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T 111 SV Nw IIAISIUI.iI.. IIA Ml' OI MTV UA.i Wlnnlw< a#. I**7. BENSON & McGILL, Editor*. 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- WITIIE TIM ES DECIDEDLY THE FINEST COOKING STOVE K \ Eli OFFERED TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA. THIS TIMES OF 1073, Has all the latest improvements, and we feci no hesitancy in saying to our patrons that this beautiful Cook Stove cannot be ex celled in the United States. Call arxd- ZExxa-xxxirxe fox T"ouLXselT7'es. EVERY STOVE WARRANTED TO GIVE PERFECT SATISFACTION OR NO SALE. Northeast Georgia Stove and Tinware Depot. ATHENS, GEORGIA. W. H. JONES, Superintendent 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. Morning News Serials, A NEW STORY by a savannah lady, —IN THE— Savannali Weekly News OF FEBRUARY Ist Will be commenced a New Serial story of absorbing interest, entitled "WARP AND WOOF!” BY It. J. PHILBRICK. 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