Mr. Davis, leader as he was. was entitled to the same grati tude from his countrymen as the humble private who valiantly did his duty on the bloody field, and leader ns he was. should no more be derided and censured, or invid iously treated at the hands of the Govern ment.' EDITORIAL MELANGE. Massachusetts bad a severe snow storm on the 4th. A World’s Fair is to be held in New York in IHS3. Chicago has elected a Democratic Mayor —the first since the w ar. The office of Timber Gazette at Darien Was destroyed by tire on the 3d. Fires played havoc with houses, fences and timber in Southwest Georgia last week. M issZurilla Mathews, aged twelve years, was married in Oglethorpe county recently. A ben in Talbot County lays four eggs at a time. What eggstraordinary eggser tion ! The Gainesville Southron wants the President’s salnry reduced to #20,000 a year. The Constitution says Georgia spends six millions of dollars a year for mules and guano. A protracted meeting in Thomasvillehas added twenty members to the Baptist Church. J. G. Truitt, of LaGrange. has an Ayr shire cow that gives four gallons of milk at a milking. Reports from all parts of the State rep resent the fruit crop as badly injured by the recent freeze. Ohio realized last year by the tax on dogs the ‘large sum of #2;>(i,758. Let Geor gia dogs be taxed. The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church will meet in Louis ville. Ky.. May 15th. The Macon Telegraph asserts that if the cotton crop were reduced ten per cent, that the South would not lose a dollar. Madame Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte died in Baltimore on the 4th. She was the wife of Jerome Bonaparte, brother of the tirst Napoleon. A drunk man stole the Bible and com munion goblet from a Church in Pike County recently ; but returned them when lie became sober. England is in w orse condition financially than it has been this century. All of her industries are crippled, aud many of her people are suffering. Two negroes wore married in the jail in Atlanta on the 4th. They did their court ing through the bars in their cells. How true that ** Love laughs at bolts and bars.” Barnutn says there are more fools now thnn when he tirst started in business.— Detroit Free Press. Why how many children has the man got One of them walking fellows died in Louisville, Kv., on the 4th, from overlcgs ertion. Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching, cheer up, comrades, let's be gay. The Xetv Orleans Times says, “ The cost of living m Louisiana recently de creased JOO per cent.” Yes. about the time the yellow fever was raging; but it cost a man his life to die. If people could look in upon a newspa per office and see the efforts of the editors as they attempt to make out the hiero glyphics and partridge-tracks (called writ ing) sent in bv contributors and correspon dents. they would be willing to forgive the printers and editors for using some bad words, tew people write s good hand, but everybody can write plainly if they would try, and it is no evidence of great ueaa to write an article that cannot be r -*l. The first chapters of anew serial atory, entitled •• What a Wife Can Do,” by Misa Mry E. Bartlett, of Cave Springs. Ga., will appear in the Savannah Weekly New* on Saturday. April 12th. The story ia one of absorbing interest, and will run through some eight or ten numbers of the Weekly. The scene of the romance ia laid in F.uropc—chiefly in London and Paris—and the author, evidently familiar with the localities she so vividly describes, through the medium of a pleasing fiction imparts to her readers the additional pleas ure of a tour of the continent. The sub scription price of this excellent paper is t 2 a year. £1 fr six months. Money can be sent by Money Order, Registered Letter or Express at the publisher's risk. Address. J. 11. Kstill, Savannah, Ga. The House of Representatives has pass ed the Army Repeal Clause, after an ex citing debate, on the tith. Ibis, if it be comes law. w ill forever put a stop to using troops in elections. The vote was a strict party vote, but nearly all the Grcenback ers voted with the Dctnocrata. In Lowndes County recently, a fisher man named Downing was attacked by alli gators. killed and devoured. Two alliga tors were afterwards killed and cut open and their stomachs contained the tlesh, bones and clothing of the unfortunate man. Ayres Jones, the man who murdered Lieut. Mclntyre about two years ago. was captured and carried to Atlanta one day last week by U. S. Deputy Marshal J. B. Gaston and Mr. James Findley. In the celebrated breach of promise ease, in Washington City, brought by the Wid ow Oliver against old Simon Cameron, the jury reported a verdict in tavor of the de fendant. And now Simon says wig wag. LETTER FROM ATLANTA. Atlanta. Ga. March 31, 1879. Ki>H. Sun : As you have no regular cor respondent from here, an occasional letter may be of some interest to your readers. Atlanta is grow ing in every way all the time, and the increase that is constantly' taking place is wonderfully grand : first one industry after another springs up, then new houses of business are opened. Con stantly the sound of the workmen arc heard, rearing up in tremendous propor tions. new buildings of all styles and mag nitude. It is said by those who know, that by the first of next January, the population of this city will reach fully 50.000 inhabi tants. Courts of justice arc grinding here all the time, and there is not a day in the year, except Smfdays. but the law is adihinis tered in one Court or another. On last Saturday the U. S. District Court adjourn ed. and to-day is the beginning of the soring term of the Superior Court. Judge Hillyer is the presiding Judge, is a good man. and has a strong bold on the people of his circuit. He was raised in Athens, and n great many of your people are In niiliar with him. At this term, will be the time for the trial of Cox for the murder of lion. Roht. A. A list on. It is highly prob able that with the number of eminent counsel in bis behalf, he may get a respite until the fall term. Under the present state of feeling I do not suppose he could get a fair trial now ; for the popular voice of the multitude cry that justice may be done, and whether it will be changed bv the fall term or not. still perhaps he will get a continuance thereby. The report that every other man here carries a concealed weapon, is a foul slan der. and a great injustice to the people of this city. That there are a few men who carry weapons there is no doubt, but it is absolutely false that they are carried by a majoritv of the citizens. The Felton-*Jordon letters excited some comment here, but now the excitement occasioned thereby has died out. and the whole thing seems to have ended in smoke. There are two sides to the matter, and both claim to be right. our readers are no doubt familiar with the whole allair; hut we canned,agree with the majority of the newspapers, that Mrs. Felton has been lowered by writing this letter in the de fense of herself and her husband ; but on the eontrnrv there is a large and growing sentiment all over the country, which com mends her action. Respectfully. K. On the Hartwell Railroad. West Bowersville. Ga. \ April 7, 1870. J Eiutoks Sin : As the time of year has again arrived to agitate the building of the Hartwell Railroad in time for the trade of next fall. I respectfully beg to offer a fewr suggestions on that important topic, which is of vital interest to the future prosperity of the citizens of our County. Since the Elberton Air Line Railroad lias been running, a great many liavo used the argument that for all the requirements of this County, the facilities offered by that road were sufficient, and that it is unwise to go to building this road, which will only build up the town of Hartwell and will not be of general benefit to the County. Now. fellow-citizens of Hart County, you know that this argument is a foolish one, for many reasons ; amongst which are the following : Ist. The Elberton Air Line runs through only a small portion of this County, and can only benefit a small number of our citizens ; aud for all purposes of a market. Elberton or Athens is now a bettorniarket for a majority of the people of this County. 2d. By building a railroad to Hartwell it will give this Countv all the advantages of a market equal to Elberton. Athens or Augusta, and which it can never get with out it. 3d. The town of Hartwell is losing her trade, which drying up of your County town is an everlasting disgrace to the County. No county can be flourishing or prosperous without a fiourishing conntv town. Your children and children's chil dren will always feel the stigma and dis grace. by your neglect in not providing for them bv building this Road. 4th. From the geographical situation of Hartwell, there being 37 miles of her bor der f'o the Sftnnap rivor—no point of WE ADVERTISE WHATWE SELL AND SELL WHAT WE ADVERTISE! THE BEST COOX STOVE IN AMERICA! If you don’t believe it, ask JOHN B. BENSON, a. k. chiles &co jr a Allll' o, O.a. which is more than 10 miles distant from Hartwell, and a great portion of it much nearer —brings that whole country to Hart well ns a mat ket, together with the rich neighboring counties in South Carolina; who all demand this Road, ami are ready and willing to assist in the building of the same; whilst now their whole trade is going to railroads in South Carolina, and to other points out of the County. These are a few of the reasons that de mand the building of this Road, which are important and vital to the prosperity of our County. j The amount of #20,000 has been raised in good and bona fide subscriptions, and j that is more than one half of the necessary i amount to build and equip the Road. \\ ith ! the meeting of the legislature, we will have a charter, and it is necessary that at the very earliest day thereafter contracts i should be made tor the final completion of I the Road. The sooner that is done and advertised to the world, the better it will I be for tbe fall trade, and for the good and prosperity of our whole County. Let every man. woman and child of Hart County go to work at once, and use every exertion to put the ball in motion. If we raise our subscription to #30.000 (of which there can he no uoubt of our ability) the Road is assured beyond any lear of contradiction ; and which when accom plished will be to the eternal good and prosperity of the good old County of Hart. X. General Gartrell. Editors Sun : It is rather early to commence the Governor-making business, but wc sec a good many papers are figur ing a little in that line. We think our next Chief Magistrate should be a wise, clear-beaded man. familiar with the laws of the State and United States—just such a man as General Lucius J. Gartrell—who could not be fooled by any of the lawyers or other folks in the State. We don’t ad vocate him on the ground that he is an up country man. but that he is the most suit able man in the State. Hard Pan. Speedy Justice. Gainesville Eagle. Mr. John Satterfield, a young farmer of White county, started early one morning last week from his home to visit this city. He had made very good time, and at an early hour had readied the suburbs of of the town, and was riding leisurely along, undisturbed by care or any thought of coining trouble. He had with him. doubt less for protection, a small pistol; but no opportunity bad been presented for using it, ami, more to hear the report, perhaps, than anything else, he took it I rota his pocket and blazed away at the trees as he rode along. He did not observe, however, that another man was coming into town not far behind him ; or if he did. he did not then see anything in his appearance to indicate that he was more than a com mon citiz.en. But there's where he made a mistake. The man behind him was a grand juror, and by the time the two reach ed town court had convened. It was but the work of a few moments for the said conservator of the people's rights to give his evidence before the august body of which he was a member, and a present ment was found thereon instanter. This went immediately to the court room, the case was docketed, and the sheriff gently led Mr. Satterfield within the bar. This was the first intimation the gentleman had of the grave conspiracy which had been formed against him. He was. therefore, not a little astonished when the Judge with solemn dignity, sounded the ease of The state vs. John'Satterfield, carrying conceal ed weapons. He was allowed time to con sult a lawyer, but he soon found that the case was dead against him. and his inno cent amusement was likely to cost him dear. I pun advice h“ owned up like a lit tle man. entered a plea of guilty, and re ceived Ins sentence from the court, which was 325 fine and costs. He paid up and went home a sadder and w'iser man. I lie whole affair, from tfie tiring of tfie pistol to the sentencing of the prisoner, did not consume over three hours. This shows how determined the courts and people of this country arc to put down this perni cious practice of carrying concealed wea pons. Go to Benson A Go's and examine their new stock of Plows, Stocks, Ac. Prices down, down MOO HE* MdEEH & €Q* IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF DRY GOODS, NOTIONS. BOOTS. SHOES AND HATS, Cor. Decatur and Pryor Sts. ATLANTA, GA. GEO. J. HOWARD & BROS., WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, AM Dealers ii Paials, Oils, Gass aid Porfrnnery, 29 East Alabama St.,_JAtlanta, Ga. J. C. & J. CARTER, muni rofii r •Gr I? O C E R g,- fVIIULLOfILL 65 East Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga ORDERS SOL TCI TED. SEASON 1879 —SPRIHG SALES! J. H. £ T. A. JONES, ELBEETOIT, OFFER ilie following Popular and Standard brands of Fertilizers to the Planters of this aad adjoining Comities : Excellenza Cotton Fertilizer, Giant Guano, Fatapsco, Grange mixture, Acid Phosphate, Dissolved Bone and Potash. The above Guanos can lie had from our Agents on the Elberton Air Lino Railroad at tbe following places: Kovaton, \V. A. Houston, Agent; West Boweraville, Glover A Ronds, Agents; Lavouia. T. J. RlaoVwell. Agent. Talk is cheap—but Cotton buys the Goods. Planters wishing Guano, will do well to call on the abeve Aleuts ; also, the undersigned at Elbertoli, Ga. • u H & T. A. JONES, PLOW BRAND! E. B. BEN'SON A CO. arc now Agents for the celebrated \ V I I \ X RAW-BONE SUPER-PHOSPHATE. PLOW BRAND! They are getting in a stock fresh from the Factory this week. It is needless to tell those who have used it ol its met its. All who ever tried it arc well pleased with the results. There is no better Guano in the land. Call on us. and see the splendid analy sis and the relative commercial value toothers. This is a high grade Guano and can not fail to give entire satisfaction. The price has been BEDTJCEID TO With Cotton Option 15 cents, or 48J pounds of Cotton for a ton. E. B, BENSON & CO., Agents, Bowersville, Ga.