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<i\\t ^Horning glnrs.
VO. 3 WHITAKER STKEET,
(HORNING NEWS BUILDING).
J. II. EST1LL, Proprietor.
W. T. THOMPSON, Editor.
W EDNESDAY, MAY 26. 18*0
i'APFIMii 1ME Wliihs.
The Canadian cricketers won the match
game played with the West Scotland Club,
near London, on Monday, by a score of 79
to 170.
The Committee on Episcopacy of the
Methodist Episcopal Church North have re
ported a recommendation to the General
Conference to elect two missionary Bishops,
one for Liberia and one for Africa.
Herr Hasselmann, Socialist Deputy, has
been excluded from the Social Democratic
party la consequence of having expressed
regret in the Reichstag that in Germany
Socialists did not identify themselves with
the Nihilists.
Thomas Edward Troycross, dealer in the
American department of the London Stock
Exchange, has been declared a defaulter.
Clement Coleman Co., indigo and dry
Baltery brokers, Mincing lane, have failed,
with liabilities at £30,000 sterling.
The American bark Excelsior, with sugar,
from Mantanzo6 for New York, struck on
the Grecian shoal coast of Florida, Sunday
morning, and is a total loss. Cargo partly
saved.
The bark Florida, from Mobile, has ar
rived at Queenstown. Vessel and cargo
considerably damaged by fire.
Sir Wo. Harcourt, who was defeated by
the Conservative candidate, Mr. Hall, at
Oxford, has been elected for Derby without
opposition.
Germany has withdrawn her opposition
to a conference of the signatory powers of
the Berlin treaty, but stipulates that a
definite plan of action shall be announced
before the conference meets.
It is probable that M. Waddington will
take the London Ambassadorship in the
event of M. Leon Say’s elevation to the
Presidency of the Senate.
The Imperial Bank of Russia has issued
one hundred and fifty millions roubles of 4
per cent, consolidated Russian railroad
bonds.
Generous rains have prevailed in Virginia,
putting to an end an excessive and damaging
drought which has seriously interfered with
farming operations, the farmers in many
Instances being compelled to water tbe.'r
crops with spring water to keep them from
dying.
The anniversary of the several Baptist
Associations for general work opened at
Saratoga yesterday with the meeting of the
Baptist Missionary Union. The report show
ed the union to be in a prosperous condition.
The shareholders of the State Line Steam
ship Company at Glasgow have approved of
a proposal to transfer the franchises of the
company to the Anchor Line Steamship
Company.
The Presbyterian General Assembly re
ceived yesterday fraternal telegraphic salu
tations from the Northern Presbyterian
General Assembly, and responded to the
same telegraphically. They also adopted
the new directory of worship, decided that
an elder could not demit his office without
the consent of the church, and refused to
revise the list of delegates to Presbyterian
Alliances.
The Kensington (Pa.) mills and furnaces,
which employ twelve thousand men, are
idle in consequence of a difference between
masters and men as to wages.
St Nicholas.
St. Nicholas for June, 1880, ba9 an
outdoor summer y character sustained
throughout in the poems, the prose, and
the seventy two pictures. Among its
striking features is an account, by Olive
Thorne Miller, of the Children’s Aid So
ciety's delightful charity, “The Summer
Home” for poor city children, at Bath, L.
L, with seven pictures made by Jessie
Curtis from sketches taken on the spot.
Another attractive paper is an article
written and copiously illustrated by Mr.
Daniel C. Beard, clearly explaining to
young people “Uow to Camp Out”
cheaply, easily and comfortably.
There are long installments of the
two serials—“Jack and Jill” by Louisa
M. Alcott, with two fine illustrations by
Dielman; and “The Fairport Nine,” by
Noah Brooks, with pictures by Red
wood. The number contains five com
plete short stories, all illustrated: “Lit
tle Miss Stone,” by Mary Wager Fisher,
describing the amusing way in which a
very little girl was cured of tewing on
Sunday; “Bessie Ainsley Doctors the
Doddses,” a tale of a little girl's disap
pointing experience with her mother’s
favorite patent medicine; “The ‘West
Wind’s’ Last Cruise,” a stirring sea story
for boys, by Frank H. Converse; “Lost
and Found,” a tale of English life; and
“Marion’s Story,” about two country'
girls, a pet rabbit.and a jealous dog.
Mrs. R. Swain Gifford contributes a
fine picture and a few paragraphs about
some interesting ducks called “Old
Squaws,” whose musical cry, “He got
no gun!” i9 said to be irritating to sports
men.
Among the funny things are the verses
“Ah Lo,” with two comical pictures by
Hopkins, and the curious “Chronicles
of the Molbos”—a thick-witted people
living in Jutland—with three humorous
illustrations by Frank Beard. Short
poems and bright pictures are scattered
through the number, and there is a full-
page illustration of curious modern head
dresses of European men.
The Railroads and the Commission.
Wc desire to call special attention to
the communication on the Railroads and
the Commission—which appears in an
other column—from the pen of Col. H.
S. Haines, General Manager of the Sa
vannah, Florida and Western Railway.
It embraces the entire subject, is logical,
practical, concise and conclusive. In a
word, it is unanswerable.
A few days since the Atlanta Constitu
tion published a statement that the rail
way above mentioned had cut its rates at
certain points below those allowed by the
Commission, and that, therefore, it was
conclusively proven that the outcry
against the Commission was entirely un
justifiable. We stated in reply, “on the
highest authority.” that no such cutting
of rates had taken place, whereupon
the Constitution of Tuesday publ shed
a long article to show that, although we
might have been “technically” right,
we were practically wrong. In order,
however, to be sure that we were both
technically and practically right, we re
ferred the matter directly to Colonel
Haines, and his letter is the result It
not only fully sustains our position, but
it treats lucidly and comprehensively all
the points at issue. We commend it to
the careful consideration of our readers
and of the people of Georgia.
Opposition to Grant.—John Coch
rane, Horace White and other Indepen
dent Republicans are circulating a paper
for signatures of Republicans in New
York city and State who will not cast
their votes for Gen. Grant, if nominated
for the Presidency. This paper will be
presented to the Chicago Convention to
show “the danger that cannot be over
come in New York.” Copies of this
paper are in circulation in different parts
of the State, and the interested persons
claim that 5,000 names have already been
appended to it. They claim that they
will have all of the 20,000 “scratchers”
pf last year.
Hypocrisy and Inconsistency.
When Haye6 6ent in bis recent veto
of the deficiency appropriation bill it
will be remembered that he based his
action on the ground that the bill con
tained a political rider, and notwith-
ing he had himself, while in Congress,
voted for various appropriation bills
with such riders attached, he regarded
the practice of placing political nders on
appropriation bills as an exceedingly evil
one. This course of action had been
suggested to Hayes by members of his
party in Congress, who, although
they had, like himself, time and
again carried out their political
schemes through the medium of appro
priation bills, on this occasion, with their
usual audacity, denounced the custom in
vehement terms.
The utter inconsistency and hypocrisy
of these Radical Congressmen in this re
gard was beautifully illustrated in the
House a few days ago. The agricultu
ral appropriation bill was under discus
sion, and Mr. Converse, of Ohio, moved
as an amendment a provision directing
the Commissioner of Agriculture to con
tract for sinking artesian wells in certain
Western States and Territories, with a
view of reclaiming arid and waste lands.
Here was clearly an effort to attach
a rider to an appropriation bill,
and, of course, to have been
consistent, the Radicals should
have opposed it violently. But the
contrary was the case. Mr. Conger, of
Michigan—who aspires to be the cham
pion bloody-shirter of the House,and who
has permitted no one to excel him m his
patriotic (?) and indignant outbursts
against the crime of attempting to pre
vent The Nation from regulating, with
national bayonets, national elections by
means of a clause in an appropriation
bill—thrust himself in as the champion
of the amendment despite its plain char
acter as a piece of general legislation.
Now, the obvious deductions to be
drawn from the action of Conger, who
was, we believe, sustained by several of
his fellow Radicals, is simply this. The
Radicals are exceedingly loud in their
pretensions to virtue, whenever they
think they can accomplish anything by
being virtuous. When, however, they
can gain any advantage by an opposite
course, they c*st virtue and con
sistency both to the dogs. In their
opinion political riders on appropriation
bills are terrible things when they are
directed against Radicalism; but when
they propose to accomplish anything
likely to benefit a Radical constituency
then they are all right. In short, if there
ever was a party in any country in this
world remarkable lor unblushing effront
ery, unparalleled hypocrisy and shame
less inconsistency, that party is the Radi
cal political organization of the United
States of N »rtn America.
THE RAILROAD COMMISSION
The Atlanta Constitution and
Savannah, Florida and Western
Railway.
The United States appears to be the
sole country where there are only two
great parties, for the Greenbackers can
scarcely be considered as a party, and
are really possessed of no strength except
that lent them by the Democrats and
Republicans. In Europe it is different.
The German Reichstag is made up of a
dozen parties utterly irreconcilable to
each other, so that no one of them is in
an absolute majority. There are Liber
als, Conservatives, Socialists, Particular-
ists, Ultramontauists, etc. In France
more than six distinct parties—Radicals,
Republicans, Imperialists, Constitution
alists, Orle&nista and Legitimists—can
be counted, each of which is again sub
divided into several cliques and factions.
The Spanish Government can only secure
a majority in the Cortes by making up a
compromise ministry, composed of rep
resentatives of the various factions into
which the National Legislature of that
country is divided. The cable dispatches
from Italy show that the elections in that
country have produced a Parliament
which will be divided as follows: 18J Min
isterialists, 147 members of the Left and
152 members of the Right, so that no fac
tion or party will boast of an actual majori
ty. Even in England there are Liberals,
Conservatives and Home Rulers. In
this country alone a third party finds it
impossible to thrive.
The Greenback-Labor people are in a
bad way. Already they have divided
into two parts, one of which has a Presi
dential ticket In the field. Now more
trouble is threatened. The Labor sec
tion of the double-headed party met in
convention at Philadelphia last week,
and its deliverance was an ultimatum to
the Greenback wing. It proceeded to
name its ticket for President and Vice
President, and declared that this ticket
must be nominated by the party conven
tion at Chicago, or the Labor wing would
bolt and proceed to make terms with one
of the oid parties. The Greenbackers
will hardly submit to the dictation of
the Labor men, and there is every pros
pect for a first-class shindy when the
convention meets.
Editor Morning Fetes: Ever since the
bondholders of this company applied to
the United States Circuit Court tor re
lief from the effects of the tariff which the
Railroad Commission had applied to this road,
the Atlanta Constitution has been devoting its
columns almost daily to holding the manage
ment of the company up to public opprobrium
and ridicule. It has shown no disposition to
treat the subject as one open for argument:
no intimation that our case was one
of unusual hardship, in which
the Commission might possibly have
been in error; no sympathy with a company
that bad purchased a railroad, worn out in the
public service, without ever earning a divi
dend; no word of praise for its stockholders,
who were devoting their entire earnings to
putting the property into a proper condition
for the safe transportation of persons and
property. So far from taking the stand which
a journal of acknowledged enterprise and
large circulation should have done: so far from
fairly stating the issue which the bond
holders had submitted for judicial decision,
it used its large influence to mystify
the public as to their purpose in going into
the courts; it impaled private individuals upon
the sharp points of its jokes, and left them
quivering there for the amusement of its
readers; it evaded the honest efforts of the
Moa*ix« News to bring it back to a rat onal
discussion of the railroad law and its effects
upon the people, by bringing up little side
issues, evidently suggested by some one fa
miliar with the proceedings of the Railroad
Commission, and its course has now culmina
ted in an attack upon me.
As long as its diatribes were general in their
character, it was not my business to notice
them. I was but too well aware how uneven
such a contest would be. On the one haud an
influential newspiper. with a large corps of
editors paid to attack or defend as the policy of
its owners might dictate: its many readers
quick to read any spicy article, and to believe
be ause they had read it. however cruel or un
just it might t*e: on the other hand, an almost
unknown individual, who has devoted his life
to strictly minding his own business and to the
conscientious discharge of his professional du
ties.
But its editorial of the 23d inst. leaves me no
other course but to reply as best I may, secure
in the conviction that there is nothing to con
ceal, nothing to explain away.
When the first tariff made by the Commis
sion wss p iblished, we examined it carefully
and were satisfied th *t, if applied to the busi
ne«s of this company, we could nut earn the
interest on its bonis. We so wrote to the Com
mission and asked to be allowed to appear be
fore them with an argument to that effect. We
wen* permitted to do so, and presented
a print-d statement showing our average earn
ings and expenditures for the Fast eight years.
Also that our earnings would be decreased
about $180.iXX) per annum if that tariff was
put in effect, and that with such a decrease we
would not earn enough by $S0,000 to pay the
interest on our bonds. That argument is now
In the ffcjssession of the Commission, and I call
on the Constitution to publish it, and let the
public see whether it was plain enough to be
understood.
The Commission received us politely, compli
mented us upon our argument and told us to go
home and look in the newspaper and we
would find out what they proposed to do with
our road. I will add that this argument was
supported by statements taken from the books
of tfle road by the Treasurer, who aecompa
nied me to Atlanta to make affidavit to their
correctness, which we were told was not neces
sary.
We did go home, and saw in the newspapers
that we were permitted to charge twenty per
cent, more than the first tariff. The very
flgurt*s which we ha 1 already furnished the
Commission were enough to show tnat this in
crease in tbe rates would not yield sufficient
earnings by forty-eight thousand dollars to pay
our interest, When I stated this to the Com
mission, I was told to ' try it for a month or
two." We had tried it. not by shipping so
many boxes of merchandise and so many bales
of cotton, but by applying their rates to the
business of the previous December item by
item, and the result was just as certain as if
we had shipped the very articles over again.
What was the use of spending from ten to
twenty thousard do'lars a month to see
how much we would lose, when we could try it
just os well upon shipments already made, and
when neither the State nor the Commission
would make good any loss occasioned by such
experiments? But the Constitution says that
we based our calculations only upon the month
of December, 1879. btill, since we
knew what proportion the business of
that month bore to that of the whole year.
was an easy sum in arithmetic
to apply the same per cent age of loss to the
whole business and get the result. When this
argument was made, time was precious, and
we had to work early and late to get what facts
we could. Subsequently we applied their rates
to six months' business, at a cost of nearly
J 1 0 for clerk hire, and found our original cal
culations to be sustained. The Constitution
need not take my word for this, as the clerks
who made the calculations will swear to their
uurractness.
Ila-d os it was we had to “try it.” We had
to fa-'c the certain loss u r SlO.UUU to $2o,WX) per
month, with the faint hope that the C’ommis
sion might, after a time, consent to let us earn
e< oogh ir.ore to pay our interest and keep out
of bankruptcy. If we did not, we exposed
uursalves to excessive fines of $1,000 or more
for every failure |o do so, aud the law left us
no appeal to Ibe courts Tf did nqt say if the
rates inale by the Commission were no* just
and reasonable the courts would protect us,
but that if we charged more than their rates
we would be fined for not complying with their
orders.
Sp we put the rates into effect, and when we
did so, we did away with free passes. And
this has been held up as a great offense, in
tended to make th - i»eople diiisatisfie 1 with the
Commission. I ask, what ri*-lit had a company
to piss anyone free, that admitted it could
not earn unough to pay the interest on its
bonds? This we had admitted; yes. had noti
fled our creditors to that effect ao any man
would do who was about to be unable to com
ply with bis obligations bycauss beyond big
control, and our creditors went to the court
to ask whether these rates, that would not
permit this company to earn enough to pay
its interest on its obligations, were the ‘‘just
and reasonable rates'’ that the Legislature in
tended when the railroad law was made. In
this way the case got into the courts—not with
the idea of defying the constitution and the
laws of the State, or of trampling on the rights
of the people, nor with any political object;
simply to keep frojr being bankrupted, if it so
happened that the law a as j.ot intended to be
s*) applied.
The case is in the courts and there I leave it.
If the bondholders are mistaken I do not
doubt that the lawyers for the State can make
it so appear to the court; if they are not mis
taken, if the Lcgife/ature did not intend for
railroads to keep trying rates until they broke
at it, why should not all lovers of justice and
fair play rejoice with them that the I.egisla-
uf Georgia n**ver intended to take private
raid, we have not attacked them, wc do not
wish to incur their enmltr. but we seek relief
from the great buiden which they have put
tbe 1 ui*° n158 are told that we should have
1 borne it without flinching, until the next ses
sion of the Legislature. Why should we?
Why should a railroad, against which no word
of complaint had been made, have its in
come reduced as I have stated, and af
ter a full statement of the facts ? Why could
not the Commission have waited and not the
railroad company, until It could have been as
sur^d that there were entirely sufficient reasons
fur this trein ndons exerc.se of its authority:
It acted hastily. I: had premised to get its new
rates into effect by May 1st. and had no time to
lose. I cannot believe that these gentlemen
really knew what thev were doing. They felt
th it the people expected something cf them,
and they hoped that wh-t they had done to
us would not turn out as badly as we bad
anticipated. There our figures were before
them, but they somehow thought that we had
made out our case more than it really was.
Their proceedings are held in secret, and '
As was predicted long ago, the tele
phone business has become a monopoly,
and bids fair to grow into the greatest
ever known. The “American Bell Tele
phone Company” controls the whole
field, and thus has the opportunity of
becoming the greatest and most power
ful corporation in the country. The
minor companies in process of organiza
tion in the different States will of course
be under the thumb of the central or
ganization, but each, in its own territory
and way, will exercise great influence.
ture of Georgia never intended to take private
property for pqbjicure without just compensa
tion:- I lx*g that yoqr readers wilj bear in mind
that this “rapaciou* corporation.'’ of which
the fivinstitution sj>eaks. lx uot trying to wring
enormous dividends from its patrous. it is
trying to earn the interest on its bonds, and if
it bail been allowed to do so, its bondholders
would never have cared whether the acts of
the Railroad Coinmif-doa were constitutional
or not.
This is the head and front of our offendiug,
and f-»r this our corporation has been pilloried,
I may say persecuted, by the Atlanta Constitu
tion to an extent that Is so totally out of keep
ing with the magnitude cf qur offenses, that
we may well believe that it» viruiou* abhor
rence of evil-doers is but the pretence, aDd
that some o her motive is the hidden main- wuu.
spring of this machine-made indignation f done
can only make this surmise as to their impres
■ions. What other surmise can we make?
Can we suppose that they were not ignorant
of the effects of their acts—that they did not
believe me to be mistaken in making state
ments that net only I was prepared to swear
to. but our Treasurer as well?
That they were aware of what they were do
ing, that they did not admit that I understood
what 1 had written and talked about, 1 cannot
conceive; for to admit it, to suppose that they
could have known these things and then have
put these rates into effect, would be to accuse
them of a cruel and capricious exercise of
their power.of which I can never believe these
three gentlemen to be guilty.
This i< why I have sedulously refrained from
impugning their motives. I believe that they
are not conscious of the wrong they have done
us, and that they would not willingly be par-
tie* to the attacks made upon us by the Consti
tution.
1 do think, however, that as arbiters between
the railroads and th** people, as men who
wished this great national problem treated as
a business proposition and not as a political
torpedo, they should have come to our defense
and have taken some little trouble to set the
Constitution right as to its assertions and its
inferences. #
I feel that I am making this article too long,
but 1 am speaking from the abundance of my
heart. I nave lived in this city for fourteen
years; during that time I have enjoyed a most
pleasant intercourse, professionally and social
ly. with the people on our line. I have endeavor
ed to discharge my official duties justly ami
courteously to all with whom I came in con
tact. and low I cannot be dragged out into an
arena prepared by the Constitution to be
baited fur the public amusement and bear such
torturing in silence.
It is unworthy of a great newsparer to seek
such humble prey, but as it has. day by day,
suggested acts of deception a :d f aud and
malice on the part of our management, which
may be accepted by its readers as the truth
if I do not reply to them, 1 must extend this
article still farther, e7en though it should prove
friiliniii
not put the rates in effect, but are still using
the very rates of Julv 15th, 1879. referred to in
the Constitution, which give the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad more from tbeir stations
to Wavcros* than they are entitled to charge
from the same fetation* to Brunswick. Whether
tbe people on the Brunswick X Albany Railroad
who ship freight to Savannah will be satisfied
or not with our expiana’ion, the Consti
tution should be. We never made any rates
to corap te with that road. w« proposed to
that road certain rates based upon the Commis
sioners rates. The Brunswick and Albany
Railroad did not approve of them, and they
were never used. We are giving the Brunswick
and Albany Raiircad more for freight delivered
to us at Waycross than they get for carrying it
sixty miles’further. With this the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad ought to be satisfied.
What have we done in this connection that has
made the Commission odious, and wherein
have 1 faded to state the t^pth? Let the Con
stitution speak now or forever after hold its
peace so far as we are concerned, for we can
not devote the rest of our lives to writin * news
paper articles.
We are engaged in a work in which the pub
lic is more interested, and especially the people
of Southern Georgia. We are devoting our
selves to developing the industrial resources of
that region; to introJucing new industries and
stimulating old ones; to building lines of rail
road through places that but for cur
effort* would never have been blessed with oar,
and we hope to be rewarded not only by a iust
compensation on our Investments, but aUo by
the good wishes of all those who have been or
are to be benefited by the present operations
and future projects of the bav&nnali. Florida
and Western Railwav Company, of whose lines
I subscribe myself the General Manager.
Very respectfully, H. S. Haixes.
OUR WASHING I ON LETTER.
Proposed Concentration of the Antf-
Tilden Democrats on the AntNTil*
den Candidate-Young Jlr. Ael&len
—The Life Saving Service—Pensa
cola Navy Yard Campaign Hired-
ing—Illicit Distilling in <*eorgia-
Report of the Deputy Commission
er of Internal Revenue.
Special Correspondence of the Momino Fetes.
Washington, May SI.—The opposition to Mr.
Tilden in Democratic quarters is as outspoken
as ever. His successes at State conventions
do not stop the clamor against him, but on
the contrary increases it. But still Mr. Tilden
goes on scooping in the votes. The men who
oppose him are beginning to consider why
things are as they are. They at last realize
the fact that while they have talked against
Mr. Tilden they have done nothing but talk.
They have advocated unitedly the claims of no
W e are accused of having reduced the w ages man as against him. On the contrary, each
of our employes in order to make the Com- . . 7~. , . , .. ' .
mission odious. When we found that the Com- cot,Jrie of them h “ worked, or rather talked,
mission insisted upon putting their rates into
effect, we had to prepare to meet the impend
ing storm as best we could, and as taking up
free passes would not have added to
our locome enough to have k-pt us
out of the United States Marshal's hands, it
was necessary to reduce our expenses a* speedi
ly and extensively as possible. All work of
improvement was io be stopped, we had to dis
miss every man that we could possibly get
a'ong without, and.to make some reduction in
the pay of those who remained. This reduc
tion was fixed at 10 per cent, upon all salaries
over $90 j>er month, and 5 per cent, upon all
under that amount, but was not to affect the
laboring men and others who did not get over
$1 per day. We had to assign a reason for this
reduction, and we staked that it was owing to
the reduction in our earnings that would follow
upon the establishment of the Commissioners’
rates. This was the real reason, and
what other could we have given - if odium
was to attach to any one. why should we have
been compelled to assume it? Or were we to
go ou paying full wages and hasten the very
bankruptcy we were endeavoring to avert?
The Commissioners’ rates went into effect on
May 1st; the reiuction of pay was not to take
effect until one month later. One month’s
notice was given to all employes who wished
to seek business elsewhere, and they were
asked to give us fifteen days notice of their
intention to leave. When we found that it
was not necessary the order was suspended.
These are the facts, and what less could pru
dent business men have done under the dr*
for a different man. There has been no con
certed action against him. There is now among
Mr. Tilden’s opponents here talk of coming
to a conclusion before the Cincinnati. Con
vention to work for one anti-Tilden man.
and by united effort defeat Tilden or the man
lie may name as an executor of bis •* tate.if he
should by an unexpected determination decide
to contend for the pr.vilege of naming the
nominee instead of being the nominee hjmself.
As yet this Is all talk; which I might add is
characteristic of the anti-Tilden men. They
seem to fear doing anything in reality against
the “ola gentleman. " It is to be hoped that the
arti-Tilden influence will, by concerted action,
make itself felt. If It remains scattered e.s now
nothing can prevent the “old gentleman’s’’
nomination, however disagreeable it may lie to
the majority cf the party.
YOUNG HE. ACKLKN.
The ease of Mr. Acklen, of Louisiana—young
Mr. Acklen, of Louisiana—who was found guilty
of two or three ofieuses by his committee—
the Committee on Foreign Affairs—and
whose ease was referred to the House Judiciary
Committee for report as to wliat course should
be pursue! toward him. will probably die with
this session. The committee, as heretofore
given in this correspondence, has decided to
apply the whitewash brush to youug Mr. Ack
leu. if worse comes to worse. But tneoomm.t-
tee d<>eH not want to come out and say what
their decision is. Togetoverthis.lt proposes
not to make any recommendation whatever. |
and if he should happen to go searching for
mineral indications, he is liable at any
moment to be shot at from behind a bush,
rn the supposition that be is a revenue
officer looking up illicit stills. Mr A. J Lane,
one of the special revenue force, is an experi
enced miner He discovered in Towns county,
adjoining Rabun, indications of silver, the
outcropp;ngs of which he thought were as rich
as those of the Comstock lode. Whi e he was
pursuing his iavestigati ns. Illicit distillers
shot at him and drove Dim out of his claim and
forced him to enter the revenue se vice in self
defense. Mr. James v Biltts a leadioglawier
and business man and proprietor of the hotel
at BlairsTihe, Union county, informed me that
recently a New York capitalist, who with
others had invested In a mining property in
Fannin county, came to Georg a with a view
of developing his property, bringing his family
with him, but hearing of the outrage on Depu
ty Collector Stuart, he at once d-cided to re
turn Korti, saying be could no; advise bis as
sociates to invrst their money in a community
where such deeds were tolerated. Revenue
Agent Wagner mentioned to me the names of
two other intending investors who were lately
driven out of the country in like manner.
“Every interest of the public good, in my
judgment, demands that the ascendancy of the
laws of the United States should be asserted
an 1 maintained in tins section of country by
vigorous and sustained efforts to put down the
illicit manufacture and sale of spirits, and to
arrest, convict and severely punish those who
persist in this pernicious pursuit until practial
rebellion a- d forcible lesistan e to law shall
have ceased. Even the poor excuse s< »metimes
urged that the illicit still affords the mountain
eer the only profitable and ac» essible market
for his surplus corn is wanting in this instance,
for the success of Fincannoif s registered dis
tillery shows that if It is desired to do so. apir
its can l>e profitably distilled even in the
mountains of Northeast Georgia in full com
pliance with the requirements * f law, and the
establishment of such legal d : suller es would
give to the farmer an open market for his pro-
du *e instead of his being compelled a< now to
sell secretly to the illicit distiller. The sympa
thy which has sometimes been bestowed upon
these law-breakers is sadly misapplied. In
stead of a peaceful and pastoral people pur
suing tbe even tenor of tlieir way in their quiet
homes on the slopes of the great Blue Ridge
and adnwn the fertile valleys of the Senora
and Turora. the Hiaw&ssee. ToccuaanJ Soquee,
the illicit distillers of Rabun and Fannin
counties have proved themselves to be coward
ly incendiaries and mur erous assassins, and
the sooner they are brought to condign pun
ishment the better it will be for the country
they infest aud fur the community they dis
grace.’’
The above is a synopsis of Deputy Commis
sioner Rogers’ report. The report itself is fur
nished me by the Internal Revenue Bureau.
As it is the intention of the government to
crush out. at a 1 hazards, illicit distilling in
Georgia. I send you the synopsis in order that
the people of the State may be informed of
the opinions and attitude of the officers of the
government here. Potomac.
aimusfmfttts.
»
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second class yachts. $40: prise for shad
boats. $10; prize for bateaux. $10. Two
yachts in each class to start or no race. All
yachta must report to the Sailimr Committee
at the platform before 11 a. u. The race will
be started at 12:30 p n.. punctually. The Sail
luff Committee reserves the privilege to change
anythin, on the programme, as circumstances
or weather may necessitate. Entries mu-t
be made by 12 n. V/EDJfESDAY, to the Secre
tary in writing.
Entrance fees— Firet class, f t; second class.
$1; shad boats. $2; bateaux. $1 Entrance
fees in each class to go to second boat in race.
The steamer “City of Bridgeton" has been
chartered for the use of members and their
Iguests, and w ill follow in tbe wake of the
yachts. WE HOSE,
Commodore.
Frxd. C. IVylly. Sec'y <£ Treas.
my25-.1t
cumstancesi But that this s'ep was taken to 1 but just to let the thing rest and die out quiet-
A great many ships have unhappily
been lost this year in the Atlantic ocean,
and the fragment of a vessel's stern
which has just been picked up on the
Irish coast, and is supposed to be a por
tion of the missing schoolship Ataianta,
may prove to have belonged to some
other unfortunate bark. The mournful
statement is, however, made that all
hopes are now given up of the safety of
the Ataianta by the British admiralty,
and that the searches previously ordered
have, therefore, been discontinued.
Senator Windom (Rep., Minn.), who is
Senator Conkling’s second choice and
who is said to be so infatuated with his
chances that he is already writing his in
augural message, is being “written
down" by Eastern Republican papers.
They declare that be has “aTSad financial
record,” having voted for the “inflation
bill" which Grant vetoed, and having
also assi ted to pass the silver bill over
Hayes’ veto.
A delegation of ladies proposes, if al
lowed, to appear before each of the Na
tional Conventions to advocate woman's
suffrage. It is an unwise movement,
and will be more likely to prejudice than
to assist'their cause. Neither conven
tion will be in the mood to take up the
questiODOf woman suffrage, nor to hear
addresses upon it. And an argument
can be so pushed as to anger a jury.
The colored voters of the Republican
party are apparently in earnest in urging
the candidacy of Senator Bruce, the
colored Senator from Mississippi, for
Vice President. On the principle of
minority representation, as well as a
matter of common justice, he is clearly
entitled to the place.
ag&n«s t a corporation which has had
the temerity to protest, in a lawful
way, against the official auts of three
paid officials of the State, that
tlireatened its existence. If the law Is not con
stitutional. it ought to be known, ami this can
only be ascertained by a judi.ial decision; but
thjs is a lawyer’s question, which I am not
competent to discus*. Whether it is so or not.
to me it 6eems & yerr good law if pome
of it* defect* were remedied, for it
provides for just and rea»^*)ibls
rates for the railroad, and prevents unjust
discrimination against the people. This ought
to satisfy nYery.ye Tin- railroads are to earn
a fair profit, and one section id tp have no ad
vantage over another; one town is not to be
permitted to draw trade away irom another,
an 1 all individuals are to be treated alike. If
the Commission will earnestly attempt to
bring about this state of things, we will gladly
austtpn them to the extent of our ability.
But the lay provides no check upon
the Commlsdiuu ip case it should
gowning. Had the Governoi be^n mistaken
in weighing the qualifications of his appointees;
had he selected men who were ignorant of the
principles governing the operations of rail
roads, and too indolent to learn: had he chosen
men who view ed their positions merely as step
ping stones to more desirable offices; had they
i een men capable of violent amiposiijes, who
bore a personal grudge against those who dif<
fered with them, and who would use their great
power as a weapon of revenge, how unfortu
n&te would be the plight of the railroad
corporation or manqgempnt that had to suffer
from their incapacity, .ambition or anver There
is no appeal from! heir decision; 43 tne present
incumbents informed the Governor in tneir re
port: “Our powers are positive, not negative;
like thumbscrews, they take a powerful hold,
so that even to litigate them is dangerous.’’
TJiere is nothing more unreasoning than irre
sponsive power; the man who enjoys it will
not brook opposition or criticism, and those
who are in his power soon learn the proper way
in which to approach him—not as a citi+ua ap
pearing before a tribunal, conscious of the jus
tice of nls cause, by no means; you have not to
convince but to persuade; you must not argue
but flatter-
I have already commended the law and I
have not assailed the Uompiission. It is com
posed of gentlemen well known to the com
munity. and who are disposed to act honestly
up to their convictions. They have treated me
civilly when J was before them, and I have
spoken of then} In the same way whenever I
have felt it may duty to ijiscuss their official
acts. That they have enormous powers, for
S -od or for evil, over every railroad ia
e State, they do not deny; they avow
it. There is no other official body in fhU State,
nor, so far as I know, in the United States, of
which it can be said with truth what they have
said of themselves and of their official preroga
tives. Is it likely, then, that the officials of a
corporation, aware of their irresponsible au
thority. would have even questioned it, much
I**** defied it. except under circumstances of
the extremest urgency? Let the Constitution
at least give us credit for honestly fearing
bankruptcy as the consequence of tlieir acts,
even though it may prove, what it has not yet
done, that we are mistaken: though it is appa
rent that, iij the opinion of the Constitution,
not even the fe«r of impending dissolution
could ju-tify a railroad ccmpany or it* credi
tors in flying to the courts for jirotection against
the Commission.
I do not wish this defense against the assaults
of tli s Const it ut ion to be tortured into a per
sonal attack upon these gentlemen. I do not
accuse them uf lying concealed behind the
newspaper ambush that has beep all at once
unmasRel in different parts of tne Slau*. and
really it would be a remarkable course for men
in their position to adopt. Personally, we re
spect them; officially, we have complied with
tneir rules and regulations; their rates were in
effect upon our road when the temporary in
junction was issued by the oourt. What more
could we do than we have done, except to sub-
to a loss of nearly $150,000per annum with
out * murmur and without a groan ? .As I flare
make the Commission odi . us. I deny. It shall
not be said of me that I would, from such a
motive, consent to reduce the wages of men
whom I hate known for years—many of
[them since they were children -some of
whom I have worked with side by
side in the sjttne occupation, who flare
worked fur us night and day. in season
and out of season, as faithfully as men could
work. I know and esteem many of <*ur em
ployes too well to be willing to injure them fur
any such cuntemptible purpose as to make the
Commission odious. If a selfish motive must
be suggested. I oiuht to care too much for my
self to be willing to give up ten per cent, from
my only means of support merely to make the
Commission odious.
Then, too, we would not furnish excursion
trains for the Thomasviile Fair, because we
hoped to make the Commission odious to the
people as well as to our employes. The fair
was to take place on the first or May, and we
were uncertain as to how the Commission
mii}ht view special passage rates. There were
clauses in lflfcir iugulatiops tflat were capable
of a construction forbidding them, ana we in
formed the fair authorities that, oh we were
uncertain how to act, we thought It advisable
not to make such rates until we had mure ex
perience with the workings of the new rates
fixed by the Commission. But it is said
that the regulations relieved the rail
roads from all restrictions as to
passage rates. The publication made in the
Atlanta Constitution did, but that published in
the Albany Adi'ertiser did not, although both
bear the same dale. We had used the Adver
tiser publication In making up pur tariffs, and
never knew that the regulations wen published
differently in the Constitution until it was tool
late to prepare exoursion trains. To satisfy
tbe Constitution that we acted properly under
the circumstances 1 will state that when the
matter was brought to the attention of the
Commissioners they informed me that they had
amended their regulations as t > passage rates,
b-it that we were ’‘right to go s’ow.” to that
the Commission does not object to our course
in this matter If the Constitutum does!
Our treatment of th*: lumber interest on our
| line flas been cl^ed a.s a striking example to
prove, in the wonl9 of the Constitution, that
r *if the railroads are left to themsahres, they
will not scruple to cripple interests in order to
swell their gross earning«.’* and tluit we had
selected the lumber interest as a victim in the
inauguration of the opposition to the Commis
sion.
The lumber interest is, indeed, an important
one to the city of bavann&h, ami those familiar
with the facts are well aware how sedulously it
has been fostered by the management of this
r »ad. Last year, out of the wfi.OOO tons of
freight which we iran>ported, over 91,000 tons
was lumber taken at an average rate of less
than a cent per tou per rafle, ami thL rare was
made so low in order to protect the lumber
interests at Savannah and along our line It
was not done under th» thumbscrews: it was the
voluntary response of this “rapac out corpora
tion” to the appeal of a local industry for pro-
tectioi,. Bu; times were getting better; lumber
hud advanced fn price *-£> per cent , and we
were about to call a meeting of lumber men to
discuss an advance In rates; but just then we
found that the Commission was about to make
rates for us, and ue concluded to wait and see
wflat ihey would lie. A« soon us tDf-.y
were published, the lumber men found
them so much higher than they had
been paying that they came to us to know if
we intended to apply them Of coarse we took
a little time to consider. The rates made for us
on merchandise and cotton would make us lose
over $150,000 per annum; the rates made for us
on lutulser promised to make good some of the
loss. These rates, it is trie, were •maximum”)
rates, but they were also ’ just and reason
able,’ and between our duty to our bond
holders and the lumber m**n, wc thought
tha*, yre qught to accept the little
benefit tnat iflu Co'iugissijin bad
set-off to tin
for us.
great
loss they were to cause us. The lumber men
went to the Commission, and we were forth
with summoned to appear before that tribunal.
Bctfl sir'es wen* heard. We had very little to
say, e*ct>pt a piteous prayer t|a»t y. e might i*
allowed to hold fast to thu one little crumb
comfort that the Commission had given us,
but the lumber men asserted that they would
lose a gr-at deal of money if the Commission
did not iower the rates, and so the Com
mission made a lower “maximum just and
rea$onable” rate, as they had the power
to do. and which we would have been
obliged to accept If the temporaiy lnjuncqo«
hail not been granted. It is true that the firet
••just and reasonable” lundier rate was higher
than our people had been accustomed to and
higliei than should he' t. piohably fiaetl it;
still it the law allowed us to charge it, why rail
at a corporation threatened with bankruptcy
for seizing at this only straw within it* reach?
And why, because the lumber men com
plained, force a rate upon us lower
than that permitted to be charged by
the Western and Atlantic Railroad Companj-,
The lumber m**n on our line are too well con
vii*oed of our desire to rosier their uusiuess to
be deluded bj- any assertiohs that we desire to
“cripple their interest in order to swell our
gross earnings ” We are sufficiently well ac
quainted with their business to know how to
make rates for them which will never ‘‘cripple
;fleir interests,” and we would look upon such
u course as but poor’y adapted to “swell our
grots earnings.''
With this statement of facts, what have we
done to make the Commission odious with the
1 umber men ? The latter party did not consider
tfle rates fixed by the Commission as - just and
reasonable.” and \*hen bq:fl appeared before
that body it was our interest to show that the
Commission had not made a mistake, and the
lumber men’s business to show- that they had.
The Commissioners admitted that they had.
reduced the maximum rate to a point which
allowed but very little, if any. more to us than
we were getting: and we had to Ik* satisfied with
it. How then can the Constitution say that
\e flul sclectf*d the lumber interest “as a vie
tim in the inaumiration of this opposition to
the Commission r'
The latest charge made by the Constitution,
and the one which is accompanied bv a person
al assault upon my own truthfulness and
morality, is contained in its issue of the 23d
inst It had already stated that we had re
duced our rates 30 to f>0 per cent, below the
Commissioners’ rate in order to compete with
the Brunswick and Albany Railroad. The
Morning News denied it “ on the best authori
ty.” and correctly, as that authority was my
seif.
Now for iht* fact*. Jn the trade made
betwuen the Brunswick and Albany Rail
road and the Commission, that road
was to be allowed to make its local
rates as high for 10 miles as on other roads
for 80 miles, for 20 miles as high as on other
roads for 90 miles, and so on until it charged
as much for 170 miles as other reals were per
mitted to charge for 250 miles; with these ex
ceptions. that ror cotton from Albany, it was
only to charge the Commissioners’ lowest rats
fur th.'it distance, saj- 170 miles, and also “cer
tain millers’ r*teii are oonflriqed.” What
these 'certain millers’ rates” are we do
not know; I am told that they
are higher than we were permitted to charge.
At all events, these changes of rates alto
gether upset our through rates bet we “n that
poad and Savannah, and we had to make new
one* We gave to the Brunswick and Albany
Railroad Company the local rptes which thev
were allowed to charge from tbeir utation to
Waycross. the junction of our roads.and added
to them for our own proportion an amount
which we considered sufficient to meet the
competition by steamboat through Brunswick
to Savannah. We referred tfle*e rates to the
management of the B. and A. R. R. for their
approval. Although we gave them their full
local rates to Waycross. all that the Commis
sion allowed them to charge, they were not sat
isfled. They said those rates would strip their
read and dry up Brunswick. Not wishing to
precipitate such direful consequences, we did
Ij\ Young Mr. Acklen cannot, however, in this
manner escape the public eye. A whitewashing
of him would have been ba- 4 enough, but a
silent passing over of the whole maiki will do
him much moredau;age.
THE LIFE SAVING SERVICE.
The friends of the life saving service are
mukirg effort* to place it on a more sub
stantial and useful basis. The last Cun
gress did much for this eervice, making
of it a substantial and independent organiza-
lion. It is now proposed, in furtherance of
fostering it as a valuable branch of the pubi c
serv ice, to keep the men engaged in the work
employed all the year round instead of unman
ning the life saving stations during the summer
nu»n hs. "It is also proposed to pension the
widows of men who may lose their lives in the
service, and also to pension tflose men who
;i»ay l»e maimed in this work. In other words,
it is proposed to put the life saving service on a
basis similar to that of the coast guards of
England. Ihese prepositions will hardly be
con uuimated at the present session, but much
has been cone th$t will tend to a favorable
Ounsideration of them in the future.
TH* PENSACOLA NAVY YARD.
In the present status of Congressional busi
ness there is but one chance for an appropria
tion to place the Feosacola navy yard
on a permanent and efficient liasi-i.
The opportunity referred to is con-
vej-ed by the sundry civil hill. When
that HU reaches the Senate, Senator Jones of
Florida.will offer an amendment appropriating
$. r o,uU0 or $60.(40 for the Peqsmcol.* vara. This
aupm|nvDt \y U be sanctioned by the henat?
Naval Committee and will be favorably recom
mended to Uie Senate. Whether it can stand
the wear and tear of hurried legislation just
before adjGurnim.it remains to be a**en A
very determined effort in its favor wifi, how
ever. be made.
CAMPAIGN BLEEDING.
The Republican Campaign Committee, Mc
Pherson Secretary, have for the past week
been‘ssuing circulars to government clerks
auking for five per cept. of their salaries for
Uie j par tp defray the expenses of Ihe r.ext
Presidential campaign. When it known
that this circular was intended, the House had
under c<>u 6 ideration tbe bill to prevent such
highway robbery, and the DetnocraUc papers
so ventilated it that the Republican committee
held tbe circular back. Atamt a week ago it
vu quietly bet an. halting not ki i's demands
for the earnings of government employes; the
bill in the House haviug l>een indefinitely post
poned. and the breeze raised bv the Perao-
cratic press having subsided. This will not be
the only demand for “five per cent.” made by
the committee, judging by the exr^^ience of
tfle pqst. -
ILLICIT DISTILLING IN GEORGIA—REPORT OF THE
DKPUtY COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.
Mr. H. C. Rogers. Deputy Commission
er of Internal Revenue, who was
cmtlv sent to th** i\orthua*Uirn counties
qf Georgia to investigate the recent
reported outrages by illicit distillers, has made
an extended report to the Secretary of the
Treasury, setting forth that he has personafly
visited the scenes of the alleged crtinue, and,
assisted by Mp H C. Clarke, the stenographer
detail*!« fqr the purpose, had mad** thorough
examination into the facts. He recites in de
tail tbe circumstances attending the burning
of the store hoqse. barn aqd stables eff James
E. McLane in Rabun county, and of the shoot
ing at McLane while extinguishing the flames,
on the night of tbe 11th of April last. As to
the burning of Deputy Collector John A.
Stuarts store and barn in Fannin count j-, he
says:
“I enclose herewith an affidavit of Deputy
Collector Stuart, setting forth the circum
stances of the burning of his property. Bv
conversation with himself, his raniilj- and
neighbors. I was enabled to glean some addi
tiunal facts which plane the motives for the
crime committed against this officer beyond
reasonable question. ' He gives the names of
men who had been ascertained as the guilty
ones in the Stuart affair, and says:
”Th^ opinion is gpneraj \n the community,
faraswecculd ascertain, that these men.
unless arrested by United States process, will
never be brought to trial. Slunrt informed
that since Tilley had !>oen locked
up in j a!1 with Vandergriff the
latter had entirely changed his toDe. and now
professed to know nothing about the occur
mice. We also learned from other souro «
whilst in Morg&nton, that effort* were being
made to secure Vandergriff’s release on bail, so
as to get him out of the country.”
The report concludes as follows:
“I consulted with our officers in accordance
with your suggestion as to how far it was
pructicab e to enlist the moral aid of State
officers. JuJges, Sheriffs, Ordinaries, and re
sponsible citizens generally on the side of the
enforcement of the law. Deputy Collector
Shepard met me with the following pointed
statement, which bo subsequently verified
under oath 1 ‘In tne two years and a half, since
I took charge of tny division, l have seized two
illicit stfl's from deacons of the church, one in
Ktbun county and one in Franklin couutj-, two
from Justices of the Peace, one in Franklin
county, and one in Rabun county. I seized a
distillery belonging to an ex Judge of the
couutj- court of Rabun county, and three dis
tilleries belonging to a constabjeof Habersham
county. I seized a distillery and twenty-five
gallons ot whisky said to belong to the Sheriff
of Rabun county, and I have no rea>*on to
doubt it. I am informed that the present Post
master at Burton. Rabun county, nag sold illi
cit whjsky behind the i^me oounter over which
he delivers the malls.' £x-United States Attor-
n**j- Farrow in conversation with me,
referring to recent sentences of illicit dis
tillers to the penitentiary, said this seventj-
had a tendency to induce offenders to banci
themselves b gether and swear each other out
of any trouble they might get into, by coming
in conflict with the law, and he argued from
tbh condition of things that it was preferable
to paasupott illicit distillers only light sentenceh
of imprisonment In the local jui's instead of
in Albany penitentiary, so as not to offer the
same incentive* to wholesale and demoralizing
penury.
' My own observations impressed ma with the
conviction that a moral, intellectual and in
dustrial bligut settles down ui»on a community
where illicit distillation prevails comparatively
un* , heck*-d,and is sustained by public sentiment.
It was pai lful to note the signs of p iverty and
neglect, the absence of humanizing influences
amj of the ordinary comfort* of civilization,
which p evaded in Rabun and Fannin counties,
contrasting f ,rcibly with the evidence* of en
terprise an i progress manifested in neighbor
ing counties formerly as badly iaLstea with
illicit distillers as they, but where the traffic
had been to a great extent suppressed,
and public sentiment favored the mainte
nance of the laws. Advantage had been
taken of the local option law. in both
Fannin and Rabun counties, to prohibit
the sale of intoxicating drinks, but this meas
ure. instead of promoting sobriety, as would
Colonel Herbert Fielder.
During the recent meeting of the
Georgia Press Convention, the proprie
tor of the Morning News wrote two let
ters from Cuthbert, in one of which
(dated the 12thj, the following paragraph
[appeared:
“Among the prominent Georgians lo
cated here, is our energetic but eccentric
friend Colonel Herbert Fielder, and that
urbane gentleman, Colonel Arthur Hood
Judge of this Circuit”
To this, as will appear from the sub
joined letter, Col. Fielder takes excep
tions. We take pleasure in publishing Col.
Fielder’s communication, in accordance
with his request, with the statement, how
ever, that the letter which is the subject
of his strictures was written on the morn
ing of the 12th, thirty hours before Col.
F.’s address to the convention on the sub
ject of his forthcoming History of Geor
gia was delivered, and therefore had no
connection with that subject. It is scarce
ly necessary to say that no “personal re
flection” was intended.
Cuthbert. May 21, 1380.
Afr. J. H. EstiU, Savannah:
Sir—Your letter from Cuthbert. a* President
of the late Press Convention hel 1 here, has just
fallen under my eye. in which, speaking of
prominent Geoigians located here, j-ou desig
nate ine as your ‘‘energetic but ’ eccentric
fri**nd.” You are a public journalist—1 am a
prtvat** citizen. This voluntary and unpro
voked personal criticism, coming through so
important a source as th- Morning News, is so
objectionable as to force tne to call your atten
tion to it at one*.
I joined heartily, and derived great pleasure,
in the effort to make the visit of t our associa
tion to this place pleasant to them. I did all in
raj- power to promote and nothing intended to
impede the plea-ure of their meeting. Upon
the invitation of the convention I appeared be
fore you—to explain the object and scope of
my wore of Georgia History and Biography.
But, in deference to your time and conve
nience. only occupied a few minutes with mj-
statement.
1 have served j-ou as a friend in some of your
quest* of public favor. I have l>e**n courteous
to all people at home and abroad and a friend
to multitudes of ungrateful people for more
than a quarter of a century pa*t. I have not
received a nickel from the Treasury of govern
ment or from official patronage of tfle State or
Unite*! States Government siijoe tfle war. And
I ask for no public office or unrewarded ser
vice. I attend lalthfuily to all trust* confided
to me, buy what I and my family con
sume. pay my debts without bankruptcy or
State exemptions, aid In the support of all
good institutions and approved enterprises,
and pec form all social and religious duties with
out known cause of complaint.
I employ a part of my leisure, through the
press and otherwise, to replace many of the
prevailing false tbeori s and evil tendencies of
the tim**s by a sounder and more practicable
and safer public judgment and practice and a
purer taste upon matters material, social, moral
and religious, but always with a strict regard
to truth and courtesy to all mankind. All I
publish is tbe subject of criticism, through the
press or otherwise, but injurious, personal re
flections wilt not bo allowed in mj- presence or
ttrough public journals. Respectfully, your
oo‘t serr’t, Herbert Fielder.
SPECIAL SCHEDULE
FOB
Regatta at Isle of Hope
THURSDAY, 2?tli.
LEAVE city.
LEAVE ISLE OF HOPE.
9:25 A. M.
10:25 a. M.
12:00 m.
3:25 p. m.
7:25 p. M.
11:1" a M.
12:50 p. m.
6:10 p. M.
6;50 p. m.
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EDW. J. THOMAS,
Superintendent.
ilrir Advrrtisrmrnts.
ArriKi Arrived
TAB Astoiislg Bargains
YY^HICH we previously advised tbe public
t > would arrive ou the 26th. have been re
ceived, and are now open for inspection and
sale. As the lot is quite extensive, space fails
to allow our enumerating all the articles, con
sequently we wilt only mention a few, as fill-
lows:
PIQUE, PIQUE
CORDED PIQUE, FIGURED, at 6^c. per
yard, value 10c.
B. F. MEMA,
187 BROUGHTON STREET,
Between Boll and Whitaker Streets.
Bargains this Week!
WILL OFFER ON MONDAY MORNING:
100 Pcs. White Victoria Lawn,
Fine quality, full yard wide, never sold less
than 20c.
PRICE NOW,
153 1-53 CENTS.
75 Pcs. White Victoria Lawn,
Good quality, 33 inches wide, solJ this season
at 15c.
PRICE NOW.
IO CENTS.
50 Pcs. American Dress Goods.
Recently sold at ts^e. and 15c.
PRICE NOW,
a 1-8 CENTS.
*aotf5.
room, with or d r Wl -S
;^_Moralng N... as,)**
clothing at t he com., of ~
Jefferaon street, '"•*
iSaraaB&»fe
oct!0-tw
aEost and y 0B ^r
T OST -. at the S.. F. ~ "
V r n th- train, a Bu. z.Xin ii'L ' " -
also several promisor? > .f; »i£
sltem d. The ander •
leaving at PAUL DECKER'S .*' *»
£ox Sent.
tX>R RENT -The House Nffff''
r ner of Bull street,
Noxember 1st. It cxn then be re
cf H. A. PALMER. l*Sc\,,uTrf! n '’
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r pO RENT from 1st Ser e
L three-st uy brick st \ .
Broughton street. Apply ,11"'.“ .
SON, no Bryan >treet ?
r lX) RENT, two Stores un<V r v .
1 fronting on Liberty 8lI> J r
either separate or togrtber it' *
rate. Apply to S. P. HAMil T.V* "
Bull and Broughton street*. a.J'. '''•
L'VJK RENT, desiral.le R.. , „ .
r Apply to JOHN LYONS ‘
an*l Whitaker streets.
50 Dozen Large Size Towels,
Warranted Pure Linen, worth 25c.
PRICE.
CENTS.
IS
50
Quilts.
12-4 Marseilles
Formerly sold at $3 50.
PRICE NOW,
©1 75.
Other Bargains by Steamer
Wednesday.
B. F. McKENNA.
Jfor Salt.
rsONNEtTICUr P.C liT ; , r
Apply at F. Miiroas^
lny2fi- 1 t
I OT No. 11 Forsyth ward r
-J Memorial Buildinz f. r
apply to R. B. RKPPaP.D, N
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UOR SALE LOW for ca^T'
I counts, the iron steams} .
with new boiler. Also, sitWi .
ABITA. fast and in goad »-rj- r i
particular* apply to AUG Bulls
fetreet. New Orleans
JYARTIEN desiring driven * • .
1 materials fi.r same will n, '
vantage to call on the undersi •».
and wells of ail kinds repair,- < “u
13 West Broad street. Savannah.
T?OR SALE, a House and iTtTTj
JT land, on u<-rt!i side
this office.
^EDAR Boards for chests and close
Posts, for sale by
*p7-tf BACON 1 BB
Jj\)B SALE, fifty head first. ^
MULES, suitable for Timber. Turj^-a^
tine and Farming purposes.
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MORAN 4 j
Lawns, Lawns
Large assortment, at 6c. and 7c. per j-anl.
prices far below their value.
Percales, Percales
Nearly yard wide, at 7c., worth 10c.
Cambrics, Cambrics
4-1 goods, at 8c.. actually worth 12^c.
Hair Cloth Floral Gift
At 12^c., value of same 20c.
All above mentioned goods are fast colors.
Bunting, Bunting
BI.ACK and COLORED BUN HNO, all wool
at 18c. per yard.
’acili-
■surrep-
titious purchase of ardent spirits. In the lan
guage of a prominent citizen of Union county,
they just buy it by the jug full and lay off and
ret drunk.' The churches and school houses
n these counties are mostly mere skeleton
shanties, open to the winds and the rain.
Tha poverty of the peorle is without necessity
and without excuse. Their mountain fastnesses
abound in rich bottom lands of almost unsur
passed fertility and beauty, and even their
poor lands are rich with undeveloped mineral
wealth. But in their determination to main
tain the Illicit manufacture of whisky and to
prevent the enforcement of the internal reve
nue law imposing a tax upon this product, they
close themselves in from the outside world by
Chinese wall and drive capital and enterprise
away. Every stranger who enters their coun
try becomes an object of distrust and suspicion.
The Washington Post wrath fully dis
poses of Tilden’s impudent demand for
an “honorable option ’ in the naming of
the Democratic candidate, a9 follows
“The claim that a candidate who cannot
secure the nomination, or who dares not
take the race for foar cf defeat in the
canvas*, has any more right than Smith
or Brown, or any other man, to say who
shall he nominated, is flatulent folly, un
worthy of serious consideration in an
amateur base ball club.”
Congressman De La Matyr, it seems,
will vote with the Democrats in case the
Presidential election is thrown into the
House. From present indications, how
ever, the Democratic majority will be so
large that this perilous contingency will
be averted.
Yellow Fever.
It is confidently arserted that this fright
ful disease can be prevented by the use of
Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, in
connection with Warner’s Safe Pills. It is a
blood poison; keep the blood pure, this dis-
eare will not exist. These Remedies keep
the blood filterers—the kidney and liver—In
healthy action. mySl F,M,W,wd:rel2t
»t«r
i MAMMOTH P1CM0,
—IN AID OF—
n
WILL BE HELD AT
MONTGOM ERY,
THURSDAY, JUNE 20. 1880.
OTEAM trains will run on S.. S, Jt S. R. R at
k» convenient hours during the daj-. Refresh
ments, under the management of a committee
of ladies, will be furnished on the ground*,
pinner 25 cents.
Whole tickets 50 cents, half tickets 25 cents,
including street cars. Can be had of the
COMMITTEE:
Rev. Father O'HaRa. Chairman
DANIEL O’CON.nOR. EDWARD MORAN.
E. H. SMITH. M. S. WALSH.
ANDREW MoCORMACK
And from the collectors cf both parishes,
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EXCURSION
— TO—
Blackfish Banks
THE 8TEAMTUG CONSTITUTION will make
1 an excursion to the Blackfish Bank* on
THURSDAY, May 27th. leaving wharf root of
Lincoln street at 6:80 a. m. For further par
ticulars inquire at IL J. DICKERSON’S office.
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NEW BOOKS!
ESTILL’S NEWS DEPOT,
21)* BULL STREET.
A FOOL’S ERR AND
It DM AN THE KEEPER.
AN EARNEST TKIFLER
AMY OAKLEY
COLONEL’S OPERA CLOAK.
UNDER THE TRI COLOR.
$1 00
. 1 25
. 1 25
50
. 1 00
1 25
IOUR DAUGHTERS. (Marian Harland’s
last Novel) 1 00
ROAD TO JERICHO 1 00
THE MASTER OF REDLEAF 75
MORNING NEWS. SEASIDE, FRANKLIN
SQUARE, BROOKSIDE LIBRARIES, standard
series, and ail the other cheap publications of
the day. my26-tf
I’ANS, FANS.
A splendid assortment of choice goods at 23
per cent, below their trade value.
Fancy Parasols.
The last announcement in this line of fine
goods, as we have been advised by the manu
facturers rather than return them to sell at
manufacturing prices. As these go«*ds can not
be replaced at prices for which they are offered,
except bj- chance, which may not occur for tn
length of time, you are requested to make an
early call to avoid disappointment.
DAVID WEISBELl
l.»3 BROUGHTON STREET,
SAVANNAH, - - GEORGIA.
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Colquitt & Cordon
AFFAIR WILL I*08ITIVELY NOT AFFECT
THE LEHOA MARKET!
REEDY’S WILL CONTINUE JUST TH
SAME TO BE THE
Only Headquarters
LEMONS.
ORANGES.
LEMONS.
ORANGES.
LEMONS.
NUTS.
RAISIN 8.
COCOANUTS.
WINES
LIQUORS.
Ginger Ale §1 50 per <loz.
H * ND-PICKED VIRGINIA PEANUTS.
TENNE88EE PEANUTS.
Best Butter OOc.
FANCY CRACKERS. CANNED GOODS, for
picnics, etc.
Everything in the FANCY GROCERY and
Foreign and Domestic IRUIT line in season.
JOS. B. REEDY,
GROCER AND IMPORTER,
21 BARNARD ST SAVANNAH, GA.
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THE PELICAN AND DIVES
MINING COMPANY. ■
Organized under the Laws of the State of New
■■ York.
8ILVER MINES SITUATED AT GEORGE
y TOWN,
Jin Griffith District, Clear Creek County. Col I
Capital stock $5,000,000 ; 500,000 shrs; par value
^ f 10 each.
Stock full paid and non-assessable.
Registrars of Transfers—Farmers Loan and
Trust Company.
Trustees —Norvin Green, President Western
Union Telegraph Co.. N. Y.; Henry B. Plant,
President Southern Express Co., N. Y.; L C.
Babcock. Treasurer Adams Express Co., N. Y.;
D. I. Carson, Secretary Southern Bell Telephone
and TeL Co.. N. Y.; J. H. Munson. Drexel Build-1
ing New York; Albert H. Chandler. President
Atlantic and Pacific Tel. Co., N. Y.; W. C. Hum
stone. Gen. Sup't Atlantic and Pacific TeL Co..
N. Y.; Theo. N. Vail, Gen. Manager National
Bell Telephone Co.. Boston; Tho*. J. Brady,
Assistant Postmaster General, Washington, D.
C.; Henry 8. Russell, Boston. Mas*.; General
Francis J. Marshall. Georgetown. Colorado;
I James M. Ormes. Gen. Sup’t Southern Bell
Te'ephone and Telegraph Co., N. Y.
■Officers—Norvin Green, President; Henry 8.
Russell, Vice President; Theo. N. Vail, vice
(President: R. H. Rochester, Treasurer; George
C. Wilde, Secretary-
Clarence Carey of New York and Jerome F.
Manning of Worcester. Mass., Counsel.
Principal office. 1»7 Broadway, Room 35,
Western Union Building. New York.
R. M. DEMERE, Agent,
No. 2 Commercial Block, savannah. Oa.
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W RANTED, everybody to know that a nicelv
I fitted up STAGE will run regularly to
White Bluff on and after THURSDAY, May
27th. Tbe Vernon House, kept by Mrs. Con
verse, is open for the season. ' ui/86 64
Grand Developments!
LARGE SPECIAL SALE!
HOSIERY
(\i*A DOZEN I»omestic and Imported HOSE
and HALF HOSE.
Cases Misses’ FANCY HOSE 10c. pair.
Cases Misses’ FANCY SILK, clocked, 35c..
former price 50c.
Cases Misses FANCY HAIR STRIPES, full
regular. 35c., former price 45c. and 50c.
Cases Ladies' SOLID PINK, BLUE and
BROWN, ribbed, at 15c., worth 25c.
Case Ladies’ EXTRA LONG, ASSORTED
COLORS, embroidered,at 2?c.. former price 35c.
Case Gents’ BROWN DERBY-ribbed (Lisle),
23c.. worth 50c.
Case Gent*' FANCY HAIR STRIPES, full
regular make, 3 pairs for $1. worth 50c.
Case Gents' ENGLISH HALF HOSE. $2 50
dozen, worth $1 50.
Case Gents' BROWN BALBRIGGAN $4 50,
former price $6 50.
Cases plain and side band LAWNS at lCc.,
former price 15c.
Cases WASH POPLIN DRESS GOODS, 8c.,
sold everywhere at 12^c.
BLACK BUNTING, all urool, 20c.. sold every
where at 35c.
£tmt Xailroads.
Look Oil for tin Buds
TO ARRIVE THIS WEEK.
100 dozen extra long BLACK LACE MITTS
35c. per pair.
Wet and soiled LINENS.
LIOXEN DeINDIES and VICTORIA LAWNS.
Cases 4-4 PERCALES, slightly wet.
Cases FIGURED LAWN8, slightly wet.
Cases STANDARD CALICOES, sl’ghtly wet.
1.000 pieces WHITE BAR MOSQUITO NET
TING, slightly soiled.
300 pieces LACE NETTING, soiled slightly.
300 LINEN SUITS (Ladies’) at fS.
1.000 LINEN BLOUSES and GINGHAM
DRESSES, to be opened during the week.
Our **ntire stock of Misses’ BLACK and MUS
LIN DRESSES at 25 to 30 percent, less t
cost.
GRAY & O'BRIEN.
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COAST LINE RAILHOAD OF
Savaxxah. Maj- 17, j
O N and after WEDNESDAY, the
the following Suburban ■
observed:
WEEK DAYS.- Outward-Lea* « 1TM
7:00 a. M.. 10:35 a. 8:35 p. n.
7:15 p.m. Inward—Leave Bin*ventu-J i
M., 7:40 a. k., 100 p. m , 5:i0 p * J
Leave Thunderbolt 6:CO a u
p. M.. 5:30 p. m., 6:30 p m Saturday 1
car leaves city at 7: :5 p. m
SUNDA YS.— Outward— Leave Sat**
A. M.. 12:00 M.. 2:35 1*. M.. , J
every half hour from 2:.J5 until -1
7:15 p. m. Inward—Leave BonAventeil
a m . 11:10 a. v , 1:00P. m . 3:10 p v 1
Thunderbolt 7:00 a. m., 11:00 a. m
3:00 p. m., 7:C0 p. x.
Passengers for Schuetzen Park taketa
a. m. or 3:35 p. m. cars.
Take street cars on Broughton gtm
minutes before depaiture of these mm
cars. FRANK LAW
my!8-tf Artur Si
CITY MARKET TO BROWfiSil
Laurel Grove Cemeten
Barnard and Andkrsc 5 St. R J
_ Savannah, Ga., May 1, W
Ten minute schedule, with five cars.*
the week.
Cars will leave the Market EVERT Hi
HOUR from 8 to 1C p. m., except S»rri
when they will run every five rpiaute*
leaving the Market at 10:30 p. * ^
On Sunday afternoons eight < ars w
with extra cars at the Cemetery.
F. VAN VV.4GF.M5j
my2-NATe!tf Furerint*
iTiibrr Schedule.
DownWitl; Exorbitant Prices
WILL OPEN ON WEDNESDAY NEXT. 3IAY
26th. THE FOLLOWING GOODS:
QAA PIECES rf PRINTS at 5c.. sold every
0\M/ where at 8c.
2U0 pieces of LAWNS at 8^c . marked down
from 12^c.
2(0 pieces of PIQUE at 8}$c.. good value for
121*0.
*0 pieces of 4-1 best PACIFIC LAWNS at
12)*c.. worth 15c. and 80c.
200 pieces of BLEACHED 8HIRTING at 10c.
fine qualitj-, full yard wide, never sold 1*
than 14c.
200 pieces of 4 4 BLEACHED SHIRTING at
8c.. sold everywhere at 10c and 12Uc.
500 pieces of 4-1 BROWN at 7c., 8c., 9c., good
value for 10c. 11c. and 12Uc.
200 pieces of 4 4 white, soft finished CAMBRIC
at 10c., fi. e quality, never sold less than 13c.
200 pieces of LONSDALE CAMBRIC at 12)*c.
sold everywhere at 16c.
50 pieces of LACE BUNTINGS in choice
shades at 15c . never sold less than 35c.
23 pieces of BLACK GRENADINE at 8^c.
marked down from 20c.
Great bargains in FRENCH and ENGLISH
HOSIERY.
A fu’l line of all kinds of FANCY and DO
MESTIC DRY GOODS at greatlj reduced
prices.
We offer these goods to enable us to make
room for additional improvement to be made
in our store. Call at once and procure th£se
bargains, at JACOB COHEN’S,
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.fruit.
HEADQUARTEKS FOB
LK MON8.
P. H. WARD & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE
Fruit ZDoAlors,
139 AND 141 BAY CTREET,
SAVANNAH, - - GEORGIA.
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for tfhartrr.
FOR QUARTER,
ov
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WIFT and elegant STEAM LAUNCH AR
ROW for charter to PRIVATE PARTIES
for PICNICS, HUNTING, FISHING and EX
CURSIONS. Will seat twenty persons com
fortably. Will be chartered for any time under
t~n days. Provided with Licensed Engineer
and Pilot. Terms moderate.
For further information apply to 74 BAY
STREET. my25-tf
Do You Want Specks (
T HE largest and best assortment of SPEC
TACLES in the city. Single glasses to see
near and far My goods suit all eyes and ail
pocket*.
P. LINDEN8TRUTH,
oct6-tf Jefferson street.
W
TytooeFerryl
The New Iron Saloon St*
EC, B. FLAK1
Capt. J. W. FITZGERALD.
ILL run between Savannah a
Island the following Hebe*!-*
wharf foot of A be room street:
SCNDAYS-Fr-.m Tybee 7 a m .
o clock p. M., arrivi - g at th*- • * 1 r>
From city 10 a.m. and 2:30 o’clock p k
MONDAYS. Wfc DNESDAYS and FE
From Tj'bee 7 a. m. From city 5. i 1 r.»
TUESDAYS. THURSDAYS mid
DAYS—From Tybee 7 a. m. and i r. 1
city 10 a. m. and 5:30 p. m.
On MONDAYS. WEDNESDAYS :
DAYS the boat will be oprn f -
charters. Liberal terms given t.. 8und*i
Church and Private Excursi. >ns t. Tr
day.
Fare for the round trip—Wh« 1«* Tick-
children over 5 and under 12 half pno
with children 25c. round trip sam** 'lay
Goods received to within 15 minut*'
ture-none aft**r. All articles must k
marked and freight prepaid <»n« i uf
JNO. F. ROBES!)
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(Clothing.
CLOTHING AM) Hj
CHEAPER THAN EVER. ■
A LL in want of CLOTHING m: I '
men. youths and boys, will flic
at 139 Congress street. W® iff
CLOTHING and HAT ST< >CK -al
ba^ ever done before. and invite cc*
and customers to call soon, while tw
ment is fulL OurstDckof SUMMER -1
replete with every stj I** for the s* a- '
line of KING OF 8HIKTS, $1 unlatin^
laundried. Perspiration proof CKU
CUFFS and COLLARS. g.H«l for h '
And GENTS’ FURNISHING GoOl*
description.
E. HEIDT.I
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Headquarters fort
isams.
AND BONELESS BA<^
NONE GENII’' 1 *
Unless bearlnfr our pst.-nL'vi .
light metallic seal, attached to tu
and the striped canvas as * D “
mbl0-W£S3m*p
^durational
University of Virgo]
RUMMER LAW LECTURE.- [
O begin 8th July. 1«W. and en<• - /
Have proved of signal use - ’ <
design to pursue their studies a ■
Law School: 2d. to those who Py'<
privately: and 3*1. to practu*- ;
not had the advantage of
tion. For circular apply 5™
to John B. Minor. I-ref. •" J
I-awo
Rudimentary 1—
I N the English. French.
Latin. Ancient and M-h- ern ' ' rIi ^m
brew Language*, in P n '’ aU? £ r f
assist and prepare scholars in * Ter J
branches requisite to enter coll* L
application. Addrea* B FLAT
feW-tf —
•\JOTICE. —All Persons art* waijvd I
trading for a draft dra^“ ' M<t t :. M
Co. on Doller, Fottar*Uh***fiwi4
draft having been
EDWARDS and PAUL DECKER*