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a , VOLUME n—NUMBER 36, ®he HJcfuffte gottwal, IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY —A T— THOMSON. C3-A., —B Y H. C. RONEY. RATES OF ADVERTISING, Trausient advertisements will be charged one dollar per square for the first insertion, and seventy five cents for each subsequent insertion. jbusinbss n mis. 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. -jnsmpav <c- co; 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. C3 *3 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 ■■■■>, 1 )■' I \ :'Q| 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.’