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Newspaper Page TextpaOgKSglOKAL CARDS- lawyers. ■y; ~~ ,■■■■■=??■■=. Lewis Arnheim, ^ Attorney at Law,. ALBANY, GA. VA80H * Attorney!* til oma: D.A.VASON, MB. W.T.J WUOYZN * JW**, atto: PETER J. 8TB0ZEB, VII. B. SMITH, DOCTORS* BR. W. W. BACON S5SS. W. A STROTHER,KB, ALBANY, GEORGIA. OtoHffiHUrt’i'Jroaiin**' JttMf Dr. B. W. ALFBIjjHll. R' Dr. P. Xi.HTL8BKAN t era FEONTBOOlUvar Walch’a Dim HOTELS The Old Reliable ‘ BARN ms st. sai b«act j wekoM lo all. BOG BN HOUSE, JOHNSON i./. BOGEH. Proprietor W Smithville- THE ALBANY NEWS f By WESTON & EVANS.} y VOLUME 12. Devoted to the Interests of Albany and Southwest Georgia. ALBANY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1JJ78. {$2.00 Per Annum NUMBER 51 . ID OCR SUBSCRIBERS. The first of January will *0011 be here. Pleaae remember the law we have adopted, viz: that of prepay ment of subscription from tliat date, "youdon’t know bow you stand ■per, trritc to u*, or call in hd'lOot at our books. Wc shall be sorry to erase any name from our list. Every subscriber is a part of our muscle and blood, as it were, and each name, as wc have put it on the paper week after week, has be come endeared to ns. ^SejuUng U10 paper ou a credit is June similar circumstance, farmer friend, as if yon were to sell Iwo thousand bushels of oats or wheat on tick, the purchasers of the same re aver Southwest Georgia ral hundred being out of the State. Among our Neighbors. Sam Brown is the dtainpion turkey killer of Calhoun. And still the merry, ringing mar riage bell is heard oTer the land. There will probably be a horse fct'at Tittbn on Christmas day. Who are the noble patriots out for “liureener” in onr surrounding Mr. E. McDonald, Sr., an old and Wc And the following in a copy of | Georgia News, the Savannah News of several days ago: “A letter from the Superinten-1 The grocnbacker’s randidnte for tin dent of thoGoorgla Land and Cotton I Mayorship of Atlanta, in the recent (Company, of Manchester, England, I election, Col. Pike Hill, received Itkt written at the Ucall plantation near I votes. Albany, Cicorgia, informs us that the I ^ man who won’t take a paper be- iwsiiwsr!: >»• the Byron plantation, in Dougliorty I ed a machine witli wliieli lie can rook county, the property of said company, I his dinner by tho smoke of Ids neigh was lately burned down, is incorrect. | bat .i g cliimnov. The gin liouso was set on tiro by ne- I frees, lint by tiio promptand enorget-1 Soeiotv note—Wo regret to clirnni- c exertions of Mr. George Mayo, the I the the approaching departure of the manager of the plantation, the r (lames I General Assemblv. It has been a re vere extinguished before making I , headway, too much credit cannot nj“r k «My genial visitor. Atlanta ‘ given Mr. Mayo for his conduct Constitution, just before adjourn lids occasion.” I ment. As far as we know ami remember. I •\yr c ggc |t stated tliat tlic Atlanta we never stated Unit the “gin bouse I <^ity Council has passi-d a resolution tiio llyron plantation, in Dougher- to furnI( , h a aiU) Bm i build a capital county, the property of tho said 1 « ag as tiio 0110 in Millcdgoville,” ompiiny, was lately burned down.’ I wlienever called upon by (lie General 11 H|H‘!iking of the gin liouse on Uie Assembly to do so. Mouglion place being burned on the Co , one , Cbar|c3 c . j fJr . ( of ight of the 13th nit, we referred to Augusta, was elected on the 19th of the Byron place in the following Ian- Uovemlier, 1878, a member of the ««j«- tired, hut the light was discovered in I ties of Copenhagen. Of this society lime to prevent a total destruction— ] Christian IX, King of Denmark, is thirty or forty bales were considers- present, and tho famous autiqua- bly scorched, and eight or ten bales a | rian Pr0feg80rJ j A . Worsaae, is Vice-President Tins is the most noted respected citizen of Cuthbert, died on Is the candidate tired of shaking hands? Hold out yet awhile longer \e will sooii he over, wile spells “expenses,” and preparer to give him a IVebsterian blue-back on the 25th. The “Cameneam Chimes” is sprjghtiy little monthly paper, pub lished at Albany by Miss Sallie Long. Long may it chime—Bainbridge Dem- «¥'•' le pine lands along the Brunswick Albany railroad will produce well; and under a thorough system of cultivation will pay the farmer hand, somely. Married, on the 5th inst, at the residence of the bride’s father, by Mr. MOAD STREET, ALBANY, OWEGIAlJ-fj .Williams, Mr. Jatpcs T. nail- —f cock and Miss Georgian Turner, all * - of Worth. Success to the happy Clayton House, P. P. Clayton, Proprietor. iaUnoliTk.UUi.ul kept liilitls «Mt s*w ni Sit. Hi ,*‘ti Table alwaya MppUed with the BARLOW HOUSE, AMEUCD8, GA. Board Per Day $2 00 ar, counts, mpat* As Christmas conies on apace, the local editor of the Dawson Journal evokes the fantastic spirit of poetry, and sings a strain as follows: Anif SDrexsara., to. bo/v don't cm.’ Remember that fruit trees can be set ont any time between this and spring, but the earlier the more ccr. the trees live and do well, industry for tho household dfotjra receive more attention. WUl Walker went to Albany Wed nesday on a flying trip as he calls it. He fixes np mightiy just to be going onsets css. --We think there is too much cinnamon on him for common business. Bring her home, Will.- Neat. The “Cameneten Chimes,” conics to to us from Albany, Ga. Miss Sallie Long is the editor, formerly of the Cfljliopean Critique, of Marietta. It’s _LJi -■ J =-•- f or jt much brightness as the Sallie-lutatory.— Marietta Journal. *rbu gin house and grist mill of Dr aiMSMtairilto tk.ws.to ad tot Om a* A. last k«Mto la Ik. Btotob B.&AR.R* CH1SCB OF SCHEDULE. B OFFICE ( v^uupcau vruiijut;, ui annciui. EffiEnSK B. C. Mitchell, in Calhoun county was burned recently. It was all con nected under one roof. It was for- 3 np-o* that only two or tlircc bales of cotton were in the house at tlie time. Supposed to have caught from |^gj^tch in the gin. asdiwj.il Friim at SiiyiiaJtoiAtssa Lae «• Alba./Toradxn, IteHqi ttt lWif. in }- 5Mr. James Pepper, formerly 0*u5>i3i **"*" £#> ono «mnty, and eon of Col F. L. " er, is now located in Leon coun ty, Fla., and doing well. He has an extensive stock farm, and pays par ticular attention to. beggar-lice which he says is the greatest food crop|for cattle in the country. * We re-echo the following sentiment from.the Thomasvilie Times: “Mr. C. ft. Pendleton offers to sell or lease the Valdosta Times. The Tames un der its present management, is one of our most valued exchanges. W trust that Mr. Pendleton’s successor— if he finds one—may fill Charley place as acceptably to the people Valdosta and vicinity as he has. Judges Crisp and Hood, recently •leeted Superior Court Judges by the Legislature of this State, are lsoth nn- Uves'of Tennessee, and Judge Hood and his opponent, Col Hoyl, wera bora In the same county of Tennessee- tunos uuu omm. McMinn. Gen. Morgan, Senator from 'ft/-- ffffhirr -‘frrt'rtt' "Vn 'Alabama, Is also a native of McMinn ' _ S.M.to conntv.: and IVil l*<g V : Schedule Southwestern B. R. toaasBEifc Tbaniitj«u4 FriJiy — ftOlps Hp« UI rvtner E. E. CHEATHAM H. FRA8ER 6RANT, IN Bay Sanaa, BAVAIVAB. OA. Cotton. Rice & Naval Stores. county.; and Williamson countyT* uesseo, proalnced Alabama’s other am**' 00 *- FrfcU/vaad&unU/i—— *33am Mr. J. M. Garrett, formerly of Ita ker, but now of Calhoun, made this year under peculiar- lag circumstance 1 *, lie moved |t|pm toip rand settled on the Duck- Hatcher place, near Whitney, lie commenced work without anything, not even a plow stock, and had hire his plowing done. For this gave a dollar a day, and paid for it doing jobs of carpentering in the neighborhood. From bis year’s la bor he realized 5 bales of cotton, 105 bushels of corn, 486 bushels of pota toes,'ite. He intends to buy a mule and little wagon, and proposes to do another years work. This is another evidence that there is more in the man RftJU re * total loss.” In the same article wo said that in- . _. . _ rendiaries bad remarked that u^y I <>t Its sort In Europe, had failed in this work on Sunday Buena Vista Argus: “Mrs. Sainan- night, but that they proposed to finish IWall, a widow with seven. eliil- up on the coming Wednesday night. I dren, ail girls, two of whom did the Before that time rolled around, they I plowing on the farm, made this year changed their plans from the Byron 1 11 good crop of wheat, between 300 place, and burned down the Moughon I a,, d 400 bushels of corn, 100 bushels gin house. - I of potatoes, 100 bushels of peas, and I meat for the family and two bales of The following “outrage and uiur-1 cotton. This was done on poor pine der story,” we find in the last issue of 1about four miles from Fort Pcr- the Cuthbert Appeal: I r y ( aiM j w ithout any fertilizer. “llieliard Lewis colored, was bru-1 „ . , r ,,, . tally murdered near Arlington, in The Savannah New,says: We have Calhoun comity, last Friday night— I been shown a private letter received He was carried into a swamp by I from Bainbridge, dated December masked men and horribly mangled.— whtch „ !vcs i„formation to the Wc hope the perpetrators of this out- I _. ’ , .... “ .. „ 0 „ rage witi be brought to justice and effect thttt on the evening of tbe8Ui made to feel the penalty of an out- *nst. (Sunday) the mob which had raged law and a civil community.— I previously attempted to lynch tlic nc- We know not the ofieusc charged „ r0 man Cooper, charged with tlic sstjissy'ssras! ™ n, r ” r Mr ~ ' the laws or tiio land aro inadequate I turned to Bainbridge, and, after ring punish the guilty and protect the I ing the fire bclls’to distract the atten- iiinocent, tlicn indeed is our condition tion of thc citizens, broke into tlic jail ju C sreZL IC ’A U rtoTto S mobTw?Lw- n „ c K r "; “ th . c lcttcr ever, greatly widens thc breach, and I *811 to pieces. Ilis brains were spat- shows a degree of barbarism deplor- I tered on the walls of thc jail, and one able in any civil or chribtian comrau-1 report says his head was cut off. Or I this there seems to he some doubt, Brother Sawtcll, from whence did I however, but it is certain the mob dc- yon get your information of the I term i ne d to make their work effect,! above? We must think you have I this time. Great excitement pre- becu “gulled” into telling the story; I yajigd among the negroes, who ran in fact, wc know you have, or else I w jidiy about the streets of the town your imagination controlled yoor j yeUillg “niurder.” pencil. Wc happened to be in Ar-I The Bainbridge Democrat, of thc lington the night referred to, and I jjy, on the same subject, says: surely it would not have escaped onr I (t0n Monday morning last between “newspaper cars,” if such a bloody I jjj 0 hours of 2 -and 3 o’clock, forty- All Over tiio Country. General Beauregard lias been ap pointed Adjutant General of l.onis- i.-inu by Governor Nh-holls. “Martyrs of to-day, chosen of (Jod ami precious,” is tlic way Bishop Haven prc'ii'hca about (lie Southern carpetbagger. General Gordon and his wife are side hv side in the “electoral commis sion” picture, now being painted by Mrs. Fassett, ill Washington. A union meeting of all tho churches of Columbia, South Carolina, waB held recently to offer up prayers for (lie recovery of Wade Hampton. Here is a little note all the way from Salt Lake concerning Ilnycs’ Message: “The only tiling that recommends Ids latest effort, before the one of Inst year is the filet that it is shorter.”— Salt Lake Jleraltl. Th* Southern Republicans, says a colon,porary, want Grant for Presi dent. The importance of tills infor mation depends n good deal upon the answer to tlic question: Who arc the Southern Republicans?—New York Star. Once more the broken-hearted pa rents of Charlie Ross have been dis appointed by a false report of the dis covery of tlicir child. The sufferings of these poor people, to whom even the certainty of thc death of their child is denied, is almost without a parallel. In the Forty-second Congress there were nine negroes; in the Forty- third, seven; ill tlic Forty-fourth, four; in tlic Forty-fifth, three; in the Fortv-sixtli there will be none, unless O State Convicts. Huron rs or tiir i.koisi.ativk i-ommit- TRK 1JI-ON TttK HAMK. The Macon Telegraph on thc sub ject, says: The report of the Legislative com mittee on the condition of several of thc convict camps of the State, is sim ply Sav transaction had transpired. Our I j vc mcD( armed to the teeth, embark- correspondent at that village has ed from the Stc a mcr Holt, marched written us nothing about it, and a I ^ broke down the dungeon gentleman just up from there, anil I doon> took , ho pr ; 80ncl . ( CooI>cr W ii- who has heard of your article, says: , iamg) thcrefromi into the haU ttdja . “Tlic Appears story is all a hoax and ^ and comple tely riddled ins body humbug. I with bullets, leaving him dead! dead! You have brought quite a serious I«j_ a ghastly spectacle upon thc charge against the people of Arling. J pr i son floor. Tho guards had been ton, and we hope you will correct thc I overpowered, yet the alarm waB giv same when you learn you have been e „ ( t he fire-bell was rung, and cries misguided by false information. All I of « ranr dor!” from the jail and the papers copying the article are re-1 colored people generally, rent tlic air quested to make corrections. | n f the night with an awful melody too horrible to describe. Having ac- Love and Flowers. | complished tlieir avenging purpose, tlic armed men returned to tlic Steam K rwas morning. I cr in solid plialaux, and quietly made Thc orb of day was shining as I their way down the river to parts so bright as a bootblack. I far unknown. Their work had been 096 U 8»>wp, quick and deadly. Before in tine lime. i _ . .. a . In the bed beneath the arbor there I people were fully aware of what was jasamine of flowers. I had happened it was all over. Sheriff Sweet bees sipped honey and hum- Coy did all within his power to sum med musical Inllabys, while crickete mo „ ft ^ arrcst the balM i and cron ed with hilarious mirth, amid . .... , . sparkiing dewdrops and condensed I vindicate the majesty of the law, lint inocense. I to no avail. Very few whiles had ar- “Swect one, let me taste tliy tulips,” I rived at the scene, anil os the colored * said. I people seemed so eager to capture tlic “Begonia don’t suit me, sir,” was If* , "i v * ’ I law-breakers, out of the hundreds they declined to serve. thc reply , , , , _ Ob, fair one, woulds’t thou have I around he summoned a force sum me peony way for the love of tliee?” I cient to storm a ten-gun battery—but ‘sir, thou cans’t not win me; thou hast not anemone.” “Woulds’t thou drive mo where tho woodbine twinetb, cruel hearted j While Congressman Paige and one?” I others*aro proposing to reduce the “How darcs’t thou callilly such | number of Congressmen from the "“"peas beltUk "Lettuce have sweet I South > 0,1 ‘he ground that colored peafl. Oli, charming one, thou can9*t I ,ucn we alleged to have been denied give heartease to ine 7’ I the right to vote, the Washington “Never to such a dandylion as thou Potl fee | g authorized to call tlieir at art. There is no sweet fern in this, 1» m4|1! _ . . . . H j r » I tentiou to a petition now being circn " “Oh, sweet one, do not violet my I lated ln Massachusetts, claiming that feelings with sucii paragraphic Icvi- 1150,000 voters arc denied mid nbridg- ty." “Away with thee, I say, or I wiil call my poppy.” “Ivy a mind to prostrate myself be fore tiiee and bathe thy feet with my kisses.” All, me, I fain would have such larks purring around here.” On, morning-glory of my life, must t thus be doomed to wither ana fade away unloved?” Yes, coxcomb, it is so willed.” ed their right to vote on account of educational disqualifications, require incuts of residence, poll tax and so | on, and petitioning Congress to re- ikice the representation of tliat Slate OTcordingly. Thanks vkom Nbw Ohlf.ans—A large inassmecting of lending citizens was held in Nuw Orleans Thursday “Then, by heavens, the fates lilac I night, and resolutions were passed blazes, cruel one. As the trellis clings thanking thc people of ll.c whole to the roMehtiHii would my heart en- I . . . .. * . . - .. twine itself ahiml tlicc. Tliou dost I eunntry m the warmest torms forlhe cast me till*. You cay I haven’t ane- j aid extended to tiio nfliicted people in ■none. Tin false; 1 have millions of I the South during tho yellow fever op- .,, I iilomic. Tlioy declare that “the an- “Alq niethTnks Iho.i relcntesls. Yes, MS,B of 1 h " , " 0 " sufforI,, B i l, » ,,mn sweet one, I can purchase for thee I sympathy show no parallel to thc ac- eoru silk for dresses, such as princes I tive benevolence exhibited by all wo "! <1 envy.” I classes of our fellow-countrymen to- °i*r °r bn tin cup and lip.” 1 late affliction. Not merely were tlic “Then, tliy stulilioriicss doth wilt?” I naked ciotlied, the starving fed and “Aye, dearest, call in Dninony Cn-1 the sick and dying ministered to, hut cumber and let him donhie ns up at I our darknoss was cheered and our ’ Aiiil as thc beautiful orb of day I » ,nkln K sustained by a charity sank beneath the crimson horizon of I which desconded like some heavenly a western sky, two souls with but a I messenger, bringing healing on its single thought lay sleeping ln a luxu-1 wings to them that were ready to per ilous bed of roses. I ish. Hurra, of Nortli Carolina, gets a certificate, which is doubtful. Tlic National Grange lately in ses sion in Richmond, Va., declared tliat it is contrary to tlic laws nnd pur poses of tlic Order of tlic Patrons of Husbandry for a Grange—subordi nate, State or National—to call polit ical conventions, nominate candidates for political offices, or discuss tlieir merits. .The hill accompanying tlic report tlic joint committee on the reor ganization of Hie army provides for the reduction of tlic general officers six, two Major Geucrals and four Brigadier Generals, instead of eleven at present. It also provides that thc present organization shall consist of not more than twenty-five thousand enlisted men, including the signal sol diery. Thc Railway- Age says: Tlic rail' way regulating mania has broken out Georgia, and tlic Legislature is be ing urged to enforce its power to fix “uniform rates of freight.” Two thirds of thc railway companies in Georgia are bankrupt. Perhaps if thc Legislature could exert its power by furnishing the roads with business enough to keep them alive it would secure low and uniform rates more readily. The Nashville American chronicles suit in chancery between tho New ork and Nashville creditors of an unhappy gentleman who had lost all on futures, for debris of his fortune, in which the pica is set up that buy ing and selling “futures” is simply betting on the rise or fail of cotton, nnd is gambling, and tliat any money or property lost may he recovered back by tlic loser, or that his creditors may seize it for tlic payment of his debts. President Iiaycs says'“It is the right of every citizen, possessing the qualifications prescribed liy law, to cast one nntiniidatcd ballot, and to linve Ids ballot honestly counted If Mr. Hayes had shown any respect for that right in 1877, lie would not now be an occupant of the White House. He entered that building over a pathway strewn witli iiitiini dated and stolen ballots, ami ahuu dantly rewarded the men who figured in the greatest crime ngainstllic right of suffrage oil record. In States where lotteries arc pro nounced illegal it. lias conic about that this species of gambling is confined, us far as its public practice is con ccrncd, almost exclusively to church fairs. Vcrniont now proposes to give no greater privileges to religious than to secular ventures of this kind, ami a hill lias been introduced in thc Leg islaturc forbidding even “milling” ami recourse to tiio familiar grab' hag. it is to lie regretted that these thinly-disguised lotteries could not have been universally discontinued through the force of a healthy public sentiment on tiio subject without tiio necessity of prohibitive legislation. During tlic sessiou at Richmond week before last of tlic Grand Lodge ol Good Templars, an interesting iu cidcnt occurred. A speaker alluded to the melancholy end of the lament ed Edgar Allen I’oc, which brought out Dr. Moran, who attended Poe Ids last sickness in Baltimore. He re. fitted nml rebuked tiio slander Mint lie died under tlic influence of either opi um or liquor, anil staled tliat after lie became rational, for many days be fore ids deatli, lie could not ho per suaded to take either stimulants or opiates to allay his nervous excite ment. He dieii in Ids sober souses, a true penitent of tiio past. sickening unit heart-rending,— vc iu an economic poiut of view tlic lease system has proved a misera ble failure. Under its operation, there is neither reformation or prop er punishment to the violators of the law, while it is shown that the arbi trary conduct of overseers and task masters at remote points, has suli- ected them to tho harshest treatment n many instances, nnd the percentage of deaths is most fearful. It is even asserted that womon anil men are chained together iu dcrogatiou of every principle of decency and hu manity. Tlic number of escapes, too, is very large. It is reported tliat no less than Jive hundred depraved convicts sen tenced for rape, murder, arson, and every crime known to the calendar arc now at largo on the State ready to burn, pillage and destroy, as op portunity offers.! This is a fearful state of things.— Who can blame the inhabitants of any peaceful community for protesting against the presence of a poorly guarded and outlawed hoard of thieves and miscreants in their imme diate neighborhood? What man’s family is safe on the plantation under such circumstances during his absence from home? These remarks arc based upon thc supposition tiiat Mr. Alston’s report to the House can be substantiated.— So far as we know, all the individuals who hold leases of convicts arc gen tlemen of thc highest character and responsibility, who would not, if present, allow their laborers to be maltreated. But there is the rub— necessarilv their daily tasks must be supervised by common overseers some of whom, doubtless, arc crue: and tyrannical. When we consider thc immense and constantly increasing number of pen itentiary convicts, it is difficult to see what other disposition can he made of them to prevent ihe overwhelming tax which would otherwise injure to thc State. But every safeguard and protection at least should he thrown around thc wretched creatures. They should have competent medical au thority, and the gospel of life preach ed to them regularly; should lie com fortably housed, clothed aud fed, aiul more than nil the sternest limits should he imposed upon thc tyranny of the guards and overseers. If to ac’- complish these ends a standing coni' mission is necessary let it be appoint ed l,.v thc Legislature. Since pencil ing the above wc have received a printed copy of Mr. Alston’s report as chairman of the House Investigating Committee. The details are even more horrible than have been depict ed. The report states tliat sub-com mittees have 'visited every camp save one, aud concerning that they have thc statement of the Principal Kccp- We find that at present, owing to the scattered situation of the convict camps, there is neither physician or chaplain in attendance upon the pris oners os tlic law requires. The committee sa£ also that in but two of the camps, to-wit: the camp of B. G. Lockett in Dougherty coun ty, and that located at the Dade coun ty Mines’ is the law to carefully keep and guard the convicts observed.— Those camps are iu thorough order and under strict discipline, and hence the escapes have been less than thc average forty-nine years, when they were kept within the walls. Under the old system the average escapes was 7 per cent for a term of four and a half years. In the Dade mines there has been only one escape iu an aver age of nearly three hundred men, or about one third of ono pt hi •ly ( out one third of ono per cent. ’ In ily gr limn gives Ills neighbors, is to let them She Unit lie himself is not better for what lie lias than they are. two years Col. Lockett has had hut four escapes. But how is it with the other camps? In these, Hearty-half of the present number now confined have escaped since the beginning of thc lease, averaging from twenty to forty-five >cr cent, in the several camps, and 'orming a grand total of five hundred and twenty-three. Thc law, toj, which provides for thc payment of a penalty of $200 for every negligent escape unless the convict is recaptur ed within sixty days, lias been utter ly disregarded, and not one dollar has been recovered to tliagtnte. The committee charge negligence and lia bility for the line whenever the guards were deficient in number, as was the case in divers instances. The report dwells, too, with great force upon “the fearful mortality which prevails iu mauv of thc camps.*’ it says: “Although tills mortality has been greatly lessened by the humane ami watchful care of thc Principal Keeper, it is nevertheless great enough to be a reproach to humanity. To show that this mortality cannot be ascribed to thc system, it is stated that the deaths have only been one per cent, in Col. Jack Smith’s camp, in AVashinglon county. In AY. I). Grant’s camp, in Jefferson, not very far distant, the mortality has exceed ed ten por cent,, and in Graut’s camp, ill Richmond county, it has attained the frightful figure of forty per cent., in four months. This is worse than the yellow fever ravages. “In Mr. A. S. Barnwell’s camp tho average mortality Mr throe years has been sixteen per cent, per annum.— The committee assort that “more pris oners have died in ono year in tlic re spective camps of a A." Smith Barn well aud AY. 1). Grant, than die in tlic Maryland penitentiary in fifteen years, among the same number of persons.” And thc report states tliat “wc find in some of the camps men and wo men chained together nml occupying tho same sleeping bunks. Tho result, is, that there arc now in the peniten tiary twenty-fivo bastard children, ranging from three months to five years of age, and many of the women are now far advanced' in pregnancy. AVlio docs not shrink aghast, ntsm li a recital ? Verily, lids, is, indeed, the greatest stain Unit lias ever tarnished the fair escutcheon of Georgia. Out. upon such barbarity, it would dis grace Algeria or the Malacca Isles. But tho committee fremark Hint the system has boon fastened upon us for years, and nil tliat can lie done is to puss stringent laws for the proper treatment of the prisoners. They ustly remark tliat “to turn the crim- nals over to private parties;- who have no interest in them except what is prompted by avarice, is to subject them to treatment which is as various as thc character of those who have them in charge, and in many eases amounts to nothing less than capital punishment with slow torture added.” The committee, in conclusion, i omiiiend that the camps of AY. D. Grant, at Old Town, in Jefferson county, and his camps ln Bidunond county, bo at once abolished, and his contract made with the State, March 1874, be cancelled. They further re commend that tho camp on Cbamp- ncy Island be discontinued as a pris on, on the expiration of Mr. Barn well’s present lease, owing to the un- heaithiness of the location; aiao that the Principal Keeper immediately in spect Mr. C. B. Howard’s camp in Taylor county, and cause his police regulations to be improved ana the camp removed to a more suitable and less dangerous location. Reader, is any. further comment needed upon the disgraceftil details of our Penitentiary system as at pres ent conducted? We think not— Enough has been disclosed to bring the blush of shame to the cheek of every Georgian. The General Assembly has turned over the whole concern to Governor Colquitt, who will take each steps ms arc needed in the premises, and re port to that body when it meets again in July next. Brunswick & Albany BailjBoad. The Legislature luff taken the nec essary steps to allow such modifica tions in the charter of this road as will autorize its sale and extension to Eufaula,by a general bill which; has been passaA AVc shalRnow very soon, therefore, whether there is any truth in the ex istence of that big English company who have determined to shoulder the elephant and bear it beyond the con fines of the State. In that event one portion of South west Georgia will monrn, and anoth er rejoice, by the diversion of cotton and travel from the old channels.— Then, too, will come such a death struggle between the Central Rail road and its new rival as the State has never witnessed. The former, if needs be, to crush the new enterprise, will reduce freights well nigh to zero, and the English millionaires wiR re alize what a job they have undertaken. An unsuccessful railroad and daily newspapers are the most successful pocket dcpleters that the World ever saw. But perhaps John Bull can whip Mr. AYadiey. AYe shall see. It .is some consolation to know, however, that pending the issue of this gigantic locomotive fight, the people will enjoy a perfect carnival of nominal freights ana passenger fares. But alas snch a mfllenium to thc farmers could not exist aiwavs and after a sharp severe conflict the lesser must succumb to the sure as the cause follows Then old scores must be paid off and increased tariffs will weigh more heavily than ever upon the people. There are many who think, the State already possesses as many rail roads as Us territory will sustain, and tliat the Legislature ought to inter vene to protect existing corporations by interdicting anyjfurther increase iu their number. AYe incline (o the same opinion. Bnt in the present in stance a charter already exists, and of eou(fe itwonid be as nnjnst to squelch by authority the Brunswick aud Albany Railroad aa the Georgia, thc Central, or any other highway within our borders. Harmful as it may operate, therefore, to the respec tive corporations and theirstockhold- ers, we see no remedy save that to he obtained by compromise and the cus tomary pooling system. Otherwise, competition hot and heavy, must test the endurance of the contending par ties to the eventftil rale .of one of them. But this pooling business is universally unpopular with the peo ple, though the only safeguard to weaker companies. At the inception of the railroad sys tem in Georgia, could the original corporators of the first roads that were constructed have forseen how As UEdeilahle Truth. Yon deserve to suffer, and If you lead a miserable, unsatisfactory life * in this beautiful world, it is entirely.. your own fault and there is only one excuse for you—your unreasonable., prejudice and skepticism, which has killed thousands. Personal knowledge and common sense reasoning will * soon show yon that Green’s Angnst Flower will cure you of Liver Com plaint or Dyspepsia, with all its mis erable effects, such as sick head ache, palpitation of the heart, sour stomach, habitual costiveness, dizziness of the head, nervous prostration, low spirits, • Ac. Its sale now readies every town . on the Western Continent, and not a Druggist but will tell you o'f its won derful oures. Yon can buy a Sample Bottle for 10 cents. Three doses will relieve you. 23 1 Query : “AYhy will men smoke com mon tobacco, when they can buy Mar burg Bros. “Seal of North Carolina,” burg J at the same price ?” jan31st-ly “VEfiETINfi,” XttSS: all otMr raanllea h*l Ikiied, 1 , aa* convinces m.aaU „i lu • ay saS msvUmmS m,aoU «l Iu nauinc merit. It la frasaraS Clou barfca, naH, and li«rlai,«rth«f • alahlx aflKtiTe, u4 the/ an eoupmuM aech a uamar sa to produce aalonlahlbg navlia." VEGET1NE la Um grwt Blood Purifier. VEGETIHE tfRicura the wont caae of Scrofula. VEGETIHE bBwmBM by phyietAM and apotheciuy. VEGET1NE Hu afiMed Nine airTrlouicurei in case* of Cmser VEGETINE, CUm the wont taaaa efCaeker. VEGETINE Meek with wonderfal eeceeu In Mereerial dlauaea Vegetine JS&lt Rheum from the aysteni. Vegetine InandHemora from Ihe faca. Vegetine Pern OenaUjaHoD and re/eletn the BaaaU. Vegetine tea rslnahle nued/ fcr Hendacba. Vegetine Will can D/qapaia. Vegetine ■lateral the eatlne/ilen to ehaanh/freadtUiinB Vegetine Vegetine ee Kldne/Coaulalnl. Vegetine lea to lie cere or Fvaala Waakneaa. Vegetine lakh*great Bem*ly for General Debility4 .1 Vegetine ^4 Iff Acknowledged by ell ctassca' of peopU| td'tw ihT beet aud most wUeblo Wi»od puriaar iuHUefcworijL. VEGETINE - --SI Prepared b/ I. ft. SfEYBXS, BOSTON*.- MASS. Vegetine is Sold by all Drugs- gists. 45 Years Before the Public. THE GENUINE DB. C. McLANE’S CELEBRATED UVER PHrLS, Ft» THE CURE OF Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint, many similar enterprises ere tha lapse of four decades would ramify through every portion of the State, preying upon each other and reducing to al most nothing the profits of all or them, doubtless their charters would have been so drawn to fence effopyodticn by forbidding the granting of rival lines within distance snmeient for their protection. Bnt now it is too late, and the people at least have been thc gainers by the existing state of things, as the multitude of roads have greatly hastened the development of the country—Macon TeL <8 Mess. Senator Gordon and the City off Cnleha New York WorkLJ Senator Gordon will probably lec ture iu Boston daring the holidays for the benefit of a charitable society. Hard to Beat. Cincinnati Enquirer.] The preachers and women of Vir ginia have combined to secure the payment ol the State debt. It is combination hard to beat. The New,payer. Greenville (IU.) Sun. A newspaper is a window throu which men may look out upon I world. AVithout a newspaper a man is shut up in a small room and fawn little or nothing of what is happen ing outside of himself. In onr day newspapers will keep a man in sym pathy with the world’s current histo ry. It is an unfolding encyclopedia, an unbound book forever issuing and never finished. Grant end the Solid South. New York Ttmca.1 There are sixteen Southern States whose representatives will cast 276 riites in the national Republican con vention, but none of whoso votes are likely to ho east in tho electoral coi lego for a Republican. Assuming what is by no means improbable, that (lie Southern delegations to th* na tional convention were solid for Grant, they would lack but 93 votes of a majority; and tho candidate of tlic Republican party in 1880 might he forced upon It by tho representa tives of States that could do nothing toward electing him. Of the many nnamolics created by (he perversion of negro suffrage into a weapon of offense against those on whoa and by whom it was contorted, th* peon liar position of tne Southern dole- gates in the next national Republics convention is certainty notthe'Ifcatt Vegetine BeUereafkiat tm «t the Stomach. Vegetine Symptoms of a Diseased Liver: DAIN in the right side,- under the I edge of the ribs, increases on pres- sore; sometimes the pain is in theieft side; the patient is rarely able to lie on the left tide; sometimes the pain is felt under the shoulder blade, and it frequently extends to the . top of the ' shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken far rheumatism in the arm. • 1be stomach is affected with loss of appe tite and sickness; the bowels in gen eral are costive, sometimes alternative with lax; the head.is troubled with pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy sensation in the back part. There W generally a considerable loss of mean ory, accompanied with a painful sen sation of having left undone -*«► which onght to have* been done A slight, dry cough is sometime* an mt The patient complaint ess and debility; he is ean^f i, his feet are cold or butniafc and he complains of a prickly sera* tion of the skin; his spirits are low} and although he is satisfied that exer cise would be beneficial to -him,' yet he can scarcely summon up-fortitude enough to try it. In fact, he distruria every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but carea have occurred where few. of them e*- ilted, yet examination of the body, after death, has shown the uvxa to have been extensively deranged. AGUE AND FEVER. Dr. C McLan^s Live* Fuulm pacts of Ague and Fever, when taken with Quinine, are pioducthre of the most happy results. No better cathartic can be used, preparatory to or after taking Quinine. AYe' would advise all who are afflicted with tide disease to give them a fair trial. For all bilious derangements, and aa a simple purgative, they are unequaled, KEWAKE OF leiUHOm. The genuine ere never sugar coated. ' Every box has a red wax aeai-on the HA with this impression Da. McLahk’s Liven Pills. The genuine McLane’s Live* Pills beer the signatures of C. McLane and Fleming Bios, on the wrappers. Insist upon having the genuine US. C. McLane’s Lives Pills, prepared by Flem ing Bret^ of Pittsburgh, Pa., the market being Aiii at imitations of the .name JfcLflMe, differently but same pronunciation. Amam ■ —s Mermhlaa hahltamrad.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Albany news. (Albany, Ga.) 186?-1880, December 19, 1878, Image 1