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THK EASTMAN TIMES.
R. S. BURTON, - Proprietor,
H. W, J, HAM, - - - - Editor.
WEDNESDAY. JULY 16. 1873..
THE NATIONAL PRESS ASSOGIA
TION.
“IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH.”
Combinations of All Interests for
Mutual Benefit.
The Press of the United fctates-
Its l ower. Privileges, and
Prerogatives.
At tlic last Press Association for
the State of Georgia, in Ameri
cas in May last, a set of resolutions
were offered and adopted, looking to
the formation of a National Press As
sociation. Hitherto wc have had but lit
tle to say on the subject, wishing to
fully mature our ideas and view the
subject in all its different phases be
fore making i/p an opinion, We have
bestowed some thought upon it, and
the more we have canvassed the prop
osition the stronger has become our
conviction that it is one of the grand
est ideas which has ever originated in
the whole scope of journalistic wis
dom, and one which, if properly carried
out, will become a power that will rule
for weal or woe, the destiny of one of
the greatest nations upon the face of
the habitable globe.- Very few people,
unless they have bestowed some
thought upon this question, have any
i lea of the magnitude or proportioi s
of the power of the press in even a
single State ; for it is indeed a power
that can jnake a tyrant tremble, and
possesses the ability to foster, cherish,
and protect the lives and liberties of
the people. There is, perhaps, in the
enlightenment and progressiveness of
the nineteenth century, no better set
tled principle than that of the strength
and power of unions and combinations.
To our shame, be it said, they to-day
control even our very Legislatures
themselves ; and monied rings, and
political combinations, engineer and
run their selfish schemes through our
legislative bodies upon the very prin
ciple which to-day lies dormant in the
press of the United States, and which,
if properly combined and utilized,
would be a power beside which the |
sceptre of the Caesars would be as a j
wooden wand against the sword of a !
Homan Gladiator.
We are honest in our opinion when |
we say, that even men who occupy po
sitions on the press have no idea of
the power which they possess, and are
careless alike of the interests of their
patrons and the duties which they owe
to coming generations.
Under a republican form of govern
ment, where the people are their own
law makers and executors, it is vitally
necessary to their welfare, prosperity,
and happiness, that they should be ed
ucated up to the responsibility which
rests upon them, not only for their
present weal but for the perpetuation
of the principles of civil liberty, the
possession of which must bless, or the
lack of it curse, the rising generations.
If it be true, then, that the education
of the masses is the foundation rock
upon which rests the future prosperity
and happiness of a great people, the
question, of course, arises, From
whence is to come this light and knowl
edge that will enable them to act with
that circumspection so necessary to
the perpetuation of these great princi
ples ? The answer unmistakably is,
The Press. Here, then, brethren, is
the position wc occupy : The educa
tors of a people whose happiness in
the future, aye ! their very existence
itself, depends upon the teachings and
education of the present, and to our
mind there is today no position in the
gift of our people which carries with
it a greater responsibility than that
which wc voluntarily assume when wc
become one of the directors of this
great system of mass education.—
Feeling, then, the responsible position
which we occupy, how necessary is it,
in view of the great work to be per
formed, that wc should be united un
der a common banner, upon whose
folds should be inscribed, “United t<
defend, not combined to injure.” Rest
assured ’tis no child’s play upon whiel
you have entered. Fraud and corrup
tion, assisted by ignorance, stand witl
almost iron fr< lit, consolidated upoi
this very principle of combination, t(
dispute every inch of the gromu
against the march of civilization, edu
cation and liberty. The struggle wil
be a long and bard one ; politico
blandishments will seek to blind yu
| to the interests of those whose protec
tion and enlightenment you are pledged
to ; rings and monopolies will seek to
buy your silence, while “] urple and
line linen” in places of power will seek
to awe you into a silent recognition of
their usurpations ; but in God’s name,
by the blood of your fathers, and the
hope of liberty, face the issue like
men ; put your shoulders to the wheel,
and consolidate your united strength
into n power that shall shake the po
litical world from centre to circumfer
ence and make the tyrant tremble, with
your anathemas against corruption and
political intrigue; uphold the right, put
down the wrong, and plant the con
quering banner of intelligence upon
the mins of political dishonesty; trans
mit to your children the priceless heri
tage of liberty which was bought with
the blood of your ancestors, and in the
ages to come the echoing shout of the
victory of right over might shall re
ward you for your fearless defence and
combined protection of the great prin
ciples of civil liberty, then—
“Here shall the press the peopl ’s rights
maintain,
Unawed lay power, and unbribed by gain.
See preamble and resolutions adopt
ed lay the Georgia Tress Association
in another column.
OUR PROPRIETOR RURALIZES
HIMSELF A DAY IN THE
COUNTRY.
TOWX GALLASTS OS THE UAMI’AGK
Alarming Consumption of Sweet
Cider.
’Tis an old maxim, that
‘ When the cat’s; away
The mice will pi ty,”
and inasmuch as we went to Macon
last week, and happened to remain
over on Sunday, our proprietor, hug
ging to his bosom the sweet delusion
that we would never get the dots on
him, took himself off in the country to
enjoy the delicious breezes and exhi
rilating cider of that eldoradious clime.
One Mr. J. T. C. Attaway, who we will
look after in good time, took it upon
himself to decoy, haul, carry, or other
wise remove, our usually staid Bob,
bag, baggage, wife and household joys,
from the classic precinct of Eastman
in a handbarrow, cart, wagon, ambu
lance, or other wheeled vehicle, to
where cider, apples, good water, and j
other items of good living did so much j
abound, that for the past four days he !
has seemed unlike himself, and strong-1
lv inclines toward the life of an agri
cultuvist. We arrived home on Mon- j
day, and having heard of his outra-1
gcous conduct, went to him and ad
vised him to make a clean breast of;
the matter, promising him our editorial
forgiveness if he would tel), the whole
truth, whereat he shed a repentant
tear for the wrong he had done us, and
proceeded to tell the following story 7 : j
“On Sunday morning last Mr. Atta-j
way having concluded to rusticate a
day in the country, dispatched, ere the j
sun had made his appearance, a courier j
for me, with the information that he'
had chartered for the day a couple of
2:40 animulcs and a wagon of suffi
cient capacity to accommodate myself
and family, and that whether I came
or not I should bring my family with
me, or suffer the usual penalty. It so
happened I was easily persuaded, and
in a short while or less time, had suc
ceeded in removing the extra coating
of printer’s ink from the margin of my
; beholders, donned my (other shirt,
disposed of a light repast, and could
have been seen seated in company with
Mr. A. and family, and his son John
and family in the said wagon, and
cautiously wending our way toward
the residence of Mrs. Caroline Living
ston. It so happened, according to
our better half’s usual mode of asso
ciating herself on travels of the kind,
that the junior member of our family
group attended, and having nothing
else of interest to employ my mind, it
was unanimously agreed that 1 should
look after the youngster's then present
yearnings, hence our skip in our nar
rative till we reach the mouth ot the
lane leading to Mrs. L’s house.—
Arrived and alighted we were not the
. least provoked at being summoned to
the well where sat a cool keg of eider,
and neither were we clilitory in obo} T
ing the order to uncork and drink
; hearty—l tell you, Ham, that cider
was refreshing. Well, after taking in
cider to our utmost capacity, we re
tired to the house, passed a pleasant
half hour or so in peeling and hiding
apples, after which avc laid us down on
Ia pallet on the piazza, betting high (A
I a nap, the which wc would have won
! had we not been excite* by an appa
1 rition, as we them thought, approach
i ing llie house from townward. ANA
were determined to satisfy ourselves
as to the cause of this unexpected in
trusion, and therefore dejirred the nap
until we heard the story of two young
men starting font town on a huckle
berry hunt, getting lost, fording Gum
Swamp, and finally bringing up to a
lady’s house where there happened to be
some young ladies and “a little more
cider too”—but we shan’t tell on them.
Well, Ham, to wind up the thing, I
spent a most pleasant day, and left in
the afternoon villi as much cider on
board as J could conveniently 7 carry,
and apples enough in the wagon to
supply my 7 cravings for a week, togeth
er with many good wishes for Mrs L
and her apple orchard, and promised
myself on arriving at home, to repeat
my visit some day r , and inform y 7 ou
of the time and contemplated mode of
travel ”
Signs to Heeded.
We reprint below a short editorial
from the Missouri Republican, the
great leading Democratic paper of
the West, which appears in its issue
of the 3d instant. The article speaks
for itself, and we hope our people will
give it heed:
Recently' in a speech at Oswego, N.
Y. Mr. Windom, chainm-.n of the sen
ate committee on water lines to the
sea, said: “There has ncyer been a
time until now when any route could
hope to receive government aid, and
I do not know that any 7 can now, but
there are 12,000,000 of people in the
West determined to have a route to
the East.” Whether there never has
been a time until now is not pertinent
to our comments upon Mr. Windom’s
remarks. Suffice it that the West is
now determined. The governimr
power in the republic is a majority of
the people; and when a majority in
this country desire any action on the
part of the general government, they 7
demand it at the hands of the govern
ment, and if the demands is not met,
the stop is to elect a general govern
ment from their own ranks, of their
own way of thinking, who act accord
ing to the known will of their consti
tuents. The result is simple, and as
sure as simple. How vital to the
cheap transportation movement, then,
is it that a majority of the people
should favor action on the part of the
general government which will en
o o
sure cheap transportation. Mr. Win
dom tells us that the West is solid on
the question, and Governor Smith of
Georgia, a leader in the South, tells
us that the South will stand shoulder
to shoulder with the West in her
off>rtrt oil this question. fir* West
and the South are a majority 7 in this
government, and with a stinging
O' 7 O w
spank they have struck hands to se
cure “water to the sea,” and there
are fair-minded men in the .East who
are willing that the general govern
ment should aid in a matter so vital
to its interests.
The Frio canal is to-day transport
ing more freight than all the railroads
running East and West in Now York
combined, in November it will freeze
and remain frozen until April. The
Atlantic and Great Western canal
through Georgia to the sea will not
be closed, nor cost within ten millions
of dollars as much as the Erie; will be
one-third larger, and not being ob
structed by ice, will in consequence*
be equivalent in carrying capacity to
two Erie canals, and will connect by
a short link of water the Mississippi
River and its tributaries with the
Atlantic ocean, transporting a ton of
freight from St. Louis to the Atlantic
for $4 88. It offers cheaper transporta
tion than any of the water routes to
tho sea, and the next time Mr. W in
dom makes a speech lie may say that
22,000,000 of the people are determin
ed to have it or something like it.
Housekeeping iEi theSout’i Stas.
Housekeepers will be surprised to
learn that their custom of sending in
to a neighbor to borrow a little butter
or sugar or other articles of diet is
quite common among the savages of
Feejce. When a lady in Feejee has
some friends to dinner unexpectedly
she goes over to the woman across
the way and says, “Yak-yak and his
family have just dropped into dine,
and I haven’t a thing in the Imuse.
‘How do you think your Hired girl
would work up into a stew? Can
I borrow her for a few days?’ !she
seizes that domestic by the hair and
drags her over, chops her up with
i parsley and carrots, and celery tops
1 and cloves, and lets her simmer over
| the fire. Or inay-be the other woman
sends over and says: “I’m entirely
out of meat, can you lend me your
little William Henry for hash, or your
| Mary Jane for a pie?’ And over goes
William Henry and Mary Jane, and
they are stuck with a fork and basted
and put on to cook gently, and tlie
debt is paid off next week by the bor
rower sending back her aunt, already
boiled and suitable for cutting down
cold for tea, or one of "tier twins
corned so as to make a nice lunch.
.Somet m's a woman in this m inner
uili work of! a couple of her mother
in-laws, or a rich uncle, or a plump
second cousin, and then she will sit
at hoi window and suit! them as they
are cooking in the kitchen next door,
or watch one of the company in the
dining-room nibbling at the elbow of
her late hired girl. The custom
seems to us an excellent one, partieu
iarly when it is applied to hired girls.
Y\ e have had girls whom we would
have loaned to a neighbor at any time
under a solemn promise that they
should be butchered and boiled as
quickly as possible.— Max Adder in
Saturday Earning Pod.
Statue to Stonewall Jackson.
Thu officers of the Washington and
Lee { nivorsity and others have issued
an address to the effect that a colossal
equestrian stalin' of Stouwall Jackson
is now ready at Nuremberg, Bavaria.
Some $5,000 has been paid on it.
There remains about 20,000 to be
paid. This sum has to b raised, and
an appeal is made to the Southern
people to raise the money. The
statue is bronze, and is to be placed
in the grounds of the college at Lex
ington.
A painting of General Lee, by pro
fessor A. J. Volek is to be chromoed
and sold to raise money.
■ GEORGIA NEWS.
Thinking perhaps a typographical union or 1
something of the kind might spring up in our
growing town, and not knowing but what we j
might some day be reduced to the necessity of
following the business for a livelihood, theedi- ;
tor has begun to learn the art of typs-setting. '
This item is a sample of his first effort. !
without any outside help and we wish to ask
dm knowing ones, “how it is for high.’’
Burke ('oim*y lui& ; * L Grange of the Patrons ;
of Husbandry in full blast.
Frost, of the Waynesboro Expositor, says j
“the crops are right smartly in the grass.” As
Front is a good tiling to kill it, we wonder
the farmers do: it utilize him in th.it direction. •
Christian, of the Thomasville Times, wants to !
sell a Piano. Better keep it, Chris., and mar
ry some nice girl who can pi iv
“Music that hath charms to soothe a savage.
. I man in Mount Vernon was caught a few j
mornings since with a pair of stockings about
his person, and has had a huge time explain
ing to Ills wife how he came by them.
This is the delicate way the Hone Journo}
man sneaks of himself, “The individual who
uses the plm* 1 personal pronoun in modest
allusions to himself.”
The Xi ics cf* F finer man. regardless of
cholera has lovingly wraped his- editorial cor
por ition about the juicy ref rashness of bis first j
watermelon
The Home Journal man has a limb on winch
lie says there are tmnty-foar apples, and yet it
is only one foot long. Some green people be-1
leive the story.
Valdosta lifts her parched voice, and pitifully
calls for more cisterns.
Savannah is the proprietor of a refractory
egg, that persists in standing on end, and the
average manumit has grave suspicions of •‘con
jurin’’and other spiritual influences.
The Xeucs & Fanner man has turned to a
quack doctor, and gives the following prescrip
tion for the measles. He advises the* use ot asa- j
foetida, and says “Take frequent warm baths
in the liquid made very strong, and keep about
oue and a half pounds of the pure unadultera
ted article strung around the neck and con
stantly in close proximity to the proboscis.”
It reminds us of the doctor, when the old lady
asked him what was the matter with her eye;
taking a critical squint at the peeper he replied,
“Well, Madam; the ocularious membrane of
the diagnal retina, approximates too closely to
the cutaneous convexity of the submerged lens,
thereby producing a desultory contraction of
the oleaginous covering of the oculistic dia
phraghm.” Whereupon the old lady cried out
in a frightened tone, “La : Doctor; will it lull
a body.”
The Brunswick Appeal claims a “pretty
young man.” Wc would advise it to outer him
at the approaching State Fair, as it would bo
quite a curiosity.
Augusta boarding house keepers hang a hen
up in the sun where her shadow will fall into
a pot of salt water, and call the beverage chick
en soup.
Harris is responsible for the statement that
one of the Macon Independent Hash-Hiders
club wrote to a friend in the country to know
if buttermilk was ripe.
Major Haines, of the A. A G. Road, was in
Brunswick last week, and took occasion to take
a buggy ride in company with a lady. The
buggy had no back, and when the lady and
the Major finished picking themselves up out
of the yielding sand, they had very little back
bone. He says bobtail buggies are a humbug,
and a vexation of spirits and good clothes.
The West Point ladies show then pretty feet
by delicately poising their beautiful gaiters
upon the festive croquet balk
Gorman has been to Europe, Orope, Irup
and Stump, and since his return has the cheek
to say that he lias seen a eliicken with lour legs,
' sixteen toes, and a patent worm gathering at
| tachmcnt Eu rope-hoo
The Nett's it Fanner wants to gamble and
“ante's’ a glass of soda water that its landlady
! Luts the uoiscst cum in four btates.
Sealed proposals will l>e received by the
Company until the 21st ii.st. for the building
af the Louisville A Bethany Tram Railway.-*
The work is to be completed by the Ist of Jun
ta ry, 1871.
A Macon youth was so much interested in
the college exercises the other night, that he
lingered in such close proximity to the build
ing as to rouse the ire of the slumbering watch
man, who then and there pointed his Smith &
V, esson in the direction of the youngster’s
whereabouts and blazed away. He suddenly
lost all his interest in collegiate, and turned his
attention to turf exercises, and ‘ris said the
gravel down that hillside were disturbed at reg
ain* intervals of sixteen feet.
West Point was amused last week at a bash
ful couple who came modestly into that quiet
burg, and gushingly inquired fora squire.
That individual was found, and, while smiles
and tears played hide-and-seek on the fitfully
coloring nose of the sweat-faced maiden, and
a sigh of satisfaction bubbled up from the in
ternal improvements of the affectionate groom,
the man of law melted them together, and they j
made a bridal tour ot the town, patronized the :
cake and peanut stands, and then wended their !
toward their future domicile.
Crops Abroad.
All of the New England States ex
cept Vermont and Rhode Island prom
ise well.
Li \\ estern New York, New Jer
sey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland
aiiU Dele ware there has been drought
and only three-fourths oi a Corn crop
is poss sblejunder good circumstmet s
Hay in all this country will run to but
half a crop.
Ohio and Michigan will average
; well. Illinois has only a half crop oi
j corn, but a splendid yield of wheat.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas and
| North Missouri promise finely.
lowa has grasshoppets badly.
Nebraska will average well.
In the North and V est corn won't
reach generally more than a half crop.
W heat will attain a full average.—
There is, however, a good deal of last
year’s crop of corn on hand to supply
tin' deficiency.
The Virginias, Carolines and Ten
nessee promise well. Kentucky has
only half a crop but good corn. Louis
iana, and Texas are burdened with
grass.
Cal for nia and Oregon have better
crops than last year. Montana, Ida
ho, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada and
Yew Mexico have increased crops
Wyoming raises comparatively noth
ing.
The gra in crop of the whole country
will be slightly in excess of last year.
bruits have suffered all over the
country. The heaviest !< ss for years
is reported.
Preamble a i{i's3tUion:*yf t Izc
Georgia .Press Aswwiatiou.
Whereas, It has been the custom,
the “time whereof the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary,” to allow
the Leo transmission, Ihrough the
mails, of printed journals in exchange
with each other, and it has also been
untii a recent date, the immemorial
custom in this State to exempt from
taxation, the printing material of every
newspaper ; and,
Whereas, We regard the action of
the General Assembly of Georgia, in
levying a tax upon printing material
in this State, and that of Congress,
in requiring the payment ot postage
on exchanges, as invading the immuni
ties of the Press of the country, and
that such is not prom .dive of the best
interests of the people, does not ac
cord with the principles of republican
government, and is adverse to the
general welfare of th j country.
Whereas, We believe the custom
was salutary, and we hold that the
freedom of the Press is synonymous
with the liberty of the people, and
that such acts as referred to arc un
sound in policy, in that they serve
to embarrass the Press, and deprive
the people of an extensive diffusion of
news, and of a general diissemination
of useful intelligence, and
Whereas, The recent legislation of
Congress has deprived the Press of
some of its most valuable and valued
priveleges, which fact must bo taken
as a declaration of war against the
whole “fourth estate" by that depart
ment of the government, and that
actuated by a principle of sell
preservation, we must unite and pre
pare to defend from further aggression
the last remaining bulwark of a free
people, a free and untrammeied Press.
And
Whereas, Believing that in “union
there is strength,” and “Where no
counsel is the people fall, but in the
multitude of counselors there is
safet\the necessity of united action
by the Press of the country becomes
apparent, and as a complete remedy
for existing evils, and to oppose the
further inroads of oppression, we pro
pose the formation of a National Press
Association for the United
therefore, be it
Ist /esoterf, That the'
to:s Assoc alien appoint a e ' f
of live members thereof, to Coa r‘ MlifU ‘ 0
the fficers of other State AssoW T* 1 *
and with prominent (and p. j ‘
journalists throughout the rr,-' 1 " lsl
the purpose of formin'** a v .
Press Association.
2d &Wm/, That xud, C„ mmitt
be authorized, in behalf of the \< s 7
ation, to take all necessary stm <■
the formation of such an
as above mentioned, and that ,
Committee be required to report' f „
result of their action to the
at the earliest practicable period - ’
shall thereupon immediately call'
mooting ol the Association, to consil
er the same and appoint delegates
such National Convention.
and l heto.ved, I hat the object of tg.
| movement is to promote tile varied iJ
, terests of the whole people, the goner
a! welfare of the country, the dissemi
nation of knowledge, to resist the en
| eroachments of power, and for t|,.
preservation of constitutional liberty
4th he.su/ cat t l hat we recognize th
; lights, and the power of the people
that we respect their will, and vo
earnestly invoke their aid and encour
ugt imrui to ineenorrs or u lt
constitutional government and civil
liberty.
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