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'X'HZHr POST. \VKDN KSDA V. KKIl. 1!». 1*79. R. L. HICKS, EDITOR ANI) PROPRIETOR. w. r. ii,h-h is the regular agent for the V'JHTin Johtvem county, authorized to re- e-'ir, s'lWrijifioni, receipt for the name., and to mob' contracts for* udeertmng. All tVien •ho a Id U 7*7 id to him. Mlicnimit’s Letter. Atlanta Howell, Ouo of tlio editors of the Constitution, Cupt. K. 1*. addicted a note to Ucncnil Slier* man after bin recent trip through the State asking him to write the results of Inn observations with respect to the natural advantage of our soil and climate, and the resources of onr section, as a means of attracting the attention of capitalists and immi grants to Ueorgia. Tlio reply elicit ed lifts been publisheil throughout the entire country and wo doubt not will have a most excellent effect. Hu thinks the great desideratum of tho Non Mi is immigration, which was formerly prevented by the existence of slavery. Hut now, ho says, no country on earth offers so many in ducements to immigration as the sec tion extended from Lynchburg, Vato Huntersville Ala. And he advises that Non thorn immigration bureaus bo es tablished to turn tho tide this way. One great drawback to immigra tion to tho ftouth is the belief, sedu lously cultivated by tho radical poli- ticians and their organs, that social and political ostracism and porso cution await all stnmgors who make their homes in tho South. Putting hitiHclf on record on this point, Cion: Shornmu writes: . “I um satisfied from my recent visit, that Northern professional nu n, manufacturers, inoohunics and farmers may como to Atlanta, Home and ( liaiianoogu, with u certainty of fair dealings mid fair encourage ment. Though 1 was personally re garded the beta noir of tho late war in your region, tho author of all your woes, yot I admit 1 huvo just puss 3d over t he vory ground dosoiutod by the civil war, and luivo received everywhere nothing hut kind and courteous treatment from tho high est to tho lowest, mul I heard of no violence to others for opinion's sake. Homo Union men spoke to me of so cial ostracism, but I saw nothing of it, mid oven if it do exist, it must disappear with tho present genera tion. Our wIiqIo framework of gov ernment is founded on the personal mid political equality of citizens, mid philosophy teaches that social dis tinctions can only rest on personal meritand eorresjionding intelligence, and if any part of a community clings to distinctions founded on past conditions it will grew less with timo und finally disappear. Any attempt to build up an aristo cracy or a privileged oluss at the Honth, on tho fact thnt tlioir fathers and grandfathers onco owned slaves, will result in a ridioulous failure and subject the authors to the laughter of mankind. I refer to this subject iiioidently because others have ar gued the ease with me, hut. wliothor attempted elsewhere in tlio South, I am certain it will uot be attempted in Georgia.” Nciv»iw|M!r Lnvs. We would call the ffpcdfll attention of our postmasters and snhseriliers of this |rii)ier to tho following synopsis of the ncw8]mpcr laws : 1. A postmaster is required to give notice by letter (returning a paper does not. answer the lmv)when a sub scriber does not take his paper out of tho office, mid states the reason for uot being taken; any neglect to do so makes the postmaster responsible to the publisher for the payment. 2. Any person who takes a paper from tlio poBt-oflicc, whether direct ed to his mime or another, or wheth er lie has subscribed or not, is re sponsible for the pay. 3. If any person lias ordered his paper discontinued, ho must pay all arrears or tho publisher may continue to-send it until payment is made, mid collect the whole amount, whether it ho taken from the office or not. There can he no legal dis continuance till the payment is made. 4. If the subscriber orders his pa per stopped at a certain time, mid the publisher continues to send it, the subscriber is hound to pay for it., if ho takes it out of the post-office. I’ho law proceeds iipon the ground thut a tnnu must pay for what he uses. 5. The courts huvo decided that refusing to take a newspaper or pe riodical from tho post-office, or re moving and have them uncalled for, is prima facia ovidenceof intentional fraud. Tho whipping post bill was defeat ed iu tho North Carolina House of Itopresontafives by a close vote—45 to 42. Tho Wilmington Sfar says there is a steadily growing public sentiment in that State in favor of its restoration, mid sooner or later it will be restored.* Tlio Star thinks that “a majority of the people are now in favor of re-establishing it. Virginia adopted it some timo ago, and it has worked so satisfactorily that its repeal will not bo listened to.” The signing of a definite treaty of penoe between the osar and tlio port© puts an end to the Russo-Turkish war, which began nearly two veurs ago. The evacuation of Turkey is to W concluded in a month, oxoopt from Homnelia, which must ho free of Russian soldiers by the first of May. according to the Berlin treaty. The war indemnity that Turkey is to pav Russia is freed by the now treaty at :KK»,000,000 paper roubles —a sum that Turkey cannot easily m- ■• ' Eastman lias a select school. Johnson Items. There is u good deal of sickness in the county at this time. Col. B. 1). Evans of Sandersvifie was in town lust Monday. Cupt. T. W. Kent mid Mrs. Kent are rejoicing ovor another fino boy. Col. J. K. Hines and Capt. Wm. Parson of Sandersvillo wore in Wrightsvillo last Friday. Grtin Sharpe, son of Mr. John Sliarpd, diod last Thursday. We hud a tin wagon in town yes terday. Dr. J. I. Haines passed through Wrightsvillo from Bartow last night with two fino shad. Mrs. Jane Rowdy, a widow lady living ii^ tho lower portion of tho comity is suffering greatly with ory sipelas in both hands. Mr. Siugloton passed through Wrightsvillo yosterdny going to Swainsboro. Eastman Timex i “Mr. James Mill tin, of Chuunooy, made 500 bushels of corn on thirteen acres of land, mid 000 gallons of sugar eano syrup from one and u quarter acres. And yet pcoplo complain of hard times, and iivo in a country susceptible of such fine producing qualities.” Cult Rutherford B. Hayes. Philadelphia Times, Ind. Now that Samuel J. Tilden bus boon heard from, let Rutherford B. Hayes be called upon the stand by the enterprising gentlemen of the Potter committee. The case against Mr. Tilden is bad enough. The ease against Mr. Hayes is worse. The fact is established that the presidency was for sule and that it was sold. Friends or emissaries of Mr. Tilden tried to buy it, and fail ing to raise the means, because their chief would not authorise the pay ment of the money price demanded, there was no sale. Friends or emis saries of Mr. Hayes tried to buy it, and succeeded. The returning board people could not get money from Mr. Tilden, so they demanded tho equivalent in patronage from Mr. Hayes, and they got it. It was agreed that they should be provided for if tho stolen goods wore deliver ed. Mr. Hayes is now in possession of the plunder, and has boon faith ful to the disreputable promises made in bis beliulf. Some of the thieves are in the department offices at Washington; some tire representing tho government in foreign countries, ranging in rank from envoy extraor dinary mid minister plenipotentiary down to consular ugeut; some are luxurutiug in the rich pasturage of the custom-houses; the buyers und sellers uro all provided for at tho ex pense of the government. It is charged against Mr. Tilden thut ho did not repudiate and denounco/iuch small fry as Felton and Weed because they sought to buy tho title that wus wrongly withheld from him. This showed weak ness, culpable weakness, on tlio part of Mr. Tilden. But what is to bo said of Mr. Hayes, who ratified tho corrupt proceedings of his under lings, enjoys the fruit of crime, and, so far from repudiating nnd’denoun ciug tho criminals, has loaded them with olHciul favors? In tho ouo case it was crime attempted; in the other it was crimo accomplished, and mak ing a glory of its shame. The coun try would like to hour what Mr. Hayes has to say m his own dofonsc (Jail Rutherford B. Iluyos. • The Tilden Movement. « Clltnciimti Enquirer Interview with • Governor Carlisle. I toll you, Tilden is loomiug up, If ho docs not get the nomination himself he will name the man that does. The old man has a long head mid knows what ho is doing. He may bo nominated by acclamation there is no telling. Next to himself 1 think he favors Bayard, who is very strong in the east, and perhaps could carry Now York, New Jersey mid Connecticut. Judge Field, grout personal friend of Mr. Tilden is also spoken of us a possible coni promise. Seymour has boon spoken of, but he is threatened with soften ing of the brain, and the amount of Wo clip tho following from tho Georgia Templar. Mr. White, will be remembered, once worked on the Post: “The voice of another temperance man was heal'd in the land for the first time, on lust Sunday, in the porsou of a twelve pound boy, at the residetioo of our friend, Mr. Wultor J White. If his voice is always raised ns it has been for the last 48 horns, iu tho cause of tomjioruuco, he will become a “Mighty nuin of Gath.” We congratulate Walter, mid hope that in the future ho may have no tronblos, but little ones” Eastman Times: “Little George, about three years of ago, son of Mr. L. L. Burch of tins county, died on Sunday last after intense suffering, caused from a burn received about two weeks before. Tlio afflicted parents huvo the sympathy of the entire community in which tliev live.” Doctor Luke Blackburn, who is the prospective governor of Ken tucky, says that “rise up” William Allen is his candidate for Prosidont in 1880. An orator docluring that fortune knocked ut every man’s door onco, nn old Irishman said: “When she knocked at mine l must have been out.” In a village of Italy thirty young girls are said to be possessed devils. exertion that would bo required of him to make the canvass would kill him. Ho needs repose, which he could not have if he engaged iu the uxoitement of a presidential contest Now York will doubtless be for Til don for first choice. Tho broach be tween him und John Kelly has been closed, and they uro now working together harmoniously, lie ivould unquestionably carry tho state against any republican that could bo uumod. The Stalwarts Rise to Explain Albany Journal, rep. Bou Hill says lie is opposed to war claims. But lie said ho wus opposed to the silver bill and then voted for it. Ho said he was friendly to the prosidont and then donouuccd him No man knows so little about Beu Hill’s sentiments us Bon Hill him self. of Gumbcttu bus gone up nnotlior round of the ladder, being uow speak er of tlio chamber of'deputies, us he has long been its recoguized louder. Freni whore lie stands, to the presi dcuey, of the republic, is hut a step, which, bnrriug accidents, ho will in ovitablv take in due time. * .rrr: .. ■: m The river and hurbor bill, as per fected by th$-Committee on Com moree, contains among the nppropri ations tho following for Georgia Savannah .harbor, #100,000; .Coosa river, 145,000; St. Augustine creek #5,000; Chattahoochee aud Flint rivers, *22,000; Hruuswick harbor, #10,000. Ripe stmwlicrries at Daytona, Fla. Watermelons are in the Key West market. A white hawk has been killed in Lincoln county, Kentucky. A Louisville, Ky., factory is turn ing out 1,000 axes per day. Parliament reassembled on the 13th; the Reichstag on the 12th. Only four counties in South Caro lina pay as much as one cent on the dollar. It is estimated that t he popnlation of Texas has increased 60,000 in the last two years. A Sun Antonio cow 1ms given birth to a calf six legged, double bodied and double headed. John Hope, supposed tube a Man hattan Bank robber, lias been arrest ed in New York. A paper box manufactory iu Rich mond, Vn., employs 300 bands and makes 50,000 boxes jier day. Hard times iu England, small-pox in Irelaud, plague in Russia, rinder pest in Prussia, ami prosperity in Franco. The striking miners ut Coshocton, Ohio, threaten to assault the men at work ut the Union mines if they do not ceiise to work. Northern papers report heavy shipments of Georgia pine to the car manufacturers of the east and north. It is lighter and tougher than north ern pine. A petition is circulating in Ten nessee which will be presented to the legislature protesting ugainst the working of convicts outside the pen itentiary walls. The Brooklyn health officers charge that a number of cows suffer ing from pleuro-pnounionia have been taken from their stalls and slaughtered. Their carcasses will be held for examination by veterinary surgeons. Gamliotta could pretty surely have had tho French presidency, but he wisely chose to be the real rather than the nominal leader of France. He is still young, and if lie had taken tho presidency he would soon have fouud himself luid by ami labelled “ex-prosidont.” A caucus of Radical Senators in Washington on tlio 11th was very inhurniouions, and after a long wran gle the following was decided on: To abundon tho effort to unseat Senator Butler of South Carolina and put Cor bin in his place; not to resist a repeal of the. juror’s irou-clad oath, but to opposo the repeal of the law provid ing for Federal supervisors of elec tions. A terrible accident occurred on tho 11th inst. at the foot of Grand ave nue,' Kansas C'itv, iu a cut bcin made for the Chicago and Alton rail road. Tho cut, with its walls ninety feet high, caved in, burying teams and workmen under six thousand yards of falling earth. Six persons were killed outright and several were wounded. Tho scene at tho place of disaster was heartrending. Women are admitted this year for the first time to all the examinations and degrees of tho university of Lon don, without exception, on precisely tho same terms os men. At the winter matriculation two weeks ago there were nearly 600 candidates altogether, and eleven of these were young luitics. One lady presented herself at tho examination for the degree of bachelor of laws. These are tho first twelve ladies who have been admitted to the regular exami nations of any English university. MRS. M. E. MCVAY. MAX VAY & CHOATE, (Successors to W. T. McVay.) COCHRAIT, : ; : : GEORGIA. W E have to-day entered into partnership, and will continue the Warehouse and Mercantile business of the old and well known house of W, T. McVay, under the nbove Firm, Name aud Stylo. M. E. MACVAY, A. E. CHOATE. General George Washington Park Cnstis Lee, who is pluiutiff in the Arlington cose, is about forty-five years old, tall, handsome, and re markably like his father, General R. E. Lee. He is President of Wash ington and Loo University, at Lex ington, Vo., where lie lives with his two sisters, Misses Mary and Mildred Leo, in the house where their father, mother and sister died. He is an old bachelor, and very shy of the gontle sex. Ho was graduated first in his class at West Point, and, like his father, came out of a four year’ course without a single demerit mark. Miss Mary Leo was a few days ago entertained by Lord and Lady Napier at Gibraltar, and a few weeks before was within the Russian linos iu Turkey. A. E. CHOATE. We aslc a continuance of the patronage so lilwrally given the House from your County for the past five years, aud pledge ourselves to use every effort to make the New Firm Worthy of Your Support. We buy COTTON and all other FARM PRODUCE, and sell all classes of goods ev jept whiskey WE AKE ALSO AGENTS FOU A eilGKH: GKR^IDIE FERTILIZER ETAT'A LOW PRICE.Jgh McVAY & CHOATE. Cochran, Febr’y 19, 1879-tf M PORT ANT TO TEACHERS o A Teacher's Library for Sale. Consist'ng in part of the following works: * syphku’s akt OF TEACHING SC1IOOT,. WiCKERSIIAM'S METHODS OF INSTRUCTION. “ SCHOOL ECONOMY. THE IIISTOUY AND PROGRESS OF EDUCATION HY PHI LOBIliLIUS. CALKINS’ OBJECT LESSONS. WATSON’S IIAND-BOOK OF CALISTHENICS & GYMNASTICS. SPENCERIAN KEY TO PRACTICAL PENMAN • SHIP.* IOIIONNOT’s SCHOOL HOUSES. HOOT’S SCHOOL AMUSEMENTS. BATES* TEACHER’S INSTITUTES. THE TBACiyatB’ GUIDE TO ILLUSTRATION. CLARKE’S SEX IN EDUCATION. BARNARD’S EDUCATION IN EUROPE. &C. &C. &C. &C. B. L. Willingham, COTTON FACTOR, SECONDS'!’. - - MACON, GA. BRING ME YOUR COTTON AND I WILL PLEASE YOU. KSF**Opposite J. W. Burke & Co.’s Book Store. jan22, ’79, ly Every one who enters the profession of tcuehing should begin by mastering some of the best works on the subject.. He will Unis within a year acquire greater skill in tcuehing than would come by experience iu a life-time. ESTABLISHED IN 1850. CARHART & CURD Importers and Jobbers of Foreign and Domestic Hardware, CUTLERY .VXD GUNS, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, IRON, STEEL AND Carriage Makers’ Materials. THE ABOVE BOOKS, THOUGH ALL AS GOOD AS NEW, WILL BE SOLD AT SECOND-HAND PRI CES. APPLY AT THIS OFFICE. jan 1-tf # —AGENTS FOR—# FAIRRAX1CS STANDARD SCALES. Olb-ex’ir'Tyr- S“b. Macon. : C rSb. j:m22 1879 ly From all parts of the country reports come of the immense sales and increasing 'demand for that doservingly popular Sew ing Machine, The Old aud Reliable ‘'Stan dard.” the price of wiych the proprietors wisely reduced to *20, including all the attachments, and at once secured fo- them a popularity among the people, far beyond pit ' ' IK M vim n that ever yet attained by any other machine Q l\A VW AjJat any price, the consequence of which is, J # vy n EE agents are leaving the old high priced mn- f A * L 1 £3 chines, and seeking territory for the “Stan dard.” Knowing from experience that with tlie best goods at-the lowest price they can outsell all other machines, where the*superior quality and low price is made known. This splendid machine combines all thu improvements. Is far ahead of all others in Iwauty and durability of its work, ease of management, light running and certainty of operation, is sensibly made upon sound principles, with positive working parts all steel, and can lie safely put down as the perfection of a Serviceable . Shuttle Double Thread Sewing Machine, latest improvements, and is made of in every particular, that will outlast any LATEST IMPROVED ABD BEST Family Sewing Mach’n *1 Tlie PHILADELPHIA has all the! the very best materials, using a long, large, easily-threaded shuttle. In a word, it is THE Sewing Machine for Family use. Iairgc, Strong and Light running. Fully warranted in every particu lar, and retails for TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS and upwards. Address, Philadelphia Sewing Machine Co. No. 144 N. Seventh Street, Philadelphia, Pa. nug 21-ly machine, and at a price far down below any other. It is thoroughly warranted for five years, Kept in order free of charge. Aud sent to auy part of thc.country for examination by the customer before pay ment of tlie hill. We can predict equally as large a demand for them in this section us in others. Families desiring the l>cst machine manufactured should write direct to the factory. Aud enterprising persons wishing to seize the chance should apply for so desirable an agency. See advertise- tisement in nnother part of this paper. Address, Standard Machine Co., Cor. Broadway' and Clinton Place, New Yoik. feb5 79-tf HOWARD’S BAR ! ZB"2T geo. si. non mu, .(' co. Lumber! Lumber! AT L. C. Beacliam’s Mills, HOLMES' CROSS ROADS, Of any dimensions and in any quantities can be obtained on tlie shortest notice. Good supply of ordinary* dimensions al ways on ibe yard. Wc invite the attention of our friends and the Public generally to onr cnrefull selected stock of Pure Wines, Brandies, Whiskies, Candies, Crackers, Tobncco, a n d Cigars, Snuff, .Sardines &o, &c, j AURORA BEER on Draught ren he sawed fortg.urofeel long. We shall be pleased to serve all who will favor us with their Patronage. Sills, Plates Ac. Geo. M. Howard & Co. p-ULTDli.Jx,q-a- v.ih lrti Til PRICE: #1.00 per hundred. Liberal reduction ■S* made in price on large bills. rlnnl L. C. BEACHAX.