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ROBERT S. HOWARD,/ Editor and Publisher. ) VOLUME I. fegat cflili’crtiscmnifs. Notice to Contractors. WILL l>e let. to the lowest bidder, before the Court House door in Jefferson, on Tuesday, the 6th day of September, 1881, the contract for building the bridge across the Walnut Fork of the Oconee river at the old bridge location near Mad dox's mill, in accordance with the following.speci fications : Said bridge to be built with one queen post truss span fifty feet and two end spans; length of end spans to suit length ofbridge. Tim bers to truss span, 5 sleepers, 8 by 12 or 10 by 12, fifty-four feet long; two bolsters, G by 12, 10 feet long, to be placed one-third the length of span apart, the same to extend across bottom ofbridge under sleepers, and be supported by main rods running through from top of trims to bolster. (See plans.) Truss timbers, 8 by 10, length to suit one-third length of span; to he wen notched at the foot or iower end and well pinned and bolt ed with iron bolts ; truss to be braced with two braces on each side, extending from lower end of bolster to top of truss, of 3 by 4 scantling; truss to be framed 3 feet 3 inches from top edge of sleepers to top of truss ; iron rods for trussing, 1$ inch best round iron, with taps and washers. Said span to extend from arch of trestle in water on south side of river to bank ; on opposite side, trestle in water to be built on crib made of 10 by 12 inch timbers, notched in and well pinned at each corner, extending up to surface of the water and to be filled up with rock ; length and width of said crib to suit heighth of trestle. Trestle on bank to be let into the ground by digging trench as deep as water will allow and filled in on with rock and dirt. Each end span to extend from trestles under truss span well out to short tres tles, to he let into the ground three feet and filled with rock and dirt; five sleepers to eacli span, 8 by 12 inches; two outside sleepers to each span, at each end of sleeper to be rouded with 1} inch iron rod, extending from mud sills up through sleepers Trestle timbers, mud sills to he 10 by 12, length to suit heighth of trestle; uprights, 10 by 12, same length; cap sills, 10 by 12, fifteen feet long, morticed half through, to fit on tenant on upright, and well pinned; mud sill on crib to he well pinned and handed with iron to crib legs, as seen in plans. Hand-rail to be placed on each side of end spans; uprights to same to be 8 feet apart and morticed through floor and keyed on underside and braced on outside. Flooring, 2by 12, 14 feet long, well spiked down with forty pen ny spikes, two in each end. right and left in inter mediate sleepers. All timbers to be good heart, and if hewn, to be well and smoothly done. Said bridge to he completed in fifty days from time of letting. Bond, with two good securities, in dou ble the amount of the bid, will be required imme diately after the letting, conditioned for a faithful compfyance of the cont ract. The work to be paid for when completed in accordance with the speci fications. Full and complete specifications can be seen at this office. Aug. 5. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. Jackson Sheriff’s Sale . WILL he sold, before the Court House door in .Jefferson, on the first Tuesday in Septem ber, 1881, within the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder, the following property, to-wit: A tract of land, situated in the 242d District G. M. of said county, containing seventy acres, more or less, adjoining lands of J. E. Arnold, Lee Mor ris, Robert Morris and others. Levied on as the property of J. 11. Eads a. id S. J. Eads, to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from the Justice’s Court of the 242d District G. M., in favor of J. R. Crane vs. J. 11. and S. J. Eads. Levy made a>.d returned to me by J. C. Williamson. L. C. Notice given the tenant in possession as the law directs. T. A. McELHANXON, Sh’lf. HOKkilA, JiU-kson i'oiiufy. Whereas, the Road Commissioners, appointed for the purpose of reviewing and reporting upon the public utility of establishing as one of the pub lic roads of said county the road beginning at Nicholson, on the North Eastern Rail Road, thence by King's bridge, the residences of K. J. Wil liams, T. W. Arnold, Crooked Creek church, T. S. Smith, Lee Morchead, Mrs. Eades, J. E. Ar nold, John Duncan and others, to the Athens and Talasec bridge road. Also, the road beginning near the residence of Jack Benton, on (he Jeffer son and Dafeiulsville road, and running to the vil lage of Nicholson by the residences of S. L. Bond and Arch Venable. Said Commissioners having reported said roads of public utility, an order will be granted finally establishing as public roads the same, on Monday, the 10th day of September, 1881, it no good cause to the contrary be shown. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 10, 1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y. | IXHtbli, Jackson County. Whereas, C. W. Hood. Executor of 7. S. Hood, deceased, represents to this Court, by his petition duly tiled, that he has fully and completely ad ministered said deceased’s estate, and is entitled to a discharge from said administration— This is to cite all concerned, kimhred and cred itors. to show cause, if any they can, on the iirst Monday in September, 1881, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why Let ters of Dismission should not be granted the ap plicant from said trust. Given under my official signature, this May 30. 1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. ‘ Q.EOR<i!li, Jackson Coilnty. Whereas, J. 11. Maley, Administrator of the estate of Johnson Maley, late of said county, dcc’d, applies for leave to sell the land and real estate of said deceased—- This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any, on the first Monday in September, 1881, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. Given under mv official signature, this Ang. 3. 1881. ' H. W. BELL, Ord’y. Jackson County. Whereas, John A. Booth makes application to me in proper form for Letters of Administration on the estate of Sarah Booth, late of said county, deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors,-to show cause, if any, before the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the Ist Monday in Sep tember, 1881, why said Letters should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3, 1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. M hercas, M. -J. Dowdy applies for Letters of Guardianship of the persons and property of John W. Dowdy and Joseph F. Dowdy, minors of W. F. Dowdy, deceased— This isTo cite all concerned, the next of kin. Ac., to show cause, if any, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in September, 1881, why said Letters should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3, 1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. To Debtors and Creditors . ALL persons having demands against Stephen Wilson, late of said county, deceased, are hereby notified and required to present them, properlv attested, to the undersigned, within the time prescribed by law. and all persons indebted to said deceased are hereby required to make im mediate payment. Z. W. IIOOD. Adm’r, with the will annexed, of Stephen Wilson, dcc’d. August 5. G DOKGIA, JacltNoii County. Court of Ordinary. Sitting for County Purposes. August 22d, 1881. Ordered, by the Court, that four and one-fourth tenths of one per cent, be assessed and collected upon the taxable property of said county, as per Tax Digest for 1881, by the Tax Collector of said county, for county tax for the year ending De cember 31st, 18S2, for the following purposes, to wit : One and 31-100 tenths ofone per cent., to pay expenses of the Superior Court $2,500 00 One and OO.J-100 tenths ofone per cent., to build and repair bridges 2,035 00 One and 01-100 tenths of one-tenth of one per cent., to pay County Treasurer's salary 300 00 Two and 82-100 tenths of one-tenth of one per cent., to pay jail fees 525 00 Three and 49J-100 tenths of one-tenth of one per cent., for support of paupers... GSO 00 Two and 00-100 tenths of one-tenth of one per cent., for contingent expenses 500 00 Five and 85-100 tenths of one-tenth of one per cent., to pay the legal indebtedness of the county due and to become due... 1,087 85 Total, for county purposes $7,807 85 11. W. BELL, Ordinary. EORCiLt, JaeliNoii Comity. Whereas. Martha J. Watson, Executrix of the estate of Harriet A. Watson, late of said county, dec’d, applies for leave to sell the real estate of said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any', before the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the Ist Monday in Sep tember, 1881, why said leave should not be grant ed the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3, 1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’V. EORfcJIA, .lack.son County. Whereas, T. S. ShankleandS. S. Smith, Execu tors of the estate of D. W. Smith, late of said coun ty, deceased, applies for leave to sell the land be longing to the estate of said cTeceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in September, ISBI, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3. ISBI. H. \V. BELL, Ord’y. Q.EORGIA, Jackson County. Whereas, E. J. Sharp, Guardian of his minor children, applies for leave to sell one share of stock in the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Com pany belonging to said minors— This is to cite all concerned, the next of kin, itc., to show cause, if any, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the iirst Monday in September, 1881, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3, 18S1. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. Jackson County. Whereas, C. M. Wood, Administrator on the estate of A. M. Loggins, late of said county, de ceased, represents to the Court, by his petition duly tiled, that he lias fully administered said es tate, and is entitled to a discharge— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the tirst Monday in October, ISSI, why said applicant should not have Letters of Dis mission from his said trust. Given under my official signature, this June 2S, ISSI. 11. W. BELL. Ord’y. EOIMiIM, Jackson County. Whereas, W. P. Cosby, Administrator on the estate of Frances C. Cosby, late of said county, deceased, represents to the Court that he has fully administered said estate, and is therefore entitled to Letters of.Dismission— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1881, why said letters should not be granted the appli cant. Given under my official signature, this June 28, 1881. 11. \V\ BELL, Ord’y. s)rofessiounf & business Sards. jyt. It. IS. ADAISt, DENTIST, June 10-*Bl. Gatnesville, Ga. JOHA a. STItM KLIAIk ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, * Danieisville, Ga., Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to him. dec 17, ’SO. DR. IV. 15. ( IW!, NICHOLSON, GA„ Tenders his professional services to the surround ing country. Rheumatism, Neuralgia and the dis eases of women a specialty. Feb. 13th, ISSO. ly HOW .4BE 1> TIIOJIPSOV, ATTOIINEY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Ga. Prompt and faithful attention given to all busi ness placed in his hands. WKIJHY V. HOWARD, Attorney and C’oms*lor sit Law, JEFFERSON, GA. Will attend faithfully to all business entrusted to his care. mch4, SIIAIAV & THOm’SOV, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Jefferson, Ga, Will practice in Jackson and adjoining counties. LANDRETHS M SEEDS EBESTIQQI If not sold in your town, yon I fl f) I can get them by mail. Drop II 11 I I ns a m*tal Card for Cata logue and Prices. The Oldest and most extensive Seed Groirert in the United States. UAVLU LAN Dll LTII & SONS,Philada..P* Martin Institute. Fall Term, 1881, Opens Angnst 25th. IET the citizens of Jackson county, who would J secure the lowest (possibly free) tuition, pa tronize the School THIS FAJ L. The Martin Fund pays a larger proportion in the fall than in the spring. To students from other counties we promise lower rates of Board and Tuition than almost any other Collegiate Institute. For further information, apply to aug 12 4t JNO. W. GLENN, l’rin. JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1881. S'E.T.'E.C'V WXSCXJ.XAJO&'X. The Guileless Farmer. A farmer had seven daughters. And but little else he had ; And the girls all had good appetites, And times were very bad. He bribed the country paper To say in his cellar’s mold lie had hidden, being a miser, Seven kegs of red, red gold. He thought he knew' human nature, That farmer, and lie smiled When down the seventh rope-ladder he Saw elope his seventh child. But it is extremely doubtful 1 f at the time he foresaw Their return with fourteen grandchildren And seven sons-in-law. [From the Atlanta Constitution. The Coming Race for the Governorship. Bill Arp Receives a Call from One of the Peo ple, Together with a Request for the Tern pornry use of Ten Dollars—lie Makes Some Remarks on Politics. I’m not a candidate for Governor. No body but one man has talked to me about running, and before I left him lie wanted to borrow ten dollars ; but I do want to say something for the farmers of Georgia, and if standing up to them forces office upon me in the distant future, why I can’t help it. Tom Hardeman is ahead on that line, and lie is a great and good man, and I hope that some day the people will delight to do him honor. If long service, and good service, and abun dant age, fit and entitle a man to official hon ors, lie will get hi3 reward. I’m young enough to wait myself, but when a good man gets so old that the life insurance companies won’t take him, the people ought to take him up and carry him for the good lie has done. And there’s Colonel Blount and Judge Simmons and Speaker Bacon, all from Macon, too, and if Macon is bound to furnish the Governor I’m content with any of ’em, for they are all good men. Either of’em can govern me, and I wish that over)’ body was as tractable as I am. The best school for a man to go to to make a good citizen and work well in har ness, is to get married to the right sort of a woman. The General Assembly of farmers lias just adjourned its session at Rome. I wish they had power to make laws and en force ’em—that is to say, laws about farming, and fcncos, and crops, and stock and dogs, and everything else that concerns the agricul tural interests of the State. When farmers get together in council they can talk sense, and they do talk sense, but when they come down to the Legislature they are overshadow ed by the lawyers, and they feel sorter sub dued because they can’t talk as glib and don’t know as much about parliamentary law, and so they don’t get their rights. The Legisla ture is everlastingly legislating for merchants, manufacturers and railroads, and cities and towns, but it is mortal little they do for the farmers. They protect every interest but the agricultural interests. Hero is another bill introduced to protect the warehousemen. The farmer works, and plows, and hoes, and digs all the year, and when he gets a bale of cot ton ready for market and takes it to town, they make him take it to a warehouse and pay for weighing and for a month’s storage. If he kills a beef and wants to peddle it around town and sell it himself, they fine him for doing it. It’s not so in all cities, but it is so in some, and that right in the face of Judge Lumpkin’s decision in Gen. Bethune’s case, where he said. “God forbid that a man who sweats and toils to raise the necessaries of life in this land of liberty should be pro hibited from sclliDg his products to whom he pleases and when he pleases and where he pleases, free from the limitations or restraints of public or private corporations/’ Towns and cities are getting too consequential. Be cause they have got nearly all the money in the land, they imagine they made it, when the truth is known, the city merchants made it out of the country merchants, and the coun try merchants made it out of the farmers, and every session of the Legislature they put in some new bills for liens and dead falls until they have got so many that a lawyer can’t hardly tell which is the best remedy for his client. The farmers want encouragement, and they don’t get it. Here is a bill in the Legislature to abolish the agricultural bureau as a public nuisance, but the farmers’ con vention says it is a good institution, and we want it. Here are numerous bills to help the system of general education and give them money, but there is nothing done to encour age the farmer or elevate his position. The agricultural bureau ought to be enlarged and have an experimental farm attached so as to furnish us with the best cotton seed and the best corn and wheat, and seed of all kinds, and the best fertilizers, and be able to recom mend to us the best plows and cultivators and other implements. There is a little book on farming, published by the Appletons, that don't cost but ten cents, and it’s worth ten dollars to any farmer, and it ought to be dis tributed and put in the hands of every tiller of the soil whether he wants it or not. Our farmers must be persuaded to get out of the old ruts. The State ought to offer a premium for the best acre of cotton and corn and wheat and rice and tobacco in every Congressional FOR THE PEOPLE. District. Kentucky gave a thousand dollars for the best treatise on practical farming. Tennessee has Appleton’s little book taught in all of her public schools. The farmers and mechanics pay nearly all the taxes and sup port the State Government, for they arc the chief consumers of all that the merchants sell, and the merchant puts on the price to cover his taxes just like he doc3 to cover rent and clerk hire. It’s like the fifty thousand dol lars that goes into the State treasury from the guano dealers. The farmer pays it at 'ast, for the dealer puts just that much more into the price. Railroads have their syndi cates, and towns and cities have their cham bers of commerce, but the farmers don’t have anything. The dry drought may come and go, and the only concern is whether the crop will pay what the farmer owes the merchant or not. The convention at Rome says we ought to have a no-dog law and a no-fence law, and why don’t the Legislature say it too? Sir. Smith, of Oglethorpe, sa) T s I mis understood him about freeholders voting, and that anybody can vote, Well, if I did, ho knows that that's wliat he ought to have said. There are five hundred niggers in our county, who have neither land nor cattle, and they will vote every time for somebody clse’s cat tle to run on my land and keep me everlast ingly building fences. And they will vote for their houn dog3 to kill my sheep. I bought ten fine ones two years ago, and the dogs killed ’em all in one night. I've bought ten more lately, and if they are killed, 1 shall charge ’em to Miller and John Branson, for they might put in a bill and give us a local option anyhow. It's a power of trouble watching them sheep. Mrs. Arp and the children are alwa) r s on the look out for dogs, and if they see one a quarter of a mile off on the plantation, they begin to holler and scream, “ Here’s a dog ! yonder’s a dog ! come quick !” or they blow the horn for us, and we run for the gun and go for him. I tell you what, we have alarmed the settle ment, and the dogs had better stay at Lome in the daytime anyhow. Well, I had a big time the other night. I got with some old schoolmates that I used to run with nigh onto forty years ago. We used to serenade the pretty girls about Athens together, and so we got a fiddle and some flutes and got round a piano and we all got young-again, and the wgy we did knock the harmonic juice out of the good old times was a corsion. We had a nice little audience of sympathizing wives and mothers and astonished children, and we played and played till the perspiration rolled down our venerable cheeks, and people stop ped on the sidewalk and listened and looked in with wonder and admiration. There was the Cossacks March, and Norma, and the Devil’s Dream, and Billy in the Lowgrounds, and the Arkansaw Traveller, and Run Nig ger Run, and Bet my Money on the Bob-tail Nag, and so forth and so on, and there were some other sweet melodies that we had named for our earliest loves, some of whom are away up north, and some south, and some west, and some in heaven. llow we did love those girls. One of ’em kicked me three times, but I always did believe she loved me, and I ain’t right shore but that she has sweet and tender thoughts about me yet; may be, if I had tried her one more time she—but I won’t allow my self to indulge such a thought, for then some other fellow would have got Mrs. Arp, and that’s a picture too horrible to contemplate. I’m content with my destiny, and wouldn’t change it if I could. Those Athens girls kept books, they did, and every time they made a victim they put his name down. My friend Cole told me his name was down on the same book nine times, for be loved her to distraction, and popped the question every three months until finally she made him prom ise not to ask her again. So just before he quit school he went to see her, and in the agony of his soul, says he : “ Miss Susan, heavenly creature, I won’t ask you any more to have me, but as a last parting favor I want you just to put my name down again,” and she put It. We wound up our frolic with some bur lesque opera by the venerable patriarch, after which the little boys fanned the baud, the good mothers smiled, the girls clapped their hands, and we retired, bearing our blushing honors with childish modest}'. When shall we three meet again ? Bill Arp. P. S.—John Branson says that Kingston is looking up. They cleaned out a well last week, and the dog fennel crop is good. B. A. Big Water on the Mississippi in i844. Life in the Mississippi swamps is unique but perhaps never so much so as during that memorable summer. The shallowest water for indefinite miles in any direction was two feet deep, the nearest land the “ Ilills of the Arkansaw,” thirty miles away. The mules were quartered on the upper fioor of the gin house ; the cattle had been all drowned long ago; planter, negroes and overseer were confined in ther respective domiciles; the grist mill was under water, and there was no means of preparing corn for culinary purposes except a wooden hominy mortar. The liog and-hominy diet (so highly extolled by some people who have never lived on it) >vas adopted of necessity, the former being represented by mere pork, saltier than tongue can tell. There were no visitors, except now and then a sociable snake, which, no doubt bored by swimming around indefinitely in the overflow', and craving even human companionship, would glide up on the gallery of some of the bouses. There was no means of locomotion except the skiff* and the humble, but very serviceable, dug-out—nowhere to go and nobody within a day’s journey otherwise or more comfortably situated. The only sense of sympathy from without was had from remote and infrequent glimpses of the gallant steamer J. M. White, which leaping from point to point, made better timg from New Orleans to St. Louis than wa9 ever made before or for many years after. That year nineteen plantations out of twenty failed to produce a single pound of cotton or a single bushel of corn, and when the flood was over and the Noahs came out of their respective arks, they were, to say the least, malcontents. They were not ruined, of course, but they had lost a whole year’s gross income. M*reaver, the prestige of the swamp as a cotton country was wofully diminished. The planters on the “ II'lls,” as the uplands are denominated, began to hold up their heads, no longer overcrowed by the extraordinary crops alleged to have been heretofore produced in the swamp. The swamp planter set to work to redeem the disaster, and to provide, as far as possible, against its recurrence. With the purpose of retrieving their financial fortunes, they took some unique measures. There is a tradition that, at a public meeting held in Greenville, Miss., in October, 1844, among other more commonplace resolutions, one was gravely and unanimously adopted to the effect that a demand of payment within twelve months from that date of any debt, great or small, upon any planter who bad been overflowed that year, should be considered distinctly “ personal”—a clear case for pistols and coffee. The code was certainly a curious in stitution, but probably this is the only instance in which it was expected to do duty as a stay law.—From Scribner for July. Posthumus Palaver. “At midnight las’ night,” said the old man, in a solemn voice, as he looked up and clown the aisles, “at midnight las’ night de speerit of Brudder Charles Climax Goshport, a local member of dis club, passed from y’arth to de unknown. Only a week ago he sat in dis hall; to night he am dressed for de grave. What ackshun will de-club take?” “ I s’pose, sail,” said the Rev. Penstock, as he rose up, “ dat it am in order to present a resolushun to de cfleck dat he was a man of de highest integrity, liberal hearted, high minded, an’ dat his loss am a sad blow to de hull city ?” “ Y'es, such a resoluslmn am in order. Brudder Penstock, can you remember dat you eber took Brudder Goshport by the hand an’ gin him a word of praise fur his hard work an’ honest ways ?” “ I—l—doan’t remember dat I cber did, sab.” “ Am dar a pusson in dis hall who kin re member dat he eber put hisself out to favor Brudder Goshport?” Not a man answered. “ Kin any one of you remember dat you took any pertikular intercs’ in how he got along ?’’ Not a voice Mas heard*in reply. “To be a little plainer,” continued the President, “am dar one single pusson in dis hall who ever felt five cents’ worth of anxiety for Brudder Goshport's worldly or spiritual welfare ?” The hall was so quiet that the sound of Elder Foots rubbing his back on the sharp edge of a window-case gave everybody a start. “ Not a man in dis hull city, so far as we know, eber put hisself out to do a favor or speak a word in praise of our lamented brud dcr, an’ yet we have de cheek to talk of a resolushun setting forth his many vartuesan’ our heartfelt sorrow. No, sir! We doan’ pass no sich bizness lieah! I should be ashamed to look his widder in de face if we did. It am de way of de world to let men alone jist when a leetle help would give ’em a broad an’ easy road. We li'ar of dis man or dat man havin’ won de gratitude of de people, but we doan li’ar of it until he am dead. When a man has gone from y’arth de papers and de public suddenly diskiver how honest he was ; what a big heart he had ; how much good he was alius doin’ and what a loss to de world his death will prove. De time to praise a man is when he am livin’ beside us. Braise hurts nobody ; but many a good man has grown weary fur de want of apprcciashun. Heah am seventy-two of us in dis hall to night, an’ we have to own up dat not one of us eber went outer our way to prove to our brudder dat his gentle ways, his squar’ deal in’, an’ his upright life war any mo’ preciatcd by us dan as if he had been a hoss-thief! An" to pass a resolushun would be to brand ourselves as hypocrites. Let no man dar’ to offer one.”— Detroit Free Press—Limekiln Club. $ TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. } SI.OO for Six Months. Fashion Notes. Pointed shoes arc now the rage. A yellow-green is called “ Dragon.” Anew shade of red is called “ Lucifer.” “ Mine d’Or” is anew brown shot with gold.- Silver gray silks and satins are again tho mode. Milts arc still the fashion in black and flesh color. Natural flowers are worn on bonnets and at the throat. Small flat reticules hang from tho belt, at tached by a chain. Tussore silks and Japanese crapo arc" among the novelties. The fashions of 1820 and 1830 in bon nets are again revived. “ Dawn” is the name of anew shade: it is a very pale gold. Princesse gowns and jaetets arc trimmed* l with military braiding. A fancy or green enameled button i3 the figure of a camel. Satin surah is used for the foundation of. grenadine dresses. Pearl, gilt and steel buckles are all fashion- • able on dresses and hats. Gold bangles arc still the only jewelry that-' is much worn in tho streets. Fans are made of cretonne to match tho dresses and parasols also. The fashion of going on the street without an outdoor wrap has passed away. Valenciennes lace is much used on white . dresses. It is the suitable. Coaching dresses arc now the rage. They are trimmed to display the front breadths. Children wear littie shirred hats and bon nets of cream-whitc crape, and quaint is tho effect. A device made like a sword hangs at tho . side and is used to fastpn tho parasol wheni, not open. The draperies of muslin dresses need not be hemmed. They can be turned over and \ looped. Black sewing-silk grenadine, trimmed with , crape and plaitings of grenadine, is suitablo . for mourning. Fancy colored satin sashes, cither striped,, shaded or plain, arc worn tied in front with a large bow.— Andrews* Bazar. The Persecuted Negro.; Last week Pleas Harper, a colored farmer living near the Glade, paid Messrs. Powell & Davenport $32,000 for 2,100 acres of. land, lying on Broad river, in this county. This is one of the largest purchases ever made by a negro in Georgia, and it, occasion-. ed a good deal of comment. We last Sun-, day saw Sir. Powell and asked him if there . was any possibility of Pleas ever liquidating , the debt. “ I feel confident that he can and will pay every dollar as it falls due,” was the reply, “ and would as soon hold a note on Pleaa Harper as the best white man in Georgia, lie is worth now at least $15,000, and. doesn't owe a cent. He can pay SIO,OOO if lie wants to cash on the place, and I give him ten years on the rest at 8 per cent. He has this year a fine crop and will make . plenty of provisions to run his farm. Pleas , has been paying us $1,500 a year rent for about one fifth the land we sold to him, and ( by increasing his farming operations he can, easily meet the claim.” “But do you think hois competent to, manage such a large business ?*’ was asked. “ There is not a better business man in , Oglethorpe county than this negro,” replied , Mr. Powell. “ lie can tell you any day to a . cent how he stands with the world, and a3 a farmer I never saw a better. He is economical, his family all work, and he can get more out of a hand than any one I ever saw. Pleas, too, is not an all-cotton farmer. He has been, making from 100 to 150 bales of cotton a year on rented land, besides growing enough, supplies to run his place. In fact, his cotton, crop is nearly all clear money. You just ought to see the Bermuda grass hay ho has saved this summer.” “ The land you sold him must be very rich* as it brought sls an acre ?” we suggested. “There is not a better tract in Georgia* and we would not have sold it for cash for any less than Harper paid. Davenport and, I have 1,500 acres of the same land left, andi 3’ou can’t buy that for sls an acre. It lays alongside of Broad river, and crops seldom, miss. It don’t take guano to grow either. corn or cotton on it.” “ John Davenport and yourself will mako. a nice speck out of the land you bought about two years ago ?” we inquired. “Well,” remarked Mr. Powell, “about $40,000. You see at that time the peopio didn’t know how to appreciate these Broad river lands, and so let them go for a mere song.’’ This purchase conclusively proves what the, colored man can do in Georgia, if he will but go to work, and we think it will be about as good a campaign document as can bo cir culated in the North. Pleas Harper is a bright mulatto, with a good face and has always been noted for Ids honest dealing and good management. The little education he ha3 received was secured since freedom, and lie has always been a staunch Democrat. It is a singular fact that whenever a negro begins to accumulate property lie leaves the Radical ranks.—-, Oglethorpe Echo. NUMBER 28.