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JJaluson Journal.
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May 31*/,
•*f hoM that lhi» Government *n made on
ifiefthUe l>aais, by »hitc men, for ihe bene
titof white mm, and none others. Ido rot
Iwdtetolkat the Almighty made the negro
r«p«ble ol ecirgoee-jflifUi "—Stephen
Douglas.
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C. A. Jrowull is authorized to
receive and receipt for uuy monies due tbe
Dawson “Journal” Office.
Mu Wonder
* That the Sovth mourns over ber jov
erty, ovetrun as she is with Scalawag con
reotioDs, Carpet bagsuckere,the “Black
Crook,” Italian operas, Cirous Shows,
n-tid ! Its CEOUgh to make the
Jand groan U> carry such a lead as this.
Texas.
Cur oorTcspondent “11 ’ gives a very
pood account of Texas, and makes it a
lather inviting country, lie is a gen
tleman of due judgement and what be
says of thocouutry 'nay le relied upon.
* But withal! due iLff-rcnee to every
body’s'opinion to tLc contrary, we say
that the roan who leaves Southwestern
Oetftgia for Texas or any other country,
will be the looser thereby. If a man
can’t live in Sou'hwe6tcrn Georgia, with
all the advantages he has here, he will
eland a poor chance any where else.
M hut Does It mean f
A dispatch on Tuesday, from Wash
ington, states tl at the Presidint and
Congrcrs are about to bury the hatchet,
Ltss end make friends. We don’t uo
tfiirsland it. JnbDson Las whipped
iu the impeachment matter and now
he eught to make no fort of a comprom
ise with them. Let him he J’besjdent
qf these. United States and commander
in chief of lltc armies thereof, defending
tho. Constitution, and euttieg off the
heads of those who dare inveigh agair s:
the same. Lot him live the remuioder
of his term a terror to evil doers, the
dread of Radicals atd fri.tid of his coun
ty'
Thrifty Premiers.
No country can boast of a more thrifty
elass of Farmers than can bo found in
this Wherever men will try, on any
oi our common pipe lands they can and
do make a most comfortable living.
AVe passed by several smalt farms
within a few miles of Dawson last week,
and could but bo pleased at the eviden
•«« r -f jrnsppVify TKa nwnowo • £ 4L• B«
places are industrious men, and theugli
their lauds arc what migLt le called
“pei o1 ’” they make an abundance.—
We were informed that every year they
have Corn, Baton, Oats, and Syrup to
spare, and them the cotton all clear. -
And it is so all over the country. There
is very little land iu Terrell county, on
which an industrious mnn Ot.uld not
make a good living. And this land is
now cheap, say from 2 to 5 dollars per
acre. Os course tome farms could not
ibe bought for these figures for the own
ers are two sharp to sell at any such
Let 1 home hunters” come here
This ie the country iu which to invts'
your moDey. Here you can raise corn,
oats, pretty good wheat, hog*,- cuttle,
liwses, 6yrup, rice, peaches, apples, with
.a glorious climate and good averago
berthb.
XliC InipcacllHK'lll.
The vote hes beentakeDon the ciev
•Oßtth siticlo, which, by common consent,
seems to embrace the head aod front
of the Frcudcm’s offeodiog—bis attack
on the rump conspiracy to defeat the
Tenure of Office Act, criminal inten
sion, tfcc., &c,— resulted in the a.quital
of the Piesident on that article. It
setmsto us that the eleventh article
comprises the gist of the whole proceed
ings against the President, and that
failing to find him guilty on tbet article
.there is hardly a probability of a two
third vote in favor cf conviction being
-obtained on any other article in the bill
es Indictment. Below we give the
.fil&*;o43l+i article :
Article XL That be declared in a
public speech in Washington, Augue<
16,1866, that the Thirty-ninth Con
gress was net a CoDetbutional Congress
0/ the tinned Slaves, but a congress of
the part of the States; thus denying
fte validity of their legislation, except
ee for «e he eboae to approve it; and in
pursuance of his declaration, attempt
ed to prevent the esecath nos the Te
nure-ts Office act, by unlawfully contriv
ing meats of preventing Kdward M.
B?ant:n from resuming tie office of
Secretary of War, when the Benate bad
refused to concur in big suspension ; and
also attempted to prevent the execu
tion of the Appropriation aet of March
if, 1867 (at in Article ft) ; and also of
the act ot March 2,1567, for the more
efficient government of the icbel States,"
thus committing a higher misdemeanor
jn office.
is thought that Gen. Gor
don and U. S. Attorney Fitch, will re
ceive the Democratic nomination for
Pfcitea Stales 'Senators.
JIEX-gASfiP.—The five young gentle
men who were arrested in Valdosta
some time 030, under the charge of
Jrying to Blow up the Radies* Clift
with gunpowder, have beeu released,
after giving bail, each in ?T6,000,
for the DaWfOi) joun at.
A Triplu Kertiaerii
Mn Ki'iroits :—The ojjro.'ion of!
the Yankee Governin'nt, to catted,
makes us feel amicus to etoafe >o some
more favored land. Many lave gone,
and are g< ir g to itbir Governments,
where they ixptet to be. fic<d trem ibe
power of a dictatorial District, (loin
mander. In that, 'here are unforeseen
troubles, Hating from ore obj cthual
and degrading feature, we may plunge
into ano'her. There is n laud wi'Lio
tbe bounds cf what was “once” the
Uuitcd Stales, that is suited to the
wauts of the white men of the South.
Georgia is not only poor and worn out
but i» about to be oveirun by radical
thieves of all colors. Tbo old Umpire
State, tit at stood forth in political gran
deur, is sought to be degraded to uo
equality, (if not worse,) with New Eng
land. With these heart eiekenirg re
lictions, I set out to seek a more favored
clime, not that I expected to get entire
ly from under yankec rule, hut to find
a place where bis chances <f oppression
arc email, compared with Georgia. D
may le of seme interest to a pi rti“D of
your readers, to give a sketch of whai
I saw, am. draw some conclusions there
from : I took (he traiu at DawsnD, [ro
cccdcd to Chattanooga While passing 1
through Null Georgia, (my old home), '
saw some pietty fields of wheat and
clover. The tillable land of that sec
tivrii is in rmall bodies, cut up by mrun
ains, or ri rid nd useless by being cov
ered with atone. The gcroral sppear
unce of tbe country from Calhoun up,
not inviting.
North Alabama is a beautiful ccuu
'ry, and shows marks of better days,
having been once in a high state cf cul
tivaion From Grand Junction to
New Oideaus, there was nothing of par
licular interest passed over in day ligbt.
Much of the lands badly washed—(arm
ir,g operations limited, and many plan
tations lying out. While at the June
tion, I braid that arrangements were
being made to import laborers fi < m Eu
rope, to cultivate the cct'en lam s c 1
Mississippi. Something of that kind i
needed in most of the cotton States,
and must be done hes ire the ma ket-
oan again he suppln and with tbe raw ma
terial. The lower portion ~f the N 0
G. N. R. runs through dense swamps,
the home of motquitocs, frogs and aii
gators ; it crosses an arm oft Lat tn au
tiful lake, Pontchetrain, and runs close
to it some distaneo on the west side,
looking out in an c.asti rn direction—
nothing is visible but the element- -ibove
and tbe agitated waters beneath. Ar
riving in New Orleans too late to take
passage up the rivr r, I had a day to lock
at interesting objects in the groat South
ern Metropolis, with its 280 000 inhab
itants, of all colors nnd nations, i
learned that the St. Charles was radi
caliz and, therefore took lodging at Sr.
James. Tbe custom house is a stand
ing monument of national folly., it oc
cupies a whole tquare, built of graDife
sbif ped from the North, and bas already
cost over five million r.f dollars, and wi.l
probably never be finished. The statu e
of Ileury Clay stands iu a conspicuous
place in the m’ddle of Canal street, and
is as black outside as tic inside of a
radical congressman.
At 5 o’clock, took {assageon the new
and beautiful Steamer. B L lUdgc,
for Shrcvcsport, arriving there the third
day, 66 hours run. The once magnifi
ccut sugar plantations on tLc ivU.-risaip
pi and Red rivers, show the effects of
the common di.-astcr to the Soub;
many of them growing up in weeds;
the fields are large, but laborers are few
Most of the farms on upper Rid river
are being cultivated. ffkrevespori i.-
still in a pro*perous condition, beirg th<
market for a large portiou of Loui-iana
and part of eastern Texas. Thence t’
Marshall, Ilurrison eouDty, Texas, by
rail, 46 miles, which is a section of ib«-
great Bonlbet nPat ti ' R R. Itisgra j
ded 25 miles further west, to bo put in
operation to n, and to continue its pro
gress west as rapidly as cucuinslauces
will permit Marshall is a prosperous
towu at the end of the Railroad at pr> s
fDt, bas all tbe advantages derivable j
lruni that source ; it containsubuut 4,000
inhabitants, bas two scLeols ol high
grade: Marshall University and Mason
ic Female Institute, and six cLutch-s.
From Marshal!, pruceidtd to Jefferson,
in Marion c< uoty, by stager The town
is situated on big Cy press Bayou, ab-ve
Caddo lake, aod is the hrud ol steain
boat navigation iu that directioi, for
second class bolts, eighty miles iy wa
ter, above BbrevC»port, (though lb and
river is navagable for small boats, on
tbe Texas boundary at high wa-cr, 1500
miles above SbreVt sp- rt.) J Sirs n is
abcut tbe siae of Marst all, Cut t f much
more commercial importance, being tbe
market tor about 20 cointies in the
nertbern and eastern portion of tbe
State, and is fast growing in impor
tance. Thence by private back, iu a
Dorthwcst direction, through M»rion,
Davis, Titus, Hopkins, Fannin, and
Grayson counties. Iti the latter, I met
with some relatives Ir-m Gvorgia, with
whom 1 spent several days, made many
acquaintances, and obtained all tbe in
formation practicable dutieg my stay ;
returning by a different route, visited
other sections, 'lie first and second
rai ge of counties i u the cast ore tim
ber! and and a little broken, but mostly
productive. The bottnu lands on
streams are very rich, while rho tim -
bored poriions have m me idvantagns in
lumber and fruit growing They are
not us hialtby nor as durable as the
Prairies, which ate iuexhaustible, and
| rctluccs any crop adapted to the oIi»
mate. Northern Ttxie is < mphatically
a wheat region, superior to tho great
majority of whoat producing countries
The climate, the soil, and tne elevation
of the c utitry, are peculiarly adapted
to the pcif ct devcl ip mi nt of the wheat,
causing it to weigh more to the bushel
than that grown almost anywhere else;
it frcqiunily weighs 66 to 68 lbs. per
bushel. They report over 40 bushels
per acre some favorabh.' seasons ; and for
a scriif "f year--, in Collin, Ddlas,
Grayson and Fannin c unties, an aver
age of 25 bu-bcls. Tbe soil is mos ly
bla k, and varies in depth from one to
eight feet, ris's on a soft white reek
f uudation,in many places vi ihleiu the
beds of streams. The prairie counties
have dwarf timber ou tbo streams, *.ut
ficient for feuciig and fuel H dges
ore fust taking the place of rail fences.
B< i.-, d’arc, ihc hedging material, is a
native growth, and makes a close, strong
and durable hedge. Asa timber it has
no supierior. Buggies and wagons of
the very best quality are made of it;
for posts it is about equal to lightwood;
sometimes rails are made of it, and are
considered like the land, good for tbe
next generation. The market at pres
ent for tbe Doi'hern and eastern coun
ties, is J, ff rsoD, to tbejjistance of 200
miles Meant of transportation : Ox
wagons; they haul for about one cent a
mile per hundred. Most of the year,
teams are no expense, as they are turned
■ ut to graz at night and traveled dur
ing the <iav. From three to six yoke make
a common team, wh'ch are driven without
line, nd governed by the word of command,
and a wlnp about 25 test long, which tbe dri
vers use with great skill. The only material
advantage the timbered counties have,is lum
ber tor building, which the prairie settlers
have 10 haul from the pineries from 60 to
200 miles, but that is not a very large item
when you can gei it laid down 100 miles from
the Mills at $3 per hundred. Even ibat ob
jection will soon be removed. The great
Central Railroad is now completed to Biynn,
in Braxos county, over 100 miles l om Gal -
veston, and is steadily piogrts.ing towards
the northern boundary. Otbei roads Iron)
the cast are iu progress to lap the State in
different directions.
When we consider the area of the State,
its varied climate, the great fertility of the
soil, we are constrained to believe that it is,
or soon will be, the most desirable portion of
the world—everything for the wants of man
or beast, plentiful and cheap. The wheat re
gion is a white man’s country —not many
darkies tliipe nor ever wit! be. No portion
of the southern or western States possesses
so many attractions for the emigrant as North
Texas—that portion lying above 32“ which
is the 'wheat region. Blessed with a genial
climate of remarkable healthfulness, pos
sessed of varied and fertilo soil, and supplied
with abundance of wholesome food at low
prices. The seekers after new homes for
themselves and posterity, will find in i* a
“ promised land,” equaling their reasonable
expectations. The prairie lands are prefera
ble to the timbered lor several reasons: It is
richer and more durable ; it is more healthy,
not having ti e same amount of vegetable de
composition ; the labor of clearing is saved ;
the trouble of stumps and tiers avoided, so
that grain can be hat vested w ith hotse pow
er, and the land cultivated with tbe gang and
pulky plow, the pleughman sitting in a com
fortable seat, driving his team, doing tbe
work of three hands after the ordinary mode
Tbe grass on the unimptoved land is valuable
lor stock, of which there are great numbers
of all kinds, and very profitable to owners.
Laud is cheap, and can be obtained in
quantities to suiia.nnst any Uieuna Emi
grants who are unable to puichase, can find
land to tent, or lease, or ob aiu employment
at good wages. Living is cheap: Corn 35
oents, Hour 3 cents, poik 5 cents, beef 2 1-2
cents, milk and butler lor the trouble of tak
ing care of the cows, constitute the basis of
the bill of fare, which any one can have at all
tim-8. The future of the wheat region can
hardly be estimated, when rail roads shall
have peuetiaied it, iis productions will be iu
creased a thousand fold. Now is the time
lor the enterprising emigrant to establish
hioiseU belore the railrosds shall have in
creased ihe value of the land. Tne golden
lands oi the Rocky Mountains contain uotuch
mints of weullh as the broad prairies ot
Texas. And wbt-u the placers, yulehcs and
quarti-veii-s et Idaho, Montana and Colors-,
ro, shall have ceased to yield their yellow
dasi, Texas will be oo the high road of wealth
and jiowei, the iruition ot which can scarcely
be realned. H.
How tiis- l.s-gislaluro Stand*.
We have taken some puns, aavs Ibe Al
bane .Yew, to correct onr list of Senators
and Diemberg elect, and according to our
count the two Houses stand thus:
SENATE.
Democrats 20
Radicals . ly
Donbitul, ißdepeudent, or contested 6
44
DOUSE.
Democrats 8o
Radicals 7g
Doubikul or Independent lo
Telfair and Irwin uot voted 2
170
Paulding, Lawrence, Troup, and perhaps
one or two ether counties may get anew
electiOD, and it so they will return Democrats
Tellair and Irwin, if permitted io have their
election w ill certainly elect Democrats. Those
marked doubitul or independent are as likely
to vote with ibe Democrats, as the Radicals,
und a little more so,
The track of the Beltpa, Rome and
Dalton Kail road, is now laid to Jack
sonville.
I'd All H;u in out.
On tho 20th of this month, Bays tho
LaC'rosse Democrat, the Jaeobir.B un
to assemble at the Stmottatic city of
Chicago, lor the purjxwo o' nominating
a ''ckot and making a platform fur tho
Presidential camp ign
In fixing up a platform, it will have
some ugly questions to deal with.--
Their greatest difficulty will l»o the
financial prob err. It is a big thing
a hard subject to handle The band
holding and tariff interests undoubted
ly predominate wi h ti e men who will
figuro at the C' nvention But thiy
cannot fail to see that down among
the people by whom the voting is to
bo done, there is a wjtle-sj road discon
tent w itn their burdens, and a very
general demand for relief '! lie {ire- I
vailing current opinion among the lead
• rs ol the par y is in favor of high tar
iff, and payment of tti bonds in gold.
Ul.ti tiie exemption of tho in ndboldets
from taxation. This is so, because tliu
Jacobin lenders are almost to a man
owned and controlled by ihe tariff* and
boi dholding in crests,
But al the west the rank and file of
the party, the wealth producers, are
opposed to having one-half of the
price they get for tlieir wheat, corn,
|>ork, butter and cheese, go to make
tho factory lords and bond lords of tbe*
east still richer and more powerful
stronger to control legislation for their
own benefit, ana fur the sure and per
manent ens aving of the plowholders.
T here will be every mo ive of [xdicy,
therefore, to put in a plank to satisfy
this latter class, and no doubt there
will be a struggle, though perhaps no
open demonstration, to affect it. But
the moneyed interests are inexorable,
and will probably insist upon a full
anti explicit compliance with all their
demands.
Be e so. We asx nothing better.
T makes a Democratic vie ory sure
W T e p odge o the Democracy every
U estern Slate , for any candidate w hom
they shall Dominate, who shall be
unequivocally with and for the people
upon the financial questions.
We await with interest, but with
perfect confidence, the action of the
nominating conventions of the two
great parties. W T e know that the Jac
obin Convention will take a posi ion
which wil bo in direct antagonism
with the m erest* of the peoplb. Wo
will not doubt that the Democratic Con
ven ion wi 1 be true to the traditions,
the principles, the sympathies, the
aspirations, the interests of the party,
al)d rungs itself on the -ide of the peu
pie
Lot this be done, and victory is aa- t
sured, the country will be redeemed,
free government restored, and all the
crimes and shame of the last eight
years succeeded by peace, liberty and
h-. ppiness, and remembered On y iu
condemnation of their perpetrators
and as a warning against their recur
rence.
History.
Tbe New Orleans '1 imes says “while
the Radical press is teeming with ar
gument in favor ol negro equality und
tbe negro ability to rank side by side
with the white man in til tne depart-'
nv nts of life, from tbo j olitical down,
we challenge them to jioin to a single
instance in which the negro exists as a
.community where his condition has
not degenerated and the country sub
jected to his control been rapidly de
teri rated. Hayti, Jamaica, the Bu
ham s— all productive yes wealthy
provinces under the whi-e mans gov
ernment, have l>ei ome perfectly worth
/ess and pover'y stricken eiuce the
black* have nad control, and have al
ready demonstrated the fact, in their
short history, that the tendency of tbe
negroes, in a state ol independence, is
toward barbarism. Even Liberia suf.
fers a constant dim nution of popula
tion by negroes in the out-settlements
wandering ofl itt the bush, and betuk
ing themselves to the mode cf life their
ancestors so delighted in. If examples
are wanted nearer home the fate of
John Randolph’s setllement ot eman
cipated slaves will furnish one, and
the menial occupation the negro inva
riubly seeks und fills id all communi
ties, the squalid manner in w hich he
invariably lives, the financial blight,
that settles upon every spot, either in
city or country, wnere be settles, offer
abundant others. We repeat that not
a single illus ration can be furnished
where the negtu exi-ts as an indepen
dent or ruling community that lie aud
everything connected with him has not
iueVitahjy deteriorated.”
.llkaDQr’s 3d Military Dist I
Georgia, Alabama aud F-nrid-, >
Atlanta, Ga., May 11, 1868. y
General Orders So. 76
Official returns of tbe recent election
haviug been received from all the coun- j
; ties in the State of Georgia, in which j
! the election on the ratification of tbe
, Constitution was held • and it appetr
ing from said ic'urus that a majority of
v Wculeen ibousand six hundred anu J
, Diuety-niue (17,6D9{ volts has been cast
“For the Li urtuutioD," the same is
hereby declared ratified in accordance
; with the provisions of the act ol Con-
I gross which became a law Marob 12,
1868.
| By older of M>>j. Gen. Meade.
‘ R. l\ Drum, A. A. G.
liaukriiptcy Affair* in llie
Sonih.
W e lay tho f la w ng before our read
ers from c oorri .‘■pendent in A'abxm:i
They wjib'ffid its statements interest
ing ;
The members ol ihe Marion, Ala.,
bar have .ai.-td the minimum foe in
Baukiupt oasts lo une hu uired dollars,
hercti f re the minimum l e in the tur
r unding c miitius
This is cl cap enough fur the iiiarin it
labor alone, to say n oiling f the study
and menial toil ut-ce-siry tu acquire the
ruquii-ite tkiii iu this entirely new
branch of pn-fessn nal practice.
We warn our f icuds that, tbo (iim
b.- sncaily expired when voluntary bank
ruptcy will he piac'icaliy at an end.
The Ruiiuiupt.ai-t itt ihc uuly legit-lo
tion of ihe present Congress that tend*
to the relief of the oppressed and imp nv
erisbed pc-pte of the South, an! iiieb
of thorn us c.id C“n.-ci< t m u ly “t-tke it,’
'lo-uid c al once,
I heie e, Jii i , ,i,d i-ooraat prej
udice agau l 1! u ..nipt, iuw , which i
j > !i \ -
• '‘Co Sin t days ts th Rom ad
Gdo otto, T 'I v. TV : •*. Binkmpt
tegi-lvio iocr d>u p“V*ular--ln*
tor and if pu. ir . Uicaqy timil • n ha
n tv b<coin J.I u‘-otly t n^rstt il ell
tvei y e "ie f e:vi \j, ■lj n , | pole lice
Our fmi Cl law in ;tus line were
failuies, arid henc in part Ihc unpopu
larity of this Aot, Tne Ad of 1800
was ell fur the creditor. Thu Aot of
1841 all for (he and btor—it was prac
tidily -a voluntary system, and did uot
apply at all to corporations. These faults
and its partisan character, lead to its
early repeal.
T hose who have not studied tho new
bill imagine it a re-enactment of the
old one; they think they still see and
smell the
“Racoon’s t iil and possum's jaw,
lfeiiiy Clay and Bankrupt Law”
enormities of the Act of 1841. Not a
bit of it. The pre-uni Act includes cor
poraii ms, provides for mvoluntaty bauk
luprciet. and composition bettlcmenis;
aid w hile it discharges the debtor on
the honest surrender of bis property, it
pr tects tbe creditor from Li* fr ud, and
reckless improvidence. Its theory aud
prac ioal effect is: Live up your prop
erty, wipe out your debts, and take a
tnsi start. A part from this old gin st
of political pujudico lha' hover over
the sut j et, many uuud old grannies
hoots ly think (hat the lew is vicn lb,
and win cuiitpit iho pure in rais of our
rigbte. u* population Let us.see : TTu
der our Slate legislation a man may
avoid ibe payment of his debts anyhow ;
bis going into bankruptcy does uot
only preeut htm from paying
tbe deb s he deems of moral obligan n,
but enables him to do so by chok.ng
i ff those Shy locks, who are waiiiug and
aatch ng to gr.h me first fiiuits ol hi
labor, by opeutng to him again tbe are
na ot hints: industry, so ihat he may
safely accumulate pri p rty, and when
prosperity returns aud that property as
sumes ns uoru.al | rice, he may sell it
and pay what deb s he plea-es.
Y uu owe ten ihousaud Iloilats, ati old
security debt, or adr b; f i uegrues, or
to Northern m ichau s, or to 8 ufbein
speculators You also owe five hund
red debars for bread and meat for y u r
lamily ; owe il to your friends aud |
Brighter, may he to the w:d ws aud i
orpnaDs ot your comrades who fell in
bdtie by your side. But cc'n’t pay all.
You Wait to pay ihe last debt. You go j
to work like a hero— y u labor day and j
bight, yo ur erup is made, gathered pro- I
pared tor market; in a tew days you *
can {‘ay tluso debts of honor—y u can
wipe the tear from the widow’s' cheek,
you cioibc and feed the orphan, you
cau save 1 r*‘ ii* rum the friend who help
ed yoo.
Just then a fillle attachment for the
old debt lays its iron paw upon y< ui
pr per y —and all is over. The wld
ows bread g no, the ore liter
mas siiti in, your tain .y may starve
In the ll.uit, hte.rUar j u h,.\e beg- !
gairrl me fur nds who t ,v« in ~ and 0.
Bui y u hove 1 e <- la in ol iiavu g
aV dll and- ■ ■■ ’
J * you w - hr TANARUS, >i . -tb •••o. Ole’
quotha, go int bunkiuj ov, but no
wo h i. rati o [ii. y- ur tuqpdsfai.d
imp vt-ri.-h v• ui dain.ly. A tor .--ueli
maU'ihu tolly ah ut honor !
a'nat is the dr bum's sid of the pic
ture. Now, Mr. Creditor, let’s look at
yours, and see if this law hurts
you.
A debtor, whose property is safely
hid away, and who cant pay all his
debts, won’t psy any of them. That’s
tbe rule. So there is uo hope there of
collecting your dabt.
Let him relieve himself from tbo
load of debt, begin life fresh and free,
and be may possibly pay all these old
debts; wid pay some of them. So, fori
tbe creditor, there is a chance for s me-
Ihing against a certainty for noth ng.
The war found the S uth in debt,
but with" a vastly overbalancing amount j
of property, liswep away the prop
erty, bu' left ihe dob r incuirccf on the
faith of continued ownerth'p of tha
propt rty.
Tne d‘ b:« made since the war have
been n ostiy pr rsonal trusts, imposing
higher obligations than tfie defos basrd;
on proptrty, wt ioli lias been desflitjed j
by no fault of y urs. Is it. not yur
duty to place yt ui elf in such a o ndi
ii»■ u ipal you cm fii.-t iqu date these!
dibts has and “ii farh in your bon r—!
irtst in your pars nul tntegri:y ? That’s
the question
As far as morals are concerned, wt
submit to these good old granuiis, that
it is better and far nob'er 1 >r a to
go into bankruptcy of euiy and b Idly,
and begin life auew, than to submit o
the system of legal shuffl ng and skulk
ing, aud suOtertugiog now ; ractieed by
our jieopie. MaLy ifour best busimss
men are compelled to do business und< i
a cloak to keep from starvation. lao -i
aiouud you and see bow many of your
neight ors (besides yourself, may be.)
are opcia'ing uuder eover —ag“uts fur
wives, or s ms, or parents, irsom-b dy
cl.-c who lives in the moon. Go to tin
records of y ur Probate Court aud so
who holds the property Y. u will fi r
a dense cloud of crinoline hanging evei
the titles to nearly all the real and fer
-nnal j loperty iu Perry couuty. The
old law n : .coverture is reversed.
Blackstone says “tbo wife’s legal ex
istence in incorpora ed and consolidated
into that of the husband ; under wins'
wing, protection arid cover she performs
everything ’ It is not now as it used
to be—“my hat,” or even “our hat,’ it
is al l “hek hat AH this is morally
wrong, and only partially justified by
the* plea of sell preservation ; and a
man, from go- el motive, in discharge of
tho' obligation to tiis family which he
registeicd at the marriage altar—a high
nr obligation, may be, than notes or
bills or bonis, may travel go far in the
path of legal fraud, that he can’t re
trace his steps—that his moral sensibil
ities will beoomo blunted and his e -use
of honor forever (ost.
Far better would it bes r him and
hi* family, and his country; wefe he at
once, at v. nt> bold stroke, to cut the Gor
dian knot of bis fniapciil embarrass
ments with the keen knife of .the Buik
rupt Law, unshackle bis energies,
cleanse tiis con.-civnee by doing all he
can, and begin hi} career oyer again
with an pen hand and an honest
tr n —Bankrupt Jieoider.
AA ii*> will be tll*' I>oiiio«'ratif;
oniiiH-c tor rrcsidcut.
fi N w Orl. ana (’resent thus forci
iy tidoises Mr. I*. ndleton, the Ohio
Siateisnran, fir the Democratic nomina
tion tor the Presidency.
“Mr Pendleton is popular wilh the
soldiers, because he always voted for
ivery appiopnatiou made for tbeir ad
vantage and comfort. No wives made
widows, nor children made orphans, oan
censure him for the wholesale bu’cbery
of their husbands and fathers in a war
which has resulted in elevating tbe ne
gro aud degrading the white man, which
has freed the slaves and enslaved the
freemen, and set the ignorant, vicious,
aud depraved as rulers over the intelli
gent, virtuous and honest. Ho is ac
ceptable to ail religious denominations,
because bis party is opposed to tbo in -
teifertug with the relegious views or
opinions ot any ooe.
“He is the staunch friend of the
working musses, who will vote as a unit
for him, because his ideas iu regard to
fiuauce aud taxa ion, the paymeut of
tbe national debt in greenbacks, tbe ab
olition ot ibe national banking system,
aud the taxing of bondholdirs, are iden
tically the same pr neip es advocated by
ibe labor lefarui party throughout the
Noith. lie Las always maintained that
the Democratic party is the pcopler par j
ty tbe workingman’s only hope for do
iiverance from the oppression and ty
ranny ot capitalists; that the Radicals
Dove abolished black slavery iu the
South, but had established in its stead
a an re and testable form of w hite slavery
all over the country ; that the poor are
now the slaves of Radical boudbidders,
the - weat of their honest brows aud the
labor of their brawny arms g. ing to
pay the expenses of the Government,
lor the support of freedrceu’s bureaus
and Rtdicui reconstruction, wh.le the
rich bondholders of BotXou end Now
York are exempt from taxati n—thus
vio uting an express provision of the
Constitution, requiring taxa iou tube
■ qual and uuiluim.”
The New York Sun (Radical) admits
ibat .here is a great deal of force iu the
cry against the bondholders which Mr
Pendleton basset up, which Las carried
the. West SO that its deicgatrS will he
almost uuaciimi us for him, and which
finds an echo in the B ,uth. Tbe Sue
thinks, however, that Governor Sey
mours chances are the best for
tbe noo-inriion. Ta.is i«, however,
an ou side v. lunt or opinion The
contest now seems to be between Pei.-
dle'on, Seymour and Ilanicock, with
i itin r of. whom, shuuid tbe North unite
■u Inn, the South will be content.
The Hoslilities.
An Alarming State oj filings Aear the
A -irt/i Platte —-A ‘event Outrages—
till mss of the ' aragrs.
The Cheyenlie Argus of Wednes
day a w eek ngo, says ii is r* ported
that nn alarming state of things exist
down the road at North Platte. A
large of Indians are in the vicini
ty, and have sent woid to Col Pat
rick, the Ir.dian agent, that they intend
to burn down the bridge and the town
wi hin ten days. Most of tbe inhabi
tants have sent, their wives and chil
dren away, and the soldiers are em
ployed digging breastworks.
'Jhe Indians are said to be Spotted
Tail’s band of Sioux, who have been
fed all winter at the nation’s expense,
reinforced by Cheyennes and others
from the Republican It is reported
that a man named Burke, w ho kept a
runche two miles be.ow North Platte,
on the south bank of the river, has
been killed, toge ber with his- son and
daughter Ttie ranche bas i een burn
ed down.
No trains have been running at
night east of Cheyenne for the past two
weeks. No engineer will undertake
to pilot the locomotive between suuset
and sunrise i.i tiie present stute ol af
fairs. as tbe track may be torn up at
any moment.
M S. Hall, contractor on the Union
Pacific Railroad, eight miles west of
Medicine Bow River, has received in
formation that four r.f his men were
killed ibe Indians in tbeir attack on
)lie camp ou Monday last. dr. Hail
lias about four hundred men in liis
employ, and is determined to keep at
woik, and if attacked aga n will carry
he war into the enemy’s camp
Tiie uttack by Indians on the men
a- Boyle’s Camp was a inos’ impudent
proceeding. Only twelve Indians at
tacked twenty-four men, who were at
work on the grade They rode up and
discharged eight arrows in'o on • man,
who has since died Three others
weie more or less injured. One mun
truly escaped being tun through the
I roily bv a s| ear that an Indian launch
ed ut him, by pr< mt'by dodging it.—'
It is sopi, used the judians must have
watched until they were certain tbe
; men were nut mined, otherwise the*
would Ri-nrCely have had the uudaci y
to attack' them with snch small force.
! Tho Cheyenne Argus of Friday nayi
that on Wednesday a baud of Indians
cnpA' Ufa ho u wood truio near Plum
Crook, below Cottonwood. There were
five tiieu with the (vigour. The Indi
ans protended to lie friendly until they
lind disarmed Ibe sti-pir ami «>f *|' ff
men, when after seizing their weapons
they shot and killed four of them'
wounding the fifth severely. ThnSodie*
oi the inurdi red men were brought to-
Grand Huvlii
Mr. B'ggs, a freighter, arrived at
Cheyenne on Thursday evening, hav
ing left bis wagon on the roud sixty
miles west. He bad swtrcely been in*
tbe pity two hours when be received :»
te'egram that two of his rnen had beet*
kile'ii l» v the Inl l i ans dose to the cm nip.
The men were Mexicans.
T o Argus yisu has furlhor inforinu
tiun of the shooting of two,uieti near
Biilney on Wednesday T lie men had
gone out fishing, and while they were
gone a paity of Indians made a dash
on the tow n, hut were driven off
They caught sight of tbe two rnen on
their retreat, and swept down upon
ihem. One of the whites had a pock
e! pistol with him, and managed to
keep he Indians at a little distanoe,
w hilo he retreated towards the station.
He was shot in four or five places
with arrows, one of them passing en
tirely through his body. When about
halt-way to tbe elution be dropped,
exhausted from loss of b'ood His un
fortunate companion Thomas Cahooo,
had no weapon, and the savages rode
up to ban und sent eight arrows into
his body. One arrow went right
through h.s body, about one aed one
half inches above his heart, and Dr.
Latham had to cut the pointed end off
before lie could poll it out. The Indi
ans then scalped hint, tearing off the
skin and fleeli fiom around the fori-y
head back to the neck. Notwithstand
ing these dreadful wounds, there are
hopes that Calioon, as well as Edmund,
son, will recover
General Sherman is in Cheyenne,
and has authorised the enlistment of
one hundred Pawnees to act as i-coutx
along the line between Columbus and
O’Falhin’s Bluff.
»Vf/r rfisrntf iitn.
DISSOLUTION.
r |?FIE Firm of Crowell & Hood is thi* day
1 dissolved by uiuttial consent All debit
due the firm will be collected bv Mr. llood
who is also re&ponfliMe for all liabiliries.
The busin- sm will be coDtinue'd at the same
location by Mr. Hood. Mav 15ih, !Brtft
mavCROWELL & lIOOD.
i\>w Livery inn} Sale Stable,
Dttwron, .... Ga.
N. G. t J. I PRINCE
n\VE erected on M«in Street, just ;d>p*e
the (opot ,ft <S«/c GhU Lt\9> U S'tWt,
wbe e they are prepared to m<comiuwdail*
tlieir old friends aid customers to anything
in their line ot business. ' '
All wishing to take pleasure iid'B will
please give ns a call.
We have. a)bo attached -to ouf Stable, a
large convenient »ot for dfovers.
(iive us a call. Our terms are modeiihfc
D iwson, May 14 08; 3ru.
i oi\.
r I''HE firm of Krone & Sivsel has this day
1 beeu dissolved by mu tun I ecu.- eui f The
firm bhiSitjess is to he settled 4n®E.«lM>Le.
KROKfi & 8I&ML a
Dawson, Ga., May 7(h V>B - 1 flr.
NOTICE.
4 LL persons indebted to the firm of
J. jl Janes A PerrjnnTn, Perryman jk Kfe
ney, aud Perrjoiai. & Uerivetber, are re
quested to call and settle their aifoanfs
in medialr ly, or tbe above, paj-iiy-i
push their claims in llie proper channel.
Also, all indebted to Dr. J. L. D. Perrj
mau, are earnmty requested to e»H and set
tle. Monuv warned and money must be hid.
Dawson, Us., May, 7, 1806.
TOBACCO, TOBAO6O.
I WILL keep constantly on hand, sit At-
I’XiiudtT & Parroll’f, f good as
sortment of nil of the quality of
Tobacco, all of which I will e«iH ttact*,
Augusia aud Atlanta prices.
W. T. LEWIS.
D.iwaon, Ga., April 30, 1888—8 m
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