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PEN AND SCISSORS
—Petrified wlieni has been taken
frcui a California mine.
Paw Crockett's heirs claim half
the town of Austin. Texas.
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—r \ baby in Tennessee ha# a double
tonsrue —it’s n gal, of course.
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There art; seven Granges of Hus
Landry in Richmond county
. Greene Stiperio** Court. March
Term, will begin Monday next,
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—The farmers of Jasper county still
hold 25 per cent, of their cotton.
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Paine, says Josh Billings. is the
poorest wages any man ever worked
for.
—lt. is stated that the Patrons of
IT usbandry of Alabama will bold a State
Fa i r.
A special session of the United
States Senate is to be held ou the sth
inst.
—ln nil England, Ireland anil Scot
land, there nre only 137 daily newspa
pers.
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—James X. Tyner has been nomi
nated for Second Assistant Postmaster
General.
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—The Sycamore. 111. Grange has
sent three tons of flour to the Kansas
sufferers.
-*-It takes forty-five clerks to run
the Georgia Legislature. Senate 18,
House 27.
—Blind Tent, the negro pianist, is
on a visit to Columbus, where his
mother lives.
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—The Philadelphia & Heading Rail
road gives its aged and disabled em
ployes a pension of 825 a month.
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The State Agricultural Society
met at Thontasville, last Wednesday,
with about. 275 members present.
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—The revenue officers in North
Georgia arc laying in their supply of
contraband whisky for the summer.
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—No person ever got stung by hor
nets who kept away from where they
were. It is just so with had habits.
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A child being asked what the three
great feasts of the Jews wore, replied
promptly, *• Breakfast, dinner and sap
per.”
The Roman Catholic Bishopric, of
Siedlotz, Poland, containing 50.000 in
habitants. with the whole of their
clergy, have joined the Greek Orthodox
Church.
The peaceful German Empire has
ordered five ships of war to pet ready
to sail on some secret mission ; it is
thought a demonstration against Spain
is intended.
—The Griffin, Muntieello & Madison
Railroad was sold last Tuesday by vir
.ttie pf a decree from the Spoiling Su-
.pci ior Court.
—The Patrons of Husbandry is the
largest secret organization in live Uni
ted States The total number of
Oranges is 22,000, n ; 11\ a membership
*>f 1,430,000,
A young man in town is wrestling
with his first moustache, and proposes
4o name them after two base ball clubs
that used to be here, because there are
nine on a side, Bully for him !
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Not many utiles from this place a
young married man has undertaken to
>el! out three barrels of nop-skull
corn whisky at SI 50 per quart, for a
living, O tempora ' O mores!
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—The city of Columbus, Ga,, pays
out SI S.OOit weekly to operatives as
wages—S4lo.ooo a year It brings
jjiore money to Georgia than any
town in the State. Manufacturing
does it.
—Grant has discovered another rela
tive. Ilis name is Tompkins; he lives
jn We.-t A’ irginia, and has just been
appointed United States Marshal for
Colorado ,llnw that family does
.string out.
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-—-T'he iSparta Times office wants a
pood, smart boy—one that can read and
write well and give good recouimenda
times as (o oharneier, to learn the art of
printing; an apprenticeship of three
years is required
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—The New York Ileurald says that
before tire war “Grant was a man of
simple tastes and plain enjoyments.”
Yes. give him a bottle of whisky and a
sheet o r ginger bread, and lie didn’t care
a continental dime whether school kept
or not.
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There are fifteen foreign born citi
zens in the Congress. Schurz,
a Germau, and Jones a Welshman, in
•the Senate. In the House there are
fite Irishmen, four Scotchmen, two
Englishmen, one Canadian and one
Mexican.
(/ he Ijenthi
.1. St. I'AUK. - - - Proprietor
tv. n. ws:tvi:ie. - - Editor.
THURSDAY MARCH 4. 1575.
Georgia legislature.
The General Assembly of the
State adjourned on laet Monday,
after a laborious session of Forty
five days. Although the press of
the State has indulged various
strictures upon this honorable bo
ds', it has done an immense amount
of work. Thq most important
questions considered and acted up
on by the Legislature have been, a
call for a Constitutional Conven
tion, the Usury Law, the Lien Law
and the Exemption
These were all grave questions, in
volving the interest and prosperity
of the State, arid demanded calm
consideration and wise legislation.
While we can not fully indorse the
action of the law-makers of our
State upon these weighty matters,
wc accord them all sincerity, and
trust that time will demonstrate
the wisdom of their course.
Gruiil ami a Tliiril Term.
Mr. Pike, the correspondent of
the New York Tribune, writes to
that paper fiotn Washington City
upon Grant's aspirations for a third
term, as follows :
“One has not to be long in Wash
ington to discover that all this
Southern business means a third
term Gen. Grant means it, and
the whole host of adventurers
whose personal fortunes are bound
up in his continuance in office mean
it also. It is anew political fea
tore in our history, hut not more
strange nor striking than many of
the events of the Just dozen years
The incredulity a! .out jt is stjll con
sideyable, because people do not
readily believe in vvhojjy new
things It is not unlikely the plan
is going to succeed. Gen Grant
lias this great advantage. Bv mak
ing himself the agent of violence
and repression at the South, he se
cures the undivided support of the
blacks and carpet-baggers in the
choice of delegates to tire national
nominating convention. Here is a
large funded capital to begin with
With the delegates of all old slave
Stutetijii hands., th the outset, it
will be soon that he enters the con
test with an immense advantage
over every other candidate. It
must also be remembered that this
is a blind force, swayed by person
al atul partisan considerations mere
ly. It will he the dead weight nt
the convention, not amenable to
high public con.-ideiatoms. It is
difficult to see bow it can be over
come.
“The dividing line is already be*
ing silently drawn here among the
Republicans on this question, and
it is not difficult to trace its wind
ings and its boundar.es. The stiff
and sure Republican States are at
bottom anti-Grant, ariti-thjid term
They w ish to try no rash experi
ments. They desire to save them
selves. if they cun not save the
Presidential election They there
fore. oppo-e themselves to all politi
cal audacities of whatever charac
ter, and strive to conciliate the mor
al and conservative forces which
underlie all sound Republicanism.
But it will be recognized that the
number of such States is compara
tively small, and that they are no
match in representative force for
the body of Southern States.
“The Northern States which arc
to furnish recruits for the Grant
standard are States quite different-'
lv situated. They are States al
ready lost to the Republicans, such
as New York, New Jersey, Indiana
and others. Grant delegates from
these States can t>e furnished in any
quantity, and the rivalries of com
peting civilian candidates will swell
their number. It is not with them
a question of success now, but of
future operations. They would
rather throw away their votes on
Grant than anybody else, since his
probabilities of success would be
worth more to them than anything
else within their reach. Then the
class of doubtful Northern States,
of which Pennsylvania and Ohio
may be taken as samples, while
they can not be so -certainly count
ed, will nevertheless turn out a
good deal of driftwood that will fol
low the strongest current So that
all things considered, looking to
the States alone, Grant’s chances
seem to be altogether better for a
nomination than those of anybody
else in the Republican ranks.
“This view receives confirmation
in a very striking manner by the
reticence of leading Republicans.—
Very few, only, openly, say any
thing sgainst the third term. In
fact nobody except such as are rea
dy 4o break w ith the Administra
tion, Everybody is afraid of that.
It affcots them in their party rela
tions, and brings down partisan
hostility, which few have the in
trepidity to defy. It is an abase
ment that all politicians suffer,rath
er than endanger their places. It
is not manly, it is not honorable,
but it is human. It is a great mis
fortune that people in public life
can riot he independent and can not
say just what they think. Gen.
Grant dominates the leading lie
publicans very much as Clay used
to dominate the old Whigs, though
from very different reasons. Clay
was a leader and dictator by virtue
of his genius; Grant is so by rea
son of liis place. The latter has all
the patronage of the country at his
disposal, and a backing of popular
favor among the rank and file. Be
tween the two he makes himself
formidable, especially so through
the exercise of his military quali
ties of pertinacity and obstinacy.
“Whoever, therefore, would un
derstand the political situation, and
desire to jtnow the reason of the ex
traordinary policy being pursued,
and to ha, apparently, still further
pursued with the Southern States,
must recognize the facts here pre
sented. They arc the key to the
position. It is a bold push for the
third term.’’
Is (lie Monarchy Already Vis
tjihlislird f
The New York Day Rook, always
finld in its defense of of right and lear
loss in its denunciation of wrong, speaks
as fallows upon the causes wli ch
operated to defeat the holding of Con
stitutional Conventions by several of
the Southern States :
A most extraordinary and astonish
ing bit of journalistic correspondence
appeared in the New York Tribune ol
February 16th, dated the day before nt
the city of Washington, wherein the
writer declares that “it will hardly be
good policy, in view of the present atti
tude of the Administration, for any of
the Southern States t) hold Constitu
tional Convections (!) for the purpose
of making changes in their organic
laws.” “The 4 Dean (rats’ in Wash
ington now advise the abandonment of
the project in several States, inasmuch
as the President has the power, and
shows the disposition, to treat the South
with great severity.'”
Well said : lias it, indeed, conic to
this, that any or Stahs, undei
what is called the American Union,
dare not call ('onstit.utioual Conven
tions because tbe President “ is <1 s
posed to treat the section wherein those
Slates lie with groat severity?” Now,
we gravely and earnestly ask (hos.e very
prudent, cautious patriots (!) who ad
vised the Southern Stales not to do
what they had a constitutional right fur
thus doing, if they think, by this nos
called orudencc, they at; going to avert
any visitation of Grant’s despotism?
Will such a humiliating concession thus
head him oft? Are the.-e statesmen
(1) who seem to have spoken C r the
Southern section so very unsophisti
cated as to suppose they can placate a
tyrant by such a dastardly compromise ?
Do these men, w ho advise all this cau
tion, not understand that a despot, if
fo.led in setting up one pretence, can
at mice manufacture another? Have
the usurpers oi past history ever been
obstructed in their encroachments upon
the liberties and rights of a people
ihey were bound to destroy by any such
liberal conciliations as these cowards
offer? Never! General Grant means
to be elected by any agency, fair or
foul, in 187(5, and he w ill resort to any
thing—anything — to make that elec
tion sure, lie will hatch #p a pretext
to put half a dozen Southern States
under martial law, and suspend the
habeas corpus, in order to get up the
cry of “ a second rebellion,” and hold
power over them. It is the old game
of'tbe “ wolf at the head of the stream,”
and the proof of the fouling of the
waters will be fastened somehow upon
the parties at its loot, by the aid of
force, which the wolf can easily bring
to bear. But will the people stand
these encroachments by the infamous
usurper of the White House? It re
mains to he seen. Graut, if possessing
the bascuess of Caesar, the quality that
has been attributed to him, would be a
most miserable apology for a Csesar if,
in the manifestation of so cowardly,
weak, pusillanimous, disgraceful a spirit
as the Tribune writer invests the Dem
ocrats with, who dare not cal! a Consti
tutional Convention, he did not at once
apply the shackles apd go on with his
unholy work. Men who concede that
their rights are being trampled upon
men who realize day by day the mon
archical spirit of the despot of the
White House—men who openly ac
knowledge that the Constitution which
was made sacred by -the best blood of
our Revolutionary fathers, perhaps by
the very sires of these very sons, who
now fearfully and timidly concede that
they had better not “ irritate the uian
in the White House Ly doing what
that hitherto sacred Magna Charta
gives them the political, the legal, the
moral right to do,” here, new, in a
time of peace,—those miserable, cring
ing souls deserve to have Caesar’s
shackles put upon them nt once, though
God knows they do not need them, for
in their cases there is nothing that re
quires shackling; tiny are slaves so
abject that even a thread would uot be
broken by their si: Jgglps fur freedom.
They are shameless specimens of emas
culation, teo mean to lia.e been born
under a Republic. These men, who
see and realize and tru’y appreciate
that Grant is disposed to treat the
South with great severity (!) and will
then seek to conciliate him by waiving
Constitutional rights, are as abject
-laves ns tbe subjects of the Nero of
two thousand years ago. Yet, General
Grant deserves to be shot on sight if he
dares to play the dictator with so high
and bold a hand.
In God’s name, what are we coming
to ? Is patriotism dead ? 44 Not dar
ing to hold a Constitutional Conven
tion, fearing to irritate the President,
whose disposition is to treat the South
with great severity !” And will ti e
miserable specimens of humanity who
subscribe to this solf debasement tell us
if they ever heard their orators use tbe
term 44 sovereign people ?’’ Do they
forget its meaning ? Do they realize
that they are 1 >wer in the scale of
sovereignty to-day than the serfs of the
Old World?—more abject than the
most stolid elod-hopper who tills the
soil of England ? And, alas! alas!
wc are told that Georgia and North
Carolina and Texas, and how many
other States we have not beep told,
tints succumb to the power of the auto
erat of the White House, and do not
dare to hold Constitutional Conven
tion®, fearing to provoke the ire of that
august potentate apd cause him to
treat that crippled, debt-ridden, impov
erished, tick and almost helpless
Southern section with still greater
severity !
Well, we have read in history h w
Rome lost het liberties through luxury
and debauchery ; \ve have heard
Fourth ol Ju’y patriots (!) howl out all
about “ eternal vigilance ” being 44 tbe
price of freedom /’ we have realized
that a nation asleep could be shackled
toy a tyrant, but we ncyer expected to
see sane men, in broad day, wide
awake, with all their faculties in a
normal condition —/nett who had calm
ly looked upon the udvauce3 of despot
ism. steady, methodical and regular,
like the walls of the iron c..ge on the
victim it has to crush —we never ex
pected to see American citizens thus
cowardly yield, fold their arms, bow in
{mbiMHMuQ to the “ire” of the Ulan
they have elevated to the hijhcst seat
in this Republic, elevated as a liepnh
iican. and whimper out, " it is b st to
waive all the riy hts of freemen and Re
publican citizenship; it is best to fore
go a!J .constitutional privileges; it is
best to dispense with, that Magna
Cliarta our fathers fought, bled am}
died to establish for ns their sons; it is
best to let the collar of serfdom he
placed around all our necks—r-lor the
man in the White House lias determ
ined to play Gae-ar, and shackle every
State in the Union that stands in his
way, and we shall only hasten that
consummation by presuming to even
remember that we ever enjoyed the lib
erties of hue Republicans” God save
this miserable people.’’
E’ro'thctic.
Tn 18.34, when there were threats of
assassinating Gen. Jackson, then Presi
dent. George McDuffie, in cour e of
conversation, said :
“1 will make one concluding remark
on the subject—God forbid that it
-liould prove prophetic —and it is that
if, in the midst of a violent political
excitement, it ever should occur that a
President of the United States should
he assassinated, lie will he the last Con
stitutional President, and bis lord will
cement the despotic throne of Ids suc
cessor.”
Lincoln was assassipated. Grant was
elected by negro votes —his throne ce
mented by blood. The force bill is on
the carpet. McDuffie was a prophet. —
[Constitutionalist.
IfeliiMil lo Fence with a Xe
gro.
Baltimore. Feb. 26 —A letter
from Annapolis says another cadet
has been dismissed from the Naval
Academy on account of the colored
cadet. During this week Gordon
Claude, of Annapolis, cadet engin
eer, was ordered to fence with the
negro midshipman, which he re
fused to do. lie was then told to
resign. He would not do that,
though he disliked to disobey or
ders. He was then informed that
he should consult with his parents.
This he did, when his father, Dr
Abram CHude, said he should not
advise hnn, leaving it to the young
man's judgment. Dr. Claude,
however, went to the superintend
ent and told him his son was raised
a seutherner, and not on social
equality with the negro, and he
would not advise him to do what ho
would not do himself. On this
Claude was expelled.
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