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rOLISBUN. «A.«
SATURDAY AUGUST 8, 1871.
JOUX H. MARTIN, • • • Editor.
*i;rs< riptios received unless
PAID FOR IX ADVANCE.
THE HERALD'S WHOLE STORY.
Mr. CnABLEi H. Markham Im the agent
for the Enquirer-Sun for Mneoogee and
UurtoU counties. He ih authorized to
solicit adeertiHing and Hubacriptione, and
to receipt for the hr me. We commeptf
him a« a gentleman in every way yr6rthy
of confidence.
Gen. W. K. Hancock, has authorized
the Norristown, Pa., Herald to eay that
be ia not a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for the Presidency; that he
has nover sought and doea not now seek
any political office.
The Hassell Recorder says that John
Sourlook, a negro blacksmith and Radi
cal leader, formerly on the Rives planta
tion in Russell, made a speech at the Bsr-
hour Radio'd Convention, favoring re
duction of tho poll tax to fifty cents, and
raising the tax on laud to twenty dollar*
an acre!
The Harris county Democratic meeting,
held iu Hamilton on Tuesday, instructed
Its delegates to the Sonutorial District
Convention to nominate And vote for
Hon. Win. I. Hudson for Senator. The
Dsitrict is composed of the counties of
Harris, Talbot and Upson. The meeting
proposed Talbotton as the place, and the
27th inst. as the time for holding this
convention.
The Russell Recorder says (but our
readers know that we take tlieso big corn
reports with some allowance) that Mr W.
H. Denson, returned from Southwestern
Georgia, reports that it will he the Egypt
of the South. Mucon, Suiuter, and other
counties will make corn ouough for two
years ; and one planter, with 901) acres in
corn, proffers to engage it now at thirty-
five cents, delivered next fall.
The latest reports from Gen. Custer's
expedition say that on the evening of the
Hist of July tho expedition was encamped
nesr Black Hutto, at the foot of tho Hlnck
Hills ; that, according to reports of In
dian runners, the hostile Indians know
nothing of Gen. Custor's expedition, and
that they were poacoahly disposed and
wanted to come into tho agonoy to trade.
So there does not appear to bo any pros-
pool of a war growing out of this expedi
tion, and the only interesting question
connected with it now is as to the char
acter of tho country and its minerals, &«.
Tiik Radical Cougret-stniui reported to
be elected m North Carolina is doubtless
John A. Hyman, negro, from the 2d (or
Newborn) District. If it be true, as the
telegraphic reports of yesterday encour
age us to believe, that all tho other Con
gressmen elect are Democrats, the gaiu is
a very important and significant ouo. It
disolosos the effect of tho “Civil Rights"
agitation in uniting the white men of the
South and arousing thorn to political
effort. Alabama and Georgia ought to
do as well as North Caroliua, .and wo
hope will do ho. There should not be
more than a dozeu Radicals from all the
Hotlth elected to the next Congress, and
all of that dozeu ought to bo negroes,
for they will be elected almost exclusively
by negroes.
To The Executive C ommittee of the
Fourth Congressional District.
The uieuibors of the Executive Commit
tee of the Fourth Congressional District
are rospootfully requested to assemble at
Columbus, Go., at 11 a. m , in the Court
house, on Tuesday the 18th of August, iu
order to call a Nominating Convention.
The membors uro as follows:
B. B. Hinton, J. M. Mobley, J. W.
Park, T. W. Latham, J. E. tradings,
Henry Persons, E. O. Brown, F. G. Wil
kins, A 8. Gorman, C. U. 0. Willingham,
E. R. Hharpo, J. B. Murrell.
All papers in tho District are requested
to copy.
THE CAN VAN* IN GEORGIA.
Iu our owu Congressional District sev
eral imp -riant moves have been made
within the last few days. We priut to
day oarda of Hon. Mark H. Blaudford and
Hon. Martiu J. Crawford—the former
withdrawing fiom any contest for the
notuiuatiou, and the latter declaring that
he has had no desire to run aud will not
be a cuudidato. Then we have reports of
meetings in Troup and Heard counties,
both choosing delegates favorable to tho
nomination of Hon. lleury U. Harris for
re-election. In Harris the delegates to
the Congressional Convention were ap-
pointed by the chairman of the meeting,
aud we do not kuow whom thoy are in
favor of. Messrs. W. I. Hudson, Flynn
Hargett, Iltues Dozier and J. F. 0. Wil
liams are the delegates. Tho meetiug
passed a resolution requesting them to
proHunt the name of Col. James M. Mob
ley us a candidate for Congress.
In the Sixth District, Mr C. A. Nutting
has withdrawn from the contest for tho
Congressional nomination, aud ouly Cols.
Blount aud Lawsou remain iu the field.
Most of tho eonuties that have yet acted
have instructed their delegates for Blount,
and there does not seem to be any reason
able doubt of his nomination for ro-
election.
In the Heventh District Trammell np
pears to havo the lead, but it is not im
probable that all the oppomtiou may coo-
oeutrate against him iu the end. Whit
field aud Gordon have both elected
Trammell delegates, sod Dade it about
equdly divided between Trammell and
Wadiel'. Cobb and Polk are for Wad-
del , «nd Floyd for Printup.
In the Sixth District, Newtou has elect
ed delegates in favor of the nomination of
Hon. J. J. Floyd.
Iu the Hall couuty Couvention, on the
first ballotiug of the delegates, the vote
stood—B. H Hill 14, Garnett MoMillau
6, Col. Rates 4, W. P. Price 3. We are
not informed of the result of other bal-
lotiog*. This is the Niueth District.
In the Eighth District there is a lively
eontest for the nomination. Major Jos.
B. Camming, Col. J. J. Matthews and
Copt. Pope Barrow are candidates.
Gen. Grant In Rnn for n Tklrd Term.
IOH SUPPORTERS—DEMOCRATS, LtlEJ
PUBLICANS AND OFFI0B-HI
We give below the matejilfi portions of
the articlo of the Now/York Herald of
tho 4 th inst., of the hubstance was
telegraphed to u* the other day. It is the
article profoj}Mfog to give the declarations
of Gen. ^kfanthimself respecting his can*
didacjrfor a third term. We cannot, of
oojatae, undertake to say that this is a
'irne report of any conversation with Gon.
Grant. But it certainly outlines a party
policy upon which an ambitious politician
might reasonably base a “new depart
ure" with some confidence in its success.
It is plain that if Gen. Grant wants
third term, this reported programme is
tho very one that promises him the
strongest support for it, for it is not likely
that be ootild be taken up as a distinctive
candidate of either the Republican or the
Democratic party without prodacMi^ such
a split in the party adopting him as would
result in its certain defeat.
There is one incidental circumstance
that adds to the plausibility of this story
of the Herald. It is the fast-progressing
reconciliation between ex-Gov. Fenton
and the Republicans of New York. Tho
N. Y. World, we are advised, is confident
tut* Fenton will be tho Republican nomi
nee for Governor next fall. Iu 1872 he
supported Greeley, and he has been at
“daggers' points” with the Republican
party tor several years. Two or three
mouths ago, after a visit to Washington,
he announced his conviction that Gen.
Grant would be a candidate for • third
term and his opposition to it. Now we
see the Republican party of New York
making up with him, and the opinion ex
pressed that they wiil take him for Gover-
even iu preference to an Exeoutive
who has given so muoh satisfaction to
both parties, and is therefore so strong, as
Gov. Dix! What has produced this re
markable change, if nut the Republican de
sign to draw off the Liberal Republicans of
New York from the support of Grant un
der some such coalition as that which the
Herald professes to disclose ?
Tho correspondent of the Herald, writ
ing from Long Branch, August fid, after
uoticiug the fact that Gon. Grant nolonger
confided iu Conkling, Blaine, Morton, Ac.,
and contending thut this estrangement
lignified a “new departure" in his party
relations, gives the following as
Ills NKW PLAN OF OPERATIONS.
Geueral Grant has discovered that the
idea of a third term is exceedingly dis
tasteful to the Republican leaders, for it
sets them all back aud brooks up all their
calculations aud expectations. He has
(Uncovered that the idea of a third term
oven to Gen. Grant is distasteful to the
great body of Republicans throughout
country, and that they do not onter-
taiu a HuriouH thought of being oalled up-
ju to vole a third lime for him for the
Presidency. Moro than this, the Presi
dent bin discovered that if nominated
for u third term by the Republicans he will,
in all probability, not only be beaten, but
disastrously do outed. bull intent, then,
upon another election, how is ho to seoure
it ? Tho pluu said to be adopted discloses
something of the admirable uirategy aud
tactics of the Chuttunouge campaign,
lie will first deceive the enemy as to his
movements and then crush him in detail,
iu pluiu terms, Geuerul Grant has entored
upon the (hiring enterprise of an election
tor u third term by the anti-Republi-
oiiih and auti-Adimnistration forces of
he country, and upou tho Liboral Repub
lican slid Democratic platform of 1872,
including particularly, a generous policy
of reconciliation towards the Houtheru
States and of absolute non-intervention
in thoir local affairs, and including
the new plank, full length, of
uhesp transportation. The argument
submitted iu favor of this new departure
is m» follows:—On the platform indicated,
os an independent candidate, General
Grant will bo supported not only by the
combiued opposition forces, but by the
grsnd army of office-holders, five legions
strong; by the Grand Army of the Re-
pub. io xml by tho still grander and more
powerful political army of capitalists,
bankers, brokers nnd bondholders. This
is the cult illation, and that General Grant's
thoughts have, svuce last fall, been run
ning iu this direction, muy be reasonably
interred from his allusion in his annual
message of December last to the breaking
up of party lines of distinction in the re
cent election*; from his decisive repudia
tion of the Republican would-be Governor
Divis, of Texas; from his snubbing of
the would-be Governor Brooks, of Arkan
sas, and from his unexpected veto of the
pet Cnrreuoy bill ot Senator Morton and
of the infitt ou m»j critics of the two
Mouses supporting him. Nor can it bo
doubted now that iu that important mat-
tor ot the appointuieut of Chief Justice
lust winter the President's purposes and
the purposes of the Republican magnates
of the Senate wore widely different.
These are but pre-muiptiona and infer
ences touchiug tbe new departure sugges
ted ; but they will go far to strengthen
tho evidence directly to tho point whioh
follows.
THE EVIDENCE.
A few dAys ago a loading Liberal Re
publican of the West, encouraged by
iustructious that President Grant was
strongly incliued to a new political move
ment for a third term, oame to Long
Branch and nailed upou the President at
his cottugo to obtaiu his views upou the
subject. The rcaults of this conference,
as given to the writer from a third party,
ati intelligent and responsible man, were
these: After the usual introductory for
malities, tho Liberal Republican Ambas
sador having stated tbe object of his visit
and his desire for a free interchange of
thought aud suggestions, the President
said that ttie country bad manifestly had
enough of the rule of tho Republican
party; that the party had fUlfillod its mis-
sion and outlived ita usefulness; aud that
the people, tiro 1 of tho corruptions and
demoralizations of tbe Republican party
in Congress, and tired of ita extreme sec
tional measures, were ready and anxious
for a change. Next, in tho oouree of the
conversation, the President suggested that
if tbe Liberal Republican party would
take the loud in nominating him upon tbe
platform we have indicated, be had no
doubt of tho success of the movement.
The Liberal Republican negotiator sub
mitted, however, that his party was but a
handful of men ; aud that of themselves,
as u party, they could do nothing.
THE 1‘UEHIDENT REPLIED
that they were a respectable body of in
dependent uien; that their principles
were acceptable to the people, and that iu
moving for bis re-election in opposition
to the regular Republican party they
would first bring over tbe Demooratic
par y, aud that iu the next plaoe all the
Sou'hern States would support the move
ment; and, again, (he moneyed interests
of tbe country, desirous of avoiding any
dangerous changes or experiments in our
fiu oioial system, will support a new party
which, while aiming to displaoe the Re-
publioms, will support the President for
another term as the national standard
bearer of this new organisation. The
President also submitted that the Kxauu-
ftronage would prove an alement of
MMnderable weight in this new partv ov
ertaking, and that, with all the foriM to
back it wbioji he had. indicated, defeat
■WB. ffi. B. Be—i. /
After tbe firet ballot for Congreesman-
at-Large in the State Convention, day be
fore yesterday, the nomination of Col. S.
would ba impossible and snooess certain, i g. 8cott, of Russell, was withdrawn. This
Furthermore, we are informed that j statement was, by oversight, omitted from i
wban the— high contracting parties sepa- the published proceedings. Col. Bcott |
ratad it was with the promise on the one 1 wtH among the speakers at tho ratification
part that the Liberal Hcpnblieanfl, so far j meeting on Thursday evening aud acquit
as directly represented in this conference,
will move in behalf ot Geo. Grant for a
third term, and with a promise on his
part that to strengthen this movement
the President will veto tbe Civil Rights
bill if passed at thin coming session of
Congress; will insist npon civil service
reform, notwithstanding the objections of
this Congress; will urge a universal
amnesty in his next annualtuetmage, and
to tbe extent of bis power and resources
will clear oat the carpet-baggers and
prove himself e true friend of the Booth
and of Boutbern tights under the consti
tution.
We baveftbis information, we repeat,
from an intelligent and responsible mao,
who pays that these things are true, and
who believes that under the programme
We have outlined General Grant can, and
‘probably will, be elected for a third Pres
idential torn as tho candidate of the
combined opposition forces agaiost the
party in power. We learn farther that
the leading Republicans of the country
—and of New York most prominently—
are not only distreseed but indignant at
this continued aud mysterious silence of
General Grant in reference to a third
term ; that they suspect there is misobief
in it, and that they are prepared to
adopt and play the liberal repubiioauu
against him in our November State elec
tion. At all events the liberal republi
cans are now in the position of the moo
who hold the gap, and Mr. Conkling may
well doubt whether he or Senator Fenton
is now
THE NEW YORE FAVORITE
of the Administration, An aotive party
politician, who pleads the plea that his
mouth is sealed, says: “Only see how we
are tied np. If the President wonld only
grsoefully retire from the Presidential
course we could, under the banner of Sen
ator Conkling as our first choice, sweep
New York in November. But what can
we do now ? Nothing, because we don’t
know where we stand; and Mr. Morphy
ia all wrong, if what the Herald says are
his opinions is true. The President ought
to kuow that in keeping silence on this
momentous question of a third term he is
playing the part of an armed neutral,
armed against us; and he ought to know
that the example of Washington in fixing
the Presidential limitation at two terms
has become as strong as the Constitution,"
Without any party prodileotions or mo
tives or deHigos in these matters, and
with a respeet for the great public ser
vices and personal oharacter of General
Grant whieh cannot easily be shaken,
your correspondent nevertheless gives
you the information embodied in this re
port, under a strong impression that it ia
essentially true and of the highest impor
tance to the Republican party, to the op-
MMition elements and to the country at
* r B°*
T# the Pabllc.
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 7tb, 1874.
My name having been used in connec
tion with the candidacy for Congress in
this Distriot, it is proper for mo to state
that roy desire for tbe office is not so
great as to induoe me to enter into a
scramble for the nomination. I therefore
aunounce that I am not and will not be a
candidate.
To my friends that have so generonxly
and sineerely offered me their support, I
tender my thanks and grateful acknowl
edgements.
Mark H. Blandfoud.
€•1. Crawford N— a Candidate.
Columbus, Ga., Augnst 7, 1874.
Editor Enquirer-Sun: Upon my return
home this morning, after an absence of
ten days, I find my name suggested for
the Congressional nomination in this
Distriot.
I take the very first occasion to say that
I am not, and shall not be, a candidate
for tho nomination as suggested.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Martin J. Crawford.
OINELII£A^"aLA. "
Lee Coaaly Affairs—A Heavy Rail*
read Tax, Ac.
Opelika, Ala., August 6, 1874.
Editor* Enquirer-Sun; Our City Court
is now in session, having convened last
Monday. Business is being rapidly dis
posed of. This court, though but recently
organized, is getting quite a number of
cases on its docket. We notice in attend
ance on said court, amongst others, Col.
J. M. Russell and Judge Williams, of
your city.
The farmors who oome in from the
b:>dy of the county report crops in good
condition ; oorn already made, and cotton
doing well. This county will have more
provisions on hand uext fall than any year
since the war.
Politics is running high. Next Saturday
the Couvention of the Democratic aud
Conservative party meets to nominate
oounty officers, members for the Legisla
ture, Ac.
But for one drawback our county would
be in a good condition. The taxes are
very high already, aud on next Monday
the Judge of Probate aud Couuty Com
missioners will levy sn additional tax to
pay off the accrued interest on tho bond*
of tbe East Alabama aud Cincinnati Rail
road. Said accrued iuterest amounts to
somo $17,000. The levying of tho said
railroad tax will increase onr taxes for
next year to from two and one-half to
three per ceut. This appears thut whilst
our people advance towards prosperity in
one direction, the heavy taxes oome in
and overbalance the gain and keep them
burdened down.
The people have combined together and
brought several suits, the purpose of which
was to get rid of paying the onerous taxes,
but have heretofore failed to accomplish
their objeot. The levy will be made next
Monday and the additional tux will be put
upon the people. We nuderatuud that
two of the Commissioners will refuse to
order the levy, but the Judge of Probate
and the two other Commissioners, consti
tuting a majority of the Court, will or
der it made.
The crops around Opelika are ndeding
rain at this time.
The associate editor of tbe Opelika Ob
server is on tbe jury for this wetk, and he
site in the paauel with becoming dignity.
Good luck to our knight ofJhe quill, for
he will draw his two dollars por day.
_ More Anon.
—Louisiana papers relate the case of a
child being born in that State with hoofs
instead of feet. Tbe devil has been to
pay down there, anyhow, for the last five
years.
ted himself with bis accustomed force and
eloquence. We shall hear a fine account
from the gallant Colonel in tbi« great and
all-important campaign. — Montgomery
Advertiser,
J. R. Treadwell.—Treadwell, one of
the immediate negro Representatives of
Russell, is reported to be a candidate for
the Radical nomination for Probate Judge
of Russell county. For the past twelve
months, or more, he has been keeping a
bar-room in Opelika.
We learn at the Opelika municipal elec
tion last fall or winter, Treadwell made
an affidavit that he bad been a citizen of
Opelika for three months proceeding, and
voted for the Radical candidate for
Mayor, at the same timo claiming lolita
Representative of RnsseJl county. He
has lived continuously in Opelika since.—
Russell Recorder.
Grant.—A newspaper man lately inter
viewed Gen. Hillyer, and asked him what
he thought of Gen. Grant. “I never
thonght much of him." said Hillyer,
“until at the battle of Fort Doneison,
where he came up late, after Low Wal
lace had been demoralized, and he asked
me if there were any prisoners. Taking
a prisoner, be ezamined his haversack,
and finding several days’ rations there, ho
said, “Just as I thonght; they are endeav
oring to escape." He then ordered tho
attack at that part of the fort where the
rebels were weakest,-and they gave up
after being worsted and summoned before
assault. The trick of looking at the ra
tions struck me as acute."
THE NEW* COMET.
IM Place aud How la Find II.
To the Editor of the Tribune;—Sib—
The new comet ui .y be fouud with a small
telescope, 7 degrees south of Gamins,
the upper guard or Pointer of the Little
Boar. It will be between 7 and 10 o’clock
in the evening, almost direct to the left
of that star. Its small size and slow mo
tion indicates that it is yet probably uot
less tbsn 100,000,000 miles from us; but
neither itadintanoe nor the direction of its
motion oan be certainly known until after
another observation.
10 p. m.—From an observation to-night
it appears that its present direction aud
rate of motion will bring it midway be
tween Gamma and Thuban in one week.
Henry M. Pabkhttrst.
New York, August fi, 1874.
The Orloff Diamond.—A writer, speak
ing of the Orloff diamond, says:
We beheld the sceptre of all the Rim-
sias, tipped by the Orloff diamond. Of
course we were disappointed. Tbe scep
tre resembles a gold poker, and the
“mountain of light*’ which we had pic*
tured to ourselves as big as a walnut, with
a blaze of glory surrounding it, was no
bigger than a hazel nut. But for all that
it was brilliant, clear and beautiful. It is
slightly flat in front and pointed behind,
and perfectly symmetrical in shape. It is
said to have a slight yellow hue, but that
was uot perceptible iu tbe somewhat ob
scured chamber. Many are the histories
attached to this stone. Some believe it
to have been part of an immense brilliant,
whioh was out into three ; but the most
likely supposition appears to be that it
formed tno eye of an idol, and was stolen
from a temple near Trichinopoly. It was
sold, resold and sold again, each time at a
higher rate, and refused by Catharine on
account of its enormou; price. It was
bought at last by Prince Potemkiu, aud
presented by him to his royal mistress—
tbe prioe paid to the vendor, an Armenian
merchant of the name of bazareff, being
450,000 silver ronblee, a life annuity of
2,000, and a patent of nobility. The Or
loff diamond weighs a little above eight
carats more than tbe Koh-i-noor before it
was out, bat the Russian diamond has in
it a slight flaw, and the English brilliant
is considered to be the most valuable.
—There was to be a marriage in a
French village, and all the guests were
punctual, but the bridegroom could not
be found. He was discovered at last np
a tree, but would not oome down till the
future father-in-law conveyed to him a
farm that bad been promised. Muoh pro
testation and many tears, but he was firm.
Finally the papers were signed, and down
he cauie.
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provision she bus made for both food and
medicine for man. The Divine band is
ever opened to fill all creatures, but espe
cially uian, with good. Knowledge end
experience, indeed, seem to demonstrate
that thin means food suitable to all the
human aud brute kind, inhabiting any dis
tinct specific region, and also, suitable
medicine for the several ailments. Upon
reflection it wonid seem that this must be
the correct theory. Thus iu Nova Sootia,
where tho inhabitants live upon Baited
flesh and salted flsb, and consume muoh
adipose matter, and where in consequence
they become afflicted with eslt rheum and
similar complaints, Dame Nature has
given the “Wilrnot Mineral Springs in
Annapolis," the waters of which seem to
be a specific for this one class of diseases.
At Wisebaden and at Baden Baden, in a
region where the chill winds produce
llieiiaiutics as they bear the fierce blasto
of tho icy Alps through the gorges of tbe
mountains, a mineral water is given evi
dently designed for a stimulating warm
bath, whose temperature moreover is re
tained at a high register during the period
of twenty-four hoars after removal from
its Kource, in accordance with some laws
of uuiure quite occult. The peculiarities
of the Gettysburg spring differ from all
these ; in that it is pre-eminently a catho-
iicon, or mineral water, fitted to almost
every class of complaints. Whilst this ie
one of its marked features, it is a most re
markable fact that this water is not vitiated
by removal from its source, nor by ex
posure to the atmosphere. It is well
known that, as the rale, expoeare to the
atmosphere, light, and especially the solar
rays, produce radical changes, both in
colors, medicines, medicinal waters aud
chemical combinations; henoe certain
physicians often request that their medi
cines should be kept closely corked or
stopped, in order to exclude the atmos
phere, and also that they should be placed
quite removed from the light. For what
reason, it might be asked, has this quality
of preservation been impressed upon tbe
waters of this spring ? What is intended
when wo find that so powerful au agent
for the restoration of health should pos
sess that quulity that renders it capable
of being carried from plaoe to place with
out becoming vftiated ? Now it seems to
me that admitting its powerful medical
properties, which no one upon the testi
mony adduced can deny, it is possible
that this remedy may beoome a medicine,
aud, as it were, s healing balm for tbe
people. The great dramatist speaks of
“sermons in stones, books in tho run
ning brooks, nnd good in everything."
These words are philosophically true us
they are poetically beautiful. The silent,
peaceful stream at Gettysburg to the
thoughtful and attentive becomes sweetly
vocal as the music of the spheres. It has
a lunguago natural and beautiful, but all
its own. It tells of universal healing and
widespread blessings to mankind. It is,
in a word, liko the air we breathe. And
so by parity of reasoning the changeable
cbuiacter of all other mineral waters, ex
cept that derived from tbe springs at
Gettysburg, indicates that the former
must be used as a medicina at the spring
and on the spot whence they are drawn ;
that they must not be oarried away
to any great distance from their rural
bubbling birthplaces. Now does it not
seem that the Divine Goodness has thua
impressed this mineral fluid aud endowed
it with the principle of solf-preservation,
and hits further stamped it with a curative
power over nearly all diseases, that it may
become a very water of life to all regions
and u source of relief to myriads of human
sufferers ? The self-preservative power of
this water is indeed a remarkable fact.
Couple this with its power to prevent dis
ease by invigorating the system, and to
ulleviute or cure, and it at once becomes
evident thut no such a mineral water has
evor beeu offered to the public. The the
rapeutic virtues of other springs are ex
hibited in their power to subdne only cer
tain classes of disouse. Each spring con-
tnius the charm which binds aud tames
tbe dangerous creatures which pounce and
prey upon human happiness and human
life. Ouo euros rheumatism and gout;
another cheeks diseases of the kidneys and
the parts related lo this vital organ ; an
other operates upon the digestive organs,
for it soothes and heals, and strengthens
the uiucuouH surfaces; another tbe my
riad channels which we denominate the
pores of the skiu. Each is, indeed, won
derful in its sphere. Bur here is a spring
equally potent to heal all these classes of
disease. The testimony to this effect is
most overwhelming and unprecedented.”
For the information of the invalid pub
lic we would state that this water is put
up iu the following packages aud sold at
the annexed rates, at the Spring :
fi gallon demijohn $3 75
<! gallon demijohn 7 00
Case 2 dozeu quart bottles 8 00
Case 4 dozen pint bottles 9 00
If tbe neighboring druggist prefers to
act as au agent for the qusck medicine
men to keeping this natural and legiti
mate medicine, invalids need not there
fore go without their remedy. They have
only to address a letter to the Gettysburg
Spring Company, Gettysburg, Pa., en
closing the amount. A post office money
order or check is preferable to green
backs. They must also state whether
they wish the water sent by express or
freight.
Tho expense of living here is less then
at any other watering place in the ooon-
try, (George Hoppes, the proprietor of
the Urge hotel at the Springs, advertises
at the following rates : $3 per day and
$15 per week daring July and August,)
these are remarkable figures when it is
considered that this hotel is as well kept
as any at Saratoga, Newport, or Long
Branch. Bat there are a dozen hotels in
the town close by, where persons may
live at almost any prioe desirable.
GREAT BARGAIN I
Safe and Paying Business Already
Established, for Sale.
BUSIN ERA ON
Consumer* and country merchant* would do
well to call, a* I am determined to reduce my
large and well selected stock.
C. 1. MOFFETT,
Je2i 2m 74 Broad 8t., Columbus, tia.
W. W. SHARPE A 00.,
Publishers' Agente,
Mo. 3A Park Bow, Maw York,
Are wulborl.ed to Contract tor Ad
vertising in nnr paper.
nyl4 tf
Democrats of Muscogee!
^ la obedience to the instruction of the
Democratic Convention of last fatutday,
I do hereby call upon the Democrats of Muscogee
to assemble ia Couvention at the Court House of
Muscogee, at 12 M., ON SATURDAY, TIIK l r >TU
of this month, to nominate four delegates for the
Congressional Convention, hereafter to be held,
for nominating a candidate for this District, and
also to name candidates for the Legislature to
represent Mnscogee oounty.
DINKY L. BINNING,
Chairman of Saturday's Convention,
ang* floodtdawlt
MISCELLANEOUS.
Notice—Change of Firm.
W R take this method of informing the trading
public that we have this day associated
with us in businoss Mr. CIIAHLKS H. WATT.
The firm nemo will not be changed.
W. J. WATT.
J. A. WALKER.
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 4th, 1874.
In addition to the above, wo beg to Inforin our
customers and the public generally that wo intend
to keep every thing In onr line always on hand, In
quant ties to suit onv class of purchasers, making
eciulty of PLANTATION SUPPLIES,
s return our thanks for tbe liberal patronage ex
tended to us, and guarantee as good bargains as
WATT A WALKER.
Kill the Cotton Worm* I
WITH
ROYALL’S COMPOUND,
Paris Green and Areenie.
FOR MALE BY
E. C. HOOD & BRO.
augl tf
^BSOLUTK DIVORCES OBTAIN RD FROM
courts, of different States, for desertion, Ac.
No publicity required. No charge until divorce
granted. Address,
M. HOUSE, Attorney,
my SO dawly 184 Broadway, N. Y.
IMPORTANT III CilMlEKCLU TRAVELED.
C OMMERCIAL Travelers who solicit orders by
Card, CiitiluKUe. Trade-List, Sample, or other
Speciu.iMi, also those who visit their customers
ami solicit trade by purchases made direct from
stock, nnd who travel in any section, by rail or
boat, selling any class of goods, are requested to
Bond their Business and Private Address, as be
low, stating class of goods they sell, and by whom
omployed; also those who are at present under no
engagement. This matter is of great importance
individually to salesmen of this class, or men so
liciting trade iu this manner. It is therefore
especially desired that this notice may meot the
e of all Commercial Travelers aud haleemou in
Is country and that they will at once give it
tl.eir attention. Thoso who comply with above
>qucst will he confidentially treated and duly
ivisod of object in view. Please address, (by
letter only) G0-0PB11ATI0N,
care Gex P. Rowell A Co., 41 Park Row,
* eodlm Now York City.
For Sale Low.
^ SCHOLARSHIP IN THE MEDICAL COL
LEGE AT EVANSVILLE, INDIANA,
novfl tf APPLY AT THIS OFFICE.
REAL. ESTATE AGENTS.
LANDLORDS!
'J'O SECURE TENANTS FOR THE COMING
year, ROW is the proper timo to place your
houses with ms.
antf tf JOHH BLACKMAR.
JOHN BLACKMAR,
Jlalr Street, Ounby's Building, next to
Preer, Ulgei k Go.
Real Estate Brokerage & Insurance.
RErCK, BY PERMISSION,
To Merchants’ and Mechanics' Bank, this city.
N. J. BUSSEY, Agent
AMERICAN
Cotton Tie Company.
The trade supplied at lowaat mar-
kat rataa.
my*7 dBm
Automatic family Knitting Incline.
We offer to the public a simple, cheap Family
Kniitino Machine. * In imi
oar Automatic x M h
MIHPIalClTY, and we
*-«»">•!!? h. d ,r.^
»confidently assert that
■1HPUUTY, and we confidently assert that
any person of ordinary ingenuity will be able to
use the Knitting Machine with better success
ti. to (.t out of ord.r. It cu bo «ttuli«l to »n
ordln«, Ubl. .nil worked b. . child, roll tn-
T b “* chln '- r.mlll..
5 ,u . to £ etlie r »nd buy one Machine, as one
W * h * for , * households.
£?mi for*Circulars and Price List.
New Tnrk Knitting Machine Ct.,
Jjflt d*wtf Mi Bra4w«r, N.w York.
WATKBINC FLACKS.
Chalybeate Springs
Meriwether County, Ga.
This Calibrated Watering Place I,
Now Open ret ms Recsptiow or Visitou.
r B many attraction* and advantages of these
Spring* are too well known to need com-
mt noatlon or enumeration here. Bale* it to e*y
h * va ^* en thoroughly overhauled, and
everything has been done tlut ran add to
comfort or pleasure of visitors.
A daily line of 8tages rnn from Genova to the
Springs.
0HAS. T. PORTER, Ag’t,
nipeleaei.
Invalids’ Water Care Home!
Atlanta, Ga.
T HE above named institution Is now open for
the treatment of the aflheted, upon th - water
cure princip o. That Is, Pare Air, Proper Diet.
Water, all Temperatures. Proper Exercise, 4c.
An experience of eighteen yeare warrants ns ia
saying to those suffering from Chilis and Fsver.
Dyspepsia, Liver Disease, Chronic and Narrow
Diseases, Ac., to sutli r no longer, but cumessd b*
healed.
An experienced l.ndy Assistant will Ih* In atu*.
ince to wait upon the ladies. Application for
admission should bo made without delay.
Address D . ABBOTT A SON.
Just opposite west end Mineral Springs),
Jv29 ID we Hiiqwi-] Atlanta, Ga.
Wn rin Bpringg,
MERIWETHER CO., UA.
HOTELS.
THE SCREVEN HOUSE,
R-
Savannah, Ca.
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
RTYLK. Thu patronage of those visiting Savan
nah is solicited, and th* assurance given that eve
ry effort wilt be made to iniar* their comfort.
Our omnibuses will be found at ull arriving
trains aud steamers.
K. BRADLEY <fc SON,
may27—<!Aw4m Proprietors.
Rankin House,
Columbus,* Ga.
J. W. BYAN, Prop'r.
Fbaxx Oou»b, Clerk.
Ruby Restaurant,
Bar and Billiard Saloon,
Undsb tixe Rankin House.
my24 dawtf J. W. RYAN, Prop»r.
Cotton Factory.
A. CLEGG & C0.,
Columbus, Ca.,
A RE prepared to supply merchants promptly
n. and la a satisfactory manner with the best
quality of
Cotton Checks,
Ginghams snd
•tripes,
all of which are in fast colors, and of th* latest
and most approved patterns.
Factory corner of 8t. Clair and Jackson
street. Office on Jackson street.
Je24 dam
PICTURES!
Have Them Copied and Enlarged by
Home Enterprise!
W ILL COPY AND ENLARGE, IN FRAME,
from $2.50 and upwards. Call and examine
specimen*, and have yonr work done at home,
without delay or riek. COLORING don* in
Oil or Water.
Gallery at south west coraer of Broad and Ran
dolph streets. jygg tf
FOR SALE AND RENT.
For Rent.
ms, situated on JtCKSon sir*™,
within ono minute’s walk of the postoffice. Will
he rented or leased.
A. ply to CHA8. II. WILLIAMS,
augi> 2w over Abell’e store.
For Rent.
H OUSE AND LOT on west side of Jackson
street, upper eod, in excellent neighborhood,
at present occupied by Dr. E. C. Hood, bix com-
lortable rooms, out-houses, garden, excellent veil
of water. Possession given 1st October next.
Apply to C. K. JOHNSTON, Esq.
B. 8. HARDAWAY,
_aug4 tf Agsilt* .
To Rent.
^?TKR April tub, two rorulib.d BKPpj
ROOMS, KHcben .nd SUbl., with tue of dloln,
room aud parlor. Address
apl tf M. Inquirer Office-
For 8ale or Rent.
T IIK RE8IDKNCK Mcond door iouth of s<
Paul’s Church, at present occupied by Mr-
Peytou. With a week's notice, possession will w
given 15th August. Parties desirous of renting
can seoure a home from Augnst !5tb proximo to
October 1st, 1875. Apply to
Jy’JO dlawtf
J f 8. JONES.
Wood. Wood!
gEBT WOOD, TMdjMW«t,W.00p<r cord. Wo- 1
sawed for 50 casts par cord. Orders filled prompt*
ly on application to the
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