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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN
THE DEPARTED.
A MOST DOLEFUL DITTY
IN MEMORY OF
THE LOST GCBEBNATOB.
BY A HOBBOWFCI* ONE.
He Lm gone troro the Mansion, and gone from the
city,
He has gone from hi* office, he low gone in hte
regarded as so disgraceful as lack of in*
genuity and sharpness to prevent its dis
covery.” And so grows the evidence that,
if the Radical family is not destined to
he a happy one, it is, at l^nst, determined
to be a "wealthy one.
Not a few Southern Conservative
journals half-way indorse the proposi
tion ■ tion for the Democracy to put forward no
Hi* clan, in their sorrow, cry aloud. < what a pity, j candidate in 1872. This means a general
That he, who came proudly, should go like a thieC” break-up, and its significance lies in the
evidence thus furnished of wide-spread
discontent with the old leaders. The
world moves.—Memphis Atcdanche.
’Will the Avalanche please inform the
public whether any Southern Democratic
journals either “half-way” or wholly in
dorse the proposition. That word ‘"‘con
servative” is very ambiguous. Nearly
the whole tribe of Southern Radical
journals delight in calling themselves
“Conservative” or “Moderate,” which is
the stme in application; and it is quite
probable that they indorse the proposi
tion ulluded to, or would indorse any
other proposition that would assist
Grant in walking over the track without
opposition. But if the Avalanche knows
any Southern Democratic papers that can
go even half the pig, let it name them.
Ho has flown, borne away, as tome fearful tornado
Whisks awsy on Its wings a poor handful of chaff!
Oil Blodgett, come tickle us! Harris do tickle us 1
Twcody please tic kle us! We all want to laugh.
He came like a vision, and basked in his glory,
He camo as a pigmy, rose tall as a steeple,
And now all the world knows the wonderful story—
The Governor’s resigned and so are the people.
And all tbrongh the State now is heard a lamenting
That he did not evacuate sooner by half.
Foster please tickle nsl “Fatty" do tickle ns i
Ephraim come tickle us! We all want to laugh I
Could he know of the sorrow of those who deplore
him.
He would not have left them in bitterness so;
Andoh, what a sadness, what grief must come o’er
him.
What pain must attend him where'er he may go I
And those Bonds, which are spouted 1 thoso Bonds
how they bind trim
Away from his friends who would gladly bear half 1
OU, B. I. come tickle us l J. C. please tickle us 1
E. N. do tickle us"! "We all want to laugh.
'Tissald he has squandered a good deal of cash inall.
That State Bonds have "woodblned” excessively
rash,
But no one can tell us—except the Fourth National,
Which side of the sheet bears the balance of cash:
And 'tlsvery much feared when the statement is
rendered.
We’ll find Madame Humor hasn’t uttered the half;
Ob, Harris come tickle us 1 Tweedy please tickle ub-!
Blodgett do tickle us 1 We all want to laugh 1
Oh, great Gubernator, how sad is your story,
"A way faring man" and a stranger to peace,
On a small pair of stilts you walked straight updo
glory.
And slid down again on a tubful of ‘'grease,”
Farewell to the Bullock who’a fled from our pasture,
And left to his followers nothing but chaff:
Oh, Ephraim come tickle us I Foster please tickle
us I
"Fatty” do tickle us 1 We all want to laugfh:?
SUN-STROKES.
The Camels hair coming—in the
•form of mantles for ladies.
JB@“* Iowa has the champion thief.—
He stole a Bible and pawned it for
whisky.
Heury S. Foote, jr., has been
nominated for Mayor of Canton, Mis
sissippi.
Queen Victoria gave $2,500 out
of her private purse to the Chicago suf
ferers. Did Grant give as much as a sor-
ereian ?
The great unanswered conun-
dram that is now passing from lip to
lip among the friends of Governor Bul
lock is, where is H. L Kimball ?
JJSjr Grace Greenwood calls Joaquin
Miller “the wild singer of the Sierras.”
The “singer” may be a little “wild,” but
some of tlie songs are tame enough.
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SQp- Mrs. Woodhull said to the Balti
moreans, “wo mean secession.” She’ll
see a session of some criminal court, one
of these days, if she goes on/
The Columbia Phenix says it is
rumored that there will be a concentra
tion of ten thousand Government troops
in that city, during the State Fair, to keep
the pence.
CSy^Gov. Davis, of Texas, threatens to
resign if the Legislature refuses to sanc
tion his martial law business. That is
the only way in which he can do the peo
ple of Texas a favor.
It!®- The Indianapolis Journal says:
“The Democracy may bo regarded as a
thing of the past.” Certainly—“athing
of the past,” a thing of the j resent, and
a greater and more glorious thing of the
future.
Yesterday was to have been ob
served by Chicago as a fast day. If she
repented “in sack-cloth and ashes,” she
had but little trouble in finding plenty of
“ashes” for the occasion.
The Boston Po6t says: “It is
more than suspected that a Washington
Ring is after Brigham Young’s tin.” It
has long been suspected that the “true
metal” of the x>rosecntions would “ring”
out after awhile.
CSs- O’Donovan Rossa is spoken of as
Tweed’s successor as Senatorial candidate
for the Fourth New York District. The
Democrats have found that Tweed don’t
wear well, and think of trying Irish
linen.
Tho Radicals, during the last
three years, have started more papers,
than were started in the entire previous
history of the country, but they were
subscription papers for tbe benefit of
Grant.
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The New York Herald speaks of
Brownlow as “ that wrathful and re-
GEORGIA MATTERS.
The Ball has opened in Savannah.
Krzyzanowski gave $10,000 bonds.
The Macon Citizen understands that “a
female, whose character is not as spotless
as it might be, passed through thiat city
on Saturday last, en route to Mont
gomery, bearing with her ten thousand
dollars in money and diamonds which
she had stolen from a resident of Mil-
lcdgeville.” The idea of a citizen of
Mi'Iedgeville having §10,000 in diamonds
and money is too grotesque—too thin.
The Savannah Republican of Sunday
has this item: Mr. Frank Herbert, the
gentlemanly and obliging route agent,
who has served ns so faithfully in this
section for several months past, left for
Atlanta and Atlantic and Gulf Railroad,
on Friday night last. He goes to take
“posish” on the Western and Atlantic
Route as route agent. We envy our At
lanta friends in thus securing the service
of one of the most obliging, gentlemanly
and faithful route agents that ever open
ed a mail bag. Frank is a brick, and we
wish him luck wherever he roams.
The Savannah Republican says: There
is no doubt that well defined cases of
yellow fever have, within the past two
days, mode their appearance in the city,
confined, however, to a street (William)
bordering on the canal. Three cases are
reported as existing, one of which has
proved fatal.
There is evidently something on the
tapis of more than ordinary interest in
connection with the proceedings of the
United States Court. Count Kryzyanows
ki might have been seen running here,
there and everywhere yesterday noon.
The usual redness of face had given place
to a paler which told of something rotten
in Denmark, and evidently the investiga
tions of the grand jury and something to
do with the unnatural movements of this
official.
It is reported and believed-that Mr.
Gould, the late Revenue Collector, will
be here on Monday to testify before the
grand jury in relation to the conspiracy
to cheat and defraud the United States
government, of which Gould was the cat’s
paw (as it is said.) The developments
will not be so brash,as those displayed in
the unearthing of the frauds in New York
city, but will be equally interesting to the
small circle of listeners who vibrate from
Gazan’s corner to the Post Office.—Sav
Rep., 26.
From the Mobile Register.
Chicago and the South.
We observe, in some of our exchanges,
allusions to a speech of the notorious
Ben. Butler (the document itself has not
fallen into our hands) in which that
miserable wretch denounces the failure
of the South to contribute its proportion
to the relief of the sufferers by the Chi
cago fire. ,.f
Now, we have no sympathy with the
spirit that would withhold help, when it
can be given, from any human being, or
set of .beings, in distress, nor do we be
lieve that any such spirit prevails in the
South. “If thine enemy hunger, feed
him; if he thirst, give him drink.” That
is the only rule upon the subject that we
acknowledge.
But, at the same time, it comes with
an ill grace from men who has been as
largely instrumental, as was the infa
mous Butler, in plundering, robbing,
and ruining the South, to complain of
her sparse contributions to an object of
charity.
When Columbia was burned and plun
dered by Sherman, we trow the wretched,
houseless, homeless, helpless wonderers,
who were then aud there turned adrift,
received little help or sympathy from the
North. Nay, it is said that Chicago was
illuminated on that occasion. Whether
this is literally true, or not, we are un
able to say, for our records of what oc
curred at that period outside of the
Sout h ar i very meagre.
Following this is a statement from the
Baltimore Evening Journal which was
copied into The Sun a few days ago,—
The Register then adds:
As another reminiscence, that may not
be inappropriate, let us append a state
ment, from the records of the New Or
leans Howard Association, of the assis
tancoTeeeived from abroad for the bene
fit of the sick of that city in the epidemic
The Stokes’ Sensation.
No official advices were received here
yesterday from Washington concerning
the charge upon which General Stokes
was arrested there. The following dis
patch was sent to hi n last night:
Nashville, October 28, 1871.
To General Wm. B. Stokes, Washington,
District± Columbia :
If yon require any additional bonds
men advise us immediately by telegraph.
R. P. Jenkins,
Wholesale druggist
S. B. Spublock,
Wholesale grocer.
A Washington dispatch to the Cincin
nati Commercial of yesterday says:
“Ex-Congressman Stokes, having given
satisfactory bail, was allowed the freedom
of the city to-day, and went up to report
to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
He affects to make light of the charges
preferred against him, and says he can
easily disprove them when his trial comes
on. With regard to Captain Beaty’s
company, he says that at one time it con
sisted of three hundred men, and that the
lowest average of those who performed
service in said company was one hun
dred and three persons, for whom his
private bills contemplated relief. The
President has relieved Stokes from fur
ther service as Supervisor of Internal
Revenue in Tennessee, and ordered the
Assistant Supervisor to discharge the du
ties until further orders. According to
the specifications in the warrant on which
Stokes was arrested, the latter had charge
of all the papers on which the money was
obtained, and that, notwithstanding claim
agents here were employed in several of
these cases, certificates for bounty money
were issued to Stokes, those for the pri
vates for $1,060" 6acb, and for officers
from $2,000 to $3,000 each, the sum total
aggregating abont $120,000; whereas, ac
cording to the statements of Government
officials who were sent to Tennessee to
work up this case, the fall number of
men legally entitled to relief, including
officers, was only thirty-five, and conse
quently there were over sixty-five names
improperly placed on the rolls, and fraud
ulent claims were thus allowed for $68,-
400.”
The Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Ledger telegraphs under date
of Friday:
“Ex-Congressman Stokes a had long in
terview with the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue this morning, during which
he recited at length his version of the
story of bounty swindling. He declares
that he is able to prove Ms entire inno
cence.”—Nashville Banner, 30th.
nu>r*oV'* s old mouthpiece of Sulphurous °* 1^®' •
Satanism.” If the Parson don’t "reform g** York. ?. .t.m«. t - :***$54,687
in a very short time, Ms declining health BostSu!' ?' * 9,401
admonishes his friends that the “mouth- Baltimore : :. h“.'. j.;.
piece will soon be in its proper place. Philadelphia... .m
Louisville
“The old, old story is told again” i Chicago....
by Mr. Cobb, Supervisor of Internal | Havfen
Revenue for Texas, who, according to a
dispatch to the Baltimore Gazette, “has
returned to Washington ami makes re
port of the official doings. He has
caused to be arrested, or the indictment
of, eleven collectors aud assessors, for al
leged malfeasance and rascalitv in office.
He says fraud and stealing are common,
and almost respectable among officials in
Texas, and prevails as well among State
as Federal officers; that among people
there the criminal act of an officer is not
dMH'
8,601
5,950
4,470
3,500
200
175
We have never‘heard that any com
plaint was made in New Orleans, or else
where, o’fTaek of liberality in magnificent
and prosperous Chicago—nor do we make
any now. * • -
The Catholics of Chicago, tbrongh
their religious establishments churehes.
&c., lost heavily by the great fire in that
city. Among the buildings destroyed
were seven churches, eight schools, six
convents, two asylums and two hospitals
It has also been staled that fully thirty
thousand persons of the Catholic faith
have been made homeless by the fire.
THE CAPITOL.
A Good Prayer.
Rev. Charles Volsey, the English cler
gyman condemned for heresy some time
since, is attempting to fonnd a new
church. Among other novelties he uses
litany wMch contains the following be-
seechment:
“That it may please Thee to help all
literary persons and editors of the public
press, that they may use all their powers
in the cause of truth and righteousness,
and rise above the praise and blame of
men.”
STATE MATTERS.
The Savannah News of Tuesday says:
We are called upon to notice another
outrage by armed negroes on the Louis
ville road, leading to this city.
On yesterday, at about mid-day, Mr.
Geo. Claiy, a gentleman who resides in
Screveu county, in company with his
wife, was proceeding to the city, and
when near the Fair Grounds, at the same
spot where a former occurrence of this
kind took place, he was halted by a mob
of armed negroes, and though no firearms
were brought into use, Mr. Clary and his
lady were the subjects of outrageous in-
salts and menaces.
Mr. Clary states that he offered no
provocation whatever, and, unless they
mistook Mm for some other party against
whom they had a grudge, was totally at a
loss to know why the attack was made,
In addition to very threatemng overtures,
every manner of profane and obscene
language was used by the highwaymen,
in heaping insults upon Mr. Clary and
his wife.
This is the third outrage which has
been committed by these vagabond ne
groes, and it is passing strange that no
cognizance is taken thereof by the au
thorities, or at least such action as would
virtually put a stop to 6uch proceedings.
It is a nice state of affairs when persons
cannot peaceably visit the city without
being intercepted on the road, and re
ceiving insults of the most dire nature.
The Americus Republican has the fol
lowing:
Page, the murderer of young Miller,
whose trial was to have come off yester
day in the Superior Court, didn’t come
to time. He preferred forfeiting his
bond to risking his precious life at the-
bar of justice. We learn that he has
gone to Atlanta to hike his seat as a Rep
resentative from Lee county in the Legis
lature. Now, can a man under indict
ment for murder take a seat with the law
makers of the State ? Is he eligible to
his seat until Jhe has been pronounced
innocent by a competent jury? We think
not. It would be an extremely "bad law
a murderer would make, for the good of
society and the commonwealth, and we
think the honest men of the State, would
prefer a better man to fill the seat of Geo.
Page, from Lee county.
Grady, with his wife, has returned to
Rome. • -
Qmte a number of South Carolina
refugees are in Rome.
A man named Jorks Swords was ran
over by the cars, on the Selma, Rome
and Dalton Railroad, and killed.
Theodore Meres, a Savannah snake
fancier, was bitten by one of his snakes
while exMbiting them in Saxony. But,
as he has been bitten previously by the
same kind of reptile, he is getting "used
to it now and has no fear of consequen
ces.
The fifteenth session of the Savannah
Medical College began yesterday.
Augusta had the first fibst of the sea
son Monday night.
The Chronicle and Sentinel reports a
rumor that a company of soldiers has
been seut to Burke county.
Henry Stumpf, of Monroe county, was
robbed of $80, during the Macon Fair.
Bishop Pierce will preach in Forsyth
next Sunday.
Judge Erskine adjourned his Court in
Savannah on Monday, having finished up
the business.
To conceive the whole of the meaning
of the word “change,” one has only to
call up a memory of what the last Legis
lature was, and, with the memory distinct
in his mind, go up to the State House
and look upon the body which assembled
yesterday. It is change of the most dis
tinct and pleasant character, change in
composition, change of faces, change of
color, and, more important of all, a change
of purpose. Withal, it is a most agreea
ble change, and one that promises well
for the future of the State.
Faces that were familiar are no longer
in those halls. In the Senate a new face,
and a more friendly-looking one, is on
the President’s stand. The Behemoth
no longer occupies his accustomed seat
on the floor. Tom Speer—Tom, the
lively aromatic Radical—the facetious
man of the old Senate—has qmt his Sen
atorial ways, and gone to mis-representing
a Georgia District in Congress. Dun
ning—honest Dunning, who could stand
erect in his seat, aud in the excitement
of eloquent debate, slap the sole of Ms
left boot with all the fervor of loyal Rad
icalism—is there no longer. Hunger-
ford, who occupied two days in saying
what might have been said in five min
utes, is now on a far different “guage,”
and no longer thunders his oratory like a
new Cicero. They are gone—gone so
fur into the past that fame, with the tramp
of a thousand Gabriels, will never be able
to resurrect them, and again set them up
as Mentors to frame laws to govern the
people of the State.
In the House the saintly Caldwell is no
more. The dainty Tweedy, who dresses
like a dandy and legislates like a — any-
tMng— is among the departed. The
illustrious Skowheganite has packed Ms
Representative carpet-bag, and, for all the
publie knows, or cares, is now heeling it
somewhere among the hills of Ms own
State of Maine. McWhorter, paunchy
and dull, no longer thunders away with
Ms gavel. Even the begemmed Johnson
has left Ms seat to be contested by two
others of the same name. They, and others
of theiilk, have gone—have departed this
political life—and the seats which they
once occupied, will be occupied by them
no more forever, and all the people say
“amen,” and while looking after their
retreating reputations, all unite in one
soft-sounding, but exuberent vale, vale,
lunge vale.
Some of the old faces are back—some
of which are welcome. They bore the
brunt of the battle when the battle was
the sorest. They fought like Spartans
when outnumbered two or three to one,
and when they went down, it was with
colors flying and .with an echo of defi
ance thundering in the ears of those by
whom, they were “over-powered—not
conquered.” It makes one feel glad to
see them back, and pleasant must it be
to them to look over the seats and see
friends by the score when foes were once
as thick.
For the first time since Reconstruction
came, the Legislature of Georgia approxi
mates a representation of the intelligence
and wishes of the people. Before,it seemed
as if the highways and by-ways of the
nation had been raked for men who were
most willing to misrepresent the people
and frame laws that were opprobrious to
the tastes and damaging to the real in
terest of Georgia’s proper people. Men
who had no particle of sympathy witlrus
men whose intelligence barely fitted them
for the corn-field or cotton-patch—men
who were the avowed enemies of thepeople
of Georgia, were there as our Representa
tives, framed laws for us, and squandered
money, as if greenbacks were “as tMck
as autumn leaves in Vallambrosa.”
Now it is far different. A Georgian
may look upon either branch of the
present Assembly, and feel that his
friends predominate. The men who now
compose “the assembled wisdom of the
State,” are men who are identified with
the State—men who are interested in
having good laws—men who were citi
zens of Georgia years ago, and who ex
pect to be citizens of Georgia for years
to come—men who will do to trust with
the making of our laws, and the man
agement of our political affairs. Though
there are a few black sheep in the flock,
they are in a hopeless minority, and only
await their turn to pass off the political
stage forever.'
With this understanding of what was
and what is, of the past and the present,
one can hardly help exclaiming, with the
poet:
“Bing out the old, ring in the lif-w,
King, h»ppy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go—
King out the fa'se, ring in the true!
* . * * * * *
* Bing out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
• Bing in the love of truth aud right,
Bing in the common love of good.”
be true, if the following paragraph from
the 'Washington special to the Savannah
News may be credited.
A Boston boot and shoe firm, wMcli
has an extensive Northern Republican
trade by reason of its loyalty, lately hit
upon a plan to advance their trading
South. They invented a sort of square-
toed boot, in the leg of which was im
printed the likeness of General Robert
E. Lee, and this was to go into the
Southern market A fine boot was then
made with the picture of Stonewall
Jackson, also imprinted in the boot-leg,
and this was intended specially for the
Virginia dealers. The firm then applied
for a patent at the office here on their
trade-marks. The examiners to-day de
cided that tlie application could not be
granted, on the ground that these trade
marks tended to encourage disloyalty in
the South. The firm have taken an ap
peal to the Commissioner.
SUN-STROKES.
“Vade Bollock.”—Macon
Tele
graph.
BcDt, TMee thousand public schools
are teaching the Virginia young ideas
how to shoot.
E0=> The Courier-Journal calls the peo
ple ot Bangor, Maine, by the zoological
title of “Bangorillas.”
And now Boston—the hot-bed of
loyalty—the seat of Fanenil Hall—the
home of the Puritans and all that kind
of thing, has iaid herself open to the
reproach of being disloyal.
f , "can aucli things be,
And overcome us like a summer cloud,
"Without our special wonder.’*
Yea, veiily, it seems in one instance to
Fisk took the field manfully in
the New York riots, but now the Mans
field is about to take him.
£§?* Edward Hartell, a San Francisco
portrait painter, shot Mmself through
the head. Rumpled domesticity.
The delay of Alexis is explained.
He stopped on the way to take in Ma
deira. Is the young fellow bibulous?
EQV, The Cincinnati Enquirer, of yes
terday, comes out for Thomas A Scott
for President. How big is the Tom
Scott movement, anyhow? This thing
grows interesting.
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Stokes has been called “the Ten
nessee bald-eagle of Radicalism;” bnt
recent developments have shown that he
deserves to be ranked above the other
buzzards of his party.
g@t=The Macon Telegraph, beingjin a
correcting mood, says: “An article upon
Kimball’s money was headed ‘Macon and
Brunswick Road,’ instead of ‘Albany and
Brunswick Road.’ ” It can now correct
some more, and maybe it will get it right
in a few more trials.
BgU The Courier-Journal remarks that
“Whenever a poetical gem appears at
the head of the Small Talk, Alexander
H. Stephens copies it into The Atlanta
Sun,” and adds, “it isn’t good journal
ism;” wMch charge is ‘admitted, as it is
not “ good journalism”, to copy anything
from the Courier)'-Journal.
and financiers, and such, we trust, will be
placed on the committee.
The article referred to, commences by
alluding to the great cry of the Radicals
about the Democrats of New York rob
bing that city—a charge which every
Radical editor and politician knows is
unfounded and unjust; for, whatever of
wrong doing they may be guilty of in
that city, it is only iu a single community,
and is a local concern, and the Democratic
people of that city are dealing with it
sternly and in their own way—not being
hindered by bayonets; and, besides, all
the New York stealing is mainly the re
sult of a Reform Charter imposed on the
city by the Radical Legislature of that
State; while the robberies of the South
ern States is a matter for which Grant
and the Radical Congress, and the whole
Radical party, is responsible, and from
which they cannot escape; for they have
pinned us down with bayonets and
manacled us, while their agents and
favorites have rifled our pockets.
And,the Patriot might have added, that
the New York robbery was performed by
those so-called Democrats, who have tried
to kill tho party. They are the moneyed
men of the country—the bloated, bonded
aristocracy—who, though Democrats in
other tlays, are now unwilling for tlie
Democracy to come into power, lest they
might be made to pay their part of the
taxes, like those who are not rich.
The following is the article. Read and
study it carefully:
“Asubject of far greater magnitude and
graver import, affecting the whole coun
try, demands attention at our hands.—
We refer to the enormous robbery of the
Southern States, perpetrated by the
agents and emissaries of the National
Administration, in support of its policy,
and intended to promote the re-election
of General Grant. The figures are de
rived from official reports, or the latest
census returns, and may, therefore, bo
easily verified.”
LOUISIANA.
1871. State debt, per report of Auditor..$41,104,173
Excess of receipts over expenditures 8,778,018
Debt of New Orleans by census returns.. .26,500,000
$76,473,091
1801. Total debt 10,009,074
Increased indebtedness .$00,374,017
GEORGIA.
1871. Debt, by report of State Treasurer.. $20,137,50
Bonds, authorized and issued to rail
roads by Badical Legislature and
Governor 30,000.000
$50,137,500
1:01, Debt..* ...3,170,760
The' Savannah News says: “It
has been discovered that Atlanta time is
ten minutes slow. But we suspect the
whole thing is an advertising dodge.’
Of course it is “an advertising dodge;”
but what sort of a “dodge” is it on the
part of Savannah that induces her to re
main twenty years slow.
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B@=“What is the matter with Idaho?”
asks the Courier)'- Journal, which is moved
to the conundrum by the fact that the
third appointee of Grant has resigned
the position of Governor. The Courier-
Journal remembers that Bard was the
first man appointed and first to resign;
and it ought to have sense enough to
know that any position that Bard would
resign is not worth having.
“Mrs. Leary, of GMcago, stoutly
dernes the story that the great fire was
caused by the upsetting of a kerosene
oil lamp in her stable wMle she was milk
ing her cows. She says the stable must
have been fired by incendiaries. She
always milks by day-light.” Well, it is
barely possible that Mrs. Leary’s cow
may be robbed of all her fame, but the
claims of kerosene have not been, and
never will be exploded. Up with the
oleaginous “non-explosive 1”
. — >-•-<
jKgr 1 Robb, who has been dubbed the
“fighting Illinois Colonel,” is evidently
a man of tender passions, and none too
strong for a little womanly weakness.—
The Washington correspondent of the
Savannah News telegraphs, on the 30th,
the following:
Robb met his opponent to-day, and
during the interview was affected to tears.
He expressed a hope that his opponent
would receive the appointment of Collec
tor, aud said that he would retire to pri
vate life and save further expense in the
matter.
Dick Yates must have witnessed those
tears and been moved by them to greater
efforts in behalf of his pet, for it is an
nounced, in the Washington dispatches
published yesterday, that no change will
be made in the Savannah custom house.
Radical Robbery of the South.
The Washington Patriot of the 22d
ult. has an array of statistics, giving some
faint idea of the erroneous frauds, rob
beries and plunderings of the people by
bayonet Radical rule iu the South, which
we annex to these remarks, and ask the
special attention of the Legislature to it.
The plunderers in Georgia have not
succeeded as well as in other States. Dr.
Angier has been in their way—though
the extent to which it hois been done can
not be known till a thorough investiga
tion is had—the performance of which
devolves on the present Legislature, and
which, we have no doubt, they will thor
oughly do by an able and impartial joint
committee of both Houses.
In this investigation tbe principal men,
and the clerks and books of New
York houses, with whom Bullock
and Kimball have had dealings,
must be-carefully examined and searched,
and the holders of the bonds which
have been issued by Bullock must be
hunted up, and the manner of their pos
session must be inquired into carefully.
This important duty will require able
men—able and experienced accountant <
Increased indebtedness $40,066,750
In 1861 Georgia was almost entirely
exempt from taxation, by the receipts
from the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
which covered the State expenses. This
road was recently sold to Cameron,
Delano, Bullock, and others, for one-
third of its value.
1871. Debt and liabilities....
1861. Debt and liabilities....
Increased indebtedness
NORTH CAROLINA,
. $43,688,263"-
..20,115,666-
.$25,597,566
1871. Admitted debt
1861 Debt and liabilities.
,.$30,215,915
...14,575,375
Increased indebtedness $15,640,540
The lowest Radical figures of the
present debt are adopted, although they
do not include five millions of additional
obligations.
VIRGINIA.
1870. Debt $47,287,141
1861. Debt 34,977,298
$12,399,843
Increased indebtednes
SOUTH CAROLINA.
1871. Debt and liabilities
1861. Debt and liabilities
.$17,500,000
...5,090,000
Increased indebtedness $12,500,000
1871. Debt and liabilities $17,258,010
1861. Debt and liabilities 5,000,000
Increased indebtedness ..$12,268,010
TEXAS.
1871. Debt for railroads $12,000,000"
Other liabilities have been incurred,
bnt no official report of the aggregate
can be found. There was no debt pre
vious to the war. In 1860 the tax on
property was ten cents on the $100; it is
now $2 25. The taxes of 1871 amount
to $5,890,000. or ten times the amount
ever levied before reconstruction.
ARKANSAS.
1871. Debt and liabilities • $13,500,000
1861. Debt and liabilities 3,000,000
Increased indebtedness $10,500,000
The Cqunty taxes are enormous.
MISSISSIPPI.
1871. Debt reported $1,800,000
The amount of railroad bonds is large,
but not stated in the Radical reports.—
The county taxation is enormous/ and
does not appear iu the local returns of
the State taxes,
FL03IDA. :
The debt and obligations of this State
have been purposely concealed, and are
estimated to range between six and six
teen millions of dollars. The bonds for
railroads have been manipulated by some
of the managers, who robbed North Car
olina.'
RECAPITULATION. '
Louisiana. "..... $66,374,017
Georgia ;.. 46,966,750
Tennessee 25,572,597
North Carolina.......;. 15,630,540
Virginia 12,309,843
South Carolina 12,500,000
Alabama 12,258,600
Texas, (lowest estimate) .". 12,009,000
Arkansas ; 10,500,000
Mississippi, (partial) I.huO.OOO
Florida, (lowest estimate, 6,000,000
$221,911,747
North Carolina, additional, not included
iu Badical report 5,900,000
Badical robbery in three years ...$226,911,747
Appalling as these figures are, they do
not represent the entire indebtedness by
tens of millions. The Radical authorities
have deliberately concealed aud misrep
resented the actual and outstanding ob
ligations, for political effect. This gi
gantic debt was mostly incurred during
the last three years, under pretext of
building railroads aud making other im
provements. But the bonds were sold
and stoleu, and there is nothing to show
for tbe two hundred and twenty-six mil
lions, but the sudden wealth of carpet
bag Governors, office-holders and mem
bers of Congress, who shared the spoil?
Literally nothing.
But the oppression aud outrage upo
the^e unfortunate people does not en<
here. Not satisfied with the pluude
thus appropriated in the shape of bond*
by means of corrupt aud infamous legis
lotion, the screw Inis been turned whei
ever Radicalism still holds possession of
power, by the most outrageous county
taxes, to say nothing of
State at large.
