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Wednesday, February 25, 1874.
nw £ are pleased to announce to onr
readers that we have secured the services
of Hon. W. G. McAdoo as Literary and
Critical Editor of the Union- and Recorder
By this ari-angement we hope to be able
give increased attractions to our paper.
Col. McAdoo is a graduate of the Ten
nessee State University at Knoxville,
Tenn.; is a finished scholar of extensive
reading and varied attainments; and is a
ready and popular writer. His news
letters and critical notices of books (sign
ed “W. G. M. ) have frequently appeared
in our columns heretofore. We trust the
Department in our paper (on 4th page)
over which he will wield control will add
much to the attractiveness of the “Union
and Recorder” and Ire found equally
pleasing to the public, to Col. McAdoo
and to ourselves.
What is the Matter with Mr.
Dawes?
* The news from Washington is impor
tant. It is reported that Mr. Dawes of
Massachusetts, chairman of the Commit
tee of Ways and Means, has been speak
ing out in meeting, and telling the truth
on his brother Republicans. He accuses
them of wasteful extravagance, and
brings forward the documents to prove
it. The Republican members of Congress
are awfully frightened at Mr. Dawes ex
posure of their profligacy. They fear
the Democrats will use the statements
of Mr. Dawes against them in the next
election, and it is the opinion of one cor-
respondent that this speech of Mr. Dawes
will cause a great many of them to lose
their seats in the next Congress.
All in a Ding.
The people are beginning to understand
why the Convention was defeated, aud
why the people were not allowed to vote
on the question. The leaders about At
lanta were consulted about Kimball’s
return before he came. The Herald says
they were consulted and promised he
should not be molested, but he was not
to come nntil the Convention question was
settled, but as soon as that was settled,
he came. Balls and dinners and parties
were given the Legislature in great pro
fusion, and then a proposition was made
to build a new Capital and the men who
a few days before were alarmed at the ex
pense of a Convention, some twenty or
thirty thousand dollars, now think noth
ing of spending millions for a new State
House :
The Athens Watchman says : The re
turn of Kimball and the introduction of
• bill in the Legislature providing for the
building of a new State House in Atlanta,
immediately after the indefinite postpone
xnent of the Convention question, show
the drift of the current. There will be
an effort to galvanize the bogus bonds
and to permanently locate the capital at
Atlanta, regardless of the people’s wishes.
We do not believe that a majority of the
members who opposed calling a Conven
tion had any such objects in view; not by
any means. But the leaders in the cru
sade against popular rights understood
the thing perfectly. What now becomes
of the cry that the people are unable to
stand the expense of a Convention—
which need not cost more than thirty thou
sand dollars—when a new capital will
cost from three to five millions. The
truth is, as we have before said, the whole
question ought to have been submitted
to the people, whether. they want a Con
vention or not.' If called, the Conven
tion should submit the question of the
location of the capital to the people; and
then everybody would quietly acquiesce
in their verdict.
Th« Ckorfia legislature.
4Ve see by our Atlauta exchanges that
this Legislature has prolonged its exist
ence until Thursday next. We believe
the people of “Georgia would have been
perfectly willing for them to have adjourn
ed at the expiration of their constitution
al term. It would have saved the State
a considerable amount in the pay of the
members and in the public printing. Peo
ple will search in vain for many acts of
public utility in their proceedings. The
public expected great things of this Leg
islature. How they have answered these
expectations let their acts tell. They
will return to their constituents much fa
tigued by their labors, and their const it
uents will, no doubt, permit a majority or
them to take a good long resting spell.
The Westminster Review for January
has just been reprinted by the Leonard
Scott Publishing Co.. 140* Fulton Street.
N. Y. The following is a summary of the
contents:
Art. I. "The Disestablishment and
Disendowment of the Church of England.
Shows that the established church does
not in its present condition fulfill the
needs of the people; mentions the abuses
connected with it, such as the sale of
livings, etc.; and points out the necessity
which is forcing itself into prominence,
of separation of Church and State.
Art. II. “The Metropolitan Police
System.' We have heard so much about
the excellence of the London Police Reg
illations, that it is with interest not nn
mixed with surprise that we read this
account of the working of the system, and
find how imperfect it is, and what great
need it has of reform.
Art. III. “The Christian Missions to
t he Heathen. ” An able paper, suggesting
that religious instruction would be likely
to take deeper root by following in the
footsteps of civilization, than by preced
ing it.
Art. IV. "The Working Class." The
labor question has attained such prom
inence in all countries of late, that it is
unnecessary to call attention to anything
bearing upon that subject.
Sandwich Island fatter.
Death of the King—The General Assem
bly convoked—The Cabinet in Council
—Contest for the Throne—Queen Em
ma and the Chief Kalakue contestants
for the Kingdom—Another letter by
next Steamer.
•
Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, 1
' February 5, 1874. ji
As I anticipated in my last letter to you,
King Lunalilo of this Kingdom in the sea
is no more. He breathed his last on the
3d instant, at his Palace on the Is]pnd of
Hiwaii.
Of coiuse the succession constitutes
the main topic of interest. The members
of the Cabinet were called together im
mediately after the demise of his Majes
ty, and ordered a meeting of the General
Assembly on thel2thiush, (just one week
hence) in this city to provide for the suc
cession. It is announced that Queen Em
ma, relict of the late King Kaineliaineha
IV.. is an aspirant to the vacant throne ;
and on yesterday, at Kahoolawi, a mass
meeting declared in favor of. David Kala-
kua as the next monarch. The latter is
the most influential and powerful chief in
in the Kingdom, and his chances for sue
cess would seem almost certain of triumph.
But who shall prevail over an artful, good-
looking and determined widow ? Queen
Emma once visited the United States, and
many Republicans of my native “l>est
government the world ever saw will re
member her charms. The contest lor the
throne is likely to be a very animated one;
but the General Assembly will settle it
peacefully. There is no thought of a re
sort to arms. These ignorant islanders
and pagans are willing to leave that artil
lery method of settling questions of royal
succession to civilized Catholicized Spain.
I will write you again when the royal
election shall have been consummated.—
I have barely time to scribble thus briefly
before the mail to San Francisco to go
This paper
refers particularly to the English laborer,
his temperament, condition, and habits, by the Australian steamer •‘City of Mel
in all of which he differs in many respects i bourne” is closed. J. Baldwin.
from his prototype in this country. Trades-
unionism is represented as useful in Mercer University,
many ways, but as being only a tempora- Macon, Ga„ Fob. 20. 1S74.
ry organization from which, in course of j Mk88rs . Editors:
time Industrial Co-operation is to he do- , . , ,
I d r riday evening lias ever been apprecia-
Akt. V. “John Stuart Mill.” An ex ^ the school boy declamations
cellent article, giving a “brief view of the the contrary notwithstanding,
sources and method of Mr. Mill's educiv
to
Well, this is a beautiful Friday even
ing; the heavy work of our class is sus
pended until Monday. Surely then I
should exult in so pleasant a respite if I
would practice "school-boy” out and out.
“Be that as it may,” I can but appreciate
some of the school-boy’s privileges.
Doubtless you saw the complimentary
article appearing in the Telegraph &
Messenger a few days ago, and partially
reproduced in the Index A Baptist, of
this week, in which Mercer was placed in
the first rank of all the colleges of the
South. The students enjoyed the article
■ extensively, lmt do not admit that they
of mtients' and I ean be so fca8il y P^selyted from their
everything connected with the sublet. faith - b ~an unlucky storm should
The remainder of the Review is devo- , “ ca “« nal V t w sympathies for
ted, as usual, to brief notices of Content- the , f ? ir sufter , e ™ ot ' Vesl * v - Gallan f t p'
porary Literature, which will suggest to woldd tl,em S° araon S. the
each reader the new books that will be a to look up those
most attractive to his mind. “ “ d faUeu ’ >£ am \ he - v a I deil - v
being married except your humble ser-
’■ vant; his little boy—seven months old—
A* Venal She Session Must be is the youngest in college.
FroloaffSd—Cni Bobo? The fourteenth of this month greeted us ! publican members recognize their politi-
The people frame a constitution limitr j w ‘* b a flood of Valentines of every varie- i cal death warrant in this speech,
ing the duration of the sittings of the *7- Your humble correspondent and his j ■■ ■ . ■
General Assembly, and then to provide lad . v received their share of the “quails”
amply for the wants of legislature, allow of February.
Our literary societies are making pre
tion, and the primary effect it had on hi.s
mind and character." with "the opinions
of his mature years,” aud “^ome of the
results of those opinions upon hi.s labors
in moral and political science as well as in
practical politics.”
Art. VI. “Third-class Passenger Traf
fic.” Advocates cheap transportation,
and advises the attachment of third class
passenger cars to all trains.
Art. VII. “Medical Charity: its Ex
tent and Abuses." A statistical article,
giving lists of the London Hospitals,
Dispensaries, and Asylums, their expend
iture, income, number
Severe Arraignment ef
lican Forty.
The sensation in Congress on the 12th
inst., was the severe arraignment of the
Republican Party bv the lender of the
House.
Mr. Dawes spoke, for two hours and
proceeded to make the most severe ar
raignment of the Republican party which
has ever lieen uttered by any public man.
He went at once into the general question
of the condition of the. government, and
showed, first, that the last Congress had
appropriated *52.000,000 more than the
Treasury Department ean have the means
at its command to pay. Reviewing the
acts of the last Congress, he showed that
the reductions of internal revenue and
customs dues made by it will cause a re
dnotion in the receipts oi' the government
of iji44.3fi3.313 54 during the present tis
cal year. He asserted that the goods
upon which the vodu •lion had beer. jmhiIi
iiad been imported this year in the «-
mount oi more than a hundred millioni
in excess of any previous year, upon
which he claimed there would be a corre
sponding duty. He ga\ e Secretary Bout-
well a puff (or having warned the House,
1872, that it was reducing too freely. In
regaid t-o the present state of affairs, fce
I argued that the internal Tevenue receipts
were likely to l>e quite up to the average
during the remainder of the fiscal year,
but ho held that it would never do to in
crease the internal taxes to meet the
current expenses of the government- To
do so would be to acknowledge that their
hold on power was weakening. This was
a terrible blow to his Republican friends,
but no one undertook to answer him. He
said they must abandon tli6 idea of in
creased taxation, und intimated the du
ties on teas and coffee roust lie restored
anil the duties on other goods raised to
enable the Treasury to meet the deficit
of next year.
Having proceded thus far, Mr. Dawes
began an analysis of the expenditures of
the government to show the extravagance
which has characterized Congress and the
Executive for the past four years. He
knew, he said, that nothing was so un
popular as specified retrenchment, noth
ing so popular as general economy. His
task was a tliankless one. Nevertheless,
he approached it boldly. The rottenness
of the civil service, the wasting of mil
lions annually on the employment of use
less officers, the wastefulness of the pen
sion officers, the avenues of extravagance
left open year after year, in the perma
nent appropriations, the spending of such
immense sums on public buildings, the
magnifying of the duties of the post office
so that it does a general express business,
were thoroughly exposed—as throughly
as they could be in a speech covering so
much ground. He was frequently inter
rupted by questions from restive mem
bers, who could not bear to have the de
linquencies to which they had consented,
expossed. This was particularly evident
when lie read a letter from r. person who
had hail the office of appraiser at the in
land port of Evansville, Ind., stating that
he drew a salary of #3.000 a year for
three years, doing no work at all.
Speaker Blaine occupied a seat beside
Mr. Dawes throughout his speech, ami
seemed anxious to prevent Mr. Dawes
from going’too far, as lie tool: occasion
to remind him occasionally of facts in
favor of the government.
The Western and Southern members,
especially the new ones, are very angry
at Mr. Dawes, for they know that his
speech will prove an un ant, wear able argu
ment in the hands of the opposition next
autumn. Probably tour score of the Re
She Louisiana Difficulty.
* The Grant administration, l>v their in
termeddling with the elections in Louisi
ana and forcing a Governor aud Legisla
ture upon the people, against their wishes
or consent, have got themselves into a
dilemma, from which it is very difficult to
extricate themselves.
There seeuisbut three courses for them
to pursue, either of which is veiy damag
ing to them :
1st They can continue things as they
are, and compel the people to submit to
Kellogg, the usurper, but this would in
jure them, and it is injuring themjvery se
riously with the people in other States.
2nd. Or they can acknowledge the
McEnry government which is the one
chosen by a large majority of the people,
but this would throw the State into the
bftpda of the Democracy and defeat Pinch-
back’s chances for the Senate.
3rd. Or they can order a new new elec
tion, but this would infringe upon the
doctrine of States rights, for which at
present they profess to be great sticklers
and would, also, in all probability result
in a Democratic victory.
Thus it would seem they are surround
ed with difficulties on every side. This
is generally the case when governments
or individuals thrust their noses into
other peoples business, and intermeddle
where they have no right.
ambers of the Legislature Prepar
ing a Comfortable Detreat for
Themselves.
A bill was before the Legislature to es
tablish an Inebriate Asylum, a cosy place
where drunkards can retire from the.trou-
bles of life, and live comfortably at the
public expense. This is giving great en
couragement for lazy men to become
drunkards, and shows a strong sympathy
in the Legislature in favor of drunkards.
yfro would not be a drunkard, if sober
men are to be taxed for their support ?
It is rather discouraging to sober men to
have to work for the support of drunk
ards ! We see that this kind of legisla
tion for the encouragement of drunken
ness was supported in a speech by Mr.
Foster of Richmond, and opposed by Mr.
W*lsh of the same county. We are glad
to learn the bill was finally lost.
A Suggestion.—It has been suggested
that Gov. Smith send to Ohio for a brig
ade of praying women to pray for the
Georgia Legislature. We have no ob
jection to trying the experiment, but we
fear a majority of the Legislature are
like FalstafFs two rogues in buckram,
J?Mt praying for:
Atlanta Herald suggests that the
itiary convicts be employed in
(out material for a new Capitol in
• *7' . The suggestion ia a good one.
rtsclflyby aMh a movement that the
H]iifriiwnw ■ can have the question
pftffifht before the peepfe.
**
annual sessions also. But the happy
recipients of treasury pap fritter away
their time in profitless buncombe .speech
es, or rack their brains to iuvent new
bills covering every object in heaven,
earth and sea, and when nothing- more
can be done, pitch into the carcass of the
mutilated code, and whack huge slices
from it, or attempt to patch the inroads
already made. About the middle of the
session, malgre their incessant cries for
retrenchment and economy even to the
extent of denying remuneration lor the
past services of faithful servants, they
vote a liberal per diem to themselves,
and mileage enough to cover twice the
distance traveled, and then, presto!
discover that forty days will be insuffi
cient to transact the public business*
After the lapse of two-thirds of the
session, we find in the calendar of the
House that six hundred and sixty-two
bills had been introduced (enough to
govern America and all the world beside),
while of that number four hundred and
ninety-seven remain to be acted upon,
with twelve working days left, only.
Now this may be fun to the “Honorables ,”
State Printer, boarding house, and
restaurrants of Atlanta, but it is death to
tax payers and the prosperity of the
State. When the General Assembly met,
the universal opinion was, that aside from
the appropriation bill, the settlement of
the Macon and Brunswick railroad ques
tion, and probably some revision of the
lein laws, together with the ordinary rou
tine of Executive business, there was noth
ing to be done. Many confidently pre
dicted that the session would not be pro
tracted beyond a fortnight. But see how
ingenuity has conjured into existence a
mountain pile of rubbish, yclept business,
the true value of which will be ascertained
when at the heel of the session the whole
mass is cooked and disposed of in a few
hours. Why if five hundred bills of any
importance really were pending before the
House, the united wisdom of the English
Parliament or the American Congress,
could not possibly digest and act intelli
gently npon them in less time than six
months. And yet Capt. Bacon, the pre
siding officer of that body, dispatches
business with a rapidity and accuracy dif
ficult to be excelled. But the trouble is,
he can’t get at the mass that has accumu
lated, save when it comes piecemeal with
in his purview. Then we have seen how
swiftly and pertinently it is disposed of.
The only remedy for this is to reduce
the unwieldy number now composing the
Representative branch of the government
at least one half. As mttters now stand,
a handbill really do all the work, while the
others consume valuable time and draw
their pay only. In all soberness, we
would say to the Legislature, a tax-ridden,
impecunious constituency will begrudge
every moment of time that the session is
protracted beyond the constitutional lim
itation. Better far, ignore or postpone in
a batch, “indefinitely,” scores of the trivi
al motions which are dignified with the
nftmw of bills. Remember, too, that has
ty legislation is infinitely worse than no
legislation —Telegraph A Messenger.
The Attorney ffieaernl.
A Washington letter says: “The admin
istration and the friends of Attorney
General Williams are getting very nneasy
in view of the disclosures relative to the
atter’s letter to the Senate Judiciary
Committee and the committee's bundfy
of testimony against Williams: . The
fact is Williams holds the place by virtue
of partnership and by sufferance of
Senator Edmunds. Senator Edmunds is
now sedulously hiding and concealing
from the public a mass of incontroverti
ble evidence against the Attorney General,
the publication of which would be
followed by a resolution of impeachment
within twenty-four hours. A member
of tire Senate Judiciary Committee has
been heard to say that upon any one of
several counts which the committee’s
investigation developed Williams could
not fan to be impeached. Mr. Nesmith,
of Oregon, authorized your correspon
dent to say that if Senator Edmunds
will give to the House of Represents
tires the testimony of his hands just as
it was taken by the committee, he will
guarantee the impeachment of tteftttofc
(•eiriiia \tvss.
parations for Commencement; the orators
for the occasion will Boon be announced.
We have three societies, and the one com
posed of the theological students, thongh
recently organized, bids fair to lie in no
respect inferior to the other two.
We had quite an oratorical treat from
the eloquent lips of Rev. D. E. Butler a
few days since. All gloom takes flight
from faculty and students when this Sun
of wit and fun throws his enlivening rays
along our arena. He has the power of
bringing the faculty and students nearer
each other.
In my last letter I spoke of the Junior
class: It seems that this class is quite an
exception, not only in Mercer for the
time, but in her history; and will, doubt
less, compare with the same class in any
College of the- South. The President
announces that during the last half quar
ter. just ended, fifteen of the Junior class
came within a small fraction of maximum
in every department. Now if any one
should think it an easy matter to gain
such a mark, I would say in defence, that
my class has made a noble effort without
coping with the Juniors in that respect.
In my next I will give you some city
news. J. A. S.
A State Capitoi-—The city of Atlanta,
soothed by the late favorable action of
the Legislatuue in the removal contro
versy, has made a tender to the State of
the finest piece of ground in the city as
the site for a capitol building, free of all
cost. The Herald states that the prop
erty consists of the City Hall anil the
grounds enclosed with it, estimated to
contain five acres, and, at a reasonable
estimate, valued atone hundred thousand
dollars. It is situated on an eminence
near the heart of the city, and readily
accessible from the hotels and business
thronghfares. A fine public building
erected on the spot will present a com
man ding appearance, and be visible
from nearly every part of the city and
country around.
Our contemporary of the Gate City is
very anxious that something should be
done at once, in the way of erecting a
“grand structure” on this piece of ground,
and suggests that convict labor, used prop
erly, will enable the State to put up this
‘grand” building at a “trifling expense.”
The need of a new State House, either
as an ornamental adjunct of Atlanta or
as a State necessity, is, perliaps, not to
be denied, yet Georgia is in on condition
at present to even think of commencing
a large and costly edifice of thi6 descrip
tion, which, in the end, would cost her
a mint of money. Dingy walls and
limited accommodation, with an enviable
credit at home and abroad, as an offset,
are better than palatial halls and audience
rooms draped about by* a State's dishon
or and ruin.—Savannah Advertizer A
Republican.
■—D4—■ ■
Funny.—The humorist of the Savan
nah Morning News insists on having a
bit of fun at the expense of the Legisla
ture. He thus responds to aninqui
ry:
A correspondent desires to know what
the present General Assembly has done
in the way of muting efficient laws, and
then goes on to express a doubt as to
whether there has been any needed
legislation. Goodjheavens! is it possible
that onr correspondent doesn’t read the
newspapers? It seems to ns there is no
exettse for such ignorance. Why, there
have been cart-loads of laws passed—laws
the wholesome influence of which is
calculated to permeate and benefit the
commonwealth and to make even-little
children happier. A new road has been
established to Scovilles mills in McDuffie
county; a bill has been passed relieving
Mr. Skaggs of Gwinnett; 900 sections
of the Code have been retouched and
remodeled; Dooly county has been dump
ed into anew judicial circuitythe^county
lines between Rockdale
The Atlanta papers of Thursday con
tain the following news item:
Gaines Chisolm shot Penn Bedell
this evening in front of the Kimball
House. Bedell died in about half an
hour. Bedell had previously knocked
down Chisolm, and was returning from
the station house, in charge of an officer, i prosperous people on the earth.”
to give bond, when shot by Chisloni. [ The memorial is signed by the masters
who immediately suiTendered. • of the State Granges of South and North
Bedell is the same who is now under j Carolina. Alabama, Mississippi, Florida,
indictment for killing M. W. Rasbnry | Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, and Ten
ths OsttM States.
At a meeting of the National Grange,
held in St. Louis, February 11th, inst.,
a memorial to the Patrons of Hnsr
banbiy in the Cotton States was pre
sented and unanimously adopted. It
is an argument- in favor of mixed hus
bandry in the South, instead of expen
ding the energies of the people raising a
single crop! It says:
“During the past seven years onr
cotton-fields have added to the wealth
of the world two thousand millions of
dollars, and caused prosperity to smile
upon every one who has handled onr
crops, save those who struggled for its
production. Annually the energies of
the cotton planter have been exhausted
in attempting to produce a maximum
crop of n single staple, whilst quite as
frequently he has reduced his means in
supplying his necessary wants. A sys
tem bused upon such a policy aud
producing such results must l>e radically
wroug, and, if persisted in. will lead to
bankruptcy anil ruin.
“No people can cverbecomeprosperous
who are not self-sustaining. Our fertile
soil, exhaust less mineral wealth, abund
ant wider power and general salubrious
climate avail us nothing if annually we
expend millions for subsistence. It is
generally conceded that home grown
bread is cheaper than purchased supplies,
and the observation of every planter is
that those Southern farmers who live
within themselves are more indejiendent
and less incumbered with debt than
those who have relied solely upon the
cotton crop. Were it otherwise, it is
hazardous for any people to rely upon
others for a supply of those articles
which are necessary for their daily con
sumption.”
It then refers to the famine, which
more than once has occurred in India,
owing to the efforts of the people to
grow cotton to the exclusion of bread-
stuffs, and adds:
“During the past year, portions of
Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota have been
invaded by grasshoppers, which des
troyed every vestige of vegetation.
Imagine your condition, should a
similar invasion become general in the
North -east, and coupled with this idea,
the total failure of the cotton crop, either
from worm, drought, or any other una
voidable cause. Improbable as such
visitation may appear, have we the power
to prevent them? And is it wise to
subject ourselves to the possibility of
becoming the victims of such calamities?
Our wisest, and safest policy is ns far as
practicable to produce at home our neces
sary supplies:
“Is there a farm in the South npon
which this can not lie done, and at the
same time produce an average cotton
crop, as the net result of the farmer’s
annual labor? We believe there is not.
Annually four millions of bales oi cotton
are produced upon Southern soil; but
what proportion of this vast amount is
returned to indicate onr prosperity?
One-half of it is expended for necessary
supplies, whilst the remainder is divided
between labor and taxes; hence the cost
of production has exceeded the value of
the article produced. Shall this policy
continue ? Extensive cotton crops have
evinced mu- unity of purpose, and entailed
poverty upon ns. An equally nniform
adhesion bo mixed husbandry would
secure our recuperation. Cotton is a
necessity, and the extent of that necessity
can be calculated with exactness. If
3,500,000 bales are grown, they will be
consumed before another crop can be
gathered, and a remunerative market
price will be sustained by the consequent
demand. If 4 500,000 boles are grown,
the large marginal excess will control
and depress the markets. The alterna
tives for success are numerous, but we
need rely upon the single one of co
operating in the determination to subsist
at home. With this end attained, there
is no reason why we should not be the
happiest, most independent, and most
21. That subsoiling cotton
pay for the extra labor on our city soils.
22. That one stalk in the hill will pro
duoe more cotton than two or more stalks.
23. That topping cotton is rather a
detriment than and advantage to the
crop.
24. That cotton planted in norrow rows
2£ feet wide, and fertilized on thin land,
will produce more fruit than in wider
rows of a seasonable year.
25. That the difference between a rieh
and poor soil is probably owing to the
amount c»f available nitrogen and phos
phoric acid, held in soluble conditions
with the humus or black matter resulting
from decay of plants, in which there are
always a sufficiency of the other mineral
elements.
26. That subsoiling land for corn will
pay for the extra labor even of a season
able year, much better of a dry year.
27. That deep ploughing of com dur
ing some seasons, at least on clay land,
seems to answer as well if not not better
than shallow culture.
28. That five by three feet is the best
distance to plant corn on medium land,
of a seasonable year.
29. That puMing fodder does not ser
iouslv injure com after it passes the milk
stage.
30. That superphosphate is the best
fertilizer for leguminous plants, not be
cause it is a preferred food, but because
available phosphoric acid is deficient in
onr soils.
31. That large crops of turnips can be
made on our thin lands by the application
of superphosphate of lime, and inferen-
tiallv sheep husbandry might be made
profitable by feeding on turnips and fer
tilizing the soil, as well as for the wool
and mutton, and the consequent reduc
tion of the amount of cotton by the di
vision of labor.
SIMMON S
r, rutj- nrsen
Congress.
I’lie Alabama Senatorial Contest.
Dr. J. W. Sykes, contestant for Spen
cer's seat in the Senate, is still here, with
his counsel, John T. Morgan, Esq., of
Selma. He appeared before the Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elections
to-day, and asked to submit oral evidence
of the matters involved, and make oral
argument. Spencer objected, when the
Committee, by an almost unanimous vote,
decided to proceed alone on documentary
evidence. This was a signal victory for
Spencer, and is regarded generally as
settling him permanently in his seat.
THE RAWLS SLOAN CONTEST.
It is very well understood and believed
that the committee on elections have de
cided upon their report in this case. It
is conceded that the Republican members
of the committee will report in favor of
throwing out the entire vote of the city .
of Savannah and county of Chatham, on tl^L to certify th«?1recipe of
the ground that there were no united DR.J. BRADFIELD, of this county am! as a medi
States supervisors of election at all the I “ - ,0 1 ? comtiinatiun of me.ii-
, lu e , , lci03»ot (treatment :n the treatment ol ali tt.e die-
boxes, as the enforcement act requires, I eawn of females for which he reoommen.fcTlt. Tti,
and that said election was held in viola-1 Dec ® ub * r 21, J8G8.
tion of said act; and also that Andrewl For »»Je in Miiledgeviiieby' BEASELKY M D
Sloan be admitted as the duly elected j JOHN M. CLARK and B. R. iierty. innggi u.
member from the First Georgia District I _ r * 4,1873 ’ 43 h
The minority report (democrats) will be
in favor of sustaining the certificate of
the Governor, and keeping Rawls in his
seat. There are eight republicans and
three democrats on the committee. With
the very large Republican majority in the
House, it is now conceded that Sloan will
be seated. Mr. Rawls deserves high hon-1 Dysentery. Cholera, Diarrhea,
or, however, for the gallant manner in | Cramp and Pain m the .stomach,
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PAIN-E1LLKR,
THE GREAT
Faffiilj Idlfiif of Ihc Ag<\
Taken Internally, It (W*
which he has upheld the banner of de- U i«-
mocracy entrusted to him by the voters ( “ “ ’
of the First District. Srecis.
some two years ago. Chisolm, shortly
after the war, shot and killed a man
named Sheperd. and was acquitted there
for.
The papers are talking about Kimball.
Here is wbat the Hinesville Gazette says:
“But it is claimed that he was an
enterprising man, and that he was the
‘great developer' of Georgia, but more
particularly of Atlanta. Who couldn’t
’develop' with other people's money?
Who couldn't develop Atlanta—Opera
House, Capitol, Kimball House and
all—with the unlimited credit of the
State? The tax payers of Georgia prefer
‘development’ in some other channel
nessee, and was not only heartily ap
proved by the Committee on Resolutions,
but indorsed by every member of the
National Grange. .
Dr. Pendleton on Farminf.
Dr. E- M. Pendleton, Professor ofPrac-
tical Agriculture in the State College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, after nu
merous experiments on the farm of the
college, lias delivered a lengthy and able
The ways of women are past finding
out. It is said that the young ladies of [
Jacksonville, Tenn., have a fashion of]
Horn Throat, Sadden Colds, Coughs. Ac.,
Used Bstoranllyi Xt Cures
Boita, Felons, Cuts, Bruises. Burns. Scalds, Old
Sores, Sprains, Toothache, Pain iu the Face,
Neuralgia, Rhenmatiem. Frosted Feit,
he., Ac., &.c.
PASS
KILLER,
tyir, up their taper fingers when young [after a thorough trial by innumerable
gentlemen are expected to call, and when liying witnesses, has proved itself THE
they ve y naturally ask the cause, they I MEDICINE OF THE AGE It is an
blushingly reply, - I burned them hroil j internal and external remeilv. One
mg steak this moroing. The renit [ po«itive proof of its efficacy is, that its
as chronicled by the local paper, is that Udes have constantly increased, and
several young gentlemen have burned I wholly upon its own merits. The effect
their fingers by.believing the story. j 0 f j|, e
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Precautions Afainst Sickness. | upon the patient when taken’internally.
follows, and will prove valuable to every
one interested in agriculture: To sum up
the practical bearings of these experiments
they teach—1. That there is a great
beside the one in which this bungling j waste of ammonia when Peruvian guano
financier operated. If Mr. Kimball’s is used in its concentrated form; it should
return has anything to do with the j be mixed with superphosphate, alkaline
buried ’Bullock Bonds,’ before be at- j salts, etc.
tempts to resurrect them he had better j 2. That no combination of salts, leav
prepare for another hasty—and this time j ing out soluble phosphoric acid, will
permanent flight—for it would lie ‘better i pay on our woni soils,
for him to have a mill stone around his j a. That taken separately none of the
neck, and him cast into the sea,’ than to salts sold as fertilizers to make home com-
and-Mr. Spiveya
flew barn have been changed; CoL Davey
Boach bae been empowered to construct
a series of powerful fish-traps in the
Tobeaofkee river, and—but why continne
the enumeration? The statistics •brandy
given will satisfy every unr
mind that the Legialafem is
ics already
uow7 •***
touch this forbidden fruit.
And this is what the editor of the
Eatonton Messenger, writing from Atlan
ta, says. Time probably will reveal all.
If Kimball is innocent, why did he so
ignominionsly retire from the field, and
in such miserable company? To a true
Georgian there is something distasteful
in the whole matter. The mere presence
of the man in onr State Capital—the
flutter and stir that it creates—the sere
nade that was given him, interrupted
though it was—the quasi .Apologies that
we see in the papers, nay, the open
professions of admiration and friendship
indulged in by some writers—all these
things, I say, render one uncomfortable,
and somewhat angry. They remind
people a little of those dark days when
Bullockism, Blodgetism, carpet baggery
and scalawaggerv ruled in Atlanta. But
let us wait and see. If Kimball is ag
innocent and ill-used man, in God’s name,
let ns do him justice, though it be late.
If he is what most of us believe him to
be, let Georgia be made too hot for
him.
Our Legislature is a seuin’ an settin’
an’ settin,’ and doin’ nothin’—iike a hen
on a porcelain egg.
At the last session. oi Jasper Superior
Court Cornwell, who killed McDuffie Key
some months since, was sentenced to the
penitentiary for ten years,
A large number of the leading citizens
of Atlanta tendered a banquet to H. L
Kimball, which he declined.
Eight iron furnaces will soon be in ac
tive operation near Rome.
Carlton Hillyer, Auditor of the Geor
gia railroad, was married at Athens last
week, to Miss Lucy C, Thomas
According to a Washington telegrmn in
the Atlanta Herald, Postmaster Dunning’s
son embezzled nearly $20,000, and that
$7,077 86 are now due the Government
by Dunning.
The Bainbriilge Democrat'reports sev
eral cases of meningitis in that place.
It also announces the death, in the
poor house there, of an old Englishman
named Nelson, who served, under Well
ington in the campaign that ended with
the battle of Waterloo.
The ability of the human body to resist hi case of Cold, Cough, Bowel Complaint,
the causes of disease depends upon its Cholera, Dysentery, and other afflictions
vigor and upon the regularity with which of the system, has been truly wonderful,
the several organs perform their functions.} and has won for it a name among medical
In the winter the most prolific sources of preparations that can never be forgotten,
sickness are damp and cold, and it is Its success in removing pain, as an exter
therefore wise and prudent to fortify the nal remedy, in cases of Bums, Bruises,
system against them by wholosome stim-} Sores, Sprains, Cuts, Stings of Insects,
illation. Hence it is that Hostetter’a and other canses of suffering, has secured
Stomach Bitters prove such an admirable I for it such a host of testimony, ’as an
safeguard against the complaints most infallible remedy, that it will be handed
common at this season. The ingredients down to posterity as one of the greatest
of this powerful vegetable in vigorant com-j medical discoveries of the nineteenth
prise three essential medicinal elements I century.
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report of results, which are summarized as tion, circulation, secretions and the nerves, derives much of its popularity from tli
infusing strength and regularity into all. simplicity attending its use, which gives
In this way the Bitters put the body in it a peculiar value in a family. The
the best possible condition to escape an various diseases which may be reached by
attack of rheumatism, or intermittent it, and injtheir incipient stages eradicated,
fever, or indigestion or biliousness, or of are among those which are peculiarly
pulmonary’ disease. Cold and damp are fatal if suffered to run; but the curative
very depressing; almost as much so as magic of this preparation at once disarms
excessive heat, and a protective medicine them of their terrors. In all respects it
is quite as needful in winter as in summer, fulfills the conditions of a popular medi
The commercial stimulants so unwisely cine.
taken in the form of drams to "keep out Be sure you oall for and get the genuine
the cold,” have a precisely opposite effect Pain-Killer, as many wortldess nostrums
to that produced by Hostetter’s Bitters, are attempted to be sold on the great
Their first result is succeeded by a reac f reputation of this valnable medicine
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 liowels regulated, the stomach re
inforced, and these conditions continue,
If dyspepsia or rheumatism, or biliousness,
pounds will pay. Their virtues if any must
be in chemical action upon each other, and
the substances with which they are com
posted,
4. That ashes treated with sulphuric
acid with greatly improve their fertilizing
quRil ties,
5. That 200 lbs. of a good ammonia-
ted superphosphate is about the quantify
to be used on an acre of cotton.
6. That a soil abounding, in vegetable
matter will pay a much better per cent,
with commercial fertilizers than one hav
ing but little of this substance.
7. That a large amount of fertilizers
(say half a ton per acre) will not pay with
low priced cotton.
8. That with good cultivation, good
fertilizers will pay, even at the lowest
rates of cotton; but with bad cultivation,
they* will hardly pay at any price,
9. That white potash is more indispen
sable to plant life than soda; the latter
may replace the former under certain cir
cumstances.
10. That the di-phosphate of lime, be
ing less soluble in cold water, is not so
efficient as the bi-phosphate as a fertili
zer.
11. That stable manure, either fresh or
rotten, applied with a high graded super
phosphate, makes a very efficient fertilizer
for cotton.
12. That cotton seed applied with the
germ killed (or green, if put in deep), in
conjunction with'a good super-phosphate,
makes a powerful fertilizer
13. That lime should never be used in
conjunction with a super-phosphate, and
the application of super-phoephates to
calcareous soils is of doubtful utility.
14. Fertilizers applied during the
growth ef the crop, to keep np a supply
of nutrition to the rootlets, will not pay
under ordinary circumstances.
15. That ammonia ia the most active
and efficient form of nitrogen,when applied
as a fertilizer, and that organic nitrogen
in certain alvuminoids is more effectual
than the nitrates.
16. Thatthe value of nitrogen and phos-
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GO TO TEXAS
VIA THE
The Columbus Enquirer of Saturday
Bays: “We regret to learn that the
Central R. R. baa been compelled by the
■ of the time*, which demand
retrenchment, to considerably lessen the
force employed in its machine shops in
this city.’
A. B. Philm, at Madison, has
suspended, and “thhika his liabilities-
are between four had $*» thousand
phoric aid to a farmer depends on their
forms and combinations, not their com
mercial value, which is rated according to
the law of snpply and demand.
17. That*the application of sohunble
manures in a liquid form is better and
more efficient than when applied in toe
dry state.
18. ’ That lime will pay onaoila abound
ing in organic matter, on other soils its
application is of doubtful utility.
19. That subsoils do not gsrainaie
seeds or grow plants like surface sods.
90. That early planting of cation will
not produoe as much as that planted la
ter, when the ground becomes warm, and
the plant is not retarded, but frown of
rjpow—iy 0" 1 * *"**flf’
or intermittent fever, or general debility. T OIVIT? CT A D PflTlTFJ
or nervous weakness, is present in the -Ll V/il JDi 01A H HU Dili'
system, expel it with this pure and harm-1
less antidote, which is not only invalu-1 (International and Great Northern B •>
able as a preventive of sickness, but also a
remedy for a large class of disorders. Passengers going to Texas via Mem-
28 lm I phis and Little Rock, or via Shreveport.
strike this line at Longview, the Best
ffio West through St. Bonis. Route to Palestine. Heame, Waco.
To all who are seeking new homes in, Austin, Huntsville,^ Houston, Galveston
or are about to take a trip to Missouri 4 1 all points in Western, Central. Eas-
Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Nebras- tern ana Southern Texas,
ka, Oregon oi California, we reoammend Passengers via New Orleans will hmi
a cheap, safe, quick and direct route by it toe Best Route to Tyler, Mineola. 1 ■ 1
way of St. Louis, over the “Missouri ha, Overton, Crockett Longview and an
Pacific Through line." It is equipped points in Eastern ami Northeastern
with fine Dav Coaches, Buck’s Reclining Texas.
Chair Cars,' Pullman’s Palaoe Sleepers, This line is well built,throughly eqtup-
the famous Miller Safety Platform, »md P©d with every modern improyemen ■
the celebrated Westinghouse Air-Brake, I including New and Elegant Day
and ruins its trains from St Louis to Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars, u
principal points in the West without I house Air Brakes, Miller’s Patent bale)
change. We believe thatthe Missouri 1 Platforms and couplers; and nowhere c ^
Pacific Through Line has the best track I c* 11 the passenger so completely
of any road west of the Mississippi Riv-1 on a speedy, safe and comfortable J
d “k. LONE STAR ROOV O-*
become the great popular thoroughfare bly hnswered the query:, “How to g
between the East and West. Trains from Texss?” by the publication of an m
the North, South and East connect aASt I ing and truthful document, col “ ^
Louiri with trains of the Missouri Pacific. I valuable and correct map, which < j*
The Texas connection of this road is I obtained, free of charge, by atiy
now c n pleted, and passengers are offer the GENERAL TICKEI A • * ;
ed a first class all-rail route from St. j International and Great Northern
Louis to Texas, either over toe Missouri, j road, Houston, Texas.
Kansas A Texas R. R., via Sedaha, or
over the Atlantic A Pacific R. R., via
Yinita. For maps, time tables, informa
tion as to rates, routes, etc., address E.
A. Ford, General Passenger Agent, Si
Louis, Mo. Questions will be cl
and promptly answered.
Cheap Paras far Sale.~fiasj Tans*
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Com
pany offers 1,200,000 acres of land in
Central and Southwest Missouri, at from
$3 to $12 per sore, on seven years time,
with free transportation from Si Louis
to all purchasers. Climate, soil, timber,
mineral wealth, schools, churches and
law-abiding society invite emigrants from
all points to this land of fruits and flow
ers. For particakps, address A. Tqpk,
Land Commissioner, Si Ltoris, Mo. ~
Jan. 16, 1874. + *
District E.]
Feb. 11, 1874.
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SlectTic Flashes.
Greenock
Pm’tJtarttoprfcr
The «hip Confidence, from
Pensacola, foundered at sea. >.
Delmonico openedfourfree.sou
in New York yesterday. Tof^^ed
ing them he has the $30,000. eantnW£
by Bennett, end more fi
subscribed. .
Stokeley’s majority uv fj
Mayor foots mi ll,000
gain sommthafimths
Hartman A Co.,
have failed,
nffiMsmafts****!
ihouses
beiu?
elphi* J
jpemocrats
IjtOU: u ’
_dida te lor
have a®*'
,ey also ctf*
st