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CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 0. 1876.
HENDRICKS ON THE STUMP.
He Stirs the Western Democ
racy.
Siielbyville, Ind., September 2
Hon Thos. A. Hendricks spoke here to
night. He said he had yielded to his
fi iernls ?nd will make this and a few
other addresses to the people. He said
that in a recent speech Gov. Mortou had
said : “ In such a campaign, with slan
der os the chief weapon, Republicans
must be excused if they speak plainly
of the political character, history and
purpose of their antagonists.” Hen
dricks continued, “ At the close of that
speech there remained no question that
the campaign so far as Morton could
give it character was directiy described
as one of slander. No man of intelli
gent observation has failed to see that
misrepresentation of the motives of the
Democrats is the purpose and policy of
the press and speakers of the Republi
can party. They charge conduct, at
tribute motives, and impute sentiments
and opinions wholly unknown to the
parties attacked. Language is attribu
ted which was never used or misquoted
and garbled as to impart a meat ing
never intended, A cause must indeed
be desperate when its vindication re.
quires a resoit to means so despicable
and wicked. In this great Centennial
year, he could not reply as he was at
tacked. What is the truth and your
duty and aim in respect to the South.
1 but repeat my letter of acceptance
when I say that all the people must be
made to feel and know that once more
there is established a purpose and poli
cy, under which all citizens of every
condition, race and color will be secure
in the enjoyment of whatever rights
the Cons\itution and laws declare or so
cognize, and that he is a dange.ous en
emy of his country, who would arouse
or ioster sectional antagonism. In but
two Southern States is there bloodshed
and death between the races. In these
States alone, Louisiana and South Car
olina, is the Republican party dominant.
In every other State of the South the
people hive recovered and restored the
American right and power of self gov
ernment and the negro race has ceased
to be the tool of the party, and peace
aud harmony prevai 1 , and pvosjerity is
rapidly returning to all. Governor
Hendricks spoke of the restoration o r
harmony in Arkansas and Mississipi,
after the overthrow of the Republican
administratian therein. lie said the
same story tells the history of North
Carolina, Texas and Alabama. Why
not restore Louisiana and South Caro
lina to the blessings of good government
that the blacks and the whites,
alike and together, may dwell
under the mild influence of peace
and harmony? All wise men and pa a
triotic citizens, I ask you to judge
whether it be right, expedient, or hu
mane to continue the men in power,
who make political gain of scenes of
violence and bloodshed.
There is not one good man iu our
whole country whose heart is not made
gladder by the assurance that once more
the Methodist Episcopal Church is to
become one aud undivided. The Christ
ian and patriotic gentlemen whose la
hors have brought that result about
merit the gratitude of the country as
they will receive the blessing of God.
That mighty church will be no longer di
vided in America by geographical lines,
nor disturbed by sectional passions,
but, united as the body of Christ, will
press forward in the work of man’s el
evation everywhere. In the address a
week since, it is declared these frater
nized ch'urcb.es have no further occasion
for sectional disputes of acrimonious
differences. As the love of the whole
for all the parts has animated the
churches and raised them nearer the
throne, so the same spiiit will strength*
en our union of States and will raise
our country into higher regions of pat
riotism and upon brighter fields of glory.
Mr: Hendricks next touched on the
question of reform. lie said corruption
was found everywhere unchecked by
themen retained in power, and he argued
that the remedy therefor was a change
of Administration. He asked whose
fault it was that there had been no re
form, but oil the contrary that the pub
lic service had been drifting from bad
to worse. It is not fair to charge it
altogether upon General Grant. That
charge springs from an unworthy mo
tive on the part of a class of Republi
cans who soek Gov. Hayes’ election
upon the ground that he can accom
plish reforms which General Grant
could not or would not bring about.
Upon this subject Governor Morton
expressed the following opinion in his
late speech : “ The administration of
any President will be, in the main, what
the party which elected him make it.
If he breaks away from his party, the
chances are that he will be broken
down. In a government of parties
like ours, the President must have his
choice of officers. The men to whom
he owes his election, who have defend
ed him from assaults, to whom he must
loot for support in the future, will
diuarily control his actioir, and*lie will
do nothing offensive to them.” In a
largo degree, that expresses the truth
iu respect to Gen. Grant’s administra
tion, it is what his party has made it,
and his party is what its leaders have
made it. Four years ago, in my open*
ing address as a candidate for Govern
or, I expressed my personal respect for
Gen. Grant in the opinion that the pen
pic had loss cause to apprehend an evil (
policy from him than from the
Troth Conquers All Things.”
nant snd powerful influence with which
he would be surrounded. You all
know that the results have moie than
realized my predictions. Civil service
reform is now sneered at and has ceased
to be a pretence. Wasteful expendi
tures have continued and official mis
conduct has become wide snread and
alarming. Surely the President can
not be relieved of the responsibility for
so shameful a condition of public af
fairs. Yet the administration is in the
main what the party managers have
made it. Will it be otherwise, if the
party elects the successor ? Gen. Grant
had four years of civil experience when
he pledged himself and his administra
tion to reform Even he was not strong
enough to achieve success in the midst
of the adverse influences, which patty
and party leaders brought about him.
Mr. Hendricks asked if his audience
claimed that Hayes will more certainly
keep his pledges ? He argued that re
trenchment and economy could not be
expected from the party in power. He
reviewed the work of the last session
of Congress, saying the Democratic
House reduced appropriations forty
million dol’ars, but the Senate resisted
some of the reductions, and in order not
to impair the government service, the
[louse was compelled to yield some?
what, the result being thirty million.
He asked will you stand by the House,
or will you sustain the Senate and the
Administration ? Mr. Hendricks said
it was clear that the leaders of the par
ty will not allow their party friends to
be punished. The pledges of reform
were distinctly made at St. Louis, but
not in the Cincinnati platform. On the
contrary, the Cincinnati platform de*
dares that the National Administra
tion merits commendation for its hon
orable work in the management of our
domestic and foreign affairs. * Who
will Ic most likely to abolish the thou
sands of useless effices? Governor Til
den will encounter no political embar
rassment in correcting this great evil.
Not so with Gov. IJayes. This reform
requires thousands of places of profit
to be made vacant, now filled by his
supporters. Mr Hendricks here elab
orated on the reform work done by the
Democratic House and claimed that
Belknap’s crime would never have been
brought to light but for its investiga
tions.
110 asked : Have you been quite
content to hear the [louse called the
Confederate llous3 ? It is'true, there
are many from the South who support
the Democratic party. Is that offen
sive to you ? They are chosen by*the
people iu pursuance of the Constitu
tion. Would you have it otherwise ?
In what respect have the Southern
Democrat* in the House offended
against the rights or the honor of the
North ? Surely, you will not say that
they have offended you in voting to re
duce the national expenditures thirty
millions of dollars? Dealing fairly
with this subject, will you not admit
that it was liberal ? It was honorable
on their part to vote to support the
Centennial Exposition, rather than suf
ter the honor of the country to bo tar
nisned and our pride humiliated by a
failure, after the Congress of 1871 had
committed the country to the enter -
prise. Was it not liberal and honora
ble on their part to vo*e the equaliza
tion of bounties among the soldiers of
the Federal army ? Their own con
stituents could not share therein, and
yet they supported the measure. The
House has bcea denounced and do
dared revolutionary; because reform
measures were put upen the appropri
ation bills Ho next spoke of Gov.
Tilden’s reform record, and said neith
er political nor personal friendship can
stand in the way of his efforts to pacify
and cheapen the public service, no oth
er citizen oan bring such evidence of
his ability and zeal to accomplish what
the people so much desired. • That fact
gave him the n nninaticn and a convic
tion of that fact on the part of the pco
pie will elect him President. All the
influences of the country are for him.
Falsehood and detraction may do their
work night and day, but the people
will stand by the champion of their
cause. Regarding the hard times, he
said when the laborer of the North
asks why he can gut no work, he will
not be satisfied with the answer that
there was b lood shod at Hambunr, that
there was a Moody riot at Newark, New
Jersey, or that a man was driven from
his house in Mitchell, Indiana, by a
band of armed men and wounded. In
such a case as ours the ouly remedy of
the people is in a change. It cannot
be worse. It will be better in every
respect. Retrenchment in public ex
penditures will surely relieve the indus
tries of the country of a portion of
their burdens and the adoption of a
system of economy and of wiser finance,
will restore better times. When the
change has taken place and the peo
ple shall have placed in power an ad
ministration pledged to Radical reform;
pledged to a restoration of par va’ue of
the currency without artificial contrac
tion, by public economies, by official re
trenchment and wise finance, and
pledged also to administration policies
and n easures for the benefit of all the
people and not for the benefit of a class
or party, hope will revive and confi
dence be restored and we will experi
ence the blessings of ? returning pros
perity.
The laziest man is on a western pa
per. He spells photograph—Jtograph.
There have only been three worse than
he. One lived in Kansas, and dated
Ids letters—ll worth; another spelled
Tennessee.- —10a0, aud the other wrote
"Wyandotte —Y A.
A Meau Advantage.
There was a score or more of women
gathered at Mr. Johnson’s house. Mr.
Johnson is a good hearted man and a
respectable citizen, thongh be is rather
skeptical about some things. The wo
men had just organized “The Foreign
Benevolent Society,” when Mr. John*
son entered the room. He was at once
appealed to to donate a few dollars as a
foundation to work on, and Mrs. Gra
ham added :
“It would be so pleasant in after
years for you to remember that you
gave tins society its first dollar and its
first kind word.”
lie slowly opened Irs v,allot, drew out
a ten dollar bill, and as the ladies smack
ed their lips aud clapped their hands he
asked :
“ Is this society organized to aid the
poor of foreign countries ?”
“ Yes, ves, yes !” they chorused
“ And it wants money
“ Yes, yes !”
“ Well, now,” said Join son, as he
folded the bill in a tempting shape,
“ there are twenty married women here.
If there are fifteen of yu who can
make oath that you have combed your
children’s hair th s moruing, washed
the dishes, blacked the cook stove and
made the beds, I’ll donate this $10.”
“ 1 have,” answered two of the crowd,
and the rest said :
“ Why, now 7 , Mr. Johnson !”
“If fifteen of you can make oatli
that your husbands are not wearing
socks with holes in the. heels, this money
is yours,” continued the wretch.
“ Just hear him ” they exclaimed,
each one looked at the other.
“If ten of you have boys without
holes in the knees of their pants this
“ X ” goes to the society !” said John--
son.
“ Such a man !” they whispered.
“It there arc five pair of stockings
in this room that and n’t need darning,
I’ll hand over the money !” lie went on.
“ Mr. Jolmson,” said Mrs. Graham
with great dignity, “the rules of the
.society declare that no money shall be
contributed except by members, and ns
you arc not a member, we bog that you
withdraw and let us proceed with the
routine business.”
How to Treat a lYifc.
First, get a wile ; second, be patient
You may have great trials and perplex
ities in your business with the world,
but ;lo not carry to your home a cloud.-,
ed or contracted blow. Your wife may
have had many trials, which though of
less magnitude, may have been as hard
to bear. A kind word, a tender look;
will do wonders in chasing from her
brow 7 all clouds of gloom. Y'ou encoun
ter your difficulties in the open air,
fanned by heaven’s cool breeze; hut
jour wife is often shut in from these
healthful influences, and her spirits lose
their elasticity. But, oh ! bear with
her; she &as trials and sorrows which
your tenderness can deprive of all their
anguish. Notice kindly her little at
tentions and efforts to promote your
comfort.. Do not treat her with indif
ference, if you would not sear and
palsy her heart, which watered by kind
ness, would, to the latest day of your
existence, throb with sincere and con/
slant affection. Confide in her, the
reason many wives seem unreasonable
in their demands and unsympathizing
in their husband’s financial embarrass
ments, is because they are ignorant of
the situation. A true woman will nev
er betray her husband’s confidence, and
will be willing to curtail expenditures,
and bear burdens with him. Men are
mistaken when they think their wives
cannot understand their business.—
Treat your wife as though she was an
intelligent being. Sometimes yield
your whiles to hers. She has prefer
ence as strong ns you, and it may be
just as trying to yield her choice as
to you II - you never yield to her wish
es, there is danger that she will think
you arc selfish, and care only for your*-
self, and with such feelings she cannot
love as she might. Again, show your
self manly, so that your wife can look
up at you and feci that you will act no
bjy, and that she can confide in your
judgmont.
Katnrday Nigitf.
How many a kiss has been given,
how many a kind v ord,how many a ca
ress, how many a promise has bee a
wrecked, how many a loved one has
been lowered into a narrow chamber,
how many a babe has gone from earth
to heaven, how many a crib stands sL
lent now while oaturday night held the
rarest treasure of the heart.
A week is a life. A week is a his.
tory. A week marks events of sorrow
or gladness, of which people have never
heard. Go home to the family, ruen of
business ! Go home you heart erring
wanderer ! Go to the cheer that awaits
you, wronged waif of life’s breakers !
Go home to those you hive, man of toil,
and give ono night to the joys and com
forts fast flying by. Leave your books
with perplexed figures; your dirty
workshop, your busy store. Rest with
those you love ; for God only knows
what next Saturday will bring forth.—
Forget the word of care and the battle
of life which have furrowed the week.
Draw close around the family hearth.
Saturday night has waited your com*,
ing in bitterest tears and silence. Go
home to those you love, and you may
bask in the loved embrace of your pres
ence, and meet in return the loved em
brace of your heart’s pets, strive to be
a better man and bhss God for giving
his weary children so dear a stepping.,
stone in the river to the Eternal as
Saturday night.
lii Advance.
Injuu Joe's"' C up.
The pocr unfortunate had starved to
death. In one place near at hand, a
stalagmite had been slowly growing up
from the giouad for ages, b'dlded by
the water drop from a stalactite over
head. The captive had broken off the
stalagmite, and upon the stump had
placed a tone wherein he had : cooped
a shallow hollow to catch the precious
drop that fell once iu every twenty
minutes, with the dreary regularity of
a clock tick—a dessert spoonful once in
four and twenty hours. That drop was
falling when the pyramids were new;
when Troy fell; when the foundation
of llome was laid ; when Christ was
crucified ; when th j conqueror created
the UritisU empire; when Columbus
soiled ; when the massacre at Lexing
ton was “ news ” It is falling now ; it
will he still falling when all these things
shall have sunk down the afternoon of
history and the twilight of tradition,
and been swallowed up in the thick
night of oblivion. lias everything a
purpose aud a mission '! Did this drop
tall patiently during fire thousand years
to be ready for the fitting human in
tect’s used, and has it another impor
tant object to accomplish ten thousand
years to come ? No matter; it is many
and many a year since the hapless half
breed scooped out the stone to catch
the priceless drops, but to this day tour
ists stare longest at that, pathetic stone
and that slow dropping water when ho
comes to see tho wonders of McDou -
gal's cave. Injun Joe's cup stands first
in the list of cavern’s marvels; even
“Aladdin’s Palace” can not rival it.—
From Mark Twain's “ Tom Satryrr.”
A Thought.
When tho day dawns, and we rise
and find the sky clear and the bright
hours before us, how loth we are to lie
down upon our pillow again. There
are so many things to do—such pleas
ant things, some of them ; our friends
are coming, or uc arc going to visit
them; then there is a walk or a drive
or a little feast in prospect —it seems
so ploasaut to be awake. Hut when the
dav lias gone,.and the night has come
again, wo are generally ready for it.—
We are, at best, tired with our frolic
or pleasure. Ten to one wo are disap
pointed in something; some little un
pleasant incident lias marred the bright
est hour ; some skeleton had taken
seat at the feast, or peeped out of a se
cret closet. It is so delightful to fling
off the finery it rejoiced us to put on ;
to put out the light and lie down, court
ing slumber.
So, though in the hey-day of life we
dread that long, quiet s’umber, no
doubt those who live to be old hail it as
their best friend. The loves and hopes
of early life have ended in disappoint
ment ; their dear ones have left them
alone ; the life that at first seemed so
sweet has changod to bitterness, and ail
the sweetness is with death. Just as
wo wearily climb the bedroom stairs
with our tired feet, so we will climb
life’s last steps. Wjc have danced and
toiled alternately;, wo are as tired of our
joy as of our sorrow, and we hail re
pose eternal as wo hailed the reposo of
nigln when life was all before us.
A Sharp Hoy.
A Brownville young man called on bis
intended the other evening and while
waiting fir her to make an appearance
he struck up a conversation with his
prospected brother°in law. After awhile
the boy asked :
“Does galvanized niggers know
much ?”
“I really can’t say, ” answered the
amused young man,and silence reigned
a few moments, when the boy again ro
eumed :
“Kin you play checkers with ycr
nose ?”
“No, I have not acquired that accom
plishment.”
“Well, you’d better learn, you hear
me.”
“Why r
“Cause, Sis says that yer don’t know
as much as a galvanized nigger but yer
dad s got lots o’stamps, aad she’ll marry
you anyhow; and she said when she
got aholt of the old man’s sugar she was
agoin’ to ali the Fourth of July pcrcosh
ions an’ ice cream gum sucks, and let
you stay at home to play checkers with
that hollyhock nose ofyourn.”
And when “Sis” got her hair bang
ed and came in, she found the parlor
deserted by all save her brother w|io
was innocently tying the tail of two kits
tens together and singing :
r* o o
“O, f love the babbaLh school.”
Bow low the head, boy ; do rever
ence to the old man. Once like you,
the vicissitudes ot life ha - e silvered the
hair, and changed the round merry face
to the worn visage before you. Once
that heart beat with aspirations co-equal
to any you have felt; aspirations crush
ed by disappointment, as yours are, per
haps, destined to be. Once that form
stalked proudly through the gay scenes
of pleasure the beau ideal of grace ; now
the hand of Time, that withers the flow
er of yesterday, has warped that figure
and chnroyed that noble carriage.—
Once, at your age, he possessed the
thousand thoughts that pass through
your bran—now wishing to accomplish
worthy of a nook in frame; anou iai-ig*
ining life a arearn that the soorer he
awoke from the better. But he has liv
ed the dream very near through. The
time to awake is verj near at. hard ;
yet his eye ever kindles at old deeds of
daring, and the hand takes & firmer
grasp of the staff. liow low the head
toy, as y m would in your old age be i
r verenced.
Rates oi* Adveritslng.
For each square of ten linos orlops
for tlie first insertion, sl, and for each sub
sequent insertion, fifty cents.
rs ; 1 Mo. ; ios. II j*nr.
Two i *V.<hm j
Four “ 6.00 10.00 18.00 35. 0
column j 0.00 15.00 25.00 40.0>
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“ j 25.00 - (>5.00 116.00
SheriiEs Sales, each levy * t (X>
Application for Homestead 2 (Hi
Notice to Debtors and Creditors 4 ,('0 •
Land Sales, one square 400
Each additional square v 3 00
NO. 3.
llow to Support a Pai^r.—.Take *
it regularly aud pay for it promptly.
Head it thoughtfully, aud talk to your •
acquaintances about its contents, com
mending or condemning this or that ar
tide.
Head its advertisements, and when,
you make purchases from advertisers,
mention where you saw their adver
iseuients.
If you are in business, advertise in it t
yourself.
How otto Support a Paper
Borrow it regular from your neigh- ,
bor.
Wlion you speak of it just say in a
contemptuous way, that theic’s nothing
in in it, without showing how there
can be absolutely nothing in what other.,
men, at least as intelligent as yourself •
think there is a great deal.
Make it a point never to buy of those .
who seek to nttaret your custom by ad
vertising; but should you find it to
your advantage to patronize thorn, be
careful not to state that you have seen
their advertisement.
Never advertise tWur business in its
colums in the usual and legitimate way
but get all the g.atis notices that you
can.
Make it do all the advertising und
job work four pet charity for nothing
and then forget to give it credit. If you
can make it do three times more than
is ncccessary at tho same prico, so much ,
the better. You know that the proper
way to prove your charity is to abstain
rigorously from parting with jour u\v.
money, and to force others to spend
theirs.
Slio was telling in a neighbor’ eh< use
how her husband had been troubled
for sever il days with a severe pain in
his head, and that she had done every
thing to relieve it. And that the doc
tor’s medicine didn’t seem to do any
good and that she was about tired out,
of fussing and fixing. Thereupon a
new neighbor, who had just been intro
duced to her, kindly asked if she had
tried soaking his feet in mustard and ,
hot water. Insult my affliction, will 1
wife of the sick man, working hor fin
gers convulsively, her blood risign to
boiling heat, and her voice gotting
higher and higher. . Tho hostess inter
posed in defence of the new neighbor
and quiet was finally restored. It ap
peared that some, years before the sick
husband had been deprived of both his
legs by a piece of machinery, and there
had been a story that his present wife
married him for. his money. People
should be more careful in giving medi
cal adviee.
A Lesson from Cabbage. —Every
one knows that cabbages will not grow
fast or head out well unless they are
hoed very often. Most have also learn
ed that this crop does the best if hoed
very early in the morning. Hoeing later
in the day when the dew has evaporat
ed will not have the same effect. The
reasons appear to be these : The dew
being covered with soil, is retained, and
helps keeps the earth moist. It cont
tains a large amount of oxygen, which
it took from the air. These act to de*
compose the soil and to hasten the
gtowth of olants. It also absords a
large quantity of ammonia, which is di
rectly taken up by the plant. Now the
same cause ought to produce tho same
effect on other plants, and it has been
found by observing farmers that they
do Market gardners prefer to have po
tatoes hoed either when the soil is wet
with dew or after a slight rain.
In twenty years no Congress has ad'
journed with less taint upon it than
that which closed its first session a week
ago. Not a single job was put through.
Hardly one was even proposed. Tho
Senate did its best to protect the rings
by standing out against all tho econo
mies of the House. * * * To the
credit of the House of llcpresentotives
be it said, the Democratic majority
stampod out jobberry in every form,
and did not allow a bill to pass upon
which suspicion might rest as a fraud
on the Treasury. Let this great fact
which is of itself the best commentary
on the action of that body, and at the
same time its highest eulogium, bo 30ms
pared with the record of the iicpubiican
party for the last fifteen years and tho
country will quickly doc'de between
them
Ln the Agricultural Hall of the Cen
tennial Exhibition there are two im
mense hogs stuffed, each bearing a pla
card teding their age Ac., by the word
“taxidermists.” A man and his wife
were looking at these with greit inter:
est. After reading the placards the
woman caid : ‘ Why., these are taxider
mist Her husband looked at the
creatures with a puzzled expression.—
Finally ho said : “They ate hogs.—
Taxidermists is the nemo of the place’
they come from ” J
There are iD the South ninety.-
two companies of artillery, and twenty
batteries of artillery, and twenty six
companies of cavalry q but Grant thinks
that mere troops are needed to success,
fully intimate the South and carry the?
election. 0
Mr. S. C. Ludam of Oyster Day
Long Island, N. Y., has just receiv
ed a curiosity —an Afriern ram —with
four horns. It is from the Atlas moutt- 1
tains, and a few months ago, ?, is saidj
was worshipped by the natives of the
regions as a sacred ram. ' 1 ‘
Cat’s trophy- A mouse.