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THE UNION & RECORDER.
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•Southern "Recorder “ «od “Federal Unio» M
consolidated.]
MULBD &ZVZ&IB, CIA:
Wednesday, February 4, 1171
pother column we publish an ar-
»m tho Macon Telegraph & Mes
senger on the subject of Ex-Comptrollei
General Tliweatt’s claim against the
State. We endorse all this sterling old
py says about Col. Thweatt. He was
indeed an able, faitliful and honest officer.
He has done the State good service
and the people have not forgotten it, and
will be well pleased if their Representa
tives should in some manner reward it.
The notes or bonds he received for his
salary during the war he laid away with
perfect faiiti that the State would not
let him be a loser thereby. A proviso in
the repudiating ordinance gives the Legis
lature the power to pay him, and we
think they ought to do so; but our
faith is not strong after then- refusal to
pay our printing bill.
We did not ask that ;iny money we re
ceived during the war should be made
good. We only asked for a balance due
us on the 9th of May, 18G3, after the
war ended, and when the money was ab
solutely worthless. A large number of
the civil officers of the Stato were paid
for their services for the 1st quarter of
1865 in U. S. currency, ■ and all of them,
we believe, for tho 2d quar ter beginning
April 1st, 1865. We gavo credit on our
account for all the money we received
previous to the 9th of May, even to §10,-
000 as late as the 8th of April, 1865.—
This was the last settlement made by our
State officers before the government pass
ed into the hands of the military, and
about one month after the surrender—
and the notes were taken only as acknowl
edgement of the State’s indebtedness to us.
The Laws and Journals printed by us at
this time were sent out to the several
counties 18 months after the close of the
war. We have a bill before the Legisla
ture asking the privilege of suing the
State. It does seem to us we ought to
be paid something on this balance, which
was about two thirds of our printing
bill for the session of 1864 o. We will
be satisfied with the decision of a Court,
and we hope the Legislature will pass the
bill and thus settle the matter.
The State has had the fienefit of our
labor and material. The legal and po
litical history of the State would be im
perfect without the Laws and Journals
of that year. Between man and man
this would be sufficient to insure the
claim for payment. Should the State be
less just than an individual because she
has the power ?
Mr. Foster, of Richmond, in his
speech against a Convention, declared
that a Convention would unite the ne
groes and scalawags with the Homestead
men, and bring the Radicals into power
in Georgia. The negroes and radicals in
the Legislature did not seem to think
so; or, if they did, they didn't want to
come into power, for every one of them
in the Legislature voted with Mr. Foster
against a Convention.
10" We are indebted to Hons. John
B. Gordon, James H. Blount and H. P.
Bell for copies of speeches delivered by
them in Congress.
Consistent, Very.—A few days ago the
Atlanta Constitution professed to be very
much frightened at the thought of the
State paying §20,000 fora Constitutional
Convention, and now it is in favor of the
Legislature appointing a committee to
select a site for a State Capitol of stone,
which would cost millions. Those mem
bers of the Legislature who really be
lieved that the “Constitution” was econo
mically disposed must now see that they
have been sold.
She Atlanta Staff Acknowledge their
Fraud and Fromise Restitution.
During the discussion of the Conven
tion bill, the Governor sent in a message
informing the Legislature that the City
Council of Atlanta had assumed the pay
ment of the mortgage on the Kimball
Opera House, and that the attorney for
the claimants had agreed to look to the
Council of Atlanta for payment.
This is a clear case of repentance and
restitution under the gallows. By this
act the Atlanta ring admit they entered
into a conspiracy with Bullock and Kim
b>U to cheat the State in the purchase of
the Opera House. On their part the Atlan-
tese promised to conceal from the agents of
the State the mortgage, and Bullock and
Kimball promised to let bonds of the
city to the amount of one hundred thou
sand dollars remain as security against
the mortgage, and to remit the payment
of thirty thousand dollars if they would
induce the Legislature to pay them thr ee
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the
Opera House. By this arrangement the
Atlanta ring expected to get off from pay
ing anything for the Opera House. But
Bollock and Kimball ran away and left
the mortgage unpaid, and the State would
have had it to pay if the Convention bill
apt l»en pending- It was not from
any compunctions of conscience or any
other apasmodic fit of honesty that made
them pay it, but merely for rear of losing
the Capital which made them pay it; and
the than and maimer of ventilating their
honesty was intended to have a dramatic
effect upon the Legislature. For the
Atlanta ring to show a spasmodic fit of
honesty at any time was enough to elec-
the Legislature; but just as
their trial for their various crimes
and misdemeanors was about to com
mence, showed that they felt guilty, and
were frightened as they contemplated the
approach of punishment. Let the Legis
lature keep a sharp lookout for the ring
now, for they will try all manner of means
to get twice as much out of the State
some other way.
Ins Atlanta Fulfilled All of Ker
•Uffstkai to the State T
We understand the Atlanta Constitu
tion to assert that she has. Let us exam
ine the facts. Atlanta obligated herself
if the Capitol was carried there,she would
furnish all of the public buildings neces-
^ or r J® n years, without any cost to
State. The Capital has not been in At
lanta ten years yet, and yet the State has
been called upon to pay the following
spas Thirty-five thousand dollars,
whteh Bollock took out of the Treasury
to pay Kimball for fixing up the old
Opera-House, and twenty thousand at an
other time.
4Nty4ve thousand in all $56,000
The State paid three hundred
fifty thousand for the Opera
* - - 360,000
i thousand for the
• 100,000
i State has paid for — - ■
mgs in Atlanta - $806,000
ta«ta 'staring him in the
Wisconsin churches raise
means of
fee ft '
money by
Auk.
Gail Hamilton eamtesneo the opinion in
tiie Christian Onion, that “Adam's tall ia
a vary Ascoaraijng pr—mstanoa”
The Conveafcon Question Defeated
Henry Q0*rn'& C-o.. backed up by the
Atlanta Jfing, like Sa£augnd his angels,
are hqhfito<ftaqi
they have triumphed odft the
Georgia Man might hones
to the projfJKy of carpi' a
at this time, but no man who has sense
enough to find his way to Atlanta and
back, can for a moment doubt the right of
the people to decide for themselves wheth
er they want a Convention or not. And
this is the poor privilege which the Leg
islatiue has denied them. This is th« lost
time we have ever tjf <$ legislature |
taking upon themselves to decide that
the people in • free tgfqfB could not be
trusted with making their own Constitu
lion, but that it was better for the Legis
lature to do it for them.. This agt of the
Legislature is a strefcdi of Usurpation and
tyrany equal in principal, if-nut in its con
sequences, to anything ever perpetrated
by any despot in Europe. We have read
md heard a great many political speeches,
but never one that equaled in absurdity
that made by Mr. Foster, of Richmond,
against a Convention. He admitted that
nearly the whole newspaper press in the
State, together with many of the bright
est intellects, were in favor of a Conven
tion ; and yet he contended that the peo
pie did not want a Convention—and yet
to prove the insince ntrk this assertion,
he violently opposed letting the people
have a chance to say whether they want
ed a Convention or not, for fear they
would decide in favor of a Convention.—
But then Foster contends that it would
be destructive to the planting interest of
the State to take the people away from
their work even for one day to vote for
delegates to a Convention,- and if they
were allowed to vote, the scalawags might
combine with the negroes and elect bad
men, and thus bring us again under the
rule of Bullock. Every argument used
by Mr. Foster against electing delegates
to a Convention can be urged with still
greater plausibility against holding any
election next fall. If there is an election
for members of the Legislature next fall,
will it not take men from their work in
the midst of cotton picking ? -and cannot
scalawags and negroes then combine, and
will they not have as much desire to com
bine in electing members of the Legisla
ture as delegates to a Convention—espe
cially as the Legislature claim to have the
power and the disposition to make any
change in the Constitution which the peo
ple desire ? If then Mr. Foster is sincere
in liis apprehensions of the awful conse
quences of allowing the people to come
together and vote for delegates to a Con
vention—to bo consistent, lie and all those
who think with him might, with equal
propriety vote against any election next
fall, and resolve that the people are not
cajiable of selecting their own rulers, and
that they in compassion will continue to
rule them for another term. This would
not be any greater act of usurpation, pre
sumption and despotism than to deny
the people the right to say whether they
wantedp, Convention or not; yet this is
the true logic of Mr. Foster’s speech.—
Does such a man really and truly repre
sent the intelligent people of Richmond
county t We shall doubt it until after the
next election.
The Atlanta “ Constitution" boasts that
the vote in favor of § Convention this
year is five less than it w as last year.—
We think he -will find out that this proves
too much for his side. It will be recol
lected that this is the same body of men
that were there last year, and that the in
fluences brought to bear upon them after
two years’ stay in Atlanta, may have cor
rupted some of them, is a strong argu
ment in favor of. changing the plac§ of
legislation, and of frequent elections. We
appeal with confidence from the saloons of
Atlanta, to the ballot-box, from Henry
Clews and the Atlanta ring, to the honest
people, from Pease and his wife, to every
Lome in Georgia. It is for the people to
determine whether they will make their
own Constitution or trust to the tinkers
of Atlanta to mend Bullock's old brass
kettle for them.
Our Code.
The recent revised and enlarged edition
(1873) of «the Code of Georgia has been
before the public for some months, and
lias received but little notice from the
Press of our own State.
We are pleased to observe that it has
attracted a handsome tribute abroad. In
the January number of that admirable
Law Periodical, The Southern- Law Re
view, published in NashviHe, Tennessee,
appears a brief but handsome notice of
this most complete embodiment of the
laws of Georgia ever presented to the
public. It is pleasing to know that its
merits have elicited the just praise of an
authority beyond the limits of Georgia
wielding so great and deserved an influ
ence as The Southern Law Review.
The January number of this able peri
odical contains the first number of a
series of article which arc to enrich its
columns entitled “Modern Theories of
Government,” from the pen of Hon. W.
F. Cooper, the present Chancellor of the
Nashville District, formerly one of the
Judges of the Supreme Court of Tennes
see. Theee papers of Mr. Cooper are
t^e results of profound study of foreign
governments as well as of our owu. He
spent many years in Europe, and his
articles are' replete with such fruits as
might be expected from his matured and
enlarged culture. * We see in the'Chart of
the Southern -Law .Review Union (pub
lished with every; number of the “Law
Review’’) the names of CoL Wm McKin
ley, CoL W. G. McAdoo and Messrs.
Sanford and Furman of this city, also a
large number oi other legal gentlemen
in various other localities of the State.
The Re view always contains digests of
the latest decisions of the Supreme
Courts of the various States; also of the
United States; and of the English Courts;
and it is of great valito to the lawyer, the
statesman, and the man of general cul
ture. Edited by .Frank T. Reid, Nash
ville.
—
Thb Financial Crisis—The Ladies to
the Front.—In the State Grange, in
which the ladies took an active part, the
following resolution introduced by Mrs.
T- J. Smith, the wile of the Master, was
adopted unanimously:
Whereas, the depeemed condition of
the planting interest of Georgia calls for
a radical change in our expenditures as
wives and daughters of Patrons; there
fore, t o
Resolved, That the sisters of the State
Grange, being in sympathy with our hus
bands, do for the year 1874, pledge our
selves to buy nothing for own use except
cotton Kpod^anti that fra will use>oar in-
fluenc$“in Making c^Mioes'the ledding
dress among the sisters of the suberdin
ate granges of Georgia.
ISr. Fee
Mr. Pecksniff of
tuMon, intimates that
tl^UiaMf t U V-t
-a
Atlanta Bing
Fr< til tlin Atlanta Ocr.Jtihitior, 2?!h nit.
THE fONTENTIDN DILL.
n»«n to my,
had
topiythiuff in partifiYlar-
when^hey invited the Legislature to sup
with Pease and his wit’oji tlic
votaftm theCqffiVciitioff^Hl
He also insinuates that no <>ne <Vor
dreamed of buying men with a supper.
If Mr. Pecksniff’ liad studied Ilia Bible..aa
closely as he Iras his Lottery Schemes, he
would have learned that a great l Pmiee
aud the head of a mighty nation once
bought his brother’s "birthright and his
father’s blessing with a moss of pottage,
and Pecksniff’ will hardly dare to insinu
ate that old Jacob could make better
pottage than Pease and his wife. Mr.
Pecksniff is perfectly welcome to select
the texts of all of his sermons from our
writings,-if he will only quote us faiilv
and honestly, and not garble oyr writings
to suit his necessities.. Mr. Pecksniff’ has
a very charming habit of bestowing h,s
advice gratuitously upon everybody, and
on all occasions. But as Mr. Pecksniff
was never known to give away anything
of any value, his advice is not much
sought after, even at that low figure.
From the Telegraph & Messenger.
She Veto to the Bouse on the Con
vention Question.
As was announced in our special tele
gram from Atlanta yesterday morning,
the bill calling a State Convention for
the purpose of forming a new constitu
tion, was indefinitely postponed on
Wednesday by a vote of 100 to 65. The
following is a list of the yeas and nays
on the motion to postpone:
Yeas—Adams, Andei'son, Atkinson,
Battle, Baxter, Bell, Black, Blackwell,
Blakev. Blanton, Blue, Bush, Butt, Cal
houn,Candler, Carlton, Clements, Cole
man, Cureton, Davis, Dorminy, .Dorsey,
Duggar, Duke, Dumas, Duncan of Rabun,
Bakers, Ellis, Feagin, Felton, Fitzgerald,
Fort, Foster, Gilbert, Glisson, Golding,
Griffin, Harget, Harris, Heard of Elbert,
Heard of Green, Hightower of Polk, Hill,
Hogc, Hoggard, Howell, Hurt, Hutchin
son of Harralson, Hutchinson of Clayton,
Jackson, Jones of Chattooga,-Ktiigler of
Quitman, Lamkin, Longlcy, Latham,
Leigh of Coweta, Leitner. Lockett, Lowe
of Catoosa, Lowe of Stewart, Lyon, Mas
ter, Mathews of Houston, Mathews of
Upson, McAfee; McLean, McLellan,
Mercer, Merritt, Morris, Moses, Murphy,
Newton, Nicholson, Osborne, Ousley,
Peabody, Rogers, Roper, Sadler, Shew
make, Simms, Smith of Bryan, Stephens.
Stewart, Summerlin, Swearingen, Teas-
lv, Thompson, Towers, Trammell. Turn-
lin, Turner, Twitty, Watt, Welclicll, Y'. il-
Iiams iff Union, Willingham, Willis of
Macon, Wofford—100.
Nays—Baker. Barksdale, Beatty, Bust-
wick, Brantly, of Pierce, Brantlv, of
Washington, Brassell, Cason, Clark, Gold
ing, Culver, Dell, DeLoach. DuBose, Dun
can of Laurens, Dunlap. Dunn. Edwards.
Evans. Flvnt. Fowler. Fay. Freeman,
Grant. Hamilton, Head, Higlit, Hopps.
Hudson, Hunter, Jenkins, of Putnam,
Jones, of Burke, Kaigler, of Ten-ell,
Kirk, Lee, of Appling, Long. Lott. Mac
tox, McArthur. McDaniel, MeKibben.
McRae. Mills. Nutting. Pierce. Poole.
Reese, Roberts. Shi. Simmons, Smith of
Telfair, Snead, Spence, Stapleton. Talia
ferro, Toinpkins, Tutt, Walsli. Williams,
of Dooly, Williamson, Willis of Talbot,
Young, Yow—65.
Every negro andj Radical member of
the House, it will be observed, [voted to
kill the bill—which was to l>e expected,
of course.
We deeply regret, however, that the
good and true men who made up the re
mainder of the one hundred negative
votes, should have found their convic
tions of duty urging them in the same
direction. We think they will lire to
keenly regret it, and that too before they
are one year older.
Wewspaper Lotteries.
The Atlanta Herald has learned some
thing from its recent prize drawing, viz:
to have no more newspaper lotteries. We
are glad to hear this and to know that
the present owners are not responsible for
the scheme—having only carried out in
good faith a project originated by a for
mer proprietor. These newspaper gift
enterprises are, to our minds, very ques
tionable modes of raising the wind. They
are wrong in principle, and cannot but
prove damaging from a pecuniary point
of view. If managed honestly, the paper
meets with immediate and direct loss, as
in the case of the Herald, which paper is
out of pocket fifteen hundred dollars by
its recent drawing. If managed dishonest
ly, many who took the paper in order to
get a ticket will quit it just as soon as
their term expires, and the journal loses
both subscribers and reputation. If pro
prietors of a paper have money to spend,
they should put it upon their cohunus,
and they may rest assured that they will
receive a handsome return from the invest
ment.
The Atlanta Herald of Saturday says:
“Yesterday was a busy day in both branch
es of the General Assembly, at least so far
as accumulating work for the session is
concerned.
Senate.—The Senate reconsidered and
passed the bill donating the State’s stock
in the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad to the
company, with provisoes tliat the road be
completed to Pollard, and the Stato be
secured against all liability on account of
the road.
A resolution was adopted requesting
our Representatives*and Senators in Con
gress to urge the claims of the Great
Western Canal.
A bill increasing the capital btock of
the Georgia Railroad Company by a half
million, in order to afford additional
banking facilities, was passed.”
SPEECH
OF HON. W
LIAMSON.
W. wiv
At 11 o'clock yesterday morning, the
House took up the special order, being
the bill introduced by Mr. W illianison of
Miiledgeville, providing for a Constitu
tional Convention.
The order of the debate ranged thus:
Vv^iiiai^sor aliened for, by Fos
ter against. Hudson continuing uj> unti
the hour nf adjournment for dinner ii
support of the bill. After dinner. Foi l
opened the debate in opposition, followed
by Williams* of Dooly, and Tutt in favor.
Butt and Anderson next followed in op
position.
ARGUMENT for the is I el.
Mr. Williamson spoke for about forty-
four minutes, and although suffering from
hoarseness, acquitted himself with eclat.
In fact we think lie made by far the best
effort on that side.
He began by stating tliat one year ago
he introduced a similar bill. He thought
it right then, and had seen nothing to ^
change liis opinion. He was aware tliat | dimply to make good the wages of its
there was an honest difference of opinion own employee. This is the whole sum
From tlio Telegraph t Messenger.
^Comptroller (toural Fetorwa
Thweatt.
We have published three interesting
articles setting forth the claim of this
former officer of the State, to back pay
for liis salary during the war, and are in
full sympathy with him on the subject.
Mr. Thweatt has forwarded two other
communications the extreme length of
which, aud the crowded condition of our
columns compel **« to decline. Enough
Towever has. Won written to establish be
.'ond cavil, the justice of his demands,
ffr. Jenkins. Hon. Joshua Hill, Mr.
Stephens, mid indeed every legal mind of
'prominence to whom the question has
been submitted, unite in the opinion that
the claim is a just one and should lie
promptly met.
The Receipt ixiok in the Executive
office will show, that the State holds Mi - .
Tiiweatt s acknowledgements for the Gov
emor's drafts or warrants upon the Treas
urer for his salary as Comptroller Gener
al, from the 1st of April, 1862 to the 9th
of May, 1865, which were all exchanged
for State notes. These notes still remain
unpaid; and now a faithful former servant
asks the great Commonwealth of Georgia
Fatieral Eespotism to Louisiana.
Ben. Butler and Mat Carpenter, two
unfit representatives of a people, are pre
paring military bills for the action of
Congress, providing that the present ad
ministration in Louisiana shall be turned
out and that a new election shall lie held
under the regulation of United States
Commissioners or army officers. No one,
remarks the Hartford Times, from the
most unreasonable Radical to the igno
rant plantation negro, believes that Con
gress has authority to do this. But what
of that? Louisiana is now ruled by
usurpers, placed in office by the army, in
opposition to votes. The State is in a
bad condition. Its debt has increased
fearfully. Its bonds are worth little more
fbtm white paper. Its industries are
crippled. But what of all this ?- What
care Butler and Carpenter, and an impe
rious majority in Congress, for lessons of
this sort—what care they for principles
upon which our government is founded ?
So long as the people slumber while the
usurpers are trampling upon the liber
ties and establishing over their heads a
government of the harshest character, the
Butlers and Carpenters will go on in
their work of demolishing the Govern
ment under which the people once ruled.
It is reported that the President declares
that the Federal Government has no con
stitntional right to overturn State gov
emments and make new ones or control
the State elections. It is certainly grati
tying, says the able, outspoken organ of
the Connecticut Democracy, to hear even
a report of this chamfer, under existing
rirr nmsUnnen But after all, this grave
subject should be tefcsntahand by the
safeguards of the Republic to a blind and
unreasonable party majority. The glar
ing evils tost have ftHowed ought to sat-
nafrtaa |MMta4«ilt totifcftfr’IH*
mty toi *$o pImmL”
entertained by members on tliis questibn,
and he accorded them the same honesty
of purpose, purity oi motive, and eleva
ted aim tliat he claimed for himself. He
would endeavor to show:
First—That there is an imperious ne
cessity for a change in the organic
law.
Second—Tliat a Convention is the
cheapest and only safe way to change
it.
All agree that the present Constitution
does not meet the wishes of the people ;
that it is the offspring of the hot-bed of
despotism ; that it is the work of “foes
from without and of fraud within.” A free
people have the light to choose their own
government. It is asked why change the
Constitution ? The people voted against
it because it was wrong. If it was wrong
then it is wrong now. All believe tliat
we ought to change it when we can safely
do so. In endeavoring to point out its
defects I shall address your judgments
and not your passions.
1. There are §8,000,000 of bonds, fraud
ulent and disowned, which are knocking
at our doors for payment. The General
Assembly and its committees devoted
much time to eliciting facts concerning
them. Of what use will be all that ex-
penditure of time aud money, if we stop
short of the work. Declaring bonds ille
gal does not protect the Legislature. There
should be an amendment to the Constitu
tion forbidding forever the payment of
these bonds. Should the other party
come in power they could re-enact the
acts providing for their payment. These
bondholders applied at the last Legisla
ture. They didn’t come tliis time, be
cause they wished to lull us into false se
curity.
2. We should prevent county and mu
nieip.il corporations from issuing bonds
against the consent of the people. This
is the more essential when we consider
th it one class of 'our population are igno
rant. When we were wealthy we placed
restrictions on our rulers. Now tliat we
are impoverished we place all power in
their hands. We know from sail experi
ence how they will prostitute that power.
The will of the inlcr is the lav,'of the
land. I would make the organic law the
will of the land, and prevent our rulers
from oppression and spoliation.
I have no allusion to.the present Chief
Executive of our State: I believe the State
will be in safe hands under the guidance
of James M. Smith.
That the Constitution needs? amend
ment is patent from the fact that five bills
for tliat purpose have been introduced in
the Senate and nine in the House.
The try is raised that we are afraid to
change' now for fear of Federal interfer
ence. We ought not to take council of
our fears, for fear never accomplished
anything. We were told to abolish slavery
and we did it.
Wc were told to repudiate our debts
and we did it. We were told to swallow
the 13th, 14tli and 15th Amendments and
we did it. We were told to submit and
we did it. We submitted so often until
the usurpers began to believe that they
had absolute power. But when they tried
to prolong it, the people rose in the might
of their manhood and hurled the usurpers
from power. The case of Texas is in
point. The reply of President Grant to
Gov. Davis demonstrut' d tliat there was
no longer any danger lo be apprehended
from Federal interference.
Failing in this, the opponents of a con
vention fall back to the cry that danger is
to be feared in our own border; that the
homestead men will unite with the Re
publicans and beat us. There are now
several bills to amend the homestead in
the House. If the convention frames a
Constitution, and it is ratified by the peo
ple, the work ends there. But the Gen
eral Assembly has the power to oppress
you in the future as in the past. The
same issues will come up every time you
propose an amendment to the Constitu
tion. If these men whip you in the fight
for representatives you will be at their
mercy. Don’t mix up these questions
with the election for representatives.
But it is said that calling a convention
will cause emigration. Why? I do not
hesitate to aver that there were more
whites emigrated from the State last year
than colored. The whites went of their
own volition; the colored were seduced
by adventurers who plunder them.
Why should the colored people object
to a convention? The people now lead
themselves. Send your best men. Pro
tect the planter and the laborer, the mud
sills of your jirosperity. Repeat the §700
exemption; make them feel the burden
;uid they will be more watchful and vigi
lant. We cannot interfere With the
amendments to the Constitution of the
United States if we woidd. The certified
statement of Treasurer Jones that the
cost of the convention of 1865, sat for fif
teen days and cost $15,386 35. This
bill proposes to call together seventy-two
delegates. Snpppose they sit twenty
days the cost will be only $20,000; if they
should sit thirty days it would lie $25,
000.
Figures don’t lie. The calling of a
convention is not only tlie safest but the
only safe plan, (applause.)
Site for Capitol.
“We suggest to Council the propriety
of appointing a committee to co-operate
with a legislative committee on the selec
tion of a suitable site for the Capitol. The
building can be erected whenever it is
thought advisable; and if the labor of the
penitentiary convicts were made available,
a splendid stone structure may be had at
a greatly reduced cost. We throw out
the suggestion for consideration."
We clip the above from the Atlanta
Constitution, of yesterday.
The negative vote on the convention
bill is bearing fruit early. Atlanta con
siders that she has won a victory that
cannot be reversed, and that the Capitol
question is forever settled in her favor;
so before the ink is dried thatrecords the
vote, she throws off all disguise and pro
claims the true secret of her opposition
to a convention. A new Capitol building
costing anywhere from two to five million
dollars is her next move. That will clinch
the nail, and be a fat job for her profit
Wc shall soon hear that the Opera House
is unsafe—that it is a disgrace to a great
State like Georgia, etc., and then up will
pop the little joker. When the tax-pay
ers of Georgia see him in all the glory of
an enormous increase of their already
heavy financial burdens, perhaps they may
have cause to regret that ao many of their
Representatives -were unable to discover
him under the flimsy disguise in which he
was ao clumsily concealed by his mani
pulators.—Tel. A Mess., 30th nit. i
and substance of the case in a nutshelL
It may be added that precedents too,
are not wanting where debts of inferior
dignity have been settled by the State
since the war. Thus the change bills of
the Western and Atlantic railroad were
redeemed at par, and the validity of the
bonds of the Atlantic and Gulf railroad
issued duiing the war to raise a deficiency
in the Treasury, have been duly “acknowl
edged.” The claim of Mr. Thweatt ranks
these in priority. For his are the wages
justly due to the faithful laborer. The
whole claim, principal and interest a-
mounts but to the small sum of §9,000
and tlie ex Comptroller General, who his
worst foes must admit was the very im
personation of honesty and integrity in
office, is now old and impecunious.
His articles exhibit a refreshing lack of
what in these times w ould be denomina
ted policy. He is incisive and outspoken
and manifestly depends upon the justice
of liis cruise ■simply, without auy button
holing and personal solicitation of mem
hers of the General Assembly. We trust
the sequel will show that for once truth
can prevail, without the degrading ad
denda he has scorned to employ. In all
the past history of the State we doubt if
a more economical, laborious and honest
officer can be found than ex-Comptroller
Peterson Thweatt.
We give him the benefit of this notice,
without reward or solicitation, or any de
sire or intention to reflect upon the con
duet of any of his associates in office,
whether of the present or past.
From tbe Chronicle Sentinel.
Th* Convention Question.
The House of Representatives lias
rejected by u very decided majority
the proposition to submit to the decis
ion of the people the question of hol
ding a Constitutional Convention.
We may, therefore, regard the matter
as settled—for tlie present and for the
present only. When a Legislature,
fresh from the people, shall convene
ne*t January, the very same question
will be presented, and it is not improb
able that it will be made a direct issue
in the corniug canvass. Nothing but a
decision from s thc supreme authority iu
a republican form of government—
the ballot box—willsatisly the friends
of this great measure, and until such a
decision is rendered they will not cease
agitation in its behalf. In tlie shape
in which the question came before the
House, we are unable to understand
the votes of those who voted ii^
of the motion of Mr. Anhekso^.
We care not how much a member
may have been opposed 40 the scheme
individually; no matter bow unwise,
impolitic, inexpedient or expensive he
may have thought the bolding of a
Convention would prove, we hold that
he should have felt bound to let his
constituents pass upon the question
for themselves. It is a new doctrine
of free government—which is nothing
but government by the people—“that
the people cannot be trusted; that a
legislator must look upon himself as
the guardian ol feeble-minded consti
tuents, who have not reason enough
to know and to choose that which is
best for their own interests, ^uch a
theory seems both wrong and illogical.
If. is wrong because the people are
tbe fountain of all power, and -it is
undoubtedly their right to declare
their wishes by their votes. It is
illogical, because its advocates were
Hon. Wm. Law, one of Georgia’s moot
gifted and honored sons, died in Savannah
on ita 23d into, tta 80tb year pfbw age.
About Widowers.
They wear weeds upon their time-worn
hats. They wear sanctimonious countenan
ces. They are easily distinguished from
other men by reason of their subdued and
solemn air. and their tender consideration
for sweet young girls of sixteen or there
abouts.
They are usually quite auxious to marry
again, and are seldom unsuccessful in
their various matrimonial endeavors. They
know how to handle a woman; they under
stand her whims and caprices; they are
posted with regard to the exact location
of the vulnerable corner in her heart, and
they besiege this tender spot so assidn
ously that they very rarely, if ever fail to
effect a 'conquest.
Widows are particularly fond of widow
ers. They even prefer a second-rate one
to a first class bachelor. I can account
for this upon no other theory than that
they find it a laborious and difficult under
taking to instinct the uninitiated bache
lors in the mysterious arts and rudiments
of hooking the ir dresses, and pel-forming
those other necessary and essential acts
and duties appearing and belonging to
household economy and domestic felicity,
while the widower, from long previous
practical experiences can immediately at
tend to the satisfactory performance of
these things, without a long course of
severe mental discipline or physical train-
ing.
I know a young widow myself. She is
a tall, elegant and warm-hearted woman;
she is dignified in her demeanor, pleasant
in hermanners,clieerfulinher conversation
and stylish in her attire. She has pearly
teeth, red lips, a pair of tender, bewilder
ing eyes, and a liigh intellectual forehead,
surmounted by a wealth, of waving hair.
Her bands are soft, small and slender,
and she possesses as provokingly pretty
a pair of little feet as ever peeped out
from under the folds of a dark dress. The
other night, we happened, somehow, to
be together. Wc sat side by side in the
front parlor, having a confidential chat
ali by ourselves. The house w as so still
that we could hear the very crawling of
tlie cockroaches in the partitions. I man
aged, by manceuvering, to got hold of
that white, soft small and slender hand
of her, and I said in my tenderest tones:
“Mrs. Brown, do you intend to marry
again?”
“Pshaw.” said she. “why, how you do
talk.”
“But do you, now, really?”
“Perhaps.” she archly replied, “if I can
only persuade some rich and handsome
widower to have me. I wouldn’t think of
marrying any other kind of a man. I’d
sooner take in washing.
I'm a bachelor. I liaveu’t mentioned
the subject of matrimony since. I made
up my mind that, in her regard, I was not
unlike many of the manuscripts my pub
lishers return to me, marked, “not exact
ly available.”
So it is with the widowers, everywhere.
No matter how homely ther are, or how
sanctimonious find melancholy they seem,
they have the best of everything, and all
they want of it They can sleep serenely
while some tender women mends their
torn garmends and darns their tattered
socks, and the lone bachelor transfixes
his thumb (his fingers are all thumbs) in
futile endeavor to make his wardrobe
presentable. A widower has only to look
at a woman and hint a proposal, and he
is accepted without a word of protest, a
murmur or a sigh.
I know of an old widower who is now
living with his fourth wive, a most lovely
and estimable woman, who is nearly gone
with the quick consumption; and I know
of a dozen fascinating females who are
alarmingly profuse in their expressions
of sympathy for him in the matter of this
prospective bereavement. I trust they
are prompted in their words of pity by
motives of pure philanthropy. These
disinterested women will be a great com
fort to him, poor man, when she is gone.
Too Fast.—The Atlanta Constitution
is too fast. It needs a bit of bit to hold
it in. Exnltant over the defeat of the
Constitutional Convention bill, it calls on
the Legislature to appoint a committee
to select a site for a new CapitoL Of
course the Constitution does not expect
the new Capitol to be built before the
Opera House is paid for. It wants a
sight of the site—that’s all Now, de
feating the Williamson bill does not set
tle tlie question as to returning to the
old Capital, which, in the language of
Mr. Walsh, “represents the sweat and toil
of the people of this State” in its bricks.
If we are not mistaken, a vote to return to
Miiledgeville would be carried in the
Legislature. “The shadowy hand of Geor
gia s illustrious dead” point to those bricks
so eloquently representato our “sweat
and blood,” and the Constitution should
wait till the brick question is settled.
[Constitutionalist.
never fails, as thousands of women will testify. It
cares whites. This valuable medicine ia lirqiared and
sold by L. H. Bradfield, Drugi'i.-t, Atlanta, Ga.
w . I’rice $ 1 50 per bottle. All I expectable drn- men
themselves elected by the people, and | keep it.
if the people liave intellect enough to
The Favorite Home Remedy.
Tbis unrivalled Medicine is warranted not tocontain
a single particle of Mercury, or any injurious mineral
substance, but is
PURELY VEGETABLE,
containing those Southern Roots and Herbs! which an
all-wise Providence has placed in countries where
Liver Diseases moot prevail. Ik will cure all Di-vw,
caused by Derangement ofthe LivernffiVDftwekt. 1
Simmons’ Liver Regulator, or Medicine,
Is eminently a Family Medicine; and by b> iup; kept
ready lor immeBidlc resort trill save many an hour of
suffering and many r dollar in tune au.t doctors’ bills.
After ever Forty Years’ trial it is still teoeivirig the
most unqualified Usiimonials to its virt{|ee from per.
*ms of tne highest character and responsibility. Emi
nent physieiars eouitnend it as the most
EFPSCTUAL
For Dyspepsia or {ESEgcgCfon.
Armed with tbis AMrlDOTE ,ad climate* and chang,a
ot water and food may be faced without fear As a
Remedy iu Malarious Fevers, llowc! Complain*^ R P ,t.
lessnesa. Jaundice, Nausea,
» BAS BO EQUAL.
It is the Cheapest, Purest and Rest Family Medicine
• in the World!
Manufactured only ey
JT B. S5E1LXW <L CO.,
MACON, GA., and PHILADELPHIA.
Price, §1.00. Solti by all Dmggists.
Pec.'17, 1873. 21 i y ,
Jor to tec World! \Yoxw is Frie '—Among
the many modern discoveries looking to the happiness
aud amelioration of the human r.if-.-. none is entitled
to higher consideration than the renowned remedy—
I»r. J. Rrudtield's Ffinale Urgulator, Woman’s Best
FrienJ. By it woman is emancipated from number
less ills peculiar to her sex. Bet re its mapie power
ail irregularities of the womb yautsi). It cures sup
pression of the menses. It removes uterine obstruc-
s. It cures constipation and strengthens the pys-
. It bracea the nerves and purifies the blood. It
turns.
tern.
The oldest bank President in the United
States is probably Mr. Eliphalet WflUama
of Northampton, Mass. Hewill be ninety-
five years of age in March next. He presi
ded at the annual meeting of stockholders
of the Northampton National Bank, and
waa re-elected to tbe poeition ta tae long
end ably filled.
select Legislators, Governors and
Congressmen, they are certainly capa
ble of deciding whether it is to their
interest to have a new organic law.
We tee! convinced that sooner or later
the question will go before the people,
and we cau only regret that so favora
ble an opportunity as the present has
been allowed to pass. The State may
not always remain Democratic, and
and tlie power once lost may never be
regained.
The Rome Courier iu an article on
“the press of Georgia twenty-five
years ago”, says:
“And, yet, in this quarter of a cen
tury many have come upon the editor
ial stage, passed a brief experience and
retired from public view to engage in
private business. Others have gone
to “that bourne from whence no trave
ler e’er returns.” The venerable and
venerated members of tho press,
Sitnri Rose, of the )Macon Journal &
Messenger, R. M. Orme, of the old
Southern Recorder, Thomas Ragland,
of the Columbus Enquirer, andJ. W.
Jones, of the Chronicle & Sentinel,
have finished tbeir work and passed
beyond. To say their work was good
work, square work, such work as
redounded to the honor of the profes
sion, the welfare of their country and
the good of the people, is but a feeble
tribute to their memories. They
have ; left a heritage of honor and
examples of dignified journalism .to
tbeir surviving brethren worthy of all
imitation aud to be cherished with
reverence. May their memories never
fade from recollection! They have
left monuments behind more enduring
than brass or marble!
Atlanta Pays the Mortgage.
On the 27th, Gov. Smith sent a message
to the two Houses stating that the city of
Atlanta assumes the mortgage for §60.000
and interest, held by tlie Northwestern
Life Insurance Co.—the company agree
ing to look to Atlanta for payment, there
by releasing the State. This is one re
sult of the agitation of a constitutional
convention.
According to Mr. Alexander Delmar,
the utmost capacity of a population to
consume grain in the form of food is eight
to ten bushels per capita per annum. The
grain product of the commercial world,
however, amounts to eighteen bushels per
head, giving an excess of supply which
necessarily makes agriculture unprofitable.
In 1848 Indian corn was worth sixty-
seven cents, gold, per bushel; now it is
worth only sixty-seven cents currency.
“If this,” says Mr. Delmar, “does not
demonstrate over supply, political econo
my is a valueless science, and observation
in matters relating to breadstuff's must
go for nothing."
Dyspepsia is a Hydra-Headed Monster,
from which nearly all “the ills tlie human
flesh is heir to” originate. The Peruvian
Syrup, a protected solution of the pro
toxide of Iron, is a long tried and well-es
tablished remedy for this distressing com
plaint; it has cured thousands when other
remedies have failed.
Precautions Against Sickness.
The ability of the human body to resist
the causes of disease depends upon its
vigor and upon the regularity w ith which
the several organs perform their functions.
In the winter the most prolific sources of
sickness are damp and cold, and it is
therefore wise and prudent to fortify the
system against them by wholosome stim
ulation. Hence it is that Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters prove such an admirable
safeguard against the complaints most
common at this season. The ingredient*
of this powerful vegetable invigorant com
prise three essential medicinal elements
which act simultaneously upon the diges
tion, circulation, secretions and the nerves,
infusing strength and regularity into alL
In this way the Bitters put the body in
the best possible condition to escape an
attack of rheumatism, or intermittent
fever, or indigestion or biliousness, or of
pulmonary disease. Cold and damp ar e
very depressing; almost as much so as
excessive heat, and a protective medicine
is quite as needful in winter as in summer.
The commercial stimulants so unwisely
taken in the form of drams to “keep out
the cold,” have a precisely opposite effect
to that produced by Hostetter's Bitters.
Their first result is succeeded by a reac
tion which devitalizes and prostrates the
system; while, on the other hand, the tonic
and vitalizing operation of the great ve
getable invigorant, is not only immediate
but permanent There is no revulsion,
on reverse nervous action. The phys
ique is strengthened, the appetite increas
ed, the bowels regulated, the stomach re
inforced, and these conditions continue.
If dyspepsia or rheumatism, or biliousness,
or intermittent fever, or general debility,
or nervous weakness, is present in the
system, expel it with this pure and harm
less antidote, which is not only invalu
able as a preventive of sickness, but also a
remedy for a large class of disorders.
28 lm
Tl'^kegee, Ala., 1868.
Mr. L. II. Bradfikld—Sir: l’lea>e forirard no,
immediately, uuotlier eapply ot Ruadiiklo’s Fe
male Regulator. We tit;,! it to be all that ia claim
ed for it. aud we have wititefse 1 tl.e most decided and
linppy effects produced by it.
Very respectfully,
Hunter & Alexander.
We the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure in
commending lo the trade, Dr J. Hu.vdfieLD's Fe
male Regulator—believing it to be a good a&J re
liable remedy for the diseases for which he recom
mends if.
W. A. LaKDSELL. Atlanta. Ga.
Pemberton, Wilson, Taylor & Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
ReoWLVE & FOX, Atlanta, Ga.
W. C Lawshf., Atlanta, Ga.
W. Root & Son, Marietta, Ga.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Tftot p Cottsrr.
This is to certify that I have examined the recipe of
DR. J. BRADFIELD, oi this county, and as a medi
cal man pronounce it to be a combination ot tnf.iii
tin's of great merit in the treutirent oi all ihe dis
eases of females for which he recommends it. Tnis
December 21,18C8.
WM. P. BEASELEY, M. I).
For sale in Miiledgeville by
JOHN M. CLARK and B. R. IIERTY. Droughts.
May 14, 1873. 42 ly
1840. 1874-
PAIN-KILLER.,
THE GREAT
Family Medicine of (he Age.
Token Internally, It Cure*
Dysentery, Cholera, Diarrhea,
Cramp and Pain in the Stomach,
Bowel Complaints, Painters’ Colic,
Liver Complaint; Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Sore Throat, Sudden Colds, Coughs, Sec., Sec
Used Externally. Zt Cures
Boils, Fcbns, Cuts, Braises, Burns, Scalds, Old
Sores, Sprains, Toothache, Pain in the Face,
Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Frosted Feet,
Sec., Sec., Sec.
PAIN -SIL1EZ,
after a thorough trial by innumerable
living witnesses, has proved itf elf THE
MEDICINE OF THE AGE. It is an
internal and external remedy. One
positive proof of its efficacy is, that its
sales have constantly increased, and
wholly upon its own merits. The effect
of the
PAirr-KX£IiE3.,
upon the patient when taken internally,
in case of Cold, Cough, Bowel Complaint,
Cholera, Dysentery, and other afflictions
of the system, has been truly wonderful,
and has won for it a ntune among medical
preparations that can never be forgotten.
Its success in removing pain, as an exter
nal remedy, in cases of Bums, Bruises,
Sores, Sprains, Cuts, Stings of Insects,
and other causes of suffering, has seemed
for it such a host of testimony, as an
infallible remedy, that it will be handed
down to posterity as one of the greatest
medical discoveries of the nineteenth
century.
TBE PAZSr-BZLLE&
derives much of its popularity from the
simplicity attending its use, which gives
it a peculiar value in a family. The
various diseases which may be reached by
it, and in*their incipient stages eradicated,
are among those which are peculiarly
fatal if suffered to run: but the curative
magic of this preparation at once disarms
them of their terrors. In all respects it
fulfills the conditions of a popular medi
cine.
Be sure you call for and get the genuine
Pain-Killer, as many worthless nostrums
are attempted to be sold on the great
reputation of this valuable medicine.
Direction accompany each bottle.
Price 25 Cts., SO Cts., and SI.00
per Bottle.
Sold by all Medicine Dealers. 28 lm
The 26th of April a Public Holi
day.—The bill of Representative Lyon,
setting apart, by legal enactment, the
2Ctii of April as a |public holiday in
honor of the heroes who died for us,
has passed the Legislature, and no
doubt will receive the signature of the
Governor. The otherSouthern States
will follow the example set by Geor
gia, probably, and the day become sa
cred to every true Southerner down to
the end of time.
Nothing satisfies some people so
qaiclily as an explanation of some
kind. At least it seemed so when
a Detroit woman, who was told by
her grocer the pi ice of a pound of
butter, exclaimed in amazement,
“Thirty-two cents!” “Yes, ’uni” he
replied, with a bland smile. “You
see, tbe grocers can’t carry much of a
reserve, and we can’t turn our col
laterals at a sacrifice. If the govern
ment calls iitoLe bands due in 1874,
and the impoK of bullion tend to ease
the money market a*little, butter must
find its level, with' everything el se ’
Butter is very panicky just now, but 1
think the worst is over.” She P al
the money without further grow
ling-
Con-
It is said that never since the war
has the theatrical business in New York
evoked so little interest or proved ao
unprofitable, as this season.
The Virginias court of inquiry has
completed ita labors. It is the opinion of
the members that every effort possible
was made to' take tbe Virginias to New
Xfldfc
A Mr. Haigler a one armed
federate soldier, living in Barbour
county last year, without assistance,
made six bales of cotton, one hondre
and ninety bushels of corn, and plenty
of peas and potatoes.
Prayer,like Jonathan’s bow, retuin a
not empty. Never was faithful pray cr
lost at sea. No merchant trades w* 1
such certainty as the praying ** ,n ’
Some prayers; indeed, have a loos
voyage than others; bat they re
with tbe richest lading at last-
As the eye which has gazed at the
son cannot immediately discerq >
otbet object, as
been accustomed to behold tfl< !
turn, with contempt from a toagn^
pool.io the Bind whicli k*J
jiutod .torottr owrlook.
tho things of tun*—Pty* 00 ’