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The Greoraia Weekly Telegraph and. Jonrnal Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, DECEMBERS, 1871.
Ax Important Decision.—A decision of con
siderable importance to all persons who have
purchased real estate in the South nnder the
sale of the same by the Federal Government
for taxes was decided in the Supreme Court of
the United States to-day, on an appeal from a
claimant, whose land had been sold by the
Federal tax commissioners nnder the act of
1862. A deed was given by two of the three
commissioners who were authorized to sell-
Two questions were involved—the validity of
the law and the validity of the deed. The court
sustained both, and held, as the sale was made
by a publio act, it was entirely competent for
two of the three commissioners to convey a
title. The virtual effect of this' decision is to
give all the present owners of these lands a fee
simple in the same. A good deal of properly is
held in Virginia and South Carolina under these
tax titles.
Took the Premium.—We are galified to learn
that oar yoang townsman Captain T. G. Holt,
Jr., President of the Bibb County Agricultural
Society, took the premium of $400 offered by
the Savannah Chamber of Commerce at the re
cent Fair in that city, for the best five bales of
npland cotton, and also the premium of $25
offered by the Fair Association. It will be re
membered that Captain Holt took the premium
of $50 offered by the State Agricultural Society
for the best five bales of upland cotton, and
also an additional premium of $10 for the best
single balo of npland cotton. Bibb county
comes to the front right gallantly, and the Pres
ident of its Agricultural Society is one of the
most intelligent and progressive of all the yonog
lenders who are destined to illustrate Georgia
hereafter, on the field of practical, paying Agri
culture.
Total Mortality fbom Yellow Fever at
Charleston.—The Charleston papers publish a
table showing the total number of deaths from
yellow fever in that city this year, as compared
wi'h the mortality in the years 1854, 1856 and
1858. In 1854 there were 614 deaths from the
week ending August 5, to that ending Novem
ber 25. In 1856, 206 deaths from week ending
August 5, to that ending November 18. In
1858, C80 deaths from week ending August 5, to
that ending November 11, and in 1871 212
deaths from week ending August 5, to that end
ing November 18—there being eight deaths this
year during the last named week, against three
in 1854, one in 1856 and none in 1858. From
October 14, to November 18, 1856, there were
only 31 deaths, while for the earns period in
1871, there were 71 deaths.
Senate Special Committees.—Under the
resoln.ion recently passed by both Houses of
the General Assembly to appoint fonr commit
tees of investigation from their respective
bodies, the President of the Senate, on Wednes
day, appointed the following on the part of the
Senate :
On Official Conduct of R. B. Bullock—Messrs.
Nichols and Wellborn.
Oa Administration and Management of Wes
tern and Atlantic Railroad—Messrs. Lester and
Clarke.
On Lease of Western and Atlantio Railroad—
Messrs. Reese and Nonnslly.
On Conduct of Western and Atlantic Railroad
Auditing Commission—Messrs Hoyle and
Brown.
Wisninq New Honors. —That specimen blos
som from the tree of purest loilty, the biga
mist, Bowen, has turned up on a new field,
and been crowned with fresh laurels by an
admiring constituency. He wa3 elected a mem
ber of that gang of thieves and barbarians
called the Legislature of Sonth Carolina, one
day last week, and will doubtless take high
rank therein. As bigamist and assassin he has
proved himself/.iak princeps, and we are sure
that in the role of developer he will achieve
as decided success. We beg, however, to offer
him our condolence on not having “jined” the
band sooner. They have stolen pretty much
all there was to steal, and we fear, therefore,
that he will have slim pickings.
Western and Atlantio Railroad Co.,
President’s Office,
Atlanta, Ga., November 29, 1871.
Dr. JV. L. Angler, State Treasurer:
Sir—As to-morrow is a legal holiday, having
been by competent authority proclaimed as h
day of thanksgiving, I send yon to-day by tbe
Treasurer of this Company, twenty fivo thou
sand dollars, the rental due for this present
month. Please send tbe mual receipt of the
Comptroller Gent ral.
Very truly, etc.,
Joseph E. Brown,
President W. & A. R R. Co.
Comptroller General’s Office,!
Atlanta, Ga., November 29,1871. ji"
No. 700.—Received of W. C. Morrill, Treas
urer W. & A. R. R. Co., the sum of twenty-five
thousand dollars, rental of W. & A. R. R.
for the month of November, 1871, as per cer
tificate No. 700 of N. L Angier. Treasurer.
Madisjn Bell,
Comptroller General.
TUP Columbus Road.
The Ordinary tells ns that ho examined this
road at the points indicated, on Thursday last,
and found it almost impassable for a buggy, and
totally so for loaded wagons. After conferring
with the people, he made arrangements to have
it repaired at once, and work would have com
menced yesterday bat for the heavy rain. It
will begin this morning and, afttr Tuesday next,
the road will be all right. Proper drainage will
be applied so that there will be no difficulty in
the fature. Wo give this notice to all parties
wishing to travel tbe road, at his request
Rainfall and Temperature iu No
vember.
Macon, December 1,1871.
Editors Tdegraph, and Messenger: The amount
of rainfall the post month was 8 85 inches, the
largest of the current year except September.
The mean heat daring tbe Bame time was: At
8 o’oloek A. M., 51 degrees; 2 o'clock p. m., 62
degrees; C o’oloek p. m , 59 degrees.
Very respectfully, J. M. Boaedman.
Mr. Boardman reported for the ten months
ending with Ootober 61.77 inches. Add No
vember report and we have for eleven months
of 1871, 60.62, or over five and one-half feet of
rain so far in tho year. Proceed, Mr. Flavins.
Nobody's Fortune —Brown & Co., have just
received Edmund Yates’s last novel, bearing this
title. It is one of his best, and one of the most
thriliingly interesting stories ever told. Yates
has deservedly high rank among the younger
literateurs of England as those who have read
“Saved at Last,” “Black Sheep," “Broken to
Harness, ’ eto., will heartily attest. His pen
has been idle a long time, it seems tons, and
we were growing impatient. We are sure mar y
Others who sympathized with us, will welcome
“Nobody’s Fortune'’ as enthusiastically as we
do.
Model Eating Houses.—Messrs. Willis Clay
of Jessup, No. C Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, and
J. W. Hardwick, who keeps the dinner house at
No. 12 Central railroad, deserve each, the pat
ronage of all who travel their respective routes.
Bountiful tables supplied with game, and all the
delicacies of the season, unexceDtionable cook
ery, attentive servants, and scrupulous neatness
leaves little to be inquired for by the hungry
traveler. We venture the assertion that better
houses of entertainment cannot bo found on any
of the railroad lines between Canada and Flori
da. Call and judge for yourselves.
3
A ’Visit to tbe Month Carolina Phos
phate nines—Waado Fertiliser.
Tbe writer has recently examined these ex
traordinary petrifactions of animal bones and
deposits, and was greatly impressed with their
magnitude, and the exoeeding value of the dis
covery.
These phosphatio beds underiy, in a greater
or less degree, an area of abont thirty square
miles, in what is known as the Charleston basin,
formed by the Cooper and Ashley nvers or es
tuaries.
A gnest of Mr. Thomas D. Dotterer, the gem
tlemanly and enterprising superintendent of the
Wando Company, we rode out with him one
day the present week, over a smooth and beauti
ful road, part planked and part composed of
ponnded shells, to the works of the company,
located on the banks of Ashley River, nine
miles from Charleston. Before reaching onr
destination, we passed in fall view of the Pacific
Factory, three miles from the city, then of the
Etiwan works, one mile farther, then of the At
lantic, a half mile more distant, and lastly those
of the Stono Association, five miles from
Charleston. All these are in successful opera
tion, and some idea may be formed of tho de
mand and consumption of the phosphate, when
it is stated that fcrly ships carrying 1000 togs
each, have loaded for Europe with the crude mate
rial during the past year, while folly as many ear
goes have been shipped coastwise to other
points. This is exclusive of the immense
amount which has been ground and treated for
agricultural purposes, at the several manufac
tories.
Arrived at the Ashley river, we found the
Wando Works picturesquely looated near the
banks of the stream, in close contiguity to a
magnificent grove of moss-covered live oaks.
They are very extensive, embracing huge build
ings for the washing, drying, crashing, grind
ing, mixing, and sacking of the fertilizer,besides
a vast and nnique establishment used in the
mannfactnre of sulphuric acid, one hundred and
fifty carboys of whiob, each containing eleven
gallons, are distilled or prepared every day.
The capacious tanks of lead, conntless tabes
and retorts, and ingenious scientific contrivances
used iu the preparation of this article, are al
most bewildering to the uninitiated. As a single
item, showing the magnitude of the operations,
we saw in one chamber not less than 5,000
bushels of crude sulphur imported by the cargo
from the Island of Sicily. We will not pause
at present, however, to describe the modus oper
ands of the works, but go direct to the mines.
The company are now exhuming the phos
phate abont one mile from the river, in a flat
region of country interspersed with a growth of
oak, gum, cedar, pine and myrtle. They have,
at heavy expanse, constructed a railroad with
iron rails, and equipped with a diminutive loco
motive and cars resembling coal boxes, which
t-onsports the petrified bones and fossils to the
washing house, situated upon the river bank.
In brief, the mode of procedure is as follows:
First, the ground is sonnded with an iron rod to
detect the veins of phosphate, then a narrow
ditch is cut abont four feet in depth of the de
sired length, to indicate with certainty the depth
and richness of the deposits. Once ascertained
that the mining will pay, and the work begins
in earnest. Straight excavations are made six
feet wide, and varying from two to four in
depth, reaching to the npper surface of the de
posit, and after the earth has been carefully re.
moved and thrown on one side of the ditch, the
phosphates are dug out with picks and placed
on the other.
The veins differ in thickness from six inches
to three feet. The bones lie in confused masses,
showing the teeth, vertebrae, riba, jaw bones,
and other portions alike of animal and marine
monsters. We saw thrown oat from the same
pit huge sharks’ teeth and sections of the ver
tebra of some immense land animal, either an
elephant or mastodon, probably, which we pre
served and can exhibit. These specimens, in
some instances bat partially petrified, are com
paratively soft, showing the grain and fibre of
the bone. In others they are hard as flint,
though perfectly delineated. Carts receive and
transfer to the cars the crude deposits of every
possible shape, and from one to ten pounds in
weight, covered with mnd, which are then trans
ported to the washing house, and cleansed in a
long iron box with a revolving screw set hori
zontally, into which a stream of salt water is
injected by powerful forcing pumps, the whole
propelled by s'.enni. The phospbaio i > then
stacked in vast kilns and subjected to powerful
heat to expel all moisture and prepare it for
the mill.
These deposits crop out from the river
banks, and can be seen at low tide scattered
along tho beach. They appear to be almost
inexhaustible, audare daily growing in reputa
tion abroad. The corpolites are small black
petrifactions, evidently tbe excrements of ani
mals, and contain 90 per cent, of pure phos
phate—they are found mixed np universally
with the other deposits.
After a minute inspection of tho works, wa
returned to the city dseply impressed w; •
wise provision of a beneficent provident to
save from utter destruction an sfflicted and
rained people.
The Wando Company have another factory
in full operation at No. 1, South Atlantic
Wharf, where tho phosphate after being
washed at the mines, is treated in every stage.
We had the pleasure of noting the entire pro
cess, and will describe it briefly:
First, the dried material is lifted by steam
elevators from the b''n to l?'« second story of a
lofty bnildmg, where it is broken into small
fragments by the action of a powerful crasher.
The product is again elevated -rad poured into
the hopper of a mill in a second npper apart
ment, and literally reduced to bono dust or
powder as fine a3 flour. Still another elevator
receives the ground phosphate, and lifts it
above as before, when it is discharged into tbe
mixing tank, a square metalio box about eight
feet in diameter and three feet deep, in which
a machine resembling a clay mixer for brick, is
made to revolve with great rapidity. Into this,
reservoir, the sulphuric acid, in the proportion
of one-half acid to the like quantity of phos
phate, and the proper amount of ammonia and
potash, are ponred—the maB3 nnder the effects of
the aoid becoming intensely hot. When suffi
ciently stirred and thoroughly incorporated, tbe
compound escapes through a tnbe closed by a
ping, in the centre of the tank, and is conduct
ed below, shovelled aside, and left to “set” for
abeut ten days. It is then an impacted mass
from the action of the acid, and after being
rolled and again redaced to powder is ready to
be weighed and bagged for the market.
The above is a very suooinot account of these
extensive works, as our limits will not allow of
a more extended notice.
Onr readers will find in another column the
advertisement of Messrs. W. O. Dakoa & Co.,
the proprietors of the Wando Fertilizer. The
writer can testify from personal use, and the
evidence of our best planters, to the exceeding
utility of the preparation. Purely free from all
adulteration, it deservedly takes rank with the
best and most certain of all crop stimulants.
Band in your orders before tbe supply is ex
hausted.
The Atlanta Snn learns that Benjamin Con
ley, exercising the functions of Governor of
Georgia has written a letter to some one in
Washington, declaring that Bullock’s adminis
tration has been patriotio, economical, and that
there has been no over-issue of bonds by him.
What next ?
A Uniform Rate off Freight on oil
Railroads.
A bill has been introdooed into the lower
House of the Legislature to provide for the en
forcement of a uniform tariff of freight chargee
on all the railroads of the State. This would
be desirabla, if practicable, bnt anyjaws inter
fering with trade, or of a sumptuary character,
are a direct encroaohment upon private rights,
and invariably result in mischief. As well at
tempt to fix the valne of the planter’s com or
cotton, or seek by arbitrary enactment to de
fine the price of gold and silver. These are
questions that regulate themselves by the prin
ciples of supply and demand, and the postu
lates of political economy, just as water will
seek its natural level.
The antbor of the project means well, bnt
has not considered that practioally it would
operate very unequally, and therefore, disas
trously npon many railroad companies. The
power oimonopolies would be augmented there
by, for if the tariff was very low, the weaker
companies wonld suocumb nnder it, and if
placed at a high standard, then the stronger
wonld only beoome still stronger, and better
able to build, or buy ont competing lines. Bat
what justice would there be in affixing the
same rates npon two roads, one of which cost
ten times more than the other, and requires
twice or thrice the annual expenditure to keep
it in repair.
We repeat, the maxims of free trade alone
should obtain in the premises, and such sub
jects are not matters of ligitimate legislation.
“The world is governed too much.”
The Usury Law.
We are sorry to see that the bill repealing
the nsnry laws was indefinitely postponed on
Friday in the House, by a vote of 81 to 65,
Tbe attachment to these forlorn relies of bar
barism is to ns a wonderful and inoomprehensi
ble faot. On every philosophical principle, in
the first place, money like every other mer
chandize should be left to adjust its own. prioe
nnder the laws of supply and demand, and there
is no more reason for fixing its valne by law
than for attempting to establish the value of
corn, cotton and bagging in the Bame way.
Secondly, the attempt to regulate it in that way is
a total failure. The law says seven per cent,
bnt even every law giver violates it, and the
rates of interest in commercial transactions in
Georgia vary every day from eight to thirty per
cent., and are so quoted in all the papers. It
will be safe to say that the law is invariably and
totally disregarded. Pray tell ns, then, where
the use of it? and what other effect has the law
than merely to embarrass transactions in money
—bring State authority into contempt—obstruct
tho influx of external capital into Georgia, and
so add to the price by diminishing competition?
We trust the Georgia Legislature will get out of
that rut, after awhile.
A Protest Against the “’Possum”
Policy.
We find the following earnest protest against
the adoption of the passive or ’possum polioy
—as somebody has wittily termed it—by the
National Democratic party next year, in that
ever faithful Demooratio journal, the Boston
Post. Says the Post:
It is not progress and growth for the party
which is the inspiring motive of the passive pro
position. so much as it is a gambling fondness
for change, a trafficking attachment to both the
party and its great principles, and a timid and
confused calculation of chances that pays far
more regard to tbe personal profit than the
popular advantage. Any politician of ordinary
penetration must understand that a negative
position for a great pariy is sure disintegration
and death. Defeat outright could not bring on
the catastrophe so suddenly. It wonld be a
general disbanding withont even the ubuoI con
dition of external compulsion. Whether weak
ness or treachery, false judgment or cool de
sign, the result would be no less thorough and
complete. Genuine, progressive Democrats,
determined on an expansion of the party doc
trines and methods to the utmost limits of lib
eralism, but resolved to protect their faith os
their only footing in the general confusion,
honestly believe that the liberal element of Re
pnblicanism can be bronght into co-operative
position withont making this confession that
they must hide their principles in order to vin
dicate them. Supposing tho proposed scheme
of passivism to ba possible of success,’it still
remains to be shown in what way tho Democratic
creed has been liberalized or what now guarantee
of its operation in the Government it will have
received. To win a trinwph for a canse by re
fusing to mention the cause, is so idle as a pro
position as not to make it necessary to attempt
it as an experiment.
Martial Lair Movable.
Says tho St. Loni3 Republican, the example
of tho administration in being so careless as to
pat the wrong county in the first proclamation
of martial law in South Carolina is having its
effect on the United States’ military there.
They waul - ; .'link that they carry mar
tial lav/ as a L&udy. tui- b, in their pockets, or
that it is lying around loose all over the coun
try, to be pieke I up and used by them when
ever convenient. Among the instructive inci
dents of the new -‘rebellion” are the raids made
from York county into the neighboring State
of North Carolina by Major Merrill’s horse to
arrest in that Stale, without warrant, alleged
Ku-klnx who hi.vo fled into it to, avoid the
reigu of terror near liiolr homes. A numb: r of
such refugees »ero thus kidnspped in C!, vo-
laud county, North Carolina, carried to York-
ville, and there impnsioned. On another oc
casion a gang of the: lawless troopers came
into the town of -Shelby, the county seat of
Cleveland, in the night . .ae, in such a disor
derly manner that the -inhabitants became
panic-stricken, many fleeing into the woods in
their night rlothep, and remaining there until
the military rowdies left, without finding any
of (he parties (}.< y pretended to bo in search of.
The people uf both the Carolines are thus
snjoyiDg tho’blessings of an administration
which gives them the “equal protection of the
laws." And yet they are not happy!
Hoiv it is to be Pat Through.
The Washington Republican, which is the
special organ of the-President, Bays that it will
require not les3 than It',000 regular troops judi
ciously distributed through the South to insure
a free and fair election in 1872, and that it may
bo necessary for Congrosa to increase the army,
Wherenpon the New York Snn says this is bnt
one of numerous indications that Grant intends
to force his re-election by placing the whole
Sonth nnder bayonet rale should he reoeive the
Republican nomination. Snoh a method of in
suring a free snd fair election certainly de
serves the credit of originality. It was only
equalled by the ingennity of the Ethiopian pres-:
ent-taker, who relates his experience in one of
the negro minstrel halls. “Pompey, whar jou
get dat watch?” “A mangnb it to me.” “Gab
it to yon for nuffin?” “Yes—ball had to’knock.
him down free or four times before he’d do it,”
If Grant runs for President in 1872 he is de
termined to have’a free and fair election,' even
if it should be necessary to bayouet every man
in the Southern States who opposes him. What
wonld lie deemad a free and fair election by a
man who has used United States troops and
Gatling guns to oontrol tbe action of a Repub
lican Convention at New Orleans may be easily
imagined.—Floridian.
Chatham Delegation—The Democrats of the
above county have named tbe following dele
gates and alternates to the Democratic State
Convention:
Delegates—Hon. Julian Hartridge, Dr. R. D.
Arnold, Ed. O. Anderson, W. M. Nichols, Col.
W. T. Thompson, B. B. FerrilL
Alternates—A. G. McArthur, John R. Dillon,
P. W. Meldrim, John Foley, Wm. Law, Jr., B.
B. Habersham.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
A fire in the grocery store of W. A. Barden,
of Columbus, Wednesday morning, destroyed
or irreparably damaged a $15,000stock of goods,
on which there was $3,000 insurance in the
Georgia Homo, and $2,000 in the Southern
Mutual, of Athens.
An iron safe in the House of F. G. Arnett, of
Bainbridge, was broken into last week, end
robbed of between $300 and $400.
Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown offers the True
Georgian office at Atlanta for sale, and will be
“happy to receive bids for the same.”
The ship Ironsides sailed from Savannah,
Wednesday, with 4,527 bales of cotton, valued
at $403,405—the largest cargo from that port,
this season.
Mr. Manley, of this city, was married at Au
gusta, Wednesday - morning, to Miss Crowell
Doughty, of that plaoe.
Eatonton joins the cold water army with 103
recruits gathered in by the G. T.’s
The Atlanta correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle & Sentinel, tells the following story:
The “woman’s right” aot, giving a wife a
cause of aotion against a party selling liqnor or
anything else to her husband while drank, and
allowing the prooeeds of the fine to go to the
wife, was passed, after the call for the yeas and
nays. The vote stood—yeas, 15; nays, 12. It
struck me a3 strange that a measure so like to
produce trouble, and so inevitably destined to
do so, should have passed the Senate with so
little remark. The most noticeable comment
evoked by the passage of the bill came from
Whit Anderson, the courteous and popular mes
senger of the Senate. “Now,” said Whit, “I
can afford to get married, for my wife can
easily support the family on the fines I will
bring her.”
The brig Bedwood reached Savannah, from
Havana, on Wednesday, with 122,000 oranges,
200 bunches of bananas, and 200 dozen pine
apples.
The Colnmbns Sun saya every county in that
section will go unanimously for Speaker Smith,
as the Democratic oandidate for Governor.
Judge James Johnson, of the Muscogee cir
cuit, in his charge to the Giand Jury of Musco
gee county, last Monday, hit the man who pnt
him on the bench, the following hard Iiok:
I mast congratulate you on recent develop
ments in onr affairs of state. The past is gone,
and with it, I hope, the dethronement of dis
honest men; and we are passing to new ques
tions, which hinge upon the ascendancy of the
hoDest man over the rascal. The honest, best
men of onr country, are coming forward, and
when they do we vrill all be a happier and more
prosperous people.
O. O. Simms, of Bainbridge, died last Tues
day night at Philadelphia, of pneumonia.
The Savannah Republican of Wednesday says:
An Important Case.—The case of the United
States vs. H. W. Stark, Alexander and others,
deoided yesterday by a verdiot of the jury, un
der instructions of the court, in favor of the
plaintiff, is important as settling the question
as to the liabilities of importers for goods im
ported after the blockade established during the
late war. The court, in its charge to the jary
(which we will take the earliest opportunity to
publish) gave the recognized dootrine of the
United States authorities, that all duties paid to
the customs authorities during the war and after
the blockade of Southern ports, were recollecta
ble. Under the charge, the jury returned a ver
diet for the plaintiff for the gold colleotion of
the customs, with interest, as will be seen by
the court report. This case was a test case of
numbers of others involving the same principle.
Mrs. Sarah Lane, mother of Bev. O. W.
Lane, of Milledgeville, died last Sunday.
A negro named Henry Lawson, was ran over
and killed on the Macon and Augusta Railroad
last Saturday night, about fonr miles this side of
Sparta. Drank and asleep on the track.
Ten carloads of corn direct from St Lonis by
the Green Line, were sold at Savannah, Wednes
day, at 99 cents a bushel for yellow and $100
for white.
The Savannah Advertiser, of Wednesday, says:
On Snnday evening last, a lady residing in
the eastern portion of the city, left home for
about ten minutes, leaving a colored nurse in
care of her child. On her return the nnrse was
missing, and so was a gold watch and chain,
two bracelets, lace shawls, dresses, eto., the
whole valued at $400. ,
Susan Williams, negress, was arrested at Sa
vannah on Wednesday, on the charge of infan
ticide, she having given birth the previous
night to a child which was thrown into a yard
where it died.
We find the following in the Savannah News
of Thursday: .,
Trouble on the Carolina Side.—We had an
interview yesterday evening with a gentleman
who resides upon tbe Carolina sido of the river
in regard to affairs in that, section. He gives a
particularly gloomy account of tho situation at
present, and is by no mean3 hopeful of the fa-
tnre. Matters grow worse and worse every day,
and no white man who lives in a thinly popu
lated neighborhood considers his life or proper
ty safe. The carpet-baggers are taking pains
to inflame the negroes withincendiary purposes,
and to array them collectively and individually
against the whites, and serious tronble is mo
mentarily expected.
Since the Montmollin affair, the particnlars
of which have been previously reported in these
columns, the negroes in that section are out
spoken in their threats of incendiarism and in
their denunciation of the whites. Crowds of
negroes throDg tbe roads leading to Blnfftan,
whither they go for the purpose of drawing
gnns. Under whose supervision this drawing
takes place, onr informant does not know.
Along with the guns they are supplied wiib
rounds of ball-cartridges, bayonets, cartridge
boxes and bells—regular army accoutrements,
and things appear to be rapidly assuming a war
footing.
Oar informant states that Soott, the carpet
bag Governor of South Carolina, was at Blaffton
a few days before the drawing of arms began,
;:rd he is of • opinion that this visit of the
v .,.. . i f-, f, 0 . a0 connected with the
arm:, g of t lie blacks. Tho negroes aro organ
izing themselves into companies, and are very
insolent and insulting to the white people. Tho
Montmollin place is regularly guaided by color
ed patriots. There seems to be a settled pur
pose on the part of the blacks to drive the white
people from their estates, and this purpose, un
der the teachings of tbe carpet-baggers and tbe
patronage of tho corrupt State government,
will no doubt soon develop into absolute incen
diarism. - ’ .
A drove of turkeys for sale on the public
square, made the mouth of the impecunious
Gaiuesviilians water, last. Tuesday.
Victor Smith, of Gainesville, was run over by
a loaded wagon last Thnredsy,’ and his right
thigh broken in two places. .“■** " x ‘
The Gainesville Eagle learns. that a number
of citizens of Unicncaunty have been arrested
within the last week, for iilioif distilling.
The Eagle says:
RETunNiNO.—Within the last two weeks sev
eral families that moved from onr connty one
and two years ago—some to Mississippi, and
othors to Arkansas and Texas—have returned to
tbedr old homes, and express themselves as
f ally satisfied with the West. Wo are informed
that a largo number of persons who havo left
Georgia since the war, with a view of bettering
their fortunes in the West, are anxious to re
turn, and will do so as soon as they are able.
The Houston Democrats have chosen Messrs.
C. O. Danoan, O. D. Anderson, and J. W.
Mathews as delegates to the State Convention.
THo Albany News says it is rumored that onr
distinguished townsman, Judge R. F. Lyon,
contemplates moving to Albany. We hope
not. Maoon don’t like to part with suoh oitizens.
The News reports ripe strawberries grown in
the open air, musquitoes, and peach blossoms
as among tho luxuries of the past week down
there. We guess yesterday morning flattened
them out, though.
A negro on the Lawton place in Dougherty
county shot and killed another last Tuesday.
The Albany News “learns verbally that argu
ment was heard in Brunswick, on Wednesday,
by Judge Sessions, on the liability of the Bead
and rolling stock of the Brunswick and Albany
Railroad to contractors and laborers for debts
dne. It seems that all the suits were consolida
ted, and that npon the hearing his Honor de
cided that all the property of the oompany is
liable; bnt in adjusting the equities, an auditor
was appointed and sale postponed forty days for
m fl"»i estimate of indebtedness, and to afford
ample opportunity to the new organization to
pay off and prooeed ■with tbe ■work."
We quote these items from the Houston
Home Journal, of Friday:
Good News.—We leant that Mr. Powers,
SuDerintendent of the Southwestern Railroad,
has secured the right of way for “oar rsilroed,”
except in one or two instances. These will be
arbitrated as early as possible.
Two negroes were playing with a pistol at the
Lamar plaoe, near Ferry, last Sunday, and one
of them was killed.
Mbs. Mart S. Culler, wife of Dr. P. B. D.
H. Culler, died at the residence of her son-in-
law, Major J. B. Cobb, in Maoon, last Monday
morning. She was a daughter of the late Hon.
Howell Cobb, of this county, and was 48 years
of age. She had been confined to her bed for
more than a year, and several months ago was
induced to go into North Georgia in the hope
that her health wonld be improved. The change
proved of no benefit, and she returned to Maoon
to linger a while and then pass away. She was
a member of tbe Methodist church, and a most
devoted Christian. It is no exaggeration to say
that a more estimable woman, or one more use
ful in her sphere, never lived. The community
suffers in her death, and every member of it has
lost a valued friend. Her remains were brought
to Perry for interment Tuesday evening.
The Savannah Fair receipts, up to Friday
last, amounted to $8,960 55 The largest amount
received any one day was $2,301.
Two Savannah bakers named Smith and Far
ley had a terrible fight on Thursday, during
which the latter cut Smith with a razor in 21
places. His recovery is doubtful.
Borne had a jolly good snow, Thursday, and
Atlanta a feeble imitation thereof, on Friday.
Newnan rejoices in the possession cf a double
headed and four-eyed snake. The same town,
as we now learn for tho first time, exempts the
property of all her officials from taxation. And
to cap this olimax of wonders, the Herald says:
There is in Newnan, a gentleman aged 45
years, who is now and has been for a long time
engaged in active business, who never signed a
note either as principal, security or endorser,
never bought anything on a credit, sever bor
rowed a cent in his life never loBt but ten dol
lars of loaned money, never expects to lose any
more, nor asked any one to change a bill for
him since the close of the war, although com'
polled to change many dally for his customers.
A man named Williams cut a man named Cnl
ver, so severely last Saturday as to cause his
death in a short time. The parties live near the
line of Upson and Taylor counties.
Jas. Epps, a youth aged fifteen, was shot and
instantly killed at Hogansville, Troup connty,
last Monday, by tbe accidental discharge of a
gun in the hands of another lad named John
Hunter.
The last Madison Appeal talks sense in. the
following paragraph:
We may think &3 we may, bnt the bane of
this country to-day is the unreliability of onr
labor. Had we five hundred stalwart working
families added to the population of Morgan
county, who were thrifty and industrious, moral
and temperate in their habits, lands wonld ad
vance in price to thirty and forty dollars per
acre, and perhaps more. Capital seeks invest
ment where there is reliability. Suoh a state
of things cannot happen with our present work
ing population. Gonld farmers and others make
money faster than in this way?.
Ad interim. Conley’s first pardon was issued
Friday, to an Augusta negro named Peter Blair,
who risked his life to save the connty jail.
The wood station and a considerable quantity
of wood at Alcovy, on the Georgia railroad,
were bnrned Friday, delaying the np passeDger
train several hours.
We find these items in the Atlanta Constitu
tion of yesterday:
Fracas.— A difficulty occurred Thursday
morning in the store of L. B. Langford, be
tween a Mr. Middleton and L B. Langford. It
seems that Middleton had threatened to shoot
Mr. Langford abont some settlement between
them. Langford fired at Middleton five or six
times—the pistol of the latter snapped. “No
body hurt.”
Blodgett Perpetuates Another Joke.—A
telegram from Washington announces that
Blodgett is down on Bnllock for allowing steal
ing to be done under his administration, bnt
thinks the Governor made hone himself. It is
reported that Blodgett, before he left, offered to
pay $25,000 to have the prosecutions against
the State Road officers stopped. Verily, Blod
gett is a gay joker.
Arrests.—Yesterday our indefatigable Sher
iff, James O. Harris, arrested, in aooord&nce
with a telegram from Macon, Captain B. W,
Srnolk, who is charged with cheating and swind
ling, and dispatched him to Macon under the
charge of Bailiff C. S. Hunt.
Captain E. O. Murphy arrived yesterday
morning with Joseph Fry, whom, he arrested in
Springfield, Massachusetts. At the last accounts
Fry was’still in his custody.
To the Honorable Members of the
Georgia Legislature.
Gentlemen : In this section of Georgia the
tenant labor system has been adopted to a great
er or less extent by almost every large land
holder. Such being the case, I wish to make a
suggestion or two to your honorable body touch
ing this subject. I wonld suggest that a law be
passed making it a penal offence (larceny, if
you please,) for any person to buy, or traffic
with a tenant in any way ior the produce of
the farm, unless the tenant can show a certifi
cate from the owner of tho land that all the
rents have been duly paid. If the tenant sys
tem is not abolished, nnkss we have some such
law as I havo suggested, any sharp trader (and
there are many such) can get a few cheap old
horses, whisky, tobacco, etc., and go trafficking
among the tenants when crops aro gathered,
and collect the rents mnch faster than tho own
ers of the land can do it.
Disttess warrants are very good as far as they
go, bnt they can reach only one of the parties,
and in this case I hold that two parties are
guilty. Let a law be made to punish both par
ties and I think yon will then, to some extent,
give that protection to properly which every
law-abiding citizen is entitled to, and ba3 a right
to expect under a good government. I "say to
some extent because I am fully aware of the
fact that some persons will not miss the chance,
law or no Jaw, to mako their dimes out of “the
colored troops who fonght nobly,” and who
trade nobly npon produce which is duo for
rents. Landholder.
Laurens Hill, Ga , November 28, 1871.
Democratic meeting in Forsyth.
Foesyth, Ga., Nov. 29, 1871.
According to previous announcement, a large
and respectable portion of the citizens of Mon
roe connty, met in the Oonrt-honse to appoint
delegates to the Gubernatorial Convention to be
hold at Atlanta on the sixth day of December
next. On motion, James S. Pinckard was called
to the chair and B. G. Anderson was requested
to aot os secretary.
The following gentlemen were selected as
delegates: Col. A. D. Hammond, J. P. Harri
son, G. A. Cabaniss and B. G. Anderson, nnd
A. L. Woodward, John T. Crowder, A. L. Per
kins andE. H. Walker, alternates.
The following resolution was introduced by
S. D. Mobley and nnanimonsly adopted :
Resolved, That the people of Monroe county
here assembled, nominate for Governor,. Hon.
James M. Smith, Speaker of the House of
Representatives, as we knew him to be capable,
honest and unswerving in his devotion to the
best interests of the people of Georgia; raised
in oar midst, we pledge the country that he can
for ability or integrity, be trusted with tho af
fairs of our State and is incspable of doing
ought for her dishonor. “.
On motion the meeting then adjourned.
B. G. Anderson, Seot’y.
A Glorious Young Woman.—If long hair be
the glory of woman, then there is a glorious
young lady in Boston. She was persuaded the
other day to give a private exhibition of her
beautiful head of long and heavy black hair.
Her bight is five feet three inches, and when
she is standing erect her hair falls to her feet,
and trails a quarter of a yard on the floor. It
is 75 inohes in length; Here, indeed, is a fa
vored young person! No need has she of chig
nons, nor of braids, nor of fronts, nor of trico-
pherous compounds; and Eve herself, the primal
and peifeot woman nobly planned, had proba
bly no greater wealth of tangled charms. Dis
carding all moral principle, we are tempted to
lapse into the meanest kind of pan, and to pro-
nounoe this Boston beauty the greatest hatress
in America.
Fditorial Cerrespondeam.
Charleston, November 29,187L
I address yon again from the onee proud me
tropolis of Carolina, in better days the abode
of an opulent and luxurious aristocracy, and the
radiating oentre of tbe capital, intelligence,
and refinement of the State.
Tbe bright waters of the bay still ripple
against her magnificent promenade, the same
people are here, the streets are designated aa
formerly, bnt alas! bow changed in other re
spects. Vast areas with gaping cellars and
choked np with weeds and fallen masonry,
silently, bnt eloqnently recall the horrors of
war and conflagration. The houses are dingy
mnd unpointed; the very churches of the living
God look battle scarred and forlorn. One of
the most sacred and celebrated of them, the no
ble old “Cironlar,” remains a mass of ponder
ous and imposing rains, great even in its down
fall. The citadel, that massive pile where the
chivalry of Carolina drew inspiration, and which
has sent to the field a host of gallant spirits, is
now garrisoned by Federal troops, and its
splendid parade ground bristles with a whole
park of artillery, planted there to intimidate a
crashed and ruined people. Midway in the
harbor, grand old Bumpier yet rears its frown
ing front, her death dealing guns, sleeping
amid the rains which remain precisely as they
were, when her peerless flag went down in a
blaze of glory.
Searoh as yon may the annals of modem war
fare, not even Acre, Saragossa, or Sevastopol,
can challenge comparison with the unparalleled
defenoe of this Confederate stronghold. Sand
bags and science supplemented by valor, for
long months, and even years, defied the concen
trated power of a mighty navy, its countless
shells, and iron hail, pattering like rain drops
against the simple walls of the beleaguered
fortress.
Every man of that heroic garrison was
paladin, and their deeds will live in history and
song, like the worthies of ancient Troy, when
empires and dynasties have crumbled into dust,
and Federal vandalism and oppression have bad
their just reward.
AN ANCIENT STRUCTURE.
Not fir from the bay in the centre of the city,
the old custom house, with its gloomy dnngeon
beneath, still rears it3 massive walls, to tell of
the old colonial regime and the bloody days of
the first revolution. Here was enacted one of
those military tragedies which rendered forever
infamous the rule of Cornwallis, and his lieu
tenants, Tarlton and Bawdon. This was the
incarceration and execution of the lamented
Hayne. The keep is a small apartment exca
vated beneath the surface, with immensely thiok
walls, and lighted by narrow windows strongly
grated, and barely sufficient to admit air enough
to prevent death from snffooation. We saw
the iron ring and staple encrusted with the rost
of nearly a oentnry, still pendant from the low
and reeking roof of masonry, where the great
Patriot had been chained like a wild beast, for
daring to do battle in freedom’s cause. Jnst in
front of this dismal cell, was erected the scaf
fold, npon which he met a felon’s doom.
Who does not remember all the scenes of this
bloody drama, as delineated in the graphio and
v-vid style of the gifted biographer of General
Franois Marion ? Alasl that history should be
repeating itself in the sufferings and persecu
tion of the hundreds of unoffending victims at
this present hour, who languish in prison by the
star chamber edicts, of an unprincipled and
tyrannical exeentive. At that day this devoted
little commonwealth was overrun by a foreign
soldiery; now 3.000 glittering bayonets, in the
hands of so-called countrymen, trample npon the
rights of a defenceless people. Which of the two
masters was the least odious? Ask the over
burdened people of this oity, whose dwellings
are still torn and dismantled by the shot of these
brethren! whose streets are patrolled by their
own slaves—whose ancient seat of learning is
no more—whose legislators are thieves and as
sassins—whose treasury is bankrupt and credit
rained—whose wives and daughters are de
graded—whose best citizens are disfranchised
and many of them in fetters. Go ask these peo
pie, and doubt their response if you can.
THE LATE FEVER
was far more malignant and fatal in i f s ravages
than it was believed to be abroad As late &a
the 22d of November, eight feU victims to it,
and two hundred and twenty-two deaths are
officially reported—this does not include the
mortality from o:her can-es, nor is it probable
that the figures are 8'rie-ly correct
The pestilence h is left a deep seated gloom
npon the community, and has acted like a night
mare npon the trade and enterprise of the
city. It first appeared in Market street, and
those who are familiar with that -crowded
thoroughfare, and the many deep archways and
damp recess never visited by the son’s rays,
which make the locality not unlike some old
Spanish town, will not be surprised at the fact.
The proximate cause of the d sease, however,
was the opening of an old sewer which received
the drippings of tho market, and had not been
uncovered for seven years. Fonr of the
laborers engaaed in the work diod in a very
short time, and the molady became epidemic at
once.
The present cool change will doubtless re
vive the spirits of this nafortnnate people.
THE jUMBT.
This structure is a half mile in length, and
showed an abundance of vegetables: and the
finest West India fruit of every description on
sale. Tho beef and mutton looked inferior, but
of fi-h there was the greatest profusion and at
very reasonable prices. A large string (near a
dozen) of delicious whiling could be bad for 35
cents, and trout, blackfi-h, sheepshead, etc.,
were to be bought at similar rates. The market
women were nearly all negroes. Besides gin
gerbread, ground nuts, tarts, e'o , not a few of
them offered roasted sweet potatoes as their en
tire stock in trade.
TURKEY BUZZARD3
These feathered scavengers, it seems, enjoy
peculiar rights and immunities in Charleston.
We counted over one hundred perched upon the
market shed, and feeding like bam fowls in the
streets. They were so tame that the writer
walked up to a group of five and approached
near enough to strike at them with his umbrella.
Even then they never offered to fly, bnt merel.'
galloped off with the uncon'h motion peculiar
to them. Once they even entered the market
between the legs of the butchers, but were
looted by a terrier fice dog. These birds of ill
omen presented a strange, lugubrious appearance
in tho midst of a crowded oity, and were sag-
gestivo of the hearse and church yard. It is a
penal offense, wa havo heard, to harm one of
them.
“the neck.”
This portion of the city which is most dense
ly populated, was added to its limits about the
year 1840. It i8 bnilt in great part of wood, and
(he houses are greatly dilapidated and forlorn
in appearance. Repeated fires have left pain
ful gtps here and there, and this is true indeed
of all parts of the oity. The people Lave neither
tho meanB nor spirit to rebuild these waste
places. Indeed, taxation has increased to snob
a fearful extent, that real estate is constantly
depreciating in valne. No one feels willing to
make improvements if able to do so, when Radi
cal thieves and tax gatherers absorb ail the rev
enue derived from the same.
POLITICAL PROSPECTS
In common with the entire State, the Charles
tonians have little hope in the future. As the
best proof of this, the infamous murderer .and'
bigamist, O. O. Bowen, hag just been elected to
the Legislature without opposition. A bill has
already been introduced, also, and will certainly
become a law, extending the city limits eight
miles, to bring in abont 2,000 additional Afri
cans voters, so that they may carry all fature
ohartor elections, and tax and prey upon the
whites at pleasure. The debt of Carolina is
$22,000,000, and her oppressed citizen's are in
arrears for taxes $1,230,000. The people aro
fleeing for their lives in the upper part of the
State to avoid arrest by the myrmidons of Grant,
and over 600 have been seized and imprisoned,
and aro now being tried for their lives at Colum
bia before Radical Judges, and with negro wit
nesses. But let us draw the curtain over these
harrowing scenes. Will not the Conservatives
of the North interfere to shorten these days of
violence and oppression? The very Btones
should cry ont against such tyranny.
H. H. J.
Comptroller Connolly in Jail at Last.—The
late Comptroller of Pnbiio Accounts for the
oity and connty of New York, under whose
warrants some millions of fraudulent claims
have been passed, gave np hunting bait on
Wednesday night last and went to jail. One
aocount says:
The conduot of McGovern in withdrawing his
name from the bond was especially painful to
the ex-Comptroller. He was provided with a
comfortable bed and left to his gloomy reflec
tions. As though in mookery of his present
humiliating position, the first object which met
his gaze on entering the jail was a foil size
portrait of himself as he appeared in the days
of his prosperity. Connolly appeared muoh
depressed in spirits, and looked in fact a broken
hearted man.
Gpanel Jary Presentin'
or Qti, |
Connty. I
We, the Grand Jurors, ehoaen swotn
looted for the November Term.’ I871 I
man Superior Court, beg leavsto nukJI
lowing general presentments • hi
We find tbe bocks of the Ordinarv an* r»
of the Court kept in a neat and eorreet ^
a itufe
essary to make any recommendations »« I
to the building, but think the yard aW?* I
cleaned and the grass in the enclosure cn
We find tiie jail undergoing repair sad fe
when completed, will be secure, the
tion atiewt Ifae lower story ’we doIgfe
can be made sufficiently secure as it nov Kb*
but we think the npper story will b a soffit I
for the safe keeping of prisoners.
We have examined the books of ttm o. .
Treasurer. No entry has been made I
officer since the last session of the court in *** I
sequence of the taxes not having been • I
over. The disbursements then etce-'dui ^
receipts to the amount of about $380 00 **•
as this body then approved the action *5!
Treasurer, we make no recommendation s *
having been no change in his account ^ ^
The roads of the county are reported tori-
good condition, in fact, they are in better^ I
than we remember to have seen them for n !
and we commend the Oommissionera and oii 1
in charge, for the faithful discharge of this
As there seems to be a good deal 0 f dis&S'
faction among the citizens of the county inZ
sequence of the failure of the Ordinary
quire a bond for keeping up the tunrih*
Pataula creek, we would recommend
ture to require bond and security for W;
up publio works from those to whom the
tract is awarded. "*•
We tender onr sincere thanks to His Hoi
Judge Harrell, for his uniform kindness ml 1
courtesy to our body, and commend him for ft!
manner in which the business of the com*
conducted. Our thanks are also dne to Solfe!
General Parker for his polite attention to «,
body. 1
We recommend the publication of these m».
sentmenta in the Macon Daily Telegeatb
Messenger. 1
E. B. Brannon, Foreman.
Stephen Thomas, B. A. Cooper,
Wm. G. Wright, J. B. CastelW
Z. T. Graddy, W. J. 0. Hsnell
Hardy Floyd, W. J. Bryant, ’
S. R. Ogletree, John B. Ellis,
James Whaley, Eden Jackson,
Matthew Griffin, A, H. Dozier,
Jefferson Shirley, T. Z. Williamson,
Martin Melton, J. O. Pittman,
Tandy R. Freeman.
In acoordance with the request of the Gruj I
Jury it is ordered that the foregoing pretty I
ments be published in the Maoon Tzliglh
and Messenger. By order of the Court.
S. W. Parker, Sol. Gea
Nomination for Governor—Hon. m I
ton Smith.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: The raj. I
lenninm of mediocrity is npon ns. Tbe da-1
franchisement of a large nnmber of onr ablet I
and best oitizens has deprived the State of the I
benefit of their services when she sorely nsey I
them; and a deep disgnst ah the coarse which I
events have taken in the last few yean t* I
driven many others from pnbiio life who htn I
character and capacity. Hector is dead, si I
Achilles is moping moodily in his tent, and tht I
arena which they illustrated with great deeds i I
occupied by those who eannot wield the weipoa I
or bear the heavy armor which they iron. I
Idiots and itinerants—adventurers and "avaik I
bles”—non-residents snd negroes—have bra I
seen so often in Georgia, dnriDg the sapremiq I
of the Radical party, in places of trust and I
power, that we, the Democratic people d I
Georgia, have insensibly lowered our nri
of qualification for office, and accept with favot
the candidacy of individuals now whose candi-1
daoy before the war would have been receirtl I
with a shout of derision. Mediocrity has hd I
its day. “Loyalty” has had its reward. Vend-1
ity and corruption have had their apotheoai
Let us take a new departure, which shall britg
us back into the way our fathers trod byplacitjj
capable and honest men in office. This recot
atruoted State, which can hardly be recognini
as tbe proud Commonwealth of Georgia-tii
old hnlk of our onee prond “Ship of State” dis
masted and dismantled, with rudder and coe-
pass gone, has not reached quiet waters yet, isd
needs the coolest heads and the bravest beet
and tbe most skillful hands among her crer-1
save her.
Bullock confesses his guilt—for flight Is or-
fession—and absconds. Let U3 reap the M
benefit of his flight by placing a Democrat i:
the position he has so long degraded and dis
graced, who will restore the reputation of tit
State, redeem its credit, and exercise its Etec:-
tive powers with dignity, ability and honesty.
Milton Smith, the Speaker of the House, is tht
Democrat He is honest, and capable, and able,
and eligible. He has had the stern discipline 0!
poverty and has grown into a strong man nnder
it—strong in body, strong in mind, strong is
will and strong in principle. Beared by humble
and honest parents in Monroe connty, and com
mencing his professional career in Cnllodec,
where his first forensic efforts were made, within
bearing of the ring of his father’s hammer npo: I
the anvil, iro has grow:- elenly ar.d • teadilynntll j
to-thiy r Coghlzrd 7>y‘ ell who ki owkto*I
>sc of tub ablest lawyers and one uf the most I
gifted oratots in the State. Without a particle I
of the cant of demagogism ho may be said to
be ono of the people. Let tho .people honor him I
by making hnu the standard-bearer of the Us-1
uiocracy in the approaching Gubernatorial ties-1
turn without reference to tho plans of politicise I
or tbe combination of .Cliques, and he will re-1
ceive the enthusiastic support of Dcoocratii
masses, especially in Middle Georgia
J. A. Ansley nml Hr. Speaker Smith j
mnl the Legislative Committees.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: leeetittj
ono Mr. J. A. Ansley, perhaps, for the pnrpe* I
c-X showing GoL Smith that he reco'.'.eth nnt a I
case in court, in which the lattex’s ability*«**
attorney proved rather damugimy 10 A’s Ida-
man. or may he, to himself; or perhaps s &
b*> m-.y have a candidate for Governor whe*
rather weak, and dog-in-the-manger -ike he El?
ho wanting to pull down also GoL Smithi a |
anyone eLse in South western Georg'*; 01 V s '
haps again Mr. A. may want to show Lis “to*
ing” and get a little notoriety. Something
moving must bo. the matter with him, for ail-*
once we have a “Dmit-l come to judgment-
An individual that few, if any, ever c -
before, outside of his militia beat. Solon *
Solomon like—writes abont that of waicb M
knows tif 1'.ing. While every member of tM
LsgLsl&turo, or-other person that km tb^
grains of sense, knows that Chairmen of Ootr
mittees only differ from other members br_ r ^
porting to a l_rgar body or the public
whole oommittee adopts or agree to, sod.
said chairman has no more power or it- ■.
on that oommltteo than any other member
equal ability and. labor, yet this second P< ir
or rather second Solomon, in his own oonc. •
has found out that a ohairman of a commit*'
is a very important placs, and assails an “ ® .
represents GoL Bmnh—oharging him want
doing justice to his own section and his o’“ ^
people. As “A-Member” has sufficiently 1
more than sufficiently) exposed Mr. A. s
ments, I will go no farther than to say that 8
mitting all that Mr. A. says abont the Chairs
be true, yet every one who will look 0T * 1 \
various most important committees wm at®**
see that Southwest and lower and Middie^Lr
gia, all identical in interest, have the c03t v ‘ I
power or the majority in all these
And what more wonld any fair man in w
western Georgia desire ? . , .y
I know Ool. Smith well, and am satisfied
in forming his committees he did n0 ‘ or
to giving any one particular interest,
any one particular section an advantage
the other, but it happens that Southwest, 1
and Middle Georgia, having more T
than any any other portion of Georgia-^
have the majority on the committees. ..
In con dual on, I would say that relwbl ^
formation from AtlanU, represents Ool.
as very popular with members from ev ■ ^
tion of the State, and that he is by l°rft ^
the strongest candidate living in west and
west Georgia. Southwestern Georgian* ,
proud of him, and should he be nomin* 1 *®^
elected Governor, all of us will rejoice, e _
this Mr. J. A. Ansley and his candidate, w
is no doubt writing for. _ ....
Southwest Gsosaii-
Stimunq Times Ahead.—The Oourie*-J oDIB, *
Martial law js
says:
The plot thiokens. -- -- . lC a
the borders of Sonth Carolina intoFionas,
Georgia. By the time it is fairly
in tho latter State, Alabama will be re J ^
reoeive it; and then we shall be in the
the Presidential campaign. Bat to gjrr.
ranee doubly sure a foreign war is ne w »t-
and here is Cuba, right under °ur yedlj
incus to come and wollop her. vaa ^
there ia some mighty pretty reading al»»
