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0 THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1885.—TWELVE PAGES. THE TELEGRAPH, rmiLIBUED EVERT OAT IV THE TEAR AXD WFEELT by the Telegraph 'and Mwwuger PublUhinjj Co. 91 Mulberry Street Macon. Ga. The Daily to delivered by carrier* in tin* city or mailed (M>*tage to*' to aubacriben, for #1 j<er month, 13.SO for thn-c mouth*. |3 for *ix month*, or f 10 a year. The Weeklt i« mailed to aubarrilwn, postal free, at #1.25 a year and 73 cento for six mouth*. Transient advertiaementa wdl In* taken for the Daily at |1 i>er square of 10 line# or lea* for the flr*t Insertion, aud «<> ceuto for each subsequent inaeiv tion, and for the Weekly at f l for each inaertiou. Notices of death*, funeral*. marriage* aud births, fl. Rejected communications will not l«e returned. Correapondenco containing important news and discussions of living topics la solicited. but must In* brief and writteu u(K>n but oue side of the paper to have attention. Remittances should W made by express, postal «ote, money order or registered litt.-r. Atlanta Bureau 17Peachtree street. All communications should l>e addressed to THE TELEGRAPH. Ma. u Ga. nde pays , Tito Whisky Question. The people of Fulton county are now on-' gftged in a heated nud what proumeH to be- ; come a bitter contest over the whisky quea- tiou. This is the first fruit of the general local option law recently pasted by the Leg islature. We believed that the law was wise, tli-ht because its provision* were just, and secondly that in this way only could this question he kept out of the State can vass next year. If this issue is to be forced at any point it seems best that it should he done at once, in order that long ami wearing dis cussion may he avoided. It is certain that little if any good can come out of such discussions. Partisans on both sides are indulging in tin* wildest spirit of exaggeration as to the principles nud purposes of their opponents, and the tendencies and effects that must follow the success or failure of prohibition. The temperance party is composed of three elements, and the state ment of the case will sufficiently indicate the nature of the struggle which exp.a ed when the ontes The adjournment oratory of the Legisla ture was not so tawdry ns usual. Galvanized gold-beaded sticks do not call for the loftiest flights. Nothing short of free lunch can wake the average Legislator to true elo quence. Jack Henuebson', agricultural commis sioner, complains that an opinion of the Attorney-General prevents him from di playing sundry big pumpkins at the State fjiir. A slight dock of the extraordinary fat wages of the “tagtotei*” might raise money sufficient to pay the freight on the pumpkins to this point. Wk desire to enter a protest against the . monthly advertising of the Baltimore Man ufacturing and Mining Record by the As sociated Press. We once took occasion to expose the absurdity of the figures of that journal in regard t** Macon. and we have ! no confidence in those so industriously •wired, and we do not desire to have them , •charged in our telegraphic service. Bill Chandleb, without authority of; law, built a ship, on which an enormous sum of money has been expended, and yet j the best she could do was to steam nt nine and a half knots, and that only for a short time, without breaking down. The report -of Commander Day is a record of nccumu- j In ted disaster which ought to paint witlf shame the cheeks of all who are in any way responsible for the ship's performance. Says the Boston Herald: “The Presbyte rian Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. i C., which guin.-d an unenviable notoriety gome year or more ago from the expulsion ! of Dr. Woodrow from its faculty by a hoard j of trustees because he explained the doctrine of evolution to its students, 1ms now only! two professors remaining on duty, and one; of these has tendered his resignation; and the sooner the other does the same, and the institution is disbanded, the better will it he for the Presbyterian church and for the cause which it represents. Its trustees arc no benighted that there is no hope that they will ever be enlightened.” Says the New York Star: “For a start ling novelty in advertising and an utter vio lation of good taste, we direct our readers to the new signboards of an up-town wax- works show, displayed on the elevated road stations. Such a jumble of things, human nud divine, is seldom seen except in a com munity which is either too pagan or too simple to know better. Jesus Christ, Sir Moses Montefiore, General Hancock and 1 Captain Jack are announced as the latest attractions. I\ after the manner of the , Bowery shows, the symbolic Big 4 had been attached, the sensibilities of good people •could not be more painfully shocked.” Says the Boston Herald: “The State of Georgia is to have a school of technology, both houses of the Legislature having pass* «*1 a bill to establish aud nmintuiu such an institution. In hiking this step, Georgia lends in the development of the‘new edu cation. ’ The State is liercpftcr to recog nize that its children have other faculties than the memory to cultivate —other mem bers than the brain to educate. Even in Massachusetts the primary training of the eye, the hand, the muscle and the judg ment is left to private enbrprise, and can be had, in connection with other prelimina ry education, only ut an expense that places it beyond the reach of ninety children out «-f a hundred. In providing for a more uymmctrical and practical education of its children, Georgia has taken a long step in advance of older and richer States.” ■hall not cut or drink, so long os he pays for it. We are opposed to drunk- etine.-g, aud if public sentiment will earnestly resolve upon its suppression and honestly enforce necessary laws for its punishment ns a crime, which we think it ought to he made, then it will be an intlni- tessimal evil, or will altogether cease. Un til this is done, the policy of every com munity should be to restrict the retail of whisky to responsible and reputable men, subject at least to rigid scrutiny. in once fairly inaugurated. First; the farmers who have been exposed to the cross-road bar-rooms where their stolen produce has been nightly bartered tor drink. 8ecoiul, the conservative senti ment of the State, embracing the business, mechanical and agricultural,medical- and to some extent the legal professions, teachers and others, who are temperate in sentiment j aud habit, but who are disgusted with the results of organization on the part of liquor dealers, in attending and dominating most or all the county meetings where the ap pointment of delegates to conventions and the nomination of candidates for office are made. Third, the large number of men and women whd, on general principles, are opposed to whisky in day shape or on any terms, and who are influenced by sen timent or conscience or higher law, or what ever else it may he termed, that induces pc* .pie at times aud in nil communities to un dertake, first «»n one line and then upon an other. the settlement of questions by force of statute that all experience proves are better left to individual judgmeut and ac tion, influenced by moral suasion. What the two former may lack in zeal will be supplied by the latter, and where the latter umv need good judgment and the practical management necessary to success the others will not be found wanting iu these qualities. The strength and character of this com bination can neither be ignored nor denied. It will also appear that there are some powerful incentives through which the ut most effort will he put forth to secure suc cess. Where the issue has been forced iu counties dominated by the agricultural vote the result, with few exceptions, has been to drive t the The New York Star takes this view of The Ohio election: “Ohio is a Republican JJtnte. Now and then the Democrats have carried it, but never in a year when the fate of the Republican party uppenred to be Mtaked on the result. The Republican ma jority has been steadily diminished from 1 .year to year since the war, and the continu ation of this process will inevitably take Ohio out of the list of Republican States. But that result 1ms not yet l>een reached. The Prohibitionists, the Greenbackers and other minor parties have, in off years, drawn enough voters temporarily from one or the other of the two principal parties to affect the result, and, as tho mujority party usually suffers most from such side issues the Democrats have secured a plu rality at several State elections. Once or twice, thanks to Republican apathy, the Democrats have carried the State by a clear minority of all the votes cast. Yet the fact remains that at no time during the past twenty years could there have l»een n doubt as to the ntiKwcr a mujority of the people of Ohio would have made to the question: Do you prefer tho Republican party to the Democratic party? The people would have ■voted “Aye” on that question by a far larger majority than they have of late years given to any candidate their party has presented to them.” In the counties where our larger cities are situated we doubt the success of the prohibitionists. We are confident of their defeat when* wise and temperate conusels prevail. If they are not driven to extremes by an unwise policy on the part of the liquor trade, they will not l.e able to con trol the liberal and conservative vote neces sary to success. A wise recognition of this fact, and a prudent adjustment of a poliev to correspond, would, we think, have spared Atlanta the tierce struggle in which she is engaged, and which we desire to see averted in Macon and Bibb county. The country bar-rooiu is a thing of the past in many counties iu Georgia. It hns lmt a frail and brief tenure in most of the others. The low dives nud gin mills in the cities and towns where dealers dispense miserable compounds at low prices, thus spreading the worst form of drunkenness, and carrying des olation nud ruin to the homes of the people, are destined to follow the cross-roads bar-rooms. If the whisky trade will not consent for them to go, under some system that would yet permit the better class of establishments to remain, we be lieve it is only a question of time when a very large number of men who ale opposed to prohibition will vote for it in order to rid themselves uud their communities of this evil. We ore at a loss to understand who: pi-. to | taste or judgment could be ot! . in their support or defense. Upon th. point it seems that an agreement might l.e reached, and that a system of high license is th** last method at present of dealing with the whole question. We sincerely hope that in this county it will be tried, and that we shall escape o contest fraught with passion, ami out of which no permanent good can come. To those of our temperance friends who are influenced, as they believe, by moral and religious duty, to insist upon absolute prohibition, we de sire to suggest tlmt at hist it may not be a religious or moral duty at nil. People of like convictions, who were so wrapped up iu the Confederate cause thnt they could not entertain the idea that failure was remotely possible, told US that it was God’s own cause. Some of the clergy of this State actually committed Providence to the duty and purpose of its success. But it did not succeed. Men are blind who pro pose to formulate civil poliey on moral sen timent, while they ignore the teachings of experience and common sense. Prohibition wherever tried 1ms failed to cure the evil of iutemperunee. It will fail here. If there were a reasonable probability of its huccoam, if that was assured, why say to the thousands of temperate men who from moderate indul gence in alcoholic drink derive pleasure, if not positive benefit, thut they shall he de prived the use because the few drink to ex cess? As reasonably, as justly, might the commerce of the sexes be forbidden because of the brutal passions that end in rape, or the lcose moral convictions that promote adulteiy. We are opposed to prohibition because it does not probibit, an l bccuuse we do not believe in any law defiuing what a man Five years ago, and the Railroad Com mission was organized under a law, which received the doubting indorsement of some of the best minds of the State, and the grudging consent of others. So soon as the railroad corporations felt the hard execution of a law at the hands of three men unwisely clothed with arbitra ry power, they appealed to the courts for justice. Au imported partisan acting as judge denied their appeal and referred them to the Legislature, the source from which the oppression complained of came. From thnt day to w ithin a few days past, the contest be tween the commission and the railroad cor porations lias been waged inthe public press and the halls of the Legislature. Surely though slowly, by the argument of irrefraga ble facts, the corporations have made their cause good, and have won converts and friends, until the Legislature just adjourned, bv a majority in both branches, declared that the present law should he modified. This is the unmistakable sentiment of the majority of the people of the State, and that it is not embraced in a legal enactment was due to the unfair spirit of the opposition. We do not write in a spirit of complaint, but take occasion to say a few words of wisdom and warning, now thnt the heat of debate is over and the voice of the partisan is stilled. It is not becoming iu the Representatives of a State that claims the title of Empire, a claim that goes unchallenged, to have met this issue in tiie spirit which belongs to mere ephem eral and party contests. Ever}' citizen of Georgia, the people of all degrees, were in terested in the result, aud the Georgian who can look back now ami read these words from a spectator of the occasion, the editor of the Tlionmsville Enterprise— ••While the vote was being recorded some very re markable tlunc* occurred on the floor of the House. One man, who opposed tho bill stood by the desk of another man who favored it. and with clenched list in close proximity to the face of the man who fa- ▼ond the bill, threatened to denounce him a* a scoundrel if he dared to follow his convictions. And so witli the aid of demagogues, political chameleons, threats and such means, the bill was defeated. The scene on tho floor of the House when the result of the vote was auuoiineed would lie hard to describe. Many of the un-iuliem had provided themselves with club*, aud they pouuded the desks and floor* aud yelled like Comanche Indiana"— must have parted with the sense of shame and the capacity to blush. The contest referred to closed with a sub stantial victory for the oppressed corpora tions, hut it was followed by mufierings of threats to revive it in the arena of politics. There is not ft man in Georgia, in his solid senses, whether interested or connected di rectly with railroads or not, who does not desire to avert such a calamity. But seventy millions of dollars, imper iled by hostile legislation enforced in an un friendly spirit, will not hesitate to seek every means for relief and protection. Merchants, hankers, manufacturers or fann ers similarly situated would not fail to wield any weapon calculated to defern interests from destruction. In plain English, if the Railroad Commis sion shall pursue the same course in tho future ns has marked it in the past, the issue will become immediately promi nent in the politics of the State. And who can doubt the result? If one road, he* longing to the State, has controlled to a great degree the politics of the State for the past twenty years, and has made one man a political autocrat, it may easily he under stood that the combined roads could hold Georgia nt their mercy. They could make j A .Mischievous Law, During the last days of the recent session of the Legislature a bill was passed making it illegal for any citizen of Georgia to buy or sell future contracts for cotton, meat, grain or other produce. It is to be hoped that this measure was the result of ignorance on the part of the Legislature. If it were known to what an extent it would, if enforced, interfere with legitimate business, then its enactment was a enu 1 and wautou crime against the trade of the State. In every Legislature which has assem bled iu the past ten years some ig noramus lias proposed a similar mens- We have oral hamlet to hamlet, Iu its ranks are gaily-1 dressed maidens, gallant cavaliers, banners ; of the State and the Union, wreaths of flow- 1 ers and tho bright instruments of many • bands. Thousands flock to the wayside to | see this army pass, armed only with the ! ballot and the consciousnass of right. ! But there are men iu this country, and they have their organs, who see in this ar ray the fires of another war, the evidence of hate and the promise of bloodshed. The ! gallant cavaliers to their distorted imogina- j tious seemed armed with sword and with ' rifle, and the banners are the emblems of , revolution. The devil knows upon what ; background to cast his picture. pointed out the importance of the world’s great exchanges, and the necessity for fu ture transactions in 9 modern methods of handling produce. The- first effect of this system of business has been a large reduc tion in the difference of prices between tlu* original markets for produce and points of final consumption. If the Potiplinr Pea- greens of the recent Legislature will take the trouble to investigate this matter they will find that the difference in the charges for handling cotton between Savannah and Liverpool, outside of freights, are less than half of what they were prior to the introduction of business in future contracts. Prior to this time an English spinner would send his orders to I Savannah for the purchase of cotton. The buyer placed cost and all expenses in his invoice and added 4 per cent, commission for purchasing. When the order was se cured to a Savannah buyer through a Liv erpool house the spinner had also to pay this house a commission. All these charges came out of the producers of cotton. At present, a large portion of the crop is moved on sales of contracts on the Liver pool Exchange. These are either made in advance of purchases of cotton or the cotton is bought with knowledge of prices at which it can thus lie sold, and the result is that the profits of the exporting business now, done as it is on purchases and sales through the exchanges, will not average 1 per cent, profit, as against 4 per cent, commissions formerly paid. In this there is a reduction of 3 per cent, in the margin between Savan nah aud Liverpool, and a consequent saving of this amount to the farmers of Georgia. Of the man on horseback the New* York | Sun says: “We doubt if any nmnevt-r had , a better opportunity to show the finer quul- • ities of horsemanship to a numerous and j appreciative audience than (Jen. Fitz Hugh i Lee, while he is riding about making his i ciiuvnss in Virginia. Ho rides every day ! except Sunday, and never twice on the same horse, but on whatever animal, old, young, quiet, hot headed, aud of whatever ! gait, it may lie. When the inhabitants of : a district accompany him in u long nml en thusiastic cavalcade, they furnish a horse I all saddled for Gen. Lee to ride, and the j different varieties of animals which he lie- j strides must he as numerous as the coun-1 f Virginia. This is the greatest test of true horsemanship, and iu the charming and picturesque accounts of Gen. Lee’s progress which appear iu the Sim, it is shown that the Democratic candidate for Governor of Virginia is a horseman of the first class. We trust he is riding to vic tory.” The Boston Herald says: “With the chronic habit of ’ the organ to claim what ever is good in government for its own party, and to attribute whatever is had to A* to tho merito of thin question, it mxy 1>e safely affirmed that the State should not interfere with the freedom of private contract* except upou clear and uuiuistakalilo around* of public policy. A con tract which is not contrary to good moral*, aud which hu* been voluntarily entered into by person* legally capable of contracting, should not bo net aside upon any doubtful or equivocal reason*. To nay the least of it, the policy of usury law* 1* involved in very great doubt. They hare lnug ago been abolished in England nud ia many of the State* of thi* Union, and I believe are generally coudamued by writer* on political economy. TV. G. Smith. Agent* Wanted. • We want an agent fur the Weekly Tele- orach iu every community iu the South. We will make such arrangements as will enable nnv one to make money canvassing for us. Write for terms to agents. w-tf A Watch Free! We will mail a Nickel-silver Waterbary Watch of ed ill the lielo* who will aend u» a club of ten new subscribers to The Weekly TeleouaI’H at one dollar each. Thi* wjffeuable each subscriber to secure the paper at the lowest club rate, nud at the same time coiupen- Hate the club agent for hi* trouble. Only neiv arnacRIBCB*—that I*. those whose name* are not uow aud have m>t beeu within six month* previous to the receipt of tue order on our 1 looks, WILL BE COUNTED. The vict-abli aud tie keeper*. They are simple, dura- le case* always wear bright. Tens Hand* of them are carried by people of all throughout the United State*. “The Waierbury.” the opposition, the State attempts to combat our assertion that good home rule at the South by the Democratic party has contributed both to tho prosperity of that section and to the well-being of the negroes. It maintains that ‘the prosperity of the South in these later years is due in a large measure to that era of general activity and business revival which hns marked the channels of trade throughout the entire country, and which 1ms been the result of Yarn spinners South who supply North- J thes financial policy of the Republican par ent manufacturers with goods are compelled ty in power during those years.’ This to make large sales for forward delivery or is news indeed. The ‘era of general this trade. It is their’custon to make activity and business revival” began shortly and unmake laws and 1 disrobe Senntoi and they might not stop with the proposition >( (’ immissiouer Barnett to go into the • v... eping and tax laying and collecting sines*, but th cy would absolutely con trol L« gislatnres and legislation, and dic ta te the policy of the State. The picture is not overdrawn, aud it should furnish food for serious thought to ••very Georgian. Enforce this corn mission law but another year in the same spirit of the last, and the issue is upou us. In view of this fact, cold and solid, a grave respon sibility rests upon the Rnilroad Commission. The proof is ctmulntive that it has been unjust nnd unwise in its action, nml unfortnnate in the temper with which it has sought to defend an indefensi ble position. Georgia does not wish to de stroy her railroads. She docs not even de sire to cripple their power or ukefulness. The constitution demands that Kites shall be made “just and reasonable." The com mission can do this nnd receive the applause and support of the people. It can still struggle to make n wrong appear a right, and by so doing involve themselves and the Ktato in a common catastrophe. Wo of the South are a common people, hound together by a community of senti ment and interest. South Carolina 1ms modified her cornmis hion law, Alabama removed the members of lu-rs w ho grasped ut increased power, Otlu-r States, affrighted at our example, are hold ing a commission nt liny. The politics of Tennessee is dangerously complicated by this very question, and the Georgia Railroad Commission holds iu its hands tho power to make a dead a or living State. The Weekly Telegraph Free, We will send tho Weekly Telegraph one year to any one who will get up n club of five new-jrabscribers to it at one dollar each. w-tf these sales nml protect themselves on the price of cotton by buying contracts on the New York Exchange. If this law is en forced, it will seriously interfere with this business, and may force Georgia spinners to nbnudon n trade that in these dull times is essential to the running of their ma chinery. Will tho legislators of Georgia ever learn that it is dangerous to tamper with trade of which they are utterly ignorant ? The State Fair. The Florida Times-Union aavs of the ap proaching State fair. Tin* Georgia State fair i* to tie held at Macon, lie- ginning «»n the ’JfitU iu*L uud coutiuuing a week. Tiie premium list oiler* gIMNJO iu cash premium*. The management have arranged with the variuu* railroad* of the Htate running into Macou for re duced ral***, and the attendance, a!wav* lame, i* expected thi* year to be lamer than ever. There i* only oue thin* thnt make* u* lii-*itale to advise Florida fanner* to attend and that is the fearful ar ray of military men who have tiie management of the a Lair. The president i* a colonel the treasurer i* a captain, the vice-president* are all colonel*, captain* nml major*, while the executive committee of thirty i* composed of tea captains, nine colonels, four major*,three doctor* aud four nou-profe**iom l gentlemen. It must be that the Scriptural idea of heating sword* into plowshares ha* obtained ill Georgia. TVe hope so, ut least. Tho presence of all these ex-military men should not deter the Florida farmers. Florida has as many majors nnd colonels in proportion to her populations Georgia, nnd the £<>th instant 'vill furnish au excellent opportunity for all the veterans to get to gether. Perhaps the Florida colonels can sell the Georgia colonel* some land, and take stock—live stock—in exchange. This fair offers especial inducements to 'lumiHsions, and j Floridians. There will be gathered here Once in power j the finest display of cattle,* bogs and poultry ever seen in Georgia. If there is any thing thnt the Land of Flowers needs just now to make it nil earthly paradise, it is plenty of fine cows, hogs nnd poultry. It is a popular idea beyond the boundaries of thut State thnt milk cows will not tlourish therein; that grasses do not grow there in abundance nor to perfection. It is a well- known fact that except in a few favored neighborhoods the razor hack hog has full sway, and that chickens and eggs are be yond the reach of a poor man's pocket-hook. It has been demonstrated time nnd again that Bermuda grass grows well in every section of the State where it lias been tried, nnd that cows can be kept as fat and productive ns here; thut hogs attended to are just ns flourishing and profitable as in Georgia. Poultry can be successfully raised anywhere. The favorite cow nowadays is the Jersey. It is imiHissible to outline the exhibi tion of this strain now being gathered for this fair. It will certainly exceed any similar collection ever secured in any South ern State. No better opportunity for in vestment will ever be offered to Florida fnr- Nor is this nil. Florida to most Middle Georgians is on term ineotjnita, although many have interests therein. \Ve do not know of a better opportunity for Florida exhibitors nn-l land-owner* than will he offered on the 2ffth that. The small Florida exhibit last year attracted widespread attention. The people of any community in our sister State will find it profitable to spread before the thousands who will flock to this fair evi dences of the fertility of the soil aud its adapt'bilitv. Two IMettires. It nil depends upon the way you look at things. The liberal luqiers of the country see in the Fitzhugh Lee campaign a peaceful army journeying from post to post, from after the resumption of specie payments in 187'J, and ended with the shooting of Gar- Held in 1881. For the six years preceding 1879, nnd for the four years following 1881, up to June last, industries were depressed, trade was paralyzed and business in general stagnant. But the condition of the South during all this period has been relatively better than that of any other portion of the >n, for the reason that its crops have been large and have commanded a ready market, and because new railroads have been built nnd the great natural re sources of that section in iron, coal, lum ber and fertilizers have been opened up. Good local government, peaceful and helpful relations between the two race*, aud greater attention to business and less politics, were essential to this develop ment; nnd this the Democratic home rule has assured to the people. The Federal government lias done nothing directly to aid iu this development; and if tho “flmin- ial policy of the Bcpublican party” has promoted Southern prosperity, why has it not helped tho North ? Ten years out of the last twelve have been years of dullness and depression. During this time the South has greatly improved its former con dition when both the Federal and State governments were Republican. The infer ence is clear that the end bf the carpetbag reign was u blessing to the South." The Usury IjiwT Editor* Telegraph: A few day* ago, a* appear* from this pres* report*, a hill wa* Introduced into t'.ie Legislature to repeal the usury law* now of force in thi* State, leaving the rate of iutcrcMt iu every transaction to be fixed by the parties to the contract. Iu the di*ctt**iou provoked by thi* bill, our Mr. Bartlett advocated with hi* accustomed ve hemence the right hut unsuccessful side. Ill* most prominent opponent seeiu* to have been Mr. Aru- heiiu, who nail passage* from tiie Dilde condemn ing the taking of tuuiry. and appealed to the Legis late to stand by the touching* of the hook of hooka. 1 refer to thi* incident uot for the purpose of dis cussing the poliey of usury laws, but because it furtii*he* a curious illustration of the sort of opjio- sitiou which impArtaut im asure* must encounter. The bill referred to wo* lost. Whether It* defeat wa* in-ought about by Mr. Aruheim's biblical argu ment canuot uow bo ktiowu. That hi* argument wo* based upou a grossly perverted atul mistaken use of Mcripture i* very generally known. The Uihle wa* never intended to he an authority ui>on question* of political economy. To cite it In the discussion of such question* is to degrade It aud bring it into contempt. The common sense of nu-n revolt* at the idea of uiaklug the commercial regu lations and usage* of Georgia to-day conform to tho peculiar institution* of the Jew* more than three thousand year* ago. 1 would lie very far from *!M-aking lightly of any mao'* regard for the Bible. On the contrary, I believe that, other thing* beiug equal, that legislator who moat thoroughly under- huud* aud most deeply reverences the sacred Book is lu-st equipped for the duties of hi* other. But for thu moral sentiment which the Bible create*, the enactments of legislature* would have but little force. Tbe operation of uary law* themRelve* furnishes a striking illustration of thi* proposition. They are everywhere habitually ignored and evaded by the most law-abiding ami conscientious (Msqdc of tiie laud. Periodically, the most »traight-laei-d hank ofheial* in the State publish curiously-worded affidavit* in which they solemnly swear thut they have not violated the usury law* of the State, un less a violation of these law* should be construed to lie a violation of them. At least that 1* the mean ing and substance of the affidavit. Now, till* daily violation of tow would not occur if the mass of the (ample agreed with Mr. Amhcim iu his application of tiie teaching* of the Bible. Even the Mosaic law Itself to which Mr. Arnbcitu appealed doe* tut sustain the position taken by him. That law merely prohibited a Jew from tak ing usury from another Jew, hut left him free to exact any rate of Interest from all people who were not Jews. Furthermore, the word usury a* em ployed in the Bible meant any charge whatever for the use of money. In the Bible sense, any rate of interest i* usury—interest and twury beiug syuony- niou* term*. If Mr. Arnheim would be consistent, be must advocate a law prohibiting the diking of any interest whatever and requiring all loans to be entirely gratuitous. we will send The Weekly Teleobaph oue year aud one of the above described watches to any ad dress. Till* propostiun is open to our subscriber* as well as those who are not. .A_ct Promptly. The above propositions will 1m* kept ojM?n for a limited time oul.v and parties who wish to^^,f ad- vntitage of either should do so at once, / AJ-Unlcss otherwise directed we wifi send th» watches by mail, packed hi o stout pasteboard Imix. and our responsibility for them will citf w lu-n they are deposited in the pout-office. They, ran be regis tered for ten cent* and parties who wt»h this done should inclose this amount, or we will Heud them by express, the charge* to bo paid when they aru delivered. Address TUE TELEGRAPH. Macou, JJenrgta. Make iey orders, check*, et-.. payable f U. C. HANSON. Administrator's nml Distributees Sale of Jones Count}' Lands, GEORGIA, JUNES COUNTY.—By virtue of ft n or es Court of Ordinary will be sold u t tho door iu Clinton, on the first Tu**.|ay inNo- . nil t itdivide.l iut t of t • >f Benjamin Beck, Jr., deceased, in the him- ed nnd five (3o.fi acres of land, more or less, in nc* county, known a* the Stephen Bivins old Al*« NEWTON ETHRIDGE, Admii t the ml phic« the joint owner* for general thstribi’i Is near the railroad: fair Is water and timber thereon: cash. II. il attorney iu fact of Mrs. Aru Walker, octC-wiw JAMES BECK. Administrator’s Sale. GEORGIA..JONES COUNTY.—By virtue of i 1>efot Will 1m- sold Witbll t Onlina irt House door iu Clint legal hour* of snl*. on the first Tut-*- •ntiie plantation of John day iu Ni Jarrel, *r.. tleeeased. containing seven hundred atm sixtv-six acre* of laud, more or less. Including the remainder Inti rest after the termination or the widow’* dower therein. The laud l* situate on Falling creek, in Jones county, convenient to rail- road, in a good m-ighhorluMMl. adjoin* I>r. Holland. Glover and others, fair average land with improve ment* thereon. Mold for distribution. Term* cash. September IU. 1*73. octu-law-lw JAMES T. JAMES, Administrator. Crawford County Sheriff Sale. GEORGIA. CiiAwvonn Covnty.—Will be void be- fon- the court lton*e door in Knoxville, Ga., within »legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday iu No- eight in tiie seventh district of *uid county, and o hundred and ninety acre*, more or less, of lot or laud number one hundred and forty-four (141) in thu second district of said county, containing ia the ag gregate three hundred and ninety-two acre*, more or le**, lying east of Knoxville and known a* the Ilick* place, the same being the place where J. L. Horne now resides. Levied on a* the property of William Carter to satisfy two fi. fa*., one ins lied from the Su- perior Court of said county in favor of H. c. Harrp. VS. William Cart, rand 4. W. Jack, administrator of the estate of James E. Hutchins. The other issued from the County Court of sahl count}* in favoi plalntitTs attorney. Tern" In po*- out by I, Hw, M. P. RIVIERE. Sheriff. .Notice, GEORGIA. CnvwEol » Cocnty.—By virtue of the t mortgage in fav or of Cole- ed bv Berry Fluker, , and recorded in the ■'IM* - •■. ■■■‘H - *.i l**Mlk “Ii, luge Inu, MH April 7th. I will, on the first Tuesday iu No- vember (*1) next, before the court house door. In the town of Knoxville, within the legal hours of sale, ex|H>se for sab; at public outcry to tho highest bidder, for cash, the following lauds, tc-wit: One hundred acre* (100), more or less, of lot No. forty-seven (47) in the First District of originally Houston, now Ciawfont county, being the half of said lot on which tho said Berry Fluker reside*. Paid laud* sold to (lay oir the debt with iuten-st se cured by said mortgage, together with ail cost* aud expense*. Title iu fee simple will lie made to the purchaser a» specified in said mortgage. .Said Berry irtgoge. Fluker haviug defaulted iu pa.ving said said lauds w ill Imj sold for the benefit of Cole Newsom, the beueficiarie* in said mortgage. Octo- In-r -I. INV. R<>BERT COLEMAN. Huruvor of the late firm or Coleman & Newsom, octfl lawlw ORDINARY’S OFFICE, JONES COUNTY, QEOB- OIA, September 'Jd, lKW.-To all whom it may con cern: A. It. Tinsley, administrator de tool is non of B. F. lto**. deceased, ho* in due form applied to me for leave to sell all the land* to longing to estate of said deceased and a special order for sale of the real estate in Rild> county to be sold iu Bibb coun ty. Said application will be heard on the flr»t Monday in November next. Witno** my hand offi cially. r. t. Boss, Ordinary. ■ep'24w4t