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H'. /’. JIM;* i* the regainr agent far the POST in Jahnmn eoaotg, authorized to re- eriee *iib*rri}ttion», rceeipt for the name, and t-i male emitmet*for adrrrtMng. AU dac* nh tahl he paid to him. Senator Hill vs. Mr. Murphy. fitlilav Punt: The great moss of the people of Georgia have looked oil silently while the Northeastern Railroad bond (pies tiou, scandal I might say, agitated the central circles of our Htitto gov ernment. Yet our thoughts have been busy the while, It has ever been the pride of a Georgian that his native State bore among her sister sovereigns an unblemished name, a reputation before which men bowed in respect, and we of the mass still dosiro to sustain that reputation. Willie we make no attack on the parties concerned, while wo refrain from on expression of opinion relative to the action of Mr. Murphy, yet, we tho people say that our Senator Hill is correct in his endeavorlto purge our State government urovou the semblance of evil. -Now sir, in tho time not far past \ve arraigned Senator Hill; but our minds underwent a radical change when we saw him tried, and tried ho has been sorely. Now wo Jove and respect him, Tho “wiregruss” has somejintorest in all this. This im- broglio is to us pregnant with indica tions of evil. Wo noticOjthut Sena tor Hill has been first indirectly snubbed by the State Legislature through committees, uud then ridi- culed'aml insulted by certain of tho “press.” We cannot see nor under stand why Mr. liill has charged nothing^agailist Gov. Colquitt. Yet tho governor is reported as having claimed that Mr. Hill was hisenemv. Why? No one supposed Unit Coil. Colquitt could have boon bought. 1 Me scorn the idea that tho Governor is a mun to bo corrupted at all. Yet we do not think Mr. Hill to blame for exposing that which duos wear tho guise of impropriety. If Gov, Colquitt will putiBo a moment ho will see, as wo do, that from over-generous impulse uud native chivalry he has unthoughtcdly allowed himself to bo parliully drawn into tho champion ship of a cause which is unworthy of him, for ho is u good uuiu—a great pity Georgia did not have more like him. Our complaint is that Mr. Hill has not boon aided in his effort to purge our State government of every form of venality. Lot our in spected Governor stand “hands off,” and lot tho ‘Angoun stables’ bo cleans ed. It is a fact that no man is so unsuspecting of wrong in others as a truly good and charitable man.— Suoli an one is Gen. Colquitt. Hut if Mr. Murphy has done a wrong aet and if ho has partners in his wrong to tho people of Georgia, wo of the mass wish to know it. Let Mr. liill unmask them. Why should not the Legislature aid him? Why should not the Goveunor aid him ? There is no justice in listening to the cry of ‘catch thief,’ mised by tho guilty against the innocent to divert public attention. This war on Senator Hill is unjust and uncalled-for. We tho people, far removed from ‘ring inflooo<vs,‘appreciate his efforts and when the time comes will show our appreciation by our support. Wo earnestly ask him now to probo this wound to the honor of our,Stuto and expose the wrong-doer, if wrong be done, if hot, then no innocent man can bo harmed. Wo charge no one with wrong-do ing, but wo want 1001*0 light on all this “fee" question, and it is to be IiojkhI and wo exfmt that our legisla ture will stand by Sou. Hill while lie gees through this whole mess uud protect tho fume of tho State, whoso dost ink'* hove boon entrusted to them, Hut let come what umy, tho wiregruss will love and stand up to lW*n lUU fur his manly* patriotic course, and those who now make war on him for doing his duty as a man and a Georgian will ft>ol in the future the full weight of an endorsement of the Senator, \Y. Tho (\>n*fitufiou claims that At lanta is tho only place iu tho world where a man can afford to marry on a salary uf forty dollars a month. The .Southern Colored Vote. 81. Louis Ilcpuhlicnu. The New York Nation, which al ways assumes to he ]>eeuliarly and particularly fair ill its treatment of the negro question, makes the follow ing remarkable recoinniendtion in its latest issue: “If Southerners are afraid of ig norant majorities, as they say they arc, ami as in their condition in some .States they have reason to be, noth ing can he more short sighted or in consistent than trying to restrict the suffrage by such weapons of barbar ism as fraud and violence. If the intelligent and property owning class in that region has the power to pro tect itself in this way it has the pow er also to protect itself, in a more ex cellent way, and at the same time help to hold up the hands of the friends of pure government all over the country, by imposing tests winch the dangerous class could not meet, and tho operation of which would every year diminish its numbers. We mean the exaction either of a tax-paying or ail educational qttalifi- cation. The constitutional amend ments do nut prohibit this, uud. in the Southern Slates there is now an opportunity of resorting to it which does not exist in any other part of tho country, uud it would be no more likely to entail a restriction of repre sentation there than it is in Massa chusetts. This mode of keeping society on its buse would have the sympathy, secret or open, of u large body of pcoplo at the North, who already share tho Son thorn dread of the working of a civilised govern ment by the agents or leaders of an ignorant majority, and it would ope rate as a stimulus of the most pow erful kind in bringing the negroes into the arena of polities—that is, in destroying tho brute vote, a voto which is cast, canine fashion, under tho inilueuou of mere four or hate, or for an immediate reward.” If any leading and inilucntiul Southern mombor of Congress were to declare openly for such a policy us this, thcro is 110 reason to doubt that his avowal would arouso such u storm of (’enunciation from Uopuldicuu pa pers and speakers as has not been heard for if long time. This course would be absolute disfranchisement of tho grout body of the colored vot ers, anil the Nation advises its adop tion for that very purposo. When tho time coinos for a similar proscrip tion of tho uneducated class all over the land, it will do for the Southern States to adopt this policy. Fables, Tho following fables have boon sent us with the request that we publish them in tho Post: Fahle I. A frog that dwelt in a ditch spat at a worm that boro a lamp. “Why do you do that ?” said tho glow-worm, “Why do you shine ?” said the frog. Faulk 11. IVhen Zeus, half in sport and half in oruelty, nude man, young Hermes who, us all Olympus know, was for ever at some piece of mischiof, in sisted on meddling with his father's work, and got leavo to fashion the human ear out of a shell that he ehunced to have hv him, across which ho stretched a tine cobweb that ho stole from Araclme. Hut ho hollow ed ami twisted the shell iu such a fashion that it would turn back all sounds except vo.y loud blasts that Falsehood should blow on a brazen horn, whilst the impi>nutruble web would kcop out all such whispers ns Truth could send up from tho depths of her well, llennos chuckled as lie rounded the curves of his ear and fastened it on the newly made human creature. “So shall these mortals always hear and believe the thing that is not,” lie said to himself in glee—knowing that the box lie would give to Pandora would not boar more confused and complex woes to the hapless Earth than this gift of an car to man. Hut he forgot himself so far that though two earn were want ed, lie only made one. Apollo pass ing that way marked the blunder, and resolved to avenge the theft of his milk white herds which had led him such a weary ohnso through Teuil>o. Apollo took a pearl of the am, and hollowed it, and strung across it a silver string from his own lyre, and with it gave to man one ear by which the voice of Truth could reach the liraiu. “You have spoiled all >ny sport,” said the boy, Hermes, angry and weeping. “Nay,” said the elder brother, with a smile. “He comforted. The brazen trumpets will be sure to drown the whisper from the well, and ten thousand mortals to one, be sure, will always turn by choice your ear instead of mine.” MoitAL—Hcwarc of cobwebs and tho spiders that spin them. The frigid wave has made itself felt very seriously in Florida. I11 Pcrdinaiidiua on Saturday two in ches of snow fell, which drifted a foot deep in the fence corners. At Haldwiu a heavy storm of sleet con tinued all night, and everything was covered with ice. On Sunday it thawed a little, but froze again at. night. At Hronson it rained all night, the rain freezing as it fell, and many fear for the orange trees. At Cedar Key it was sleeting all night, and the weather was excep tionally cold. Such a winter was probably never known before. A deputy sheriff at Richmond, Kentucky, being unable to collect taxes from a resident, got a third party to admire the resident’s false tectli and nsk to bo shown them then darting forward seized thorn. After living on soup a few days the resident paid his taxes and redeem ed his property. The committee on Coinage, Weights and Mcusnrcs have rtqmrteil l to Congress rogiudiiig the metric system They say this system 1ms received the endorsement of scientific men in the old aud new worlds for half a century past, ar.d urge that it be adopted, at least, in such departments of the government as have the larg est relations with those countries where it is in v6guc. They earnestly recommend the passngo of the House bill to establish this system in the post offices and custom houses of the United States. Beheaded at Prayers. Newbury port, Mum., telegram in Chicago Times. Hamlet refrained from killing his mother's husband while the latter on liis knees, but Mrs. John S. Cad well, of South Byficld, bad 110 It scruples when this morning she decapitated her husband with an ax. Mr. Cudwcll was kneeling at a chair offering his morning devotions, the ’ f other person in the house being sister-in-law, who was in the same devout jmsttire, when Mrs. (Indwell stealthily entered the room 1, snatching up an ax, which her husband lmd brought iu, the night before, dealt hint a blow on the back his neck, which ncady severed bis head from his body. Death was in stantaneous, and the soul of the sup pliant followed the half-uttered pray- to the other world. The terrible deed was done, the woman went to a neighbor’s house and told him to over, us she lmd struck her hus band and might have killed him. He had threatened, she said, to kill her. Mrs. Cadwell exhibited not Hie least sign of emotion, and talked unconcernedly about the dreadful thing she hud done. The sad intel ligence quickly spread throughout tho little village, and great excite ment still prevtrls throughout the surrounding country. Mr. Cadwell was mi intelligent farmer of ubont forty-live years, in easy circumstan ces, and both I10. ami his wife arc re spectable members of the Orthodox church. For the past two years the wife has been partially deranged, so ipiucli so that her sister has been sent for tc keep watcli of her movements. There was nothing hut happiness in the relations between husband and wife, and tho woman’s devilish deed is universally attributed to insanity, pure and simple. .She is under stfr- veilanee, and will he sent to an iu- sano asylum. This peaceful commu nity has not been so horrified for voars. Mr. Thomas Hryant, of Randolph county, killed on the 24th of Decem ber three hogs, fourteen months old, that weighed 971) pounds. On 11 two-horsc farm, Abe Faust, of Oglcthorpo county, this season, killed 1,225 pounds of pork, made 100 barrels of corn, 11 bales of cot ton, and peas, potatoes and ground- peas in proportion. .Shipments of vegetables from Florida have begun. Take Your Comity Paper. Tho Waverleg Magazine, one of the soundest uud most popular peri odicals published in the United States, thus discourses on country papers: “Do the city papers say anything in regard to your own county? Noth ing. Do they contain notices of your schools, meetings, churches, improvements, and hundreds of oth er local matters of interests which your own paper publishes without pay? Not an item. Do thoy ovor say a word calculated to draw atton- tiou to your county atul aid in its progress and enterprise? Not a line. And there me nion who take such contracted views of tliis matter in their own paper, they think they are not getting the worth of tiivi: money. It reminds us of a man who took the hugest pair of hoots because tho prico was tho same as a pair much smaller tliut fitted him.” Wo Iroro taken wood, -pafotoeayi eorn, eggs, batter, onions, cabbages, chicken, stone, lumber, labor, sand, calico, saurkruut, second-hand cloth ing, coon skins, fodder, shucks and bug juice on subscriptions, in our time, and now a man writes 11s to know if wo would send the jaiper six months for a huge owl. There are few things an editor would refuse 011 subscription, and if we come across any fellow who is out of owls, and is in need of one, we’ll do it.—Ex change. The Paris jiapors generally agree tliut the Senatorial election of Sun day was a crushing blow to the H011- apurtists. Toceou Herald; “Tocetw hills was very beautiful lust week. The falling spray froze almost as soon as it touched the rooks and shrnbbory, presenting as fine a picture of wai ter as one would wish to see,” Macon ami Brunswick Railroad. COMPLIMBXTAKY TICKETS TO LeG- islatohs.—“Wo have received tho following from General Sitjierinten- dent Adams.” says the Tehgrapg and Messenger. “Will tho editors of tho Telegraph oblige me by stating through their editorial columns (and request papers in the Stato to notice) that compli mentary tickets of this road issued to Senators, Representatives and offi cers of each H*)uso*in 1878, will re main iu force until the holders re turn to their homes from July session of the Legislature in 1879. Respectfully, Geo, W. Adams, Dee. 30, 1878. Gen. Sujit. M. & H. R. R. A public whipping on a big scale has taken place at St. Petersburg, where 200 rioters were Hogged as a penalty for resisting the police authorities. Irwin ton had some excitement last week over an attempt on tho part of two 110grt.es to escape from jail. The first one that started out got hung in the hole they had made aud had to call for help. The Wilkinson Appeal is jubilant over the election of all the nominees over tho independents. Macon 1ms a new daily paper—the Evening Ledger. Hon. A. II. Stephens opposes Mr. Norwood’s views on the Southern Pa cific railroad question. Mr. Stephens wuuts the Texas Pacific to stick to thetfcfnd parallel uf latitude, but to make its .terminus at Norfolk, Vir ginia. H011. Julian llurtridgo Congress man from the 1st' Georgia district died in Washington oif the 8th inst. Hon. A. II. Stephens has so far recovered as to oecnpy his seat in the Houso again. The Socialists have carried most of their municipal candidates iu tho district around Lcipsic. Tho peach trees of southern Illi nois arc reported as greatly injured by the recent cold snap. Winter graiu is in excellent condition. Tho total loss by Thursday and Friday’s fires in Columbus, by which tho grocery store of Redd & Manley and the Rauklin Houso. was destroy ed, is estimated atlli5,UQ0, Insur ance, ♦74,000. Beacou8ficId’s gout is still improv ing. The late Bayard Taylor was a printer. Congress convened again on the 7th inst. Gov. Hamilton is still improving in health. The whole North and West is em bedded in snow. Gen. Grant will be the Republican candidate in 1880. Jim Bennett is again promenading on the Paris boulevards. Several Democratic Congressmen have died within the past month. There are quite a number of aspir ants for Bayard Taylor’s place. The loss by the fire in Chicago Sat urday night is placed at $110,00. Mrs. Bayard Taylor will not return home from Berlin until next spring. The north is certainly responsible for the recent solidity of the *Sontli. The election for a successor of President Hayes, comes off next year. Grant is in Ireland looking up the brogue, blarney, brandy and bull pups. The trouble of .Scotland is showing itself in a serious fall in real estate in Edinburgh. Connecticntt, Michigan and New York will dedicate new capitol build ings this year. A gold mine has been discovered in a street in Alum, Cal., and the town is to be dug up. The Legislature of South Carolina lias repealed the law allowing divor ces to be granted in tho State. The receipts of cotton in Balti- moic the past season have been largely in excess of former years. Major Andre is surely to have a monument. Major Andre was doubt less a bigger man than Washington. The tobacco business of Rich mond, Va., fell off the past.‘season, as compared with 1877, $2,410,738. Edwin Booth is clearing from $1,000 to $4,000 a week by acting this season, his terms being half the receipts. The earnings of the Louisiana lot tery company amount to one million five hundred thousand dollars a year. Cotton mills at Newburgh mid Albany, New York, are working on half time. Low prices and over production arc the causes. Gen. Robert Patterson, of Phila delphia, is said to have ontertained at his table every President of the United States since Madi on’s time. Jefferson Davis’ book of memoirs is to be published next spring simul taneously ut Now York and London, with a French edition in Paris. Ex-Congressman Owen Jones, who represented the Fifth Pennsyl vania district in the Thirty-fifth Con gress, was found frozen to death Tin sday before last. Tho English strike continues.. I11 North and South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire it 1ms been decid- ded to submit to 110 reduction of wages. Other strikes are also iu progress. Blaine has furnished his election Investigating Committee with the names of several persons in South Carolina and Louisiana, whom lie suggests ho subpumoed, and whoso testimony lie believes to be impor tant tTi prosecuting the investigation. Senators Butler and Eustis were oiforod-u pluoo on the Blaine Com mittee, but declined for the reason that, as their States are interested in the investigation, they preferred that Senators from States not immediate ly concerned should bo selected. The Washington correspondent of tho Louisville Courier-Journal as serts that Blame is working very hard to have Gen. Grant put on the army retired list in order that the. Gor.oral may thus get the repntation of being what the correspondent calls “a lay-aside public .man.” The funeral of the late Kon. Juli- liun llurtridgo was conducted by solemn service in tlie House of Rej resentatives. The casket containing the remains was borne from the ball by Mr. Hayes and his Cabinet, and was escorted to the railroad to he transmitted to Savannah. The Courier-Journal isacorabina- tion (made in 1808) of three old Louisvillo papers, viz: the Journal, established in 1830; the Courier, in 1843; and tho Democrat in 1844 Its reputation is national, as well as its circulation, and it is pronounced one of the ablest aud best arranged papers in I he world ; its matter being especially adapted to the Merchant, the b armcr and the Family Circle. 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