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Cljp Hamilton Visitor
BY D. W. D. BOULLY.
FRIDAY MORNIIVqTaUG. 14, 1874
The Third Term Question.
Grant lias been very reticent
lately. The most trusted and faith
ful of his friends and followers have
failed to draw him out as to his in
tentions in regard to being a enndi
didato for the Presidency for a third
term.
But now a correspondent of the
New York Herald writes from Long
Branch that a liberal Republican has
had an interview with Grant, in
which the latter said that tlio Repub
can party had survived its usefulness,
and intimated his willingness to run
•s an independent candidate.
There is nothing in the constitution
prohibiting a third term, and all that
stands in the way is the example of
Washington—which, of course, Grant
does not care the snap of a finger for.
'What is precedent to such a man as
Gfaht, ao long as ho can remain in
power and amass riches ?
We are sorry to see that there are
many in the South who are disposed
to support Grant for a third term,
and mainly on the ground that he
will veto the civil rights bill. Gan
any one cite us to an iusfance of
Grant having said he would do so?
Wo opine not. It was started by
Borne person as a mere supposition,
and has been taken up and reiterated,
until it is now given as a positive
fact.
The fact is, Grant has no claim
whatever upon the people of the
South—the white people, wo mean—
unless it be to claim their curses.
Who more responsible than he for
tlm odious, iniquitous governments
of Louisiana and South Carolina?
And the ouly only reason he did not
Bend troops to Arkansas and Missis
sippi, as lately requested to do, was
because lie was fishing for Southern
votes at the next election—not that
he cared any more for the Sonthern
whites.
What has lio done for tho South
during hia two terras? Nothing—
worse than nothing. And what
ground have wo upon which to base
a hopo that hu would do anything
for us during a third terra? None
in the world. llow can we, then,
place any sincerity in the professions
of a man who, after allowing us to be
plundered and oppressed lor eight
years, now comes forward and pre
tends to be our friend and willing to
help us? It is out of the question.
Hence, wo can’t iraagino how any
true Southerner can entertain an
honest sentiment in favor of a third
term.
Wo want to see Grant defeated.
We believe he will be; as we think
public sentiment is about as strong
against a third-term movement in the
ranks of the Republicans as outside
of them. And therein lies our hope.
Mu. Peterson Tiiweatt —We are
in receipt of a pamphlet from this
gentleman, ex-Comptroller General,
in which he places before tho people
his claim agaiusl the State.
It will bo remembered by many,
that, some time ago, ho tried to get
the Legislature to pass an act author
ising him to sue the State, which it
refused to do.
Wo can see no just reason why
Mr. Thwcatt cannot have his claim
tried before tho courts. The Legis
lature must be conscious of the fact
that the claim ia a just one. Then
why keep him out of his money by
refusing him an impartial trial? If
the claim is unjust, will the courts
not so decide when the caso is brought
before them ?
We think the law forbidding pri
vate individuals from suing the State
without special legislation, ie as sense
lens as it is oppressive, and should be
repealed.
The members of the executive
committee of the 4th Congressional
distriot are requested to meet in the
eourUhouae at Columbus, Ga., next
Tuesday, the 18th inst., at 11. a
in order to call a nominating conven
tion. The members arc as follows:
B. B. Hinton, J. M. Mobley, J. W.
Fork, T. W. Latham, J. K. Stallings,
Henry Persona, E. O. Brown, F. G,
Wilkins, A. S. Gorman, C. 11. C. Wil
lingham, E. R. Sharpe, J. B. Merrell.
Thu CONGRESSIONAL RACK. —CoI.
Blandford and Judge Crawford have
both retired from the tioid. The
Democratic candidates now are Hon.
11, R. Harris, Cob Mobley, and
Judges Buchanan and Pou. On tho
Radical side we hoar of none but
Judge Johnson, who is said to be
opposed to tho civil rights bill.
Hl ■
JBT The attorney general of Geor
gia haa decided that cotton raised in
1873 and kept io* sale till April*
IST t, is taxable.
H. L Kimball.
If the “great developer” has
passed through the bankrupt court,
and received bis discharge, he can’t
have much money to operate on.
Then what brought him back here?
He evidently came in the interest of
the bogus bondholders. As this
question will have to be disposed of
seme day, we hope to see it done
during Gov. Smith’s term.
A correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle puts the following queries,
which will assist our readers in
forming an opinion of the man whom
some of the people of Atlanta are
making so much of at this time:
What were the circumstances at
tending his failure in New Haven
some years back ? Did the commu
nity hold him blameless ?
Who can give us the facts concern
ing bis career in Colorado? Is it
true that a gentleman walked into
his office, and locking the door, made
him disgorge eight thousand dollars,
and upon K.’s begging the documents
back upon which he had obtained
the money, replied: “No; I intend
to keep them, and may yet conclude
to use thorn to put you, in the peni
tentiary”?
What was Mr. K.’s connection
with a certain church fund in Chi
cago? Did he leave there forgetting
to torn over about twenty-two thou
sand dollars, and had to have bis
memory jogged in reference thereto
after he came down to develop Geor
gia? Did he change his mode of
writing his name whilst there?
Taxation. —The people are being
weighed down with taxes, and they
should be reduced. Give us biennial
sessions of the Legislature, reduce
the number of members, cut down
their pay, limit the sessions to sixty
d&ys, and thus make a start towards
retrenching; then enlarge the circuits,
reduce the number of judges, curtail
their salaries, and thus push on the
good work. Lastly, consolidate the
offices of sheriff, tax collector and re
ceiver, and those of coroner and
county treasurer. By proper legisla
tion the expenses of the State could
probably be reduced one-half, and
the present oppressive taxation would
be materially lessened.
Wo hope the next Legislature
will make a move in this direction.
An Infant Prodigy. —According
to tho Springfield Record, a boy child
was born in Benton county, 111., on
the 17th of last month, who, at his
birth, had nine teeth, and hair on his
head six inches long. The Record
adds :
The child talks intelligently—sayß
it will die the 2d of August—that the
late comet was a warning to the peo
ple, and that between the 2d and the
20th of August we are to bo visited
with fearful storms, which will de
stroy numbers of people for tbeir
wickedness. It answers no questions
put to it, however. Its features pre
sent the appearance of a child seven
or eight months old.
The Record Touches for the above.
We would like to know if the child
did die on tho day predicted.
Grant.— Some persons—Southern
Democrats, they call themselves, at
that—actually claim that Grant en
tertains friondly feelings towards the
South. If so, ho has a peculiar way
of showing it. But it is no such thing.
He has a friendly feeling for a third
term, and is trying to curry favor
with the Southern people in order to
secure tbeir votes. That done, and
he rc-elecled, it will be seen that ho
has as little friendship for the South
as he ever had.
We hope the Southern people will
not be lured to his support by any
such false hopes. Grant is the same
vacillating and unreliable politician
now that ho has ever bceu. Let the
South take heed.
Tho Colnmboa Enquirer says
a quarter aero of laud across the river
has been leased for the last twenty
years at S2OO a year. We can’t im
agine how any one can make an un
improved lot profitable at that price.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch
learns that a lady in Twiggs county
sent her little son after the cows, the
l other day, aud Hurt he was attacked
in the woods by five opossums, three
of which he killed with a' stick.
Cheap Land. —The U. S. Marshal
lately sold in Savannah 23,030 acres
of land in Appling, Pierco and Wayne
counties for the aggregate sum of
$405, or an average of about two and
a half cunts an aore 1
Li?* Tho lax collector having re
oentlv sold some wild land in Polk
county, tho Comptroller General an
nounces that collectors have no au
thority to issue 6 fas against such
lauds.
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63?“ Rev. J. W. Keith, one of
tho leading citixens of Griffiu, died
lately, at the age of 03. He bad been
a Presbyterian minister forty years.
13?“ Lightning struck a cow pen
in Pulaski county recently, aud killed
eight yearlings.
SvredeHborgiauism.
THE POLITICIANS’ HELL..
“Such as formerly enjoyed power
and authority are made rulers over
sociei ies; but as they ’knq'w not how
to use their authority, after a few
days they are degraded frefh it. 1
have seem such spirits when they were
removed from one society to another,
and invested with power in each; yet,
after a short time, degraded in alb 1
After frequent degradations, they do
not care to engage in any other pub
lic office, but retire, and sit down in
sadness, till they are removed into a
desert, where there are cottages for
their habitations. There work is
given them to do; and in proportion
as they do it, they receive food; but
if they do it not, they are kept fasting
till hunger forces them to work.
Food in the spiritual w'orld is like
the various kinds of food in our
world; and it is given from heaven
by the Lord to every one, according
to the services he performs; for to
him who performs no service, no food
is given. After some time time they
are disgusted with all employment;
and then they go out of their cotta
ges, and sit down in solitude and in-
dolence; but as no food is given
them, they grow hungry, and think
of nothing but how they may get
something to Some, of whom
they ask alms, say, ‘ Come with us,
and we will give you work and meai
too,’ They work awhile, but then;
leave their work, and betake them-
selves to company, till their masters
turn them off. On their dismission,
th ,v see a path that leads to a sort
of cavern. The door is opened, and
they enter in, and ask whether any
food is to he had there. Being an
swered, ‘There is,’ they ask leave to
stay there, and leave is given them.
Then they are brought into the cav
ern, and the door is shut after them.
The governor of the cavern comes
and says: ‘Ye are never to leave this
place more. Behold yonr compan
ions: they all work hard; and in pro
portion to tbeir work they receive
food from heaven.’
“Their companions then tell them:
‘Our governor knows for what work
every one is best suited. He enjoins
it daily, and when we have finished
our work we receive our food. But
if we will not finish our work, we re
ceive neither food ilor clothes.’ If
any does mischief to another, he is
thrown into a corner of tho cavern,
upon a couch of cursed dust. Here
he is miserably tormented till the
governor sees be repents, and then
be is taken off, and ordered again to
work. .
“Hell consists of such caverns,
Which are nothing but eternal work
houses. The work of those who were
unjust judges fs to prepare vermilion,
and to mix it up into a paint to'puir.f,
the faces of harlots. The most aban
doned spirits are driven into a wil
derness, and compelled to carry bur
dens.” . <■
Morat,.—Hell seems to devfelop
opposites, and seems to be eternal
degradation and work for politicians.
Ed. Visitor —Be certain to publish
the above extract before the nomina
tion. If the candidates believe the
Baron, the convention will be put to
work to find one. Old Farmer.
Several weeks ago a child was
abducted by two men in a buggy,
while playing in the streets of Phila
delphia, with his brother. Both boys
were taken in the buggy, and after
riding a mile or two, Walter Ross,
tho elder, w r as let out, and his brother
Charley, was carried off. Walter is
about seven and Charley about five
years old. Notwithstanding the
father has offered a reward of $20,-
000, and tho mayor of Philadelphia
$20,000 more, for the return of the
child, and the police have been inquir
ing in every direction, no traces of
the child have yet been discovered.
This is a crime which conics home
to every parent’s heart, and every
father and mother in the land will re
joice to hear of tho recovery of the
child, and tho capture and punish
ment of the abductors. The sus
pense to the parents .of the child
must be terrible, and we can partially
imagine their feelings.
"Wonderful Cotton^ —A corres
pondent of the Augusta Chronicle
writes from Florida in regard to a
new kind of cotton he has seen there.
The seed were obtained from Asia.
The bush, when grown, is about eight
feet high, as large at the bntt as the
leg of an old-fashioned split-bottom
chair, and the brandies extend from
six to seven feet. The bolls are the
color of a greon orange, but much
larger. In picking, the seed remain
in the burr, which renders ginning
unnecessary. The cotton hangs frpm
tho bolls in rolls three to four inches
long, and as large as a Bologna saus
age—five rolls to the boll. The owner
has ten acres planted, and says it will
make one hundred bales, or a bale to
each row of fourteen stalks. Ho says
one hand can easily pick 450 pounds
of lint, or one bale, a day, and pack
it in the field, as there is no seed to
bo removed.
UP* The Americns Republican lias
been shown an ear of corn twelve
inches long, which has twenty rows,
and fifty-eight grains to the row.
Mr. Bell informs the Republican that
he has a field of 100 acres, from
which this eat was taken, that will
make 2,500 bushels.
Mere Mention.
The Barnwell (S. C.) Sentinel
learns that, a few days ago, while
some colored persons were on their
way to a burying ground with a
corpse, in the upper part of the
couuty, and during ft thunder storm,
a streak of lightning struck the coffin,
tearing it to pieces, and kilims' in
stantly two of the mem
Devotie, of the Columbus Enquirer,
alludes to the number of ball Leaded
men lately in attendance at a Demo
cratic meeting in Alftbama.
Bainbridge had a $15,000 fife a
few days since.
The Enquirer says the press of the
present day boast of mammoth vege
bles, but doubts if any one can pro
duce turnips equal in size to two
which were exhibited in Columbus
on Feb. 1, 1838, raised in that city,
and weighing sixty-eight pounds.
During a storm in Summerville,
Ga., the other day, four horses which
were under a tree were killed by
lightning.
The La Grange Reporter states
that a moccasin was lately found
coiled up in a banjo, in the house of
a family near White Sulphur Springs.
The Taibottoii Standard has re
ceived a beet weighing seven pounds,
and mentions the killing of a crane
four feet ten inches high and measur
ing six feet from tip ter tip.
The Covington Enterprise says a
toad was recently found under an
old stump near town which weighed
over nine pounds, and measured
nearly a foot across the back.
The first bale of Georgia cotton
was received in Savannah on the 6th,
from Echols county. It classed good
ordmary, weighed 575 pounds, and
sofpfor 21 cents.
A lady of Gloucester, Mass, was
instantly killed by a rock from blast,
£ fevy days since, while riding with
her brother, whose arm was bruised
by tho same rock. The roof of the
carriage was demolished.
Mr. H. Lovejoy, living near Belle
Oak, Mich,, was struck by lightning
a fe\y nights ago, and instantly killed.
His wife, in the same bed, escaped
uninjured.
The Henderson (Texas) Times
thinks that corn will bring only
twenty-five cents per lush el in Rusk
county when the crop of this year
matures.
A gentleman informs the Fort
Valley Mirror of a remarkable acre
of corn at Smithville. He says it
will make one hundred and twenty
bushels.
The Griffiin Messenger says that
J. C. Freeman; the consort of the
negroes, has deeded his property to
his son, notwithstanding the fact
that lie is on the bonds of several
Federal office-holders.
Two negro women living near
Madison recently gave birth to four
children each the other day. One of
the women died but the other is still
alive.
A Mitchell county man has seven
teen hundred head of sheep.
Direct Trade is to be carried out.
Tho steamship, “Arbitrator” will
sail from Liverpool to Savannah,
early in September, to be followed
by other steamers.
Thomas county sold over forty
thousand bushels of corn last year,
and the prospects are that she will
be able to sell eighty thousand this
year.
A large stone pipe weighing about
four pounds, was ploughed up in a
field near Alcova river, in Newton
county, several days ago.
Three • thousand acres of cotton
have been planted in California this
year. The crop looks very well.
The Thomaston Herald says: We
met a gentleman last week, sixty-Sve
years of age, who has lived for the
past fifty-two years at the same place
in Monroe county, and has been and
is still a prosperous man.
Eight stacks of wheat in Haralson
county, containing 350 dotes bundles,
were struck by lightning recently
and burned.
Thirty-five brick buildings are be
ing erected in the burnt district in
Chicago.
The negroes on the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad have made sev
eral unsuccessful attempts to intro
duce civil rights on the cars of that
line.
A Bulloch county man lias a cotton
boll containing seventeen locks.
Sandcrsville ie boasting of a cab-
bage with five heads on one stalk.
Mr. W. McGowan, living iw
county, Ky., has a grapevine 125 feet
long, which has npon it 5,000 bnnehes
of grapes.
A diamond rattlesnake waa killed
near Palatka, Fla., recently. It was
ten feel long and had eighteen rat
tles.
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Have Just Received Their
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Best Spool Cotton 70e. Prints 10c. Dress Goods and all otft'eV good*
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