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The Weekly Democrat.
ROSSELL L JONES, Proprietors.
Bon. E. Russell, - - - Editor.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1872.
Something More about City Affair*.
Tn our article last week on this sub
ject, we proposed & plan whereby our
city taxes might be reduced; and it was
the only way by which such a desirable
cud could be attained. Our article was
heartily endorsed by every property-
holder in town, excepting, perhaps, a
few hungry buzxards who had their
beaks prospecting in the $300 00 salary
of the Mayor’s office.
That office, however, after the first
day of January, 1873, will be one of
honor, the holder of which will only be
paid costs for services really performed.
The present City Council deserve the
thanks of every tax-payeT in town for
this benefit. Hereafter, we not only
save the Mayor’s salary, but we dispense
with the annual scramble for the posi
tion which always breeds discord and
creates ill-feelim? fc<*wccn candidates
anJ their supporters.
'No one need be afraid that the office
of Mayor will not be filled efficiently, and
to the satisfaction of the people, and ice
tpeak knowingly—we bave conferred
with the tax-payers, and we utter their
sentiments, We can name a dozen men
who would gladly be Mayor For—not
•he honor—but the interest of them
■elves. “The devil!” shouts the buz-
aards, “how is that ? there’s no salary !*’
Here’s how it is : The men who are
willing to take the unsalaried office, are
property-holders, and who are interested
in the payment of taxes. They know
if the present system of taxation
abolished, that Bainbridge, its
and its population will be ruined. They,
aa sensible men, know that people love
to invest money where taxation ia
inal, and they are well aware that money
shuns ordinary villages where taxation
ia exorbitant. Hence it is to there
interest.
The office of Mayor of Bainbridge is
purely nominal, and therefore should be
honorary. If the office required the
holder to lay aside all other business, or
if it required any considerable amount
of time, then no one oould well afford to
serve without pay. But the only time
expended is at police courts and council
meetings, anjl the costs in the former
are sufficient remuneration; while if he
is entitled to compensation for the latter,
any fireman in town is entitled to the
same, for do they not meet oftener, and
are not their duties much more arduous ?
We must recollect that Bainbridge is
not New York, nor even Savannah; nor
is the Mayor or Marshal of Bainbridge
such important positions as the Mayor
or Marshal of New York or Savannah.
Men must be paid according to the du
ties they perform. A flat-boat is com
manded by a captain; so is an ocean
steamer, but we daresay the commander
of the steamer gets a higher salary than
the flat-boat captain, although he of the
flat-boat may feel the most important.
We are not making war upon any in
dividual connected with the city gov
ernment—on the other hand, we do not
believe that officers could be found to
do their respective duties better, and if
Bainbridge was New York, or even Sa
vannah, we’d want them to have salaries
in keeping with' those cities.
Let us remember that the entire tax
able property of the city of Bainbridge
is only $750,000 00, according to the
last assessment, and it would not bring
9500.000 00 cash to-day. A big amount
to be sure, to play “city” with. Let us.
pay our debts be* re we sink any deeper
into the cesspool of ruin. We have a
950.000 00 railroad debt that should
be liquidated, and in order to do it, the
people will have to undergo heavy tax
ation.
Our indefatigable Mayor has just re
turned from. Savannah, at this writing,
and he informs us that the city bonds—
the 950,000—can be bought on favor
able terms, Then, for heaven’s sake,
let us retrench other expenses and get
out of debt. That accomplished and we
can play “city” to better advantage.—
Out streets can be pat in order and be
kept ao; our people can repair their
houses and fences; business will enliven,
and others will come among us to enjoy
our prosperity.
Reader, were you ever in debt ? If
so, did you not feel ever so mneb better
when you recovered from it? And
yonr credit was better, and you got
along so well! It is the same way with
corporations.
sudden calamity. He had reached, in
deed, a ripe old age, but time had not
kid its withered touch upon him, and
his splendid constitution easily bore the
strain of enormous labor. His mind
was as fresh, as strong and suggestive as
in the prime of life. His generous im
pulses were uaehilisd by the disheart
ening experience through the tiying
campaign which had just closed his
physical vigor. His tact and his intel
lectual activity surprised even those
who knew him best, and seemed to
promise many years of usefulness. It
is certain that no history of the most
critical period in our national life can
be written in which Horace Greeley
shall not conspicuously fignre. But the
noblest career in his eyes was that which
is given up to others’ wants.
The successful life was that which .is
worn out in conflict with wrong and
woe. The only ambition worth following
was the ambition to alleviate human
.misery and leave the world a little bet
ter than he found it. That he bad done
it, was the consolation which brightened
his last days and assured him he had
not lived in vain. It is not for us, in
the first hour of our loss, to point to his
character or catalogue his virtues. Al
though for several months we have
missed the inspiration of his presence
and guidance, and of his wise counsel,
his spirit has never ceased to animate
those chosen to continue his works, and
the close bond of sympathy between the
chief and his assistants has never been
broken. We leave bis praises to the
poor at home he succored, the lowly
whom he lifted up, to the slave whose
back he saved from the lash, to the op
pressed whose wrongs he made his own.”
The Herald in its editorial of Mr.
Greeley, says; “He has, in a fti^ken
aspiration for a higher field of useful
ness and power and glory than journal
ism, fallen a sacrifice to bis political
ambition. He had failed to apprec
the commanding position which he had
secured as a leading American journalist
aad leaving it to pursue the ignis fatuus
of the presidency, he dropped the sub
stance for the shadow of a great dis
tinction. Otherwise the history and
the enduring rewards of Mr.^Greeley’i
industrious and useful career are full of
encouragement to young men, who
without capital, personal influence or
powerful friends, have the battle of life
before them.”
The accounts published of Mr. Gree
ley’s last dements represent him to have
been conscious. During the day, as is
usual in cases of inflamation of the brain
his physical suffering was extremely
slight, bat the increased and morbid
action of the mind was evident from ex
tenor manifestations. He was asked
“Do you know that you are dying ?”—
Without a tremor or emotion he ans
wered, “Yes.” Again, when asked if
he reeognised Mr. Reid, he looked up
with, immediate recognition, and lifting
hk hand, grasped Mr. Reid’s feebly and
said distinctly, “Yes.” His last words
were, “It is done.” His face has hardly
changed, only settled a little into a look
of perfect peace.
where a portion of the wall was still
overhanging the spot where the poor
victims were begging and shrieking for
help, and tried by the utmost exertion
of main strength to pull and wrench
them out of the horrible vice, but these
efforts only made greater their suffering
and the bricks and debris were still
falling at every moment. The men re
linquished the perilous and fruitless risk
and retreated from the dangerous spot,
and shortly afterwards in frightful par
oxysms of pain and with cries that will
ring in the ears of many of the specta
tors to their dying day, the crushed
masses of humanity gave up the breath
of life, and were a moment afterwards
buried by another crashing fall of the
wall.
Mr Stephens a Candidate for Senator.
Mr. Stephens settles the mooted ques
tion as to his candidacy for the United
States Senatorship. In a late number
of the Atlanta Sun he publishes an edi
torial referring to the connection of his
name with the position, and says:
“With regard to the remark of Ogee
chee, that Mr. Stephens ‘evidently de
sires to be United States Senator,’ we
have only to say that Mr. Stephens de
sires nothing, politically, so far as he is
individually concerned, but to serve his
country, and to the utmost of his ability,
physically and mentally, to contribute
all in his power to aid in the preserva
tion and perpetuation of the free insti
tutions of our ancestors in whatever
sphere or .position those abilities may
be brovj,j-~ usefully into exercise TT
Vina nr\ no. " v ttinn-o mieliao oil
He
has no pc*. * views, wishes, aims or
aspirations WlL -or to gratify.”
Stanley.
A New York journal describes Stan
ley as follows: A short, thick-set man
who, though quiet and dignified in his
manner, was without a particle of the
vanity which many of the English
journals have so loudly decried. His
complexion has been thoroughly bronz
' ed by the tropical sun, and the sprink
ling of gray in his hair attests the
severity of the African fevers. A very
black mustache and imperial add rather
than detract from the robust outlines of
his free. Eyes of unusual penetration
evince by their steadiness the determi
nation of his mind and the strength of
will which carried him- safely through
his perilous undertaking.
Comments of the Mew York Press
on the Death of Greeley
New York, November 30.—The
Tribuae of this morning says : “The
melancholy death of the editor of the
Tribune—though for a few days it has
been expected by his family and friends
—fell upon u« with all the shock of a
Terrible Incident of the Bostoii Fire.
A terrible incident of the Boston fire
took plane at the store of Hickman, on
Washington street, where the walk had
been- wrapt in a deadly embrace by the
flames, and had become weak and tot
tering through- the intense heat. At
length they fell, and three men were
buried' up to the shoulders among the
heavy fragments of brick and stone.—
The terrible physical agonies of their
cries of anguish which they goffered
filled the frightened crowd with horfor,
hut at first no one advanced to their
succor. After two or three moments
two or throe men crossed the street; to
The Boston Wool Trade.
The Boston Globe says : Considering
that the terrific files destroyed the ware
houses and offices of all engaged in the
wool trade, with their contents, which
embraced the entire stock in the__ city,
except the amount ip *’'
houses y* "
lots ol**w - „ , .ue
transactions in wool during the past
week have amounted to 1,192,500 lbs ,
including 1,007,000 lbs. of foreign.—
The advance in prices since the fire has
been from five to ten cents, depending
npon grades, and it is probable that this
advance will he maintained. All'the
wool dealers have located themselves in
new offices, and are ready to do business
as usual. It is estimated that 10,920,-
000 pounds of wool, including 8,695,000
pound 3 of domestic, were lost by the fire.
The amount of the material now in the
country is about 22,000,000 pounds (in
bond,) 17,000,000 of which are in New
York. In the interior there is consid
erable wool, but stocks at the leading
seaboard ports other than those men
tioned are light. The new clip of foreign
will he available in about four months,
and the spring clip of California will be
available about the same time.
Plastering !
Cementing !
WHITEWASHING.
JACOB TIPPER begs leave to inform the
citizens of Bainbridge that he is prepared to
do all kinds of Plastering, Cementing, White
washing, etc. Repairing cisterns and plas
tering done at short notice. Can be found
on Clay street. Terms reasonable. [doc5-lt
CITY DRUG
STORE!
HARTWELL J. SWEARENGEN,
SOUTH BROAD STREET,
Bainbridge, - - - - Georgia,
DEALER IN
MEDICINES!
DRUGS, CHEMICALS,
TOILET AND FANCY ARTICLES,
Trusses, Supporters and Shoulder
Braces, Glass, Putty, Oils,
Paints, Varnishes, Dye
Stuffs,
GRASS AND GARDEN SEEDS,
Pure Wine and Liquors for Medi
cal Purposes, Carbon Oil,
Lamps and Chimneys.
Medicines Warranted Genuine and
of the Best Quality,
Oysters, Fish,
GAME.
R. B. KERR, on SOUTH BROAD ST.,
has constantly on hand Savannah and Apa
lachicola
Oysters and Fish; also
Meats, Game, etc.
Meals at All Hours.
Fresh
Soots <fc Shoes.
E. N. HYATT,
Fashionable Boot and Shoe Maker
If you want a nicely fitting boot or shoe, and
one that will do you good service,he will make
it for you, and cheap too. He is prepared to
do all kinda,of work in his line with the ut
most dispatch. A supply of the finest leath
ers and findings always on hand, and' a good
job Of work is always guaranteed.
Skop in rear of the Dickenson & Stegall’s
banking house. tjan
A. M. Sloan. J. H. Sloan.
A. M. SLOAN & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS AND COMMIS
SION MERCHANTS,
Clmghom & Cunningham’s Range,
Bay St, SAVANNAH, GA.
Liberal advances made on consignments
and cotton in'tore. fnovl4
MERCILESS
WARFARE
AGAINST
High Prices !
IS BEING WAGED BY
I. M. Rosenfeld,
AT HIS
ST OFFICE
as *
STOR ES ! *2, inji-
W. C. Sheffield,
CEDAR SPRINGS, GA.,
Takes pleasure in calling the attention of his
friends and the public to the
LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE
STOCK OF
Fall and Winter
GOODS
Ever brought to this market, consisting in
part of STAPLE and FANCY
DRY-GOODS
$50 , OOO Stock
—OF—
DRY-GOODS
Groceries,
CLOTHING, BOOTS and SHOES,
HARDWARE, HATS,
CAPS, ETC.
I would say to the people of Decatur and
surrounding.counties, that I have in store
and am daily receiving a large supply of all
goods of any and every style and variety
needed by city or country people. My stock
of Ladies’ Dress Goods cannot be surpassed
in the city, as regards quality and prices. I
would also call special attention to my stock of
Embroideries and Trimmings.
Bagging and Ties at Savannah prices.
I. M. ROSENFELD.
-£. description, including a beautiful
A complete and |r ,
_ -y Goods, Shawls,
Gents’ Heavy Woolens and
Cassimeres, Notions; Mens,
Boys and Youths’
E. J. MOrgan. W. J. Harrell
MORGAN & HARRELL,
PRACTICING PHYSICIANS,
Bainbr dge, G .
Office in their drug store, north side of
court house square, on Water street.
Agents wanted for CoUiin’s
CHILD’S COMMENTATOR
On the Bible, for the home circle. 1,200
pages, 250 engravings, the best enterprise of
the year for agents; every family will bave
it; nothing like it now published; foT circu
lars address H. S. Goodspecd & Co., 37 Park
Row, New York.
Book Agents now at work, or looking
for some new books, should write at once
for circulars of the best selling books pul>-
lished. Extroordinarg induements offered.
Superb premiums given away. Particulars
free. Address Queen City Publishing Co.,
Cincinnati, Ohio-
Send for new descriptive catalogue of
cheap Pictures, published by CURRIER &
IVES, 123 & 125 Nassau st., New York.
1823. JUBILEE 1873.
OF THE
NEW YORK OBSERVER!
The best religious and fiimily newspaper.
$3 a year with the Jubilee Year Book.
Sidney E. Morse & Co.,
37 Park Bow r N. Y.
I®” Send for a sample copy I *g(
ARE YOU GOING TO PAINT?
THE
AVERILL CHEMICAL PAINT
has proven itself to be the
Handsomest and Most Durable Exteri
or Paint Known.
Sample card of beautiful colors and recom
mendations from owners of the finest resi
dences in the country furnished free by all
dealers and by
Averill Chemical Paint Co.,
32 Burling Ship, N. Y.; or Cleveland, Ohio.
CLOTHING!
jg@T A full line of HATS and CAPS,
including a nice line of
LADIES AND MISSES’ TRIMMED
HATS.
THE WORLD'S
S6F* sum* of BOOTS and SHOES that
ean’t be beat in Georgia, to which 1 call par
ticular attention.
RARE CHANCE FOR INVEST
MENT.
1,632 acres of good South-West Ga. Land,
three-fourths cleared, laying well and well
improved; good water and plenty; a splendid
stock and cotton farm, and containing three
settlements; laying on the road from Cuth-
bert to Eumbkin, Ga., 7 miles sonth of
Lnmpkin, Stewart co., Ga., and 15 north of
Cuthbert, Ga., for sale and will be sold at a
bargain, and on easy terms—one third cash
and the balance in one or two years. Health
excellent, and convenient to school and to
church; also, 975 acres of well improved
Land in Russell county, Ala. For further
particulars, address A. F. Moreland, Atlanta.
Georgia.
OriUM EATERS
M you wiah tobacmed oftte addw T,
X. (XABXX, M. B., Kt. Tumi, OkW
JS5 tO $20 P 61- • Agents wanted.
Allsex, young or old, m*ke more money at
work for us in their spare moments, or all the
time, than at anything else; particulars free;
address G. Stinson ft Go., Portland,
Why will You Work for $1 a
Day.
When you can make
FROM $5 TO $10 A DAY
at your homes, without interfering with your
other employment. Boys and girls earn
nearly as much as men; for particulars send
stamp to T. R.^pcnccr ft Co., Dalton. Ga.
riARD W ARE,
* HOLLOW-WARE, CUTLERY,
GUNS, WOOD & WILLOW
WARE, NAILS,
Family groceries, medicines, saddles and
harness, bacon, flour, salt, bagging, iron ties
and twine, wash pots and kettles, cane mills
and sugar boilers, splendid line of new bug
gies and harness from first hands.
In fact everything and much more than is
usually kept in a first class Southern country
store, all of which will be sold as low as the
lowest. So give me a call and post yourselves
on ptfees, and if you don't buy from me
make some one else sell to you cheap. ’
Highest prices paid for cotton and other
country produce. Libera] advances made
on cotton for shipment. j
w. C. SHEFFIELD:
TO BE HELD AT
BAINBRIDGE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25th, 1872.
JOHN ROBINSONS
TRAVELING
Museum, Menagerie, Caravan
AND
II I P P O I> R O 31 E,
COMBINED WITH THE GRAND
INTERNATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN, POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTE and
MAMMOT'iT'CIRCUS!
In FOUR to TEN TENTS!
As the Space of the Grounds will permit.
JOHN ROBINSON, Proprietor and General Director;
JOHN ROBINSON, Jr., Manager.
This giganic enterprise which lias been, at a vast expenditure of time and money, Micr.
ougbly reorganized and equipped for the present traveling season, presents the stMtlinf,
novel, unique and colossal spectacle nev# heforc witnessed in the annuls ol' amusement a-
tcaprisc cither in this or any other age, of
TWELVE SUPERIOR SHOWS IN ONE,
All for a SINGLE PRICE OK ADMISSION. In the collection and organization of the mine
urn the utmost carciwis been taken to gratify and enlighten the public by presenting in am
vast assemblage an accimilation such ms has never, been attempted or dreamed oI.
combined tact, talent ami liberality of all oilier managers in America or Europe. It
interesting for the public to understand that for nearly two years Mr. Robinson s numtnmi
agents, who are found in almost every part of the world, have been actively enployed ia
procuring curiosities for his great traveling show. Some of these were put on exiiibitioa
for the first time last year; hut they have been very largely supplemented for the present
season by new accessions and consignments brought by almost every steamer from fvitip
porta which has arrived in New York for the past eight months. As an illustration of tie
indomitable energy of the well known Proprietor of this establishment, it may be well to
remark that the exhaustless resources of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, with the nil-
divisions of China, Japan, Australia, the Polar Regions, South Sea Islands, Arabia, Turku,
Siam, Circassia, Egypt, the Pacific, Artie. Indian and Atlantic Oceans, together with tk«
Red Sea and Holy 1 .and, have all been levied upon, contributing to swell the aggregate tf
this single department, which, after all, constitutes but a moiety of all that may be seen.
It is estimated that in the Acquanum, Museum, Menagerie and Caravan, there are
TWENTY THOUSAND CURIOSITIES !
This stupendous combination has been brought together at an actual cost to the Propiifr
tor of MORE THAN A MILLION DOLLARS; which is ten times more than was ever inint
ed in a single show. The curiosities of thp several departments represent the choicest*1-
cerpts from the realms of zoology, ornithology, geology, ichthyology, conbcology, entomol
ogy, anthropology, mechanics, numismatics, science, statuary, oil paintings, and msny nr*
and exquisite productions of tire automatic and hcliographic arts, and go classified for thi»
Great Exhibition, as to challenge the admiration not only of naturalists r but of poets, stit»
men, philosophers and divines.
Parents, Sabbath anil public school teachers should bear in mind that no public exhitotio*
ever instituted in America afforded a tithe of the practical lesssns of intuitian which ut
found in this unique exposition of object, teaching. To this vast array is added in s sepenW
colossal tent, capable of holding Ten Thousand people, a MAGNIFICENT ROMAN
HIPPODROME & CIRCUS,
With One Hundred Horses, Ponies, Camels, Mules, Rid
ing Dogs, Monkeys, Trick Horses, Elephants,
and Fifty of the Best Male and Female
Artists in the World I
S6?” In the Arena will be introduced the following array of tlic equestrian, sfrobsti^
athletic and gymnastic talent : The great and indomitable ROB T STICKNEY, thepr*'
ferred rider of the Paris Exhibition and the champion horseman of-the world; GEO. •
KELLEY, the champion leaper; JOHN WILSON, the great four horse rider: '
ROBBINS, the dashing somersault equestrian; Mr. GEO. SLOMAN, the daring*®
American horseman and trainer; Colored Boy, LEWIS, the wild and dashing rtpre*"**"
of bareback horsemanship and hurdle leaping: A BD ELL AND DAVIS, the uneqnriJF'
nasts; WM. CARROLL, the flying leaper; the WONDERFCLCONRADS, acrobats.gf®?®:
^ FRANCES, the great exemplar of the high school of
FOUR GREAT CLOWNS, embodying some of the most original in America. JOHN _ _
peerless, ARCHIE CAMPBELL, WM. CONRAD. F. ROBINSON; The H0UL
BROTHEllS, in their wonderful gymnasts specialties; CHARLES MACARTY,
leaper and voltigcur; M lie L AMOUR, this equestrienne eclipses any artist that k**
her debut within the charmed circle; Madame (iERTP.l'DE, the fearless and beautiful
beast tamer; M lie MARGARET, the queen of the menange.
WILLIAai CONRAD’S
Performing Dogs and Monk^ 0
WiH also be introdi e d, and the world is challenged to produce their ^
equals in the variety of their pe formance and the almost human sagacity which t
play. Remember a show, the equal of which has never been seen in Europe or
manage’! and owned by the veteran showman of the world,
OLD JOHN ROBINSON,
Whose name is sure guarantee that the public will witness the finest and most ei**"* 1 *
exhibition cver^exhibited in Bainbridge. Remember the day, December 25th- . -i.
Admission to all, 75 cents; children under ten, 50 Cents, Performances a* l