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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-12
A Monument to Col. W. T. Thompson

Cor. Atlanta Constitution.
SAVANNAH, GA, October 9.-On a recent
visit to Laurel Grove Cemetery, stood over
the grave Of the late William Tsppan
Thompson. No craven stone nor marble
tomb marks his last resting place; a little
mound of earth alone pointed out the spot
where sleeps the great and good man whose
life and genius were devoted to his people
and his State. Sleeps the spirit? All no!
The pure soul ere it winged its flight, felt
the consciousness Of its own immortality.
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Condensed MtIk.
NHSTbn'9
JOHN
FOR SALE,
ROSE DEW PLANTATION

EOUR miles from Button, in Beaufort coun
II ty, containing 1000 acres of high land and
20 acres Of marsh; landing on May river. Apply
to DR.. MELLICHAMP, at Button; w; 5; Ed
WARDS. at Savannah; or EVAN EDWARDS,
at Charleston. A house in Button can be in
Guided In the sale.
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4gantEG.

WANTED, a governess to teach two -
w children. Parties residing a sborff ll 5sl
lance from the city. Suitable applicant us,
have all the comforts Of a good home A5S. WI
stating terms, x. Y. T.. P. o. Box 226. 'ess,
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WANTED, cook. Good wages paid. ArrI-
w on Gordon street, two doors west 1tp ~
Whitaker. VI
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WANTED, a young man, 16 to 20. that writ
w rapid hand ana is quick at figures ss
dress, stating salary expected, B., this offca Az
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nor RENT. store 1863 Bryan, on Market
II square. Possession given Immediately
j. w. MCALPIN, Executor,
"a Barnard street
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WTANTED, a man who understands Is,i,-
w cobble stones. Apply at General Man.
gers Office City and Suburban Railway.
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for Sent.

ITO RENT, from 1st November, the store
Il used as a barber shop under the Metro
politan Hall. Apply to J. B. FERNANDEZ's
Cigar Store.
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SHORTER COLLEGE,
4l2 Park Ave-, Baltimore. Md.

MISS LOwNDES successor to Miss Pegram)
will open her ENGLISH AND FRENCH
BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL on sEPTEM-
RER 25rH. 1852.
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ITO RENT, from November LIST, the office and
Il warehouse corner Of Bay and Abercorn
streets Apply to JNO. SULLIVAN & CO., III
Bay street.
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TOREET, the house No. 100 President street
Il from the 1st of November next. Apply
to DR.. BULLOCK, No. ia Liberty street.
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Che urnimg 8tws.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER -, 1882.
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WANTED, situation. by middleaged i.
w teDigent and reliable man, as ianito y.
Waterman, or in any capacity. Address i, NJ
this office. 11''
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EOR RENT, store on Market square, formerly
Il occupied by Mr.. Paul Decker; possession
given Immediately. Apply to l. D. LAROCHEs
SONS, 16S Bay street.
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TOR RENT, the fine residence 161 Liberty
z street Everything in first class order
Apply q Whitaker street.
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ITO RENT. four rooms; suitable for light
Il housekeeping. Apply to 25 Tattnal
street
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EOR RENT, from November 1st, a suite Of
4 rooms, with north, south and east win
doWs and bath room on same floor. Apply at
10l President street, second door east from
DraytOn, south side
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-08-15

Cotton picking seems 10 be the order Of the
day now, and The fields are getting white for
the harvest.
Reports say that the potato crop through
this section is fine.
We heard One-horse farmer say few days
since that he expected 10 kill this fall 1000
pounds of pork This sounds like business Let
more of our farmers JOIN in that chorus Hog
raisers, to the front
Your itemizer obtained two stalks of cas-
sava, and planted in January, from which he has
over thirty stalks growing, ranging from seven
TO ten feet high 1t looks fine | also had cut
from my patch of collards one head that weigh
ed after cutting off all the defective leaves seven
pounds. These cOllaids were raised without
any fertilizer, except the sweepings OF the yard
Mr. H. j. Bond has returned from New
York, where he purchased the largest and best
selected stock of goods ever brought TO Lloyd's
Station.
After the last day Of this month your item
izer will be found in his store, where lac viii be
pleased to meet all his old friends.
Independents are still booming, but all Of
them we have met are candidates for some Office.
Perhaps as soon as the fact is asceriained that
there will not be an Office for all, there viii be
fewer Independents. DOTTER
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Col. VIM. X. Beard.

1t is with sincere sadness that we an
nounce the death of Colonel Beard. He
died in the forenoon of Saturday in Phil
adelphia, where he had few days be-
fore gone from Washington City to re-
ceive treatment for painful disease of his
throat. This affection, which we presume at
least led to if it was not the immediate
cause of his death, made its appearance
before he left Tallahassee some weeks ago
to give his personal attention to the
States Indian war claims against the
General Government before Congress.
He was quite feeble at the time of his
departure and not without apprehension
as to his condition, but none imagined
that his life would SO soon run its earthly
career
Colonel Beard was born September
l2, 1880, in North Carolina. He came at
an early age with his greatly esteemed
father, Major John Beard, to St. Angus
tine. When but boy he went to Mex
leo, during the war between that govern
ment and the United States, and served
with our army. Prior to the late war he was
for several years successful merchant at
| St. Marks. In 1861 he was maze Lieuten-
ant-ColOnel of the first regiment of Con-
federate troops from this State and went
with them to Pensacola, who e he was
called to the staff of General Bragg, with
whom he served as Inspector-General
with distinction during nearly the entire
war. In his early manhood and since the
war he was at different times connected
with the State Government, and had a
| great familiarity with it's financial and
! Olner business anaIrs, anu a Avu apUi-
tude for compromising and calculating
them.
Those who knew him attest that he
had very superior talents for almost any
business. We can truly say that his in
tellect was of superior type, and his
mind was we'll stored with liberal reading,
retaining whatever he had read and the
impressions of what he had observed, and
having an easy use of all he knew, and
being stamped with the tastes of re-
fined nature, he was companion of PEE
culiarly attractive social qualities. He
was warm hearted and cheerful, kind and
gentle, and begot great fondness among
all with whom he was intimately associ-
ated. Cut down just as he was bringing
to a successful settlement the long stand
ing accounts of the State against the
government at Washington, and in the
ripe vigor of his faculties, his friends
deeply mourn that he could not have
been spared in his usefulness. He leaves
a widow and four children, brothers and
sisters, to whom sympathizing commu-
nifty extends its coincidence
His remains reached here this morning
from Philadelphia and were buried from
the Episcopal Church at IL O'Clock.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-08-15
Jacksonville Times, August IL.
Rfate Taxes.

BY request of several of our readers We re-
publish Mr.. r. L. Campbelrs letter on Florida
State taxes, which they appear to estimate more
highly than we do. The way to prose that the cost
of our State Government is unnecessarily high
is not to find some other State in which few
salaries are lower, but TO show that the salaries
actually paid are higher than ought to be allow
ed Tor the service expected-mOre, for example,
than the same men, performing similar services,
could obtain in other walks of life.
The " fancy sketch - is surely fallacious, be-
cause it does not state on what form or amount
of property the tax OF $3.50 is levied. Does
Mr. Campbell mean TO say that the State lakes
on the sum of one thousand dollars out at inter-
est amount TO nearly IS per cent of the income?
If not why does he stale his point in such
manner that the ignorant or careless will sup
pose that to be what he means? And does he
not know that a widow lady, with only thou
sand dollars out at interest, might legitimately
be asked TO pay $3.50 in taxes and still have no
reason to complain of high taxes? The fancy
sketch appears TO be entirely too fanciful TO be
of any practical use as an analogy.
In order to make his sketch" pertinent to the
argument by which he attempts TO prove the ne
cessity for a Constitutional Convention, Mr..
Campbell should have shown what portion of
the $3.50 was due to State taxation, and what
portion of the amount thus found due might rea-
sonably be expected to be saved by the reduc-
ton of salaries and offices which he thinks
Constitutional Convention would ensure. The
present State lax is seven mills on the dollar so
that what the State took from the poor widow"
who owned the thousand dollars was SeUen dol
lars the rest was taken for county or other local
taxes which State Convention could not rea-
sonably be expected to lessen or even touch.
We have seen it claimed by some of the news
paper advocates of Constitutional Convention
that the economies which such a convention
would introduce would make tax of sic mills
sufficient for all State purposes. If this expecta-
ton should be realized the saving to the poor
widow =" would be precisely one dOIlGr per year
but the cost Of the convention would probably
postpone this reduction for at least two years,
and by that time, it we understand Governor
Bloxham Alright, The State tax can safely be re-
duced 10 six mills without the interposition of
a Constitutional Convention
1t is TO he said, furthermore, that, like the
other advocates of an extra-Consiirutional Com
veHIon, Mr.. Campbell carefully reIrans from
specifying those reforms and economies which
such convention can bring about, AMI winch
cannot be brought about by legislation. AMI yet.
to our minds, This should be the very is step of
the argument.
The sole excuse for Constitutional Cunven-
ton at any time is the necessity Tor changes IN
the fundamental law which cannot he accom-
plished by Legislation in the OH derby and regular
way.
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A Trip 10 50. Teresa.

Those who wish TO enjoy pleasures unsur-
passed by Long Branch or Brighton Beach
and escape the inevitable gnal an mosquito
should cease for awhile the toll and strife to be
found in our cities. and forgetting the fashion
column in ones daily paper, hasten TO the pure
air of our heallh-gvng ST. Teresa. The pleas
ant trip Is now made in about nine hours Leav-
ing Tallahassee at nine we find ourselves, after
an hours ride on the cars, al ST. Marks. There
we see the Benz. L. Curtis putting and blowing
in all its pride as though wind and water had
no terrors which could in any way daunt the
buoyancy of its feelings The jolly Captain
meets US with oulstretched hand aud bid us well
come. Soon the whistle blows, telling all we
60" This should also be the signal for ladies to
take down parasols, for cinders do burn cloth
sometimes.
After the spell of gayety, which always accom-
panes the gathering together of excursionisls,
those who are fortunate enough 10 escape the
horrible feelings impaired by molher-sea to ones
digestive organs, can find amusement in search
ing the cabin and all hooks and corners for the
unfortunates, that they may be persuaded TO
overcome their shame and induced to stay in the
fresh air. Arriving ct st. Teresa we 6ud a
goodly crowd awaiting US on the wharf, and are
taken In charge by that kind, genial and excel
lent hostess, Mrs. Hopkins, who Is always ready
10 administer to the wants of the sickest and
grufest. Amer refreshing bath we find our
selves welcomed 10 supper composed Of all the
delicacics Of the land and sea. Afer tea the
men gather around the smoke clouds and plot
against the ish, crabs and oysters, or decide
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well as be disastrous to the party cham
pioning it, are satisfied with the Consti-
tuition as it is and consequently opposed
to its amendment or revision. This is
not true in any sense, although it suits
the purpose of those with proclivity to
falsify and misrepresent to hold that it is.
1t is simple question between observ-
ing Constitutional requirements on the
one side and trampling them under foot
on the other, and it needs no argument to
show that he is better friend to amend
ment or revision who insists on following
the law than he who urges that the law
shall be disregarded and treated as of no
binding obligation. Judge Cooley, who
. is the highest authority on such subjects
and more frequently quoted than any
other, says that ''by the Constitution
which they establish the people not only
tie up the hands of their official agencies
but their own hands as well, and neither
the officers of the State, nor the whole
people as an aggregate body, are at lib
erty to take action in opposition to this
fundamental law And further, that
while the power to amend or revise their
Constitution resides in the great body
of the people as an organized body
polite, "the will of the people to this end
can only be expressed in the legitimate
modes by which such body polite can
act, and which must either be prescribed
by the Constitution whose revision or
amendment is sought, or by an act of the
legislative department of the State, which
alone would be authorized to speak for
the people upon this subject, and to>point
out mode for the expression of their
will IN the absence Of any provision for
amendment or reUision contained an the
Constitution ITSELF"
Where this provision for amendment
or revision is contained in the Constitu-
ton, as it is in the case of Florida, dis
regard of the prescribed forms would be
illegal and dangerous, and this no one
can gainsay.
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Tampa Progress, Al gust 81
A COnsdiGalIOnaI Convention.

The necessity Az eXpediency of a change in
the fundamental law If our State is being very
earnestly and w,riIy discussed by the press of
the State from III. Perdido TO the Atlantic, and
from the st. Marys to Key West We believe
ii 10 be very unfortunate that this agitation
should have arisen just at this time, at the COM
mencement of political campaign which prom
ises to be vitality important to the continued ex-
istence of tie Democratic party in Florida; as it
is being conducted by some parties on both sides
of The question in bitter, intOlerant and pro-
sciptive spirit, which must If continued seriously
jeopardze and perhaps destroy Democratic DOM
ination in the State
Tie question, if let alone, will adjust itself.
Mt will b. submitted TO the people in 1884, to de-
eide by their ballots whether they desire the
adoption Of New Constitution or the retention
Of the present legacy OF defuuct carpet-bagsm,
by voting either for against a Convention. II
IA majority are satisfied with the present COnsti-
tuition, let it be retained. We have lived under
it and prospercd for fourteen years, and, if neces-
siiy compcls, may continue TO do so. Let
the majority rule. Let us await the issue, and
cease this unnece> airy and destructive agitation,
that is dividing and discouraging our forces in
the face OF a disciplined anu determined enemy.
In union is strength; in division, destruction.
Discussion now is out of place When the mat
ter comes to be submitted TO the people for their
decision, in the regular way, and at the proper
time let the discussion he full, and free, and I'M
trammeed; let the people be enlightened
much as possible, that they may vote intelli-
gently, but let il be conducted in a temperate
and tolerant spirit.
When the time arrives when we think 1t OPP
perfume to agiiate the question of Convention
or no Convention, we shall yield to none in the
earncslness of our advocacy of New COnstitu-
ton and the abolition of the present relic of
Radcalism We desire change, ninety-nine
onc-hundreths of our constituents demand it but
we are not revOlutiOnists. We desire To accom-
plish our ends by legal and Constitutional means,
and not by ignoring and overriding the Consti-
tuition now in force, obnoxious as it may be. 1t
was not the Constitution of our choice but il was
adopted and has for years been the fundamental
law of our State; it lays down a method for
changing or amending it, In opinion it is
the only proper way Of proceeding. The short
cut method SO holly commended for would be lille
gal and revolutionary. The right of revolution
is one inherent in every people, but only to be
justified by extreme circumstances and dire ne
cessity
We do not believe this necessity exists, and
therefore, in our opinion, the only method of at
tanning our desire is by pursuing the regular, le-
gal and Constitutional course.
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Tissue Tickets.

This is too bad exclaims the Ne,os
and Courier Three Republicans, includ.
ing Kellogg, are struggling for the Re
publican nomination in the Third Louis
lana District, and instead of "toting fair y
they resorted to the methods of cheating
each other which they usually keep fol
the exclusive benefit of the Democrats.
At the election at Franklin for delegates
to the Convention Sis votes were found
in the ballot-box when $50 persons had
voted. This miracle was wrought by the
use of tissue ballots by Kellogg's adhe-
rents. AS none but Republicans were
voting they could not charge it on the
Democrats at Franklin, as they do in
South Carolina. We hope tina, the Dem
ocrats on the stump this year will not for
get to remind their audiences that the
Republicans invented tissue ballots and
are the last to make use of them.
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Total fo- sir years under Democrats
Annual a yeraee. .... SI3Ilo.43

Annual average ......-....-...-.. $l3,1o4S
Now here are some facts worth consid-
ering. The people of Jefferson county,
as is shown from their own tax books,
have gcined in six years by change OF
rulers what is equivalent to two and half
years of taxes-that is, Radical rule cost
them If four years what better rule under
Democratic government has cost them in
six and half years. 1t is just the differ
ence in money aspect between $2l 200
a year and slS,ll6; but who will COM
pute the difference between the peace and
quiet, the sense of security to life and
property, since enjoyed by the people in
comparison with the apprehension and the
uncertainty existing when the Radicals
held sway?
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Jacksonville Union. August lO.l
80 bourbon -" ImdeDendenn.' .

There are perha,'> no Two words in the Eng.
lsh language who use are more abused than
Bourbon and Independent" In their pro-
gramme of d" any ming to beat the Democrats, >"
tie Republican press persists in calling the or
ganiZcd Democratic party of the South 3" Bour-
bon" and representing it as opposing all pro-
gress and holding with grim tenaciry to old
ideas and methods which have long since per-
ished
In like manner all opposition movements in
the South are called Independent" aud are
represented as embodyng the spirit of progress
and everything else that is good and desirable in
government
To those who know the real facts, these rep
reservations are simply ridiculous. Take Nc
kinnon's self imposed candidacy as an instance
This is pointed TO by the Republican press as an
evidence of The fast approaching end of " Bour
bon rule" and the Inauguration of liberal and
enlightened movement O TO place better men in
power CD and bring about honest and economi
cal government C!D The truth is that il is
simply the selfish move of third-rale lawyer,
who wants TO go TO Congress very badly, and
despairing of the nomination by the regular
Democrats hopes, by declaring himself an =" In
dependent, TO capture the entire Republican
vote, and 10 carry by his personal popularity
enough white votes TO elect him. The move
ment simply represents demagogue, trying to
fool honest men with whom he has formerly
been in political accord, and corrupt party,
which, having lost all hopes OF success by a
slraightout fight, seeks this method of reganing
power
But to Contend that the success of such move
ments would elevate better men to official posi-
ton and secure better government than we now
have, is an insult to the common sense of the
people The South for six years past has been
under Democratic--if you choose to call it So
under Bourbon rule and with what results?
Has not every State 10 the South been greatly
Oenenled! Contrast the condition of Florida
Today with what II was on January LIST, 1877.
when Drew was inaugurated, and say, if you
cam that the change was not good thing for
Florida. IL was predicted ON every stump in
the State by the opposition that the accession of
the Bourbons" to power would be disastrous
that financial ruin would follow; that immigra-
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Hill is very low and steadil,

Senator Hill is very low and steadily
growing weaker.
The yellow fever is still raging Al
Brownsville and Matamoras.
Kentucky and Alabama have voted
the usual way-DemOcratic by large
majorities.
For the fiscal year 1883 Congress ap-
propriated 1924, 24s, O97, 81, 1877 1921 more
than for the year 1882.
Colonel VIM NJ. Wadley, President
of the Georgia Central Railroad, dropped
dead at, Saratoga, New York, last Thurs
day.
Colonel J. B. Stewart, at one time a
prominent attorney in the Florida rail-
road cases, died at Washington City last
week.
Hon. R. H. NJ. Davidson, Judge E.
c. Love and other prominent speakers
will address the people Of Gadsden
county, at Quincy, on Saturday, August
2eth.