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MZ&&ESOEVZUZI, OA:
Wednesday, March 4, 1874.
Tho Georgia Legislature adjourned
last Thursday night and went home.—
They rest from their labors and their
works will follow them.
The jieople of Atlanta admit that Geor
gia wants a new Constitution and must
have one, but yet they are afraid to trust
tie people to make a Constitution for
tiemselves for fear they will carry the
Capital back to Milledgeville, where a
good State House and Governor's Man
sion is ready for the#. But tliat, al-
t lough, every way advantageous for the
State, would not do for Atlanta, and they
hare decided that the people shall not
have a Convention, but shall mend the
Bullock Constitution m some other way.
They tried the Circumlocution Commit
tee and found that would not do; none of
their recommendations were adopted. A
new idea has penetrated the head of the
Atlanta Herald. Hear him, and wonder
8 id admire:
Revision of the Constitution.
“The Legislature has determined—and
we think properly, as there has been no
manifestation of the popular will to that
effect—not to call a Convention to revise
the Constitution of the State at the pres
ent time. It is conceded, we believe, al
most universally, among Georgians, that
the present Constitution of their State is
ilkgitimate in its birth, defective in many
of its provisions, and monstrous in some.
Nobody thinks of living under it perma
nently, and a change is only a question
of time. All are in favor of it, whenever
it can be safely, judiciously and economi
cally done. That time has not yet arriv
ed, in the opinion of the wisest and most
prudent men of the State. Most, if not
all, of the defects, in the opinion of some,
may be remedied by means of legislation,
as pointed out in the instrument itself,
end a joint committee lias been raised by
1 ne present General Assembly for that
nurpose. We do not think this is the
nest plan for accomplishing the end
desired. The jirocess of amendment is a
f low one—too slow for the large num
ber of changes to be made—and it will
probably require five years, if not more,
i) obtain the popular vote on the ques-
1 on of ratification. Session after session
wo shall have amendments adopted or
rejected, and the former submitted to
the popular vote year after year for an
indefinite period before we shall have a
Constitution of our choice.
In view of the great diversity of opin
ions regarding the manner of changing
the Constitution, as well as the changes
themselves, it has occurred to us that a
plan might be devised for harmonizing
all conflicting views, and securing a new
Constitution that would reflect the in
telligence, statesmanship and patriotism
of our people, at an early day, and with
the least possible cost in money. We
should avail ourselves of the wisdom and
experience of our best men in this im
portant work. To that end, we propose
that the General Assembly, at its present
session, by joint resolution, appoint a
committee of eighteen, to consist of two
distinguished citizens from each con
gressional district in the State, with the
request that each member of said com
mittee shall prepare a draft of a new
Constitution, at its session during the
year 1874, and report the same to a gen
eral meeting of the committee to take
place at the seat of government in the
month of January, 1875. At said meet
ing the committee, or a two thirds ma
joiity of the same, shall agree upon some
particular draft of the number presented,
or upon one that shall be agreed upon af
ter a comparison of views, and upon in
formation of such agreement, the Legis
lature shall call a convention of the people
of Georgia, in the spring of that year, to
which said draft shall be submitted for
adoption, and if approved, as it doubt
less will be, sent to the people for ratifi
cation at such time as the convention
may appoint. There would be but little
wrangling over the report of such a com
mittee, especially should it lie* composed
of such men as Jenkins, Toombs, Law-
ton, Hill, Price, Benning, Vason, Harde
man and others whom we might mention.
The cost would be the traveling expenses
of the committee and their per diem for a
few days at the capital; while we believe
the Convention, aided by the counsels of
such men, and perhaps partly composed
of them, would finish up their work and
be ready to adjourn within a week after
the date of assembling.
Without further comment we submit
the plan for what it is worth, believing
that it would be difficult to devise a
Cheaper or more effective one, or one
whose results would give such general
satisfaction to the people of Georgia.”
It w ill be seen that the Editor of the
Herald in the plenitude of his wisdom
suggests that the present Legislature se
lect eigteen men to form a Constitution
for Georgia, and for fear they won’t se
lect the right men, he nominates them
for the Legislature. But unfortunately
all of the Herald’s nominees’liappen to be
lawyers, and probably the merchants,
the planters, mechanics and professional
men may want to have some showing in
the forming of the Constitution. But At
lanta doesn’t intend to givethem a show
ing, she is afraid to trust the people, and
claims the privilege of deciding how the
Constitution shall be altered, who shall
do it and when it shall be done. Most
magnanimous Atlanta! Most astute Her
ald! This plan of forming a Constitu
tion, must have originated with Hi Kim-
fcdl. Was it for this, the Editor of the
Herald craved the honor of giving Kim
ball a banquet? There never will bo a
8. X. Kimball’s Reception in Atlanta.
“ He came, he saw, and hq conquered."
The people of Atlanta, in their late re
ception of Mr. Kimball have exhibited a
strange mixture of fear, deceit, hope and
admiration. At first they dare not show
their joy at his return, because the Legis
lsture was in session, and they did not
wish to disgust the Legislature, as the
Capital question was then under discus
sion; so they restrained their feelings, and
when a few of the honest workingmen at
tempted to honor him they were chided
by the deceitful polivicians,and we were told
that no respectable person had anything
to do with honoring Mr. Kimball, and
that the citizens of Atlanta were ordered
to leave the hall where he was. But Mr.
Kimball knew the people of Atlanta, and
he bided liis time; and behold what a
change a few days, or rather a few nights
spent with Mr. Kimball produce.—
Without any public explanation on his
mrt, forty seven of the leading men of
Atlanta invite him to a banquet that they
may express to him their gratification in
seeing him among them and welcome him
back to Atlanta Mr. Kimball, knowing
their selfishness refused to eat with them.
He had done great tilings for Atlanta.—
He had spent all that he could beg, bor
row or steal iu Atlanta, and yet when he
ran away, and they thought they could
get no more out of him, they abused him
like a pick pocket; then, no peoplejin Geor
gia were more abusive of Kimball than
the Atlantese. But now' ho has come
back and they think they can use him
again for their advantage, they are ready
to banquet and worship him, not for what
he has done, but for w'hat he is expected
to do for them. Gratitude in Atlanta
means a strong appreciation of favors yet
to come. They are willing to let the past
take care of itself, but they look forward
to the future with premeditated gratitude.
Kimball appreciated their motives, and
therefore refused to break bread with
them. But this coyness on his part is
all affectation, to punish them for their
abuse of him when he ran away. But
Kimball and Atlanta are necessary to each |
other. Like the two blades of a pair of
shears—neither can shave so close with
out the help of the other. But when riv- 1
The Lien Raw.
The lien law has been repealed, to take
effect next November, but as many con •
tracts still exist under it and many more
will accrue this season, the status of
parties under the law is of some interest.
The following ruling by Judge Erskine
contains points that should be held in
recollection by debtors and creditors:
In the matter of Henry C. Bass, bank
rupt, vs. A. Wheeler, Sheriff of Sumter
county, Fred Glover, Deputy Sheriff, W.
D. Haynes, plaintiffs in fi fa, et ah
Petition for injunction.
At Chambers, Feburary 18, 1874.
On the 26th day of November, 1874,
Haynes made liis affidavit to foreclose his
hen on the crop. Bass was declared a
bankrupt on the 25th of the same No
vember, and the crop lien fi. fa. was levi
ed on the first of December. This was
Geergi* Legislator*.
Special to Telegi aph & Messenger.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 26.
SENATE.
Mr. Simmons moved to consider the
action of yesterday relating to the bill
organizing County Courts so far as relates
to Bibb. Prevailed-
Mr. Lester moved to reconsider the
action relative to the bill fixing the fees
of the Sheriff in Chatham. Prevailed.
BILLS PASSED.
To amend the act creating County
Courts so for as relates to Bibb ; to relieve
maimed and indigent soldiers. It requires
Tax Receivers to take a list of them; to
create the office of State Geologist; to
amend the act incorporating the Savan
na!], Seaboard and Skidaway Railroad
after the bankruptcy of Bass, and when j Company; also for the relief of the samej
the property was in the custody of this
Court and held for it by the bankrupt
until the appointing of an assignee. No
assignee has yet been appointed. * *
The clerk will issue the temporary in
junction as pirayed for. This injunction
I grant solely on the ground that the
levy was made after the bankruptcy of
Bass, but at the same time I remark that
no exemption will be allowed out of the
property held under a judgment obtained
by virtue of what is known as* a “crop
lien,” for it is purchase money under the
laws of this Sate, and I must follow the
State law in this, if this be a crop lien.
The register will instruct the bank
rupt to take the most particular care of
all and any portion of the property re
turned by him in his schedule and peti
tion until the same is ordered by the re
gister, Mr. Beckett, to be delivered to
the assignee when appointed and quali
fied.
Perhaps the most proper manner to
have prevented this would have been by
asking for a sale against parties for in
terfering with property which, at the
time of the levy, was in the legal pos
session of this Court. The levy was
made after—not before—the surrender
of the property named in the petition of
this Court. John Erskine
Judge U. S. Court.
The order of injunction was regularly
issued by Joseph McPherson, Esq., Clerk
of the United States Court.
Death of Dx-Senator Wigfall.
A dispatch from Galveston announces
the death in that place of ex-Senator Lou
is T. Wigfall, formerly of Texas, but for
some time past a resident of Baltimore.—
ited together they have been able to shear jjj. Wigfall, prior to the war, represented
the whole State, and they intend to do it Texas in the United States Senate, but,
with other Southern members of Con
gress, withdrew from that body when the
issues between the North and South were
deemed past compromise. He immedi
ately identified himself with the new Con
again. It is the hope and expectation of
this coming fleece which excites their grat
itude at this time. The two dailies in
Atlanta vied with each other in subservi
ency to Mr. Kimball. The editor of the
Herald was one of forty-seven who desired federation, in the formation of the pro vis
the honor of his company at the banquet; ] ona j government of the Confederate
him ~ - --
and the Constitution has besmeared mm States at Montgomery, Ala. He was
all over with soft sawder. \ erily, they present at the bombardment of Fort
expect their reward. May we not soon y um f erj an d on the second day of the
expect to see a reunion of the whole Bui- dglitiug and the case of Major Anderson
lock dynasty in Atlanta ? Kimball is hopeless, he went to the fort in a skiff,
there, Farrow is there, and Bard is there. waving a handkerchief, and entering
Bullock and Blodgett are coming men, through a casement, sent for Major An
and max be along soon. M hen all these derson and urged him to surrender. Al-
prodigals shall return the fatted calf will though this informal and rather eccentric
be killed, and Atlanta will be herself p roce dur e had the desired effect of stop-
a 8 am ' ping hostilities, the fort was not surren-
* .. _. i dered until a regularly appointed commis-
The Signs of the Times, sion f rom the Confederate side arrived
We do not profess to be a prophet or j w ith a flag of truce. Mr. Wigfall took
the son of a prophet, but we think, we can ; an active part in the subsequent events.—
discern the political signs of the times in | He took command of a brigade, but be
to amend the act relative to the civil and
criminal fees of the sheriff of Chatham; to
establish a Department of Agriculture ; to
prohibit the use of explosive oils in pas
sengercars;to exempt from jury duty tele
graph operators; to require tax payers to
pay tax only to Collectors on election
day; to incorporate the Augusta and
Hawkinsville Railroad Company; to pro-! matter—and, that I do’ not stop at tri-
A Proposition to Investigate the
Moneyed Operations during Bullock
and Conley’s Administration, Tree
of Cost or Charge to the State,
Vattl l*ira by tbc Hnn •€ Brprevrata-
live* mf thr «»e*rgin l.rfi>l*t*rr.
On the 17th February, the following
proposition was submitted to each the
Senate and House of Representatives:
Atlanta, February ¥7, 1874.
To the Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives :
Enclosed is a proposition which please
submit to the House for its acceptance or
rejection, as it may deem best for the in
terest of the State.
As the proposition, if accepted, will be in
the nature of a contract, I have drawn
up the same in the form of a Preamble
and Resolution, and it embraces substan
tially, if not word for word the “proposi
tion to the General Assembly of 1874,”
that appear el in the Atlanta Constitution
and Herald, and the Macon Telegraph
& Messenger, on the 17th ult.
Should the Legislature accept it, I
offer my past record as an officer of the
State, as surety for my fidelity in the
Georgia. The people all over the State
are disappointed and dissatisfied with the
conduct of a majority of the Legislature
which has just adjourned. They have
done many things which they ought not to
have done, and they left undone many
things which they ought to have done.
Especially are the people dissatisfied
with the action of the Legislature on the
subject of a Constitutional Convention.
In all probability there will not bo an
other time for many years so favorable
to the meeting of such a Convention
as the present. But if any doubt exist
ed in any of the members, as to the pro
priety of calling a Convention, there
could be none as to the justice of let
ting the people decide for themselves
whether they wanted a Convention or not,
and by denying the people this privi
lege, they added insult to injury, and we
predict the people will remember it
against them in the next election. The
advent of Kimball in Georgia indicates
the revival of the Bullock party, and we
believe by the assistance of Henry Clews’
agents, many of the Old Bullock party
will be elected to the next Legislature.
Origin and Propagation of Disease.
letter time to call a Convention to form
n new Constitution, and the people are
greatly disappointed because it was not
lone, but what does Atlanta care what
Ihe people want? She wants a new
Capital!
A* Old Dfsd.—Under the above head
the Atlanta Herald says that a man from
North Carolina, named Camp, has in liis
possession an old deed for 2021-2 acres
of land in the midst of Atlanta, including
the Kimball House and a large portion of
the business part of Atlanta. If Mr.
Camp will take it all off to North Caroli
na, let him have it. If the space left will
make a good fish pond, it will be much
the State than to remain as it
Let Camp take it cmc onebe.
Courier says that the Atlaa-
Legislature believe
. ... . *°rty-thr»e dam,
wham reality It was only tfairty-ejjj
A theory Las sprung up among medi
cal men that many diseases are probably
spread or caused by vegetable and ani
mal germs. The idea seems to be that
there may be a “cholera seed" or “scarlet-
fever germ” or “typhoid sporule” float
ing through the air, just as there are
floating seeds of thistles or dandelions, or
germs of tulip trees or limes, or scores of
the nameless plants which sow themselves
wherever there is the slightest bit of
moisture favoring. Dr John C. Dalton
in a recent lecture before the New York
Academy of Medicine on “The Origin
and Propagation of Disease,” has attemp
ted to throw the light of the most recent
scientific discoveries on this interesting
subject. He points out that the tendency
of the medical mind to believe in the
germ origin of disease was first given by
the discoveries relating to parasitic dis
eases.
Thus, for a long period, no one had
any idea that the scabies or itch was any
thing more than an eruptive disease; but
when the insect itself was discovered (or
rediscovered), its mode of laying eggs and
the time required for hatching and scat
tering its yotilig, it is plain that an im
portant step was made in the means of
prevention and cure, and one which sug
gest similar discoveries in other branches
of medical science in the same way, the
discoveries of the physical connection be
tween the two different internal parasites,
the tapeworm of man and the parasite of
measly pork, put physicians at once on a
scientific method of treatment for the
human disease. The famous “potato rot”
and a widespread malady of the grape
vine are now understood to be traceable
to the immense and destructive influence
of microscopic fungi in causing disease
among plants.
The question is asked may not fungi be
a source of what are called tlie“zymotic”
or fermenting human diseases, such as
scarlet fever, diptheria, typhoid, cholera,
and the like? Dr. Dalton says nothing
of the existence of a “cholera germ” which
was thought to have been discovered a
few years since, nor of the action of cam
phorbearing vegetation in cheeking the
spread of malana, both of which make the
germ theory more probable. The infer
ence from all the facts and analogies pre
sented by Dr. Hal ton seems to be that
many diseases are probably spread or
caused by vegetable and animal germs.
And with this theory before them, physi
cians will undoubtedly hit upon many
new modes of prevention and cure.
coming a Senator in the Congress of the
Confederate States, which assembled in
Richmond, gave up practically active field
service and devoted himself to parliamen
tary work. He was elected Senator to
the second Confederate Congress, and in
this capacity served until the fall of Rich
mond. He succeeded in making good his
escape, and after a visit to Texas went to
Europe, where he remained until the ex
citement of the war and its passions had
become somewhat tempered. Returning
to the United States he soon after settled
in Baltimore.
Under Grant’s Administration the art
of repairing has been reduced to an exact
science. It causes less remark and
inquiry if tlie books of one of the
departments show a lot o f money spent
for repairs and incidentals, than if the
same amount is charged for a new tiling.
For instance, an old set of wheels are
sent to a carriage manufacturers to be
repaired by having a new carriage body
made to them. Then tlie vehicle is
repaired again by having a new set of
wheels made for it. Then a small bill is
brought in for a pole, and by the time
the turnout gets to the residence of one
of the Cabinet Ministers, there is not a
piece of wood as big as a match left in it
chat was in the original carriage. One
of the mildest cases is that of Creswell
whose bills for carnage repairs, paid by
the Post Office Department, last year,
were only $369, charged in three separate
Items. He, however, made it up some
what in a charge of $130 for medicine for
two horses for three months. Now, if
the medicine had been for Creswell
himself the price ‘would not have been
surprising. We presume
comes as high as twelve or fifteen dollars j
a gallon, and from thirty to forty dollars i
a box; but we bad not supposed that
horse medicine was so expensive. Repub
licans can stand a good deal, but sixty
dollars worth of horse medicine a month
is too much for anybody to swallow.
vide for the removal of the county site of
Coffee; to allow freight trains to run till
8 o’clock Sunday to reach their termini;
to improve Indian Spring ; to amend the
school law of Richmond county ; to re
peal the act providing for a public eehool
system in Baldwin; to make citizens and
residents of municipal corporations ju
rors in certain cases ; to amend the char
ter of Milledgeville; to authorize the
Council of Augusta to remove a market
house ; to provide for the keeping of in
sane persons convicted of capital crimes ;
to prevent the destruction of game in
Liberty and McIntosh; to amend the act
incorporating the trustees of Masonic
Hall, Milledgeville ; to amend the charter
of Americus; to incorporate the Altamaha
Railroad Company ; to authorize the Gov
ernor to lease out tlie convicts ; to amend
the charter of Greenesboro and Oxford;
to define the fees of the Ordinary of
Chatham: to limit and regulate the assess
ment of taxes by municipal corporations.
A message was received from the Gov
ernor cenceming the bonds of the Macon
and Brunswick Railroad Company, sug
gesting that it be investigated whether
the indebtedness was $1,950,000 or $2,-
000,000.
Mr. Carlton offered a resolution pro
viding for the appointment of a joint com
mittee to investigate the matter. Agreed
to.
AFTERNOON BILLS PASSED.
To amend the charter of the Georgia
Railroad and Banking Company. It pro
vides for another bank at Atlanta. To
incorporate tlie John W. Lewis Manufac
turing Company.
The claims of Divine, Jones & Lee and
of John A Doane against the State, were
referred to arbitration to IVm. A. Walton
of Richmond, at the recommendation of
the Joint Committee of Conference.
BILLS PASSED.
To permit the Mayor’s Court of Macon
to try offenses against the penal laws of
the State, and for other purposes; to
amend the act establishing a County
Board of Commissioners for Bibb county
to incorporate the Muckalee Manufactur
ing Company of Americus.
The joint special committee to whom
was referred the case of Boorman, John
son & Co. made two reports. The ma
jority report, signed by Messrs. Kibbee,
Brown and Mercer, favors the payment
of the claims. Tlie minority report, sign
ed by Messrs. McDaniel and Reese advise
that no action be taken. Read for infor
rnation in both Houses.
Mr. Simmons offered a resolution re
questing and empowering ex-Govemor
Jenkins to investigate the claim and re
port to the next Legislature. Disagreed
to.
All business was disposed of in both
Houses.
After returning tlumks to the officers,
the Legislature adjourned sine die at half
past 11 o’clock.
fles, or obstacles, while in pursuit of
the recovery of what I believe to be a
just claim, I think your honorable body
and the Senate of the present Legislature
can readily testify.
Should the Legislature reject my
proposition, I shall feel that I shall have
no more cause of complaint, than other
good citizens. Should it think proper to
materially change the same, of course I
claim the privilege of declining it. One
thing, however, I wish distinctly under
stood, and it is, that, under no circum
stances, whatever, will I touch the matter
under existing laws; or should I be ham
pered or cramped in such a way that I
feel that I cannot do justice to the State,
as well as myself, I will not have anything
to do with it. I do not propose to be
come merely an informer in the matter,
but to be an Investigator in certain
transactions pertaining to the interest of
the State; and if I find that money lias
been illegally drawn or wrongfully held
back from the State Treasury, and I find
upon the best legal advice I can obtain,
that I can recover the same, I shall first
make a demand for restoration, or pay
ment into the State Treasury, and if I
fail, to commence an action at law to
recover the same. As it is not at all
agreeable to engage in law suits, espe
cially where perhaps men’s characters
may be involved, and the same, too, be
ing rather expensive and very ex
pensive where success is not’ attaina
promise or otherwise, receive less than
the principal amount claimed by him aai
Agent of the State, with 7 per cent per
anntim interest, from the date said per
son or persons illegally dew the money
from the State Treasury, or collected or
improperly withheld money from the
Treasury after being due, he., without
the said Thweatt first obtaining the
written consent of His Excellency the
Governor so to do.
5. Resolved, That should the said Pe
terson Thweatt accept the above proposi
tion, by giving the Bond required in the
above second Resolution, he shall report
his investigations and proceedings,
through the Governor, to the next Legis
lature.
This proposition was laid before the
House and Senate on the 17th, and on the
19th of February, a Joint Finance Com
mittee of both House accepted it and the
same was referred to the House. But CoL
Simmons, Chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, failed to return it to the Sen
ate. In the House, on the 25th inst, it
came up for consideration, when Messrs.
Anderson of Cobb and McDonald of Wal
ton opposed its acceptance, while Messrs.
Williamson of Baldwin, Reese of Morgan
and Hudson of Schley advocated its ac
ceptance, but it was voted down by yeas
60, nays 54
The nublic may inquire why this very
extraordinary action of the House ? Why
try to shield Bullock & Company and
their friends—why thus prevent them
from being brought to justice? There are
but two solutions. Mr. Thweatt, when
candidate for Comptroller lastyear, stated
that, if elected, he would with one clerk
do all the duties of the Comptroller’s of
fice and would investigate those old mat
ters free of cost to the State, and that he
believed that he could collect enough
money out of these things to pay his sal
ary for the fonr years he was a candidate
for. Those who voted against this propo
sition feared that if he was allowed to
make these investigations, &c., he would
collect the money for the State. Rather
than let him try to “make good” his be
lief and show that they had “damaged the
State much” by defeating him, they con
eluded not to let him collect the money—
to let the State lose the money! This
one solution.
The other solution is, that the men
about Atlanta, who had been illegally
helping themselves with the people’s mon
ey, while Bullock and Conley were Gov
ernors, got control of a majority of tlie
Legislature and used the same to screen
themselves.
No wonder, neither your claim, for
honest services and Mr. Tbweatt’s claim
for honest services, were not paid. Such
ble, I will promptly state, that, I do not a House of Representatives had no use
intend, if my proposition is accepted, to ; f° r BUC h claims, unless backed by
A man named Cryus Holmes is preach
ing the end of the world in Augusta.
The Reporters of the papers seem to be
much impresed with what they have
heard. A circumstance that would seem
to go far towards proving the truth of
the man’s arguments, is the fact that
he takes up no collections.—Sav Newt.
Snow Storm.—There was a rag
ing, howling northeasterly snow storm
yesterday, pervading all points near the
coast north of Washington. About six
Coffee diinkers have grounds for com
plaint of high price and the continued
appreciation of values from week to week.
Prices are now the highest ever known
to the trade, and there is no immediate
prospect of a decline. During the past
two months a great demand having been
made for ground coffees, many customers
being unable to pay the high prices
demanded for the pure article, the trado
in that department has increased, with
one leading house in Baltimore, 500 per
cent. The stock of Brazil coffee in the
United States last Thursday was 30,000
bags less than a year ago this time; and
foreign advices state that the Java crop
will be short. At the next sale of the
Dutch trading Company, which holds a
much larger stock at thiB time than last
year, liberal purchases are expected for
the United States, as the natual result of
high prices here.
— —
Interesting to the Ladies.—Fashion
correspondents m Paris say that a mark
ed, indeed, a startling change in ladies’
dresses will be attempted at an early day.
The skirts of these new costumes are to
be short enough to clear the ground all
aronnd. No polonaise or tunic, but three
or four flounces on the front breadths
will fall a full, perpendicularly plaited
demi skirt as a substitute for the pouf
now so fashionable. This will extend
only to the hips, leaving the front breadth
uncovered, save by a long pointed corsage.
To the back of this corsage will be attach
ed a square plaited basque. This strik
ing change, discarding all the forms that
have been so popular for several years
past as to require only slight alterations
to render them acceptable each season,
will not probably be generally adopted.
Sine Die.
Unless we are disappointed, the Geor
gia Legislature will sing the magic song
of “sine die” to night (Thursday), and by
morning the halls resonant with so much
strife of words, will echo only to the foot
fall of the solitary janitor, putting things
to rights for eleven months of dust and
repose. Tlie session has been a barren
one; for, with the exception of some two
or three topics of transcendent moment,
there was really no subject before tlie
body. As for tho great promiscuous raft
of public and private legislation, amend
ing the code, altering the times of courts,
etc., etc., which is annually locked through
the General Assembly one year, and gen
erally locked again the next, few will
doubt that it had far better have been
omitted.
One great curse of the State is too
much legislation of this sort. They are
the old stereotyped topics; but when it
comes to a wise police legislation for the
protection of property and premises—a
Ins 1 Inedirine ! wcl1 digested system of election laws so
indispensable to the purity of the ballot
—laws for the encouragement of a diver
sified agriculture and industry—for equal
izing public burdens—for the promotion
of public education—the preservation of
public order, etc., we make no effort and
no advance.
But, doubtless legislators and constitu
ents will rejoice in the fact that the
session is over, and the news papers will
join heartily in the rejoicing—for with
them the General Assembly is a heavy
bill of daily expense.—Tell. & Mess.
Important to
Those
Kotos.
Who Draw
inches of snow fell in
and
that city for a time was like unto a whiten
ed sepulchre, spotless without, bat within
fan <n corruption and sU awmr of nn-
The war upon Widdy Ward’s illegant
little whisky shop in Greeneville is still
unsuccessful. The widdy refuses to yield
to moral force, but by last accounts they
were about buying her out, with the
promise of a good start in a dryer grocery
trade. The praying bands find subjects
of their own sex more unmanageable
than the soloon keepers who wear panta
loons.
A Connecticut dock company has ship
ped a curious dock to Ban Francisco, to
be< placed in the tower of the greatest ho
tel on the continent, where it will furnish
time for five hundred dials, which are to
be operated by compressed air in pipes
all over the building. The building " M
five hundred roome, and there is to he *
dial iaeray room.
A man drew a note promising to pay
one hundred dollars. He used the prin
ted form and did not close up the blank
devoted to dollars, and, after passing it
as negotiable paper, somebody inserted
“and fifty” after the one hundred and
before tlie printed word dollar. The
note, thus altered, got into the hands of
an innocent party, who presented it to
the drawer, and the Supreme Court
decided that the maker of the note was
liable for its face, because through
negligence he did not draw a line between
the written word “dollars.” Any testi
mony that the drawer might offer to
establish the feet he gave the note for
one hundred dollars must go for nothing,
as “there was nothing on the face of the
note to show that it had been altered.”
Evidence of an alteration on the face of
the note would have changed the case.
Let this be a lesson to all -drawers of
promisory notes. No one can be too
careful in such matters.—Baltimore
News.
The Judge who made that decision
should be impeached. It simply tells
the villians, of whom there are many all
over the country, that if they find a
chance to alter a check by writing in a
word—a hundred or a thousand—they
can do so, and the court will justify
them. At least, the court will hold the
forgery to be legal, and force the party
who gave the original check, (for a less
sum,) to pay the full amount of the
forgery. There appears to be fraud
enough in the country without legal
decisions to encourage them.—Hartford
Times.
make any charge or charges against any
one, or commence any suits unless after
due consideration, and advice, I feel that
the chances are two to one in favor of a
recovery. If I should have doubts I will
refrain, and report the matter or matters
to the next Legislature.
As this is a matter of business and not
one of favor, I shall not personally or
otherwise solicit any member of either
branch of the Legislature to accept my
proposition; nor will I trouble the Legis-
ture in relation to it, (unless invited)
otherwise than through this communica
tion and the proposition herewith pre
sented.
Very Respectfully &c.,
PETERSON THWEATT.
Proposition, Preamble and Resolu
tions.
Whereas, Peterson Thweatt, former
Comptroller General, proposes to the
General Assembly, if authorized to do so,
to examine the Books, Papers and Vouch
ers, in the Comptroller's, Treasurer’s and
Executive offices, during the administra
tions of Governors Bullock and Conley,
and 'if he finds that any money has been
illegally diawn out of the State Treasury
on any of the warrants of these Governors,
or if he finds, at any time any officer or
other person, who has collected any mon
ey on account of the JState for Taxes or
otherwise, whose duty it was to pay said
money into the State Treasury, and has
not done so. or who withholds from the
State Treasury money that the State is
justly entitled to, and the Treasurer or
Comptroller's books shall show no charge
against said officer or other person with
holding said money; the said Peterson
Thweatt proposes by suit or otherwise,
as Agent of the State, to collect or re
cover said money Thus wrongfully with
drawn from the Treasury, or withheld
from the State, at his own expense and
free of all cost or trouble to the State,
“money” to pay the “friends" of those
who “controlled” the House of Repre
sentatives. T.
G-o West through St. Louis.
To all who are seeking new homes in.
or are about to take a trip to Missouri
Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Nebras
ka, Oregon oi California, we recommend
a cheap, safe, quick and direct route by
way of St. Louis, over the “Missouri
Pacific Through Line.” It is equipped
with fine Day Coaches, 'Buck’s Reclining
Chair Cars, Pullman’s Palace Sleepers,
the famous Miller Safety Platform, and
the celebrated Westinghouse Air-Brake,
and rains its trains from St. Louis to
principal points in the West without
change. We believe that the Missouri
Pacific Through Line has the best track
of any road west of the Mississippi Riv
er, and with its superior equipment and
unriveled comforts for passengers, has
become the great popular thoroughfan
between the East and West. Trains from
the North, South and East connect at St.
Louis with trains of the Missouri Pacific.
The Texas connection of this road is
now completed, and passengers are offer
ed a first class all-rail route from St.
Louis to Texas, either over the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas R. R., via Scdalia, or
over the Atlantic & Pacific R. B., via
Vinita. For maps, time tables, informa
tion as to rates, routes, etc., address E.
A. Ford, General Passenger Agent, St.
Louis, Mo. Questions will be cheerfully
and promptly answered.
Cheap Farms for Sale.—Easy Terms,
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 acre, on seven years time,
with free transportation from St. Louis
to all purchasers. Climate, soil, timber,
mineral wealth, schools, churches and
law-abiding society invite emigrants from
provided, that if he recovers or collate j a11 P°i nts to this land of fruits and flow-
| ers. 1 or particulars, address A Tuck,
Land Commissioner, St. Louis, Mo.
About 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon
four nicely dressed young ladies stepped
into Fred Braun’s saloon, near the Lie-
derkranz Hall, and seated* themselves.
After being comfortably ensconced, they
were approached by Adam, the tapster,
who said: “Ladies, I s'pose you *****
here to pray and sing.” The best look
ing of the quartette replied: “Yes but
we would like to have four glasses of
beer first.”—Courier-Journal.
IK* All kinds of Job work neatly
and promptly executed at ‘ *
said money, after paying his Attorney’s
10 per cent, the said Thweatt shall be
permitted to retain one half of the same
for liis own use, on account of his investi
gation, information, expenses and ser
vices.
1. Be it therefore Besolved by the
General Assembly of Georgia, That the
proposition of Peterson Thweatt, as
above stated, be and the same is hereby
accepted. Aid that His Excellency the
Governor, the Comptroller General and
the State Treasurer be authorized and
are hereby requested to afford Mr.
Thweatt every facility in their power,
necessary for his making a free and full
investigation for the purposes above
stated; and that His Excellency is author
ized and requested to furnish Mr. Thweatt
copies or 4 originals, if necessary, of any
paper or book in any of the offices above
stated or in any other office of the State,
for the purpose of enabling him as Agent
of the State, to recover any money in the
cases above stated.
.2. Besolved, That, if the said Pe
terson Thweatt, after making investiga
tions, should deem it proper to institute
a suit or suits to recover any money ille
gally withdrawn from the State Treasury
on any drafts or warrants of either Bufus
B. Bullock or Ben. Conley, late acting
Governor of this State. Or, should said
Thweatt deem it proper to institute a
suit or suits to recover money from any
officer or other person collecting money
under any law of this State whose duty
it was and is to pay said money into the
State Treasury and the same has not
been done, or who withholds from the
State Treasury money that ought to be
paid into the State Treasury, and the
Treasurer’s and Comptroller’s books show
no charge against any of the parties for
money so with withheld—then the said
Peterson Thweatt, in addition to being
empowered to collect the same other
wise, is hereby fully authorized, as Agent
of the State, to institute a suit or suits,
in name of the Governor, in the proper
Courts of this State, against any one or
all of these parties, with no more- restric
tions on the right to sue than any other
citizen for his own right or property, and
with the same rights as any citizen of this
Statebefore the acts of the Legislature of
1871. Provided, .That, in the event of a
recovery of any money in any of the
above stated cases, either by suit or other
wise, by the said Thweatt, after paying
any Attorney he may employ 10 per cent,
he is hereby required t6 pay one half of
said recovery into the State Treasury.
Provided further, That before said
Thweatt shall proceed to the collection of
said money in any way he shall file with
the Governor a good and sufficient Bond
for the sum of twenty-five hundred dol
lars, for the faithful payment into the
State Treasury of any money he may col
lect and that may be due the State in ac
cordance with this agreement, and to in
sure or protect the State from any ex
pense or cost whatever on account of any
investigation or suit or suits he shall in
stitute in the name of the Governor, as
Agent of the State.
3. Besolved; That this proposition and
acceptance by the General Assembly, shall
Jan. 16, 1374.
26 ly
Another of Foster’s Wonders.
The following is from a New York let
ter in the St. Louis Republican:
“Foster has gone to Australia, leaving
San Francisco with a strong smell of
sulphur to account for much that he has
done. You’ve all heard of the recovery
of twenty thousand dollars worth of
property by our Japan Minister, De
Long, through his instrumentality. The
last day of his stay in San Francisco a
Mrs Emily Hunter, an English lady,
whose sister came to this country fifteen
years ago, a child of five years, sought to
know of the lost relative. Foster told
her, her mother married again in the year
1860; always called the little girl by the
name of the first husband. The mother
had died, as Mrs. Hunter supposed from
her long silence. The little sister, under
the name of Margaret Hollister, had
grown up with her stepfather’s relatives,
and was married somewhere in Brooklyn.
That was tlie information the spirits gave
Mrs. Hunter. Foster woke up from a
nap the day of this interview with his
back and breast smarting. Knowing from
long experience what this meant, he pro
ceeded to examine himself, and found his
shoulders covered with directions, writ
ten in the blood-red characters that as
tonish his callers so frequently. One of
these directions was the name, number,
street and city of Mrs. Hunter's lost sis
ter. Mr. George Bartlett, Foster’s agent,
went to Mrs. H. with the valuable infor
mation, and the delighted woman arrived
in the city Saturday night, and is in the
pleasant home circle of the missing sister
to-day, a devout believer in his Satanic
Majesty, Charles Foster.
REGULATOR.
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The Favorite Home Remedy,-
This unrivalled Medicine is warranted not to e*uta :
a single particle of Merctliy, or any injaii..!!, minera'l
substance, bet is
PURELY VEGETABLE
containing those Southern Roots and Herb? wl,ii ’>
all-wise Providence has placed in countries' wW.
Liver Diseases most prevail. It will care «H d : . ' re
caused by Derangement of the Liver ami Bowels* 868
Simmons’ Liver Regulator, or Medicine
Is eminently a Family Medicine; and by beUe kern
ready ‘or immediate resort will save many an
suffering and many a dollar iu time and dolors’ hir»
After over Forty Years’trial it is still receivin', ti
most unqualified tes'iaionials to its virtues from n *
sons of the highest character and responsibility tv’
ueut physicians commend it as the most J
EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC
For Dyspepsia or indigestion.
Armed with this ANTIDOTE,all climates and -L,
of water and food may be faced without fear a
Remedy in Malarions Fevers, Bowel Complaint- rIJ*
lessness, Jaundice, Nausea, 1
X* BAS NO EQUAL.
It U the Cheapest, Purest and Best Fami'v V v
in the World! } lu;aBe
Manufactured only by
J- H. ZEXLITJ a. CO.
MACON, G.V, and PUILADEIPin,
Pnce, $1.00. Sold by till Drugtastd
Dec. 17, 1873. oh ' .
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Jor TOTH*.World! Wowaa i, Kkee !—Aimur?
tlie many modern discoveries looking to the hr.pphe .
aud amelioration of the Unman race, mute is enti-M
to Ifaiier consideration than the renowned remedy—
Dr. J. Bradfield's Female Rrgulp.tor, Woman’s Best
Friend. By it woman is emancipated from r umber
less ills peculiar to her sex. Bel re its magie power
all irregularities of the womb vanish. it v ur^ts 6un-
pre.-sion of the menses. It removes utmine obstrac.
tions. It cures constipation and strenoti.ena the svr"
tern. It braces the nerves aud purifies the blncd 1*
never fails, as thousands of women will testily It
cures whites. This valuable medicine ie prepared anH
sold bv L. H. Bradfield, Drnggi.,. Llama Ga
Pnce 11 50 per bottle. All respectable dru men
keep it
nr r ir « Tuskegee, Ala., 1868.
Mr. L. H. BRADFIELD-Sir: lMunse forward n$
immediately, another supply of Bradfield’s Ke
male Regulator. We find it to be all that i.-claim
ed for it, and we have witnessed the most decided er.d
happy effects produced by it.
Very respectfully,
Hunter & Alexander.
We the undersigned Dniggists, take pleasure in
commending to tho trade, Dr J. Bradfield's Fe
male Regulator—believing it to be a good and re*
liab.e remedy for the diseases for which he recoin-
mends it.
w A- Landsei.L. Atlanta, Ga.
Pemberton, Wilson, Taylor & Co.,
_ Atlanta, Ga.
REDWINE & FOX, Atlanta, Ga.
W. C. Lawsiie. Atlanta, Ga.
W. Root & Son, Marietta, Ga.
STATE OF GEORGIA-Troup Countr.
This is to certify that I have examined the recipe of
DR. J. BRADFIELD, of this county, and as a medi-
c^il man pronounce it to be a combination of medi-
currs of great meiit in the treatment of ali the uis-
eases of females for which be recommends it. Ti -
December 21,1808.
„ .... WM. P.BEASELEY, M.D.
For sale m Milledgeville by
JOHN H. CLARK and B. R. HERTY. Drneei t-
May 14, 1873. 40ly
«?© TO TEXAS
VIA TIIE
LONE STAR ROUTE!
(International and Great Northern R. R.)
Passengers going to Texas via Mem
phis and Little Rook, or via Shreveport,
strike this line at Longview, tlie Best
Route to Palestine. Heame, Waco,
Austin, Huntsville, Houston, Galveston
and all points in Western, Central, Eas
tern and Southern Texas.
Passengers via New Orleans will find
it the Best Route to Tyler, MineoJa, Dal
las, Overton, Crockett, Longview and all
points in Eastern and Northeastern
Texas.
This line is well built, throughly equip
ped with every modem improvement,
including New and Elegant Day Coaches.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Car s. Westing-
house Air Brakes, Miller’s Patent Safety
Platforms and couplers: and nowhere else
can the passenger so completely depend
on a speedy, safe and comfortable jour
ney.
The LONE STAR ROUTE has admira
bly answered the query: "How to go to
Texas?” by the publication of an interest
ing and truthful document, containing a
valuable and correct map, wliich can be
obtained, free of charge, by addressing
the GENERAL TICKET AGENT.
International and Great Northern Rail
road, Houston, Texas.
District E.]
Feb. 11, 1874. 29 ly.
From a statement of Mayor Huff we
find that the total receipts of the Georgia
Sate Fair amounted to $31,136 80.
not apply to any County Tax
until he shall have had a final settlement
or shall have received a “receipt in fell”
from the Comptroller Generali
4. Besolved, That in no
flbaHt)»faidP«fe<w» Thweatt, by
The Great Antagonist of Disease.
What U the natural antagonist of disease ? It is the
vital principle. From the moment that disease is de
veloped in the system, this champion fights the intru
der until it either conquers or is conquered Which
side should medicinal science espouse in this life and
death struggle ? Should it depress and cripple the
physical energies of the patient, thereby helping the
disorder, or should it reinforce the vitality of the patient
and thereby assist in quelling the ailment ? Of cotuae
the proper answer to this question most be obvious to
every one above the grade of an idiot or a lunatic, and
henoe it follows that the weak and broken down inva
lid who ohooees to dose himself with depleting slope,
instead of toning, invigorating and vitalising bis ener
vated frame with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, most
be either feeble minded or deranged. Sorely nothing
short of imbecility or insanity conld indnee a person
laboring under bodily weakness and nervous prostra
tion, to take day after day powerful doeee of some dras
tic purgative in the hope of gaining strength thereby
Although charlatans may advertise preparations of this
character as tonics, people in the foil possession of their
reason cannot, one would think, accept them as such*
If they do the pena'ty of their Credulity may bathe
shortening of their lives. The rheumatic, the dyspep
tic, the bilious, the debilitated and nervous, and at.
who are subject to_ intermittenta, or other diseases
brought on by the inclement weather which prevails
at this season, will do well to strengthen their nerves,
tone their stomachs and regulate their bowels with the
Bitters. The two-foM operation of the restorative as
an .invigoraat and an aperient, in addition to iU direct
and specific effect spec the dwerdsrad fiver, renders >
a most efficient remedy for eonspUatoof tho digestive
secretive end excretive organs, at prsncnt tense. IU*
tar’s Almanac for. 874.
Don’t forget top*y foryourpHxr.
PAIN-KILLER.
1840. 1874.
Time Tests the Merits of ail Things*
Thirty years is certainly long enough
time to prove the efficacy of any medicine,
and that the Painkiller is deserving of all
its proprietors claim for it, is amply
proved by the unparalleled popularity it
has attained. It is a sure and effective
remedy. It is sold in almost every coun
try in the world, and it needs only to be
known to be prized, and its reputation as
Medicine of Great Virtue, is fully and
permanently established. It is the great
Family Medicine of tho age. Taken in
ternally, it cures dysentery, cholera, diar
rhoea, cramp and pain in the stomach,
bowel complaint, Painters’ colic, liver
complaint, Dyspepsia, or indigestion, sud
den colds, sore throat, and coughs. Taken
externally, it cures braises, Boils, felons,
cuts, burns, scalds, old sores and sprains,
swellings of the joints, toothache, pain in
face, neuralgia and rheumatism, chapped
hands, frost bitten feet, Ac.
Pain is supposed to be the lot of ns
poor mortals, as inevitable as death, and
liableat any time to come upon us. There
fore it is important that remedial agents
should be at hand to be used on emer
gency, when we are made to feel the ex
cruciating agony of pain, or the depress
ing influences of disease. Such a remedial
exists in Perry Davis’ “Pain Killer, the
feme of which has extended over all the
earth. Amid the eternal ices of the Polar
regions, or beneath the intolerable and
burning suns of the tropics its virtues are
known and appreciated. And by it suf
fering humanity has found relief fr° m
many of its ills. The effect of the Pain-
Killer upon the patient when taken inter
nally in cases of cough, bowel complain!’
cholera, dysentery, and other allections
of the system, has been truly wonderful
and has won for it a name among medic;'
preparations, that can never be forgotten-
Its success in removing pain, as an exter
nal remedy, in cases of burns, bruises,
sores and sprains, ents, stings of insects,
&c., and other causes of suffering has't-
cured for it the most preminent jiootio
among the medicines of the day. Beware
of counterfeits and worthless imitation*-
CaUforPeny Davis’ VegetablePain Killed
and take no other.
IGF Sold by Druggists and Grocers^
Mr Gabfield likens the I nited
States army to “a half developed h' 0 ?’
all head and no tail.” The staff is nn'U
strously disproportioned. When tn
Prussian. army numbered 400,000 men-
its staff was composed of only 10b 0
cers. The staff of the Russian arm ^ t
800,000 men numbers 200 officers, -tsi
there is fastened on to our little anui
now 25,000 men a staff of 633 officers-
many of them tuning the rank of -mV,
dier General. But the people sa L .,
■hull be reduced, not withstanding
not the Republican party take notice.
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