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Newspaper Page TextHERE SHALL WE BATTLE FOR TILE RIGHTS OFSGUTHERN^ ^{HTB MEN, “ UNA WED BY FEAR AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN lume 4. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5, /874. I WEEKLY DEMOCRAT I« pr'Bt«n**> Eveky ThumimIy £y. E RUSSELL, Prop»*kor. ERT |SlNf. RATES AND RULES. rer ti-icni<'ii*» inserted at $2 per square r 4 insertion, and $1 for each subse- ono. , u:l rc is eight «<>lid lines of this type. 1 terms made with contract advertisers. notices of right lines o-r Elo per er, <>r §50 per urtuurti. 'i.ocai notices tlmu three fronths lire subject to ent rates. iract advertisers Who desire thtlr ad- i-ments changed, must give us two notice. advert isemtebts,'Unless otherwise i c j in contract, will be charged 20 per •failure. nn I obituary notices, tributes ol i and (iihcr kindred notices, charged er advertisements. (ertwements must take the run of the ns W e >lo not contract to keep them in articular place. mincemeats for candidates are $10, if • one insertion. ure due upon the appearance of the i-iucnt, and the money will be collect- needed by the Proprietors, shall a Ihcrc strictly to the above rules, ill depart from them under no circurn- ■friliJiS OF SUBSRli’TION. tinnm, In advance, - - $2.00 |, tnoiilhs, in advance, - 1.00 ee months, in advance, - 5q opy, in advance, - 10 Grant and Louisiana- Xfiv Ynrl, Herald: vc rea-l with great interest, as •well as iiii'nm, rbi- opinions of Mr. Reverdy Lii and Mr. (.diaries O’Conor, on the mi nf Louisiana, and 1 will turtv -jeive v own views on thcYirriie subject. Rut : nn time for elaboration, I state con- ins rather than arguments. > President can lawfully use the Or el physical force of the Union to con- |n: internal affairs of a State only for |ir|insc—1»- defend it against domestic •e: tht’t is, to supprefli; insurrection : State government. This lie cannot i'ss relied upon by‘the Legislature, or ti atrnor when the Legislature is se.-sinii. The Constitution of the 1 Slates and I he acts of Congress care- jtnifinc Ihs intervention to cases of iiel. U lie limy disregard tliese lini- e nn miters to hold him, aud his incipient!y despotic, fsiatt* is i!:ai which stands. Its gov- nt i< "tin-powers that be.” Its of- nc ih '<r who actually exercise its au- h is. therefore, the call of the de "vei inierrt fliiij the Presiucut Yuiist id to. This principle pervades all law. -al and intermit'lima!, and its observ- tbsohtteli^tteecssary to t'ne preser- d' our domestic tranquility, as well Ipeaee of the world. 1*' the President fa taction hostile to the existing gov- |nt. with intent to 'drive tlfr incum- gist'rates from the seat of power, lie domestic violence and makes insur- li, instead of suppressing it. I facts of the Louisiana case, Ad T think universally understood since the |ituin of Mr. Carpenter’s report are A man named Kellogg, aspired to be or, but wholly failed of the eleclion. t lieless, he claimed the office on Is which were not only false and ent. Wf absurd. Fie had no show ■ before tbe proper authorities, Whose ft was to decide contested elections ; ‘ laid his clainl before a Federal Judge, wide an order for his installation, brder was ns destitute of all legal force Jidity as if it bad been made by the gro that Kellogg might have picked I the street. 1 take it for granted that tlge and all Cue Fedff.il officers, civil binary, as well os Kellogg himself, I'hat it iVas utterly void. It would be F"'ky ti suppose either of them ignor- s, ‘ u gh to believe that a Judge of the ^aies Court had any authority or f'ion of the subject matter, or any ever to intermeddle with the Nevertheless, the marshal and ptnntander of the Federal troops, acting 'itnice of previous instructions from P'ngton. and with the approbation of fti'-UK-nt himself und-fftook to execute rier, expelle 1 the officers of the exis- I ?'Vonuitent. and put the pretender Pt> adherents into ful’ possession of nh a, (ate ecutive powtfr in the hands of the man who had been legally elected r*early two years before. Never was revolution more just or conducted with greater prudence. Its suc cess was Complete; the baseless fabric of tyranny-fell at the first'rush of the populat movement; its chief absconded, 'his famil iars slunk away fr&n his ruined fortunes, anil all over the State the official insfru- mfd'i I corruption-yielded their places to tn« ..ppointees of the lawful government. Louisiana was free and every friend of lib erty and justice in or out of the State re joiced over the fact. But ‘the President wratlifully determined to put the yoke back again on the neck of the State. To that end he sought out Kellogg in his hiding place ; again expelled the true Governor and again forced the submission of the people to the same adventurer whom he had before. The unconstitutional character of the Pres ident’s first act, when he overthrew the then existlhg-government and put Kellogg in the executive chair by mere force, is ad mitted both by Mr. Johnson ahd O’Conor. It would have been wonderful, indeed, 'if cither of them Fad attempted to justify so plain and palpable a violation Of the ftrhda mental law. But they differ apparently about the President's duty at the time of his second intervention. I concur with Mr. Johnson in the opinion that after Kellogg was in, the President could not turn him out; ne was de facto Governor; and no matter whether‘be became so by fraud, or force, or accident, the fact of possession was all that the President could lawfully see. Of course, I dissent from Mr. O’Conor with all the cau tious deference due to his great name ; but if lie means-to say that General Grant had a right to pifll down the de facto government- of Kellogg whenever he repented his Own act in setting it up, I venture to put in a denial. Remember, the President has no right to Hum anybody out, nor even to in quire how any actual incumbent got iD. To overthrow one dtfacto government because he had wrongfully overthrown another would, instead of atoning for the first error, only double the blunder. He cabfcbt play fast anil loose 'k’ith the liberties of a State, nor, Hl<*e Pharoah, let tlie people go free or hold them in bondage, according as the Lord hardens his heart, or terrifies him with plaices. But I respectfully submit that this point on which Mr. Johnson and Mr. O’Conor di vide is not. in the caste. Gen. Grant irtN’ar intervened to fu-Sfrct a de facto government iu Louisiana. His last act, like the first one was a war against the existing authorities. 1 Kellogg never had any title except his nak ed possession. Tii.it was enough while it lasted; but'every vestige of faioWer had left him when tbe Federal troops took him from his hi ling plate in the Custom-house and placed him a second time in the executive e-hair. The McEnery government 'b it- at that time completely established as if its power had dated a century back. It was the gnvernirfefftvt- i*re. That did not elo it much practical good while its officers were prevented by the military force of the usurp er from exercising their functions; but when tlie people took their own hands and put their elected rulers into their proper places, then the hgd title and the actual possession united in the same persons. It is mer. folly to say 'that Kellogg Vait Governor an instant after that. The forcibls reinstatement of him was an insurrection against the proper authority of the State as his first installment. If I am right thus far, it follows that Gen. Grant -eft both occasions committed a grave violation of his constitutional duty, in a mat ter vitally affecting the rights of the States and the liberties of the people. Of his con duct there can certainly be no decent pre- , tence of justification, and, so far as I lean; perceive, no reasonable excuse, unless he 1 can say that hi? legal advisers imposed upon him by a false reading of the Constitution. Mr. O'Conor refers to Congress as the paramount authority, whose recognition of the Kellogg government would have bound the President and all others. The opinion of the court in Luthur vs. Burton speaks of the jurisdiction which Congress has over the subject, but does nol define it. I know of no poiveV iu that body except to prescribe by general rules the manner in which the President shall perform the duty assigned by the Constitution to him, and I do not tlr.nk that either Mr. O'Conor or Chief Jus tice Taney could have meant anything else. 1; is certain that Congress could not legis late Kellogg in or out of office, and its “re cognition” would nc. more strengthen his title than it would add a cubit to his stature. Those Senators were wise and faithful men who refused to vote for Mr. Carpenter's bill because it was an unconstitutional interfer ence with a matter which belonged to the people of the State exclusively. J. S. Black. York, Pa., October 13, 1874. Josh Billings on Hotels. Hotels are houses ov refuge, homes for the vagrants, the married mao’s re treat. and the bachelor’s fireside. They are kept in all sorts ov ways; some on the European plan, and many ov them on no plan at all. A good landlord is like a good step mother—he knows hiz bizziness, and means to do hiz duty. lie knows how to rub hiz hands with joy when the traveler draws nigh ; he Number 5. 1- u! power unlawfully obtained is al- ll ' i ' 1 The State was Insulted, op- :, "'l plundered until it became “a " n r'en to bear tbe report thereof.” r ?'' the rapacity of the ruler, property •tpital were so burdened with taxes ‘general confiscation Of every honest • hinds, goods and money would hard- ' r e been a more grievous infliction. " is borne by the body of the people so n,, .v that the spirit of their forefathers el dead within them. Their tameness Reusable only by two reasons. In the I'hi'e a successful resistance was im- l tf "bile the usurper was surrounded guarded by the bayonets of the Fcdcr- rm . v : and second, they looked forward election as a peaceful remedy for wrongs. But this last hope left them i they saw that Kellogg was arranging machinery of the registration to cheat hy a false count of the votes and thus -hem in subjection for an indefinite ' onvineed that they must raise by _ r own unassisted strength or be forever knows how to smile ; he knew yure wife’s hcv re? , r » e ,| to the u-'trii ratio, threw ! lather when he was living, and yure k® shackles and placed the supreme ex- • wife s first husband, but be dctto t speak about him. He kan tell whether it will rain to morrow or not ; he hears yure kom- piaints with a tear in his eye; he blows up the servants at yure suggestion, and stands around reddy, with a shirt col lar az stiff az broken china. ’ ,s, A mau-loiej* '«e a good supreatn court judge, and aH fo *e same-time he is k mis erable landlord. . * ' , Most evryboddy thinks they cah keep a hotel—-and they kan ; bat thi3 akounts for the grate number ov hotete that are kept on the same principle that a jbstiss ov the peace ofliis iz ke{>t in the coun try during a six days’ jury trial for kil ling someboddy’s yello dog. A hotel won’t keep itself and keep the landlord, too, and never kurea fcrav eller from the habit of .profane sware in g- v I hav had this experiment tried on me several times, and it alwus makes me sware wuss. It iz too oftfen the kase that landlords go into the b&zziness ov hash az minis ters gb iUto the professhun—with the very best of motives, but the poorest kind, ov prospecks. I don’t know ov enny buzziness more flattersum than the tavern buzziness. There don’t seem tew be -ennything tew do but tew stand in front ov the regis ter with a "Jien behind the eSr, and see that the guests enter tbemselEs az soon az they enter the house; -then yank a bell rope six or seven times ; and then tell John tew sho the gentleman tew 976 ; and then take four dollars and fif ty cents next morning from the poor devil ov a traveller, and let him went. This seems tew be the whole tbfhg-^ and it -iz the whole thing in most cases. Yh wifi diskover the following des- krimshun a mild one ov about 9 hotels out ov 10 between the Atlantic^ and Pacifick oshuns, akrost the IJnited States in a straight line. Y’ure room iz 13 toot 6 inches by 9 foot 7 inches parallelogram. It being court week (as usual) all the good rooms are employed by the lawyers and judges. Y ure room fe on the uttermost floor. The carpet iz ifegrain—ingrained with the dust., kerosine ile, and ink spots ov four generashuns. Thar iz two pegs in the oom tew hitch *;oats onto, one ov them broke oph, aud th’fe ether pulled Out and mis sing The buro has three legs fend one brick. The glass tew the buro swings on two pivots which hav lost their grip Thare iz one towel on the rack, thin, but wet. The rain water in the pitcher x>um, out ov the Wert. The soap iz az tuff tew car az a whet-stone. The soap iz scented with ciRnamcn ile, and variagated with spots. Thare iz three chairs, kane-secters, one iz a rocker, afcd all three a-re bust- ed. Thare iz a match-box empty Thare iz no curtin te-v the windo, and thare don’t want tew be enny ; yu kan’t see out, and who kan seei« ? T^.e bell-rope iz cum opb about 6 inches this side ov the ceiling. The bed iz a modern slac-bottom, with two matrasses, one cotton and one husk, and both harder and about az thick az a sea-biskitt. Yu enter the bed sideways, and kan feel every slat at once az easy az yu could the ribs ov a grid-iron. The bed iz inhabited. Yu sleep sum, but role o^er a good deal. For breakfast yu hav a gong and rhy koffe tew kold to melt butter, fride pota- toze which resemble the chips a two- inch auger makes iu its journey thru an oak log. Bread solid ; beefsteak about a* thick az a blister-plaster, and az tuff as a hoftiiiFs ear. Table covered with plates, a few scared-to-death pickles on one ov them and 6 fly-indorsed crackers on another. A pewterinkton castor with three bottles in it, one without enny mustard and one with two inches ov drowned flies and vinegar in it. Servant girl with hoops on hangs round you earnestly, and wants tew know if you will take another Cup ov koffee. Yu say, ! -Xo, mom, I thank you,” and push back yure chair. Y i haven’t eat enuff to pay for pick- ing yure teeth. I am about as self-konsaited as it will do for a man tefc be aiid not crack open ; but I never yet konsaited that I could keep a hotel. I had rather be a hiwayman than tew be sum landlords 1 have visited with. Thare are hotels that are a joy upon earth; wharo a man pays hiz bill az cheerfully as he did the parson who married hint; frhare you kan’t find the landlord unless you hunt iti the kitchen, whare servants glide around like angels ov mercy; whare the beds fit A matt s back like the feathers on a gooze; and whare the Tittles tatte just az tho y ire wife ordure mothcl 1 had fried’em. Theze kind ov hotels ought tew be built, on wheels, and travel around the kuntry. they are az phull ov real cumfort as a thanksgiving puddirtg; but, alass I ves, alass ! they are az un- pleilty ax double-yeiked egga The Broken Merchant. BY * lttSN«/».* H. SJGOCG.VJ6T, It is thejdlriy of mothers to sustain the reverses of fortune. Freqeent and sadden they have been in otu^ oifn country, it is important that yogpg fe male should 'possess some empl^hient by wkfioh they might obtain & bqJj. hood in c^se they should bqKqgdyced to, ’the necessity of supporting "themselves* TYhOn families are unexpectedly redu ced from affluence to poverty, how piti ful,’contemptible, it is to see the mother despondihg or helpless, and permittin her daughters to embarrasss those whom it is their duty to assist and cheer. “I have lost my whole fortune,” said a therchunt as he returned one evening to his home; we can no longer keep our ’carriage. , We must leave this large house. The children can no longer go to expensive schools Yesterday I was a rich man; to-day, there is nothing that I can call my own.” “Bear husband,” said the wife, “we are still rich iu each other and our chil dren. Money may pass away, bat God has given fas a better treasure in those active hands and loving hearts.” “Bear father,” said the children, “do not look so sober. We will help you get a living.” “What can you do, poor thiugs ?” said he. “You shall see,” answered several voices. “It’s a pity if we have been to school for nothing. How can a father of eight children be poor ? We shall work and make you rich again.” “I shall help,” said the younger girl, hardly four years old. “I shall not have any new things bought, and I shall sell my great doll.” The heart of the husband and father, which had Sunk in his bosom like a stone was lifted up The sweet enthu siasm of the scene cheered him, and his nightly song of praise. They lefttheir stately house. The servants were dis missed., Pictures and plate, -rich car pets and furniture, were sold, and she who had been mistress of the mansion shed no tears. “Pay every debt ” said she ! “let no one suffer through us, and we may be happy.” lie rented a neat cottage, and a small piece of ground, a few mHes from the city. With the aid of his sons, he cul- vated vegetables for the market. He iewed with delight and astonishment he economy of his wife, nurtured as he had cees*’;n wealth, and the effi ciency his daughters soon acquired un-: der her training. The eldest- one instructed in the household and also assisted the younger children; besides, they executed various work which thev had learned at accom plishments, but which‘they found could be disposed of to advantage. They em broidered with taste some of the orna mental parts of female apparel, which h;ere readily Sold to a merchant in the city- They cultivated flowers,sent bouquets to market in the -Cart that conveyed the vegetables. They plaited straw, they painted maps, they executed plain neo- dle-work. Every r ne was at her post, cheerful and busy. The little cottage was like a bee-hive. •I never enjoyed such health before.’ said the father. , , , , “And I never was so happy before,” said the mother. “We never knew how many things we could do when we lived in the great house.” said the children, “and fae love each other a great deal better here. You call us your little bees.” “Yes,’’ replied tbe father, ‘‘and you make just such honey as the heart likes to feed on.” Economy as well as industry was strictly observed. Nothing was wasted —nothing unnecessary was purchased. The eldest daughter became assistant teacher in a distinguished female sem inary, and the second took her place as instructress to the family. The dwelling which they had always A-ept neat they were soon able to beauti fy. Its construction Was improved, and the vines and the flow ering trees were replanted around it. The merchant was happier under his woodbine covered porch, in a summer’s evening, than he had been in his showy dressing room. “We are now thriving and prosper ous,” said he; “shall we return to the city ?” “Oh ! no,” was the unanimous reply. “Let us temain,” said the wife, “where we have had contentment.” “Father,” said the youngest, “all We children hope you are not going to be rich again I for then,” she added, ‘-we little ones were shut- up in the nursery, and did not see much of yon or mother. Now we all live together, and sister, who loves us. teaches us. and we learn to be industrious and useful. We were none of ns happy when we were rich and did not worA*. So, father, please not be a rich man any more.” quets. On the 19tih of April, in tbe year jnst mentioned, the competition cfalfflinated in one of the grandest din ners that i.«£er was eaten. Fifteen New Yorkers were brought by uPteeu Phila delphians to a just appreciation and full understanding of what constitutes a dtffnejr, prbp-jrly so called. The caterer was JolSk W Parkinson, since then the author of a serfflk of articles on “Ameri can Cookery.” A surveyor of the New York delegation, in a letter to the Phil adelphia Press, tells the story as fol lows: As this Sinner was given on April, it around the chair-leg I’d’ve knocked the | Radical stuffin’ out of you in the first place.’— Then he went home, and the club re sumed its deliberations.” The Footprints of Time. Wrinkles are the first tell-tales of a lost yonih, and the wrinkles make their way in a very stealthy manner. At first there comes the faint marking of one little line about the corner'of tbe eye, and one at each side of the mouth. Assuredly if'is the sign of approaching age, we say complacently, looking at ourselves in the glass, conscious of our attractions in the perfection of tlTeir took the caterer greatly at a disadvan- maturity. That little line, indicative of the tage as to both game and vegetables. It furrowed future, is no more age than the one was “between seasons. He could only Plot—a Warning—White- leys Plan- We trust the good people of Terrell county will be on their guard against Radical tricks and plots on the day of election. A prominent Radieal was over heard to say some time since that “it will require a heap of nerve to do what we in tend in Terrell, but it must be done, and it will put us all right, and get Whiteley A Grand Dinner. It was in 1851. when Millard Fil- more ruled this land and times were slow, tl,ere Were two clubs of good liv ers one in New York and the other in Philadelphia, and they spent a day in each year and all their spare cash in trying to rival each other’s annual ban- obtain What he did by special use of both telegraph and express. His let tuce, green peas, cauliflowers, etc., had to be ordered from Georgia. His reed birds came from South Carolina: He sent anglers and hunters to the woods and waters of Virginia. His salmon of the occasion were swimming the night before in the Kennebec in Maine. Tho dinner consisted of seventeen courses. Each course was a perfect banquet in itself. Every separate course of viands was accompanid with its own appro priate course of wines. The expensive ness and rarity of the liquors will be in ferred when I say the opening‘Cognac’ cost six dollars a pint at wholesale. Be fore every one of the thirty guests was a wine-cooler. Behind every guest was a waiter, colored, /n the full evening patty dress of the day—black panta loons and swallow-tail coat, with white vest and white cravat. The gloves of the waiters were not cotton or berlin, but the newest and best of white kid. Among the choice and voluntary ■con tributions to the common feast were two bottles of Madeira wine, which were brought by Joshua Price.a citizen who was as well known in Philapelphia at that day as Independence Hall.— These bottles had come down to him from his gretft-great-grand-fatber. They had been in the family for over one hundred and fifty years. Their great age was attested hy the accumulation of dust, cobwebs, and what not. These incrustations on the glass were half an inch thick. Enchained to our seats by this long and brilliant succes sion of culinary enticements, intersper sed, of coutse, with that 1‘feast of rea son and flow of soul,” in the way of wit and song, poetry, eloquence and an ecdote with such bountiful good cheer is sure to inspire, we sat so long at the table rhas the sun in the nfbantime had both set and risen again. It was precisely siy o’clock in the evenin when we sat down, and it was high six in the morning when we arose. The Philadelphia papers of the day spoke of this entertainment as “the §1,000 din ner.” The fact is that our Philadelphia entertainers paid the caterer §1,500 for the banquet—$50 a plate. And yet such was the expense incurred in pro viding so great a variety of such rare and costly viands that the purveyor made no profit at that. Indeed, he stated to the committee that while he asked a carte blanche, be would employ a special clerk, who should keep an ac curate account of all the outlays, and he would add no profit for himself. ‘All that he asked was ihe pleasure of show ing to out friends from New York what the culinary and confectionery art could do in his native city of Philadelphia.’ scarlet leaf of the maple in the midst of the green wood is autumn. ,It is the shadow of the herald, if you will; but it is not the real thing. And so on’ with all the rest. But it is not so with our friends. The gap made between the past and present by years of absence is abrupt, unexpected. You left blooming, sleek-haired, slim-waisted girl you find y faded, hollow-eyed, gray headed woman, the mother of children, afflicted with bad health and tired ofj her life. Or you encounter a stout and florid matron whose bulk is adjurden todierself and a mat ter not for admiration to her friends; whose early shyness has worn)ofF and given plac to a free and easy good nature that may be genial but is vulgar ; whose girlish senti mentality has gone with her olushes, and who now openly proclaims her devotion to champagne and lobster salad as among the few things of life worth taking trouble for, and talks of’the pleasures of the palate as superior to every other enjopment. To be sure paring away in your mind’s eye those superfluous layers of flesh, you can make out the nose of the past, and the ltps have the same curve as hers had in the days when you would have given a month’s salary for a kiss ; the eyes are the same color, but inhat has become of their sparkle ? Where is that roguish twinkle that made your heart leap when it. flashed upon you, givin; point to a girlish saciness that was so iu nocent and she thought was so naughty ? Where is that dewy, downcast look that was so conscious where there was nothing to blush for? Is it that ugly leer which tells of less tenderness of sentiment than you would like to see even in a man ? Y'ou must accept this as the .“survival;” it is all you will have of the sweetness, the bashfulness that once seemed to'you most exquisite grace earth. Why Brewer Failed- Max Adeler supplies the following: “Young Brewer, of New Castle, has a turn for legerdemain, and the other night when he was down at the club- room with a party of yottng fellows the performances of the Davenport Brothers were discussed. Brewer offered to bet that if any one in the crowd would tie him up in a chair he would untie him self just like the Davenports. Mr. Ec- cles took the bet, and procuring a clothes-line he put Brewer in the Presi dent’s heavy arm-chair and tied him fast. Then Brewer said he must be alone, and he told tbe p rty to go down to the drug store and wait for him, as he would be along in about five minutes. They went and waited, they waited for an hour and a half, and then, as the great knot-uhraveiler did not appear, they concluded to go up after him. As they ascended the staircase they heard groans. A little further up they heard Brewer holding an animated conversa tion with himself, daring which he in timated clearly that he would regard it as a personal favor if somebody wobld burn tiie Davenport Brothers at the stake. Then lie groaned again. When the party entered the room they found that the chair had fallen forward on top of th • rope-anhilator, and, as he was still tied fast, he was lying with his face on the floor and his back arched up so that it fitted close to the back of tbe chair, while his nose was bleeding co piously. When they lifted him up be had a bump on his forehead as large «s a raiubo apple, and a swelled nose.— When they asked him why he hadu’t untied himself he did not answer, bat as soon as they set him free he wiped himself with his eoat-sleeve, and doub ling up his ensanguined fist he shook it under Mr. Eccles’ nose and exclaimed: “You white-livered, mean-spirited, The Macon and Brunswick Railroad to be Sold- The Atlanta Herald, of the 1st. says: “On yesterday the Governor issued an order to Dr. Flewellyu, Superinten dent of Public Works, who has had charge of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad ever since the removal of Mr. George Hazlchurst as receiver, instruct ing him to advertise the road for sale, and authorizing him to bid a million and half for the road cn the part of the State. The road was seized by the State about one year ago and put in the hands of Mr. George Hazzlehurst, the old President of M. & B II. R., as re ceiver. The road tinder Mi. Roberson as Superintendent, has not only paid the running expences, but has cleared a small suplus. The road was in debt to the State for nineteen hundred thous and dollars of endorsed bonds and six hundred thousand in bogus londs, which are not yet declared illegal by the Gen eral Assembly. The chances are that the State will about get even with the road. M e know it to be a fact that these re marks were made, by an active worker in that party and one whotn we happen to be a 'TF e the right bower of WhiteleyLim- selt.. VV e also have good reasons for ofar opinion that Terrell countv has been sin gled out as the ground upon which they are to “spring their trap” and the place where the devilment which Whiteley has been busy concocting will seek an outlet. Maj. NV biteley has no more idea of be- elected at the ballot box, than we have of visiting the Fiji Islands in quest of r londa oranges; but, that his imaginative brain lias built some scheme by which ha hopes to achieve his purposes, is equally certain. What it is we cannot tell, but that it is something which they think re quires nerve, and that Terrell county is the place decided upon, the conversation alluded to discloses. Then it behooves the people of Terrell to be strictly awako and on the alert, for, that their peaceful ness is threatened, they need no sort 'of doubt. The people of the 2nd District should use every honest measure to liave a quiet election, and thereby frustrate this charla tan in liis endeavors to ride into Congress upon the plan of cheap “outrages” in the South, whitewashed aud bolstered up with foul Radical lies and suborned negro testi mony.—Albany News. New York Times on Alabama Out* rages. New York, October 24.—A letter from the correspondent of the Times in Ala bama, who is vouched for by that paper as a strong Republican, says he has ridden for miles along unfrequented roads and been in all the large cities and not only failed to discover any trace of “a reign of terror,” but found the negroes quietly at work. The Times alluding, editorially to tho letter, says; “He finds no riegn of terror —no war of racees, and no pretence that recent crimes in that State have been in stigated by political motives. He found the alleged murderers of Billings to be men unlike the blood-thirsty ruffians they had been painted, and lie appears to think tiie so-called evidence against them ia ridiculously inadequate.” Correct Advice- The Montgomery Advertiser says: “If any creature approaches yon with the remark that the Democratic and the Conservative party is striving to get up another war, tell him in plain terms that he lies, that he is a malicious bar, and that he knows he is lying. That is the only way to meet accusa tions which have no shadow of a foun dation in fact.” This is right. It is bsurd to declare that, because a man desirous of maintaining the suprema cy of his race, that he advocates a war of rac s, None but a fool can make any such deduction.—Ex. The increase of office-holders from 18- >, when Grant was first inaugurated, and ith promises of retrenchment all tho while to 1873, is thirty-two thousand four hundred and fifty-three. Here are the figures as shown by each biennial regis- 1839 1801 1803. 1803. The Grangers. Arkansas reports 478 granges, and more coming. One grange in California tno/r seven hundred shares in the grange bank. The Louisiana state grange is -to meet at Baton Rouge, Thursday, December 3, next. A Grange co-operative trade associa tion has been chartered at Farmer City, Ills,, with a capital of §5.000. The New York Post says the Gran gers’ platform “is more liko a new ser mon on tbe mount that a political de claration of faith.” There are six hundred granges in Texas, averaging about thirty-four mem bers to the grange, making a total of 21,420 members in the state, about one- fifth of whom is ladies. Mr. G. B. Lamar, of Savannah, who re cently died in New York, in his will be- qtieathed one hundred thou-iand dollars to the establishment of an asylum for in digent negroes. The Macon Telegraph very pertinently says : “This is a sub stantial evidence in favor of the nation that the real friends of the black nv;n are to be found among those who were born and raised with him, and not among the canting philanthropists who have been misleading him in order to use him for political purposes. Mr. Lamar was an original secessionist. After the war he was persecuted with unusual severity. Abused and plundered, he has only come by a part of his rights to die and make a handsome divide with his dusky old friends of the cotton patch. There is a moral in his story, which we commend to the particular notice of the long-haired 41,527 office-holders. 46,049 office-holders. .47,275 office-holders. 53,167 office-holders. 18(57 56,113 office-holders. 1809 .- 54,202 office-holders. 71 57,605 office-holders. 73. _. 86,669 office-holders. Notwithstanding this array, the Repub licans will claim that theirs is the party of retrenchment and reform. The Savannah Advertiser, PUBLISHED DAILY AXD WEEKLY At Savannah, Ga. Geo. N. Nichols, Proprietor. F. W. Sims, Business Manager. The Advertiser is a live, comprehensive newspaper, publishing the latest News and Market Reports from ail parts of the country, particular attention being given to Savan nah’s Local and Commercial Affairs. IN POLITICS The Advertiser will be a bold fearless ex ponent of the Democratic Conservative Creed TO ADVERTISERS Unexcelled advantages are offered, our large and increasing circulation rendering the Advertiser a valuable advertising uiedL TERMS. Daily—1 Y'ear $7 QO “ —6 Mon‘hs ....... 360 “ —3 Months ....... 176 Weekly—1 Y’ear - 160 Agents wanted in eveiy town. Sample copies free on application to this ofifioe. T. R. Wardell, Agent, Bainbridge Ga. DRS. JONES & H0YL Having associated themselves for the prac tice of medicine and surgery, hereby tender their professional services to the public. Calls from the city or countiy 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 ah chuckle-headed pirate I If I had known i hvpocrites of the Cincinnati Daily Phari- i all hours, when not professionally absent you were going to put that half-bitch i sec.” ! Bainbridge, Feb. 1st 1874.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Bainbridge weekly democrat. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 1872-18??, November 05, 1874, Image 1