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The True Citizen, A Liv« Weekly Paper on Live Issues Published Every Friday Morning, at Way nesboro, Ga., l)v the SULLIVAN BROTHERS. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Oue Copy One Year, $2.00 " " Six months, 1.00 “ “ Three months 50 &T All subscriptions must he accompanied by the CASH. Current Comments. THE TRUE Parson Felton claims that his election over Clements, Democratic nominee for Congress in the 7th district, is sure. Mr. Candler, Democratic nominee for Congress in the 9th district, abso lutely refuses to cavaBS the district with Emory Speer. The Savannah News Trade Issue was published on the 2d inst., and is a mag nificent sheet, which makes a complete expose of the business and business in terests of Savannah. Communicated. Waynesboro, Ga., Sept. 4,1882. Ed. True Citizen :—As I have al ways been, and still am a Democrat; as I am not a candidate for an y office, and do not know that I ever shall be ; as I have tried all my life to form my opin ions without regard to what other peo ple think ; and, as I believe I am a patriot, with the best interests, not only of my own section and people, but of our whole common country at heart. I trust that I may be pardoned for giv- For The Crrisry. Weav Out of th<“ sllonco nnd "loom of the Ni/jlit. Weavf me. a song that’s bonny and bright— A son, that will ring thro’ tlm cyole of Time, As sonant and pure as tlm Sabbath chime. Out of the peace of the crimson Morn, Weave me a song that will tell of a dawn More, roseate far than any of earth, The grander dawn of the second birth. Out of the glory and glitter of Day, Weave me a song as pure as the ray Flushing the soul with haloes of glory, And whlsp’ring to it the crm-ifled story. Out of the calm of a starlit gloaming. Weave me a song of a sou! that's roaming; A song with magic to soften the breast, And speak to tiie soul of infinite Rest. mg pub 1C expression to the Views aud Out of the pallor, the death, and the gloom, — . . , I Out of the calmness enshrouding the tomb— nvictions contained in this loiter. | Oh, weave me a song of grand Hosannas, T . i ~ ! Embalming the Land of Bright Savannas. I have read with great satisfaction! 1 he Hartwell Bun, one of the best j the admirable resolutions adopted by ! w'Lvt^me a'sbnjcuinmrning with tears; and most reliable papers in upper Geor-1 the Republican ma,s-meeting of this | H^tKmto fftXSftiejSS: gia, bits completed its sixth volume.- j connty on the 26th ult,. and which were ] T) „. n froni the sky will r sing my songs. The citizens of Hart have a Sun to be j in ,Lo lost ioanp nf vmir t.u- Ant ' 1 b y Ktandcst of throngs ; .. puDu^Dou in inc last issue oi youi PA- Then will T rest in mat sions on High- proud of and we wish it sucoess. ! nor • so far nt least ns thov annlv to 1 S( ‘fe at Home, ill the dome of the Col. Seaborn ! per: so far, at least, as they apply to Reese was nomina'ed ! our local politics. I shall not support tor Congress for the 8th district last week. Col Reose is is a 1 good man and a sound Democrat, Col Black,' of Au gusta was, however, our preference. The Egyptian war seems about to close after two skirmishes This little war has cost the English peop'e millions sterling—the Egyptians, poor devils, had neither property or liber tv to lose. An entire change, it is reported, will soon take place in President Arthur’s cabinet-^-not on account of any disa greement between the President and his cabinet, but solely to give the Executive more strength before the country. The President has beyond a doubt failed to rea'ize some ot the principal ends of his political policy, and wishes to inaugu rate a new system by which he hopes to recoyer his lost grouud _ Hon. George R Black’s health is im proving so rapidly that all his friends Gtn. Gartrell because I prefer Mr. Stephens. He is a grand, In-roic man “Taken all in all, we ne’er ?hall see his like again ami I love and honor him for his great wisdom, the stainless AN EXPERT lHAIL ROBBER'S SCI lire. The True Citizen. Advertising rates liberal. Transient advertisnients payable in ad vance. All contract advertisements payable quar terly. All oomnmnloatlons for personal benefit will be charged for as advertisements. Advertisements to occupy special places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates. Notices in local and busines.s column ft eta. per line; in local 10e s. per line, each insertion For terms apply at this office. COL. It LA CK'd REPL Y TO MAJ. U YA IS. THE NEW SOUTHERN FREIGHT RA TES. Atlanta, Ga, August 31, 1882. j „ Th . e fol, " win K |' r '™ ,I|C . ,, ’ r _ , ” , bun in reference to the new schedu'w i\la). (J. M. Jii/afs, Savannah, (xa.. , of Southern freight rates which went Dear Sir—There are two points i into operation on the 1st inst, will in your published response to my j be read with interest: open letter, which, in justice to iny- . a ^ va, ' ct1 | n freiffbts on the , . . . / ! lines ot t.hc Southern Railroad ami self, demand a rejoinder. You com- Stenm8 h ip Association goes into effect plain that I violated the confidence i on September 1, at pool points. Thw implied in your letter of August 3d, rates are to be put back to the figures that from the peculiar relation you j 1881 for class goods, which were 11 . • , . -.11. materially reduced when the Western had sustained to me in the last cam- 1 , J , ... ‘ roads commenced cutting. The piiign, I s.hou d ha®e inferred that ] schedule of September rates on At- your communication was intended ; lanta, Athens and other places has to be private and confidential. You 1 been received by the Baltimore agents. seem to have forgotten that you had * b * ra,< ‘ 8 intermediate territory , a i .i . T .. J will not go into effect until Septern- <: ho » en *" ril " tmn of , Her 10. Tbo agents eay the lines for friend and supporter, and to have j a year or more have teen doing busi- become the avowed advocate of a | ness, .etc., cheap, but the differences vi*rv worthy gentleman in his antag- jhave been settled undtr the pooling onism to me political riva IS a competitor and i “rr^gement, and it is expee'ed that , , „ . rates will be maintained. Ine avet- lor the Democratic | age advance is twenty per cenl. ou nomination, thereby placing your-1 freight in general and fifteen to self, as it were, in loeo host is, with (twenty per cent, on cotton. All tin*, none of the rights of a confidential Baltimore transportation linos are in the Southern Association, of which Mr. Virgil Powers is the pool com missioner. When it became known among the cotton trade yesterday Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 9.—Daniel R. Sherwood, who has since the year 1805 been-route agent on the North J adviser, for the time being at least. Carolina Railroad from Greensboro to If* however, you had seen fit to ex- puiity of his character and his exalt* d | Goldsboro, to-day committed suicide by j e rcise the precaution of expressing ^ patriotism. But I have no words of taking laudanum. For .some months the wish that your correspondence | what the rates are to be there w is unkindness to Gen. Gartrell personally- j numbers of registered packages had | should be regarded by me as a pri-j considerable of ajffir. ^Thejiew r te He is a Georgian and a gentleman, been received at the Raleigh office rifled. 1 vale or confidential communication, eminent as a juris*, illustrious as a so!-jj-j e was suspected, but managed to ! I should have taken pleasure in dier, and once distinguished in the elude detection. He thm began on j scrupulously observing the request, councils of the nation. Such a man is packages delivered at the Goldsboro but nowhere in the body or upon the entitled, at any rat*, to be heard. 'post office. Detective Booth was put But the resolut'ons to which I have on his track, and this morning he was referred, in treating of local matters, ! arrested at Goldsboro with marked mou- j tain that impress me as wise, conservative and ev in bis possession. He made a con-1 epistolary face of your I tier was such an intis m* ion expressed. I theref -re main- I have not violated the etiquette that obtains patriotic; and as doing honor alike to ; fession that his robberies had exiended • amongst gentlemen, in publishing the heads and hearts of our colon d over a period often years. He was j my reply to your letter of August 3. In reference t<» my physical con dition, you say from what “you saw fellow-citizens who adopted them, bailed in the sum of .$2,500 and took almost, as one of their numb, r has in- j the train for GreehesDoro. Before formed me, by acclamation. .These leaving he purchased a large bottle of i °f me,” I whs in a ‘‘sorrowful” condi people, who were so loyal throughout laudanum, of which he drank sufficient j tion of “probation.” You will re- the war, express an earnest and sincere ' cause death and died on the train, on i member that on the occasion of a n 1 * t v | t t t j . . _ believe that he will regain perfect and i desire tor harmony and friendly feeling ’ reaching Raleigh. He was sixty ye rs permanent health. All. this tom-fool ery is merely an excuse to get into his place. We are eternally fixed upon the principle that it is detrimental to the rights and interests of: the people to change a true and tried officer for a new and antried one. Be sure to read Col. Black’s reply to Maj. Ryals to be found in another column. Judge H. D. D. Twiggs announces himself ah independent candidate for Congress in the 8th disirioi, in opposi tion to Hon. Seaborn Ilee.-e, the regu lar Democratic nominee. Judge Twiggs ij^known to all our people as a ■...III 1 A«nnt> YtWlllintr 4- tnl.inEn nn/l if a gentleman of brilliant talents, and if effected would 'do honor to his district. But the judge is certainly wrong this time, and has allowed his ambit,i n to override his better judgment. There is not the shadow of a chance for him. . Thousands will join us in the hope that Gordon’s Senatoiial record is eternally between themselves and their white of age, and leaves a wife and family, fellow-citizens. They ask that the }Je was for many years one of the most ‘‘color line’ no 1. nger have a place in j t rusted 'men in the service, our political contests, ind that we work together for the common good. They 1 come witli the ‘’olive branch of peace,” j A HUNDRED AND SIXTY MILLION DOL LAR MORTGAGE. and appeal to us that stormy and tur- bulantfpassions be hushed forever.-— Surely such sentiments should find an Philadelphia, Aug. 31.—A mort gage fo~ one hundred and sixty million dollars wa3 recorded to day in the of echo in every manly heart, and be fos- 1 fice o^ the Recorder of Deeds in this tered and cherished by the wise and - city. It was executed on last 8atur- patriotic among our people. .day jointly by the Philadelphia and What they ask for themselves in this! Pealing Railroad and Philadelphia and short visit, with the pleasure of which you were kind enough to honor me, on or about the 19th of July, you saw me as I sat in my chair on the verandah. The duration of your visit did not, I think, exceed ten minutes. You saw me in no at titude of prostration, and at the time you were suffering from an attack of billiousness, which made you in deed much the greater object of solic itude. As I do not propose to run a foot race into Congress, my powers of pedestrainism were not brought instance I believe to be emi ently fair, Reading Coal and Iron Companies, and into issue. equitab’e and just. Burke is entitled , covers the entire property of every kind, to three Representatives in the Legisla-! real and personal, together with all their ture. The authors of these resolutions j rights and privileges, and franchises) have a large numerical majority within j including ttie lease hold interests be- her limits, and yet they ask to name ^ loni g to those corporations This is only one of the mem! ers from their, tbc mortgage under which the 5 per own party, pledging their united sup- ! cent, consols are issued, the proceeds port to any tico liberal minded Demo- ' which are intended to redt eru all the closed.- God forbid that it shou'd ever 1 crats who may go upon the ticket with j other outstanding obligations of the be gain reopened—even for repairs. Macon Telegraph. Thousands will join us in the hope that Colquitt’s Senatorial eareer will never begin. God forbid thft it should begh—even for the melancholly sake of Gubernatorial vindication.—Savan- na'n Times. Gentlemen, we desire to take large stock in both the above sentiments. This is fiie way sensible men think of the miserable rotation system. The Darien Timber Gazet e says: We are opposed to '.ho rotation sys him. Will just and impartial men deny j company. them this? Can they c nsistently do j so under existing circumstances ? Who is Mr. Jesse Wimberly their nominee ? , f ,, , , .- Gibbs, Robert George, Robert Be»r, A native or Burke, a member ot the _ ... _ A. Eastman, Ga., Sept. 1.—In the case of the State vs. Daniel Bryant, Gus. Bar, of large family connections, a man Frank Adams, James Oliver. Copeland of intelligence,* an upright citizen, and am ^ ^ ni - McKea, charged with the for four years a soldier marching and mur< ^ er f fJas. Q. Harvaid during the fighting under the Confederate flag; riot here on A ugu-t 6th, last, which has yea, while fuany a “last, ditch” fellow ' een on trial for the lasL five d ^ 8 > - the of these modern times had never seen j ur >’ beiu S out three four hours > the first one. That he and his colleagues ! brou S ht in a verd,ct last m « ht a £ ain8t will represent the county honestly,! ttl1 defendants,finding them gufity of tern, and hope that in the future all l f ai .hfulh and conscientbusly, no rea - 1 murdbr in the second degree and recoin- Hhlr 1 w V Tr , W,II J gn0r ° ltal r‘enable maiT can doubt; nor do I be - mending them to life imprisonment in getner. V^ e have many reasons tor | 1 - — - our oppostii'U to this system, but the! ^ cve an y sensible man does doubt. Main and principal reasou is that it ot- j Believing that wisdom and the pub- Gn rola.f* „ c „od man out of the Sen-; lic good that the eemimeats wt, snd puts in bis«filttje a man tota’lv ; , . . , . . , , unfit to represent his county, let alone | ooutained in tbese resolutions should j frial to . d his Senatorial district. Hereafter wo i recognition and encouragement, | shall oppose this rotation system, be-; and accepting them as an omen of I ( Jon. Gordon left Paris tho other day cause wc honestly believe itffs an iwpo- another “ora of good feeling,” and a.s , for a v'sit to the Karl of Sutherl nd at ut on on the people cf a district. LeG • • ., . •, ... i i. i • . ,. . • promising that prosperity which sp ings tho people by ihoir representatives, in * , 11 J t con ention assembled, select and muni- ’ r om good order and con entment, I, at na o a good man for ho Senate, it mat- | least, shall support Mr. W imberly, and tors not whether lie hails from Liberty, any two Dem crats who may be can- Tatnal, or McIntosh, just so long as he j didates wlth him. is honest and capable nnd fully compe-i T . , , , vr tent to repreunt the wliulc diatriot. Io ! D®»g'»njand Newton counl.ee short, the rotation system is a farce, aud have ,on K sin oe recognized the justness •hould be done away with. of this course. Jno. D. Ashton. the penitentiary This makes seven.- teon in all convicted, eleven of which have been recommended- to life im prisonment. Five more will be put on hi* home, Dunrobin Castle, in the north of Scotland. The total coinage at the mints during the month <>f August was 9,047,725 pieoe^ valued at #9,310,672,50. In 1885 the Augusta Chronicle will be just one hundred years old. Occupying the position that I do, my physical condition has been a matter of public, interest and'of no toriety from tii!* first hour of my attack, every stage in the progress ol my illness having been heralded to the world by telegraph and news paper correspondence. I therefore am not unwilling to assume the re sponsibility of the exposure of my physical infirmities which you seem t» think has been shifted upon me. Under all the circumstances of my case, i cannot be considered in tho attitude of one emerging from the privacy of retirement and indelicately thrusting before the puh ic gaze mut ters of purely tiers uml concern which hail previously been shielded by the sanctity of domestic retirement. As to the evidence of my physical con dition,! shall leave that to the tes timony of others well qualified to form an opinion. Vyry respectfully and truly yours, Gko, R. Black. “Bob” Ford, the slayer of Jesse James, was arrested in v hio.igo recent ly for disorderly conduct aud carrying concealed deadly weapons. The two Fords have been lend ug a last file in Chicago for the past two works, “play ing for a cheap theatre and seeking no toriety on the sireets.” Cholera at Manilla is killing 300 people a day. At Ilforio 4,550 persons have died from tho same disease during tho last fortnight. om cotton from Atlanta, which is a pivotal local point to Savannah, Charleston and Wilmington, N. C., is 45 cents per one hundred pounds; from Atlanta to Norfolk it is 56 c^ms, and to Baltimore 89 cents. In ' other words, the cost on cotton from Nor folk to Baltimore is to be 38 cents » hundred pounds, or #1 48 a bale.— This is looked upon by th"se inter ested in the cotton trade here as so great a discrimination against Balti more that it will almost be prohibi tory. Last year the rate per bale from Norfolk was 50 cents and. this was almo-t too heavy for the trade.' A leading corcern in the cotton inter- e t said tliat the rate looks as if it was made for the development of the cut’on trade of Norfolk at the ex pense • f Baltimore. Norfolk la't year handled six. hundred thousand b.les of cotton, and that item no doubt had an influence in shaping the di-crimirating tariff. The rate from Norfolk to New York i> 94 cent-, or 5 cents p^-r 100 pound* more than the Baltimore figures, but New York will get the cotton anyhow. If tho regular pool lines do not carry it other water transportation will b« secured at rates that will be satis- fact ry as regards B«Limore. It has been intimated that the new schedule opens a field for rivalry that will not be under pool control. Baltimore ferti'izer houses control about 200,000 bales of cotton per year, which seeks the most favorable ports for shipment, and much < f it w< uld come here un der a fair deal as to rates. Last year the cotton trade of Baltimore grew rapidly, notwithstanding obstacles in the way of tariffs, «rtd the cotton ex port was a huge item. The new sche dule advances the rate on fertilizers, but on this item the Baltimore deal ers do not complain. Of the 460,000 ton- of fertilizers used last year by tin; Soufii, this city furnished over 300,- 000 tons, or 75 percent, of the whole. The po'ff lines have taken car- to look out for this trade in the nqw schedule.” Subscriptions arc positively cash. Salt Lake City, Sept. 2.— The Utah Commissioners have concluded the work necessary to sfectire a though revision of the registration lists. Of ficers are being appointed iu every county with deputies in each precinct, amounting to over three hundred and fifty in all, with power to pur^e the list of every voter disfranchised by the Edmunds act. To this end it became necessary to direct that every person, male or female, who, since the passage of the law of 1862, has at any time liv ed in violation of paid Lw be refused the right, of franchise! ’ This very sweeping order is conceded to be with in the intention of the Edmunds act, and is endorsed by the legal fraternity, the press and all anti-Mormons go: e- rally. Livingston, the colored cadet appoint ed from Florida, failed to pass his ex amination at^Wost Point and was ia- jeoted.