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THE FREE PRESS.
OUR CONGRESS IONA DELEGATION.
Altogether, there is no state in the
union better represented in congress than
Georgia, though we must confess that
there are some of the delegation not far
above mediocrity. In the senate we have
Mr. Ilill who possesses a giant mind
whose powers of discussion are equal to
those of any man in the United States
senate. We sometimes think lie is want
ing in discretion ; but we never doubt his
honesty of purpose. In the house we
find Mr. Stephens with a mind richly
stored with solid views of statesmanship.
Calm and deliberate, with a memory al
most always absolutely accurate as to
past events, he is always a safe counselor,
lie is more of the statesman in all that
pertains to statesmanship than any man
in congress. Perhaps no other congress
man has grown more rapidly in popular
estimation as a safe man in congress than
Dr. Felton. Earnest and conscientious,
prompt and exact in the performance of
his duties, he has risen to the attitude of
a high order of statesmanship. Mr.
Speer, now serving his first term, young
and brilliant, is’destined, if properly care
ful, to reach a high*niche in the column
of fame. Mr. Hammond is a gentleman
of fine intellect, hut as yet he has had
but little to say in congress. He has not
yet developed any of his intellectual gifts
in congressional debate.
The other members of the house as a
whole are industrious workers and en
deavor to perform their duties to their
constituents to the best of their ability.
Upon the whole, we may say that Geor
gia is very well represented in congress,
and shoud be pleased to see them all
work together in harmony. Their fight
in congress against Felton is one of the
most distasteful features in the political
affairs of the country. They might al
low the fight to be transferred to the
hustings in Georgia.
How many of our delegation in the
house will be returned we don’t know;
but we have no doubt of the re-election of
Felton, Stephens and Speer.
The Cartersville Free Press lauds
Judge McCutchen in terms synonym
with all that is pure and good, and regrets
that he will retire from the bench after
his term of office expires. And yet ii
Judge McCutchen should be nominated
for congress by the democrats, The Free
Press would at once discover that he is
one of the most corrupt and unworthy
men in the district.— Marietta Journal.
Now, we are very sorry to learn that the
judge is “one of the most corrupt and
unworthy men in the district.” It is
news to us. The Journal should come out
with the proofs.
Marcellos Thornton hurls back the in
sinuation that he is a radical, made by
the Macon Central Georgia Weekly, and
calls the editor of that paper a liar. We
have known Marcellus several years as a
hard-working, praiseworthy young gen
tleman, much the superior of many who
attempt to revile him, but we never knew
him as a radical.
The national democratic committee in
vite all democratic, conservative and
other citizens, irrespective of past politi
cal associations or differences, to meet in
national convention at Cincinnati on the
22nd of June. Well, that’s liberal enough,
and includes republicans and even the
despised independents.
♦ ♦
Who in the deuce is Parson Simmons,
anyway.— Darien Timber Gazette. Ask
Parson Felton. He found him,.— Borne
Courier. But it remains for the Courier
man to get jealous of him because he
(Simmons) could get an office from Hayes
when the C. m. couldn’t.
The Cedartown Advertiser was allowed
only five dollars for publishing a column
and a half of grand jury presentments.
Why it is that a newspaper shall be com
pelled to work cheaper for a rich county
than for an individual is one of the mys
teries.
Isn’t it about time the Kirkwood exec
utive committe call a congressional
convention in the seventh ? If they in
tend to defeat Dr. Felton as they say
they will do, they had better be prepared
to make hay as soon as the sun begins to
shine.
Prices in everything is cm the boom.—
We don’t mind the advance in bread
stuffs, clothes, nor even in printing pa
per; but the advance in lager beer is
what arouses our opposition to the whole
booming business.
Mr. F. Henry Richardson has purchas
ed an interest in the Atlanta Sunday Ga
zette. Now the delicate society person
als of that paper will receive anew gar
niture as of fresh daisies and violets.
The “organized” have a most perverse
way of winning converts from the inde
pendent ranks by abusing them. They
seem to have less discretion than any set
of leaders we ever knew of.
The young debutant of the Express has
already had to explain in a personal card.
That is something we did not do in twen
ty years after we began to wield the edi
torial pencil.
No, no, Fide Fite, we are not mad.—
Small things never trouble us.
When Mr. Tennyson sits down to
write which he usually does for five hours
a day, he give strict orders that he shall
not be disturbed. There have been call
ers who,through some blunder of servants,
have got in his library while he was
writing and were denounced by him for
their intrusion as if they had been his
worst enemies. Any interruption while
he is at work is said to make him wild;
he raves like mad, and figuratively,
foams at the mouth. In his work he is
deliberation personified, spending hours
sometimes on a single line.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1880.
STALWART STEPHENS.
Little Better Than a Galvanized Corpse,
hut too Much for the Brigadiers.
Special telegram to the Inter-Ocean.]
Washington, Feb. 19.—A singular
spectacle was presented in the house of
representatives to-day when the former
vice-president of the Southern Confeder
acy was denied an opportunity of making
a speech by the democratic majority,
largely composed of men who went with
him into the rebellion, and only secured
the lloor through the support of the whole
republican side, with the help of a few
democrats.
When the house resumed consideration
of the rules, Mr. Stephens asked the
privilege of making some remarks, but
an order had previously been adopted
cutting off further debate, and Blackburn,
of Kentucyk, protested against allowing
any exception. Speer, of Georgia, made
an appeal that Stephens might be heard,
but Blackburn wa£ obdurate. Finally
Conger, of Michigan, proposed, as the
only way to reach a direct result, that
the house go into committee of the whole
on the state of the uuion, but the demo
crats fought this to the end, demanding
first a division of the house and then a call
of the yeas and nays.. Half a dozen in
dependent democrats, however, voted
with the republicans, and Mr. Stephens
was given an opportunity to speak after
nearly an hour’s delay/ Conger having
first delivered some sarcastic remarks on
the attitude of the democrats in refusing
to a distinguished representative of Jack
sonian democracy a chance to be heard.
Mr. Stephens spoke for nearly half an
hour taking radical ground against the
whole theory ot attatfiiing, riders to ap
propriation bills, and securing repeated
applause from the republican side.
THE HOUSE WAS HUSHED
to unwonted silence while he was address
ing it, and the strictest attention was
paid by all but a few democrats. He
spoke as usual, sitting in his revolving
chair, or rather wheeling himself about
in the open space before the speaker’s
desk, facing now the democrats, and now
the republicans, his tremulous voice oc
casionally sounding forth so shrilly that
every word could be heard in the galler
ies, and then dropping so low that little
could be heard for sentences at a time.
After Mr. Stephens concluded, a vote
was taken on the amendment offered by
Warner, of Ohio, providing that it should
only be in order to reduce expenditures
already authorized and change existing
law to the extent necessary to make it
conform to such reductions. Speer, Fel
ton, and Stephens, of Georgia; Whit
thorne and Taylor, of Tennessee, and
Mills, of Texas, again voted with the re
publicans, and were joined by Duester,
of Wisconsin, the result being the adop
tion of the amendment, despite all efforts
of Randall and Blackburn, by a vote of
117 to 109. A lot of more or less foolish
amendments proposed by Mills were
next voted down, and Mr. Robeson led
the republicans into committing the on
ly blunder of their Whole fight on this
issue. Not content with the great gain
secured by the adoption of Warner’s
amendment, he proposed one still more
radical, forbidding any amendment to
an appropriation bill which would change
the effect of existing law. The democrats
allowed this to be adopted, 115 to 43, so
as to make the section still more obnox
ious, and
THEN RALLIED THEIR WHOLE STRENGTH
for a substitute proposed by Mr. Morri
son, which was carried, 123 to 95. This
declares that it shall not be in order to
change existing laws except to retrench
expenditures by reducing salaries or
amounts of money covered by the bill;
provided it shall be in order to amend
such bill upon the report of the commit
tee having jurisdiction of the subject mat
ter of such bill, if it shall restrict expen
ditures. The independent democrats all
supported this proposition in committee,
and will doubtless do so in the house.—
So the long contest ends in a victory for
the democrats, due not to their own skill
but to the blunders of Robeson in grasp
ing for so much as to lose what had al
ready been gained. The republicans
were greatly disgusted at this turn of the
tide, through what one of the most prom
inent of them pronounces a gross tactical
blunder, and the democrats were corres
pondingly elated.
THE DEBATE.
Washington, February 19.—1n the
house to-day, while the third clause of
the twenty-third rule was under consid
eration, Mr. Stephens desired to address
the committee tor ten minutes.
Mr. Blackburn submitted that it was
not competent for thecommitte to extend
the time for debate.
Mr. Speer moved that the committee
rise for the purpose of having the house
extend the time for debate.
Mr. Blackburn denied the propriety of
thrusting anything of a personal charac
ter into the pending question. He de
sired to obtain a vote on the rules, and if
one gentleman was permitted to
speak it would not take unanimous con
sent to extend the time for debate.
The chair said that it would.
Mr. Blackburn—Then I will object.
Mr. Speer thereupon withdrew his mo
tion.
Mr. Conger then moved that the com
mittee rise, and stated that when it did
rise he would move that the house resolve
itself into committee of the whole on the
state of the union, for the purpose of list
ening to the remarks of the gentleman
from Georgia (Mr. Stephens).
Mr. Conger’s motion was agreed to—
yeas, 101; nays, 99.
The committee accordingly rose.
Mr. Conger then moved to go into com
mittee of tho whole on the state f the
union. Agreed to —yeas, 117; nays, 114
—a strict party vote with the exception
of Mills, Persons, Felton, Speer, Tillman,
and Warner, who voted with the repub
licans in the affirmative.
All the greenbrekers, with the excep
tion of Ladd, also voted in the affirma
tive.
The vote having been announced, Mr.
Blackburn moved to reconsider, and
Mr. Conger moved to lay that motion on
the table.
On this Mr. Blackburn demanded the
yeas and nays, but while the speaker was
putting the question, Mr. Speer raised
the point of order that it was not compe
tent for Mr. Blackburn to move to recon
sider, inasmuch as he had voted on the
losing side.
Mr. Garfield stated that immediately
upon the gentleman from Kentncky
(Blackburn) making the motion, he had
risen to make the point of order.
The speaker ruled that Mr. Blackburn’s
motion was not in order, inasmuch as the
the gentleman from Ohio (Garfield) stat
ed that he had risen in time to make the
point of order.
Mr. Finley tusked leave to change his
vote, but this proposition was met by a
storm of objections from the republican
side.
The house accordingly went into com
mittee on the state of the union, Mr.
Springer in the chair.
THE SCENE WAS AMUSING
as well as dramatic when, as if by one
accord, Blackburn and Conger rose and
demanded recognition.
The chair refused lo 'recognize either
gentleman until perfect order had been
obtained, when he recognized Mr. Con
ger, as being the author of the motion on
which the house had gone into commit
tee.
Mr. Conger said he had made a motion
in the interest of free speech. He had
desired an opportunity to hear the views
of the distinguished gentleman from
Georgia (Stephens), whose legislative
experience and familiarity with the rules
of the house dated back to the time when
the fierce democracy of the other side be
lieved in free speech, free discussion, and
fairness ; to the time of the old hard-fisted
Jacksonian democracy which he (Steph
ens) was a living representative still,
thank God. [Applause.] If in the pro
gress of events in this country, it had
happened that the democratic party,
once so honored, once so esteemed, once
so respected, once embracing so large a
portion ot the people of all sections and
all regions, had slipped its moorings ; if
it had been wandering for years on un
known seas of adventure; if it had for
gotten the principles of Jefferson and
Madison and Monroe and Jackson, what a
glorious thing it was for the country that
there still lived, still still was
one, in all his mental and intellectual
vigor, with memory unimpaired, an old
representative of democracy of those days,
then a Whig [applause and laughter],
then acting with that party, true to the
constitution, but
UPHOLDING JEFFERSONIAN IDEAS
of democracy, and to-day acknowledged
by democrats as a representative of old
time democracy, honored by them as
such, having brought into the fold the
ark of the covenant of whiggery [laugh
ter] and placed it in the democratic camp;
how fortunate was it for the old repre
sentatives of the whig party that the ark
of the covenant was still held by the gen
tleman, and that he could tell what democ
racy had been in early days, what it had
been when the whig party had become
the depository of its principles, how he
had borne that ark down through the
scenes of revolution and rebellion through
the driftings of party, and wa3 ready to
present it here to-day. He (Conger) did
not wonder that modern democrats refus
ed to hear the venerable statesman. Here
jvas the unwonted spectacle of a refusal
to hear him, even on the subject of rules.
He (Conger) and his friends, together
with a few democrats, had at last brought
the house to a position where the gentle
man from Georgia could speak where the
gag was removed from him, and now,
with pleasure exceeding that which he
had words to express, yielding tcf the
earnest longings of his friends on all
sides to hear again the old words of de
mocracy from the eloquent expounder of
those doctrines, he would yield the re
mainder of his time to the gentleman
from Georgia.
MR. STEPHENS’ SPEECH.
Mr. Stephens, after expressing his ob
ligations to the house and to the gentle
man from Michigan (Conger), said that
it was not his purpose to speak of the
history of the democratic or the whig par
ty, although his attachment to party was
as strong as that of any man in the house.
He had been reared in the Jeffersonian
school of democracy. In it he had lived
and breathed and had his being, and in
it he should die. Coming to the amend
ment offered by the gentleman from Ohio
(Warner), he declared that there was
great principle involved in it. Whether
it was adopted or rejected, neither party
would be worsted. He was opposed to
the twenty-first rule individually. Why?
Because he did not believe that, accord
ing to the democratic doctrine of Jeffer
son, Madison, and Jackson, it was ever
intended that the appropriation bills
should be encumbered with any other
legislation than appropriations. If there
had been any progress in legislation in
this country, it had been in excluding
from appropriation bills other matters as
riders. The gentleman from Ohio (Hurd)
had said the other day that it was demo
cratic doctrine to seek redross of grievan
ces by withholding appropriations. He.
(Stephens) repudiated that proposition
toto eeola. That had
NEVER BEEN DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE,
It was monarchical doctrine. The re
dress of grievances in this country was,
first, by petition to the legislative body;
next, to the judiciary ;and nex u to the bal
lot-box. Under the constitution, the ex
ecutive had the same rightful and consti
tutional power to veto a bill as the house
and senate had to pass it; and the new
doctrine of making war upon the veto
power, through means of the appropria
tion bills, was not democratic, was not re
publican,but was anti-constitutional. The
only war waged against the veto power in
the" past was by the whig party, under
Clay, “one of the few of the
immortal names that were not
born to die.” But he (Ste
phens), exercising that independence of
thought which he ever had, had disa
greed with Clay on that war on the veto.
But where had stood the entire democrat
ic party on that occasion ? It had stood
in defense of the veto power. He repeat
ed that he was against all riders on ap
propriation bills, and that was the posi
tion at which advanced thought in po
litical science all over the work! had ar
rived. Gentlemen on this side, said he
(wheeling round his chair so as to face
the democratic benches) talked of econo
my. Economy ? Yes; that is the cry.—
lam for economy, and the best way in
the world to have
TRUE, REAL, LASTING, GOOD ECONOMY
is to shut down the door on your appro
priation committee. [Applause on the
republican side.] That committee will
have enough to do by following the esti
mates. One reason why I feel so much
interest in this question is, the intima
tion from the gentleman from Ohio
(Hurd) that they want to use the twen
ty-first rule in order to tack riders on the
appropriation bills—bills which must
pass or ought to pass—so as to compel
the executive, so as to force redress of
grievances. My opinion on that subject
was clearly given in the democratic cau
cus when that scheme was tried last ses
sion. I was opposed to it then, lam op
posed to it now, and shall ever be oppssed
to any such kind of legislation.
Mr. Conger—Having accomplished the
object which I had, in behalf of free
speech and fair play, I move that the
committee rise.
The motion was agreed to, and the
committeee accordingly rose, the chair
man reporting that it had the president’s
message under consideration. [Laugh
ter.]
Mr. Blackburn —Unless it be the pleas
ure of the house to waste more time, I
move that the house go into committee ol
the whole for the consideration of the
rules.
Mr. Conger—l take exception to the
remark made by the gentleman from
Kentucky (Blackburn).
The speaker—lt is too late, business
having intervened.
Mr. Conger —The gentleman said, “In
order that we may waste no more time.”
>1 R. BLACKBURN—
The gentleman said no such thing.
[Expression of astonishment on the part
of Mr. Conger as he slowly stepped back
to his seat.]
The house then on Mr. Blackburn’s
motion, went into committee of the
whole Mr. Carlisle in the chair, for the
consideration of the new rules, the pend
ing question being the point of order
made by Mr. Hooker to the amendment
made by Mr. Warner.
The point of order was overruled, and
Mr. Warner’s amendment to the twenty
first rule adopted—yeas, 117; nays, 100.
The amendment was to strike but part
of the third clause of the rule, and to in
sert, “except that it shall be in order to
reduce the expenditure of money, au
thorized or required by such existing
law, and covered by the bill,” and to
change the law only *to the extent neces
sary to make it conform to spoil reduc
tion.
MR. MILLS MOVED THREE AMENDMENTS
in succession, all of which were voted
down by large majorities. They were as
follows:
Any amendment reducing customs and
internal revenue taxes shall be in order
on any appropriation bill.
Any amendment shall be in order that
provides for the retirement of the circu
lation of national banks, or that prohibits
the renewal of their charters.
Any amendment shall be in order that
provides for the coinage of silver on the
same terms as gold.
[The fact that the greenbaekers voted
against the second amendment created
much amusement in the house.]
Mr. Robeson offered, as a substitute for
Mr. Warner’s amendment, an amend
ment providing that no appropriation
shall be reported in any general appro
priation bill, or be in order as an amend
ment thereto, which changes existing
law. He offered an amendment to pre
sent the square issue whether there
should he any riders or not.
Mr. Randall—lt presents the square is
sue whether we shall have any economy
or not; not riders.
Mr. Robeson’s amendment was adopt
ed -115 to 43—a great number of demo
crats voting for it, in order to substitute
it for Mr. Warner’s amendment, there
being a number of democrats who would
have supported Mr. Warner’s amend
ment who will oppose Mr. Robeson’s in
the house.
MR. MORRISON OFFERED AN AMENDMENT
for clause 3 and amendments thereto, as
follows:
Clause 3. No appropriations shall be
reported in any general appropriation
bill or be in order as an amendment
thereto, for any expenditure not pre
viously authorized by law, unless in con
tinuation of appropriations for such pub
lic works and objects as are already in
progress; nor shall any provision in any
such bill or amendment thereto, chang
ing existing law, be in order, except such
as being germane to the subject matter of
the bill, shall retrench expenditures by
reduction of the number and salary of
the officers of the officers of the United
States, by reduction of compensation of
any person paid out of the treasury of
the United States, or bj r reduction of the
amounts of money covered by the bill;
provided, that it shall he in order further
to amend such bill on the report of the
committee having jurisdiction of the sub
ject matter of such amendment, which
amendment being germane to the subject
matter of the hill, shall retrench expen
ditures.
The amendment was adopted—yeas,
123; nays, 95,
The announcement was received with
applause ou the democratic side.
Mr. Garfield offered an amendment to
the clause as amended, providing that no
proposition or amendment shall be in or
der except as to the amounts of money.
Rejected—yeas. 109: nays, 122.
Mr. Lowe offered an amendment pro
hibiting partisan legislation on appropri
ation hills. Rejected—yeas, 70; nays,
This was w r as the last amendment of
fered to clause 3, and the clerk proceed
ed to read the 4th clause of rule 21.
The 3d clause will be reported to the
house in the shape in which it was left
by Mr. Morrisson’s substitute.
Mr. Chalmers offered an amendment
to clause sof the 21st rule, providing
that for the consideration, preparation
and report of the river and harbor bill
the committee on commerce shall consist
of thirty-eight members, one of whom
shall be selected from each state. Rejec
ted.
Mr. Oscar Turner offered an amend
ment, providing that the yeas and nays
shall be taken on passage of bills appro
priating money, or creating charge or
debt on the people. Adopted—lo3 to 19.
The committee rose, and the house ad
journed.
> ♦
The mutilation of coin by clipping has
increased so greatly of late *n the north
ern cities that it looks very much as if
some enterprising scamp or scamps were
making a regular business of extracting
the metal for money-making purpose.
The mutilation is punishable with fine
and imprisonment, but the law is sel
dom enforced, owing to the great diffi
culty experienced in detecting the offend
ers.
Hon. Thomas A. Hendrtcks has been
lecturing on “revolutions” at Evansville,
Indiana, and the Journal of that place ia
its report says: “Raising to the true
height of eloquence, Gov. Hendricks
said. ‘As for myself I know on which
side is the right, and with it I will stand
where equal and exact justice shall be
administered to all, and favoritism and
partiality shall be show'n to none.’ ”
A Chinese student at Andover wrote
in a lady’s album the following version
of a well-known poem :
How doth the little sting bug
Improve every sixty minutes
All the day.
Go pickee up sting bug juice
From flowers just got Dusted.
Mr. Jefferson Davis expect to make
from eight hundred to one thousand bales
of cotton on his Mississippi plantation du
ring the coming season. He is busily
engaged on his memoirs of the war, in
which he is assisted by his wife and his
nephew, General Joseph Davis.
An ice-bridge has formed across Niag
ara river below the falls, extending from
the suspension bridge to a point be
tween Piospect House and Table Rock,
and several persons have already crossed
on it.
A few weeks ago, it looked as if tin
Georgia railroad might b.e switched off
the through line, but the rise in the stock
would seem to indicate a very healthy ex
istence.
The republican papers, as if by concert
or instinct, narrow the democratic nomi
nation down to Tilden or Bayard, with
the chances largely in favor ol the lor
mer.
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NUMBER 34.
POLITICAL ECONOMY.
Under the above caption the Washing
ton Capital , a democratic paper, has the
following article:
The democracy in "congress is steadily
pursuing the old undertaker style of
walking about softly and speaking with
bated breath, as if there were a corpse in
the house.
The democracy, as represented here,
considers itself a secret association. Now'
the peculiarity of all secret societies, ex
cept that of the marriage state, is that
there is no secret to keep. When a num
ber of men get in a corner and swear l>e
fore God never to tell, the oath is easily
kept,, for there is nothing to tell. To
this extent the democracy of congress is
a secret association.
When it meets in caucus it is not nec
essary to bribe door keepers, run the
risk of a cold in the head by listening at
cracks, or endanger the reportorial eye
by peeping through a key-hole. The
caucus does nothing but to warn itself
not to speak aloud —does nothing that
may “fetch on a general engagement.”
And really the organization has noth
ing to say. It is not only w ithout prin
ciples, hut it is w ithout opinions. The
oily Gammon it has made speaker is a
fair representative of trie entire mass. lie
is as near a vacuum as nature allow s.
Without intellect, and of course, w ith
out intelligence, he harmonizes his per
fect being by rounding out on no convic
tions. Holding his seat in the house up
on republican votes, he has but one dis
tinguishing quality, and that is his
smooth, oleaginous nature, that is so ap
parent that, were he to venture into the
oil regions of his own state, lie w ould
have a pump thrust into him in fifteen
minutes, from the force of surface indi
cations.
The democracy of Samrandallism is
resolved into one plank: “The Belief in
name and the hope of an office.”
How brilliantly successful the party
has been this sort of policy the story of
the last six years tells us more plainly
than the writing upon the wall told Bel
shazzar. That old third-termer was not
frightened by the mystery of the iascrip
tion so much as by the fact that he could
not read it. This can be read. The de
mocracy has been weighed by the people
and found wanting.
When the masses rose in their wrath
and disgust at the corruptness and abuse
of the republican party under Grant, the
democracy was returned to the house
with a majority of seventy-five.
To-day its continuance in power de
pends upon their ousting old Godlove S.
Orth.
“Le voila,” as the Frenchman remark
ed when he unexpecteely run a German
through with a bayonet.
The work of the democracy has been
confined to cutting down the appropria
tions without touching the expenditures,
while all the monstrous evils growing
out of a perversion of our government
trom a mere political fabric to a commer
cial machine are left undisturbed.
What these evils are we need not
enumeraie. With them vve have made
our readers familiar.
The people discover that they have
shifted positions -without removing the
pain. The patient who was howling in
agony on his side goes ou howling in an
guish on his back.
We are prepared to offer a large re
ward to any man who will tell us the
difference between the democracy an l
the republicans other than what may he
found in a name.
How all this differs from “the democ
racy of history.” One turns wondering
from this political jeny-fish to the bold,
defiant and aggressive organization of
the same name in the past. Such leaders
as JeftersOn, Jackson, Calhoun, Benton,
Silas Wright and Van Burea appear to
us like great rivers in a desert.
One cannot rouse a giant to kill a fly,
and to have the people awakened to revo
lution against wrong something better
must be offered than a mere return of
Sam Randalls to office, and the conse
quent cutting down of the pay of some
vvrecthed cleidc, which, with Samrandal
ism, means reform.
“WHO STRUCK BILLY PATTERSON?’*
A correspondent of the Carnesville
(Ga.) Register, who is writing a series of
“historical sketches, reminiscences and
legends of Franklin county,” gives the
following explanation as to the origin of
the above query:
Many peason have heard the question,
“Who struck Billy Patterson?” without
ever knowing the origin of it. I propose
to enlighten them a little on the subject.
William Patterson was a very wealthy
tradesman or merchant of Baltimore in
the state of Maryland. In the early days
of Franklin county, he bought up great
many tracts of land in the county, and
spent a good portion of his time in
Franklin looking after his interests here.
He was said to he as strong as a bear and
as brave as a lion; but like all brave men,
he was a lover of peace, and indeed a
good, pious man. Nevertheless his wrath
could be excited to a fighting pitch. On
one occasion he attended a public gath
ering in the lower part of Franklin coun
ty at some district court ground. During
the day the two opposing bullies and
their friends raised a row’, and a general
fight was the consequence. At the be
ginning of the affray and before the fight
ing began Billy Patterson ran into the
crowd to persuade them not to fight, but
to make peace and be friends. But his
efforts for peace were unavailing, and
while making them some of the crowd in
the general melee struck Billy Patterson
a severe blow from behind. Billy at once
became fighting mad and cried out at the
top of his voice, “Who struck Billie Pat
terson ?” No one could or would tell him
who was the guilty party. He then pro
posed to give an/ man a hundred dollars
who would tell him “Who struck Billie
Patterson?” Fiom a hundred dollars he
rose to a thousand dollars. But not a
thousand dollars would induce any man
to tell him “Who struck Billie Patter
son?” And years afterwards in his will
he related the above facts and bequeathed
one thousand dollars to be paid by his
executors to the man that would tell them
“Who struck Billie Patterson?” His
will Is recorded in the ordinary’s office
at Carnesville, Franklin county, Georgia,
and any one curious about the matter can
there find and verify the preeeeding state
ments.
*
The day is not distant when all south
ern enterprises will look up and when all
southern ports be what they should. New'
York must not and cannot monopolize
trade.
San Francisco has increased her police
force to 400 men, and Kearney declares
it is a seeret movement to crush the Chi
nese crusade and assassinate him.
And now Postmaster General Key—
said to be numbered among the Grant
third termers. The Grant men claims
him at any rate.