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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. - 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. J. H. HAMILTON, WHOLESALE AND DETAIL DEALER IN BAGGING, TIES, RACON, CORN, SALT, SUGAR, COFFEE, &c., FLOUR! FLOUR! FLOUR! A Large Stock of Best Brands at prices which defy competition. ALWAYS ON HAND A FULL STOCK OF Plantation & Family Groceries & Provisions Junction of Franklin, Warren and Oglethorpe Sts, COLUMBUS - - • GEOHGIA, No charge for Drayage. feb2l-iy r BOATRITB & CLAPP, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Dry Goods, Clothing*, Hats* Boots, Shoes, &c., Have Just Received Their new Spring goods. Best Spool Cotton 70e. Prints 10c. Dress Goods and all otft'eV good* at very low prices. 4—4 Bleached Goods 10@12^c. —worth 16c. Columbus, Ga. >May- 1, 1874. inayl-jift 1874. SPRING MILLINERY 1874 • .. . y. . J: : CHEAPER THAN EVER' AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL! MRS. L. A. LEE HAS NOW OPENED AT IIER STORE, 75 BROAD ST-, COLUMBUS, GA., A Magnificent Stock of Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Hats, trimmed and untrimmed. Flowers, Parasols, Fans and Ribbons. Hosiery, Gloves and Corsets. And many other novelties, which she offers cheaper than ever. Orders faithfully attended to. may 1- 3m GRAND ATTRACTION* NEW CLOTHING STORE. THORNTON & ACRE, 78 BROAD ST-, COLUMBUS. GA. Haring received their new 6tock of . SPRING AND SUMMER CLQTHING, For Men's, Youths’, Boys’ and Children’s wear, offer superior inducements to the trade Haring carefully selected their goods v>ith an eye to the wants of the trade, and the ffuau cial condition of the country', and having purchased their entire stock for Cash, they ar enabled to offer great bargains to all buyers of good clothing. Their stock of Furnishing Ctoode complete, new, novel and cheap. Give them a call. aplo-6m J. W. PEASE & NORMAN, COXiXJMBTJS, GA,/ WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN SBHS£fi£mmmrX 9 3PniiSr©S s ©SK&AKrSa gshheh ecwse©*, ipn©BranLißff 8 &©<> ■ Rosewood seven octave Pianos from S3OO to SSOO. Geo. Woods & Cos, Mason & Hamlin, and other Organs. Violins, Guitars, Flutes, Banjos, mouth harps, sheet music, etc. We make orders for sheet music aud musie books every few days, and anything wanted and not in stock, will be ordered and furnished at publisher’s prices. nov7-ly W. J. CHAFFIN, BOOKLSELXiEII cto STATIONER AND DEALER IN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, CKKGMOS, FRAMES ASS© MOTJUBIMGS, NO. 92 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA,: A- WITTICH- C- M- KINSEIs WITTICH & KINSEL, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKERS, NO. 67 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. All of tho Latest Manufactures- An entirely new stock of the best goods and the latest styles has been recently bought ill New York, and is hereby offered at the Lowest Cash Prices. Diaxonos, gold and silver Spe*tacles and Eye-Glasses, gold and silver Thimbles, ladies ana gents’ Chains, plain and ftmey Gold Rings of beautiful workmanship, and every , variety of article found in a First-class Jewelry Store. Stencil Plates of every description cut at short notice. Sole Agents for the celebrated Diamond Pebbled Spectacles and Eye-glasses, and Agents for the Arundel Pebble Specks, which are slightly colored, and in high favor with every body using specks or eve-glasscs. Watch, Clock and Jewelry repairing in all its hranches. Heir Jewelry, Society Badge*, Diamond setting, or any new weak made to order at reasonable charges. Engraving promptly executed. oct24-Iyr