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Newspaper Page TextAINBRIDGE WEEKLY DEMOCRAT. IIh.BE SHALL THh PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY 0 AIN." Two Dollars Per Ai Volume 5 BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, MAY 25, 1876 Number 33 EDITOR’S melange. , fr , Partington is returning from the I pj-ific coast. ' v colored clergyman at Ypsilanti, ,/ rbiffan, baptized six whites recently. \[ r# . Jefferson Davis and daughter ac- ^pany Mr. Davis on bis European tour. Daniel Drew says says his fight with ^fprie hoard cost him $7,000,000. \j r s Anna Dickinson designs herdress- „ which are made by a New York dress- maker. C-of. Ilicc, on Thursday, signed the iieath warrant of Piper, the Boston belfry jnrderer. A Kentucky mechanic has patented a j,inp breaking machine, which does the ork of ten men. In the judgment of Charles Francis Atas “Tilden lacks breadth.” But the H ( i,j coon is mighty deep. Yesterday the thermometer stood at [jive paper collars in the shade.”—Boston Traveller. Charleston, S. C., has a new daily, the Journal of Commerce, which ishandsome- H iv printed and ablj- edited, f Tiio Bristow organs of Cincinnati have ierked six pages out of the directory, and published it as a Bristow club. Question before a Shenandoah colored Jdiatinh-society .• which is the most use- lulest, a gun or a dog. Vanderbilt is recovering so far as to jiuvc a good upetite. He may he expect - (1 to eat up another railroad almost any day. A thoughtful Cincinnatian prevented jj. soli’s marriage last week by getting i,im very drunk on the day set lor the wedding. joe Jefferson lias closed bis engagement jn London, having played “Rip Van Winkle” 155 nights. We should think Ir'il he tired. Mr. ileorge M. Pullman, of Chicago the .incident of the Pullman Palace Car corn, piny, lias just finished a dwelling in that ,;!v which ciist $3UO,000. A Cynical writer on tlie Brooklyn Ar- »ns suggests to Mr. James Parton that lie iiiiiV get even with Gov. Rice for his veto 4 ii„. marriage hill by writing his life. Prof. Hayden found nearly 200 petriti- „1 ,-ats in one of the prehistoric Aztec vil- h-res of Arizona, several of which have j I, placed in the Smithsonian Institute. !l is rumored that L. J. Jennings la'c ,.f the New York Times, will he the edi tin-of a new journal to he started in that city. .Moulton's propositian not to charge Bi'i . le r a cent if he fails to prove him velly, and to charge him but a dollar if In- lines, is a generous one. . E.\-Governor Betcber, <>i \ ieginia, has irenvered from his attack of paralysis m> :.- that he is able to walk out. He is at i.is Inmie in Lexington. Marian Stockton, of New York, obtain ed the first prize of $500, offered by the j Sun, of Baltimore, for the best American . story. She had 205 competitors. “Grant is not approachable” says Hie ; Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. He iMal to he approachable, through Bab- j lock ; but there is an end to that. Partv purification lias set in with some earnest ness already. Henry A' ai d Beech er has been chosen an officer of a republi can club in New York. Ex-Gov. Walker, of Virginia, lias been placed on the list of candidates for the lamination for the vice presidency by the St. Louis convention. Speaker Kerr writes from Stanton. Virginia, that His health is greatly improv ed, and that lie feels better than he lias in ex months. In tiie view of the Hartford Courant "Mr. Blaine makes an egregious blunder in pushing his candidacy' so sharply; the people want to have some voice in the die matter themselves.” The delegates elected to the state con vention of Ohio thus far, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, stand: For Thur man, 139; for Allen, 117. Over four bun died are yet to be chosen. Dom Pedro is a trump. He walks about in an old drab liat instead of a crown, and flourishes agingham umbrella instead of a sceptre. He likes Cox, too—Sunset Cox. Pedro thinks Sunset funny and agreeable The net immigration to the United States last year was 191,231, of which two thirds were males. In former years the proposition has always been in favor of File Weekly Democrat. BEN. E. RUSSELL, Ben E. Russell, - - R. if. Joitxston editors. Bainbridoe. Ga., May 25, 1876. Com State Democratic Exeeutiv mittee- Macon, May 17th, 1S7G. The State Democratic Executive Com mittee are requested to meet in Atlanta, Wednesday, .June 7th, for the purpose of completing ttie delegation for the State at large to the National Democratic Conven tion. and for tiie transaction of other im portant business. A full attendance is necessary, and al! members, I hope, will he present at said meeting. Tnos. Hardeman, Jr., Chairman State Ex. Committee. Democratic papers wiil please copy and oblige. AMONG OTJhTnEIGHBORS. Harris, of the Savannah Notes, says we cannot understand some of his most “pointed intimations.” It’s a kind of mutual misunderstanding arrangement, ain’t it ? Don’t fail to be on hand to-morrow at the grand Floral Fair at Thomasville. What have they been doing to the gal lant Kavton? The Savannah News says the editor of the B. Comity G. lias made an engagement with his friends never to attend another Press Convention. The Columbus Beecher has given bond, and is at liberty. He will probably go to Brooklyn and take charge of a church in that city. The Berrien County News says.- “Our farmers seem happy over the hope of ■ i large crops this year. The prospect was Proprietor, j never better, any previous year than now, --- j and if no disaster, Berrien county- will make plenty of corn to sell another year. The D iwson Journ/jl states that the car factory in that place has received an order for the construction of one hundred cars, which will no doubt liven up things around that town. Albany Nates. A white man and a dir ty negro occupied the same berth the other night in going out of Atlanta, from the Radical Convention. We know they, were happy in each others company. Hon. A. H. Stephens is very much im proved in health, and is able to move around the room. Hon. T. L. Guerry- has been re-appoint ed Judge of the Courty Court of Quit | man. A correspondent of the Americas Re- publienn wants Col. Willis A. Hawkins to go to Congress. Fort Valley Mirror: “I want fifty or a hundred copies of your paper to be sent to anybody- y-ou choose.” This is the way a certain gubernatorial candidate, whose nickname is John H. James, addressed the editors at Savannah last week. Cuthbert Messenger-. Things are getting a little mixed. Some of Governor Smith’s enemies say-s he has “combined” with General Colquitt's friends to make the latter Governor and himself Senator; others say- the combination is with the “Great Unknown” in North Georgia; while others maintain that the ticket is Colquitt for Governor, Hill for Senator anil Smitli for .Judge of the Supreme Court, lias anything else been “fixed up?” The Brooks county Granges are to have a big pic me on tiie 1st qj July, and Gov. Smith and lion. A. T. McIntyre have been invited to deliver addresses. OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. Memorial Address Delivered by Capt- 1 the captured stores of the enemy or J branch of peace. There exists in the Washington, B. C., May 16, 1876. Editors Democrat:— apt John C■ Rutherford, at Macon, on upon the dry husks of c'rn. thoy were j Lea** of true manhood, wherever found, THE PRESIDENCY. The organ of the White House the 26th of April Last i the same brave, determined men. whose 1 a love for the noble, the brafre. and the Ladies amt Gentlemen. We feel it ■ spirits were invincible, and 1 patriotic; but remember nobility know* is good to bo here—here in the homcof wI, ° were conquered only in death. I no dishonor, bravery no faWfiidg, petri- Rin S; the dead—here in the silent influence I No invidious distinctions have mark-j otisin no repentance, boldly announces that the Republicans ! 0 f t | le grave. We come from the an-ry * ? our °f love. The stranger] In the valley of the Mississippi tod expect to-elect the next President, because A torm of life, and here in this Sacred dead ar *d the idol ^of your household in sight of the sacred retreat, are Ail! it will be impossible, on account of sec- Retreat we have scattered the tokens of ^ave scared equally your affectionate i standing the relics of the mound-buil- tional differences, for the Democratic par-1 our remembrance and our affection. .remembrance; for each gave his life ] ders—a prehistoric race—who have ty to unite on any candidate tcho can be i These fragrant flowers so tenderly ! ^ or C0Untr Y—none do more. long since perished from the earth. elected. It asserts that the Democracy can 1 ■ id bv fair hands and loving hearts i Where can >' ou fnJ a P urer devotion j Each day adds some new fact to the be relied on to make-ini takes enough to upon these graves—these tom us—these t0 C0Unt . r J r . * sacrifice that knew no ! testimony which points not only to th« insure its defeat. It is good policy to 1 monuments—all remind us that there is i D,l,r Muring « When the find out what yonr enemy wants you to do, and then not to do it. And this is just what the Democratic party is going to do. B is not to be denied that mistakes have been made in the past; and it is very certain that our opponents would like to have us make more in the future. In this, however, it is safe to assume, they are j or perenance moving doomed to disappointment. If the spirit j us : blessing the hear which animates tiie representatives of the ! have decked their gravs with the garlands of Live. A correspo ii dent of he Macon Tele- Chops in Brooks county arc very flour- | graph, writ iii ir from Bla koly. says: “In isliin g. j politic O, wc l re not nil ( ’olquitt men, the J. It. Sapp, of Cuthbert, charged with ! Early \>unt> News to tl in contrary IlOt- cow stealing, horse stealing, forgery, Witlist; Hiding -. and - omc of US would like arsoi , sheep purloining, assault,Ku-Klux- to luvi the ]r lllailt liar knian visit our ism, leastialitv, and of being a cuss gener- a-clion Co uldn’t lu visit us in bis ally. broke jail the other day. rounds ? lie wo u 11 be 1 e.trtil ■ welci. ined Th e academy at Blaekshear, Pierce by nil mi* oil /•.Tts. " ' I nv is Hi is. Mr. county was destroyed by fire on the 15th. Flemii .2, 11 i \ c you raili >rx in ■our c; mp? Ii is supposed to be the work of an iu- You ki r> V yi ;i :i-xa vd is 111.: other (La (•end urv. T.oss between §895 and $900. thai ih • who\ of 8 mb w -l G ■ sighl in- Mi ss Nancy Spicer, of Aih.anv, is dead. d lid i 11 ih iri\ COUII y, is for G dq litt So The Quitman cornet band will play in soon. Thou insviiL to marrow at the Fair. Wi* i 1 way ^ k w v If :i •y Me ntosii was Tii : Tliomasviiie Guards have issued a ln:i l .mv\ ■lev er inJ ll 1 el 1 i_ •nl li ■ 11 ic* five 1 undred invitations to their grand m in. !> H WC! C 11 ll : war lil.lt ic laid any bull l o night. >[u\ i ii cl lim lo bci: g il screct ’ Till! pco- A ‘Leap Year” bouquet found its way j pic Oi < titi'm* n thin lo'Wl ver. an i he to Di Hoyle’s sanctum during his absence j It IS f i app doted >n a ■dis •reel •om- at tin Press Convention. _ ■ __ . 1 Democracy one meets at Washington, and the tone of the Press throughout the coun try, are to be taken as indications of par ty sentiment, there never was more earn estness manifested, or a greater determi nation, to sacrifice all other considerations to success. This is especially tiie case with the South, which has no Presidential can didate of its own to urge, and only asks that the nominee shall be the man who can draw the largest support from the Liberals and Independents. Tilden’s strength in the South—and almost every Southern State is claimed for him—comes solely from the knowledge of his strength in the doubtful States of the East, with out whose votes neitl*er party can elect its candidate. Either Bayard or Hen dricks would be preferred, on personal grounds, by many Southern who are pro nounced Tilden men. They argue that if we carry New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, we can succeed without lu- diana and Ohio; but that if we carry the last named States and lose New York, we shall be defeated. Liberal Republicans like General Banks, and also the Demo cratic members of Congress from Massa chusetts, assert that Tilden would_j2ven j resources of! existence of this curious and interesting a sentiment of the soul whether ofaffec-1 ,he South were exhausted—when the j pe -pie. but illustrates the progress they tion orjof reason that teaches us that j heart ot her P eo P le R rcw faint—when had made both mthi arts and the Death is not the end of life; and if the ho P e * eemed to be taking her flight j science. The carbonized piews of nut-' spirits of the other world are permitted our own fatr ‘ and - soldiers of ufactured c.oth—the remains of old ' the South stood firm; and when the forts and military roads—.he sites of last sad hour came, in sorrow they laid ancient cities—all speak of a refined their arms upon the fields of Appouiat- and cultivated people that have patted tox, and wept over the death of the Confederacy. Had I the gift of tohgues, and could I speak with an el oquence that would burn, I would kiit- There are others whose graves will ! d * c u ' estid fire upon every Southern heart m honor of our dead—a flame of to watch o’er earthly scenes like this, then to day bending o’er the battle ments of Heaven and our Hero Dead— ■chance moving in the air around us, blessing the hearts and the hands i not be decked wifh flowers to-day. On | the distant battlefield, in the soft twi- ] light of evening, in the silent hour of ! the night, we laid them in the cold ground, where the bright stars keep theii nightly watch, and.the wild flow ers grow o’er their graves; no loving mother and fond sisier to freshen their graves with flowers, and water them with tears. In the foremost ranks death called the Roll of Honor, and from the carnival of battle they march ed to the silent camping grounds of Eternity. Who can forget, the pangs we suffered then ? The broken bone will knit together, the lacerated flesh will heal,- but the wounded heart will ever bleed afresh with images of the lost and the loved rise up before it. ’Tts a wound we would not cure if we could. Tis a grief that makes us better men and better women. Some fruits are ripen al only by the frost—so the hu man heart is iqttured and nourished by its sorrows. We are not to deal with passions of l lie hour, or to repel the unkind ani madversions of those who know but lit- carry that State; and these assertions have tie of Southern chivalry and Southern mitli 'i’li ltd, cru ■] lunge is fn J/' un tin lie B. Janie had great weight weight with Southern ] men here. These are simple facts. If the assumptions are false, they should be j met at once. .It wiil not do for the party j to make's mistake; and there is no doubt j as to tiie drift of Southern opinion now. j “riir. old man" impatient. Almost even body in Washington! knows and speaks Of Grant as “the did man.” The term originated at the White 1 House with some of the Messengers or, clerks, several years ago, and now the cm- ] piuyes there invarihly refer to the Pre.fl : Jno. YV. Hart, of Cuthbc-rt, who was i dent us “the old man.” Sam Bard, ‘which i larged with arson, has been acquitted. 1 was postmaster” itl Atlanta, Georgia, who ] Vail sold his influence to John II the enormous sum of 20 ctx.” Tiie Second Congressional District ' G \ for | has newspapers in the State, the ! the best w j anti in the foremost rank stand: ] Thomasville Enterprise. It is ably and , carefully edited, and if it would but rid ! itself of the terrible butchery in its me- j clianiral department, would be a paper j without a blemish. Hardeman stock is on tiie rise in South- | western Georgia, and, though there is i considerable uncertainty .as to who will j be nominated for Governor, wj firmly I believe his chances to be as good as any man whose name lias been mentioned. I The Cuthbcrt Appeal says that Col. | Fielder does not aspire to Congressional i honors in the 2d District. We are glad to hear it. The Col. is a nice gentle man, and we don’t want to see him sub jected to any disappointment. Camilla is dull. The boys can’t start a respectable game of marbles. A revival of religion is going on in Dawson. The Journal may ought to seize the opportunity to collect his subscrip tions. The Quitman Reporter has been sold by Mr. T. A. llall, to Judge Joseph Tillman. .Mr. McIntosh remains as the associate editor. The Cuthbert Messenger raps us for what we said about Col. Fielder’s candi dacy for Congress. Well, if you desire it, we’ll take it all back. The Quitman Reporter has been enlarg ed, and is now a twenty-eight column | paper. ! Country butter is selling at 15 cents per ! pound in Albany. Frank Evans uses it to ■ grease his printers. Mr. G. II. Child has commenced the cultivation of almonds in Dougherty county. Tiie Augusta Chronicle is ill favor of Hershel V. Johnson for Governor, and Ben. Hill for U. 8. Senator. Simmons is wielding the pencil in the Camilla Enterprise office. Mr. Geo. W. Brown, of Fort Gaines, is dead. Gen. Colquitt spoke in Georgetown last week. Rev. W. B! Bennett lias been Called to the pastorate of the Baptist church at Thomasville. The ladies of Tliomasviiie will attend the Fair to-morrow in calico dresses. Mr. J. Iv. Hilliard lias been elected Sheriff of Mitchell county. Dawson had an alarm of fire the other day. Thomasville Times-. The effect of prin ters ink was illustrated last week by a short paragraph in the Times announcing that Miss Addie McClellan had just re ceived The Family Secret, an interesting novel by a,Georgia lady. They wei Printers ink file females. The Illustrated London News gives a portrait of Hon. Joseph Hawley, which gives him the appearance of a buck negro, and then reverses history by stating that he is governor elect of Connecticut. A down east editor says: “The ladies spring hats are pretty, and worn on the j upper edge of the left ear, which makes j one look arch and piquant, like a chicken looking through a crack in a fence. Louisville Courier Journal: The original j declaration of independence was removed j °n Saturday from the interior department j ^ n j success. at Washington to Philadelphia for exhibi- j Thomasville j s a i re ady getting in tr bon. This hoary document is one of the \ j Qr , be nest press Convention, few things that have not been stolen by sold before 12 o’clock, ways pays. Cuthbert Messenger: News from the Rural districts continue cheering, and our farmers wear smiling faces when you by chance get a glimpse of one in town. They are working with a will and deter mination to lift themselves from that slough and despondency that has borne them down so long. Crops are all com paratively- clean, with good seasons up to know—having had a fine rain on Monday night. We hear a great deal of complaint about wheat, while the oat crop bids fair. Macon Telegraph: If there is any point in the whole code of “journalistic ethics” for which we are a stickler, it is the mat ter of giving proper credit to the papers from which we copy news; but here is a paragraph which overcomes us: “The editor of this paper has been absent all lias a world-wide reputation as a newspa per starter and an inveterate third-termer, was wont to affectionately style Grant “the old man,” before the latter dispos sessed him of his office “Ah;” lie used to say, with a sly wink, when efforts were being made to oust him, “me and tiie old man are liunkydory. Why, you don’t know how intimate we are! I sel dom go up to the White House during office hours. I always call socially in the evening, and we discuss matters over a glass of good old rye. They can’t turn me out; no, indeed. Me and the old man are too good friends for that.” Neverthe less Samuel was tiirust out of official life, mainly through the exertions of Postmas ter General Jewell, who intimated to the President that unless lie was permitted to remove him, he would retire from the Cabinet. But what I started out to say ninnhood. If love of truth, fidelity to principle, arid intense devotion to coun try constitute patriotism—then truly were these patriots—in whose bosom lurked no dishonor, and in whose eon- duet there rests no shame. We call them Heroes and truly werb they he roes ; hut we have nearer and dearer names ftY these silent tenants ofllie grave; they were our fathers, our broth ers, and our lovers. We come as one family to place upon their graves the tiibute of our afl’ecti hi. While the South may have recreant sons who Can prate about treason, and talk of rebellion • o’er the graves of her Heroic Dead—and like the nations of East worship the rising instead of the setting sun, thank God her daughters have proven true. With soft hands and loving hearts they soothed the anguish of their dying moments, and decked their tombs with bright flowers—when the men of the South were overawed by power—and in each returning year they have scattered the violet and the rose—sweet offering to the dead. .Yea. ,.11 over the sunny land they have gath ered from the scanty resources of a peo ple struggling for existence a fund to decorate their graves and- rear monu ments to their memories. To you, fair ladies, in whose soft and tender affections was born this beauti ful Memorial Day, we would return thanks in the name of the living and the dead. You have kept fresh and was that Grant is pining over the restraint j green their graves. Blot out the uiem- imposed upon him by Congress, and longs , ory of our Confederate dead, and where to pitch his tent for the summer by the sad sea waves at Long Branch. With Shakspeare, he exclaims, having refer ence to the continuance of the present session, “there is something too much of this.” When Congress adjourned its ses- rests the glory of the South ? Destroy her P;tst, and who can rescue her Fu ture from oblivion ? The influence of women is the mother of heroism, and chivalry itself is the child of women’s love. Many a hero caught from her sion, two years ago this spring, his stud j ^ inspiration and many a victory has crowned her devotion. In the darkest Col. Styles has bought the Atlanta Com- j the week in Savannah, attending the an- .,iouter.,tth " 1 nu.al meeting of the Georg’a Press Asso- m .n •„ eiation.” This or its equivalent has been From all parts of Southwest Georgia, j - n ^ t | ie weeklies of the State that have reports from the growing crops are very j heen reee ived during tiie past five days, cheering. • 1 and we presume will be in all to come The negroes Prince Roberson aii*i Paul j during the next five. Campbell, who were convicted last month i Dawson Journal-. We heard some verv uainpucii, i prominent citizens of Savannah speak of at Springfi-hi, Effingham county, of the j ” o] Screven p res ident of the A. & G. R. murder of Mrs. Cochrane and daughter, , R j n connection with the race for Gover- were hung on the 15th. j nor;-not as an aspirant for the position The pAd* of .be Qui.m.o iiremeo ™ j». « »• ! would probably carry as much dignity. of horses and other things necessary to make life endurable at Long Branch had already been shipped to tiie latter place, and, within two hours after the close of the session, he was en route to the same point by express train. Judging from present appearances, it will be far into the summer before he will be able to in hale the sea breezes; unless, indeed, he should take it into his head to carry out the principle he advocated in his late message to the House, that a President can as legally transact executive business iu Sitka as in Washington. Admonished by recent events, however, he will hardly be likely to leave Washington until after Congress adjourns. W. H. L. hour of our struggle, she went from camp to camp, lighting the black cloud of battle with her smiles, and softening its memories with her tenderness. Love wove its golden threads into the dark woof of war and to-day, with flowers and with song, makes glorious the memory of the dead. The Confederate army to-day stands without a peer. No trained soldiers— no hired vassals—no venal adventurers, selling Hood for money—no enslaved love, respect, and esteem that would ever glow—a fire that would never die. I would gather our little children around their graves, and in the presence of heaven and the angels teach their rosy lips to prattle their names, and their young hearts to revere their mem ories. In every age and in evsry nation—- from the highest, civilization to the ru dest barbarism—monuments have been reared to perpetuate the memory of the dead. Those massive sentinels of eter nity guarding the fame of the Pharaohs, the humble Indian mound nestling in our own beautiful valle, of Narcoochie, are but the evidences of national re membrance. The heroes of battle have ever found a kind mother in the country’ under whose banners they fought. In the ar chives of the nation are deposited the flags they bore; ever fresh anal green are the laurels they won ; a nation’s heart grows warm with affection for them ; and a nation’s money, in brass and in marble hands down in perpetual remembrance the story of their valor. But here in these graves lie the orphan dead. They have no national mother to guard with tender care their unsul lied honor—no national treasury to rear in solemn grandeur mausoleums o’er the dead—no strong arm of power to gather their bones now bleaching upon a hundred battlefields, and to inscribe o’er their last resting-places the simple epitaph : “Died for their country”— no pensions for their widows—no cure for their orphans. To day w-e have seeu bending o'er the grave of a father, the loved wife, and the children who once prattled around his knee. The tear trickles down the cheekj as they think of the days gone by : the once happy- home, with its sweet smiles of w jleome and kind words of love—the joyous greet ing, the merry laugh, the warm kiss, the fireside scenes of yore—the home of peace and happiness—their little earth ly paradise, modeled in heaven and reared, on earth. But alas 1 the home circle is broken—its mirth is gone—its peace and plenty have fled—the widow and the orphan are desolate, left amidst the wreck of war, the pilin': of (lie household laid low, the wife no husband, the children no father, the widow no home, and the orphan no bread—with sorrow lor joy and desolation for happi ness , left amid the grand maelstrom of revolution, battling with nature for na ture’s existence. If we would do rev erence to the memory of the dead, k t us honor, protect, and respect the e dear ones whom they loved while liv ing, and blessed while dying. Let the North rear monuments over the graves sUtheir loved ones, and deck their last reding places with garlands of affection. Let her gather their bones into her national cemeteries, it is a debt she owes her dead ; her sister South will stand with her around their graves, and join in her grief, for a com mon loss has touched her heart, and in common sorrow she feels the prompt ings of a mutual forgiveness. I have some where read a touching story of the reconciliation of a father and mother over the touib of a lost one, and may we not hope that the North and the South may renew their broken vows over the graves of their children, and claim a common heritage in the valor and heroism of their common dead ? , Let us remember that allegieoce to myrmidons of power facing death from the fear of death, but an army of South ern so'diers to tHf manor born, who I the L T nion does not demand of us a l’or- knew no fe^r, save the fear of defeat; j getfulness to our dead. Loyalty to the who loved danger as they loved their ! dead, is duty to the living; the retr.em- eountry; who stood amid the storm : brarice of their deeds is an incentive to and thunder of battle ’as ne’er men ] valor; the commemoration of their Speaking of the Congressional investi- , before fearful of reproach, but ! death is the nursery- of ambition ; if we S; 0 “,?« t0 & b S < S C, t”tS:fe=rl.. ! ofde..h, Th, .month fa«d .would b. lo .W livin* let „ bo months past, the Buffalo Commercial says: : boy, with lily-white hands, who ne er j true to the dead ; if we would stimulate away. Thus each development seems to es tablish the fact, that this new world of ours, which we supposed was only the home of the wild Indian, was infect once the centre of a splendid civiliiav tion —a prehistoric race, whose nations? existence seems to have been tormina* ted Ly international war. Geology ha* but recently located the scene of their last grand battle in the great btisin of * the 'Vest, where their bones are still imbedded in a soil made rich With tha" blood of ancient warriors. In the his tory of this wonderful people written* (>uly in the rocks ami bowels of ffe'6' eal'th, we may read an instructive lea- son, and learn that even the splendour of our own national gicntness is ho pro tection against our national extinotion ( that the consequences of war are often as terrible to the victor as to the van quished ; that war is the mother of every evil, out of whose pi olific womb pro ceeds every woe. We see its detnate?- izing influence scattered far and Wide— everywhere we behold the elements of its disintegrating power—in the liver and conduct of tho people aro plainly written its evil effects. Already, in ouf own loved South, we have seen the fer-- tile fields become waste places, and the* signs of devastation are truly appalling.- Yet there is an eloquence in the very decay that surrounds us—an eloquence' that speaks of former grandeur^—-’tis the silent pleadings of the dead, and from the tombs of nations and of men, wo- learn that if we wonld preserve our na tional existence we must protect our na tional honor. To the comrades of the dead I Would speak a closing word. In your keep ing are entrusted the memories of the past—in your remembrance are record ed their acts of daring and of heroism- —you saw them imidst the fiercest- storms of war—when the very air grew dark with the missiles of death and* the 1 brightness of the noofc day was lurid* with the smoke and flame of battle. You only can tell how these heroes* died. Teach your children the story of •heir heroism, so that coming posterity may be the guardians of Southern chiv alry. The South, in her poverty and humiliaty, already is being taunted and sneering!y asked, “Where now is your boasted chivalry ?” Let your answer be that it lies an these graves, where the flower of Southern manhood lay en- l tombed, and in the hearts of the living, who will ne’er desert or prove recreant to their sacred memories. Stand >y your Southern chivalry. Your sef-re» spect prompts it. Stand by it for yonr duty to the dead demands it. Amid the wreck of war, it is all that is left. Your property is gone; your conviction* of government are sirrendered and abandoned ; your institutions have per ished , desolation stalks abroad; a social pestilence theatens to overwhelm you. Then let us gather about us the habili ments of our mourning, and. survive or perish, let us be true to ourselves, true to our dead, and then we will be false to none. THE CENTRAL R. R. TAX GA8Z- A dispatch from Judge Black (who was associated with General Lawton for the railroad companies) announces that the Supreme Court of the United States ha» reversed the decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia and thus released the Central and Southwestern Railroads from the payment of the heavy tax imposed by tiie act of 1874. The claim of the State to impose this additional tax on these companies was based oil the impression that tiie consolidation of two roads into one made a new charter, and that the new company lost the exemption which the State contracted in the original charter* to continue. Tiie questions presented were of tiie most serious consequences to the Central Railroad and its branches; and had tiie decision of the State courts been affirmed at Washington, the annual tax to be paid by the Central Railroad Company would have been equal to the interest on a million of dollars. We congraalate th* company on this successful issu* of tb* contest.—Bar. News. . ■ It required last year, in tb* W*y of l he ad- , salaries and contingent expense*, Fortunately, the partisanship of these ■ heard a harsher note than a mother’s j virtue in life let us revere it in death, investigations is so self-evident that few ^ T0 ; ce or a sister’s sonc. stood amid the There can be no lasting reconciliation will be deceived by them ’ The Com- ; ^ carna „ e 0 f battle and listened to the j upon terms of self-abaseluent mercia won seem 1 - g ... ’ missils of^death as calmly as he did to ! justment of a quarrel can never rest. ! 013, and perhaps some ten or Sfteea.ceMi the _ u-:ic uf the pa-L-.r He sleens now ; upon the abandonment of principle, or i besides, to carry on the United Bute* with the hero dead more fitting than a mother s tear a sister’s love ? What more endea p ;1 -lor. He sleeps now ! upon the abandonment of principle, or j besides, to carry on the d. What monument the sacrifice of duty. We must not, • troK but and a ceni mere, and call patriotism treason, nor revolution , t0 rna rhe Treasury Department of tb* arlujr i rebellion, nor falsehood truth, nor dis- i Bnti.-h Government—4 difference.of more (!ol S. Wise Parker has resigned the *be radicals. j office of Register in Bankruptcy for the j ZZetTing ofa “conteove^with j ^joicefor the sak^of^ite _panv.^ not ^ _ ^ Colonel and Mrs. Jerome N. Bonaparte g outhcrn District of Georgia. Resigns- , some other roads, that some of^ the c .°;! s i bu , that ‘ comparatively- so few 'will be than his country’s remembance ? As ! honesty integrity, nor corruption fideli- j than two millions and a half. This di*- w ill arrive here from Liverpool in June. | tion to take effect 1st of June i general exceL ! convicted by them. the clouds grew darker their hearts j tv. A brave and generous people will t^K^ri^^British^’^reasu- They will spend the summer at Newport, i >| r . Z. J. Odum made the address at the , j^oavis’«ate papers ' As a 1 g;ew brighter—no disaster dismayed notMemand this as the terms of rccon- , ^ q,^. sn - t h . r/ * C to cash about two million Newport, in which will be placed a steam j g un day School celebrajion in Albany. j T i C nrous writer he has few equals any- j jj oss YYiriai:s, of Baltimore, Md., is them—no privati-.n or suffering dis- ] oiliation. They would spurn t.ie lawn-| dollars stealage annually in the Other dw building a large edifice cn Castle Kill, ' ecu raged t, 5r gan that can be hearS at a distasce of i , Tierorous Ho- cholera is prevailing ir. Clay court- i ^ffiere. His name is an honored one - . -pehrera and he is worthy of toe name -whether feeding upon i iqg sycophant who hire such an olive ; partaenta of the Government.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Bainbridge weekly democrat. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 1872-18??, May 25, 1876, Image 1