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HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. R. T. HARPER & CO., PBcrniKTOi*. Terra* of subscription $1 50 (INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.) ÜBML'.ruiL - i'. '_ J AB. E. BROWN, Editor. HAMPTON. G A., MARCH 14. *1879 Editorial BrrYitlr*. Senator Batard Ho* nine children. rHiI.ADKi.PHiA ha? 300 miles of railroad Albany wants a sttamboat to run on the Flin*. Poos are selling ?r. Dalton at 7% cents per dozen. The Methodist Church at Quitman was damaged by fire recently. It is said that Mr. Tilden’s health is very «eriooßly affected at present. Gen. D. 11. Him. has made the University •f Arkansas a great success. Wilkinson county takes no stock in agri cultural cluhs and associations. The wild land discussion still goes on. We may have a word to say next week. Mr Fooenk Stokes, of Terrell county, was recently killed by a kick from a muie. The great Vanderbilt will case has been finally settled hy compromise. ‘There’s millions in it.” The C<urt-house ®f Worth county will be moved from its prevent site to another locality before long. Many members of Congress are predict ing the de.'eat of Randall for the Speaker ship of the rext Mouse. Report in Washington—Stephana and Felton against th" Democratic party in future elections—quite likely. A Lament. —And now the newspaper men of Charleston are lainentiig the change of things in that goodly city. They crieth thus : “A walk from the News and Courier office up Biond strict to King was invariably pro dQetivi of h good half column of local news. ’• he ready bludveon, the delightful knife, the adorable pistol and the cflective brickbu*. were always in action, and the glorious mur der, pleasant suicide, ever-welcome riot and joy-inspiring exposure of official rascality were of regular occurrence. The reporter’s life was then a constant scene of erer-vary iog, delirious excitement, and ‘copy” could be supplied hy the yuid at any time ol day or night ” These newspaper reporters are down on Hampton ; “because,” soy they, “there hasn't been a good murder for a year, and no riot in twenty-four months; the burglar has gone out of business," while such little amusemmls as exchanging shots is unknown AII is changed, and the aforesaid searchers alter news are miserable. Cotton.— lT re is wliut Mr. CJ. Graves said, during the convention at Hawkinsville, in relation to tbe growing of cotton in Egypt, lie says the staple is inferior to out own, and bis statements are borne out by the letters and persona! experience of other end nent agriculturists: “The average cotton crop for the year 1875-’76 and ’77 was 638 obo bales of 450 pounds, reducing the Egyptian weight to cur own 'ihe production per acre is from 200 to 800 pounds of lint, ihe average acre producing 400 pounds. For quality it is inferior la our uplands Ihe dry atmosphere making it dry and brittle in staple. It brings about one cent per pound less than our crops in Liverpool. Near the coast where there is moisture in the atmosphere, h finer staple is produced, btiiging, in the Liverpool market, two cents more than our best uplands It constitutes übout oue-tenth of the whole crop.” Col. Robt. A. Alston Killed. —Col. Robt. A. A[|ton and Mr. Edward S. Cox had a rencontre last Tuesday in Atlanta, in which the lormer whs killed, and the latter seriously woundid. Fight shots were fired Ihe quarrel gri w out of some transaction connected with the convict lease system. Col. Alston was a prominent politician, a true aid tried Ihmoetat.a thorough gentleman, and bis loss will be lelt throughout the whole State. He served gallantly in the late war. and was at one time Genera! John Morgan’s Adjutant. The Coroner’® jury rendered a ■verdict that the killing was wilful and pre meditated murder. Cox is in jail. t'oNGßF.ss—The F> rty-fifth Congress ex pired ©n midnight of ihe 4’h instant. It left much business incomplete. There was abundant time tn which to put through every important measure, but members were so bm-ily engaged in looking efter party af fairs that the business which they were elect ed to attend to was neglected; hence, an extra session is inevitable. The President has aKeady issued bis proclamation, end the Forty-sixth Congress will assemble ob the 18th inst, now close at band. Poor Pkffsdfvck—Many negroes in this country lely principally for their meat upon rabbits, which they capture in large numbers in our old fields.— Oglethorpe Edw And many of the same class in this and other counties rely upon meat they do uot raise. Judging from the numerous raids Blade upon stores in Henry county, they rely •poo their iSorts in this direction for a sup port. The Battered w Don. ,, Dunn Piatt, the editor of the Washington Capitol, lately inet with a mir-hap in the shape of nn unmerciful pummelir.g at the hands of a gay and festive enemy by the name of MeGarruhan. The D"n was the weaker party, and was the unwilling victim of the worst whipping received by any man in Washington during the Congressional season. He, however, intends dying game If he cannot fight, lie cun write, and this is displayed wonderfully well on all occasions In revenge for his defeat he again comes up smiling, with this: 'I he golden era of purity has gone, ai d with it vanished the peace arid dignity ol the Senute. The Capitol iteeif, from end to end, is the resort of rogues, disreputable men, with iniquity fully enameled on their canning countenances ; lewd women, painied and bi jeweled, lairly swami about ihe cor ridors and lobbies—drinking, quarreling, boring Congressmen, and making the place reek with til'll and vulgarity. No respectu* nle woman can visit the Capitol without a guard of male friends and escape taint, and no man can ‘card out a member,” as it is culled, without incurring the suspicion of being a lobbyist. Here, indeed, is a terrible bill of iudict rnent. If it be true, then i 8 our National Capitol a disgrace, and our la «-makers ui.fil to perform their high functions. But it is hardly probuhle that it is near so bad as represented There may be many officials in Washington who are corrupt, but at the sume time it is almost certain that a very large majority of the Senators and Repre sentatives are above price, und cannot be approached with mercenary or corrupt prop ositions. A few persons ready with such means to guiiMHheir ends should not be itguriitd us indicative that all are guilty. A line of distinction should bediawn. Men who (like the battered, beaten und used up Piatt.) have been unable to cope with u foe in u tough ami tumble contest, ure apt to have recourse to strategy to ac complish their ends. Accordingly, he tires his Capital Columbiuds at the whole mass, in the hope that somebody may get lot. And if somebody is not hurt by the forego ing explosion it is not the Don’s fault. He is mad—very mad—he is mud as u March hare; and he will continue to work upon the capital thus furnished him until some one else lakts him in Laud. But seriously, we regret to see a disposi tion ou the pail of many correspondents to chinacttrtze VV ashingtou us the aggregation of all tl.ul ih coirupl und venal, 'lliere tmiy be, and doubtless is, a vu.-t amount oi scheming among those who have axes to gtiud ; but, ori the alher hand, there are us good men and an pure women at the Federal Capital as exist anywhere on the face of the ear'll. And our only object in occupying the space we have w ith the mutter is, fiist, to show how liurd it is lor a man to submit, and then how fur he will go for the sake of revenge. Extinguished —ln « published letter, March 4, General Gordon does the most scientific *oik of his life—the utter, abso lute, final extinguishment of that friend of Radicalism, Doctor Felton ; and necessarily it skins and exposes the Pat sou’s right-hand “man”—his wile. Had this been a ease of surgery, it would have immortalized the operator ; nevertheless, us it is, it sets the marplots of the Seventh District before the public as they deserve, while it establishes the General more fi mly.il possible, in the affection of all good men. The General’s letter is a manly defense against the aspersions of those who ure ready to witness his downfall. It is a fear less answer to charges made and long since found to be false—emanating, as most ol them do, from the hearts of persons destitute of principle, or capable of any feeling save that of revenge. Black-Tongue Among Siieen.— Report reaches u j that many sheep in Worth county are dying nn rapidly from a disease known as the black-tongue, and that Mr Humble ton, near Tv Ty, lias lost nearly five hundred head, and that olhets had lost heavily also. We trust some remedy may be discovered in time to check this disease.— Albany News It would be advisab : e for owners of sheep in Henry county to take measures to prevent this terrible disease from getting among their flocks. Wild I.andc—The controversy going on betwien Hon. Nelson Tift and the Comp troller General relative to the wild lands is attracting some attention. A considerable quantity ol ink has been expended on both sides in the elucidation and discussion ol the question. We have an abiding faith in the integrity and honesty of our Comptroller General, however, and do not in the least question bis ability to set himself right in the matter. Letter from Clayton. Mr. Editor :—l notice in your paper that yon request “us ruralers” to send in short communications ; -and, as a son of Erin once remarked, having nothing else tod), I thought I would write you a few lines, hoping they might find you enjoying the same blessing. Now. if all the rest of the “ruralers” are like myself they have nothing to write or talk about except cotton, com, guano, and the ding nigger. But pi%uming you w ould like to know bow we are getting on do»n m our settitmeof, I have this to say: I buve been cogitating, [erigrinating and perambu luting around considerably, and from what I can gather and see there is a greater rpiril of improvement and energy being manifested upon the part of the farmers this year, up to this time, than I’ve seen for years. More n<'w-prnnnd ami old pine fields being cleared, fence corners cut. old fences repaired, ar,d tenement houses bailt. There is, in fact, a general disposition on the part of our farn ers to spread oat and try and do more, live closer, huv less, plant more corn and small grain and cotton, and nse fertilizers and buy less guano lhan hereto fore. Some of mv neighbors are planting corn, while some are through planting and are now bnsily engaged in preparing their land for cotton. Everybody seems to be fully alive to the future. Scarcity of money and n wofnllv defective labor S-. stem are the greatest evils we labor ' under just now. 1 hear that the negroes ; have united for the purpose of demanding j higher wages, ai d avow 'heir determination ! not to work at the o'd prices. Of one thing ; i am qnite certain, u large number are loaf ing about the country, doing nothing but gamble and steal All are armed with a deck °f cards and a pistol, 1 hope the law making power will make some iffort to rem edy this evil in future, and quit harping on the dog law. Two-legged dogs do far more damage than the four-legged ones. More anon. Hicup. High Point. Clapton Co., March 10. 1879 Communicated. 1 Reformation—No. N. Some of mv friends say, “1 stopped be cause I had told all I knpw The fact ; s, howev»r, that, after giving the vn'ject a lit— | tie thought and atlen'ion, I was simply as tounded at the magnitude‘of the suojeet—at ilie things that could be said nn the di'efiil necessity of a thorough reformation, on a I most every tenet held to and. put for'h hy the religious world, and had to stop to catch breath for the stupendous task that was be fore me. Just think of it ! A Doctor of Divinitv. —"big preacher,"—said, not a thousand miles from here that our Lord Jesus <’hri“t was “baptized in Jordon” as an introduction to Hid priestly office on earth!! Mirabilt dictu! Wlmt must the lamentable condition ol the “small fry" he when “big fish” talk such learned nonsense? Why, every little Sunday school child knows, or ought to know, thut nobody, except a descendant of Aaron, of the in’tie of could enter the priestly office during ihe Mosaic Dispensation, under which our Saviour lived and (lied. A few plain Scriptural citations will suffice to show that Jesus Christ was not a priest while on forth, in the form of perishing humanity. Hear Caul, a “1) 1).” in Moses’Law, and tile great apostle to the Gentiles : “For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of Ihe law ; for lie of whom ti.ese things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attend- ance ut ihe altar. For it is evident that our Lord sprung out of Judo ; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood And it is yet fnt- more evident; for thut ! alter the s nrliitidc of Melcb'zedek there oriseth another priest, who is made, not after the law of a ctrnul commandment, [is not baptism a washing of ihe body or flesh with water?] but after tbe power of an endless life." Hebrews, vi: 12—16 Again : ‘ Now of the things wh’ch we have spoken this is the sum. We have such a high priest, who is set on the right hand ol Ihe throne of ihe Majesty m the heaven ; a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. For every high priest is ordained to r tier gifts and sacrifices ; wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to ofl r." Now listen : “For if He [Christ] were on i arth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gif's according to the law.” Heb., viii: 4 Notwithstanding the plain Scriptural dec- I ration that Christ could not he an high priest on earth. Doctors of Divinity (?) say lie was baptized as an introduction to that office. They haven’t the courage, or are lacking in Bible knowledge and facts—one or the oilier, or both—to say what Christ himself says ol llis baptism, lie said it was "to fulfill all righteousness Mat the w, iii : 15. And nowhere, in all the Testa ment, can 1 find where Fie, nr the Apostles for Him, say* one word about His baptism (i. e , "in the river Jordan,’ ) as a priestly ordinance, or us an induction to the priestly office. How a Doctor of Divinity can take a de scendant of Juda, '‘according to the flesh," and niak hini a priest under the Lvitical law is a puzzle of puzzles, us well as a mani festation of unpardonable Scriptural ignor ance. And yet, in the 19th century, the year ol our Lord, 1878, in a land of Bibles, and in an age ol wonderful achievements in knowledge of all kinds, a 1) 0.. a teacher (?) ot t'hi i-tianity, dal publicly announce, from the pulpit, to an intelligent and Bible-read mg audience that Jesus of Nazareth whs “baptized in Jordan” as an induction to the priestly office !!! And lie is only one of the ten thousands of representatives of the same and similar schools who are going up and down through the world pouring the wine of confu-ion ami error into the ears of hundreds of thousands of willing listeners. This is ihe reason, my friend, why my arm fell paralyzed by my side, anil my per, ceased to move in behalf of reformation. It was the enormity of error “that stopped me.” If it was necessary that Jesus Christ, “who knew no sin and in whose mouth no guile was found,” should submit to an im mersion in water in order "to fulfill all righteousness,” it is a thousand times more necessary that we, who are the veriest ot sinners, should also be immersed in water. “into the name of tbe Father, and of t,,e Sbm, and ot the Holy Ghost,” in obedience to a righteous command before we can be righteous iu all things ; and none But the righteous can see God. D tutors of Divinity to the contrary not withstand ng. Wbat the world, learned and unlearned, needs is a more thorough acquaintance with and conformity of heart and life to all the teachings and requirements of the "tru'h as it is in Christ Jesus.” And until ihis sim ple audea-y remedy is resorted to, Christians will remain terribly diseased iu both heait I and head; and continue wrangling, dividing I and teaching things that the Bib’c know* nothing of. except to condemn. And how willingly. my friend, would I stretch out my arms, God only knows, to arrest the present great evil of false teaching, that, like ■ canker worm, is erting out the very core of onr pure simple rei : gion, as taught bv the Christ and IDs divinely commissioned Apos tles and Prophets ; but, situated as I am, mv amis are too short fur the work, because of a want of lime But, nothing daunted, I shall s*i!l, ns I said in the beginning, from time to time proceed in a leisurely manner to animadvert upon various subjects of a religious charac ter, und, in doing so. I have reason to believe, from assurances and words of approbation and encooreg-ment received from many other’- - besides those of my own ‘ faith and order," that my words of admonit ion are not failing entirely e-till-born at the feet of their parentage All I ask of nnv one is to compare mv savings wi'h the ‘ wonts of eternal truth ” and if not in perfect keeping wi'h it, to turn nwav from them as the foolish op ni >ns of a poor finite ercaime whose opinions, like every other uninspired man's in all things pertaining to God, heaven, etc, are not worth the time it takes to otter them. It is facts, and not opinions, t! at is able to make us wise unto salvation. We ore commanded to “Preach tbe Word,” and not opinions and such like. X. Gordon Replies to Mrs. Felton, and Mrs. Felton’s Husband- A Srerrhins; Letter. Washington, I). Cl.. March 4'h, 1879. Editor s- Chronicle and Constitutionalist, Au gusta, Ga .-—A letter over the signature of Mrs. W II Felton, publi bed in your paper of the 23d ulto., came to my notice in the last days of the exp : ring -ession, when my w hole time, night and day, was necessarily given to public business. I wish it distinct ly understood that, in my reply to the state ments contained in that extraordinary com rnunication. nothing that I shall snv is appli cable to Mrs. Fel on, with whom I have and shall have no controversy. There is no longer any room for doubt that Dr Win. H. Felton is the author and circulator of the calumnies which, insinuated by him nn ihe stomp, have been so often re pented in his organs in the Seventh (ion gretwional District, and which were so sig oa'ly rebuked by my almost unanimous re elect i«n to the United Stales Senate. Dr. Felton is th fiist Georgian, arid I be lieve the only American in any sphere of life, who has shielded himself from responsi bility for his falsehoods by tak'ng shelter behind a woman and that woman his own wile and ihe moth' r of his children. Indeed, I do not know that such an in stance was ever known in any civiliz 'd com munity. The common law, which on this subject is the essence of English sentiment and civilization, contemplated the man as the (inter picket, standing at his doorway, guarding his wife from rude contact with the world, while she, in toe d lieate privacy of home, presided over its hallowed precincts, softening, sweetening, and sanctifying its holy endearments. This, too, is ihe spirit of ihe Christian Church in all the earth. Re ligion, then, and civilization and the common lew and manhood und womanhood alike re volt at the wanton profanation of the holiest relations of life. It almost makis ns lose sight of the sickening spectacle of this min ister of the gospel bearing false witness against his neighbor. I entered the canvass of the S“venth Con gressional District, not from choice, but at the call ol the political organization of which I uin 11 member 1 umde no assault upon i I>r. Felton’s character during the entire can i vase. 1 did not mention his name until his i slanders upon my character made it proper lor me to repel them. This assault, there fore. is absolutely without excuse, wanton and reckless. A lew words will suffice to dispose of his effort to shamefully misrepresent inv admin i-trution of the Atlanta department nf the Southern Life Insurance Company, and my connection with a great and patriotic move ment by the leading educators of the South io rid the schools of the country of partisan text-hooks The insurance company failed from no fault of mine. When the two dread ful epidemics of the Mississippi Valley oral the general financial panic in the country broke the paient company at Memphis, the ooks of 'he Atlanta departim nt, over which 1 presided, showed that every death loss it had incurred had been paid, and the trans mission to the parent company at Memphis («f near one and a quarter millions of dollars As to the book enterprise, I was induced to connect myself with it in obedience to the wishes and advice of the best of men at the South among them General Lee himself. No surprise ought to be felt, since our fail ure in war, at the disposition of Dr. Felton to slander every cause and every man who had the conti leuce or friendship of that hon or. d man. Although this most neediul school-book enterprise has mad- no money, it has sur vival the panic, and is still tarnishing books of the highest order by our ablest teachers, to Southern and Northern schools, despite ibe efforts of wealthy rivals and the enemies ol the South to break it down. I do no' know to what Dr. Felton makes reference when he charges me with having gros-lv wronged some Southern Bishop. It is unqualifi-dh false that I ever borrowed, used or obtaiued in any way one dollar, or ever was under pecuniary obligation to the extent of one farthing to any Bishop, North ern or Southern, except to a beloved and holy inuu now dead, whose son served upon inv staff, and who sent me, near the close ol the war. without any solicitation trora me, about t?3(K), as well as 1 can remember. That debt was disehuiged, uiter tbe war, bv stocks, the best 1 had, and in amount sufficient, as I believed, to more than camel it i say nothing in this connection of the appearance of a Representative of Georgia and a me . ber ot the American Congress, in the high and statesmanlike role ol luring ins minious to uncover every private and bu-i --ness transaction ol uiy life in fruitless effort to find something to blur and stain my rep utation. 1 invite his inspection aud reve a tious ; and if be has discovered that these stocks sold tor less than the debt, let him aud eveiy one iuteierted kuow lhat I stand ready to make good every cent ot loss, it auy occurred on that debt, not only with „m ney but wtth the gratitude due lor an unsolicited and unexpected kindness. done me in the’ distressing hours ol the late revolution. lits reierenee to my eonuecliou with the 1 lenop 0 f convicts under the laws of (Jenr'ia. i« h.vt nnewerrd bv the record* o( the tf'ale, and the correspondence on its fib’s. These show that the law was passed by the chosen LegLlatnre of onr own people ; that it was passed withont rny knowledge or agency ; that the bids were invited from all citizens in accordance with law, by the Governor; that whatever interest was necnred by hid for my plantation, wns tendered by me to the State, soon alien the contract was signed and beforp any of these prisoners came into po-session of Col. Locke't, tb” president if the companv ; that 'his interest has always been subj'Ct to any disposition the anthori ties of the Kta'e might see fit to make of it. My r •usons for wishing to be releas' d from my obligations in connection with this lease were givim more than two years ago, and are a sufficient answer to this strange effort of Dr. Felton to do me this additional wrong. But not satisfied with these shameful per versions of me private business affairs, Doc tor Felton descends to the lowest of all meanness, in seeking to create the impression that he or any other man believes me cup i ble of corrupt practices as a Senator of the United States. Ido no* wish to do Doctor Felton a wrong, nor to u-e language unbe coming myself ns a tnan. or as a representa tive of (Forgia ; but without feir of dam age from Irm. hiding, a« he does, behind Ins wi e his grey halts and the rob s of p u i - i-tf-r of Christ. I ought to he pardoned for saying of this effort that nothing worse was ever attempted by any man. It is the very blazonry of all that is ha*e false and fiendish. Dr Felton seeks justification for this wick edness in the idle gabble of the partisans of two gteat rival railroad schemes, who charge ■improper mot ves to men on either side of the controversy ; who refuse to vo'e as their interests demand, not one of whom will he or any other min dare to quote bv name in such connection Me ha« not even the ex cuse of a new paper charge, such as that made by s New York journal recently, charging bribery against many of the purest and best men in public life from both sec- of the Union. The gentlemen who are thus wantonly assailed by this New York p*per voted with a large majority of the Senate for a subsidy bill. The wicked false hoods circulated bv Dr Felton against mv seif are founded upon my vote in a minority on the bill to provide a sinking fund for the Pac fir: Rni roads. Mv vote was against that hill, and time and experience ate fast demonstrating the propriety and wisdom of that vole, not only on the score of principle, hut in the interest of the public treasury. I advocated a bill which required these great roads to pay into the Treasury a fixed sum every year to meet their obligations to the Government. The bill which passed required these roads to pay a portion of their net earnings Had the bill I desired passed be come a law. we would to day have in the Trcusary from these roads ai least two mil linus of dollars, whereas the bill which did become a law, nod for refusing to support which 1 am slandered by Dr Felton and his ailiis, Ims failed, us 1 predicted some twelve months be lore its passage, to bring one farthing to the Government. And I now wish to add another remark, thit no man can say when a dollar will be secured under it Yet this in m—'alse to his people in war; false to the political organization which saved his people in peace ; false to tire teachings ot Him whom lie professes to lollow ; begrinuned-wiih a wicked and cor rupt alliance w ; th the enemies of his party, section, and people, has the audaeious efirontery to assail ray character in public am! in p' vate wnh the vi'e and hypocritical pretense that he or any living man believes me capable of giving that or any other vote for venal considerations. These are strong words, I know ■ bat they are true words, and are forced fiom me by tbe„ conviction that no deeper wrong was ever perpetrated than this man has attempt ed upon me. For months I have borne in silence the most brutal attacks from him and h:s ailies ever mad' 1 upon any man in public life. For months I have borne his secret efforts at defamation here in Washington; nnd now I do not believe that the people of Georgia, who have honored me in war aud in peace fur beyond my deserts, will ask me to refrain longer from placing on record, (or the sake of my children and the people who elected me, my public denunciation of these foul aud atrocious calumnies, J B Gordon. Pre-eminent As an elegant hair dressing stands Parker’s Hair Balsam, deservedly popular for the beautiful hair it produces, and its healthful, cleansing and healing properties. Commenc ing at the toots, it promotes a luxuriant growth of young hair, and unfailingly re stores gray or faded hair to its original youthful color giving a soft, rich and lus trous upper s of great beuuty. It is pleasantly cooling to the scalp, cleanses it from Dandruff, cures itching and humors, and stops falling of the hair. 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