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Newspaper Page Text/ A Al y "Aa ■ “njt (rniulug»!«. itv. J. MT. WATBHMAN, BPOPR1ETOR. ll.\Tl> OP Al'VKUTIf ING AdT.*rtlrt*mcnl* will 1m? in**rterl atth *ra*« of One iMlur j*cr Inch for the fimt inncTiion, and Filly Cent# tor each additional insertion CONTRACT RATES: One Iftcli - Two Im-bes...^.- Threa Inche*—.. Four Inches ... Quarter Column -t 4 UO* 6 00 9 J . .J 510 00 6 (Htl 7 00 10 00] 16 00 t A0 20 00 L00 I All W:e o Utt a « .4 00, 6 CH> 7 00, 10 5 » 0 7 001 8 50 12 6 00| 8 00] 10 00 19 7 60 10 00 12 60, 20 10 00 16 00 2" 00' 80 001 60 00 16W^H)0^jjMK^ 90 0d! 00 00 IIAIL.ROAD 3CHEI> U L.E. N or ^eastern Railroad, Athene i*a., Juit. 181ft, h81. f PAHT MA11. TIIAIA. NO. NO. 3. .. . 4.80 a iu I 8:30 p in .... 6.3*» a ni | 5:50 p m . '.*.46 » in | i».4o p in N < K 2. nvl*47 4.00 u in ) 8:0 > p in 6:.lo u in | *f»pm 12:30 a m j 45 p rn «j»t Mindav. Ti »n» 1, 2 with all Fast fti . Wt-ftl if* on Air Line Ki. .way. c» boaud pussciiu'er train iv, when it will m i»t until i*'o doii.tf u con .e* ; ; on cut. Paeni'iijri-rM leaving A . hens at 4:30 a. me: ulosely ui Lula with the Fuat until irain for Alh.nla, lime ft hours mid lft minutes, making oniii eliou at Atlanta lor all j.-oinla West Georgia Kail Road Company frtrmjMiiNPKST’a Office, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY i I THE CHEAPEST PAPER IN GEORGIA—ONE DOLLAR A YEAR—IN ADVANCE. 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 | Hunt fat ts^oif ibm tHki ltMAN wIlW. Snp’t. twenty years hence tin* people of this , Nov. 188m , bth inHt,thv i vlL.wing II opptmie oii t!.is road: H.ift a m 6 uo p tr. 1) 45 a u ~ it.20 a u V.48a m .... 11.1*6 A M 30 P n. oft |> ID 30 j* iu . 11.21 A 11 ... 1.4" A V .. 5.43 p u . ..2 lv> P U .. 4.4ft ? u .. 6.46 P ji .. .3 47 pm ... P.35 AM ... 7.00 A M i "O p in > 16 p II ' 80 i in 5 00 in Ma> . ,l".4ft A M . 7.15 A v S 45 p U) 1.12 Pi. ft Lft) u in .. 1.27 pm 5 15 a m .. 1.45 pm 6 40 a in An i . 2.0a il 2.27 1 •M 6 I 6 20 a m Arrive Winlervill* 3." 2 pm r ftft a in Anivr Aidoh.*- 3.80pm 7 So a tr Trul"* run daily—so connection to *.r from Wtush'iiglon on &iuulu\t*or between Alucon and Cair.uk in citli -r direction on Sunday nigliu*. L. K. DoKM.k, Gel)., I’nsf*., Agl. S. K. Johnson, Snpt. r.iLAhiA l CHARLtfTb z3.ir-I-.ine Railway. Passenger Department CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Atlanta, Ga., Junuary 16th, 1881. v)n h..« mier Jan. 16th 1881, Train** will rur on tliis road us* IoUowa : DAY PASSKNGLR TRAIN—EASTWARD. Arrive at Lula 630 am Leave i-ulu 6 31 a WX!*TWARD. Arrive at Lula ... 9.88 p M Leave l.nla 9.89 P NIGHT PASAKNGKR TRAIN-EASTWARD. -Arrive ut j.uIm ft.55 p y * 3 56 P M WESTWARD. Arrive id Lula 9.57 a m Iajuvc 9.38 a m L>CAL Tl.EIGHT TRAIN—XABTW A3U>. Arrive at i.ula :1.33 a Leave 11.68 a m W kkVWuU)i Arrive at Lula - 12.07 a m Ivave 12.26 p u THROUGH PRKIG1IT TRAIN— EASTWARD Arrive at Lula 6.20 P M 5.35 p m WESTWARD. Arrive ut Lula 8.41 a u Leave 8.53 A M < lobe connection at Atlunta tor ail poiuie \V»nt ana South weat. Connecting »t 1'liarloUt ♦'•rail poinia Limt. Thrmigh TiekoU oU Rule a. t.taincsv’dle, Seneca City, Greenville and ..o.titanburg to all point* Last am VN cat. ti. J. FOKKACRL, General 6l.ui«gir \V. J. HOUSTON lieu. Ticket \,r’ 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 ,; isixl i,niu>i,u> t< • iiU i UMUess eutrnHeit to his , c , ort; SYLVAN US MORRIS. . & COUKSELLOR IT UW. zltixx:tts, Giioncxa.. 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, fflMlWiif . * t m> t Hp •—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 a year; single copy, 25 cents—post paid- Frank Leslie’s Publishing 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> ,’

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Athens banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1880-1881, January 25, 1881, Image 1