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Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson Streets.)
Wednesday Morning, April 10, 1872.
Farmers’ Club of Baldwin County
In our Local column will bo found a call for a
meeting of the Farmers' Club of Baldwin County.
Tbe farmers of this county have determined to
move—they are going to be considered no longer
a helpless minority. The old red bills of Bald
win are aroused. Let the Agricultural Societies
of every county of the State hold their meetings
and approve of Governor Smith's action or disap.
prove it. If tbe furu era of Georgia ever intend to
strike a blow for themselves, now is the appointed
time.
The attention of the papers of Georgia friendly
to the Agriculturalists are called to this notice.
Doc* liar Ncrip given to Georgia to Eafnb-
lisli an Agricultural College Belong to
llae People of Georgia, or to the Atlanta
Ring aaul the Athens Junto?
The above is a very important question which the
Legislature will have to answer. We say the Atlanta
ring anil the Athens Junto, because these two combin
ations of politicians liuve formed an alliance as is
clearly proved by the provisions of the hill published
in another pliice. which bill was coueocted by the
friends of the University and Atlanta conjointly, and
gave two-thirds of the scrip to the University and
one-third to the Atlanta negro College. This bill was
read twice, but the friends of the University having
learned the disposition of the Legislature, forbore to
press it and chose finally to operate on Gov. Smith.
We regret that Gov. Smith saw lit to accede to their
wishes, both on his account and on the account of the
people of Georgia. We believe we were the first to
propose his name for Speaker of the House and also
for Governor. We believed,if there was a politician in
the .State, that could withstand the demoralizing in-
fiueneeHof the Atlanta ring, that he would do it. We
regret to see that he has succumbed. We feel sure
that this action of the Governor has taken a very-
large majority of the people of Georgia by surprise,
and has greatly disappointed muny of his best friends
but wo do no* believe his action will be final. ■
The law of December, 1866, under which both Gov
Smith and Conley acted in relation to the land scrip is
as obsolete as the patrol law or the blue laws of Con
nectieut. It i- not one of the laws recognized by the
Constitution of 1868, aud is not found in Irwin’s Di
gest, ami we do not think the Legislature of Georgia
will sanction Gov. Smith's disposal of tne land scrip;
if it does it will disregard the will of the people. The
Athens University has some three or four times made
application for the scrip, all of which have been re
jeeted. There are two important interests opposed to
giving thescrip to Athens. The agricultural and the
religious interests of the State, both, are opposed to
sending their vonng men to Athens, because it has
long been considered a political, rather than a liters-
Ij the State ktwrrs her own mind, and tc
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think the do, this whole business will be done over
again.
TilK CAPITOL.
Coming Events cast their Shadows before
them.
It is even now whispered that Atlanta is calculating
upon wringing one million and a h df of dollars out of
the people of this State for the purpose of erecting a
Capitol building suitable to the progress of Atlanta-
Think of it, oh ! people of Georgia, a Capitol build
ing suitable to the progress ot Atlanta. They say it
will be seen that Bullock has not stolen as much as
the people think and that wheu the people find out
that they don't owe the immense sum of money sup
posed, they will be so much pleased that they will give
Atlantan Capitol costing one and a half million dol
lars—suitable to its pi ogress. People ot Georgia when
the time conies, and we warn you now to watch for it,
let that matter rest with you. If you wish to give the
million or million and a half dollars, give it; or if you
think H al your buildings here that hare cost you three
quarters of one million of dollars, are good enough,
will you be chiselled out of your lights ?
Fi? 5 ' The great eflfervesence on the free tuition idea
gotten up by the University men does not tally very
well with what a University man said to our Dahloc-
ega friend. Our fi iend said “that the mountain boy*
were too pool to go Athens.” ‘-If they are too poor
to come to Athens let them stay away,” said the Uni
versity man.
Ills the acme of a certain setto make the Georgia Uni
versity—just exactly what it used to be—a political
hot lied. Do those men suppose that the people who j
have gone through with the last ten years of revolu
tion cau't see tbe fins of their owu Louse. All of thie
tree tuition! how will it be managed ? YY’e say to the
people if you do not rise lu your wrath upon the Ath
ens University you will see the day soon come when
the one student for each Representative or Senator
will he wlmt ? the bright-eyed boy ot some honest,
hard toiling farmer? No! hut the sou of some polit
ical pet or sharp wire puller will always be selected on
account cf some political service done, which the toil
ing fanner had no time for. This is no slur upon either
Representatives or Senators, for they have but the
same human nature of all others.
We make this suggestion by way of a compromise
that will settle what will otherwise be aiiproanrg
quarrel. Will it not be wise on the part of the State
to sell the Opera House and the Janies Building iu
Atlanta and give one-third of the proceeds to Dahlon-
ega, one third to Marietta and the other to some point
in (ten ral Georgia for Agricultural Mechanical and
Military Colleges ? Then the Legislature can come
back to Milledgeville where it legitimately belongs,
and where good buildings are waiting tor it-
Georgia Agricultural. .Vlerbnnical and 71 il-
itary Institute.
We have just received from Marietta a circular of
t lie above institute. We congratulate our friends there
upon their being once more able to commeuce on hal
lowed ground Ibis enterprise, and hope that they will
be successful in establishing a flourisning school. We
see the name of our old friend Col. A. S. Atkinson, and
we assure our Marietta Mends that they could nit
have made a more judicious selection, for the Colonel
is a professor, n..d created so by natnre. No man
knows better how to draw the boy out and make him
study in spite ot himseit than our old friend. Again
congralulating the people of Marietta on having se
cured lis services in connection with those of othei
worthy names that we see. we bid them good speed
with their Georgia lustiiute.
For the Federal Union-
The Agricultural College Land Scrip.
When Conley privately sold the Land Scrip we
I cursed his traitorous dishonesty to his Slate and his
j people; but.alas ! what can we say now, when men
whom we were proud of as being among our wisest
and our best, give and take that same Land Scrip.
privately, and under the same obsolete law from which
Conley took his authority ? Jc*-
For the Federal Union.
Is there no Hope for Georgia ?
The recent ill-advised action of Governor Smith
(and if not ill advised, then I nui willing to bear the
blame of my sayings) has pained aud disappointed
many true hearted Georgians-
Wheu I read the noble aud patriotic letter from Gov.
Jenkins little did I dream that his next public action
would be to bead a political clique, and disappoint the
hopes aud expectations of the bone and sinew of Geor
gia.
I do not speak here in the interest of any place or
section. I sweep over the whole of our State and
ask the yeomanry if they are satisfied with this action.
I am talking to Georgians. TLe farmers of tbe South
and of Georgia are to day the veriest slaves on the
face of this earth; preyed upon; in debt; the war
and its results affecting them to a greater extent than
any other class of our people ; they are now prohibit
ed from enjoying the pleasure of controlling a donation
intended especially for the agriculturalist-
I very much fear that the donation of the land scrip
to the Athens or Georgia University will work out
much political evil, for we have here in this State, as
most people knew, two classes of citizens who are
distinct races of people, and it behooves politicians to
act with caution.
Never, for my part, having wished for the Agricul
tural College to be established in the Capital buildings,
I sympathize with those of iny friends there and else
where who have been disappointed. I was pained to
sec so muny distinguished names brought forward, it
would seem, as a screen for the action of the Governor
hut can only console myself with the reflection or hope
that it may not be thus always.
What J have said is not in spite ; the facta wring
themselves from me in spite of myself.
It seems a.- if I now see standing all alone the old
Capitol building, a standing monument of Georgia’s
deepest disgrace It were well if the rulers that be
(if they represent the people of Georgia ?) would
send thither Grant and Alexander with their convicts,
and destroy these stains upon the honor of the Slate.
If truth, honesty, and justice belong no longer to the
present, excuse me it 1 prefer to remain with the royal
pa.-t. If the progress or plunder is that which has to
control the people, and they content themselves with
the reflections that revolutions never go backwards, 1
beg to be torgiven when I say to my people go on, bnt
I warn yon that terrible and destructive will be tbe
inevitable result. Hancock.
The Land Scrip.
Editors Federal Unton—Please allow room for a
few remarks.
There was a report most industriously circulated by
parties unknown, that Milledgeville would deceive
the mountain boys, and go in to get all of the scrip. I
reckon that the rogues can be seen now.
1 want the mountain boys to remember tbe men who
have deceived ns all.
No section of this State has had justice since Radi
calism carried the Capital to Atlanta; there seems to
be an atmospheric corruption epidemic in that city.
I wonder if the men who are getling up all this bun
combe about free education think the people are going
to swallow their gas; if they do, they aie fools d. I al
ways liked the Georgia University until now. Since
this low down, mean action on its part, I have no use
for it. V\ hat do our mountaiu friends say?
Plain Talkek.
For the Federal Union.
The Atlanta Constitution.
Having for some time been a subscriber to the At
lanta Constitution, I am exceedingly disgusted to toe
that sheet come out and try to screen the action of
Gov. Smith on the land scrip, by staling that no place
bidding for the Agricultural College was incorporated
save the University. That barefaced assertion is a
most stupid mistake—and as all stupid mistakes are—
it is the natural result of ignorance. The Oglethorpe
College High School is incorporated I know, and with
its charter was offered. The Mint at Dahlonega was
also incorporated ; and the Georgia Agricultural Me
chanical and Military Institute at Marietta. I will ask
Squire Constitution if any iuqu-ries were made ?
If our people are going to sleep oil their rights— if be
came such a big crowd got together in Atlanta they
are going to be scared out of their rights—then the
farmers ( who have been made poorer than anybody
e se by I lie war, ami who are growing poorer every
day supporting the politicians and everybody else)
had best break up their plow stocks and take to suck
ing State paps for a living. I have been a farmer
since the war. and know some of its hard experiences,
I tell you, Messrs. Editors, that lor oue man I am
against this slur on the farmers.
The Athens school has got the Agricultural College
and 1 say, whether that College lias duty done it or
not the eood old plain practical fanners could have
made ami would have made, and if they get hold of
it, will make it a success.
T ie Atlanta Constitution is evidently experiencing
a severe internal griping. I wonder if that paper
thinks that it is omnipotent—it is a most curious jour
iml—it grasps and nails up to its masthead the name of
each paper that approves of the scrip swindle ar
raugemeut. Truly it is bad off. I see that its issue of
tile 41 h quietly chuckles over a parcel of Bulfock let
ters in it» possession Bully for the Constitution. It
must he in the d—I of a fix to have to resort to that
Trot out your letters Constitution—make ’em all pnb-
lic. You have got our curiosity excited. Bah 1 what
a tuine ; it neerts a fumigation. I suppose that I have
a right to wonder a little myself, aud what I wonder
is this; how much State pap do such papers suck at
one time. Oconee.
For the Federal Union.
GUANO.
Georgia News*
Death mt
Father
For the Federal Union.
The Augusta Chronicle Hnd Sentinel of the 4th
says “something was due Milledgeville” and then
goes on smoothly for a while, and then Mr. Cbron.
icle and Sentinel so modestly and quietly aban
dons the field. You ueed try no Greek horse
with the people of Milledgeville Mr. Chronicle
and Sentinel..
We think the Chronicle’s friendship for Mil-
ledgevilla “mortal dim.”
Occasional.
Disjointed Logic.
The editor of the Atlanta Constitution who profess
es to be acquainted with tile inmost recesses of the
Governor's heart, says that Gov. Smith had long ago
determined to give the land scrip to Athens. Wo ask,
then, What was the n-cessity of that secret meet iDg of
the Athens junto at Atlanta, and that formidable pro
cession with Gov. Jenkins at its head, to persuade
Gov. Smith to do what he had already determined to
do. Again that paper says that,
“To have given it to Dahlonega, Marietta or Mil-
ledgi.ville, was out of the question, asthe institutions at
these places are not incorporated, and Gov-.ruor
Smith has no power to incorporate.”
This is a mistake. Each of these places had organ
ized Institutions. But iu another place in same pape r
we find this carious announcement:
“At a fil l meeting of the Board on yesterday the
new Georgia State College of Agriculture and Meehan
ic Arts was organized by the Trustees of the Universi
ty, the aet of organization complying most strictly
with forms of the donution by Congress.”
So it seems the Foard of Trustees organized a netr
College. Who gave them the power to charter a new
College. The truth seems to be that the outside pre».
sure ot the ring was too great for the Governor, aud
he surrendered without discretion.
Commenting upon the recent award of the ag
ricultural land scrip by Gov. Smith, the Chronicle
and Sentinel, of Thursday, says:
rassments under w hich Governor Smith labored.—
We confess that our own predilections were that
there should be established a “new college” at
Milledgeville. Something was due Milledgeville
Tne sue is healthy, central aud convenient. The
vacant Slate government buildings, which so ma
i’y hallowed associations surround, did seem to us
Jit to be consecrated in cur memories by an instiu-
lion which would command itself and perpetuate
those memories with the youth of onr State.—
Cuu d the ear and the direction ot the Legislature j land's Recollections; Marco Folo, and Travels in his
have been iuvoked, we are sure the appeal which H ~ —’* • - - ■ • — -
would have been made would have been i-resista-
ble Bin time forbids. Tbe time which the act
ol Congress Lad permitted an appropriation to se
cure the fund had nearly elapsed—would elapse
before the session ot the Legislature in July.—
The limitations in the act itself restricted the as-
signmeut to establish'd institutions of learning ;—
and of such institutions, so established, there only
eiisted the University of Georgia, treed from the
objection of a denominational religious feature.—
Wnatever of preference, therefore, we may have
had we yield to the exigency of the case and the
discretion of the Governor. But in yielding we
claim that tbe policy ot free tuition now inaugu
rated shall bereatler be lully carried out. Our
motto henceforth shall be : Free Tuition in the
University.
W e thank the Editor of tbe Chronicle and Ben-
tinel tor his kind feelings and good word for Mil-
edgeville. But we can assure him tbat tbe diffi.
culty about the time elapsing did not really exist.
Mr. Price of the 6th District had prepared a bill
exumii"g the time until after the Legislature
s mu. again assemble. We are assured that this
fact was well known in Atlanta before tbe scrip
was awarded and 0D l y hastened the aefion of tlm
Atlanta ring and the Athens Junto. To put th*
plea of tbe want of time forever to silence w e
Lave only to reflect that Goveraor Smith knew
before the Legislature adjourned that the time
would elapse before the Legislature would meet
Again. Vhy then was it net settled before the Leg
slature adjourned, or some action taken to have
the time extended? We can anawer that que#
-tien. Tbe friends of Athene bad discovered that
the Legislature would not give it to the Universi
ty and therefore they chose to operateon Governor
Jgmith.
The January number of this Quarterly has just
come to hand; so far as we have had time to examine
it we should judge it uuu-mally interesting. Its con.
tents nre: The Drnina in England; The Life and
writings of John Ho.ikbain Frere; The Latest Devel
opment of Literaly Poetry ; The Life and Philosophy
of Bishop Berkley; The Bunk of England and the
Money Market: Foster's Life of Dickens; A Key to
the Narrative of the Four Gospels; Sir Henry Hol-
Footsteps; Primary Education in Ireland; The Pro
letariat on False Scent.
This, as well ns Blackwood and the other British Re
views, are issued from Lee
House, No. 140 Fulton Btreet,
Leonard Soolt’s Publishing
eet.New Y’oik.
Good ip Wf. Get It.—We perceive that Mr.
McCrary, of Iowa, on Monday, introduced a bill
in Congress to provide for retiring the fractional
paper currency now in use, and tor supplying its
place with silver coin. We hope this measure
will go through The fractional currency is a
great nuisance, and since it has got to harboring
and sprrading small-pox, it has become intolera
ble—especially to those who have not a plenty ot
it —Sup. Rep.
To Refund the Cofton Tax —The bill intro-
duc. d into the House of Representatives to refund
the coll on tax paid in tbe years 1865, 1806, 1867
and 1868. provides for tbe appointment of three
commissioners to determine the sum due to each
folaiinaut. Tbe amounts determined to be due are
to bo paid in four and a bait per cent, forty-year
bonds, or certificates for small sums commutable
into such bonds, which are to be used as banking
capital for additional banks in tbe Southern
States.
How gn at tboi<e inen—the men wli<> till thee-il—
And make not da’iy bread, though hard they toil;
Those men..they have a higher, notder aim—
Another way of reaching wealth and fame ;
On bones pnosphatieall their hopes are cast,
Til the poor sinners see salvation past-
On that year’s crop yet straightway 'gain they go
And taka another rargo-of guano.
A sinful man may from his sius cut loose,
But they are lost whom guano doth seduce;
Well may burnt dogs tear to approach the fire -
Less wise than Tray, behold them drawing Higher
On, on they go! each ou his merchant Liens'.
Himself is gutted—cause—no hogs he cleans.
Cotton is King ! -till strangers here would think
That He was dead—they’d judge it by the blink
That permeates around us everywhere,
And spoils the pocket while it fouls the air;
However they are nearer to the truth
Than some would credit them with, aud forsooth
With the corruptions both in field and State,
(We pay for them in money at death’s rate)
How can a people e’er expect to thrive,
Unless they know what bargains they do drive?
Now here’s a farmer—hearken to his speech,
For he s a worthy—competent to teach :
“ There’s brother B., my neighbor over there,
Who used ten tons upon one field last year;
As thick as crows at corn the buzzards came,
And every pointer at that field took aim—
With hound and cur of high or low degree—
And smelt aud smelt, sud wondered where it be;
Then with a radiant face came neighbor B-,
And these the veiy woids he said to me :
‘ What ! neighbor A , no guano yet you use!
You are the strangest man that e’er wore shoes!
Now I will tell you what I’m going to do,
This year I’ll make a Christian out af you ;
Just watch the way that crop of mine will glow;
Your mouth will water all the season through ;
To cut the matter short, for it is o’er—
Poor neighbor B—guano has made him sore;
And yet sometimes he comes tome aud Buys
I cannot understand the way it was;
It stunk so bad the stencil I hardly stood,
And yet iu Kpite of that it did no good;
(But I’ve been told, now ju»t twixt you nnd me,
That it was dirt just made to stink you see);’
At lust I answered him, and this I said:
You, like each dog, by its bad suieil was led.
What did you know? you only hoped to make,
And drove your bargain—there was your mistake.
Now common sense should teach yon. for 'tis plain,
Most guano-makers make it tor their gain.
1 am no chemist, and can't analyze,
To tell its truthful smelling or its lies;
But this much I do know, had 1 a soil
I’d send him where he’d learn lmw it's all done.
I am too o.d you see to go to school,
But not too old to keep from being a fool;
And knowing pretty well wlmt I do know,
I kuow enough to farm without guano.”
Now it were well if every man would heed
To that old farmer, for he sows his seed
And reaps fair profits witli each closing year;
Thus with each season he commences clear;
A* now, aa I attempt to set friends right,
I hope that none will accuse me of spite ;
Perhaps in this I uudertake too much,
But humble bards have not the power of such
As rule a slate aud wish to carry the day,
Or in position longer tune to stay.
Head of no State a friendless bard can't call
Upon great friends and catch the big dogs all,
To bark aud growl the smaller fry away.
While fools stand round and halloo out hurrah.
Great it must be to have a big-bug crowd
Stand at your back while license is a.lowed
To give way * * * * or the like
And rule the roost, and be the biggest Ike ;
Perhaps such thing may turn out for the best;
This much I venture now for all the rest,
The more the farmers in this land aie fool’d
Just so much easier is the country ruled ;
For it is said that they will come and lick
The baud of him who gives the hardest kick.
On every side they see their foes advarce,
But'r modest 'nough to loss a virgin’s chance,
Aud surely they have been severely beat
By Western corn as well as Western meat.
’Twould seem a glut—alas! it is not so—
They go still deeper into their guano—
Lose every chance—they have no part in State,
And are not fit with alumni to mate.
The Statesmen all at poor farmers sneer ;
They scorn their power, therefore they don't care,
And all together iu the State-boat club,
While the poor farmer rides it iu a tub.
For the Federal Union.
The Agricultural aud Vliliinry College.
Editors—The general welfare will be promoted by
your calling public attention to the Bill called ‘ Bryan's
Bill,” or the “UniversityBill” now pending before Ihe
Legislature. It has been already rend twice, and re.
ferred to the Committee on Education, who will very
probably report it back iu the same shape, to the Leg.
islature early in the July session. What is the public
wish on this subject ? Are the people of Georgia
ready to “adopt and establish” the negro College n(
Atlanta, and the University at Athens, asthe “Agri-
eultnral. Mechanical and Military Colleges” of Geor
gia ? This Bill is understood to be the child of the
Athene University; at least the Rev. Chancellor and
one of the Professors of that University are reported
to have uursed it and advoented it before the Joint
Committee on Education at the last session of the Le
gislature. Is this the best Georgia can do ?—teach
negro boys agriculture in Colleee, and teach them Ag
riculture and Military tactics jointly ? Has the Uni-s
vereity at Athens nothing better to win ourfavor with,
or show her wisdom by ? Read and decide. Let us
hear from Agricu tural Societies.
Richmond, April 5.— John A. Lester to-day re
covered $75,000 in the Supreme Court against tbe
Lemon Manufacturing Compauy, of Richmond,
Virginia, for the value of machinery he provided
them with. The company alleged that they paid
him but he proved tbat $50,000 received was in
worthless Confederate scrip.
Japanese women, whose lovers are faithless,
rise at two o’clock in the morning and drive nail*
,a " ed „ tr f«’ vowing that when her lover diet
tn .r v P - U lhem out ’ Sbe believes that the god.
s a lvia ‘over dead. fhi.
people? 6 wow * Awake nighte te hate
BRYAN’S BILL.
A BILL to be entitled An Act lo establish Colleges of
Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in the State of
Georgia, and for other purposes.
See. 1. Be it enncfpd by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General
Assembly met, That the University of Georgia at
Athens, and the Atlanta University, at Atlanta, are
hereby adopted and established as the Institutions to
be provided by the State of Georgia, in accordance
with the provision of the art of Congress, approved
July 2.1862,entitled “An act donating public land* to
the several Slates aud Territories, which may provide
Colleges for the benefit of Agriculture aud the Me-
clianic Arts.”
Sec. 2. Orders the Treasurer to invest the proceeds
of the College Land Scrip in State bonds. See.
Sec 3. Orders the Treasurer annually to receive and
pay over one third of the interest on these Bonds to
the Atlanta University (negro College) aud two thirds
thereof to the University at Athens.
Sections 4,5,6, 7, 8. 5, 10, 11 carries out the plan
iu full.
From the N. Y\ Financial Chronicle.
Planting for tbe 3Vext Crop.
In our issue of the 2d of March was an
item with ihe above heading, tbe intent of
which appears in some quarters to have
been entirely misapprehended. The ob
ject we had in view was simply to induce
planters not to put down all their land in
cotton, bnt to give up a proper portion of
it to food products. In always following
out this idea consists, we think, the pros
perity of the South. The meaning of our
words, however, seems to have been con
structed by some into an expression of a
belief on our part that the next crop
would reach five million bales or over.
We think it can hardly be necessary for
ns to say that any such inference from our
item is wholly unwarranted. The crop
ha3 not been planted yet, and we thiuk,
therefore, it would be a little permature to
determine its result. In the first place,
we are not without hope that the South
will conclude to plant their own food in
stead of buying it. Again, it is beginniug
to look now as if they were not goiDg to
rush so blindly into fertilizers as was first
indicated. Finally the capacity of the
South to raise cotton with their preseut
labor supply has a limit, though there is
A f ow ^nnojr ♦ r\ if aw nnnnnnf n(- flip
wonderful crop of 1870.
Whether they have the labor to raise
and save five million bales we do not care
to decide—it is at present such a remote
contingency, considering the planting even
is very far from being complete, and in
some sections scarcely begun. In writing
tbe item in question we only had one de-
sire, aud that was that the South would
look ta aud decide the cotton question so as
best to serve their own interests. To onr
mind the whole problem resolve* itself in
to two or three simple proposition*, and
may be stated somewhat as follows. Why
’ are prices so high now 1 Because the crop
is so short. Suppose we raise as much
this season, as in 1870 what would be tbe
natural result ? With the same crop else
where prices would fall considerably, and
with more raised elsewhere than in 1870,
they might reach a very low point. Now
if any oqe cares to dispute these proposi
tions, we cannot argue with them, for to
our mind they are clear and indisputable
Such then being the case, is it not the
part of wisdom for the South to first
plant all the food the South needs, and
then put in all the cotton which can be
raised economically 7
There are a few men in every com
munity-to use the the language of anoth
er—who never do anything to assist pub
lic improvement in the way of building
up their town. They always protest that
such improvements do uot profit them a
solitary nickle. We notice, however,
that every time a town secures a public
improvement of aay importance, these
same men, if they have any real estate,
or building to rent, put up the price. A
town composed wholly of such individuals,
would be about as lively as a grave-yard.
—Marion Democrat,
The ustial horticultural exhibition will take
placq at Augusta on the 15th aud 16th 61 May.
. ** eT - My rant D. W ood, charged with tb * * e< ^* ; as t | lri j IlTe ntor of the electriu telegraph, was born
lion of Mias Emma J. Olivers, ot Lecatur. has Charlestown, Massachusetts. April 27, 1791,
Demteutiarv Beam—this . v_i_ n..n .fu ,
>f Prof. rn. V. B. Hstm, Ike
of Telegraphy.”
The death of Mr Morse occu:red on the 2d inst^
at the Fif-h Avenue Hotel, New York.
Samuel Kinlev Breese Morse, popularly known
b»*en sentenced to the penitentiary sgaiu
time for ten years. His counsel have moved for a
new trial.
Fishing is profitable in Jefferson couuty. Three
piscatorially mclmed parties caught seven han
dled pounds in three days.
Augusta in connection with her canal enlarge
ment. which is now progressing rapidly, is to have
a lake covering one hundred and thirty-two acres.
It is to be situated conveniently near to the city to
make the drive a pleasant drive. If this thing
confines, Augusta will soon be a seaport.
The Lee county farmers are buying little gu
ano, says the Americus Republican. Little money,
but cern in plenty produced at home Fences in
good fix. Corn nearly all planted, but most will
have to be replanted. Half their land put iu corn,
and cotton will be surplus.
In Floyd county, says she Commercial farmers
very busy. Little ground planted. Farmers ex
pect a good crop-
Hilly larms recently plowed in Stewart county
much damaged by flood, says the Independent.
There seems to be a general movement through
out the State looking to a reorganization of the
old volunteer companies.
Rev. Wesley P. Kramer, a well-known Metho
dist minister of this. State, will soon connect him
self with the Episcopal Church.
The Griffin News is of the opinion that the Ma
can Telegraph is the only paper outside of Atlan
ta that endorses the action of Gov. Smith in dis
posing of the land scrip.
Tbe Dalton Citizen says the wheat iu that sec
tion is looking very well, all things considered.—
Tbo(breadth of land aowu is in excess ef that of last
year, and without some uuioreseen accident, a
large crop will be harvested. The oat crop is also
in a healthy and promising condition.
At a meeting of the Directors of the Atlantic aud
Great Western Canal, it was decided to open books
for subscription, which will be done very soon.
Col. E. F. Hoge and Mr. A. McNeil, who recent’
ly visited New York to enquire into the financial
speculations of Bullock, have returned to Atlanta,
after a moat satisfactory visit.
Thirteen red foxes have been captured in the
neighborhood of Baruesville during the past ten
days.
Mr. Alex. S. Erwin, a promising member of the
Athens b .r, lead to the aitar on the 3d inst,, Miss
Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, eldest daughter of the
late Gen. Howell Cobb.
The Albany News, of Friday, says crop pros
pects are bad. “The corn stand is very thin, and
the continued rain seriously intei feres with cotton
plantiug. We had another flood Tuesday night
and Wednesday, aud the clouds are still low and
dark.”
The negro who murdered a young man by the name
of Burke in the lower edge of Wilkinson county, an
account ot which appeared in this paper, was tried
and convicted in the Superior Court of that county last
week.
Gov Smith has decided that the Judges of the
Superior Courts of this Slate, who were appointed
for four years, do not go out of office until 1873,
aud that consequently the appointment of their
successors will devolve upon the Governor who
shall be elected next fall.
A majority of farmers of Pulaski county have
been compelled to plow up the corn planted a fe
weeks ago and replant the land.
From tbe Atlanta Constitution.
LETTER EltO.VI GOV. SMITH.
Grargin Fiunnces.
Some weeks ago Gov Smith \va« requested by
certain gentlemen to make such a construction ot
the fraudulent Bond Act, passed at the late session
of the Legislature, as would clearly express the
inten tiou of the Legislature and the spirit of our
people ou the subject of the bonds of he State.—
We are permitted to publish the following portion
of his letter written in reply :
I had the honor to occupy the position in the
General Assembly of Speaker of the Hens* of Rep
resentatives when the act was passed, and had fa-
vorhle opportunities of being adviseJ of the views
of individual members on the financial interests ol
tho State.
Investigations were made during the seesion
which led to the belief that my predecessor bad
illegally and fraudulently issued, without registra
tion, large amounts ol bonds purporting to he se.
cuiiths cf the State, thereby raising money to
serve his individual purposes. It was also be
lieved that a large amount in the bum's of the
State hearing c upoi.s, with the signature of the
Treasurer lithographed, was still in circulation
notwithstanding th - provision made for calling in
such boudi for cancellation. It was still further
believed that the Governor had. without authority
of law, indorsed the bouds of certain railroad coin
panics, amounting in the aggiegato to a very large
sum.
Being in possession of such information the Leg
islature deemed it a duty to take such action as
would uot only guard the Treasury against loss
felt would most effectually ct unteract the depress
ing effect upon the credit of the State, likely to re
sult from theae illegal acts of Hie Governor
The provisions of the act under consideration
are, in mv opinion, the best that couid have been
adopted to remedy the existing evil. Illegal and
fraudulent acts, such as were b:lieved to exist
could be ascertained only by the most rigid inves
tigation. It was believed, with reason, that able
and unscrupulous men had exercised all their in
genuity in covering up their frauds, aud the most
exhaustive enquiry would be necessary to expose
them. For the puipose of making this enquiry
effective, the Legislature determined to keep the
whole subject under its own control ; ami hence
the provision of the act requiring the investigation
to be made by a committee cousisting of members
of the two Houses-
With, ut considering, separately and at length
the duties imposed upon the committee, it will be
sufficient to say tbat no more power was given
thorn than was deemed absolutely necessary to
collect the Information desired by the Legislature.
To know which bonds were genuine and which
were spurious, arid what indorsements had been
made without authority, it was manifestly ueces-
•ary that the history of each bond should he de
veloped as far as possible.
The feature in the act, however, which has giv
en rise to most complaint, is that provisiou re
quiring all bonds and indorsements issued since
1868 to be reported to the Committee on or before
the first of April, 1872 The most persistent ef
forts have been made, both iu tins country aud in
Europe, to show from this provision of the set
that it is the purpose of the State to repudiate its
debt’ It has been gravely argued that this pro
visiou, which was manifestly intended for nothing
more than to enable us to ascertain the aim u::t of
our indebtedness, is conclusive evidence of the ex
istcnce ol an iu'eution, on our part, to refuse to
pay the whole of our debt.
We have warrant for ■ elisving that forged bouds
of tbe State are iu circulation, and also that a large
amount of our genuine securities are outsiandiug,
ofwhch we have no registration. Un -er these
circumstances, we call on our creditors to do them
selves ana the State the service to report the cred
its held bv them, so that we may obtain a knowl
edge ot what we honestly owe.
Exception is taken to this, and it seems to be
annsidered bv some as amanntiug to proof conclu
sive that we have already entered on the down
ward road to dishonor and repudiation. It is dif
ficult to conceive what motive could induce an
opinion so palpably erroneous, except the mere
mercenary desire to depreciate our securities |in
the markets of the world, for purposes of specula
tion. The debtor, who intends never to pay,
wonld hardly concern himself about his indebted
ness so much as to procure, st great cost of labor
and money, a knowledge of what he has already
determined to repudiate.
A compliance with this provision of the act, it is
net denied, will subject the creditors of the State
to some inconvenience. This is regretted, ar.d by
no person more than by the members of the Gen
eral Assembly who passed the measure. In their
opinion, however, registration was necessary for
the protection of both the State and tbe bond hold
er: and the manner in which it is required to be
done would produce less injury than if done iu
any other mode. Our creditors may rest assured
that they will not be subjected to losses by a com
pliance with the provisions of this act, if it is in
the power of tbe Government to prevent or repair
such losses.
It is due to truth to say, that in the coarse of a
very intimate association, both official and person
al, with members of the Generai Assembly, I have
no reason to suspect even that any ene of them fa
vored, or desired, a repudation of tbe public debt
On the contrary, tbe earnest desire of all seems to
be that the credit of the State shall be preserved,
and tbat her lair fame shall remain untarnished —
In this,I am sure, they are the true exponents of
the wishes and feelings ef their constituents. I
know the people of Georgia and it is only justice
to them to say that it is their fixed purpose to pay
every farthing of the public debt. While justice
requires tbat they shall protect themselves against
the arts and practices of dishonest officials, their
honor is concerned in meeting promptly every just
claim upon the Treasury of the State. Holders of
such claims may rest assured that they will not
suffer less in trusting tbe people of Georgia.
In condoaiou, 1 beg to say that my opinion up
on the subject of tbe payment of our public debt
is well known. The decisions of a packed court
is not the measure of the rights of an honest
people. Looking to the maintains net of her bon
er, the State should fsel herself obliged to dis
charge tbe fall measure of the liabilities enforced
by the spirit of her contract. This, I doubt not,
the State will do.
I am, gentlemen, yours, respectfully,
James M. Smith.
and was educated at Yale College, where he grad
uated in 1810. Having from an early age deter
mined to he a painter, he sailed lor England, ar
riving iu London in August, 1811. Mr. Morse,
who made rapid progress iu his profession, exhibit
ted at tne Royal Academy, iu !8I3, his picture,
“The Dying Hercules,” of eolossal size, the plaster
model which he m»de of the same i-ubject, to as
sist him in his picture, received the prize iu sculp
ture the same year.
In 1820 be paid a second visit to Europe, and
remained abroad three years’ Ou his return to the
United States iu tbe packet ship Sully, in 1832. a
fellow countryman, Professor Jackson, was de
scribing the experiments that had just been made
in Paris with the electro-magnet, when a question
arose as to the time occupied by the electric fluid
in passing through the wire. The reply being
made that it was instantaneous, Jackson, recalling
the experiments of Franklin, suggested that it
might be carried to any distance, and tlmt the elec
tric spark might be made the means of conveying
and recording intelligence. This suggestion took
deep hold of Morse, who proposed to develop the
idea thus originated, and before tbe end of the
voyage lie had drawn out the general plan of the
system known by his name. After much difficul
ty aud discouragement iu 1835 he demonstrated
tb^ practicability of his invention, by completing
aud putting in operation in the New York Univer.
sity a model of his Recording Electric Telegraph,
the greater part of tbe apparatus having been made
by himself. In 1837 he filed his caveat at the Pat
ent Office-
In 1840 he perfected his patent at the patent of
fice, aud set about gettiDg his telegraph into prac
tical operation. In 1344 the first electric telegraph
in the United States, between Baltimore and
Washington, was completed. Since then its wires
have been extended ever the countiy to the length
of more than fifteen thousand miles. Submarine
telegraphy originated also with Mr. Morse, who
laid tbe first submarine telegraph lines iu New
York harbor in the autumn of 1842, aud received
at the time, from tbe American Institute, a gold
medal for that achievement.
Honors have been fairly showered upon Prof.
Morse by European governmeutslaud sovereigns,
and no American, probably, ever received so many
marks of distinction as this man, who, if greatness
be es.imated by the vast results of Hs invention,
was beyond question one of the greatest men that
ever lived.
The SouthriH Stale*.—The London Chemist Sc
Druggist, of a recent date, says truly of the Southern
States: “If the Southern United States are not the
garden of the world, it is rather the fault of three who
are responsible for their cultivation and development,
than from any other cause ou the face of the earth—
Cotton, sugar and tobacco are products of such im
mensity as io uwnrf those which other lands bring forth.
Vast quantities of wheat ami rice are exported. Lux
urious but uncultivated vegetation also testifies to its
immense resources which a e forthcoming. Watered
by the grandest rivers, rich in every variety of soil,
millions of acres ot swamp yet unreclaimed, make it
a territory which will supply the world.”
A Sad Romance.—In a Boston boarJing-house
on I'riday the wife of Thos. Williams, mechanic,
whom she had laboted to support and nurse dur
iug a long aud incurable illness, died in his pres
ence from an overdose of laudanum, taken to qui
et her nerves and procure >est. The husband was
unable to render aid or call for assistance, and ex
pired the next day. Mrs. Williams is said to have
married against the consent of her parents, weal
thy residents of Newport, who cast her off: but
while both were dying a letter came offering the
assistance too long withheld. The bodies were ta
ken to Newport for burial.
Full returns from Connecticut give Gov. Jewell
a plurality of 1,940 over Hubbard, and a majority
of 30 over all candidates, l’be paucity of the vote
polled by the Labor Reform and Temperance can
didates surprised and disappointed their friends —
The Legislature is overwhelmingly Republican,
there being a majority of 30 on joint ballot—a
gain of six over last year.
Providence, April 4.—Tho Democrats hare
elected the Lieutenant Governor. The remainder
of tbe ticket are Republican.
Hartford April 4.—The Republicans gain
four ou joint ballot in the Connecticut Legislature.
The Ground* of Confidence-
Whence comes that firm reliance, tbat absolute
uudoubting faith in the efficacy of Hostetler’s
Stomach Bitters as a remedy for indigestion, bil
ious disorders, intermittent and remittent fevers,
which notoriously prevail in all parts of the United
States ? This confidence has been growing for
twenty years, and it is still extending. It is not
the result of credulity ; it has not been engender
ed by any human device, but is tbe spontaneous
and natural consequence of experience. What
people see daily going on under tbeir own eye*
they cannot queslion. When families in un
healthy districts that resort to this wholesome
vegetable tonic, as a preventive, escape periodica]
fevers, and their immediate neighbors, who neg
lect this precaution, are prostrated by the disease’
how is it possible that the phenomenon should be
without its lesson ? In like manner when it i 8
seen that obstinate esses of dyspepsia, of live 1
complaint, of constipation, of nervous weakness’
and of general debility, yield to the operation o‘
the famous remedy, how can even incredulity it
self withhold its endorsement ? Eye-witnesses
of the salutary effects of the Bittetsare to be found
iu every civilized settlement ou this continent.-—
The thousands tipou thousands who owe their re
storation to health and strength, or their preserva-
tion from sickness, to its extraordinary medicinal
properties are enthusiastic in its praise. The mul
titudes who recommend it in a neighborly way to
their friends and acq uaintances, as well as those
who make public their estimate of its virtues, are
always ready to state their reasons for the faith
that is In them. They have all either felt or wit
nessed its beneficent operations.
Drnd and Living Bnllrr.
While solid food, air and water are passinz into
the living body to supply the waste which is the
concomitant and tho condition of the production
of tbe forces ot life, an uninterrupted stream, con
stituting that waste, is passing from the body. In
health the greater portion of the food becomes an
integral part of the body, aud having served it„
time in that capacity, finally leaves it in the form
either of water, of carbonic acid gas, or of a crys
talline substance known as urea. These substan
ces are separated from the blood by the excretory
organs, of wbicli there are three, the skin, tbe
lungs mod the kidneys. Of these the skin gives off
principally water, the lungs principally water and
cabonic acid, and the kidneys principally water
and urea. The lungs not ouly act as organs o^
direct excretion, but bax^ also another function
By the agency of the lungs the blood is supplied
with oxygen, which, acting chemically upon the
used-up tissue particles throughout the system, re
models them into the new aud simpler excretive
forms' The excretory processes depend closely
upou tbe sup; ly ef well digested and duly assim
ilated food: sud when tbe health is suffering
from the insufficient action of the skin or kidneys,
this is best rectified by improving tbe tone of the
i, --4 liver bv using Dr. Fisch s uuequall-
ed Bitters.
NEW STORE l
.Vfiir SPRIJVG GOODS!
EC . A D Ls E H ,
At Washington Ball, Between the Augusta Store and B. S. Bendrix,
0 IS NOW RECEIVING A
Choice Selection of Spring Goods
WHICH HE OFFERS IT THE LOWEST PRICES, ’
CONSISTING OF A COJfFLKT* ASSORTMENT Or
S&7 GOODS, C&OTBINO, BOOTS AV9 SHOES, OBRTI’ FOB
BXSBXG GOODS, NOTIONS, Ac. *
As he is doing a strictly Cos li buninau he can and will sell as cheep asthe cheapest. All hs waatt i* a
trial. Give him a call and you will be convinced. *
Milledgeville, March 19,1872. 34 3 m
MADAM N. S. HOLDRIDGE
HAS JUST OPENED THE HANDSOMEST AND MOST COMPLETE
STOCK of MXXJLXfirXDRT
In Store No. 2 Milledgeville Hotel,
over shown in this part of the eonntiy. Comprising all the latest styles of Dry Goods, Hats, Ribbons, Ladi««
UuderclothiDg, See., and in fact everything found in the first-class Millinery Stores ot our large cities!
The Citizens of Baldwin
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taken and coeds made up in the latest style and at short notice from first class material. Persona calling
on her will be satisfied that she can se!! goods CHEAPER than they have ever been offered in thiseitv befor*
November 29. 1871. fg tf '
T. si. CARslKER, Agt.,
DEALER IN
GROCERIES
BACON,
AND PROVISIONS.
FLOUR,
LARD,
CORN,
Cheap for
IRON,
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They restore tbe diseased Liver, Stomach acd Kid
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they brace and invigorate the whole system.
Rome, Ga., Jannary II, 1871.
Dr. W. H. Tutt— Dear Sir : Having used your Liver
Pills and finding none that have doue my wife or my
self as much good, I would like to know if they would
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I remain, your obed’t serv’t.,
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A Melancholy Break-Dawn —There are lively
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for yonng, old, saints and sinners. No sectarianism,
controversy, polities, puffs, pills, or patent medicines.
Me. a year! IO copies $5 ! Bead lOe. for 3 pa
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** I<. Masliaga, Tract Repository, 19 Lin-
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Boston, Mm.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Bi RYETT S FLAFORINC EXTRACTS —The su
periority of these extracts cousists in their perfect
purity and great stiength. They are warranted
free from poisonous oils and acids. J.seph Bur
nett & Co., Boston, Manufacturers and Propris-
tors For sale by all grocers and druggists.
N1TIRE LIVES US TEETH, but she does not
preserve and purify them That must bo don#
with fragrant Sozodout. The dental bone and it*
enamel casing are made iuvulnerable to ail des
tructive influences by the daily use of this benef
icent preparation.
YVR.tr EV6RY HORSEMAN tF.*NTS-A good
cheap aud reliable Liuiment. Such an article i*
Dr. Tobias’ Horse Liniment. Pint bottles at one
dollar. For Lameness, Cats, Galls, Colic, Sprains,
Arc., warranted better than any other. Sold by
the Druggists. Depot IU Park Place, New Y'ork.
RIPS09AJIA is an insane thirut for intoxicating
liquors Habitual dram-drinking produce# it.
Yet each Alcoholic Bittei vender recommends that
a dram of his rum and root-juice to be taken thrice
a day, to prevent sickness! For all bodily ailnunt*
and as a protection against tbe causes of disease,
take that all sufficient an idote, Du. WaLKKK s
VlKEtiAR Bitters, the pure e.«s<-nce of rare med
icinal herbs unpolluted by distilled poison.
Catholic Solve, recommended by the leading
Physicians, and the President of the New York
Board of Health, aa the most wonderful healing
compound ever known. Gives instant relief to
burns, cures ail kiuds of sores, cuts aud wounds;
and a most invaluable salve for all purposes. Sold
everywhere at25 cents per box. John F. Henry,
§ole Proprietor, 8 College Place, N. Y.
Syapilia is Opium purified of its sickening anu
poisonous | roperties. discovered by Dr. Bigelow,
Professor of Botany, Detroit Medical College. A
most perfect anodyne and soothing opiate. John
Farr, Chemist, N. Y.
ChrUtadoro s Hair Bye is the safest and best,
it corrects the bad effects of in erior dyes, while
the black or brown tints it produces *re identical
to natnre. Manufactory, 68 Maiden Lane, N. Y.
Pratt a Astral OH.—Safest and best illunuu' ting
Oil ever made Does not take tiro nor explode if
the lamp is upset and broken. Over 150,000
families continue to use it, and no accidents of
any description have occurred from it. Oil House
of Chas. Pratt, es ablished 1770. N. Y.
THE PUREST and Sweetest rod Liver INI Iu
the world is Hszard &. Caswell’s made on the sea
shore from fresh, selected livers, by Caswell, Haz
ard & Co., New York. It is absolutely pure and
sweet. Patients who have once takeu it prefer, it
to nil others. Physicians have decided it superior
to any of the other oils in the market.
JOI'FU S InordnreusEid ttore Cleaner restore*
soiled gloves equal to uew. For sale oy Druggist*
anu Fancy Goods Dealers. Price 25 cents per
bottle. F. C. Well# Jfc Co.. N. Y.
Rloley'a riiHetefcm is an established, warrant
ed remedy for Painful Menstruation; and equally
efficient as a Nervous Antidote in al! cases of ner
vous Excitement, Stomach and Sleeplessness in
male or female. Sold everywhere f r $1 a bottle.
Morgan Risley, Druggists, New York, General
Agents.
A Vontbfnl Appearance and a Beautiful Clear
Complexion is the desire of everybody. This effect
is produced by using G. W. Laird’s “ Bloom.of
Youth,” a harmless beautifier of the skin. Will
remove all Discoloration, Tan, Freckles and Sun
burn. The use of this delightful toilet prepara
tion cannot be detected. For sale at all Drugg'***
and tancy goods stores. Depot 5 Gold St., N. Y.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrnp.-It relieve*
the little snfferets from pain, cures Wind, Co'ic,
regulates the Stomach and Bowels, corrects acidity<
aud during the process of teething it is invaluable-
Perfectly safe in all cases, as millions of moth*™
can testify. 36 lm '
Sheriff's Sale.
GEORGIA, Colquitt County.
W ILL be sold before the Court Hou*e door in
Moultrie, between the usual boars of sale,, on
the first Tuesday in MAY next. Lot of Land No. 244 .
in the 8th District of said county; levied on as the
property of Hardy Carlton to satisfy one Superior
Court fi fa in fnvsr of Elijah Englwh. _
R J. NORMAN, D. ft**
March A9,1872. ****