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Senator Hill vs. Mr. Murphy.
fitlilav Punt:
The great moss of the people of
Georgia have looked oil silently while
the Northeastern Railroad bond (pies
tiou, scandal I might say, agitated
the central circles of our Htitto gov
ernment. Yet our thoughts have
been busy the while, It has ever
been the pride of a Georgian that his
native State bore among her sister
sovereigns an unblemished name, a
reputation before which men bowed
in respect, and we of the mass still
dosiro to sustain that reputation.
Willie we make no attack on the
parties concerned, while wo refrain
from on expression of opinion relative
to the action of Mr. Murphy, yet, we
tho people say that our Senator Hill
is correct in his endeavorlto purge
our State government urovou the
semblance of evil.
-Now sir, in tho time not far past
\ve arraigned Senator Hill; but our
minds underwent a radical change
when we saw him tried, and tried ho
has been sorely. Now wo Jove and
respect him, Tho “wiregruss” has
somejintorest in all this. This im-
broglio is to us pregnant with indica
tions of evil. Wo noticOjthut Sena
tor Hill has been first indirectly
snubbed by the State Legislature
through committees, uud then ridi-
culed'aml insulted by certain of tho
“press.” We cannot see nor under
stand why Mr. liill has charged
nothing^agailist Gov. Colquitt. Yet
tho governor is reported as having
claimed that Mr. Hill was hisenemv.
Why? No one supposed Unit Coil.
Colquitt could have boon bought. 1
Me scorn the idea that tho Governor
is a mun to bo corrupted at all. Yet
we do not think Mr. Hill to blame
for exposing that which duos wear
tho guise of impropriety. If Gov,
Colquitt will putiBo a moment ho will
see, as wo do, that from over-generous
impulse uud native chivalry he has
unthoughtcdly allowed himself to bo
parliully drawn into tho champion
ship of a cause which is unworthy of
him, for ho is u good uuiu—a great
pity Georgia did not have more like
him. Our complaint is that Mr.
Hill has not boon aided in his effort
to purge our State government of
every form of venality. Lot our in
spected Governor stand “hands off,”
and lot tho ‘Angoun stables’ bo cleans
ed. It is a fact that no man is so
unsuspecting of wrong in others as
a truly good and charitable man.—
Suoli an one is Gen. Colquitt. Hut
if Mr. Murphy has done a wrong aet
and if ho has partners in his wrong
to tho people of Georgia, wo of the
mass wish to know it. Let Mr. liill
unmask them. Why should not the
Legislature aid him? Why should
not the Goveunor aid him ? There
is no justice in listening to the cry
of ‘catch thief,’ mised by tho guilty
against the innocent to divert public
attention. This war on Senator
Hill is unjust and uncalled-for. We
tho people, far removed from ‘ring
inflooo<vs,‘appreciate his efforts and
when the time comes will show our
appreciation by our support. Wo
earnestly ask him now to probo this
wound to the honor of our,Stuto and
expose the wrong-doer, if wrong be
done, if hot, then no innocent man
can bo harmed.
Wo charge no one with wrong-do
ing, but wo want 1001*0 light on all
this “fee" question, and it is to be
IiojkhI and wo exfmt that our legisla
ture will stand by Sou. Hill while lie
gees through this whole mess uud
protect tho fume of tho State, whoso
dost ink'* hove boon entrusted to
them, Hut let come what umy, tho
wiregruss will love and stand up to
lW*n lUU fur his manly* patriotic
course, and those who now make war
on him for doing his duty as a man
and a Georgian will ft>ol in the future
the full weight of an endorsement of
the Senator, \Y.
Tho (\>n*fitufiou claims that At
lanta is tho only place iu tho world
where a man can afford to marry on
a salary uf forty dollars a month.
The .Southern Colored Vote.
81. Louis Ilcpuhlicnu.
The New York Nation, which al
ways assumes to he ]>eeuliarly and
particularly fair ill its treatment of
the negro question, makes the follow
ing remarkable recoinniendtion in
its latest issue:
“If Southerners are afraid of ig
norant majorities, as they say they
arc, ami as in their condition in some
.States they have reason to be, noth
ing can he more short sighted or in
consistent than trying to restrict the
suffrage by such weapons of barbar
ism as fraud and violence. If the
intelligent and property owning class
in that region has the power to pro
tect itself in this way it has the pow
er also to protect itself, in a more ex
cellent way, and at the same time
help to hold up the hands of the
friends of pure government all over
the country, by imposing tests winch
the dangerous class could not meet,
and tho operation of which would
every year diminish its numbers.
We mean the exaction either of a
tax-paying or ail educational qttalifi-
cation. The constitutional amend
ments do nut prohibit this, uud. in
the Southern Slates there is now an
opportunity of resorting to it which
does not exist in any other part of
tho country, uud it would be no more
likely to entail a restriction of repre
sentation there than it is in Massa
chusetts. This mode of keeping
society on its buse would have the
sympathy, secret or open, of u large
body of pcoplo at the North, who
already share tho Son thorn dread of
the working of a civilised govern
ment by the agents or leaders of an
ignorant majority, and it would ope
rate as a stimulus of the most pow
erful kind in bringing the negroes
into the arena of polities—that is,
in destroying tho brute vote, a voto
which is cast, canine fashion, under
tho inilueuou of mere four or hate,
or for an immediate reward.”
If any leading and inilucntiul
Southern mombor of Congress were
to declare openly for such a policy us
this, thcro is 110 reason to doubt that
his avowal would arouso such u storm
of (’enunciation from Uopuldicuu pa
pers and speakers as has not been
heard for if long time. This course
would be absolute disfranchisement
of tho grout body of the colored vot
ers, anil the Nation advises its adop
tion for that very purposo. When
tho time coinos for a similar proscrip
tion of tho uneducated class all over
the land, it will do for the Southern
States to adopt this policy.
Fables,
Tho following fables have boon
sent us with the request that we
publish them in tho Post:
Fahle I.
A frog that dwelt in a ditch spat
at a worm that boro a lamp.
“Why do you do that ?” said tho
glow-worm,
“Why do you shine ?” said the
frog.
Faulk 11.
IVhen Zeus, half in sport and half
in oruelty, nude man, young Hermes
who, us all Olympus know, was for
ever at some piece of mischiof, in
sisted on meddling with his father's
work, and got leavo to fashion the
human ear out of a shell that he
ehunced to have hv him, across which
ho stretched a tine cobweb that ho
stole from Araclme. Hut ho hollow
ed ami twisted the shell iu such a
fashion that it would turn back all
sounds except vo.y loud blasts that
Falsehood should blow on a brazen
horn, whilst the impi>nutruble web
would kcop out all such whispers ns
Truth could send up from tho depths
of her well, llennos chuckled as lie
rounded the curves of his ear and
fastened it on the newly made human
creature. “So shall these mortals
always hear and believe the thing
that is not,” lie said to himself in
glee—knowing that the box lie would
give to Pandora would not boar more
confused and complex woes to the
hapless Earth than this gift of an car
to man. Hut he forgot himself so
far that though two earn were want
ed, lie only made one. Apollo pass
ing that way marked the blunder,
and resolved to avenge the theft of
his milk white herds which had led
him such a weary ohnso through
Teuil>o. Apollo took a pearl of the
am, and hollowed it, and strung
across it a silver string from his own
lyre, and with it gave to man one ear
by which the voice of Truth could
reach the liraiu. “You have spoiled
all >ny sport,” said the boy, Hermes,
angry and weeping. “Nay,” said
the elder brother, with a smile. “He
comforted. The brazen trumpets
will be sure to drown the whisper
from the well, and ten thousand
mortals to one, be sure, will always
turn by choice your ear instead of
mine.”
MoitAL—Hcwarc of cobwebs and
tho spiders that spin them.
The frigid wave has made itself
felt very seriously in Florida. I11
Pcrdinaiidiua on Saturday two in
ches of snow fell, which drifted a
foot deep in the fence corners. At
Haldwiu a heavy storm of sleet con
tinued all night, and everything was
covered with ice. On Sunday it
thawed a little, but froze again at.
night. At Hronson it rained all
night, the rain freezing as it fell,
and many fear for the orange trees.
At Cedar Key it was sleeting all
night, and the weather was excep
tionally cold. Such a winter was
probably never known before.
A deputy sheriff at Richmond,
Kentucky, being unable to collect
taxes from a resident, got a third
party to admire the resident’s false
tectli and nsk to bo shown them
then darting forward seized thorn.
After living on soup a few days the
resident paid his taxes and redeem
ed his property.
The committee on Coinage,
Weights and Mcusnrcs have rtqmrteil l
to Congress rogiudiiig the metric
system They say this system 1ms
received the endorsement of scientific
men in the old aud new worlds for
half a century past, ar.d urge that it be
adopted, at least, in such departments
of the government as have the larg
est relations with those countries
where it is in v6guc. They earnestly
recommend the passngo of the House
bill to establish this system in the
post offices and custom houses of the
United States.
Beheaded at Prayers.
Newbury port, Mum., telegram in Chicago
Times.
Hamlet refrained from killing his
mother's husband while the latter
on liis knees, but Mrs. John S.
Cad well, of South Byficld, bad 110
It scruples when this morning she
decapitated her husband with an ax.
Mr. Cudwcll was kneeling at a chair
offering his morning devotions, the
’ f other person in the house being
sister-in-law, who was in the
same devout jmsttire, when Mrs.
(Indwell stealthily entered the room
1, snatching up an ax, which her
husband lmd brought iu, the night
before, dealt hint a blow on the back
his neck, which ncady severed bis
head from his body. Death was in
stantaneous, and the soul of the sup
pliant followed the half-uttered pray-
to the other world. The terrible
deed was done, the woman went to a
neighbor’s house and told him to
over, us she lmd struck her hus
band and might have killed him.
He had threatened, she said, to kill
her. Mrs. Cadwell exhibited not
Hie least sign of emotion, and talked
unconcernedly about the dreadful
thing she hud done. The sad intel
ligence quickly spread throughout
tho little village, and great excite
ment still prevtrls throughout the
surrounding country. Mr. Cadwell
was mi intelligent farmer of ubont
forty-live years, in easy circumstan
ces, and both I10. ami his wife arc re
spectable members of the Orthodox
church. For the past two years the
wife has been partially deranged, so
ipiucli so that her sister has been sent
for tc keep watcli of her movements.
There was nothing hut happiness
in the relations between husband and
wife, and tho woman’s devilish deed
is universally attributed to insanity,
pure and simple. .She is under stfr-
veilanee, and will he sent to an iu-
sano asylum. This peaceful commu
nity has not been so horrified for
voars.
Mr. Thomas Hryant, of Randolph
county, killed on the 24th of Decem
ber three hogs, fourteen months old,
that weighed 971) pounds.
On 11 two-horsc farm, Abe Faust,
of Oglcthorpo county, this season,
killed 1,225 pounds of pork, made
100 barrels of corn, 11 bales of cot
ton, and peas, potatoes and ground-
peas in proportion.
.Shipments of vegetables from
Florida have begun.
Take Your Comity Paper.
Tho Waverleg Magazine, one of
the soundest uud most popular peri
odicals published in the United
States, thus discourses on country
papers:
“Do the city papers say anything
in regard to your own county? Noth
ing. Do they contain notices of
your schools, meetings, churches,
improvements, and hundreds of oth
er local matters of interests which
your own paper publishes without
pay? Not an item. Do thoy ovor
say a word calculated to draw atton-
tiou to your county atul aid in its
progress and enterprise? Not a line.
And there me nion who take such
contracted views of tliis matter in
their own paper, they think they
are not getting the worth of tiivi:
money. It reminds us of a man who
took the hugest pair of hoots because
tho prico was tho same as a pair
much smaller tliut fitted him.”
Wo Iroro taken wood, -pafotoeayi
eorn, eggs, batter, onions, cabbages,
chicken, stone, lumber, labor, sand,
calico, saurkruut, second-hand cloth
ing, coon skins, fodder, shucks and
bug juice on subscriptions, in our
time, and now a man writes 11s to
know if wo would send the jaiper six
months for a huge owl. There are
few things an editor would refuse 011
subscription, and if we come across
any fellow who is out of owls, and is
in need of one, we’ll do it.—Ex
change.
The Paris jiapors generally agree
tliut the Senatorial election of Sun
day was a crushing blow to the H011-
apurtists.
Toceou Herald; “Tocetw hills
was very beautiful lust week. The
falling spray froze almost as soon as
it touched the rooks and shrnbbory,
presenting as fine a picture of wai
ter as one would wish to see,”
Macon ami Brunswick Railroad.
COMPLIMBXTAKY TICKETS TO LeG-
islatohs.—“Wo have received tho
following from General Sitjierinten-
dent Adams.” says the Tehgrapg and
Messenger.
“Will tho editors of tho Telegraph
oblige me by stating through their
editorial columns (and request papers
in the Stato to notice) that compli
mentary tickets of this road issued
to Senators, Representatives and offi
cers of each H*)uso*in 1878, will re
main iu force until the holders re
turn to their homes from July session
of the Legislature in 1879.
Respectfully, Geo, W. Adams,
Dee. 30, 1878. Gen. Sujit.
M. & H. R. R.
A public whipping on a big scale
has taken place at St. Petersburg,
where 200 rioters were Hogged as a
penalty for resisting the police
authorities.
Irwin ton had some excitement last
week over an attempt on tho part of
two 110grt.es to escape from jail. The
first one that started out got hung
in the hole they had made aud had
to call for help.
The Wilkinson Appeal is jubilant
over the election of all the nominees
over tho independents.
Macon 1ms a new daily paper—the
Evening Ledger.
Hon. A. II. Stephens opposes Mr.
Norwood’s views on the Southern Pa
cific railroad question. Mr. Stephens
wuuts the Texas Pacific to stick to
thetfcfnd parallel uf latitude, but to
make its .terminus at Norfolk, Vir
ginia.
H011. Julian llurtridgo Congress
man from the 1st' Georgia district
died in Washington oif the 8th inst.
Hon. A. II. Stephens has so far
recovered as to oecnpy his seat in the
Houso again.
The Socialists have carried most
of their municipal candidates iu tho
district around Lcipsic.
Tho peach trees of southern Illi
nois arc reported as greatly injured
by the recent cold snap. Winter
graiu is in excellent condition.
Tho total loss by Thursday and
Friday’s fires in Columbus, by which
tho grocery store of Redd & Manley
and the Rauklin Houso. was destroy
ed, is estimated atlli5,UQ0, Insur
ance, ♦74,000.
Beacou8ficId’s gout is still improv
ing.
The late Bayard Taylor was a
printer.
Congress convened again on the
7th inst.
Gov. Hamilton is still improving
in health.
The whole North and West is em
bedded in snow.
Gen. Grant will be the Republican
candidate in 1880.
Jim Bennett is again promenading
on the Paris boulevards.
Several Democratic Congressmen
have died within the past month.
There are quite a number of aspir
ants for Bayard Taylor’s place.
The loss by the fire in Chicago Sat
urday night is placed at $110,00.
Mrs. Bayard Taylor will not return
home from Berlin until next spring.
The north is certainly responsible
for the recent solidity of the *Sontli.
The election for a successor of
President Hayes, comes off next
year.
Grant is in Ireland looking up the
brogue, blarney, brandy and bull
pups.
The trouble of .Scotland is showing
itself in a serious fall in real estate
in Edinburgh.
Connecticntt, Michigan and New
York will dedicate new capitol build
ings this year.
A gold mine has been discovered
in a street in Alum, Cal., and the
town is to be dug up.
The Legislature of South Carolina
lias repealed the law allowing divor
ces to be granted in tho State.
The receipts of cotton in Balti-
moic the past season have been
largely in excess of former years.
Major Andre is surely to have a
monument. Major Andre was doubt
less a bigger man than Washington.
The tobacco business of Rich
mond, Va., fell off the past.‘season,
as compared with 1877, $2,410,738.
Edwin Booth is clearing from
$1,000 to $4,000 a week by acting
this season, his terms being half the
receipts.
The earnings of the Louisiana lot
tery company amount to one million
five hundred thousand dollars a year.
Cotton mills at Newburgh mid
Albany, New York, are working on
half time. Low prices and over
production arc the causes.
Gen. Robert Patterson, of Phila
delphia, is said to have ontertained
at his table every President of the
United States since Madi on’s time.
Jefferson Davis’ book of memoirs
is to be published next spring simul
taneously ut Now York and London,
with a French edition in Paris.
Ex-Congressman Owen Jones,
who represented the Fifth Pennsyl
vania district in the Thirty-fifth Con
gress, was found frozen to death
Tin sday before last.
Tho English strike continues.. I11
North and South Yorkshire and
North Derbyshire it 1ms been decid-
ded to submit to 110 reduction of
wages. Other strikes are also iu
progress.
Blaine has furnished his election
Investigating Committee with the
names of several persons in South
Carolina and Louisiana, whom lie
suggests ho subpumoed, and whoso
testimony lie believes to be impor
tant tTi prosecuting the investigation.
Senators Butler and Eustis were
oiforod-u pluoo on the Blaine Com
mittee, but declined for the reason
that, as their States are interested in
the investigation, they preferred that
Senators from States not immediate
ly concerned should bo selected.
The Washington correspondent of
tho Louisville Courier-Journal as
serts that Blame is working very
hard to have Gen. Grant put on the
army retired list in order that the.
Gor.oral may thus get the repntation
of being what the correspondent calls
“a lay-aside public .man.”
The funeral of the late Kon. Juli-
liun llurtridgo was conducted by
solemn service in tlie House of Rej
resentatives. The casket containing
the remains was borne from the ball
by Mr. Hayes and his Cabinet, and
was escorted to the railroad to he
transmitted to Savannah.
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