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EDITORIAL. comments. Thy cxWlHing'Bprague scandal is *" shaking up Northern ■xuety circles pretty lively. ___________ *' Spbaoue ought to shoot Conkling • little juat to let him know how it feels to be shot. ___________ The committee appointed to look after the Agricultural Bureau will open fire * next Tuesday. It is rumored that School Commis sioner Orr will be investigated before thia trou ble is over. The first bale of cotton excitement is gradually dying out New bales are coming in from all quarters. Roscoe Conkling likes chin music and some other tilings, but a shot gun solo doesn't suit his taste at all. The South American war continues with unabated interest. The Peruviana seem to get the best of the Chilians so far. i The editor of the Marietta Journal I needs a new head. A cabbage head would be [ an improvement on the old one. B , The committee who have been ex amining the condition of our %■* are fully satisfied with the official conduct. *f * Colonel Renfroe, The Savannah News does not relish _ _ the ides that the Central railroad js to have a * in the extension of the Macon and Bruns ■Vlck road from Macon to this city. T hat dire plague, the yellow fever, B||B continues to play sad havoc with the unfortu nate people of Memphis. It is thought that the authorities will shortly irsue a call to the , country for aid. The Madison (Ga.) Madisonian says: “The ‘dishrag plant' is one of Madison's curiosities. It bears a fruit which wlieu ripe and split open, furnishes a splendid scrubbing towel for bathing purposes." „ On the 13th instant .Mr. H. S. Slufit of New York left that city for Georgia as the representative of the Colony Aid Association, which purjioaeß planting its first colony in this Slate. We welcome these people with open arms. I Rkjhakdson, the great cotton grower L of Mississippi, reports that the eotton crop of V the Mississippi valley is going to be phenome nal. He thinks even Texas will produce much as rhe did last year, by reason of her in creased cotton acreage. ■ Some pretty severe charges are made r against Dr. Raines, physician of ths penitentia ry. He allowed an interested party to select able-bodied men, and in thia he is charged with 1 malpractice. Further complaint is made that he gets “boozy" while attending to his official duties. , The Legislature is dabbling with a tramp law, aud what one member wants is a 1 bill to put tlie burden of proof on the defend- i ant. Hailes is brimming over with more jus- | ■ tire, Christianity, aud humanity, than the spirit ( ■ which urges this iniquitous legislation.—Dal ton Headlight. Some editors are indeed hard to , please. Bid Lewis, of the Ishmaelite, says: ( “Local bills get before the Legislature now by wayof ahalt dozen 'circumlocution offices;' but - when they get there they ‘stick,’ lust ss they 1 used to do under the old dispensation. It would • ba proper to call them circumlocution ' . j |BB>— n good; oht- I JL, mrsigid-isoed. ring-bound Democrat as mad as thaadcr to see Bullock and Kimball sit back on ' ? dignity and wag their ponderous auricles I I Bute House fellows, with s sly, devilish , altogether wicked wink. It stirs up a | ni«W<*r in us, too, as big as the whale that j swallowed Jonah. j The Atlanta Republican says “a < score of Republican speakers of ability can re- | capture the State (Georgia)." Whereupon the , foine Courier remarka : “It is a little funny j I sow these Republicans ding to that idea of I * Japturing' things. Ever since 'captured and I I property' punned out so well the ""vvonfnas had a charm for them." 1 In anceint times the wise men went towards the East in search of greater wisdom. In modern limes Grant went East in search of greater treasure and worshippers. He has just I about brains enough to make a good idol for a j Hindoo temple. It would gratify ns to know , that he had consented to make hiuiadf useful ' in that way.—Sparta lalimaelite. Investigation is the order of the F. soy, Captain Nelma, Principal Keeper of the I I Penitentiary, has been through the mill, but L j no startling development* have been made, te An attempt was made not long since to make ■ him a partner in the lease of the convicts, but "i he postively refused to buy an interest *a loug as ha held office under the Slate. The investigating committees and the Atlanta Sunday Gazslte entertain widely different opinions of Comptroller-General Gold smith's administration of the affairs of his office. The one says that he is the beet Comptroller jj General Georgia ever had; the otlier, that he is guilty of high ertaaea and Biademoamir* and - irrosa nialadmioistralioa. The Gazette can do t » tofat’dm'reuon bnainoM on a small capital I than any P*V« r we know El It is talked on the street that seven IB of the thirteen which compose the special com- , mittee to prefer charges against the Complroll- I er, are particular friends of Mr. Goldsmith. A I gentleman from Southwest Georgia rreiark.d le* to us Thursday Dial nothing would come o.u L) of the Investigation, Well, all wo have to say 1 is, that those who fail to do their duty in this j i » ‘ matter nred never to sak the people lor official I position in the future. 1 The semi-annual meeting of thej H Blate Agricultural Beciety took place at Jonos- | I bore Vedi.eM.j- The number of delegates I f preesnt Van large and a very harmonious meet- ' L inp WM ueld. Prof. .Willett, of Mercer Univer- B"* “ **W> doiivsrvd a highly entertaining address ■ on the cotton caterpillar Col. Tom Hardeman f was re sleeted President, end Mr Malcolm ['/ Johnson was re-elected Secretary. The Con-1 | vention adjourned to meet at Cuthbert the Id ? Tuesday in February. Two months later the i Georgia Press Convention will meet al the same place. We are tired of bearing about I • ' beams ”We can't pick tip a newspaper In the country without having it stuck in our i fare about somebody's “boom;" it is worse tlisn Plnsfore. But ss it has coms to this pass, we wsnl It underrtood, that wilhir. ten miles of Derisn. we beve more “booms" than can l-e l \»untad m any single Slate in lite Union. There (a Walker's boom, and Hilton's boom, and Clnrke'a boom, and Langdon's boom, and Dodge's boom, and Munro’s boooi, snd Todd's boom, "id Green's boom, and Hunter's boom, and Brownlee's boom, and many others too *° * Mat * Nl ' Unlike the Sherman ’BBjb' l ,)r,nl boom, there is nothing rot boeans. They are made o tire P'^ 1 ' l"*’ limlM >r, and pay HUS'owners • hamdsoane iavsetwwat oe l)mir ■’4, Swwaaffiiwgwt ph . u^R*' 1 VOL. 2.-NO 1-1 Hon. Alexander H. Stephens and His Recent Address—Greenback and Bi-Metallic Currency. Editors Congtilution— Leading and influential journals in Ute South give Mr. Stephen's late address special no tice. Indeed it is worthy of notice, because it conies from a gentleman of long-tried fidelity, of great experience, •nd imparts some salutary lessons. *To uy Hi at he it Bot infallibly is simply to say that he is human; to say that he is liable to make mistakes, is to say what is true of the wisest aud best of men. He well says that “no representative government can exist long where the people do not understand the prin ciples of the government,” and I heartily agree with him. To do the little I can to make clear some parts of the speech of the distinguished orator and to correct some errors into which he fell, in my only object in bringing bis address into review. He justly remarked that “our country at this time, in many respects—financially chiefly, is in a worse condition than it has been in half a century.” He then proceeded to speak of the extra ses sion of Congress, and to the part he took in the debate upon the act passed during the war providing for troops or armed men to overlook or over-awe the voters at the polls, and for the ap 'pointment of deputy marshals to su pervise and aid in federal elections, clearly stating the practice of the Eng lish Parliament to withhold supplies whenever a majority desired a redr cm of grievances, and the disposition of the Democracy to adhere to this line of policy and refuse all appropriations until the obnoxious acts in question were repealed. He said that he did i not agree with that line of policy, and | after lucidly explaining the three great' branches into which our government is divided and fitly eulogising the sys tem, he said with great force, that “he did not think it would be right to put out our light houses, to extinguish | them on the coast, or stop the func tions of the administration, justice, etc.,” and that “we should not, be cause the President withheld his a»- from stop the wlreelw of government, or, as some said, starve it i out,” that “in thia country the re-. dress of grievances was through tlie i tvallot-box and other peaceful instru mentalities of the Constitution.” But he did not stop to meet the objections ' to the insolence of the veto power as being exercised by one who bail not only defied the decision of the ballot J box, but overrode the “peaceful In strumentalities of the Constitution,’' by allowing himself to co-operate with perjured villains to annul the one aud , violate the most sacred provisions of : the other. I do not censure the po- j sition taken by our eminent states man, but in all candor 1 do say, that. there are many true and devoted lov- • ers of liberty and Justice, who man- 1 fully and with well considered reasons, stood firmly upon the position that we have no right to give support or lend our aid to laws subversive of every i principle of civil liberty, of every ele ment of manly independence and of tlie . very foundation principles of repre- i sentative government, as the acts sought to lie repealed are. There they stand, a military threat to the right of i suffrage, and an inquisitorial power to ' subvert the will of the people. They are antagonistic to the rights of every American ciliien. They are an insult to the very idea of a free and inde pendent ballot, and if there is any cause which can justify withholding supplies until grievances so palpable and usurpations so violent, are blotted from the statutes, then there was just cause for ssying to the country we will do nothing to support such tyran nical laws; and if a spurious Presi dent chooses to set up his veto to every measure intended to remove the griev ances, we, as the renrre-."’* l ' of the , people, will stand upon our oaths *o I support the Constitution and promote i the general welfare, and leave it to an I indignant people to decide between the I one-man vio, or the national veto. ' But the poition of Mr. Stephens was i a conserviflve one, and his cxplans- I tion of it mows that his devotion to I the welfal* of our people is marked by the higuit patriotism and is well worthy fl Institutions which he ctilo i gizes m the grandest system of gov i ernmenftver instituted by man.” His pAilion that the right to desig nate snjmake appropriations carries with it |c right to limit and say to . what tlfß they shall be put and to i what t*y shall not, is entirely un answst*lc. He also justly and most approjf stely notices the late speech of Sejfrtarv Sherman at Portland, in , which>nt functionary undertakes to ■ revivifho bloody shirt order of polit l ical |ilosophy, by declaring that “the 1 great»»ue before the country is Slates ' righ»«d aeceasion I” Mr. Stephens, > in WM t tcrms ,n<l m*nly dignity, t QMJUres this base aMiimption. Be- ambitious President and un ' PW pl<d ,lt ’ ,u, K o K' ,e '' desire to usurp ’ forc* to overawe elections in tby 1 and urerent a fairaxpres- 7/ South, and by candid and fair men in all sections and parties, Secretary Sherman arrays the Democracy and the South with the old cry of States rights and secession. The government of the United States is supreme -fa- all the functions which pertain to its con stitutional power. The States are equally supreme in their sovereignty over all the powers not delegated to Congress, and it is nothing less than usurpation for the general government to assume control over matters of State sovereignty. The control of the polls belongs to the States; the States are represented in the Senate; the States elect their presidential electors; the States lire given the same repre sentation in Congresss they have in the electoral college, and each of the three elements of Unite,] States legis lation ami election are elected by the ; States—the Senators by the Legisla tures elected by the people under purely State supervision; the electors directly by the people, and members of Congressional districts, of Con gress by the people made to con form by State laws to the electoral districts. The United States never has had anil can never have until the Constitution is changed, a loter. The States as such, are bound to resist every encroachment upon their re served rights, an<l Mr. Sherman will surely find that he greatly overes timates his powers when he assumes that he can induce the people of the East ever to yield any one of the rights reserved to them. Centraliza tion is not popular; it is not just aud will not be tolerated. Mr. Stephens occupies the true position on this sub" ject, and whatever may be said by the supporters of shoulder-strap rule to the contrary, the people will never consent to yield up the division and suliordination of rights so matchless in structure and form as those which create and divide the sovereignty es eential to national power from those essential to State government and so cial and civil liberty. I have said more than I intended on this portion of Mr. Stephens’ address, but the importance of the abbject is enough byway of apology. My in tention was to examine bis posjlio* on THE FINANCIAL GUEST ION. for after all, that is the question upon which our future must hinge, as it is upon which our past must be crit icised. Let us pass, then, to that past of Mr. Stephens' resolution expressing his views upon the financial question, and which reads as follows: “We are for the maintenance of the public credit inviolate, but are utterly opposed to the increase of the bonded debt, unless the exigencieg of war ehould render it necessary. We are for tbe retrenchment of ex|*enditures, lessening tbe burdens of taxation, and a thorough reform in the present un equal and unjust method of raising revenue. We are for placing the coin age of gold and silver upon the same footing without restriction or limitation upon either. We are for reviving the languishing and perishing industries of the country by an in crease of the volume of the currency, founded on a solid ba-is, sufficient to meet tbe urgent demans of trade in every department of labor and bus iness.” To these words, to the principles they embody, to the spirit they breathe, and to tbe purjioses they fore shadow, too touch cannot le said in commendation, eneptiny only the idea that aay emergency may arise to ren der the extension of our bonded debt 1 exjedient or permissable. Against this the people must and will protest. They oppose the idea because Mr. Jefferson has furnished us with a bet ter, a wiser and a more judicious pol icy : the using of Treasury certificates or greenbacks to meet not only the re quirements of peace, but every emer gency of war. The power to lax is commensurate with the power to issue and emit. The people, as be contend ed, will always prefer to be taxed to pay for every dollar of value actually revcived rather than to be taxed to , pay an enormous usury to the home and foreign money power. The pow er to tax and tbe power to raise a rev enue can always be exercised to pro vide the means to sustain and redeem any amount of currency any war may | demand. The United States Govern inent baa paid more than $2,780,000,- I **oo since 1862 for interest on bonds issued which did not realize fifty cents on the dollar! If Treasury notes— greenbacks, a full legal tender—had lioen issued instead of bonds, and the money paid for interest hail been ap plied to tbe liquidation and redemp tion of tbe Treasury notes, the Gov ernment would not owe one dollar to day, and besides, would have S7(X),- 000,000 in tbe Treasury. As it is, tbe Government has paid the first-men tioned enormous sum for interest alone, and stUI owes nearly the entire debt, most of which is in the shape of non-taxable bonds. Thia is a positive demonstration of the folly of the Gen eral Government issuing bonds. Ms. Calhoun and Mr. Webster, two giant and contemporary intellects, fully con curred with Mr. Jefferson’s views, and Mr. James Madinongave them his de liberate approval, 'lhe people, there fore, will never consent to any possi ble faseuo of more interest-bearing bond*, when reason and experience' haw bath demoMlreM tte folly of I «a doiag, and hav* abo proven “y Jfcj ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1879. ‘ masses throughout the country.” The financial question is the most impor tant. Mr. Stephens proceeds to say that “the real cause of the panic oi 1873 was the demonetization of silver in Europe.” This is only correct in part. The prime and real cause was the contraction and cremation of the currency. Prior to 1873, in fact as early as 1867-8, tbe process of con traction, to meet the insane demand of bullionists, was commenced. Tbe currency in 1865, including three-year notes, certificates of indebtedness and compound legat tender notes, all used and passed as currency, amountedtc $1,996,678,000. Between that time and Jimriary, 1873, the three-year notes, the certificates of indebtedness, the compound intereel notes, and everything the Government could withdraw from circulation, was with drawn without the slightest regard to the absolute requirements of busi ness, labor, industry or development, ’so that tbe currency of the country was then reduced to about $765,670,- 000. Thus in eight years the con traction was $ 1,23b,900,000 ! Such a withdrawal of the vital element of all business and of ail progress was enough to stagger and overpower any other nation on the earth, liiat it did ' not ruin and overthrow every kind of j business to a worse extent than it did ! is owing to the fact of our immense resources and vitality. It is as if two-thirds of the heart-blood of our entire people had been drained from their veins. For circulating money is to the body politic what blood is to tbe human system. You weaken the body just as you rob it of its normal amount of blood, and precisely in the same way you weaken, impoverish, bankrupt aud distress the people when you take from them the normal amount of currency required for a healthy state of the body politic. It is, therefore, contraction oi the cur rency, rather than the demonetization of silver in Germany and the Latin Union, which led to tbe panic in 1873, although that fact remotely led to contraction. Mr. Stephens clearly exposed the ef fect of demonetizing silver as striking out one-half tlie basis or money of the country. Its debt paying power bail been coequal with gold from time im memorial, and the effect of demone tizing it was to double the debt of tbe country. He adds, when the debt paying power of half the metal, used in the world for money, was stricken from tbe roll, everything came to the gold standard. The striking of silver and elevating gold necessarily in creased tbe debt one-hajf. and so with ttie interest on the public debt. n>i_ J he eoatiniHM, was one of the issue* before Congress, but failed to get through. He trusts that the bill will be passed at next session, and thus place gold and silver coinage on the same footing. He is frank enough to say tliat the people do not want silver; that they prefer the greenback. He concedes that we now demand $900,000,000 cur rency, and that we have not sl4, counting gold and silver coin, per capita, and that we bad $45 before the panic. Certainly not in 1873, bat up to 1867-’6d, for the panic was forced upon us by contracting tlie currency, as 1 have before shown. He further says that France has $53 per capita, even after passing through tbe terrible ordeal of her desolating war with Prussia, and paying such an immense indemnity to that power. This brings him to the ]>oint of saying that we need as much as we had before con trac ion commenced, to-wit: $45 per capita. To this the people will fully assent, and as it is conceded in all quarters that our population now ex ceeds 45,000,000 and is on the in crease, this would give us upward of $2,000,000,(MH). But he proceeds to say “that we want a paper money that shall have a representative dollar in tbe vaults.” Mr. Stephens certainly cannot mean that we shall have no paper money unless we have gold and silver in the vault* U> redeem the money issued. For he has shown that with ail the money now in circu lation and all the gold and silver in the country added, we now have less than sl4 per capita, and there is not S3OO,(MK>,OOO of coin in the United States, which would not be $7 per capita, when he admits that we re quire $45. But suppose liiat he con tends that one dollar in coin for three in bills is sufficient, even this would give less than s2l per capita, and much less than half we require. The fact is there is neither logic, reason, justice or possible equality with gold and silver as a basis. Coiu always has and always will fail when demanded. If you have but one dol lar in three, the moment a crisis comes failure comes. Two dollars out of three are without a basis, and lhe re maining one dollar sneaks away aud leaves the people and the country in the hour of panic and the day of dan ger. It is the father of fraud, failure, bankruptcy, tramps and desertion. The people will henceforth and for ever repudiate the sham of a represen tative dollar in the vault*. They would have what we now have to a limited extent; what Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Calhoun and Webster knew and dared to say was lietter, more reliable and more secure than any pretended representative dollar in tbe vaults. The greenback is a good enough silver certificate, or gold one, either. It is the pledge of lhe Government, based on the power of taxation, the power of securing a revenue from duties. It is also based upon all lhe gold, all tlie silver, all the land, all the property, all tbe la bor and all the industry and enter prise of the whole country. The E I’luribus Unum of all the resources, power, honor, States and the Govern ment. It cannot fail. We have tested it for seventeen years, crippled, perse cuted and taunted as it has been by. bullionists, but it has withstood all nntil public faith has grown into ab solute raUaaro aod/alteMlity. It will Mt dom at iWIQMqi of item who contradistinction to tyranny, mon archy and the feudal ignorance of the ’ past. With this basis Mr. Stephens is led to admit that the greenback is preferred to silver, or gold even. They represent the whole, while gold and silver represent only a small part, . and as a matter of certainty the i power of taxation is infinitely more ' safe, more certain and more reliable than gold or silver, for gold and silver do not exist and cannot be procured in quantities to secure what Mr. Ste phens’ resolution demands, namely: “A volume sufficient to meet the ur gent demands of trade in every de partment of labor and business.” Specie can always be withdrawn and forever disappears when it is needed. National faith and national resources as permanent as the nation; they ! remained intact even daring one of the most terrible intestine wars of modern times, while silver and gold coin weak ened and finally entirely disappeared from our midst, and even now we do not possess more than $300,000,000 of specie, after hoarding it for several years, to meet the possible demands lor resumption of specie payments. Noone wants specie unless it bethose i who are rich, yet pay no taxes. Mr. Stephens belongs, in some re spects, to the past. True enough, he has made great strides in overcoming the old prejudices in favor of coin ; for national money issued on the faith of tlie stability and property of a nation is a new theory in practice Jeffer son, Calhoun, Webster aud o'lier great minds in our country’s lexicon of ju rists and statesmen comprehended it, and Franklin, as early as 1727, ex plained it. England, for twenty-five years, from 1794 to 1819—the most prosperous years of her history and progress, was sustained and grew in to strength to overthrow Napoleon and his armies witii it. Being a monarchy and not a land of liberty having a rep resentative form of government, she gave it up at the demand of bullion ists, lhe better to oppress the people in the interest of the crown ami the landed aristocracy. The greenback theory is the only independent financial theory by which an adequate currency can be supplied. The South, beyond and above all oth er sections, should insist upon a cur rency which will relieve it from the exactions of home and foreign Shy locks and bullionists, for her people are all poor, and above all others, have suffered by the tyranny of gold and ' irredeemable, worthless wild-cat bank bills founded u]xm a pretended gold 1 reserve. The nation, and the nation •done, oan fnri>l«b » currency safe be all valuable above 1 and beyond all |*ossil*ility of doubt, i and suited, by it* universality, to eve ery point of the compas* where our flag flies, our sovereignty rules or our commerce extends. Greenbacks are good in Europe, good in Asia, and good, as I have beeu informed, even in benighted Africa. Mr. Stephens is so near to the greenback theory that tlie people expect to bail him not only as one of the unqualified devotees, but | as one of it* ablest advocates. Would to God that not only he but the whole democracy of the country would step tpon the level of the greenback plane ' from out the feudal prejudices of tbe put and they would do it but for those binds. Let them throw off the imagi nary shackles which encircle them. Ihere is nothing in the United States bonds that ought to bind any freeman Hther in political economy, morals or , (bnscienoe, in so far as the obligation t# pay said bonds in gold extends.' lhey only represent treasury notes called in and destroyed. There is no diligation of a contract attaching to aiy of them now in existence. They He Only permits, conferring a special privilege upon the holders, revocable < tbe option of the government. Ev ey United States bond, from which tie government ever realized a solitary collar in specie, has long since been (aid off. All now outstanding were ' £ rebased and paid for with green cks, aud by paying them in green lacks no contract is broken, no public ffodit is violated. They ought to lie Jid off at once, thereby the better en ling the government to remodel OUU SYSTEM or TAXATION. With profound truth, Mr. Stephens icclsres that “we are burdened with Ge most unjust system of taxation vjth which be is acquainted.” Labor aid production, as he says, pays the tetes. This will continue to be true m long as the infamous bond policy pevails. It will continue to be true ilU.il the national bank bounty (upon Ebich Mr. Stephens is silent), is wiped ait. It will lie true until the green bick theory is adopted, and until we repudiate the principle that the gov enment, belli State and National, can, bi any stretch of power, or under any pressure of circumstances, exempt one teas or class of property from taxes aid impose them upon another. To day JOO,WK) men, of the largest wealth in this country, are exempt from tax •tiffi as a privileged nobility. It is in Opposition to every constitution, Side and National. It is subversive ofihe plainest principles of equality u|»n which our governmental policy i is ased. It is worse than wrong—it is ifamous, and tbe people will no loi (er tamely submit to it. Ir. btepbens is very wide from the mffk when be says that tbe property of he United Ulates is estimated at $9,000,1)00.000. $45,000,000,000 is th highest accredited estimate, and of th $28,000,000,000 is tbe highest Ag ue that has been returned as subject to axation since the panic; lhe re minder escsjies taxation and is in the ha dt of the rich - precious little of it lieiig in the South. Mr. Stephens do* himself infinite credit by pledg ing his unqualified support to any syAein which shall* force all property to M equal and fair charge for the sup port, of the government, and tha* be will stand by the laboring masses in the work shops, in the fields, North •nd South, East and West, so long as he oan be spared to work out their foMt>thralluMat\ from the Infamous WMaUori whtebtad but one vein and fray «"?. ihEth-iipiktegi.- Mr. Stephens is on the high road to the Union Greenback doctrine. Let him and the many journals which have endorsed his speech, cut loose from the old dogmas and ideas which are dead, and old political phrases and affiliations, which have lost their ele ments of equality and justice, and which at an earlier day won his and their confidence and support. Let us all learn from the school of reason and experience. What the people desire is a currency adequate for their wants, issued by the nation for the nation, and absolute equality of taxation, and no more United States bonds. These are the fundamental doctrines of the Greenback party. They are true Dem ocratic principles, as indicated by the founders of our government, and the people will be rejoiced to find that Mr. Stephens is so nearly allied to them as his Atlanta speech has indicated. The Democratic party should turn its back upon the graves of the dead and rot ten issues of the past; it should about face and step up to the full level of liv ing present issues, for the benefit of ; the people, if it would prove itself ; worthy of success; it should eliminate Bayard, Belmont, Tilden A Co., from its ranks and take up the cause of true republicanism and the people. When ; it does this, success is assured, other- I wise it remains unworthy of the peo ple’s confidence. Daniel Pittman. Atlanta, Aug. 6, 1879. —' ■— ■ - • • The Singer Machine Leads the Van. For years the old reliable Singer Sewing Machine has led the van. The sales far exceed that of any other ma ' chine ever placed before the American public. Merit wins, and that is why ' the singer is ahead. During tlie year 1870, people bought 127,833 Singer i Machines, and in the year 1878, 356,- i 432 machines were sold. Over three I quarters of all the sewing machines : sold throughout the world in 1878 were Singers, and they continue to lay in the ahade all conqietitors. All over the country, companies have sprung up mush-room like, who attempt, and . ignotninously fail, to make an imita ’ tion machine, and one naturally asks why they do not form companies to install other machines besides the Singer? The public will draw its own i inference; gold and silver is contin ually counterfeited; brass and tin never. After the Chicago fire the Relief i Committee undertook to furnish sew ■ ing machines to the needy women of ' that city. Applicants were permitted to choose from six different kinds of I mM'biuoa , applioants were fur- i i rushed with machines; 2,427 chose ' Singer Machines, and 517 distributed ' their choice among the five other kinds of machines I These girls were to earn their living on these machines. Why ' did they take. Singers ? Capt. Leon aril, the courteous man ager of the Singer Manufacturing Company iu this city, is a lb®, ener getic gentleman, and things along at a rapid rate. If you want I a good, reliable sewing machine—one that is always in order and ready for ' work—buy the Singer. It never fails ito do its work, runs easily, and is a general favorite with the ladies. — STATE AGRICULTURAL SO CIETY. There is considerable talk among the people that the State Agricultural Society is more of a political than ag ricultural organization. We believe there are some grounds for such a charge, and the leading members of the body should go to work and rem edy this trouble. We feel kindly towards this Society and know it has ' accomplished, snd will continue to ac complish, great good, if confined strict ly to its legitimate aims and objects; ' but as long as parties who have no particular interest in agriculture are allowed to control its affairs for their political aggrandizement, the organ ization will be looked on with a su'i picious eye by the non-agricultural public. This article is not penned with any unfriendly motive, or to any way injure the Society, because we like the Society and its bona fide mem- . bers, but it will be admitted that what we say is true to the letter. A FAITHFUL OFFICIAL. In these days of bribery, peculation, crooked cheeks, malpractice in investigations, and general cu*se<!| nest, it is indeed refreshing to come across a good official who does hia duty conscientiously. We are always glad of an opportu nity to say a good thing of a deserv ing man, and we copv the article be low, from the Milledgeville Recorder, with our full and unreserved endorse ment: There is at least one among them for whom we are willing to vouch—one who has held his office during many administrations, before and since the war, in the old Capitol and in the op era house, and against whom there never has been the slightest breath of suspicion—through all these changing scenes he has remained pure and poor —we refer to the venerable Secretary of State—Col. Nathan Crawford Bar nett. God bless the grand old in an who has been content to endure pov erty in dignified serenity. .*• • Splendid Refrigerators and other usefill goods to sell at and below coat to make room for Mcßride’s China Palace. — 1 1 ♦ ' I IS Seth Thomas Clocks, Rogers Knives, Shoan's Forks, Castors, to trade at manufacturers’ prices, by Mcßride A Co., Atlanta, Ga. for Sale Cheap. A 4/Vblte Sewing Ma- cbtae will be mH sh**? for cash. ApjflyaMfefafcfc auglOtf the beer and on-] [PRICE 5 CENTS GEORGIA NEWS. A TRAMP THROUGH THE EXCHANGES OF THE STATE. Augusta brags on her fine water power. Crops around Crawfordsville are very fine. Rockdale Superior Court convenes to-morrow. Columbus wants street cars and water-works. A genuine centipede has been cap tured at Butler. Stray babies arc getting to be com mon around Augusta. The crop of rice birds around Sa vannah, is said to be abundant. Hawkinsville received her first bale of new cotton last Wednesday. Sparta claims to have fewer loafers than any town of its size in the State. The young men of Covington arc . going to organize a military company. ' Recently an old man, 90 years of age, living at Butler, smoked hie first cigar. Albany wants the children's Pinafore company to come to that city this season. Brother Blatts, of the North Georgi an, needs greasing up. He advertises for butter. The third annual Houston County Fair will be held at Perry, on the 2d and 3d of October. It is currently reported that Hamp Draper, of Fort Valley, is getting barefooted on the top of his head. Mr. W. T. Loden, of Gainesville, is dead. He was a printer by trade, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. Maj. G. W. West, an old and re spected citizen of Polk county, died at his home near Cedartown, last Thursday. LaGrange Reporter: It is said La- Grange contains more line-looking young men than any town to its size in the State. A wild-cat was captured in the jungles of Pulaski county the other day, which measured 4 feet inches, and weighed 20 pounds. Three men charged with being the Mormon murderers, were arrested in Catoosa county on Wednesday', and lodged in the Dalton jail. An cel measuring eleven and a half inches in circumference and three feet and a half long, wiy caught in a ' spring branch near Dalton. A dog and a boy had a desperate fight with a rattle snake near Ameri cus recently. The boy and the dog managed to annihilate the reptile. The adolescent editor of the Fort Valley Advertiser, says “he hates a policy man, and can’t stand him.” Why, hang it, sit down on him then. Majah Ed. Byington threatens that if we don’t let him alone, he will tell 'what a girl told him—that we wore ! hose suspenders. How did she find it out Majali ? Mrs. M. A. Woods, of Walton county, whose mind was not sound, , committed suicide last night, one week ago, by jumping into Alcova river near Dickenson’s bridge. Capt. Aldridge, of our police, cap tured a negro three miles from Salem, Alabama, last Wednesday, named Geo. Williams, who is supposed to be im plicated in the Defoor murder. Says the Newnan Leader: “The people of this State will be cracking chinkapins when our present investi , gating Legislature takes a notion to | go to the bosom of their families.” There is a man living about four : miles north of Cochran, who never : had a hair on his bead or a tooth in I his mouth. He is about six feet high, ' looks like a corpse, has a large family i and is a good provider. The editor of the Fort Valley Ad | vertiter says he can knock the socks off any body who disputes the fact that the prettiest girl in Georgia does not live in that village. Well, she doesn’t! so knock away young man. Three prisoners escaped from the jail at Perry last Saturday, while the sheriff was feeding them. They took Mr. Butner’s pistol from him and threatened to shoot him. One was captured, but not the one which got' his fine nlckel-plated pistol. Columbus Timet: A spirit of en ergy and enterprise seems to enthuse all Atlanta, and in all parts of the city can be seen elegant stores and magnificent residences going up, and it is said the population continues to increase at a rapid rate. The Hamilton Journal contains only one snake talc, and that is rather a small one to lie gotten up by the cham pion snake editor of the State. It says, “a garter-snake confronted sev eral young la<lies who were eating lunch at a picnic and no one fainted.” We are surprised that Joe should let them off so lightly, but he handles garters carefully. We glean this item from the Amer icus Recorder: “Eleven years ago J its. N. Hunt, of Hancock county, who had never married, made a will, duly ex ecuted, declaring C. W. Dubose, Esq., i his executor, and leaving first a special legacy of (500 each to three of the children and the residue to his colored mistress, the mother, and her eight children share and share alike. Robert Miller, a colored barber of Americus, 1 having married one of the girls, em ployed Mr. Brady to go to Sparta and ' represent his wife’s interest. While there his services were engaged by another heir. The property consists of one plantation in Hancock, one house and lot in Sparta, 86 shares Georgia Railroad and 71 shares Cen tral Railroad, liesides $2,500 in money and solvent debts. It Is further said that deceased was the owner of boon SI,OOO worth of Augusta factory stock and other property. His brother sad relatives will ooaieat the will, it fall SOCIETY 6OSBIP. WHAT THE BOYS AMD GIRLS ARE DOING HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE. a» * within her digits fair A heliotrope; Her pretty fnea was lit with grace, And beams of joy and hope. He said: "My sweet, what wilt thou have? Ah answer, pretty warbler.” She arched her lips, and then replied: “I think a sherry cobbler IM|M Is about tile cheese." She got it Wsß Macon stands A No. 1 for pretty girls. Miss May Roach has returned from Monroe, Ga. Miss Hattie Dunn, of Forsyth, is still in Griffin. Albany girls are said to be the big- - gest flirts in the State. Miss Anna Crawford, of Americus, is visiting friends in Macon. The Misses Jackson, of Griffin, are visiting friends at Hampton. Miss Cora Nutting, of Macon, has ’ returned home from Catoosa. ’ Miss Pinkie Raiford, of Qgchran, will spend several weeks in Macon.' •: Miss Lina Veal, of Twiggs county, , is visiting relations in Montezuma. Miss Florrie Parrott, of Carters i ville, is visiting relatives at Griffin. The Misses Richards, of this city, are visiting friends down at Washington. ~ Miss Maggie Kelly, of Americus, is visiting friends in this city and Gaines ville. Miss Annie Roe Taylor, of Cuth bert, is visiting relations in Montezu ma. Miss Allie Carroll, one of the p. g.'s of Madison, is visiting friends at Cov ington. Miss Hansell, of Morgan county, is visiting the family of A. D. Nunnally, of Grillin. Miss Sallie Dick, of Marietta, is vis • iting her sister, Mrs. J. A. Smith, of Gainesville. Miss F.tnma Clemmons, of Conyers, is the guest of Mrs. Tidle Corley, of Covington. Miss Eliza Calhoun, of Charleston, S. C., is in Elberton, the guest of Maj. .1. H. Jones. Miss Emma High, one of Madison's most charming fair ones, is a guest of the Kimball. Misses Ida Murray, and Mittie Wal lace, of Sumter county, are visiting friends in Montezuma. Misses Ada and Ida Brown, of Barnesville, are visiting friends and relatives in this city. The Misses Snider, of Macon, who have been spending the summer at Marietta, have returned homo. Misses Rosa Stallings and Susie Howell, of Senoia, are visiting Miss Emma Stallings, ofCovington. Mr. D. S. Duke, of Montezuma, was married to Miss Leila Murray, of Sumter county, on the 7th inst. . Two daughters of the late General R. E. Lee, Misses Mary and Mildred, are spending their summer in Norway. Miss Lula Epps, the beautiful bru nette of Starrsville, is visiting the family of Dr. D. N. Pitts, of Coving ton. Misses Flora Hughey, Hattie Rice, Mary White and Mary Inman, of At lanta, are visiting friends at Gaines ville. _ - Miss Flora Huson, of Newton coun ty, is known as the “naive little nymph of South river." Guess she is a “mere maid.” Miss Ida Stokes, of Atlanta, is on a visit to Newnan. She will delight the hearts of the Newnan boys for several weeks. Mr. Thomas A. Gillespie, editor of the Franklin News, was married to Miss Nannie Kidd last Sunday. Here’s our fist. A correspondent of the Washington Society News says Mrs. Geo. Schaefer is the handsomest bride at Saratoga this summer. ■ Charlie Caldwell, of Macon, yearns for Dalton same as a puppy yearneth for new milk. Charlie has got ’em bad, awful bad. < Miss Emma Fish, of Oglethorpe, is rusticating in North Georgia. We will tell the boys in time that she is a good Fish to catch. “Let girls lie girls,” says an ex change. That is what we say. The original resolutions of the Lord should be strictly carried out. Freckled faced girls are all good natured. It is to be hoped that this little item will not cause every girl in the country to go bare-headed. Miss Woodie Shepherd, a charming young lady from Columbus, is stop ping at the residence of Mrs. James Bridge, on Peachtree street. Capt. Robt. Falligant, a prominent citizen and lawyer of Savannah, was inarr I to Mrs. Sarah Hall, of Au gusta, at the latter place, Tuesday night. Col. John B. Gorman went down to Covington the other day to see bis spark, but sh» was at Tallulah Falls : having a good time with some other 1 fellow. One of Atlanta’s fairest jewels, pret ty as a picture, is visiting our city, and our Marietta boys haven’t found out valuable a prize they iiaVe overlooked.— Journal. The Misses Kilpatrick, of Marietta, are in the city, guests of Mr. Henry Patillo. We hope their visit will be as pleasant as the faces of the young men who have had the happiness to meet them. Miss Emmie Holliman, one of At lanta’s most charming young ladies, is visiting friends anti relatives in this vicinity. She is stopping nt the resi dence of her kinsman, Rev. Josephus Hillman.— Thomson Journal. Married in this city last Sunday at the residence of Mrs. L. M. Goodman, by Rev. Mr. Foute, Mr. Jno. E. Coop er, to .Miss Ada E. Goodman. The groom is a typo, and has been con nected with the Macon Telegraph and Columbus Timet. One of our young mon, who is some what classically inclined, asked his girl the other evening if she had ever read Romeo and Juliet, and swooned clear away when she replied : "Y-e-s—. that is, I’ve read Romeo. Don’t think I ever read Juliet." He was doing well at last accounts, though still weak.— Hampton Weekly. The waists of ball dresses are no* made glove fitting, a result *hM> ia brought alrout by having many seams in the front of the dreee as ia the back and cutting the aide