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1 1 - 1 ■ TX3ZE POST. ~W BDIf I5BD AY. I) E( !• 1 m7 187R a. L. HICKS, EDITOR .VNI) PROPRIETOR. !K. /*, //(fcJfc* i* the regular agent for th f !‘tST in John non eounty, authorized to re- t'-ivt nnhoerli>ti»nn, reeeiyt for the mine, and 11 nuke, rantrneU for ndtcrtUlng. AU due* u'nnld he mid to him. Negro Siitl'nigo Threatened. Wiion tlio question of giving the (fight of suffrage to the liberated f>!.ivc< of the South was being ugita- < • I in the North immediately after t'm war, there wore far-seeing Htates- liimin the Uopnhhcan party who o.iposed it for various reasons, but n duly on the ground that they fore- a i.v such a stop would result in in- twa-iiiig the delegation of the South* 0 ii Domoorimy in Congress. They k »ew tlmt the intelligence, thrift s! id manhood of the South would i mor or later assort its supremacy over the carpetbag rule of Radical* iiiU. They knew that the social ;i/j*amid could not long bo made to s.and upon its apex. Hut the covin- xels tit tlic wise were not listened to I: that day of revolutionary and un- c mstitiiti uml proceedings. The L jjmblicuii party was led then as h >w bv its worst mon, and under 1 heir lead the Fourteenth and Fif teenth amendments were embodied i v the Constitution. It was a bitter pill to the South, but she was gagged u.vl forced to swallow it. Hoeing til it we could not resist it, wo deter mined to make tlio bust of it, coll uding ourselves with the belief that i .'to time would soon come when the li 'publicans would rue the day they f cued the measure upon Us. That ti.no line now come, and us often predicted, the Radical party is mak- v tg an effort to take from l ho nogro his right to vote. On I ho Dth instr iilvpio made a long and elaborately prepared speocli looking to this end, i-'he principal point in his speech was to show t hat the white man of the South—the man who fought in t ho rebel army has more than twice ns much influence in the govern iiottt as the Northern man, who f night to sustain the union, lie cliowod that it only takes 00,000 .sitemen iu Georgia or Alabama to c.ad a. moniker to Congress, whereas i i New York or Pennsylvania it ro- <; .ires IBs},000. It is said that the negroes will be i ulueed to hold a convention and a<k tlmt their autfrugo he taken away, in 4# much as it only adds to (lie strength of tlmir political one- odes,. Hut the negroes, having learned the value of their votes will never consent to anything of the nort, TluOiortlievii states can not oarry an iimeiidnieut to the Constitution ivithout; the concurrence of some of I !io southern stales; and nono of the tnuthorn sbites will over agree to nave itB delegation in Congress our- ,ailed by depriving the colored peo- j lo t»t the right to vote. Mount Knows the Ropes. Post master tlonoml Key has boon frying a little game of bulldozing on i ol. Blount, but said P. M. G. counted without his boat, us appears >y the following remarks from the v ..tlantn Constitution:^ “Mr. Blount controls, nt least, lemporarily, tlio postal oars of the count ry, As u member of the ap propriation ooimnittce> ho Jius ».Marge of tlio making up of the,post* oilloo appropriation bill. The post- jaaster-goueral deliberately decided to so coiiduot the ni.uvay part of the postal service us to create a doUeien- ey on ’ lmV account of nearly half a milium dollars, lie now declares that jt congress does not by tho tlrst day ».f January appropriate money to .vipo out the delloieney, ho will order iho ivmoynl of the postal tiara on nil the miliiiads. This would bo very nod indml, but Mr. Blount does not . eem to be alurmod by Mr. Key’s i limits, He Disposes to projmre’ a a defleieney bul in his own time and not at the nictation of any man in or Min of tlio office. Mr. Key’s tumbles sprang from his determination to conduct Hie service regardless of up* jiftipruitions.” Ceil. Wade Hampton’s leg was .mi* putaunl below the knee on the 10th iust, On the same day lie was elect* ted to tho Uni ml States Senate. Before the electiou took place a let* ter from < v b*v. Hampton was read rating that lie was not a candidate; ml that lie thought the ofliee one ,iuit should neither bo sought nor de clined, The Dublin Academy. The exorcises of this school will close on next Friday for a recess of two or three weeks. The school during the post term has been full, and the progress of the scholars rapid. We arc glad to learn that a project is on foot to enlarge the Academy building and'adapt it fully to the requirements of modern in struction. Such a thing ought to lie doue with all possible baste. None but teueborH of cxi»crienco know how much more effective a live toucher s work is when the school house and appliances conform to tho require ments qf the instructor’s task. A little money judiciously spent on the Acmlemy would add greatly to tho effectiveness of tho teacher’s efforts in lielmlf of the pupils, and would came hack to you with interest m the shape of a more rapid mlvunco of your children in their studies. Their education will thus lie bettor and sooner accomplished, and both time and money saved. Again, the Acad emy ought to bo enlarged to accom modate such a school us Col. Ram say’s reputation as a teacher would bring to Dublin. In the nuun time we can say to those who expect to solid their cbil- itrcn to school next year and desire to place them under tho best of in struction, tlmt no better school nan bo found in the country than the Dublin Academy. The principal is a man of profound scholarship, thor oughly versed in all tho modern methods of instruction, of deep piety arid eminently qualified, not only to give text-book instruction, but. to develop character, and inspire tlio youth under his charge with high and holy purposes in life. We clip the following two items from tho Swainsboro Ilerahl: Home weeks age, Mr. J. R. Moor ing loaned a buggy to James Wil liams, colored, alius Jam s Macon, and somo linlf dozen other names under which he travelled at pleas ure. .Williams is a blacksmith, and was to use tho buggy in travelling over tile county doing work, but was not’to carry it out of the county. After buying a horso on a credit and borrowing all the money and watches ho could got, he left the county. Mr. Mooring followed him to Waynesboro wlnnc he recovered tho buggy, after considerable trouble and expense. Mr. Mooring desires ui} to return thanks to Mr. Lovett a.id others for kindness rendered him while in Waynesboro. Wo learn that t he turpentine dis tillery located near Huininertowu was burned on Friday morning hist. Wo have not boon able to learn the particulars. Since writing the above we learn that tlio tiro was accidental, being causod by lotting off tho hot rosin into a green barrel. All the rosin and spirits were saved, only a few barrels of raw turpontino being con sumed in the blaze. The larger of tho two stills is entirely ruined. Tlio other will bo repaired. The distillery is tho property of Mr. J: II. Ayocock. Loss about, §000. Mr. R, B. 11. Walters, of Johnson county oume into our office one day lust, week and told us of u fox race he luid engaged in tlmt. was a little peculiar. The nice took place near the place of Mr. James Thompson in this county, Mr. Thompson and sou, Mr. Bralwoll Wynn and son, mid Mr. Walters following the six dogs in hot pursuit of Reynard. Tho fox was jumped about 8 o’elook on Wednesday night of last, wook, and led the hunters a lively chase for about six hours, making a circuit of t.3ii or twelve miles four successive times. The nice was close and ex citing, and several times Reynard was seen by the hunters but he was liot caught, mid our informant told ns a hunter’s tale instead of showing a fox’s tail.—Wilkinson Appeal. The city council of Atlanta an nounce their readiness to donate the grounds und build as good a capital as the one in Milledgovillo whenever the legislature demands it. The legislature udjourned on tho 13th inst. to meet again in July. HotmtorGordon nml the City of Culcha* New York World. Senator Gordon will probably lec ture in Boston during the holidays for the benefit of a charitable so ciety. How to Keep Candidate* Quiet. New York World, It 1ms always lw?en a troublesome thing for the friends of conspicuous candidates for high offices, partic ularly the Presidency, to keep their man in a condition of becoming stillness and humility until the time comes to produce them. The most effective method of treating yonr candidates "is undoubtedly• to beat him on the head until lie is insensi ble, but this is not practicable in most cases' Tt lias been found tlmt the eoneusBion necessary to keep a candidate insensible for u period of eighteen months, the average term of incubation before be can pip the shell at a nominating convention, is apt to react unfavorably upon his general health. Anaelhotics are lia ble to the same objection, and the exhibition of alcoholic stimulants is apt to defeat its own purpose by. making the man loquacious instead of reticent. Various devices have bdcii tried, one of the most, success ful being tlmt adopted in the case of Marrisom, who was secluded iujhc wilderness of Indiana before the clcctioh, supplied with hard eider and sedulously deprived of writing materials. With the increasing pop ulation und facility of communica tion this simple unil primitive meth od is no longer possible within our own borders, and a dosort island or a lonely dungeon lo which candidates for the Presidency might be consign ed at .-the moment of cardidaey and kept until the voters were counted is a want which has kmg been felt by political managers. Tho Repub lican managers have hit upon a neat and ingenious adaption of this plan in the case of General Grant. It is now generally admitted that Gener al Grant went to Europe some months too soon. Europe is a toler ably large continent, but it is not unbounded and it has not proved easy to lose General Grant in it as completely as could be wished. It is necessary to kcop a candidate hidden and yet in readiness to he at any time revealed, like a live fish in tow with a string through his, gills. General Grant has como to the sur face several times on his own account, ami floundered and gurgled concern ing the silver question and the* mil itary history of the war in a manner ealciildteirto give pain' to His friends. They are now able to send him to a region Wliere the interviewer does lfot walk at midnight, nor the delega tion swoop at midday, where his on ly companions will be incurious na val offieors and consuls who will feel tliemselvos to totter on their stools wiion ho enters tlioir offices. ITe is in no danger of h«dng drawn by those persons into injurious committals, and ho will enter into the canvass of 1880 as if he had been born at the beginning of it—a condition the most enviable which can fall to the lot of any camliddato. And all this lias bocu done without tho necessity of calling upon a .single commit,to man or a single contractor to put his lmnd in his pocket. A grateful country is to semi him at its own ex pense to a region where it will be unable to examine him until the tinier comes for it to show its grati tude to him for a third time. And this strok > of p »lioy is to b.i abetted by tho misguidrd Mr. ILiyes, tho in tensity of whoso own desire to bo .he next President can be only faintly es timated from his pubjio declaration, at a time when no kiud friend had shipped him on a frigate or sunk him in a well, tlmt ho would not think of it under any circumstances. It was Goneral Grant, now to be shipped around tho world like a cask of Madcara, and like it not to be tapped until his return, who likmu d tho Democratic party to a covf-whioh kicked over the milk-pail whenever she had made a fair premise of fill ing it. We feel the forco of this sim ilitude tho more keouly as wo regard the astuteness of the method by. whicli its author has been put under bonds of many months to hold the peace, while tho conspicuous candi dates of tho Democracy are standing upon high pluoes and in the sun shine, with free access to pons, ink and paper, with no kiud gags in their mouths and no frioudly frigate to carry them where their commit tals eau only ho made to the hospit able and iueomtmtnicutivc sea. Tho march of the English troop3 over the Afghan territory seems to lie a sort of military promenade, and still Russia stands aloof. Tilden at Work. N. Yf Tribute. Gan it be that Tilden has already begun to “work up” the solid south for 1880. There are a good many, suspicions outgiyings which make it look its if lie had. Leading southern statesmen like Hill and Gordon arc openly for him, and in every south ern state there are influential politi cians who say they arc in favor of the best man in 1880, and who im mediately add that they don't bel'eve any of the charges against Tilden. The south sees that success without New York is impossible, and if Til den can convince them that if he can’t curry Now York no other dem ocrat can, he is sure of their solid support. It looks now as if he were slowly distilling a belief of that sort into the southern mind. He did it in 1876, and he therefore knows how .to go to work to do it again. Tlie Bureaus Should Stand. Mucou Telegraph. We congratulate the people tlmt so far the geological and agricultural departments, and the law requiring careful analysis of fertilizers, remain intact. If the report was well found ed, that these essential departments in the economy of our state govern ment are seriously endangered, wc should feel tempted to call upon the people of every county to hold pri mary meetings during the coining spring and summer, and, by their pronounced utterances, show tlmt they are utterly opposed to a policy so short-sighted and suicidal. In the name of common sense, is every landmark of real progress in the past to be swept away under the thin and sordid guise of retrenchment? As well seek to nourish and improve the Iranian frame by a regimen amounting to slow starvation. The Albany Argus says: “The Re publicans have arranged for a debate on tho Southern question, to be inr- diately followed by u national con vention of colored men to memoral- izo Congress to take away tlio repre sentation in Congress which is based upon colored population of tlio va rious States of the Union The col ored men whom the Republicans can adjust to such uses will be those who have forfeited their right to vote hy felonies. But the sign idea nee of the thing is that the bloody shirt is all the issue the Radicals have; they have no evidence ti make info a pole to hang that on. and the attempt to reorganize tho policy of hate is just wlmt the business men of the North will resent. Moreover, the Repub licans arc getting tired of the negro in politics and want to get him • nt,. because lie votes, as a rule, against them now. The next move of the Republican loaders will bo bo to re peal the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to tho Constitution. They want to de-negroize politics or do-politiealizo tho negro, because their investmoiu. in him brings in no profits. But they will not be accom modated.” The Grant Conspiracy. Chicago Times. The proposed receptions have no connection whatever with a desire to do Grant personal honor. They are purely political. They are a part of the mortifying farce which has been in progress in the old world ever since Grunt landed on it shores. There Grant has never receivod a single personal compliment. Every reception given hjm, ! every honor of which he has boon, the recipient, have been paid to the country, of which, as ox-prosidont, he was, to some extent, tho representative. There is not a single city of any ac count which he has visited in which, in private, he has failed to be the subject of endless ridicule and car icature. Everywhere his boorish manners, his luck of knowledge of the ordiinuryforms of polite society, his sullen silence, and his intomper- anco have made him a m.*ro marked character than even his position as an ex-president and an ex-general. Tho reports about his having been offered tho Bulgarian throne arc sim ply silly lies, invented to give him oonsequonco on this side tho water, and give him an impotus for the presidential nomination. King of Bulgaria! Grant could not, to-day, secure the position of constable on the London polioe force. He hasn’t the sobriety, tho patience, the dig nity, that are essential to the posi tion, Has a Poor Opinion of the G. A. GrxHip.Ncws. The Georgia Jdgisluthre has qbw been in session more than thirty days, and wc will wager a penny, that the wisest member in the body can not point out five bills that have passed both houses that will benefit the people of Georgia one cent. What Blaine Should Discuss. Albuny Argus. A great deal of unnecessary atten tion is paid, by the telegraph to what lllainq is expected to say or. not to say next Monday. The thing Blaine should confine himself to is the Mulligan correspondence. The peo ple do not care what lie says or does not suv on other things, so long as ho dodges that. Gov Tilden Anxious. New Ilmen Register. Governor Tilden is anxious to have the ciphei dispatches thoroughly in vestigated, and even urges that the matter be brought up without further delay. With a quarter of a million majority of voters at his back, there was no need for him to try to steal his election . Dividing the Burden,. Terre Haute Express. The New York Sun thinks that the people would save money if they could work Grant olf on Bulgaria, About the best we can hope for is that Bulgaria will divide the burden. Grant would doubtless be satisfied h he could be King of the United States and emperor of Bulgaria. .Johnson Items.} Col. A. F. Daley of 'Wrightsville and Miss Willie Howard of Atlanta were married lust Thursday. I)r. J. W. Flanders has finished his house in Wrightsville at lust. Mr Bush and Mr. Eight, propose the name of Daniel Neil for coroner at the next election. Who was it ran the buzzards off of a live sheep in Dennis Ivea’s planta tion at Holmes Cross Roads ? One day last week a hawk canglil a bird in Wrightsville and as the hawk left Mr. Williams saw a cal following the hawk. He took a gun and taking the same direction had proceeded about one hundred yard, wheii ho met the cat coming bacl< with the bird. Mr. Janies Meadows and Miss Ce lia Tison of Johnson county were married last week. Col. Daley received something bv mail Hatnrrlav which we would all like to see. Will voushow it Aleck; The Strutting House. TOOMSBORO GA. 0. II. L. STKITBING Proprietor Thanking the Public for their libe ral patronage m the past. I respectfully ask n continuance of the same, . My hou-'e is near tlio Depot and llrM-cia.-.s' in all its appointments Bood Conveyance always in readiness to accommodate' the Travelling Public who may wish to go from Toomsboro to Dublin or any other point. The Excelsior News. The Excelsior News is published every Friday at Excelsior, Bulloch Co., 0a., in the interest of the Pintg Woods, hy Rev, YY r . L. Geiger. The paper is titled with good, religious, edueatioual, temperance and geuend news articles prepared express ly for its columus. In addition to its usual interesting origi nal matter, the publication of a sum'll prize story, ' DURWARD BELMONT; OR, THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGION, MARIE DWAL, a pious, uud gifted young lady of the piney woods, will be commenced in its columns on Friday, Jan. 3d, 1879. This story will run through several mouths, after which other stories of interest will follow. Every family in the pincy woods should read the Excelssor News. Now is the time to subscribe in order to commence with the new year. Terms to subscribers, ipl.00 p6r annum. “ “ ministers, .50 “ Address, W. L. Geiger. - Editor and Proprietor • Red Branch, Bulloch County Ga. ARE YOU DRY? If so, go tc sec Wash Baker, at liis flrst-class Saloon on Beech St., where he keeps constantly on hand, and for sale, YVIues, YYhiskeys, Brandies Beer, Cider, Champagne, And In fact, everything in tlio shape of Liquors and Drinks to be found in a tirst- class Saloon. ALSO TOBACCO, CIGARS ETC. Give me a call and you shall be eonvine , WASH BAKER bept, 18-tf, Cochuax Ga, lumber! Lumber! AT L. C. Beacliam’s Mills, HOLMES’ CROSS ROADS, Of any dimensions and, in any quantities can lie obtained on the shortest notice. Good supply of ordinary dimensions al ways ou the yard. Sills, Plates <j§sc. can be sawed forty-heo feci tong. PRICE: $1.00 per hundred. Liberal reduction made in price on large bills. decl8-3m L. C. BEACHAM. ‘The Most Widely Quoted South ern Newspaper.’ 1S79. the 1879. ATLANTA DAILY CONSTITU TION. >Y e have few promises to make for The Constitution for 1879. The paper speaks for itself, and upon that ground the mana gers offer it to the public as the best, the brightest, the newsiest, and the most com plete daily journal published in the south. This is the verdict of our renders, and Iho verdict of the most critical of our excliahir es, some of whose opinions we take pleasure in presenting below. r I lie managers will be pardoned for briefly alluding to some of the features which liave given The Constitution prominence among southern papers. 1. It prints all the news, both by mail and telegraph. II Its telegraphic service is fuller than that of any other Georgia paper—its spe cial dispatches pluciiig it upon a footing, so far ns (lie news is concerned, with llio metropolitan journals. HI. Its compilation of the news by mail is tlie freshest of the best., comprising everything of interest in the current news paper literature of the day. IV. Its editorial department is full, bright and \ivacious-, and its paragraphs and opinions are more widely quoted Hum those of any other southern journal. It discusses all questions of public interest, and touches upon all current themes. V. “Bill Arp,” the most genial of hu morists, will continue to contribute 16 its columns. “Old Si” and “Uncle Hcmus” will work in their special Acids, and will furnish fun, both in prose and verse. VI. It is a complete news, family ami agricultural journal. It is edited with tlie grcateit euro, and its columns contain everything of interest in the domain of politics, literature and science. VII. In addition to these, full reports of the supreme court mid of the proceedings of tin; general assembly, will be published, and no pains will be spared to keep the paper up to its present slamlard. * -•> TVliat the Grilles Ray. The licit paper in the south.—Keoktuc Uou.-1.tut ion. • ; The ablest paper of the South;—Burling ton iluvvkoye. One of the most, desirable journals in the country,—Detroit Free Press. . T.ie bright e t and., newsiest daily paper in t!ie south.—Baltimore Gazette. There is no better newspaper in the outlu i Ji states.—Ulnirlotto Observer. Steadily advancing toward; the position of a metropolitan journal'.-—Selma Times. It is one of the brightest,.most enterpris- ing. and withal most liberal of southern journals.—Brooklyn Times. Not content with being the best newspa per in the south, is determined to be the best looking also.—Philadelphia Times. Ably edited and newsy always, in its new dress .t i as a:tract vc ui form as it lias heretofore been in matter.—New Orleans Democrat. The Atlanta Constitution with its new CtorJiov is now tiie handsomest, as it has long been the be.-t, mw- pal er ,u ti;o south.—New York Star. The Atlanta Constitution has been making steady progress tlie last few years,- and may now iairly claim a place among thelir.-t half-dozen southern newspapers.— Springfield Republican. To biv that The Constitution is one of the brightest, newsiest journals of the country, a paper of which the whole south- may well be proud, is but to state a self- evident fact apparent to all.—Washington Post. Tlie Terms. The daily edition is served hy mail or carrier at $10. per annum, postage prepaid. The weekly edition is served at $1.50 per annum, or ten copies for $12.50. Agents wanted in every city, town and county in Georgia and surrounding states. Liberal commmissions paid and territory guaranteed. Bend for circulars. Advertisements ten, fifteen and twenty cents per line, according to location. Con tract rates furnished upon application to the business office. Correspondence containing important news, briefly put, solicited from all parts of the country. All letters or dispatches must he address ed tft THE CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga. R. M. ARNAU, Scientific Blacksmith, Southeast Corner Public Square. All work done warranted to please or no charge. BUGGY WORK A SPECIALTY. KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND A Fixe Assoiitmext of Plows —ALSO— THE CELEBRATED ARRAU SWEEP. Which is superior to any plow of tlio k id made in this country." With thanks for past favors, wc solicit the continuance of the same, 20, ly