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She |gc||nffie gontual. H. C. RONEyTeDITOK AMD PROPRIETOR. Wednesday September 18, 1872. IVnlional Demooratlo Tl<iket. FOR PRESIDENT: HORACE GREELEY, OF SEW YORK. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT: B. GRATZ BROWN, OF MISSOURI. Htato Democratic Tloliot. FOR GOVERNOR: HON- JAMES M. SMITH, OF MUSCOGEE. FOR CONGRESS. Bth DISTRICT : GENERAL A. R. WRIGHT, OF RICHMOND. Democrats to Your* Post, The election for Governor and Representatives to the Genera) Assembly, comes off on Wednesday next, tho 2d (lay of October. The whole country has been flooded with Radical electioneering docu r merits for the purpose of deluding the poor, igno rant negroes and floating voters. Political meet ings are being secretly held at night by the color ed people, conducted hy sneaking Radical Electors under the gnise of religious worship. Every mean, low and disgraceful method known in the cata logue of political trickery, has been resorted to, to insure Radical suocess at tho polls. Democrats 1 if you desire tire election of James M. Smith, and a Democratic Legislature, you must be up and do ing. There is no longer time “for a little more sleep and a little more slumber." Let no exouse of business keep you awuy from tho polls on Wednesday next. Come, come, and bring all yonr employees, and ask them to vote the right tiokot. To flits Votorn oi Goorglu! The following Communication, taken from the Atlanta Sun, expresses our own views so fully and correctly Unit we transfer it to ottr editorial col umns entire, without change or comment. Road it. Editor Daili Sun : As and old man, devoted to the best interests of Georgia, anil deeply con cerned for her future, ami not as a politician, 1 desire to address you a few words for sober reflec tion. The election for Governor will bo held on the 2d day of October. There are two candidates for that ofßco one a Democrat, nominated unani mously hy a largo and intelligent convention of tho people, because of his patriotic, wise and honest administration of the State Government; tho other a Radical, nominated by a few white men in an convention of negroes, because these white men and negroes, and their candidate, are opposed to an honest and patriotic administration of tlio Government. To prove this proposition, I ask your attention to tlio following facts : Keep it lx»fore ttie people, that Uullook went into office with this declaration on his lips : “I am on the make." Keep it before the people, that Gov. Smith went into office with this declaration on his lips : “I believo in the omnipotence of honesty." Ke.p it before the people, that Bullock and Kimball robbed the State of millions of dollars by issuing spurious and illegal bonds ! Keep it before tho pcoplo, that Bullock, Blod gett it Cos. roohbod the State Road of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Keep it before tlio people, that Gov. Smith, du ring his short administration, lioa been busily aud successfully engaged in making those rogues dis gorge, or in having them brought to justloe, and that, by his honesty and vigilance, aided by a Democratic Legislature, he hits caused many thou sands of tile people's money, thus stolen, to bo re turned to the treasury! Keep it before the people, that Bullock used tho pardoning power for corrupt political purposes, and that, during his administration, the verdicts of juries aud the judgments of oourts, were a nul lity, and crime was rampant! Keep it before tlio people, that, since tho elec tion of Gov. Smith, the pardoning power has ceas ed to l>e used for corrupt purposes, tho judgments of tho oourts have been respected, aud there has been a marked diminution of crime. Keep it before the people, that, during Bullock’s administration, scores of our people, all over Northern Georgia, were dragged from their busi ness and their homes, under trumped-up Kn-Klux charges, and carriod to Atlanta to have their liber ties sworn away or imperilled by perjured wit nesses 1 Keep it before Ore people, Unit since Gov. Smith's accession to office, the Ku-Klux organiza tion, if it ever existed, has melted away, and peace and quiet now reign throughout our borders. Keep it before the people, that Bullock believed in the subordination of tho civil to the milttary authority ; that lie invoked the aid of the latter in arresting so-called criminals, and secured a large garrison in tho State to protect him iu his villainy. Keep it before the people, that Gov. Smith has demonstrated that, under a wise and impartial ad ministration of the laws, the civil power is ample to protect tho lives and liberties of the people, and that in recognition of the fact that they arc no lon ger needed, the Federal soldiery in thifl State have dwindled to a “corporal's guard.” Keep it before the people, that Gov. Smith's administration has been the opposite of Bullock’s in every particular. Keep it prominently berore the people, that Dawson A. \V alker, the Radical candidate for Governor, voted for and helped to elect Bullock ; that he was his supporter, adviser and counselor w hile in office, and now attempts to justify Bui lock's thieving course!! Keep it before the people, that the election of Walker would he a vindication of Bullock, aud a condemnation of Smith—it would be an eiupkatio endorsement of the corruption and villainy, and tho restoration to power aud respectability of those who have plundered the Treasury aud dis grac'd the State. Bullock and Blodgett with their theivingcrew, now hiding from the ministers of jus tice, w ould joyfully catch the sigual.and hastening back to the theatre of their crimes, would defiant ly flaunt their pardons in our faces. Democrats, Liberals, and all true men of Geor gia, who desire honest and good government, and who are opposed to plundering, remember this. and stay not away from the polls! Remember, too, that the enemy is active and thoroghiy organ ized, and will bring every man to the front* on the 2d of October. Yon can carry the day if you but will it. Victory is within the reach of earnest, manly effort. I appeal to Democrats—both Straight and Greeley Democrats—to defer the Presidential question, and unite as one man to re tain in the Executive office the present incumbent, Governor Smith, in whose hands the interest of all will be safe. An Old Geoboian. IntcrcMtlngLetter from lion. Cr. P. Stovall. To the Editor of the McDuffie Journal. Since Judge Reese, in a letter to the people of McDuffie county, published in your columns, Sept. 11, has given his version of the cause which led to the defeat of the bill introduced at the last session of the General Assembly, provi ding representation for McDuffie county, and whether intentionally or not, has thrown to some extent,, the responsibil ity of loosing said bill upon myself, the immediate representative of McDuf fie, I deem it my duty, in view of such letter, to give to my constituents a re view of my action in regard to the mat ter, as well as in regard to other mat ters that were brought before the Legis lature, affecti rig the in te rests of ou r coun ty. I am aware that with most of your readers, it would be considered presump tion in me to attempt to cope with one who stands so preeminent as a jurist, and who is so far renowned for his profound legal knowledge and abilities; but as I propose ta present only a history 0 f the facts connected with the defeat of the apportionment bill and other matters, in order to show the people of McDuffie that I have not been remiss in my duty to thpm, nor unmindful of their interest, I do not expect to come in conflict with Senator Reese, nor to combat any of the arguments advanced by him in his let ter, justifying his own conduct. Immediately after the Legislature con vened, learning that Col. Kibbee had a bill already prepared to apportion rep sentation, and knowing from the char acter of the bill the opposition it would meet in the House, I went with Mr. Mc- Neill, one of the members from Ran dolph, to see him, and endeavored to prevail on him not to introduce his bill, but to allow us to frame a bill in the House, confining the apportionment as nearly as possible to the territory from which the new counties were formed, and thus giving the same people the same number of representatives as be fore, without interfering with the Dis trict representation. This could have b?en done in the case of all tho new counties oxer pt Dodge, and to provide for that, we proposed to take one rep resentative from the smallest of the six counties that are now allowed three.— But to this Col. Kibbeo would not agree, and, hence, /mowing the difficulty of the passage of a bill in the Senate with the opposition of Col. Kibbeo, one of its most influential members, we were forced to take tho chances of his origi nal hill. This bill passed tho Senate only by the President casting his vote in its fa vor, and was duly transmitted to the House, where it was lost, by six majori ty. Besides tho constitutional, objec tions which were urged against the bill, there were others of a nature calcula ted—and justly so—to provoke opposi tion to its passage. First,, ifc proposed to take one repre sentative from the county of Randolph, in Southwest Georgia; hence, that whole section of country was, of course, opposed to it. Secondly, it proposed to take one representative from the county of Morgan, which had two Radi cal members on the floor of the House; consequently we lost the vote and sup port of every Radical member in the House—they voting en masse for or against any measure effecting the inter est of each other. Thirdly, our own District would have lost one represen tative, and most *of the members voted against the bill on that account. Taking these objections into conside ration, I do sav most confidently, that no man in the House could have passed such a bill in the face, of so much oppo sition. I saw and talked privately with nearly every member of the House about the condition we would be thrown into, by a defeat of the bill, and used every argument that could pos-ibly be brought to bear upon it, to secure its passage. Some men in supporting it. assured me that they only did so on my account, and not on the merits of the bill. I will state here that Mr. Cloud and myself were the only members in the House, from new counties. He op posed the bill I am convinced, conscien tiously from the fact that it deprived Warren, his original county, of one rep resentative—feeling it his duty to look to the interest of the county which he was representing. After the defeat of the bill, as no oth er bill embracing the same subject mat ter could be introduced during that ses sion, I drew up a resolution dividing the representation of Columbia and Warren so as to give Columbia two, and McDuffie and Warren one representa tive each. I was materially assisted in the passage of this resolution by Mr. Lampkin of Columbia and also Col. Snead'of Richmond who took a very active part both in the House and Sen ate to secure its passage, for which the people of McDuffie county owe bim a debt of gratitude. I can never forget his many appeals to members of both branchesof the General Assembly, both in and out of season, to secure its pas sage for the _ benefit of our county. This Resolution that our Senator Judge Reese, thought so contrnptnbm id op probrious passed the House almost unani mously. 1 had the assurance of several of the leadi g lawyers of the House and many others whose legal knowledge and ability are undisputed, among them Judge Twiggs, that the resolution was better than the original bill,—that it did not change the constitution but only defined a certain section, and that it was perfectly competent and legitimate for the purpose it was intended. Soon after its passage in the House, Col* Snead, Mr. Larnpkin and rnyself each waited upon Judge Reese and asked him tosupportthe resolution and procure its passage in the Seriate. He would not consent to support it and otherwise treated it with so much contempt, that in the evening of that day, I wrote him the following letter: Atlanta Ga., August 23d, 1872. Judge Reese— ■McDuffie and Columbia took a very active part in vour election and 1 think I am speaking the senti ments of all the people of both counties, when l say that I think it hard that you should desert us now in the hour of trouble. .We are only asking for the same representation now allowed to the same people an 1 territory. The appor tionment we consider already made to Columbia and Warren and we as a part of those people and territory claim an equal share of that representation, und ask you as our Senator to defend our rights. I have done all I could in the House and feel that it is not my duty to follow it in the Senate. I have reason to believe that the Governor will en dorse our resolution when it has passed both houses. Very Respectfully, Geo. P. Stovall. On the next morning, Judge Reese came to my desk in the House, and wanced to know what I meant by wri ting him that letter, and asked me if I expected him to defend anything that he knew to be unconstitutional, that every Lawyer of any note in the House agreed with him. I told him I thought it very strange that they should have voted for the resolution if they thought it unconstitutional—that it was carried almost unanimously and that many of the prominent members thought it bet ter than the original biff. He then said that he would make a in its fa vor, when it came up, forconsideration, and I am told by some who heard him, that it was the finest speech they have ever heard from him. But it was then too late, for he had given the Senator from Warren District time to go around and see the members in person and by private argument get them pledged against its passage. Too much cannot be said of the zeal manifested by Mr. Lampkin to secure the passage of this resolution. He was willing and proposed to alternate with McDuffie and Warren with the extra member,which was declined byjWarren. I will now state what I inow in re gard to the agricultural bill, introduced by Mr. Lampkin, in which we are all deeply interested, as the city of Augus ta alone realizes about jKj),OOO Dol lars annually from tax on' the sales of our agricultural produce. This bill passed the House by a very large major ity more than two weeks before the close of the session, and was immediate ly transmitted to the Senate. In due course of time, it wentthrough its sec ond reading and was referred to the Ju diciary committee, of which Judge Reese was chairman. About this time Mr. Lampkin was called home, who before leaving, handed me the city Code of Augusta and two or three bills of sale of cotton, wheat &c., which showed that tax had been collected, with a re quest for me to hand to Judge Reese, as the Ordinance directing the collec tion of this tax had been denied before the Committee of the House- When I handed them to Judge Reese, he remark ed that he was glad to get them—that the bill had just come in from the com mittee with the recommendation that it do pass without amendment. I then told him of the amendment that was of fered and refused in the House, which was in substance just what the Judge now recommends, viz: to exclude for eign products from the operation of the bill, and that our reason for refusing the amendment was that it would come out of the farmer eventually—that every expense added in the city would be like j Railroad freight, added to the price of | the corn, wheat &c., when we had to I buy. In this Judge Reere agreed with j me and I was never moresnrprised than j when I found that he, vored the amendment. * am told by ! Mr. Lampkin that he had Hpeated con j versations with the Judge in reference ;to this bill, in which he urged him to suspend the rules and havt the bill put upon its passage, and that, he* never in timated to him that he was the least dissatisfied with the bill, but on the contrary the inference was that he was opposed to any amendment. There is another bill that the people of our county are much more deeply in terested in and which they should thoro ughly understand. Immediately after the Legislature assembled, I introduced a bill to allow the ordinary of McDuffie to issue and negotiate bonds to the amount of 15,000 Dollars for the purpose of buildings Court House and Jail. These bunds were to be exempt from State and Municipal tax. Upon the 3rd reading of the bill, during my absence with a committee visiting the convicts, \V. D. Anderson of Cobb, amended it so as to exempt the bonds of his county, which the previ ous Legislature had authorized to be issued, from the same tax. Inasmuch as I was absent, and fearing that his amendment might prejudice the pas sage of my bill, he withdrew the amend ment and offered a separate bill exempt ing his county bonds from taxation. They both went to the Senate, and my bill very soon came back, witfi the clause‘State and Municipal tax’ struck out. My attention was called to it by Col. Hoge, who told me that Anderson’s bill had passed the Senate, and advised me not to concur. I refused to concur and returned it to the Senate. I then went to Judge Reese and told him what I had done, giving my reason lor it. He said that Anderson’s bill had not passed and would not pass, and the Senate, on his motion, refused to recede from its amendment to my bill, sending it back to the House with no other alternative but to concur in its amendment or loose the bill. The records will show that Anderson’s bill passed, and that the bonds of his county are now exempt from the same tax from which the Senate refused to exempt ours. In conclusion I would say that in what I have written, I ha\»e not con templated any personal attac/r upon any one for the action ta/ren by them in reference to any mattter affecting our county, but only designed to give a concise statement of the facts connected with my own action and conduct. I will take this opportunity to extend my than&s to our Senator Judge Reese for the complimentary terms in which he saw proper to speak of myself, in the conclusion of his letter. Very Respectfully, GEO. P. STOVALL. Commercial OOIUtEOTKD WEEKLY BY JOHN E. BENTON. Cotton ltcport. AogAs : iuj Atlanta njJ Thomson I’rieos Current. Com—Yellow, per bushel $ ® 95 White, “ 11 @ none Barley, “ “ @ 150 Kye, “ “ ® 175 Wheat—Prime White @ none Amber ® none lted ® none Bacon—Sides 13$ <S> 15 Shoulders 10 @ 11 Dry Salt—Sides 12$ i» 13$ Shoulders 9’ @ 10 Flour—per barrel 7$ @ 11$ Salt—Liverpool @ 2 -in Bagging—Domestic 18 ® 19 Gunny @ 17 Iron Ties <® 10 """■ 111 11 1 ... . . »' Nexv Advertisements. Strayed or Stolen. STRAYED or Stolen from my plan tation, in Columbia county, on the 14th of August last, a bay mare mule 14 or 144 hands high, six years old. A liberal reward will be paid for the deliv ery of said mule to me at my place near Winfield post office, in McDuffie county, or such information as will enable me to get it. sep 25tf. H. A. STORY. DISSOLUTION. THE Copartnership heretofore exist ing under the firm name and style of McCord & Hardaway, is this day dis solved by mutual consent. GEORGE T. McCORD, W. M. HARDAWAY, sept. 17, 1872. sep2sml Notice of Copartnership. JAMES L. HARDAWAY having purchased the entire interest of McCord, of the firm of McCord & Hard away, the business will hereafter be conducted under the firm name of J. L. & W. M. Hardaway. J. L. HARDAWAY, W. M. HARDAWAY. Sept. 17, 1872. sep2sml FRUIT TREES. Georgia Nursery. I BEG leave to announce to the citi zens of McDuffie and surrounding country, that lam agent for a large Georgia Nursery, Embracing fruit treee of every variety. Parties desirous of purchasing anything in the line, can do so on very reasonable terms by calling on me at this place. Letters addressed to me at Thomson will meat prompt attention. sep 25ml R. A. CONNER. We have frequently heard mothers say they would not be without Mrs. Winslow’s sooth ing’syrup from the birth of the child until it has finished with the teething stage under any circum stances whatever. FALL OPENING James U. Neal ||AVE just received from New York, a well selected stock of Fall and Winter U M Embracing everything in the line of Dry Goods ai^H Hi 'till 'IAJII (f.Oliinf. Oi AM. M/i> J Have always on hand a good supply of ’ 1 ** , "-I ?, $* * F ti / 1-1’ g it it c ism V. hicii are I,t the low-.t pi n'. -. 'l' ~y invite ti' JH to give them a call. t sep 25 ts JAMFtH - R. BUsl^ Falx, and Winter Cwooosj. ■** BEG leave to announce to my friends and the public generally that I have •flu just returned from New York, having purchased a large and well selected STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS, Consisting of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, and Notions of every description Ready Made Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes family <*ieo( t:itai:s ou all itiad*. My Rtock being an entirely new one, with no old goods on hand, I feel confident that I am prepared to suit my customers. All my old friends and former customers are invited to call and examine my stock, aud I assure them I will taAe pleasure in showing it to them. sep2stf K. 11. BUSH. A. J 7 ADKINS, BEGS to inform his customers and the public generally that he has now on hand a well selected stocA of FALL & WINTER DRY GOODS, Ladies’ Dress Goods and Fancy Notions of Every Variety. ilea 1)1) UJak doijjmg of all jtinbs. HATS, BOOTS AND SHOES, Determining to sell his goods at the lowest market prices, he invite the pub lic to call and examine for themselves. He has also for sale the celebrated HOWE SEWING MACHINE* which for durability and execution cannot be excelled. sep 25m3 A. J. ADKINS. U'YOF iIT.*K r.VG. We aro now prepared to Furnish WOOD COFFINS, CASES AND CASKETS, Os our own make, and from the best manufacturers, of all grades and styles. IFe have, also, Fisk’s Celebrated Me talic Cases and Caskets. We shall make every effort to give satisfaction to our patrons in this our new line of business. We have experienced attendants, and hope to merit the attention of the public. Rodgers & DeG-raaf, 141, 143 1 45 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. Atigust7m3 RODGERS & DEGRAAF, Furniture Dealers, 141,143,145 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. WE invite the attention of the pub lic to our very complete stock of FURNITURE, which embraces ail the articles usually found in a first class establishment. We have just received an assortment of fine CHAMBER SUITES. NEW STY'LES. Call and examine our stock and judge our prices. August. 7m3 Svapnia—is Opium purified of its siknening and poisenous properties, It is a perfect anodyne, not producing headache or constipation of the bowels, as is the case with other prepara tions of opium. John Farr. Chemist New York. BRUMMEI/S laics’ tiers, Manufactured l»y (m SH®? •Sijssim v f wZi&HMHI f- o - LD -jgr* •-’-.vrrr.uljl ■ U-13 . fc . Who Infill > s' ' pee an m Foreign and IkiamliC', IH Wiuc'i. fra Lin. It ti in. 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