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Georgia Matters.
Quitman lias an anti-fire organization, at
which Gullahor waxes worth.
The Roman editor? are whiling away
the long summer days by making playful
allusions to each other. The Commercial
calls the Courier a hireling, and the Cou
rier calls the Commeaciul an irresponsible
gasconade and coward.
ilon. James Hilliard, of Quitman, is
dead. He was a prominent man of that
town.
Harris says that the ring-tailed wasp is
liow breaking up country schools.
Mr. Perry Knighton walked eight miles
recently to prevent an accident to the Sel
ma, Rome and Pulton Railroad. When
the Superintendent heard of it he sent Mr.
Kui liton a free pass.
Some of the Georgia papers report yel
low fever at Pensacola.
The w: r (of words) rages more fiercely,
r llm (!c days approach, between Messrs
Hi!! e St.-plion:?. It is supposed that they
will reach No. 15, sometime this fall.
ltol». Williams, aged 50 years, and for
It .. •:■ 1 y years a main deacon in the Babtist
ll'!mrcli, hung himself near Trion Factory
Ile.T Saturday.
I Thomasvillo has a Baptist Minister who
fi a reformed Jewish Rabbi.
I lon. George Hillyor, of Atlanta, upon
f nomination of Governor Smith, has been
! connnissioned by tiie President ‘‘as a Com
missioner to represent the State of Georgia
at the Centennial Anniversary of Ameri
can Independence,” in place of lion, Tho
mas Hardeman, resigned.
Thomasvillo is to have a watermelon
show this year.
We have received an invitation from the
Prat lent, W. 15. Seals, to attend tlie
<■ nm.-nceinent exercises of the Baptist
! emnle College, Cuthbert Ga., for which
!ia has cmir thanks
Tii • Sheriff of (.'lark county has provid
< : ihauelf With forms for the benefit of
;'i o who desire to make out descriptive
(sos slaves owned at the date of eman
cipation.
it is . taf.ed that Captain O. 1). Gorman,
<-f tin* Talbottou Standard, has a novel in
pixxss.
Somebody has been sending Triplett a
boquet. If this thing continues, he will
b ■ turned out of the press association cer
tain and sure.
A young man who stabbed his compan
ion in the other day, excused him
self on the ground that lie was only cut
ting his acquaintance.
About the most plentiful thing we know
of now. are candidates for Congress. They
ure bubbling up to the surface all over the
St ate, urged of course bp a clamorous pub
lic, to “stand for Congress.”
Commercial travelers pronounce busi
ness in all sections of the country ns ex
ceeding dull; not only in the South, but iu
the North, East and West.
If the Grange does nothing else than to
inaugurate the pay down system, it will
add twenty per cent, to the income of the
farmer, merchant, and mechanic: Credit
always was a bare-faced swindler.
Quitman has a “Mite Society,” if any
body knows what that means.
The colored people are building new
churches in Quitman.
Savannha is the champion c-ity on bald
headed men.
Dollars and sense are not always to
gether. For instance a man advertises in
the Fort Gains paper that he wishes to buy
a half interest in a country newspaper.
Air. Robert S. Tomilinson, of Albany, is
dead.
A locomotive on the AVost Point Road
leaped a culvert that had been washed
away recently, and landed on the other
. ide uninjured. There were several pas
senger cars on tho train, bat no one was
injured.
Albany ATurs:—The Tliomasville Times
1 vasts lastly of the achievements of tho
'• V' Rant" Firemen of that city, on their
h e visit to Albany, but is singularly si
! ,l to the ‘‘Eagles,”' hospital it v, and
a., ctli r matters* relating .to the efforts in
‘ .. vto entertain Thouiasville. And
.’.nee bringing is the game, and our
1. non are nngraciJTUly ignored by the
v . r and the toasts on the return of the
A dams, wo may as well go.in and bragg
the “tauth of history.*' The v; .Hants were
. .nilieJ to win the first run through gal
! *.tr-, and they won the second by an ac
t dent to the hose of the Eagles. Squab
ble was waived, and the guests properly
awarded the premium. Albany never eom
•tills the impropriety of keeping trophies
that she herself gaenures for the gratifica
tion of her guests.
tViOAxrx (Avkk ItKctPi:. liaving no-
Sei and a request for a coeoanut cuke recipe,
1 send you tho following. I know it is
• v ,d: Four eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup sweet
j. K Uc, 2 cups Hour. 2 tcaspoousful cream
.- ..j i teasptoouful si mlu; Vriiko four
~. , icin • aud cocoauut .puukied xi
it. , „ o' of lr i "
Prompt Payment of Poll Tax.
A Duty Incumbent urox All.
We produce tlie circular of the chair
man of the Executive Committee, and re
quest the attention of all Republicans
throughout the District. The subject of
the, circular is the most important in af
fecting the success of the Party. AVo
hope that there will bo no further delay iu
j tlie payment of the poll tax, and that all
j will go forward at once and discharge their
I duty.
ROOMS OF TIIE REPUBLICAN EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE.
2nd Congressional Distict of Ga.
Albany, Georgia, Marc\\, 21th, t 874.
Republicans of the 2nd Restrict’. _
Iu the discharge of a ‘ duty incumbent
upon us by tlio trust you have confided, it
becomes necessary to again warn you of
the impending danger that threatens the
success of the party in this District. Tho
danger to which we allude is the failure of
many throughout the various counties of
the District to pay their Poll Tax for the
year 1873. The payment of this tax is
the key-note to the achievement of victory
in the approaching campaign. While num
bers of you have gone forward freely and
paid this tax, hundreds have lagged behind,
awaiting a more favorable opportunity.
The most favorable opportunity that will
offer itself is the present. Now is the
time: right now! No other time will an
swer as well as now. Go at once: as soon
as you receive this Circular, get one dollar
and carry it to the Tax Collector of your
county and pay your Poll Tax. When
you pay it, get tlie Tax Collector's receipt
for it; take care of tills receipt. With
this receipt in your pocket, you feel like a
freeman. Vou then feel that you are pre
pared to exercise the privileges of any
other man. This thought that you are the
equal before the law of any other man,
causes-your bosom to glow with pride,
patriotism and love for Republican princi
ples. This should be incentive sufficient to
cause you to be leader and anxious to pay
this Poll Tax. When you fail to pay
this tax, as the law's of the country de
clare that you shall not vote unless you
pay this dollar poll tax. >So when you go
to tlio polls to vote and see a fellow-man
cast his ballot and then have yours refus
ed because you have not this poll tax, you
dout feel as though you were equal to this
last man that cast his vote. Aon feel as
though something was wanting about you;
you want the earth to open and hide you;
you don't feel like a man; you feel chagrin
ed, mortified, troubled, you want to hide
yourself. This man that lias paid his tax
walks proudly; bis bosom glows with pride;
he feels as though he weighed a lon. \\ hy?
Because he has shown himself worthy the
name of a freeman. Don’t excuse yur
selves from paying this one dollar poll tax
by saying that the Tax Collector has nofc
boon to see you, or that lie lias not notifi
ed you that you owe it. If lie lias not
been to you, you must go to him! All
that have not paid, owe it now. You owe
it; it is right that you should pay it. A. on
are informed that if you don't pay it, you
will never be permitted to vote. AN lien
you thus disfranchise yourselves for the
mere pittance of one dollar, you deprive
yourselves of the greatest privilege inci
dent to citizenship. This deprivation is
not confined to yourselves, but extends to
your children, who are now crying unto you
for education. Shall they have this educa
tion. Do you want them to have it? If so,you
must go immediately and comply with the
obligations resting upon you and pay this
poll tax. It is meet that you should be
made aware of tho danger that threatens
us, in order that yon may exorcise tho
means to avert it. AVith this tax paid, we
move forward in the approaching cam
paign with truth, justice and equality em
blazoned on our banners, and doubt not
the result. In tho approaching campaign,
recollect that we have but one foe in com
mon—that is the hydraheaded Democracy.
Already she is marshalling her forces for
the conflict. As sentinels upon the watch
tower, we ask you. Republicans, what o*
the night? AVhy lay you upon your backs
when these Democratic cohorts are linin'
dering at your bulwarks? Are you pre
pared to withstand their assaults. Are
you fortified against their attacks? Arouse
from your lethargy! Let every portion of
the District resound with the steady tramp
of freemen, wending their way towards the
Tax Collectors to discharge a duty they
owe their country. AV hen you have done
this, you will be fortified against the at
tacks of your adversary; and it will be
echoed back unto you, “well done good
and faithful servants!”
Republicans ! You have done your duty
well in the past! It is your privilege to
do better in the future. Shall these ap
peals be unheeded? The Republican par
tv appeals to you for succor! Shall it be
necessary for this Committee to appeal to
you again to discharge your duties? Yv e
trust not, and hope that when our C on
vent: on assembles it may Ire said that there
is not a single man in the District that
has failed to pay his tax.
Wo earnestly entreat the different coun
ties of the District to organize "Tax
Clubs” in every portion of their counties.
With this machinery in operation, they
cannot fail to secure the payment of tins
tax. We ask every man to buckle on his
armor and go to work ! Work assiduous
ly. and success will certainly crown your
efforts.
Your Fellow Citizen,
C. \V. ARNOLD,
Chairman.
Cxnr.omsE is said to destroy all insects
and, in a weak solution with water, wii:
prevent flies from teasing horses, if they
\ are washed with it- care feeing taken not
!to got it into the eyes. Coneyvoyui ateejv
1 e l m water, used a* a wash, will produce
1 similar effort.
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 18 1874.
[From Greenville, (S. C.) Republican.
Our Country and our 2Suty.
Justice, tempered with mercy, truth and
honesty, unsophisticated, is our motto. —
AA r e do not intend to exercise any personal
antipathy toward any of our Democratic
friends. Neither do we propose to defend
any corrupt legislative executive or judicia
official, but they will ever meet with the
most hearty disapprobation of the columns
of this paper. AVe are o David Crocket
sort of man. We nevor enter into anything
until-we beiive it to bo right, then we go
ahead. AVe have always tried to live and
act for our country and our country’s God.
This, our past record and life will prove.—
Tlie principles and past record of all par
ties are subject to criticism, and ought to
bo scanned impartially atid in tho best of
humor. We may have dealt out some
unpleasant language toward our contem
poraries of the Democratic party, in our
comment on the “Fast as Well as the
Present.” AVe make no personal attack
on any one, but simply wish to show that
tho past record of tho Democratic party is
not so good after all, and that they are re
sponsible, to a very great extent, for tho
evils so much complained of to-day. Tho
masses of tlio people opposed secession,
yet we were driven into it. After the or
dinance of secession was passed, wo, like
true men, aadhered to our State, and ren
dered faithful allegiance to the Confedracy,
up to tlio close of tho war. AVho can esti
mate the loss we sustained by it? At the
Fortress Monroe Conference it was in our
power to be restored to all the rights of a
State in the Union, if wo would lay down
our arms and submit to a gradual emanci
pation; that is,every negro born after a cer
ium day was to bo free at tlie ago of twen
ty-one. But the cry was, as we all know,
“Independence or nothing,” “fight it cut,
boys.”
A t one time we had it in our power to
put all tilings right by submitting to quali
fy and negro suffrage; that is, let every froed
rnan who could read and write, or owned —
say two hundred dollars worth of property
—have the right to vote. Not much harm
would have been done by this measure, for
tlio colored vote would have been scattered
and neutralized. But no, “this is a white
man’s government ” While we acknow
ledge all that, may wo not add that it is a
government of the people, the whole peo
ple? But iu this case prejudice excluded
reason. How did it result? Tho State was
reduced to a military district, with a pro
visional government, object to the order
of the general commanding. The freod
men were made electors, entitled to full j
suffrage and the rigid to hold office. AVe j
might ask. why is it that the colored
vote, instead of being' scattered, is concen
trated with tho f«H force of a cYA! column?
It was certainly carried by tho violent op
position made to the will of the general
government iu regard to their constitu
tional rights.
Tho freedmen have an undefined im
pression that there is still a desire among
tiio Democratic party to abridge their
rights, or that there in a determination to
deprive them of political rights. This, as
a matter of course, makes them “pull to
gether'’—remove this impression and many
of tho colored element might be induced
to support some at least of those who are
now Democrats. Rut how i3 this impres
sion to be removed? By going in with the
Republican party, and co-operating with
those that can do you good, and it is our
honest conviction that every man who lias
the interest of the State at heart,and who
wishes to have peace, will do it. Give the
colored man assurance that you acquiesce,
and arc content to allow them- political
equality. Had wo at an earlier day come
out openly for tho rights of tho colored
element, according to the will of tne gene
ral government, as we now seem willing to
do, is it not fair to suppose that, a larger
proportion of the white element would
have entered into the composition of our
Convention and State Legislature, and of
high places of trust and confidence?
We hope to be allowed to express our
opinion and give our judgment without be
ing drawn into the vortex of politics. We
should discard prejudice and passion, and
act on our own judgment as to what wo
should do under tho present emergency.—
Wo have not one word of crimination to
utter against the brave boys in the gray. —
We have seen them, the noblest, the best
young men, the beloved of the household;
the hope of the commonwealth, the glory
of the State —without a murmur go forth
to the battle-field, and, amid the storm of
iron hail, not one of all those regiments
that thus went forth, brought a shadow of
dishonor upon the fair fame of their native
State. They fought bravely; as we and
many of you now believe in an unnecessary,
foolish and wicked war upon a rightful and
beneficent Government; but not so did it
seem to them, for they believed they were
lighting for homo and cherished rights. Rut
all this belongs to tho past. The question
now is, are we, as a party, to stand by and
hear the vituperations, the malignings and
traducings, the epithets of scaliawags,
rogues, thieves, etc., indiscriminately heap
ed upon us, and yet not resent them? No,
never. *
i Whv. jnd ing from a Democratic stand
point, the Republican parly is nothing but
a band of swindlers, pick-pockets aud
cheats. If they hold us up to public scorn
and contempt they may expect us to retort
upon them by saying “Physician, heal thy
| self.’’ The English vocabulary does not
contain language severe enough for them
to utter against our State and national
governments, by way of abuse. Wo seldom
pick up a Democratic sheet but what we
I see a column, and sometimes more, devot-
ed to abuse of the Republican party. Let
1 us stop this abuse and pour oil on the
troublee waters. Y o wish it to bo under
stood that we do not approve of keeping
" this strife in every day life. W « c°n
-1 U '. A that- politics should have no tendency
1 V.’ r ver *.o rear the harmony of society,
*« «> pevsinudities: that every man h n
TEE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED— THE UNION AS EESTOEED.
right to bia own political or religious opiu
ions.
But this c ontinual cry of nigger / nig
get'! these while-faced niggers! these radi
cals, these rogues, those thieves, etc.,when
all know it is simply the cry of the outs
against iiio \ns —■ w q ara getting very siclc
of, and wish them stopped. Now let us
alhickuowledgo our mistakes,shako off the
dust and suvanco with tho progressive
spirit of the age; and. as wo have said be
fore, let by-goues be by-gones, aud all
strike hands for a hopoful future. Truth
is mighty and will prevail. You can not
destroy truth until you destroy God, who
is the author of truth.
JDieu ct man droit.” My God and my
country. - * Am it.
Is Georgia Democratic or Re
publican.
There aro about two hundred and thirty
thousand voters in Georgia. Ninety thou
sand arc colored men, and of course theso
all belong to tho Republican party. There
are no less than thirty thousand white Re
publicans in the State, which, added to
the ninety thousand colored voters, make
one hundred and twenty thousand Repub
lican. Now, just deduct one hundred and
twenty thousand from two hundred and
thirty thousand, and you liavo left one
hundred and ten thousand Democrats.
Thus wo soo that the Republicans aro
really ten thousand majority in Georgia.
And yet Governor Smith was said to have
beat Judge AValker about sixty thousand
majority! Just think of it. AVhat a re
diculous farce! AVell how is this anyhow?
AN e know how it is. In northern Georgia,
where there are but few colored voters tlie
elections aro generally conducted fairly.
The frauds aro perpetrated upon the color
ed voters. They are generally illiterate,
and therefore unable to protect themselves
in many respects. They are universally
poor, and dependent upon Democratic
land owners for employment. One com
mon trick is for the owner of the farm, the
day before the election, to propose for all
hands, including himself, to stay away from
the election. He tells them the day will
be lost for nothing; that politics and vo
ting is all a lmmbng, and that he feels no
interest; that difficulties may arise at the
pools from drunken rowdies, etc., etc. And
in many cases, all the hands on the farm
being anxious to please tho “boss,” coir
sent to the propposition, and are thereby
tricked out of their votes. Those who
can't be kept away from the polls aro
cheated and swindled in divers ways, by
unprincipled white men who would do any
thing to carry the election. AVhen tricks
and stratagem fail, then comes t hreats of
dism"'liom employin'':::-, a':' 5 ,'oi p '-ipes,
s’ml of death, and whuff, ait .other mentis
fail they begin to challenge at the polls,
and open up the way fqr a general row,
and thereby drive them away without vot
ing. The truth is “negro suffrage” in Geor
gia is a mere farce. How can it bo reme
died? Not by law. There is but one
way, and that is by dividing the white vo
ters of the State. Whenever the intelli
gence of tlie State is divided then, and not
until then, will tho colored voters be pro
tected at the ballot box. “AVhen Greek
meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.’
Give the Republican party a foothold
amongst white men in middle and lower
Georgia, and the Democratic party is gone
—forever gone. AVe have the numerical
strength already, but we have not the in
telligence where we need it. “The race is
not to tho swift, nor the battle to the
strong.” AVe want a respectable number
of Union men on our side in middle and
lower Georgia, and the Democracy will bo
doomed. They are kept out of the Re
publican party from fear of persecution, and
by the eternal hue and cry of “niggerito,’>
“scallawag,” and snch like clap-trap. But
the day is coming when reason will re
sume her sway. Men will think for them
selves after a while. The Greeley abortion
came very near bringing us home to peace
and honest elections in Georgia. One
more move and the Rubicon will be cross
ed. There is a class of men in Georgia
that will not be a party to fraudulent elec
tions much longer. AVe are of good cheer.
All wo want is the right to think and vote
as we please, A man’s political rights
ought not to bo tampered with. If “ne
gro suffrage” is to be tolerated at all, let it
be done on a fair, honorable basi3. AVe
invite, yea, we entreat and beg white men
of intelligence who. know the truth of this,
to come out from amongst their enemies
and join themselves to the party which
seeks to uphold the Union of our fathers in
its purity, and perpetuate our liberties.
AVe want recruits in middle and lower
Georgia from the old Union element of
those sections, which will give us plenty of
intelligent, upright men to fill tho offices,
and will also bring about fairness at the
polls, and when this takes place the De
mocracy may “stand from under.” — Gains
ville Advertiser.
Slush Elites illicr.d.
The Macon Telegraph, hears from many
sources that if the cotton and other crops
of Southwestern Georgia at all fulfill their
present promise, there will be flush times
in the fall. One reason given, and a very
sound one, too, is that as the farmers have
not been able to run in debt, credit, being
dead, they will owe very little when the,
crops are gathered. They have been forc
ed to economize by the refusal of mer
chants and money lenders to credit them
and will have few or no debts to pay when
fall comes. It is astonishing, too, to hear
how well they are getting along—how
many things heretofore deemed almost nec.
ossary to existence they have found out
can be easily dispensed with, and liow
easy it is to economise under tho pressure
of necessity. This is certainly cheerful
ncw3 _ And not the least cheerful aspect
of the case *3 that next year it will bo
twice a-' easy t*> ocoiioiafee as i* has Ihxmi
t
Capitol Estates.
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEF..
The Committee of AVays and Means will
not meet again this session unless some
thing now unforeseen should arise.
JUDGE RICHARDSON.
Tho President yesterday signed the com
mission of Judge Richardson as Associate
Judge of the United States Court of
Claims,
PROMOTION.
Roar Admiral Fabius Stanley, United
States navy, has been placed upon tho re
tired list. This promotes Commodore
Mullany to bo roar admiral.
ARKANSAS INVESTIGATION.
The coumiitte to investigate affairs iu
Arkansas have been considering tho pre
liminary steps to be purssued. They have
decidod to visit tho State shortly, but have
not yet agreed upon tho exact date.
RESIGNATION.
Tho resignation of Assistant Secretary
of tho Treasury Sawyer has not yet gono
to the President. Mr. Sawyer says, how
ever, ho will transmit it as soon as ho has
time to prepare it.
TIIE NEW SECRETARY.
Secretary Bristo v was visited at the
Treasury Department yesterday by quite a
number of friends, including a fair repre
sentation from Kentucky, and iiioro than
tho usual daily number of members of Con
gress, who desired to congratulate tho new
head of tho Treasury.
ARMY REDUCTION.
The Democratic Senators, to a man, aro
in favor of army reduction, and many of
their Republican colleagues aro with them
in this movement on the score of economy.
Owing to this, and a canvass of tho Sonato
on the late of the House army roduction
bill, its passage by the Senate is assured.
THE NEW SECRETARY SWORN IN.
General Bristow was sworn into offico
as Secretary of the Treasury yesterday, tho
oath being administered to him in tlio Pre
sident's room at the Executive Mansion by
Chief Justice Hartter, of the Supreme
Court 61 this District. Soon afterward
Secretary Bristow went to tho Treasury
and entered upon his official duties. In
the afternoon the chiefs of tho various bu
reaus called upon him to pay their respects.
They were cordially received by the new
Secretary, and took great pleasure iu their
visit.
, DEMOCRATS ABSENT.
The absence of Democratic Senators and
Members at tliis critical juncture of tho
session, when matters of great moment to
their constituents are pending for life or
death, exercises the minds of prominent
5 Jemoerats hero considerably. Nearly onog
hidf «*f tho Hcurovnrtic —CtnigreSSinUßrTttTJ"
out of town.
THE DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATE >N ..'Vr-L,
which was returned to the House with Sen
ate amendments increasing tlio appropria
tions passed by the House very materially,
was considered yesterday morning by the
House Appropriation Committee. Near
ly all the Senate amendments were stricken
out, and thoso retained largely reduced. A
committee of conference on tho bill will bo
asked for.
EXEMPTION OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS.
The Attorney General of tho United
States having given an opinion that tlio
limitation of §SOO as to household effects,
specified in section twenty-two of the act
of July 14,1870, ceased to be of any force
at the period when the provision of tho
fifth section of the act of June G, 1872, for
household effects, took effect, the Treasury
Department has concurred therein, and
thereupon has decided that household effects
of persons arriving in the United States
from foreign countries, which were in use
abroad for not less than one year, and
which aro not intended for any other per
son or persons, not for sale, are exempt
from duty without any limitation os to
value.
newspaper Postage.
The House Postal Committee yesterday
agreed to and will to-dav report favorably
a bill to provide lor the prepayment of pos
tage on piinted matter. The bill provides
the following charges: On newspaper and
periodical publications issued weekly and
more frequently than once ft week, one
cent and five mills for each pound or frac
tion thereof, and on those issued less fre
quently than once a week three cents for
each pound or fraction thereof. Upon the
receipt of such newspapers arid periodical
publications at the office of mailing they
shall bo weighed in bulk, and postage paid
thereon by a special adhesive stamp, to be
devised and furnished by the Postmaster
General, which shall be affixed to such
matter, the sack containing the same, upon
a memorandum of such mailing, to be made,
or otherwise, as the Postmaster General
may from time to time provide by regula
tion. Newspapers, one copy to each ac
tual subscriber residing within the county
where the same are printed, in whole or in
part, and published shall go i.rce through
the mail; but the same shall not bo deliv
ered at letter-carrier offices or distributed
by carriers unless postage is paid thereon
as by law provided ; and newspapers and
magazines reciprocally interchanged be
tween publishers, and not exceeding six
teen ounces in weight, to be confined to a
single copy of each publication, snail go
free through the mails.
GHOBaXA’sTWsirSSA.
Tee Muster Roll o? tee “Immortals."
A ITerahl Reporter called upon Colonel
Sam. C. Williams of the Executive De
partment, who lia3 charge of the military
forces of the State, the arming, tho com
missioning and tho organizing thereof.
Colonel Williams very courteously gave
us the following information in regard to
the Governor's forces.
TEE CAVAI.RV FORCE AND EQUIPMENTS.
There are eleven companies of cavalry
armed and ready for service iri tho State.
Thev aund«er forty men, by tho regulations
though some of them run up to sixty. They
are armed with splendid Remington revol
vers and sabres.
Two of these companies are tho oldest
military organizations in the State. Tho
Georgia Hussars, (Captain AVariug) Sa
vannah, were organized in 1785. Tho Lib
erty Independent Troop of Mclntosh, was
organized in 1785. Tho nino other com
panies are, the Etowah Dragoons; tho
Hancock Troop of Calvary; tho Richmond
ITussars; the Glynn Guards of Brunswick;
tho Burke llusaara; tho Hardwick Iliflo
men of Eden, Bryan county; tho Scrovou
Troop of Sylnania, Scrovou county; tlio
Jefferson Hussars of Louisville* and tho
Mclntosh light Dragooua.
Tho cavalrymen armed, aud ready for
duty—number just live hundred [and fifty
men,
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ThE ARTILLERY AND TUIEH QUKfJ.
There is one company of artillery j ro
vided with a battery, so far. This tho
Chatham Artillery, of Savannah, organized
in 1786. This company is armod with
four twcivo-pound Napoleon guns, and
numbers, rank and silo, sixty-seven men.
Thero is one othor artillery organization in
Georgia—at Bainbridgo—with officers
elected and commissioned, but no battery.
Tho artillery forco then ready* for service
is only sixty-sovon men and one battery.
THE IFFANTRY PATTALIONS,
The infantry ia decidedly the most pop
ular branch of the service.' There are
now organized arid armed in Georgia, thir
ty-nine companies. Os theso, twenty-two
aro armed with Springfield breech load
ing rifle muskets, and the others with muz
zle loaders of tho same mako, Tho com
panies must have by law, fifty niombers be
sido commissioned officers, but will average
rank and silo, sixty-two. This gives us an
infantry force ready for servieo of 2,418
men.
THE QUESTION OF MORE ARMS.
The arms for this force of militia aro ob
tained under a law of Cuongress passed in
1803 for tho purpose of arming and estab
lishing a militia. This act appropriates
$200,000 per annum for this purpose, to
be divided proportionately among the
States. Georgia drew last year her pro
portion for tlie past thirteen years, having,
been prevented by the war from drawing
any during that period. The quota is
now drawn up to June, 1874. The allot
ment has averaged $4,000 a year for thir
teen years. In July of this year the Gover
nor will draw tho present year’s quota of
$5,000. This will enable the Governor to
equip about three companies, The equip
ments for one company cost $1,500, or $24
to each man. It will cost $13,000 to pur
chase a WU&t
-.lt wIH take three years*
quota to purenaso one battery, so that our
artillery branch will likely languish for a
while,
THE GREAT UNARMED.
There are now eighty companies in Geor
gia unarmed, but with officers commission
ed and organization complete. There will
bo steps taken, when the Legislature meets
towards getting on appropriation of one
hundred thousand dollars from the State
to devote to the arming of militia. This
amount will purchase two batteries of six
guns each ($20,000), and arm forty-five
companies of infantry. This would give
jus a capable forco, ready for instant duty,
of three batteries of urlillery, three squad
rons of cavalry, and ten regiments of in
fantry—a very respectable little army.
As tho matter now stands Governor
Smith is commander of
One Battery of Artillery 70 men
Three squadrons of Cavalry. 650 “
Thirty-nine companies of Infantry. 2,418 “
Total forco.:..™ 3,038 “
Os these three companies aro negroes.
Wouldn’t ho cut a pretty figure with this
little handful, telling President Grant that
“the argument was exhausted and we must
stand by our arms
New York city nlonc has 22,000 troopß,
Georgia, however, had only 1,400 when tho
war broke out, and she made a pretty good
little tussel. TFe are twice 08 rich in troops
how as we were then, , .
Tho negro companies are tho Lincoln
Guards of Macon, Light lufantry of Atlanta
and Light Infantry of Savannah.
The Colored Man and the Aver
age Democrat.
The Brooklyn Union thus draws an effec
tive picture of individuals v/e see about us
everyday: . . .
“The averatre Democrat can no more
hide his real nature than the Ethiopian he
so heartily bates can change Ins skiu.
Ever since the war the average Democrat
has been making a great ado about his in
clination to “accept the situation,” to ac
knowledge the constitutional amendments,
and to count colored men’s votes for De
mocratic candidates as often as if they
were white men's. But despite all these
pretences, any hint toward actual equality
of races has aroused the average Democrat
'to the liveliest indignation. Just now the
passage of the civil rights bill fills him with
abject terror lest, if legal disqualifications
be removed from all citizens, he, the aver
age Democrat, must marry his daughter
to the colored man, cr perhaps himself
marry the colored woman.
The average Democrat is evidently
afraid to trust himself in these matters,
and demands protection against himself by
constitutional or statutory provisions. The
social catastrophes predicted as certain to
follow upon the enactment of civil rights
are altogether improbable, lho recogni
tion of such rights is inevitable upon the
theory of citizenship. To make lho Afri
can a citizen, aud prohibit to him the com
mon privileges of citizenship, is a farce.
But it does not follow because the law con
cedes them to him that he will abuse them,
or so use them as to miiko himself ridicu
lous Tho colored mail is more sensible
A»n tho average Democrat,
resiiectf.il. Jle show* a positive dchcacy
about going whew ho is not wanted—which j
[Terms, Two Dollars a Year, in Advance.’
is more than can be stud of the .average
Democrat. The African., population will
behave with as much reserve and .propriety,
after the passage of tho bill ns it. behaved
before. Let tho average Democrat compose
I ''is disordered feelings.... JIo need not ashj'
tho colored man to dinnor. or make him liia
son-inlaw, or marry the colomj woman, un
less ho be exceedingly anxious to do so.
If tho averago Democrat has an irresistibio
inclination to anything of the kind, why
should the law obstruct him?”—charles
ton Chronicle.
♦ O-*- - ' , :
Tho Education Os Tho Body.
There Is probably no people on earth qp.
criminally careless of the c-duontkm of thelji
bodies as tho Southern people.
The parade of one of our Ore pr military
companies shows plaiuly the laelt of physi
cal training, and presents a practical pleo
for a reform. There is scarcely half a dor.eq
sturdy, square-sliouldored. . broad-chested,
six foot feljows in all our regiment of sot
diors, while thero are dozeus who after a,
mile’s march will stagger under their gunii,
and spraddle at every step they take.
There is no climato better adapted tp
tho perfect dovolopwoht of body and mus
eje than ours. Thero is iio better blood
flowing through tho voins of men than ouq
Huguenot ancestors gavo U3. And yet
our young men t>ro weak and flabby ; oux
grown men age faster and decay quicker
than any men on earth, :
The reason of this Is apparent. Tho
education’ of the body, the stiffening of tho
thews mid sinews, the toughening of tho
muscle is totally neglected. AVe have al
State University without a sign of a gym.'
naslum; and that , institution turns out
weaklings rather than inch. The mind ia
stuffed with learning, aud prodigies are
produced, but at the sacrifice of health and
snap and vigor. Our schoolboys, instead
of blossoming into study roystorers, sucli
as ltugby sends out, or such young giants
as win famo at Eton, wither and droop
from tho very day they lake lo hooks to
such an oxtont that it has bocoine fashion
able for American fathers to stop their
children from school until can recover
their lest health. Imagine tin old .English
gentleman sending to Bngbg and asking
his son to come homo, iol recover his vigor
and health. Who if little Johnny is suffer
ing from debility, he is posted off gt once
to that scene of foot ball and cricket as a
romedy for his ailings. . .
In Atlanta we have only one club that
pays the least attention to the development
of muscle, or to tho building up of the phy
sical man and that is tlie Oermiah “Tur
ners. , .
ii ‘ u 'i Lifam TctitT 'Cth c^*
. r lJun vAiuvr . j, t
stones clacking jokes upon dry goods
boxes, but never stir except when driven
to do so,and then drop at f-ie first friendly
sitting place, AVe should get out of tliitf
lazy way of living. Onr. colleges and
schools should have gymnasiums, our cities
should have clubs devoted i to out-door
sports, and our young men should be taught
that there is nothing more honorable than
to excel in manly olyinfiicsi AVo should
do away with the flaccid young men and
make the average Southerner what hiv
should bo, a sturdy, broad shouldered young
giant; full of glow and fien.li.fi and ruddi
ness ; able to push himself through life and
assert his rigk ts in any crowd. ,
Asa start in tliisi directipri we are glad
to announce that the Bair Association bus
determined to offer some handsome prizes
to tlio best gymnastic club, and the best
single gymnast at tho coining State Bair.—
Atlanta Herald. , ,
To Destroy the Cotton Worm.
Tho newspapers aro always coming for
ward with something new. The latest and
most interesting is an original plan to des
troy tho cotton worm, invented, it is said,
by a Louisiana planter. First and fore-;
most, he discovered that the worms are
quite helpless, and, with the exception of.
their digestive organs, torpid, and that if
from any causa they fell upon the ground
they inglorioiisly died. . \V hereupon, this
beneficent Granger bethought him of ft
plan. He took a four of swamp wheels
which wore lying in his. stable yard, mis
pended from tlie axle thereof a swinging
rake with long teeth —say four inches apart
—so adjusted as to brush the foliage of tho
plant very briskly, and then, harnessing
a pair of mules to those wheels, he procee-.
ded to run over his crop at the rate of
about fifteen acres a day. . leaving onlj f
forty acres, he accomplished this object la
three days. ~ ;
The plan worked handsomely.
sands of worms lay upon tlie ground, where
they died. The process was repeated
twice afterward, at such intervals as seemed
necessary, and the Louisiana planter
his cotton free of its worst enemy. The-
New Orleans . Picayune vouches for tho
reliability of the story..
Reduction ok tee Army.— Mr. Coburn
bill for the gradual reduction of the army
one of those measures which are proposed
by the chairmen of committees that have
really nothing to do. As the bill, is entire
ly unnecessary it is a very bad bill. The
reduction of the number of regiments, and
consequently of the officers of the. line, is
especially bad. It will he seen that the
bill, a copy of which we print this
comtemplates a reorganization of the army
but the only idea which enters, hit®,
reorganization is the idea ,<ft reduction, t *
is to be hoj»ed. therefore, will
pass: Our army is already too small ,V»
protect tho expensive territory west off ft e
Mississippi from the marauding excursh ins
ot the savages, and the army register
not contain too many naffies lor the spf»dy
organization of a sufficient force .*« W<*
war. Nobody expected an armv
Mr. Coburn, merely liccausc to
bo Chairman of the House' CoffiPJft 0
M ilitaiy Affairs, >'» «* «g* **
11,r0w., out as an ,«»notary measure.
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