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Monday. June 30, 1884.
\KKJVKD YESTERDAY.
■ mship*' city. Hedge, Bo*ton—
uw-V ?r !->n * Barnard.
imer Kata-. Bevill, Augusta *nd way
• -Vr Mart" Fisher. Carroll, Cohen’s Bln#
' . v landing*—M T Gibson. Manager.
. i r Georg** M Bird, Stuobhar, Darien
-t Simon's and 'atilla River landings
—John I* Robertson.
PLPAKTID YESTERDAY.
t ~mer >t Nicholas. Usina, Fernandins,
r -i. k and way landing*—C Williams,
Agent.
- .;i ED YESTERDAY.
-•coni- 1 ’ i ity of Augusta. New York.
,'. r '.Hither, Darien.
M ! volt AN DA.
y, vf _ June 2l>. 7:15 p m—Passed up, stcara
,|. t itv of Augusta.
W siting, hark Norde* Nor).
U „j"| NK. frc-h: fair.
New") irk.June27—Sailed, sclirTom Wil
• ,ir' i”. s6- Arrived, hark Addie II
i ~',n Ur . Ih in’ll. iVnsaeola.
I. -.,-r,•■->>. June 26—Arrived, hark Kate
< r I’.r . Mc-ln-rrv. Apalachicola.
-u . ' Jnoe 25 Arrived, harks ynattro
i . /.it,... Darien: 26th, Colonel (Itr;, Wilce,
Hull Kim r. See lielow).
V ,-i ll::rth |.ool. June 26—Arrived, brig
C ,*,. -i-hialtiim Ital , Olivari, Darien.
s-ionuall. June IS—Arrived, sc hr Kmilic F
, ahada. 'lllllll. l*enaeola.
i, ' r.illar. June*— Passed, banN I* Nielsen
\..r . knud-en. Tri*--te forTyliee.
Km Janeiro. May 28—Arrived. lark Harry
Itu-lmian Ur . < ottam, Brunswick.
• ailed :l-t. hrig Julia Nortou 'Fort/, Ba
rata. Brunswick.
'0i1.,-. Hr 17—Arrived, brig Loyalist (Br),
Anders-.it. Apalachicola.
1..- ;7—Arrived, sehrs Jeii
,... E ' mmons. Grace, Savannah; Maud II
Dudley, Oliver, IVnsaeola.
Rockland, June 29—Arrived, sc hr Daniel
Pierson, Pienoe, Darien.
Brunswick, -lime 27—Arrived, hark Rita
• . Franco, Bio Janeiro; sshra Va
•,r. WiH.lhull, New York; Bessie Morris,
Wheaton, savannah; 'V t. Bee, Rathlionc,
Porio Kico
< Scared, hark Albion (Bri, Thompson. Lon
lou; si-lir- Jno II Cross. Kawley, Providence;
(. banner, Daboll, New York.
Bull River, June 26 Sailed, schr Warren
Sawyer. Saunders, Wood’s Hull.
JacksoiiTille, June 27—Arrived, schr Hattie
< ard, Moore, Boston.
key West. June27—Arri veil, steamer Alamo,
r.oi.'i’-r. ti.ilve.-ton for New York, and pro
• i cdcil: s- lir Ariel's. Itol/erts, New York.
.'ailed, schrs Rollin Sanford. Davies, Mobile;
Mary Jane B*i, Albury, Nassau.
IVnsaeola. June27—Arrived, schr Georgie
I. Drake, Parris. Galveston.
Port Royal. .1 une 27—A rrived, steamer State
of Texas, Risk, Feruandina, and proceeded to
New York.
New York, June 29—Arrived, str* Talluhas
. . from Savannah; Gulf Stream, from Char
leston: Wvanoke, from Richmond; Manhat
tan, from Newport News.
MARITIME MISCELLANY.
London. June 27—Bark Coronel (ltr/, Wilce.
from Bull River, which arrived at Swansea
vesierdav, struck the dock entrance aud is
leaking badly.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Providence, June 27—A dangerous spar, the
heel of a matt, is re|>orted as hanging to a
urreek on the course iroin Brenton’s reef liglit
lei.it to the Hen and Chickens iightlioat, lying
s l/y E Iroui ihe Ocean House at Newport'
RECEIPTS.
Per steamer Katie, from Augusta and way
landings—33l 1/hls rosin, 131 bids spirits tur
pentine, U cases eggs, 14 sheep, 4 coops chick
ens, 1 COW, 2 calves. 1 bdl wax, 7 empty obis,
I piece machinery, 1 box vegetables, "l sack
meal.
Per steamer Mary Fisher, from Cohen’s Bluff
and way landings— 40 Uhls spirits turpentine,
112 1/hls ro'in. 20 lambs,"2 cows, 2 bales wool, 3
crates cabbages, 11 cases eggs, 3 mils hides, 10
• oo|/a fowls, 1 tell bedding, 4,000 shingles, 4,000
hoop poles.
EX PORTS.
lVr steamship City of Augusta, for New
York—4sl bales cotton, 130 bales domestics and
yarns, 72 bills rice. 469 bbls spirits turpentine,
29.7 Uhls rosin, 10,471 feet luml/er, 16 bales wool,
12 mixes fruit. s7 bbls vegetables, 3,205 crates
vegetables, 20,927 watermelons, 155 pkgs mdse.
PASSENGER*.
Per steamer Katie, from Augusta and way
landings— Wm HiUis. Thos Meads, S C Trow
ell and wife, F W Owens, .1 I, Edenlield aud
wife, Mrs I* Uazemore jr, Capt J D Groover,
Mrs Cone. Mrs II M Neve, W II Usry, C Coch
ran. and 25 deck.
Per steamer Mary Fisher, from Cohen's Bind
and way landings—A M Martin and wife, O E
Metzger, .1 Evans Martin, Mrs E Horton, Miss
Mohr ten. Miss M L Darnell, II G Greene, J K
Garnett, Allen Davis, Jno Cooper, Miss Kate
Villard, Mrs M M Cooper. Capt J S Manor. W
McKenzie, A E Dean, Cot K L Maner, aud 20
deek.
Per steamship Gate City, from Boston—
Mrs i S Plimpton, E S Drown, F Delap. Mrs
A Melsaae, Alex Stephens, Lenora Stephens,
Mr*' P Delap, DrJ II Warren, Etta,l Clark,
Thos Cunningham, -7 L Ila ins, II Barratt, Mrs
Barratl, W Doug ass. I* Carroll, Ella Lainan,
Eliza Demay. .steerage—E Yates, S I’Cutler.
Jno Cotier, Jno Higgins.
Per steamship City of Augusta, for Nevy
York—Mrs W G Raoul aud family. Miss Tatt
nall, 1! 11 Stoddard and wife, Matthew llogau
and w ife. Master K II Stoddard, Jas McAleer,
Mt-s M-irv McCarthy, ItevTA McCourville,
i„ nt Strauss. F II Black. Mrs S P Bell. Miss
Leila K < berry, K V del Nanhtror, 1. Kline,
Mi-* L M Johnston, Dr Straver, C F Gould,
iV II Shorther, <1 I* Havens, Miss Lizzie Las
-I**ll. MrsTD Murphy, Miss Sallie Murphy,
Mt-* Lillie Murphy. Master Geo Murphy, Mrs
t. M Stovall, Rolieri Troup, Walter II Martin.
K W Potter, Miss Alice Potter, Louis Potter,
Mr*.l A Flanders, Mrs-I II Frye, D B Cline,
-1 II Fessenden, Miss .vnhern.
CONSIGNERS.
I'm steamer Marv Fisher. front Cohen's Ttiuff
ami wav lamina:—l. .1 Guilmartin A Cos, Mrs
siilav, onler, W 1 Miller, H Solomon ,t Sen,
Rutherford A K, Miss Ella Uaiiard. A I<e filer,
DC Bacon A * <>. Baldwin A Cos, WM Lanier.
I’er t< inner Katie, from Augusta ami way
landings—Baldwin A Cos. J l* Williams A Cos,
W. C Jackson, Garnett. *> A Cos, Kennedy A B,
Peacock, II A O. W W Chisholm, W I Miller,
G F Byrnes, Dr D Cor. A K Itotierta A Cos. P
t arter. Mohr Bros, K Roach A Bro, Mrs A A
McKenzie, CocYshutt A L, Mrs S C Trowell,
W M Lamer.
Per steamship Gate Cits-, from Boston—
t li K. >. F A IV By, Ga A Fla i 8 B Cos, C A
N By. K .1 Acosta, Alien A L, M Boley A son,
A it AUmayer A ta, l> C Bacon A Cos. A Ein
stein’s Sons, Epste n A 11, A Ehrlich. G Ebbcr
srein, (.'has Kills, C L Chestnutt, J I) Fiske,
.1 no l.vons a Cos, S Lane A Bro, Leiden A B,
Meinlninl Bros A Cos, A •) Miller A Cos, Order,
li P Myerson. V > Nichols, .1 Rosenheim A Cos,
Palmer Bros, II Solomon A Son, E A Schwarz,
L Stern, II stern A On, Telephone Exchange,
.1 X Wilson, Weed A C, G M Weymouth.
I.ist of Vessels Up. Cleared and Sailed
for this Port.
BXRK3.
N P Nielsen (Nor .Ganslaa,Trieste,sld May 4;
passed Gibraltar June 8.
Idea {llal>. Caoace, Oporto, aid Mar 9.
Nnovo Matteo (Itall, Ancaldo, Penarth, sld
Feb 7 via Table Bar.
Goodrich (Br), , Buenos Ayres, sld Apr 11.
Chris Knudseu (Nor;, Knud-eu. Goole, sld
May it.
■’Argentine (Ital), Merelio, Trapani via Bio
Janeiro, sld April it.
New York (Fori, Berg. Limerick, sld May 10.
Ringdove (Br). , Rio Janeiro, sld June 4.
Hitar (Alls), Kandich. Oporto, sld June 11.
Lorenzo t luotlino ltal , Maguasca, Provi
dem-e. sld June IS.
Maria Ital), Catiera, Lisbon, sld May It.
BKIUS.
Kodiak, White, Portland, np June 34.
SCHOONERS.
Edith R Seward, Tall. Baltimore, sld May C,
via Demerara ant tireliilla.
Gondvisch (Dutch), Teensraa, Buenos Ayres,
sld April 11.
Wm It Drury. Bond. Bath, s’d June 14.
Harry Sadler, liupper, Rockport, Me. sld June
Is and City, Voorhis. Baltimore, sld June 34.
Emily F Northain, Stetson. Philadelphia, old
June 19.
IK-Mory Gray, Brewster, New Tort, sld June
m.
Ynwie Blis', O’Donnell. Haiti more, up June 28.
Lucie Wheatley, Warren, Baltimore, eld June
38.
Belle O'Neill. McLaughlin, at Charleston, ria
New York. up June 37.
F A server, Spaulding, Baltimore, up June 24.
Ruth T Carlis.e. . , up .June 34.
Fond Father —Welcome home, my son.
Welcome home. I am very glad you got
safely through the examination. 1 suppose
things have changed a good deal since 1 vfaa
there! Graduate—Awl yeas, 1 suppose so.
Fond Father—What are the principal im
provements they have made of late years?
Graduate—Deahl deali IflHaven't von heard?
Fond Father—Heart what? Graduate—Why
Yale has changed its stroke. —PAiladfl ohi'a
Curs o Asthma and Spinal YVeakness
West Twenty-second street,)
New York. May IT, HSS3. J
Though it may be irregular for a physi
cian to give a certificate in lav or of a pro
prietary medicine, still, in the cause of
Humanity, I venture to say a word in fa
vor of Allcoch’s Porous Plasters,
which I esteem the most remarkable ex
ternal remedy of this century.
1 have known these Plasters to cure
Spinal Weakness where the patient had
lieen confined for months to his bed. A
blacksmith of my acquaintance was se
verely injured in the back by the kick of
n burse: four Allcock's Porous Plasters
quickly relieved him of excruciating ago
ny and cured him in a week. Another
patient, suffering with Neuralgia of the
tkan, was completely cutvd in four
pours.
in Asthma, f kn*>w of a ftasg where they
wC:* worn lor three months and iqljr re
stored to o?altb. In another case where
a imtlußt had SporaJ'd Cholera, nothing
relieved btm until he put on three All
cock's Porous Plasters; m twelve hours all
|ains in his chest and stowieh disappear
ed. I know that these Plasters, applied
on the pit of the stomach, are a sovereign
remedy for Ityspepsia and Constipation.
Finally, if persons once use Allcock's
Porous Plasters they will never use any
other; are so pleasant, quick and
painless—nature’s balmy assistant.
H. C. Van Norman, M. D.-
4fc_
“AlteocJtV* is the only Genuine Porous
Plasters.
BPLATTQESACCOPNTIS FOR
SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS
AND GEORGIA CONTRASTED.
Speech of lion. Joseph E. Brown, of
Georgia, Delivered in the Senate of
the United States, June 16, 1884, in
Keply to Senator Hoar, of Massachu
setts.
In the following forcible speech Senator
Joseph E. Brown replied on June 16 to the
attacks of Senator Hoar and others on the
South:
The Senate, as in committee of the whole,
having under consideration the bill (S. 1283/ to
amenu an act entitled “An act to amend sec
tion 7352 of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, in reference to bigamy, and for other
purposes,” approved March 22. 1882.
Mr. Brown said:
Mr. Pkksidest—S]/eaking of my speech of
*7th ultimo, the Senator from Massachusetts
Mr. Hoar) said, in his reply: “Certainly the
logical result of ihe speech, if it has premises
from which a logical result is to be derived, is
that polygamy is belter than the lawful mar
riage of one husband to one wife, and that
Mormonisni is better than Christianity as Hie
practical governing rule of a State.” Now,
Mr. President, this is an extraordiuarv state
ment, coming from a person of the usual accu
racy of the senator from Massachusetts, and
I can account for it in only one wav, and that
is that he did not hear the first portion of my
speech, to which he was replying.
I laid down the position that the constitu
tion of the United States protects every citi
zen in the free exercise of religion, ana Hint
neither Congress nor any other power in the
United states has the constitutional right to
oass anv law abridging the freedom of relig
ion or interfering with the most perfect free
dom of opinion oii religious subjects. At the
same lime I laid down the position most dis
tinctly that no one can practice immorality
under the cloak of religion amt claim the pro
tection of the constitution. I stated that ilie
Supreme Court of the United States had de
cided, and properly, that a person indicted for
polygamy can not pro.cn himself by pleading
his religions opinion that polygamy is legal. I
stated distinctly that I consoler the practice
of polygamy grosdy immoral. I stated that
Congress had already passed laws which were
now on the statute book making polygamy a
la-nitcniiary crime, and that it was the duty
of the court when a person in the Territory of
Utah is convicted of polygamy to sentence
the party to penitentialy imprisonment just
as the sentence of the law is imposed on any
other felon who is convicted of the commis
sion of crime. I stated that I had repeatedly
denounced on this floor, aud that
all the prosperity and good conduct of the
Mormons could not justify polygamy
I further stated that as the law now stands
we appoint the Governor, the Judges, the
prosecuting attorney, the Marshal, anil the
Clerks for Utah; and|they arc appointed be
cause thev are opposed to polygamy; and that
when a Mormon is put upon trial for polyga
my, as the law now stands, no other Mormon
can serve as a juror in the case unless he will
first swear that he has never practiced polyg
amy and that he does not believe it is right.
So that it is next to impossible, if there is any
evidence against him for a person who has been
guilty of polygamy to escape before a jury who
have sworn that tliey do not believe poligamy
to be right, and be Aire a Judge, prosecuting
attorney. Marshal, and Clerk who are sent
there to" convict, who arc appointed because of
their opposition to polygamy.
I further stated that polygamy could not in
crease under this state of tuiugs, but must de
crease; that it was not considered compulsory
under the laws of the Mormon Church, but
only permissive; that the law as it now stands
disiranchisea a man who practices it, and
neither p- rmiti him to vo.e nor hold office,
and 1 took it for g -anted that no young Mor
mon who is ambitious, and who looks to the
future, will enter into polygamy when the
punishment would be peniteutiary imprison
ment and disqualification to vote or hold
ollice. or, indeed, to hold any public trust.
liul wbne I took this decided ground in fa
vor of punishing and suppressing polygamy, I
also took the position that we have no right to
pun'sh any one under a charge of jiolygamy
until he is convicted by due course of law;
that to impose upon him a test oath to prove
his guilt is in violation not only of fundamen
tal principle, but of the constitution of the
United Stales.
Now. Mr. President, I still standby the doc
trine of mv speech. I say punish with peni
tentiary imprisonment every polygamist who
is legally convicted of the crime, but punish
noliodv for any crime until he has been legally
convicted. Use no illegal or unconstitutional
test-oaths as a means of ascertaining the
guilt of anybody, but use all legal
and constitutional ‘ means to suppress the
evil and i wash the guilty. While we
(have a right to do this, we have no right
to undertake to suppress the Mormon Chinch
or to put them down as a sect or denomina
tion. The fact that they believe in polygamy
furnishes no justification for iiersecutiou or
fur their punishment. The fact that they
practice it not only furnishes a justification
for severe penal statutes, but makes it our
duty toeuact them; and, while I am ready to
support any law that imposes severe penalties
upon pol\gamy, I am not willing, in connec
tion w ith it, to support the confiscation of
church property, the imposition .of illegal
test-oaths, or the punishment of any person
for any crime of which he has not been legally
convicted.
But while I take this position in reference
to bigamy or polygamy in Utah. I at the same
time hold that" the practice of bigamy or
polygamy by the Mormons in Utah is no worse
than the same practice is in New England or
in llic District of Columbia, and the penalty
ought to lie the same in liotli cases.
I have laid down the doctrine, and I do not
expect to hear It successfully controverted,
that a divorce granted for any other cause
except that of adultery or fornication is
illegal according to the Divine law, and is in
violation of the express command of Christ
himself. Tlii- authority does not bindper
sor.s w ho deny that Christ is the son of God,
and that the Christian religion is true and is
what it professes to be. 1 admit that such
person would not hold himself bound by this
authority, hut every Christian and every be
liever in the truth of the Christian religion
must feel bound by it.
Then, according to this authority every man
w ho puts aw ay his wile by divorce and mar
ries another, except for the cause of fornica
tion, commits adultery, as he is not legally
divorced or separated from the first wife, and
as he has married the second and is living
with her in adultery he is a bigamist or a po
lygamist. He has two living wives. He is
neglecting his dntv to the first and only legal
wife and is living in adultery with another
woman. , . ,
Now. Mr. President, while we are legislat
ing against the social evil in one of the Terri
tories and are professing to have great regard
for the sanctity of the family, let us so legis
late as to prohibit this illegal destruction of
the family m the District of Columbia and the
Territories. If we have jurisdiction over the
question of polygamy in the Territory of Utah
we have certa'inly like jurisdiction over il
legal divorce and illegal remarriages in the
District of Columbia and the Territories of
the United States. My amendment provides
that this system of illeiral divorce which is
now authorized bv Congiess in the District of
Columbia shall lie abolished ami the courts in
granting an absolute divorce shall be confined
io the one cause which is legal according to
the divine law.
The Senator from Massachusetts says he
docs not suppose I expect to pass such an
amendment. \Vliy not, Mr. Presiueut? 1 have
a right to expect the Senator from Massachu
setts and every Senator on this floor who ad
mits the divine"character of the Saviour and the
truths of Christianity to vote for this amend
ment. I exiect the Senator from Massachu
setts to vote for it, because if I am not misin
formed he believes in the truths of Christiani
ty, and because he professes to be greatly in
terested in the preservation and sanctity of
She marriage relation. If he believes in Chris
tianity and desires to maintain inviolate the
marriage relation X can see no exetne he can
have for voting against my amendment.
Again. Mr. President, 1 presume the Senator
from Massachusetts has great respect for the
constitution and laws of his own State, and if
he carries out here the requirements of the
constitution of Massachusetts he certainly can
not vote agaiast mv amendment.
In part !. article 3. of the constitution of
M'ssachuselts it is distinctly stated that the
happiness of a people and the good order and
preservation of a civil government essentially
depend upon “religion, piety, and morality. l '
If the good order of a civil government de
pends upon morality, it may be proper to in
3uire what is morality. One of Webster's
efinitions is: ‘‘The conformity of an act to
the divine law or to the principles of morals.”
And one of the definitionsof the word “moral”
is: “Conformed to the rules of right or to the
divine law respecting social duties.”
If, then, we apply the principles of morality
to mv amendment they would require that the
law of Congress as we may enact it be made
to conform to the divine law respecting social
duties. If so we must forbid divorce lor any
cause except fornication, because the divine
law on the subject of social duties distinctly
declares that divorce shall be granted for no
other cause. lu part 1, article IS of the con
stitution of MassachuelU, I find the following
language:
“A frequent recurrence to the fundamen
tal principles of the constitution, and a con
stant adherence to those of piety, justice,
moderation, temperance, industry and fru
galiiv, arc necessary to preserve the advan
tages of liberty ard to maintain a free gov
ernment. The people ought constantly to
have a particular a-tention to all those pria
c pies in the choice o their officers ami repre
sentatives, and they have a right to require
of their lawgivers and magistrates an exact
and constant observance of them in the for
mation and execution of the laws necessary
for the good administration of the common
wealth."
Here the praoticeof oiety, among other vir
tues, is absolutely enjoined upon the lawgiv
ers and magistrates of Massachusetts by a
fundamental constitutional provision. And
in the formation and execution of the laws
necessary for the good administra
tion of the commonwealth they
are to be governed by the principles of piety,
justice, moderation, temperance, industry and
frugality. There is to be a constant adher
ence to these principles required of the law
givers and magistrates.
Now Mr. President, what do we understand
by "piety?” One of the definitions of the
word giVen by Webster is: "Veneration or
reverence of the Supreme Being and love of
His character; obedient love of the will of
God and zealous devotion to llis service; re
ligion; sanctity."
Then, according to the constitution of Mas
sachusetts, the lawgivers of that State in
forming laws must do so in a spirit of venera
tion of the Supreme Being, in a spirit of love
Of His character, obedient love of His will,
and xealous devotion to His service. Now, Mr.
President, the Supreme Being has said that
divorce shall lie granted for no cause
except fornication. By my amendment
I have asked the Senator Mrom
Massachusetts and other Senator* to act in
obedience to that law of the Supreme Being
and forbid divorce for any other cause where
ever the United States have Inritdietion, as
w.-ii in all the Territories as in the District of
Columbia ■*°d I insist that the Senator from
Massachusetts cannot xotT * eains * j
loeiit without a palpable violation o* r '
■pint of U*o constitution of his own State,
which requires this lawgivers for that jieople
to practice morality and exereiso piety, which
means obedient love of the will of the supreme
Being. And obedience to His will in the en
actment of laws must restrain divorces within
Uie iutc laid down by Him. Upon-what prin
ciple, then, can the Senator from Massachu
setts vote against mv amendment?
And why shotlld the Senator seek to punish
a jK*rson iii Utah for practicing polygamy and
r. Live to pass a law preventing the destruc
tion of the family and the practice of polvga
tuy in the District of Lolumhta and the Ter
ritories. And if the polygamy of Utah and
the illegal divorce and remarriage of parties
in the District of Columbia stand condemned
upon the same moral ground, why should the
Senator from Massachusetts seek by legisla
tion to punish the one and refuse to legislate
to suppress the other? I will unite with him,
if he wi'l leave other unconstitutional or op
pressive provisions out of his bill, to pass laws
still more severe, if need be. for the punish
ment of polygamy in Utah, if he will unite with
Senators for the prstage of laws applicable to
the District of Colombia and the Territories
which shall forbid a party to marrv aeaiu who
has according to the moral law been illegally
divorced, and who when he remarries is de
clared by the Divine Being to lie an adulterer.
Since our last discussion of this question I
was glad to see that the General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in session
at Philadelphia, has condemned illegal mar
riages, and has passed a resolution saying that
divorce should be confined to the cause laid
down Uv the Saviour himself, and that alone,
and lias forbidden its ministers to perform
the marriage ceremony between parties who
under that rule have no right to marry again.
This is a noble example set by that "church;
and I trust the Congress of the United States,
within the limits of its jurisdiction in the
District of Columbia and all the Territores,
will bv law set a like example to the States
and to all the jieople of this Union.
In the discussion of this question the other
dav I confined myself to a living issue, to an
evil which is now prevalent, which may prop
erly be said to be our great nstioual sin. Most
of my references were to New England, not
with any view of making an assault upon that
section of the Union any more than
upon any other section guilty of the
sa ue practices, bat because the evil seems to
lie most prevalent there, and the statistics
showing its prevalence were at hand, given
us by New England authors, to show the true
state of things. X did not go back to the his
tory of New England and refer to any other
evil or any other bad points in her history
which might seem to lie disconnected with the
subject under discussion. J tried to confine
myself to a discussion of the evils which de
stroy the |>eace and sanctity of the family,
which is the unit of the State.
I am very sorry the Senator from Massachu
setts (Mr. Hoar) is not in his seat, for I desire
that he shall hear the remarks that I am
going to make. However, it is amatter within
his own discretion as to whether ho will do so
or not.
But, Mr. President, my friend from Massa
chusetts in his reply, while he justly acquit ted
me of any purpo-e to do injustice to New Eng
land, did not think proper to confine himself
to the living issues of to-day. but he felt it his
duty to go back and disinter for exhibition the
corpse of slavery, which is now one of the
dead issues of the past.
He charges that I had for a large portion of
ray life supported an institution (meaning
slavery) lying at the foundation of govern
ment which prohibited marriage to a majority
of the people of my State. In t.iatconncction.
however, he was a little at fault ia his figures,
as slaves were, I believe, never at any time a
majority of the people of Georgia, yet they
formed a large minority of our people.
But as I am charged with having sup
pirtcd the institution of slavery most of my
life which prohibited marriage among the
slaves, it may not be inappropriate, however
unpleasant the task may be, for me to make
some reference to the origin of slavery in this
country, and to show who was responsible for
its introduction. As slavery is now dead in
this country, it is certainly as proper for me
to go back and refer to its origin and its early
practices as it was for the Senator froiii
Massachusetts to introduce it into this dis
cussion, and refer to its practices twenty
years ago.
It is also proper to inquire when and how
and by whom it was introduced into the
different States of the Union; and as fair an
illustration as auv will be found in the his
tory of the two States, Massachusetts and
Georgia. In my other speech I took occasion
to contrast the polygamy of Utah and New
England; now it will become to some-extent
my duty to contrast the slavery of Massa
chusett' and Georgia. In doing this I shall
quote .rom the history of Massachusetts ou
the slavery question. I shall make some ex
tracts from the book written by George H.
Moore, a member of the Historical Society of
the State of Massachusetts, which is
entitled “Notes ou the History of
Slavery in Massachusetts,” and from
Elliott’s History of New England. I shall first
quote from Moore in substance as follows:
SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS.
“The Puritans in their earliest code made
ample provision for slavery, and added the
conviction that slavery was established by
the law of God, and that Christianity always
recognized it as the antecedent Mosaic prac
tice. (Moore’s Notes on the History of Slavery
in Massachusetts, pages 105 and 123-4.)
“Massachusetts held in slavery Scots and
Irish.” (Elliott’s History of New England,
volume 2, page 179.)
“Negroes and Indians were bought and sold
without compunction by priest and people
alike.” (Ibid., page 180.)
“Through all the wars captive Indians were
sold as slaves, and Inuians were held as slaves
without compunction.” (Ibid., pages 175 and
176.)
“The people of Massachusetts made rum
and carried cargoes of it to Africa, and
bought cargoes of slaves Ifor the markets of
the iVest Indies and Southern Colonies, and
brought portions of them to New England.”
(Ibid., page 179.)
“Aged and infirm slaves were set free to re
lieve the master from the charge of support
ing them.” (Moore on Slavery in Massachu
setts. page 58.)
“The people of Massachusetts raised slaves
for the markets.” (Ibid., page 69.)
“They were taxed like horses, oxen, cows,
goats, s'heep, and swine, until after the com
mencement of the war of the revolution.”
(Ibid., page 65.)
“Negr.-es were looked upon as a good dog is
now. They were commonly treated with
kindness, but were liable to abuse as dogs
arc.” (2 Elliott, page 182.)
Negroes were advertised for sale as wc now
advertise a horse or a cow, and the news
papers of the day contain such advertisements
as these, which 1 should like the Senator from
Massachusetts, if he had remained in the hall,
to have heard:
“A likely negro wench and child to be sold.
Inquire of printer."
“To be sold by the subscriber, of Branford,
a likely negro wench, 18 years of age; is ac
quainted with all sorts of "housework; is sold
for no fault. June 15, 1773.”
Under the date of October 4,1708, the Boston
tmLetttr has the following advertisements:
“A negro woman, aged about 31 years, to lie
sold. Inquire at the pos: office in Cornhill,
Boston, and know further.”
October 11. same year:
“An Indian woman, aged about 30 years, to
be sold. Inquire at the post office in Cornhill,
Boston, and know further. Nov. 23. (2 El
liott, pages 181 and 182.)
Moore, in his Notes on Slavery in Massachu
setts, page 70, says: “Negro men, women,
and children were mixed up in the sales w'itli
wearing apparel, gold watches, and other
goods;” and he then gives specimens of ad
vertisements, as follows: “Very good Barba
does rum is offered with a young negro that
lias had the small-pox;” “Competitors offer
likely men and women, just arrived;” “Ne
gro merf, new. and negro boys who have been
in the country some time;” “And also
just arrived, a choice parcel of ne
gro boys aud girls;” “A likely negro
man, born in the country and bred a farmer,
lit for any service;” "A negro woman about
22 years old, with boy about 5 months,” etc.;
“A likely negro woman, about 19 years, and a
child of about 6 months of age, to be sold to
gether or apiirt;” and “a lively negro man
taken by execution, and to be sold by public
auction at the Koval Exchange tavern in
King street at 6 o’clock this afternoon.”
Again, 2 Elliott, page 178, the following
advertisement:
“Just imported from Dublin, in the brig
Derby, a parcel of Irish servants, both men
and women, and to be sold cheap, bv Israel
Boardntan, of Stamford, January 5, 1764.”
These may serve as specimens of advertise
ments of slaves in Massachusetts for sate, and
it will be seen that the slaveholders of that
good old Commonwealth were in condition to
accommodate and were very accommodating
to purchasers. They could sell you an Irish
slave or a Scotch slave, an Indian slave or a
negro slave: they could sell you a man ora
woman, or they could sell you a mother with
a child 6 months old. to be sold together or
apart, as it best suited the purchaser; and
they could sell td one person the father of the
child and to another person the mother, and
to a third the child itself, which was held to
be legitimate if the master consented to the
intercourse when the parties were never mar
ried. Aud they sold negroes “taken by execu
tion” for the "payment of the debts of the
owner. This showed a very liberal commerce
in slave property in Massachusetts. Anything
the purchaser wanted in that line he could get
for the money.
Hubbard, the contemporary historian of the
Indian wars, says of these captives:
“Of those who’ are not so desperate or sullen
to sell their lives for nothing, but yielded in
time, the male children were sent to the Ber
mudas. Of the females, some were distributed
to the English towns; some were disposed of
amoug other Indians, to whom they were
deadly enemies, as well as to ourselves.”
(Moore,page 5.)
“The colonists of Massachusetts assumed to
themselves ‘a right to treat the Indians on
the footing of Canaanites or Amalekites,’ aud
practically regarded them from the first as
forlorn and wretched heathen, possessing few
rights which were entitled to respect.” (3
Bancroft, page 408; Moore, page 30.)
“They exported Indians to sell for negroes.”
(Moore, page 32.)
The colonists of Massachusetts sold Indian
prisoners on public account, and the Treas
urer, in giving an account of his stewardship,
has this item:
“Captives: for one hundred and eighty
eight prisoners at war sold, X 397.13.”
The author says:
“There is a peculiar significance in the
phrae which occurs in the records—‘sent
away by the Treasurer.” It means sold into
slavery." (Massachusetts Records, volume 3,
page 58: Moore, page 35.)
Anything to turn an honest penny. When
King l’hilip, the great Indian leader, fell, his
wife and son, the Queen and Prince of his
great tribe, were taken prisoners.
Of their treatment that great man, Edward
Everett, says:
“What was the fate of Phillip’s wife and
ehild? She is a woman; he is a lad. They did
not surely hang ihem? No; that would have
been merciful. The boy is the grandson, the
mother is the daughter-in-lanr of good old
Massasoit, the first and best friend the English
ever hail in New England. Perhaps—perhaps
now Philip is slain and his warriors scattered
to the four winds, they will allow his wife and
son to go back—the widow and the orphan—to
finish their days and sorrows in their native
wilderness. They are sold into slavery—West
India slavery—an Indian Princess and her
child, sold from the coot breezes of Mount
Hope, from the wild freedom of the New Eng
land forests, to gasp under the lash beneath
the blazing sun of the tropic*; bitter as death,
aye, bitter as hell! Is there anything-I do
uot sat in the range of humanity—is there
anything animated that would not struggle
againt this? (Moore, pages 48 and 44.)
"The practice_was to consider Such issue
(the children of the slave mother) as slaves
and the property of the master of the parents,
liable to be soid -and transferred like other
chattels, and as assets in the hands of execu
tors and administrators.’! (Moore, page SI.)
"The Indians of Cape Sable, Who had never
been in the least manner guilty of any injury
done to New England, were kidnapped and
sent off to be sold.” ( Ibid page 47.)
‘•The breeding of slaves was finally not
found to be profitable and not regarded with
favor T * 1 ' Belknap says that negro children
were considered an incumbrance in a family;
when weaned they were given ivav like
puppies. They were frequently publicly ad
vertised to be given away, sometimes with
the additional inducement, of sum of money
to any one who would take them off. (/btd.,
P^ e t was in the power of the masters in Mas
sachusetts to deny baptism to their slaves,
and they practioed such denial, as appears
from the extract from the
Secretary to the Society for the Propagation
o f the Gospel, etc.’-’ (Ibid., page 58.)
“In 1758 It was adjudged by the Superior
Court of Massachusetts that the child of a fe
male slave never married according to any of
the forms prescribed by the laws M the land,
by another slave who had kept her company
with her master’s consent, was not a bastard.’’
Ibtd., page 58.)
If this decision was right, there were no
bastards among the slave children of Georgia.
•Hr. Palfrey gives it as his opinion that from
the revere nee entertained by the fathers of
New England for the nuptial tie it is safe to
infer that slave husbands and wives were
never parted.
• j; T . h ‘- of New England also cher
ished a due regard—"
Says Moore—
‘‘for parental and filial duties and respoosl
bilities; yet it is certain that slave mothers
and children were separated. Resting upon
Hhe law Of God established in Israel,' the
Puritan could have had no scruple about this
matter. Such a condition of master and slave
most have been regarded as an axiom, as it
was by the Hebrew. Mr. Palfrev’s inference
is not warranted by facts.”
Rear in mind, Moore, the historian, says:
“It is certain that slave mothers and chil
dren were separated, and that Mr. Palfrey’s
inference is not warranted by the facts when
he inferred that the New England fathers did
not separate slave husbands and wives in
Massachusetts."
Scots, Irish. Indians and negroes, when
taken as prisoners of war or kidnapped or
purchased with rum or other commodity,
were considered and treated as slaves.
John Adams says:
“I lived for many years in times when the
practice of slavery was not disgraceful, when
the best men in mv vicinity thought it not in
consistent with their character. ’ (Adams’
Works, 10,380.)
“If there was a prevailing pnblic sentiment
against slavery in Massachusetts, as has been
constantly claimed of late, the peop'e of that
State, far less demonstrative than their de
scendants, had an extraordinary way of not
showing it.” (Moore, page 110.)
Cotton Mather, who was a prominent man
and minister of the gospel In New England in
his day. illustrates the temper of the times in
reference to enslaving Indians, in the follow
ing paragraph:
••We know not when or how these Indians
first became inhabitants of this mighty con
tinent, yet we may guess that
probably the devil decoyed these mis
erable savages hither in hopes that the gos|/el
of the Lord Jesus Christ would never come
here to destroy or disturb his absolute empire
over them.” (Moore, page 31.)
In 2 Elliott, page 181, we find it recited
that—
“Whf.bkas, James, the servant and bond
man unto Richard, hath had a desire to mar
ry, and, having manifested the same unto his
said master, who promises to buy a Yokefel
low for him, but upon some consideration
hath thought it better for him to make said
James, his servant, to serve him five years,
without marriage, than to pay X3O for his
libertv”—
In other words, than to pay X3O for a wife
for him—
“ Slaves who committed offenses were
tried and puuishcd in the most rigorous man
ner. Phyllis, a negro woman, and Mark, a
negro man. were suspected of poisoniug their
master, Capt. Codman, of Charlestown, Mass.
Tliey were put on trial and convicted, and the
court sentenced 51 ark to be hanged, and
Phyllis to be burned to death. On the day of
execution they were both drawn to the place
of execution attended by the greatest number
of spectators ever known on such occasion,
whore the former was hanged by the neck
until he was dead, after which his body was
gibbeted, and the latter burned to death.” (2
Elliott, 187.)
"Slaves were forbidden to be out an hour
after sunset upon paiu of whipping and im
prisonment. They were forbidden to meet
together in the streets more than two at a
time. And slaves who assaulted a Whiteman
were to be whipped and sent beyond sea,
whatever the provocation.” (Ibid., "page 189.)
In 1774 the slaves of Slassachusetts sent
their humble petition to the Governor, in
which they say: “We have no property; we
have no wives; we hare no city, no country.
(Elliott, page 192).
This did not look like Massachusetts was
providing for the marriage relation at that
time.
“In referring to the horrors of the slave
trade, in which Massachusetts took so promi
nent a part, Jonathan Edwards, the great
New England divine, states that of the 100,000
slaves annually exported from Africa 25,000
perished before they arrived in America, and
that another 25,009 died in the ‘seasoning.’
And that, including these ami those who per
'isbed in the wars tor the capture of slaves in
Africa, a hundred thousand human beings arc
annually destroyed to support the traffic.
(2 Elliott, page 199),
“In New England, the harbors of Bristol
and Newport were alive with vessels engaged
in the traffic, and large fortunes were rapidly
raised from its profits.” (Ibid., page 205.)
So much for slaverv in Massachusetts. Let
us see for a moment now the free negroes and
free Indians fared in that State. In second
Elliott, page 189, I find the following;
“Free negroes or Indians who entertained
any slaves in their houses were subject to im
prisonment and whipping (1723) and free
negroes and Indians were whipped who kept
arms. They were forbid on public days to
sell any cakes or drinks. They were compelled
to bind out their children before they were 4
years old to some English master. If they re
ceived any stolen goods they were to be whip
ped and banished, and if tliey returned were
to l/e imprisoned lor life. IT convicted of
theft, they were to|l/e shipped off beyond sea.”
So that the fate of the free negroes aud In
dians in Massachusetts was little better than
that of the slaves. If the marriage relation
was recognized among them, the offspring
were cruelly takcu from the father and
mother before tliey were 4 years of age and
lzound to an English master. In other words,
the children of free negroes and Indians were
enslaved for the benefit of the English mas
ters.
This was slavery in Massachusetts. Neither
slavery in Georgia, which I supported for a
portion of my life, nor any other slavery, even
of the dark ages, was ever more tyrannical,
venal and oppressive than the slavery of Mas
sachusetts.
MULATTOES.
But my honorable friend from Massachu
setts did not confine himself to the allegation
that I had supported for a large part of my
life an institution that did not recognize the
marriage relation, but be nlso called atten
tion to the further fact that there was a large
number of mulattoes in the South to be ac
counted for.
Now, Mr. President, I have never claimed
perfection for the South. Human nature ex
ists there as it does everywhere else, and
I shall not claim that t lie people of the
South are entirely free from human pas
sion. But, having shown where slavery came
from when it invaded m.y State, I will now
try to account for at least a portion of the
mulattoes. And again I state I am very
sorry the Senator from slassachuetls is not
in tlio Chamber to hear the remarks 1 make
on that subject. In order to do this it will be
necessary for me again to refer to the history
of Massachusetts. I will here quote a few
passages from that history:
“The law of 1703, chapter 2, was In restraint
of the manumission, discharge, or setting free
of mulatto or negro slaves.
“(Moore on Slavery in Massachusetts, page
53.)
“In 1694 all negroes, mulattos—”
Yes, “mulattoes” is the word—
“and Indian servants, as well male as female,
of 16 years old and upward, were taxed at
the rate of 12 pence per poll, same as other
polls. In 1695 all negroes, mulattoes, and In
dian servants, males of 14 years of age and
upwards, at the rate of X2O estate, and fe
males at Xl4 estate unless disabled by infirm
ity.” (Ibid., page 62.)
“One ot the earliest legal cases where a mu
latto was a party of which we have any
record in slassachn*etts is noticed in the diary
of John Adams. It was in the Superior Court
at Salem in 1766. Vuder date of Wednesday,
Nov. 5. he says: ‘Attendedcourt: heard trial
of an action o' trespass brought by a mulatto
woman for damages, for restraining her of
her liberty. This is called suing for liberty:
the first case that ever 1 knew of the sort.’
(Ibid., page 112.)
“In another esse the master protested the
plaintiff was his mulatto slave, and that he,
the master, was not held by law to answer,
but for nleading the master said, ‘Not
guilty.’ (Ibid., page 119.)
“As in the preceding valuationsof the prop
erty of their constituents. Indians, negroes
and mulatto slaves had been prominent arti
cles, they must keep on still in the old track.
Indians, negroes and mulattoes must still be
valued as property. (Ibid., page 64.)
“Again, in 172} the Assessors were required
to estimate Indian, negro and mulatto slaves
proportionately as other personal estate.
(Ibid., page 65.)
"Negroes, Indians aud mulattoes were for
bidden to serve as porters in Boston,
except they gave security. Their testimony
was not received like a white man’s in court.
They were forbidden to go to fires at night.
Tbsy could not bury their friends after mid
night or on the Lord’s dav. Negro, Indian,
and mulatto slaves are forbidden to buy any
thing in the market lest it should enhance
prices. (2 Elliott, 189.)
“The law of 1703, chapter 4, prohibited In
dian, negro, and mulatto servants or slaves
to be abroad after 9 o’clock. ’The law of 1705,
chapter 6, for the better preventing of a
spurious and mixt issue, etc., punishes negroes
and mulattoes for improper intercourse with
whites by selling them out of the province.’ (It
does not tell what was to be done with the
whites). It also punishes any negro or mu
latto for striking a Christian' by whipping, at
the discretion of the Justices before whom he
may be convicted. It also prohibits marriage
of Christians with negroes or mulattoes.”
(Moore, pages 14 and 55.)
Here you will oliserve, Mr. President, the
mulattoes come in rather thick; indeed, they
are scattered all along down through the his
tory of Massachusetts.
“in 1718 all negro. Indian and mulatto ser
vants for life were estimated as other personal
estate.” (Moore, page 64.)
“Indian, negro and mulatto servants for a
term of years were to be numbered and rated
as other polls.” (Ibid., page 64.)
“It was enacted by the Legislature of Mas
sachusetts in 1786 that no'person authorized
by this act to marrv shall join in marriage
any white person with any negro, Indian, or
mulatto under penalty of £bo, and all such
marriages shall be absolutely null and void.”
(Ibid, page 59).
The inhibition applies not only to the negro
and to the Indian, but to the mulatto as well.
“The law of 1698 appears to have been the
first, if not the only, one in which this feature
was applied to the negroes, mulattoes, and
Indians in bondage, aud mar be justly re
garded as an indication of progress, for it was
an admission that these unfortunate creatures
had ‘faculties’ valuable to their owners, if not
to themselves.” (Ibid,, page 63).
Here again comas in the mulatto.
And when, in 1788. after the end of the Revo
lutionary war, Massachusetts banished the
free negroes from her territory by an act of
her Legislature, unless they were subjects of
the Emperor of Morocco, with whom, I pre
sume, they had valuable commerce, or citi
zens of the United States, and if they failed to
go after t n days’ notice, they were liable to
be punished in the house of correction for a
fixed time; and then if they still failed to go
they were to be taken up ana whipped, and if
they still did not go this punishment was to
be inflicted once every two months. Under
this law a lengthy list of names is given of
those who received the notice and were com
pelled to leave the State; and among this list
who were thus banished from Massachusetts
I find the names of a large number of mulat
toes. (Moore, 238 and 234.)
Now, Mr. President, f think I have
-hown to the satisfaction of the
Senate that Massachusetts was enacting laws
in reference to mulattoes when the colony of
Georgia was absolutely prohibiting slavery.
Ia Elliott’s History, volume 2, page 178, we
find the following;
“In Georgia slavery was positively prohibit
ed (1734)."
Gen. Oglethorpe said: “Slavery is against
the gospel, as well as the fundamental law of
England. We refused as trustees to mase a
law permitting such a horrid crime.” When
Massachusetts was making laws to punish
mulattoes for intercourse with white people,
banishing the mulatto without punishing the
white, so far as the historian tells us; when
she wm legislating against the emancipation
of mnlattoes; w hen she was fixing the rate of
taxation on mnlattoes; when she was offering
mulatloe* for sale in the market, Georgia had
not a single mulatto within her limits, nor a
slave of any other character. But as all the
other colonies had introduced slavery the peo
ple of Georeia were finally tempted by ihe
■lave dealer* to try the institution, and thev
yielded to the allurements of the t/cople o'f
Massachusetts and other slave traders and
adopted it.
I have already shown that Massachusetts
sent cargoes of rum to Africa aud brought car
goes of slaves to some of the West Indies aud
the Southern colonies; and I further showed
that they raised slaves for the market as long
as they found it profitable. The* in purchasing
slavf s from Massachusetts we purchased a due
proportion of mnlattoes. It seems the | r.zpor
tion there was a very large one, and we got
the mulatto institution as we got the slavery
institution from Massachusetts, by pur
chase, when we bought slaves Horn
her. She was not careful about the
color of the slave, whether he was a Scotch
man, an Irishman, an Indian, a negro, or a
mulatto. The only question with her was
whether he would bring ihe money. She held
him as a slave and she offered him'for sale as
a slave. When the expulsion act in 1788 was
passed expelling free negroes and mulatto*;-,
from Massachusetts it might have seemed to
some people a little unnatnral to expel the
mnlattoes, Ido not sav they were akin to the
people of Massachusetts. It may have been
that climatic influence had changed their
color until they bore a likeness to the good
people of that State. The cold, bleaching
winds of Massachusetts or some other cause
had ver>' largely modified theebonv-likecolor
of the African in that State, aud had infu*ed
a com|H/und of yellow, so that they were no
longer called negroes but mnlattoes.
Alter these mulatloe*. whether naturally or
unuaturally, were expelled from Massa
chusetts they doubtless took refuge in the
Southern States, and their descendants there
have multiplied, still transmitting the modi
fied color inherited from climatic influence or
other cause in Massachusetts. Any casual
observer who will go iuto Massachusetts and
Georgia will see that the proportion the
mulattoes I/ear to the number ot negroes in
that State is much greater than the propor
tion In Georgia. Doubtless the wonderful
effect of climate. If the climate of Massa
chusetts does not change, there seems to l/e
danger that the pure African blood will en
tirely run out and the yellow hue will be
the predominating color of the race. So
wonderful is the effect of Ihe Massa
chusetts climate upon the color of the African
race that it has even followed them into their
retreat in the milder atmosphere of the South.
About twenty-one or two years ago an im
mense cold wave from Massachusetts anil oth
er Northern States bore aownii]zon tlie South,
envelojied in smoke and streaked with fire; as
frigid and inhospitable as the freezing wind*
of a Massachusetts winter. Tins cold wave
rested four long yeurs upon the South, and
it bleached with yellow large numbers of the
young of the negro race in that section, and
tliey are now called mulattoes. The race was
first bleached by Massachusetts when they
were slaves there. They have since been
bleached over again from Massachusetts since
they left there.
The census of 1880 doe* not show the pro
portion that the mulattoes 1/ear in Georgia
and Massaehusett* to the black raee; I do not
find it in the census of 1S70; but in looking
back to the census of 1860 i see they were
taken separately, and I want to refer to it.
In 1860 Georgia, as you know, was a slave
State. What proportion did the mulattoes
hear to the negroes, or the black*, as the cen
sus designates them? There were in 18‘iO, ac
cording to the census, 425,208 blacks and 36,000
mulattoes, being a little above S percent, of
the colored race in Georgia who were inulat
toes in 1860. Now, how did th 6 count stand in
Massachusetts? In Slassachusettsatthesanie
period there were 6,531 blacks and 3,071 mu
lattoe*, being almost 50 per cent, of mulattoes
in Massachusetts as compared with the whole
number of blacks, and only a little over 8 per
cent, iu Georgia. So much for slavery in Mas
sachusetts ami Georgia, and so much for the
origin and existence of mulattoes there. The
Senate will remember that I did not intro
duce slavery into this debate.
Now, slr. President, a few words in reply to
another part of the speech of the honorable
Senator from Massachusetts. He stated in
substance the other day when tip* question
Wits last under discussion that the
laws of Georgia were substantially the
same as the Utah bi 1 in 'refer
ence to the right of husband and wife to testi
fy against each other in criminal cases, or
their obligation to do so. The Senator has
grossly misstated the law of my State, 1 will
not say intentionally, for I think the book was
handed to him on the spur of the moment and
he probably had not time to examine it care
fully. The only fault 1 find with him is that
he did not examine it before he made the as
sertion, What is the first section of this bill
that he says is very similar to the laws of mv
own State? it reads as follow*:
“That iu any proceeding and examination
before a grand Jitrr, a Judge, Justice, or a
United States Commissioner, or a court in any
prosecution for bigamy, polygamy, or unlaw
ful cohabitation, under any statute of the
United States, the lawful husband or wife of
the person accused shall lie a competent wit
ness, and may be called ami may l/e compelled
to testify in such proceeding, examination,
or prosecution without the consent of the hus
band or wife, as the case may be.”
That is the first section of the pending b.ll
The Senator from Massachusetts insisted that
the law of Georgia was substantially the
same. Before I take my seat I must show
that he grossly misstated the law of Georgia
on that subject. The law of Georgia was the
same as it was in most of the other Stales
prior to the act of 1866, which was passed
uy our Legislature and which is copied
almost literally into the code, but as I have
the pamphlet acts of the Legislature before
me I propose to read from that instead of the
code, simply remarking before I read that in
no case prior to that time could husband or
wife be a witness against each other ;the v conld
in no case be compelled to testify against each
other; they were not to bo called. Parlies to
the record were not witnesses; parties who
were infamous or convicted of felony were not
witnesses; parties at interest were not wit
nesses. In a word, the old rule of evidence
substantially that we ape all familiar with ob
tained. In 1866, the Legislature of Georgia
passed this act:
“An act to declare certain persons competent
witnesses as in the act set out and for other
purposes.
PREAMBLE.
“W here AS the inquiry after truth in courts
or justice is often obstructed by incapacities
created by the present law, an I it is desirable
that full information as to the facts in issue,
both in civil and criminal cases, should be laid
before the persous who are to decide upon
them, ant that such persons should exercise
their judgment on the credit of the witnesses
adduced for the truth of testimony.
•‘.Section 1. Ee it enucted, etc.. That in all
cases hereafter tried, no person offered as a
witness shall hereafter be excluded by reason
of incapacity from crime or interest, or from
being a party, from giving evidence, either in
person or by deposition, according to the prac
tice of the court, on the trial of any issue
joined or of any matter or question, or oh any
inquiry arising in any suit, action or proceed
ing, civil or criminal, in any court or before
any Judge, jury, Sheriff, Coroner, Magistrate,
officer or party, having by law or consent of
parties authority to hear, receive and ex
amine evidence; but that every person so
offered shall be competent and compellablo to
give evidence on behalf of either or any of
the parties to said suit, action or other pro
ceeding except as hereinafter excepted.”
That is the general rule now. It re
peals the old law of evidence and
makes all persons, other than the
exceptions that follow, competent wit
nesses, leaving their disabilities and their
credibility with the jury. Then these excep
tions were made:
'■■Provided, That when one of the original
parties to the contract or cause of action in
issue and ou trial is dead, or is shown to the
court to be insane, or when an executor or
administrator is a party in any suit on a con
tract of his testator or intestate, the other
party snail not be admitted to testify in his
own favor.
‘•Sec. 2. But nothing herein contained shall
render any person, wno in any criminal pro
ceeding is cnarged with the commission of any
indictable offense, or any offense punishable
on summary conviction, competent or com
pellable, to give evidence for or against him
self or herself, or shall render any person
compellable to answer any question tending
ti criminate himself or herself, orshall in nnv
criminal proceeding render any husband com
petent or compellable to give evidence for or
against his wife, or any wife competent) or
compellable to give evidence for or against
her husband; nor shall any attorney be com
pellable to give evidence for or against his
client.
“Sec. 3. Nothing herein contained shall ap
ply to any action, suit, or proceeding, or bill
in any court of law or equity instituted in
consequence of adultery, or to any action for
breach of promise of marriage.”
That is the act of 1866. of this latter part
the Senator from Massachusetts undertook to
make a change of the law of Georgia so as to
jiermit husband and wife to testify against
each other; but when you notice the act alto
gether, the first section changes the old law
and makes everybody competent except those
who are excepted in the following sections,
and one of thefollowingsectionshas theprovi
sion that I have just read—that "nothing here
in contained shall apply to anv action, suit or
proceeding, or bill iu any court of law or
equity instituted in consequence of adultery
or to any action for breach of promise of mar
riage.” Therefore it left the law exactly as
it stood before on that question, and provided
that nothing in the act should apply to those
two cases.
, the law be fore that act was
passed? The law was that neither husband
nor wife could testify in any action concern
ing adultery, and the law was that in an
action for breach of promise of marriage
neither of the parties could testify. It leaves
the law on those points exactly as it stood at
common law. In case of an action for adnl
tery or either of the other causes mentioned in
that section the law stands as it stood before
Nothing in the act contained shall apply to
that, says the Legislature, and iu case
of an action for breach of marriage contract
it leaves the law precisely as it stood before.
So the Senator from Massachusetts is en
tirely inaccurate when he savs that the law of
Georgia has been changed on that subject.
The only modification of the law ia that
where the wife herself was the injured party,
as for instance in the case of wife-whipping,
which is & criminal offense in Georgia, the
wife may lie called as a witness to prove the
whipping, but in all other matters the law
there stands just as it stood before. The
Senator from Massachusetts, in attempting to
show that the law of Georgia was applicable
in this case, made a very egregious mistake.
liow does it stand in Massachusetts? By
reference to the statutes of Massachusetts I
find, first, neither husband nor wife shall be
allowed to testify as to private communica
tions with each other: second, neither hus
band nor wife shall txj compelled to be a wit
ness on any trial upon any indictment, com
plaint, or other criminal proceeding against
the other. So that neither Massachusetts nor
Georgia permits or ever has permitted or I
presume ever qrill permit, the outrage against'
the home and the breach qf confidence be
tween linshaml and wife which it is proposed
by the first section of this bill to onaot as a
law. #
What is the reason, Mr. President, for this
exclusion of husband and wife, and thisdenial
of the right to compel them to give evidence
against each other? I will read from a dis
tinguished Massachusetts author as to the pol
icy of the law on that subject. Mr. Greenlcaf.
of Massachusetts, in his first volume on evi
dence, section 334, savs:
jj essential to the happiness-of social
life that the confidence subsisting between
husband and wife should be sacredlv pro
tected and cherished in its most unlimited ex
tnt, and to break down or impair trie great
principles which protect the sanctity ot that
relation would be to destroy the best solace of
human existence.”
Again he says;
. happiness of the married state requires
that there should be the most unlimited con
fiilenee between husoand and wife, ami this
omHdeoce the law secures by providing that
it shall be kept forever inviolable; that noth
ing shall be extracted from the bosom of the
?^ue.^ r . llic,, w aa confided there by the hus
(First Greeuiears Evidence, section
s-H.i
A train he says:
“But the object really is to secure domestic
happiness by piling the protecting seal of the
law upon all confidential communications be
twwu the husband and wife, ami whatever
has come to i lie knowledge of cither by means
of the hallowed confidence which that rela
tion inspires eauuot be afterward divulged in
testimony even though the other party be no
hunger living.” (First Greenleaf s Evidence.
Yet it is proposed by this bill to destroy ab
solutely that rule which affects the confidence
and happiness, and, as Greenleaf savs, the
greatest solace of human existence. It is pro
posed, in the wild madness, in the fanaticism
that now rules the Mormon question, to break
down all these sacred barriers that protected
the family for so long a time from the earliest
period of English history and to apply a rule
that has never been applied between husband
and wife so far as 1 know in a civilized
country, that In proceeding on indict
ment against one of the parties for
adultery or bigamy the other, without even
being summoned, may be arrested and carried
into court and compelled to testify.
The pretext here is that we are legislating
to make happy homes in Utah. The argu
ment is that we are legislating to suppress
polygamy and to have one husband to one
wife, and to make that home a happy one. If
Mr. Greenleaf he right as to the objects and
aims of civil society and the objects of the
law protecting the marriage relation, we are
legislating to destroy one of the greatest safe
guards of the home and of human happiness,
I repel the statement that the State
of Georgia ever has or ever will
pass such unwise and outrageous laws. lam
glad to see that the State or Massachusetts
never has passed such a law, and I know of
no other State in the Union that has. It would
be iniquitous ami it would be monstrous.
There are other iioints, if I had the time at
present to follow the senator from Massa
chusetts, that I should like to notice, f should
like to point out the absolute confiscation of
cinirch property that is provided for in this
proposed act under the section that he refers
to when he speaks of the amendment of
his hill. I think it certainly needs
amending, but I cau point out that'under a
different section, which I will do as we go
along, for I propose to try to amend it. As it
stauds it amounts to absolute confiscation of
church properly in open and palpable viola
tion of the constitution of the United States.
However, Mr. President, I do not desire to
say more at present. After my amendment
now before the Senate is acted upon I shall
have some other amendment to introduce,
when these subjects may come up more ap
propriately.
A Costly Artesian Well Experiment.
Two years ago the Winchester Arms
Company, of New Haven, Conn., which
uses a vast amount of water daily, set out
to save water hills by sinking an artesian
well on their premises in the heart of the
city. A large frame-work was put up, an
engine erected, and the work of putting a
six-inch hole down towards the centre of
the earth was begun by Contractor John
Hogan, a man of much experience, Irom
the Pennsylvania oil regions. In a month
the hole reached a depth at which ordi
narily plenty of water is found, but Mr.
Hogan’s bore was as dry as powder. He
made a fresh contract, and then another
and another, and kepton working towards
the centre of the earth. Still no water
was reached. At length sandstone was
struck, and this made progress more than
ever slow. The concern has spent
slß,ooo on the well, and now finds
itself a hole within a few
feet of half a mile deep on its hands, with
no water in it. To make matters still
worse, it is found that a chunk of iron
has lallen to the bottom of the shaft, thus
effectually crippling the work of the drill.
It will take three months to drill through
it, and Mr. Hogan has gone to Penn
sylvania for a machine with which he
hopes to be able to fish the obstruction
out. If he fails, the well will probably
be given up. “If the company wants to
spend tbo money,” said a man connected
with the company, “Hogan will strike
water, even if he has to bore all the way
to China. lie has only gone half a mile
now, but is perfectly willing, I am told,
to go half a mile iurther. Whether thb
Winchester Company wants to spend
any more on the sceme is a matter of
some doubt.” Undoubtedly there is
plenty of water below' the sandstone belt.
He Was a UnicyclUt.
Buffalo Express.
She was in humble circumstances, but
she was a Boston girl tor all that.
“Yes papa is a unicvclist,” she remarked
to the railroad reporter whom she met on
an excursion train.
“Indeed?” responded the young o-entle
man addressed, very much concerned to
know what a unicyclist might be, but very
much afraid of exposing his Western raw
ness by asking,
From a Boston young man on the train
It was learned that “papa” imparted the
desired impetus to a wheelbarrow used in
connection with city improvements.
ratent Medicines,
Asa rule, have the reputation of impos
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of those who are suffering. But we de
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is a decided exception to this rule. This
remedy is manufactured in Atlanta, Ga.;
and in our treatise on Blood and Skin dis
eases we give the indorsement of many
of the prominent people of our city and
State. It is true we are spending a'large
amount in advertising, for we think it our
duty to humanity to do so. The wonder
ful development in the treatment of Can
cer alone would make it our duty to have
it known to every sufferer in the world.
We have medical offices for free consulta
tion at No. 169 W. 23d street, New York,
1205 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and at
the home office.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
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3, Atlanta, Ga., 159 W. 23d street, New
York, and 1205 Chestnut street, Philadel
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mixtures, etc., until digestion is almost fatally
impaired. Swift’s Specific is a vegetable
remedy, and restores the system to health and
builds up the waste made by these poisons.
“I was suffering with Blood Poison, and
treated several months with Mercury and
Potash, only to make me worse. The Potash
took away my appetite and gave me dyspep
sia, and both gave me rheumatism. I then
took Sarsaparillas. etc. All these Sarsaparilla
mixtures have Potash in them. This made me
still worse; as it drove the poison farther into
my system. A friend insisted I should take
Swift’s Specific, and it cared me of the Blood
Poison, drove the Mercury and Potash out of
my system, and to-day I am as well as I ever
was.’’ GEO. O. WELLMAN, Jr.,
Salem, Mass.
John A. Smith, the largest merchant in
Gainesville, tia., says: “I suffered for years
from the combined effects of Erysipelas and
Eczema. 1 continued to grow worse under
medical treatment and by taking medicine
containing Potash. S. S. S. cured me thor
oughly and absolutely. My appetite, strength
and flesh returned as I was cured with it.”
Treatise on Blood and Skin Disease mailed
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N. Y. Office, 139 W. 23d st., between 6th and
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SAVED HER LIFE
Ridge, Mclntosh Cos., Ga.
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TESTED A QUARTER OF A CENTURY—
IT STANDS UNRIVALED,
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I take pleasure in stating that I have used,
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are now nutting up, known as Dr. Bradfleld’s
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table, as well as**33!%*
tlie most whole- 44-A.ME, Ac.
some sauce that
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MAXWELL’S
Prepared Gypsum.
OLIVER’S,
Charleston & Savannah- Ry. Cos.
Savannah, Ga., June 21, 1884.
ON and after SUNDAY. June 23, the fol
lowing schedule will be in effect IAII
trains of this road are run by Central (90)
Meridian time, which is 38 minutes slower
than Savannah time]:
Trains 43 and 47 waft indefinitely at Sa
vannah for connection with S., F. & W. R’y.
Northward.
No. iS.* No. il*
Lv Savannah 6:55 a m 8:37 p m
Ar Charleston 12:40 p m 1:45 am
Lv Charleston 11:50 a m 12:15 a m
Lv Florence ....4:ospm 4:33am
Lv Wilmington 8:35 p m 8:53 a m
Ar Weldon 2:20 a m 2:31 p m
Ar Petersburg 4:50 a m 5:00 p m
Ar Richmond 6:00 am 6:30 pin
Ar Washington 10:30 a m 11:00 p m
Ar Baltimore 12:00 no’n 12:23 a m
At Philadelphia 3:00 p m 3:50 a m
Ar New York 530 pm 6:45 a m
Southward.
No. it. No. 40.
Lv Charleston 3:00 pm 4:15 am
Ar Savannah 7:00 pm 7:45 am
Passengers by 8:37 p m train connect at
Charleston Junction with trains to all points
North and East via Richmond and all rail
line; by the 7:00 a m train to all points North
via Richmond.
For Beaufort, Port Royal and Augusta.
Leave Savannah 6:55 a m
Arrive Yemassee 9:05 am
Arrive Beaufort 10:85 a m
Arrive Port Royal 10:50 a m
Arrive Augusta 1:40 p m
Leave Port Royal 2:25 pm
Leave Beaufort.....' 2:40 o m
Leav e Augusta 11:40 a m
Arrive Savannah 7:00 p m
Passengers for Beaufort by train 43 arrive
there at 10:35 a. m. and can return same day
leaving at 2:25 p. m. and arriving Savannah
7 p. m.
A first-class Dining Car is now loeated in
Savannah, insteadofueing run on the line .as
formerly, affording passengers a fine meal at
small expense. Procure meal tickets from
Conductors.
Pullman Palace Sleepers through from Sa
vannah to Washington and New York on
trams 43 and 47,
For tickets, sleeping ear reservations and all
other information, apply to William Bren.
Ticket agent, 22 Bull sticet, and at Charles
ton and Savannah Railway Ticket Office at
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway De
pot- _ C. 8. GADSDEN, Bnp’t.
B.C. BOTLSTOK. G.p. k.
J. W. C*ais. Master Transportation.
XtliQHUp.
OCEAN STIAMSHIPCOMPAP
—FOR—
HEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA.
Passage to New York.
cabin „ bo
EXCURSION M
STEERAGE 10
Passage to Philadelphia.
cabin ; *u
EXCURSION so
STEERAGE 10
CABIN TO NEW TOltil, VIA PHILA
DELPHIA .WT? J:
THE magnificent steamships of this Com
pany are appointed to sail as follows—
standard time:
TO NEW YORK.
CHATTAHOOCHEE,Capt. K. U. DAHOKTT,
TUESDAY', July 1, at 12:80 r. a.
HACOOCHKE, Capt. F. KKMFTON, FRI
DAY, July 4, at 3:00 r. n.
TALLAHASSEE, Captain W. H. Fisaaa,
.SUNDAY, July 6, at 4:30 r. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. K. S. NICEK*-
son, TUESDAY, July 8. at 0:00 a. ar.
CH ATT A HOOCH EE,Capt. E. H. DAGGETT,
FRIDAY', July 11, at 8:00 a. a.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. F. KemftoN, SUN
DAY, July 13. at 9:80 a. m.
TALLAHASSEE, Capt. W. H. FISHKR,
TUESDAY, July 15, at 10:30 a. a.
TO PHILADELPHIA.
CITY OF SAVANNAn, Capt. J. W. CATH
AKINE, SATURDAY', July 5, at 4:001*. a.
JUNIATA, Capt. 11. C. Daggett, SATUR
DAY', July 5, at 4:00 r. a.
Through bills of lading given to Eastern and
Northwestern points and to ports of the United
Kingdom and the Contiuent.
Fcr freight or passage apply' to
G. M. SORREL, Agent,
City Exchange Building.
Merchants’ and Miners’ Transporta
tion Company.
FOR BALTIMORE.
CABIN PASSAGE fit 00
SECOND CABIN II 00
EXCURSION 25 00
THE steamships of this Company are ap
pointed to sail from Savuuuah for Haiti,
more as follows, citv time:
WM. LAWRENCE. Captain Hooper,
TUESDAY'. July 1, at 1:00 p. x.
JOHNS HOPKINS, Captain M Alien,
MONDAY, July 7, at 5 p. H.
WM. LAWRENCE, Captain Hoopkk,
SATURDAY', July 12, at 10:30 A. M.
JOHNS HOPKINS, Captain Makch,
THU Kf-DAY', July 17, at 2 P. M.
And from Baltimore for Savannah on same
days as above at 3 P. M.
Through bills lading given to all points
West, all the manufacturing towns in New
England, and to Liverpool and Bremon.
Through passenger tickets issued to Pittsburg.
Cincinnati, Chicago, and all points West and
Northwest.
JAS. B. WEST A CO., Agents,
114 Bay street.
BostonandSavannah
STEAMSHIP CO.
FOR BOSTON DIRECT
CABIN PASSAGE S2O 00
EXCURSION 33 00
STEERAGE 12 00
The first-class iron steamships of this com
pany are appointed to sail every Thursday
from Boston at Sr.M.; from Savannah as fol
lows—standard time:
GATE CITY, Capt. D. Hedge, THURS
DAY, July 3. at 2:80 r. a.
CITY OF MACON, CAPT. W. Keli.KY,
THURSDAY, July 10, at 7:30 p. m.
GATE CITY, Capt. D. Hkdgk, THURS
DAY', July 17, at 1 :00 p. m.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. W. KELLEY,
THURSDAY, July 24, at 7:30 P. M.
THROUGH bills of lading given to New
England manufacturing points and to
.Liverpool.
The company’s wharves in both Savannah
<ts*> Boston are connected with all railroads
leading out of the two cities.
RfCHAKDSON A BARNARD, Agents.
Sea Island Route.
Geoi'gia a)<l Florida Inland
,Steamboat Company.
No Heat i No Dust I but a delightful sail along
the P. 'CTURESQUE SEA ISLANDS.
A PERFECT DAYLIGHT SERVICE!
STEA MER ST. NICHOLAS
I EAVES 8a v-annah, foot oi ,J “mLndng at
Lj every Su mlay and Thursday .
8:30 o’clock A. Av., standard time. Kei
leaves F ernand’ na Monday and Friday me *
ings. Brunswick passengers either way wii,
be transferred a t St. Simon’s by steamer Ruby
From Savannah for Darien, Brunswick
and way landin gs,
STEAMER DAVID CLARK
From foot Lincoln street every Tuesday and
Friday at 4 p. m.
For reguiar and spt cial excursion tickets to
all points in Florida, Cuba, Mexico, etc., an
piy to Levis A A j.dkn. eor. Bull and Bryan sts.
Freight not signed for 24 hours after arrival
will be at risk of consignee.
J. N. HARRIMAN, Manager.
C. \V illiams, General Agent.
DeUary-JBaya Merchants’ Line.
STEAMER GEO. M. BIRD.
CAPT. J. B. BTROBIIAR,
TIT ILL leave every WEDNESDAY, at 4
ol 1/• tor Darien, St. Simon’s,
and Landings on Satilla River.
Freight payable here, except Darien.
• WAToON, Manager.
General Agent,
For Augusta and Way Landings.
STEAMER KATIE,
Captain J. 8. BE FILL,
WILL leave EVERY TUESDAY, at S
o’clock p. M. (standard time), lor Au
gusta and way landings.
All freights payable by shippers.
JOHN LAWTON,
Man ager.
SEMI-WEEKLY LINE ~~
FOR COHEN’S BLUFF,
AND WAY LANDINGS.
THE steamer MARY FISHER, Captain W.
Gibson, will leave for above every
DAY, 3p.m. Returning, arrive SUNDAY
NIGHT. Leave TUESDAY, at 9a. m. Re
turning, arrive THURSDAY, at 11 A. M. For
information, etc., apply to W. T. GIBSON,
Wharf foot of Drayton street. anager>
Sgbcc Srtirmw.
Deßary-Baya Merchants’ Line.
TYBEE FERRY ROUTE.
ON and after SUNDAY,June 29,1884. steam
era will run, on the Tybec Ferry Route,
the following schedule, viz:
Sundays, J £ rom ®>*-? at 10 a - *• and 3P. M.
3 i From Tybee at 7 a. m. and7p. M.
Mondays, from Tybee at 7 a. m.
*— *• i SSSWK-i-..
Thursdays,! £ rom H,' 1 ? at 10 A - M - antl 7 *•
* M *rom Tybee at 7 A. M. and 5 p.M.
fnday—Grand Fourth of July excursion for
the benefit Uniform Degree Odd Fellows—
from Tybee at 7 a. m„ 11 a. m.. 3:30 r. m. and
7:30 P. M.;from city at 9 4. m.,2p. m. andsp m
Saturdays, *■ £ rom £l*7 at 10 a. m. and 7p. u.
}a ') From Tybee at 7a. M.and sp. m.
Commutation tickets for Tybec Route and
Tram-way on sale at office.
Freight payable here, and goods only re
ceived up to 15 minutes of departure of steam
era.
JXO. F. B-OBEBTSOX, General Agent,
W. B. WATSON, Manager, Jacksonville!
KIESUNG’S NURSERY,
WHITE BLUFF ROAD.
DESIGNS. CUT
l< LOWERS, furnished to orde Leave
BuU anUYort
MiiUroaßo.
Savannah. Florida & Western Rv,
[AU trains of this road are run by Centra.
(90) Meridian time, which is 3* minutes slower
than Savannah time.}
fcOTItaiKTKVDIWT’S Omtt, (
Savannah, May 11, 1884. J ■
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, MAY 11.
ISM, Passenger Trains on this road will
run as fallows:
FAST MAIL.
Leave Savannah dally at,.. 8:18 am
Leave Jesup daily at 9:58 am
1-enTi W aycn-w daily at 11:35 aru
Arrive si Callahan daily at 1;*8 p m
Arrive at Jacksonville flatly at tflOpm
Arrive at Dupont dflly at 12:48 p m.
Arrive at Valdosta daily at I:4* p m
Arrive at Ouilman daily at *:22piu
Arrive atThomasiille daily at 8:17 pm
Arrive at Bainbridge daily at 8:10 pm
Arrive at ChaitalUMM-hcu daily at.... 6:18 p m.
Leave Chattahoochee daily at 11:10 a m
Leave Bainbridge daily at 11:30 a m.
Leave Tbomasville daily at 1:35 pm.
Leave Uuitman daily at *:18 p m
Leave \ aid data daily at 8:oo p n>.
Leave Dupont daily at 8:5 p ni
Leave Jacksonville daily at J:80 P ni
Leave Callahan daily at 8:15 p im
Arrive at Way cross daily at 6:05 p m
Arrive at Jesup daily at :*spm.
Arrive at Savannah daily at 8:17 pm
Between Savanhah and Wayrroes this tram
store only at Jobnstou’e, Jeeup and Black
shear. Between Wayeross and Jacksonville
stopi only at Folkston and Callahan. Be
tween Wayeross and Chattahoochee atops
only at Dupont, Valdosta, gunman, Thomas
ville and all regular stations between Thoin
asvillc and Cbmtnhoochee.
Passengers tor Fernandtna take this train.
Close connection at Jacksonville daily (Sun
day excepted) for Green Cove Springs, St.
Augustine, Paiatka, Enterprise, Sanford amt
all landings on St. John’s river.
Passengers for Pensacola, Mobile, New
Orleans, Texas, and trans-Misamaippi points
make close connections at Chattahoochee
daily with trains of Pensacola and Atlantic
Uailroad, arriving at Pensacola a. 11:45 p. m..
Mobile at 4:45 a.m.. New Orleans at 9:45 a. m.
JESUP EXPRESS.
Gave Savannah daily at 6:80 n in
Ia ave Miller’s “ 5:58 pin
Leave Way’s “ 6:19 p m
Leave Fleming “ ....6:34 pm
Leave Mclntosh “ 6:49 p m
Leave WaltbourvUle “ 7:10 pm
Leave Johnston “ 7:30 pm
Leave Doctortown “ 7:4V p m
Arrive at Jesup “ 8:00 pin
Leave Jesup ‘ “ 5:45 am
Leave Doctortown “ 5:58 am
Leave Johnston “ 0:15 am
Leave Walthourville “ 6:35 am
Leave Mclntosh “ 6:58 am
Leave Fleming “ 7:08 a in
Leave W ay’s ** 7:22 ai*
Leave Miller's “ 7:45 am
Arrive at Savannah “ 8:10 am
This train daily stops at all regular und tiag
stations.
ALBANY EXPRESS.
Leave Savann ah daily at 8:00pm
Leave Jesup daily at 10:30 p m
Ixiavo YVaycrooa daily at 12:40 am
Arrive at Callnhau daily at 7:5."> a m
Arrive at Jacksonville daily at 9:00 a m
Arrive at Dupont daitr at 2:00 am
Arrive at Suwannee daily at 4:13 am
Arrive at Live Oak daily at 4:80 a m
Arrive at New Branford daily at.... 6:50 a m
Arrive at Ncwuanaville daily at 7:17 a m
Arrive at Hague daily at. 7:29 a in
Arrive at Gainesville daily at S:00 a m
Arrive at Tliomaavillc daily at 6:45 a m
Arrive at Albany dally at 11:80 a m
Leave Albany daily at 4:15 p m
louve Thomahvilie daily at 8:15 p m
Leave Gainesville daily at 6:15 p m
Leave Hague daily at 6:16 p m
Leave Newnansville daily at 6:57 p la
Leave New Branford daily at 8:20 p m
Leave Live Oak dally at 0:45 p m
Leave Suwatiueo daily at 10:05 p m
Leave Dupont daily at 12:40 am
Leave Jacksonville daily at 6:30 in
Leave Callahan daily at 0:35 p m
Leave Wayeross daily at 2:80 a m
Arrive at Jesupdaily at 4:10 am
Arrive at Savannah daily at 6:30 a m
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars Savannah to
Gainesville.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars Savannah to
Jacksonville.
Passengers for Brunswick take this train.
Passengers for Maeon take this train, ar
riving at Macon at 7:00 a. in.
Passengers for Femandina, Waldo, Gaines
ville, Paiatka, Cedar Key, Ocala. Wildwood,
Leesburg and all stations on Florida Railway
and Nalvgation Company ami Florida South
ern Railway take this train.
Passengers for Madison, Montieello, Talla
hassee and all Middle Florida points taka
this train.
Connection at Jacksonville daily (Sun
days excepted) for Green Cove Springs, Bt.
Augustine, Palalka, Enterprise, Sanford and
all landings on St. John's River.
Connecting at Albany daily with pas
senger trains both ways on Southwestern
Railroad to and from Macon, Eufaula, Mont
gomery, Mobile, New Orleans, etc.
Connection at Savannah daily with Charles
ton and Savannah Railway for all points
North ami East.
Connecting at Savannah daily with Centrai
Railroad for points West and Northwest.
Through tickets sold and sleeping car berth
accommodations secured at Bren’s Ticket
Office, No. 22 Bull street, and at the Compa
ny’s Depot, foot of Liberty street.
A restaurant haa been opened in the sta
tion at Wayeross, am; abundant timo will bo
allowed for meals by all passenger trains.
JAS. L. TAYLOR,
Geo'l Pass. Agent.
R. G. FLEMING. Superintendent.
Central & Southwestern R. Rs.
[All trams of this system are run by Standard
(90) Meridian time, which is 30 minutes )ower
than time kept by City.]
Sxvamuu, GA., Juno 14, 1884.
ON and alter SUNDAY. June 15, lh4, pas
senger trains on the Central and South
western Railroads and branches will run aa
follows:
KKAn POW*., READ IIOWnI
No. SI. I roni Sa txmnak. No. 65.
10:00 a m Lv Savannah Lv 8.45 p m
4:80 p m Ar Augusta Ar 5:45 a m
6:20 pm Ar Macon Ar 3:50 am
11:20 p m Ar Atlanta Ar 7:50 a m
Ar Columbus., Ar 18:32 p m
Ar Eufaula.. Ar 4:09 p m
11:30 p m Ar Albany Ar 4:05 p m
Ar. Miliedgi vWie... .Ar 10:29 a m
Ar .Eatonton Ar 12:30 p u
No. IS. From Augusta. No. to. No.tt.
8:30 a m Lv.Augusta...Lv 9:00 pm
3:30 p m Ar.Savannah.Ar 7:40 a m *
6:20 p in Ar .Macon Ar
11:20 p m Ar. Atlanta.. .Ar
Ar.Eufaula.. Ar
11:20 pm Ar.Albany....Ar
Ai‘.Mill’viJle..Ar
Ar .Entonton..Ar
No. SU. From Macon. No. St.
1:10 am Lv—Slacon Lv 8:25 am
7:10 am Ar.... Savannah Ar 840 pm
Ar—Augusta Ar 4:30 pm
Ar... Milfe’ville Ar 10:29 am
Ar Eatonton Ar 12:80 pm
No. 1. From Macon. No. S.
9:ooam Lv Macon Lv 7:Bopm
1:09 pm Ar Eufaula Ar
" p m Ar—Albany ArllxSOpm
* **'*• From Macon. No. 19.
- No - 6 ‘ ' Macon.. Lv “
.8:15 am Lv... ’"■lumlma .Ar
13:32pm Ar. .. i— ~JuTsi. No. it. '.
No. L. From Macot.. --10 pm 4:(iriTm
.740amLvMacou .Lv.. ' n m 7:53am
11:80 a m Ar. .Atlanta Ar il:2u Ho.tl.
No. tS. From Fort-Valiev. TJJ
1 KSV• •■ ■ ort V^le y Lv 10:30-.
J.BO pm Ar...,Perry Ar 11:20 am
A *• From A tlamta. No. 6k. No. 6t7~
mS AtlanU..Lv 0:00 pm 4:00 am
7.00 pm Ar.. Macon Ar 12:56 am 6:05 am
Ar..Eufaula ..Ar
11:30 p m Ar. Albany... A r.. . ii)s p *
Ar.Miiled’yille.Ar 10:29 am
Ar. .Eatonton..Ar rlbo p™
Ar..£ugusta..Ar 4:3opm
Ar.. SavannaiuAr 7.40 a m 8:80 p m
Front Columbus. No. 10.
fcl:00 p m Lv....Columbus Lv.
5:42 pmAr —Macon Ar
11:20 pm Ar Atlanta Ar
Ar Kufaula Ar
11:30 p m Ar... .Albany ..Ar *
Ar... - Millcdgevllle... . Ar. 7. 7" ’
Ar.... Eatonton Ar
........ Ar.... Augusta .'..Ar... '.
7.40 a m Ar—Savannah Ar "
From K ufuuVi, A/> i"
11:57 a m Lv.... Eufauia. r v
4:05 p m Ar.... Albany "T,
6:85 p m Ar.... Macon '. '..Ar
Ar... .Columbus ... Ar
11:20 pm Ar.... Atlanta Ar
A p —Milledgeville.....Ar 77
Aj... .Eatcnvon, Ar
•••:: Ar. ..Augusta Ar
7:40 a m Ar... .Savaunab Ar
No, S6, From Albany. 1 y,, ~
11:45 am Lv Albany Lv • 3 -uiTi m
V m Ar—Eufauia. .. . ....i.Ar
6:35 “ i r r -- Ar 7:66 anj
.’i*” Ar.,, .Columbus,,, Ar li*B4 n m
11:30 pm Ar.. • -Atlanta A? US a £
XT" MjUedgeva.e .... Ar 10:29 an
7 : 4C a mAr ” ÜBta i. Ar
7.Mi a m Ar—Savannah A r 3:30 p m
No. gg. From Eatonton and MUUrl aeK uu7~
S:lspm Lv Eatonton ~
B:42pm 4,7 Miiledgevlile... "i
Ar Col ambus ...77
Ar Eufauia...
11:20 pmAr Atl*n& .MY.”
•••:• -At Augusta
7:40 am Ar Savannah **•*
Ao.ti. From Derry'.
6:00 am Lv Ferry. Iv
_6j4sanAr...
Local Sleeping Cara on all
tween Savannah and Augusta, savannah
Macon, Savannah and Itlauts, “
Connections.
The MiHedgevilie and Eatonton train
daily (except Monday) between
iatosSn’and^fof XCei,t Sund *^
m. t wu“ no?*st?p I JS2S3f t^Ks±,:*
at * UtioDB "bavaUah
•gSS Eor *
_The Ferry accommodation train _
Fort VaUey and Ferry runsdaUy (ce^K
At Savannah with Savannah
a laEffjsf.i u v‘“
S2.S3YSE i
on Bale at efty bCrU> *
Gun. Trav. Agt. Traffic M^gert^sfvtniah.
- _ _____ Georgia.
jk -I . * A. J. MORRIS.
CAY &, MORRIS
SAVAW georEL, 1 ° *
to rai} and move he&w
buddings and put them in order aS
JtortST** in lie ci ‘y