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nation is the best governed whose people
are the most, prosperous.
Individual prosperity is the surest basis
„f a nations' power, and a nations’ peace.
Whenever yon find a man surrounded
milt a competency—industriously pursuing
hi- o tn business, sowing tho seeds and
r oping the fruits of his otn labor, there
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ftr. and one too who is not rash to plunge.
;h?land into revolution and dqisuiet.
The whole duty of a government should
be to protect, encourage, and sustain Bucb
a man—for the whole peace and prosperity
of the nation depends upon that man.
It is to the home industries and tbo
home interest that a nation owes its - stand-,
in: among nations. If its people ap4 indns
liinns—if they are pro-pnrous—if peace-
ial plenty abound in its borders, then it-
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“WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.”
VOLUME XXV.
ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 18, 1870.
NEW SERIES-NO 12.
With etery grainery overflowing with
wheat, we might well laugh at the frantic
efforts of monthing demagogues to disgust
us with living.
HOOD FOR WHITMAN.
Our clever young friend, Whitman, of
the Dalton Citizen, fresh from tho classio
shades of Athens, lets off the following .
Who is Hr?—The Rome Courier has
a long article entitled, “Damon and Phtnt-
ias.” Who is Phintias ? We ask the
erudite editor of that paper for informa
tion, Perhaps he tried to write Pythi-as.'
No we dident though; we tried to write
Phintias—just precisely what wo did write
—and since the blooming young collegian
is anxious to know “Who is he,” we will
enlighten him.
Phintias was a Pythagorean philosopher
of Syracuse, and the firm friend of Da
mon, another Pythagorean of the same
city.
It seems that politics were in those days
as they are now—rather dangerous things
to meddle with, and Phintias having con
cluded to reform the abuses of the State by
removing its head, the tyrant Dionysius,
was detected by that aimable monster, and
was himself condemned to be decapitated.
For this little contretemps, Phintias was
not exactly prepared, and bogged that a
respite and leave of absence be granted
him until he could return home anl ar
range some impoitant family affairs. To
this modest request Dionysius demured, un
less he could place a hostage in his stead.
This Phintias proffered to do, when Dio
nysius, skeptical as to the existence of
such a friendship even among the Pytba-
;orean brotherhood, and curious to see the
result of the matter, assented to the propo
sition, and Phintias’ friend Damon, took
his place, willing to die in his stead.
The day fixed for the execution came,
and Phintyus was cot yet returned. Da
mon was Red forth to die. The tyrant had
hecn i/uportuned in vain—nothing bnt the
appcmranceof Phintias at the appointed
hour could save him. The hour came, and
the executioner had already bound Da
mon, when lo Phintias, who had been de
tair.ed by unforeseen and uncontrolable
circumstances, came rushing up for very
life—no death. A shout rf triumph went
up from the multitude, and the tyrant was
so muoh struck by this exhibition of their
friendship that he not only pardoned the
condemned Phintias, bat begged tho hon
or of sharing the friendship of the two no
ble fellows.
The moral of this story is to teach men
always to first arrange their family mat
the elections.
The retnrns from the Elections are com
ing in rapidly,bntnotyet fast enongh to sat
isfy the impatient anxiety of our people.
All feel such a deep interest in this mat
ter, that it is impossible for them to con
tain themselves in patience, until tie result
is knowu. And well may they feel the
deepest interest in the matter for hardly
ever before has the fate of American liber
ty hung so tremuoasly upon the result of
an election. The contest is not one of mere
party supremacy—but it is one of liberty
or slavery. If the Democratic party suc
ceeds in wresting the government from the
hands of the Radical traitors who are so
wretchedly administering the laws, we may
hope for a restoration of our liberties and
a return to good government—but if the
Radicals still maintain their held upon
power, then wc have little else to hope than
a continuation of the anarchy and out
rage that has so long oppressed our
land.
The news so far as has yet been heard
from, is favorable to the cause of patriot
ism.
The sumary foots up 108 Democratic
members iu Congress, a gain of 41 from
the last—and nearly a majority of the
whole. If the unparalelled outrage,known
as the Akerman election Bill,had not have
been perpetrated upon the people of
Georgia—she too would have voted last
Tuesday—and the rancor and bitterness of
party strife would have been over. As it
is we have to endure it over a mouth lon
ger, and for no reason in the world, only
that Bullock and his infernal thieves may
the better manipulate it lo their own ad
vantage.
If She election had been he Id last Tues
day, and conducted fairly, as wc have no
doubt but that it would have been, to the
108 Democratic strength in Congress we
could have added at least four. This would
have given the Democrats a power sufficient
at least to restrain the villianous designs
of the radical majority.
And this tho Radicals very well know,
and it was to defeat this result that Aker
man was sent to the State to concoct the
infamous election bill.
There was no moral or legal necessity
for this change in th 3 election law
the time of holding the
The story itself has been seized upon as
the foundation of a very charming Drama
called “Damon and Pythias, to which wo
presume our clever cotemporary alludes
when he supposed we tried to write Pythi-
A fuller acconnt of the affair may be
fonnd in the works of Diodorius Siculus,
(Fragmcnta lib 10, vol, 4, page 55, seqq
Bipont edition-, also in Valerius Maximus,
4—7, 1 ext. ed Hase.
my expect a flowing treasury,?a contented
citii service, and an internal support and
aora,'e that will give it a position of honor - ters before dabblingin politics,
in the family of nations, more to be envied
than any that may be at'nincd by any super
ri -rity of numbers alone.
It is an old and ti-uo saying that charity
tc.-ias at home, and this principle can lie
Carrie 1 further and be applied to every fea
tire of social economy. If wo would
make our neighbors happy, we should first
*(? that the joy we are to spread abroad,
bits fount in the domestic fold. If we
a.uid impart knowledge to others, we must
tat enlighten ourselves. If we would build
at the prosperity of tho country, we should
fc: provide the means at home.
It is a liaise and unnatural light that
taiaes only abroad, that has no neulns
’•'"'and which its rays are evoked, and it is
; i t as unuatural to expect a community
1 prosper, wheu Us individual constituen
ts :s starving.
Far that reason, then, we should turn our
Mention to our home affairs, before ven-
tariag to build up the national prosperity,
fl'e should provide for our household
noons before supplying the nation with | ported kill 4 The wt ; teg who con i d
THE NEGRO RIOT IN DONALDSON-
VILLE.
The following press dispatch was pub
lished on tho 11th. It tells its tale of bor
ror, and the blood of every white man in
the land will boil with indignation at the
fiendish outrage inflicted npon his brothers
in Louisiana:
Nbw Orleans, Not. 10.
The evening papers publish exciting
news from Donaldsonville. A negro mob,
five hundred strong, are reported in pos
session of the place. Judge W C Laws
and the Mayor, Mark Sehowberger, are ro-
?Ye should devote all our energy to tho
Finding up oi our lan gnishing industries;
L the improvement of our domestic re
sources.
Me should turn our attention to the
Cultivation of friendly and neighborly re-
lations; tailing hand in hand in the great
"stk o' raising our prostrate industries; of
Clearing away the wreck and debris of the
War ; filling our homes with plenty, and
01 ‘utu.-mg into our individual community
tlj; lih and energy that wili give cbarac-
ir aii 'i tone to all its surroundings.
-bd i-ow is this great work to be done ?
'■to be done simply by every one work-
IJ ? out his own destiny, attending to his
5, u business, doing whatsoever his hand
‘W'to do, and leaving abstract questions,
sounding theories, and foreign politics
* ’these who can suck their living from
■col rich indeed is our land in opportu
nities 11 do good. There is a profitable
,5r ^ b r all to do. Almost every household
j* 1 Centre for the display of high and no-
‘t manhood. Not a home in all our broad
soutlie-q land but what presents a field for
esr:, cst action. Not a community bnt what
pens ap an avenue to unwearying and
ptjutab.e labor. If wo direct our energies
*o th,
fairs.
confine onr ambition to home af«
SqiJ
Strive in our humble sp«re to shine.”
Dot exercise ourselves so much about
, la S ! above and beyond us, how much
“ tcr avill it be for us and for ours.
F-fer; household iu the land, is a little
j'udd of itself. The inmates of tha- home
^ave hopes and fears, live, breathe and
t “ fi-ins. independent of the great and
aus J world without. To make this little
''appy, should be the purpose of ev-
-'i nst man. To surround its inmates
fl M „ C l JlfortS ani * P^asures is a solemn
^'. Jn( F ’F ah homes were thus made hap-
obod hoa!elKlld land was the
iron!*! ^ ^ eiCe and °fi plenty, how blest
nation he. It is the great oh-
its cif. "° TorDnients 10 bless and protect
nhoJ aD ^ t ' lat g° Tera “>eut is blest
Is tha- C ! l , Uens are ,ha happiest, and so it
°hs aro moat prosper-
crib .v ^ “ t Clt ’ lens - With every
nt, ’a the land filled with
i corn, we might
escape were arrested and imprisoned,
rioters threaten to burn tho town-and hang
several citin
Officers of the steamboat Allen, which
passed Donaldsonville at 12 o’clock last
night, report the plaos on fire. .. The riot
createB great excitement here.
A call with one hundred and fifty signa
tures has been published under the caption
of “Citizens of New Orleans, come together.
Donaldsonville is in flam -a—onr citizens
are being murdered—let us meet on Can'll
street to-night at 7 o’clock, to devise means
for onr protection.”
This riot is hot the legitimate fraits of
radical teachings. The radicals have for
the basest purposes labored hard to pro
voke a conflict between tho whites and the
negroes, by impressing the negro with the
idea that the whites are his enemies, and
that his own protection demanded the ovtV
throw of the white ioflnenco in the Souths
The storm they have so long labored to
raise is about to burst forth, and tbo land
is about to be deluged in blood.
The truth ought no longer to ne kept
hack—it is a natural impossibility for the
two races to lire together in peace, and
justice to both requires that they should be
separated. It was found necessary to re
move the Indiana. More brutal in his
nature, and less to be guided by reason
is the negro, aad jnrtice to the whites de
mand that he too ahonld be removed.
We are opposed to a war of extermina-
snch a thing, bnt anoh a war is inevita
ble unless tne negroes are removed. Pol.
icicians may howl as mnch as they please
bnt they cannot invert the order of na
ture or revoke natures’ laws.
Tho riot at Donaldsonville is bnt the
beginning of the struggle that is to event
in the extermination or the extripation of
the negro race Rom onr land.
In a Sabbath school in Grand Haven,
Michigan, recently, Miss Elder, the teach
er, asked Burty Parks: “Who wag the
father of Zebedee’s children?" Bnrty
scratches his head for a moment and then
asked: “Who did Zebeiee suspect.
Fair Items.—The one hundred and
seventy-five dollars diamond ring,, raffled
for at table No, 3, Ladies’ Catholic Fair,
was won by Baron Eugene LeHardy De
Bolian, of Rome, Georgia. He threw
election. Georgia was in no respect
so peculiar as to require this extraordinary
law to insure her citizens tho right of a fair
: election. The old law was such as obtain
ed in every other State and the day (8th
of November) such a day as ovjr half the
States in the Union voted npon.
The whole thing was intcnded'to defeat
a fair election—and is an outrage that one
cannot well trust his temper to rpcak
of.
And yet this outrage is approved of and
endorsed by George P. Burnett, and the
Convention and party that nominated him,
and we hear of men who claim to be patri
ots, and Sonthern men—and men who move
in respectable society, excited by what they
term friendly considerations,who are willing
to endorse this outrage too, who are willing
to hazzard the peace of the country, and
to weaken the Democratic strength in Con
gress, and to streogthen the Radicals—by
voting for this man Burnett.
Have these men fully considered the ef
fect of their votes—have they reflected that
npon one vote in Congress may depend the
issue of Democratic or Radical suprema
cy-
Do they feei in their sonthern hearts a
feeling of gladness as they hear of the Dem
ocratic gains that are being made—and
e they yet determined to reduce those
gains by voting far a Radical at home.
We cannot see how they can conscient
iously do so, or how they may expect to es
cape the consequence.
A TICKLED GOVERNOR.
This is what the Atlanta True Georgian
the ablest Republican Journal in the South
says abont the railroad potage.
Those who are so greedily gobblin
up,will do well to scrutinize the mess close,
ly before swallowing it down.
A Tickled Governor.—It must have
tickled Bollock and his cl m hugely to see-
t e ‘‘fine impression” he made npon a few
deluded Georgians, whom he was humbug
ging with “internal improvement” speeches
recently.
Is it possible that the people cannot
fathom thb man’s designs, with the light
of his past deeds before them? It not,
they deserve to be wheedled into still great
er bankruptcy.
A tricked Governor and a tickled peo
pie. This is the way Bnrnett’s boys are
greased.
Ambitions Editors.
There are no less than five editors aspir
ing to Congressional honors in the city of
New York, C. C. Noral of the Times,
Robert B. Roosvelt of the Citizen, Horace
Greely of the Tribnne, James Brooks of the
Express, and George Wilks of the Spirit
of the Times. Of these two are Democrats
Roosvelt and Brooks, the other three are
Republicans.
In speaking of these ambitions editors
the New York Herald says:
Now, this being a free country, the edi
tor of a newspaper has probably as mnch
right to ran for Congress as any other mem-
her of a community. A man who is a jour
nalist is not to be blamed therefor,any more
than a tailor should be a tailor;nor should he
be deprived ot any of his political rights in
consequence. But the fact is, a man who
surrenders his indepenoecce and manhood
as a respectable journalist to become a dab
bler in the muddy pools of politics betrays
a want of good judgment which should be
extremely rare iu such cases.
Journalism, properly understood, is a
profession far more lofty than that of poli-
itics, take it almost in any hape. The
journalist's field of operations his opportu
ne es to benefit mankind, his general nee-
fulness, his power to expose vice and cor
ruption and to sustain virtue, and his abili
ty to do good in hundreds of ways are en
tirely unknown iu the sphere ot the politi
cian One has only to look into the in
trigues of the political wire pullers to be
came disgusted with the whole system.
Take onr friend Roosevelt’s case for exam
pie.
We will be bound that schemes are on
foot to accomplish his overthrow, if possi
ble, to which he, with his natural instincts
as a gentleman would not countenance on
his own behalf; or if he did, >t would arise
from the fact that in leaving his sanctnm
he left honor behind, and bad become con
taminated by the political atmosphere in
which he is compelled to move. No gen
tlemen. Better be a good journalist, re
spectsd by a constituency whose influence
is universal, than to hold any public office
that has to ,be eached by political trickery
and chicanery, whether that office be'fe
pound-keeper or the Presidency of the Uni
ted States.
That editor we think, makes a mistake
who allows his sanctnm to become a hotbed
in which to cultivate Congressional aspira
tions.
Of the above aspirants, Brooks, and
Roosevelt have been elected. Greeley Nor
val and Wilkes, are still left to do service
in the sanctum.
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.
Secure in the confidence of the people
yet ever solicitous to deserve that confidence
and favor,our esteem ei cotemporary of At
lanta, the Conslitntion, has pat on a bran
new suit,and now comes to us with a hand
some face and enlarged column. This evi
dence of prosperity is gratifying tons, we
lore to sec the spread of snch able democrat
ic journals.
Independent of the public pass, they
are able to battle for the rights of the peo
ple,without truckling to the thieves in pow
er, we congratulate the management of the
Constitution upon jtheir handsome paper.
The Atlanta Constitntion has long been
promising to gi70 the pnblio some of the
items of onr Legislative expenditures.
It has now commenced the work, and it
promises to show bow the boys were greas
ed.
We give the following :
Any man who will start on the tremen
dous journey of traveling through the par
ticulars of Gov. Bollock's administration,
will often pause, wearied and heartsick, at
the dreary waste of official management,
disregard of law, reckless extravagance and
wanton favoritism.
We say it sadly that hardly an act of the
administration does not show incompetency
or stain, disregard of poblic duty, or inva
sion of private right.
We lit by chance on the following item
of payments ordered by Gov. Bollock out
of the State Treasury, under the novel
head of “Service rendered organizing pro
visional Legislature :
A L Harris,
Wm. Pettis.
Charleston Johnson,
P M Sheiby,
C W Francis,
S R Kramer,
D G Cotting,
S W Bard,
E F Blodgett,
P O Keafe,
T A Johnson,
W B Smith,
$ 204
171
171
153
95
45
180
171
171
126
57
45
Affairs in south Carolina.
The good people of the noble old'Pal
metto State, are to be pitied. Overran and
downtrodden by a set of the most mist rable
thieves and scoundrels that ever cursed
people—they have to stand fearfally still
and see their substance taken from them by
taxation. Their ancestral lands—many of
them held directly by the crown patent of
Britain, are to be taxed nntil they are no
longer able to redeem them. Their pleasant
homes are to be taken from them by thiev
ish radical and negro tax gatherers, and
they have no means of redress. Under
these distressing circumstances, is it very
wonderful that they arc becoming restive.
That their forbearance and patience has
reached a point beyond which it would
cease to be a virtue. That having exhaos
ted every legal means they are now resolved
to use all the means that the God of na
ture has placed in their hands for the de
fence of their homes, and their families.
It is no wonder, and mnch as we depre
cate violence and war, if nothing else will
save onr brethren of South Carolina, we
are willing to cast onr lot with them, and
help them to rid the land of the enrse that
hangs so darkly over it.
The following report of the proceedings
of a large and influential meeting in the
district of Edgefield, will show how our
friends there feel under the oppressive
yoke.
In debating the merits of a series of res
olutions that had been introduced, Mr. Til-
man said :
‘That he acquiesced in the resolutions
as a whole, bnt that he had far more faith
in the efficacy of some of the resolutions
than in others. That the great danger was
in attempting to do too much. He hoped
for more good from compelling freedmen to
help pay the taxes on land which they have
voted, by electing ignorant asses, thieves and
robbers tc office, than from any and all oth
er remedial measures which could be pro
posed at present. The negroes have been
voting taxes on land at elections heretofore
as if dancing at a frolic. They should now
be made to pay the fiddler, or go to the
Scalawags and carpet-baggers for employ
ment. He contended that if only one-half
of the land owners in the State would hence
forth, in good faith to each other, require
every freedman to pay 50 cents per acre to
ward the tax on the land he cultivated
wnich is none too mnch when a fair pro
portion of waste land is taken into account
there would be no difficulty in electing hon
cat men to offioe two years hence, even with
nnbongbt and unsolicited votes of freed
men. Hu warned tax payers to be up and
doing, for said he, the time is npon yon
when the taxes of year land, and the freed
men who have imposed those taxes wil
shortly get rid of yon, if yon de not spee
dily get rid ol one or the other of them.
Mr. T. also dwelt on the happy effect of
banishing had characters from a neighbor
hood by non-emphyment, and on the bene
fit arising' fo ta not hiring a laborer who
has aifft . Alfog contract ?6r Service until
the expiration of such contract. That dnr
ing the last two years’ the land owners in
Rocky Pond Beot had demonstrated the
great advantages ot proscribing bad char
acters and not employing each others la
borers.
He farther recommended the sternest
and most unrelenting social proscription of
every white man who might refine either
to join a slab, or abide by its regulations;
treat him as a white nigger sbonid be treat
ed; pass him and his whole family with si
lent contempt; let him, or any of his house
hold get sick, or even die, with none to
c’leer the lonely hoar, or to bary the taint
ed remains bnt his nigger associates, the
companions of his choice. Det ns agree
with every white man who prefers the
friendship of negroes to that of his own
race, and leave him severely alone.
He likewise said the high priee of cotton
since the war has kept radicalism alive at
the Sonth by the competition among white
men to secare the negro labor, bnt he hop
ed England would become involved in the
present European wer, so as to knock cot
ton, for years to come, down to six or eight
cents, and thereby hit radicalism a death
blow between the eyea. Bnt whether cot
ton shall go op or go down, the land owner
of South Carolina must quickly decide ei
ther to part with Sambo or to make him
pay the tax on every acre of land he may
cultivate.
The speaker expressed grave fear that
the past two years'of Scott’s rale have been
happiness as compared with what is in
store for the white people of Sonth Caro
lina daring the next two years, bat said he
in addition to the measures far redress of
wrongs, proposed by year committee, we
have one other last resource left—the Ku-
Klnxer’s power—the assassin’s privilege—
tie Russian’s liberty. Let Scott and his
crew beware of driving a brave, though
conquered people to desperation.
Acts Passed by the Legislature or 1070.
To incorporate the Albany, Mobile and
New Orleans Railroad Company.
To require all railroad bonds endorsed I of Georgia.
To incorporate the Polk Connty Minio
and Iron Madofacturing Company.
To incorporate the Bank of the State
$1,589
AN APOLOGT.
Little Dingy thus apologizes for his dirty
existence:
“A blackguard is not a very attractive or
entertaining specimen of humanity under
any circumstances. He is to the genus ho
mo what a tadpole is to the trog, with this ex
caption, that, whereas without tadpoles,
thore would be no frogs, it is quite possible
that a community of gentlemen may have
existence without blackguards. The “Social
Bvil” is not an indispensable necessity to civ
ilized society; and virtue is all the more beau
tiful and more appreciated when brought in
to contrast with shameless prostitution. After
the same manner blaokgnards have their
plao
that adorn true manhood in a more conspicu
ous, and therefore more exemplary light.”
Upon this theory then, we suppose that we
will have to tolerate his disgusting presence,
although we must wonder at the ways of na
ture in making the existence of such a mon
ster of blackguardism at all necessary to the
completeness of its plan.
Total,
We thus eee that Gov. Bollock has paid
for this service seve.al who were drawing
money from the State in other offices. Sev
eral were connected with the State Road,
and thus get pay for time as State Road
employees, that they did not work, and also
drew pay for illegal work done for neglect
of their proper duties.
And when it is remembered that the
Congre aional committee rebuked Gov.
Bollock for calling into requisition the ser
vices of outsiders to organize the General
Assembly, it will be seen that the payment
of these partisan tools was an outran.
Their employment was a grave outrage—
s violation of the Constitntion and lawa or
the Sta e and ot parliamentary law—an in
enlt to the Feneral Assembly—an aggres
sion npon popular rights, an arbitrary, des
potic exercise of gubernatorial authority.
And their payment was a fraud npou the
Treasury.
Let the people when they vote remember
the wrong, and mark it against the Bullock
faction and its friends, as a reason for vot
ing them down.
After Mr. Tillman’s remarks, which were
frequently interrupted with hearty ap
plause, CapL W. F. Prescott, Mr. Thomas
Garrett and others, addrrssed the meeting,
whed the resolutions were pat and nnani-
, ' “ 1 " lopted.
Little Dingy says, “the Concordia associa
tion are preparing for another entertain
ment ” She-he had better have kept his
grammar.
Four women in male attire were discov
ered amonng the imprisoned Turcos at
Spadau; in Prussia.
Why are horses in cold weather like med
dlesome people? Because they are bearers
of idle tails.
Mark Twain says that the Sandwich is
lands’ dish of plain dog is only onr cherish
ed American sausage, with the mystery ra*
The Atlanta Constitntion, says “Thst
Democrat who works with the Bollock fac
tion, in its wrongs, is no better than the
men he co operates with.”
Yes, bnt how abont friendship, neighbor.
Most a man turn his cold shoulder to a
friend merely because he is a radical, and
goes in for “greasing the boys.” and how
too, abont gratitude—most a man see an
other build a railroad, and not vote for him
for Congress. Your judgment is mighty
good, triend, Avery, bnt then yonr phe-
lioks are hard as granite boulders. Some
men np here are not that hard hearted—
they vote for radicals just because they love
Stamp Laws.
The following, relative to the amended
stamp laws may be of service to aome of
onr readers :
1st. An instrument issued unstamped at
a time when and in a plaee where no col
lection district was established, may be
stamped by the party who issued it, or by
any party having an interest therein, at any
time prior to Janaary 1st, 1872, and the
legal effect of the stamp thus affixed will
be the same as though affixed by the prop
er collector.
2d. In the ease of instruments issued un
tamped, or insufficiently stamped, since
the establishment of the collection district,
the collector is authorized to affix the nec-
ecssarj stamp npon payment of the price
of the stamp required by law, a penalty of
doable the amount remaining unpaid, but
in no care leas than five dollars, and where
the whole amount of the tax denoted by
the stamp required shall exceed the sum of
fifty'doHars, npon payment also of interest
at tiie rate of six per centum on arid tax
from the day on which each stamp ought
to have been affixed.
The collector is also authorized by the
amended law to remit the penalty at any
time from Jnly 14th, 1870, to August 1st,
1872, in all eases where it shall be shown
to his satisfaction that the instrument pre
sented him was issued without the neoessa-
rj stamp by reason of accident, inadvertence
or urgent necessity, and without any wilful
design to defraud the United Stites of the
doty, or to evade or delay the payment
thereof.
3d. Where an instrament thus etampep
has been recorded, it should either be re
corded anew, or the fact that the error has
been corrected should be noted upon the
by the Stale to be registered in the office oi
Secretary of State.
To amend section 4514 of the Code.
To amend paragraph in section No. 27-
41, article 2d, part 2d, title 7, chapter 7,
of the Code.
To declare the Poll tax for the years 1S68,
-879, and 1870, yet nncolleeted;illegal and
prevent the collection of the same.
To change the time ior the annua! meet
ing of the General Assembly.
Assenting to,and confirming the purchase
by the United States of certain tracts of
land in the State, and for ceding jurisdic
tion over the same.
To amend the charter of the Geor
gia Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Com-
pany.
To incorporate the Cnthbert Bankin
Loan and Trust company.
To authorize the Mayor and Conncil of
Americas to issue bonds to aid in building
railroads, etc.
To crant State aid to the Polk State
Qnarry Railroad Company and ler other
purposes.
To authorize Pickens cunnty to aid in the
construction ofthe Marietta and North Geor
gia Railroad Company.
To amend the act incorporating the Geor-
;ia Historical Society.
To authorize the Superintendent oi’ the
Western and Atlantic Railroad to convey
to the Macon and Western Railroad Com-
pany certain land in exchange for certain
and now owned by the said Macon and Wes
tern Railroad.
To empower the Superintendent of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad to convey
certain rights to the proprietors of the Kcn-
ni-eaw House at ’1 arietta.
To authorize the Ordinary of Chattooga
county to issue bonds to the amount of $10,
000 to put in condition a wagon road from
Summerville across Lockout Mountain to
gone point on the Chattanooga aod Ala
bama Railroad.
To extend the limits of Augusta, and for
radical purposes. Bully for that.
To incorporate the Grand Trank Railroad
Company, to grant State aid to the some,
and for other purposes.
To incorporate the Georgia Agricnltu
ral Bank,and grant certain powers aod priv-
leges t' the Gergia liailroad and Banking
Company.
To incorporate the Georgia Seabord and
North Western Railroad Company, grant
State aid to the same, and for other pnr-
poses.
To iu corporate the Americas and Isabel
la R tilroad Oompany, grant State aid to
the same, and for other purposes.
To incorporate the Xewnan Bank, Loan
and Tinst Company of Newnan.
To reinstate certain parlies as execntors
in a certain case.
To change the time of holding the Su
preme Court.
To amend the act incorporating the Au
gusta and Summerville Railroad Compa
ny, and tor other purposes.
To incorporate the Stone Mountain Gran
ite and Railway Company.
To incorporate the Georgia Loan and Rank
ing Company.
To incorporate the Darien Telegraph Com
pany.
To grant State aid to the Camilla and
Cnthbert Railroad Company.
To regulate tbe law of putting np and
keeping gates across public roads in the
counties of Gordon, Whitfield and Mar-
ray.
To require the commissioners to re7ise
the jury box, and to take an oath to dis
charge their duty impartially.
To repeal the act organizing a Criminal
Court in each county.
To oiganize and lay off a new connty out
of portions of Telfair, Pulaski and Mont
gomery counties.
To require all the railroads in the State
to furnish equal accommodations to all with-
ont regard to race, color previous condi
tion.
To provide for the crossing of railroads
by other railroads.
* To incorporate the People s Bank of Al
bany.
To incorporate the Planters' Exchange
Bank of Macon.
To incoiporate the Brunswick Bank and
Trust Company.
To incorporate the Ocean Bank and
Trust Company.
To incorporate the Bank of Ameri
cas.
To incorporate the Griffin Banking Com-
To incorporate the Bainbridge Compa-
To incorporate the Savings Bank ol'Bornes-
ville.
To incorporate the Georgia State Bank
ing Comyany.
To incorporate Cedartown, in Polk coun
ty, and for other purposes.
To incorporate tbe Boston and Greenfield
Railroad Company.
To amend the act assented to Angnst 27,
1870.
To change tbe name of the Central Geor.
gia Banking Company.
To amend the road laws so far as applies
to the counties ol Whitfield, Murray and
Gordon.
To amend the act to grant State aid to
the completion of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad, and for other purposes.
To incorporate the Planters’ Loan and
Savings Bank.
To facilitate the construction of docks,
wharves, and ships, at Bronswiok.
To incorporate the Merchants Exchange
Bank of Angnsta, and to amend the char,
ters of the Planters’ Banking Company of
Macon, City Bank of Macon, Savannah
Loan ana Trust Company, and tbe
Central ,Georgia Banking Company of Ma.
eon.
To ineoaponte the Tatum Iron and Coa|
Mining and Manufacturing Company of
Dade conty.
To incoponte the Dalton Tripoli Compa
ny.
To incorporate the Laborers, Merchants
and Mechanics Loan and frost Company,
of Savannah.
To incorporate the Policy Holders Life
Insurance Company ofthe Sonth.
To incorporate the Atlantic and Great
Western Canal Company, etc.
To. authorize the Ordinary and Road
Commissioners of Bartow connty to classify
the pnblio roads, and prescribe the width
and amount of work to be done on each.
To incoporate the Laborers, Merchants,
Mechanics Loan and Trust Company of
Macon /■
To pay to Mrs. P. ti. Fyall, widow of
F. H. Fyall, negro, the per diem and
mileage of the session of 1870.
To authorize the Rome Railroad Compa.
ny to consolidate with the Memphis Branch
To authorize the payment of costs doe
officers of the court in Bartow couuty and
provide for the same.
To change the line between the counties
of Houston and Macoa.
To amend the act organizing a criminal
court in aeu count.
To amend section 14 of the act settiDg
apart a homestead ot realty aad personality
so far as applies to certain exempted arti
cles specified in section 2013 < f tho Code
To amend section 4235 of the Code by
striking ont the words, “to work in a chain
gang on the public works.”
To regulate claims in certain cases.
To amend section 3151 eftbe Code.
To amend the act to protect the planters
of this State from imposition in the sale ot
fertilizers.
To amend tbe act to carry into effect
section ]2, division 2d, article 5, of the
Constitution.
To making certain persons bolding money
under order of court subject to rale.
To incorporate the Planters Bank of
Fcrsyth, and tbe Houston Danking Com
pany.
To incorporate the Skidaway, Pine Is
land and Seashore Railroad Company, of Sa
vannah.
To incorporate Cairo, in Thomas county;
Subligna, in Chattooga county, and for
other purposes.
To incorporate the Georgia mntnal In
surance Company of Sanaonah.
To incorporate the Oglethorpe Manufac
turing Company ot DeKaib connty.
To organize the District Court, and for
other purposes
To extend the provision for alimony to
the family of the husband, to provide ior
the custody cf the children, etc.
To regulate the mode of joioing issue
upon appeal cases, li,uaded upon proceed
ings had before Justices’ Court, in regard
to tbe enforcement of laborers’ liens.
To repeal section 415 of the Code, ;n re
Iation to entering nolle proseqnis, and pie
scribing the mode of settlement in criminal
cases-
To more effectually execute the home-
stead and exemption allowed by tbe Coosti
tntion.
To regulate tbe practice iu the Supreme
Coart in certain cases.
To prescribe tbe practice in cases of in
junction, and other extraordinary remedies
io equity, aod the manner of taking judg
ments in the same to the Supreme Court.
To declare more fully tbe meaning cf
sections 3203 and 4222 of the Code, and
provide for entering judgments on bonds of
supersedeas, where cases have been carried
to the Supreme Court.
To authorize executors, administrators
and guardians of minor children to pur
chase a homestead of reality in certain
cases.
To confer jurisdiction of misdemeanor on
Superior Coarts.
To incorporate the Planters’ and Miners'
Bank ofthe State of Georgia.
To allow C' W. Henderson, of Campbell
county, and all persons f bq have lost a leg
nr arm, to peddle without a license in the
State.
To amend the act incorporating Emory
College in Newton county.
(To be Continued.')
“A. H. Stephens.”
Very curtly and eharacteristieall;
der the above caption, Forney’s Cl
ofthe 7th lnst.‘ thus whines and
“On the 14th of September an edi
article appeared in the Chronicle npoi
Constitutional view ot the war betwi
States.’ It accompanied a portion o 1
review of‘A Bebel War Clerk’s Dia
was based npon certain statements
in that volume.
Matter incorporated io this edit
gave offense to Mr. Alexander H. Si
of Georgia,and that gentleman has
us a letter several columns in leDgtb,’
we have neither the will uor tbe spa
print. In a word we positively refrnu
allow Mr. Stephens, or any other of!
rebel chiefs, the nse of ear colamas to .
tilate their contemned and nnmitig
treason.
From beginning to eod, this commui
tion is a detense of the rebellien whic
wonld justify by argument The main
pose of the writer, however is to den
authenticity of the celebrated speech
to have been delivered by him in
Georgia Secession Couveution in 1861.
declares that be never madeany such spi
either in that convention or anywhere i
'It is a fogery—a gross fabrication fj
beginning to end.’ This speech has
quently appeared in the Chronicle, ar.
doubtless well remembered.
It opposes the withdrawal of the Soi
era States, proclaiming that to attempt
destroy the Government of the Uni
States, ‘is tbe height of madness, lolly a
wickedness. It has been widely publish
and has found its way into nearly all of '
bistories of tbe war, including Leric
Draper’s and McPherson’s. Mr. StepF
states that in tbe “Rebel War Clerk’s D
ry, above alluded to, the document is,
posed as a forgery.’ So it is; but its
losnre is simply tbe statement of one w
ike the ex-Viee-Presidt nt of the uefu.
C. S. A. was himself a traitor, and ops
gizes for treason
We give the honorable gentleman, b>:
ever, the weight of this additional prooi,
his word. He did not make the spee
that for nearly nine years past has be
pnblished in every newspaper of the ian
Honorable Record for the Planters.
We take the followingjost tribute to the
worth and sterling integrity of the Sonth*
era planter, from the Auguita Constitution
alist.
The most enobling of all avocations.—
the planter may well be proud of the fair
fame that rests upon his as a class.
If those who are so busily preying npon
the substance of tbe planter would only
take to themselves some of his integrity
the burdens of meeting bis advances wonld
not be half so heavy :
One of the most hopeful and cheering
sigDS of the times, since the war, indicative
of material recuperation and the trae chiv
alry of this immediate seclion has been re
cently manifested in Angnsta, daring the
past weelt. It was well known that onr
warehousemen and merchants hadacoepted
very largely for their patrons. These ac
ceptances amounted to nearly one million of
dollars, the larger part of which was due
and payable upon the 1st and 4th days of
November. Much anxiety was felt in fi
nancial oirclcs, particularly of course by
the acceptors of the drafts—as to the
promptness of tbe planting eommnuity in
meeting their obligations, the more espe
cially as cotton has been selling at a figure
that will hardly pay the cost of production
But this anxiety, though natural enough,
was really superfluous. Fcr be it recorded
to tbe honor of the planters that, dffpite
the depeession of the market and the dis
count supposed to exist, in these days, np-
od private faith, they have, with very few
exceptions, met their promises with a pane
tnality worthy of ail praise.
We learn, for example, that one firm in
Angcsta accepted for over $70,000; all of
which was either paid some days before
doe, or upon the very day required. With
snch record the great majority of planters
can easily obtain advances to any amount.
W e doubt not, also, that tbe very few who
have been delinquent, through inability or
negligence to protect their paper, will come
forward at an early day and settle satisfac
tory with their merchants. We have been
called “slow” non-progressive ete In this
part of the State; but what section of Geor
gia can point to a brighter business es
cutcheon than oars ?
and is a part of the history of the count
In law snch a document as tbe speech v
repudirted by Mr. Stephens, citculated a
endorsedfor so long a period, wjuld final -
crystalize into an authority. Itisstran
that his rejection ot it should only now ha
appeared for tho first lime. We give hi.
the foil advantage of his statement, b
we hope the publicists and seho’.ors, w
have relied upon the discarded speech.w
let os know how they obtained possessi
Of it.’
In other words, Mr. Forney having..
is his wont betimes, circulated editorial
a base fabrication and built upon it a pvi
mid of spendiferous rubbish to gh
Radical regime,is furious because
vens topples it down with the clean
of a man enamored of the troth. In ti ;
course of denial, we presume, it becan
necessary for Mr. Stephens to enlarge son
what upon the points raised by Mr. Fo
ney.
This, of course, would never do; for
Forney hates the truth, he also dreads ii
exposition, in an argumentative shape, fro
a m ster of statesmanship, logic and tl
noble Engiisn tongue. We dare .-ay M :
Stephens was well a .'are that there nos bi
slim chance of a hearing, at any length, i
the columns of Forney’s venal press Ha
lie enclosed a check for a good roand su
of bribe money, the mercenary would hat j
pmblished a defense of “rebellion” or an
thing else. Bnt to yield his colams to i
document from Alexander II. Stever
which crashed his paltry literary egg-shel
and to yield them also in tbe simple an
austere cause of truth, without money an
without price, this was indeed too much i
require from a prolectary and a time se
ver. Mr. Stephens must, we say, have su?
pected snch a state of things. He mu.°;
have known thatForney is very nueh afrai
of genrine argument-
Thn cause of Victorious Evil is to > weai
to stand before the Majesty of ilcasai .
which cries aloud, and will continue to er
aloud, and will continue to cry alond fore'
er, above tha dram and bugle or the yelp i
the subsidized joaraalist. Since, then. Mjl
Forney fears the light and clings yp dark
ness; since he refuses to let his readers hen
the other side, since his cause is too wee
for examination or controversy, unless;gol
yellow, glittering gold, be secretly or openl
paid into his soiled and itching palm, Mdj
Mr. Stephens sbonid withdraw his mam
script from the Chronicle and let it b
made public elsewhere.—Augusta Const iti
tionalist.
“Ladias in the Next Room.’
Under the above heading, a Clevelan
correspondent of the Woman’s Journt ■;
writes sensibly as follows:
“On entering a stall in one-of our firs i
class eating-booses, which only gentleme
and ladies are supposed to frequent, 1 wa
surprised to ebserve on the Wall thi j
notice: “Gentlemen, while occupying thi
room, are respectfully requested to refrai
from using any profane or improper lat
gnage. Ladies are in the next room.”
It occurred to <ne at once, what an es
cellent argument this in favor of wimai
suffrage. And as I looked, and re.read tb
notice, now easo, 1 thought, to obviate it
necessity by taking down these walls. An
how truly do these illustrate the partisa
walls that custom and society have create
between the sexes, and which this gre:
reform, Woman suffrage, is seeking to over
throw. Who cannot see that, as loDg a
these harries remain, woman is more liabl ;
to suffer from man’s unrestrained grossnes; -
and tendency toward the evils indicated b
the notice referred to, than if she stoo<
before men in all the relations of life as a
equal, free to exercise the moral power the
this eating-house notice accords her?
“Take down fhe partitions in politics— |
in religion—in labor—in opportunity—an i
allow woman to stand before men strong i.
tbe consciousness of her moral power-
who will for a moment doubt ahat the effei
will be an increase in the moral force
society?”
Railroad Company, mid for
ate Colt
popo-es.
Toincorp irate Colquitt, in Miller county
and for other purposes.
’o incorporate the
Mr. Greeley’s Handwriting.
The first of the following letters shows
what Mr. Greeley really wrote in reply to a
request to lectnre in Illinois. The second
letter shows how his reply was construed:
FROM E. GREELEY LO M. B. CASTLE.
“Dear Sir—I am over-worked and grow
ing old- I shall be sixty next February
3rd. —On the whole, it seems I most de
cline to lecture henceforth, except in this
immediate vicinity, if I do at all. I cannot
promise to visit Illinois on that errand—
certainly not now. Yours,
H. Greeley.”
FROM ii. B. CASTLE TO H. GREELEY.
Sandwich, III., May 12,1870.
Horace Greeley, New York Tribune:
Dear Sir—Yonr acceptance to lectnre
before oar Association next winter came to
hand this, morning, Four penmanship not
being the plainest; it took some time to
translate it; bat we succeeded, and wonld
say yonr time—‘3rd of February’—and
terms—‘$60’—are entirely satisfactory. As
yon suggest, we may be able to get yon
other engagements in thiB vicinity; if so,
Both Foolish and Unpatriotic.
Though an old Whig, savs onr esteeme
cotemporary of the Savannah Bepublicai
and having never cast a Democratic vote i
other days, we cordially endorsed these sei .
sible remarks taken from the Richmon d
Enquirer :
“In former times, when parties were i
vided on debatable issue in Virginia,
tbe results of party contests were by son
regarded as doubtful, it is not wonderft
that there was mnch party excitement, an
some bitterness of personal feeling growio
ont of the excitement. That Whig shoal J
be averse to Democrat, or Democrat shonli
be averse to Whig rule in those days, wt
right
‘Bnt that any Virginian, adherent oft!
old Whig party, should now go to thep
that perseentes his countrymen, as the i
tional repnblicon party has persecuted an
does persecute Virginians, is truly remark
ble.
Hostility to Democracy, when that ho
tility, it successful, pots the Whig of ttj
American party in power, was one
opposition to Domocraey, when that opp
sitien. if successful, pats the Radical \
tn power, is quite another and intoierab
ihing.”
A lodging house keeper advertiser
furnish gentlemen with pleasant and coi^
fortable rooms, also one {or two geutlen
with wives.”
we will advise yon.
“Favor me a with a twist,” is now tf
?sh form of inviting a lady to join