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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. THE PEOPLE’S PAPER. THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. 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