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Official Journal of I>eca*ur County
R. M- JOHNSTON, } editor
o. o. GU" LEY, J
“ JtJJNNJtIDGE, G±y
Saturday Moraine, Aran. son, 1872.
OFFFICE —Over Spear & Thompson's Store,
Broughton street.
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low price of two dollars.
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Interest, solicited from all parts of the countoy.
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We want you to take, the Sun —it will do
you good, and will instruct you in regard
to .many things. Payments can be made
in Batter, Eggs, Corn, Potatoes,
Greenbacks or Tobacco Stamps—if nicely
taken from the boxes.
Appointees.
CoL N. J. Hammond, Supreme Court Re
porter, has been appointed by Gov. Smith
Attorney-General for the State, and Capti
Harry Jackson supplies the place of the
former gentleman as Reporter.
Withdrawn-
The proposition from Morris Ketchum,
Esq., of New York, to lease the Atlantic &
Gulf Road has been withdrawn. This per
manently settles the squabble which the
proposition has caused.
The New Era.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks that the
Daily New Era of that city, will be revived
by the Georgia Grant Republicans The
Constitution says : If revived the Era will
run a sort of Dolly Varden style of poli
tics—cheap chintz and loud colors —penny
patriotism and immense gas.
Thanks. •
We are under obligations to Gov. Joseph
E. Brown, President of the Western and
Atlantic R. R., for the tender of a compli
mentary pass over his road for 1872. —
Under the present administration the road
is thriving, and the rental money is paid
into the State Treasury each month.
Dead.
The death of General Humphrey Mar
shall, of Kentucky, is announced. Before
the war he was a prominent member of the
Congress of the United States, and subse
quently took an active part in the unhappy
and heroic struggle for Southern indepen
dence.
A Worthy Tribute.
The friends and admirers of the late "Wil
liam Gilmore Simms held a meeting in
Charleston, some days ago, and appointed
committees throughout the State to collect
funds for a suitable monument, to be erect
ed in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, to
the memory of the distinguished poet, nov
elist and patriot.
Firemanic.
The Savannah Fire Department is to cel
ebrate on a grand scale, its first of May an
niversary. A good many visiting compan
ies are to be present, among which is the
Bed Jackets of Charlestown, Massachusetts*
the company which entertained the Mar
shal Hose of Savannah, so sumptuously on
their visit North.
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Again Changed.
The J. P. and M. Railroad of Florida has
once again changed hands. The road has
been token possession of by a receiver, John
C. Greeley, under an order of Judge Gillis
of the Circuit Court, in the case of the State
against the Railroad Company. Mr. Gree
ley now charge of the road from Jack
sonville to Chattahoochee, and from Talla
hassee to Si Marks.
Important Letter.
Ex-Governor Charles J. Jenkins has writ
ten a long letter to Gov. Smith. It forms
a valuable contribution to the history of
“ Reconstruction ” in Georgia, and brings
out and reveals some important facts in con
nection with the tyrranically and bayonet
ruled State. Owing to dttreme length,
we have not the space sufficient to devote
to its publication.
Small Pox.
This dreadful scourge is raging in the
city of New York, and lapidly on the in
crease. The Herald says that the rapidity
with which this dreadful disease is spread
ing all over the city has at length become
alarming, and the health authorities have
instituted the most rigorous measures to
check its further progress. One hundred
and fifteen cases were reported to the city
sanitary bureau the past week.
Publications. —We have received the April
numbers of the Rural Carolinian and the Ameri
can Stock Journal, the former published at Charles-
C., and the latter at Parkesburg, Penn.
4feth are periodicals of the highest character, and
their of knowledge
instructions in aqppk raising, invaluable to planter*.
We recommend them to those of our readers who
follow agricultural pursuits.
THE ATLANTIC * OTM* *****
ROAD.
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The resignations of Directors of
the Gulf road, which were tendered in wri
ting to President Screven, have been accept
ed by the board. The resignations, as the im
pression seems to be, were offered because
of a breach between CoL Screven and the
retiring Directors, in regard to whether or
not the whole, undivided time of the Presi
dent belonged to the road, and their being
promptly received, indicates plainly CoL
Screven’s triumph. The names of the re
tiring Directors are Hiram Roberts, John
Stoddard, Charles Green, Wm. H. Wiltbur
ger, A. M- Sloan, and John L Villaionga..
It is said that there are other causes why
the resignations were tendered which have
not been made public, and which will at an
early day be submitted to a convention of
the Stockholders ; but it is generally conce
ded that the immediate and prime reason
which led to this step on the part of the gent
lemen named, was a disagreement between
them and the President on a question of
duty. The Directors contended that the
company was entitled to the entire time
and attention of the Persident, that the
road required it, while the lattei insisted
.on Aividm a s* Savaiman, Os
which it is well known he is at the present
time Mayor.
As to who was right we have no means
of knowing, but we do rest under the im
pression that CoL Screven could not have
acted otherwise than as he did, for while
six Directors of the railroad were urging
Mm to resign the chief magistracy of the
city—and which he once did but through we
fViinlr pure motives withdrew that resigna
tion—the city itself assured him of the fact
that he was the pilot on whom she depend
ed for safety, and that his resignation at
the present time would result most disas
trously to the true interests of Savannah.
It may perhaps have been impolitic in
CoL Screven, and in direct oposition to the
interest of the road, bis accepting the posi
tion of Mayor the last time—and indeed it
is said that he was notified of the fact that
acceptance of the office would not meet
with the approbation of the board of Di
rectory, but we think that if he did violate
the expressed wishes of a portion of the
Directors, he was actuated by pure and pa
triotic impulses. There was any amont of
discontent and strife among the malcon
tents of Savannah, and he perhaps was at
that time the only man, of the honest Dem
ocratic faith, that could have been success
ful in the race for the Mayoralty, and if the
notorious horde of radical vampires who
have been striving for sometime to get po
se ssion of the city government, had fiic
ceeded in theirfinteD tions, nefarious schemes
and stupendous frauds would have follow
ed, and at an early day Savannah have
been sorely afflicted with a disease known
as bankruptcy.
These fact were represented and pictured
in strong colors to CoL Screven by an
anxious constituency, and at last being
convinced’of the correctness of these rep
resentations, and thinking he was doing
the best thing he could, under the existing
state of affairs, for both the city and road,
he reluctantly accepted the nomination, be
came a candidate and was gloriously elect
ed over his scheming opponents, who, if
any other man but Screven had of been
run, would have been elected and Savannah
soon placed upon a basis of ruination.
Upon the whole we think that CoL Scre
ven acted as every true man would or should
have acted if in his stead, and if these
lordly Directors should see fit to resort to
such extreme measures upon what ap
pears to us really a flimsy pretext,’ we
see no reason why CoL Screven should not
be sustained »nthe matter by the stockhold
ers. 'While the citizens of this section
are not so nearly interested in the welfare
of the city which has caused this strife, still
we think they will, to a man, applaud the
manly independent spirit maintained by
the President in so promptly accepting the
uncalled for resignations. We hope so at
any rate.
OUR DEMOCRACY*
We clearly defined our position in our
last issue, and the long, and in some cases
false, tirade in the last number of the Dem
erol is perfectly useless. It is merely a
scheme to procure patronage, by trying to
exdte prejudice against us, and for our part
we are perfectly willing to allow the Demo
crat all it gains by the operation. We think
our true position is thoroughly compre
hended by the public, and the editor of the
Democrat may bet we shall not advertise
his sheet by engaging in a long winded
controversy, iterating on our part facts that
are already well known to all the readers
of the Sux. We intend, as we stated before,
to run a live paper, and leave a gen
erous and just public—the readers of our
journal—to learn from its contents, wheth
er or not we are true to their interests.
The editor of the Democrat insinuates
that the Sun is a radical sheet, which insin
uation we pronounce basely false, and here
jpntlS, in £> f we arte codcered, all fur
ther of f&S* isubject.
The Southern Sux published in Bain
bridgeJMias mare mat and
bnaunesslike tllgy ft" has had since the
war* —Albany Central City.
No man in Georgia knows better than
Governor Smith, the broad, deep, ineradi
cable fact that CoL P. W. Alexander is not
one of the man the people intended to vote
for at theGuberaatorial election in Decem
ber.—Albany News.
Upon which the West Point News very
correctly remarks : “An angel just from
heaven could not satisfy ungovernable
and craving appetites of politicians of this
State. Why did you elect Governor Smith
if you thought him incapable of filling the
position, or of exercising its functions pru
dently? It’s not to be supposed that he
will use his appointing power, even were it
possible, to suit every cross-roads politi
cian. The cry of the people won’t do ev
ery time. Those same people have sense
enough to see sometimes that the cry is
used only for the interests of almighty
self.”
We think “the people” of Georgia ore
perfectly willing to trust to the good, hon
est and patriotic ability of Gov. Smith for
the faithful and prudent exercise of the
functions of the Gubernatorial office ; and>
in- the language of the Savannah News, we
earnestly say : “For the honor of South
ern men and the Democracy of Georgia,
let us have no disgraceful scramble over
the little offices within the gift of the Gov
ernor‘” V
Florida.
We clip the following racy paragraph
from the New York World, in regard to
our sister State of Florida. While we en
i fcertain not the slightest doub, that the
World is guilty of an immense exaggera
tion, at the same time the idea expressed
is in perfect harmony with the lute storms
which have recently visited both our own
State and Florida:
‘‘lnvalids are advised to go to Florida
because they can enjoy more fresh air and
exercise than in this climate, and go about
less cumbered with clothing, and the latest
news from Jacksonville shows that none of
these advantages are overrated. In a balmy
breeze that sprung up there last week free
ventilation was assured by most of the roofs
being blown off, and promenaders out of
doors were whisked along by the wind at the
exhilirating speed of fifty miles an hour, and
in several instances completely divested of
appareL
Georgia News,
The Lingard troupe is performing in Col
umbus.
In Augusta, while a jury was being selec
ted for the trial of a party indicted for mur
der. the fact was disclosed that six men out
of forty-eight, or more than ten per cent, of
the panel, were conscientiously opposed to
the infliction of the death penalty.
The Forest City Boat Club, of Savannah,
have been invited to Philadelphia to take
part in the grand regatta, to be held in
that city between the Bth and the 15th of
June.
Atlanta Fire Company No. 1 was at West
Point Monday. Atlanta company ran 150
yards of hose from the reel in 45 seconds,
and West Point company in 50. Some $350
were realized at a supper that night, at
which were gathered many beautiful ladies
“from far and from near”—from Talledaga,
Opelika, Newnan. LaGrange, HoganviUe,
Grantville, and other points.
- The Annual Fair of the Bibb county Ag
ricultural Society, will be held at the Cen
tral City Park in Macon on Wednesday and
Thursday, the 19th and 20th of June next.
The calico dealers of Columbus retroga
ded on each other in the matter of the re
cent combination, and prints are now lower
than ever.
The editor of the Quitman Banner com
plains of the freight of a barrel of paint
from New York, which cost $1 50 to Sa
vannah and $3 19 thence to Quitman.
Columbus prides herself on the tremen
dous dimensions of the parties which take
place in that burg.
Burglaries are uncomfortably common in
Savannah.
A little boy in Early county was recently
kicked by a small-sized bird, of that tribe
known as a mule.
The “Devil” is in the editorial chair of
the Talbotton Standard. That accounts for
the “hot” things uttered through the col
umns of that paper.
Talbotton is crying because she has’nt
got a fiddler and can’t dance.
The Fair Lydia is giving the Savannah
ianH a dose of Blue Beard.
The Israelites of Columbus are endeavor
ing to build anew Synagogue, and- they
have SI,OOO as a nueclus.
John Gorman of the Talbottan Standard
is still flower hunting
The Eatonton Press and Messenger says
the Tax Collector of that county has issued
1000 executions against defaulter i.
A writer in the Savannah Republican,
urges the organization of a Stock Company
to again start the Industrial Association.
Gen. John B. Gordon has returned from
Baltimore to Atlanta.
The fast young men of Blakely take ad
vantage of the Marshal’s penchant for fox
hunting, to kick np a mighty dust in that
village.
The Washington Gazette says that the
prospects of a fine fruit year in that region
is very good. The trees are just beginning
to bloom, and unless there is a very late
frost, a large crop may be expected.
The recent rains extended to every por
tion of Southeastern and Southwestern
Georgia. The streams in these sections
were higher than they have been since 1847.
and farming operations have been materi
ally retarded.
Atlanta is going to have anew street
railway.
to lecture in Atlanta.
child was burned to death
near Lumpkin.
the third boat
race m Savannah. *'
The Washington steam engine which ex
ploded * shsrt time ago, m Savamoh, has
been put in complete, repair.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
[Selected from our Daily Exchange..]
The Alabama Cliam\
Washington, April 2,-E«i Crr«>yilleH
letter to Secretary Fish was wad a
i abinet Meeting to day. It lsyory
and consists of both manuscript and pnn
,ed matter. Ihe letter « aryumentatire
against the position of the United States
on the subject of the Alabama Claims, but
expresses the hope that the two countries
may eventually setcle their difficulties ac
cording to the spirr of the Treaty of Wash
ington 'I he tonfc is firm but friendly.
Von e days will elaps * before Secretary
Fish will reply to this more than usually
long dipl matic letter. <ur Government
adheres to its position to submit the entire
matter of claims, direct and indirect, to ihe
Geneva arbitrators, and is wilting to abide
their decision.
Thr Connecticut Election.
Hartford, A ril 1—- T he voting is pro
gressing quietly and with less th <n the
usual excitement The Democrats are not
working with half their usual zeal m their
strong wards*
New Haven, April I—A few returns
from the towns in this country shows losses
and gain, for each evenly distributed* In
Meriden. the Democrats make a net gam
'j he vote is generally lighter than
last year. .
Hartford, April I.—Eight towns in New
Haven county give Jewell, Republican,
679. Hubbard, Dera erat, 2 371, and Gib
lette temperance, 722 lhe vole last year
was. Jewell 2,722, ad I ngli-h 2,44i •
P;-oM N iW York*
New Y »rk ' pril 1. -The Ueraldsaye that
whiske an i toba* o f ouds ;■
during olltctor EiuleyY term nvolve a
loss to ’he Government of $160,000,000*
Indictments have been found against one
hundred persons, and the President direc ts
that prosecution shall be pushed. Much
malicious and par izan prejudice is charged
in getting up these indictments _
fharies Volmer died of lock jaw from
the extraction of a tooth.
The Virginius.
Havana April 1.- The Tornado is here
from Aspi -wall. where she left the Pizzaro
watching the Virginius.
New York, April I.—Advices from As
pinwall show that the Pizzaro and Virgin
ius are in close qua t°rs. ihe Virginius
threatens that if the Pizza o fires, she will
run into her and sink both vessels*
Key West, April 1. - Ibe news here is
to the effect that the Virginius has escaped
from A spin wall.
Debt Statement
Washington. April l.—'Jhe debt state
ment shows a decrese of nearly fifteen and
and a half millions. Coin in the treasury
over one hundred and twenty millions J
currency ten and a have millions.
Love Flies t > Arms.
New York April I.—E. D. Wartz was
shot dead to day by Lis discarded sweet
heart.
Washington.
Washington, April I.—Private dispatch
es received here from Connecticut says that
t is very doubtful if there is an election
by the people. Gov. Jewel himself shares
in these impressions. Indications are that
the Hei üblicans will gain one majority in
the Legislature over last year when they
had twenty six on joint l allot.
• England.
London, April 1. lhe re. ort that diplo
matic relations between the Pope and the
Czar are about to be re-established is un
true.
From France.
Paris, April I.—Thiers has abandoned
the project of transferring the Capital to
Paris.
Burned.
Newark, N, J., ] April I.—The wife and
three children of John Givener were burn
ed last night, together with his house.
The Mexican Revolution.
New York, April 1 —A Matamoras spe -
cial says that there are innumerable ru -
mors that the Revolutionists are straining
every nerve to raise money, and are levy
ing contributions from foreigners and na
tives alike.
The Earthquake ix the West
§an Francisco, April 1. —Fm-ther advices
from Inyo county make the killed by the
earthquake at thirty and wounded one hun
dred. Reports oome in that volcanoes are
active and that la /a is fijwing down the
mountains.
European Tel* graph.
We £3e from the Sa’< annah News that
great re luctions in the rates of cable tele
graphy between the United States and Eu
rope have been made. The News says :
“To obviate this difficulty the American
and European Telegraph Agency has been
instituted in New York, of which Mr. W.
H. Turner and Mr. Frank P. Brown, of the
Western Union Telegraph, are the agents
in this city. Messages will be forwarded to
New York free of charge and thence through
the New York Agency, to all points in Eu
rope, at a comparatively nominal price, no
additional charge being made for date, ad
dress and signature. A telegram which
would have cost one hundred dollars three
years ago, twenty dollars two years ago,
and ten dollars last January, can now
through the medium of the Savannah
Agency, be forwarded for three dollars and
a halt We daresay our commercial men
will not be slow to take advantage of the
advantages thus afforded them.
BainbrlDgE sux. —This sprightly journal
of Southwestern Georgia has its prospectus
in to-days Constitution. It is published
by R. M. Johnston & Cos., and is a fine me
dium for reaching the people in Decatur
and neighboring Counties.
Bond Committee*
The Bond Committee, says the Atlanta
Constitution, has adjourned until Thursday
next, when it ie-assembles here, to adjourn
again on the 10th, in order to go to New
York.
This committee has done its duty faith
fully. It has made important discoveries.
It lias gleaned a mass of valuable testimony.
In New York it will complete its labors.
Gen. Toombs has assisted the committee
here, and will go with the body to New
York.
Getting Hot.
From the New York World we learn that
an influential delegation from the State of
Texas, waited on President Grant last
Thursday and requested Government pro
tection from the Mexican raiders on the
Texas frontier. Os late great depredations
have been committed, and Mexican troops
have not hesitated to arrest American citi
zens, and hold them while droves of cattle
were conveyed to the Mexican shores of the
Rio Grande. The President promised to
hring the question before the Cabinet.
m -i •m> 1 i ■. .1 11., i
The BainbkiDge Sun.—With pleasure we
refer our readers to the prospectus of the
Sun to be found elsewhere* This paper
makes its local columns a specialty, and all
who lend their patronage to it will certain
ly get value received. Messers Johnston
& Cos., are the proprietors, both young men
of enterprise and energy. Mr. J. has quite
a knack at localizing, and always make*
this department f his paper interesting. --
As an advertising - metiium, it is unexcelled
by any paper in hat portion oi the State.
I is the Oili hal journal foi Jecatur County,
hence it has superior advantage s for circu
lation. We cheerfully recommend the Sun
i o business men and to the household as
an interesting weekly- —Savannah Bepnbli
can.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ATTENTION
OAK CITY HOOK & L. CO.
YOU are hereby commanded to attend yourreg
ular monthly meeting to be held on Monday eve
ning the Bth instant, at “J o'clock. A full atten
dance is requested, as the annual election of officers
and other important business takes place at that
time.
By order of
S. L. BELCHER, Foreman.
W. W. Wuioht. Secretary.
April 6, 1872-42-lt
WATCHER
JEWELKY,
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MUSICAL INSRUMENTS,
SPECTACLES,
W ALXING CANES,
TOYS.
FANCY GOODS,
PIPES, &C.,
And a fall line of Fancy Goods, suitable for
Holiday & Bridal Presents.
For sale by
W. C. SUBERS,
Next Door to Butts and Peabody, Broad Street.
BAINBRIDGE. GEO,
fBP"* Watches, Clocks and Jewelry repaired and
warranted. mch2-ly
T. J WILLIAMS & CO ,
Wholesale and He tall dealers !tt
Provisions,
FANCY GROCERIES,
HEINES AND J^IQUORS,
Os the
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BAINBMDGE, GEO.
Has one of the largest stock* of
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GROCERIES AND PLANTATIOS^y
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