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DAILY TIMES, j
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TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1875. j
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LARGEST DAILY OIBOULATIOK
lii lit j’ find Mn hn•>.
THU VOICE or THU FAIUmHx.
When tho assertion was first made
that three-fourths of the farmers in
Georgia wore unable to run their)
farms without aiil from the mer-,
chants, it soemeil to startle many of
our readers. We again assert it, be
ing more fully convinced after hear
ing from farmers all through the
country, and learning from our ware
housemen tho daily appeals to them ,
for help, coining from farmers, old
and young. In a great many in
stances the farmer who asks for as
sistance is worth a good (leal of pro
perty; bathe has no more than is
allowed him should he take the
Homestead law', and lienee lias no \
commercial credit. Will the Legis
lature adjourn, or. fritter away their
time, without giving to the farmers a
commercial credit ? This can he done
In two ways, but only the re-enact
ment of the Lien law will fully meet,
the exigencies of the times. The re
duction of the homestead will give
sonic few the desired credit, because j
it would leave a surplus of their pro
perty over the homestead, subject to
their debts. The re-enactment of the
Lion law Is the only wholesome leg
islation that will restore property to
the planter and enable him to make
u crop; and in doing this helps every
class in the State. Every exchange
that comes to us is laden with the cry
of the planter for help, and it w ill be
criminal In the Legislature not to
heed their call.
The capitalist, taking a strictly
business view of the matter, cannot
afford to let out their money unless i
they are secured in some way. Some
argue that, if a man won’t pay his :
debts without a lien, he will avoid the ;
lien. Practice and common sense |
teaches to the contrary. If you
go to a National Bank arid
desire an accommodation, they
require collateral; not that they
believe you dishonest, but to protect
themselves against such contingen
cies as your death, or failure, for it is
a fact that, some honest men make
mistakes in their Investments and
fail, thereby placing it out of their;
power to respond to the demands of j
their creditors. Those men who ad- j
vance the means to enable the farmer
to make a support, should have a
lien. If our law makers think u gen
eral lien law too broad, then at least
give the farmer the right to encum
ber his property to his warehouse
man, nud pass a law that will protect
the warehouse In the advance, above
other creditors.
If tho Legislature stubbornly re
fuses to tho people, one or two alter
natives is left tho fanner: either to
sell his stock and land at a sacrifice
and move away, or work for the more
fortunate of his neighbors. The first i
would he disastrous to the welfare of ,
our State, anil the second would re
duce the intelligence of the country
on a level with our native labor, j
The native laborer is used to the
scorching rays of the summer sun,
and trained from youth to field labor,
which renders him an overmatch to
the average farmer. Now, this is im
practical, unfair and unwise. Give to
the people the lien law for a given
number of years, and by the time it
expires they will have time to become
ttieir masters and have learned to
live at home.
Tue new Tariff bill before the House
of Kcprosentntivcs of Washington
proposes to raise about s3o,(Hid,ooo.
This is to ho accomplished by restor
ing the ten per cent, taken off the
duties on manufactures of cotton,
wool, iron and steel, paper, books,
India Rubber, gtftta pereha, glass,
leather, etc.; an additional duty of
twenty-live per cent, on sugars and
molasses; anjlncrease of four cents
per pound on tobacco; an increase of
the tax on the spirits on hand lifteen
cents, and thirty cents on spirits man
ufactured after the pnssageof the bill.
The bill also provides for relieving
matches from tax, and tho cessation
at the end of the year of the stamp
tax on batik cheeks. Tea and coffee
will remain free of duty. The bill of
course lias yet to pass through the
Congressional mill, and will doubt
less Undergo sundry changes before
It becomes a law.
Kill 11.
We hope tlie Senate will promptly
kill the bill recently passed by the
Rouse, levying such an exhobitant
tax upon theatricals and other per
formances In the State. Under its
provisions, if wo are not mistaken, a
mouth’s sojourn in the State, would
cost each company $750, which nat
urally amounts to prohibition, and
will certainly deprive us of all
amusements during the long winter
evenings. Such legislation, how
ever, is one of the legitimate results
of the exemption folly and injustice.
The State must be supported, how
ever, ami when gentlemen vote to
relieve millions of dollars’ worth of
property from all burden, of course
the deficiency must be made up on
something else. .Suppose the honor
able legislators try the experiment of
relieving the pressure, m part at
least, by resolving not to draw any
mileage during their term of office, as
most, if not all of them, travel on
free passes, and do not spend a dol
lar for that purpose.
We hojie the Semite will not hesi
tate one moment to kill the bill.
Bedevilled and harrassed as the peo
ple were by Radical deviltry, it is
positively cruel to deprive them of
all opjiortmiity of temporarily ban
ishing their troubles m harmless
amusement.— Macon Teleyraplt.
Macon Charity. The Savannah
Aeus, of yesterday , lias the following
paragraph:
Macon lias a soup house charity in
full blast, a fact more creditable to
Christianity than the sending of a
ship load of red flannel shirts and
pictorial tracts to Polynesia.
i:XTKuvi:iiM between tiovEit-
NOK sniTII AMI nil. I’. H.
riiwuii.
GOVERNOR SMITH’S MESSAGE AND Mil.
Howard’s hepi.y.
Executive Department, _ t
Ati.anta, Ga., February a, 1875. i
To tin', General Assembly •
In response to a joint resolution
, requesting the Governor "to commu
nicate to the General Assembly any
information in his possession relative
to the claim of C. B. Howard, for ser
vices in the distribution of the public
journals,’’ I have the honor to sub
mit the following statement, w ith ac
companying documents.
It, may be proper to state that, al
though this resolution was adopted
bybotli Houses on the 2nd inst., it
did not reach this office until to-day,
the Bth Inst.
lu the spring of 1873, the Librarian
gave notice through the public ga- 1
/.ettes that tlie contract for distribu
ting the laws, journals and other
books would be let to tse lowest bid
der. The sealed bids sent in under
tlie notice or the Librarian, were,
opened by him under my direction.
Upon opening them, it appeared that
Mr. Thomas 11. Cuyler offered to take
tiie contract to distribute the hooks
at $1,400, and was the lowest bidder, j
Air. C. li. Howard was also a bidder
for the contract, and lii.s bid was
$1,450. The contract was awarded
to Thomas H. Cuyler, os tlie lowest
bidder.
When Cuyler’s bond for the per
formance of the contract was pre
sented for approval, it was found de
fective, and the Librarian was in
structed to notify him to execute
another bond. On the day this oc
curred, Mr. Howard, in a personal
interview with myself, claimed that
the contract ought to have been |
awarded to him, instead of to Cuyler.
He was somewhat incoherent in his
statements, hut, at last, seemed to;
settle down upon the charge that
Cuyler was a "man of straw” (using
his own language), and that Dunlap,
u .son-in-law of the Librarian, with
the connivance of the latter, was
using the name of Cuyler to defraud
him (Howard) out of his bid. A day
was set by me to hear the parties to
this charge, and the Librarian was
instructed to notify Cuyler of the
charge, and that his presence was
desired at the hearing.
On the day fixed for the hearing,;
the Librarian informed me that he
had just received a telegram, or let
ter, from Cuyler, stating that ho was
prevented by illness from being pres
ent, but. that he was ready to execute l
any bond for the performance of his |
contract which I might require. Tlie
charge against Air. Cuyler was of too j
serious a character to be heard and j
determined without giving him an
opportunity for defense. From the j
nature of his sickness (hemorrhage j
from the lungs), it was, as I learned ■
from the Librarian, altogether nn-1
certain when he could appear in per
son. The public interest demanded j
that the hooks should be distributed ’
without delay. 1 did not think it i
proper to give the contract to Mr.
Howard because li appeared that he;
was net tlie lowest bidder. Crider
the circumstances, I determined to j
relet the contract. In coming to this
conclusion it did not once occur to I
me that any just cause of complaint ’
would thereby |>e given to Air. How
ard. If the controversy between him j
and Cuyler should continue, his only j
hope of obtaining the contract would j
depend upon showing that the latter!
was not a veritable bidder, and that [
liis name was being fraudulently I
used by Dunlap, with tlie eouni
vanee of the Librarian. It was very'
certain that Air. Howard had made
no outlay of expense, so far as was;
known, and I did not see how he]
could be injured materially by a re
letting of contract.
Upon concluding to re-let, l at once
informed Air. Howard of my puri>ose.
When first informed of this determi-1
naHon, he certainly did not object |
thereto. I understood him, on the j
contrary, as distinctly assenting to
the fairness of my resolution. The j
Librarian was then instructed to ad- j
vertise in the public gazettes, for ten i
days, a re-letting of the contract, j
Afterwards, and oil the same day,,
Howard approached me and insisted
that the contract should be given
either to himself or to Cuyler. Fori
reasons of which ram sure Air. How-i
urd had been well advised. I deemed
it Improper to comply with his m
quest, and so informed him.
Pending the notice for re-letting j
the contract, Mr. Howard again he-J
came n bidder, and requested that I
should keep the bids in my own j
possession, and open them myself t
which, for his gratification, t eon- j
sented to do. It was in reference to
these bids only, that tiny such pro- j
ml.se was ever made.
When the last-mentioned bids Were
opened, it appeared that Air. Howard
offered to take the contract at swi;
and, this being the lowest bid, the
contract was accordingly awarded to
him. I herewith transmit, for the
information of the General Assem
bly, a copy of each of Air. Howard’s
bids. An examination of his last, bid
shows that he did not therein reserve
tlie right, or in any manner indicate
an intention to claim the $1,450 tlie
amount of his first bid. Such u claim
upon his part, would have led to tlie
unconditional rejection of his lust
bid, because it would have been en
tirely inconsistent therewith. In this
connection it is proper to state that
Afr. Howard was fultv advised that
tlie contract could only bo given to
the lowest bona tide bidder, and, con
sequently, would, in uo event, be
awarded to a higher bidder.
Some months after tho contract was
finally awarded to Air. Howard, he
asked to be paid the difference be
: tween his first und his hist bid, which
request, was refused. The reasons
i for this refusal were fully stated to
him at the time, und were, in effect,
that Cuvier's wus the lowest bid ; that
he was a veritable and bona tide bul
! dev; that there was no collusion be
; tween him and tlie Librarian, and
that neither Dunlap, nor the Libra
! rian combined with t'uylerto defraud
; him, (Howard.) To shoiv that mv
| then convictions were correct, 1
i herewith transmit copies of the sworn
! statements of Cuyler and the Lilira
: rian. 1 will hero state that. Air. Cuy
' ler is represented to be a young man
of good character, and that I had on
reason whatever, apart from the state
ments of Mr. H.’to suspect, t hat he was
callable of acting falsely or fraudu
lently. The bid was awarded to him
in the first instance only because it
appeared that he was the lowest bid
der. I refused, upon the first bid
ding, to award the contract to Air.
Howard because it appeared that he
was not the lowest bidder. The con
tract was re-let, only because the pub
lic interest,in my opinion, demanded
it. That re-letting did Mr. Howard
no injustice, because he was clearly
not entitled to the contract, under the
first bid.
The General Assembly, at the last
session, appropriated S3OO to Air.
Howard as “extra compensation."
This was done, I suppose, upon the
■ ground that it was thought SBOO did
i not sufficiently compensate him for
] distributing the books, under his con
tract. Whether he was, in fact, enti
tled to such extra compensation, will
be judged of-when I state that the
distribution of the laws and journals
of the lust session of the Legislature,
made directly from the Library, cost
only 4340.15.
! I herewith submit, for the Informa
tion of the General Assembly, a copy
of a letter received from Air. How
ard about tlie first of December
I last, and of my answer thereto. 1
; make no comment, upon this letter of
Air. Howard, except to say, tlmt lie
[seems never to have learned that a
menace against the Executive is an
improper menus of collecting a dis
puted claim against the putdi ••
James M. Smith.
On account of the length of Air.
! Howard’s reply, we simply extract
the material points, using his own
j language;
To tin’ General A**enibly:
Gentlemen —On the id instant, a
resolution passed both Houses of
your honorable body, calling upon
the Governor “for any information
in his possession relative to the
claim of U. B. Howard, for services
in the distribution of public jour
nals.” He is called upon for un> in
formation in hi* possession. And I
yet, after six days of preparation of
itn answer, he sends in a message,
and leaves out the most important
evidence in the ease, and gives an
exparta version ol the matter.
When my claim was before the
lust. Legislature, Governor Smith ap
pointed Gen. William Phillips, of
Cobb count) a Solicitor General of
muny years’ experience as his spe
cial attorney, to examine into this;
claim and report to him in writing.
General Phillips hail l>r. Branham
und myself summoned before him,
and called in the Hen. Air. Estes, an
eminent lawyer of Hall county, as a
witness to the examination. After a
most through and searching investi
gation, (ten. Phillip* submitted his
report to Gov. Smith, first having it
read over to Dr. Branham and mv
self twice, Sentence by sentence, giv
ing us an opportunity of objecting, *
in ease he had don© either of us an
injustice. We both assented to the
fairness of his report. In this report
he fully sustained my claim. He oh- i
mined admissions of fraud from Dr.
Branham, that he could not get ids
consent to embody in his report; but
satisfied himself with stating that tlie
evidence was clearly in my favor.
In all fairness, why did Gov. Smith j
withhold Phillii>s’ testimony and re
port when he was called on “for any
information in his possession ?”
* * * * * * *
The Governor says—
“ When Cuyler’s bond for the per
formance of the contract was pre
sented for approval, it was found
“defective.’ ”
"Defective!” Why did not the
Governor, who was called on for in
formation, tell you candid!) what the
defect was? He knew there wasimpo
tant “information ” right there, for he
is a good lawyer. 1 will furnish you
tho information, and tell you what
the "defect” was. In the first place,
he had a gentleman on his bond who j
never had heard of him, and did not
endorse for him, of which fact 1 gave ,
Governor Smith notice. Did hot !
Cuyler lay himself liable to be put
in the penitentiary for signing his;
name under a gentleman’s endorse
ment for s2,Hod, when the blank en
dorsement was intended for another.
That was "defective,” but was not j
tire only “defect.” In their onfu
sion and frigid for I was right after ]
them, although a little “Incoherent" j
in my charges, they made the bond,
promise to distribute only a portion!
of the books, and when I called their!
attention to this little "defect.' Dr. I
Branham interlined the bond after it i
was signed and endorsed, and 1
doubled the amount of work promt—
ed in the bond. Another “defect" to j
which I called the Governor s atten
tion. Why did not Governor Hmith 1
give you some information on this:
point? If I understand the object
of your resolution, it wa* to get at
all the facts. - • that yon could deter
mine whether I was making a just ;
claim.
* t * * * *
Governor Smith cannot forget that,
in less than one hour after I received i
the official notice of the bidding, I
approached him and charged fraud,
and agreed to rest the ease upon this
test: said 1. "Send up stairs und gel i
Cuyler’s hid, and if it is not in this j
Imnd writing, (showing him the offi
cial notice just received from, and
written by, Dunlap.) I will give up
the case." Said I. "Governor, this
bid purports to have been written on
the sth April, it is now June. Ido
not believe the ink is dry, and I am
willing to rest my claim upon that
fact." How easy it would have been
to have settled the matter then; but
for some purpose tho Governor neg
lected to comply Avith my request It
is too late now to compare, as Dr.
Branham ha* destroyed all t lie [tapers
in the ease., and that accounts for
their loose statements from memory.
1 charged fraud from the first, trail
upon my assertion that I could prove
it, Governor Smith promised to hear
the ease at liis offleo on a certain Sat
urday at 12 o'clock. Before this hour,
Dr. Branham gained access to liis Ex
cellency, and the result, of the con
ference was a complete disregard of
his (the Governor’s) promise to hear!
my proof, he announcing liis inten- ]
tion to rub out and commence i/raoro.
Hi' gave as his reason, that 1 hud
charged fraud, and not that Cuyler
was sick, or that the public interest!
demanded it. Instead of “distinctly,
assenting.” as tiie Governor says, 1
protested with so much earnestness
as to engender evident, feeling on the
part of Governor Halith. To show
you that it. was not Cuyler’s illness
that induced him to re-let. I give you
his (the Governor’s) illustration ’ he
will not forget it, Said he, “You
know, Howard, when two men are
playin'? cards, if one steals a card,
they rub out and have a m w deal.”
This dignified argument did not sat
isfy me. And l immediately -not
“afterwards”- entered my protest,
whieli is here submitted.
*******
The Governor further says
“I had no reason whatever, apart
from the statements of Mr. Howard,
to suspect that lie was capable of act
ing fraudulently.” Did not Dr. Bran
ham's message to me, that lie had a
way of finding out all tlie bids, sug
gest fraud ?
Did not the proposition to buy me
i out, and make the Stale i<uy s2,tiou
fora sl,4oojob, suggest fraud?
Did not Cuyler’s bid, api>earing
in the handwriting of Duulap—u sup
posed competitor- suggest fraud?
Did not the fact of Cuvier's bond be
ing signed T. H. Cuyler, at first, and
afterwards T. H. Cuyler & Cos., sug
gest fraud?
Did not the kindness of Dunlap, in
; getting up, before the award, the
bond of Cuyler a competitor sug
| gest fraud?
Was it not suggestive of fraud that
• a name should umiear as surety on
Curler's bond, who never heard of
Cuyler?
Is it not still more suggestive of
i fraud, that as far back as April, 1873,
Cuyler should, in his hid. promise
to "give this gentleman, who never
heard of him, as his bondsman?
Dili not Dunlap’s obtaining the
name of Judge Ezzard, for himself,
and then turning it over to a stranger,
suggest fraud ?
Did not Dr. Branham’s interlining
Cuyler’s fraudulent bond suggest
either forgery, fraud, or a partner
ship?
Did not the report of Gen. Phillips
not only suggest, but clearly prove
fraud?
Does the evideco of the per-ons
under arraignment relieve them of
the suggestion of fraud?
Did not tic complaint of John
Baird tone of the linn of Daniel &
Bail'll, bidders for the distribution ,
'made in person to Governor Smith,
before the award, that Dr. Branham
was trying to frighten him off by ex
aggerating tile, cost of the work, sug
gest fraud ?
Did not the statement of Dr. Bmn
-1 ham, a custodian of the State’s Inter
| cat, to John Baird, that any man w ho
took the distribution at less than
$3,000 would lose money that he
1 l)i Branhami would not take it for
: less than $5,000 suggest fraud ?
Did Governor Smith expect them
; to criminate themselves ?
; Did not all these fa -ts suggest
(fraud, "apart from the statements of
Mr. Howard ?”
His excellency decided the tase
against me, re parte, on June 7th,
! 1*73. declining to hear tile evidence
[ which I asked permission to furnish.
I In liis message he submits the ulfidn
j vits of th” parties licensed, as the
| only evidence to sustain Ills ‘then
convictions," said affidavits being
dated eight months after the arbitra
ry and ex jtarle decision was render-
I ed. Upon what could liis "then con
viction*” have been based ?
Respectfully,
(’. B. Howard.
| Atlanta, Ga., Feb. U, 1875.
1 CERTIFICATE or .irnop. WM. ezzahd.
I certify that in May, of 1873, 1
■ signed a bond In blank for Air. Sam
uel Dunlap for tlie distribution of
the public laws. I further certify
that T have no acquaintance with Mr.
Thomas H. Cuyler.
AYilliam Ezzahd.
Fulton county, Ga., Feb. 11,1875.
But in Oil) ler.’s bid, of tlm sth of
I May, 1873, lie promises William Ez
zaril as his bondsman, and on the 11th
jof February, 1875, Judge Kzzard lias
no acquaintance with Air. Cuyler.
i He signed the bond in tdank in May.
The bids were opened in June. Is
. there no evidence of fraud here?
I could multiply evidences of fraud
until you would tire of their recital,
but T will close for the present.
• ♦.
t.EOKLIA XRW*.
—Albany has in her bord \-s twelve
j hundred Israelites.
! —Airs. Carter W. Sparks, of Rome,
i died Wednesday last.
A meeting of the Central Jockey
Club assembled at the Lanier House
I in Macon Monday.
The Rome rolling mill of Messrs.
: Noble & Bro , lias been thoroughly
| repaired, and is again at work.
Wood’s Copper mine, near Car
[ rollton, lias yielded a net profit of
! twenty-four thousand dollars in nine
! months.
Air. J. T. Gibson of the Codar
| town Krjire**, was married the other
day to Ali-s Sailic W. Smith, of Car
i tersville.
Among the seven or eight hun
dred bills introduced in the General
Assembly how many are calculated
i to benefit the State?
Mayor Estes of Augusta says the
i returns of the insurance agents show
I that last year in that city the gross
; amount of premiums, on life as well
[ as fire insurance, was only $136,000.
The Jdrertieer, referring again to
that wild project of a State ttnk, is 1
of the opinion that what we want i
now is not an increase of currency
*o much as an increase "f economy.
The Macon Tdniroph gives the
i rejH.ii that Jack Brown of "ground
: hog” notoriety has succeeded in get
ting the appoUHui-nt of Post M i ter
at Macon, ousting Belcher, the pres
ent appointee.
—There is an apprentice bov in the
S]iartu Tine's mol Tinnier office wh"
; can set upwards of !i,onn mis in nine
hours, and do other work about the
office. This lad set liis first type in
August last,
The Athinta GoatmonweaWi says ,
domestic liquors advanced thirty
cents ]*>r gallon on Friday, owing to 1
the proposed increase in the revenue .
tariff by Congress, which will raise,
the tax that amount per gallon.
Tho Irish in Savannah are deist
ting the question of disjiensing with’
St. Patrick’s day’s procession and
speaking, and joining tlie military
pre) dilatory to a strike for God and j
fatherland, whenever England’s diffi
culties make it propitious.
- The Thomasville l-eilerprire sa\ .-
on last Tuesday night Bov. H. O. Ful
ler of that place fell through flit* ro
tunda of Mitchell's hotel to the Moor
of the office room immediately below,
a distance of sixteen feet, and that
his recovery is somewhat doubtful.
The position of a Justice of tie
Peace in Savannah must lie a hern
tive one, if they treat all who call in
their skill in the same way. The fel
low must be one of Bullock's appoint
ees who holds over. Tlie Cuivtlitn
tiwuilM says an Augusta man sent a
S2O 5n claim against a Savannah man
!to a magistrate of that city, and ro
! eeived just $8 50 as net proceeds
i thereof.
The’Knoxville Press and Iferahl
!says: On the 27th of. January last,
■ Col. Win. H. Mims was married at
! Cave Spring, Ga., to Miss Ida Chis
i olm, Immediately leaving for Knox
: ville, they arrived at tiie Adkin House
in this city on the 28th. The next daj
the newly married couple sought and
obtained board in u private family,
where the wife still remains. On
Thursday, February 4th, Col. Alims
left Knoxville for the purpose of go
ing to Concord as he stated intend
ing to return by the freight train that
same evening. Since then he has not
been heard from. His wife fears that
something dreadful has happened to
him. Siie is a stranger among stran
| ger and is entitled to sympathy.
ti.timii m:ws.
Deiuopolis is infested with burg
lars.
j —Brown’s Comedy Company are
i playing an engagement in Mobile to
; crowded houses.
- Mr. C. C. Bibb got into an alter
cation with a Mr. Hmith, which ended
in Bibb being shot twice. The par
ties reside near Montgomery.
The Alabama Central Railroad,
; from Selma to Meridian, lias recently
] added to its rolling stock two tine
locomotives.
—Tt is currently reported that Scab
Walker, convicted of murder at last
term of Russell Circuit Court, lias
obtained anew trial.
W. H. Betts, tile defeated aspirant
for Congress from trie Third District,
is after the appointment of United
States Marshal for Alabama, with a
! fair prospect of success. In whieh
I event, goodbye, Alabama, and may
Heaven take care of you!
-Gov. Houston has approved the
bill to make State obligations receiv
able for county taxes; also the bill to
; divide the State into eight Congres
sional Districts. Spencer and Sheets
j can save themselves further trouble
! about the business of Federal inter
ference in tlie Congressional elec
tions.
—The Enfaula Time* learns that
the Commissioners'Court of Barbour
i county, now in session at Clayton, has
hired out the county convicts to va
j rious planters at an average of about
two dollars ]<er month until the end
of the various terms for which they
are sentenced.
Bromberg, Caldwell and Sloss, of
Alabama, Democrats, voted against
the civil rights bill; Pellmni. .Sheets,
White. Ha) > and Rapier Repubit-1
cans, voted for it. lie hope that
those people of Alabama who last ,
rear voted the Radical tieket helie)-
ing the platform meant opposition to I
civil rights, are now satisfied that it
was tiie purpose of their leaders to
trick them.
Yesterday morning the train from
Greenville brought to the eitya num
ber of gentlemen who had been ar
rest's 1 by Marshal Randolph upon an
indictment found at the last term of
the District Grand Jury charging
them with violations of the Enforce- ■
meat Act. The names of the parties
arrested are: Will. E. Paine, Win.
Morris, Jeff. Burnett, AV. <). Farmer.
Thus. G. Foster. AV. A. Wright, and
W. J. Dunklin. These gentlemen are
member ' of the most respectable
families in the State, and will have
no difficulty, wo think, in disproving
any charges made against them.
They ail gave bond for their appear
ance. Monty. Xetr*.
I DiTaili* of Drrsdrnre.
For ten years past the Radical Re- :
publican party has ruled this country
literally with a rod of iron. The iron,
it is true, Ims been tipped with lead,
tipped with lead indeed at both ends,
loaded with bullets at butt, ami
crowned with stupidity at the top.
But none the less a rod of iron. The
purse it lias held and emptied as it
pleased. The sword it has held and
wielded as suited it. In all the rest
of the civilized world there has been
no sm'li absolute rule over any people
as that of the Radical Republican
party over the people of the United
States, “their lives, their fortunes
and ttieir sacred honors.” The Rad
ical Republican party has controlled
the Executive. When it found in the
person of Andrew .Johnson, ten years
ago, a man just deeply enough im
bued with respect for the laws and
the Constitution of Ids country to
shrink from making the Presidency a
convenience of lawlessness and cor
ruption, it forced the House of Rep
resentatives to impeach him, and did
its best to coerce the Senate into con
victing and ejecting him. It bar
gained with a successful soldier of
fortune, a man absolutely destitute of
political convictions, for the succes
sion of Andrew Johnson, closed the
transaction and put him into power.
Through him and with him for u de
cade it lias worked its will, and noth
ing but its will upon this hapless
and helpless land. It has adminis
tered th” Treasury. It has organized
and disposed of the army and the
navy. It has made and unmade laws.
It has represented the American peo
ple abroad. It has ruled the Ameri
can people at home. For several
years after the close of the war the
supremacy of the Radical Republican
party in the United States was like
the supremacy of Paganism under
Julian the A|instate or like tlie su
premacy of Christianity under Con
stantine the Great. To belong to the
Radical Republican party was to be
virtuous, to be respectable, to be suc
cessful. To oppose the Radical Re
publican party wa-s to be dishonest,
to li” corrupt, to be unsuccessful.
What was the preten,- • on which the
people of tin' United States were de
luded and bedevilled into conceding
this unexampled license of power to
this party ? It was the pretence that
this party had carried the war for tlie
Union through ton victorious termi
nation, and therefore that this par
ty had a right to insist that it
should be intrusted with the task
of reorganizing and reconstruct
ing the country after the
crowning hour of triumph had sound
ed. A plausible pretext enough this
was! It happened to be founded,
indeed, upon a lie. The armies of
the United States by which the war
for the Union was waged through to
victory were originally made possible
by the military genius and the mili
tary skill of Democratic generals.
The heroes of Big Bethel and of Bull
Run were the chief contribution
made by the Republican party to our
military history in the outset of the
war. The soldiers who fought out
victoriously that long and weary con
test were drawn as freely from the
ranks of the Democracy as from the
ranks of the Republicans. The
financial burden of theeonilict would
have been dropped in despair very
early in the strife but for the con
stancy and the abilities of the great
' financial und Democratic metropolis
of the Union. But the lie prospered,
.as lies for a time are apt to do, ami
| the Radical Republicans having
made a Radical Republican President
of a soldier whose oulv political vote
had been thrown for a Democratic
candidate, undertook to regenerate
the republic of which they had impu
! dently pretended themselves as the
■saviors. A". I’. H'orhl.
In reply to a young writer who
wished to know “which magazine
will give me the highest position
quickest?” a eotein;Hirary advises "a
powder magazine, if you contribute a
fiery article.”
Or the eleven young men who have
j graduated from the Kansas agricul
tural college live are lawyers, three
1 are doctors, one is a minister, one a
reporter, one a soldier, and not a sin
gle one a farmer.
The Burlington Hotel,rye remarks
; that Andrew Johnson will always be
a candidate for something while lie
lives, and when he finds that he is
; going to die he will want to run for
j coroner.
Masonic Yoliee.
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.V No. 7 I ami l M . will be hold thi (Tn<--
ilay) cvtmintf at 7 o’clock.
Visiting atul tmriHieut Bivtlnvu in good nUud
! ing arc invited t*> attend.
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By Ellis k Harrison.
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