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Wednesday Morning vMat 511, 1871.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC
RAILROAD.
An Old Lette r from lion. Alexander II.!
Stcplicns.—State Road—A Party dues- ;
tlon—William W. Gordon—Speaking i
Talent of tbe House—Little Incident— |
Insignificant Sam—Jenlxins—The Re
bate—A Source of Profit to tbe State—l
HXNPlSTtMCT PRINT!
-WORE VBOl TTHE J IGHT AT
ST. VI C \ STINE.
How It Palled to Mi:ki sr Blg Case IbrHte
Congressional Kn.Kint BlnPR^M
Water Melons ant) Cotton BIomouis.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1871.
« - ^ ^ | Jus M lfPt year. Twenty years t.tis he there.— laded to In tii^ncwsmpei* of Uied&y; but thepre
Important Day In Georgia's Hl«t<nry—J TO© firrtee^lonhe spoke but^ldom, but his worth | TaOlng idea then was to connect
The Proposition to Sell.
j and good sense it ere well known very’-earty after his j
entrance on that theatre, whore he subsequently are \
qulrotTsueh a lasting reputation fr.d renown.
But - —
newspaper publications, and will, therefore, be-
and interesting to most of .onr jeaders. The first o f
tho series is published below, and the other tviU; fol.
low to-morrow. It is a most {bteresiing series, and,
we are satisfied, will bo appreciated by the readers of
the Stx:
Railroad better. .Vnmiier One.
Cb4WT0k»-vhxe, Ga., March!;), 1837.
DrjtnSjB:—Your esteemed favor of the- 7th In
stant was not received until last night. 1 lia<l been
absent from home for several days. This will ac
count to yon for the dolny of my answer. I now
chocrfully comply with your request,.to givo you
mtch information as I can touching the origin end
construction of onr great-*"
STATE HAILUO.\tV
and the prominent actors connected with It. 1 en
tered the Legislature for the first time in 1836, as a
member of tno House from this county. That was
the session the first movement was made to tbe con
struction of tho State railroad. 1 was amongst its
most zealous advocates. It in difflelut at this time to
conceive tho objections then raised against it. Al
most as difficult ns for the enlightened men of this
day and generation to conceive of the nature and
extent of the 6batsclcs and Impediments that lav in
the way of, and environed tho path of all tho great
improvements which have marked the progress of
civilization for tho last t£ v.-o hundred years. It
was a new enterprise. It required a. great outlay of
money. It looked to the creation of a State debt of
frightfulTOJignitudo In tho eyes of many of our old
est and most'*faithful public men, reared in the
school of rigid economy. It was not
a party* question,
nor did men divide on it with any reference to Abe
then existing parties. Some of the alllest champi
ons of this work were Democrats. Amongst them
in tho Ilousb (and what I shall say will be confinod
mostly to tliat body) was
WILLIAM W. GORDON, OF CHATHAM.
Ho was emphatically the leader of tho measure.
Ho had been In the Legislature for several years,and
had acquired considerable reputation as a man of
ability and influonce. My -views and position on
this qnoslion brought mo very soon in free, full and
frequont communication with him. Ho warm man
of high order of mind naturally; thoroughly edu
cated at West Point, I think, though ho did not go
into tho army. Ho was a lawyer in Savanna h. Few
mon in Georgia at that time were bis superiors in
intelligence or intellectual .attainments. Besides
this, ho was a man of untiring industry and energy.
His whole soul was in this work. It was from my
recollection of tho scenes of that session and thSpart
he acted in themjs well as tho Beenes of .subsequent
session)), when ll*> road, after being commenced,
was threatened with abandonnicnt,tliatI urged upon
, come friends, n few years ago, tie.propriety of nam
ing a county after him, and erecting a monument to
his memory. Tho suggestion was carried out. Thi»
much I have thought duo to him that I should say
to you. Ho-aLi),o-..,k>~.i i.;-n
of his party, thqn in the majority, but none of his
associates oi promincnco in tho Housq. bactcd him,
unless I except Crane, of Lnmpkin. I.am not cer
tain whether Henry G. Lamar was in this session or
not. It is strange that 1 do not, and I • have not the
journals to refer to, but if lie was, 1 know ho was an
rctivo and able supporter of the measure. He was
amongst tho ablest tupportsis whenever he was'
there; this I know. Crane’s given name I do not
recollect. Ho had a respectable position as a debat
ing member, and was a warm advocate uf tho road.
The most ot •
THE SPEAKING TALENT OF TBE BOUSE
that sos6lon was on tho side of the opposition,
known at that day as States Rights Men. Among
thorn, first and foremost, may bo mentioned Charles
J. Jenkins. After him may bo named Andrew J.
Miller, Samuel W. Flournoy (now of tbe Columbus
Enquirer), James A. Meriwether, Edward Y. Hill,
Iverson L. Harris. William 11. Pryor, Isaac N. Davis
(then of Elbert county, now of Miss.], and some oth
ers. Theso divided on tho question. Jenkins,
Miller, Hill and Harris advocated tho road; Davis,
Mcrlwother, Pryor and Flournoy opposed it; tho lat
ter in one of tho moat humorous os well as, taken
all la nil, one of
THE MOST EXTB.lOEUINAllT SPEECHES
► JSNEDta
had been there before. He understood the rules
weS. He was at ease and perfectly at home. No
in an could equal him in debate. He was fluent, etc-
--ant and graceful. His manners were polished, his
Borne tlmo ago a biographical Bkctch of Hon. Ab
salom Harris Chappell, written by tlr- ;x>litical editor
of the Bits, was jfiiblbjlud in this paper, in which
prominent mention was made of that eminent gen
tieman, as ono to whom is matfrly due tho suggestion
of that great work of internal Improvement—the
Western k Atlantic Railroad. This publication liar,
suggested tho reproduction of some letters written
by Hon. A. H. Stephens to Prof. Williams Rutherford
of Athena, as long ago as ISSyfln which an important
contribution to tho history of that greet euterpriso _ .
language choice andWelect, Whatever wtt he exhib
ited was of the Attic order. His temper was com
pletely subject to his control. He was nevtrr thrown
off hia guard—alwaya cool, collected, and self-poised
—and I have often thought I never raw a better bal
anc'd man in every respect than he is. At that
time he was comparatively young, and yet I have
noticed but little change in him - since. He took n
large and comprehensive view of the subject, and
because'be was at tho head of the committee who re
ported, it and had It Specially in charge. besidoG, as
the Democratic party was in the majority,‘it was ac
cording: to parliamentary usage add custom, that the
heads or chairmen of alt important committees
sJionVPbc jef then: party. Tho measure, therefore,
m thfR sense was his. Ho reported it, and was re-
CtUaT.KKXON.WITH CISCESXATI.-
For this purpose a railroad convention was called
at Ashvllle, North Carolina. The thee that conven
tion was called, or rather when ft met, I do not recol
lect But one with the earn© object was called at
Knoxville, Tennessee, which held its session on tho
4th day of July, 1886. To this convention a delega
tion was sent from Georgia—whether altogether by
voluntary associations of the people m different pla
ces, oV by the railroad companies wen Chart*reft by
the State, I cannot now state- The report of the pro- [ for Ncw’YofJ’ut th- 1 north.
to their agreement or disagreement wnh the action
of the House. (m the ono side, it was said by some ■
cf tho most heated of the minority party that it was
tho most iouu .hu3 bill ever passed by the House,
not excepting th<*Yazzo fraud; that if the Senate
passed it, ami it became a law, the people would rise
up and burn It with fire drawn down from heaven.—
On the other side, iUwas boasted of as the greatest
enterprise of the age ; that the memories of those
~who projected it and carried it through would be as
■honored in the history of the State as the memory of
for a law to abolish the retail of ardent spirits in the
State.
He made a great stir amongst the people. Ho got
thousands upon thousands, exactly how many.1 do .. ,
not now recolleetito sign his petition, ■ffmo'ngst attliW posl
The gentleman fa this city who i . reive 1 thk ; <ii>-
\ patches which wo published yesterday 'morning. baa
received a letter from-Ufs friend in juake City, giving
; further information about tht mailer, from which wo
are permitted to Aake the following oxtrsrt. Tho
■ letter Is datod'Lakc City, the 28th,-»ud ftO$:
‘•Yesterday 1 sent*you r. dispatch abuut a fight at
i St. Augustine. I gave tlte new as reliable, for.l.re- -
: reived it IrOfu the dfik-er, j; leefitenttit,
others. Dougherty eithor sighed it, or was supposed
to have signed it. He was a candidate for tbe Legis
lature tliat year, as he Iiad been for several years be
fore, and had, I believe, never* been beaten. •’ But it
was - >i, -
a wise keoe oy Airen r.
ceedlngs of the Knoxville convention produced a
v6ry favorable impression upon the minds of otuf
people. Still Cincinnati was the point look' a to as
thtf trens-mottatain terminus. Governor Schlev, in
his message of 1836, brouf.-lik the subject prominent
ly to the notice of the legislature, and. urged the mat-
ter a.: onp tfortby of-thoir Consideration. He was a
warm advocate of the measure. Tbe legislature in
•: Jnted lichee j Brisbane, of 3qnth Carolina, to
that office, who had. up td the time of the, meeting
"i tli n lcyisl.itnre, i u Nw.-mb-v, 181)6, mad*- only par
tial soconnq usances fo? thp localities. »fhe appelni-
sponatWe for its conduct through thq House. But j metitwas made too late for accurate Surveys"witli
as I have said A?'fore, he was not only godfather of it • epets and cstimat to-be aibiuitteu, liy tbe meeting
in thisEenne, bnt one of the master spirits of tho-|ror the legislature; Mcaufimq, too, a
day who originated it*’Jcukluc was equally enthu- ‘ —
slastic with him. Those two, perhaps, were the: •" » uailuo-uj coxvEKriox
most prominent men in the’ Houso who threw. all j was called In this State, in Macon, which assembled
their energy into it. And It would, perhaps, be un- 1 in that city the same day that the legislature met in
Just to one-to say that the other wan more eflleient \ MilledgevUlc. The object ot that convention was to
In effecting its passage. .They occupied oppoaite : colleot information, and concentrate public opinion
sides of the House—Gordon was the leader of jtho upon the most feasible route for a connection of the
had had some parliamentary experience—as men!- 1 tiori was a.large one. It had delegates from all sec-
bers of the samo.body. Gordon was several years tions of the State, anit had amongst its members scy
the elder, 1 should suppose. But the most striking ! oral of the ablest men In Georgia. It was excluslve-
diffcrence between them was in their speaking or or- J ly.n Georgia concern, I think. Its labors closed with
atory. Jenkins was classic, Ornate anil^iffu-e, Otce-! nothing more pointed or practical. Hian mating a
ronlan. Gordon uas terse, pointed, clear, short and j strong, urgent, and able appeal or address to the icg-
omphetic. His manner waa.vofy much like Mr. Cal- j Ielatnre then in-session to uudertalce the work. Tide
l .oun’s. f Itaw heard: them -both oft. n. Their gc-s-. memo; ;al was presented tc the House by Mr. Gordon ;
ticnlationa were very much alike—and thoir powers j and In nothing, perportiug to give a history of the
of concentration were very much alike, also. Mr. | Stete Rond, ought the important bearing of the action
Calhoun could say more In axivtu timo than any I ofthat convention to be overlooked or omitted. 1
man 1 ever heard, except it WW3 Mr. Gordon. He j have note copy of tho memorial, but it was ordered
made no regular speech on this bill, bnt he*was en- [ to be printed, and yon may, perhaps, be able to geta
gaged frequently in sSirmibhes, * answering oBjeo- copy. It was written wit'igreat ability, aud was not
tions in the midst of the spccchc of others, or an- frlthont-its inllncnce on tho mind of members of the
swering questions put to him by objectors. On
these answers ho was always signally triumphant.
Mr. Jenkins, however, made an elaborate speech on
this subject. I can give you no idea of it at this la.to
day. It was argumentative In a great degree; Jmt in
some parts Mr indulged in passionate dedairmtii’m,
exhibiting the highest order of eloquence.
THE DEBATE
lasted for several days—exactly how long I do not
now rccifilcct. But it was tho longest debate—the
most qirotractcd, exciting, aud interesting that ever
occurred in the coarse of my service in the' Georgia
Legislature, which embraced six years in all, five in
the" House and one In tho Senate; .Vs to the part I
took in it, about which you make Inquiry, I can say
but little. I was a warm advocate of tho inqasure
1 did not intend to speak until after Flournoy's vol
ley.- Ho came after Harris, Hill, and Jenkins, our
big gabs, and after I thought the argument was ex-,
haunted. Fearing tliat he had done some damage to
the cause, I ventured to attempt, at least, to remoro
MiM r. it
some of jtho rubbish he had thrown In, tho way.
was my first effort. This was my debut, on the
beards cf legislative debate. I had prepared myself
with an statistical information I could get bearing
on the snbject. My 'objoct was to show tho great
utility of tho Road as.a means cf developing our up-
conutry resources, and os an ultimate outlet to tho
trade and travel of the great Northwest I have the
note3 Ot the speech yet. I showed, as I thought,
•from undisputahle data, that {he Road must be
a sofr.cfe of monr
at a east of four million- the estimate then assumed
isidw the immense’
■besides the immense enhancement in value, of
aggregate wealth of the State. This might be put
down at at least fifteen iniiliou dollars—by my fig
ures then mode—besides bringing into tho State
Treasury an annual net income of at least threo hun
dred thousand dollars, much more tlnn would meet
tho interest on the cost. How far I was short of the
mark, under it or over it; others may now estimate
for themselves.
The speech being njy fret, when little or nothing
was expected, did mo #eat-credit, and aided very
materially, many Thought, in securing the passage
of thobiij. This 1 think I may say. The vote on
tho test question was a close one. I forget now, but
I do not think wc carried it by more than four ma
jority. After the test was takon and decided in fa
vor of the survey of the route (that was the test
question), wo gained strength. The greater battle
bad been fought and the victory Avon. And as we
look back now who can say that tho day. oh which
that test vote was taken and decided (by a small ma
jority as it wasj was not the most
IMPORTANT DAY IN GEORGIA’S HISTORY,
since the beginning of the present century. What
over delivered in tho Houso of Representatives, I
have no doubt. Tho speech occupied; all of one
afternoon and part of the next morning's session.—
Never can anybody forgot that speech who heard it.
It abounded in wit, sarcasm anil ridicule, with some
touches of real cloquouco rarely surpassed. Tho
nouso waB kept in a rear of laughter . for hours. It
was in his speech that he gave the soubriquet ot Snout
to tho road. Ho seemed to think of the word “main
trank,'; frequently alluded to by tbe friends of the
’ measure, when, apparently at a loss for the word,
1 • he said : “Tills main—what do yon call it, Sir.
' Speaker? This great snout, I believe.” His whole
V object seemed to be to show that tho entire scheme
was wild and visionary—would bo an endless waste
or xfioney with no return. Pryor took tbe same
course. Ho had a fine voice, fine delivery and at
that tlmo promised to becomes man of highposi-
It was the date of a new era in oar annals. It was
an epoch—a turning point in our career. Tho theme
you have selected for your lecture is not only a good
and appropriate ono, but a grand and noble one,
well calculated to inspire tho souls ot young Geor
gians with thoughts and ambition of a high order.
That ambition which looks only to the advancement
of the happinoss, prosperity, power, glory, end re
nown of tho State. But 1 cannot prolong this scrawl;
I.fear you caanot read what I have written, or rather ;
scribbled, already. Indeed, I do not know that 1
legislature. It was written, 1 tbiuk, by the
HON. ABSALOM IS. CHATTEL
fir Judge Berrien. At that time we were in the midst
of a prosperity never perhaps before known or real
ized. Cotton was bringing a high price, and proper-
ty of every description was comparatively high
Speculations of all kinds were rife. The ait provid
ing for tin; distribution of the surplus revenue of the
United States amongst tho States had Just passed
Congress. ' The estimated amount that*Georgia was
to get nnder thp act was about u million and a quarter
of dollars, I believe—:though 1 may be mistaken iu
ibis. 1 speak only frdm memory. It was, however,
large, and •
WH VI WAS Id’ BE DONE WITH THE MONEY ?
was, I think, acconliug to his own accouut of him-
::alf, a evto dritt,-. He made his firet appearance in
the Legislatures in 1825, ,ot tho extra session called
’that year by Governor Troup, and though he had no
was tho question, Tho friends of internal improve-
Upon this ns a golden opportunity to
■H _ HHHBPHHof ludicrous
rhyme, which were sent round for the amusement
and merriment of the House. Many ot these were
.very good hits. 1 have several of them yet. Strick
land spoke often—so m3 Easley. But their eloquence
and rhetoric wore of a day that is now passed. They
were both farmers, X think. One of the most point
ed things I ever Jicard from Strickland, was a fetort
.hemade upouJJoherteJlQuglierty, in the debate on
’the bill to establish taffeupreme Court. Btricklaud
was utterly opposed to it, and had made ono of his
characteristic 'speeches against it.
embark tho- State lu sonio public work 'permanently]
useful. It must, however, he borne in mind that
there was considerable diversity In opinion amongst
thorn as to tho character and nature of tho enter
prise to be nndertakon. as well at lte location and di-l
rection. Many were wedded to the idea of tapping
the great Northwest through tho proposed Cinoiii-
uati and Charleston Railroad, by a branch rood-from
some point in onr State crossing tho Blue Ridge at
tho liabun Gap. This was certainly Governor
Schley’s idea if I recolloct rightly. Mr. Gordon, on
the other' side, looked toward Ross’ landing, now
Clfcttanooga, os the northwest terminus of onr road;' i y il0U 3“ he triedto bt>. all can s* 6 ®
..... _ .. iieonly tried to be what lie eonldiPt.'.’ By
with him Jenkins, Miller, and most of ns, or a ma
jority of those in favor o£.tho undertaking, concur
red. Thpro wore a few*who looked still .farther
m \ ~ US
tin *”*’ ”
ght the State Road ought to pass through Rome,
iu Floyd county. The middle route was the ono
adopted in the bill passed in 1836, and the ono which
has ever since’bcon adhered to—the one on which tho
road has been actually built. But the subject was
not suffered to rest with the action of 1836. Subse
quently, for several years, efforts were repeatedly
made to change the upper line of the road, giving it
direction through Rome. Little, if anything, was
ever said about the
.RABUN GAP ROUTE
after 1836—I mean as the line of the rood undertaken
by the State in that year. I told you in my other
letter that the test vote in the House was a close one
—that we had on it not over four majority—thht was
my recollection at the time, bnt upon reference to
the journals I find it was only threo. The vote was
seventy-four to seventy-seyen. It was on a motion
to strike out certain words in the firet section of the
bill, Tho bill as originally reported, set apart a suf
ficient portion of the fund to be derived from the
'general government nnder the distribution act, and
appropriated the same for tho construction of the
great consequences have resulted from that vote ' riroil. A motion was made to strike out these words,
sufficient portion,” and insert *• one-half.” This
motion, like the shaft that was sent into Achilles’
heel, was aimed at the weakest point of the bill,
thongh. nnlikc that, it did not effect its intended ob
ject. Three majority saved it. I thought tho other
day, that tho test vote was on ordering tho survey
and location of the road, bnt I find it was on the
weakest part of the first section, the one which com
mitted the State to its construction. This was
THE WEAKEST I*OINT,
have given you wiiat you. desired. But as tbe dny is I because thoro were a few In the House willing to
gloomy, twet, rainy, cold, and slooty out doors, I vote hall the surplus revenno to be received to inter-
liave kept writing such aa you find this until, I doubt nal improvements, and tho other half to com-
v 0 n will be as weary in iudoavoriiig to decipher [ inou or —i—, . *>..»
not, yon will be as weary in indoavoring to decipher j mon or public ' schools. Bnt the lines in
Use characters used as my fingers have become in j the House between the frionds aud the op-
penning them.
YouvS respectfully.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.
Prof. Williams Rutherford, Jr.
Athens, Go.
P. 8.—While it still sleets, freezes and snows, so
tlon in the State, no hailed from Harris county.— i -- -- ------ , , , . ,.
He spoko of the road os “ beginning nowhere and tliat I cannot send my letter to the office, 1 must add
ending nffwliero/’ and the niter impracticability of
building"a railroad ” over mountains too steep for a
spider to crawl up.” This speech was rich of itB
kind In thought and Illustration. Davis opposed it
because of thiflmmenso expense, and advocated the
application of tho funds at the command cf the
State, to tho establishment of common schools.—
Meriwether took the* same course, and really was
tho leader of that view. Ho was not so much op
posed to the road as he. was in favor of doing some
thing clso with tho public monies. Harris and Hill,
on tho contrary, were for tho road. They were both
new members, I think, and spoke with ability.
a few words by way of postscript.
Tho read was popular in 1837. This year we had
Toombs and George W. Crawford, new members of
the House, strong friends of It. Meriwether also
became a warm advocate of its prosecution. So did
Flournoy afterward, and others. It continued popu
lar in 1838. But whed hard times came in-18*0,
1841.18*3 and 18*3, great and strong opposition
grew np. The road was incomplete, unfinished—an
attempt wav made to sell it. This was in 1843. The
proposition to sell was made by Judge Iverson, then
Senator from Muscogee. The contest was close and
doubtful, and that was tho mo*timportant period in
tho road's history, except the one of its first under
taking.
the ruorosinoN to sell
ponents of tho road were very closely drawn and
clearly marked by tho vote, and the majority was so
small in favor of the road that its friends became
satisfied that they would have to yield something to
secure its passage. This was finally accomplished
by our all voting lor on amendment setting aside
and appropriating “ two thirds " of the fund for the
road. In this shape it passed the House. In tho
Senate, however, this wasTiirthet modified by saying
nothing about tho surplus revenue; but limiting the
annual appropriation to the amount set forth in the
law, as yon will find It, $350,000, and under the con
ditions therein expressed. The bill .finally passed
the House by a vote of one hundred to fltty-four.—
But this was no test of its strength att hat time. It is
truo it had gainec} some strength after the main vic
tory on the first struggle at the ;cutposts, as I have
'stated; but Its real strength was tested an the mo
tion to send it forthwith to the Senate. Many had
voted for ft intending to vote for a reconsidertioh.’
* c-r-nr.. w / *a*.. ~ t — —.The policy of these was to lull its friends into feel-
a bi-iu. incaDent. taking. -. * ings cf security, and to take 'thorn by surprise on
attending Hill's speech. I shall never forget It was • TUS riitm^inoN to sslil * Monday morning. The bill passed Saturday even-
an anachronism in a figure, pardonable in an extern-1 , , At „ . . . j ing. Hut as aoon as it passed, Mr. Harris, of Bald-
porary speech by a young orator, but vrtiich caused i J** 0n w™«A 1 Hon. Iverson L. Harris—moved that it bo. sent
eomo merriment at his
np with some flourish which
ng orator, but which caused j ^ * i Hon. Iverson L. Harris—moved that it bo sent
expense. Ho was winding i had been just elected governor. He had^exertedaU-t forthwith to the Senate. This look ,the enemy as
vhich I do not recollect, but Ida pyerj|y^t seU. Jonkins . U1UC | 1 j^ y sur p r js£ aff they expected its friends to bo
if ore "somethin** about ••the aI *d Toombs in tnoIIousc defeated it there. Miller » token bv their Htr&tAcrem on Alondnv. The obieet nf
the coneluillng wonts were *soiucthing about -the
last of Romans being buriod in the tomb of tho Cap-
ulets." This caused a laugh iu the circle near him,
but an old gentleman, a plain, farmer-looking mem
ber—who nat boiuo distance off, noticing the laugh
and not knowing or understanding the cause of it,
inquired what it was he said: who did he say was
dead? Whereupon, Flournoy then answered him
with a countenance expressing perfect naivete and
seriousness, “Ho said that old Mr. Roman was dead
and buriod with his cap on.” This neatly increased
tho laugh. Flournoy, in his speech J have alluded to
also gave Harris, who represented Baldwin, a rap or
I two which brought down tho Houso. Harris had
spoken before Flournoy. Ho is, yon knew, not only
a very al le man and a very high-toned gentleman,
• bnt has a vary peculiar style and manner of expres-
' ston when ho is in earnest—thinks bnt little of mon- .
ey when great ends are to be obtained by its proper i enough,
use. He had on several occasions spoken of the j
INSIGNIFICANT SUM
of so and so—many of tho hundred or thousand dol-1
lars set forth in some appropriation bills ho odvoca- j
ted—compared with the great utility of the measures. I
Such, for instance, oa the sums required for the <
crecUon*of an executive mansion and a lunatic asy- j
Inm Af trhlfth mMBnMa Via Wno 4fta *1iATnninn TI.\ ■
was In tho Senate. Bishop, Ttimlin, and Smith, or
tho Cherokee country, from the beginning, were un
tiring and efficient friends of tho road. I allude to
William N. Bishop, Lewis TuniHn and Wm. Smith,
of Rome. So was Mr. McFarland, of Walker, while
he was a member.
Tn speaking of Gordon. I have said, that ho was
usually triumphant In his quick replies in a running
■ ' “ however, it was thought
debate, Ou one occasion,
by rnanv in the Qonsc, that Miller got rather the
better of him in this respect. Gordon eald in one
of bis animated appeals, that he "believed Miller
would follow Ills party to the d 1” Miller replied
that he "would rather futlow any party to the d 1
><*.! aua ttreino ” Thtc woe Yt/tf hr thn h
than to lead one there.’' This was not, by the by, in
the railroad discussion. I give it only as ono of the
reminiscences of the session aud the parties. But
A. S. S.
In ipy letter of tlje 14th, I mentioned several who
had acted co!i:-!-:.f.K)Ub parts in tho debate both
flwg.l) AGAINST THE ROAD.
I stated I hadforgotten whether Henry G. Lamar
was in the Houstf that year or not. 1 atn "now satis
fied that he was’ not. John II. IA mar was in, from
Bibb, and he wa.',a decided friend of the measure.—
* should also mention Kelly, of Houston
1 heard tli's rooming that the whole was 1
called njx>u LieutsEaut, aud .he tcidmq fr was ^
false, aud tbai,h«. and utkri hid Veca crmfiJy.ijn-.;;
posed bn. XUerepo'rt crebtoii" grijaf cxc4tfme'a,t here.*','
The soldiers who gavo’out the report Xavc^eeq fsf ■
rested.
jo—that was,-neve.-to touch his people's religion l “I5atcrmcl*tis are rii>o. Fend aluibet ■■
t or their drink, ii' lie would hSVc an easy time on his Tries plenty. - Crops g-lierailV good. She: t cettou ,:i
Throne.” 'Perhaps, if Dougherty had received this j bloon S(> , r rt . n ,5 -J- - —i Diii si, DO..
fi.ivit*.'). GT i*ltil kjiitRL flg rr.L'h haAlm Vtr» favAt-o/? toic ’ * . * /' •h i — > a.
*° r S ! that a minister of one of ihe ntonareUs oi . .vedcs. :
v?.v^Hv l ; t U &il " LiUial llJ d -' JIH ; ls ril'd to have given Ills sovereign some .vtsturics j
ou his
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advice, or H$d know n as much before he favored this ;
polffion air he did afterward, lie ■ never would have •
done it. How that may be i do u«i know. Bat so ii !
was before the day of the election, the reaction is;
the popular mind against tho Mtltion was tromeu- Intiio Uiiai'lcstou ('c.i. i.*- i f. WcUnrsuny w.- find
dous. In many couuties it was a test question. It j., _ . , , _ .. , .. , * .
was so iu Troup. The rights to'drink as they phis- appciidotj.iu.'licla.-, f. ta pleasan, t< see Atlanta
ed, and how they pleased.:’* w: lias wi^lt they" ficKeeil, and l>cr interest^ so .,cii"erfuUy and liberall.' ■
was one dearly cherished by his constituents, Much i doreed. Ahi tAntrk^M&i:
to his But prise aud-tUc regrets of his frionds ho was j
beaten on tlist question. Ho did not go down tot
MilleilgeviUedhaj session on ko luil usidly for] S i, , ■ - i r .Torn
years... No one could have been’ more missed than : ^
he. For years he had been the soul o! wit, fun, mid
It seemed-to his oid associates that there
The general favor with which tho introducti •
offered—has induced yir. A. C..Kaufman to pi..
few more at Uie disposal of investor?.
To give BBjtdca ot’ the extensive rail road trallib of
xnuitiyf-u traffic which has built
and made it the centre of
ablest of the friends of the Road who afterward came
into the House, none were more conspicuous than
Absalom H. Chappell. Among the most noted in the
House oppoaea to it, whose names I have not
mentioned, were Bnremof Jackson, Easley of Walton,
Strickland of Madison, and Cone of Camden. These ,
men were all characters iu themselves-—marked \ numorM , . JO tnve •'mnn or me i
men In their day. They were each members of the ! V' ouW hariU f *«“«>? o1 loe l'gis.aturo Without j
Houss for several years. They w ere all without euuca- i b ’ s presence. Ho was missed iu th" hall, missed at ’ , ;
tionexcept the cmjmiouest rndlroents. and yet aU or "H !ebut eapeciaUy missed in social private eir- 8,ml),- wn would mentto- that
awamfo^sarsraas! stswjsaa* - “* *“ *• i s * s^^ssJagsasa^WB
their grammar-Vad ig' ' m " | | ^ ”***“' '
alw ays without -pqiht.
.their afsmned' preint
their patriotism.
plain formers, 11 .
They needed cultivation
prehonslve view of thing. ...
ship lu the true sense ofthat word, aud yet they U»« s: ’G>ear Racket-«ome b&okltaekei, .nat vanuui of there roads uc iirelv oil l.d'aud'iilmivH
did uifich good-in thetr opposition to many schemes Flournoy, is gone. ” f ^ T^W.Xru^ ,tf^it io Ita i It V >
’• Dougherty got tho lettefr and underetood it:-, con- 1 * aa 5f m G i, .W
jgj stq.pos. d ( raw- ■ from Atiauta to Ciialtaaooga. iylkWhlW 1 *31111
i£?l
State, and yet no ant can ^ay that they did not do
the State some service. . Burns was a militia generrX
CONE, OF CAMDEN,
“school learning,” yet ho paid court to tho Muses.
■— mt at—eis - ■ i m
When some d.uU fellow w*s boring the House with a
speech. Cone geilbrajiy^ocetipied himself with either
taking hhu or somebody else oft in lines <
■ DOUGHERTY BEPLIED TO HIM.
and did it very rvugltty,' -In winding up, he said, in
reply to the remarks that had been made by Strick
land, meinualtBg jtlint ‘ the court was intended to
favor tho lawyers as a class—that ho was no lawyer;
was not {coking to the interest of lawyers. ‘1
i,” said ho, “Mr.-Speaker, no lawyer; though-1
did fry to be, but couldn't. I am nothing bnt a
farmer myself.” i •
Strickland arose anu very coolly said:
" Mr. Speaker, the. gkntlomau from Tjoup need
not hayc informed the Houso that he wa3 uo lawyer.
■ ■PHBHi. 'By the by.il
ought to say wlmtall wno kupw Dougherty are well
"M|M| ft. it man oi iM above average
j* ■ of three.
HiTEafS hlgfTpnlftion
of intelligence, information, ability aud usefulness,
He had a great Influeued in the House, and spoke
well. What ho said about being or not being a law
yer was strictly true, only in this: He was not Dion
practising. He had been st tho bar, e.nd bad ac
quired distinction at it. Some years ago ho moved
to Alabama, where ho was put upon tho bench, and
gave general satisfaction as a Judge. He was a man
of. great humor—used to tell more amusing anec
dotes, and keep crowds roariug'in laughter at them,
longer aud louder than any ono in the whole Circle
of my acquaintance. His fund seemed to be inex
haustible. Indeed, he seemed to have the facility'of
extracting
HTTMOil, MIRTH AND FCS,
out of everything he saw or heard. The drye.n sub
jects to others furnished him with materials, not on
ly to laugh himself most heartily, but to make others
laugh also; and he always laughed as loudly at his
jokes as bthers did. One of liis jokes was well turned
on him by Jenkins in 1839. It was what was well
known at thedirae as tho “Racket”- story. It was a
long one as he told it, and iiitehdcd to take off a man
tu tho viliage of lxi6 former residence, Walkinsville.-
The man in question, whose name I forget, had a dog
he called Racket. Backet was famous in the town
for hts size and mastiff-1 iko proportions. In the days
when circuses aud caravans of animals were not so
frequent in tho backwood villages of Georgia as they
are more recently, one of these traveling menageries
made its way to Watkinsville. A great crowd was out
to sec the show. The town was jammed by the peo
ple—men women and children ponring in from the
country. A large canvas was spread to keep those
from seeing who would not pay. Tho elephant was
there—the lion— the tiger—the hyena—and all sorts
of monkeys, from the babboon down to little' “Dan
dy Jack.” Some of tho country people, observing
the force with which one of the larger apes shook a
cage over which he was chainod, started a question
as to tho relative strength of these ajiitnala c ompared
with other animais, snch as hoars, dogs, etc. This
man of tho town, on whom Dougherty’s anecdote was
told, listened to the conversation awhile, and then
offered his opinion, which was that his dog, Racket,
could whip any monkey in the 6how. Tho “master
of the ring” heariDg this, steppod up and said that
“that there little monkey” (pointing to "Dandy
Jack,” dressed out in bis “riding riggings,’’) could
whip nuy dog In that town.”- 'Whereupon Racket’s
master proposed to
BET SOMETHING ON THAT.
m sometm.nttoar I lon R' shows an.incomeyU.abD.nLSl.aoojwy.
s me montli- al j Attama ic Richmond, Air iany Hall Read,'now in ny."
j oeas of construction; whose tcr|mul are Atlanta, («av
- if he had but hit his mas. ! :md Charlotte N. t'.. will forma roost inipintoatiink
But tills Vcannot uovr give. Indeed, you arc in a j iu the through cenneeHon between tlio North',and
mood already to exclaim. 1 have no doubt, “what has South'. Thorn arc now two thomsind laborers -u-
aibUustodo with the Railroad?” why,' "nothluj „
all, 1 say, except to show something of the character'
or those v.-ho mado it as well as thesa who. tried to
keep it from being made, lliat is all.' Dull, dry his
tory, ol all things, is tho dulWet to one. Subshuiiial
facta in history ro dHke the solid food tor dinner.—
They are, the essentials, without which the meal
might as well be dispensed.with, and yetaliUh
oiling, safrees, and “what nois,” a custard ^jjr even
satiees, and “wk
cream ocrasiouidly, may ootno.in the wiiy very
well tn seating off an agreeable entertainment.
Now, tlieretors, after tidn digression, to return to
the Important iu relation to the pregrets of the
read, and how It made its way along alter it was
started. As I have stated, it may be proper to state
that at first, that is, in 1836, its management was 'in
trusted to ono
ployed npou this sbad,, and it is.expected tp l...—„ w
ishedat an early dav- I lie first mdrtgaga 6 per .cent. ..
);onds of tlus' CoBfPSA^',bW beln:: negotiatt'd by
Messrs. LamustN-,-Brown H Oo.rel New York, ate-
takeii-up sh wiphlly Uiat they ba\o advanced lj,u
price from 85 to SK), onli^ a limited liumlxT boiug of-
l'cred at this figure. Tlic read will 1ms 233 miles long. »■ '.
,aml its bonded debt $16,000 to Mio toiler —*-
AVo have uteutionod thy»e fact* to show tho ivnfi-. - .
dence oLcapiUlista in investments;.hi thin section
and to crassert onr position thatllic city of Atltnta
bonds will vie favorably witU any security either ■
North or South. The interest ofi these bonds is pay- *
able next July. • , > . .»•••. istir;
We unhesitattBgly commoml tli 3myltl;g to
the attention oFtlnoio ip si arch of safe fa-rmimcbt
aud profitable investments. ‘ - ■« .
SUPEniXTENDENT AND ENGINEER.
Who the 8Uperint. nderit was I forget. But in 1837 >
lids feature was changed—a board of commissioners j-
wae created. It consisted, ot' throe, chosen by tbe ‘
Legislature. The first board consisted? I tbink, of! .
Colonel Saiuuel Farris, of Walker, Major Joel t!raw-,j Vot tlic tilititiai' tltnt he i« Hinn . :i -*
ford, aud Colonel Little, of Jackson, Colonel .Far- ml t»Bc.
ris was Senator from Walker, I believe, i«d8S«, and i ’
was a warm supporter of tbe road. Major Crawford I
went t ”
bond
was S
disbursing agent* ' Iu 18*3 the entire management
of the road was given to the Governor, aw One chief ,**1 cet'entnctt-cs me charg.- i upon Alijernon
mmo ' | * ga . .. Charles jraimio, an English poet or the period;
which, it isiigte eabte, howuvcr.nro all afrivej. al|
second h::Le.. and cceni to hat e nothing to sup; -Vft "
them but mere assertion. _ '
So littlf^s knowmin this country atyiit Stfitiburne
enginoer, appointed by huff. But all US? I /suppose,
yon are niore convorcant wiih than-1 am. My last
term iu the Loglslaturb wig in the Senate, in 18*2.—
In 18'to I went to Congress, where I have been ever
siiroe. . I waa’ at Mfiledgev "'
the month of Nove:
gevillo that session, during j
Mj . __ sK*
That waS, as I have before state*?; the mott critical
and important period of the road's hislorv. exoept
the time of its commencement. And, jis I have
mo attuned so many persons who contributed their
inliucuce end aid in tae legislature to it* passage (X
mean time. House,'for I have said nothing ol' the Sen
ate), it occurs to me ttiel I ehonlu iiot oimt to mention-
one whom I have not yet named—that ia John S.
Lewis, now of Washington city—a clerk in the.first
auditor’s office. He was then a member from Troup.
He differed from bis colleague. Dougherty. He was
young ond modest. He had graduated at our uni
versity some years before, with the first honor in his
class. The only speech I Tcmomhcr his making, in
1886, was in favor or tho -charter of the Georgia Fe
male College, of Macon—the'first institution of the
kind—a chartered college to confer degrees or diplo
mas <Jn women, I believe, iu tho United states, or
perhaps la the world. Ho distinguished himself on
tliat occasion. He was theu a lawyer, but subse
quently abandoned the pLOtossion, and ha-s been a
clerk la Washington for more than ten years f
knew he was a zealous friend of the road, and I have
sintuhoil with-Bo-pi,?. I -s-axeeptthai Mltharare commaie'. . . ianguagp. u
iTtlnUta I very pagan proeensdlee t*,u
rNsi-ii.r 1 i any peraonaT^ ^ ^boui him Upaserivcwcbt -jk:, -a
au>) spotaP.
i happen to km
gentleman (ail Ex-Admiral in tlic British uav v, now
Hying in retirement), rii n good and v.-ith P
such very right notions a'rout right ami 'wrong that
'iffed young " ’ ■'
ho has baoUncd young -Algernon C4ailo3fvo:u.. hi
house and presence, and failier and eon are new no
morg.than strangers to each other,' all on iJcount of '
the e:range liiac toward seinuaiity so early appMom
in the publtshcd writinga of fno son.. 1 believe
Swinburne has .an'indopetident income of his own
r.nd is not behoUleh altogether on hir. literary on- ;o—
Aeavors. Uc is a voy .young- man of exceedingly
soueittve temperament, and cqnstitiUlonaUy deli
cate. His health js miserablo.' IR ts small,, pale
aud slcnUcr, with a great head, entirely dispropor-
tlonod to his size. . . ' V . .
Those wljp know him best hear -testimony that
his personal file is in direct and practical opposition
to all tlic suppositions sensualism. of ills varly po- L-.
ems. He is almoet an ascctle iu liis habits of livinA,
aud I knowthat until two years ago, Rinco whh li I
have had no reliable • information aliont him, no
such scaudalous stories ol his* lijicoutb bcliavior iu
heard kirn say that he drew, the original pill., Mr. j company,] and the deplorable effect of a slight i.tim-
Gordon, I know, reported it. Lewis was not on the j ulant upon his nerves, were oven so muob ho
conunlttco of internal inipreveinent, but ae lias told ; dreamed of iu Loudon -circles. His. .reputation was
me that the. ilrait of the bill was committed to him
and ho drew it. i mention this that
tliat of a quiet, modest aud retiring young man, ac
customed to all the refinements of gooff-society, itad
subservient to all,.even to its wnpljcjst irisges. * n
HONOR MAY BE UIVF.S TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.
And now yon must excuse mo lor one other personal
incident. I intended to mention it at the proper-
place hut forgot it; that is when X was referring to
the character oi Mr. Speaker Dav. He whs a' man of
unusual equanimity or temper, and acted with great
impartiality during the debate on the road. His' I years arfjp'o, dlail in Cohinf
firmness aud forbearance wore proverbial, aud i -
Tjf ' jr Augusta litis luul anolUer Itoroscno
oxiilosion—the second irrh week. 3 his time it was
a colored woman who,, departed to be an angel.
LATEST CTKORtilA AT.WS.
Mrs.
Eliaabetli Criiuf. oiglity
on SuutHiy.
though his decision was overruled hy the House', uo
oue doubted his strict • uprightness of intention.
Never was speaker more patient. On this quality or
trait of his turns wlratl have to say. In Samuel W.
Flournoy’s two days harangue, of which I spoke in
my other letter, tlic House was frequently uproari
ous. It was with extreme difficulty that order could
bo preserved. Bnt the speaker kept his temper
throughout the whole. Iu the .winding up of the
session, as usual, there avas also great confusion.
But tbe speaker always kept his temper.
On tho last night, Flournoy, in and of his sallien,
by way of compliment to nim, startled the House by
the announcement of a-proponiUou which he said he
intended to move—that was to 4 amend tile Bible.'
He said, bo intended at too proper time to move to
I strike out thcVor<l "Job" wherever it oesurox-d in
The showman took the bet. Ten dollars .were ( the gosd Book, and insert in its stead “Joseph Dav.”
-rftaked. The crowd all soon felt more interest iu the | I will bore you no lodger. My sinr.ere wish id that
fight to come off between the dog and the monkey yon may be more successful in getting the inl'orraa-
thau in anything else. They all marched out to see
it Tho master of Racket grew uneasy lest it was a
scheme to entrap him in damages. “But, suppose,”
Baid he, “the dog kills tho monkey; I am not to be
held responsible, stranger, for the -vaTminj-’ am I?”
“Oh, no,” said tho showman.. So, being satisfied on
that point, bo called np Racket. The people coming
out from under the canvas, formed a largo and
compact circle in the square where the fight was to
come off. Racket stood in the middle of tho dense
crowd, pressing all round the open area in seeming
surprise at his situation and wonder at what was going
to take place. In this position of. affairs, the show
man led Dandy Jack in, a way being opened for
him. He hold ldraTjy a chain, and led him up in tlic
taken by their stratagem ou Monday. The object of
the motion was to cut off the possibility lor a recon
sideration on Monday ; for, hy parliamentary law.
a subject cannot be reconsidered that is out of tho
possession oT the House. No sooner, therefore, was
this motion made, than a call was had for the ayes
and nets. One not acquainted with legislative tac-
ties would naturally suppose that every one who had
Voted for the bill would vote to send it to the Sena'
But not so. On tttis motion the vote stood sevc-i
two to sixty-eight—only four majority ; and bnt f<
the motion then made and carried, it-is not at all im
probable that c reconsideration would have been ef
fected by activity on the part of the opponents of
the measure between that time and Monday. .For,
in legislative conflicts, as in all other, my experi
ence has taught ^me that every victory gained gives
new courage to the doubtful and wavering.
On Monday morning, Mr. ^Strickland, of Madison, H H ^ I
. county, nwnd a reconsideration, notwithstanding the sorbed in thought. He had seriously feared that
i vote of the House on Saturday pending the bill to'. Racket would kill the monkey. As for the ten dol-
j the Senate. The Speaker—Mr. Joseph'Dsj,' of Jones lars ho considered that made, certain. The result,
t county, who made an excellent presiding-ffBfinv^-ho »so quickly over, and so contrary to his expectations,
■ , .... ivas familiar with the rales, aud wha hadcompletely astonished and bewilderedllim. .He
' - 1 “' 1 - • •--.than irniirififili
manner unsurpassed hy any I ever saw in that clfln^l^Tiwdog as he Tam miVl— ~~i 1 -par
thont further notice. Dandy Jack seized Backet’s
lu his month and gave jt a knaw-knaw or two,
X his monkey-jargon. Racket turned—saw what
it was. ■ But instead of making flght, with one yell
and a bound, he cleared a way through or over.the
whole crowd in front of him,^barking and yelling as
he went—looking back—barking and yelhng as far as
he could be seen going np the road toward Athens.
The crowd shouted, the welkin rung. The showman
laughed. Bnt no word for some time escaped from
the loser of tho ten dollars. He seemed deeply ub-
.Railroail Letter. No. IX.
tion you desire from other sources than you Jiave
frourmo. Yours, toost respectfully,
Alexander H. Stephens.
TroN. xVilijams Rutherford, Jb. Athens Ga.'
The Town viaisha!, uf Wfirventon,
shot a negro the -other day wiiile tr-'ing W areedthlhi.
It is thqughtthc wouuded man wiii di". . . v •
We hear that one of tho tiibbhth
Scbools. of this city, is-talking of«|>p'u:'.t-ng a rofa-
mittco of young gentlemen ami frillies to ryjjit cUil- •
ilrtip. for the SahbatU school.—C’o ::h*f •.; Ertqiiinrr.
J@* Mr; E;'J.; Ajipli. r, wo understand,
some weeks ago, tendered his resignation as agent of
the Western Railroad for this city.' Tliat rcsigiiatton
has been accepted, and Colonel It. A. Baoou, Gener
al Agent of the North & South Sebua. Itonro & Dal
ton Railroads, has bocn r.i.poiutcil *■> ill! tii.' v.e llU „
cy.—Coltiuilnu Enquirer, £u.
A Green county concs^ondcut of
the ChvonicU J .Sentinel writ. H: I,write to you to say
that the crop prospects are not vert encouraging in
this pert of the State for v beat, oats, torn and cot
ton. Wheat has tho rnst, hut is nearly ready ipr ciit-
n- :*
And now the Gainesvillo Eagle, with tjic coillat |
sort of impertinence, come* up and says "wagoning ‘ .5?^ ha*/’ 1 k * d f ‘
from this place to Atlanta has flayed out.” ’ | <&
Brooke comity claims a population of 3,000. She j replanting has been the order of the il iy n- a yet
produced last year 6,000 bales of cotton, a large sar- ( going on in such cas-s. - Cera Is ver> j -misini' amt
• ~ ~ ' ~ ~ - ~~ ' ~ m v ! more Imibton Planted than laict vreiry Jfk Kk <tr,
plus cf provisions, and her debt is small,-;
xrtifiife from
Mr. Thomas Rowland died in tliis city on tho 10th i TJSj" A CorsespOUUOUt,
instant, at the advanced age o),j>3 years. He was Thomaevillo says: “The .‘.is,.:
Richmond county, Georgia-, but lived the j nicaviiu' is a; umiug an i , id ' ;i: “ *'m: imei:..-tnc
portion of Ilia life In South Carolina.— i officials in'these r -b ■ -. <. J ■ Brown, thp carpet-
Gainesville Eagle. ! bag post-master of this p!ac« •, aftyr bohrowing aU
ho money lie coul-i from h: eonpa.ng J’rimC - .-.nil
tc-aling all he could Horn the '•*>,“** government too
rid.ever-aw.'has to par' 4 . 5 unknown. leaving
liis bills. Aliout tho saioo
We were shown on Saturday, by the.Rev. Mr. j
Tbreikcld, a stalk of cotton home eight or ten inches | ___
high, with three or fonr squares, grown on his plan- T.”
♦*)4inn tho Thin {o Kr , * 18 OUL LHi 1 ■ ‘ •* *' '
tation near the city. This is by far the be;
we have seen this epAng.r^Grijfm Star.
Next Thursday a very exciting match is to come ot
between Mr. J. H. Found’s gray maro," “Capitola," 1
aud Mr. Dngdalu’s celebrated mare “Dooly of Fair-j
view.” Both mares have “heels and “bottom,”!
and a targe crowd will be present- After the trot- j
ting match, several races will come off.—Gnjin Star.
‘finding
! office a ]
cr Du
•f Thouar county (color, .!)
.. ur too «i'^wlytc make Ids'
m, aud bav: V the fear of a
ij-fore Ins cv s, abacimdcd..
t ap'Hviutoti *}»■').■ •• m
: to rernirt vcr*. r '- an tin f
Inm, ot which measures he was the champion. He
had In his speech on the railroad spoken of the
money expended, or to he expended, as a small mat-1
ter compared with tho greatness of tho work. He j
had also a measure pending for the incorporation of:
the town of HilledgevRIc, then not as largo and i
flourishing as it la now, as the ‘"City or Milled go- i
vfljo.” In Flournoy's notice of his speech on the j
railroad, he took occasion to dwell upon his general!
views about appropriations. The small and inslg-:
n lflcant sum in such and such a bill—the small aud '
insignificant sum in another—and so on. alluding I
with particularity to each. Then he touched him off:
or tlic Bill-Small Mutority-Letrlslatlvc manner unsurpassed by any I ever saw in that cKHt7, _ _ . ,
* 1 unless I except Mr. Jenkins—‘ 4 decided Jtha motion ( himself and partly were laughing at | acre
— - — ' — — - “ 1 Tint lira t) 4 ,mh1r.G I
fe5J-* A meeting
Clover cannot bo raised in Middle Georgia, r. fail-; toad will! ■ h Id iu ( ■ l
trial las been made by Mr. Corbin, and satisfied The .executive commiti-
that it-won’.t do, he Is now entthtg itdown and sell- niiseioners and subsc:
'tfi'g-'By the wagon load. J - - 1 m
in tbe interest of bis
unbii*! on tuft 15th of Juir -
e will be hero, and all com-'
be p!
Sharp Practice?—A few marc
Giants—Tiic Pnn of I lie Tiling*-.* ot a ] 0 f ttio House,** Mr. Harris, of Newton-
Law yer, thongb be Tried to Be—The ! , ° h ? v Ha f r Jf? now Cqvlngtagy-ihongfa a friend
J j ot the- bill, appealed from the decision of the
Dogand Monkey Flght-A Good JoJce chair. The Speaker's decision was overruled—
„„ F,v„ 5JRaA»iSSt
ow-irmifH. J The opponents of the road saw some grounds to
—- ' . „ - . i hope from this vote. Its friends grew, a little alarm-
: led. The question Immediately recurred upon a re-
CaaWFORDSvtLLE, Gjl, March 17,1837. j consideration. Much anxiety was manifested.—
Dougherty, of Troup, (Robert Dougherty, generally
hy tlie wagon load. Doc. Anderson says onel-ent. The object for Hi. purptaafe of making a ri
2 will pay Mr. Corbin two hundred and fifty dol- liminary survey and approxtmatinc the cost en t
i, certain.—Griffin Middle G-.<in. ' , road. c ;. Mnsttaa; chairman of tlieTWCntivo .
'mittcc, is certain ihrit by IU«; timo tho Hit-feting i.-- h<
the
“Why, Mr. Speaker, yon might jnst as woll Call a
might as well.” continued
thrip a dollar! and yon _ _
he, 4 •undertake to make a city out of this little town,
with Its gnlllcs all over it, Uko tho wrinkles of pre
mature old age on tho fsco of a broken-down rue, as
to make a' railroad across the mountain passes of
Cherokee) Tho very insignificant sum of fonr mil
lion dollars, sir, could do neither: 1”
This will give you only a very faint idea of some
of liis thrusts, and some of the general grounds ot
opposition to the measure. Jenkins, however, was
Gordon’s right hand man in the straggle. I do not
actit*in conversation.. Be.Catena "ths' Iedislatvre
tor the first time that scsstan; and I believe contln-
Reft ia it. either la the House or the tiezuto, until
about his bill to make the town MOlofc^titoa i Deab Sib: In my letter ottlio 14th instant, noon ! too-^M^b)a^on5tarart«rtmd Sg
dty. “Tho city of Millcdgoville 1" said &, with . die subject of the State Railroad. I referred to mat- | ga co^ in store ^mrtay.^ahott^ kno wnto S
great emphasis, casting his eye crat of tho window ; teas essentially utjwa, sketehing incident atiernl- r om*oaed tothcrooL ^Ho was2b*ci:t when tlie vote
and smycjdngtho prospect.to antaimitablo manner, tog the passage of the toll aathoriztogita construe- . onSatoday H^Sest “cession to
tion, which wrist onlym mom^and of which | ^ rallis of the V^p^sitlon; and as onr column had
S? c Jf i n0 ^fc >, ?^JSm*i*br£l r thrf 0 i[erih^a le vOT i been broken on the vote growing out of tho decision
' of tho chair on the point of order, wofelt that all
wished tacts of a different character, and such as ,nn >v» in«* snni» v. r .x t»n. ns ><«ih
more properly constitute a history of, the work.
With a view of directing your mind where you can
find each, rather than make an attempt to famish
them myself, allow me, to addition to what I before
said, now torthcr to state some incidents connected
with its origin of a more general and public charac
ter, which mav aid you in your investigation.
The subject'of the connection of the valley of the
of the * to'be out of order, the House having by their oraer : !?ilra, .“Who would have ttomgnt It?” But his troubles : I ® rB » - — . ,, ...
ussta issues s3r28a!k2?%ss?gi t^;sastt,*ss i -st&a« , i.s5
i ********* the flame Col. .S«nr2«. j point of diverge, ue. N ; <^t there rttouM be
He weut out and whistled tor him, and called him j A certain baggage master on the railroad checked !' a lju nlc ' e , ls '’ ' 01 or,< ''‘' " ' '
saying, “Here, Racket; here, Racket Come back, 1 the trunk oi r.traveler the other day to two places—j On Suattay night a di.-gracuful riht - viirrcl at one
Racket;that varmint ia gone.” ! one end to Atlanta, the other to Grcensborougb. We ! of. the American cliurches i:i thls'city ai -.'h:cb nie-
This story Dougherty used to tell with inimitable ; know the baggage master to be a clever good fellow, t tols and knives were att'-mpted- to be used, ft
manner and almost incredible eSbet'-Some who'and wetinp to his business—but would like to aseer-| seems that a colpteU gentiemau from Obto.pcrjjaps
heard him tell it on first acquaintance would dcslg-; tain if both ends of the trunk went to the same place, j under Mm flafluinee-OT whiskey, was h
note him, on speaking of him afterward, as the Rack- 1 —Sparta Times and Plea. ter. J used bad language to uch au i
of cfnw rttvn Qnma Onifft.l hire T»« 1 1 . _ _ ‘ ,
: On Saturday evening last, Sheriff Doyle served a |
{■Stale Warrant <
JENKINS GAVE THE STORY fWhoikuOW
recollect that Miller spoke on the snbject, bnt he was West with the Southern Atlantic ports by railroad,
cRgaS^ IS i. j&otighis and ftttmcWa, etten-
tionoi men o? eutcrprUe for * year or t .vo before
might stUl be loet. Some kept tally as the names
were called; both sides were excited to tho highest
pitch. The announcement of tho result was <55 to fa
vor of reconsideration and 76 against it—eleven ma
jority for the Road. This settled the matter so tar as
tho Honse was concerned. Deep chagrin, disappoint
ment and mortification were evinced on one side,
while joy and exultation were indulged in on the oth
er. Tins feeling on both sides was greatly increased
by the loud applauso with which the galleries re
el story man. Some called him Racket.
Now the turn that
to tho State known as the Flournoy Petition, not
from Samuel W. Flpurnoy, of whom-I wrote the’
other day, bnt from Josiah Fioumov, of Pntnam
county, a man of great celebrity to his’day. He was
a man of good sense, good character, considerable
wealth, and great energy. He became a sort of Peter
the Hermit, in a crusade against tippling chops, and
the retail system generally. He traveled in aU sec
tions of the State, addressed tho people everywhere
. .... „ .he went Great multitudes came outto bear him.
spcadcl, X; i* a theme of pLisqut reflection at this , M CB? tisighe evSCllfti? *>e ^trrytog everything be-
. day tociUup the rccoliecaou of remarka aud com- 1 tare him. Be had a pitiuom I '
1S3U—i<ethtp» m ca-ly an le&-. u»e subject was o-< atiya ^ ca ^dtUged in Kcorftiflg * bt wulft, la prcieBt to tho
He was arrested
ernor of North Carolina^ where a true bill had been • _; tll . , )rom j«e never to return a
found against him for murder, ill that Slate. We ,4 full benefit of the law" should be
learnthat no doubt extets, but that the right mmt! Gco%**
“baa been arrested, as Granger confesses ImnaoiX to ;
be the party implicate.—Jfaeon Cilisen, - "^3 Mr. Toombs thus
The President of the Macon & Weeiom Gbarta. in Augusta, a
Railroad has tendered -the Barnesville J Sgftos'haiffif nfisod
Sabbath Schools the use of a train to at-1 ua oharta.
3 n %vcry pnrh
tod
lire jm Mu.^na
Bnaiin Ttmri:
. . . _ tend the celebi-ation at Thomaeton on I ???!*
iiext.—MonroeAdvertiser. 1 i&Aottxuthen,awmxi
: *♦ Wbcu yon can t' r.r tb<*
o in the hurnlDfr r-tlv r and
^otetodl. iV, then,
cqpt thQ
art
