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About The Dawson weekly journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1868-1878 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1870)
Jlnfosun frontal 8. 11. WESTON, Editor. W. I'. COMES, Associate Editge. IP.SOA, Thursday, June 30 1&70. '■ 53” Reading tnirffrr on eirry Heavy on Angiois See Executive pardon of V. A. Gaskill for confession and disclosures. Amos T. Akennan’s appointment as IT. S. Attorney General lias been con firmed, and ho u ill enter upon his du ties immediately- Heavy Oats.— An Alabama paper says a Georgia fanner is waiting for a box of Collins’ Axes which he has or dered to cut his Norway Oats. Alabama,i£ red hot for the cam paign.. The Democratic and Conserv ative parties have united their -strength and with flags unfurled, announce themselves ready to make war upon Radicalism Kimball is not only good at build ing Opera Houses, Hotels, &c., but knows how to raise cotton ; he has six small patches of cotton inside the en closure at the Fair Grounds, all in a flourishing condition. “Little drops of water make the mighty ocean.” . A representative of Dougherty county, who is now enjoying Atlanta hospitality (?) baling been subpeonied to appear at Dougherty Superior Court to answer for some misdemeanor, writes that he hasn’t got the money to come on—not even enough to pay his passage to West End, which is on ly two miles from Atlanta. Fobt Valley has a Military garrison consisting of two commissioned offi cers und sixty-four privates. These men were sent at the suggestion of Mayor Mathews, who desired to dis perse every appearance of a collision which seemed imminent at one time between the whites and blacks Lice in Cotton.— From all quarters wo have 6orious complaints of lice in cotton. Many plantations in this sec tion are badly used up by them, and planters are praying lor a hotter sun shine.—Albany IVeus. If hot sun shine will kill them they must certainly be dead, as we have had a foW days of very hot sunshine. The Radical Merchants of Philadel phia are discharging all colored men in their employment who will not openly agree to support the nominees oi that” party at the coming election. Does not the Act for the enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment apply with equal force in Pennsylvania as in Georgia ? Make a note of this, Soutli oru merchants, and whon you order goods cither scud them beyond, or btop them short of Philadelphia. Our Affairs in Washington Sinco the demise of State Sover eignty, we all look to Washington for whatever of good or evil we desire or expect; and not, as in days of yore, to our Governors and Legislators, who were the pride of a common people, because the choice of a common broth erhood. In vain have we loo'.ed and waited and looked again, as a prisoner confined in his coll awaits the verdic* of a jury, until at last, in the dispo sition of the voluminous docket, we see our case, so often called, has at last been answered; and whether or not it will be fully acted upon and dis missed remains yot to be seen. At all events, a Bill for our admission into the Union, representation iu Congress, etc., has passed the House, been sub mitted to the Senate, where, if agreed upon will only require the President’s signature to becomo a law. The smoothest feature in tho Bill reads ns follows : That, “whereas the ltth aut\ 15th Amen intents to the Constitution have been ratified by a legal Legislature, it is declared that the State of Georgia is entitled to rep resentation,” <£c. We will not speak of the legality of our Legislature, since it has exercised the functions of a le gal body too long to call in question i„3 legality, and are willing it should b«' so termed if it will hasten the re turn of State Government within State borders. Sq much for the good fea ture in the Bill. As to the time for the election ,of State officers there is clearly a diversi ty' of opinion' between,the dominant ; .vers. That, however, is provided for in the State Constitution, and we ->o a proper construction of its meat.tag will be had at tho next ses twu of our Legislature. The Bill also repeals so much of the Act, entitled an Act making appropri ations 1 r file support of the Army for the year ending June 30tli, 1868, and sos lulu* purposes, approved March 2, 181 .j" ns prohibits the organization, rnVing*<Yr calling into service the mi lt" ia, Ac. . Various are the surmises as f.. . intent .of this latte*, clause <jf •• ‘ •'!.>. As for ourselves we.ddnjt i retail'd.to know, a®d only await time i dov "icp the ‘why* and wherefores.’ if Si" som'* declare, for the pur- pose of comtToling tho ballot box in the fall elections, we think wo have pro tection in the act of Congrea# setting forth an Act to onfore the provisions of i the Fifteenth Amendment. And while it may not have been so intend ed, that document may yet prove a stick in our hands to wield a blow up thc heads of our enemies. But, aside from the Acts of Con. gress, there is something else whioh elicits our attention—another voice from Washington that should find an echo in the heart of every lover of liberty. We allude to the address de livered by Democratic and Conserva tive members of Congress to the peo ple of the United States. It is an address gotten up and signed by able men; not in the heat of passion, or for personal gain, but for the sake of urging and securing, if possible, a concert of action—making judicious selections in our nominees for office, with the hope of shaking off the ty rannical yoke which bears so heavily upon us. Such results as £re of in this address, (which .we publish elsewhere,) are altogether probable. The result of all the reoent elections strengthen our hope, and gives us courage lor the contest To those who would clamor for anew party, we especially commend the spirit and letter of this address, and will say just here that there is a good deal of simi. larity betweon the advocates of a third party now, and Borne of the gold lace gentry of Lees’ army who occupied bomb-proof positions during the days of the so-called rebellion. Having by chance come in possession of offices more lucrative than ever before the war, or was ever likely to enjoy after- ward, they were the last men to want to surrender. When addressing some of tho 6imon pure, who had shot more lead at yankees than would have amounted to tho gross weight of the party addressing them, urging them, after Lee’s surrender, to make their way, by all moans, to Dick Taylor in the Trans- Mississippi department, they received a merited robu o, with the appendage that if Leo couldn’t whip the yankees with men, provis ions, and all the muni lions of war, how silly to undertake the work with a disorganized rabble, and bare hands. Thus say we in reference to the ag gravated question that at present per plexes the nation’s mind. We seo the evik by which we are infested. We are urged by the wisest men of the nation to a uniformity of action— “for in union there is strength.” Therefore, let us heed their counsels, discountenance everything that tends to a division of the orgauizod ranks of the Democracy, and ere long the light will break in upon us—even peace, happiness aud prosperity, and we will have impartial officers to adminittrr the impartial laws of our government. For the Dawson Journal. Farm Labor. Such a demand for farm labor has nevei been known in this country.— Many of our fields are lying idle for the want of bands to cultivate them. Somo of our houses, lots, and fences are going to waste for the want of re pairs. Sorry plow gear, broken wag ons, tho dusty remains of old carriages, and the scattered fragments of moul- dering timbers show unmistakablo signs of labofaction. Weeds and grass, thorns und thistles, briers and bushes are visible proofs thut tho fin est is making encroachments on the rightful domains of previous industry. But few clearings are made. New grounds are generally small. Not many long fences of fresh appearance meet the eye. Expansion is not tho agricultural policy in these days. No objection if the land is made so much tho richer, if every acre is required to produce a proportional increase, aud the whole farm made yield as much as in formor times. But as this is not the case, except in a few instances, it shows that the same quantity of labor has not been employed. The hands have died, or gone to other sections, or engaged iu business moro agreeable to their feelings or lucrative to then purses. Asa consequence farms dwindle in size, original outfit doeays, and contemplation broods iu melan choly reverie over tbe ruins of former wealth. Many who once laborod in the field are working in shops, in factories, or on railroads. More hands are employ ed, more means consumed, and harder efforts now made to build railways than at any former period of our Ins tory. Almost every newspaper gives account of some road spanning a riv er, tunnelling a mountain, or reaching a city, when such an undertaking, a few years ago, would have been con sidered absolutely infeasible. Let them go with speed and power, wealth and fame, interlocking every town and neighborhood with the anus of com mercial interest, and diffusing a spirit of enterprise and intelligence among all tho people for aught we care. Ah ! we wish they wore more numerous, finished iu batter style, paying larger dividend »po stock-holders, animating our country the glory of all the earth But what are wo to do meantime for farm, labor ? How are wo to raise , aud educate our cliildren ? If . the plow stops what is to become of schools, 1 factories, railroads, and all our other institutions ? Will they not give wav, collapse, and fall back to fragmentary heaps like tho costly piles of Greece and Rome when the tillage of their fields stopped ? This reasoning is so plain as well as some of the signs al ready mentioned that many of our wisest men see the danger, and aro introducing every plan they can to save the country from it. Perhaps some of them.will find tho secret of success. The solution of the problem is not impossible. If they ’ will unite, work in concert, and persevere they will accomplish their end. . Combina tions achieve victories that-individuals cannot win. “In tho multitude of counselors there is safety.” Success in jtliis case does not depend [ on one thing The day of single feats 1 is gone. Once a single eombat deci ded the fate of a nation, but such is not the case at the present time.— Once a solitary wanderer, as Abra ham, became the founder of an empire, but now, if anew country, as Califor nia, is to be settled, colonies come from overy part of tho civilized world, bo must our labor como from every part of the earth. We must have hands, white and black, native aud foreign, laving to and working with energy before our mountain slopes and rolling plains "will ever produce the immense crops of corn and cotton that the God of nature designs for our peo ple. day, no doubt, is coming when burdened Europe, Asia, and the isles of the ocean will pour their emi grants into New York, Philadelphia, and all our ports ; send them up our lit ers, along our railroads, and through all our neighborhoods; and find homes for them to sell goods, to work in shops, aud to develop farms until this land will toem with such an inter mixture of races, such productions, and such wealth as future liistorians will never record but once. The intermixture of respectable members of the Japhothic family is the very thing for us. Their blocd will enrich ours as it has done many a time. How it invigorated Rome you have seen in history. Has it not been the life of the English poople ? Would it not vitalize our system, ener gize our labor, and rncreise the pro ducts of our fields ? They come with their talent, experience, aud modes of culture. As artisans, miners, and farmers they aro without a superior. Fame has crowned many of them with the greatest laurels of invention aud discovery. Wit and learning, practi cal and useful, have given them a place in the annuls of history. If such men will settle among us, be come identified with our institutions, | and feel an ardent interest in our vvel | fare they will be a tasting source of 1 good to us. Let us invite them, en courago them by aid societies, assist them in getting suitable lauds through honest agents, and open wide to them the arms of impartial friendship.— And let us give them access to the ballot-box, to seats iu Congress, and to the highest office within tho gift of the people as the law directs, and as our interest demands. But white we would like to have them settle among us as permanent citizens it will not do to depend on getting many of them at once as man uel laborers for our farms. Many of them do not know the facts in the case, or they have not the means for such u trip, or they are hardly willing to break up their old associations. Some aro attending to every event, calculat ing the probabilities, and waiting the best opportunity to invest their means and to acquire a fortune for them selves. A few aro coming, lodging among us, aud offering their services for any department of life. They should have a kind reception, plenty of work, and prompt pay. Then tliey will be satisfied, make a favorable re port homo, aud be instrumental iu bringing a larger number among us. In the meanwhile the labor of the colored man must not be undervalued. He can stand this climate better than any man of a fair skin and straight hair. His experience is also worth something. Our staple productions are as familiar to him as were tho penates to the ancient Italians. How long would it take a man from a trans- Atlantic State to acquire the same knowledge ? What would he be worth during his pupilage ? As much as the negro ? Not unless bis superi or mind compensates for the difference. But the fact that the black man’s in tellects are nut so angular nor his per sonal ambition so great as the white man’s is one of the reasons why he is so suitable for the menial labor of a farm Born to ignorance, raised 'to coarse fare, and used to plain talk, it is naturul for him to yield obedience to higher talent and attainment. As the laws of nature are superior to acts of Congress, he must yield this obedi ence iu one form or another as long as he lives. All the political levers iu the world cannot greatly *’.evt*to his status. Give him fbe elective fran chise, put him on a throne, aud fill his exchequer with the golden sands of ancient Pactolus aud it would not much effect his normal condition. — This being true as a general thing, we should control hia labor a6 far as vve can with wisdom and discretion. He who studies bis nature closely and controls his labor wisely, cmU/ru pari but, will be the most successful farmer in this country. Considering all things that go to make up efficient labor, the colored l man is the cheapest hand vve can cm , ploy. Needing food, clothes, house, \ and all the outfit for comfortable liv ing, he will be easy to pay. Unable tj cope with his white brother, in law, : medicine, and the fine arts —practical, theoretical, and aesthetical, —raising \ cane, corn, or cotton —potatoes, peas, I or pindars will be the means of his daily livelihood. The number may not be as large as we wish, nor suffi cient to supply half the demand, but there will always bo some to hire on reasonable terms. Owing to their in disposition to bear the temperature of a higher latitude most of theqAvill re main among us. Like iuengenous plants they will flourish most in this climate. Hero they will bear the fin est fruits of their industry. And here their labor will be crovvnod with tho best consequences. • We should never take tho least ad vantage of their ignorance. In all our business trai ia tions we should gladly pay them according to contract. If vve actually feel an interest in their welfure, as every gentleman should do, it will not be hard to manifest it. Dull as they are they will perceive it and give us more credit for it than some of us are wont to believe. In spite of tbo clan destine renegades who aro trying so hard to stir up sectional strife between us, many of the moro sensible ones among them have more confidence in our veracity than in the fairest prom ise of a yankoo. We are glad to seo the reaction. It foretokens prosperity. It is the prelude of a better day than vve have seen in this country for some time. We should seize upon it imme diately as a golden opportunity to im prove our mutual condition Will not our people meet the demands of the case with urbanity, energy, and finan cial acumen ? How many of our far mers will observe all the signs of danger that threaten to cloud our fu ture prospects and, “make hay while tho sun shines ?” But after all vve must depend chief ly on ourselves. Wo must do all the work we can and wait for better aus pices. Labor from the celestial Em pire is not here, nor acclimated, nor acquainted with our modes of culture. Hands from Europe are hardly coming in sufficient numbers to make any ap preciable difference on our farms.— The blacks are here turning up their native soil, und making something for man and beast. But most of the wo men who can get other places are not willing to go to the full. Many of the men (ns already remarked,) are engaged on other works The de mand for labor therefore increases on the supply. The cry for work, like the garrulous tongue of a i>olitician, never stops. “What shall vve do,” is asked at every turn iu life, “.'hall my fields he idle when cotton is worth twenty cents a pound ?” Not all of them vve hope. If you will go to work yourself you can make a handsome support- Rush up your lazy neighbor to tho same task by tho force of your example and you will do him good. Be instrumental in bring ing the young loafer out of the village saloon—in relieving him of his fine kids and cane—in putting his hands to the plow and hoe iu graceful turn, and you will deserve the highest hon ors. There is plenty of these dandy loafors of fine clothes and empty purses to make a wonderful difference in the farming interest of this country if the right men were only in the right places. But how these wise acres are over to be put in the very place nature intended for them is the most impor tant question vve have asked. Would that someone could answer it while their presence on the plantation is so much needed. How fine they would look with hardened hands, tanned faces, and dusty clothes ! Never did they look so grand on a promenade, at a dining, in a_ ballroom, nor any where in life. Almost every one who is getting a very scanty allowance iu some other business would do well to go to farm ing. This class is too numerous for detail at present. Wo cannot specify without taking a heavier risk than we are willing to do on the instant. Some of us would fall into this class in less time than we are writing this article. But let us go if it will benefit all par ties. The wonder is that we do not elbow each other off more frequently than we do. Why not scatter out from our close retreats, enter the broad domains of arable nature, and see the fruits of the earth yield their increase ? How much better for our health, our families, and t£e whole country? Streams of agricultural wealth would run through this happy land iu every direction. Even- old field, aud every barren waste, aud every desert rock would bo redoemed by the hand of culture, bloom with fresh beaut}-, and groan, under its fructiferous burden. J. T. P. (Commuulcatod.) Chattanoogy, June 25, ’7O. Mistke W esteen— Sir : i left home a weak ago yistiddy. Mammy she cum with me too the fust stoppin plase this 6ido uv albenny, too stay avvhilo long with granny. Well, nary one on us never hadnt seed no rale rode afore, and when tha got too whizzin and fusin and spitteu like a mad cat, mammy she got skeered, but i diddeut i je it last. purty good trick sez i, talkin to one uv them thar fellers what sot on one uv them thar saft scats, what sez ho ? riden on tho rale rode cars sez i. yes sez he, but hits midlin dangrous sez he, but tha fixed so a feller gits vvarnin sez he, whon a smash is cumu in sez he. how, sez i. well sez he, when hit turns dark all at vvoust then u ma no sum boddys a gvvino to git hurt, and u kin sa yore prars ur jump off whichever sutes yore stile, bles youre eole twont a miuit tell shore enuf everything turned as black as ary buss, i let u no i wus skeered. i chuck aud trimbted wus’n old bill shazor. tantry, sez i speck iu to rniself your a orful sinner, you al ters sed it wus rong to have trax and sundy skule kase nutliin aint sod about em iu the skripters and here you are a ridin on the rate rode cars instid of a asses colt, vvliich is piutedly agin the skriptor. the scripter dont onvvarrant you in ridin on the cars. Well sir— cum too look and we wus thu and it wont nuthen but a rate rode brige with a kiverin on top to keap it warm, got too Macin iu the evenin. stade all nite with the preecher. found out that fokes iu the upper stories eats with a fork, next morniu i wanted to go to the river and go in a vvashiu, but the preecher he lowed thar wus a plase iu the brown tavern to go in a vvashiu. Y\ ell the skripter duz sa sumthin about gwine in a washin iu a house, kase the jaler and his wife and all the little truunel bed jalers wont in a wasbin that time filup and the unoek stado all nite with qjn. so in i went, treckly the cars hit blode and i put my foot in tho stirups and sated in and here i am now a lookin at the mouu tins. mountius is bully, they stretch es out like yoatk murrums and rises like vvhoppin big tater ridges ; aint tha busters, ime a gwine to karo and new york and i spect ile fetch me back a bunny, pappy sod i must by sum meet es i cood git it cheep, and of a hunderd and thirty neet fur a dollar and ahas aint cheep ime no trader, es i shood hitch on to a big fat greezy loolcin young umurn and fetch her back now wont i sprize pappy and mammy, itl fetch em to thar milk, wont mammy smoke her pipe up side down, and histe the 'frils uv her kap like quills on a fretful porkypine, when she stairs at my wife ? but bunny won’t keer. She’l jest Inf. Mister western, you axed me too rite a pease fur yore nuzepaper when you seen me in Makin. so here’s at you. a feller what stood thar whar wo wus he lowed you wus the edditerest man out. So no more tel deth Tantry Bogus. The Gcorjjiii Kill, ni it Passed Hie House on tlu; iiilli. Sec. 3 Be it enacted, That the state of Georgia having complied with the reconstruction acts, and the 14th and 15th Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the united States hav ing been ratified iu good faith, by a legal legislature of said State, it is hereby declared that the State of Georgia is entitled to representation in the Congress of the United States. But nothing in this act contained shall be construed to deprive the people cf Georgia of the right to an election for members of the Geuernl Assembly of said State, as provided for in the Con st" tution of said State. Sec. 2. That so much of the act entitled and Act making appropri ations for the support of the army for tue year ending June 30, 1868,' and for other purposes, appoved March 2, 1867, as prohibits the organization, arming, or calling into service of the militia forces in the States of Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia be, and the same is hereby repeated. 35§f“The following notice has been sent to all Bankers and Brokers on this Continent; ‘"United States notes, Series of 1869.” Two Thousand Notes, of Ten Dollars each, From No. H3<530,001* ,to No. 113,582,000* , both inclusivo, were stolen from the Treasury. No $lO notes, of a num ber higher than H 3,236,000* have been issued Please look out for the stolen notes. A liberal reward will be paid to any person through whoso in strumentality the thief may bo de tected. Hold parties presenting the stolen Notes, (if suspicions attach to them) and in any case of presentation notify U. 8. Treasurer. Washington, June 14, 1870. Bitten by a Rattlesnake, -The wife' of Mr John L. Alexender was bitten by a rattlesnake last Thursday week, i ear their residence, a few miles from this place. Whisky proved a saving untidste. —Marietta Journal. ‘ * TV 13 W AV V ERT iSEMEITTs, Change of Schedule HAV ING decided to charge our btuiDeaa, we to* oflbr oor retire -ml ID IB IT dKDDlfig »t (frettl? reduced prices to C»eh buyers. We have on bund tbe best stock es , Market, und will «n»k» it to the iufergJV of *ll to trade wfrh os. To those who 0 ™” * { r Greenbacks, we will barter wiih and take Chickens, .ffjjgs, Butter, Ac., at tbe *** ***** Higheat Market Price. In addition to our stock of Dry Goods, wo will constantly keep on hand SUGAR, COFFEE AND FLOUR, which we will sell mo low mo the lowest. Juna23.tr. McKENNY & CROUCH. Sill HY-lll'l 101111 iTr w W. FARNUM. j Ag . P . MaM. ■* «*|i FARNUM, SHARPE A CO. Having Bought tha entire Stock of 9. M. SEIB L & CO,, and having made extensive purchases of SPRING A ND SUM M.ER QOODB NEW YORK, while Gold wus at the lowest poiol, are now prepared to show te tbs uld friends of the house, and all who trade iu Dawson, a stock of merchandise, consisting | n a taplc and Fancy Bry Goods, Press Goods, Boots and Shoeg, forGcoK, Ladies ands hildren’s wear, nothing, for Men and Boys, Hats, for Men aud Cliildren, Yankee Notions for nil. Our Sock, for variety aud cheapness, cannot be anrpassed in the city. We also deal is O HOC E HIES .t.m t\l.niLE SUPPLIES, COH.Y\ L.tRD 8.1C0.Y, SC. (7,11 at S. M. Seise! & Bro’e. old stand. We charge nothing for showing eur goads. March 24 if. I §7O, 1870 sipibimcb asjid surmmus MUST GOODS. 2)i css Goods, Fancy Goods, Staple Goods, Boots & Shoes, Hats, Clothing; Hardware, Iroii Steel, Plantation Supplies, Groceries, Bacon, Flonr, AND h general assortment of merchandise, is off red at ,nrh price, a, will astonish all. Rf, Mock for '■quailed ,ince 186'1. The great decline in Gold has caused * decline in all foreign goo* l which will astonish the closest hovers. I invite the public from Terrell, Calhoun, Me Randolph, Webster, Stewart and Lee counties, to call and examine my EXTENSIVE STOCK OF 800 DS. IF fail to sell te you, tbe reason will not be on account of PRICE. J. w. ROBERTS. inarch 17, !f DAW SON THOS. J. HART, Pro., AND MANUFACTURER OF CARRIAGES & BUGGIES of ewehf OEacniTiojr. Pattern* ad jut ted to unit the moet improved Stylet. We keep on hind Northern and Eastern work whieh we will tell atlpwrst cosh prices Jar- 2,0, ly. ’ Ice Cream, Ice Clean water, ?oda Water! •J. L.. SOLOMON Wales pleasure in announcing t 0 t * ) * e '^_ I true of 2Lwsoii and surrouudidg c try, that in addition to his Bakery & Confectionery, he has erected * FOtmf, perfected arrnneements whereby ways here IV E on hind, and * like a di‘licious,cooling,innocent ara s > g # always be accommodated at his ®a o is also prepared to furnish ICE CREAM, LEMONADE, DOME RSIC'WINBS, *»•>• in any unantity, ter any especially, are assured that tb*, jjikst I order will always be maintaioe , . t esn be will b* done to ®*k e t ct& worthy place of resort. n«»l Don’t forget the place. Depot stoeat, door to J. W. Boberst. A. L. SOLOWO^ 8 April 2», tV '
