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Wnlntwl*) , April It. ItM.
BENSON * McGILL. Editor*.
A. 0. MoCURRY. Associate Editor.
OUI MKT 111. AMD.
It it quite refreshing to retd a recent
sermon of the Rer. T. Dell itt I tlnitge
of Brooklyn. New York, of which the
tbore the principal Iheiue. It is tucb
a couiinon practice now-a-daya for gross
misrepresentations to be made of the
Southern people by those who are political
ly interested in having n* misrepresented,
for the purpose of perpetuating unfortunate
divisions between the two great sections or
•our Commonwealth, that it is extremely
gratifying to find an able and impartial
witness proclaiming grandly and eloquent
ly to a Northern audience the fidelity to
law. the high patriotism and the peace
(Vdvtng sentiments that characterise the
Southern people. IVe have had occasion
ury frequently heretofore to advert to
these facts and present them in all the
fullness of their truth. In fact we have
long been impressed that all that were
needed to rehabilitate our grand country
and forward her onward in a brilliant
march to prosperity and greatness rarely
attained among nations o( the earth, was
the obliterstion of all the old feuds, a
burying out of sight the bloody image of
fratricidal strife, a mutual hand-shaking
over the Constitution of our country, and
a proud realization that all sections of this
land were hound together by a mutual in
terest and destiny, and whenever necessity
should arise they would all unite in a com
mon patriotism to maintain those precious
principles embalmed in the memories and
enshrined with the eloquence of the orntors
and sages of all past time, hong yenrs
have rolled hy, and while the hitter mem
ories are somewhat effaced, yet it is lam
entably true that our halls of legislation,
as well as the hustings, resound with sec
tional vituperation unworthy of a noble
and liberty-loving people. They seem to
have forgotten that through a common
blood and treasure this great country was
established on its broad fundamental prin
ciples. and that the dangerous perils of
revolution which they have undergone to
gether to meet a common foe and establish
a common liberty should not be robbed of
their lystrous achievements on account ol
the big family fight,” as I>r. Talutage
with so much force terms it, that has un
fortunately occurred between them.
Dr. Talmngc, as we have said, not only
speaks as an impartial witness, but also
knows full well about what he is testify
•ing. lie has risen to the position of one
of the grandest and most eminent pulpit
orators of the age. He has just made an
extensive tour through the Southern States,
w here he had most ample opportunities of
ascertaining Southern sentiment and im
pulses. lie returns from his tour and pre
sents oqr people in their true light before
the North, and whenever fanatics shall un
dertake hereafter to arouse the Northern
masses in nniinostv towards the South,
the noble and truthful utterances of this
great orator will be a sufficient and non
partizun reply to all false statements.
The attempt of leading politicians to per
petuate their successful sway and party
ascendency by appealing to the broken
hearthstones and cruel miseries of the past
is a most unholy warfare indeed, and their
•false utterances to accomplish this end
should be spurned and repudiated as they
-deserve.
Wc are glad Dr. Talmage has correct
-cd errors that have been long prevalent.
As an indication of the sentiment that ob
tains through the entire sermon we merely
allude to the conclusion. After picturing
n most glorious future for our people when
wars should cease, their swords turned
into plowshares and pruning hooks, and
when bright visions of cotton fields and
grain fields should he viewed on every
hand, he thus concludes the gorgeous de
scription :
" Then, standing upon the tip top rock
J.ookout Mountain I heard two voices
which somehow slipped the gate and they
sang, ‘nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they lenrn war
any more.’ And 1 recognized the two
voices. They were the voices of two
Christian soldiers who fell at Shiloh—the
ne a Federal, the other a Confederate.’’
KtnOltlAli WAV.
While our lamented soldiers buried in
this county are few on number, and most
of those who freely gave their lives in be
half of their country sleep in the different
battle fields of the late war, yet the day
rendered sacred by a holy tribute in the
way of floral offerings and fond remem
brances is none the less dear to our people.
Gladly would we have all our sleeping he
roes collected in one sacred cemetery’, so
that on the 26th day of April, as it an
nually' returns, our people could turn out
and show their dear remembrance and ap
preciation of their loved and lost ones. In
our history this day lias become a sacred
one. It is the day set apart for our
Southern people, where practicable, to
turn out and do homage at the shrine of
perished valor and patriotism. Those who
their lives on the altar of their coun
try'. in defense of their convictions, what
ever mav have been the result of the en
terprise in which they were engaged, or
the policy' of its undertaking, arc entitled
to reverence and gratitude. It is sufficient
that they believed their cause was just,
valorously threw themselves into the lists
and gave their lives as a faithful pledge of
their convictions. For this a civilized world
inspected the sincerity of their motives,
and for this. then, snniving friends and !
countrymen, twine garlands of
their nieimSric'idear. While *• tension is
ended and ttided forever. And whits
Union of uor father** I th *
eonstitmioifi* ttrbe perpetuated to latest
posterity, yet the entire world will not
1 abuse ns for breathing the sentiment of
| Lord fork burn : that In tlw grave of Stone
• wall Jackson sleep the ashes of a hero.
We would not wish it our task to pro
nounce a greater eulogium on nor fallen
braves. Fidelity to truth, respert for our
selves. and tAve Tftr the hiemdWeTof oifF
Southern heroic dead would not justify ua
in saying less.
m •
T. K. Oglesby has resigned the editor
ship f the Athens Banner, owing to rea
sons of a purely personal business nature.
Governor. State officers and members of
the (timers 1 Assembly w ill be elected on
the flth ol October; President and mem
bers of fobgres* on the 2d of November-:
and County officers in January. This will
keep things lively irt Georgia for a season.
fiovKHVOK CobqriTT received a dis
patch from Los Angeles. California. Tat
Friday, stating that Samuel Tt. Ilovle. the
defanltlhg tax collector of Fulton countv.
had committed suicide hr shooting hbnelf
through the heart in prison nt that place,
on the 21st. The way of the transgressor
is hard.
Tkf. Republican State Conrentiob. to
nominate delegate* to the National ('on
vention nt Chicago, was a stormv nffnir.
The delegates aro pretty evenly divided.
It is thought eight will he for Blaine, eig l t
for Sherman, and six for Grant. But there
is no telling how they will he operated up
on when they get to Chicago.
The following compliment is highly ap
preciated. coming from such an intelligent
and competent source as the Hawkinsville
Dispatch: “ After The 1! autwem, Sen
has passed through the hands of the scis
sors fiend in this office, it looks like it
might have been clipped up for cigar light
ers. Thk SliN is one of the very best pa
pers on our exchange list, and its typo
graphical appearance cannot he excelled.
Long may The Sen shine !”
A terrible hurricane occurred in Mis
souri and other Western States on the 18th.
Several towns were badly wrecked, and
Marshfield wns almost totally destroyed.
About 100 persons were killed nt that
place, and a large number wounded. Great
loss of property was sustained. One
child was blown three miles and lodged in
n tree top. It was badly bruised hut will
recover. This reminds us of an incident that
occurred during a hurricane in Abbeville
county. S. Ch, we think inlß4B. A family
resided near a large mill pond, and had a
feather bed out sunning. The mother put.
her infant on the bed, and the hurricane
came on suddenly, lifted the bed and set
it down gently on the other side of the
pond. The child wns found sweetly sleep
ing on the bed, uninjured and undisturbed.
Misrepresenting the Sou 111.
lialtimore Sun, 2t )tk inst.
The New York Herald on Tuesday took
the South to task for the alleged crime of
not readily and heartily encouraging immi
gration. It, says that ‘’the sullen and
smarting feeling *’ which naturally succeed
ed defeat has worn away too slowly. What
the South needed most to build it no was
Northern immigration an 1 capital. These
were eager to go to the South, hut were
not encouraged. The charge is that incom
ing Northern people were met with *' social
ostracism, political violence and unneigh
borly hostility. 1’ The South did not rec
ognize “ the obligation of hospitality ” to
wards its late enemies. This accusation
of the llcrald’s is an indictment which
should not have been brought. It is unjust
in spirit and is falsified by the record. If
the Southern people can be accused
of anything in this relation they should
rather he charged with an unneces
sary and absurd courtship of Northern
people and undue subservience to Northern
opinion. Not sullemless. but an uneasy
and eager desire to conciliate has been the
fault, if any fault exists. What Grant
said of the Southern people after his first
visit to the South proves tliis. The famous
Philadelphia convention proved it. The
coalition with the liberal republicans and
the nomination of Greeley proved it. The
break in party lines when the last electo
ral vote was counted proved it. The ova
tions given to every public man who visits
the South from the North prove it. The
South has been painfully conscious of its
poverty, ami that it is being ruined by
land surfeit. It has been eager to bring in
capital, to invite emigrants among whom
it might divide up its great tracts of idle
land in ord ;• to insure their cultivation
and improvement. It would be suicide to
prevent these from coming by ill treat
ment. Nor lias the South neglected its dn
\ ty’ of hospitality. On this point there is
j recent testimony that is in striking eon
| trust with what the Herald says. The Rev.
I Dr. Talmage. of Brooklyn, who has ju-t
! returned from a lecturing tour in the South
last Sunday preached on the misrepresen
i tations which have been persistently made
j against the South. There is no better
proof than these afforded. Dr. Talmage
thinks that American politics are rotten,
and it is bis opinion that if half a dozen
politicians North and South would only
consent to die. there would be no more
sectional animosity. "It would only be a
I case for the undertaker. Wojwould glad
ly fit up the- catafalque and play the
•Rogue's March.’” Dr. Talmage said:
•• 1 found while South the most perfect
proof that the bulk of the stories we get
here in the North, distilled by special cor
respondents, are sheer fabrications, and
most persistent attempts to misrepresent
the real character of a large section of our
people. There is no more need of govern
mental espionage at Charleston and Savan
nah and the other Southern cities than
there is in New York or Boston.” Dr.
Talmage shows the folly of imagining that
any of the Southern people desire a resto
ration of slavery. On the contrary, be
says that they are all heartily glad to get
rid of it. "Put it, to ballot in the South
whether or not they would have again the
system which prevailed before the war and
you would get a thundering negative. The
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fight for slavery closed sixteen years ago. I
and those Northern politicians who keep
the subject of American slavery still roll
ing might ns well try to make the Dorr re
bellion m Rhode Island or the attempt of
Aaron Burr to found an empire the test
for our fall election. The whole subject of
American slavery is dead and damned.
Dr. Talmage denies and laughs at the
stories of brutality to colored men and
their maltreatment, and he declares that
the female clerks in the retail stores on
Fulton street. New York, need sympathy
much mor • than the workers of the rice
swamp or the sugar plantation. As to the
tales of Northern people at the South be
ing kukliixed or made uncomfortable. Dr.
Talmage expresses bis opinion ot them in
a (ireeelevism : ** It is a lie,” be says.
Only fools and beggars, who would be rid
den on a rail in any community, are obnox
ious to the South, which is very solicitous
to get all ihe labor and immigration it can
secure. “ A Brooklyn man is as good as
a Mobile man,” says Dr. Talmage, “if
he behaves himself. There is not a more
hospitable people in the world than the
people of the South.” Dr. Talmage said
he had a general invitation to Northern
workers to go South, improve the resources
of the country, and make themselves rich.
•• Slop cursing the South,” he said : “stop
lying about tier, and go down there and
develop h>r immense resources of mining
and forests.” He concluded by declaring
that be almost wished for an invasion of
foreign arms, to let the world see what a
united people wo are at heart, and how
Federals ami Confederates would march
shoulder to shoulder against the common
foe.
COMMITTEE ’MEHTINO.
To llie Itcmoerntlc Executive Commit
tee of the Nlh Congressional District.
The Democratic Convention which as
sembled in Thomson in August. 1878. ap
pointed the following Executive Commit
tee (or the Eighth Congressional District.
;of Georgia, viz: C. H. Strother, Colum
bia countv; S. Marcus. Richmond; 11. T.
Lewis, Greene; \\ . 11. Brooke, latiafer
ro ; D. M. Dußose. Wilkes; J. 1,. Heard,
Elbert; J. H. Hillman, McDuffie; J. K.
Harris. Washington; W. L. Johnson,
Johnson; Edmund Hunter. Jefferson : T.
M. Olive, Oglethorpe; C. W. Dußose.
Hancock ; Henry Loguo. Glasscock; T.
M. Zellers. Lincoln ; .J. C. Linder, Jr..
Hart; W. J. Walker. Warren. It was
devolved upon me as tlie Chairman of the
Convention, to notify ihe Committee of
the time and place of their first meeting.
I. therefore, reoucst the committee to meet
in Augusta on Tuesday, the 11th day of
Mav. in the City Hull, at 10 o’clock, a. m.
It is very desirable that every member
of the committee should attend. Great
interests are involved in this year's State
and Federal elections. 'lhe life of the Re
public may be suspended upon the issue.
Success in any enterprise, requiring com
bined effort, can he attained only by sys
tematic organization. The victory or de
feat of the Democratic party will forth no
exception to the rule. Therefore, gentle
men of the committee, I insist that you
meet promptly and go to work with be
coming prudence and zeal.
Miles IV. Lewis.
Chairman Democratic Committee.
Bargains in real estate in and around
Hartwell. Vtldress 8.. at tho, office.
An Ingenious Suicide.
A remarkable and ingenious suicide oc
curred in Chelsea,JMass.. on thefJOtb inst.
Stephen M. Pillsbury, Jr., was; found by
his father in a barn where lie was last seen
on Sunday. The head was nearly severed
from the body, connected only by the skin
in front. Pillsbury bail committed sui
oido in the most methodical manner. He
built a guilotine of joist and plank, and
took for a knife a carpenter’s broadax.
set in a wooden slide, the latter being held
in position above by resting on a weighted
lever. The weight was a large watering
pot full of small leak holes at the bottom.
A large box tilled with stones was placed
on the knife slide to weight it, Pillsbury s
plan being that, when the water had es
caped enough, the lever woul 1 release
the knife, which would instantly drop.
At the foot of the posts Pillsbury made a
collar for his neck, and made close by a
hollow in the joist, holding about a quart.
The collar was fastened by heavy boxes of
stones to keep him quiet if.hc struggled.
From appearances be bad filled the hol
low with ether, placed himself in the
guilotine. fastened himself with his nose
and mouth over the ether, and probably
became insensible. Ihe knife fell, nearly
severing his bead from his body. Pills
bury was about thirty years old ami prob
ably insane, as insanity occurs in his
family. He left a letter addressed : “Dear
parents, brothers ami sisters, saying he
believed the step be was about to take was
right.
lion. E. H. Pottle.
Oglethorpe Echo.
\Ye never knew an officer to grow in pop
ularity so last as lias this gentleman of
late. 'The longer our people know the
Judge the better they like him. We have
felt the pulse of onf county and it is n
general wish that he be re-elected. We
do not know where a better or more ac
ceptable Judge could be found. He lias
the law at the end of his fingers and his
charges are noted for their profound wis-1
dom and justice. It is rare that the Sti- ]
preme Court reverses one of his decisions,
lie has presided over many important
cases in other circuits than liis own. and j
in both his official and private life Judge ’
Pottle is honored and respected —he is one
man without guile.
CartentviHe Express : It is said that Dr.
Felton claims to have made the republi
cans respectable in this district, and now
threatens to expose their infamies if they
refuse to support him in the next congres
sional election. \\ e don’t know whether
Dr. Felton has really made the republi
cans respectable or not. but wc do know
that they have made him a congressman ;
and it seems to us that he is rather un
grateful when lie speaks oT exposing his
benefactors.
Baby shows are the fashion now. but as
long as mothers continue to nurse their lit
tle ones with laudanum or other opiates,
they cannot expect their Babies to look
bright. If your Baby needs medicine get
a good and harmless one such as_Dr. Bull’s
Baby Syrup.
Four negroes, who were convicted of
burning the Academy’of Music in Green
ville. S. C.. have been sentenced to be
hanged on the ISth of June next.
Thirty, large rats were caugnt in one!
trap in one night in Uawkinsvillerecently.
Common sense, For all cases of Coughs,
Colds. Sore Throat, etc., use Dr. Bull’s
Cough Syrup.
•Sparta Tshmaefitc : Our Democratic
leaders are exceedingly meek. They are
exceedingly afraid of wounding the feel
ings of the Republicans. They spend two
thirds of their time devising wavs and
means to keep from doing anything bold or
manly ; and they have become gloriously
proficient in the art of how-not-to-do-it.
They stand high in the church of the po
litical Quakers.
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W Whereas, Louisa M. Linder applies tp in* for
letter** of administration on the estate of Lee Liu
der, late of said count v, deceased; These are there
fun* to cite and admonish all concerned to show cause,
if ahy they have, at my o3teo oi\ or before the first
Monday in June next why said letters should not l>e
unmtod. Given under ray band at office, this April
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Harness,
Bridles, &c.
Guotls Sold at
Bottom Prices.
The Savannah Weekly News of April
24th contains the opening chapters of an
intensely interesting storv. by Miss R. J.
Phrlbrick. entitled "Through the Years.”
It will run through ten or twelve numbers.
The Grand Jury of Hancock recom
mends the imposition of a tax of SIO,OOO
for each license to sell any kind of spiritu
ous liquors in that. county. Also, recom
mends the building of anew courthouse at
Sparta, to cost not exceeding SIO,OOO.
Dealers in
Saddlery
Hardware
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Blankets,
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Haines,
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