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The Rome Courier
FRIDAY MORNING, Jane 16.
ANOTHER ONE OF BULLOCK’S LIES
nailed to the counter.
Wo are authorized by responsible author
ity to state that the charges averred by
' Bullock in his ku klux proclamation, rela
tive to the rape committed upon the person
of the wife of Anderson Ponllain (colored,)
is an infamous lie. Anderson Ponllain
and his wife, in the presence A. T. Harper,
a Justice of the Peace, both deny that any
such out rage was c immitted or attempted,
and that the assumption of the Governor
to that effect is false and gratuitous.
The whole of the outrages complained
of in that neighborhood, were perpetrated
by a party of drunken boys, all of them
under twenty years of age, and originated
as follows:
Sometime in last March the boys iff ques
tion gathered at Mr. Penny’s grocery, an
institution long a curse to that splendid
neighborhood, but now happily removed
and closed, to indulge in a shooting matoh
During the sport, some negroes appeared
with their guns, and offered to join in the
match. This the whites refused to allow,
but yet being sober, no offence was taken at
the offer. Later in the day, however, when
the liquor began to tell upon their better
nature, they began to reflect upon the con
duct of the negroes, and construed it into
an insult; and the drunker they got the
more enraged they become, until at length
they determined to go and break the no-
gros’ guns—ana with the drunken madness
of youth, they did so, and took from the
negroes their guns and broke them up.—
But beyond this, no indignity or personal
violence was offered the negroes.
Tho whole affair was only an act of ma
licious mischief, instigated by bad whiskey
—of no political significance whatever,—
and as such condemned by the whole com
munity.
But for all chat, our rich Governor offer
ed for the apprehension of the boys, twelve
in number, the nice little sum of SIX
TEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS.
If the instances cited by the Governor,
to prove that our people are fit subjects for
Grant’s bayonets, in other parts of the
State arc of no more significance than the
ones he parades so grandly from this county
and Chattooga, his cunning has deceived
itself, and instead of proving us barbarians,
he will only prove himself to be a misera
ble liar and scoundrel.
“A chicl among us taxing ndcs."
Jeems—our Jeems—writes a piece for
the New York Herald. Jeems is a pert
boy—can smell “a mice” as readily as a
ferret, and knows whats what as well as his
pinched nose mammy.
Jeems has been down South on a com
mercial tour—brought with him a box of
patent soap and bug exterminator—visited
all the principal cities from Baltimore to
•San Antonio, and sold lots o’ truck. Jeems
went one eye only on business, and kept
the other skinned for ku klux. But Jeems
did not find any ku klux. Perhaps Jeems
wasn’t big enough game to call them out.
But Jeems did see su’thing, even if he
did’nt see the ku klux. And this is what
Jeems did see:
To tiie Eoitor or tue Herald:—
There is a great deal of unnecessary noise
being made about the utterances of Jefferson
Davis at Augusta, the Ku Klux outrages in
the South, Ac. Tho writer has just returned
from a seven months’ tour in the Southern
States. In his capacity of commercial trav
eller—i. e., “drummer”—he travelled over
the entire Souther country, from Maryland
to Texas; and coming in contact, as lie" did,
with all classes of people, both in their
stores and at their homes, conversing with
them upon all possible subjects and seeing
for himself “how the old thing is working,”
lie leels that ho can speak by the card. It
makes no possible difference what Mr. Davis
may or may not think or say. Ho is only
one man, and though he is of course greatly
respected as the cx-Prcsident ol the ex-Con-
federato States, yet ho controlls no one and
represents the opinion of none hut himself.
Tne people of the .South do not care a straw
about the political “situation.” They are
steadily endeavoring by hard work and close
attention to business to rebuild their shatter-
fortunes, and are willing to let the people of
the North ruu the “political machine.” It is
not fair to judge the Southern people cither
by the excited uterances of Jefferson Davis
or by the editorials (?) of the majority of tho
newspapers (so called) of that section. The
most of these “editorials” are irresponsible,
whiskey-drinking humbugs, who imagine
that abuse is argument, and who try to be
sarcastic, and, missing it, only become vul
gar. These people arc endeavoring to “earn’
a living without labor, and thinks it looks
courageous to speak ot President Grant as the
“Sphinx,” of Congressmen a3 “imbeciles,"
&c. and they also believe that this forcible
style of writing makes them popular among
whom they live; but in this they are mistaken.
They belong to the same class of ranting
demagogues asdidthe man Pollard, who con
ducted the Itichmcnd Examiner during the
war, or “Brick” Pomeroy—whom we all
know as the prince of vulgarians. The wri
ter boldly asserts that the people of all sec
tions of the South accepts the “situation;”
that they do not care for politics, and their
only desire is that cotton shall go up and corn
anu bacon go dow. Although the writer
made diligent search fora“Ku Klux,” ex-
pocting to sell him at a handsome figure to
“'Wood’s Museum," he failed to encounter a
single specimen. The “Ku Klux” bill and
President Grant’s proclamation thereof caus
ed moro sensation in New York, or even in
Main; than it did any where in the South.
The wrjtcr is a Southern man and fought
in tho “rebellious army. He has been for
five years a resident of New York, and
though a democrat and an admirer of Jeffer
son Davis, lie Teels that in so far as lie has
here spoken of the Southern people lie has
only told the trnth, and he calls upon the
great body of commercial travelers (thous
and of whom are Northern men) to say if it
is not so. JEEMS;
It will be seen that Jeems has no very
exalted opinion of the Southern newspa
pers, so called. We suspect they were ig
norant of the mighty importance of Jeems’
patent soap and “bug exterminator,” and
failed (o accord to Jeems that plcasiDg no
toriety, a commercial traveller of Jeems 1
magnitude might expect. Jeems must
dome again and lot himself bo known, ne
will be noticed next time.
USURY. .
We believe the press of tho State is pret
ty general in its opposition to the usury
laws, almost every leading paper regarding
them as a relict of barbarism; and as such
incompatible with the progressive interests
of the age.
As the • are now, they remain upon our
statutes as dead letters. Commercial con
venience and commercial demand complete
ly ignore them, and money in financial
market’ is worth all that it can sell for.
Tho laws of supply and demand regu
lates its value as well as it regulates the
value of bread or of meat. Any statutory
law interfering with the law oftrade is an
obstruction to the interest of the country,
and men of strict business integrity and
moral worth do not scruple to evade and
over ride it.
A law that is so detrimental to the pros
perity of a people as to be concientionsly
evade and openly ignored ought to be re
pealed; and we do hope the next Legisla*
tore will giva tho subject its early atten
tion.
Tue ku klux committee arc still at work
in Washington Judge Willard, of South
Carolina, was cxainiued Saturday. Georgia’s
tuto comes next, and then our mild-eyed
and pink-nosed ku klux representative will
have a chance to immortalize himsrlil We
may look out for rich developcmeuto when
he and his par mobile fratum from Chattoo
ga gets a lick at- the ku klux. We com
mend him and his associates to tho tender
care of Stephenson and Beck, and shall re
ly upon .thoso gentlemen to tell ns how they
acquit themselves.
Snow in England. The remarka
ble phenomenon of a snow storm in - June
has just astonished the natives of Burming-
ham, England. -A snowstorm of an hours’
duration fell there .upoa the 10th inst.
GEORGIA AFFAIRS.
The Superior Court of Dougherty coun
ty last week pronounced the “relief act’
the late Georgia Legislature unconstitu
tional and void. The judgement was pro
nounced by n. D. Po^e, Esq., who was call
ed to the bench pro tem, Judge Strozier
having been of counsel in the case before
the court. It is understood that Judge
Strozier dissents from the opinion of Mr.
Pope.
The Savannah News says:
On Tuesday next the members of the
Oglethorpe Light Infantry will unite at the
festive board for tho first time in decade.—
Before the war this organization, under the
command of Capt. Francis S. Bartow,
though young when compared with the
Guards, the Bines, the Artillery and other
volunteer organizations, enjoyed an envia
ble reputation as citizen soldiers, and when
the boy company paraded with their sabre
bayonets glitteiing in the bright sunlight,
they bad many admirers among our fair sex
Years have passed shoe those galla days;
some of the beardless boys have grown to
manhood, bat many now lie buried; a line
ot graves from Gettysburg to Knoxville
marking the track over which the command
has passed, t:stifyiog to their heroism. Fort
Pulaski’s scarred buttrements are monu
ments to their courage.
The graves of Bartow, Branch, Butler,
Bliss, Holmes, Dasher, Borehcrt, Lewis,
Purse, Crane, Goodwin and a hundred oth
ers, bear witness to their soldiery. While
among the living they point to another But
ler, to another Branch, to Law, to Simms
to Elkins, to Bruyn, and to all who server i
under the banner of the 0. L. I.
On the 21st day of May, 1861, the first
company Of Oglethorpes left for Virginia,
and those who remember the day know
that many hearts were filled with sorrow at
their departure.
Next week tho old command will meet
again,long separation, and may
their rettnffh be the beginning of one
which will last for many years.
The Macon Telegraph gives the following
account of the graduating exercises of Mer
cer College:
On yesterday twelve young men were grad
uated at Mercer College in this city. Their
names arc Jno. J. Brantley, Jr., W. T.
Brantley, Jr., JohnP. Callaway, Willie Den
ham, Samuel R. Garrison, Calvin A. George,
Isaac Jackson, J. Pope Jones, A. H. New-
man^W. H. Norton, Furman Tupper, Kerr
B. Tupper. Geo. S. O’Bear, Jr., of our city,
received a certificate, having pursued an ir
regular course of study during the year.
At twelve o’clock yesterday the young gen
tlemen above named assembled, according to
appointment, in the President’s room, and
received their diplomas; Dr. H. Tucker con
ferring upon them the degree of A. B. This
was by special authorization—the Trustees
have so empowered the Faculty, previous to
the suspension of the University.
The final examination took place during
the week, and was very creditable to all the
young men. It was conducted strictly in pri
vate by the Faculty through motives of mod
esty.
The Baccnlaureat address was delivered by
Dr. Tucker, the President, who said that he
conferred these degrees with as great, if not
more pleasure than any he ever conferred be
fore, because in times of trial and trouble
none of the class had deserted tho Institu
tion, but had stood bv it to the list, and
therefore had bound themselves to the Fac
ulty with cords of love and respect.
We congratulate the young gentlemen on
the honorable end of their college career. No
honors were conferred, at the special request
of the class; and this has been tho cose for
the past three or four years.
The present term of Mercer College ends
about the 5th of July; and the next term be
gin.- in October, in the buildings occupied at
present.
We believe the Trustees expect to begin
building out on Tatnoll Square, before long.
During the present term tho students and
Faculty of Mercer have been pursuing their
vocations quietly, but intently; and we con
gratulate our city upon the presence of such
an able body of instructors-
ALABAS1A NEWS.
Tht meeting of the Alumini of the Uni
versity of Alabama has been postponed un
til tbc 21st of July.
. Tho following letter, clipped from the
Montgomery Advertiser, gives the partic
ulars of a sad and deplorable affair.
Auburn, Ala., June 7th, 1871.
Eds. Advertiser—We notice in the
Advertiser of yesterday an erroneous state
ment in regard to the killing of Wiley H.
Young, by C. Speigner. The yonng men
were boarding together and were on friend
ly terms, nothing baring, as we are inform
ed, ever occurred previously to interrupt
their relations.
They sat beside each other, and mani
fested mutually kindly feelings that morn
ing at the breakfast table. There had been
a series of religions meetings in the college
every evening for about t n days, in which
they Loth manifested interest.
The difficulty occnrrei in the room of
one of the parties, just after breakfast and
before college hoars. In a scramble for
some apples, begun in fan, Speigner became
exceedingly angry, and in the heat of an
ger struck Young on the head with a chair,
which resulted in his death in abont thirty
hours.
We forbear to oomment on tbo facts, os
they will undergo legal investigation. The
fatheisof the yonng men are old friends.
Their meeting after the sad event was one
of the most affecting scenes we have ever
witnessed, showing that there is yet noble
ness generosity and sympathy among men.
Respectfully,
W. A. McCarty,
W. Srafabd,
E. T. Glenn.
A man named Bolling, from Narcross,
Gwinnett eonnty, was arrested in Mont*
gomery on the 10th, open a warrant issned
from this State. Me was charged with
stealing another man’s horse and ifife. The
man wanted his horse.
Speaking of the Alabama and Chatta
nooga Road, the Montgomery Advertiser
say s i
By our New York exchanges we are in
formed that Judge Blatcbford has granted
the request of the Alabama and Chattanoo
ga Railroad Company for time to prepare
any arguments disputing his j urisdie tion in
tho bankruptcy proceedings recontly begun
in that city against said Road. Was that
a sharp trick on the part of Stanton’s New
York lawyers to gain time, so that
courts of Alabama might forestall those
New York ? If so, it was eminently,
the
sne-
Gcd. Healey, U,; S. Marshal, advertises
. in the Montgomery papcis. a meeting of
the creditors of the A. and C. Railroad, on
the 22d of July. The trains on the Read
have stopped running.
Alabama’s carpet-bag Senator, Willard
Warner has accepted the Governorship
New Mexico, and Alabama rejoices at tbe
great deliverance.
Correspondence of the Courier.
Hot Springs, Ark., Jane 4th, 1871.
Mr. Editor—I promised if auything
worthy of note should occur in my ram
bles, to write yon. It was always strange
to me how to many lives wore lost in Vir
ginia. sometime back, by tho flood, 1 now
understand it. While there was no lives
lost hero, if all the chinches, bugs and
mice coaid be seen at one time that was
cleared out of this valley, it would be,
jot grievous, startling.
On Saturday evening, 1 he 17th ultimo,
commencing at 6 o’clock, we had two hours
of the hardest rain that this valley lias ex
perienced within the recollection of the
oldest inhabitant. Hot Springs Creek, but
a small brook, was higher than was ever
known—washed away two large boardio-
houses—one tbe Sheriff’s negro hotel,
known as the California House; which con
tained the newly important treasure to h : s
race, a number of boxes of United States
arms for the African militia of this place,
—tho only things saved; also, swept off
a large grocery store, half a dozen dwell
ings, quite a number of bridges, two sta
bles (saved all the horses but one) with
chicken coops and other necessary build
ings, and a large negro billiard salcon of
two tables.
And now that tbc catastrophe is so great,
tbe better class, both citizens and visitors,
truly regret that tbe whole horde of pat
rons to that attractive establishment, had
not been confined therein, and paid one
long, never returnable visit, to the placid
waters of the dulcet Oncbita.
The raging excitement ^rom nine to ten
o’clock was such as to lull tbe boot of the
owl to an aphoniacal sleep; but it was tbc
reserved scenes the next morning that was
unchronicable. The fantastically arranged
wrecked buildings on the beach would Jorce
up in tbe mind nothing short of tbe lndi-
crous. The relative position of miniatnre
buildings to tbe mansion; tbe oddly placed
vessels of tho chamber among the dining
furniture; signs lodged against buildings,
marked “Private Boarding," that no one
would ever think of entering to make a
meal, much reminding ns of an oat of sea
son visit from Santo Clause, without pres
ents. ,
But, among the panoramic views not
least amusing comes that race whose ten
dency is not upwards or prospects enviable,
who always play a prominent part in the
farce, but never seem to realize the trage
dy, thickly dotted the precipitous hillsides
near the scene of the principle disaster, in
their dilapidated nightly apparel, like so
many timid, caruiverons birds, hanging
around an inanimate, but not inoderoas car
cass, anxiously inquiring of the many bun
dred curiosity-gratifying visitors, Did you
see anything of my box, my trank, my va-
lice, my bed, my shoes, and innumerable
articles that that their denuded appearance
would justify the inquiry in relation there
to.
But the variety of contorted featnres to
express their emotions, exceeded anything
describable. Some looking really sad, oth
ers grnm and resentful; some with a broad
grin that one could not divine whether it
was intended for mirth or misery; some
chnckliog ont over tho losses of others, as
well as their own, characteristically recog
nizing the tragedy as a farce;
It was a scene ont of which a good artist
•a caricaturist, could have greatly enrich
ed himself as well as the pages of Harper’s
and Lesley’s magazines.
I shall now look daily for a committee to
be appointed to investigate the cause of this
mysterious, disastrous circumscribed deluge
and not be surprised, after getting all the
necessary evidence, they find that it was a
deep laid scheme of the ku klux klan for
the wanton destruction of property, and
that soldiers be ordered here at once to pre
vent further aggressions, as some now fear
a voloanic eruption, with other mysterious
means of destruction by the enemies of the
non-office seeking, law-abiding truly “Ioil.”
Yours, truly,
A Roman
[Communicated.
Floyd County, Ga., June 12,1871.
Eds. Courier—Tbe request you made
of the editors in Cherokee Gcorgiaand Al
abama nos a good one. They will no doubt
oomply with it, inasmuch as they arc equal
ly interested in the objeot sought to be gain
cd.
I am pleased with your suggestions in
reference to the citizens of Cherokee Ga.,
and Alabama furnishing tbo essayists with
any and all inlormation they may be in pos
session ot respecting the subjects selected.
It certainly will be of great advantage to
tie writers, and they will no donbt be thank
ful for each acts of kindness.
Aside from that, it is the duty and the
interest of all to do this. The suggestions
arc opportune, and will bo adopted by ma
ny, for it affords every one who have any
mineral or other interest, to bring it prom
inently before the public in a tangible form
which will be preserved and extensively
circulated among capitalists.
The citizens of this section of tho coun
try have never taken that interest in mak
ing known her various resources as they
should hare done. They have a good op-
lortunity of doing so now, and it is to be
loped that they will.
I am pleased to learn thatthe State Agri
cultural Society will honor Cherokee Geor
gia by holding its next meoting within her
xrands; and I hope every citizen will do
their dntv and make every delegate and
visitor feel tbat they have come among
warm and generous hearted well-to-do citi
zens.
The Directors of the Fair Association
must feel greatly encouraged by the success
of their monthly exhibition. The inaugu
ration of those exhibitions was a step to
wards tbe attainment of the object we- all
so earnestly desire to soe accomplished.
They contribute materially to the benefit of
all who support them, and to those who
visit them, and those who do not care for,
or do anything to support them.
Yon may look for a good representation
from the country at your next exhibition, oh-
the 4th Tuesday, inst. I hope to be there
myself with some fruits and vegetables. I
wanttogetone or two good agricultural pa
pers ;1 see the Assoeiation ore awarding
them as premiums. A good idea, and will
do good. Chulio.
rCommunicated.
Mb Editor;
I wrote some time sgo on tho sabject of
country school houses. I propose now to
gtve a few thoughts in reference to conn-'
try scool teachers.
The qualification of Teachers is some
thing that onght to be carefully - enquired
into prior to their being employed, but my
experience is that this snbjeet is generally,
or at tho least, _rery often neglected. I
hold that we should not submit the menial
and moral training of our children to stran
gers, without good evidence of their com
petency to take the responsible charge
Perhaps somo may think that ' the' present
system of examining tcaehen prior to en
gaging them will effectually prevent in
competent teachers from taking charge of
schools. Would that I could think so.
Yonr efficient county commissioner, though
he may be well satisfied of n man’s knowl
edge of the elementary branches, can have
little idea of his competency to teach with
out some other evidence. Because a man
can answer all, or most of the questions
readily and correctly, is no evidence of his
ability to impart instruction to children in
a proper manner. BiB deq tie usual mode
of examining teachers, seems to me to be
very laihe. Perhaps they comply with the
law, if so, I think the law ought, to be so
amended as to require them to enquire in
to the little particulars of a man’s compe
tency. Tbe world aDd all things in it are
made of little things; onr children are little
things; and a man who undertakes to teach
little children without noticing little things
is a very little teacher. Because a man
can spell a few words correctly, is no evi
dence of bis ability to prononneo them cor
rectly himself, or to tcaeh others to do so.
1 happen to know from good evidence,
tbat many teachers, perhaps a majority,
even in high as well ts low schools, do not
condescend to Dotice so small a thing as:
Aoccnt. If a man docs not know bow to
accent words himself, and cannot, or will
not teach the same to others, is he a com-ie-
tent teacher? If a man cannot give a rea
son for what he says and does, is he compe
tent to teach others?
Reasoning is too much neglected, or un
derstood, and hence pupils are often left
unenlightened and discouraged.
Boy to Tcaoher: —!“l’icisc, sir, wHy must
I do this or that, in the solution of this
problem?” Teacher answers:—“You must
do so in order to get the answer.
Poor boy; he asked a very proper ques
tion, but he got no answer.
Enough for this time.
Teacher.
Rules for Fruit Distilcrs.
This beiug a good fruit year, it is reason
able to suppose that some of oar subscrib
ers would like to convert their fruit into
brandy, and are at a loss to know what is
required of them. For their information,
we copy the Assessor’s notice, which gives
the necessary information :
U. S. Internal Revenue,
Assessor’s Office, 4th Dis’
Atlanta, June 2d
For the information of the public, and in
reply to numerous enquiries from persons
desiring to still brandy from fruit, the pres
ent season, I herewith give a synopsis of
tbe revenue laws relating to tbo same.
The special or license tax is at the rate
of S50 per year, dating from May 1,1870,
to April 30th, 1872.
The stamp tax is 50 cents per gallon, and
10 cents per gallon gauger’s fees.
These embrace all the revenaj taxes pro
vided tho distiller reports as having made
at least 80 per cent of what be can make
from the quantity of material used, taking
into account the capacity of tbo stills.
Other requirements are that the stills
must be measured by an officer of the rev
enue. The distiller most give notice in
writing when and where be wishes to com
mence operations. He must register bis
stills for use, and give bond with at least
two securities in the sum of S500; that he
will comply with the revenue laws. Ue is
also required to keep an account of his dai
ly operations, and report the same to tbc as
sistant assessor on or before the 5th day of
the following month.
Blanks for all these purposes will be fur
nished by the assistant assessor upon appli
cation.
At the same time he must apply to the
collector of the District for a gauger to
goage the spirits made tbo previous month
Af'cr the spirits have been guaged, he must
within the same month, apply to tho col
lector for stems, which must be properly at
tached to the packages tefore removal.—
Fruit distiller’s packages must contain not
less than ten gallons each.
Assistant assessors may not be able to
orepare the papers for all who will proba-
jly desire to distill, unless application is
made at least a month before the time they
wish to commence.
In this District the address of the assis
tant assessors are as follows :
Fulton county, Lewis Seldncr, Atlanta.
Troup, Heard, Carroll, Haralson, Doug
las, Paulding, Campbell, Coweta, Mem-
wether, Fayette, Clay and Henry, W. J.
Bryan, Nownan.
l’olk, Floyd, Chattooga, Walker, Dade,
Catorsa, Whitfield, Gordon, Bartow, Cobb
and Murray, W. J. Goodwin, Carters-
villc.
Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens, Cherokee, Mil-
ton, I’or.-yth, Dawson, Lumpkin, Union
Lowndes, Rabun, Habersham rnd White,
S. C. Atkinson, Cumming.
DcKalb, Gwinnett, Hall, Franklin,
Banks, Jackson, W-alton, Clarke, Maddison
and Hart, S. T. Anderson, Athens,
Wm. Jennings, As-.
ue, f
Dis’t. J-
i, 1871.)
Scribner’s Monthly fur jnly is received.
It is a capital number, fully sustaining the
high character of that periodical. Under
the editorial care and management of Dr.
•7. G. Holmes, it has token its place at the
very head of American . magazines. Tho
following table of contents will show onr
readers what a pleassog variety of subjects
are presented in the Jnlv number.
Philadelphi. Illustrates; Jaunts in Ja
pan. Illustrated; The Gunpowder Plot
—The story of a Fourth of Jnly. Illustra
ted; Under the Elms. Poem; Back
log Studies; Free-Trade and Protection;
A Fete-Day at Malmaison; Samson’s Rid
dle Solved: The Lion-Cup. vs. The Lion-
Cub. Hlnstrated; A Tartar Love-Song;
A Plea for Chinese Labor; By an Ameri
can Housewife; My Hnsband’s First Love;
Edson’s Mother; Rowan. Poem; Wil
frid Combcrmedc; Topics of the Time;
Tho Old Cabinet; Home and Society;
Culture and Progress Abroad; Caltnre
and Progress at Home; Etehiogs,
Scribner & Co. New York, price $3 per
annum.
Good for New Hampshire.—Ja3.
Weston has been elected Governor by the
New Hampshire Legislature. Weston is
Democrat, and tbe first Democratic Gover
nor of that State since tbc war. One by
one the States arc beginning to wheel into
lice.
The Union Springs Herald & Times
gives - a short sketch of one of the “Fath
ers in Isreal,” Mr. W. E. Cooksey, 85 years
of age, and having a progeny numberin;
in all 111 children—grand and great grand
children.
Brudder Laken.—Old Bi udder Laken,
one o? the vilest of all tho hypo
critical snivellers that floated down
South npon the flood of carpet-baggers, and
whom the people of Alabama have depriv
ed of his nico little office, has returned in
disgnst,and now tarns np before the kn
klux committee at Washington, with
heart Tecking with hatred, and a tongue
foul with lies, breathing vengeance against
the people he had first robbed
This is what the dispatches say about
him:
Rev. A. S. Laken, of Alabama, former
ly of New York, testified before the ku
klnx committee to-day fonr hoars; ha gives
a terrible piotnre of affairs in the past, and
says affairs in Alabama are as bad as ever.
Among his narratives are two presiding el
ders driven from their work; two ministers
whipped and another fired at and /equ'red
to leave his oircuit; one travelling minister
killed; two local ministers murdered; Laken
himself shot at in his house, and also on
the highway and had been otherwise mo
lested; all this since 1868.
The Republican members of tho com
mitteesay that Laken’s testimony is the
most interesting and valuable they have yet
token.
Onr tarn, comes next, and then won’t
pink noSc and the Chattooga pair revel.
Wild cats in Canada are breakfasting
school children.
Tho wealthiest colored man in Albany,
N. Y., is assessed at §60,000.
The only reason assigned by John Bo
chin, of Illinois, for tbe murder of his son,
is that “I was so d—d mad I couldn’t help
it.”
Which would a yonng lady rather be—
a Dtyad or a Naiad? A Dryad, for then
she would be a wood'd nymph.
“Well, Jones, pray how goes it? I hear
you’ve a wile.”
“Cat and dog,” sighs poor Jones, “that’s
our manner of life,”
But a month or so later poor Jones owneth
flat
•‘Cat and dog ’tis no longer, for now 'tis
all cat.”
A Massachusetts genius advertised his
business the other day by sending around in
the rear of a circus procession a modest one-
horse conveyance, carrying a huge banner
inscribed: “T. McCarthy is dying on West
street Call and see him.”
A New York paper, afflicted with original
poetry, wishes it could persuade young peo-
ile to cultivate the poetic art. os many of
.hent do music, merely as a private accom
plishment, to be hushed up in tho family and
among friends.
A Young wife in New York the other day
gave birth to twins, a bov and girl, both of
whom were endowed with beautiful teeth.
Lord Ambcrlay declares’ three children
enough in any family, and more as unlawful.
What would he do with those parents, nsSir
Bojle Roche might ask, who had hone ?
« m •
California is reported to have a spring of
indelible ink. If she can also discover a
spring of stencil plates to mark clothes, the
nuisance will he complete.
It has rained so hard at Milwankic for
four months that tho Cicago Republican
asserts that all the children born there are
web footed. '
Mama,’’ said a little boy who had been
sent to dry a towell before the fire, “is it
done when its brown.”
Ladies and gentlemen who propose to
“do" the White Mountains this year will
be doubtless gratified to hear that white
bears are reported to be nnnsnally plenty
the present season.
It is said that Mace and Cobarn have
been fighting these last seven years without
coming to blows. Bnt for three past sev
en weeks they have been blowing withont
coming to a fight.
The Cetenary ofSir Walter Scott.
—On the 9th of August next tho centena
ry of Sir Walter Scott, the great poet and
novelist, “the Ariosto of the North;” the
Shakspearc of Scotland, is so be celebrated
with great pomp and solemnity in the Scot
tish capital. Among those who are to take
patt we notice such names as Mr. Glad
stone, Mr. Disraeli, the Archbishop of Can
terbury, Dean Stanley, Lord Derby, Lord
Houghton, Alfred Tennyson and others of
equal note. Tho occasion will be celebra
ted, not in Edinburg alone, bat in all lands
and among almost all peoples; for his words
havi gone to the end of the world.
Bowen’s Sentence.—Bowen, the Con
gressional bigamist, has been sentenced to
a fine cf two hundred and fifty dollars and
two years in the Penitentiary.
This sentence leaves the Beaufort Dis
trict, ioouth Carolina, without a Represen
tative in Congress, as the election of Dc-
Large, the negro representative, lias been
decked frandnlcnt.
Poor South Carolina, the fates deal harsh
ly with her Congressmen. Poor, dear
Whittcmoro, had to walk the plank foi ca
det swindling, and now the immacculatc C.
C. has to exchange his Parliamentary robes
for a convict’s s'ripes.
STATE NEWS.
The Cnthbcrt Appeal says :
•‘Somebody proposes that tho surviving
members ol tbe glurious old 8th Georgia
Regiment have a reunion at Macou during
the summer. Thinks it a capital idea and
pioposcs that the senior officer of the regi
ment, now living in tbc State, issue a call,
and name the day through tbe newspapers.
Turning lamp posts upside down in Grif
fin is what the Star calls cl cap devilment.
The Griffin Star says:
Spalding is one of tho best conntics in
the State; only one party in jail and tbat a
stranger, confined for a misdemeanor, and
not a single case in the guard house.
Griffin has a cigar manufactory.
The Columbus San of. the 12th says of
the weather:
Heavy rains fell Sunday abont noon.—
Torrents have fallen along tho line of the
Mobile and Girard Railroad. The train
had to he stopped this side of the Conecnh
last Friday as tho track was under water
and some ot the ombankment had washed.
With this exception trains have been pret
ty regular between this and Troy. The rains
of Saturday made the Uchcc higher than
it has ever been.
The Constitution boasts that Atlanta
covers an area of 5,000 acres.
Tho Jackson Pilot says:
Five persons have been recently found
dead, in the Sonthern part of this State,
under mulberry tree3. Death in all these
cases has been attributed to eating mulber
ries which had been impregnated by locusts.
In the stomach of one colored boy, says
the Woodville Republican, were fonnd a
a quantity of mulberry seeds and tho lo
cust eggs.
Two children in Wilkinson county are al
so reported to have died from eating plnms
similarly impregnated. If this be true,
people should have a care how they cat
fruit where loensts are abont.
Tho Lee oonnty Journal says :
We were handed a few days ago, by Mr.
Fuller of this place, a strange product call
ed Texas wool. - In nppearance and feel
ings it is very much like lambs wool, and
has a small, flat seed, abont one-fonrth as
large as tbo common ootton seed. We gave
a few seeds of it to good farmer, who told
ns he wonld plant it and let ns hear the re-
suit It could no doabt be made a valua
ble product of farm culture, as Mr. Fuller
tells ns it is cultivated similarly to cotton.
The Colnmbns market is now bonnti-
fnlly supplied with peaches.
Long Branch is to hava a female snf-
frngo convention in Angost.
FREE TRADE LEAGUE.
It is a popular superstition in Hungary
running back- to unnumbered years, tbat
there arc ccitain persons who came back
from the dead, in body and soul, nod wan
dering about the earth, perpetrating all
manner of mischiefs, draW- their subsis
tence from tiuj'veins of those whom they
fit. d asleep, seeking the very life blood from
their hearts and leaving their victims cold
and dead.
These horrid monsters are called vam
pires.
They are the creatures of an ignorant
imagination, bnt like all other superstitions
forms, they have their prototypes in actu
al and living realities. We have them
among us this day. Every department of
onr social, political and commercial econo
my has ono of these monsters preying up
on its body, and sacking its lifeblood away.
The innumerable swarms ot loafers, gam
blers and swells, that infest onr societies,
are our social vampires. They arc as preg
nant of evil as ever a ghoul that stalks the
midnight darkness, and their hateful ex
isiencc is drawn from the substance of the
society they so foully curse.
The mouthing demagogues and political
charlatans, whose place and power depend
npon the strife and confusion they can keep
alive in the land, are the vampires that so
terribly iffiict onr political body, and are
draining tbc life of tbe nation.
Bnt tbe most horrible of all these bloody
monsters is tbc tariff. Tbe commercial
vampire, whose dark wings overshadow onr
commercial world, whose poisonous breath
is withering our trade, whose bloody beak
is preying deep in the vitals of onr prosper
ity, more relentless in its hatred, more insa
tiate in its avidity than that of the vulture
which preyed upon the heart of Promethe
us. IV hose withering tonch is prostrating
onr industries, and whose greedy demands
are swallowing np the wealth of onr land.
And yet this hated thing is unnoticed,
Its foal oatragesaro tolerated. Its victims,
bleeding to the last drop, uncomplainingly
submit. Tbe poor farmer, toiling and
sweating through the day, only to have his
hard carniDgs sacked from him at night;
the laborer, struggling against a hard and
crncl fortune, bas his subsistence taken
from him, to feed this bloated, yet insatiate
monster, and yet both and all are snpmely
indifferent to their fate. Soothed by tbc
honied words of the political vampire, they
Suffer the tariff to prey still npon them.
When, oh when will these things cease
W?cn will onr farmers and onr working
men awake from their slumbers 7 When
will this commercial vampire be destroyed?
Farmers and workingmen, we appeal to
yon to arouse, shake the monster off ere it
i3 too late.
And to this end we endorse the move
ment to inaugurate a Free Trade League
in this city. It is a matter that every lov
er of right and justice should feel an inter
est in. The tariff is a enrse to our country,
and for its removal or radical modification
the Democratic party is arming to make
the fight.
CUMULATIVE VOTING
Coeval in its damaging effect npon socie
ty, with the dogma “that all mankind are
created equal,” is the false principle npon
which the structure of onr government is
based, that the will of the majority shall be
tbe law of the land.
Majorities, because of their power, are
always oppressive. Powerful to conserve
and protect their own interests, they are
indifferent to the rights of the minority.
Secure in the strength of thier own
numbers, they hold tbat the weaker have
no rights which they are honnd to respect.
This natural disposition of the stroog to
oppress and override the weak, has long
been a snbjeet of serious consideration
among true statesmen, and almost every
;overnmcnt has thrown around the oppres
sive power certain restraints, and invested
the weak with certain constitutional privi
leges and rights that tho strong are obliged
to regard.
Tbc Eoglish system approaches nearest
complete political perfection, of any
other known, but even in it, this tenden
cy of the majorities to ignore tbe rights of
tho minorities bas been the subject of re
mark, aod a reformation bas been essay
ed.
As far back as 1842, Mr. Stanhopo sug
gested a system whiffh be called - the sys
tem of cumulativc'snffrage, byjwhich tbo mi
nority in all cases should be represented.
The system provides that inthe election of
representatives, either parlimentary or mu-,
nicipal, that each elector be entitled to as
many votes as there are members to elect,
and that ho cculd cast all of these fqr one
single cindidate or distribute them as he
saw fit. Thus a Borongh having throe
members, etch elector would be entitled to
throe votes, and if the minority constituted
one-third of tho elective body, it, by cast-:
ing its undivided vote for one of the candi
dates, would secure representation.
If this matter should excite British at
tention,'under the wiso constitutional pro
tection, under the wise constitutional pro
tection, thrown aronnd the rights of every
English snbjeet, how mnch more is some
thing of the same nature needed with ns,
who are so oppressively wronged by a wild
and nnscrnpalons majority? With no con
stitutional restraints to injoin them from
committing every speceis. of .ontrago npon
the minority, they are to-day ruling the
land with an iron hand; and this fact is bd-
coming patent to all, and glad are' we tp
seo that the cumulative system is abont to
be introduced in American politics. Ex-
Senator Bnckalew, of Pennsylvania, has
long been sn earnest advocate of it, and be
has finally sneeccned In patting-its opera
tions to a practical test.
At the last sesame of the Pennsylvania
Legislators, an act was passed through his
earnest solicitations, incorporating the town
of Bloomsbnrg, where he resides, and: 'in
the aot, a provision was inserted, providing
for the election of President and members
of town council which was to consist of si^
members and each voter wad to have; six
votes,Jwhieh he conld cast for one, or for
two, or for all six of these candidates. If
he choosel to, he could cast all six of the
votes for one'man, or two votes each for
any three candidates, or three for one, two
for another, and one for an other. Thus
ensuring the minority the certain change
of being represented.
Minorities have their rights' as well as
majorities, and their rights are just as sa
cred in the hearts of all good men as a o the
rights of majorities.
For the.protection of tbeir rights we are.
glad to note a growing interest aid favor
in the system of cnmnlativo voting, or mi
nority representation. This is the only
system that ean give minorities the power
to protect themselves; and it is tbc only bul
wark of American freedom. We hope
sod the day, that it will be a part of the
law of- *behmd.
In a recent speech before the Tax-payer’:
convention, the Republican Attorney Gen
eral of the State of South Carolina siid
upon this sabject:
“Pardon me, sir, if 3 say I am a Repub
lican, and it is because 1 desire to vindi
cate the deeeney of Repnblieaniam-that J
come here, striving for the welfare of onr
common State. (App’ause.) The remedy
that we want, I think, is something that
shall place a part of the control of pnbfie
affairs in South Carolina in the hands of
thtko who represent it* intelligence and
property. It is needed for the proto# ion
of tifo and liberty in South Carolina that
the voice of the intelligence and property
of the State shall be heard again in its
legislative halls. (Applause.) I am, sir,
in a proper sphere, an intense partisan, but
am willing to join with you in asking a
remedy for these grievanems. . In looking
abont for some device which,' without vio
lence to the fundamental principles of our
government, should bring ns relief, I have
fixed npon this system, which is so ably
presented in the report of yonr committee.
This system is right. It is repnbliean, it
is jnst in thexy and will be found to be just
in practice. It derogates nothing from the
rights of the majority, and leaves them all
that they now have—all the voice a.major-
ity should claim. It gives them a majority
of the influence, b t not all the inflaence,
not the absolute disposition of tbo entire
State. It is not possible that so venal a
body of men conld be assembled in this
State that forty-seven snch men as.I conld
select from these here assembled would not
shame them into decency. Who does not
know tbat the pretence vf one honest man
icill put to flight a whole hand of robber*.
to »
, . . . rCommunicated.
Concert and Sapper.
Quite a number of ladies and gentlemen
of Rome have united themselves together,
and will give a grand Concert and Sapper
on Thursday night next—the proceeds of the
entertainment to be donated to the Metho
dist choir, to complete the purchase of their
organ. Messrs. Hall, Galt, Pratt, Hills and
Nevin, will conduct the musical department,
and the following ladies will act as a com
mittee in preparing the supper;
First ward—Mrs. Ford^ Mrs. Dunlap and
Mrs. Alexander.
Kiddle Ward—Mrs. ' Geo". Watters, Mrs.
Carrie Reagan and Mrs. J.'A. Stansberry.
Upper Ward—Miss Amanda Jade, Miss
Betbe Hutchings and-Migs Mattie Hart.
De Soto—Mrs. McCrary, Miss McAfee.
Hillsborpr-Mrs. Qinnnfand Miss Mj)ls.
Those who will contribute to-tho enterprise
are requested to hand in their names to any
ot the above ladies.
A first class entertainment is promised ns
by our friends, and vre wish them success.
The Southern Banking Currency—Trcasu-
j . ty A Hairs.
Washington, June 8.—It will be re
membered a year ago the West and South
made an earnest appeal to Congress for
more cnrrency, on the ground that they
did not receive their full share on the orig
inal bank note distribution. •*
The act of last July accordingly provid
ed for an issue ot fifty-four millions addi
tional currency, and a redistribution oi
twenty-five millions already authorized.—
The law gave the preference in the issue of
the additional cnrrency for one year to
those States having less than their quota,
and the redistribution was not to be made
until all the additional cnrrency was issued
It is evident there will be no redistribution
as the year is nearly np, and only abont
sixteen and a half millions out of the fifty-
four have been applied for.
The States now having their quota of
bank circnlation will soon be able to in
crease them over thirty millions, though it
has been intimated the treasury depart
ment thatthe law cannot be construed ex
actly that way.
The subscriptions to the new loan are
daily growing smaller. The new delega
tion of agents will leave on the 14th to pash
negotiations abroad. A letter received to
day from Gen. Spinner states that ne is
still in London, bathos done nothing yet
with tbe loan.
The new gold notes to the amount of
S50,000 will be ready for delivery to the
United States Treasurer on Monday next.
They are very creditable to the bureau of
engraving and printing, and are printed on
the newly patenteb paper of the new fibre,
and interlaced throughout with the letter
U. S. in water mark. In tbe left, hand
corner is a vignette of Benion, or as he
was called “Bullion,” and in tho right is a
medallion showing the denomination. The
words “gold,” and “one hundred” are oh
the face of tho note In large numbers.
A Chltd Stolen From Mis Father' in Savan
nah and Brought to New-York.
On Saturday, May 27, while,.James
Morphy, a little boy of five years, was play
ingin the streets of Savannah; near his'ft-
ther’s home, he was aeeoeted by a woman,
a former acquaintance of the child’s deceas
ed mother. The woman, took, the child to a
store and bought him a new hat, jacket and:
some candy, enticing him in ' this" manner
to accompany her on board' the' steamer
Magnolia bound for Mew York. -
The lather of the child (a longshoreman)
on returning from his work, not finding his
boy at his bearding place,'and. being unit
blc to obtain any tidiDgs concerning him
since early in the day. went : in' search' ol
him. He searched all throngh the city
including the police stations, withont avail
On Sunday',the search was - renewed, wiS
the assistance of some friends, with' .more
success. An old negro carman who knew
the child said he eaiTied the boy ind'a wo-
man down to tho-deek saw them em
bark on board the Magnolia, for: New
York. . . ,- ..
Tho woman told the old darky that she
was the on’y living friend' the child had;
that he had no father or mother ’ and that
she did not Intend leaving, him, in.Sagan-’
nab any longer. : j ...,
. The father, on learning that the chili
was on his way to New York, immediately
telegraphed here to a frind (a Mr. Downy',
who knew the bey, requesting him to be at
the dock wlronthg^sttouer arrived and
take thb ehild away from the woman, add
ing that he wonld oome on the next steam
er himself and eiaim the ehild. Throngh
some mistake Mr. Downey failed to be pres
ent at the landing of the passengers,-hence
the ehild stealer escaped. Mr Murphy de
rived in this city on Thursday only to lark
that be bad lost aU tiaeoof tho boy. flhf
Christian name only of the -kidpapper
known to the father of the ehild, and he
able to give bnt a very 1 slight description
her, having-sepn her but-two or three tim
as far as he remembers. 1 She is about fo:
ty-five years of age, hair tuning gray, _
sized andthin, and^ofJtrish nationality
The boy is ageafiveyears, largo for bis
fight hair, has sear on his forehead, aha]
somewhat like a capital N.
Superintendant Kelso has premise
>oor man to do all in his power to. rcsto:
lim his lost hoy, declaring that be will find
him. if he is anywhere withib the limits of
the city or State.—Y. Herald, HtS.
The Crown Princes of Prussia, nee Roy
Alice, of England, will this month publi
her book on femi-lo labor. She is a pi
bounced'advocate of female suffrage, and
in other respects very radical, and tbe ex
ample of their future Empress ’'s not with
out its effect cron upon stolid German wo-
acccptcj, and then,
their own. aecOmmeditioS, ^ L| N,
tions thanking one of ?,
Peofthesi^tfif? 3 ?
**» while witncing^of^J
w Conrtabi?Ts5r 1
W ILL be sold before tk.n
i« the city of Rome, oa 8etaV?°' m .
w-thm the legal hoare ^
property, to Wit: 8 of saI ° tie (>“
Four Patent Marita ,
5_Eaglish silver plated w°,” bicrT ' r tii
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poison or other fccaiir, and tho vital
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