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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN.
THE DAILY SUN.
Saturday Hamas.
....August 5.
From the Bloomfield Democrat.
PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS.
• We call the attention of our read
ers to-day, to the letter of Veritas,
from Philadelphia. The source from
■which it comes entitles it to conside
ration. We have no personal
What the Ninth Resolution
Doing.
is
lic
it occurs to ns that there is not
that vim and vigor in some of our
Democratic exchanges that charac
terized their editorials in past cam-
, puisrns. It is true, thev are ail for
quamtance with the writer, anu i McCandless and Cooper, and evident-
none, except what has sprung from ly sincerely desire their election; hut
-correspondence, voluntary on his ^ ieu s P ea !f of the monstrous
jl l „ ... _ „ t, .... , usurpations of the dominant partv;
part, since our position as Political u ^trageous Ku-Klux and En-
Editor of The Sun. But from that, forcement°Laws; the palpable ten-
we are well satisfied that be is a close
observer of passing events, and un
derstands very well the real state of
Public Sentiment in his locality. It
is for this reason we call attention to
it. The attempt has been made, and
is now being made, to mate the peo
ple believe, thut the 9th Resolution of
the Harrisburg Convention, expresses
the views of the Pennsylvania De
mocracy; and that the principles of
this Resolution will be adopted by the
next General Convention of the
party.
The truth is, as we believe, this
Resolution does not meet with the
-approval of one-tenth of the true De
mocracy of the “Keystone State;”
and never will he endorsed by, or
Incorporated into, the creed of the
Democratic Party of the Union.
What is said by Veritas of the
<r War Democracy” of the North has
great force and truth in it.
• 'rThc “New Departure” by many is
UVged as an expedient to secure the
votes of this class. But of all men,
they are the last who, upon correct
principles, might he supposed to fa
vor it.
In the war against Secession, they
. stood, a3 they supposed, by the Union
of the States under the Constitution.
After, the Union was maintained—
■after they were successful in that loar
every consideration of Patriotism, as
well as Consistency, requires them,
with equal energy and zeal, to throw
all their power against the Revolu
- tionisls, who are now waging the new
war against the Constitution. No
Northern “Wav Democrat” can with
any consistency now go for the “New
Departure,” which is nothing but a
sanction, of the usurpations of the
Radicals in this hew war upon the
fundamental principles of the Gov
ernment. A. H. S.
JSpocial Correspondence of the Atlanta Daily
’ Sun.] 1 ’
PHILADELPHIA.
* The New Dephrtnre not En
dorsed by the Democracy of
Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, July 31,1871.
Editor of the Sun: According to
my promise, I send you a few lines to
let your readers know' how we are
getting along in Pennsylvania
The political canvass with us, thus
far, has been unusually quiet The
M New Departure ” here comes to us
so unfortunately stamped as not to
commend itself to any right thinking
Democrats. It comes to our consid
eration lathered by a clique—headed
by a half concealed Radical figure in
the back-ground, the tail end being
^turned toward us—and has been re
pudiated unequivocally by the Demo
crats here.
We expect success this fall, but as
said by one of our noble Democratic
nominees here, it should he made a
victory which will preclude the pos
sibility of “ counting out .” We have
excellent nominees, who strongly
-commend themselves to right think
ing Republicans who have themanli
ness to disregard the tlireatenings of
the party whip. The dissatisfied part
of the Radical party is the most de
cent part, and we cannot win admi
ration or support from them by any
"New Departurefor they have re
pudiated their own party for the very
reason • of its acts which are now
sought to be approved.
It seems to me the Radical party
have acted most shamefully, and their
extreme and reckless condnot has
made it too apparent that other than
human agency is at work, and the
prayers of our people should seek to
further elicit the counsel and aid of
Him who ever rules the destinies of
nations, and has declared that he will
turn into hell the nations that forget
God. He has said “to the North
"give up, and unto the South hold not
“back; 5 ' and the true men North and
: South should unite for the common
weal, and show to the world that the
war was for the preservation of the
• Constitution, and not for its over
throw, and that the American people,
dency of Radicalism to Centraliza
tion, &c., they are confronted by the
damning fact. .'landing right out be
fore them, tliat they have approved
a resolution which “ deprecates the
discussion of all questions that have
been settled in the manner and by
the power constitutionally appointed.”
They seem to feel that, having stul
tified themselves, abandoned a part of
their old faith and surrendered their
championship of the doctrine that
each State lias entire control over the
question of suffrage and the right to
regulate its own affairs in its own
way, that there is a gross inconsis
tency in opposing the offspring of the
very'measures they have voluntarily
acquiesced in.
.Some of them appear to have be
come wearied in ringing the different
changes arranged for them by the
leaders of the “new departure” and
which they were made believe would
revolutionize the politics of their res
pective communities. But they have
not yet seen a sign of the wondrous
effects that were to have been pro-
duped by this departure from the old
'andmarks, and are now almost at
their wit’s end to know what further
to say or do to bring about the mar
vellous consummation so devoutly
wished and so surely predicted by
blundering leaders at Harrisburg last
May.
Hi their distress they have turned
their guns upon the true organs of
the Democracy that would not fol
low the lead of Cassidy & Co., and
abandon the faith of the fathers of
the Democratic party.
Papers whose existence is scarcely
known outside of the Congressional
district in which they are printed,
but whose locality can be ascertained
by a reference to Geo. P. Rowell’s
Newspaper Directory, are talking
drivelling nonsense about “the ob
scure county journals which refuse to
endorse the ninth resolution of the
Democratic State Convention.”—
Other papers, of wider circulation
and more note, hut less honesty, copy
their balderdash and parade it as evi
dence of public sentiment throughout
the State. in behalf of the greatest
political blunder of the age. Paid,
hireling writers who scarcely pretend
to belong to our party, denounce in
unmeasured terms honest, life long
Democrats because they will not de
sert their old principles and consent
to lie down with the “new departin'-
ists” in the dirty ruts of Radicalism.
The same men who betrayed the
Democracy on the eve of the- last
Presidential election and suggested
the withdrawal of our candidates,
originated this departure movement.
The same men caused trouble iu the
last National Convention, prevented
the nomination of candidates who
could probably have been elected,
and through whose persistent and
silly efforts to force the nomination
of men who could not he nominated,
were frittered awav the power and
influence of the Pennsylvania and
Ohio delegations in that Convention,
We know of what wc speak.
Not Tammany, the debauched
World, nor the hired pimps of lesser
lights, can ever drive thousands of
honest Democrats into the support of
a resolution which, if acknowledged
and recognized as truth, is a virtual
abandonment of the fight for the
rights of the States, a great stride
towards centralization and despotism,
and a cowardly surrender of the vital
principle of self-government. If we
could approve the “new departure”
plank of the platform, we could readi
ly swallow Ku Klux, Force Bill and
all the other infamies, usurpations
and abominations of Radicalism.
To those who have the management
of this campaign we have a word to
say. A rnrther attempt to dragoon
honest, unwavering, consistent Demo
crats into the support of a measure
which they cannot conscientiously
and consistently approve, must result
disastrously to the party, You must
call off your hounds. We speak for
this county alone. As matters now
stand the Democracy of Perry are
unit for the brave soldiers, McCand-
less and Cooper; but nineteen-twen
tietlis of them repudiate the ninth
resolution of the State Convention and
will continue to oppose it.—Perry Co.
Democrat, Bloomfield, Pa., July 2Gth,
1871.
ants are received into the order, and its
professed objects are to support and de
fend the reigning King or Queen of Great
Britain, the Protestant religion, thermion
of Great Britain and Ireland, and the
royal family of England. Any member
marrying a Catholic is at once expelled.
The association takes its name from Wil
liam Third, Prince of Orange, whose
contest for political and religions supre
macy in Ireland ended at the Battle of
the Boyne, July 12th, 1690, by the defeat
of James Second, and the slaughter of
his Catholic partizans. The Orangemen
were assisted by a combined force made
up of detachments from almost every
Protestant Kingdom in Europe. The
Orangemen have always been aggressive,
turbulent and lawless—so much so that,
notwithstanding their avowed devotion
to “British loyalty,” their parades are
now forbidden by law in the Uni ted King
dom. In Canada, where the Institution
flourishes, the Prince of Wales, during
his visit of 1860, persistently refused to
recognize it.
The population of the city of New
York is largely made np of Irishmen, by
birth or descent. These men have fled
from hardships and oppressions of a gov
ernment that they detest, the outrages of
which upon their ancesters and them
selves are a bitter and burning memory.
Casting off allegiance to the Queen of
England, they have joyfully taken the
oath of naturalization of this country.
*****
By the very terms of their oath-bound
association, Orangemen must remain for
ever loyal to the government of England,
and can take naturalization from no other.
They must be always the supporter of
those who oppress the Irish. Was it to
be expected, under these circumstances,
and with these facts, that the Irishmen
of New York were to view unmoved the
parade of their old-time oppressors and
the enemies of republican government
upon the soil of their asylum? Were
representatives of British monarchy, as
they crept by cowering between double
lines of military?
We say this, not in vindication but in
palliation of those whose blood boiled at
the sight. Theoretically, any body of
men, while preserving the public peace,
have the right to associate and parade
without hindrance. But if in the future
we :ue to take measures to prevent the
transfer to this country of the political
and religions qnarrels of the old world,
the manner of doing it may become an
important question. And in considering
the means to that end, shall we give the
place of honor to our traditional enemies,
and turn our backs on our never-failing
friends. With questions of religion,
as a nation we have nothing to do. The
broad principle of universal toleration
alone obtains. Each and all are free
worship and proselyte, so long as
the rights of each other and the public
peace are respected. With questions of
politics and policy we have much reason
to concern ourselves. When a “Loyal
Orange Institution” demands the right
to parade through the streets of an
American city with arms and banners,
and protected, by armed men, it must
do it as the specially sworn upholders of
the British throne, aristocracy and gov
ernment, as well as the government poli
cy—as a society alien to our soil and hos
tile to our institutions. The adopted
citizens of this country who look with
disfavor on those parades have cast their
lots with us for all time—they and their
children. The British throne and its
oath-bound supporters are abhorred, by
them, as they should be by all citizens
of this country, native or adopted; We
have obligations to them which aliens
cannot share. The duty of allegiance
and the right of protection are recipro
cal. Is it a stretch of the executive
power to forbid the offering to citizens
of conspicuous and needless public in
sult by avowed alien enemies ? Was it
such as a measure precautionary to the
preservation of the imperrelled public
peace ? We would not care to look upon
the heaps of corpses that incumbered
those streets, of men in prime of life,
the innocent spectators, the women and
the little children, the pavement red
with their life blood, and reflect that an
act of ours had permitted the slaughter,
Let those exult who can, the future will
read the history of that day by a differ
ent light.
Hon. B.H. Hill on White Labor.
No. 2.
Flora the Bellast iM&ine) Republican Journal.
Tlie Orangemen’s Riot.
Extract from a Private Letter,
Addressed to tlie Editor of tlie
Atlanta Daily Sun. '
Washington, D. C., Aug. 1,1871.
* * * ■ . * % *
I accidentally learned to-day, that
correspondent of yours has sent you
a full copy of the testimony of Mr.
N. L. Angier, the State Treasurer of
Georgia, given before the Ku-Klux
Committee. I hope you have re
ceived it and published it before now.
I wish it was published and circulated
extensively in New York city, where
Goy. Bullock has been selling your
State bonds, and is still trying to
sell more, I understand. * *
* * It would do much to
wards breaking np the rascally den
for the utterance of Georgia Bonds.
A telegraphic dispatch from this city
to the New York press a few days
ago, giving a few of the points in Mr.
Angiers testimony, fell like a bomb
shell among the stock dealers of Wall
street Since that time Bulloch
S ents have spent a pile of money in
vertising, ~ in order to counteract
the effect — one of their tricks
being the republication of Gov. Bul
lock's letter in answer to Senator
Scott’s circular. * * Yours truly,
The procession of July 12tk, in New
York city, which led to the massacre of
perhaps some persons guilty of an inten
tional breach of the peace, and certainly
of many innocent spectators, has sent a
thrill of horror through the country.
. ... „ ,, _ - . * - The remote causes of that unhappvaf-
■ especially Anthem War Democrats, fair are so little understood, that ahis-
were neither a aet of knaves nor fools. * ‘ ’
Of all men in the world, it seems
to me that a War Democrat should
be the last to go for the “New De
parture.” They fought to preserve
oui institutions, and not to destrov
them. Veritas.
torical summary of the origin and pur
pose of the association that paraded on
the occasion is appropriate.
“ The Loyal Orange Institution” is a
secret political society of the British Em
pire. It is bound by secret oaths, and
members are known to each other bv
signs and passwords. None but ^rotest-
The August number of the South
em Cultivator is a very excellent one.
table of contents embraces a great variety
of topics pertaining to the farm, the gar
den and the house; besides it is so clear
ly printed, on such good paper, with the
edges so smoothly cut that one cannot __
sist the temptation of running over its
clear andbeautiftdpages. The Cultivator
has held its own better than any other
Southern periodical ever did. It is now
m its twenty-ninth volume, and is appa
rently more vigorous and healthful than
ever it was before. But it deserves suc-
eess. Its pages are crowded with matter
of general interest to farmers. Its mat-
ter is fresh and lively, and of practical
utility. It is a book of permanent value,
hence it is patronized and sustained bv
^ 16 People. The Cultivator is published
at Athens, by Wm. & W. L. Jones. Its
subscription price is $2.00 per annum.
THE ALABAMA AND CHAT
TANOOGA RAILROAD.
The primal cause of our failure as a people is the
fact that our system of labor isaa slavery. From
this, as from a den of disturbed vipers, have crawled
out the innumerable and poisonous evils that have
lamed our energies, and polluted our blood.
If the correspondent of the 2sew Era
to be believed, such is the oppxobious
language that was blown into the face of
the cultivated intelligence of Georgia by
Mr. Hill:—who could, with unblanched
cheek, face the same audience to-morrow
and assert, and attempt to prove, that
slavery was a divine ordination; that it
was the greatest possible blessing to the
negro—also to the white race, particu
larly to the white laborer; the grand ele
ment of our unparalleled prosperity, and
that its destruction was a damning sin
against the laws of the Almighty.
The monstrous error of the foregoing
extract is, that it assigns one of the great
causes of our great success, as the cause
of that which has not occurred, viz: our
failure as a people, and the pollution cf
our blood!
Who, but Mr. Hill, in the very teeth
of history, which has transpired in his
own day, of which he has been a con
spicuous witness, and in which he has
been a prominent actor, could condense
so much that cannot be sustained, in so
few words, and then without blushing
for shame, thrust it in the face of those
who have been his friends and sup
porters ?
When did that “failure as a people”
begin, and when did it end ? Was it
when, through the institution of slavery,
as it was called, , we took the low down
African from his bestial condition, and
improved and elevated him, morrally,
mentally and physically, to his present
condition ? Such an improvement in a
race of men, was never brought about
by any other means in the history of the
world. Did the violent abolishing of
this condition of the Negro, consti-
tute “our failure as a people ?” Did this
elevation and unparalleled improvement
of the negro; the elevation and
improvement of our own race; our
mental culture and vigor; the
purity and virtue of our women; the
good morals and integrity of our people
generally, and the uncontaminated state
of religion among us, stamp us as a fail
ure ? Was it when we produced three-
fourths of the exportable values of the
Western World, famished the material for
the manufactures and the carrying busi
ness of the North; and when we fed and
clothed the hungry and the naked of
other countries ? Did our failure consist
in building up such noble institutions of
laerning as the University of Georgia ?
Was it when our pnlpits were adorned
with such men as Bascom, Soule, Mercer,
Dawson, Andrew, Pierce, Breckinridge,
Hodges, Thornwell, Palmer,- Elliott and
Lipscomb; or when we gave to the Judi
ciary such men as Marshall, Taney,
Lumpkin, Dougherty, Charlton, Nesbit
and Wayne; or when we sent to the Fed
eral councils such men as Washington
Jefferson, Madison, Randolph, Clay,
Calhoun, McDuffie, Forsyth, Crawford
Berrien, Stephens, Hunter, Toombs, Ben
ton and Mason, whose wisdom, virtue and
mental power are recorded on every page
of American history during and since the
revolution? Was it when the policy of
the Government, famished and carried
out—its foundations laid and superstruc
ture reared—by Southern men and
Southern patriotism—brought this coun
try to a condition of prosperity and ad
vancement that was never before attained
by men on earth ?
We failed to triumph in the late war,
but was that a “failure as a people ?” It
was only a failure in a single direction—
not as a people.
But further: was our “failure as a peo
ple” exhibited when we rose, Phoenix
like, from the ashes of our desolation,
and in six years have astonished the world
with onr powers of recuperation ? Have
we failed as a people, when we have ac
complished this in our oppressed condi
tion—disarmed, unresisting, taxed with
out representation—throttled by exultant
and exacting power—with all the cruel
ties and injustice which have been heap
ed upon us, which even Mr. Hill’s daring
invective could not shake off from us ?—
He resisted and denounced the Constitu
tional Amendments with the greatest bit
terness; now be would have us accept
them as binding and irrevocable, and
thank God for the blessed privilege!
What has caused this change? He,
however, has a right to'change his views,
but not to slander our people and his
country. And why outrage common de
cency in proclaiming his conversion from
truth to error ? What could have induc
ed a sane man to choose such an occasion
to disgrace himself ? But perhaps he is
trying to make his newly chosen bed soft
and downy—to console his conscience
and bolster up his pride while making
this last political somersault, or perhaps
trying to remove the barriers that stand
like towering mountain peaks in his path
to high place and preferment. To ac
complish this, it may be necessary for
him to think, and try to make us think,
that we have heretofore lived in igno
rance—that we have been degenerating—
growing worse and becoming debased,
and that all our achievements in the past
are disgraceful failures, and that all our
oppressions and persecutions, against
winch his eloquent pen and tongue so long
aefended us, were, and are, our greatest
blessings, wbicb we must cordially em
brace, and for the imposition of which
upon us, we can never be thankful
enough.
If such is the road to high honor for
him, let him follow it; but there are
many of us not prepared to take up the
line of march with him.
Georgian.
Stanton Arranges to Bribe Gov-
Lindsay.
Got.
Bullock’s Advertising—.
Tlie Constitution.
The Chattanooga Times of the 1st
inst, has the following:
On the 25th day of June, 1S7L in
Cozzen’s Hotel, at West Point, New
York, D. N. Stanton, President of the
A. & 0. R.R., told Gen. Roddy, form
erly of Alabama, in the conrse of con
versation about the road and his fail
ure to pay the interest, that . Gov.
Lindsay dared not take possession of
the road. That he had paid a man
named McKay, who was on very inti
mate relations with Lindsay, $5,000
money, $20,000 in negotiable
notes, $50,000 in 1st mortgage
bonds of the Alabama & Chattanooga
Railroad; and other securities making
in all about the equivalent of $100,-
000, to be used in bribing Gov. Lind
say to let the road remain in Stanton’s
hands, and to pay the interest for the
State for another year. That McKay
had seen Lindsay and it was all right,
or words to that effect.
Gen. Roddy at once went to the
room of Gen. James H. Clanton, who
was stopping at the same hotel, and
repeated the conversation.
“ What!” said Clanton; “ does he
say that he has bribed Robert Burns
Lindsay to do such a thing as that ?
Lindsay must know of this at once.”
Gen. Clanton then returned to New
York city and informed Gov. Lind
say, who had gone there to arrange
for paying the interest on the A. &
C. R. R. bonds endorsed by the State,
wbat Roddy had told him.
Gov. Lindsay at once sent for Mc
Kay and demanded to know what he
meant by making such reports.
McKay was terrified into making a
clean breast of it, and gave Governor
Lindsay his written acknowledgment,
which Gov. Lindsay now holds, that
Stanton had paid him the money as
above stated upon his own solicitation
and promise to fix Lindsay, but that
he had never approached the Governor
on the subject, hut kept the money
himself, inducing Stanton to believe
that Lindsay was bribed.
To this day Stanton does not know
but that the bribe was paid, and hence
he is so insolent in his demands that
the State keep her hands off, and he
has even alluded to “the arrangement
made with your agent” in a letter to
Gov. Lindsay since the seizure of the
road. Probably he will soon know
that Gov. Lindsay is not for sale, but
that he himself has*been most egre-
gionsly sold.
If any one doubts this statement,
we refer them to Gen. Clanton, who
is now in this city, from whom we
obtained tlie facts with permission to
publish them.
[Special Correspondence of The Atlanta Sun.]
LETTER FROM STOCK-
BRIDGE.
Death of an Aged and Good Citi
zen-Three Children Burned
to Death-Singular Freaks of
Lightning.
In our issue of yesterday morning,
speaking of Gov. Bullock having
caused his long letter to the Ku Klux
Committee to be extensively published
in the newspapers in the United States
by paying for the same as an adver
tisement, we said:
It was published by him in the Cm-
slituiion of this city, and the Constitution.
edist, of Augusta, for $50 each—so we are
informed from a source not likely to be
mistaken.
Upon this, the Constitution, in its
edition of last evening, remarks:
The statement that Gov. Bullock had
his letter published in the Constitution,
paying $50 for the same, is an utter mis
take. We intended to givo a synopsis of
the letter for the benefit of our readers,
according to the rule of every well con
ducted news journal, to furnish general
information of the events and. news of the
day.
But one of our citizens came to the
office and offered to pay for its insertion.
We stated that we should charge him $50
for its publication in full. He agreed to
pay it, and he was consequently charged
upon the books of the business office with
that amount. Governor Bullock was not
known in the transaction; nor did any
one in the business office Of the Constitu
tion dream that the publication was to be
an official advertisement; nor was it.
It seems tbe only mistake we made
in our statement, is, that though The
Constitution published it as an ad
vertisement, and was paid $50 for
the same, yet it was done at the in
stance of a private party, and not by
Governor Bullock as an “official ad
vertisement.”
IVe very cheerfully give our neigh
bor the benefit of this statement. "We
did not suppose that what
we said would do The Con
stitution any injustice, nor was
such onr object. We only aimed
to establish the fact that the Gov
ernor was paying the newspapers to
publish his letter. It seems that some
friend of his—probably holding some
of the bonds lie is charged with hav
ing illegally issued—procured the
publication in The Constitution—
which amounts to about the same
thing as if he had done it directly
himself. We think it likely that
Gov. Bullock paid the $50, and that
his go-between accomplished a grand
feat for him, viz: the publication of
the long letter in the columns of
The Constitution, dog cheap; for we
are informed from a source not
likely to be mistaken, that the Gov
ernor paid other journals a much
higher price—among which was $160
to our friend Grady, to get it into
the columns of the Rome Commer
cial.
In making these statements we do
not mean any reflection upon the
journals which published' the letter.
If it had been offered to us as an ad
vertisement, we should have pub
lished it and commented on it.
Near Stockbridge, )
July 29th, 1871. J
Editors Sun: On the evening of
the 26th inst, one of your subscribers,
Chas. L. Powell, was suddenly taken
ill; one hour after which he was a
corpse. The venerable Wm. Dodson,
eighty or more years old, who was
on a visit that day, had just left,
when the deceased complained of a
severe pain in his stomach, and before
the physician, Dr. Calhoun, the dis
tance not over two miles, arrived, he
had breathed his last. Mr. Dodson
states the' deceased was in usual
good health and conversed freely. He
was in his 64th year, horn the 18th
Dec., 1807. He was an orderly, con
sistent and devout member of the
Primative Baptist Church.
On the night of the 25th, a house
in McDonough was consumed by fire.
In it their mother (colored) had left
four children, of whom the three
youngest were burned to death. The
oldest of these, a girl six years old, was
awakened by the fire and ran into the
room where the oldest, a hoy, was
sleeping and awaked him. He ran
out, hut she, m attempting to rescue
the other little ones, perished with
them.
Crops are looking tolerably well
corn on upland, which has been
tilled well, looks finely, hut on bot
toms badly, owning to too much rain
Cotton is improving and growin
rapidly, but owing to tbe late colu
and wet spring, there is not much
oyer a half stand, and it is boiling two
■weeks later than usual. We are now
needing # rain, not having had any
since the 17th and 18th, when there
were heavy rains with hail and violent
thunder. The door steps of a near
neighbor were struck by lightning,
shocking terribly a mule standing un
der a gin house a short distance, and
on an adjoining farm the lightning
struck in a cotton field (no tree near)
killing the cotton in a space of twenty
yards. Yours respectfully, H.
£§r"Tlie Courier-Journal of the 2d inst,
exhibits less lunacy than has appeared in
it3 columns in some time. There was
not a word of editorial in it.
S® 0 * Grant, in looking over the few
keepsakes that have accumulated since he
has been President, said he would “know
all men by these presents.”
We publish two very able articles
from Mr. Stephens’ paper, The At
lanta Sun, and ask every one of our
readers to give them a careful peru
sal. We rejoice that Mr. Stephens
has become associated with the press.
He will accomplish more good in that
capacity, perhaps, than if he were a
member of Congress. For he can
now speak to the people almost daily,
and his clear voice was never so
needed to strengthen the weak, to en
courage the weary, and to convince
the doubting.—Columbus, Miss.,Dem
ocrat, July 29,1871. *
8©=, The New Brunswick Times says
“every man has his use.” Would the
Times be pleased to specify what “use”
Ben. Butler is? Pogue says he may he
of “use” as an awful example of “total
depravity” set up as a warning to the na
tion.
IS? 1 *The «Rome Commercial asks:
What makes more squeaking noise than
a three-dollar fiddle iu the hands of a
three-dollar negro?” Pogue says it h
reasonable to suppose that two such fid-
dies in the hands of two such negroes
would.
The country came very near re
ceiving a permanent benediction the
other day. Ben. Butler fell into a Mas
sachusetts river and narrowly escape
drowning.
BgL. There is a negro cadet at ^ eit
Point named Gee, who, it is said, will take
partin the coming campaign in Alabama.
It is not stated whetheivhe aims to stomp
the State or bayonet it.
The President has recognized
Christian Bore as consul for Norway as
Sweden at New York. This is not the
first bore a President has been called °P
on to recognize.
Monogram baby carriages is
latest novelty out. Monogram babtf 5
will be the next thing.
J8©°* The boiler of the Westfield ^
patched; but of course, that could
have been the cause of the disaster.
ar-
Mace and Coburn have agam
ranged to “take the field.” It is ft P 1
they did not take the Westfield.
The Radicals have struck the
boniferous period in American F° 11