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About Upson enterprise. (Thomaston, Ga.) 1878-1879 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1878)
THE UPSON ENTERPRISE TEE NOBLEST MOTIVE IS THE Pl ELIC 0000."--Virgil JNO. F MEANS, Editor and Proprietor. 1 THOMASTON, GA, WEDNESDAY MORNING MAY 29, 1378 THE UPSON ENTERPRISE! NESy REES OF MERCY D. D., N. Y. not paired with one of their num ber PUBLIC OPINION. IOP CLARK, or RHODE ISLAND. Public opinion is a very uncertain quantity. You cannot predict from what il is known to be to-day the turn it may take to-morrow. The populace ofTaris, in their enthusiasm| for their young and beautiful queen\ once erected a huge monument of crystal now to her honor, with ap- propriate and most loyal inscriptions. In a few months afterward they drag- ged her through the streets to the guillotine,—not for anything that she had said or done in the interim, but because they had char ged their minds. Many a monument built up by the admiring multitude has proved to be I proper according to the judgment of jection of the returns from the Dar- |directors, doctors, and master, (with | byville and Jonsonville precincts was i whose respective duties there is not concocted and carried out through F, the slightest, interference,) the instigation and management of one John W. Howell, E. W. Driggers At this stage a question arose whether Mr. Loring, Republican, of Massachusetts, was paired With Mr. Goode arose and explained that he had been paired with Mr. Looring. but that the pair was off, and he had There is 10 such thin public |Lovely woman is never more love: to be any. ly than when holding forth he hands and go in as visitor 1 M.13 M.16 M.1 12 M. to cheer, helpand elevate. Her ac- enough with each for a little sun= and Geo, P. Conova $700 | 1000 1 $1500 tivities in sothe directions ancles than : shite, a Christian word, or a softly- deponent saith not." 2500 man S; but in ingenuity and powet of uttered prayer, or, perhaps, to leave 2000 sympathy she is his superior. To find a bit of animating printed matter. If 000 spheres within which she can revolve any lady’s day is made impossible to THE 8000 without criticism, outside home, ap- her, timely notice enables the secreta- 130 00 pears to. some I difficult task. We == venture to recall a few of her efforts. ADVERE ESING RA TES. nd further this 2Squares. *Column, 1a Column, 1 Column, $1 00 2.00 300 400 $250 500 7 00 10 00 001200 10 00 20 00 : 15 00 | 25 00 | 500 10 00 1500 2000 3000 36 00 4000 |1500 2000 30 00 39 00 6500 |7000| SOUTH AND PUBLIC OF **FR. U. URL ° 0-800049 A 11 OR NE r AT LA * THOM ANTON, di. 2 . . for such The Southern States, in the general of which the wtiter lima had personal utonoue houke cat count on their curent or Atnecict letor Jraie cognizance, with opportunity to ob- ministering angels as confidently As ever been preenuren conserve 1‘_41 8015 2111 . 5|tives section of the union and such The following they will continue to be. Tins char- serve, during the last winter, and on doctors or dru which might be reproduced in every rules inexorable; considerable town over the the coun- thin will practice in the various State and ,Beral Courts. 1 Office first door to save circumfoc North or the Webb House tich12-1y W X. BEALL Attorney and Counsellor at Let THOMASTON, GA. ,.: . acteristic naturally attaches to an ag- try the i 2;nor gossit nor carry in deli- ricultural people—destitute of large WY. We throw the views into didae- caeies (they may be poison to four towns and all inflammatory influes- tic forlit for the sake of directness, and proteges;) nor look gloomy. Is there iesa people scattered over a vast 2ou-ant be. not long tradition for angels being ferioisire Ten teodliio Are there even went poor women, |Fever bright and fair?” You can call to rial area, I W dLit rF mothers, or not, li ng on the edge of this the Ladies Hospital Committee. is the one great comic of snid |starvation, doing a little needlework To compensate for the absence of axa tails when they can, fotttss "f4hem unskill- rhetorical flowers in this’ 1 ed in doing it, with poor opinion in an uncivilized community. Neither can there be in any society : where the religions creed is dictated and enforced by priestly authority, and social life controlled by a despot- ism. Public opinion is only the ag- gregate of private or individual opin- ions, or what is prestumed to be the prev ailing conviction of the majority.| In feudal times it went for nothing; in our day it is the ruling power— sometimes wise and good, and some- times brutal and tyrannous. -| What it is that determines the pecu- Har phases which publiu opinion as- asumes, it may not be easy to find out.| The wind bloweth where it listeth, and <C de beeurrents of popular sen- timent; but when, and where, and how they originate perhaps nobody| |can tell. Sometimes, however, we can see at once how it happens that the rush sweeps this way or that ; the cause is is obvious as the 1C ult’ No so notified Mr. Loring days before. Mr. Conger, of Michigan, here made an insulting reference to Mr. Goode, saying that it was merely a questitht of honor with Mr. Goode whether he would break his pair of not.,’ Mr. Goode, immediately re- plied, far loud, emphatic terms, and told this Radical puppy that he felt just as perishable as this pile of snow. During our late war there was’a great able to take care of his personal hon- lamor, first for this general, and then or without his assistance, and that it for another, and for a third, until at he (Mr. Conger) assailed it, he should last we had a whole bovy of discard- hold himself personally responsible ed idols,—sent off one by one into for it. . 1 Party feeling was rtintritig Nigh; there was a thrill and sensation all Coventry, because they had failed to n.eet our exaggerated expectations. After the wind has blown for some time very strongly in one direction, it is very like suddenly to chop round and blow just as hard from the oppo- site quarter. It is much the same witl the currents of popular opinion, and v ise men will endeavor to pro- vide against the change of weather.. If one’s reputation is of that sort "which a breath can make, and a breath unmake," then, of course, there is no help for it, —the power hak eregtes esn also destroy. But 1... 1 and labors. Such a people are rarely ,12 colume, and afflicted with sensations and excite- to complete the number seven, inhe- ments and they are too far apart to . , . rently sacred here, one more sugges- | RAN on other nessionste ers? Gather them together, once a ton, founded on observation, is res- warm sac h other up to passionate pectfully offered. In every town, and Nothing but a settled public dang- . - - ..... - round about it, there are flowers that er or a long standing grievance, old ters of the land, public opinion wither, or "waste their sweetness on enough and grave enough to has the desert air," of which the owners been the subject ef much de- it to be indispensable to the general would be glad to make use if they liberatigh—many public meetings and knew how: Even the costly and showy —° heaps that do duty at weddings and |and to be completed by the poor wom- ! funerals, though for hospital uses on-| en, there and at home, and paid for, ly secon hrate, can be utilized. Let a |not below store-rates, and then sold small society be formed for collecting The w 21 was an outgrowth of their to the women, not above store-rates, and distributing these flowers, where ty years of increasing agition and stir of any sort once take hold of the when they want them, or to others if the sick and old and pootare in pub- controversy on subjects which touch- community, and all the teachings of they wish to buy. Blend with the de- lie institutions; and if perchance aled overt man’s Docker 00 lisarth- |tails kind words, smiles, hand-shak- flower-pot should ever come all the stone Thet IS OLSTATTY Dut cheerless homes, and a few syjepathiz- ,week, (half a dozen ladies can doit,) will practice in the various"Courts of say in the lecture-room or Sunday- file State of Georgia. 2 Office in the school room of a church, for a couple| ourt-house—down stairs. mch5-ly of hours. A little fund will provide one for instance, can have any doul as to why it is that, in certain qua calls [ for a debased currency, and declare JULIUS E. F. MATTHEWS, ATTORNEY AT LAT Thomaston, Ga. GOffice up-sairs Cheney Building. needles, thread and seine useful stuffs,| and muslins, to be cut by the ladies| |into forms of grace and usefulness,| much of their slow and infrequent in- terchanges of opinion can warm these people up into a condition of danger- welfare; while, in other quarters, it is demanded that the credit of the na- tion shall not be violated. There are some strange things con- nected with this matter. Let a furor, or a pancic, or a craze, or a fanatical over the hall; Goode was warmly applauded on the floor and by the galleries; Hale had the words taken down, but Tucker called for Con: ger’s words also to be taken down. They were read, and the chair prop- erly ruled that the first offensive provocation came from the member from Michigan. , R After a few more excuses of mem- bers absent, Mr. Potter had his num- ber for a cudum all ready, and moved ato suspend further proceed- there are some structures upon which ings under the call. This was passed, even the tornado Aperts: its force in and the three absentees who were vain. J. A. COTTEN, .: ings, cheerful by ns, and, in proper F 0RNEY A T LA W , |ways, verses and prayers, and call the institution . Helping-Hand, or Em- |ployment Society, according to taste. Are there even twenty little girls of the poor in the place, getting no in- Prompt attention given toall businessen- struction in the use of the Needle, trusted to him. L mehb,-y though perhaps ambitious, some of them, of the piano ? They will be girls |by-and-by, then women, then wives, Iwith husbands and boys endowed better. It may reward, per virtue in some one sick Iexperience will be ignored, all the He who builds deep entthfot be really sick, Messrs. Myers, Roberts and a third members were brought. Thomaston, Gai Will practice in all courts in the State GREENE A T THOMASTON, GEORGIA, with boundless capacity of wearing out things; they will not know how to deal with the difficulties; and boys, and even fathers, will lose temper. n’s Buildin J. S. POPE, ,money, and much besides in conse- Office quence: Gather them as above, say |on Saturday, (no school that day,) hav- ling obtained at the dry goods’ stores multitudinous pieces, old patterns. mch5,-ly ATTORNEY AT LAW etc; (pay for them, please ; it is poor work to bz benevolent at other peo- ple’s cost ) and, outhese teach the girls to sew, cut, hem-stich, work button- holes, and all the art and mystery 01 the plain serminstress, throwing in, as before, cousisels, children’s melodies, and kindest encouragements and stim- L A1 Barnesville, Go to of the mch5,-y HUNT & TAYLOR, W and dying of that dreadful disease. Nothing-to-care-for. You can call ulus to all wonnudy respect. XACTI : for billy gnowl school no ap unday for teac well, who of usi children may gr thoughts, much a ing; perhaps- fect? But the picking parlor. had been in r felicity for her kind. Open your iend, for an hour on Sunday, and begin a class. If you have one or two pupils of your own. all the better. Make it pleasant, neigh- Will practice in the counties comprising borly, informal ; only teach. Get some the Flint Judicial Circuit, and in the Su- nice pictures; if you can strike the pi- treme Court of the State, e@ Office over and and sing, all the better only teach. Farng Store of J. W • Hightower, meh>-ly Callit The Home-Class. , | Is there a crowd of young ones among W m. P. Whitaker, the respectable people of the town, such are poisoned (fionratively,) ATTORNEY AT LAW, now and then, at children’s parties, . and other like atrocities? What lady BARNESVILLE, GA. has the blessed gift of song? Let her :open her parlors in the afternoon for Will practice in the counties ofthe Flint (ircuit and the Supreme Court of the State. JOSEPH J. ROGER WV stone. That war is constantly put counsels of the wise and prudent dis- |forward by their enemies as evidence regarded, all the operations of the of sameness, | of a turbulent exciteable ; but prices - I reason suspended, and society soon be 4441 Aihnsdn turned into a bedlam. It is a terrible this The Flower Enterprise. And what will be the use ofall this? Do you ask as women ? Then (confi- dentially) it will do you good. To see how oth is iw cand suffer and toil; to be forced to try to help them ;even to find out that you cannot all sew, will do you incalculable good. Do you ask as Christians? He whose name you bear, whose exam- ple you follow, went about doing good as men would receive it—physical good, and when they would receive it, spiritual. Justify your names, la- dies. Do you inquire as Americans? What is the meaning of this commu- nistic cry, heard over the land, now by ruined railroad shops, now in meeting and mischievous paper, that property is the common foe, that what the rich man has the poor must take? Let better laws, let honest ru- lers, let ( hiistian ( hurches do all they the suffering, and showing it thus will make them feel it Shore; and, as the heroic British Queen sucked the poison from the arrow-wond in her husband’s flesh, and saved his life, they will neutralize the noxious ele- mcits that threaten our institutions.— /ENERAL MISTAKE One is very apt to take much to be peculiar in the relations of others to himself that, after all, is only general. Almost always, people will use you just as they use others. , One who comes to you with slanderous stories. robbing women of their ind men of their honor 10 putation will not save her praises to couple with your name. "You may be chaste as ice and pure as snow, and you shall not escape cal- umny from her tongue. She may flatter you, but close the doors of your heart against her; she is dangerous. A girl who has jilted many men will |an hour (no more) to the little tots— : ranged round in order, small ones in :the front row and give them hearty deceive the one who fancies he has singing-lessons in innocent and sacred | "cut the others out," whenever she melodies, mothers and maids waiting gets ready to do so. The fitap who Let them, without behaves badly to one women will | | continue to behave badly to all wom- by, if they will. cake or candy, (kisses not forbidden,) go home on the minute. One short text per week may be given, and at the closing day a sensible clergyman |may come in and smile on the "wee ones," with pleasant chat, for eight CABATISS & PEEPLES, minutes, so that they will not son- t r found ministers and undertakers as RNEY S AT LAW, they grow tip : but no other, parade. any nice name you will. It Barnesville, G. All business promptly attended to. en to the end of the chapters: It is "the nature of the creature ;" and that cannot be changed by any trust or goodness on the part of others. Watch your pocket when a thief is Forsyth, Georgia. ones 1WET .. |enough in a good way, and does them the Flint Ciautice in all the counties of good for life. Let it be Home Sing- -neuit. meho,-ly |ing School. R. L. BERNER BERNER & TURNER, ICR How many young women are there around—"help" we.call them—away from homes, mothers, and restraints of one’s own neighborhood, little at- 17S A + T. a fr tached to churches, tempted like oth- 3, ers, and with the ordinary appetites for social sympathy and for affection? FORSYTII, : GA. CAN in practice in all the Courts, and give at attedtion to the collection of Refer to W m. H. Head, Banker Ga.. Dumas & Allen, Cotton Latins, Forsyth Factors They are too big for Sunday-school, too busy for week-d y meetings, but they have a little time of a Sunday." Let the wisest and softest-voiced lady mch5,-tf N.MARTIN. | T. R. MILLS, JR MARTIN & MILL, TTORNEYS AT Law GRIFFIN, GA. to be found open a class for them, in a separate room, at the time convenient . to the majority, lasting three quarters of an hour (they work too hard to list- en long) and the other quarter for |hand shaking, and individual confer- Fence at the close. Class book ? The n book of books. Tone? That of a it practice in all the State Courts of mother. Atmosphere? Hopie-love. .Tgia and the United thee, front F001, up-stairs, in inningham building. meh0,-6m DR.G, W.T. HANN AH, THOM ASTO N, GA. Offers his services to the public and 1 be pleased to wait on his patrons. bucGs & PATTERSON, THOMASTON, GA. Tender the public their profession- lies, mch6,-y $ an make money faster at work for us 1uhat anything else. Capital not re- 6it fired i *e will start you. $12 per day on me made by the industrious. Men W0112 os and sirs wanted everywhere tit NILS. Now 13 the time. Costly und terms free. Address TRUE & Augusta, Maine, mch12-1y Topics of conference? Everything that interests a young girl, with her small savings, and no savings-bank book, with her troubles, her womanly hopes, and her heart (which is of the same nature, substantially, as yours Miss Elmina Van Osten, only daugh- ter and heiress, but that she has neith- er home nor parents to counsel her.) And object ? To do them good, social, temporal, moral’ spiritnal. It may be in a church room, round the malode- on, or in a private parlor, if number- ing only ten. Call it, unless you have some sweeter name. The Young Won- en’s Meeting. Is there a Hospital or Infirmary in your town, with an ever-changing succession of patients, away from home, suffering, some of them near- ing the long home? How their poor hearts yearn forinformal, non-profes- sional tenderness ! Let half a dozen ladies group make one the themselves together overthrown by any surface curren 8. A man may be vilified, lied about, abused, ridiculed, spit upon; but th ophically considered, it was evidence of patience, deliberation and forbear- ance. The people for a generation had boric with what they considered deadly unprovoked assaults on their safety and property rights ; and when they did move, in the effort to save The is sound all the way through, 11 the end he will not be Hurt. The dirt will not stick to him.— N. Y. Ledger. |calamity when the wily demagogue, for the mad reformer, or the crazy |preacher, gets control of the battery |and galvanizes the people into fren- zy. The evil is greatly aggravated if !the Pressalso breaks loose; to intensi- themselves, it was not in any turbu- fy the favaticimm: A moral epidemic lent or irregular manner, but under |is more to be dreaded than plague or all the ancient and well-recognized pestilence. It is amazing to see how forms and machinery of law. it affects, not merely the rabble, but Sometimes a representative of the also those who ordinarily seem to rural people, unaccustomed to the ire carry some ballast and show some lit- ritating influence of an unfriendly the discretion. And the evil is aggra- crowd—unused to contradiction—un- voted by the fact that, in this state of practiced in self-restralft—wil give general delirium, even those who re- WAY to 2 sudden oust of pision iltain (help: sense and might do some- Congress : and then the taut is raised thing tolftstraih the tornado, mas not (C 11220 TASA TiTBe r WA dareto utter their real convictions — —see the C ; ousmern bullies — 00- F 1121 1 1.1 serve these plantation manners," and 1 he howl of the mob would soon si- tort atitic ore no feetuaily silenced that their voieelcient number of Democrats were! oc except, C8 would never be heard again in this present to constitute a quorum and in respect to the Southern character, world. This is the dorst aspect of the resolution was disposed of. We But here it is a particularly false public opinion. Indeed it hardl+ de- give a report of the proceeding in- eosfuli anted: it 1135 sisoded series to be called an opinion,—it isa the louse on that tici.tut .... states 1 he absolutely add totally false 12 IC en art soon spent its force, the Louisville Courier-Journal. idea that the Southern people are an T would d stray human society alto-r impatient, impulsive and violent peo- ple—instead ofthe considerate, foler- and again, for the last time, the Dem- odrats went through the tellers. There were TdS’Yeas, not counting the Speaker Carter Harrison, of Illi- nios foolishly split off from the party land voted no. This made four more int, F.1 ment ( in the g Presidential Election Frauds The resolution introduced into the ryrvs House by Mr. Potter, of New York, meint than the requisite number for a quo- rum. After this, on all subsequent votes the roll courite called, and a ber voting with the Radicals would have to confront his record be- authorizing the appointment ofa com-Li mittee of eleven to inquire into the |fore the people. The announcement charges of fraud in the counting of of this happy result was followed by the votes of the States of Florida and Louisiana in the last Presidential elec- tion, afto r being delayed several days was finally passed last Friday. The Reptiblicans abtzinded from voting, which left the House apparently with- out a quorum, as their names did not appear on the list of those voting, and there was a sufficient number of Democrats not present to show the want of a quorum. On Friday suffi- general applause on the Democratic side. Here Mr. Hale moved to lay the resolution on the table, which was beaten. Mr. Banks enewed the ob- jection to Goode’s vote, but Mr; Goode’s statement was so cleared and satisfactory that Banks gave it up. The main question was ordered by 147 to 1, Mr. Morse, Democrat, of gether. Public opinio dself- contained peo- y pre-eminently are. or ithe world’s judo- formed the chief element ral surprigg and agreeable ment of then Massachussetts, voting against his party here. Mr. Mills, of Texas want- ed ten minutes for a speech, but there was objection, and the nation will thus lose his eloquence. On the pas- sage of the resolution, the Republi- vamp aguirrefused to vote, but it was |carried by 143 to 2. the Legstivs be- The long and eventful contest be-ing Mr. Mills, of Texas, and Mr. |tween the Democrats and the Repub- Morse, of Massachusetts. These are ries very much licans in the House of Represent- lity. It differs tives was ended this afternoon by a the only two that stayed and lent aid and comfort to the enemy. At the last stage it had been anticipated by some that the Republican would be- gin filibustering as soon as the point was reached of seconding the demand for the prev ious question, but there were so many Radicals who were tired of the business, and uneasy at being placed in the attitude of op- posing investigation, that this idea was abandoned. They have certain- ly gained no laurels in the contest in different countries, victory for the Democrats, and the be altogether the same passage of the resolution of iuvesti- in towns and cities that belong to one |gation. A far higher issue. Lower- country. Certain social customs are er, than the investigation of its pos- denounced in one vicinity, which the sible fruits was involved. This was tolerated and defended elsewhere.— the revolutionary efforts of the Re- The standard of religious orthodoxy publicans to break up the quorum of is as variable as the conventional mor- | the House, and stop all public busi- alities. One who is counted as a here- |mess, unless they could have the irown were a tic here, may pass for quite a sound way o ind had believer a hundred miles away. It is Dilatory motions or “filibustering,” section just so in the tests of political sound- by a minority is nottirtitsual in the and may not the course of these State in the late. Pres- idential succession dispute. The world looked to the South to lead off in violent counsels: They Iunit ii support of Tilden,: more reason than any other t0 desire his insnon ration, .a after obstructing all business for a In one State, a republican is history of the House in extreme: cas- week by revolutionary methods. #8 a "bloated aristocrat," or a es, but for one side of the Hot st to re- They are whipped at last, and the capitalist," or something fuse to vote, and thus break up the investigation is ordered in spite of another State, a democrat lady, is a new thing in American them- 12 1 is , - 9 "reckless Jacobin," a "cop-i politics. It is revolutionary and dan- Mr. Potter of NeV-York, will be or a "communist." In a gerous in the highest degree. If this the chairman of the committee, and suffered from oppression and misrule :known as few people have suffbred anywhere, Fgrathing and liberty itself seemed botind up in | worse; in a change of party administration. — | is called a But they turned their backs on all perhead," . e, sc. , violent counsels. They would run certaintown, public opinion is strong- practice be recognized it will almost besides him, the names of McMahon, no risks of plunging the country intoly in favor of general improvements always be possible for the minorty to of Ohio; * - *- no risks of plunging the country into y in favor of general improvements always be possible for the minorty to ) of (hio: Morrison, ‘of Illinois; a war of succession, and. As Redfield good roads, well-supported schools- prevent any legislation they do not Clarke, of : Missouri : Blackburn, of says, they saved the country from a libraries, reading-rooms, and what, like on any subject whatever It is a Kentucky; Hunter, of Virginia, and civil war of a far more miserable ever else tends to the elevation of so- common occurrence for the House to Stenger, of Pennsylvania, Democrats; character than the war of 1861. ciety In another town, the great Now the very expressions of Aston- point is to keep down the taxes, and ishment and delight over this course | let matters and things in general shift of action, which have found expres- for themselves. Every large city has sion in the Northern and European its own peculiar atmosphere—London press, only show how obstinate and and Paris, Rome and St. Petersburg, deep is this false notion of the South- Boston and Philabelphia, New YFork ern character and animus. But time and San Francisco. It is difficult to import the customs of any one of these places into another. : ., Public opinion charges very mate- rially with the lapse of time. None of us believe, or act, or talk, just as our fathers did. Every generation says, they saved the country from a civil war of a far more miserable near; expect to be tricked by I trick- ster and cheated by a rogue: but let no suspicion fall on one who, in his quarrels, relations to others, has proved him- prove the slieet self: true, honorable, good, and noble, because you have expec t d of ignoble Til correct it. Whatever future per- ils await the country if the adjust- ment of industrial, religious or social is, the Southern States will 4 anchor of the public orded and the deadly foe of popular turbulence and passion. natures what they never had to give. The class and partial legislation so- From the branches of a crab-apple strenuously pressed on the country by tree people gather crab-apples; noth- other sections is itself the poisonous ing else. You would laugh at one spring of much of the evil and civil who wept because the free gave him nothing sweet ;but which of us has not at some time vainly expected some human crab-apple, crooked, and bitter to the core, to yield the golden fruit of Hesperides for us only. We did not know it was a crab-ap- ble, perhaps. There was our grand mistake. We are more careful what we plant in our orchards than what we plant in our lives. We should make sure of the nature of the man or woman with whom we intend to MR. A. A. ALLEN, who was sheriff of Baker county, Florida, at the time of Presidential election frauds, adds his testimony to that already deduced regarding such frauds. Hemakes an affidavit explaining how the whole conspiracy was managed, of which the following is a portion: "The two Democratic precincts were thrown out arbitrarily, without law or evi- denge, or shadow of right, and was done to throw the county. Republican and give the State to Hayes’ electors. This action changed the vote of the State about the same in relative ma- jourities as it did the county of Bak- er. By giving the true return which would inelide the Democratic major- ity in the State would be about 95.— By excluding these precincts, and by taking the false returns signed by Diggers, Green, and this deponent, the Republican majority in the State would be about 43 on the face of the returns. Deponent cannot state the fact from personal knowledge, but he believes, and the truth was under- crecary, divide up the stood to be at the tinre, that this ficti- days of the week when visiting is tious count and return and illegal re have fifteen or twenty absentees of and Butler and Frye Republicans, each side a way and paired, so that have been suggested as probable se- unless members present do their dut v | lections. . ... • VH $ 1 by voting, the minority, whether the issue be one of party or not, may break up the quorum and arrest the [ business of the House for a week or more, as the Republicans have just done. The danger of the system of parliamentary government disclosed by this experience is so obvious and alarming that it is believed no time will be-lost in modifying the rules so as to meet such cases by providing The business, of the House will now go on, and among other things the bill to repeal the bankrupt law will be taken for om tile 1 Speaker’s ta- ble. To avoid the delay and risk of sending it to the Senate again, it is probable that the Senate amendn cents take effect on the first of September next. If the bill is returned to the Senate its fate is doubtful. has its characteristic tone. It would that members not voting, but who not be thought consistent in our day are actually present, may be naned for a Christian deacon, on his way and counted as present, thus helping the highest ote. To-day 150 Demo- home from morningservice, to arrest to make the quorum. This is essential cratic votes were actually cast. There the boys for lingering ist the fields on to the conduct of public business. were paired, namely, Messrs. Covert, Sunday, and then pass the intermis- The proceedings of this moring be- Stephens and Knott. There were sion between morning and afternoon gan as usual. The House was very three Absentees, namely, Landers, of worship in mixingrum and water for full. The galleries were crowed and: Connecticut, and Carlisle and Clarke his customers at the bar—which is excited. The Democratic leaders | of Kentucky. To get the attendance what e have known to be done in the, counted on a quorum during the day, | of 150 men, some of them sick, requir- - a |lastf fry years. It is not now regard- |but were, not sure that there would ed no common effort in this long and popular contentment and tranquility, ed as a henious offence for young per- not be son e defection in the ir ranks, eventful parliamentary contest, Mr. sons to read good works of fiction. The Republican were hopeful of got- Potter has shown great tact, skill and but I CEB remen ber when a novel, as ting a re-enforcement of Demostatic I self conimand. such, would be excluded from the recruits. The were pinning their household, without any inquiry as to t faith to Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, leading of Mr. Morse, of Massaschu- disturbance which they seem to dread Nothing can be clearer than that un- der this government, absolute equali- ty of protection and burden to every citizen should never be departed from. It is the orc grand element of which should in no ease be lost sight of or meet with even an apparent de- nial. This enforced, universal order and subibission to law can be logical- ly demanded. But when welegislate privileges and exemptions and boun- ties to classes we tread on volcanic ground. The South wants even handed justice only and will be the steady friend of it everywhere else—to all classes and sections. Her motto will be liberty, equality, order and tranquility. household, without any inquiry as to whether it were good or bad. In some respects it is more strict. Drink- There are 156 Democrats on the House roll, the quorum being 156 on THE proposed Republican election- eering raid into the South is treated very sensibly by the Democratic press. The Augusta Chronicle and Constitu- alist expresses the hope that the pro- gramme may be carried out and tells the Republican missionaries they may travel from Richmond to Galteston and make bloody-shirt speeches at every station with none to molest or make them afraid but informs them at the same time that "when they get through the people will elect Demo- cratic congressmen in every South- ern district except two." The Jack- son (Miss.) Times assures the mission- aries who may visi Mississippi- that "they will be treated kindly and giv- en a respectful hearing." Gov. Hamp- ton says as much for South Carolina, and declares there shall be an honest and fair election within his jurisdic- tion "no matter who goes to congress." ing has gone out, and dancing has come in. Lotteries have gone out, and stock speculations have come in. In the line of amusements, we have seen a great change. Officers and students unite in certain forms 01 rec- reaction which in my college days, would have subjected us to discipline. We have a New England Society for the reform of theatres, with ministers of the Gospel as officers—which we once considered as incapable of being reformed as a gambling-hell. Sub- jects come up for consideration in tional Councils that a few years ago would have been promptly set aside as unworthy the attention of religious men. Innovations crowd upon us in church architecture, church music, church adornments, and church forms of various sorts, that would have in- spired our forefathers with infinite alarm. We get accustomed to these changes imperceptibly, and find our- selves away around the corner before we are conscious of having taken a turn. The stiffest conservatives can- not resist the tendencies of the times —they change the fashion of their opinions as they lay aside their buck- les and wigs, from sheer necessity. Isetts ; Mr. Mill.4 of Tex 8; Mr. Kirke Hart, of New York; Mr. Bouck, of Wisconsin, and Mr. Harrison, of Illi- nois, but their calculations proved very wild:_ After the call was ordered Mr. Hale moved to lay the Potter resolu- tion on the table. This the chaif rul- ed out of order. An appeal followed, and a motion to lay this on the table. The Democrats then threw 143 vote. The question then recurred on sec- onding the demand for the previous question, which was voted on by tell- ers, the Democrats casting 140 votes. One hundred and forty-six were needed for a quorum. Messrs. Steph- ens and Felton, of Georgia, failed to pass through the tellers, and thus helped to break the quorum. Af this stage of the business the Democrats had enough, members within reach, but to get everybody in for the tell- ers, Mr. Potter, had to have another call of the House ordered. The doors were ordered to be closed, and it then became apparent that the ques- tion was approaching a crisis. The Republicans had a number of absen- tees, and desired some of their sick, men to be excused. The Democrats would not consent, unless it was ex- pressly stated that the absentee was Among those who aided him in his work, Messrs. Clarke, of Missouri F Blackburn, of Kentucky, and Sayler, of Ohio; and Morrison, of Illinios, desrve special commendation. In the General Conference of the M. E. Church, South, in session at At- lanta, the proposition to change the name of the Church to “Episcopal Methodist, was finally disposed of in the negative, several daysago. The committee, in their report, stated that they had carefully considered all pa- pers submitted to them, and they saw no good reason why the name should be changed. "If the time ever exist- ed for such a change, it is now past. Under this name we have made histo- ry of which we may be proud, and there is no reason why isshould now be abolished. The name is dear to the people, and it has no significance, which could urge us to change it.” 4 R fe House and Sign Fainter Thomaston, Georgia. ENDERS the public his services and will, on reasonable terms, doall kinds of painting. Furniture, House or Sign
