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VOLUME n—NUMBER 36,
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IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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E. S. HARRISON,
Physician and Surgeon
Offers his services to the public. Office with Dr.
J. S. Jones, over McCord & Hardaway’s.
aprlOmd Thomson, Ga.
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Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Elßffl WHITE EMIITE & E. C. ME
—ALSO—
Meini-Cliina French China,
Glassware, &e.
244 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga
aprlO ly.
ii. <3. RONEY,
Morwi} at Cain
tnon so v, «./.
Will practice in the Augusta, Northern and
Middle Circuits,
uo l-ly
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.,
Have Removed to their
New Iron Front Store,
BROAD STREET, AUGUST, GA
aprlOtf
GLOBE HOTEL.
8. W. CORNER BROAD & JACKSON STS.,
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
JACKSON & JULIAN, Proprit’rs.
We beg leave to call the attention of the travel
ling public to this well known Hotel, which we
have recently leaned and placed on a footing
second to none in the F-mith. No expenw will be
spared to render it a first class Wouso. in every
respect, and every attention is paid to the comfort
and convenience of guests.
m. T. L LALLRSTKDT
OFFKILS 2IIS
PROFESSIONAL services
To the Citizeus of Thomson and Vicinity,
lie can be found at the Room over Costello’s, when
cot professionally absent.
REFERS TO
Pro- J A. Evb, Pro. W.u. 11. I'ouuhtv, Dk
John S. Coleman, Dr. S. C. Eve.
O N TIME.
TILL THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER.
JL WILL furnish planters and others in want of
$ ii o e; *
on City Acceptance, till Ist November next, at
cash prices. D. COHEN,
apr 3 13m3 Augusta, Ga.
CHARLES S DuBOSE,
&TTQM*r£F#TZ?IW,
W in- ren ton,'G a.
Wi’l practice in all the Couria of the Northern,
Augusta & Middle Circuits.
O*. M. HARP,
Wholesale and retail dealer in
101 ST ffi!E[a©§ls3l ®[HL &
LAMPS AND LAMP FIXTURES,
Manufacturer and dealer in all kinds of
TIN AN] SMT IRON WARE
GUTTERING, ROOFING, 2
j4nd all kiuds of Jobbing done promp’/y and neatly.
6rrj6 15SJ Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
Established in 1815.
T. 11. MANLE Y,
—WITH—
&EQ* Mowmow & Sows
NURSERYMEN,
HAVE FOR SALE A LARGE ABSORMENT OF
ORNAMENTAL TREES, EVERGREENS, &
ROSES,"
Grape Vines and Small Fruits,
DWARF AND STANDARD FRUIT TRidES,
Rochester, N. Y.
JAMES H. HULSEY’S
Steam Dyeing and Scouring
ESTABLISHMNET,
133 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
Near Lower Market Bridge Bank Building for the
Dyeing and Ceaning
of dresses, shawls, cloaks, ribbons, &c. Also gen
tlemen’s coats, vests and pants cleaned and dyed
in the best manner. Piece dry goods, cloths, rne
rinoes, delane, alpaca, rep goops and jeans dyed
and finished equal to those done in New York.
CtT Orders by Express promptly attended to.
Augusta, Ga. apr.3m3
Svapnia—is Opium purified of its
sikneniug and paisenous properties, It is a perfect
anodyne, nqt producing headache or constipation j
of the bowels, as is the case with other prepara
tions of opium. John Farr, Chemist New York.
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On this Side.
Just as I thought of you darling,
Just as I named you of old,
My little white rose of the spring time,
My little pet lamb of the fold;
Fair as the promise of summer,
Sweet as the balmiest breeze,
Bright as the dewyest blossom,
Purer than any of these.
Just as you were to me, darling,
Out in that far away time,
Dear as the dream of a poet,
Soft as the musical rhyme;
Sad with the weight of a sorrow,
You and I only might know,
Just as you were to me darling,
Far in the days long ago.
Just as you came to me, darling,
Faith in your beautiful eyes,
True as the whisperings of Heaven ;
Blue as its sunniest skies;
Just as you came to me, darling;
Brow n lashes heavy with tears,
Saddened because of my sorrow,
Weeping because of my fears.
Just as yon went from me, darling,
Down through the darkness unknown,
Over the echoless waters,
Into the shadows alone.
On through the radient pathways
Only the chosen have trod—
Bright with the Brightness of Heaven,
White with the whiteness of God.
Only a dream of you, darling,
Never a clasp of your hand,
Never a smile from you, darling,
Far in the beautiful land;
Never to see you beside me, darling,
All through the desolate yearn,
Saddened because of my sorrow,
Weeping because of my tears.
lUisrcUaucous.
The follow ing are extracts from the
Know Nothing speeches of Henry Wil
son, nee Jeremiah Colbaith, in Massa
chuagts, in 1554 :
‘The time has come when the uni
form of the. State militia' should no
longer be disgraced by being seen on
the back of a Catholic Irishman or an
Infidel Dutchman.’
•By the light of these burning shan
ties, the Teuton and Celt may read
the doom that will overtake them, in
the attempt to compete with the native
born American for political supremacy
on this continent.’
What do our Irish and German fel
low citizens think of these utterances
of the Grant candidate for Vice Presi
dent ?
There is said to be a man living in
Waco, Texas, who has been married five
times, and is the father of silty legiti
mate children—thirteen boys by his
first wife ; eighteen children, boys and
girls, by his second wife; ten by his
third wife ; six by his fourth, and three
by his fifth wife. Twenty of his sons
served in the Confederate army, eight of
of whom were billed ; seven died natu
ral deaths, and the remainder are still
living.
Jewell’s Mills, lying in Warren and
Hancock counties, has been incorpora
ted as a town by the present session of
the legislature. This is an act of jus
tice, as well as a compliment, to an
industrious, honest and enterprising
man.— IVarrenlon Clipper.
Death has again visited our town, and
taken from our midst Mrs. Seay, wife of
Dr. Ruben F. Seay. She died on the
afternoon of the 21st inst. Her hus
band and children have the sympathy
of all kind hearts, in this their sad hour
of deep affliction.— IVarrenlon Clipper.
Greeley’s receipt for preserving
peaches.—Cut in strips not less than
fifteen inches long ; spread them out on
the grass to bleach for three days and
finally sprinkle with cinnamon, and
pack in air tight jars with saw dust.
Mr. James Cody,—for many years a
prominent merchant of this place, but
whose failing health since the war has
necessitated abandonment of business
—is dangerously ill.— Warrcnton Clip
per.
The marriage of two dwarf took place
at Springfield, Ohio, lately. The
bridegroom stands three feet ten inch
es high, and the bride nearly an inch
taller.
A Chicago belle dropped her chignon
on the street the other day, and in less
than two minutes a yellow dog had
shaken it into mortar stiffening.
Thomson, McDuffie county, ga, September 11, 1872.
Letter from {Senator
Reese.
To the People of McDuffie
County :
Learning that I am censured on ac
count of the failing of the General As
sembly to provide representation for
McDuffie county. I deem it my duty
to enlighten you fully upon the action
of The General Assembly and the reason
for this action.
Very soon after the opening of the
recent session of the General Assembly,
a bill was introduced by Col. Kibbee
into the Senate, which in due time
passed that body, giving to McDu'A l
and Warren counties each one menv s
Knowing the great difficulty of tfH*
subject of apportionment, and the dan
ger of delaying action 1 voted for this
bill, believing it the very best we could
get at this time. This Bill passed the
Senate, went to the House of Represen
tatives, and there, after some controver
sy, was defeated.
On account of the Dissens ons in the
House of Representatives on this sub
ject, always fruitful in jealousy and dis
pute, no other apportionment Bill was
introduced in either branch of the Gen-j
eral Assembly. Your Representative,]
Mr. Stovall, introduced a Resolution jntea
the House in the latter part of the sew
sion to extricate McDuffie county fron
the unfortunate position which the nofl
action of the House of
had p aced it. Without any
I may say without consideration by ill
leading lawyers of the House, this rf9
lution passed the House, and wenH
the Senate just two days before
journment of the Legislature.
notified by Mr. Stovall of the pajH
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him that a resolution could not be
for such purpose as that of
ing Representation, one of the
subjects of legislation, and
the formalities and delay of a
law. Notwithstanding my own conu|
‘tiou. based on the study of the natureijgra
'resolutions, that apportionment of R »
reservation could not be affected in thil
mode, I concluded to present the case <9
McDuffie county in the most
aspect in my power. So on Saturday!
24th, when the Resolution which passed]
the House, was taken up, I moved to
amend the same so as to remove opposi-j
tion from Warren county, which was
very strong, and active, and make ,the
Resolution read as follows: “toColum
bia one member, to McDuffie one mem
ber, to Warren two,” —thus retaining in
the same section of the Stale the four Repre
sentatives. I was induced to offer this
amendment by a letter from Mr. John
Wilson informing me that the people
of Columbia county had just met in
convention and nominated only one
person .to represent them, conceding
representation as far as they could to
the people of McDuffie county, I was
induced also to offer this amendment
and urge its adoption knowing as I did
the kindly feelings existing betweeu the
people of McDuffie and Columbia coun
ties. As soon as the original Resolution
and amendment were read, a motion was
made by several Senators to postpone
indefinitely the whole matter.
I explained to the Senate the unjust
position in which a refusal to act would
•eave you —that no evil could result
from a passage of this Resoluution so
amended ; as the people of Columbia
would not complain of it—that a Reso
lution clothing with the forms of law
the agreement of the people of the two
counties oight to be adopted for the
present until an apportionment could
be made throughout the State. Though
I supported the Resolution earnestly bring
ing to bear upon it every reason which I
could consistently do, the motion to post
pone prevailed, only four Senators vo
ting with me against the motion. lam
thoroughly satisfied that the mode of
apportioning Representations by a sim
ple resolution passing both houses with
one reading is not the proper mode.
The Constitution of 1868 allows an ap
portionment of Repiesentation to be
made after each cousus, by which is
meant at any time after such census,
and not at the first session after such
census as incase of Senators, and fixes
the representation to be as fallows :
to the whole State 173 Representatives,
to the six largest counties, three each,
to the thirty-one next largest, two eadh,
(which include Warren and Columbia)
to tlitf ninety-five other counties one
member each. This Constitution fur
ther provides that new apportionments
nnjst bo made by the General Assembly.
This action of the General Assembly
regulatng apportionment , cannot I con
ceive be partial affecting only two or
Stfaqe counties. When the Legislature
_ .he action must be general not local.
From the very nature of the subject the
action should cover the whole State
and settle every body’s rights—the
rights of Columbia, Warren and McDuf
fie not simply with reference to each
other but with reference to all the other
counties of the State.
Such a precedent as that of a Resolu
or even law fixing representation
two or three counties cannot
The impropriety and impos-
of action on such a large sub-
apportionment of represe tation
resolution which may pass both
the same day on one reading,
■appear from the following: Resolu-
the General Assembly reach the
the body itself, or its members,
■to! the departments yf Govern-
of mere adininstration.
■ Vis may be used to express the
■ l the General Assembly but
laws on the whole people,
Motto divest rights of repre
mm co'itii*»»•-*. Mr. < lushing in
on Parliamentary Law,
S'., discussing the '.subject of
■is and their office, says, “Keso
i: used by General Assemblies
opinions on any subject before
HSib'ic ur private, or to declare
of general orders relative
■ ■ proceedings. Thus they resolve
and standing orders—to
—that explanations of
Jbers are satisfactory—that private
will not be received after acer
Resolutions, the same author
“a form of resolution which is in
use in this country chiefly for
administrative purposes of a local or tem
porary character, sometimes for present
purposes only, is the joint resolution.”
From these extracts from a writer
whose work is the standard now in the
United States, will be see how clearly
improper was this Resolution to regulate
and apportion Representation in the
General Assembly. Besides this, the
Supreme Court of our own State has
expressly decided that a Resolution sus
pending action of the Courts under a
General Assembly could not by Resolu
tion regulate the action of the Courts
proceeding under a law.
After the defeat of the apportionment
bill the House, the very bill which
gave to McDuffie one representative, a
resolution or bill doing the same thing,
could riot have been introduced without
the consent of two thirds of the House
by which the same was originally re
jected. It did not appear in the Reso
lution sent to the Senate by what majority
the same was passed ; so it could not have
been considered, and was properly post
poned.
From this review of my conduct in
rejation to Mr. Stovall’s Resolution to
apportion Representatives to three
counties only out of 136, and from an
examination of the objection above pre
sented to such a Resolution, I thin£
every impartial reader will conclude
Z did Jor the county of McDuffie my whole
duly and even more.
It is charged also I am informed, in
in the counties of McDuffie and Colum
bia that I did not do my duty in rela
to a bill presented by Mr. Lampkin of
the House, prohibiting Municipal Cor
porations from taxing Agricultural Pro
ducts, and 1 am therefore under the
necessity of explaining my position and
views in relation to the same. This Bill
introduced by Mr. Lampkin, of Colum
bia, passed the House of Representatives
by a large majority and was in due time
sent to the Senate. It was referred to
the Judiciary Commitree of which I was
chairman, and after some consultation
ou the same, though considered imper
fect, that committee instructed me to
report favorably on the same* which I
did. When this Bill came up in its |
order for a third reading, on Friday
23rd inst., just one day before the expi
ration of the session, Mr. Hillyer, of 35th
Senatorial District, including the city of
Atlanta f moved to suspend considera
tion of the same until he could prepare
an important amendment. This motion
was put an I carried without my consent.
On Saturday the last day of the session,
I called on Mr. Hillyer for his amend
ment and to my surprise he replied it
was not yet ready. I had become satis
fied after reporting this Bill that it should
be amended to do justice to all parties , and
felt anxious to see the proposed amend
ment of Mr. Hillyer, and hoped it might
secure the object of Mr. Lampkin, and
at the same time to do justice to the
cities in our State. As this amendment
was not offered according to promiset
and there was not sufficient time on the
last day, when my constant attention was
required on the passage of important
bills, I deemed it best to take no fur
ther action on Mr. Lampkin’s bill at this
time, and prepare a bill carefully guard
ed at the next session just five months
distant. An examination of this bill
will show you how imperfect it was.
Without exception, discrimination, or re
serve (If any kind, it prohibited Municipal
Corporations from any taxation of all ag
ricultural products.
Mr. Lampkin and the friends of his
bill desired only a law to prohibit taxa
tion of agricultural products raised in this
Stale, yet his bill actually prohibited
taxations by Municipal Corporations of
all agricultural products domestic or
foreign. The vast quantities of produce,
corn, wheat, oats, cotton and tobacco
brought from other States and sold in
our cities, or stored there for the bene
fit of foreign holders, were by his bill
exempted from city taxes. Notwith
standing the large police force kept up
in our cities for the protection ot this
foreign property as well as domestic
property, at a great expense—notwith
standing the immense sums paid out for
water privileges, diminishing the cost
of insurance to owners of produce—not
withstanding the immense expenditures
in our cities for light to protect proper
ty of all sorts—notwithstanding the
amount annually paid for courts to try
and punish them, thieves and burglars,
robbers anJ trespassers of all sorts, un
der the wide and general words of this
Bill, the city authorities were prohibit
ed from taxation of foreign raised pro
duce, in which millions of dollars are
invested by our citizens and others.—
Mr. Lampkin and the friends of his bill,
desired only to secure from taxation by
Municipal authorities domestic products,
while such taxation could effect the
producer, yet his bill, which should have
beeu limited so as to secure the same
from taxation while held by or for the
original producer, the first, second,
and third purchasers from him, went so
far as to secure the same from taxation
no matter how often trnsferred, provided the
same was in the limits of a city or town. —
This was an unnecessary and dangerous
interference with the rights and privile
ges of our cities and towns, curtailing
their powers to take care of themselves
and protecting from taxation property
which should properly bear its part in the
expenses of cities and towns. Mr. Lamp 4
kin and the friends of his bill desired to
protect the producers within our State)
of agricultural products, yet his bill
went so far as to exempt the same from
taxation by cities and towns, no matter
how often the same may have been tans
ferred before they reached the cities.
TERMS-TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANEC
Cotton and wheat may have' been sold
by the producers, and then re-sold (af
ter several sales) to Northern manufactu
rers and speculators, yet, according ftf
thio bill as written, our municipal Cor
porations, incurring heavy expenses for
the protection of these productions,
could not levy one cent of tax upon it,
This is not all; for this bill made no
provision to protect our producers of
agiiculturai products, if the cities raised
the rate of taxes on other things to make
up this loss, and thereby drive com
mission merchants and other agents to
increase in some way, seen or unseen,
the expenses of selling, collecting and
transmitting.
These reasons will, I believe, satisfy
you that it would have been very un
wise to dispose es such a large and im
portant subject as taxation by municiple
authorities in the hurry and great
confusion of the last two days of a ses
sion, and that my plan of doing noth
ing until we could act considerately
and with equal justice to all parties, was
the wisest course. lam glad that Mr.
Lampkin (one of the best representa
tives Columbia county ever had,) has
brought this subject before the General
Assembly, as, by the time it meets
again, he and others,- enlightened by
discussion and deeper study of the sub
ject may prepare a more perfect Bill.
So far as I am able I v. ill give all the
aid in my power to prepare a bill to
protect producers of our agricultural
products from unjust taxation by Mu
nicipal authorities.
In what I have written above about
the impropriety of fixing apportion
ment by Resolution, confined to three
counties, I dessre to say no more than
that I think that Mr Stovall mistook
the proper remedy for his case. I can
say of Mr. Stovall with perfect truth,
and Ido so most cheerfully, that Mc-
Duffie county will never have another
Representative more faithful, more in
dustrious and devoted.
With great respect,
W. M. REESE,
Senator from 29th District.
A Georgian at the Libemai. Head-
Quartes. —A Prominent gentleman from
Georgia, who was formerly a large slave
holder, conspicuoos also in the rebel ar
my, called in the rooms to-day. He
was asked, ‘why do you who were among
the most violent Southern men, and bit
terest opponents of Greeley and his
school, now say that they want the old
Abolitionist elected ? llow can you
account for this new-struck love "for
this men V The gentleman answered,
‘lt is all in a nutshell, Greeley, made
war only our system of slavery—never
on us as Southern men; he never had
any quarrel with us as Southern men.
His conduct proved this in the first
words he uttered, and the first steps he
took, after the war, proved this. Hence,
when we let slavery go, we chose our
man at the North who best represented
the past, which we did not wish to re
call, and the spirit of the future, which
we wish to see carried on in the Gov
ernment.’
The New York Herald sounds a clar
ion note of warning against the efforts
now being made by Boutwell, Garrison,
Wendell Philips and others, to bring
about a ceaseless enmity between the
white and black races, and thinks these
are undertaken with a view of precipi
tating a revolution at the South in the
event of Mr. Greeley’s election. It
would really appear that the teachings
of the Radicals con teniplated such an
eventuality, since the impression they
are creating among the ignorant and
misguided is, that a liberal success would
insure the re-enplavement of the black
race is so absurd that it would be hardly
be used for any other object. We are
glad that this subject is attracting atten
tion at the North, as it will go far to
clear away many prejudices, and to re
establish Southern people in the prop
er estimation of their brethren at the
North.
The Grant men have no faith in a free
press. A Grant orator, speaking in one
of the New York districts recently, said :
‘I look upon the public press as a pub
lic nuisance, and the people ought to
arise in their majesjy and put down
the newspapers which malign our Pres
dent.’