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THE POST.;
WEDNESDAY. JAN. 8. 18711.
R. L. HICKS,
EDITOR ANI) pnopwjfiton.
IF. P. Jlirkx is the regular agent for thf
POST in Johnson county, authorised to re
e'ire titWrinfioii*. reeefpt for thr name, and
to noth’ rantraeUfor adtcrtMngfJAU due*
should hr paid to him.
KcHiiinpMoii of Specie Payment.
The Imv pmseu by u Radical Con
gress providing that legal tender
notes of the United States shall be
redeemable, dollar for dollar, in
gold, is ably discussed by the Savan
nah Netfisui follows:
“Wo have so frequently discussed
this forced specie resumption law,
and the disastrous effects it has had
upon American industry and pros
perity in the past, that it is entirely
useless to do so again. A fortunate
condition of affairs, showing the bul-
' mice of trade to be in our favor, has
most unexpectedly to the originators
of tho measure—-who to avoid dis
cussion thereon, sneakiugly passed
it in 'an overwhelmingly Radical
Congress under the operation of the
gag low—enabled tho law to be exe
cuted. Tho mischief and misery
produced by it upon the country
are now things of the past. They
have been suffered and endured, and
now all that remains is to see wheth
er or not tho law will bo a failure, and
whether with $120,000,000 of coin
in the Treasury about $340,000,000
of legal tenders can be maintained at
par.
Should tho present condition of
affairs continue, and tho balance of
trado remain in our favor,
instead of coin being drawn
out of the country, it will como in
und remain with us. In that case,
it U easy to sec that specie resumpt
ion may readily be maintained. But
should there be a change in our com
mercial status, and should trade
turn against us in the near future,
thou tho specie resumption problem
will bo no; one so easy of solution.
Happily, however there is no imme
diate prospect of any snob misfor
tune.
Should tho law snccood, Mr. Haves
his.Jadministral.ion and the Radical
party gcnorullly will no doubt en
deavor to take great credit, to them
selves and strive to make much po
litical capital therefrom. From the
reasons stated, it is plain that, they
will deserve none. All credit will be
duo to fortuitous eircmnstancos
alone, over which* they have never
exercised the slightest controlling
inllucnco, and under similar circum
stances resumption would have come
of itself without I lie shock to business
or paralyzation of industry which
this piece of Radical legislation for
the benefit of the rich at. tho expense
of tho poor Ims •entailed. On the
othor hand, should it; prove a failure
it will be one more of the many mon
uments to Radical blundering and
misrule. Wbother, therefore, i t. suc
ceeds or fails, to Radicalism will be
duo only the responsibility of having
by it well nigh destroyed the country,
a destruction which would have boon
complete had not the wonderful re
sources of the lund prevented its
accomplishment.
Further oomniont on this subject
lit this title is unnecessary. A very
little while now will determine wheth
er or not gold und silvor will remain
the currency of tho country or whet h
er tho effort of resumption will result
either in a farpo, or in a continued
depression of industry mul consequent
lim'd tunes.”
Athens OkroHwte: “Last Tuesday
a negro handed a pistol to Mr. F.
L. Winkler for repairs. Mr. Wink
ler inquired if it was loaded, and was
informed that it was not. While
working on it Mr. Winkler was
stavt led by a report, and « ball pas
sed through his hand, showing that
one barrel had not been emptied.
It is beat to be oantious when hand
ling firearms—taking the word of no
one as to whether loaded or not.”
Resumption in New York has
proved a complete success. There
waa *0100 excitement whon bnsinoss
opened at tho sub-Treasury on tho
let inst., and the first demand was
for £'10, but not another dollar in
gold us paid oat for half an hour.
In some instances greenbacks were
preferred. All demands for gold in
sums under fifty dollars wore refus
ed.
Laukbnb Hill, Dec. 20th, ’78.
Editor Pont:
If what I have to say will induce
one poor farmer to desist from the
inevitable suicidal policy of buying
farm supplies I shall be gratified.
Shall the few who have run this
practice to the bitter end remain
silent, while their neighbors arc glid
ing swiftly down the same grade
without a word of caution ? 1 know
that human nature is so constituted
that it will profit by little else than
sad bkperience, yet those who have
this experience should offer it free of
reward.
Another new your will, in a few
days, be ujam us; and with It comes
the renewed hopes of far/Tiers for
better crops, and better prices and
puymout of debts. All such hopes 1
predict will be sadly disappointed it
the old policy of ruining cotton to
buy supplies is again repeated. The
idea of a farmer buying provisions is
absurd. The idea of his Inlying
them on time is ridiculous. The
idea of his giving mortgage on bouses
and lauds, crop and stock, deeding
away bis very lioartli-stone for some
thing to cat in this laud of plenty
and luxury is a sad commentary upon
his intelligence and is the highest
evidence that be is not capable of
maintaining a family, and needs a
guardian. Hero is a field white with
harvest for the philanthropist. See
the millions of poor women and chil
dren bereft of the comforts of life
and the blessings of a liberal educa
tion.
Grout calamities from small mat
ters grow. Our body, social and
political, is clouded in a dark gloom,
and our natural resources are lying
in a state of comparative dormancy
by the want of the magic touch from
the wand, of enterprise, the legitimate
offspring of cultured minds.
Then why do we wonder that our
great state, the “Eden” of the world,
is so very fur from what nature has
provided for her. Think of it,
fanning friends, you are tho chief
corner-stone of this great structun.
Tho superstructure composed of all
other avocations is built upon you,
und if the foundation fails the whole
structure comes down in one general
ruin. The foundationj|ow is slmky,
built upon “sand;” debt, mortgages,
security, deeds &o., all of which an
gers ruin to tho whole.
By raising vour own provisions
you can always count on ton cents
for cotton. This being a surplus, is
so much clour moiioy, and that spent
at homo will oduoato our children,
build tip our farms, and utilizo our
great water power, and open our vast
storehouse of minerals.
I propose to show by a report from
our state Agricultural Department
what you pay when you Imy supplies
on time. Tho average price paid
this year, in Georgia, for corn was
79 cents cash, and $1. Id on timo on
an average ot four months, which
was 47 per cent., or for twolvo
months 141 per cent. For bacon
7 2-5 cents cash, and on timo 10 7-10
cents, an average of four months
being 44 per emit, or 133 per cent,
per annum.
A capitalist of this State has said,
“no business bore will pay upon a
capital of 12 por cent.,” while you
are struggling under a load of 140
percent. A prominent, editor has
said, “there is not a mino in Cali
fornia that could survive such a
pressure.” But our poor farmer
Btaggers along from year with noth
ing lint hope to cheer him on until
his little homo goes down nndor tho
sheriff's hammer.
Struggle no longer with an impos
sibility, but raise all you and your
stock oat, muko no more debts, and
you will slowly but surely change
your individual fortune and that of
tho whole country.
Ckitic.
A Letter from Bartow.
Baktow, Ga., Dec. 28th 1879.
Ed. Past:
Christmas in Bartow has been, so
far, a merry one. Under the auspi
ces of the Good Templars, the young
lades and girls, aided by their good
mammas, opened on Monday a Ba
zaar. where were retailed by the most
popular and |K‘rsuasine troop of clerks
that ever sold goods in Bartow, ten
thousand little articles—nameless
mostly except in a vocabulary of the
feminine gender. Flattering receipts
were realized from the sales at the
bazaar. How could it have been
otherwise ? For who could fail to
purchase when the importunity to
do so was made irresistible by the
eloquent witchery of a pair of female
eyes ?
On Wednescay night we bad a
Christmas tree lavishly furnished
with valuable and Imndsomo presents
for friends and relatives—a number
of young men taking advantage of
the occasion to prosent their duiciti-
cas sonic token of the gentle passion.
A Masonic festival of royal mag
nificence gave flying feet to the swift
hours of Friday night, und a grand
panoramic show closed the week of
merriment on Saturday night.
This joyous season, though all
too swiftly flown, leaves behind
memories that, shall breuthe perenni
al fragrance.
P. M. J.
Butler Herald: A very sad and fa
tal accident occurred In our town on
last Thursday. While Peter McCra
ry, colored, was out in his back yard
quite early in the morning, prepar
ing for killing hogs, a largo iron ket-
tlo had been placed in the ground
and filled with boiling water, for tho
purpose of scalding tho hogs. Over
the kettle had boon placed a white
cloth, A little boy two years old,
son of Peter McCrary, thinking that
the cloth was placed 11)1011 tho ground
stopped ou it, und was immediately
plunged iuto the boiling water, up
to his armpits, from tho effects of
which he died at ten o'clock the fol
lowing night.
A correspondent of the Atlanta
Constitution takes a very hopeful
view of tho future of Georgia, and,
among other things, expresses him
self as follows: “While matters
might be better, they might be far
worse. The State is not growing
poorer, but is in a better condition
than ten years ago, and, wore the
pooplo out of debt, or could the debts
bo 1 laid on the same basis they were
contracted, our condition would be
better now than at any time since
the war. Tho State debt is about
eleven millions, and the State prop
erty would almost pay it, and when
tho, Cincinati Southern Railroad,
now running to Somerset, Ky., is
completed to Chatanoogu, then Geor
gia, and Ohio, and the great West
can enter into full copartnership in
a direct trade with tho world, and
fm nisli hog and hominy to Europe
and shirts to 400,000,000 of Chinese.
‘Millions in it,’with a shirt 1 apiece
to euch follower of Confucius and
Mencius, the demand will equal the
supply and cotton will again be king.
If wo cannot afford to raise it with
present labor, then John Chinaman
can, perhaps solve the problem. Ho
cannot work too cheap in Georgia,
with cotton at seven cents.”
The Old Scheme Revived.
New Orleans Democrat.
Somo ambitious schemers ; n Texas
are slylv forming their plan to divide
that great common-wealth into five
states. This arrangement would
provide places for eight distinguish
ed citizens in the senate and four
gubernatorial aspirants, and result
in a largely increased vote in the
electoral college. It is supposed
that tho measure will he popular
among the local politeians of Texas.
The total amount of failures in
Grout Britain und Ireland during
1878 is 15,059, being an inerouso of
4,037 over the previous year.
Doleware and Virginia are the on
ly two States that have officially
adopted the whipping post.
Hampton ami Butler, South Caro
lina’s sonutors, will both have wood-
en-logs.
It is estimated that every Ameri
can hoy would consume 300 pounds
of candy per year if ho had the
chance.
A loaded pistol was found the
other day packed in a bale of cottou
at Charleston.
A struggle over the selection of a
Bulgarian Prince is approaching. It
will be maintained lietween the Rus
sians on one hand mid tho Greeks
and the Turks ou tho other. The
latter desire Prince Vogorides against
auv Russian nominee.
Ail Editors Horse 8olil for Debt.
Uunder the above head the Ilawk-
insville Dispatch discourseth as fol
lows:
“Up in North Georgia a few days
ago an editor’s horse was sold by the
the sheriff to settle a small debt.
The animal brought two dollars und
a half, with the privilege of having a
plank fence to lean against. The
poor edilor had agreed to tuke corn
in the fall of the year for subscip-
tions, und as his subscribers were
rather slow about hauling in the
corn, the horse wjw fed on old ex
changes and the contents of an old
shuck mattress, until the sheriff
came along with an execution and
levied it. The unfortunate editor
lists at hist realized the necessity of
dcnmmliug advance payments for
subscriptions. A similar fate befell
sin editor away down in Southwest
Georgia a year or two ago. He also
agreed to take corn for his paper,
and bought some pigs with the ex
pectation of raising bis owu meat.
He put his pigs in a pen, and mana
ged to keep them alive during the
summer, snd fondly dreamed that
in the fall bis corn-subscribers would
pay him and lie would have fat hogs.
But fall came and no corn. His
shouts grew so thin that heuould not
keep them in the pen except by ty
ing knots in their tails to prevent
them from slipping through the
cracks. lie, too, Ims adopted a cash
business.”
The British labor troubles con
tinue. A great strike ; n the engin
eering trade is now expected, on ac
count ot the London Iron Trades
Employers Association attempting
to increase the number of working
Ik urs. The Amalgamated Society
of Engineers have t wo hundred and
fifty thousand pounds on hand.
A colored woman who sat down
on a bee-hive to watch the progress
of afire in Russellville, left her seal
before tho close of the entertain
ment.
Messrs. Byington & Co., of Coch
ran, have begun the publication of a
sixteen-page monthly entitled The
Southern Home Monthly;
When a young man comes to be
lieve that a glass of liquor is a daily
necessity, he must soon quit drink
ing and attend to business, or quit
business and attend to drinking.
It is now common to see three
horses driven to a buggy in Paris.
li. G. Latimer, of Mongoniery,
Vu., killed a Chester hog last Mon
day which weighed 925 pounds.
Caleb Cushing is believed to be
dying.
General Hampton will soon be
himself again.
Resumption of specie payments in
Philadelphia has caused no stir what
ever. The demand for gold was
very limited. The same condition
of affairs existed in Chicago, where
customs duties were paid in green
backs.
A further enormous depreciation
of Turkish flat money has occurred.
A grand Russian national exposi
tion, to be accompanied with great
festivity, will be held in Moscow in
1880, in honor of the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the Emperor's acces
sion to the throne.
Over one hundred thousand dock
laborers in Hull have struck work,
and, contrary to expectation, nearly
all the masons of Sheffield have
struck against the reduction in wages
of which they were notified 011 the
24th ult.
Let us Have Peace.
Rome Courier,
Lot Ben Hill and Murphy bury
the hatchet and establish a collecting
ageucy at Atlanta. Hill & Murphy
would make a strong firm.
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