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Newspaper Page TextThe Bainbridge _'%y of-lect^* HERE SHALL WE BATTLE FOR THE RIGHTS OF SOL THERY y 11 US AWED BY FEAR AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN. r ryk==^-—: Volume 4. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1874. Number 4. THE WEEKLY DEMOCRAT Is Published Evert Thursday By BEN. E RUSSELL, Proprietor. advertising rates and rules. Advertisements inserted at $2 per square f.ir tirst insertion, and $1 for each subse- client one. A square is eight solid lines of this type. Liberal terms made with contract advertisers. Local notices of eight lines are .515 por quarter, or $50 per annum. Local notices f,,r less than three months are subject to transient rates. ontract advertisers who desire their ad vertisements changed, must give us two weeks' notice. hanging advertisements, unless otherwise stipulated in contract, will be charged 20 cents per square. Marriage and obituary notices, tributes of r e«peet. and other kindred notices, charged us other advertisements. Advertisements must take the run of the paper, .as we do not contract to keep them in „ n v particular place. Announcements for candidates are $10, if 0D lv for one insertion. bills are due upon the appearance of the advertisement., anti the money will be collect ed as needed by the Proprietors. We shall adhere strictly to the above rules, nnd will depart lrom them under no circum stances. TERMS OF SUBSRIPTION. Per annum, In advance, - - $2.00 Per six months, in advance, - 1.00 pet three months, in advance, * 5q single copy, in advance. - 10 ll. sii JIi’ii': I - It!.- ill The Civil Rights Bill. The so-called Civil Rights Bill as it passed the Senate, and for which Whiteley voted three times and still endorses, reads as fol lows: Sec. 1. That all citizens and other ner- grm* iritlnii the jurisdiction of the United States shall hr iiilitled to the full and equ ,1 enjoy ment of ihe accommodations, advantage, facilities and privilege of Inns, Public Con veyances mi Land or Water, Theatres and other places of Public Amusement, and also of Common Schools and Public Institutions eiievolence supported in whole or part by General Taxation and of Cemeteries so supported, and also the Institutions known as Industrial Colleges, endowed by the I'nited States, subject to the conditions and limitations established by law and applies- i hie alike to Citizens of Every Race and Col or, Regardless of any Previous Condition of ervitude. i( any person who shall vio- llate the foregoing section by denying to ay person entitled to its benefits, except to tUueiis nf every race nnd color and regard- nr,".'ions Condition of servitude, •y.:u*i*t- of any accommodations, facilities an 1 privileges in said ii u—.t-'d, or by inciting such de- ■ricit and pay the sum of Five .U.irx to the person aggrieved y. to he recovered in action on the iviih full costs, and shall also for every otl. ive Li: deemed guilty of a Mis-la- • r, an I ngioi conviction thereof si. ill jbe imprisoned not more than one year ; pro- |V:.ic I that the party so aggrieved shall not vor move ;hrn one penally ; and if the iso is u refusal of burial, the penalty he recovered h.v the heirs at law of the I'l's'iii whose body has hut'll refused burial ; in.I provided further that alt persons may i t to sue for toc penalty atoresaid, or to d under their rights at common law nnd the United Slates statutes, and having elected to proceed in the one mode or the btlier, their right to proceed in the other risdietion shall he barred ; but this pro- sliall not apply to criminal proceedings, itlior tinder this aet or the criminal law t*f the S ate. That the district and circuit courts of |L til led States shall hare ciclu.-re'y of tu rf the several Slates, cognizance of alt fnmes and offenses against and violations 11 1 lie provisions of this act, and actions for etialiy given by the proceeding section may >e prosecuted in the territorial, district or kircuit courts of the United States, wherever pile lU'fendent may be found, without regard the other party, and District Attorneys, bml Marshals and Deputy Marshals of the niu' l States, nnd Commissioners appointed ie circuit and territorial courts of the •d States with powers of arresting and Imprisonment and hailing offenders against |lte law of the United States, are hereby os- ialiy authorised and required to institute ill'lings against every person who shall "hue the provisions of this act, and cause m tn lie arrested and iihprisoned or bailed 'he ease may be, for trial before such ‘"ft nf tlie United States or territorial urrs as by law has cognizance of the of- O'-', except in respect of the right ot ac- ’’ i' eruing to the persons oggrieveil, and ' di'tviet attorney shall cause such pro- J t'.ngs to he prosecuted to their termina- n a s m other cases provide 1 that nutli- |n; i'"i"aiin* 1 in this section shall be con- Itrueted to deny or defeat the civil action teeming to any person by reason of this on or otherwise. l 'v. d. That no citizen, provided he meet lie other qualifications which ate or may £e preserihed by law, shall be disqualified ervices for grand and petit juror in any llr ' "1 the United States, or of a State, on aint of nice, color, nr previous condition ' 'ervitude, and any officer or other per- • charged with any duty in the selection f r ’’’uiiimiiiiiig of jurors, who shall exclude pr tail to summon any citizen for the cause fturesaid shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, fil l lined nut more than SI,00U. That all cases arising under the r -’visions of this act in the courts of the “d States shall he reviewa- hv the Supreme Court of the United '■ >. without regard to the sum in contro- tiinler the same provisions ana regu- asare now provided hy law for the "view of other causes in said court. Sir- Whiteley's Circular- > he Radical candidate for Congress, just issued an address to the voters I** ’his district on the “Civil Right’s Bill.” object of the address is evident. Mr. F' hiteley has seen that the white people the district are a unit in opposition to hn. and that his course on this bill has l r >ven from him those who were uis sup- loners. He has also seen that the ne groes cannot carry the election, without aid of white * scalawags to lead them, n d he is seeking hy this address to draw chitc men to his support, as well as to rlieve himself 0 f (he deserved odium, Indi-r which he finds himself borne down. lie does not hesitate to charge the good men of the count ry, with an attempt to mislead and deceive, while his own effort to do so is so transparent that every sensi ble man sees it at once. The whole bur den of his address is to show that the civil rights bill does not change or affect the State law- at all, or in other words that it amounts to nothing.—He quotes the 1st section as follows: TIIK CIVIL RIGHTS HILL AS IT PASSED THE SENATE. Sec. 1. That all citizens and other per sons within the jurisdiction of the United States, shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privelegcs of inns, public conveyances on land and wa ter, theatres and other places of public amusement, and also of common schools and public institutions of learning or be nevolence supported in whole or part hy public taxation, and of cemeteries so sup ported, and also the institutions, known its Industrial Colleges, endowed by the United States, subject to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to citizens of every race and cob>r re yardless of any precious condition of servi tude. And then with an effrontery, known only to carpet-baggers and scalawags says, “In the words in italics you find a clear and distinct recognition of the sov ereignty of the States, subject only to the gteut rule of equality announced in the 14th amendment, “lleally, Mr. Whiteley, we cannot see the State sovereignty. Where is it ? It would have been so easy to put in the short word ‘State,’ but we do not see it there. It might then have read “State Laws,” hut it does not, or you have quoted it wrong. We know that Air. Whiteley once professed to be a strong States rights man, hut if the rights he ad vocated then, were as baseless and shad owy as this, it is not surprising that he became an apostate. But. Air. Whiteley says plainly “that the civil rights bill as it passed the Senate and I voted on it in the House as your Representative, does not require either mixed schools, or a mix ture of the races in the same cars.” Either Air, Whiteley is utterly deficient in his knowledge of the English language and utterly unfit from ignorance to repre sent, this people, or lie has made a state ment which lie knows to be false. The section of the hill quoted by him, stamps the* falsehood on liis own statement.— it says “no citizen of the United States shall by reason of race, color and previous condition of servitude be excepted or excluded from the full and equal enjoy ment of any accommodation advantage facilities, or privilege furnished by trus tees, commissioners, superintendents, teachers and other officers of common schools or other institutions of learning, ’ etc. Now if a common school is estab lished under this law offering facilities for the education of white children, and a colored child apples for admission, how is lie to have equal enjoyment of these fa cilities y Air. Whiteley would have you believe that the teacher could - refuse ad mission, hut the 2nd section of his bill of ahum nations says that any person de nying to any person the ull enjoyment in any accommodations, advantages, fa cilities or privileges shall forfeit and pay the sum in live hundred dcillrs and be liable also to prosecution, and i is evident that the poor teacher who accepted and acted on Whiteley’s present construction of this law would find himself hurried off as a criminal io Savannah to answer for his offense. Mr. Whiteley quotes from a sj'icell of Air. Ereiinghuysin to sustain ins position, but it is well known that Mr. Bout well, who was so long secretary of the Treasury under Gen. Grant, and is now Senator from Alassacliusetts not only insisted upon it as requiring mixed schools hut urged that the education of white and black eluldreil in the same schools, ought to he compulsory, as it would he the means of bringing about social equality at an early day. But Air. IN hiteley quotes the decision of the Supreme Court of Ohio to the effect that the law estab lishing separate schools for the races was constitutional, and this tor the purpose of showing that this social rights bill allow ed it, when it had not passed, and has not yet passed, and its great object is well known oy hmi to be to set aside this very law in Ohio and Georgia and other States and put down this system of separate schools. Alanv of the ablest jurists in the coun try, and some of them leading Republi cans have openly taken ground against tins bill and against their party because it required miwtU .-moots, and mixed crowds on ears. Senator Brownlow of Tennessee, lias denounced it strongly and boldly, and so lias ex-Uovernor Brown of Georgia, Joshua Hill and many others, and Air. Whiteley is the first to make this won derful discovery, that it does not require mixed schools. If it does not why did you not say so in the bill Mr. Whiteley ? You were there claiming to represent us in Congress, and voted tor the bill, and why did you not say what you did mean ? It was very easy to have put in a word or two which would have settled this matter fully, and yet you did not even try to do so. * You knew that the Senate refused to change ; you knew that both the friends and opponents of the bill all gave this con struction to it ; you knew that the words did mean that or nothing, and yet as our Representative you sat there and did not open vour mouth, except to vo*e for the bill. Does not such conduct show you to be unfit longer to hold your seat there ? No, Air. Whiteley, this is only a second thought, a straw which you are trying to catch in your drowning condition, but it comes too late. It is too thin and trans parent to deceive, or even to furnish a pretext for the veriest scalawag to sup port you. But if separate schools and separate accommodations are all you ; wanted, why make any new law on the subject ? You know that they are already j established, and provided for by the State | law. What use is there then for the bill, and why this great effort to impose it upon us * You know that equal rights j are guaranteed to all, by our own : constitution and laws, and yet with a profession of States rights on your lips, i vou are laboring to break down our eoin- ! mon schools, and leave the colored rice : without the means of education, and keep | them in ignorance that they may contin- tiue to be blind tools and supporters of yourself and your radical party—Thomat- rille Times. The Powhatan Ship of War- Captain Jonette, so kindly remem bered by many of our citizens as one of the officers of the Crusader, whose visit to this port a short time before the late war. when she was under the command of Captain Maffit, was so cordially gree ted by our citizens, entertained yester day a number of his old Kentucky schoolmates and New Orleans friends, on the Powhatan, the last survivor of the old sidewheei steamers of our navy. The entertainment was of the most agreeable character, and Captain Jo nette and his gallant officers were inex haustible in their hospitality and kind attentions to their guests. In addition to the pleasure of inspecting a fine ship in tip top condition, carrying seventeen large guns, with three hundred meu on board, in a high state of ii seijoin genial captain had prepared a delight ful collatii n, of which his company par took with the keen relish created by the trip in the little stream-tug which communicates with the shore, and by the bracing air always wafted across the broad Mississippi. A most delightful social interchange of reminices, of friendly sentiments,and an unceasing fire of wit and joviality, made the occasion a most agreeable one. It was rather a strange spectacle to wit ness such fellowship and good feeling between the citizens, in reproof or menace of whose imagined turbulence and rebellousness this and the other ships of ltaar Admiral Mulloney’s fleet were sent to this port. There could uot be a better proof of the gross delu sion which had produced this sudden and formidable appearance of naval or- uament in our port, than the geniality and mirthful enjoyment of this happy company. There were, however, a few who participated in the festivity who could not banish certain melancholy ar- sociations connected with the Powha tan, She had been connected with the ante helium glories of our navy, when we were a united and fraternal people, whose highest pride was in the navy of the nation, and who were sharers in the common glory and renown which that splendid body of men comprising the fficers of this branch of the national defence never failed to win for the Re public in every war and in every part if the world. In those days no sectional lines of prejudice and distinction weie ever made in referring to our naval officers. It cost no part of our Northern breth ren to concede evch the superiority of the South in her contributions to the mil of the heroes who had achieved so much distinction and fame for our little navy. The presence of this old steamer, the Powhatan, serves to revive the recollec tions of one of these worthies, a native ■ f the South, who before our civil war was regarded as the pride and orna ment of our navy. We refer to Corn- mod.ire Josiah Tattnall, the commander of the famous mosquito fleet which gathered all the laurels that were won by our navy in the Mexican war of ’4G and 47. It was with the Powhatan that Cap tain Tattnall performed that gallant achievement some years before the war, of rescuing the British squadroon in China, which had got aground iu the lteiho. under a powerful fort of the Chinese, and was iu momentary peril ot entire d struct ion by the terrific lire to which the ships were exp - -d ^ ?J*:n the officers and men. uu.aa : ' • ' Hood, the British Admiral, had been shot down, several of the vessels were sunk, and there were no meu to work the guus until Captain Tattnall, hear ing of the great danger of the annihila tion of this fine body of Christian war riors by a force of barbarians.proceeded in an open boat to the British fleet, un der a shower of shot and shell which killed his coxswain, and having eflect- ed communications between his own ship and the British guwbo ts supplied from his own crew the men to work the abandoned guns of the British, and finally succeeded in towing the whole fleet beyond the reach of the Chinese batteries. It was on this occasion that when chided for the undiplomatic character of his action the sturdy old sailor ex claimed. • Blood is thicker than water.” Alas! alas! that our civil war should have stricken from the rolls ot our gallant navy a name which gave so much lustre to it-. But what just and magnanimous mind will recognize the magnanimity or generosity ot the pas sion or prejudice that wou.d refuse the tribute of admiration, of gratitude and | of respect for so worthy a patriot aud hero as Josiah Tattnall, because he sac rificed his proud position in our navy, achieved after so many years of service and da..ger, in obedience to the sacred sentiment which had been impressed on his mind and heart from infancy, that his first and strongest allegiance was due to the State of his nativity.—New Orleans Picayune. rsp’Let it be remembered that Dick AYhitelev has voted-for every measure in Comrress calculated to insult and degrade the white people of the South. The L ivtl Rights Bill is not aU of his infamies by a I'reat deal. Remember this, people of the Second District, when you pronounce vour final judgement upon him in No vember. Country Damaged Cotton- The following f’rdn the Liverpol Daily Post, of the 26tlh ult., will Inter est all dealers in cotton : I ~ For years the itnporcf^- of cottca have suffered, often vcrtP severely, through cotton arriving it Liverpool deteriorated-in value by Vrhat is called being “country damagfcd.” This'c^V try damage arises froh exposure fco-In- cleuieut weather in cidfse s:iipc:.ent, or ft jsi inadequate proteqti#.-being af forded by ship-owners before add dur. ing loading. Attempts have been made for years to fasten the liability for such damage upon the ship, but without avail.- During the last few weeks a meeting has been held in Liv erpool Of'deputies from tie National U'ott in Exchange “t the Laped states, I I. j W ners A .-sociali n the t'ott-uu linkers Association and the American Chamber of Commerce, at which an endeavor was made to lorm rules to make the ship responsible for the condition of the cottonjon landing. The New Orleans Exehanre proposes from the 1st instant to appoint super visors. who shall go round the quays and report to the Presidentjof that bo dy all lots of cotton which have been for any length of time exposed to the weather. On such report being made, a report will be drawn up and forward ed to Liverpool, and should i| be found that fhe cotton is country dtmaged on arrival, the Liverpool Cotton Brokers’ Association have been empowered to prosecute the matter legally, so as to test the liability of the ship. Iu the meantime, the Ship-owners’ Association have undertaken to instruct captains of vessels to be exceedingly careful in the handling of cotton in course of shipment ford to wait patiently now, for if the elec- I Rons of Tuesday last mean anything at all, it is that the day of their deliverance at hand.—Atlanta News. * <•» * ' Which is Correct 1 An inquirer of the Richmond Dis patch wants to know which is correct to say “four and five is nine,” or “four and five are nine,” and gets a reply that the former is the right expression Criticising the opinion, a correspondent of the Dispatch gives the following an ecdote : We have heard it relsj^tLftf a very distinguished jurist of this State, the subtlest disputant we. ever knew, that upon one occasion, in arguing a case in court, he laid down a- proposition as indisputably clear, which he asked his adversary to admit. ♦ The latter gen tleman, however, who was extremely cautious, and fully aware of the won derful acuteness and logical dexterity of his questioner, refused to make the admission. Other propositions, regard ed as equally plain, were stated ; but the opposing counsel, in his extreme caution, would admit none of them At length, the gentleman to whom we first alluded, said to his opponent, with some irritation, ‘ I suppose, sir, you will at least admit that two and two are four ?” That, s lid the counsel on the other side, depends on circumstances ; two and two may make four, but they may be so arranged as to make twen ty-two.” The Democratic Victories. The latest dispatches from Ohio and In- ili.i'ia fully confirm the previous good news. . i t tli s. Tli i -iff! Ii of We f Dem I at ktasiuugtou Lad “nred the Northern heart’’ sufficiently to insure an overwhel ming ilepuoiicau victory, and they coulil uot uuuerstand how, after the Louisiana re volution, there was a ghost ot a chance left the Democrats So, despite the general tenor of the dispatches,they went to work serenely and figured out a Radical victory. The New York Tines gave the Democrats but lour Congressmen in Indiana, aud but seven in Ohio. The Inter-Ocean, while ad mitting that Ohio had ‘iallen a prey’ to the Democrats, was quite sanguine Indiana had gone Republican. And so, through the list, the general impression prevailed that at best it was but a drawn battle. Twenty-four hours later came the details of the election, and they fell like a clap of thunder upon the Radical ear. Such of our Radical exchanges of Thursday as have reached us are almost dumbfounded. They do not know what to make of it. Ohio was bad enough, but for Ohio and Indiana to be carried by the Dem ocrats, on the same day, was something they never imagined possible. Our latest dispatches show tha* the vic tory was even greater than had been at first repined. Even Iowa, the Massachusetts of the West in politics, has elected a Democrat to Congress from the Third district, while West Virginia has elected an entirely Demo cratic delegation. Thus, instead of the Radi cals having a majority of three of the Con gressmen already chosen, they are actually in a minority of one,the list starding thirty- two Democrats to thirty-one Republicans. It may be too soon to assert that the po litical reaction has really set in, but unques tionably the Democrats have the best of the field now. Instead of the Louisiana revolu tion hurting them, it has actually helped them, because it has convinced the North, that the Republican party is not fit to gov ern the country, when, after eight years of absolute rule over the South, all they can show is a revolt in one State and a danger ous spirit of disaffection in all the others. Thus, the very policy of resistance to Rad ical usurpation and aggression which we have advocated all along, instead of injur ing the Democracy, has helped them. A glimmer of daylight dawns for us. The end of the long, long lane would seem to have been reached. A few weeks more and we will have entered into the broad road of peace and quiet. Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi and Florida can ‘af- Who-js Lifutenant Fitca ? The Lieutenant Fuoh^lately honored by the hand ci' Aiiss. Buarinan, daugh ter of “the General of the arm*"” has the following personal notice in a Brooklyn paper: im cjgw son in-law of the Genetal is a yottirg"mnn belonging to a poor emigrant family, lately an apprentice at the Novelty Works, and received that education he has at a pnblic school.— His father was an Irish laborer of the humblest class.and his only bruwho died ah :ut a year ago, was well known as the driver of an ice cart in Brooklyn, an 1 is a "jolly good fellow.’* Most men in a position not half so exulted as that of General Sherman would have frown ed upon such an aspirant for the hand of one of their daughters; but what did the General do ? Why, being satisfied of the meritorious character of his daughter’s suitor, he not only approved of his suit, but gave him a wedding fit for a prince of the blood. People who were in Washington at the time all agree that we have had no weedding ic this country to compare with it in mag nificence since the marriage of Boss Tweed’s daughter The fashionables of Brooklyn were startled when they read of this brilliant wedding and saw that Assistant Engineer Fitch,or Lieut. Fitch, as he was styled in the reports, belonged to a Brooklyn family. They ran hither and hither, inquiring what family of Fitches it was that had been so honored, and never dreamed that the little frame house in a back street in Greenpoint was their abode, especially as the family residing in it are generally known to their neighbors by the name of Fitzpatrick. The Truth From an Oflicer—United States Troops Used to Crush the People of Louisiana- To the .Editor of the Sim: Sir: Enclosed I send you an ex tract from a letter receied yeste day from a friend, an efficer in the United States army: October 5, 1874.—I am more than glad that I am not down there (Louisi ana) during the present state of affairs. God help the poor people of that unfor tunate State. He is the only one who can give her any aid, Congress refuses to help her, anu the President is trying to place the whole country in arms against her. I see by the papers that Packard, the United States Alarshal, and General Emery, the officer in com mand of the Department of the Gulf, are both out in a lying card, saying that “United States troops were never used to help ,he politicians in that State to power.” 1 call it a lying card, because i know of my own knowledge that my own company, and I in command of it, have been ordered on duty for just such purposes. But, thank fortune, I had some discretion allowed in the matter, and iustead of helping the thieving, lying rascals, whose only intention is to rub both the Hacks and whites, I was always able to help the people of the State. I am not a Democrat, but if I lived in that State I wo tld not be happy until Kellogg, Packard and his crew were hung to the lamp posts in New Orleans The carpet-baggers have r- ohed the peiqt.o l i such an extent tout it is al most next to impossible for a man to exist there. I am only one of the officers of the—*—Infantry, but the whole regi ment, from the Colonel down, feel just as l do about the matter,and if we hear of any more cards from Emery or any one else about the non-use of troops for political purposes,we will all sign a card that from the time the regiment went into the State till it left it, we were used as a means to overawe the people in behalf of Kellogg and his thieves- The Dawn of a Better Day- Under this caption the New York World prints a jubilant, double-leaded leader on the recent decisive Democrat ic victories in Ohio, Indiana and Ar kansas, in which result it recognizes “the dawn of that better day which now, at last, is lighting up the hopes nnd the destinies of a great nation.” The edi tor says : “The news of this magnifi cent Democratic triumph, presaging the wider and still more complete victories of the Democracy in November, will send joy to the hearts of millions in every part of our land. It will breathe new life into the dis ordered industries and the sinking com merce of the Atlantic States; it will inspire with fresh courage the despair ing agriculture of the mighty West, robbed so long by rag money and a ru inous tariff of all the rewards of steady labor under benignant seasons upon a teeming soil; it will stanch the bleed ing wounds and bind up the shattered limbs and pour measureless joy into the broken heart of the prostrate South, now at length ere long to be recovered to the Union of States, and restored to the juet equality of their self-govern ment, their liberties and laws.” A GloTuy Jolification- The World says a number of promi nent Republicans assembled at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Tuesday nigut, all prepared for a grand jolification over the good news which they expected to receive from the elections in Ohio and Indiana. As the evening wore away they began to look gloomy. The news did not come in as they expected. They could get nothing to jollify over, and by eleven o’clock they had all gone—no one Jcnew where They departed without even a cheer. This gloom is nothing compared to that which will take hold of them on the nigh.t of the 3rd of November, when the news of the political death of the third-termites will flash over the wires, announcing an overwhelming Democratic triumph in the Empire State. The Argument that Always Sparkles. We have heard and read a great deal about the Sumner civil rights bill, a bill whose au thor passed into the great, unknown hereaf ter, with his heart filled with curses toward the South. We cannot, however, hear, neith er can we read too much the wonderful na tional measure. We believe that there is needed only one argument to induce the strongest effort to defeat it. That argument is wrapped up in the little bundles that fill the cradles of Ala bama and all other Southern States. Go to your homes, dear friends, and gaze upon the infants who coo and crow when the father or brother approaches, and with legs going like the piston rod of a locomotive, and little hands like the wings of a widmill, and faces illuminated with childish joy, all glee and gladsomeness, recognize there, a jewel from which flashes all the argument necessary to control your action on the third of Novem ber. W T e fear not for ourselves ; our babes must be saved.—Eufaula News. Another of Whiteley’s BubhlefT'rick* ■ « *d -5ta in Major Whiteley’s address to the citi zens of the 2nd District he laoors hard (and fail., ingloriouslv) to prove that the Civil Rights Bill does uot confer the right upon colored children io go into the pub lic schools. On the 10th fjt of Septem ber in V.s own organ, the Sun, ho used the following language in speaking of the school clause in this bill: “1 shall move to strike out .this portion of the bill, and if moved by some one eho I shall vote to strike it out,” Why did you propose to strike out this clause of the bill. Major, if there '^ere no such rights conveyed in the bill * Aye, they are there, an‘d all your sophistry will not convince the intelligent voters of this District, to the contrary. You are gone up W hiteley, Civil Rights has killed you. —ThomasviUe Times. DRS. JONES & HOYL Having associated themselves for the prac tice of medicine and surgery, hereby tender their professional services to the public. Culls 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. EDWIN M. HAMPTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Bainbridge, Ga. Office with Whiteley & Donalson. The following is the Democratic pyramid thus far in 1874 of the State elections, ac cording to their majorities. OHIO OREGON. GEORGIA. INDIANA. M O N T A N A. ARKANSAS. COLORADO. KENTUCKY. TENNESSEE. WEST VIRGINIA. CONNECTICUT. NEW HAMPSHIRE. NORTH CAROLINA. The following is the Republican pyramid: IOWA. - MAINE. VERMONT. RHODE ISLAND NEBKASK A. U L J. GUM,MARTIN. | JOHN FLANNERY. L. J. GUILMARTIN & CO., COTTON FACTORS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Kelley’s Block. Bay St., Savannah, Ga. Agents for Bradley’s Phosphate, Jewell’s Mills Yarns & Domestics, &c., &c. Bagging and Iron Ties for sale at low est market rates. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to us. Liberal Cash Advances made on consignments. Aug. 22—4ms. CRESCENT S pect acles! Negro K X X- “I soy that every one of you that votes with the Democrats this fall had better take your baggage and leave this country. We are going to raise a Ku-Klux and K. K. every one of you that votes with the Democrats. Fred Atkinson is a colored man, and the foregoing was a warning he gave to his brethren in a speech delivered at ThomasviUe. The carpet-baggers have purchased and enslaved him ; he has pledged to them the entire vote of the colored race, and the threat contained in the foregoing is the manner in which he hopes • to fulfill his contract. They must vote as he says, or leave the country. Will th.* negroes tamely sub mit to the yoke ? Can’t Stand the Civil Rights Bill- Judge W. J. Haralson, whom the Montgomery Advertiser characterizes as the ablest man of the Republican party in North Alabama, has published a letter saying that, as that party is pledged to the passage and enforcement of the Civil Rights Bill, he can go with it no longer, but must act with the Dem ocrats and Conservatives. He says: I cannot support this measure in any political organization; or lend myself to its support in any sense of the word. This is the issue. In it is involved the ruin or prosperity of both races in the South. If the bill if finally passed, it will require a standing army to enforce it. Who does not desire to avoid such a calamity? What sane man will wil lingly vote for this policy, knowing its consequences? Xeep it before the People! It-is well to keep the outrageous language of Jack Carter (one of the shining lights of Radicalism), constantly before the people. The following is an extract from his speech, delivered at Duncanville, Thomas county. August 2flth, 1874. Read it, and if you pos sess a particle of manhood, you will assist in the defeat of a party that inculcates such dangerous doctrine: “The negroe is better than the poor white man now, and we mean to be put equal with any white man. We mean to go into the biggest hotels, and best rai'road cars with the white men and women: we mean to fix the law that a black man can take any white wo man for a wife when he loves her and wants her; we mean that the law shall say there mnst be no separate schools for white and black men's children, and it won’t be long before they wiff not know there ever was any dif ference between white and black. It will make you mighty sick at first (referring to the few whites preaent) just as emancipation made you sick, but you’ll come in mighty pretty when you find you can’t help your selves.” 1 Improve Yonr Sight I The Crescent Spectacles now offered to the public are guaranteed Superior to' all others in the market. For clearness and distinctness of vision they are unrivalled. The total absence of prismatic colors and re fractory rays always found in Pebbles, ren ders them * especially desirable ; being ground with great care they are free from all imperfections. They are mounted in Gold, Silver, Shell, Rubber and Steel ffatnes, and will last many years without change. For sale only by our Agent, W. C. SUBERS, Jeweller, Bain bridge, Ga. None genuine without the trade-mark tamped on every pair. Manufactured by Fellows, Holmes & Clapp,New York. Ko peddlers employed. [Feb. 25-ly A. Gr. B. B. Change of Schedule. General Superintendent's Office, I Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, }• Savannah, Oct. '9, 1874. ) On and after Sunday, Oct* 11, 1874, Passenger trains on this road will run aa follows : EXPRESS PASSENGER. Leave Savannah daily at - - 4:30 p m Arrive at Live Oak - 3:56 a m Arrive at Bainbridge - - - 8:16 a m Arrive at Albany - - 3:40 a m Leave Albany - 3:40 p m Leave Bainbridge - - - 4:80 p m Leave Live Oak - ... 0:06 p m Arrive at Savannah - — 8:20 a m Connect at Live Oak with trams on J., P, & M. Railroad for and from Jack sonville, Tallahassee, etc. No change of cars betweeu Savannah and Albany. i Close connection at Albany with trains on Southwestern Railroad. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, western division. Leave Dupont, Sundays excepted at 7:30 a m Arrive at Valdosta, “ 9:36 am Arrive at Quitman, “ 10:65 a m Arrive at ThomasviUe, “ 1:00 p m Arrive at Albany “ 7:00 p m Leave Albany “ 8:15 a m Leave ThomasviUe, •* 2:30 p m Leave Quitman, “ 4:31 p m Leave Valdosta, “ 3:48 p m Arrive at Dupont, “ 8:20 p a ACCOMMODATION TRAIN. ALBANY DIVISION Leave ThomasviUe Monday Wed nesday and Friday 8:00 p m Arrive at Camilla “ 6:10 p m Arrive at Albany “ 7:00 p m Leave Albany “ 5:15 a m Leave Camilla “ 10:19 a m Arrive at ThomasviUe “ 12:80 p m Connnect at Albany with night trains on Southwestern railroad, leaving Albany Sun day, Tuesday, and Thursday and arriving at Albany Monday, Wednesday nd Fri day. Mail Steamer leaves Bainbridge every Sunday evening for Apalachicola. H. S, HAINES, Gen Superintendent.

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The Bainbridge weekly democrat. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 1872-18??, October 29, 1874, Image 1