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RgSnpcreral bales of cotton during
tlay *ejson. all clean made hy
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..•ii'l'iiF * n being, “who is
consider ?
Atlanta Const itntinn de
Cites any further disturbance
m .he North Pole by exploration
let alone as something has al
eady broke loose in that quarter
by iuterinedliug. It tells us that
the jays and bluebirds and flowers
in the fence corners, will soon
convince us that “all is not lost,"
and then you know, if the Fins
and Esquimaux can stand this
thing, we can.
A Spaniard w'as recently gar
roted in Madrid for attempting to
assassinate the King. The crowd
watched with eagerness any man
ifestation of weakness or firmness
in the ordeal of death, ready to
condemn the one or applaud the
other. There were a thousand
brntcH in that crowd to the one
garroted.
Senator Thurman was to have
spoken, last week, in Ohio, on
'•Jacksonian democracy.’' hut in
■toad of hit* speech, wc have his
fetter, and. as we supposed, his
text was Jackson's devotion to
the Union, as the palladium, not
only of southern, hut of the rights
of all sections. He speaks kind
lv of the errors of those who fol
i ,'j ed, to the hitter end, the Cal
• ti<>H theory, and expresses the
ait• \v they are now reclaim
•"■r, s#* thoroughly devoted to
f j A'hnian democracy, and the
‘•egrity of the Union.
tfilden is said by some papers
mi he ahead again ns the prospec
tive candidate of the democracy.
The organized of Georgia ate
down on Ben Hill and insist that
Colquitt shall succeed him a> l\
S. Senator. Others insist on run
ning him again for Governor but
"the Atlanta iiillueuce is decided
ly for L. J.Gartrell. All the or
ganixed journals deprecate the
idea of Hr. Felton taking tlie
field and earnestly hope that he
will ho content with the Seventh
District.
Mr. Hill demands that the or
ganized democracy he “purged."
••You niav may yln*t 1
ter the vase if you will, but the!
scent of corruption will hang
round it still," Cutout its rot
tenness, and the patient will die.
As the remedy proposed may af
fect the ■•organized," it is worse i
than the disease. With this. it. j
lives; with that, it will die.
A Washington letter speaking
ol the Texas Pacific railroad bills
now before congress,one in trod u
ced by Mr. Stephens, the other in
the interest of Huntington A Cos.,
and the Northern and Central
Pacific roads, says, “the defeat of
Mr. Stephens bill will he an in
calculable loss to the great south
:rn belt of’ tjie Atlantic States
t l ( ‘ of which
|k pjv’iitt'ifero run. The
sy.,!'. ’7!* * v/ representa
■ . ief\J}jpo support H*^
B Id t>e ost raeised at K
BHpr \ pig of Hinitingtod and
his section."
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Northern republican papers fa
vor the abolition or restriction,of
negro suffrage. The New York
Xation sktf. Tihrt’Ajoutli can effect
ually accomplish this with a prop
city or educational qualification;
but, the reply is, that while the
negro remains in the South and
intelligence and property can
control this great political force
it is not going to abandon it. The
evil was deliberately perpetrated
and ii will he deliberately adher
ed to until colonization or some
other means work out the final
solution.
The letter of Senator Hill to
ill* 1 people in relation to the Mur
phy fee is unanswerable and in
vites from honest people all the
indignation lie evokes. We will
give some of his points and lastly
liis summary of the case.
“It is not extravagant to say
that the people of tlie United
States pay as much today to sup
port fraud and wrongs as they
ought to pay to support honest
government.'”
“While taxes are heavier than
ever before known,while millions
of our people have been sinking
to want and poverty, men holding
public offices have been enriching
themselves and their friends.”
“Public offices are created sole
ly for the public good and to use
a public office for private gain is
to pervert it from the purpose for
which the office is established.”
“Murphy held such au office
subject to the Treasurer, who is
subject to the Governor. He ac
cepted the fee to influence the
Governor,and if the Governor was
not a sharer of the fee he should
have removed at once the cor
rupt official, when the facts were
brought to his notice.”
“Murphy committed a fraud on
the office of the governor,and 1 re
ported that fraud to the governor.
Thereupon the governor treats
Murphy as his friend, and de
nouces me as his enemy ! Mur
phv introduced into democratic
Georgia the tirst known instance
of that form of corruption which
in other states and the federal
government, has done and is do
ing more than all other forms of
corruption to disgrace our politics
to impoverish honest people, to
enrich official rogues, and to
threaten our popular institutions
with ignominious shame, rotten
ness and ruin. Murphy boasts of
his act and defends it; the gover
nor excuses it; and I denounce it.
On this issue the demand now is
that Murphy shall be justified,
the governor shall be sanctified,
ansi 1 shall be immolated.”
The Koine Coin in' was some
what dumbfounded w ith our brief
statement of historical facts, a
bout which there can he no dis
pute. We trust that it will learn
in time, to distinguish an inde
pendent freeman from a party
vassal, and cease to class all men
with one party because they re
huke another.
The Atlanta Phonograph charg
es u< wi'h a lack of political prin
ciple, because we are independ
ent of and denounce both organ
ized parties for being held to-
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getheij solely, by the cohesive
power of the public plunder.
Has the I’honograpb any politi
cal principle ? If it has, trot it
out for the benefit of the curious.
We would like to examine it, to
see if Horace Greely was its ex
ponent !if a sound currency rep
resents it! if Hayes’ local civil
government speaks for it, or if it
is embraced in the 13th 14th and
15th amendments?
A few weeks since we publish
cd our platform of principles—
the platform of the Jackson De
mocracy. Now,Senator Thurman
comes forward, and coinmends
Jackson Democracy to the conn
try. If we should support Thur
man for President it would not
be because he is made a party
nominee but because he in
principle a true American Dem
ocrat. Do you see ?" v\f both
parties should disband and the
people should elect such a man
by acclamation.we would be suit
ed exactly.
Rev. Mr. Talmadge is dissect
ing the social, moral and politi
cal whited sepulchres of the land
and last week, commenced his .ex
posure of Washington city, where
he says there are two thousand
grog-shops and five hundred pro
fessional gamblers, and members
of congress and of the cabinet are
found in these hells of infamy,
“walking charnel houses, which
nothing but tlie grave digger’s
spade can clean the world of, fit
only to die in a brothel, as more
than one of them have died, and
then some associate would rise up
and move a eulogiuin!" As ana
tion we had our birththroes m the
revolution. The war of 1812 was
our measles, and the war of 1860
our typhoid, and last Wednesday
resumption settled the doctor’s
bill. (Applause.) Great men are
gteat only a little time. Where
is the cabinet of Jefferson !—dead.
Of Monroe ?—dead. Of Pierce ? j
—dead. Of the cabinet of Lincoln
all 1 can remember are dead but
one, and he is as god as dead.
Of the cabinet of Grant one or I
more are worse than dead. What
is political honor in this country? I
It is the privilege of being away
from home amid temptations
which have slain the mightiest ;
©f being bored to death by ollice-j
seekers; of being assaulted by!
acrimonious envy and of sinking
out of sight at the end with health
and character gone. One senator
dying in Flatbush asylum, idiotic j
with dissipation ; another sitting
on the curbstone in Philadelphia
on a bitter winter night, with his ,
poor wife beside him trying to
get home, but too drunk to re
spond ; another in a drunken fit
falls into the Potomac among the
ice, but is lislied out and brought
round—l venture to say that it
was the first time ho ever came
so near sc# muchVold water. Del
aware had a senator whose chief
characteristic was that lie was al
ways drunk and Illinois was pos
sessed of a famous rival. Oh,
young man, before you enter into
politics search and see it your
morals are incorruptible. If not,
stav where von are.
A heavy snow storm visited
Southern Ohio on Wednesday,
extending as far south as JKich
| mond, Kentucky. All trains
were delayed, and at Mavsville
i the snow was sixteen inches deep
lin some places drifting to five
I feet. Much loss of stock and dam
age to business is apprehended.
Neither Sheridan nor Pope ap
prove the armv reorganization
bill.
i The Senate Committee on Fi
nance heard Mr. Kaum, Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue, in op
position to pending House bill to
reduce the on tobacco. The
Commissioner claimed that the
passage of the bill would entail
a loss to the government annual
lv of not less than $9,000,000 on
cigars. Further consideration of
the bill was postponed until to
day.
The hostile Cheyennes impris
oned at Fort Robinson, Nebras
ka, since October, having been
informed that they would beta
ken back to their reservation in
the Indian Territory, became very
sullen, and declared they would
dio sooner than consent to such a
move. They subsequently at
tempted to escape, and jumping j
from the windows ef the room in
which they were confined, lied j
across the prairie on tiie frozen
snow, and fired on the guard,
killing one and wounding four.
The lire, was returned, and about
forty Indians were killed. The
United States cavalry are in pur
suit.
A destructive lire is reported
in progress in Cincinnati. Loss
already ascertained is SIBO,OOO,
the greater portion of which is
covered by insurance. On ac
count of the extreme cold great
difficulty was experienced in
handling the hose.
The New York Commercial
the point that a '
mong other advantages resulting
from resumption will be the in
flow *f foreign capital “in con
nection with commercial and fi
nancial ventures of various kinds.'
As an evidence of this it cites the
fact that the Dutch East India
Company has extended its op
erations to this country and lias
established an agency of the sort
that this shrewd and careful
company has established in A
merica. The fact possesses more
than ordinary significance and
would seem to indicate that for
eign capitalists have a strong
faith in our future.
Governor Bishop, of Ohio, re
commends in his annual message
the creation of courts of arbitra
tion and conciliation, without cost
to the State, as a means of pre
venting strikes. The Legislature
is invited to enact laws for the
punishment f grave robberies,
the protection of forests, etc.
“The Graat Famine in Brazil."
—Mr. Herbert 11. Smith, who is
now in Brazil, collecting materi
al for a series of papers on that
interesting empire, to appear in
Scribner's Monthley , writes as
follows: “People in the United
States know little about this great
famine that is ingoing in the
northeastern part of Brazil;!
myself had no idea of its import
ance until very lately. It is en
ough to state that it affects at
least one-fourth of the whole
population of the empire; that
hundreds are dying of starvation,
and thousands of disease incident
to exposure and insufficient food.
In the city of Ceara, which will
be my principal point of study,
tlie normal population of 30,000
lias been swelled to SO,OOO by fu
gitives from the drouth smitten
interior country; and among
this 80,000, the death rate lias
reached the enormous figure of
300 per day. These drouths are
periodical, occurring once in
twenty or thirty years. It seems
to me, therefore, that a study on
the spot will be of very great im
portance. It is entirely another
side of Brazil from that which 1
have before seen and written of."
The thermometer at Blooming
ton, Illinois, during the recent
severe weather, reached about as
low a point as in any other sec
tion of the west, sometimes go
ing down as low as 35 degrees
below zero. A late dispatch
from there says : “The cold is
playing sad havoc with game.
Quail are picked up by the bush
el in the fields and rabbits are
found with their ears entirely
frozen off. Hundreds of fat hogs
have been smothered by droves
piling up for heat.”
The Burnside army bill will
encounter vigorous opposition in
both houses of Congress, on the
ground that it will subordinate
the War Department and even
the President to the General el
the army, and establishes a mili
tary autocracy inconsistent with
our institutions. A substitute
for the bill lias been prepared
providing for a reduction of the
army, but not tilling vacancies
other than by summary dismiss
als or enforced retirements. The
retired list is to be made as large
as the necessities of the army re
quire, and the supply of officers
from West Point is to be cut oft.
This bill places the army under
the control of the Secretary of
War, subject only to the orders
•f the President as commander
in-chief. It will probably be in
corporated in the army appropria
tion bill.
The new French Cable Com
pany lias been constituted. It
proposes to lay two cables, one
from Brest to Cape Cod, and tlie
other from Land's End to Nova
Scotia —both by the way of St.
Pierre.
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S5 Whitehall and 02 Broad Street's, Atlanta, Ha.
ALL new and fresh goods at low prices. (It is useless to quote
them.) Call and examine my goods, you will see that they
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My stock is complete, consisting of all varieties, from low price to
the finest in the City. Satisfaction guaranteed. Goods promptly
delivered. Please give me a call. Remember the place; 85 White,
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Atlanta. Ga., August 20,1878. .IOHA[D. .VFOC’KHR.
IbT. Or. G-Ig'nillisut,
NORTH SIDE OF THE PUBLIC SQUARE.
DEALER in
Dry Goods and Notions,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Crockery and
Glass Ware.
GROCERIES: .
Coffee, Sugar, Mustard, Pepper,
Syrup, Meat, Spice, Ginger,
Lard, Flour, Soda, Starch,
Hams, Mackerel, Tea, Blueing,
Tobacco, Soap, Indigo, Black Big,
Candles, Matches, Sardines. Flavoring Extracts,
HARDWARE,
Such as Axes, llames, Trace Chains, Nails, Cutlery, both pocket
and table. Scissors and Sheep Shears.
i will sell at the very lowest prices for CASH for the next sixty
days. Persons wishing to buy will do well to call and examine our
goods before buying elsewhere.
N.G. GIGNILLIAT.
Marietta, Ga., Feb. 12. 1878. ly
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CTTTHAN ITT /CHEAPEST.
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Itlark Walnut Drr*iug Caste Suits, Full Garble, !•
Piece*, S3O. Collage Knit* S4O. The Best Parlor
Goods In The Market I'm* The Money. Walnut Bu
l ean W ith Claw*,, *lO. Coed Common Bedstead!*, $4.
And a Full Cine Of Ollier Furniture Cheaper Than
Any House In The Male. Term* Ntriellv Cash
•VESA THOMAS.’
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42 & It White Hal! Street, Atlanta, Ga. Aug. 21, ’7B
Drugs and Medicines!
And Building Hardware!
William Root,
HAS AT MIS
OLD STAND,
Almost any thing iron toil in that
line of ‘ business.
PAINTS, OILS AND VAUNISII.
White Lend, in kegs and cans.
Ready mixed Paints, in cans.
OIL*. PAINT*.
Linseed, Liiinp Black,
Train, Drop Black,
Machine, Venetian Bed.
Lard, Bine Paint,
Neat’s Font, Green Paint,
Sweet, Yellow Paint.
Castor, Ae. Brown Paint, Ac.
DYE STUFFS.
WINDOW GLASS & PUTTY.
All at moderate prices.
HALEY BROTHERS.
(DEALERS IN)
GROCERIES,
HARD WARE,
NORTH-EAST CORNER PUBMC SQUARE,
Marietta Georgia.
October, 1, 1577. jy
THE MERCHANTS AND MECHANICS INSURANCE COMPANY
OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
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Cash Capital $2.10,000 - - Cali Assets $31.1.000.
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$25,000 in IT.l T . S. Bonds deposited in the Treasury of Georgia for far
ther security of Policies!
IXII IS well know n company has paiit in thousands ol' dollars to claimants in
. Georgia since the w ar, ami will maintain its w ell earned deputation for skiH
fnl, conservative, prompt, just dealing.
Dwellings, Stores, Merchandise, Alills, Gin Houses and content*
insured at fair rates.
Hr Agents at all prominent points in the State, to whom apply, or to
BARRINGTON KING,
oet 23-ly Agent. Mv ietu ©a
I HAVE ON HAND
A GOOD ASSORTMENT OF
LOCKS
1-or Dwellings, Store Doors, Olua
els. Trunks, Smoke Houses, Ac.
PAD LOCKS.
Nails. 2d to6od. Tacks and Brads
Harness Buckles,
Copper Rivets, Sash Pullies,
Files, Hinges, Picture Nails,
Strap Hinges, Brass Butts,
Ilooks and Staples,
Buits, inch to 6x6, Wagon Nails.
Wardrobe Hooks, Jasli Cord,
Garden Hoes, Garden Rakes.
Spade Forks, Manure Forks,
Carriage Bolts, Door Bolts.
Sami Paper, Glue, Ac.
H'RGWN,
Hie largest assortment in town.
WILLIAM ROOT.
Marietta, October 1, 1877.