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A. G. McCURRY, Aasociate El lor.
beau the news to teller.
One of the prominent event* on the con
vening of the present Congress, was the
moving of a resolution by Mr. Maine to
inquire into elections frauds committed in
the South at the recent elections. Under
that resolution a committee was appointed
with Mr. Teller as chairman, which com
mittee is now mnking investigations. More
recently Mr. Windom has moved a reso
lution to determine the propriety of en
couraging the colored people to migrate to
countries where they can be protected in
their rights. Now all these proceedings
are nothing but subterfuges ami bugbears
resorted to by a few rampant politicians in
order to manufacture political capitul. In
the South all people of whatever race or
tondilion are equally protected in their
private and political rights. If strangers
come among us for the purpose of making
un honest living, of investing their capital,
and of becoming permanent citizens, to
“grow with our growth and strengthen
with our strength,” we give them a cordial
open-hearted welcome. Why just a short
time ago a convention of Northern settlers,
w ho had enst their lot among the Southern
people, held a Convention at Charlotte for
the purpose of taking some steps to pre
vent slanders from being circulated with
reference to the kind treatment received at
the hands of their Southern brethren. All
good citizens are welcomed, but the out
side world is neither shocked or surprised
that the people of the South have too
much pride of character and self-respect,
than to hug to their bosom political carpet
bag adventurers who come among us as
interlopers to feast on public spoil ami to
sow the seeds of discord and dissatisfac
tion. And the idea of encouraging negroes
to migrate in order that they may be pro
tected in their rights is rather too thin, be
cause be is already protected in his rights,
and he has sense enough to know it, and
will follow the blind lead of journeymen
carpet-baggers no longer. I’ndor that pro
tection afforded his race here in Georgia
they ure becoming educated, and accumu
lating property. They have found out, too.
that the white people here in the South are
better friends to them than the New Eng
land carpet-bagger, and they are now vot
ing with their real friends. A few migrate
every now and then, but they fail to find
blooming gardens of roses and political
heavens, where every one is a monarch,
and just the soonest thing in the world they
want to migrate hack, so to speak. A few
of them last year went over to Liberia, and
are now writing back to their friends for
money to return to this land where, accord
ing to Mr. lllainc and others, they enjoy
no rights but aro politically persecuted.
The truth is, there is a good deni of wis
dom ir. letting well enough alone, which
fact will probably demonstrate itself after
pwbile to those who w ish to stir lip strife
when there is no cause for it.
UNDER WHOSE LEAD.
A good deal of discussion and conjec
tures are beinjr indulged in with regard to
tho next Presidential standard-bearer of
the Democratic party. The trio of great
prospective candidates being Senator Bay
nrd, of Delaware, Senator Thurman, of
Ohio, and Governor Hendricks, of Indiana.
It is pretty generally conceded that to put
a Southern man on the ticket would dimin
ish the chances of success, while it is
equally true that the South should and will
cheerfully follow the lead of either of the
three distinguishd statesmen mentioned,
should he be tended with the Democratic
Danner. We believe that at present the
chances of Mr. Thurman are the best, but
in the great preparations for the the grand
struggle it is very uncertain upon whom
the mantle will fall. We look forward to
that struggle with feelings of hope. In
1800 the present administration came into
•power, and in 1880, after a long and iniqui
tous reign of twenty years, we want to see
it hurled from power. During that score
ol years scenes have occurred that would
have made the fathers of the Republic
crimson with shame. The prophecy of
■Patrick Henry, in his memorable speech in
the Virginia Convention, was nothing in
comparison with what has actually been
inflicted upon our oppressed and apparent
ly powerless people. The Constitution
violated with impunity, sovereign states
deprived of their cardinal rights, official
corruption permeating every branch of the
< ioverninent, converting the sncrcil temples
of justice and law into wicked dens of
money changers and scheming politicians,
and forty millions of American freemen
fobbed of the highest privilege allowed by
tlio supreme law of the land, it is time
for a change. Sectional hate has lasted
long enough, Constitutional rights have
been broken long enough, and too long
have public offices been debased into
machinery for plunder and private enrich
ment. Morals have under such baneful in
fluences been weakened, a greed for raids
on the public treasury engendered, and the
rottenness in the public service grown to
such dimensions as to threaten an under
mining of our free American institutions.
When the drum taps and the long roll is
called for the struggle, wo earnestly be
lieve that the good and the true of all sec
tions and conditions will fall into lino to
recapture Our lost Ilium and bring about
the Hegira of tlio many and long continued
political evils that have afflicted our dis
-1 ressod country. I'nder whatever lead, we
\v iff.gladly follow ii to \ ictor \.
BRIEF MENTION.
Delaware's Legislature has not a single
lawyer in it.
Wilkcrson Call has been elected United
States Senator from Florida.
The Democratic legislature of Arkansas
has elected a colored chaplain.
The Ellijay Courier has abandoned the
patent hack system —good idea.
Augusta is to have a hotel at the Sand
Hills. Now look out for your sugar.
The hlindstaggers arc still fatal among
the horses in Anderson county, S. C.
The Azoris to take another load of col
ored people from Charleston to Liberia.
The Southern Daplist Convention will
meet in Atlanta on the Bth of May next.
Wade Hampton is opposed to round
dancing—Atlanta Post, lie now prefers
the “ hop ” to any dance.
Hiram Y. Ilcesc died recently in Frank
lin county, Pennsylvania. He was the
father of twenty-five sons.
It is said that Hen Hutlcr will be a can
didate for Governor of Massachusetts at
the next election in November.
The Georgia gold mines now produce
51,000.000 annually, and will, in a few
years, produce double that amount.
There is only one first-class novelist that
Hampton won't read after—that is Mul
bach. The author's name is too sugges
tive.
The Sunny South is reckoned one of the
best Southern literary papers. Some of
the pictures in its last issue equal many in
the Police Gazette.
The Griffin Nows learns that Alexander
Stephens has taken 87!l different kinds of
medicine. Does this include the only re
liable antidote for snake bite?
Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, Conk
ling. of New York, Logan, of Illinois,
Platt, of Connecticut and Matt Carpenter,
of Wisconsin, have been elected to the
United States Senate the past week.
A man went to sleep on the Elberton
Air Line Railroad track the other day and
got run over by a hand-car or hit on the
head with a stick—be was so drunk he
couldn’t tell which.
Columbia (S. C.) Register : Georgia is
said to pay her preachers better than any
other State. We suppose the Register
means in giving them lucrative offices out
side of the preaching department, from j
Governor down to Justice of the Peace.
J T. Wilson, jr., lately of Carnesville
has commenced the publication of a lively
journal, called the Blue Ridge Echo, at
Cleveland, Ga. It is a great accession to
White County, and we hope the people
will appreciate the fact. We hope the
Echo will reverberate in every White
family.
Turn the knob gently, there’s paint on
the door. —New York News. Walk along
softly, we've just washed the floor.—Meri
den Recorder. Set on the sofa we bought
at the store.—Graphic. And don't say a
word till you hear daddy snore. - Philadel
phia Bulletin. Or you'll get such a kick
ing as never before.
Gen. Grant is going to India to “ see the
elephant”—in his native lair, as it were.
(It required a little India-nuity to manufac
ture this paragraph—as you will observe.)
—Norristown Herald. Grant-cd ; but it
is a Ulysses piece of business to go to India
to find the elephant liar after leaving Amer
ica—Eli Perkins still lives.
Tho Augusta papers have had a great
deal to say about ” Our Hoarding House.”
We thought it a good idea to have one
there, especially if they did not charge
over four dollars a day ; but upon reading
one of the articles, we found it was only a
make-belief—just a play that a company
was acting at the Opera House. We hope
they made •enough money to pay their
board bill.
J. J. Hardy, a gentleman most favor
ably known in this county, is a recent val
uable addition to the editorial gang of the
Toccoa Herald. He is a gifted writer, as
many of our readers will attest. The pa
per will change its name to the ■* Toccoa
News” as soon as its new head arrives.
We were not aware that it was a female
before, but from the way it blows up the
sparks we might have known it wore an
apron.
It has been calculated, they say. that in
order to produce a single pound of honey
a bee would have to make 2.500,000 voy
ages abroad in search of material. And
yet, for that one pound of honey he prob
ably won't get more than ten or fifteen
cents ! Poor misguided and over-worked
little devil; some benevolent somebody
ought to point out the absurdity of the
thing to him and persuade him to quit the
business.—Courier-Journal.
The bee is on a par with thousands of
honest, hard-working people, who work
hard through a long lifetimo and all the
sweets they make by their late and early
toil are consumed by the drones in the
world's hive. The bee has one advantage
over man—it has the privilege of giving an
enemy one stab free from molestation of
law and lawyers. With a few exceptions
man has no such advantage.
Constitution : Anew dollar is mooted.
It is called the metric dollar. It is to con
tain 7o grains of pure gold and 120.7 grains
of silver, or by value rate of 1 to (i. It
contains 49.84a cents in gold and 50.1.1a
cents in silver. This dollar will be subdi
vided into halves, quarters and dimes. The
new dollar pieces are about the size of the
common silver half dollar, ure heavier,
have a dark bluish tint and a clear, sharp
metallic ring.
He sure and call for Hr. Hull's Cough
Syrup, if you are troubled with a bail
Cough or Cold. It will give you relief.
For sale by every respectable Druggist.
One bottle 25 cents; (jvc bottles for 4t on
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Ati.axta, Ga., January 23d, 1870.
EtuWKs Svh : Tim all-absorbing topic
at present is the Ilill-Colquitt controversy,
and the matter is a matter of general dis
cussion from one end of the State to the
other. We would respectfully beg to pre
sent a fcw r views on the subject as they
seem to strike our mind. From a consid
erable portion of the press there sceins to
he a general tendency to induce the public
to believe that the matter at issue is the
question touching the validity or the right
of the Governor in signing the bonds of
the Northeast Railroud. Till* seems to be
done for a purpose—to detract the public
mind, ns no one questions the legality, or
the right of the Governor to sign those
bonds. The main question for investiga
tion seems to be that the Governor, a short
while before the signing, said that he would
not sign them, but preferred to await the
action of the Legislature to give Inin the
additional authority. Hut he soon changed
his mind—just about the time Mr. Murphy
told him of his interest in the matter, and
the Governor, instead of exercising the
authority of his ollice by condemning and
stopping the conduct of a clerk under him,
quietly sanctioned Mr. Morphy's conduct.
The argument that has been used exten
sively, that the Governor has no authority
or control over a clerk in the treasury de
partment, is all bosh, and is used again for
the purpose of detracting the public mind.
No sane man for one moment credits that
assertion. It is true the clerk m the treas
ury is no officer of the State in the strict
meaning of the code—still he is the servant
of the Treasurer, and the Treasurer is en
tirely under the control of the Governor,
who can shut up his office at any time and
1 present charges of the alleged misconduct
to the General Assembly, who try him by
impeachment. Had the Governor pursued
this course, and at once put his seal of con
demnation on the transaction before any
trade of this sort bad been consummated :
if he had done this, we do not doubt but
the clerk would have been removed, and
there would have been no matter of inves
tigation for the Legislature, thereby saving
the .State thousands of dollars of extra and
unnecessary legislation. There is no room
for the assertion that the letter of Mr.
Mill will have the effect of causing a dis
ruption or breaking the ranks of the uni
ted democracy of Georgia, but that letter
is full of wisdom and shows the devotion
of a patriot to his State and has already
had the effect of opening the eyes of the
people to the fact that a complete change
is necessary in the transaction of the gen
eral affairs and business of the Statcliouse.
There is this conclusion to arrive at in
summing up the whole matter, that where
there is a great deal of smoke there must
be some tire, and the public mind, s well
as the mind of the Legislature, should be
kept alive to the fact that fraud has been
practiced by somebody. When they meet
in July next there should be a vigilant and
thorough sifting of the whole affair, so that
the public honor shall be preserved and
the Democratic party re-united by stronger
bonds than ever. It is a matter that con
cerns the whole people of Georgia, and it
is right and proper that the press of the
State should discuss it from now until the
meeting of the Legislature. C.
Some Pertinent Inquiries.
Kdiors Sun : Allow me through your
paper to make some inquiries for informa
tion. 1 hope someone will be kind enough
to answer them :
First, in the year ISGO. I gave in taxable
property to the amount of $8,000; my re
ceipt fur taxes was for $9.25. After the
War, during Bulloch's reign, my taxable
property was $2,500, and my tax receipt
called for $22.00. Why is this great dif
ference in taxation now, under Colquitt's
reign? My taxable property is now about
$3,000, and my receipt is about $24.00.
Messrs, legislators, is this an improvement
on the anti-bellum times, or on Bulloch’s
administration? Is this retrenchment?
Second, our county is out of debt, our
Courthouse and jail are in good repair;
there is not a public bridge in the county;
our Poorhousc is nearly self-sustaining,
and yet the county tax fs from $2,000 to
$3,000 per year. Now, .vhat becomes of
the last dollar of it? The people pay it,
and they have a right to know.
Thirdly, what becomes of the Poor
School funds for this county? Who has
it? Sonic one has it, and what is he doing
with it ? John Herndon.
The right thing in the right place is with
out doubt Dr. Hull's Baby Syrup, the best
remedy for Babies while teething. Price
25 cents a bottle.
Senator Hill and Fred Douglass.
The following special to the Chicago
Times is in our opinion a falsehood. Wt
believe Hill and Douglass both have too
much common sense and refinement to deal
in personalities aboard a street car before
a gaping crowd:
Extremes meet sometimes even in a street
car. This afternoon there was a meeting
in an F street car of the two opposites of
distinct classes between which for years
there has existed a wide gulf of prejudice
and social caste. Senator Hen Hill, of
Georgia, who has been regarded as the
fiercest of the southern men. was seated
near one end of the car alone, so far ns
any fi iends or acquaintances arc c mcernod.
There was a vacant seat upon his right.
As the car passed the city hall upon Ju
diciary square. Fred Douglass, whose of
fice as marshall of the district is in this
building, came out. hailed the car and en
tered it. He saw the vacant seat by the
side of Senator HiU, walked forward and
took it. Apparently Hen Hill did not see
him.
Douglass, however, appeared to be of a
social turn of mind. He turned to Sena-!
lor Hill ami said with a liirht shade of sa-
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tire in his voice : “ I used to sit by the
side of my old master and I suppose I can
sit by you. Senator.”
Hill half turned and said: “O! I did
not know it was you. Mr. Douglass,” as
he looked at him with an air of constraint.
The whole car looked at the two men
and seemed to be struck with the picture.
Hen Hill’s cold blue-eyed, clear-cut face
looked out impassive from under a stiff
felt hat, while in his rigid suit of black he
appeared to represent the highest type ol
the southern conservative element. Fred
Douglass, stout and prosperous, represent
ed the best type of his class. His gray
hair stood out at right angles from under
a light brown fur cap. There was more
color in his dress. Ilis overcoat was blue,
bis waistcoat was a quilted mohair cloth,
while gold buttons shone in his shirt
bosom.
Ben Hill was the first to start the con
versation again, as he said abruptly :
•• Well, how are you getting on ?”
Douglass—O. 1 am getting more and
more used to the duties of my office, and
the pen tile arc getting more and more re
conciled to my having the office.
Ben Hill smiled as lie said : "You spoke
of your old master a while ago. Is he liv
ing yet?”
Douglass—Yes; lie is living yet. It is
wonderful how he holds on. lie is still at
the old Maryland place.
Ben Hill—How old were you when you
ran away ?
Douglass—Twenty-one or twenty-two.
Ben Hill—You have acquired all your
education since then?
Douglass—Yes, most all since then, be
sides paying my old master for myself. I
felt in honor hound to do that, you know.
Then he added. " Georgia is a tine state ;
1 believe it is one of the finest states in the
South.”
Ben Hill—Yes; it is one of the best
states in the South for the colored people.
They returned us millions of dollars worth
of property lastj-ear.
Douglass—Dear me, is that so ? That is
good.
Here Douglass himself ceased the con
versation, and looked out of the window
until Ninth street was reached, where he
got out. As he arose he touched his fur
cap politely to Mr. Ilill, and Mr. Hill in
return touched his hat with equal polite
ness. From the beginning to the close of
the meeting of these two gentlemen they
were the observed of all observers in the
car. No red republican could have treat
ed Mr. Douglass with more becoming po
liteness than did Mr. Dili. It might have
been different ten years ago.
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