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TZEOIj POST. WEDNESDAY, OCT 9, 1878. R. L. HICKS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. W r . Uki* ix Hit regular Agent for the POST in Johnson ton nig, authorized to re- eeirr subscriptions, receipt for the tame, ami to nude eontr/ietx for udtertisiug. Alt due* should be, pout to him. OUIt SCHOOL. Dublin possesses ninny attractions to men of business and families tlmt would like to selllc down in a thriv ing little town of six or seven hun dred souls, but none greater than her school. The good old times when every community in tho South could have a good school is gone—gone to return up more for at least two or three generations. Before tho war tho Southern farmers wero wealthy, and there were but f6w communities that could not pay a fair salary and _> u]i a good . i liool. Since the • everyone is poor, and tho only hopo for a successful school is to lo cale it in it town or village whero the burden may bo shared by a largo number of jiatrons. And tho only hope for parents in the rural districts is to board out their children or re move to lown. Wo Intro nothing to say against tho largo number cf ex cellent men and women who are engaged in teaching three-month’* schools throughout the country. They aro in many instances doing good work. But for them wo should have many thousands move than we now Imvo in tho melancholy condi tion, of being unable to read. But parents who really moan anything by sending their children to school— who wish to equip thoir offspring with an education which shall give thorn a fair chance in tho battle of life, should loso no timo in placing them in a school that is permanent, 1liat doesn’t change teachers ovory year, that is presided ovor by a thor oughly educated and profound schol ar. Such aschool is tho Dublin Acade my. Wo think tho fact that wo have enjoyed f6r several years an intimate acquaintance with tho Principal to gether with the fact that for six years wo ourself swayed tho birohon scepter, slionld entitle us to speak on this subject ex cathedra. And wo foci wifo in saying that, there is no hotter school anywhere* in this por tion of the State. Col. Ramsay is not only a man of profound learning in the classics, Mathematics, Belle Lotters and tho sciences, hut wedded to a happy faculty of imparting in struction, 1m possesses a mind en riched with spoils from ovory pro vince in the Republic of Literature, which enables him to hreatho vitali ty and interest and sweetness into his refutations, to eliminate much of tho grim monotony from ordinary school work and to give that broad and rc- llncd cult ure which can novor, novor como from text-hooks and text-hook knowledge alone. Lot thoso parents thou who wish their children educa ted think of these things. Lm ukss Him., Oct. 1st, 1878. Ed. Post: Steam power, water power and al most ovory other power can in some way ho measured—except the power of tho press. . That is an enormous power, which is almost unlimited and immeasura ble, either for good or evil, accord ing to tho manner in which it is used. It is a groat bond-light leadimg a long train of readers into a happy state of civilization, enlightenment and morality; or it is an “ignis fut- n«8, M leading them along through tho hedges and by-ways of life into false doctrines, prejudice, envy, mal ice and all kinds of corruption. Or it may ho that dull, still, phospho rescent light, which is without lustre or warmth, giving neither virtue to its readers nor profit to its proprietor. It is the watchman upon the tower, ami the guardian <■!' all \ inue. The other powersmentioned, when confined are of no value. The pow er of the press when circumscribed by a timid or cowardly leader is equally _ impotent. Steam or water power put in mo tion by an unskilful operator is far more likely to do harm than good. Tho leader »f tho press if ho bo un skilful, giving a “serpent for a fish, or a stone for broad,” or being too timid to give his readers anything but “soft senior,” bowing to the “Baal" of public clamor is equally likely to do more harm than good. Or ho may, like the phosphorescent light, ftgjtd none, cheer nmio ? pficonSg age none, condemn none; hut by his cold, unchccrful, dull style, drive oif his readers to more cheerful columns. It is not our intention to insinuate, proscribe or criticise our local press, ft is yet in its infancy and is worthy of much commendation for ita rapid advancement. But if we cun put tip a finger-board for it that our people may he aroused to the grievous ne cessity of relieving our morally- blighted community of the great evil incubus hanging over it; then our object is obtained. Fifteen or twenty years ago cld Laurens stood the peer of any county in the State for morality, sound pol itics and a law-abiding people gener ally. A new generation, almost entirely, has grown tip since our ad vent. flow docs it compare with the old one just passed away? Where arc the peers of tho Tronps, Block- sh curs, Hamptons, Stanleys, Yopps, Robinsons, Guytons, Thomases and and a host of othersY I ask the sad question, rlo wo live in a day of de generation? Go Mr. Editor to tho criminal docket of that day and compare it with tho prosont exliubcrunt volume. Tlion a crimo of magnitude was a rare occurrence, and when it did Occur it was met with prompt pun ish mont, both logally mid morully by tho virtue of such solid men as lived iu that day. To-day our docket is flush with charges of the State against evil-doers for crimes of nlmsot ovory grade. It is horriblo to know that any circumstance should arise to incar cerate white females—that to-day the walls of our jail echo the groans of an old lady in her dotage, tho wails of a young one in her primo.ago and the pitiful erics of an innocent .babe upon her breast. Let ui? not from falso pride veil those things from our sight. They aro spread to tho world through the press. Our community is under a* cloud. Wo aro in moral darkness. Lot tho light of tlio press pour forth its unerring rays upon the law-break ers, and lot tho withering gaze of an onlightonod, virtuous public frown them down, and out of our conlmti- nity, for they can no more hear Ibis, than can tho poojgmitj&r the frowns of tlib Saviour to tlio great day of His wrath. Oh trio. A South Carolina Statesman in Distress. Tho editor of tho Yew York World has received tho following from a South Carolina statesman: Kali: I'm a man of cullnh, find a pohtisliun by trade, lately from do Souf. As sieh, I find myso’f out o’ business, and address you as do lead in’ Democrat. As do Republicans is done gone up and busted, I want to know if you Democrats want to hire a good likely cullahed pnsson in a politikul capacity of enny kind. If so, I’m open to offers. I was former ly a member of do Souf Caroliny Legislator when said Stato was ruled by our race. I kin givo references ns to knraotev ns sieh, and beg t> offer my friends, Ex-Guvoncr Cham berlin and Mr. Kinipton, also ex- Congrossmun Bowon. Me and him has frequently slept together and in the sumo bod—politikul and other wise. Tho Republicans m now gittin’ rather vulguh and down in do heel, and I for ono has resolved to loavo ’em. References exchanged. Please let nto hoar from you, ns my board is now unpaid sovoral days mid I want a job. Political principals is sub ordinate and inferior to bcof and bread. Yours to order, John Nicodemus. LOCAL LEGISLATION. Wo clip the following from nu ex change: “Under our now Constitution, if you want any loeul legislation doue, you must draw your bills and have them advertised thirty days before the meeting of the Legislature, so the peoplo may know what they aro, uud be able to determine whether they will approve or opposo their pas-age.” England is on tho ovo of war with Afghanistan. Gov. Rice 1ms refused to file Gov. Hampton’s letter, published in an other column, and returned it. Bah! THE WIVES or MEMPHIS. The editor of the Memphis Av alanche has given a mournful picture of that city, moved to indignant complaint by a statement laid to have been made in Boston by cer tain Memphian visitors who assert that the reports of distress at the South are groatly exaggerated. Ac cording to tlio Avalanche, thehap- less city has lost 1,200 of its people in the course of twenty-seven days, out of a population of 15,000. It lias 3,000 sick men, women and chil dren, and is spending ovor §20,000 a day in the employment of 1,200 nnr- scs and forty doctors, and in supply ing medicines for those stricken with the plague and food for those left destitute by its ravages. Within these distinctly drawn outlines let the imagination crowd together what images of physical! and mental suf fering, self-sacrifice, cowardice, sel fishness and Christian heroism it may, and, wo arc assured, the lurid horrors of the fancy will remain une qual- to the grim reality. In the oftico of tho Avalanche there are only two men loft out of all that wero employed there a month ago, aud they move about among stran gers. “Fear sits on ovory face,” says this writer, “and dread on ovory heart. We work, not in tho slind- dow but in the very face of Death. We meet him on every hand and at ovory moment in the homes of his victims and in tho desolation ho lias spread about us.” But it is not our design’to mako an abstract of the want and woo and misery depioted in the Avalanche so much as to quote a sin gle sentence in the account of those who have played tho coward and thoso who lntYe dono their duty. This is the verdict of tho yellow touch-stone that has tried human na ture so sorely: “Parents lmvo deser ted children and children parents, husbands, their wives, hut not one wifo a husband.” This simple sen tence ought to make amends for many of the sneers at women which tho newspapers dispense so freely. It does not mean, of course, that all or even a majority of parents, chil dren and husbands lmvo boon false, hut that, while not a fe\y of them lmvo shirked their duties, no wife Ims turned veereypt, It is nil \well enough to say .in explanation of *r\ch a fact that the sick-room is a wo man’s sphere and that nature 1ms given the sex a light foot, a minister ing lmml, a sympathetic heart and something of the physician’s courage in encountering suffering and danger in shapes peculiarly terrible; hut this is a mercy to urgo that women are good nurses. Grant that women aro more at home in attending the sick and less disgusted with tho circum stances surrounding sickness than men, is tho little matter of uwkward- noss or squoatnislmess worth taking- in to account in tlio presence of such an evil as the yellow fever? When all lessor considerations of convenience sink in the great question of lovo, loyality and readiness to encounter danger wo must go farther tlmn more adaptability to tho cares qf tho sick chamber to oxphr'n the fact which tho Memphis editor 1ms alleged in favor of wives. Lot us frankly con- cedo to woman in this supremo oalm- ity a superiority in the sentimonts os well as tho offices of lovo and self- sacrifice, since this deduction which wo have quoted can hardly be the phraso of idlo compliment. That physicians und- clergymen should lmvo laid down thoir lives in tho per formance of their duty; that Sisters of Chuirity should lmvo moved about with their usual serenity in tho pos- tilenco; that warm-hearted philan thropists should lmvo thrown them selves into the infected districts to fight tho fever—all this was to be ex pected, for the heroes and heroines of professions, creeds or sentiments aro never wanting at a great crisis. But, this declaration of tho Southern journalist deals with tho ordinary mass of peoplo, und not with tho ex- ceptional few who offer themselves up us martyrs, and assert tlmt among all tho wives of tho city—white or black, good or bad, ignorant or re fined—not ono lms forsaken a hus band attacked by iho fever; in a word, tlmt tho women of Memphis rose to a high level of heroism in tho hour of overwhelming ovil. It has been said of the sox throughout the tho country that they have within the past few years exhibited a certain frivolity aud extravagance, a earo- lessuess of the pressure of the times, a disposition to forget the part of helpmeet to man and a-sumo the role of social idol, an inclination to restgh the prr&ligo of beihg\the light of; a single household fob/the sake of shining as tho ; star of .a fash- ionable company. it rneroiy an error of the imagination on the jiart of the cynics who made this-'tritic- ism that the divorce suits seemed multiplying in our courts, that scan dal cases appeared to be growing so common that the matrimonial knot seemed to be considered as a noose to he slipped for convenience, not a tie that only death could loosen? How ever these things may be, this trib ute from Memphis brings a revela tion of tho true womanhood of the country that makes mere prose out of Scott’s wcll-tvorn lines: "0 woman! in our hours of ease, Unccrlain, coy and hard to please, And variable as, die shade By the light quivering aspen made;. When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!”—JV. T. World. THE WORLD FOR 1879. special" offer THE NEW YORK Weekly World, AN ElGIIT-PAdE NEWSPAPER, Will be sent (postage prepaid) From Now Until January 1,1879 FOR THUN* CEHTS. C2F“27<w* Special Offer is made to enable the /Southern people to see for thcmselccs ln/w good a paper THE WORLD is and how worthy it is of their support. On the 1st of May, 1870, the ownership and control of THE WORLD passed into the hands of the undersigned, under whose absolute nnd untrammelled direction TIIE WORLD has ever since remained and now remains. During (lie whole of this time THE WORLD has labored patiently and per- sevcringly for the accomplishment of two great objects in politics of paramount inter est to the Southern people. I. The restoration of Local Self-Govern ment at (lie South. II. A Real Reform of the Civil Service, in such wise as to destroy the political ma chines under the operation of which it has come to pass that the people are taxed to support political parties, whereas political parties have no other reason of being except to lessen the burdens of government. Tho lirst of these objects has been tri umphantly accomplished. All intelligent Northern men now admit that all parts o: the country were as deeply interested as the South in seeing it won. A corrupt and aiiti-Dodiocratic g-veriihient in the South was a permanent peril to the a eon- dom-.y of true Auuvrteau principles in the Federal Government aud therefore to tin peace and honor of the whole jniople. The second political object fqr which THE WOULD contends still remains to be fully achieved. The actual Administration began its career with excellent promises in this direct ion of which it is sufficient to say that they have been as yet only in part re deemed. THE WORLD for its part will resolutely support any honest effort to re deem these fully, by whomsoever made, and will as resolutely denounce every ob stacle thrown in tho way of redeeming them, from wliate; er quarter. It seems to the undersigned eminently proper that he should ask the co-operation of the best men of the South with THE WORLD in its efforts to carry out the pol icy hero outlined. He believes THE \Y ORLD to be a paper which Southern citizens and Democrats can recommend to Southern readers as an influence worthy nnd important to be brought to hour with constantly increasing power upon the con duct of our national affairs, in the interest of truth, of justice nnd of harmony among our peoplo of all sections. It is my desire to keep TIIE WORLD in a living relation with the hast thought of the South, to the cud that the best ideas, wishes nnd feelings of the Southern peo ple may lie clearly and fairly made known to the North, the East and the West. Alike in private nnd in public affairs the misun derstanding of men by one another lies at the root of so much evil tlmt the word itself lms come to be a synonym with quar reling ami strife. It was a wise saying of Lord Elgin, nt the time of one of our sharp est disputes with Great Britain, that two intelligent gentlemun alone on n raft in the Atlantic with plenary powers could adjust tin? whole matter honorably in an hour. THE WORLD simply asks its friends nt the South to aid it in bringing about a complete meeting of minds on all public questions between the Intelligent citizens .of all parts.of the Union. WUitilAM IIkxry IIvrmicrt. TERMS: THE WEEKLY WORLD. 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Addition to club lists may be made at anv lime in the year at the above rates. Specimen copies, posters, &c.. sent free, wherever nnd whenever desired. Address all orders to “THE WOULD,” 35 Park Row, New York. octO-St. ‘ 1878. 1878. J. B. WOLFE 5 TVn TVM ti.j’ - -• ■ ;J ’^Sm. - C 5-eorgia. FALL AND WINTER GOODS NOW COMING IN. THE LARGEST AND BEST STOCK EVER BEFORE OFFERED .;4<f TO HI8 CUSTOMERS. Xj acii© s 3 Dress G-oods, /, ’ , ' . • i .ti r —v;-L<yf Hosiery and Rations of Endless] Variety a:ul Style. s - \ tun t Clothing to Suit Every Class And Tage. • ' ■ Boots, . ' " '. Shoes und , < Hats for Gents ladies and children. " ' • »t niV Shirting, sheet’#, bleccli- A;. Aw ing checks jeans and cassimeres. i.; Hardware and Tin, Cutlery and edged Tools, Crockery and Glass ware, Family mod- icincs and Family Groceries; Bagging and Ties, Flour of best quality aud cheapest price. Salt, Flour and Bacon bought by the car-load, and customers al lowed the ^benefit in prices. Ginsj Engines, Mills, Sewing Machines, Starke’s Dix ie Plows, and all sorts of Ma chinery sold on commis sion and my friends can bity from mo with- w out tlio trou ble and ex pense of goincr to market themselves. Eveiy- thiug I sell in this line, I war rant to give satisfaction, both as to G^TxalLl.-tiy axi-cL W“cxr\3s:.. AGENT FOR Soluble Pacific and Chesapeake Guanos. To all I beg to say that the rale of my business is: Honest Goods, Honest Prices, Honest Denlings, Courtesy und Good Will to all my customers. TO “LIVE AND LET LIVE” Has always been my Motto. Call and Bee fos? Yourselves AXD BE COEVJNCED. tJT'Tlie Trading Public have my tlianks for a liberal si litre of trade in tlic Past,- - I ask a contiuuunco iu the Future for our mutual good. Jo oel 2-3m Jrb. wolfe: M A A S & B R O TIIE li, —DEALERS IX— G-EZsrEI^_A.X J 3VCERQ3B:^3Sr3I)XBEI COCHBAFGA. We have just Received from No"' York and the Eastern Markets, The Largest and Best Selected Stock Ever Brought to this Section, aud which will be sold at prices Wo invite tho Public to Cull and See us, as it is no trouble to Show- Goods. Planters will do well to price at our House before buying else where.. Ottr Motto: To Please and Suit Everybody. We Guarantee all Goods as Represented. * MAAS & BRO. COCHRAN Sept. 18-3m. GEORGIA. NewFirm! New Goods LOW PRICES. Haines & Snell, WRIGHTS YIL LE, GA. We aro pleased to announce to the Pul* lie that we have just opened a well selected -Stock of-— General Merchandise Which we are selling at • DEPOT PRICES We are offering spccinl inducements to those who wish to buy BACON, FLOUR, * SUGAR, COFFEE, CHEESE, SALT, BAGGING, TIES, &c., &e. We givo Bargains in Dry Goods, Domestics,and Ready Made Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, &c., &c., &e. Highest prices paid for Cotton aud all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE. HAINES & SNELL, WRIGHTSVILLE, - - - - - GA. oct 23m LATEST IMPROVED AND BEST Family Sewing Mach’n. The PHILADELPHIA has all tho latest improvements, and is ntado of tho very best materials, using a long, large, easily-threaded shuttle. In a word, it is THE Sewing Machine for Family usp. Large, Strong nnd Light running. Fully warranted in every particu lar, and retails for TWENTY FITE DOLLARS and upwards. Address, Philadelphia Sewing Machine Co No. 144 N: Seventh Street, Philadelphia, Pa, ang 21-ly