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TH E ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN.
DAILY SUN
Saturday Morning. November 18
The Public Printing.
1 liave not beon an active candidate for.
State Printer. I have signified to the
Legislature that The Atlanta Sux-Pub
lishing Company was willing to do tbe
work at a fair price, and this is the most
that I have done. I have spoken to but
few members, and these will bear me
witness that I have urged a modification of her coal, iron, silver, and diamond lands at
the existing law.jnore than the claims of 1 from Si to $4 per acre, while Pennsylva-
circillation of sueh knowledge as will
develope our vast untouched resources,!
and greatly increase our wealth, the
Legislature should not be parsimoni
ous. There is such a thing as saving
at the spigot and losing at the spile.
The Geological survey of Pennsylvania
has enhanced the value ;if her real estate
one thousandper cent.; and she is £800,-
000,000 richer than she was before it was
made. Georgia, with four times as much
mineral wealth as Pennsylvania, now sells
myself or any one else. I have favored
iicutting down of expenses, and I am
more gratified with the record which
The Sun has made than I would be with
having secured the office of State Prin
ter.
I am particularly gratified that both
branches of the Legislature have de
clared in favor of examining the subject,
with a view .of throwing more safe-guards
around the Public Printing, cutting off
existing chances for abase, and reducing
the present compensation. If this is
done, I shffll be content. So far as
mere personal interest, or a preference of
individuals to perform the work, is con
cerned, the subject dwindles into insig
nificance, and is unworthy of the seri
ous consideration of Legislators.
There is some dissatisfaction with the
result of the nomination cm Tuesday
night—not so much with the persons re
ceiving it, as the circumstances attending.
It is alleged that the call for the
caucus was made without due consulta
tion, and that many Democrats did not
know it; that many others did not attend,
believing that a nomination ought not to
he made, and would not be attempted,
while the Senate bill on the subj&t of
the Printing was pending; and, farther,
that some seventy Democrats were not
represented in the caucus. >■'
In' view of these facts, it has been sug
gested, that after due consultation and
full notice, a meeting of the Democratic
members be held; that a committee be
tken appointed to invite sealed bids for
the State Printing from such Democrats
who are Printers or Publishers, as de
sire to do the work, and that the respon
sible party making the lowest bid and
giving undoubted guaranties, be declared
the nominee of the party for State
Printer.
This will exclude the giving of the
work to a Radical, and it will place the
Democratic party—the people’s repre
sentatives—upon the platform of econo
my and justice to the tax-payers of Geor
gia.
I have not made this suggestion, and
do not make it; I only mention the fact
that it is suggested. I do not desire to
prevent Mr. Hemphill and Mr. Burke,
or any’one else, from being chosen State
Printer; neither would I, for one mo
ment, urge the course suggested, or any
other, merely for the purpose of securing
the office myself; but I do desire the
Democratic party to economize, and not
spend the peoples’ money uselessly.
J. Henly Smith.
Our Buried Wealth.
The Legislature ought, without delay,
to pass an act for the appointment of a
State Geologist^ and-the making of a
thorough Geological -survey of the State
of Georgia. Our mineral resources are
known to be immense, but no scientific
survey, properly locating and determin
ing tbe availability of these resources, has
jjyer been made; and in this respect
Georgia is far behind. Such a survey
will add many millions of dollars to the
value of our real estate, and induce capi
tal, machinery, and skilled labor, to be
come a permanent interest in the State.
Georgia has twice as much iron as
Pennsylvania, while we, also, have gold,
silver, copper and diamonds, which
Pennsylvania has not. We, also, have
many other resources in the bosom of
the earth which only require develop
ment to make Georgia one of the richest
States in the Union. This development
will be greatly accelerated by a Geological
survey.
And in this connectionwe desire to allude
to the fact that Dr. Stephenson, the cel
ebrated Geologist and Scientist, has pub
lished a most valuable hand-book on the
Geology and Mineralogy of the State,
showing its adaptation to the pursuits of
capitalists and manufacturers. This
work was written at the request of a num
ber of the members of the Legislature and
officers of the State; and at the sugges
tion of the same, he memorialized the
Legislature to subscribe for a few copies
to be distributed by the, State at
points likely to benefit us, but the mem
orial was rejected by the Senate.
We admire the determination of the
members to cut off all unnecessary ex
pense, but it may be that there is not
much economy in withholding a very
small expense, which would undoubtedly
bring such a rich harvest to the people
of the State, and so greatly enhance the
taxable value of our property.
We happen to know that Dr. Stephen
son did not ask this as a favor. He, and
those who desire to spread knowledge on
this important subject, believe it to be a
matter of very small expense, which will
result in very great benefit to the State,
and, therefore, it is the duly of the Legis
lature to adopt the measure.
There is a reciprocal duty and law, ex
isting between the people and the Legis
lature; and in such a matter as a Geo
logical survey of the State, and the wide
nia sells her mineral lauds, of much less
intrinsic value, at from $1,000 to $3,000
per acre.
California appropriated $120,000 for a
Geological survey, which has contributed
immensely to the economical working of
her mines, and her rapid development.
This was "an economical expenditure to
the State.
Austria, a thousand years old, has but
lately seen the vast importance of such
development and she has now a scien
tific corps, who have been engaged in
the survey for several years, at an expense
of $40,000 per annum; and that govern
ment thinks it is acting economically.
We venture the prediction that within
two years after the completion of a thor
ough Geological survey of Georgia, her
real estate will be enhanced Five Hun
dred Millions of Dollars I ,
We hope tlie Legislature will duly con
sider this matter, and do justice to the
tax-payers of Georgia.
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From tbe Boston Post, November IS, 1871.
Tlte Grant Invasion.
It should bring the blush of shame, if
it does not of indignation, to the Ameri
can cheek that such scenes are to be wit
nessed in any part of the country as are
transpiring in South Carolina. Intimi
dated by the Washington tyranny, other
States besides South Carolina are making
haste to disavow their sympathy with all
such proceedings as she is accused of tol
erating; and thus they stand, not as sov
ereign members of a free and equal fede
ration, bat like papils before the frown
and rod of the pedagogue. What ren
ders the fact still more humiliating, is
that their protestations not only go for
nothing, but they are nsed for the basis
of a new suspicion; and it may be accept
ed for the rule that for a Southern State
to disclaim all sympathy with disorder is
the surest way to draw down upon it the
hostility of the mercenary tyrant at Wash
ington. The investigation shows that there
was nothing to warrant this armed inva
sion of more than one-fourth part of
South Carolina; what effect does Geor
gia suppose it will have on the minds of
Grant and his advisers, to invite them
to a similar examination into the affairs
of that State, or to present affidavits of
the best citizens to prove a condition of
profound peace.
We receive the rumor now that Texas
is likely to come next under the Execu*-
tive ban, her particular offence being the
election of four Democratic members of
Congress. The charge brought by Gov.
Davis is, that the- Democrats did not be
have themselves in a seemly manner on
election day.' Yet he had the whole
State under his military thumb. The
people voted practically under the rule
of . martial law. Davis had his
police militia stationed everywhere;
and he has officially declared, besides,
that the Radicals carried the elections!
It is difficult to detect what
fault, then, he can find. • If his own par
ty were not obstructed in having their
own way, as his certificates of election
testify, there can be no apology for ask
ing the President to place the State un
der martial law, unless such as may be
furaisbed by the determination of the
latter to make the electoral vote of Texas,
as of Sonth Carolina and. Georgia, secure
for the renomination of himself next
year. This is what Trumbull and Schurz
warned the country against when the
infamous Ku-Klux law was on its passage.
They said it gave into the. hands of the
President the power to re-elect himself
by the direct aid of the bayonet; events
demonstrate tlie truth of their declara
tion.- Let not Congress, fhowever, be
lieve that the people are indifferent to
such tyrannical abuses any more than to
the gross corruptions of New York city
officials.
Georgia Affairs at Washington.
The Washington correspondent of the
Savannah News telegraphs the following
items ou the 15th.
The. Fighting Colonel of Illinois,
claiming that he is the head of the Re
publican party in Savannah, has sent on
a mammoth petition signed by a number
of colored persons whose names it would
puzzle the oldest inhabitant to remember,
setting forth his manj- good qualities,
his love for the colored folks, and the
many victories to which he has led the
party in Savannah, and praying that he
be retained in office.
In answer to this petition, Secretary
Boutwell has sent an agent to Savannah
for the special purpose of investigating
the whole case, and as soon as his report
is received the case will be finally dis
posed of.
The Treasury records show that during
the war H. I. Kimball was employed as
a Government agent at one. time, and
that he was dismissed on very grave sus
piciou of irregularities in office.
The New York Sun to-day. says: “Gov
ernor Bullock is probably correct when
he says that the people of Georgia who
desire his impeachment are opposed to
the re-election of General Grant. It is
not strange that such be the case. Tha
vile rabble of thieves who have recently
been plundering the people of Sonth
Carolma and Georgia are thoroughly
identified with those of Grant.”
Intestine Metaphysics.—A handsome
horse was promenading the streets yes
terday, with a placard bearing the in
scription: “For Sale. Inquire within.”
We did not wish to purchase.
The Rumor Not . Correct.—Upon in
quiry of Gov. Brown, we learn that the
rumor, prevailing in the city a few days
ago, that he had purchased Gov. Bul
lock’s fine bam and farm in Cobb county,
is entirely without any foundation, and
that the subject of such a trade was
never mentioned to him by Bullock or
any one else.
THE CAPITOL.
The proceedings of the Legislature
camcTery nearly being monotonous yes
terday. In the Senate barely a whisper
of eloquence or a scintilation of wit was
aroused. The Senators plodded along
in the prosy way of ordinary business,
and failed to get up a sensation; but it
gave busiuess an energetic shove, and
transacted a good deal of it.
We liked that bill passed in the Sen
ate, making it penal to sell liquor to mi
nors without the written consent of pa
rent or guardian. The fact is, the laws
regulating the sale of ardent spirits are
too lax, and some reform is needed. If law
cannot remedy the great evil growing out
of the rumseller’s trade, it can, at least,
ameliorate it; and to this end the Senate
has made a jndirious step. The House
will, no doubt, concur. .
Both houses agreed upon a resolution
to refer the matter of reform iu Public,
Printing to the Committee on Printing.
Hence it is probable that this question
will soon be disposed of finally.
The House had under consideration
the claims of Mr. W. G. Pierce, of Cal
houn county, to a seat in the body. It
appears that the ballot box was stolen
before the vote was counted; but a ma
jority of the voters of the county signed
a statement that they had voted for Mr.
Pierce. At one time it seemed probable
this testimony would be sufficient to seat
the applicant, but the question was
sprung that the statement was not sworn
to. This put a different phase upon the
matter, and lessened Pierce’ chances for
a seat. Joiner, with his customary im
pudence and ignorance, hoped the House
would not refuse to seat Mr. Pierce be
cause he was a Republican. This loyal
streak was wiped out by Mr. Bush, who
was authorized to say Pierce was not a
Republican. The matter was not dis
posed of, but will come up to-day as un
finished business.
In the House, on Thursday, there was
an election of Speaker, pro tern., when
the House elected Maj. Camming, of
Richmond, to preside in the absence of
Mr. Speaker Smith. Our friend Dunlap
Scott was voted for by Clower, the darkie
from Monroe; but os that colored indi
vidual found (as he supposed) that the
“Mountain Sprout” had no friends bnt
himself, he made a speech aboat like
this: “Mr. Speaker, I wants to change
my name. [The Speaker suggested that
he wanted to change his vote.'] Yes, Sar;
I wants to change my vote from Dunlap
Scott to Cumming, of Richmond; be
cause, Sar, I finds dat the gemman from
Rome has no strength in the Legislature,
and as I have been mistaken, I wants to
change my vote.”
From the Opelika Locomotive.
. * MOKDECAI.
It was Haman, rich and great,
First Addle in the State,
Who couldn’t shut his eye
To sleep nor slumber: why?
For early and for late,
And forever, at the gate,
Of his Lord and master, sate
The rebellions Mr. Mordecai!
And his bloated carpet-hag
Grew bilious at the rag
Of the very ragged Rebel sitting nigh;
And he set himself to fix
The doodlest of tricks ■
For the hoisting of Mr. Mordecai.
So he went and builded straight
Agallo.vs at the gate,
A gallows that was forty cubits high,
With a scaffold and a rope,
And a trigger, in the hope , . , i
Of strangling Mr. Mordecai.
Bat the King, a kindly soul,
He took the tallest pole
Of the gallows that was forty cubits high;
And on the stiffest limb
Made a pendulum of him
That was Haman, and not Mordecai.
And we see him swinging slow,
Through the ages, to and fro,
A warning to the world from the sky,
With his carpet-sack to choke him,
While the little boys to joke him,
Holler: “How is that for (Mr. Mordec) in?”
Now! ye men of Belial 1 Heed,
In your guile and in your greed <
Of your neighbors’ neck and pelf,
How a man may build a gibbet •
And thereupon exhibit
Nobody but himself.
SUN-STROKES.
Said Murphy to Fenton:
“Well, we have met!”
Said Fenton to Murphy:
“We have, yon bet!"
Said Mnrpby to Fenton :
“Can you go Grant ?”
Said Fenton to Murphy :
“No sir, I can’t!”
Said Murphy to Fenton:
“Would we’d ne’er met 1”
Said Fenton to Murphy :
■‘Get up and get”
And that—believing I’m fully bent on—
Is the whole story of Murphy and Fenton.
Mark Twain is thirty-five or
forty.
The Boston Post is forty. Its age
is its forte.
The New York Tribune counts up
17,787Republican majority in that State.
A Kentucky paper lauds a hotel
as a good “hashery.”
ES3L Pogue says he is glad winter’s
come, as one paper collar will now last
him a whole week.
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Montanafowes $25,000. That is
not a mountain o’ debt, and leaves the
territory in a happy state.
The New York World announces
“Bishop Ogilvy, of Georgia,” among the
late arrivals in that city.
The Louisville Commercial says: “That
was an enterprising man who started a
paper-mill in Georgia, when he heard
that A. H. Stephens was to write for a
newspaper.” True, and the man now
says it was the best investment of his
life. Mr. Stephens’ connection with The
Sun has so increased its circulation, that
it fairly keeps his paper-mill a-going.
EftC The Cincinnati Commercial, claims
to have found “ an honest man in Coun
ty Commissioner Sater.” Then it is Sater-
sfied.
fisaF* Scotland is to have another cen
tennial anniversary, to occur on the 25th
of January. The memory to be honored
this time is that of James Hogg, the
Ettrick Shepherd.
J83F“ In one of the Massachusetts Sen
atorial Districts, Smith and Brown were
the candidates, and Smith beat Brown
just one vote. This is a decisive issue of
the long mooted question of the relative
numerical strength of the two families.
The Washington correspondent
of the Louisville Ledger is guilty of the
superfluity of telegraphing that “Fish
will not retire for the present.” There
is no doubt that Grant keeps him in for
the “present” that Fish made him.
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£say”The Government offers to compro
mise with one of its thieves—pension
agent Calhoun, of Philadelphia. Such a
course may make our Goveanment square
financially, but what is to become of the
morality of the case ?
The Baltimore American says:
“Maryland will go for Grant in .1872;”
but these Radical papers always could
out-lie creation. Maryland will “go for”
Grant just like the Baltimore indignation
meeting “went for” him a few weeks
ago.
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The Philadelphia Press says “it is
no longer safe to rob. The rogue fears the
halter, because he knows it is no longer
a threat but a fact.” What must be the
woe of poor Forney, to see thus passed
away, the only inducement men ever had
to become Radicals.
■8^“ The Enquirer tells how “the man
who laughs ” does in Cincinnati: “ He
suddenly doubled himself up as though
he had been kicked in the stomach by a
steam jackass, and as his ponderous jaws
swung open, while undergoing this cach-
inatory exercise, his face looked like the
side of a barn with a couple of boards
missing.”
The New York Tribune is unwilling to
admit that the negro legislators of
Sonth Carolina, have, in caucus, deter
mined to repudiate both the old and new
debts of the State. The Tribune has so
long been accustomed to viewing tbe fol
lies committed by its party in the South,
that is is unwilling to give its partizans
credit for a desire to do even a single
sensible act. The debt of Sonth Caro
lina will have to be repudiated ultimate
ly, and even the Radical negroes know
it.
BSL An administration organ at Wash
ington says: “It will require not less
than ten thousand regular troops judi
ciously distributed throughout the South
ern States to insure a free and fair elec
tion in those States in 1872. It may be
necessary that Congress should increase
the army.” Of course, - by a “free and
fair election” the organ means a majori
ty for Grant. It ought to have said, for
the sake of honesty, instead of the above,
“it will require not less than ten thou
sand regular troops, judiciously distribu-i
ted, to carry the Southern States for
Grant in 1872.” That is what it means.
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BThe old controversy about the
authorship of “The Beautiful Snow,”
bids fair to be appropriately revived as
the winter sets in. The controversy is
opened by the appearance of a volume
of poems, by J. W. ' Watson, in which
“ The Beautiful Snow,” occupies a lead
ing position. The Courier-Journal asserts
that the poem was written by Henry Fax
on. The editor of the Courier-Journal
has had a better opportunity to know
who wrote the poem than any other man
now living. Faxon is dead and cannot
assert his claim to it. Nothing, there
fore, is left but for Watson to steal the
merit of having produced it. If he has
been as select in stealing the balance of
the poems which make, up the volume
which he has published, the volume is
unquestionably a clever one. However,
if Mr. Watson wants to set himself right
about this matter and establish his claim
to the authorship of the poem, let him
write another of equal merit. This will
satisfy the public mind and give him the
praise that he claims. It is a little mat
ter of justification that he owes to him
self as mnch as to the public.
GEORGIA MATTERS.
Yesterday was thanksgiving in Savan
nah.
Died, on Wednesday, R. N. Stubbs, of
Savannah, of congestive chills.
The Assistant District Attorney, An
drew Sloan, is still very sick, and Hon.
John D. Pope is acting in his place.
The Ku Klnx Committee is in Savan
nah.
Mr. Wm. H. Cole and Miss Mary Con
way were thrown from a bnggy on Thun
derbolt road, on Wednesday. The young
lady was killed, and the young man very
seriously if not fatally injured. They
were returning from a funeral.
In The Sun of yesterday brief mention
was made of a fire which occurred the
night before in Griffin. The fire was a
very serious one as will be shown by the
following estimate of losses taken from
the Star of yesterday: W. H. Roberts’
loss $6,000, insurance $4,500, in the
Franklin Insurance Company of Phila
delphia; Henry Barr’s loss $1,500, in-
sursd in the Home and Continental In
surance Company of New York for$7,500;
Moss & Williams’ loss $4,000, insured for
$2,000; Masonic Lodge, which was over
A little daughter of Gen. R. H. Ander
son, of Savannah, fell into a cellar on
Monday and broke her arm.
Marietta sends 389 white and 200 col
ored children to school.
Rome has had the “first killing frost.”
The Chattooga Advei-iiser calls Gov
ernor Bollock “the wicked flee,” &c.
The Lingard Comedy Troupe played
in Columbus last night.
The Columbus Sun is shining over a
sweet potato that weighs 13 J pounds.
The Talbotton Court House is to be
decorated with an $850 fence.
The gin house of John Parker, of Tal
bot county, was burned a week ago, to
gether with six bags of cotton Chicagoed.
Macon has been frosted o’er,
tbe store of Roberts, lost $4,000, insured
for $2,000; J. M. Glass, merchant tailor,
who occupied the front room of the
Masonic Hall, up stairs, lost $3,500, no
insurance; A B. Phelps, next door to
Burr’s building, lost by moving goods,
stealage, etc., $3,000, insured for $2,000
in the Liverpool & London & Globe In
surance Company; W. J. Kincaid, loss,
damaged goods, $1,000; W. W. Walker
& Bro., loss, damaged goods, Si,000; W.
W. Dews’ loss, damage of goods, $1,000.
On Sunday last, says the Valdosta
Times, of the 15th, as the wife of a re
spectable citizen of Echols county was
waiting at a little branch about a mile
from Valdosta for her husband, who, from
some cause had either remained in, or
returned to town, she was attacked by a
negro man, and an attempt at rape was
made. He first endeavored to scare her
into subjection by flourishing a huge
knife. Failing in this he knocked her
down, and from appearances the strug
gle that ensued was considerable. Fear
ing that her screams would attract atten
tion the beast fled. Knowledge of the
fact soon reached several who went in
hot pursuit, but to no effect, the villain
escaped.
The Valdosta Times refuses to be com
forted unless General Gordon is nominat
ed for Governor.
Dalton still enjoys the superfluous lux
ury of a burglar or two.
Augusta is delighted to have had a
frost.
Augusta and Charleston measured fists
in Augusta Wednesday. No decision.
The Southern Atlantic Telegraph*Com-
pany has reached Macon with its posts.
The wires will soon be iu also.
The Japs are in Macon.
Macon has had the first ice of the sea
son.
Mr. James Leonard, of Talbotton coun
ty, fell down his gin-house steps Monday
and broke his leg.
A party of Columbus hunters killed a
dozen ducks and a wild goose.
Columbus is bragging over a frost sbe
had Thursday morning.
Two Columbus women robbed a coun
tryman of $15 Wednesday night. Shame
upon them.
T. P. Hilton is a candidate for Mayor
of Newnan.
Newnan Democrats are to hold a con
vention on the 27th to nominate candi
dates for Mayor and Aldermen.
Hon. G. P. Calverhouse, of Crawford,
has been paralysed.
Wm. F. Wamble, of Washington coun
ty, has been thrown from a buggy and
had his leg broken.
Mis. Elizabeth Wright, of Johnson
county, died recently, aged 90.
Senoia is coming out. A picture gal
lery has been organized there.
Needle Making.
There is a needle factory in New Haven
where the whole process is done by a
single) machine, without the manual labor
of any person: A coil of steel wire is
put in, the machine cuts it off at the
required lengths, it cuts the steel pieces
consecutively, punches the eye-holes,
counter-sinks the eyes and grinds the
point—and in fact does everyfhing until
the needles drop out completely formed.
Another machine picks them up and ar
ranges them heads and points together,
and a third peice of mechanism puts
into paper. One of these machines occu
pies no more space than an ordinary
table, and each of them turns out from
30,000 to 40,000 needles a day. Most of
the needles were imported from England
until a few years past.
An unsophisticated parent in Ports
mouth, N. H., observed with pain that
his first-born had no teeth, and hastened
to remedy the“deformity” by purchasing
a fifteen dollar set of molars, which he
banded to the nurse, with the remark
that the baby shouldn’t suff er if he had
to wear only one shirt a week.
A nice young girl at Green Bay, Wis.,
was being courted by a nice young man.
He was generously inclined, and made-
her presents of hair oil, which he pur
chased from the store of the father of his
adored. After giving her some tweny
bottles of the oleaginous fluid he dis
covered he was working in a circle—as
fast as he presented them she returned
them to the store, thus dutifully making
trade for her father. No cards.
Our Robb.
Why will not the papers let our Robb
alone? The Louisville Ledger of
Wednesday has the following in its Wash
ington special:
The case of Collector Robb, of Sa
vannah, is undergoing another investiga
tion. Robb came near being ousted a
few weeks since, bnt through the influ
ence of Dick Yates is allowed to hold
over until a report can be made by an
agent of the Treasury Department sent
specially to look into Robb’s case. Bout-
well’s perseverance in holding this fellow
in office, is an insult to the entire State
government, since his removal has been
urged by Senator Hill, Attorney-General
Akerman, and the entire Republican del
egation in Congress. Beside bis re
moval would be justified, on the ground
of his entire unfitness for the office, for
dishonesty, and other causes. This Robb
is tbe same fellow who, when he first
went to Georgia, told immense stories
about his deeds of prowess in the Union
army, where he was known as the fight
ing Colonel of Illinois, when, in fact, he
never was in the army at all except as an
inefficient member of tbe sanitary brig
ade.
Dlcctlng of Chamber of Commerce.
Chamber of Commerce met last even
ing, President Crane in the Chair.
Dr. Hitchcock introduced resolution
asking that a committee be appointed to
petition the City Council to remove all
tax for ten years, from manufactories in
this city.
Col. Hulbert addressed the meeting at
length, on the importance of encourag
ing manufactures, and proposed a slight
amendment.
Mr. Norcross thought the completion
of the Georgia Western Railroad essen
tial to the successful operation of manu
factures. The resolution prevailed. The
President appointed Messrs. Hulbert
Hitchcock, Redwine, Pitts and Fuller as
Committee.
Mr. Garrett introduced resolution to
ask the Legislature to incorporate the
Chamber of Commerce as a board of
trade, similar to those in other and older
cities; adopted.
Absolution was introduced instructing
the Secretary to collect dues for pre
ceding and succeeding quarter; adopted.
A resolution memorializing the Legis
lature to place non-resident liquor deal
ers on same footing as resident dealers
was adopted.
Mr. Cooper, Secretary, tendered his
resignation, aocepted with thanks for his
past services. Board adjourned.
OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY.
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Anniversaries of tlie Tliall.au and Pui
Delta Societies.
This reporter plants here, in the first
line, evidence of his recognition of the
merit of an Atlanta audience. He means
to be accurate when he asserts that a
good audience assembled in the City TTnll
last night, to greet the representatives of
the Thalian and Phi Delta Societies.—
Their respectful, earnest attention, poured
out a continuous stream of encourage
ment, which none can so well appreciate
as the speaker. What boy orator has not
felt his happiness drenched and ambi
tion doomed when he beheld his living,
blazing thought, agonized out iu the
closet, and by most anxious dressing got
in presentable shape, going down, down,
down, before the mumblings of a merry
mob. How many hapless victims of this
sort of treatment, have not borne off their
tottering aspirations, to pine and sicken,
and die, in the same closet where they
first received their bounding, burning
life. But our Atlanta audiences don’t
treat “our boys” that way, and we bring
last night’s assemblage for our witness.
Mr. B. K. Thrower, orator of the
Thalian Society, richly repaid the audi
ence for their modest compliment.—
“Act, act in the living present, Hearts
within and God o’er head! ” was his
theme. We use no spirit of indiscrimi
nate praise in saying, that this casual
sample of his ability gives promise of an
eloquent speaker when time and emer
gency add their strength. He has the
true oratorical ring in his voice, and
the clear articulation that mark the first-
class speaker.
Tiie orator of the Phi Delta Society,
Mr. J. T. Wills, has none the less merit,
but is a speaker of a different type. Por
tions of his speech were conceived in a
spirit of unaffected pathos, and delivered
in a feeling, impressive manner, unusual
for one of his years. He has much rea
son to be hopeful ot his future, for at
last, the most effective of all eloquence, is
the eloquence of suffering.
Departing.—A caravan of Henry
county folks passed through this city
yesterday, en route to some point in Ar
kansas.
Mr. H. I. Kimball.—A paragraph ap
peared among our news items yesterday,
copied from a Washington dispatch to
the Savannah News, stated that Mr.
Kimball had an appointment under the
United States Government during the
war, and was dismissed under suspicion
of irregularities iu office.
- We are reliably informed that this is a
mistake, and that Mr. K. never held any
office whatever under the Government,
either during the war, or at any other
time.
Rev.. M. D. Wood.—Yesterday Judge
Hopkins granted a new trial in the case
of Mr. Wood. Our readers will remem
ber that at his late trial in Decatur, re
sulting in his conviction for seduction,
and sentence to twenty years imprison
ment in the penitentiary, he and his
counsel did not introduce any testimony
in bis behalf—relying upon the insuffi
ciency of the testimony of the prosecu
tion. -i
When the new trial occurs, he will,
doubtless, have a number of witnesses to
testify in his behalf.
Brikt\ Mention.—Mrs. Bullock left
this city very quietly yesterday was a
week ago—going no one knows where.
She went away without giving informa
tion to her best friends.
It is reported that H. L Kimball is in
New York, trying to make arrangements
to complete the Brunswick and Albany
Railroad, and that he will return to At
lanta in a few days.
The most intimate friends of Gov. Bul
lock profess to have no knowledge of his
whereabouts. Northern papers indicate
that he is no longer in the United States.
Db. M. F. Stephenson has gone to
Stone Mountain to make some scientific
investigations regarding the relics of an
tiquity in the vicinity of that great natu
ral wonder.
