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' w W-WILUAM E. SMITH,
f"", ,Slvt-PIIIL. T. COOK.
T a nltrict-HENRY E. HARRIS.
rM, \ , -..MILTON A. CANDLER.
r:f ‘l writ/-JAMES H. BLOUNT.
id-1- N. TRAMMELL.
Ti 1ivnVI-ALEX. II. STEPHENS.
* ■' V t art-O \RNETT MCMILLAN.
Xintli l nsn " 1
state senator—FIRST district.
Kl FI'S E. LESTER.
Atlairs iu (iconna.
The rattlesnake record of tho Hines-
vine IhrnUe reaches half n column this
ee] . 0uc 0 f these reptiles was over six
long ami ha.l rattles enough to fiU a
collar hor.
Tiulne H. c. Parker has been unam-
m0 ' s iy nominated for the Legislature by
the Democrats of Liberty county.
The baptist Church at Jesup is nearly
completed.
Graham, on the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad, is to have a new steam saw mill.
The village already has a steam grist mill.
H Carroll county man thinks he has
discovered perpetual motion. This kind
of tldug is generally tho preliminary to a
sojourn" at Dr. Green’s chateau, near
Jlilledgeville.
Carrollton, being the terminus of a
railroad, now wants a military company.
A shaft has been sunk in the copper
mine uear Villa ltica.
, Griffin boasts of a colored policeman.
Judge Speer has accepted the nomina
tion of the Democrats of Spalding county
for the Legislature.
Carroll county is raising a huge crop
of sorghum.
A Tattnall county man killed a deer
weighing one hundred and forty pounds
last week.
Two notorious convicts escaped from
the jail at HhiesvQlc tho other day. There
Is some mystery in regard to the means
employed to liberate themselves.
At any rate, Pierce county will make
good crops of sugar-cane and potatoes.
The Hinesrille Gazette says: We have
yet to learn of a single county meeting
expressive of the sentiment of the peo
ple, which has not taken strong ground
agaiust the payment of the fraudulent
Bullock bonds. The truth of the matter
is that the people are determined not to
listen this unjust debt upon tho State;
and the bondholders can not raise money
enough to carry their point. The next
Legislature will decide by an overwhelm
ing majority'that Georgia will not sus
tain Bullock’s rascality.
The same paper has this- Hon. It. E.
Lester was nominated for Senator of the
First District by the convention held at
Xo. Central Railroad, last Wednesday,
on the fourth ballot. Although some of
the delegates from the country were of
the opinion that Bryan or Effingham was
entitled to the candidate, yet they wil
lingly gave up their preferences and
united upon Mr. Lester, whose record
for the past four years in the Georgia
Legislature 1ms been so brilliant. If Mr.
Lester is re-elected, of which we have
very little doubt, we hope to see him
grace the chair of President of the Sen
ate, for which position he is eminently
qualified.
Carrollton Timex: Mr. Wm. White,
who resides m the viciuity of Bowdon, is
in some respects the most remarkable
man in Carroll county. He is now in tho
nmety.si.uk year of his age, aud in pos
session of his mental faculties to a sur
prising degree. A resident of the county
for three quarters of a century, his life
las been spent in limits so circumscribed
that all tho wonderful achievements of
the age-the steamboat, the railroad, the
telegraph, tho printing press—are to. him
an the baseless fabric of a vision. He has
I' -ming all his life, aud last year
illy planted and gathered his
rent to mill regularly, and per-
vd ih various duties pertaiuiug to
He has been married three
1 has reared a family of eleven
1 but one of whom are living,
' having passed the allotted
■ years and ten.
Florida Affairs.
1 - :n of $2,500 is to be speut in rc-
( ~ ; (he Court House at Madison.
' Vest, a colored man who is
£r n to most of the citizens of Talla-
1 Lv ’ was stabbed in the neck a. few'
A vs ago at Marianna by a man named
k&t Ciemeus.
the proposed amendments to
(institution to be submitted to the
1 »f Florida there are as follows, viz:
sons of the Legislature to be held
- idly The law of impeachment is
' b d. The bond law is changed. The
action of the courts changed.
' (ie 1’uUtka Herald says that the last
V ’ SI of faces seen m those parts was the
ooderful exploit of a huge grasshopper
flag a full size spring chicken ont of
6 bout v.rrd a day or t.wo since.
Tue Honticello Advertiser says that the
“Pcs f’kich were entertained a month*
there would he a very good
“ tlon ci ’ep, are now being dispersed,
^recent dry spell parched up a good
plants, and the caterpillar on a
S°°il many pi aces ra gg e( j the plant
7 much. It. i s certain that the yield
not be as large as expected, by one-
l, tr ' au< * the crop will be got out and
Market sooner than usual.
e St. Augustine Press has received
rices from Tocoi, that on the 7th inst,
miclred ‘ ar< k new r rtm ra il trad
bom o!”' ‘ U1 is i" !st!e there. People
0, “ e "bole surrounding neighbor
ly ir t!lere Eazin B and wondering,
b U • rty i‘ an< ia are actively employed
toot/" 18 tlle ’ ron > aa <l about as many
engaged in other work, such as
The cars ' building the wharf, &c.
iron tofl°° Uer LuCy bright, which brought
and th cars ~ oae of the latter a freight
wheel, * i° tller a fiat with spikes,
Two 4 C ’’ Was lyin B at the wharf.
'fffTe schooners from Philadelphia
Y^' 011 way there with iron,
la, the rriTe<1 al! ^ Ja iron Decessfl ry to
arrive,; 10 ^ * ,J St. Augustine will have
irarnl- t j 000 ’’ Ilom being a quiet little
i.Wi , * “ r “ the smoke went right
6llty feetl as now really a
pStjg.-," 1 ' destined to grow in im-
J * H * ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1874.
cougolisa'.
Affairs in the Down-Trodden Slate.
Colombia, S. C., Sept. 13, 1874.
Having spent the last week here in the
Capitol of the down-trodden (bnt still
struggling) State of South Carolina, amid
the tnrmoil and bustle of the Radical Con
vention, and the interesting proceedings
of tho Tax Payers of the State, I think
it may be interesting to your readers to
have a brief account of what the condi
tion of things here is. The Republican
Convention met on Tuesday, 8th, to nomi
nate State and Congressional candidates.
The great fight was expected to be for
the Governor’s nomination, between the
incumbent, Moses, and D. H. Chamber-
lain the late Attorney General of the
State. Notwithstanding the rascality and
odious conduct of Governor Moses, whose
administration has justly alarmed the Re
publican party North as well as South—
the conservative sentiment of the State is
evefl more opposed to the election of Mr.
Chamberlain. He is looked on as a gentle
man of ability and culture, bnt he has been
too closely identified with the administra
tion of the late Gov. R. K. Scott, and as
Attorney General was cognizent of, if not
the actual adviser of the different bond
and scrip frauds committed, by which the
debt of the State was increased twelye
million dollars and nothing to show for it.
It is believed, too, that he is!the attorney
of most of tho fraudulent bond-holders
for tho purpose of having those debts
validated. A significant fact is that he
has been warmly supported by honest
John J. Patterson, United States Senator,
the prince of carpebbaggers, whoso in
fluence has turned out valuable and potent.
After an exciting contest for the control
of the organization, the Chamberlain-
Pattersou ring were unexpectedly de
feated in their candidate for Chairman,
Congressman R. B. Elliott, by C. H.
■Wilder, Postmaster of this city, a colored
man respected by all, and whom, it is
said, the efforts to secure by influence
were unavailing. Notwithstanding this
defeat the ring party continued sanguine,
having secured for their candidate, Cham
berlain, seventy-one votes in advance as
they claimed, and as the result has proved
correctly. After nearly five days
spent in wrangling and waiting on
the report of the Committee on Cre
dentials, they proceeded lost night to a
vpte, when Mr. Chamberlain received 72
votes, thus securing the Republican nom-
instion for Governor. Judge Green re
ceived 40 and Winsmoth 10. The tax
payers of the State met here on Thurs
day, and it soon became known that with
a spirit of harmony they were determined
that if the Republicans nominated a
proper and honest man that could be re
lied on that, they, the representatives of
the capital of the State, would endorse
and sustain him, bnt that if any of the
ring, or any other objectionable man,
were nominated they wonld reassemble
and nominate a man for Governor. An
Executive Committee of two prominent
men, from each Congressional District,
with authority to arrange for this, were
appointed.
One striking thing was clear to the
most casual observer, that was the strong
conservative feeling amongst the colored
people. With the impressions I had had of
the people of South Carolina, I was mnch
struck with this. There was an evident
desire to break off from the control of
their carpet-hag leaders and unite their
fortunes again with their true friends,
the people of the country, and had it not
been for the seductive arguments of
“Honest John” and the adroit incendiary
harangues of Cardoza and a few others of
his stripe, a decided breach would have
been made and with a strong and friendly
union of the white and colored clement
the carpet-bagger would have keen forced
to take back seats. Strong and earnest
appeals to the colored people have been
made by Majl Delany, Congressman Cain
and others, who truly told them that they
were responsible for all the ruin and dis
grace brought on the party and on the
State, and that they were now on their
trial before the whole countiy, and that
unless they amended their course they
would have many of their present privi
leges taken from them. This advice had
considerable effect and manifested itself
by a strong effort to elect Judge Green,
whom all parties concede to be an honest,
upright man (if he is a Republican.) The
opposition to Chamberlain was violent
and open. The better class of the
colored members, Lee, Jones, Johnson,
and Wilder, denounced and opposed him
to' the last, and the general belief is that
to-morrow a large and respectable number
will boll aud nominate Judge Green. If
so, his election is certain, as he will have
the earnest support of the conservatives
and tax payers. Governor Moses, who is
very popular with the ignorant colored
men, voted for Judge Green, and no
doubt sees that his only hope of redeem
ing himself ia by turning over a new leaf
and help the good people to restore the
State to prosperity, by defeating the
ring. There is some sympathy for
Moses, even amongst the conservatives,
as he is considered to have been made the
scape-goat of those who led him on and
helped bring the State to her present
condition, aud then turned against
him, leaving him the bag to hold.
No matter what is said of Gov. Moses, he
can say, as General Butler said, he might
be called a rascal, but “nobody can say
he is a fool." Now the wise prophets all
say Moses will yet join the Conservatives
and triumph over his bitterest enemies,
who are the Patterson-Chamberlain ring.
Many significant facts go to show the
general disposition of the colored people
to unite in friendly relations with the
whites. CoL J. G. Gibbes, an old citizen
of this place, now a resident of Florida,
and who seems to have stood higher in
the affections of the colored people than,
perhaps, any man of the State, is here on
a visit, and was enthusiastically received
and urged by them to aid them with his
counsel and advice, and would he have
allowed *it, would have pushed him
forwnrd as a candidate for Governor.
For the good of his State he should
return to it; men like him can save
tho State yet. Another sign of the
dawn of brighter days for the old
Palmetto State was the conservative and
moderate tone of the colored delegates.
With the exception of the harangue of
Cordoza, State Treasurer, there was
nothing to excite ill feeling; even -Red
Hot Jones,” of Georgetown, though irre
pressible, was moderate in his views.
Should the dissatisfied minority of the
Convention not bolt, ns is expected, and
nominate Judge Green, the tax payers
will put ont a standard bearer to contest
the election with Chamberlain, and Gen.
Kershaw will likely be the man; and with
the present disposition of the colored
people, who want peace and quiet, and
to be free from the bondage of their
present carpet-bag owners, he will obtain
a handsome support from the colored
Republicans. As it now stands, it is the
officeholders against the people—“the
ins against the outs.” “May w-> have
peace.” Geoeqian.
The Ultramontane newspapers hope
that Father Hyacintke will return to the
Roman Catholic Church, but his last let
ter gives no reason for such an anticipa
tion. In it he declares that his resigna
tion is perfectly consistent with his pre
vious conduct, and that he .is equally op
posed to the infallibility of the State and
to that of the Pope, to the supremacy of
the people in the chnTch and to that of
the priest. He intends neither to aban
don the cause nor to quit Geneva, but
feels himself at liberty to preach the gos
pel* and dispense tho sacred mysteries.
He in too well acquainted -with the intel
ligence and true liberalism of Geneva to
believe that a society more political than
religious will he durable. The Cathono
Church can neither perish nor continue
what the passing triumph of Ultramon-
tanes has made it. The question is not
one of creating a. new church or a new
i, but of accomplishing a reform
To the Colored People of Georgia.
No State or nation can be happy and
prosperous without being governed by
wisdom and virtue. When vice, preju
dice and passion gains and exercises the
control, as in the States of Florida, South
Carolina and-Mississippi, neither life nor
property is safe; and it is as impossible
for the inhabitants to be tranquil and
joyous as for the fig tree to produce fruit
in the dead of winter. All reasonable
men of both races in these States are
fully aware of it, but a set of the most
miserable creatures that walk the earth
have, under false pleas and promises, se
duced the colored people into voting for
them as often as opportunity presented,
until ruin and misery is the result. The
same class of men had control of Georgia
at one time, but fortunately it has been
redeemed. Some are still skullang around
with lies on their lips, enticing the color
ed people to vote for them again.
In some counties they have managed
to induce colored persons to run for the
State Legislature in order to gain the
influence of that class of people.
Is it good policy for the colored people
to send men of their own.color to Atlanta
to legislate for them when they can have
no influence for good, but might be the
means of doing harm to their own race?
What can ten or twelve colored men do
in the Legislature against several hundred
white legislators? Nothing.
Since our party has been in power in
Georgia it has done more for the colored
people than they could reasonably expect,
because the colored people sided with
and aided the men who did so mnch mis
chief here They elevated men to office
who came near bankrupting the State-r-
men who misused the school-fund, the
chief of whom, Bullock, left the State and
dare not return for fear of the just judg
ment of an injured people.
Instead of using our powerto crush out
and injure the colored man, we have
passed good laws under which all good
people can well delight to dwell in peace
and harmony. The Radicals pretended
to have schools, bnt instead of paying
teachers, they used the school money for
other purposes, and the Democratic party
has paid those teachers and established
schools for tho colored people throughout
the State. Generally wise and good men
were elected, who knew it to be to the
interest of the white race to do tho colored
race all the good within their power.
The question arises whether it is best
for the colored people to vote for good
and educated Democrats, who know what
to do when they get to Atlanta, or col
ored men who know nothing about law
making, and can do no good to their own
race or the white race? Does it not
seem to be very foolish for them to moke
the race issue with us in Georgia, when
at best they cannot elect twenty mem
bers' to the Legislature ? Is it not reason
able to believe that if they come up and
vote for our regular Democratic nominees
that in the future, as in tho past, we will
continue to legislate for the interests of
their race ?
Is it not time for them to ask them
selves whether or not the very liberty
which they have may prove a stumbling
block unto thorn, because they make a
bad use of it in voting for carpet-bag
gers, scalawags and men of their own
race, who may be honest, but lack the
wisdom and experience to know what to
do as legislators ? Is it not better to vote
for learned and good white Democrats for
Congress and the Legislature ? Let the
intelligent consider the matter and lead
the ignorant in the right direction.
Cato.
Joe Brown ami Civil Rights.
[Georgia Correspondence Courier-Journal]
Joe Brown has once more taken tlie
back track. He is out this morning in a
long letter opposing the civil rights bilL
After fourteen years spent in the interests
of the Abolitionists and the Radicals,
after defeating the Confederate armies
and overthrowing the Confederate Gov
ernment, after inviting the reign of car
pet-baggers and native political harlots,
and encouraging them in their villamies,
this man now makes an effort to get back
into the Democratic party. He talks like
a patriot and acts like a traitor. But the
people of Georgia will say to him as Na
poleon did to Carnot: “I have known
you too late.”
No true Georgian now tffinks of this
man Brown without a curse on the lip or
in the heart. He is stilJ, however, a
very dangerous man, and has not in the
least lost his ancient cunning, for we saw
him at Athens the other day championing
and electing a President of the State
University, and doing no less a thing
than making friends with his ancient and
most bitter enemy, Bob Toombs, in or
der to carry bis point. Up to that day it
was thought that a recommendation
from Joe Brown would stultify anybody,
but in this case it secured Tucker’s elec
tion.
Personally, Joe Brown is still treated
with marked indignity everywhere he
travels in the State. Ostracised socially,
denied the civilities of a gentleman, his
presence under many a roof would no
more be tolerated than a woman of the
town. His publications, like this one,
are invariably followed by the exclama
tions, “What is he after now ?” “What
scheme has he on foot to again betray
us ?” “I would not trust that man in any
position whatever.”
The youth of America might study his
character with profit. Naturally he has
the intellect of one of the first men of
his time. His speeches and writings will
thus read to present and future genera
tions : But in his composition there is
one great, essential and absolutely
necessary ingredient wanting—honor!
He will deseit any cause, any people, any
party, any nation, in the hour of misfor
tune. He had the sagacity to foresee the
downfall of the Confederacy full three
years before it did fall, and at once com
menced making his preparations to fall
upon his feet. He did not desert to the
enemy from a line of battle, for any com
mon soldier can do that; but all his cun
ning and remarkable energies were
brought into requisition to carry enough
traitors over with him to make treason
respectable.
After accomplishing the ruin of his
country, he would have reaped his reward
hnd it not been for one little peculiarity
in the character of Gen. Grant. That
man has sense enough to know that in
tellects such a* Gov. Brown’s would
eclipse him, and he, therefore, will never
put such men in subordinate positions.
The poet had such men as the Browns of
this world in his mind’s eye when he ut
tered the immortal prayer—
“Is there no chosen curse, some seciet thunder
hidden in the stores of Heaven,
To smite the wretch who owes his greatness to
his country’s ruin?”
The Bishop of Mayence has explained
the reasons why the Catholic Church
in Germany could not take part in the
celebration of the anniversary of Sedan.
The festival, he says, is not promoted by
the entire people, but by a party which
falsely represents itself as the representa
tive of the German nation, and is taking
the lead in the struggle against Christiani
ty and Catholicism. German Catholics,
moreover, have been held responsible for
the attempt of a disreputable^individual
Prayer for the German people is, how-
ever, always a duty, and the Bishop di
rected his clergy on the adversary itself
or the following Sunday to pray f or the
restoration of thatintemal unity without
which external unity is only an empty
show.
A Bbaye, Bul<}& Convict.—Six or eight
head of wild Texas steers broke out of a
lot adjoining tho penitentiary yesterday,
and for a short time created a panic m
that vicinity. Two of the vicions beasts
pnrsneda young lady on her way home
from school, and wonld have undoubtedly
gored and trampled her to death, but for
the timely assistance of a negro convict,
named Stephenson; who, at the risk of
his own life, headed off the infuriated
cattle and threw the young girl over a
high paling fence into a. yard, whence
she escaped into a residence near by.—
Jefferson
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND
MENT.
An Extra Session of the. Leeialatnre
Needed.
[Atlanta Dailj News.]
"We regret to say that farther investi
gation into the allegations against the
pending constitutional amendment reveals
the fact that it is altogether nnsatisfac-
tory- -The amendment forbids the pay
ment of all railroad bonds indorsed by
Rnllock which had been declared illegal
by the Legislature. It seems, hpwever,
that one million five hundred thousand
dollars’ worth of these bonds were issued
to the Brunswick and Albany Railroad,
indorsed by Treasurer N. L. Angier, and
not by Bullock, and that these bonds are
left entirely out of the amendment. Again,
there are numerous bonds of the State
in the possession of Henr, Clews and
others, - aggregating nearly two millions
of dollars, which have been declared
illegal by the Legislature, but which are
not touched by the amendment. All
these are in addition to the $1,880,000
of State bonds issued to the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad, for which a second
mortgage was taken by the State. The
bonds indorsed by Treasurer Angier were
the first issued to the railroad. When
the rascally B ulloek-Kimball gang discov
ered that the incorruptible Treasurer was
kicking in the traces and wonld not con
sent to become a party to their swindling
schemes, the pliant Legislature took away
the power of indorsing the bonds from
Dr. Angier and vested it in Bollock.
Thus it was that after the'million and a-
half the name of the Treasurer does not
appear on any of the bonds.
We confess to feeling the deepest
mortification at this discovery. At the
same time we cannot accuse either Sena
tor Hillyer or any other member of the
Legislature of designedly omiting these
fraudulent bonds. Still it must be ad
mitted that the omission exhibits gross
carelessness, as well as ignorance of the
true position of affairs. Here are some
five millions of fraudulent bonds not in
cluded in the amendment, which every
body in the State supposed had been in
cluded.
This frightful error should be rectified
at once. It is of tbe utmost importance
to the State that an amendment to the
Constitution, complete and sweeping in
its prohibition of ths payment of all
fraudulent bonds, shall be submitted to
the people next year.
We, therefore, call upon *Gov. Smith
to summon the Legislature to meet in
extra session next xnpnth, and perform
properly the work which has been so
bunglingly done. No consideration of
expense should deter the Governor from
performing this plain duty. A session of
ten days will suffice for the passage of
such an amendment as will include- any
bond fraudulently issued. We can afford
to spend ten or fifteen thousand dollars
to remove the possibility of our having
in the ‘future to pay five millions. We
are sure of the present Legislature; we
are moderately sure of the Legislature to
be elected this fall, but we are not sure of
electing two-thirds of tite Legislature to be
chosen in 187G.
It will not do for us to run the risk of
having to pay the five millions of dollars
by Congressional enactment, which is part
of tho bond ring programme. If we de
clare these bonds null aud void by con
stitutional enactment, before Congress
can interfere, the United States Govern
ment will not dare to interfere. If we
delay, trouble is likely to ensue.
Altogether, we see but oue solutiou for
the blunder, and that is in on extra ses
sion of the Legislature, and we trust that
all our cotemporaries, favorable to tbe
amendment, will join ns in urging upon
the Governor to summon both bodies at
once. A new bill, passed in October by
tho present Legislature, and by the next,
or in Januaiy, can go before the people
os early as next Marcb, and before the
spring is over every fraudulent bond can
be buried beyond resurrection.
RECONCILIATION AND PEACE.
Au Honest Confession from n
Editor,
[New York Tribune.]
While the great controversy wi
which ended in a sanguinary
astrous to the South, and
densome in all ways to the
we were discussing slavery,
its economy, and its expedii
not easy for us to estimate ’
kindly spirit the real merits
society. It is not too late
in many respects it was ge;
refined, and accomplished;
marked by a warm hospi
different character of Nortl
ly permitted here; and that tbe best peo
ple of the slave States were environed by
difficulties hard to be overcome, and sub
jected to criticism which severely tried
the temper. It would have been strange
indeed if the planter bad seen
slavery with the eyes of a Massa
chusetts philanthropist. The battle wi
too bitter a one to permit us
be just, or considerate, or charitab!
When we were told of the compensate '
of slavery we refused to believe in tin
when we were asked to contemplate
redeeming features of the institution,
shut our eyes and fiercely prof
against compromise; when we were
of Southern gentlemen of knightly
tore, and of Southern ladies, their
and courtesies, we turned away to
the horrors of the barracoon, and to
over the bitterness and the bereave!
of servitude. From the inevitable si
gle which followed we emerged victi
ous, and we can afford to bo fair. The
loss of slavery was, in itself, a gain to all
concerned, but the pecuniary ruin whi :h
overtook so. many accustomed only to
ease and affluence, accompanied, as it
was, by a radical change in social rela
tions, wts a hard trial to the strong,
and utter wretchedness to the weak.
From this the whole country suffered.
The best people of the South, to
whom the work of reconstruction might
have been most safely and success
fully confided, fell into a condition of
morbid inertia and surrendered them
selves to an unresisting despair. So the
field was left to a class of unprincipled
and hungry adventurers who perverted
the minds of the negroes, took possession
of the State governments, and guiding
them into a vortex of debt and insol
vency, completed the work of the war by
instituting a taxation which, in most
cases, was liardly better than confisca
tion itself. When we ask why so many
of the best people of the South continue
sulky, indolent, and utterly disheartened,
it will do no harm to put ourselves in
their places, and to inquire of ourselves
if we too, under similar conditions, would
have bated no jot of heart or of hope?—
if we conld have been much in love with
a government which meddled only to
mismanage and derange ?
Of course we cannot go on in this way
forever. The Republic will not always
submit to a blundering or to an unfor
giving policy, persisted in merely that
the prosperity and power of a party may.
be perpetuated. Bnt the Southern man
who sits with folded bauds and a bent
brow, bewailing the past, swearing at the
present, hopeless of the future, only
doing sometimes what'had better be left
undone, is but playing mto the hands of
those who do not love him, however much
they may Jove what little money he has
A RETROSPECT.
How .Should the Sooth be Treated ?
[From the New York Herald.]
In .December, 18G5, a report was read
in Congress on. - the condition of the
Southern States, the disposition evinced
by the citizens recently in rebellion, and
the most, advisable manner of treating
them. The document in question was
generous in spirit, conciliatoiy, toward
the Sonth. and statesmanlike in its propo
sitions. Its author said: “I am satisfied
that the mass of thinking men of the
South accept the present situation of af
fairs in good faith. The questions that
have hitherto divided the sentiments of
tbe people of the two sections—slavery
and State rights, or the right of a State
to secede from the Union—they regard
as having been settled forever by the
highesttribnnal—arms—that man can ap
peal to. I was pleased to learn from the
leading men whom I met that they not
only accept the decision arrived at as final,
bnt now the smoke of battle has cleared
away, and time has been given for reflec
tion, believe that this decision has been
afartusraie one for the wholc country.”
The disorder resulting from four years
of war hadrendered it desirable that the
military forces of the United States
should not be wholly withdrawn from
the South at-that time, notwithstanding
the loyal disposition manifested by the
leading citizens; bul the author of. the
report was careful to advise that as few
Federal soldiers as possible should b.e
stationed in the Southern States, and
that they should all be white troops.
“The presence of black troops, latelj
slaves," he said, “demoralizes labor both
by their advice and by furnishing in their
camps a resort for the freedmen for long
distances around.” His sound common
sense enabled him to'see that the danger
to the fntnre peace of the Southern States
lay in the ignorance of the late slave pop
ulation and in the “belief widely spread
among the freedmen” by the agents of
the Freedman’s Bureau “that the lands
of their former owners would, at least in
part, be divided among them.”
He therefore urged Hie policy of leav
ing the negroes to the care of their white
fellow citizens, who would give them
good counsel, “It cannot be expected,”
he said, “ that the opinions held by men
at the South for years can be changed in
a day;” but his predictions for the future
were, nevertheless, thus hopefully ex
pressed: “My observations lead me to
the conclusion that the citizens of the
Southern States are anxious to return to
self-government within the Union as soon
as possible; that while reconstructing
they want and require protection from
the government; that they ore ready to
take any course required by the govern
ment that is not humiliating to them as
citizens, and if such a course were point
ed out they would pursue it in good
faith.”
This report was received with approba
tion by the people. It struck a generous
chord to which the heart of the nation
responded. It held in check for a time
the carpet-bag plunderers whoso lingers
were already itching for the rich spoils of
political reconstruction. Its influence
was great and deservedly so; for it bore
the signature of General Grant, the
soldier who had subdued the rebellion
and saved the Union. May not the les
sons it taught and the spirit it breathed
bo advantageously studied by President
Grant in his treatment of the Southern
people at the present time ?
A Unpaballeled Case.—The last act of
one of the most remarkable tragedies in
real life that modern society has ever
witnessed was finished at Santa Rosa
to-day, by the conviction of a man named
Geiger of murder in the first degree. A
man and his wife bay a ranch and set
themselves industriously at work to get
an honest living from the property. They
are both reputable citizens. 1’wo men
are the proprietors of on adjoining ranch,
and want to get possession of their neigh
bors’ property. The owners will not part
with it. A system of persecution and
annoyance is inaugurated, with the hope
to drive them away. It fails. Then a
conspiracy is formed which succeeds in
tbe conviction of the husband of a felony
■hich he never committed! The poor
'low is sent to State prison. His wife,
jerfect heroine, sticks to the ranch and
is determined to hold her ground till her
lusband shall be restored- to liberty,
'lie two villains put upon her every
indignity and injury which deviltry can
suggest, and finally murder her and hide
the body in a running stream,covered with
heavy stones. A search is made and the
murdered woman is found. Murder will
out. Circumstances point unerringly to
the guilty parties. The whole hellish plot
dawns upon the mind of the community.
The murderers barely escaped lynching.
The husband is released from State pri
son. The tide is turned now. Justice
comes at lost But it.connot do one half
the work that it ought. The other mur
derer will, no doubt, go the same road as
the one that was convicted to-day.—San
Francisco Bulletin, August tt'Jth.
Foot.—Bruce, we call him,
kept a store in the north-
tate. A tall countryman
establishment one day
cosed in moccasins, aud,
I them on a barrel, asked
>uld fit Mm with a pair of
Motels ami gftstaurattte.
GLOBE HOTEL,
Augusta, 6a.,
Corner Broad and Jackson Sts.
The Globe Hotel
Has inst been Refamished and Refitted
with all the
MODERN IMPROVEMENTS
AN1) CONVENIENCES,
i Together with the oilditiou of a new Veranda.
macing it one of the most complete Hotels in the
country, and is now ready for the accommodation
of i he Traveling Public.
sepl4-lm
P. MAY, Proprietor.
BRESNAN’S
European Bouse
15G, 158,1GO & 1G2
BRYAN STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
tip HE Proprietor, having completed the neces-
sary additions and improvements, can now
« c iter to his gnests all the comforts to lie obtained
11 other Hotels at less than
HALF THE EXPENSE!
A RESTAURANT
ON THE
■EUROPEAN PLAN
•Has been added, where guests can
AT ALL HOURS
Order whatever can be obtained in the market.
ROOMS, WITH BOARD,
$1 50 PER DAY.
Determined to be
they]
left.
Southern correspondence Cincinnati
Commercial: In 18G0 the wMte popula
tion of Columbia was 4,393 and black
3,657. In 1870 the black had risen to
5,295 and the wMte fallen to 4,002. In
Charleston, in 1SG0, the wite population
was 13,321 andthe black 17,14G. In 1S70
the white was 22,749 and the black 2G.173.
in Nashville, in I860, the wMte popula
tion was 13,043 and the blaok 3,945.. In
1870 it stood 16,149 wMte and 9,709
black. In Memphis, in 1860, it was 18,-
739 wMte and 3,882 .black. In 1870 it
was 24,755 white and'15,471 black. In
every Southern city the same state of
facts exists. The increase of negroes to
wtitss is.enormous.
said the latter, and, after
ie foot, proceeded to pull
'lelod “assorted brogans, 11
ig a pair of tbe former size
:o the countryman with the
“try that oue.”
were tried, but to no pur-
imbined pulling of a dozen
borses wouldn’t get these boots on his
feet Twelves were next tried, with no
better success. With an air of assurance
Bruce handed him the thirteens, but they
shared the fate of the others. The coun
tryman looked blank—Bruce puzzed,—but
he was,equal to the emergency. Quietly
turning the box over so as to empty its
contents on the floor, he smilingly handed
the case to the astonished, customer, with
the request:
“Here, put on a pair of thin socks and
try on the box !”—Ex.
JVGGEr.yA.xjm.—The Juggernauth pil
grims at Serampore are said to have man
ifested considerable dissatisfaction at the
conduct of the Serampore municipal au
thorities in regard to the cars. Tbe
Commissioners declined to allow one of
tbe cars, wMch was in a manifestly rotten
condition, to be removed until it bad
been repaired. The priests set hnndrods
of men to work, and kept them at it
incessantly for a day and night. Bnt the
next morning the magistrate was still dis
satisfied with the condition of the car,
and impounded the ropes to prevent any
attempt at moving it. • “The result was,”
says the Patriot, “that for the first time
within the memory of man the sacred car
was not drawn on Hie day of the festival.”
But by the wise action of the authorities
in preventing the removal of the car in
its unsafe condition there ctfh be no
donbt that many lives were saved. The
magistrate, who has thus been the indi
rect means of preserving the lives of a
number of his fellow-creatures, is covered
with abuse, and accused of “conspiring
to interfere with the religious observ
ance!) of the people.”
Kellogg’s plunderers are selling all the
property of Francis Lacroix, a. Louisiana
millionaire, for taxes. The Picayune says:
“ Tho old man takes' great satisfaction in
the idea that he has not promised to
make any titles, and it is noticeable that
as each piece of property goes to a bid
der he smiles with great irony and con
tempt. There he sits, usually callous and
unregardful of what is going on, witness
ing the dissipation of Ms fortune—a dis
sipation he could have prevented one
week ago, and might still arrest if he saw
fit. Yesterday he was a millionaire—
next week he will be a pauper. When
the day’s sale is concluded—and it is pro
gressing now at the rate of $100,000 per
diem—the old man walks slowly home,
never saying a word to any one.”
During the month of August 344,3144
ids of tobacco were sMpped in
Richmond, Ya.
Outdone by None,
All I ask is a TRIAL, confident that complete
• satisfaction will be given,
JOHN BBESNAN,
PROPRIETOR.
feblD-tf
Will Not Close.
THE
SCREYEN HOUSE
Will remain open this summer, and solicits the
patronage of those visiting Savannah. Families
and others wishing to board permanently daring
the summer can make advantageons terms.
R. BRADLEY & SON,
may!9-tf Proprietors.
Institutes Young Ladies,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
187 A SESSION 1875
Commences October 1st, 1S74, and ends the last
week In Jane, 1S75.
f^\ OURSE OF INSTRUCTION is comprehensive
VJ and liberal.
INSTRUCTORS able and efficient in all the
Kirtments.
►ISCIPLtNE strictly parental.
TERMS as moderate as is consistent with the
superior advantages afforded In the employment
of only the best instructors.
Apply for catalogues and circulars or farther
information to ROBT. H. CHAPMAN, D.
Principal, or to Pi of, W. S. DUDLEY, M. D-
Charlotte, N. C.angl-SAWSm
ECLECTIC INSTITUTE,
133 Madison Street, Baltimore.
H&riUrimtl.
SIMMONS’
REGULATOR
TIio Favorite Home Remedy.
This unrivalled Medicine is warranted not to
contain a single particle of Mercury, or any in
jurious mineral substance, bnt is
PURELY VEGETABLE,
containing those Southern Roots and Herbs,
which an all-wise Providence has placed in
countries where Liver diseases most prevail. It
will core all Diseases caused by Derangement of
the Liver and Bowels.
Simmons’ Li ver Regulator, or Medicine
Is eminently a Family Medicine; and by being
kept ready for immediate resort will save many
an bonr of snffering and many a dollar in time
and doctors’ bills.
After over Forty Years’ trial it is still-receiving
the most unqualified testimonials to its virtues
from persons of the highest character and re
sponsibility. Eminent physicians commend it as
the most
Effectual Specific
FOIt DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION.
Armed with this ANTIDOTE, aU climates and
chflugcfl of water and food may bo facet! without
tear. As a ltemedv in MALARIOUS FEVERS,
BOWEL COMPLAINTS, RESTLESSNESS,
JAUNDICE, NAUSEA,
IT HAS NO EQUAL.
It is the Cheapest, Purest and Best Family
Medicine in the World.
Is manufactured only by
Js H. ZEILIN & CO.,
Macon, Ga., and Philadelphia.
Price $1 00. Sold by all Druggists.
junlO-W&wly
jWtty ffiarpctttwfog.
H, F. WIOjINK,
Shipwright, Caulker
AND
SPARM AKER,
TAK5 HOBTH SIDE OF BTfEB, OPPOSITE
FOOT OF DKAYTOS ST., SAVANNAH, Ga.
H AS facilities for doing all work with dispatch.
SPRUCE SPARS and LIVE OAK TIMBER
for sale. '
Also, Agent for the SOUTHERN WRECKING
COMPANY. tract tor Raising and Pmn
oat teasels of any size. Has on”hand for *hh-e
Steam Pttmie, large Lifting Lighters, Diving Ap-
pvratca. Hydraulic Jacks, Ac.
.,r’tr V. P.WTMJNK,
Jtjgft, CDtigterg, Intit, &c.
GEO. A. HUDSON. if. M. SULLIVAN
HUDSON & SULLIVAN,
DE IT.P. i*8 i M
PRODUCE,
Foreign and Domestic Fruits,
FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS,
SHRDIPS, TURTLE, TERRAPIN, GAME, &c
Prompt attention given to country orders.
15G Bay Street, JNortlt Side.
septl-6m
BhANfi BOOKS
A? every description, for any kind of Business,
V J famished to order. The nett materials arc
used, aud onr books nude in ths most durable
tTimorp. Call anf
JS0BJHB9 HSWS JOB
MRS. LETITIA TYLER SEMPLE,
PRINCIPAL.
T HIS school will open 17th September, and
dose 25»li June. English, Music, Mathemat
ics, Latin, French, German, Italian, Spanish,
Drawing, Painting and Dancing taught by most
able Professors and Teachers.
Also, neatness and simplicity in Dress,, with
modesty and propriety in Deportment.
For circulars apply to the prindpaL
angl-M,WAF-tSepl9
St. Clement’s Hall,
(NEAR BALTIMORE.)
College, for _
ginecring. This is a first-class Home School, in a
flourishing condition.
Catalogues contain full information.
REV. .J. AVERY SHEPHERD, D. D„
Head Master, Efficott City, Md.
Refer to Hon Senator Norwbod ~
E. Johnston. Messrs. R. Bradley &
july!5-M,W&Ftf
BOY’S SELECT SCHOOL,
New Masonic Temple,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
C. C. TAUAFERRO, Principal; Dr. B. COHEN,
Assistant.
W ILL reopen Monday, October 8th, 1374, and
close July ISth, 1878. Terms, per qnarterof
ten weeks—Senior and advanced classes, $25;
Junior classes, $20; French and German, each,
$5. C. C. TALIAFERRO, PrindpaL
sepl-lm
Southern Home School,
i97 & 199 North Charles Street,
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.
(Established 1S42.)
Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies.
principals:
MIL & MRS. WILSON M. CARY,
MRS. GEN. JOHN PEGRAM.
French the Language spoken. aug!2-2m
NORWOOD HIGH SCHOOL,
NELSON COUNTY, VA.
Ninth Annufl Session Opens Sept 23th, 1874.
Closes Jane 2oth, 1875.
Principals—Wm. D. Cabell, Ro. L. Harrison,
M. A., F. Key Meade, R. Peyton, B. Sc., C. «& M. E.
(All of Univ. of Va.)
For catalogue ana information address
july31-2m WM. D. CABELL, President.
Georgetown College, D.C.
FOUNDED IN 1789.
T HE Classical Schools reopen September 1st.
Thorough instruction in English. Latin,
Greek, French, Mathematics, Rational Phflosopy
and Natural Sciences. The Medical School opens
October 5th. The Law School October 7th. For
farther particulars address
aug2S-lm P. F. HEALY, S. J M President.
Boarding and Day School
M RS. SYLVANUS REED’S English, French
and German Boarding and Day School for
youn" ladies and little girls, 6 & 8 E. 53d St?
New York. Exercises for the next year will be
gin at 9 a. m., Oct. 1st, when all pupils should be
present. New scholars will report Sept. 29th,
when teachers will class them. jun24-tf
S.-W. GLEASON.
JAS. SCANNING.
S. W. GLEASON & CO.
Iron Foundry and Machine Works.
Sugar Mills,
SUGAR. PANS.
Prices Red need for 1874
STEAM ENGINES, GRIST MILLS, GIN GEAR,
And Machinery of every description.
Castings and Repairing of every kind made and
attended to.
Send for circular and price list. sep9-tf
GEORCE PAG? & CO.,
PATENT PORTABLE C1RCULA
SAW MILLS,
ALSO 3TATICHAE? SP02TA3L:
STEAM EWGIIvES*
lib. 5 Sehrooder S' y
Grist Mills, Lcffel’s Turbine Water Wheels,
Wood Working Machinery ot all kinds, and Ma
chinists’ Sundries. Send for Catalogues,
mhS-dly
J. W. TYNAN,
Engineer and Machinist,
Canal St., near Charleston Wharf.
Repairs of all kinds of
MACHINERY.
BLACKSMITH WORK,
In a0 its Branches, promptly done.
febSltf
(Bus fitting.
JOHN NIC0LS0N,
Gas & Steam Fitter,
Plnmber and dealer In Gas Fixtures,
DRAYTOS STREET,
SECOND DOOR ABOVE BEOUGHTOH.
Houses fitted with Gas and Water, with aL the
latest improvements, a t the shortest notice.
WM. M. McFALL,
Practical PInmber and Gas Filler,
No. 4C .Whitaker Street,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Bath Tubs, Water Closets, ChandeUors and Gas
^0&^d^ d th£ ri - PtiOn 0B h ” i
NO. 11 REYNOLDS’ SQUARE,
(Formerly Ranters’ Bank,)
SAVANNAH, GA.
DEPOSITS received subject to Check at S : ghl
and Interest allowed by agreement.
Gold, Stocks, Bonds, and Foreign and Donufiic
Exchange bought and sold.
Collections made on all accessible points, and
promptly remitted for in New York Exchange ai
current rates.
No commission* charged on Collet : ion- m*d«* i*»
the city.
Merchants’ Cash Boxes, and other Valuables, re
ceived on special deposit (and deposited in the large
Fire Proof Vaults of the Banking House) subjec*
to owners’ orders, at any and all times during bank
ing hours.
Exchange on Atlanta and Augusta in sums tn,
suit purchasers. innltf
JAMES HUNTER,
V
BROKER,
DEALER IN
Coin, Securities & Exchange,
No. 110 Bryan Street,
(Gcoigia Historical Society Building)
L OANS NEGOTIATED. Advances made on
securities placed in my hands for sale at
current rates. Real Estate bought and sold on
commission.
Mb. H. J. TnOMASSON will take charge of
the RealEBtate branch of my husiuc .--, and will
give his personal attention to the leasing ol houses
and collection of rents. sepl-tf
(Cfimmi.ssiou IRmtowts.
L. J. GCTLMARTIN. ( JOHN FLANNERY.
L. J. Guilmartin & Co.!
COTTON FACTORS
Commission Merchants, :
Kellj’s Block, Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
: Agents for Bradley’s Phosphate, :
; Jewell’s Hills Yarns A Domestics, Ac., Ac. ;
_ Iron Tics for sale at lowest
rates.
Prompt attention given to all business !
• entrusted to us.
; liberal Cash Advances made on consign- ;
* meats. angl3-d,tw&w6m ;
GEO. W. ANDERSON.
JOHN W. ANDERSONfS SONS
COTTON FACTORS
AND GENERAL
Commission Merchants,
AGENTS FOB
Griillctt’s Improved Saw Gin,
AND
Henery’s improved McCarthy Cln,
Cor. Bryan and Drayton St»
SAVANNAH, Ga.
fSTTiberal advances made on Consigni-'. t?.
octld&wly
B. C. FI^NXAGAN,
A. r. ABELL.
MT. W. FLAX* A
IL S. HOBGAN
Flannagan, Abell &
128 Bay Street, Savann
COTTON FACTO
Si
Commission Merchant!
1” IBERAL cash advances made on con
JLi ments.
Promptest attention rendered to all bns
committed to them, and proceeds of sale*
•nitted by Express when ordered.
Bagging and Tics sold and advanced
u-ops.an ggfi
WJK.H. TISON.
TISON & GORDON,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Commission Merchants,
113 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
Bagging and Ties advanced on Crops.
liberal CASH ADVANCES made on Consign
ments of Cotton.
COTTON SOLD ON ARRIVAL, AND PRO
CEEDS RETURNED BY EXPi ES8, WHEN
OWNER SO INSTRUCTS.
Prompt and careful attention guaranteed to all
business. ang20-d,tw&w6m
• iu ganfcntirtry.
Notice in Bankruptcy.
Southern District of Georgia, S.S.
T HE undersigned hereby gives notice of bis
appointment as Assignee of Daniel B.
Plumb, of Augusta, Richmond county, Georgia,
who has been adjudged a bankrupt upon his own
petition by the District Court of said District.
EUGENE F. VERDERY,
Assignee of Daniel B. Plumb.
Auousta, Ga., August 3», 1S74.
sept2-\V 3 w
EM
JOSEPH FIXEtSAN. jas. B. FAEEATIORZ.
JOSEPH FISEGAN & CO
COTTON FACTORS
,—aks ' ..
Commission Merchants,
04 Bay Street, Savannah*Ga.
liberal advances made on Cotton con
signed to us or to our correspondents in
New York and Liverpool.
BAGGING and TIES ALWAYS ON HA ND.
sepS-Gm
B. J. DAVAXT. W. D. WAPLES. JFLIAN MTKIi;-.
Dayant, Waples & Co,,
Cotton and Rice Factors
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SAVANNAH, GA.
IBERAL advances made on conpignmenfp,
and prompt and careful attention giv,*r> in nil
—w?plo Cm
R. K. DANCY.
IV T. DANCY.
D..YT. DANCY & CO.
COTTON FACTORS
Commission Merchants,
05 Bay Street, Savannah, On.
Prompt and careful attention given to all bwdnrva
entrusted to ns. Liberal advances made on con
signments. Cash paid for United State:-; Jkinu'y
Land Warrants. . scp9-«m
! IL A. WAYNE.
Syberg-Peterscn & Co.,
SHIP AGENTS
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SAVAXXAU, GA.
septi-3m
EL F. GRANT,
103 BAX ST., SAVASSAII, CA,
General Commission Merchant
L IBERAL advanc: s made on Con^ignmcnLc,
Agent for ETIWAN GUANO. Agent for
LANGDALE GUANO. Agent for DANIEL
PRATT COTTON GIN. ax?g3J-?£m
MICHAEL 3. ASH,
COMMISSION MERCHANT
a >D DEiurr. r:;
Uamagred anti. Waste Cotton,
pater stock, irok asd metai,
102