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OF GEORGIA.
fm House, of Representatives,
H/Vt<iuy, May 8, 1874.
being in Committee of the
Hb:t\ Ul - under consideration the
to provide for the irn
the l-nut and Ckuttahoochlioe
H Slate of Georgia—
Hi IK LEY said: I
Hkkk: Whatever differences of
have existed in the past as to 1
■T
■Bf Congress to devise and carry ,
Hu of internal improvements, it j
at the present day as be- l
mmk debate. The continuous ex- t
Bp. power so to do, illustrated in j
H of the Union and indorsed by j
HHicts of the people, forbids the
SHBBHemoan to hesitate*or doubt; I
tat. atl exercise of
when we look at the
Its of the workings of the
fatfllHHßvidenced in every local iy
tfHHtrhiul eye of the nation has
need of and furnished the
■p some of these results? Look
Hbl 'Micit of the great West and j
Hed vitality of her industries, i
wilderness ledeemed and made !
at the cities and villages which j
from and through in- !
HHH*-vi‘!»*»ts a lone; at the miles of i
made from tiie same causes ;
■HB and become auxiliary to the i
nation, and you will see some j
H v " to tii..- increased development
|Hi '0 l have the honor in part to
■ l moved during the lirst session
s.-emul Congress tor a survey j
■HBBh.i'i harbor of Apalachicola. and j
HBe survey of the Chattahoochee
HB of the tributaries ot the Apu
.Bftfwiiivh surveys were allowed ami
R>r in t!u* act of July 11, I*7o
being incomplete at the upen-
>>.il Session HI lliC l Ot'tV-SeC-
Brvf.-i. i again moved for their con-
H and for the survey in addition
the Apalachicola and Flint
was allowed and provided
HK act of dune 10, 1872.
being incomplete during
Hr »•;.• <ud Congress, no application
to carry on the work
Hem-. ut> was made. On the 7th of
Hi*74. a bill was introduced into
He. iuing that which we are now
Hie appropriating the sum o ? 1"0.-
Bv improvement of the Flint and
Rivers. 'J'o the locality
of these streams I invito
H-'v'i-V FLINT, AND CIIATTAIIOOCUEE !
RIVERS.
River is formed by a
I the 1 lint and Chattahoochee i
Bor about the southwest corner of
ot Georgia. and runs about due
the State of Florida, empty
■tti.» Atlantic Ocean through the
'-^Bpaluchicoid.
H : -‘tt.»iie- elieo River rises in North
■ Georgia, runs suthwent until it
■ tiie line of Alabama and Oeorgia,
H Best Point; and thence south,
Hit- dixiding line between the States
Hf • a:.d Alabama, from near West
H-' "hero it strikes the northern
of the State of Florida; and
Hi its junction with the Flint, being
hue between Georgia and
H- hat rises in the Blue Ridge Moun
■V Northwestern Georgia, and runs
H • r •utli until it intersects with the
H‘oocuve ami forms the Apalachicola
length of these rivers is
Miles.
Hpalachicola from its mouth
junction of the Flint and
Huhoochee Rivers is about 150
from Columbus,
tu its junction with the
Hr 250.
H>int from Boiubridge, Geor.
I to it* juuctiou with the Chat-
H-whce 50
a total navigable length of 450 j
Hfmd in Executive DocuuF-nt Nos I
m tiie second session of the Forty- \
H* t engross. page 7, the following in- j
!;# «BBe rivers.
Hthe Chattahoochee River are the
cities of Columbus and Eufau-
H u>.v seven warehouses, and nine-
landings.
BHthe Apalachicola Riverate the city
the towns of Bristol and
|H)m»ochoe. two warehouses; and thir-
landings.
H ac ' p'jjut, Cambridge, two ware-
Hnim ten other landings. , ,
Hb-Uie following railroad connections
Hwn in the above rep >rt to conuect
hue of water navigation:
Haring at Olombns.are—
m-h: Georgia Central, throngh M**
con to Savannah, with a branch from Ma
cod to Atlanta.
2. Mobile and Girard, through Union
Spring's. where it crosses the Montgomery
and Eufauia, to Girard, its present terjminr
us.
3. Columbus and West Point. (Geor
gia.)
4. (Under construction.) Bainbridge,
Cuthbert and Columbus.
6. (Under construction.) North and
South, from (Vdujnbus to Itomo.
Centering at Eufaula, are—
if Eat aula, aad Montgomery. . «
2. .Southwestern Railroad, (from Eu
fau)a to Macon.)
3. (Under ©obstruction.) Yicksburgh
and Brunswick, (built as far as Troy.)
AtffUft fWft*** •
A branch of the Southwestern.
At Chattahoochee—
Jacksonville and Pensacola, (running
from Jacksonville to • hattahoochee.) '
North, east, and west do these line3 of
railroad, in addition to the water transpor
tation furnished by the Mississippi and its
tributaries, connecting therewith by
steamers from New Orleans to Apalachi
cola, carry to and from this line of four
hundred and fifty miles of water navigation
the productions of the several States bord*
ering thereon, and in addition bring to be
borne thereon the grain and bacon of the
great West, which yearly i3 shipped in
large qmntitles to meet the demands of
the cott on-planters of Georgia, Alabama,
Florida.
I now ask your attention to the charac
ter of the obstructions in the rivers being
considered, and to the necessity of the im
provement of the same.
APALACHICOLA. RIVER.
The principal obstruction to the safe
navigation of the Apalachicola River : s at
a point known as the ‘‘Moccasin Slohgh or
Bryan’s Cut-off.” In regard to this point
A. N. Datnrell, captain of engineers, in
Executive Document No. 65, first session
Forty-third Congress, says of Mack’s sur
v *y of this river:
He repoits a sufficient depth of water
a’l along the river, except at Moccasin
Slough or Bryan’s Cut-off, where the river,
obstructed by piles driven by the confed
erate authorities during the war, and by
an accumulation of drift-logs since, has
forced a narrow and very crooked channel
through its bank into the river Styx.
The straightening and widening of this
channel and the removal of the snag! in
the river are considered all that is necessa
ry to insure a depth of water of six feet
and sufficiently good navigation at all sea
sons. and $80,333 is estimated as the cost
of these improvements.
An appropriation of $30,000 is ro
commended for the prosecution of theso
works during the fiscal year ending June
-30, 1875.
Assistant Engineer Mack, who in per,
son made the survey of the Apalachicola
River, says in the same document, page 9
in regard to this obstruction:
The most serious difficulty to be met
with on the river occurs thirty-seven miles
above Apalachicola, and commonly known
as Moccasin Slough. (See sheet No. 2.)
During the late war the confederate au
thorities caused obstructions, consisting of
piles, logs., &c., to be placed near this
point, for the purpose of preventing the
United States vessels from ascending the
river. These obstructions were the means
of stopping the descending trees, drift, &c..
till after a time a complete dam was form
ed. The water, prevented from following
its natural course, forced a passage at
about one and a half miles above the ob
structions through to the river Styx, a
distance of 3,100 feet, following the Styx,
for about three-quarters of a mile, reached
the Apalacliicala again. The passage from
where it leaves the Apalachicola to where
it strikes the Styx id called Moccasin
Slough. On the sketch made by Mr. C.
F. ’Trill, accompanying this report, and
marked A, it is designated as Bryan’s
Cut-off.
In descending the river, the entrance to
the slough is very difficult, Caused by its
running a short distance parallel with the
river, but in an opposite direction. It is
only from eighty to one hundred feet wide
and.is also very crooked. The current is
over five miles per hour, due to a fall of 28
feet, for it is to be borne in mind that the
distance via the slough and Styx is from
two to three miles shorter than by way
of the old channel, which accounts for the
heavy fall and strong current. It has,
however, from ten to twenty-six feet of
water throughout.
I would strongly recommend the widen
ing and straightening of the slough, as in
dicated in heavy red dotted lines on sheet
No: 2. as the cheapest means of obtaining
a good channel through this difficult place.
The only objection that can be urged
against it is that the current produced by
the rapid fall is too great, but this is of
sliirht moment, particularly as the im
provement Will enable the steamers to pass
with a full head of steam, while the cost of
removing the obstructions would be etior
roons in comparison with the beuefits to
be derived from it.
These statements, both its to the exis
tence and nature of the obstructions on the i
Apalachicola River. a3 well as the necessi* i
ty for and cost of their removal, will I j
hope be sufficient to satisfy ’the - House as j
to the real couditiou of that river, and the
justice of making an appropriation for its
improvement.
CIIATTAHOOCnEE RIVER.
Walter Griswold, assistant engineer in
charge of the survey of this river, says in
bis rep.>rt of the survey, to be found in
Executive Document No. 65. first session
Forty-third Congree. that—
j . The Chattahoochee River hi a navigable
j stream from Columbus, Georgia, to the
junction with Flint River, a little above
Chattahoochee, Florida, a distance of one
hundred and sixty-two and one-half miles
sixty-two end one-half mikt of which wore
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, MAY 28, 1874;
surveyed in the year 1871, under ihe di
rection of General Simpson.
The country along the river for nearly
its whole length consists of extensive
plantations having plenty of .timber, and
water, but at the present,time sadly neg
lected, yet capable of the highest state
cultivation. Its banks are composed of
limestone and sand, and are protected by
a thick growth of trees of different kinds!
At Eufaula they rise to a height of 50 feet,
and gradually dimiuish till they become
only 10 feet at its junction with the Flint-
The fall per mile at Eufaula is 8 inches, at
Gordon 5 inches, and at its mouth 9
inches, while the width at the former place
is 250 feet, and at the latter 500 feet.
Freshets occur annually in January, Feb
ruary, or March. The highest known oc
curred in 1831, 1841, and 1872; that in
1872 raised 70 feet above ordinary low wa
ter at Eufaula. and 20 feet at the mouth of
the river, overflowing the country for a
great distance. The usual rise does not
exceed 43 1-2 feet at Eufaula. The sound
ings have been reduced to the low water of
1872.
There are at present engaged on this
river,as well as on the Apalachicola and
Flint five stern-wheel steamers, owned
and controlled by the Georgia Central and
Southwestern Railroad Company. These
vessels draw from three to five feet of wa
ter, depending the weight of their
cargoes. The citizens of Eufaula, .mid
others equally interested in the commerce
of the river3,are discussing the propriety
of establishing anotherTine of boats, and
are anxiously awaiting the action of the
Government in relation to their improve
ment.
And Captain Damrell, in his report
based upon that of the assistant engineer
in charge of the survey, says:
Although I am convinced that a more
careful examination of the obstruction to
navigation on this fiver would reduce the
figures in estimate No. 3 considerably, and
that at some future time it may become
necessary to increase the depth of the
channel, I consider the improvements in
cluded in estimates Nos. 1 and 2 sufficient
for the present requirements of navigation,
and would recommend an appropriation of
$50,000, to be expended in removing
wrecks, and loose rocks from the present
channel, during the fiscal year ending June
30, 1875.
FLINT RIVER.
Henry R. Hodges, assistant engiribef in
charge of the survey of this river, in the
report of the survey made by him, and to
be found in Executive Document No. 65,
says :
Flint Riv*r traverses a bed of lime
rock pretty much all the way down, and is
constantly fed by subterranean streams.
The duration of Hoods in this river is short,
seldom lasting over seven or eight days,
occurring after heavy rains, taking about
seven days to reach the maximum height
a ter the downfall. After reaching the
maximum height it fluctuates for ’a few
days and then falls rapidly. It has been
known to keep ten or twelve feet above
low water for two months at a time, but it
is only kept at this stage by frequent rains.
The stage of the river at the time we com
menced this survey seemed to be its nor
mal condition, to wit, about two feet above
the extreme low-water elevation of 1855,
a well-known low-water year all over the
southern country.
The highest water known occurred in
1841, lasting from the 11th of March to
the 19, and is called the Harrison freshet.
It reached an elevation of twelve feet
higher than'any .previous freshet within
the recollection of the present generation.
In 1852 it reached a greater height than i't
had reached since 1841, and in 1862 and
1872 it was again very high, being within
two feet of the height of the Harrison
freshet.
The character of the obstructions are
very simiiar. and I might almost say a rep
etition of the other, being composed al
most eutirely of small loose rock; a soft
friable fossil limestone, which hardens on
exposure to the air, easy of access from the
shore, but iil some instances will require
the assistance of a snag-boat to remdve
the larger rocks.
And Captain Damrell, in hi3 report,
based upon that of Assistant Engineer
Hodges, says:
The principal obstructions to the navi
gation of Flint River are its rock shoals,
formed chiefly of loose rocks of various
sizes, which become more frequent as we
ascend the river from its juuctious with
the Chattahoochee.
The rocky cattlre of the river-bed, al
thr ugh somewhat increasing the cost, will
insure greater pefniritietiey to the works
necessary for its improvement;
Mr. Hodges makes his estimates on
basis of a three-foot channel at an extreme
low water, giving at the ordinary stage of
the rive? a depth of from four to five feet,
which for the class of boats usually navi
gating these waters I consider quite suf
ficient.
The cost of obtaining this depth of chan
nel, otie hundred Feet wide, is estimated as
follows: From Chattahoochee to Newton,
seventy-oue and three-fourths miles, the
estimated cost is 8118.105, and from New
ton to Albahy, a distance of thirty-three
arid one-quarter miles, $66,757. making a
total of $184,863, or an average of $1,760
per mile.
I recommend an appropriation of $30,-
000 for this improvement of this river for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875.
Having given the judgment of the en
gineer officers in regard to the rivers
riaiiied and the amounts that should la ap
propriated to improve the same for tu?
next fiscal year. I. will now present the
evidence of the absolute necessity for at
least a partial performance of the work at
once.
Walter Griswold, the assistant engin
eer who made the survey of the Apalachi
cola and Chattahoochee Rivers, says, in
bis report of the survey to be found at
THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED—THE UNION AS RESTORED.
page 15, in executive Document No. 65,
before referred to.
The following partial list of,steamers wreck
ed on snags on the Ch&ttahoqphee and Apala
chicola Rivers will forcibly impress the neces
sity of their removal as one of the first steps
toward the establishment ol a safe navigation,
™ : a.
Steamer Mary, near Gilbert’s Landing.
Steamer Eagle, several persons drowned.
Steamer Charleston,«
Steamer Mist, above Bock Island.
Steamer Harriet, at Live Oak Bend*
Steamer Alice, at Ricos.
Steamer Svrene, at month of Flint River.
steamer Music; at Moccaaon Slough.
Steamer Floridian.
Steamer Virginia.
Steamer Augusta. . . _
Steamer Van Buren, at Blolgntstowgi.
Steimer Pa motto, ac Hurricane, a little
above Apalachicola-
Steamer Magnolia, at Hurricane, a little
above Apalachicola.
Steamer Falcon, at Bloody Bluff.
The sunken steamers in turn become ob
structions, arid one instance is given when the
steamer Laura was lost on the wreck of the J.
C. Calhoun, at Bristol.
This statement,applied to such streams, and
admitted to be only a partial list of the stea
mers wrecked on two of the tßree rivers we
seek to improve, will convey to the House the
reasons, which impel us to appeal to Congress
for aid in their improvement.
Protection to life and property on the navi
gable waters of the Union have at all times
been regarded as the highest motive that
could impel the national Legislature to action,
and if we do not make a case which shows I
that both arc imperiled, then we ask wliat evi- !
dense will suffice ?
But not only does recognize its duty to pro
tect life and property on the navigable rivers
of the United States, but it stands pledged
by a long series of legislative acts to make
the navigation of such rivers both easy and
safe. In this we have a double assurance for
the aid we so much need-
We are aware it is urged that now is an un
propituous hour to enter upon the work of
improvement
. H’e answer, no hour is unpropituous for a
g'eat and paternal Government to commence
to make secure the life and property of her
citizens, nor can ant demands of retrench
ment and economy absolve her from that obli
gation.
In recognition of tho condition of the coun
try we have not and will not urge an immediate
commencement of the real improvements con
templated in’ the survey. All we ask is that
such sum be appropriated as will remove the
obstructions that actually endanger life and
property, and forbids the investment of capital
in attempts to stock our rivers with steamers
suited to our wants.
[From Utica (N. Y.) Herald.
li. Third Term.
Sundry Deiriocratic papers are making
much trouble for themselves over a ques
tion which troubles nobody else. They
have long been jhKbit of hogging de-''
lusions to their bosoms, not because they
believed them to be facts, but because, if
they could have tlieif own way, they would
metamorphise them into facts. In their
opposition to the present national admin
istration, they have been constantly and
laboriously erecting straw images, in order
that they may make political capital, by
demolishing them forthwith. Sitch tactics
delude the unwary and the unthinking.—
This class of cit izens is reckoned by them
quite large enough to make it worth while
to keep them in a constant state of*decep
tion.
These journals are now doing all in their
power to create the impression that Gene
ral Grant ha 9. determined to be President
for a third term, and that he has already
begun to shape all his actions to that end,
and to concentrate all the powers and the
patrouage of the executive .office to accom
plish it. Arguing from these premises,
they have capital enough for partisan ap
peal. They paint vivid pictures of expir
ing American liberty, strangled to death
by the hand of an ambitions despot. They
draifr dim 'outlines of a throne, upon which
this despot has deterniitted to seat himself,
not duly for a third term, blit for a lifetime;
around which he will throw the protection
of the army and tile navy; for which he
will command retainers, in a Civil army of
office-holders, scattered throughout the
Country; and from Which he will rule the
Country by his own will, in defiance of tra
dition. Constitution, public sentiment,
and the people.
The picture has its dramatic featnres )
and as a piece of invention does credit to
its authors. It implies that the hero of
Vicksburg and the Wilderness has certain
gigantic powers Os mind, in connection
with his inordinate ambition, which these
advocates of the Comiug despotism have
beeii careful to utterly and scornfully deny
him. up to the time of the inception of this
political fantasy. It involves, on the part
of those who advocate it, a lack of faith in
the theory and practice of our form of gov
ernment. which we are not surprised to
discover in men whose utterances for these
many years have had the hollow ring of
hypocrisy and cant. It indicates that lack
of faith in the people and in the controll
ing power of the public opinion they create,
which is the essence and the evidence of
the vilest demagogery.
But, setting aside the absurdity of the
sequence which the enemies of the Presi
dent draw frdiri tile possibility of his being
re-elected for a third time, let us give some
of the reasons why. His retiomiriation is
not to be looked forward td as brie of the
contingencies of the future. President
Grant did not seek the .Republican nomi
nation either the first or the second time,
that it was tendered to him. In 1868 he
was looked yipon as the man of all men
best calculated to personally embody the
ideas, which triumphed in the struggle, be
tween Johnson aud Congress. The man
who had led the Union armies successfully
thaough the War, was himself the best
guaranty that the ideas which had triumph
ed in a struggle, in which he had been so
prominent, would not be abandoned so
long as the direction of public affairs was
in his hands. The nomination was not the
work of the politicians. It was a party
obedience to the demand of the people-
This was the ease in 1868, and it was the
ease again in 1872. The storm of abuse
that swept over the President in ths inter*
vening years, set in motion by politicians,
ambitious or disaffected, produced an ef_
feet entirely counter io that intended and
expected. Istead of allaying the popular
conviction that the President had earn
ed the renomination which had been ac
corded in the past/to successful executives,
it intensified that conviction. Long before
the convention was held, the mind of the
people wasbiade qp. There was no pow
er to prevent the nomination which they
demanded. There was no disposition on the
part of the republican leaders, who wish
ed well for the country to prevent it.
President Grant did not act and Said
no word to help on the piibfic sentiment in
his behalf. He kept the even tenor of his
way. He did many things,which he would
not have done, had he been seeking to
strengthen himself before the people and
with the leaders. He discharged the du
ties of his office in the way that seemed to
him to be right. He committed some mis
takes; but he showed beyond question,
that his aim throughout was to do what
was be3t for the whole country, and to en
force no policy against the will of the peo
ple. YYlien the verdict came which he had
not sought, he acquiesced in it, There are
many things, connected with the office
which he holds, from which he shrinks. lie
do©3 riot need the honors of it. He does
not crave the power connected with it.—
lie does not relish the cares, and the per
plexitus. inseparable from it. W fieri tlie
time comes; he will surrender the office
which the people have given him,
And he may do it with the conviction that
the judgment of the future will be, that lie
lias discharged his duties as President, as
best he know how to do so.
r l he Republican party will ask no more
of President Grant. He has served it as
long as any President was ever called upon
to serve any party. The Republican par
ty would not yield to the dictation of those
few men, who demanded that, for the first
time, in the case of President Grant, an
executive who had done good service,
should not be renominated. But it will
yield to the custom, which has fixed eight
years, as the period for which one man may
serve in the executive chair. It will yield
the more readily, because it has in its ranks
other good men, who have served there
with conspicuous ability and fidelity,
whom it awaits opportunity to honor.
It were not true that President Grant
also recognized this custom, and looked
forward to a realise from the cares of his
office; if he were not seeking to' 'do his
duty, at whatever hazard id liis o’ivn popu
'’y'i.t iwould never (have written his
veto to the inflation measure of Congress.
No act Os his presidential life has com
mended lilm so liighiy to the confidence of
his friends in the East. But in that veto
h;j planted himself against the majority in
Congress and against the very State from
whom, in case of his renomination, his
strength must come. With another can
didate, the republican party will stlil be
strong in these States. With President
Grant, it will be weak, on the very grounds
that would make him stronger than ever
in the East. The President did not re
fuse in his signature to tile veto message
without considering the inevitable bearing
of it. He did his duty, regardless of con
sequences to himself. We believe that
every act of his presidential career has
been done with a similar diregard of per
sonal consequences. before such an act
as this one of President Grant’s, every
charge of sinister plotting to retain exe
cutive* power fails to the ground. Such
charges are the empty creations of a party
which cannot live unless upon such food.
[From the New Orleans Republican.
Have we de Tocqueville Among
Us?
Some French gentleman, writing on the
Bee, explains the theory of our government
so completely, and predicts its early failure
with such confidence that we can not doubt
but that the celebrated De Tocqueville, in
person oh in spirit, is among us. We like
this; Reformers abahdoh their dfan coun
try because they may have neither capacity
nor courage to ametld its defects of govern
ment. and immediately begin to prescribe
for our political errors in a foreign language.
If a civil war comes along, they chu j'ake
refuge under alien allegiance, but they
never intermit their lectures on that ac
count. Even recently, it has appeared,
that some of our oldest and best declined
to serve on a jury because they had never
taken out letters of naturalization here.
We Have had a great deal of this foreign
opinion upon ofir institutions.
England sent Moore to malign the morals
of the great republicans Jefferson, Dickens
defamed Illinois to please the prejudices
of that day, and recanted all his injustice
to secure the approval of the great republic
to which he read those wondrous revela
tions of English crime, iguorance and des
titution. fcir Charles Dilke saw in a night’s
rest within the Southern States the whole
cause of the war, and decreed next morn
iug a proper policy for the dominant Ac
tion. But the De Tocqueville of the Bee i
lays over all of them in the profundity of
knowledge and the authority of his decis
ions. In the Arkansas troubles is seen “a
symptom very unpropitUous for the free
institutions of this codritry.” Before the
war. as De Tocqueville has been informed,
with the exception ot the Dorr rebellion
and the Kansas troubles, there was never i
anything like the Arkansas squabble, it '
may be impertinent n us to assert, knowl
edge of any thing a!- *ut ir own country,
in the pres.-nee of :>e 'I >cqueville, but we
modestly cite some history with which all j
Americans are familiar.
1. The Shay insurrection in Massa- j
chosetts occurred Under the old Confeder- !
ate government of the States—apd we may |
add tended greatly to make the Union no- j
cessary.
2. The establishment of the State of :
Franklin within the territory #T North j
Carol! ia. In this case there were com- .
peting governments, each armed as in Ar
\ . Wmnmsmbm tint Bmam§, ia
his history of Tennessee, says that when
the patriotic Sevier, then at the .head, of
the State of Franklin, was entrenched
against the army of North Carolina, a
runner brought word ihat the Indiana were
committing depredations on the settlers
on the Tennessee of Hightower rivers.
Thereupon a truce was agreed on. Both
armies marched against the common ene
my, subdued them, and then returned to
resume the status cm tq-f actum.
3. The great whisky insurrection of
certain counties in Western Pennsylvania,
put down by President Washington.
4. The civil conflict in Rhode Island,
in which one government claimed under a
roydl charter and the oilier under a popu
lar constitution. There have been beside
these, internal disturbances not worthy to
be chronicled, such as evasion or resist
ance of military service in the wars of
the Union and otlTer domestic troubles.
$. Even tlie terrible war to which De
Tocqueville alludes was terminated with
out the horrors of La Yendee, or the trial
of twenty thoiisaud Communists. It was
fo%Ht for a construction of the common
constitution, was not Followed by the exe
cution or exile of any political offenders,
and has extended a general amnesty to all
without respect to past opinions. So
much, however, for De Tocqueville’? as
sertion that before the civil war “the play
of governmental institutions in each State
had beeu able to exert itself without giv
ing place to contestations of tne kind
which we have seen arise in many States
•of the South since the reconstruction! ■
De Tocqueville is mistaken in his facts.
There were some more serious “contesta
tions” before the war than have been since.
But these authoritative expositions of
American history given by a foreigner,
and in a foreign language, have an objeet.
They culminate in a charge that these
troubles in Arkansas and elsewhere tend
to place the republic of the United States
on a level with the Spanish American re
publics, and to make it the laughing stock
of the world. Here is what De Tocqrie
ville says of these contestations: 4
They have made the republics of Ihe
United Slates descend trijhe level of tlie
republics of Spanish origin, in which pro
nunciamentos arid a resbrt to amis has
been the uormaljbqriditidn for half a cen
tury. We See.iiqthing to envy in this
Mexican barbarism, and if this strife be
prolonged, the model republic will not be
long in becoming the laughing stock of
the wqrid! . ,
That is: if the emeute in Arkansas con
tinues it will demoralize and disgrace
orderly and prosperous States!
Well done, De Tocquevil(e,[ prenez un
petit verre d'absinthe, and continue your
essays on American history.
Now a siibject of legitimate inquiry Kri
ses in our American mind. What motive
have these foreigners for asfeailieg and de
faming the chosen goverriiiient of the Ame
rican people ? Why deiioriuce the model
republic ? ,
We have seen the bierchknts of New
Orleans charged with lending themselves
to advocale a work of improved navigation
fpr a share in a frog pond. It is notorious
tiiat the press has been often suborned to
advocate measures of public appropriation.
The practice of European monarchies and
hierarchies to emplby secret service money
to effect, objects in foreign countries is well
known. Rumor did not spare a, depart
ment of our own government in the affair
of the Ouban massacre. Is it unreasonable
then, when we see the monarchies of the
old world striving to* repress all republican
tendencies among their subject’s, that they
should seek to defame the great republican
success of America ? How can they effect
their object more directly than by hired
writers on American paper ? The Emperor
Napoleon IV, has had medals stricken. He
has, we believe, a court and adherents. Os
course he can not be Emperor as long as
there is a republic. All republican efforts
in Spain and France are justified by Ameri
can success. What, then, could give such
a conclusive blow to such aspirations as to
demonstrate the American republic a fail
ure? No secrbt service money could be
so profitably bestowed by the crowned
heads hS id the employment of emissaries
in America to discredit the success of our
institutions and to chroh'cle every untow
ard event that may occuf- Us a proof of op
pression, anarchy ahd irisoiviehey. We see
more or less of this in the printed and
6poken discourses of those wh’d oppose the
administration of our government. We
make no special charges against any, but
when we see the systematic abuse of our
government, never so strong, never so
prosperous, never so much respected abroad
and never so well sustained at home, we
ask ourselves two questions: 1. Is De
Tocqueville really right in predicting the
dowufall of the republic ? 2. Can the de.
famation of the republic which appears in
the opposition prints be inspired by the
secret service money of the kings?
A Southern Corn Crop. —l have re
cently seen an experiment in corn planting
which I think may prove instructive to
some of my brothor farmers of the South
at least. One acre of labd (red clay) w r as
taken summer before last, after the wheat
wa3 cut off and sowed broadcast with cotv
peas. When the vines had reached their
growth previous to flowering, sixty bushels
of slacked lime was applied to them. 'J be
whole was then turned under with a two
horse plow. In this state the lot remained
until last spring, when it was broken »ip
and laid off 34x4J fbet (I think); the corn
was planted, two grainsih a check. It re
ceived the usual cultivation of this section
—that is. three pJdnghings and two hoe- ;
ings (except that it was not bedded.) The j
acre yielded seventy-six and threefourths j
bushels by actual measurement. The seed j
died is peculiar. It was produced by the j
crentleimftj wlib nir.de the experiment eeve- j
ral years ago, from a'VoTofiTary stalk wtil&h I
Fad eleven ears ©nit. all of which, hdwpvar j;
did not come to perfection. The yield of
the stalk w ns five pounds of com. This ! t
com lm tMOOUic quite eoiebtkted and one j
ITerms, Two Dollar! a Tear, in Advance.
of the proofs of the. value of a careful se
lection. This yield of TGf bvisliels may
not strike the northern farmers as anything
remarkable, but if they reifiember that our
average is only ten btisheja of corn per
acre they will at once see the valiie of the
foregoing to southern die
bushel of peps will broadcast the acre and
cost one tjollar the lime liefe pcaitpraj will
cost fifteen cents. |>er bushel. The lot ia’
now in wheat, and its owner expects it to
produce twehty-hyebhthirty bushels, which
foe. this country, will tie a good yieidi The
experiment will not fcost miici,, andi Lata
sure will, f ejia jr any farmer. Clover, per
haps, will increase the yield of both wheat'
and corn. One acre of sncK land is wtirtl|
more than eight cultivated as we generally
do. —John Carihjchael, Habersham Co.,’
Ga.
$ ***' * • - s
•-'? n ~ ~ 1 * 1 *
A Very Bashful Toim? Man.
The following little ariecodote is told
about a yjrry bashful young man in Indiana.'
The Unfortunate’s friends fcpew that he.
wanted to be married; they knew that lie
deserved to be;, but they knew that he
never would be if he whited until he found
courage to pop the question, so they took
all the trouble off his hands, aud by a se
ries of rapid strategic , moves, had him
,‘popped,” accepted, and wived before he
could find a pretext for “willing,!’ So
much accomplished, and, the nuptial even
ing having been passed off merrily, the
young nian's back boners withdrew at an
early hour, feeling that tliey could spare
themselves further effort in their friend’s
behalf. About five riiiriutes after, young
Benedict, who had evidently been having a
serious debate with Himself, rose, and took
his hat,, arid with a, nervous “Good-night,”
made his exit. ,
He was not seen again by his bride or
his family ujitil the following evening, when
he timidly knocked* at the door and was
admitted.— so special comment being
made upon his singular conduct, he passed
an hour rather comfortably iu the parlors,
and everything seemed’to promise favora
bly for a cure of his besetting weakness,
when, hearing the household monitor pro
claim the hour of nine! he suddenly seem
ed to remember ..lie had forgotten some
thing and startled tor his hat.
This was the moment, and the event’
that had been somewhat expectantly await
ed, with indignation most profound, but
under boy trol by the bride’s mother. Plant
ing herself resolutely in the doorway, the
old lady demanded to know Why and
wherefore, what he proposed to do, and
whether he Was a man or only a feeble imi
tation. etc. In short why did he not re
main with his wife, instead of slinking back
to his old quarters? The bashful son-inlaw
stammered out, as the eldery famale seized
his hat with determination and backed
h'm into a chair again.
“ Well. I like to, but I thought
miiy be I’d better wait awhile, for fear it
might make talk among the neighbors 1"
Direct Trade. —At the adjourned meet
ing for promoting direct trade with Europe,'
at Atlanta last week, it was determined to
send Col. Tift to Europe to make contracts
with shipowners.
Vhrious resolutions among them the fol
lowing for which only yie have room at
present : , ,
Resolved, the Convention hat Wit
nessed tvitli jjteasure the liberal spirit and
earnest action of the various railroads and
other transportation compitHies and tbs
unanimous indorsement by Ike people as’
shown by the action of their Chambers of
Commerce, Boards c# Trade, City Coun
cils, Patrons of Husbandly, and other organ
izations that the opiHion of this Conven
tion such a large combination of interests
will give liberiit patronage to the steam
ship lilies to the milterial advantage of the
produced, the manufactures and consumer.
Also tlie foljowifig ivhich wail adopted ;
llesolved, lliiil this Convention do ap
prove the sagacity of the tailroad compa-,
nies iii selfebtitig the Nelson Tift, of
Georgia, a gehtjemati well khown ahd dis
tinguished for prkbtibhl ability ahd infegri
ty ahd enegry, ahd we comtnetid him with
confidence to the ship owhefs, capitalists
and others with whoifi lie fhiiy cbthinuni-'
cate.. # . ;
Coi, Wni. M. Wadley hioved that a r
committee of three, representing the res
pective interests in the agricultural, and
commercial interests, and be appointed by
the chiir, to appoint the agedta to attend
Col. Lift to Europe, and to provide for
their expenses.
*
Horticultural .and Floral Eihlbltioili
THOMASvitLE, May 28,18tT.
The undersigned Committee have the Mv’i*
sure to invite all the white schools, Jtfcul# r
and Sunday,iii the bounties of Bakei, Rt'bpk g
Colquitt; Decatur, Dougherty, I/jwndfes’, 2f
chell ahd Thomas, Ga., and Jeflersoh) L eQn
and Madison, Flal’, to visit this grith'd ext
tion. . . t ..t , ~ „ ,
To prevent confusion; must pass
the gates in charge of their teHbhcrs.
It is especially desired by thq Aar
to make this a delightful holiday. pleasim
and instructive to the yohiig;, ' *
An award of 6in gql<l will be • aJftde tQ th&
best declayner, pupil of auy sc JOol( and $J(> .
in gold to the girl, pupil .of a» , y gchoo , for
the best original compoaitfop oregw to bo
read by herself.
Ministers and represent atire , of the
are also invited.
Papers in counfibs ns aed win pleM# cop .
By order of the Assr ciation
.n Triplett, )
» C. Biivan, l Ooaa.
■c*. T. Davis, J
j Reports from several section* oi upper Geor
! which the wheat crop* were lately rep
| resented to no badly damaged, wow says that
they have greatly improved within the last
ted day*.
Tl*e negro Henry Jackson, who -w#* to bar*
been banged at ZAemhurg Idit Trf&ij; was
making his statement from the gaUowa whe«
the Goveinur-s tAugtmid respiting hfttf w*»
XtXJtIVcCL
Savannah is welt ftfaektfi iii i .
cargoes have afratffi ‘ g
m kot houses; £od t
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