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WrWfrVwrl THE POST. WEDNESDAY, I)KO. 4. 1878. R. L. HICKS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. IP. P. Hick* ik the regular agent for the POST in Johnmm eonntg, nnthorked to re- trice HiiliH-ription*, rceriptfor the name, and to make, rout wets for tuMtiMng. AU dm* should be paid to him. U»u<t nml Whiskey Laws. Tlio following letter, which we received u few days ago, cuntniitH Htich «mml and catholic views, and withal so aptly pilt, that wc take tho liberty to pnldinh it. Laurens Hill Nov. 25, 1878. Mr. Hicks, Dear Sir: 1 wend by Mr. ICilhitu $1.50, pay for paper. I am with you on tho foml question. 1 concur fully with tho views net forth in the Post. In udditioii to tho arguments you have advanced in favor of letting out the public roads to bo worked by con tract# let mo give you a dot or two more. The'raid duties under the prciscnt. system hour very unequally ti|K)n the people in certain localities. I give oho imitaueo out of many: in llurvunls (list.., tho road from Laur ens Hill across Rocky crock in the direction of Cochran, is a very hard raid to keep tip, and requires from threo to Bix thus work to put it in good order. In tho next (list,, (Hinson's) the road is sandy and comparatively love! throughout tho (list., and tho hands are ne«’er re quired to work more lhau one day In each year and sometimes not ho much as that. It is not fair for one not of men to work six days for the public mid another sot only one day or Icbh. On tho liquor question that is now before tho people of this county. 1 can say this,—no kind of legislation etui restrain a man from imbibing who is fond of alcoholic stimulants. If wo keep him from solacing liitn- Btilf ut a tippling shop ho will drink at homo, which is worse, for it an noys his wife, doraugos his business, mid demoralizes every body on the place, lie Imd much bettor go to tho grog-shop mid take |i spree among “birds of a feather.” It re quires extraordinary moral firmness to resist temptation once t ho habit of taking a social glass lias been imlul god m. Rut legislatioi. can never give a man moral tirmness, or make him hotter, we muse work at hi* heart. I am in favor of free trade and Stato rights and sailors’ rights uml woman's rights mid nil other rights oxeept the right to open a shop at every cross roads to tnittio with negroes for produoo. It mat- tors not whether the shop is tilled with whiskey and tobacco or calico and crackers, it is the trafficking bus- iniiss I oppose, because I believe it encourages theft, and where whis key is kept the business is car ried on in its most aggravated form. No man in my opinion has the light to do unything which endangers the peace and property of the eoiunmni- ty in which he lives—-a man dares not set tiro to his own house if it endan gers tho property of others, and the sumo rule might apply to athoi things as well as tiro. Very Respectfully. .1. M. White, DICING IN ANOTHER J-U-G! The llrst Miracle Mustered into Service to Sustain the Truffle in Whiskey. III HUN Cl a., Nov. 30. 1878. Editor Vost: The resolutions offered by Dr. llicks on the 5th iuftt, in tho muss meeting hold at tho court house in Dublin, Laurens county, to prohibit the sulo of liquor in said county, and the elaborate essay written bv Esto in its favor have elicited a few thoughts from the nndei'sigued which ho has hastily thrown together. lam opposwl to the resolution from prmoipU*, and. while 1 shall endeavor to sustain myself by showing eonelu study tho error of the resolution and tho inevitable injury which, should it over go into effect, would follow. I mi not at all nit enemy to tom- jH-niiKV or its advocates. It is sheer folly to prosumo that any man should sell liquor from tho more fact that he fools it his right or his liberty to do so, without expecting some rortmner- utiou from such sale. Rut strenuous arguments luivo boon used to show that the use or traffic in liquor is a crime of equal heinousucss with ob scene or vulgar language to females. This is fully answered by reference to the fact tluu the same Author, that on one extraordinary occasion con verted water Into wine, did not at any time advise or encourage any one to use vulgar or obscene language to either mules or females., or by any precept or example show him that lie, mortal man, hud the moral l ight to do so. Indeed, it is too late for ns to stop tho traffic in tiny commodity whore it hu- been established for lo, these thousands of years, and where, too, the very idea has been instilled in every mind that its use is a liberty which every man lms a right to en joy. Every nation of the earth has delegated toils subjects the privilege of this traffic, with tjiiffo or less re striction, and to stop this right would he setting up u despotism intolerable and unprecedented. The great tend ency of tho age is to liberty of thought and action, both mental and moral. •Society is differently constituted from wliut the investigations of E*m> have shown it to be, and will never sub mit to the prohibition of the sale of liquor. A few persons rtiiiy unite and stop t he sale and even the use of stimulants for u short time, a corpo rate body, even a comity may suspend it; but history has shown the last political, tinunciul and moral condi tion of that body prohibiting or at tempting to prohibit such sale to be worse than the first. Tho plan suggested to improve the morals of a people, to-wit; by remov ing whiskey from their midst, is a fruitless one, and toads to do more injury than good. Wlntt moral sua sion will uot do for tho heart never eun be done by force. Would you improve tho condition of Mr. Giles by telling him he should abandon bis malicious course ? Would you make a thief morally bettor by tying hn hands so he could not steal ? Nav, if we would improve our fellow-man and make better citizens wo will do it. by the small voice. We are taught that heaven is peopled with those who have right and wrong sot before llioiu alike, and that it never was in tended for those who had to be iin prisoned to keep them from eHfne. Rut, aside, it is a question of pub- lie weal that Karo is interested in. and I ho innteriul prosperity of the county—not Dublin, it being no part thereof—not of a few sinful, “unscrupulous whiskey sellers,” not of those who chanced to holiovo with those seltish speakers on the 5th iust. that tho sale of liquor was and i AWAY WITH THE POISON! How the Whiskey Bill is Kogard- e<l by the People of Johnson Where the Prohibition Law has been in Force several years. WniuimviLLE Johnson Co. Ua., November 21st, 1878. Editor Post:. You calf on the citizens of our county to enlighten yon. so far as our experience goes, on the difference between u licensed liquor selling and an anti liquor selling community I do not expect to give you much light on the subject, only so far as it has operated in the county of John son. Four or five years ago, when Judge Johnson was appointed to the Bench ot the Middle Circuit, liquor selling and liquor drinking were in full blast in this county, and we had amongst ns auv number of bclligcr- nnts who could knock down, drag out and demolish any amount of op position, and could pitch into one another with a forty-wild-cat power, and feared no noise During Judge Johnson’s first term of the Court lie filled the jail full of those heroes, so that one of iheiir number, who bad taken on himself the title of ‘'■Boss of the Hotel,” scut a message to tho .Judge stating “that lie hail as many boarders us bo hud room for, and that lie need not send any more of them to his hotel, as they were already too much crowded for the good of their health.” So much for the use of spirit uous liquor. After this, wc commenced war on the whiskey traffic and continued it. until we abolished the trade in John son comity, since which t ime we have pence and order during elections, courts and all otjicr gatherings of the people. The jail stands toimnl less, and, best of all, tlio people express themselves well pleused with the change. Even the old topers say they could not be induced to consent to the re-establishment, of tho trntfic. I could name sc oral who formerly belonged to the class of belligcrimts mimed above, ivbo, while under the nfluencc of liquor, were outrageously noisy, turbulent, overbearing anil cross; so much so that they were con sidered dangerous, and their friends wero fjreq non tty »»t g.w t mu bin to. keep them from doing or receiving mischief. Those men are now peace able and orderly citizens, ure highly rosjiected citizens and lmvo not been intoxicated or sworn a profane oath in two or throe yours, and as drink ing was their only failing, they are now living in pence with tlioir neigh- bora. Is not this worth somethin/ ? Blit some will object to putting down benollciai to the county, but of the* the liquor trade, because they say it whole country. If so, why turn all the local trade to other markets,, and livest the county of. its sli.iro of both public and privuto tiimncos. See. for instnueo, the county wlioro the sale of liquor has been abolished, and wo witness a continual tloiv of money from thence into other treasuries, ami soon the very men who procured its abolition become disgusted at see ing their wisdom so far outstripped, and at seeing the artful agencies em ployed to ovudo the law. The igno rant become imputjent nml tend all the time to impair tho society in which they live. Yet, appeals are being mode still for more legislation, because of a worse condition of the county, worse citizens, worse in eve ry particular, more corruption, more expenditures, uml, at tho same time, every act of legislation increases this trouble, every tux adds one hundred per oonL to its price, and two hun dred jK»r cent, to the poison and art ifice used in its preparation. More anon, PHOENIX. An exchange notes the fact that the lowest prices at which cotton lms- sold in this country during the last fifty years was in the spring of 1845, when it was as low os four cents per pound. Tho highest price paid for it,* during the same period was one dollar and ninety cents, in 1804. It sold ns high os fifty-two cunts, however, for good money, 1800. “Did the minister put a stamp on you xvheu you married, Mary?” “A stamp, Charlie! What for pray?” “Why, matches ain’t legal with out a stamp you know!” One false step, ono wrong habit, one oorruiit com]union, ono 1«hw>o principle, may wreck all your pros poets, and all the ho|tcs of those who love, honor, and regard yon. abridges their right to drink. Our people have that right and they exer cise it. Some keep it in their houses and use it as lliey please, but do uot molest others with it, and there hay boon cases where it has been eliiu- dostincly sold here, but such eases will occur uny where unless wane pains are taken to detect and bring the offenders to justice. And now, 1 suppose you hav • seen that wo think we have bonofitted by tho abolition of the liquor traffic. That is just what we think ; and we also think wo have a right to claim of you that you abolish it also. Our oitizons would be content to do with out tho poisonous liquid, but for few of those hells set up in your county on the line of Johnson, wlioro death is retailed to our citizens, and wlioro they are iudueed to meet and drink, quarrel, fight und shoot que another. As 1 said above, wo claim it. of you that yon should abolish the traffic in intoxicating drink, and thereby rid us and yourselves of its evils, the evidences of which, I uni sorry to say, you have inside the walls of your juil. * J.vcon Junior. Laurens Hill, Nov. 28, 1878. Ed. Post: For some time ii has been a desire of some of our jieoplo to try the ex pertinent of working the roads by contniot ami taxation. Before one makes this change the matter should bo well Considered and thoroughly discussed. No one will deny that our system as at present operated falls fur short of filling the requisition of the pn* lie, and very fur short of complying with the present road law. The law now gives road commis sioners authority to oolleet fines to the amount of $3,00 |ier day for every day a defaulter fails to work, when notified. They can sell any thing lie has or put him in jail for the debt, or for contempt if yon please. The road overseer is enti tled to one half of tiie. tine money. he overseer cun call upon the Or dinary for mattocks or picks, and he bound to furnish them at the ex pense of the county. Blit instead of this or snlwtitutiug pair of mules for a half dozen bunds, we see them trying to dig bard clay with their flexible cotton hoes, ai d putting poles across the oads and pine straw in inudholes as i specimen of their ^engineering skill. Fun you mane a law any stronger for collecting taxes than this one for collecting fines. Both arc the same one sense. There i3 nothing lacking in the main iu the present law. The trouble is in not having executed. This lies in the power of the commissioners who arc subjoct to a tine of five hundred dollars for failing to do their duty. But who is going to prosecute them ? That is the duty and privihge of any citi zen of the county, Commissioners and overseers are about as far from doing their duty as the hands. Flense tell me how yon are going lo collect a fine out of a fellow if -oil can’t got n days work out of him, with the jail door staring him in the face and the jailor at bis back. If you pass that law, for thi< community the bands mostly who now do the work will pay ho taxes and it will work a hardship upon those who do. although you.. make it a per capita tax. It will and docs work well m enmities where there is a largo city or town population containing many non-laborera. But it will not work well for our county. If you would see bow road con tracts would work out for our peo ple, look at that thousand dollar contract on the Telfair road, and see bow nice u thing it was, and what a sacrifice to the tax payors. Our ]Kfoplo would drop such a law as quick us they did the County Board which was a most thorough representative body, but it was ahead of the uppreoiati.ni of our people, by ut lntivl •>«'.. gvn«rutiuil!i. Let the road officers under the present law do their duty and we will have good roads, which is a save index of mi intelligent people. The roiul law was a few years ago thoroughly investigated by a special com mi.too of our legislature with a view to change. But after much discussion uml elucidation it was decided that it could not be well amended. 1 think a change would be well to allow it optional for a citizen to give labor or money. If a man don’t choose to work lot. bun Send up to the overseer §1.00 every morning at roll call and let him pay it over to the county treas urer through tho ordinary under oath These arc simply the views of Critic. A Cruel and Unnatural Mother— She Hides Her Babe Iu a Brush Pile and Leaves it. Johnson Items. [.Ilaiekinsrille Di*pa/eh.J On Tuesday morning last as a col ored man was coming into Hawkins- villcou the Iliiyiieville road, lie heard faint cries of a babe issuing from n pile of brush and leaves in a little field inside the corporation. The man got over the fence, removed the brush aud discovered a young babe, apparently born but a few hours, wrapped in some old rags. The man took the babe and brought it to the court house in Hawkiusville, when the sheriff, county judge and clerk were notified of the occurrence. Steps wore at once tuken to find the mother of the infant. A yonng colored woman, Lcttie Mayo, was suspected of being the mother, and Mr. Thos L. Camitfiors, couuty court buliff, wok entrusted with the duty of finding her mul as certaining tlio facts of the case. Mr. Carruthers took the babe in his bug gy and proceeded to the plantation of Capt. R. \Y. Anderson, where the woman was found at the house of her mother. When the woman was shown the .babe she appeared pleased took it to her bosom and nursed it. She gave no reason for her lack of motherly care for her offspring. Buck From California. Flunk Merritt bus returned from California, whither ne went a year or two ago to join his father, Mr. Simon Merritt, who left lluwkius- ville for tho West some nine years ago. Frank says he likes California very well, but he likes Georgia bet ter. He left California aiiout two weeks ago, and up to that time be lmd not seen a drop of rain since last December. Tlie lands are irrigated, and flue crops are made. There were about five thousand sheep and several hundred head of cattle upon tho ratiche upon which lie was en gaged. The slice]) were watered from a well eight hundred feet deep, a steam engine being used to pump the water out of the well into a large tank. The trees, gardens and yards were watered from this tank. Ditches are out through the farm? and the crops are watered friun mountain streams. When ho left California grapes, pears and utlici traits were, in abundance, grupe.- elling for ono cent per pound. Only gold and silver are used, there being no greenbacks. Nothing smaller than ten cent pieces are used in change. Wool was so cheap there lust season that some stock men would not shear their sheep, a t tin price would not pay for the labor The Chinese ure looked upon a - a low, degraded race of beings, ties titute of virtue, intelligence and honesty. They work cheap, live cheap, and whenever one dies, hi. bones are returned to China.— Haudeinsvilie Dispate?). Whooping cough is raging in and around Wriglitsville. Dr. ,T. W. Flanders’s little son, (lassie has been very sick but is some better. Lit Mo Moll ic Smith, daughter of Mr. W. Jf. M. Smith died of whoop ing cough last Wednesday morning. Mrs. Smith luis been very sick over since. Hog cholera has made its appear ance again iu t his county. Capt. Kent raised this year 390 bushels of corn on fifteen acres of pine land With cue handful of cotton seed to the bill. He also ims a cot ton stalk nine feet and nine inches clear of the root. Mrs. Mary A. Childs and family, of Macon county, are visiting friends and relatives iu Johnson county at his time. If a fellow wants his hands well shaken and his pockets tilled with grouudjKXis, now is the time. Mr. Hodges Snell mid Miss Net tie Per vis daughter of Rev. J. B. Pen is wero married last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bradshaw, are rejoicing over a tine girl, which we forgot to mention last week. Mr. Ephraim Turner, Ja$|ier Sweat aud Samuel Hammock are candida tes for coroner in Julinson county. J. E. Hicks Esq. of Mt. Vernon, I was in Wrightevillo last Friday. [ The doctors report very little siek- I no.* iu Johusou county at this time. W. J. SCARBROUGH & CO, B A It ROOM, ZD-p-Tplim., G-eo, Keep always well supplied with Aurora Beer, WINES LIQUORS AND CIGARS Also a good assortment of Family Groceries, tYhich they will sell at prices to suit the time*. Give them a will. je20. If. Affcrover twenty years experience in 1 he LIQUOR BUSINESS, On the comer of the Court House Square, ready to serve all who want to purchalo nil r- thing in my line. I keep always on hand' a tuff stock of ALL KINDS OF LIQUORS. r ANU r S“t?_ HiOTiLis ! on draught. Also a line stock of ( :ri e'/t Family All at which I offer to sell Ml * Ckea*» fos-Cash.';:; 1 ’ Give me a trial and he convinced. Tam in** ,,!1> Agent for the : •' 7 “OLD TALLEY WHISKEY.’ " i<! 2 °- (f - T. P. SAKctiErr. ' II (Neariy opposite Passenger M!G © S5, ^ J! ‘ TERMS PER DAY.. , SINGLE MEALS...,....' FIR,ST-CLASS itOTEL I» in perfect jrder in all its nrnimre V menls, and llie most convenient of un/i„ " tlie city, being only lOOytirflsfrdin the G senger Depot otliee, where m e always . 'ft - *•*'•*« m» liiqiq, 'I.-/ 1 have made Mich improvements ns *«> 1 'i enable me to accommodate all wl," „, v J, ■ l>lcn.s<*<l lo srivd tin n null AT„ V n A ! >W plonk’d to fAyii us a call MvSt nsirood ns the fn’m ...... . ri yh^ll,Jiq,, f asgood as the fare ofanyhouse in'‘the and my terms reasonable. - - The Strubing House. TOOMSBORO GA. 0. H. L. STRI DING Proprietor Thanking the Public for their libe ral patronage m the past I respectfully «»k a contiuuance. of the same. My house Is near the Depot and first-class' in all its appointments. Good Conveyance always in readiness to accommodate the Travelling Public who may wish lo go from Tooinslioro to Dublin or any other point. R. M. ARNAU, Scientific Blacksmith. Southeast Corner Public Square. AU work done warranted to please or no charge. BUGGY WORK A SPECIALTY KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND A Fisk Assortment of Plows --ALSO— THE CELEBRATED ARNAU SWEEP Which is superior lo any plow of the k id made in this couutry. With thauks for past favors, wc solicit the continuance of the same. , jo 20, ly T.P.SARCfiETT. I t, and Hotter myself that I know a little alamt md wish to inform the public that I s:it AT MY OLD STAND f tO f The National liotel, 75ets dT - Call and try if E. C. CORBETT. Proprietor. • •' ’ / i i, i W. F. GlaFFCKEfa, . ; Buggy Buildmt/ aud Repairing done lo Orihr. All work entrusted to me ■ • •* -. i * ’■ .j-f A eatli/ and Promptly eitecuted a/ pri~ com to suit (he fi‘metP >tm ^/iirph)ii‘tdinth■ : cast corner (unit House Square. Call and see. jiuie 20, ly ARE YOU DRY? If r o, go to see Wasli Baker, at his first-ela s balobn on Beech St „ where he keepc couhtantly on baud, smd lor sale, >\ uiCh, W hiskeys, Brandies Beer, • . Uider, C'hampugiic, And in fact, everything iu the shape of J/ujUu. h aud Drinks lo be found iu a fii st ela: s .jidoou. ALSO , 'TOBACCO, CIGAliS ETC, ... Give n.e t.-util i.i:d j on slu.il l.c «< i v uc «l. W-A&R BA'KKR, • ■ Sept. 18-tf. Cwt i Kv.\ • .A. . ■HE WHITE SEWING MACHINE THE BEST OF AU. ! ‘ Unrivaled in Appearance, Unparalleled in Simplicity, Unsurpassed in Construction, : £i Unprecedented in Popularity, And Undisputed in the Broad Claim OF BEINQ THC VERY BEST OPERATWQ . QUICKEST SELLING, * HANDSOMEST, ABO Host Perfect Sewing Haohine IN THE WORLD. While has increased h» aocfc •nexientthatwQ are now compelled to turn cut *^* Sc-wriaa-er njuracvht-rmt e-^re=-- tlirco ar.lr.-v.toa laa. . r ;, payments, to suit the convenience ot customers. *3^61X13 vma r.i raoccwna naanoxT. MUTE SEWING MACHINE CO., . » 358 Euclid Are., Cleveland, Ohio. nov, iu