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QUITMAN, (JA., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1880.
BETTER LUCK ANOTHER YEAR.
IIY THE LATE W. OII.MOItK SIMMS.
Oh ! never sink ’ncoth Fortune’s frown,
But brave her with a shout of cheer,
And front her fairly—face her down—
She's only stern to those who fear I
Here’s “better luck another year!”
Another year I
Aye, better luck another year!
We’ll have her smile instead of sneer—
A thousand smiles for every tear,
With home made glad and goodly cheer,
And better luck another year—
Another year I
The damsel Fortune still denies
The plea that yet delights Iter ear;
’Tis but our manhood that she tries,
She’s coy to those who doubt and fear,
She’ll grant the suit another year !
Another year.
Here’s 1 ‘Better luck another year!
She now denies the golden prize;
But spite of frown and scorn and sneer,
Be firm, and we will win and wear
With home made glad and goodly cheer,
In better luck another year!
Another year! Another year!
The Resignation of Gordon and
Appointment of Brown.
Edilors Albany Newt:
The resignation of General Gordon
and the appointment of Joe Brown
by Govenor Colquitt are a perfect
God-6end to few newspapers and to
all those little fellows that itch to
write. I say little fellows because
nothing has been published from
them yet that takes a comprehen
sive view of the matter, aims at a
single live issue involved, or does
anything but vituperate, assert abuse
without proof and parade those
passions and prejudices that
are the last barbaric relics of the late
war. It is a little singular that these
extraordinarily wise and Solomon
scribblers have been so inconsistent
and simple as to make charges with
no proof to sustain them, but a mere
guess or surmise of their own. They
forget that the people of Geor
gia will not allow her great sons and
statesmen injured by anonymous
writers, who have not even the fair
ness to sign their proper signatures
to the articles of impeachment that
they prefer.
It is charged that there was a bar
gain between the three parties named.
Leaving Gov. Colquitt nnd Brown
out of the controversy for the pres
ent, who is there in Georgia that
would believe that tile noble, proud,
chivalric, brave and battle-scarred
Gordon would enter into any cor
u'jLpt_har<pLuv w> a tpen. to.
obtain the highest position that this
country affords, private or public?
Gordon has been faithful to even
trust—on the battle-field when cour
ageous pariotism walked with death,
and in the Senate Halls, where even
the extremists of the opposition par
ty acknowledge him pure, spotless
and true. He says he was no party
to any trade. Who doubts him for a
moment when he makes a positive
assert' None that know him or
his old veteran soldiers
t®k : iN What act has he cotu
ruitKy fair his useful life that in the
least deviates from rectitude, or that
would suggest a suspicion oven
against his veracity? No man has
or can authenticate a single one.
But it is chaiged that because he bus
resigned bis Senatorial office he must
have made some corrupt bargain.
Gentlemen who made this assertion
are misanthropical in their views and
underestimate human nature. Is it
true that Georgia has sunk so low
that even her noblest sou cannot retire
form office except upon some corrupt
trade; except he he bought to sur
render it? Is it true that Georgia has
sunk so low that the fact that her no
blest son lias resigned au office to he
even presumptive evidence of cor
ruption and trading? Is in true that
those we concede to be our best men
have sunk so low that they measure
the moral merit of everything by
their own interest in it and stop at
nothing until their own personal in
terest in it has ended? Ido not be
lieve it, and cannot believe it after
the emphatic denial by all parties
concerned. I believe that Georgia
has patriots; patriots that stood by
her in her darkest hour of need, that
evidenced their devotion and love to
her on the field of battle and in bet
struggles in those trying times after
the smoke of battle had cleared away
and the hell-hounds and plunderers
appeared upon the scene and made
patriotic words dangerous to their
speaker' Gordon and Colquitt were
among these patriots and in the front
when it was most dangerous to be
there. But it is said that Gordon has
betrayed his people because he re
signed his office. He has been in the
service of the people in war and
peace since he was twenty-eight years
of age, and his devotion to them has
been unselfish, Will ha not now Deal
lowed to devote his talents to the
improvement of his private fortune,
that is known to be but a paltry
sum ? But it is charged that he
resigned to obtain a larger salary in
some department of private life.
Well why not ? Has he not served
his country sufficiently to be permit
ted to serve himself and family a lit
tle ? Must he be kept in an office, the
salary of which barely sustains him
in the dignity that the office requires
of bins, while the fact is staring him
in the face that if he should be taken
from his family it would be left un
provided for ? There can be hut one
sensible answer.
All that 1 have said concerning Gen.
Gordon in relation to this trade ap
plies to Gov, Colquitt and Joe
Brown. They all deny the charges
in uncertain words, and there is no
proof against them. Colquitt could
not possibly derive any beuotit from
from it in any way, shape, manner or
form, uuless Joe Brown had actually
paid him money. I have yet to hear
any one, even Gov. Colquitt’s bitter
est enemies, make any such cliarge.
Their chief cry has been that lie is a
Sunday school man, too much chris
tain to fill the office of Governor.
We have progressed wonderfully
iu this decade. We have gotten to
where the simple fact of active and
devoted Christianity is a disqualified
tion for office. Give us more Col
quitt’s, more noble, pious and Chris
tian men in all branches of our Gov
ernment and we will he nearer that
political purity left us by our fore
fathers than we are likely to be again
iu many years, uuless this howl of
anti-Christ shall cease. Colquitt is
the lirst man iu Georgia against whom
the fact of “Christian and (Sunday
school activity” was ever urged as a
reason why he should not fill au of
fice. This very fact shows to what a
stress his enemies are driven in or
der to find charges against him. He
is indicted for those virtues we teach
our children are essential, found guil
ty and a sentence of disqualification
to hold office pronounced against
him. Consistency, beautiful in the
extreme. But it is said he has be
trayed the people because he appoint
ed Joe Brown. lam uo Brown man,
and can see none of that grandeur
about him that some of his ardent
admirers claim for him, yet I do say
this: If the Democratic party is riglt
now, Joe Brown has been politically
right all the time. He advised us to
accept the amendments to the Con
stitution of the United States and the
situation generally, but we would not
do so. W’e fought the amendments
all the way through and ostracised,
fyes, socially ostracised, those who
wished to accept them, so hitter were
we against them. Our platforms
were full of these anti-amendment
planks and we waged several political
battles with them as the main issue,
but we failed to gain anything by
fighting them, because the results of
the war made them accomplished
facts. Compare the Democratic plat
forms of those days with the subse
quent ones and we will find that our
position is reversed and that Joe
Brown is consistent, and the same
from beginning to .end. We have
■ha-kii4 Bv." u’s and.
adopted it as our own, and with some
effroutry say that Joe Brown has
come hack into the party. The truth
about the matter is, that the party
has gone to him. We have gotten
upon his platform, and after getting
firmly seated there we attempt to ap
propriate it entirely and kick him off.
If we have boarded his boat is there
anything very wrong in allowing him
to pilot it a little ?
There is another view about the
matter. Ever since we failed to ac
complish anything by making war
on the proposed amendments we have
beeu endeavoring to convince the
North that we are in good faith ac
cepting them and the results of the
war. It seems to he the chief object
of the Democracy of the South to
convince the North that we accept the
situation honestly and sincerely. If
the party is honest in that regard,
and I think it is, why should’t Joe
Brown, the original acceptor of the
situation, be as good a man to rep
resent that policy as any one else?
If the party is both sincere and con
sistent, why isn’t he the very best
‘representative of that policy it could
find ?
Perhaps Governor Colquitt took
this view of the matter. Ho could
very easily have done so and not
been wide of the mark. Then why
censure him so much? To evince a
spirit of conciliation didn’t w’e vote
for Horace Greeley Didn’t we pass
through the big house and go into
the kitchen and bring out the black
est Radical coon and vote for him,
when he was greased all over with
Republicanism and abolitionism ?
Then should our stomachs get so del
icate all on a sudden and heave at
Joe Brown? Let’s wait and see if
Gov. Colquitt has made a mistake.
Let’s see what Joe Brown will do be
fore we condemn him We confess
now that he was right long before we
were, and doubtless he will carry
that same foresight and energy into
the Senate that lias heretofore char
acterised him. I wish it distinctly
understood that I tun no Joe Brown
man; hut I do think wo are wrong in
abusing Colquitt for appointing him.
We can say with certainty that he
could have appointed a more popular
man, but beyond this we cannot go.
Logic.
Citors in Alabama.- —Farmers who
were iu the city on Saurday, says the
Montgomery Advertiser, complain
that there lias been too much rain,
and that unless the rain ceases, the
crops will suffer very greatly from
grass, Some farmers also complain
of a scarcity of labor and offer unus
ually good wages for laborers for
the next two months
A manly man will acknowledge an
error and make amends if he cun.
A manly man will givo opportunity
for such acknowledgements and re
paration. The unmauly will neither
repent on the one hand nor forgive
on the other.
A Great Enterprise.
The Pullman Palace Car and the
Alien Paper Car-Wheel companies
will locate their works on the Illinois
Central railroad between One Hun
dred and Fourth and One Hundred
and Eleventh st-roets, south of Chi
cago. The improvement is a vast one,
and will cost, aside from the land,
>?1,250,000. The works of the two
companies will occupy 1(50 acres.
This will include between 300 nnd
400 cottages for employes, of whom
over 2,000 will ho employed, and it
is anticipated that a town ot at least
10,000 inhabitants will immediately
spring up there. The works are tc
he completed by October Ist, next.
The machinery’will he moved by the
great Corliss engine of 2,400 horse
power, which was on exhibition at
the Centennial Exposition in Phila
delphia,hut has been lying idle ever
since, because no work was found
large enough for it. It cost $140,-
000. The grounds fronting on the
track will be laid out in a park 300
feet wide, and broad boulevard will
lead to Calumet Lake, ou the east.
A little dredging will give tile com
pany water connections with Lake
Michigan, via the Calumet river.
The Right of an OHicer to Kill.
The Albany Law Journal has the
following which will bo of great im
portance to officers in the discharge
of their duties, especially in the mat
ter of escaping prisoners. The Jour
nal says: While defendeut (in a case
in the Tennessee Supreme court,) a
constable was conveying to jail a j
prisoner convicted of assault and hat- j
tery, the prisoner attempted to es-l
cape. To prevent the escape, defend-!
ant, after giving the prisoner notice!
to halt, shot and killed him. Held;
that the homicide was not justifiable.;
In cases where the person slain is ar
rested or held in custody for a rnis-j
demeanor, and be fly or attempt top
escape, it will be murder in the officer!
to kill him, although he cannot be|
otherwise taken. Yet under some*
circumstances it may be only roan-1
slaughter, as if it appears death was!
not intended. It is considered bet-S
ter to allow one guilty only of inisde-1
meaner to escape altogether than to
take his life.
ITiT Vish. -
N. Y. Star.]'
Ho stepped into a green grocer's
yesterday morning with a vacant,
weary, careworn look on his face.
“I rever eat them. I can’t remem
ber exactly wbat I came in for.”
“Perhaps von want some coffee ?”
“Ain’t it funny I can’t remember ?'’
remarked the stranger, as he scratch
ed his chin with the hack of his baud
and scanned everything behind the
counter in a wild hut ineffectual ef
fort to brush up his memory.
“Do you want milk ?”
“No, that ain’t it.”
“Is it macareni, mustard, chow
chow, soap or wine jelly?”
“None of them sir'”
“Possibly you want a small meas
ure of beets?”
“Indeed, Ido not.” Then his eyes
sparkled and he said:
“I have it now. I remember what
I came in for; it all conies hack to
me like a dream of love.”
“What do you want ?”
“Well, now, it’s as plain as day.
Wasn’t it funny I didn't think of it
before ?”
“It was rather strange; hut what
will you have ?”
“You won't get mad, will you ?”
“No, sir.”
‘Well, then, I’ll tell you. I just
stepped iu here to ask if you’ll scratch
my back a little for me; I have prickle
heat.’’
lie wasn’t scratched, but had it
not been for his activity ha would
have been kicked.
Education.— Every hoy should have
his head, bis heart, and his hand ed
ucated. Let this truth never be for
gotten. By the proper education of
the head he will he taught what is
good and what is evil, what is wise
and what is foolish, what is right and
wrong. By the proper education
of the heart he will bs taught to love
what is good, wise and right, and to
hate what is foolish and wrong. And
by proper education of the hand he
will be enabled to supply his wants,
to add to his comforts, and to assist
those around him. The highest ob
jects of an education are, to reverence
and obey God, and to love and serve
mankind. Everything that helps us
iu attaining these objects is of great
value, and everything that hinders is
comparatively worthless. When wis
dom reigns in the head, and love in
his heart, the man is every ready to
do good ; order and peace reign
around, and sin and sorrow are al
most unknown.
Savannah News: There are at
preseut three vessels discharging
cargoes of steel rail at the wharves
of the Savannah, Florida and Wes
tern railway, to-wit: The hark Frey,
brig Atlanta and barkentme Steen
from Rotterdam. This iron is being
placed in the bonded warehouse,
recently erected by the company,
and comprises about 1300 tons. It
is understood that the railroad to
Waycross, and other purchases are
expected. Some definite action will
be taken probably the present mouth,
after the decision by the United
States Court in regard to the rail
road commission.
XJ~'Cr'o' vJj 1 'VO*"*
Hats and Clothing. . i
129 and 131 Broughton Street,
office: 39 A ,J‘J 'Ut V \ ill I'
Broadway, N. Y. 0 M .1.1 A III) \if%
April 1, ISS". ly Jk
THE MbMT
ABRAHAMS & SrIBAHI,
RETAIL DEALERS J.\
OLOTIIING
HATS, CAPS and
v *M
Gents’ Furnishing Gooda
No. 158 Broughton StrquJM
Savannah,
ADVANCE IS ?
of i*ia;\()|
Didn’t we tell you so? .X|
not high water ye®
THIRD CALL 1
Piano manufacturers have raised prices on
us three times in as many months, but we
have nevertheless held to our old selling
rates through it nil. We intended to light
it out on that line but the lust ditch is close
by—its a deep one -and ice have surrender
ed. Five large manufacturers have to-day
notified us of a fourth advance aud another
likely to follow April 1. They claim the
following advance in cost of production:
Labor, 15 to 25 per ct. Rosewood, 15 per of.
Iron, 150 “ Varnish, 25 “
Pine lumber,2s “ Glue, 15 “
Hard “ 20 “ Hardware 100 “
To sell longer at old rates involves direct
loss. Wo therefore must announce upon
our Mathusek, Southern Gem and Favor
ite Pianos an advance of from $lO to $35
per style, Chickehing Pianos will be ad
vanced April Ist $25 on each style.
This is in Hi worst fit
i<ta<raaiwKafr**igaß*iiMi wmnwvflaaiA*wiiJia',ii 1
Materials and labor are still going up.
Immense strikes among piano makers are
ill progress. Manufacturers are months be
hind orders. America’s factories can’t sup
ply half the pianos wanted. Large advan
ces are yet to come.
HE WISE IN TIME,
Huy now and save twenty-five per cent.
Those who wait for a decline will get very
tired. It will bo years before old prices rule
again. Those who need pianos within tin
next two years should bnv as soon as possi
ble.
ORGANS
Have not advanced but we can't tell what
day they too will rise. The yeast is work
ing and* they can’t be kept down Send your
order now. Present prices areiuot guaran
teed for even ten days alter this elate, March
10. 1880. LUDDEN & HATES,
Savannah. Ga.
Wholesale Piano and Organ Dealers.
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Quitman, On., Marcth 20, I‘-
Tailoring in all Its Branches.
To the Public?
I take this method to inform the citizens
of Quitman, and till the surrounding coun
try, that I have located at Quitman perma
nently; and am fully prepared to do
ALL KINDS OF WORK
that is usually done by FIRST CLASS
TAILORS
In as Neat Manner as can
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prices. Give me a trial. Terms cash.
Shop three doors east of this office in the
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