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THE G0N8TITITI05 PUB. <0
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FOR THE WEEK ENDING TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 27, 1S77.
No. 22, Volume X
TERMS OF THE COASTITCTIOXl JCbuMMEEAEm aboimlsts.
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justice to oar readers, publish the let-
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-•S™* ... , ^ ^ , v . j be able to judge whether his argument*
EXITK^TI )NH.~Ix«k at ifce prio"* label <w I ,, ,,
ili* paper, tha data thereof. .b<>w* wh«n th* | **** sell-relating. Oar cotemporary
,ar i on * ht to remember that his statement
EaTEs PoR advertisin'* —Ot<r.nan Adr-r- [ *o the effect that these argnmenth r»~
»“'« ‘hemM.IvCT is a mere -nsecis-
ISSfti'^ZHSSr ol . h " opinion—a,i
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a*daltu^n.'tvT 1 Bmiu- eremr to he romewbst saspieicua, since
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COMMUMCvTIONS mu»(
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CONSTITUTION.
MR. HTKMKSU H PL AH.
Only a meagre ■nmmiry of Mr.
ft’ephens’s bill his been received. Its
very title ahowa, however, that it is a
resumption bill that will not please the
gold bus$ f the east—“.'or the financial
relief of the country, and to facilitate
the return to specie payments without
injarvmsj, affecting the commercial,tii'
general and bnaincaa industries of the
people.*’ T* «• bill was referred to the
committee on banking and currency
It provdes that the secretary of the
treasury shall have prepared an issue
of exchequer bills of voriou ■ denomi -
nations to the amount of $350,000.000,
and that they shall be used for the re
demption and payment of the out*
standing legal-tender note*, and that
such exchequer bills shall be receiva
ble in payment of all pnbiic snd pri
vato dues, and shall be fundable in 3
per cent bonds. It directs the secre
tary of the treasury to give public no
tion cl the proposed redemption of the
legal tenders, and to redeem them in
exchequer tulle when presented in
rums of $50 and its multiples, which
exchange shall continue until the 1st of
January, 1879. It also provides for a
reries of 3 per cent bonds, payable in
oin 30 years after, which bonds are to
be Hold or exchanged at pirT.r e »iu or
exchequer hills, aud are to be also ex
changeable after the 1st of January,
1870, foi such legs! tenders as may be
ootetandir.g. It provider that ail ex
chequer bids and ooin received in pay
ment V'T these 3 per cent bonds shall
lie used in retiring outstanding bonds
hearing a higher rate of interest, and In
order to meet the interest which is pay
able in coin until exchequer bills and
coin be on a par, the secretary is re
quired to procure coin by the sale in
Europe or elsewhere of the 4 and 41
per cent bond* alreadv authorized. It
empower* nations! banks to hold their
b-gal reserve** in H per cent bonds, and
provides lhut rbeir stock shall not be
assessed by state authorities above
their par i •».
]» > !>• to disco* 1 *! the bill
m»t an »w its entire scope and
meaning. If the plan includes, how
ever, the giving over of the entire field
of ironin'i<m to the national banka,
thus strengthening an \ perpetuating
that system, we nr* surahmt It from the
he is st great pains in several of the
recent issues of his paper to controvert
the arguments and dispute the figure*
of Judge Keeee, an attempt in which
(it is perhaps needless to remark) he
has been conspicuously unsuccessful;
so much so, indeed, that it i« merely
necessary for him to print the letter in
order to convince bis readers of the
fact. If the arguments really refute
themselves, as our friend, the editor,
assert!!, they are then, m effect, so
many arguments in favor of Milledge-
vilife, and, as such the News ought ur>
us* them. By all means let the editor
give his readers an opportunity to
judge for themselves.
TMM ARMY HILL.
The absence o! five democrats, and
the defection of the Texas democrats
undid all the work that the house had
accomplished in the direction of ret
renchment and reform. The army is
to be maintained 25 000 strong. The
vote to reduce it to 20,000 waa 130 to
134. Not a republican voted in the af
Urinative. The old scale ot expendi
ture is, therefore, to be continued
through the current fiscal year. And
yet we have no war on hand, and no
use for even 20 000 men.
The bill is now in the hands of a
conference committee; but the disagree
menlsbetweenthetwoh oases arei m ma
tenal. Tne bouse non-concurs in the
amendments to allow two additional
paymasters' clerks,and in a minor para
graph which requires a board of ord
nance officers to select a magazine gun.
The house insists that the officers shall
be ordnance officers ; the senate left the
matter ditcretionary. These differ
er.ees aie unimportant, and the bill
will easily become law this week.
FELTON’S BOOM.
tub nr datb oh tub repeal of
TUB BBACMP1AOM ACT.
«p*«rb of If no. Ml Ilona If Fallow,
of Geirila. In in# H* n»e of R*p-
mmiaUvia, JBoveaob*r 14,1*77.
One by one the roses lade and scat
ter. The Milledgeville champions
have lately been gloatirg over a vic
tory in the shape of a statement to the
effect that a democratic mass meeting
in Lowndes county had unanimously
adopted a resolution instructing dele
gates to a county and senatorial con
vention to nominate no man not in
avor of Milledgeville as the capital.
The Valdosta Times, with grim accu
racy, rises to explain that the meeting
in question was a mere district meet
ing, aid that it was composed of about
a dozen voters out of about four bun
dred. It appear?, however, that the
rewilf^bn w.»a not unanimously adop
ted, even bv the d< zi n
AS JMPIR TANT PL VISION
Judge William Gibson, of the sup*
riov court, has just rendered a very im
portant decision in Augusta in the case
of Uriah Hartley vet sue the Georgia
raiir<>sd, suit for damages. Plaintiff
claimed damages to the smonnt of
seventy-five dollars for a cow killed by
a locomotive on the road The evi
denco was to effect, that the trail
was running'.>»wri grade at the time of
the occurrence, and that the engineer
exercised due caution bj sounding the
usual signals. Judge Gibron says that
the statutes of this state giving dama
ge* for stock injured or killed, against
railroad companies, is upon the idea of
negligence or want of earn on the
pert of the employee of the
mads. When it is conceded
that there was no neglect
on the part of the employes, and every
diligence ut- i to prevent the damage
or injury, he cannot conceive how it
can be pmwit)’© for courts of justice to
give dsn.***; ♦» (or injuries to stock on
their roads. The running of trains in
Georgia ia n« t a legitimate business,
bat is authorized by ©jwcial statute,
and it does seem that when the statute
gives the presumption in favor of per
sons injured or damaged, that the
damage wsa the result of carvlessnese
or neglect, that the ends of justice are
fully met. To ho’d that when every
precaution waa used, and due and
proper diligence exercised, that a rail
mid ever should be liable loi damages,
is inconsistent with the right to run
their trains on their oan roads. Such
are Judge Gibson's comments. In the
case submitted he decides that the de
fendants are not liable to pay damages.
The ca*e will bo carried to the su
preme court,
start. The war system of bunking
rule* the country at present, and any
addition to its power is not demanded
in this section of *he country.
The “external influences’* of tho
atuiospheie of 3avaun»h were so de
moralizing in their tendencies that it
hi probable the lion. Peter O’Neal has
given up his campaign canteen and
other ammunition to a more muscular
colored orator
Ir daring the present campaign,
which has been a very heated one, we
have said aught calculated to reform
the editors of the Macon Teh graph
their na** of italics, we shall feel amply
epaid for cur labor.
Tux e liter of the Sumter Republican
doesn’t at all agree with the Hawkins*
ville Dispatch as to the motives that
should influence a jm.nalist in opp<
sing or supporting anv particular
measure.
•ott; bat Fnact hu taught her thetltribuUWetothe vilUiniesof Eneland
well-maseged finances are more pow- • resumntion laws. In nanip wit
The hnwe havirg under considers-
ti on the bill (H. K. No. 805) to repeal
the third section of »be »ct entitled
“An act ItT the resumption of specie
payments”—
Sir. Frjton said;
Ma Spkakxb: I have but few finan
cial figures. Indeed, I on y prole*# to
be able to see aud appreciate reealta,
effects. As in nature there are effects
that are apparent to the mo .t casual
observer, while all the secret springs
which produced these effects may nor
be known. In disease the physician
has little to do with names—with the
technical descriptions that fill up his
book* as so much waste lumber. II-
seen before him only symptoms, and
his duty is to battle with those symp
toms by all the appliances within
his react*. In the financial
policy ol this country I see and appro
date results, the effects, the symptoms
—ail indicative of a fatal termination,
-.A dcir.- . JinK the most prompt and
efficient remedies. C’laae legislation is
destructive to civil liberty. It ftDgcnd
era resistance, it estranges the class an
tagonized Irom ihegovernmen*, for men
cease to respect the laws which oppress
them. The government which enacts
and enforces discriminating measures
must soon expect to find among its cit
iz-na one class who are its hereditary
friends and another class who are its
hereditary enemies. This friendship
and this enmi'y must continue until
one becomes the only pillar opon which
the government rests, or until the other
culminates in rebe.lion or slavery.
Every monarchy in E'-ropo snd in
Asia, whether limited by constitutional
law or having no limitations thrown
around the will of the ruler, bad its
origin in personal and class preferences
and is maintained by legal favoritism
Divide intoclasses and then sustain the
favored class by every act of the gov
ernment is the m&xim of despotic
rulers. They have in general so insid
iously accomplished their purpose that
the enslaved class did not suspect en
croachments upon their political, social
aud industrial rights until they were
powerless for aver, ing the evil.
In this republican government wr
have always resisted the foimationof
ctast-es ‘‘Equality before the law” has
been the recognized p siiion of every
American citizen. We have applied
bia principle not only to men, but the
oretically we have applied it tooccupa
tious anil pursuits in life.
An open pa»h, unhedged by law, has
been supposed 'oopeniuvitinglj before
every occupation, every species of labor;
and the man who had no endowment
but his capacity for work—who was wil
ling to work who remembered that
all legitimate wealth wasthe resultant of
work, ha*been lau^bt by the theory ol:'t,Jh'aud”the
eur government that uu.ler ita foster-1
' l , ‘ E,-er on the alert, in 1875 they de
vise and esn- urnmite the
rfnl than well-managed armies. To
day, while Germany, crazy about a
single metallic standard and the re
sumption of specie payments, sits
-hivering on the verge of natioual
backruD'cy: France, wi«h every dollar
>i her war fine canceled, with all her
industries proa porous, is now, sev^zi
y* ars after crushing defeat, the superi
or of b*r conqueror.
The French government made paper
money a legal tender for all debts,
public and private—honored its own
money. The banking est&biis'.meats of
the country loaned to the people money
in sufficient quantity to carry on their
industries, and the people were so
*r*i p *rniis that they in turn tendered
f .-. their government the loan of four
uar.es the *>m** -•’» < f money necessary
to pay the war debt.
Such is Fiance, that resisted the one-
metallic standard folly; such is the
nation that inflates rather than con
tracts her currency, that never worries
about resumption, and at the
same time has in the
vaults of her banks more gold and sil
ver thao there is in the combined
banks of Eogland and Germany.
Germany and the United States de
monetized silver in 1873, both govern
ments being influenced by one motive,
namely: to protect and enrich the
creditor class and those having fixed
incomes against a fall in the valae of
money.
This is the secret of this one-metallic-
standard movement. They feared a
decline in the purchasing va ? ue of sil
ver. They knew if they coaid shelve
one of oar metalic standards it won id
quadruple the value of the remaining
standard.
Enjoying “fixed incomes,” which are
never affected in volume by the un
certain lies of trade, by fickle and unre
liable seasons, by sickness and the
amount of work performed, thev knew
they would thereby quadruple their
wealth ; that it was the certain means
of making the rich richer and the poor
poorer; it would send down the wagee
of labor and the price) of commodities.
So then, silver, the money of the
constitution, the coin which hiui been
a legal-’ender for all does, public
•nd private, from the origin of the
government was deliberately set aside,
retiied from circulation, practically
driven out of the country. The chan
ces for resumption lessened; indeed
made impossible; debts contracted
when gold and silver were both legal
tenders, now to be paid only in g Id;
all for what?
To bemfit that “small part of capital
which has ceased to labor and is at
rest, in the form of fixed and perma
nent investments.”
But sir, this “money power” was not
content with the demonetization of sil
ver.
This did not contract the currency
sufficiently. This did not shrink val
ues in proportion to their greed. This
did not quite transfer all the property
of the country into their hands. This
did not quite make New York and
commercial New England the owners
fee simple of the cotton fields of
grain fields of the
mg cars the highest rewards were at
.ainabie. Instead of seeking his im-
poverishiuent and degradation, the Uw
supposed to b.i on his side,
kindly in sympathy with his nec^si
ties, and di*[. »• *1 to stimulate rather
haa rcla p d his tfljrta in belleriug his
condition.
Tne go id report of our governm ent
i thin particular has gone throughout
the world. The ih maaiuis of emigrants
ho have built up the west and who
re an important factor in tho future
[ our country have been attracied
here by our supposed equal laws, un-
hedged'paths ot inuustrv, our respect
f..r labor, aad the absence of ail class
distinctions.
1 repeat this has been the theory of
our g .vernment, and whenever the
people become c*»rvu:cei of a depar
lure or a proposed departure from
this | rinciple o* “equal end exact jus
tic» to all men,” they will resist it by
ail ti e means at their command.
The people are not yet prepared to
snriender ibeir rights into (be hand-*
of the few. They are not willing that
monopolis's, corporationiste, national
bond holders and the money-changers
of this country aliall become
the unchallenged lords of
the country, molding the soil
aud its productions, the uionnfacturii g
The ftivannah News insists that
Judge Reese’s arguments are absurd
The vote in the Forest City on the cip-
ital question will, perhaps, undeceive
the editor on this point.
The Macon Te;egraph admits that ell
the lawyers in the state are not fur At
lanta. It doesn’t deny, however, that
Fitzpatrick is for MiliedgoviUe.
Hon. Thomas M. Uahknes*, the
democratic candidate lor the seuate in
the tft’b district, is a warm advocate of
Atlanta as the mpital.
It is a wonder that Stanley Mat
thews doesn’t forget his statesmanship
long enough to hit some of these radi
cal newspaper editors a difl
OLD cl.
TBS COSTS* TAD SOM ISA TJO.\S.
The implacable* control the senate
committees, probably without an ex
ception ; and they have b**yond the
shadow of a doubt decided to beat
those nominations that they do not like
by a policy of d lay, regardless of tt e
will of tho senate. In other words,
they will not report such nominations
as they desire to defeat. In the list
are of course the names of Gen. H Ar
lan, Col F issimxoQ* and the custom
house m mi nations. Any of these nom
inatum* out's before the senate
would h promptly confirmed, no
yu«t!*r m wKu *n*pe they came from
• committee-r.-om Courtesy, however,
preriud . • y action in advance of the
no*, n k «e committees, and so the
eena«a's wilt is set at nsugnt.
This policy of driay wiii not, how
ever, avail much, if the president is
rightly reported. Ail nominations fall
with the session to which they are
made. Toe president is reported to
have add that he would renew every
nomination that is perm; ted to fall in
that manner—that he w II force the
eeaate to pass upon the merits
of etch one. It thi*» report be
Hr €*»«%*« Km* Bfm«HI«*tloo **
Old Si was leading 'he paper Sunday,
wbea he audtleniy knocked the aabes out of bia
pip** «n<t renuuk«*l:
•*Di» hvah reiutwejrrMAbun ©b silver puity
nl*h *it» *wAy wi<t me!”
•‘Don't you uu«ier*iacU Itw»
•W«D ho**, immtltue* bit ter me *Utl
do«e an* den *zla 1 don't."
"And bow ia that *"
• Ik Mb reedin’ 'boat hithsah—Iiersl dl«
peeix- troo fo* tiro* a now—an* At lack ia -hen 1
K or* back kl Bmpplc wld dc chin I 'po-r*
u-r be atandin' by cr baak on tuh. Ebexy row
an* den do amoke cUra off an’ tokea *11 holler
•Dar hit Is -dar’a de a*fe wid de nrnanj in hit
Dai’a do way wid dta rrtnone' itaodmri when I
■or* de p'Ict l*e. x had eff tz et l didn’t kno*
hit wuz d*r at aU!"
•The pniw that allaer aint m >ney and the
demand o! th« t'mc* ia that it ahall be remou-
eUled—made mor.cy Again l”
••aw, ’thaw! ftivur aim mnnny. eh'
• N it la —
"Uh! oh! Datwoutdo! What'a dat yon’w
tuxaltn in yo’ p.wtit ?- what a d a qa«b^r dat'
bol*a In my handT ’Taint muuay? Aw, go
'kmc ab’ fool whof
"I waa mine to explain "
• I don't want r o 'aplairdn* ’boat dat! Man-
ny‘a mnnny. aho'a you boro, an’ when I gita
nieer *n‘ art* deae uvf on bit I kao’a wbtddcr
hii'a goodtrnot! Ef dat’aalldat’moneytix*.
tlnaar'd.l letameout! Deymonght II I dat
cn-cpcper chuck full ob printin’ bnt dla nig
•cv r a swine ter take all de aUrcr bo kin git.
IM'a mo.icjt a *d ‘mff ter meaokmg'a bit
f-or href an' baooa. yer heah met"
A d t; e oW man threw down the paper and
would lavcn no longer.
and mining interests, as tributaries to
their wealth.
The formation of classes is t*> be de
precated. Even the organizition ol
parties in the interest of special indus
tries is to be censured und condemned.
Utbor or working men’s parties are all
w roug, because they are bused upon
one idea, upon personal advancement,
individual gain, to the exclusion of, or
even m opposition to, oilier interests
aud occupations entitled to govern
ment sympathy and protection equally
will* ilier.jseives.
Labor lias no right to make war up-
i capital, because capital is as neces
sary to productive indnstrv as lab >r.
Labor strikes and combinations on the
part of employes agamat capital are
anris* and destructive to the interests
of capital and labor. When these
combinations jesort to violence they
are criminal and are deserving the c^n
damnation of every good citizen,
though we are not surprised that men
who are dependent upon their lab
for bread, whose famihe* have no sec
rity against starvation but their daily
wage*, who have not always the safe
guard* of intelligence and virne
thr -w n around them, should occasion
ally tike counsel of their passions and
foolishly and crinm-ally rai-ist th
colossal c.»mbin>tion which has for the
laa* few years waged an exterminating
war upon the labor of th s country.
It is wrong r ad criminal for prodne
tive labjr toe inspire against c-rpera
tious, sgun*t bondholders, against cap
ital. It is squally wrong and criminal
for capital to combine and to conspire
against labor and by its superior powwr
make labor a mere eetf t » minuter to
exorbi’aut demands; to seek by
unhallowed and fraudulent combina
tions to r *b agricultural, manufacture
ing, mining, as.d all the weolth-m king
g-andest scheme of contraction
known to the history of governmente,at
a time when the public and private in
debtedness of this country waa appall
ing; for there was the national debt,
upon which the government has paid
interest, alon*. since the war, amount
mg to $1 422 057,577; there was the
railroad debt, amounting, at the time
this iniquitous law was enacted, to
about $5.000.000 000, upon which the
labor ot the country was pr~*— s “*“"
est; to which must be addi
and municipal indebtedness of the
country, swelling the entire indeVed
new of the country to about $10,000,-
000 000, upon which labor is paying
interest. Then, there is the private
indebtedness of the country, absolutely
incalculable
Then, there was the southern section
of onr country, laid waste by the v ar,
with her former immense wealth —
about $7 000.000,000-blotted out; her
fields uncultivated ; her once happy
homes, many of them, in ashes; her
farmers without mipiemen's of hus
bandry, without stock, and without
credit*; all her enterprises prostrate—
widowhood nnd orphanage throughout
the laud. Just at this time the gov
ern ment resolves to contract the cm
reDcy. bringing every commodity and
every species of labor down to a gold
bi-is, and unquestionably reducing the
debtor cla-s tu penurv and want.
resumption laws. Iu every nanic with
which Eogimnd baa beenVflbcied—in
the one just referrfd to, and also in
1836 and 1839, in 1847 and in 1857, and
especially m 1866, relief was only ob
tained bv the reneal of the reenmption
laws and by ic-fliting the paper cur-
“incv of the country
^ What a striking contrast between
Eogland a* the close of her Napoleonic
wars and France at the close of her
war with Germany, l he latter power,
instead of contracting her currency
expand* it; makes her notes a legal
tender, pays her debts, sends thrif* ar.d
Prosperity through ail her provinces,
abolishes the empire, and establishes a
republican* form of government Tue
finances are managed in the interest of
the people and not iu the interest of an
aria:ocracy, and the result is, monarch v
gives place to a government by the
>le and for the people.
bile the difference between Eng
land and France is strikkg, he r.-wm-
blance between the financial policy of
this government and that of England
is also impressive. Daring our late
civil war the people of the north and
west were never more prosperous in ail
of their industrial pursuits. Every
department of industry was stimulated
to the utmost capacity; farmers and
manufacturers, merchants and bank
ers, all were richly rewarded for their
labor aud investments. In 1865, a; sue
close of th© war this prosperity was still
existence.
This prosperity extended in part to
the devastated south and enabled hor
a brief period to restore her waste
>!acea and gather supplies to feed her
louselees population. The circulation
of money among the people at this time
amounted to $58 per capita. Tbe facts
assure us that if this volume of
currency had been continued until this
time the burdens of taxation would
have been well-nigh removed, the debts
of the nation, of states, of corporations,
and especially of individu«ls, would
have been well-nigh canceled, “tramps”
w old never have been heard «»f, riots
wou d never have disgraced Pennsyl
vania and other northern states, all
sec ional strife and class supremacy
_ _ i long since have been submerged
under a tide of unrivaled public and
private prosperity.
Alas! as in England, so in tlds coun
try, during the war 'hecommercial cen
ters, noUbly New York and New Eng
land, from their superior ad van tag s,
gathered m the “bonds” of the govern
ment: the crystallized tears, blood,
losses and poverty of the nation—these
exponents of a nation’s travail.
Every dollar that the speculators and
baukers of New York and Boston could
accumulate in this time ol prosperity,
and which was not expended in hiring
snbnitu'es to take their places in the
field, where brave men were battling
for the union, every dollar that toe
camp-followers and bomb proof office
holders could command, was invested
government securities at about fifty
cents on the dollar.
Europe with its unemployed cmital
bought up these bond*— men who had
no sympathy with the labor and strug-
glesof this country,antiquated Shylock ^
who stood sharpening their knives and
soliloquising with themselves:
have he enrt *■ forfeit o! t' etoui
oat mar the heart.
•TU have my boud. I will
epcalc
LAP OEM TBE MIEROM.
»Y r*(ll. MAV7B.
Where to her chamber by the amthern «
He. uper'* ltfih those toft and tUrery,
F*ir •# a pltaft mirrored n the main.
frets m a fcotanm baihtd — * *-
o. robed lor it«fi
her rnado* twerp .
thy tf*Tit in a baamrd r'tce
Her dcw-bn«ht eye* and faint j fl:tlr.ee face
Viewed tn the their de.jc.te heatry nwm
3*
:end« r &Uh> sa<l tnunnuriac*.
true. Col Ftt**tnuU'*ns wi’l be th© next l y^Vavne artk-ulre «jwectj, ixr eager hand*
marshal cf Georgia, and Gen. Harlan I L » 3 ?££* • D * na »^ « oldea
will reach the supreme bench. Th© rut. by m*(r Inmi-ouslorellaeea eobmeed.
t . . • . ^ i _ »; Fr>m h y bwd to lithe and Uamza* waiat,
arbitrary sau urjnsttn-t- -• sc.ton <-* jvureo tr« irr* tt .ik* * cwowae :a L
th«* p«u«n cotmniue .h a d »>• “S'
bea»en :n seme mtnn r K and Mr.
bieohKiwu. is tbe hnp- 01
tsi^L thirc in the ca*e To taoexvet «tme1 htr harpy hc*r?
piuaa lun m » ; k. r i7>e--tw;n row: n.1 pe'alp blown apart—
half brea:Llom; taea.
ap&r
Mae.
It has beeo said that the issuing of
our greenback currency was a war
necewity. It was intended to sustain
the country during the exhausting
struggle in which it was engaged. It
w as successful ia doing this; andleuo**
mi t that a currency which was essential
during that period of waste and de
struction—the stimulant th it preserved
the vital forces of the nation during ihe
war—is more a necessity at the close
than it was during the excitement of
that struggle; tbv, so long as these*
quences of that war continued, so long
me stimulant should be applied. The
pUvsician who suspends his reme
dies juBt as the par*xyism passes off
either ignorantly or criminally .delivers
up his patient to death. When the
national life demanded a continuance
of the B’.tmulani which had
Und commercial enterprises. But it ia Foley’s make!) which yesterday be
to be observed that thev content them- longed to Mr. Hayes. The resolution
selves with recommending confidence which bore this good fruit for Mr.
to others while they are careful not to Rainey provided tor the payment of the
ake a practical exhibition of any on nUry of Dr. Poisal, late chaplain of
own part. They seem to be un- the h^tue.
Iously influenced by the view, that j —There are ibout 40 000 Mohamme*
they might profit by the confi-; dans residing aud doirg business at St.
of others, confidence on their own Parersbnrg, where thev have a number
might involve them in losses. 1 0 f mxoars and schools for their chii-
" e real mischief is not in the lock ‘ dren. They are said to be quite indif-
Tdence, but the lack of any iegit- j f^rent to the struggles of their brethren
grounds for confidence; and ; in Turkey. There is also a large nnm-
neitber will be hor oughr to be ber of Mohammedan soldiers, in the
revival or extension of confidence I czar’s army, few of whom have seen fit
g as the volume of uouey con tin- j to desert and join the aultan’s armiea.
shrink aud prices continue n>. The onl' prominent cose cf defection
! was that of the two sonsof old 8bamyl,
gentleman from New York [Mr. j the Circassian, who, after being edu-
aden] on yesterday from hisjeated in the best Russian military
[Mr. Chittenden stood at tbe j school*, went over to the Turks last
desk while - peaking] al nouoced summer.
:e countrv that 1« afers, gimblera h od Gtiorge 8. Bangs, ex superiu-
xnd; bankrui'ts, the worst elements of , en dent of the railway n ail serviee,
b .cipty, favored the repeal of the re- j who died at Waohing on, Saturday,did
sumption law mare than any man in the country for
Is rhe gentleman already designating ] t h e improvement of the postal service,
the classes of society which laver or j a „d waa t fc e originator of the fait mail
opp: *5 this repeal, patting the rich on J train-, which proved so advantageous
" id j and the poor on tiie ( ther aidt? i to busmens men lost year. The best
notwhetner these charac’ers me n in the service now were selected
rut
t
ru. not 0
yield
hearth':
my bond; and therefore Fp.ak u
advot- -• or oppose repeal. 0;ie thing
I do^ aow, every millionaire, every
man 'who owns two or three hundred
thousand dollars in government secu-
ritiea*!? opposed to repeal snd advo
cates u system of hard and grim’tug
poverty for the debtor.
by Mr. Bangs, who was alwayb ex
tremely popular with the employes.
Mr. Bangs was an Ohio man, and be
gan ife as a compositor; wasappotntea
postmaster ot Aurora, Ui.,bv President
Lincoln, and in 1868 was appointed
assistant general superintendent of the
jpose the gentleman means by j railway ms*il service, and became head
“bauk-upt”a tnon Who,is unable to » * - » -
pay hA debts, which inability has been
brougfit about by this system of con
traction which he advocates. Still the
word of con»r«ctien guee on
lioua of “greenbacks” are beiug
retired and destroyed by the govern
ment monthly and the national backs
of that department on the death of Su
perintendent Armstrong, In 1869.
—A novel operation for consumption
was lately performed upon Archibald
OhaUerton, at Campbellton, New
Brunswick. H ; .s rigut lung waa soft
ened and broken down, with the ex
ception of a small portion at the top
Dr. B ilcom, of that town, thinking that
he probably could not recover, made a
deep incision in the young man’s chest
at the lower end of the shoulder blade,
and inserted a silver tube, through
which he drew out a large amount of
Tho cirium”ie almost fi:!ed up. I ma that! He “ f ' erward w “ hBd out the
are likewise retiring their circulation
by millions, in prep iralion for the pro
posed day of resumption. Still the
ruinous work must goon until 1879; and
false comforters assure us that “lig .t is
ahead,” that the margin between
greenbacks and gold is very small, itmt
.l • J ..l fi.uj ... ...1 .l.„.
U “rSn. ", !“ » with disinfectant*. The patient
all thee«^ingM will rijiht themaehes.^ i wni| ] mme< liatelv relieved,hia strength
. Yee ‘.ri” 10 * ltwaB Uufl| S 8 * l11 r,ght land appetite increased, snd ho was
themsehw. .. I soon able to leave his bed and walk
D^neJand harrksnA"e S P o“7h I Ui \ lrft >«“«. bei "«
deep. Signal-guns of distress are heard
Through the gloom. Ships are goi g
down by the hundreds, and thousands
of precious lives are being ingulfed.
In the ffiidst cf this ruin there stand
the “wreckers” (pointing to Mr. Chit
tenden, who was standing near) await
ing their prey and comforting them
selves wil-\ the words: “these things
will right themselves.”
Yes, fir;.I know that the morning
sun will rike brightly upon a calm pea.
Every wave shall have subsided. Tne
fragments shall have fl >ated off to some
neighboring shore and the dead wid
have been forgotten. Things have
righted themselves on that sea.
r OBRUKAJL.
Richardson, 4, with one district to hear
from. Crawford is dividt d, and Colonel
Troutman will undoubtedly be the
nominee for B'&te senator.
—In the eighth senatorial district
Isaac Bush, of Miller county, the pres
ent member, and D. A. Russell, of De
catur county, are candidates for the
senate, without nomination. Mr. Rus
sell makes opposition to railroad dis
crimination a strong point in hia can-
▼^e. Col. Oe, ol Mitchell, wa* also a
candidate a few days ago, but there are
rumors of his declension.
—Col. R. R Blacker, oi Clay county,
writing to the Early county News of
the race for representative, stfys:
“Several have apoken to me as being
the man for said position. As I neither
chew, smoke nor drink, mv expense in
When the assassin quitted the build- state, the land, a magnificent site, now
* worth $200 000, is offered free of charge
by tho city of Atlanta, and in addition
overtaken and arrested by his pare^ers,
who recognized the man as Alexander
B. Sayre.-, the wounded woman’s hus
band. When Mr Miller asked him the
reason for his terrible conduct, he mode
no reply, but began complaining of his
head, and walked quietly with him to
the station.
Meantime Mrs. Sayres was removed
to the basement of the church. The
blood from the wound stained the floor
as they carried her along, and she
seemed to be dying.. The ball, aq»uc-
usually large one, had entered tbeoack
over the left lung. The physicist*
probed for it, but was unable to find
the lodging place. Mrs. Sayres, rapid* *•
sinking, was then removed to the
those respects would not be anything. p euu8 yi vft nia hospital, and is not ex-
I hereby formally announce myself a pected to live through the night,
candidate, subject to the nominating Sayres is either temp wily de-
conventfon. Mv motto is not ‘the I ranged or pretends to be. No reason is
greatest good to the greatest number, j assigned for his murderous assault. I
support, assuring them that if noun- w jf e an( | two conspiracy to
nailed and elected, I will ever do my I rQ | n him. The event canaes great ex
beet to ment their approval and good citement and indignation.
wilL” 1
a capitol building which the legislature
-hall say is in every respect equal t«.
that at Milledgeville—in other words
hat the loss of the old capitol shall t e
mode good to the state in the building
of the new, though it will not necessar
ily prove a loss, for there are valuable
uses to which the state can put all the
government buildings at Mil edgevill*.
That* Atlanta will be faithful to that
pledge no one can rightfnlly donht
dree an impartial committee of the
la'e convention after a searching in
vestigation, has declared that ebehas
been even more than faithful to all hez
pledges in the past.
For these reasons and for other*
which wo omit from fear of wearying
•>ur readers, we have lelt it to be our
duty to the people of Georgia to pro
test against a change of the capital.
«nd bo loudly do those reasons appeal
to the common Reuse, interests aud
patriotism of oar fellow citizens of
every political faith, that we cannot for
a moment doubt the result when they
come to understand the true nature
and inevitable consequences of that
change.
are far Atlanta
TUB CAPITAL HUBS I'lON.
To Christian InterceMor* F »llt»w not.
I’ll have uo *pea«dug; I S have mv bond
At the close of the war, these Anier
icsn and European Bhylocks, as they
did in England, became clam >rous for
contraction! They c*red nothing fer
specie payments. This was a mere
pretense to accomplish their ultima
tum, contraction. 4 , ,
bpecie waa a mere “decoy to lead
the unsuspecting, productive classes
into their meshes. Their capital was
fixed, and they desired to convert it
into products of labor, and they must
first shrink the value of those products
to bankrupt ratea.
They have triumphed! The agita
tion of the question sent labor down,
sent real estate down. Then through
the'.r influence, come the demonetize
tion of silver, then the resumption law,
each with a view to contraction;aad as
the coils of the anaconda tightened a
wail went up throoghm' the
Land -a wail rivaling the wail that
went up throughout England, and
which is deec ibed as making the
blood run coid.”
The tailurea in business have been
innumerable; the lose from shrinkage
in values has been incalculable; the
suffering from reduced wages has ueeu
appalling.
Homes, comforts,and even tbe neces
sities of life, have passed forever from
once happy families. Hard and grind
ing poverty is pressing our citizens in
every section of the country; in every
avenue of trade and production. Rail
roads and hanks are being wound u»»
by receivers; saving institution* ai«j
disappears g; furnaces and factories are
suspended; mining property is a burden
to owners; merchants are being driven,
—It is $t)fange how crowded two
,i make the largest parlor
,y evening.
—“Call me pet names; somctiriig
tvpical o' sweet sounds,” he murmured,
and she said he was a gay lute.
— Hon John A. Bingham, being an
Ohio man and being personally ac>
qaainted wipr Mr. Hayes, will remain
it; Japan. V
—Our great wor governors are be
coming scaree : hut then we hsve a few
generals, colonels aud majors left.—San
Antonio Hersud.
—‘‘Does yotir wife play euchre?”
asked a gentleman of another the other
evening “li* but she’s h capital poker
laver,” replied * he other, meditatively
nr. nf hia
by the thousands, into voluntary
involuntary hankruptcj; employee* are
standing “all the day idle,” because no
man is able to hire them. The farmers
—the strength of the country, the pri
mary source of all wealth—uave been
reduced to the greatest straits. The
farmereof the south are not realiz ng
— .... . from the Bales of their cotton the cost
borne it through the crisis, just as tbe 0 j production. In many of the states
wild delirium of war was about to sub paying for labor and fertilizers aud
«;de into reason, just when oar indas- 01 |, er tX pense-, they find themselves
tries most needed help-just then ail inextricably in debt. Georgia, tur
•>ur * r.couragem-nts were withdrawn leading southern state in all tbe ele
and fi:ianc:al ruin ensued meota of agricultural and macufac.cr-
Like tbe poor maniac we read of who wealth, and whose citizms.in every
as wild with rage, tbe evil spirit was i^du^try and enterprise, are without a
. baked and its departure le:t him as aapt .rior decreased in taxable property
-one dead;” but fortunately there ^ jear $15 902.134 Tem ersee de
“power and goodness” at hand. He creM£ .d over $31,000,1)00; and these are
was commanded to arise,aud he sptaug t pe moat proepero s m their material
into life, health, and happiness: Alas ! industries of all the southern states,
a as! ahen onr industries were as “one ....
d<?od” there was no statesmanship with
c*paci*y to say. “arise.” There they
lay in their helpless exhaustion, and
their dying condition was seized upon
by interested parties to rob and despoil
them.
Sir, it seems to me we should learn
something from history, for history is
industries of their legitimate rewarois.; pbiioe iph teaching by example.
1 cnbmit that the financial legislation ' England, it is said, the years from
I .... . . J . _ - _ . . I
of tins country since 1870 has been the
result ot a deliberate cspirccy on the
mrt of the creditor class to rob, de
fraud and impoverish the debtor cl»83.
1 .-ubrnti that the act forcing refr.mp-
ron of specie payments ia 1879, by
contracting the circulation of lee*!
tender notes and the act oi 1873,
demonetizing the silver dollar, were as
unjust and wicked as the labor strikes
winch h*ve recently startled and
alarmed all ipvd citizens.
Tbe only difference was, the last was
illegal and violent; tbe other nought to
cover the outrage they i*er pet rated by
the forms :uid sanctions of law.
The only difference was, one was
1797 to 1815 were the most prosperous,
ludastriously and commercially, ever
known. Agriculture, commerce, and
manufactures had greatly augmented.
The landed proprietors were in efflu
ence. Wealth to an unheard-of extent
had been created among the farmers.
Exports, imports, and tonnage had
more than doubled since the war
began
These eighteen years of prosperity
were years of sttspenoion of specie pay
ments by the bank of England. There
was no ’abatement in this prosperity
until the monied nobility, led on by
Sir R bert Pee! .began to clamor for re
sumption. Then oil this prosperity of
jpeedily and justly suppressed; the | labor, this universal and unheard-of
other, paaepliM tn gv!d and pro acted i prosperity,ceasei.
bv political iuflaeuee, smiles ia its 1 As soon as contraction commenced
bloated security upon the wrecks of prices fell to a ruinous extent. Wages
fortune—the blasted hopes and the fi •*—**-** 1 * J: ‘ : J
Two ©o’."mt m*n iron Th unvville j
are stumpingSCU heraG rgia iu f*v>.r ( ^‘inkier *ir»e*»eS zalliertat. touetwd alth
of M:lW«*«l!e »• th. ipiul. Tl>“ ,, £2.,. rmr.«,«.
mikes ft mere than ever necessary for Wip ipso* of tore 5b*t, bo* like, oahmoi
the champions of tbe •or-of Urr*l«iS’^=t1
*u«h «fc«r pe«rly t.«h ay om
that “ radical icduences ar^ injecting « * ff >««r wa*a tuy ere t>re»x »p*
.... ■ , , ^ r » 1 - A^rl bee own *.tv Izbacs &; ibr giaa*
potitles into the nsbiUI Gtioxx Jcr ikcev
suffering poverty it has created.
The act demonetizing silver, in my
opinion, was the most deliberate and
inexcas-ble fraud upon labor known
n the legislative history of the world
The scheme ior demonetizing one cf
the metals throughout the western
world originated soon after the discov
ery ot gold in California and Anstralia
It’was supposed that the production of
gold wouid be enormous and the gov
ernment* ot the word were invoked to
prevent the anticipated dtclineia the
value of gdd by its demonetization.
Germany and Austria did in 1857 de
monetize gold. aaO ott.er nations wauld
have followed their icad bat for the re
distance ol France. It was changed in
1365 into a movement forth© demon©-
iiz^tivn of eilver. This movement wat-
likewise resisted bv France. Here I
mav remark, that France has at all
times managed her finances with an
Ability unrqaaled among the nations of
F.urope. H-r war with Germany in-
c < ased he 4 debt 2, J00,(XV 0 JO #«ides the
of two of hex finest provinces. She
£ eared to be wrecked. Germany,her
concuerci*, looked on exulting!}; be-
fisvjd ttos cripple*! for half * rwn-
:eli with the price of commodities, and
it is said -JhAt before the cloee of the
year 1916 panic, bankruptcy, riot,
’.loodshed, and starvation spread
through the laud.
The 1st of May, 1823, had been fixed
upon by law when the banka shoula
ref nme, and they contracted their cir
culation rapidly to meet the gold and
silver standard* of value. The resalt
was that from 1815 to 1823 more than
four fifths of the land-owners of Eng-
land lost their estates The number of
aud-owners w*s reduced from one hun
dred and sixty thousand to thirty thou
sand, aud, in the language of Wendell
Philip 3 , “bankruptcy, ti e very history
feefing for a Bump on the back of his
head.
—Twenty eight missionsriea recently
left Francisco for China to Chris
tianize the heathen. But San Fran
cisco hoodlums still stone the heathen
Chinee, and sometimes plant a bullet
in him when it will do the most good—
for the undertaker.
—Major General Jim B Slesdraan.
of Toledo, the “hero of Cnicamauga,
b nominated for president oi tbe Oaio
enate The general is the only man
n the Buckeye state who can give Oid
Bill Alien fifty points at a game ol
roar, and beat him every time.
—Give the man who wasn’t elected
half an hour to sit down and reflec
aud he will present tweuty-four logic-4
reasons why he was left out in tbe cold.
He will also assure you that this earth
un’t stand much longer.—Detroit
F ee Press.
—At the recent marriAge of the B‘.r»
on ess Wader&ee, a niece of the em
press r.f Austria, at tbe imperial palate
at Goedoelloe, among all the great la
dies who were present not one wore a
raio to her dress, and not one was to
jeseen w‘* <JM *»f* weir own hair
only but arranged in s,L. plainest fash
ion.
—K ; r-g Alfonso proposes to convoke
the Spanish cortes in January, in order
to ask for a subsidy, as be has not
money enough to g -t married on. His
bride has more than enough for both,
but his Castilian pride will not allow
him to approach her os an impecuni
is bridt groom.
—Wi'h the Kamenoi, or 6‘one thea
ter, at Si. Petersburg, which is one of
ibe lwgest in the world, seating 5,000
people, is connected a school tor the
oaliet girls, which furnishes not only
the empire but naif the court stages of
Eirope with well trained coryphee©.
The strictest discipline is maintained,
and as an instruction is bigun at an
curly age the result is a corps de ballet
without a superior iu the world.
—Twelve bridesmaids will attend the
ridge of the Duke of Norfolk, Lidy
Flora Hastings, to the altar at the
Broropton Oratory,on Wednesday next,
and *-acb uf these young ladies will be
presented with a bracelet. These orna
ments, composed of massive golo flexi
ble bands of arabe qne design, will be
richly studded wiih pearls witna crys
tal centre also set with pearls and bear
ing the bride’s monogram in diamonds,
surmounted by a docal coronet. The
bracele’sare so made that the centre
p ece ot each may be removed aad
worn as a pendant.
- The fortune of Mr. V uaderbilt.
generally estimated at $100.000 000
Men who ought to be well acquainted
with bis affairr sav'hat he could at any
time realize $75.000 000 under the
hammer. A pleasant feature of his al
ready very pleasant position is that by
lively sound, strong hopes are enter
tained o! a prolongation of his life for
many years^
POLITICAL.
— The Si. Louis Globe-Democrat
speaks of “the bill to make tea
spoors a legal tender.” This must
be Butler’s pet measure.—New York
Herald, iud.
—Good friends of the colored people
will not advise any of them to go to
Liberia, or any other foreign country.
They are to-day doing better than the
white lab >rers of the north, aud each
year their condition will improve.—
Memphis Avahncbe, dem.
—Jubal Eirly writes a long letter de
fending io'ter.es. This is the most
natural thing in the world. Who quar
rels with what he enjoys ? A southern
gentleman who did not admire games
of chance would be an anomaly.—New
York Commercial Advertiser, rep.
—We heartily declare that President
IL'-yts, of all meu of the times, stands
iorth as moat entitled to public respect
aud public gratitude, and we do not
believe that any turn in political aud
party matters can diminish fils stature
or lessen the hold that he has upon the
gratitude of the American people.—
Richmond Dispatch, dem.
—The democratic column is like a
granite rock in our politics, iu its firm-
uesH and invincibility. It is like the
drift in its power of increase, where
each tide adds something to be made a
cart of tbe maso. With each election
r. has some neiV strength. With each
election the republican party acquires
sr.me new weaknese. This is the posi
tive lesson - Nashville American, dem
—The house of representatives has
said, by a vote of five to one, that the
bonds shall be paid us the bonds them
selves B&V they shall be payable, aud as
the New York Tribune admits they are
payable. He who exacts more than
the bond exacts is a robber, and it may
as well be understood, since the east
hzs mentioned the subject in connec*
tion with the Alleghany line, that the
west and the souih are at last able to
stop one phase of eastern robbery, by
from the A-aencus Republican.
We have refrained up to this time
from having anything to say on the
—BnttaCoontv Argus: The Mil- espial qu.wti.m, preferring to leave
ledgev.l!emenin Pike county are be- th .® matter f. 0 *’™ 1 ? w,th the ^5*
S toTuw the whUe feather wnheut ree .itTg.Uonewa^perarUele*
-Bainbridge Democrat: If the capi- *«'convince them one way or the other
tfd is removed to Milledgeville it will There being nettner poliuct
be ebont the firrt time the intelligent P 1 .®, » nv ? lved m t!le ma!teP * . ..
people oi Georgia went, deliberated to *> lu “5 . f,r ^ voterloererc^Li,
tne ballot-boa, with a clear conscious- ow^.judement and vote lor the pl«:e
ness oi what they are doing, and voted H l ™
against their own beat interest. from u9 i 11 .*. . ti,e C 'J ™
-Bainbridge Democrat: A gentleman P?P<' r .h > ln ' llIP :' hlm ‘? v,,!e otherwise
favoring MU^daeville asked ns what |h*n the way hitseonwence wouMd.c-
we meant by Vquint-eyed prejudice?’ u «-. Bu ‘ ?
Here is a specimen ot the meaning, which we find m a late number of the
Ex-Attorney General Hammond’s argS- llawkmsvilkD.spaciaaraierc:
ment in favor of Atlanta, was mailed U8 10 ct ' an h’« oar m , ' d ’* ' d rr
to a Milledgeville man in this county. P.™?? 9 ? » 8 IV ? ° ,,r vl ® w8 „ for ( * e n ff “*
He would not take it from the office, U^at is m us why we favor Atlanta to
for the reason, that “he didn’t vnlto MjUfdgeviUe, w h.ch we hope will be
know anything about the Atlanta eide »*“<< »<*■'” «. onr friends of the Dm
of the question." And yet tnis man is P a,ch - “ weft ae to ahothere who are
a loud mouthed adv.cate of Mtlledge- ?"*:oas to know our views on the sub
Si atom the Gctoln the 1 «- Hawkinsville Dispatch says:
sfii2asa=«fts
Jraort noontn of Deoatnr county in favor We believe that tne people of bnmter
of MUhSfvIvUir the Mnilal The and Stewart counfiea will repudiate
coarVnousewaa herSly jrmrned. °“
visand OarteTmade vehemmt speeches by grvtng large ma, mf.os f<»V>Uedff>>-
in favor of their erde, but they were . v . llle - Your leaning to AtUntais not
ranlrart to hv thn Rev Mr fiiitmlv a I the popular sentiment of the people of
m°n&^a“unah. C^m Sn nter and Stewart, and yon ought to
I?
colored man in the hottee pledged him- Dispatch exhorts us to surrender onr
to vote f rr Atlanto. Dm is an l views with regard to a Beat of govern-
-- * ment, and join in th© hu© and cry for
Milledgeville. The only argument he
was not missionary ground on the cap*
ital question at least
flrmfv convinced* that Decatur'county I Miiieagevuie. toe omy rtiguimm un
for the change, is the gump
tion that the popular vj.ee of Sumter
rtn. «» 1 1 countv is opposed to us. It is not as
—Columbus Times: The capital quea- j guni i 0 ' R too much on our part to Bay
tion ia not, aud should not be, a party j our opportunities for information
one; but in as much as the advocates j tcticlritig the senlitnenis of the people
of MiltedgeviHe lay much stress upon of Sllmt “ crare qu ite as g .od ae those
the fact that the removal to Atlanta I enmve d by oar contemporary, if not a
was effected by the radica'3, it is bui I litike b-t tt^r. We have resided among
josi to call stteutiouto the fact thai j au( j iaiercouxse with our
‘he most wiist’.nguished democratic pij0 pi e f or a qaarter of a can! ury. and,
leaders in tut i;ate are tor continuing ^ . at least, we h ive seldom
♦‘■*5 seat of government at Atlanta, f he ,, e0n mi ^ taken in oar judgment of their
...o United Htstes senst-re, Hill and I ; pinionBan d wants. We think we un
Gordon, are for Ailauta, anti tbe two d £ reUn( i :heTn to-day, ir.d that if our
old democratic leaders, Loombs and | orotber w m on ly bi o .;mn r enough to
8tepheus, have publicly declared them I wait {or lhH 6 - h o( n ibpr to tell it©
selves on the same tide. The letter I, tory he may have reason to qu. '
of Mr. Stephens will ^ the Accuracy of ‘ ’
found elsewhere in this pa- replM ii nK them.
1 a * But, as we before intimated, we have
DAS CIS O TUR TOO-LfLOO.
Cleveland Leader.
Atlanta, Ga., November 5.—Oolnjf past a vard
ear tbe ouiakirtn I had the rare ctuuice to mv<
itce of the rutertAiameuta of the aouthern dark*.
There mu«jt have been tliirty couples singing and
dancing the Too-la-loo,” f.-rmln:; five circle*.
Thi» play la an African origin. The leader aang
the iaong while the rvet joined the monotonon* r e .
f ain after each hue. accompanied with clapping of
hand*. In the bright moonlight a duflky bell
raitTiod around within a circle that waa dancing
»the tune of
Lady In the garden,
Too-la-loo!
Lady in the garden,
Tt*o-la-loo!
Ladv m tho garden,
Too-la-loo!
Then she made another motion In her dance of
omc kind which if* »uug aa
Berry nice tnot 'on.
Too-la-loo l
Ohl <tat’»* a nice little i
Too-la-loo!
Nice little lover,
Too-la-loo!
Iland.-ome lover.
She then eclecta her lover and the tong in the
dance goes on:
Klssjronr lover,
Too-la-loo!
Dat a berry sweot lover.
Too la-loo I
Kiss your lover 1
Too-la-loo!
Ohl I love too-la-loo!
Obeying this hint, the ebony hue* glnod their
lips together, the girl retiree as part of the circle,
leaves her “nice little lover" In tha oentre to dance
Gentleman motion.
Oht I love too la-loo I
e those blacks gyrating around in th*
tild and weird in the moonlight, has sn In-
uu s stranger akin to awe.
DOWN MM niXIR.
law, and tnat the Journal of Civiliza
tion has indicated the ability of ihe
west and the south to maintain the
law on any field to which the east
chooses to appeal.—Cincinnati Ea
quirer, dem.
—Ha* it come to this 1 The presi
dent who proclaimed that country is
higher than party (“He serves hLs par tv
best who serve* his country best!’)
hastens to explain to the senators
* horn his lolty aims have disgusted,
.hat he is only working, as they work,
for effect, and for the benefit of a polit
ical party Perhaps the public hod uo
right to expect anything more ♦ ban
this, but they did expect it. Their dis-
spp iiiamem wiii be the sharper, when
t rey read that Mr. Hayes ib confessedly
•* “working politician,"differing only in
_iis methods from Conklingand Blaine,
and has assured his political friends
that, if they will forgive him, he will
sin, against party, no more.—Charles
ton News and Courier, l*m.
Texas alone excepted. It is much worse
among the productive classes iu the
west and in the norih. The shrinkage
there has been greater and the ©offer
ing more intense. For while the south
is not accumulating, and cannot until
contraction is arrested or until
touches ite lowest depths, yet there
no one etarving there as in the north.
There ore no riots there; tnere are uo
atrike© there;every man,white or bLck
can, if he wid,have “food and raiment;’
but there is financial distress there^md
as in the north and west, this distre*^
must continue while contraction of the
currency continues. Why all this dis
tress? Why all this forced poverty °
Simply to enrich the few.
It is said by the frienc
tion that tbe panic of lS73c^ne^oe.ori . gl?are 5 n ,. how ffinch he to worth at any
the resnmp'JOU ectpusaeU, bat these lDomenlo f -be day with greeter prede-
^ >onth«. mist men can, though they
of which makes tne blood co d to-day, I
bjgh ed the empire.”
Why all this sufferinc? Why all
these tears? Why all this d?so-
l*tiou? It was brought about by
m a n who had determined to drive
paper money from circulation, hod de-
ermiued to bring down prices and
wages, and had especially determ ned
o bring all the real estate of the king
dom within their possession. They
during the forty-
an act was.
1 the United Sates
also eo pledges solemnly its
faith to moke provisions at the earliest
practical period for the resumption of
the Unit^i States notes in com,’ and
also all other obligations of the United
States except where it is expressly pro
vided to be paid in lawmi money or
other currency.
Here was an assurance of speedy re
sumption which destroyed confidence
in the paper money of the country,and
the contraction which had been goieg
on since 1865, now went on more rapid
ly until oil confidence was lo6t in the
panic of 1873. Here was a repudiation
by the government of its own lawful
money; and can we be surprised that
all men discredited that money ?
Confidence! We hear continually
about tire restoration of confidence
Confidence in a ship while the fecattlere
are at work to Bend it to the bottom I
Confidercs is a “promise to pay,"
while the sappers and minera ore
— A pet bear killed a negro child at
Clat ksville, Texas.
—Memphis is rapidly funding her
debt at sixty cents on the dollar.
—Two hundred and fifty passerg^ra
occupied the train which left Jackson
ville, Fla., on Friday uighL
- Virginia’s first biennial legislature
under the new constitution will be the
legislature of *79 ’80.
—Charlotte, N. O , received last week
her first Loudan telegram, and that con
tained but one word.
Richmond Whig: If there have
been two repudiattonis’a elected to the
legislature we do not know who they
are.
—Among those who made speeches
at the tiourii Carolina fair lost week
was Mr. Kimball, of the Winnebago,
III., fair.
The Picayune thinks Lawrence’s
nomination as collector of the port of
New Otiezna means that Warmouth
has taken the president from the re
turning board.
—Charlotte, N. C, Observer: Mad
ame Few-clothes* B'ondes, who were
here lately, gave such a naughty show
opera t
card in the papers Saying iu effect that
he didn’t know it was loaded.
—CapL Pratt,with a f orce of Indians,
has been searching the Seminole
mounds near Sn Augustine, and pro*
cured about two bushels of skulls and
bones, together with some ten stone
haichets,sharpened and shaped; one
flint errow head, atd a varied selection
of pieces of p jttery,8ome quite unique,
were dug up.
—The mie election in Virginia was a
—Mr. T. A. Little is a candidate for
representative in Franklin county.
—Oapt. J. H. Grant and Major S. W.
Crawford are running the race in Hab
ersham.
—Captain Ben. T. Collier has been
nominated for the lower house in
Worth county.
Judge J. D. Hammock, ol Talk©*
ferro county, is the nominee for the
senate.
Hon. W. R. McCiatchey declines
legislative honors as the representative
ot Cobb.
Hou. E W. Miller, of Marion, de
nies that he is going to withdraw from
tne senatorial race in the 24th.
—Dr. J.P. Turner, of Thomas county,
whs nominated Friday for the senate
Irom the seventh district.
—Capt. R H. Birren has baen nom
inated for represen tauve m Jones
county, and CoL A. 8. Hamilton for
senator.
—Judge H. H. Perry, of Burke
c maty, late of the constitutional con
vention, is the senatorial nominee iu
the seventeenth district.
—At Hampton the result of the pri
mary was ihe nomination of Senator
Bryan for re-election and of W. T
torse but Btrong presentation of, the ,o learn that it is tUeduty of a pub
many arguments in favor of At'anta. I ; a urnalisl tosurrandar hia right oi
He presented them briefly and witliou; j Impendent thought, and become the
argument, but his tarns are so plain mer “ moa tUpicce of the opinions and
and so weighty that thinking men can caprices Q i others We bavo a higher,
not fail to tee that they make out a | ^Qc^ption of onr mission as the con-
very strong case. We believe that the ,, uc o f 0 f a public prees. Oar first
rep irt of the committee of the con ven- M we CO nc*ive, is to form correct
tion Bliowir^ irrefutably that Atlanta I O pi n i,>ns 0 f our own from a carefnPeur-
has fulfilled her previous engagement * of aU qae8t ions of public concern,
with the state, and General Toombs I an j t b en with whatever ability we may
letter published yesteiday, must have commft „d f geek to impress the truth
much effect on public opinion. I U p 0n minds of the people
—Bainbridge Democrat: When you I There our duty as a journalist ends,
are told th t Atlanta will not keep her I an d Q nr duty an a good citizen, to re-
promise in regard to the build.ng a 1 8 . K c t the public will, begins,
capitol for the state; remember that j Such is the spirit that has animated
she has never yet brokeu a promise. I us in the matter of the slate capital
When you are toid that Atlanta is 1 We have seen a'wild scheme of mad
too poor to build a capitol for the a;ate; I neBil| and folly, and reckless was*© of
remember that her credit is bet er than I the public money and sacrifice of the
that of any other city in the south, and I public convenience sought to be im-
her taxation lighter. I posed on the people of Georgia as
When you are told that it cost more | 80 und policy; and, so regarding it, we
to run the government in Atlanta that | u ave f e lr it hi be our duty to enter our
it did in Milledgeville; remember then I goiemn protest against it. The propo
the heaviest items ol these expense^ I a itiou to remove the capital ia one
were the paying of debts contracted in I fraught with evils of the greatest mag
Millfcd.evtUe. I nitude, and is redeemed by not on;
When you are told that the state I solitary compensating feature. Wear©
wds no capitol building in Allauts; I onp^s-d to it from considerations of
remember that the so-called opera I expediency, economy, and stale pride,
hou^e belong* absolutely to tho state as expect to bo to ti e end And that
long SB the capital there remains. opposition is based on grounds that. _ lu „ „^»„ u „
When you are told that lbs capitol are entirely satisfactory to ourselves, triumph for the bar-room ••bell-
building in Atlanta is unsafe; remem- aa d will be to the people of Georgia h .. Not an aoti register man, as
ber that during the session oi the con-1 w hen they come properly tounder- r.... h .«rd fanm
stitutionai convention, it was literally I tt tand and consider them. Most of i
packed and jammed with people time I them have already been given iu these
after time, and the bnilding did not I C9 iumua, bnt as the truth cannot be-
totier, did not fall, nor waa any one ap I r ©iterated too often, we reproduce a
prehensive of such a result. I few of the many, which we think ought
When you are told that this building ^ Be ttie the qu stiou beyond tbe hope
ia not fit to be the capitol of the state; I Q f resurrection.
remember, that it is large, commodious, I i u t he fi st p ace, Atlanta is a more
and in every way suited to accomodate I su itablH place f jr the capital than Alil-
fhe government, with all its offices and | ledgeville. It is more convenient and
departments. . I «cceesible to the great b A1 of the pto
When vou are told a new capitol will I pi e< ^ a better climate as regards both
cost $1,000,000; remember toat there I q^iih and comfort, better accommoda-
are but on© or two capital buildings in I t j on8 f or legislators and visitors than a
the United S’-ates that cost anytning BQ]a u town can possibly provide, while
near that amount; while it is safe to say, 1 tue co ,,t or living ia as moderate as can
with tiie present low price of iabor and 1 ^ j n the state. The public prop
building materiali!, $100,000 would give I and tecorda, to*j, have ample pro-
ir. new capitol in every way ample for | tection against fire, which th?y woulfl
r wants. I not have in a smaller town. Having
Wnen you are told that Atlanta I papers, the people are more
exercises an evil influence on legisla-1 promptiy and accurately informed oi
tion, remember that the administration J . aiyi doings of their repreoenta-
of the government was far more ex- I ti ve8#
travagant in Milledgeville, as we shall I 2 Atlanta is now the capital. How
fully show next week from the record. I came to b ' so, may be a question f *r
When yon are told it will coat noth- I 8 peculation, but it cannot legitimately
ing to move back to. Milledgeville, re-1 eQ ter into the question of present poli-
member that it will co6t nearly one I cy# The state has invented half a mil-
million of dollars directly and indirect* I jjon dollars there in buddings for the
ljr. For proof oi this we refer to 1 accommodation of the g *vernment.
Judge Reese’s letter on the first page of I These are ample, comfortable, and
this paper. I more costly and elegant than any here-
When yon hear a man traducing I tofore provided by the state. Ail the
tUnia onrl A'tanf«’fi neoflfi. and I rJ oAvi-mnipnl imn liarmo*
, U.nli iOn IU4U UJ«l lUCU WU, lUUUgU UiO.i DIVBU ID* IC SiCVUD** ““
-brstcongrerstiu March, bave muc q leps to figure out.—Apple j D*cken for representative.
s pa8 ^fy ni jJ jd eifc ton’s Rillway Gazette. __j n Thomas county the demccrats
have nominate! U>n. WulM. Ham
moving the foundation* of value upon
which that promise is male!
Tne following extract irom ihe report
of the “silver commission" snould be
remembered :
“It 16 maintained by many that ex
isting evils are the results oi a too© and
lack of confid&iice and that the salficient
remedy wouid be found in its restcra
tion. Oa aU occasions they portrayed in
—Kate ClKXton, the actress, who has
been tried by fire, and who will play
here next week, had three beautiful
dresses made whiie she was at New
Orleans Oue waa a graceful white
daiiu DrinceB©**; another a fawn colored
sann of the iig jr»l shade and the other
a peach blo^s^m ©ilk trimmed with ecru
lace hud also an elegant white satin
gtbrie le covered with silk tissue and
trimmed with Hpanish b'.onde lace.
S io wenrs them in her character os
Frou Frou.”
—The announcement that the Mar
quis of Lome is about to be raised to
me peerage, when be will vacate hit
seat in parliament as member for
Argyllshire, calls attention to the fact
that the Princess Liaise is married to a
commoner. The title of marquis is
borne by her husbasd only as a title
of courtesy in his quality as eldest son
and heir of the Duke cf Argyll. le
gally he is simply Sir John DjugUs
Sutherland Campbell, a fcnight u! the
thistle, with the style of rig at honora
ble in virtue of his position os a privy
councillor.
—That is a curious custom which it
seems exists in Washington whereby a
new president is moved, when he first
signs a j iai resolution of congrets, to
present tbe pen with which he signs it
to the member of congress who brings
the reeo’a ion before h jn- Thanks to
this custom, R -preventative Rainey, of
Atlanta, and A'lanta’s people, and I machinery of government is in harmo-
talkirg about $2 000,000 capitols, and 1 n iousand ouccefcaful operation. There
crying out “radical” to aU who do not J j 8j therefore, no motive for a chauge.
go with him, ie mem ber that such men j Tne fact that Bullock and his robber
know nothing about the question, and | of aliens and negroes once rioted
bray eo loud to hide their leather-1 au d ru led there under the protection
headed ignorance. I of ftderal bayoneis, is no more
I to the discredit of Atlanta
T BAG BUY am a vuuBCH. | the brutal munler of tipann’s in
A w.m— stain b, Her Ha.b«ud- I valid wife is justly chargeable to the
far a* heard from, was a y where elected
to the If gislature, and Dr. Moffett, the
inventor of the “bell |fhnch,” was re
turned almost unanimonalv from his
district as an evidence of tne popular
approval of his invention.
—They are trying the benefit* of the
Hardee concussion theory in Jackson
ville, Fta., and the Sun and Press of
Saturday ©ays: “The concussion will
probably commence again to-morrow
night, and Colonel Hiraee advisee the
people to open their windows in order
to obtain tbe full effect of the discharges.
Heavy guns are exp cted from St
A ugustineand Ferntndina to-morrow.”
—The account of a few sporadic
see of yellow fever in Jacksonville
has had an alarming effect upon the
uuacchmated citizen* of that pi ace,and
they are seeking other places where
there are no traces or signs of the dis
rate. Thomobvilie has opened her
arms aud ah the cities of southern
Georgia, including Savannah, will give
welcjme to those whose fears ffears
that we hope mav prove groundless)
impel them to leave Jacksonville.
—The following are the latest reliable
facts of the situation a! Jacksonville,
published in the 6a urd«y evening edi
tion of the Sun and Prees: “Since the
evening edition of tbe ban and Press,
yebteroay, there have been no devel
opments to change what was stated
tner Mfa uoinK oat wit!* Use I good people oi Webster county, or the
ibe Brnedietlo** I Vaxx> fraud to the town of Louifcrilie.
__ Prila delpuia. Nov. 18 —A tragedy I U is tro contemptible an argument to
motd and Dr. D. U. Wiimot for repre- j without a parafiei in the history of this require further notice, and illustrates
sentatives. | or any other city’s crime was enacted I the deBperate shifts to which the aavo
-MeKtra Davis. Miller and Sikes, in the Lombard street Protestant EpL- I cates ol removal are driven.
WslSare, c.p&l chuich to day. The corgrsgatjon 3 While it will cost the state abso
.to haflMSembled. and the pastor had be- lately nothing to allow Atlanta to re-
the
Whi— —_
nominees in Houston county.
—The Hinesville convention, in Lib
erty county, was harmonious, and Hon.
John H. Clifton nominated unani
mously.
—The democratic executive commit*
tee of Colquitt county have resolved
that it is inexpedient to make a nomi
nation for representative this year.
—Hon. C. W. DaBjee, late member
of the con. con., was nominated for the
senate in the 20th district, which in
cludes “the halls of onr fathers.”
—Hon. J. J. Hamilton was nomina
ted as a candidate to represent the
fourteenth senatorial district,composed
of the counties of Pulaski, Dx»lv, Wil
cox ana Dxlge, in the next senate.
—Tbe candidates far representative
in Haralson county are Hon. W. Brock,
Rev. C. Taliaferro and Mr. J. W. Tom
linson, either of whom would make a
good member.
—Tne colored people of McIntosh
county have nominated Amos Rogers,
colored, for representative. The/ have
also decided to vote for Aie*. Bailey for
tfie state senate.
- glowing phrase the abounding proeper-
maznpned. lo-aay tne immense for-, ltv whjen would follow if moneyed a^d guwui, »’imniHwura ,»*.•« . ... . ~ - „*•„ r-
tunee of the English lords and the vos- 0 &er capitalists would freely exhibit H^uth Carolina is to-day tbe pr ssesaor -Houston in the senatorial nomroa- can, George Miller—ha
aalage of tbe English peasantry are at- by inaugurating indrjsirla I of a gold pen (not, gnraly. Mr. Joirn tion will probably stand • Troutman.. 9 ni mica to follow bun.
gan the sermon, when a man o! gen- J main tho caprai, it h-s beem proved
teel appearance, but with a wild, un I by figures which no man has dared to
certain eve, entered the church and ©at I dispute, that a removal to Milledze-
in one of the rear pews. The inierrop ville cannot be effected without an ab-
• ion wh.ch his entrance caused waa but solute loss to tbe state of over a half
slight, and before the sermon was con* million of do'lars. Judge Reese,
eluded his presence was forgotten, of Wilkes, as honest a man
When the benediction was about to be as is to be found in the public councils
pr .retraced, however, be jumped to I and in no wise personally raterested-
Ls feet and walked to a p »w directly except ia common with every tax,
behind the one occapitd by Mrs. payer in the state, fixes the amount at
Elizabeth 8ayree. He hesitated for a $779,000, the items being losses on’the
moment before entering, bnt finally present capital building, whicn if Cold
went in and oesnmed a reverential air J would not only more than pay the
nntilthe blessing woo cancluded. I lien which Atlanta has upon it; on 1 tii^
N > sooner had the lost words of the I execitive mansion,which cost $100,1000,
minister died away than the stranger ana would not sell lor more than 350,-
qmckly drew a derringer pistol from 000; on the magnificent park and new
bis pocket, and, taking deliberate aim, j capital tendered by Atlanta; on the
shot Mrs. Sayres in the back There actual cost ot removing the government
were screams of alarm from tbe women I property to MiUeigeville. The judge,
in the church, and the men, as soon as I by the way, overlooks the cost ot addi-
thev could recover from the paralysis I tious aud repairs to the old capitol at
which seemed to be opon them, rushed Milledgeville in order to adapt it to the
to where the lady had fallen. The man | present wonts of the government,wh ; ch
who bad fired stood still for a moment cannot be less than $75,000 to $109,000
and looked npoq his work, and then 1 more.
coolly returned the weapon to bis I 4. While the accommcd itions at At*
pocket and walked rapidly oat of the l&nta are both ample and c mvenien%
bnilding. Only one gentleman—adea- j should the people of Georgia at a future
can, George Mfiler—nod the presence ’ day d sire a capitol building more wor
thy of tbe dignity and greatness of their
tnerein, except the death, last night, of
Mr. Burgess. The reports from the
physicians are very encouraging, and
are ©uch as to lead to tbe belief that
there will not only be no epidemic ot
yeliow fever in onr city, bat that it ia
more than probable that there will be
no more fatal terminations ol present
coses. It may safely be stated that
ihet e are not more than six coses at the
outnide in the city, and these are all
oetter, and confined to the western
portion of town. Oae p . ysician places
the number as low as three. A Sun
and Press reporter conversed last night
with Dr. Daniels, president of the Duval
Medical society. The doctor said he
was happy to elite that the outlook was
moat favorable. There was a great im
provement In the nealth of the city. *1
hare,’ said be, ‘had more time to-day
to smoke my pipe, and take rest, than
for any day during the lost two weeks.
It is my opinion, baaed
>n my own observation and
tbe reports of other physicians, that
there are not over six cases of yellow
fever in the cilyiand these are all doing
a ell. Uulees w© should have on unnau
ally long period of warm weather there
need be no fear of the disease spread
ing. The city is to-night in a better
condition as regards health than two
weeks since. Dr. Fernandez, upon
beiug informed of Dr. Daniels’ state
ment, said he fully indorsed it. He had
no cases in the c.ty. Dr. Mitchell dtd
uot believe that there were over three
caaes in the city. He thought Mr.
Daniel, in making his estimate of the
number of cases, n&d included two or
three for him, bat he had not a single
yellow fever patient. Dr. Knight has
no yellow fever patients, ’No yellow
patients,* said Dr. WqkefleldlastnigQU
Dr. Sebal staled tfizt he had no new
cases of yellow fever under treatment.
The situation* mid he, is in every re^
sn«5tfsvorsh , ^^. , *