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J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Mr. ridaborn Few, of Madison, has a series
or mag uificent fish-ponds which are stocked
with nearly every variety of fresh water
fish.
,ach insen
No cont
rates allowed except by special
;x;ral discounts made to large ad-
lU advt
• will have a favorable place
•rted, but no promise of continnoas
:i particular place can be given, as
inn I have equal opportunities.
>OtlK POETRY.
k MAN WHO WENT TO TEXAS.
usty, tearful eye,
d creeks go dry—
. perhaps you think,)
, drop to drink
- . through all her wilds—
i" lor countless miles.
ler whole domain,
cl it was the same—
,e in all 1 saw
is of Arkansaw—
•v, the winters wet.
r and all iu debt.
lie lands a: e good
:ie rolling ilood;
p*, anti on the hills,
i'vr mid the chills—
oust b j the fate
in the State.
.« arc always green,
• 1 them—changed the scene—
ps that showed the green—
cuts swell the spleen;
uiniue you must take,
ith ague-cake.
ueu, or more,
ick ami poor—
s and the fern,
nglo return
a—lorraer home—
never come.
i, in sad distress,
iowliug wilderness,
oop, and weep, and die—
ildren when they cry:
1 something worse-
mi all in verse.
Irunk, I think,
of those that sink
is to tne sod,
names of Gi d.
from that fate—
save that Mate.
every whim,
y they will swim—
;—slashing ’round—
man he found—
vrs, doctors drunk—
r wealth and spunk.
l >inirta Times and Planter.
of V
r llav
We
Affairs in Ueorgria.
j I itaiiro iii annouucing that a
i tne pen of Miss Fanny Andrews,
igton, Wilkes county, will soon is-
;hc press of Messrs. J. B. Lippin-
cott k Co., of Philadelphia. The title of
the work is “A Family Secret,” and wo feel
justified in promising the lovers of fiction a
rare treat. Mias Andrews is well known in
literary circles as the author of a charming
senes of essays over the pseudonym
These essays were remark-
; ss for their scholarly fiuish than
cal quality of humor which, for
uore expressive word, people call
Miss Andrews is a daughter of
led Judge Garnet Andrews, and a
lie editor of the Washington Ga-
dh&ll look for the appearance of
‘•AFamily Secret” with some interest.
It would be a pity, now, if, when he draws
the remnant of his salary to-morrow or next
day, the Hon. l’otiphar Feagreen, of Tuga-
loo, should fall into the hands of the raven
ous bunko men and lose his hard-earned
money. Enter no suspicious places, Hon.
Potty. Buy a bag of ginger-snaps for the
children and take the first train.
It is said the Legislature will probably
adjourn iu a few days. This is too good to
be strictly true. •
A good many romantic Augusta youths
dated their valentines “On the Canal.” We
shall hear of some suicides in that neigh
borhood presently.
The editor of the Thomasville Times, who
has solemnly promised that he will be mar
ried by the first of May, has precisely two
months and eight days in which to enjoy
himself.
Tin B-ickdale Register is hereby informed
that the editor of the Talbotton Stand-
I didn’t threaten to nominate the Devil
fur Governor. He merely said that he had
a r ' to nominate the Old Boy if he chose.
LIdle Mumford is a member of the church,
and we do not desire to see his writings dis
torted b’
; mful and scoffing newspaper
man.
We h
received a poem of nineteen
was from a LaGrange girl, of which the
‘ ;ow i ;i o • s a specimen: “If he should go
m . v pet, my sweet—if he should go, my
love, my dear—oh. who would tread with
smiling fret, the borders of my gay pa-
t*ni. This is well enough in its way, but
w " submit that when a man’s feet get to
soiiin _• m this climate, it is abont time to
Uv. carbolic acid or something of that kind.
!>oung lady to send her verses
r -‘" K'i • >\ it is her home organ; and
! ■ ■■ s, \\ aternian is a good deal more long-
Mffcring than we are.
|,! A. M. Moore, who has considerable
W.
expe
Into,
her gu
other d
• i assist Mr. Henry M. Mc-
1 ditorial conduct of the Black-
"i. The Georgian, by the by,
n excellent paper, but seems to
fly prosperous.
'lit* r of the Augusta Consiilu m
been trying for weeks to make
yme with canal. The effort is
irrcl rhymes with barrel,
woman ia Franklin county, af-
• 1 for one hundred and six-
' lining her vitality to that ex-
■ould crack a corn-cob with
went and spoiled the fnn the
Korth Gei
long-suffering citizens of
liavo concluded that about
K ' a P s ' way to rid themselves of the
c " and positive tyranny of the reve-
1 s to bushwhack them.
( - K ibert Baugh, of Atlanta, had a
f paralysis the other day. In fall-
" bis shoulder, and now lies in
ndition.
• n thunder is Jack Brown V And
And l’salmbardofidaho?
aM llnt Johannes B’Gormanne is still
‘ • 'bateau ou Lake Crescent iu Florida.
lhe box of di
Warded to
mg
* critical
When*
The
ous oranges that the Count
us three years ago is probably
u * - in some express office.
‘Mayson, of Atlanta, was se-
eat ab °ut the head and face the other
! ‘ a shelf of crockeryware,
*hich a
• a negro was arranging. The manumit
tiot hurt, of course.
m ^ "'■! Institute Messenger has
ford US a i’b ear ance. Miss Lolly Ruther-
q aQ( i ^iss Susan Kelley are the editors,
of Muscogee, i8 having some op-
• miu big race j or ^ u ouae liepre-
* tn tativeg.
be of en clia i D *g a Dg doesn’t appear to
Prevtm h * le ° f arc bitecturo calculated to
escape of prisoners.
il r j r i pl , t t0 lear “ of the sudden death of
iail . ' ^ am P> °f Griffin, which occurred
and p ' JQ ^ a ’’ 1 WO0 i £ * Mr. Camp was brave
-- a - u '- ro us to a fault, and was his own
Wont
f&tnily.
enemy. fl e leaves an interesting
$2,500 ^ aUeB ^-* e Ki8la-tivo clerks were
Hert r lD were in 1874.
v aunt, i 1 Kood c bance to display your
^economy, Hon. Potty.
t beiw^ U | Ilanifc ^ Dav is has been swindling
^otcarrouton.
The Columbus Enquire)' savs that Com
missioner Janes figures up that corn was
raised last season in Georgia at fifty-eight
cents per bushel, oats twenty-nine* cents,
and cotton at eleven cents per pound.
Though an awfully bad year coru and oats
have brought double the price of the cost of
production. Cotton has brought less. What
is the use of raising cotton when it brings
less than it costs to make it. Either the
Commissioner’s figures are worthless or the
farmers are with their eyes open working
from January through to December to see
how far they can get in debt.
The Macon Telegraph says that a verv sad
accident occurred Saturday morning in Bibb
county. While >lrs. R. Mitchell, a widowed
sister of Colonel John Braswell, was at the
well, a little daughter of Colonel Braswell,
some seven or eight years of age, came run
ning out of the house with her clothing on
fire. While attempting to extinguish the
flames the dress ot Mrs. Mitchell took fire
and before she could rid herself of her
clothing, was so severely burned that she is
uot expected to recover. The little girl
died from the effects of her burns in an
hour and a half. It is not known how her
clothing took fire.
Darien Gazette: The bill abolishing the
office of Inspector General, and making
other absurd alterations in the existing
laws regulating the sale of timber and lum
ber in this port, has passed the Senate, but
not as yet the House. It would seem that
the Hon. Potipbar Peagreeu had got him
self more ridiculously mixed with the local
affairs of McIntosh county, about which he
kuowB leas than nothing, than with the
State at large.
Columbus Times: The Macon Telegraph
states that jt received two thousand dollars
for publishing articles relating to the lease
of the State Road. It claims that this was
poor pay for the quantity of matter which
it published, and that its hill was larger,
but it compromised on two thousand. We
had no idea that the publications on the
subject were so voluminous. The lessees
either advertised very liberally, or paid
with a liberality very unusual.
LaGrange Reporter: We beg leave to call
the attention of the chairmen of the two
Finance Committees of the Legislature to
the fact which appears in the Comptroller’s
report, that J. W. Murphy is Keeper of
Public Buildings and J. W.'Murphy is also
Secretary of the Senate. A proper subject
for them to investigate would be whether
the same J. W. Murphy holds the same two
offices ; and il so, whether ho draws his sal
ary as Keeper of Public Buildings at the
same time when he is receiving $1,000 for
his forty days’ service as Secretary of the
Senate. Another subject for them is one
to which we called their attention last week
—namely, that S. C. Williams holds three
offices at the same time, aud receives pay
for them all.
THE MORNING NEWS.
Xoon Telegrams.
COLLAPSE OF THE CARLIST CAUSE
Darien Gazette, of Friday : The Episco
palians of Darien and vicinity are having a
jubilee week of it. The Savannah convo
cation met in St. Andrew’s Church, ou the
Ridge, on Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock.
There were present Rev. Dr. Benedict, the
Dean, or presiding officer of the meeting,
Rev. Mr. Mortimer, Rector of Christ Church,
Savannah; Rev. Mr. Boone, Rector of Bruns
wick; Rev. Mr. Leigh, of Butler’s Island,
aud Rev. Dr. Clute, of this parish. A new
feature in this convocation was the presence
of Rev. Messrs. Love aud Morris, colored
ministers, both of whom are men of high
culture and education. Services have been
held day and night for both the white and
colored population, on the Ridge, at Darien
and Butler’s Island, aud several sermons of
real merit aud power have been delivered.
Senator Hester is right after the State
Lottery. Here are some of his figures: As to
the cost of the lottery, I am glad that my
facts as taken from the roturns made to the
Governor have not been disputed. They
were as follows for tho six years ending 1st
of April, 1875:
Paid to trustees $ 41,534 70
Paid to managers 78,584 42
Paid to clerks 19,45s 41
Paid to commissioners 9,164 >2
4,000
2,000
Making a to’al of $148,692 35
Appropriations for Executive Department
for year 1875:
For compensat ion of Governor $
Far compensation of Secretary of
State
For compensation of Comptroller Gt*n-
For Compensation of State Treasurer..
For compensation of clerk for Secretary
of State
For compensation of clerk for State
Treasurer
For compemation of two clerks for
Comptroller General
For compensation of State Librarian....
For compensation of Attorney General.
For compensation of two Secretaries of
Executive Department
2,000
2,000
1,609
3.200
1.200
2,000
Multiplied by..
$23,200
$139,200
Deducted from aggregate received by
managers, &c., ot lottery leaves $9,492 35
more receive! by trustees, managers, clerks
and commissioners of the lottery in six
years, to run just one school of one super
intendent and four teachers, than is re
ceived by the Governor and all the officers
of the executive department as enumerated
above, for the same time. Is it lair that we
should keep up an institution deemed by
almost all people to be immoral—managed
by three managers—I hear there are only
three—each of whom receives a salary
larger than tho Governor of tho State.
Then where is this money gathered from ?
I hear it is from the poor, the ignorant,
around this city. Are you willing to plead
for such an institution at such a cost ?
a (
South Carolina Affairs. *
By a statement oT the Comptroller Gen
eral, the time for the payment of taxes ex
tends for sixty days from the date at which
the Treasurers in the various counties
opened their books.
The penitentiary received a reinforcement
of twenty-eight last Thursday.
A site has been selected for tho new Meth
odist Church to he built at Walhalla. A lot
60 by 80 feet has been purchased on Main
street, adjoining Mr. Wesley Pitchford ou
one aide aud Mr. Jacob Schroder on the
other.
About four hundred shade trees have been
planted in Bamberg within tho last fort
night.
To the present time only about one-fourth
of the taxes of Fairfield county have been
paid. The amount levied, for allpurpoBcs,
i about seventy thousand dollars.
To the 18th, the Treasurer of Barnwell
county had collected only about thirty-one
thousand eight hundred dollars—a little
over one-tbird of the amount assessed. Last
year, iu the same leugih of time, over one-
half the taxes had been collected. Bamberg
contributed to the tax-gatherer on his re-
ceut rounds more than any other point vis
ited by the Treasurer. About three thou
sand dollars have been collected for building
Court House.
Walhalla Methodist Church has organized
choir.
Alston Wright, the ringleader of the
railroad robbers at Peo Dee Bridge, ia in
Marion jail.
Walhalla had quite a row amongst some
negroes on tho 11th instant, one of whom
knocked the Marshal, Mr. Sullivan, down
with a rock, enabling another one under ar
rest to escape. Both were recaptured.
All available mercantile stands are occu
pied in Blackville.
The Keowee Courier learns that a diffi
culty occurred on last Sunday in the Choe-
hoe section of Oconee county, iu which the
wife of Mr. Peter Chapman was shot in tne
breast by John Chapman, the ba)« pass-
near ly through her body. She was liv-
when last heard form.
Peach and plum trees are blooming all
over the State.
The new Baptist Church was dedicated at
Abbeville last Sunday, the 13th. Rev. C. H.
Toy, of Greenville, preached the dedieatoiy
sermon. ,
General M. C. Butler, the Chairman, has
called a meeting of the Executive Committee
the Democratic party of South Caro'ma,
the parlor of the Columbia Hotel to-day,
fcu e 22d instant, at 8 o’clock p. m. The
county chairmen of the several counties are
invited to meet the committee on the foUow-
g day at XI o’clock.
Mr Thomas Shirlock, who lives near St.
Matthew’s Churck, Orangeburg county, was
^ot inThe breast on Thursday before last.
The Royalists ('arrjiBi; Things Before
Them.
Hon Carlos
Said to Have
France.
Fled to
Result of the French Elections.
ing ’
i^lioQad’^ c °l° re< l emigrants from the
cnidi.i.t Jactot 40 Columbus have become |
■-* tor Western graveyard*. 1
Bridge DemocraUc party^ m ^m"^;
% v £ur7?H ’ J.Kearse, and W.
I:»Se Prestdem^M A Moye aud
THE CARLIST DEFEAT.
VnroaiA, February 21.—The Carlists are
withdrawing their contracts and reserves.
Little resistance is expected from them at
Toleso.
Madrid, February 21.—The government
sent a circular dispatch to its representa
tives abroad, announcing the capture of
Montejurra and the occupation of the Car-
list positions above Vera. The dispatch
admits that the combat was sanguinarv, the
Carlists fighting with great valor. There is
great rejoicing here. The city is illumi
nated.
Telegrams from the North announce that
the Royalists continue successful in their
progress. General Primo de Rivera has oc
cupied the Carlist forts in Navarre. The
greater part of the Carlist artillery at Estella
was captured. Tho Carlists had* thrown a
portion over the precipices before the ar
rival of the Royalists.
It is reported that Don Carlos fled into
France last night. The Carlist resistance
at Toleso is expected to be short, on account
of the discouragement now prevalent among
the Carlists. King Alfonso has gone to
Azcoitia. He will sleep to-night at Azpeita.
THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.
Paris, February 21.—Thiers has seven
thousand majority. The city is perfectly
quiet. Buffet is elected in Bourges. Du-
favre, Minister of Justice, is elected. Gam-
betta is elected in five places, and Blanc in
tour. ArrLS aud Roubaix return Republi
cans.
Of the 169 elections of which results are
known, 123 are carried by Republicans of
various shades, 17 by Bouapartists, 11 by
Radicals, 7 by Legitimists, 6 by Conscitu-
-tioualists, aud 5 by Conservatives. The
earlier returns, being those of cities and
large towns, will probably show a relatively
greater proportion of Republicans thau the
districts yet to hear from.
RIVER DISASTEB8.
New Orleans, February 21 The Mary
Lowery, from Red River hither, is burned.
No lives were lost.
The steamer Lotus, from Jefferson, Texas,
hither with 1.0(H) hales of cotton, sunk. Her
cargo received damage.
DEAD.
St. Petersburg, February 21. — The
Grand Duchess Marie Nicolaevana, a sister
of the Emperor, is dead.
RADICALISM REVIEWED.
Senator Gordon's NIasterly Speech on the
Political Outlook.
THE MYSTERY OF TROUT CREEK
Probable Foul Play—Damon ami Pythias,
or Cain ami Abel f
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
to
B. Bice, vice -- - u
T. J. Dickenson, Secretanes. -the g
sfttion numbers about one hundred.
Jacksonville, February 19, 187(1.
A rumor obtained currency this even
ing that the remains of a white man had
been found by some negroes in a wild and
desolate spot near the water’s edge of
Trout creek, otherwise known as Brou-
ard’s Neck, in the vicinity of Panama
Mills, distant some five miles from Jack
sonville. Upon visiting the scene the
bruit was verified in every particular, and
the lifeless form of a being, which, even
in the advanced stage of decompo
sition in which it then was,
indicated a splendid physique and ath
letic build, was discovered about two
hundred yards from the ferry. The head
had been blackened by exposure to the
elements, a set of teeth that might have
been envied by Apollo stood out promi
nently, a million of vermin were rioting
in a feast of flesh, and the receding tide
seemed to be rippling forth a plaintive
elegy for the dead. There was something
exceedingly melancholy in a fate like this,
aud as the stream pursued its winding
way towards the river and the sea, it car
ried the thoughts of the spectators to
dreams of eternity. Death under sur
roundings so inscrutable and horrible is
DEATH EMPHASIZED,
and the KiEg of Terrors in any other
than a lonely guise seems divested of half
of his sting. A Coroner’s jury was em-
panneled, and Dr. Babcock submitted
the body to a thorough examina
tion, but could detect no marks of
violence thereon, and the jury rendered
verdict that the deceased (who was
identified by his clothes as William N.
Larson, a Danish ferryman in the employ
of Mr. M. L. Brouard,) came to his death
by drowning in Trout creek, though
whether by accident or design could not
be determined. According to the evi
dence of Mr. Brouard, Larson was about
twenty-four years of age, had but re
cently arrived in the United States from
Denmark, and, together with a companion
named Nelson Petersen, also a native of
Denmark, had been employed by
him as ferryman. Larson could speak
nothing but Danish, while Petersen spoke
the English language, if not fluently, at
least intelligibly, and the pair appeared
to he another instance like Orestes and
Pylades, instead of
GAIN AND ABEL.
About three weeks since they left Mr.
Brouard’s in company, with the inten
tion of going to town. Larson, upon his
leparture, wore a silver watch, valued at
about twenty dollars, and it is believed
also had about twenty dollars in
money in his possession. Nothing
of this description was on his person
when he was found. The boat in which
the two Danes left was found tied to a
tree three or four days afterwards. Pe
tersen has never yet returned to claim
his baggage, aud his unaccountable dis
appearance was not inquired into until
the discovery of Larson’s remains to-day.
It is supposed that the corpse must have
been drifted- by the action of the tide
to the spot where it was first seen.
A letter addressed to W. N. Larson
was produced and opened at the inqui
sition at 5 p. m. to-day. It was written
iu Dani-h, dated Perth Amboy, New Jer
sey, January, 1870, and bore the signa
ture of Charles Christophersen.
WAS IT FOUL PLAY ?
The sudden and unexplained disappear
ance of Nelson Peterson, the empty pock
ets of Larson, and various other consid
erations, tend to engender a concatenation
of circumstances that warrant the suppo
sition of foul play. But the absence of
all marks of violence upon Larson
would seem to heighten the mysterious
features of the affair. Aside from
the suspicious phase of the calamity, it is
barely possible that Wm. N. Larson and
Nelson Petersen perished as they had
lived, together. In contemplating this
sad demoralization of poor humanity the
reflection wells up that some fond Scan
dinavian mother, whose hoy brightened
her home in the land of the snow, the
lichen and the fir, is ignorant of the fact
that he in drifting to a tropic clime has
died unseen, under the shadows of the
forest oak, the jessamine and the trailing
moss.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS BUILDING
Adbianus.
An Indianapolis cat got to playing with
a small turtle the other day, and was
having a nice time tumbling it around,
when suddenly the turtle’s jaws closed on
the cat’s tail. There was some very lively
tumbling then on the part of the cat, to
an accompaniment of her own selection.
Two hours after she was seen examining
that tail tenderly, evidently wondaring if
the piece would grow out again.
A Frenchman who has lived in America
for several years says: “When they build
a railroad, the first thing they do is to
break ground. This ia done with great
ceremony. Then they break the stock
holders. This is done without cere
mony, “
[From the Atlanta Constitution.]
At an early hour the House of Repre
sentatives was densely filled. Senator Gordon
spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the General Assembly, my\
FeUmc- Countrymen:
You may well imagine that the circum
stances which have called me to my home,
•ind which were beyond my control, have, of
necessity, occupied much of my attention
for the last few days, and led my thoughts
upon lines not legitimate to pursue here to
night. But, notwithstanding these un
toward circumstances and the pre-occupa
tion of my thoughts, I would he an insincere
man if I did not express the deep gra'eful-
nesa I feel for the opportunity of conference
with you in behalf of those infinitely greater
interests of local government for these
States and popular liberty for this people.
And, I would be an uncandid man if I
withheld from you the expression of my ap
prehensions that we, as a people, stand in
the very shadow of a great political ca
lamity. The nature of that calamity, its
probable fruits and the possibilities, the
chances and methods of averting it, 1 pro
pose as the subject for discussion to-night.
I think that I am no alarmist, but I
solemnly believe that if the disaster to
which I refer, which, of course, is the re-
election of the Republican party to admin
ister this government for the next four
years, shall befall yoa, it will surely endan
ger, if it does not destroy, the governments
of these States, and of* consequence your
liberties under them.
Let me submit at the outset, two or
three truths deducible from history. It is
the history of governments that when they
fall, except from foreign invasion—from
which cause the United States is happily ex
empted—they usually fall either from the
incompetency, or the corruption, or the
tyranny of their rulers.
Second. In popular governments, the loss
of liberty follows arau/edly upon the loss of
an enlightened public sentiment, or as has
been better expressed, the loss of that
“eternal vigilance, which is the price of
liberty.” It these he truths, as they un
doubtedly are, how is it possible to exag
gerate the peril of that republican govern
ment, iu which the controlling party is not
only incompetent, but corrupt; not only cor
rupt, hut actuated in its legislation towards
a large portion of the people by the spirit of
tyranny; aud when a majority of the people
of that country seem possessed of so mortal
au apathy that they are incapable of throw
ing off such a government ?
Iu this the condition of this country at
this time ? Let the hist »ry of the party iu
power since the war answer. Let me group
together some facts, which though familiar,
can not be too often brought to the atteu-
tion of the country.
It will he remembered that early iu 1865,1
this party, which had the control of this
government found the Southern armies dis
armed and disbanded. They found their
own armies, although successful, hailing
with satisfaction, not only the cessation of
war and the restoration of the Union, but
the prospective participation by the South
in the legislation of tho country. This
party repudiated tho sentiments of their
own soldiers aud intervened by law to strike
down the open hand, extended aud ready to
he grasped in reconciliation of past differ
ences. I offer that as au argument against
its competency. ■ ■
TLere was Sherman, fresh from hisl
“March to the Sea,” and -covered, iu their
estimation, with the glory of victory, mak
ing terms with General Joseph E. Johnston,
which, if consummated, would not only have
brought immediate peace to the entire* coun
try, but would have crowned both these
Generals with a fame brighter and more en
during thau all their victories! D.d they
endorse Sherman ? They threw contempt
upon his propositions. I offer that as an
argument against their competency. ■ ■
What else ? They found Andrew John
son, who had pandered to their passions,
yet within tho purview of his powers, seek
ing to restore local government to those
States based upon the freedom of both races,
white and black. Did they support him ?
On the contrary, because of his wisdom and
liis statesmanship they sought to impeach
him—to impeach the man who had turned
his back upon his kindred and adhered to
tho Union amidst the shock of a revolution,
which left his section one pile of ruins !
They found General Grant as late as 1867
making a tour of inspection through the
Southern States and reporting what he saw
and heard and believed of the Southern peo
ple. Did they receive that report? On the
contrary, they treated it with contempt and
J their public press pronounced him a white-
washer. General Grant a white-washer of
the Southern people! The commander of
their armies and whose initials they claimed
to stand for “Unconditional Surrender
Grant,” aud who, in spite of themselves, had
persisted in his “on to Richmond” until he
had overthrown the proudest, the bravest
aud the knightliest army that ever followed
the grandest leader to victory! [Applause. ]
What else ? They found tho Southern peo
ple after the war with disordered labor, dis
rupted society, discordant political elements,
bravely, persistently, grandly endeavoring
to gather up these broken fragments and to
mould them into consistency and these shat
tered organisms into the autonomy of States,
[Loud applause.]
What course was adopted iu reference to
us by the party in power? Did they say
“ these people are more interested in
good government, in peace between the
races, in the good order of society, in the
enforcement of the laws and the perpetuity
of local government, and we will entrust to
them the delicate but gigantic task of lay
ing anew tho foundations of their govern
ments within the purview of the Constitu
tion and the legitimate results of the war ?’
Such a course was the only possible one con
sistent with the spirit of our institutions or
with common sense. But what did they do?
They tent their own agents to do this deli
cate work for us, or rather for themselves.
Who were these agents ? They were stran
gers, they were adventurers* they were
camp-followers, they were plunderers, they
were ruthless Harpies, they were ossifrage-
nouss vultures, gathering in their filthy
talons the debris of battle and the spoils of
conquest! [Applause.] They were vultures
ready to fly at the approach of danger, yet,
when their victims were helpless and mana
cled, driving their bloody beaks into the
writhing forms of these prostrate States.
Such was the statesmanship of this party in
the reorganization of these governments,
and I offer that as an argument against their
competency.
What else? As if to furnish a fitting cli
max to their past blunders, aud to heap
madness upon folte, they struck down their
own greatest leaders, the Nestors of their
party, whenever they gave evidence of
statesmanship. Among those who were
guillotined because of their wisdom were
Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois; Carl Schurz,
of Missouri, and Horace Greeley, of New
York. [Applause.] These, I repeat, were
among their ablest and best men. Yet they
struck them down the very moment they
proposed any constitutional measures to
ward the South, or a restraint upon their
power. For myself, I have great respect for
such men as those I have named, come from
what party they may. All honor to Schurz,
to Trumbull and to Greeley, who, with the
forecast of statesmen and* the courage of
patriots, sought to restore concord to the
sections, aud the Constitution to its supre
macy, and went down fighting the enemies
of both. [Loud applause.]
So much for their former record. What
now are they doiog ? The experiments have
been tried; tho test cases have been sub
mitted to the courts, and the judgment ren
dered and proclaimed to the world. Experi
ence pours its flood of light upon the record.
From a bed of ruins, from the slimy pools
of corruption into which tho emissaries of
that party had dragged these plundered
States, every one of them that has been re
covered from the hands of these harpies is
at peace. Harmony reigns between the
races, the laws are enforced, government is
honestly admini-tered, schools are support
ed for both races and the school fund is not
stolen! [Laughter and cheers. ] They find
every one of them which are in the hands of
oar own people on the high road of progress,
and with a prosperity equal at least with
many of their favored Northern sisters.
With these facts before them do they
say to us, “Well done, good and
faithful servants, enter into the
joys of your great deliverance?”
No, sirs. With these horrid experiences
still fresh m the memory of our people, and
with the smoke of their torments from some
of these sin-cursed governments forced upon
the South still rising to Heaven, we are
startied by the propositions contained in
two series of resolutions introduced by the
Senator from Indiana. What are they?* One
series, in substance, declares that this is
not a government of free and independent
States. They declare, in substance, that the
States bear the same relations to the Fede
ral Government that the counties bear to
the States. If adopted, they practically ob
literate State lines, and convert this Federal
Government into a consolidated empire.
Let them he sanctioned by the people, let
this fissure he once made in constitutional
harriers, and the passions of any party in
power, like the floods of the Mississippi
through a crevasse in the levee, will rush
through End continue to widen the breach,
and finally carry local government and
liberty before them. (Great applause.)
The other aeries of k resolutions offered by
the same Senator contemplates the appoint
ment of a committee by the Senate to in
vestigate the last popular election in the
BUte of Xiauuippi. The Confutation of
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On tho Cth day of July, 1875, the
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The new Home was occupied on the 15th of
January, 1876—the twenty-sixth anniversary
of the paper. The buildiug is four stories
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street to tho top of the cupola, is eighty-
eight feet high, and, exteriorally and into-
riorally, is handsomely finished in the best
style.
The first, or basement, floor is occupied
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The southern half of the first floor is ad
mirably arranged as tho counting-office, in
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etor’s private office.
The remaining section of this floor is con
verted into a Stock Room, in which are
stored all the supplies for tho paper, the
job department and the bindery.
The two front rooms on the second story
are rented as lawyer’s offices—the rear ones
are used as the “Book Room,” where hook
and pamphlet work is done.
The Job Printing Department and the
Bindery occupy the entire third floor, and
aro provided with all the conveniences nec
essary for the rapid execution of work.
The fourth floor is divided into three edi
torial rooms and a composing room for the
newspaper, all splendidly famished and
conveniently arranged apartments.
The entire building is supplied with all
the modern conveniences and comforts, is
thoroughly ventilated and protected against
fire and is considered by all who have vis
ited it a model newspaper edifice.
Communication is had with tho several
floors by meaus of speaking tubes, dumb
waiters, and one of Bates’s patent elevators.
The cupola, which surmounts the build
ing, is neatly furnished and offers a
ileasaut place for visitors, especially the
plei
ladies, hundreds of whom have* visited the
building since its completion. From the
cupola a magnificent view of the harbor,
city and surrounding country is obtained.
The building is open at all hours of the
day to strangers and citizens, and a cordial
invitation is extended all to visit the premi
ses whenever they desire.
the United States says of Congress that
each bodv shall be the judge of the election,
qualifications and returns of its own mem
bers. If, therefore, some one claiming an
electiou from one of the Mississippi districts
were knocking at tho door of the House of
Representatives for admission and fraud
were charged, that body could investigate
his election by the people. Senators are
not elected by the popular vote. Under the
Constitution’they are .--hosea by the Legis
latures of the States. What possible right,
therefore, or glimmer of law is there upon
laughter.] But why talk about corruptions
in these Southern governments? Look else
where!—look everywhere! Pollution—pol
lution is left wherever that party makes its
track. Look at Credit Mobiliet 1 —the gigan
tic railroad swindles—the Facific mail—tho
I Washing ton City government rings—tho
Sanborn contracts—and the endless schemes
aud jobs to rob tho Treasury. Look at the
collossal frauds of the “whisky ring,” which
I shall in a few days show to the Senate and
the country exceed in the magnitude of their
proportions the peculations of all these cor-
whicli the Senate can proceed to investigate i rupt governments in the South. [Applause.]
a popular election in Mississippi. Gentle
men of the General Assembly, tho Senate
could, with the same propriety* aud just as
legally, investigate the right by which yon
hold your seats in this body; or the charge
of fraud in the last elections in the States
of New York or Illinois ! Tho proposition
is too absurd for argument. But what mat
ters it to Senator Morton that, to secure
Mississippi’s eight votes iu tho Electoral
College, he must fly in the face of all prece
dent, override the law, trample down the
constitution, overthrow local government
aud endanger popular liberty in this coun
try? What matters ail this to him ? Pic
ture to yourself a Senator from one of the
States of this Union, standing iu the highest
legislative body known to the iaws aud
which under the form of his government by
the constitution he hag sworn to support is
made the bulwark against au invasion of
the rights of the States—picture, I say, this
grave Senator standing in that august as
semblage clamoring for a committee, upon
whose report he may overthrow the popular
government of one of tho coequal States of
this Union ! And then look at tho gravity
of his argument! Tho question before tho
body is this: Whore is the law under which
the Senate of the United Stales can investi
gate a popular election ? How does the
Senator seek to demonstrate that the United
States Senate has such a power? What are
his arguments? They are these: The last
election in Mississippi must and can law
fully be investigated, because you want in
Georgia a constitutional convention and a
dog law! [Laughter.]
jNow, of course, that is not literally true,
but I have done the honorable Senator’s
argument no injflstice in thus presenting it.
Indeed, it is a compliment to put it in that
light. [Laughter.] He does urge the
Senate to investigate the election which has
just occurred in one of tho States of the
Union, and which sent Democrats to Con
gress and to the Legislature of that State.
But the constitutional provision which per
mits it he has not, as yet, shown us. The
Senator had spoken for two cla3*s when I
left Washington, aud among the arguments
that he presented was the fact that some
time iu the past Mississippi had repudiated
her bonds. [Laughter.] Another was that
sometime in the past her banks had broken,
and hence we must investigate that election.
[Renewed laughter.] These were cogent
reasons, doubtless, aud the honorable Sena
tor only needed one other point to ren
der his argument complete and over
whelming. If, when he was treating of
banks he had only given us a chapter on
the Freedman’s bank, of which he has a
right to know a great deal more than of
Mississippi banks, and which would have
been quite as germaiu to the subject aud
much nearer contemporaneous with the
events ho sought to iuvestigate—if he had
done that, his argument would have indeed
been worthy of the Senator’s patriotic, law
ful and disinterested purpose. [Great
laughter.] And while this Senator is thus
proving the constitutional power of Ihe
Senate to investigate the Mississippi elec
tion, with a view I presume of relieving that *
State of iheir Democratic government, and I
of restoring to the rebellious subjects of
Father Ames, the Daternal government with
which that individual by the grace of the
Republican party and Federal intervention,
has blessed them [laughter] for the past
few years—while he is thus engaged iu the
Senate, Mr. Blaine in the House sounds the
centennial jubilee by summoning before
him the ghost of the Duke of Alva to prove
that the Duke was au immaculate saint as
compared to the Southern people? [Laugh
ter, applansc and hisses.]
Probably 1 ought to apologize for treating
» grave a subject with so much levity. If
8Uclijexhibitious oT insatiate vengeance, of
unconquerable prejudice aud of undying
hate at such & time, when the hearts of the
Southern people yearn for peace, and the
jople everywhere, North, South, East aud
eat, hail the return ol the one hundredth
anniversary of American independence as a
day of oblivion to all these horrible memo
ries—if such an exhibition of partisan pas
sion does not proclaim these men unfit and
incompetent to rule this government, then
I know nothing of statesmanship and of the
qualifications requisite for rulers of a repub
lic, which, if it live at all, mast live in the
hearts of a united people. (Great applause.)
I come now to the second charge—that
the party which rules the country is a party
of corruption. On this point little need be
said. From the days of old Rome to this
hour, through all history, civilized and bar
baric,there neverhas appeared in any country
or any century, such seething heaps of cor
ruption as have been piled up by their
agents in these Southern States! They were
the worst governments upon earth. There
is scarcely a Governor whom they put in
power who is not now either a fugitive from
outraged law or impeached by the judgment
of the country. There is scarcely a Legis
lature which was not notoriously purchasa
ble. There is scarcely a Judge in some of
these wretched governments who has
not mocked justice and shamed the
ermine upon his shoulders, while not
few have been convicted of gross
frauds and embezzlements. This is true in
Louisiana from the Chief Justice d:>wn; and
in Mississippi and South Carolina that
lawyer ought to be stricken from the bar
as an imbecile who would expect a decision
ia accotdMW wiU» tlw lav. [Great
The “whisky ring”—holding * in its]
[polluted embrace, , not only officersl
of the government and collectors of the
revenue, but those high iu the confidence of
our rulers. Look, finally, at the widespread
demoralization among tho people, conse-
Jouent upon the demoralizing example of
r demoralized rulers. Look at this, fellow-
countrymen, and tell me if under any
administration of this or any other country
official embezzlements were ever so com
mon, official hooesty and integrity were
ever so rare, or corruption so rife? I do
uot say it from any prejudice, nor as a par-
tizan, but I do say, and say it with a full
realization of its truth, with as profound
a regret as I am capable of feeling, and with
a love of my country broad as its vast ex
panse, that the very reputation of republi
can government is imperilled, if its exist
ence is not endangered, by such a state of
public affairs.
We come now to the third general charge
—that this party has been and still is actu
ated in legislation toward tho South by a
spirit of tyranny. What is tyranny? Let
me describe it. Tyranny is not always per
sonated by a soldier. It may be in ono garb
or another. To-day it may be a General at
the head of an army, issuing laws to a peo
ple; to-morrow, a legislator enacting statutes
which violate the fundamental law of the
land and place in jeopardy the rights of the
people! Both are tyrants—the one bold,
defiant, manly; the other, coming in the
form of the arch deceiver, with the honied
woids of peace, law, constitution, upon his
lips, which are hut the trappings which
cover his lawless intent. Tyranny may he
tho act of one man, or of a minority or a
majority. It may be Ciesar pushing away
the crown with one hand and raisiu^ it tor
his brow with the other; it may be a Jacobin
miority or a Republican majority.
Tyranny is usurpation. The usurpation
of powers not recognized by law, which
override law, and place in jeopardy the
rights of the people, is tyranny. Let mo
now apply this definition to the acts of the
Republican party. They waged the war
upon tho one ground that no State had the
right to withdraw from the Union—that no
State, uuder our form of government, could
break the bonds of union and resume the
powers it had delegated to the Federal Gov
ernment. That was the ground upon which
they raised their armies and waged the war.
Therefore, the very moment war ceased,
with the triumph of their armies and the
defeat of the South, the Union was a fact !
It needed no reconstruction! If the bonds
of union could not be broken except by
force, and if that force which defended the
right to withdraw was defeated, how is it
possible to resist the logical sequence that
the defeat of the South was per.se the
restoration of the Union ? As I have said,
the soldiers thought this true, and so we
thought. But what did this party do?
They intervened by law to Dr event it. That
was tyranny.
They passed an election law under which
corrupt men could aud did take charge of
the registration of voters who struck from
the lists whom they would, and lrom their
decision there was no appeal. That was
tyranny!
They took charge of elections and the bal
lot boxes, turned out the men whom yon
had elected, and placed in power those whom
you had not chogen. That was tyranny !
They interfered to ascertain the constitu
ent elements of yonr Legislature, and sum
moned by military authority a railroad agent
to sit in this seat and decide who should and
who should not take their seats in this hall.
That was tyranny. They dispersed Legis
latures with bayonets. That was tyranny 1
But do you say these aro things of the
past, aud that we must look to the future?
No man is more ready than your speaker
to turn his back upon all these horrid recol
lections, and no man looks with more in
tensity of anxiety to the day when this
conntry shall be no longer under the domi
nation of hate, and when the whole people,
from ocean to ocean, shall be united, peace
ful, hopeful and happy. [Loud applause.]
But what encouragement have we if this
administration is to last to hope for such a
future? Suppose Mr. Morton passes his
resolutions? That is the aim of that party
to-day, and if it goes into power again upon
the passions which they seek to inflame,
and the prejudices which they essay to
create, they will not only pass those resolu
tions, but make the precedent set the fixed
policy of this government. To adopt such
resolutions, and thus override State lines
and the popular will, is tyranny. But what
next ?
This party majority in the Senate of the
United States is trying to make & legislator
out of Pinckback! Pinchback, sent from
Louisiana by a body which, by the judgment
of their own committee, had no legel exist
ence.
It is said to be capable of proof that he
was a convict. Bat suppose we should prove
it ? We should only commend him by that
to the confidence of that party! [Laughter
and applause.] If we coaid prove him a
jail bird it would only be to say “here is a
fit legislator for the Sonthern peopleand
in the estimation of that party panegyric
would be exhausted did we call him a thief.
[Laughter and cheers.] I presume they
will seat him. I hope they will not.
I trust I shall be there, although 1 am now
paired, to record my vote against him—to
more-tojoim with my brother Demo
crats in entering upon the records of the
country a solemn p’rotest against this out
rage upon decency, law and the Constitution
of the country. [Cheers.] But, 1 repeat, I
think they will seat him as a participator in'
the glories of Republican legislation and a
sharer in the emoluments which go to Re
publican Congressmen from the tionth, in
the shape of the sale of the cadetships and
the purchase of their votes by scheming cor
porations. [Laughter and applause.]
Now, have I proved that this party is in
competent, corrupt, and moved in its legis
lation towards us by a spirit of tyianny ? If
so, you are prepared to appreciate the
declaration with which I set out, that we
are in the presence of overshadowing dan
gers.
We come now to the second general head
—the chances and methods of averting this
danger. But I fear I am talking too long.
[Cnes of “go on.”] I say there is a possi
bility—] believe a probability—yes, I believe
a certainty—that we shall win the victory in
November, and take one long breath aud
rise to a higher—[Long and load applause,
drowning the speaker’s voice.] There is at
the North unquestionably a disposition to
have a change of rulers.* They begin to re
alize that the same daugers which threaten
us directly threaten them indirectly; that
the same corruptions, profligacy aud rob
bery, which is piling up debt and taxation,
is oppressing them as well as us. They also
begin to realize that it is the mission of
some party outside of the Republi
can organization to bring peace
to these sections and honesty
and economy to all the departments of
government. It is true that persistent
efforts are being made now, and will con
tinue to be made until November to divert
attention from the record of this party by
inflaming passion. But let me impress
upon you, my countrymen, that while they
cannot succeed in that effort, they are suc
ceeding in another, equally groundless aud
far more dangerous to your future. They
are upon false assumptions tilling the North
ern mind with apprehension. While upon
this point let me answer those who have
complimented me by asking my opinion
upon the convention (question. Candor
compels me to admit that I have not had
opportunity to investigate the subject suffi
ciently iu all its bearings to justity me in
urging my opinions upon you. Were la
member of this body with the lights before
me, I should vote for a convention, for rea
sons which I mention.
First, to shorten official terms. Second,
[to lessen executive patronage, which I be
lieve is greater than that of any government
in the country, State or Federal*.
But thirdly, above all else, that we might
restrain the power of the State, the counties I
and municipal authorities to create debts ad
infinitum, aud levy taxes ad libitum ! [Ap
plause.] I think these are good reasons for
calling a convention. Several of the North
ern States have incorporated into their fun
damental law the piovision to which I re
ferred. But as I have said, my convictions
are not sufficiently fixed for me to urge
them upon you; but, gentlemen of the Gen
eral Assembly of Georgia, there is one point
in reference to this convention question
upon which I have the profoundest convic
tions, aud that is as to tho time when this
convention should assemble, if this Legisla
ture shall call it. That time is the
earliest moment possible! [Prolonged
applause.) Why? Why not wait
until 1877? Let me tell you why.
A few days before I left
J Washington, Senator Morton, in tho United
States Senate, read from his seat a speech
delivered from this staud by a distinguished
son of Georgia—delivered, as Mr. Morton
said, by the invitation of the Legislature, iu
the presence of the Legislature aud with
the approval of the Legislature, [cries of
no, no, no, from members in all parts of
tho honse], and it has gone to the North
flying upon the wings of the telegraph, that
the champion of the convention iu Georgia
has at last informed the conntry and the
[world of the real purpose of Georgia Demo
crats in calling a convention. What is that
purpose ? Mr. Morton gave it in tho classic
words of this Georgian, “To put the nigger
where he will never he heard from again.”
Now, fellow-countrymen, this has gone forth
to tho North as the echo of the sentiments of
this body. There is not a man in Georgia
who does not know how unjust is such au
impfitatiou. Is there one in this body or
this great assemblage who does not feel the
injustice? [Loud cries of “no, no,” from
all parts of the house.] Yet the North be-
lieves it. To-daj there are thousands and
hundreds of thousands of men at the North
who were looking to next November as a
day of relief from the profligate party which
has administered the government in its own
interests for ten years. But these men have
been appalled—filled with apprehensions by
the wild and unreasoning declarations to
which I have been compelled to refer. Hear
it, believe it, know it, that unless that ap
prehension is corrected overwhelming defeat
awaits us in November, attended with
[all the disasters which I have so
inadequately described. I am obliged
to say ou this subject a word
more. I share with you, my countrymen,
all yonr pride iu the past of that distin
guished Georgian. For his past services to
the State and the country I honor him. But
I would be au unfaithful sentinel on the
watchtower to which your confidence has
assigned me if I did not warn yon that that
sentence, wild as it was, is brimful of poison
for the Northern mind and of defeat for
Democrats and calamity for you. [Loud
applause.] I say it is painful to utter these
words; but I would be untrue to my con-
[victiona of duty were I to say less. I do not
envy the ambition which seeks notoriety at
the hazard of such dire consequences to
this section and people. [Loud applause.]
Therefore, I repeat, if you are going to call
a convention, call it quick. [Applause.]
]Lot the people of tho whole country know
the truth. Let them look down into the
very bowels of your purposes and sound all
the depths of yonr intent. The truth and
the whole truth, let it be known: Do this
and in spite of the folly we recognize, you
will disarm apprehensions. Do not rely
upon your appreciation of the meaningless
[words which have gone to the country.
Thes© words to the North mean enough to
defeat you in the next election. Let them
know that your purposes are these and
Jthese only—to shorten terms of office, lessen
Executive patronage, forbid the creation of I
debt, and to base your government on foun
dations laid with your own hands, whose
chief corner-stone shall be justice to all
men of all colors and creeds. [Loud,
prolonged applause.] I said that ap-\
prehension is worse than passion. It is
worse because it takes hold of thinking
men. It is the thinking but misguided men
of the North who have been seized with a
tremor lest some brainless folly at your
hands may involve this country m further
trouble. Passion remains, but its power for
evil is well nigh gone. Messrs. Morton and
Blaine will not succeed. You have seen the
little boy take the sea shell thrown up by
the waves from the depths of the ocean, and
as he held it to his ear he heard the roar of
billows which have long sinc<rbecome a calm;
so, If you should put your ear over the little
souls of these little men you would hear the
roar of a tempest which has subsided years
ago. [Cheers.] The tempest is in their own
breasts. They cannot uncage it, nor stir a
blast which will ruffle the leaves ontside of
Washington. The fury of such warriors as
Messrs. Blaine and Morton reminds me
of the remark of Winfield Scott during the
late war,that when the war was over and the
fighting ended, it would require the whole
noral power of the government to restrain
aod repress the non-combatants. [Laugh
ter.] But I wish to repeat that vour dutv
in reference to the coming election, which
is to decide your fate for generations—the
whole of your duty is to silence, by the
p^ver of troth, these apprehensions. Hear
it, gentlemen of the General Assembly of
Georgia, in this—in this alone—consists tho
sum and substance of your aid to Demo
cratic success. [Applause.] It is the multum\
\inparco—tho little drop of extract which
contains, in its diminutive sphere, the odors
of a thousand roses—the ounce of quinine
from a ton bark. If you are defeated, if tho
force bill is passed, if the habeas corpus is
suspended, if State governments are over
thrown, if popular liberty is lost, “ Died of
apprehension ” will he the epithet upon its
tomb! [Loud applause.] The truth is that
in the presence of all the passions, preju
dices and apprehensions, the condition of
the Southern people is very much like that,
if you will permit me to illustrate by an
anecdote—and I very seldom tell one—of
Patrick, the Irishman, who was very sick
and was visited by his priest. Said the priest
as he felt his pulse, and the cold sweat stood
upon his face: “Patrick, you are very sick I”
“Yes, father.” “You are sick unto death,
Patrick!” “Yes, father.” “Are you afraid
to meet your God, Patrick?” “No, father;
its the ither fellow at the ither end that I
am afraid of!” [Great laughter.] Now,
fellow-citizeng, it is not the truth jouare
afraid of. It is of that “ither fellow” with
the bloody shirt! [Laughter.] Iu this con
test you have to fight the Christain’g fight.
You have to meet “the world, the flesh and”
—the Senator from Indiana! [Loud laugh
ter and applause.] My fellow country
men it is not necessary for me to
tell you that the object* of Mr. Blaine, in
the House, and Mr. Morton in the Sen
ate, is to provoke angry discussion.
There are times whem it is necessary to
gratify them. In the Senate it was thought
advisable to act upon Napoleon’s advice
when “yon find what your enemy wishes
you to do, do something else, bat do not do
that!” It was thought wise, therefore, in
the Senate that Mr. Morton should »be per
mitted to have his fight to himself, especi
ally as this whole battle had been fought a
year ago, in which, judging from the result
of the elections, he nad been defeated. The
result is that his two days’ speech has fallen
* his feet- ~ * ’
not be understood as saying that there are
never times when answer mnst be made.
There are occasions when silence is crim
inal—when our selfrespect and the cause of
truth demands that the South shall answer;
and such an occasion was Mr. Blaine’s as
sault in the House upon your reputation aod
your honor, and he got the answer and an
overwhelming answer! [Deafening ap
plause. ]
I know there are those who think that a
reply should have been made to Mr. Morton
in the Senate. But, my fellow-countrymen,
he is an unworthy representative who, what
ever be the clamor, however he may be mis
understood or misconstrued, will not hold
his tongue when wagging it would bring
disaster to his people! [Applause.] This
feeling has guided the Senate ; and, much
as some of us have been misconstrued, we
have still felt that the safety of the people
was better than the applause of the popu
lace. [Cheers.] Tho lightning rod point
ing to the storm cloud and inviting the
flash may be melted and consumed by the
descending bolt; but it has served its pur
pose if it saves the temple! [Loud ap
plause.]
There are other questions which must be
settled, among them the financial question.
I am confident a compromise will be effected
which will make the Democratic party a
unit upon a line of policy dictated by the
judgment of moderate thinking, broad
headed men, and consistent with sound
financial principles. Will you pardon me
for a word as to my own views. I am
charged with being an inflationist. I am
not. I am charged with being an anti-re-
sumptionist. I am not. I am an anli-con-
\ tractionist, and iu all that I have said and
written I have maintained, and I maintain
to-day, that when resumption is reached it
must be on some lino of common sense and
not by a course which insures universal
wreck and ruin. I have analyzed, criticised
and denounced the absurd law passed by
the last Congress aud called a resumption
law, and I denounce it now—as a fraud, a
sham, a falsehood, promising resumption
when it means nothing but contraction of
one paper currency directly and the other
indirectly. Look at its destructive effects all
over the country!
Factories are stopped, labor is unem
ployed and bankruptcy is the fate on enter
prise. Enforce such a law and it will dig
the graves of all industries from one end ot
the country to the other. I believe four-
fifths of the Democrats in the House will
vote for its rep -al, aud that the bill will
pass the House ; and if the Republican ma
jority defeats it in the Senate, we will de-
leat them before the people. [Applause.]
Let them make the issue. I hope the views
I have maintained will be found consistent
with the views of the Democratic party.
But if they are not, let them be sacrificed ;
let every man surrender his theories if they!
endanger the success of the party. For
while a sound currency is essential to the[
prosperity of the country a sound govern
ment is far more essential to the liberties of]
the people. [Applause.] M
Perhaps I ought to say something about!
platforms and candidates. It would be idle
to speculate before the convention assem
bles. Suffice it to say that the platform
should declare for a sound currency; against
contraction on the one hand and inflation
on the other; it should declare for local gov
ernment for the supremacy of the constitu
tion, and ought to be au open declaration
of uncompromising warfare upon the cor
ruption, incompetency and profligacy of
the party in power. As to the candidate, I
have only this to say, that we ought to
nominate that man, ’whoever he may be,
who is the representative of sound princi-l
pies and can be elected. Who that man is,
circnmstanccs in the future must determine.
He certainly has not yet appeared, suffi
ciently defined for the people of the South
to nominate him and torn to his support.
The South should go into that convention!
untrammelled, and cast her vote for that]
candidate who can most certainly carry thei
doubtful States which hold their elections
in October.
And now, will wo succeed? If the South]
will rid the Northern mind of the appre
hensions to which I have alluded, aud if the
Democratic party will adopt some suchl
straightforward, manly platform as I havel
suggested, we will succeed. [Great ap
plause.] r
Of coarse there mast pervade the platform
such a spirit of conservatism as will guard
the great interests of this great country.
Do not understand me as using that word
conservatism as meaning the sacrificing of
principle. Rather than ibis let defeat come.
And although defeated, that party is the
greatest whose principles are soundest, as
that man is the grandest whose integrity
survives the wreck of his fortunes. [Cheers.]
Iu the calculation of chances we are enti
tled to encouragement, because the year
will be auspicious. It will be a year of
great events, as well as of proud memories
—a year for the restoration of concord and
a return to ancestral faith, for the burial of
passions and the resun ection of principles
—a year in which there shall be gathered at
the place of its birth the descendants of
those who stood by its cradle and saw the
lambent flame prophetic of its present
greatness playing around the head of the
Infant republic. [Applause.] A year to be
crowned at last by a great victory won by
an appeal to reason and not passion—to vir
tue and not cupidity. We may not cele
brate, as Russia, our thousandth anniver
sary, nor as little Iceland, amid her ice
bergs and the fires of Hecla, oar millennial
natal day, but we can celebrate principles
old as the centuries and yet vigorous
with the power of truth. * [Applause.]
What a spectacle it will be for this
American people, after these years of
injustice to the South, of viola
tion of law, of estrangements and extrava
gance, of funds and of frauds, to witness
the administration of government restored
to the constitutional methods of its foun
ders—an administration brought into power
by the shibboleths of truth, of justice to the
South, oiconcord to the sections, of honesty
in the collection of revenues, of frugality in
expenditures—thus bringing peace and pros
perity and content to all this impoverished
aud passion embroiled country. [Load ap
plause.] Such a victory won in such a mau-
ner and at such a time, will be memorable
in the history of this country, as memorable
as its great prototype which we this year
commemorate; moRt ftiemorable, because it
will mark the re-establishment on this con
tinent once more, and I hope forever, of
“institutional freedom under constitutional
union!” [Immense applause and general
congratulation personally to the speaker.]
SHBSSfffsms
Harvey W. Uthrop vereae to wit:
K. Wimberly. I have Wd J<M ?“ and H.
ty of defendant*. U« s hC pr T r '
ane hnndred and ninety num “ re
rirpi) ami One hnn-
dred and seventy-live (roXE LndS
and sevent,-eix (nff- h “Odred
eiaty-one (LSI', one hondmf and
(VJ6). one hundred and ftny-two
Lot No. one hundred an.I mnety.flvJ^aKT*™?*
hundred one and one-fourth (10l\) icrefof TS
No. one hundred and sixtv (ism
1. tve.v^h^ed^.CUzSisi
“ res - mure m less, all BituatThwSS
hein-m the twenty-fourth (2Uh)diatHaS?5?
laeki county, State ol Georeia. ard h*n.V^
» 0rt K h ^J*S d * ot Lurue, south b/landsot
Brother. Also upon Lot of Lan.i N.,.%>r?5
seven (47) in the twenty-first (2let) district If
Pulaski county, Ga,, containing two hundred twn
InStt > »f'^ alf .t (i 2S. acre8 ’ more or les *. bounded
north by lands of Solomon Polings,south by lands
of D. A. Hears, east by lands of ti. W. Jordan
west by lands of Joe Walker (c), Mrs. lk-tsev
Jordan, one of the defendants, holding a life es
tate in said lands, with the remainder in H i!
W imberly, the other defendant, aud will sell" the
same at public auction, in front of the United
btates Custom Honse, in the city of Savannah "
of Chatham, and State ot Georgia, on the
FIK^ T TUKSBAY IN MARCH NEXT, betweeS
tlu lawful hours of sale. Tenants iu possession
notified in writing. Property pointed ou- bv
plaintiff's attorney. ' 3
Dated at Savannah, Georgia, January 31, 1875
Terms cash. Purchasers paying for titles.
. . , WILLIAM II. SMYTH,
feb.S15,22&mch7 United States Mar dial
UNITED STATES MARSHAL’S SALE.
T NDKR and by virtue of a writ of fieri facias,
issued out of the Honorable the Fifth Cir-
cuit Court of the United States for tne Southern
District of Georgia in favor of the plaintiff, the
M fison Sewing Machine Company versus Reuben
W. B. Merritt, principal, and George Wood, sure
ty, I have levied upon, as the property of George.
Wood, the following described property
to-wit: All that parce! of land, situate*
lying and being in Godfrey’s District, South Ma
con, Bibb county. Georgia, bounded on : he south -j
by land owned by E. A. Christian; ou the east by
a street separating the same from the Mission
Chape’ *’
Chapel property ; ou the north by the New Hous
ton Road, trouting the same; west by property of
George Wood; the whole being dlfided in two
lots and containing one aero, more or less, to
gether with all the improvements thereon, con
sisting of one three-room dwelling and one four-
room dwelling and all necessary outbuildings,
and will sej the same at public auction ia
front of the United States Custom House, in
tho city of Savannah, county of Chatham, and
State of Georgia, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN
MARCH next, between the lawful hours of sale.
Tenants in possession notified in writing. Prop
erty pointed out by plaintiffs attorney. Terms
cash, purchaser paying for title.
Dated Savannah, Georgia, February 5, 1S76.
WILLIAM II. bMYTII,
United States Marshal.
febS,15j22,29&Mh7
UNITED STATES MARSHAL'S SALE.
U 'NDEK and bj virtue of a writ of flora facias
issued out of the Honorable, .the District
Court of the United States, for the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia, in favor ot the plaintiff. William
Law, Jr., assignee ol W. M. Poole *& Co., bank -
nipts, versus George M. Willett, I have levied
upon, as the probity of the defendant, nine
and three fourths (9 ‘ 4 ) acres of land, together i
with all the improvements thereon, situate, lying
and being in the village of Montgomery, county
of Chatham, and State of Georgia, comprising
six and three-fourths (6*^) acres ot high lund, ana .
three (3) acres of salt marsh, bounded on tho
north by the Montgomery road, on the south by
Vernon river, ou the east and west by lands of i
G. M. Willett, and will sell the same at public auc
tion, in front of theU. ». Custom House, in the i
city of Savaunah, county of Chatham, and State i
of Georgia, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN
MARCH NEXT, between the lawful hours ot
sale. Tenants in possession notified in writing.
Property pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney.
Dated at Savannah, Georgia, February 5,’ W6.
Terms cash; purchaser paying for titles.
WILLIAM U. SMYTH,
United States Marshal.
febs,l5,22.29Amar7
CHATHAM SHERIFF’S SALE.
TTNDEK and by virtue of a mortgage fi. fa.
\j issued out ot Chatham Superior Court in
favor of John W. Anderson vs. William Schley,
administrator on estate of John Schley, I have
levied on the following described property, to
wit:
Upon part of a tract or parcel of land upon
Vernon river, and adjoining to Bethesda, known
as the Beaulieu tract, which said lot is described
and designated as lot number one (I) in a plan
or plat of survey of said Beaulieu tract, made
and executed by John R. Tebcau, tbe county
Surveyor df Chatham county, on tbe 24th day of
June, 1869, which said lot fronts upon Front
street one hundred and fitly feet, aud extends
back five hundred feet to Avenue street; bounded
on the southwest by Depot street, on the south
east by Front street, ou the northwest by Ave
nue street, and ou the northeast by lot number
two, said lot having snch lines, shape, form,
course aud boundaries as are spedlM in said
plat or plan of survey above stated—the property
ul Wiiliam Schley, as administrator of the estate
of John Schley, deceased, described and con
veyed in a certain indenture of mortgage bearing
date on the 9th day of April, 1*»72, and made aud
executed by the said John Schley in his life time
to Francis Muir and Joseph B. Duckworth, co
partners under the firm name of Muir & Duck
worth, and by them assigned to the said John
W. Anderson.
And I will offer the said above described prop
erty at public outcry before the Court House
door of Chatham county, in the city of Savannah,
on the FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH, 1876,
during the legal hours of sale, to satisfy said
mortgage fi. fa.
Terms cash: purcliasers paying for titles.
JOHN T. RONAN,
febS,l5.22,29«fcmch7 Sheriff C. C., Ga.
CHATHAM SHERIFF’S SALE.
i
U NDER and by virtue of a mortgage 11. fa.
issued out of Chatham Superior Court iu
_ _ supen
favor of William Battersby vs. Henry J. Thom-
asson, Tiustee of Mrs. Sarah M. McAlpin and
Sarah M. McAlpin, 1 have levied upon the follow
ing described property, to-wit:
LOT NUMBER EIGHT (No b) Sloper Tything,
Percival Ward, aud improvements thereon, the
property of Henry J. Tbomasson, as Trustee of
Sarah M. McAlpin, and of the said Sarah M.
McAlpin, described and conveyed in a certain in
denture of morgtage, bearing date on the twen
tieth day of March, ls74.
And 1 will offer the above described property
at public outcry, before the Coart House door
of Chatham county, in the city of Savannah, on
he FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH, 1876, during
the legal hours of sale, to satisfy said mortgage
fi. fa.
Terms Cash. Purchasers paying for titles.
JOHN T. RONAN,
feb9,15,22,29,Mh7 Sheriff C. C. t Ga.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
B |Y virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary
Fulton county, Georgia, will be.scld be
fore the Court House door, iu thutowm of Spring-
field, Effingham county, Georgia, on the FIRST
TUESDAY OF MARCH NEXT, within the legal
hours of sale, tiiree town lots in Guyton, for
merly Whitesville, Effingham county, Georgia,
known as the Pooler lots. Sold as the property
of the estate of Carrie M. Lawrence.
P. B. LAWRENCE,
febs,15,22,20 Administrator.
A Sad Sell on a Swell Swain.
The present proprietors of the Astor
House objected to having their parlors
turned into a trysting place for male and
female flirts, and the manager of the
hotel, Mr. Lansing, played an amusing
joke recently upon one young gentleman
of this description who came under his
notice. He found the following “per
sonal” in a morning paper one day:
“Astor House, from Fulton ferry, in
Fifth avenue stage, one o’clock p. m.—
Lady in seal-skin sacque will please send
address to the gentleman whom she
noticed in hotel parlor yesterday. F. H.
B., box 114, Ilerald up-town branch of
fice.”
Forthwith he addressed a note to F. H.
B., penned in a female hand, and ap
pointing an interview in the hotel on the
following day. The writer urged him to
be discreet, and, to make sure that there
would be no mistake, suggested that he
should walk up and down the main corri
dor, with an illustrated newspaper in his
left hand.
Punctually at the appointed hour F. H.
B. made his appearance, dressed to kill,
and for half an hour paced the corridor
pensively, with a copy of Harper's Week
ly in one hand, the hotel officials and the
guests of the house enjoying themselves
greatly meanwhile. Having finally left
the hotel in despair, he put himself to
the expense of another personal. Another
note was written to him, and he was
brought to the hotel a second time, when
rumor spread in the street that Weston
was walking on a wager in the Astor, and
a crowd poured in to look at thim- He
was probably the most crestfallen young
man in New York when the clerks finally
called him into their private office and
opened his eyes.—N. T. World, 1 V,th.
irpt ilotues.
ASSIGNEE S NOTICE.
S OUTHERN District of Georgia, S. 8., at
SANDERSVILLK, THE 7th DAY OF FEB
RUARY, 1876.
The undersigned hereby gives notice of his ap
pointment as Assignee ot George W. Bateman,
ot the county of Washington and State of Geor
gia, and within said Di.-tr.ct, who has been ad
judged a bankrupt, upon h.s own petition, by the
District Court of said District.
WILLIAM L. ORR,
Assignee of George W r . Bateman, Bankrupt.
febb-Tn-3t
S TATE OF GEORGIA, Effinoiiam County.
To all whom it may concern: Whereas,
D. H. Shaman applies lor Letters of Administra
tion ou the estate of James T. Shaman, iate of
said county, deceased: .
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish alt
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said
deceased, to file their objections (if any they
have) why Letters of Administration should not
be granted tbe said applicant on the FIRST
MONDAY IN MARCH next
Witness my official signature this January
1876 AMOS F. KAHN,
» febl-Tn,4t Ordinary E. C.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
XTOTK’E is hereby given to all persons having
demi
^ , demands against the estate of Maria Moy-
lan, late of Chatham county, Georgia, deceased,
to present them to me, properly made out, within
the time prescribed by law, in order to show
their character and amount; and those indebted
to said deceased will make payment to me.
jas. >). McGowan,
Executor Will of Maria Moylan, deceased.
janl8-Tn6t
Fable from the New York World. A
Venetian merchant who was lolling in the
lap of Luxury was accosted upon the
Rialto by a Friend who had not seen him
for many months. “How is this?” cried
the latter; “when I last saw you your
Gaberdine was out at elbows, and now
you sail in your own Gondola.” “True,”
replied the Merchant, “but since then I
hAve met with serious losses and been
obliged to compound with my Creditors
for ten Cents on the Dollar.” Moral—
Composition is the Life of Trade.
Gone on a Buffalo Hunt.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette says : “Boss Shepherd, Hallott,
Kilburn and the agent of the Alaska Fur
Company, are wanted here this week on
the District ring, the real estate pool >md
the Alaska for seal investigation. Yet all
these gentlemen yesterday very suddenly
left for a prolonged buffalo hunt fn the
plains, where (he voice of (he
S TATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham Coit«tt.—
All persons indebted to the estate of Mrs.
Isal>ella Evans, 'ate of Chatham county, deceased,
are hereby notified to make immediate payment
to me; and those having claims against said es
tate will present the same, duly authenticated,
within the time prescribed byUw.^
janll-Tcfit Administrator.
S TATE OF GEORGIA. Chatham < oc.y
All persons indebted to the estate of Simon
M Iran It, Sr., late of Chatham coturty. decca “J[*
are h reby notified to make immediate payment
to me; and those having claims W r f“J
estate will present the same duly authentic^ d
within the tune presenbed by law.
FRANCIS A. MIRAUL1,
feb!5-Tu,6t Administrator.
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feb!6-lm
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