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THE UNION & RECORDER.
Old
‘Southern Recorder” and “Federal Union’
consolidated.]
TVIILLEDOEVILLE, OA:
Wednesday, Tnly 30, 1873.
Noble Letter of Ex Gov. Jf.n-
KINS .—On our first page will be found
the correspondence between Gov.
Smith and Ex-Gov. Jenkius growing
out of the presentation to the latter,
in compliance with a resolution of the
General Assembly, of a fnc simile of
the Seal of the Executive Department.
The letter of Mr. Jenkins is beautiful
and true, and worthy of thoughtful
reading and care r ul preservation. He
says with the force of truth, “ the
wrongs and oppressions we have en
dured resulted from administrative
abuses, not from structural changes
in the government.” He takes a hope
ful view of the future, and believes
the people will correct those admin
istrative abuses, and, sooner or later,
good government will be restored un
der the Constitution.
Macon State Fair.
In the stereotyped “Mayor Huff’s
Address” which has, time out of mind,
been occupying so large a space in the
columns of our worthy and excellent
contemporary of Macon, the Telegraph
<$- Messenger, we find a list of premiums
offered at the ensuing State Fair which
bears some singular features.
We shall notice but one to-day :
others shall receive attention hereaf
ter. In the line of paintings, the fol
lowing premiums (and no others) are
offered: “ For the best oil-paintings
by a Georgia lady $100. For the
best display of paintings, drawings,
&c., by the pupils of one school or col
lege SI 00.”
1. Why no premium on the best
painting in water colors by a “ Geor
gia lady?” The indication is that the
premium is pre-engaged. We ask, can
didly, why not in tmfer-colors also ?
2. What is a “display” of paintings ?
How make a “display”? Why
restrict the premium to pupils of “ one
school or college”? Why not open
the gate wide to “displays” offered by
priratc individuals as well as to “schools
and colleges?” The word “college”
in a Macon advertisement is localism.
Macon Fleas.
Our sense of justice, so often shock
ed in these degenerate days, was
amazingly soothed by the perusal of a
“local” in our excellent contemporary,
the Telegraph ij' Messenger of Macon,
of Friday last, on “Tiie Flea.”
The able writer of that article has
succeeded in doing the nimble insecto-
rial “acrobat” of Macon justice. The
flea in that city is not the common flea
of this “ort terrene:” He can jump
higher, bite deeper, skip oftener, tickle
more contumaciously, and bibulate
more enormously than any other variety
of his race we have ever met. In cor-
inorancy he is the veritable wolverine
amoug insects. We have occasionally
encountered puny and feeble speci
mens of fleas in other localities; but
when we consider our by-gone
collisions with the Macon monsters,
we exclaim in the language of Scrip
ture History, “and there were giants
in those days !”
But let not the gentle Atlanta suffer
its metropolitan heart to be troubled
to find itself excelled in even this one
thing. Her politicians and public
men have learned all the lessons of
these gigantic Macon fleas, and prac
tice them. They even excel their
teachers, and jump, and bite, and skip,
and bibulate monetarily, morally, po
litically, and practically in a manner
never before seen among the voracious
specimens of the Pulcx irritans in hu
man shape.
Boa Constrictor.
Wo learn from a gentleman who has just arrived
from the Indian River country, that a Boa Constrictor,
of enormous size, was killed by a Mr. Hartley, about
twenty miles from the head of the river, on the old Cap-
ron road. Mr. Hartley was riding on horseback, and
saw the monster coiled around a lofty pine tree, grasp
ing the limb with bis tail, his body pendent, watching
for prey.
A drove of cattle were browsing in the neighborhood,
and the serpent seemed to be intently watching them,
when, Mr. II., approached under cover of some brush
es. lodged a ball in the creature’s brain. It was nine
teen teet in length, and capable of swallowing an os.—
i'lordia Newt-
We suspect this specimen of the
Boa family did not belong to the spe
cies known as the Constrictor, found
only in the torrid regions of South
America. Probably it was a Boa ten-
chris, or a Boa musina, smaller species
of the charming family of Bow. The
B. Constrictor is sometimes 40 feet in
length.
The Latest Sensation of the
Atlanta Herald.—As the regular
mail train on the Atlanta & West
Point Railroad leaves Atlanta at 11
o’clock at night, before the Hcraldgets
all its sensations in type, the enterpri
sing proprietors of that paper have
chartered a special mail train oa that
road for the carrying of their paper,
and nothing else. This is a bold and
daring venture of the Herald. The
fact is they seem determined to hurst
their biler in spite of all their friends
can do. It would be cheaper and sa
fer for them to run a Balloon ; they
manufacture gas enough in their of
fice every day for that purpose.—
fhat the course of the Herald may be
upward and onward let them stick to
gas and not go to fooling with steam.
o-rcat Fire i n Baltimore.
Quite a number of Bquarea in the
heart of the business centre of Balti
more was distroyed by fire on the 20th
inst. Loss estimated at half a million
to a million of dollars.
PIBKS.
. At no former era of the world,
perhaps, have so many great fires oc
curred in the same period as have
taken place in tbe United States since
the* commencement of the Chicago
fire of 1871. The great London fire
in 16GG was almost equal to the Chi
cago fire of 1S71; but it was not fol
lowed by others as has been that of
Chicago, by those of Boston and the
other burnt cities of the past two
years. We were penning the word
that Baltimore was the latest great
sufferer; but with the pen in our
hands comes tbe news that Norfolk,
Virginia, has been given over to tbe
flames to the extent, enormous for her,
of the loss of $150,000.
Cannot such frequent recurrence of
these great fires be prevented ? Is
there no remedy ? In seeking a reme
dy, it is philosophic to seek, first, the
cause.
What, then, is the cause? Accident
cannot account for this great and dis
astrous phenomenon.
We have been led sometimes to sus
pect, painfully and reluctantly, that
out of the thousands who insure their
personal effects in these large cities,
now and then, ir. the great white flock,
there is one black sheep who in the
darkness of night, sets fire to his own
rifled store or business establishment.
It is the speediest way of “ selling
out” at large profit. Is Insurance a
benefit to the public, on the whole?
We fear that in the great bodies of
honest and perfect Policemen who
guard vigilantly the property of these
cities by night, now and then a stray
rogue and incendiary may find place,
and may first rob and then fire the
premises which it is his duty to pro
tect. If they do not rob and fire the
premises themselves, we fear that
they collude with thieves and burg
lars for part of the booty.
Perhaps no preceding age in the
world’s history has been marked by a
greedier grasp after riches than the
present. Old-fashioned honest meth
ods are too slow. Money must be had
with the magic celerity of steam and
electricity. “Old fogies” who do
business in the antiquated style, i. e.
practice common honesty, are outstrip
ped in the breathless haste to gather
riches. What are we coining to ? May
the Lord have mercy on our souls !
May he send rains and quench these
fires’
That “Boa Constrictor.”
We find in a recent Florida paper
(Jacksonville Florida News) a huge
“snake story”—as huge as usually
gets afloat among the “ pens and
types.” A “ Boa-Constrictor” of enor
mous size” has been slain by a valiant
“ Mr. Hartley” in Florida. The snake
—not Mr. Hartley—was 20 feet long.
The latter shot the former through
the head : slew him outright, in the
fashion of venomous duelists who
wipe off stains from honor in this gun-
powdery way.
We rejoice that the aforesaid “Boa-
Constrictor” perished at the hands of
the valiant Hartley. We are opposed
to snakes of that size going at large
in any of these United States indepen
dent of menageries—cageless and
keeperless. We are kept so busy light
ing our precarious way through other
dangers of these “parlous” times—
we find it so very difficult to avoid the
fate of being swallowed alive by the
numerous anaconda monopolies of rail
roads, cotton rings, whiskey-rings,
“credit mobiliers,” Wall-streetism,
third-termism, ct id omne genus, that
we have no leisure to watch for Boa
Constrictors, and no weapons to fight
them off with. Thank you, Mr. Hart
ley, for slaying the only one that ever
invaded on “his own hook,” the great
“ model Republic.”
Bditorlal Correspondence of
Union A Recorder.
tbe
St. Mauy’s & Western Railroad.—
The St. Mary’s & Western Railroad
Company, of which our fellow-citizen
Col. W. G. McAdoo is President, hav
ing secured a large and valuable sub
scription in lands, is preparing to put
its bonds on the market, being assured
that a sufficient amount can be raised
on these bonds to enable the Compa
ny to resume the construction of the
road which has been suspended more
than a year. No application to the
Governor for “ State endorsement”
will be necessary; and none will be
made before placing these bouds in
the market.
Captain Jack.—The military Com
mission which convened near our Pa
cific border recently for the trial of
Capt. Jack, the Modoc chief and his
companions for the murder of Gen.
Canby and others, has concluded its
labors. Its “findings” are not yet
made public, being sent under seal to
the War Department in Washington
City for ratification. There can scarce
ly be any doubt that Capt. Jack and
his companions will expiate their of
fence by the old-fashioned and whole
some method of hanging. We cannot
deny the justice of such sentence. We
did not admire the character of Gen.
Canby during the “ War between the
States;” but his murder under a flag
of truce, by Capt. Jack, was not only
a flagrant violation of the rules of
civilized warfare, but an outrage on
human justice, civilized or uncivilized.
We have seen it urged that Gen. Can
by was, at the moment of his murder,
seeking to entrap the Modoc Chief in
to his power, and thus violate the faith
under which the parties had met. But
Capt. Jack, in his ample defence, on
bis trial does not allude to any such
justification, and we presume it cannot
be true. Let the Modoc chief bang.
M.
Elizabeth City, New Jersey, >
July 19, 1S73. $
This is a delightful little city, named
after old Queen Bess. It is about fifteen
miles from New York. An immense
business passes through this place to
New York and Philadelphia. Two
systems of Railroads from New York
passes through this place, and it is said
that over, two huudred trains pass
here every twenty-four hours. A
large portion of the Pennsylvania coal
pass through here to Elizabeth Port,
where it is shipped to various parts
of the United States. On account of
its accessibility to New York many
wealthy men doing business in New
York have their residences here. Many
others live here because it is a desira
ble place of residence. Mr. Corbin,
the brother-in-law of Gen. Grant, re
sides in this place. It was also the
residence of Gen. Scott, and Gen. Mc
Clellan has a residence near this place.
I call this a little city, and it is so in
comparison with some of its neigh
bors, but it ys said to contain nearly
thirty thousand inhabitants.
My journey from Milledgeville to
New York was not very pleasant or
interesting. The night passage from
Milledgeville to Savannah by railroad
was very unpleasant and fatiguing.
Some parts of the Central Railroad are
very rough, and the seats in the car
were rather uncomfortable, so that
we were very much fatigued when we
arrived at the Pulaski House. This
house is better fitted up and better
kept than formerly. We embarked
on board the steamer San Salvador,
Capt. Nickerson, for New York on
Saturday at 12 M. The San Salva
dor is not a very fast boat, but is con
sidered a very safe one, and Capt.
Nickerson is a very great favorite with
the travelling public. There were
over one hundred passengers on board,
and considering the warmth of the
weather, we were considerably crowd
ed. The sea was not rough, but there
was a swell sufficient to produce con
siderable rolling of the boat, which
caused a large portion of the passen
gers to become sea sick, so that on
Sunday a large number of the seats at
tne table were vacant; but those who
went to the table did not have much
the advantage over those who staid
away, for the eating on those New
York boats is nothing to boast of. It
will never give any one the gout un
less it is that species called the poor
man’s gout. It will do for strong
men with keen appetites, but there is
nothing to tempt the sickly or delicate
stomach. About 3 o’clock Monday
morning the Captain, believing he was
near Cape Hatteras, stopped the en
gine to take soundings. Many of the
passengers, feeling the boat had stop
ped, jumped out of their births believ
ing the boat had grounded or struck
some impediment. The Captain was
right in his calculations, for in about
thirty minutes after wo came in sight
of Cape Hatteras light house. Soon
after breakfast on Tuesday morning
we came in sight of Absecomb light
house, near Atlantic city, on the coast
of New Jersey, and from that time we
sailed along on the coast of New Jer
sey until we reached New York. We
came so near Long Branch that we
could plainly see persons from the va
rious hotels bathing in the surf, and
carriages passing along on the beach.
At about five o’clock Tuesday we ar
rived in New York, and heard the
same complaints we had left at home,
that business was dull and money
scarce.
then wended our way to another
large garden, where we heard a band
playing, and where a large and pro
miscuous crowd had assembled, and i t Y., who has brought out many
were amusing themselves in various r« __ , •
oAcmv.
Such is the title of a romance re
cently issued by publisher Carle-
ways On entering the gate a mau
told us wc must pay twenty cents
for the eutrance of our carriage. Af
ter this "Was complied with, a half
dozen boys applied for the honor and
expected emolument of holding our
horses. When these important ar
rangements were all adjusted, we had
leisure to view the crowd and their
various amusements. Here were as
sembled several hundred people of all
ages, and about an equal number of
both sexes. A large portion of the
crowd was composed of young people
who seemed devoted to amusement,
In one part of the grove was some
eight or ten swings in use, consisting
of boxes with two seats in each capa
ble of holding four persons, two cou
ple facing each other; and these
boxes were attached by an apparatus
to tbe limbs of tall trees, and by this
means those in the boxes were wafted
some fifty or sixty feet in the air.
Those who patronized the swings were
mostly lads and lasses, and they seem
ed to enjoy the fun very much. In
another part of the grounds a small
theatre was improvised, where low
comedy, pantomime and buffoonry of
the Punch and Judy order were en
acted, which seemed to amuse the au
dience very much. Of course lager
beer, Rhine wine, and bread and
cheese and mustard, was served to all
who wanted them, but I did not see a
drunkard or a quarrelsome man on
the ground. Fun and frolic every
where prevailed. Innocent familiari
ty prevailed among all present, but
nothing obtrusive or insulting occur
red. \Ve are told that these are per
fect specimens of the manner in
which a large portion of the German
population spend their Sunday eve
nings in Faderlandt.
Every day a large steamboat leaves
New York at 9 A. M. for Rockaway
Beach, a famous bathing place on the
east shore of Long Island, and returns
the same evening. I have been invi
ted to accompany a party, and after
my return will give you the benefit of
my experience. B.
Newark, New Jersey, ^
July 24, 1S73. >
On tbe banks of the Passuic river,
about nine or ten miles from the city
of New York, is the city of Newark,
the most populous city of New Jer
sey, and one of the greatest manufac
turing places in the United States in
proportion to its population. It con
tains between one hundred and ten to
one hundred and twenty thousand in
habitants, and a very large propor
tion of which consists of mechanics
and their families. Here are made
large quantities of saddles, bridles and
harness for every part of the United
States. Boots and shoes, and every
thing that is made of leather is here
manufactured in large quantities ; also,
Jersey wagons and many various ar
ticles of wood, iron and tin. There
is also a large manufactory of zinc
here, and almost every article used on
a farm or plantation is made iu this
very busy and industrious city; con
sequently it is a very prosperous and
thriving place. Probably about one-
third of the inhabitants of Newark are
of German descent, and in some parts
of the city the German language and
German customs prevail. In compa-
y with a friend I visited several of
their beer gardens during one of their
holy days. These gardens are of va
rious grades and conducted on different
plans to suit the taste of the different
classes that frequent them. In the
first place we visited one of the aris
tocratic gardens, where Germans of
the upper class with their families re
sort every Sundry evening, sit under
the shade and converse in groups, and
drink lager beer and Rhine wine, and
eat Swiss cheese and mustard and
Limburg cheese and brown bread.
This is a kind of reunion of German
families of the better class which
they seem to enjoy very much. On
entering the garden and taking our
seats at one of the tables, we were
waited upon by one of the boys in at
tendance, who carried a tin waiter
containing tumblers ready to be filled
when the order is given. Of course
we ordered a couple of glasses of lager
beer, and some Swiss cheese and mus
tard. As I had never been accustom
ed to eat Swiss cheese and mustard 1
wanted to try the experiment, and
found it tasted very good. The Lim
burg cheese we did not try, for the
smell is sufficient to satisfy most
Americans that they would not like it.
After sitting as long as we pleased
and observing the company we paid
our bill and departed, without any
one asking us any questions. We
Agriculture is, and must continue
to be, the leading and most important
industry in this country. Many of
our bnst educated and most influential
men are now engaging in it, but as
they know very little about it practi
cally, and have little inclination to
work themselves, their success is not
assured. But their influence and ex
ample, it is hoped, will cause the
young men of the country to turn
their thoughts in this direction, and
tbe clamor for easy and shady places
will cease. The united movemeiit now
being made among farmers is destined
tosecure for this respectable and hon
est class of our people a controlling in
fluence in the affairs of the govern
rnent. This, however, is not the chief
reason why young men should engage
in this business : But, because, if per
sistently followed it is more certain to
yield honest wealth than any other
business in which they can engage.—
At the end of ten years they will fiud
themselves better off iu health, morals
and money, even if they commence as
day laborers, on the farm, than they
would bo with good salaries in the
city. Better begin life on the farm.
Learn farming and slick to it. If the
work is hard and the pay poor at first,
it is after all, the surest way to make
money in the long run. Many business
men look with longing eyes to the
time when they will be able to retire
on a farm, and there at last their am
bition rests. Land will never be cheap
er, and our young men will do well
if they commence where our old men
leave off—on the farm.
Lunatic Asylums.—Wc clip the
following from the Macon Telegraph
ij' Messenger. The reform is one which
has long been sorely needed, as the
developments in Vermont recently
have abundantly shown.
Tbe Belgian Government baa recently ordered ac-
cnrely locked letter boxes to be placed iu u!l tbe insane
asylums of tbe country, public or private, in positions
where they will be easily accessible to all tbe inmates.
They are designed to allow complaints and sugges
tions to be made to the authorities in a way indepen
dent of the officers or attendants. Tbe complaints are
investigated, and if any one asserts that lie is sane be is
ordered to be examined by medical experts.
Spain.
Poor old Spain! She is in the
throes of the most desperate civil strife.
A large battle is expected soon. It
will probably decide the destiny of
that country for the next ten or twen
ty years. We judge that the chances
of triumph are clearly in favor of the
old Bourbon dynasty and a return to
Kingly Government. Spain is not
ready to sustain a Republic yet; can
not do so even as well as we of Uncle
Sam’s dominions. Don Carlos will
probably triumph,
P. S. Later news comes that a battle
took place near Pampeluna, and the
Carlists were victorious.
It is stated the Congressional com
mittee ou transportation has issued a
circular to State Granges of Husband
ry throughout the country, asking
them to appoint delegates to meet the
committee and furnish information on
the subject which they are investiga
ting, and present tbe views of the
farmers in the different States in re
gard to the defects, abuses and griev
ances alleged to exist under the pres
ent system of transportation.
Crops in Southwest Georgia.—
Last week we passed through the
counties of Mitchell, Thomas and De
catur, and had an opportunity of ob
serving the crops. In Dougherty and
the upper part of Mitchell, crops were
suffering very much for rain. The
yield of cotton has been decreased by
the drought thirty per ceut. Refresh
ing rains have fallen on these crops
this week. The crops in Thomas and
Decatur counties are very fine, not
having suffered a day by the drought.
On the contrary, farmers complain of
too much rain. The caterpillar ex
citement has abated considerably,—
Albany Central City.
literary works of Southern authorship
since the War. Why Mr. Carleton
should continue to be employed by
Southrons to bring out their books, we
are at a loss to conjecture. With one
exception we have not heard of any
who have reaped any pecuniary harvest
from them. But the selection of a
publisher is a matter of taste with the
author, and docs not concern the mer
its or demerits of the book itself. We
are to consider the book.
Cachet is the first literary venture
of the accomplished Mrs. M. J. R. Ham
ilton of Atlanta, Georgia, the wife of
the well known Rev. A. L Hamilton,
D. D , of that city. It is essentially
a Southern story; and in its general
philosophy, it treats of a practical
question whose consideration has been
forced upon the thoughts of men by
the astounding results of the war, and
the curbless fanaticism of the massis
of the Northern people—viz., Misccgc\
nation. \~et the narrative is so skill
fully handled, and the facts so aptly
chosen, tiiat the most fastidious mod
esty is not put to blush by a single
syllable. The most refined lady may
listen to every word of the volume
without ail averting glance if read
aloud to her in the drawing room or
the parlor and in the midst of com
pany.
This circumstance very naturally
lends a great attraction to the simple
charm of this fine story. We do not
mean to say that th; theme u fine, orj
one suited to our taste. We do not
ev
A Rising Fewer,
The victory of-the Granges, or Pat
rons of Husbandry, at the Illinois Ju
diciary election, some weeks ago, has
given them new confidence. The or
der is spreading more' swiftly than
ever at tbe West, Southwest, and in
some parts of the slowly-moving East.
At the South it has hardly taken root
—the people of that section having
local troubles, which the programme
of the Grange does not touch, and for
which the only remedy yet proposed
is that of the eccentric unification
movement in Louisiana. Rut all
through the West, especially, the
Patrons of Husbandry are in great
glee over their first triumph in Illi
nois, and are recruiting their forces
with the utmost rapidity. The new
party is young, strong, ambitious, and
singularly practical in its aims, though
that might be expected from the farm
ing population who compose it. There
is no class of people so free of mere
sentiment and whim as the faimers;
and at a time when impracticable is
sues like the Prohibitory Liquor law
and so-called Labor Reform are too
much occupying the minds of theo
rists in the cities, we rejoice to see the
farmers busying themselves with prac
tical questions and matter of fact
grievances. For a specimeu of what
these hard-headed men are driving at,
take a look at the resolutions adopted
by them at Des Moines, Iowa, the oth
er day. They declared that they
would support no man for office who
was not opposed to monopolies ; that
the doctrine of the vested right of cor
porations which exempts them from
legislative control has no place in the
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2Veti deem the moral implication itjjurisprudence of a free people; de
forces one of immediate or urgent "ouneng the back-pay salary fraud,
and the President tor approving it;
The wheat crop of California, for
tbe last year, amounted to 825,000,000.
importance to the public. There is
but small danger that the interming
ling of the two races inhabiting our
Southern States will be effected to any
considerable extent through the long
ages of the future beyond which hu
man speculations upon the fate of races
need scarcely seek to penetrate. To
us of the South, whose lives have
been spent where these two races have
been continually brought togither in
close juxtaposition, we do not hesi
tate to affirm that practical “miscege
nation” was far more abounding in
the days of slavery than in these strange
days that have followed our “peculiar
institution.” We may congratulate
ourselves on the fact that the fanatical
attempt of Northern monomaniacs to
force an equality in all respects be
tween the races has drawn the Cauca
sian infinitely farther away from prac
tical amalgamation than in the past
era when so very many masters stoop
ed to the embraces of their slaves and
concubines. Emancipation has- con
duced largely to the sum of private
morals in the South. Less celibacy
exists. Honorable marriage between
parties of the same race, and better
conjugal fidelity all round, may be ex
pected, indeed is practiced now. We
trust that another six thousand years
of man’s existence may pass before
Southern morals in the aspect now un
der contemplation may assimilate to the
condition which is understood to exist
in that chosen abode of the Puritan race
who introduced slavery into our Con
tinent and then was foremost in the
outcry and crusade against its continu
ance. We pray that twice six thou
sand years may elapse before any body
of Southern daughters of Caucasian
blood—yes, or, African blood, either—
shall petition a legislative body for a
legal sanction of polygamy, as was
seen the other day in one of the New
England States!
But to return to Mrs. Hamilton, and
to “ Cachet.” We consider her work
as justly appropriate to the times, and
especially worthy of the thoughtful
perusal oi Northern readers. To South
ern readers it will furnish a ready
lustration of the answer they would
give to the arguments of Northern
fanatics of the Senator Sumner school,
on this subject.
The plot of “Cachet” is not so com
plex as the modern school of fiction
usually requires. This simplicity is,
with us, a recommendation. YVliat
can be more simple than the charming
novel of the last century, Goldsmith’s
inimitable “Vicar of Wakefield?”—
What more redolent of sound teach
ings and wholesome philosophy ?
What story more inimitably told?
The great innovator on the simplicity
of the old English novel was Sir Wal
ter Scott, who introduced the complex
intricacy of plot which continues to
be “ the style” to the present day. In
all of Sir Walter’s peculiar excellen
cies, he was excelled by his ever-glo-
rious successor in the domain of fiction,
Lord Lytton, who has just gone down
to a tomb resplendent with a halo of
immortality. We consider Lord Lyt
ton’s “ My Novel” the very perfection
of modern art in the way of novel
writing. A reaction towards a great
er simplicity of plot must take place
soon; and we may trust that Mrs.
Hamilton has inaugurated this whole
some reversal of the swing of the pen
dulum of novelistic art. Whoever
strikes boldly back into the simple
path of our ancestors, with the new
features of our modern times engraved
thereon, as in “ Cachet,” will succeed,
as surely as tbe dress-maker succeeds
who now and then startles our gent
lest leaders of fashion with some re
vived monstrosity in female apparel
Jhat bedazed the worshippers of wo
man in the age of Queen Bess or
Bloody Mary.
We intended to bestow some spe
cial criticism on salient points in
“ Cachet,” but we must desist for
want of space. We rejoice that it stands
as a noteworthy example of a recent
Southern novel which has kept its
purity, and has avoided all of those
fevered scenes of sexual passion that
disfigure so many recent books of fic
tion ; some Southern books, we are
constrained to say. For heaven’s
sake, let our Southern lady writers be
nobly pure and exalted—in their pub
lished books, at least 1
TUB CAPITAL QUESTION
Opinions of the Press.
The Maieon Telegraph and Messenger says.
‘•The removal of the Capital f r „ !n Atlant. ,
ancient site, the geographical centre of tl, ( . st , 0 ' :?
continue to be agitated until the question i,fi„~V »'£
posed of ut the ballot box. The change
not at the instance of the people, but ..| le
ries of wrongs and usurpations indicted *»■
Federal satraps and a fraudulently chosen car!!!/ ’’I
Legislature. Georgia never will be herself
til she repudiates and spits upon every such C:i
authorized sovereignty and domination. ‘°‘oo-
The preseut Radical Constitution cunninelv
vides that the seat of government cannot k J pr "-
removed save by a change in the fundamental
This can only be effected by a Convention of "
pie. There are several features in the (Junit i ^°’
repugnant to justice and equity, which need tnodifi"” 1
tion. Let us have a Convention, therefore anl v
fully go over the work again, making „ u< .j“I* c * r '-
as experience would indicate, amon" them 7“***
mission of the Capital question to the people
That the calling of this convention is desire 11
masses is beyond question. But hem is wheretl ■***
pinches. The members of the General Asaemhfc " 0 ’
chosen for two *™r, Now, if a convention 5'
18 califci
ier a
leave th,
I»y don’t
removal of the (
said, “I can’t vote for the measure,'’liuwever'T^
cause my seat cost tne six hundred dollars a„s ' .
I have received not half of that amount 8 ?. 1 ®
therefore a question of dollars and cents n -j, tuT 13
who don't like to be ‘out.’ Yet we are assured
$4,500 will cover the per diem, mileage, clerk i ■
and all other expenses of a convention during .
days session. " '“*•
Our readers may not be aware the Oil) open.
HOUSE DON’T BELONG TO THE 8TATP
chosen for two years. _
they may change the Constitution"mid ‘order ^
election within thirty days. This would leav*
present Legislature out iu the cold, aril lliev I*"-’
like it. One very prominent member who !av<»rf :
apital back to Milledgeville frj'p'
Wilt
Four hundred and fitly thousand dollar have fci
paid for it, shaky and hermaphroditic as i; j s r .’
mortgage lor $60,000 still hangs over it. which ”
accruing interest will amonut to near SI<K>.tiito y
when the question comes up, which must be at tf
next session of the Legislature, whether this a „.
gage should be paid off, then will be a fitting time”
press the claims of Milledgeville. The Kimball co
corn—holf hotel, half theatre—is known to be Meg,
and must eventually be torn down to make roomf '■
a more suitable edifice. Why then subject our peonf
to the enormous expense and increased taxation which
will be needful in the premises, when t| le ijtate n „,
owns a commodious State house, executive mamim
etc., situated almost at its geographical eenlre ,
repeat, the Capital question never can he settled unq
the verdict of the people is known at tie ballot-box"
Fire in Norfolk.—A fire io Nor
folk, Va., on the 26th inst., destroyed
property to the valuation of $150,000.
Another Fire.—Destroyed in Ro
chester, N. Y., on the 26tb, the Clydo.
Glass Works. Loss 40,000.
approving
demanding political reform and strict
economy in national, State and coun
ty affairs. These are bold, plain-
spoken words, cutting left and right.
Everybody can understand them.—
They ask for material, tangible im
provements. They strike at real, ad
mitted ubuses. Aud they interest not
only farmers, but producers and manu
facturers generally. There is no trace
of party feeling in such resolutions as
these. They are neither Republican
nor Democratic. Above all things,
they are fearless, as where they re
buke the President for signing the sal
ary grab-bill. There were Adminstra-
tion politicians at the Des Moines
meeting who would have been glad to
strike out the passage of censure upon
the President, but the farmers would
not permit it. Tiiat is the most hope
ful sign of the movement—that the
politicians of neither ot the parties
have hitherto been able to control it,
and they have worked all the wires to
do so. The farmers have no friendly
feeling towards either of the parties,
and are the least complaisant towards
the one in power, from whose abuses
of legislation they are at present suf
fering. Therefore we must expect that
the burden of their grievous complaints
will be leveled against tbe Repub
licans. Their fight is, in truth, against
the dishonest and unfaithful members
of that party, and they welcome ail
allies. This fact is significant, because
the Patrons of Husbandry for the most
part originally belonged to the Repub
lican fold. As iate as the recent Pres
idential election, many of them sup
ported the Administration. Not even
the Republican movement could de
tach them from their fealty. But
since then we have had the Credit
Mobilier developments, aud the back
pay scandal, and a nauseous surfeit of
other proofs of corruption at Wash
ington. The Granges were feeble
bodies before these revelations. They
were organized for no greater work—
though we would not underrate its
importance—than to cheapen freights
on Western produce. Now, by cir
cumstances, the scope of their work
has become enlarged, and takes in the
great practical reform issues before
the country ; and the new party pow
erfully attracts to its ranks all who
sympathize with it in the determina
tion to muke an honest, economical
government for the nation. These
Patrons of Husbandry, or the persons
who manage the new party, are “ori
ginals.” They produce their striking
effects with new instruments and in a
new way. On the 4th of this July,
when commonplace citizens met to
bear the Declaratiou of Independence
read, and to seif-glorify with orations
and poems of the customary bombas
tic type, the Granges mustered their
men all over the West, and did “ busi
ness.” Instead of rehearsing the
crimes or King George and his minis
try against tbe colonies, they enumer
ated tbe manifold offenses of the poli
ticians of this period and of this coun
try against tbe people. It was a re
freshing innovation upon tbe hum
drum order of things at the nation’s
annual jubilee. Some of the meetings
on the 4th they organized and run for
themselves. Others they captured by
force of numbers, aud turned to tbe
advantage of their order. There was
scarcely a Fourth of July celebration
in all the West where the Patrons of
Husbandry did not make themselves
felt. These are clever tactics. The
only jar in the harmony of the new
movement is the appearance of veteran
politicians as spokesmen, if not as di
rectors. Both of the old parties send
in their best men to take the lead; and
it is amusing to note how adroitly
they adapt themselves to the feelings
of the incensed farmers. It is impossi
ble to exclude wholly these ingenious,
unscrupulous persons; but the Patrons
of Husbandry must be careful how
they trust them, or the new party
will be wrecked.—N. N. Jouenal of
Commerce.
The Macon Enterprise says:
“As we gazed upon the massive structure [ old St st-
House.] we wondered what caused the removal of th.
Capital from this beautiful and retired place,
everythin" is quiet, and thinking time 13 allowed to
men who have the law making of our g| .rioas 1
State, and we hope ere lone- to see Milledgeville tie
Capital of our State again.”
The Athens Watchman says:
“Without the least feeling against Atlanta, but ct
the coutrary, with the kindest regard for her citiieu
and an honest pride in her most remarkable career
we bel-eve that the question of the location of the cap.’
ital should be submitted to the people fairly atj
squarely, as_ a nuked issue. It cannot he pretended
that this was doue under the Constitution of ISt>8. Lc:
it be fairly submitted now, and if a majority of the
people are in favor of Atlanta, let it be permanently
located there ; but if. in view of our impoverished con
dition and other considerations, they prefer Milled^.
ville, let it be restored by all means
All the talk about the old onpitol building, Execu
tive mansion, &.C., being inadequate to the wants t.f
tbe State, is the sheerest hum hug. Very tew of the
States have buildings equal to that old Capitol. Ittnu
admirably adapted to the purpose for which itwi;
intended. It may need some repairs. This may »W
be true with regard to other public buildings. With
these repairs, they would answer nil practical purpo
ses for n quarter ot a century to come—by which time
our people would be able to incur the expense f
erecting new ones, if deemed desirable. We are cer
tainly in no condition now to undertake a task requi
ring such heavy expenditures
North and South Carolina, and Tennessee, it is tine,
have finer capitols than our lime-honored edifice «t
Milledgeville, but they cost from ouo and a halt to
three million dollars each, and we believe those a:
Nashville and Columbia are still unfinished. Are our
people ready- now to commence such an undertaking’
The Rome Courier says:
“Now and theu we scent upon the newspaper brotz
a whiff' of excitement and discontent among the peo
ple relative to the location of the State Capitol Ti,c
people of Georgia have so long and so lovingly re-
garded MilledgevUe as the true heart ct the State
that the violence which tore it away and fixed ilia
a puddle of fraud iu Atlanta, can never be thought
kindly of and acquiesced in by them.
Though not c’aiming to be part ot the "balance if
the press of Atlanta and her suburbs,’’ we do not Ins-
itate to give our voice for the restoration of the Cep
ital to Milledgeville, its proper and only legitimate
site. The Capital buildings are already there, sell tiie
buildings in Atlanta, and apply the money to the ex
pense of the restoration.’’
The Temperance Watchman, of Grillin, says:
“We say let the Capital go back to Milledgeville by
all means. It will complete our political regeneratiw:.
Let us wipe out all ventage of Bullock s frauds upon
our people.’’
The Augusta Chronicle aud Sentinel says there ar:
but two ways by which the Capitol can be removed
from Atlanta back to Milledgeville. Oueiebyatwo-
thirds vote of two successive egislatures, the other by
a Constitutional Convention It says that it the ques
tion is ever submitted to square vote of the people the
removal will be carried.
The Savannah Republican says:
“The Milledgeville Union and Recorder lias opcnel
its columns for a full and tree discussion (as to the re
moval) of the Capital queslion. The people, itaso.
demand the return of tiie Capital back to Milieus:
ville, as the best and certainly the most proper place
for legislation. Put us down as in favor of Mflledp
ville.
The Savannah Morning News says :
“The Milledgeville Union has a well-considered a:
tide ou the Capital question. We should like lo se
this matter settled. If the abie legislators who are
sent to Atlanta would eat fewer goobers and atteuu u
their business, we would soon sec whether Jklilledge
ville or Atlanta is the Capital.”
The Albany Central City says :
“We have no sort of doubt that, let the question
removal of the Capitol back to Milledgeville, conic be
fore the people in whatever shtiiie it may, and wh>|-
ever be the probably cost involved, their voice mb
be'for Removal’ by a huge majority. It is true, At
lanta is rich, and money will be made to do all it cur
in these corrupt times to prevent removal; while Mt-
ledgeville is poor, and the people also poor, and not
one dollar will be spent in promoting removal, not
withstanding, tiie fact is so glaring tiiat the interest of
the State demand it, we cannot but believe that patri
otism will triumph and the removal of the Capital baA
to its rightful seat authorized by a decided vole. VG
are for Milledgeville!”
The Brunswick and Albany Rail
road, road-bed, right-of-way, equip
ments, etc., will be sold at Brunswick
on the loth of October next.
The ex-cadets and professors of tbe
Georgia Military Academy are invited
to meet in convention at Atlanta on
the 1st of September. The railroads
will pass delegates for one fare.
Col. James Wilson, of Decatur coun
ty, says that common sheep skins
placed in corn cribs with the wool on
them, at the rate of one skin to 300
bushels, will prevent the weavil from
getting into the corn.
If any portion of the people favor Atlanta a- 5 h*
seat of government, we might reasonably look lu [
them in the counties north of Atlauta, but a promiDeo.
and reliable gentleman living in tiiat section write! W
as follows: .
“If the question of removal was submitted to tne
voters of north Georgia I know two-thirds, at !e«^
would vote for it to go back to Milledgeville. I
what I say to be so, for I have talked with them uf®
the subject. If the vote is ever taken you will
what I say to be so-”
Comparison between the Coat of the su “
Government nl Milledgeville mad All®* 1 *’
18C7 AT MILLEDGEVILLE. I 1809 AT ATLANTA.
For lights,
For fuel,
For stationery,
*l,loi e-
1,586 W
For stationery, 538- JJ
Incidental expen’s
Ex. Dep’t., !U 5JU “
$50 U0 For lights
- 360 00 For fuel.
2&> 51
Incidental expenses
Executive Dep’t, 218 80
Advertising in news
papers by Gov., 2,339 84J pers by Gov.
$3,281 15
f 40,768 H
Reasons why the Capital should te
Restored to Milledgeville.
1st. Because Milledgeville is in the center ot
St. fit6
td. The faith of the Slate was pledged that
ledgovillc should be tbe permanent Seat of uo *
meat. .,
3d. The Convention to form ft new Consuto-
wae called by the Military to meet at Atlanta
of the Capital of the State—the proper place.
4th. The people did not expect or desire tnat •
question of removal should enter into the new
tution. It was sprung by the people of Atlanta •;
the meeting of the convention, and delegates in"
midst who didn’t have money to pay their board im
pelled to pass upon it. u
5th. A large proportion of the tax payers tan" 1 ^
participate in the election for delegates—following
non-action policy of Mr. Hill. , ,
fith. The Constitution was adopted as a icaea
Military duress—when the part removing the
would have been rejected could it have been u -
upon separately. ms
7th. The expense of legislation in Atlantajisf^ ^
enormous—largely exceeding the expenditures®^.
ledgeville. In fact legislation in Atlanta has
ruined the State. . , , /wi
Sth The location and construction 0l ,i. c cen-
House is nnsnitable for a Capitol—located w ^
♦nr nf fliAi mnat nntBV nf I’iliHSnndW' COIl^trU
ter ot tbe most noisy of citiesand so eon.-'t: . ^
members cuunol hear what is going on. - ” er a
rounded by business houses there is great
destruction by fire of the public recuttu. ^ t
this building is thought to be insecure a" 1 ‘
fall and crush tiie assembled wisdom of lu« ■ ., t , or
9th. The buildings at Milledgeville "ere
State purposes, aud are suitable and ample-
10th. If the Capital remains in Atlanta a
House will be necessary; and legislation " ta |k
be controlled in the interest of Atlanta by
and ii tluence ot powerful local rings. where t*- e! -
lltii. The people have a right to sfl 7 jt Al
Capital shall be located and desire to vote up
asepaiate question.
“Mrs. Strickland, wife of Will**®
Strickland, of Wayne county, Ba-> ^
cently gave birth to three w
(males) at one birth. They ftrt “ .,
doiug well.” Yes, but how uoes
liaui feel about it?”