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THE IINIOiT & RECORDER.
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Federal Union'
MZKLEDaSVZUB, OA:
Wednesday, September 17, 1873.
‘‘Iiand and Labor.”
The next issue of the Union & Re
corder, (Sept. 24,) will contain the
great speech of Col. Wm. McKinley,
delivered before the Georgia State Ag
ricultural Society, at Athens, on the
14th of August last. If the plan pro
posed by Col. McKinley can be brought
into practical use 4 will be better lor
the white man aud for the black mau
than the present unsettled and unsat
isfactory labor system. This impor
tant subject will, doubtless, engage
the attention of the next Legislature,
and in the meantime it should be dis
cussed and receive the thoughtful at
tention of the people ; and the mem
bers of the Legislature should go to
Atlanta with well considered opinions
on this, and every other important sub
ject, for in the confusion of the so
called Capital they do not have time
for thought, and many of them readily
fall into the plans suggested and en
forced by lobbyists. This question of
“Labor” and the calling of a Consti
tutional Convention will be the lead
ing and all-important subjects for the
action of the General Assembly, and
members should seek to find out the
will of their constituents and mark
out their course of action before going
to Atlanta.
In our opinion the negroes are the
best laborers that can ever be obtain
ed for the cotton-fields of the South,
and we are pleased to see that lead
ing minds of the country a’re engaged
in solving the problem as to how they
can best be made contented and happy,
honest and prosperous. Whether the
plan proposed by Col. McKinley is the
best that can be devised or not, is for
the consideration of the country.—
While there are various plans to en
courage emigration and white labor,
this is the only one proposed looking
to the permanent settlement of the
negro in comfortable homes—and this,
may be rejected by the colored race
simply because the plan did not orig
inate with them.
But we believe that the colored
people may rest assured that what
ever action may be taken by the Le
gislature it will look to the bettering
of their condition. They form so large
a poftion of our population and the
prosperity of the whites is so inti
mately connected with the improve
ment in morals and happy, satisfied
condition of the blacks, that every en
couragement will be offered them to
improve their condition.
We will publish a large number of
extra copies of our next issue contain
ing Col. McKinley’s speech, and will
have them for sale at this office at five
cents per copy.
Political Sivns of the Times.
Within a few days elections have
been held in Maine and California, and
other movements in several other
States have taken place, which indi
cate the drift of public sentiment. In
Maine the Radical Governor has been
elected, but by a majority of more than
five thousand votes less than at the
last election. In California the Radi
cal party backed up by the formidable
inlluenceof the Pacific Railroad has
been defeated by the people’s ticket,
and in all probability the election of a
United States Senator opposed to the
national administration secured. In
Massachusetts, Gen. Buttler, the ad
ministration candidate for Governor
has been defeated. This, although not
a Democratic victory, is clearly an
administration defeat. Gen. Butler was
not only the favorite candidate of Gen.
Grant but his nomination was violent
ly urged, and pushed forward by all of
the Federal officers in the State, and
their interference was so vigorous as
to call forth the rebuke and protest of
several of the ablest Republican pa
pers ill the State. This contest in
Massachusetts, has opened the eyes of
many of the strongest Republicans
to Gen. Grant’s unwarranted inter-
ferance in local elections and his many
infringments upon States rights. This
division in the ranks of Massachusetts
than others, or Lave they come to the
conclusion that 4hey have no rights
left which their Representaves are
bound to respect? Or have they set
tled down under the conviction that
Congressmen have a right to take all
they can get and keep all they can ?
We Don’t Believe It.—We don’t
believe the report from Washington
that a duel is imminent between Gov.
Smith and Ex-Gov. Johnson. We
don’t believe it, because-we believe
both gentlemen have too much sense
to engage in such tomfoolery. . There
was a time when men could gain
popularity by fighting duels, but that
is past. Duels now turn Qut a tragedy
or a farce. If neither get hurt the
parties are laughed at. If one kills
the other, one is considered a martyr
and the other a murderer. Very little
encouragement to fight under such
circumstances, and we believe the two
gentlemen named have too much
sense to engage in such a losing busi
ness.
Antiquities of Georgia.
C. C. Jones, Jr., G1 Wall St. N. Y.,
is the author of the excellent volume
on the Antiquities of Georgia recently
published. He proposes to issue an
enlarged edition of his book. We sug
gest to persons having Indian remains
suen as arrow-points, pottery, stone
hatchets, pipes, &c. of the ancient
Indians, to forward them to Mr. Jones,
who is a Georgian, and is seeking to
illustrate, by his learning and research,
the archieology of his native State.
The Cheap Transportation Ques
tion.—The agitation of the cheap
transportation question, which has at
last settled down in New York, has
developed into a serious matter for
that city. It is shown by the discus
sion there on Wednesday that New
York is gradually losing her trade
through the activity of railroad lines
South leading from the West to the
sea. The main practical idea in the
resolutions passed by the meeting was
in favor of the multiplication of dou
ble track railroads, but it is reported
Vanderbilt, to save his road and New
York city, designs building already a
four track road on the line of the Cen
tral, and there is a Strong seutirnent in
New York in favor of the Govern
ment building a through four track
line to Chicago and St. Louis and
renting it to private parties,the eastern
terminus of course being New York.
Should the step last mentioned be se
riously urged, the Baltimore Sun
thinks other cities will be heard from.
The country is growing, and the great
cities are growing, and the time has
ceased to be when one city can dic
tate the commercial destinies of the
whole people.
Hon. A. H. Stephens.—A corres
pondent of the Baltimore Gazette,
writing from Marietta, Ga., to that
paper, says: “Mr. Stephens has been
on a visit to the up-country. I had
the pleasure of dining with him at the
house of an old friend a few days since.
He is very bright and cheerful, and
full of hope for the future. He re
peats what Mr. Jenkins so well said,
“a Constitution disregarded is not a
Constitution overthrown.” He thinks
the people will yet see that their only
hope is in the principles of the Jeffer
sonians. Ilis estimate of Grant as a
man is higher than the average opin
ion. He is in good health compara
tively, lives on tea and crackers, and
weighs ninety-seven pounds.”
Charleston.—According to the
figures given by the News Courier, as
compared with the results of 1S70,
Charleston is the only port that gains
relatively in crop figures. At the out
break of the war the cotton receipts
for the last year of peace were 500,-
000 bales, but for the first year after
the war they were only 112,000 bales.
Now they foot up 305,000, or more
than a three-fold gain, and a gain of
59,000 bales over the receipts of last
year. In other commodities an ad
vance equally creditable and encour
aging has been made.
Fur f be motr'Jlt Rnorlor.
To the Good Templars of Georgia.
Brothers:—Oar G. W. C. T v has
proclaimed an imperative necessity,
for our secession from the I. O. G- T.
of the world. They have ‘broken'' the
promises madq\is last yaar, by their
Executive'Committee, and imposed
the alternative-of separation, or social
equality with negroes, in the Order.
The G. W.C. T. is right. We must
secede. What then? ’ Shall we retain
the “name and ceremonial” of the Or
der, that outraged us ? These things
emanate from their supreme head and
are theirs. Have we the right to re
tain them ? Have we the heart to
hug these mementoes of insult ? Away
with them!
What then ? Shall we try to stand
alone ? Is tha£ practicable, and will
it best promote reform ? Our breth
ren of North Carolina will scout eve
ry vestige of the odious thing. Ken
tucky will not stand with us, nor Ala
bama. We will have no brethren out
side of Georgia. In Georgia, our
brethren are divided. A part already
have their standard afloat, with
splendid prospects. They call us to
them, to possess our own. We, the
other half, are like sheep without a
shepherd. Even with all the moral
comfort of a “Universal Order,” we
scarce held our own. Deprived of
this, as we now are, we must wane
into an insignificant faction, if we re
fuse to assimilate. Let us accede,
then, to that basis of union—that neu
tral ground, on which all Southern
Temperance Orders may meet, with
out compromise of principle, feeling,
self-respect, or efficiency in the Tem
perance work. Seven or eight Orders
have already adhered. Rehaveape-
culiar right to a place there, for our
brethren, Georgia Good Templars,
first surveyed and occupied it for them
and for us. Georgia Good Templars
first reared their banner upon it, and
called to us, and others to follow and
occupy* The scheme was born of our
own body, and experience has shown
its wisdom, and benevolence aud ex
pediency. A hundred thousand South
ern men and women bear it up. True-
ly that, that only is our place. Let
us shun the perils of a lingering transi
tion, its oonfusion and uncertainties
But, with steady front, unbroken
ranks and discipline unimpaired, let
us close up the gap, that lately yawn
ed between us and our brothers, who
went before to prepare our ways.
If we are really Temperance peo
ple, desiring the success of the reform
above a mere childish esprit du corps,
there is no other rational course left
us. And what glorious anticipations
loom up in the near future, as fruits of
this combination! The whole grand
Temperance army of Georgia, under
one flag, with one mind, one heart,
united effort, one already strong in
north Georgia, and the other strong in
south Georgia—will achieve results,
that will tliriil the hearts of philan
thropists, and crush out that misera
ble traditionary delusion, that tippling
is a symbol of friendship. One thou
sand Lodges in the State, should
crown our united labors for another
year.
Brothers, let us overtake our pio
neers and occupy the land. Let us
instruct our delegates to accede to the
United Friends of Temperance, and
attend, as our representatives, the
Grand Council, U. F. T., at Macon,
on the 8th October. Thus wasteful
delays may be avoided, and a fair start
made at the very beginning of the
Temperance year.
Good Templar.
iiw it- iiawMWMpBGGi—— ^
ru<tfre»poo<iene« of s»T*h. AdvMtiMr A Republican! Thos. F. Green, Superintendent and
Republicans has not been healed by
Washburn’s nomination. Both Gener
als Butler and Grant, abhor defeat
and remember injuries a long time.
Witness his unrelenting hatred to
Sumner for exposing and thwarting
his favorite San Domingo Job, for
which he has never forgiven him. The
effects of the election in California
will not be confined to that State, but
will pervade the whole West where
there is a general uprising against Rail
road monopolies, high tarriff’s and offi
cial corruption generally. In some
of the Western States the indignation
of the people is so great against those
Senators and Congressmen who voted
for the back pay steal, that they will
not hear them speak at public meet
ings and those of them who w T ere an
nounced as speakers in the coming
canvass in Iowa have been withdrawn
by the committee. It really appears
as if the people in many parts of the
United States had at last aroused from
their leathargy, had recollected that
they had the right and the power to
say to their representatives, thus far
and no farther, sbalt thou go. The
people all over the United States, ex
cept in Georgia have condemned what
is called ^ the lack salary grab. Have
the people of Georgia become less sen- large a crop as
£itive on the subject of dishonesty I Galveston News, 9th.
Female • Masonic Order.—The
“Eastern Star” is the name of a be
nevolent and philanthropic organiza
tion of Jacksonville, Fla., composed
of the sisters, wives, daughters and
widows of the members of the Ma
sonic fraternity. The jewel worn in
public by members of the order, is
composed of fine gold in the shape of
a star, about an iucli and a half from
the extreme points, and elegantly set
in enamel of various colors, emble
matical of the degree, with mystic de
vices known only to the initiated.
An important decision has been
rendered in the State of Indiana, in
which the rule is laid down that when
a railroad company sells a ticket it is
with the understanding that the pas
senger will be furnished with a seat.
The facts of the case are os follows: A
passenger in Indiana lately refused to
give the conductor his ticket until he
was supplied withaseat. The train
being crowded, the conductor could
not comply with his request, and put
the passenger off the car, throwing his
baggage after him. The latter enter
ed suit against the company, and was
awarded $2,000 damages by the jury
which tried the case.
The Augusta Cotton Poo*l.—The
Augusta cotton pool of $1,740 has
been won by two young cotton gentle
men of Augusta, Messrs. Berry Hinson
and W. W. Hitt, who put in a joint
estimate of 3,931,277 bales, or 769
bales in excess o# the crop. The next
nearest estimate w r as 3,000 bales under
the crop, by Mr. J. J. Doughty, an
other Augusta gentleman.
Texas Crops.—From the upper
Brazos, Colorado and Trinity Valleys
our advices indicate a better cotton
crop than was anticipated upon the
advent of the worms, and the farmers
generally are busy picking out the
crop. With the increased acreage
planted we may reasonably expect as
large a crop as that of last year.—
California Election.
San Francisco, Sept. 4.—The elec
tion is quiet. It is believed the anti-
monopoly ticket is elected in San
Francisco.
San Francisco, September !.—The
count of the vote in this city cannot
be completed before Friday night or j n ^ SSi When all
Saturday morning. Enough is known ! there will be one
to assure a complete victory for the
people’s Anti-Central Pacific Railroad
Monopoly ticket for members of both
branches of the Legislature, and also
for most of their municipal candidates.
For Mayor and chief of police the
count is very close, but the railroad
issue did not enter into that part of
the canvass. The Democrats claim
to have chosen both those officers.
The result, however is in doubt.
Returns from the interior of the
State come in slowly, and it is impos
sible to make correct estimates of the
result as yet.
In Sacramento city, where the rail
road shops are located, 4000 votes
were cast. The railrpad leaders claim
a majority of 300 to 400. This the
independents say will be largely over
come in the county,” and so insure a
decided victory over the railroad. In
nearly every town heard from thus
far, the Indeper.dentjauti-railroad tick
et is ahead.
Only five thousand votes of this city
were counted up to noon, and the
anti-monopoly ticket was ahead of
both the others.
A dispatch from Gov. Booth, at
Sacratnento, gives one thousand ma
jority against the railroad ticket in the
city—the stronghold of the county,
which has over one thousand employ
ees there.
Stockton gives five hundred inde
pendent majority.
Yolo county and the city of Bene-
cia. have gone Independent.
The indications are a grand victory
throughout the State over the railroad
ticket. Twenty-four counties thus far
heard from give anti-railroad majori
ty’s and Four Republican.
Full returns from Marysville City
give a Republican majority of 170
over the Independent ticket.
The friends of Chief Police Craw
ley, believe he is defeated in this city.
It is apprehended that this year’s
tobacco crop in Connecticut will not
be up to the average. The leaves,
which have lately been growing vffcll,
are in many localities spotted and of
poor quality. In the farms along the
Connecticut River th^re have been
some very severe storms lately, and
the damage done to the crop by one
storm is set op $100,000.
MXLLBD0BVXLLB.
THE ST ATE* GRANGES.
Atlanta wm. ^arannftk—A Via it I# the La-
antic
Milledgeville, Sept. 5, 1873.
Editors Adccrliser-RcpuUican: As
you requested me to drop you now and
then a communication, and having a
-little spare time at this writing, I give
yon my observations as to matters and
things at this point.
. GEORGIA GRANGES.
On my trip up I had a talk with Col
onel T. J. Smith, the new master of
the gianges in Georgia. He got on
the cars at some point below Milieu,
having been in Bulloch county to es
tablish a grange. He said that they
were being organized all over the
State at a rapid rate, and that be an
ticipated great good to the farmer, the
merchant and the country generally.
He said, “the granges intended to de
clare a new declaration of independ
ence, and to revolutionize farming.”
Ilis idea was that the planter must
become independent of the merchant
and the factor; to live within himself;
to raise his own provisions; and to
hold his cotton free Irom advances or
liens. If such be the object, then hast
en the day as fast as possible. I bid
them God speed’ When the planter
makes his crop without advances, or
calling for aid, and raises his own provi
sions, then he will be a free and inde
pendent man, but never until then.
RUST IN COTTON.
I saw some fields on the road badly
hurt by rust, and those crops that were
well manured seem to suffer the most.
Colonel Smith says a farmer should
manure twice, put oil a small quantity
when he plants and theu apply more
when the cotton is up and he is plow
ing it. All put on at one time gives
it too strong and rapid growth, and
with a wet spring rust will take it. 1
also hear complaints of the caterpillar
and boll worm. What ravages they
may do remain to be seen.
MILLEDGEVILLE.
I am pleased with the appearance of
the growing prosperity of this place.
Some six new stores are now being
built, andassoon as finished will have
occupants. Milledgeville is becoming
quite a cotton market, and a large
business is being done in that line.
Last year no less than five counties
traded to this point, and I am told
that as fair prices can be had here as
in Macon or Savannah; at least the
farmers seem to think so, and many
that in days past sent to Savannah and
Augusta now sell at home. The result
is that the interior towns are growing
rich at the expence of Savannah in
more ways than one. It strikes me
that Savannah, to make a name and
character, should impress both mer
chant and planter alike, but she does
not. The growth and prosperity of
any and all cities consists in the fact,
not theory that they holdout superior,
not equal advantages in trade. When
that fact is impressed or proved, then
prosperity follows.
ATLANTA VS. SAVANNAH.
I am told that Atlanta has driven
Savannah out of this market, and gro
ceries can be bought cheaper in Atlanta.
A little rice, salt and syrup is bought
iu Savannah, they say. Every week
there is one or more drummers from
Atlanta, looking around to see what
the merchants want, and ready to take
orders. That is the way to do business;
a real live way, and the resultis that
a large business is done with Atlanta,
and withal a safe one.
MILLEDGEVILLE MANU’O. COMPANY.
displays signs of growing prosperity.
A new building is being added to the
old one, forty-five by fifty feet. Ma
chinery of the very best quality has
been bought in England and at the
North; I mean the latest improvements.
Mr. Skinner, the superintendent,
says that he intends to make as fine
goods, cotton and woollen, as is made
in the State, that he will have the ma
chinery to do it with. A dye establish
ment will be connected will the busi
the machinery is up
hundred looms and
four thousand spindles, employing one
hundred and twenty-five hands. There
is an increasing demand for the goods
now made. It may not be amiss to
state that about three or four miles
north of Milledgeville, on the Oconee
river there is to be found as fine a water
power as ar.y in the State. In fact it
is a very superior water power, and
should be utilized.
resident physician; Dr. T. O. Powell,
First Assistant; Dr T H Kenan, Second
Assistant; E. D. Brown, Steward and
Treasurer; J. A. Orme, Assistant; W.
A. Cutting, Apothecary; F. G. Grieve,
Secretary, and Mrs. M. A. Green, Mat-
; ron. Ttiere are about one hundred
employes in all. The Board of Trus
tees, I am told, are discharging their
A Rebellion in ICnssachnsetts.
That hitherto staunch Republican
paper, the Boston Advertiser has a long
article warning the administration par-
duties and have made many needful j ma gine that everything is prosperous,
reform! but the great body of thoughtful men
tyof the dangers in front of it, and unfavorable. There is great need of
denouncing it as an office-holders’ par
ty. The Advertiser says:
The present condition of the Repub
lican party is not a matter of congratu
lation. Those who are in^ office may
LUNATIC ASYLUM.
I paid a visit to the asylum, and
found it greatly enlarged and improv
ed in every respect, with new rules
and regulations that seem to give gen
eral satisfaction. The halls are as
clean as water can wash them, and are
so kept at all times. There are at
this time five hundred and sixty-three
patients, and all the rooms are full,
though I suppose more can be accom
modated. There are four hundred and
fifty rooms, and to give you an idea of
the extent of the building when a full
round is made of every department
you would have walked near two miles.
The negroes are the most destructive
patients, breaking down doors, knock
ing out the lights, and injuring the
rooms in every way imaginable, and
strange to say the negro women are
worse than the men. Near two thous
and lights are put. in every year
throughout the whole building, for
the whites do a great deal of damage.
No one can have an idea of the care
and responsibility of the situation un
til they see for themselves. The wants
of the inmates, many imaginary, are
counted by thousands. The queer
and strange notions that possess some
of them are laughable, as well as pit
iable. I saw two “ Queens of Eng
land,” one old lady who counted her
money by the hundreds of thousands,
and wanted a lawyer to represent her,
who did not smoke, chew, or drink
whiskey, or curse. To the phrenolo
gist, it is a fine field to examine heads,
and odd heads some have. One girl
has a head that measures twenty-sev
en inches, but idiotic and subject to
fits. There is now, I believe, a^class-
ilication of patients, and those who
are improving are moved to certain
quarters, where the uoise and confu
sion of the more excitable do not dis
turb them.
* The officers of the asylum are Dr.
Dr. Green has -ever been anxious to
separate the lunatics and the idots and
epileptics, but so far all are in the
same building and under his superin
tendence. There ought to be a school
for the idots, as some have more or
less brain, and could be made useful,
after being taught, at home.
TORCELAIN WORKS.
Mr. Stevens, who lives at No. 1 on
the Milledgeville and Gordon railroad,
is now engaged in the making ol fire
brick, glazed water pipes and pipes
for the drainage of land. He intends
also to make glazed coffins for children,
that will be better than wood aud ful
ly as good as the metallic.
There has been a good deal of sick
ness in Baldwin county in the past
month or two—fevers, and chills and
fevers, but not of a malignant type.
Crop prospects so far good.
R. M. O.
The Long Island Mystery.
The finding of the mutilated remains
of what is supposed to have been the
body of Charles G. Kelsey, who was
tarred and feathered by a number of
hot-blooded citizens on Long Island,
in November last, for an alleged per
secution of a young lady, and who
mysteriously disappeared, continues
the sensation of the town of Hunt
ington, the scene of the affair. The
New Yotk Times, of yesterday, says:
“It is now quite certain that the
mutilated and decomposed body found
on Saturday, at Oyster Bay, is that of
the missing man, for a gold chain
found on the remains has been fully
identified by more than one of his rela
tives. The fact that a coat of tar and
feathers still adhered to those portions
of the skin not fully exposed to the
action ol the water is another proof
that the fragment was once a portion
of the body of Charles G. Kelsey. The
evidence taken by Coroner Baylis on
Saturday was simply to determine the
identity of the remains, and, as there
appears to be no further doubt of that
question, inquiry will be made as to
the probable maimer and cause of his
death. Unless there exists evidence
of a more decided character than that
already elicited, the question will
never be definitely decided, so that
the Huntington scandal and mystery
will long remain an open subject of
discussion.
The theory is at present, however,
that, after Kelsey had been tarred and
feathered and mutilated, he died from
the effects, and his torturers secretly
put him in the bay.
Kelsey was a weak-minded creature
who had been desperately in love with
a young lady of excellent family and
high character. He was ensnared by
a mock invitation from Miss Smith. A
number of men set upon him, stripped
him naked, covered him with tar and
feathers, cut the hair off his head, and,
by the light of a lantern, exhibited
him to the ladies (Miss Smith among
the number,) who were standing on
the rear piazza of the house, in the
back yard of which the proceedings
were carried on. That night the poor
wretch disappeared, and nothing had
been seen of him since until the dis
covery of his mutilated remains re
cently. The outrage, truly remarks
the Louisville Courier Journal, is one
of the most inhuman and revolting
that have ever been perpetrated. The
KuKlux or the Bender family never
surpassed it for meanness, cruelty and
cowardice. Huntington is a quiet,
high-moral, church-going village, but
its sermons and psalms have not been
able to prevent a development of low
bred villainy that equals anything that
has ever taken place in the roughest
settlements of the West or South.
The Prospect in Virginia.—The
Richmond Dispatch says of the politi
cal outlook in that State: “ The gen
eral field is as bright as we could hope
it should be. Everybody is confident,
but we are glad to see all active. We
feel that confidence in this campaign
is based upon resolution. Expecta
tion would be sadly sustained without
the general rendezvous of all Conser
vatives at the polls. Ail, however,
know this, and should act according
ly.”
Bravo.—The Radicals of Massa
chusetts, at their late Convention, af
ter denouncing the salary-grab in
scorching terms, hit Grant the follow
ing lick, right between the eyes:
Resolved, That while we recognize
the full right of every citizen to ex
press and act upon his convictions
upon all questions of public interest,
no person holding public office has the
right to seek to influence the action
of his subordinates by excitiog their
fear of loss of place, if their opinions
and actions shall differ from his own,
and we call upon the President further
to remove all public officers who have
improperly interfered with the inde
pendence of Republicans of Massachu
setts in the management of their local
concerns, whenever the fact is proved
to his satisfaction.
A Female Swimming Match.—A
swimming match between ten young
ladies took place on the Harlem river
on Saturday. The prize was a silk
dress valued at $175, and the distance
a mile. The winner was Miss Delilah
Goboess, of Philadelphia, who ac
complished the distance in forty min
utes. A Miss Donan led for some
time, but resigned her chance in the
prize to aid in the rescue of a young
man who had accidentally fallen into
the water. The spectators resolved
to present Miss Donan with rf gold
watch, as a reward for her bravery.
From the state of parties in the
California Legislature, it is probable
that Governor Booth will be sent to
the United States Senate.
watching theJngnsljrthe times are not
hopeful, and those whose conduct of
public affairs should inspire confidence
are letting things drift toward the bad
with a recklessness that is incompre
hensible. Tht-re is a widespread de
moralization in party sentiment, and
we do not hesitate to say it is, at least
here in Massachusetts, chiefly caused
by the very conditions which misguid
ed partisans rely upon to strengthen
the organization. The Republican par
ty cannot forever endure the strain to
which it is now put, and the reason it
cannot endure it is because it ought
not to be endured. When a party be
comes an organization of office-holders,
and is held together by the profits
of its administration of public affairs, it
is near its end. To that condi ion the
Republican party is tending, and the
self complacent gentlemen who hold
its places of honor may thank them
selves for the ruin they are diligently
inviting and doing nothing to prevent.
We mean the gentlemen of the Presi
dent’s Cabinet, the members of the
Senate and House of Representatives,
and the army pf thrifty' custom house,
revenue^ ana ^ost o$i6k*t>ffidars ’who
think they serve the country by keep
ing themselves warm. We do not
covet the reputation of alarmists, but
we think it would be as stupid as use
less to blink facts of which the people
are already congnizant, and to correct
which they are ready, in their perplex
ity, to take the most wild and desper
ate steps.
Commenting upon this the New
York Tribune adds: “Respectable
Massachuetts is stirred to the depths.
It begins to come home to her in such
fashion that she appreciates it as she
never has before—the fact that the
Republican party is demoralized, and
that a Republican administration may
do mischief even in Masschusetts. It
did not matter to Massachusetts Re
publicans that a government was set up
for Louisiana in the New Orleans cus
tom house and ratified at Washington,
or that Alabama affairs were settled,
her Legislature recognized; and her
Senators chosen at the Federal capital;
they endured with calm philosophy
the interference of the administration
with the domestic politics of other
States, and were quite disposed to think
it was a commendable thing in the
administration to do. At any rate,
they reasoned that these States deserv
ed it and were not entitled to any better
treatment. It is precisely this cup
that is now commended to Massachu
setts lips, from which they turn away
with much loathing and disgust.”
The Beauties of Negro Government.
Here is a brace of arguments in fa
vor of a white man’s government for
Alabama. Not long ago two South
Carolinians applied to Governor Moses
for an appointment. Both wanted to
be a Police Justice, but both were
from the same bailiwick and there was
but one vacancy. One was an intelli
gent white man, the other an ignorant
negro, unable to write his own name
and known to be as purchasable as
scrap iron. The Governor made no
inquiry into their respective qualifica
tions. He only asked their politics.
Said the white man: “I am, in politics,
a Democrat, but in office I would be
simply an impartial minister of jus
tice.” The negro leplied: “I’sc a
publikin, I is; and I’se gwine tick to
de’publikin party long’s we’s gwine
got a Moses, to led us troo de bullrush-
es.” The compliment was more than
the unworthy namesake of the great-
Lavvgiver of Israel could stand. He
gave the commission to the idol of
ebony. That is argument No. 1.
Here is argument No. 2, in the shape
of a letter lately received by a prom
inent Baltimore firm:
Gentlemen : Your favor of the 30th
ultimo is duly at hand. We are
sorry to say the case against was
not called or reached at the January
term of our court, and before the next
May term our model Governor (for
purposes of his own and to avoid con
viction before a fair jury, on chargm
preferred against some of his officials)
removed our jury commissioner (a
white man) and appointed a negro in
his place; and lie (the negro) so tam
pered with and practiced upon the
jury list and the jury-box as to draw
therefrom seventeen names (all ne
groes) that were never on the list, thus
vitiating the jury list and the jury
box, and in consequence, we can hold
no court again before the Legislature
meets, to-wit: before our next January
term, when we hope to try the cases
against
Those Republican journals which
have been most blatant about the sal
ary bill and have demanded the con
demnation of “ the grabbers,” are
squinting at Grant’s third term as
pirations and paving the way to favor
them. We know' of no reason why the
President should not travel in the same
boat with “ the grabbers.” He grab
bed more than any, and is to a greater
degree responsible for the existence of
the law than any score of Congressmen.
He could have killed the bill at any
moment. He could have vetoed it after
its passage. He didn’t do either, yet
other men are denounced and he goes
scott free so far as the Radical papers
are concerned. It seems to us that if
those who voted for the bill are to be
broken upon the wheel the President
ought to share asifhilar fate for impar
ting to it approval and validity.
A Remarkable Coincidence.—The
Nashville Banner says Butler, of Bos
ton, and the Balloon, at Brooklyn,
“busted” the same day, there being
too much inflation in both cases. The
difference between ' Butler, and the
Balloon, is that Butler, “went up”
and the Balloon didn’t.
It is said that there never was an
honest red-breast; he is always a robin.
Doleful News from Shbevbtobt
—Shreveport, La., Sept. 45.—The digi
ease here is the genuine yellow fever.
The sadden change in the weather jg
nurses and money. Five hundred per
sons arf down and 146 have died. The
Howard Association have assurances
that nurses, doctors and druggists are
coming from New Orleans. Twenty,
four whites died yesterday. The latest
news is that 600 are down.
—
Cwderrtwped Vigor.
The feeble and debilitated usually fancy they are i a
a more hopeless condition than they really are. The
resources of nature are not easily exhausted. Even
when strength and appetite fail, when tiie eyes are
heavy and lustreless, the complexion paid 1, the nerves
tremulous, the body attenuated, and the mind depress
ed, there is generally a reserve of latent power be
hind such palpable evidence of weakness. Various
modes of treatment are resorted to by physicians i a
the hope of developing aDd rendering available this
store of sleeping vitality, but the surest, an] indeed
the oniy thoroughly safe and reliable means of awak
ening the dormant energies of the system is a coarse
of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. Electricity, shower
baths, the flesh brush, sea bathing; Arc., may be weil
enough in their way, as auxiliaries, but they do not
reacb the source of the evil All physical debility prc.
ceerls either from a derangement of the functions of the
assimilating, secretive and vital organs, or from a s!u».
glish constitution. In either case, aud also in cases
where both causes exist, the Bitters wiii invariably
produce an immediate and salutary charge in the con
dition of the patient, and eventually effect a complete .
cure. None of the dangerous alkaloids, too often ad
ministered as tonics, can be otherwise thau deleterious
under such circumstances, and to give mercury is pos
itively criminal. The direct effect of t ii e great vege
table specific will be manifested iu au improved appe
tite, a more cheerful frame of min i, a gradual return
of strength, an increase of flesh, and a healthier cum-
plection. Meanwhile, however, the constitution, if inert
and feeble, will have been roused aud renovated by
the subtile element of iuvigoration contained iu the
Bitters. 6 lm.
TO T2XB*PUBLIC.
THE PAIN-KILLER manufactured by PERRY
DAVIS Sc. SGN has won for itself a lepu ation unsur
passed in medicinal preparations. The universality of
the demand for the Pain-Killer is a novel, interesting,
and surprising feature iu the Li-t-j: y of this medicine.
The Pain-Killer is now regularly sold in large ani
steadily increasing quantities, not only t) general
agents in every State and Territory of the Union, anil
every Province in {British America, but to Buenos
Ayres, Brazil,Uruguay, Peru, Chili, ani other South
American States, to the Sandwich Islands, to Cuba
and other West India Islands; to England an J Conti
nental Europe; to Mozambique, Ma lagascar, Zan
zibar, aud other African lands; to Australia, and Cal
cutta, Rangoon and other places in India. It has also
been sent to China, and we doubt if there is any for
eign port or any inland city in Africa or Asia, which is
frequented by American au i European missionaries,
travelers or traders, into which the Pain-Killer has not
been introduced.
The extent of its usefulness is another great feature
of this remaikable medicine. It is not only tne beat
tiling ever known, as everybody will confess, for
bruises, cats, burns, &c., bun for dysentery orcholera,
or any sort of bowel complaint, it is a remedy unsur
passed for efficiency and rapidity of action. In the
great cities of British India aud the West India Is-
lands and other hot climates, it lias become the stand
ard medicine for all such complaints, as well as dyspep
sia, liver complaint, and other kindred disorder.-. For
coughs und colds, canker, asthma and rheumatic diffi
culties, it ha- been proved by the most abundant and
convincing trials aud testimony, to be an invaluable
medicine. The proprietors are in f ossession of letters
from persons of the highest character and responsibili
ty, testifying in unequivocal terms to the cures effect
ed aud .ha satisfactory results produced, iu and end
less variety of cases fey the use of this great medicine.
That the Pain Killer is deserving of all its proprietors
claim, for it is amply proved by the nnparalled popu
larity it has attained. It is a sure and effective reme
dy. It is sold in almost every country in the world,
and is becoming more and more popular every year,
Its healing propel ties have been fully tested, ail over
the world and it needs only to be known to be prized.
Sold by all Druggists. _ fl lm.
TO THE WEST! 10 TOE WEST!
Before making your arrangement* to follow the adviced the
“thousands who have already gone,” it would be well to consid
er what has been done to make the journey to your “Homes in
the West” as pleasant aud as free from danger i s human skill
and foresight can accomplish.
By consolidation and construction a road has bt on put into
operation on the shortest possible line from Niisiiville. Tolu.,
to St. Louis, “the future great City of the world.” This lino,
the
St. Lonis &. Southeastern Railway,
has, during the past year, earned an enviable reputation by its
smooth truck, prompt time, sure connections, and tin* magnifi
cence of its passenger equipment. Its trains are made up of
new and commodious day cars, provided with the celebrated
M.lb*r coupler and platform, and the Westiugh'.'Use air-brake.
It is positiv* ly the only line running Pullman Pula< e Drawing-
Room Sleeping Cars through without (,‘luu.z*-* from Nashville to
St. Louis. No other line pretends to • r such advantaz**#,
either in distance, time, or equipment. Why, then, journey by
circuitous route*? Do not l*e induced to purehasc tickets to St.
Louis or the West by any other iine, remembering that
The “SI. I.ouEm & Southeastern”
is the shortest, cheapest, quickest, best and only line under one
management from Nashville to St. Louis, and is f o:n 6l)to2' N )
miles the shortest to St. Louis, Kansas City, Orr.i hi. Denver,
California, Texas, and ail western points. It is also the “Chica
go Shortest Line,” via Evansville.
You can secure the cheapest rates for ycurselves and your
moveabb's on application, iu peroon or by letter, to Charles
McCabe, Southern Passenzer Agent, near College otreet Depot,
Nashvili#, Tenn., or to the undersigned.
\V. B. DAVENPORT.
General Ticket Agent St. Louis.
No trouble to answer questions.
May 1, 1873. —11 lyr.
Beyond the Mississippi!
Thousands have already gone, and thousands mo'6
are turning their eyes towards new homes in the fertile
West To those going to Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska,
Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, Oregon or Cali
fornia, we recommend a cheap, safe, quick and direct
route, via St. Louis, over the Missouri I’acifie Rail
road, which runs its fine Day Coaches and Pullman
Sleepers from St. Louis to principal points in the
West, without change We believe that the Missouri
Pacific Railroad has the best track und the finest and
safest equipment of any line west of the .Mississippi,
and its connections with roads further West are
prompt aud reliable. The Texas connection of this
road is now completed, and passengers are offered a
first class all raii route from St. Louis to Texas, either
over the Missouri, Kansas & Texas ii. K.. via Scdalta,
or over the Atlantic and Pacific K. It. via Vinita.
For maps, time tables, information as to rates, routes,
dec., we refer our readers to E. A. Ford, General
Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Mo. Questions icill be
cheerfully and promptly answered.
Emigration Turning.
('bmp Farms in Noulh-ivcrt .Ui-souri.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company offers
1,200,000 acres of land in Central and South west
Missouri, at from §3 to $12 per acre, on seven years
time, with free transportation from St. Louis to all
purchasers. Climate, soil, timber, mineral wealth,
schools, churches aud law abiding society invite emi-
grants from alt points to this land of fruits and flowers.
For particulars address, A. Tuck, Land Commissioner,
St. Louis.
Jor to the World ! Woman is Free!—Among
the ifiany modern discoveries looking to the happiness
and amelioration of the human race, none is entitle#
to higher consideration than the renowned remedy—
Dr. J. Bradtield's Female Regulator, Woman's Best
Friend. By it woman is emancipated from number
less ills peculiar to her sex. Before its magic power
all irregularities of the womb vanish. It cures sup
pression of the menses. It removes uterine obstruc
tions. It cures constipation and strengthens the sys
tem. It braces the nerves and purifies the biood. It
never fails, as thousands of women will testify. It
cures whites. This valuable medicine is prepared and
sold by L- H. Bradfield, Druggist, Atlanta, Oa.
Price $1 50 per bottle. All respectable drug men
keep it.
Tuskegee, Ala., 1S68.
Me. L. II. Bradfield —Sir: Please forward us,
immediately, another supply of Bradfield s fe
male Regulator. We tint! it to bo all that is claim
ed for it, and we have witnessed the most decided an
happy effects produced by it.
Very respectfully,
Hunter .t Alexander.
We the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure i.
commending to the trade, Dr. J. Bkadfie ld 3
male Regulator—believing it to be a goodfan'* ‘
liable remedy for the diseases for which he recom
mends it.
\V. A. Landsf.ll. Atlanta, Ga.
Pemberton, Wilson, Taylor & Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Redwine & Fox, Atlanta, Ga.
W. C. LAWSHE, Atlanta, Ga.
W. Root & Son, Marietta, Ga.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Troup Countt. ,
This is to certify that I have examined the recipe
DR. J. BRADFIELD, of this county, and as a mem-
cal man pronounce it to be a combination of met ■
cines of great merit in the treatment of all the,'
eases of females for which lie recommends it.
December 21,18C8. , _
WM. P. BEASELEY, M. D.
For sale in Milledgeville by. ...
JOHN M. CLARK and ii. ft. IIERTY, Druggy-
May 14, 1873. « ly
PRATTS ASTRAL OIL
Absolutely safe. Perfectly odorless Atway-j
form. Illumiiiatiug qualities superior to gas. to _
in any lamp without danger of exploding or
fire. Manufactured expresoly to displace the
volatile and dangerous oils. Its safety un 1 *•
possible test, and its perfect burning 'l^'sumilit-s.
proved by its continued use in over 1 jlnt
Millions of gallons have been sold and no * , ^
—directly or indirectly—hns ever occured
burning, storing ot handling it . result
The immense yearly loss to life aud property, ^
ing from the use of cheap and dangerous oils
United States, is appalling. .«ioner3
The Insurance Companies and Fire Commiw ^
throughout the coirntry recommend the f or
the beet safeguard when lamps ai e used, ae
circular. . „. „ n( t at
For sale at retail by the trade generally. .
wholesale by the proprietors, CHAS- PKA IT &
108 Fultoo Street, New York. ,
Ang.&th, 1873. ^