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What Our Exchanges Say.
Tbe Constitution has these items:
It was interesting to see the members
of the general assembly crowding the
treasurer’s office to get their per diem.
Mr. lienfroe lingered the flimsy currency
deftly, and ai man after man shoved his
roll of greenbacks down into his flank,
another took his plaee, and last night.
There was p onty of loose change around
town. Whan it is remembered that each
day’s sitting of the assembly e ists up
wards of 82,5C0, we may magi tie the
hole there is in the treasury funds in
consequence.
We are gratifie 1 to be able to state that
this famous Am. rican huigerist, Josh
Billings, has been engaged to give one of
his jolly entertainments, under the aus
pices of the Young Men’s Library. De-
Give’s will be crowded, for it. is said by
those who have heard him, that he i3
equal to a first-class minstrel troupe for
genuine rollicking fun. The public will
be notified of arrangements in due time.
The Governor yesterday issued an or
der requiring W. R. Bankston, Clerk of
tile Superior Court of Butts county, to
give u now bond.
Tbe Governor and his clerks are now
kept to their mettle in the rape, with the
General Assembly'.
Delegates to the Southern States Im
migration convention at New Orleans,
on the Ist pros., are now being commis
sioned. . Those desiring to attend should
apply at once.
Gov. Smith very seldom gets in a hur
ry, but he is dispatching the considera
tion of bills passed by the Assembly with
great precision, care and expedition.
The twenty-one prisoners from Ogle
thorpe county, whose arrival , has been
notici and, ware brought, up yesterday be
fore Commissioners Buck and Smith for
trial. Commissioner Buck disposed of
fifteen cases, and was busily engaged
from an early hour in the morning to
, late in the afternoon. In several of the
• cases the defense fought stubbornly, and
not altogether without success, * The
prisoners certainly could hot have been
moic ably represented than they were by
Judge McCay, Mr. Samtiel Lumpkin and
Col. J. D. Mathews.
HIS FAREWELL. REMARKS.
HO:;. POTJPHAK PEAGRKEn’s ADDRESS BE*
FORE ADJOURNMENT, AND AFTER
DRINKS.
Mr. Speaker—l rise to remark
That tilings has got to the turn
Wl: ar this Legislature must pause—
Ami wait for a motion to adjourn!
But a-fore we let go of the rudder
And git our per diem in hand
I want to explain my posishnn,
The wharfore and wharon I stand !
(Loud applause in the gaUery.)
I’m goiu’ back home to my peop.e
To give a fair, square account,
And tell ’em we'ye ansurred their pray’rs
To a sartin, specific amount!
I don’t know what Others may do, sir,
To balance both sides o’ their books—
I’m runniu’ a dead level skedyule—
And you must run on your own hooks.
(Cheers from the members.)
We ’ve fixed up a thing about homesteads
We’ve perfected the laborer’s bread—
Crooked the lines of fifty-odd counties
And knocked the con. con. on the head
We’vo spent enough money on dog bills
To buy all the sheep in the State—
And made a dead-set at the bureaux
That it took long years to create.
(Groans from the gentleman from Ranks.)
We’ve sat forty days and some over.
And fit here and wasted onr breath,
While the people at home are sweating
Under taxes that grind ’em to death !
We’ve tinkered and patched at the Code
’Till its worse than no Code at all—
And piled up more acts on the desk thar
Than were writ by the good ’PostlePaul
(Loud applause in the lobbies.)
And now, sir, I want it recorded,
That I’m sick o’ this here sort o’ thing,
And I want the good people o’ Georgia
To speak out with the old time ring!
We must reduce ourselves down to hard
pan,
. And rum to be wise and go slow
We must work for the State as we used to
Some years—forty-odd, say ago !”
(Tremendous cheers for the legislator of
“forty years ago.”
The Sandersville Herald has the fol
lowing:
Last week a y ouug couple in this city,
of the colored persuasion, de*ermmed to
unite their fortunes as husband and wife
The father of the girl opposed their mar
riage. The Ordinary refused to grant a
license. The would-be groom went to
Jefferson county and obtained the li
cense. A colored ordained minister of
this county performed the ceremony.—
The father of the young bride claimed
that the marriage was illegal, first be
cause his daughter was under age, and
secondly because the license was obtain-
|ed in another county. The case was
! tried before C. C. Brown, Ordinary of
j Washington. After two days of preliru
| inaries and trial, the court decided that
the young groom was entitled to his sa
ble bride. He says, “Dem two days
mighty long uns. ”
The Columbus JSnquher gives the fol
lowing emigration statistics:
Since last Saturday morning 171 emi
grant tickets have been sold for the
West. They are going more rapidly this
week than they were last. Six of the
negroes, who left Mr Henry McKee’s
place, after seeing the “West” for them
selves,', have returned and hired to him
again. Fortunately they had means to
go and return upon. They are very much
dissatisfied with that country. The col
ored people who have the emigration fe
ver should go to their prodigal friends
that their heads may be cooled of this
burning delusion. This makes about
3,800 which have left this section since
December 1.
The cases of tbe citizens of Oglethorpe
county, says the Constitution, which has
been pending before the commissioners
here for several days* have been finally
disposed of. These cases have excited
no little interest. The following is a
correct report of the action taken in each
case:
Jacob Davenport, colored; charge, re
tailing whisky; discharged. W T Dos
ter, white; charge, distilling, etc.; dis
charged. W S Pass, white; charge, re
tailing whisky gave bond’sloo. Jesse
Davenport, colored; charge, retailing
whisky; discharged. J J Moore, white;
charge, distilling, etc; gave bond SSOO.
Step. Faver, colored; charge, retailing
whisky and tobacco; gave bond S2OO. li
T Eads, white; charge, retailing whisky,
discharged; Rainy Eads, white; charge,
distilling, etc; gave bond SSOO. John
Goolsby, colored; charge, retailing whis
ky; discharged on his own recognizance.
Step Hubbard, colored; charge, distill
ing, e tc; gave bond SIOO. Wiley B Hop
per, white; diarge, distilling, etc; gave
bond SSOO. Manson Echols, colored;
charge, retailing whisky; discharged.
Gaines Leadwyler, colored; charge work
ing in a still; gave bond S2OO. Nathan
Muckles, colored; charge, retailing whis
ky; gave bond SIOO. Dab Arnold, col
ored; charge, retailing whisky; gave
bond SIOO. Henry Thornton, colored;
charge, retailing whisky; gave bondsloo.
Nep Brittain, colored; charge, retailing
whisky; gave bond SIOO. Scott Parks,
colored; charge, retailing whisky; com
mitted to jail. J F Cunningham, white;
charge, distilling, etc; gave bond of sl,-
000. John Esco, white; charge, distill
ing, etc; gave bond of SSOO. T C Jen
nings, white; charge, distiliings, etc;
discharged. Many of the cases were
held by the commissioners to be mere
technical violations of the law, and hence
after hearing the evidence, small bonds
were required. Several of the prisoners
waived a hearing and tendered bonds.
We learn from the defendants’ friends
that they feel confident of acqnital, and
we hope their innocence may* be estab
lished.
graphs which follow, seem to indicate as
much, as they all appeared in papers da
ted the 23rd •
Capt. Wm. J. Garrett, a wealthy mer
chant of Atlanta, accompanied by Hon.
John H. James Col. Tom Alexander and
Rev. Dr. Spalding, passed througlr Mon
tezuma yesterday (Tuesday) on a matri
monial excursion to Albany. The bride
expectant is one of the fairest of all the
fair dames of our southwestern cbme.—
Montezuma Weekly.
Capt. Wm. J. Garrett, a wealthy mer
chant of Atlanta, accompanied by Hon.
John H. James* Col. Tom Alexander and
Rev. Dr. Spalding, passed through Arner
cus Tuesday noon, on a matrimonial ex
cursion to Albany. The Captain is wor
thy of some fair hand and he wins one of
the worthiest. —Americus Bepublican.
Capt. W J. Garrett, a wealthy mer
chant of Atlanta, accompanied by Hon.
John H. James, Col. Tom Alexander and
Rev, Dr. Spalding, passed through yes
terday on a matrimonial excursion to Al
bany. We do uot know the name of the
lady who Capt. G. will marry to-day.—
Fort Valley > Mirror.
Fifty-four Clerks in the Georgia Leg
islature, and still economy is the motto
of patriots.
On last Friday, a’Nt’ashville, says the
Berrien county News, a little daughter
of Rev. J. J. Peeples,' aged five years,
was burned to death. Some of the old
er children had been cleaning the yard,
and fired the piles of trash, which they
left burning and retired to some other
portion of the yard, and left the little
girl playing around in the vicinity of the
burning heaps. Passing too near, her
dress caught oil- fire. She was heard to
cry but no attention was paid to her at
the time, but her continued cries brought
at length someone to her assistance, but
too late, her elothing being entirely
burned off and her body one charred
mass.
The Elbertou Gazette says: “Times
are hard and have been so for many
years, indeed ever since the late unpleas
antness, but industry and economy will
command the times as well as circum
stances. An instance of what can be
done by dint of hard labor and prudent
management, is found in Lloyd Thomp
son, a negro in the Flatwoods. Three
years ago, Lloyd bought one hundred
acres-of poor hmd, promising to pay SBOO
stock, a good house, and don’t owe a
cent. How did he do it ? He raised
com, peas, oats, wheat and other grain
for sale, over and above enough to run
his farm, and with this fund paid the
current expenses of the year. His cot
ton—five or six bales—was all surplus
and was applied to his debts. Many wi
ser men could Jollow his example.
Eatonton Messenger: Mr. W. W. Tur
ner, of this county, lias ip his possession
several heirlooms over a century old.—
Among them—parhaps the most curious
-—is a large, iron-bound chest, contain
ing one dozen Square bottles, each capa
ble of holding about a gallon and a half.
It has a spring lock, and the lock and
key are both queer looking concerns. The
history of this relic is a little singular.
Before the revolutionary war, the great
grand father of Wm. Turner, Joseph Tur
ner, then residing in Virginia, had a
neighbor who was a Royalist or Tory. See
ing trouble at hand, this neighbor came
to Mr. Turner add said: “Joe, lam go
ing home till this fuss is over, and I want,
you to take care of my liquor case till I
come back.” Accordingly, he sailed for
England, but the little fuss not turning
exactly as he expected, he never return
ed. After the wai was over, Mr Turner
emigrated to Georgia with his son, who
was also named Joseph. The chest of
bottles has hgen handed down from fa
ther to son till it* reached the hands of
its present owner.
Rev. E. W r . Warren, of Atlanta, has re
ceived a call from a church at Rich
mond, Ya. It is not stated that he
will accept.
Howard Van Epps, a young lawyer of
talent, has been appointed Solicitor of
the City Court of Atlanta. The selection
is a good one.
The Yduug Men’s Library, of Macon,
received $132 as a result of Gen. Toombs
lecture.
There are now confined in Fulton
countyfjail seventy-five prisoners, five of
of whom are women.
Columbus has commenced gardening
iu earnest, and expects soon to be luxu
rating on English p as and Irish pota’
toes. Columbus always had a “foreign”
taste for her vegetation.
An old Covington darkie sprinkled red
pepper on the floor of a ball room last
week, and the affair adjourned sine die.
Augusta Chronicle: The locomotive
“Clinton,” one of the finest engines be'
loDging to the Georgia railroad, has been
changed to a coal burner, and will make
her first trip on Saturday.
The Thomasville Enterprise wants
Gen. A. R. Lawton to be Governor.
The Directors of the Macon & Bruns'
wick road'have rejected all bids made for
its purchase or lease under th® late ad
vertisement.
Gen. Lawton voted in holding
the national convention in Cincinnati,
and 30 did most of the Southern mem'
bers of the committee.
The Atlanta Courier is in favor of
economy. This is an improvement on
the Herald fast mail.
The Monticello Banner in pleased to
learn that an extensive vein of amethist
has been found on the plantation of Mr.
J. B. Goolsby, of Jasper county, eight
miles from Monticello. Capt. W. L.
Clay, of Atlanta, who is now in that
county, has just got through testing this
vein and reports it a very superior one
and of great value. It is said to be the
only amethyst that lias eve ?*been discov’
ered in Georgia.
Our Nevrnan Letter.
Newnan, Feb. 24,. 1876.
Your correspondent left your pleasant
and prosperous little city on Wednesday
for this town on business bent, and be
lieving a letter from this point might in
terest your many readers, I drop you an
item or two.
The farming interest of the country
being of vast more- importance than all
others combined, it may be well to
speak of the preparation and prospects of
the coming crop, for a distance of forty
miles or more, so far as a passenger can
discern on a passage through. The wheat
crop (though a small area seems to be
sown) looks remarkably well, while win
ter oats present the same appearance,—
The writer has never noticed so much
clearing up of low grounds, ditching and
rebuilding of new fences, since ante bel
um days, and actually saw a freedman
splitting rails ! The plows aro running
in all directions, and energy and deter
mination, so far as I could judge, was
evinced in every direction. All busy ;
all at work. But they should plant corn!
sow more cereals !
At 12 o’clock to.day Gen. A. H. Col.
quit! delivered at the court-house one of
the most masterly, common sense speech,
es of his life, to the members of the
Grange here, and the large court room
was literally crammed, both with ladies
and’gentlemen. Thirty.two years ago,
July next, your correspondent first heard
the father of this distinguished Georgi
an make a speech from the same rostrum
in opposition to Hon. A. H. Stephens.—
These were the halcyon days of Mr. Ste.
phens, and right well did he vindicate
his political theory against the attacks of
his senior competitor, and perhaps the
greatest criminal lawyer Georgia ever
produced. Marked attention was paid
to the address by all His advice to.the
farmer was good. He told them if they
would bo independent and happy, they
mast raise their breadstuff's, their meats,
their necessary supplies at home ; they
must stop figuring as ’to the profits to
bo in raising cotton ; in the calculation
as to the cost and] profits made on cot.,
ton in subtraction the higher figure was
always below ; you couldn’t subtract 9
from 8, if yon did, nothing was left; they
must fill from the farm the corn crib, the
smoke house ; to raise cotton to buy
meat and bread was ruinous to the peo
ple ; we must fall back on the old plan
of farming a generation ago ; and then
pictured with telling effect the system of
independent farming in his boyhood
days. Gen. C. is a farmer himself. His
speech was well received, and may do
much gooil ; and at the conclusion, the
lanies received quite an encomium from
the orator’s lips. Whether Gen. Col.
quilt would make a good Governor may
be tried, but the writer is willing to vote
for him as be : ng one of the most seusi
ble men lie ever heard speak on the pro.
blena of farming.
At the conclusion of Gen. C’3 speech,
Mr. Hatch, an emigrant agent, and edit,
or in* Nashville, delivered a short ad.
dress that would have caused every rad.
ical in Spalding (if any there be) to hide
in shame before an enlightened commu'
nity. He is a live Yankee. He opened
his iriouth, and like the'limpid water,
truth flowed in transparent torrents,
and all could see how it was that the so
called Southern outrages were magnified
and tiie ignorant voters of the North
at elections, had been carried to the polls
and voted almost en masse to continue
the oppression of the South. He was
well spoken of, and the writer believes
him to be an honest mam
At night the court houso was again
filled to heal' a phrenological lecture—
and as usual ou such occasions, a good
deal of fun ensued
Altogether Nevvnan is a pleasant little
own, and is improving considerably.
While here I called on Messrs - Barron
& Cabaniss, editors of the Blade'ud r*
ceived an old time greeting They have
as neat a country office as I ever saw—
everything in place, no “pi,” as you
printers call it, and are making their
paper the compeer of their neighbor—
the Herald. They will doubtless suc
ceed,, as they are both practical men,
practical printers and practical editors—
so to speak. B.
Speaker Hardeman's, farewell Ad
dress to (lie lloustt of Itepresenta
titter*.
Gentlemen of the House of Representa
tives :
lam now called upon to perform my
last official duty. Before doing so, per
mit me to express my grateful acknowl
edgements for the uniform kindness and
courtesy, -which have- ever characterized
your conduct toward me. They have
deeply impressed me, and will sweeten,
iu the years to come, the recollection of
my association with you. As the ocean
3liell cast upon the beach, sings ever of
its home in the sea, so will memory in
her “coral depths” ever proclaim in my
journey through life, the tender attach
ments which have been formed during
the months in which we have labored to
gether. If in those labors, I have ruffled
a sentiment or wounded a feeling, let me
in this parting hour assure you they were
foreign to my intentions and will inflict
upon me a deeper wound than yon were
made to feel—for I can say in purest
sincerity, J have endeavored to discharge
the arduor s duties of this position with
as much kindness and impartiality as
human nature can manifest, and now,
before we separate, perhaps forever, per
mit me in all candor to say, that as the
flower of the poet turns to her God as
he revolves to his setting the same look
that she gave when he rose, so will this
heart in anxious solicitude follow you
and your destines in the revolutions of
life, until the sun of your existence shall
set to rise no more forever. Home asso
ciations now welcome you, home duties
will soon command your time and your
labors; while enjoying the heart cheer
ing realities of domestic intercourse,
forget not your duty to yourselves, to
your neighbor and God. To yourselves
by a faithful discharge of the require
ments of domestic and social life—to
your neighbor by rendering “nuto Ctesar
things that are Ciesar’s,” to your God by
an exemplary life and a Godly conversa
tion. As representative meu, society
looks to you for elevation and advance
ment, while upon you and those like you
rest in an eminent degree, the honor and
glory of your state. Go then, from these
Legislative halls, fixed in your purposes,
that come weal or woe, come prosperity
or adversity—come sunny skies or wa
vering elements, you will never swerve
from duty’s paths and will ever bo found
battling for the good, the noble and the
true. The year we have just entered is
pregnant with eventful issues. The bat
tle for self-government and constitution
al liberty will be fought before willfi
have completed its cyclo; in that strug
gle, let no minor differences, no selfish
aims, no ambitious hopes divide you,
but with shields unlinked—as heart
beats responsive to heart. . , J
“Firm, paced,” and true a solid' front
then form
“Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the
storm.”
This, Georgia expects of her sons, and
never has she been disappointed in her
estimate of her people, and so long as
you have duty for your watchword and
fidelity the reply, the old mother will
never lower her crest, as history pro
nounces judgmeut upon the character of
her sons. Go forth, theD, to your re
spective duties, with a sense of your re
sponsibilities, rememboriug that as iu
the same heavens where grows the sun
shine and twinkles the stars—there gath
ers the tempest and the thunderbolt
sleeps, so in those duties, there will
brighten the cheering hone and gloom,
the despondent reality. Yet these duties
await you, and before yon enter upon
them, let me, from this heart, impressed
with you generous confidence and kind
ness invoke upon you and your loved
ones, the choicest blessings of heaven
coupled with tbe assurance, that where
ever your lot in life may be cast, you
will ever have my prayers, for your
health, happiness and prosperity. And •
now gentlemen, with “a God bless you
all,” I bid you farewell and adjourn this
house without a day.
A HVGE*TIiE.
SHOOTING AFTER A FUGITIVE
Some months since we- made notice
that Kelley, o£ Newton county, the mur
derer of Dr. Hardeman, had escaped
from the coal mines and was at large de
fying the authorities. A Sew days since
it was reported that he was in Batts,
county with some other parties, who.
swore they would not ba arrested, Cer
tain gentlemen from this city went down
to see if they could not “bring him hr
taw,” and men never worked more vigor
ously. They laid out in the cold, stohil in
the rain and mud, and at last go* on the
trail of the party looked for. They
thought they had him, but being mount ■
ed on a fleet horse he managed to escape,
but not until seven shots had been feed
at him. Some of the party are still on
his trail, and a dispatch just received
shows that they have been shooting at
each other and that Kelly is wounded,
Messrs. Bob Connell, John Hightower,
Taylor Morris and Branch Bowdoin are
on his trail. Escape witli such men after
him is impossible.
Newspaper Business.
. The newspaper business in this city
has again worked down to a proper level.
There are but two papers published in
the city, the Daily ajjd Weekly News
and the Press <£• Gidtivaior. Both are
good papers, worthy of patronage and a
credit to the city and county in which
they are published, and the people are
plenty able to give Them both a liberal
support, which will enable them to make
better papers than they now are, and
nothing contributes more towards the
building up of a City or county than live,
wide-awake, reliable newspapers. Let
the people help the Press and the Press
will help them. The News alone brings
thousands of dollars to Griffin every
year, from the North and West for sub
scription and advertising, which is spent
right in Griffin by the proprietors and
employees of the office, and the more
patronage we get at home, the better in
ducement we can give and the more mon
ey-we will bring here to help build up
and sustain our city.