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Communicated. For the Observer; —The ed'tora’ com meat on my communication, giv ing reasons why I thought Harrison and Morton would be elected, oontains the following substance: “The democrats do not favor free trade, but an economical administra tion of the government, and a reduc tion of the dangerous surplus. M Now, both the president’s message and the Mills Bill declare for absolute free trade in lumber, which We pro duce to the value of three hundred millions of dollars worth annually;free trade in salt, of which we produce nearly forty millions of bushels annu ally; free trade in manilla, flax, jute and other fibers, the importation of which already supplant American pro duct to the valne of thirty-five millions of dollars annually; free trade in ce ment, potash, lime and brick; free trade in meats, game and poultry; free trade in vegetables, peas and beans; tree trade in marble and stone; free trade in more than one hundred other articles produced in this country, that are now subject to duty. The London Globe says: “The capital issue of the contest in the United States, lies be tween the maintenance of the present fissal system intact, and its modifica tion in the direction of tree trade, and on that broad question Mr. Cleveland’s candidacy natnrally and necessarily carries English sympathy.” On the same subject, the London Spectator, a leading English journal says, “Giover C'eveland has done more to advance the cause of free trade than any prune minister of England has ever done ” As regards the “dangerous surplus,” a repeal of the t*x ou obacco. and of aloohol used in the are, will lesen the “dangerous surplus” * x'y mil lions of dollars yearly. A repeal ot the entire internal revenue eys'eui, which is eo particularly obnox ious to many of our Georgia citizens, will red ace it one hundred and eigb teen millions of dollars annually, and would very soon produce a deficit The dmy on imported sugar is fifty eevea millions of dollars. We raise one eleventh of the amount imported. The republican party proposed to take the duty of? an average of two cents per pound from sugar, and pay the pro ducer at home the two cents per pound, thereby saving the consumers fifty-five million ot dollars annually, but the democratic party wouldn’t hear to that. They are perfectly willing to sacrifice the great wool growing indus try of the republican North on the al tar of free trade by the total abolition of the doty on foreign fleeces, but will stand bj the few dexnoeratio sugar planters in the South to the last. It looks as though Cleveland was taking good eare of his democratic constitu ents. There are four thousand men employed in Syracuse, if. X., in thp talt industry. As soon ai the tariff is taken off the wages of these men will be redaced to the grade paid in Ches hire, England. Well, would it be wise for these men to Tote for Cleve land? What would you think of any man who raises wool to sell, voting for Cleveland? Nine tenths of the capital invested in the iron indnstries, the cotton factories and the develop ment of mining enterprises in tho South, is north enr. It has been induc ed to come here by favorable legisla tion. It is now giving employment to thousands of laborers, who are taken fiom the plow, and no longer swell the over prcd-iotion of cotton, bat be come purchasers of what we have to sell. No wonder that thousands ol prominent democrats are oomißg oit for Hinison, but I notice occasional ly that one or two, who are a Uttie weak in the upper atory, are also com iug out for Cleveland. Thos. Haydbu. The Kiohest Man in the World. Clans Sprecklee is the richest man in the world. He resides in San Fran cisco. Thirty years ago he was woik ing tor fifty a month. He is now worth two hundred million, which gives him one hundred and seventy fire million in excess of Jay Gonld, and one hun dred and fifty million in excess of v an derbilt. His three sons are worth fifty million; total for the whole fami ly three hundred and fifty thousand. Spreckles has single banded, built up the Hawaiian Island sugar trade un der the reciprocity treaty. W r ithin ten years the production there has inoreas ed from 20,000 tons a year to 120,000 tons tor the present year. As the island progressed so did the Spreckles family. They raised sugar, then refiu ed it, making large profits out of each transaction. They bnilt a large Beet of.railing vessels 'oi trading to and from Honolulu, finally building, at Cramp’s shipyards in Philadelphia two of the ta eM aul best equipped Amerieau steamers afloat They hnv* since added two more steamers to 'heir f-er, #acti .f which is 3 500 tons bo <teu (exclusive of coal,) and have ex tended ibeir trade to Aus'ralia, now boloiQ' a coo taei with the Colonial governments tor cari*vii g toe mails be twcßa san Frarcisco and siduey. Capt. Linden of Pinkerton’s deti* tire loroe, has arrested Express Agent Huber of Sunbury, Pa., for stealing $29 600 from the Adams Express Company, August iO, 1886. The money was shipped from Philadelphia to Shamokin, to pay the employes ot the Mineral Mining Company; $6,000 was in gold and the remainder in notes done np in packages of SI,OOO each. The money was found recently in Hu ber’s house behind the parlor mant< 1: Eleven thousand was missing, and what was left had not been taken from the original package. C. P. Lindley of Bridgeport, Coan , is probably the oldest commercial trar eler in this country. He claims to have been the first one who ever sold by sample. He started from Meriden, Conn., May 6, 1836, with a pair of horses, and he has been on the road praotioally sinae, fifty years. The Digest of Habersham coua y has been reeeived at the comptroller’s office: 1,128,046 is tha amount of tax able property retarned. Ai increase of 60,166 dollars ever last year. FREE TO ALL. Call at the Store of General Mer chandise & Plantation Supplies, Dry Goods, Notions, Flour and Meat, Sugar and Coflee, for Cash, or Country Produce Taken in Exchange at Highest Market Price. W. C. J. GARRISON, Homer, Georgia. Cheap Cash Store. CPC' - General Merchandise & Plantation SUPPLIES, DRY GOODS& NOTIONS. Keep on hand a full stock of Groceries, Flour, Meal, Meat, Sugars, Coffees, Teas, Molases, Tobacco and Cigars. Country Produce Take* in Exchange at Highest Market Price. When in town call in. Notions and Groceries, J. E. STEPHENS, HOMER, GA. A Nice Line of Confectioneries, 3©^> Country Produce Taken in Exchange at Higheet Market priewe.