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W F.DNF.HDAY OCT Ols EB 1G
LET L'H HAVE PEACE.
This is the meaning of theoverwhclm
ing Democratic majority which swells
up from all parts of the State. Peace
and Reconciliation are the talismanie
words which have been pronounced at
the ballot i>ox. Every body wants
peace. The farmer wants peace, the
merchant wants peaee, the mechanic
wants pence, the laborer wants peace
all, without distinction as to caste
or color, want peace. In thunder
tones it has been announced that we
have not peace; that Ku-Klux laws arc
not peace; that the suspension of the
habeas corpus is not peace; that tearing
front the bosom of their families old
men and young men, under the form of
law, for Ktute offenses, and after con
viction by juries selected to convict,
is not peace; that the shaved heads and
striped jackets of a Northern prison, for
political offenses, is not peace; that
Grant's Administration does not mean
peace, or intend to give peace. Better
far a friendly bullet in an open field
than a deceitful promise to the ear, which
solemnly prays in public for peace, but in
very deed fosters distrust and espion
age, convicts upon paid testimony, and
consigns to the dungeon of a remote
prison. But far better yet an honest
peace, with the return of civil law
in Administration, and the restora
tion of public confidence between the
Government and the governed, even
though the exponent of this peace has
been u life-long adversary. Georgia and
Georgians have, said, with wonderful
unanimity, not doubtfully or oracularly.
Bet u , have Peace, as General Grant said
in the outset of his Administration; but
really and truly, Bet ns have Peace and
Di-conciliation; and will again reiterate
it, on the sth day of November next.
HOW THE GEORGIA ELECTION
\\ VS GIVEN IIP IN ADVANCE.
Tile Chicago Journal (Radical) thus
notes the election as impending :
Georgia holds her election to-morrow,
October 2. The Republican nominee
for Governor is Dawson A. Walker; the
Democratic, James M. Smith, present
incumbent. The Legislature is now
largely Democratic. The State will nn
doubtely go against us. It did four
years ago. It is to the Democracy
much what Mai tie is to the Republicans,
only no particular effort has been made
on cither side. The canvass has been
conducted almost entirely by local poli
ticians. Eonr years ago the Democrats
elected their Governor by a majority of
about seven thousand, but Seymour’s
majority was over forty-four thousand.
Georgia is entitled to eleven members
of Congress, including Senators.
Well, Georgia is to the Democracy
what Maine is to the Republicans, only
a little more so. Georgia pronounces
for Peace and Reconciliation, increasing
four live or six fold over the seven
thousand of four years ago; while
Maine, after the most strenuous effort,
cannot bo made to hold her old position,
but reduces her majority. As to the
canvass, “ only no particular effort lias
been made” on the Democratic side, but
oil the Radical side very particular ef
forts were mado to reduce Smith’s ma
jority. Judge Walker, a very excellent
gentleman, was selected, upon his own
terms, ns a leader, and ho canvassed the
State vigorously, repudiating Bullock
and his Radical rump, and put forth the
most seductive promises to win those
who were doubtful upon principle or
policy, while Governor Smith stayed
quietly at home, in the honest and faith
ful discharge of the ditties of liis office.
The effect of this insidious struggle for
the Governorship is best seen in the
election returns —it was “no particular
effirt" not much of a storm after all —
only a tropical shower.
RESPONSIBILITY OF SOUTHERN
DEMOCRATS.
“Distasteful as it may bo to Southern
Democrats to vote for Mr. Greeley,’’says
the LaGrange Reporter, “there arc few
of them, comparatively speaking, who
would be willing to decide the election
iu favor of General Grant if that decis
ion depended on a single vote. No
Southern Democrat would say, by his
vote, that Grant shall be tho successful
candidate to rule this country with ter
rorism four years longer, if he knew his
own single vote would decide tho con- ,
test, though he may be opposed to the ;
manner in which Greeley was thrust
upon the Democratic party as its nomi
nee. No true Southern man would make
noli a decision at the ballot box when
he knew such a decision would entail
upon the Southern States such a state of
affairs as now exists in South Carolina.
It would be repulsive to every instinct
of his nature. Every such Democrat
would prefer the election of Greeley,
with all his faults of the past and the
dangerous tendency of his present polit
ies! views. Grant is the representative
of political forces fiercely opposed'to
nnv measures favorable to the people of
the South. Greeley represents the forces
friendly to the Southern people, and is
risking his election upon personal ap
peals in behalf of ‘reconciliation and
peace’ between the sections.”
The Reporter is one of the ablest or- !
gans of the “Straights,” and reflects the
opinions of those sterling Democrats
who have demurred against “the sacri
fice of principle to policy” in the nomi- j
nation of Horace Greeley. But cer-,
iainly no fair-minded person can resist j
argument, ns placed l>y the Reporter.
Grant represents “terrorism” iu the
South; Greeley represents peace and re
conciliation. Grant represents a Gov
ernment of martial law and the Ku-Klux
l . mmitioe for the people of the South;
Greeley represents the return and estab
lishment of civil law and local self-gov
eminent, with peace and reconciliation. |
Grant declares officially that neitlier life i
nor property is safe iu the South, thus
furthering the ends and designs of the |
carpet-baggers; Greeley has said openly, ,
time and again, that the carpet-bag gov- 1
ernments are the curse of tlie South, !
and protests at the North, iu the South,
in the East and in the West, at Port- 1
land, r.t Vicksburg, at New York, Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, Louisville, that life
aud property is as safe in the South as
iu the North. Gent ral Grant refuses
an ajijieal for mercy and clemency from
th< Don. Alexander If. Stephens in be- j
half of the unfortunate citizens of the j
South, who, through political pcrsccu- j
tion, have been condemned to hard la- j
bor, in striped jackets and with shaved
hinds, in Northern prisons; Greeley
represents Peace, Reconciliation and
Prosperity.
What Democrat can hesitate ? Nay,
more, what Georgian or Southern man
cau be indifferent ? What political views
can be more dangerous to the whole
country than the policy of Grant’s Ad
ministration ? What faults in the past
can overshadow by their magnitude the
dangers of the present policy of Grant's
Administration, which seeks to perpet-
nate power through sectional fear and
sectional hatred, keeping warm and !
aglow the embers of bitterness and
; strife among the people, and burning
deep resentment into the hearts of the
unsuccessful by humiliation and degra
j dation ?
THE GEORGIA BON'D (QUESTION.
The New- York Tribune says that the |
Georgia bond man (of the Metropolis) is j
, greatly concerned al>out the result of
| the election in Georgia, and thinks that
I with the condemnation of Bullock, the
! runaway Governor, and his confederate
railroad swindlers, that “chaos has come
again.” The bond man may hang his
l>onds in picture frames, and himself
upon the office hooks, if he proposes to
await that return from chaos which will
make his fraudulent bonds of legal ob
ligation. Both parties in the late elec
tion took especial pains to denounce
Bullock and the fraudulent bonds. No
one, not even the King of the Ashartus,
or the Great Wahoo of the Ogeechee,
pretended to lift their voices except in
condemnation of Bullock, Clews & Cos.,
and their bond swindle. Indeed, the
Wahoo says that it was Bullock, Clews
& Cos. that killed the “ pure Republican
party ” in Georgia by covering it with J
the slime and mud of their infamous
swindles. While it was told to their in
nocent ears that a tax of ninety dollars
a head, or a bale of cotton, would have
to be levied to pay Clews’ fraudulent
bonds, if the Radicals succeeded—while
it may be chaos—all chaos—to the bond
holders of Wall street, even to the
Great Wahoo in Georgia—
Dere shines a light,
Which shines so bright,
Just as the broke of day.
SERENADE TO GOVERNOR SMITH.
He Makes a Strong Greeley Speech—
lie Finds the Philosopher on the
Same Platform with Hon. A. 11. Ste
phens as to State Rights A Democrat
No Less a Democrat for Going with i
Greeley.
in Atlanta on Thursday evening, as we
find reported in the Constitution, an im
promptu serenade was tendered Gov.
James M. Smith. A large crowd, headed
by a band of music, proceeded to the
Executive Mansion. The band played:
“Hail to the Chief,” as Governor Smith,
the gallant Democratic Chief, came out
into the portico. General Garlington,'
in behalf of the large and enthusiastic
crowd, stated that this demonstration
was made in congratulation of bis suc
cess, and approval of liis past and faith
and confidence in his future administra
tion.
GOVERNOR smith’s SPEECH.
Governor Smith responded in sub
stance as follows ;
Fellow-Citizens — In consequence of
a severe hoarseness it is impossible for
me to address you at length to-niglit. I
thank you for the honor yon have done
mo. I give greater significance to this
compliment than a mere personal one.
It is an expression of popular feeling at
the triumph of principle over Radical
ism. In July last there assembled in
this city a body of men—representative
men—representing the intelligence, the
property, the virtue and the integrity of
the people of the State, that conferred
together as to what their interest re
quired to protect them in their rights
and their property, entrusted by the
people of Georgia. They framed a plat
form of principles, and upon that plat
form they stood; it was simple enough;
but was sufficient for all purposes, and
contained the fundamental doctrines of
tjic rights of the State, and equality of
the citizens; upon this platform they
made a nomination for tho support of
the people. Shortly after there was
another convention representing ignor
ance and stupidity, composed of colored
Republicans, postmasters and Federal
officials. They, too, laid down their
principles. They, unwilling to trust
Democrats, put out their candidate—a
gentleman who I shall say nothing
against; for wo are told lie is an excel
lent man, and I shall not gainsay it.
On yesterday the question was decided
by a majority unparalleled iu the annals
of Georgia. Men sink out of sight.
Tho question was whether you would
submit to Radical rule, or manage your
own affairs. From fifty-five counties
heard from, you determined by a ma
jority of 30,000 votes, that tho good
sense and virtue should rule, instead of
ignorance and vice. Os the wisdom of
your choice I shall not speak (I do not
speak of myself.) It is a principle well
settled to have good government, and
the proper administration of affairs. In
telligence and honesty must rule.
It is not my purpose to enter into the
discussion of National politics, but
simply to state how I stand in reference
to them. There is a division, it is said,
that exists among you. I have my own
views, and I support Greeley. We have
gained a victory now, as I have said, but
there is another victory to be attained,
or we shall lose one-half of what we
have already got. There were but two
parties in the State election. I am much
obliged to my Straight friends who gave
me their support. We were all agreed
upon one thing ; that was the overthrow
of Radicalism. There are but two Na
tional parties arrayed against each other,
and each has its rallying point on which
it depended for success—one a great cen
tral despotism at Washington, that wants
to give laws to the utmost limits of the
country. Around this idea they rally.
Grant is the candidate of this party.
He may be a very excellent man. We
are told} he is magnanimous. I know
postmasters will say so. “ The ox know
oth his owner, and the ass his master’s
crib.” They will acquit Grant because
they have eat part of tho beef. [Ap
plause. |
They say ho was magnanimous when j
he didn’t take the sword of Leo when !
he surrendered. Well, Lee's sword was j
about the only thing he did not accept, |
and it is doubtful if be would not have j
taken this if it had had any pecuniary
value. He never refused anything from
a palace to a pointer pup. [Cheers.]
The other great national party is the
Democratic party, united with the Lib
eral Republican party. They have their
candidate, which they ask us to be put
into power, upon the prineiples which
give equal rights to the State and the
protection of the people; that we are to j
be equal to Massachusetts and the equal
of New York in the protection of our i
rights; to have the same political rights,
equal laws, and the Government ecu- ;
! nominally administered. This is what j
we all want. lam not going to speak of 1
I Grant, nor will 1 speak of Greeley.
What- are the claims of Grant or the ob
! jeetion to Greeley compared to the prin
ciples which are at stake'? Which is
vour choice? [The crowd thundered
| out “Horace Greeley.” Among the ]
voices were several colored Demo
crats. A weak Grantite squeaked out
“O’Conor.” Governor Smith replied,
j “ O'Conor is a clever man, but he can't
write letters.” This was greeted with
jan outburst of applause. Is there any
j hope to beat Grant with O'Conor? —
"No' No!” unanimously.] The only
j difference between my Straight friends
i and me is, you take the left hand road
j to defeat Grant, and I take the right
| hand road to do the same thing. I think
| we had better take Greeley than run the
! chances. There are certain things I
don’t like him for. however. % I don't
1 love him for abusing me, but I will
; use anything for the purpose of defeat
ing Grant. With all that lias been said
against Greelev, he Inis never been call
ed a liar ! and his chief characteristic is
his independence of mind. He stands
identically on the same platform with
m y friend" A. H. Stephens as to State
: rights. Mr. Stephens I know will not
get off of it. He will “stick.”
Mr. Greeley says he will give us our
| rights. I am.willing to trust him before
i 1 will trust a man that I know is my
enemy. If the devil himself, coming
up from the infernal regions, smelling
of brimstone, was to promise to relieve
the South of nnjnst aud wicked laws, I
would take him rather than Grant. I
know what Grant will do, aud would
take the chances.
Look at South Carolina. Grant sus
pended the writ of habeas corpus in
Union county for a whole mouth, when
there had not been a single violation of
the laws of the United States in it, and
then claimed that it was suspended
by mistake.
It is strange that Democrats are afraid
to trust themselves with Greeley. He
(Smith) had been a Democrat from his
youth up; it was his only inheritance;
lie was not afraid that Greeley or any
one else could make him believe what
lie did not believe. [Prolonged ap
plause.] A Democrat was no less a
Democrat for going with Greeley. [Con
tinued applause.]
In response to vociferous calls, Hon.
B. H. Hill appeared and addressed the
crowd, who listened to him with marked
attention and greeted him with ap
plause. The crowd at this time had
largely increased.
[From the Atlanta Son, 6th.]
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SUPREME
COURT.
Tribute to the Memory of Judge Linton
Stephens.
Saturday, October 5,1872.
On 10th July last General Robert
Toombs, in the Supreme Court, an
nounced the death of Hon. Linton Ste
phens, who was, at the time of his
decease, a member of the Bar of that
Court, and had, before the war, occupied
a seat upon its bench.
Whereupon it was ordered by the
Court that General Robert Toombs, ex-
Govemor Charles J. Jenkins, Judge R.
F. Lyon, Gen. Henry L. Benning and
Judge Iverson L. Harris be appointed a
committee to report suitable resolutions
commemorative of Judge Stephens,
when the Northern Circuit should be
reached in its order on the docket.
The Northern Circuit being reached
this morning, the committee thus ap
pointed made tho following report ;
The committee appointed by the Su
preme Court of Georgia during this
term, to report “ suitable resolutions
commemorative of Judge Stephens,.”
submit the following report:
The Bench and Bar of this Court are
again called upon to hold a meeting of
sorrow commemorative of another of
their most distinguished, valued and be
loved professional brethren. The hand
of death which has recently stricken the
name of Linton Stephens from the roll
of the living, leaves not upon our re
cords a more perfect model of a pure,
able, learned, and upright magistrate ;
of a just, profound, brilliant, and suc
cessful lawyer; of an earnest, self-sac
rificing, devoted patriot; of a great
hearted, true man, whose life was spent
in the practice of Virtue, the pursuit
and vindication of truth, aud in the ser
vice of his fellow ijian.
Linton Stephens was born in wliat
was then Wilkes county, no w the county
of Taliaferro, in this State, on tho Ist
day of July, 1823. His father, of Scotch
Irish descent, was a gentleman of unusual
education and intellectual attainments
in the day, and among the people among
whom his lot was cast ; and the family
ranked with the first class of tho early
settlers of our Commonwealth.
He was left an orphan in his childhood,
with a slender patrimony, but he had
great advantages in his youth, of which
he availed himself to an extent rare
among the youth of our country.
The Providence which deprived him
of a father’s fostering protection com
mitted him to tho caro of one pre-emi
nently qualified to discharge the duties
of father, brother, protector and friend;
deep, fervent, unbounded fraternal af
fection, moulded the grand development
of his moral and intellectual character,
which won the confidence, tlio affections,
and the admiration of all who knew him.
Having been thoroughly prepared un
der this training, he entered the Fresh
man class of Franklin College in tho
University of Georgia, in 1839, when
sixteen years old. He was immediately
recognized as the head of a large class
of Georgia’s chosen sons, which position
he maintained throughout his collegiate
course and graduated with the first
honor of liis Alma Mater, without a
competitor and without a rival.
After leaving College he was placed in
the office of one of our committee to
study law, and was soon afterwards sent
to the University of Georgia, where
he graduated at the head of the law
class under Judge Tucker, who foresaw
and foretold his great professional sue
•cess.
After graduating at the University of
Virginia, in law, he went to Harvard, in
Massachusetts, to attend the lectures of
Judge Story, of the Supreme Court of
the United States, and remained there
until Judge Story’s death, when lie came
to Washington and spent a Winter in
attending the Supreme Court of the
United States, and the debates in Con
gress.
lie returned to Georgia in 1.840, hav
ing given three years to preparation for
his profession, thoroughly prepared to
bear tho armor which he put ou, and
was admitted to tlie bar in his native
county in 1846.
He located at Grawfordville, in his na
tive county, and became a leader in
causes in the Court House before lie
was scarcely known out of it.
In 1849 lie was elected to represent
Taliaferro county in the Legislature;
was re-elected in ISSO and 1851.
Thoroughly versed in the principles of
constitutional government, his com
patriots immediately recognized his
merit and his genius, and placed him at
the [lost of labor and honor.
In 1852 he married the daughter of
Judge James Thomas, of Sparta, and re
moved to Hancock county; and the next
year the people of Hancock called him
into their service as their Representative
in the Legislature and continued to
elect him until 1855, when lie was a can
didate for Congress in a district opposed
to his political opinions by a large ma
jority, which his fame and influence re
duced to au extent which made his de
feat a triumph of his principles.
In 1857 he contested the same district,
with tho same honorable result.
In 1859 Judge Stephens was appointed
to the Supreme Court of the State, and
was unanimously elected by the Legisla
ture to this honorable post.
After eighteen months’ service in that
position, he resigned it on account of ill
health. We pass over his judicial re
cord. It will go down to future ages in
our reports.
His judgements were clear, concise,
exhaustive expositions of the law and
the facts of the cases decided by hint;
and contained no word which his friends
would wish to blot.
In 1860 he was elected to tlie Seces
sion Convention of the State of Georgia,
and voted against the {resolution of se
cession. He acknowledged the right,
but opposed the policy.
But after the resolution was passed,
and the grand historic act was accom
plished, true to his principles anil his
allegiance to his State, he put liis whole
strength and power aud soul into the
cause of his country. He immediately
returned to his town, raised a company
for the vindication of the right, joined
the 15th Regiment of Georgia Yolnn- j
teers, was elected Lieutenant-Colonel of I
the Regiment, went to Virginia to meet
the foe, and continued in the Army of
Northern Virginia until 1802, when his
health compelled liim to retire from
military service.
Upon his return home he was • again
called into public service by the people
of his county, who elected him to tho
Legislature in 18(52, anil continued him
in that service until the euil of the war.
But when liis State was invaded in
1863 he raised a battalion of cavalry and
again entered into military service for
the defense of his native land, and
served until the Spring of 1864, when
the term of service of his command ex
pired ; and soon after, in the Spring of
INtU, when the invader was devastating
our land, he again put on his sword aud j
stood ih the front until compelled to i
retire from ill health to the duties of
legislator.
Having lost his first wife before the
war, in ISOS J mlge Stephens married Miss
Mary W. Salter, of Boston. From the
surrender of our armies in 1805 to the
time of his death, on the 14th of July, j
1572. Mr. Stephens was actively engaged
in a very large anil lucrative practice of
his profession, and his last grand aud
successful effort was made in the vindi
cation of public justice and in the ad
vocacy of the rights of the people.
His" mind was peculiarly adapted to
the profession which he selected, eleva
ted and advanced ; clear, vigorous, ana
lvtieal and comprehensive, it seized
truth, facts and law with an iron grasp :
and stripped sophistry and error naked
j to the mental gaze of all beholders,
while his stern integrity and devotion to
truth gave irresistalile power to his
j lofty intellect.
Judge Stephens was a husband —a
1 father ; and here his genial, kind and af
fectionate nature shone with peculiar
I brilliancy, shedding happiness and joy
! over a household in which lie was peeu
j liarly blessed. But we forbear to en
| ter those sacred precincts in which there
is no human consolation.
The committee offer the following
; resolutions :
j Resolved, Ist, That in the death of
1 Linton Stephens, the Bench and Bar of
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1572.
Georgia have lost an eminent jurist, and
the country one of its ablest and truest
sons, whose memory we would perpet
uate for the benefit of future genera
tions.
Resolved, 2 d, That we respectfully
tender to his bereaved widow and chil
dren the heartfelt sympathies of the
Bench and Bar, and the officers of this
Court, whose warm friendship and affec
tion he so well deserved and so fully
possessed.
Resolved, 3d, That in token of this,
we will wear the usual badge of mourn
ing dnring thirty days.
Resolved, 4th, That a copy of this re
port and resolutions be transmitted to
Mrs. Stephens for the family, and that
the Court be requested to have them en
tered on its minutes; and that the ga
zettes of the State be requested to pub
lish them.
This report was responded to on the
part of the Court by Chief Justice War
ner, who warralv testified to the great
leading features in Judge Stephens’
character—his exacted, unimpeachable
integrity, his high honor and love of
truth, as well as liis shining talents and
great ability as a lawyer, a jurist, a pro
found thinker and a man of intellectual
power.
On motion, it was ordered that the
report and resolutions be entered on the
minntes of this Court, and that the
Clerk do transmit to Mrs. Stephens a
copy for the family of Judge Stephens.
JUDGE REESE’S LETTER INREPLY
TO MR. GEORGE STOVALL.
Washington, Wilkes County, Ga., (
October 2, 1872. j
To the Editor of the McDuffie Journal :
Sir— ln your issue of the 18th ult.
appeared a letter from Mr. George
Stovall, vindicating himself and con
demning myself, which deserves some
notice from me. Before proceeding,
however, with this notice, allow me to
say that I am much obliged to Mr.
Stovall for giving me so good a reason
and so timely an opportunity to review
the resolution providing for the repre
sentation of McDuffie county and my
connection therewith ; the bill to ex
empt agricultural products from taxa
tion by municipal corporations and my
connection with it, and the hill to allow
the Ordinary of McDuffie county to is
sue county bonds and my connection
with it.
Ist. As to the resolution of which Mr.
Stovall thinks so highly and I so poorly,
which was passed by tlie House of Rep
resentatives through “the powerful efforts
and appeals of Mr. Stovall and liis
friends,” which Mr. Stovall says Judge
Twiggs pronounced “superior to the
original bill ” (an expression utterly re
pudiated by Judge Twiggs) aud which,
it appears from Mr. Stovall’s letter to
me of tlie 23d August last, even Gover
nor Smith, or somebody else for him,
had given reason to believe he would
endorse; an expression as to tlie course of
Governor Smith which he, authorizes me
to say “no one had any authority from
him to make.” I did condemn this
resolution soon as it was brought to my
notice, knowing it was unconstitutional,
and perhaps spoke of it (as I should not
have done) contemptuously and oppro
briously. I knew then, as I now know,
that the Supreme Court of Georgia, in
two cases in 42d Gr , pages 01 aud 84—
the cases of Coley vs. Henry, and of
Martin vs. Iluson—had decided that this
mode of repealing or suspending laws
by a joint resolution was unconstitional.
I knew then, as I now know, that Cush
ing, tho very highest authority in this
country on parliamentary law, had, in
discussing the power of a joint resolu
tion, expressly confined its use to ad
ministrative purposes of a local or
temporary character. I knew then,
as I know now, that such a pre
cedent as repealing by resolution an
existing apportionment law and divest
ing rights of representation—rights
more highly valued at this time
than ever before in tho history of our
country—could not bo found. For these
reasons I declined to support such a reso
lution as a proper mode of legislative
action, aud simply gave it such support
as would uot compromise my principles.
As to that “best speech” of mine to
which Mr. Stovall refers, it was very
sliort, not exceeding in length ten min
utes, and confined to tlie simple view
that tlie resolution could do no harm
if Columbia county acceded to the ar
rangement ; that the county of McDuffie
was clearly entitled to representation,
and to refuse her representation while
slie paid her part of State taxes xvas un
just and unwise. Mr. Stovall says this
speech came too late, as I hacl given
time to the Senator from Warren coun
ty “to go around ” and “ see the mem
bers, and, by private arguments,” get
them pledged against the passage of the
resolution. In this remark he is clearly
mistaken, for the motion or resolution
on which I made that “ best speech”
avoided all opposition from Warren
county. The real reason which caused the
failure of the resolution was the decided
opinion of its illegality, as I was assailed
with questions on this point from the
very beginning of “my best speech.” If
Mr. Stovall means by the above remark
to accuse me of delay and neglect in
“ not going around and by private ar
guments” soliciting support for my mo
tion, I must plead guilty. I have never,
as Mr. Stovall terms it, “ gone, around
and tried by ■private arguments ” to carry
my measures. I have never solicited
support for things I 'wanted done by
“ running around and using private
arguments ,” because I considered and
now consider such a course to be utterly
destructive to proper deliberation and
discussion. I have never hunted up
Judges or Governors to get expression
of opinions from them in advance as to
pending measures —opinions which they
never ought to give. I have tried to
carry my own bills, and the bills put in
my charge by others, by open, public
arguments before and the
Senate, and so far I have no rea
son to complain of a want of
success. But, says Mr. Stovall further,
“this resolution passed almost unani
mously through the House, and for this
cause he concludes “ it was all right.” I
have seen, since I have been in the Sen
ate, several resolutions and bills pass al
most unanimously which were gross
violations of the Constitution, and cruel
wrongs to our poor and ruined people;
so that my faith in'legislative proceed
ings, resting on this foundation alone,
is just now very weak. I will refer just
here, as illustration of my position, to
that outrageous bill giving the Atlantic
and Gulf Railroad Company State aid
by endorsing its bonds to the amount
of 83,500,000, for an extension of the
road through the State of Alabama and
securing the State by a second mortgage, j
which, after passing the House of Rep- j
resell tatives, passed the Senate by a j
two-thirds vote; to the resolutions on the [
lease of the State Road which passed the
Senate by more than a two-thirds vote,
and the House by two-thirds vote or
nearly so; to the resolution which pass
ed both branches of the General Assem
bly almost unanimously, at the late ses
sion, giving to members and clerks
double mileage, —a resolution wbieli
would have created a burst of indigna
tion if it had been passed by a Bullock
Legislature ; to the resolutions giving j
thousands of dollars, wrung from the
hard earnings of the people, without a
shadow of propriety or justice, to clerks,
doorkeepers, messengers and pages, all'
of which passed nearly by an unanimous
vote; to the resolutions, which passed al- j
most unanimously, multiplying door- j
keepers, clerks, pages and servants, as
fast nearly as importunate friends de- j
manded places, to the scandal of good ;
government, and bringing the Demo- j
cratic party into and isrepute for violations j
of its pledges; all of which I opposed ;
but with so few supporters as to appear j
singular if not ridiculous.
°
2d. As to the bill exempting agricultu
ral products from taxation by municipal
corporations. This bill, which reads as
follows: “The General Assemble do
enact that ho municipal corporation
shall impose a tax upon agricultural pro
ducts or the sale thereof,” introduced
by Mr. Lampkiu, of Columbia county,
passed by the House but lost in the
Senate from non-action upon it, not
from a vote against it, I now say again,
after more mature reflection, should not
; have passed as it was proposed. It is
■ true, when this bill was read the second
| time in the Senate it was referred to the
; Judiciary Committee, of which I was
Chairman, and was, wiAout that'Jiscus
sion of its provisions which so impor
tant a bill deserved, favorably received
and reported upon, and I now here, can
didly admit my own share of blame for
this" negligence. It is true also that
; several times after reporting on this bill
and recommending its passage, I con
versed with Mr. Lampkin and promised
him to give the bill my aid, not then
having thoroughly considered its ‘-'U.ent
I have no recoilectioq such a conver
sation as reported by Mr. Stovall, but I
am willing to put the facts down as he
states them, and to say further, until
the very day before the Senate adjourn
ed, I thought favorably of this bill. At
that time, on account of the remarks of
Mr. Hillyer condemnatory of the bill
and his proposal to amend it, I was led
to consider the bill more carefully and
came to the conclusion that it was too
sweeping to be then passed. If I bad,
on account of previous conversation and
committals, advocated a bill which I
believed to be imperfect and uot chang
ed my course in accordance with my
convictions, I would have been utterly
unworthy of the high position of a
State Senator and unfit to be trusted by
the people whom I represented. Now,
as to this bill, what does it propose ?
It clearly prohibits the taxation of all
agricultural products or their sales
within the limits of a municipal cor
poration, no matter where made, no
matter how long held, no matter how
many limes sold. Mr. Stovall says it
was necessary to make this bill so
sweeping because, if foreign products
are left liable to taxation, the tax taken
from domestic productions will be
levied ou these foreign productions and
in this way the prices of these articles
will be raised on consumers. To this
objection I reply, if all agricultural
productions of every country, our
own and foreign, are exempted from
taxation by municipal corpora
tions which " expend annually much
money for the protection of agricultural
products within their limits, these taxes
will be levied on other supplies neces
sary to consumers to raise this money
and their prices will be thereby raised.
If the corn, wheat, hay, oats and cotton
of tlie seller cannot be taxed, his sugar,
coffee, molasses, iron, tobacco, bagging,
ties, shoes, blankets and osnaburgs can
be, and the amount raised from these
articles, to pay the city taxes, will be put
into the price of everything in his store.
The object of this bill to protect our
own agricultural productions from
taxation by municipal corporations, un
der certain circumstances, is proper and
meets my.cordial approval. It seems to me
that when our own agricultural produc
tions are transferred to municipal cor
porations for sale, and are sold within a
reasonable time and no expenditure by
such corporations can he said to have
been incurred for protection against
losses of any kind, then no tax should
be levied on them. It may bo said even
if a law be passed embodying these
principles the tax lost by such moderate
prohibitions will be made up on other
articles and the prices of these thereby
raised. To which I say, while I know
it is possible I do not believe such re
sult probable. Such a law, occupying a
moderate scope of the ground subject to
taxation, and founded, as it would be, oil
principles of justice, might he acceptable
to all parties. This much I say further
in relation to this hill to exempt agricul
tural products from taxation :if I have
committed an error in my conduct as a
representative of an agricultural district
by simply asking a suspension of legis
lative action until another session, in
order to'make a permanent and practical
bill, I erred unintentionally. Whatever
others may suspect, and even say of my
motives in this matter, I know that my
motives were pure and honorable, and
that lam incapable of doing an inten
tional wrong to the agricultural interest
of my district—the interest which, by
almost superhuman efforts, elevated me
to the honorable position of a State
Senator ;. the interest which lias contri
buted so much to my prosperity in life
and which has, in times past, shown so
many marks of confidence ; the interest
to which I am so closely connected by
the strongest ties of every kind, and
which I am determined in the future, as
in the past, to do all in my power to ad
vance andjprotect, consistent with justice
to other interests in the State.
3d. As to tho bill authorizing the
proper authorities of McDuffie county to
issue bonds to the amount of $15,000.
and which passed exempting them from
county taxation everywhere in the State,
but not from State taxation, which Mr.
Stovall says the people of McDuffie
county should thoroughly understand,
and particularly how much he wanted to
do, and how much I prevented him
from doing, I now propose to say a
few words, aud only a few words in my
justification. When the Cobb county
bill and the McDuffie county bill came
from the House, they were both alike in
exempting tlie bonds to be issued under
them from State and county taxation.
These bills were referred to the Finance
Committee of the Senate, not by myself,
but by some other Senator, and by that
committee were amended by striking
'out the clause exempting the bonds to
be issued from State taxation. I will
state that I was not a member of that
committee, and never expressed an
opinion on the subject to any one of the
committee, and am therefore not re
sponsible for this amendment, though,
in my judgment, it was right, and should
be rigidly enforced. I examined per
sonally tho report of tlie Finance Com
mittee on these bills, and saw that they
had this report written on them. So f
felt justified in stating to Mr. Stovall
that the Cobb county bill had not pass
ed, and could not pass, as the same came
from the House with the exemption
from State taxation, and I felt justified
in pursuing the course I did in relation
to the McDuffie county bill, which
contains simply an exemption from
county taxation, and none from State
taxation. Now liow did the Cobb coun
ty bill pass ? Not as Mr. Stovall says.
Itpassed with the exemption from coun
ty and municipal taxation only, not
from State taxation. The McDuffie
bonds and the Cobb county bonds are
both to be subject to State taxation, and
not to county taxation. I have the cer
tified copies of these acts before me, and
write from a careful examination of their
contents. The assertion of Mr. Stovall
“that the records will show that Ander
son’s bill passed and that the bonds of
his county are now exempt from the
same tax from which the Senate refused
to exempt ours,” is simply and wholly a
mistake. The question, however, re
mains, ought the McDuffie county bill
or any other county bill, of which many
have passed without an exemption from
taxation, to have been passed with a
clause exempting them from State
taxation ? I say not, and for several
reasons: In the first place, such an ex
emption is not needed, as some seem to
suppose, to give these county bonds in
creased value or circulation. But one
thing will give these bonds a
high value and circulation. That
is taxation—strong, determined, per
sistent taxation. Taxation sufficient
constantly to pay the accruing interest
thereon and a portion of the principal
annually. If the people of a county
have made up their minds resolutely to
; jiut only good men in their county
; offices, men fitted by their intelligence
j to attend to public business and honest
| enough to take care of the public money,
and sustain them in levying and collect
ing the necessary taxes to pay their
bonds, then they will have value and
circulation, aud will not need such
“clap-trap” as an exemption from State
taxation to bolster them up. This very
provision of exemption from taxes ex
ists in regard to State bonds when held
for minors and others interested in trust
property, and yet this exemption does j
not add one cent to the market value of j
j these bonds. While administrators,
| executors, trustees and guardians are ■
I investing daily large amounts of trust j
j money in the bonds of the Georgia Rail- ;
| road, liable to State tax; in the bonds of j
| the cities of Atlahta, Augusta and Savan
[ nah, all liable to State taxation as other
! property, they will not invest a dollar in
j State bonds because the State govern
i ment has failed and still fails to pay
: State bonds as they become due. In the
j next place, I think such an exemption
j as an exemption from State taxation an
| unjust one, not to be encouraged. Can
1 any man give a good reason why Mr. A.
| who buys a county bond should hold
| the same free from taxation ? Does not
such a bondholder receive all the protec
i tion of the laws of the State which other
citizens de as to their property ? Do
' not the Courts sit to protect his bonds
! as much as those of others ? Is not all
j the vast and expensive machinery in all
its departments of government kept up
as much for him as for others ?
Again, such an exemption is unjust
because the State has already authorized
bonds to be issued by nineteen counties,
and only one, the county of Gwinnett,
has such an exemption. The county of
Gwinnett applied for and obtained the
exemption previous to the last session
of the General Assembly, when little at
tention was paid to these applications,
j now numerous. Against the settled policy
of the State, and, in my opinion, a wise
policy as to these county bonds, I would
j not ask for an exemption from S*°*-
j taxation. If other gentle
! their duty to seeF -men think it
their “ Lliese advantages for
1 panties, I have no word of com
plaint to make against them. I simplv
say that I shall not seek such advan
tages.
Now, Mr. Editor, not desiring to
boast of what I have done for the per-
pie of my State, one and all, but simply
to show the people of my district that I
have served them faithfully, I point to
the acts of both sessions of the Legisla
ture drawn by me and passed by my ef
forts, sometimes in the face of tlie
fiercest opposition. At the session of
1871 the following bills drawn entirely
by myself became and are now laws of
the State: An act to provide ihe mode
of changing the place of trial iu
criminal cases anil regulating the
payment of all costs connected with such
change ; an act to compensate clerks,
ordinaries and sheriffs for services,
where no compensation or no adequate
compensation is provided; an act to
give plaintiffs in execution a right to re
cover damages in cases where frivolous
claims and defenses are filed; an act to
secure the several counties of this State
from cost when persons are put in jail
and then, on account of the abandon
ment of prosecution or settlement of
them, jail fees are unprovided and have
hitherto fallen upon the public; an act
to provide for taking bonds of public
officers arid qualifying them; an act to
relieve joint debtors in judgment, giv
ing joint debtors the same rights as
securities to control the executions
against them for their indemnity; an
act to make it penal to withhold money
or personal property belonging to tlie
State of Georgia, which provides if any
person has legally or illegally, fraud
ulently or wrongfully received or shall
hereafter so receive money or property
of the State and shall refuse to sur
render the same on demand to the
Treasurer of the State or his agents,
such person shall be guilty of a felony;
an act to amend the law of arson in this
State, so as to make it a felony to set on
fire or burn any fence, stacks or shocks
of fodder, corn, oats, or liav or any
grain.
At the session of 1872 tho following
acts drawn by myself became and are
now laws of this State : An act to regu
late the time of holding elections in
this State, separating State from Fed
eral elections, and county elections from
both, under which law the elections of
this year and hereafter have been and
are to be held, presented to the Senate
for its action by Mr. Heard, of the 19th
Senatorial District, at my request ; an
act to allow bills in equity to be dis
posed of at the first term of tho Court ;
an act to extend the law of conspiracy
in the State, making it a felony for any
two or more persons to conspire or
agree to defraud, cheat or illegally ob
tain from the State of Georgia or any
county thereof any property or money ;
an act to deprive Ordinaries of this
State from granting writs of habeas
corpus in capital felonies ; an act to
define the duties of administrators in
certain cases, by allowing them to act
also as guardians without giving bond
or without appointment as such by tho
Court of Ordinary, when the minors
whose ’property they hold cannot pro
cure guardians; au act to authorize the
Governor of this State to institute suits
to recover money or property of the
State; an act to regulate the amount of
rewards for felons; an act to provide for
taxatioriof printing material, which alone
brings into the list of taxable property
nearly four hundred thousand dollars. I
might refer to many important acts
amended by myself, and to resolutions
of great public importance, but I for
bear, fearing that I have already ex
hausted your patience, Mr. Editor, and
that of your readers.
W. M. Reese,
Senator 20th District.
[From tho Homo Commercial, October 2 .]
A TERRIBLE TORNADO.
Houses Crushed Like Eggshells—Trees
Tossed About Like Feathers.
Walker county has been the scene of
probably the severest tornado that ever
swept through Georgia.
On last Sunday evening, it was possi
ble on Saturday evening, a densely
heavy cloud come up and lowered over
East Armuclieo between Subligna and
Villanow. The cloud was broidered
and fretted with incessant flashes of
lightning, that leaped and lingered in
livid play on its dark body. Suddenly
and without any premonition a howling
wind storm swept over the country,
shrieking like a thousand" fiends, buffet
ting grown trees on its burly bosom as
if they were feathers, and sweeping
houses from their foundation with a
single breath.
It extended over a space about a half
a mile wide, anil destroyed everything in
its course.. Where it swept through a
forest its track can be followed as plain
ly as if a corps of engineers hail with
tlieir axes leveled tho trees. Not a tree
is left standing in its track. Several
dwelling houses xvere blown down and
utterly destroyed. Among others our
informants knew positively of Mr. Jones
Richardson, Mr. Pinckney Tate, Mr.
Toney Hart and Mr. Moore’s. Mr.
Moore’s wife was standing in the door
when the wind come and xvas blown but
of the house, out of the yard and into
the public road, where fortunately be
hind the shelter of a point of a hill she re
covered herself. Mr. Geo. Eepey’s house
was also destroyed. Mr. Boinar had a
fine orchard of apple trees which were
twisted from tlieir places and sent
whirling tho Lord only knows where.
The cotton fields that lay in tho zone
over which the cyclone swept are ren
dered absolutely worthless, and the loss
occasioned by it may be estimated at
thousands. Where it came from and
where it went no one knows and no one
cares. It utterly devastated one of the
fairest valleys in Georgia. It is report
ed that Sugar Valley had a visit from
this terrible fiend. We sympathize with
our friends who have suffered. Messrs.
J. W. Davis and Wardlaw were our in
formers, and they were direct from the
scene of the disaster.
Grant’s Beef-Eaters in the Custom
House.— Kennebunk, in Maine, may be
a very delightful, thriving anil impor
tant seaport town and district. Never
theless its foreign commerce has been
during the last four years as follows:
1868— Imports Nix
1808—Exports Nix
1869 Imports Nil
1869 Exports Nil
1870— Imports Nothing
1871— Exports Nothing
1872 Imports Blank
1872—Exports Blank
In order to superintend this lucrative
business, which during four years has
been nix, nil, nothing and blank, the
following beef-eaters are required:
Salary.
One collector $lO6 45
One inspector 600 00
Three inspectors.... .... 408 00
One inspector 120 00
Total $1,234 45
Now, what in the world can keep these
beef-eaters on pay in a place which has
been demonstrated for four successive
years to have no commerce ? — New York
World.
The See‘of Savannah. —It is now no
longer a secret that, already many months
ago, the saintly and devoted Bishop
Persico, of Savannah, entreated the Holy
Father to relieve him of the charge of
the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. The
malady that repeatedly threatened his
life, while a Vicar Apostolic in the East
Indies, still affects him, in any hot cli
mate. And his Episcopal solicitude will
not permit him to take rest while charg- ,
ed with the oversight of a wide and i
growing Diocese. It is with deep sor- j
row we learn that Bishop Persico is to i
leave the United States. A Metropoli
tan, elsewhere, has most cordially in
vited him to a Prelatic position of great
importance, and of delicate responsi
bility—where his Apostolic zeal will
have an abundant and fruitful field for
it3 exertion. The Diocese of Savannah,
meanwhile, is not left unprovided. But,
joyful as the news will be to the Catholic
clergy and people of Georgia, it is bet
ter to leave it to rumor, till the deter
mination of the Holy Father is authenti
| cally known. —Catholic Register.
\ Seeing Things Right.— Tke New York
; Herald, noticing the collapse of the In
j diana straight-outers, says : “The talk
: about a third Presidential candidate is
all idle and fraudulent. Mr. O’Conor
knows this, and hence, while expressing
■ his dissatisfaction with existing political
i parties, and advancing his peculiar the
j ories of pay-as-you-go government, buy-,
| ing its pinch of tea, its ounce of bn** "
| and its loaf of bread, for -~cr,
I meal, he refuses *" , ever y
) l ous n-r- -o make himself nuicu
-1 _ Bering himself as the candidate
| of the Blanton Duncan Convention.”
I Washington, October 8. —The Presi
; dent has received a dispatch from Hitch
cock that Nebraska has undoubtedly
gone Republican.
Brooklix, October 8. —The fall of a
political stand killed two persons and
hurt several others.
THE GEORGIA ELECTIONS.
The Way Lies are Manufactured for
the Benefit of the Northern Radicals
—A Flat Denial from a Veteran Otli
cer of the United States Army.
Editors of the Savannah Advertiser :
Gentlemen— ln your morning’s issue
j of this date appears a dispatch, purport
ing to have been sent by one M. H.
Hale, the special agent or detective of
the Treasury Department of the United
States for this section, in reference to
our late elections, in which he says the
Greeley party had full control of the
polls, and that colored men were pre
vented from voting. Now, sirs, I desire
to state that I was present at the polls
most of the day on the 2d of October,
and from my own observation I pro
nounce this dispatch to be a wilful and
malicious falsehood. That the Gree
leyites or Democrats took possession of
the polls is false ; that there was any
interference or attempt made to prevent
colored men from voting 1 pronounce
also false. The truth of tlie matter is
just this : Certain Custom House em
ployees and parties from the county ami
city cheated the colored men out of
tlieir votes. They received their dollar,
the amount of the poll tax required by
law, and gave them receipts for the same,
with the understanding that it was all
l ight. These men came to the polls with
these receipts and offered thorn to the
managers, in lieu of the Tax Collector’s
certificate, required by law.. Os course,
those bogus • receipts were rejected. As
for the polls being surrounded by the
police, the roads leading to the city
picketed, aud voters coming from the
country being driven back, it is as false
anil black hearted a lie as the man who
wrote tho dispatch. If this dispatch
has been concocted for political pur
poses (which I presume it has) and sent
North, I desire to say to my old friends
and companions-in-arms, that so far as
Savannah, nay, even Georgia, is con
cerned, there is no State in tlie Union
or no city in the world where an honest
man will be better treated than here.
But what can you expect from such men ?
Their associates in politics are who ?
Penitentiary birds, perjurers apd thieves,
all of which I cau prove if called upon ;
and if my colored friends have been de
feated they can thank their leaders; for
to follow in the wake of such men is sure
defeat.
(Signed) H. J. McDonald,
Late Col. U. S. Veteran Vol. Inf’y.
Destructive Fire in Bairibritlge.
[From the Sun, of Saturday.]
Wo have delayed onr paper to-day to
give an account of a very destructive
conflagration which took place in our
city last night. At about 2 o’clock po
liceman Andrews discovered a fire be
tween the butcher shop of Mr. Erchlicli
and a wooden store-houso belonging to
Mr. W. W. Harrell, on tlie western side
of the square.
The fire was evidently set, and by
kerosene, or some other inflammable
fluid, as two buildings were completely
enveloped in flames in about ten minutes
from the time of discovery. Tho alarm
was given, and the firemen were prompt
ly on tlie ground, but all their efforts
failed to stop the ravages of the firo
until it had entirely consumed four
buildings.
The losses aro very heavy, perhaps
larger than Bainbridge has over y r et sus
tained, anil as far as wo can gather them
at this late hour are as follows:
A. Hinds & Pro., one store-house
valued at $2,000; stock of goods valued
at $6,000. Insured for SI,OOO ou house.
We could not learn the amount of insu
rance on goods, but understand it is
light.
Patterson & McNair, one store-house,
valued at $3,000. Insured for $2,500;
stock of goods very largo, but covered
by insurance.
Mr. I. M. Rosnnficld, stock of goods
valued $3,500. Insurance, $1,500.
W. W. Harrell, one store-house, valued
at S6OO.
Casper Lewis, one store-house, valued
at SBOO, pulled down by Hook and Lad
der Company. No insurance on tho
two latter.
In the store-houso of Mr. Harrell
there was a small stock of goods said to
belong to Mr. Charles Meinliam, but.
which xvere in equity’. These goods
were a total loss.
Mr. Simon Weil, and I. Kwilecki &
Bro. lost some fexv goods by removal,
water, &c.
Most of the goods 'of Patterson &
McNair, A. Hinds & Bro. umd I. M.
Rosenfield were saved, though in a
damaged condition.
The Hinds Bros, are tho heaviest
losers, they losing all their kitchen and
household goods.
We cannot close this brief notice with
out referring to the very commendable
efforts of the colored people to assist the
firemen in checking the progress of tho
firo. They did xvell, and our people xvill
bo certain to remember them kindly for
it. It is needless for us to say aught of
the gallant conduct of our fire brigade.
It is composed of men xvlio are always
ready for duty, and upon this, as upon
many others, they xvon bright laurels as
fire fighters. From all the information
we can possibly gain, xve don’t think
there is any doubt that it was the xvork
of incendiary.
Time and space preolude our saying
more at present of tho fire. Everything
is quiet this morning, except a little
jollity on the part a few worshippers of
old John Barleycorn.
We are informed that this morning a
telegram xvas sent to Thomasville an
nouncing the fire here, and the answer
xvas, “a very destructive fire is in pro
gress here—loss very heavy.”
The Attempted Assassination of a
Former Citizen of Augusta.—The Sa
vannah Neivs, of Monday, says :
In our issue of Saturday xvere given
tho particulars of the cowardly attempt
made to assassinate Joseph Julian, a
deputy sheriff, on Friday night, in the
vicinity of the Central Railroad depot,
by a gang of Radicals. It now seems
that, in connection with their other
schemes, the leaders of tho Radical par
ty are endeavoring to collect information
proving that Julian is not a citizen of
the United States, and therefore his ap
pointment was illegal. The folloxving
card from Mr. Julian gives a flat denial
to this charge :
“I am of Irish parentage, and was
born in the city of Augusta, State of
Georgia, in 1839. I served in the Ninth
Georgia Regiment, and was under Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston. I participated in
the battle of Seven Pines, and also at
Newbem. I xvas captured at Raleigh,
North Carolina, and paroled- in March,
1865. I served through all the cam
paigns under General Johnston. This
is written that I may place myself in a
proper lijjhfc before the citizens of this
county and State, believing that Hale,
Hines & Cos. aro endeavoring to bring
evidence up to show that I am not a citi
zen of the United States. I offered my
services to the Chief Deputy Sheriff,
James McCalley, for the benefit of the
Democratic party, and was waylaid and
beaten by a party of Radicals to whom
I xvill attend at the proper time.”
[ Signed] Joseph Julian.
Savannah, October 6, 1872.
Wendell Phillips Rebuked jiy the
Colored Men’s Convention. —The fol
lowing resolutions, full of good sense
and good feeling, were adopted by tlie
late National Convention of colored
men, at Louisville. The rebuke to the
Arch Agitator, who has sought to excite
a war of races, is as dignified as it is
deserved, and should make him wince:
W hereas, Wendell Phillips who, owing
to liis personal ill-will toward Horace
Greeley, counsels the colored people of
the United States to vote against that
noble representative of consitutional li
berty; and, providing Greeley is elected,
be adxises us to arm, and arm imme
diately; therefore be it
Resolved, That we, the National Lib
eral Colored Convention, do denounce
such counsel as impolitic, injudicious
and unpatriotic, calculated, if heeded,
to hurl us to destruction and annihila
tion, and is only the outgrowth of e" ™
and personal differences, and ” i '' [er ,]"[<[
legard for the rights
colored man. " aU (q le p €ace and pros-
P erif " m this great Republic.
Colorado Wants to Bea State. -Tbe
citizens of Colorado xvill, at the coming
session of Congress, make a combined
effort to secure her admission into the
Union of States. It is claimed that
more than the requisite number of in
habitants are there, and that everything
required will be done. The people of
Colorado, it is said, however, have an
idea that the representatives of the
States are prejudiced against increasing
.the number for the present.
NEW SERIES —VOL. XXV—NO. 42.
TIIE PORT ROYAL RAILROAD.
First Train to Sand Bar Ferry.
Ou yesterday morning wo stated that
the track of tho Port Royal Railroad had
been completed from this city to the
Savannah river, and that the first train
would run on Tuesday afternoon. Major
Geo. T. Jackson, of tho Port Royal Rail
road Company, desirous of giving our
citizens an opportunity of judging lioxv
the work was progressing, got up an ex
cursion over the road to tho bridge, and
issued invitations to tho Mayor anil the
City Council and a number of onr lead
ing citizens. The excursion train was
to leave the Union Depot at half-past
three o’clock, and xvhon that hour ar
rived a largo and very pleasant party
filled the cars. Among those present
were President King, Messrs. D. E.
Butler, George T. Jackson, Stevens
Thomas, W. W. Clarke, J. S. Hamilton,
M. P. Stovall, Directors; Col. S. K.
Johnson, Superintendent of tho Georgia
Railroad; Mayor Estes, and Aldermen
Walsh, Meyer and Philip, of tho City
Council, and Messrs. W. E. Jackson, J.
O. Matliewson, J. J. Pearce, Gen. A. R.
Wright, John L. Stockton, Henry
Moore, J. R. Randall, W. F. Herring,
Rev. J. S. Lamar, Dr. D. B. Plumb, T.
J. Jennings, J. L. Maxwell, A. M. Jack
son, John Jenkins, P. L. Cohen, A. E.
Dugas.
The train consisted of txvo handsome
passenger coaches and an engine, under
the charge of Conductor Henry Ed
mondston.
A pleasant ride of a foxv minutes
brought the train and its passengers to
the trestle work, a sliort distance from
the bridge. Here the cars halted and
tho excursionists prepared themselves
for tho fatigues of the trip by taking a
pull at some of the choicest vintage of
that excellent old lady, tho Widow
Clicquot, which Major Jackson had
brought along as “ snake medicine.”
The party then left the cars and pro
ceeded on foot a short distance to the Sa-
X’annah river. They found tho work upon
tho bridge, which is to span that stream,
rapidly progressing. Tho piers—seven
in number, including the abutments—
are of brick work, but of tlie most
substantial and durable character. The
foundation consists of piling driven
as deeply into the bod of the river as
was practicable aud, above tlie piling,
three feet of solid timber. Upon this
foundation tho piers rise, made of
Augusta brick aud tho finest quality of
cement. When completed tho bridge
xvill be one of tho handsomest structures
of the sort in tho country. It is believed
—if no adverse circumstances intervene
—that tlie bridge xvill bo finished, by the
first day of December. Major Jackson’s
portion of tho road—extending thirty
miles from tho other bank of tho Savan
nah—xvill be ironed and ready for use by
that timo. It is thought that tho lower
end of tho route will bo finished thirty
days later, and by the first day January
Augusta xvill have a short and direct line
of railxvay connecting her xvitli deepest
and finest harbor on tho coast of tlio
South Atlantic.
Tho excursionists spent an hour very
pleasantly on tho banks of tlio river
and in boats upon tho stream. The
only drawback was tho presence of a
largo number of very venomous xvator
moccasins. Nearly all of tlio party xvere
bitten, and some of our best citizens
xvotild have lost tlieir lives if they had
not taken frequent and timely does of
the Widow Clicquot’s medicine.
Altogether, the trip xvas a most de
lightful affair, aud xve make our best
bow to Maj. Jaokson, who originated
it and made it such a complete success.
Tobacco Dealers’ Protective Asso
ciation of Charleston.— A large mooting
of tobacco dealers xvas held in Charleston
Wednesday evening. A temporary or
ganization was formed with Major F.
Melehers as President, Mr. B. Bollmann
as Vice-President, and Mr. H. H. Knee
as Secretary. It xvas decided to mako
test cases of unintentional violations of
the internal revenue laxv, such as have
been recently brought before tlie United
States Commissioner. A committee
consisting of two dealers from each
ward in tho city was appointed to col
lect money for defraying the expenses
of the litigation. Another meeting xvill
bo held on next Wednesday evening,
xvhon the report of the committee will
be received, and a permanent organiza
tion effected.
Dr. John Randolph Page, formerly
Division Surgeon of tho well-known Mc-
Law’s Division of tho army of Northern
Virginia, has been recently elected to
the Professorship of Agriculture and
Natural History in the University of
Virginia,
Tho many friends of Dr. Pago scat
tered throughout the limits of Georgia
and the South xvill be pleased to learn
of the fresh and xvell-deserved honors
xvliicli have descended upon liim in this
elevation to an important chair in one
of tho most celebrated universities in
America, nimself a graduate of the
University, he returns to his alma mater
at her bidding for his maturer services,
after a thorough course at tho finest
European universities and a ripe practi
cal experience in his high profession.
Savannah River Dredging.— The con
tract for dredging aud improving the
Savannah river, entered into by tho city
of Savannah and the United States Gov
ernment, through tho Engineer Corps
under General Gillmore, xvas on Friday
perfected in proper form. General Gill
more xvas advised by the authorities
that the dredges and appliances xvere
subject to his order, tho contract stipu
lating, xvo liclievc, that tho work shall
ho prosecuted under the superintend
ence of tlio United States Engineer
Corps. The day specified in the con
tract for commencing tlio work is Mon
day next, the 7th instant, and every
thing being in readiness, this large
undertaking will be started and prose
cuted vigorously.
Killed iiy Mistake.—A special dis
patch to the Charleston News states
that on Saturday night, in Summerville
township, four negro men, who were in
the road, were fired into by two white
men. One of tlie negroes, named Jet
ter, whs killed, and one, named Spencer,
xvas wounded. The negroes were sus
pected of cotton stealing, but the one
believed to be guilty escaped. It is
claimed that tlie killed man and the
wounded man knew nothing of the
misdeeds of tlieir companion. Tlie af
fair caused great excitement. A coron
er’s jury was empanelled, aud it is ex
pected that the persons who fired the
shots will be arrested.
Place Aux Dames. —Tbe Fair offers
for the largest, most varied and best
display in the department of home
manufactures, tbe production of any oi»e
household, open to the C. S. A., a Land
some piece of sterling silver plate.
Articles which have been exhibited
before xvill bo admitted to tbe contest.
Lest the C. S. A. may frighten some
timid citizen, we will state that these
letters stand for Cotton States of Ameri
ca. We wish tho Southern reputation
for great excellence in this department
to be kept up. Wo believe that the
dames of the Cotton States can add to
their already deserved high place as]
mistresses of the household art,
HEAVY ROBBERY.
The Pay Master of the Port Royal Rail
road Robbed—His Trunk Broken
Open Sunday —Four Hundred Dollars
Taken.
An unusually heavy robbery for this
latitude was committed on Sunday a
short distance from the city.
Mr. Kirlin, of the firm of Kirliu,
Callaghan & Cos., contractors on the road,
is paymaster of the hands, and stationed
at Sand Bar Ferry, where the bridge
across tho Savannah river is being
built. Last Sunday he had in his tent
a trunk which contained about ono
thousand dollars in currency. Between
tho hours of eleven and ono o’clock ho
left his tent for the purpose of superin
tending some work going on in the
rivor—tho contractors being obliged to
have labor done on the Sabbath in order
to escape tho Fall freshets which will bo
here a little later in tho season. Ho re
mained at his work for about two hours
and then returned to his quarters for
dinner.
On entering tho tout he was, of course,
much surprised to find that his trunk
had been forced during his absence and
was lying open. An examination of its
contents proved that it had been robbed
of four hundred and forty-four dollars—
tho remaining five hundred and fifty-six
dollars not having been touched.
Thero was no positive evidence point
ing to the perpetrator of tho act, but
the cook (a colored man) was arrested
on suspicion—ho having been in tho
immediate proximity of tho tent during
tho abscnco of Colonel Kirlin. On yes
terday morning a colored boy in this
city, supposed to have been an accom
plice in tho transaction, was also arrest
ed and placed in tho guard-house ; but
in tho afternoon it was discovered that
there was no evidence against him and
he was released from custody. Up to
yesterday afternoon, late, nono of the
stolen money had been recovered,
though tho police were actively engaged
in attempting to work up the case. It
was certainly a vory bold and successful
robbery.
Ingenious Device to Kegisteb Rail
road Fares.— Mr. Jas. H. Small, of
Buffalo, is said to liavo perfected a ma
chine with which cheating is impossi
ble. It is only a conductor’s punch, but
so ingeniously constructed that it is en
tirely unnecessary for the conductor to
mako his report at tho end of his trip,
tho punch making tho report for him.
This ingenious little machine woighs
about six ounces, is made of brass,
nickle-plated, and is not much larger
than the common punch used by con
ductors. Wo can more readily describo
it by explaining tho manner of its use:
Tho conductor is furnished with a trip
card, upon which thero is a double row
of numbers, each number representing
tho amount of one faro. If five cents is
tho faro upon our city railway, tho num
bers range ns follows: 5, 10, 15, 20, and
so on. When tho conductor roceives
his first faro ho punches out 5; as ho
does so a small gong, loud enough to bo
hoard in any part of the car, strikes in
tho punch, announcing to all within
hearing that ono faro has been collected.
At tho same moment tho hands on a
dial arranged like tho faco of a watch
are moved forward, and register ono
fare, whilo the fragment of the card with
the 5 upon it drops in a receptacle be
low, and thero remains until tho end of
the trip, being tho third silent but posi
tive witness to tho conductor’s iutegrity.
When tho officers of tho road hand the
punch over to the conductor they
register tho number indicated by tho
dial, lock tho openings securely, aud
the machine is so arranged that tho least
attempt to tamper with tho lock can bo
instantly detected.
This little machine is destined to
work a revolution in railroad circles.—
Tho cheat, when ho receives tho faro,
will fail to punch tho card, and that
failure will be noticed at once by tho
passengers, who will naturally bo listen
ing for tho sound of tho gong. Not only
can this punch bo used to advantage
upon tho street railways, but upon
steam roads, steam and otlior ferry
boats, theaters, and in fact in every
place of public amusement.
Snuff Taking for Bronchitis and
Consumption. —Dr. John Murray, 'ono
of tlio best known among European
medical authorities, asserts that ho has
seen the progress of consumption ar
rested by practicing the habit of snuff
taking, which is equally efficient in tlio
case of bronchitis. He says that by
tickling the lining membrane of tlio
nostrils, snuff acts as a powerful deriva
tive and counter-irritant, and its uso will
tend to preserve the more important and
susceptible pulmonary mucus mem
brane from harm. The sneezing which
succeeds tlio unaccustomed application
of the article, and the cough which is
induced when, by chance, some of the
lighter particles got into the throat,
may, ho thinks, boos some avail in liko
manner as sea sickness is believed to be,
in effecting the elimination of albume
noid matter—tlio precursor of tubercle
—from the lungs, before it has had time
to fill the air cells and minute bronchi
and coagulate.
Piercing tiie Andes.— The railroad
now constructing from Lima to Oroya,
piercing the Andes, will unquestionably
be, when completed, ono of the proudest
monuments of human power and enter
prise. The tunnel, which is 3,000 feet
long, is being executed at an altitude of
15,000 foot above tho leval of the sea,
and with extraordinary rapidity. Num
berless lives have already been lost
among the workmen by peculiar diseases
brought on through tho effects of tho
climate, and tho coolie Indians arc tho
only ones capable of being emph >yod upon
tho works, as it is found that no other
raco can withstand prolonged labor in
the rarefied atmosphero of those lofty
regions.
SACiunEGEOus Robbery. —Wo learn
from the St. Augustine (Fla.) Examiner
that during theabsenceof FatherDufan,
who had gone to Jacksonville, his room
back of the cathedral was entered by
thieves, who burst open a wardrobe,
broke a drawer, and stole the money of
the church, securing the last red cent of
the charity collections. They also car
ried away tho money box of a beneficial
society established among the colored
people, containing about twelve dollars.
This box was put under tho charge of
Father Dufau for safe-keeping.
The Senatorial Election.— The fol
lowing is the consolidated statement of
the vote for Senator in the Eighteenth
Senatorial District, as made from the
official votes of the counties of Rich
mond, Jeffewoi* and Glascock :
JAMES G. CAIN.
Richmond 2,015
Jefferson
Glascock “ J
3,163
CLAIBORNE SNEAD.
Richmond 2 ’ifo
Jefferson
Glascock
2,967
Majority for Cain 196
London, Octobers. —Tho explosion in
the coal mine at Morloy yesterday was
far more serious in its results than the
first dispatch stated. It is now kuowu
that forty miners wore killed.