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The Journal.
j. D. HOYL, EDITOR.
Dawson, Ga., July li•+, 1870.
The Agricultural Bureau.
The House of Representatives have,
l>y a small majority, voted down the
bill to abolish the State Agricultural
Department. We have heretofore been
rather inclined to favor this department,
under the supposition that it was prop
erly and economically administered, but
its opponents made some rather damag
ing disclosures in regard to it, during
the discussion, that might have made
us hesitate to vote to sustain it, if we
had been a member of the legislature.
It seems that the act creating the bu
reau allows the commissioner one clerk
at a salary of $1,200 per year. The
Legislature, at its last session, we pre
sume, appropriated SIO,OOO to be ased
by the commissioner to advance the in
terest of agriculture. The commissioner
•is, it appears, using part of this money
in the payment of two additional clerks
at a salary of SI,BOO a year each, and
of a state chemist at a salary of $3,000.
We cannot see what great work the de
partment has done that should require
the time of four men at a cost of $9,800
per year, besides the fees of the inspec
tors of fertilizers. Eighteen hundred
dollars per annum ought to and doubt
less would command the higest clerical
skill in the state. Is this needed mere
ly to copy a few letters to prominent
farmers in the state and consolidate
their answers into the monthly crop
reports 1 The sheep and hog manuals
do not show a great deal of skilled
work, and we fail to see how the time
of so many high salaried officials can
be employed. The showing made by the
opponents of the bureau, certainly gives
some coloring to the charge that the
agricultural department is of more
benefit to the few high salaried officials
who manipulate it than any one else.
We are rather in favor of a furthe’’
trial of the agricultural department,
and the geological bureau, provided
they can be honestly and economically
administere 1 in the interest of the peo
ple, but if they arc to be made machines
for swindling, extortion and personal
aggrandisement, as several of the other
departments seem to have been, of late,
we are in favor of deferring them until
an era ot honesty sets in.
The many disgraceful disclosures re
cently made in connection with affairs
about the capitol demand great watch
fulness on the part of the people and
their servants in the legislature.—
We believe there is no general appro
priation bill to be passed at the present
session, but when the time comes to
again distribute the people’s money
among the officials who are to handle
it, we hope that every possible restraint
will be thrown around every one of
them.
The suspicions of the people are
aroused, and their confidence in many
of their present officers is destroyed.—
They look to the legislature for all the
relief, indemnity and security that it is
in the power of that body to give them.
Grant & Nutting’.
On Monday last, Mr. Hulsey, of At
lanta, introduced a bill in the House of
Representatives to release the above
named gentlemen from liability on the
bond of John Jones, late defaulting
Treasurer of the State. He asked to
have the bill referred to a special com
mittee with power to send for persons
and papers and employ a reporter to
take testimony, but as these would have
involved the State in an expense of
perhaps several thousand dollars to
make out the case of the petitioners,
the legislature failed to “see it,” and
referred the bill to the finance commit
tee. The old legislative machinery did
not seem to run very smoothly when it
struck this matter. There was no
quorum voting on one or two of the
motions to refer. Grease, Messrs. G.
and N., Grease!
A Timid Suggestion.
\V ould it not be well for our Gover
nor to organize a Sunday school in the
capitol building and try to instill some
of the principles of morality tought by
the Bible into the minds and hearts of
some of the numerous officials in and
around that establishment. It seems
to us that no better opening for such
an effort could be found between Chat
taqua and Liberty county. The comp
troller-general was made grand head
centre of the Sunday School interests
of the state at the recent convention at
Macon, and we are surprised that he has
so long neglected such an opportunity
of doing good and advancing the cause
of which he was placed in charge. We
hope the lion. Potiphar Peagreen will
rise and move to allow the use of the
Senate chamber for such a purpose.
With a few slight modifications, we
presume the ten commandments might
be tought in such a school without, as
the darkie said, causing any very seri
ous ’sturbanvc iu the meeting.
Agricultural Colleges.
A traveler passing through a very
poor, barren and desolate country asked
a native what they raised in that coun
try. Native replied : “The soil is too
poor to raise anything else, so wc build
school houses and raise men.” The
State of Georgia has been working and
scheming and planning for the past
eight or ten years in a desperate effort
to keep a little life in (lie old University,
at Atljpns. We believe, now, without
any documents before us for reference,
that the University, with an annual
expenditure of about $35,000 or $19,-
000, manages to take in about $3,500
as tuiiion fees from about a hundred
students, yet the State is asked through
the legislature to appropriate large
sums of money and public property to
establish branches of that institution
in various parts of the state. To
slightly change an old saying, “If Ma
homed won’t go to the mountain, let
the mountain go to Mahomed.” If the
boys won’t go to the University, let’s
move the University to them. We are
in favor of a branch of the grand
old school in every town and village
in the state. The people may be too
poor to send their children off to col
lege, but they certainly ought to be
able to build big colleges at their own
doors. The State is bound to establish
something at Milledgeville anyway, to
compensate the people of that ancient
burg for allowing the capitol to he re
moved to Atlanta. By all means let
us build school houses and raise men.
The Bacon Bill.
Speaker Bacon, of the House of
Representatives, has introduced a bill
to expedite the trial of persons charged
with any grade of murder.’ It provides
for a prompt and speedy trial of all
such cases. We hope it will pass.
Murderers often escape punishment
through the law’s delay. The legisla
ture, at its last session virtually abol
ished the death penally in Georgia by
requiring the sentence to be to a less
grade of punishment in cases where the
jury recommends to mercy. This law
will he repealed at the present session.
Under the present laws, a murderer
with money and friends, even if con
victed, need only serve a year or two
as overseer in some convict farm at
most, and, in many cases, not even
that
Cox and Hill arc now going through
the slow process of applications for new
trial, appeals to the Supreme Court
etc., etc , at Atlanta ; Gibson is loose
in Macon, and Kate Southern is cosily
situated in the family of a lessee in
Taylor county.
If, after the repeal of the Als'on
law, and the passage of the Bacon bill,
some wise statesman could devise a
way to abolish or reform our abomina
ble and farcical petit jury system, hu
man life might appreciate in value id
the State of Georgia, and insurance
agents become less timid, cautious and
exacting.
Yellow Fever at Memphis.
About two weeks ago yellow fever
broke out at Memphis, Tennessee. At
that time there were some four or five
cases and one or two deaths reported.
The citizens were much alarmed and
many of them fled. It is hoped however,
that the cases were only sporadic, and that
the disease would not become epidemic.
A week passed without any new cases
and the panic subsided ; but, within the
past week, new cases have been report
ed nearly every day and grave fears of
an epidemic are entertained. People
are leaving the city by thousands and
other cities are quarantining against
them. The indications, at present are
that the southwest is again to be
scourged by the dreadful disease.
What in the mischief does the tal
ented Cox, of Troup, mean by popping
up and moving to exclude state officials
from participation in every scheme of
fered in the legislature whereby a
shrewd speculator near the throne might
make a little honest cash ? Does he
mean to cast any reflections upon our
present exemplary corps of state-house
officials.
Removal of tlie Confederate
Dead from Andersonville.
The following communication from
Quartermaster General, M. C. Meigs,
to Miss Mary C. Cranberry, Secretary
of the Ladies Memorial Association of
Americas, settles the question as to
whether any objections would be made
by the authorities of the United States.
The Association have never for a mo
ment supposed there would be any op
position, but deemed it best to refer the
matter to tbe War Department before
going to work :
War Department. l
Quartermaster General's Office
Washington, D. C., July 8, ’7O. \
Miss .Mary C. Granberry, Sec’y Ladies
Memorial Aasocial ion, Americus, Ga.
Madam.—ln reply to your letter of
the 2nd instant, you are respectfully in
formed that there is no objection to
your Association removing tbe remains
of the Confederate dead from the Ander
sonville National Cemetery.
Very Resp’y, Your Oo’d’t Servant,
M. C. Moos,
Quartermaster General,
B vt. Major General, L T . S. Army.
MAGNOLIA STEW.
Macon had a tire last week.
Schall's shoe store, Hunt Rankin and
Lnm.v’s wholesale drug store and C.
11. Rogers and Go’s wholesale groce
ry establishment were burned. Loss
about SIOO 000. Heavily insured.
Anew trial has been refused in the
case of Sam Hill for the murder of
Simmons at Atlanta Chastine
Cox, the negro who murdered Mrs.
Hull, in New York, has been sent
enced to bang on the 29th of August.
The case will be appealed Coffee
county has an eighteen year old boy
that weighs five hundred and filly
pounds A German committed su
icide near Atlanta by throwing him
self under a train of cars Last
week we unintentionally neglected
to say anything about the Cuthbert
fair. It is not too late to say that it
was a success The Albany Adver
tiser has seen a bcnzle stone. It was
taken from the stomach of a deer,
killed in Worth county. An Al
bany negro bet that he could drink a
quart of whiskey in twenty minutes.
He did it, and at lasc accounts, two
days afterwards he was stupid and
unconscious, and his recovery doubt
ful Ben Janes was bitten by an
alligator while fishing in a pond near
Arlington inflicting a painful wound
on the leg While some negro
boys were bathing in Ivey’s mill
pond, in Calhoun county, one of them
fatally stabbed another in the breast
with a pocket knife. They were
each about 12 years old The State
Senate has passed a bill prohibiting
the sale or giving away of intoxicat
ing liquors within two miles of elec
tion precincts, on election days.
The negroes of DeKaib county dec
orated the grave of Col. liobt. Al
ston last Saturday Cow eta county
bad an election for fence or no fence
on the 7th iust the vote stood 1576
for fence ; and 620 for no fence.... Over
one hundred persons were killed and
wounded by fire-works, and other
wise during the celebration of the
4th of July in New York We
mail the Journal regularly to the
Berrien county News ; but the editor
complains that he does not get it.
Sunstrokes were very common during
the recent hot spell, anew thing in
the south Children are being fre
quently poisoned by swallowing so
lutions #f potash used in making
soap. Keep it away from them.
Mrs. Dorsey, a rich Louisiana widow
has died and left all her property,
valued at $250,090, to Ex-President,
Jefferson Davis. The wall will be
contested by a brother of Mrs. Dor
sey, who lives in New York Mr.
Iverson Sanders, near Ilawkinsville,
was accidentally shot and killed by
his nearest neighbor and friend Hen
ry Sparrow The store and gin
house of U. W. Arnold, of Dougherty
county, were blown down by a small
cyclone last week Some of the
papers hope that Gibson who killed
Coleman in a drunken fit at Macon,
last fall, will tackle the jury that ac
quitted him the next time he gets
drunk Marcellus E. Thornton
lias ca’led for a meeting of the inde
pendents at Atlanta on the 24th inst.
He says the meeting will be address
ed by Messrs. Stephens, Toombs and
Felton Gen Toombs recently
made a speech in Atlanta against
railroad monopolies. He says honest
men are found only in Heaven.
Brunswick had a $50,000 fire last
Monday Jeff Lin, who killed his
step-father, Willis Quick, in Decatur
county has been committed to jail,
in default of bond, to answer a charge
of voluntary manslaughter The
Senate has passed a resolution au
thorizing the governor to offer a re
ward of SI.OOO for forgers of land
grants The price of provisions,
especially wheat, is tumbling in the
Northwest: Yellow fever and other
causes It is probable that we will
rot get any dog law from the pres
ent legislature, but they may Bell.
Punch our liquor Wonder if Col
Marcellus E. Thornton would’nt now
willingly undertake to eat a Georgia
editor a day for t.h'rty days Two
Mormons from Utah came into North
Georgia preaching their poligamons
doctrine to the people. They were
met by a band of a dozen men and
ordered to leave the country. A
tight ensued in which one of the
Mormons was killed by a pistol shot.
The other fled. Be it ever thus with
those who preach that a man ought
to have a 100 wives this hot weath
er Blocker has had a big law
suit with the ordinary of Clay county
about the procession of an old Code
of Georgia. Blocker gained the suit
and the Code They say Bob
Toombs is worth $500.000 There
was a heavy storm on the north At
lantic coast last week; several ships
and lives were lost It is said that
Cox, the murderer of Alston, made a
negro convict whip a white convict
with a strap while in charge of a
convict farm in Taylor county.
Some of the papers are talking about
A. II Stephens for governor
A THUMIEKOLAP.
Among tlie Law Makers of
Georgia.
Some Strango Accusations Afloat in the
Capitol Building in Connection
With the Wild Land Commit
tee —Mr. Hinton Wright’s
Action in the Mat
ter.
[Atlanta Constitution, 18th.]
Yesterday morning about 10o’clock
it began to be whispered about the
Capitol that some strange develop,
meats had been niado touching the
Wild Laud Committee, which, it will
be muembeied, sat nearly al! the
month ot .June, investigating the tran
sactions of the Wild Lind Office of
this S’ato. The report ot the commit
tee whs read in both branches ot the
Legislature several days ago. It in
dicated that there hud been great
frauds in the manner r f transferring
wild land rt. fas. in this State,
The rumor circulated about the
committee yesterday was at last suffi
ciently cieve'oped to bring out the fol
lowing fact.-:
Comptroller-General Goldsmith pre
ferred that there should he a some wiiat
closer exoneration of him than appear
ed in the body of the report. He
therefore had a paper drawn up which
expressed in tte clearest and stiong
est terms his perfect iuDceence and
entire disconnection with any irregu
lar proceedings conne ted with 111"
wild land transactions’ This paper
was signed last Monday by Hou. Al
len I.) Candler, of Hall, and Hou.
John C. Maund, of Talbot, two mem
bers of the committee, whounderstood
that tiie other three members were to
sign it.
Tuesday Mr. Hinton P Wright
went to Hod. Lewis Strickland, of
Clinch, and Hon. Parish Davis, of
Baker, two. other members of the
committee, to procure their signatures.
They refused to sign the paper, as they
thought the report covered all the
ground’ Mr. Wright insisted on their
siguatutes to the paper and urged
them to approve it.
As they still refused, he offeied Mr.
Davis $250 and a suit of clothes to
put his name*to the paper, and subse
quently approached Mr. Strickland
with au offer of SIOO for his signature.
Both gentlemen refused the offer. Mr,
Wright when he made it, said he
merely did it as a friend of Mr. Gold
smith, who ha*l not authorized any
such proceeding on his part. Yet he
was so anxious to have the paper sign
ed by all the committee that he would
willingly pay for it.
Wednesday Messrs. Davis and
Strickland went to Hon.D. A. Russell,
Chairman of tfie Wild Laud Commit
tee, uud iuformed him ot the offer
which had been made to tktrn by Mi.
Wright,
Yesterday morning newsof this pro
ceeding reached Messrs. Candler and
Maund, who immediately went and
took their names troin thepapei which
they had supposed the entire commit
tee whs going to sign. Then the m
rnors began to fly and were soon atl
over the Capitol an! tbeu out on the
streets where men discussed them on
the corners. The “bribeiy story’’ was
the topic ot the afternoon and night.
It assumed all sorts of shapes, and
was twisted by many versions quite
beyond the strangest coustiuciiou of
the facts.
Yesterday morning Mr. Russell
called together tbs Wild Land Coui
mittQe and began a thorough investi
gation of the matter. The committee
sat with closed doors and their pro
ceedings are not known. Witnesses
were examined and testified as to the
facts of the alleged otfor to bribe.
Judge Hopkins represented the accus
ed and examined the witnesses Lite
in the afternoon the committee ad
journed and will be ready to report
to the Legislature this morning As
to the nature ot their report they are
reticent, but there is reason to believe
that it will be a clear statement of the
facts of this remarkablo case which is
now the reigning sensation in Atlanta,
and which may present itself in anoth
er shape in our next issue. We learn
that Mr. Wright does net deny the
statement that he offered the sums
alleged to Messrs. Strickland and
Davis, as lie was very anxious to pro
cure their signatures to the paper
which so fully exoneiated Mr. Gjld
sn.ith.
In the Legislature the following
proceedings were had iu reference to
the above case .of attempted bribery.
The Senate.
Atlanta, July 18.—The senate met
at 10 o’clock and was called to order
by the Piesident. Prayer by Rev. D.
W.U win. Roll was called and a
quorum found present. Ttie journal
was read.
Mr. Candler rose to a question of
privilege, and said he thought it due
io the senate and himself that he state
the facta ot his connection with the in
vestigation of the charge of bribery
which the wild land committee had
been making. Ho was first approach
ed by Mr. Goldsmith, the comptroller
general, who asked him to sign a pa
per which ho said corrected certain
errors in the report. He told Mr,
Go dsmith that he hrd not come here
to persecute or to whitewash him. He
heaid no more of ttiis matter until he
returned to Atlanta, after remaining
at home several days. Tuesday morn
ing Mr. Maund, a member of the com
mittee, caiuo to him and showed him
a paper which ha had signed and
which he said the other members of
the committee would probably sign.
Mr Candler said hs looked over the
paper and e igued it as he thought it
merely corrected some errors in the
report. Wednesday night he heard
that there had beeu an effort on the
streets of Atlanta to bribe certaiu
members of the committee. He at
once went to Mr. Bussell, the chair
man of the committee, and told him
the commitee must come together and
goto the bottom of thoaffur. The
next morning he went and took his
name off the paper, and Mr. Maund
did tin* same tiling, lie be'ieved that
Mr. Maund had signed the paper in
perfect good faith. As soon as ho saw
how anxious certain parties were to
have the paper signed he suspected
that there was mote in it than appear
ed on its face. He deemed it simple
justice to make these statements,
Mr. Russell said that he had the
supplemental report ready but did not
khmk it proper to make it in tbe sen
ate until it bad been made in the
house. The statement that he had
ver intended orsignilied that he would
bign the paper was falso. This little
episode on a topic which has kepi the
legislature agog for Hie past two days
kept the galleries full and every word
on it was attentively heard. The sen
ate then resumed its routine business.
In the House.
Mr. Davis, of Baker made the fol
lowing supplementary report from tbe
committee to investigate wild land
frauds:
The undersigned com mi ttee, appoin t,
ed under the resolution approved on
the ilthof December to investigate tfoo
wild lard sales it. this state, beg leave
to submit the following supplemental
report:
On the—instant we submitted cur
reports together with the evidence ta
ken by us in the matter submitted to
ua for investigation. In th" majority
report we set forth froely all the con
clusions at which wo had arrived from
the testimony taken, and all the mem
bers of the cuiumitte concur substanti
ally in ell these conclusions, except
three to-wit:
1. The legality of tbe transfer of
the transferees.
2. The power of th 9 comptroller
genera! to make the transfer; and
3. The validity of sales under trans
fer li. fas , and the poworof the gener
al assembly to declare said sales void.
One member of the committee (Mr,
Candler) not concurring in the major
ity, submitted a minority report cov
erirg these three points.
Since the submission of these re
ports, matters of the gravest charac
ter came to the knowledge ot the com
mittee. Of these matu rs we deemed
it our duty, both .o ourselves and the
state, to take cognizance and report to
the general assembly.
These matters were attempts made
oy Hinton P. Wright to induce by bri
bery two members of our committee,
to-wit: Hon. P. D Davis and Hon,
Lewis Strickland, to as.ign a paper
prepared by the comptroller-general.
This paper had for its object the ac
knowledgement by the members of
the committee that certain things had
been omitted iu the report w hich ought
ta havo gone into it, and that o rtain
other things embraced in the report
wascouohedm language different from
that in which a majority ot the com
mittee had agreed should be employ
ed, thus doing the comptroller-gener
al unintentional injustice.
Immediately upon the knowledge
of this attempt at bribery coining to
the other members of the committee,
a meeting was had, aud all the facts
in tie matter, so tar as possible, was
brought out. Wo examined under
oath Messrs. Davis and Strickland, of
tho committee, and Mr. H. P. Wright
and the comptroller general, W. L.
Goldsmith, and herewith submit their
testimony. The evidence shews that
Mr. Wright did approach the two
members of tto committee named, and
present the above mentioned piper
and try to induce them by an ulfor of
money to assign it. Ho and Mr. Gold
smith both swear positivsly, however,
that he did it without the consent of
Mr. Goldsmith - Mr, Wright swears
that he got the paper from Mr. Gplu
smith for th • purpose of securing the
signatures <>f members of the commit
tee. While some of us do not regard
the (tontents of the paper itself as of
any great importance oither to Mr.
Goldsmith or members of the commit
tee, or as affecting the substantial re
sults of our investigation, we do re
gard the means attempted to be used
to secure the sign ltures ot members
of the committee to it a9 an offiuse of
such gravity- a crime so atrocious
that we cannot pass it by with a mere
notice. _ Wo, therefore, r< commend
that the house of representatives
prefer a ticlesof impeachment against
W. L Goldsmith, comptroller-general,
for high critno and misdemeanors, iu
order that the majesty of the law may
he vindicated and ample justice meted
out to the officials of the state involved
in the transaction.
We also recommend that the gener
al assembly tuke such action in the
matter of the offense of Hinton P.
Wright 88 the law and common usage
demand. D. A Russell,
A. D. Candler,
On part of senate.
P D. Davis,
Lewis St highland,
J . C. Maund,
On part of house.
* * * •*- ate $
Mr. McWhorter—A resolution to
appoint a committee of thirteen to
whom shall be referred the repart
from the wild land committee this day
made, with insructiona to report such
action as is necessary.
Mr. Fort moved to strike out “spe
cial committee ef thirteen aud insert
“judiciaiy c..mmittee.”
Mr, McWhorter accepted the amend
ment.
Mr. King, of Floyd, w\s sorry that
the g ntlernan from Greene had ac
cepted the amendment. The matter
was one of such magnitude as to re
quire a special committee of the most
Discreet men of the house.
Mr. McWhorter said be would take
the sense of the house upon it.
Mr. hurt said the judiciary commit
tee arm consider the matter and it
was usual to refer such matters as
these to the judiciaiy committee. It
should he referred there us a preiimi
nary matter, for them to report hack
what is necessary. It should be refer
red to some committee that will act at
once.
. B **d this was special- bug
ine4 s, and, owing to the magnitude and
gravity of the matter, he hoped the
matter would be referred to the speci
al committee.
Mr Phillips, of Cobb, said it struck
him that the report this morning, con
taining the testimony was before the
house, and he moved to postpone the
matter until Monday and have the
testimonday printed.
Mr. Fort said justice to the commit
tee said to the officer accused demand
ed prompt action in this matter, and
the postponement would ho au expense
without any benefit.
Mr. Turner, of Coweta, said lie hoped
the resolution would be passed at once
and the matter investigated promptly.
Mr. MoWhorter said this question
was one that must come before this
house first. He thought the matter
should be referred to a special commit
tee of thirteen.
Mr. Forts motion was lost and the
original resolution was agreed to
Mr. McWhorter also offered a reso
lution that this additional testimony be
printed with that now iu the hands of
the printer.
Mr. Turner, of Brooks, said that in
such cases the testimony would have to
be published twice.
The Speaker said there was no testi
mony before the house to which the
resolution could refer, and it was there
fore withdrawn.
Mr. Duval, of Richmond, offered a
resolution to this effect:
Whereas, It has officially come in
the knowledge of this house, that Hint
on P. Wight, of the state of Georgia,
and county of Fulton, has been guilty
of attempting to corrupt the integrity
of certain members of this house :
Resolved, That the door-keeper of
the house be directed to arrest tbe said
Hinton P. Wright, and bring him be
fore the bar of the house to answer to
the charge of a contempt of the house
in trying to corrupt certain members
thereof.
Mr. Plii'ips, of Cobb--For the re
lief of Elizabeth Tanner. Referred to
the committee on finance.
Mr. Hammond, of Thomas—Reso
lution to purchase certain reports of
the supreme court decisions made by
B. Y. Martin. Referred to fhe judic
iary committee.
Several leaves of absence were here
granted.
Mr. Duggar, of Fannin—A resolu
tion to grant the use of tbe hall on
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day nights to Rev. W. C. Bowman, of
North Carolina, for a series of tree
lectures. Agreed to.
Mr. Phillips, of Cobb, said be
thought the resolution by the gentle
man from Richmond (Mr. Duval)
should be rescinded and that the ac
tion therein ordered, viz—the arrest of
Hinton P. Wright, should be left until
after the testimony is heard. He mov
ed to rescind the resolution.
The motion was agreed to.
While resting over Sunday theacti m
of .the House mellowed down to this :
Mr. McWhorter, of Green, moved to
Mr. McWhorter offered the following
as a substitute, which was adopted:
“ Resolved , That a committee of thir
teen be appointed by the Speaker of
this House to whom shall be referred
the reports of the special joint commit
tee cn 'wild lands, and that the said
committee, after investigating all the
facts embodied in the testimony, and
also into the management of the office
of Comptroller General by said Gold
smith, report the result of their action
to this House, with such recommenda
tion as in their judgment the facts jus
tify.”
Mr. McWhorter declined to act as
chairman as he thought a lawyer should
hold that position.
The committee was appointed,
reconsider the action of the House in
regard to the appointment of a com
mittee to examine into the “bribery
matter.”
lion. J. M. Smith vs. the Agri
cultural Bureau.
Hon. Jas. M Smith, of Oglethorpe
county, made a long speech in the House
of llepreseetatives a few days ago
against the Agricultural Bureau. The
following are his closing remarks:
Now. what has the department dune?
What has it achieved as results for all
this expenditure of the people’s money?
Why, sir, he has gotten out a manual
on the sheep, and another on the hog,
and issued a proclamation against the
locust! [Laughter.] And that is all I
know of! [Applause.] In 1870 when a
few innocent locusts without dadies-ap
peared up here in Bartow and Newtou,
under an entire misapprehension of the
true status of affairs, the commissioner
issued a proclamation calling out the
militia for the purpose of exterminat
ing them instauter. “Order No. 1,
headquarters agiicultural bureau, At
lanta, Gacommanded that he be
fought with sticks and pine brush,
night and day, and in cases of emer
gency ditches were ordered to be dug.
The grasshopper soon succumbed and
was captured. A few of the ringlead
ers wero sent to the headquarters aud
confined in a blue bottle until they
could be exchanged or peace declared.
[Laughter.] When the commissioner
found that this “hopper” was not the
bird he thought lie was, he declared
peace and turned him loose with as
much agricultural wisdom injected into
him as the nature of the case would
allow. [Laughter and applause.]
The next in order is the “manual of
the hog, in which the commissioner
solemnly informs the farmers of Geor
gia that tliis animal “is fond of corn.”
[Laughter.] After having delivered
himself of that important fact, the com
missioner, feeling poetically inclined,
indited the following ode :
“The bore’s heed in land bring I,
W T ith ‘garlands’ gay and rosemary,
I pray you all synge merily
<Jui estis in convivio.
TVe bore's heed, I understande,
Is the ‘ehefe’ servyoe in the land,
Loke wherever it be founde
Servite cum cantico.
Be gladde, lordes, both more and lasse,
For this hath ordayned ourstewarde;
To chere you all this Christmasse,
The bore’s heed with mustarde.”
[Janes s Manual on the Hog, page 11.]
After a searching invest;,,.,.;
manual on the sheep, I ib|teh °
been treated with the S u,„„ hj h ®'! not
tion as the hog. ll e i m , consider*.
edoftho benefit of poetr! V* priv *
fnend to the sheep and seeing ‘“ B a
reason why he should nut Y & ood
with eoual consideration ‘ ft ‘[ eated
move that Dr. Janes’. ~ 7 h °S< l
sheep” he ameuJdV"E&*
following: y inerting the
r!T P( ? p ,ost bis sheep,
A.nd (Jidii t know where? tn lj l*
And brought his tail behind him”’
[Loud laughter and appl auseß ,
And yet, sir, we are called unnn ;
the name of agriculture, to spend fhou “
ands of dollars every year in il ! -
publications as that. We are ml
to abolish this department and put an end
to these publications will be t!'
a step backwards. “A
•“ man fore.aetU
“o"d lhe fod *>'- 2
The truth of the whole matter i.
that the genius of our people doos not
suit bureaux. The true way to deveh
op Georgia is not to establish bureaux
with high salaries and soft pl aces f
few favored individuals, but by *1?
forth into the fields bearing the C
f tlic burden and ,h, ij.ffc
to make two stalks grow where onli
one grew before. It may be that thl
farmers of Georgia have lost confide^
LVJ non* and ar , e wiilin g to
foo,ooo per veer to have their fertil
izers inspected; it may be that they arc
willing to surrender their judgement
and their rights; it may bo that hence
forth, forsakmg the wisdom and advice
oi their lathers, they will cry aloud to
the bureau to bring them out of the
slouth of despondency. When this
comes to pass it will he a sad day for
Georgia and her sons will cease to be
worthy descendants of noble sires
“ — ~—What constitutes a state?
Not high-raised walls, nor moated
gate,
Nor broad armed ports where rich
navies ride,.
Nor, kings, nor princes, nor courts,
V\ here pride is wafted on the breeie,
******
Nor proud cities, lofty mountains,
valleys;
Rut men, high-minded men,
Men who knoW their rights,
And knowing, dare maintain them!”
SMITH'S WORM OIL
Athens, Ga , February 22, 1878.
DEAR SIR—My child, five years old, bad
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other Worm Medicines but failed to eipel
any. Seeing Mr. Bain’s certificate, I got a
vial of Worm Oil, and the first dose brought
forty worms, and the second dose so many
were passed I did not count them.
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