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THE EASTMAN TIMES.
JAMES BISHOP, - - Editor,
R.S. BURTON, - - Asst
THURSDAY JANUARY 22, 1874.
Tlm; Finances in Congress.
The first atttempt of the House at
a solution of the financial difficulties
which confront the Treasury and the
C mntry is anything but satisfactory.
The action of that body Monday was
airnply childish. If the House iad
been organized upon the basis of the
Pickwick club we could possibly ac
count for its extraordinary perform
ance on Monday last, but since it is
not, we confess to an utter inability
to see either rhyme or reason in its un
precedented foolishness and absurdity-
First of all it approved a proposi
tion to inflate the currency; two
seconds afterwards it voted that there
was no necessity for inflation or in
creased taxation, and the next min
ute it indorsed a resolution against
any increase of the interest or non
interest, bearing indebtedness of the
Government.
It is impossible to reconcile these
conflicting votes, No theory can be
abduced in their support which would
hold good anywhere outside the walls
of the lunatic asylum. If one was right
the other was certainly wrong, and if
the third was sound and sensible the
others were ridiculous. The whole
performance looks so much like trifling
with a great and important question,
involving so many of the vital in
terests of the country, that the specta
cle will carry sorrow to the friends of
the dominant party in the House, and
be pointed to as another evidence of
the indifference of members, or of
their incompetency to meet the emer
gencies of the situation. A parcel of
mere school boys could not have done
any worse, and might have done a
good deal better. No apology that
can be offered will explain awy the
nonsensical and contradictory report
which, in the very beginning, has
beeff so foolishly amUperhaps thought
lessly made.
Congress might as well understand
that this policy will not do, and that
the country will not stand very much
stupidity, such ns that which it was
called upon to witness on the occa
sion to which we refer. We do not
wish to be understood as blaming
either Mr. Kelley or Mr Hawley or
Mr. Holman The first mentioned has,
we believe, laborel honestly and
faithfully to find the best way out of
present difficulties; no one will ques
tion Mr. Iloloman’s sincerity, and
Mr. Hawley meant well enough in
the matter. What we especially
complain~of, [’ar.d what the country
will be certain to condemn, is the
self stulification upon the part
of the majority of the House who
voted as the impulse prompted with
out the least regard to the effects of
their votes in the way of demoralizing
the public inspiring a want of con
fidence and courage where courage
and confidence are so much needed.
If the House wishes to win the re
spect of the people it will not repeat
the nonsense and absurdity which
showed itself so thoroughly capable
of committing in the beginning of the
week. —National Repuhlican.
Confiscation in South Carolina.—
The pretence of the King that the
taxes are no heavier than last year is
utterly false. While it is true that
the rate of the tax has not been aug
mented, assessments have been in
creased to an extent that in many
instances has doubled or trebled the
taxes. A gentleman[ living in this
city who owns real estate in Marion
county, has received a note from his
sgent that his lands have been assess
ed by the Board of Equailizatioii at
$13,592, and that the amount of his
taxes this year is $111,84. Last year
ho paid sl3l 34 on the same land.
The writer further adds: ‘The taxes
this year are double, and in some
cases treble, as much as last year.
There is great dissatisfaction among
the people, and a great many will not
be able to pay.’— Charhston Courier
Bragan & Harris of West Point’
mail contractors, are gradually get
ting themselves in trouble for not
carrying the mails from Hawkinsville
to Irwinville and Jacksonville. The
people of Wilcox and Telfair c unties
have jjeen deprived of their mails for
three weeks.
Bloggy says he was knocked almost
flat the other day by suddenly reflect
ing that nearly all the pretty girls are
but incipient mother-in-law.
THE LEGISLATURE.
FIFTH DAY.
Atlanta, January 19.
THE SENATE —BILLS INTRODUCED.
To change the lines between the
co uties of Pierce and Wayne and
Pierce and Appling.
To amend Article 12 of the Constitu
tion.
To abolish the office of Tax Receiv
er, and to establish the office of Tax
Assessor for several counties of the
State.
By Mr. Knight, to allow Bind &
Moore to open the Alapaha river for
the purpose of rafting timber.
Resolutions were adopted congratu
lating Texas upon the result of the re
cent election, and thanking Gov. Smith
for his manly protest to Col. Swain,
against military interference in the
State
bills on third reading.
To amend the lien laws in reference
to yearly crop*, was made * the spe
cial order for Wednesday.
To change the time for holding the
Superior Couit of the Western circuit.
Passed.
THE HOUSE.
BILLS OX FIRST READING.
By Mr. Smith, of Telfair, to compen
sate maim and soldiers in place of the
artificial limbs provided for under the
act approved 1808.
By Mr. Dell, to amend the act creat
ing a County Court in each county in
the State, except certain counties
therein named.
By Mr. Hudson, to regulate the
charges of freight by transportation
companies
By Mr. McArthur, to better secure
public safety and protect the traveling
public from accidents on railways and
steamboats ; to amend the act to pro
tcct the public in sale of kerosine oil.
By Mr. Mills, to define the powers
of the Judge of the Superior Court in
Chatham county in cases coming up
from the City Court.
By Mr. DeLoach, to amend section
4,528 of the Code in reference to car
ing deadly weapons, giving one halt
the fine to informers ; to regulate tolls
on toll bridges on the Ogccchee be
tween Bryan and BuUoch.
By Mr. Jenkins, of Putnam, to make
false representation touching certain
contracts for services a misdemeanor,
and to prescribe punishment for the
same.
By Mr. Smith, to compel parties en
gaged in getting timber to keep the
public roads in repair ; to prevent the
sale of deadly weapons to minors.
By Mr. Richardson, to strengthen
landlords’ liens ; to prevent burning
gin-houses ; to regulate freight char
ges by railroads.
By Mr. Wall, to require dealers in
fertilizers to furnish printed analysis ;
to make it penal to sell spirituous liq
uors within three miles of any church,
academy or meeting-house.
By Mr. Twitty, to authorize the
Commissioners of Roads and Revenue
in Mitchell county to issue bonds to
pay off indebtedness.
By Mr. Lyon, to amend the act es
tablishing County Courts in Dougherty
and Lee.
By Mr. Glasson, to render certain
property, now exempt, subject to levy
and sale.
By Mr. Fort, to repeal the act rela
tive to the giving in arid payment of
taxes on wild lands.
Mr \\ ells introduced a joint resolu
tion to appoint a committee to inves
tigate the appropriation of SB,OOO to
the Atlanta University (a colored
school), and to examine into the expe
diency of continuing said appropria
tion ; and to investigate the charge of
H. M. Turner that the Governor had
not paid said appropriation. The rules
were suspended and the resolution
passed. Messrs. \\ ells, Deabodv and
Felton were appointed.
Mr Carlton introduced a resolution
authorizing the government to issue
arms to the State Agricultural Col
lege, which was referred to the Milita
ry Committee.
The Speaker announced the follow
ing committee on the part ot the House
on amendments to the Constitution :
Messrs. Fierce, llogc, Williamson,
Mercer, Tutt, Hudson and Baker.
On motion of Mr. Williamson, the
bill providing for a constitutional con
vention, was made the special order
for Tuesday week instead of Wednes
day next, as the Georgia State Grange
meets here on that day, and many
members of the House will he absent.
The opponents also asked a postpone
ment as an accommodation on account
of the absence of some of them.
TERRIFIC TRAGEDY.
Fraticide Bloody Beyond Words.
Milwaukee, January 11.-VBob Tur
ner, of Tatosi, Grant Wis.,
has been arrested for the murder of
his brother Albert.
which has just been concluwS reveal
ed a blood-thirsty propensthe
part of Bob. The murderer man was
killed with an axe, his lead, being
nearly severed from his lAly..as he
was coming out of a minerarkole* in
which he had been at work. He fell
back speecnless and neve^raoved. —
Tlie murderer then called another
brother who was in an adjoining shaft,
and this brother, named Newton, com
menced climbing out. Whedfle reach
ed the surface he saw the body of his
murdered brother Albert, and was
about to run, when Bob seized him,
and showing him the bloody axe,
threatened to kill him instai&fy unless
he would swear to assist putting
the body away, and to prßerve si
lence. This Newton assenkJto, but
at th3 first opportunity lie Sftped to
Baton, where he gave the ajjin. The
murderer fled to Lancaster. He was
pursued, arrested and lodged in pris
on, where he soon attempted to take
the life of his keeper.
It 1 las just come to life that a boy
named Neely was murdered by Tur
ner near New Castle, on December
2:>d, his neck being almost severed
from his body by an axe. Several
other mysterious murders havii g taken
place in localities in which Turner had
been seen, Marshall Bennett visited
the prisoner and asked him to confess
if lie had any hand in them. He final
ly confessed that he remembered kill
mg two men—a stranger who he had
encountered in a deep ravine at the
back of the poor-farm and thereupon
attacked and murdered him, hiding
the body. The other man he met on
the road to Muskada, where he was
going to get work He says that the
hitter made threatening jeslures, and
with a four pound weight, which he
carried in his pocket, struck him two
blows over the eyes, smashing in his
skull and killing him instantly, lie
dragged the body into the bushes to
conceal it. Now that he h&s made a
confession he delights to talk of the
many persons he has killed and gloats
over the skill with which he has con
cealed their bodies, and declares that
if they were got together there would
t>e nearly forty of them.
THE GREAT BOND FORGERIES.
Capture of oue of the Operators
in Eoimlom.
, A cable dispatch was received in
New \*"rk on Thursday, announcing
the capture ol Stephen Raymond, a
noted New York forger, in London.—
The intelligence of his arrest was
communicated to the District Attorney
who wants him on and indictment for
forgery in the first degree. He is
charged with having been one of the
ringleaders of the band of swindlers
operating around Walljstreet last sum
mer, with forged bonds of the New
York Central and Buffalo and Erie
Railroad Companies. They passed
over $400,000 of the fraudulent "bonds,
and counted among their victims a
score of more of prominent bankers
and brokers. They negotiated a. out
one million dollars throughout the
whole country, and expected to sell
twice as many, when they were ex
posed.
Roberts and Gleason, who are in
the Tombs awaiting trial, are said to
be the persons who furnished Iho cap
ital for conducting the forgeries The
writing was done by Gottleib Engels,
the most expert forger in the United
States, who is a fugitive from justice,
'fhe siguatuies were so cleverly exe
cuted that about foity thousand dol
lars of the bonds were passed on one
of the railroad companies without sus
picion as to theiv character. The share
wh'ch Raymond is charged by the
District Attorney with having taken
in the forgery, was to negotiate about
SIO,OOC of the bonds. The remainder
were negotiated by Gates, Brown and
Johnson, now in the Tombs, and by
Williamson and Ralston, who escaped
abroad. One of Raymond’s victims
was S. V. White, a large banker in
Wall street, who lo st many thousand
dollars. The forger was introduced
to him by an acquaintance named Rob
erts.
Raymond’s proceeds from Gleason
and R< bu’ts amounted to about $40,-
000. With this sum he fled to Europe
in July lust, accompanied by a Mrs.
Bowden. Ilis whereabouts were un
known until about a month ago, when
District Attorney Phelps, or one of his
assistants, got word that he was living
in luxurious style in the east end of
London. Detective William Pinker
ton was subsequently sent there with
a warrant from the Secretary of State
for his extradition. The officer was
accompanied by Mr. White im.l trav
elled incognito , so that tllj larger
should not receive notice of his com
ing from his metropolitan friends.—
Chief Inspector Palmer and Inspector
Shaw apprehended him at one of the
races, where he was betting heavily.
Right Kind of Matrimony
We advise all, of every condition,
to marry. It is no excuse to say the
times are hard. They have a saying
in Ireland that two can pull better
and stronger than one, particularly if
they pull together. Therefore, begin
at once. The harder the times the
greater necessity for companionship,
comfort and consolation
Lhe Chri&tain Intelligencer, treating
of “Suitable in Marriage/' remarks
that the marriage which is based on a
fair mutual estimate of character ;
which is the union of kindred minds,
the concurrence of two natures suited
to each other ; the interblending’ of
two hearts made one by pure and holy
affection, is indeed the nearest ap
proach to heaven that can be made on
earth through any human relationship.
Marriage does, indeed, involve so
muck the wonder is that it should be
treated of so ligh.ly in common talk,
and its state often entered upon as
though it w re but a lottery, with a
lew prizes and many blanks.
Men or Beast —ln a speech at Lam
beth (England'! Joseph Arch said:
•Thousands of acres remain unculti
vated while idle laborers starve in
lie winter. 7 This means something
in England, where acres are few com
paratively, aed there is no doubt of
the truth of the last clause of the
statement. The former is made plain
enough by the fact that the Duke
Argyle has just served notices to
quit on a number of his farmers, in
order that he may make a deer forest
live miles square. It will be remem
bered that the Duke of Sutherland,
whose wile was so much exercised
over the sorrows of American slaves,
and ispose&md Scotch tclients to make
room for sheep walks. The Duke
of Argyle has written so much on the
theory of theology that perhaps he
has not time to put into practice.
Acres are not few, however, in the
United States, and yet we have agita
tors from Euaope in our midst who set
up outcries that show no appreciation
of wide difference here and there. It
may be safely assumed that these
agrarian leaders from abroad are
men who have no disposition or pur
pose to work themselves, and take ad
vantage of the temporarily unemploy
ed in this country, who are industrious
when work is at hand, to get up a
wild and dangerous agitation on
which they themselves may live at
expense of their felllow-men.
A professional betting man made
a good thing of it on the occasion of
a lire which lately broke out at the
cotton sampling offices of a # firm in
Liverpool. While the conflagration
was at its height, and the burning
cotton was being thrown out of the
windows upon the flags below, a num
ber of brokers stood in the street dis
cussing the sum which the waste
would realize. Our friend offered to
bet a guinea that the burned cotton
would bring XT 5, and as this
was apparently far beyond its value
he found no difficulty in finding per
sons willing to take the bet. Tin's
lie did until twenty people accepted
the wager for a guinie each, lie af
terward went to the sale and bought
the cottim for 16, which he then sold
lor 12, sustaining a loss of 4 upon
the purchase, but pocketing sixteen
guineas as his net profits upon the
transaction.
A young man who enjoys the sobri
quet of “Frank/* in parting with a
young lady the other night, endeavor
ed to impress the customary kiss,
when she forcibly pushed back his
head, and said, “No, sir, you don’t
the franking privilege has been abol
ished. 77
It is a common fallacy in regard to
diet that brain-workers need less nu
triment than muscle workers. The
change of tissue in the brain, that
•takes place during sludgy and thought,
are very important and very rapid,
and must be replaced by abundant
food.
The Covington Enterprise prints the
following valuable information as to
how the girls of that'town stand on
the marriage question:
We have 112 single ladies b tween
the age of fifteen and forty. Ninety
one of these are after a man
with money; two are anxious to mar
ry a doctor; one will take a lawyer
or a fiddler, she don’t care whieff;
three are \lost to los ,” and express
their preference for a drug clerk; five
want a dry goods clerk, and one is
alter a grocery clerk, and two desire
an express man; seven will take any
thing in the form of a man, ‘Oh Lord!’
There was one who wauted an editor,
but her friends sent her to the insane
asylum, where she ought to have been
thirty-four years ago
Boully of the Hamilton Visitor, is
fast departing from those paths of
truth and virtue in which we used
fondly think he was firmly anchored.
Hear him:
Mr. J. W. Bonner of Merriwether
cqunty, was lately taken sick, and
complained of a pain in his stomach.
During the night he vomited a min
now fish of the homey-head species
having one side covered with moss.
It is supposed to have been in his
stomach for twenty years, and the
moss on its side is aeounted for from
its having lain so long in a torpid
state. Alter having thrown up the
iish, the patient felt no further pain.
Boully for Boully.
Deports from New York city con
t nue very favorable as regards the
present and prospective business in
money, stocks and goods. Not a
few firms which were in difficulty
during the panic are enabled to pay
oil t eir back indebtedness much ear
lier than creditors expected. Among
others it, is announced that Petike,
Op3 T dyke & Cos. are anticipating notes
which do not fall due until March next.
In stocks the renewed upward move
ment must be accepted as the result
of natural causes—and, notably, the
increasing abundance of money.
The Freedman’s Bank to be Investigated.
It is said that a movement is aboout to be
made in the House of Representatives, at
Washington. for a thorough examination into
the affairs of the Freedman's Bank. Under
the law granting a charter, no reports are
provided for, nor is there any satisfactory way
of getting a clear showing of the condition of
theOoustituiiou, the law merely providing tli at
Cougres-i shall have the right to inspect
which it never has yet done. A connection
with the Washington ring is strongly suspected'
the officers of the bank have grown suddenly
wealthy, it is said, and altogether there seems
to boa fair field for inquiry. No like con
cern ever yet lias had so good an opportunity
for defrauding, and if it lias neglected the
chance, the development of the fact will be a
lefreshing relief to the monotonous thievery
of the day.
When the nmv St. Patrick’s cathedral in
New York is completed it will undoubtedly
be the most imposing and attractive public
buildings, in the metr< p *lis. Upwards of a
million and a half dollars have already been
expended on the structure, and it is expected
that the roof will be reached by next Novem
ber.
Could anything be neater than the
old darkey’s reply to a beautiful young
lady whom he offered to lift over the
gutter, and who insisted that she was
too heavy ! “Lor, missus,” said he,
“Esc used to lifting barrels of sugar.
Mrs. Marshal Bazine is a beautiful
Mexican woman, only twenty ight
years of age, and with bright intelli
gent features. She is said to favor
Adalina Patti, and love her husband
devotedly. They have two children a
boy and a girl, the first five years
old. No wonder the old man became
so excited when his sentence was pro
nounced.
Nothing brightens a true woman
like love. She will do anything, bear
anything, suffer anything for the .sake
of a husband who truly and devotedly
loves her, and whose heart is one with
hers. When such love ends widow
hood begins.
Nearly thirty millions of the fortv
four million greenback reserves have
been already issued by Secretary
Richardson without authority of law.
Meanwhile gold has crept .back from
106 to 112. At the same rate, an is
sue of one Imnered million new green
backs would run gold up to 132, and
speculators would be happy.
According to the New Haven Reg
ister there are in Connecticut ‘very
few churches which would be wiling
to admit negroes to membership on
an equality with the whites.’
The Barnesville Patriot says that
more small grain has been sown in
Pixe county than was ever kuown be
fore.
The Archbishop of Canterbury (p r
Tail,) speaking on the position and
mission of the English Church, say a it
is no part of its business to make in
roads upon dissent, but rather to
make inroads upon ungodliness.
The Tribune thinks that when Cabi
net officei s misappropriate the contin
ent fund, and Qo/gressmen filch
pocket knives, and inkstands, and bay
rum, we need not be surprised to find
collectors speculating with the public
funds, and pOs:masters rilling the
mails, and paymasters cashiered fur
defalcation.
We hope the Legislature will tax dogs
over one, on the same plantation, SSO each,
or cause the owners of such as destry stock, to
pay ten-fold damages. There is no necessity
for dogs roaming at large over the country
destroying stock that should go to the sup
port of the people One mutton or veal is of
more value than a thousand worthless dogs.
Do Grangers get their goods cheaper than
those who are not; This is a question that is
just now agitating the minds of many.
M. & B. R. R. TIME TABLE.
Down Trains.
Stations. Arrive. Leave.
a( r°n. 8:30 am
M. & B. Yard 8:10 a m 8 40 a m
, 9:13 am 9:10 a m
Bullard ' 9:llam 9.42 am
Buzzard Roost 10:18 a m 10 *2l ' m
Cochran 11:09am 11:14 a m
Dffixus • 11:52 am 11:55 am
Lastman 12:33 p m 12:40 p m
Chatmcey ] :18 pm j :21 p m
Mcßae 1.59 p m 2:IV p m
Towns 2:53 p m 2:55 p m
Lumber City 3,17 pm 3:19 pm
lUzlehurst 3:45 p u 3 :47 p m
Graham 4:08 pm 4:11 p m
Baxley 4:44 pm 4: 40 p m
Currency 519 p m 5:22 p M
Satilla 5:55 pm 5:55 pm
Jesup 0:30 p m
Up Trains.
Stations. Arrive. Leave.
desup 0;00 a m
Satilla 6.40 a m 6.40 a u
Surrenoy 7.21 a m 7.30 a m
Baxley 8.00 a m 8.20 a m
Graham 9.06 a m 9.11 a m
Hazlehurst 9.33 am 9.30 am
Lumber City 10.07 am 10 09 am
Towns 10.35 a m 10.37 a m
Mcßae 11.17 am 11.19 am
Chauncey 11.58 am 12.00 m
Eastman 12.37 P M 12.52 pm
Dubois 1.31 p m 1.33 p m
Cochran 2.09 p m 2.14 p m
Buzzard Rocst 3.04 pm 3.07 p m
Bullard 3.45 pm 3.40 pm
Reid 4.14 p m 4.17 p M
M A B Yard 4.52 p m 4.52 p m
Macon 5.00 pm
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