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Volume LZII.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1872.
Number. 19.
THE
£outhrnt $ttttitt.
BY
S.'A. HAEBISON, & OEMS-
Terms, $2.00 Per Annum in Advance
OLity Diccctorij.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Hayor—Samnel Walker.
Beard ol AUermen—F B Mapp, B Trice,
' A Caraker, Jacob Caraker, J H v
eary Tempi*-
McComb,
Clerk and Treasurer—Peter Fair.
Marshal—J B Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle.
Deputy Marshal aud Street Overseer—Peter
Ferrell.
Sexton—F Beeland.
City Surveyor—C T Bayne.
City Auctioneer—S J Kidd.
Finance Committee—T A Caraker, Temples.
^Street Committee—J Caraker, Trice, Mc-
Cemb. ,
Land Committee—MeCorab, J Caraker,
Trie©-
Cemetery Committee—Tempios, Mapp, T A
Caraker.
Board meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights
ia each month.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Judge M R Bell, Ordinary, office in Masonic
H.ll. „ .
p L Fair, Clerk Sup'r Court, office in Ms-
■•tie Hall. * .
Obadiah Arnold, Sheriff, office in the Mason-
ie Hall. . ,
0 P Bonner, Deputy Sheriff, lives in the
•onatry. „
Josias Marshall, Rec’r Tax Returns—at
Pest Office. .
L N Callaway, Tax Collector, office at his
sters. _ . ,.
II Temples, Comity Treasury,office at bis
Isaac Cushing, Coroner, res on vYilkson'et,
John Gentry, Constable, res on Wayne st
■ear the Factory.
MASONIC
Benevolent Lodge, No. 3, F A M, meets
ffrst and Second Saturday nights of each month
•t Masonic Hall- J C SHEA, W # M #
Q D Cass, secretary.
Temple Chapter meets the second and
f«arth Saturday nights in eaeh month.
8 G WHITE, H. P.
G D Cas*., secretary.
Miilodgeville Lodgt of Perfection, A A S S
meets every Monday night.
SAMUEL G WHITE. 8 # P. G. M.
Gao D Casc.Exc Grand Sec’y.
/. O. G. T.
Milledgeville Lodge, No 115, meets in the
Senate Chamber at the State House on every
Friday evening at 7 o'clock.
C P Crawford, W C T
£ P Lane, secretary.
Cold Water Templars meet at the State
Ka*»c every Saturday afternoon ^3 o’clock.
CHI'RCH DIRECTORY.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Service 1st and 3d Sundays in each month,
at 11 o'clock a m aud 7 p m.
Sabbath school at 9f o'clock am. 8 N
Boaghtan.supt. Rev D E Butler, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH
Honrs of service on Sunday: 11 o’ dock, a
as. and 7 pm.
Bnaday school 3 o’clock p m—W E Frank*
laad, superintendent.
Pray«!r meeting every Wednesday at 7
pm. * Rev A J Jarrell, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Services every Sabbath (except the second
in each month) at 11 am and 7 pm.
Sabbath school at 9 1-2 am T T Windsor
superintendent.
Prayer meeting every Friday at 4 o’cloek
■ a. _
Rev C W Lane, Pastor.
The Episcopal Church has no Pastor at
present]
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rcissiaainf powerful invigorating
The— Bitters ere positirriy tnvahiahle la
They parity the system, end win curej
fiscalttent And Intermittent Fcvere,
u suDi 5FASFS LIVER COMPLAINT
ami an a preventive of Chills aad Fever.
J All yield to their powerful effieaey. J
Aseaa antidote to change of Water and Piet. (
to the wasted frame, and correct all " {
'srUULARi T Y CFTHE BOWEL
Wifi save day* ef suffering to the sick, and
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FEISICIilS TEEM,
r PRESCRIBE IT II
their
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NATURE’S
IBTOltTM
Free from the Poisonous and
Health-destroying Drugs us
ed in other Hair Prepara
tions.
No SUGAR OP LEAD-No
LITHARGE-No NITRATE
OF SILVER, and is entirely
Transparent ami qlear as crystal, it will not
sod the finest fabric—^perfectly SAFE, CLEAN
end E F F I C 1 E NT—d^ideratums LONG
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It restores and prevents the Hair from be
coming Gray, iinpars a soft, glossy appear
ance, removes I’a dmff, is cool and refreshing
to'.he head, checks the Hair from failing off,
and restores it to a greet extent when prema
turely lost, prevr.nta Headaches, cutes all hu
mors, cutaneous emotions, and unnatural Heat.
AS A DRESSING 'FOR THE II AIR IT I.S
THE BEST ARTICLE LV THE MARKET.
DR. Os SMITH. PatenUe, Groton Junction,
Mass., Prepared only by PROCTOR BROTH
ERS, Gloucester, Mass. The Genuine is put
up in a patiuel bottle, made expressiy for it
with the name of the article blown in the glass.
Ask your Druggist for Nature’s Hair restora
tive, aud take no other.
For sale iit Milledgeville by L. W. HUNT
&CO.
In Sparta, by A. II. BIRDSONG &. CO.
p July 2 ly. U Feb23 *71 ly.
WORCESTER'S QUARTO
Dictionar ■y'.
THE STANDARD.
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O R C E S T E R
DICTIONARIES
Have been a topted by the State Boaidj of
Education of
VIRGINIA,
NOR TII CA ROL IN A.
ALABAMA, and
ARKANSAS
In use in the cities of
RICHMOND, FA.,
NORFOLK, FA.
MOBILE, ALABAMA.
SAVANNAH, GA.
ATLANTA. GA , ffr.
The Standard in Orthography and
Pronunciation in
Washington and Lee University,
The University of Firginia,
The College of William and Mary,
The University of Georgia,
The Wesleyan University, Alabama, &;c.,
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Y7 Tv/Hills. Street,
BOSTON.
may 7 1872 rp 3tn.
U O PIANO CO-, 1st class $290. No
O Agents. Names of patrons in forty
States in Circular.
RARE CHANCE FOR AGERiTS.
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ponses, if you will engage w ith us at once.—
Everything furnished and expenses paid. Ad
dress,
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HOME SHUTTLE
Sewing Machine-
Agents wanted in every county in Nortli Car
olina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, to
sell this popular Machine. It makes the lock*
stich (alike on both sides,) Price, $25. For
circular, address D. G. MAX Vi ELL, General
Agent, Charlotte. North Carolina.
G REAT MEDICAL BOOK of useful knowl
edge to all. Sent free for fwo'stamps.
Address Dr. BonaDarte 6f Co , Cincinnati!, O.
Vf „ Oil vnn A f
May 20, rpn 4t
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after reading this advertisement need any one
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PAiS.
It was the first and is
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tions, whether of the Lungs, Stomach, Bow
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In from one to twenty minutes, no matter
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Rheumatic. Bed-'iehien, lufiim. Crippled,
Nervous, Neuralgic, or prostrated with dis
ease may suffer.
The application of the Ready Relief to the
part or parts where the pain or difficulty exists
wiil afford ease and comfort.
Twenty drops in half a tumbler of water
will in a few moments cure Cramps, Spasms
Sour Stomach? Heartburn, Sick Headache
Diarrhoea, Dysentery,. Colic-, Wjiul in the
Bowels', aud a Internal. Fains.
Travelers should always carry a bott'e of
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diops in water will prevent sickness oc. pains
from change of water It is betater then
French Br andy or Bitters as a stimuieul'
FEVER AND AGEE,
Fever aud Ague cured for fifty cents; There
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cure Fevet and Ague, and aii other Alalai ice-
Biiious, Scarlet, Typhoid, Yellow, and other
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Mill
a
ELECTie GALLERY
OF
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FOR THE
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HI8TORIANS. POETS, ARTISTS, WARRI-
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T * tC ’ IIE8E Engravings have appeared iu the
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are printed on different sized paper , either small
■iae 7 by 10, or quarto size, 10 by 12.
Paica: Small size. 10c.; quarto size, J5e.—
A apecimen of each size and Caialogue sent on
receipt of 25c ; and. ,on receipt of $1, five of
each size will be sent.
Catalogues sent Free to any Address.
E. R- FELTON, Publisher,
103 Fulton Si., New-York.
april lfirpn lm-
lias made the most astonishing cures so quick
so rapid are the changes the body un
dergoes, under the influence of
this truly wonderful Medicine,
that
Every day an Increase in Mesh
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'TIME GSZE.il' BSEOGif S*ESSllIEli
Every mop of the Sarsapariiian Resolvent
communicates through tl.e Blood, .Sweat,
Urine, and other fluids and juices of the sys
tem tin: vigor of life, for it repairs tire wastts
of the body with new and soud material. Scrof
ula. SyptiHis, Consumption, Glandular dis
case, Licets m the throat. Mouth, Juniors,
Nodes in tho Glands and other parts of the
system, Sore Eyes, Strumorous discharges
from the Ears, and the worst forms of Skin
diseases. Eruptions, Fever Sores, Scald Head,
Ring Worm, <S,i 11 Rheum, Erysipelas. Acne
B ack Spots, H'orms in the Flesh, Tumors,
Cancers in the Womb, and all weakening and
pa nful discharges. Night Sweats, Loss of
Sperm and ail wastes of the life principle
are within the curative range of this wonder
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Lese forms of disease its potent power to
cure them.
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of Chronic, Scrofulous, Constitutional, and
Skin diseases; but it is the only positive cure
for Kiduev and Bladder Complaints, Urinary
Bad Womb diseases, Gravel. Diabetes, Dropsy
Stoppage of Water, Incontinence of Urine
tright’s Disease, Albuminuria, and in all ia
ses where there are brick du.-t deposits, or the
water is thick, cloudy, mixed with substances
like the white oi an egg, or threads like white
silk, or there is a morbid, dark billions ap
pearance. and white bone-dust deposits, and
when there is a pricking, burning sensation
when passing water, and pain in the Small of
the Back and along the Loins.
DR. RADWAY’S
PERFECT PURGATIVE PILLS,
perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet
gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse, and
strengthen. Radway’s Fills, tor the cure of
all disorders of the Stomach, Liver, Bowels,
Kidneys, Bladder, A’ervous Diseases, Head
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flammation of the Bowels, Files, aud all De
rangemeats of the Internal Viscera. War
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etable. containing no mercury, minerals, or
deleterious drugs.
Observes the following symptoms resulting
from Disorders of the Digestive Organs:
A few doses of Radway’s Fills will free the
system from all the above named disorders
Price, 25 cents per Box. Sold by Druggists.
Read “False and True.” Send one letter-
stamp to Radway & Co., No 32 W arren St.,
Cor. of Church Street, New York. Informa
tion worth thousands w ill be sent you.
r July 4 1871. 26 ly
^MuIiMctic
FLUID
fjntilb invaluable Family Medicine, tot
purifying, cleansing:, removing baa
odors in all kinds ol sickness; for burns
sores, wounds, stings; lor -Erysipelas,,
rheumatism, and all skin diseases; lor
catarrh, sore month, sore throat, diptheria;
for colic, diarrhoea, cholera; as awash to
soften and beautify the skin; to remove
Sewing
Machines
Sewing-
Ma
chines.
nk spots, miloew, limit, stains, taken in
ternally as well as applied externally; so
, m — i . mm a—as
highly recommended by all who h ive used
it—is for sale by all Drug,gists and Coun-
ry Merchants, and may be ordered di
rectly of the
DARBY PROPHYLACTIC
TRY,ONE
1ILLER, BI5SELL A BXJRRUM, Whole
• Agent*, and Wholesale Grocers and Com
ities Merchants, 177 Broad Street, A U-
1ST A, GA.
Notice.
E undersigned respectfully informs the
itiaeae that they are prepared to furnish
ir, aay amoont and sise, at their Lnm
ixd ia Milledgeville, at low rates. Cal
An., a,. »3b5SSr <
io-tf
“HOME HUTTLE” 'ewing Machine
Only $25. This is a Shuttle Machine, lias the
under feed, and makes the ‘ Lock Stich” alike
on both sides It is a Standard First Class
Machine, and the only low priced Lock bitch
machine in the United States. This machine
received the Diploma at the “Fair of the two
Carolina.,” in the City ot Charlotte, N. C„ in
^PALMETTO” Family Sewing Machine
onlv $15 Thif machine has the celebrated
“Under feed,” aud is so simple it never gets
on t* of order. It stands entirely above and be-
anv cheap machine ever produced before
^ ryThe above Machines are Warranted for
6 ra^A F MACHINE FOR NOTHING! ^
Any person making np a club for 5 machines
will be presented the sixth one as commissions
Aeents Wanted.—Superior inducement
riven. Liberal deduction made to ministers
of the Gospel. Send stamp for circulars and
sample* of sewing. Address Rev. L. H
I BERNHEIM, General Agent, Concord, N. C
I »pril0 • rn P 4w
161 William S'reet, N. Y
pDec24’70 1y. rMay2 rtJnne3 ly
PULASKI HOUSE
Savannah, Ga
W. TT WTLTBF/RGFiR, Proprietor.
CHARLESTON HOTEL.
E. II. IACI4SOA’,
Proprietor.
CHARLESTON. S. C.
~BROWN’S HOTEL,
Opposite Depot, MACON QA.
W- F. BROWN & CO., Prop’rs
(Successors to E. E. Brown & Son,)
\V F. Brown. Geo. C. Brown
I
Supreme Court of Georgia.
Thursday, May 9th.
The Macon & Augusta Railroad Comps-
ny vs.. Frank L. Little, executor. Re
lief and Constitutional Law, from
Hancock; and
Jackson B. Johnson, administrator, vs.
R. Stokes Sayre, et- al. Constitution
al Law, from Hancosk.
Montgomery, J:
1. That clause ot' ihe third para
graph of the first section ol Article
2 of the C nstilutioii of Georgia,
which provides that 4, ^io session of
the General Assembly, after the sec
mid under this Constitution, shall
continue longer than forty days, un
less prolonged by a vote of two-
thirds of each branch thereof,” ap
plies only to the Ge >eral Assembly
which was to meet 4di.er the Slate
government had been fully recon
structed under the so called iccon-
struction Acts of Congress, not to
the Legislature of the provisional
government organized under lliose
Acts.
2. The Supreme Court of the
United States have said, iu White
vs. Hart, el. al., infra, “the action of
Congress upoij the subject (the re
construction measures) cannot be
inquired into. The case is deadly
one in which the judicial is bound
to follow the action of the political
department of the government, and
is concluded by it.”
While compelled to accept this
dogma as law, and as perhaps true,
in a limited degree, so tar as facts
accomplished are concerned, as a
general proposition L dissent from
and protest against it.
J. Under the leceul decision ol
the Supreme Court ot the United
Stales in the case of Will am White
vs. J - tin ii. Hart, and Wm. D. Da
vis, decided December term, 1871,
we aie compelled to hold, that the
reconstructed provisional govern
ment of Georgia did riot expire be
fore June 12, 1S70, when Congress
enacted that the State of Georgia
having complied with the reconstruc-
t on acts, and the fourteenth and fif
teenth amendments to the Con.-titu-
t on of the United States having Been
lalified in good faith by a leg;d Le
gislature of said Slate, it is hereby
declared iliut the State of Georgia is
entitled to representation in the
Congress of the United States.”
Upon the admission of her Senators
and Representatives under that act,
says the Court, “the condonation by
the national government became
complete.” The conclusion to our
minds is inevitable, that up to the
passage of that act, at least, the pro
visional government provided for by
the act of March 2, 1667, still ex
isted.
4. It follows that the session ot
the Legislature of 1570, which pass
ed the Act of October 13th, of that
year, was not a session of the Gen
eral Assembly, after the second un
der the Constitution in the sense in
which the Convention of 186S used
these words. Hence the act under
review is not invalid because passed
by the Legislature more than forty
days after the commencement of its
session.
5. It is at least doubtful whether
the first four sections of the Relief
Act of October 13th, 1870, prospect
ive in their operations a3 sound tules
of construction require them to be
understood, so far impair the reme
dy of contracts made prior to June,
1865, as to be unconstitutional un
der the tenth section of the first Ar
ticle of the Constitution of the U. S.
It is therefore the duty of the Court
to refuse to declare them unconsti
tutional.
6. The first four sections ot the
Relief Act of October 13th, JS70,
must be read in the light of the title
to that Act, and in so far as they are
not variant from it, they do not vio
late the 5th paragtaph of the 4th
section of article 3 of the Constitu
tion of Georgia, and to that extent
the Court should give them effect.
Therefore, in all suits pending at
the time of the passage of the Act,
for debts founded on contracts made
prior to June, 1SG5, the taxes must
have been paid, and the affidavit
filed within six months after the Act
parsed ; and in all suits commenced
after its passage, at the time of filing
the writ, on pain of having the case
dismissed on failure to do so.
7. If Congress, or a State Legis
lature pass a law, within the gener
al scope of their constitutional pow
er, the Courts cannot pronounce it
void merely because, in their judg
ment, it is contrary to the principles
of natural justice. Calder vs. Bull,
3, Dallas 399.
S. A bill of interpleader being fil
ed bv an administrator against the
creditors of an estate represented by
him, whose claims are antagonistic,
and some of the claims being found
ed on contracts entered into before
June, 1865, it is not necessary for
creditors bolding such claims to file
an affidavit of the payment ot taxes
with their answers, their claims hav
ing been brought into court by the
administrator anti not by thrmselves.
On the trial of the case, however,
they should make it clearl> appear
that the taxes have been paid to en
title them to a decree for the pay
ment of the claims.
9. Subscriptions to the st«H k oj
the Macon and Augusta Railroad
Company, made bef.ee June, 1S65.
stand upon the same tomiug with
other debts contracted before that
date; and iu suits ugaiu.-l the sub
scribers lor the amount <H their sub
scription, the payment of taxes and
the filing of the affidavit, as requited
by the Relief Act of 1S70, is neces
sary.
Judgment in the case of The Ma-
onn and Augusta Railroad Company
vs. Frank L. Little, Executor, af
firmed.
Judgment reversed in the case of
Jackson B. Johuson, Administrator,
vs. R. Stokes Sayre, on the ground
that the creditors holding claims
foutt ded on contracts made before
June, 1S65, should have proved pay
ment of taxes on those claims to cn
title them to a decree Kir the pay
ment of the claims.
Linton Stephens,' Geo. F. Pierce,
B- H. Hill, H. L. Benning, lor plain
tiff in error.
C. W. Dubose, R. Toombs, F. L.
Little, contra.
Barbarity.
Is I be persecution of the people of
South Carolina never to stop? Are
the political exigencies of Gen Gram
and Gov. Scott of such nature that
the State where Radicalism has
most triumphantly asserted itself,
must be kept in order by military
terror ism supplemented by down
right murder i Ever since United
States Marshal Johnson w'as super
seded in his office by ex-Coiigress-
man Wallace, the Federal troops
have been kept active in securing
the seven counties placed under
rnatlial law, and have arrested large
numbers of persons ami dragged
them off to places remote from their
homes for imprisonment and trial.—
These unhappy people, principally
farmers and planters in Laurens,
Newberry, Spartanburg, and Union
counties, are daily being seized ami
carried off', says tlie Charleston News,
“ on ait sorts of charges ranging over
years of time, and their families are
left to the tender mercies of a few
who are not yet arrested, hut who
live in constant fear. No crops or
any hope of any. Starvation and
misery alike to the mother ami the
babe, appear to be in lire near future
for thousands of the persecuted cit
izens of the upper counties.”
In Spartanburg the troops are
riding over the country night and
day, making arrests everywhere.—
•Oiil men of eighty and ninety years,’
writes a merchant, ‘some even on
crutches, are brought and lodged in
jail. Some of these old men, 1 feel
satisfied, have not been away from
their homes at night ‘for twenty
years.’ What wonder is it that hun
dreds of the citizens are leaving that
county, not from consciousness of
guilt, but because numbers of per
fectly innocent men have already
been arrested, and no man knows
whose ‘ turn may come next ?’
The very man who has driven
these people, under the pressure of
intolerable wrongs, into the perpe
tration of acts which the law forbids
are the active agents of the Govern
ment in a dragonade as fieice and
bitter ar.d unspairing as the perse
cution of the French Protestants by
Louis the Fourteenth. In the Latter
case the animatmg cause was reli
gious bigotry. In South Carolina it
is political and sectional hatred.—
Sometimes, however, the proceed
ings have a grim grotesqueness that
mixes oddly and curiously with the
more tragic elements. But little more
than a week ago four memfrom York
county—who were indicted at the
last term of the United StaLes Cir
cuit Court for the Charleston Dis
trict for conspiracy and murder-
pleaded guilty of conspiring to pre
vent negroes from voting. The
murder charges were then with
drawn. Are we to understand that
the accusaliou of murder was
trumped up to frighten these men
into confessing to a lesser offence, or
are we to infer that in Radical esti
mation to keep a voter from the
polls is a greater crime than to take
his life ?—Exchange.
For Founder in Horses.—Pound
up a piece of alum as large as a
guinea egg; divide it into three parts;
wrap one of ttn-se around ihe bit,
and let )our hoise wear it in his
mouth five or six hours, or until the
alum is all dissolved, and repeat till
the alum is all used by the horse in
this way, which generally requires
twelve or fifteen hours. Use your
horse moderately the next day. It
makes no difference how badly a
horse may be foundered, if taken in
time he will be perfectly well in
from thirty-six to forty-tight hours.
Liberal Republican Platform.
\Ve, the Liberal Republicans ol
tie United Stales, in National Con
vention assembled at Cincinnati,
proclaim the following principles as
essential to ju?t government:
1st. We rt cognize the equality of
all men befbre the law, and hold
that it is the duty of Government in
its dealing with the peop'e to mete
out equal aud exact justice to all of
whatever nativity, race, color, or
pf rsuasion, religious or political.
2d. We pledge ourselves to main
tain the union of these Stales, eman
cipation and enfranchisement, and
to oppose any reopening of the ques
tion settled by the Thirteenth, Four
teenth ami Fifteenth Amendments
to the Con-li r ution.
3d. We demand the immediate
and absolute removal of all disabili
ties imposed o < acemrnt of th«- Re
bellion, which was finally subdued
seven years ago, believing that mo
vers d name ty wiil result iu com
pletc pacific.ilion in all sections of
the country.
4th. Local self government, with
impartial suffrage, will guard the
rights of all citizens more securely
than any centralized power. The
public welfare requires the suprein
acy of tfic civil over the military au
thorny, and freedom of per-on tin
der the protection o! the habeas cor
pus. We demand for the individu
al file largest liberty consistent with
public order ; for the Slate, self-
government. and for the nation a re
turn to the methods of | eace and
the constitutional Imi tations of pow
er.
5th. The Civil Set vice of the Gov
ernment lias become a mere instru
ment of partisan tyranny and per
sonal ambition and an object of ♦elf
ish greed. It is a scandal and re
proach upon free institutions, and
breeds a demoralization dangerous
to the perpetuity ol republican gov
ernment. We therefore regard such
thorough refonnsof the Civil Ser
vice as one of the most pressing ne
cessities ol the hour; that honesty,
capacity and fidelity constitute the
only valid claim to public employ
ment ; that the offices of the Gov
ernment cease to be a matter of ar
bitrary favoritism and patronage,
aud that public slat i<mi become again
a post of honor. To this end it is
imperatively r« quired that no Presi
dent shall te a candidate for re-
election.
6th. We tie .• and a system of Fed-
eral taxation which shall not unne
cessarily interfere with the industry
of the people, and which shall pro
vide the means necessary to pav the
expenses of the Government eco
nomically administered, the pen
sions, the interest on the public debt,
and a moderate reduction annually
of the principal thereof; and, recog
nizing that ;here are in our midst
honest but irreconcilable differences
of opinion wiih regard to the respec
tive systems of Protection and Free
Trade, we remit the discussion of
the subject to the people in their
Congress Districts, and to the de
cision of Congress thereon, wholly
free of Executive interference or dic
tation.
7th. The public credit must be
sacredly maintained, and we de
nounce repudiation in every form
and guise.
8th. A speedy return to specie
payment is demanded alike by the
highest considerations of commercial
morality and honest government.
9th. We remember with gratitude
the heroism and sacrifices of the
soldiers and sailors of the Republic,
and no act of ours shall ever detract
from their justly earned fame or the
full reward of'their patriotism.
10th. We are opposed to all fur
ther grants of lands to railroads or
other corporations. The public do
main shall be field sacred to actual
settlers.
11th. We hold that it is the duty
of the Government, in its intercourse
with foreign nations, to cultivate the
friendship of peace, by treating
with all on fair and equal terms, re>
garding it alike dishonorable either
to demand what is not right, or to
submit to what is wrong.
12tb. For the promotion and suc
cess of these vital principles and the
support of the candidates nominated
by this Convention, we invite and
cordially welcome the co-operation
of all patriotic citizens, without re
gard to previous affiliations.
HORACE WHITE,
Chm’n Com. on Resolutions.
G. P. Thurston, Secretary.
Governor Palmer Abandons the Ro/ten
Ctajl.—At a Democratic Liberal plat
form meeting, at Cwbouville, 111., the
home of Governor Palmer. Saturday
night, the Governor made a bitter speech
against Grant, and deeb red unequivo
cally bis separation from the Republican
party, and that he expected to vote for
Democrats, and warned the Republi
cans to go home, not to rest, but to whet
up their awards for the coming conflict,
which would $ war to U»« knife,
From the Jtoauw Advertiser.
The fsiitg Fewtf sf lie leith.
One of the hopeful manifjpstatious of
Southern politics is to be found in the
intereer which the people, there, without
political or social distinction, are begin-
tiing to take in questions affecting their
induatrial development aud meteriai pro
gress. This is to us deeply interesting,
because the Southern States must con
tinue to be in the future, as in the past
a most important wealth-producing sec
tion of the Union. Nor can their influ-
upon the revenue policy of the nation,
as upon ita politics, be over animated.
There is e common end dangerous sen
timent abroad which finds expression in
such utterances as these: “ We are
done with the South** That job is
fiu»hed “ The South is nothing.” We
are not done with the South ; the job is
not finished ; the South is a powerful
•ud vital force iu the nation. The com
mercial tables of the eoautry show that
the contributions of the Southern States
to oo.i exportable wealth exceed ie val
ue the total exportwoi alMbe Uniou
combined. In addition to this, they fur-
lush through their productions (he basis
ot the most valuable textile industries.
It wiil no doubt surprise many of onr
readers to learu that' in the matter of
population the South leads the geograph
ical sectious of the Union. The total
population of the United States is placed
by tbe last census at 38,i55,SS3. Of
this number the Middle aud Eastcru
States combined furnish iu round num
bers 12.000,000, the Western States
12 OOO.uOO, tbe Soutbcru States or those
couiutouly classed as such iu olden times,
14.000,000. Their political preponder
ance is equally significant. Tbe total
number of votes iu the electoral college
is 357. Tbe New England Slates, with
New York, Now Jersey and Pennsyl
vania added, count 109 votes, as follows :
Maine 1 Couuectient 6
New Hampshire 4 New York 43
Vermont 4 Pennsylvania 28
Massachusetts. J3New Jersey.. 9
Khods Island.......4
Total 10J
It will be seen that the Western
States are entitled to 105 votes.
Ohio .
. 22 Nevada
3
Michigan.........
. 11 Indiana......
14
Wisconsin........
.10 Illinois
21
Minnesuta
3
.11
Kansu*
..5ToUl
106
California claims 6 votes and Oregon
3—making a total of 9 tor the Pacifie
coaet. The Southern States are entitled
to 128 votes in the electoral aoliege. be
ing a majority over the New England
and Middle States combined, and ex
ceeding the consolidated vote of she
great Northwest. Here are the figures :
Delaware 3 South Carolina 7
Maryland ..........8 Georgia II
Virginia II Florida 3
West Virginia & Alabama 9
Kentucky ...IS Mississippi ...... .. Ji
Tennessee 11 Louisians ..... 7
North Carolina 10 Texas r~-- 8
Missouri............15
Arkansas .6 134
Doomed to Destruction.—A letter from
Mr. Wendell Phillips was read at the
meeting of the Reform Leaugne in New
York, on Friday evening, id which the
eloquent agitator expressed propheti
cally that the coming campaign would
be the last in which the Democratic and
Republican parties, as such, would en
gage. ‘‘Whatever party succeeds,” he
says, “both die in tbe effort.”
We think Mr. Phillips is more than
half right, and it would not be amiss
for parties to keep this idee in view in
their future movements. The Cincin
nati Convention proved conclusively
that Republicanism had run ita race, and
if the Democrats expect te preserve
their principles and the government
with them, they will show wisdem by
recognizing, to soma extent et least, the
new revolution.—Sae PtpuUU.au.
Plain Languagefrom Truthful Blair.
—Our faithful reporter encountered the
defunct Seymour candidate for Vieas
President, and author of the Broad head
letter, on his way to the office to get
his sleeping car ticket to Washington.
He ouly bad time to say:
“Hello, Senator, what do you think
of tbe nominations?”
Senator Blair (with mneb cunning)—
Oh, they are well enough. They suit
me as well as any. They are very
strong.
Reporter—Bat they say the Demo
crats will not support them.
Senator Blair (with some spirit and a
trifle of profanity)—Ob, hell! People
are fools to talk that way. Why, Gree-
ley will cany the whole South. Any
man must he a d—d fool to say that tho
ticket is not acceptable to Democrats—
especially in the Sooth. I know what
I’m talking about. There is no danger
of a Democratic nomination. The Dem
ocratic party is not so asylum with idi
ots. Don’t tell me that tbe Democrats
will not support Greeley. I’ve got to
go now. I’m going back to Washing
ton to-night.
Say tag which, Frank Blair disappear
ed with a set of happy gentlemen from
the annoy Senth, with their carpet bags
in their bends.
Hose Many Electors for Georgia /—
Tbe qnatfon has been eafcod whether
the electoral eoliege will be made up on
the exiating representation in Congress,
or under the new apportionment The
Louisville Commercial publishes a note
from a Senator in jDongress, whose name
is not given, which says: “The ques
tion you propound was fully discussed iu
Congress more than once, and it has
been agreed anff decided that the State
is entitled to the nnmber of Presidential
electors corresponding to the namber of
Representatives to which she is entitled
under the new apportionment, instead
of the number allowed by the old ap-
noitionment.”
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