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TIIE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MARCH 14,1884.
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with it should give it a trial this year,
wtf
The Last Tilden Boom
U« about expended ita force. Be
yond the stampeding of a few timorouB
souls who cannot staid to any convic
tion two days in succession, and per
mitting Mr. Tilden's pensioners and
flunkies to slop over in evidence of
their loyalty, it has accomplished lite
rally nothing. The tariff issue is not
retired, party harmony has not been
appreciably advanced, and everybody
is still awaiting developments that may
produce marked influence upon future
events, l'criodically, or we might say,
spasmodically, these charges upon the
part of Mr. Tilden’s partisans may he
looked for up to the assemblage of the
nominating convention.
It will be impossible to convince sen
sible and thinking men, that a man in
Mr. Tilden’s condition can undertake
the responsibilities of the Presidency
with any hope of being able to discharge
them. He has expressed this himself
moyvthan once in unmistakable lan
guage, and it is a cruel and heartless
injustice to him to attempt to lay such
a burden upon him now. With his
consent he might have been nominated
at Cincinnati in 1880. The party
should not now compel him to take
what lie then of his own free will form
ally declined. It will not do for the
Democratic party, which is united npon
a common, sentiment of opposition to
the centralizing tendencies of the
Republican party, and in favor
of local self-government, which has at
its command a large numerical majori
ty of the voters of the country, to be
forced to the confession or admission,
on the eve of battle, that on account of
divisions on minor issues, there is but
one man in its ranks worthy of leader
ship, but one capable of leading it to
victory, and be burdened with age and
physical and mental infirmities. We
present a picture of him from the pen
of the reliable correspondent of the
Washington Star. Who will say that,
this man has the nerve and vitality to
inaugurate and sustain such an admin
istration as the Democracy must have
on its accession to power? The corres
pondent alluded to says of Mr. Tilden:
injustice; for we should regret to be-1 Failure of tM Whisky Bill,
lieve that he has exchanged I The very best day's work done dur-
courts with Judge Hammond with j the present-session was accomplish
the view of prosecuting more vigorously
and advantageously his canvass tov
Congress. It would be doing both
himself and tho people of Clayton
county, as well as jffiblic opinion, an
injustice to affect to administer the
law in a community whoso suffrages
lie was at the same time soliciting.
Mosday was as bright and beautiful a
spring day aa ever came out of the ahopsof
March.
Tnx fellows that laugh most at the dig
ging of cyclone pits would dive deepest
into them at the coming of t)ic storm.
The worst men in the United States are
the Northern preachers who openly advo
cate miscegenation. They are the enemies
of both races and should be so treated.
Tde members of the Salvation Army are
reminded that l’aul and Silas were not rut
in prison for beating drums, blowing horns
and indulging In riotous conduct on the
streets.
Tiie man that plants by the almanac
will sometimes find occasion to glean
closely to fill even the “old bams.” The
seasons vary, and wise men will vary with
them—not knowing what a day may bring
forth.
Macox la growing rapidly by increments
to her population from without. In many
cases, these additions are young men who
in linking their future with that of the
dty mako the prospect for both bright
and enduring.
Atlaxta ought to have a half dozen ar
tesian wells. TtieTxuraRAroARDMzmtx-
gek has made several suggestions on that
mie, and is glad to see that the matter la
at last taking hoM ot the people. Atlanta
needs artealsn wells very badly.
It would be monstrous to refuse justice
to ell men. There may be differences of
opinion as to what constitute!, justice; but
no paper can afford to grant to any man,
in public, or private life, less than its hon
est conception ot what constitutes justice
In hie behalf.
Thr Mississippi river is again moving by
way of the crevasses. Without some im
provement in the outlets of the river, the
doom of the plantations subject to over
flow along the river banka, la only a ques
tion of time. The river becomes more un
manageable, year by year.
Bixaiob Baowx'a vote against the ratifi
cation o( the Mexican reciprocity treaty
■hows that he was indisposed to sacrifice
the interests of the sugar makers and
cattle raisers ot the South on the altar of
the Eastern manufacturers. New England
accomplishes by craft what she la unable
to secure by main strength.
Tax esteemed Savannah News, which takes
a feeble Interest In modern affairs, la talking
about the Tilden boom, and opposing lb—At
lanta Constitution.
The evidence doesn't sustain the allega
tion. "The Tilden boom doesn't jiertaln
to "modern affaira.” It la a matter that
carries one back to the days of the cata
combs and mnmmydom. The Mews shows
its apprsdation foe living issues by refus
ing to join the Constitution in a raid on an
tiquity.
Bays an exchange: “George Washing-
ton. the first President ot the United
States, never saw a ateamboat. John Ad
orn-, the second President, never saw a
railroad. Andrew Jackson, the seventh
President, knew nothing about the tele-
grapli. Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth
President, never dreamed of such a tiring
as a telephone." Yes; and none of these
parties knew anything ot a "straight
flush.” That’s where Arthur has the ad
vantage of them.
I happen to have personal and positive
knowledge that Mr. Tilden has no mere Inten
tion of allowing himself to be drawn into
Presidential contest than he has of joining El
Mahdl, In Egypt. I had tho good fortuno to
meet him (Mr. Tilden, and not El Mahdl,) one
day last September at West Putin, whither
he had come on the small stoam yacht
upon which he steams up and down the
Hudson. I heard him talk for more than half
hour, I saw him at dinner, and I saw
him go on board hts boat. His voice Is not
much above a whisper, except when he
ejaculates “Loulsl” the name of hi. valet. He
la completely paralysed In one arm and part
ly In the other, and cannot feed himself, hts
valet doing It for hire, lie takas no exercise,
except to walk slowly and carefully along
with his faithful Louis near In caio the dizzi
ness to which he Is subject should get the best
of him. Lastly, his intellect appears to be as
clear as ever when be can keep awake. These
arcahsolute facts. To bis Intlmste friends he
speaks unhesitatingly of the folly of trying for
the Presidential chair, especially when he has
all that hts great wealth can give him. When,
therefore, 1 hear Mr. Tilden’s name brought
forward In conneetlen with the Democratic
nomination, as has bocn the case for the past
ten days, It seems like an ancient Joke brought
up lor the occasion.
Our Female Convicts.
Our Puritan friends are continually
making themselves unhappy over the
convict system of Georgia. The latest
groan in this direction comes from the
Lowell (Mass.) Citizen and in this
shape: "The Georgians keep female
prisoners in their convict camps; and
yet the Georgia papers are still harp
ing about Tewksbury.” We are not
aware that Georgia journals are
worrying themselves or their readers
over the well established and horrible
fact that the skins of paupers, white and
black, were tanned at the Tewksbury
almshouse. But such cold blooded
depravity is calculated to linger long in
tiie memories of men, and the fact that
female criminals are punished in Geor
gia, juBt as they are punished every
where else, cannot mitigate the unpar
alleled crime of the State officials of
Massachusetts.
All law breakers in Georgia above a
certain degree are punished by confine
ment in the convict camps known as
penitentiaries. The law does not make
any distinction between men and
women convicted of similar
crimes. Both are sentenced to
hard labor for such terms of years
as the penal code provides. But while
women are confined in tiie convict
tamps under the rules and regulations
of these camps, a difference is made in
the kind of labor. The women are kept
separate from the men and are made to
do the cooking, washing and house
cleaning for the male convicts.
This is not beyond their strength or
capacity and is not degrading. If wo
men will commit infamous ami violent
crimes, society demands that they shall
expiate them by punishment. Georgia
sees to it that her female convicts
are not overworked, that they
are comfortably clothed, and
sufficiently fed, and that medical
and religious attendance is given them.
If during their incarceration any should
die, and are not claimed by relatives
and friends, they are given decent
burial, and there are no tan vats under
tiie supervision of sanctimonious scoun
drels. in which their skins may he
tanned. In many respects the prison
system of Georgia is superior to any in
this country. It has no features so bad
as those of Massachusetts and other
States whose people ore given to med
dling with what docs not concern them.
ed on Saturday last, in the defeat of the
bill for the postponement of the pay
ment of taxes on whisky. Next to the
Morrison tariff bill, this was the first
important measure in the programme
ftthc free traders. It is plain that this
faction has become frightened at tho
mischief already done, and the result
of Saturday is ominous to the Morrison
horizontal tariff bill. The issue was
fairly and squarely made and the de
feat so decided that any hopes of a rally
are futile.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Timet describes the
scene as follows:
might he not also become a candidate
for Governor, or for judgo on the Su
premo Court bench, or for United
States Senator?
The chairman of the State executive
committee, like the Chief Justice of
our Supreme Court, should not preside
in a case which could even remotely
affect his personal interests. Though
upright himself, those who come after
him may not be.
reason that it is hard to convict men
of murder in duels where tho practice
has been approved. A11 the applause
Cash received was from the miserable
creatures associated with him in an
attempt to Africanize South Carolina
in the interests of the Republican
party, of which he is a trusted and
honored leader.
Again we quote the Pott and Tribune
as follows:
fJEOROIA, DIB11 COUNTY.—Whereas Mrs
AS Kate S. Turpin has mado application ini
letters of administration on the estate of H
C. Turpin, lato of said county, deceased ,
This is to Cite and admonish all permits ,
concerned to be and appear at the court el or
dinary ol said county at the .priUerm tut
“Iraki court, to show cause, if any they So'
why said application should not be .nutted '
Witness my hand and official signature this
March ioth, just. j. a. .McManus,
Ordinary.
rnarll law4w
11111 It COUNTY.—Whereas W
, administrator of the citato af Js'
cob Rtchards (colored), laic of said county do. i
ceased, has made application for leave to sell
the real estate belonging to said citato u
Thu Is to cite and admonish all persons con.
cemed to bo and appear attho court of ordi.
najy of said county on .tho first Mon
dny in April next to show cause. If any they
have, why said application should not S
granted.
mK h “ d “ d0
mars lawlw Ordinary.
OEORfHA mBB COUNTY—Whereas Pit.
rick McGrath bus mado application for set.
tlmr apart and valuation of a homestead of
zsssssxgas&. sra
March7*"she h ‘ nd “ d “j“)!ft re ^
mantlttwilw ^Ordinary!
GEORGIA. BIBdt’OUNY-Wh reas W r"
Rogers, executor of Mrs. E. L. Rodgers,' lam if
said county, doccased, has made application
for letters of dismission. u
This is. therefore, to clto and admonlih aU
persons concerned to bo and appear at the
court of ordinary ofssid county on tho Brit
Monday in June next to show cause if snv
they can, why said of application should not
be granted.
witness toy hand and official signature, this
March 4. IBM. J. A. McM 4NU3,
marVlamSm* Ordinary
OEORUIA, BIRR OJUNTY.-WhcieVL Jas
rwvtl.s <t. u mail.. /
Tt transpires that Mr. Mooes Handy,
once ot the Richmond Dispatch, bit now
of the Radical Philadelphia /Vest, inaugu
rated the latest Tilden boom. This accounts
for the sudden slop oyer in certain quar
ters in Georgia. Mr. Motes Handy Is alto
eng ,.-ed in booming Mr. Blaine. Indeed,
like the juggler in the circus who tosses
the balls, Mr. Moses Handy may be said
to be manipulating s handful of booms.
Haring resolved to boom Mr. Blaine
for the Presidency, Mr. Moses
Handy a! saartt desires that Mr. Kdr«’.
ls.ni, shall bare the best of chances,
wherefore Mr. Moses Hand) proposes,
will, -ach old at be can gather ben and
there, to take care of a TUden boom in
ia t-rder •> confdv and embarrass the
Der.-e ratic part). This b about ail there
is in tite reeet.t Tii-ien boom, which fizzed
an-i i tend foe nmoment like a Chinese
fire-cracker.
Judaea aa Candidate!.
A letter from Atlanta to the Augusta
Evening Ac ice contains this paragraph:
Judge Stewart, who la to take up the Con
gressional race In place of Boynton, will ex
change benches with Judge Hammond find
hold court In Jonesboro next week. Tills will
enable him to meet his country friends In
that county, and they are legion. Stewart
will get ihe vote of Clayton county, hut hu Is
naturally anxious to make i-crsonul inspection
ot bis fences there, and hence his dcslro to
preside In the court there next week. His
friends confidently predict his nomination on
the first ballot.
There is no reason why Judge Stewart
should not lte a candidate for Congress
if he desires to enter upon a political
career. In this free democratic coun
try the citizen may aspire to any office
within the gift of tho people,
Nearly all our young men who
enter the legal profesalon contem
plate, sooner or later, engaging in
politics. So general is this rule that a
young man, once admitted to tho bar,
may lie regarded as much a politician
as he is a lawyer. This is the reason
why so few American practitioners
rise to great eminence as jurists or
statesmen. A great lawyer rarely ever
attains to high distinction as a jtolitic-
ian, and no politician ever becomes a
great lawyer. To achieve marked suc
cess in either branch of service, re
quires all the time and all the energy
a man poasesses.
In England, the wisest country in
the world, professional men ore
wont to devote themselves ex
clusively to their chosen coil
ing. When they ltave achieved dis
tinction and acquired fortune, „they are
then ready to retire on the bench or a
scat in Parliament. There the legal
profession and parliamentary service
are distinct, and are never pursued to
gether. In America, on the contrary,
the lawyer ia almost always a politi
cian, and the politician almost always
a lawyer. Hence the grand army of
politicians and lawyers we have in the
United States, and hence too the small
number of great statesmen and learned
judges. So true is this, that we look
in vain in this country, now num
bering nearly 60,000,000 of inhabi
tants, for one great judge,
or one great statesman. Chief Justice
Marshall, our greatest judge, could
never have achieved such distinction,
i! he had mingled politics and law; and
Mr. Jefferson could never have attain
ed to such eminence aa a statesman, if
like our modem politicians, he had
plsyed lawyer ami politician alter
nately.
We have nothing to remark with re
gard to Judge Stewart's decision to
enter the race for Congress from the
fifth district. We are free to aay how
ever, that before doing so he should
resign his seat on the bench. The ex
tract given above, we trust, does him
Cotton Statement.
From tho Chronicle’s cotton article of
March 7, we gather the following facts
relative to the movement of the crop
for the past week:
For tiie week ending March 7, tiie
total receipts have reached 08,720 bales,
against 70,487 hates last week, 05,0111
bales the previous week, and 105,021
bales threo weeks since; making the
total receipts since September 1,1883,
4,422,324 bales, aguinst 5,020,540 bales
for tho same period of 1882-83, show
ing a decrease since September 1, 1883,
of 004,210 bales.
The total receipts at ail tho interior
towns for the past week have reached
31,203 hales, since September 2,543,048,
showing a decrease of 33,010 bales us
compared with tiie receipts of the same
week lost year, and for the season a
falling off of 558,241 bales.
Among the interior towns Macon is
credited with U5bules for the week,
and with 58,475 hales for the season.
For the same week last year the receipts
were 217 bales, and for tho season
54,085 bales. These figures show a
decrease for the week, os compared
with the same receipts last year, of 102
hales, and for the season an increaso of
3,400 hales.
Taking the receipts from plantations,
the net overland movement to March,
and also the takings by Southern spin
ners to the same date, the total visible
For lack of thirteen extra votes the support
ers of the Mil extending the bonded period
for distilled spirits suffered to-day a decisive
defeat In the House of Representatives.
Knowing that the battle would ho brought on
this afternoon, the whisky meu and their al.
lies made every preparation they could. Every
member upon whoso vote they could count
was urged to be lu his place, and special ef
forts went made to arrange pairs for those
who were obliged to be absent. The opponents
of the measure were not unmindful of the
preparations of the whisky men, and they,
too, were on hand in force.
Mr. Morrison leaned back in bis seat with an
unconcerned air, which some of the whisky
men were unkind enough to say was not
wholly assumed. Mr. Willis, who has worked
untiringly for the measure, kept a careful
tally of the voting, and Mr. Thompson con*
suited a llstof members and sent out scouts
lor those who were not in their scats. Other
Kentucky Representatives were bobbing
around the chamber In a state ot great ner
vousness and anxiety, fur they and their
friends knew that It was a test vote. When
the roll was finished tho whisky men gave
up, for they polled only 115 votes, while their
opponents had scored 127.
The necessary thirteen votes can
never be found, so the whisky ring
may just as well pay up back taxes and
go to work at tho stills. If anybody
puffers it will be the bankers who have
advanced money upon the whisky in
bond as collateral. It is something that
this ring, which is rich, powerful and
audacious, which has heretofore been
successful, which virtually ruined
Grant's administration, has atlastbcen
brought to terms.
As on evidence of its power, the
bill was reported from the committee of
ways and means favorably; and yet
it had been industriously heralded that
several of the members of that com
mittee were opposed to the passage of
tho bill. The excuse given for this
strange proceeding is that these mem-,
here yielded to tho persuasion of indi
viduals. What the people would like to
know is tho names of these individuals
who were able to persuade members of
the committco contrary to their con
victions of duty. Our immediate repre
sentative appears to he among those
over-persuaded to give the whisky hill
advantage of a favorable report. It is
said that the corridors of the capitol
have been crowded with advocates of
the whisky ring with silver tongues
and golden fingers. It Is a matter of
record in and out of tho courts, that
this ring once corrupted officials from
tho fellows who handled the bung
cracker up to the president of the
United States.
Tho country should he fully informed
afi to the names and standing ot
the individuals who are suf
ficiently powerful, eloquent and
persuasive to induce Representa
tives to do a wrong to their constituen
cies. Tito minority of a committee lias
always at hamlthcparliamentary priv
ilege of expressing its dissent from any
measure reported by the majority
tills hill had been passed by reason of
a favorable and unanimous report, the
members who wereopposed to it would
have been placed In an unenviable po
sition.
As a sleight-of-hand performance no
fault rauy bo found with it, but it is
stitlly lucking in the elements of open
and honorable statesmanship.
The "Western Advocate" and Bishop
Pierce.
The following extracts are taken
from an editorial article in the Western
Christian Advocate, a religious paper
published in St. Louis, and an organ
of tho Northern Methodists. The
reference is to Bishop Pierce, of C.eor-
gio:
“NVe have^aften wondered at the silence of
the pulpit and the press—religious and politi
cal—of the South when such murders as that
of Matthews, at Hozlehurst, Miss,, or such
wholesale slaughters os that at Danville, Va.,
have shocked the nation We do not wonder
any longef. The animus which instigates
these wrong* finds lte life-blood In such senti
ments relative to the rights and proper sphere
of the negro race as were given by this Chris
tian minister to a reporter of a secular paper
for publication. If race prejudice* are ap
proved by the senior bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, a church which cm-
So long as they confined their homicides to
men whose politics were not approved by the
Democratic party, they were safe; but now
that they are in open insurrection against the
Democratic State government they will prob
ably be subdued; though it still remains to bo
seen whether, even if they are arrested, they
will be convicted and punished for their
crimes.
Young Cas a has just murdered an ex
soldier of the Federal army and an in
nocent bystander. The deed was hor
rible, but both lives taken were
not the equal of that of
Mr. Shannon. AU good people
deprecate and denounce the deed and
the subsequent defiance of the law and
its officers by the father and son. Noth
ing has been done but to vindicate the
law and bring the offenders to justice.
These violent and bloodthirsty men
are the chosen ugents of the party of
braces within its fold Governors and Senators, tbe s 0 utli lessons of peace law and or- StS ofwld^utyfdw^edl M * U1<U °° elZt
Judges and legislators—much, in short, of the “ ‘ 0Ul “ ui Puut, tan ana or Yfc ... , herefo to <!tUj Jg; d BdmonI>b ^
-- - “ ‘ ‘ persons concerned to be Mid an near at th»
of onlinarv of said county on the fi st
the Post-Tribune to teach the people of
supply becomes 5,223,715 hales, against
•1,041,232 bales last year, showing it
decrease of tho amount in sight, us
compared with last year, of 811,517
bales.
The imports into continental ports
this week have been 37,000 bales. The
exports .have reached a total of 108,852
bales, of which 61,621 were to Great
Britain, 4,502 to France, and 42,029 to
the rest of the continent.
Relative to cotton speculations for the
week under review, wo clip the follow
ing from the Chronicle’s comments:
Tbe past week has been one of great ami un*
usual dullness In the speculation for future
dellve-y al this market, ami p rleea show some
decline. There was very little demand at any
time and such Rule “spurts" towards better
figures aa were made on Tuesday and Thurs.
day morolns were cajterly embraced b. hold
ers to reduce thqlr burdens. There has ms
been anything of special Importance in tore
elgn or Southern adrlcea except that the
movement of the crop, both at the porta and
the Interior towns, wax somewhat io ex
estimates. The receding of the Hoods In the
Ohio Volley has permitted a resumption In
the overland movement by rail, which has
partially made good a marked falling off la re
ceipts at New Orleans. Toolay the opening
was weak, hut there was rather more activity
at a alight decline, closing as compared with
last Friday S to 11 points lower for
this crop and 4 to 0 points lower for the next.
Cotton on the spot has been very dull ami
prices nominally without change, yet not with
out some Increase among holders anxious to
to reduce the Urge stocks sceumuletcd here,
Todsy tbe close wes quiet but .toady at loti
rents foe middling uploads.
—Tbe Camming Cktrionuys: "The coa
lition between the organized Democrats
ami the colored people in the b ack belt is
complete, notwithatending the blacke are
clawed as Republicans. In view oi this
fact, the Independent! can no longer be
twitted with a (opposed coalition with
while Republicans.
An Exnmpte.
The Selma Timet contains the follow
ing announcement:
Sure enough Chairmen McKleroy resigned
from the executive committee ami announced
himself n candidate for Governor. It Isn'
every man who would have resigned a posi
tion that gave him an apparent advantage in
the race, and Alabama Is to he congratulated
on this still further erldenco of how strict
sense of propriety tbe breasts of her public
men do harbor
There are persona in Georgia who
think thqt the chairman of onr State
executive committee would do wisely
to imitate the example set him by the
chairman of the Alabama executive
committee.
We do not suppose that Captain
Ilenry Jackson, the chairman of tiie
Democratic executive committee of
Georgia, would take advantage of hits
position to promote his own political
interests. But he is a candidate for
Congress in the fifth district, and has
close official relations with
the Executive committee ot that
district, and with the executive
committees of the several counties com
posing the district. He is moreover,
engaged in an active pergonal canvass
of the district, and is brought in con
tact with the members of the Congres
sional and county committees, and If
he does not take advantage of the op
portunity, and of his official relations
as chairman of the State executive
committee, to advance his own inter
ests, as we believe he will not, yet the
temptation and the opportunity exist,
ami the circumstance will likely pro
voke comment and produce dissatisfac
tion. An unscrupulous candidate in
his position, however unworthy, could
almost certainly secure his own nomin
ation over a more deierving opponent,
Admitting that no evil will come of
it in this particular instance, the ques
tion arises whether it wou.d not be
bail precedent tor tbe chairman to es
tablish for the guidance of his sue
son. If the chairman can properly
retain his office and be a candidate for
I so important a position as that of a eeat
in the House of Representatives, why
very highest social element of the South—
what applications of them must we not ex-
peel from those who know none of the hu
manizing and restraining influences of the
gospel. .....
It Is such teaching as this from tho pulpit
end the press ot tho South, ns well as from the
stump, that breeds the violence which has
driven the negroes from the polls, end the
white men as well who do not accept such
opinions. Gloomy indeed will be tbe day
when, by any untoward Influences, the na
tional government shall fall Into the hands of
men who teueb and who follow such doctrines
as these I If men on account ot color maybe
disfranchised by violence, why maynotunfor*
tnnate or poor while men! Is it any wonder
that the entire South ia almost a unit against
the colored man. If thoso who profess to be
guided by the teachings of our holy Christian*
lty say that any adequate recognition-of the
manhood of the negro Is tn insult, and that
white men cannot tamely submit to It. * *
* * * Through what Arcs or floods this na
tion mny yet pass tn reaching the goal where
all men have equal rights to life and its duties
and enjoyments, wo know not; hut we believe
that an honest, determined policy on the part
of the nation todcal Justly wllh God's poor-
white, black and red—would avert the tore ca-
lamilles which a neglect of duty Is sure to
bring upon It.
Bishop Tierce is abundantly 'able to
take care oi himself in a controversy
with his Northern Methodist assailant,
indeed with any body. It will not
be amiss for ns however, to make a
respectful suggestion to tho conductor
of the Western Christian Advocate,
which, if it fall to convince his mind,
may at least teach him the virtue of
modesty.
Bishop Tierce was born and bred in
Georgia, and lias spent all his honored
life among the negroes, first as slaves
and since as freedmen. All men admit
that he is a man of largo intelligence
and of high character. Ho is now sev
enty-three years old, has devoted his
life to the good of his fellow-men, in
cluding the "brother in black,” whose
character, capacity and capabilities lie
lias studied closely, and understands
as fully os any man within the United
States.
It will be admitted also that as a
high church dignitary and a Christian,
his interest in the negro is quite as
deep anil sincere as his knowledge of
his weaknesses ami vices is well
grounded and thorough. He has had
every opportunity to study the charac
ter of tho negro, ami wo feel quite sure
he lias every disposition to judge him
as be would pray to bo judged himself
—in all charity nml honesty.
With these premises established, we
would suggest that this Southern
Christian gentleman, of large experi
ence and opportunities, nml with ev
er)' disposition and ability to reach
the right conclusion, is in a better po
sition to understand the negro anil
tho negro problem, than a stranger
who has had no suclt opportunities, and
who cannot possibly feci a more en
lightened interest in his welfare. This
may not nppbar to be so dear anti con
clusive totlio editor of the Western
Christian Advocate*but to a modest
and less arrogant wind it would seem
to be eminently reasonable and satis
factory.
When the Western Advocate shall
have removed the beam from its own
eye, it will then be in a position to dis
cern the moat in the eyes of others.
At present it can only speculate and
theorize, whereas Bishop Pierce can
speak and does speak as one having
authority.
der, and they are fair samples of the
cluss from which Republican recruits
are drawn. Negroes helped young Cash
to escape from the scene of the last
murder. Negroes give him information
of the movements of the officers of the
law, and negroes openly and violently
denounce the attempt of tiie authori
ties to arrest him.
A Valuable Discovery,
So many lives have been lost by the
use of chloroform toalloviate tite pains
of surgical operations, that many per
sons are unwilling to resort to this form
of antesthesia, and the surgeon’s knife
glitters with its old time horror. Men
and women too, have preferred to sub
net to torture rather than to take the
chances of being put to sleep forever
by an agency intended to produce tem
porary insensibility to pain.
Suffering humanity will consequently
hail with delight the successful experi
ment of M. Paul Bert, the distin
guished chemist. Tills experiment
has shown that if chloroform be min
gled with air in a proper proportion
and the mixture inhaled, anesthesia
can be produced without the appear
ance of the distressing symptoms
which often accompany the ordinary
methods of administration, while tho
inhalation is so entirely under the man
agement of the operator as to be com
paratively free from danger. The pro
portion advocated by M. Bert is about
120 grains of chloroform in 100 quarts
of air. Tho great repulsion
which many persons evince by
endeavoring to get rid of tho
“compressor” with which tho poison
is put into their nostrils, is avoided by
the use of this mixture, which is not
disagreeablo in its immediate effect
upon tho air passages. Moreover, the
succeeding phase of delirious excite
ment that often supervenes when the
drug lias taken effect, causing great
trouble to the operator, is got rid of by
employing M. Bert’s method, and tiie
nausea and vomiting which often ac
company the revival from insensibility
are reduced to a minimum. There
seems little doubt that the discovery of
M. Bert is one of great importance,
and that a comparatively safe and ea
sily regulated mixture will soon super
sede actual chloroform for anicuthetic
purposes.
Orant,
General Grant is reported as recover
ing bis health at Fortran Monroe, and Is
taking much interest in the Copiah and
Monday in April next to ahow csu*e, Hatty
tla-y can.why said ot application ahould not to
gmnteu. t
hMil ‘“dofflcl.l Rljmatnre, this
March 4. 18-4. J. A. McM «NUS,
matMaw4w« Ordinary.
I GEORGIA.'illBH tXlUNTY.- Wholes*. J. B"
Latimer, executor of J. 8. Coley, lato ot Mid
county. deceased, has made application tor
leavo to Mil ono Wesleyan Female t ollege
bond und one bouse and lot in the city ot Ma
con, in said county.
This is to clto and admonish all persons con
cerned to be and appear at the conrt of ordi
nary of said county on the first Monday in
utSBSSB. lmu “ “ nd
marSlnwtw* Ordinary.
GEORGIA. BIBB COUNTY.—Bibb Court of
Ordinary, March Term, law.—||rs. Laura C.
Flanders, aa administratrix on the estate of
David M. Plunder*, late of said county, de
ceased, having applied for leave to sell the
land of said deceased.
This Is, therefore, to notify all concerned to
file their objections, if any they have, on or
before tho first Monday in April next, else
leave will be cranted said applicant as ap
plied for.
Witness my band and official signature, this
March 4.list J A. McM AN Ud,
marll-tawiir Ordinary.
GEORGIA. BIBB CUUNTY—Whereas, Geo.
Banks, administrator of the estate of Mary
Ann Houston, late of said county, dcceasea,
has made application for letters of dismission
from said estate.
This is to cite and admonish all concerned
to be and appear at tho court of ordinary of
said county on the first Monday in June next
to show cause, if any they con. why said ap
plication should not be granted.
March 4**1 SI. hRDd this
mart* law3m*
■lul signature, t
a. McManus,
Ordinary.
GEORGIA, BIBB COUNTY—Whcrcas. A. B.
Ross, administrator of the estate of Mr*. Vir
ginia B. Wade, deceased, has made applica
tion for leave to sell tho real estate belonging
to said estate.
This is to cite ami admonish all persons con
cerned to be and appear at the court of ordi
nary of said county on the first Monday in
April next to ahow canse, If any they can,why
said application should not be granted.
Witness my hand and official signature, this
March 5, MU. J. A. McM AN US,
mart-lawlw Ordinary.
niicaw, ni'HiJ w. Ji'wi'ii, esocoKir »■ mo
last will and testament of Catherine Williams,
late of said county, deceased, represents to
tbe court,In hi ipetltlon duly filed and entered
on record, that he has fully administered
C atherine Williams’s estate, and fully execute
ed her said will.
This is, therefore to cite all persona con
cerned, heirs and creditors, to show cause, I
any they can why said exccntor should not be
discharged from his executorship and receive
letters of dismission on the first Monday in
May. ISM.
W itiiess my hand and official signature, this
February 1, MW. J. A. McM AN UB,
febMawSm* Ordinary.
bert Mix, exc cutor of the estate of
Hint*, has made application for letters of dis
mission from laid estate.
Thu I. to cite ami admonlih all penom con
cerned to bs and appear at tho court oi oitlt-
narrol mid county, on the tint Honda) In
March next, to alum cau-to, 11 .ny thfjr ran,
why laid application ahould not he gntun-l.
witness my hand and omelet Mc-uaturi-, thlx
Drcsmher5.ua]. J. A. McManus,
dectoawZm Ordinary.
The Caeh Affair from n Republican
Standpoint.
Kepnblican journals generally hare
abstained from comment upon the con
duct of the Cashes, father and son.
Neither tho theme nor the parties arc
inviting. But the Detroit Post-Tribune,
a very Radical journal, and one pub
lished a long ways from the State of
Honth Carolina, furnishes its readers
with some misstatements that demand
notice and correction. The Putt-Tri
bune says:
When, some yean ago. Col. Cash, of Cheraw
county. South Carolina, murdered, e lawyer of
note, for trying e caao attalnit him, the Dem
ocracy of the state defended end approved hie
act, bccauie the victim wee disliked by tbe
party. Col. Cash was upheld aa a "senile-
man," one of the chivalry, a true Southerner.
Ignorance and malice strike hands
in the paragraph quoted. Mr. Shan
non, who was killed by the elder Cash,
was a man of high character, unblem
ished record and of standing and influ
ence in South Carolina. Ilia death,
under the circumstances, greatly
shocked society, and Cash was prose
cuted with great energy by the officers
appointed bya Democratic administra
tion. He was unsparingly denounced by
the press and the best people, and was
acquitted partly because by the judic
ious use of the challenges allowed all
criminals, none of bis partisans wen
•elected aa jurymen and partly lot the
Administrator’s bale,
BY virtue of an onlcr from the Court or Or-
dinar}’ of llihb county, will be sohhm tho flr*t
Tuesday iu April, 1*ki, at the court house door
in said county, between the legal salo hours,
the following property, to-wit: The house ami
lot situate on the corner of Oglethorpe and
I Spark* street*, In the city of Macon, and at
Danville troubles, as bloody shirt issues In present occupied by Dr. J. J. Brantly. Bald
the coming Presidental campaign. Tito L^Vkl.^'^dThl'
amt Mvcnnr (170) feet to a Im-fcct alley.
AI-1-- 1-art.jf lot .Vi. 6,on thccrurruf cheit-
tmt meet amt the right of way of the Atlanta
tlivUlou ol tin- Central railroa.l, In ►»l,l dtyuf
Mamin, running nltr huiMre-1 ami nine ami
nno quarter (IlxflO feet along Cheitnut Greet,
thenee north ,mc handled ami ctxhty-two (IK)
feet to the right .if way of «ai.t rufinmil, them e
along raid right nf way to Chestnut «rc«.
" BK ' ' .... twelve
leading office-holders who are urging Ar
thur's bootn are at heart tbo partisans
of Grant, and it would not be surprizing if
the “old guard of DOG" should succeed
in nominating the “old man"
Chicago. If Oen. Grant is correctly re-
ported, he will no doubt be found ready Tcrmjof ■ale.tme-haifraah: baian.e all
and willing at the proper time during tiie wiliAm [ th llAZuVHtq!sT,^dTmnTi
campaign to repeat his coarse ami vulgar
Abuse of the Southern people, which did
so much to secure the votes of New York
State to Garfield. Tbe South gives Grant
a great deal more pain titan the rheuma
tism.
Tax* Ayer's Sarsaparilla in the Spring
of the year fo purify tite blood, invigorate
the system, excite the liver to action, ami
'gtdtinl ai'crttscmnfis.
Uibb Couiiiv*
J GEORGIA, BIBB COUNTY—WhcrcM, NIs-j
'* Wingfield ha* made application for U t
ters of adminlstraticn with tne will annexed
on tbe estate in the county of Bibb, in *aM|
mate, of Louisa A. Wingfield, late of thecnunl
ty of Hamilton, in the mate of Tennessee, de
ceased.
This Is to cite and admonish all persons con*
cemed to be and appear at the court of ordina
ry of Bibb county at the April term, 18M,of
said court, to show cause, if any they can, why
said application ahould not be granted.
Witness my hand and official signature, this
March 10th, IMS. J. A. Mi MAM’S, m
martl-law4w Ordinary.
GEORGIA, BIBB COUNTY. Whereas,Chaa
M. Wood has made application for letters oi
guradlanshlp of the person and property
Sam tel E. Crockett, Charles IlT Crocks
Georgia E. CrtekeU and Oscar L. Cvorkett,
minor children of Leroy E. Crockett and Mary
Ellen Crockett, deceased.
This is to cite and admonish all persons con
cerned to be and appear at the court of ordi
nary of said county on the first Monday is
April next to show cause, if any they can,wby
said application should bejpanU^
Ordinary.
^Wh^
Witness my hand and c
gvKoKGi*,
w B Giles,
BIBB COUNTY.
CrawlbrU Cou>
GEORGIA,CRAWFORD COUNTY.—Thomas
picksousnd I- D- Moore, administrators de
bonis non on the estate of Mary Preston, late of
■aid county, deceased, make- application for
letters of dlsaifmten from said tnut.
Tbla will cite all co..turned to show cause.
restore the'healthy tone and vigor of the they have, by the first Monday in April
whole physical mechanism. wh F said: application should not be grant-
m as prayed for.
WltM-A tny hantl oflldally. this Ja.,,ia-v 7th,
IFSl. Vtnsflf u ftnornu
Janli lawSm
Crawford Sheriff S.ile.
S' EORGIA. CRAWFORD COUNTY —WIU to
. ’"‘Htoforath. court houwi door In the
town of Knoxville, on the Ant Tuesday tn
April next, within the legal hours of sal? the
north hallo! lot No. TOinthe .econd dtsirt£
of originally Houston now Crawford county.
Levied on to salisfva fi fa Issued from the Jiti-
tioaroait of the Kwh district G.M.of said
county in lavor ol J. A. Aren against Kin-hen
Jefferson as the property nf defendant. Levy
made and retamed to me by F. c. Taylor, nm-
“Shle. u. I’. KEV1EHE. Sheriff.
March 1st, 1M. SJawtw
..GEORGIA. CRAWFORD COUNry.-C. W
van Valkeul.urg. exec;:>oro! last will and
testament ol Eli.abeth Newsom lato -f said
county,deceased, awUesto ma for Miersof
afcmlmioa from wild tru,t.
This will cite all eons -med to >how cau»e. If
“7 they hsve hy the first Monday la Apsll,
DM. why sai-l application should not be
Jltteou County,
. .—Whereas, John
.. Giles, guard Isa of Lula 8 and Willie L.
Jones, minors, makrs application tor leave to
sell live bonds ol the Artistic and Gulf Rail
road company belonging to sold minors.
This Is to rite and admonish all pmona con
cerned lobe and appear at the Court of Ordi
nary of Mid county on the first Monday In
April nest to show eons*. If any they can, why
said application should not to granted. ,
Witness my hand and official signature this
March A ISM. J. A. McM AM’S,
mamaw4w- Ordinary.
iiklfltiilA.blHb cuCNf Y-Wberwea, W. W.
Camet. administrator of the estate of Mary
Ann Brown (colored), late of said enwety, de-
esnsed. toe mmte application tor leave to atll
the reel ratal, belonging to mid eatotc.
This lato ette and admonish
concerned to to and appear at the court of or
dinary of said county on !h . fins Monday la
April next ‘
why said
.OJOMU. MACON COUNTY.—Whereas.
H. II. Rush Ire tdmlnutntlnr do bonis non oil
Hteasfalaof itiiliam Kushin, deceased, -
applied tor letters ol dlxml ’
U ::..ptr-tllon
'This is, therefore, to eiti
persons conccrnc«! to Uj
court of ordinary of »aj.i
mIoq from aald fell-
Klmrniih all
court of ordinary of »sid county on U>« t!
Monday in April next, and show c«um* A si
why sad letter* *i..u!d BotSgnuit-1 *
Given nnd-r my Land ard *:
this 1st day of January, -m. *
JOHNM. GRF.ER,
Jsnfi-UwJm Ordinary
t County.
to show amm. II any they biff, office on or bg tho first Monday
» ’ffiW spplkrailoo shooM not m granted. U m they ha vs, why tt< —»t
itpess my hand tad official ilffutitt. this l gzwmd.
Arch 7. Dm. J. a. MtM.wi - *’ a* rsy hged offiU.My,
/rdiaary. i MCPld K.T.UOS