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Volume LXV
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, ISSt.
Number 12.
Emory Speer’s Speech.
ON THE REFUND!VC RILL.
Mr. Chairman, I do not profess to
be like in\ di-tingnisli.-ii friend from
Oliio—one of the accredited apostles
of finance; but, sir, with all the lights
« hieh I have been n a bled to glean
from the discussion o; this subject, I
cannot sympathize with those gentle
men who, after bavin; determined to
liind the debt, contend licit this gen •
eiation shall hear all ihe burden of
paying it. Now, sir, if we judge of
cl„s, conn,Clou *t Alton.. .or potato w est the of ° l ' r j,"? 1191 ™ 1
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ltMAN wIlW. Snp’t. twenty years hence tin* people of this
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PllOFESSlON A L CAltDS.
H. H. CARLTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
atiiums, oa.
0 FF1 ( E on F>r<«l slrett, up at*i r». Enlmnce
mm Uior aUiv. Long’s ltrug Store. Will
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SYLVAN US MORRIS.
. & COUKSELLOR IT UW.
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W ill attoi.d promptly In any bn*ine>» entrusted
• lluunicu:t Mock. lli*ao ireet.
MISCELLANEOUS \1>V
EARS FO * rn£ MILLION!
foo Choo’s Balsam of Shari's Oil
IV.ithrlj llr.torrs Ihe lliarirg. and i> Ike onlj
AhMilate fuie tor llcatkru Knonn.
. 111S Oil i« cxtraotod from a twculior specie*
t cl rnmil V' iimcr'.iAiui, canght in the \ellow
s, n. known a* Caroharodon Kondeletd. Every
1 i,more li.i>oiman kuona it. Us virtues us a
v Morslivo of lid trine wa re discovered by a
Huddliist Priest abo tf the year 1410. Its cures
uer. so I)ulucrum, end lin.ny so seeiniugly
nnraon ous, that ll.e remedy was otBciaPy ;ro-
elaiimd over tin ei tire Empire. It* u-e be
calm, so nniversat that fur over SOU years no
IX.in in- ha> exiau-tl am,ng the Chiues, pt opic.
Scut, charges prepaid, to any address at $1 per
bottle.
Only Imported by HAY LOCK A CO.,
Sole Agents tor Ameren. 7 Dey tv., N.Y.
f Its \ irtm a aro uutpu spowrblc mnj its curative
eharacier absolute, a- the writer can personally
testily, iwih front eX|>ertfTree and observation.
Ann ug li e many reader* of the iteefew it;
one part and another of r he country , it is pro-
t,ubte vliat numbers are afflicted wltn deafness,
ami to siicli il may he said: ** Write at once tu
llavi.silt A Co. 7 l>ey tlicet, New York.en-
e;. singtl, amt you wilt reocife by return a
r« ,m ,iv it,a will i liable you to I,ear like any-
bmly *• lav. and wT,os, curative elfeeis will be
p rmaueft. Yon will never re,,Tst lioingao.”
— 1-sailor , f -New Yuik ile-canule E-view
b. pt.ir,, . dec.14.w2m.
tdvruret iroui a Letter uf Uev Dr. Lovlck
JPieroe, Spuria, «»., April 28,187*.
lias* Sir: ’ have touud your Liver Tonic to
twenty years hence tin- people
country will he much belter able to
pay this largo debt than they will he
ton years hence or two years hence.
I have generally, sir, been opposed to
any idea ot refunding the debt; lint if
it is dor or mined to borrow this money,
it seems to me a question that will
not admit of discussion that we ought
to borrow it on the best possible
terms; and when we come to consider
that question we are also called upon
to consider trot only our ability to pay,
but the character of the debtor as well.
What is the character or the debtor?
Mr. Chairman, we s'and to-day in
he attitude like that, of the fanner
who, vigorous, strong, young, buys on
long time at a low rate of interest a
valuable tract of land, by the proper
cultivation of which, and before the
debt becomes due, he knows he will
be enabled notonly to pay the amount
originally agreed upon to bo paid, but
to extend his farm by buying another.
As a people we are precisely in a
similar condition. Twenty years hence
it will be fur easier for our people to
pay the debt than it will be to pay ten
years hence. Gentlemen have spent
a great deal ot eloquence illustrating
the question of extendmg the time ot
payment of these bonds, and ahout
tile impropriety of saddling posterity
with them. I may ask, in the lan
guage of the distinguished Irish mem •
her, Sir Boyle Roche: * What has
posterity ever done for us ?’ We have
done a great deal for posterity, and
posterity will be in a much better
condition and far more able to pay the
bonds than wc arc.
Mr. Chairman, it is impossible for
the imagination to conceive the pro
gress which will be made in our mag
nificent country within the next
twenty years. I speak particularly of
that portion of our common country
which I have the honor in part to
represent. The Soul h now may be
typified as the man who is just re
covering lrom bankruptcy, who is
paying his debts and beginning to see
a solvent and satislactory future open-'
inre befote him The people of our
section of the country are in a belter
condition than they have. been for
years. They are more nearly out of
debt than they have ever been since
the close of the war. They have
more ready money. Our products
are great and constantly increasing
in value, and produce to our people
the ready money needed tot carrying
on their business operations. But
tweply years from now, it we may
judge of the future by the present
and by the past, and it we improve as
we have in the past few years, we will
be much better able to bear our share
of the burdens ot paying the national
debt.
Gentlemen talk a!-out the surplus
revenues in the Treasmy. Sir, let us
utilize the surplus'revenues by re-bte-
ing the taxation which now Wars
heavily upon all classes. The greater
llte amount that the tanner .and the
citizen in ev ery department ol busi
ness can use, the greater u ill be the
developmet t ot our resources, and
greater results accomplished than can
lie accomplished by hoarding it in the
rational Treasury, or by expending it
with the bondholder.
Mr. Chairman, the fact that this
surplus revenue is tn the Treasury
is evidence, as 1 have alw ays contend
ed, that the Government, without in
jury to the public service, can reduce
the volume of taxation. Sutplus
revenue—that is, teteniie more than
enough. How is it possible for gen
tlemen to maintain here that this
heavy load of taxation shall remain
superimposed on a s ruggling people,
when there is more tliau enough ol
revenues in the Treasury ?. Is not,.the
citizen tar more capable than is the
■talesman, however great bis capacity,
of making those millions of surplus
revenue profitable to tlie country ?
Tito aggregate wealth -.f the country
is buihted up and increased by the
efforts of the iudtvional citizen ; but
w hen you t.aku his capital away lrom
him, in the form ot taxation, you de
prive him of the implements ol hi-
trade and the mean* <>l bis prosperi
ty.
Then, since you “ill refund the
debt, is it not lar b, tt r that the peo-
tlu- bust „i those Liv<
r Kig,listers'. 7 ours,
L. riEBUC.
- tfctuai than smihlng I "ato ny ole of this general ion should relegate
use, 1 , in relict ol hsbitnsl constipation. It is r it .. , L ,:
I)tt. E» S, LvsnoR—PrarSir: 1
tinA words to express my cratitnde to you for
me iniwtonlsblc Bencat 1 nave derived lrom the
use of “fiwUb’s Liver Tonic.” For two years
1 suffered with Liver disease in the worst form,
iu.,1 never had any permanent rebel until the
tirst of last November, when J procured a bottle
of the Liver Tonic. Sinai then, i nave used
onto two and a half bottlea. and am entirely
«....ft. 1 have not felt u symptom ot the disease
o-t taking the first doe*. 1 had previously
..j; (cvcrsl physicians and tnany other reme-
„ n ,i all tailed to affect me benetieia'.W.
iilLcctful.v. K. ELLEN PATMAN.
* li*i*GTON,GA., May 12*1878.
Miss LIU " Fhuuau* in my dmuglGor, and 1
I i Til 11 i onmlvss by making money
.HELrSbi^ilsr-r^
from vote door. Those who slwsvs tike *d-
tlmt are offered, generally
while those who do no: Impyfr goh^g
rt mom ii« t.ovtr»y.
it tii to' i and id work lor oa Fiffht 5b
lYuir oV.‘ M». -m e>,
moiwthat*
to those who come after us the dis
charge of those obligations which the
policy of the Government and the
course of events ha* imposed upon us?
By this course the taxes can be at
once reduced. The surplus millions
left in the hands of the people; the
expenses of collecting these surplus
millions can Ire saved to the Treasury,
and twenty years hence the debt can
tm discharged by a thrifty and pros
perous people, whom wealth of mate'
rial resource will not feel the burden
of payment. Sir, does not the ex
perience of the past twenty years bear
me out in this argument ? How in
calculably more prosperous is the
country at large to'day than it was
twenty years ago? And, sir, in all
likelihood the next generation will not
be compelled, aa we have been, to
boar the distressing and fearliiT pres
ence of civil war. How much is the
American to be congratulated when
it is remembered that the existence of
the wonderful and rapidly increasing
wealth of this country is, in syite ot
i»d fhS; No one Who «n«ge» fxils to m.«
S^ne+ytry ripidly. You* wt dsvott your
w’knk?timo tn'uie wo»k, or 1 «*ty your sps»
moment*. >'“» mtorugiimj ap£a“ ‘^“J* 1 the fact that within the past twenty
A«rSs J ear8 thc fiery ude of rcvolatton has
swept over our country, ingulfing in
its-horrii sweep millions of property,
thus subtracted from our resources,
and thousands of valuable lives which
would otherwise have been spent in
the development of individual and
national wealth.
Mr. Chairman, I have alluded
briefly to the fact that the Southern
States of the Union will by this policy
bo enabled to recu|>erate and to ac
quire that prosperity which will add
our natural and proper share to the
strength of the country. The sound
est principles of economic science, the
ablest exponents of economio thought,
are hotf speaking in : no uncertain
sound in behalf of that section. Such
splendid journals as the New York
Herald and the Chicago Times, won
derful vehicles of information to the
people, are advertising the matchless
and almost untouched domain which
the Southern States contribute to our
national territory. If Horace Greeley
lived to-day, he would say ‘Go
South ’ to the energy, the youth,
and the innustry of the Northern
States; and, sir, as a representative
of that people, elected by them to ex
press their sentiments, I say to the
young men of the Norih come South
and aid us in developing the possi
bilities of our country. Again, sir,
is it not true that these short, ootids
deprive the advocates of revenue re
form of their best arguments? If
the bonds are to be paid two years
hence, the money must be raised, and
it will be raised in the way of revenue
taxation.
It seems to me, Mr. Chairman, that
the advocates of free trade, by swal
lowing this fallacy of a short bond,
are walking into the toils of the pro-
tection'sts. If the revenues of litis
Government are to be expended m
paying off these rapidly-maturing
bonds, revenue reduction will be
impossible, and to revise the tariff
likewise impossible. For my jiart,
it is in the revision of the tariff
that I base a sure hojoe for
the rapid improvement in the coil
dilion of the Southern States. Sir, if
you will exempt machinery for the
manufacture of cotton thread and
goods from tho-e import duties which
the tariff imposes, you will do a great
deal more for the Souih than can be
accomplished by the triumph ot any
financial scheme, however propitious
that scheme may be. It is in the man
ufnctnre of cotton goods that the best
investment for southern capital is
found. By nature every condition is
a (forded to make this great industry
profitable. Our snowy southern sta
ple, ot which we have the monopoly,
wili flourish and produce at the very
door of the factory. Plentifully sup
plied with water-power, the motive
power of our factories is furnished by
nature. When the streams of your
northern rivers are frozen from bank to
bank, and the wheels of the factories
are clogged with ice, under the influ
ences of our genial climate the work
of the southern cotton-mill goes on un
impeded ; and, sir, by some subtle
law ot nature, the cotton is spun and
woven with more facility in that cli
mate which is its habitat. So in
freight, in transportation, in labor, in
climate, in everything, the southern
manufacturer has the advantage of all
others. These are no conjectures ; they
are facts. They are proven by the
price of factory stock in the Southern
Slates; and yet we are prevented
from embarking our capital in the
manufacture ot cotton by that protec
tive tariff which fastens on cotton ma
chinery a prohibitory duty, and com
pels the manufacturer of cotton goods
l<> pay twice the price it is worth for
the machinery he purchases. Sir, the
protective tariff intends, it is preten
ded, to encourage American industry.
It is not a cotton factory at the South
an American indus'ry ? It is, and
the industry o' all others that is best
suited to flonri-h in that country ; and
yet, sir, when we seek to purchase the
tools of our industry we find that we
are handicapped by the tariff. He is
no true economist who will refuse to
encourage the cotton industry of the
South. In I860 the South produced
with slave labor 3,626,086 bales of cot
ton. In 1870, with free labor, ten
years later, in 1879-’?0 the crop was
5,625,000 bales. And, sir, when
tell you that the old, worn-out .lands,
under the present system of cultiva
tion, produce as well as or belter
than when they were originally
cleared ; when I tell you tiiat not a
lithe ot our lertile lands fitted tor the
cultivation of cot ton have yet been cul
tivated, il is easy to see the immense
source of national strength which is
to be found in that staple, which is
practically restricted to the climate
and the territory of ihe Southern
States.
Mr. Chairman, there are lew car
goes which are treighud from the
ports of our country which possess
the merchantable value ot a shipload
of compressed cotton bales A ship
load of wheat, or of bacon, or of iron
is not worth so much. But, sir, if
you would have tbrever the balance
of trade in favor of our country help
us to manolacture in the South the
cottou crop that isgatheied in the
South. Sir, in that way employment
will bo given to our citizens; the
wages that are paid to the artisans of
Manehest,-r and of the cotton-mano-
iacturing world will go to the work*
ing people of our own country The
profits of the manufacture ot cottou
will enhance the individual and nation
al wealth ot America, and, sir, when
you foot up the exports and atrilte
the balance you will find that a ship
load of manufactured cotton goods is
worth far more than a ship-load „f
compressed cotton.
Now, Mr. Chairman, when I see
that these short hoods may possibly
prevent any revision of the tariff:
when I recognise the fact that in or
der to meet their maturity, tne reve
nues of the government must he"
as at present, nay, even
ot my service here is, if ppssil^t tjL
remove this obstacle from the advafijee-
meut in diversified industries orSWi
people of so large a section ofhent'
country, 1 feel fully justified in declar
ing that it is far preferable to have h
refunding act which would pernilwtuo
revenue to be reduced, the tariff; re
vised and to remit to the prcNEWffi
ot th - tuture the easy duty olwySi
charging these obligations.
THE
(Editorial from the Christian Tj
The esstetnfal poHTt
Cobb’s Southern view ot the negro
question, as presented to the readers
of The Christian Union in its last
three nnml>er§, is, it we uaders'and
him aright, that the North should
work witlt and tlnough the Souih in
working for the negro. The general
principle is a sound one. The For
eign Missionary Societies are begin-
THE PRESS OX EJI0RY SPEER.
(ColamVus Enipiirer-Sim.)
Speer, of Georgia, the independent,
has introduced a bill iu congress to
remove the import duty from machin
ery for making cotton thread and cot
ton goods. ' While this is all correct
ami in accordance with the wishes of
our people, introduced at this late day
when nothing can possibly he done
and. the bill be hardly reached, it has
jtlje ait of bunkum, a mere election-
eving dodge to influence a constitu
ency If such a measure could be
w.-.-, d jt would be ofimmegsa benefit}— ~
o'biir portion of the union.
(Augnsts Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
On Friday last, in the debate on
the refunding bill, Hon. Emory Speer
made a speech, which compacted a
very largo amount of sense in a com
paratively short space. We are net
only pleaded with the matter ot this
speech, but its manner. The style is
ning to learn it We can never clean-cut, judicious and entirely be
Cl risltanize China’s tour Lnudred
millions by sending missionaries to
convert them all. We must help
China to help herself. Wo must
educate Chinese missionaries topreaeh
the Gospel to the Chinese. But there
are exceptions to this general prinei -
pie. When the war closed there was
not a single Southern State that hail
even the rain or the seed of a 'it tie
free-school system. In most of them
teaching llte laboring classes—that is.
the negroes—had been a penal offense.
Tbe e were many communities which
did not even know what a free school
was , others which had been sedul
ously taught to hate it. The nation
could not afford to wait till this
changed ot itself. The North was
prosperous, the South poor; the
North had free schools, the South
none. And the first thing tor the
North to do wa-just what it did, go
into the South without waiting tor an
invitation and carry, its free schools
and plant them there.
But this time has passed. There is
not a Southern State now that has
not something of a free-school system.
There is not a Slate that would' not
be glad of a better system. There is
not one which, as a State, is opposed
to the rudimentary education of the
negroes. To-day the thing for the
North to do is to work with and
through the South. The South may
lead it site will, and we will follow.
The nation ought to make national
appropriations to be expended by the
Southern States. The Northern mis
sionary ass< >ciat ions ought to secure the
aid and fellowship of Southern work
ers in their missionary schools. If we
are not mistaken they are working in
this direction. They have stopped
planting primary schools and are
maintaining normal schools. That is,
they are helping the South 5.0 help
herself; and Mr. Cobb and all those
who with him are prepared to hope
and labor and pray tor a new South,
may depend on it that the great body
ot the Northern people will be only
too glad to act on his principle and
work with the South for the negro,
just as fast as the South will give us
the chance. Offer us the partnership
and see if we do not accept it.
But do not wonder that we do not
wait lor the offer. The North owes
a duty, and loyally impels it. The
North treed the negro; freed him in
spite of the sword and the bay ouet of
the South. The North gave him the
ballot; gave it him iu spite ot the
protests, not always gently phrased,
and resistance, not always legally or
constitutionally carried out, frotn the
South. Whether it was right in free
ing the negro, whether it w.,s right in
giving him the ballot, we need not
here di-cu's. But having assumed
ibis responsibility, loyally to the
negro, loyalty to the South, loyalty to
the nation requires it to go on and
help to fit the negro lor freedom and
the ballot. We had no right to tike
him from the protection ot his mas
ter ao ' deny him our ow n ; no right
to give him the ballot and make nq
effort to educate him to use it; no
right to ihru-t on the South a system
of free labor and tree voting which
requires also free schools, and given
no aid in planting them; no right to
sacrifice limits mds of lives and mil
lions ot money to destroy slavery ami
do nothing to rebuild free institutions
where slavery’s ruins lie. The North
has »nt its hand to the plow and will
not look back; but it will welcome
every such hand a* that ot Mr.
Howell Cobb : tretched out to unite
with it in a work too large and too
important to be other than a work of
< he whole nation, and of all in it who
1 ve theireduntry and their fellow men.
(Katoatoa Messenger.)
Emory Speer has done a good thing.
He has introduced a bill in Congress
to remove the duties from cotton ma
chinery. We hope the bill will pass.
(Rome Conner.)
By his bill to admit tree of duty all
machinery used in the mnnufacturemf
cottou, Hon. Emory Speer falls iuto
line with the ‘ Bourbou’ democracy,
where every one will be found who
has the manliness to speak out for
equal rights to all.
(Atlanta Poafflppea^j""
Whenever we bear from
The Objects or Real Charity and Friendship.
BY REV. DR. GLUCK.
Many a one has been in affluence in
days gone by ; he had hoped that his
latter days would be free from want
and care. But who is able to rely
with confidence upon the stability of
aught in this evanescent world ? His
fortune was dissipated, little by little,
from the effect*, perhaps, ot top much
confidence placed in the undeserving,
or from the suddenness 6f r political
changes whioh .caused his well-laid
plans to fail, or from the weight of
dissensions with which he or his family
may-have-been-afflicted. Go Lid lie
coming to the subject. Mr. Speer
very pro[>erly says that posterity will
have a much better opportunity of
tearing the burdens ol the public debt
than the present generation, and his
quotation from Sir Boyle Roach that
‘ posterity has done nothing for us,’
was as neat as it was happy.
The limits of the debate required
brevity, aud yet Mr. Speer really said
all that was essential in the lime al
lotted him. His picture of the prog
ress of the country, aud more espe-.
daily the industrial advance of the
South, cannot, in the same space, be
excelled. He sums up that no part
of the common country has brighter
prospects than the section lie in part
represents so honorably and conspic
uously ; that the- tide that once went
westward will deflect southward, in
the next two decades, and he cordially
invites, as we all do, the people of
East and West to come among us aud
settle, lie sketches what the South
has done of late years, tu manufactur
ing aud agriculture, and demonstrates
the wonderful possibilities in store for
her, the mote so if some of the bur
dens now the reproach ot the tariff—
notably as to cotton machinery—be
lifted altogether or lightened justly.
Mr. Speer favors a long bond, in
order that the tariff may be revised
and the internal revenue reduced. To
these duties he pledges himself, and
from the energy, tact and ability he
has already displayed, we argue the
best of futures for him. That he will
strive to advance his section’s and his
country’s interest, as coincidental with
bis own, we have every reason to be
lieve ; ami that he may d" so, in all
wholesome wavs, is our sin,- -re wish.
Emory
Speer he is engaged in putting in his
best work for the material interests of
this section. Yesterday he intro
duced a bill exempting from import
duty all machinery used in the manu
facture of cotton thread and cotton
goods. This is the kind of work that
pays. A business-like talk from Mr.
Speer in advocacy of such a bill is
worth a hundred loug speeches on
State Rights, the doctrine of secession,
and other stale subjects,
((Vsshiuuton Cor. Atlanta Constitution.)
No Georgian cau visit Washington
without being proud of the teps
utation and character of Emory
Speer, the youngster from the
ninth. The overwhelming major
ity by which Speer was re
turned, over a man hitherto invinci
ble, has convinced public men here,
that lie is uot of brittle metal, but
that lie has entered public life, not as
an accident, but as one who has fought
Itia way in aud intends to stay. When
we add to this the tacts that Speer has
irreproachable habits; is modest, con
servative and prudent; attends closely
to his business, studies assiduously
and intelligently, and retains all of
his natural force and brilliancy—it is
not hard to predict his future. His
success, which is usually fatal to young
men and has destroyed so many bright
young Georgians, l as only steadied
him and impressed him with the ne
cessity of discarding all trifling habits
and addressing himself earnestly
to the essential affairs of life.
He already stands in the trout ranks
of the house, aud is esteemed and
admired by those members whose
opinion is really valuable. In the
next twenty years Emory Speer will
play an important part in the public
life of this country, and Georgia will
be proud of him.
J. T. WATaRMAN,
IPSOPRlBlun.
A XOBLE LIFE ENDED.
..CP McCaTa, who was convicted of
forging or-iers for maimed soldiers, has
been •inli-ncud to eight years in the
IMiiitentiary. The judge asked the
pris uier it he bad anything to say in
his own behalt why sentenced should
not be passed upon him. The prison
er, ri-ing slowly and stepping towards
the judge’s desk replied that tie had,
and stated that he was wholly iuno-
cent of any intentional wrong doing,
anil that in every it stance where_ be
bad collected money on the soldiers’
applications he had paid it over to the
rightful owner, and that if there was
anything wrong in his transactions
about procuring the money on the ap
plications presented for payment by
hint, he was net aware of it, and that
he h id means of knowing it J B
Walker, who is charged with being
implicated will not be tried until
April next.
It is said in New York society
circles that Vice President elect
Arthur is to be married to Mrs.
Marshal (>. Roberts, 'whose husband
died leas than one year ago. General
Arthur’s wife has been dead about a
year. Gossip says the marriage will
not take place till next fall. Mrs.
Roberta is a handsome woman, and
(Springtie 11 Maas., Republican.)
Speer, by the way, is one of the
coming met/down South. He is a
young fellow, only a little past 32, and
both in age and sentiment represents
that new South which is everywhere
pushing to the front, but nowhere
more boldly and successfully than in
Georgia. He comes of an old family,
and took to polities early. At 25 he
was appointed solicitor-genera! for the
western judicial circuit, and in March,
1877, he ran for Congress as Ben Hill’s
successor, but was beaten. In 1878
he ran again as an independent candi
date, and this time was elected, at the
age ol 30, and last tall he was re
elected by an increased majority. He
is a fine-looking young man, and must
be a very effective speaker ou the
stamp, where he and his rival held joint
discussions for weeks before the elec
tion. He is somewhat inclined to the
florid and turgid in oratory, but he will
dotibtles outgrow these faults, and he
has the redeeming trait of always hav
ing something to say. Going into
politics as an independent against the
organized democracy, he has steadily
grown in liberality and breath of view.
Although he prides himself upon bes
ing a democrat, he is the farthest re.
moved from the old bourbon type of
democracy, and the average republican
would find little to criticise in his po-
siton as rega'ds the best policy tor the
.South ami tlie country. He stood
mi against his party on the question
of * riders ’ upon appropriation bills at
the last session, and lie takes issue
with it now on tiie electoral question.
It marks a long step forward when a
man can break with his party in this
way, and then go home to au over
whelmingly democratic district in
Georgia anil be re-elected by a larger
majority than before.
(Augusta Sunday Mirror )
Emory Speer has introduced in the
House a bill to exempt cotton ma
chinery from du’y, and he is very
hopeful of its passage. This measure
would lie of great benefit to the South,
and certes of all the brilliant and pow
erful intellect* which Georgia has sent
to the national capita', she has never
been represented by a grander mind
than is poised in the young states
man from the Ninth.
... ^_ TT - T - T —, has been twice a widow. Rumor
whqn',1 declare that one great object says that she has inherited- M,000,000
(From the Cleveland Advertiser.)
We have examined with some care
an interview between Hon. |Emory
Speer and a representative of the Chi
cago Times. We see that Mr. Speer
is taking a very strong and decided
stand in the interest of the people
Mhora he represent*. While we did
not support Mr. Speer in his last race
for Congress yet we are unwilling to
refnie to accord to him that mood of
praise his services to his country and'
constituency merit Mr. Speer takes
broad and liberal views—is ni t held
down by party, or party prejudices;
bat says he represents the people of
the progressive South. He has stead
ily and earnestly presented the great
natural resources of our section to the
Northern people, and by ao doing, is
entitled to praise, not cetisure, from
that sectioD. Altogether, we are
S leased with J the interview between
>r. Speer and the Times reporter,
because it shows,that Mr, Speer is ip.
sympathy with the people of the,
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•—s.l fofl nrv jJ .ig-.ui .- -
Auguita Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
With surprise and griet we have
learned of the death, at St. Louis, on
the 16lh itist., of Col. Frank Sehaller.
Information reaches ns that his illness
was painful and lingering, so that
death, as it had to come, was in the
nature of a blessed relief. The de
ceased was the son of a German Gen
eral who commanded the artillery
forces ot Saxony. He graduated,
with distinction, at the University of
Tena, and, alter a thorough military
education, he entered the engineer
corps as a Lieutenant. Becoming
involved in political troubles, he left
his native laud and became a citizen
ot the United States. He entered the
Confederate service, rose to the rank
of Colonel, and participated in a num
ber of battles. Men not worthy to be
mentioned in the same breath with
him were advanced in rank over his
head, and this galled his pride and
crushed his Spirit. We have seldom
met with a man ot so many and varied
accomplishments, and yet one who
either coaid not advance bis interests
or scorned to use the petty arts, and
flatteries sometimes deemed necessary
for success. No man in Georgia, we
take it, had so thorough an educa
tion. Col. Sehaller was acquainted
with several languages, with the cir
cle of the sciences, and he was also an
admirable artist. He wrote with un
common force oii topics of the day,
education, immigration, current poli
tics, agriculture, ettto, etc. He resided
tor some years at Athens, and was an
instructor of youth there. Why so
gifted a person should have been neg
lected in this State, we do not know.
Of late years he has been a Professor
at the bewam-e College, in Tennessee.
By what fatafity he drifted to St.
Louis, and there, by the Father o!
Waters, laid down the burden of life,
we have not ascertained.
The writer of these lines knew Col.
Sehaller well and admired him great-
ly. The intelligence of his dea'h bears
with it a direct personal interest and
significance. We sincerely mourn for
him and trust that his two daughters,
the grandchildren ot the venerable
and revered Madame Sophie Sosnows-
ki, may be comforted in their affliction
by Him who gave and who taketb
away. With their father departed a
noble life. His memory remains, and
is a precious heritage If be was not
appreciated at his full value by men,
may he be all the more rewarded by
the hosts of Heaven 1
who had seen belter days resort to
begging—perchance to be refused
and spurned by those through whose
villainy he was reduced to his present
distressed situation ?
No—not while charity and real
friendship exists, who in relieving,
teel no interest in making the appli
cant ashamed ; who in bestowing need
not, will not |iublicly proclaim that a
fellow-being has been reduced to pov<
erty ; who in succoring distress will
screen the wounded and tender feel
ings which the needy often experience.
And when in bis old days comfort
dwells in his house, he will ask the
peace of heaven upon the benevo
lent that cheered his declining years,
Iu the day ot youthful vigor, man
tread, lightly the path of life. Fortune
seems to smile on his enterprise, and
he dreads not the coming day of evil.
He enjoys life, because of thebouyan-
cy of his heart, and he dreams not
that it is incumbent on him to hus
band his resources, and to lay up
provision for his family, because ot the
coming day of death. But alas! the
enemy may be lurking near, although
uuperceived, and suddenly the youth
ful aspirant is taken from the midst of
his pursuits, and he is borne to the
silent, dark and narrow grave. When
living, the world thought him pros
perous ; but the gay outside deceived
them; and when the lonely widow
looks into ihe deranged affairs of her
departed husband, she discovers that
beggary and want are before her, lrom
a heartless, selfish world, that only
laughs with the prosperous, but frowns
upon the unhappy. She may not,
cannot, look tor support in her straits.
But when the helping hand of a real
friend aud charitable man is near, she
has one who will console and assist
her, and when her heart has ceased to
mourn, she will lift up her soul to God
and thank Him that He raised up to
her friends in the hour of trouble, of
need and affliction.
It. may well comport with the views
of the proud aud selfish to leave those
in need to go to destruction, who
have no wealth to bestow, no favors to
grant. But how would they feel—
were they to be made conscious that
they should die in want—their wives
lie left helpless widows, and their
children unprotected orphans ?
And is this end so very improba
ble to those even who deem them
selves firmly seated ? Ask the annals
of poverty what arc the bods of the
great and wealthy ? and you will be
told, that they are among the miser
ably poor, and descendants of kings
are houseless wanderers, strangers
and exiles from the countries which
their fathers governed. Now, should
the rich man then not remember in
his prosperity the needy and the
fatherless, in order, that when his own
children or he himself may call, they
too shall find protectors and benevo
lent friends?
Ask those who sit among the great
of the laud, who are they that scatter
blessings wherever they go; and you
will be told; .they are the sons of the
lonely widow, the children ot humble
parents, the orphan who neither had
a father’s care, nor a mother’s love,
raised by a life of integrity, of virtue
and of kindness to the proud eminence
which they now enjoy. And is it not
something animating to the charita
bly disposed to believe that by his
exertions, some one may perhaps be
raised from an humble condition, per
haps from vice and its concomitant
degradation to a sphere of usefulness
and happiness ?
Bnt there are those so acting; these
always have been friends of their
species, who disdained not to spend
their lime and their means, to effect
so noble a work.
A VERY HEAK TRICK
For a Couple of To-— ladle* to Play on a
Third.
— c** 3*
It livingjii»
ng ootlse Off Charles street play
ed a mighty mean trick Sunday night
on.nnpther young and attractive mai
den living ip the same house. They
all-hafl some cako and wine together,
and in the unsuspecting one’s glass
was poured a small portion of tincture
of assafoeu'da, which, as everyone
knows, smells like a conglomeration
of onions, bad eggs, decayed vegeta
bles and a host of other disgreeable
things too numerous to mention. The
prank playing damsels knew that the
unhappy maid's Charles Augustus
usually called on Sunday night, and
they also knew that while she could
uot detect the flavor of the assafoetida
in the fragrant wine, nevertheless, it
would produce to her aforesaid Charles
Augustus the impression that she foul
been eating onions by thy peck, Poor,
pretty little unsuspecting, thing L She
was radiant when she flew to the door
and admitted the minly form of the
object of her heart’s affections; and
she did not observe,.as.they werelock-
ed in a dose embrace," that as hi* fips
met hers, drawing in a dimple in the
back of ber neck,’that a look of wild,
CASH VS. CREDIT.
People who buy for cash always
buy cheaper than those who bay on
credit. They buy also more closely,
and select more carefully. Purchases
which are paid for when made, are
limited more exactly to the purchas
er’s wants. There is nothing like hav
ing to count the money out when the
article is bought to make people eco
nomical. The amount of indebtedness
incurred is not much considered when
the pay day is for off Persons who
do all their business on a cash basis,
know just where they stand and what
they can afford. Real wants are few
ana can be gratified for cash; at all
events they should be limited to what
can be paid for in cash. How much
of anxiety, how many heart bnrnings,
disappointments, and regrets would
be avoided if this rule was strictly
adhered to?
•',bst»!. : -•« oi > '■ -y.i '):.:
THE SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR FEBRUARY.
This is the second number of tbe
ninth volume of this excellent period
ical, which is now conducted, we see,
by the llev. Alfred Taylor, an experi
enced correspondent and editor. The
former editor of The Sunday Maga
zine, Rev. Dr. Deem*, will, it is an
nounced, be henceforth a regular con
tributor, and other attractive features
have been added which will increase
its already popularity. The present
number is literally crowded with good
things, of which our space will only
permit a. general notice. ‘ The Tem
perance Movement,’ by Alfred H.
Guernsey, ‘Missionary Success in
Tahiti,’ by the Rev. Daniel Edwards,
‘ Characteristics of the Esquimanx,’
are replete with interest and informa
tion, and literally illustrated. * Hard
Places in the Bible,’ by Rev. Dr.
DeemsJ; * Women of the Bible,’ ‘In
ternational Sunday-school Lessons,’
‘ The Home Pulpit,’ etc., are among
the many noteworthy features. In
the department of fiction ‘ Out of the
World’ is continued, and there are
numerous short storic^ sketches,
says and poems by diatingushed writ
ers. The miscellany is unusually
abundant Iu fact, tbe number is a
really attractive one in its literary and
artistic features, and highly creditable
to the editor. It contains 128 quarto
pages and over 100 illustrations. 81
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House, 53, 55 and 57 Park Place,
New York.
Farm hands are scarcer id Thomas
county than they have been since the
war.
jst'ttnq He Vvoctol ■ ,1: u V
nuutterable horror spread over his
noble lineaments a dusty pallor. He
cut the embrace short, and they went
and took their places on the cozy tete-
a-tete in the corner. Then she noticed
that there was a far-off, troubled look
in his eyes, and he shifted about unea
sily as if vaguely aware that' some
thing was tho matter but that he
couldu’i exactly tell what it was. She
couldn’t detect the odor, which resem
bled day before yesterday’s fried on
ions, and which was lingering dreamily
around on the soft, warm air.
‘ Dearest,’ asked she, shyly, ‘ what
is the matter V
‘Nothing, sweetheart, nothing, that
is—nothing,’ answered he, as his gaze
flew swiftly from one object to an
other. ;
But there must be,’ said she, lean
ing forward. • You are not yourself
to-night. You have something on
your mind- Tell me, darling ;’ and
she tried 10 gaze into his face, while
he dodged her with a look in hia eyes
like that of a hunted wild beast.
My love, you are not well,’ said
she, anxiously, as she wound her arm
about his neck and drew his head
about until their faces nearly touched.
‘ Wh-h-hat is the matter ?’ and she
tenderly sighed Iter soul. into his tace.
‘Oh, great Godfrey!’ be groaned
as tbe fatal simom struck him. ‘ You
—that is I—am not feeling very well.’
‘ But, dearest you seemed all right
when you came in,’ she persisted,
lovingly, and then she sighed again,
and he jumped like a goaded mule
and kicked over a little table.
‘ I know I did,’ said he, nervously
picking up the poker and abstractedly
putting it in his coat-tail pocket. ‘ I
know I did, but I'm awful bad now.
I’m afraid I’ll have to go,’ he con
tinued, as she leaned over toward him
again. ‘ I think I am going to have
the yellow fever.’
‘Gracious, Charles,’ said she, ‘can
it be that you are ill ?’
‘ Yes,’ answered he as he arose and
ran the poker through his hair in an
ill-directed, agitated manner. ‘ Good
night, darling. Don’t kiss me,’ he
continued, shuddering, ‘you might
catch tbe tatal scourge,’ and he burst
out ot the door and disappeared.
The young girl, as she wandered
distressed and musing out of the
room, next tackled a gruff old lodger,
who, in pretty strong language, con
vinced her of the fact that she had
been eating onions, and she discovered
the joke by asking the same girls who
had played the trick ou her in an
agonized tone of voice if her breath
was really perceptible. They ex
ploded with ill-timed lovity, and then
told her all. She says now Bhe never
will have anything to do tyith them
again as long aa she lives, and as for
Charles Augustus, well v
GEORGIA*NEWS.
A three years old negro boy was
burned to death at Toccoa.
A fire in Valdosta’ burned a furni
ture store valued at 82,000.—
In Marion county two negroes slept
together, and one robbed the other of
$9.00 and a pair of boots, i'j
There are in Georgia only 10,310
people of foreign birth. This is be
cause Georgia does uot encourage
immigration. —
Mrs. Rebecca Frost, of .Tart county,
is 107 years old; is in good health aud
in the enjoyment of all her faculties.
She relates many reminiscences of the
revolutionary war.
At a meeting of the creditors of
the firm of Welch & Bacon, who re
cently failed in Albany, it was shown
that the assets are 8498,25417, and
the liabilities $476,269.79.
Kit Brown a negro boy 16 years of
age, near Alapaha armed himself with'
a turpentine axe and stealthily ap
proached a sleeping negro, and struck
iiim a blow on the side of the head,
inflicting a ghastly wound, and leav
ing a portion of the brain exposed.
He was arrested'and jailed.
Saturday, at Griffin, three bad ac
cidents occurred. At Blaulon’s mill,
a negro girl accidentally shot herself,
and at "John Tillman’s bar-room, a
negro carelessly banded a loaded shot
gun over the counter, striking the
hammer on tbe edge. The gun went
off, emptying”tho contents into a crowd
of negroes sitting near the stove. One
was shot in the shoulder and face, a
shot also entering bis eye. Another
took the load m his breast and shoul
der, and is badly injured. John
Muckle, in another row, op Mr. Beck’s
f lace near town, took ap axe belve to
’eter Rogers, and broke his arm'with
it. The cause of this difficulty was
knocking off hats, i :i ini
The Toccoa News says: It was onr
pleasure to visit the famous Toccoa.
Falls ou Sunday last, after the suqw
on Saturday. We shall not attempt
to describe the grandeur 61 the scene
they presented. The creek was frozen
over, and at the base of the reck over
which the water fall*, the snoW and
frozen spray had soounmlaAed to tbe
depth of about sixteen feet, and was
sufficiently firm t<6 admit pf otjtfs walk-.
ing upon it To. use a homely expreo*
sion, it looked like about fifty or sev
enty-five bales of cotton had -been
ginned at the top and thrown . over'
loose. , Icicles were hanging from top.
ledges, ten to fourteen feet in length.
Ji gnirrpit! WMWit* w»*j ?v> ,’
