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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. 1879. A SPLENDID OFFER. 1879. The Dublin Post AND LOUISVILLE WEEKLY COURIEB-JOURNAL. One year for $2.50. Two papers for little more than the price of one. Scud ub $2.50 and receive your home paper with the Courier-Journal, the best, brightest and ablest Family Weekly in the country. ‘The Most Widely Quoted South ern Newspaper.’ 1870. the 1870, ATLANTA DAILY CONSTITU TION. We 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 readers, and the verdict of the most critical of our exchang es, some of whose opinions we take pleasure in presenting below. The managers will l>e pardoned for briefly alluding to some of the features which have given The Constitution prominence among southern papers. 1. It prints all the news, both by mail and telegraph. 11 Its telegraphic service is fuller than that of any other Georgia paper—its spe cial dispatches placing it upon a footing, so far as the news is concerned, with the metropolitan journals. III. Its compilation of the news by mail is the 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 than 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 to its columns. “Old Si” and “Uncle Remus" will work in their special fields, and will furnish fun, both in prose and verse. VI. It is a complete news, family and agricultural journal. It is edited with the greatest care, und its columns contain everything of interest in the domain of polities, literature and-scicnce. VII. In addition to these, full reports of the supreme eourt and of the proceedings of the general assembly, will be published, and no pains will be spared to keep the paper up to its present standard. What the Critics Say. The best paper in the south.—Kcoku* Constitution. The ablest paper of the south.—Burling ton Hawkeye. 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