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these—the casual self-deatructionists— (
§onthmt letutkr.
MIIiLEDGBVILLE . .. . t
, ! action to relieve the better
extemporised by the too tree uso of 'aqua I
viler,’ which produces a roaming and
splurging round about, loosely; going
to sleep on Railway tracks or tumbling
out of third story windows, catching at
death unawares ! All these, rank as “in-
voluntary manslaughter but “drunk’-
ness” not being a plea in bar, and inca
pable of personal identity or a post mor
tem—the felony remains in tact, upon
the common law rale that what the agent
does in the legitimate range of his pow
er, the principal can never invalidate.
But leaving ridicule for more serious
suggestions, we would like to see the
Press of the whole country, take mutual
portion of
TUESDAY, APEIL18, 1871.
The Phases of Suicide.
We belong to the class of Reformers
■who seek the correction of errors and
abuses by argument and expostulation—
by reason and persuasion—rather than
through the more summary process of
punishments—and Buca we think, is the
especial province of an Editor- There
are some evils however, which seem to
defy or to ignore correction of any kind,
and from any quarter—Suicide being one
of them! We have also thought that
the only available treatment—if .indeed
there exists any one at all, capable of
abating the existence or staying the a-
iarming increase of this appaling and den
moralizing ‘"epidemic,” must be entire
ly of a negative feature—one that would
give the fashionable habit the go-by, as
if its occurrence had rtev^r been so much
as heard of—treating with silence its
borribie manner, autl iccoruing the,death
as no more than any other demise. We
believe its frequency Las been greatly
their readers from details which contrib
ute to no possible benefit, but on the con
trary, enforce a deal of mortification and
regret upon the kindred and frionds ot
unfortunate, demented victims. May
not an understanding b^^manimously
established, at the next Press Conven
tion, which would answer the desired
end or modify the existing style of their
announcement—that many view as cru
el sport, if not uncalled for licentious-
ness? We are not alone in the opinion
we express—we are not its originators
even—that publishing them in the way
now indulged, has a demoralizing and
contagious effect; and surely the great
and justly prized power of Journalism,
will not voluntarily lower the standard
of its usefulness, merely to gratify the
morbid thirst of a depraved and vulgar
curiosity. Nor should this be the only
subject for purgation. The whole field
of scandal—the immodest revelations
of <rim. cons., the disgusting obtrusions
of family misunderstandings—their jeal
ousies and infidelities—in fine, the en
tire spawn of famu clamosa, should be
Passage of the Amnesty Bill.
Washington, April 10.—The House
to day took its most liberal step on the
amnesty question. Some sixty Repub
licans joined bands with the Democrats
in voting for a bill which relieves all
but three classes of persons from the dis
abilities imposed by the Fourteenth A
mendment. A majority of all the New
England members and three of the four
colored members supported the bill,
while General Banks, Garfield and
Farnsworth, Gov. Blair of Michigan, and
other well known RepublicaD8 gave it
their votes for the first time. There is
« very good prospect that the Senate
will this week pass the bill; if so it ia
estimated that from 150,000 to 175,000
persons in the South will be restored to
citizenship, and leave bat 1-500 or 2,000
disfranchised. The three excepted class
es are as follows: First, members of the
Congress of the United States, who
withdrew therefrom and aided the re
bellion. Second, officers of the army
and navy of the United States, who be-
ing above the age of 21 years, left said
army or navy and aided the rebellion.
Third, members of the State conven- j
tions whickadopted the ordinances of
secession, voted for the adoption of
such ordinances.
Befoie any person -hall be entitled to'
the benefit of this act he shall, within
the district where he resides, before a
clerk of some Court of the United States,
or a United States Commissioner, take
and subscribe an oath or affirmation to
support the Constitution of the United
States, and to bear true faith and alle
giance to the same; which oath or affir
mation shall be forwarded to the Secie-
tary of State of the United States, who
shall cause a list of all persons comply
ing with the provisions of this act to be :
laid before Congress at the opening of
each session thereof; and the officer be-,
fore whom such oath or affirmation is \
made, shall give to the person such forms
and regulations a9 the Secretary of State l
may prescribe.— Courier-Journal
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it they lire.
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their representations-“tne mere an-
nouncemeut of the unhappy facts, not
bring deemed sufficient, but the embel
lishments of romance and the arts of a
travestied sensationalism, were added
to give them grace and interest. YV e
believe whenever aua wherever they are
presented—indeed we may say when j
St Louis Xtedsemod.
For the first time in over ten years j
the city of St. Louis, late disfranchised j
and dishonored, elects a Democratic i
Mayor, and by a vote that indicates hc-r ;
permanent redemption from the tbral- j
dom of Radical tjranny and the spoila- j
> »—- —"» i ! tion of Radical venality.
•‘The Toast of Flowers .” Her S allaQt Democracy have met tbe j
, - , , • “reunited” Republicans at the Dolls and
We trust that this cherished auniver- . F , r . „ 1
put them to overwbelm'ng route. 1 he :
sary now so near to hand, will receive j jj orue 0 f Grant repudiates, by a 6ignal J Bailine
all the usual welcome and attentions j maioritv. tbe policy of his administra-' 1
Steam Engines
mid Boilers
OF ANY REQUIRED KIND OR SIZE,
Circular Saw Mills. Merchant Mill Gearing.
Metallic Burial Cases and Caskets, Fine & Plain Coffins,
CARPETING, RUGS. WINDOW SHADES, OIL CLOTHS, &,
Comer Cotton Avenue and Cherry Street, MACON GA.
r Feb. 14, 6 3d
p January 14 1871 3m
PIANOS, ORGANS
AND
near to
usual welcome and attentions majority, tbe policy
which have heretofore greeted its re- I tion
The great principles which he has !
presented under any aspect, even the ^ ^ doubl ! abandoned and betrayed have beem m
nakedness of a bare statement, their - - I nmnlmntlv vindicated in the chief cito
Leffell Turbino Water Wheel,
Hubbell & Oapron Turbine Water Wheel
Musical Merchandise,
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tendency is more to familiarize and soft
en the monstrous horror, than to tarn j a gjiaiiar Festival
the living from a desire to imitate the j
examples. Better, far Letter that wc I
rever mention a suicide s death, it wau
ten earricature—illusive or vitiated ac
counts, are deemed necessary to pre-
, _ ° "V’' T’^or,Ld“^ca 0r .r° ?c>0tIie j bound, the tributary ceremonies of any
tho wound, of lacerated ana „ j people ’ t0 lueir U( f„ viva ‘
relatives : There, however, are but t0 ° j prou d in knowing that or//- memorial eel-
often and rudely forgotten or overlooked, , . , „. . ...
. ! ebralions—our simple ofleruigs to the
gallant “boys in grey”—are, as they
, ^ . umphantly vindicated in the chief city j
eating rom t e act t a ongress, a. i 0 f t heWest. The voice of St. Louis is J„ Fact, anything and Everything of Cast and
year, established or attempted to estab- j t b 9 voice of Missouri. Against the | °
for their buried
tly on
ducement to our many Patrons we offer the Celebrated ST. LOUIS PIANOS with writtis
warrants for five years, signed by the President and Secretary of Co., by the */
Wrought Iron and Brass. the balance in Monthly Installments of $35.
further proscription of honest citizens; I
Union Soldiers, so called—by setting | against the worse than Russian rule ol
2 i apart a day of celebration and making ' l he Kvonet which the Radical party has j
. I v ,, . . . , ® | inaugurated; against the ban Domingo!
1 it a public nohday . to all of which we > sw } n ^j e . against tbe fraud, corruption :
would make uot the slightest objection, j and folly that pervade every department j
But whilst we appreciate to ita utmost of the Goverment, it yesterday proclaim- I
Northern Prices Jor Machinery Duplicated!
to the ad vantage of some presuming
heartless or imprudent “Reporter” to
dramatize a chapter for the columns ui
bis paper. We could cheerfully submit
to a partial interdict—a restraint laid
upon the Tress—forbidding any sucb
“hews" being issued. Ah natural deaths,
ail accidental circumstances, all violent
perpetrations other than those of self-
destruction might be published; but
t ;ese cou’.l out}’
be noticed as the com
mon obituaries. Fashion—the desire
for imitation—that rages, at times, like
other monomanias, ha6 led to many ex
travagancies ia this moonocratic world ;
aud if the phases which suicides have
assumed, and their apparent increase of
popularity, be closely investigated, it
will be found that like all contagions and
fretted wbimseys, they grow by the force
of juxtaposition and the influences of
familiarized associations.
Strange as it may 3ound«s|lie predom-
inacce of this unfortunate passion—dis-
temper of mind is its more correct name—
has approached to something like
en ait—a method—which keeps pace
with the age’s boasted “progress” that of
itself, infuses malaria into every health
ful syrtsm, and has acquired such a va
ricty in both cause and means, as to do
mand thoir classification : we therefore
deduce from the veiy latest ‘‘reports/’
the following scale—ludicrous it is true,
but applicable.
1st. Suicide, wbc-n committed by de
liberately pulling a trigger or drawing
an edge across tbe throat, or driving a
poignard into a vital organ, with intent
to destroy life, is held to be wilful and
wicked murder in the first degree, ‘'with
ant benefit of clergy'': and the same, for
going to a precipice curious to know
somewhat of the bottom—uot afraid to
leap down in search of its mysteries and
continuing therein lost to sight forever,
unless fished up dead; or further, if pre
ferring the adventure of a water-plunge
or suspension by the neck—merely to
test theifabled pleasures of those reputed
facile ways of voluntary expiration—in
either case the penalty as for the first
degree, shall attach likewise.
2diy. Wantonly daring, or thought
lessly adventuring without fear of God
or man’s laws—“seeking the bubble rep
utation even in tbe cannou’s mouth,” or
defying justice and forlearauce, like old
Jack Brown did, or Beast Butler’s fa
ther is reported to have acted—are felo
de st's seatndem artem—glorious acces
sories of their inglorious martyrdom!
The same of Flourens and Duval—
the recent Paris insurgent leaders, and
the multitudinous host of burglars,
thieves and trespassers in general, who
are summarily cut off in tbe acme of
their deeds—all are suicides—de, gusti-
Jpus non est dssvutandum !
glly. Quite
grey —are, as
wore, when first instituted on the 2Gth
of April, 1SG6—the voluntary effusions
of heaits filled with gratitude, sponta
neously casting upon their tombs flowers
and evergreens—chaplets and immortel
les, that symbolize love for their deeds,
and continued devotion to their memo
ries T As sucb we hail its return, and
have no fear for the greetings that will
honor the occasion.
Butler and Garrett Davis.
Air. Davis recounts Ote Spoon Scrape
that made Ben. Butler his Enemy.
Mr. Davis then said that, during the
war a gentleman named Brother, came
to Washington from St. Louis,and stated
that he owned a house in New Orleans,
which he bad left some months previ
ously for the purpose of sojourning in
St. Louis during the hot months, as was
his habit; that before leaving home he
placed his service of silver plate, worth
about $4,000, in the vault safe of a mer
chant friend for security, and had locked
up in his house all his other furniture,
which had cost him some $30,000 ; that
after General Butler was appointed to
the military command at New Orleans,
he heard about this plate, and therefore
sent a military order to demand its deliv
ery over to him, which the party holding
it declined to obey. Upon this Butler
sent a file of soldiers, with workmen and
the necessary implements, who forcibly
opened the vault,
AND CARRIBD OFF THE PLATB.
He then sent an armed force to M r.
Brother’s house, aud had them cart away
all that gentlcman’sfurmture. Mr.Broth-
er made application to President Lin
coln fur an order on Butler for the sur
render of the property, and Senator Hen
derson and Representative Rollins of
Missouri, went with Mr. Brother to the
President, and indorsed his high charac
ter and his loyalty to the government,
but the President declined to interfere.
He (Mr. Davis) then moved a resolution
in the Senate for the appointment of a
select committee to investigate the com
plaint of Mr. Brother. The Senate vot
ed it down. At the ensuing session, he
introduced it again, when the majority
again rejected it.
A few days after having moved the
resolution a second time, 1 received a
discourteous note from Gen. Bntler, and
thereupon I pronounced in the Senate,
that he was a military blunderer, and
that bis cowardice and incompetence as
a commander had brought shame and
dishonor upon the country, its govern
ment, and arms, at Big Bethel, New Or
leans and Wilmington.
ed to the couuiry tfco emphatic protect j
of freemen determined to rescue their
country num Il,v sway ul the rt-oklts-
partisans who have so long trampled up
on the liberties and trifled with the vital
interests of the people.
The victory which the Democratic
party of St. Louis, by dint of bold aud ;
legitimate effort, in the face of desper- i
ate and unscrupulous odds, backed by
the promises, bribed with tbe money or
dictated to by tbe menaces of the Wash-.
ington junto, carries wiffi it a* signifi-;
cance that will be felt not ouly in the !
length and breadth of the Mississippi
valley, bnt sweep, like tbe inspiration of;
power, throughout the re-actioaary eie
ments TJf tbe country, from one end of
the Union to the other.
It is an assurance to the friends of po
litical liberty everywhere that in the
great national struggle of the year to
come the Democratic party of Missouri
will be found shoulder to shuulder with
the Democracy of New Hampshire and
Connecticut, of the East and South and
West—true to the principles of their
common faith and faithful to the desti
nies of a reetored,.regenerated Union.
St. Louis Times.
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Peb. 1.1871.
CLOT HIAGi
A Goon Point—Mr. Van Trump, of |
Ohio, made a speech in the House of :
Representative, on Monday, in which
pe made the point that the power to sus- j
bend the privilegc'of tbe writ of habeas
corpus ia a legislative power, and cannot
be exercised by deputy, and therefore
that Congress cannot confer upon the
President the power to suspend it. That
body, he argued, could just as well con-
fer upon the President the power to
levy taxes, for the writin question could |
only be suspended when in the judg
ment of Congress, not of the President, j
there was such a “rebellion,” uot “in
surrection,” as would jnslify its suspen
sion. And “a rebellion” could never
exist except where there was an organ
ized resistance to the laws and an iuteu
tion to overturn the Government.
This argument alone, says the Rich
mond Dispatch, would suffice to secure
the defeat of the Shelhtbarger bill if tbe
Radical members of Congress under
stood and respected the Constitution
which they have sworn to support |
The Lousville Courier says: “Jt is
said that Grant fell out with Senator
Fenton because Fentou called him wood-
eu head.” Grant was right. We don’t
believe tbe American forests have ever
produced so inferior a piece of timber,
The Washington Patriot thinks that
the Pennsylvania Ku Klnx need more
attention than their brethren at the South
and says that they exceed both in num
bers and crime all the so-called Ku
Klux outiages in Noith Carolina for a
year part.
We invite the Public along the NEW LINE of RAILROAD through
BALDAA IN and HANCOCK Counties, to call and examine our ne w
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AND
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We keep the best of every thing in our line, ar.d will be sure to please
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Cotton Gin.
Szrgeant Bates.—We have received
a letter from Seargent Bates, who car
ried the United States flag throngh tbe
Sontb just after the surrender. He says
that at Greensboro’ $10,000 was 'offered
him to quit the march in the interest of
the Republican party. This offer he
says came through or fugitive Governor,
W. W. Holden.
We will publish the letter when we
are not so crowded with other matter.
The offer of $10,000 is tbe striking fea
ture of tbe letter, and very much after
a numerous class are'»»ppw of Holden,—Raleigh Sent,
Barcn Nathaniel de Rothschild, who i
diod in Paris last year in such a money
less condition that his estate was de- !
dared to be worth ouly $9,000,000, is j
now reported to have left $25,000,000 :
Consquently his heirs will not suffer ffom j
poverty so much as was anticipated.
AND
A Genuine Pattern of the Celebrated
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Manufactured and for sale at this Establishment:
The Scientific American says it is now
impossible to construct a burglar-proof
safe, for the thief, with his cylinders of
compressed hydrogen and oxygen, oan,
in a few seconds, burn holes of any s'fs
in the hardest metal, his fire drill ena
bling him, in a few minutes, to work bis
way into the strongest safe that was ever
constructed,
Particulars of all the above in subsequent issues.
Send lor Descriptive Circular.
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