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MACON, MARCH 2, 1S7D
It is claimed that the New Yofk Con
tral road will have to pay $50,000 for
forty carloads of cattle which were frozen
and injured by cold a few nights since
between Rochester and Syracuse.
Tub refusal of tho House, on Monday,
to suspend tho rules to fir a date for the
consideration of tho Texas and Pacific
Railroad bill, is regarded at Washington
as the virtual defeat of that measure in
this Congress.
A vert flexible temperance pledge is
this, which is circulated among Boston
fashionablo ladies: “I promise that no
intoxicating liquor shall be used in this
houso for cooking purposes, and in sick
ness that it shall be given conscientious
ly.” ,
A man who was hunting in tho woods
near Grenada, Mississippi, last Thursday
rooming, found the body of an Irish ped
dler named Pat Keaferty, with a bullet
hole through his skull. Sis pocketbook
was missing, and his body almost eaten
up by hogs and dogs. No clue to the
murderer. *
Me. Geo. S. Cameeon, one of the most
prominent and active business men of
Charleston, died last Sunday. Ho was a
Scotchman by birth, but had been a citi
zen of Charleston for more than forty
years. He was President of the South
Carolina Trust and Loan Company.
The noted pugilists, George Hooke, of
Newark, N. X, and Tom Allen, of St.
Louis, havo entered into written articles
of agreement to fight for the sum of
$1500 a side and the championship of
America, the fight to come off on the 17th
of June, within fifty miles of Pittsburg.
Magazines for March.—We have re
ceived Scribner's and Lippincott’s maga
zines and the Galaxy for March—all of
unusual excellence, and with very full and
varied table of contents. The dull times
however * universal and depressing in,
their influences, do not seem to have
any effect on this branch of business.
The Navy Department is bankrupt.
Scarcely a dollar remains to its credit in
the Federal Treasury. All the appropri-
ations for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1875,havo been consumed in eightmonths
—a goodly portion of it for election pur
poses last fall. Other departments may
turn up minus for the same reason
Hence the demand for increased Federal
taxes.
On lost Wednesday night a negro was
caught iu the act of fastening a cross-tie
on the trestle work over Hiekokola Bot
tom, on the Mississippi and Tennessee
railroad. After being arrested he con
fessed to having thrown a train off near
there recently. This time he expected
tho train to be dashed to pieces, and
then he would rob the bodies of the pas
sengers.
Afrofos to Andy’s taking his seat in
tho Senate next Friday it may bo stated
that but eleven of tho Senators who sat
in the high court of impeachment that
tried him will be in tho next Senate. Of
these Cragin, Frelinghuysen, Sherman,
Conkling, Cameron, Howe, Anthony, Ed
munds and tho two Merrills, voted for
his impeachment, and one only, McCree-
ry, voted against it.
The North Carolina Legislature has just
passed a usury law which is even more
asinine than the general run of such
performances. The legal rate of interest
is fixed at six per cent., but eight may be
charged by special contract. If greater
interest is charged, the lender forfeits
double the amount to anyone who will
sue him for it. Tho Memphis Avalanche
says it is proposed in the Legislature of
Tennsssee to reduce the legal maximum
rate from ten to six per cent., in which
case "wo shall have the spectacle of Ten
nessee seeking to punish capitalists for
taking more than six per cent, interest,
while Georgia invites them to step over
tho border and make legal contracts at
double that sum.”
A correspondent of the St. Louis Be-
publican, interviewed Andy Johnson at
Nashville one day last week in regard to
tho latter’s deposit with Jay Cooke & Co.
Andy said:
I had $71,000, tho accumulations of
my life time, in Henry D. Cooke’s bank
in Washington, and the receiver has thns
far been able to pay depositors fifty cents
on tho dollar. My main object in going
to Washington at this time is to stir
those fellows np and see if the victims of
Jay Cooko & Co. cannot get a little more
than half of what belongs to them. I
shall try to make it lively for that con
cern in one way or another. I presume
the country will know more about Jay
Cooke & Co. before long than is now
known.”
The crash in mining stocks was fear
ful in Nevada. The whole population
was interested, not a woman or a child in
the State but what had “invested,” and
the telegrams from California street an
nouncing decline and min, produced the
excitement of a universal disaster. Men
blubbered as they read the bulletin
boards. An assemblyman was quarter of a
million "out” on Opbir, but the most
pitiable cases were those who bad mort
gaged their little properties to got tho
means of speculation, and who now saw
it all swept away. There was a general
cursing of Sharon, senator-elect, perhaps
because Sharon was not involved in tho
downfall. Tho magnitude of the crash
may be judged from tho fact that on the
5th, Ophir, which at one timo touched
$300 a share, was selling at $C1, and Con
solidated Virginia, which touched $715,
at $385.
The Tribune thinks it is very clear to
thn thoughtful observer that tho way
faring man is not sitting down on the
coal-hole covers on Broadway so much
as ho formerly was. There was a time
last winter when tho average man, and
sometimes even melancholy and serious
persons, could hardly resist the tempta
tion to sit down on them. There was a
strange infatuation about them. People
struck them, and in the most abrupt
manner sat down as though they had
been lookingfor several blocks for a good
place to sit down and draw a match.
Owners of real estate saw that this sort
of thing was wearing out the sidewalk,
and went to work to stop it. So last fall
they bored holes in tho covers and stuck
them full of iron pegs. Scarcely any
body sits down on them now. Everybody
goes around them. It is a very remark
able invention.
The Legislature and the Texas
Pacific Railway.
Wo sympathize with those members of
the Legislature who oppose recommending
government aid by that body for the
above scheme. Georgia particularly had
best go slow in such matters, after her
experience in official aid to railroads. It
Is neither Democratic nor safe, as all ex
perience since the war has proved. It
has been tho frnitfol source of untold
corruption and wholesale plundering.
Witness tho Northern Pacific job with its
Credit Mobilier attachment. In fact,
this whole subsidy business is wrong in
principle and a departure from the safe
paths that tho fathers walked in when
honesty and economy were tho charac-
terist3 of those who administered tho
government.
Tho Texas and Pacific Bailway may bo
a much more worthy object of aid than
any other similar interprise, for the rea
son that tho South has a right to some
such scheme of development, tho North
having already been fed to fatness, but
granting that, and tho argument in it3
favor still halts. Especially is the pres
ent an inauspicious timo to attack tho
public treasury, with an estimated de
ficiency of $60,000,000 in its revenues for
the next two years. We heartily agree
that it may bo an excellent thing for tho
South to have, equally with the North,
direct communication with the Pacific,
but not by means of a governmental
subsidy. The precedent has been set, it
is true, but we regard it os an unsafe and
dangerous one in every respect. It has
never yet failed to breed corruption, ex
travagance and financial trouble. Let
us stand by the old Democratic land
marks which were, timo and again be
fore the war, strengthened by tho verdict
of the people. If Tom Scott and his asso
ciates wish to bnild tho road, and can get
Congress to help them, that is their af
fair. But let Georgiahands oil when it
comes to committing herself to the gov
ernmental subsidy system, even though
the promise of future advantage bo ten
fold richer than it seems at present.
As We Expected.
It seems our speculations yesterday as
to the probablo compromise of tho Lou
isiana troubles were correct. The Lou
isiana committee in the House recom
mend just what wo said would most likely
bo the plan by which the people were la
bo sold out for the benefit of certain
hungry politicians. Kellogg is to be
kept in his seat to work his will with
that unhappy State, and fill his pockets
and those of his gang over again, while
as an act of grace, and to sooth the feel
ings of the whites, their representatives
in the Legislature who were expelled by
Grant are to bo allowed to comeback,
and thus give the majority in one house
to that party.
With Kellogg and all tho-Kadi cal State
officers in full and undisturbed posses
sion, and a decided Radical majority in
the Stato Senate, we fail to see any "tur
key” for tho Conservatives in this trade.
If there is one, he is very small and lean.
The Conservatives have only the nega
tive power of acting as a check upon
Kellogg and his Senate. They can do
nothing more, and all the while have the
satisfaction of seeing in power, and
recognized by themselves, a man whom
they have not only published to tho
world hat proved to be a usurper.
But if they can stand it, wo suppose
other folks have no call to grumble.
Important Action of tho Leg
islature.
As may be seen, both houses have
passed the bill establishing a State Board
of Health—a measure fraught with good
to the State. True, until people generally
come to understand its beneficent objects
and details, the progress will be compar
atively slow. But every year will add
to the completeness of its statistics and
their consequent value. Moroover, the
commonwealth will now enjoy tho ser
vices of an educated and skilled medical
commission, who will sound the alarm
when yellow fever, small pox, cholera,
scarlet fever, miningeti3, and other dread
ful epidemics invade the country, and
proceed at once to counsel the masses
how to avoid, or abate tbo evil. Then,
again, we shall have mortnary and birth
registrations, which in themselves are
richly worth the trifling expense inenrred
by the bill.
It is to be hoped that physicians, ordi
naries and heads of families will be dili
gent in complying with the requests and
reqnisitions of the Board.
USURY LAW.
This new regulation, allowing twelve
per cent, of interest on loans and ordi
nary money transaotions, ha3 also passed
the Senate. We consider it a triumph to
the broker and money lender. For now
they can blandly charge 12 per cent.,
enough to ruin any hono3t mortal, and
point to tho statuto in justification. In
addition, they will also bo able, just as in
former days, to ovado tho law, without
the slightest difficulty, and pile on as
much more as will bo paid.
Verily the opponents of usury have
been badly sold indeed, and wo are not
sorry for them. How long must it be re
peated that money, like cotton, i3 worth
what it will bring ?
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Wo rojoico that thi3 beneficent bill too,
under the kind and persistent efforts of
Miss King, of Augnsta/ has passed tho
House. Any one seeing the scarred and
mutilated condition of onr half starved
single dray horses, owned by negroes, in
this city, must eee that humanity de
mands that tho strong arm of the law
bo invoked in their behalf. Indeed, many
of them have long been subjects for tho
action of the Grand Jury.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
We regret to see that the previous fa
vorable action of tho Houso in behalf of
this bill, which will do so much to devel
op the South, has beeu reconsidered.
Tho principle of national aid in the
abstract may ba wrong, but precedent
has long since established it, and all onr
river and harbor improvements are predi
cated upon that right of the National
Legislature. The Northern route having
received a powerful assistance, it is but
fair that tbo like consideration he extend
ed to this now Southern line, which pos
sesses much superior advantages, pro
vided, always, proper guarantees against
I033 can be given to tho government by
its projectors.
One of our editorial corps elsewhere
somewhat dissents from tho above views/
though satisfied as to the value and util
ity or the enterprise, and of Abe justice of
tho claims of the South in the premises.
There is no material difference between
us, however.
Tbnrlow Weed on the Situa
tlon.
This astute old gentleman, who for
more than forty years has been a very
powerful factor, not only in New York,
but Federal politics—always antagonizing
the Democracy—and, perhaps, exercising
as much, if cob more influence m his
party than any other leader of it, has a
long letter in the New York Tribune of
Saturday, in which he undertakes to ex
plain tho recent defeats of tho Badical
party. First and foremost among tho
causes thereof he puts the third term
idea, and ho very distinctly charges Grant
with allowing that defeat to come upon
the party, rather than disavow his ambi
tious aspirations. He enumerates others
hut lays especial stress upon this one, and
states the caso with most refreshing can
dor and plainness of speech. Of the
civil rights bill, os another cause, ho talks
in a fashion which shows the old man’s
head is os clear os ever. He says:
Too much of tho time of Congress
has, I fear, been consumed by the civil
rights hill—a bill, in its general scopo
and purpose, of questionable wisdom.
All has been done by constitutional
amendments and congressional enact
ments that is necessary to place freed-
men upon a perfect equality with our
own race. “Life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness” has been guaranteed to
them as to us. They are free to enter
upon an open and fair field, competing
with us upon equal terms for all the ad
vantages and compensations of industry
and enterprise. Wo enjoy, in common,
all the rights and privileges, and are sub
jected to all tho duties and responsibili
ties conferred and imposed by the Con
stitution and the laws. The disabilities
of tho freedmen, if they are to he disre
garded as disabilities, aro providential;
and cannot be relieved by human laws.
The Almighty created two distinct races,
giving to each a country and a climate
adapted to their respective organizations.
If one race has been more favored than
the other, if, too, one race ha3 been cru
elly oppressed by the other, it is for somo
inscrutable reason, into which it would
bo presumptuous to inquire. But,
so far as our country i3 concerned, the
wrong3 of tho subjugated race have been
avenged. We have converted slavery into
freedom, elevating chattels into citizens.
Wo have extended to tho freedmen all tho
personal and political rights we possess
ourselves. Further we cannot go. Social
equality is alike impracticable and im
possible. When wo reach this point a
“higher law" comes in—a law which no
human enactments can annul—a law
which will remain in full force and effect
until white becomes black, or black be
comes white. All enactments, however
stringent and with whatever penalties,
designed arbitrarily to constrain social
equality, will prove abortive. They cam
not he enforced. Laws to compel social
equality among ourselves would prove
ineffectual. Indeed nothing would be re
garded as more absurd and preposterous
than an attempt to regulate social inter
course by statute laws. Society has its
own laws, unwritten to be sure, but clear
ly defined and well understood. These
laws are founded in good sense, are adapt
ed to tho condition of all classes, and
which all classes recognize and accept.
This extract will servo to show that
age baa not withered the brain of this
remarkable man—one who has made and
unmade more men than perhaps, any
other that ever lived in this country and
yet in all his long and active life, never
condescended to held office.
Tlio Centennial.
Japan has wheeled into line, and will
bo represented with her civilized sisters
at the grand exposition, commemorative
of the 100th anniversary of our par-
venue but powerful government.
She ha3 appropriated $200,000 for
that purpose. Although pagan, and
grotesque in her manners and cus
toms, there is very little doubt that for
ingenuity, skill and variety in the com
modities she will exhibit, few nations
will be her superior.
The prospect of a grand success for
this mammoth celebration brightens
every day, and the South should not
allow Grant’s attempted chaperonage to
influence her one jot in tho premises.
We have equal rights on that occasion,
and it would be treason to our noble pro
genitors, who watered the tree of Lib
erty with their blood, to surrender them.
Nor is tbo sacrifice required. Every Stato
will be placed upon precisely tho same
footing, and tho affair is to bo not only
national, but cosmopolitan. Politics will
not bo allowed, say tho managers, to have
any place in the picture. Were it other
wise, the celebration would dwindle down
into a mero partisan jubilation, which
would sink it out of sight in the opinion
of tho country and tho whole world.
Let our people do their whole duty,
therefore, in reference to tho Centennial,
and aid every patriot in tho effort to make
it a grand reunion of all tho estates of
tho realm, and millennial era in tho future
history of these United States. The
productions and people of every section
will there be brought in contact, and
may we not hope that much of the bit
terness and acerbity of the past will be
buried in a dreamless oblivion? Could
tho great national jubilee accomplish
even in part this gracious, result, it will
indeed prove a priceless blessing to tbe
country. Lot it not bo ettr fault if it
fails to do so.
Mr. J. H. Zeilin, of this city, is one of
the representatives of Georgia.
It has just been decided by the execu
tive committee to defer tho opening of
tho Centennial in 1S76, from April 10th
to May 10th, and the closing from Octo
ber *l0th to November 10th, to insure
mild weather at tbe opening.
The eucalyptus tree, of which so much
was said last year when it was recom
mended for use in marshy countries, be
cause of its rapid growth, has been made
the subject of a speculation in California.
Tho Los Angelos Herald, reports that a
company has been formed in that city for
tho pnrpose of raising eucalyptus trees
for fael and manufacturing purposes.
Trees havo bcon raised from seed in the
vicinity of that city, which aro now four
ohd a half years old, and which measure
sixteen inchos in diameter and aro forty
feet high. It i3 estimated that each tree
is worth one dollar for fuel, and more for
manufacturing purposes. The company
proposes to bay land at about thirty dol
lars an acre, and plant each acre with six
hundred trees. Tho profits, if tho trees
are ent down at tho end of four years,
can be readily calculated, and the Los
Angelos company think they can be real
ized as well.
Retaliation.—Tho Canadian Houso
of Commons is protesting against tho
tonnage dues of thirty cents per ton,
demanded at all tho lako ports of tho
United States, One member, Capfc. Nor
ris, even proposed measures of retaliation.
Tho matter lie3 over for proper examina
tion into tho papers and status of the
case between tho two governments. This
may furnish to Grant another “speck of
war.”
The Afinas says 20,000 shad were re
ceived and sold in Savannah last week.
Also that one dealer shipped 16,800 eggs
to Philadelphia lost Saturday.
A LETTER for Mr. L. W. McLendon,
Mnotczuma, is held for postage in tho
Savannah office.
Hon. A. H. Stephens.—'Tho Atlanta
Herald, of Sunday, fires this broadside
into the above named gentleman
■We do not aspiro to the reputation of
iconoclasts. And with a diffidence proper
to the occasion we shrink from firing into
forty years of Georgia’s history, but wo
cannot refrain from plainly expressing
onr opinion on tho strange position that
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens has of late
occupied, in respect to national politics.
With an ability that would capacitate
him to stand shoulder to shoulder with
gallant John Gordon in his championship
of tho South; with an experience, tho
like of which hardly any living states
man enjoys, and with a reputation that
has led tho friends of constitutional gov
ernment the Union over to expect from
him a masterly defense of the publio
liberties, he has done almost nothing,
and to-day when tho battle rages the
fiercest, ho is sitting with visor down,
and armor unloosed, liko a sulking
Achilles, iu his tent. We have be
fore us a very fine and appropo3 ad
dress to tho Southern people, issued by
our members in Congress, counseling
peace and moderation. Thi3 address is
signed by every Democratic Representa
tive and Senator from Georgia, savo Mr.
Stephens. He was surely asked to sign
it. His prominence virtually shuts out
any other view of the case. Why then
is his name not among those of his col
leagues ? Doe3 ho not endorse the spirit
of the address, when it saj-3 that the
Radical leaders are determined to force a
revolt upon tho Southern people ? Doe3
he object to the advice contained in the
address, when it counsels fortitude and
endurance? For our part, we very
heartily endorse the appeal; it has
struck the popular chord in this
State, at least, and Mr. Stephens’
friends regret very seriously that he
did not soe fit to lend his name and
sympathy to so worthy and patriotic a
pnrpose. In this connection wo remem
ber that Mr. Stephens has excused him
self to a correspondent for hi3 reticence
on tho Louisiana question with the epi
gram, in this case hardly applica
ble that “ho never crosses a river
until he gets to it ” For a man who i3
standing up to his ears in the water, with
the torrent rioting around his body, with
one universal deluge of fanaticism swirl
ing and eddying through every nook and
cranny of our land, wo think this is a
decidedly frigid remark. “Don’t cross
the river till I reach it!” Tho man who
under Mr. Stephens’ circumstances would
use this expression, would havo stoed
upon Ararat’s crest, during God’s great
flood, and even while the water crept
from his shank bone3 to his arm
pits, would have sworn that it wasn’t
much of a shower after all. Mr. Stephens
has reached tho river. He is in its grasp
at this very minute, and he must fight
the current or float with the rubbish.
Gordon and Norwood in the Senate have
spoken for the South, and have spoken
fitly. Every Legislature in the Union
that has been in session since the infa
mous usurpation was executed ha3 passed
resolutions condemning it. From mas3
meetings and conventions thunder-tones
of remonstrance havo gone np to the
halls of Congress, and yet Mr. Stephens,
in all things esteemed the head of our
House delegation, sits mute and uncom
plaining. Aye, worse than mute; by in
ference, wo can almost say, approving.
He has defended Grant’s course in regard
to Durell. That step approved, what
subsequence have we that can be con
demned? If Durell was right,
Kellogg was Governor. If Kollog;
was Governor, McEnery was a pretender,
and Harr a traitor. If Morr was
a traitor Phil Sheridan was a necessity.
Where doe3 Grant violate the natural
outcome of sequence and consequence,
from Durell to Sheridan; from the first
step to the last of tlii3 most monstrous
usurpation ? At what point of this
throttling of a State doe3 Mr. Stephens
withdraw his approval of tho process, and
at what point do his illustrious palms re
fuse to applaud the strangler ? He owes
it to himself and to his people to rise in
his seat and answer these questions. Hi3
constifcnents'want to know; and tho peo
ple of Georgia aro anxious to have him
march against Grant.” It strikes us
that Mr. Stephens (has always been in
time of turbulence unequal to the occa
sion. In all great crises ho ha3 been im
potent for his friends or his party, and
has, whether wittingly or not, helped the
enemy. In the supreme moment of onr
civil war, his opposition to Mr. Davis arid
his distracting counsels did a great deal to
weaken the vigor of our defense, and to
paralize our operations ; so much so tha*
a leading soldier declared that “Stephens
did more to whip us than the Yankees
did,” This was surely his cause; it was
being fought by his people; his liberty
was tbo question at issue; and yet bis
impracticable and intolqrent nature led
him to retire from councils that he could
not rule, and decry a war that he could
not manage. So, when the Democratic
party, Mr. Stephens’ party, in solemn con
vention assembled, nominated Mr, Gree
ley for the Presidency, Mr. Stephens led
a revolt from the party, which in effect,
if not in purpose, marched straight into
the enemy’s camp. Though devoted to
the party, yet he left it; though conscious
that tho Democratic party ought to
succeed, he yet fought its edict issued
officially, ana almost unanimously. So,
finally, when the Radical party, bloated
with power, and desperate of expedient,
deliberately planned* and executed tho
most palpable outrage upon republican
liberty ever attempted, Mr. Stephens,
though Democrats and Conservatives
alike condemned it, at first palliated,
then excused, finally defended, and stands
to-day 03 the only respectable apologist
of Grant, outside of the Radical party.
Mr. Stephens has a chance ahead of him.
Let him rise from his seat and arraign
tho usurpers of the White House. Let him
pnt liimself square against Ulyases Grant
and his schemes of spoil. His speech
would find listeners from ocean to ocean,
and his utterances would command re
spect and enforce conviction from the
Lakes to tho Gulf. Shall we see our
Achilles spring, panoplied and terrible,
into the arena, or will ho remain hid in
the moodiness of hi3 tent?
Why Jos Brown Enjoyed a Lecture.
Tho Atlanta Notes says the hearty manner
in which Joe Brown "enjoyed Mr. DeCor-
dova’s lecturo on “Mrs. Grundy,” last
Thursday night, was an object of remark
by the entire audience. We doubt if any
of those present ever saw him laugh so
heartily before. While Mr. DeCordova
was defending the theaters from the un
just charges brought against them, and
satirizing tho hypocrisy which denounces
it while seeking to know all about it, and
even visiting it by stealth, one loud smile
illuminated the face of tho cx-Governor.
Every hit mode by the lecturer seemed
to bo thoroughly appreciated. But few
were aware of the fact that ex-Govemor
Brown had a reason for enjoying the
sallies, in addition to the ono found in the
wit and humor of tho lecturo It appears
that, as a member of the Baptist church,
ho lia3 been fighting tho anti-theater,
anti-dancing element in his congrega
tion. Tho war has been a sharp one, and
we are informed that at one timo the
question of expelling him from the church
becanso ho refused to agree that the
theatres wero abodes of damnation, or
thatdancing wo3 immoral, was Beriously
considered. Joseph, however, was a hard
fighter. _ _ Ho gathered tho brethren
around him, who thought that the ques
tion of theatre-going and dancing ought
to bo left to tho conscience for approval
or disapproval, and if he has not suc
ceeded in changing the views of his op
ponents he has certainly succeeded iu
holding hi3 ground against them. Now,
what is supposed to have particularly
pleased him in the lecture was the happy
manner in which Mr. DeCordova stirred
up the hypocrisy of those unco righteous
mortals who are always predicting that
to go to a theatre is to go to tho. satnnic
regions, and it is believed that he had
in his mind just tho same gentle
men and ladies described by Mr.
DeCordova, who were certain that
French opera was awfully wicked
and who were dying to know what its
wickedness consisted of. In short, the
cx-Governor was pleased because in Mr.
DeCordova he found an ally and support
er, and as the president of tho Stato road
has a good memory, tho odds are offered
that when the anti-theaters and anti
dancing brothers and sisters of his church
inaugurate a new campaign, ho will deal
out DeCordova’s ammunition to them in
pretty liberal charges. At present, we
believe, peace reigns in the church on the
subject, but, as the question is like tbe
measles, and will breakout in the reli
gious family, the ex-Govemor has been
able to fortify his position and strength
en his position by DeCordova’s witty and
apt illustrations.”
The Columbus Times announces the
death, last Saturday, from consumption,
of Mrs. Francis Fontaine, daughter of
Mr. John Flournoy, formerly a prominent
citizen of Columbus.
The same paper says nine families of
genuine gypsies aro camped on the East
Commons of Columbus, and seem to earn
a good living. Perhaps the numerous
robberies reported at Columbus have
something to do with the “ good living.”
The Columbus Enquirer says a "sewing
machine used by tbe ladies of St. Paul
M. E. Church was stolen Friday night,
together with a goodly quantity of mate
rial and garments manufactured for the
poor of tho city by the ladie3 of that con
gregation.”
We find thi3 solid chunk of sense in
tho same paper:
Wo do not wish to interfere with any
enterprise undertaken by our churches,
but merely suggest an inquiry. While
there is so much distress in our city,
when poverty and suffering aro all around
us, is not the best plan for our churches
to cease raising money to send to foreign
lands, and devote it to the alleviation of
tho wretched and starving in Columbus ?
We know exactly what is advocated. Wo
havo heard it every Sunday from boy
hood. While misery and wretchedness is
all around us, while poor girls aro being
reared and educated on the streets, the
school for vico and depravity, is it not
wise to expend every cent our almost
ruined country can afford to tho alleviation
of the wants of our own people, to the en
lightenment of our own heathen ? Many
in our own midst would gladly lay down
and die wero it not for tho dread of tho
great unknown that is to como. The
struggle with life is a joyless one. God
knows, right hero in Columbus, there is
opportunity for tho prudent expenditure
of every cent that tho mo3t warm heart
ed and liberal charity can appropriate.
First think of home; then of the heath
en. We can’t aid both till blackberry
time comes.
The Rome Commercial says com is sel
ling at $1.10 per bushel, bacon at from
15 to 20 cents per pound, and lard at 18
cents in that section, and still rising.
The Commercial is glad “to be able to
state that tho Mayor and council aro
gratified at tho prospect of compromising
our city debt. They anticipate a large
meeting on the 10th of March, and enter
tain but little doubt that the bond-hold
ers will meet the council in a conciliatory
spirit, and that the resnlt will be a large
reduction of tho debt. We sincerely trust
that they may not be disappointed, as it
is impossible, under the present depressed
condition of all enterprises, to pay in fall.
A rate of taxation sufficient to meet this
debt would bankrupt every citizen of
Rome.”
What a warning there is in this short
statement!
Savannah and Augusta celebrated
Washington’s birthday with unusual
pomp and spirit. In tho former city the
Advertiser says "the military parade was
perhaps tho most handsome that has yet
marked tho unions of our superb volun
teers corps.” At Augusta the banks were
closed and all business suspended at the
Exchange. The volunteer battalion pa
raded, and there was a sabre contest by
the Richmond Hussars.
Mbs. Moore.—The Columbus .Times
has this item:
Mrs. Thomas Moore, of Mountain Hill,
Harris county, Georgia, aged 75 years,
last year made with her own hands one
bale of cotton. She ploughed tho land
well, hoed tho cotton, and picked it. She
brought it to market yesterday,and spent
the money for which she sold it iu the
purchase of such goods as she needed.
Why should young men repine when such
noblo deeds are performed by onr vener
able women ? “Oh, ye tears !” There’s
more iu the (wo)mau than there is in the
land.
Upon which the Augusta Constitution
alist comments as follows:
Mrs. Mooro is a better “man” than
thousands of youngsters in Georgia, who
curso lazy negroes, and would not plough
an acre of land or make a bale of cotton
if tho land and material for so doing were
furnished gratis,
The Savannah Advertiser says there is
every prospect now of saving the entire
cargo of the ship “Canterbury,” which
was burned last week off Tybne Island.
The Savannah News says the following
i3 a quotation from an Atlanta directory,
supposed to be iu press:
Strangers entering the city after dark
should inquire tho way to tho nearest
hotel. No alarm need bo felt at seeing a
citizen sitting in the middle of the street
with his hat and coat off and his specta
cles broke. Tho probability is that he
has been run over by a burglar."
Sfecks” writes from Washington to the
Atlanta Herald that “tho accounts sent
henco relative to charges against Judge
Martin (“Jake”) aro base ‘ fabrications.
They originated with a drunken clerk,who
was discharged some timo sinco from tho
6th auditor’s office. Tho President yester-
day tendered Judge Martin tho Hontgom
cry Post-office, which ho declined.”
The Herald says “Mr. Leroy Gantt, a
pert young writer, runs a paper at Lex
ington, under tho oaves of tho railroad
water tank. This circumstance has led
Mr. Christy, of tho Athens Watchman,
glorying in tho magnificence of his own
position to alludo to the paper os “Tho
Water-Tank Gazette.” To which tho
vivacious Gantt replies: ‘I considered
for a long timo as to whether I would run
my paper by a water-tank or a whisky
faucet. But having seen Mr. Christy
fail after trying tho latter, I determined
to try tho former.’ Which is quito neat
in young Gantt. If ho keeps up to this
mark ho may como to Atlanta when ho
dies.”
It is brother Christy’s turn, now, and
wo know of no man better able to tale
care of himself. Look out, Leroy!
Thb Lr.Grr.nge Reporter hopes "to see
a bill introduced into tho Legislaturo
making it n penal offense to entrap June
bugs within thirteen mile3 of Kinch-
foonee creek. Only such measures as
tlfifi will preserve our liberties, or make
our Stato prosperous.”
A bloated capitalist ha3 turned up
in Griffin. Ho has $15,000 in cosh, and
is pilloried in the local eolumns of the
papers.
The Griffin Afessenjer says at a " negro
ball last week, on tho plantation of Mr.
Arch Brown, near Locust Grove, in Hen
ry county, a disturbance arose between
some of the negroes, which caused a gen
eral fight, when rocks, sticks, knives and
other such weapons were freely used.
Three or four were badly cut, several
others knocked down with sticks and
rocks and badly injured, and ono killed
( ontrighfc. Several of the party were ar
rested and had their preliminary trial
before the criminal court of Henry coun
ty, and wero bound over to appear at tho
next term of the Superior Court of said
county. The cause of the trouble, wo
understand, was whisky.”
Round Mountain furnace near Romo
is in blast again and is making about
twelve tons of No. 1 pig iron per day.
A correspondent of tho Union and
Recorder writes that paper as follows:
I made a visit to Dr. John Hardeman’s
in J ones county, last Saturday, and was
told of an accident that happened to tho
Dr. two days before. His well bucket
dropped into the well. Ho is a man of
energy and conrage, and went down into
the well by a rope—secured tho bucket
and returned; when near the top, tho
rope came loose from the chain, and the
Dr. fell to tho bottom of a fifty-five foot
well, ten feet water, going to tho bottom.
Upon rising to the top of tho water,
ho hallowed out, “send mo the rope,”
which they did in quick time. He was
then drawn up, with bucket in hand, not
hurt.
Judging from thefollowing, Atlanta pre-;
sents a first-class opening for a mission
ary. Tho Herald says Sunday "a crowd of
nearly two dozen young men,somo of them
married at that, and havo growing fam
ilies—wero together at a certain respect
able resort in this city, and some one
asked the question of another if he knew
where Christ was crucified, and he
* passed.’ We are shocked to know that
out of the whole number hut one of these
Christian youths could tell, and he had
accidentally been to church that morning
and heard it from a preacher.”
Proper Attention to Hygienic
Roles.
All tho medical faculty of Macon, and
the remark applies with even greater
force to Atlanta, agree in saying that
there ha3 been an unusual prevalence of
pneumonia, pleurisy and other catarrhal
affections the present season. Tho mor
tality from these causes has been consid
erable, though the sickness is now on the
decrease.
The sodden state of our streets, and
present great chango in temperature;
tempting tho unwary to throw aside
their winter attire, render a word of cau
tion not inopportune. The spring, it is
conceded, is the most fatal period of the
year to consumptives, and those who havo
weak chests. The reason is obvious. Our
climate, then, is subject to great and fre
quent changes from hot to cold, and the
contrary. The open pores oft times, even
when emitting sensible perspiration, are,
without warning, suddenly penetrated by
an atmosphere almost Arctic, and the re
sult is inevitable sickness, where the pro
per precautions have been neglected.
On tho moist and malarial seaboard,
where the changes aro even more marked
than in this latitude, and bleak northeast
winds from the ocean sometimes prevail
for weeks, their effect is most palpable
even upon the strongest frame. There
is something peculiarly damp, chilly and
inhospitable in these gales. To show
their positive influence, the writer has
heard the bed ridden invalid
whose chamber was kept warm with a
constant fire, ask in the morning when
all was dark within, if the wind was not
from the northeast. In that region, it i3
said that a large percentage of pneu
monia cases occurring in April, prove fa
tal. This, as above remarked, is duo to
the sudden changes of temperature which
are not carefully watched and provided
against.
At this season, therefore, it becomes
the prudent, to abstain from any modifi
cation in wearing apparel at least until
the beginning of May. Fires too, at
least in the morning and evening, should
be kept up to preserve dryness and uni
formity in the temperature of tho dwell
ing, and all sudden checks of perspiration
very violent exercise sedulously
avoided.
It is far easier to keep well than to get
well when overtaken by sickness. Chil
dren especially should bo detained from
school in wet, inclement weather, and
kept within doors. To expose them mere
ly to savo tho loss of a day or two, may
prove a short-sighted policy indeed, and
even cost them their lives.
The old adage, an ounce of prevention
is better than a pound of cure, is a3 wise
03 any of Solomon’s proverbs,
A JSraco of Magnificent Hogs.
Mr. N. Binswanger, of this city, has a
malo and female specimen of tho genuine
Russian bloodhound, which aro worth
seeing. Tho female was purchased last
summer in New York at a cost of $60.
We returned South on the same train
with tho owner and his dog, and no lion
ess ever attracted moro marked attention.
At every stopping placo crowds collected
around the baggago car, whero she was
confined, and all agreed that they had
never seen such a specimen of the canine
species. Tho malo is still larger, and
more remarkable in appearance.
These dog3 aro celebrated for their sa
gacity and devotion to their masters.
They can bo taught almost anything.
While playful as kittens with the children
of their owners, they can bo trained to
guard with sleepless vigilance his resi
dence and property, and no man is strong
enough to compote with them.
Mr. Binswanger deserves credit for his
effort to introduce these potent guardians
of our homes among us. They were
never so much needed in any community,
and will make chickcn-roost and smoke
house robbers keepatarespcctful distance.
Ho hopes to procreate tho breed, and
will sell the young ones at a reasonablo
price. The female, we are sorry to say,
lost all of her first litter save two, one of
which wo aro training to catch, and hold
fast, every darkey that invades our prem
ises at night.
Poor Pinch.
Tho New Orleans Picayune i3 really too
hard on Finch. A3 if his anguish at-
being shown tho door at Washington was
not sufficiently keen, it must needs jeer
him after thi3 cruel fashion:
"Pafbleu! Morblcu ! what a beautiful
journey to Moscow,” was what that emi
nent chieftain, Napoleon I, so gaily sang
when ho started cn hi3 famous journey,
to tako his seat at St. Petersburg. ‘'Par-
lleu, ! ISorbleu ! what a horrible journey
from Moscow,” wa3 tho burden of his
song when, instead of being permitted to
tako hi3 seat on tho imperial throne of
Russia/ho wa3 turned out into the cold of
a Northern winter.
So Pinchbeck. “Pafbleu! iforlleu!
whata beautiful journey to Washington,”
ho exclaimed when he set out to take his
seat in the Senate chamber; and “Par-
bleu! Horbleu! what a horrible journey
from Washington,” will ho his song as he
journeys back to Louisiana.
A Washington special of Saturday to
the New York Herald says “the Arkansas
message lies dead in tho Senate. Senators
seem to be afraid to touch it, and it i3
hardly likely to bo called up.”
Uow Mr. Skinner Enjoyed Himself as
aBIf Injun,
The subjoined scrap of Mardi Gras lit-
erature is given to the-world by the
Louisville Courier-Journal:
The Mardi Gras procession on Tuesday
was witnessed by large crowds, and the
ludicrous impersonations of character
will live long in the memories of tho
masses, who laughed till- their sides
ached. Among tho motley ho3t who per
ambulated the streets in the procession
was a long, cadaverous looking fellow,
representing a Comanche Indian. His
face was painted red, his suit was well
made up. Upon his ponderous feet were
apair of new moccasins, and hanging
from the beaded girt that encircled his
body were a half dozen “hoss pistols ”
and as many scalps.
Inside this belt stuck a cheese knife
and a scythe blade. His long black hair
was handed with a brass hoop, from
which stuck about a dozen of turkey and
goose feathers, and in his right hand ho
held with an iron grasp a tomahawk, red
with some victim’s blood. Any one who
had. ever read or heard of the famous
Indian warrior, Bloody Nose, would have
said he had risen from the dead and
joined that procession. But it was not
the blood thirsty rover of the forest. It
was Skinner, who personated him, and he
did it to perfection. Hi3 appearance was
a terror to women and children, while
his warwhoop and tho revolutions of that
tomahawk were certain death to “de
culled populatien.” Everybody saw the
wild Indian, hut nobody knew it was
Skinner.
While the procession moved through
tho various streets Skinner would get
dry, and break ranks by dodging into bar
rooms and taking his usual dose of “fire
water.” By the time Skinner had “war-
whooped” ten or fifteen blocks and hid
about half a keg of “fire-water about his
person, he was in "fine trim” to play Co
manche, and began to think he was
“Bloody Nose” sure enough, for ho tried
to “scalp” no les3 than a dozen darkies
that fell into his hands.
The procession passed within a square
or two of Skinner’s house. Skinner ha3
a wife, and she is the mother of five lit
tle male and four little female children.
Skinner’s wife does her own work; in
fact, she’s “bos3” of Skinner's house, and,
instead of her rushing off with a string
of little Skinners after her to see the pro
cession, she kept the little ones at home,
and stayed in the kitchen attending to
cleaning tho pots, kettles and pans after
dinner.
A new idea struck Skinner. He would
go home and scare Mrs. Skinner and all
tho little Skinners. He cut loose from
the procession, took another dose of
“fire water,” and by the time he reached
the front gate ho was the most reckless
looking Comanche the world ever beheld.
Picking up new courage, he rushed into
the front room where the little Skinners
were “playing circus.” His appearance
was accompanied by wild yells and fancy
dancing, while he made that tomahawk
fly around tho room over tho children’s
heads as if he meant business, the little
Skinners shoutieg, “01 Mr. Injiu,
don’t! ” “mother!” "murder! ” “fire 1 ”
and there were such screams as would
have made any “sure enough” Indian run.
Skinner was just in the middle of his
fun when the screams of the children and
the warwhoop3 of the Comanche brought
Mrs. Skinner to tho scene, armed with an
iron skillet. Sho ’ slipped up behind the
“playful Indian,” drew a bead on his
nose, and lauded that skillet with the
force of a sledgehammer and the rapidity
of lightning against it. The hand let go
the tomahavk, tho feathers flew, tho belt
burst, and the scalps, pistols and knives
fell to the floor. There was a flesh-and-
blood spot in the middle of his face
where that nose was a moment before the
skillet mashed it. It now looked like a
burst tomato spread all over hi3 face.
Thero was a groan, a fall, a somersault or
two, and all was quiet. That Comanche
had found the " happy hunting grounds.”
Instead of Mrs. Skinner sending for
tho doctor and bathing his face, she look
ed down into the mutilated face, and,
shaking the skillot over him with her
right hand, exclaimed: 'Til war whoop
you. You thought you’d scare somebody,
you derned old fool; hut I know’d you
soon as I seed your feet and smelt your
breath.”
P. S.—Skinner has an Indian masquer-
ado suit for sale cheap. Ho won’t be
able to be out until ho gets done breath
ing through his ears. The doctor says
his nose may grow out again by tho time
tho next Mardi Gras takes place. "Wo
advise Skinner to get a brass nose and'
go West.”
Tliey Sat on a Curry Comb.
They sat on a curry comb. Thero wero
six of these army officers incubating like
hens. One was a colonel of cavalry; four
wero captains of cavalry; and Mordecai,
imperishable in the ordnance department,
was tho sixth. As a board they sat on
the curry comb.
Since 1775 the United States Govern
ment ha3 bought, manufactured, cap
tured, borrowed, found, used thq curry
comb. It ha3 had a full rounded century
of familiarity with tho handle of tho carry
comb, its teeth, its hack, its sides, it3
braces, its shank, it3 color. If tho Goy-
•ernment of tho United States may he said
to know anything, it may bo said to bo
exhaustively acquainted with tho curry
comb. It marched with it, fought with
it, camped with it, retreated with it,
slept with it, whipped with it, and got
whipped with it, in four different wars.
The curry comb has rusted and rotted iu
the hands of the Government. It has
been tho subject of lamentablo larceny,
wasto and disappearance. Itha3 been
tho occasion of courts martial. It has
stopped tho accounts of quartermasters.
It has scratched the patience of auditors
of tho Treasury, and raised a du3t of
profanity in department arithmetic. If
tho United States last year didn't know
tho curry comb, they didn’t know any
thing.
Yet those six army men sat like: hens
on tho curry comb. They went two thou
sand miles to sit on it. They sat on tho
curry comb on January 20. They got off
it on May 5. As the six rose, did a brood
of little curry combs scuttle from under
them and run about scratching imagin
ary horses of cavalry and artillery ? Oh,
no. The army hens never hatch. They
only cat rations, and draw pay and com
mutations of allowances.
What did that board of grown up men
sit on that curry comb for ?
UniUuminated tax payer! That was
military service. ’Tjras public employ
ment. Tho fiction that United States
army officers should make some return to
the Government for their freo education
at West Point and their genteel support
for lifo prevails yet to somo extent in the
ordnance department, and among colonels
and captains of cavalry unattached. So,
annually, when tho weather i3 pleasant
est, when around Fort Leavenworth,
Fort Riley or Fort Wallace, tho prairie
chickens aro fattest and tho quail the
plumpest, they get themselves appointed
as boards to examine something, and
they travel delightfully at tho public ex
pense, waited on by soldier servants
whoso wages aro paid out of taxes on la
bor. And they sit on something,and shoot,
eat, sleep, drink, smoke, and sit again.
Last year they sat on a curry comb;
this year they will sit on a bridle bit;
tho next on the width of a spur strap;
the next on a nose bag. Tho following
financial year will havo to bear the bur
den of a board travelling threo thousand
mile3 to sit on a tent peg. Why, they
would have sat last year on a horseshoe
nail if it had not been so uncomfortably
sharp. But they got the semblance of
employment out of that nail; they did
something about a horseshoe nail which
they airily offset against their West Point
education and their genteel support for
life. They made the horseshoe nail the
subject of the clectorial franchise. They
organized a voto on the horseshoe nail,
and. using tho United States mails, gath
ered the ballots of the officers of all tbe
cavalry regiments to determine which of
the different kinds of horserhoe nails was
the best. j
But the United States armv^
electing a horseshoe nail bv
ves a history by itself. Oh in, tdes ®-
wonderful army, especially do™^ 3 , 13 3
an< * Acosta the tax-nov,, 111 ^ 011 -
$35,000,000 a year.—New TorhSiv^ 0n ’- 7
Senator Gordon, «r Georgfo ‘ n f
l.rered on the Louisiana
Janaary 27, 1875. - nes ^on
We have just received from ou r ,u
tive representative,Col. James n.B!
a copy of the Congressional Reeo-d
was detained several days in ft’ 7
containing this noblo effort of o'
Georgia’s favorite sons. It ia c |
electricity, able argument, wise ccwlu
and Southern dash. Would that ue
space for the wholo document in oai ,
umns. General Gordon has earce- 7
tional reputation by his ability, com-bT
hearing and zeal in behalf of the -v?
and has been uniformly liberal and wJ
afco in his attiude to the Government-
The honorable Senator from Ohi a \
Sherman] said the other day that
government of the people by the
the majority must rule. I prefer^
that in this government of the
tho sovereignty of the people m^ P e '
press itself through a majority in^L^
anco With law. Sir, the law is onS
ost sovereign. An old English iurhM?*
greatest of them all, said that cv£4
king m his realm had two superior aj
andthelaws.” The people of
said to their chosen monarch u tv.?
one between us and thee "reat-r iv
thyself; itisthelaw.” 0^
that no man, however exalted his
tion or meritorious his services,
ever transgress the law; - and that ifa
protection should extend forever to Z
molest generations, to themselves ^
their posterity, embracing the hunbkt
andthe vilest citizen of tho land, jS
m every country, in every age, where*,
justice 13 administered or freedom la* t
foothold, tho law ha3 been a restrain
upon majorities, a protection to
ties; higher than sovereigns strong
than armies—the solo ci^is of liberty.
Why, sir, what protection is th«re'fc-
the East against tbe populous W«t, a
fer tho West against a' combination rf
the East and the Middle States, if tie
law is not arbiter ? It will not do to sa*
that in thi3 enlightened ago maioritia
will do no wrong. They will doVrcr.
The history of all popular governnoS
that ever existed upon earth proves tt*
truth of the assertion. You can jest is
easily break down the dikes and save Hd-
land, as break down the harriers of h»
and save liberty. No, sir'; whenever the
constitution andthe laws cease tops-
tect, then in some mad hour lawlessly-
jorities, Democrats as well as EepubJ.
cans, will trample the rights of minoritia
and liberty in the dust.
But if I were before ignorant as to tie
reply which I shall receive to thU aigt-
ment as to the value of law, the expres.
sions which this debate has evoked ha
quite undeceived me. I shall be tell
that the South is a good field in whiditt
talk of law; that the Senator from Gea-
gia had better turn his attention then;
that lawlessness, disorder, murder xJ
assassination exist there as organized ia-j
stitutions.
I understand that, and I accept the it
sue with all its responsibilities and fen
ful consequences to that ill-fated soctioz
I accept it, and I stand or fall with c;
section by tho record which I shall to-ij
make up from the evidence. I dull
produce nothing that is not establish^
on the testimony of witnesses whom e
Senator will dare to impeach.
I say I accept the issue, although 22
could bo deterred by the misconstructa
which has already been placed upon Ej
utterances in tho Senate, or by tha &
grant, palpable, and willful misrepiess.
tation of my words by tb j extreme pss
I should be deterred. But, sir, I de k
misapprehend this effert. There is::
mistaking the spirit with which coustac
allusion is made upon this floor tons
who sit here or sit somewhere else bjfe
“clemency of the Government.” I ha
very well that it is intended to silenoe aj
voice in its appeals for justice to the raj
nanimous heart of a great people. Bst
sir, this loud refrain, “traitors c:ul rcids,’
will not drown the appeals for kviii
peace and self-government when ad
dressed to an American audience.
I shall not dispute with Senators as t
the courtesy of such allusions. He i2
have our ideas of courtesy and courage;
and we are all entitled to them. I hari
no disposition to deprive any Senators
his right to display both as is most
able to himself. • But I repeat, f
men differ in their estimates of conn?|
as well a3 of courtesy. There is a coma?!
which i3 calm, firm, dignified, and sffl
poised in tho* presence of danger ts>
when men have arms in their teJ
There is another courage which ci
ates when the antagonist is disarm;
deprived of tho possibility of def<
There is a courage liko that of UsnjJ
Navarre, of Hochc, and of Hancock; i
there 13 tho courage of Falstaff, stilt'
and insulting tho body of the dead”
spur.
But, sir, whatever may be thougU
such allusions, I shall never so far fr
I trust, tho courtesies which my se
spect demand as to retaliate in iiui
This war cannot last forever. B@|
been now ten years sinco the la
wa3 fired iu a conflict where brave
icans mot, each solemnly impressed
the justice of his cause, and rc J
give hi3 life in obedience to his
tions. It wa3 an honest differes*
opinion; it was a conflict of
of the government • which we
herited from our fathers. As
purposes of the Southern people in ^
movement, let mo quote a pans" 1
from the utterances of one whose
servative courso for the last three
has won the confidenco of every
I alludo to Hon L. Q. C. Lamar
sissippi:
“They certainly did not conspirj
tempt to subvert your form of
ment dr to destroy your Constitut®]
to depose your rulers. When tws*f
cession was consummated they lt*jA
United States the United States sa»J
great and powerful nation, withn*J
tended seacoast, its teeming pop '*
its vast extent of territory, its m
arts, its commerce, its Constitution =
its laws unobstructed, its admimsY
unembarrassed, its magistracy,- F
State and local, with unimpaired a
ity. Do not say, then, that we at
ed to overthrow your Government^
there it stood, after we left
tho greatest and most powerful nits
itios upon tho face of the earth.
“There was no dispute between
sections about the form of gove^'
Devotion to tho Constitution, to the?
ciples of American freedom,
fountain at which both sections uri
inspiration for the stupendous \
they maintained. And when - ,.
closed with defeat for the South M
tory for tho North, the controvert
dosed also. The result of thatj’ -
hasbeeu to embody in tho Cons-
two great-principles—the legal m
bility of tho American Union 1 11
universality of human freedom c
American continent.” .»J
Mr. Gordon—One other rem^
to make in this connection. It ^
When this country shall bo urn <■ ^
concord and confidenco
when a conflict with foreign ,
come, that then some of those wo ,
are badgered on this floor by
victors, will be found as near ta* -
and spilling their blood
common defense and for the n- 1 /
Republic, as their insatiate!^.
A note from one of the /
ing Tennessee Congressmen to t
of the Nashville Unicn and
"I think the tariff bill will pass- *
inclined to believe that to 0 1 ..
■Third Term’ bill will fail. If f® .
should be made to cores its P 5S :
or more of the appropriation
probably fail; and then will
extra session.”
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