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RICHARD H. WHITELEY, Editor
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— Bonaparie.
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—Ve ToquyiUe.
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to argue freely, according to conscience,above
all liberties.—' Milton.
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grand truths, ever baptising infant peoples,
and always new. —Archbishop Hughes.
.... I would rather live in a country with
newspapers and without a government, than
in a country with a government but without
newspapers.— Jefferson.
... Armed with the liberty of the press, ** *
I will shake down from ith height corruption,
and bury it amidst the ruins <>f the abuses it
was meant to shelter.— Sheridan
... In the United States every worthy citizen
reads a newspaper, and owiis the paper lie
reads. ** * A good newspaper will keep a
sensible man in sympathy with the world’s
current history. It is an ever-unfolding yn
cvlopa dia,—an unbound hook forever issuing
and never finished.— Beecher.
The Debt Statement.
It is very gratifying to find that, in spite
of all that has been said about the disas
trous effects of the panic an<l the had pros
pect ahead of the national finances, by the
last public debt statement it appears that
the reduction during April amounts to 82,-
965,000. It has well been asked, in view
of these figures, where is the necessity of
increasing taxation in order to put our
fin ances upon a good footing and prepare
the way for a resumption of specie pay
ments ? A still further cuttiig down of
expenditures and other measures by Con
gress together with economical efforts of
the administration, would seem to be all
that is needed by the exigency. It should
not be forgotten that although the revenues
of the government have been considerably
less during the first quarter of this year than
they were in the corresponding months of
last year, yet the public debt has been re
duced nearly one million more in the first
four months of 1874 than it was in tho
same months of 1873, Tho figures areas
follows :
REDUCTION of TTIF, PUBLIC DEBT.
1874. 1873.
January. sl, 815,21176 $400,243 18
February. 2,590,(147 45 5,277,880 77
March.' 2,180,338 46 1,644,058 97
April, 2,965,451 43 2,247,485 60
Not decrease $9,590,049 10 $8,763,182 16
Dead and Having Issues.
The St. Louis Republican gives utter
ance to some remarkable and wholesome
truths, as follows :
• “The Democracy of to-day are wasting
their energies and destroying their prestige
in digging among the ruins of the war, and
devising ways and means to neutralize re
sults which are as inexorable as tho decrees
of fate. The vigilance which, if employed
in 1854, might have given us the olive
branch instead of the sword, is as worthless
in 1874 as tho calculations of a defunct
almanac. We have had our arbitrament
of arms, and must abide by it. If the con
scvuonces are disagreeable and even danger
nns It Ih foil? to remue. ami allll u re«*»——
folly to rebel. To accept the inevitable
gracefully is no less incumbent upon par
ties than upon individuals; and because the
Democracy declines to do this it has lost
its hold upon those who were once proud
to follow its banners. Had the Democracy
immediately after the collapse of the Con
federacy stepped squarely up to the line
which that event marked, and, abandoning
the past, grasped the resources of the future,
it would not now be so helpless and hope
less.’'
She Flood.
The M ississipi still spreads over the
country for miles beyond its channel. It
has fallen but slowly and the destitution
made by the inundation is great. Through
out the inundated region, the stock is hud
dled together on the tops of the levees or
on narrow strips of land, and cattle not
starving are being killed by the buffalo
gnats. Pilots report the water falling
along the coast below Natchez, but it
should be borne in mind that the sufferings
of the people will not end with the decline
of the water, as very many of them have
lost everything and are without food.
An important result of the Hoods is the
effect they will have on the cotton crop of
the current season. According to the best
estimates, not less than 200.000 acres of
excellent cotton land in Louisiana, Arkan
sas and Mississippi have been submerged,
and the growing crop totally destroyed.
The amount of staple thus lost will prob
ably not be less than 300,000 bales, an
amount sufficient to produce a very per
ceptible effect on the generrl market, be
sides impoverishing a large number of plan
ters.
The new finance bill reported., in the
senate Wednesday is widely a'l'tfPTTtif /hiin
the vetoed measure. It releases the bank
reserves, as now held; provides for the
retention by each bank of a small but in
creasing amount of gold: obliges all reser
ves to be kept within the vaults of the
bank to which they belong: requires the
retention of a redemption reserve of United
States notes to the amount of five per
cent, of the circulation of each bank; and
arranges for the withdrawal by any bank
of its circulating notes in part or whole.
The bill also limits the greenback circula
tion to $383,000,000. and provides, after
every issue of a million dollars of circulat
ing notes, for the retirement of 50 per cent
as much of United States notes, such r -
duction to continue until the maximum
amount of such outstanding notes shall be i
$300,000,000. Provision is also made for j
the specie redemption of greenbacks after !
January Ist, 1877. |
G*k>d V among.— John Whipple of New
1 ork. lawyer, thought he was a good walker.
James Gordon Bennett did not dispute the
proposition but did not think him the best.
In fact Benett’s care for his Herald would
not permit that he should be out-walked by
any other man. He bet S3OOO dollars that
he could beat Whipple on a ten mile walk.
Whipple did not think it necessary to train
for the occasion and his confidence was
misplaced for. yesterday, he lost the S3OOO.
Bennett walked the ten miles in one hour
and forty-seven minutes. Whipple being
five minutes behind. Much money was lost
by the friends of Whipple and Bennett has
added one to the great literary triumphs of
the Hera'd — Exchange.
To the 2?eeple of Georgia.
BY ONE OF THE PEOPLE. —NO. XI.
Ever since governments were formed, a
general rule pervades human nature. The
thief prates of honesty ; the liar praises
truth : vice is often successful under the
garb of virtue ; the vagabond in principle
too often succeeds with the sentiment of
respectability, and the corrupt politician
reaches the pinnacle of his ambition under
i the guise of a patriotism he never felt, and
' the character of integrity to which he was
: neallv a stranger. Those who are now em
i ulous of leading and controlling public open
ion in Georgia. will no doubt feel the force
! of these well established postulates, un
less lost to every sense of shame and at
the same time escape the consolation that
1 they dtj not prove their truth by being an
exception.
When we come to the Democratic Leg
islatures which have governed in Georgia
since the war. we find much less of a dis
position to make the public good tlieir
sole object, than in tlieir opponents and
predecessors. Can any one point to a
single law that they have passed to pro
mote the agricultural, commercial or man
ufacturing interests of the State ? They
have reduced the tax on all circuses and
shows. They have untied the hands, here
tofore confined by their charters, and en
abled railroad corporations to charge the
merchant and the planter what amount of
ft eight they please,making it in some cases
even onerous. Whether this was brought
about by free tickets and free rides or
Democratic wisdom, and whether charga
ble to their integrity and sagacity, is a
matter for every tax payer and voter to
decide for himself. I only record facts and
leave the comment to those who have been
betrayed. Time would fail and patience
become exhausted were 1 to attempt to
enumerate one-half the delinquencies of
the “social respectability” party, of which
Mr. Ben Hill claims to be leader, and un
der wliftse protection he has taken his for
mer political foe.
The cry made Against Bullock’s admin
istration. Was that he was profligate with
the State’s money and corrupt in Lis ex
penditures. It was charged that corrupt
means were used to secure the endorsement
of the State to build railroads. A coin
mitte was appointed by the Legislature to
investigate this subject thoroughly and to
report to that body the history of all bonds
issued from beginning to end. This duty
fell to the lot of Simmons, of Bibb, Hall,
of Merriwether, and Miller, of Habersham,
Tn the investigation they proved that cer
tain bonds were got through the Legisla
ture, for which the Hon. L. Trammel,
President of the Senate, had received the
the sum of 846,000 for services rendered
in getting the act authorizing said bonds
through the Legislature. It does not ap
pear that any further investigation was
made on this line—and the public are
therefore left to conjecture how the 846,-
000 were used —though they were hunting
up fraud. If the services of Mr. Trammel
were legitimate, and the object he was
seeking to accomplish a3 a professional
man proper, it would seem to one who
views human transactions from the stand
point of truth and integrity, that these
iln-ao -fflmula af Air. Trammel could not
have served him worse than they have, by
leaving the matter under that doubtful
condition which suspicion always engen
ders. At the same time, if Mr. Trammel,
President of the Democratic Senate, is
satisfied, the committee are happily reliev
ed from those compunctions of conscience
which always arise from infidelity to eith
er personal or political friendship. The
people, however, who had a right to ex
pect better things, from not only the mag
nitude of promises and the boasted integ
rity of the Democracy, must console them
selves as best they can under the supposi
tion of an exposure which they had every
reason to believe would have been other
wise.
But this is not the only dark spot in
this transaction. After the committee
had made the discovery they were not
willing for the public to know it—for they
neither published the testimony of Air.
Frost, who brought out the fact of pay
ment to Mr. Trammel, nor did they eyer
allude to it in their report, except in a
general way by saying, “there was other
testimony, some of which was taken in
foreign countries which they deemed irrel
evant, they had filed in the State Depart
ment for future reference.”
If I dare deviate from my design iii pub
lishing this historical sketch of the doings
of the Democratic party, to give the facts
without comment, I might challenge the
production of any act by Bullock or his
party that equals this in political turpitude
| so far as this committee is concerned. No
sensible man can defend it, and no honest
man will uphold it. Whatever other dis
| covcries this committee may have made,
| their action in this matter tinctures every
! thing they have reported if not with un-1
' ; truth. at o+ least with the Suspicion of uu
-1 itni’iiesth 1 ■*''ranepbw r M
mittee I have already alluded to, and the
, action of the Democratic Legislature
thereou has become the imperishable his
| tory of the country, and unmistakable and
undeniable tincture of the age. There
, was a committee appointed to examine
the administration of Mr. Bullock, of
which Mr. Nichols was chairman. They
discovered many things that were improp
er ; tney however show the same vigilance
to conceal whenever their political friends
were implicated that did the Feline com
mittee that had charge of the bonds. For
instance, they devote two pages of their
report to condemn the price paid to Lewis j
Conley, Esq. for the publication of the j
Constitution of the State, charging upon j
the Governor profligacy of the public:
money in paying a higher price than the j
work would have cost printed elsewhere, j
The same cammhtee did not think it nee- j
essary to inquire into the adequacy or in- j
adequacy between the amount paid anrl I
the service rendered by Democratic law- j
vers for the Governor, or whether the j
state was interested in the cases. They |
do not in their report 'mention the name t
of any lawyers employed and paid by the
Governor, other than a list of the same to
wh'eh they refer in the printed testimony,
expressing their regret that among the list
some Democratic names appear. If Mr.
Bullock was wrong in his lavish expendi
ture of the State’s money, were not these
Democratic lawyers equally culpable in re
ceiving it ? Gen. Cook received upon one
or two occasions fees of SSOO. A Mr.
Anderson received $1,200. John W. H.
Underwood $2,500, bes'des numerous oth
ers. The question arises, did the Gover
nor have the authority to emyloy, if so,
were the services rendered, and were they
such as would command that amount in a
case between two individhals ? If all these
inquiries are answered in the affirmative,
the Governor stands acquitted of any im
propriety —if they are not, the recipients
deserve and should have received the same
condemnation at the hands of the commit
tee as the donor. In seeking truth, the
individuals charged with the duty, whether
as a Legislative committee or a Judge
upon the bench, should recognize the only
governing principle, “Let justice be done
though the Heavens fall!”
1 have alluded to (lie press and the Leg
islature under Democratic rule, I come now
to the Governor. The present incumbent
was elected by 60,000 majority, and I make
the assertion without fear of successful
contradiction, that more frauds were never
perpetrated at any election on this conti
nent. At the very capitol the ballot-box
was stuffed, anu the inquiry as to who did
it was never made—no investigation ever
took place—the managers choosing to rest
under suspicion rather than risk an expo
sure—and in less than sixty days after his
election he was denounced by some of the
press of his own party and many of the
leading men of the Democracy as unwor
thy of belief. In the decalogue only a pe
riod separates “Thou shalt not steal,” from
“Thou shalt not bear false witness,” and
every school boy know*s that of
the punctuation is only while you can count
four. In the estimation of human charac
ter I doubt whether there is even that
difference. The public saw and heard
these things with regret, and hoped there
was some mistake, until a correspondence
.arose between Hon. Herschal Y. Johnson
and Gov. Smith which bid fair to throw
some light upon a subject which had be
come of general interest, but they were
disappointed. It closed on the part of the
Governor (so far as the public know) at
the point of an adjourned question of ve
racity, if not with the placidity of inno
cence. at least with tho accumen of pru
dence. This relates only to character, as
to any official acts of Gov. Smith the
country is in ignorance. We have had no
committees to investigate his conduct,
and to elicit the influence brought about to
indicate his change of opinion upon the
lease question and other matters connect
ad with what the Democratic party alleg
ed was fraudulent, especially on the part
of Kimball and others. These things are
yet undiscovered, but may in the course of
human events be brought to the surface.
I have given some of the specimens
which go to make up the history of Demo
cratic principles and policy in the State
since theip. accession to power. I have
omitted many things from charity, their
duplicity, their disregard of law, tlieir in
justice to those who were entitled to then
protection, their coalition with Greelv and
Sumner, and their utter disregard of truth
in either their comments or their acts to
wards their political opponents—not that
they did not deserve the exposure, but
that the passions and prejudices of men
often betray them into acts for which they
are ashamed and which they often, if not
publicly, at least silently, regret. These
historical reminiscences teach a practical
r»oua which I trust the noorda of
Georgia will learn wisdom. It is manifest
from the signs of the times that a party is
springing up in this State to keep up the
issues of the war. The Hon. Ben Hill
and others are not satisfied with claiming
the distinction of “social respectability” as
compared with tlieir political opponents,
but denounce the representatives of both
political organizations as“imbeciies. knaves
and negroes.” If Georgia ever expects to
have'any influence in the Federal Councils,
she must be represented by a political par
ty holding the doctrine that “The chief
end of all governments, whether State or
Federal, should be the protection of
rights,” and in giving the changed system
of labor under which we live an honest and
fair trial will require that '‘ample and full
protection should be secured to all, so that
they may stand equal before the law, in the
possession and enjoyment of all rights of
person, liberty and property.” This is now
and ever has been the cardinal doctrine of
t.he Republican party —it is the spirit of
the age—it is the voice of the people, and
above all, it. is the mandates of the organic
law, the Constitution of the country. It
is just and right per se, the sooner your
passions and your prejudices yield to its
benign teaching, the sooner you will be re
spected as a political power, and the soon
er your influence will be appreciated in a
confederation where you deserve to be
among the first. If, however, you will not
return to reason by the road of experience
and continue to heed the counsel and fol
low the advice of these would-be leaders
that seek promotion by arousing your
passions and exciting your hates, you may
' drift along in a great government without
influence and without respectability.
■ j Colonel Lamar's noble eulogy of Senator
JSnrnner is not meeting with favor in some
of the Southern papers. TiiU Augusta
Constitutionalist , the editor of which writes
with a pen dipped in bitterest gall, abuses
Lamar for saying that Mississippi regrets
the death of Charles Sumner, and sincerely
unites in paying honors to his memory. It
says :
“Sumner’s work is rotting civilization in
America, and destroying genuine freedom.
So Ion"- as the atrocious civil-rights bill was
before Congress, with chances of its passage.
Southern Democrats should have refused
to do homage to its author by expressing
regrets for his death, or according honor to
I his memory.
| * * * * * * *
“The most terrible mistake of the centu
' rv, was mainly the work of Sumner and his
j cabal before the Jfassacnusetts Senator
| released his grasp upon this 'world, forget
j ful of his Maker, and thinking only of the in-
I famous bill he had concocted lie left his curse
i upon the South. That God will deal gently
| with his soul, remembering only the good
, that was iu him, and not the evil, all men
! may unite in wishing. But to consecrate
I his'bad work in this world by regretting
' his death and uniting to honor his memory,
| few Southern men can, or will, ever do, and
i we can not blame them for it.”
A -C* A
The Baxter forces, after running away
from Little Rock, have succeeded in hav
ing a skirmish with a company of Brook’s
supporters, in which a number were killed
and wounded. The fightingis said to have
result ed from the firing upon a flag of truce.
Mr. Brooks telegraphs to the President
that he refrains from bloodshed.
During the present year eighteen States
will elect Governors; thirty-five Congress
men, and twenty-five U. S. Senators.
What has Been Done for the
Congressional District. #
With a view to enable the people of the
Second Congressional District to correctly
understand what our Representative ha*
been doing for the material interests of
the people, we spread before our readers
this week an official statement of the con
dition of the postal facilities afforded the
people of the District in the yeara lb7o
and 1874.
Statement of the gumber of Postoffices in
the several counties of the Second Congres
sional District, in the years 1870 and 1874,
with compensation of Postmasters and mail
service :
( Bounties
Baker
Brooks
Berrien
Cla v
Calhoun
Colquit
Decatur
Dougherty
Early
Lowndes
Miller
Mitchell
Quitman
Randolph
Terrell
; ’1 nomas
Worth
Totals
o. of Offices in Total pav of P M Kind mail service
1870 1874 ! 1870 | 1874 j 1870 | 1874
1 2 $312 $302 i weekly j .Daily
2 4 529 711 “
S 8 169 132 i “ weekly
2 1 440 440 ; Daily D and TW
1 4» 70 88 jW.eeliiy Daily
2 2 22 40 I “ weekly
3 5 ! 1,148 1,634 ; D and B IT
1 1 1,700 I 2,000 Daily
2 4 214 1 201 ;W and TW
3 5 706 1 ja Daily
1 1 25|L -fj JrWamJTW
.1 3 a I)ai3 - V
3 3 112 Daily
33 j 733 1,189 f I) and SW
2 3 727 923 fg . D and SIT
4 7 1,058 1,668 ]%r Daily
3 6 I 80 92 weekly “
"37 62 ' $8,200 $10,830 j
The above statement does not include the
increase in the salaries of postmasters to he
allowed under the readjustment of salaries
now being perfected, from the last returns
made to the Department, and to take effect
after the Ist of July, next.
From this statement it will appear that
since the year 1870. the number of post
offices have been increased2s. The pay of
postmasters, not including the increase
after the Ist of July next, 82,630 num
ber of counties having daily mail service in
1870, eight—in 1874, twelve ; number of
counties having daily and semi-weekly mail
service in 1870, none—in 1874, three ;
number of counties having tri-weekly ser
vice in 1870, none—in 1*874, two ; number
counties having weekly and tri-weekly ser
vice in 1870, none—in 1874, two ; number
of counties having money-order offices in
1870, three—in 1874,five;number counties
in which money-order offices have been or
dered after Ist July next, five.
Such is an outline of what ha3 been
done for the convenience and interests of
the people in the Postal Department.—
Read, reflect and give judgment.
And What Cams of It,
The Albany News. in its issue before
the last, speaking, as it would have it ap
pear to the public, by good authority, gave
publicity to the. report that Hon. Henry
P. Farrow, who had been on a recent visit
to that town, had gone there to arrange
the Congressional slate for this District,
and that he k&d been, militating against
t VlO intopocihj -7"? iVfiWli ttv.i 'T . i*' • THr* of
the Major’s friends in this city getting wind
of it, a letter was dispatched to Col. Far
row which elicited the reply submitted be
low,
We are of the opinion that Col. Styles,
usually so correct in his reports, has been
sadly played upon and bamboozled by in
terested parties in his neighborhood. As
for ourse! ves, we were satisfied at the
time, being aware of the relations that ex
ist between these gentlemen, that the re
port was without the least foundation ; but
we take pleasure in giving this letter to
print for two reasons, first, that all who
were disposed to give any credence to the
rumor may be satisfied ; and second, in or
der to show certain soreheads in this Dis
trict that their “little game” is fully under
stood and properly appreciated.
The letter is to Judge T. F. Hampton, and
reads as follows :
Rooms Republican State Central Committee
CORNER OF DECATUR AND PRYOR STREETS-
Atlanta Ga., May Btli, 1874.
Dear Sir:
I have thi 3 moment received your letter of
4tli ins t,, informing me that my presence in
I Albany a short time aince has given rise to a
report to the effect that I was in the 2nd Dis
trict operating against Hon. Richard If. White
ley’s nomination for Congress. That is a
remarkably strange report and is absolutely
untrue. My presence in Albany was for con*
sultation with the Chairman ot the District
Committee with reference to the approaching
campaign. I have made similar visits within
the past few weeks to seven of thg nine Con
gressional Districts in the State and hope to
visit the two remaining Districts soon. Du
ring the coming campaign itis probable that
as Chairman of the State Central Committee,
I shall visit each and every District in the
State, as occasion requires, but I shall devote
myself to the general interests of tne party
without in any May interfering with the choice
of candidates, “shall not endeavor to advise
or inllucii?6 for ox* siiv of
or county
cause for feeliulthat I have used the position
with which I Ahonorod by the party to de
feat the aspinrmr.s of any individual I shall
earnestly endeavor to bring about such a feel
ing between the different aspirants as. will
enable us to f induct the campaign with entire
harmony, thorough organization, and vigo.
rous work.
If I were to use the influence which the
Chairmanship of the Si te Central Commit
tee gives me, for or against the different as
pirants throughout tile State, it would de
stroy any ut -fulness I might otherwise nos-
Suss.
! Those win are aware of my high esteem for
your able Ktpresentative, Hon. Richard H.
K'hitelcy, net only politically but in every
relation of ike, will need no correction of this
| very strangej.cport, hut others might believe
| and hencej his correction. Not only does
i the political course of Mr. Whiteley meet
| with my wannest endorsement, but there ex
: ists between ns the most cordial personal
friendship, therefore I feel a deep interest in
tiie affairs o your District but I shall not
abandon my positou of non-interference. I
shall leave t ,e nomination in your District as
in all others o the good sense of our lie pub
lican friends uninfluenced by any thing fr om
me.
Very Respectfully,
* HENRY P. FARROW.
Chairma. Republican State Central Com
mittee.
English l asiness is very seriously threat
ened. Ne v complications boding badly
to her pro perity are arising. JBer iron
industries in danger. Dead coal and
high priced labor at home, with a contrary
condition of things in her competitors,
Belgium anti the United States, are work
ing things disastrously for her.
An Address.
|
Booms Republican State C':x™ AL Committee
(Corner Decatur aiiplPry° r Streets,)
Atlanta,! frA- 5 May 4th. 1874.
To the Republicans of the Fifth District of
Georgia :
Under and by virtue of the action of the
State Central Committee, at its meeting in
this city on the 4th of March last, it becomes
my duty to caj.l a Convention of the Republi
cans of this District to nominate a candidate
for Congress in the coming election, and I
hereby call that Convention to meet in the
city of Griffin on Thursday, the 18th day of
June, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Each county will be entitled to double the
representation allowed in the House of Rep
resentatives of the General Assembly of Geor
gia, and if less than that number of Delegates
are present then those present can cast the
full vote of their respective counties on all
questions before the Convention.
This Convention is expected to nominate a
candidate for Congress, to organize a commit
tee to conduct the campaign within the Dis
trict, and to take such steps as will secure the
efficient organization of the party in the dif
ferent Senatorial Districts and counties with
in the Congressional District, and to adopt
such measures as will give harmony and vigor
to the campaign.
There being no general State election, for
Governor nor any other officer to be voted for
throughout the State, the State Central Com
mittee thought it advisable to place the cam
paign In the hands of the District Committees
—said District Committees being composed
chiefly of the members of the State Central
Committee from the respective Districts.
The death of Hon. James L. Dunning, the
appointment of of.Hon W. L. Scruggs as Min
ister to Bogota, alftd the removal beyond the
State of other members of our District Com
mittee since the last campaign, has left its
without a District Committee, and hence it
has become my duty to call this Convention.
And in this connection permit me to give a
few words of advice. During the l»st cam
paign there were many feuds and dissensions
among our friends in this District, and from
that fact the Democracy anticipated an easy
victory, indeed, supposed their nomination
equivalent to election. I regret to know that
those dissension existed at that time, but am
proud to know that here in this city, where
I the Democracy expected by reasons of those
dissensions to carry the election by one thou
sand majority, we were able to lay aside all
family quarrels and come up to the polls like
a baud of brothers and carry this city by about
one thousand majority for our candidate, and
thereby secured his election. There are now
some little dissensions in our District, but let
them all be healed up, or at least be again
lost sight of when the enemy are in sight.—
We need not expect to be tree from those trou
bles, for they exist in all political parties, but
we must show on all occasions, as we did in
the last election, that we can rise above them
at the polls. Ours is a Republican District,
and has been carried heretofore by the De
mocracy only by fraud, corruption and vio-
lence.
In the last election Mr. Freeman was elec
ted by a majority of several hundred greater
than the count gave him ; and if necessary
the infamous frauds perpetrated in Monroe
county would have been exposed. We detec
ted the young bloods stuffing the ballot box
in open daylight in Atlanta, and proved it on
them by the managers themselves; and if Mr.
Freeman’s seat in Congress had required an
exposition of the rascality perpetrated in
Monroe county it would have been made, and
would have far surpassed the conduct which
brought the hjush of shame upon the cheek
of all honest Democrats in Atlanta.
Rascality and infamous crime may always
be suspected where either political party take
entire control of the management of the elec
tion, and excludes the other party from any
participation or representation in the board
of managers and clerk, so as to keep them
in the dark as to tbo manner of receiving,
j tre nave caught them at their rascality in
I broad daylight : we have dragged them off
the ballot box when actually stuffing into it
hundreds of tlicir “Democratic" votes ; we
have learned all their ways of defrauding us,
and we intend, in the Fifth District, to have a
fair election and a fair count. Therefore Re
publicans of the Fifth District, rally to the
work of organization ! Send good men to
your Conventions, put good men on your com.
mittees, nominate good men in every county
for all offices throughout the District. Let
justice and fair dealing mark your course in
all things, and a proud victory will he achiev
ed. Respectfully,
Henby P. Fabkow,
Chairman State Central Committee.
[Communicated.
Rooms Republican Executive Committee. )
SECOND CONGBE3SIONAL DISTBICT OF GEORGIA, >
Albany. Ga., May 2nd, 1874. >
Editors Sun:
In vour “expose” of “what has been done
for the Republicans of the 2nd Dist., of Ga.”
which appeared in your last issue, Dougherty
county is credited -with the appointment of L.
M. Pleasant in the Custom House ; if L. M.
Pleasant has ever been a citizen of Dougherty
county, it is unknown to the people of that
county. I have known Mr. Pleasant since 1871
and I know that his home has been in Savan
nah.
As to citizenship in Dougherty county, he
has occupied the same position as Mr. J. T.
Allen, Route Ageut on tne Atlantic and Gulf
R. It. If Mr. Pleasant is a citizen of Dougher
ty county, Mr. J. T. Allen, who was appointed
from Lowndes county, is also a citizen of
Dougherty county, and Dougherty should be
credited with his appointment. The Repub
licans of Dougherty understand the object in
crediting Dougherty with the appointment of
L. M. Pleasant.
Be pleased to do me the kindness to give
this the same publicity that characterized
your “expose.”
Respectfully Ac.,
C. W. Arnold.
We readily publish the above, but can
not agree with Mr. Arnold in the state
mm iie'ffWTO, m. Mi. i luam—
a citizen of Dougherty County at the time
of his appointment. We were always un
der the impression that the residence of a
person was his domicil, and*when he resid
ded at no particular place he had the right
of selecting his domicil, and this intention
is best made known by the place wherein
he pays his taxes and does his votive/.
Under this invariable rule L. M. Pleasant
is certainty a citizen of Dougherty.
We do not understand why the article
the P. M- alludes to is characterized as our
‘‘expose. - ’ The public have a right to know
who are public officers. The covet mean
ing of the sentence, l, The Republicans of
Dougherty understand-the object in credi
ting Dougherty with the appointment of L,
M. Pleasant, - ’ prevents its being answered.
W r e have this, however, to say, that L. M.
Pleasant is a credit to the Republican party
of Dougherty county or any other county,
and if there were mi re like him in the par
ty there would be more harmony aud less
wrangling, more efficiency and less weak
ness, more bravery and les3 cowardice.
Hon. Warren Akin, replying to a letter
of inquiry from an Atlanta editor, fully sub
stantiates Mr. Hill’s account of the Hamp
ton Roads Commission, and, if possible,
puts the case stronger. His letter is brief
and to the point—and the point is sharp.
The house finished the legislative appro
priation bill Saturday. The attornev-Gener
aTg “landaulet” received a good share of
the discussion, and an amendment w r as
adopted which will check the future enjoy
ment of big “perquisites.”
[Communicated.
Ctstom House.
Savannah, Ga, May 10th 1874.
Editors Sun:
I see announced in your paper of this week
tbatC.,\V. Arnold, Post-master at Albany,
has written you a letter denying tlntt I was at
the date of my appointment a citizen of
Dougherty county. I claim that I was, if
the following qualifications make one a citi
zen of any particular county.
First, lam twenty one years old, and had
located myself in Albany.
Second, I paid my taxes in Dougherty coun
ty as the Tax Books will show, and have
my tax receipt now in my pocket.
Third, I voted in Dougherty County at the
October election tor Governor and mem
bers of the Legislature, and at the No
vember eleel ion tor member of Congress.
Fourth, I transacted my business in Alba
ny. and had my “washing” done there.
And I in lend to cast my vote in Dougherty
countv si ‘he coining elections, if not pre
vented ! • • •--appointed guardian, C. W.
Arnold, v.'• probably inform me by that
time vin ’■ ■ • re - and what county lam
a citizen not old enough to locate
for mvse.lf.
No doubt, if I vo.del hack certain parties as
Arnold hits item alii »?b he 1 ids - Fede al
office throng! the intlu nee ; n
Whitcley. and i -o ’ ' '■.•' h, '
such meetings -va> -.-•nc f • ' 1
: last Saturday in ’ ; T •
oning the minds < f coh>--' and is
falsehoods, and iudt-atming to • ■.... r..
pledge themselves against too renomimu: m
of Major Wliiteley, —if 1 could traitorously do
all this, then I would probably be looked up
on bv this would-be Congressman as a good
citizen of Dougherty County 1 lease gi'e
this a place in your paper, apd oblige,
v Yours Truly,-,
Louis M. Pleasant.
[Communicated.
Albany Convention.
Savannah, May 9th, 1874.
Editors Sun:
The following persons were the delegates to
the secret Bore’llead Convention held in
Albany, Ga., oil the 25th lilt. As will be seen,
the malcontents reckoned without their host,
as nearly half the number assembled proved
to be uncompromising Wliiteley men.
Hon. Phillip Joiner Dougherty Cos.
Henry Singleton “
Edward Payton, * “ “
JqjryOats, * “
Charley Cooper, * Mitchell Cos.
Edmund Johnson, * Baker “
Wm. Tucker, : Calhoun “
W. L. Clark (white) Thomas “
Rev. Dowdell* “ “
James Jackson,— Randolph “
Those marked with a star are in favor of
the ronominatien of Hon. 11. 11. Wliiteley for
Congress.
This Contention (?) was held in the back
room of* Putney A Arnold’s grog-shop. VV.
L Clark made a motion, that all that was
done in the meeting and the names of all the
delegates present should be kept a secret.
After this motion had prevailed, the meeting
adjourned.
One Who Knows.
Spice from Harris.
That irrepressible wit of the Savannah
News, Who is always ready to “crack” some
thing or somebody, gives us the following
paragraphs. They are readable.
J. 15. Gorman. in a letter to a friend in
Thofiiasville, alludes to “the plenary pul
chritude of the Id. G. in G.’ 'J his is
doubtless owing to the fact that. J; 15. is a
European in disguise. These things will
stick out.
Mr. Samuel A. ftchols will engineer an
excursion from Atlanta to Omaha some
time in June. If tire excursionists don't
have some tun. it will be because Samuel
has secretly joi nod the temperance crusa
ders. and if such was the ease he would
doubtless have written us a iCTter amrat
it.
The second paragraph of column in
yesterday’s paper was put in type by an ex-
Senator from Nebraska, 'i his fact will ac
count for the political, geographical ain't
typographical discrepance a therein em
balmed.
We give notice now t hat we shall allude
to the next Georgia editor that crosses our
path as a villainous alien, i hi,, may be re
garded as a menace or not; but when an
editor is called an alien, it seems to tr
there is nothing left for him to do x j.t
to get. a hatful of longpiSmer ipindcs.no
start, a patent outside.
The rumor that Col. C’isby, of th "To
con ’Tebufraph, prepares his editorial* • ■
T ■’'T... batch, is entirely with-fid -a.,
:j •- j- ornbablv grew out -> r ih v
... ones, of "the -1 ne or. e u
vert- railroad ' fi • Tut <se lor a.: nr:-
ttuu . meat's not e and • ' th
with, bt love i <•:Si
\Y: r> r>:<. » ve io< tors v , :
ties, bo! • '
ingusTif ;u!. .nu -01- -.. .';•••■ ■ : r.i ■
have ■ j P ■'
Ti- re-que-h- mrn b- (■■■ -wquent
and >;• ■ ■ oir r•. : . izm -* c;, -:ic’ -r* to
announce our -Tv:, h-r uco rr: -e V-e
will search our lih •> i.hnr..-u./ti!y feruoy par- j
ticular paragraph ->r article >n th vote of j
nine dollars an hour, and v.m w:.! copy the ;
article, when found, at tin; rale of two do!
lars a line, i ariies ,-h uid ,v mi in them
orders before tli;* blackberry uson is over.
Since the convicts have been put to work
in Washington county, the farmers have
become exceedingly cautious. One of them
who thought he heard suspicious voices ,
around his premises the other night, crept
out upon the back porch and shot a In I;
through the bosom of his Sunday shirt
which, by some mistake, had been left out
on the clothes line. He says now that if
the convicts are properly guarded there
will be no trouble with them.
Great hope is expressed by the moderate
men in \\ ashingtoft that the veto will be
followed by practical legislation which will
harmonize all the currency interests of the
* | , mi i
niPCfcflCg'e
. .-mi-tendered; and the evils anvl
uncertainties of our financial system will
be removed. Let us hope that such wise
counsel will prevail.
The Postmaster General has decided
that he has not the authority-under any j
United States law to deliver letters to par- i
ties and allow them to open them where
the misdirection is a question in doubt.
For example, a letter addressed to John
G. Smith should not be delivered to John
A. Smith. The Postmaster General has
just issued an order to lhat effect.
Many of the committees in both houses
of Congress have perfected a large number
of bills before them, and stand ready to
report unless protracted debate ensues on |
the currency question again, and the ses-1
sion prolonged, the works of the commit-j
tees in many instances will go for naught.!
as they will not be called again for report, i
On yesterday morning Weston, the great
pedestrian, commenced in New York Lis
Dial of walking 500 miles in six consecu
tive days. This, if accomplished, will give
him the championship of the world.
Mias Nellie Grant will be married at the
White House on Thnrsday, May 21, and
sail for England two days later, on the
steamer with Mrs. and Miss Richardson.
It is not alone the Mississippi that is
causing damage by overflowing its banks.
Great destruction has also beeu made by
the Red river and the Alabama, and smaller
rivers in the same section.
The House passed the river
appropriation bill, under suspension
rules. It contains the following; p . *
provements on the Mississippi jqj * IDl ;
and Arkanasas rivers, 3100,000; tvffl
river, above Jacksonport, 350,000- p
Mississippi river, between the nioutl -
the Ohio and Missouri, 3200,0(10; the
of Mississippi river, 3130,000;’
rafts in Red river, La., 350.000- M $
harbor, 310.000; Savatinah harbor
350,000; month of St. Johns river I?'’
310,000; Occaquan river; Virginia,SfiOOiJ''
mouth of Noinoni creek, 36,000- ]{ ai '
hannock, Virginia, 31,000; James and \
pomattox. Virginia, each 330,000; Klizabeth
river and Natisemond river, Virginia .?
310,000; Roanoke river, North° Caroli,,
350,000; Gape Fear river, North Caroling
$100,000; Galveston haibor, 'l'exas,
000; Tennessee river, above Chatta’nocA*
$25,000; Tennessee river, below Chad ’
nooga, 3100,000.
Gov. Kemper's suggestion that a com'
mission be appointed to revise and anion,'
the Virginia Constitution has set the
Virginia people to considering
their nnsatifactory t (institution cannotl>
improved in the same way.— The IVheeii,,.
Intelligencer approves of the plan, w
wishes to be delivered from any more
stitutioti-d (Vmventions “with their intc.
nrnablc gabble.” A commission of g t!
men. chosen from all parties, it t.hinh
could remove the objectionable featutw
with comparatively little expense.
Mr. Robert I Turner last week rejected
an offer of one hundred thousand dollars in
gold for his horse Dexter.
3KTew Advertisements.
IGive notice to the citizens of Bainbritlgj
and county of Decatur that I have opend
a Lumber Yard at the
RAH.ROAD BEPOT,
IN BAIN BRIDGE,
where I wil, keep on band a well selected
STOCK OP LUMBER.
In ease a bill cannot be filled at the rnr■■ i
tnv agent (James H. Colbert) will orders!
oiiee and the bill will be filled at the Mill and
shipped at once.
My terms are thirteen (13) dollars per thou,
sand.Vasli, delivered on the yard at Bain*
Bridge.
I will take the exchange for Lumber, corn,
cotton, bacoli. dr v goodn, or any trade that
can be used profitably by me. Orders solicited,
GEORGE HURST.
Cairo Ga., Slav* 7th ’7l. may-H-G-m,
BELT’S PATIITT SHEET IBOT7
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lability, ease and rapidity of application
by any carpenter, perfectness of finish, com
bined' with its tire, wind and water-proof
qualities, has No equal in the market.
Its application on rafters without shcotins
makes it specially desirable for many classei
of buildings, saving not only a great expense
of sheeting lumber, but rendering inside of
roof very fire proof.
It is extensively used in nearly every Stab
and Territory in the Union, giving the most
enti e satisfaction wherever adopted.
For circulars, orders and other'information,
address
W. S. BBL 5?.
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The T'difi i onfested suit vs the
SFitVJXG 3*T U HISE t'O,
against- the Stingi-r, Tvlieeler <V Wilson,
and Gr*>ver A Baker Companies,involvingot«
$2*10,000,
is iinol.iy decided hu the
Suprnne Court of the Cnitr l Senhs
in favor of the Florence, which alone ins
Broken the Monopoly of High Brices.
THE NEW FLORENCE
Is the O's. i m-fchi ; e at'.sews hi irk ward mi
forward, or i« / .. . .7
r, p‘ • ■■Chen; est — Best.
-, i, r . j-, t, t , o.‘- r.y, RpscJal Terms to
f '.r ms laid RE VT.KTtS.
Flurniff, 5I»«i.
T FG.V'T p, t now’T I 3
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% ■ "i j.v.-bii!-. from Hint irav-g
and S3O which
s' ' : Tlic Vidoil
•vi';) :.-, gsT HEWR-'O M\CHINE IN TH*
Lj V.'Oi'l.D.
‘T O' ■ r, 10 bv sending to
Rev. C, id. IT fl.V'O IM Ge»»'' ‘gcrdj'aru'ord
N. C. Ri-iid . :••'. ,r 'An Gircnf.-.r and Brie®
I is .
BOY J. & P. COATS’ BLACK
THREAD flrjnr MACHINE.
*37 A DAY GUARANTEED using o«f
4*% WELL AUGER & DRlLLiagood
d&rs* territory. Endorsed by Goviroort
of IOWA, ARKANSAS DAKOTA
OattlofM 17.UILZS, St. Loali, 10.
Advertisers semi 25 ets., to Geo. p
Rowell & Cos., 41 Park Row, N. Y., for
their Eighty-page Parnphlett, showing cout
of advertising.
fc-pSYCHOMANCY, OR SOUL CHARMING-’
X How either sex may fascinate and
'the lov•' 1 mental RC'
TTfodse instantly, rms ssiupu .
qaivemont all call posess, fICC, > •' ‘ • —p.
cents; together wit n a Marriage Ouide. b?l.
thin Oracle, Dreams, Hints to Ladies,
queer book. 100,000 sold. Address 1.
lianr it Cos., Publishers, I‘liiladelpliia.
Meeting Public Requirements.
The efforts of the managers of the St. Louiß
- City & Northern .Short Line tunite*
the requirements of the traveling P u ,
resulted in a large increase in through y •
sengcr business, which has kept ur ad>
illy, nowithstandiug the dull times, inaml.'
tribntable to the extensive iniprovetn®
made in the last two years, costing over
million dollars besides earnings, t-lie
pany is now running live of their niagntn
day coaches which are fitted up with B
reclining and adjustable chairs, aud dre ®
rooms with every desirable toilet convenit »
irilhout. tun/extra charges. Ten more oi
suj.erb coaches, to supplant ordinary car
in process of construction, each of wnic
be finer than the preceding ones. Gre
tent ion is given to safety, the coaches '' 5
provided with Blackstone’s platforms
couplers, to prevent telescoping and** 81 .
tion.— Watchmen patrol the line da' j,
night, before and after the passage 01 , -
train, to see that everything is in good <>
This system of watchmen gives this roa ,
traordinary exemption from accidents. ,
especially so from the fact that the mfi'® g j
iron has been replaced this season \>J tn® . B
quality of new steel and iron rails, lal ‘ „
road, new ties. This road continues to
six fast express trains, two more tlnm
other road between the Mississippi a,l( j *
ssouri Rivers, and the only line ru®• ,
through cars between St. Louis and Gn
For tickets apply to any ticket agent 8
through tickets to the West, and for
circulars, and time tables address mtutir •
McCarthy, Cincinnati, O. ;or P: B. Grp*’• y
Louis. Mo., either of whom will furinsß
information desired.
’ Dm. JOKES & HOYLE-
H AVISO FORMED A COPABTOTaaJjEI
willhereafter devote their entire attte
to the practice of medicine and
from country or city prorhptlv attended
In urgent cases, of when desired, h°
attend without extra charge.
tion given to office practice. iUnrkwJ*
Office, at present, over the storeo-
k West’s, where they can be t'Uinrt
night, when not absent, professional*, •