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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-12-01
RAILROADS.

1t is astonishing to contrast the
deep and absorbing interest which
the people in some portions of the
country take in building railroads,
with the apathy or opposition OF
others. Just as we were about to
be blessed with a desideratum,
which thirty, or even twenty, years
ago, would have fired our whole
community with an enthusiasm, full
of hope for the future, and would
have inspired the spirit of enterprise
to the opening up of new lines OF
communications in almost every d.
rection, it seems that paralysis has
seized upon the once vigorous and
nervous spirit Of our enterprising
community.
In days past, when party politics
ruled in the South, and whilst we
were sticking to the platforms and
opposing all internal improvements
by the general government, the
North were appropriating millions
every year for the Improvement of
their harbOrs, bays, and even creeks.
The South succeeded in making the
party platforms the North succeed
ed in getting the money. Every
convention would endorse the prin-
ciple of Opposition to internal i'm
provements by the general govern
ment," and every Congress would
vote millions for improvements in
the North. The very men of the
North who who would vote for the
platform would vote for the appro-
priations. They were willing to
take the platforms for their cam
paigns and the money for their peo-
pie. They had no such moral prin-
ciple in their political creed as po-
litical consistency, hence they saw
no Inconsistency in advocating a
policy of opposition to internal i'm
provement by the general govern
ment, as party measure, and then
voting the money of the people to
build up their cities and commerce.
But we of the South stood high on
the principle-we succeeded, so did
they the South got the shell the
North, the oyster. And we are at it
again. We are more concerned to-
day about political platforms than
the material prosperity of the coun-
try. 1t is far easier to excite the
community upon the subject of the
election of a county officer than upon
any great work of internal improve
ment. 1t is for the purpose Of try
ing to awaken an interest in the
minds of the people of this county,
en- this subject, that this article is
written. Surely, there is yet re-
naming some of the old spirit Of our
fathers in the people of this city and
county, and we will not always sit
still and see the advantages which
have been offered us slip through
our fingers without an effort on our
part to retain and improve them.
Let us as citizens and neighbors,
imbued with common interest, for
common cause, bury all past petty
preiudices and differences, and with
redoubled energy and determination,
act in concert and use all our infu-
ence and means in getting properly
organized the Marietta and North
Georgia Railroad, that its construc-
ton may be certainty. There is
much virtue in the sentiment, eff at
first you don't succeed, try, try
again"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-12-01
CARTERsvILLE & VAN VERT r. R.

This road, in its entirety from
Gainesville to the Selma, Rome ~
Dalton Road, is forty-seven miles
long. The grading on the entire
length is done. The road is COM
pIeted for twenty miles, within two
miles of Rock Mart, or new Van
Vert, the original terminus of the
road. Iron is on hand for seven
miles more.
The extension beyond Rock Mart
is under the charter, which allows
it to extend Westward to the Ala
bama line C0nStstutiOn.
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AFTERNOON SESSION.
House met at 3 p. NJ,

House met at 3 P. NJ,
The following bills were introduc-
ed and read for the first time:
Mr.. Wilson: A bill to change the
line between the counties of Camp
bell and Fulton.
Mr.. WcWhorter A bill to sub
nit to the people the question of
abolishing fences around farms.
Mr.. Johnson of Jefferson A bill
to prohibit the sale of agricultural
products in his county after dark.
Also bill to require justices Of
the peace to return to receiver o.
tax returns all persons liable to pay
taxes.
Also bill to amend an act to es-
tablish a system of public instruc-
ton, &c.
Mr.. Riley: A bill to compel own
ers of wild lands to register said
lands in the county where they lie.
Mr.. Hall of Merriwethor: A res
oIution relating to fencing up stock.
Mr.. Clover A bill to amend the
homestead laws.
Mr.. Howell: A bill to change the
line between the counties of Forsyth
and Milton.
Mr.. Alfred: A bill to exempt GER
tain persons from road duty in Pick
ems county.
Also bill to change the line be-
tween Pickens and Gilmer.
Also bill to repeal the Schoo
Law of 1870.
Mr.. Clark of Richmond : A bill t.
amend the various acts amendatory
of the act to protect planters in thu
sale of fertilizers.
Mr.. Crittenden: A general ap'
preparation bill.
Mr.. McNeal; To authorize ordi
naries to order the sale of the home
stead when an issue of value is made
up
Also to amend the act incorpOrat-
ing the proprietors Of the August'
Canal, &c.
Mr.. Snead To promote the prop
agation of shad in Savannah river.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-12-01
HOUSE.
FRIDAY, Nov. n, 1871.

The House met pursuant to adj
iournment, Speaker Smith in Chair.
Mr.. Jackson moved to suspend
the rules to take up resolution Of
fered by himself requiring Messrs.
Redwine, Hammock, and Rawson,
who were appointed to take charge
Of the books of the State Road, to
make a report of their actings and
doings in the premises. Rules sus-
pended and resolution adopted.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-12-01

BLACK AND VIOLET INK.-Docu-
ments written ia violet ink and
found in the vaults and safes of
Chicago, and taken out after the
GREAT fire were found blank, as the
action of the heat upon the ink had
caused it to become obliterated.-
Black ink, on the contrary was not
in the least affected.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-12-01

The unfinished business of yester-
day, to-wit, the bill to reduce the
per diem OF members, &C., was re-
sumed.
Mr.. Riley favored reduction, re-
marking that the forefathers of the
present members only received four
dollars per day,
Messrs. w. d. Anderson, Scott,
jackson, johnson of Jefferson, and
Mcmillan favored reduction, and
urged the extravaganza of the pres
ent nine dollars per day, the burden
some taxation now expressing the
people, the necessity for reform, and
for that reform to be inaugurated
in the law making body. These
speeches were eloquent and earnest
Messrs. Cumming and Sncad were
opposed TO reduction, and in elo-
quent speeches urged that putting
down the per diem at very low
figure would be to build up an arts
tocracy so that none but the rich can
afford to be members OF the Legisla-
ture, and that the people are not I'M
willing to give good compensation to
those whom they recognize as their
true representatives.
Mr.. Stovall moved to lay the
whole matter on the table. Lost.
Mr.. Goldsmith called the previous
question on Mr.. McMillan's amend
ment to the substitute, which fixes
the pay of the presiding officers of
the House and Senate at SO per
day, and of members at 81 per day,
and 50 for every twenty miles trav-
eled.
The amendment, so far as the pay
of officers, did not prevail.
On the motion to strike out 81
and insert Sc as pay of members,
the yeas and nays we're called, with
the following result: Yeas, %
Nays, 80.
"Three dollars for every twenty
miles travelled" was inserted.
Mr.. Bacon moved TO reduce the
pay of members to three dollars per
day, and strike out mileage. Ruled
out of order.
Mr.. Clover of Monroe, moved to
strike out that clause which de-
clares that this law shall take effect
from the beginning of the session
Ruled out of order.
The report of the Committee, as
amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the substitute
as amended the yeas and nays were
called with the following result:
Yeas, 100. Nays, p.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-12-01

The three things most difficult are
to keep a secret, to forget an injury,
and to make good use of leisure.
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Marietta Auction House.

CHEROKEE STREET MARIETTA, GA
WOHN NIX WITH J. W. BOHEMIAN
Oh will sell all Goods or Property that is con-
signed to them at AUCTION and make true
return of the samo ~ soon as the property Is
sold. July 18th 1871.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-27

belligerent parties, as well as those pub
lished by the different writers in the Paris
journals and foreign correspondents, and to
have given as accurate history of the rise
and fall of the Commune as can be gathered
from the materials at command. The vol
ume contains something over five hundred
pages, is beautifully printed, and bound in
the handsomest parlor library style. For
sale by West & Johnston. 80 s-~e.
A oaTtstmas IN he West Indies BY CHARLES
KINGSLEY. HARPsR 4 BROTHERS Publishers
Ns,o FORK, 1871. ~ @fHfF4
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from the pen of one of the happiest descrip-
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and his books Of travel are among the
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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-27

WE print to-day a very valuable commu-
nication from Parker Earle, President of
the Southern Illinois Horticultural Society,
and one of our most skilled and reliable
practical fruit growers. Mr.. Earle's fine
exhibition of the most complete collection
of Southern apples, will be remembered by
all who attended the recent meeting of the
American Pathological Society in this city.
His experience and observation have been
very extensive, and his essay seems to
cover the ground more completely than
any writing we have yet seen.
The subject is one of vast Importance to
Virginia. II is safe to sag that zoe hare an
interest Of not less than a million dollars
per a'aaon IN the prevention Of Tie peach rot,
and destroying the curculio. With our
necessary facilities of communication with
the North, it is clear that this crop is to
grow in Importance every year. We hope
that every reader of our paper, who has
even a dozen peach trees, will read this
essay and lay it aside carefully for future
reference. ~
1t is from the very highest authority, and
we know that many Of its suggestions are
correct. If we can only rouse our people
to a united effort to destroy the curculio
and take as much care of their fruit trees
as they give to their field crops, the wealth
of Virginia would be vastly increased in
five years, and her reputation established
as frut-growing State.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-27

The Washington papers are somewhat
excited over the discovery that the Pied
mont and Potomac railroad company, for
the construction Of whose road the people
of that district voted, short time since,
over half million of dollars, has barely a
corporate existence under an old charter
granted by the Legislature of this State,
without a dollars subscription in stock,
or bonds negotiated, or the right of way
even secured. In fact, the road has no
corporate existence whatever in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and the people there have
put their foot" into a pretty mess Of it,
according to the accounts of the local
press. The fact is, it is about
time that the people of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, and everywhere else,
opened their eyes to this railroad subsidy
business. 1t is safe to say that in ninety
nine cases in hundred, where railroad
subsidies are asked of the people, it is done
with view to fleeing them out of every
dollar Of it in the end. No class of men
hiiOH oOetci tiiC pidStiOti ISSult VI fUtlIlS
such subsidies than those familiar with the
history of railroad enterprises throughout
the country and when they go to the peo-
pie for such subsidy-no matter in
what shape they seek to get it-they
know it must end in bringing the
parties to grief who make it,
Besides, the principle is all wrong-crimi-
nally wrong-in the matter of securing
these subsidies. It is attempting to do in
directly what the constitution of every
State in the Union inhbits as being done
directly. 1t is taking private property
for only quasi-public use without any
just compensation. 1t enables non-pro-
perty-holding majority Of the voters of any
town, city, borough, or other corporate
municipality, to seize and confscate, for
railroad purposes, every dollars worth of
property belonging to the property-holding
minority, and turn it over to the more
plethoric railroad corporations of the State.
The whole thing is fraud and gross mi
putty upon the people of the country, and it
is about time summary stop was put to
it. Let tho constitutional barriers erected
against such fragrant abuses be once moTe
invoked for the protection Of the people.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-27

AS INTIMATED editorally Saturday, the
statements concerning Minister Schenck's
mining operations in London are discredited
at Washington, and charged AS a market
SANDER. The London paper in which the
charges first appeared is a stock-jobbing
sheet of Lombard street, and the whole
story may be mere ''bull'' or ''bcaro
canard. This is also said to be the opinion
of the members of the British Legation at
Washington.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-27
THE FORBIDDEN MEETING AT NOR.
h FOLK.

THE FORBIDDEN MEETING AT NOR
FOLK.
The communication in to-day's paper,
from several prominent colored citizens of
Norfolk, relative to the recent murder at
Portsmouth, and themeeting Of coincidence,
meritsattention. The statements contained
in it seem to be truthful, and candid in
spirit. We have already expressed our
opinion of the action of the Mayor at
length, and have seen no reason to change
it. We recognize the right of assembly as
too sacred to be trihed with, or postponed,
by any considerations Of expense or safety,
even. 1.-THE Mayor feared disturbance it was
his clear duty to provide for quelling it, even
to the extent of calling upon the Governor
for military aid. A deep and irreparable
wrong has been done, not merely to the
persons Immediately interested, but to the
citizens of Norfolk as well. In the estima-
ton of all honorable men, the city authori-
ties would have stood far better, had they
forbidden the meeting in terms. They
lacked the courage TO face responsibility,
and SO, by eyasive indirection, they stabbed
the public liberty in the back. We hope
the city of Norfolk will put itself right be-
fore the county, by speedy disclaimer of
this unworthy action.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-27
NEW PUBLICATION.


TIE Paris Commune. BY w. PEMBROKE FRraIpaR
HARPER & BRoTHRRs Publishers, Neto fori,
1871. A
This volume gives the rise and fall of the
Paris Commune of 1871, with full account
of the bombardment, capture and burning
of the city, illustrated with map of Paris
and portraits Of the leading men engaged in
the bloody struggle for the mastery of the
French capital, taken from original photo
graphs. The accuracy and merit of the
work may be inferred from the fact that the
author an American-rcmained in Paris
during the siege and until the city was
captured by the government troops, and
was consequently an eyewitness to the
scenes he SO graphically describes. He
claims to have carefully sifted all reports
made by the different officers of the two
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-27

eegs3fa TREASURY DEPARTMENT, R4 D.
OFFICE OF THE LIGHr-H HOUSE BOARD,
WAsHISaroS, Nov. 10, 1871.
SEALED PROPOSALS., endorsed ''P PROPOSALS
FOR LIGuT-HoUsgs FOR TRINITY SHoAL AND TIM
BALIER, GULF OF MExIoo,'' and addressed to the
Chairman of the Light House Board, will be re-
eeved at this office until one O'Clock of THURS
DAY, the 4th of January next, for the construe-
tion of two irst-order IRON LIGHTHOUSES,
to be made, taken. down after acceptance, and
delivered on board vessels furnished by the
United States. ,H ali
Proposals will be received only in the printed
forms, which, with circulars, plans, specifica-
tions, form of contract and any desired informa-
tion, can be had on application, by mail or in
person, to m GEORGE II. ELLIOT
Major of Engineers, u. S. A.,
no l5-eod6t Engineer Secretary.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-27

OUR neighbor of the Dispatch takes de-
spairing view Of the country in connection
with the civil service reform measures, am
bitiously discussed just now by Senator
Carl Schurz in his lecture for the season;
and asks whether the present system" of
abuses can be uprooted? 1t thinks not,
and gives its reasons thus: "As long as
the country remains so-called Republic
there is no good ground to hope for revo-
luton in the civil service" The inherent
vice, then, does not lie in the SYSTEM"
but in the melancholy fact that the coun-
try remains so-called Republic. We
had hardly expected SO unfortunate an adj
mission from any newspaper in the country
since the defunct Impaaalist went up in
blaze of expiring glory two years ago or
more. That extraordinary sheet tried the
pulse of the American people in reference
to Imperialism, and while it let off any
number of imperialistic rockets, to omin-
iously glare and flame on q perturbed sky,
they all fell in most Insignificant sticks,
to annoy only those who let them off.
The Dispatch is more lugubrious over
the political morals of the country than
there is really any warrant for at present.
Once satisfy the people of this country that
the officials in power are corruptly abusing
their trusts, and, our word for it, they
will make short work of their tenure-of-
Office, if they do not post them off to Sing
Sing and other sanitary institutions of the
sort, in hot haste for their delinquences.
Note with what suddenness--as if by
stroke Of indignant lightning--the mighty
fabric of Tammany fell. In no other coun-
try in the world, nor practically under any
other form of government, could so sudden
and crushing revolution have taken
place as that which overthrow, as in mo-
ment, the boosted chiefs of Tammany.
They fell before the indignant wrath of the
people, (and those Of the corruptest city
in the Union, as the Dispatch will believe,)
when awakened to the conviction of grossly
abused trusts, as all other criminals of their
stamp will fall when the impression obtains
that are unworthy public servants.
The party favorites of yesterday become
the despised and legally-pursued culprits
of the party of to-day. Such demon
stration Of public virtue as this, argues
more for the integrity of the Republic than
fifty years of undisturbed tranquility would
have done, with all the pristine virtues of
our people as displayed in public Office
half a century ago. Let our ncighbor, then,
not despair of the Republic. The 'sproyi-
dental dispensation'' which placed General
Grant in the chief executive chair of state,
secured to the country the strongest friend
that the "civil service reform'' now has.
That he will work out, by the aid OF the
American people, such reform in the civil
service as the exigencies of the country
demand, and such as the people desire to
see, we have no sort of doubt nor need
our neighbor of the Dispatch doubt it, if
he correctly notes the signs of the times.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-27
PURE ICE.
NORTHERN ICE.

NORTHERN ICE. as
We have contracted for full supply of the
CELEBRATED KENNBEC RIVER ICE
and are receiving from the above river ICE
twenty inches in thickness, clear as crystal, and
hard as flint, superior to any ICE coming into
this market (aot excepting the Boston Iee). We
are the only dealers in this city receiving this
CELEBRATED ICE, so universally known as
the PUREST and BEST In the country.
We are prepared at all times to furnish ZOE OF
the above quality by the Cargo, Canal-Boat or
Car load; and we give special attention on all
occasions TO the packing and shipping of the
same. ELS m TH HaH faw 81
City customers furnished on the most reasona
BILE terms.
MCGOWAN & LAMPKIN,
rsf No. ISL Gary street, Richmond Va.
ie 2s-tf