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THE UNION & RECORDER.
Old "Southern Recorder’’ and “Federal Union’
consolidated.]
SKX&UBD OB VZ&IB, OA:
Wednesday, September 16, 1876.
Draaerralic Coaireuirasl Nomi.atia.a.
1st Dist.—Hon. JULIAN HARTB1DGE, of Chat
ham.
2nd Dist.—Hon. W. E. SMITH of Dougherty.
3rd Dist.—Gen. PHIL. COOK of Sumter.
4th Dist.—Hon. II. R. HARRIS, of Meriwether.
5th Dist.—lion. M. A. CANDLER of DeKalb.
6th Dist-Hon. JAS. H BLOUNT of Bibb.
7th Dist.—Hon. L. N. TRAMMELL, of Whitfield.
8th Dist—Hon. A. H. STEPHENS, of Taliaferro.
9th Diet.—Hon. GARNETT McMILLAN ol Haber
sham.
For Representative of Baldwin:
col. william McKinley.
Col. McKinley’s nomination.
The nomination of Col. Y\ llliam Mc
Kinley to the candidacy for Representa
tive of Baldwin county by the Conven
tion of the 12th inst., is announced in an
other column by the condensed notice of
the proceedings of the Convention in
t J-day’s paper.
We congratulate the people of Baldwin
county on the prospect of securing the
services of Col. McKinley in our next
Legislature. We feel that we are now
rially on the road, at last, to the restor
ation of the scat of Government to our
city. With his nomination, our hope in
creases that we shall be able to return to
that pure and economical administration
of our State Government which charac
terized the better days of our Republic.
When he shall fairly be in seat, his Bond-
Ring conniptions, crop out where they
mav°in our Legislative halls, will never
go “unwhipt of justice.” That synonim
of corruption, Ehnballisyn, will hide its
diminished head in his presence. Its ad
vocates on the floor of the House of Rep
resentative will finally be as completely
overwhelmed as was a gentleman who
was friendly to Warren Hastings when he
began to listen to the speech of Sheridan
on the celebrated Impeachment Trial.
Said this gentleman, “At the expiration
tfcw,t!je first hour of Mr. Sheridan’s argu
thor hai l exclaimed to one near me, ‘All
™<3res po mere declamation’: When the
E , , vur was finished, I said: ‘This is
.mi met w.i, oration .’ At the close of the
l^g^were known < i nf » s has acted very un
imericof: ut^Tne fourth, ‘Mi - . Hastings
‘r, an atrocious criminal:’ and at the last,
__ Of all monsters of iniquity, the most
. enormous is Warren Hastings !’
\ Not only are the people of Baldwin
■f county interested in Col. McKinley s elec
tion. The tax payers everywhere through
out the State may all look to him if he
takes his seat in the Legislature, as their
ablest champion for the maintenance of
popular rights, and the redress of public
wrongs. His age, experience, profound
learning and distinguished ability must
■find their proper theatre in a leadership
among leaders. "''Tiet Baldwin cuuutj-
therefore sink all opposition, and elect
him with the unanimity he so well merits.
Bdltarlal Correspondence of the
Union A Recorder.
We left Savannah on the 26th ult, on
the steamship Leo, Capt Dearborn. It
was 5 P. M. when we left As we dropped
slowly down the river, the passengers, on
deck under an awning and faunod by a
stiff north-east wind, felt very comforts
ble and happy, and congratulated oach
other on the prospect of a pleasant pas
sage ; and when supper was announced
each and all took their places with alac
rity. Tho table was crowded and every
one seemed to enjoy the sumptuous sup
per set before us. When the Captain
saw the table crowded ho remarked to
some of tho passengers near him, that
there would not be so many at the table
next morning. When supper was ended
the boat had nearly reached the bar at
the mouth of the river. Outside of the
bar the waves were rolling and the white
caps running very lively, and the mo
ment we reached the blue water the ma
jestic steamer reeled and staggered like
a drunken man. We then foresaw what
was coming and advised some of our
fellow-travelers to retire to their state
rooms and their beds, but the advice
came too late. In a few moments the
boat, so gay and festive before, presented
a sad spectacle. It seemed os if all of
the passengers had suddenly been struck
with a pestilence. Ashy pale faces were
seen in every direction and moans, sighs
and groans were heard on every side.—
All of tho passengers were suddenly
stricken down with sea sickness, made
ten times worse by the ample supper we
had just eaten. That night was a night
of suffering to the sea sick passengers
of the Leo, and the office of Stewardess
was no sinecure. In the morning we
found the same stiff north-east wind
blowing, and but one lady and some
seven or eight gentlemen came to the
breakfast. The stiff head wind contin
ued until Saturday night and retarded
our progress so that we did not arrive in
New York until Sunday morning. Going
up the splendid Bay of New York on a
fine Sunday morning we had another op
portunity to admire the charming scenery
which surrounds the harbor and every
where meets the eye of persons approach
ing the city from the sea. The Bay was
rv ITom 1862 inolnsive to the
close of and some of them after the war.
He received them upon the promise of the
State to give “State bonds” or “specie”
for them. They are still in his hands.
Hence it is urged that the Conventions of
1865, under the requirement of President
Audrew Johnson, repudiated them as a
part of the debt created by the State “for
the purpose of carrying on the war.” It is,
upon this idea, os I understand it, that
the Legislature has thus far failed to pay
Col. Thweatt, and perhaps others similar
ly situated. And it must be conceded that
if the repudiation ordinance was so
sweeping and comprehensive as to in
clude all “State Treasury notes," no
matter in whose hands they are nor
upon what condition they are held, then
Col. Thweatt’s claim is ley ally if not just
ly liable to be ignored. But a conscien^
tious legislator, having the honor of the
State at heart, with his pride mortified
by having had this ordinance forced upon
her by usurped power, will look closely
into this subject, not predisposed to de
cide that “all State Treasury notes” are
□ecessarily included therein, but rathei
that all such notes should be paid by the
State unless it appears clearly that they
do in fact constitute a part of the wai
debt proper. At the time of the passage
of that ordinance but few true Georgians
in or out of the Convention, approved of
it They regarded the requirements of
President Johnson as a brand of shame
upon the escutcheon of the State. Such
to-day are the feelings and sentiments of
gentleman all over the State, who still
cherish that pride which is so charisteris-
tic of her noble sons. And such Geor
gians, whether in the Legislature or out
of it will scorn to give to that ordinance
a broader construction than necessity
requires, but will so construe it as to from
exclude its operation every State Treasu
ry note, or all other debts’dueby the State,
which can possibly be done consistently
with its true spirit and intention. They
will construe it strictly, with the view of
paying every honest liability not express
ly forbidden by its terms.
In this high-toned spirit let us examine
the ordinance of the Convention, and see
whether it was intended to include within
the scope of repudiation “State Treasury
notes” held by officers—mere civil officers
—necessary to carry on the government
of the State—held by them as the evi
dence of the State’s indebtness to them
for services rendered. In making this
West Point U. S. M. A.
\Ve have been favored with a perusal of
a letter from our young countyman
Frank Carrington, who has recently been
admitted as a Cadet in this Institution.
He, it seems, was examined in a class of
55 on the 28th and 29th ult., and to use
his own words, “55 aspirants for military
glory were kept in suspense ’till Monday
afternoon, 31st, when the result was an
nounced.” Thirty-three were rejected and
22 admitted—Frank among the 22 fortu
nate ones. He says they rise at 5:30, a. m.,
breakfast at 7, dine at 1p.m., and retire
10 p. m. He says they are well fed, hav
ing an abundance of the finest beef, mut
ton, vegetables, fruit &c., &c.
\Ve regret our inability to find out how
many of these rejected ones were South
ern boys, for the reason, that at the May
examination the rejected Southern boys
was the text of Northern newspapers,
which belabored the South with severe
strictures upon Southern Schools—de
claring mu - educational system incompe
tent to teach the rudimentary branches
of education. We regretted to see that some
of our Southern exchanges copied and
endorsed the strictures of the Northern
press, upon Southern school teachers.
Now we know teachers in Georgia who
are as thorough and competent as any in
New England or in any other section,
Certain are we, that the teachers of our
primary schools, as a general rule, are
the hardest worked and poorest paid, of
any class in the community; and if the
transition from the log school house to
the gilded halls at West Point, and the
Military trappings of an army board of
examiners, with the freezing politeness
of military etiquette, should so discon
cert the unsophisticated Southern youth
as to make him seemingly know less than
he does, the half paid, half fed, but
doulfie worked pedagogue, who has had
hia training should not be blamed.
She Congressional Delegation-
This morning wc have tho pleasure of
announcing that the Congressional nomi
nations of the Democratic party have
been completed, and we trust that in pub
lishing the names of the gentlemen selec
ted to be the standard-bearers of the par
ty, we announce the next Georgia dele
gation in the United States House of
Representatives. Democrats of Georgia,
it is a good ticket. Down with radical
opponents and independents, so-called.
Let us elect every man. Let Georgia
stand disenthraled, redeemed and vindica
ted.
So the People of the Sixth Congress
sional District.
At the times and places designated be
low, I shall address yon on such political
questions as seem to me to deserve public
attention. Your most obedient servant,
James H. Blount.
Butts, Wednesday, September 16, at
Jackson.
Putnam, Tuesday September 22, at Ea-
tonton.
Newton, Saturday, September 26, at
Covington.
Rockdale, Tuesday October l,Jat Con
yers-
Walton, Monday, October 5, at Mon
roe.
Wilkinson, Friday, Octolier 10, at Ir-
winton.
Twiggs, Thursday, October 13, at Jef
fersonville.
•forging, Friday, October 17, at Dub
lin.
Baldwin, Thursday, October 20 at Mil-
ledgeville.
Jones, Saturday, October 24, at Clin-
alive with shipping of every sort and j inquiry bear in mind that the requirement
nation. Excursion boats loaded with j of President Johnson was to repudiate
passengers, going in every direction, con- the State debt created “for the purpose
tinually dashed by us, on pleasure bent. \ of carrying on the war"—the war debt
The people of New York complain of of the State. He did not require there
dull times, and the only lively thing stir- pudiation of the ciuil debt of the State.
ring is the Beecher scandal. The com- Hence, in construing the ordinance, it is
mittee have white-washed him, but that to be presumed that the intention of the
makes n 5 difference, nine out of ten of Convention did not extend beyond, or in-
the public believe him guilty, and the elude more than the demand of the Presi-
tenth fear he is. A portion of Plymouth dent specified.
Church will sustain him if they knew he Now, it is true that the repudiating
was guilty. Beecher suits them, and ordinance, as introduced in the Conven-
none the less for being guilty. B. tion by tho Hon. A. H. Chappell, was
broad enough in its terms to include eve-
CoL Feterson Thweatt’s unpaid Bala.! SPSS'S T ° r ^ TTl
__ | ses, contracted during the war, and that
w R . * 1 if it had finally passed in that form would
We copy the following communication, have been fatal to Colonel Thweatt and
in relation to Col Thweatt s unpaid sala- every other creditor of the State similarly
ry from the Augusta Chronicle A Senti- , situated. But the Hon. Joshua Hill, by
nel of the 6th inst. The Editors of the | wa J ? f amendment, offered the following
Chronicle & Sentinel thus speaks of the P r0v * 80 > to-wit:
author of the communication, viz : L That i notll l nff . h ?\ ein , cons
u mi • m . i tfliDGtl Shull prevent fl-ny Legislature here-
The communication favoring the pay-j after to assemble from making appro
ment of the claim of Col. Petebson I priations of money for the payment of
i . .l.liHI
Editorial Correspondence of
Union A Recorder.
The political feeling in New
New York, New Jersey and Delaware, so
far as I can judge, is everywhere full' of
hope to the Democracy, and of doubt,
dissatisfaction and dispondency
the Republicans. The late municipal
election in Wilmington, Delaware, shows
how that State will go in the fell elec
tions, and the defeat of Judge Poland in
Vermont and the large Democratic gains
in the Legislature, shows that even in
this strong-hold of Grantism, the people
are becoming dissatisfied with their pres
ent rulers and demand a change. The de
feat of Jndge Poland is on many ac
counts a very significant rebake to the
present administration. It will be re
membered that he was chairman of the
committee appointed to whitewash the
Credit Mobilier thieves in Congress, he
was also a principal agent in the Lower
House of passing the infamous gag-law
to the press, by which editors in any part
of the United States, who are so unfortu
nate as to offend any member of Congress
Ji- any member of the Cabinet, can be
fragged to Washington City, and be tried
for libel in the District Court, where J
■ MORGAN.
A Fiery Speech
Thweatt is from one of the most trust
ed, prominent and honored citizens of
Georgia. Col. Tfweatt is an old and
worthy public servant.
Jasper, Tuesday, October 27, »t Mon*.
Bibb, Saturday, October 31, at Macon.
The Timesand the Heraldnewapapm*
by
6f New York, consider the blackmail
against Moulton overthrown
|T)aft statement just published.
COL. THWEATT S CLAIM.
Chrn,title and Sentinel :
Have you read the pamphlet of Col.
Thweatt, in vindication of his claim to be
paid his salary as Comptroller-General for
official services rendered to the State dnr
ing the war ? If you have not, then read
it, and as an act of justice advocate it in
your columns. Having known that the
snbject was before the last and previous
Legislatures, when I received the pamph
let I examined it carefully and I confess
that I was not only convinced that he
ought to be paid, but surprised that the
Legislature should hesitate to do so.
Public debts due by the State by their
magnitude force themselves upon the
attention of the Legislature. This is right
For the honor and credit of the State
demand it In the universal recognition
of this duty we are apt to forget that the
honor of the State is equally pledged to
pay honest debts to private* citizens, how
ever insignificant the amount—insignifi
cant to the State, but vastly important to
one who claims to be her creditor. The
large creditor can afford, at a heavy ex
pense, to employ instrumentalities, agents
and auxiliaries to press his demand upon
the favorable consideration of the General
Assembly; whereas, the individual claim
ant of small amounts cannot afford to en
gage such pliances. He can do nothing
more than memorialize, relying upon the
justice of his demand and the integrity of
the representatives of the people. For the
State cannot be sued without her consent.
It is her high prerogative to set in judg
ment in her own case, decide upon her
own liability and to pay or refuse pay,
at her own pleasure. This consideration
should always incline a conscientious leg
islator to lend a patient and impartial
hearing to all who claim- that the State is
their debtor and to give the greatest
weight to the proofs they submit. It
were better to add generosity to justice
than to reject properly sustained demands
upon the narrow policy of a contracted
economy. These reflections are univer
sally applicable; but they apply with
peculiar force to the case under considera
tion.
It is but justice to Col. Thweatt to say
of him that he is an honest man; that as
Comptroller-General, while in office, he
was laborious and painstaking ; that he
inaugurated the practice of embodying in
his reports statistical information and
suggestions of amendments to the tax
laws, which not only elevated the office to
one of dignity, but produced most benefi
cial results to the revenue of the State.
His plan was so obviously wise and salu
tary and became so popular that no suc
cessor has materially improved upon it or
dared to depart from it. He was a zeal
ous and able officer; he had sincerely at
heart the welfare of the State in all her
industrial resources and interests. In
his long service, I believe, he never asked
a dollar extra compensation, although he
performed much extra labor; never lost a
dollar to the State by neglect This is
simple, unexaggerated truth, not fulsome
compliment. It may then be asked with
emphasis, is not such a citizen entitled
to the most favorable consideration by
the Legislature? Is it not a fair pre
sumption that he would not prefer against
the State an unconscionable, or unreason
able or unjust demand ?
Under the circumstances and with such
a record of fidelity, and integrity, he pres
sente himself before the country and the
Legislature and prays to be paid arrears
for services rendered to the State. Ought
his prayer to be granted? I think it
ought, and that,- not grudgingly or reluc
tantly, but cheerfully and promptly. It
is not my purpose to make an elaborate
argument in support of his claim. It is
unnecessary.
He ought to be paid because he render
ed the services of which the State has
received the benefit, and for which she
promised to pay him. It is a simple mat
ter of contract. He did the work upon
the pledge of a stipulated salary. It has
not been paid. It is still due to him as
fairly and justly as any debt founded up
on a promissory note between man
This being true, it only remains to
any claim against the State originating
after the 19th of January, 1861, where it
shall be made clearly to appear that such
claim was founded upon a consideration
disconnected with any purpose of aiding
or assisting the prosecution of the war
against the United States, and not inci
dental to a state of war.”
This proviso was adopted, and it shows
conclusively that it was not the intention
of the convention to repudiate all “State
Treasury notes,” in whosesoever hands
they might be, regardless of the consider
ation for which they were sa held. It
necessarily excepted from the ordinance
such as were held in consideration of ser
vices rendered by merely civil officers of
the State government. Can it be said
that the Comptroller-General, in his offi
cial capacity, had any necessary connec
tion with the war ? That the service he
performed had necessarily “any purpose
of aiding or assisting the proseention of
the war ?” Or that it was “incidental to
a state of war ?” Surely not. The
State government needed that officer and
his services as much in peace as in w ar—
both are “incidental to a state" of peace.
—Now, why should the Convention have
adopted this proviso, unless it was the
intention to leave it to future Legislatures
to pay any civil debt, which, upon exami
nation, they should find not to be founds
ed on a consideration disconnected with
war purposes and “not incidental to a
state of war ?” Is it possible to place
any other reasonable construction upon
it ? Col. Thweatt’s claim, therefore, by
the very terms of the ordinance, is excep
ted from its operations, and having never
been paid it ought now to be paid.
The Legislature has acted upon the
construction herein contended for. They
are estopped from denying it. The State
has regularly, since the war, paid the in
terest on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
bonds, issued during the war. The Leg
islature has authorized the payment of
many claims against the State founded on
open account of indebtedness which ac
crued during the war, and also salaries of
civil officers, &c. I mention no names.
Those who are curious may verify the
assertion by turning to the acts and reso
lotions of tiie Legislature from 1865 to
and including 1873., In 1872 the Govern
or was authorized to compromise and
settle the change bills of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad issued during toe war
(in acts 1872, p. 503, and acts of 1873, p.
318). Now, what is the difference, in
legal effect, between “State Treasury
notes” and “change bills of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad ?" They are both
liabilities of the State. They were both
issued during toe war. How can the lat
ter be paid under a construction of the
repudiating ordinance of 1865, which does
not apply unto equal force to the former?
I repeat, therefore, that Col. Thweatt
ought to be paid, and if toe Legislature
will be consistent with itself it will hesi
tate no longer.
It is not a sufficient objection to this
claim that its payment will be urged as a
precedent, under which the State will be
called upon to pay many others, amount
ing, in the aggregate, to a very large sum.
The precedent, as I have shown, has been
already set by the Legislature. But if
this were the first of this character prefer-
ed, I should not hesitate to make it a
precedent. Precedents are dangerous
only when wrong; but such as are in the
direction and interests of justice are never
to be feared. The ordinance of repudia*
tion*expressly|conferred upon the General
Assembly authority to examine into and
pay such debts as are purely civil in their
nature and “not incidental to a state of
war.” It is their duty, aa I have no doubt
it will be their pleasure, to consider im-
judges and jurors jjre under the control
of Congress. Judge Poland in the Lower
House, and Mr. Frelinghysen in the Sen
ate, were the principal instruments
in passing this odious bill for muzzling
the press. One has already been tried
and condemned by his constituents, the
other awaits his trial, and we hope the
honest voters of New Jersey will mete
out the same justice to their Senator,
that the people of Vermont have to their
Representative.
Already an ax is laid at the root of eve
ry political tree that has borne bad fruit,
and each in his turn will be hewed down
and cast into the fire. Last week at a cel
ebrated watering place on the Naragan
sett Bay, I saw some gentlemen from
Massachusetts—one of them who says he
has always*voted the Republican ticket,
told me that if the Democrats nominated
Gaston for Governor, he believed he
would be elected. He said thousands of
Republicans were willing he should be,
they thought the time had come for a
change of rulers; he thought also, there
was a strong probability of some two or
three Democrats being elected to Con
gress from that State. To see a Demo
crat elected Governor of old Massachur
setts, would be quite a novelty, but we
believe such an event is very likely to
happen at the next election.
The strongest and almost the only ar-
gume** to-used by the Radical newspapers
to stay the tide of popular opinion against
them, is the late massacres in Tennessee
and Louisiana; and they are using them
very great effect We should not be sur
prised if these miserable wicked and fool
ish riots should lose us twenty or thirty
conservative members in the next Con
gress. Before these happened we stood
-a good chanco to have a majority in the
next Congress. But these riots in Ten
nessee and Louisiana wero just what the
Radicals wanted to arouse their party to
action. It will have that effect bo doubt
in some degree, and it will disgust and
discourage the northern democracy.—
But notwithstanding these unfortunate
affairs there will probably be great dem
ocratic gains in the next Congress.
The New Engla .d Agricultural Fair
was held at Providence last week. I
visited the Hall in the city where the
contributions in fruits, flowers and gar
den vegetables were displayed. The
show of apples was very fine, a great va
riety of Pipins, Gilliflowers and Rhode
Island green ens were there, but in other
fruit and in flowers the Georgia Fairs by
far excel them. There were but few spec
imens of domestic manufactures on ex
hibitiou. We did not visit the park
where the stock was on exhibition, but
was told there were some very fine horses
and othor stock there. We do not be>
lieve Agricultural fairs attract as much
attention here as in Georgia. B.
Cream of the Telegrams
Beecher:—With characteristic audac
ity this “nest hider” is announced as
coming back October first, to assume his
duties with greater efficacy than ever.
Mrs. Tilton no doubt is joyful.
The late Cuban General Ryan who was
executed ia Cuba among the Virginins
captives, bequeathed 8150,000 to his rela
tives in Arkansas. We regret we are not
a relative.
Marshal Bazaine thanks Americans by
a late cable dispatch for their sympathy;
unveils the Napoleonic policy that led to
Maximillian’s overthrow and death in
Mexico; and regards his military career as
not ended yet
The Boston Post suggests that Beech
er ought to “step down and out” of his
pulpit in the latest aspect of the charges
against him.
A Spanish official dispatch of last Sat
urday, announced a victory of the Repub
lican (General, Pavia, over the Carlists.
The latest cotton estimates are that
the crop of 1874 will be less than 1872,
by 100,000 bales or more.
Gen. Beauregard was in Toronto, Can
ada, last Saturday.
Beast Butler is on the stump in Mas
sachusetts canvassing for re-election to
Congress, and is horrifying his hearers
with passionate exaggerations of massa
!• a ('•■siitatiaaal Cmm
What hr WnM be if Elected «a
Atlaaia Baaped-Speech by Baa. B, ■-
■ill.
[Special Telegram to the Atlanta Newt.
Madison, Ga., Sept 9,1874.
Morgan county is throughly aroused,
and politics here are at fever heat. A
rousing Democratic meeting was held
here yesterday, it being the largest ever
held in Morgan county. Oscar Thomason
was nominated for the Legislature on the
third ballot, four hundred and ninety-five
votes being polled.
DEMAND FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
In the evening General Robt Toombs
spoke from the courthouse steps to a
large crowd, it being his first political
speech to the people of Morgan county
in thirty years. He advocated strongly
the calling of a constitutional convention,
and stated that if the nominee of the
Democracy for the Legislature would not
ple lge himself to vote for one, if the ne
groes would send for him (Toombs) he
would came and take the stomp against
the white man, whoever he might be. The
present constitution was the work of
parcel of dirty dogs, thieves and rascals,
and no decent white man shonld acknowl
edge it. Even if he approved every line
therein he would overturn it if hehad the
power.
THE BOND QUESTION.
General Toombs violently denounced
the legislative amendment in reference to
the payment of bonds, as a fraud and as
not effecting the object it pretended to
effect. He was very severe upon a cer
tain State Senator, whom he denounced
as being one of the grandest knaves in
Georgia, and expressed the opinion that
he was in the pay of the bondholders.
THE GOVERNORSHIP.
After dwelling on this snbject at some
length, General Toombs referred to the
fact that he and his friend, Mr. Jones, of
Burke county, were the only two men in
the State who were disqualified by the
fourteenth amendment to the United
States constitution, while a coffee, or
native of Timbuctoo, could assome privi
leges that he could not. Some of his
enthusiastic friends had announced that
he would be a candidate for Governor.
Well, if they could stand it he could, and
if he ever was elected Governor, he wonld
be Governor sure enough. Of one thing
the people might rest assured: no Yankee
troops would put their feet upon the soil
of Georgia to interfere with the elections
and rights of the people while he occu
pied the gubernatorial chair.
A RASPING FOB ATLANTA.
Referring to the dangers which beset
the people, General Toombs said that no
dependence could be placed cn the press
of the State, as any of them could be
bought up for a few hundred dollars. He
had experienced a little in that line hi™
self, as he had let certain papers have
money, and he had scarcely got it back
from them befbre they would go back on
him. He advised the people to beware
of Atlanta, and to shun that City as they
would shun a viper, as Atlanta was “the
hell of the universe."
GRANT A VERRY SMALL KING.
Continuing, he referred to federal poli
tics, and remarked that some people look
ed upon Grant as a King* Well, if he
was a King, he was a very little King, a
wee bit of a King, a baby King. General
Toombs spoke against the Georgia rail
road as being an imposition upon the
people and a monopoly that should be
broken down. He was once a stockhol
der of the road, but as soon as he saw
how it was crushing the people he sold
his stock and withdrew. General Toombs
spoke at length on the several topics of
interest, and was repeatedly interrupted
by applause. The foregoing is, of course,
but the merest outline of his speech.
SPEECH FROM MR. B. H. HILL'
At noon to day Hon. Benjamin H. Hill
made a stirring and eloquent speech to a
very large assemblage, on the political
situation, and was enthusiastically applau
ded. Old Morgan is in full armor for
the campaign, and is terribly in earnest.
H. C. B.
THE TRENTON MASSACRE.
Only Five Persons Beatty Silled.
cres of negroes in the South by the white
rebels.”
There is no yellow fever in New Orleans.
Col. James H. Blount, publishes a list
of appointments, and among them we find
that he will address the citizens of Bald
win county, in Milledgeville on Thursday
the 20th day of October.
One W. T. Wilson of Newton county is
startling credulous people by announcing
that he is Jesus Christ.
The Milledgeville Recorder, after sta
ting that Mi". Hoge has always been “flat
teringly condescending” towards its edi
tor, says: “We porceive that the Atlanta
Ring is already taking steps towards
securing the speakership for Mr. Hoge.”
Not at all. As one Atlanta man, we say
decidedly that we do not want Mr. Hoge
in the chair even if it were offered to him.
We want him on the floor. But while we
are on this subject, Mr. Recorder, how
would W. D. Anderson, of Cobb, suit you
as Speaker ? We might feel inclined to
move” in that mattep.—Atlanta Herald.
We recognise in Mr Anderson “a gen
tleman and Scholar” fitted to fill almost
any position; but perhaps it would be
well enough to postpone the discussion
of the Speakership until we see who will
compose the General Assembly.
partially all demands against the State,
by whom boi
for
The
show that the State cannot fairly plead
anything in avoidance of the obliga
tion.
Preferring “State Treasury notes” to
Confederate money, it that CoL
Thweatt rsoeived the former m payment
whomsoever
their payment, if found to be just.
claim of Col. Thweatt will bear rigid
examination. He has nothing to fear on
this score and therefore he courts it, con
fident that it stands on a foundation
which cannot be shaken.
Bat if the General Assembly be in
doubt as to the State's liability, how can
they withhold their consent to the propo
sition of CoL Thweatt to submit the
S ection to the adjudication of the
arts? To this extent, at least, he
shonld receive the benefit of their doubt
If they refuse to pay, let the Court pass
upon the question of the liability of the
Slats. If the decision be adverse to him.
he will be satisfied; if in his favor, the
Legislature will be beyond the reach of
censure in making an appropriation for
the payment of his chain.
J\
Death of Guizot.-—It is reported ip
Paris that Guizot tho eminent historian
and statesman, is dead. He was bora at
Nismes, France, in 1787, and attained
great political power because of his great
executive ability and skill in statesman
ship. As a literary man he had few equals
in his day, and his -‘History of Civiliza
tion” and similar works are enduring
monuments of his genius.
Poverty is Bad, but the worst kind of
poverty is poverty of the blood; ♦■his
mokes a man “poor indeed,” for it takes
away his strength, courage and energy;
but enrich the blood with its vital ele
ment, Iron, by taking the Peruvian Syrup
(a protoxide of iron,) and you will feel
rich and ‘fee good as anybody.” Try it.
—A steamer recently made the trip
from San Francisco to Yokohama, Japan,
in seventeen days and thirfr*** hours, the
fastest passage on reeonL
—la London there are, according to a
(By Telegraph to the Constitution.]
Cincinnati, September 9.—A special
dispatch says that Governor Brown ar
rived at Memphis yesterday from Tren
ton, the scene of the late masked murder
operations. He says that the conviction
of respectable persons in Trenton is that
only five negroes of the sixteen taken
from the jail were shot dead, one negro
is now in jeil getting well, the rest escap
ed. No trace of human remains to be
found except of the five men above refer
red to. A new grand jury has been im
panelled in Gibson county, and is busy
endeavoring to find indictments against
lawless jail breakers and murderers.
Governor Brown declares his intention
to leave nothing untried to ferret out all
outlaws concerned in the cowardly and
bloody work.
Nashville, September 9.—A special
dispatch from Jackson, Tenn., says that
Judge Carthel reached this place
opened and immediately adjourned the
circuit court, in order to return to
Trenton, and protract the session of
his court there sufficiently long to al
low the grand jury time and opportuni
ty to follow up their investigations into
the recent disturbances in Gibson county,
leading to the killing of the negroes who
were taken from Trenton -jail. A rumor
evidently well founded and discussed on
the streets here, is to effect that General
Alexander W* Campbell, of this place,
one of the most prominent lawyers in
Tennessee, is retained at a fee of $30,000
to defend certain parties, in the suspec
ted district, in case they are arrested.
General Campbell has been beard to re
mark that there are two sides to all ques
tions. The preliminary trial of Pat
Lyons and Bowen Sanders, the alleged
murderers of J ulia Hayden, the colored
school teacher in Trousdale county, ia
now in progress at Lebanon, Tennessee.
A large number of witnesses have been
| summoned by the state and a few on the
part of the defendant
Indignation meetings against the two
late tragic outrages in Trosudale and
Gibson counties are being held in differ,
ent counties throughout the state.
SI AMONS’
REGULATOR
Georgia lews*
| |Hon. Henry B. Harris, the present in
cumbent, has been renominated for Con
gress by tiie Democrats of the Fourth
District
The Democrats of Morgan county have
nominated Mr. Oscar Thomaston for the
Legislature.
An Atlanta correspondent of the Au
gusta Constitutionalist learns, from au
thority which he deems reliable, that in
many localities in the State the negroes
“are making a movement looking to the
colonization of their entire race, in the
Southern States, in some portion of the
unoccupied territory of the United States.
A few days ago a very large assemblage
of negroes at Greensboro unanimously
adopted a proposition favoring coloniza
tion—an entire removal and separation of
their race from the whites; and it is more
than likely the next Congress will be
flooded with petitions, signed by almost
the whole negro population in many sec
tions, asking the government to assign
them a State for their own occupancy,
and to remove them thither.”
It is thought that Samuel Gove, of
Twiggs county, is to be nominated for
Congress by the Radicals of the Sixth I .faultier family medicine,
District It is true that Gove was once L giten^mf wfety'“and th'
elected to Congress by the Radicals, but moat delicate infant,
tones have changed and if Samuel has not ^
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The surviving members of the Thomson Dec. 17, 1873. 21 ly.
Guards, the Ramsay Volunteers, and the 1
Hamilton Rangers met on the|5th instant
at Thomson, and decided to have a social I
re-union of the living members of the]
10th, 15th, and 48th, Georgia regiments,
on the 24th instant, at Thomson. All
other confederate soldiers in the conn-
ties of McDuffie and Columbia are also
invited to participate in the re union.
Committees were appointed to secure |
speakers, prepare the dinner, and super
intend the festivities of the occasion.
Nearly all diseases originate from Indigestion and
Torpidity of the Lirer, and relief is always anxiously
■ought after. It the l.irrr is Rcgnlmc.l in its ac
tion, health is almost invariably seenred. Went of ac
tion in the Liver causes Headache, Constipation,
Jaundice, Painin the Shoulders, Cough, Chills, Dizzi
ness. Sour Stomach, bad taste in the mouth, bilious
attacks, palpitation of the heart, depression of spirits,
or the blues, and a hundred other symptoms for which
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parts of the country will vouch for its being the purest
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FOR
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AND ALL THROAT DISEASES,
Capt. A. H. Smith has been nominated I .. , .
for toe Legislature by the Democrats of | Wells ( HTbollC 1 tlblctS
Lowndes county.
We find the following items in the Al-1
bany News, of Friday.
Hon. Nelson Tift is now in Paris, and I
Put up only in Blue Boxes.
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The Weather and the Crops.—Since I
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430
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hoi weather. Teelerda, and the day be. Si.S'.“cC" olX pS SSSSSi
fore were scorchers, and everybody and | Diocese of Virginia,
everything suffered. Peas, potatoes and
turnips need rain sadly, and will be se
riously damaged if this parching process
continues many days. Cotton was bene
fited somewhat by the late rains, but so
little that planters are not inclined to ap
preciate estimates. It is now pretty gen
erally conceded, however, that two-thirds
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Present to Pio Nono College.—The
Savannah News says “Father C. C. Pren«
dergrast, formerly of Savannah, but now
in charge of St Patrick’s Church, Au
gusta, read to his congregation on Sun
day last a letter from Bishop Gross, who
is now North, stating that Pope Pius IX
had sent his apostolic blessing and a
beautiful marble statue of the Virgin Ma
ry to Pio Nono College at Macon.”
Phil Cook last week
Democratic nomination
Congressional District
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The Sparta Times and Planter says
“Just send a copy of the War Between
the States to Congress for twenty years,
and let a chapter be read occasionally, it'
good enough.”
The New York Evening Post, an au-
Aoainst Civil Rights.—“Wiliam Lit
8 j john, colored,” as he signs biniHe1f ;
cates his claims to the possession of sn
exceedingly level head by the following
letter in the last Houston Home Journal.
thority on cotton, as well as on other A- r# w - ir i T , ,
merican staples, puts the question: -‘Has W1 M^ n - SUcl1 - a Ietter i®
American cotton any rival? “The Post I ?^ th C . aiol J Da or Mississippi where his
goes on to recognize the importance of j n ^? 8 ’ would either have been
cotton as the chief article of export from ^ I der ^.° r d ™ e , n f om * he State. Read
the United States, and the fact that the l4 ^ whlte and black, and especially the
price which it commands is a matter of % ^ -.
commanding moment, not only to the ac- Li T a meets y° ur approve
tual producers themselves, but to every I e ®i re through your paper to say a
man, woman and child in the country, to the colored race in regard
whether living in Maine, Texas or el8 i: the main question winch I hear being
where. In these facts reasons are found m thl T S cam P“g»—'the civil
for the Post’s comments on the methods p 1 have b e . en connected
of transacting business in the New York , “ Republican party in this county
Cotton Exchange, which methods were years ;ind have always
considered “injurious to the country at L,. + t them a\ hat I thought was
large and in particular to the persons L. e ® em. As I am well known all
jUrecUjr engaged in the production of cot, LnTn&l
As American cotton is now two and ^ Cm ’ f 01 ^ * ^ ud some of
three quarters pence per pound dearer I • P P® rsua ded to
than the beet cotton raised in India; a
difference in price for which there seems them to destruction,
to be no reason except the superior and h t that some of my
far as India cotton is concerned- ^ °i tnow
unrivaled quality of the American pro- the colored race to
duct, it is urged that American cotton • , imagine their object
- m so doing is to get office. -As for their
sympathy for the colored man, they have
growers need not fear any extended ri
valry so for as India is concerned. Egypt
and Brazil are the only countries winch
produce cotton equal in quality to ours,
and they do not produce enough to seri
ously affect the normal valne of the sta-*
pie. The conclusion is, that American
cotton has no rival, and that the price at
present is abnormally low, it having risen
only fourteen per cent since 1860, when
most of the world’s cotton supply was
produced by slave labor, while the price
of most other articles of trade has ad
vanced from twenty-five to thirty per cen
tum.—Hew Orleans Times.
recent official
are total
ddnka.
800 cabdrivers who
era from intoxicating
—Somebody advertise* a preparation
for keeping a lady’s hands free from
ips. A report that she has no money
would dp tiM mum tiling.
Fall Fashions.—Fashion notes for the
fall set forth that three new shades of
color will be introduced this season, and
that two of these—floor de soufre (flow
er of sulpher), a peculiar yellow, and car
dinal a handsome red—will probably be
very fashionable. The other color is call
ed volcanic. Also that autumns bon
net will have very low crowns, bat the
trimmings, which will be in most
placed in front, will add materially to
their altitude. Flowers will not be worn
so much as last season.
The colored men of Evansville, Lid.,
met the other day and passed resolutions
denouncing the Republican party as cor
ruptandno longer worthy of trust, and the
professions of friendship for the colored
man false and made only for the purpose
of buying votes. They farther pledge
themselves to vote against the Republi
can party. If this thing continues, noth
ing but a series of warm mustard-plas
ters will prevent a political convulsion in
tins country.
—An exchange, ridiculing county fairs,
which make no effort at rood shows, savs
that the Clearfield fair consisted of aa^
a goose and a pumpkin. It rained so
hard the first night that the goose swam
off the cal/ broke loose and ate the
pumpkin, and a thief piowHaw around
stole the caff and that
—A boy let fell a jug containing fifty
cents’ worth of molasses which he was
carrying along the avenue, and his wails
of dispair, as he saw the stuff streaming
over the flag-stone, secured for him thir
teen shillings from the benevolent pedes
trians. Fifty cents for molasses, two shil
lings for a jug, and seven shillings for
the circus is the way the boy figured as
he started for a crockery store.
It is reported that secretary Bristow
will recommend, at the next session of
congress, a transfer of the -jurisdiction
now exercised by the treasury department
over cotton claims to the court of
—a tribunal that is not charged with cor
ruption. The amount of the fund in the
treasury now snbject to these claims is
about $14,000,000. It is understood in
Washington that the subordinates of the
department will permit no cotton claims
to pass nnless ex-Assistant Secretary
Chandler and his associates are employed.
This cotton ring is considered the most
corrupt and grasping concern in the city
of jobs and frauds.
Yankee Ku-Klux.—Last week a mob at
Canton, Pennsylvania, took a negro on his
way to jail and riddled him with bullets.
He was charged with violent Beecherism
on a white child. The raiders were all
masked and otherwise disguised. If this
outrage had oocurred at the South, what a
howl would have been raised by the loyal
ists about “Ku-Klux and Rebels.”
The Beecher-Tilton scandal has be
come the subject of much intelligent dis**
in the newspapers of Europe. A
g newspaper informs its reai
that a suit has arisen between the two
American “Popes,” Beecher and Thyldtn
on account of the discovery of a packet
of love letters which the former ^ ad
dressed to the daughter of the latter.
Thylden claims damages in $100,00ff bnt
Beecher wfll give only half that su«L A
is prpbahl*.
none; yet they tell him to go for the civil
rights bill every time, and only that they
may obtain offices. I can truthfully say
that some of my white Republican friends
toll the colored people that the civil
rights bill is the worst they could vote
for. I am every day doing what I can
to keep my race from voting for that bill,
and I do think any white map urging
such a thing upon the colored race is not
worthy of the vote even of a savage. My
people do not want to go to the hotel table
with the white people, nor to the same
school-house, nor ride in the same coach,
nor meet in the same churches with the
whites. I have no desire to embrace any
of these opportunities whatever; and if
our white friends would take time with
the colored man and converse with him,
knowing his necessity of knowledge, they
could avoid the ci«l rights bill. The
colored man has no idea that what is the
white man’s interest is his interest. I
am a Republican myself, but I am doing
all I can against the civil rights bill, and
I do honestly believe that the civil rights
bill will cause a good deal of trouble be
tween the two races. So, my Republican
friends, if you will vote for civil rights,
you must go without me. Many of the
Republicans of this county have desired
me to become a candidate for the Legis
lature, but knowing that I am incompe
tent for the position, and believing that
ignorant law makers have brought all
the existing evils on the country, I have
declined to run. Yours truly,
W. H. Littlejohn, colored.
—In the northwestern comer of the
territory of Wyoming is located one of
the most beautiful lakes on thia contin
ent, if not in the world. Adjacent to it
are four majestic rivers, the Yellowstone,
flowing into the Mississippi at a distance
of 1,300 miles; the Mississippi itself
which finds its way to the Gulf through
the father of waters; the Columbia, which
leads to the Pacific, and the Colorado,
which, passing through the most remark
able canon in the world, discharges its
waters in the Gulf of California. Group
ed around this lake and in the midst cf
this water-shed is perhaps the grandest
mud volcanoes and natural architectural
beauties to be found on the fees of the
globe.
correspondent has
wormed out of Brigham Young the im-
t intelligence that he wMh born on
a* Whittington^
the 1st of June, 1801,
Windham eonaty* Ten