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THE UNION & RECORDER.
Old
'Southern Recorder” and
consolidated.]
‘Federal Union’
For the Union and Recorder.
HXllEBaBVI&&S, OA:
Wednesday, March 25, 1875.
THE NEW GEORGIA TAX LAW,
Bnbr Cradlea aad Tia-Capai Dia»'r-P«i»
■■4 PerrMge IfMiai PI'w. aa4 Pina"
far Tax Sale aexl Naveaiber.
What a mockery ! The late Legisla
ture has appropriated ten thousand dol
lars besides big salaries for "an Agricul
tural Department," and fifty thousand
dollars for a “Geological Survey, by waj
of helping Agriculture; but has altered
the Tax law and the Exemption law, s
that after this Tax will have to be r\n
on all the Household and Kitchen Fcum
ture, and on every ToolofTrade, or of the
Farm. Nothing is exempt from Tax a
tion but Poultry and Crops; and nothing
whatever is exempt from sale for Taxes.
In defiance of all the wisdom of the
past, the Georgia Legislature let loose
the rapacity of the Usurers upon Deb
tors and upon their widows and orphans
by the Law of Feb. 19, 1873, and after a
whole year for observation of their failure,
at it6 late session, stood by their folly
and refused to undo their fatal error.
The grateful Psalmist, thanking God
Turning' Over a New leaf.
In every direction, aslar as we can heaE,
the planter's and farmers are changing
their views and turning over a new leaf . _ . .
, . for his loving kindness, exclaims m rap
in farming : and it is big i tune o mft ture “Thou crownest the year with good
a change. Indeed, the cliange should
, have been made years ago, when slavery
was first abolished. Repeated trials have
proved to them until they can no longer
doubt it, that if they persist in the old
plan of raising cotton to buy provisions
they will be ruined. This result arises
from many causes which they cannot pre
vent. Since the emancipation of slavery
the cost of raising cotton has neany
doubled, whilst provisions have risen and
the price of cotton has been depressed.—
The only salvation for farmers is, by
every means in their power, to lessen their
expenses and try to live within themselves.
This they can do by hiring less help, mak
ing as far as they can their own fertilizers
and their own provisions. By this change
the crop of cotton will be less, but the
price will be higher and their expenses
wiil be much less, and in the end they
will make more money. There is another
change which must take place before the
cotton region can be prosperous—the
white men must put their own shoulders
to the wheel and work for themselves and
not depend upon negroes altogether.
Then white men and their sons enter the
Held the negroes will work better, and the
.vliite men can introduce many labor sav-
ng machines which have long been in
■use at the North and in England which
enable white men to accomplish five times
as much and with less toil than by manu
al labor. We believe the farmers all
through the cotton region are turning
their attention to these things, and have
determined in the first place to raise food
for their families and stock, and after that
raise as much cotton as they can; and
even with tliis curtailment of the cotton
crop there will probably be more raised
next year than the world will need, for
the area of cotton planting is extending
every year. Tliey arc planting more in
the up country of Georgia, Tennessee and
the Carolinas, and even in \ irginia. All
of which will have a tendency to raise the
price of provisions and lower the price of
cotton.
A Revolution in Politics-
Every election that has taken place at
the North for several months past ha s
shown that the honest masses in that sec
tion have become til ed and restive under
Radical rule and Radical corruption.
They seem everywhere to have come to
the conclusion that Radical rule is costing
the country more 'than it is worth, and
that it is time to change their rulers.—
Sweeping Democratic victories in Ohio,
New Hampshire and the partial Demo
cratic victories in New York, New Jersey,
and even in Vermont show clearly that
honest people at the North have deter
mined to change tlier rulers. But whilst
the signs of a change for the better is
everywhere visible at the North, a change
for the worse is but too apparent at the
South. Southern politicians have, for a
long time, been kept out of office. Whilst
they have seen Northern politicians be
coming rich with the spoils of office they
Lave become poor until we fear many of
them have come to the conclusion that
honesty does not pay, and now some of
them are willing to grab ail they can get,
and are even willing to bend the supple
hinges of their knees to power if thrift
may follow fawning. Some of them seized
and kept the back pay grab, and still keep
it. That villainous bill could not have
passed without their votes, and shall
these go unwhipped of justice ? If the
Southern people do not punish these
men by withdrawing their confidence from
them, then it is time for us to stop talk
ing and writing about the conniption of
Northern politicians.
Our last State Legislature also took a
,'ew lessons from a Radical Congress on
he subject of economy and reform. They
*romised great things—promised to re
duce their own pay and mileage—had
'bills introduced for that purpose, and
partially acted upon, but finally rather
increased than diminished their emolu
aents. In short the conniption of North
ern politicians seem rather to have excited
the envy than the disgust of Southern
men; and just as the Northern Radicals
seem anxious to throw Grant and Butler
overboard, Southern politicians seem wil
ling to pick them up.
The Temperance Campaign in
Atlanta.
We learn from the Atlanta papers that
there has been a temperance Mass Meet-
i lg in Atlanta, conducted principally by
the clergy; they passed many resolutions,
t ut none of them of much practical force,
< xcept the one offered to request the
City Council to refuse licenses to retail
ardent spirits. If this should prevail, it
would be an important step in favor of
temperance. The meeting did not en
dorse the aggression movement of the
women of Ohio.
The United Fiuends or Temperance.—
We are informed that this new Temper-
; .nce order, which was organized about a
vear ago in Georgia, is meeting with
i^reat success throughout the State, and
.he South. In Georgia thirty-seven new
'Councils have been organized during the
he past five months, and still they come.
Che order is a pure Temperance organi
sation, it is said, with a beautiful and at
tractive ceremony. Its friends think it is
destined to sweep the whole country. Any
ten white persons of good character can
get a charter and books by applying to
. E. H. Searcy, Grand Scribe, Griffin,
Georgia.—Rome Courier.
Mrs. Alice M. Sumner, from whom
her then husband, Senator Sumner, ob
tained a divorce for desertion in 1873, has
petitioned to the Supreme Judicial Court
of Massachusetts for leave to marry again.
Mrs. Alice has got permission from a still
jiigher court.
The next Gubernatorial campaign* in
Massachusetts has already opened. Tht
Boston Express says that no less than a
dozen clubs have been organized and pul
in good working order by active politi
Man^n Boston, and that their motto it
xwv « °? Yer nor." The Expres*
thinks Butler will secure tho Republican
nomination, and that the
win by running Mayor Gaston against
tm.
ness. But the Legislature crowns its
year with cruelty and blunder. Hereto
fore the law of Georgia, in mercy to wo
men and children and to encourage all
staple trades, exempted from levy and sale
for debt, amongst other small allowances,
the following: viz. “Cooking Utensils and
Crockery, and Beds, bedding and bed
steads, sufficient for the family; and com
mon Tools of Trade, of Debtor and his
wife,” and thereupon the Supreme Court,
of noble memory, decided in Gladney vs.
Deavors; 11 Ga., R. 79—91 that this
“family charity” of the law; this tenderness
to women and children—our own women
and children, was a “Public Policy,” that
“the State is within the jiolicy of her own
Exemption Act,” and its Tax Collector
has no right to sell for Taxes any proper
ty exempt by law from sale for debts,
Tliis kind and wise decision of the Su
preme Court was adopted by the Code,
and became settled law. See 2nd, Code
897, 3rd Code 895.
In addition to this principle, that what
ever property is exempt from sale for debts,
is also exempt from sale for taxes, the law
of Georgia of January 9, 1852—continued
ever since—in peace and in war, until
now, (see the three Codes, 729, 897,895)
exempted from taxation “ all plantation
and mechanical Tools, and all Furniture
of household and kitchen (not for sale) to
the extent of §300. And also, §200 worth
of general property.” But the late Leg
islature has repealed all of this by act of
Feb. 26, 1874; and to leave uo escape for
the Taxpayer, has by its other act of Feb.
27, 1874, expressly repealed the law of
the Code (3 Code 895—2 Code 897) which
protected exempt property against levy
and sale for Taxes.
Now let our people prepare for sorrow.
The bed of the widow and orphan; the
last milk cow ; the dinner-pot; the poor
baby's tin cup and spoon; the fanners’
plow and gear, the staw bed of the poor ;
the tools of the laborer or the mechanic,are
now all subject to be sold on three days’
order, by the Tax Collectors' fi fa, even
for town work taxes ! And this is the
worth of the Legislature, which iu such
times of distress, professed to aid Agri
culture by establishing an Agricultural
Department, with §3,200, yearly salaries,
and §10,000 appropriated ; and a Geolog
ical Survey “to make known the ad
vantages of Georgia, and hence attract
immigration and capital” at an expense of
§66,000.00.
What thanks this Legislature will get
from the fanners and the poor of Geor
gia ! Plowshare.
The “Betsy Ward" movement is about
to break out in Atlanta. The ladies are
having their praying costumes made up,
and iu a few days we shall hear that the
“Maison De Ville,” the “Girl of the Pe
riod,” the “Turf,” and other noted places
where poison is retailed, will be beseiged
by the praying ladies of Atlanta. The
thing is bound to happen. All the North
ern fashions have to come South. The
temperance street and saloon prayer meet
ings have become epidemic, and is as cer
tain to come South as the panic did. We
wait with eager impatience for the out
break in Atlanta, though we believe most
of the grog sellers up there are past pray
ing for, not so much on account of their
avocation, as the miserable quality of the
spirits they sell.
Well, let us have it—we are anxious to
see it—it may do good—it can't do harm.
The movement is one of those great pe-
ridodieal upheavings that sweep over an
entire country and every opposition is
powerless to oppose it. Liquor drinking
has become an alarming disease, and noth
ing short of a miracle can stem the tide
of destnretion that flows in its wake.
When the thing gets hot in Atlanta, it
will break out in Griffin. Won’t it be
splendid to see the .show open here in
front of Doc Ison's ? Already we have
interviewed one old maid who says she is
t willing to “lead” the movement. She
says she has been swindled out of a good
husband by the grocery keepers, for lie
drank himself to death before she could
get him to the altar.—[Griffin Star.
Standing for Congress.
The Gainesville Eagle has this to say
about the Atlanta Herald “standing” Mr.
Hill for Congress in the Ninth District:
Would it not be policy on the part of
Mr. Hill's friends, before they go to
“standing” him in their district to find
out whether the people would stand it or
not? The supposition of the Herald
that Mr. Hill will have no opposition in
the Ninth District for Congress lias no
doubt been arrived at without mature
deliberation. He will have opposition,
and that of a very serious character. We
admit that Messrs. Hill, Stephens and
Toombs, would “wake things” if they
could all be sent to Washington as repre
sentatives from Georgia; and that all the
men in the Ninth District spoken of in
connection with Congressional honors are
“average” when compared with them, but
we can inform the Herald that we, of this
district, propose to “cut and deal” our
own cards, and although we are thankful
for the kindly suggestions of outsiders,
we expect to play the game among our
selves.
Congress.
Washington, March 20, 1874.
Senate.—Senator Hager, of California,
made a speech in favor of a modification
of the treaty so as to suppress Chinese
immigration.
Three days mails are due from New Or
leans.
A moti in to limit speeches on the fi
nance bill to 10 minutes failed.
The army appropriation bill passed.
The rider affecting Southern claims was
stricken out, and the bill goes to the
House for concurrence.
The fortification appropriation bill
passed.
The particulars of the bill gives the fol
lowing: Fortress Monroe, §30,000; Fort
Moultrie, $20,000; Fort Pulaski, §20,000;
Fort Jackson, §30,000; St. Phillip, $30,-
000; Fort Taylor, §30,000.
Senator Lewis introduced a bill remov
ing the political disabilities of Dabney H.
Maury.
Senator Stewart, from the Committee
on Railroads, reported unfavorably on the
Senate bill granting aid to the Atlantic
and Great Western Canal, and the com
mittee was discharged from its further
consideration.
House.—Mr. Dawes gave notice that
he would bring up the §400,000,000 bill
next Monday.
The House proceeded to the Georgia
contested election ease—the majority re
port being in favor of Sloan, the contes
tant, A«d against Rawls, the sitting mem
ber.
In tiie House there were several speech
es on Sloan vs. Rawles. No action. Dis-
tnctof Columbia occupied the balance of
UiP We cal tlm attention especially of our la<ly
readers to the following article, written by an old
citizen of Ibis place, but noiv of Savannah,the article
appealing in the Advertiser Republican of that city.
TBiIIPKKANCK.
The DUrewrai-lthall il twine
Milker f
Editors Advertiser-Republican:
A writer in your paper of the 5th, sign
ed “U. F. T." hints at tlie idea that the
women of Savannah imitate those of Ohio.
New York, Philadelphia and Boston.
When I say women, of course I mean la
dies—I use the word woman in its gen
eric sense. God forbid that we should have
on our streets the scenes as reported in
the papers of the West and North. The
women have stepped out of their proper
sphere, and the good they may accom
plish is but short lived; like a torrent, the
result of a heavy rain, it soon inns off.
and that is the last of it.
Expediency looks at the beginning;
policy at the middle, and principle to the
end. There must be brought to bear
against bar rooms, saloons, drinking and
drunkenness, something more than ex
pediency and policy; or, I may say, sud
den religious or sensational feelings. I
stand second to no man in my admiration
of woman and woman’s influence, but let
that influence be exerted in the right place
and at the right time—at home.
“The mother in her office,
Holds the key of the soul,
And stamps the coin of character."
And the father, by his example and
precepts, passes it current through the
world. Educate our sons to be virtuous
and sober men; make it with them a liv
ing principle and a rule of action; teach
them that sobriety is as binding upon
their characters as that of virtue and pur
ity in their sisters or wives.
If men demand virtue and purity in
those they would make their wives, let
women as a quid pro quo,and with the same
exacting spirit, demand that those who
would be their husbands, should be men
of sobriety, and whose nervous system
has not been shocked, deranged or dis
eased by alcoholic poison. Let them,
with a firmness and dignity of character,
speak out to the men that would woo and
List flf lets
Passed by the Legislature of Georgia
in the Session of 1874, and Ap
proved by the Governor.
[We complete to-day the publication of
the captions of Acts passed at the late ses
sion of the Legislature. The following
having been omitted in their proper place
on first page, are given here:
156. To provide for the payment of in
solvent criminal costs in the county of
Crawford
157. To recognize and make valid and
legal the Board of Public Education ap
pointed in the city of Griffin, and to le
galize their proceedings establishing pub
lic schools, and to authorize said Board
to draw from the school fund of the State
the pro rata share of said fund.
158. To repeal an act untitled an act to
provide for a Board of Commissioners of
Roads and Revenues in Marion county.—
Approved August 23, 1873.
159. To exempt from jury duty the
members of certain volunteer companies
! therein mentioned.
160. To incorporate the Hana Gold
Mining Company.
161. To charter the Clayton Railroad
Company.
She Democratic Iso* Mtorm ia Jfow
Hampshire.
One of the causes given by the Repub
licans to account for their late defeat in
New Hampshire, is the fact that on
election day a driving snow storm pre*
vailed throughout a greater portion of
that State, and kept the delicate and
tender-footed Radicals from going to toe
polls. The sudden appearance of toe
“beautiful snow,” it is said, forced toe
hopes of the Administration party down
to zero, .and at this moment it is im
possible to tell toe exact amount of
damage done by the tempest. An old
fashioned poet, says the Baltimore. Ga
zette, thus describes the peculiarity
of the flakes that recently whitened toe
hills and valleys of “the old Granite
State:”
Tliero it a weapou surer eet.
And better thau the bayonet—
A weapon that cornea do wu aa il ill
A, ,-n >w Bikes fall up u the aod.
And executes a freinau'a will,
Aa lightning does the will ot Go-I,
A weapon that no bolt*, no locks,
Cm bar—it i* Me Ballot Box!
There was a time when the poets
illustration of the voice of a free people,
as expressed by the ballot, was peculiar
ly appropriate. But that was in the
good old time when this was a free white
man's government, and the ballot was
supposed to express toe will of an
162. To prescribe the mode of granting intelligent, virtuous constituency. It is
licenses to sell intoxicating liquors in toe ! different w en . ,
- bought and ballot boxes are stuffed, and
win them—“Do you drink? are you given | Gordon county
comities of Warren and Houston.
163. To authorize the payment of in
solvent costs due to the estate of W. R.
Venable, dec’d.
164. To amend toe charter of the Geor
gia Railroad and Banking Company.
165. To protect certain bridges on Lit
tle Ocmulgee river against injury from
timber or lumber rafts.
166. To amend and add an act approved
Feb. 21,1873, entitled an act to create
and organize commissioners of Chatham
county, who shall be ex-officio judges to
define then* jurisdiction, etc.
167. To change the line between the
counties of Randolph and Terrell.
168. To prohibit the sale of spirituous
or malt liquors within one mile of toe
school house or academv in Fair Mount,
to drink as a habit, as a necessity or
pleasure? If so, you cannot be my bus
band, though you may have the genius
the
169. To change the time of hol<lin u
Superior Court of Cobb county.
170. To cliange the time of holding the
of a Skakspeare, the brain of a Napoleon fall term of the Superior Court of Hous-
and tlie wealth of a State. I place not ^ ou coun t y
my domestic happiness in the hands of; 171 Topreventmonopoliesinthetrans-
a man who is a slave to a habit or drinks portion Q f freights and to secure free
for the pleasurable excitement it pro- com p e tition for the same.
172. To amend section 611 so far as ap-
duces.”
When our women will thus talk and
thus act from a principle, there will be
no necessity of praying or singing around
liquor shops. Let every young man
know in advance that when he makes an
plies to*BuIlock county.
173 To amend an act entitled an act
to incorporate the town of Wootten, in
Lee county, and to provide for the elec
tion of commissioners for the same, ap
advance of courtship to a women, that provod Aug. 23d, 1872, and to change tlie
she, from a settled principle, will know name of said town to Leesburg.
from her father, brother or some male
friend his habits. He can read her an
swer in advance, if lie is not as sober as
she is virtuous.
Woman has the whole question in her
own hands.
First, before she becomes a wife, and,
second 1}’, when she becomes a mother.
Her love, her influence, and her entreat
ies, when properly directed and with
judgment exercised, is invincible.
What thoughtlessness, what error,
what folly! for the young ladies when
they gave suppers, &c., to raise money
for some charitable object, to help the
church, or anything else worthy in its
nature, to have the “punch bowl.” the
174. To amend the laws of this State
on the subject of the running of freight
trains on the Sabbath day.
175. To allow the Treasurer of Worth
county to have his office at his own resi
dencc.
176. To allow and authorize the com
missioners of roads and revenue of the
county of Quitman aud Mitchell to levy
a tax to pay the indebtedness of said coun
ties.
177. To make citizens and residents of
municipal corporations competent jurors
to try issues in which said corporations
are parties or interested.
178. To prevent obstructions in Muck-
alee creek from the city of Americus to
dashed lemonade” to tempt tlie palate , nver.
of the young man, and the old too. Not j 179. To better provide for the measure-
only is Ins appetite appealed to, but Ins ment> inspection and sale of timber and has long°been felt to be a reproach to our
oro• and if lie drinks to drunken- 1 ’ - - 11 *- ^* « 1 —
when, as in the recent election in New
Hampshire, the patronage of the govern
ment is used to corrupt toe people, and
whole Navy Yards’ full of vagabonds are
imported] and paid by the government offi
cials to cast tbeir votes for the government
candidates. Still less applicable is tlie
poet's figure in the South, where thousands
of voters don’t know a bollot from a tax
receipt. Here in the reconstructed South
the “snow flake," pure and white, is not
an appropriate emblem of the ballot as we
enjoy it.
She Queen’s Speech.
London, March 19.—My Lords and
Gentlemen: I recur to your advice at
the earliest period permitted by arrange
ments consequent upon the retirement of
the late administration.
Our foreign relations continue most
friendly, and I shall not exercise the in
fluence arising from the cordial relations
for maintenance of European peace and
a faithful observence of international
obligation. The marriage of my son is
at once a source of happiness to myself,
and a pledge of friendship between the two
great empires.
TheAshantee war has terminated in
the capture and destruction of the cap
ital and negotiations which I trust may
lead to more satisfactory conditions than
hitherto existed. The conrage, discip
line and endurance of my forces, and the
energy and skill evinced in the conduct
of the expedition has brilliantly main
tained under the most trying circum
stances the traditional reputation of the
British army. I deeply regret that
drouth has affected the most populous
provinces of the Indian empire, and
produced extreme scarcity in some parts,
and amounting to actual famine over an
area inhabited by many millions. I have
directed the Governor General of India
to spare no cost in striving to mitigate
this terrible calamity.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons:
The estimates for expenditures during
the coming financial year will be forth
with submitted to you, my Lords and
Gentlemen. The delay and expense
attending the transfer of land in England
gallantly
ness he does it with the approving smiles
of lovely woman. Don’t let the women
say, oh! he ought to govern himself!
But rather let her say, palsied be my r hand
and silent my tongue, before I ever offer
or ask him to think.
If the young men of the present day
are growing up wine bibbers and drunk
ards, and liquor shops meet us at al
most every comer, fit is because they
know, think and feel that ail occasional
“spree” will be overlooked or forgiven;
and if they drink not to beastly drunken
ness they can hold on to their respecta
bility and perhaps family connections,
and many when they feel like it. Let a
woman say to such a man, I had rather
be the bride of Death himself than the
bride of such a man, for in the grave I
would be free from anguish, distress and
sorrow and certainly never the mother of
children bom with an appetite for liquor,
for then I would die a double death.
“What ppar!? and rubies dues tlie wine disclose,
Making tlie purse poor to enrich the nose'.
How does it uuise disease, iulect the heart,
Drawing some sickness into every pait,
It weaks the brain.it spoils tbe memory,
Hasting on age, and wilful poverty;
’Tis virtue’s poison and tlie bane of trust,
The match of wrath, the fuel unto lust.”
R- M. O.
She Severest Storm Ever Known on
the Central Pacific Kailroad.
The recent snow-storm which caused
an interruption to travel on tho Central
Pacific railroad was the severest one, say
the San Francisco Alta Californian, that
has been experienced since tlie building
of the road. The storm began at Toano,
in the Pequop Mountains, on the lstinst.,
and extended to Ogden, Utah, 170 miles
east of Toano. Snow continued to fall
until the night of the 3d instant, when it
began to rain The snow was very fine
and dry, and falling dining a heavy wind
storm was made still finer by being whir
led through the air; aud when it finally
reached the ground it was packed so firm
ly that the snow-plow often ran on the
top of the mass instead of cutting into it.
When a passage was at last made it was
between banks of snow as high as the
smoke-stack of the engines. The opening
however, was soon filled again by the
wind, which continued to blow a perfect
gale for two days and nights. The work
men, although scarcely able to resist the
force of tlie wind while at work, succeeded
in forwarding tbe passengers westward.
Two eastwardsbound trains were delayed
at Well’s Station, but reached Ogden on
the 4th instant. Tho snow-fall in the
Pequop Mountains was unlocked for, and
a number of cuts on the road which had
never been visited by snow were filled
with drifts accumulated by the wind dura
ing a sweep over 100 miles in extent. In
the Sierras the storm was a still greater
surprise. There the wind was so fierce
and the snow so fine that great drifts ac->
cumulated inside the sheds, requiring the
snow-ploughs to be brought in use to
clear the track. On the uncovered point
of tlie road the drifts reachedan immense
height. In one instance a train with a snow
plough and eleven engines was ten hours
in running forty miles.
“Yellow Jack.”—The disease known as
Grant-andsButlerism, with its sickening
alliances of plunder and corruption, is
weakening too Republician party. In
New Hampshire last year- the Republican
majority over Weston was upwards of
2,000. 'Now. tho same party there finds
itself in a minority of from 2,000 to 3,000
and toe Legislature instead of being six
ty-six Republicans^ suddenly made even.
The disease, which seems to be spreading
in toe party, is thus described by the
Hartford Courant.
It is a sort of “yellow jack.” It is
principally spread by political machinery.
It will kill any party that does not get
rid of it It is simply dishonesty in the
grossest form.
It is having a great run. It has spread
(according to Republican testimony) from
the Treasury Department to the Republi
can organization in the different States.
T.ilrfi the old negro’s hurricane, it is be
coming “quite a general ting’.’
One may live as a conqueror, or a king,
or a magistrate, but he must die a man.
The bed of death brings every human be
ing to his pure individuality, to the in
tense contemplation of that deepest and
most solemn of all relations, the relation
between the creature and hid Creator.—
Webator,
lumber within the city of Savannah and
by the lumber inspectors thereof.
180. To limit and regulate the assess
ment and collection of taxes by municipal
authorities, except the city of Savannah.
181. To provide for the permanent lo
cation of the county site of Douglas
county.
182. To prevent the obstruction of the
Great and Little Ohoopee rivers and their
tributaries; also Great Satilla and Ten
Miles Creek.
183. To exempt from jury duty tele
graph operators.
184. To require the Receivers of tax
returns and Tax Collectors, to make re
turns of all taxes returned and paid by
colored tax payers and to require toe
Comptroller General to exhibit the same.
185. To create a County Court in Clay
ton county, and to provide for the dispo
sition of convicts therein.
186. To amend an act entitled an act
to prescribe the manner of incorporating
towns and villages, approved August 26,
1872.
187. To amend an act to incorporate
the Marietta Savings Bank.
188. To create a board of commission
ers of roads and revenue for Houston
county.
189. To repeal an act entitled an act to
repeal an act to create a county court in
each county of this State, approved Jan.
19, 1872, so far as applicable to Butts
county, approved Aug. 23,1872.
190. To incorporate the City Bank of
Macon.
191. To consolidate the offices of Re
ceiver of tax returns and Tax Collector
with that of Sheriff in Union county.
192. To legalize and approve the sale
of certain streets in the town of Quitman,
made by the Ordinary.
193. To authorize the Ordinary of
Twiggs county to issue bonds of $2,500
to pay the debt of comity.
194. To establish a Department of Ag
riculture for toe State of Georgia.
195. To amend an act to incorporate
the town of Cochran, in the county of
Pulaski, and to appoint officers for the
same, approved March 19, 1869.
196. To protect effectually toe planters
of Georgia from imposition in the sale of
fertilizers, and amendatory of the several
acts now in force in this State for the
same purpose.
197. To change the name of the Geor
gia Metropolitan Banking Company, to
the Republic Bank and amend the charter
thereof.
198. To provide for appeals from Jus
tices’ Courts in claiip cases.
199. To incorporate a bank in the city
of Milledgeville, to be known as the Mil
ledgeville, Banking Company, andforoth-
cr purposes.
The Centennial.
An immense popular meeting on the
Centennial Exposition was held in Phila
delphia last Monday. On behalf of the
Centennial board of finance it was stated
that subscriptions had been received as
follows: From toe citizens of Philadel
phia, §1,000,000; from steam railroads
running into the city, §500,000; from the
city government, 8,500,000; from toe State
of Pennsylvania, a pledge of $1,000,000.
This aggregate^as being daily increased
by small subscriptions from trades’ com
mittees. The utmost confidence was ex
pressed that all States of the Union
would follow toe recent example of New
Jersey in furnishing as the tone for the
exposition approaches, a goodly part of
the money needed to defray the cost of
building, etc.
The difficulty now was that the board
could not longer afford to wait for out
side monetary aid before breaking ground
for the centennial palace, and yet were re
luctant to commence toe foundation upon
a very. restricted general plan, which
would be necessary if no additional sub
scriptions to the work were to be made.
That the ultimate response from Congress
and the State would be in the highest de
gree favorable to the interactional pro
ject, no man in Philadelphia could doubt.
Resolutions were adopted pledging toe
citizens to an additional million’s sub
scription and urging the city government
to come down with a million more, and
this is enough to spend on a frolic in these
times.
It is impossible that anything so na
tural, so necessary and so universal as
death should ever have been designed by
Providence wjsn.evil to menkittd—flwift. i
laws and a serious obstacle to dealings in
real property. I trust measures which
will now be submitted for your considera
tion will be found calculated to remove
much of the evil which is complained
of.
You will probably be of opinion that
the rearrangement of the judicature and
the blending of this administration of
law and equity, which was effected in
England by the enactment of last ses
sion, ought to be extended to Ireland.
You will be asked to devote part of your
time to the accomplishment of* this ob
ject. Tlie greater part of these changes
are inapplicable to tribunals in Scotland,
but you will be invited to consider the
most satisfactory mode of bringing pro
cedure upon Scottish appeals into har
mony with recent legislation. Among
other measures relating specially to
Scotland's interest, a bill amending toe
law relating to land rights and facilita
ting toe transfer of land will be laid be
fore you.
Serious differences have arisen and
remoustances been made by large classes
of tbe community as to toe working of
the recent act affecting the relationship
between master and servant; of the act
of 1871, dealing with offences connected
with trade, and of the law of conspira
cy. On these subjects, I am desirous
that before attempting fresh legislation
you should be in possession of all mate
rial facts and precise questions in contro
versy. For this purpose I have issued
my royal commission of inquiry into the
state and working of toe present laws
with a view to their early amendment if
found necessary.
A bill will be introduced dealing with
such parts of acts regulating toe sale of
intoxicating liquid as have given rise to
complaints, and appear to deserve inter
ference of Parliament. Your attention
will also be directed to laws affecting
friendly provident societies. These mat
ters will require grave consideration.
I pray almighty God to guide your delib
erations.
Latest from Bald DCountaia.
Wilmington, March 20.—-The follow
ing telegram from Marion, toe seat of
McDowell county, in which Bald moun
tain is located, is the latest and most
reliable information yet received here.
Bald mountain, in the southwestern part
of McDowell county, was shaken a few
days since by volcanic throes, and some
of the inhabitants in the! neighborhood
became much excited and alarmed. How
ever one of the oldest citizens says
that the shock was not severer than it
was ia 1812. We have no reliable infor
mation of the emission either of fire or
smoke. Two parties of gentlemen—
one from Marion, the other from Bathers
ford—started for the disturbed region
to day.
Our lady friends will read this clip
ping with interest: “All lovers of flows
ers should remember that one blossom
allowed to mature or “go to seed,” ins
jures the plant more than a dozen new
buds. Cut your flowers, all of them,
before they fade. Adorn your rooms
with them; put them on your tables ;
send bouquets to your friends who have
no flowers, or exchange favors with those
who have. All roses after they have ceased
blooming, should be cut back, that toe
strength of toe root should go to form
ing new roots for neit year, and on these
bushes not a seed shotdd be flowed to
mature.”
Brand on a Orand Scale.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette (Republican) brings
to toe light of day, in that journal of
Saturday, one of toe many stupendous
frauds committed by government officials
during the late war. The story fills near
a page and a half of the Gazette, and
sets forth a villainous conspiracy of
Quartermaster F.. W. Hnrtt, George S.
Scott and other confederates to proper
the government in toe latter years of toe
war. The plan was deep laid, shrewd
and atrocious, and appears to have been
either participated in, or connived at,
by a number of high government offi
cials, from Secretary Stanton down.
Their operations consisted mainly in
buying up immense quantities of grain,
forage, horses, mules, etc., eta, with the
government money, and then forcing
the market, and buying them again for
the government at prices leaving an
immense margin for profits. In order, to
get into a position where these rascalities
could be conducted successfully, Hurtt
arranged for the removal of the Quarter
master at Cincinnati, and his own ap
pointment to the place, while he subse
quently got rid of a thorough exposure of
his villainies by procuring the transfer of
the officer who had investigated them to
Fort Vancouver, on the Pacific coast.
The whole thing appears to have been
known to Stanton, and a number of army
officers high in command, but by them
suppressed. That the readermay form
some idea of the transactions exposed,
we give the Gazette’s heading to the
articles in a condensed form:
Startling Disclosures—Chapter of Se
cret War History—The Great Hurtt
Frauds Brought to Light—A Conspiracy
to Ruin Honest Men and Swindle the
Government—The Private Correspond
ence of Hnrtt with his Backers—Henry
D. Cooke and Associates—The Strings
that were Pulled—Senator Sherman,
Governor Dennison, Secretary Chase
and other Prominent Men use their Influ
ence—How the Great War Secretary
was Imposed Upon—General Burnside
does liis Best, but is Overruled—The
Conspirators Drive one Henest Man to a
Lunatic Asylum, and Another into Exile
—What’s the use of a Penitentiary?—
Atlanta Herald.
The Eastman Atlanta Business
College.
This institution has achieved a success
which is unparalleled in the history of
Commercial Colleges. Starting in Atlanta
Ga., May 9th, 1871, with four students, it
has alreadv sent out to the business world
nearly THREE HUNDRED STUDENTS
to attest its superior merits. The secret
of its wonderful success is, 1st. it is the
only College in tlie South that is conduc
ted on the Actual Business Plan. 2nd, it
keeps up, to the letter of its advertise
ments; 3d, it is conducted by men who
have had years of experience as practical
accounts, business men and teachers. The
total cost for a full course, including
board, washing,tuition, books and station
ery, will not exceed §130. For specimens
of Penmanship and College Journal con
taining full information address.
DETWILER AND MAGEE.
P. O. Box 536, Atlanta, Ga.
N. B.—Parties writing us will please
give the name of paper they saw our ad.
vertisement in.
Jan 28, 1871. 27 Cm
Go West through St. Louis.
To all who are seeking new homes in,
or are about to take a trip to Missouri 4
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 ruins 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 thoroughfare
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 Sedalia, or
over the Atlantic & Pacific R. R., 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 far 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
all points to tliis land of fruits and flow
ers. For particulars, address A. Tuck,
Land Commissioner, St. Louis. Mo.
Jan. 16. 1374. 26 ly
She Great Antagonist of Bisease.
What is the natural antagonist of disease ? It is the
vital principle. From the moment that disease is de
reloped in the system, this champion fights the intru
der until it either conquers or ia conquered Which
side should medicinal science espouse in this life and
death struggle ? Should it depress and oripple the
physical energies of tbe patient, thereby helping the
disorder,or should it reinforce the vitality of the patient
and thereby assist in quelling the ailment ? Of course
the proper answer to this question must be obvious to
every one above the grade of an idiot or a lunatic, and
hence it follows that the weak and broken down inva
lid who chooses to dose himself with depleting slops
instead of toning, invigorating and vitalizing his ener*
rated frame with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, mast
be either feeble minded or deranged. Sorely nothing
short of imbecility or insanity could induce a person
laboring uuder bodily weakness and nervous prostra
tion, to take day after day pcwerlul doses of some dras
tic purgative iu the hope of gaining strength thereby
Although charlatans may advertise preparations of this
character as Ionics, people in the fall possession of their
reason cannot, one would think, accept them as such
If they do the pena'ty of their credulity may be the
shortening of their lives. The rheumatic, tbe dyspep-
tie, tbe bilious, tlie debilitated and nervous, and a]»
who are subject to intci mittents, or other diseases
brought on by tbe inclement weather which prevails
•t this Beason, will do well to strengthen tbeir nerves,
tone tbeir stomachs and regulate their boweh with the
Bitters. The two-fold operation of the restorative as
aninvigorsnt and an aperient, in addition to its direct
and specific effect opon the disordered liver, renders it
a most efficient remedy for complaints of the digestive
secretive and excretive organs, at present in use. This
fact is conceded bv eminent members ot the faculty
whose testimony to that effect is published in Hostet
ter’s Almanac for <871. 32 1m
SIMMONS’
The Faierite Borne HeiLedv.
Tliia unrivalled Medicine is warranted n»* to ( -Ti*t
a single particle of Mercury, or any injnrio,,, J’,
substance, but is rsl
PURELY VEGETABLE
containing those Southern Roots and Herb’ whiel
all-wise Providence has placed in countries w M
Liver Diseases most prevail. It will cure all d,. " ere
oaused by Derangement of the Liver aud Bowel.- *
Simmons’ Liver Regulator, or ileOiorne
Is eminently a Family Medicine-, and by bc-in" lent
ready for immediate resort will save many an
suffering and many adollar in tinn-an.i doctor-. - |,jn
After over Forty Years'trial it is still reeeivin-'t'
most unqualified testimonials to its virtu.-? from
sons of the highest character and respori-iUhty V ■”
neut physicianscomnieud it as the most '
EFFECTUAL SPECiriC
For Dyspepsia or (Indigestion.
Armed with this ANTIDOTE,all climates and chans,
of water aud food may be faced witlmnt fear a " ’
Remedy in Malarious Fevers, Bowel Complaints U,J*
lessness. Jaundice, Nausea,
XV HAS HO EQUAL.
It is the Cheapest, Purest and Best Family Medicine
in tbe World!
Manufactured only by
J. H. ZEILZCT & CO.
MACON, GA., and PHILADELPHIA
Price, §1.00. Sold by all Druggets.
21 ly,
—Arnaag
Imppines.
Dec. 17, 1873.
Jor to tux World ! Woman i-
tlie many modern discoveries lookin;
and amelioration of the human raw. m-., • is -ntitled
to higher consideration than the rci.uw m- l remedy—
Dr. J. Bradfield's Female Regulator, \v,.man’s Best
Friend. By it woman is emancipated from number
less ills peculiar to her sex. Before its magic power
all irregularities of the womb vanish, it cures sup.
pre.-sion of the menses. It removes nteriue obstruc
tions. It cures constipation and strengthens tlie sys
tem. It braces the nerves and parities the blood. I:
never fails, as thousands of women will testily. [
enres whites. This valuable medicine is prepared and
sold by L- H- Bradlield, Druggist, Atlanta, Ga.
Price fl 50 per bottle. All respectable drug men
keep it.
Tuskegfe, Ala., ISiN
Mr. L. H. Bradfield—Sir: Please forward r.?,
immediately, another supply of Bradfiels'i Ke
male Regulator. We find it to be all that is claim,
ed for it, and we have witnessed the most decided and
happy effects produced by it.
Very respectfully,
Hunter Alexander,
We the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure in
commending to the trade, Dr. J. Bradfield's Fe
male Regulator—believing it to be a good an t re
liable remedy for the diseases for which he recom
mends it.
W. A- LaNDSEI.L. Atlanta, Gs.
Pemberton, Wilson, Taylor & Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Redmtne Fox. Atlanta. Ga.
W. C Lawshe. Atlanta, Ga.
W. Root &. Sox, Marietta, Ga.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Trolp County.
This is to certify that I have examined tlie rcape of
DR. J. BRADFIELD, of this county, and a RTnedi-
cal man pronounce it to be a combination ot medi
cines of great merit in tlie treatment of ail tlie dis
eases of females for which he recommends it. Tliis
December 21,1868.
WM. P. BEASELEY, M. D.
For sale in Milledgeville by
JOHN M. CLARK aud B. R. HERTY. Drogghtj.
May 14. 1873. T-* ly
GO TO TI1X.SS
VIA THE
LONE STAR ROUTE!
(International and Great Northern R. R.)
Passengers going to Texas via Mem
phis and Little Rock, or via Shreveport,
strike this line at Longview, the Best
Route to Palestine. Hearne. 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, Mineola. Dal
las, Overton, Crockett, Longview and all
points in Eastern and Northeastern
Texas.
This line is well built, throughly equip
ped with every modern improvement
including New and Elegant Day Coaches,
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars, Westing-
house Air Brakes, Miller's Patent Safety
Platforms and couplers: and nowhere t be
can the passenger so completely dep< ml
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 intern st
ing and truthful document, containing a
valuable and correct map, which 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.
A Large Steamship.—The Pacific Mn.il
Steamship Company launched on Thurs
day, at Chester, Pennsylvania, a new iron
steamship called the City of Pekin, and
said to be the largest ever built except
the Great Eastern. A large number of
members of Congress, correspondents
and others went on a special train to
witness the launch.
It is by attempting to reach the top
at a single leap that so much misery is
produced in the world.—Cobbett-
Those who are formed to win general
admiration are seldom calculated to be
stow individual happiness.-—Lady Blea-
sington.
The height of ahility. .consists in a
thorough knowledge of the real value of
things, and of the genius of the age we
life in —Rochefoucauld 1
JAPANESE
PEAS-MS BUSHELS
TUB ACHE.
TO
Something New !
Farmers aid Gardeners, Bend This*
Agents Wanted to sell the Japanese Pea.
These peas hare recently been brought to Ibis coo*
try from Japan, and prove to be tbe finest PEA known
for table use or for StOL-k. Tbev grow in tbe form of a
Bcsb.from 3 to 5 feet high, and don't require slicking.
Agents, and full directions as to the manner of plant
ing, will|be sent, postpaid, to any one desiring to act
as Agent, on receipt of SO cents. Address,
L. L. OSMENT, Cleveland, Tenn.
TESTMfiNIALS.
We have cultivated the Japanese Pea tbe past sea
•on, on a small scale, and we are convinced they are a
perfect success. Their yield was enormous. For tbe
TABLE or for Stock they are unsurpassed by anv
other pen. They grow well on thin land and are bound
to ben Ho. 1 fertiliser.
A. J. WHITE, Trustee Bradley County.
H. HIX.
A E. BLOUNT, P. M., Cleveland, Tea*.
I have cultivated the Japmee* Pea tb# past yew,
sad raised them at tbe rata of mhosheb to tbe acre.
Tbe bloom excels buckwheat for bees,
ruemoom e p g HARDWICK, J.P.,BradleyCn.
Don't forget to pay tor your paper
wsr All Unda of Job work neatly
Mtd promptly executed this eOe*
PAIN-KILLER.
1840. 1874.
Tine Tests the Merits of all 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
a Medicine of Great Virtue, is fully ami
permanently established. It is the great
Family Medicine of the 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. T akeri
externally, it enres bruises, 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, &c.
Pain is supposed to be the lot of us
poor mortals, as inevitable as death, and
liable at any time to come upon us. There
fore it is important that remedial agents
should be at hand to he used on tmei-
geney, 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
fapift 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 from
many of its ills. The effect of the Tain-
Killer upon the patient when taken inter
nally in cases of cough, bowel complains
cholera, dysentery, and other affections
of the system, has been truly wonderful
and has won for it a name among medical
preparations, that can never be forgotten.
Its success in removing pain, as an exter
nal remedy, in cases of bums, bruits,
sores and sprains, cuts, stings of insects-
&a, and other causes of suffering has se
cured for it the most preminent position
among the medicines of the day. Ben .u e
of counterfeits and worthless imitatA' 11 -'-
Call for Perry Davis’ Vegetable Pain Rim >
and take no other.
mr Sold by Druggists and Grocers^
Take Heed.—No matter how intuna
you may be with the* friend with
you have business transactions, pnt}
agreements in writing. How many
understandings arise from the loose n.
in which business matters are talked exp
and when each party puts liis own C ° ES ‘ ^
tions,the matter is dismissed by. e -
rty with the words “All right, all ,
* .equently it turns out all wrong, ■ -
becomes a question for the lawyers
the courts. More than tliree fourth 3 ^
the litigation of the country wonia
saved if people would only P* ^ eir
agreements in writing, and Big
names to it Each word m our long-
has its peculiar meaning, and «' y
may, by the change in a *e nte “£’ t illteI i'
•n entirely different idea
dad. Whan ones ndaced ■to ** 9
ideas am fixed, and expensive law
avoided.