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j Published Every Thursday Korning.] VOL. IX. I R.M. JOHNSTON, : Publisher, for tue | SUN PUBLISHING CO. K t TKHMS OF SIBSIMPTIOJT I H>vr: Copy, One Year, $2,00 Hk*.\n Cojt, Six Months : : 1,00 Hb-'E Corv, T 1 nee Months : 75 Ahvajs In Ailvence. Our Club UritcK l I We desire the efforts of oar friends in I ,Srathem Georgia in tlio extension of the cir- I dilation of the Sun ; and, in answer to the f , it rs received daily in regard to the matter, f we refer them to. our Clubing ltates below Five Copies, one year - $9 Ten Copies “ - - - 17 Fifteen Copies ... 25 Twenty Copies ... 30 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, < ''l‘V* 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. Now subscribe r£* Sun only 82,00 a year. lh NO. 51;