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VOLUME XLIV.l
MILLED CrEVILLE, GEO EC I A, DECEMBER 24, 187$.
HIJ MB ER 22.
FALL AND WINTER
Millinery, Dress Goods, Fancy Goods,
THE
Inion & getorbtr
AND
All the Novelties of the Season.
MRS. P. A. LANDRUM
Has ills! returned froui New York where .lie pure Wed a large awl beautiful assortment of MILLINERY
PRESS GOODS, t rimmings. I racy Goods, See., dus., which are now arrieing, and which she is able to sell
e t lower prices tliaii ever before.
BONNETS, HATS, FEATHERS. RIBBONS, &c.,
Selected witli great care from the latest and prettiest Styles, and for beauty and richness surpass anything
rer brought in this market. She was very fortunate in the purchase of some very handsome real and iinita-
guKLATHERS, which she can sell at astonishing LOW PRICES.
DRESS GOODS.
re, Sateens, Pop
Goods, suitable for
she invites the ladies to call and examine her Dress Goods, consisting of Silks. Rritish Los*
Sns, Merinoes, Empress Cloths, Opera Cloths of all shades and colors. Also, Camels’ Hair Ci
the’celebrated Redingote.
LARGE STOCK OF
Ladies, M isses and ( hildreifs Shoes and Hosiery.
/
Hair Work of all Kinds,
A General Assortment of Tuilri Articles,
Toys by the Million and Jewelry of all Kinds.
PINS, NEEDLES and SEWING COTTON of all kinds.
THOMPSON’S GLOVE-FITTING CORSETS,
AND THE WORLD-RENOWNED SEAMLESS GLOVES,
Sash Ribbons at low prices, Queen Best Ruffling-, Old Ladies Caps,
She has the Agency o! the Celebrated •'Domestic'’paper patterns, and can supply ladies with pat
si kinds from 5 cents tip. Her opening will lake place in a lew days of which notice will he giv—•
DRESS
die.
patterns of
Milledgerille, Ga , Oct. 8, 1873,
MAXZNG,
Still done in tlie bent Styles.
11
The Cheap Grocery and Provision
STORE!
:0:-
IF 101 WANT TO SAVE MOKEY BUY YOUR GROCERIES AND
PROVISIONS AT THE CHEAP STORE,
WE ARE DETERMINED TO SELL LOW.
Don’t Stop until you find the Right Store, on Wayne Street North
Masonic Ball.
of
PLAATEKS TAKE NOTICE!
Family Groceries, Provisions, and Supplies of all Kinds,
AT THE LOWEST CASH PRICES. On hand and to arrive the following articles :
J i one tbs C R Sides, 5,0 0 lbs Shoulders, 500 lbs choice Pig hams, 1.000 lbs Leaf Lard, at Low Figures,
rinar'all grades,Corn, Bran and Fine Feed tor Stock. Seed Oats, Sugars all kinds, Coffee cheap, Goshen
Better aud Cream Cheese, Pic Xics, Crackneils, Snapells, Kentucky Butter, Lemon Crackers, and other
ram-ties. Mackerel in barrels and kits. Morgan Sous and other Soaps. Potash, Candles, Kerosene Od,
gods Copperas, Powder and Shot Cotton Cards. Chewing and Smoking Tobacco, Pickles and Oysters, Sift-
Buckets, Brooms, Choice Segars. Come and seo us and save ,oar money. Quick sales and small pronti
YrBBN and DRY BIBBS Wanted, for which highest price will be paid,
-- * so.- B. MUMDAi, who will bo always on hand to meet Ins old cua-
HaviiiK secured the i>ervice? ot Mr.C»
turners and attend to the wants of new ones, we hope to be
patronage.
Milledgevilie, Nov 8, 1873.
to giv® satisfaction to all, and merit a liberal
SAMUEL EVANS & CO.
l(i till Jan 8
IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY
MILLEDGEVILLE. GA.,
Boughtox, Barnes & Moore,
At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end ef the year
S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor.
THE “FEDERAL UNION" and the “SOUTH- ^
EUN T RECORDER" were consolidated August 1st, semble at an early day.
1872, the Union being in its Forty-Third Volume and — ■ * ’
the Recorder in it's Fifty-Third Volume.
ADVERTISING.
Traxsie.nt.—Out* Dollar per square of teu line* for first Inser
tion, and seventy-five cents for each subsequent continuance.
Liberal discount on these rates will be allowed on advertise
ments running three months, or longer.
Tributes ot Respect, Resolutions by Societies, Obituaries e»-
*'.ceding six lines. Nomination* for office and Communication*
for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising.
lVgal advertising.
Sheriff’s Sales, per levy of ten lines, or less, #2 5*J
“ Mortgage fi fa sale?, per square, 5 60
Citations lor Letters of Administration, 3 on
“ *• “ Csuardiausbip, 3 60
Application for Dismission trom Administration, 3 00
* 4 “ ** 44 Guardianship, 3 06
44 4 * Leave to sell Laud, 5 00
44 for Homesteads 1 75
Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00
Sales of Laud. Ac., per square 5 00
* 4 perishable property, 10 days, per square, 1 75
Ksfrav Notices, 3»» days 3 00
Koieelotiurc* of Mortgage, per square, each time, 1 00
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Land. Ate., by Administrators, Executors or Guar
dians, are required by law to be held outlie first Tuesday in the
moutti, between the nours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 iu the af-
ruoop, at the Cour.- House in the county iu which the property
situated. Notice of these sales nni.t be given iu a public
gazette 3*1 days previous to the day ol sale.
Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in
like manner todays previous to sab* day.
Notice to the debtors and creditors of an estate must be pub
lished 46 days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary
for leave to sell Laud, fee., must be published for one month.
Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship. Ac.,
must be publi.h ‘d’30 days-for dismission troiu Administration
outlily three‘mouths—for dismission from Uuurdiauship 40
tvs
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly
r four mouths—for establishing lost papers tor the full space of
tree mouths—for compelling titles trom Executors or Admin-
truture, when* bond has been given by the deceased, the full
>ac,e of three months.
Publications will always be continued according to these,
the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered.
Book and Job Work, of all kinds,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT THIS OFFICE.
Church Directory.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Service* let ami 3.1 Sundays in eacli month, at 11
o’clock, a m and 7 p m.
Sabbath School at 9 1-2 o'clock, a in. O. M. Cone,
Supt. Rev D E BUTLER, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Hour* of service on Suuilay : It o’clock, a in, ami
7pm
Sunday School 3 o'clock p. in. Teachers meeting 3
p. m—W- E. Frankiand, 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.
Praver meeting every Friday at 1 o’clock, p m.
Rev. G. T. GOETCH1CS, Pastor.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
St. Stephens Church (Episcopal) Sunday morning
11 o'clock, Sunday eveuing 7 o’clock.
Ret. Mb. STONEY, Pastor.
Hours of service on Sunday 11 o'clock, a. m., 3 p
in. and 7 p. in.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock, a. m. Teachers meet
ng every Friday night.—Washington Phillips, Supt.
Prayer meeting every Thursday night.
3 Rev. E. B. OLIVER, Pastor.
FUKPIITURE! FURNITURE !
VS7*. tb J. OARAHLER,
H AVE ON HAND a large assortment of PINE AND COMMON JURNITLRE, c
sisting of
Beautiful Bed-Room Setts, Bureaus, Mirrors, Tables, Chairs,
Bedsteads aad Haltraeeee ef all siaes aad ^aaliliee.
jy Repairing ol Furniture and Upholstering Dodo to Ordfcr on short notice.
Window-Shades and Fixtures, Corner and Wall Brackets, &c.
WILLOW BASKETS, CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES. Large lot of Children’s Toy., such a* Doll Car-
n&gee, Express WajjOM, , i
BUGGY HARNESS for sale. Also, all kinds of Material for Carriage Makers and Repairer*. Ready-made
Wagon and Buggy Wheels always on hand.
Doors, Sash and Blinds, and Fixtures for Blinds.
13^ We guarantee Low Prices and Good Work. Give us a cal!. •
Dodges.
TEMPERANCE.
B wr £ a I
Va ses
Saturday nights in each mouth.
G D Case, Sec'y.
S G WHITE, H P
A STAYS COBVBBTXOBT.
A Better from Salem Butcher, Ssq
Editor* Chronicle 4* Sentbul:
laws in any case capable of being put un
der general statute ; would apply the prin-
. ciple of minority representation—jnnt as
GentlemenIn response to your po ** years ago applied in Georgia to the
* nlil Ivin It /»liarfnro tnn ntn-
lite circular note of a few since, request
ing, for publication, my views on the ad
visability of a Convention to frame a new
Constitution for Georgia, I have the hon
or to say that, in my opinion, it is alto
gether desirable such a body should as-
The present fundamental law of Geor
gia is the creature of force. It was
brought into being by military violence
and has been sustained up to this time by
fear. In no true sense is it the Constitu
tion of the State. Even those who im
posed the instrument upon us now admit
it was not authorized even by their own
laws. The Atlanta Convention was called
in October, 1867, and its handiwork rati
fied in April, 1868. by negro votes, and
yet in what is known as “The Slaughter
House Case,” decided in the Supreme
Court of the United States, Apnl 14,
1873, the Court said, “ The negro having
by the Fourteenth Amendment been de-
clareda citizen of the United States, was,
by the Fifteenth Amendment, made a vo
ter in every State of the Union.' The
Fourteenth Amendment was declared a
part of the Federal Constitution on the
21st of Jnly, 1868, and the Fifteenth
Amendment on the 20tli of March, 1870,
showing the present Constitution of Geor
gia the work of those who were at the
time neither voters in nor citizens of the
United States. Touching the lawfulness
of the instrument in the eyes of the peo
ple of Georgia, but few words are re
quired. It is the badge of their subju
gation, the seal of dishonor on their spent
tears and wasted blood. It is my firm
belief that they deeply resent its existence,
and that neither time nor habit will lull
them into my respect for it. Now, a law
which has neither the respect nor the con
fidence of those upon whom it is to op
erate lacks the first essential of all ser
viceable legislation. We love that which
our own hands have in whole or part cre
ated. We respect that which comes to us
sanctioned by the good opinion of our
friends and neighbors, even though we
feel unable to coincide in all their views.
But what respect can human nature have
for that which is thrust upon us, contra
ry to our own wish and without even the
paliating approval of those in whom we
trust ? Failing then, as it most assuredly
does, in these all-important particulars,
the present organic law of Georgia is fa
tally weak. Being weak in the great and
main point of its authenticity, no patch
work of the instrument can make it
strong, A new, and not an amended.
Constitution is what we need. Such an
instrument, untainted with the past and
fresh from the bosom of the present, will
receive that public respect which the util
ity of a State Convention so imperative
TRINITY (COLORED) METHODIST CHURCH. V re <l uire8 -
». Coming to those particular provisions
which, in my humble judgment, any new
Constitution should contain, there is this
to say: The object of all government is.
or ought to be, the protection of person
and property. Protection to person is,
I believe, in Georgia, well secured, though
I must confess a distrust of any theory or
Miin-djcrriiie c*unrii No. i, meets in the Sen- practice tending to limit the right of trial
ate Chamber at the state House I'™ 1 "* bv jury in criminal cases. “Though be-
'To'SiSSTU. giii. precedent gmdu
ally spread. —Blackstone. Touching
protection to property, we open a wide
field. The reign of violence is
Christendom, but the reign of fraud is
come instead. Property is no longer
Temple chapter meets the second and fourth snatched by the mailed hand of robber
• i . • 1. «U s Tl 1 _ ttottaH niror IIV
pie “log rolling” legislation by den . mg j Fnm Im Tunes t PWmer.
the Legislature power to enact speciil! Shall we have a Convention of the
— j e> —— — ——- o
old bank charters—to the election of offi
cers of incorporated companies, so tliut
the large stockholders cannot elect all
the directors ; and, for the benefit of the
rising generation, would insert that pro
vision once so popnlar in our American
Constitutions, the sentiment which made
England great and has kept her free—
“The doctrine of non-resistance against
arbitrary power and oppression is absurd,
slavish and destructive of the good and
happiness of mankind.”
Such, Messrs. Editors, briefly and in
the main, are the views you have done me
the honor to request. Minor points I
have passed over and presented the sali
ent features alone. How far they may
meet popular approval or ever find a place
in our organic law I know not, but con
stitutional law—“the rise of empire and
the spring of power”—has long been a
favorite study, and I am inflexibly per
suaded some such provisions as have been
here presented are necessary to make
Georgia rich and great. In advocating a
Convention, you will, I think, cany the
people with you. The shattered temple
of the State needs re-erection. Many of
the pillars have fallen from their pedestal
and the areli surmounting is not as sym
metrical as of yore. Wisdom, and pa
tience, skill and devotion are needed in
the work of rehabilitation, but if that be
well done the storm-tried State will real
ize the blessing on that ancient city.—
Peace be within thy palaces and prosperi
tv in all thy borders. Yours, truly.
SALEM DUTCHER.
People of Georgia to Remoddle the
Constitution.
The Augusta Chronicle A Sentinel
seems determined to have a State Con
vention, and as an excuse to agitate thi6
—•— ■ ■ -c--- - The Atlanta Herald seems desj rately
question, is addressing circular letters to afraia of tLe reviyal of ■ - -
gentlemen of prominence in different , , , •», , ,
MASONIC. piviaivwv/u w - — x" ~~ ,
Brni r.irHi No 3 F A M., meets l»t and g e ](j The reign of violence is over in
3d G d"& ea i kiTh ho M Wakd! w‘ m nhristendom. but the reign of fraud is
Miin-diceTillr !.•«!*« »f Prrfreltow A.*, 4
A.’. S.’. K.-. meets every Monday night.
SAM’L G WHITE. T P G M
G D Case, Exc Grand Sec’jr.
All styles of Metallic and Wood Burial Cases and Caskets always on hand.
CP* Orders for case" will receive prompt attention at all konra—day or n^t & ^ CAR AKER
G Cm
Milledgevilie, Ga., Sept. 2, 1873.
B. P. WALKER,
♦(Late of S. T. X 1). I’. Walker.)
J. H. DOBBS,
(Late of Wise, D..M.« It Co.)
(Lute ol i. fe i>. i . »»
WALKER & DOBBS,
SUCCESSORS TO
Wise* Dobbs A Co.,
IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
China, Crockery and Glass Ware, Silver Plated \ v are,
POCKET AND TABU COTLEXY,
POALGIL LAMPS, WICKS. BURNERS. CHIMNEYS, CHANDELIERS, GAS AND KEROSENE
FIXTURES, PORTER'S PLANTATION AND COMBINATION HOES,
ry We would call the attention id Merchant* to our immense and varied stock of the »lmve Goode,
lianre can give entire satisfaction iu regard to quality aad price. Our retail Departmeut is also complete.
Walker & Dobbs, maco.v, i«a.
October 14, 1873, ;
GO TO MACON
AND
Buy Your Furniture and Carpets
• OF
MOM AS WOOD, Next to Lanier House.
THE LOWEST PRICES EVER KNOWN !
METAL CASES AMD CASKETS, W00# COFFINS OF ALL KINDS,
At prices ti.at defy competitor. Night c.lU»owercd H ^ rnn _
T 80 BIAS WOOD, Macon, wa.
Oct 14,1873.
12 Gin.
[By request.]
DEACON DODD.
Deacon Dodd onco feelingly said
’About his Betsy, long since dead,
“ If ever an angel loved a man,
That angel, sir, was Betsy Aun.
If I happened to scold her, she was so meek
(Which the Deacon did seven times a week)
“ She'd elap her apron to her eye, _
And never do nothin' but only cry.’
But, Indies, perhaps you'd like to be told
That Deacon Dodd, like other men.
Waited a year, then married again ;
But lie married a most inveterate scold,
And now ’tis the Deacon’s time to be meek,
And he gets rasped from week to week ;
But rather than open his head he’d burst—
He wishes the second with the first!
But as she’s as tough as a hickory limb,
No doubt she’ll live to say of him,
“ If ever, a saint the footBtOol trod,
1 hat man- that saint—was Deacon Dodd I'
A LAW C ASE has been passed in Prussia
by which the poorer classes will be re
lieved from taxation to the estimated
amount of nearly three million of thalers.
When can we expect such a result in this
country ? Not while the present party
is in power. They are for numerous office
holders, high salaries, high taxes and
heavy debts. This is their policy, and as
at last all revenue comes from the hard
earnings of laboring men, that class is in
a worse condition than they were twenty
years ago. All expenses of a national
character should be reduced as fast as
possible, and then the United States
could imitate the example of Prussia and
remove the load of taxation from the
shoulders of th? toiling millions.
Got His Reward.—R. W. Hughes, a
rampant secessionist during the war, con
descended to become the Radical candi
date for Governor of Virginia. He was
overwhelmingly defeated. As he could
not test the election before Congress, and
there was no Durell to render a decision
making him Governor, as in Kellogg’s
case. Grant has rewarded him for his
self-abasement apostacy, by appointing
him United States District Judge, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Judge
Underwood.
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, CURTAINS.
Fall Trade 1818.
JAMES G. BAILIE fe BROTHER,
205 Uroad StreetAUGUSTA, GA., ^
, , sntnpffTft aii pi/YTHK SHADESaod CURTAIM ever offered
Ar* now offering the Lnr*est Stock Be sure to call and look
A BXOSBS&..
A re now uncriug iuc ——
t>y 4qy House South, ami at the lowest price*
it the new and beautiful array of Patterns at
Choice Family Groceries a»4 Floatation
Aad at low prices at
First Class Goods!
IL BROTHER.
133m.
Oct. 21.1873.
VR, B. JOHNSTON,
Successor to Thos. 0. Conner
Keeps on hand the latest and most fashionable styles of
MATS, HATS, HATS, HATS\
Gents Furnishing Goods I Gests Finishing Goods!
CRAVATS, SCARFS, BOWS, FUBS, TBVSBSf YAUSBS, SATCHELS,
Baskets, Umbrellas, Cases, 4c., &c., &c.
Wtoa you come to Macoo please give me a eaX (Man promptly aad eatiriactonly filled.
Mr. Stephens.—The New Orleans
Picayune concludes an article on Mr.
Stephens’s speech, thus:
Mr. Stephens cannot sustain himself
in this, his maiden speech. His friends
will regret that he has weakened himself
as an advocate of the people, and his ene
mies wdl again declare that he seeks the
friendship of the President and populari
ty with Congress. It is impossible to
charge him with selfishness in this matter
since he is running counter to the voice of
the people; but we can hardly avoid the
conclusion that Mr. Stephens has seized
upon a question which he knew affected
the pockets and honor of most of his
audience, in order, at the outset of his
new career, to enlist their sympathy and
regard. By gaining the friendship of the
majority in Congress at the outset, he
may believe that he has increased his
po^-er for the protection of the people of
the South. Certainly, he conld have
taken no position which would more sure
ly .and’directly touch the Radical heart
|#r. M, 1873,
OfettoB Iran, ant to
17 3m.
Cost of the Modoc War.—They are
now counting the cost of that little Mo
doc war in the War Department at Wash
ington. The Quartermaster General re
ports that with some as yet unascertained
expenditures, which, however, are small,
the Modoc war cost $335,009 78. This
is exclusive of the pay, clothing and ar
mament of the troops engaged. To
catch these warriors, their squaws and
papooses, cost about $2,000 a piece.
barons. It is softly conveyed away by
the almost imperceptible processes of tax
ation, assessment, donation, endorsement
and subscription. The rough thief of
old plucked away your thousand dollars,
and that was the end of it. The sweet
spoken “liveman” of to-day not only takes
your thousand dollars, but makes you pay
iiim discount and interest on the theft.—
In the old time, when your money was
taken yon could forthwith begin, unimped
ed, to lay up some more. In these mod
em days you can only imperfectly make
up your spoliation by reason of the ne
cessity you are under of paying for the
privilege you have just enjoyed of being
robbed. Wo have lately seen Germany
demand a war indemnity of $1,000,000,-
000 from France, and France being a
ready money country has paid it. Her
industries do not now languish under the
debt But suppose Germany had made
what the “live man” would term a more
favorable settlement 1 Suppose she had
said, give ns $750,000,000 in twenty years
seven per cent bonds. The sum total to
be paid by France under that arrangement
would have been $1,800,000,000, and for
twenty years her industries would have
felt the paralyzing effects of the burden.
Mortgaging the future is the great danger
against which, if Georgia is ever to flour
ish, she must in her new Constitution
provide. I believe it to be an absolutely
indispensable necessity, a prime, first and
fundamental pre-requisite to any recuper-
ation of this Commonwealth that the
prevalent practice of incurring public iu
debtedness should cease. The Constitu
tion should permit no taxation whatever,
State, county, or municipal, save for or
dinary and legitimate State, county, and
municipal purposes, and the prompt pay
ment, principal and interest, of such State
or local debts as have up to this time been
lawfully incurred; nor should either the
State nor any of its political sub-divisions
at any tims, in any manner, or on any
pretext give, loan or pledge its funds or
credit in aid of any person, association, or
corporation. I would also require a con
cise annnal statement, nnder oath of the
receipts and expenditures of the State,
and of each of its political sub-divisions,
the general statement to be published at
public cost in every newspaper in Geor
gia, and the local reports to be similarly
published in every newspaper within the
sub division. Among still other provi
sions, I would require the assent of a
majority of all the members elected to
either house to the passage of any bill.—
At present the Senate consists of 44
members and the House of 175. A ma
jority in either body, or 23 in the Senate
and 88 in the House, are competent to
proceed to business, and a majority of
this majority, or 12 in the Senate and 45
in the House, can pass any but some few
specialty excepted bills. I fail to see the
reason in a little over one-fourth of the
legislative body making laws for a people
who base their whole theory of govern
ment on the idea that the majority must
rule. In Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Mary
land, Michigan, Nevada, and Minnesota,
tbia theory w carried in practice, and I
believe it for the advantage of Georgia to
have the same rale It is a current ob
servation in politics that most bad laws
creep through m “ a thin House,” i. e.,
when Ihnsn is only about a majority of a
ol the members present The
mmm* TUI 1 * 1 . mu 4 “ 4l '‘‘ mnt * nil '*l T wrm1H ap
ply to eases of a two-thirds vote Let it
b« a real two-thirds, that is 67 per cent
of ««** house aad not a sham two-
From the Griffin News.
The Convention Question.
This question is now receiving a good
share of public attention, and we reply
unhesitatingly, -"yes,’ let us have one as
soon as practicable. If there ever was a
time when the interests of the peopli
mam led such an assemblage, now is that
time. There are to be considered;
1st. The capital question.
2d. The homestead problem.
3d. The question of reducing repre
sentation.
4th. The propriety of preventing the
State from lending its credit, and muni
cipal corporations fn >m borrowing money
or lending its credit to any enterprise.
Besides these there are numbers of
other questions which require an imme
diate solution, but the foregoing are the
most important.
There is no denying the fact that the
capital was removed to Atlanta by fraud
and force. It was incorporated in the
constitution of 1868, which was forced
upon the people of Georgia by foreigners
in the shape of carpet-baggers and igno
ramuses, at the point of the bayonet
and by false counting. While we have
no especial objection to Atlanta, yet as
there is great complaint in regard to the
location of the capital, and considering
the means by which it seemed it, we be
lieve the people ought to have a chance to
pass upon it, and if Atlanta should be
selected, they will be satisfied. As the
homestead law now stands, it is more
than nine tenths of the people own. and
in these times of scarcity of money, and
when the credit system is being abandon
ed, people cannot raise the means where
with to get the necessaries of life, espe
cially with the uncertain state of collec
tion laws brought about by unwise legis
lation.
We have abont three times too many
members of the Legislature, and they
meet too often. With twenty-five Sena
tors and from eighty to one hundred Rep
resentatives, business would be expedited,
and we would have more wholesome
laws. As it is, the best attorney in the
country can’t tell what the laws are, and
it is necessary to liave them codified at
the expiration of every Legislature,
thereby entailing a great expense Bi
ennial sessions would be amply sufficient,
and we would have much more whole
some laws, for we would then elect better
men, and a few members do all the busi
ness any way.
If nothing else were to be accomplish
ed, the success of the proposition in re
gard to State aid and municipal credit
and endorsement to different enterprises
would be amply sufficient. Our State
had become well nigh bankrupt by the
endorsement of railroad bonds, and mu
nicipal affairs have been a regular swin
die. There is scarcely a city in Georgia
but what is overwhelmingly in debt, caus
ed by taking stock in various enterprises
which have feathered a few men’s nests
and entailed an unendurable debt upon
the masses, and which as investments are
generally utterly worthless.
State and municipal aid should never
be granted except in the rarest cases,
and there are so few that the principle
ought to be abolished entirely.
The expense of such a convention
would be more than counterbalanced by
the accomplishment of any one of the
objects mentioned. It is a question
purely personal to Georgians, for if any
“impracticables” were to get in, they
would be utterly powerless, because the
infamous edits of Congress are hanging
over us, and we could make no change in
our political status, without subjecting
ourselves to another reconstruction.
Let the people discuss this matter
amongst themselves and speak out in
primary meetings, and then let us have
an honest expression of the masses, and
satisfaction will be guaranteed.
Esq., of Oglethorpe, in which he sets forth
very fully and strongly, his reasons for
wishing a Convention. We cannot see
that it contains anything new, but the
main reason he assigns, is the present
Constitution under which we live is not
of our own choosing nor the work of our
own liands.
This fact every man in the State is fa
miliar with, and none can deny. Mr. R.
wishes to do away with the Home
stead and Exemption laws, because of
its oppression iu making the hire of
money high. Every man in the State,
of intelligence, knows such legislation
tends to lessen the facilities for borrow
ing money. When I loan my money, if
I know I have to take the risk of fighting
Homestead Exemptions to collect it, I
would need a guardian if I did not charge
for the risk. We supposed that every
man admitted the necessity of remoddle-
ing the thing fixed up in i868 by Aker-
man. 1’rvant & Co., and called the Con
stitution of Georgia, a part of which was
so odious that even a radical Congress
struck it out. Even the Atlanta papers
tacitly admit the necessity, but the only
question is, is the times propitious for
siicli a Convention?
Will ttie good that will redown to the
State by the acts of this Convention pay
for it? So far as the little amount
of taxation is concerned to pay the
actual expenses of the Convention,
it does not weigh a feathers weight with
us. A patriotic and virtuous people will
not only give their treasure but their
1 Ac>od f< >r good government But as a mat
ter of pecuniary benefit to the State, we
say let us have a Convention composed
of*our bestnien, that they may lop off
many ol the unnecessary ex2>enses of the
present regime.
The actual necessary expenses of nm-
ming the government of the State, is
much heavier under the present Consti
tution. than it would be under one made
by our own tax payers.
Let us have a Convention and sell out
mr Atlanta property and return to our
»ood old Capitol.
C
Citv
interesting itself in behalf of the propos- ^ adoptfng me uoae. dul mo
ed Constitutional Convention more pro- jj era ij : “it was a noble spirit of
bably than any other print, and we think re f orm ^ 0 ur civilization when the foul
it could not devote its columns more pro- htominh was eradicated from our statue
fitably than in seeking to place the sub- ^ts.” It speaks also of this law made
ject fairly before the public ; for it is ev- the freemen who bore up the South-
idcntly the question of the times. em cross for four years, almost against
"Hon. John C. Reed, of Lexington, WO rld come in arms, and who have
lias been called- out by the Chronicle & not been bent by the eight years of op-
who. in a communication of fnllnwinor their disastrous de
••The Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel is
A Constitutional Couveuton.
Another Letter from Hou. John C. Reed
—Reply to the Atlanta Hcral L
December 1!
Editor* Chronicle if Sentinel:
' 873.
unprisoinn
fcVI, *“ : :— debt. It appears shaky at the ver s. g-
parts of the State soliciting their views ^ men its editorials arc tonsid:
for publication. The Chronicle of 7th ^ gQ is found ia t!u . m tll . c one
mst., contains a letter from John C. Reed, aluiost thinks that the reasons giv, n are
k c<i rtf ( irrlnrlmmD lH tcniPn hf> QDTJa mrt.h , i ri i i*n
only ostensible and that a still gro *er
and more moving argument exists, j pt
back, as yet undisclosed.
The Constitution of 1798 provided
that there should be no detention i f the
persons of a debtor, except in cases . here
there was a strong presumption of fraud.
Our law did not stop there. It went on
humanizing, increasing the allowances to
insolvent debtors, until at the breaking
out of the late war no bail writ could >0
had against a man unless the plaintiff
made oath to the fraud of the defendant,
nor could a ca sa be obtained unless the
plaintiff specified in his affidavit proper
ty other than his exemptions held by the
defendant, which could not be reached by
fi. fa. If the plaintiff swore falsely in
either affidavit, the defendant could pros
ecute him and send him to the peniten
tiary. After the bail writ or the ca sa is
sued the defendant conld be at onco re
leased by giving bond to appear at a day
appointed and give up the property over
and above that allowed him by the law.
He could only be imprisoned by the find
ing of a jury of his neighbors that be was
keeping back and hiding out more prop
erty than that which the law permitted to
him as the head of a family. Under this
law, that the free people of Georgia en
acted for themselves, which they recast
and perfected in 1858, no honest man was
ever hurt or even arrested. The fear of
the law so deterred the dishonest that I
never knew of but one case of imprison
ment-—that was where a purchaser of a
large stock of mules, having sold them
out and pocketed all of the .money to
cheat the seller, pretended that he had
lost his pocket-book. The seller took
him with a bail writ, and an honest jiuy
of Greene county found that he still had
the money. He was sent to jail under
the verdict, and in there he found the
pocket-book and paid the seller for his
mules. I practiced forjeleveu years under
this law apd the above is the only case of
imprisonment for debt which I ever knew.
It was a good law, guarding jealously
the liberty of the citizen, and it was a
terror to none but those who wished to
at her
cheat and swindle Our State
Press.—The Albany “Central hjghggi pitch of refinement, when she was
free to do as she pleased, recast the law
as I have said in 1858, and again re-enac-
tlie Code. But the
Sentinel, , _
length, shows, very clearly to our
mind, that the calling of such a conven
tion is imperiously demanded, and should
be delayed no longer than the forms of
law require.'
We find the following in the Hawkins-
ille Dispatch:
Ont Odious State Constitution.—But
few papers in Georgia oppose a Conven
tion of the people for the purpose of
changing the present Constitution, and if
the people of the State were aware how
much better they could make it by a few
alterations, they would demand a Con
vention at once. The present Constitu
tion was thrust upon our people at a time
when they were under the power of Fed
eral bayonets, which fact was so repug
nant to their feeliugs as free citizens
that thousands of them refused to go to
the [lolls and vote against it Bullock
was running for Governor, and it is to
his party that we are indebted for the
ratification of the Constitution and its
odious provisions. The scalawags and
mi ^representatives who were assembled
in Atlanta in the early part of 1868 had
strong apprehensions that the people
would some day demand a change in
their legislation, and call for an alteration
of the Constitution. To place as great
an obstacle as possible in the way of
amendments to this instrument, they de
dared that it should not be altered or
amended except by a vote of two-thirds
of two Legislatures elected successively.
Thus we are forced to submit to the ope
ration of laws that cannot be amended or
repealed unless by our representatives
elected on different occasions, or a direct
action by the people to dispose of the
matter. If the present Legislature,
which convenes in the early part of Jan
uary, will submit the question to a vote,
we are satisfied the capital will be re
moved to Milledgevilie, where it right
fully belongs, and some very wholesome
and more important changes will be made
in the present Constitution, if a new one
be not entirely framed.
Ex- Governor Seymour on the Basic.
—Ex Governor Seymour has written a
letter on the finances to a gentleman in
Wisconsin. He tliinks “tire panic has
to stay awhile;” attributes it to
ruinous speculation on too small capital;
pression following their disastrous de-
feat as “an outrage upon Christian civili
zation and humanity. The ignorant
slave just freed, the carpet-bagger who
ran away from home to steal, and tha
scalawag who stole at home, were, it
seems, superior in Christianjcivilization to
the free whites of Georgia in the meridi
an of their advancement and develop
ment
The Herald seems to fear that if the
people of Georgia arc permitted to meet
in free convention that the barbarians
will at once begin to put every mother's
son of themselves in jail for debt; ard
that paper would patriotically protect
these poor creatures with the superior
civilization of the African and the Scow-
heganite, and keep them from wreaking
their ferocious barbarity on themselves.
Sorely, we ought to thank the Herald.
Moses, who would not let his Divine Mas
ter destroy his people, wasn't a circum
stance.
I say, if the people of Georgia wish a
law to jail the swindler and smuggler,
let them have it. H they wish to remove
the capital back to Milledgevilie, let them
do it. Their will expressed in constitu
tion or law should command our most
hearty obedience. As to the boasted su
periority of the carpet-baggers and scala
wags who, in such Christian enlighten
ment, corrected our errors and purged
the worth, intellect and flower of our
people of barbarism, I do not see it.
The old law cannot be revived unless the
people meet in convention, and if it is re
vived no man can be imprisoned unless
a jury of his own people find, on reliable
evidence, that he is holding back proper
ty over and above liis homestead an ex
emption. Sould any honest man fear
either a convention or a jury of his own
people?
After all, this question is trivial com
pared with some of the others agitated.
So is the question of the removal of the
capital. Good men may diffe r on either.
But however much we may differ, no
body should be afraid to see the peoplo
of Georgia make their own constitution,
nor refuse such, when made, his cheer
ful obedience, through it may put the
capital where some people do not wish it,
or agree either with the Herald or my
self as to the policy of imprisonment for
debt. Revival of the good old system of
Death of Col. Frederick Dent.—Col.
Frederick Dent, father of Airs. Grant,
died in Washington, on the 16th inst.
He was in the 88th year of his age. His
daughter, Mrs. Casey, is quite ill at Phil
adelphia. Her symptoms are unfavora
ble, and sad news is apprehended. Col.
Dent has resided for a long time at the
White House as the guest of his daugh
ter. The Colonel never abandoned his
Democracy, his somewhat forcible dennn
ciations of the prevailing faction in its
highest places has been one of the fea
tures of the Executive Mansion. He ate
his breakfast and smoked his cigar as
usual on the morning before his death.
rUlUOUS apwuuiuuu wu wu oumu uvuv. *V ~~~—
thinks we have too many railroads and are our fathers, trampled under foot by the
too extravagant, and sums up as follows: irruption of the vandals who desecreted
-The- future is full of uncertainty. I look our State under the reconstruction acts,
for troubled times. By and by it will protection of the public credit, an inliibi-
clc.ar up and you and your contemporaries tion perpetual and irrepcalable on theLeg •
will gather in the fruits of the toils, the islature to pay the repudiated bonds, but
schemes and speculations of this day. above all, the exercise of thejflorions
Increased population and production will privilege to make our own constitution
in time float off the stranded ventures of as we please, instead of being kept for-
tlie day. I may not live to see this, but ever under the immaculate Christianity
vou and others of your years will reap and superior civilization of the first con-
the benefit of this state of things. I can I stitntional experiment of thieves, plun-
not say I am sorry the crash has come, derers, floaters and negroes—all these
It will do much mischief now; it would speak eommandingly to the good citizen,
do more if put off.” whatever he may think of the particular
subject of this article. Yours, &t\,
Fierce County fob a Convention.—The I J° HX p- ^ lEED '
citizens of l*ierce county are to meet in _ _ " 1 ' " n
Convention on Saturday, Januarv Id, . The Salary JoBBER—The Congies-
“to consider the expediency of caffing aUoiml snfory grabber s supposed to feel
Convention of the Stete for a change of fcUow Iiusse11 L ° V ~
the present State Constitution back to e ® B P oe * n on ^ onrtlD '
‘ - _ . -m i m m •< •• I ISDa aLuul a unoll tin (
GettIng Sunshine.—Madge is a cute
little creature only four years old. Her
mother once told her when she felt cross
she must go to the window and get some
sunshine, and then she would feel better.
One day Madge kept going very frequently
to the window, holding her little speck
of an apron to catch the sunbeams, then
gathering it up quickly and running'with
it to her grandpa, throwing the apron up
in his face. Her mother said at last.
“My darling, what are you doing? You
must not be rude to grandpa. “I don’t
mean to be rude mamma," she said, “I’m
carrying sunshine into grandpa’s face,
because he looks so sober.”
“He stood a spell on one foot fust.
Then stood a spell on t'other ,
to* on each one he felt the wugt.
He couldn't ha’ told ye, nuther.”
The New York Herald says:
Salary stealing is of a piece with the
corruptions in which Republican
thirds, simply two-thirds of a majority, or
35 per cent Still, furthermore, I would
provide pauper publication and
due promulgation of the laws—two things
now shamefully neglected; would give
limited exemptions from jury du
ty aad forbid the Legislature to gnnt
more: would flx the capital in its time-
)*MMB8d«ag at Milledgerille; would crip-
Mum Meeting.—A mass meeting of
the citizens of Richmond county will be
held in the City Hall, in Augusta to-night,
for the purpose of taking action upon
the question of calling a Constitutional
Convention.
the old land marks of our fathers.”
The Rome Courier says: The system
of gift enterprise in connection with
journalism is a species of humbuggery
degrading alike to the journals that offer
them and to the profession. They ought
to be denounced by the craft as degnd-.^^— ^ — — r
ing and unprofessional, and wsars glad to rule has been so fertile, and the Republi-
see the press speaking out in condemns-1 can party has not rejected the thieves,
tion of the scheme. even when caught and known. It ac
jeepts them all, and must accept as its
Dreadful^—The News and Courier,®"* thsodiumoftheir acts Of this the
_ __ 0 , , I composition of the committee in tlie
treating of Sir. Stephens speech, myu. iQouge ig crowning evidence. Democrats
But we cannot help being somewhat j ^ok part in the salary theft, and bo ha-; i
sorry for Georgia. One of her Ssutai L ff »ui«« to superior honesty, but the lfr
makes an outside tiring bp ♦dramming’ poblioaas eoaldhave prevented it and did
for a Book Concern and for a Infs Insur- l aa A ml u « m>on their party the popu-
ancc Company, aad her most trusted Con-1 £Tto«gMtion must ML
gressman defends Grant sad the back-1 ~ - -1-
pay steal. South Carotins 4s not much I ^ jiya At the municipal election
better off.” I held OB toe 17th at Stone Mountain, a
When South Carolina beoomea ‘♦aome-lMayor and Council pledged to grant no
what sorry for Georgia,” matters mail to I mow liquor licenses, were elected by a
growing very “bilious” in this Stato. jhandsoase majority. The election was
Dr. H. R. Casey, of Columbia, is
out in the Chronicle against the Consti
tution and in favor of a Convention.— Col. P. W. Alexander is in CoWw. I
Leading men all over toe State axe favor I He is said to be warmly ig tow «f hi lii Hubiana Lewi* T. WigfaU hat been
ing » Convention. | Constitutional Conraton IntaiM la toe Pittmore bar.