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TfiE UNION & RECORDER.
Old “Southern Recorder” and “Federal Union’’
consolidated.]
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Wednesday, February 11, 1874.
One, Van, Three, All in a low.
It was well understood at the North,
and by some at the South, that Henry
Clews would make no demonstration up
on the present Legislature until after the
convention question should be killed off,
as he and his friends knew very well that
any agitation of his claims would help
the convention movement. But no soon
er was the news telegraphed to New York
that the convention was defeated, than
Clews & Co. determined to send an agent
to Atlanta to look after his bonds ; and
who could be selected that eonld explain
Georgia News*
The “Balloon man," of 'VYootteu A
Andrews Managerie, .came very near
loosing his life at Toombsboro. As the
balloon was ascending, the “machine"
took fire and when up in the air some
distance split and fell. In descending it
struck a top of a tall chimney, the man
falling upon the roof of a two,story buil
ding and thence to the ground. How he
escaped with whole bones, or even with
his hfe, is remarkable.—Sandersville Her
ald.
The Houston Home Journal says that
matters so effectually as H. I. Kimball ? more grain had been sown in that county
Coming Events Cast their Shadows
Before.
A Washington correspondent of the
NevttYork Herald says H. I. Kimball left
here last night for Atlanta. The return
of Mr. Kimball was foreshadowed sever
al days ago by two Georgia newspapers,
both of which seemed to be preparing the
way for him and making his paths smooth.
Mr. Kimball was the man, we believe,
who sqld most of the Georgia bonds to
Henry Clews & Co., and the coming of
Mr. Kimball is probably the harbinger of
Heggy Clews. Kimball, no doubt, will
be a very important witness for Henry
Clews. He knows very well how it is
himself- But one circumstance looks rath
er suspicious. None of these important
events were foreshadowed until after the
Convention bill was killed, for fear a Con
stitutional Convention might be called,
which would ruin all of their plans. The
two newspapers which have been prepar
ing the way for Mr. Kimball were both
violently opposed to a Convention. It was
thought by some that Clews & Co. would
not test the virtue of the present Legisla
ture, but would operate on the election
next fall and try to secure more friends
in the next Legislature ; but recent news
from Atlanta may have changed his mind ?
and perhaps some of his friends in At
lanta may be getting impatient and asking
how long their hopes are to be postponed,
and when the fun is to begin. If H. I.
Kimball is really the forerunner of Clews
& Co., or their agent, we may yet see fun
ny things in Atlanta before the present
* Legislature adjourns. At any rate we
believe the time is not very distant when
every intelligent man in Georgia will
know why the people of Georgia were not
allowed to say whether thev wanted
Convention or not
Wise and Timely for Atlanta, bnt
Bad for the Balance of the State.
The Atlanta Constitution in an article
about moving the Capital, advises the
Legislature to rebuke any one who is in
fivor of selecting an honest place for
legislation. Did the Constitution throw-
out this hint for the benefit of Atlanta or
the Legislature ? At any rate it is not
very complimentary to either. Atlanta
may well fear that if such a place for leg
illation is selected she will Ire left out.—
But why the Legislature should rebuke
a man for wanting an honest place for
legislating, we leave for the Constitu
tion to explain. Could such advice to
any Legislature come from any man out-
aide of Atlanta?
Atlanta Consistency.
In a late number of the Atlanta Con
stitution, under the head of “Our Atlanta
City Charter,” we find the following
sound Democratic doctrine:
“Last night the Atlanta City Council
passed a resolution requesting the Leg
islature to allow the amendments to
their charter to be submitted to the peo
ple of the city for ratification or rejec
tion.
As the measure is one of exclusively
local interest, and as there is no reason
in this vast world why the people of At
ianta should not have their wish in the
premises, we would respectfully urge up
on the General Assembly to please let
the amendments be fixed up as is desired
by those who are to be affected by them
The Senate passed the bill amending
the charter, but struck out the clause
submitting the matter to the people. And
this was done in the face of the protest
of our Senator.
The matter is too plain for argument.
There is no ground for withholding from
the people the right of ratification or re
jection. Therefore, Messieurs. Legisla
tors, let us have it.”
This sounds reasonable, and we do not
know why the Legislature should refuse
the prayer of the “Constitution,” but
whilst making this request, it is strange
that the “Constitution” did not remember
that he and all of Atlanta did all in their
power to keep the Legislature from al
lowing the people of Georgia to decide
whether they wanted a Convention or
not. Are not the rights of the people of
Georgia as sacred as those of Atlanta ?
CoL David S. Johnston, President of
the Associated Veterans of the Mexican
War in thi« State, has adopted “The
Home Journal” of Madison as the official
organ of the Georgia Veterans. A com
plete list or roll of the Veterans of Geor
gia is to be published in next Friday’s
issue.
Ctood Juvenile Publications.
La ihifl age of corrupt literature it is
pleasing to know that proper efforts are
in progress to supply the minds of the
young with pure and religious, and at
the ffunifl time attractive periodical litera
ture.
We have received a number of beauti
fully illustrated Magazines for children
published at the extremely low price of
50 cents per annum, for each, exactly
united to the moral and intellectual wants
of the young. They are English publica
tions; but they will be sent at the above
mice, by Chas. F. Roper, No. 2, Bible
House, New York. The illustrations are
numerous, and in the highest style of art.
The contributions are from the pens of
the ablest Scientific and Christian writers
of the Old World, and are extremely at
tractive and instructive to children. Mr.
Roper publishes ten of these periodicals.
Christian parents would do well to order
some of them, or all.
■eronadod H> X< Kimball ?
It is stated in the papers that a crowd
of people with a brass band went to the
Kimball House to serenade Mr. Kimball,
that they called him out and he made
them a short speech, that Mr. Hillyer or
dered every citizen of Atlanta to leave the
hall and they did. Both of the Atlanta
papers say that it was not the citizens of
Atlanta that serenaded Mr. KimK<q] jf
not, who was it? Was it the Legislature?
The Atlanta papers say it was “the work
ing men.” Well, are not the working
men citizens? They built up Atlanta
and the Politicians spoiled it and now
forsooth these working men who built
the city are not allowed to be citizens.’
IP We have received a stirring ap-
P*fl from the Worthy Primate of Mont
pelier Lodge, to the members, which is
out. He wants them to come
SdoST**" 1 * ■*“* s » tard »J> 14th, at 2
It was suggested months ago at the North
that Mr. Kimball would be Clew's agent.
The advent of Mr. Kimball in Georgia
was foreshadowed some time ago by three
newspapers. These three newspapers,
like the Apostolic church in Jerusalem,
seem to Ire all of one heart, and one mind,
and together form a mutual admiration
society. The Brunswick Appeal heralds
forth the coming of Mr. Kimball, and ac
companies this announcement with 2
flaming eulogium of Mr. Kimball. The
Albany News echoes the coming of Mr.
Kimball and re-publishes the eulogium of
the Appeal, with a liifaluting glorifica
tion of Atlanta. And the Atlanta Con
stitution caps the climax by announcing
THAT KIMBALL HAS COME on his
own motion to set liimself right—we sup
pose about those bonds he sold to Clews.
The Constitution thinks this is manly and
courageous, and will ensure him a fair re
ception. When saying Ills courage and
manliness will ensure him a fair reception,
we suppose the Constitution speaks for
the Atlanta ring, and no one doubts that
on that subject the Constitution is good
authority. In the same issue of the Con
stitution is the eulogium of the Appeal
on Mr. Kimball, “and also the hifalut-
ing glorification of the Albany News up
on Atlanta. It may seem strange to
some people that all of these newspapers
should at this late day have become sud
denly and deeply struck with Mr. Kim
ball’s good qualities; but perhaps the
blessingsoi Mr. Kimball may come—as
those of Providence sometimes do—in
disguise. The Constitution says Mr.
Kimball has no definite plan as to the
length of “his stay,” which means we
suppose that he will stay until he finds
out what can be done with the bonds.—
All three of the papers that have pufr
lishedi eulogiums upon Mr. Kim
ball were violently opposed to a constitu
tional convention.
Atlanta, Febuary 7th, 1874.
Mb. Editor :
I must tell you of the latest sensation
here. Hi Kimball has come! The sen
sation is but little less than if the Millen
nium had come. Atlanta’s heart rejoices
over the return of her prodigal Son. The
H. I. Kimball House where he is a guest
will no doubt kill its fattedest calf. No
sooner had Hi heard of the refusal of the
Legislature to allow the people to vote on
the question whether they would have a
Convention or not, than he sets out for
Atlanta. I think the members who voted
against allowing the people to vote on
that question, ought to erect a statue to
Hi Kimball. It ought to be made of
brass, of course.
I tried to get a glimpse of Kimball, but
he was surr ounded by so many admiring
and congratulating big-bugs that I failed
to do so. He is well dressed, I am told,
and fatter than he was in the Bullock
days. Bankruptcy agrees with him; or
maybe its grief. Shakespeare makes
Kimball’s great predecessor named Fal-
staff say that “sighing and grief blow one
up like a bladder." There are many wild -
rumors here about Kimball’s arrival. One
is that he comes as Clews & Co’s., agent,
to get tiie repudiated Bonds paid. An
other is that a grand ball is to be given to
him at the Kimball House next week by
his friends; and many startling rumors
are afloat about his friends. Some say
that he has troops of them in high and
unexpected quarters here and that he has
lots of money to make friends with.
You must have seen that the Brunswick
Appeal, the Albany News and the Daily
Constitution are all out with articles
praising H. I. Kimball. Indications are
that he is to be fully reinstalled as the
demi-god of Atlanta. Some rumors say
that Bullock will come next, others
Blodgett.
Legislation is going on slowly, and is
much impeded by the gay attractions of
Atlanta. We went round yesterday to the
fine eating-house of the festive “Pease and
his Wife,” where the Legislators were so
handsomely dined lately. It’s a good
place to get a comforting bellyful. Such
dinners are calculated to take the wrin
kles out of legislation and settle intricate
questions. I have been kept busy for
several days away from the Opera House,
and I cannot write to you much about
the doings of the Legislature just at
present. The Lunatic Asylum -Committee
has returned from your city it is
said, but I have not seen them. Next
week I’ll be at leisure enough to attend
as a spectator a day or two, and I will
then write you a real Legislative letter.
I’ll try and interview Kimball, too, for
your paper, if I can catch him out of the
hands of the big-bugs that surround him
now.
Laurens.
Atlanta Advertisements.
We call attention to advertisements
of tho following business houses in At
lanta :
M. T. Castleberry, dealer in Furniture,
advertises beautiful bedroom setts at
prices that will attract purchasers far and
near, especially at the present low rates
of freight.
Mark W. Johnson, the popular and
well-known dealer in Agricultural Imple
ments, Fertilizers and Seeds of all kinds,
advertises a list of articles which farmers
all over the country need just at this
time. Mr. Johnson will do the fair thing
by those who or<^er from him.
If you are out of soap read the adver
tisement of Hitchcock & Co.
A cheap and substantial fence is adver
tised by Mr. L. B. Davis. The fence
question is an important one just at this
time, and it will probably be well for
farmers to learn something about the
merits of this fence.
Eastman and Moore’s Commercial Col
leges both set forth their claims for pa
tronage through our columns. These
colleges, wc believe, afford all the advan
tages offered by any similar institutions
in the country.
M. P. Galceran, Importer, Manufactu
rer and wholesale dealer in Tobacco, has
card in this paper to which we call the
attention of country merchants.
Many suffer rather than take nauseous med
icine, and this is not to be wondered at, as
the remedy is often worse than the disease,
Sufferers from coughs, colds, influenza,
sore throat, or tendency to Consumption,
will find in Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild
Cherry a remedy as agreeable to the pal
ate as effectual in removing disease.
Grand Gift Concert.—The Grand Gift
Concert will take place at Corinne, Utah;
March 31st, 1874.* The object of this
laudable enterprise is to benefit the Pub
lic Free School of that city, which is the
only one in the Territory. The gentle
men who are identified with it are well
known as financially sound and of un
questionable 'integrity, and the drawing
is certain to take place at the time adver
tised. 52,934 prizes will be given away,
amounting to $226,500, ranging from
$50,000 to $1.00, and only $1.00 a chance,
pr six for $5.00. Here is an opportunity
to secure a fortune for a small investment.
See their ^advertisement.
this winter than has been for many years.
James Green, of Jones, charged with
poisoning his wife, was tried in Clinton,
a few days ago, and acquitted.
An Atlanta woman ran away from her
husband the other day, leaving a small
infant at home. She was arrested in Mr-
con and carried back by her faithful
spouse.
A lady in Morgan county superintend
ed a plantation last season andj made,
with two hands, twenty-two bales of cot
ton, eight hundred bushels of com, ten
thousand pounds of fodder, two hundred j that it is the duty of a public journal to
rtf nufo n.nrl rrrtA linnrlml hnsliplfi —4-1,a# » aKatia it
From Hie Now York TiujM, 3#th ult-
She Leading Kepnblienn Organ on
Carpenter’s Speech.
Senator Carpenter, while disclaiming
any intention of making a speech, began
a very able speech yesterday, on what we
regal’d as one of the greatest questions of
the day, namely, the condition of Louisi
ana. He declared that he never could
reflect on the position of affairs in that
State “without mingled emotions of shame
and sorrow"—and we cannot doubt that
every intelligent man who has examined
the subject fully shares his feelings. Look
at it in what way you please, no one can
deny tliat, under such a government as
ours, it is a terrible scandal to liave a
great State kept in the condition in which
we see Louisiana at this moment. There
are other Southern States which are more
or less unfortunate, but perhaps Louisiana
is the most to be pitied Senator Carpenter
warns the Republican party that it cannot
march under this heavy load much longer.
For this lie will probably be accused of
infidelity to his party—for we have ap
parently arrived at that vc-rv r dangerous
point at which any honest and independent
criticism is regarded as au act of treacli
ery. There are foolish members of be Con
gress, even in our own State, who think
bushels of oats, and one hundred bushels
of wheat.
Athens ‘Watchman: Two days having
been spent in the House last week in the
discussion of the Convention question—
a debate in which several gentlemen par
ticipated on both sides—a resolution to
postpone indefinitely was adopted—ayes
100, nays 66. It is a noticeable fact that
every negro and every Radical voted for
postponement. Are the servants of the
people afraid to trust their masters? or
do they believe that the people do not
desire a Convention? It was any easy
matter to determine. It could and ought
to have been submitted to a popular vote.
It is very clear to our mind that if the
people do notwant a Convention, it ought
not to be called; but it is equally clear to
us that they should have been consulted
on the subject. Although Aaron Alpeoria
Bradley, “the gentleman from Skowegan,”
and kindred worthies had no right to
frame an organic law for the people of
Georgia; yet, if the people aforesaid pre
fer a Constitution so made to such an one
as they themselves could frame, by all
means let them have the Bradley constitu
tion So far as the Legislature is con
cerned, it has no right to call a Conven
tion—such call must emenate from they
people—and how could their will be as
certained, but by submitting the question
to the ballot-box? A long debate on such
a question is out of place. The duty the
Legislature owed to the people was sim
ply to proride that at She next general
election they should endors on their tickets
‘Convention” or “No Convention." While
it is clear to our mind that the Legislature
ought not to call a Convention until satis
fied that a majority of the people desire
it we are equally well satisfied that the
best way to test public sentiment on this
question is to submit it to a direct vote
of the people.
Hi Kimball was billed for Atlanta on
Friday night Now let the men in whom
he confided in the days of his prosperity
show their hands. It will no doubt be
remembered that we have always said that
Hi was a Christian and a scholar, and a
good judge of—Georgia editors.
Sav. News.
Mr. JohnM. Lazemby, and old citizen
of McDuffie county, is dead.
The lessees of the State Road have
elected the old board of officers, headed
by Joe Brown.
The people of Washington county in
convention assembled say they don’t want
a County Court, and yet the Senate has
passed a bill giving them one.
Major John T. Bums, of Rome, will
remove to Texas next fall.
A Hard Cask.—We observe (says Mr.
Forsyth, in the Mobile Register) that an
old Georgia friend, Peterson Tlrweatt,
Esq., who was for many years the Comp
troller General of the State, is making a
claim before the present Legislature which
to our surprise, meets with resistance. It
is for payment of his salary as Comp
troller dining the war. The United States
Government, it is remembered, required
the Confederate States to repudiate their
war debt, and Mr. Tliweatt’s salaiy, which
was expressed in State notes, is claimed
by those who oppose payment among the
war debts,” and, therefore, covered by
the act of repudiation. Even had there
not been a proviso in the ordinance espe
cially excepting this class of claims, it is
difficult to perceive on what grounds the
salary of a State officer could be twisted
into the shape of a war debt. War or
peace, Georgia had to have a Comptroller,
and the Legislature would have as good
reason to refuse to pay for the stationery
the fuel, the lights, or any other article or
thing that was needful to the uses of the
Legislative body. An old and faithful
servant, it seems to us, should not be
pinned down with such harsh interpreta
tions to an ordinance tliat was forced up
on the State by its conqueror.
The following is a list of the officers of
National Grange:
Master—Dudley W. Adams, of Iowa;
Overseer—Thomas Taylor, of South Caro
lina; Lecturer—T. A. Thompson, of
Minnesota; Steward—A. J. Vauhn, of
Mississippi; Assistant Steward—G. W.
Thompson, of New Jersey; Chaplain—
Rev. R. B. Crash, of Washington, D. C.;
Treasurer—F. M. McDowell, of New
York; Secretary—O. H. Kelley, of Wash
ington, D. C.; Gate-Keeper—O. Dinwid-
die, of Indiana; Ceres—Mrs. D. W. Adams
of Iowa; Pomona—Mrs. O. H. Kelley, of
Washington, D. C.; Flora—Mrs. J. C.
Abbott, of Iowa; Executive Committee—
W. M. Saunders, Washington, D. C ; D.
W. Yates, Aiken, S. C.; E. B. Sliaiiklaml,
Iowa
New York Correspondence.)
The Grand Ccatral Hnlel, New York.
“Hal Jason” writes of a recent visit to
the Grand Central Hotel, as follows:
Daring the Winter, without disturbing
the guests, fresh decorations, have been
added in every direction. New designs in
Fresco-work have been finished through
out the halls, parlors, principal staircases
grand dining-room, and exchanges. Stand
ing in the rear of the grand exchange, fa
cing Broadway, the tout ensemble in
magnificent-^-unrivalled in Europe or A
merica. The floor spreads out before
you, like a lake of marble, an entire block
in length and many feet in width. Above,
the richly-frescoed ceiling is supported by
4 dozen or more carved Corinthian co
lumns, while the massive, suspended chan
deliers, gleam at eight like a sheen, with
the ghtter of a hundred white globes of
light. Wander where yon will, all is in
keeping with taste and beauty. The Grand
Central it hardly approached in style and
appointment by any other hotel in New
York, and yet its rates are from one to
two dollars lose than any other first-class
hotel in New York, Mid yet its rates being
$3.00 and $4.00 per day. Mr. Powers,
its proprietor, seems to have solved pre
feetly, for the public, the problem of mod
erate rates and luxurious surroundings.
register the decrees of a clique, and if
word Jof protest is uttered they threaten
to ostracize the man or abolish the jonr-
naL We should like to see the idiots begin
their work—at present, everybody of any
sense can see that the Rapulican party
must deal witli the great questions of the
day in a frank and liberal spirit, or be
destroyed. Absolute freedom of opinion
has hitherto been the salvation of Repub
lican party. Some of our own precious
Congressmen would turn over a new leaf,
and go in for unlimited despotism. We
known what will be their fate—but we
are not prepared to believe that the Re
publican party will consent to share it.
Tim Life-Saving Stations.—The life
saving stations to be placed at Cape Hcn-
lopen and at the month of the Chesapeake
and thence down to Hatteras, will be a
boon, indeed, to the mariner. It is a
rough coast for one hundred miles, and is
now entirely destitute of lights, except at
Cape Hatteras and Cape Henry. The
stations will be completed in tho summer
of 1874. We read farther that in connec
tion with these life-saving stations Gen.
Mayer, chief signal officer, is having a
telegraph line built from Norfolk to Cape
Henry, and thence down the coast to
Cape Hatteras. The line is already com
pleted sixty miles south of Cape Henry,
and will be finished to Cape Hatteras by
the first of February. This will serve a
double purpose, as it will display storm
signals to passing vessels, and in case
one is driven ashore, assistance from
Norfolk can be promptly summoned, and
thus its value is almost incalculable.
Famine in Cyprus.
With sad accounts of poor harvests
and consequent famine which comes from
the Island of Cyprus; comes also the news
of an interesting discovery. In the ruins
of the old Phoenician town Amathus, at
one time a celebrated place of worship for
Venous-Astarte, a colossal statue of Her
cules has been found From theknee up
it measures nine feet. The head is strik
ing, with a loug hawk-like nose, the eye
litis closed, the hair and beard of consider
able length, and arranged in the Perso-
Assyrian style, so that the locks of hair
and beard fall abo’ve each other in a spiral
form. He holds in his sturdy fists, which
are clenched across the breast, the hind
legs of the lion’s skin, which hangs over
his body. The white limestone of Cyprus
is so soft and fragile that great care will
be required to transport the statue to
the Constantinople Museum. The direc
tor of the Museum will probably go to
Cyprus in order that he may personally
supervise the transportation.
Roses and the Ancients.—To enjoy the
scent of roses at meals, an abundance of
roseleaves were shaken on the table,
that the dishes were completely surround
ed. By an artificial contrivance roses
during the meals descended on the guests
from above. The Roman Emperor Hel-
iogabalus, in his folly, caused roses to be
showered down upon his guests in such
quantities that a number of them, being
unable to extricate themselves, were suffo
cated in flowers. During mealtimes they
reclined on cushions stuffed with rose-
leaves, or made a couch of leaves them
selves. The floor, too, was strewn with
roses and in this custom great luxury
was displayed. Cleopatra, at an enor
mous expense, procured roses for a feast
which she gave to Anthony, had them laid
two cubits thick on the floor of the ban
quet-room, and then caused nets to be
spread over the flowers, in order to render
the footing elastic. Heliogablus caused
not only the banquet room, but also
the colonades tliat led to it, to be
covered with roses, interspersed with
lillies, violets, hyacinthes and narcissi, and
walked about on the flower platform.
prom the Atlanta CooetUutton, 71 h I net.
B. X. Kimball Back la Atlanta.
Last night among the arrivals at the
Kimball House was H L Kimball himself,
who came on the midnight train by the
State road. Mr Kimball returns after
something more than two years’ absence.
He has grown quite fleshy, enjoys fine
health, and is in excellent spirits. He
brings with him liis little daughter, who
is somewhat out of health.
He says he voluntarily and of his own
motion returns to Georgia to personally set
himself right, and respond to any scrutiny.
This is, at least, manly and courageous,
and will ensure him a fair reception.
He has no definite plans as to length of
stay.
A CONVENTION DEFEATED.
The Quostion not Even Submitted to
the people.
The defeat of the proposition to submit
the question of Convention or no Conven
tion to the people themselves, has doomed
ns to live under the Constitution made by
Bullock. The opponents of a Convention
said the people did not want a Conven
tion. Then why not let the people say
eo? They said the Badicals might over
come the 50,000 Democratic majority by
Attorney*-
Mrs. Attorney
Mrs, Williams, after all, has been the
head and front of the offending. Into her
early history has been inserted the phal
anges aforesaid, and her shortcomings
have been inspected by the light of social
magnifying glasses, causing the verdict to
go forth to the world, “Mene, Mene,Tekel,
Upharsin?” And according to a fiat on
her later life, “Mrs. William’s carriage
has stopped her husband’s way to the
Chief Justiceship.”
She is a woman above the medium
height, with a small, well-shaped head,
crowned with wavy black hair, a straight,
rather thin nose, large melting dark eyes,
arched over with delicate eyebrows, rather
too much color for the proverbial spirit-
uelle of American women; a long, white,
full throat; and neck, bust and arms bor
dering on the superb, with a slight touch
of Cleopatra voluptuousness. She carries
herself easily, gracefully, proudly. Thus
she appeal s at the age trembling some
where between the late thirties and early
forties. Her manners are unexception
ably cordial, and her dressing rich. She
must hare been very striking as a girl,
of the prononce type, with startling bold
ness of beauty given by the contrast be
tween black hair and dark fringed eyes,
w ith clear, fair skin and heightened color.
But age and association have toned the
coalescing with the homestead men. Bnt contrasts down to mellower tints, and her
on tho question of Convention or no
Convention, those who fear the repeal of
the homestead provision wouli vote
2igainst a Convention, and save their
favorite measure in that way.
They said the people had not called for
a Convention. We do not suppose
that the majority of any people ever
simultaneously rose up and demande l
any measure of the kind. The masses
expect their leading men and the press to
look after the preservation of their rights
and liberties. But for such men as Hen
ry, Jefferson, Sam Adams, Hancock,
and others of their stamp, the revolution
of 1776 would never have occurred. They
saw the advance of arbitrary power and
warned the people. They led—the people
followed. This must be so in the very
nature of things. Let • the people now
take the matter up. Let prominent
men and the press point out the necessity
for a change of Constitution. Let these
timid legislators, who are afraid, of the
people, hear from the people.
[Rome Commercial.
CROPS.
Notes on the Com and Hogs Remaining
on Hand in the Northwest.
California Wheat Crop.
The California wheat crop of last sea
son is estimated at 17,019,445 bushels, of
which about one-half was exported, and
the remainder was either consumed at
home or remains in stock. The wheat
exported was sold for nearly $12,000,000
in gold, whilst that remaining in stock is
valued at $5,000,000 more, after deduct
ing the amount ^required for home con
sumption until the next crop is harvest
ed. Last year’s wheat crop therefore, be
sides providing all the food needed from
that source at home, has been worth to
California nearly $17,000,000, which the
Alta California says is the the largest a-
mount ever yet realized from a wheat
crop on the Pacific coast. The wheat
crop of California and the proceeds of her
wool crop now yield her people much
more money than all her gold and silver
mines together. She is “El Dorado" in
a double sense.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, says the
Mobile Register, is bust earning as envia
Me a name as he did upon the tented
told.
The Senate Tote on Removal of the
Capital
The bill to so amend the Constitution
as to remove the State capital from At
lanta to Milledgeville, was before the
Senate on Thursday, 5th inst., and a mo
tion to indifinitely postpone it resulted
adversely. The vote was as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Blance, Brimberry,
Brown, Clark, Erwin, Estes, Hester, Hill
yer, Jervis, Mathews (26th), McAffee,
Peddy, Reese, Steadman, Winn, Wofford
—16. Nays—Messrs. Anderson, Cain,
Cameron, Cannon, Carter, Cone, De-
Veaux, Gilmore, Hoyl, Hudson, Jones,
Kibbee, Lester, Mathews (25th), Mattox,
Nicholls, Psavy, Rolan son, Simmons—
19.
A Word of Bxplanation.
The editor whose correspondence with
this paper on the line of the Southwestern
railroad last week, gave umbrage to “one
of the majority,” who voted against the
convention bill, has returned to his post,
and “rises to explain."
The remark that “those who voted yea
on the indefinite postponement motion,
must set their houses in order and pre
pare to retire from politics,” was not lev
elled at the simple opponents of a con-
vetion per se. Many of our best men
doubted the propriety of calling a conven
tion at this juncture, even while conced
ing the many gave defects in the Con
stitution. The writer was one who shared
similar views. Bnt the point he wished
to make was the gratuitous rejection of
the proposition permitting the people to
decide the question for themselves at the
ballot box in the fall elections. To refuse
to do so, was a disrespectful fling at the
constituencies who sent them there, and
is very generally received as such. Not
a few believe also that it was a piece qf
strategy on the part of the Atlanta ring
to give a quietus to the removal project.
This was evidenced by the almost simul
taneous movement breaking ground on
the building of a new State house. But
the remark complained of may have been
a little too severe, and we hope onr “ma
jorify” friencLwill have a new lease of
office provided he is more deferential
hereafter in his treatment of the sover
eigns of the country.
Telegraph k Messenger.
Jacksonville, III., February 1.—
The National Crop Reporter contains to
day estimates in relation to the per cen-
tage of the last crop of corn remaining in
the hands of producers January 15, and
estimates of the number of stock hogs in
the hands of feeders at the same date, in
comparison with the quantity or number
on hand at the corresponding date in
1873.
THE CORN.
In relation to com, in the States of Il
linois, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin,
which produced in 1873, upward of 382,-
000. 000 bushels, the average amount on
hand at the date named is estimated at a
fraction less than 50 per cent or an ap
proximate quantity of one hundred and
ninety million bushels. The average con
sumption is very uniform in all the
States, being highest in Wisconsin, 60
per cent. The| unusually mild winter in
all locations has aided largely in keeping
down the home consumption, and the
condition of the stock is generally better
than was anticipated a month earlier.
HOGS
The estimates upon stock hogs are for
the same States named above, and indi
cate an average falling off of twenty-one
per cent from the number on hand a year
ago. The eou liton of the same is con
siderably below the average, the high
prices paid by packers and the scarcity
of com having caused an outflow of the
marketable hogs, and a stinting of the
supply of food to those remaining the
outlook is very slim for hogs for summer
packing. A comparison of the average
prices in the States named, for December
1, 1873, and January 15, 1874, shows a
decided advance, although indications are
that the maximum has been about reached.
Peck’s Experience With a Coal Stove.
—We never had a coal stove around the
house until last Saturday. Have always
burned pine slabs and pieces of our neigh
bor’s fence. They bum well too, but the
fence got all burned up, and the neighbor
said he wouldn’t build a new one, so we
went down to Jones’ and got a coal stove.
It is called the “Radiant Home,” and any
man that says we didn’t have a radiant
homo at our house for about four hours
last Saturday night, is a republican and a
villaiu. You see we didn't know anything
about coal stoves. We filled the Radiant
Home about half full of pine fence, and
when the stuff got well to going, we
filled the artesian well on top with coal.
It simmered and sputtered about five or
ten minutes, and all went out, and we
put on an overcoat and a pair of mittens,
and .“went out too,” to supper. We
remarked, in the course of the frugal
meal that Jones was a “fraud” for
reccommending such a confounded
refrigerator to a man to get warm by.
After supper, we took a piece of ice and
nibbed onr hands warm, and went in
where that stove was, resolved to make
her draw and bum, if it took all the pine
fences in the First ward. Our better half
threw a quilt over her, and shiveringly
remarked that she never knew what real
solid comfort was, until she got a coal
stove. Stung by the sarcasm in her
remark, we turned every dingus in the
stove that was movable, or looked like it
had anything to do with a draft, and
pretty soon the Radiant Home began to
heave up heat. It was not long before
she sputted like the new Silsby steamer.
Talk about your heat. In ten minutes
that room was as much mere than Tur
kish bath as hades is hotter than Liver-
man’s ice-house. We opened the doors
and the snow began to melt as far up
Vine street as Hanscomb's house and
people all around the neighborhood put
on linen clothes. And we couldn’t stop
the confounded thing. We forgot what
Jones told abqqt the dampers, and she
just kept a biting. The only thing we
could do was to go to bed, and leave
the thing to bum up the house if it wan
ted to. We stood off with a pole, and
turned the damper every way, and every
turn she just sent out heat enough to
roast an ox. We went to bed, supposing
that the coal would eventually burn out,
bnt about 12 o’clock the whole family had
to get up and sit on the fence. Finally a
man came along who had been brought
up among coal stoves, and he put a wet
blanket over him and crept up to the
stove and turned the proper dingus, and
she cooled off, and since that time has been
as comfortable as possible.—La Crosse
Democrat
wonderfully quick intuitions have adopted
her to the various conspicuous positions
which she has easily and natnrallyfillecL
Her early history is as full of romance
as one of Dumas’s novels, and I dare
Rhoda Broughton to write a story to
eclipse it. At sixteen she married against
her parents wishes a man whose subse
quent treatment of her vindicated the
family’s disapproval and her application
for divorce. These were the days when
her head strong, impetuous nature was
strong within her, and her own will her
only law. Following its dictates, she drift
ed Westward, perchance for adventure,
peradventme, in hopes of a fortune.
There girlwoman as she was, with the
wav<?s of self still surging unsubdued, af
ter teaching music for a while, she con
sented to bow her neck a second time to
an unhappy matrimonial yoke. Her sec
and husband, Mr. George, was a driver
on one of the tine of stages crossing the
plains, and proved to be agood-for nothing
fellow, who frequently abused her, and
had nothihg to recommend him but
devil may- care, handsome face. A pretty
picture his wife often afforded the tourist
as, standing before their log cabin, she
stood with her white arms, bright face
and simple dress,hanging out the family
linen.
Her husband’s treatment became at last
so unendnrble that friends procured for
her the services of Judge Williams, then
a quiet Western lawyer, who loosed her
from her unhappy thraldom through the
medium of a divorce. Mrs. George still
Westward pushed her way to California,
and taught school in San Francisco, where
years afterward Judge Williams met and
married the woman, the memory of whose
peculiar beauty had never left him.
When she heard her former husband,
Mr. George, was sick, she traveled miles
to watch over him in his hist hours, and
was with him when he died. The woman
has marvelous adaptability, and spirit,
and nerve, and ambition enough for
Agrippa herself, and withal the tact and
executive abihty to raise herself along
with the advancing fortunes of her hus
band. It may be that her ambition has
o’er reached itself, and that it would have
been better for her had she rested con
tent with|lier husband as Attorney-General,
for in that position the cobra, society,
inflated not its venomous head, and such
whispers as had been floating abont were
allowed to vanish in thin air. Now she
lies stranded on the sands of her own
high Teachings, stung to death by the
asp of social tongues. 1 for one am sorry
that from so brave a spirit the goble of
luscious realization has been so rudely
snatched. —Washington Correspondence
of the Cincinnati Gazette.
Precautions Against Sickness.
The ability of the human body to resist
its
Are the Planets Inhabited.—Profes
sqr Proctor the famous English astrono
mer, who is now oif a lecturing tour in
this country," treats lari
the causes of disease depends upon
vigor and upon the regularity with which
the several organs perform their functions.
In the winter the most prolific sources of
sickness are damp and cold, and it
therefore wise and prudent to fortify the
system against them by wholosome stim
ulation. ' Hence it is that Hostetter'
Stomach Bitters prove such an admirable
safeguard against the complaints most
common at this season. The ingredients
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 are
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
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but permanent. There is no revulsion,
on reverse nervous action. The phys
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If dyspepsia or rheumatism, or biliousness,
or intermittent fever, or general debility,
or nervous weakness, is present in the
system, expel it with this pore and harm
less antidote, which is not only invalu
able as a preventive of sickness, but also
remedy for a large class of disorders.
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Joi tothi World! Woman is Free !—Among
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aod amelioration of the human race, cone is entitled
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Dr. J. Bradfield’s Female Regulator, Woman’s Best
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all irregulantiefcof the womb vanish. It cures sap-
pre.-sion of the rnenaes. It removes uterine obstruc
tions. It cures coustipstiou and strAgthena the sys
tem. It bracee the nerves and parities the blood. It
never fails, as thousands of women will testify. It
cures whites. This valuable medicine is prepared and
sold bv L- H. Bradfield, Druggist, Atlanta, Ga.
Price $1 M per bottle. All respectable drug men
keep it.
Tuskegee, Ala., 18G8.
Mu. L. H. Bkadeield—Sir: Please forward us,
immediately, another supply of Bradfield’s Fe
male Regulator. We find it to be all that is claim
ed for it, and we have witnesse 1 the most decided and
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Very respectfully,
Hunter & Alexander.
We the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure in
commending to the trade, Dr. J. Braofield’s Fe
male Regulator—believing it to be a good a B d re*
liable remedy for the diseases for which he recom
mends it.
W. A. Landsell. Atlanta, Ga.
Pemberton, Wilson, Taylor & Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Redwixk &. 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 of
DR. J. BRADFIELD, of this couuty, and as a medi
cal man pronounce it to be a combination of medi
cines of great meiit in tho treatment ot all th« dis
eases of females for which he recommends it. This
December 21,1868.
WM. P. BEASELEY, M. D.
For sale in Milledgeville by
JOHN M. CLARK and B. R. HEKTY. Druggi.-ts.
May 14, 1873. 42 ly
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*he Mississippi IsutorU Election.
Memphis, February 3,—A special dis
patch from Jackson, Mias., says in the
Senatorial contest'fao day all opposition
was withdrawn, leaving the race to the
Republican nominee, B. L. Brace, col*
ored, for the long term, and H. R Pease,
late Superintendent of Education, for the ...
short term, These gentlemen were elect- undergo changes as tha ages go. hr
ed on tbs first ballot —” "
bilities of other worlds than thin being
inhabited, the conclnsion being that of
the inner planets—Mercury, Venus, the
Earth, and Mars—-our planet only is in
condition to be inhabited by beings like
dwellers upon the earth, On some of the
satellites of Jnpiter and Saturn there
might possibly be conditions of tight and
heat suitable for beings organized like
mankind.
The lecturer thinks that possibly all
others worlds were, like onrs formed by
the Creator with the design of being in
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has been in existence millions of years,
has been inhabited bat a abort period,
comparatively, and it was possible that in
time it would be worn or wasted, or frozen
oat, so as to be no longer habitpble. So
other worlds, not habitable now, might
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District E.]
Feb. 11, 1874. 29 ly.
Judge Waite’s friends declare that ha
*‘never voted for McClellan nor any other
Democrat” There have been Presidents
who wouldn’t have regarded (his as a
sufficient qualification for the Chief-Jo*-
ticeship.—Courier-JoumaL
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A man who had recently been elect
ed a major of militia, and who was not
overburdened with brains, took it into
his head on the morning of parade, to
exercise a little by himself. The field
selected for this purpose was his own
apartment. Placing himself in a mili
tary attitude, with his sword drawn,
be exclamed: “Attention company!
Rear rank, three paces, march!” and
be tumbled down into the cellar. His
wife bearing the racket, came running
in, aaying, “My dear, have you killed
youraelft” “Go about your business,
woman," said the hero; “what do you
know about war?”
An Irish domestic, newly engaged,
presented to his master one morniog a
pair of boots, the leg of one of which
was much longer than the other.
“How comes it, you rascal, that these
boots are not the same length?” “I
really don’t know, sir; but what both
ers me most is that the pair down
stairs are in the same fix.”
A Bullock county planter writes
the Savannah News that a German
oa hia place made, this year, with one
male, sixteen bales of cotton, weigh
ing five hundred pounds each,
three hundred and fifty bushels of cora '
Eighty-eight young ladies in Min*
neasota have banded together an
agreed not to marry any man who uses
tobaecoin any form. The same nu®*
ber of men have banded together a °
agreed not to marry any female w o
oaes paste, enamal, false hair, bustles,
and corsets.
If you want to make a bustle in
world, take five newspapers and a P iec
of tope.
The Courier-Journal asks: “H the biU
for the removal of all troops bom
Southern States to the Western county
is protection against the Indiwis t
go into effect, who is going *o help
Mkd protect the Kellogg ^
ianaf”
Thai monstrosity is
an*
to be “mdesded’'