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FEDEliAL RETHRVC'IIJIENT.
: H'ttsd ttaaaaaib nojaanisd.i
•* loiit.is gratifying to the American peo-
'■ pie to see at last a returning sense of
^ duty on the part of.a'fow members of
Cojigrass towards a retrenchment of
expenditures of the General Govern
ment Upon the assembling of Con
gress, last month, it will be remem
bered that Secretary Richardson of the
Treasuary stated in his annual report
that increased taxation would be neces
sary to meet the expenses of the Gov
ernment. The suggestion of such in
crease by the Secretary was sufficient
to arouse popular remonstrance from
one end of the country to the other,
and the press teemed with protestations
against the policy of further increasing
the burdens of the tax-payers. This
seems to have had a wholesome effect
so far as to induce an element in Con
gress to pause and consider more seri
ously upon the subject of the expendi
tures of the General Government.
On Monday last, the 12th, the mo
tion of Mr. Kelly, of Pennsylvania,
made before the holidays, to suspend
the rules and adopt a resolution de
claring it to he the sense of the House
that the taxes shall not be increased,
but that the extraordinary means
any be required for the support of the
Government, shall be obtained by a
temporary loan, or loans bearing low
rate of interest in currency, and re
deemable in United States rates, came
up for action. Mr. Wood, of New York,
suggested a division of the resolution
and to have the House pass affirmative
ly on the first part, and to postpone a
decision on the second part Kelly
objected, and.called for the yeas and
nays. Potter, of New York, wanted the
resolution to go to the committee of
Ways and Means. Beck, of Kentucky,
desired to 6top the humbug and moved
for adjournment, which failed. Scho
field, of Pennsylvania, wanted Kelly’s
resolution modified so as to make up
the financial deficiences by retrench
ment and economy. The House re
fused to suspend the rules by a vote of
155 yeas to 82 nays.
We give the substance of the pro
ceedings of the House on Kelly’s mo
tion to show our readers the temper of
Congress upon a most important and
vital question to the people. Finally,
a motion was made by Mr. Holman, of
Indiana, to suspend the rules and
adopt a resolution declaring that, in
the judgment of the House, there is no
necessity to increase taxation or to in
crease the public debt by further loan ;
but that there shall be economy in the
public expenditures by the reduction
of appropriations and expenses to the
lowest possible figures consistent with
the public service. The rules were
suspended by a vote of 221 yeas and
34 nays: The rules were again sus
pended and a resolution agreed to,
without calling the yeas and nays, to
the effect that it was the sense of the
House that the national expenditures
can be and should be so reduced and
Togulated as to be met by existing
taxes, and that in no event should
there be an increase of either interest
bearing or non-interest bearing obliga
tions of the Government.
THE COMPTROLLER'S REPORT.
STATE AID TO RAILROADS.
e give the following notes
report of the Comptroller General of
the State of Georgia for 1873, j
ceived :
The aggregate value of city
property in the State for
218,929, or an increase ofer
year of $3,768,579.
The amount of money and solvent
debts for the past year, is reported at $26,-
585,350, or an increase over the previous
year of $4,684,135. The value of mer
chandize was $14,781,024, or $1,130,556
over the previous year, s'
Capt. John Jones, when he went into
office, found $608,319 15 in the Treasury.
That amount was augmented during the
year from all sources of revenue to the
amount of $3,172,788 74;. the disburse-,
ments amounted to $2,250,232 49—leav
ing in the Treasury on the 1st inst, $922,-
556 74.
The Comptroller General gives the
following statement of the number of acres
of improved and wild lands returned in
th'is State last year:
Improved lands, 27,762,445 acres, the
aggregated value of which is $99,125,591
or aii average value of $3.21 per acre.
Wild lands, 5,870,953 acres, the ag
gregate value of which is $2,497,133, or
an average value of 43 cents per acre.
Household and kitchen furniture
estimated at $1,476,263, or an increase of
$266,696 over the previous year.
Plantation and mechanical tools, over
$300, $205,251, or an increase of $94,
625 over the previous year.
The number of hands employed be
tween 12 and 65 years of age 124,944, or
14,000 more than the previous year.
Value of stocks and bonds $7,180,910;
capital invested in shipping, $207,895;
in cotton manufactories, $1,908,095; in
iron works, foundries, etc, $766,405; in
mining, $22,770; value of shares in any
national bank in the State, $4,563,665.
The value of "ail other property”
(personal) not enumerated except annual
crops, etc., $28,407,108; the aggregate
value of whole property, $259,383,623—
or an increase of $18,219,058—over the
previous year—or the value after deduct
ing $200, $242,487,382,
The number of white polls is returned
at 109,700; colored 82,970, or an aggre
gate voting population of 192,625.
There are 2,560 men engaged in the
professions, 138 dentists, 23 auctioneers,
67 daguerrean artists, 9 ten pin alleys,
117 billiard tables, 78 blind people, 70
deaf and 85 dumb.
We are glad to see thatjthe Governor
has wisely called the attention of the
people of Georgia to the impolicy
THE WEALTH OF GEORGIA.
We have received a copy of the An
nual Report of the Comptroller General
of the State of Georgia for the year
1873, submitted to the Governor
on the 1st inst., comprising the first
year of Col. W. L. Goldsmith’s official
term. The Comptroller states that the
State has been steadily increasing in
wealth since the war. The increase
last year was, perhaps more marked than
usual. The total value of all property
for 1873, is $259,383,623. For 1872 it
was $244,219,416. The increase for the
year 1873, $15,164,207. The Comp
troller states that this embraces the val
ue of property returned by citizens, and
generally at low estimates. Public
buildings, churches, school houses, col
leges, all railroad and State stock in
several banks and railroads are not in
this estimate.
The amount of taxable property—
that is, after deducting $200 from each
publican party. This Utopian policy
has done modi to involve Jthe State in
trouble and towards swelling the State’s
indebtedness, without any correspond-''
ing benefit to the material progress .of financial interests of the State, in the
the people or of the State. In r the
wholesale dispensation of State credit
to projected public enterprises, which
were legitimately the work of private
corporations, the State, has been great
ly the loser. In every instance of the
kind the State has suffered and dissat
isfaction, and justly, too, has been
manifested on the part of the less fa
vored portion of the citizens of the State.
In fact, it is a species of class legisla
tion that will always result badly. It
gives fat jobs to those who are disposed
to take advantage of the munificence of
such aid; and it always requires a
greater amount of money to construct
public enterprises of any character,
when the public treasury is to be
drawn upon to meet the expenses.
There is a principle in the private busi
ness affairs of men which should be re
membered by our law-makers when
they come to deliberate upon any ques
tion involving aid to he dispensed by
the State, and it is this: All public enter
prises necessary to the promotion of pub
lic convenience and ti»o puUJo
carry with them the force of a sufficient
vitality to make investments in them
desirable and sought for by private en
terprise and private capital. If an en
terprise does- not possess the inherent
elements necessary to invite the invest
ment of capital for its own construction
or consummation, it is sufficient evi
dence that it is not a necessity to the
people or the State. Like the great
principle of trade, all enterprises sue
governed by “ the law of supply and de
mand.” . If the demand for them is
sufficiently strong to attract investment,
the capital will always be supplied to
meet it for the dividends to be derived
upon the investment - ■ ■
If a railroad is desired and demand
ed to be constructed to meet the wants
of trade and commerce, freights and
travel, there is always sufficient capital
to be invested always where it can be
safely secured. State and, therefore, is
not necessary to build up really meri
torious improvements of the kind; but
it is generally, invoked in such instances
as are of doubtful character and uncer
tain merits.
As the Governor justly takos the po
sition in his message^ such aid f il
lustrated the impolicy of granting the
aid of the State to works of internal
improvement” In this position, his
Excellency will find a hearty co-opera
tion from all the thinking and judicious
men of the State
GEORGIA UPON HEH FEET.
The message of the Governor and the
accompanying documents of
cers, giving their annual reports of
operations of their several depart-
ents for the past year, make a most
-tifying exhibit of the pi|pgress and
prosperity of the people, iMtwithsfand-
ing the hard results ptjhe late panic,
which prostrated business so much.
however, hap shown
vitality of the material and
POLK COUNTY NEWS.
return, exciusive of poll, professional,
hether Congress and the adminis-1 and all specific taxes—for 1873, was
tration will adopta policy in accordance
with this action of the House is a ques-
ion the future alone can develop. The
people of this country have been long
enough tax-ridden, and the time has
come when they should demand of
their public servants an honest and
wholesome economy in the administra
tion of the Government. It has become
to be a serious question whether a man
who consents to be a Congressman, or
to hold an office of public trust, is
honest or not. The more able and hon
orable of our representative men seem
to have become disgusted with public
life, and they stand in the background
of popular preferment rather than to
become contaminated by association
with thieving legislators and plunder-
ous office holders.
The true policy is, now that there is
some indications of reaction in the
moral sense of public men, that the
people should see to it that they are
represented by none but able and hon
est men, whose public services shall be
rewarded by ample compensation.
This is the true mode of removing cor
ruption and lessening taxation.
Confirmation of Cusnixo.— The
latest dispatches indicate a hesitation on
the part of the Senate to confirm the ap
pointment of Hon. Caleb Cushing as
minister to Spain. There is considerable
opposition upon the Republican side.
The objections against Mr. Cushing do
not refer to his legal qualifications for
the position, b«t are based on his political
principles. It was a long step in the
direction of ignoring partisanism prej
udice upon the part of the Prestdent to
make appointment from the Democratic
Tanks, and its confirmation would go far
towards that conciliation so necessary for
the quietude of the country, and national
fraternity.
The Virginia Senator—The Vir
ginia election for United States Senator
has been the great subject for contention
in the Legislature of that State for
several days. The ballot, which re
sulted in the election of Lieut. Gov.
Withers, on Tuesday, was as follows:
Withers, 123: Wickham, 6; Lewis, 8;
Evans, 16; Caleb Cushing, 1.
It was to be hoped that such a man
as the Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, who is a
tried and successful statesman, would
be elected; but we are glad to know
that Lieut. Gov. Withers is a gentleman
of ability and eloquence.
The Augusta Constitutionalist says
“two heads are better than one,” in
noting the marriage of Miss Lucy La-
throp, of Savannah, to Mr. Eugene
Morehead. We are not to infer, however,
that Miss Lucy, or Mrs. Lucy now, has
more heads than brains.'
$242,487,3S2 00. The same for 1872
was 226,663,934 00. Increase, $15,823,-
44S 00.
Increase ’of tax raised by above in
crease of taxable property, at present
rate of taxation, less the expenses of
collecting, is $63,293 79.
RECAPITULATION.
Taxable property, 1ST3 $242,487,382 00
Taxable property, 1872 226 663,934 60
Increase t 15,823,44S 00
Tax at 4-10 of 1 percent 63,293 79
There has also been a very gratifying
increase in poll, professional and
specific taxes.
GEORGIANS SLANDERED.
The extract copied below is written
by a Virginian from Georgia to the
Richmond Enquirer:
“ Here labor is as cheap as in Vir
ginia—that is negro labor—for much of
the white labor of the South would not
be cheap at any price. The better
classes seem to devote themselves to
brandy and billiards; whilst the chief
occupation of the lower orders seems
to be whisky and whistling. In the
;ood old State the sons of gentlemen
aave gone to work, but such, I am
sorry to say, is not the case here. The
cotton States people are not poor
enough yet. The out cry of capital,
capital, is all a bosh. The Southern
leople, in the ante-bellum times,
lad more capital than they knew what
to do with, and didn’t know how to use
it. What they really want they are
getting now, and that is poverty. Get
them dead poor once and they’ll begin
to grow great.”
It is not necessary to notice every
paragraph of slander of the people of
the South that may float the run of the
press; but when such a paragraph as
the above finds its way from ’our own
midst and is published in a Southern
paper, and then oopied therefrom by a
Georgia paper, without one word of
comment it docs become necessary to
meet it as it deserves, and to pronounce
it a vile slander upon our people, put
forth by some vile Puritan wretch who
is incapable of doing a struggling peo
ple justice, because, perhaps they may
not agree with his Radical views of
politics.
And yet .we copied this mean and
malicious paragraph from the Atlanta
Herald in which it was published with
out a word of comment.
Cost of Georgia Legislation.—The
amounts of the per diem and mileage
paid the Senators and Representatives
for 1873 footed up the aggregate of
882,042 40—the Senators 816,613 15,
and the Representatives $65,429 25.
The farmers have organized a Grange
at Antioch church, Polk county, on last
Saturday the 10th inst., known
Hightower Grange and elected the fol
lowing officers:
Master C. H. Wood
Overseer - F Hight
Steward C L Cleveland
Assistant Steward J A Wright
Lecturer O D M Russell
Secretary J M Stewart
Treasurer T M Hightower
Chaplain—.* * *- Hiram Roper
Gate keeper W H McJunkins
Assistant steward--Mrs Lou Hightower
Ceres— Miss Rose Darden
Pomona ... Mrs N Russell
Flora— Miss Fannie Wood
A negro, Henry Gibson was shot by
some party or parties unknown, in his
own yard last Saturday night The
act was no doubt the work of some of
his colored bredren. At least he thinks
The Atlantic and Great Western
Canal.—There was a meeting in Wash
ington, on Tuesday night, the 13th in
stant, in the rooms of Hon. A. H. Ste
phens, of the Georgia delegation in Con
gress to discuss the interests of the
State on the subject of cheap transpor
tation. Judge White, member of Con
gress from Alabama, was also present
and took an active part in the proceed
ings. Hon. J. H. Blount explained
the object of the meeting. Hon. Parks
Bell, Gen. Thomas and Col. Frobell, of
Atlanta, took part in the discussion.
The importance of the Atlantic and
Great Western Canal to the interest of
the country was shown, and great
unanimity of feeling and purpose was
manifested. It was resolved to call a
meeting of all the delegations of Geor
gia, Alabama and Tennessee, to meet
on Thursday night next, to hear Col.
Frobell on the merits of this work.
Says the LaGrange Reporter:—
“Willingham of The Roue Courier,
is understood to favor a constitutional
convention if it will relieve him af the
duty of explaining Alek Stephens’ gyra
tions.” We do not know what the Re
porter means; but if the foregoing was
intended for wit, we don’t see it. As to
Mr. “Stephens’ gyrations,” that gentle
man is eminently able to explain his own
actions at all times and under all circum
stances. The Reporter may rest easy on
that score and chew its cud with perfect
deliberation.
if honest and judicious officials,
by tc most commendable eneigy
and hearty co-operation on.thepart of
the people. But for these, there is no
telling the amount of distress that
would have .ensued after such a great
financial crash as that upon the country
during the latter quarter of the past
year.
In all departments o£ the State Gov
ernment, we find the most gratifying
exhibits of the increase of our agricul
tural and other material interests, show
ing that the State is from fifteen to
twenty millions of dollars better off
than she was. a year ago. This is an
event in our State history that calls
forth the gratitude of our people. It
shows that under the operations of good
laws wisely administered and judicious
ly executed, that there is no State in
the Union that possesses more vital
foreb than our own, and that Georgia is
projlaly designated as the “Empire
State of the South.”
Such a showing of the progressive
iwivancfi of our RUio road
prosperity and renown, ought to inspire
us with renewed energy. Every citizen,
whether native bom or adopted, should
feel a conscious pride in the fact that
he orjshe belongs to such a State, one
of the proudest of the “ Old Thirteen,”
whose history and traditions carry with
themihe,record of a noble and chival
rous people. When she was in the
hands of the minions of-Radicalism,
who scrupled at no sacrifice of her
good name for personal’aggrandizement,
thieving and robbeiy, the. true men
and women of the grand old State
stood unawed, unsubdued, but with
defiant dignity till the day of oar re
demption from the miserable rule of
Radicalism and the reign of reckless
adventnreis who were - forced from
power and place. ■’• ••>**•»»
But -the woful days of such misrule
has passed, and we see Georgians, true
and tried, at the helm of the State, and
proud old Georgia redeemed and again
upon her feet marching on with rapid
strides to the highest goal of plenty
land prosperity. For these blessings
vouchsafed to us through the instru
mentality of the rule ef good men and
true, let-us give thanks to Him who
has led us through the fiery furnace
Radical , rule into the open, bright
shining light of Georgia governed by
Georgians!
are
granted
anchccepted by tb» press without im
paling its naffiflSM or compromising
its independence. , Sfcrf3edtior who
cariot, is not and cannot be an inde-
pedent one. An editor that cannot m
grit and at9Df£Qs$^es, properif^nafiad
United, without compromising an
htnest expression? riFifi%pinion, coffld
nit be independent under any circ
stnees, because he would feel bound
I restrain the expression of his send-1 followed _by the
ents because a favor had been granted I after which bills were
fora
ttion of States.
Senate
ident in the
C. Ketchum.
Mr. Amow.—!
Constitutional Convi
The resolution of W. L. Clarke in re-
jprijripfT? 11 ” 1 ' 1111 ! pay was referred
to the committee on the State of the
Republic.
Mr. T. B. Cabin ess, Secretary of the
Senate having been appointed Solicitor
of the Flint ’
l with i
tendered his resi"-
hich was accepted,
imptimentary res-
Weldon im6 then
elected Secretary with Capt E. P. How-
*1 as assistant _
Bills were then read the third time,
"" ' of petitions,
the first
I time. , . _
pass over a railroad courteously jqr. Simmons—To fix the salary of
i __ —ry (
extended; hut the moment he sees it I the Clerk of the Supreme Court and ft
i extended to bribe him into silence, | other purposes.
*e must know that it is no longer a
wurtesy and he can only return it
A man. musf.be very cheaply bought
If a free pass or a
hing else canalence
Mr. Wofford—To authorize James E.
McGuire to sue the State of Georgia in
Fulton Superior Court
Bills on second reading taken up
lunch or any- and referred to their appropriate com-
in the con-1 mittees.
The House was notified of the resig-
icarnation of whatever may be wrong House was nouneaoi me raig-
luuiuuuu V* jnriuiwver uwyr « s of Mr . Cabiness and the election
-a the management of a railroad, or f ^ Welbom as Secretory of the
Penitentiary
On motion of Mr ivi, 1
Mr. Williamson to proridi fifi ^ J
Constitutional Conveniio/® 1 ’'
to regulate 1
for taxation.
Also,declare certain parties witnesses.
. Mr. Mills—To establish a registry of
- In the State.
iize the militia of Georgia,
_ lose sections of Irwin’s Re
vised Code from 1,108 to 1,166, inclu- Mr. Peabody arose to a ^
sively.T .. pEpation. - - . .EetMujjJ
Mr. Lyon—To lay out a new county
from the counties of Thomas and Decatur,
to he called tlic county of Tooke.
These bilb were referred to committees.
Mr. Clack offered a joint resolution to
amend the Constitution by striking out
the first section of”the seventh article of
of Mr. Anderson, of
Cobb, that the House will not act or pass'
McArthur offered "i
requesting the Governor'
warranter $5000 advancet&S
On motion the House
until Monday morning 10 0 vj
It is predicted"that BenT~~
upon bilb originating in either House,'
except concurring in amendments, on the'
last two days of the session, was agreed
to. ' • 1 - * !
The resolution of Mr. Baker relating
to the sale of a lot in Cartirsville was re
ferred to the proper committee.
Mr. Hill offered the following substi
tute for his resolution providing for the
inspection of the capitol buildings:
Resolved, That the Superintendent of
Public Works be and he b hereby re
quested to communicate to thb House
all the facts in regard to the giving away
of the walb, and especially if there b
any perceptible increase in the size of the
cracks and leaning of the walb since last
oiything else. - -i'
I Senate.
session.
Resolved, That the Clerk be instructed
to fnmbh the Superintendent of Public
Mr. Amow’s resolution callingaState Works a copy of the foregoing preamble
#* . 1Tb , „ . a , I ATAA. ial ll\J f f O lUCU.uuuu yy QrKS U COPY OI U10 lUrtfLTUIJ
Dur friend Randall, of the Augusta Convention was laid on the table, and an( ; resolutions. Agreed to.
OmXUhitumaM, now one of the finest j that Mr. Harris on the same subject was Ttie resolution to adjourn to Milledge-
tssed and transmitted to the House j v pp e was voted down by a large ma-
immittee appointed from the Senate : or jty
Moccra. Harrio, Hilly or and Cain. * —
licking papete in the State, encloses a
prompt defense of the people of Geor
gia against the vile slander perpetrated
The Senate resolution to appoint
ressive ** agamst the vue sianuer pe^etrateu Senate adjournc a until Saturday 10 joint committee of five from theSenate
can to by a so-called Georgia correspondent of o’clock A. M. 1ml seven from the House to examine
nspire the Richmond Enquirer, which we cop- an d report upen the condition of the
led from the/Atlanta Herald into The
Courier last week in which it was pub-
lbhed without comment, and which
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
House called to order at 10 o’clock
, , ... . , -, , | A. M. by Speaker Bacon., Prayer by
we also characterized as it deserved. I Re V . John Jones, chaplain.
Mr. R.’a article appered in his paper on
the 30th.. 1 . .7^
Macon and Brunswick Railroad, was
taken up and agreed to.
Mr. Bush offered a resolution that
committee of five from the House and
three from the Senate be appointed by
the Speaker of the House and President
The Committee on Rules, through
Mr. Hoge, made their report, which was I qf the Senate, to whom shall be referred
_ , , - _ -j.-,, . j , , I adopted, viz: The old rules be adopted, a R bills and resolutions upon the sub-
Caleb Gushing, has requested the with the following amendments: ject of wild lands, which was agreed
President to Withdraw the nomination of I To section 2—There shall be no de-1. 0 (
h’oiself to the 'Senate for Chief Justice. I bate admitted upon any bill at the first | o n motion of Mr. Dell, the House
Charges of duloyalty were made against ^&hb biule^r^tte^r 1^ 10 A ’ M ’ t °"
Ml Cushing; by the Republicans, which grossed f or a second reading” In case
he aronouncea-utterlydestitute of fbunda-1 of engrossment the entry thereof shall
tior, in truth ! or in 1 fact These, it b to I be made by the Clerk, and the bill
Fourth Day—January 17, 187-1.
be mpposed, were the moving causes of shaU « ot be amendable thereafter. In
• case of commitment it shall be to the
Cuhing’s request
SENATE.
Senate met at 10 o’clock, President
in the chair. Opened with prayer by
biUs committed to the whole House I R ev ; A. T. Spaulding. _
shall be considered in committee of the I Bills read second time and referred
I committee of the whole House, unless
The Atlanta Herald wants the Legis-1 the House shall otherwise direct, and
31-feDI ERAS FESTIVAL.
Thb attoiveisary day felb, thb year,
on the 17th of February, and will
celebrated in New Orleans by the Mys-
tick Krewe of Comus, in a style, as we
are assure^, that will fully sustain ffie
reputation of the Cresent City as being
the greatest carnival city in America.
Persons wbhing to vbit New Orleans
will do well to take advantage of the
cheap transportation offered to excursion
parties so as to be present at thb wonder
fully grotesque and interesting festival.
B. W., Wrenn, General Passenger
Agent of Atlanta, will furnbh gratuitous
ly, a book giving a history of Mardi Gras
in New Orleans, and will also give infor
mation in regard to the grand excursion
lie is getting up for that occasion.
We have received a long communi
cation, well written, a rejoinder of
“Free Lance” to “Glaucus”’ reply to
former communication of his. We
most respectfully decline to publish it
for the reasons that it will consume too
much of our space, which is now
greatly crofrded with the more impor
tant interest of the proceedings of the
Legislature and the general news of
the day. As both parties have each
had a fair showing, we cannot longer
give so much space to a mere local dis
cussion which can intercsct but a few
of our readers. We trust this explana
tion will be satisfactory.
We don’bkuow but the Atlanta Her
ald's little fecture to certain members
of the editorial craft last Sunday was
well said and well deserved. News
paper wit, when good and not too com
monplace, is interesting and to be tol
erated ; but when it descends to person
ality in thp discussion of the dirty
linen of others, it goes below the stand
ard of genteel wit, and is therefore dis
tasteful. Tie gentlemen the Herald
refers to are all clever, good-hearted
men, but in the practice of discussing
the dirty linen of each other they
drag journalism down to a low level.
Let them reform.
Maj. E. Wabbington, near Norcross,
eighty-six years old, is hale and hearty
enough to walk five or six miles a day.
He recently married a widow of “ forty
and fat,’’ and he now indulges in the
felicities of matrimony with the same
ardor that made married life so joyous
to him sixty years ago. .Long live
Maj. Wabbington and his bride!
clerks, pages, etc., in the Senate, $5,896
50, the House $9,340 50—or a grand
total of $97,280 40 for the legislative
expenses of the State for 1873:
An archteological writer of England,
named George Smith, has written a
paper fixing time and history as far
back as four hundred and thirfy-two
thousand years before the deluge. Why
in the name of common .sense hb
name was not John is a mystery that.
would require the Smith family of the
world to unravel. ‘ ’ T
The Georgia Grange.—The publi
cation of thjs new candidate for public
favor has - been resumed. It is
very handsome sheet of eight pages,
gotten np in the most beautiful style of
the typographic art It is devoted, as
its name imports, to the order of the
Patrons of Husbandry, and is fully
worthy of their most cordial support
Senator Thurman of Ohio, was re
elected on Wednesday. Thb b good
news. Thurman b a man of great abilities,
and one whose integrity b unimpcachcd
and unimpeachable. He is a good Dem
ocrat, and it b a matter of congratulation
on the part of the whole country that
Ohio fully appreciates the public services
of thb dbtingubhed statesman.
The Rev. L. S. Kollock, the former
Boston clergyman who fell away, has
been reconverted in Kansas City, Mis
souri. This is the third time ho has
Bworo off. K. now -aspires to, a seat
in the United StateffSenate from Kan
sas. He is ^rampant Radical
The impression prevail^ in Was^ting-i
%on that the Senate intwtffejjpNtifiB aiL
measures looking to me i%tinu to thrfj^T
original CongressioiHl fifiliuyr
latufe of this^ State to “ make drunken
ness a crime.” As there are so many I ^JhffieHonre!. ” By consent of the House I to appropriate committees.
*■“- " ' ’ ” **■ 1 any matter may be withdrawn at any M --’
Mr. Nicholb—A resolution that the
vio’ations of the law “upon the sly,’ j j
is mt exactly politic to force every mail 1 stage thereof On the second reading Senate request the Governor to inform
to kiephb private jug, and get drunk of any till when the report of the the General Assembly the status of the
* • J© O I . nmn .,14nA so nilnnren 4 rt ilm I RTllt, VS- (tPOrfflfl. ^n.lTIOTln.1 ilflDiv.
alont. The:
1 would be nothing social in ^
2 X. ’ 1 it 1J I
adverse
question
to the suit vs. Georgia National Bank, and
shall be other suits brought in favor of the
the sjirit of such a law.. The Herald upon agreeing to the report, and if State by the present Executive; and
men ought to drink better whbkv.
agreed to, the bill shall be lost, but if what fees have been paid to attorneys
, , , . disagreed to the bill shall be read the sec- in Ik® cases. Adopted.
State Treasurer’s "Report.—We re- 1 0 nd time an dpassed to a third reading. The contest of the Second Senatorial
Upon engrossment or a favorable rc-1 Dbtrict being the special order, the
tun our thanks to Mr. Robert Jones, of. - r 0 .„ - , i. .
Polk county, a brother of the State P^rt ] without recommendation, the bill committee reported that the present
Troomm. rwf tat— t —„ „„ I shall be read the second time and pass- incumbent, H. W. Mattox, is entitled
treasurer, Capt. John Jones, for an K to a third reading without question, to his seat. Report re-committed, to
advanced copy of the Treasurers Re-1 r u i 6 15 Amended striking out be the gpecialorder on Thursday next
port for the -year' just dosed, from I “ Wednesday” so as to make only two Bills were then put upon their third
which we have copied much financial I days in the week, Monday and Friday, reading. 'Thus? of a general nature
Mr. T/ifhnm offered a resolution to gists in the State who have heretofore
Rev Wbl Snarrow D D Dean of two hundred copies of the rules practiced without license. Passed.
| I f ” d m ““
MnLondey, of Troupe, offered the To provide for Comity Commission-
h was adopted unani- era in counties desiring them. Lost
J To amend an act creating a Board of
Whereas, the chief object of nil gov-1 Commissioners’ of revenue in Floyd
ical Seminary, near Alexandria, Va., _
for 33 years past, died suddenly at the 1 following7°w
~ ' ” ional Bank of that city, last I mously:
day ^ j ciiiuiciiia should be* th» protection’of I and other counties. Passed,
his age. He was one of the ablest | ^ property, and that all men To amend an act creating County
have an equal right to justice and to Courts in the State. Lost.
„ „ T 1 stand perfectfully equal before the law. To alter, amend and codify the charter
Gen. E. L. Thomas, Col. D. S. John-1 That Georgia most cheerfully accords to I the city of Dalton. Passed,
ston and Col. B. W. Frobell, delegates every individual within the borders of The following bills of general appli-
from Georgia to the National Trans- the State the amplest protection and cation were read first time:
security in all these rights: that there is Mr. Brown—To define the cost of the
against any
accredited to the Convention of Mexi-1 color; that we deny the right or pow- 1-aws of the State.
er of Congress, under the amended Mr. Heard—To repeal an act amend-
Constitution of the United States, to in S charter of Georgia Railroad Corn-
can war veterans.
A bill has been pased by the U. S. I exercise a general municipal as well as pany and of the Atlanta and the At-
ip: 1 - -
House of Congreto on the I5th inst, I criminal legistion over the people of bmta and West Point Railroad Corn-
making some regulations as to the I Georgia; that the passage of the Civil I P an y- 7T . n , „ , ,
1.11- . . . f I Rights bill now pending before Con- Mr. Hillver—To amend the charter
holding of terms of Umfod States Qr ot h C r bill of like charac- of the Georgia Railroad and Banking
Courts, the adjournment of the same, ter> ; s an infringement upon the reserv- Company.
traveling expenses of the judges, the ed rights of the States, and was never Mr. Simmons—To repeal certain
certification of transcripts, tile prosecu-1 contemplated by the framers of that j taxes on malt liquors.
Constitution, nor of any amendment to Mr. Simmons—To require all In-
the same; that the passage of the Civil surance Companies who desire to estab-
Rights bill, would, in our opinion, be | bs b with the Comptroller security to
tion of maishals, etc.
W. A. Crofutt is the name of the edi-.— 0 , ,— — - r , ,
tor of the Minneapolis Times and Trib- inexpedient, injudicious, unwise and the amount of 810,000 before licensed.
tc thn n„u iT-m. af call. I contrary to the wishes of both the white Mr. W inn—A bill to repeal an aid
and colored people of this State; that regulating the manner giving bonds,
we do not believe the colored people of passed February, 1S73.
The Pittshm-ff Post thinks that ;f I Georgia desire mixed schools and mix-1. Mr. Trammell—To incorporate Talk-
n , tt ^ , tffinkp. ed churches or anything which partakes I IIJ g Rock Manufacturing Company.
General How ard has luck, his steal I ed of social rights: that these questions I Mr. Lester—A resolution to request
_:n ...» c J 1 0 f social rights must alone be regulated ‘be Committee on the Penitentiary to
by society. investigate and prepare and report a
~ * ------ i-in -- * ’ * disposition shouli
will yet figure up a round million.
TEXAS.
Therefore, Resolved, By the Senate bill as to what disposition should he
Galveston, Jan. 16.—The House and House of Bepresentaives, that we ma<lc of th ? same -
went into joint session to count votes I most respectfully mid eamesUy request |. Senate adjourned until Monday mom-
for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. I °4 r , National Congress not to interfere ln g o c oc '.
The vote shows that Coke was elected I, e munlcl P a * regulations of the I
Governor, and Hubbard lieutenant Sf a ‘f b y 4 th «-P assa ee of‘be present house of representativk.
Governor by a large majority, and were CreM Rights bill or any bill of like un- House called to order by S
declared duly elected by the Speaker I P° rt and character, but to leave all these Bacon at 10 A. M. Prayer by
of the House. They were escorted to I Vresti 0118 to ‘be States where they prop- sentative Jackson, from Clarke,
the Speaker’s stand, and the nnth of I erl y belong. Mr. Calhoun moved to reconsider
office administered, after which Gov-1 Resolved, That the. Governor now action in adopting amendments to old
emorCdke delivered his inaugural ad-1 forward a copy of the foregoing pream- rules by the Committee on Rules, and
dress. I ble and resolutions to the presiding I the motion prevailed.
This evening General Britton had a I officers of each of the houses of Con- Mr. Goldin, of Liberty, moved to
eaker
epre-
tos strong advocacy of uCL
Rights measures (so called) in Y
to material modifications
now recommitted, with a vwLl
conciliating the whites of thn t!
and getting them into a
to support him for the
.1876! Did anybody ever?"
Special Notices/]
Pratt’s Astral Oil
Abfolutely .ole. Perfectly ederlen
uniform. Illuminating qualitiei teptr^l
Burns in any lamp without longer of 'JA
or taking fire. Manufaetarad ttpreuW
place the use of volatile and dangerow V'f
safety under every possible test, and
burning qualities, are proved by it, —?
use in over 300,000 families. Millin,^
Mid, and no accident, direct or induse^
occurred from burning, storing or haadli
• The immense yearlj'lois to life ua .
resulting from uinof cheap and dam,
the United States, Is apptlling
The insurance companies and fire a
art throughout the country rocouiasnd ■ ■
as the best safeguard where lamps
Send for circular. For sals retail
generally, and at wholesale by the pnay?
chas.prmtwT|
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Estray Notice!
GEORGIA, Floj<J County.
r I POLLED BaFORE M£ AS Ay ESTRlT^
A the 17th day of January. 1374, by
M. Young”, ot the eight hundred fifty ^
District, G M, of Floyd County, one
scriptioa: red and white spotted, \u i
bored for the hollow horn, marked by
crop off each ear and an nnderbitiatwS
ear. Supposed to be about MTen yai^T
Appraised by Newton Kinnebrew andJ^tna
Dunn ah oo, freeholders of said DiitrictiiSj*
worth fifteen dollars.
The owner is hereby notified to e
and prove property, pay the cost
away, or she will be sold on the freehold
np, on Tuesday, the 26th day of JanttmJfa. M ,
Joseph H. Lumpkin, sheriff of said
This January 20, 1874
THOMAS J. PERRY, Clerk I
Board Commissioners Roads and In-? J
jan20 tw-wlt of Floyd
$1,500,000
FOURTH GRAND GIFT C05CI2T I
for the benefit of the I
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KEYTUQ
. drawing deferred till
31st of March We:
to complete the sale of tickets and
FULL DRAWIKi
oiiti
12,000 Cash Gifts will he distribute ^
lot among the tlcket-holden.
LIST OF GIFTS.
One grand cash gift
One grand cash gift —y- r -- -
One grand cash gifl^.
One grand cash gift
One grand cash gift T -
10 cash gifts, $10,000 each..
30 cash gifts, 5,0C“ *
SO cash gifts,
80 cash gifts,
100 cash gifts,
150 cash gilts,
250 cash gifts,
325 cash gifts,
11,000 cash gifts,
1/100 each..
500 each...
400 each..,
300 each...
200 each...
100 each..
50 each.*
Total, 12,000 Gifts, all Cash,amount*
ing t
The concert and distribution of &
tixtly and unequivocally take piece on ti
fixed, whether all the tickets are sold o
the 12,000 gilts all paid in proportion to thee
her of tickets sold.
«thedqm
PRICE OF TICKETS.
Whole tickets $50, halves $25, tenthj (or
coupon) $5. Eleven whole tickets for$S<
tickets for $1000,113 whole tickets for $3Nt4
whole tickets for $10,000. No discout«
than $500 worth of tickets
Applications for agencies and orders forte
should be addressed to
THOS. E. BBAMLETTX,
Agent Public Library of Kentucky,
and Manager Gift Concert, Loahrilkl';
THE BEST DOLLAR M0I
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now in its 14th vol.—with Chrono,
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Magasine,one year, with Moanteil^Chrom*J»J
4 til
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Examine our Clubbing and Premium 1
Two First-class Periodicals for they:
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Public®]
41 Park Row, N. Y. City, or Newburjhl>.
$5 to $20
par day!
id! Allclu«M°f**
in, people, of either tax, yoaufior old, ]
number of armed men standing sentinel! fiongrcss, with a request that the same j reconsider the passage of the resolution
in the tenement of the capitol to prevent I ^ before tlia t body. protesting against the passage of the
** — — “ r ~ 1 The bills read the first time yesterday I Civil Rights Bill, and on motion of Mr.
th •’
basement of the
ingress and egress of State offii
of the force were white and sot
all with muskets and bayoi
General Britton appeared in
were taken up and under the rules and I Snead the motion to reconsider was
;ed. I referred to appropriate committees. laid on the table,
drej^ I Bills were then read first time, among I Mr. Gordon proposed to amend by
Bills were
uniform. toTbTthT detenffina-1 foU°wing = , „ , “ I striking out the'word “colored.”
tion of Governor Davis to resist taking I Foster—To repeal all laws requir-1 Under the operation of the reconsid
possession of those rooms by force unless “S *«, inspection of fertilizers. eration of the amendments of the rules,
greater force is used by the opponents Mr. Walsh—To exempt from taxation the Speaker decided that the old rules
New Orleans, Jan. 16.—Toms ad- a11 bnd Se3 connecting this with other were in force,
vices indicate that Governor Davis will I „ _ The bills referred to the various com-
yj e ld. I Mr. Dell—To provide, in case of the I mittees on Friday were returned to the
3 ’ —■ I absence of the Ordinary by providential desk of the Secretary, read the second
General Spinner.—The announce-1 causes that his clerk may preside. time and referred to appropriate com-
Mr. Longley—To regulate the pay- mittees.
by citizens of I Mr. Blue presented the protest of
himself, Goldin, Heard, Battle, Nichol-
Mr. McDaniel—To amend the tax son, against the passage! of the resolu-
will continue to fill it until he dies or .re
signs. He has earned the api —*-
soubriquet oi “Old Honesty,” i
stem integrity which has characterized
the management of the affairs of his de-1 of the General Assembly.
' ' “ “ ” ' ’ ' ’’ fee
ment is made in our local columns this
morning that General F. E. Spinner, I ment of tax'on wild lam
Treasurer of the United States, is in the | the State,
city. General Spinner has held this high
and responsible position under three ad-1 laws so faras they relate to railroad com-1 tion, protesting against the passage of
ministrations, and has -performed its I panics, and to define the liability of such the Civil Rights Bill os an unjust re-
dutics-so faithfully and so well that he I companeis. flection on their manhood, which was
to fill it until he dies or re-1 Mr. Clements—To provide for the pay-1 received and ordered spread upon the
^ ment of claims of school officers and I Journal,
the | teachers lor services rendered in 1871. The Speaker announced that he had
Also, to provide for biennial sessions I appointed the following joint com-
’ the General Assembly. mittees: .
Also, to regulate the fees of Solicitor- Wild Lands—Bosh, Phillips, Foster,
of this State. Reid, McRae.
Also, to authorize SolicitorGcncrals to Macon and Brunswick Railroad—
nol pros, indictments in certain cases, Anderson, Peabody, McDaniel, Pierce,
and to settle certain cases upon certain Nutting, JenkinstTf Putnam, McArthur!
Cox-1 conditions. On motion of Mr. Hunter, the Senate
Mr. Talliaferro—Tu tax all dealers or resolution to investigate the claim.. 0 f
vendors of deadly weapons. IW. R. Harris, agent of the Western and
Mr. Rogers—Petition of J. T. Whit- Atlantic Railroad, at Kingston, was
man and T. E. Hiunhury, in reference to taken np and concurred in.
the compilation of a work to induce im- Mr. Turnbull moved to take np Sen-
’“ration to the State. ate resolution to appoint a joint com-
x. Bad—To amend the act to change mittee on the Constitution which pre-
the appointment of representatives in the vailed and the resolution was concurred
partibent HI health has compelled' a
visit to Florida and he takes our city en | Generals
route to the Land of Flowers.—Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel, 13th.
estem
for a
to
chgse of the
market, and
General Assembly.
I composed of fifty ■
the Hpusc
- „. .^^ogre* 11 '
;es each from the 1,. 18. 20,.22^ 23
Senatorial Bistricts, and. one each
4-
Uilemoot* -. I
".f»Inovn •
Mr. Tutt asked a suspension of the
rules to introduce a resolution t fhat
when the present lease of convicts to
Grant, Alexander & Co. expires, the
mg people, oi iiuier ioa, jvuuj j « i
more money at work for as in their
ments, or all the time, than anythingejw-
ticulsr, free. Addrevj G. 9118805 1
Portland, Maine.
200 PIANOS and ORGANS. I
New ami Second-Hand, of Firat-Clw*®!
en, will be sold at Lower Price* for cs* W
Installments, in City or Country.
Financial Crisis and the Holldar*. i)
ACE WATERS A SON, 4S1 BlW®:,
than ever before offered in 5e» -
Agents Wanted to sell Waters' Celew^;,
rtRcuts *? anieu 10 »cti
Pianos, Concerto and Orchestral^ £
Illustrated Catalogues mailed, cm*
ducements to the Trade. A laiJF
to Ministers, Churches, Sunday 8cn&^
l off
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