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DAILY .SUN.
jIospax Monsisa . Awpst 7.
THE
Kentucky Speaks To-day.
Kentucky leiids in the fall State
ejections. To-day her people are to
choose a Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Attorney General and other
officers. - •
For Governor the Democrats are
running Preston H. Leslie, for Lieu
tenant Governor, John G. Carlisle,
and for Attorney General, John Pod-
man.
These are all gentlemen of high
character and distinction. They are
all, also, true Democrats ; standing
squarely upon a real “ Bourbon” plat
form. Notwithstanding the labored
efforts of the Courier-Journal and the
advocates of Radical Progress to in
duce the nominating convention to
introduce the Trojan horse of “New
Departure” in their creed. The De
mocracy of this gallant State would
commit themselves to no such mis
chievous heresy, They went into the
contest, just as Georgia did last year,
under the time-honored banner of
the party. They saw no occasion for
lowering their flag. They could not
see the force of that loyic which en
deavored to persuade them that the
test way to get rid of Radical misrule
was to adopt, indorse and sanction
Radical policies, measures and usurpa
tions. The standard-bearers, Leslie
and Carlisle, boldly denounced the
«fraudulent amendments” as the
work of usurpation. On this living
issue, among many others of the
same sort, they have appealed to the
people at the polls-^We have no
doubts or misgivings as to the result,
of the popular verdict—notwith
standing all the combined power and
influence of the Courier-Journal has
been exerted to frighten the people of
this State, as well as others, into the
belief that, by rendering such a ver
dict at the polls, they will become
“jrevolutionists!” The honest masses
of the voters of Kentucky, we think,
will to-day show to the Courier-Jour
nal that they pay little attention to
such ravings.
We also venture the opinion that,
when the smoke of the battle is cleared
away, it will be found that the banner
of the party in Kentucky, to-day,, as
it was in Georgia, last year, has been
“least tattered where it has been borne
highest and boldest in ihe conflict!”
A. H. S.
the Democratic party that- we so
strenuously oppose the “new depart-
ure ? .which we cannot adopt without
stultification and utter demoraliza-
tion. The only security for the par
ty is in its integrity and adhesion to
the principles of the Constitution.—
Vv e can no more succeed without
such adhesion to the landmarks of
our fathers, as supported by the true
Democracy, than an army can suc
ceed in battle when its forces are di-
ided and scattered. We must stick
to our integrity” and remain true to
the principles which have distin
guished the party so 'distinctly from
the usurping and revolutionary creed
of the Republican party.
By adhesion to principle, Democra
cy will succeed; but by ignoring vital
issues, defeat will follow, "and justly,
too, as certainly as effect follows
cause.—LaGrange (Ga.) Reporter,
July mh, 1871.
From the North Georgia Citizen, Aug. 3,,1871.
The “.Yew Departure” Movement.
From the time the “new depar
ture” movement was sprung
the country, we have lookeS
the whole thins with
upon
upon
u suspicion—
have regarded it as only another name
for Radicalism; and every day but
serves to deepen and make more last
ing our first impressions of the new
organization. The Atlanta New Era,
one of the ablest advocates the Radi
cal or so-called Republican party has
in the South, in speaking of the “'new
departure” Democrats, uses this sig
nificant and truthful language:
"Wo have no issue to make with them touching any
of the questions growing out of the results of the
war, and no issue as touching the relative powers of
the National and State Governments. For the amend
ed Constitution and the reconstruction acts of Con
gress embrace aU of -what is known as the ‘situation;’
and this embraces each and every cardinal Principle
that has distinguished the Republican party for six
years.”
Georgia Politics.
From the LaGrange Reporter.
The New Era and The Reporter.
The Atlanta Era is one of the
ablest conducted papers in the South,
The Republican party has no strong
er advocate any-where. It is as faith
ful a reflector of Republican senti
mentas there is anywhere iu the
country. In its issue of the 20th,
this paragraph appeared in a leading
editorial:
“Speaking for itself, ‘and as an old line Whig,
j onrnal, The LaGrange Reporter has ‘but little if any
choice between Grant and the Republican platform
and any other man on a Democratic platform con
structed of Republican planks.* In other words
this Democratic editor can see nopoUtical difference
between a Republican platform labelled ‘Democrat
ic* and a Republican platform under its own proper
colors.**
This represents our feelings aud
sentiments truly in the event the
“'new departure” is adopted by the
Democratic party. And in order to
show that our views are not errone
ous and are looked upon in the same
light by the Republican party, we
copy another paragraph from the
same article of the Era. Speaking
of the policy of the “new departure,
it says:
“This, of course, leaves tho voter free of all mere
party shackles, and at perfect liberty tc chooso his
candidate without committing treason against his
party. If he chooses to vote for a man who once op
posed the amendments and Reconstruction, but who
now accepts and defends both, in preference to a
man who accepted the situation from tho very start,
why let him do so. We can have no quarrel with
him on that account. Other things being equal, we
should certainly not object to tho candidate, merely
because ho onco honestly opposed tho measures he
now honestly aduocates."
The Era’s reasoning is perfectly le
gitimate, looking from the stand
point it occupies. The adoption of
the “new departure” will relieve many
Democrats from the shackles of party
and leave them free to act indepen
deiitly; thousands of whom have no
love for the name of Democrat, aud
only act with the party because it
comes nearer their principles than
any other political organization now
in ‘ existence. Let the Democratic
party once take a position of acquies
cence in the measures consummated
by the Republican party, as the new
movement proposes, and thousands,
now acting with the partv, seeing so
little difference between the two, will
nor instate to join the Republicans.
The adoption of the “new depart
ure” by the Democracy, implies a de
fense of the amendments as valid
parts of the Constitution,, and the
light will have to he made on that
line of argument. If the validity of
these outrages is to he assumed by
the Democratic party, the party will
have to make that plank in its plat
form as strong as it is in the Repub
lican platform, or its adoption will iu
no way strengthen the Democratic
party, if the party is to be made
stronger by such a plank iu its politi
cal structure.
It is because of these dangers to
THE A T L ANTA WEEKLY SUN
That’s it! The Radical amend
ments to the Constitution and the
reconstruction acts- of Congress,
“embrace each and every principle of
the Republican party;” and since
these enactments are the ground
work of the “new departurists,” we
cannot, as an old line Democrat ad
hering to the principles inculcated by
the fathers of the Republic and in
corporated by them into the great
fundamental law of liberty in this
country— The Constitution — have
anything whatever to do with this
hew political movement. ’Twould
he down-right stultification, utter de
moralization, were we to do so; and
hence we shall not “go back” upon
our past Democratic record in such
way, and he who does must not be
come offended with his old political
associates should they look upon him
with suspicion—should they regard
him as an opponent of true Demo
cratic principles.
We shall fight this. new-fangled
humbug, as we will the Radical Re
publicans and the soft-shell Republi
cans, upon the broad and comprehen
sive ground that it is diametrically op
posed to what we conceive to be true
Democracy, since we can see no dif
ference between an organization that
jroposes to acquiesce in the XIV and
XV Amendments to the Constitution,
and the party that incorporated these
outrages into that Instrument.
Let the Democracy of the nation
once take a position of acquiescence
in the above measures, and it at once
obliterates the great line of demarka-
tion that so signally distinguishes it
as the only true Republican party in
the land, as well as separates it from
the usurping revolutionary party now
in power—a party to which we are
indebted for all the despotic, grinding,
unconstitutional enactments now in
force, and from which so many count
less ills have sprung to distract and
paralyze the energies of the people all
over the country.
By advocating non-acquiescence in
the measures referred to, we do not
wish to he understood as favoring or
preaching a second revolution. By
no means. Our position is simply
that of Mr. Stephens—to obtain power
at the ballot-box to set aside uncon
stitutional amendments and enact
ments, by first using sound, impas
sioned argument against the perilous
situation to which the party in fiower
has brought the country by unjust
legislation, and when the time comes,
refusing to vote for any man for of
fice who holds the doctrine that the
Constitution of the United ^States
has been, or can be, validly amended
by gross usurpation and acknowl
edged fraud, perfidy and violence—
in other words, to bring the govern
ment hack to the embrace of the old
Jeffersonian doctrine.
Thera will he a principle involved
in tho coming Presidential struggle,
a great and vital principle, and he
who wishes well for the future of this
country—who would preserve Re
publican liberty intact—should be
careful to investigate well the posi
tion assumed by the “new departu
rists” before he embraces the destruc
tive an iinconstitutional position oc
cupied by them, as we understand
it.—Dalton North Georgia Citizen,
Aug. 3, ’71.
From the Rome Courier.
Tlic Louisville Conner and tiic r Ncw
Departure.
One by one the Now Departurists
are- beginning to show their hands,
and letting the people see where they
are drifting to.
The Louisville Courier was one of
the earliest to hail the New Depart
ure as a convenient cat’s paw with
which to grabble Radical chestnuts,
aud greedily seized upon it. Though,
however, it" only accepted the situa
tion as a matter of necessity, and not
of choice. The policy was the very
thing. We could well afford to hold
principle in abeyance until we could
succeed with the policy, and then we
could revert back to principles. But
now we find that what the Courier-
Journal^ first held out for policy was,
in fact, its secret principles—princi
ples that we had all the while sus-
pected were the underlying strength
of its political structure. Ostensibly
southern and ostensibly Democratic,
it has yet ever been at heart a danger
ous and dishonorable enemy to the
true interests of the South and the
success of the Democracy.
V e are glad now, that it has had
the boldness to show its true colors,
and iu order that our readers may
know where to locate it, we give the
following extract from its article com
menting upon Mr. Stephens’ reply to
certain interrogatories—which ' we
published a few davs ago—propound
ed by it: "
“Let us restate tie case as it is thus presented
Air. Stephens is for nullifying the Amendments. Wo
are not. He proposes to -wipe them out. We pro
pose to build on them—to make them the foundation
of all our future policy with respect to the negro.—
This is the sum total of it But the difference is
sufficiently distinct. The issue is perfectly complete.
e take it for granted that a man of Air. Stephens’
ability' and courage •will not shirk any of its portent.
We take it for granted that he will not pretend that
he is acting inside the National Democratic lines.—
We take it for granted that he will accept the position
of a new founder of a new school in practical poli-
tics, and that he will discuss the cardinal feature in
its philosophy, on its merits and in all its parts.
We are opposed to tho repeal of the amendments.
We are opposed to nullifying them. We acceptthem
as final. Wo would not touch them if we could, aud
we could not if we would. Our necessities and
our volition agree in this, that, the amendments hav
ing been incorporated into the Constitution, it is at
once asinexpedientto fight for the overthrow as it
would bo unwise to overthrow them if we had the
power.”
To save the political status of the
negro, the Courier-Journal would de
stroy the rights of the States. But
the political status of the negro is not
threatened. We honestly believe that
if left to the States, each for itself to
decide, in consideration of thetre
mendous political power negro suf
frage gives them, they would as
matter of self-protection and self-
interest, refrain from interfering with
it.
But the question of negro suffrage
is not involved in this question. It
is the great question of centralization
vs. State sovereignty that is involved.
The right of a people of a State to
regulate its own suffrage. Negro
suffrage will stand more danger from
Federal interference than it will from
State. When the Northern States
begin to realize what a tremendous
political power they have unwittingly
ploced in the hands of Southern peo
ple, they will he the first to move for
its revocation.
The completion of the Central to
this point, is fast revolutionizing pop
ulation, and the manners and habits
of the people. Ten years ago it was
the work of a week, nearly, to go to
Galveston; now you go in about
twelve hours! So much for rail
roads! Would that our political im
provement kept pace with our pro
gress in material prosperity. But it
is backwards! We are advancing
backwards fast. One bad feature
with us is, that our Constitution pro
vides for the appointment of the
Judge by the Governor. When
such a man as Davis is Governor, we
must have as a general thing, had
Judges. Davis appointed one Thur
mond Judge, hut. took the precaution
to require of his appointee, his blank
resiguition as one of the conditions
of his appointment. Thurmond af
terwards was found to have resigned,
“yi etemnis”—a peculiar sort of re-
signition, known only in Texas, I pre
sume. How changed is the Judi
ciary ! In the days of the Republic
we were accustomed to look to the
courts as a barrier against the ag
gressions of other departments of the
Government; in the days of the Em
pire,. they strike hands with the Ex
ecutive and Legislative branches, in
their assaults upon the liberty of the
citizens. How fallen!
It is 'well nigh the case now in
some Judicial Districts in Texas,
that bayonets and stout-shanks sit in
judgment on the bench. The pres
ence of an armed police in a Court of
Justice, is a novel feature in .the ad
ministration of law, and it is a re
proach to the civilization of the
19 th Century. Such things may he
seen on occasions 'here. Very truly,
MH 'i a Ordoz.
The Georgia Railroad aud the Georgia
Western.
MISSOURI POLITICS.
From the Holden Democrat, July 28th, *71.
Pro and Con.
Among the prominent Democratic papers that in
dorse the “ New Departure” are. the Boston Post,
New York World, Buffalo Courier, Cleveland Plain
Dealer, Ohio .Statesman, Indianapolis Sentinel, Chi
cago Times, Missouri Republican, and Louisville
Courier^Toumal.
The Sedalia Democrat opposes tho New Departure.
—Sedalia Times. -■
Yes, and to the Sedalia, Democrat
you may add the Holden Democrat,
Columbia Herald, and Lexington
Caucasian, in Missouri. The Mem
phis Appeal, Columbus (Miss.) Dem
ocrat, Mobile Register, Atlanta Sun,
Louisville Democrat, and a score of
the leading Democratic papers of the
South. The Cincinnati Commoner
and sixteen other papers in Ohio, the
ablest in the State; fifteen leading
Democratic papers in Pennsylvania;
the New York Day Book, Pomeroy’s
Democrat, and a host of other papers,
the ablest in the country. “ There is
life in the old land yet,” and there
are Democrats who have never yet
“ bowed the knee to Baal,” and, who
will continue to oppose all departures
from the principles laid down by the
founders of our Government, and ad
vocated by the Democratic party
since the days of Jefferson, and who
will wage war against all of the mon
strous usurpations of the so-called
Republican party, until they no
longer disgrace American civilization
by a place on our statute books. And
as sure as “ God liveth” this time is
hastening.
- Special Correspondence of tie Atlanta Daily San,
LETTER FROM TEXAS-
Railroad -Enterprises Lookin;
Up—Tlie Country Looking Up,
Political Matters.
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more than any other stockholder. The
Road is organized, and officers and di
rectors appointed, and all such communi
cations should be made to them. The
Council has no authority in the case, and
very properly referred it where it proper
ly belongs.
But the Road can aud must, and
will be built, no matter whether the
Georgia Railroad stands up, or is held to
the fulfilling of its obligations or not.
If that road or Augusta allows the Geor
gia Western to be built without lending
helping hand, it can be used effectively
against both, whereby they will feel the
fruits of this refusal. Already some of
our merchants are talking of bringing no
more goods via Augusta. It is to the in
terest of the Georgia Road and of Au
gusta, to facilitate every enterprize that
will benefit Atlanta.
We especially desire not to be under
stood as charging Maj. HiUyer with try
ing to deceive in this matter. We feel
very sure that he, as he says, is personal
ly in favor of the Georgia Road standing
up to its subscription; but we insist that
the notice he has given the City Council
the queerest document we have seen
for years.
We shall say more on this subject, and
we add now, that Atlanta and the people
along the line of the Georgia Western are
abundantly able to build the road, and
and will proceed to build it, whether the
Georgia Road assists or not.
A FEARFUL TRAGEDY.
An Kmkankment Falls—One Man Kill-,
ed ana another Missing.
Springfield, Texas,)
July 25,1871. f
Editor Sun: When the rebellion
(so-called) began- in 18G1, this place
was about one hundred miles from
the terminus of the Houston & Texas
Central Railroad. Within the last
two years the road has been pushed
ahead very energetically. Groesbuck,
the present terminus of the road, is
within five miles of this place, and
the construction train is running
north of this four or five miles. It is
generally understood that those who
control the movements of the road,
design completing it to Corsicana by
October 1st, 1S71—a point 38 miles
north of Springfield.
The International, which was
chartered at the last session of the
Legislature, is being built very rapid
ly."" It intersects the Central at a
point called Herone, about forty or
fifty miles South of this. It crosses
the Trinity river in Freestone county,
near a place called Magnolia. They
are at work on the bridge at that
point now. It occurs to me -that
some of the able railroad men of
Georgia would find an inviting field
of labor in this State. In ten years
from to-day, unless Congress should
Ku-Klux the State into bankruptcy,
aided in its efforts by that scum of
political villains, E. I. Davis, Gov
ernor, (so-called) of the State of
Texas, this State will have as many
railroads completed as Georgia.
On Friday night last, at the meeting
of the City Council, Major George TTilf-
yer gave notice, “by authority,” that the
Georgia Railroad Company “does not
hold itself bound” to meet its subscrip
tion to the Georgia Western Railroad.—
This notice was given in writing, signed
by Major HiUyer, who added verbally
that Judge King thonght the city of At
lanta had not reaffirmed its subscription
since the war, and that the Georgia
Railroad subscription was not binding.
The people of Atlanta have received
this announcement with surprise, and
many are indignant. What can be the
real motive for this action is extensively
canvassed among our people. It is cer
tainly very greatly to the interest of the
Georgia Railroad to have the Georgia
Western bruit at once, and (still more so
to own Stock in it. It is also cer
tainly very greatly to the interest of the
Georgia Road, and also of Augusta, that
Atlanta should thrive and flourish. The
Stock would be much enhanced in value,
if Atlanta were to-day five times as large
as it is.- To thwart the construction of
the Georgia Western, or even to fail or
neglect to assist in the work actively with
means, or to do anything that .will retard
the prosperity of Atlanta, is certainly a
suicidal policy for the Georgia Road to
pursue. Something, we should think, is
at the bottom of this notice which in not
very apparent on the surface. If the Di
rectors desire to cripple and damage their
own road, it cannot adopt a more certain
means of doing so, than preventing the
building of the Georgia Western, or re
tarding the growth of Atlanta. This fact
is too patent to need elucidation.
The city of Atlanta has re-affirmed its
subscription to the Georgia Western
since the war, in solemn form—Judge
King’s opinion to the contrary notwith
standing. We, however, do not see the
necessity of this re-affirmation. The
subscription was actually made—both by
the city of Atlanta and by tho Georgia
Railroad, and neither party can back out
from itscontract—its binding obligation
Such, at least, is the view entertained by
eminent lawyers; and that the Georgia
Road can be held to the performance of
the contract. Be this as it may, it looks
like an act of bad faith to try to evade
it, or refuse to perform it cheerfully and
to the fullest extent.
As we said, there mnBt be something
behind the scenes, which is not apparent
and just at the threshold, the written no
tice of Major HiUyer is one of the
queerest documents we have seen in many
days. It very forcibly strikes the mind
as if it were intended to have several
constructions put upon it, or to be used
for several purposes, or for any purpose
as occasion might require. It is truly
curiosity in its way. Here it is, as }
find it in the “official proceedings” of
the CouncU.
Atlanta, August 4,1871.
Wlnle I am, as an individual, earnestly
in favor of the Georgia Western Railroad,
and of the renewal of the Georgia Rail-
road subscription to the same, yet, as
one of the Directors of the Georgia
Railroad, by the authority of the same,
it becomes my duty to give notice that
the latter company does not hold itself
bound by any former subscription or
proposed subscription to said Georgia
Western Railroad. As an individual. I
regret to have to perform this duty, and
as an Atlanta man, beg leave to say that
I shall leave no reasonable effort un
tried with my fellow members of the
Board to induce them to renew their
said subscription, believing as I do that
the Georgia Railroad is deeply interested
in the proposed mathematical extension
of their own lines into one of the most
undeniably freight producing regions in
the United States.
Geobge Httvuyeb.
Why was this notice given to the City
Council ? Such matters properly belong
to the Board of Directors, and the Coun
cil can do nothing in relation to it—no
About 5 o’clock yesterday evening a
very sad accident occurred near the State
Road shops. A number of colored men
were at work digging earth for the com
pletion of the side track running from
the Macon & Western depot. They kept
digging under the embankment, and
neaiing 5 o’clock the earth above broke
loose and came tumbling down like an
avalanche. The party dropped shovels
and skedadelled to a safe distance, and on
looking back they saw one of their num
ber being engulphed, and at last but one
arm was visible. He kept waving it, un
til it was completely covered up. It took
the men about half an hour to dig him
out, when they found that he was dead.
Another negro, it is feared, has fell a vic
tim, as he was not heard of at the latest
reports. It may be that he only ran
away.
It is a strange fatality that people can
not take warning by so many accidents of
this kind. A large number of precisely
similar accidents have occurred, and yet
they seem to make no impression upon
these who ought to be most interest
ed. If people will dig away under the
earth it will fall, and if anybody is under
they are pretty sure to be engulphed.—
It is to be hoped that a better lookout
will be kept next time.
—-i - ...... ■" ■
BY A. B. WATSON.
What 1 do not know my W a mix!
In all the country near "
There's not a girl that’s half so fair,
Or ono so very dear.
The sweetest eyes—the brightest eyes,
That ever saw the light;
The sunshine almost perishes
To find Itself less bright.
Ton say you don’t know Wanda ? ’
There’s not another girl
In all tho country, far or near.
That’s worth her lightest curl.
Her smile is like tho moonshine
On a rose’s leaf at play;
Her hair has caught tho huo of night
That's nearest to the day. [ it
And you don’t know 'my Wanda 1
Well that’s so very queer;
There's not a man nor woman,
A dozen miles from here,
Who does not know and love her;
The hoys would die for her.
She is so gay, and good, and fair, "
And very, very dear.
It's strange you don’t know Wanda!
You ought to see her dance!
Your dainty, painted city girl
• Beside her has no chance.
Her feet are litttle sparkles;
So rapidly they move;
They thump a fellow’s heart to death •» -
And make him mad for love.
You ought to know my Wanda !
You ought to hear her sing!
Her voice is happier, sweeter,
Than all the birds of spring.
If you should know her, ask her
To sing you “Bonn!© Doon;’*
You’d swoap that music broke its heart
Aud died in that one tune. C$ '•
But you must know my Wanda!
She’s fresher than the morn;
She speaks the sweetest language
That ever yet was born.
Her words are cooing, like a dove.
And loving in their tone:—
And oh, tho sweetest word of all
She spoke to me alone I
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SUN-STROKES.
The editor of the Courier-Journal
is afflicted with a monomania. He is in
constant dread lest some superior power
should compel him to read his own edito
rials.
SSLDonaldDalrymple, an eminent Brit
ish surgeon, is coming over to see how
drunkards are cured. When he sees how
rapidly they are made, he will go back dis
gusted.
All the New York papers are busi
ly explaining the cause of the Westfield
disaster. They are about as apt at it as
they were at detecting the murderer of
Nathan.
^^“Pennsylvania Republicans go into
their campaign distinctly committed to
Grant.” They could be committed to
bntone worse thing, and that is their
State penitentiary.
Colonel Fisk has so far recovered!
from the wounds he received in the bat
tle of the Boyne. Water, as to be able to
put on four different suits, a day at Long
Branch.
NEW _YORK.
The first Rale—Cuban JYews—Oakls/ Hall
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scants an Xnectligation, tie.
New Yoke, August 5.—The steamer
George Washington arrived to-day with
the first bale of new cotton from New Or
leans.
The Sun professes to have authentic
information of the safe arrival of another
large quantity of arms and ammunition.
The vessel which conveyed this much
needed assistance to the brave Cubans
left a neighboring port on the 15th inst.,
and was safely delivered in Cuba on the
29th instant. The cargo consisted of one
thousand Springfield and Remington
rifles, one hundred and fifty thousand
metalic cartridges, two tons of powder,
half a ton of sulphur, seventy thousand
percussion caps, two hundred “meache.
les,” and two twelve pound field pieces.
WASHINGTON.
Ku-Klux Matters its Mississippi.
Washington, August 5.—The sub Ku-
Klux Committee have adjourned to the
20th of September.
Lient. Pickett, commanding the troops
in Pontotoc and Monroe counties, Mis
sissippi. testified that a Ku-Klux organi
zation existed in the five northern coun
ties bordering on Alabama, to which he
believed it was confined. The purpose
of the Ku-Klux was to intimidate colored
and drive Northern men from their sec
tion. Within his certain knowledge they
had murdered nine negroes in Monroe
county in the four months he was sta
tioned there. He believed that the pres
ence of troops had a good effect.
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TENNESSEE.
Alleged Ku-Klux Discharged.
Memphis, Aug. 5.—The Ku-Klux trial
before the United States Commissioner,
in which four men were arraigned for
the murder of a man named Garrett,
who was taken from the jailinSaulsbury,
Tenn., last June, terminated last even
ing in the discharge of the prisoners,
the Commissioner being satisfied that
the testimony Of the principal witness
was malicious. and that their testimony
was untrue. Two of the witnesses were
arrested for perjury and committed to
jail.
ENGLAND.
London, Aug. 6.—The Dublin, author
ities have forbidden a public meeting to
demand the release of the Irish political
prisoners.
GEORGIA.
t The first Kale of JYVw Cotton.
Savannah, July 6.—Sanders, Goodwin
& Miller received to-day the first bale
of new cotton. It was raised by P. O.
Craddock, of Jefferson county, Florida.
The New York Tribune says:—
“The Kentucky Democrats go mourn
ing.” Not so; they are only a little mor
tified that the Courier-Journal should SO
renounce the Democratic faith.
u The New York Sun. has some
thing to say about “The Decline of Great
Families.” No reference is made to the
Dana family, for in producing Charlee
A., it lost the power to decline any fur
ther.
The Montgomery Advertiser has
a good deal to say about “The sound o<
a Trumpet.” As that paper is among
the “departed,” it is in accordance with
the doctrine of the resurrection that tho
sound of a trumpet should run in its head.
The Montgomery Advertiser has
an article headed “A Move in the Right
Direction.” Without having read tho
article, the inference is that the Adver
tiser is abont to renounce its new politi
cal heresy.
The Mirror is the name of anew paper
just started at Indian Springs, by Mr.
Jas. P. Harrison, of the Monroe Adverti
ser. It is printed on a neat quarto sheet,
and, like all of Harrison’s newspaper
work, is admirably gotten up.
Butler has made up his mind to
be Governor of Massachusetts,” and is
disgusted at the difficulty he encounters
in persuading the voters of Massachusetts
to make up their minds to the earns
thing.
SQL, “ Philadelphia has twice as many
conse-
physicians as she has ministers,
quently the latter have to work hard to
attend to all the funerals.
General Butler has presented &
Church" with a new pulpit. He might
have spared enough plate to have also
made it a present of a communion service.
This, however, the Church might have
declined under the belief that “the re
ceiver is as bad as the thief.”
The best thing to be done with,
those manly female advocates of woman
suffrage and other heresies, would be to
send them to the Feejee Islands as mis
sionaries. The Islanders would not he
injured by their teachings, and, if the
missionaries should happen to be fried
some morning for a cannibal breakfast,
the world would be all-the better there
for.
The New York Herald says: ‘ ‘The
Piegan Indians are ravaging the valley
of the Upper Missouri about the neigh
borhood of Fort Benton with terrible
fierceness.” Why don’t the Govern
ment send Phil. Sheridan LL. D., out
there to roast a few more of their old
men and women and young children.
That is the only thing which Jwill teach
those barbarous Piegans civilization.