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In the States where the negroes are
re a Bunontysaid Mr. Stephens, “you
will find that affairs are righting them-
aelves faster than where the colored vote
nu the preponderance. Georgia, Ala
bama and Kentucky are nearing their
old time prosperity much mora.rapidly
than South Carolina, Mississippi, Flori
da, and notably, Louisiana.”
* »n the more favored States,
the colored voters were beginning to
learn it was for their best interest to
repudiate the rapscallion foreign ele
ment which had managed them since
the war.
Mr. Stephens was certain that in
BAINBRIDGE GA. APRIL 9, 1874.
was expelled from his seat, and Sloan
sworn in as a member. The Constitu
tion of the United States gives the peo
ple the right to elect members to the
House, but should the aforesaid people
presume to elect a Democrat, the House
elects the man whom the people reject.
At any rate, this Beems to have been
the rule that governs the present case.
Independent Politics in the West-
Ihe movement of the people to be
independent of political parties is ma
king steady progress in Oregon. Dong-
las county, which includes a flourishing
n . _ — _— and w e H populated valley, has issued
Georgia many of the intelligent negroes an independent call for county nomi-
l w j • ' # r —* wuufcjr UUUII-
imve always voted under the advice of nations, and all the counties in the State
are urged to organize for independent
conventions, and a State convention to
be held at Salem, April 15. The move
ment includes both Democrats and
Republicans, and there seems to be a
sincere laying aside of party prejudices.
The Democratic newspapers in Lane
and Benton counties have been carried
into the movement by the force of pop
ular opinion, and even in Multnomah,
the headquarters of Hipple-Mitchell
and Ben Halliday, the people are get
ting ready to fight the rings. It is be
lieved that the majority of the voters
of Oregon are for independence in
their former masters.
They had seen that the cock-and-bull
stories drilled into them by the “loyal
leaugue” were not verified by time, and
were slowly understanding what was
best for them.
In answer to a question touching the
orobable effect of the civil rights law,
Mr. Stephens said he was not prepared
to superficially discuss that subject for
publication. He referred me to his ad
dress of January 5, and then passed in
to an interesting review of some of the
points contained therein. The published
condensations of this speech afford but
a meagre idea of the thoughts and study I their political affairs.
which it embodies. Editors and others | ~
who care to get at a Southern states
man’s accurate and complete ideas of
the great question can, and should, put
themselves into communication with
the government printer. Official copies
will bear broadcast distribution and
scrutiny.
As to a chance for an immediate
emancipation of the colored men from
the moral rule of carpet baggers, Mr.
Stephens was of the opinion that it
would take a few years more to accom
plish the work. The quicker interfer
ence from Washington ceased, the
quicker this most desirable result would
be brought about. The negro, always
credulous, was easily made to believe
that the Federal government kept the
soldiers and special officials in the South
solely to protect him from the wicked
ness of the former slaveholders. With
draw those soldiers and special officials,
entirely, and the negro would soon find
ofcoJS® ~i-- Uest P olitical friends.
that their children, young men and wo
men, tfo not care to make companions
and friends of them.
Perhaps this paternal reservo is
legacy of the stern puritan days, when
the paternal office and authority were so
magnified that the statute book permit
ted those children to be put to death
who “cursed their orderly pareuts,”
after the age of sixteen. But, what
ever ita source, its effect is infinitely
mischievous- %
Hr. Stephens-
Stephens had not been inside of
Capitol for weeks. His total lack
y thing in the shape of health, has
a world's wonder and pain for years.
great soul lives without any body
ak. and would be better unannoy-
y even the trifling corporate moiety
hich it is hinged. Thoagh always
sickest man alive, there are grades
ven Mr. Stephens’ illness, and he
recently endured the most misera-
of its phases. I really suppose that
■ies on such occasions, and after a
f rest in death, ebbs back into mor-
y again. To see him when he calls
self well, crumpled into his chair in
House of Representatives, tt is im-
ible to believe he can look and feel
ie, and remain with the living. I
sure my theory is correct, and that
perennially engaged in making a
ros of himself.
Ie was twisted in a pile of cushions
pleasant front room, beside a table
with books, tobacco, papers and
licine, and tugged at a cheerful pipe
he talked.
told him it was a rainy day, and
srted other valuable preliminary in-
~ tion; then demanded something in
turn.
^ wish to know,” answered Mr.
e phens. ‘whatthe near possibilities are
the intelligent natives of the South
suming their political ascendency ?”
“Exactly.”
That is a subject, my friend, in-
' Tln g many serious and complex ques-
us. It requires to be treated philoso-
c *)ly and thoroughly, and can hard-
be fairly disposed of in a oonveraa-
PUal way.”
r remembered Mr. Stephens’ six ool-
P n editorials and four hour speeches,
intimated that to torture a man iu
'condition with a request for polished
"oration was not my hue design.
The Unseating of Rawls.
The member who had it in eharge
moved the previous question, the effect
of which was to cut off all speaking.
Some one requested him to allow Mr.
Rawls a half hour to address the House.
He declined rudely and with excite
ment, saying that the other side hud
time enough to present the case fully
and he wanted a vote. Another mem
ber (Mr. Speer) then made an appeal
to the House to allow Mr. Rawls to be
heard. This, too, was ineffectual. Smith
(the Chairman of the Committee on
Elections) then took the floor to make
the concluding argument. It seems
that Rawls was to te sentenced without
even the poor privilege of saying why
the sentence should not be pronounced.
Happily, Lamar, of Mississippi, asked
and obtained three minutes of Smith’s
time; which he occupied in addressing
a most earnest appeal to the Republi
can side of the House in behalf of
Rawl’s right to be heard. Whether it
was the magnetism of Mr. Lamar’s ad
dress, or the weight of his argument,
or a returning sense of shatne on the
part of the House, or all combined, at
any rate the appeal was successful, and
the House unanimously reversed iu its
decision and allowed Rawls to be heard.
I may say in passing that this was
but one out of numerous instance in
which Mr. Lamar’s great influence over
the body has been shown. Apart from
our own great commoner, whose health
is still such as to confine him to the
room, he is unquestionably the leading
Democrat from the South. Standing
firmly by the principles that gave him
so honorable a record bofore the war,
he yet manages by dignified and cour
teous bearing, coupled with the great
abilities for which he is distinguished,
to wield an influence over the House,
which is unexampled since the war. He
has been spoken of as the successor of
Dr. Lipscomb in our State University
—a position which ho would fill with
signal aptitude. And, perhaps, as
things are here, it were better for the
South to give him the training of her
future statesmen and jurists than to
keep him in his present position, where,
though he can command respect and
accomplish a certain amount of good,
he cannot prevent the evil legislation
dictated by the dominant party.
Thus, though he secured a hearing for
Rawls, and thongh Rawls delivered a
forcible and clear argument, demonstra
ting, as it seemed to me, his right to
the seat; and, though the official returns
showed that he was elected by 1,300
majority, when the vote was taken he
Large Or Small Farms.
In discussing the comparative bene
fits and profits of large farms, we must
not lose sight of the old maxim “Little
land well tilled.” Theoretically, a large
farm should be more profitable than a
smaller one; but practically, is not the
reverse nearer the truth ? The true
test is the profit per acre. Do large
farms yield as large a profit per acre
as smaller ones ? Small farms give their
owners opportunity of concentrating la-
labor and manure into a more profitable
form, and the owner can have a more di
rect oversight of his laboring force. The
main argument in favor of large farms
is, that the expense per acre for imple
ment is less and this must be conceded
It requires but little more machinery
for three hundred acres than for one,
f»l° ii
sive implemenl
Kindness From the Aged
Is there one being, stubborn as the
rock to misfortune, whom kindness does
not effect f It comes with a double
grace and tenderness from the old; it
seems in them the hoarded and long
purified benevolence of years; and if it
bad survived and conquered the base
ness and selfishness of the ordeal it had
passed; as if the winds which had brok
en the form, and swept in vain across
the hear, and the frosts which had chil
led the blood and whitened the locks
had possessed no power over the warm
tide of the affections. It is the triumph
of Nature over Art; it is the voice of
the angel which is yet within us. Nor
is this all; the tenderness of age is
twice blessed—blessed in its trophies
over the obduracy of incrusting and
withering years, blessed because it is
tinged with the sanctity of the grave/
because it tells us that the heart will
blossom even upon the precincts of the
tomb, and flatter us with the mviolacy
and immortality of love.
Number 26
r spring
itis to win on its own merits, and not
on the merits of the national adminis
tration.^ It thinks that the convention
niost wisely avoided any lying resolu
tions of confidence in an administration
with which they had just ground for
dissatisfaction.
lor won
On a small farm the labor of the owner
is much more available than ou a larger
one, though in the latter case it may be
claimed that his brains are of more use
than his hands.
We think that many of our farmers
who now own three hundred acres,
would be much better off at the end
of the year if their energies and labor
had been concentrated upon one-third
of the land. The manure and labor ex
pended upon thirty acres of land would
have given better crops and more profit
in proportion if it had been expended
on ten I fact, we think this strong
desire of our American farmers, as a
class, to possess large areas of land, is
one of the worst features of our agricul
tural system.
Principles Governing Rotation.
1. However well soil may be ■ pre
pared, it cannot long nourish crops of
the same kind in succession without be
coming exhausted.
2. Every crop impoverishes a soil
more or less, according as more or less
is restored to the soil by the plant culti
vated.
3. Perpendicular rooting plants and
ceed each otter. 'hi*.
4. Plants of the same kind should
not return too frequently in rotation.
5. Two plants favorable to the growth
of weeds ought not to succeed oach
other.
6. Such plants as eminently exhaust
the soil as the graius and oil plants,
should only be sown when the land is
in good heart.
7. In proportion as a soil is found to
exhaust itself by successive crops, plants
which are least exhausting should be
cultivated.
Our farmers have only to keep these
seven fundamental principles in mind
in order to keep their land rich for all
time.
Confine in Your Children.
In American society there is an ama
zing separation of old people from yonng.
It comes, as we believe, of lack of fam
ily intimacy between old and young.
To most parents children arc incapable
crettures, to be taught, provided for,
ruled, disciplined, mentally condescen
ded to, from babyhood to that astonish
ing morning when they discover that
. the babies are youDg men and women
in whose scheme of existence they have
little vital part. The mother buys the
daughter’s handkerchiefs and pins, up
to the time her trosseau is needed. The
fathers decides all questions for his boy
till the boy is ready to leave the home
roof. Boy and girl go ontside the
house-hold for their intimates and their
interests. They are not expected to
bear their part in the entertainments of
guests, or cast a vote in the household
committee of ways and means. The
deep social questions of the time, which
are troubling the mother’s heart, she
does not discuss with her daughter.
The issues of war and piece, of polotics
hard times, private straits or public dan
gers; the father talks over with his stu
pid neighbors, but not with his quick
witted, eager sons. Not making them
their companions and friends, parents
are yet smitten with pain and a bitter
sense of ingratitude when they find
Rotes of the Day.
According to a writer in the London
Times, the fifteen English marine in
surance companies lost $3,640,OOg in
1872, not one realizing a profit.
The bell punch which the London
Times describes as •‘an ingenious piece
of mechanism,” is now used by some of
the London street car companies.
A school mistress at Felix, Ohio, re
cently attempted to punish an unruly
boy. He made a savage rush at her
with a club, when she seized a chair to
defend herself, and struck him a blow
which proved fatal.
Christening a man of war in Russia
is » different ceremony from that prac
ticed in this country. No bottle of
wine is broken against the bows, bat a
metal plate, engraved with the name of
the vessel and of her sponsor, with the
date and with other particulars, is let
into the vertical keel. Over this, in
the case of iron vessel, a throat plate is
screwed down, and nothing more is
seen of the engraved tablet till the ves
sel is broken np.
The dearth of ice during the past
season in the Middjfc and warmer New
England States will be profitable for
Maine. An enormous crop has been
harvested there; and it is expected that
the total yield may reach two million
tons, to be Bold at three dollars and
more a ton The people of this hyper
borean Commonwealth have gone into
ice speculations with all the ardor that
the climate will permit, and the result
will be a steady and healthy flow of
greenbacks to Maine.
In die House of tfefuge for Western
•New York boys are not regarded as
criminals, and the all work plan of re
formation is looked upon as barbarism
of the past. They hare base-ball dabs,
including one of the oolored boye, and
last year over thirty matches we played
with outside clubs, the refuge boys win
ning in every contest. These base ball
clubs wont be likely to graduate any
criminals. *
The Roman Catholic pilgrims from
this country to Lourdes and Home will
sail in the French steamer Pereire from
New York on the 16th of May. Thus
far about fifty pilgrims have engaged
state rooms, and there is no doubt that
the facilities enjoyed by them will make
their journey exceedingly pleasant.
A number of sacred relics recently
imported from Rome are on exhibition
in St- Michael’s German Catholic
Church, Baltimore. They include a
thorn said to be from the dying Saviour’s
crown, a piece of wood from the croes,
a piece of the robe with which the Sa-’
vionr was covered before c.ucifixion
one of the nails with which Christ was
foatened to the cross, and a piece of the
crib of Bethlehem. The thorn is in
goblet of-glass lined with gold.
The legislature of North Carolina has
passed an act entitled “for the better
security of human life.” It provides
thHt any person who manufactures, sells
or deals in spirituous liquors as a drink,
of any name or kind, containing foreign
properties or ingredients poisonous to
the system, shall be punished with five
years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The certificate of a competent chemist
shall be primaficie evidence against
the offender.
A theatrical paper recently contained
the following advertisement: “Alice
Gilmore and her mother, Fanny Gil
more, have consoldated, and will here-
rnvel together, and btk known
A Danbury man who recently lost
his wife was asked by a friend whether
she died suddenly. “Indeed she did,’
he explained, with much feeling. “Why
only a week afore there was a man
around here that wanted to insure her,
but I never dreamed of any thing hap
pening. And,” he added, apologetical
ly, “I don’t believe anybody would have
thought it to look at her.”
A boat race for $4,000 and the cham
pionship of America, is to be arranged
between Wm. Scharff, of Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, and George Brown, of
Halifax, Nova Scotia. Scharff belongs
to the McKee Boat Club, of Pittsburg.
He never figured in any prominent race,
and the idea of his intention to row
Brown for $2,000 aside has created
quite a sensation.
“Old Probabilities” is at a discount
It is claimed that Captain McAleer,
of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, is the only
man on this continent who can, to a
certainty, foretell the changes in the
weather a month in advance; also when
there is to be a rise in the river. His
prophecies for the past five or six years
have been so accurate that the coal men
of Pittsburg have invariabiy consulted
him in regard to a coal boat rise, and
before the time arrives which he has
predicted, the fleet is always put in trim
to leave.
The Richmond (Kentucky) Register
says: ‘‘If all the returned Confederates
should do as well as General John B.
Hood towards repopulating the desolated
South it would be but a short time un
til the places of those who were killed
and those who died of disease during
the war would be filled by a new gener
ation. From a private source we learn
that General Hood has been married
just five years, and that he is now the
happy father of seven children. Con
sidering his bad luck daring many of-
the scenes of the late war, we are in
clined to think that the long lane has
taken a turn, and that Providence has
smiled on him at last.”
General Spinner stopped a day in
Indianapolis on his recent trip through
the West. While there he entered a
store to purchase a hat. Seeing tho
portraits of Lee and Jackson hanging
on the wall, he became highly indignant
and declared that it was theg rosiest
■•7* .- v .ttt-r
v fl pe*king, the valetudinarian qffic/f-
bolder acted the ass iu this patton
The “word”- never harms a Christian
so long as he keeps it out of his he^rt.
Temptation is never dangerous ‘hhtil jt
has an inside accomplice^' Sin' within
betrays the heart to the outside assail
ant. h
mmi’t. : -.:o • -'.i
A Boston man was missing an editor
the other day when be fell dead. SeVer-
•I similar instances have been lately
psrted. Men should be careful
speaking of anything sacred. * ' : j ‘ Z
A sophomore says he cannot ntij&efp
stand how any one ‘ possessing wha^ -jjs
generally known as a conscience,. ,c^t
counterfeit a five cent pice, and put oy
the back of it “In God we trust.”
Decatur Mortgage Sheriff Sales
Will be sold before the Court HousVdodr
in the city of Bainbride, on the firsltueeday
in May next, between the legal hours of sale,
the following property to wit: f ,? *n
The undivided half interest in lot of land
No. 175 in the 19th diet, of Decatur county,
Levied on as the property of A. E. Harris fo
satisfy a mortgage fi fa in favor of -John T
Jones - W. W. Harrell,
Lot of land No. 104 in the 20th mk.‘ 8f
said county, except one and one-quarter
acres in northeast corner of said lot, Levied
on as the property of Thomas M. Alien,
Trustee for Averetta A. Allen, to sa#^ mort
gage fi fa in favor of Elizabeth McLauchiin.
• W. W. Harrell, Sh’fr. ‘
One stock of goods now in store hou^e
formerly occupied by A; T. Reid & Coi, .con
sisting of dry goods, clothing, shoes, hats,
liquors and groceries, also one iron‘ safe.
Levied on as the property of A. T. Reifd
& Co., to satisfy a mortgage fi fa in favor of
Grover. Stubs & Co., W. W. Harrell Shff
Lot ofland in Shotwell addition to town
Bainbndge, and known in survey of said
addition made by J. H. Carter,, as No. (i
containing one and one- half aeres more hr
less, known as the property of Geo. A. Rad-
rick, deceased, Levied on as the property of
Geo. A. Padrick, deceased to satisfy mort-
gage fi fa in favor of Daniel McGill. Adm’r,
and Carrie B. Donalson, Adm’rx J M Don-
alson - W. W. Harrell, Sh’fT.’
One lot in city of Bainbndge, and im
provements thereon, bounded as follows: on
the north by Shotwell street, on the east by
MMtBflJLflLLJLHunnewelL on the south
property of AlfredTReuTrTTWWWty
mortgage fi fain favor of Mattie R: Reid vs
A. T Reid. IF. W Harrell. Sh’ff..
Lot of land No. 140 in the 19th dist. of
Decatur county. Levied as the property of
Wm. J. Bruton to satisfy one mortgage fiifa
in favor of D. B. Currv, Guard, vs said
Bruton. W. W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
W. W. McGRIFF,, -
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Bainbridge, Ga. , r
C an he found, for the present, with
C. G. Campbell. Office No. 1, Sanborn’s
Range ; up stairs. Feb’y 26. 1874-ly.
Bower & Crawford,
TT0R&EYS AT LAW,
Bainbridge, Ga.
Office in the Court House. , [-101y
RICHARD SIMS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Bainbridge, Ga. . ,
lA»Office in Court House. r.
B.T. BABBIT’S .V
Pure Concentrated Potash.
OR IiYB-
Or Double the Strength of ant Other
SAPONIFYING SUBSTANCE.
I have recently perfected a new method
of packing my potash, or Lye, and am now
packing it only in Balls, the coating of
which will saponify, and does not injure the
seap. It is packed in boxes containing 24
and 28 lb. Balls, and in no other way. Di
rections in English and German, for making
hard and soft soap with this Potash, accom
panying each package.
B. T. BABBIT,
fit—] 94 to 84 Washington St. N. Y.
DRS. JONES & HOYL
Haring associated themselves for the prac
tice of medicine and surgery, hereby tender
their professional services to the public.
Calls from the city or country promptly
attended; in urgent cases, or when desired
by both, without extra charge.
Special Attention Given to Of
fice Practice-
office for the present, over the store of Rock
well & West, where they can be found at
all hours, when not professionally absent
Bainbridge, Feb. 1st 1874,
