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CALHOUN TIMES.
ELAM CHRISTIAN, - - EDITOR,
ALHOUNTOA:
THURSDAY, DECEMB’II 15, 1870.
Democratic Nominees.
FOR CON OR ESS 7tH DISTRICT,
GEN. P. M. B. YOUNG,
OF BARTOW.
FOR STATE SENATOR.
Hon. L. N. TRAMMELL,
OF WHITFIELD.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
lion- -T. C. FAIN,
OF CALHOUN.
Greenbacks Wanted.
Within the next few days, we very
particularly need a considerable sum of
money, and hope those few friends who
are indebted to us will come forward and
settle at once. Come to our aid, friends,
if your indebtedness is not more than
fifty cents —every little helps.
tGiF* Macon has one negro Alderman
nnd Atlanta two.
Boston has elected a Democratic
Mayor.
Chattanooga was visited with a heavy
conflrgration, on Thursday. Loss,
about $15,000. Supposed to be the
work of an incendiary.
s*3s'“ A leading member of the Radi
cal Y. M. It. C.—which means “ You
May Rob Club,” —is named Goslin.—
Decidedly appropos, if he’s not too
young for it.
The World’s Washington correspond
ent says : “Am I Am I, or am l not
Am I : and if I am not Am f, who the
devil am IV' is quoted as a suggestive
exhibit of the condition of the Presi
dential jmiud when the revenue-reform
paragrpahs were written.
The Ku-Klux are it lively
in Sandersville. Os three hundred and
sixty healthy negroes who once flourish
ed in that community nothing is now
left but one barrel of Ham hash and a
hatful of horn-buttons. Now let the
Radicals come on with their sensations.
The Missouri Republican closes a
powerful article upon our approaching
State election as follows; “It must be
confessed that the Conservative party
of Georgia are contending against tre
mendous odds, but every man who loves
liberty and hates oppression, will earn
estly hope that the unequal struggle
may terminate in a glorious triumph.”
*4 » »■.
A Good Chance. —In selecting your
Christmas presents, let them be of a
substantial or useful nature. It will be
seen by advertisement in another column
that Col. 11. 31. Young has determined
to sell off his large stock of goods at
cost. He wants to have a general
clcauing out to make room for mam
moth new stocks early next year. lie
has a large lot of most excellent articles
on hand, and those who fail to call at
his store before these goods are all gone
will certainly lose bargains.
Tiie “ Am I not a man and brother ?”
theory receives a severe blow from the
hands of Dr. Bird, an eminent English
physician, now resident in India, who
has been making a series of experiments
upon the blood of various races, lie
affirms, as the result of his investiga
tions. a marked difference in its con
dition; the blood of the Bengalese con
taining fewer red corpuscles than the
European, and that of the negro still
less. He argues from this, different
grades in physical organization, and
proves the Caucassian to be altogether
a higher and entirely different type of
mankind from the inhabitants of African
jungles.
Congress. —The prevailing opinion
is that there will be very little legisla
tion on the interests of the country at
the present session, and that the time
will be chiefly consumed by the Radi
cals in arranging disagreements among
themselves and in partisan legislation.
A Washington letter says in political
circles legislation is talked of to this
extent:
The Ways and Means Committee will
prepare a hill to correct the contradic
tions of the July Revenue act; a bill
to be introduced to repeal the Income
tax : another to admit Colorado into the
Union. One to increase the whisky tax
to one dollar a gallon, and to repeal the
act convening Congress on March 4.
A Democratic member has a bill pre
paring to repeal the military enforce
ment election law, and believes he will
get Republican support for it. Several
Western members say they intend to
give notices of biils for reducing the
duties on imports about twenty-five mil
lions more.
In Winnesheik county, lowa, the
Day brothers have 1.800 acres of land
under cultivation. It is said that this
year they will have from 11.000 to
13,000 bushels of wheat; from 5.000 to
7,000 bushels of oats; from 10,000 to
20,000 bushels of barley. They had
1,100 acres of wheat and oats to harvest
this year, and have growing 600 acres
of corn.
Ben. Hill at it Again.
It was reasonable to suppose that
when Ben. Hill, and everybody else
saw and experienced the evils resulting
from his hot-headed advocacy of having
nothing to do with the framing of our
State Constitution, he would not have
the brass ever to “ put in ” again on a
political question. But such is not the
case, lie now comes out in an address
to the people of Georgia, for the purpose
of establishing in their minds the bind
ing effects of the 14th and 15th, Amend
ments —the folly of attempting to dodge
them, and the utter vanity of the hope
entertained by many, that the Northern
people will in time relent, and do away
with these amendments. He says they
are binding laws, and accomplished
facts.
He virtually narrows his address
down to the acceptance of the situation,
and making the best we can out of it.
If Mr. Hill had held these views and
acted upon them during the canvass for
members of the Constitutional Conven
tion. we would have had a better con
stitution, a better man than Bullock for
Governor, and a better state of affairs
in Georgia generally.
We are indebted to Ben. Hill, more
than any Other one man, for the worst
Radical features in our Constitution—
for a majority of our negro legislators,
and the triumphs of Radicalism ever
since the operation of this State Con
stitution.
This address is a sound logical docu
ment. but we still hold to our opinion,
held for years, that Benjamin H. Hill
is the most complete political humbug
of the nineteenth century. And yet if
everybody thought as Ben. Hill thinks,
he would be greater than Washington
or Lee.
Affairs in Paris.
The World has a balloon letter from
Paris dated November 16th. It is a
very interesting narativo of four col
umns’ length. The writer represents
the people dispirited and suffering from
bad and insufficient food. They all say
as soon as peace comes we are going to
quit Paris and all dread a civil commo
tion worse than the days of June, 1843.
Food is very scarce and dear—even the
worst —90 cents a pound for horse saus
age —70 cents per pound for horse-blood
pudding—rats fifteen cents each—cats,
sixty cents. The writer saw a turkey
sold that morning for sixteen dollars in
gold—seven dollars refused for a rabbit
—and three dollars asked for an old
chicken cock—eggs were fifteen cents
each, and a pound of fresh butter in a
window attracted an immense crowd. —
The people were beginning to be riotous
for food and serious disturbances were
feared us the destitution increased. —
Health bad, though not alarming. The
ordinary mortality of Paris was 840 a
week, but the deaths of that week were
1,885, and of the week before 1,762. —
Small pox, diarrhoea and typhoid fever
were getting common. That was twenty
five days ago, and twenty-five days of
subsistence to two and a half millions of
people must have vastly aggravated their
“ disabilities.”
Protecting American Labor.
The New York Herald says a few
years ago the great machine shops of
that city employed twenty thousand
men and turned out an immense num
ber of gigantic marine engines. Now
very few of these shops are open, and in
those that are not entirely closed a
score of men may be seen at work on an
occasional job of repairs. Yet within
that time the commerce of the world
has been transferred from sailing to
steam-ships and marine steam engines
have multiplied inconceivably. And
that is the way protective tariffs protect
American labor—by annihilating it
by embarrassing trade and pushing up
the value of materials to such exhorbi
tant rates that manufacturing is transfer
red to places where it can be done more
cheaply. Tinkering trade with the quack
nostrums of the protectionists is much
like subsisting a family on patent pills.
It don’t do for a steady diet.
In the lower House of Congress, on
the 12th, a bill, abolishing the office of
Admiral immediately, and Vice-Admiral
upon a vacancy, was passed by a two
thirds vote.
A resolution, looking to revenue re
form, and the abolition of internal re
venue, was adopted by 164 to 6.
The following is the revenue resolu
tion alluded to:
Resolved , That the true principles of
revenue reform points to the abolition
of the internal revenue system, which
was created as a war measure to provide
for extraordinary expenses, and the
continuance of which involves the em
ployment at the cost of millions of dol
lars annually an army of assessors, col
lectors, supervisors, detectives, and other
officers previously unknown, and re
quires the repeal at the earliest day con
sistent with the maintenance of the
faith and credit of the Government, of
all stamps and other internal taxes ; and
that properly adjusted rates shall be re
tained on distilled spirits, tobacco and
malt liquors so long as the legitimate
expenses of the Government requires
the collection of any sum from internal
taxes.
Babies are like wheat, they are cra
dled and thrashed, and finally become
the flower of the country.
John Surratt’s Lecture.
Hi* Connection with the Lincoln Abduc
tion H/ot, and ./. Wilkes Booth —
Where he. was when Lincoln was
Killed.
The Courier-Journal'a Washington
correspondent telegraphs a synopsis of
the above lecture, mention of which was
made in our own dispatches a few days
since. The main points, as we get them
from the synopsis, are that Surratt, at
the time of his introduction to Booth in
the fall of 1864, was living at Washing
ton. engaged in sending the Confederate
authorities information as to the move
ments of the Federal troops at Wash
ington and elsewhere, and that he thinks
the United States detectives were the
stupidest lot of donkeys ever known for
not catching him. When he was intro
duced to Booth, the latter unfolded his
plot, which was to kidnap Lincoln and
carry him off to Richmond. This Booth
thought would bring about an exchange
of prisoners, which was much desired
by the Confederate Government. Sur
ratt was thunder-struck at the boldness
of the plot, but agreed to join it, with
several others whose names are not
given. He declares, emphatically, that
not a word was ever said about assassi
nating Lincoln ; that upon one occasion
when the party had a conference, and
he (Surratt) made a proposition to aban
don the enterprise, and Booth opposed it
and hinted at something more desperate,
there was a quarral and very near a
final split because the sentiment of a
majority was against attempting any
thing more than Lincoln’s capture. Os
a very narrow escape made by Lincoln,
Surratt speaks as follows:
One day we received information that
the President would visit the Seventh
street Hospital for the purpose of being
present at un entertainment to be given
for the benefit of wounded soldiers.—
The report only reached us about three
quarters of an hour before the time ap
pointed, but so perfect was our com
munication that we were instantly in
our saddles, on the way to the hospital;
this was between one and two o’clock in
the evening. It was our intention to
seize the carriage, which was drawn by
a splendid pair of horses, and to have
one of our men mount the box and drive
direct for Southern Maryland, via Bcn
ning’s bridge. AVe felt confident that
all the cavalry in the city could never
overhaul us, as we were all mounted on
swift horses, besides having a thorough
knowledge of the country, it being de
termined to abandon the carriage after
passing the city limits. Upon the sud
denness of the blow and the celerity of
our movements we depended for success.
By the time the alarm could have been
given, and horses saddled, we would
have been on our way through Southern
Maryland towards the Potomac river.—
To our great disappointment, however,
the President was not there, but one of
the Government officers. Mr. Chase,
if 1 mistake not.
This was the last effort at capture,
and soon after the enterprise was aban
doned. Surratt says he left Washing
ton Tuesday morning, x\pril 4th, 1865.
and went straight to Montreal. While
in Canada he was engaged in plots to
release the Confederate prisoners at
Elmira, New York, and it was while he
was at the latter place, on that business,
he heard of Lincoln’s assassination. He
immediately went back to Canada, and
was secreted there until he went to
Europe. He declares that the man
Weichman, upon whose testimony his
mother was hung, was in the abduction
plot, and that he, (W.,) while a clerk in
the War Department, furnished infor
mation about the Federal army, which
Surratt carried to Richmond.
The Indians of the North
west.
Fearful Ravages of Small-Pox—lnfa
mous Practices of Traders—-The
Rich Lands Yet to he 1 Von and Set
tled.
Fort Garry, Red River, Nov. 10.
Just now a fearful pestilence is raging
on the distant plains to the Northwest.
Smoll-pox has broken out for the first
time in eighty odd years. The most
harrowing tales have been sent us from
the posts of the Hudson Bay Company
at Carlton House, Victoria House, Forts
Pitt and Edmonton, and other distant
stations. The savages having never be
fore experienced such a visitation are
stricken with terror, and ascribe the dis
ease to the presence of missionaries
among them. They have sought to slay
several persons prescribed by their med
icine men. At Fort Pitt, where 200
died in four days, the survivors carried
the putrid corpses and cast them against
the stockades of the fort to infect the
whites. The disease has been imported
by trading bands coming from among
the Piegans and Blackfeet at Fort Ben
ton. The intensity of its ravages may
be imagined when yon are told that two
thirds of the Indian population will
likely be
SWEPT AWAY.
Such tales of horror as are recorded !
Whole encampments have been stormed
by the grim warrior. Death. The skin
curtains of the lodges flap idly in the
tainted wind. There is no one within
them but the dead. Hundreds of corps
es rot along the rivers’ banks or float on
their waves. The plains dotted with
bodies torn piecemeal by tooth of gaunt
wolf or bill of gorged crow. Troops of
dogs dine off their dead masters, who
would in ordinary course have dined off
them. The survivors have fled to rocks
and caves, to find death waiting for
them armed doubly with the horrors of
solitude. A doctor and stores of medi
cine have been sent from here, but he
can effect little iu so wide an extent of
country. All precautions are taken
here to prevent the spread of the infec
tion. and a great number of bales of furs
have been burned, because they con
tained the seeds of infection. One
would scarcely think that a human be
ing could be guilty of such a
FIENDISH CRIME,
but I am assured there exist men who
make a trade of collecting the robes of
the dead for sale—more deadly than the
poisoned tunic of Hercules. A pleasant
lookout for the men who, wrapped in
these robes, will be speeding along the
Lane next winter. That will be ‘‘grim
death behind the cavalier” in earnest.
To the Democracy of Georgia.
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee urges you to perfect at once your
county organizations. The elect am is
uoar at hand. No time is to be lost.—
The importance of the result cannot be
over-estimated. Representatives in the
National Congress are to be chosen.—
They should be men of prudence and
patriotism ; men who will reflect honor
on the State and give encouragement
and support to that gallant band of
Northern Democrats who, amid all the
perils of the past, have been true to the
country and the Constitution. Mem
bers of the State Legislature also, are to
be elected. They should be men of in
tegrity and sound judgement; men
whose interests are identified with the
interests of the State ; who feel a pride
in her past glory ; who sympathize with
her present misfortuues, and whose hopes
depend on her future prosperity.
\ou can elect such men. Success is
within your grasp. You have but to
will it and the victory is yours. All
classes of our citizens deplore the rule of
the present regime. Their pride and
their pockets alike rebel against its con
tinuance. The colored people are ready
to be delivered from their new bondage
—a bondage which makes them slaves
to the ambition and the avarice of the
office-seekers whom aspire to be their
leaders. They begin to realize that the
men of the South, with whom they have
lived so long, are their true friends ;
and that those who now govern the State
are fast cngulphing them and us in a
common destruction. They will not be
longer misled by the false accusation
that we wish to put thorn back into
slavery or take away their political
rights. They well know that we would
not do either, if wo could, and that we
could not if we would. Their best in
terests and ours alike depend on a wise
and just administration of the Govern
ment. And thousands of them are wil
ling to co-operate with us in displacing
from power those whose incapacity and
reckless extravagance have well nigh
plunged the State into bankruptcy and
ruin.
But if you will have success, you must
be united among yourselves. You must
rally around the chosen standard bear
ers of the party. Independent candi
dates must have the magnanimity and
patriotism to withdraw. If they will
not, withdraw from their support
though they be your warmest personal
friends—leave them to suffer the defeat
they deserve. This is no time for divis
ion in our ranks. There is too much at
stake, and the peril is too great. Let
us surrender petty jealousies and person
al ambitions and dislikes, and give a
cordial support to the selected candi
dates of the party. Suspend your bus
iness while the election is progressing,
and attend the polls. Do not vote at
any precinct—vote only at the county-site.
Conform strictly to the lav: in all res
pects. Jf none of the appoint' and mana
gers appear by ten o'clock' on the day of
the election , get three freediohbrs to
open the polls , as provided by section
1314 of the Code. Above all things ,
preserve the peace. And may God de
fend the right and save the State !
In behalf of the State Democratic
Executive Committee.
Clifford Anderson,
Chairman.
Democratic papers of’ the State please
copy.
Bloody Affray at Starkville,
Lee County.
Starkville, Ga.. Dec. 9,1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
A most desperate fight occurred here
yesterday afternoon between William
Miller and Robert G. Terry, on one
sure, and Geo. Page, Representative of
Lee county, and Solomon Page, Tax
Collector, aided and abetted by a party
of ten or twelve negroes. Having wit
nessed the whole affair, I shall give you
a plain, unbiased statement of what I
saw, “ nothing extenuating nor aught
set down in malice,”
Immediately after the close of Grady’s
circus performance in the afternoon
Joiner, the negro Representative from
Dougherty mounted upon a box near
the canvass and proceeded to deliver
himself of a speech, hoping to gather an
audience from the crowd leaving the
canvass. The speaker seemed to take
special pleasure in saying hard things of
Col. Nelson Tift, the Democratic candi
date for Congress from this district.—
Some absurd remark about this gentle
man’s character being overheard by Mr.
Wm. Miller, who was passing, gave the
speaker the lie. Sharp words then
passed between George Page and Miller,
when Robert G. Terry took the latter
by the arm and led him away. A crowd
of negroes immediately surrounded Page
and told him that Miller had called him
a “ son of a b—eh, and he must kill him
or make hinvtnke it back.” The whole
party, headed by the Pages and one or
two other whites, then went in pursuit
of Miller, brandishing pistols and knives.
Miller and Terry were walking alone
across the square toward the hotel,
when, finding the crowd at their heels,
they turned and ordered them to stand
back. One of the Pages then fired
upon Miller and he returned the shot.
A second shot from the Pages felled
Miller to the ground, when he was
pounced upon by a negro friend with a
knife, who literally cut him to pieces.
After Miller fell the assailants concen
trated their fire upon Terry, who drew
his pistol and defended himself, shoot
ing three of his assailants, aud only
when his weapon was empty did he
mount his horse and escape —wounded,
I am confident, but how badly I could
not learn.
The following are the casualties:
William Miller, killed ; George Page,
mortally wounded—shot through the
lungs; Solomon Page, shot through
both shoulders; T. M. Cameron, shot
through the arm, and Robert G. Terry.
I understand that others were slightly
wounded, but I did not learn their
names. William Miller had been drink
ing during the day, but I understand
that he was highly esteemed by his
neighbors as a peaceable and law-abid
ing young man.
The gubernatorial duel in Alabama
is decided. Smith, the Radical, gives
way to the Governor elect.
Barbarity in France.
A letter from Eeos, published iu La
France, says:
It is no longer war that is going on
here; it is pillage, aaßasinatiun, and
arson that our unhappy canton labors
under. On Monday towards 4 o’clock
in the morning the two parishes of
Foret-la-Folie, and Quitry, were sur
rounded by the Prussians. At Foret
two of the inhabitants who, no one
knows how, were pointed out to the
enemy as having lent their aid to the
Franctireurs on Thursday, were—l
won’t say shot—but massacred. These
were MM. Campignv. proprietor, and
Laiur. a garde champetre. The first
was pierced by eight balls fired close to
him; his house was fired and three
corn mills close by were treated in the
same manner. A draper had to see his
shop stripped, the pillagers taking away
rolls of flannel, etc., etc. At the house
of a wine merchant they filled their
bidons with brandy. Then, descending
into the cellar, they staved in all the
full butts. At Quitry the murdering
and incendiarism took still more con
siderable limits. Three boys belonging
to the farm of M. Besnard. Mayor of
the parish, were shot; three others
have disappeared; they are believed to
be buried in the ruins of the farm house
which was burned. M. Besnard him
self escaped several times with difficulty
from being killed. A Prussian wound
ed himself with a blow of a hatchet in
tended for M. Besnard. M. Cauchois
and his sons—M. Constant and Gossent
—were riddled with balls. One M.
Gautier, a farmer, had his stables burn
ed, with the thirty sheep and one horse
that they contained. All the corn-mills
were burned. Three people were led
out to be shot. One had to submit to
his sad fate; the second was tied to a
cannon, and received most ignominous
treatment; the third was released, M.
Besnard, in the face of these atrocities,
went to the commander of these bandits
to expostulate. lie was answered, “We
are making reprisals,” and when M.
Besnard declared on his honor that not
a shot had been fired in the parish, the
commander, after consulting one of bis
under-officers, replied that he believed
what this man told him, who affirmed
s he contrary. He never attempted to
stop the work of murder and destruc
tion. All tliis I saw with my own eyes.
Incidents of the Mob in At
lanta.
The Trw Grorgian says: Now that
the unfortunate affair of Wednesday has
somewhat blowu over, the ridiculous
side of the picture begins to come to
light. The street and open space front
ing the Tombs were densely packed with
negroes, many of whom innocently join
ed in the mob out of motives of curi
osity; and when the firing had fairly
commenced, the stampede became tre
mendously general.
Five lines of high picket fence were
scaled in rapid succession by the frantic
darkies. They followed each other like
so many black sheep jumping a wall,
and gave vent to their terrified feelings
by unearthly howls of dismay. One big
fellow, trembling, and covered with per
spiration, sought refuge under a table
in the kitchen of a house on Calhoun
street, and, without scratch, declared
that he had “been for, and could see
the hebcnly gates standin’ open.”
Two others came out upon the same
street, and panting for breath, one asked
the other what they should do next.
“ Jes’ keep right straight on, sure, and
darn fast at dat!” said Pomp, and off
they went, scaling garden fences and
every obstacle that they ran upon.
A good-natured Democratic friend of
ours heard the shots and the whistle of
bullets in such rapid succession, that he
at once resorted to the strategy of
clenching a fleeing darkey and holding
his bulky form between himself and the
conflict. “ Look yer, let go dar ! Gorry
mighty, goin’ to kill dis chile? Let
go!” “Couldn’t think of it;” said our
fat friend; “ you are a man and brother,
and I’ll be cussed if I don’t stick to
you as long as there’s a shot fired!”
North Georgia Conference
Appointments for 1871.
Home District —G. J. Pearce, P. E.
liorne, W. E. Cook,
Home Circuit, P. G. Reynolds.
Eorrestville, A. Odom.
Oostanaula, W. P. Kramer.
Cave Spring, W. I*. Hirers.
Cedartown, W. F. Glenn.
Van Wert, to be supplied by H. A.
Ged dings.
Subligna, J. B. McFarlrn.
Summerville, W. C. Dunlap.
LaEayette, T. 11. Simmons.
Lookout Mountain Mission, to be sup
plied by S. W. McWhorter.
Dalton District— W. A. Scott P.E.
Dalton, G. G. Smith.
Dalton Circuit. W. T. Hamilton.
Tunnell Hill, to be supplied by J. M.
Richardson. •
Ringgold. S. W. Wardlaw.
Hock Spring, S. Leake.
Spring Place, to be supplied by 11.
11. Porter.
Murray Mission, to be supplied.
Calhoun, to be supplied by T. M.
Pledger.
Tilton and Hesaea, D. J. Weems.
Kingston, J. A. Reynolds.
Wanted.
By the Republican party, a recipe for
bolding States after they are made or
made over on the strictest party plans.
Here is West Virginia, cut out of the
side of the Old Dominion for the express
purpose of being Radical, has gone dem
ocratic by wholesale ; and hard upon its
heels Nevada, lugged into the union for
the same purpose, goes the same way.
Then Missouri, made over after the
most approved pattern of disfranchise
ment Drake could possibly cogitate,
“flops,” following Tennessee, also made
over, also “floppedj” and finally here
are once thoroughly reconstructed North
Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Arkan
sas, now as bad as ever, with Texas and
Georgia champing on the bit to do like
wise. The man who can put a stop to
all this no doubt would be conferring a
great favor as the donation of a horse or
a house to the President. —Kansas Pa
triot.
NEW YORK.
Buffalo. December 12.—The Board
of Trade has passed a resolution that the
beet interests of the country demand a
restoration of specie as the standard of
values.
N K\V \ ork, Pec. 12-—lT»e Herald’s
Berlin special, of the 9th. says: B ism ark
denies opposition to bombardment.
It is reported that the council of war
at \ ersailles decided to bombard Paris.
The Tribune’s special, dated London.
9th, says : Gnmbctta asks for an armis
tice. to enable the assembling of the Na
tional Convention. He asks leave for
Fuvre to puss Sevres, to consult their
colleagues and to conduct negotiations,
confessing that the Army of the Loire is
defeated in detail.
Gambetta declines the responsibility
of another st ruggle, or of making peace.
The National assembly must be tried.
ENGLAND
London. December 10.—-The Time*
has a striking and conciliatory editorial
on the Alabama Claims, and asks no
indemnity for insults heaped upou Eng
land, nor for the depredations of the
Alabama; but craves a settlement of
the claims, not merely because they are
just, but for the inauguration of a bet
ter feeling and closer unity between the
two countries.
The Morning Rost says the best
Americans avoid or are driven from
political life, while men like Butler,
wield political influence.
Five hundred eases of guns from
America, which were seized upon their
arrival here, have been restored to the
consignors.
It is rumored in Madrid that Senor
Momt proposes to suspend payment of
interest on the internal debt for twenty
months, with the understanding that
bondholders are also to contract a loan
guaranteed by mortgage upon the tobac
co monopoly for four years.
London, December 11.—A dispatch
from Amsterdam says a telegram from
Luxemburg states that the Prussian
Government has informed the Govern
ment of the Grand Duke that in conse
quence of its having allowed a violation
of the neutrality of the Grand Duchy
by the French, Prussia is no longer
bound to respect the neutrality of the
territory of Luxemburg.
It is said that the French government
will endeavor to enlarge the scope of the
conference on the Black Sea question,
but the attempt is discountenanced by
the London and St. Petersburg cabinet,
on the ground that it would endanger
the assemblage of the conference.
FLOR IDA .
Lake City, Dee. 10—Aspinwall ad
vices of the Oth says the weather is
frightful. Reports of shipwrecks are
coming in constantly.
The American schooner Scuddcr was
lost, her crew were saved. The schoon
er Ida was lost. The Henry Chanuey
made three ineffectual attempts to make
the harbor and finally weut to sea to
avoid the storm.
The tug Grutnper, of Philadelphia, is
supposed to be lost with all aboard.
It. is feared that the Chilian steamer
Le Mari is lost off the south Pacific
coast with all oil board.
New A <1 vert is© m cuts.
READ THIS !
WHAT DOES IT MEAN ?
That Ijarge Crowd passing in and
out at
R. M. YOUNG’S V
My friend, it is plain. Col. Voting
is selling out his large stock of goods
AT COST!
NO MISTAKE!
I am now determined to dispose of
the remainder of that
Mammoth Stock of Goods
purchased, late in the summer, during
the NEXT SIXTY DAYS
APT COST!
On hand, all kinds of Gents’ Woolen
Goods, from the commonest Kentucky
jeans to the finest French Cassimeres.
Ladies’ Dress Goods,
Shawls, Cloaks,
Children’s Coats
U A<l Infinitum /”
Ready-made Clothing,
BOOTS , SHOES , HATS ,
and a general assortment of everything
kept in a dry goods store.
J[ ard w a re, C roc ke r //,
BUEENSWARE, &q.
A larire supply of the Nonpareil
Oakley Mills FACTORY YARN con
stantly on hand.
Sheetings, Shirtings,
And Domestic of all kinds, at astonish
ingly Low figures.
Consult your interest and your fam
ily’s comfort, and come and buy a bar
gain. Respectfully,
R. M YOUNG.
If Yon Have the Blues,
Go and take a drink of fine old Rum,
Gin, Whisky, or Brandy, and if that
don’t cure you, take another drink in
the cellar, at R. M. YOUNG'S.
CIEORGIA. Gordon County. —A. Miller
[has applied for exemption of personalty,
and setting apart and valuation of homestead,
and I will pass upon the same at 10 o’clock
a. m. on llie 17th day of December next at my
office in Calhoun. This 7th day of Decem
ber 1870. D. W. NEEL, Ord y-
GEORGIA, Gordon County.—Martha E.
Fuller has applied for exemption of per
sonalty and setting apart and valuation of
homestead, and I will pass upon the same on
the 23d inst.. at my office in Calhoun. Tins
Dec. 13. 1870. D. W. NEEL, Ordinary.
the
GRAND RAFFLE
AM> SALE
In G a . f
WILL POSITIVELY COME OFF
ON THE 26th DECEMBER
AS ADVERTISED! *
All persons wishing Tickets, should
come forward at once, and secure then
There will be
Xo Postponement!
A FEW THOUSAND TtCKvft
YET UNSOLD l
Prizes are all Purchased, and will he
ready for delivery as soon as the draw
ing is over, and report cau be published
AGENTS will please make reports
by 22dinst., returning all unsold tickets
H. K. HICKS & CO
TIN-WARE
an”
Cooking Stoves!
W.T.HALL&RRO..
WOULD inform the public that they are
Ts prepared to fill all orders iu tha
Tin-Ware Line,
At ns LOW PRICES ns any similar estab
lishment in Cherokee Georgia.
Our work is put up by experienced work
men. and will coin]»are favorably with any
in the country.
O
Tn these days of Freedom, every I
husband should see that the "goot wifo”
is supplied with a good
Cooltliig Stovo,
And we nre prepared to fnrnisli any siie
or style desired at the Lowest Po’ssiMe
Prices.
Give us a call. aull.tf
1870, JO,
Coine, Everybody and Buy
IST K W
FALL-WINTER
DRY GOODS,
Heady-Made Clothing!
Groceries,
AND GENERAL
PLANTATION SI PPLE
BOAZ, BARRETT & CO.,
AT TIIR
I3ig 13 rick Storo !
NEAR THE RAILROAD.
lITE are always prepared, with a fu!
M and complete stock, to offer induce
ments to purchasers of
STAPLE DRY GOOD.
FANCY DRESS GOODS,
F&RN&HING GOOIV
CLOTHING,
HATS,
BOOTS,
SHOES,
NOTIONS,
I
We also keep a large and choice Stock « I
PAW GROCERIES!
Which we are prepared to sell as Cheap
anybody in this part of the country.
Our stock consists in part of
SUGAR,
COFFEE,
FLOUR,
BACON,
LARD,
SYRUP,
RICK,
SALT.
snutf
And. in fact, everything usually fcun *1
a FIRST CLASS Family Grocery Store, I
We are “regularly in” the
Wheat Market,
and pay the Highest Market Prices »
Wheat and Produce generally. I
BOAZ, BARRETT 4 CO. ,
Calhoun. Ga.. Aug. 11. 1870.