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The Bainbridge Weekly Democrat. Published Every Thursday }• Volume V. “BERK SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLES RIGHTS MAINTAIN. UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UXBRIBED BT GAIN." -i Two Dollars Par AaaiM BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1876. Number 47 The Weekly Democrat. BEN. E. RUSSELL, - Proprietor. NOTICE. Second Congressional District Con vention- By order of the Committee in consulta tion with the Delegates from the several counties, a Convention of the Democratic party for the nomination "ot a candidate for Congress for the Second District, is called to convene at Tlsoinasviile on the second Wednesday in September next at 11 o’clock a. m. The several counties are entitled to the same representation as heretofore allowed, double tiie uumber uf Representatives to which each is entitled to in the lower house of the Legislature. The counties are requested to indicate by vote whether they desire the majority or the two-thirds Rule to obtain. D. A. Vabon, C'lir’u Ex. Committee. All papers in the District please copy. Mr- Bush's Appointments- Hon. I. A. Bush will address the citizens of Decatur county as follows; Bell's Distriet, Wednesday, September 13th; Wight’s Store, Tliuisday, September 14th; Higdon's Store, Friday. SejUember 15th; Attapulgus, Saturday September llitli; Whigham, Wednesday, September 20th ; Lime Sink, Thursday, September 21st; Belcher’s District, Friday, September 22nd; Tine Hill, Saturday, September 23rd; Face- ville Wednesday, September 27th; B.aiii- liridge, Thursday, September 28th, Spring Creek, Friday, September 29th, ltoek Fond, Saturday, September Both. PACTS FOR THE PEOPLE- The following truths, which were cut from the Detroit Free Press, are worth treasuring up : Every family of five lias been plunder ed of forty dollars to maintain and per petuate Republican ring rule since 1809. A Democratic Administration will fol low up the reduction in expenditures of this year by a still further reduction and will take efficient measures to lessen taxa tion. A Republican Administration, aided by a Republican Congress, will maintaih lav ish expendit ures and drag millions unnec essarily from the people. Economy is the order of the day. The public schools. Last fall it was told the negro that if the Democrats came into power they srnuld break up the public schools. This has been a big argument with the negro, for they have been swin died so much since the war that they are becoming desirous to educate their chil dren. Last fall, when the people were delivered from bondage, and the Demo crats carried the State Captain Rainwater, an old Confederate officer, was elected school superintendent for this county. This year, when the summer months came, instead ef spending his vacation in the North, as his health demanded, he has opened up a colossal normal school, and now has sixty negro teachers being in people must, be economical to live. To j strutted by him, in order that they may secure economy in the nation they must ! be competent to teach their own people elect a Democratic Administration. . | an d receive the pay for it, and not let it Grantism and the Republican party ! he givemto the thousands of the thieves have taxed the people for the national ad- j wil ° arc tramping through the South try- ministration about eight dollars per head ! big to obtain employment teaching the A NEW AND WONDERFUL FOR AGE PLANT- [From the Macon Telegraph.] Col. G. W. C. Munro, an intelligent farmer of Marion county, has addressed a private letter to us, announcing the send ing by express of a bunch of a variety of ura«s discovered a year since by him, wn.x.- .'KtiioTfewTromi'' trftrnPttm■stpmxfnf.- though his neighbors insist that it shall be styled the Munro grass. T tisspecitncn wi iglted when cut t wclve 1>(.U nis, ami netted live pounds of cured liny It. is sweet and palatable, und hor. es and c<*wfi ea it w th avidity. Mr. Munro saved about one quart of the seed, hut gathered them when ton green aud hut few came up in const quenoe. more than was needed with honesty and economy. It makes a difference of $5 per head to every man, woman and child in tiie coun try whether the annual expenditures of the nation are $200,000,000 or $270,000,- 000. It makes a difference of seventy-five cents per head, mother and six children, whether the national expenditures are $240,000,000 or $270,000,000. The great hulk of the United States are dependent upon their daily earnings for support, and it is of the highest impor tance to them that the government de mands upon those earnings should be as light as possible. The people complain of hard times ; but Republican rogues have flourished while the people were over taxed and plundered, and hundreds of millious have been recklessly misspent. The Democratic House has stood by the people. It has demanded and insist ed upon a reduction of expenditures. Thirty-million have been cut from the expenditures of last y T enr. The Republican party and the Grant administration have for the past seven years and a half expended over three hun dred million dollars more fertile ordinary purposes of the Government—exclusive of interest, premiums and debt charges— negro schools at twenty-five dollars a mo.-itk, but who in reality are filling the negroes minds with hotred to their best friends. Capt. Rainwater has been run ning his school for two months, and will continue through the summer. Who dis plays greater love for the negio man than this? Let O, P. Morton in his next blood shirt speech tell this one truth ment. The leaders of the Independents are poor, needy, and in debt. They must be listened to. Documents must be placed in their hands that they may be convinc ed of their folly. A bloody shirt cam- prign, with money, and Indiana is safe. A financial campaign, and no money, and we are beaten. The National Committeeba* done noth ing for Indiana. Alone they are fighting their battles, and bravely ; but unless the National Commitspe<vak>\-,jg> and does its duty to you, to the party and the coun try, defeat is certain in October. I never in all my iife felt so certain I was doing my duty as in this contest, and my desire for seccess, my dear sir, is my only ex cuse for writing you. Your friend, J. Kl lfatiuck. . To R. B. Hayes, Governor, etc. than was Wcessary for an efficient, hon est and economical administration. Around the solitary clump first discov ered, however, a multitude of plants sprang up to the distance of thirty feet, lmt were inadvertantly destroyed by the plow. This happened twice, and it was only those that enrno up the third time that were noticed and preserved. From these, and about one hundred spires that came up from the planted seed, he was able to set out about three-fourths of an acre in this grass. They were placed in rows three feet apart each way, but ex periments made at a distance of about eighteen inches in the drill showing that distauce to be sufficient. The grass after being cut, grows out again like millet, and in three days the sprouts attain the height of six inches. It goes to seed the latter part of September, and from every leaf of the plant seed tas sels are projected, and our informant thinks that from one to two quarts of seed might be saved from a single bunch. As they do not ripen at the same time, however, and fall out at maturity, it is difficult to save the entire yield. They made their appearance in February, and are not liable to injury from co d. Esti mated according to the sample sent, at five pounds of cured hay to the bunch, 25,500 pounds may be raised to each acre, a id under favo: able eircumst n is, the amount could be largely increased. The stalks remain tender and edible until all seeds ripen, and when they die down Resemble oat stubble. As a ren ovator of land it will prove invaluable, us it produces more vegetable matter (ac cording to Mr. Munro) in one year than any other plant will yield in five years. Shading the ground completely with a deuse growth, as an exterminator of nut grass also it may prove useful, as no oth er plant seeme to be able to exist where this grass has taken entire possesion. Mr. Munro’s patch is located on upland, which has been cleared seventy-five years, but was manured, and would produce with the present seasons from fifteen to twenty bushels of corn per acre. Planted in rich bottoms, the yield would be al most fabulous. Mr. Munro’s letter was presented and read to the Horticultural Society, and, after a vote of thanks to the writer and donor of the grass, ordered to be sent to the Agricultural Bureau at At lanta. We trust this new forage plant may prove a blessing to the country and a rich source of revenue to the discoverer. BLAINE AND A BOY IN BLUE- Senator Blaine has l'eassumed his har ness ami taken the field at Augusta. If lie goes through the campaign it is likely that lie may be called upon to speak to the boys in Bluq. If he should address these veterans we shall be obliged to him to explain, since explanations are in order, some allusions to himself which we find tu a letter printed in tiie Bainbridge (Ga.) Weekly Democrat of tfie date of May 11, 187(5. Tiie letter is from Stras- burg, in Alsace, is signed by George Peter Meyer, and addressed to Hon. B. H. Hill, M. C. Tiie writer, after referring to the speeches of Hill and Blaine on An- dersonvillc, continues: “As a soldier of the Union 1 regret that Mr. Blaine only told of the treatment by the South of Federal prisoners, and neglected to tell of the treatment received by us from the hands of the Government when stationed at New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana.” Peter goes on to give an account of a sort of State guard raised by General Canby by a sort of conscription, of which the j lation and of a venal partisan. He took writer was a victim. “I was once again, care to profit by the opportunities of the after being discharged, forced into service war, and while he cried out lustily for leaving a helpless family of little children j others to fight the battles of the country, be with no one to support them for the i occupied at a safe distance and a round twelve months, uud that, too, after the ! salary a seat in the Bouse, and devoted his war was over and there was no enemy in best days, in the prime of manhood, not to BLAINE S LITTLE TRIORS The sudden appearance of James G. Blaine on the stump, with a long list of ap pointments to fill during the next sixty days after all the recent bulletins regarding the “serious condition of his health.” when taken in connection with his opportune ill ness and recovery at Washington on the eve of tho Cincinnati Convention, would seem to justify Proctor Knott’s conclusion that he has been playing “the old soldier” throughout. All his performing in and out of the House, since the Little Bock and Fort Smith bond investigation commenced, have been a series of dramatic surprises wholly inconsistent with an alarming state of health, or with integrity of conduct. Now that the excitement has died out, and the momentary passions have cooled, it is not possible to look back on the part he played | with the witnesses who wore most likely to expose his corruption and perjuay, without Tttmricfiurrof hfrgtffft:—‘— ii '- He first entioed to his house Bobinson, who had delivered a package of bonds to him from Caldwell, and succeeded in con quering his prejudices, so that he became a tool instead of a crushing witness. He sought to capture Mulligan in the same way, and, failing in that, went after him at the hotel, implored him abjectly to save his family from ruin by withholding the damning let ters, and finally stole them after pledging his personal honor to return. Then to cap the climax, he suppressed the most impor tant of these letters, and tampered with others which contained the evidence of his infamy, written by his own hand, and signed with his own name. Who can read them now, mutilated as they were by their author, without being convinced that he made merchandize of his votes in Congress nnd sold his influence as Speaker to the highest bidder? His own confession of dealing in various railroad bonds and stocks, which derived all their value from the grants anfl subsidies voted by Congress, and his sudden acquisi tion to wealth while a member ofthe House, tell the story of a shameless jobber iu legis- the field.” He says those who could pay well were exempt, but those who could not pay were forced to serve for twelve months. “I was a toreigner, living in a strange laud, and did not know my rights. If I had, things would have been very r different with me. But even then I, with many others, sent petitions to Washing ton giving an account of our treatment, but no attention was paid to them. These petitions, were addressed to Mr. Blaine.” What has Mr. Blaine to say about George Peter Meyer’s case? Of course Mr George Bancroft aud Mr. Bancroft Davis know nothing about it. Such matters do not trouble their philosophic souls; but, if Mr. Blaine received these petitions of our German fellow-citizen and soldier, what did he do with them, and why did he suppress them? Let him explain when he speaks to the Boys in Blue.—N. r. w,md. putting down the rebellion,” but to profi table contracts, He has fallen to rise no more. Even the thick and thin Republicans, who up Id him temporarily for the sake of the party, are disgusted with such leadership, and shrink back from the leprosy of his touch, They know him to be rotten through and through, without principle and without honor. They hove seen his corruption in Congress, and the day is not distant when Maine will hang her head in shame for hav ing protected a common plunderer.—N. T. Sun. GEN- THE HOW THEY ‘ SLAUGHTER” NE GROES IN MISSISSIPPI. [Mississippi Correspondence of the St. Louis Times.] In Sardis I made some inquiries in re gard to politics, and was astonished to learn that in this Democratic county, Elride, the Ci r cuit Clerk, was as black as the ace of sj ades, and that Milton Little john, the Chancery Clerk, was a bright, handsome Democratic mulatto orator; that one of the Board ef Supervisors was Hon. J. D. Williams opened his canvass ue g ro t hat one of the Representatives on Saturday at Salem. The people who thought he could not make a speech seem to be mistaken, as he talked for an hour and a half. We thoroughly believe that Mr. Wil liams wdl prove to be the most popular can didate the Democrats could have nominated. - [Indianapolis News, ind. in the Legislature is a negro; that Sheriff Fletcher, an old Confederate officer, has two negro deputies- AVhen another mes sage is sent to Congress teeming with falsehood. Panola county, Mississippi, should be remembered. In this connec tion I wish to nail one lie in regard to the KILPATRICK AND CANVASS The Indianapolis Sentinel publishes the ubjoined letter from Gen. Kilpatrick to ; Gov. Hayes. The General ha# been can-. ! vassing the State for a week or ten days, I aud was evidently a careful observer. ! The Sentinel is in possession of the origi- | nal draft of the letter, and, after investi | nation and comparison with his signature, ; aud the manner in which it got possession j of the document, is satisfied of its gen- ! uineness: Graxd Hotel, Imjiaxapolis, August 21.—Bear Sir ; I have just finished a tour of six counties in Indiana, and feel ing that any reliable information from this State will interest you, I write. In the first place, the canvass is well con ducted. The people are enthusiastic and determined, and the old war spirit is thoroughly aroused, and if it were -not for one thing we could rest certain of vic tory in October. There is an indepen dent party in this State, confined, it is true, to a few counties, bnt formidable, and it will defeat Gen. Harrison. There is but one way to overcome this move- aUESTIONS FOR COLORED MEN —PERTINENTLY PUT BY THE CHARLESTON NEWS. Whom do you work for? Is he a Republican or Democrat? If a Democrat, why do you work with one so opposed to you in politics? Why T do you not. engage in business only with those of your own political faith? Would not this be better? •‘u vo■ j u-“ find employment among e you ask<-d yOUtoL-t;. . ay a> this so? If you work for a man—we appeal to you as men—do you think it lawful to injure his interests? If you do not injflre them directly, ought you to give others the power to do it? If you were set to tend cattle, would you lend the gun given you to protect them to some thief to kill any he pleased? How is it, then, that you so readily combine with o hers to put in office men who rob your employers. Are you aware that when your employer ,’s robbed, you are robbed to a certain extent also? If your employer thrives, y-U thrive with him. If he is pinched, if p can he pay you good wages? ' If you put up men who tax your em- employer aud yourself only to enable them to steal and live finely, are you honest? And have you not allowed your vote to do this again and again? You call yourself a Republican. Your pa:tv is about to make '«mr.rnatma- if men aifrunued whom the State can trust, your hands are clean; but if iiie cid story is repeated, and swindlers, cheats, or in competent persons are put forward by your party and you cling to them, do you think your employer can trust you trith his interests'! Ought he? THE DEGRADED SENATE- Under this head the New York Sun sajs: The Republican Senate has stood in the way of all substantial re forms throughout the eight mouths and a half that Congress has been in ses sion. There is not a redeeming feat ure in the proceedings of the majori ty- Every measure ofthe session looking to retrenchment, economy and improve ment in the civil service, has originated in the Democratic House. If measures of this class have been finally passed, it has happened only after a protracted struggle, in which the Democrats of the House stood squarely up to the w rk, while the Republican leaders in the Senate did their best to defeat them. In the entire history of the session there cannot be found a solitary exception to this sweeping remark. In this respect the present Senate has made the most infamous record in the annals of that body. The Republicans now have a majori ty of nine in the Senate. The terms of seventeen of the Republican mem bers expire in March next. There is every reason to believe that the Demo crats will secure enough of these seat6 to give them a majority of two in the next Senate. Then, with a majority of reformers in each branch of Congress, and with Sam Tilden in the White House, the country will turn over anew leaf indeed. banded, stating that they were so brutal and vile that the officers dare not trust their wives and families within their reach. These are the kind of troops t-e government employs to harry and terrorize the white citizens of Louisiana, while the flower ofthe army is being butchered io detail by the savage So six. If the government for political purposes designed to second Pinchback’s efforts to ‘-organize hell in Louisiana, u they could not do so more effectually than by turning loose upon her defenceless people this horde of malignant semi savages.—News. BS t I IN WK ENDEAVOR TO PUBLISH NEGRO TROOPS ORDERED TO LOUISIANA. The New Orleans Times of Friday says : -‘Application has been made to the President to have the Tenth Regi ment (colored) of United States Cavalry, now on duty on the Texas frontier, sent to this State during the election The President has issued the necessary in* structions, and the order for the trans fer of the regiment will soon be issued from the War Department.” This regiment of negro cavalry has been pronounced the worst body of troops in the service—insubordinate, disorderly and savage. It is only a month or two ago that an officer of the Here is a question which we are re quested to elucidate: ‘‘Who created the present war with the Indians, and who are ths intruders in the matter ?” The intruders are the United States forces. An army was sent through the Black Hills countiy in the summer of 1875. Although the Government was bound by a treaty not to allow any in trusion into that country,troops were sent there, beoause the crew of speculators who surround President Grant believed that it was a rich gold country, and that on the establishment of the fact an immense immigration of miners would be attracted there. With a viow to making money out of the expected im migration, they sent out along with the troops men to find the best mining places and also to discover the best sites for towns ; and both the best mines and the town sites the speculators in tended to lay their hands upon. Out of this unauthorized intrusion into the country, undertaken by Grant’s near friends and associates in violation 1 - of the treaties, and with a view of making money for themselves, the present Souix war has grown up. The Cincinnalti Enquirer thinks tha f the Republicans are at the disadvantage, in nils campaign, of beingdeprived ofthe services on tho stump of some of their most eminent and illustrious leaders. We hear of no appointments being made for such big guns of the party as the Hon. Robert Schenck, “the Nation’s” Minister to England ; nor of “the Nation’s” Cabi net Minister Belknap ; nor of “the Na tion’s” Minister to Venezu-Austria ; nor of “the Nation’s” Vice-President Colfax; nor of “the Nation's” Secretary of the Knavy, and “tlffe Nation’s” late Attorney- General. It is, perhaps, to be regretted, also, that the managers rf the late Freed man’s Bank could not be spared to do missionary work for the protection ofthe freedmen, thus rendering unnecessary the employment of the gallant soldiers of the United States in the degrading service cf a partison police. Why are “the Na tion’s” great men silent ? ALL m fB WOES AND HELP US - j LETUP A HEAYY CAMPAIGN LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS CURRENT OPINION. The difference between them is clear as the sun; What R. B. Hai es says he II do, Tilden has done. —[Boston Post. Edmunds made a great speech—for his party. But Lamar made a great speech for his country. It is a distinction with a dif ference.—[Springfield Republican. “Give us reform,” say the Democrats of the South. “Give us troops,” say the Radi cal cmisaries, and Alabama gives 30,000 ma- [ority for reform.— [Chisago Courier. Congress being about to adjohrn, Mr. Proctor Knott will notice that the health of James G. Blaine has suddenly been restored to unexpected vigor,—[Omaha Herald. The San Francisco Bulletin, Rep., admits that it was ‘.rather expected” that the Re publicans would carry Alabama. The Bul letin now looks hopefully toward North Car olina. , ” The Democrats in this State have not been so confident of success since 1860. Webelieve they would elect their ticket if the election took place to-day.—[Indianapolis News, Ind. In all the list of eminent New Yorkers whose names were used at St. Louis against the nomination of Governor Tilden, we know of but one who is not supporting him.—> [New York Express. In the blindest days of partisan passion nothing worse has teen offered the country than what Senator Boutwell presents as the recommendation of all the Republicans of the Mississippi committee.—[New York Post, (Ind. Rep.) Each day brings proof of the wisdom of the president in ridding the public service ofsuch men as Bristow, Wilson and their followers, even if it did include Commis sioner Pratt and Postmaster General Jewell. The Sentinel not only approves but applauds his action in this regard.—[Milwaukee Sen tinel, Hayes paper. Pleasant and convincing paragraphs like this adorn the editorial columns of Mr. Hayes’ Washington papers; “Samuel J. Tilden is worth nearly $8,000,000. He army, whose name we do not now re- . neTer contributed a cent for the defense of member, in a communication, we be- j t ;, e Union in any manner, shape or form, lieve to the War Department, pro- i He was a bitter rebel sympathizer at heart, nonneed them utterly unreliable, and ' He isa bigger skinflint than Blue Jean Wil- recommended that they should be dis- 1 and a giance at hisface will prove it.” | We ARE PREPARED and ready for the fray, but we must have th* prapw encouragement at the hands of the Democratic party. We have entered upon the BMI important political campaign ever witnessed by the American people, for it ia hoaeety m4 reform against venality and corruption, intelligence and virtue against ignorance tad Ma- cality. In this great battle for right, the Democrat purposes playing no unimportant part, and in the carrying out of its convictions of right, in the advocacy ofthe pert/ ef its choice, will endeavor to become an instructor of the people in the great leaeeo eft pelf* tics as enacted in the Union, in the State, and in the county. To that end we dcrfvt* full audience, and we here earnestly appeal to the Decatur Democracy, and to the friend* of the paper generally, to assist in extending its circulation, In this fight a newrpapW is ofthe most vital importance, and we shall try to make the Democrat just sneh • pnftV as the people need and desire. Advertisers should bear in mind the extensive circulation enjoyed by the Ptn*tf during the campaign, aud avail themselves of its advantages, THE DEMOCRAT FOR THE CAMPAIGN For Only* Fifty Cent*. WE WANT FIVE HUNDRED NEW SUBSCRIBERS.