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THE UNION & RECORDER.
014 “Southern Recorder” and “Federal Union’
consolidated.]
»l&SDOfiVZUB, OA:
Wednesday, May 20, 1874.
Senator Norwood’s Speech ox the Civu
Rights Bill.—From every direction tlie
verdict on Senator Norwood’s speech if
unanimous in itsfavor. That the Georgia
Senator riddled the infamous civil rights
bill of Charles Sumner fore and aft is the
general impression all over the country.
This Civil Rights bill was the great and
crowning work of Stunner’s life, and by
riddling that Senator Norwood has rid
died Sumner’s fame. This must be gall
and wormwood to the Georgia bom edi
tors of the Savannah Republican, who
were so proud of the eulogies upon Stun
ner's character in Congress. To an alien,
or a man up a tree, it seems as clear as
mud that if Norwood's speech was right and
in good taste, Lamar’s eulogy was wrong
and in bad taste.
Col. C. A.. Wotting for Congress.
We are pleased to see that others as
well as ourselves, are anxious to have
this District represented in the next Con
gress by Col. C. A. Nutting of Bibb.
We give below an extract from a private
letter from an esteemed friend, who seems
to take similar views with those we have
before expressed as to Col. Nutting’s
qualifications for Congress. After ex
pressing a strong desire for his nomina
tion, the writer proceeds to give his views
as to his fitness as follows:
“As you know, Col. Nutting is a self-
made man, and essentially a business
man. He is a man of large financial ca~
parity and experience, who has always
managed his own affairs well, as well as
any public matter confided to his care.
You know as well as I do the distinction
he won as a member of the last Legisla
ture, and as Chairman of the Finance
Committee which is a very important pos
sition. It seems to me that the working
masses of the people would prefer a busi
ness man of financial capacity, to repre
sent them rather than soihe lawyer or
person who may make a few flowery
speeches, but do very little in a business
point of view, to promote their interest.
I think that if Col. Nutting’s business ex
perience and success as a practical Finan
cier, and his good standing as a citizen, are
all properly set before his District, they
will have the good sense to appreciate
him.”
Cfren. Grant for a Third Term and
then the Smpire*
A short time back letter writers at
Washington declared that Gen. Grant
did not want to be a candidate for a third
term. That is all gammon and will do
to tell to marines. Old politicians don't
believe a word of it. The Editor of the
Courier Journal has lately been in Wash
ington and New York, and thinks that
Grant is very anxious for a third term,
and if he is elected for a third term, will
then play the part of Csezar and perpetu
ate his office; or in fact will become
Emperor. Csezar three times refused
the crown, but assnmed the power and
prerogatives of an Emperor. The Edi
tor of the Courier Journal believes that
his veto of the financial bill was intended
to promote his chances for a third term
and has helped them. By that movement
he has bound the monied interest of the
East to him and his fortunes. By that
veto he has also killed off two or three
dangerous rivals. Morton of Indiana,
has been demolished by the veto, and
Blaine of Maine, a prominent candidate
for the Presidency, is now considered a
dead cock in the pit.. His opposition to
the financial bill has ruined him in the
West, and Grant has supplanted him in
the East. So that now his most formida
ble rivals are out of the way, and Grant
has the course clear for himself, so far as
the Republican party is concerned and
nothing but an uprising of the people
this fall can save the country from a third
term of Giantism. But can’t the people
be aroused in time to see the danger*
There are some favorable signs that they
can! The Granger movement in the
West is breaking up the Republican par
ty at the West. The defection of the
German voters is also thinning their
ranks. Cameron of Pennsylvania is also op
posed to the President on the veto ques
tion. His defection from Grant might
give the State to the Democrats. If the
Congressional elections next fall are fa
vorable to the Democrats, it may save the
country from Grantism and from revolu
tion.
MatruioXial Caxdidates.—It is a cus
tom at a Galway fair for all the marriage
able girls to assemble and to tempt all
wanting wives, by their captivating charms,
to be made more happy for life. Says an
American gentleman of the highest char
acter, who was an eye witness, and invitee^
by a nobleman to go and see the girls:
“At 12 o’clock precisely, we went as di
rected, to a part of the ground higher than
the rest of the field, where we found from
sixty to one hunched young women, well
dressed, with good looks and good man
ners, and presenting a spectacle quite
worthy any civil or modest man’s feelings.
They were the marriageable girls of the
country, who had come to show them
selve on the occasion, to the young men
who wanted wives; and this was the plain
and simple custom of the fair. lean plainly
say that I saw in the custom no great
impropriety—it certainly did not imply
that, though they were ready to be had,
anybody could have them. It was not a
Circassian slave market, where the rich
est person could make his selection. They
were in no sense of the term on sale; nor
did they abandon their right of choice;
but that which is done constantly in more
refined society, under various covers and
pretenses—at theaters, at balls, and and
public exhibitions—I will say nothing
about the churches—was done by these
humble and unpretending people, in this
straight-forward manner.”
For th« Union fit Recorder-
Gossippy letter From “Old Virgin-
ay.”
Mr. Editor:
It is sometimes pleasant to gather
thoughts from the wayside scenes of life,
and present them for the pleasure of our
fellow-traveler.
And may I express the wish that from
the few lines here written, at least some
word, or thought, or sentence may con
tain the worth that oft attracts the pass
ing fancy and sometimes holds a place
within the palatial temple of the mind.
On the morning of April 29, snow fell
thick and fast in the city of Richmond,
Virginia. It was a scene rarely known
at that season, even in that climate. A
few passengers with overcoats stood
around the Richmond & Petersburg De
pot, awaiting the departure of the train.
All aboard! was shouted by the Conductor;
quickly the train moved off, as we bade
J ur friends “good-bye” and wondered at
the contrasted scene—flowers and snow.
Petersburg was soon in the distance
ind the old North State with her pinny
woods and sandy plains was spread out
before us. How soon dees the day pass
away when one travels with agreeable
company. It is seldom the case that one
is so lucky as to have the oxs he most
prefers as a companion. As Mr. Bdrkc
says it is not always the question with
one aboard a train when he wishes to eat
but it is “when can I get it."
I fasted one mortal twenty-four hours,
Mr. Editor, and had it not been for that
very agreeable traveling friend, those
hours would to me have been doubly long.
At Florence, pleasant Florence! we dined
the second day. That proprietor made
clear, but little of the seventy five cents
for that dinner. Wo pass on, and eight
o’clock, p. m., brings to view the lights
of the fail- city of Augusta. I always
loved that city. At this season it is doubly
beautiful.
At 10:40 a. m., aboard a first-class
Macon & Augusta car, we bade adieu to
Augusta. Four p. m., brought to view
the good old city of Milledgeville, with
green grass, bright flowers and pretty
Why, Mr. Editor, you have just
oodlings" of pretty girls here. I know
a man “with a free heart,” as Horace says,
can’t look upon a scene as we saw on last
Sabbath and not be moved. Just two
months ago to a day the writer bade
adieu to this place and to-day what a con
trast! It has been a short time ’tis true
but in that brief period old sol has done
away with the very last of Winter’s
shackles and one tidies naturally to the
shade instead of the fire.
A babe would have learned to walk in
this time. A young mule would have
discovered that nature had richly endow-,
ed him with heels and might have availed
himself of this light let in upon his mind
by kicking the sky lights out of some
hapless African who had deceived himself
in the vain belief that he could approach
a mule from behind. A young lady turn-
ed loose upon society might have broken
an adolescent heart or two and been en
gaged, say once or twice. Now, Mr.
Editor, who will not say these may come
under the head of precosity?
Corn-planting backward in Virginia;
but little planted. Tobacco prospects
poor. A better day is hoped for. In the
world political, nothing of note.
With the wish that you may live always
and weigh a thousand pounds, I am sir,
Yours truly, &c„
“Ole Virgixxt.”
May 10,1874.
[The above communication was sent to
us on the evening before publication last
week, and as the excitement incident to
the fire Tuesday morning caused its non-
appearance at that time we give it to-day.
It is as good now as it was then.]
Fifty Thousand Victims of the Flood,
The New Orleans Picayune 6ays: “It
is estimated by the distributing commit 4 *
tee, which holds its sessions daily on
Carondolet street, that there are fifty
thousand persons in this State who have
been made homeless and foodless by the
inundation in this State.
That this is no exaggeration is shown
by the amount of rations which are being
distributed. At least forty thousand per
day are dispatched to various agencies,
and these do not meet the demand. Yes
terday there were requisitions for 1G,000
rations from two localities in the Ouachita
valley.
The Purchasing and Distributing Com
mittees are kept busily at work from nine
till three, every day, and still the labor
and demand grows upon them. The liber
al donations received from various quar
ters of the country will be judiciously and
faithfully applied. Thus far we believe
that the money donations reach about
§60,000. Besides these there are large
amounts of provisions, which are promptly
forwarded. These timely and generous
contributions will tend greatly to allevi*-
ate the condition of many, but it is not
reasonable to expect that all of the suffer
ing which has resulted from so wide
spread a disaster will be relieved from
these sources.
Geerj»la N ew s.
The Atlanta Herald reports the death
of a young girl named Adaline Richard
son, in De Kalb county, on Tuesday last,
from eating hemlock root, supposing it
to be angelica. She lived only about an
hour. Her sister, who also ate a small
portion of the root, was, terribly ill, but
finally recovered under the administra
tion of the white of an egg.
Potash Farrow lias has called a con
vention of Radicals to meet in Griffin on
the 18th of June for the purpose of
nominating a candidate of Congress from
that district.
Judge Haywood Brookins, of Wash-*
ington county, has held the office of Or
dinary since it was created by the Legis
lature. The portrait of himself, present
ed him by the grand jury, was painted in
New York from a photograph.
Monroe county brags of clover forty
three inches high.
Farmers about Griffin are disheartened
at the crop prospect.
The police force of Atlanta have been
exonerated for killing a Federal soldier
Tho Rome Courier, of Saturday, says
the wheat in that section “is almost com
pletely ruined. Com is not half in the
ground, and there will not be more than
half as much cotton planted this year as
there was last. The lowlands cannot be
worked for five days to come even if there
is no more rain.”
The Columbus Enquirer says: In the
progress of the trial of a case yesterday
in the Superior Court, Judge Johnson
stated that the Supreme Court had made
this decision lately, in an appeal from this
circuit, which seemed to take most of the
lawyers present by surprise. The prin
ciple of law decided was—when a married
woman, who has a separate estate, lets
her husband have money to buy property
for his own use, she and her trustees as
senting, said property is subject to his
debts.
The Arkansas War.
• _____
, Little Rock, May 14,1874.
They are 6till arresting each other.
Two Brooksites while making cartridges
thought they would smoke, and they did
so. Their shattered frames have been
The Augusta Constitutionalist says Geor
gia railroad stock was quoted at §92 to
$94 p$r share, and Georgia railroad bonds
at $96 to $98 in thatmarket, on Tuesday.
The Federal government has renewed
the lease of the present postoffiee at At*,
lanta from the State, for four years, at
the rate of $1,800 per year.
Capt Robert Stiles was killed at Car
tersvillo on Saturday, by being thrown
from a buggy. He was the son of the
late Hon. W. H. Stiles, formerly United
States Minister to Austria, and leaves a
wife and eight children.
Messrs. R. E. Lester, Morgan Rawls,
John C. Nicholls, and W. W. Paine, are
announced by a Savannah correspondent
of the Chronicle and Sentinel, as perfect
lv willing to represent that district in tho
next Congress.
The colored Old Fellows of Columbus
had a picnic a few days since. The amuse
ments of the day were diversified by the
following little episodes: “It seems Mit
Walker had bought the right sell refresh
ments, etc., on the ground. Another ne >
gro, Jack Wright, carried down a table
and commenced selling, and refused to
stop or pay anything for the privilege.
The result was his table was kicked over,
and he beaten pretty badly by a number
of Mit's friends. While dancing a diffi
culty arose between Ike Washington and
Ben Riley about turning partners. The
consequence was a fight during which Ike
stabbed Ben in the head.
gathered up.
Both Houses met this morning and
adopted the following joint resolution:
Whereas, the Legislature of the State
of Ar kansas has convened, a quorum oi
both Houses being present: and whereas,
the capital of our State is occupied by
aimed and contending forces; and
whereas, the State House is now in
possession of armed troops, therefore, be
it
Resolved by the General Assembly of
the State of Arkansas, That the President
of the United States be and he is hereby
requested to put tliis Legislature in
possession of the legislative halls, and
that the public property on the State
House square be placed under the super*,
vision and control #f this body, the
rightful and legal custodians thereof,
whilst in session, and that he make such
order for disposition of said army and
contending forces as will more perfectly
protect the State against domestic vio
lance, and insure this body protection
and that a duly certified copy of this
resolution be at once transmitted to the
President of the United States.
In the House to-day, a large number
of notices of the introduction of bills
were given, and among others one for
the calling of a Constitutional conven
tion.
The situation as to the two armed for
ces remains unchanged.
The Senate appointed a committee to
act in conjunction with the House com
mittee appointed yesterday to notify
Governor Baxter that the General Assem
bly was ready to receive any message he
might desire to deliver.
The Governor’s message, it is thought,
will be read to both Houses this eve
ning.
Washington, May 14, 1874.
The Cabinet talked two hours over
Arkansas affairs. The Legislature will be
supported.
A dispatch was received to-night by the
President conveying the resolutions of
the Arkansas Legislature asking for
possession of the Legislative halls and
for the protection of the State against
domestic violence.
The reply to this appeal will, in all
probabilities, settle the question, and no
doubt is entertained that the request of
the Legislate e will bo favorably respon
ded to.
The President and Attorney General
were in consultation late to night on the
question.
The Arkansas Qnestion Settled.
GRANT’S PROCLAMATION.
She Burial Flace of Got. Troup and
Some Berniniseeaces of Bim.
Brown’s Hotel, May 13, 1874.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I
Chronicle and Sentinel from the
Died in Marietta on Saturday the 10th
inst, at the residence of Mr. John Bos
ton, Mrs. Sallie Brown, the mother of
Gov. Joseph E. Brown, Hon. James R.
Brown, Dr. Brown andMrs. John Boston.
The deceased was in her 87tli year and
was truly beloved by all who knew her.
For fifty years she has been a consistent
member of the Baptist Church and in
death she evidenced unshaken faith in the
Christian religion, perfectly resigned to
follow her departed husband, Mr. Mackie
Brown, with whom she had lived in mar
riage for sixty years and who was only
one day older than herself and whom she
only survived a little over a month and
half
Fatal Accident.—Win. Sharp, conduc
tor on thoJilacon and Brunswick railroad,
was killed on Tuesday by being run over
by his train. He was arranging the bell
line, and in passing from one car to an
other he fell between and was run over.
His remains were brought up yesterday
and sent on to Atlanta, where they will
be interred. He was a brother of A. A.
Sharp, the well-known conductor on that
road.—Macon Telegraph and Messen
ger.
Arrest of a Member of Congress-
Painful Case of Insanity.
Washington, May 11.—Hon. David
Mellisli, a member of Congress from the
Ninth District, of New York, was arrested
to-night at the Chronicle office, having
become a maniac on the finance question.
He is pronounced hopelessly insane. He
published a most remarkable effusion in
the Sunday papers of this city yesterday,
and although in the House for a while, to
day he did not attempt to take his seat.
The closeness with which he was watched
by his colleagues as he moved about the
hall excited general attention from the
galleries. “When he started to leave he
was accompanied by Mr. Woodford, one
of his colleagues. While in the lobbies
he flung his arms about him and said in
a loud voice, “People say I am insane,
but just feel my pulse and see if I am.”
He subsequently informed a gentleman
that he wore better clothes than any man
in the House, and that he got them
cheaper than any one because he under
stood finance so well. He busied himself
all the evening throwing away money and
cigars.
look ont for Brought this Summer.
xt °* Hoyt, Sprague & Co., of
Aew York, died Friday morning of
pneumonia.
2te**Prcsident Johnson.
Ex-Piesident Johnson speaks at the
Opera House tosmorrow. He is a candis
date ior the United States Senate, to
replace Brownlow.
Constitutional Convention*
. Cincinnati, May 15.—The Constitu
tional convention yesterday adopted a
new constitution, which will be submitted
to the people on the 18th of August.
It makes a three-fifth vote necessary to
carry a measure over a Governors
veto.
The Confederate monument at Oak-
wood Cemetery at Richmond, Va., has
Lri iJok! enduring and beauti
©f Virginia-° f a ® ection fro* 11 the women
**T- W dead Iito— u 11.-1
That thrill no more to love or glorv
To those who acted waU theiTSSS'
Who died b> youth aad lire STS*-*
We may look out for drought ever sea
son, and shall seldom look altogether in
vain, but the present spring up to this
time has, in most parts of the country,
been marked by frequent rains, and a wet
spring is likely to be followed by a dry
summer. “Wliat can we do about it?” do
you ask? Keep the soil well stirred and
our crops vigorous by cultivation. If our
lands were properly prepared before plant
ing, we have the means in our hands of
protecting our crops against all moderate
droughts. The bad fanner suffers every
year, either from, drought or from too
much moisture, and, generally, from both.
Such “bad luck” is sure to follow him,
from year to year, till he shall mend his
ways and learn a more rational system of
fanning.—Rural Carolinian, May No.
Grand Duke Nicholas (brother of the
Czar of Russia,) whose arrest is reported
by telegraph, is the third son of the late
Czar Nicholas, and was bora in 1831.
We believe that he holds a high position
in the army. His elder brother, Con
stantine, second son of Nicholas, is High
Admiral of Russia. The report of “great
excitement” in St. Petersburg in conse
quence of the arrest warrants the suspi
cion of some intrigue of an important
character. Russian history is full of
such. *
The Columbus Sun and Enquirer says
the trial of John D. Hooper, for the
murder of Mr. T. H. Phillips, of Opelika,
was commenced last Tuesday at Seale,
Alabama, and that the Hoopers “are confi
dent of an acquittal.”
Situation of Crops in this Section.
—Under this head the same paper has
the following:
In comparison with last year, the fol
lowing appears to be the situation : Ten
to fifteen per cent, less land in cotton :
two thirds less guano used, and far more
grain planted. On the red lands the
cotton is fully equal, if not better than
last year On gray lands the stand is
poor, anc^much replanting has been found
necessary.
Admiral Buchanan, died last Monday
night, aged 74 years. He leaves one son,
a merchant in Savannah, and four daugh
ters—two of whom are married to
Messrs. Thos. F. and George Screven, of
that city.
Mr. Jab. W. Davis has been elected
vice president of the Georgia railroad, at
a salary of $4000 per annum. The presi
dent is to receive the same salary. Col.
E. W. Cole was re-elected general super
intendent, and Col. S. K. Johnson super
intendent.
The Masonic Female College.—The
commencement exercises of the “South
ern Masonic Female College” will take
place at Covington, Ga., on the 24th of
June. Tho members of the fraternity
throughout the world are invited to be
present. An occasional Grand Lodge
will be opened by the Grand Master in
honor of the occasion. Golden Fleece
Lodge, No. 6, has extended a fraternal
invitation to the members of the Lodges
in the State to be present at the commence
ment.
Ann Hunt, who was hanged in Elbert
county for poisoning another negro wo
man, confessed that she had previously
killed three people.
The negro, Henry Jackson, who was to
have been hanged at Leesburg last Fri
day, was making his statement from the
gallows when Governor’s telegram respit
ing him was received.
Savannah shipped over five thousand
bales of cotton to European ports on
Tuesday.
Personal.—The Warren ton Clipper
says that in Mr. Hill’s late “carmagnole”
on the Hampton Roads Commission,
there are one hundred and thirty six
personal allusions to herself.
W ashington, May 15.—Whereas, certain
turbulent and disorderly persons, pretend
ing that Elisha Baxter, the present Exe
cutive of Arkansas, was not elected, have
combined together with force and anna
to resist his authority as such Executive
and the other authorities of said State;
and, whereas, said Elisha Baxter has been
declared duly elected by the General As
sembly of said State, as provided in the
constitution thereof, and has for a long
period been exercising the functions of
said office, into which he was inducted
according to the constitution and laws of
said State, and ought by its citizens to be
considered us the lawful Executive there
of; and, whereas, it is provided in the
Constitution of the United States that
the United States shall protect every
State in the Union on application of the
Legislature or of the Executive, when the
Legislature cannot be convened, against
domestic violence; and, whereas, said
Elisha Baxter, under section four of ar
tide four of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States and the laws passed in pur
suance thereof, has heretofore made ap
plication to me to protect said State and
citizens thereof against domestic violence;
and, whereas, the General Assembly of
the State convened in extra session at the
Capitol thereof on the 11th inst., pursu
ant to a call made by said Elisha Baxter,
and both Houses tehereof have passed a
joint resolution also applying to me to
protect the State against domestic vio
lence, and, whereas, it is provided in the
law r s of the United States that in all cases
of insurrection in any State, it shall be
lawful for the .President of the United
States, on application of the Legislature
of such State, or the Executive, when the
Legislature cannot be convened, to em
ploy such part of the land and naval for
ces as shall be judged necessary for tho
purpose of suppressing such insurrection
or causing the laws to be duly executed;
and, whereas, it requires that whenever
it may be necessary, in the judgment of
the President, to use the military forces
for the purpose aforesaid, he shall forth
with, by proclamation, command such in
surgents to disperse and retire peaceably
to their respective homes within a limited
time.
Now, therefore, I, U S. Grant, Presis
dent of the United States, do hereby
make proclamation and command all tur
bulent and discordant persons to disperse
and retire peaceably to their respective
abodes within ten days from this date,
and hereafter to submit themselves to
lawful authority of said Executive and
the other constituted authorities of said
State, and invoke the aid and confedera
tion of all good citizens to uphold the
laws and preserve the public peace.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
U. S. Grant.
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correspondent of that paper, giving a
historical reminiscence of the late ex«*
Governor Troup of Georgia, and the
writer claims that his remains repose in
the city of Macon. If the writer of that
letter had know n the facts patent to all
readers, or had even examined the recent
excellent map of Georgia, by Capt. A G.
Butts, of Macon, he would not have
ventured to moke the statement which
I find in the paper alluded to.
The facts are the ex Governor died
while on a visit to one of his plantations
in Montgomery county, in April, 1856,
and I understood at Valdosta, the day
after his death, that he expressed a desire
to be buried by the side of his brother
Robert, who had died in 1848, and was
buried at his Rose Mount farm, - on the
east side of the Oconee river, some twelve
or fifteen miles from Valdosta, the per
manent residence of the ex Governor.
The ashes of that illustrious man repose
by the side of his brother, Robert Troup,
and not at Valdosta, as some people
erroneously suppose, nor in the city of
Macon, as the correspondent of the
Chronicle and Sentinel would have the
public believe. Thomas M. Forman,
Esq., a son-in law, was appointed one of
the ex-Governor’s executors, and not
long after the death of the father in-law,
he had tombs of the most substantial
masonry placed over the brothers and
surrounded with costly iron railing, and
it is probable that their ashes will be
undisturbed, if not for all time, at least
for ages to come Should any one be
curious to see the tomb of ex-Governor
Troup, or his “last resting place," he
will find the Rose-Mount farm nearly
equi- distant between Valdosta and Mount
Vernon, the county site of Montgomery.
When the “curious visitor” shall reach
Mercer's creek, a stream that flows into
the Oconee river on the east side, he will
be near the spot where repose the ashes
of the illustrious Georgian. He has
only to leave the old Darien and Milledge
ville road, turn southward, and in a few
minutes at the ordinary place, the Rose-
Mount farm will break upon his vision.
If the dwelling on the farm is as it was in
1859, tho curious visitor will find
the tomb of the ex-Govemor not more
than forty or fifty yards from the man
sion.
Having written the foregoing to vindi
cate the truth of “biography,’ I will make
a few additional remarks in relation to the
ex-Governor as the occasion jeems to jus
tify it, and premise that if there was a man
living whom I knew and understooiwell,
it was the ex-Govemor, though this j
knowledge was the outgrowth of nearly
20 years of correspondence and friendship.
There was one prominent trait in the
character of this remarkable man, and it
was his extreme modesty or a chivairic
delicacy that made it repugnant to his
feelings to speak of the part he acted, not
only in the political history of the country,
but in the transactions of life. He was
free to speak of public affairs, but he was
unlike the statesmen of the present day,
he omitted to speak of the past relating
to himself. He was a member of the two
houses of Congress for a quarter of a
century, and I neveri heard him speak of
any measure that came before the Con
gresses in which he spoke of the part he
took, and he gained a brilliant reputation
for denouncing the Yazoo fraud. He was
Governor of Georgia four years—beat
ing Talbot at the first election and Clark
at the second, and I neverheardhim speak
of either contest, nor of any measnre that
came before him as the Executive of the
State, and I doubt if there was a man
living who possessed a better recollection
of the events through which he had pass
ed than he did. Not many months be
fore he died the writer of this spoke of a
duel that occurred in Savannah between
a couple of well known citizens, in which
the ex-Govemor was a second, with the
view of learning something of the cause
of the quarrel and the result. This infor
mation was obtained from the pages of a
work on duelings then just published in
Boston. His answer was extremely brief.
It was that the duel was fought—that one
of the parties was badly wounded. He
said nothing ofbeinga second in the affair,
and I learned nothing from his statement
more than I may have derived from others
who remained in Savannah the day tho
hostile meeting took place on the South
Carolina side of the river. If I ever knew
a man who disdained falsehood and chi
canery. it was the ex-Governor, and if I
ever knew a man who was bom insensible
to fear, it was he. When I saw Gen. Jes
sup’s statement that G. M. Troup of
Georgia was about the only person at
Washington when the British army was
marching on the Capital, amidst the thun
der of their artillery which jarred the
buildings of the city, causing dismay and
A “tfigger” in the Chair.
Could Clay, Calhoun, Webster and oth
er gentlemen of the old regime have
stepped into the House at Washington
— * ’ ■’ would have been
in the chair of the Speaker! What Jack-
son would have said, or the venerable
James Buchanan would have thought,
could they have witnessed this African
thus darkening the seat of the chief offi
cer, passes the power of imagination.
Undoubtedly the announcement car
ried joy to the heart of many old-line
abolitionists,who read the inspiring news.
It is one of the fruits of their labor. It
is to them a compensation for the mur
der of Lovejoy, the assault on Sumner,
the hanging of John Brown, and all the
contumely which clung about them from
the organization of the abolition party
down to the surrender of Richmond. A
negro in the chair of the House is a sym
bol of victory over which every abolition
ist may linger in triumph. Abolitionism
recognized a grand benefit and a matter
of profound gratification in the event;
but how is it with the country? Is a
“nigger” in the chair of the Speaker of
the House as much a matter of gratifica
tion to the country as to the old-line
abolitionists?
Somehow it would seem not. The
African is free all over the South. He is
free to lie in the sun ? free to organize
predatory excursions on his white neigh
bor’s chicken roost and smokehouse ; free
to run for Congress and the Legislature ;
free to occupy the chair of the Speaker
of the House of Representatives. In fact
and truth, he is free of all moral restraint,
of all legal restraint, of all responsibil
ity, taxation, vexation and difficulty. He
is the most gloriously free creature in
existence—free of soap, of decent gar
ments, of education, decency, progress,
value to human kind of intelligence, care
for his own future, or the lights of others.
Such another case of ecstatic freedom
exists nowhere outside the South, or of
Paradise.
On the other hand, there are some
little drawbacks. To confer this inesti
mable boon of freedom upon this inestima**
ble creature, to enable him to sit in
the Speaker’s chair at Washington, to
enable him to progress from a Senagams
bian to a legislator, we have incurred
some expense. Notably a debt of several
thousands of millions. Notably, also,
the loss of some two or three hundred
thousand lives. We must also chalk up
as an offset against putting Rainey in the
Speaker’s chair a tanner as a President,
with Ben. Butler as his right bower,
Monton as his left bower, Logan, Farwell,
and a company for trumps. Sanborn,
Jayne, Count Frisco, Boss Shepperd,
Kirtland, Leet, Stocking, Northern Paci,
fic railway bonds, moieties, the whiskey
steal, divers and sundry defalcations on
the part of postmasters and collectors,
an irredeemable currency, the late panic,
a high tariff, and a few thousand other
similar things, including Kellogg, Durell,
and Baxter-Brooks, must also be charged
up against the pleasing spectacle of
seeing the dusky member from South
Carolina occupying the cliair of the
Speaker.
Were one not too much thrilled with
the glorious vision of kinky hair and 1
blubber lips, topping the Speaker's seat, j
he might reflect that the glorious labor j
of getting Rainey thither, of fr eeing his
sable compatriots, has reduced all South
ern white men to a worse slavery than
that from which the Afric has just been
rescued, commonwealth going to ruin,
once wealthy and populous cities gone or
going to the devil, half a nation prostrate
under negro ignorance and Federal crim
inality, usurpation everywhere, and peace
and prosperity nowhere. There are some
more expenditures incurred in boosting
Mr. Rainey from the plantation in South
Carolina to the Speaker’s chair at Wash
ington.
Whether or not all these expenses have
been met by the trumpb of seeing Mr.
Rainey at the head of the Committee of
the The whole is a calculation which will
reach different answers, according as one
happens to be nigger, abolitionist, or pa
triot.—Chicago Times.
Nearly all di-caws originate from hui]
Torpidity of the Liver, and relief is alw " , M
sought after. If the l.irrr is Regulated b!* 0Ba, r
tion, health is almost invariably secure.] \y \ llS ftc '
tion in the Liver cansea Headache ’ rvlt?* of
, ,r! ^- Uizzi-’
bilious
pints,
. -which
ness. Soar Stomach, bad taste in the
attacks, palpitation of the heart, depression” of "
or the blues, and ahundredollicrsyrr.iitoin 1
Mmmmorn’ l.irrr Rc*«Iai», is the
tnat ua$ ever been discovered* It. m
taally _ and being a simple vegetable corrmodn l
do no injury many quantities that it mav K • > ’ Cw
is harmless in everyway; it has bean ,-^t . ’ k
years, and hundreds of the good and great f r4 *
parts of the country will vouch for it- beuJu ,r ' Mn a!l
and best, * e purest
SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR, OR MEDICINE
Is harmless,
Is no drastic violent medicine.
Is sure to cure if taken regularly. -
Is no intoxicating beverage.
Is a faultless family medicine,
Is the cheapest medicine in the world
Is given with safety and the Hanoi,
delicate infant.
most
Does not inter/ere with business,
Does not disarrange the system ’
Takes Ure place of Quinine And Bitters of
salts to the
kind,
Contaius the simplest and best mimll.
FOR SALE UY ALL DRUGS
Dec. 17, 1873.
I STS.
BBSSlTAiUS
21 iy-
156, 153, 160 and i(L>
BRYANT
SAVANNAH, G A .
T he proprietor having couplets
the necessary additions and improvement*™
raJMib comforta * bc ***
Half the Expense!
European Elan
Has been added, where gne-ts can at all hours order
whatever can be obtained in the Market.
$1
Rooms, With
50
Board,
per day.
DETERMINED 'IO BE OUTDONE BY NONE,
all I ask h a trial, confident that complete satisfaction
will be given.
JOHN BRESNAN, Prop’r.
A :i H - * .
April 14, 1*74.
3S ly
Itefo ^ijtoisfinfids.
^ SCHOOL TEACHERS
WANTED in t-ach roun-
ty for the Spring and Mmnmer Sj.yo prr
■noulit. Send for circular which gives tit!! particu
lars. ZEIGLER & McCUltDY. Phil’s Pa.
DON’T J! 1 «
do til buy that =
OfcDON T !
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DON’T!
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by
Curious Law Suit.—An Exchange
says: Major Bunell, who was initiated
into a Hoboken lodge of Free Masons,
has instituted a suit against tho lodge
for the recovery of the initiation with
interest, because he is unable to take tho
second degree, and desires to leave the
Order.
Michael Norton, a well known politi*
cian in the days of the old Tammany ring,
has returned to New York, and given bail
in $6,000 to stand trial on six indictments
for conspiracy.
The entire population of Australia is
sstim«t»d.$t 2,000,000. The island con-
YT * bn °* t M ***** M the
To tiie Bxecntive Committee of the
Democratic Party of Georgia.
Macon, May 18, 1874.
Desiring, above all things, unity of
action by the Democrats of Georgia in
our approaching elections, and knowing
the great importance of harmony in our
ranks, I have determined, with a view to
these desirable ends, to call together the
Executive Committee of the party, on the
first Wednesday in July in Atlanta, for
consultation. Until then it is desired
that no action looking to nomination of
candidates will be taken by the party.
Gentlemen of the convention, the interest
of the people demand your attention.
Thomas Hakdeman, Jk.,
CKmDam.Ex.Ccm.
[Petersburg (V* ) News, April24
A Violent Religions Frenzy Attacks
the Virginia negroes.
A singular mania has broken out among
the colored people of this city. Religious
revivals of the most editing character
have been going on in the churches for
some time past, and the colored people
generally have become so “enthused” that
in many cases their condition actually ap
proaches that of positive lunacy. The
same disorder broke out in Kentucky a
few years ago, and was called by the medi
cal men “the Kentucky jerks.” That it
is a disease is very true
Yesterday morning the streets in the
upper portion of the city were resonant
with shouts, groans and mumbled pray
ers. About midday, in front of the Har
rison street colored school, a scene took
places which defies description. Perhaps
one hundred children, from eight to fif.
teen years of age, were mingled in a mass
of dancing, bowling humanity—all repeat
ing the same formula, all making the
same wild gestures, all using the same
tone of voice. Bedlam was holding a
high carnival of maniacs, and discipline
was lost in chaotic frenzy. The giddy
mass surged hither and yon, while teach
ers vainly commanded, entreated and im
plored the enthused children to come to
their studies, but they might as well have
talked to the waves of the sea when the
storm king held his court. Higher and
higher rose the tumult, till physical ex
haustion brought relief alike to the per
plexed teacher and wearied child.
We feel real anxiety concerning the re
sult of this extraordinary hallucination in
our city. Without doubt many will become
raving maniacs, while the mental power
of hundreds will be injured for life. Ex
postulation is thrown away, and there
seems to be no remedy but to wait until
the storm exhausts itself.
In many respects the disease resembles
the terrible visitation which came over
Naples in the seventeenth century, when
St Vitas or St John's dance took the
form of an epidemic and spread over the
entire city.
The Democratic City Convention at
Cleveland, Ohio, adopted resolutions fa
voring a judicious constitutional provi
sion for the regulation of the sale of li
quors.
panic of the people, he seemed perfect!
composed and to liimself, I felt the truth
of the statement from a knowledge de*>
rived from a personal intercourse of the
freest and the .friendliest character kept
up for a great many years. A little inci
dent is sometimes a key to the character
of a man, and an illustration of this sort
occurred one day at Blackshear farm in the
presence of several persons. The party
visiting were sitting around the table in
the dining room, when to the surprise of
all, large pieces of plastering commenced
falling, which were the thickest and heav
iest I ever saw in my life. It was only a
few seconds before the room was cleared
of all except the ex-Govemor, who re
mained, though at great peril it was
thought by those leaving, and such must
have been his own conclusion, but to fly,
to him, to get out of the way of danger—
seemed to be foreign to his nature, and
there he sat, and as Gen. Jessup observed
seemed to be the only one who was thor
oughly composed of the party. For the
present I will say no more. S.
The most fashionable of Saratoga con-
tages rent for $3,000 for the soason of
three months. Others bring $2,500,
others §2,000, and so on down to $500.
The Opinion of an Eminent Fhysi-
cian.
“I have examined the formula and pro
cess of preparing Dr. Pemberton’s Com
pound Fluid Extract of Stillingia. The
combination is a happy one. I have
used it in my practice in those diseases
requiring to virtues of an alterative or
blood purifier with the. best results. It
possesses more merit, will cure more
speedily, and do more good for what it is
recommended than any other remedy
that I am acquainted with. One bottle
possesses more real merit than a hftlf
dozen bottles of the so-called Sarsapar
illa.”
A New England paper advises its
readers:
If your neighbor’s hens are troublesome.
And steal acres* the way,
Don’t let your angry passions rise,
But fix a place for them fb lay. .
Soliloquy of an old toper: “They say
whisky is a curse.. And they say brandy
is a curse. And they say tobacco is a
curse. Well, I wish all'those curses would
come home to roost, and roost low at
that, so as I could pull em down whenever
I wanted’em.”
Unrina Unchiae 2
g FROM THAT TRAVELING AGENT, §
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Songs of Grace and Glory
The very best N«in<lay-**c‘hoo! Non” Hook Hy
W. F. SIIEKW N and S. J* VAIL. Pages Splen
did Hymns, Choice Miu-ic, Tinted paper, Superior
Binding. Price in boards, ‘fee ; §30 per 100. A spec
imen copy in paper cover mni'.ed (as soon ?*.s issaed) on
receipt of *5cts. Orders filled in turn. Ready May
ist. HORACE WATERS & SOX.
4S1 Broadway, X. V.
for
COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS,
AND ALL THROAT DISEASES,
USE
Wells’ Carbolic Tablets
Put up only in Blue Boxes.
A TRIED AND SURE REMEDY
So!d by Druggiatf.
FLORENCE
A gentlemen was admiring a young
lady’s hair the other evening and said:
“Miss D—, please give me one little curl
-—just one, won’t you ?” “Couldn’t think
of it, Mr.—; couldn’t think of it for a
moment,” replied the young lady briskly.
“Those curls cost me five shillings
apiece.”
Our Dormant Xtnergies.
Our bodies are not as vigorous cor our minds as
clear as they might be. This remark is true of at
least two-thirds of civilised society, and of these two-
thirds probably ore-half is laboring under bodily
infirmities of a character likely toshortao tha lives
<>f the sufferers. This is a melancholy exhibit aad
furnishes abundant food for reflection^ Can the
evil be mitigated ? It can Lack of vitality is the
primary cause cf most of the physical and mental
suffering to which we are subjected, and therefore a
vi'alizing medicinal agent is the remedy required,
Is there such medicine f There is. Hostetter'e
Stomach Bitters will rouse and energise the suiud and
body when the life power of the system is ia
paratively dormant state. The languid, feeble,
desponding invalid is not aware of the latent energies
that uuderlies his debility. He thinks there is no
element of vigor left iu Lis frame, when the fact is
that his physical capabilities are merely asleep and
only require waking up. Let him stimulate nod tone
his animal machinery and endow it with new motive
power, through the agency of this incomparable
invigorant, and he will soon feel like a new man, or
rather like a maa who has received a aaw lease ot
ife, and the requisite health to enjoy it. Many bnsi
ness men suffer from chronic languor and rtnpraaaim
caused by too close application to business. Hard
students are often oppressed with melancholy bom s
like cause. Msrohauios and working men are sMsetsd
in the same way asa resalt of over-labor. To ail who
va m this condition, from whateveroum. Hoitettor’r
Stomach Bitters will prove a signal Ues^n* Itba
perfect Panacea for physical debility aad mental
'loom. It strengthens tbe body, clears tho mild Mid
■alms the nervous system ; while as a remedy fin
indigestion, hilloasaom, ooostipatioa, rhoamatiam,
sad intermittent and remittent fevers, it Uhm pnee-
i isaos of ail off
Jor to thk World! Woman is Free!—Among
the many modern discoveries looking to the happlueas
and amelioration of the human race, none is entitled
to higher .consideration than the renowned remedy—
Dr. J. Bradfield's Female Regulator, Woman’s Best
Friend. By it woman is emancipated from number
less ills peculiar to lier sex. Before its magic power
all irregularities of the womb vanish. It cures sup
pression of the menses. It removes uterine obstruc
tions. It cures constipation and strengthens the sys
tem. It braces tho nerves and purifies the blood. It
never fails, as thousands of women will testify. It
cures whites. This valuable medicine is prepared and
sold by L- II. Bradficld, Druggist, Atlanta, Ga.
Price $1 50 per bottle. All respectable drug men
keep it /
Tuskeoee, Ala., 1868.
Mr. L. II. Bradfield—Sir: Please forward us,
immediately, another supply of BaADFiELo’s Fe
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,
Honter Sc 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 atxl re
liable remedy for the diseases for which he recom
mends it.
W A. LandsF.i.l Atlanta, Ga,
Pemberton, Wilson, Taylor & Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Redwine & Fox, Atlanta. Ga.
W. C Lawsiie. Atlanta, Ga.
W. Root & Son, Maiietta, Ga.
STATE OF GEORGIA-Troup County.
This is to certify that I have examined the recipe of
DR. J. BRADFIELD, of this county, and as a medi
cal man pronounce it to be a combination of medi
cines of great merit in the treatment ot all tire dis
eases of females for which he recommends it. This
December 21,1868.
WM. P. BEASELEY, M. D.
For sale in Milledgeville by
JOHN M. CLARK and B. R. IIEKTY. Druggists.
May 14,1873. 42 ly
} The Long Contested Suit cf tlte J
(FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE CO-;
| against the Singer, Wheeler Sc Wilson j
janil Grover &c Baker Companies, involving overt
[ 8 i» .5 O . O O » j
' Js finally derided by the S
- Supreme Court of the Vniltul States t
jin favor of the FLORENCE, which alone has5
j Broken the Monopoly of lit git Prices. (
^ THE NEW FLORENCE J
Is the ONLY Machine that sews backward and?
forward, or to right uud left. J
Simplest—Cheapest—Beit £
Sold for Ca*ii Onlv. Special T»*rm3 to J
CTilBI and DEAlxEIiB.
•April, 1871. Florence, »Ian £
The llixhr»l yiedicnl Aulhoriiic* ot *-”•
rnpe say the strongest tonic, purifier, and Deobstru-
eut known to the medical world is
JURUBEBA
It arrests decay of vital forces, exhaustion of the ner
vous system, restores vigor to the debilitated, cleanses
vitiated blood removes vesicle obstructions and ads
directly on the Liver an«ri*pleen. Price £1 a bottie.
JOHN Q. KELLOGG, 18 Platt.St.,N. 1
Sell
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Dr. Pierce’s Nasal Ponche,
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