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HOME JOURNAL.
Friday. February Id, IHH.’t.
CONGRESS
Is likely to adjourn without ad
opting any substantial measures of
relief for the industries and tax
payers of the country. Pending
the final action of Congress upon
the tariff, more cr less anxiety will
be felt in business circles. Should
this body adjourn without modify
ing the existing tariff, it ifc thought
by some that President Arthur will
convene at once the new Congress
in extra session to perfect its un
finished business. Whilst there is ,
yet no apprehensiou of a panic like
that of 1873, there is evidently ap
prehension of trouble in the finan- I
cial an<l business world.' Farmers
will do well to pitch their crops
with reference to meat and bread.
THE FENCE CAW.
' I
The article in our paper to-day •
from the Macon Messenger, is com-;
mended to the careful perusal of!
our readers. We prosumo this ■
subject will be thoroughly discuss-!
ed at the Stato Agricultural Con- j
vention which meets in Macon next >
wool:. Awo have before Intima
ted, the question is one which the I
freeholders should be permitted to
settle among themselves.
THE TEKKIBIiE FLOODS,
So destructive to life and prop
erty in Europo, are now, with re
sistless force, sweeping over the
western States, submerging thou
sands of homes, desolating cities
and villages, and destroying hun-1
dreds of lives and millions of prop
erty. Thousands of people in the
suburbs of Cincinnati, Louisville
and other places, proximate to the
Ohio, Kentucky and other rivers,
are homeless and suffering terribly
from cold and hunger. The freight
depot of tho Southern Railroad at
Cincinnati was destroyed, and of
course for several days all travel
and transportation from the west
will bo much embarrassed. Tele
grams state, that in Louisville, Cin
cinnati and places, busiuoss is at a
stand still. Appropriations by the
city and state governments have
boon made to mitigate the suffer
ings of refugees. At Cincinnatti,
tho river reached tho height of 66
feet and \fas still rising.
Tho gloomy accounts from the
west, from which tho south has so
largely drawn its supply of bread
and meat, should cause tho farmers
to plant for larger provision crops
of every kind this year, and loss
cotton.
—Judge Henderson, State Com
missioner of agriculture, states, in
a rocont circular, that tho following
counties of Georgia have adopted
tho “no fence” or stock law, viz:
Campbell, Clayton, Coweta, Henry,
Houston, Meriwether, Monroe,
Morgan, Pike, Putnam, Rockdale,
Spaldiug aud Troup, and districts
in Fulton, Elbert, Scriven aud oth
er counties. Not a single protest or
objection has been offered against
tho law after being put into practi
cal operation. The real question is
fenciug stock or fencing crops, and
“no fence” menus the former. It
requires better, stronger fences, but
not so many of them, though every
farmer can have as many as he
pleases. *
Senator Brown will ploaso ac
cept our thanks for interesting and
yaluable public documents.
—Mr. Win. E. Dodge, of New
York, is dead. Mr. Dodge was
well known in Southern Georgia,
and his death will bo much re
gretted there ns elsewhere. Dodge
county was named for him. He is
said to havo been worth fifteen
millions.
—The Savannah Recorder in its
Sesquiylots notes that “Governor
Stephens, who had grown very old
since his last visit to tho Forest
City, never tired during his pro
gress through the st reets in dipping
his hat gracefully to the people
who liued the route of tho proces
sion.”
—Tho Sesqni-Centeunial cele
bration at Savannah, this week,
was a grand success. The inter
esting letter of our special corres
pondent did not reach us in time
to appear this week.
—Mr. Walter C. Jones, who niue
years ago gave the English Church
Missionary Society $360,000, for
work in China and Japan, has re
cently mado a thank-offering of
$400,000 for the recovery of his
son from sickness. Four years
ago he gave $165,000 to found the
India Native Church Missionary
Fund,
TARIFF—SENATOR 11HOWN.
i The Tariff has been a leading
issue in American politics, since
the first establishment of the Re
public. It is likely to so contiuue,
as long as our present form of gov
ernment endures. Happily, after
many fierce struggles, which shook
the very foundations of onr free in
stitutions, this question has at last
been divested of its bitter section
al aspect, aud become what Henry
Clay, its great and illustrious cham
pion designed it to bo—American
ized.
There are differences of opinion
in regard to the tariff bills now* be
fore Congress, but a majority of its
members of both houses we believe,
favors raising a revenue for the
support of government by discrim
inating impost duties, instead of;
direct taxation. Onr mind has -
been familliar with this subject ev
cr since the days of nullification, j
which took place in South Caroli-!
ua half a century ago. Tho writer I
was in tho gallery of the reps6nta-!
tivc hall, when the yeas and nays j
wero called on the passage of the i
nullification ordinance, in the Stato!
convention. Ho well recollects with
wfyat emphasis the lion-hearted
Daniel E. Huger, voted nay, whilst
Gov. James Hamilton jr., the ac
complished, president, with equal
fervor, voted yea. That was truly j
a most gifted and wonderful body, j
Wo shall never look upon its like
again. Rut what marvellous trans
formations in Southern sentiment
and feeling! Here w o have before
us, an able speech, on this same
old tariff theme, delivered recently
in tho U. S. Senate, by Senator
Brown, of Georgia, but an honored
son of tho Palmetto Slate. Hear
him:—
“I am utterly opposed to levying
one dollar of tax on the people of
the United States for protection
alone. lam in favor as soon us it
can possibly bo done of raising all
tho tax necessary to support tho
Federal Government upon import
ed articles, ns I have avowed again
and again upon this floor. 1 am
utterly opposed to the present in
ternal-revenue system. It- was a
war measure, adoptod as such,
never intended at the time to be
fastend permauetly on the people
of this country, and it nerer ought
to be. That system entails upon
us, in addition to tho expense we
heretofore had to bear of collecting
tho revenues, the cost of auother
army of collectors—inland collect
ors—who arc increased by a pro
cess of indofinato expansion when
a political campaign comes on; aud
many of them aro used as very effi
cient political agents to advance
the interests of tho party in power.
That is not all. Nothing has done
so much to annoy the citizens of
this country, to vex and harass
them—l mean nothing in the
shape of legislation for the collect
ion of revenue—as has the work
ing of this internal-revenue system.
Under tho law governing the
system, or at loast under the prac
tice, and the}* claim that it is justifi
ed by law, and I believe it is, by
what purports to bo law on tho
statue-book, the collector of inter
nal revenue sends his deputy out
upon a raid whenever ho thinks
proper to do so. Ho issues his
summons to his henchmen, aud
gathers around him whatever force
ho desires. Ho goes into tho coun
try in scorch of illicit stills, as the
excuse is. What power does he go
armed with V If he finds a still
! miming where there is not a li
conso, lie resorts to no judicial pro
ceeding; ho seizes it, destroys the
still or takes it from its place and
carries it away, destroys tho beer
or any other articles that lie mny
| find iu the" distillery, that he
j thinks proper to destroy, and seizes
the property of tho distiller and
| carries it off, and many times ho
takes property iu no way connect
jed with the running of the distil
| lery. This is done by an agent of
| tho. Government of the United
{States, w hich Government has iu
; its Constitution the distinct pro
! vision that private property shall
not bo taken for public use without
just compensation; and provides
: distinctly that uo one shall be de
prived of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law.
This system is even carried so
far that if iu those raids the revenue
collectors find a inau at a distillery,
though he had nothing to do with
distilling, if ho becomes alarmed
and runs at their approach, yet if
: they raise their fire-arms aud shoot
lnm down the courts of the State
are not permitted to try his mur
derers as criminals. Iu such case
the demand comes for transfer of
the case to tho Federal courts, and
it is so ordered, because this raid
! or, with his posse, who goes around
through the mountains or the val
leys hunting stills, is claimed to
have beeu an agent of the Govern
ment, and acting under its authori
ty while he was out destroying the
property of the citizen without
warrant or authority or the judg
ment of any court for doing so, aud
if any oue offers resistance, nay
more, if any one floes even and does
not stop when commanded and is
shot down, tho State courts aro
held to have no jurisdiction, and
this agent of the Government is put
on trial in the United States court
and the United States district at
j torney is ordered to defend him.
A mockery of justice !
Thus the Constitution and laws
of this country, I mean the Consti
tution and all laws passed in con -
fortuity to it, arc trampled under '
foot recklessly and tyrannical? iD
the execution of this system.. And
yet some of the Senators iu this
Chamber, who are very denuncia
tory of almost any kind of tariff,
are sticklers for the continuance of
the internal-revenue system. I
would abolish it absolutely. I
would do away with this army of
collectors and those illegal raiders.
I would destroy the power and
monopoly of tho great whisky ring,
and I w’ould collect the revenue at;
tho ports of this country, as our
fathers collected it, aud as it was
always dono except when the exi
gencies of war required extreme
measures.
On what principle should we
collect it? Which is better, the
tariff system always practiced as;
most satisfactory to the people, or J
the internal-revenue or direct-tax I
system ? It must be done by one ;
system or the other. We must;
havo money to support tho Govern
ment.”
These views of our able and dis
tinguished Senator are substantial
!jy those ot the old whig party of
1840. They will doubtless now as
then, be endorsed by a majority of
the American people. Men of all
parties favor a modification of the
present tariff. The bill now before
the Senate and the two bills before
the House, all favor reduction.—
Mr. Morrill estimates that the Sen
ate bill will reduce the tariff $45-
000,000, or 20£ per cont; the com
mission’s bill, $37,000,000, or 18
per cent., aud the Houso bill, $26-1
000,000, or 12 per cent. If in this
crisis of tho country the Democra
cy fail to hood the cry of the peo
ple for relief from onerous taxa
tion its doom is scaled for all com
ing time.
—Methodism bids fair to bo well
represented in the Government of
Pennsylvania. The Governor, his
private Secretary, the, State Libra
rian, and the Chaplain of tho House
are all Methodists.
Hisliop Gross.
Right Rev. W 11. Gross, Bishop of the
diocese of Savannah, will preach at the Cath
olic church, in this city, on next Monday
evening at 7} o’clock, and on Tuesday
morning. Ail arc invited to hear this elo
quent divine.
SPECIAL LOCALS.
Honey of tnr at C. A. Davis & Co’s.
Elegant Spring Clothing Just received
by C. A. Davis & Cos.
—When in need of a good razor or (lock
et knife don’t fail to look at iny assortment
iis it is by far the best in the city.- 8. A.
Torbcrt.
—Train oil at C. A. Davis & Co’s.
—Genuine Bnncornb cabbage seed at C.
A. Davis & Co’s.
—Eliwan Guano, Dissolved Hone and
Acid I‘hosplmte. Sterling and other stand
ard brands of Guano for sale by R. Tappnn,
White Pluiiis, Ua.
—See the new Spring Clothing at C. A.
Davis &> Vo’s.
—I mu headquarters for cigars, pipes,
smoking tobacco and fancy articles. Please
give me a call.—S. A. Tolbert.
—Buy plows, plow goods, iron, steel,
lmmes, traces, buck bands, plow lines of C.
A. Davis & Cos.
The best Sewing Machines at C. A.
Davis & Co’s.
—Exchange bought and sold in Augusta,
Atlanta, amt New York by E, A. Copeian.
—Fifteen barrels genuine Eastern Seed
; Irish Potatoes just received at S. A. Tor
bo ris.
—You will find tho right prices at C. A.
Davis & Co’s.
—Cnll on Kimbrough and Knowles for
the Mastodon guano. There is uo better
guano to be bad than this.
—See Globe Cotton Planter for sale by C.
A. Davis & Cos.
—C. A. Davis & Cos. are receiving ninny
orders for spring suits to measure. See j
their samples and low prices.
—Price of meat down at C. A. Davis &
Co.’s *
—Buy bandretli’s garden seed of C. A.
Davis ifc Cos.
—Kimbrough & Knowles have just re
; ceived u large stock of Etiwan Bone. Send
in your.orders.
—You eun buy five Slate pencils and five ■
sticks of Tatty candy all for 5c at S. A. i
Torbcrt’s.
—l.ydia Pinkham’s Compound at C. A.
; Davis & Co’s.
—Swiftt’s Specific.—C, A. Davis & Cos.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED.
Five car-loads of OLD IRON
BONES and HIDES. Forty
| cents a hundred will be paid
for bones.
x. xtossXv-x-AJsr,
feblfi 83. ■ Grkkxesboro, Ga.
SPECIALNOTICE.
The official advertisements of
the undersigned will appear in
the Georgia Home Journal.
C. C. NORTON,
SHERIFF OF BREENE COUNTY.
jail. 56, ’B3.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
GEO. W. SCOTT £ CO.,
■A.T'Xd.A.ILTT.A.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
(Km pi nr phospho
THE GREAT COTTON & CORN FERTILIZER!
TT is manufactured at, ATLANTA, GA., as a Special Ma,-
nure for Southern Lands and Crops, contains
all the ehnents of plant food in their best form, has stood the
test of years and is now regarded as one of the safest and
BEST FERTILIZERS
In use. Thousands of farmers in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee
and Florida, and many of the most prominent Agricultural
Clubs use it! To all of whom we refer. It is one of the high
est grade fertilizers sold in Georgia. (See the agricultural de
partment reports.) We invite tests alongside the best fertilizer.
We offer itJbw for cash, or on time for currency or cotton.—
Merchontdßlranges, Agricultural Clubs and Neighborhood As
sociations,ring to purchase in
Tut: Q tlfl lit lti e S:,
will do correspond with ns before buying their fertili
zers. the original and only Manufacturers of QoS*
popular!ly has brought info the market several imitations.—
None is genuine unless branded on each sack :
“Man’fd. by Geo. W. Scott & Cos., Atlanta, Ga.”
Sale by JOE. DAVISON, Wooilville; It. TAI’PAN, White
Plains ; Dr. It. J. REID, Crawfordville; N. C. EDWARDS, Sharon,
Ga. fob. 16lh, 1883.
To sSonsumers ©f t' aano!
During the many years that the Pacific Guano Company has
manufactured and sold its well known brand of
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO.
arious parties, being aware of the great popularity of this
Fertilizers, have, from time to time, put into market articles
hearing names as nearly like that of our brand as was safe for
them to do, probably relying upon the fact that said Soluble Pa
cific Guano was very commonly spoken of by the planters as
‘Pacific, or ‘Guano, or ‘Soluble Pacific/ or ‘Pacific Guano.’—
1 liese attempts have failed to build up a permanent trade,
probably because ot the tact, that the parties so appropriating
our name relied upon that name, rather than the quality of their
goods. We have from time to time called the attention of
planters to these facts, either directly or through the late John
b. Reese, Lsq., off Baltimore We are informed that one or
more new brands are now being put upon the market, contain
ing the well known and old name of Pacific, either as Atnmo
niated Pacific, Georgia Pacific, or similar forms, and we beg to
call the attention ot planters to tho fact that every sack of
Genuine
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO
Manufactured by the Pacific Guano Company has been, or is,
branded with the name ot the former General Selling Agent,
John S. Reese, or with that of the present Selling Agents,
Glidden & Curtis. None other is genuine, and our friends and
patrons will do well to examine carefully the packages received
by them this season. The real Soluble Pacific Guano will
lie found to be same standard quality as heretofore. No change
has taken place in IF, notwithstanding recent changes in some
General Agences.
J. O. Mathewson & Cos.,
General Selling Agents, AUGUSTA, GA.
USE THE OLD BRANDS.
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO,
AND
DISSOLVED BONE PHOSPHATE.
TIIE
Most Popular In Use .
US' They have given the best satisfaction of any fertilizers
in the market for the past eighteen years. For sale by Kim
brough & Knowles, Greeenesboro’ Ga.; J. F. Hart & Cos.,
Union Point, Ga. jan. 26th, 1883.
ALFRED BAKER, President. JOSEPH 8. BEAN, Jr., Cashier.
AHSHSTA BAYIKBS BANK,
811 BROAD STEET, AUGUSTA, GA.
CASH ASSETS, ■ - $225,000*
Transacts a General Deposit and Discount Business.
Interest on Deposits of Fi/e to Two Thousand Dollars.
jan!2 83
J. H. ANDERSON, -
AGENT FOE
AGRICULTURAL lIPLEMEITS ASD MACHINERY,
MQWEBS, REAPERS, SULKY HAY RAKES,
Portable, Stationary and Detached Engines,
Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Sorghum Mills and Evaporators,
Shingle Machines, Smut Machines, Wood Working
Machinery, Water Wheels, Turning Plows,
Wood Pumps, Etc., Etc., Etc.,
60 AND 69 BROAD STREET, : : ATLANTA, GA,
jan!2 83
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ANYTHIN! YtU WAN?
Can To® Found at
E. A. COPELAN’S
©EEENE3BOEO. C3-^L
Who has one of the largest stocks in the city. Anew lot
of Harness, Bridles, Double Lines, Collars, etc., just received.
Open and Top Buggies, Doctors’ Phaetons, Platform Spring
Wagons at low prices. Two-wheel Village Phaeton, which for
comfort, light draught, durability, and cheapness cannot be
equaled'. THE VILLAGE CART, the most popular vehicle
in the market. One and Two-Horse iron axle Wagons. I
have on hand all kinds of
PROVISIONS, D, a Ml SUPPLIES,
which I am selling reasonably. Clear Rib Bulk Sides, Bulk
Shoulders, Corn, Oats, Hams, New Orleans Syrups and Sugars.
Sheetings, Shirtings, Checks, Jeans, Ball 1 bread. Hames,
Horse and Mule Shoes of the best quality.
Oliver Chill Plows,
Best Corn Shellers, Expert Com Drills, Universal Cultivators,
and all kinds of Farm Implements. Tobacco, of all grades,
from 35 cents to 81.15 per pound. Exchange on Augusta,
Atlanta anil New York bought and sold. Call on
febic 83 GREENESBORO, GA
GERMAN CARP!
The undersigned is prepared to furnish (lu'BlßTftAr?
(pAIEIPp suitable for stocking ponds, in any quantity and of
different sizes.
IE. ZEHZiETSrSIEIES,
feb. 9th, ’B3.- MADISON, GEOBGIA.
Of. BUMKB,
DEALER IN
FINE CORN AND RYE WHISKIES,
WINES, BRANDIES, ETC.
I have on hand a lot of EfTCIIOICK CIGARS AND TOBACCOS..® The beet
five cents Cigar in town. Chbwixu Tobaccos of the finest grades.
if'esesh lagee beee,
Always oil hand. lam selling everything low for Cash. Give me a call.
JOHN J". BURKE,
feb. 2nd, 1883. GREENESBOIiO’ GA.
ATTENTION PLANTERS!
In order to close out at onco the stock of FIFTY COTTON
GINS now in my lmnds, I offer
The Improved Gullett Gin at $2.50 per saw, a reduction of $1 per
saw. •
The Barrett Gin at $2.50 per saw, a reduction of $1 per saw.
Feeders and Condensers at fifty cents per saw, a reduction of $1
per saw.
These Gins, etc., are strictly first-class and in perfect order and a
bargain at the above figures. Terms Cash, or approved merchants ac
ceptance. Apply at once to
f.. mmwn , mimm,
Of O. Ovf. Stone 6z Cos., lAing-cista,, Grab.
feb. 2nd, 'B3.
THOMAS’ STS AM BYiNG
AND
Cleaning 1 Establishment!
Office 928 Broad Street, Opposite Planters’ Hotel,
AUGUSTA, - GA.
Gents suits cleaned, renovated or dyed without shringing.
Ladies dress goods, cloaks and shawls, dyed and cleaned. Kid
Gloves and Slippers Cleaned. Orders by Mail or Express at
tended to.
A. A. THOMAS, Prop’r.
Steam Works, Ellis Street, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
; feb. 2nd, ’B3.
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, MATTINGS, WINDOW
SHADES, LACE CURTAINS,
#
Room Decorations—Oscar Wilde Style
The LARGEST STOCK of CARPETS South of Baltimore. Store from Broad to Ellis,
Packed full of NEW GOODS. The very newest and latest designs and colorings in
Moquets, Velvets, Body and Tapestry Brussels.
3-Ply Scotch lugrain, Venetian Hemp and Jute Carpets.
Stair and Hall Carpets, Stair Rods, Stair Buttons.
Carpet Woven Seamless and Felt Crumb Cloths.
Moquet, Velvet Smyrna and Brussel’s Rugs and Mats.
Floor, Table and Stair Oil Cloths—all widths, new goods.
Canton, Cocoa, Napier aud Jute Mattings.
Wall Papers and Boom Decorations.
Exquisite Lace Curtains, Extension Cornices, Bands.
UPHOLSTERY GOODS —Fringes, Gimps, Cane, Moss.
Window Shades—New Coloring, .Esthetic Style.
Engraviug, Chromos, Rustic Frames, Picture Moulding.
Picture Tassels and Cord, Picture Wire and Nails, Carpet Tacks.
Piano and Table Covers, Tassels, Cords and Loops, Buggy Mats.
All of which will be sold at Lowest Market Prices.
STCOMPETENT UPHOLSTERERS on hand to fit and lay Carpets and Oil Cloths,
hang Shades and Cornices, band Wall Papers, Upholster Furniture in -Esthetic Style wjth
promptness and dispatch.
MASONIC BUILDING, 742 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. '
oct 20th, ’82. ’ '