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The Weekly Democrat,
Ben. E. Russell,
: : Editor.
TilUiWDAY, se: 1
'TEMBER2'!, 1873.
The Gulf Ccast Land-Locked Water-
Way Its Importance to the People
of BaiiibiiJge and Decatur County
We frequently allude to the above
grand enterprise in these columns,
but propose again to call the atten
tion of the citizens of Bainbridgc
and of t he county of Decatur to the
great results that will arise from Us
completion, not only to the country
at large, but to our particular city
and section.
Perhaps no people so immediately
and vitally interested ever bestowed
so little thought upon a measure
wort h so incalculably much to them,
it is high time we were awakening—
were appreciating the immense ad
vantages in store for us.
The Land-Locked Water-Way is to
be what we might term an extension
of the Mississippi river to the Atlantic
Ocean, at some point on the Georgia
(_ >ast, by uniting tho various inland
bars, lakes, sounds, and rivers alon
the .Gulf coast by canals, and uniting
them by tho same process with the
rivers across the head of tiie Florida
Peninsular to the Atlantic coast ; so
that.a steamboat might start from
any point on the Mississippi river,
or any of it s tributaries, and land at,
say, Brunswick, Georgia.
The general idea of the “water
way" is to secure cheap transporta
tion for Western produce to cousu-
mers in flic South, and even in for
eign countries. The scheme com
mends itself to the country for its fea
sibility and its compartivc cheapness
of* construction. For instance, the
immense distance between the Mis
sissippi and (he Apalachicola riv
ers—over three hundred miles—will
require but thirty miles of eanaling
to make it a continuous water way' ;
said eanaling being simply the uni-
ling of the various inland bays with
each ot her. The cost of this stupend
ous result would be but $4,000,000 ;
and the cost of the entire line but
$12,000,000.
This project was inaugurated by
Col. 1’. H. Raiford, an eminent engin
eer, and who has spent many years in
r ot-roatin S niul fully developing the
idea, lie was in Bainbridgc last Tues
day when he fully demonstrated the
practibility of the route to many of
ourm ost. energetic and enterprising
fellow-citizens. He is now acting with
the Savannah Chamber of Commerce
which has taken the matter in hand,
and it is being rapidly brought into
the public mind.
The canal is not to be built by private
subscription but by the Government,
and it is thought if the matter is fully
brought bclorc the people, by maps,
diagrams, etc., showing the unmis
takable advantages of the route and
the entire feasibility of the plan, that
an appropriation of $4,000,000 can
be got trom Congress at its next ses
sion. The Government is favorably
impressed in regard to the matter,
for from a naval stand-point it is a
dire necessity. The Western people,
especially the farmers, are becoming
alive to the matter for in it they see
the cheapest way to get their produce
to market.
In fact it is claimed that theNortli-
western states will find it a nearer
way of getting their productions to
even Mew York City than by the
great Erie Canal. It is a question
1 bat is being agitated in Europe, and
it built most of the exports of the
Great'West, as well as the South,
will fnnl their way through it.
But let us look at the work as a
benefit to our immediate section—to
the people of Bainbridgc and ol De
catur county. When the water-way
is complete between the Mississippi
and Apalachicola rivers, a long time
will elapse before it can be finished
to tlie Atlantic—then Baiubridgc be
comes au immense receiving and dis
tributing point - the Western steam
boats land at our wharves and dis
charge their cargoes which will be
distributed throughout the country
by the various railroads that would
certainly lie built to our city. Atlan
tic and Gulf stock which is now sell
ing for a trifle would jump to par
value ami in two years it could not
*e bought at any price. Our town
would-increase to the magnitude or a
• l| ge iulaml city, an*l our county
'"•uM teem with immigrants, and our
lands would be worth ten times their
womn V ^ 1UW,aUj our waste places
"° dd be lmilt up. This is no fancy
»he U --~ 110 tie . lu ‘ sion — no snare. Take
away the links in the chain of bays
and inlets and you have it.
Col. Baiford is now visiting the
cities and towns most vitaily inter
ested, with a view of getting them to
organize working committees to act
in concert with the Savannah Board
| of Trade in this most important eu-
■ terpri-e. Our citizens are becoming
1 convinced, and proper steps will be
taken t iglit away.
Col. P. H. Baiford.
This eminent gentleman addressed
the business men of Bainbridge last
Tuesday evening, on the subject of
his “Land-Locked Water-Way,” and
by his maps and diagrams which he
exhibited, lully illustrated the enter
prise. His purpose w r as to enlist our
citizens in behalf of the great work,
by appointing a committee to confer
with the Savannah Chamber of Com
merce, in reference to the proper ad
vertising of the route to the people
by Mayor Lewis and other leading
citizens, to act immediately upon
Col. It’s suggestions. For further in
formation regarding it, sec our lend
ing editorial in this issue of the Dem
ocrat.
“ ai> and lo °k for yourself, and
From tlie Quitman Banner, Sept. 18.
The Weekly Sun and Bepnblican
Politics-
■\ 0U ;' ot ‘ alu,ost a canal couuectin
' „‘ >0 ' n " New Orleans—!
In last week’s Banner wc took is
sue with the Bainbridge Weekly Sun,
which pretended chat the Ilcpublican
Party was but a continuation of the
old Whig party. As evidence of the
error of Col. Whitelcy, we contended
t hat such Whig leaders as Clay, Web
ster and Berrien never advocated
the course pursued by the Badicals,
who have, to a great extent, ignored
the rights of the States, and made
the general government, through
their Military authority and Federal
Courts, all-powerful in settling ques
tions that were, and-should of right
now be, entirely under the jurisdic
tion of the States. The Sun takes us
to task lor our article, and while it
admits that Clay, Webster and their
associates never advocated these
absurdities, claims that we do
injustice to the Badical Party, in
indirectly asserting that they fa
vor these ideas. He asks “what
Bcpublican platform has asserted
such doctrines?” We answer, we
nave not ail the various platforms
of the Republican party, and even
if we had, wc are not certain we
could find any plank directly advoca
ting these errors. The truth is, bad as
their platforms are, the party is still
worse, and they have no more respect
for their platform than for the Con
stitution of the United States. But it
won’t do to say they are only respon
sible for the teaching of their plat
forms. The old adage, that “actions
speak louder than words” is applica
nt to parties as well as to individu
als. Tliex once said the war was not
to li ce the negro, yet they freed him,
and now boast to Sambo, that they
fought for liis liberty, and that he is
therefore under everlasting obliga
tions to them, notwithstanding their
plain declaration to. the contrary.
They said they only wanted the
Southern States to go back into the
Union, and yet, when these States
proposed to go back they were de
nied this right for months and years.
Did not the Radical party, by Mil
itary authority, take possession of the
States, even after the war was over,
ignoring" the rights of the States,
have them reconstructed and re-re-
constructed as suited the whims of
the Badical leaders ? And yet the
Sun can complacently disclaim their
responsibility, by asking “what re
publican platform has asserted such
a doctrine ?” Do wc not know that
the Badical Congress has passed
laws that gives the Federal Court al
most entire control over matters
properly cognizable by the State
Courts, and is that the party to be
excused trom all because they did not
put it in their platform ? No sir.
When your whole party, by Federal
legislation, by the arbitrary power of
military authority, the petty oppres
sions ami annoyances of Federal offi
cials, are heaping wrongs upon the
State3, and injuries upon the people,
it won't do to dodge the -condemna
tion that is due them, by talking
about Republican platforms.
But the Sun undertakes to read us
a lecture because in reply to his
proposition that it was our first duty
to love the goverument, we suggest
ed that the government ought to
make itself loveable. We still see
nothing objectionable in our sugges-
.No amount of compulsion can
insure such emotion
Sun
“Ah here is the trouble! The lead
ers of the Democratic party cannot
and will not sec anything loveable
in the government of the Union
long as that goverument is not in
the hands and under the control
the Democratic party, they denounce
it, and hold it up to the people as
tyrant.”
Just so! Only the remark might be
made still broader, and applied to
rank and file as well as leaders. We
have read of customs in some nations
to control the features and disfigure
thecountenance, under the idea that
the objects thus deformed and hide
ous were actually made attractive and
lovely, but we always consider such
practice contrary to nature, and an
evidence of the barbarism. We think
some of the African tribes are guilty
of this absurdity. Now, the excres
senccs and deformities that have
*of the Union. Steps are being taken*,grown upon the government of the
to
tion.
United States under Radical rule,
may make it appear attractive,
some people, but we must not, we
cannot censure any good sense Dem
ocrat for failing to see ‘anything love
able’ in all this.
But the Sun says ‘so long as thegov
eminent is not in the hands and un
der the control ol the Democratic
party, they denounce it, and hold
up to the people as a tyrant.” May
we not, with equal propriety reply
that “So long as the government is
in the hands and under the control
of the Radical party,” however un
just and oppressive it may be, they
eulogize it, and hold it up to the peo
pie as worthy of all reverence and ad
oration? Under Radical rule wc hav
sufficient reason to hold up the
government to the people as a tyrant.,
We admit Clay, Webster, Berrien
and Jackson, taught love for the
Union, but they never lived under
such a Union as now exists under
Radical mismanagement. Perhaps
no man that ever lived was more op
posed to Military power having su
prem&cy than Henry Clay. Lest w
be misrepresented, we will say in
conclusion that we are not opposed
to the Union established by our fore
fathers, and which under Democrat
ic and Whig rulers, was a bl. ssin
to the people, lor three-fourths of
century. Nor would we be under
stood as favoring the experiment
made in 1861, though we have no
word of censure for the honest men
who advocated the cause then pm
sued by the Southern States, and
who, if we had succeeded in gainin
our independence, would to-day hav
been receiving praise and honor fro
all our people, probably from the ed
itor of the Sun. But wc would not
pretend to a respect that was not
and cannot exist. That would be hy
pocrisy. We would prefer that the
Radical party, who it serins has en
tire control of the general govern
ment, should so modify their man
agenicnt, and so administer it, that
it would be indeed a blessing to our
people. Then it would command the
admiration, yea love of all the peo
pie, Democrats as well as Radicals
privates in the ranks, as well as office
holders with well-stufled purses
Then ic would not be necessary for the
Sun to continue his lectures on our
duty of loving the government for
others as well as the editor, would
see and appreciate its attractiveness,
Then it would not be necessary to
warn the people against the danger
of leaders who would sever the Union
for the bare suggestion from any one
to destroy a government so fruitful
to the people, would be enough to
consign its author to ignominy and
disgrace. By upright administra
tion, and just and honorable dealing
to all citizens, make the government
worthy' of their confidence and es
teem, and you will do more to re-es
tablish it in the hearts ol the people
than by all the lectures that cau be
delivered upon our duty to love it.
cieatc love. The Sun may preach
uutil dooms day about our duty to
love the government; it will do no
good unless he can show something
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AU Safe in Macon.
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As will be seen from the particu
lars in another column, the terrible
smash up in New York does not effect
our Macon banks or merchants in the
least. They have not lost a dollar by
the lailures, and will only share in the
disturbance in trade and finances oif
the country resulting as a necessary
consequence. So far as our inquiries
.»avc extended, the same is true of
Savannah and the other cities of Ga.
Gambling by the wholesale in the Pa
cific railroad, and other stocks is the
alleged cause of the break down.
The list of failures will not fall short
of thirty. For the present, money
will of course rule tight, but soon
king cotton will come along with his
magical open sesame and all will be
well ntrnin—Macon Telearanh.
NEWG000S
Fall and Winter Stock.
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SPLENDID
BARGAINS! !
Can now be made with
Simon'A. W eil,
CORNER WATER AND WEST STREETS
BAINBRIDGE, -
GEORGIA,
In his
V cry
JF’iiIl
Stock
OF
Beautiful Fall and Winter
GOODS,
Consisting in part of
Latest Style Dress Goods,
Poplins, Delaines,
Mozambiques, Plaids,
Alapacas, Velveteens, &c.
Notions, &c., &c.
The most superb Stock of
CLOTHING !
Ever Seen in Bainbridge.
Hats, Boots and Shoes.
Also, an assortment of the very
choicest and BEST
GROCERIES,
ALWAYS ON HAND AT
At the Store of
Simon A. Weil
STEINiNGER & ENGEL
of the
Film EIYIB STOBES
Bainbridge, Ga.,
R ESPECTFULLY invite the citizens of De-
: catur and adjoining counties to tail and
examine their
Their New an Eea tifal Stock
Fall an cl Winter
GOODS,
Such as Ladies Dress Goods, Fancy
and Staple Dry-Goods,
Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps,
an elegant stock.
Our Magnificent Line of Gents and
Boys Clothing is Unexcelled.
Call and see for Yourselves. A
Hearty Welcome Awaits You.
GRO CERIES.
Bacon, Flour,
Sugar, Coffee,
Lard, Butter,
Cheese, Rice,
Fish, Etc. Etc
Corn, Oats, Hay,
Rope, Bagging, Ties.
Plantation Supplies.
STEININGER & ENGEL.
J. P. Dickenson.
C. W. Stegall.
DICKNESON & STEGALL,
33 A NK ER S,
Bainbridge, Ga.,
DEALERS IN
Old Sol.— “Here, Mother Earth, these Eclipses and *
Spots have about used me up. Regulate your movements ■
£ hereafter hy this, and don’t depend on me.” Q
Cor. Broad & Broughton Sts.
Browned.
Two young ladies, Misses Sarah V
and 13 years, were drowned J,
Oeklnckonec river on Sunday a fW
It ,f!: n : e . bolow th * South 2
Parents 0 f
& Fla. R R. bridge. The
these girls live in the 17 th dZ*
the former a few mil, s and ^
about one mile beyond the river. }p
Norris was ou a visit to .Mr Rail*. # **
ly, and after dinner the two g irls Tft
the house for the ostensible nr 2
of taking a walk. Failing to
a seasonable hour, their friends Weaoe
alarmed and instituted search. y 0
as to their whereabouts was ascertain
and the news of their mysterious
was spread abroad through theneighbor
hood, and the search became g eienl '
About 7 o clock a. m.. Monday^
the body of one of the gi,j s „, ls ^
ered lodged against a limb in the river,
and near by, on the sand bar was found
the clothing and jewelry 0 f both
This left no doubt as to the f jte 0 f
the othei, and the searchers at once
directed their efforts to the recover, of
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ink ) the river, on the sand-bar side, to
bathe, but ventuied too far, werccaujht
in the quicksands, lost their balance
and, by the current, carried inio the
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Later On Monday afternoon Mr.
W. L. Hudson, J. P., for the 1227th
District, held and inquest on the bodies
—Dr R. J. Bruce making a post mart
en examination. We have not seen the
Justice’s return, but learn that it is, in
substance, that the girls came to their
death*by drowning at the hands of un
known parties. We also learn that the
physician’s affidavit is to the effect that
the person of Miss Norris had been
violated. On examining the grounds,
a large bare-foot track was discovered
on the sand-bar upon which the girls
left their clothing and leading from
thence into the water.— Thmasrilk
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Exchange, Stock, Bonds and Coin.
Deposits received and Collec
tions made
And promptly remitted for at current rate of
exchange.
State of Georgia Decatur County :
The undersigned have this day entered
into copartnership for the purpose* of doing
Banking and Exchange business in the city
of Bainbridge. Ga.. under the firm name and
style of Dickinson & Stegall.
John P. Dickenson and Calvin W. Stegall
are the general partners, and Arthur P.
Wright and Thomas C. Mitchell are the
pecial partners, who have this day contrib
uted the sum of Six Thousand Two Hundred
and Fifty dollars each to the capital stock.
Said copartnership to commence this day
and expire on the First day of Ausrust \
", 1875. 6
JOHN P. DICKENSON,
t ALVIN W. STEGALL,
ARTHUR P. WRIGHT,
THOMAS C. MITCHELL.
August 1, 1873—6m
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Manufacturers and Dealers In
CLOTHING!
Job Work.
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crat office, as neatly and cheaply aa
establishment in the State. Bill an'* * elI( ‘
heads, envelopes, circulars, hand-bills, lc? 11
blanks, etc., done up in best ?*
psomptly. Call and learn our prices
sending off your orders. Nothing hut
CASH is good for work of this kind.
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CHANTS OF M ITCH ELL, MIL
LER AND DECATIB
COUNTIES.
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WE are the agents for the sale of the fol
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terms offered In 21st District, lots, 120,
121, li3, 155, 156, 157, and 03; in 27{h
District, lots, 172, 106. 107, 125, 132, 135,
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