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AV X REA EL, Atls>rnev of L'lw
'' • Thomaston Ga. Will practice i n the sevor
»l Courts of Hint Circuit and 25th Senatorial Distiict.
max 2o—tf
Mil SANDWICH Atrorn-v at Low.
• Thomaston. Ga Will practice in the several
f"tT'inf the >t4te of Georgia Special Attention given
to ('"llection of all Claims. Office up stairs. Cheney
Building may2o fim
j) \\ ()\ it o|>V||’K K llt'iri Cl's qf
1J L'iw.Oriffin. On. (»(ficein Almah Mali, next door
the ‘‘Tar office Will practice in the. Gourdes
coni|«(.sjng the Flint Circuit, and in the United States
ouricn ourt. Attention given to cases in Bankruptcy,
nrnvlUdy
J) 'Y\L a- MJW \LEY Ao rrtHvs or
1 / low, (Iritlln. Oa. Will practice in all the poun-
W* 'i»r„ prising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and In the
. ot 'ledwether, Clayton, Fayette, and Coweta.
practice sh the Supleme Court of Georgia and the
x 1 ? ct ' ° l,rf the United Mates tor the Northern and
vouth era Districts of Georgia
* p NUNNAIXY. [apilS-lv] L. T DOT At.
j 'LIEN. Atton ev :tt L w Th"»n-
Br i.* aß ' on * <} s. Will practice in the counties com
• * tPtl * II A Judicial Circuit, and elsewhere by
All business promptly attended to.
in Cheney’s brick building. inchll-ly
' R KEMII \ Ll, .floes his yxr-.fV s
surroo* 'e' a ' * , ' TV ' W * S tethe citizens of Ihoinqstaq ahd
BI) ' tl2 i country. May be tonnd rtnrin t e day at
de e. ' ir ' l: ’* '.v’s store, at night at the former resl
ec< ’ harks Wiu n . jan 14 ly.
•f. n L’/fDI iV< v. Ar nroev Bt Lw.
tvintiHi*/"' 1 " 1 ! p ’ co, Ga. Will practice in tile
»l ewb!r u a'" ,,r,sin * ,h ” Mint Judicial Cir-nit, end
m* l 1! - speefai on tract At tiisin.-ss promptly
iin si t)ltlue in Elder * budding,over* hamlter's
' re - augl*- y
I BEALL Attornov nt Low,
tait j n J'-Mnn, Ga. Will practice in the Flint Cir
and '"•■tewhere by special contract ang27 'y
I 'H.V I. || \L|, Arr-.r' eve <1 G Hins**ll r
th ';‘Uw Will practice in the counties composing
» I ’"H'lrcnit. In the Supremo Court, of *.eor ia,
District tiourt of the United States for the
‘ ll^rnand Sou hern Districts of t.eorgia.
“'"iaton. Ga . June ISth.
A x "Kßm>\' it Mcl’ lI.L \. A'tnrn'-vs
I'rH *- HW - oovingt *n, t'eorgia. Will attend regu
t"uni\* n ' '' ra ''t'ce in the Superior ''.uirts of the
M" r Newton, Butts. II nrv, SoaMing Pike
Ptr Morgan, DeKalb Gwindette and Jas
dec o-ly
g uI»;VdL Nl v| 11K vx s - Au ,rM ‘* v Mt
th,-. will [tractice all the counties
•tx*cial I'oiifp.., ft:it ' a li'x»chee Circuit and elsewhere by
declh-ly
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business ni.p, i*? I *’ ,<a Prompt attention given to
hands. declo- ly
ll F.rnvtV A 'turnev at Law
J ll in the (Tni» i*- Wll ' Police In the State Courts
fr *v.annnh t; a n ‘States' District ('oort at Atlanta and
dec. 0-ly
* v||| e ß A,, “ n '®V } *t Law Bari.es*
“ “Fi Jnl j’ ’ a ''ill practice in ail the counties of
an ‘. Supreme Court of th* State.
taw Rei hunk Atfunwi at
y lln fies ~f *l ‘ “’‘‘"K Ga will practice in nil the
" ri »ether ’bee (Jircali, and Ups-on and
mnt 'es deciS-ly
k Ri) J F i-f < ii
°f Merfi 1 *' c> ivmtimie the prafMCP
i"re 1 n>e. Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug
dee*"-ly
x or \t Upson that he will continue
Staton, G a ' e ' ,lci ne In its various brtinches at
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MESSES. PLEMISTEE & BEOOKS,
COKNF.R Or 111 LI. AND SOLOMON STREETS,
griffin, Georgia,
j yy-OULD respectfully inform the good
'citizens of Thomaston and vicinity that we have now
in store, and keep constantly on hand a superior stock
and very latest styles of
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LADIES’ & CHILDRENS’ SHOES,
LADIES’ JEWELRY,
LADIES’ HOSIERY,
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MILLINERY, «&c.
A thousand little tricks and trinkets that Men-Mer*
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customers. Orders respectfully solicited. Call on or
address
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ma yl3-tf Griffin, Georgia.
ANDREWS & IIILL,
manufacturers and dealers in
FURNITURE,
COFFINS, &c., &0.,
AT
J. & T. G. ANDREAVS’ Mill, FiVe Miles
Southwest of Thomaston, Ga.
\VT R would rp-tpoptf,,!] v inform our
v t friends and the public generally, that we have
established a
FURNITURE MANUFACTORY
nt the f.bove named pla,'c, where we manufacture nnd
keep con-duntlv on hand superior Furniture "f o 11 kin'ts,
varii-tlcs, and grades. We are prepared to fill all or
ders tor COFFIN*, and do nil kinds of Cabinet, work
with neatness nnd dispatch We fl .tffer ourselves that
we can please all that, know good work when they see
it. Our facilities and advantages in preparing our own
Lumber and Mannf etn ing our ow i Work enables us
to otter anv quantity, better varieties, and d-eided'y
better bargains than other Furniture dealers in this
section of country. We earnestly tequest all that are
in need of anything in «itr line to cdl and examine < ur
stock, as we feel satisfied that we mn give s.atNtaction
in style, quality and price. All work warranteed to be
as represented. Orders solicited.
mav2n-ly ANDREWS & HILL.
FOUR GOOD BOOKS.
Should be Had in every Family.
DrynTTOV \ L nnd Practical P'lytrlott
FVVILY BIBLE, containing a copious index.
Concordance Dtc'ionarv of Biblical Terms. G<ograph
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L \ Ws o' BUSINESS for all the states in the Union
I’ v I heophilus Carsons, 1. L D This volume contains
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fdvp. will, awards. Ac Luolishedby the National Pul»-
li-hing 1 o . Nemphis. Tenn.
Tilc, LIFE OF GEN. K. F. LEE. by .Tns D. McCthe,
author of a life of Stonewall Jackson. ThUhnok shouitl
find its way into every family as it is one of the best
wi-Rten accounts of the heroic deeds of the Great Vir
ginian vet published.
1.1 ■HT IN THE EAST, by the well-known writer,
Fleetwood. •
Mr. JOHN A. COCIIRAN hts taken the Agency for
Upson and Pike counties, and wi l cad upon the people
with these invaluable books immediately aprill-3t.
f^TEUEOSCOPES,
VIEWS,
# ALBUMS,
CIIEOMOS,
FRAMES.
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A FIRST CLASS AGRICULTURAL MONTHLY.
G EN. W. M. BROWNE,
IDITOE,
At $2 OO per Year in Advance.
r pHR Second Volume commences with
| November number. Now is the time to sub
scribe. Address, J. W. BURKE. <fc GO.,
octS ts Macon. Ga.
DR. THOS. A. WARREN,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
OFFERS ht« services to the c : tiz°ns of
Griffin and vicinity Special attention given to
the treatment of
CHRONIC DISEASES.
Th ose at adistmee cancan consult him by letter.
Office over George Beecher &< o , 111 Street.
apri!29-tf
WATCH REPAIRING.
rpfJK ctizens <>f Fpso-* at and ndj-tuent
I. counties nro respectfully informed that I hare
moved my stock to the store o Vr Mm M all ace, and
am now prepared to execute work jn my line of busi
ness, -on the most favor .bl terms. IN-p Ring of all
kinds done at the shortest no’ice nnd i- the neatest man
ner. I have tMcilities for turning out good work, and by
strict attention to bn-im-ss hope to receive a liberal
Bhaie of patronage. Very respectfully,
aprilS ts WM L- BRYAN.
~ DEISTTISTPLY!
E huinir pp v mttncntly
j[ locaytflHbunston,still tendersthicr professhtnal
services of Dentistry to the citizens of
( T ps<>n eounti- s Teeth inserted on g Id
sffver, o r Ail work wary nt.-d and
ag -d fit guaranteed. Office up sCtiVkoveT 1 WILSON
SA 'VVER’S Btcr(-,
dec!) ft BRYAN & BAWYEE.
THOMASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, .JUNE 24, 1871.
Capital and Labor.
Communicated.]
It i* admitted bv most writers on political
economy that labor creates all value.
Capital in the absence of labor is entirely
valueless. Ic cannot be made to produce
one cent in value. If a man owned ail the
land in the State of Georgia, it would not
be worth a copper to him without labor.
It a man had hundreds of thousands of
dollars invested in houses and lots in the
most thriving city in the nation, vet it
would not bring l him in one copper without
labor. 11. I. Kimball’s magnificent hotel
in Atlanta would he no income to him hut
for the value created by those who labor to
conduct the hotel. The finest banks in the
same city would he equally valueless with
out the labor of the hank officers. Capital
might be invested in railroads and steam
boats, yet it would yield nothin}; without
labor to run these cars and steamers,
labor not only creates all value hut it
pays all taxes, it is a great mistake that
many politicians have fallen into, that of
trying to make the taxes fall on the rich
instead of the laborers. Ihe laborer pays
it all, because it has been alre idv shown,
that the rich man’s capital is valueless with
out labor and is only made mote profitable
by lab >r, hence labor pays all taxes. For
thisreason the poor man is as much interest
ed in taxes-as the l icit, since his labor pays
all taxes. To illustrate this, suppose there
was an additional lax of one thousand dol
lars laid on each cotton fact- ry in Upson
county, would not the proprietors be forced
to make some changes in order to make up
the loss, to pay the additional expense.
The hrst thing they would have to do would
he to either reduce the wages or to exact
more labor from each hand, in either case
the laborer would pay the additional taxes.
Taking this view of the relationship of labor
and capital we see the error of those orators
and demagogues who advocate taxing the
rich instead of the poor. It is nevertheless
true under many circumstances that capital
is master of labor, and in many cases a
very cruel one, but such is not the case in
this section of the country, for the number
of laborers are too few, hut in all old. and
thickly settled countries capital rules labor
with a cruel hand. In donselv settled
countries laborers are very numerous and
consequently very poor. Capital takes
advantage of the : r dependent situation and
forces them to perform a large amount ol
labor for a small amount of pay, hence ic is
the policy of capitalist to keep laborers
poor and dependant in order that they may
the m 're easily control it. Hence the great
necessity of till poor wien whether they be
farmers, mechanics, or day laborers, using
the most rigid economy in order that they
may lay aside something each year, so as to
enable them to purchase for themselves a
house or farm and enough money to put
them out of the reach of from the
capitalist. There are many other reason
why poor men ought to be very saving with
their money in this section, some of which
reasons are the following:
The most important is the low price of
land. A man who can accumulate SISOO
to SIGdO can buy in Georgia two hun
dred acres of moderately good land, on
which he can make an ample support for
a family. The same individual, if he were
in Delaware or Pennsylvania, would be
able to purchase with the same money
only fifteen to sixteen acres of land no
richer than Upson county land, being
SIOO per acre in these States, and the man
who cultivates these Georgia lands can
make more per acre in value than the
farmer of Delaware or Pennsylvania to the
same number of acres. It is true those
farmers take much pains to improve their
lands and use rr uch more skill in the culti
vation of their lands, hut the natural pro
ductiveness of the soil is much greater here
than there. And if farmers here would
take the same trouble to enrich ihpir lands
and use the scientific mode of cultivating
the soil, it is only fair to say the farmers,
as a class of men, would soon grow rich in
this section.
But this state of things is not always to
remain as it is now. every means are em
ployed to introduce laborers in this section.
Soon the Asiatic laborers will be spread all
over this country. Laborers are coming in
from all parts of Europe so that when the
demand for labor ceases then comes hard
times and low prices for laborers. The
introduction of foreign in this section
will be highly beneficial to the land holder
and capitalist, but it will be very hurtful
to the laborers as it will lessen the demand
for labor and consequently must bring
down the price. This is one of the finest
countries under the sun for laborers, yet
many grumble and think they have a hard
time, but if they knew the situation of the
European laborers they would not regard
their situation as hard. In England eapi*
tal is ten times as severe a mas’er as was
the Southern farmer in time of slavery.
Slave labor as it existed in the SouTh
before the war was the best fed and best
clothed as also the best raid laborers on
vrnich the son shonp. for they got enough
to eat and wear, and were worked in mod
eration as a general thing Rot the Eu
ropean laborer ha> oneof Unse bless-,
ings, for he is compelled by necessity of his
poverty to worK for any price capitalists
may see proper to pay him and that is very
little, not more than from ten to twenty
cents —just enough to keep S'>ul and b* dy
together, their extreme poverty keeps them
slaves to capitalists, so that they have ten
times as severe and exacting a master as
ever did the slaves of the South. These are
not mere assertions hut can he proved by
reports sent into the British Parliament
from men of the highest positions in the
State and church, men who were appointed
by order of Parliament to go through the
kingdom ami investigate the condition of
the poor and laboring c’ass, and their re
ports show that in England in the coal
mines, men. women and children have to
work in subteraneous mines where they
often do not see day light once during the
day, and have to work often from eleven
to thirteen hours per day, men, women, and
children of every age all in the same mines,
this they are compelled to do in order just to
live. In Ireland it is much worse, often
the poor tenant’s house is not as good as is
used for hogs in the Middle and Northern
States—they are so poor and are so oppress*
ed by the land holders that they do not eat
meat once in six months, and bread never,
hut have to subsist entirely on potatoes.
While this is the ca-e with the laborers the
land holders live in fine mansions and in
great luxury. They build high walls
around their mansions expressly to keep
out beggars, and place military guards
there for that purpo-e. Surely if the labor
ers of this country would only compare
their situation to that of the Irish, they
would not only feM thankful that thoy were
in a country so highly favored, but would
set to work at once to lay up money and
buy themselves and homes, before
the influx of foreign laborers reduces the
laborers of this country to the same de
plorable situation as it is in the old country,
which is just as certain to he the the case
as that the sun rises in the East and sets in
the West. The direct communication with
Asia will soon flood this country with
heathen laborers, then farewell to prosperi
ty of native American laborers.
MassncluuetG Decaying.
It is very melancholy to think that Mas
sachusetts is on the decline, hut it is even
so. WTien it is remembered that this ven
erable and pious old commonwealth has an
iverwhelming monopoly of the goodness
and greatness of this ent re Union, it is very
sad to think about. Great and good as she
is, aye, greater and better as she is than all
other human communities, her labor statis
tics show a down grade in civilization, a
decay in agriculture*so rapid, and a grow
ingly discouraging condition of her laboring
classes, that would stimulate any other
people hut hers to drop for a while the
management of the universe, and attend to
home concerns awhile.
In 33 cotton factories the average earning
of 17,'*00 laborers, including overseers and
• gents, was less than $5 per week. These
are some of the agreeable results of their
svsfum :
“Th >t even at low rates work is not
steady all the year round ; that few are
able, even if the work is had, to work
-teadily ten and eleven hours a dav ; that
large numbers are obliged to stop work
from sheer exhaustion ; that young lads
walk thirty and more miles a day while
tending the machines ; that many become
intemperate from over work ; that the cha :, g“
of hands in large factories is frequently
equal to an entirechangu every four months ;
that very few persons die while operatives,
because finding their health give way under
their toils arid exposures, they leave their
employment and cease to be operatives.
Men are being dismissed from their oc
cupa'ion for the sole reason that they had
been prominent in discussing the eight hour
movement, and refused employment in
every mill in the State, where n< t>ces from
their previous employers had proceded them;
of men and their families incontinently
turned out of house and home because they
could not agree on the subject of factory
wages with the owner of the tenement; of
numerous employers combining to prevent
the men from belonging to associations and
labor unions ; of employers who openly
boast that since a labor union broke up
“they can do ns they please with the men ”
In regard to the agriculture of the old
State, the following agreeable condition of
matters is report'd :
“It may be sumed up in two words—
rapid decay. Increased nominal value of
land, higher rents, fewer farms occupied by
owners, diminished product, general decline
of prosperity, lower Wages, a more ignorant
population, increasing number of women
employed at bard outdoor labor (surest
sign of a declining civilization.) and steady
deterioration in the style of farming—these
are the conditions described bv a cumulative
mass of evidence that is perfectly irresisti
ble, and that is unfortunately only too
strongly cot.firmed by such details of census
statisticts as have so far been made public.”
The great and good old State will have
to drop Southern Ku-Kiux for a brief
period, and fix up its household matters.
We see ro he p f >r it — Constitution.
Intelligence in the Jury B<>x —A Vir
ginia paper tells the lollowing as an aetual
occurrence :
Recently in one of our courts the Grand
.Jury, as is now usually the case, was com
posed paTtly of negroes. After being
“charged” in the usual wav by IDs Honor
the jury rptired to their room, when one of
the white juror* ventured to a*k a e l«-red
a-*ociare it he understood the charge of the
.Judge. “Goliv ” exclaimed the amend- :
tire nr. “he dhn’r charge ns muffin fr dot, j
does he ? Why, I thought we was gwiue to j
git pay.”
Aunt Hetty on Matrimony.
“Now girls,” said Aunt Hetty, “put down
your embroidery and worsted work, do
something sensible, and stop building air
castles, and talking of lovers and honey
moons : it makes me sick, it’s perfectly
antimonial. Love is a iarce ; matrimony is
a humbug; husbands are domestic Napole
ons, Neroes, Alexanders, sighing for other
hearts to cmquor after they are sure of
i yours. The honeymoon is as short-lived a*
a lucifer-match ; after that you mav wear
your wedding-dress at the wai-h-tub,
and your nigh’cap to meeting, and vour
husband won’t know it. Y u may pick up
your own pocket handkerchief, help your
self to a chair, and solit your gown across
the hack reaching over the table to get a
piece of flutter, while he is laying in hi*
breakfast a* it were the last meal lie should
eat in this world ; when he gets through he
will aid your digestion, while you are sip
ping your tir-t cup of coffee, by inquiring
what you’ll have for dinner, whether the
cold lamb was all ate yesterday ; if the
charcoal is all our, and what you gave for
the last green tea y>u bought. Th“n he
gut* up fr'm the table, lights his cigar with
the last evening’s paper, that you have not
had a chance to read, gives two or three wiffs
of smoke, sure to give y<<u a headache for
the afternoon, and just as his coat-tail is
vanishing through the door, apologizes for
not doing ’that errand’ for you yesterday
thinks it doubtful if he can to day, so press
ed with business. Hear of him at eleven
o’clock taking an ice cream with some
ladies at Vinton’s, while you are putting
new linings in his coat sleeves. Children
by the ears all day, can’t get out to take the
air, feei as dizzy as a fly in a drum ; hus
band comes home at night, nods a ‘how d’ve
do. Fan,’ b xes Charley’s ears, stands little
Fanny in the corner, sits down in the easi
est chair in the warmest corner put his feet
up over the grate, shutting out all the fire
while the baby’s pug-nose grows blue with
the cold ; reads the newspaper all to him
self, solaces his inner man with a hot cup
ot tea, and, just as you are laboring under
the hallucination that he will ask you to
take a mouthful of fresh air with him, he
puts on his dressing gown and slippers, and
begins to reckon up the family expenses 1
after which tie lays down on the sofa, and
you keep time with vour needle, while he
snors till nine o’clock. Next morning ask
him to “leave you a little money,” he looks
at you as if to be sure you are in your right
mind, draws a sigh long enough an strong
enough to inflate a pair of bellows, and asks
you ’what you want with it, and if half a
dollar won’t do.’ Gracious king ! as if these
1 rtie shoes and stockings and petticoats
could be had tor a half a dollar ! Oh,
girls! set your affections on cats, poodles,
parrots, or lap-dogs, but let matrimony
alone. It’s the hardest way on earth of
getting a living: you never know when
vour work is done up. Think of carrying
eight or nine children through the measles,
chicken-pox, rash, mumps, and scarlet fev
er, some of ’em twice over; it makes my
headache to think of it. Oh, you may
scrimp and save, and twist and turn, and
digdelvp, and economise, and die. and yoer
husband will marry again, and take what
you have saved to dress his second wife with,
and she’ll take your port ait tor a fireboard;
hut what’s the use of talking? I’ll warrant
every one of you’ll try it, the first chance
you get: there’s a sort of bewitchment
about it. somehow. I wish one half of
the world warn’t fools, and t’other half
idiots I do, oh, dear !”
Tile Alumni Meeting Yesterday.
A meeting of the Alumni ot the Univer
sity of Georgia resident in Macon, was held
yesterday afternoon at the office of Nisbets
& Jackson, Col. John Rutherford in the
chair, arid N. M. Solomon acting as Secre
tary. The list embraces the following
names *• Col. XV. II Jacksbn, lion. James
Jacks in. Col. I). W. Lewis, Jas A. Ni>bet,
Esq , Hon. J J. Gre-hatn, Professor S. P.
Sanford, Professor W. D. Williams, Rev.
S Boykin. Col. II 11. Jones, Col. Henry S.
Glover, Col. Pulaski Holt, Ju Ige T G
Holt. Capt. T. G. Holt. Jr., Dr. W. F. Holt.
Dr J. S. Uaxter, Samuel Hall, E q , W. A.
Reid, E-q , Capt. A. O. Bacon. Col. L. M.
Lamer. J 11. Blount, T C. Ni-bet,
E-q, R F. Wool folk, E-q. W. Lundy,
Esq., E. D. Huguetiiri, Esq , W. 13 Bonneil,
E-q., and A. W. Reese.
Upon motion of Mr. Jas. A. Nishet a
committee of five was appointed to prppare
business, and make a report to a future
meeting to he called by the Chairman. The
chair named thefidlowing as the committee;
Messrs. Jas. A. Nishet, J. J Gresham, W.
D. Williams, H. H. Jones, and A. O Bacon.
Another committee, consisting of Messrs.
D. W. Lewis, (chairman,) H S. Glover and
A. W. Re‘‘se was appointed to confer with
the managers of the various railroads in the
State for the purpose of inducing them to
extend all the facilities possible to the
Alumni in the State who may desire to
attend the Alumni dinner at Athens next
Commencement.
There was a free exchange of views as to
divers measures ealcu'ated to further the
results aimed at in initiating this move
ment. and a cordial and harmonious spirit
manifested as to the necessity and desira
bility of attaining them as speedilv as may
he. We think this meeting may prove the
pivot upon vrh<ch there can be made to
turn events of the highest moment to the
University, to the people of the State and
the cause of education.
As an incident of the meeting it may he
mentioned that Col. W. H. Jackson is the
last surviving member of the first class ever
graduated at the University —sixty odd
years ago —and Messrs. Solomon and Hu
gmnin members of the last graduating
class—that of 1870. Telegraph and Mes
senger.
Our friend Harvey is n o only a good
taylor, hut a Consfiderab e to hoof. A
short tune ago he stepped into a photograph
gallery here, and after swaggering around
a few moments wanted to know of the man
ts ho ran the “mersheen” if he could take a
picture just like him.
“Yes.” replied the artist.
“Are v >u sore. r»«w that rou can take it
just ex'i thj like tv
‘ Y 8, sir, 1 fhi; k T Can.”
“Well, rhen, d—d if l want it, 'f you are
Certain that it veij! he as ugiv aS'f am.” j
V- hereupon William turned upon his J
heels and left.
The Strike anil its Lesson.
Strikes in Washington, and especially
that of last week, differ essentially from
th >se which are witnessed occasionally in
tho great centres of labor. There, trium
phant capital in dull times too often over
steps the bounds of fair dealing, whilst here,
where the laek of capital is ignored bt
b .is erous demands upon the body p.-litic,
the strike is » forced product in the hot
bed of demagogisni. W • have hailed, with
pleasing anticipations, the caning of anew
era in the afl urs of the Ibstrict, when man*
ufaeturing and commercial enterprise would
be attracted here by natural advantages,
promising a remunerative investment to
capital. That change, however, so impor
tant to the material and prosperous develop
ment of resources yet untouched, will be
postponed into the far future, if the occur*
reuccs of the last week are to be repeated.
Iho va. uft of capi 1 81 and of labor, is regu
lated by the inexorable laws of supply and
demand, and when the events of the war left
on our hands a laboring population wholly
disportionate to the wants of the city, "a
sympathetic cry for public and private
charity was raised, the aid of Congress was
invoked, and in this wav the pressing ques
tiou o oversupply, has been, from time to
time, tided over. Instead of seeking a posi
tive remedy, demagogues have, by local
legis ation and partisan devices, only ngnv
vated the evil, and thus chocked, not seri
ously retarded, that healthy progress to
which we have reterred, as furnishing the
promise of a brighter future.
\\ hen a disorderly crowd, headed by a
former functionary of the city government,
interfered forcibly with the pursuits of
peaceable laborers, the police was found in
many cases to be inefficient, while its chief
is said to have been occupied with other du
ties in a different sphere. The Governor
and the Board of Public Works, instead of
vindicating the majesty of the offended law,
conciliated the ring-leaders and counselled
with the Corporation contractors—the
leeches who havt. been'sucking the life
b’ood of the city for years, in order to effect
an understanding, by which the disaffected
“loyal” colored voters would be satisfied*
. Let us be charitable, hut we have a
right to ask that our charity shall be wisely
distributed. It is evident that the market
for unskilled labor here is over-stocked,
while other parts of the country are suffer*
ing from a scarcity. What is the duty of
intelligent benevolence in this state of tacts ?
Surely not to encourage in idleness, and
almost necessarily in vice, a large element
which cannot find employment, because the
supply of labor is greater than the demand.
If we are to contribute at all, it should be
in aiding the impoverished to seek homes,
where laoor ; s not only needed, but liberal
ly rewarded. To tamper with this serious
subject, which is full of peril, would bo to
encourage the very evil which is most de
precated. Every attempt to overthrow tbo
laws of political economy, and to thrust
aside the instruction of experience, will
react disastrously. An excess of a particu
lar class of population has been brought
here, in order to swell a partisan majority.
And now it has to he maintained or sent
away to “fresh woods and pastures new.”
This is the problem which must be solved
sooner or later, no matter how scheming poli
ticians may strive to tinker or traffic with
it.
The party in power may ruin the taxpay
ing community, in their efforts to put off
the evil day, and from th'eir want of courage
to face the inevitable. But still the practi
cal question will always return to plague
the inventor, and the bad consequences will
confront these demagogues when they least
expect it. They are planting the seeds of
social antagonism, which sooner or later
must bear such bitter fruits as sprung out
of the rank and tangled growth of the Paris
ian Commune, now so execrated for its out
rages upon humanity and Christian civilie*
Zation. In a country like this, with a do
main so vast, rich, and uncultivated, it is
hardly less than criminal to force a concen
tration of laboring masses, who are so much
needed in the rural districts, into the cities,
and especially a city like this, which, be*
cause it is not commercial or manufactur
ing, in the large sense, being in the infancy
of its new development, from the nature of
the population, is not able to maintain any
such large excess of idlers, as have been
imported or attracted here, by the tempta
tion or proini-e of political rewards.—
Washington Pit riot
Steam on Dikt R >ad».—One of the edi
tors of the Macon Telegraph, who is travel
ing West with the railroad party, says in a
recent letter:
Mr. Wadley tells me he has contracted
for a steam traction road engine, which will
be employed in hauling logs at bis brother’s
saw mill, in Emanuel county. The cost of
the machine will be five thousand dollars.
It is perfectly manageable, travers rough
roads and even plowed grounds without
difficulty, and will drag after it a gang of
plows which will pulverize the soil to almost
any desired depth in land free from stumpV;
In dragging carry logs be expects it to A<y
the wi-rk of many mules or oxen or far les®
expensive fuel. Should experiment justify
it, he will pur one of these machines on the
mad from (ieneva to Talfrotton, and carry
the Meriwether Springs travel. He tbinfs
they can be used with economy on oar dirt
roads, and will be found useful in hauling
cotton to points on the railways.
This is a “personal” taken from a coun
try journal:
“A young lady takes this method of in
forming a certain young man that the next
time he dpsires to gaze upon her. forty-five
mortal minutes without winking his eves
she will consider herself highly favored if
he will c ose his mouth, arid not set there
like a yuuug robin awaiting the parent
bird.”
A New Relate n—A man was divorced
from his wife and she married another,
whereupon husband No. 1. inquired of No.
2 i
‘ What relation are you to me 7*
“N me that I know
“Yes yon are.” said No. I : “you are my
step husband—l stepped out and yon ster
ped in.”
Only one-film of the population of the
city of Naples can read and write.
NO. 29.