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J fie Seaport Appeal, To thine own sell be true: Add it nniet follow, u the night the day. Thou canet not then be falae to any man. • CAREY W. STYLES, Editor and Proprietor. ANNllfb- SUBSCRIPTION, S* 00. sikule comas, rtnt ousts. BRUNSWICK, - TUESDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 9 18V9. The Clerk’s room at the M bite House has been closed to newspaper men. The premature publication of the President’s message is the cause of this. - Tur. Atlanta Constitution says the Macon & Brunswick railroad is doing n staving business, having turned in to the Comptoller SIOB,OOO earnings the other day. Hon. N. J. Hammond, member of Congress from the Fifth Georgia Dis -i trict, who is suffering greatly from! boils, is at Hot Springs, Ark., and will not bo at Washington for some time. —♦♦♦- The report of Secretary Sherman shows that the expenditures of the Interior, War mid Indian Depart ments for the fiscal year 1879 were all in excess of those of the previous year. - ♦ —— The State Bailroad Commission is thoroughly organized and at work. The Railroad officials will now have a resting spell, as this Commission will naturally take the peoples’ curses off their heads. ♦ -♦♦♦- ♦ The negroes of Georgia return this year $5,182,397 of taxable values, against $5,124,875 last year. If their thrift equalled their physical endur ance and labor capabilities, they cold easily increase that amount to $100,090,000 in a decade. —.—-♦ —♦ •♦- ♦- In his latest reported speech Denis Kearney called the stock brokers sharks, hounds, robbers bludgeon murderers and blood sucking peli cans, and proclaimed that, like the Chinese, they “must go,” He pre dicted that the California Legislature will pass a bill prohibiting stock gambling in future. w Senator Johnston, of Virginia, says there is not the slightest probability of the election of a Republican to the United States Senate from Virginia. He says the Democratic majority in the State Legislature, consisting of both Debt Payers and Readjusters, will harmonize sufficiently to choose a Democratic successor to Senator Withers. ♦ Congress is doav in session, for a lenghthy term. Advice is therefore in order. What the “dear people”; would most desire, would be that each individual member eschew poiit cal trickery, and come down to practi cal work. The truth is, the country lias tired of politics, in the modern acceptation of the term, and now calls for business. —♦— It is said that the House Commit tee on Appropriations does not ex pect to have any of the regular appropriation bills ready until after the Christmas holidays. The army bill will we passed with the restrictions as to the use of the army which were contained in last year’s bill. The only extraordinary appropriation to be made is about two and a half mil lion dollars for the taking of the next census. Mr. Stephens will be sixty-eight years old February. He was born two years earlier than Mr. Tilden, and his birthday is two days later in the month, In his entry into public life, Mr. Stephens outdates Mr. Tilden by ten years, having been elected to the Georgia Legislature in 1839, at the age of twenty-four. Mr. Tilden was thirty-two years old when, in 1846, he sat in the New York Constitution al Convention. Mr. Tilden had no national reputation until he figured in the dramatic exposure of the Tweed ring, while Mr. Steph ens nt the age of thirty-one was a member of Congress, and began at once to take bis place among the loa ders in politics. ♦ ♦— Judge Lochrane says that Gen. Grant is the man for the South, and that Felton’s letter is the only fore runner of the disintegration of the party in Georgia. Ho for Gram it' lie lb EDITORIAL CORUESPONDENCE. A Talk with Govornor Colquitt About the Lenuc of the M. Ac B. H. H. and the Execution of the Law. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 4th, 1879. As requested by the citizens of Brunswick, I called on Governor Col quitt this afternoon to talk over the Macon A Brunswick Lease-sale act, the policy it is intended to promote and the prospect of disposing of the Road, on the 13th of January. I was fortunate in finding His Ex cellency alone, and in a pleasant wood,—ready and willing to talk without reserve. Aftei detailing the bi tory of the ' first effort to lease the Road, and its ! failure, —giving ample and satisfac- j tory reasons for his action in declar- 1 ing there had been no lense, and re- 1 advertising, the Governor assured me ■ he was in sympathy with the great! policy sought to be secured by the act authorizing the lease, and that the sale shall be effected on the 13th of January next, and the spirit and letter of the law shall be enforced and faithfully carried out, if it be within i the power of the executive. It is a ! plain law, ami in addition to a solemn J conviction of duty to execute it, he is profoundly impressed with the inx- I portance of the policy involved, and ; will give pressure to his own views in administering the law as the Legisla- I ture intended it. His Excellency has no prejudices against the Central or any other cor poration, and docs not feel that he can be called upon to make any de cissions adverse to their rights and interests, for they cannot, under the terms of the act, put themselves in an attitude that will invoke any such de cissions; but he is sternly resolved to enforce the law as he understands it, not only on the day of the lease-sale, but in the subsequent conduct of the lessees or purchasers. They cannot avoid the full requirements of the act, and any attempt to thwart the inten tion of the Legislature and defeat the groat policy of permanent competition in the carrying business through Georgia will entail all the forfeitures and penalties contemplated in the Law. The law shall be carried out in good faith while he is Governor; mid disqualified bidders, speculators and blinds may as well understand that they will not be permitted to trifle with the law or to dally with the Executive after the lease ox- sale shall have been effected. They cannot postpone the building of the Road, and any delay that would take, the penalty feature from seizure and forfeiture should be treated as evidence of bail faith, and decisive executive action should be promptly applied. Says the Governor: “Say to your friends, Colonel, that I think 1 comprehend the lease act thoroughly, and that it is my* un alterable purpose to carry it out in letter and in spirit, the people of Georgia, through their Representa tives, have solemnly determined that there shall be a great competing line of transportation from the Mountains to the Seaboard, and this act imposes upon me the high duty of carrying out the policy it declares. Their will shall be respected and the law shall be executed in its fullest import. “I do not see how parties disquali fied, under the law, can purchase the Road, but if any such should bid it off and succeed in obtaining possession it would avail them nothing, fox the fraud would soon develop itself in the management and the duty of the Executive would be imperitive. “I do not apprehend any law suit. Titles will bo made to qualified bid ders, and their titles will bo protected by the State.” The Governor was earnest and em phatic, and left no doubt upon my mind as to his thorough understand ing of the law, and his intention to do exactly what the Legislature meant that he should do. The Constitution's statement that the Road will never - be built, ami that the lessees, if the lease shall bo effect ed, will be involved in a law suit, is unsupported by authority, and is without a solitary fact to relieve it of recklessness. I have been informed co-night that Mr. Payne will, to-morrow, file in the Governor's office the names of his as sociates, and make some sort of an effort to get an executive decision in his favor. He will fail. The Gov ernor will stand by his decission of the 6th of November, and refer - Mr. Payne to the advertisement fox - the 13th of January. supported by the best legal ■un the State, and no amount ■jbdL < t his piopramme. w. •‘UNDER WHICH KING, «EZO MIAN.” “I nm a great bclicvex - in local self government. I think this is the only condition of the perpetuity of oux - Uniou. Ido not believe this Union could be successfully governed unless the people of each State are allowed to control their domestic affairs. That is the school of the American citizen— local self-government. “An indissoluble union of inde structible and coequal States.”—Bay ard, at Wilniinyluu. “We are a nation, aiid it must be preserved, one and indivisible. “I will add further, that our coun try stands differently abroad in the estimation of European and eastern nations from what it did a quarter of a century ago. An American citizen is regarded in a dif ferent light from the American citizen of a quarter century ago. At that time it was believed that we had.no nation. It was merely a confedera tion of States, tied.togcther by a rope of sand, and would give way upon the slighest friction. They have found it was a grand mistake. They know we have a nation, that we are a nation strong and intelligent, and are a people capable of judging and knowing onr right', and determined on all occasions to maintain them against either domestic ox - foreign foes. This is the reception yon, ns a nation, have received through me whilst I was abroad.”— Grant at Chi cago. THE PH ESI DEXT’.I MESSAGE. President Hayes’ Message to the Forty-sixth Congress delivered last Monday is a lengthy, talkative and we may say compxehensive document.— He speaks encouragingly of the suc cess of the resumption movement; recommends a limitation of silver coinage; complains at continued vio lations of poliga my in the West; ar gues on civil service reform and de clares a purpose to fight it out on that line; speaks of our continued friendly relations with foreign coun : tries; and then furnishes a general review of the condition of the finan cial and business departments of the j Government. The de facto President has not dis appointed the country, either one way or the other, in his public expres sions. Let it go upon the record. THE ADVANTAGES OF PORT ROYAL. Peter Papin, of the Port Royal Harbor Improvement and Staemsliip Company, of Port Royal, S. C., ad dressed a meeting of the merchants of St. Louis, Mo., on the evening of Nov. 24th, on the subject of an organ ized movement to send western pro duce to Port Royal fox - exportation instead of to more northern ports.— He made a lengthy statement of the advantages of this scheme to western shippers by shortening the railroad transportation to the seaboard, the superiority of the harbor, its en tire freedom from ice, cheapness of handling freight, etc., and it is sail! made a strong impresion upon those who were present. That is the direction the great vol ume of western commerce will take, if the policy of the Central Railroad prevails in Georgia. & THE nr. 18. The Atlanta Constitution of the 2nd, closed a fine editorial on the proceed ing of the Brunswick Mass Meeting with the following encouraging para graph : “The people of Brunswick, as well as the people of the whole State, are interested in this matter, but we have no doubt that with the precau tions already taken and to b<! taken by Governor Colquitt, the best in terests of all will be subserved by the lease, to be effected on the 13th of January. In the absenso of compli cations now unforeseen, we regard the completion of the extension in 1880 as a certainty.” The Governor’s new order for the lease of the M. & B. Railroad, is warmly sustained by the press anti the people. Our esteemed contem porary, the Savannah Aettv, calls at tention to the advertisement in most kindly terms, and says: “It seems to us that if anything can prevent all such disqualified par ties from bidding on said lease, the action of the Governor - will certainly have the desired effect. And while we are inclined to doubt the constitu tionality of a law which so obviously interferes with the private personal! rights of citizens, under the act as it! now stands the Governor undoubted- j ly has a right to insist upon such re- ! quircmcnt.” —... There are 2,299 counties in the I United States, 1,060 in the North, and . 1,289 in the South. The Bank of the University has been appointed the State depository ■Mkens. i bi ■ . . MU. WADLEV’S MISTAKE. After speaking in just terms of Mr. Wadley’s great ability as a Railroad King, and his wonderful achieve ments in the management of the Cen tral and its system, the Atlanta Con stitution says; But, successful as he is aud has been, Mr. Wadley sometimes makes mistakes. He made one in his deal ings with the people of the seotion round about Americus in the matter of freights—though, in this instance, as the mistake led to railroad legis lation, it may be considered a fortu- I nato one for the people of the whole i state. He made another mistake when ihe concluded his anniial report in these words and with this threat: “Should the Macon and Brunswick “road be leased, as contemplated in ' “the bill referred to above, it certainly I “cannot be expected that this com : “pany will longer give the privileges ! “heretofore granted of traffic over the < “Atlanta division of our road; and it “is possible that the withdrawal ot “these privileges may compensate for : “loss of business that would result ; “from the construction of another line ! “between Macon and Atlanta.” As a matter of course, Mr. Wadley must have known that with the rail road commission in existence—a com mission created to prevent undue I discriminations —it is not only prac tically impossible for him to carry out such a threat, but impossible fox - him to successfully institute a policy even looking in that direction. We do not believe that Mr. Wadley would under take to Ciiry out his threat and thus discriminate against the peopletof a large section of the state even though the recently enacted railroad bill were not in existence; we have no idea that he would deliberately provoke public sentiment to this extent. But as mat ters stand, he must be aware that the railroad commission would sweep aside his wholesale policy of discrimi nation in an instant were he to at tempt to put his threat into execution. The threat, however, is a mistake, because it will not have the effect in tended, and it will be interpreted to the detriment of the real interest of his road. It amounts to nothing, and was merely intended to iulluence the lease of the Macon and Brunswick railroad shortly to take place, but it will not bo so c mstrued by the people. Mr. Wadley’s threat will not even affect the lease. The road w ill be rent ed, the extension will be built, and Mr. Wadley will not withdraw the privileges of traffic—ox - if he does, the railroad commission will immediately , put his company in communication with the courts, and it is not difficult to predict the result. It may be, how ever, that Mr. Wadley needs some thing of this sort to convince him that the railroad commission is not really a legislative joke, and, in this view' of the case, perhaps his mistake is a fortunate one. Nevertheless, it is a mistake we are sorry to see him make. STARTMING ISSUES. Speaker Randall, in a speech to a mass meeting in Philadelphia Friday night preceding the late elections, summed up the great issues before tho American people in the following i strong language. And yet in the face of this startling ! picture, the Republicans carried every i northern state that voted on the 4th. | Verily it looks as if wo are drifting to ! Grant and a strong goverment. THE PEOPLE'S ENORMOUS BURDEN. , “All this burden is thrown upon the tax-payer. Now - , let me show you what is expected from taxing the people in this country. The Federal debt exceeds $2,000, 000, 000; the State debts amount to S4OO, 000, 000, anti the city and county debts are be yondsl,ooo, 000,000. Os thisenormous city and county debt your own city has a very large part. Here is nearly $3, 500, 000 upon which the people must pay interest. You thus see the importance of compelling public ser vants to pay not one dollar unless there is absolute necessity for doing so. The tendency of the Republican party has been toward extravagance evrey since I first had the honor to represent yon in a public capacity. Fig ures prove this beyond all controversy. We are led by history to believe there are two great dangers to a republic— taxation and a tendency to grasp power unduly. The Republican party has moved in the way of centralizing government. That is its tendency to day— in opposition to the rights of the people. Many of you saw usurpa tion in the old country, and you came here to escape it. you younger men have heard of it from your fathers. It wis attempted hero in the begining |of the century, when an effort was I made by the Federal party to insert jin the constitution certain central i powers, but the movement was crush ed by Jefferson, assisted by Madison, | whom I may call the father of the I present constitution. We saw the movement again when Thaddeus Ste vens proposed that the States which had been rebellious should be held as subjugated provinces. Answer was made to this, however, that if free citizens were to bo held in subjugation by an act of Congress, then this coun try would cease to be a republic. There can not be set up a line between I the strong power - of the army and the : civil power regulated by constitutional I law. THE ARMY AT THE POLLS. We have seen how the power of the army has been used. The Republican party, by sending soldiers to intimi date voters, have given expression to the policy of keeping in force in time of peace tho laws that authorized the sending of an army into certain states in time of war. Not only in distant and adjoining States has this policy been enforced, but in this very district tho use of tho marines has been wit nessed. [.Applause.] Yes, at one of, my elections 1 was sorrow-stricken to the votes of freedmen had to of tho bay-1 us, though**—laugtcr.] 0. we tri umphed, but we should bear in mind that there are not many districts like this. [Renewed applause aud stamp ing of feet.] Our fathers knew the danger of a standing army. One of the chief com plaints in their arraignments of the King was that he sent here an army to make the civil powers subordinate to military rule. And if the right for which they fought was dear t j them, how much more should it be cher ished by us ? Shall we be unworthy sons of patriot sires ? Never, I hope, [Cries of*' Never ! and applause.] The Republicans Lave claimed the right to use marshals at elections—mar shals all from one side— a horde of I unnecessary electioneerers, paid out !of the common treasury. There were | 750 of these marshals in the Eastern I district of Pennsylvania—not becai S 3 any Republican vote was in danger, but because it was the aim to infiu enc this Congressional district, and thank (rod, they got a rebuke that they won,t forget, in an increased Democratic majority [Applause and cheer', with cries <>f“ Aye, and we’ll do it again!”] REPUBLICANISM AGAINST LABOR. From an experience of twenty years I cun say, without hesitation that the tendency of the Republican party has been to side with capital against labor. While the labor needs no special legislation, being too high in his pur poses for that, he ought not to be willing to have advantage given to capital. Labor and capital should go along together, helping one another, and until they do so the country cannot enjoy genuine prosperity. That the rich pay all the taxes is not true. Every man who consumes a product pays a tax. Taxes must come out of the soil, the product and the producer, and therefore every item of exti'ava gant expense in public office affects the consumer in wbat be eats, in what be drinks and in what be pays for rent. To show that the Democratic party is the friend of the consumer it is only necessary to point to its labor in behalf of economical government and God knows you need a little of that in this city. [Applause.] Republican extravagance has exten ded further than the public treasury. Between the close of the war aud the advent of a Democratic House of Representatives the Republicans gave away to six corporations not less than 130,000.000 acres of the public do main. Why, the thirteen colonies had onlj - 218,000,000 acres! Think of it— territory equal in extent to four states of the size of New York presented to six corporation ! The result is that any of you who may be disposed to tako Horace Greeley,s advice and go West will have to buy your land from cor porations, paying them $lO an acre for ground that might be had for $l5O an acre but for the extravagance and injustice of the Republican party. THE NATIONAL BANKS. A word on our national banking system. The trunk of the system is good and I would be the last man to break it down, but it has rotten bran ches, which ought to be lopped off The stockholders of the banks should not have undue advantages that keep the circulating medium of the country among themselves when it should go I to all the people. “THU EQUALITY OF OPPOR TUNITY.” Baltimore Sun | Senator Bayard, in bis recent speech at Wilmington, made use of what seems to be a very felicitous expression for the advantage which the American citizen possesses over the citizen of any other country. Here, and on this soil only, of all the land on this wide globe, are “tho nob!« iequities of humanity” so thoroughly “acknowledged and respected that “the one great and essential equality of opportunity, is secured to all.” A great ethical and a great physical truth lies behind this happy and pregnant phrase. There is no real equality in the world like that of “the equality of opportunity.” It is the fact, known all over the civilized world, that the United States is the country in which a man’s talent and labor may be best availed of to his own advantage which has brought and is still bringing to our shores the choice of the emigrating population of all nations. It is the conscieusness of this fact which converts the great majority of immigrants coming to us from every land into good, orderly, self-respecting citizens —the excep tions being those only whose minds are distempered by unwholesome isms, and hence have no proper con ception or application of liberal in stitutions. Here knowledge, the access to justice, and the chance for wealth and position are put by law and by custom within the reach and at the command of every one deserving to attain them. Our schools are free, and no man is restrained in his religious convictions, while accessibility to so cial position and political honors is nowhere as easy as here. All roads are open to every one capable of moving upon them, and if a man wishes to rise, the absence of a long lineage will not interfere to prevent him. There is no obligation upon any one to follow his father’s calling, no compulsion to prevent him from changing it. The hod-carrier’s sou may become President, or Senator,or minister of the gospel, college profes sor, or Ambassador to the aristocratic court of St. James. Tho country, its laws, its institutions and its tradi tions provide him absolutely with “the equality of opportunity.” That so clear a thinker and cool an obser ver as Senator Bayard, after his long vsit to Europe, should have come* home most deeply impressed withl this keynote to all our prosperity gives still greater emphasis to the belief that the founders of our institu tions “budded better than they knew” when they decided that the only true equality the world lum ever seen, that of opportunity, should bo tho birth-1 righty every American citizen. J. F. NELSON, 1 • AT HIS GRAND BAY STREET EMPORIUM! OFFERS TO THE PUBLIC, At Astonishingly Low Prices, A LARGE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK OF DRY GOODS! CLOTHING! BOOTS AND SHOES. - ■ ■ He keeps constantly on hand also a full line of GROCERIES & FAMILY SUPPLIES. AND A LARGE SUPPLY OF - SH I P STORJSS. All of which he means to sell at figures that shall be satisfactory to his customers. [November 20th, 1879.—ts HUFF & BROWN, AT THE MARKHAM ! • ♦ • —— With an unbounded confidence iu tho great future of Atlanta, and a warm admiration for the progressive and enterprising spirit of her people, I we have taken a long lease on tho MARKHAM HOUSE, and by a large expenditure of money, and a liberal management generally w t p opose to make it in every respect a FIRST-CLASS Hotel. W7 .4. HUFF, of Mtccori. a cl. PHTL. P. BROWN, of Blue. R idge Spidngs, November 20th, 1879. —ts. PHCENIX SALOON —AMD— RESTAURANT. W, JI. HARRISON, Proprietor. Vs E ALS served on short notice. The best of Wines, Liquors and Segars. Fish, Oysters and Game a Specialty. Comfortable rooms furnished at rea sonable prices. [nov2o-tf S. <J. UTriJ2FIKIJ>. J. M. TIAON, JR. LITTLEFIELD & TISON, i Commission & Forwarding MERCHANTS And Ship Brokers Agents for N. Y. and Brunswick PACKET LINES. ALSO DEALERS IN Corn, Oats, Hay, Salt, Coal, Brick, Lime, &c BRUNSWICK, «A. nov2o-'.f J M BRYANT. ARCHITECT AND BUILDER, Shop on Bay Street, BRUNSWICK - GEORGIA. WORK OF EVZBY DESCRIPTION IN MY LINE ’’ promptly executed, end aatielection guaran teed. Refers by pariniaaiou to D. T. Dunn. Leßaron Drury aud J. F. Nelson. Nov. 20. ts. PROFESSION AIIcAIUDS. OABKY W. STYLES, |W. J. WILLIAMS, |J. C. WCEST STYLES, WILLIAMS & VINCENT, ATTOMIS & COUNSELLORS LAW, BRUNSWICK, - - GEORGIA. I :0: Will practice iu all the Court h of the Brunswick Circuit. In the Supreme Court of Georgia, aud iu the U. S. District and Circuit Courts for the South ern District of Georgia. Land ca«es a specialty. Office up stairs iu Littlefield & Tilton’a new build ing, on the Bay. dec-2-ly. a. b. mabby. a. J. crovatt. MABRY & CROVATT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BRUNSWICK, • • • GEORGIA. Offieein SKAPoar Appeal Buildiug. [uov2o-ly COURTLAND ITMMII. SPINCEB R. ATKINSON, SYMMES & ATKINSON, BA.WYBRS, BUUNSWICK, . - UKOIIUIA. November 20th. 187V—ly. o. V. ooodtea*. r. u. haiium. I GOODYEAR & HARRIS. LTTTIiNEYS AT LAW. iiuuNswjcK. aconuiA. Orvirr—ln Seaport App**l Building. Practice lu ' ’ *ll Counties of tin Brunawtek Circuit aud the City «t Darum, Ua. Nov. Juts. BAY SALOON 13 Bay’ Street, BRUNSWICK, - GA. F.ST'ABLISH ED 1869. F. Joseph Doerflinger. PROPRIETOR. RETAIL Dealer ill the following line of Liquor*. The Stonewall Jackson. Family Nectar and Ohl Monongahela XXXX, Hye Whiskies, Van Biel's Genuine Rock and Rye, NATIVE DRY WINES. Imported Wines, Brandy, Gin and Segars. Anheuser A Co's. Celebrated BOTTLED BEER. LEMP’S ST. LOUIS BEER ON DRAUGHT. ALSO WILL BE FOUND AT THE OH SALOON, New Castle St., next to the Leben House, BRVNRWICK, C.A., Any es the Wince. Liquors and Segura sot forth above, with the additional attraction of POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES ' for the amuiement of patrons. DOERFLINGER & WENZ, ; uovJO-ly Proprietors “Gkm Saloon.” tT w. dexter, GENERAL MER CHAND ISE. OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE, COLLIN'S WHARF, Grain, Hay and Salt! Pearl and Savauuah Grist and Meal, AT WHOLESALE LOW for CASH. MR. W.F. PENNIMAN will take orders for me and make collections on the Brunswick and Al bany Railroad. [nov2o-lm REMOVAL. ... ■ J. M. DEXTER, Banker & Broker, INSURANCE * BEAL ESTATE AGENT. (AFFICE removed toMichctoou'a NEW BUILDING. " up stair*. [uov.2U-t.ui WOOD YARD. WOOD cut any length nuu delivered, or for rale '' at tint y*rd, for cmti. Order* loft at lay office. Oilin'* Wlia: I - promptly ttlhxl. uovAl lm T, w DIiITEB