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T II I*: s L N. _ ' IKHIHHI. II A III' *VI V A.I WMluiNHliiy. M, l*7. BENSON & McGILL. Editor*. A. G. McCURRY. Associate Editor. "Conoumm meets Wednesday, December Ist. t|| __ Ff.RNANDO C. BKALAW has been ap pointed U. S. Senator from Michigan to till the unexpired term of the late Senator i'handler. ___ ’]T is’rumored that an attempt is being made by Democratic leaders in New York <o bridge tho chasm between the John.Kel dy andTilden Democrats. ' THE negro, Jordan Sheats, who was re spited by Governor Colquitt until last Fri day, was hung at Danielsville on that day. Hu said on tho scaffold that he did not have a fair trial. To a correspondent of the Charleston News A Courier, in speaking of Gen. Grant as the next President, Mr. Stephens said : *• In my opinion the South might go a great deal farther and faro a great deal worse.” The Democratic newspapers are amus ing themselves getting wp tickets for the Presidential contest next year. There is an astonishing difference of opinion. We believe that the Republican ticket w ill be elected in 1880. The Savannah News has received a special telegram from Washington stating that Dr. Felton has written a letter, to be published soon, in which be has renounced all allegiance to the Democratic party and . will cut entirely loose from it. The Atlanta Daily Dispatch throws up the sponge—in other words it is dead. Well, we have been looking for this—but wo arc sorry. Good-bye, Tom Arter. Alas ! poor Y'orick- a follow of infinite jest. And Corny Willingham, tei drop n briny tear for thee. If we were gasping at the brink of tho well and wanted water bad, we’d give you some. Before the war Hob Toombs might probably have been called a representative •of Southern opinion, but not now. There are few Southern people who echo his wish of “ Heath to the Union.” The South is more interested in her commer cial welfare than anything else at present, and knows full well that the dismem berment of the Union would boa death blow to her commercial prosperity for many long years. The South wants the Union to prosper—any intemperate, iirc cating revolutionist to the contrary not withstanding. To the South Gen. Toombs owes his greatness ; but his idiocy lie owes to his intemperate habits. As the time for collecting taxes is now at hand, for tho information of tax-payers wc publish the following act empowering tax-collectors as ex-officio sherills, passed by the last General Assembly : Section 1. He it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and af ter the passage of this act, tho Tax Uollec -tors of the several counties of this State shall be ex-officio sheriffs in so far as to enable them to collect the taxes due the -State and county, by levy and sale, under tax executions; and said Tax Collectors shall not be allowed to torn over any tax executions to the sheriffs, or to any other levying officers of said State, except when it may become necessary for the purpose of enforcing the same, to send said execu tions to any other county or counties than filiat in which issued, but said Tax Collec tors, by virtue of their office, shall have full power and authority to levy all tax ex ecutions heretofore or hereafter to be is sued by them, in their respective counties, and the compensation of said Tax Collec tors shall not exceed fifty cents for issu ing each (i. fn.. and for levying, the same .fee as now allowed by law to bailills for levying; and said Tax Collectors shall have full power to bring property to sale, and sales made by them shall bo valid, and shall carry the title to property as fully and completely as if made by the sheriffs •of said counties: Provided, levies upon realty shall he returned to the sheriff, and sales be made by him as now provided by law. See. 2. Be it further enacted by the au thority aforesaid. That all levies and sales made ny tax collectors of the several coun ties of this State as ex-officio sheriffs un der the provisions of this net shall, ns to time, place, manner, and in all other re spects, conform to. and be controlled hv, t the general laws of the State regulating sales under tax fi. fas. Sec. 3. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved August 21, 1870. Constitution : The telegram of congrat • ulation winch General Toombs fired into the Chicago camp will prove a valuable campaign document for the Republicans to use in their sectional crusade against the South, and but few of the voters North will take into consideration the fact that General Toombs represents only himself— and we who know niiu may be permitted to doubt most capitally whether the dis patch as it appeared represents even his sentiments. This, however, will have no weight and the effect of the telegram can hardly be calculated. Rut the Democratic party has been wounded so often of late that it is hardly necessary for us to make a fuss over what cannot be helped. Anderson (S. C.) Journal : Everybody speaks of the Air-l.ine Railroad officials and employees in the most complimentary manner, and not without reason, for they are the most polite and gentlemanly set of men in the whole country. If they can possibly accommodate you they will do so, and if they can't they will regret it more than vou will. It is to be regretted that they haven't more imitators. The receipts of cotton in Augusta since September Ist, are 15.000 bales less than for the same time last year. Senator John A. Speer, of Troup county, is dead. GRAM IN CHICAGO. Nome rMMT from *>•!. Tmwlm Atlanta Cotutfkifiim. A few *days ago lha prominent men of Georgia received dispatches from the edi tor of the Chicago News asking that they send their views on Grant, to be published on the morning of the grand Grant rally in Chicago. Very few of our public men replied to this request. In yesterday’s dispatches to The Constitution appeard the following relative to General Toombs : •‘Chicago, 1m,., November 13.—The Daily News having invited the governors of the states, and prominent Southern men to send congratulation* on Grant’s return, received a number of such congratulations, including one from Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens, one from General lAingstreet. and the following from lion. Robert Toombs: Atlanta, Ga.—M. E. Stone, Editor : Y'our telegram received. I decline to an swer except to present my personal con gratulations to General Grant on bis safe return to his country. He foiight for his country honorably, ami won ; I fought for mine, and lost. lam ready to try it over again. Death to the Union. Signed R. Toombs.” A reporter of The Constitution called on General Toombs, anil after reading this dispatch to him asked if it was genuine. The General read it and then gently re marked that it was about correct. *• It certainly represents my views,” ho said. “ I did not intend to answer the ed itor’s diapatch in full. 1 merely desired him to congratulate General Grant on his safe return. 1 then went oil to say that I was ready to tight again for my cause— that of establishing tho right of the states to secede. Why shouldn’t I say it? I feel it—l mean it—it is in my heart and why should I deny it? Why should I crawl about and begin to tell lies in my old age? I don’t like the Union mid they know it. and 1 have nothing to hide. The policy of suppressing sentiment is all pre tentious. Seymour got a bigger vote in New Nork in ’6B than we have ever got since, and we’ve been choking tho North with butter ever since. The Union cannot last. Honest government is impossible under the Hth snd loth amendments. The radicals injected fSOO.fWO snags into the belly of the Constitution, and they did it for the purpose of brouking down our in stitutions. They will succeed I hope and believe. Y r ds, sir. L telegraphed to the Chicago man my honest views. 1 speak for no one but myself, and I don’t care to tell a d—n lie about it.” General Toombs’ Alleged Dispatch. Snraimah X&H f. Wo publish in our telegraphic columns this morning a dispatch alleged to have been sent by General Robert Toombs to the editor of a Chicago paper, on the occa sion of a reception given in that place to Grant, in which he is made to say that Grant fought for his country honorably and won. 1 fought for mine and lost. l>folh to the I'm on.” Wo believe that this last expression was deliberately inter polated in General Toouibs’ dispatch, and that the statement that he ever used such an expression, is an unmitigated Radical falsehood. For him to proclaim “ death to the Union,” would be a piece of sense less bombast unworthy even the idiot of the Okalona States, and while General Toombs lias a way of uttering bis ideas in a blunt an outspoken manner on all occa sions, we do not believe either that he de sires the Union to die, or if he does, that he would be so supremely foolish as to say so in a dispatch sent to congratulate Grant (in his safe nrrival to the United States, from the dinings and winings in which he bus participated so freely of late in foreign Innas. If the statement is true, General Toombs has certainly been guilty of a very repre hensible act. No matter if he is a foe to the Union, nnd personally wishes for its death, to express his individual wishes in such a manner, and under such circum stances, would he more than a mere viola tion of the rules of courtesy and good taste. The words attributed to him will be construed as embodying the sentiment of the people of Georgia, and the Radical press will eagerly seize upon such an ut terance and herald it abroad as proceeding from a prominent southern man, and there fore as a sure indication of the true spirit of the solid South. Unless, therefore, the General emphatically and promptly denies it, all the assertions wliicu the southern people can make to the contrary will not prevent thousands in the North—even of those inclined to sec the South in the en joyment of her civil and political freedom —from believing that though our people may profess to desire peace and harmony throughout the land, they are really at heart bitter and implacable foes to the American Union. Already this is the fa vorite battle cry of the Radical leaders of the North and the one upon which they mainly rely for exciting hatred and discord between the different sections of the coun try. Hut it must be confessed that, whether the alleged utterance is true or false, the sentiment, ” Heath to the 1 nion ” is not altogether inappropriate at a reception given to General Grant. Every one knows that the sole object of these receptions is simply to get up a Grant boom for the Presidency next year. And every think ing man knows that the nomination of Grant by the Radicals means the plain issue of centralization, imperialism, fraud and corruption against sovereignty, repub lican government, honesty and integrity, and that his election would mean, more emphatically than General Toombs or any one else can express it. death to the l nion —not only to the Union, but to the repub lic. Viewed in this light, the utterance imputed to General Toombs on the occasion of a Grant reception for the purpose of placing Grant in the White House for a third term, and most probably for life, is both significant and appropriate. A World of Uihhl. One of the most popular medicines now before the American public, is Hop Rit ters. You see it everywhere. People take it with good effect. It builds them up. It is not ns pleasant to the taste as some other Ritters as it is not a whisky drink. It is more like the old fashioned bone sot tea that has done a world of good. If you don't feel just right try Hop Bitters.— Nunda News. Wm. Scagraves, a farmer, aged 26, com mitted suicide at his home one mile from Griffin, on the 14th, by shooting himself with a pistol. He had been drinking. The Texas Tribune says : “ the late ‘at mospherical freshness' has brought on many cases of Coughs and Colds, and Dr. Hull's Cough Svrnp is in greater demand than ever.” Price only 25 cents. A hog, weighing 865 pounds, was exhib ited at the recent Fair in Albany. News Items, Peach trees in full bloom in Augusta last week,. Dirt was broken on the Gainesville ami Dahlonega Railroad last Wednesday. Secretary Sherman will, in his annual report recommend, it is understood, the discontinuance of the coinage of the stand ard silver dollar, A colored man by the name of Henry Anderson caught 14 ’possums last Tuesday night, the weight of all being 83 pounds. Ilenry is a Newton county darkey. The Jews in Jerusalem have advanced in numbers from 300 to 13.0(H) during this century, and are buying up all the land in and around it that they can obtain. Children cry for it. bnt they stop crying at once, after they have taken a single (lose, as l)r. Hull’s Kaby Syrup cures all the pains our little ones aro subject to. Price 23 cents a bottle. Thotnasville Enterprise : Cotton sold one day last week on ourstroets at prices ranging all tho way from 21 to 10 cents per pound. Some of the stuff brought in now is the meanest, dirtiest cotton we ever saw and is scarcely saleable at any price. By a change made in the election laws of Georgia at the late session of the Legisla ture. it is made a misdemeanor to vote at elections without paying taxes that are due. Any one so offering to vote is not only subject to challenge and rejection as heretofore, hut may be prosecuted if ho votes. Washington (Ga.) Gazette: Tt is calcu lated that the cotton crop will bring into Wilkes county from one hundred thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars more this season than it did last. The crop is larger and is bringing a better price. This calculation is well warranted by the general outlook. A man named Adams was riding with his infant son near Fairburn, Campbell county, on Friday night, when he drove his horse into a ditch. The wagon fell on the man and boy, a keg of nails striking the man on the bead and killing him. The child re mained imprisoned under the wagon for twelve hours with his dead father, and when discovered ho was almost dead from fright and cold. A “ man who knows Grant ” writes to the New York Sun as follows : “ I have known Grant ever since he hauled wood to St. I.ouis, before he dreamed of being President, when his wagon was put in Ar not’s livery stable many years ago. He was then, and now is, ambitious, and while he pretends he wants nothing, has always been willing to * accept ’ and is good ‘on the take.’ lie will take or ac cept the third term, and will seek and keep all other terms, but will always, like an other friend of mine, prefer a gold mine. He would like to be at the head of an em pire. even if it drenched the United States in blood.” Albany News : There was another jail delivery at Leesburg the other day. The whole number escaped by opening the door in an artistic and polite way. The following impudent and characteristic communication, addressed to the sherill, was tacked on tho door by one of the rascals: “ Dear Mr. Salter: I have not got no money to pay you rent on your house. Hut l hope the Lord will bless you. When you put men in jail be shoo not put Paul and Silas in thare. When you put men in jail be shoe to put men in jail that is Giltv of Crime, and you will be shoe to keep them in thare. May the Lord Bless your solu. Prisoners of Lcosburg, Ga. When you wright wright in care of Mr. Dono Station. 1 will be thare all off next week. Look in my office in tharwand you will find a note there. Look bchin the door. To Mr. Jas. Salter. Good-bye. OH to Pleasure Town.” After posting the above on the door, the boys left, and have not been heard of up to this writing. Macon Telegraph : That surrender was made by everybody (a very few accepted) so fast as the victor states would permit; and we hazard nothing in saving that, with more than ninety-nine in a hundred of the Southern public, the idea of disunion or a renewed resistence to the authorities of the Federal Government, has, since that time, never occurred even as a distemper ed dream. Toombs’ dispatch is the voice of a solitary nightmare. If the Southern people could have it as a free gift they would not at this day aecept a separate nationality dividing a continent by mere statutory boundaries—dividing our rivers and waters —making an endless custom house cordon —interfering with trade in all its ramifications, and inflicting a thousand other evils and inconveniences without hope of corresponding benefit. No. the Southern States do not desire disunion, and are wholly misrepresented by such ut terances, What we desire is the common fate and lot of American citizens; and what we desire to escape in this connection is all perversion of traditional American policy seeking an excuse or pretext in rep resentations that we are unfriendly to the peace, dignity and tranquility of the na tional government. An Honsest Farmer. It docs one’s heart good to see a merry, sound-faced farmer. So independeht and yet so free from vanity and pride ; so rich and yet so industrious ; so patient and pre serving in his calling, and yet so kind, so-, ciablc and obliging. There are a thousand noble traits about his character. He is generally hospitable. Fat and drink with him and he won't set a mark on you, and sweat it out of you with double compound interest; some people 1 know will; you are welcome, lie will do you a kindness without expecting a return by way of compensation—it is not so with everybody. He is usually more honest and sincere, less disposed to deal in low and. underhanded cunning, than many I could name. He gives to society his best support, its firm est pillar that supports the edifice of gov ernment. He is the lord of nature. Look at him in his homespun and gray ; laugh at him if you will, hut believe lie can laugh hack if lie pleases. 12 Per Cent. The Legislature has passed an interest act, prohibiting the taking of more than 8 per cent. We have about 1,500 notes drawing 12 per cent., which neither the State of Georgia nor the United States can go back on, and now would be a good time for parties owing such notes to bring for ward the money or cotton and square up. Wc have have paid from 12 to 25 per cent, on money to keep from pressing you. We will give you more than cotton is worth in order that you may wipe out and take a new start. E. B. Benson & Cos. CHAMBERLIN, BOYNTON & CO. Have tlae X-a-igrest exnd. ZETim_est Store irr tire Sta/te. Their Stock of STAPLE and FANCY DRY GOODS, LADIES’GOODS, r^^ S . LACKS, EMBMD FRIES, LADIES’ UNDERWEAR, HOSIERY, GLOVES, NOTIONS and FANCY GOODS lnu never be o Equalled iu the State, . CARPETS, CARPETS, CARPETS, CARPETS. Our Stock of Carpets, Oil Cloths, Window Shades and House Furnishing Goods is immense. Our display in department alone is well worth a trip from llart County to Atlanta to see. rj I IT/ We have all of our BOOTS and SHOES made to and GUARANTEE EVERY o 1 1 ( o 111 Jlto# PAIR, and our stock in this department is unequalled in Georgia. Samples sent from our Dry Goods department on application. We cordially invite all readers of lIIE HARTWELL SU visit our Store when in Atlanta. __ • . a __ Chamberlin, Boynton; Cos, OO A HS WHITEHALL NOW IS TIE TIME TO Bliti SliSNflt* gTO V Id f-8 ! I All Iron Goods hare advanced in the Northern markets Ml J. C. WILKINS, Awmm mSSmm -HM Still offers superior inducement to Cash Customers Having purchased a large stock before the advance, he can alter! and Cla.eap as tHe CHeapest. J Do not delay, thinking that prices will be lower, for Every. _ thing Indicates u Decided Advance in tho price of all Iron dp" 11 VMtk Goods : so scud iu your orders, or call at once on e X J, C. WILKINS, 111 JTtXKCUTOH'S SALE. „ tty virtue of an order from tlie Ominury o! Hart County, will bo sold before tho Courthouse door of sub! county ui the first Tuesday in Decem ber next, all tho lands boionpiiig to tho of Noel Skelton, deceased, joining lands of A. L. Wal ters, W. J. W. Skelton, Thomas Sanders anil oth ers, containing tiSU7A acres, more or less, well improv ed 10 acres good bottom land, 50 aert-8 In a nigh state of cultivation, acres in original forest, re. mninder ill old Helds, with a good mill site, whereon the deceased run a mill for 30 years ; also the estate s interest in 1} acres near the Line Church. Sold for division. Terms of sale, one hundred dollars cash, half of tho remainder I*3 months credit. Balance due two years afterdate, with inte.rest from day of sale at g per-cent. Bond given tor titles. This October 29, 1879. W. J, W. SKELTON, ELIAS VICKERY, Executors. HA RT SIIKRI FF SSA LE. Will be sold before the Courthouse door in Hartwell, Halt couutv, Georgia, on the first Tues day in December next, during the legal hours of sale, the following property, to wit: Oun Hundred and Thirty Acres of Land, more or less, lying and being in the County of Hal t, on the waters ot Little Ligntwood Log Creek, joining lands of John Mcllongal, Parker Vickery, Maria Brow n, and others. All levied on by virture of a ti. fa. from Hart Superior Court, returnable to March term, lsro. in favor of (). At. lloyle vs. C. S. Simpson. Levied on as tho property of C. S. Simpson to satis fy the above stated li. fa. This October 27, 1879. J. R. AIYERS, Sheriff. ~ I WILL bo at the following precincts at tlio time specified, flu the purpose of collecting State and Couutv taxes for 1879 : Hart well. Tuesday, December 3d. Alford’s, Thursday, December lltb. Reed Creek, Wednesday, Dei ember 10th. Rav’s, Saturday. December Oth. M(‘Carry’s, Friday, December 3th. Smith's, Thursday, December 4th. Rowersville. Monday, December Oth. Parker's Milts, Tuesday, December 9tli. Come forward promptly and pay your taxes. J. 1,. J OHNSOX, T. C TI. C. -tit i |r/ifj Stool,Cover and Ilook onlysl43 t0f355 LI A ItII IV Organa 13 Stops.3 set Reeds, 2 Knee 1 flit UQ S " c ’" s * Stool, Book, only S9B Holiday Newspaper Ere,-, Address Daniel F. Realty, Washington, N. J. AGENTS READ THIS ! We want- an A punt in thin County to whom we will pay a salary of SIOO per month and expenses to sell our woudertnl invention. Sample free. Address at once SULKMAN & CO., Marshall, Michigan. returns in 30 days on SMOO invested. Official Reports and information free. Like protits weekly on Stock options of $lO to SSO. Address, T. I’ottVr *t C©., Bankers, 35 Wall Street, New York. HO ’*26tosso66|SS£H£s week, and pays imtu<-use proflla by the New Capitalization S> Mem of operating In Stocks. Full explanation on applica tion to Adams, Baov m 4 Cos., Bankers,US liroad St.. N- Y. DC VPUOII A MOV or Soul Charming:. lO I UnUmMIIU! now either sex may ffcsci nate and j;ain the love and affection* of any person they choose instantly. This simple mental Require ment all can possess. Free by mail for 25c., together with a Marriage Guide, Egyptian Oracle, Dreams, and Hints to Ladies. A queer book. 100.000 sold. Ad dress D. P. MASON, 700 Sansom st- Philadelphia,Pa BUFFALO LITIIIA WATERS Foil STOXi: IX THE ItIsADDKR. A discharged Stone or Gravel placed in these waters w ill diaaolve to a powder in a few days. The water, in eases of six gallons $5 per ease at the Springs. Pamphlet sent to any address. THOS. F. GOODE. Prop, Buffalo Lithia Springs, Va. CHEAPEST BOOK-STOREYS 53,672 Superb English Books AT OIK PRICE! 75,276 New American Books AT VO I K PRICE ! 112,726 Second-hand Books AT AXY PRICE! Catalogue of General Literature Free. LEGGAT BROTHERS, 3 Bookman St., near New Post Office, New York. ON 30 DAYS TRIAL We will send our Electro-Voltaic Belts and other Electric Appliances upon trial for 30 days to those suffering:from Nervoiin Debility, Rheumatism, Paralysis or any diseases of tho Liver or Kidneys, and many other diseases. .1 Sure Cure guaranteed or no pay. Address VOLTAIC BEI.T CO., Marshall, Michigan. THOMAS C. CARLTON, Attorney-at-law, ELBERTOX, GA., "VXTILL practice wherever employed, in both YV Federal and State Courts, luS JOHN r. SHANNON, A TTURNEY-A T-LA W, ELBERTOX, GEORGIA, Practiees in the Counties of Elbert, Hart, Madison and Franklin, and in the Supreme Court elsewhere when employed. 81 W. H. STEPHENSON IS RECEIVING NEW GOODS 1 Daily and selling Cheap for Cash. HIGHEST PRICE RAID FOR COTTOX IX CASH, OR OX ACCOUXT. Expects to do a provision business another year, and sell Guanos. Have done a little credit business this year, and hope everybody that has bought on time will come forward and pay up, and enable me to run them t other year. Bring on your Cotton at once, the money is waiting for j ou. ( orne to the si<m of the BIG STAR, and get the most goods and the best goods for the least money. Determined to please you, if I have to give my goods away. 1 1 1 MVETSGimM! ~ 13.I 3 . 11. B< > WERS Has just completed his large and commodious store house in ROISTON, wher# | fie has removed his entire business, and with the Goods on hand and arriving will have tho _ Largest anti lost Attractive M of Goods |on the E. A. L. It. R. ITc will not enumerate, for he keeps almost everything. H* J is anxious that the public investigate his prices and see that they are JrtXT: nZESIIEI BOTTOM! He will pay Athens prices in CASH FOR COTTON, and if you owe him will give you almost any price if it will induce early settlements, as he must have money to pay his 1 debts. Come and see. s .p, ,3. I>. 11. BOWERS. 11. K. GAIRDNEK, M’ALriN ARNOLD, TIIOS. OAIBDNER. GAIRDNER, ARNOLD St, CO., ELBEETOIT, O-^., HAVE IN STOCK A FULL SUPPLY OF PROVISIONS & GROCERIES _T dz lESetsuil ZEPxlces. STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS, NOTI< ) NS, Boots, Sloes, Ms, Hardware, Crockery, Wood-ware, AND ALL OTHER GOODS OF ALL KINDS NEEDED BY TIIE PUBLIC Meat, Bagging and Ties, Salt, AND OTHER STAPLE GOODS, Wc now have in stock 25,000 yards of Bagging and 1,000 bundles of Arrow Ties, which will be sold at prices that will DEFY COMPETITION. We invite our Hart County friends to call and price our goods before purcljas, ing elsewhere. Bagging, Ties, and Meat a specialty—since wc receive them weekly by tho car load. Highest Market Price FOR COTTOX IX CASH, OR ON ACCOUNT. 171 We will sell Kerosene Oil at 15 cents a gallon by the barrel, or 20 cents by the gallon. E. B. Benson & Cos, If you want good lard, you can get it by the single pound at 10 cents from Jas. M. Webb. MEDICAL NOTICE. DU. R. . WITHERSPOON, has removed from Andersonville to T. H. Anderson's Mill, one mile north of Holland’s Store, S. C., whepe he can always be found, except when professionally absent, * 176