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THE TOCCOA NEWS.
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TOCCOA, GA., APRIL 15, 1832
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
Ihe Missouri millionaire, Hon.
Thomas Alien, is dead.
The democrats have gained
generally in the recent city elections
in the east and north west.
Air. .J.//. Fisher, late president of
of the South Carolina Railroad, has
been succeeded by Mr* Henry P.
7’almadge, of. .Yew York.
Senator Logan, of Illinois, is
stopping over at the Southern Hotel,
St. Louis, in consequence of slight
indisposition.
In his prayer last Saturday morn-
ing. the chaplain of the House
touchingly referred to the death of
Hon, Thomas Allen, of Missouri.
Hon. George D. Tillman preserves
bis robust health by a frugal diet,
/fis sovereign remedies for all disease
are apples and lemons.—Augusta
Chronicle.
The Augusta bar wants a Federal
District Court, with Circuit Court
powers, cstablisbe 1 in Augusta. We
have no doubt it is a ueeded measure,
and we should be glad to see the court
established.
On the night of the 7th inst
passenger train on the Gulf,
and Santa Fe Railroad was boarded
near Blum station, Hill county,
Texas,.and the passengers robbed by
live unmasked men.
The grand jury, at Memphis, has
found indictments for involuntary
manslaughter against Captain S 0.
McIntyre and Mates Doc Bondurant
and J. C. Hull, of the burned steamer
Golden City.
Walter Malley, Jam-s Malley, Jr.,
and Blanche Douglass have been
arraigned in the Superior Court at
Aew Haven for the murder of Jennie
Cramer in Hngustlast, and all pleaded
not guilty. The trial ’will not take
place immediately.’
Daniel Betts, the lior- amer, trav¬
elling with Coup’s Circus, fell dead
in Augusta Saturday morning last,
when in tlie act of entering the cage
of the two performing lions. The
cause of his death was heart disease.
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The number made destitute in
Tensas parish, Louisiana by the late
overflow is estimated at ten thousand
persons ; while the whole number of
sufferers by the recent overflow of the
Mississippi and other western waters,
is put down at 75,000 people.
lion. John D. White, is a member
of the House, irom Kentucky. The
Augusta Chronicle* says of him:
‘Upon one thing both democrats and
republicans in the House of Repre¬
sentatives agree: The stupendous,
unutterable and monumental jaekas-
sary of John D. White, of Kentucky.’
T^ne President has sent to the Sen¬
ate Nhe nomination of Henry M.
Teller, of Colorado, to be Secretary
of the Interior; Win E. Chandler, of
Aew Hampshire, to be secretary of
the Navy; \Ym. H. Hunt, of Louisi¬
ana to be Minister to Russia. The
nomination of Mr. 7oiler has been
confirmed by the Senate, and the
others referred. to appropriate com¬
mittees.
--
M c intend publishing next week
extracts from the excellent speech of
lion. Emory Speer upon the Internal
Ro\enue System, deli\ered in the
hou^e of representatives on the 26 th
u,t. We would publish the speech
entire, but for the fact that it would
occupy’ too much space for so small a
sheet as ours. This we do without
reward or the hope thereof,, but as an
act ot simple justice to the large
?«r m SpcCT-s°e[ection nS SpeKTfor
ourselves, we have never voted for
Mr. 8pecr and have done all we could,
in a quiet and honorable way, to defeat
his ele^on ? but we have not siau-
abilTty! Cbii-^bjection t o iflm b been
his disloyalty to the democratic party
—‘only this and nothing more.’
Faded or Gray Ilair gradually
recovers its youthful color and lustre j
, T)
dressing^ adufired ,
an elegant fotMts
purity and rich perfume.
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
[b rotn our Regular Correspondent.]
Washington, April 10, 1882
The. veto of the Chinese bill and its
probable effect upon the*' immediate
future of political partita hasjaeen
tlic chief topic of interest among the
politicians for some days The dem
ocrats Here solid for the bill, and
there is among them entire unanimity
of opinion as to the result. There is
a*elean*6*reep hardly a doubt that it will "iye them
of the Pacific States,
with possibly Colorado thrown in.
The people of those States are thor-
oughly in earnest about this matter,
and all the representatives from that
section agree with General Rosecrans
that it will scarcely be worth while
for the republicans to organize fora
campaign in that section, after defea-
ting the measure. Advices from
other sections indicate that working-
men arc heartily in sympathy with the
people on the Pacific slope and are
preparing to stand by them in their
efforts to keep out the Chinese From
a source in the administration ranks
which your correspondent has gener¬
ally found correctly informed it is
learned that the members of the
cabinet were divided upon the pro¬
priety of a veto, attorney general
.Brewster earnestly advising that the
bill be permitted to become a law by
the lapse of ten days after its pass¬
age without the Executive approval;
others advising that a message be
sent with approved bill, protesting
against its features, after the manner
sf several presidents during the past
twenty years. IF hat with the veto
and the reports of success in the
spring elections, the democrats are
very much elated. It is how consul
ered about two to one that the}’’ will
control the next congress.
It is probable that the democrats
in congress will oppose by every
means in their power the passage
the tariff commission bill and the bill
ior tlie admission of Dakota as a state,
It is their intention to compel the
republicans to be shown up before
tlie country as afraid to trust the
question of revising the tariff to the
representatives of the people, and this
will be made an issue in the approach-
ing campaign. A number of leading
democrats have pledged themselves
to stick together in this matter, and,
if necessary, to carry their point,
filibustering will be resorted to
every occasion. The opposition to
the admission of Dakota is very de-
terrained and nothing will be left
undone, in the line cf parliamentary
manoeuvre, to prevent it. The whole
purpose of the proposed admission at
this time is political advantage. In
view of these facts it is probablerthat
beyond passing the regular appropri¬
ation bills not much other business
will be done, and that we shall have
some lively times before the end of
the session.
The senate recently passed a reso
lution to pay Mr. Ingalls §8,195 for
alleged expenses incurred bv him in
refuting the charges of bribery of
members of the Kansas legislature to
secure his election to the senate. This
is following the inexcusable precedent
recently set by the senate in allowing
the alleged expenses of .Mr, Butler,
of South Carolina, and flir. Kellogg,
of Louisiana, in defending their right
to the seats occupied by them. The
senate of the United States has long
been known as the most expensive
legislative body in the world, and
many of its items of expenditure are
gross aid outrageous frauds upon the
p U bli c treasury. It has in its employ
three times as many clerks as arc
necessary for the proper dispatch
p U i_>lic business, and the principal
occupation o£ manjr of its members
seems {, 0 be the devising of means
and methods to increase their own
comfort and convenience and add to
their own emoluments at the expense
of the people Useless committees are
CO nstantlv created for the
P ur P 0Se of « !vi »S SH,ne senator a
room for his private use, and a
to transact his private business, and
to be paid out of the treasury.
is nota SC n a tor and there is not
clcrk of the senr ‘ te who does not
know perfectly w ell that the expenses
of that body are twice or three times
as much as they ought to be, and yet
expenses aie piled up year by year
with a coolness an(f ail indifference
to publie opinion which is refreshing,
For ten years the house of represen-
whose expenses are ever so !
much less in, proportion, has under-
taken in the appropriation bills to
.
cut clown the inordinate and excessive
expenses of the senate but in vain,
This new raid is about the most inex-,
enable erf all. and nobody can tell
^here it will end, for as senators are
simply no more and no less than
average politicians. $8,000 in a lump
is enough to tempt many of them to
put up jobs to have their seats eon
tested. There are few with any
knowledge of the case who do not
believe to this day that John ,I. Ingalls
did buy his last election, and it is not
a very pretty piece of business to pay
Him back from the treasury a part of
the ra °ney expanded.
There is a difference between some
civil service reformers. An amend-
nienUo Mr. Pendleton's civil service
reform provides that appointments
s,i all be distributed among the states
on the basis of their census popula-
Uoq. This is substantially what
General Washington once suggested
on the subject. Mr. Dudley, com
missioner of pensions, however, who
is asking for ^voral hundred addi
tional clerks, has just formulated a
statement in which he holds that the
distribution should be based oil the
republican votes cast- in the different
states, and the appointees should be
republican voters; ‘allowing the
democratic vote as the basis whenever
tiie pendulum, shall swing around
their way and the administration
passes into democratic hands.’ There
is.au old saying, often quoted here-
abouts, of a practical politician, so-
called, who remarked that, .‘it is
the bay at the end of the pole which
makes, t.lie horse trot ahead.’
Phono
BREWSTERS ASSAULT.
The virtuous reformer, Brewster,
more generally known as the dull tool
of the syndicate of stalwart thieves
commonly called ‘the administration,’
has subjected himself to an Inter¬
j view, and comes before the public
j with hands uplifted in holy horror
that his proposed raid on the people
of South Carolina should be looked
upon a political scheme. This
Washington Pen tennis-and Thack-
eray lias our declaration that we use
the simile only to illustrate an out-
side appearance—blandly informs the
reporter tint he proposes to prosecute
| only ringleaders, and not poor dupes ;
that the schemes originated in. the
j I vacuum which exists under lus own
hiit ; ihat the President knew nothing
j j G f it, but tint he had no idea but
what the President, like the upright,
! high-minded man lie is. would cordi¬
ally commend-the vigorous prosecu¬
tion.’ In fact, the pompons old relict
has taken the witness-stand, and
vindicated, upon his own word,
himself, the administration, and the
prosecuting officers. However dis¬
interested may have been the
compliment to Arthur, it must strike
the public as ridiculous, coming from
a man whose daily bread is the
presidential crumbs, and spoken of as
one who sat at the table with Dorsey,
the thief; whose most prominent
official act since an assassin made
him President was to upset a court
martial which he declared illegal, and
discharge from the government school
the prisoner who, being illegally
convicted, was therefore under the
law presumably innocent. This time¬
serving mendicant had best have kept
himself out of print. On the one hand
he had declared that the prosecutions
are not political; on the other thatot
his own knowledge the abuses in
Carolina are not greater than else
where, but that they have been so
represented to him, and crime should
be proseciited whether committed by
democrats or republicans. While
most people will agree to this corn-
mon declaration, more than one class
would like to know why it is that
such crimes are not prosecuted out
side of states which do not support
the republican administration? At
the same time they would like to see
this tool, *o£h:s own motion,’
some energy in prosecuting the star
route thieves about IFashington.
Why tiie is it, with all of the machinery
of United States at hand to assist
him, he cannot frame an indetment
with meshes small enough to prevent
the thieves from escaping?: Is it
because this is one of the subjects
upon which to use his language he
has‘conferred’ with the President?
Does he realize that a net with meshes
small enough to drag for the prime
:
of the ring, is liable also to pick
U P some of the guests who sat at liis
table 0 True, this reformer does not
know of his own personal knowledge
that these ringstors arc guilty, but
kas it not been represented to hinMn
language’ stronger than that
pretends to have heard in Carolina,
that .they are? Has it ever been
represented to him that the adminis*
tration s hirelings shot down an
unarmed old man and boy in
Gwinnett county for no cause what-
ever under heavee, and that
machinery of that branen ofthe
government he himself pretem & to
head, has been used to save these
murderers from punishment? W hv
Wft s not an ‘admonitory letter
addressed to the prosecuting officer,
and these men convicted and hung?
^ as ^ because he had ‘conferred
w ^b the President upon this subject
also? W hv is it that throughout the
^°rth and W est preceding elections,
hundreds upon thousands of dobats
are openly used to purchase votes*
bribe managers and falsify returns,
and no prosecutions are begun or
dreamed of, by the Brewsters who
have sat in tire cabinet? is it because
the party has nothing to gain and
everything to lose in these quarters?
2Tie.se are a few questions, a long
suffering people would ask of this
suddenly active member of Arthur's
cabinet, if they dreamed that he
possessed honesty enough to answer,
or independence to act. But they clo
not entertain such hopes and have
S olie ahead f l aietl y to unite and
defend themselves. I he principal
complaint against them, as set forth
in the Washington Republican and
Detroit Post , is that the whole State
has not risen up and hurled a denial
of the charges into Brewster’s teeth.
A failure to do this, is cited as evi¬
dence that the charges are admitted
and the opposition preparing a re.
beliion.. These people know well
enough that there is but one way to
deny the charges in a criminal pros-
edition, and that is by a plea of not
guilty.
The press and people of South
Carolina have taken the right course
With the pluck and unity which
characterize them, they look the dan¬
ger squarely in the face and prepare,
without waste of words, to meet it.
They know that Brewster is a hypo¬
crite, masquerading in the garb of a
reformer, and bolstered up by the
power and good will of a corrupt
administration working for its own
perpetuation. And they have reason
to distrust that power. The years
have not fled so last, that they eanot
remember the days when, for political
purposes, Carolina was overrun by
spies and aliens, her good citizens
dragged before venal courts, con¬
fronted by perjured witnesses, ami
thrown into penitentiaries on trumped
up charges. Those were the days
when Grant was in the White House
as the chief executive ; to-day he is
the power behind the throne, direct¬
ing the enforcement of his old policy.
We say the people of our sister State
are pursuing the right course. r J hey
have no favors to expect from a party
which was kept in power in 187G by
theft and perjury, nor from an
administration born of assassination.
There is no rebellion in defending in
Open court a criminal charge, nor is
he a traitor who contributes to a
common fund, that competent counsel
may be employed to meet the legal
skill and acumen imported for the
occasion.—Macon
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IIENKY W. GRADY, ESQ.
Atlanta Sunday Gazette.
It is seldom we fee’! called upon to
express a preference among gentle-
men whose names are -suggested for
office but we desire to make a notable
exception, and therefore suggest
Henry \Y. Grady Esq , as a candidate
for Congressman at Large. We do
not know that Mr. Grady has aspira-
tions in that direction, but we do
/.now that it would be a fit rocogni-
tion ot thefgreat services, Jlr Grady
has rendered the Democratic party
Then again the whole people might
join in a demand that this honor be
bestowed upon him, for Mr. Grady
has done more than any dozen ot men
in bringing to the attention of the
world to the great resources of Georgia
His ready pen has been eager -in
pointing out the true interests of the
farmer and the manufacturer, and the
cause of education has received able
assistance from him. He has helped
individuals to office and to fame. All
these thing* especially commend him
to the suffrages of the people.
body can join in bestowing this honor,
He is a representative of tire young
men cfG br-in—aide aivl progressive,
UWrould fife' td' see tiiis siLgcstion
adopted and Mr Grady p accd ^in
Congress ' RTS'needless to speak of
his ability. lie has more than nine
tenths of the members of Congress
We believe the people wi t, with one
accorcl, recognize and reward merit,
making him the Democratic
nomine e tor Congress at Larg e.
THE TARI ‘ KF*COMMlSSION
BiLL.
From the New- York World
Washington, April 2. —Ex-Sena¬
tor * Eaton, cf Connecticut, who
introduced the tariff commission bill
j n tEe senate i» the last congress, is
Q £ the opinion that the bill will pass
the house and-become a law within n
{non th. He has watched the logisla-
tive course of this measure with much
interest. Being its parent, he lias
all along maintained that it would
pass the senate, even while senators
were in doubt. As the bill passed
the senate it authorizes a commission
to be appointed to investigate the
subject of internal revenue taxation.
The bill pending in the house does
not authorize the commission to deal
with this subject, but this difference
is not regarded as material by the
friends of the bill. As a matter
fact, the subject of internal revenue
is one upon which congress can
immediately lay its hand and
promptly possess itself of all needed
information. Indeed, the ways and
means committee have already agreed
upon an interal revenue bill.
Mr, Eaton, in reply to the argu¬
ment that the tariff commission
would simply mean delay, says that
there certainly will he delay in
legislation without it. The
statutes relate to more than ten
thousand articles, the subject of wool
alone including sixteen hundred. Mr
Eaton says that whatever this con
gress might do, it will accomplish
nothing in legislation upon so intri¬
cate a subject with so many ramifica¬
tions imperfectly understood, or not
understood at all, without the aid of
a commission. He also makes the
interesting statement that every
member of the senate is on record as
having Voted at one time or another
for some kind of tariff commission
bill, e. her a commission of members
ora mixed commission, or a
sion of persons in civil life. As this
congress is notoriously disposed to
do nothing with the tariff, unless
perchance, it might be able to raise
the tariff tax, Mr. Eaton argues that
as a commission would at least begin
to do something, the commission
does not mean delay.
Some of the friends of the revision
and reformation of the tariff’ system
believe that if a commission would
report, separately and promptly;
upon the six great subjects to which
the tariff statutes relate—cotton,
wool, iron, mining, general mamuac-
turing and general agriculture - a
tariff' system could be' built up with¬
out log rolling. This is Mr. Eaton's
hope and this would indeed be a
great gain, for our present tariff
system is the product of the most
serious, persistent and corrupt log¬
rolling, made possible only by the
necessities of war. If a tariff com¬
mission bill passes the house it will
only be after abjut three weeks of
speech making. But this discussion
will not be without profit and instruc-
tion to the country. Of course it is
needless to say that some of tlie most
earnest friends of tariff relorm in
congress differ with Mr. Eaton as to
the merits and probable results of
taritf commission bill. But
Eaton does not understand how any
man who lavored the creation ot an
electoral commission to be clothed
with congressional power can ques-
tion tbe constitutional propriety of
creating a commission to be clothed
with no powers save to gather
information. 1 he lour months that
have passed since the assembling of
congress are arguments against the'
commission bill, and each
month till the bill passes, should it
pass, will be an additional argument
against the bill. This fact*is over^
by the opponents of any
change in tbe present tariff statutes,
These last named are inclined
delay tariff legislation, and have the
ability to secure delay. The issue l
between protection and free trade is
not joined in this contest in its
simp?, it can hardlv be said
that t-ho tendency toward protection
and the tendency tbwarl free trade
at this mament b ought into
confllo*. Ail men, save the mono} o-
lists who arc enriched by the tariff
laws and the republican politicians
who ard anxious to keep the taritf
question in politics in precisely the
condition in which it now is. ’admit
poUtXns
sccm t0 be in control in t-hh house of
representatives,
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