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RECORDER.
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Tuesday, February a, 1879.
Tae Struggle in Congress.
For several days there has been a des
perate struggle in the House of Repre
sentatives in Congress. The Radicals
are trying to pass the Civil Rights bill
and the Democrats are trying to prevent
it. The Radicals have a large majority,
and if they could bring the question to
a direct vote, they could pass it in five
m'nntes. But the Democrats by fillibus-
taring, that is by motions that will de
lay, such as moving an adjournment, then
moving to lay that motion on the table,
then calling the yeas and nays, Ac., See.
By snch means it is possible for a minor
ity to delay action on any very objection
able measure, until the patience of the
majority is exhausted. Such we learn
has been the case on the Civil Rights
bill. The Democrats stood to their posts
all-night and prevented the Radicals from
coming to a/lirect vote until wearied oat,
the House adjourned without taking a
vote on the question. In this struggle
the Democrats of the North stood nobly
by the South to prevent the passage of
the Civil Rights bill.
Th3 Triumph of Andrew Johnson.
Among the many victories achieved by
the Democrats within the last six months,
the election of Ex President Johnson to
the United States Senate, is not the least
important, or the least gratifying to the
honest democracy throughout the coun
try. Mr. Johnson was elected Vice Pres
ident by the Radicals. He was placed
upon the ticket with Abe Lincoln for the
purpose of getting Southern votes But
when by the death of Mr. Lincoln ht
became President, the Radicals soon die
covered he was too honest for their pur
poses. He refused to join them in many
of their infamous schemes to oppress
and plunder the South. When they
found out that they could not use him to
promote their plans of villainy they turn
ed upon him with all the hatred and mal
ice of robbers kept from their prey by
what they considered the treacherous
honesty of one of their own gang. Had
Andrew Johnson been disposed to sel
himself to the national thieves who infos
ted Washington City at that time, he
might have been elected President after
he had served out the balance of Mr
Lincoln's term and retired from office in
possession of millions plundered fzon
the people. But he dared to be hones
and suffered tho consequences. There
nothing that a dishonest politician
much abhors as a politician that is sincere
ly honest; they look upon him as
standing rebuke to themselves. Such was
the feeling, the Radicals about Washing
ton had for Andrew Johnson. In thit-
feeling Gen. Grant largely participated
Johnson trusted Grant and found him
wanting in principle, truth and reliability
Johnson exposed Grant's weak and vie
ions points to the world, and of course
Grant and his partisans never forgave
him for it, and from that time they began
to plot his distraction. Baffled in their
attempts to impeach him, Johnson re
tired from Washington poor in purse,
bnt.with the reputation of an honest man
and now the people of Tennessee, with
great credit to themselves, have selected
him to go back to Washington to assist
in scourging from the temple of liberty
those who have been buying and selling
votes within its sacred walls and have
thus made it a den of thieves. They
could not have chosen a better agent.
Like gold tried in the furnace, he is
known to be honest, bold as a lion, ready
in debate, learned in all of the wiles of
Radical diplomacy and well acquainted
with many of the men who now occupy
high places about Washington, he will
probably bo one of the most efficient
agents of the people in bringing the
country back to its pristine honesty and
purity.
Florida Legislature.
Tallahabse. January 27.—To day, at
12 o’clock m., both houses met in joint
session and proceeded to ballot for Uni
tod States Senator. The first ballot was
as yesterday—merely complimentary
The second ballot: Ex Governor Walker
5, Bisbie 1, Gilbert 3, Brevard 1. Cole 5,
Cottrel 2, Henderson 2, Samnel Walkei
6, Raney 1, Hopkins 2. Bullock 9, Walls
3, Jones 6, Conant 1, McCaskill 3, McLin
5, Dennis 13, White 1, Simmonds 3, Mar
tin 1, Dnncan 1, McCall 2. Total num
ber of votes cast, 76—necessary to
choice, 39.
Governor Welles' Testimony.
New Orleans, Jamlary 27.—Before
the Congressional Committee, to-day.
the testimony of Governor Welles was
continued in regard to the abstraction of
forty or fifty affidavits filed by the Con
servative Consul in the case of the Natch
itoches. He stated that tho papers from
which the boaid made their report wer<
taken cbaige of Ly tho cleiks, and that
he knew nothing, directly, of the dispo
sition made of the papers after the board
had completed their session. The Gov
ernor also detailed an alleged plot to as
sassinate him at one of the city hotels.
The joke of the season at Washington
is that tho election of Senator Wallace
(Democrat) from Pennsylvania is due di-
n -'tJv to a political miscalculation of old
Simon Cameron. Having no anticipfr
turn of the November tidal, Cameron
laid has plans for thg defeat of Senator
Scott, and in favor of his own son Don.
With this view he labored actively against
many Republican candidates in the west'
era part of the State who were Scott
men, not dreaming that he was helping
the Democrats to cany the State. Scott
is sore-about it, and Cameron is not mnch
better. Some go so far as to say that
Cameron hoped till the last, and that
John Allison received the Republican
nomination only on condition that, if it
E romised to be more than an empty
onor, he should give away promptly to
the young Don.
The Lumpkin Independent says one of
the advantages of visiting a country town
is, that you have only to tell your busi
ness to one man and ho saves yon all
farther trouble in that line by repeating
it to everybody else.
Tight Times rs the Kellogg Legibla
tube.—As might have been expected,
the Kelloggitea decline all Democratic
overtures for a compromise. The latter
ate still firm in their determination to
hold aloof from the Radical Legislature.
The majority of the Radical members
Hail themselves away from home, with
out money, and nnable to pass an ap
propnation bill for want of a quorum in
the lower House. Kellogg will doubt-
kaa eome to their relief by signing a bill
hr their per diem, quorum or ho qnor
y If any one disputes the legality of
action he has Sheridan and bis
to rapport the violation of
For the l’nW*u Sc Recorder.
Za Cotton Sing ? So. 6.
In this article we are to discuss the prac
ticability of deposing king (?) cotton and
disorganizing cottonocracy by establish
ing an agricultural democracy.
There is one objector it nmy be neces
sary to answer before amplifying the
point in the present paper. He is a farm
er who has something or mnch -rronni?
him. The reason why he has anything
at all, is because the merchant has pre
served it by granting him indulgence
He is pretty fat and respectable as long
as the merchant indulges him. If pt-i-
chanco he should lose his supply from
that source, he would, immediately, be
come as lean as a crane at the birth of
the new moon. Of course then he mutt bt
“out of the ring,” being far too depend
ent npon the merchant to adopt a plar.
that will sever him from his base of oper
ations. Let ns see what notion Horace,
the Roman Bard, has of snch a situation.
He seems to regard native independents
too priceless to be trammeled even by at
sacred a thing as grateful obligation to >
special benefactor. Marcenas was his
devoted friend and patron; and thong
they never quarreled about gratitude, yet
we find Horace contending for his native
prerogative. He had promised his friend
to retain to Rome at a certain time; bat
a change of mind, which he claimed the
right to exercise, would neoesitate a
change of purpose, and consequent dis
appointment. To justify himself, he re
lated the following fable:
“A little mouse crept throngh a small
hole into a chest of corn, after filling
himself he assayed to get out, but his
loaded paunch was too much for an exit
through the same aperture. A weasel
standing on the outside said, ‘yon went
in lean and you must come out lean.”
“So," Bays Horace, “am I willing to
restore all, if I am to be hampered by
your favors.” The same course would,
doubtless, be a wise one for our self-ex
cusing farmer. Let me urge, if yon can
not be an agricultural democrat without
becoming lean, by all means give up
your flesh, and take back your “birth
right.” You cannot deny the practicabil
ity of that step, and much less should you
deny the propriety of it.
Let us now return to the subject as it
concerns the masses. Farmers need
time as well as money. Some one has
said, “Time is money;” bnt it embraces a
great deal more. Money is not by any
means the only thing needed about
farm; for we have seen much of it spent
to no advantage, even where it was had
to spare; in fact, with little or no success
in its entire use. Time may not be the
only thing, but it is certainly the lead
ing necessity of a southern fanner if ever
he expects to succeed.
We may have money enough to ran a
farm bat not time enough to improve
our minds—to store away in them
knowledge, as well as grain in our barns.
We may have money sufficient to keep out
if debt, but not time to fix up fences about
the farm like they should be. We may
have money to buy guano with, but no
time for manufacturing lot and stable
manures—no time to improve and suita
bly prepare the cultivatable land where
ind when we should. We may have
money to pnrehase flour, peas, oats, and
hay, but no time to sow or plant, nor
harvest such productions when matured
—neither time for horses or mules to
reap the benefit of a pasture. Wo may
have money to bay pork, but no time to
look after hogs so as to raise our own
bacon. We may have money to Luv a
beef occasionally, bat no time to arrange
our farms so as to have no cotton in the
same field with grain, nor to open these
grain fields early enongh for the cattle
to reap the forage, matured during Spring
ind Summer, which cannot be harvest
ed.
Whatever course can be pursued to ses
cure this needed time, without detriment
to the farming interest, must he a neces
sity—a prime necessity. If the deposi
tion of King (?) cotton will secure that
end, the consummation of that deposition
is a necessity, and is therefore practicable
so far as the act will be essentially bene
ficial. No one will deny that cotton ia
the agent, monopolizing all this much
needed time.
Preparation for planting it, opens the
campaign in the spring with a rash; the
summer ia spent in a tremendous effort
to conquer “Gen. Green" (Grass); the win
ter passes very often into new year before
picking, ginning, packing and hauling off
to market are completed. Consequently
there is no time for anything else. When
land for wheat shonld have been prepar
ed cotton was either on it, or otherwise
in the way; when time for sowing came,
cotton was claiming too much attention
to allow horses or laborers to stop; when
harvest time arrived, cotton could not
spare anybody for it: and such have been
the disasters attending the small grain
crops in Georgia, the want of attention
proper and at the proper time, that farm
ers have decided them not only to be un
profitable bnt an impossibility.
If nothing more could be argued in
favor of needed time, we see a great ne
cessity for a revolution of sentiment on
grain raising. To revolutionize this sen
timent time is needed to experiment; the
mportance of a successful issue needs no
debate.
If the experiment proves available, the
deposition of cotton and the adoption of
the independent schedule becomes practi
cable beyond the shadow of a doubt. The
experiment however cannot be a fair one,
without several years test, and that must
be, at least on as liberal a scale as recom
mend by the Agricultural department
through commissioner Junes, whose able
address to farmers is contained in the
Union St Recorder Jan. 26th, viz: One
third small grain, one third corn and one
third cotton. Whether the plan bi ings
in a profit to satisfy an over-grasping
nature or not, does not so much concern
now, as sweet relief from the present and
future troublee and distress overhanging
and threatening us like an angry midnight
cloud. We must steer our agricultural
ship to a harbor of safety if possible.
Practical illustrations of success of the
plan recommended might be sot lorth as
verified here in our midst; but, for the
present, we will indulge the fondness for
the novelty of more remote and more anti
quated references.
History presents us with a world of an
cient specimens of almost exclusive grain
producing nations. The Egyptians and
uhe Jews were perhaps among the most
remarkable. This is more especially tra
since these nations suffered from so many
invasions on account of the boundless
supplies produced by them, and still they
had an abundance of time for mental im
provements, war building enterprises, and
and religions exercises. In fact, they
seemed to have more time for any one
of these matters than we have for all of
them put together. The reason is evi
dent From sowing time until harvest
they had leisure; from the harvest again
they had another considerable respite.
These nations of the East though very
remarkable, were far from being alone in
this respect- Who can read of the inva
sion of Greece by Xerxes with an army of
about five millions of hnman beings, as
estimated by Herodatns, without being
amazed at the exhaustless amount of sup
plies that most have existed among the
intervening nations f This invasion oc
curred about two thousand years aftei
the flood, and yet Georgia with her soil
in ita infancy, almost just now from the
hands of the Creator, coaid hardly bread
another so sms 1 an army as Sherman’s
for the same length of time. We are
loth to conclude tins article bat time and
length forbids more at present
J.A.S.
(To be Continued.)
Civil Ft
There have been doubts about the
regarding his zeal, Lul some
h«rroti0n. It has been moF» thru *.
mated by the Louitfana “L^nditli who
are in the enjoyment of Major Merrill a
ucign superintendence—toe ungruicrui
people who live between the cannon’t
noutii and Merrill’s chin and fail to ;q -
ireciatethe blessings of their condition—
that Merrill is mnch too lively a person
to be in command at so important a post
And indeed tho tone of his dispatches
and the general tenor of his military ad-
uinistration as described therein seen
o give some color to the intimation
•lajor Merrill, we take it, is a Bomewba
sudden and impetuous person. Too snd-
)«n and impetuous, the citizens of Shreve
port frinlr, for that sedate and serious
own. We suspect toat Major Merrn
mlgel in npon Shreveport in such a snd
len and unexpected way that many of th<
reading citizens neglected to ask him to
dinner for Jack of time. Quite ni turally
the Major construed the neglect as symp
tomatic of disloyalty and rebellion, and
at once made up his mind that treason
should be put down and Shreveport should
be jingled.
The present theory of the United States
Government is that whenever a colored
man fails to vote the Administration tick
et he is intimidated. If he fails to vote
for either side it is a mild but unmistaka
ble case; if he votes the opposition ticket
it takes the form of an outrage; if it hap
pens that a great many of them vote the
Conservative ticket and elect it, then, in
tho language of the patriot Hester, “intim
idation reigns supreme,” and it is time to
proclaim the people “banditti' and try
them by military commission for combin
ing against the Government. This is the
present interpretation of the Constitution.
Merrill understood this, of course. He
went up to Shreveport as Saul went to
Damascus, fully determined to enforce
the Constitution. His suspicions of the
disloyalty of tho people were confirmed
as soon as he discovered that nobody
invited him to dinner, and that there was
a Conservative majority in the parish.
He immediately observed that there was
intimidation in tho air. Many colored
persons were afraid to write their names
in fall, and only made their marks with
laborious hand and lolling tongue. Mean
time the sweet potato crop was kept back
by intimidation. There was mnch com
plaint of burdensome taxation, and every
thing looked as though the Conservatives
would carry the election.
There was but one thing for Merrill as
a man and a Major to do, and he did it.
He opened an attack on the town with
affidavits. He appeared as public prose
cutor. He made things lively in Shreve
port. He enforced the Enforcement act.
He gave the “banditti” to understand
that while he wore spurs and command
ed at Shreveport, nobodyshould combine
against Kellogg or speak unfavorably of
of the taxes. Shreveport was awe struck.
A good many citizens beat a hasty retreat. |
And Merrill had his guard . mountings j
and reveilles and taps and dresr parades i
and such with military regularity, and j
never failed to impress the citizens wit’
From trie N. T. Trtlmw l
Biion Starter- —
(From theNew York Tribute.)
So with Lieutenant General Sheridan.
doing
less
with
.... . *
to his grprt ma::y persons who are satisfied that
if it had no; been for him we should have
had no country, have been burdened with
a sense of obligation to him ever since.
They do not hesitate to say that if he
wants three or fonr States tamed over
to him and the citizens declared “bandit
ti,” so that he can have a little lark, and
a military commission, and hangings and
shootings, and snch, why, it is not at all
unreasonable. He saved the country;
.et him have them. As a matter of right;
of course- this cannot be objected to. He
<aved the country and it’s not improper
that be shonld do as he pleases with it
Stilt there's a vulgar prejudice in the
ninda of many, otherwise intelligent per
-=0118. against turning over so many peo
ole to a military Governor with unlimi
ted powers. And some even of the citi
zens of the States referred to are so in
sensible to the obligations of common
gratitude as to object to being turned
over in this way. This, notwithstanding
the admitted fact that Sheridan would
not think of hanging anybody whom he
did not dislike.
Now, not because we dispute the debt
—perish the thought—bnt for the reason
that all parties wonld be better satisfied
to have a definite sum agreed npon aB
salvage and paid, and partly perhaps to
humor the unaccountable repugnance
which the people of the South havo to
being shot to death with musketry, we
submit that a compromise be attempted
at least. We are satisfied that Sheridan
only wants what is right and what ia his
due. It is blood of course: mast lie
blood; but how would it do to turn over
a tribe or two of Indians for the present,
and then see if we can’t settle the rest
in money? It will be unpleasant for the
Indians of course; but then that does not
matter mueh. It is an feven thing be
tween trading with Orville Grant, being
delivered to a railroad company, or be
ing turned over to Sheridan. We sug
gest it as a temporary compromise.
[Special to the Constitutionalist)
ATLANTA-
Legislative Proceeding*.
Atlanta, January 29.—The Senate to
day acted on the case of contested elec
tion in the Ninth Senatorial District
between Senator Perry, sitting member,
and Colley, the contestant The Com
mittee on Elections, Harris Chairman,
recommended that Perry be seated.—■
Adopted.
The following resolution, by Kibbee,
was referred to the Finance Commit
tee:
Resolved. That the Treasurer be in
structed to withhold payment of bonds
and coupons sent forth and report, the
same being in the descriptive list of past
due bonds outstanding, appendix to table
F, until otherwise directed by the Gener
al Assembly.
These are bondR Bullock said were
paid and supposed to have been hypo
thecated by Clews.
Tho Governor sent in a message today
I*
By
Civil Bights
, ,. . „ . , ... noon dispatches the dead-1
The bill introduced in both branches of House still contiDued—the
the General Assembly on Monday, in res having been protracted all night
gardto a Convention proraks thrtthe Democratic members are detonhined to
Governor be authorized and required to Qlhai , 8 t all the arts of parliamentary
issue Ins proclamation, ordering an elec- strategy to prevent, if possible, the m*
tion to lie held in each and every county 0 ? Lhe eivfl ri rLta bill The Baffi-
of this state on the second Tuesday m ^ however, sav they are goings t
ApnPftext, at v/hioh the legal voters of the chanRe the rules of' the House for this
State may vote upon tho question of hold
ing n Convention, for the purpose of re
vising the State Constitution.
The second section provides that said
election shall be held at the same places
and in the same manner as elections for
members of the General Assembly are
now held in this State, the retains to be
in the same manner forwarded to the
Governor, who shall, in ease a majority
of the votes polled be “For Convention,”
issue certificate of election to the persons
chosen for delegates to said convention,
and also issue his proclamation ordering
said Convention to assemble at the Capi
tol, in the city of Atlanta, on th* first
Tuesday in July, 1875.
Section three provides that in said
election each voter shall have printed or
Waples &
COTTON AND RICE
AND GENERAL
Commission Merchants,
session so as to authorize the Speaker to
disregard motions made for delay, and
this will enable them to press the bill t<
a vote very soon. We assume that th**-
can pass this bill if they want to pass it; givihih n
and that their malignity is sufficiently Bitliii’lH, til*
aroused just now to inspire a passion for) jarLffiera! advances made on Con-
anything mischievous and disorgam gjgjiments.
zing.— Tel. db Messenger, 29th.
Jackson and Sheridan.
Senator Logan quoted the case of Gen
al Jackson, at New Orleans as justifying
Phil. Sheridan, saying: “One man was
made President for making New Orlean-
behave itself.” Snch an otter perversion
of history should not be permitted to go
unchallenged, though none of onr North
Nuv. 24, 1874.
IS 3m.
SAVAUAB,
tiEORUf.
written on his ticket “For Convention” | era exchanges have noted Logan's ridicn-
if he is in favor of holding a Convention, j lous blander. Ja kson may have been
and “Against Convention” if he is oppos- j made President for making the British
ed to holding a convention, and on the | behave themselves, but the only thing he
same ticket the names of the person orj did that could be construed into “making
persons for whom he votes for delegates New Orleans behave itself' after Sheri
to said Convention if held.
Section fonr provides that representa
tion in said Convention shall be based on
population in the ratio of one delegate
to each 4,000 inhabitants ; those counties
having less than 4,000 inhabitants being
nevertheless entitled to onedelegaie each.
That is to say, there shall be elected to
dan's style, was his arrest of a legislator
and of a Judge who issued a habeas cor
pus on behalf of the legislator. After
the battle, Jackson himself abolished
martial law, -and tho offended Judge, on
resuming his bench, had the hero arres
ted for contempt, and fined him $1,000.
With the laurels of victory fresh upon
said Convention: from the county of Ap<- 1 him, tho idol of New Orleans, Jackson
pling one delegate, Baker two, Baldwin | apffcared, acknowledged the supremacy
the conviction that, hch-nd his rffidavits ! recommending a plan of unification of
was the whole military power of the Gov- : State Colleges, but requests if the Legis
three, Banks one, Bartow four, Berrien
one, Bibb five, Brooks two, Bryan one,
Bullock one, Burke fonr, Butts two, Cal
houn one, Camden one, Campbell two,
Carroll three, Catoosa one, Charlton one,
Chatham ten, Chattahoochee two. Chat
tooga two, Cherokee three, Clark three,
Clay one, Clayton one, Clinch one, Cobb
three, Coffee one, Colquitt one, Columbia
two, Coweta four, Crawford two, Dade
one, Dawson one, Decatur four, DeKalb
three, Dodge one, Dooly two, Dougherty
three, Douglass one, Early two, Echols
one, Effingham one, Elbert two, Emanuel
two, Fannin one, Floyd four, Forsyth
two, Franklin two, Fulton eight, Gilmer
two, Glascock one, Glynn one, Greene
three, Gordon two, Gwinnett three, Hab
ersham two, Hall two, Hancock three,
Haralson one, Harris three, Halt two.
Heard two, Henry three, Houston five.
Irwin one, Jackson three, Jasper three,
Jefferson three, Johnson one, Jones two,
Laurens two, Lee two, Liberty two, Lin
coln one, Lowndes two, Lnmpkin one,
Macon three, Madison one, Marion tw®,
McDuffie one, McIntosh one, Merriweth-
er three, Miller one, Milton one, Mitchell
two, Monroe four, Montgomery one, Mor
gan three, Murray two, Mnsoogee four,
Newton four, Oglethorpe three, Paulding
two, Pickens one, Pierce one, Pike three,
Polk two, Pulaski three, Putnam three,
Quitman one, Rabnn one, Randolph three,
Richmond six, Rockdale one, Schley one,
Scriven two, Spalding three, Stewart
four, Sumter four, Talbot three, Tattnall
one, Taylor two, Terrell two, Thomas
four. Towns one, Troup four, Twiggs
two. Union one, Upson one, Walker two,
Walton thieo, Y»”uro one, Warren three,
Washington four, Wayne one, Webster
of the civil law, and paid the fine out of
his own pocket It was long years after
that Congress voted to re-imburse the
sturdy hero.—JVasville Union ami Amer-
OPPOSITE NEW MARKET.
eminent. Notwithstanding this rigorous i Isture is not prepaid! to approve the plan j one. White one, Wilcox one, Wilkes three.
md military i they will retain the committee for anoth- j Wilkinson two, Whitfield three, Worth
administration of both civil and
affairs in the subjugated district, there
were army officers who raised technical
objections to his thrilling performances.
Even Gen. Emory, bis immediate corns
mander—an old fogy who has very absurd
er year.
The following bills were introduced in
the Senate.
By Mr. Black—To amend the act
modifying the law relative to the Geor-
notions about the distinction between fP a State Lottery,
civil and military functions—strongly By Mr. Felton—To incorporate Ander-
disapproved of Merrill's energetic admin- sonville.
istration. It was Gen. Emory’s notions j By Mr DuBose—To authorize the Or-
that the functions of an officer of the ! dinary and other officers of Hancock
army did not extend to the prosecution J county to advertise in the Augnsta pa
in the courts of offenders against the pro- i pers; also, to amend the act for the bet-
visions of the Enforcement act. Merrill ! ter government of Sparta
differed. And so Merrill wrote a rephrt j By Mr. Reese—To regulate the sale
j of intoxicating liquors in Wilkes conns
tv.
The following bills passed the Senate:
! To alter and amend the mode of disburs-
repc
on the eubject which has just been sent
to the Senate with other documents.
Doubtless it will enlighten that body on
the questions involved
In this report, dated Shreveport, Oct, | >ng the State school fond; to allow the
26. this Military Justice of the peace and ! academies of Milledgevillo to be trans-
Prosecnting Major 6ays: “No civil au- j ferred to the Mayor and Council,
thoritv or machinery of any kind, local, I A bill to provide for the appointment
State, or National, has for a long time j of Public Printer was tabled,
existed here, and the community is fast j \ kill to prescribe the power of Ordi-
drifting into a state where any uucontrol- ; varies and other county officers to levy
lablo lunatic could set a match to the 1 the county tax is the special order for
My action was taken to set civil ! Monday.
functions going, and restore respect for ! Bi the House, the discussion of the bill
civil law, and to remind tho community to repeal the law exempting cotton and
that this was not a State of war.” That ' woolen manufactures was resumed. Gra-
states the case. Merrill found everything ham, of Dade, offered a substitute pro
drifting into a state where any uncontrol- j aiding that the same apply to iron manu
lable lunatic eonld set a match to the ; factures.
mine. He stood by with his spurs on l Lawton offered an amendment, provid-
and saw .them drift. Not having been e(J act does not affect capital inyes.-
invited anywhere to dinner, he had plen- ; ted or money bona fide subscribed since
ty of time to see them drift. He knew passage of the act, exempting manufac-
too that uncontrollable lunatics were tures. This amendment was favored in
scouting around with matches and liable speeches by Lawton, Black, Speer, Stal-
to touch off the mine at any moment. And lings, Peeples, Turner of Brooks, and
so he just “set civil functions going.” : Tumlin, and opposed by Baker, Turnbull,
That was all. And Gen. Emory and oth- j Hoge, and Graham of Dade. The a-
er army officers complain that ho exceed- 1 mendment was adopted by yeas, 104;
ed his duty, when all he did was “to set nays, 41.
civil functions going,” so that no “uncon 1 Tho bill, as amended, was supported
trollsble lunatic could set a match to the in speeches by Messrs. Hoge, Stallings,
mine.” What more could he do ? Or Graham, of Dade, Peeples, Speer snd
what less ? Well might the War De- Tumlin, and opposed by Messrs. Black,
part m ent telegraph to Major Merrill Lawton and Turner, of Brooks. The bill
that his action was justified. As a Major passed by a vote of—yeas, 116; nays,
he may have superiors; as a civil function 35. Mr. Baker was opposed to the a-
starter he is without a peer. \ mendment, bnt the friends of the bill
By the way, how would it do to make gave notice to reconsider. Augusta, Sa-
civil function starting a branch of educa- i vannah, Columbus and two-thirds of At-
tion at West Point? And make Major i lanta voted nay. ^
Merrill Professor of Civil Function Star- ! In the tax act, the Finance Committee
ting? We timidly suggest it | recommend that the assessment of the
° i State tax be fonr tenths of one per cent.,
j and on no pretext be increased,
i In the appropriation act, it is propo
sed to reduce the salaries of some of the
The Testimony of a Radical-
We have already been advised by tele
graph that Judge Mackay, one of the Re
publican leaders in South Carolina, who
was appointed by Governor Chamberlain
to investigate the outbreaks in Edgefield
county, has made his report. The Judge
says that no English-speaking people
have ever been subjected to an infliction
as great as the county government of
State House clerks snd clerks of the Leg*
islatnre. H.
The mushroom crop in Anglesey was so
heavy this season that for three days the
London end Northwestern Railway Com
pany were obliged to ran special trains I
Froia the Chronicle and Sentinel)
Atlanta, January 30, 1875.
In the House, Mr. Baker, of Bartow,
moved to reconsider the bill to repeal
the act exempting mannfactnres from
Edgefield county since the days when the ■ taxation, which was lost. The tax and
Saxons wore the Norman collar. He says ; appropriation acts were made the special
that tho officers of the militia havo been : order xor Tuesday next Tho following
in the habit of calling out their men ‘ bills passed tho House: To regulate
whenever a personal quarrel occurred be- me granting of liquor licenses in Wa -ih-
tween a white man and a colored i^an; i ington county. To limit and define tho
and 1'iin has been done in spite of the j jurisdiction of tho County Court of Rich
fact that the State Constitution gives to mond county. To incorporate the An
die Governor alone the power to call out' gusta Savings Institution. To amend
the militia. He recommends that the : the act regulating the mode of granting
This apportionment will give the First
District—vote, 1874, 18,697—34 delega
tes; Second District—vote 21,887—30
delegates; Third District—vote 12,876—
28 delegates; Fourth District—vote 9,126
—32 delegates; Fifth District—vote 18,-
723—36 delegates, Sixth District—vote
12,763—30 delegates; Seventh District—
vote 15,280-32 delegates; Eighth District
—vote 16,834—39 delegates; Ninth Dis
trict—vote 10,303—32 delegate®
Section five provides that in said elec
tion every person shall be entitled to
vote who is entitled to vote for members
of the General Assembly unier the Con
stitution and laws of this State; while
section six provides for the expenses of
tho Convention and authorizes the Gov
ernor to draw his warrant for the same.
Advice to a Soldier.
Attention soldier, said that Detroit
justice, after a long gaze at one of the
country’s defenders brought before
him.
“Yon have charged against the breast
work of justice, and now lets hear your
excuse for being Bbot in the neck.’
‘Fust time, yer Honor,’ pleaded the
man.
And you aro repentant?
‘I am.'
And you have made up your mind to
let whiskey severely alone after this.
‘I have.’
Well, you can right face forward march
file right and take the skirmish lino of
defense of the cause of temperance. Re
member, Joseph, that these little whisky
glasses are riffle pits along the front of
the enemy's line, and that decanters and
demijohns are strong lines of earthworks
behind his line of battle. Even invita
tions from a friend to take something
wet is a rifled fifteen pounder turned
against you, and every drunk tm abattis
in favor of Satan's position Make yonr
self a commander in the cause of cold
water, sage tea and iced milk. Send oat
a strong picket, support them with four
full companies of infantry and a field
piece. If driven in send down a regi
meat to hold the line and order up the
guns. Then tinder cover of the smoke
mass yonr force to strike his exposed left
wing, and send word down the line to
sling knapsacks, and go in with the bayo
net. You may go Joseph, bnt ponder
and reflect ou these things.'
Alabama Outrage Testimoay.
New York, January 28.—The Alabama
committee examined J. P. Southworth, of
Mobile, appointed District Attorney for
the Southern District of Alabama, by
Grant in 1869. Mr. Southworth testi
fied he went to Alabama from Illinois, in
1868—was and always had been a Repnb
lican—had spoken during the last cam
paign in Selma for the Republican State
ticket. Thought he knew the general
condition of the State as well as any body
enold. Professional duties took him to j
all parts of it. There was no county in
Alabama in which a Republican eonld not
live and advocate his political princi
ples, oven offensively, without molesta
tion.
Tho effect of sending troops to the
State was injurious and there was no time
when they were needed, or when the conn-
try would not have been better without
them. He was a carpet-bagger and Re
publican and had been a Federal officer
and was not ostracised.
A Midwinter Drought.
Strange as it may seem to ns in this
well soaked section, tho New York Bul
letin says that unless they have a change
of weather soon a stoppage of mills and
manufactures in the State of New York
and ihrougaouf. New England is inevit
able. In- and around Boston for months
past there has been occasion for the ut
most economy of water, the supply seem
ing daily to i nn short; bnt now the two
weeks of steady cold weather have frozen
up, what has been held for storage, and
the few inches that have rippled down to
these ponds or reservoirs being also solid
ice, a stoppage of Machinery, has been
necessary. In the Talley of the Connec
ticut the same observations apply. Along
the Mohawk Talley, in New York State,
a similar state of things is reported. The
small streams arc rapidly drying np, and
the mills, of course, are at a stand.
The Civil Rights Bill.
The Honse caucus last night resolved
to instruct the Judiciary Committee to
report a civil rights bill in regular order.
This takes the control from Butler, and
staves action off for two weeks. Th«
best parliamentarians say there is machin
ery to pnsh it over to the 4th of March.
Rmk, Witk BnH (
$9 OO per day.
Fine, Largo and Airy Rooms always in
Readiness for Families and C >m*nercial
Travelers.
Oae #f the Fiaest Krstauraoto ia
the Seath attached to the House.
tdTPassengers and Baggage carried
Free of Charge to the House.
JOHN BRESNAN, Prop'r.
•^Caittiox.—Be sure you take the
Omnibus with JOHN BRESNAN S
name on it, as Drummers at the Depot
will trv to deceive von.
Jfor. $», 1-74 3* ’y
JdaT OLIYERi
DEALER 15
Paints, Oils, Turpentine,
Varnishes, Glass,
AND All PUNTERS' AND GLAZIERS'MATERIALS,
Artists’ Colors and Brushc*,
SASHES, BLINDS AND DOORS,
Home and Sign Painting,
Gilding and Glazing.
MIXED PAINTS OF ALL COLORS
AND SHADES.
No. 5, Whitaker Street,
Cor.ffB.yLs~, SAVANNAH, (■!.
CM. 13,1874. 12'm.
Cut This Out!!
m. \v. m:ibi k(;i:i:
^ccr.oaartr to Fred. Goohman, having refitted tho
the Store
ISO Bryan Street, 180
SAVANNAH, GKO CIA,
b«t*rco BtrnarH nd JpfFrrMn Street*. (Opposite J.
(i, W.U.) offers to the public in eeiier*! and t lie form
er p.trone of the old established Jewelry Store in par-
tienUr, . fine usortment ia
GOLD AND 8ILVER WATCHES:
Jewelry of all description.. Cloak*, Silvei sad Plated
Wore. Coll and examine.
Bepuriag of Watch*., Clock, and Jewelry, attended
to with tho xrestrst core sod dispatch. Sneciai at
tention of country Watch-Makers, is called tii a Rond
Stock of Material., which will alway. bo kept on
hood.
DM. 2>, 1874. 33 3m.
Fish, Oysters, Fruit, 4c.
Wisconsin Senator.
Washington, January 27.—In tho Wis
consin election there is no compromise
between the supporters of Carpenter and
tho bolters.
THE NEWYORK TRIBONE
"The I.eodiWR Amorims Nowapapor.’’
Founded by HORACE GREELET.
In the reoeut eleot on* the people hare declared in
favor of bune.iv m politic* itinl ludepe denoe in jour-
caliem THE TRIBUNE, which year, azo declared
that it wat) out and never more wna>d be a party organ,
claim, the verdict, a.* the popular vindication of it*
course, and recoxuixe* in the result the voice of the i
people for retorrn and integrity in government, for cao- i
dor and independence among newspaper. During -
the campaign w ich has just closed THE TRIBUNE
has fully maintained its right to the title of the j
‘Leading American Newspaper.’’ This poaitiou it |
has earned and retaius lor the following, among other
GEO. A. HUDSON. - M. M. SULLI VAN.
HUDSON & SULLIVAN,
Dealers ia
PRODUCE,
Fireigi ib4 Danestie Frails,
FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS,
Shrimps, Turtle, Terrapin, Same, Ae
Prompt attention given to country orders.
IM Day Street, BTarlh aide,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Oct. 3 .1874. 11 tm
GEO. W. ALLE \ :
Importer of nod Dea’er in
China, Glass and Crockery,
TZH AH9 WILLOW-WARE,
HOUSE-FURMSHIN G GOODS
of every desoripiion, Keroeeue Oil Lamps. Chimneys,
dfco., /he.
Xfo. 198 Broughton Street,
SAVASNAH, GA.
•Den. 28th. 1874. 23 2m.
Biiahlishrd ISOS,
Row the
Grant Oaar
Votes.
Make
Governor shall at once issue an order
disbanding the entire militia force of
Edgefield county, composed entirely of
negroes, and that he shall send a trust
worthy person to receive the arms and
bring them to Colombia to the State Ar
mory. It is stated that the Governor
will, at an early date, issue an order dis
banding both the militia and rifle clnbs
in Edgefield comity.
The Northeast Georgian (Athens), an
nounces the death of Oliver H Prince,
Esq., at Decatur, on the 25th inst. Mr.
Prince was a native of Athens, and a son
of Oliver H. Prince, Esq., the eminent
.swyer snd compiler of “Prince’s Din
^est”
The Thomasville Times soys that many
of the negroes who left for Arkansas some
time ago, with bright anticipations, have
eturned with their underjsws in a hang
ing position.
Congressman Smith, of the Second
District, ia quite ill of pneumonia in At
lanta.
M’MiLLAJr’« Succumb.—The Democrat-
e Executive Committee of the Ninth
Jongreseional District will meet in
Gainesville on tbs 9th of February. It
s understood Governor Smith will or’er
P. KansoU ha« bora sleeted j for the oonrejaooa qfthucarop to fl*» teg-1 m election forjfe wmcww MbBtfl ■*
liquor licenses of Richmond ooonty. To
prohibit the sale of liquors in Pntnani
county outside of Eatontou, except with
the consent of five of the nearest free
holders. The bill to exempt $200 worth
of furniture from taxation provoked con
siderable debate, the Finance Committee
having recommended it do not pass.
The report was supported in speeches
by Messrs. Anderson of Cobb, Warner
and Warren, and opposed by Messrs,
Allred, McKinley, Hamilton and Peeples.
During the debate the Honse adjourned.
If the bill passes it will be a loss of $85,-
000 revenue, and it now seems the cry of
“Widow and Orphan” will eany the day.
A resolntion by Mr. McKinley’ anthoriz
ing the Governor to purchase fifty bound
volumes of the Southern Recorder news
paper was agreed to. Abont fifty mem
bers have gone home to spend Snndar.
The Presidents of a number of Sonth
era Railroads we in secret sessien here
to-day* Object not known.
The Atlanta News rays: There iaa
probability of Gen G. T. Anderson leaving
us before long and going to Egypt The
General is now in correspondence with
the Egyptain authorities, and may take
service m the army of tbs khedive, in
which, by (he way, ore a large number of
ex-Confederate officers. We wonld re
Ti
ta MRiM »U wbfr taw*
The report of the Labor Council of
Boston, just issued, is interesting as
showing how votes are made in districts
where government navy yards are situa
ted. This report shows that on the day
of the election in November last there
wore 2,450 nron on tho books of the
Charlestown (Mass.) navy yard, all draw
ing full pay. Work there was none. But
these men voted, and now 250 men con
stitute the force, and these are employed
in taking care of government property,
as nothing is being done in the construc
tion department. There was nothing
being done in the construction depart
ment in November, but men were paid
by the government in order to me them
as voters.
It pabluhe. ail th« new?, earlier, mere fully, and
more intelligently then any other paper.
It ic.Uts on peace throughout the whole eoantry,
the right of local eelf-goTernmeat, and. the protectioa
of all claeee. in the exercise of their juri and legal
right*.
It advocate, ooofidence and good feeing between
North and Booth, and labor? for aa bond and abiding
reconciliation.
It maintain* fairnexelaod candor toward all public
men and quest ion*, and dignity and cotuteey toward
ae.oci.tea and rival*.
It pnbii-he* acientific new*, report*, diaeaaaion* and
discoveries to a degree of fuiln: ns and accuracy never
before attained by any piper. {
It give* every week tenor more columns of the
moot carefully prepared agricultural mutter during
the year, much moie in the aggregate than the entire
content* of any other agricultural pub.iaa tion, and
the whole forming a department of which an eminent
agricultural editor say* : ‘ It ha* done more to make
good farmer* than any other influence which ever ex-
Isted ”
It ha. published a eerie* ot wientifla and literary 1
extra, which have met a wider sale and more em-
phatio popular approval than any .iniHar publication
of the kind.
Say V th*
COTTON FAC 1 OR
—AND —
General Commission Merchant,
•4 Bay Street. Cp-Main, a A VANNAH, CIA.
IT* Prompt attoatioa given to all consignment*.
Oct. S, 1874. II 6 n
(H. P. HlCKFoklJM?
(9aecnsor to Blair Sl Bickford;
DEALER IN
[Doors, Sashes,
A fraud of a philosopher rays : “Msa
goes out into the wide, wide world to hot-
tie aad die ; and women stays at home tc
make him glad of it.” A fraud of a philw
oeopher indeed. He should have said
that man goes out into the wide, wide
world to drink and get drunk, rad women
etays at home to make him sorry for it
—-V. Y. Evening Mail.
Flood at Faria.
Paris, January 27.— 1 There is a greet
flood here, and steamboats cannot
under the bridges.
Exactly !—The New York Tribune
thus speaks to the Republican Con
grera :
“Go ou, if you choose, end complete
the outrage. Sanction all that the Presi
dent hoe done. Seat Pinohbaek and thank
Sheridan. The people will settle with
Kellogg and all the rest of too by-snd-by.
Meanwhile this report of theraboommit-
tee passes into history as the mast terri
ble indictment ever brought against any
political fraction fay its own omrabere,
and there are many of you w$o wfll juod
ftfn~ ‘ ~
What Ik. taaiktra Pm*
Tribaa*.
We consider fbc Tribune a very valuable paper.—
(Afheville (N.C ) Ciii.ee
The New York Tribune, in i>* faithful aad search
ing exposure of ouiritgi einodcr* ou Alabama aad
uther stare* hit* done immense servico to truth *ad j
jaMioe —(Macon (da.) lelegiaph sad Meworger.
We thauk the New York Tribune for it. manly and
powerful word* iu demanding justice for the people of
Alabama.—[Montgomery (Ala ) Now*.
Th* best newspaper in Die world i* tho N>-w York
Tribone. It combine* the dignity and aapocity of th*
London Time* with the representative new. enter
prise oi Arne, ica.—[Ii..U.moro Bulletin.
A pnpertoL »d.-n- r e ! for r-s indep?Dd“PC« of tone
tad it* reliability of n"ws.—[Episcopal Methodist,
Baltimore, Md.
Any one wr.o want* a firet cla*. paper wbicu keep*
fully up with he turn* lu literalure. science aad art
should subscribe for tho Tribune.—(ijpartaaburg (b.
C.) Carotin* Spartan.
Tho imperial sheet of tho world, the New York
Tribune -(The Jacksonville (Fin ) New Sooth.
We regard it a* tho best paper, «D in all, publiofaod
ia the United Stare. -{Momstow. (Teen ) Oa.ette
To day the New Yora Tribune i. uudoobtedly the
flnt of American newspaper.; whatovm may b*
Mid of it. rivals, it h»* dearly woo preeedonoa of
all, and very creditably does it represent tho journal
iaw of the country. While dealing with all the topic*
oomiag within the rouge of a nowquper, tho Tribase
nake* a speciality ot it* great subject of agriculture.
It become* therefor, a matter of vital importance to
the country that the direction ct the idea* ot thia
vart mction ehoold be in able and oonsciencioa* band*,
aad a matter for congratulation that the tenner’s
newspaper par oice lonoe ha. the high standing of
therabaoe!-[The(N- Y ) Booth.
Tho New York Tribune i. doing a great work iu
popularising Sci-no, by the publication of cheap si-
Uni to that groat daily —[Oar Moothly. Cl iatoa, 3. C
American newspaper enterprise ia probably at (hi*
rime more tolly illustrated ia the dailv issue, of th.
New York Tribone than in any other Journal.—[Wil
aungton (N. C I Star, .
Uocqooled in culture, dignity, comprehensive
breadth, potwh of xproarion and intallectaali fottar-
ad by no party ties, bolted indecencies of speech, and
hysteric with no wild sensation.-- [Raleigh (N.C)
Agricultural Journal.
Barely the paper ha* maintained recces.folly the
high popularity which bo bequeathed it Ui.d tan nums
of aa ably eondaete<l and independent joe n*i. whirr
it bow dss.rve. even more justly than at any time
i
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SASH DOORS, STORE DOORS, fj
[Newel Posts, Blind Trimmings, Sash^
* Weights and Cord, Hend and »
Side Lights. K
IC9 A 171 lay Street, §
SAVANNAH, CJA.I
»fy- 1
Oct 8.1874.
DWIGHT L. ROBERTS,
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
142 Bay Street,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Liberal CASH ADVANCES made on coil-
■dgament*
BAGGING AND TIER fur aale at tho lowest
market rate*.
Prompt attention given to all business.
Oct. 8, 1874. 11 Gm
daring Mr. Greeley’, life.—[Po ersborg (Vo.)
and Appeal.
YRR1K1 OF TB1 2RXBUWR.
Dolly, by iMii. $10 par year i Sami Weakly. $3p*>
year i fiv* eopfos f 2 50 each
Weekly, ft per year; ten enpiea, $135 oaeh
tw.-tycopies ft 10each.
QT Footage ia oil cores it paid by the TRIBUNE
aad sapor* oddromed to ao»h subscriber, wi bont ex
charge.
Agents wanted in ovary town, to whom IbeTal eo.
immimtre. will bo pa d.
Specimen ccpleo, cbeutuiu and patai free- Ad
WAGON SH«*P,
. LL work left iamv ebonmwffl bedoaei