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DAILY TIMES, j dolunibUM, <*•• TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1875. j i. 11. - ' ' Editor. Tlie Tlium Oder iri lu Ouaby'i Butldlog (up**uUr), on ttt. ciuir, h treat. 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. I RKOt I.AK MEETING COLLMHUX LODOE .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. lit order ot the W. M. l*l>l6 It H F. EVER BIT, Secretary. By Ellis k Harrison. r PHLS DAY. February 16th, and EVERY DAY I Tills WEEK, we will sell in front of our store, Qssirable Kentucky Mules ! Horses. jan 16 \v> ('heap Home. MOST DESIRABLE CITY RESIDENCE FOR sal*’. N > mtUKjnitoea or dust in Hummer. Escul ent water nd good garden. Apply to W. It. BLANCHARD, f bio i'od-wo iYisa-lm I*2-1 Broad st. For Sale. LOT OF SEED O ATS, CORN. FLOUR. SEED POTATOES. FEATHERS, PIGS FEET, SUGAR, OCFFEE. TOBACCO and MEATS. I>. AVUIXETT, ,iatil3 lm nnder Ran kin Houae. Fine A1 den my Bull. rpHE fine AUV - rnay Bull. ‘-General Lee," i-* now at GameF* stables. wher.. he will remain for a while. febll r jau 16 dim DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN mmm: GEORGIA Hour SAVINGS BANK Where it ill le HAFIi. Tlal.e .voilii IliiiuiNOine liilci-cnl. %m! Itcuily mui:( ,r rouM: J. RHODES BROWNE, President of Company. JOHN M lI.HIiNV,. \ t , . N. N. CURTIS, of Wells A Curtis. JOHN A. Mi NULL r . J. R. CLAPP. Clapp’s Factorv. JAMES RANKIN Cupitali-t L. T. DOWNING, Attorney at Law. CHARLES WISE. odltw] GEO. W. DILLINGHAM, Treasurer of Cotupanj, RIC n! RELIABLE! PROMPI XSTSUTIE YOUR IX TIIK tmUiW IVh SI IIMTIXTI VI. < OJllt\||\ niM 1 ol* MWN. you will Im* Ni Idi I'O 1 Ol it Royal Insurance Company of Literpool, England. Cash Fund, - . $14,200.03[ London Assurance Corporation, London, Eng. - ■ 14.385.J1’ The Home Insurance Company of New York, - • 6.057.JM; New Orleans Insurance Company of New Orleans. - ■ 155^1 (ter. < 'll AFFIX will always In- read) to seneiim oilier, in llie 4.1C01C01 l IKMIK IH II.IHXti. 4. RHODES BROWNE, Agent 1849. 185 Willcox’s Insurance Agency. ESSTABLISIIEU 1019. OLD! STRONG!! FIRE-TESTED REPRESETMTIKTO 1819. .Etna Insurance Company, - - - $6.50 1810. Hartford Fire Insurance Company, - - - - 2,50! 1809. North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, - - 21.ini 1864. New York Underwriters' Agency, - 4. t > 1853. Continental Insurance Company, - 23 1795. Insurance Company of North America, - - - 4.3 1829. Franklin Fire Insurance Company, - ir 1853. Phcenix Insurance Company, ..... 23, $53,500: Long Exjieeieiiee, Kqiiitable A(tjiiKtiiicnl>, Prompt Setlleineiits. | jauldtt D, F. Willcox ALIVE! ABLE! AND WILLING FIREMAN’S FUND INSURANCE COIM San Francisco, Cal. (iol<l Capital ! Ample Reserve Fun Fiiir Adjustments ! Prompt Settlement”! G. GUNBY JORDAN jan 27 tr Agent H. H. EPPING, President. H. W. EDWARDS, Cashier. R. M. MFLFORI'. : 1 Tho Chattahoochee National Ban OF COLt Vim S. Xbis Bank transacts n General Bunking Business, pays Interest n under special contract, gives prompt attention to ('olleetions on all j" ’ points, and invites correspondence. Information transmitted liymtib' s w lien desired. LIQUORS ! rrVHE ATTENTION OF THE WHOLESALE LIQUOR AND GROCERY TRADE in : i that 1 bavf constantly ou hand tor sab’, and ou most n atmnablc terms: NEUTRAL SPIRITS, NEW YORK BRANDY. NEW YORK BIX. * lowing brands of Rectified Whiskey < HAI.METTE, MARK TWAIN, YOSEMITE VALLEY, PALO ALTO, WALSH’S XXX MAGNOLIA, together An assorted stock of BOURBON and Hit .1. A. WAI >H SO, as, :to A :!• Xotre Ihiine St.. XI’.YY OISIU' fel>9 lm , _____—* HOLSTEAI) & CO staistdarh Bone Manures and Chemical Supp^ FOB FARMERS MAKING THEIR OWN FERTILIZE® Specialties s Curries’ Flour of Raw Boue, Ammouiated Dissolved Bone, Superphosphate of Lime, Charleston Acid Phosp^ B Pux’e Nova Scotia Laud Plaster. Sulphate Ammonia, Muriate Potash, Nitrate S: CHEAP AGRICULTURAL LIME. Formulas for Mixing S'-nt F " TSr- Semi for Prices of Seeds and Farming Implements. HOLSTEAD & C 0„ Agricultural Depo*’ (L W. BROWN, MANUFACTURER OF . Coiineeti<*ut and Haraufl * ITS Itroufl Street, 4’olninlHiM. Georgia- PricpN from to HTO por r I hott^ 1 > febll tr ' w. H. SAILS '"'