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VOLUME XLIV.jt
MILLED SEVILLE, GEORGIA, AUGUST 20, 1873.
NUMBER 4.
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Church Directory.
15APTIST CHURCH-
Services 1st ami -M Sundays in each month, at 11
’clock, a m and 7 pm.
Sabbath School ai 0 I-2 o'clock, a m. O. M. Cone,
Rev D E BUTLER, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Hours of service on Sunday : 11 o'clock, a m, and
7 p m
Sunday School 4 o'clock p. m. Teachers meeting 3
p. m.—\V. E Frackland, Superintendent.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7 o’clock, p m.
Rev. A J JARRELL, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Services every Sabbath at 11 o’clock, a m and 7
p. m.
Sabbath School at 3 p m. T. T. Windsor, Supt.
Prayer meeting every Friday at 4 o’clock, p m.
Rev. G. T. GOETCH1US, ,1 his tor.
TRINITY (COLORED; METHODIST CHURCH.
Hours of service on Sunday 11 o’clock, a. m., 3 p.
m. and 7 p. in.
Sunday Schuoi at 1* o'clock, a. in. T eachers meet
ing every Friday night.—Washington Phillips, Supt.
Prayer meeting every Thursday night.
Rev. E. B. OLIVER, Pastor.
Lodg'es.
TEMPERANCE.
VlillcilgoTillc ( oiincil No. 1, meets in the Seri
al.'Chamber at the State House on every Friday
evening at 7 o’clock. J. VV. 1IKRTY, W P.
F. (J. CiuhvK, Sec’y.
MASONIC.
Reaerolcnt I.oilgr No 3 F A M., meets 1st and
3d Saturday nights ol each month at Masonic Ilail.
0 I> Case, Sec’y. IRBY II HOWARD, VV M
Temple Clinplee meets the second and fourth
Saturday nights in each month.
(j D Case, Sec’y. S G WHITE, II P
tlilledgerille I.odge of Perfection
A.\ S.'. It.-, meets every Monday night.
SAM’L (4 white, t p g m
GI) Cask, Exc Grand Sec’y.
THE HTOIS V OF 1.1 I T.
Say, what is life ? ’Tis to be born,
A liopeless babe to greet the light
With a sharp wail, as if the morn
Foretold a cloudy noon and night;
To weep, to sleep, and weep again.
With sunny smiles between, and then f
And then apace the infant grows
To be a laughing, sprightly boy,
Happy, despite iiis little woes.
Were lie but conscious of his joy !
To be, in short, from two to ten, ”
A merry, moody child; and then ?
And then the coat and trowsers clad
To learn to say the Decologue,
And break it, an unthinking lad,
With mirth and mischief all agog.
A truant oft by field and fen.
And capture butterflies, and then?
Ami tlien increased instrengMi and size,
To be, anon, a youth lull grown ;
A hero in his mother’s eyes.
A young Apollo in bis own;
To imitate the ways of men
In lasliionable sin, and then ?
And then at least to be a man,
To fall in love to woo and wed !
With seething brain to scheme and plan.
To gather gold or toil for bread 1
To sue lor fame with tongue or pen.
And gain or lose the prize ; and then ?
And then in gray and wiink'ied Eld
To mourn the speed ot life’s decline ;
To praise the scenes of life behind,
And dwell in memory of Lang Syne,
To dream a while with darkened ken,
Then drop into his grave, aud then ?
The Long Branch correspondent of
the Philadelphia Press is aggrieved,
and so he or she protests against the
influence of watering place life on chil
dren, especially young girls. It is
the rule, and not the exception, to see
girls from ten to fourteen years of age
in full ball costume first on the floor in
the evening when the dancers begin,
and last to leave it, often finishing with
a supper of beefsteak, solt crabs, and
tried potatoes. Children go unattend
ed to the lunch table, dress lobsters,
m &ke ham sandwiches, order cups of
“black and green tea, well mixed and
strong,” saying sharp things to the
servants, and in all respects behaving
like men and women of society, aud
somewhat fast at that.
. Within a few months several bake
ries have been established in the capi
tal of Japan, and bread is now sold
regularly iu the streets to those wish
ing to cultivate foreign tastes. It is
sold either in loaves or iu slices, and
venders and purchasers appear to be
alike indifferent as to the lreshness of
the article. Some of the loaves ex
posed are covered with a rich green
mould, which is apparently regarded
as an adornment by the Japanese.
The slices are toasted brown, and then
eaten with the native soy. Butter is
not yet in demand among the Japan
ese, notwithstanding that there is a
targe number of cows and dairies in
Yeddo.
“The Ways of Women !” What a
a tantalizing title to those grave
chroniclers and deep-thinking disser
tators who attribute all the great
movements of history to woman’s in
fiuence! How eager will be this
large portion of mankind to plunge
into the pages of this handsome
and fascinating volume! Helen, As-
pasia, Zenobia, C leopatra, Maria, The
resa, and the long catalogue of illus
trious women’s “ ways” of modern
times, who impressed their genius in
delibly on mankind ; and the “ ways”
of the stirringly famous women of our
extremely modern days—all these
pass in review before our vision at the
very title of this book.
But the volume is cot such as
these imaginings would conjure up.
It is far more interesting, and far more
useful than any romance of the histo
ry, or history of the romance of wo
man !
The work before us is no treatise on
therapeutics; but as the learned au
thor affirms, the object of it is to ex
plain in a lucid manner how women
may improve their condition, First,
by conforming to the laws of health :
Next, how they may best be qualified
for sustaining themselves honorably
and successfully in tfieir various new
relations to society. How to arrive at
a clear elucidation of these two knot
ty problems, and obtain a successful
result, is a difficult question to answer.
In all ages, women have been de
voted votaries ot fashion in violation
of all hygienic laws. The love of
adornment may justly be termed the
ruling passion of the female sex. With
all our boasted civilization in this
thermal period of scientific light, wo
men still cling to many of the prac
tices of savages and semi-civilized na
tions. No aristocratic “golden lily’
ot the Celestial empire values her little
foot., nor more persistently compresses
it into diminutive boots, than does
our modern crop of young ladies ; and
alas, be it spoken, many old ones too
are addicted to this folly ! The Flat
head Indians do not endeavor more
systematically to fashion their heads
into an abnormal form than do our
modern esquisites of the “fair sex” by
continued lacing, to shape their waists
into waspish slenderness. As well
tell a woman to give up life as to urge
her to relinquish these unhealthy
styles of fashion aud appear in the
proportions nature gave her.
Few women have moral courage to
brave the ridicule attendant upon an
unfashionable appearance. It is ad
mitted that the sex has wondrous tor-
titude to endure suffering, and this ca
pacity gives power to the most deli
cate ladies to bear without murmur
the tortures of prolonged ill health
brought on by the demands of custom.
“Style” almost always runs coun
ter to comfort and health. American
women are celebrated for their early
beauty, early fading and short lives.
Certainly there is no reason why they
should not live healthfully to the al
lotted three score years and ten.—
There must be some ‘rot’ in the system
of dress and of self-management in its
enlarged sense, that needs reform. It
is to be hoped that the day will soon
dawn when a few sensible women will
begin this reform by discarding every
thing in fashion which is pernicious
to health. Then youth, beauty, good
temper, and good health will take the
place of lassitude, premature decrepi
tude and faded visages.
Perhaps very many of the foibles
and mal-practices of women are trace
able to their want of advantages and
status in society. Dr. Johnson, in his
great dictionary of the English lan
guage gives the definition to the word
“lexicographer,” as “a harmless
drudge.” Had he given this meaning
to the word woman he would have
been nearer right. In law, a married
woman is a nobody. Widows and spin
sters are required to pay debts, sup
port families, pay the same rates of
taxation and other legalized robberies,
or just debts, as men all over the
world. But custom debars them from
any avenues for self-support, if they be
poor, except in the over-crowded
tracks of teacher, seamstress, or boarding
house-keeper. Unfortunately these three
time-honored avenues to daily breath
!are crowded with half famished needy
seekers. Not only in the South, but
in every city in the North, may be
witnessed the picture of impoverished
woman which the fiendish Freedman-
Bureau Agent, J. W. deForrest, por
trayed a few years since in Harper’s
Magazine. “Imagine,” he says ex-
ultingly,” the indignation of a ‘fine
lady’ who must keep boarders; of
another who must go out to service
little less than menial ; of another
who must beg rations with low-down
ers and negroes !” How well the en
venomed words fit, also, the unfortu
nate of the sex of “ harmless drudges”
in Mr. DeForrest’s own native land !
Any attempt in women, particular
ly Southern women, to go beyond the
specified callings enumerated are con
sidered encroachments on masculine
territory. A dependent woman is al
most forced into servile occupation and
often where these fail, into vice, for
bread and existence. She must either
starve or consider herself fortunate to
remain a “ harmless drudge.” Even
should she be blessed by obtaining
employment, for the reason that she
is a woman she receives only a third
or a fourth the sum for a given amount
of labor that is paid to a man.
This is gross injustice; and in no
respect does society need a reform so
much as in opening modest and suita
ble avenues to female industry, mak
ing these honest labors respectable, and
giving the same wages to either sex
for the same amount of well performed
work.
« The Ways of Women” is an ad
mirable dissertation upon health laws, I a farmer. You hav’nt got a single qual-1 A Startling Discrepancy.—A
and the educational and industrial j ity to make a good farmer. In the perplexing discrepancy has been dis-
wants of women. Every mother of a
family, every woman should obtain
the work, read it carefully and observe
the hygienic rules therein explained.
Many sensible women violate health-
laws in their own and their children’s
training from ignorance; and we re
commend the “ Ways of Women” to
their earnest consideration. We quote
words of a most celebrated writer
who says : “ Some books are to be
tasted, others to be swallowed, and
some few to be chewed and digested.”
This work contains 491 handsome
pages on tinted paper, published by
John P. Jewett & Co., No. 5 Dey St.,
New York. Every one s.hould read it
for “ there is wisdom in it beyond
the rules of Physic,” to quote a most
apposite expression c>f Lord Bacon.
Mary Faith Floyd.
I? rora the Rural Carolianian.
Why Sam* Simpson Sold Out.
The following account of the causes
which led to the emigration of one of
the guerillas of American agriculture
are instructive. We hope and be
lieve that the picture here so graphi
cally put into words will not be re
cognized as a likeness of any read
er of the Rural Carolinian, all of
whom we are willing to assume, are
too sensible to “sell out” for similar
reasons:
My neighbor Sam. Simpson has
sold out and is going West. There has
been a plain, honest, industrious, eco
nomical German—Hans Leibenstein—
hanging around Simpson for some
time trying to purchase his farm. At
last Hans got it. Simpson thinks he
sold it at a bargain. Doubtless Ilans
thinks he got it at a bargain. I had
an errand down to Simpson’s the other
night. I had not heard that he had
sold his farm; but upon my entrance
into the house, I saw by the look on
the faces of the family that some unu
sual excitement was animating them.
“Well, Crumple, you’re going to
loose me for a neighbor,” was Simp
son’s first words, after I had got set
tled in the splint-bottom chair his
daughter Sally handed me; and the
whole Simpson family looked at me as
if they expected I would jump out
of that chair on account of the news,
with a suddenness and force only
equalled by an explosion of nitro
glycerine under me, but I didn’t. I
simply asked, “How’s that?” “I’ve
sold.” “Sold what?” “The farm.”
To whom ?” “Hans.” That was
the whole story I didn’t need any
further explanation ; but Simpson
proceeded to say:
“You see the old farm is complete
ly run out. I can’t make the two
ends meet the best of years. I’ve got
tired tumbling around among the
stones, and I’m going where there’s
some virgin soil that will produce
something. So I struck up a trade
with Hans. He lias been after it, off'
an on, for a year or more. I wanted
S40 per acre for the old place. He of
fered me $25. Finally, he offered me
$30; and, after considering the subject,
first place you detest the business; you
don’t take any pride or interest in it;
you don’t care whether your land im
proves under cultivation or not; you
want to get all off it you can without
taking the trouble to pay anything
back; you skin it year after year, and
cry out against the season; you de
nounce every man you deal with as a
sharper or swindler, because you do
not get the prices for your products
other people do, and yet you do not
seem to know that the reason is that
your products are poor in quality, aud
put on the market in miserable shape;
your stock has beeu running down
ever since your father died; you have
not built anew fence and scarcely re
paired an old one; your manure has
not been hauled out and judiciously
used on the farm; your pigs have
bothered your neighbors more titan
they have benefited you; your cattle
have become breachy and I have had
to shut them up in my stable in order
to keep them out of my grain; you
have distributed from your fence corn
ers more weed seeds than any farmer I
know of, and thus given your tidy
neighbors more trouble than your fa
vors to them would compensate. In
short, it is time for you to move. You
ought to have a virgin farm ! It will
take you but a few years to strip it of
its fertility; then you’ll have to move
again, and keep moving. You belong
to a very large class of farmers who
are a curse to any country. The fact
is you are not, never was, and never
will be a farmer in the right sense of
that word. You are only a guerilla.
You live by robbery—robbery of the
soil. And it is not right, neighbor
Simpson. You had better seek some
other vocation now that you’ve got
the cash to start with. You like
horses; you know horses; you can talk
horses from daylight till dark; you
can’t be fooled with horses; you like
to trade horses; you had better go into
some smart town and start a livery
stable. You’ll make money at it;
you’ll never make money farming;
you’ll grow poorer and poorer the
longer you attempt it.”
Just then Sally Simpson clapped
her hands and said: “That’s so, father!
Have’nt I told you so? - Mother and I
have often talked it over, Mr. Crum
ple, and you are just as right as can
be; and father knows it too if he would
only say so. I know you too weli
(and you’ve done us too many kindnes
ses for us to forget them,) to believe
that you have talked to father in
the way you have out of any unkind
feeling. It is true, every word of it,
father, anti you ought to thank neigh
bor Crumple for talking just as he
thinks; I do; and I don’t think a bit
the less of him either.”—New York
Tribune.
covered in the official statement pub
lished of the amount of gold in the
Treasury on June 30, 1S73. It ap
pears that on that date the Secretary’s
report of the condition of the national
finances represented the amount of
gold on hand as $37,-507,402. It has
leaked out that the actual amount
was but $71,409,230, making a deficit
of $10,407,412. This discovery has
created considerable excitement in fi
nancial and official circles. There are
but four persons in the department
who are allowed to know what the
actual amount of coin on hand is. At!
investigation is now making to discov
er how this secret got out.
Here we have a reassuring evidence
of national book keeping. Ten mil
lions in gold missing from the Treas
ury vaults, and the Secretary repre
senting it in his possession. It is not
the error which takes away the breath,
but wherein the name of the ten mil
lions has this trifling sum been stored
away? If the Secretary cannot tell,
who can?—Advertiser Sf Republican.
Perils of Traveling Across the
Continent.—An overland traveller
writes to a Milwaukee paper long
complaints of the dangers incurred
from gamblers, thieves and despera
does throughout the entire journey.
He says:
“ Their operations cover the whole
field; spotters dog the steps of per
sons leaving San Francisco, and by
means of the telegraph and other
agencies only known to the initiated,
the desperadoes along the line are ad
vised of any ‘game’ that may be pass
ing over the road. One gang, num
bering from four to ten, usually ride
only from one station to another, when
they are relieved by others, one, how
ever, remaining quietly on board all
the time for observation.”
THE CAPITAL QUESTION.
Opinions of the Fress.
A Tribute to Ex-Governor Johnson
By a Macon Ladv.
Editors Telegraph. (.)' Messenger :
I had the pleasure, very recently of
spending a night with ex-Governor
Johnson, where I was shown an elegant
I told him I would take it if he would present to him from a lady of your
pay me cash down. Had’nt any idea
he would do it; but he said if I would
throw in the stock and farm imple
ments he thought he could raise the
money. I finally told him I would;
and what do you think, sir? He
hauled out of his greasy old pants
pocket a $1,000 bill and handed it to
me to bind the bargain, and said as
soon as the papers were receipted he’d
pay me the balance, which he has done
to-day. I feel kind of sorry to part
with the old place; but the thing is
done and there’s an end on’t! What
dy’e think?”
All this time my Crumple nature
had been rising within me like an in
spiration. Here was this man Simp
son who inherited this farm—one of
the finest in the neighborhood—who
had skinned it without scruple until
it would scarcely raise white beans
under his system of treatment. And
he had got to leave, or mortgage the
the farm of his ancestors to live on.
Then here was Hans, who came in
to the neighborhood with his frau five
years before, with only * his wife’s
strong and willing hands, economy and
industry. They had rented a worn-
out farm which they had finally pur
chased and paid for, and had saved
$3,000, with which to pay for
Simpson’s 100 acres. So in answer to
“What dy’e think?” I was ready to
respond; and did it in this wise:
“What do I think ? I’m glad you’re
going neighbor Simpson ! I’m glad
Hans has got the farm. He deserves
it, you don’t. He has got brains aud
industry; you have’nt got either. Un
der your management the farm is a
disgrace to the neighborhood; Hans
will make it a credit. Your farm ly
ing next to mine depreciates the value
of my land ten per cent; the same land
owned by Hans will add to the value
of mine 20 per cent. I shall be the
richer for your going and the poorer
for your staying. I am glad you’re
going.”
You should have seen Simpson’s and
his family’s faces. They grew cloudy
and long. Indeed, I believe they be
gan to scowl at me. Simpson said :
“You’re pretty rough on an old
neighbor, Crumple, now that he is go
ing. I thought you and I had always
been friends. I’ve tried to be a good
and accommodating neighbor. You’ve
been a good one to me, and I’m sorry
to leave you; bat if you’re glad I’m
going, I’m not sorry either.”
■“Simpson,” I said, “let us under
stand each other. As a neighbor, so
far as neighborly intercourse is con
cerned, I’ve no fault to find, and am
sorry you are going. In talking about
you as a farmer, you are and always
have been a poor one. No man with
such a farm as yours ought to want
to sell—at least there ought to be no
necessity for selling. But you are not
city, Mrs. John B. Ross, which does
honor to her taste, her liberality, and
her patriotism. It consists of a mag*
nificent silver ice pitcher, water bowl,
goblets, and waiter. It is in compli
ment of the sentiment offered by him
at a Bar-dinner given him on the 15th
of June last, in Macon, an dintended to
perpetuate that sentiment in enduring
form. The sentiment is: “Georgia”
—“In her prosperity her smiles would
deck an angel’s brow; in adversity her
tears would not stain an angel’s cheek.”
It is beautifully engraved on the
pitcher.
The incident is honorable to both
parties. The Governor fully appreci
ates the compliment, and the more be
cause it is a tribute from a lady whose
personal acquaintance he has never
had the pleasure to enjoy. He says
it shall be an “heir loom” in his fami
ly, and truly, it is worthy such dis
tinction.
This noble recognition of the worth
of Gov. Johnson is not only gratifying
to him, but it commends the fair do
nor to the admiration of all-true Geor
gians, as it challenges the special grat
itude of the people of Jefferson couu-
ty, by whom he is cherished and es
teemed for his private virtue and his
public service. G. T. P.
Jefferson county, Ga., Aug. 9, ’73
The Georgia Agricultural Convention—The
Patron* of Husbandry.
[Special to the Telegraph and Messenger.]
Athens, Ga., August 12, 1S73.
The convention met in the College
Chapel at ten o’clock this morning.
Gen. A. II. Colquitt opeued the cere
monies by delivering a most admirablo
address. He was enthusiastically cheer
ed by the convention.
Hon. Ben. C. Yancey occupied the
rest of the morning in an address re
lative to the management of the fi
nances of the club under bis presiden
cy- ,
After dinner there was au essay by
Col. D. E. Butler, as to how to pre
vent the emigration of the negro. This
essay provoked a lengthy and funny
discussion. Lundy, from Bibb, was
the funniest man that spoke.
There are large numbers of dele
gates here and more are expected to
morrow. Governor Smith is expected
this evening at 8 o’clock.
To-night the members of the State
Grange meet at the Phi Kappa hall.
Only those who have taken the fourth
degree will be admitted.
The convention meets again to-mor
row, when there will be more essays
and discussions.
Have you ever heard of an old “bum
mer” who was not the “smartest man
in town if he’d only let liquor alone?”
A Bankrupt World.—France is at
the head of the list of public debts,
with a burden of $5,000,000,000; the
sad legacy of the German conflict.
Great Britain follows with $3,750,-
000,000, and the United States comes
third with a debt of over $2,000,000,-
000. The aggregate public debts of
all the governments of the world
amount to the enormous sum of $20,-
000,000,000, a figure so vast as to be
almost incomprehensible. If a man
were to count it as rapidly as he
could handle it, dollar by dollar, he
would not finish in fifteen centuries.
When we come to add to this the
debts of States, provinces, municipali
ties, villages, corporations and indi
viduals, we have a mountain of debt
perfectly appalling. And the worst
of it is, that, though nations and indi
viduals are bankrupt, they are going
on piling up more liabilities year af
ter year. Wealth, which is the pro
duct of labor is completely outstrip
ped in the race. Some day this enor
mous dubble will burst. Then comes
the deluge.
A House Built in a Day.
The newspapers of Lancaster, Penn.,
publish an account of the building of
a brick dwelling house in that city
in ten and a half hours, the materials
having been prepared and collected
on the site previous to the commence
ment. The house is twenty feet by
thirty on the ground floor, two sto
ries in height, and contains eight
rooms. There .were in all upward of
one hundred workmen employed.
The cellar foundation was already laid,
and at precisely 6 o’clock Friday morn
ing the men went to work. The Ex
aminer thus describes the labor:
“Mr. J. T. Reading, photographer,
was present with his photographic
apparatus, and took views every fif
teen minntes of tho building and the
workmen while in motion, which, of
course, produced some ridiculous pic
tures—men, white and colored, in
almost every position, are to be seen
represented. At 8 o’clock a. m., the
structure was advanced to the height
of one story, with two floors—ground
and second—laid, partition in, and
lathed and partly plastered, doors
hung, stairways up, and a view taken
with the doctor in the midst of his
workmen. The scene is a busy and
comic one—the bricklayers erecting
scaffolding for the second story. Ten
o’clock a. m., view taken of western
front on Prince street; second story
brick work two-third3 up, with car
penters ready to lay the floor, and
plasterers commence lathing; western
front painted and brick penciled on
first story, and masons run short of
brick and then some delay in conse
quence, but it was remedied in a short
while.
Eleven o’clock a. m., the bricklay
ers are up to square of ceiling for third
floor, with corners raised to the height
required to receive the rafters for roof
ing. Tinners waiting. The process
of white coating is now about com
pleted in the first story. 11:18 a. m.,
first rafter for the roof laid. At 11*21
the last brick was placed upon the
chimneys, aud the bricklayers are done.
Roof sheathed and tinners begin to lay
roofing. 12:50 scaffolds all removed
from building. 2:30 p. M., sash in win
dows of first story and painters finish
ed up; washboards down and rubbish
cleaned away. At this writing the
tinners are leaving the building; roof
ing and spouting completed. Plaster
ers still at work in the second story.
The building has been insured, and in
the course of a few hours will be ready
for a tenant.”
The Macnn Telegraph and Messenger says :
‘ The retrieval of the Capital from Atlanta to its
ancient site, the geographical centre of the State, will
coutinue to be agitated nntil the question is finally dis
posed of at the ballot box. The change was made
not at the instance of the people, bnt as one of a se
ries of wrongs and usurpations inflicted jointly by
Federal satraps and a fraudulently chos9u carpet-bag
Legislature. _ Georgia never will be herself again un
til s!ie repudiates and spits upon every such act of un
authorized sovereignty and domination.
The present Radical Constitution cunningly pro
vides that the seat of government cannot be again
removed save by a change in the fundamental law.—
This can only be effected by a Convention of the peo
ple. There are several features in the Constitution
repugnant to jnstice and equity, which need modifica
tion. Let us have a Convention, therefore, and care
fuliy go over the work again, making such change!
as experience would indicate, among them the sub
mission of the Capital question to the people.
That the calling of this convention is desired by the
masses is beyond question. But here is where tho shoe
pinches. The members of the General Assembly are
hosen for two years. Now, if a convention is called
they may change the Constitution and order a new
eleoiion within thirty days. This would leave the
present Legislature out in the cold, and they don’t
like it. One very prominent member who lavors the
removal of the Capital back to Milledgeville, fiankly
said, “I can’t vote for the mea.-ure, however, be
cause my seat cost me six hundred dollars, aud so far
I have received not half of that amount." It is
therefore a question of dollars and cents with the ‘ins’
who don't like to be ‘out.’ Yet we are nssured that
(4,500 will cover the per diem, mileage, clerk hire,
and all other expenses of a convention during u fifteen
days session.
Our readers may not be aware the OLD OPERA
HOUSE DON'T BELONG TO THE STATE —
Four hundred and titty thousand dollars have beeu
paid for it, shaky and hermaphroditic as it is, but a
mortgage for $6U,000 still hangs over it, which with
accruing interest will amount to near $100,1)00. Now
when the question comes up, which must be at the
next session of the Legislature, whether this mort
gage should be paid off, then will be a fitting time to
press the claims of Milledgeville. The Kimball cou-
eern—holf hotel, half theatre—is known to be uusafe
and must eventually be torn down to mnke room for
a more suitable edifice. Why then subject our people
to the enormous expense and increased taxation winch
will be needful in the premises, when the State now
owns a commodious State house, executive mansion,
etc-, situated almost at its geographical cen're. We
repeat, the Capital question never can be settled until
the verdict of the people is known at the ballot-box.’’
The Macon Enterprise says:
“As we gazed upon the massive structure [old State
House.] we wondered what caused the removal of the
Capital from this beautiful and retired place, where
everything is quiet, aud thinking time is allowed to
men who have the law making of our gl rious old
State, and we hope ere long to see Milledgeville tho
Capital of our State again.”
The Athens Watchman says:
“Without the least feeling against Atlanta, but on
the contrary, with the kindest regard for her citizens
and an honest pride in her most remarkable caieer,
we believe that the question of the location of the cap
ital should be submitted to the people fairly and
squarely, as a naked issue. It cannot be pretended
that this was done under the Constitution of 1868. Let
it be fairly submitted now, aud 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-
ditiou and other considerations, they prefer Milledge
ville, let it be restored by all means
All the talk about the old capitol building, Execu
tive mansion, Slc., being inadequate to the wants of
the State, is the sheerest humbug. Very few of the
States have buildings equal to that old capitol. It was
admirably adapted to the purpose for which it was
intended. It may need some repairs. This may also
be true with regard to other public buildings. With
these repairs, they would answer all practical parpo-
ses for a quarter of a century to coine—by which time
our people would be able to incur the expense of
erecting new ones, if deemed desirable. We are cer-
taiuly iu no condition now to undertake a task requi
ring such heavy expenditures
North and South Carolina, and Tennessee, it is true,
have finer capitois than our time-honored edifice at
Milledgeville, but they cost from one and a half to
three million dollars each, and we believe those at
Nashville and Columbia are still unfinished. Are our
people ready now to commence such an undertaking.'
The Rome Courier says:
“Now and then we scent upon the newspaper breeze
a whiff of excitement and discontent among the peo
ple relative to the location of the State Capitol. The
people of Georgia have so long and so lovingly re
garded Milledgevide as the true heart ot the State
that the violence which tore it away and fixed it in
a puddle of fraud in Atlanta, can never be thought
kindly of and acquiesced iu by them.
Though not claiming to be part of the “balance of
the press of Atlanta and her suburbs,’’ we do not hes
itate to give our voice for the restoration of the Cap
ital to Milledgeville, its proper and only legitimate
site. The Capital buildings are already there, sell the
buildings in Atlanta, and apply the money to the ex-
of the restoration."
pense t
The Temperance Watchman, of Griffin, says :
“We say let the Capital go back to Milledgeville by
all means. It will complete our political regeneration.
Let us wipe out all vestsge of Bullock's frauds upon
our people.
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel says there are
but two ways by which the Capitol can be removed
from Atlanta back to Milledgeville. One is by a two
thirds vote of two successive egislatnres, the other by
a Constitutional Convention. It says that if 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 has opened
its columns for a full and free discussion (as to the re
moval) of the Capital question. The people, it says,
demand the return of tne Capital back to Milledge
ville, as the best and certainly the most proper place
for legislation. Put us down as in favor of Milledge
ville.
The Savannah Morning News says:
“The Milledgeville Union has a well-considered ar
tide on the Capital question. We should like to see
this matter settled. If the able legislators who are
sent to Atlanta would eat fewer goobers and attend to
their business, we would soon see whether Milledge
ville or Atlanta is the Capital.”
The Albany Central City says :
“We have no sort of doubt that, let the quection of
removal of the Capitol back to Milledgeville, come be
fore the people in whatever shape it may, and what
ever be the probably cost involved, their voice wd.
be ‘for Removal’ by a large majority. It is true, At
lanta is rich, and money will be made to do all it can,
in these corrupt times to prevent removal; while Mil-
ledgevd.'e is poor, and the people also poor, and not
one dollar will be spent in promoting removal; not
withstanding. the fact is so glaring tlial the interest ol
the State demand it, we cannot but believe that patri
otism will triumph and the removal of the Capital back
to its rightful seat authorized by a decided vote. We
are for Milledgeville!”
APPLICATION FOE CHARTER.
STATE OF GEORGIA. »
County of Baldwin. )
To Ike Honorable, the Superior Court of raid County.
P. M. Compton, 1’. T. Windsor, R. L. Ilnnter, A.
Joseph, C. H. Wright, J. M. Clark, F. B. Mapp,
all citizens of said State and County, together
with others, their associates, respectfully apply
for a Charter incorporating them and their suc
cessors as a body politic and corporate, under the
came and style of The Milledgeville Banking and Ix>an
Association, with power by th>s name to sue and bo
sued, to have and use a common seal should they so
desire, to hold such real estate or other proper ty as may
be conveyed, or mortgaged, or pledged to said Associa
tion. and adopt such a Constitution and By-Laws, ami
amendments thereof, as they may deem advisable and
proper to carryout tho objects of this Association: tho
nature mid objects of which Association, and the par
ticular business they propose to carry on being as fol
lows :
ARTICLE L
The object of the Association shall be the accumula
tion ot a fund by weekly subscriptions, or savings of
the members thereof, to aid them in their business,
aud the purchase, improvement, sale and leasing of
laud, and the loaning of money to its members, or oth
ers, upon mortgage of real, or pledge of personal prop
erty.
ARTICLE II.
Tr.e number of shares in the Association .hall not ex
ceed one thousand, and the Directors may limit tha
number to two hundred aud fitly, or any greater num
ber not exceeding one thousand, and said shares shall
constitute the capital stock of said Association.
ARTICLE III.
Each stockholder shall pay into the treasury of the
Association, iu par fuuds, one dollar each week on each
share lie or she holds, until the value of such share
from said payments, aud the oarmngs upon the same
haii be One Hundred Dollars.
ARTICLE IV.
The affairs of the Association shall be managed by a
Board of seven Directors, < lected by ballot from the
tockholdeisof the Association, which election shall
take place on tlie first Tuesday in January for each
year after the year 1873, for within twenty days there
after, by giving ten days' notice iu some paper in tho
city of Milledgeville,] aad said Directors shall continue
in office until their successors are chosen amt qualified.
The Board of Directors shall elect from their number
President aud Vice President, whose duties shall be
specified iu the By-Laws of the Association. A major*
ity ot said Directors shall have power to act at all
meetings and fill any vacancy that may occur in the
Board. Each stockholder shall vote in persou, or by
proxy under written power of attorney, and be en
titled to one vote for every share he may hold; but
no stock shall be voted which may be in urreara
for installments, fines, or other dues, uutil such ar
rears are paid up in full: The election for Directors
for tho year 1874 shall be held within six months
after this char'er is granted, notice of the time and
place of said election briDg given in soul: paper in
the city of Milledgeville.
ARTICLE V.
The Board of Directors shall have full power to em
ploy all officers uud agents that may be necessary to
transact the bu.-iness of the Association, and to fix
their compensation; to dismiss them, ami to take bond
from persons so appointed for the faithful execution of
their duties.
ARTICLE VI.
All dividends upon each share shall attach to tho
same, until the value of said share shall be One Hun
dred Dollars.
ARTICLE VII.
All obligations aud evidences of indebtedness by
the Association sha'l be in writing, and be signed by
the President, Treasurer and one member of the Fi
nance Committee, and sealed with the seal of the As
sociation, if so required by the by-laws.
ARTICLE VIII.
No member shall be allowed to withdraw from the
Association during the continuance of the same, ex
cept uudersuch luies as shall be made and provided
therefor in the By-Laws of the Association. The legal
representatives of a deceased member may continue
his or her relation to the Association, or may be set
tied with on the same terms as are prescribed tor ]a
withdrawing member. Transfers and sales of tho
shares in the Association may be made upon such
terms and in such maneer as shall be prescribed in
the By-Laws of the Association.
ARTICLE IX.
The By-Laws of the Association shall be binding
upon all the members, and the Associa’ion shall have
power to enforce the payment of all installments, and
other dues to the Association from its members by sucli
tines and forfeitures as the Directors may, from time to
time, provide in their By-Laws-
ARTICLE X.
This Association may be dissolved at any time by a
two-thirds vote of its stock to surrender its Charter,
after sixty days notice, in some paper iu the city of
Miiledgeville of such intention to close.
Said Association desires to transact business and
have its principal office in the city of Milledgeville and
said county. They desire to be incorporated for tha
term of twenty years. Wherefore your petitioners
pray that an order be granted by this Court, incorpor
ating them as aforesaid, in terms of the law.
P M. COMPTON, C. H. WRIGHT.
T. T. WINDSOR, J. M. CLARK,
R. L. HUNTER, F. B. MAPP.
A. JOSEPH,
Filed and recorded in office this July 20th, 1873.
P. L. FAIR, Clerk S. C.
July 30, 1873. i&t.
The Siamese twins have had better
health this summer than for a long
time past. Both were recently sum-
moned as jurors.
Alexander P. Jordan, the oldest Mason
in the United States, died last Sunday
at Paterson, Ky., in the 77th year of
his age.
If any portion of the people favor Atlanta as the
seat of government, we might reas urn My look for
them in the counties north of Atlanta, but a prominent
aud reliable gentleman living in that section writes us
as follows:
“If the question of removal was submitted to the
voters of north Georgia I know two-th:rJs, at least,
would vote for it to go back to Milledgeville. I know
whut I say to be so, for I have talked with them upon
the subject. If the vote is ever taken you will find
what I say to be so-"
CompariMn between the <’•*» of the Mtnle
Government at .llilledgeville and Atlanta.
1867 AT M1LLKOGXV1LLE. ] 186S1 AT ATLANTA.
For lights, - $001’0 For lights - $1,107 62
For fuel, - • 360 00,For fuel. - 1,586 40
For stationery, 282 51'For stationery, 5 382 49
Incidental expenses
Executive Dep’t, 218 80
Advertising in news
papers by Gov., 2,330 81
$3,281 15
Incidental expen's
Ex. Dep’t., 11,45 >00
Adv’tising in pa
pers by Gov., 27,191 59
$16,768 10
Reasons why the Capital should be
Restored to BKilledgeville.
1st Because Milledgeville is ia the center of the
State.
: d. The faith of the State was pledged that Mil
ledgeville should be the permanent Seat of Govern
ment.
3d. The Convention to lorm a new Constitution
was called by the Military to meet at Atlanta instead
of the Capital of the State—the proper place.
•lth. The people did not expect or desire that the
question of removal should enter into the new Consti
tution. It was sprung by the people of Atlanta after
the meeting of the convention, aud delegates in their
midst who didn’t have money to pay their board com
pelled to pass upon it.
5th. A large proportion of the tax payers failed to
participate iu the election for delegates—following the
non-action policy of Mr. Hill.
6th. The Constitution was adopted at a whole uuder
Military duress—when the part removing the Capital
would have been rejected could it have been voted
upon separately.
7th. Tne expense of legislation id Atlanta has been
enormous—largely exceeding the expenditures in Mil
ledgeville. Id fact legislation in Atlanta has well-nigh
ruined the State.
8th. The location and construction of the Opera
House ia unsuitable for a Capitol—located in the cen
ter ot the most noisy of cities anil so constructed that
members cannot hear what is going on. Being sur
rounded by business houses there is great danger of
destruction by fire of the publio records. Besides
this building is thought to be insecure and liable to
fall aud crush the assembled wisdom of the State.
9th. The buildings at Milledgeville were built for
State purposes, and are suitable and ample.
10th, If the Capital remains in Atlanta a new State
House will be necessary; and legislation will always
be controlled in the interest of Atlanta by the wealth
and influence of powerful local rings.
11th. The people have a right to say where their
Capital shall be located and desire to vote upon it as
a separate question.
ERPR1SE
The only Reliable Gift Distribution in the country!
f 50,000, 00
IN VALUABLE OirZS I
To be distributed in
Ia. ID. SINE’S
103rd REGULAR MONTHLY,
Grift Enterprise,
To be Draws .Holiday, Sept. 15lh, 1S73
ONE GRAND CAPITAL PRIZE OF
$5,000 IU GOLD Z
Dvo Prizes of 5L.000- ( ffTPPnKGpIrG
TWO Prizes of S500 | J UICClIUdtft.5>.
Five Prizes of $100 (
One Family Carriage and .Vlatclied Horae*
vvaih iNiirer-.Mounted Hnrnru, worth 81,-
500
One Horse & Buggy, with Milvcr snonnted
llurnra*, worth IhtfOO.
One Fiuc-tonril Hosewood Pinna, worth
8300:
Fire Fuutily Sewing -Machines worth 9100
each ’.
T50 Gold and Silver Ixcer Hunting Watches, in all,
worth from $20 to $30U each.
Gold Chains, Silver-ware, Jewelry, &c., &c.
Whole number Gifts 6,001)! Tickets limited to
50,000,
Agents Wanted to sell Tickets, to
whom Liberal Premiums will be paid.
Single Tickets $1; Six Tickets $5 ;
Twelve Tickets$10; Twenty-Five $20.
Circulars containing a full list of prizes, a de
scription of tbe manner of drawing, and other in.
formation iu reference to the Distribution, will be
sent to any oue ordering them. All letters must
be addressed to ___
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Aug. 1873. 49 5t
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tion guaranteed or money refunded. Address
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Jhly i, 1873. 49 4m
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COTTON FACTORS,
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—AND—
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NO. 14 JACKSON STREET,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Beg to aonoaocd that they have a commodioiut
Fire-Proof Warehouse, and are prepared to make
liberal cash advances on Cotton and other Produce,
BAGGING and TIES always on hand.
RP Commission for selling Cotton, $1 per bale.
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