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VOLUME XLY.J
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, JANUARY 6) 1875.*
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
ron. SHERIFF.
We respectfully announce the name
of W. R. FENN as a candidate for
SHERIFF of Baldwin county, at the
election in January next.
MANY FRIENDS.
Den. 14, 1874 21tdepd
For Tax Receiver.
I kindly solicit the support of the citi
zens of Baldwin county for the office of
Receiver of Tax Returns.
21 tde] WM. WILLIFORD.
For Coroner.
We are authorized to announce
THOMAS A. JOHNSON as a candidate
for Coroner, at the January election.
Dec. 15, 1874. ‘ 21 tde.
For Tax Collector.
We are authorized to announce the
name of THEODORE G. SANFORD as
• candidate for Tax Collector of Baldwin
county at the ensuing election in Janua
ry next. 13 tde*.
For Coroner.
We are authorized to announce the
name of ISAAC T. CUSHING as a can
didate for CohoxER at the ensuing Janua
ry election.
Dec. 1,1874. 19 tde.
For County Treasurer.
I announce myself a candidate for the
office of COt NTY TREASURER of
Baldwin county.
H. tY. THOMAS.
Milledgeville. Ga., Nov. 25, 1874. 19 tde.
For Tax Receiver.
I respectfully solicit the support of
the voters of Baldwin county for TAX
RECEIVER of said county at the Janua
ry election, 1875.
19 tde.)' F. L ECH.OLS.
~ For Tax Collector.
We are authorized and requested to
announce Col. FETER FAIR as a can
didate for TAX COLLECTOR of Bald
win county at the January election.
Dec. 1, 187 4. 19 tde \
Tor Tax Collector*
I respectfully solicit the support of the
voters of Baldwin county for TAX COL
LECTOR of said county at the January
election 1875.
WILLIAM HARPER.
Nov. 21,1874.
For Tax Collector.
‘The undersigned respectfully announ-
eea himself a candidate for Tax Collector
of Baldwin County at" the next January
election.
G. T WIE DENMAN.
Nov. 21st, 1874.18 tde.
For Sheriff.
"We are authorized and requested to
announce REUBEN A. PROSSER as a
candidate for Sheriff of Baldwin county,
at the ensuing January election; and he
proposes C. E. Bonner for Deputv.
Nov. 24, 1874. 18 tde.
For County Treasurer.
Editor Union <fc Recorder .
Please announce Mr. Henry Temples
as a candidate for re-election to the office
of County Treasurer, and oblige his
18 tde.] Many Friends.
FOR SHERIFF.
Mr. Editor :
Please announce our present efficient
Sheriff, JOHN B. WALL, as a candidate
for re-election in January, and oblige
18 tde.] MANY VOTERS.
TO TUB i'Uil.lL.
Thankful for past favors bestowed on
OB we beg leave to announce ourselves
as candidates for re-election to our re
spective offices, at the ensuing January
election: _ 4
For Tax Receiver—
J. HUNTER McCOMB.
For Clerk Superior Court—
WALTER PAINE.
Nov. 16, 1874. 17 tde
'.Vbele Billy Wood” a candidate for
Tax Receiver.
I announce myself ae a candidate for
Receiver of Tax Returns of Baldwin
eounty, at the election in January next.
All votes given me will be thankfully re
ceived. WM. WOOD.
Nov. 24,1874 18 tde
The Boy Who Took a Boarder.
Once upon a time, long before any of
you children were bom—about two hun
dred and fifty years ago, in fact,—a little
boy stood one morning, at the door of
palace in Florence, and looked about
him.
Why he was standing there I do not
know. Perhaps he was watching for the
butcher or milkman, for he was a kitchen
boy in the household of a rich and mighty
cardinal. He was twelve years old and
his name was Thomas.
Suddenly he felt a tap on his shoulder
which made him turn around, and he
said, with great astonishment.
“What! Is that you,’ Peter? What has
brought you to Florence? and how are
all the people in Cortona?”
“They’re all well,” answered Peter, who
likewise was a boy of twelve. “But I left
them for good. I’m tired of taking care
of sheep—stupid things. I want to be a
painter. I've come to Florence to learn
how. They say there's a school here where
they teach people.”
“But have you got any money?” asked
Thomas.
“Not a penny.”
“Then you can’t be a painter. You had
much better take service in the kitchen
with me, here in the palace. You will be
sure of not starving to death at least,
said the sage Thomas.
“Do you get enough to eat?” asked the
other boy reflectively.
“Plenty. More than enough.”
“I don’t want to take service, because
I want to be a painter,” said Peter. “But
111 tell you what we'll do. As you have
more than you need to eat, you shall take
me to board—on trust at first, and when
I’m a grown up painter I’ll settle the
bill.
“Agreed,” said Thomas, after a mo
ment’s thought. “I can manage it. Come
up stairs to the garret where % sleep, and
I’ll bring you some dinner by and by.
So the two boys went up to the little
room among the ch;.nney-pots where
Thomas slept.
It was very, very .email, and all the fur
niture in it was acj-fld straw bed and two
ricketty chairs- J^it the walls were beau
tifully whitewashed.
The food was good and plentiful, for
when Thomas went down into the kitchen
and foraged among the broken meats,
he found the half of a fino mutton-pie,
which the copk had carelessly thrown
out. The cardinal’s household was con
ducted upon . very extravagant princi
ples.
That did not trouble Peter, however,
and he enjoyed the mutton pie hugely, and
told Thomas that he felt as if he could
fly to the moon.
“So far, so good,” said he; “but, Thom
as, I can’t be a painter without paper and
pencils, and brushes and colors. Haven’t
you any money?”
No,” said Thomas, despairingly, “and
I don’t know how to get any, for I shall
receive no wages for three years.”
“Then I can’t be a painter, after all,”
said Peter, mournfully.
“Ill tell you what,” suggested Thomas.
“I’ll get some charcoal down in the kitch
en, and you can draw pictures on the
wall.”
So Peter set resolutely to work, and
drew so many figures of men and women
and birds and trees, and beasts and flow-*
ers, that before long the walls were all
covered with pictures.
At last, one happy day, Thomas came
into possession of a small piece of silver
money. Upon my word, I don’t know
where he got it. But he was much too
honest a boy to take money that did not
belong to him, and so, I presume, he de
rived it from the sale of his “perquisi
tes.”
You may be sure there was joy in the
little boarding house up among the chim
ney-pots, for now Peter could have pen
cils and paper and India-rubber, and a
few other things that artists need. Then
he changed his way of life. He went out
early every morning and wandered about
Florence, and drew every thing he could
find to draw, whether the pictures in the
churches, or the fronts ol the old pal
aces, or the statues in the public squares,
or the outlines of the hills beyond the
Amo, just as it happened. Then, when
it became too dark to work any longer,
Peter would go home to his boarding
house, and find his dinner all nicely tuck
ed away under the old straw bed, where
landlord Thomas had put it, not so much
to hide it as to keep it warm.
Things went on in this way for about
two years. None of the servants knew
that Thomas kept a boarder, or if they
did know it, they good-naturedly shut
their eyes. The cook used to remark
sometimes, that Thomas ate a good deal
for a lad of his size, and it was surpris
ing he didn’t grow more.
One day the cardinal took it into his
head to alter and repair his palace. He
went all over the house in company with
an architect, and poked into places that
he had never in all his life thought of be
fore. At last he reached the garret, and
ae luck would have it, stumbled right in
to Thomas’s boarding-house.
•‘"Why, how’s this?" cried the great car
dinal, vastly astonished at seeing the
mean little room so beautifully decorated
in charcoal. “Have we an artist among
us? Who occupies this room?”
“The kitehen-boy, Thomas, your Emi
nence.” _
“A kit<K?n boy! But so great a genius
must not neglected. Call the kitchen-
boy Thomks.”
Thomas <kune up in fear and trembling.
He had neveif been in the mighty cardin
al s presence before. He looked at the
charcoal drawing^on the wall, then into
the prelate’s face, And his heart sank
within him.
“Thomas, you are no longer a kitchen-
boy,” said the cardinal, kindly.
Poor Thomas thought he was dismiss
ed from service—and then what would
become of Peter ?
cardinal’s person, and had masters to in
struct him in all the learning of the day.
Fifty years later, two old men lived to
gether in one of the most beautiful
houses in Florence. One of them was I
Xr. Cooley’s Hat.
When Mr. Cooley came into church
last Sunday he placed his new high hat
just outside the pew in the aisle. Pres
of him, “He is the greatest painter of
our time.” The other was called Thomas,
and all they said of him was, “Happy is
the man who has him for a friend !"
And he was the boy who took a board
er.—St. Nicholas.
The Falm-Tree.
A party of travelers were crossing a
burning plain in the deserts of Arabia.
There were no houses or villages; no
trees to whisper in the breeze and make
the hot air seem cooler; no flowers by
the roadside to gather, not even any
roads, only a sort of track between the
sand-heaps. Whichever way you looked,
except up into the sky, you could see
nothing but sand, and even the sky was
not blue like ours, but with such a hot
glare in it, there was no comfort above
any more than below.
All at once the scene changed. On
turning round one of the sand-hills what
a cry of joy burst from the whole com
pany! Just before them in the valley
stood a grove of palm trees ! If they
could have heard it perhaps they would
have held their tall, feathery heads high
er than before, but, as it was, they only
bent them down lower, and in a loving
whisper bade the weary travelers welcome
to their grateful shade. And as one after
another threw themselves down beneath
it and drank of the sweet, cool stream
which commonly springs up under the
palm trees, they said it were worth all
the heat and the dust and the sand-hills
to taste at last the refreshment of such
a green spot es this.
They might well praise it, for God has
set the palm tree over against the desert.
It flourishes where every tree of ours
would wither and die. Tall and straigh
like a pillar, rising seventy or eighty feet,
it is crowned at the top with a graceful
branching tuft, and as it glows in large
clusters close together, it makes an effec
tual shelter from the burning sun. Its
fruit, the dates which you have some
times seen, are sweet, and are made into
cakes, and this is the chief provision of
the Arab in all hie wanderings. Camels
are fed with the stones, from the juice
and sap is obtained a spirit which serves
for drink, the wood is used for building
purposes and the leaves for thatching,
and the fibres of the tree for sacks and
cords. The young leaves are also eaten
boiled. So although the Arab in his
sandy desert soil has neither our oaks
nor waving grain, what matters it when
he has hemp and timber, vineyard mead
ow and corn-field, wheat and barley,
fruit and vegetables, all in one beautiful
tree! It is the great Creator making up
on one side what he withholds on the
other.
Once an English gentleman in Syria
i took home with him to England an Arab
woman as a nurse to his children. She
stayed with him four years, and then
went back to her own country. The peo
ple crowded around her and she told
them wonderful tales of the land across
the sea. She described the beauty of
the green English fields of the white cot
tages scattered among them, and of the
poor man’s happy comfort within them.
The Arabs listened and they sighed,
“What a favored land,” they said; “we
are full of envy. We would fain be as
blessed as these far-off islanders."
“But there's one thing I ought to say,”
continued the nurse, “I never saw a sin
aim-tree all through the country.”
called Peter of Cortona, and people said | ently Mrs. Pitman entered, and as she
*' proceeded up the aisle her abounding
skirts scooped Cooley’s hat. and rolled
it up hurriedly to the pulpit. Cooley
pursued his hat with feelings of indig
nation, and when Mrs. Pitman took her
seat he walked back, brushing his hat
with his sleeve. A few moments later
Mrs. Hopkins came into church, and as
Cooley had again placed his hat in the
aisle, Mrs. Hopkins’ skirts struck it and
swept it along about twenty feet, and left
it lying on the carpet in a demoralized
condition. Cooley was singing a hymn
at the time, and he didn’t miss it. But a
moment later, wheD he looked over the
end of the pew to see if it was safe, he
was furious to perceive that it was gone.
He skirmished up the aisle after it again,
red in the face, and uttering sentences
which were horribly out of place in the
sanctuary. However, he put the hat
down again, and determined to keep his
eye on it; but just as he turned his head
away for a moment Mrs. Smiley came in
and Cooley looked around only in time
to watch the hat being gathered in under
Mrs. Smiley’s skirts and carried away by
them. He started in pursuit, and just
as he did so the hat must have rolled
against Mrs. Smileys ankles, for she gave
a jump and screamed right out in church.
When her husband asked her what was
the matter she said there must be a dog
under her dress, and she gave her skirts
a twist. Out rolled Cooley’s hat, and
Mr. Smiley being very near sighted
thought it was a dog, and kicked it so
savagely that it flew up into the gallery
and lodged on top of the organ. Cooley,
perfectly frantic with rage forgot where
he was, and holding his clenched fist un
der Smiley’s nose, he shrieked. “I've half
a mind to. brain you, you scoundrel!
Then he flung down his hymn book and
rushed from the church. IJe went home
bareheaded, and the sexton brought his
humiliating hat around after dinner. Af
ter this, Cooley intends to go to Quaker-
meeting, where he can say his prayers
with his hat on his head.—Max Adler.
MT I announce myself as a candidate
for T A X COLLECTOR of Baldwin
County.
THOMAS T. 'WINDSOR.
November 11th, 1874.
To the People.
Thankful for your past favor and con
fidence in me, I again respectfully solicit
your support for Sheriff of Baldwin
eounty, at the next January election ; and
I pledge a faithful yet kind performance
Of my duty, if elected.
OBADIAH ARNOLD.
Not. 13,1874. 17 tde
For Tex Collector.
I respectfully announce my name as a
Candidate for Tax Collector of Baldwin
County, at the election in January.
3RIDGE.
JOHN H.
Not. 16,1874.
STEMBI
17 tde
For Tax Receiver*
We are authorized to announce the
name of JONATHAN T. FARELL as a
aqpdidato for Receiver of Tax Returns of
Baldwin oounty, at the ensuing election
ha January nett
“Don’t send me away!” he cried, im
ploringly, falling on his knees. “I have
nowhere to go, and Peter will starve—
and he wants to be a painter so much!”
“Who is Peter 1 ’ asked the cardinal.
“He is a boy from Cortona, who boards
with me, and he drew those pictures on
£he wall, and he will die if he cannot be
a painter.”
“Where is he now ?" demanded the car
dinal
“He is out, wandering about the streets,
to find something to draw. He goes out
every day and comes back at night.”
“When he returns to-night, Thomas,
bring him to me,” said the cardinal—
“Such genius as that should not be al
lowed to live in a garret.”
But, strange to say, that night Peter
did not come back to his boarding-house.
One week, two weeks went by, and still
nothing was heard of him. At the end
of that time, the cardinal caused a search
for him to be instituted, and at last they
found him in a convent. It seems he had
fallen deeply in love with one of Ra
phael’s pictures which was exhibited
there. He had asked permission of the
monks to copy it, and they, charmed
with his youth and great talent, had
readily consented, and , had lodged and
nourished him all the time.
Thanks to the interest the cardinal
took in him, Peter was admitted to the
beat school for painting, in Florence. As
e ps
The Arabs stood in astonishment. “Is
it possible ? Are you sure?” they inquir
ed eagerly.
Perfectly sure,” replied the nurse.—
‘High and low, up and down, I looked
for one for four years, but looked in
vain.” .
And now her countrymen's envy was
turned into pity for the unfortunate peo
ple who know not the best thing in all
the world worth knowing. “Poor Eng
lish wanderers,” they said, as they went
their way; “they are indeed unhappy!
But God is great, and He has given us
the palm-tree.”
It is the same old story; it is what
Solomon had found out so many years
ago, when he said, “God hath also set
the one over against the other.”
Lmxo in aLiqht Hocse.—Light houses
are strange and lonely homes for men
to live in. Some of them are perched
out on the ocean, with the land scarcely
in sight, and the restless sea forever beat
ing and moaning around them. The keep
ers of these do not see other human faces
than their own in a quarter of a year.
Night and day they are on the watch,
gladdened a while by a sail that appears
for-a. little while and then floats out of
sight below the horizon. They might be
out of the world, for all they know of its
concerns—its losses and gains, its battles
and its victories, the changes that each
day brings forth. There are other light
houses situated on the coast, but so re
mote that they are never visited; and
others that are surrounded by the civili
zation of a fishing village, and on sum
mer days, are crowded by fashionable
people from the neighboring watering-
places. But for the most part, except
in the approaches to flourishing ports,
they are built out on the farthest margin
of the land, on far-reaching capes and pen
insulas, on iron-bound headlands, on de
tached rocks and sandy shoals. Thelight-
ships are still worse off, anchored as they
are in stormy waters, and forever rolling,
plunging, leaping in perpetual unrest,
clipped of their wings, while other ves
sels are passing and repassing, shorten
ing sail as they enter port and spreading
the canvas as they start out anew.
The light-ships are manned by men
alone, but in the light-houses the keep
ers are allowed to have their wives, and
children are born unto them and brought
up with the sea and the sea-birds and the
distant ships for companions. Many a
pretty story or poem has been woven
about children living in this fashion. They
learn the secrets and wonders of the sea,
feel glad when it sings softly on the
calm days,fand sad when its bosom is ruf
fled and white in the storms. Their lit
tie heads are full ol strange fancies about
nature, and I do not believe they could
understand or enjoy the life that you and
1 load at home. Somehow I cannot think
of them as real children. They seem
more like water sprites that have their
home in the blue depths among other
delicate plants that blossom there. But
they have lessons to learn from school
books, and a great many things to do in
father’s household. Their life, with
all its romance, is not one of idleness,
you may be sure.—St. Nicholas for Oc
tober.
for Thomas, he was given s post near the eeeount of race or color.
Radical Infamy in Louisiana*
World of the 26th.
The Louisiana Returning Board, after
spending nearly two months in manipu
lating the election returns, have at length
reached a result and counted in a Repub
lican majority in the Legislature. The
infamous moans by which this result was
reached is shown in the fact that the
board counted out twenty-two Conserva
tive members of the Legislature who
were honestly elected, and in the case of
one candidate w r ho had received a major
ity of 3500 declared his Radical competi
tor elected by 1500 majority. That the
usurping Kellogg r.ng have received as
surances from the Administration in
Washington that they would be sustained
by the Federal government and upheld
by its full power in this outrageous work
is evident. In fact the work of the Re
turning Board was delayed until that as
surance could be received and the pre
parations made to enforce it The result
shows that Grant will stop at nothing to
retain his hold, and that of his friends,
upon the throats of the Southern people.
What he is doing and is ready to do in
Louisiana he will do in any other State if
the need or the opportunity arises. The
only way to relieve the people of New Or
leans of the horde of plunderers and us
urpers who are eating up the substance
and destroying the business of the peo
ple is t<^remove Grant aDd Grantism
from power at Washington. It now looks
as though the people would be compelled
to endure his plundering misrule, and to
see their will as expressed at the ballot-
box defied and nullified for two years
more, when the whole country will have
an opportunity give to its verdict of con
demnation upon Grant and Grantism in
a form that will forever end its power for
mischeaf.
That Grant is determined to force the
people of Louisiana into an open resist
ance, is no longer a question of doubt.
This purpose is boastfully acknowledged
by those who stand nearest to him in
Washington. He hopes to goad the peo
ple of Louisiana to a point where they
will make an armed resistance to the Fed
eral officials at New Orleans, and thus
give him an opportunity to declare war,
in the hope that when this happens the
resistance will spread far enough -for him
to claim that the rebellion has been re
vived, and thus fire the North. This is
the trick to divert attention from his
deeds. It is a last desperate resort to
recover his hold upon the people and se
cure the coveted third term. In spite of
its repudiation by the people at the last
election, another term in the President’s
chair is his principal aim, and no move
is too desperate, even to trampling upon
the rights and liberties of the people, to
accomplish that end.
The wrongs committed upon the peo
ple of that State are greater than any
other people were .ever called upon to en
dure. They have been robbed and plun
dered by men dressed in authority as no
other people ever were. They have seen
their property confiscated, they have been
powerless while debts have been piled
upon them and taxes heaped mountain
high, to meet obligations issued by fraud.
Their business has been destroyed, and
what might have been the most prospers
OU8 portion of the South is now under
the heel of the destroyer. Now, to add
to all this, when they go to the ballot-
box and there repudiate the men and the
party which have brought all this upon
them, a Radical Returning Board defies
their verdict, refuses to recognize their
expressed will and declares whomsoever
it chooses elected, without regard to the
vote cask When Conservative citizens
protest against this outrage, the members
of the Returning Board refuse to listen
to the protest and continue their work.
Under this state of affairs the elections
are a farce The Returning Board might
as well declare beforehand who shall be
the officials, for the result is precisely
the same.
We trust, notwithstanding the shame
fnl outrage upon their, rights and liber
ties, that tbe people of Louisiana will act
with patience, and not be goaded into
committing any overt act which will give
Grant an opportunity to oppress them
still further. They should remember that
in eleven months more a Democratic
Congress will assemble in Washington,
which will be able to bring them some
relief, or at least to arrest the schemes
of the present Administration, if in the
meantime nothing is done that will fur
nish an excuse to adopt extreme meas
ures. There is no doubt but that the
present plan at Washington is to force an
outbreak in New Orleans. The conserva
tive citizens should see to it that they are
not caught in the trap set for them, and
thus unwittingly prolong the very evils
whieh they are now complaining of, and
in an aggravated form. ’
Three dross Blunders.
[From tne Chicago Tribune, Republican.]
The majority of the House of Repre
sentatives at Washington made three se
rious mistakes on Monday, which should
be promptly corrected. These were:
1. The refusal to pass the bill for the
repeal of the Poland gag-law of the last
session.
2. The refusal to pass the Holman res
olution declaring that the financial con
tion of the country did not warrant
the voting of subsidies of money or bonds
to private speculators or to any individ
ual or corporation.
3. The rejection of the resolution to in
vestigate the conduct of government offi
cers in the case of the safe burglary at
Washington.
The refusal of the House to pass the
repeal of the Poland gag-law was pretty
clearly based upon the desire and the
purpose of the majority to enact some
law on that subject. Mr. Tremain, of New
York, proposed an amendment which is
fully as objectionable as the original law.
The majority of the House has indicated
its purpose to enact a law making the
publisher of any paper in any part of the
United States responsible in a criminal
action for alleged libel upon any member
of Congress or other Government official
if a copy of the paper be found in the
District of Columbia. Mr. Tremain’s
bill authorized the indictment of the pub
lishers by a grand jury of the District of
Columbia, and then provides that that
indictment be transmitted to the United
States Court of the district where the pa
per is published, the publisher to give
bail, etc. What these people at Washing
ton are aiming at is to have it established
by law that if any newspaper containing
a supposed libel on any office-holder in
&OVIIIAVA.
The Report of the Returning- Board
Promulgated.
New Orleans, December 24.—To-day
Mr. Arroyo sent in his resignation as a
member of the Returning Board. He
says: “I am impelled to adopt the
present course by the rulings of the Board
in the last thre days; in returning to the
Legislature as elected members those
who were unmistakably defeated—rulings
which, to mind, are so clearly partisan
and unjust, defrauding the people of Lou
isiana of their chosen representatives,
that my self respect will not allow me
longer to retain a seat in the Board.” Mr.
Arroyo’s resignation was accepted, and
the Board went into executive session.
The Returning Board finished its labors
to night, after having canvassed and or
dered to be promulgated the returns of
forty-nine parishes and returned the four
remaining ones to the Legislature. The
original returns, as received and compi
led by the clerks of the Board, indicated
the election of seventy Conservative mem
bers and forty-one Radicals, but their
manipulation now gives the new Legisla
ture fifty-four Radicals and fifty-two
Democrats, a clear majority for the Kel-
logg government. Moncure, the Demo
cratic candidate, originally returned by
about 3,500 majority, under tbe same
process is beaten by Dubuclet, Radical,
about 1,500 majority. The result,
which is not as yet generally known
throughout the city, has a very depres
sing effect, and will be provocative of ex
citement to-morrow.
indignation and depression.
Your correspondent visited McEnery’s
headquarters this evening and found the
Washington city be found in that city, | few there assembled both depressed and
indignant. Upon being questioned as to
what effect the action of the Returning
Board would have upon the people. Gov
ernor McEnery replied that it had virtual^,
ly annulled the election by the peoplflf
who would necessarily be highly exasper
ated thereat. He thought that in this
State, as in all other States, the members
elected by the people should appear and
take their seats when the Legislature as
sembles, and said it is impossible to fore
tell the result of any revolutionary act
of the Returning Board tending to de
prive them of this right. He spoke very
feelingly of the necessity of establishing
good government in Louisiana and ap
prehended
Wf lesm from the Washington Repub
Utm* 55 the caucus of Radical Senators’
held on Monday, did not come to any
agreement on Louisiaaa affair*. The
pniwt of disagreement appears to have
been the recognition ofPinckback as Sen
ator. The Republican says that the next
caucus will declare that the Kellogg
government is entitled to reeognition,.but
will not recognize Pinckback's claim.
That will be drawing it fine for a party Hon. J. E, Bryant, of Savannah, has
that psofssoos to ignore distinctions on served notice of content on Hon. Julian
the publisher, no matter where he may
reside, can be indicted in that district.
The sixth amendment to the constitution
requires that the accused in all criminal
prosecutions shall have the right to a trial
in the State and district wherein the
crime shall have been committed. The
crime must be committed in the District
of Columbia to give any grand jury of
that district jurisdiction thereof, and
therefore he must be tried there. This
thing of having a man indicted by a grand
Cury 1,000 or 2,000 miles away, and then
to be tried by some other court in anoth
er part of the country, is too outrageous
to be submitted to. In this respect it
exeeeds the old sedition law of John
Adams’ day, the authors of which were
justly condemned by the people. There
is no use wasting words about this mat
ter. The American people will tolerate
no such infamous law. The passage of
the law last year was excused in some
cases on the ground that its purport was
not known. No such excuse can be made
If the excuse of ignorance last
year was truthful, then the greater reason
for the unconditional repeal of the whole
act now. The Republican party can car
ry no such law, nor can it carry any man
who favors or votes to perpetuate it in
any form or under any guise.
The country is fully aware that Mr.
Tom Scott has a bill before the two Hou
ses of Congress proposing that the Uni
ted States shall guarantee one hundred
millions of his railroad bonds and pay
the interest thereon in gold for forty
years. The country is also aware that a
similar bill will be urged in favor of Jay
Cooke's Northern Pacific wild-cat railroad
The country, therefore, cannot accept the
refusal of the House to consider and to
pass the Holman resolution in any other
light than as foreshadowing a favorable
consideration of these robberies, or of a
desire to let the members have time to
dickei and trade with Scott and the oth
er speculators. The Republican party
cannot undertake to pay all Tbm Scott’s
and Jack Cooke’s debts out of the Na
tional Treasury, nor can it carry the men
who vote for it The lesson of the elec
tions of last fall cannot be ignored. The
Republican party, to live, must cut itself
loose from corruption in every form. Has
that fact gained lodgment in the heads of
Congressmen?
The third mistake cannot be justified
on any plea of ignorance. The District
Attorney of the United States for the
District of Columbia, and a gang of
scoundrels known as the secret of detec
tive police of the Treasury Department,
were charged with a shameless and dis
graceful attempt to make up a case of
crime against a citizen of Washington.
For this purpose a bogus robbery of the
Attorney’s office was got up. The whole
thing fell through, and the District At
torney was indicted, with others, for the
conspiracy. Special counsel was employ
ed to prosecute the case. The jury fail
ed to agree, but there was no difference
of opinion among the people of the Uni
ted States as to the guilt of the accused.
The court has since decided that, techni
cally, the grand jury that found that and
other indictments was illegally impanels
ed. The Attorney General has since then
ordered the discontinuance of tbe prose
cution. The question is now whether the
District Attorney shall be dismissed. His
friends and other personal friends of im
plicated parties do not want the case
further investigated. The House on
Monday refused to adopt a resolution di
recting that the whole connection of the
Federal officials with the affair be investi
gated. The ground taken, that the reso
lution to investigate waa offered by a
Democrat, and that the officers to be in
vestigated were Republicans, is not suffi
cient. If no Republican offered to inves
tigate, then it was the duty of the other
side to demand ik If the Republicans of
the House propose to adopt the ruffians
and thieves of the secret service and
protect them from exposure, then they
much mistake the temper of the country.
The best use that can be made of this ses
sion of Congress is to use it for the lop
ping off and burial of all the dead and
rotten wood of the party; for ridding the
organization of all connection with offi
cial dishonesty and corruption, and not
leave it to the people to do all this at the
next election. Let the Republicans in
Congress not add to the official corrup
tion and dishonesty, if it exists, the crime
of protecting it by the recorded vote of
the party.
The Selma Argus states that there are
51 prisoners in the jail of Dallas county.
Ala., all of whom are negroes. As Dal
las county has a negro population, four
times as large as the white population
and gives a Radical majority of five thou
sand votes in elections, and as every ju
dicial or executive officer in the county is
a Radical, it cannot be claimed that the
jail is full of negroes because of discrim
ination against them in the execution of
the laws. It should be remembered, too,
that for offenses of which the negroes are
oftener guilty Bum any others—larceny
——imprisonment in Alabama is nowvirtu-
ally abolished. Politicians who are con
stantly harping npon the lawlessnes of
the whites of the South would do well to
consult the jafl statistics.
The daughter of Hon. Joshua Hill is
classed by the Washington society paper,
“The Figaro,” as a most “accomplished
and noble type of Southern beauty.”
Hartridge,
*
Land For Sale!
O N THE FIRST TUESDAY IN JANUARY aezt
before the Maeonic Hall, 1 will sell at public
outcry—my two lots of taad—originally Baker, now
Mitchell county—cootaiaing two hundred acre* each,
and lying side by tide. No.'*. 24 and 25, in the 10ft
District Lets anld separate. Term* eoehatt cask
balance in 12 meotha. Beed fer tiCaa siren 1 . ’
MyWgo vine, Ga., 4, f
tensive doctoring and manipulation they
were returned as follows .- Caddo,
three Republicans; Lincoln, one Republi
can ; Rapides,one Republican ; Claiborne,
two Democratic; St. Martins, two Demo
cratic; La Fourche, two Democratic;
Bienville, Grant Winn and De Soto are
thrown out, makigg a representation in
the House of fifty-two Democrats anil
fifty-four Republicans. By the throwing *
out of the above named parishes and sev
eral polls in Caddo parishes (seven were
thrown ont to overcome Democratic ma
jorities), Moncure is beaten by nearly
2,000 votes.
“Thx Awkward Age.”—A wise and
sweet woman suggests, as a sovereign
remedy for the uncomfortableness of that
which we are wont to cail the awkward
age in boys and girls—that time when
they are too large to feel like children,
and not quite sure enough of themselves
to feel like adults—that we should al
ways treat even the smallest children
with the courtesy and consideration that
we show to grown up people, and then
they will never feel at a loss as to their
reception, thus quite escaping the uncer
tain and uncomfortable awkward age.
There are few things more important ia
the right development of a human crea •
ture than self-respect ; but how is a child
to learn to respect itself, if it sees that
it is alone in the sentiment—that by no
ene else is it respected ? More harm is,
perhaps, done children by snubbing than
even by weak indulgence. We have all
seen homes where the slightest express
sion of a childs idea on any point under
discussion was greeted with “Who asked
you what you thoughtor with soma
sarcasm such as “Ah ! now we shall have
the matter settled—Miss Experience is
freeing her mind.” It is so difficult to
hit the right mean. We do not want our
children troublesome to visitors—grown
up people do not care to pause in their
talk to listen to the unconsidered opinions
of thirteen—but suppose we try the ex
periment of respectful attention for a
while? Would not the young folks stop
talking until they has something to say,
quite as surely if they saw that their
words were listened to with attention as
if they felt that their voices were but
beating the air ?
THE MOST DISASTROUS RESULTS
To our commercial and agricultural in
terests in case of a failure to do so. The
emigration from the agricultural parishes
would be immense, and the condition of
the people become deplorable indeed. Your
correspondent subsequently visited Gov
ernor Kellogg at his residence and ques
tioned him to the same effeck Kellogg
replied that he was as yet unaware of the
final result of the Returning Board, but
presuming the information to be correct
the majority was so close the reforms
desired by the people could be readily ef
fected. The majority included several
reform Republicans, such as ex-Governor
Hahn and Judge Cole, and in this view of
the matter he did not apprehend any
trouble. If the opposition, as they claim
simply desire a conservative Legislature,
they have ik and it will undoubtedly rep
resent the wealth and intelligence of the
State. Messrs. Anderson and Wells, of
the Returning Board, are reported to
have left the city this evening by the
Steamer Lizzie Taylor, but the report so
far lacks confirmation.
HOW THE RESULT WAS ATTAINED.
New Orleans, La., December 24,1874
A Bulletin extra has the following re
garding the returning Board : The de
liberations of the evening resulted in a
final decision regarding the parishes of
Claiborne, Caddo, La Fourche, Lincoln,
Rapider and St. Martin. The parishes
of Grant, Winn, Bienville and De Soto
were referred to the Legislature, that
their several cases may be adjusted. The
representation, as returned by the Board,
now stands: Democrats, 52 ; and Re
publicans, 54, making a majority of two
for the latter. Although it will be ob
served that neither party is given a quo
rum in the House, it is somewhat suspic-
cious that the Board did not take unto
themselves a sufficient number with
which to organize the Legislature, that is
a quorum. However, it suited the pur
pose of Wells and Anderson to make the
returns as above, and doubtless they
knew that there was three among the re
turned, sailing under Conservative colors,
who, upon an emergency, will offer alle
giance to the Kellogg regime and repu
diate utterly the cause of the people. All
the parishes before the Board on Thurs
day were largely Democratic, but by ex-
Shahp Shooting.—“Father, what does
a printer live on?”
“Live on ?—the same as other folks, of
course. Why do you ask Johnny ?”
“Because you said you hadn't paid any
thing for your paper, and the printers
still sends it to you.”
“Wife, spank that boy."
“I shan’t do it.”
“Why not ?”
“Because there is no reason to."
“No reason? Yes there is. Spank
him ; I tell you, and put him to bed.”
“I shan’t do any such thing. What
in the world do you want him spanked
for?”
“He is too smart."
“Well, that comes of yonr marrying
me.”
“What do you mean ?"
“I mean just this, that the boy is smart
er than his father, and you can’t deny ik
He knows enough to see that a man print
er or no printer, can’t live on nothing;
and I should think you would be asham
ed of yourself not to know as much.”
Thz laws of Mississippi give the mem
bers of the State Legislature a fixed sala
ry of $500 a year. Nevertheless, the ne
gro Legislature called together last week
by Gov. Ames voted its members $7 per
day extra besides mileage. This session
was called to take Vicksburg in hand for
defending itself against an army of ne
groes collected from the surrounding
country. It had not, np to Tuesday, done
anything, bnt a bill was pending to dis
pense with special elections in cases of
vacancies in county officers, and to give
the Governor the power of appointment.
The intention of this is to enable Ames
to re-appoint Crosby Sheriff and send
him back nnder the protection of Federal
troops, with the hope of getting np a
conflict between the citizens and the
troops.
THIRD STREET
Dry Goods House,
M. BIiKAX,
DEALER IN
Boots, Sho^ and Clothing,
ALSO, WHOLESALE
Liquor Dealer,
Next to Saulbury, Respress & Co’s.,
Warehouse.
aragos
Dec. 15,1874. *
MR S. LIND RUM,
Has just returned from New York with a choice selection of DRY GOODS, which she is offeting lower than
thev haro ever been sold in Milledgeville, sod her Stock ol
BOXNSTS AND HATS !
are beautiful, and all of them are of the LATEST STYLES. Especial care WM taken ia the s‘lection ot her
Ribbons and every novelty that U worn ia New York city, will bo found in her Stock. She hse
Fancy Giods of Every Description.
TIES, COLLARS, LACES. RUFFLING, EMBROIDERIES, GLOVES, CORSETS, PERFUMERY,
HANKERCHIEFS, POCKETS and BELTS of every deecriptiou.
IF YOU WANT GOOD SHOES
Don't fail to call and see the Beautiful New Stock of Ladio*’ and Children's Shoo*, that have been bought
this Fall. They are Fall Stock and warranted a No. 1.
i\#r did She Ferget (he Children
The Stock of Toys the has bought will make the little onaa ooaa their ayaa. They cam bow get anything
in the Toy line they can think of. Don’t fail to give her a oall befora you make yoar purchacea. No trouble
to ehow goods. So come and see all my Goods.
DHFSS MAKING.
I procured the services of Mias Bu.hea, a fashionable Dreee Maker, of New York City, who thoroughly
understands her business, and special attention will be given to this depaitiaeat. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Airs I
Milledgeville, Ga., Oct., 6th, 1874.
•A Lf.VHKU/
113m.
w.
Furniture ! Furniture 1
& J. CTR AKER,
Offer FURNITURE to the buying public at priona below those of Macon and Augusta.
JU»T MCBIVBD A rZZVB ASIOAfKin OT OAMTIIXTZXrO.
BURIAL CASES.
MetaMe, Boa# wood, imitation and varnished Caekets of all
sizes. Calls or orders aitaaded to at any boor, day or night.
We will sell any of oar goods at Macon or Augusta
prices, aadia many iaetanees mach cheaper.
19 3m.
Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 1,1874.
W. T. TIMMERMAN.
Of the old firm of J. M. Newby & Co.
J JNO. A. WISE,
l Of Edgefield county, S. C.
TIMMERMAN & WISE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Boots, Shoes and Hats, Trunks,
VALISES, CARPET-BAGS, UMBRELLAS, Ac., Ac.
S». 182 Brifld Street, eppesite legato Betel, - - AUGUSTA, GA*
YTTE would very respectfully solicit the attention of our Baldwin county friends,
VY and the public generally, to the
IKK1RII fitMl
which we have just received, and are receiving doily, direct from the manufacturer’s
hands, Oar patrons would do well to give ns a call and examine our stock for
themselves, a* we propose selling good* at a* low pricea. ae they con be bought in
the United States.,
*#“Countryif 1