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Wednesday, August 20, 1873,
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
lfaw. Hemphill <t Cos., proprietor* of
the Atlanta Cbnsfifwffon, will please ac
cept for a complimentary
pee* for the present month on their
engine the Confutation, now
macing between Atlanta and Macon.
DEATH OF JUDGE ANDREWS.
The Washington OtueUe, of the 15th
iuat,, announce* the death of Hon. Oar
nett Andrew*, Judge of the Northern
Circuit, which sad event occurred in
Washington, Oa., on the morning of the
14th inst, after a brief illnee*.
'judge pottle.
CoL E. H. Pottle, of Warrenton, has
bean appointed Judge of the Superior
Court of the Northern Circuit of Oeor*
P*. to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of Judge Andrews.
We do not think a better selection
could have been made, even from among
the acknowledged talent of this famous
Circuit. A thorough schollar, e labori
ous student, a skillful practitioner and
an able advocate and jurist, he will car
ry to the Bench a correct knowledge of
the duties of his office, together with the
life end energy of professional sncoese,
and will be an honor to the ermine and
a credit to the Court over which he is se
lected to preside.
We heartily congratulate his Honor,
the Bar and the people of the Northern
Circuit on the judicious appointment.
ANOTHER BETTER FROM GOV.
JOHNSON.
The Augusta papers of Sunday con
tain another letter from ex-Gov. John
son to Gov. Smith, in reference to the
famous Macon bar-dinner speech, in
whioh letter Got. Johnson rehearses the
principal points of the correspondence
between himself and Gov. Smith, and
makes other assertions and offers, which
may possibly result in a somewhat bitter
controversy. Bom* of our readears,
pocrfbly, not having read the correspon
dence referred to, which, with Gov. J’a
bet letter, ere too lengthy for our col
umns, we make the following statement
of the leading points, ns we understand
them:
In the Macon speech, Gov. Johnson,
in response to a toast complimentary to
hi* administration as Governor, remark
ed that "he had never deoeived any
body," which Got. Smith, in view of
the current rumors to the effect that be
had deoeived Gov. Johnson in regard to
a seat on theJSupreme Bench, oonstmed
aa intended for himself, and requested
Gov. Johnson, to state what reference,
if any wee intended towards him, (Gov.
8.) Gov. J. replied that at the time of
the remark, the rumors thst Gov. S.
had deceived applicants for office occur
red to him, and suggested the remark,
but disavowed any reference to Gov.
8., either to charge him with having de
ceived applicants for office, or expressing
any opinion on the subject. To this dis
avowal Gov. 8 announced himself satis
fied, inasmuch as it was broad enough to
meet with a negative all rumors to the
effect that he (Gov. 8.) hod violated a
promise in not appointing Gov. J. to the
Supreme Bench.
To this last, Gov. 3. takes exception
In hi* last letter. He states that the
eemspondenoe up to that time contem
plated nothing bat the intention of his
remark at Macon, and did not embrace
any opinions he may have entertained or
expressed in reference to the action of
Gov. 8 in not appointing him to the
Supreme Bench; that thorn opinions
bare never been disavowed, and are yet
unchanged, and that, if Gov. 8. desires,
he is willing to state them, together
with the reasons upon which they are
founded, and to vindicate them before
the bar of public opinion.
And here the matter rests for the pre
sent
While we think that the dosing por
tion of Gov. Smith's last letter was
strained end unwarranted, it was error
without intentional wrong, and not un
natural where "the wish was father to
the thought” But these charges of de
ception and bad faith have been so fre
quently and persistently mode against
Gov. Smith that it is high time their
truth or falsity should be settled, partic
ularly when made by such men os Wm.
M. Reese and H. V. Johnson. Silent
contempt or personal abuse of his oo
ouaers will avail him nothing before the
bar of public opinion.
It will, indeed, be a sod finale to a
brilliant opening, if history shall verify
the prophecy that "he went into office
without opposition, and will go out the
BBN RILL’S SPEECH TO THE
FARMERS.
* Hon. B. H. Hill made a speech to the
formers st the Jonesboro' Fair, on the Bth
mat, which, in part, was a good address,
and upon the whole, was characteristic
of the w«n That portion of his speech
which related to agriculture—the rights
and wrongs, resources and wants, indus
tries and follies of toe Georgia farmers,
was just such an one as few men exoept
Ben Hill con make; but as usual, he
was unable or indisposed to allow the oc
casion to pass without straddling and
riding his life long hobby, polities
He announced that his hope for the
Republic was st e lower ebb just at this
fag then ever heretofore, and his
reasons for bring despondent ore that,
what be terms, "the biggest idea of toe
age" is to be debated and derided within
the next four years, end by the Ameri
e*a Congress.
This big idea is "toe tone construction
of the XIV Amendment of toe U. S.
Constitution," and involves the vital
question whether or not the States are
to be free and independant, or tre to be
come mere provinces of the General
Government. The opinion of Mr. Hill is
probably correct, because all thinking
men agree that the next three or four
years will decide the fate of the Repub
lic, with many indications, at present,
| of its early obliteration, and the substi
tution of a monarchy in iU steed. But he
goes further. He states that the entire
responsibility and result of this ap
proaching great straggle must rest upon
the mangement, forensic generalship and
power in debate which Southern Repre
sentatives shall display in Congress.
Hus is all well enough, and probably
true to a certain extent, but we incline
to toe opinion that money is about as
effective as brains in the National Legis
lature. But when Mr. Hill tells us that
unworthy and incompetant men have
pushed themselves into Congress and
elsewhere, and that none of the South
ern Representaves have a proper concep
tion of the grove and vital responsibili
ties under which they labor, or manifest
the ability to properly construe and ex
pound Constitutional Law, his morbid
disappointment at liis own failure of
election to the Senate becomes unpleas
antly apparent, and his egotism ceases to
be obscure.
The speech is able and eloquent, and will
amply repay a perusal ; but while we
have great respect and even admiration
for Mr. Hill's genius and oratory,)we must
be permitted to decline his leadership as
a statesman.
As an agricultural lecturer he is a de
rided success ; as a oonsistaut and relia
ble political prophet and leader he is
a palpable failure.
BOOK NOTICE.
“Behind the Scenes in Washington,”
a complete and graphic account of the
Credit Mobilier Investigation, the Con
gressional Rings, Political Intrigues,
Working of the Lobbies, Etc. ; Giving
the Secret History of our National
Government, Showing how the Pub
lio money Is Squandered, and How
Votes are Obtained, with Sketches of
the Leading Senators, Government
Officials, and an Accurate Description
of the Splendid Public Buildings of
the Federal Capitol. By Edward
Winslow Martin. Published by the
National Publishing Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
When we see such revelations as have
been made in Washington during the
past winter, we are forced to eonriude
that these must be but a small out-crop
ping of the vast harvest of corruption
that overspreads the oountry. Every
one feels a keen desire to get at the facts
of this terrible and intensely interesting
history. The author carries his readers
Behind the Scenes of the great Political
drama of our governmental life, and
shows ns the actors who are charged
with the most vital interests of the ooun
try, stripped of the brilliant hues and
attractions which partisan admiration
has thrown around them, and exhibits
them to us as they really ore.
It is no mere sensational book, de
signed to pander to a morbid curiosity.—
Mr. Martin gives a plain and unvarn
ished history of the infamous Credit
Mobilier affair, and makes disclosures
with whioh every eitizen, of whatever
party, should acquaint himself, and
which are terribly startling. He drags
the mysterious lobby and its members
out into the broad light of day, and tells
us all about them, giving sketches of tho
Noted Women of the Lobby. He intro
duces us into the White House, and to
its occupants. He lays bare the secret
workings of the Departments, and shows
how they ore conducted. He tells us
about the hard-worked and poorly paid
employes of the Deportments and gives
interesting foots about the female clerks,
of whom so much has been said. He in
troduces ua to Senators, Representatives,
Military and Naval heroes, ad venturers,
and all that vast crowd that makes up
toe life of the National Capitol, and has
given to toe public a work that will fully
sustain liis well-won reputation. It is
not only deeply interesting for the dis
closures it mokes, but is brim-full of
useful and valuable information to every
citizen. It is a clear and lucid explana
tion of the manner in which the great
Departments of the General Government
are organized and conducted, and con
tains full and admirably written descrip
tions of the magnifloent Public Build
ings and other works of art, of which
toe whole land is so justly proud.
%Iu short, the book is Washington City
in miniature, and we cordially commend
it to all. To those who contemplate
visiting Washington it is invaluable.
It is sold by subscription only, and
the publishers want agents in every
county.
Another Hardshell Sermon.
"My dyin Congregashun : It rejoyeeth
me muchly to see sioh a peert chance of
sinners turn out to heer sound doctrine.
You will find my text in Chronicles,
page 249 : “For as a ring in e bullock’s
snout, or as a rudder in a ship’s stun, so
is the darters of Zion toled away by the
foolish fashions of this evil generation.”
Never, sinoe Adam was a baby, nor
Eve talked foolishness to toe old sarpant
who showed her how to make fig leaf
Dolly Vordens, has there been sich a
muse about drees. The beefeater, Dick
ens, and his gal, Dolly Varden, have
made more ritement boat drees and how
to wear ’em than I ever beam of in all
my born days. Our gals is plum crazy.
Hit jes knocks the hind sights off of eny
thing extent, as shore as you ar a listen
in to my goepil tones terday, ah ! For
as a ring in a bullock’s snout, or as a
rudder of a ship's stun, so is the daugh
ters of Zion toled away by the foolish
fashions of this evil world.
My dyin congregation: you might
travel all over the yeth, from Dan to
Omega, sad I’ll stand treat to the hull
meetin that thar mint no place under the
broad canister of the yeth whor thar can
be found s worse set of det bound men
than now graze this civilized portion of
the firmaments; sad you can no more git
money oaten them then you eon git
blood oaten a turnipseed, good licker
oaten stump water, or music oaten e
jackass. His tother half has got the
ring in his snout and he hoe got to oome
to the lick-log. She can raise the mon
ey for the theatur, for the cyrcns or for
the side sho, but if you want a bill set
tled for medicine, for grocery*, for your
printer or your preacher you stand no
sho for Dolly Varden has cleaned them
of toe last red. Fashion has trumped
you outen kingdom-kum and your hand
is played out and you are euchered :
For os a ring in a bullock’s snout, or a
rudder of a ship’s stun, so is the darters
of Zion toled away by the foolish fash
ions of this evil world, oh 1
My dyin congregation, on the road to
perdition: Ye ais tern of debilty ; toss
your party heads, go it on a credit, go it
on time, go it on eternity. The likes of
you cut off the Hardshell Baptist’s head,
trimmed Samson's locks, got ashy and
turned into a pillar of salt at the destruc
tion of Sodum; who soil away, turkey
buzzard style and lite in the scum of
fashion. You are jes like unto a pea
cock who spreads his tale, backs his eyes
and seems to say here’s your bird, your
Dolly Varden sailin along and aintcarein
a copper for all creation. Jes a spreadin
yerself like a little bantam hen on a full
settin of goos eggs : For as a ring in a
bullock’s snout, or as a rudder of a ship’s
stun, so is the darters of Zion toled away
by the foolish fashions of this evil
world, ah 1
But what shall I liken these darters of
Zion to ? They are liken to that same
peacock who spreadeth his tals, stifeneth
his neck and struts affectedly while he
thinks he is the purtyist thing that ever
boasted ft Dolly Varden ; but when he
takes a peep at his uuderpinnin he looses
all his starch and looks as humble os a
a step-child, or a jackass in a thunder
storm. I’ll stand treat if you would
take half these wimmin and wash off the
starch, take down their bar and throw
away their incidentals and Dolly Var
dens and they will be like that poor bird
that was not aware of bis moekuess till
he looked at his feet.
But hit’s tho fashion, Dolly is all the
go. See a Dolly on snu-heels os high as
a durbin wheel—she wiggles along liko a
crippled snake, Imt hit’s the fashion.—
Squeeze her till her waste looks like that
of a wasp; but hits the fashion. See
her with her rear humped up like a eat
going to war; hit's the fashion. See her
with a hull lot of cloth in one jacket—oh,
hits the fashion I and Dolly Varden to
boot.
I am powerful feerd the last one of
them are sold to the Filistiens and are
gone gozlins, ar. For as airing, in a bul
lock's snout, or a rudder of a ship’s stun,
so is the darters of Zion toled away by
toe foolish fashions of this evil world, ah!
My dying congregation, I went up to
Nashville the other day to see the Expo
sition, and I tell you I seed a powerful
Bite of scenery. The whole face of the
yerth was kivered with D. Vs., There
were your D. V. stores; D. V. groceries;
D. V. barber shops; D. V. sugar and
lasses; D. V. saloons, with D. V. women
to mix drinks, and stock the herds on
yon. And, drat her D. V. skin, she eu
chered me ont of a pert chance of green
backs—but, thank the Lord, she kant do
it agin, ah. For as a the ring in bullock's
snout, or a rudder of a ship’s stun, so is
the darters of Zion toled away by the
foolish fashions of this evil world, ah.
My patient hearers, did you ever see a
bull with a ring in his snout and a rope
fastened to it? He is as stubborn as old
king Farreo, but he will oome at every
pulL So, take a fashion loving woman,
with a will as strong aa a bull; but fash
ion has got the ring in her nose, and she
comes to the pull every tifne. You have
seed a ship or a boat; the rndder is in
the stun, and it turns the vessel mity ea
sy, and every time the pilot turns the
wheel, round kums the boat. So is a
woman like unto these Aggers of speech,
for every time the wheel of fashion turns,
woman turns too, and goes the hull hog,
D. V. and all, up to the hilt. But not
so with man. He is like unto pure spir
its, and is a comforter under all difficul
ties, all. For as a ring in a bullock’s
snout, or as a rudder in a ship’s stun,
so is the daters of Zion toled away by
the foolish fashions of this evil world, ah.
My fellow travellers on the road to
kingdom-kum, I once noed a man who
was amity brag. He went possum hun
ten, and said he would do the oilmen
for the hull crowd ; he could lift a pos
sum outen a tree as easy as a woman could
lift her baby outen the cradle. He sed
he was the beet climer that ever skinned
a saplin or trod shu lethcr; so when the
dogs treed he just shed his coat and hat,
and up the tree he went; and when he
ootohedthat possum, lo 1 it ware a big
ooon. And that man prayed from toe
bottom of his gizzard for someone to
help him let it loose—for he war in tor
ment, and fifty feet from terry firmy.—
So it is with a man who marries a Dolly
Varden. He will pray to be delivered
when hit is everlastinly and eternally too
late. Hallalujah 1 Dolly has got the
ring in his snout and the rudder in his
stun, and he is a gone sucker forever and
dever, amen. We will close with this
new and beautiful doxology :
Under a sweetnin apple tree.
In a deep shade in a garden,
The aarpent brought a bunch of leaves,
For Eve a Dolly Varden.
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r Public School Notice-
TeACHERS wishing to secure for their
school the benefit of the State school fund,
will please consult the County School Com
missioner, at the Clerk’s office, by the Ist
of September next.
R. H. PEARCE, C. 8. C.
August 6th, 1873. 2t.
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234 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
D E A L E3 R S X IST
COOKING STOVES,
Wqqbwsbe,
and Honss-Fnrnishing Goods generally.
They have in stock the celebrated
“Cotton Plant” Cooking Stove,
manufactured by Abendroth Brothers, New York City. It is a first-class, square-top
four-hole Stove : the Oven is large, the joiDts are filed and fittsd with great care and
exactness : the beauty of its finish be surpassed.
TUT HIVE THE “BARLEY SHEAF,”
manufactured by Stuart, Peterson A Cos., Philadelphia, Pa., this is also a first-class, fur
hole sqnare-top Stove, with n large Oven, Doors tin-lined.
Their stock of Premium or Step Stoves is complete. Each Stove sent out is warranted
to give perfect H&tiHfaction.
They manufacture Tinware in all its varieties, and Job Work done with neatness
and dispatch.
AU Goods, sold at reasonable prices.
W. 1. OE&PM <§• €O.
till l Bread Street, Augusta, Ga.,
April 23 ts Opposite Planters Hotel.
NEW GOODS FOR THE SUMMER 1873,
AT THE
BME PRICE MOWSE*
A T
Wholesale and Retail-
H . L . A B A LK *
172 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
I HAVE received a carefully selected stock of all novelties of the season in;
Straw Hats for ladies. Misses, geuts and youths, from 25 cents upwards.
Parasols, with or without attachment, from SO cents and up.
Ladies’ Ready Made Suits, from $5,00 and upward.
Prints, nil the new styles. lOcents and up.
Dress Goods, a fine selection of all the novelties, at 15 cents and up.
Bed-ticking, ginghams, table covers, table damask, homespuns, under shirts, draw
ers, triininiug ribbons, corsets, etc.
Shirts for gbnts and youths, collars, gloves, trunks, umbrellas, valises, etc., etc.
I HAVE, also, a full asaortment of boots and shoes, and a fine selection of ready mode
clothing.
W All these goods are marked as low as the lowest, and I ask BUT ONE PRICE
•W Make a note of this, and come and see, or send an order, on which I will allow a
liberal discount.
M 98 H. L. A. BALK,
“ 8 172 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
«fc ROBBIUYOL,
SUCCESSORS TO
W H. TUTT,
No. "04 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia
Wholesale Dealers in
DRUGS, MEDICINES,
CHEMICALS, PERFUMERY
AND DRUGGISTS’
SUNDRIES, PAINTS,
OILS, VARNISHES,
GLASES, ETC.
May 7. ts
A. J. ADKINS,
THOMSoisr, oa.,
Two Doors Above the Rail Road
H AS on hand a large stock of
Ready Made Olotliing,
Consisting of every article of wearing apparele for Men, Youths and Boys, for which he
offers great induce ments.
Pants One Dollar per pair;
Linen Coats Beventy-five Cents ;
Fine Cassimere Pants from Three to Five Dollars ;
Saits from Three to Twenty Dollars.
It will pay all who wear Store Clothes to give him a call.
Jus 18 [april9m4l
n a n TORBCAN’TBEATTHLSBECORD
51 *; I J. P. Brookins & Son, of Eaton.
UUu Ohio, testify that one bottle of
Kress Fever Tonic cared four cases of ague.
Write them and see about it! A box of
Pills Free with every bottle. Small Doses
and Quick Cures are Warranted by
REVIVAL OF THE AUGUSTA
(Sottjgitittttionalisii.
The Constitutionalist newspaper, of Au
gusta, Ga., temporarily suspended, will be
re-issued on or about the first of August.
This old and popular journal, so long
identified with the best interests of Georgia
and the whole South, and for so many years
the staunch advocate of true Democratic
principles and defender of Constitutional
Liberty, has been bought by a Stock Com
pany, composed of some of the wealthiest
Citizens of the Eighth District
It takes the Field again under the most
favorable auspices, and confidently appeals
to the support and patronage of its former
friends and hopes to make many new ones.
The paper will be under the editorial con
trol of James K. Randall, Esq., Editor of
the Constitutionalist for a series of roars
prior to 1871.
GEORGE ADAM,
Busincxs Manager.
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