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E. M. OEME EDITOR
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15.
Reform or Revolution.
Some of the so-called Republican
journals are becoming alarmed at the
frauds and corruption in high places,
and begin to talk out. They are
looking out for a remedy, and the New
York Tribune is getting on the right
track as to the true cause. It says :
“We are fond of asserting that poli
tics is a trade; that the virtue, reli
gion, enlightenment of the country
is to be found in her quiet homes.
Whose fault is that? If the prize
fighter or the professional gambler
directs our ward politics and our State
affair sor represents us at Washington,
while the honest man, the man of
refinement, the Christian, sits quietly
at home, who is to blame? If we
voluntarily suffer these men to become
our representatives, they do represent
us fairly enough. The man who,
sooner than 1 soil his hands with the
dirty business of politics,’ remains
tranquil at home, and gives over the
country to bribe-takers and black
mailers, has no right to. whine on the
score of honesty and intelligence.”
The question naturally arises, why
do the good and virtuous men of the
country hold aloof from an active
participation in politics ? The reason
is plain, very plain. When money is
raised to carry elections, to buy, to
tribe, to lead men to the polls, no
right thinking man, men of a nice
sense of self respect will be caught
x any such business. That is why
elections are left to prize-fighters and
unscrupulous politicians.
Stop this raising of money to carry
elections, and reform will begin; con
tinue it, and ruin and revolution will
soon follow. Our present political
party tactics are thoroughly corrupt,
and the people have been made cor
rupt thereby. Let the reform begin
in the right place—among political
President Grant.
A correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun has this to say of President
Grant: “ The developments of the
last week have produced more effect
upon the President probably than
anything which has ever happened
during his term of office. It is plain
now to perceive that beneath his im
perturability there is an uneasiness
and a disquiet which has never before
troubled him. Since the fall of Bel
knap he has seen but very few visi
tors outside of Senators and members,
and the business he has with them he
dispatches as soon as possible.”
Well, it is about time that he
should begin to feell bad. He ought
to know by this time what sort of fel
lows he has been honoring and making
rich by giving them office, and the
influence they have exerted. If the
secrect history of all were known it
would make the President wish him
self dead, instead of desiring a third
term.
Mr. E. H. Cheek, brought to this
office Friday, says the Sumter Re
publican, a ruta-ba ga turiyp which
weighed 71 pounds and measured
thirty inches in circumference. Mr
Cheek gave it as his opinion that he
would make five hundred bushels of
turnips off one acre. He made 27
bushels of oats per acre on the same
land.
The planters of' Baker, says the
Albany News, are well up to the sea
son in their crop affairs, and their
lands were never in a better condi
tion.for planting or growing. Labor
is ample and efficient, and the pros
pect i good, though money is not
and credit’s played out. Economy,
rigid pinching economy may yet re
deem this section, and place it upon a
basis of prosperity.
Explanation From Gen. Ingalls.
The New York Herald publishes
ail authorized statement from General
Rufus Ingalls in regard to his presen
tation of a $4,800 watch to Mrs. Grant,
wife of the President. Gen. Ingalls
says the watch was presented to him
in April, 1871, by a friend, who had
purchased it in Europe. Gen. In
galls, upon receiving it, conceiving the
idea of presenting it to Mrs. Grant,
since, being a bachelor, he did not
know what else to do with it. Gen.
Grant had been a classmate of his,
and a great attachment had always
existed between them. So, on visit
ing Washington, he placed the article
in a small parcel and handed it to
the porter at the White House to be
given to Mrs. Grant, with the accom
panying letter:
Deaf, Madam: Animated by an
unselfish affection for your husband,
after an unbroken friendship of more
than thirty years, with very high re
gard for yourself, I take the liberty
to hand you this trinket, which I beg
you to accept, being a thing which is
of no use to me, and which cost me
so little. Yours, truely,
Rufus Ingalls.
Upon which the New York Sun,
comments as follows, and thinks it
rather an expensive trinket.
A trinket —a mere trinket—that
is all! How strangely this contrasts
with the elaborate discriptiou of the
watch which Gen. Ingalls admits he
sent to the White House! Then it
had been “manufactured for presenta
tion to Her Majesty Queen Victo
ria.” “Instead of figures on the
dial, twelve letters are substituted,
Dieii mon Droit. * * Each letter is
made op'onyx and diamonds, set in
crystal. On the reve, -e is shown the
Ordeivof the Garter, with the Rose,
Thistle, and Shamrock in diamonds.”
* * “The chain * *consists of black
enamelled armor plate, linked togeth
er with rubies and diamonds.’, Then
there was “a lone star of pearl.” “On
the reverse side is the letter G in dia
monds.” \
official Degeneracy.
It makes one almost doubt the com
mon honesty of his fellow man, espe
cially those engaged in political life,
when he reads of the corruption that
is now being revealed. The detec
tion of one official but leads to another
and the ring widens ana widens as
new' revelations are made.
The Republican party will have a
weight to carry in the coming elec
tion that must crush it; and if not,
then the leaders are not only corrupt,
but the people themselves are at
tainted, and common honesty among
officials is a thing of the past.
We hope for a change for the bet
ter ; for like a malignant disease, it
must run its course, and the patient
will be stronger and healthier for the
attack. The country cannot, and will
not stand the corruption that now
curses the land.
We shall support no man for the
next Legislature who does not give
an inviolate pledge to vote for an
act t* call a State Convention for the
purpose of framing anew Constitu
tion.
So writes the Rome Courier. It is
now about time that legislators be in.
structed, for it seems many imagine
that they are far wiser than their
constituents.
We are sick and tired of the argu
ment of expediency and policy. We
need anew Constitution; one that
will command the respect of the peo
ple and restore confidence between
man and man.
It is the general impression that
our present constitution was made in
the interest of debtors; and such being
the belief, we see that confidence has
been lost, and business and trade im
paired.
.Sqecial Notices,
JBST AN ACT TO PROVIDE
for keeping a record of all bonds Issued In
this Stato, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Tie It enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from
and after passage of this Act, ft shall be the
duty of all public and private corporations In
this State who shall issue or endorse any
bonds for circulation to furnish to the Secre
tary- of State a certified statement showing
the letter date of Issue, number of bonds,
amount of Issue, rate of Interest, when and
where payable, and the date or the law, If
any, authorizing such Issue, and it shall be
the duty of the Secretary of Stato to have the
same recorded In a book to be kept by- him
for that purpose.
Section 2. Be it further enacted by the
authority- aforesaid, That all public and pri
vate corporations in this State who have
bonds now in circulation, Issued and en
dorsed by- them, shall furnish to the Secre
tary of State within ninety- days from the
passage of this Act certified statements re
quired by the first section of tills Act, and the
same shall be recorded by said officer as pro
vided for in said first section.
Section 3. Be it further enacted by the au
thority-aforesaid, That public or private cor
porations neglecting or refusing to comply
wlth the provisions of this Act shall be fined
in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars
for each offense, one half of said fine to go to
the party giving information of such viola
tion, and the other half to go to the public
school fund of the county-.
Section 1. Be it further enacted by flic
authority aforesaid, That no bonds shall be
placed in circulation until the provisions of
the first section of this Act witli regard to
such bonds shall have been complied with,
and any person placing such bonds in circu
lation without such compliance shall be sub
ject to a fine of five hundred dollars for every
bond so put in circulation.
Section 5. Be it further enacted by the
authority- aforesaid, That the* Secretary of
State shall receive as compensation for the
records provided for in first and second sec
tions of this Act and for giving transcripts of
tlie same, twenty- cents per hundred words,
file fee for recording to be paid by the corpor
ation issuing the bond, and the fee for tran
script to be paid by the party applying for
the same.
Section 6. Be it further enacted by- the
authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts
of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the
same are hereby repealed.
THOMAS HARDEMAN. Jr„
Speaker House Representatives.
J. L. Sweat, Clerk House Representatives.
T. ,1. SUMMONS,
President of Senate.
J. W. Murphy, Secretary of Senate.
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