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notices, two weeks,
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■ PROFESSIONAL CARPS.
■Twins. WM. K. SIMMONS.
EviNN & SIMMONS,
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■ il> promptly attend to all business
s ttdtohis care, and also to Land,
and Pension claims mar 15-Cm
T. K. MITCHELL,
Hlawrenceville, ga.,
tender a continuation of
services to the citizens
T keep constantly on hand a
of rlrngs and chemicals.
carefully prepared.
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T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR ]
No). 11.
AT THE CHURCH DOOR.
BT FRANCIS C’ LONG.
Let me stand in the shade of the portal,
The night, wind wailing so shrill;
The snow-flakes falls fast on my forehead,
And my blood courses feeble and chill.
I see him come forth from the marriage,
Ixt the winter wind pierce as will.
The lamps*in the chancel are gleaming,
The fair bride stands full in my sight;
T cun hear the ..deep bass of the organ,
And see all the maidens in white,
Hark! the voice of the good priest arises—
Oh! Heaven support me to-night.
Ah! many a time has he told me
ne loved me more dearly than life;
And rowed on the honor of manhood
To make me his own wedded wife.
■I believed—and I fell—God forgive me!
The thought rends my soul as a knife!
I was fair, for all lauded my beauty,
And pure as the purest might be;
And I deemed him so honest and noble,
He never could think ill of me;
But too late have I found out my error
No one can be falser than he.
It may be he really did love me,
In a cold, selfish manner, that day;
Such love is oft followed by loathing,
I often have heard people say;
Bat now I am certain he hates me,
And would harm me were I in his way.
Ah! there" was a time when I fancied
That he would return to my side;
That I should be led to the altar,
Respected and loved as a' l bride;
But ’tis past, arid I now see before me
The gulf that our lives must divide!
Oh, wilfl winter winds, wail unceasing,
|You’reare warmer than mortals may be!
What hope can be found for weak woman
When wrecked on life’s turbulent sea?
The grave of my child and my sorrow,
Are all that is left unto me!
THE A TLANTJCAND GREA T
WESTERN CANAL.
A Financial View of the
Enterprise.
Hon. W. P. Price before the
Committee on Commerce.
The following are the conclud
ing remarks of Hon. W. P. Pi ice
in behalf of the Great Southern
Canal made on the 19th December
last, before the Committee on
Commerce of the House of Repre
sentatives, U. S. Congress :
But, Mr. Chairman, there is yet
another and vital reason, why
there should be a safe, and at all
seasons of the year, reliable outlet
to the Atlantic seaboard for the
immense grain crops of the West.
It is one that underlies the finan
cial policy of the government.
Let it be remembered that we
have a banking system which has
gained for itself the admiration of
almost everybody, save perhaps
the bankers in the more populous
cities of the North and East, who
at this very time, are seeking to
change, by Congressional legisla
tion, the safe-guards which have
been thrown out for the protection
of the bill holders and depositors.
The banker, speculator and capi
talist are now using, as an argu
ment in favor of removing these
wholesome restrictions of the gov
ernment, the fact that owing to
the close of navigation in the early
fall and winter, causing the west
ern farmer to retain his crop until
spring, (unless he forces it over
railroads at enhanced rates of
freight,) there is produced in
money centres, what the bankers
call a ‘‘season of abundance.” —
Again, in the spring, when navi
gation re opens, and the great
•tore houses of the west are
thrown open, and supplies go for
ward, the immense drain from
money centres, to pay for the crop,
which the west has been burdened
with during the winter, causes a
stringency, as it is termed in the
vernacular of the bankers. To
correct these fluctuations, let us
examine the remedy which the
moneyed men propose, and see,
also, what the restrictions are
which they wish removed.
The present National Bank law
requires that in the large cities
each bank shall hold at all times
an amount of lawful money equal
to. not less than one-fourth of its
circulating notes and deposits
combined, and for violating this
fundamental law of their creation,
a proper penalty is imposed, to
wit: the penalty of liquidation. —
It is in the enforcement of these
restrictions that the public is pro
tected. It is these very provisions
in our banking system that lias
won for it so large a share of pub
lic confidcuce. And it is in com
pelling the banks to conform to
these provisions of the law that
they experience so much incouve
nience, they say, and which results
Lawrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, February 12, 1873.
unfavorably to them in seasons of
striugency. Now in order to ob
viate the sudden fluctuations in
the money market, which range
from 2 to 50 per cent, on call loans,
as well as to preveut money panics,
which occur regularly “two or
three timee a year,” the remedy
proposed by the bankers is to
allow the banks to be left free to
issue whatever amount of notes
they find to be required by the
legitimate needs of business, the
notes to be secured as at present,
by the deposit of bonds at Wash
ington ; these notes to be received
by the banks in periods of redun
dancy of circulation; and also,
that in periods of pressure the
banks be allowed to use, even to
exhaustion, the reserves which the
law now requires that they shall
always keep on hand for the pro
tection of depositors. By these
modes they pretend to say the
rates of interest would be kept
comparatively even. And in addi
tion to these questionable modes
of preventing stringencies and ad
vanced rates of discount, the bank
ing gentlemen propose to abolish
all our usury laws, thus opening
still wider the door for avarice aud
extortion.
Now-, if it be true that the ob
atruction to navigation in winter
by the present routes, is the result
of all this derangement in our
money system, or if it even contri
butes, in a very large degree to
wards producing these fluctuations
in exchanges, discounts and inter
est, we think we can find a safer
remedy for the existing evils than
Ihe abrogation of those laws which
are the safe-guards of bill-holders
and depositois, which latter class
frequently comprise widows, or
phans, laborers and the poorer
classes, who are entitled to the
protection which these salutary
laws now afford them.
In the completion of the- Atlantic
and Great Western Canal we have
a sure and safe remedy for the
evils which the bankers complain
of. It will furnish to the western
farmer a route to a maiket which
lie can avail himself of at any Sea
son of the year. lie can, if he
chooses, market his grain in the
early fall, or wait for higher prices
as the winter advances. In fact,
he is no longer at the mercy of the
money-holder who forces him to
market his crop when the rates for
breadsluffs are low, and rates of
exchange and interest are high.
By thus furnishing an outlet at all
seasons of the year, the supply
can always be made equal to the
demand; money will ebb and flow
regularly, and rates of interest can
be kept within just aud legitimate
bounds. This certainty of market
ing the crops of the west and south
would euable the farmer to set
tie with the store-keeper 3, the
storekeepers with the interior
jobbers, and these iu turn would
settle with the large commercial
houses of the seaboard. It obvi
ates the necessity for having at
one season of the year an expan
sion of currency—beyond that re
quired at another. Neither would
there be any necessity for the
repeal of our present judicious
usury laws. No longer a close of
navigation in winter —but one un
interrupted season of business the
year round —the reason for repeal
ing or even modifying the present
safe and judicious regulations in
our banking system, which protect
the bill holders, and depositors, as
insures the borrower from exces
sive rates of interest, could no
longer be urged.
An old colored minister, in a ser
mon on Hell, pictured it as a region
of ice and snow, where the damned
troze through eternity. When pri
vately asked his purpose in repre
senting Gehenna- inj this way, he
said, “I don’t dare to tell them peo
ple nothing else. Why, if I were
to say that hell was warm, some of
them old rhu'era&tio niggers would
be wanting to start down the very
first frost.”
A new dish is grape leaves fried
in egg batter. It is called a
French dish, and is imported from
Lake Mahopac. We can’t think of
anything that would be more deli
cious than fried grape leaves,
unless it is a circus-poster on
toast.
Foster," who murdered Avery D.
Putnam with a car-hook, and whose
case the New York Court of Appeals
refused a rehearing, has been sen
tenced to be banged on the 7th of
March.
“ COMING EVENTS CAST TIIEIR SHADOWS BEFORE! ”
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
SENATE.
Tuesday, February 4, 1873.
Bills on first rending were taken up
Mr, Jones—A bill to amend the
charter of the Georgia Masonic Mu
tual Life Insurance Company, and to
change the name to that of the Geor
gia Masouic Mutual Relief Associa
tion.
Mr. Knight—A bill to incorporate
the Valdosta and Fort Valley Rail
road.
BILLS ON TniRD HEADING,
A bill to regulate the law of liens
in this State.
After a number of amendments
proposed by the Judiciary Committee
was agreed to, the bill was put upon
its passage, and adopted by sections
Ms. Simmons, Chairman of the
Finance Committee, reported hack
several bills,
Bills on third reading resumed,
A bill to amend the garnishment
laws of this State.
The Judiciary Committee reported
an amendment, which was agreed to,
and the bill passed.
A bill to change the time of hold
ing the Superior Court, and for other
purposes. Committee reported favor
ably and the bill passed.
A bill to amend the act incorporat
ing the Cuthbert and Camilla Rail
road, to extend the road to Columbus
from Cuthbert via of Lumpkin, and
to lend it the credit of the State.
Committee reported adversely to
the passage.
Mr. Hoyl offered an amendment
providing that the Governor should
not be required to sign the bonds of
the road until an equal amount of
the State bonds were subscribed by
private parties. After a debate be
tween Messrs. Hoyl, Wofford, Reese
and Brown, the report of the Com
mittee was agreed to and the bill was
lost.
A bill to require the Treasurer io
destroy all bonds, coupons, or other
certificates of indebtedness, which
may become the property of the
State. Committee favorable and the
bill passed.
A bill to abolish the office of Tax
Receiver in this Stale aud appoint a
Tax Assessor in his stead. With
drawn.
A bill te repeal the act to protect
the people of this State in the sale of
kerosene oil. Passed.
A bill to change the law of evi
dense in this State, so as to allow
the introduction of the books of
banks and incorporated companies as
evidence. Passed.
A bill to authorize the Georgia
National Bank of Atlanta, Georgia,
to settle witn its private depositors
other than the State of Georgia.
Committee reported back the bill
without recommendation.
On the passage of the bill tbe yeas
and nays were called.
Those voting in tbe affirmative are:
Messrs, Anderson, Black, Brinber
ry ; Cannon, Clarke, Deveaux, Er
win, Hillyer,Jervis,McAfee, Nicholls,
Wofford—l2.
Those voting in tbe uegative are:
Messrs, Blance, Brown, Carter,
Crawford, Cone, Estes, Gilmore,
Heard, Hester, Hoyl, Hudson, Jones,
Kibbee, Kirkland, Knight, VV. W.
Mathews, Peavy, Peddy, Reese, Rob
erson, Simmons, Winn—22.
The hill was lost.
HOUSE.
Home called to order by Speaker
Bacon.
Braver by Rev. F. Jackson, Repro"
sentatire from Clarke county.
The Judiciary Committee reported
by the Serate resolution to authorize
the Governor to instruct the Attorney
General to purchase for the Slate any
property sold under State execution,
with the recommendation that the
House concur in the same at once.
Report agreed to and resolutions con
curred in.
HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
To provide for the payment of
insolvent criminal costs in Marion,
Butts, McDuffie, Dougherty, Wilcox,
and Lincoln counties. Mr. Hoge, of
the Judiciary Committee, recom
mends as a substitute, a general law
on the subject appljing to each
county. After discussion, the sub
stitute was lost and the bill passed.
To provide for the payment of
John Maier balance due on portrait
es Howell Cobb.
Mouse went Into committee of the
whole, Mr. Pierce, of Hancock, in the
Chair. House rose and reported
back the bill with the recommenda
tion that it do pass. Report agreed
to and bill passed.
For the relief of Samuel v\ eil,
House went into committee of the
whole, Anderson, of Cobb, in the
chair. Committee rose and reported
back the bill with the recommenda
tion that it do not pass. On motion
of Mr. Hoge, the bill was tabled.
To suspend the collection of the
State tax for 1873 in Miller county.
Lost,
To amend section 4522 of the
Code.
Mr. Anderson moved to indefinite
ly postpone.
Mr Tutt offered an amendment
that the provisions of the act shall
not apply lo cock fighting, where the
cocks, immediately after tho killing,
are prepared for the table, and not
apply to fishing with bearded hooks.
The motion to indefinitely post
pone was lost by yeas 57, nays 72.
Mr. Turnbull offerred an amend
ment to striko out all relating to
“dog fights” and “cock fights.”
Air. Dell called tho previous ques
tion which was sustained.
The amendment was lost.
The report was agreed to by yeas
09 ; nays 55
The vote on the passage of the
bill stood yeas 77; nays 62.
The Radicals (colored and white)
voted against the bill.
Press Memorial.
To the Honorable the Senate and
the House of Representatives of the
General Assembly, The undersigned
would respectfully submit, that at
the last convention of the State
Press Association, held in this city
on the 14th instant, they were ap
pointed a committee to memorial
ize your honorable bodies upon the
subject of the tax now laid upon
printing material.
Your memorialists would re
spectfully show that since the
adoption of the ad valorem system
of taxation by the State of Geor
gia, in the year 1850, up to the
time the State govefnmeut passed
Under the control of an officer of
the United States army, no tax
had been laid and collected upon
the property,'sol vent debts, etc.,
owned by the proprietors of news
paper offices, outside of the type,
presses and fixtures necessary to
carry on the art of printing. A
reference to ibe tax digests now on
file in the office of the Comptroller
General will substantiate the truth
of this statement.
Without entering into an argu
nient upon the subject of taxation
—a subject which bus puzzled and
baffled ths most successful students
of political economy, your memo
rialists would suggest as a glaring
inequality and injustice the tax
laid upon the tools of trade of the
printer, while those of the black
smith, the carpenter and other arti
zans are exempted from the bur
den.
To us it looks like class lezisla
tion—the most dangerous legisla
tion that can be indulged in by
those selected to equalize the pub
lic burdens and to devise ways and
means to promote the public intel
ligence, welfare and prosperity.
Your memorialists would further
submit that those upon whom it is
proposed to lay this tax are little
able to bear the burden. It would
be a reflection upon the intelli
gence of your honorable bodies to
hint that you were ignorautof this
fact that the newspaper business
lias never been and is not now a
profitable one in the South. With
a country somewhat sparsely set
tled, with defective mail facilities
and all the legitimate expenses
which attend publication else
where, it baa been impossible for
publishers and journalists to amass
those fortunes, which have in tome
instances followed the business in
portions of the North and West-
Here they have been compelled to
undergo severe and constant labor,
to receive but meager thanks, and
a living which embraces only the
necessary of life.
Alen who have contributed much
to mould the destiny of the coun
try throughout a life time, Lave
found themselves in their old age
with nothing to show for the labor
excluded. These facts must be
familiar to your honorable bodiet.
Your memorialists would farther
Bhow that the allegation to the
effect that the press of the State
had made a compromise during
the sitting of the last Legislature,
whereby it was agreed that if the
taxes accumulated from the estab
lishment of military government
np to that period were wiped out
that the press would in futuie
agree to taxation, is not true iu
fact.
It may be tnal some such propo
sition was made, but your memori
alists would respectfully submit
that the Press Association of the
[s2 a year, in advance.
State, neitlier in its collective or
individual capacity, was a party
to the transaction, but was at the
time referred to and is still op
posed to any such compromise.
Your memorialist# would fur
ther submit that in view of the
many and various public benefits
derived from the printing and pub
lication of newsprpers, in conside
ration that they arc esteemed the
most powerful promoters of in
telligence, virtue and happiness
among the people, it would seem
that a wise policy would suggest
that in place of hampering these
able and active agencies every
encouragement should be extended
to them.
Your memorialists would far*
thcr showi, that they have made
dilligent inquiry as to the course
pursued by other countries and
States upon the subject of the tax
ation of the press. In reply to
letters addressed to leading gen
tlemen of Now York, Pennsylva
nia, Ohio, arid other Northern and
Western States, by a member of
the Press Association, the inform
ation was furnished that the same
system prevailed in those Stales,
which was established in Georgia
previous to the overthrow of its
State Government. Since 1855
England has laid no stamp duty
on her newspapers, and Russia,
whose government is always rep
resented to be one of absolute des
potism, goes so far as to offer a
subsidy to her press.
Your memorialists would fur
ther submit that the ancient align
ment “King, Commons, Clergy and
Press” has been changed by pop -
ular consent, and that the Press no
longer submits to tbe precedence
of any profession in tire matters of
dignity, honor and extended use
fulness. Believing that if this
matter might be submitted to the
readers of the various journals
now published within the limits of
Georgia it would be •decided in
favor of the Press.
Your memorialists respectfully
submit these considerations to
yourjhonorable bodies. Trusting
that your memorialists may not
lay themselves liable to vain
boasting they would respectfully
submit to your honorable bodies,
that the Press of the State has no
reason to be ashamed of the record
made in the days when it was the
only agency left to confront the
bayonet of the usurper and the
corrupting influences of the adven
turer who cowered under its at
tacks.
With faith in the wisdom and
justice of your honorable bodies,
your memorialists respectfully ask
as a matter of right, aud not of
favor, that the press of the State
man not be laid under the ban
devised by an alien and Boldier
as a punishment for its alleged
contumacy in protecting the rights
and honor of the people of Georgia.
For the State at Large,
A. !L Stephens,
J. A. Christy.
First District—A. R. Lamar.
Second District —S. R. Weston.
Third District —G. W. Hancock
Fourth District—G A. Miller.
Fifth District—R. A. Alston.
Sixth District —J. B Reese.
Seventh District —W. R. Rankin.
Eighth District —Henry Moore.
Ninth District—T. M. Peeples.
Hoy’s Coin position—-Proctor’s
School.
Cmmuß has come agin. It
comes onst a year. I like cris
mus. I like to have the children
say “crismus giP so early in the
raoriyug. I wouldn’t swap cris
mus for the 4th of July, would
you ? The 4th of July has played
out since the war. Them Yankees
disgraced it and it will never hold
up its heads any more. But they
never hurt crismus They couldent.
Old Santa Claus is too smart for a
Yankee. I believe if he had fout
at ad, he would hare font on our
side. He’s the best old man 1 ever
saw. Some old fogiz don’t like
’em, but I do. I’ve got me a dog
picket out, and I’lc tie a bunch to
his tail just to see him run. He is
a houn dog. Thercs never no
school about crismus. Old Sauta
wouldent let ’em, because lies a
friend to the boys and girls. I
like the girls first rate. 1 like ’em
better all the time. I've got a
sweat-heart, but nobedy knowwit
but her. Suow comes about cris
mus times. I like snow, its so
white and soft, and makes every
thing look so pretty. 1 nould
like to snowcball a school teacher.
The way I would sock it to him—
you bet. A man in town told on
RATES OF ADVERTTSING.
spack 3 mo's. 6 mo’s. 12 mo’s,
lsq lure 3 4 00 $ GOO sto ot>
2 sq’rs 000 10 00 15 0 «
3 sqr’* 8 00 14 00 20 00
M col. It 00 2o 00 30 00
% col. 20 00 3ft 00 60 00
one col. *4O 00 7ft On 100 oo
The money for advertisements is das
on the first insertion.
A square is the space of one inch in
depth of the column. irrespective of the
number of lines.
Marriages and deaths, not exceeding
six lines, published free. For a man ad
vertising his wife, and nil other personal
matter, doable rn'es will be charged.
No. 48.
me for reckin of his dog. The
way I’ll snow-ball him is a sight.
Ilollerin is n big thing about cris
muH. The boys down in Savanna
has got horns. Them swell heads
cant holler worth a cent. 1 can
holler as much as any boy of my
size. Some boys holler like they
had the epizoot, but I Hurrah for
crismus.
»o«
A Tennessee Sadness—-Free
liOve in High Life.
There has just come to my ears
the tumor of a case, in this State,
which lias put the entire commu
nity thereabouts in n fever of ex
citement. It seems the teachings
of Mrs, Woodhull arc not without
fruits, even in such a well regulat
ed, Clnistiait community as Mur
freesboro. A few years since Mr.
John Beasley, son of Christopher
Beasley, a wealthy and reputable
farmer of Murfiec.-boro.was united
in marriage to Miss Job, of the
same neighborhood, a lady most
respectably connected. This cou
ple lived together in the utmost
harmony, three children being tiro
fruits of the marriage, nlxiut whom
clustered the moat cherished hopes
of the families of both husband
and wife. They moved in tho
highest circles of Middle Tennes
see society, their intelligence,
wealth ond family name serving as
a passport everywhere. But into
this Eiien of happiness the serpent
entered, and those whose names
yesterday might have stood against
the world are now disgraced, heart
broken and miserable. The hus
band, John Beasley, had a first
cousin living in the neighborhood,
Thomas Beasley, who was a fre
quent visitor at the house of the
former, and in whom the utinoat
confidence was reposed by all who
knew him. That any improper
liaison was going on between the
wife of John Beasley and her hus
band's cousin, Tom, no one c\cr
suspected. But here, as elsewhere,
it seems that love rules the court,
the camp, the grove, and, in this
instance, a very improper and dis
gusting character of the article, at
that. In an evil hour the wife
yielded to the enticing words of
her unlawful lover, and day before
yesterday a most distressing de
noument occurred. The intimacy
between the pair had grown to
such a pitch that Thomas Beasley
became, all at «nce, bold in his
villainy. Yesterday morning, hav
ing arranged with Mrs. Beasley
previously, h« rode to the gate of
her husband’s residence,and throw
ing a small package into the front
yard, passed on. The husband,
happening to notice this maneuver,
awaited further developments, and
saw his wife secure the bundle and
retire with it to her room. In a
few minutes lie followed and
caught her in the act of secreting
a roll of greenbacks amounting to
S3OO, and a note from her gay
Lochinvar, arranging the details
of their escape from tho scenes of
conjugal tyranny. What was tho
husband’s grief and madness,
when, mi questioning the young
wife, whom lie loved with the ten
derest devotion, lie was told that
she loved Tom Beasley and intend
ed to go with him, oven to the
“end of the world.” And she has
thus far been as good as her word.
The cousin soon returned, ami
in open day bore tiff the beautiful
yet wicked Helen, amid the grief
and pistol shots of her outraged
lord, none of the latter of which,
hewever, took effect. “I love
him,” she protested, ‘‘and whither
he goes, there will I go. And, fur
thermore, while I admit you are
the father of our two elder chil
dren, tho last one is his and mino
only, and him will we take with
us.” And tints, in the broad day
light, and iu the civilized, sober
and enlightened vicinity of Mur
freesboro, did this wicked couple
move off—while all thcgoyd neigh
bors looked on aghast at the mov
ing scene. No occurrence that
has ever happened within the
memory of the oldest inhabitant,
has excited more utter astonish
ment and *indignation among the
clever people of that pleasant and
prosperous little city. They think,
and properly, that the “end of the
world” is coming,, when two of
their most reputable and honored
citizens thus defy the laws of God
and morality. They took a south
bound train for parts unknown
night before last, leaving the fam
ilies of Messrs. Beaseley and Job
iu the deepest grief and mortifica
tion. — Cor. Courier Journal.
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A desirable second-hand article—
a young aud amiable widow.