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Y ORK TRIBUIIE
1873.
Wlofor# - Thr Tbibunk strives
v- ‘ I *H ami pre eminently anew
a** ~ ,* —England sndCMn*
• l''' ,n, **at*«i with R«*p»»bli*
Pte,/ s l';un swaying in the jiervelet*
« *nt < ru w . t,H ‘ 8 o<l fur a Kins and
''t ,! r *" *'' P“blican, wlin. is un ib'e
»a W t llw * r ** , *faUii4 tha blocks the
■ ! “ ur ®ulf »>f Mex’ro and equal*
up—the German
5,5 *Lr by * new Prote.-t»n-
J"D f om ,be ® f Home on
'ttotlj & .'* l Infatl'inlity and as
~, " l « the *• old Catholics ”
J . "“tincnt pervaded by the
■' *b»t cotmw of tire con-*
‘ ® idea*, philosophies. the*
* : i: j r , w a '*' a and Great Britain
**'s 1# 4 : , or tb e final gains that shall
5 seera
h»ir'&n<^',n ber advances and
|S K»‘es-Japnn abol*
IS** t 0 mating Western dv
| '*•* estern commerce to
<* the new!. a nd f den e ?'P ir ®-«» ch «•
It* o»n .jf e " 8 f '.°® abroad which the
and the wires
Wtd f 4 i y bearin i *° »«
■ij 3 *»rtuL ' Wherever great
R>*« tor?* Tribu °* «**.
■**»t of iv < *?°7! pet ** »nd p«rp«rl«T
Ikl'aniU t? dl^ ree aud conflict*.
ttTn’Ju! toil,D f »“»«»* are
** n S up toward larger
___ ■ - _____ _______ __ ____ _______ __ m»
recognition and a bnvhter future. ~; >
At li<>nie flits •‘‘kiUKJ.l f>>r Fit*, jiutn seerns
over. T « last slave has luvg been a ciu*.
sen , the lust opposition to emancipation,
etifmnclilßemeur..equal civil rights...has
been, formally abandoned No party, North
or South, ledger depute* tne result, of ’he
war foi the union; all tVc.n* ti attiose
results muM never be end n<-; and w<U
a wtiole people thus united on the vra' and
platform of Alt Rights fur. Ail. .whereto
our boody »trUKgle r .and the prolonged
civil Contents that followed. I»av* l.d us.
the Republic closes the records of the hit"
ter, hateful pa-t. aud turns peacefully,
lopefully. to the less alarming la-cnUße
less vi'al problems of the what
ever may elucidate the general
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(he jiernisnent neroritv of those ' rights,
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adininistiaiion of uovernment. tmtionnl,
»late ami municipal, and whenever those
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municipal affrirs, take the had in tlrts
work, it will therein give them its cordial
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nervation pt our land for the latmles- and
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atiliz-itiou of our vast ores, the
extension of the facilities foi biingir.g pro
<lncei am) eopsniuer ne.oer •together—
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mention and encouragement iu our co
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GEORGIA— Dbca«w Cor.vrr.
S. W.Swmine estate-tlii»» “^TJd
®stss»ssSs
ssaaasassiS?
May 10, 18T3-2t46
CHANGE or SCHEDULE.
Office General Superintendent, j
Atlantic & GrtF Railroad (’o., V
Savannah, Ga.. May 3rd, 1873.)
\
OX and after Sunday, trains
on this Road will run as follows :
. ; EXPRESS PASSENGER.
Savannah daily at 4.30 p m.
Arrive at live Oak daily at u ... 4.05 Am.
Arrive at I’ainbridge daily at.. 8.15 am.
' Arrive at Albany daily at..... 9.50 a m.
Leave Albany daily at 4.45 p ip.
Leave Uainbridge daily, at .... p m.
Leave Live Oak daily af, 10.30 p m.
Arrive at Savannah daily at... 10 00 am.
Connect at live Oak with train* on the
•f, P. & M. R. R.to and from .1 acksonville,
Tallaha-see v &c. ...
No # change of cars between Savannah
and A’lbany.
Close connection at Albany wi‘h trains
on Southwestern R. R.
Close connection at law tort to a.id from
Fh-ri.fa with Western DivLiou Passenger
Train.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN.
WESTERN DIVISION.
1 *
Lawton (Sundays exep'd) at 7 00 a m
Arrive at Yaldosta Sundays e±- • -
cepted, att, • 9.23 a tn
Arrive at Quitinan, Sundays ex- ,•
• cupted, at 10.40 a m
Arrive at Thomasville. Sundays
excqjtrtd at 12.45 pm
Arrive at Albany, Sundays excep
ted, at 6-00 pm
Leave Albany, ‘"undays at 7-20 a m
Thomasville, Sundays ex
cepted. at 3,00 p in-
Leave Quitinan, Sundays excep
ted.it...'. 5.04 pm
Leave yaldosta, Sundays excep
ted, at.... 6,25 pm
Arrive at 1 awtou. Sundays excep
ted. at... 8,30 pm
t-oimect at Albany .with night trains on
S .W. R fl ß.. ; JcEFlhg Albany Monday. Tues
day. Thursday and Friday- snd arriving at
Albany Tuesday, V\ eduesday, Friday and
Saturday.., , . ... ry
Mail steamer-leaveß Pamhridjje ► every
Wednesdav at 9.00 a. m. for Apalachicola.
id, S, HAINES,
General Superiatendent.
May 10,1873-2 f-45 .
e->ST»ck, he H„* or .
able the Court ot Ih’dmv.fy ot said county.
May term, 1873. I will sell before the Court
I’ouse door, in Uainbridge. Decatur coun
ty, Geo-gir., at public outcry within the
hours of, sale on the first '1 uesday in
•Inly next, the real estate of Stephen K,
Fife, a minor, consisting of town hits bf
lend wiih the improvements,th^reeo- ! ,in
thevtovui of Baihbridge. in ilecatnr court l
ty, Ga- 'terms of sale. Cash, 'this April
the ftth, 1873.
J. L. WaLCOTF, Guardian.
Mttv It, lßl£
Georgia —Decatur (loivty.
liarinau, administrator
Os vV. ID fiarinau-. represents to this court
in hi» petition dply,.filedand entered on
refcoi’d and that he has fully adniinistered
VV. R ‘-arinau's estate this, is therefore to
cite all persons cbticerned. kindred and
creditors *o show cause if any they can
why sai.d, administrator should not be dis
efiarged from his administration, .and re
ceive letters of dismission oil the Ist Mon
day in June next* 18X3. *. • > *
IIiRAM Brocsktt, Ord'y.
Gl^lßGTA—Decatur County.
WHEREAS Mary J. T.nnn.
trix of John I.unn representadd this
Court in her petition duly filed and enter
ed ori record that she has fully adminis
tered John Uinn's estate, this is therefore
to cite all persons gonce’ned. kindred and
creditors to show caqse .if. any they can
why said administratrix shoul not be dis
from her administra ion and re
ceive letters of dismission on the first Mon
day in ‘August. 18X3.
lliram Brockett, Onl y D. C.
May 10.18X3-3m-45
10.005 GIFTS,
SSOOOOO
.ON TUESD \Y, JUDY Bth, 1873. the
TiuroGw* Co>gert. und**r the manage
ment of Ex-Governor Thos E. ■ ramlette,
and authorized by special act of the 1 egis
lature tot the beflefit-of the PubUc Libra
ry of Kentuckv. positively and unequivo*
cafly colrtes off in the Public Library'Hall,
Louisville. Kentucky, when 10,000 Gifts,
all c’sh. amounting to 8500.000, will be
distributed by lot among the ticket liold
era. • The money to pay all these gifts in
full is already in b uik and set aside for
that purpose,' as the following certificate
shows :
Office of Fabkkrs' and Drove**. |
Bank, i onnvt. le. Kentucky, V
April 7,1873. ) ;
This is to certify that there is in the
Farmers’ and Drovers’ Hank, to the credit,
of the Third Grand <Hft Concert, for the
benefit of the Public I ibrarvof Kentucky.
Five Hundred TWkvnd IWars. which
haa been set apart by the maggots to pay
the gifts in *full. and will be held by the
Bank* and paid out for this purpose- »od
for this pkrpoee enly- «««nn
Only % few tioUtt remain unsold, and
they will be furnished to the ta*i
eJta at leUowing prwe. s Whole tiek
nta . sio}. halves, ; quart«*.
Jholeo for 8100; for -fcOfi", 113 for
81000 and 575 so» $5,000. For Ucket*
• Louisville. Kentucky
FOR THE RIGHT—JUSTICE TO ALL .
BzVINBUIDOS GA-. MAT %\st 9 1873,
THE GREAT CANAL.
FULL TEXT OF THE If AJOEITY KEPO'.T
adopted at the governor’s CONVEN
TION, AND THE OPPOaDiO MINOIHTY
REPORT.
Governor Smitb, Cbairman, sub
mitted the following memorial as|lie
report of the majority of the com
mittee ; •
MEMORIAL.
To the Congress of the United States:
The u.ndersignetl, a committee ap
pointed by a convention held at At
lanta, Ga., on the 20th day of May,
1873, composed of representatives
fi om thirteen to im-niopal,ize
Ooiigiess lipon the necessity for
cheaper transportation between the
great producing and consuming; sec
tions of the couutry, respectfully
represent: r .
That the vast interests, common
to all sections of the country, in
volved in the opening of lines of
water coiiunduication between the
Atlantic seaboard and the great
“ basin of the Mississippi,” entitle
the proposed routes to the immedi
ate and earnest attention ol the tjni
ted States government. The neces
sity for. cheaper transportation is
vital and mgent, and the best means
of secui ing it is a question upon tne
wise and : psedy solution of which
depends the continued prosperity
an<jl contebthieut of the couutry.
To the West and South this ques
tion is,of peculiar importance. Their
interests are in a greet measure iden
tickf, being the two great producing
sections, the benefits of yheap
transportation must be felt by all
other sections in an almost equal
degree. In the four States of Geor
gia, Florida, South Carolina RLd
Alabama, there is an annual defi
‘cieuey o! fifty million bushels of
grain, which must be suppled
the West.- ,
This deficiency is increasing, off
ing to the great decrease, of availa
ble farm, labor and the rapid meyeabe
tlie non-|iro(luci;ig , popk-dion of
those States. When the deficiency
In the other Southern States and the
c n -equent hijih prices of
jtre taken,into ctJfi'Siileration, it will
b • seen at once that no question is
of such vital moment to the South
as cheap transportation.
Since 1566 the value of cotton
(raw and, manufactured) exported
from the United States aiiiouuts to
$1,500,000,000. This is about sixty
per cent of our total exports in value.
Cotton is indeed our, only reliable
and remuneralive article of
and is the real basi3 of the wealth of
the whole country.
The present liigh rates of freights
prevent the exportation of grain from
the United States altnost entirely,
although our surplus is, efifficieut for
the wants of the civilized world.—
They also compel the'Southem*States
to employ a large portion. of their
limited labor in the Jjrodm thm of
food drops* to which their soil and
climate are not adaptedj and tp that
extent- deprive the West of a uiar
ket. To iMtrate ; The average
production of corn in the fcnr States
mentioned is ten bushel p«* acre.—
I o make up the deficiency in the
quantity now produced it would bfr
necessary to cultilifute at least five
million (5,000,000) aces. This
acreage devoted to cotion would
yield at least 1,250,000 biles, worth
at fifteen cents per pound. $135*000,-.
000. Deduct from this the value of
the corn which the sane, acreage
would prodiuce, and j?p haye . $75,-
000,000 to represent the amount of
loss suffered anuually by the poutn
ern and Western fafinrrs from a
lack of facilities for a cieap inter
change of products. j
This direct loss is gTeatly increas
ed by the reflex dpetition of the
cause under consideration. v The
high price of food increases hte. cost
of the manufacttlffi ss.vell as .pf the
prodnetion of cotton, and so of every
other article we need- " hilo the
Western farmer realizes but a pit
tance upon, his teeming cro P®» evel Y
manufactured article which he usee
comes to him burdened by onerous
and oppressive taaiff**. Cheapirans-
I porta tion from the West would not
1 only cheapen food, but would, as a
cdfipeqaence, also cheapen labor.—
This result would enable tne manu
facturer to supply our wants at
greatly reduced prices, and would
enable him to compete successful
ly abroad as well as at home. Our
manufactories would in re«se, our
exports would be doubled, ottr abip
piug interest revived, and the bal
ance of trade would be largely in
our favor instead of against us as it
notv is. . ■ . *
Those States watered by the Mis
sissippi river and its tributaries are
the granary of the Union, and might
be the granary of the World, but iso
lated as they virtually are, for the
want of cheap and adequate trans
portation, existing .evils must im
crease an l spread until poverty and
bankruptcy overshadowed the whole
land.
'I he feverish anxiety which per
vades the public mind upon this sub
! ject is abundantly shown in the fact
that Congress is gravely asked to
take control of the entire.railroad
system of the country, and by legis
lative action regulate their charges
W hether this would mitigate or ag
gravate the evil, whether, by Con
gressioual management, the cost of
operating the would be so
diminished as to afford the desired
relief, are questions which do not
adnjit of discussion here. They are
only mentioned to show a great,
pressing necessity underlies the
whole matter, which cannot longer
remain undheedfed without serious
defrnnent to public interests.
*, The entire value of a bushel of corn,
transported a thousand miles by rail,
is consumed by the cost qf transpor
tation. This leave? ri6.jirc.fit t > the
carrier, ffitih e tp the skipper, and not
one cent to the producer. So that
if the railroad should carry corn for
its actual cost and uteUiiug more#;
St. .Louis tofchvaimah or from
Chicago to New York, the producer
would still,, receive fib. Adequate re
muneration.-fordtis labor. > either
can the indefinite multiplication* of
railroads, nor any legislative restric
tion as to .freight. charges, .cure the
evil, SO, long as tiie actual cost of
operating railroads remains undi
minished. Until this cost shall be
reduced, by means not now known,
a resort. to .either of .the remedies
proposed will prove a mere expedient
which, in the end, will surely disap
point public expectation. We do
not want expedients, or partial rem
edies. A cure of the evil isdtsmand
ed by the, , farming of the
country j and to , nothing short of
this should we lpolc ,fo~ permanent
relict in seeking this relief, the
first step to be taken isto-find a less
costly mode of transprtation than
that by rail. Experience teacher us
that water, furnishes tiie -cheapest
means of transportation know to
the commercial world, and there is
but little reason to doubt that the
solution of this whole qnes-tiou Will
. >j. y“. .»• ' *•*
be /oufid to rest upon the construc
tion of great lines*of wsfer com
piUDipation between the West and
the seaboard, wherever nature has
pr vided.a way. Bpild the Niagara
connecting the lakes by
an unbroken chain of navigation
from Chicago to, theses; .connect
lake Champlain by shin-canal with
the Hudson ; enlarge the Erie canal,
if possible fextend your lines
from the lakes to the Mississippi by
evefy proposed roots, where n itnre,
has provided a way ; improve the
navigation of your rivers so that
barges may pass through their entire
length without hindrance, and you
will, have done more to relieve the
country from its present troubles
than we can justly hope to secure by
any other means. In this way the
railroads may be made the feeders
and distributors for the great, trade
arteries, and the causes which how
induce them to enter into extensive
leases and combinations, in many
distances so injurious to the public
interest, would, in a great degree,
cease to exist.
A glance at the map, will be suffi
cient, to show £hat, from the great
lakes to the Mississippi river, there
is a vast expuneof ctxJk* try, divid -d
by the Apalachian chain, which
sepavsitea the waters of the Atlantic
from those which flow into the Gulf
of Mexico. The Ohio and the Jaraee
rivers hate their sources among the
mountains of this chain ; and further
South, also, the Tennessee, the Coosa
and the Oemulgee. Recent surveys
demonstrated that it is feasible
to connect by canals the Ohio with
the James river, and the Tennessee
with, the Ocnmlgee, and thus, so to
speak, trim the Mississippi into the
Atlantic at n orfolk and at Savannah.
The merits of the James rives and
the jjtanawha canal have been fully
discussed, and wc will not pause here
to repeat the many reasons which
have been offered in favor of this
great work. We crave your atten
tion, however, for a moment, while
w point out some of the advantages
which would flow from the constric
tion of the Atlantic and Great Wes
tern canal, f conn cting the Missis
sippi. through the ’ enressej river,
with the Atlantic ocean at Savannah,
Georgia.
n • iC . f0 • : *
, The Tennessee enters the Ohio a
short distance above the confluence
of the latter with the Mississppi.
From this point the direction
of the. Tennessee is southeast, io its
great bend at Guntersville, in the
State of Alabama- At that point the
Coosa and the Tennessee approach
each other—there being, only 4. nar
row heck of latid between them.
Across this isthmus a.canal thirty
milea long would connect these two
rivers, and open navigation to liome,
Georgia. From Rome the route
follows the Etowah to its nearest
point of approach to the. Oemulgee
river, and down the latter to tpe city
of Macon, and thence to the sea.
Nature has already supplied the
greater portion of this route, and it
remajnsjorjcu to complete the work
whi< i eguu The
route hat* !*'«.« by * distin*
guishedengiqeersqf the, Wnr Depart
ment, and has been pronounced by
them eminently feasible.
It offers the following advantages :
First. Cheap transportation. Ac
cording to the official reports the
cost pL transporting a ton of graiu
from St. Louis-to Savannah, by this
route, would be $4 88. It costs by
rail |l4 40. The saving upon ea. h
•ton would be $352 —amounting in
the aggregate to about $14,000,000
per anurn, upon grain alone, to be
divided between the producer and
the consumer.
Second. This route would be open
the entire year, never rendered im
practicable by ice iu winter, nor by
drqngbt lit sflmraer.
Third. It would greatly increase
the coasting trade, furnishing em
ployment during the winter month
(.when the Niagara ship canal sha'l
be opened) to the steamers and
other vessels eiigaged during sum
mer upon thf lakes.
Fourth, he route passes through
iujimepse forests of yellow pise ;-and
the West would be able to obtain
the best lumber in unlimited quan
tities, and atlow prices.? „ w . .
Fifth. It opens all the Southern
States east of the Misaissi pi river,
as a market for its grajn, -bacon, hay
and other products, the demand for
which will constantly increase. Iu
this the West would be absolutely
without a,competitor.
Sixth. It would furnish cheap
transportation for raw cotton to the
other sections ana for the manufac
tured a ticie.m return. ..Such ad
vantages would certainly develop tue
manufacture of cotton to a vast e: -
tent in the Western and Northwest
ern .States, and Eastern States.
In view of these considerations we
most respectfully and earnestly -urge
the government of the United -■tates
to extend such aid to these works as
will insure their speedy, construction.
. Colot el Tomlinson Fort, of Chat
tanooga, 9 inessee, submitted the
following as the
xn*d rrr m trowr.
The undersigned, a minority of
your Committee on Business, regrei
that they cannot agree to the report
of the majority. ome of us can
not consent in all its debd* B to the
I memorial, as set forth in the report
of the majority of the committee. : ir
, Wt ■ brnit toyotfr body the follow
' ing resolutions:
IN ADVANCE.
it . ’
Resolved, That in the opinion of
this convention the Atlantic euA
Greet
qtuer enterpri*** of «hniJar chtra©-
ter for cheep water transportation,
should bo national highways, built,
owned and controlled by the United
State* Go without the in*
of any corporation what
ever.
Resolved, That all such highway*
should be practically free, an 4
no other toll be exacted by their
traffic than is needed to maintain
them. .
we are opposed
to the intervention of ( any corpora
tion bet weeu the people. w|kj are to
pay fur the n*e of these works, and
the government. All of which is
respectfully submitted.
Tonuwsos.
Hxxbxbt Exbcurra, Maas.
J. M. Eason, outh Carolina.
John V. Gould, Kentucky.
F. L. Villrpiouk, Florid*.
Country. Newspaper*.
The greatest enemies to SitcetM In
am
the credit system etid gratuitnen*
advertising or ‘'puffing."
The dues of the country publisher
are neeessarily small* If he credit# %
couple of dollars here to A M a coughs
of dollars .tod&t and $0 on through the
whole alphabet of subscription, these
credits will amouut to a handaom#
sum in thp .aggregate, of which a
fearfully large per cent, invariably
proves .to be a total losq.
'I he jpubliaher .who Wjijil Sub
scriptions, trapscient ad vertisementß
and job work, knowing that be ie
compelled to pay cash for his xnateri
al. Los ho rigut to complain that his
business does not pay, and of all men
has less cause to he astonished at the
necessity that compel* the »nspen»io9
of bis'paper* ti(t - . „
. Another thing to avoid : Gratui
tous work for party or candidates!
They have no right to expect it.
Office is .inseparably,Connected with
salary. And the salary is
t ntbs of the candidates are after.
The candidate has as much right to
expect bis tailor to keep in cloth
ing without charge as to expect his
publisher to devote j)is j>aper to his
glojificatiou before $e people witja
out pay therefor. Make,the politi
cians pay as muph a« j other adver
tise* ; and never allow a line of
“puff’ to appear in your paper with
out pay. Your merchant or grocer
does not expect to supply your family
from their stores without pay, and
sey ,Hy e *W> rigbt to expect you to
advertise for them without remuner
ation. Selling gcods or groceries is
their mode of making p ljyin£.—*
Publishiug a nhwspa|>er is your
mode of making a living. They
not give their goods away Without
.and jod cannot give away s; a a
in your paper without loss, lint
which will hegger them will beggar
yoe- ghat's the whole truth of it.
In the.days when we tlSed to de
vote column after column to the
business of elevating Tom, Dick ar and
Harry to office,/jiipply bedahse they
belonged to our party, and never
dreamed of asking a cent of pay for
our services, so long as we filled our
paper With, puffs cf this, that and
the other, because .they were..good,
clever fellows, did it tor nothing,
«ve found it the hardest matter in
the world to get along. But, Si bee
we turned over a fieiw leaf, and made
a real business of publishing a news
paper, juntas Tom, Hide and Harry,
make it a business to run for ofUce
for the emoluments, and this, that
and other make a business of sell
ing goods for the profit, we hare
prospered. To be sure we have mot
yet accumulated a mammoth fortune,
but then we have built up a good
paying business, secured, us a home
we are not ashamed of, and are able
to pay out way as we go. Uederth#
old system we aearcelymade enough
u> pay cut board bill and provide 0
change of linen As it is, we get fair
wages for our labor, live decently,
and have no cause to of
the world. And so it will be with
all of our brethren of the couotry
press if they will do as wests dooMp.
•■chew all gratuitous work and du|
Hie credit system entirely.—2f&»
Sterling (Ky.) Sentinel.
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