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■■WMM iimii mil' I————B —w—■ ! * Vl ' 1 ' 11 " * 1 1 ... ii '■ ■■ ■' .. J. I"" (ESTAStrsTfEn ix rh'E C. PROPRIETOR. j VOL. XIX. WVSIII\4. r.\ LIiITKR, (From Our Regular Correspondent.) January 19th, 1883 Propositions to change the whole government of Utah have been discuss ed in Congress during the week, and tome important and facts bearing upon the Colony of Salt Luke faave been developed. Notwithstand injj the pressure of business upon Con gress, the variety and daily tuereu-ing cumber of questions denunding legis lation, many members realize the ne cessity of action for the suppress - ! n of wholesale polygamy among the Mor mons of Utah, and otoer Territories. Public sentiment having long since asked for the extirpation of the evi’ refuse-1 >be satisfied with the results ol recent legislatten. Congressmen goner ally profess a wil ingnoss to give their support to any measure which seems to be practical, and far-reaching; but there are comoaiattvelv few who thoroughly appreciate the difficulty of dealing with a society ss firmly entrenched and perfectly organized s is the Mormon church. Several mess ures dealing with the chronic evil have boon offered in each branch of Congress Notably, among those whe have given the subject of anti- Morman legislation careful study are Senators E Imunds of Vermont, and (Julian of Illiuois, Represen tatives llosecranß of California, and Cassidy of Nevada, The Lit ter having lived near the Mormons of Utah for twenty five years, has had the best’opportunity for ob serving tho eff-ots of polygamy. He has long been an uncompromis ing enemy of the institution and has taken deep interest in all pchetnes for the suppression of the ; '•‘twin relic". IPs bill provides for the abolition of the Territorial legislature ; arid ih vesiing of all power of government in a commis sion of fifteen, to be appointo I by the [’resident, and divided he tween the two great political par ties. This commission is to have tho power to enforce laws, punish criminals, and will he responsible to Congress for its actions. The District of Columbia has the same form of government, and Mr. Cas 1 saidy claims further procedent for the appointment, in a bill passed by Congress in 1803, creating a commission of thirteen members, - who, with a Governor, constituted the government. of Louisiana Senator Cullums bill also provides far tho reorganization of the legis lative power of Utah, and he ad dressed the Senate on the subject eeveral d*v ago. Senator Ed munds does not believe in arbitra ry measures witn ff/ormonism His bill provides for the gradual disenfranchisement of polygamous Mormons of both sexes; so that, while eveiy member but one, of the Territorial Legislature elected pro yiou9 to the adoption of that meas ure was a polygamist, every mem her last elected is a monogamous .Mormon. The one-wife Mormons however are said to do the bidding of the Church as faithfully as did their polygamous predecessors ; the Mormon invariably making affairs of state subservient to the interests of his Church For this reason, the government of the Ter ritory of Utah is considered a man ncs to Republican institutions. Most Congressman favor mire stringent measures, and Senator Garland of Ar kansas following Senator Cullum in the disoussion of the matter, compared the Edmunds bill to the remedy of a corn plaster for consumption. Gen Rosecrans proposes to do away with the evil by a prohibitory amendment to the constitution. Rut others not favoring this policy say that, tho Msr moos laugh at law,and theypvi 1 scarce ly treat an amendment with more re spect. Polygamy is every day beeom io" stronger in Arizona, Idaho, Wyo ming, and Montana, and from the tem ps: of both partirs, there is no doubt some sort of legislation will bo enact ed. The objection to a eonstiiutional amendment empowering Cuoigres® to pass a unilortn law of marriage and Ji vorce for the Unite and States is the fact, that it would throw another large body of litigation into the Federal courts, which have already more than they ca attend to; an ! tend to encr aeh more upon the State tribunal'. The jeal ousy excited by this tendency is one of Ule reoiso's why it is so difficult to piss a unitoroi law of bankruptcy, or to secure it from beinu repealed soon after it is passed Moreover. Congress docs not pay the f’otiwral judges enough to keep the best ability on the bench. This is without reference to the almost irreconsible differences be ts.on the various States on the moral ; question involved m the marital rel i tion Any kind of a divorce low. for instance arouse commotion in South Carolina, which er.ly tolerated fora i few years the tinorce law passed by | the Legislature doling the reocn 'si: notion era. and boats a record of no ■ divorces before or since \ (II lilt OK KIT IIOJIA X<U Search of the Indians (or a Stolen Child. J will erulevor to writs y--. ' little story. It is the true history of a little Indian girl, who w.s about I vour old at the time, ac cording to mv recollection In 1838. when the Cherokee In dians wera being remove 1 from what was known as Cherokee, Ga,, to some territory which had just been given them by our government, a young white man named James Vaught, living in that country, h id married a half-breed Indian The mother having to go West wi'.h her tribe, the father, not wishing to ac company them, stole their little girl. Josephine, from its mother, anil for sotno days hid in the woods with it. The alarm was given, and otir soldiers, who were to conduct the Indians, scoured the country for the lost chill, but :o no avail. The father wade his escape on horse back, with hia dear little child on a pillow before hit, which some friend had kindly given him, and carried his little darling tn his aunt's, Mrs David Grier, in Wash ington count , three and u half miles from where I lived then and now. He left the child with his atiot. and, going away, requested her not to give it up to any one without his consent. The child re mained with M is. Giier several months —wo all saw it It was a pretty quarter Indian child Mr and Mrs. Grieg lived on the public road, and often entertained travel rs '.or the night. A few months alter the child was lft thero, a stranger stopped for the night, ?nd, seeing the child, inquired how it came there He p-oved to bs frutn the Cherokee country, and on his return he reported to ?ame of the Tamil v the whereabouts of the child. A Tew weeks after thia a party conststiog of several wom en and a tall, fine-looking uutj.w . half-breed Indian, arrive! in 'a oeighbarhcod. Mrs Grier, heir ing of it, sent the child to t -'- plantatatien, The party ciT I on Mrs. G., and one of the women asked her to take a w ilk and Raid ; “M>s. Grier, I learn that uiy chiM is here, and I have come all the way from the Cherekee Nation for it. Please give her to me. ’ Mrs. G., feeling much sympa thy lor the distressed mother, said to her : “Your child i3 not far off; but I am not authorized to give her up I made my nephew a solemn promise not to give her to any one without his consent. The way may be open to you to got yotir child I would not return home too soon.” The party then went to Milledge. ville, fourteen miles, and consulted with Governor Gilmer in regard to Devoted to the Cause of Truth and Justice, and the Interests of the People, GREENES BORO', GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1884. | what steps sheuld be taken to pro cure the lost child. The Governor advised them to be quiet a few days, and upon inquiry learned that Mr Harper Tucker owned a negro man I named Pom pev, whose wile lived on Mr Grier s plantation. With the assistance of Mr. Tucker, Potn pey was brined to fiud out where the child was hidden. lie reported that the child was locked up iu the plantation bouse of Mr. Gner. HTth this informa- tion a search warrant was obtained iruin the proper officer and placed in tlie bauds of the Sheriff, Mr. Clias Lunin, Grandfather of our present Sheriff, who, iu company with the men of the party, proceeded to the place designated, and found the child .The Indian sprang fjrward and pressed the child to his bosom, saying : "I’ll die by this child uelure 1 give it up.” He carried the child to MilleJgeviile and delivered it to its mother, who re joiced exceedingly —the lust was found. There wai muah sympathy for th. mother, and the people gcneially were glad when it was restored to her Governor Gilmer mentions this loci ! • his book, and said his wife and ••-•s made suitable clothing for the’ olid, and the glad mother and her party went on their way rejoicing. The father re urn -d in a few weeks to look alt r his precious child aud his disappointment was great when he found that his little Josephine had been car ried away to the Cherokee Nation by is mother. He coull attach, however, t o blame to his aunt, Mrs. Grier. She was one of God's noblest and l lived 11 be about 91) years of age, and died last spring at the old homestead. She often expressed herself as ready and waiting to be taken to her God, whom she had served so long Ex. 1 Over the door of a small trame build ing in which a colored family is living | in Greenville, Tenn., is a pine board on i which is the legend, uuw almost erased by rain and st.srm, “A- Johnson, Tailor.” A li.lie beyond the western ; border of the towu is a uiardle uionu- : ment that marks the last home ol ‘ Andrew Johnson, President of the United States', Professor Huxley lias declared that i in his voyage around the world, and iu i.all his studies of savage life, ho found !no people so miserable, wretched aud degraded as those who cxiet in the ; poorer quarters ol London. The barbarians, who live in a constant stale of violence aud depredation, aud who are exposed to tho worst rigors of cli mate and weather, have more enjoyable and indepenont lives than these misera ble workers aod artisans, aud ho says ! that if he had to make his choice, he should unhesitatingly prefer the exist ence of the lorouer. Edgar A. Pu s left Richmond on October 4, 1849, for Philadelphia; arrived in Baltimore on the filth aod took the train that evening; for Philit* delphia; was found by the couduotcr in the baggage-ear insensible, and at Havre da Grace or Wilmington was transferred to the train going back to Baltimore, whero he is suppose! to have arrived during the evening ol th* sixth; was lound early on the morn ing of theaeveoth lying upon a bench on Light aneot wharf aod was taken •< ' Washington University Hospital, , : . u : ;re ho died about uiid ni. Octodcr T 184!) tod was buried on the ninth in Westminster burying ground. This is the true story, says the Richmond State, as vouched for by the late Neilson Poe Chatham, in the Savannah News discourses thus of onr railr; ad commie'* sion; The railread commission was not born of the people of Georgia On the 13th of July, 1877, iu theeonstitulional convention in this eity. Judge D. B. Harrell presented the “Memorial of the Board of Trade ef Amerieus on Railroad Tariffs and Oppression," and the late Dr. Cooper, of that city, was its earnest aud eloquent advocate on the floor of the convention. Out of this movement, and the later action of the distinguished member of the general assembly from Sumter county, grew the railroad commission* ISSt TUI II 1884 Constitution. The DAILY CONSTITUTION has come to be a necessity tn every intelligent man in tlie range of its circulation. For the next year it will be belter than ever. 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Sept 14, ’£3 WHELESS & Cos., Cotton factors 2nd Ccmmission Merchants, A UGIISTA, GEORGIA , Prompt compliance with instruction! relative to disposition ef Consignments Liberal Advances on Produce in Store. Sept.l4, A — JOHN W. WALLACE. Anti Agent for the Celebiatcd WiTIl OR WITHOUT FEEDER AND CONDENSER At Old Stand of YVarren, YY'allace & Co-, 729 and 732 P.cynolde Street, Augusta, (Georgia. 1 Ample facilities for doing a Cotton Dusinetl. Satisfaction guaranteed. SPARTA, Ga July 14, 1883. Mr. John W. Wallace: Dear Sir—Y’onrs received, asking my opinion of the Hall Giu 1 bought of you last year The Gin is all the maker promised it to he and I atm vow v well satisfied with the Gin and Feeder. Should I need another I would purchase the Hall Giu. Respectfully, DAVID DICKSON. CULYERTON, Ga , May 31. ISBI Messrs. Warren, Wallace & Co.,—ln answer to your inquiry as to my opinion of the Hall Gin, I think 1 can safely say, that I have never used a betier Gin than the Hal’. 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WILLIAMS, Guardian of aid minors, Not ember 22nd, 18815. /Yj ATTEND THE//7j Of Kentucky University, LEXIfiGTOi’J, J(Jf Tim* to eootpiffe the KuM Diploma Course ahfcd 10 week*. T„ul (>t, iiciuding Tuition. Books. W-aarl, Fc., ah-iut fSS. Telegraphy taurht. Lttrrarv tpr one Tear if attired. free. Nearly 400 student* fmw 21 autet last yftCr. fc.noo ui;cs?f. 1 erviuslet. Student r.n b*£n at any ttm; no Twati n. Fall so n-uJ Ittgi..* iuptembi-r lth. For fuil particulars a ;<bea WILBUR R, SMITH, Lexington, K*V COTTON SEED IFIAVE about 50 bushels of the ELLY i 'OTTOS SKi.ll, noted &r i£ long fine liut, Urge boils and prolilif quttrj ity. In ill ox lunge One for Eight., nr eel? jat $1 per bushel. This cotton brings i about two cents per pound more than tl.e | host upland. - JAMES L BROWN. e*. C* . Dec. 7e IHB3