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THE ATLANTA SUN
the < WtU *l K»( IIKB*' A*iOrU«
TIO.N AND POPULAR EDUCATION.
The advancement of the cause of
education is a subject that should en-
lis* the warm, cordial and heartj co
operation of everr citizen. The edu
cation of the masses promotes more
than any other influence for the gen
eral and material prosperity of the
country. The Georgia Teachers’ As
sociation, now assembled in our city,
have great responsibilities to meet in
devising the best means and the best
systems for the promotion oi their
high and honorable vocation. We
understand that one of the objects of
the Association is to agree, as far as
possible, as to what shall constitute
the principal text-books of the school
room. Another is, to consider upon
the best theories of popular educa
tion and the best plan for putting
accepted theories into practical and
successful operation.
'I he A.-sociation has rendeied much
valuable aid to our legislators in the
development of the present school
laws of the State; and will, doubtless,
have the subject of public schools
under consideration during their
present session. Among the mem
bers of the Association we recognize
many eminent and successful educa
tors who have spent their lives in the
duties of their high and honorable
vocation. There is no idass of men
and women more poorly paid in pro
portion to the amountt of mental ex
ertion they are subject to and the re
sponsibility they have to meet
It is to promote the interests of
that class of our most useful men
and women, and to advance and pro
mote the cause of education especial
ly, the organization of the Georgia
Teachers’ Association was effected.
Education, like all other interests,
is best promoted by system and co
operative effort. That effort can best
be secured by a good system of public
schools—which system concentrates
all effort, und brings forward as
teachers only those who are compe
tent, and relieves teachers of the worry
ami embarrassment of drumming up
schools and the uncertainties of get
ting their pay.
We trust the Georgia Teachers’
Association will continue, as hereto
fore, to give their undivided support
to the cause of public schools and
popular education. We do not con
ceive how they can better subserve
their own interests and those of the
masses than by the advocacy of such
a system of education—which once
made practical and ellicient in Geor
gia, will do more to invite tirst class
labor, which is capital, to our State
than anything else that can be done.
It is the secret of Western enterprise
and advancement. The emigiant,
coming to our shores, naturally looks
to the mental prospects of his chil
dren, aiul just as naturally turns his
face to that section where suen advan
tages may be best secured; hence,
they go to the West or settle at the
North.
Until we can present proper edu
cational advantages to the working
classes and middle men of means, we
cannot expect that rapid material
growth of oik* State we have a right
to expect, blessed, as we aru, with a
climate aud soil far more inviting
than the frigid climate of the North
and Northwest. For the proper or
ganization of public schools, we
should leave the details to tbe practi
cal experience of our teachers, leav
ing to the Legislature but the simple
duty of formally enacting such a code
of public school laws as maybe prop
erly presented by them after wise and
discreet digestion of the most practi
cable and efficient theory of public
schools.
In conclusion, we have to say that
we have given the foregoing hurriedly
written views for what they are worth;
and take the occasion to say there
is no class of men we would more
cordially receive into our city and
welcome to its hospitality, coming,
as they do, upon a mission that in
volves the material, moral and mental
progress of the “Empire State of the
South.”
“TUB tyrant of new oklkaiv
We republish to-day from the Mil
waukee Sentinel, of the 21st insL, a
Radical paper, a notice of this drama,
whicn may serve to indicate how it
is viewed from a Radical stand-point.
To depreciate its merits as a literary
work, (though the writer of the criti
cism had nevtr seen it,) and at the
same time to make political capital
by the pretext that it was intended
to rekindle the fires of our late strug
gle, seems to have been the object oi
the writer. He quotes from the
piece to show that “ the spirit of se
cession has by no means yet been
exorcised from the Southern heart;”
that the people of the South yet “ are
in the gall of bitterness and coui-
ortles- mourning for the Lost
Cause.”
As to the question of the literary
merits of the piece, that ha3 been
answered favorably by competent
critics, ai.d we do not proj>ose to re
new its discussion uow. But that it
is a proof of a disposition existing at
present amongst the Southern j»eo-
ple, to i eopen the question of se
cession and revivs the controversy,
with all its bitter feelings, which
culminated in the late co li-iou be
tween the two sections, is only the
invention of the writer’s prejudiced
mind, or the dictate of partisan zeal.
He knows, or ought to know, that
the authors of such productions at
tempt to adapt their characters to
the times in which the scenes are
laid. They are introduced to repre
sent events, then occurring, either
real or imaginary, and opinions and
sentiments then entertained and
felt.
Mumford insulted the flag of the
United Stjtes. It was to him then,
as well as to all those who sustained
the Confederate cause, the enemy’s
flag. No one at the South now in
suits that flag; it floats freely every
where, not loved probably as much
as in days of yoie, but still untouched
by hostile hands. And why? Be
cause it is now recognized as the flag
of our country—of the whole country.
It seems that there are persons at
the North, who can see nothing on
the part of the South, either during
the var or since, in motive or con
duct, to approve or even excuse;
who insist that the Southern people
are to be looked on not only as rebels
during the war, but as rebels now,
still plotting secession and revolu
tion. Where this arises from ig
norance it is to be pitied; but when
it is proclaimed for a purpose—
party ends, it is despicable. We sup
pose that the author of “ The Tyraut’
does not feel annihilated by this
onslaught upon him. We would take
it rather as a compliment coming
front the source it does, and evincing
the malignant spirit it could not con
ceal.
WBB-K-T.V
>TTdSr—NLA TT ©, LBr73.
VHB CONVBNTIlta OF WOVERWORS.
The invitation extended by Gov
Smith for a Convention of Gover
nors in the interest of the At
lantic and Great Western Canal has
been generally accepted by all to
whom it was addressed. The occa
sion will, doubtless, be one of ex
traordinary interest and importance
bringing together one of the most
imposing body of men ever convened
in the interest of a great public en
terprise—an enterprise of internal
improvement iu which there is so
great au area of tilt country in
terested, making it emphatically an
intcmational community of interest
unknown in our national advance
ment.
Nor was there ever so gigantic a
proposition so universally received
throughout so gr^at a territory of
the country, and with so little oppo
sition. It is one of those propositions
that, besides its commercial aspects,
presents a political feature in it that
will have the effect of uniting here
tofore antagonizing interests and
promoting a better national unity be
tween sections so long at war with
each other. We refer especially to
the Northwestern and the Southern
Atlantic States, though generally to
all the Stales.
The demand for Southern cotton
all over the world is such that the
Soutn may always enjoy the monopo
ly. To do so successfully, we must
have transportation for our pro
visions from the Northwest. The
cheaper we can get our supplies, the
more remunerative will become the
production ol cotton; and the
cheaper the transportation, the more
remunerative Will become the pro
duction of provision supnlies to the
farmers of the Northwest. These are
propositions that the Southern plan
ter and Western farmei view pre
cisely th r ough the same glasses; they
form the questions that resolve
themselves into the single proposi
tion of the Atlantic and Great West
ern Canal, and the two elements
naturally lock themselves together in
a great common iuter-st equally ad
vantageous to both.
We repeat what we have hereto
fore said, that Gov. Smith, as the
representitive head of the State, has
wisely acted in calling the approach
ing convention. He has thereby
p’aced Georgia in the van of a great
national internal improvement, and
his action in the matter, we believe,
will be endorsed by all good citizens.
The Sux will render all the aid it
possibly can in the promotion of this
great work in whatever may be done
for it compatible with right and in
conformity to law.
OENKU.AL, STATE ITEMS.
**•**•••■ tk( AUorHtjr-etMnl u tb«
®*wt»u HMhU* a«Ml*A.
Atlaxti. April 23, It73.
HI* Excellency. June* M. Smith. Atlanta, Georgia:
Tha enclosed petition of the various
Sawing Machine Companies doing busi
ness her’, with the remarks of the Comp
troller-General (enoloaed) thereupon,
were reo*-ived with joora of the 21at inst,
asking my “opinion upon tho points
made" in the same. As I gather the
points from the papers they are these:
The 14th Section of the general tax act
ol 1873, levies “a specific tux of twentv-
five dollars upon all agents for the sale
of Bewing machines, of home t r foreign
inannfactnre, in eaefa county in which
such agents snail vend snch machines.”
The Comptroller-General Las instructed
the Tax Collectors that "all persons who
rend sewing machines are agents and
liable lor tne tax.” The petition
states that thb companies recognize
as agents only those persons to whom
they “consign their machines for sale.”
Under the broad construction of the
Comptroller General the comp&nhs say
that tax collectors compel 'the payment
ol the tax from the following classes of
persons employed by them.
1. Those who “ are compensated solely
by acommissiou on tbe amount of sales
made by them.”
2. Persona to whom sample goods, Ac.,
are furnished who “ tLrough local sym
pathy, occasionally secooed in disposing
ot a machine on which sale they receive
a commission.
3. Supervisors and collectors whose
business is not to sell, but who, in tueir
travels often take an order for a machine
to be sent out on trial.”
They claim that neither of these three
classes should be required to pay th e
tax
»roiis cmvjrrtr.
Tlit Citpi—TH* ivptrlor Cont—Ja d(«
Barhusa-A. H. C*I-Sr«r(la Weal*
era Railroad.
Salt Sraixea, loreLas Co.. Qa.,
April 34th. 1»7S.
I end. As Governor Smith, according to
- a Northern letter-writer, forcibly express-
I ed it, “We mast live and rise, and we in
Georgia are determined to win." This
is the onlv spirit that will achieve the
oomplete emancipation of the South.
Ah. U. •• Will ,o. b. kmd „o„ c h |
to allow me spaoein your eolnmnstopen Q enera i Grant, all will ag.pe that he is
a few lines, from the fact that jour paper a man of power, and has the key of this
lias, I believe, the Lrgest circulation of ' nation’s destiny in his hands; aud there
any other in oor county, and deservedly * re P a *f 10 . tic minds in
J the Bontb, wUo believe that in the pres
ent condition of affairs, he is the surest
so, too.
In the first place, the farmers gentr- ard most avaiiabh source of delivi ranee
ally m our coanty are using more than and protection; and furthermore, chat if
ordinary energy and industry in prepar
ing their crops. I have seldom, if ever,
witnessed more energy ai.d industry in
that direction.
wisely approached, in a spirit ot manly
candor and confidence, not servility, we
shall not look to him in vain. Such, I
take it, is the i<)ea and purpose of Mr.
T ... , , .. , ,, i Stephens, and if so, for one, I offer him
I would be glad if oar people would * Lacd aud bid him a God speed,
raise less cotton, and more corn; until J Bartow
we learn that lesson, we will never be an s-a-a
independent aud prosperous people. •• rn<-t> runt or New Orleans.”
Douglasville, our county site, is bouud From the Milwaukee sentinel, April31, ists.
to be a cousideiable place vet Th
fegf Two Portsmouth (Va.) fami
lies, formerly on the most intimate
neighborly relations, are nursing a
desperate feud in regard to a goose
egg, both parties claiming it They
are as fierce as Modocs toward each
other. We can’t determine whether
these folks are more of geese than
the goose that laid the egg.
The editor of tho Hamilton
Visitor states that he intends making
his paper still more interesting as
soon as he gets over his little sick
ness. If sickness of the editor results
in the improvement oi his paper, we
know ol several that might get sick
very judiciously.
- he Peace Commissioners
appointed to see the Modocs have es
tablished their headquarters at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York—
preferring the spring beds of that es
tablishment to those of lava.
Our latest advices from the
seat of war is to the effect that—
The brave and stubeorn Modoc*
Are *UU aeeare m tbe Rock*.
— The lumber business is brisk in
Brum-wick
— B*bb Superior Court is in session
this week at Barna Hill in that county.
— M.tcon nas opened ber eyes on a
watermelon of this year’s growth.
— Dr. M. Hahn, of Bainori dge, is
dead
—Efforts are on foot in Thomas county
to iuunce the Grand Jnry to recommend
a County Court.
—Ba,abridge seems to be infested with
a band of tnieves, who commie their
deeds boldly ana escape c etectum.
—T. J. Bruton has been selected to
represent the Chapter Masons iu the
Grand Chapter.
— John Gaugh, alias Lewis McDer-
mont, a horse thief, was arrested in
Macon on Sauidaj.
— Tbe night train between Macon and
Columbus has been discontinued for the
summer mouths.
— The Macon Guards are jnst now
about as active as any iu the city, and
will soon be as thoroughly drilled.
— Bishop Beckwith administered the
rite of confirmation to thirteen persons
in Griffin Uet Sunday.
The Griffin Female College is in a
DEATH OF MR. P. M. KISIITEN6ALE.
We learn from the Brunswick Ap
peal that this prominent citizen of
that town died o» Mon da v night was
a week agx Mr. N. was well known
throughout the State. He w^s a
gentleman of great energy and public
spirit, had frequently held posts of
honor and trust, and bis death will
leave a vacuum in society and the
church that will be naruto tin. His
bereaved amilv bar* the sympacuies
of a'l who knew, admired and lov<*d
the u'-oascu.
Tikuim* Item*.
— >v Hshingtoo county expects to re
ceive $10,025 for taxes this year.
— The Greenville Sentinel and Re
porter reports the prospects in that sec
tion fair for a fall wheat crop.
— Iu Fayttte county tbe grasshopper
has reappeared. Seventeen year old
locusts are also coining
— The Cleveland Banner reports the
discovery of a rich bed of iron ore on
Hambrif ht’a lands, Flint Spring mines,
Bradley oounty.
— Ti ere is to be another Trent affair.
This time in Somerville, Penn. Mim
bettie Trent a.' been selected to read
the salutatory at tbe commencement ex
ercises of the Somervihe Female Insti
tute next June, and Mies Hettie Hum
phreys baa been elected to deliver tbe
valedictory on the same occasion.
■ UeDelppl Item*.
— 1 The Oor.nth. Mias., eorton f.ctory.
a lone tune at a btsdo still, now mos i*ir
tr 11 pushed Jb «u o«mp*eiiou.
Mrs. Kate Freeman, o Holly
Spring* M’w < ’’-Ta. *-l. - *•
•y«: ik Aw*vT*,IOU.
If the third class do not make any
contract for the sale of a machine, they
are not liable to the tax. If they do,
they are. The first and second classes
are. Any person authorized by a com
pany to contraet for the sale of machines,
and so to bind said oompany, is an agent
for sale within the meaning of the act.
It is immaterial whether he is stationary
or peddling; whether he sells many or
few machines; whether he is paid a
salary, or commission, or nothing ;
whether the seller is a male oi female;
whether the company call him agent or
not.
ft is not a tax npon property; it is not
a tax upon the company. It is a tax upon
the occupation, or cal'ing. Burch, ei aL,
the M. <fc A. ot Savannah, 42d Ga.
R., 596.
The next complaint of the petitioners
is that from different causes an ugent
ceases to be such, and that another has
to supply his place, and that the
new agent is also required to pay the
tax when he begins to act as agent for
selling. That this is right follows
necess rily from the opinion just giveD.
Each person is taxed upon his calling.
The company has nothing to do with it.
But this act does not cover any employe
who has no agency (i. e.) authority to sell.
In an agency any number of persons may
be employed for making machines, re
pairing, exhibiting, etc., without paying
this tax. And I think by fair canstruc-
tion when there is an established agency
is any ccnnty the head of which has paid
the tax, his clerks may sell therein (i. e.)
in the agents place of business, without
being agents liable to the tax ; just as a
vender of drugs may sell by a clerk, as a
wholesale liquor dealer may sell by clerks,
provided the head of the house is
licensed. These clerks are supposed to
act in his presence and bind the com
panies not by themselves but throu^o
tbe taxed agent.
Whether this is a wise law is no part
of our ousintsn. Its provisions are plain
and must be followed until modified. It
may be hard that various poor persons,
are therby deprived of one means of sub
sistence ; bat the General Assembly may
have supposed that it was an evil to
have irresponisble agents acting for
companies, whose houses and headquar
ters are distant irons the purchaser They
ask oi you the “Executive modification
requisite to subserve the wise t urposes
anticipated by the law.” What ibote
wise purposes are I know not. The
words of the aot being unambiguous must
govern its construction. If your Excel-
vet
Georgia Western Railroad isbe.ug located
by it Ii will be one ot tbe nn st flour
ishing little towns in Cherokee Georgia,
being a distance of twenty-five mi es
from the Capitol of the State, and oue
of the healthiest locations iu Georgia,
from the fact that it is surrounded with
some as good farming land as tber is .n
any other county in the State. With the
Georgia Western Railroad thr. ugn our
county site, and Tun Atlanta tics to
light up our pathway, ail will be well.
The Superior Court was held in our
county this week, His Honor, Hugh Bu
chanan, presiding. Too much praise can
not be given him for the manner in which
he has dispatched the easiness of the
Coart. Justice alike was dealt out
to the poor as well as the rich, the high
as well as the low.
We can boast of having a superior
judge in point of legal hbiiity, equal, if
not superior, to any other circuit in the
State. He is decidedly one of the most
popular m«n in the Tallapo sa Circuit,
and if a candidate would he voted for,
irrespective of party. It His Excellency,
tne Governor, erred in bis appointment,
it was in not appointing him one of the
Judges of the Suprtme Court, instead of
the Snperior Court. In fact, I regard
Judge Hugh Buchanan as one of Geor
gia’s most gifted sons.
Mr. A. H. Cox, of La Grange, Ga., is
the Solicitor of the Tallapoo°a circuit, a
very promising yonng man of fine sense,
a high toned gentleman, and if he should
live long, will make his mark in Georgia.
A man of his talent and learning canuot
be kept hid.
But before I close this artioie I must
congratulate the Georgia Western Rail
road company in being so fortunate as
to secure tbe servioes of men so emi
nently qualified as Capt. John A. Grant,
Richard Peters, and Henry L. Colier.
They rank high in their profession as
surveyors; besides they are high toned
gentlemen. J. C. B.
The Sooth ami the President.
Editors Son: I have lead with all due
respt ct and attention, the remarks of
your Editor-iQ-Chief upon the duty— per-
ha; s I should say policy—of Southern
Den ociats towurds President Grant. His
idea is, that we should not assail the Presi
dent personally, nor his official acts in
executing bad laws, but direct our hos
tility against the obnoxious measures
themselves, and the party that put them
cn the statute book.
It is not a little difficult for the mind to
appreciate these distinctions, especially
in those cases where the President, who
is to be held blameless, actually favored
and participated iu the passage of the
obnoxious laws, for which the legisla
tors, according to Mr. Stephens, are to
be held solely responsible.
Nor can I agree with Mr. (Stephens
when he says the reprehensible personal
acts of the President should not be held
up to public condemnation. He may
not have said this in so many words, yet
I think the inference is fairly deducible
from the general tenor of his n marks,
as respectable journalists wonld nardly
make such a charge if they did not be
lieve they had tne evidence before them
to sustain it, I believe our rulers
should be held responsible lor all their
acts which affect either the national char
acter or welfare. There is nowhere where
improper personal conduct is calculated
to ex.rt so deleterious an influence npon
society as where it is found in high
places. We naturally look to great men,
occupying exalted positions in both state
and enureb, for pare examples in per
sonal cuaraeteristics and deportment;
and wh n they fail in this respect, the
staudard of individual and national mo
rality is obliged to be lowered. I dis
cuss the principle alone. With many
others, I may not agree with Mr. Ste-
pnens us to the facts in General Grant’s
However we m iy have got ou iu the
business of reconstructing the Southern
Stales, we are at rani that the work of re
newing the hearts of our Southern
brethreu has not yet beeu so effectual as
to afford us cause for congratulation. In
fact they daily snow fortu tokens of mi-
regeueruteuess, aud give as unmis'aka-
ble indications that they aie yet in the
gull of citteruess and in comfortless
mourning foi the iost cause. Southern
po-ts rhyme its requiem, and at last we
have it ensnriued in tragedy. One Gen
eral A. C. Garlington, of Atlanta, Ga.,
who does not neglect to have it under
stood that he isau ex-Confederate officer,
has produced a drama which he has de
nominated “The Tyrant of New Or
leans.” The public need not be informed,
of coarse, that the individual thus dis
tinguished is no othjr than Gen. Butler.
The Southern people ha^e never forgiven
Mr. Butler, and it is hardly probable
that they ever will forgive him fur many
things he did wuile Governor of New
Orleans; and particularly for his famous
onler which he found necessary for the
*ffcciual restraint of Southern females
who took pains to spit in the faces ot
Union soldiers and to otherwise insult
them and the national flag. The haugiug
of Mumford lor tearing down the national
flag is also held by Southern people
to have been a monstrous piece of
atrocity: and these two instances of Gen’
Butler’s reign are especially signalized by
Gen. Garhugton in his tragedy of that
"(^ant. We have not yet had the pleas-
r ure of perusing this drama entire, but
from eu?h extracts os have fallen under
our observation we are led to conclude
that the piece is angularly well calcula
ted to fire the Southern heart, however
poor in the particulars of dramatic and
literary merit. Had tbe author simply
aimed his tragedy at Butler as a m:aus of
being avenged on t. e “New Orle ns Ty
rant,” it would nut liuve been particu
larly noticeable; out ovet and
above this, he ha • employed his
lines for tne obvious pi rpose ot justify
ing secession and of uumortalizing its
heioes as patriots ai.d saints. Thus, he
contrives to exalt Mumtord to tho glo
ries of martyrdom and to Hold him up
as tne embodiment of patriotism ind
honor; whereas, no is usually supposed
to have been a common gambl- r aud a
very ugly sort of a traitor; and in his
coloquy wttn Butler he is made to say
that for tear ng dowu and trampling
upon the national flag he is “ shielded
by a guiltless conscience,” aud that he
is a v.ctim offered upon the altar of
“ honor, truth ana fidelity to country.”
So, also, one ot the female characters
of the drama is set up to observe,
concerning the “Tyrant’s” order
about them, that, as for the women
of New Orleans,—“ It had been better
if, on that sad day, when o’er our heads
was flaunted that cur red flag, with torches
we had sprang into the streets, and with
our burning homes the sky illumin’d;”
and mnen more such lurid stufl; all of
which goes to show, as we have already
observed, that the spirit of secession has
by no means yet been exorcised from the
Southern heart For this reason, doubt
less, Gen. Garlington, by means of his
tragic effort, has entitled himself to the
undying esteem and affection of his
Southern compatriots, aud notably to
the worshipful love of the ladies of New
Orleans. Even so staid a person as
Alex. H. Stephens is enraptured with the
play, to the extreme of actually eulogiz-
ing the composition, and of prononu-
c.ng it uncommonly suitable lor parlor
reading. As a pecuniary stroke, General
Garlingtcn will probably not find his ac
count in this drama. At any nte, South
ern authors have not heretofore seemed
to grow fat ou the results of their labors.
Possibly in this instance our author has
struck acbord that will vibrate to the ad
vantage of his pocket. As for Mr. But
ler, he will doubtless value himself upou
this added distinction, and it is the like
liest thiDgin the world that the “Tyrant
of New Orleans” will have no such atten
tive and satisfied student as the “Tyrant”
himself.
very prosperous condition, there being
130 pupils in attendance.
— Mr. M. A. Knight, of Sparta, son [ lency believes the reasons sufficient!
of Rev. John Knight, ‘noteti f<»r piety
— The Sabbath scho Is of Duiien have
invited the Sabbath schools of Brunswick
to a picnic on the 6th of May.
— The Brunswick and Albany Railroad
has received fifteen new platform cars,
bu.lt by the Dawson Car Manufacturing
Oompany.
— Alexander, of the Griffin Star, is
sick and Fitch is too lazv to get oat a
good paper, for which he indiscreetly
apo igizes.
— Tbe musical jerks of a brass band
steal softly over tne window sills ot tne
editorial sanctum of the Thomasviile
Times.
—A large temperance meeting was held
in R itn - ,,n Moudav night, and addressee
delivered oy Rev. W. D. Atkinson, Rev.
T. H. Stout, Rev. J. H. Kupatnck, Rev.
W. H. Davis aud other distingmshed vis
itors.
— P. E. Bowdre, Esq., took charge of
the office of Secretary and Treasurer of
the Griffin, Savauuah aud North Ala
bama R-ilroad ou Monday. Mr. C. F.
Newton is vbe ag nt.
—A famier in Y*xoo county, Miss.,
reixirts t£u*t iw vonw. - r~ -ttm
damage to uie corn crop.
Apprehension* »r- entertained of au| last week.
vtrilow <i tne MJoslasimn iv u i •ti'j
nuieutHte aae-o *-• • »'-s -
strong to invoke such action, you may
suspend the collection of the taxes on any
part thereof due the State, until the meet-
! ing of the next General Assembly, but
it longer. Sect. 70, Irwin’s Revised
Code. You cannot “otherwise inteoere
with the col'ection thereof.” Ibid. This
specific tax is under au act to bay and
collect a tax for the support of the Gov
ernment for the year 1873, an l for other
purposes. Your Excellency caun-.i 'em-
edy the alleged inconveniences growing
out of tne tsx collector’s misunderstand
ing and misapplying tne law. You do
not elect the tax collectors and are not re
sponsible .or their want of at ihty, etc.
I believe, however, that when their busi
ness is systematized, that their em
ployers shall pass for what they are, and
loi L-t what the Oomnany is pleased to
mil them, the trouble win cease.
Respectfully, N. J. Hammond,
Attorney General of Georgia.
— The annual Convention of the Pro-
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case; out this is a matter of belief, aud
he is entitled to his own.
Tbe great leading thought, however,
of Mr. Stephens—and the one which he
propably intended to convey in the arti
cle referred to, viz.: that the Sontherr
Democracy should cease all party oppo
sition to General Grant, and even make to
him overtures of pea and friendship, I
do aDprovep.nd heartily join Mr.Stepheos
in commendmg it to the sober common
sense of the Somiiera people. Tnis
point was elaborately, and I think forci
bly, presented in a series of articles over
the signature of “Junius,” published
last week by your neighbors of the Con
stitution, and I think the argument will
not fail to strike tbe intelligent minds of
theeountry. In my judgment, the writer
tak** the correct view of the situation,
aud blazes out the path by which tne
South can tscape from her present trou
bles. On all essential points he aud
Mi. Stephens substantially agree. Much
might L • said on the subject which, per
haps, it weie cot prudent to say st this
early day; and I shrewdly ’suspect that
both Mr. Stephens an 1 “Junius” xn« w
more than they were w.lling to write
aewn for the public eye. Bat, of one
tbiug we may rest assured—the pee pie
of the South are a sensible, practical
people, and, when left to think for them-
-elves, will not be found sacrificing every-
ming thai is near to mem at me oeiiest
ol party leanere. L'his eternal war npon
invincible power, and attempt to set op
impraevieab'e theories, with a dea 1 ' o- s
at everv stage of the contest, must come
to au DUu. i lie uodiiuou oelittc Ol .at
v-juntrv i»s instioct of self-preserva
tion demand it u« Southern D-op.e
Uiiio.- .axe •.ari > .oaelvih. -liu tuey
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Important to Fabhzks. —We obtained
some information the other dav, from
the Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue
lor tnis district, which is of great impor
tance tto farmers. It is .hi-: No man
has a right to keep liquor or tobacco on
his place, and dt al it out to his hands,
charging them for it, without taking oat
a license as a retailer. Any one so do
ing makes him-elf liable to imprison
ment. sVe suppose a good many far
mers have done this, without intending
to violate law—doubtless thinking they
could deal out liquors and tobacco j ost
as well as other supplies. They should
avoid it hereafter, if they would save
' hemselves trouble. LaGrange Re-
POT**-- r T -
g9*The forthcoming number of the
Edinburg Review will contain a memoir
of the late General RooertE. Lee, from
original and other material, collected by
an English writer ilready known from
his studies of the Campaigns in Virginia.
The unfinished oars and materials
belonging to Mr. Ttiomas J. Wharton,
were sold in Brunswick on Saturday last,
under a mortgage fi fa in favor of Geo.
C. Wharton, netting about $2,500, after
ih • exempting of $1,000 nnder the home
stead .a ws.
— Tne Saperur J .art oi H*.r. was
lively last week. One ueg: - charged
with murder, and another wr.u an as
sault with intent to murder, were found
guilty and sent to the p-uiteutiary. aud
allu auotller vO Uie CUam giug, couVICted
of au assault and battery.
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