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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. rntm • —r \ baby in Tennessee ha# a double tonsrue —it’s n gal, of course. r* ~ There art; seven Granges of Hus Landry in Richmond county . Greene Stiperio** Court. March Term, will begin Monday next, mam ♦ —The farmers of Jasper county still hold 25 per cent, of their cotton. mm -m-m—mm— — 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. - ——rnmm • utm——— —James X. Tyner has been nomi nated for Second Assistant Postmaster General. mm • —— —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. Mil • <■■■—— —The Philadelphia & Heading Rail road gives its aged and disabled em ployes a pension of 825 a month. ——mm • mm - The State Agricultural Society met at Thontasville, last Wednesday, with about. 275 members present. mm • —The revenue officers in North Georgia arc laying in their supply of contraband whisky for the summer. —^ — —No person ever got stung by hor nets who kept away from where they were. It is just so with had habits. • mm • —■ 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 ! —r> ♦ 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! i—i • —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. —^ —— -—-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 - ■ - —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. —" — 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. McCall, Copelan & Cos OFFER THI3 -W" EETL z r. 5,000 lbs n. 11 Hulk Sides. 10.000 lbs C H. Bacon Sides. 5.000 lbs Bacon Shouldc s. 5.000 lbs Bulk Shoulders. 2,000 lbs uucanvased Magnolia Hams. 1,500 bu White Corn. 500 bu Biaek, White and Bust jirool Oats. 1,000 sacks Flour in 25 and 50 lbs sacks. 12) sacks Virginia Salt. 75 sacks Liverpool Salt. 20 bbls Com. 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Planters who wish to purchase Fertilizers will find it to their interest, to try the Bra -mr ei ? k±3 e- b e£2 Am. , Or, our Chemical Preparation for composting, which is a great favorite with those' who used it last season. We also have for fmle, Ii ‘hillock's Vegelalor , A Fertiliser unsurpassed by any in use. DI9BOEVi:E> HONE and S, l.\l PLASTERS at lowest prices. SIBLEY & WIFELESS, Feb. 18, 1875—2 ms COTTON FACTORS, Al’GI STA, (.A. BARG A INS! BARG AINS!! X AM Selling STOVES Cheaper than ever, and warrant them to give satisfaction. I am prepared to fill all Orders for at low rates. Also all kinds of Job Work in Tin and Sheet Iron done at short notice. Leather and country Hollow ware, cheap. Country Produce, Hides, Tallow, Bees wax, etc., taken in exchange for goods. W G ]>T? It SIAM jGreenesborough, Ga.. Feb. 11, 1875—3tns EXCLUSIVELY. AUGUSTA, - GKORGt-IA, FwITES the people of OPFIMM ( P( fop. and the ctrntiy at Targe, when t ey come to AUGUSTA, to call at his FIRST-CLASS BOOT AID SUDS HOUSE, Where they can find everything they require in the way of prime Shoes of every de scription : not from the Cheap 1 --f N •- England, hut made to order by the best mate era in Baltimore luit' 1 i],*.j .•!?>}s:•. Lvery ariielc sold. whit: iitcl in is!rictest sense of the word, and reclamation made when work docs not give full satisfaction. One Price, and STRICTLY fair Dealing, the Rule of the House. “Drummers employed- the characler <f ihe goods hr. fcIN, and the extremely low and uniform prices at wmcd. he sells, is hi. best recommendation. Come to where you may have a positive certainty of being honorably and fairly dealt with. " o\i: frsie—\o rrosji kr fair l>s: on REFER KEENAN, January 21, 1875—tf Central Hold Clock, AIt.USTA, Ga. witw—niwiiwi-i ii !■ r ■•? m- -.-y-r*, rt> , m ■.iTimwinaro—— .CAPITAL - - $1,000,000. :0: m f|f mmm m mf\ ulib w & -tf" #4 AND co n i>o i% si in ii i s nospn ate, FOR Composting with C otfon Seed. THE SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO is now so well known for its remarkable effects as an agency for increasing the products of labor, as not to require especial cora men lnt <'n from me. Its use. for Ten \ ears past, has established i* character for Re liable t xoeLence. the large, Fixed Capital invested by the Company in this trade, affords the surest guarantee of the continued excellence of its Guano. The Guano and Phosphate will be delivered to any boat or depot in the city, free of Dray age. • CASH PRICE 2 Per Ton. 3.000 Pounds, -Soluble Paeilic Cunno, 9419 Per Ton, 3.000 Pounds. Aeid Phosphate, ;io TIMES PRICE! Without Interest, and option of paying in Liverpool Middling Cotton, delivered at the nearest Railroad Depot, at Fifteen Cents per pound : Per Ton, 3,000 Pounds, Soluble Pneifie Guano' 958 Per Ton, 3,000 Pounds. Aeid Phosphate, 43 sfeg"-Orders received and information furnished on application to iny Agents at va rious Local Markets. J. O. MATHEW SON, Jan. 21—3 m. Agent Pacific Guauo Cos., AUGUSTA, Ga. Norton & Weaver, Agents? Greettesboro\ Ga,