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THE POST.
Wednesday. march is. mo.
R. 1.. HICKS,
EDITOR .yxi» PROPRIETOR.
W. R If/rk* m the regular agent for th
pQXTit, ■/»//„v)ii taunty, uufbniied, to re
f ■<■«•»; v»/W, inti'on*, reeeipt for the name, and
h tuahr 'Qolnieh jfjfr ndrertininy. All dues
rhoutit be )iald to him.
Aij^ExQ'ii Bc’xhIoii of CotifffrcttH*
I Savannah Nows Mar. 0J
At nootj ycitcrduy tlio Forty fifth
n gross expired by limitation, and,
Inin been foreshadowed in our dis-
.»iitdies for some days past, it ad
journed sin/ 1 die wit hout pacing two
of the most important of iho appro
• priat/on bill*—the army, and the
legislative, executive and judicial.
These bill« failed because the Detno-
rnfx of the House had incorporated
them three provisions, which,
I>efng based iijion the time-honored
principles of our ropublic, and being
necessary to tho maintenance of the
iPiviJ and political liberty of American
citizens, were obstinately refused to
be agreed to by a Radical Senate.
These were provisions in tho urmv
to prevent tho use of United
States soldiers at the polls to tyran-
#ii«e over freemen and control, popu
lar elections, and in tho legislative,
pxeeutivo and judicial bill to repeal
f|»o jurprs tost oiitli, and supervisors
pf election laws—the one framed by
fl>c Radicals to give over tho United
•States Courts of the South to igno
rance and rascality, and the other to
(Ohnblc United States Marshals and
Deputy .Marshals, armed with blud
geons and icvolvers, to collect around
fho precincts during Congressional
elections and, by wholesale arrests of
(voters on trumped up charges, forci
bly .carry elections in opposition to
flji iwpdhtr will and in the interest
Iti the iwrty.iii power, Those hills
having fqijo<L an extra session of
{hpjgwss liecjpno inevitable, in order,
jtha.t tho menus supporting the
finny ami ruunhig tijo government,
plight tic furnished, ami for this rca-
fioi) Mr, Ugygs tins issued his proclii-
/naliou taugfpnjfig the Forty-sixth
f’ongresH on Tuesday, tho 18th inst.
'l l"' fi*jwn«o Attendant upon an
pxtrn session is necessarily heavy, and
jn ciflpfjdorafion of this fact the Dem-
fipruts in the House foi a long time
jmitjifostod great reluctance to forc
ing such a slop. It was understood
t hat tho Senate was ready to com pro
mise on a repeal of the jurors test
path, provided tho House would re
cede from its position on the other
bw.o points. This the Democrats
were nearly ready atone time to agree
fa, those who favored tho concession
bul ling that the ptisse nmiitutus law
♦viis already a sufficient cheek’upon
flio use of the army as a promotor of
llndioalism, and that when tho new
Congress was regularly assembled,
both Houses being Democratic, the
two remaining obnoxious laws might
be repealed before they could work
pay damage, especially sinuo there
would be held no Congressional elec
tion in the interim. The Radicals,
)iowevcr, grown madly hold over the
{success of. their past conspiracies, too
■spoil displayed their hand. It was as-
fieriaiucd that a desperate conspiracy
*yus on foul, fo control the orgauizn-
t.ioi) qf tjju npxl House Seven Dom-
pomtjc iqoiubora worn openly marked
for arrest on manufactured olmrges
fit having jntprfprpd with mipmwiaaea
pf elections. TltP«o wpre tp ho tried
before test oath jnrius in United
States Courts, convicted pf t|jo char
ges, nqd thus nroyented from taking
iheiy w-afs. (l) t)|is way the will of
the poqplp wp to be again f pimpled
1U M ‘»<M1|) t|)P popular branch of Con
gress seizpd on by a Radical minority r
jutd then still other Democrat'o
pi embers \y©yp to bo unsoated, until
!))P tiadjpids had «» clear working
wbinb would onublp thorn
to perpetualp, jf possible, eyejf moiv
jpfmnous intrigues jn 188}).
When this vile conspirupy hppmno
Ifuown, no o,l|pr proper conrso was
juft j.lfp Democrats of the House to
par^ap but to prevent by every means
)u their power jfs consuinmutjon.
This they roulixod that they uwod to
fbejr fejjpw-cuizens throughout the
|aml as y patriotic duty, tun} thure-
foro iboy determined inflexibly to
gin iimvont Hadjeal plots against
Amcrjcim fivodom hv insisting upon
a repeal of the obnoxious.measures.
They adhered to tlieir most laudable
fvspjye, and as a Radical Senate was
unwilling, by consenting thereto, to
destroy all hopes of maintaining its
party in power, the bills failed, and
now in two weeks’ tmje the Forty-
sixth Congress will meet, the needed
funds will bo voted, and the rights
of American citizens will bo vindica
ted. Truly a good “scud off” for
the first Democratic Congress since
1800. When the people of the vari
ous States of the country realize that
the Democratic House of the Forty-
fifth Congress only consented to an
extra session as a means of preserving
tlieir sovereign rights, and of saving
them fiofu the toils of a party which
by fraud, forgery and perjury had
already seized upon the Chief Magis
tracy of the nation in 187G, and was
planning to consummate through the
same means u still more infamous
conspiracy in 1880, they will most
cheerfully submit to the extra ex
pense entailed thereby. Tho value
of liberty and freedom cannot be
computed in dollars and cents.
Tho Hawkinsville Dispatch wants
the press of the country during this
off your in politics to employ its
mighty energies in demolishing hum
bugs.
Mrs. Felton is out in a second
letter in which slio denounces General
Gordon as a “Senatorial blather-'
skilc.” Hall 1
A. T. Stewart's Body.
Concerning the mighty mystery of
Stowcrt’s stolen remains tho Savan
nah Xewsot tho 7t h instant contains,
tho following:
A dispatch from Now York says
that A. T. Stewart’s body was placed
in tho crypt of his memorial cathedral
ut Garden City some days ugo and is
now under guard night and day.
This does not mean that tho body
lias just, been found ; for it law beeh
for weeks perfectly well known in
Now York that It. was recovered
within a few days after its robbery,
and bus been hi possession of Mrs.
Stowart all the whtlo that the police
and the paporswero keeping up such
a howl about “traces,” etc. The
robbers succeeded in tlieir object,
roooiving a small fortuno for Iho
return of their extraordinary plun
der.
A Dreadful Dentil.
Wo lire told that Mr. Goo. R?
Evans, of Selma, killed in the recent
bridge smush up, was actually drown
ed to death by slow degrees. One of
his feet was caught hot ween u pier
and one of the timbers on the wreck,
which held him fast.. A rope was
lied*under his arms, by which means
ho was held up out of tho fast rising
water, which was gat.bored by the
drift caused from the wreck. It was
impossible to loosen his foot, there
being but few persons able to help
themselves on the ground ami he
was compelled to await his impend
ing doom, begging mean while pite
ously that some one would out off
his foot and rolievo him. No one
could do this, and tho water gradual
ly came up higher and higher, till it
passed over his mouth and nose and
strangled him to death.—Independ
ent Headlight.
It is stated that Hayes’ message to
tho Forty-sixth Congress will bo bripf
and mainly confined to the objects
for which the extra session is called.
Ho will, however, ask lor an appro
priation to supply a deficiency of
twenty-eight million dollars lost by
reduction of the tobacco tax. In re
gard to the probability of tho Demo
crats insisting on a repeal of tho tost
oath and supervisor of elontim* laws
us n condition of granting supplies,
Mr. llayos says helms not yet. seen
tho programme, and therefor© could
not pass an opinion upon it, but he
could not believe ir. the absence of
information that any revolutionary
movements were contemplated.
The total number of bills and joint
resolutions introduced in the House
of Representatives during the Forty-
fifth Congress was 0,826 and the total
for the Senate was 1,838. The prin-
cipal measures which have become
laws during the session, in addition
to ten of the regular annual appro
priation bills, are the bill reducing
the tax on tot mono nud otherwise
amending the internal reveuue lawn-
the census bill*, the lull ro aid in re
funding the national debt, by author-
ixjug the issue of small Treasury
ccrtifioatos; ihe bill to prevent the
introduction of infectious’ or conta
gious diseases, and the bill providing
for the payment of arrears of pensious
for service during the bite war,
A Colored Woman in Irwin
County Murder# her Child.
Wo get this item from the Darien
Timber Gazette:
The Steamer Fox, Oapt. J. M.
Holmes, returned from Hawkinsville,
on Tuesday, with a lot of cotton on
board. The Fox departed again on
Wednesday. Capfc. Holmes, while
in the city, Mi formed ns that a color
ed woman killed her three yeur oid
child at Mobjey’s Bluff, Irwin county
recently, by breaking in its little
skull, and breaking its neck and one
nt its arms. This act was done for
the purpose of getting the child out
of the way. The law ought to put
her out of the way now.
If
Como View the Ground.
, New York Sun.
According to this programo the
republican nominee will bo Grant,
and the republican platform will be
a revival of the whisky ring, the
treasury ring, the navy ring, the
post-oflico ring, the military ring,
the lund ring, the custom-house ring,
the post trader ring, and of ull the
other rings that tho single word
Gmutisrn symbolizes Unlimited
expenditures, reckless taxation.
Imposed jobbery, an unbarred treas
ury, freo stealing, pardon for con
victs, social shoddy, Parson Ncwnuin
to shrive sinners, and congressional
comiijtion, will bo planks in their
platform. This is what the restora
tion mean. Honest, conscientious
and fair dealing republicans, look at
it!
The Tobacco Tax.
Riolipiond Whig.
Th© reduction of the tobacco tax
from 24 cents to 16 cents per pound
has been approved by the president.
The good that may ensue from this
reduction will be paid for at a ruin
ous price, if it lull our planters into
peaceful submission to the lax as long
as any of it remain. As this congress
Ims reduced it, the next will remove
it entirely, if tho tobacco planters of
the country demand that removal, as
they should do.
Americas Republican: Miss
Mainio Byrd, a bountiful young lady
residing With Mr. J. B. Hcott, intlio
eastern portiou af the county, made
two successful shots, tho first she
ever made, a few days age, and killed
forty-two birds. 'This beats all our
old hunters around town. It takes
most of them forty-two shots to kill
two birds. However, wo learn that
Mr. Albert Reese killed 'thirty with
a parlor rifle in one hour, in town
Wednesday, morning.
Johnson Items.
Tobo mid Julia are rejoicing over
a lino girl.
Frank and Mollio’s is a boy. ;
The citizens of Johnson must have
a great deal of business in Washing
ton Superior court as everybody in
Wrightsville is trying to go.
Mr. James M, Tapley frbin the
lower part of the county was in town
to-day. Ho reports no sickuoss except
colds.
Mr. A. A. Pago from the upper
part of tho county was in town to
day and reports Miss June Williams
very sick if not dead, lie also tells of
a curious dog story. He says Chut
Mis. Chostor has a dog that follows
her children daily and insists on see
ing them to bed at night. If lie is
shut out before ho is satisfied ho
keeps snob a noise that the family
cannot, sloop until the door is opened
and be is allowed to go to the bed
and see for himself that they arc all
housed. About two months ugo
Mre. Joiner, a sister of Mrs. Chester
passed and took one of the children
in u wagon and carried it home with
her, the dog not noticing it at the
time. When lie missed the child he
became very restless ami in about
two weeks was missed from the place
for throe days; after which time lie
eamo back and in eight or ten days
loft again and was guno a day or two
when ho again returned. Mrs. ('hea
ter thought his notions rather stmtigo
as he had never been missed from the
plaoe before. When ill's. Joiner
brought the child home, which she
did in a few days after the last visit
of the dog, she told Mrs. Chester
that the dog had been 'to soo the
child twice, which accounts for his
absence. The distance from Mrs.
Chester’s to Mrs. Joiner's is eighteen
Mr. Ilayes has vetoed the anti-
Chiuese hill.
There arc pending in the courts of
Memphis 120 divorce suits.
Queen Victoria will begin her trip
to Germany at the end of March.
Juda P. Benjamin has a law prac
tice in Dondon worth $150,000 a
year.
A marked increase of business and
revival in the building, interests of
the city is shown jn New York.
Beu. F. Butler's annual income
from money invested in stocks and
bonds at Lowell, Mass., is rated in
the tax-list at •$75,000.
The Paris correspondent of the
London Daily News writes: “Accord
ing to ull I hear the whole Cabinet
must.be thoroughly remodeled before
long.”
The Democratic Mayor of Troy,
N. Y., has been re-elected by a plu
rality of 2,954 over his Rnpubliean
opponent, and a majority of 1,000
over both Radical and Greenback
candidates.
The Greenback Club Convention
of Chicago is a failure and bus ad
journed. Only one hiindreud dele
gates to represent six hundred and
twenty clubs alleged to in exist
ence, were present.
Intense indignation against Mr.
Ilayes for the veto of the anti-Chi
nese hill is manifested in California
and on the Pacific coast. At Ballis
ter, San Benito county, Ilayes was
burned in effigy, and at Fairfield,
Sonoma county, flags were at half
mast. At Dutch Flat the last Chi
nese shanty was burned bn receipt of
the news.
The tea shrub grows quite abun
dantly in many places throughout
the State of Florida. This shrub
Ims delicate limbs and leaves and is
quite ornamental. The leaves when
properly cured make good tea, not
unlike the strongest black teas of
China in taste, and are often gathered
by the “Crackers,” and used by them
at tlieir tables.—[Bos. Bui.
The census bill, us finally passed,
provides for ono hundred and fifty
.supervisors, to be appointed by, Mr.
Hayes, by and with tho advice and
consent of the Senate. The cmime-
nitors arc to the number of one for
about, every four thousand, of the
population, and experts are to be
employed on all the great industries
and resources of the country. The
machinery of-Mie bill is regarded as
simple and efficient.
Augusta Sentinel: On flic 15th
of November last Henry McSecd,
colored, alias Henry Cartilon, wan
tonly waylaid and shot his own son,
in Columbia county, full particulars
of which crime were ut that, time pub
lished. Since then Me.Sued has been
at large until Wednesday morning,
when he was arrested by Lieutenant
Prather and lodged in Columbia
county jail, at Appling, where lie
now awaits his dealings by the grand
jury at. tho next term of court.
Oglethorpe Echo: A few days
since two. little children of Air. W.
F. Jackson, at the glade, word play
ing in the yard with a chop axe that
their father hud loft on a block. A
little boy, about four years old, laid
down his hand and dared his sister,
a child of two or three 81111111101*8,10
chop off his fingers. Quick as
thought tho. keen blade descended,
soveriiq* two of tho members und the
end from a third. When tho fathor
arrived lie fonud the little fellow try
ing to tear off one of the fingers that
hung by the skin, but he bore his
sufferings like a littlo hero. The
severed fingers were bound back to
the hand, and the wound is healing
rapidly.
Augusta Evening Sentinel: v Last
week mention was made in this pa-
l»er that Airs. Eliza White, a respect
ed lady who lived near Hearing, had
been missing for some weeks, und
that no knowledge of her where
abouts was possessed by her relatives.
Search was instituted for a long time,
but in vain, us some time had elapsed
siuce she was last soon, which was
about the first of February, some
where near Dearing. Yesterday her
body was discovered in tho woods
near Hearing, und it was discovered
that her threat was out. She
was a lady, middle-aged aud married
her husband having gone to North
Carolina recently to see about some
property there. Tho» is us yet no
clue to the horrible killiug.
Mils. M. E. MCVAY.
A. E, CHOATE,
MACVAY & CHOATE,
(Successors to AY. T, McVay.)
GOCHRAW, ! ; : ! GEORGIA.
A. B. .CHOATE.
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