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THE BAINBRIDGE WEEKLY SUN $2 FKR ANNUM. vol-til THE WEEKLY SUN PUBLISHED •pjyery 3rat\xrda,y 31 JOHNSTON, Proprietor Tkrmr or Soncßimoy. OstCopy, One Year., $2,00 fct Copy. Bix Months, % 1,00 C°py- Three Months : 75 Invariably in Advance Happy Women. Impatient women as you wait In cheerful homes to-night hear The wand of steps, that soon or late, Shall come as music to your ear. Forget yourselves a little while, And think in pity of the pain Os Women who will never smile To her a coming step again. With babes that in their cradle sleep Or cling to your in perfect trust: Think of the mothers left to weep— Their babies lying in the dust. And when the step you wai for comos. And all your world is full of light, 0, women, safe in happy homes. Pray for all lonesome sou's to-night. MEMORIAL t)T THE CITIZENS OF SOOTH-WESTERN GEORGIA, PRAYING THE RECOGNITION ok the bonds of ran bUunswici; and 1I,I»NY RAILROAD, BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ", AND For other purposes. Tu the Honorable the Member* of the Senate and Jlouse of Representatives qfthe dcnn-al Assembly of the Stale of Georgia: Tho Petition of sundry Citizens of outhern Georgia respectfully sliow !h unto your honorable bodies : That us residents mid tax-paying itiz. ns of the broad Commonwealth |u v are entitled to the care, protec ion, Mid did of tho State in person iiid property. \ sir P< t tinners tints holding here ]m'h unto youv honorable oodies as N/H>ciully inviting vour grave eon i>l,ration, judicious support, and mely relief, tile City of Brunswick nd her devoted .and deeply injured ■Dole : That this lU’.ur.utpality is uinosed almost exclusively of na ve born (ieorgians and otlurs of i-.miheru birth, who, overwhelmed iv the misfortunes growing out of im lute war, lmvo removed-hither rhi their families and the myrow I'linifUit of their fornnr fortunes, wifidently believing in the future iroaporitv of Brunswick and trust ng tv> the faithful compliance with he Acts of the State aiding the Irußßwiok and Albany Railroad — nd that so believing and trusting lay have expended their all in City ’rcivrty and improvements thereon; fiat they were chiefly moved so to oby tho endorsement and guaran is o! their honored and trusted 'ommomvealth ; and now it so hap ■’os that owing to certain acts and oings, irregularities, informailities r otherwise, over which they had >0 control and in which, whatever bmo may bo attached thereto, they Maim all complicity —they find homselves stripped of the guaran- Dps on which they relied ; That they ro wholly without other resource •an the proper development of their ort arising from the advent of cap il abroad. That in pursuit of this Amendable end they ask not a olhir from the public Treasury ; but oly that their State would cover lem in their extremity with the as kance of her good name ; and that 1 ls no more just to refuse them tho •c-nefit of capital from'abroad, now adored for the accomplishment of purpose, by withholding the en brsemeut of the State to tlm secu itics at issue, than it would be if the *'°plo themselves proposed to use so cueh capital from their own sub tree. Your Petitioners would further h°w that in administering to the ‘'inure and relief of the City of far from thus being a I'irrowly local and comparatively un ffiP°rtant demand on the public con ideration and support, it is one fph and entii'ely common to the greets of the whole -of South- Georgia and of the State ; ' C oich the people of this sec- U °* the State cannot willingly and accustom ed citizens, who have borne in times past their quota to expensive appro- - priations made in other sections of : the State, and of which your Peti tioners would* in no way complain. Your Petitioners would further •show that large investments have been made along the line of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad, and that the development of the vast lumber interests of Georgia, reach ing it is confidently believed over $500,000,000, unquestionably awaits, as its appropriate Port, the proper commercial development of Bruns wick with her unsurpassed natural facilities for international trade ; and that these high interests so linked are compromitted to a great degree if not fatally by the abandonment of of this great Railroad enterprise. It is further shown to your honor able bodies, that since the failure of the contractors to complete the road and pay the creditors, these parties have been grievously injured and damaged thereby and that they have looked upon the apparent sacrifice of their interests in the pending liti gation without hope of remedy or redress. . Your Petitioners, may it so please your honorable bodies, as citizens of an old and honoi - able commonwealth, whose escutcheon proclaims that the severity even of justice should be tempered by wisdom and moderation, have watched with becoming con cern the recent Legislation effecting these securities upon which 171 miles of this road have been actually built; and they gravely question the policy, however well intended, by <vhich this great enterprise has been stricken down. It is well known to your honora ble bodies that this road had sixty miles or more in running order, be fore the war. to which the ('nv.rotx lion of Til guaranteed the protection of the State—that the rails of this road, under that guarertce, torn up ali i used by and in the P.tate— that the Legislature yf til) in view of these facts, by. its committee in due form of law, on examination, rightly or wrongly it is not no*v pertinent to inquire, recognized the claims and agreed in solemn form of law by con tract. to endorse $15,000 per mile in extinguishment of said claim. And that in virtue of said endorsement 171 miles of road have been built, and the bonds to secure the moneys used therein were endorsed at first by tho Treasurer of the State under the advisement of able, distinguish ed, and irreproachable counsel, learn ed in the law ; and subsequently by the Governor of the State, the Chief of an independent department of Government, so recognized in the formative law of the State itself. It is now shown that the people of this section of the State, to the extent of road constructed, are in the actual fruition of the improvements arising out of these very bonds so is sued, and purchased in open market. It is respectfully submitted to your honorable bodies that this broad fact overlies the case however wise or unwise the endorsement may be con sidered, or regular or irregular the execution thereof may be held. It is shown that a great public easement has arisen out of the pro ceeds of these bonds an a high pub lic franchise established which may not be obstructed or removed with out legislative consent ; showing at once tho solemn interests actually in existence and the consequent pro tection and recognition due to the parties in all fairness and fact who were without doubt unwillingly and unwittingly compromised therein. And now it is further shown to your honorable bodies that the Su perintendent of Public Works repor ted an enhan ed valuation of taxa ble property, already arising from the construction of this road, nearly equal to the amount of endorsement. It is confidently shown that the State would lose nothing by its endorse ment, if the road was finished to Eu faula ; the same being worth more than $15,000 per mile, and that in its completion nearly two million oi dollars more would be expended iir the permanent improvements of the State and that amount he put in im mediate circulation. Your Petitioners would show unto your honorable bodies—that the rec ognition of these guarantees now comes up under considerations not hitherto had in view —that your Pe titioners have definitely and author itatively understood from the bond holders of the finished and unfinish ed portions of the road that they, united together, will finish and # equip the road, in a first-class condition to Eufaula and settle the legitimate debts of the road, if the State will recognize tho guarantees on the fin ished part of the road, upon lawful inspection thereof, and also recog nize the guarantees on the unfinish ed part of the road when completed and under like inspection. It tfius appears to your Petition ers that a felicitous proposition has been tendered by the foreign and domestic bonbolders which opens the way for a happy relief from per plexing financial complication, and that your honorable bodies at this juncture and mder these proposals might without attaching odium to previous annulment of these securi ties find yourselves warranted in now re-establishing and recognizing them. Your Petitioners would respect fully show that such recognition would be of the utmost benefit to the credit of the State in Foreign Lauds where these bonds are held arTd restore confidence in our secu rities abroad, both State and Munic ipal.* Your Petitioners would therefore pray, that the General Assembly do pass an Act in the premises provid ing for such recognition, and with such limitations as will secure the completion of the road by such par ties before such Act takes effect. And your Petitioners will ever praTu.4cn JMjl ...... -■*- Hon A. II Stephens as U S. Sen ator Editor Morning News : Since Mr. Stephens’ name lias become so prominently before the public f<jr the position of United States Senator, and a very large proportion of the people, not to say an overwhelming majority of them, seem so much inclined to his election, hi3 claims upon the popular confidence have been dis.ruased from almost every stand point, but the proposition of his election meets with such warm and cordial res ponse from the masses, and there is so much earnestness manifested in that dr reetion, that the most important question now discussed as to his fitness for the | honorable position is as to whether he is physically capable of- performing the du ties'of Senator. His ability, hiß states manship, 6o conservative and in such per fect harmony with the genius and spirit of free government and civil liberty, as designed by the founders of the Republic, are admitted and admired by all. His great desire for the unity and har mony of'the democratic party was so well expressed in his speech at the rftate Capi tol last week, that it will carry conviction to the minds of even those who may re gard Mr. Stephens as a disorganizer, and will have the effect of dispelling- every thought of the kind from the minds of all conscientious and truth-loving men. Tlie Democracy of Mr. Stephens cannot and will not fce doubted by any candid man. He has never uttered a sentence that was not Democratic, He stands to-day the very impersonation of the purest Democ racy. His record speaks for itself; his great wisdom in the late canvass has prov en to the masses that he is a faithful coun selor and a safe leader, and we hear the expression oh every hand that he is the proper person to be made Senator, provi ded his physical condition is such as to allow him to -perform the duties of the office., I have been with Mr. Stephens a great deal for the past few days, and I have never seen him in better healh. He felt but little fatigue in going from his hotel to the State Capitol last Friday night and making a speech of two hours length, al though the weather was very inclement and forbidding Indeed, the general health of Mr Stephens was never better, al though the condition of one of his limbs forces him to use crutches. 1 make this statement, to say that 1 know from per sonal knowledge that Mr. Stephens is just as capable, physically, to perform the du ties of # Congressmen she ever was; and, if elected, his seat will be occupied with as great punctuality as that of any -other member on the Senate floor, unforeseen casualties nbt interfering. What 1 have written 1 have written in the interest of truth, and that Mr. Ste phens’ claims may be justly and duly con sidered. To say that he cannot serve is extremely erroneous. In fact, it will not be longer said, except by those who desire to defeat him. . Therefore, let his friends be active in disabusing the public mind on this score. Mr. Stephens can serve the people in the Senate, and will do so. if the people desire it. And he is the last man m Georgia to assume responsibilities he cannot meet. I rocp. won’t do. You're too pretty ever to be a good plain cook.” FOR THE RIGHT—JUSTICE TO ALL. BAINBRIDGE GA, «L4NU.<IRY 4di 1875 4 TWO LITTLE BOYS. Mark Twain’s Story of the Poor Little Stephen Girard. The man lives in Philadelphia who, when young and poor, entered a bank, and says he, - “Please, sir, don’t you want a little boy ?” And the stately personage said, “No, little boy, I don’t want a little boy.” The little boy, whose t»gst was too full for utterance, chewing* a piece of lic orice stick he had bought with a cent stolen from bis good find pious aunt, with sobs plainly audible, and with great globules of water running down his cheeks, glided silently down the marble stepit of the bank. , Bending his noble form, the bank man dodged behind a door, for he thought the little boy was going to shy a stone at him. But the boy picked up something stuck it in his poor but ragged jacket. “ Come here, little boy,” and she little boy did come here ; and the bank man said, “ Lo, what picket thou up ?”* And he answered and said, “a pin.” And the bank said, “Little boy, are you good ?*’ and he he was.— And the bank man snfd, “ How do you vote ?” excuse me, do you go to Sunday sfcliool ? and he said Ire did. Then the bank man look down a pen made of pure gold and flowing with pure ink, and wrpte on a piece of paper, “St. Peter,” "and asked the little boy what it stood for, and he said, “ Sault Peter.” Then the bank man said it meant “ Saint Peter.” The little boy said “Oh.” The bank man took the little boy to his bosom, and the 'little boy said “Oh I” again, for he Squeezed him. Then the bank man took the little boy into a partnership, and gave him half the profits and all tho capital, and he married the bank man’s 'fl&mfbter, find all he %aS is all his, and all. lie owns too. STORY OF ANOTHER LITTLE BOY. My unde told me this- story, and I spent six weeks picking up pins in front of a bank. I expected the bank man would call me in and say, “Lit tle boy, are you good ?” and I waai going to say “ Yes and when he asked me what “St. John ” stood for, I was going to say “Salt John.” But I guess the bank man wasn’t anxious to have a partner, and I guess the daughter was a son, for one day says he to me, “ Little boy, what’s that you are picking up Says I, awful* meekly, “Pins.” Says he, “ Let’s see ’em.” And he took ’em, and I took off my cap, all ready to go in the bank and marry his daughter. But I didn’t get an invi tation. He said, “ Those pins be long to the bank, and if I catch you hanging around here any More I’ll Set the dogs on you!” Then I left, and the mean old cuss kept the pins. Such is life'as I find it. „ A Balloon YoTage Across the At lantic. —The PhiladelphiaStarsays : Prof. John Wise, the well-known aeronaut, has it in, contemplation to make a balloon trip across the At lantic next summer, preparations for the great aerial voyage being in pro cess of arrangement now. The pro fessor, it will be remembered, made the famous air trip from St. Louis to the eastern extremity of Lake On tario, a distance of over twelve hun dred miles, in the short space of nineteen hours, or at the rate of about sixty-three miles an hour. He feels entirely confident of his ability to make the quickest trip on record across the Atlantic. Quite a num ber of scientific gentlemen have made application to accompany him in this greatest of all ballooning expeditions. As showing how far America is ahead in aeronautics, so far as distance trav elled is concerned, the longest trip ever made by a European balloonist was only 400 miles, that of Prof, vv Jse’s was three times that distance, and, what is more, the greater por tion of it was accomplished in the of a‘cyclone, and with three passen gers ‘besides him sell “Do vou like to go to church said a lady to Mrs Partington. ‘ Law me I do.” replied Mrs. P. Nothing does me more good tbau to get up early on Sunday morning, and go to church and hear a populous minister diqpeaoewith the Gospel.” | A Romance. —During the past week ! a bit of romance has occurred in the Children’s Aid Society, which hard j ly seems to belong to this matter-of . &ct age. The number of years since j the reports of the Society gave an ac ! count of a sad event in Brooklyn.— A woman had been murdered by her : drunken husband, and a kind lady of that city had discovered three wretched little children weeping over the corpse—two boys and a girl.— They were - utterly friendless after | the arrest and imprisonment of the father. Ihe two boys were brought to the Newsboy’s Lodging House in New York, and the girl temporarily feheltered. At length the Society sent tlie boys to homes in the West, and the girl was adopted by a gen tleman of property, near the city.— The latter never knew that her adop ted father-was not her own. The boys have now grown up and acquired property -one being a druggist and tlie other a farmer. They have been extremely anxious to communicate with their sister, and have been in correspondence with her guardian for some time. During the past week they revisited the city for the first time—very well educated young men, in good circumstances. They visited tlie Girl’s Lodging House, the Newsboys’, and, other institutions of the Society. The adopted father of their sister consented that they should see her in his office, provided they did not disclose their relation ship, as she was only fiiteen, and he wished her to suppose herself his daughter, so that her affections might not be weakened for a few yearß longer. She is to_ inherit his prop erty. They felt the propriety of this, and had their interview with her last week, without disclosing their rela tionship, and then returned, well sat isfied, to the West.— N. Y. Times. Progress in California.— -The new California code makes wild work ol home and family. The great modern idea of everybody being everybody elseis equal in all things is carriedsout remorsely, and a magnificent unifor mity of confession is the natural re sult. All that is necessary to con stitute a marriage is for a man and woman—or for that matter a boy and a girl, the law doing away with the effete and monarchical distinction be tween children and grown folks— to consider themselves married and behave accordingly. Being thus yok ed, husband and wife and are as ful ly at liberty to sue and contract with each other as befoie entering into the matrimonial state. The woman may sue her husband for the use of her crockery at breakfast, and the man may sue his wife for lfer night’s lodg ing in his house. Equality in all things is the rule ; there is to be no more of invidious distinctions of sex. •Should controversies over rent and table-ware grow insufferable the two may draw up a treaty of demarca tion and pay into a common fund certain contributions from their re spective exchequers for the support of the children, which children are to be in the custody of .neither pa rent, the law saying : When husband and wife are living separate and apart the father, as such, has no superior right to that of the mother to the care, custody; or control of the’ children.” The child thus im partially neglected must apparently go to the dogs ; but the law kindly steps in to say that a minor who marries becomes an adult forthwith. All the deserted little Tom has to do is to consider and treat some equally forlorn little Bessie as hia wife, and both youngsters are at once no lon ger children but grown folks.- Says section 28 of tho code : “The mar riage of minors changes their status from minors to adults. — World. The Roll Call in Heaven.— An incident is related by a Chaplain who was in the army during a hard fought battle. The hospital tent had been filled up fast. The wounded men had been brought to the rear.— Among their number was a young man who had been mortally wound ed, and not able to speak. It was near midnight, and many a loved ones from their homes lay sleeping upon the battle-field that knows no waking until Jesus shall call them. The surgeons had been on their rounds of duty, and for a moment all was quiet. Suddenly this young man, before speechless, calls in a clear, distinct voice : “ Here 1” The surgeons hastened to his side and asked what he wished. “Nothing,” he said ; “ they were calling the roll in Heaven, and I an swered to my name.” He turned his head and was gone —gore to join that great army whose uniform is washed white in the blood of the Lamb. Reader, in the great roll call of Eternity, when your name shall be called, can yon answer “ Here!” Are yon one of the soldiers of Christ, Captain of our salvation. Hints About Walking. Start off with the left foot in front, as in army practice. By doing so, when you advance there will be noth* ing left, and you will be right with left in front.” Don’t expect to un derstand this at once. Keep your eyes in front If there are heads ahead of you, you can thus see ahead, and may avoid complica tions with strangers. If you wish to ascertain the grade of the walk, place your feet down, and you will, if you are wise, know all about it. Man is a plantigrade animal. • When you get hold of the earth with one foot, keep a hold un til you get the other firmly fixed in a satisfactory place. By so doing you will fool all the stability contem plated in the Sunday liquor law. When you lift up your feet, let go of the dirt, It is not commendable to cling to much to earthly things, nor to walk off with what does not belong to you, In learning to walk, always place one foot in advance of the other, al ternating with left and right, for the sake of gracefulness in movement and ultimate advancement. Human * advancement is often attained by the observance of this simple rule. When you wish to stop do so.-- By observing this rule you will often avoid going too far. By observing carefully these rule you will be able to get along without great difficulty. —New York. SurposE It Had Been Bought ! The Baltimore American tells the following thrilling story, but omits to draw a morel froifi the consequen ces in case the hair had not been original: “Thursday morning, as the mail trail train south on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti more Railroad was approaching the station at the Delaware Junction, a young lady, who was about to take the cars, ran across the track, and tripping - , fell immediately in front of the coming train and in a second more would have beers crushed to death. A gentleman standing on the platform, comprehending the situa tion of affairs, in an instant caught the imperilled creature a by her long, flowing hair and literally, dragged her from beneath the fire-flushing wheeels, which were already clamp ed in the clutches of the {latent air break, which was promptly applied by tho frightened engineer. The young lady who was traveling alone was soon conducted to a seat in the car, almost stupified with fright, at tracting the attention and sympathy of the passengers until the train readied this city, where she resides.’ G leaning's. It is supposed that the present hog crop will be twenty-five per cent, heavier than last year 8. At Berlin Wisconsin, over 1,700 pickers have been employed on two cranberry marshes. It is stated that it would take 5,603,224 sheets of paper to replace the present dilapidated National Bank circulation. lowa has a school fund of $3,000,- 000, and was admitted to the Union 4jn'y 25 years ago. George Grant, of London, recently purchased one hundred square miles of lowa land which he proposes to improve at once. Northwestern Items Fulton county Court, Illinois, is consid ering 37 applications for divorpe. For the superintendence of its schools Indianapolis, Indiana, pays $3,000 per year. The State University at Bloom ington. Illinois, is dosing 300 boys with edecational pills. The lumbermen of Grand Rapids Michigan, expect to cut this season 80,000,000 feet of timber. The surveys for the Nebraska City bridge are completed and the esti mates put at $825,000, A sad tableau but not an uncom mon one : A small, wretched-look ing house. Outside a miserable apology for a man, crazed by drink, assaulting the door, and making the air resound with curses. Inside a pale, thin woman with a wan ex pression of features, pressing one hand tightly over her heart, and with the other heating a poker in the fire. —Danbury News. ADTAHCm Literary Chit Chat Most book maritiscrips ar* btfhglit for $25, SSO and SIOO eacti. The late Fanny Fern once receiv ed SIOO per column for a newspaper story. “London Mixture" is tbs curious title of the Christmas nambei of • Good Things. Miss Alcott n publishers pay bar copyright money amounting to tea thousand a year. » Miss Landon, in her best days, never had two dresses at a time that were fit to wear. Tlie Hon. Mt. Howe of the Cans* diau Cabinet, iR about, to pnptish a volume of poems. Edmund About is about to publish a complete edition of his #riting at his own expense. * j • w >» Joaquin Miller's poems, "Arivo* than,’ has been translated into Gcr* man by a Balfiinoripfi. A Hungarian trabwatTon of Mr. Lccky’s “History of Rationalism in Europe” has appeared at P. eth. A now book for little, folks, by Gail Hamilton, is to bo published immediately by Sheppard and Gill Mr. ttanton is printing in the Athenanun a serious of articles on “Unsuspected .Corruption of Shake* peare s Texts." Miss Eliza Cook,,tho English poe- tress, is neither dead nor sick m was reported, but in Kn- usual health at Wimbledon. Mr. Ezry Cornell hay paid Mis*. Yin nie Ream SI,OOO for a burnt of Lin coln copied from the hurried stature by her at Washington. George Augustus Sda contributes a novelty, entitled “Tho protty Housekeeper,’, the Christmas num ber of Bolgravie. M. Dumas, Jr., l:as read bfa new piece, “La Fennno de Claude,” at the Gymnase. lie Announces that it is to be tlie last dramatic work. ’ The three humlreth anniversary of the birth of Ben, Johnson will ocCttr in 1874, and afford fair occasion lor a dramatic merry-making, * A raeiftber of Parlhunent hah for two years been try trig- to secure a position on the staff of thd London Times, being willing to rwrfgn hia office to get it. ”•* ■* The prize of £I OO for the best say in confutation of materialism has been awarded io the Rev. W. Jackson, F. 8;' A., late fellow of Wor cester College, Oxfdfrf. e * New York baa published nor less than twelve histories of the diril during three years. New Yorker feels sompeteht to write him on tho ground of ' peiVlMf! ac quaintance. **h"* .SJSBQ.B Old M, Guizot has IbttexrtHv bdblp in press, among them a work dWtbe second empire. In the fn-efsew* he says that Louis - Napoleon frequently importuned him k ith'offers of irapot tant officia. position?*. Mr. Nordhoff s “Cali/omi** draws from the Saturday Review Ihe ex traordinary compljment, eonsuifer ing the quarter it comes from, of “clearness of style, graphic descrip tion and variety of interesting infor mation.” Recently {Tie London Morn’ng Post celebrated , ils first 'centenary by devoting eight ol its wide columns to the remiriiscen*xa of men and things 100 years ago. .By nooq * copy of the paper could not be bad for love or money in all London. The Saturday Review thinks .that Alexander H. Stephens is a very greet man— for ru American. It is further of tho opinion I hat “tbers are not half a cuzen men in tfc# whole North who-bave the learning and ability necessary to give them » fair chance against such an adver sary.” Thomas Alexander Mitchell. M. F .aad member of an eminent Lwlos shipping house, of great wealth and CO jmm. Jus shocked the aristocrat circle of which set was an ornament, by U.vJiug to meneaj altar a pretty* bar maid fixup • metropolitan gin patio* named the “bitk Harp.” Beha»B7AWO year. 8h« has youth and beauty, and cn!f fainted twice during *H* o "t J*o 17