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the DAILY SUN t P^ikhfd by the Atlanta Snn Publishing Company. Alexander H. Stephen., Arclilhnhl M. Speight., j. 11 e is 1 >' Smith, Alexander H. Stephens, Political Editor. A, It. Watson, - - - - News Editor, j, Ilenly Smith, General Editor and Busi ness Manager. Local Kdltori WILLIAM H. MO O It E. Traveling Agents t J. SI. W. nilX. J. W. HEARD, Wil. EstEIL. J f - Bex for sole- News Agent, Savannah, keeps j*jiv*xehs.—Pe r s°ns passing through Chat tooga, wlU find The Sun for sale by C. H. GledhUl, Sew* Agent. _ , , Agents-forTUe Sun, Xkoma* N. Hopkists, Thomasville, Ga. Jjisnw Auss Smith, Knoxville, Tenn. Pave Bexx, Athens, G». jobs T. Bobkbts, Atlanta, Ga. J. L. Wiuoht, Woodstock, Ga. j. Q. CALnWELt, Thomson, Ga. g. o. Hamiltos, Dalton, Ga. Xf. C. Davis, Jr., Eatonton, Ga. Tappas, Mapp k Co., White Plains, Green Co., Ga IIOV. TO UK MIT i>IOSEV. 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Advertisements, except for established busi ness houses, in this city, must ho paid for in ad vance No reduction will be mado on tho above rates for quarterly, semi-annual or yearly advertisements. CONTENTS “ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,” FOB THE WEEK ENDIXO ■VVKDNESDAY, AUGUST 83D, XS71. Page 1—“Why Attempt to Mislead the People ? —'•The Telegraph and Messenger.”—Speech of Ex- Gov. Joseph E. Brown before the Agricnltural Con v.'ntion—University of Georgia—W. H. Howard & Son—State Road Plunderings—Joseph Fry Heard From, «‘.c. Page 52—The Great Armageddon of Constitution' alism—Now York Correspondence—Washington City Correspondence—Politics in Georgia—Politics in Mississippi—Politics in Ohio—Politics in Kentucky —Telegrams—Catching a Shark—Sun-Strokes—Geor gia News, etc. Page 3—State Hoad Plunderings—Examination of N. P. Hotchkiss—Joseph Fry—Stealing to Hide their Guilt—Supremo Court Decisions—Sun-Stroke?, etc. Page 4—“The Political Situation”—'The Ken tucky Elections—Elections in St. Louis—Georgia Pros on the New Departure—Democrats in Vermont —Live and Let live—Georgia Nows—And Why was This?—ole. Page 5—Evidences of Popular ; Approval—The State Road Books—Foster }Blodgett—That Auditing Committee—What Does This Mean ?—Suu-Strokc: — OeorgtuNews—Politics in New Jersey—Politics in Alabama—Telegrams—Georgia Western Survey—etc. 0 J4 ‘ Page G—“Is it a Judicial Question ?”—Why Re tained and T aid—The State Road Plunderings—Ken tucky's Triumph—Tubal Cain—Dow’s Idea of Hes- ven—Sun-Strokes—Look Out, Girls—Georgia News— Four Historic Estates, etc. Page 7—Col. Winder P. Johnson—Politics in In diaua—Early Rising—Washington—Telegrams—Tho Bohemian’s Anacreontic—Singular Case—All for Science, etc. * Page 8—Washington City Correspondence—Pol itics in Georgia—Telegraph News—Items- -New Ad vertisements, etc. . - »-■ ?j BSu It is strange how some people will impose upon inoffensive children.— Colfax addressed a Sunday school in Min nesota lately. This is the heading of an article in | the Montgomery Advertiser of the 15 th -inst., and we repeat the inquiry, with a special application, why does j that paper so persistently «at tempt to mislead the people” *s to the position of The Atlanta Sun? TVhy does it so studiously avoid let ting its readers judge for thenuelyes of our views and objects, by with holding from them our own utter ances in our own plain and unmis takable language, and giving them on- ly garbled extracts with its distortions of their meaning? Why, in this very article alluded to, does it arraign and complain of the Mobile Register for giving its readers what we have said on the leading questions in our own words? Is this the course of one whose object is the ascertainment of the truth, in fair discussion, and its maintenance when ascertained? Is it not a clear “ attempt io mislead the people” ? In this article the Montgomery ’ldvcrti$er\cssay$ to make the impres sion that there is a wide difference between tho position of Governor Leslie and the other leaders of the Kentucky Democracy, including the bold and eloquent .T. Proctor Knott, and that of Tna Atlanta Sun—a difference as wide as that between day and night.” Have not we published the speeches of Knott, and Leslie, and Carlisle, and Craddrick, and endorsed them fully? Has the Advertiser ever done any such thing ? HaS it ever given its readers either what we have said, or what those distinguished Kentuckians have said, that the people may judge for themselves whether there is any difference between us oT not ? "We deal fairly by the people. We have given them in fulP jHi what the Advertiser had to say against ns in its arraignment of us before its readers. When has it ever let its rea ders see our reply to its charges ? In this article of the 15th instant, the Advertiser, in speaking of the political editor of The Sun, asserts that:'' “HbTnts in posicrveTemrs,"as “ sumed the extraordinary ground of “ either opposing the Democratic par ty or ’of dictating its platform.” This is simply an extraordinary statement without any ground what ever to stand upon, and the editors of that Journal knew it when they made it ? Whatever else may he said of it, is it not a clear attempt to mis lead the people ? Again the Advertiser makes an other attempt in this same article grossly to mislead the people by en deavoring to impress upon them the sdea that there is a wide difference between our position and that of the late Kentucky Convention which nominated the State ticket, which has just been so triumphantly elected. The language used is this: “ In the “ first place the Resolutions of the “State Nominating Convention con curred, to all intents and purposes, “in the advice set forth in the Con- “gressional Address.” And pray did we not concur fully in the same ? Did we not fully in dorse the Resolutions of the Ken tucky Convention? Have we not again and again endorsed fully the principles as well as the advice set forth in the Congressional Democratic Address ? Have we not repeatedly said that we were perfectly willing to go into the next Presidential Canvass up on either that Congressional Address or the Kentucky Resolutions here re ferred to? The Editors of the Adver tiser know all this. Then why thus “attempt to mislead the people”? The reason of it we fully under stand, and the people shall know it, to the extent of our means and abili ty. Wcl are enlisted iu the cause of the people. We have no purpose hut to servo them in aiding them to under stand their rights, and in all proper modes to maintain them in despite the wilv tricks of those who are at tempting to mislead them neither of these approve or sanction the infamous usurpations of Congress attending the proposal, or adoption of the 14th and 15th Amendments so called, of the Constitution of the United States. 1 lu-y want the Democracy of the L nion to bow down and do worship to the Baal of Imperialism by ac knowledging, in the language of the Xiiuh Pennsylvania Harrisburg Res olution that all matters pertaining to those great frauds have been dis posed of -in the manner and by the authority Constitutionally appoin ted” ilhis most ignominious deed w.y say the Democracy of the Union ought never to do. We say further that wejelo not believe they ever will. Very great efforts are being made, now it is v *truej by .the Advertiser and other co-lahorers with it to pui’snade the Democracy to do it. Our most earnest efforts are exerted to keep them from it. This is the height of our offending. We never yet deceived or misled the peo ple, and we do not intend' that others shall do it if we can prevent them. A. H. S. M-i 2 “ Thc| Telegraph & Messenger.” We clip from our cotemporary of Ma cau (of the 16th inst.,) the following morceau: A The Resident Republican Executive Committee are actively distributing the documents prepared aud published by them in tbe States where elections are to bo held this ensuing fall. These documents include the splendid review of our national finances recently issued in English and German; General Sherman’s speech at Columbus, Ohio, iviih Southern Democratic comments on the *• new departure ;** also, a review of the land-grant policy in English and Ger man, and a record of anti-slavery legislation. They are also preparing a careful review of the Ku-klux. tafir * * Cherokee, I had never made but little I of the land around it, which had been in over three tons to the acre in one year, | wheat the year before. The third year weighed when _.dried and ready for the I which was the last summer, the field was market; and this I have regarded a very | again sowed in wheat and, I could have fine crop. Indeed, it takes our best carried you into the edge of the wheat with, a tabular statement of the crimes committed by it during the past two years, and a brief summary of tho principal facts established by tho evidence taken during the past six months. The above is an extract from the Wash ington telegraphic correspondence of the Philadelphia Press. The Atlanta Sun el id omne genus—which, being freely translated, means all those Democratic newspapers that prefer to repeat the im becility of 1868, and give the Jacobins four ydars more of deviltry at Washing ton rather than the election of a Demo cratic President in 1872—will please copy. We comply readily with our neighbor’s request, but suggest that perhaps it would have been more discreet in that journal to have waited and seen what Southern Democratic comments on the “New Departure” have been used and how used by the Radical Executive Com- J muieo Dcnjrw—canrug uni optima- utwm tion to it, with such an air of supercili ous arrogance We have not seen the document, but venture to express the very decided opin ion in advance that it contains no com ments of The Atlanta Sun on the “New Departure,” or on anything else, which can bo used to injure the Democratic party. The comments of The Sun are quite as distasteful to the Radicals everywhere, as they are to the Telegraph and Messen ger. We think the comments upon the “New Departure” of our neighbor of Ma con—el id omne genus—of Southern De mocratic newspapers (so-called,) which feel so seriously as onr neighbor does the “imbecility of 1868,” and which are so eager, not only to abandon their princi ples, but to adopt and sanction the worst of the ^“deviltry” of the JacobiDS “at Washington” for the last five years, would be much more likely to find a place in Radical campaign document, than any thing that can be culled from the columns of The Atlanta Sun. We may say more of the document and its contents, however, when we see This, we trust, will suffice our neighbor for the present. A. H. S. lands up the country to procluci that quantity. .* METHOD or CULTIVATING CLONER. l ain satisfied, our people are neglecting their best interests, whenever they neg lect to cultivate largely of grasses, or it is scarcely any labor to make the grass crop, ana it is the most available crop made on the land when produced. A word as to the mode of sowing and cultivating it: have never, in a single instance, failed to get a good stand when Ihave sowed in. Mai’eh, with oats. I prepare my land thoroughly, then sow the oats and plow them in, and, after they are plowed in, when I would be ready to leave the field, if I only intended to make an oat crop, I sow down the clover seed upon the fresh plowed land, at the rate of a buslu-1 of clean ■ seed to six acres and brush them m with a brush cut in the woods near by. having a heavy top, which makes a light load of two horses, running over, cover- ering the seed, and leveling the ground, as our fathers formerly did their tur- nip patches. A bushel to six or seven acres is more seed than is usually put upon land, but I have found it in the end much the cheapest to put on enough seed to be sure .to get a good stand the first year. Some object to covering it with brush ami say it does just as well to sow it on wheat, or even on land un prepared, and leave the seed on the top of the ground. If sowed in the snow on wheat, which seldom have here, - or sowed in a very rainy time, this will do, but take one year with another and risk the season and it is entirely too uncer tain It is said that the brush, covers, part of the seed too deep and they do not come up, and that'we thereby waste seed. This may be true, but it leaves a proper quantity the proper depth under the ground, and when it comes up, having some depth of earth, the root is not so easily killed by the hot sun as it is when the seed is on the top of the ground. X find it, therefore, decidedly best to brush it in. Besides it leaves the ground level and in good order for mowing. The oat crop is the one to be looked to for that year, as we do not expect a crop of clover the first year; and you should not pasture the land the first year, unless you. do so very late, say the latter part of Septem ber or the first of October. Of an ordinary season, the clover will, the year it is sowed, grow up a considera ble height, before frost, if the land is good; and with it will be a good coat of crab-grass and a consider^ able crop of weeds. Just before frost, X put my two-horse mower in and cut all this down, and dry it, and stock it, and it makes a fine crop of hay. The stock will eat all the young clover and the crab grass, and even the tops of therag weeds, when they are cut green and. dried with the hay. But not’ th^least benefit from this coarse is the fine order in which your land is left for mowing.in tbe Spring.— SPEECH OF EX-GOV. BROWN BEFORE THE AGRICULTU RAL CONVENTION AT ROME ON THE 11TI1 DAY OF AU GUST. Tlie Culture of Clover aud tiie Grasses. Best Fertilizer-—Hillside Ditch ing-Stock. Raising. [Fully and correctly reported expressly lor tlie At lanta Daily Sun.] field and said “Two acres of this has been in clover,” and asked yon to point it ont. to me, without my indicating the place, and you could have showed me, to the very row, where the clover had been, as the wheat on that part was deci dedly taller and looked better every way. The effect of the Jclover, therefore, has been not only visible, but very marked for three years after tbe crop had been turned under. Me. President : I rise for the propose of seconding—which I do most heartily— the resolution of thanks to Dr. Janes, for the very instructive and practical address which he has just delivered on the cul ture of clover and grasses in Green coun ty. • It had been fully demonstrated, by previous experiments and practice, that clover and almost any of the grasses grow well in all the section above Atlanta to ” e P 10- the Tennessee and North Carolina lines; claim then to the people everywhere, but it was still regarded as a matter of The (burur-Journali* -willing to j ^ . ( f lg ?o ( if / n r iq)on 4-1 v yv TfTlI 11 flirt KAni'llATlO ” * 1 * .........------ . ii advocates I doubt, whether it could be profitably tliat tlie aIuit «. *■ CA 1 grown as low down as Groen county, of the “New Departure' 5 arc nof u'lll- . 'jq ie experiments of Doctor Janes, how- to ao into the Presidential Can- ' ever, settle that question beyond further \ng io go nuu d • d bt true that clo- No doubt of it; but are the Bourbons j L ‘ l J' lL , / , probable that they Resolutions nfei.id to, “works meet for reper- (which are so commendingly spoken | willing ? It is first demand tance,” .7 , 7-) ! caviling, and it is no doubt true that elo- T/it ui u. o- ver ^ the other grasses may be profita- sional Address, or the j Lly grown as low down as the red or clay : lands extend. The result of the Doctor’s experiment is truly astonishing, as the yield is one of the largest I have evc-r weed croprsfei^faall, you will find, in the Spring, that the large dry weeds are very much in yonr way, and it will be necessary to employ hands to gather them and pile them out of the way, before yon can reap your crop of clover. CLOVER AS A FERTILIZER. In reference to the quality of land best adapted to its growth, I state that, in my opinion, it does best 'upon stiff black, rich river bottom, which needs no manure, to make a good crop. If you pnt it on uplands, and expect a good crop, yon must manure your land well before you sow; and when it is once set with clover, if you cultivate it properly, you may keep it perpetually rich. If you have poor lands and wish to enrich them with clo ver. you must turn over several successive crops in the green state, giving them to the land, and, if you have the patience, in this way you can soon improve it until it will produce a good crop for use, and may then keep your Land rich for the fu ture. But yon need not expect a heavy crop of clover on poor land, any more than you may expect a heavy crop of any other sort. the quality of land suited for clover. And, in this connection, I wish to say a few words as to the value of the clover crop as a manure. We have heard here a very interesting discussion on the sub ject of commercial and domestic, or bam yard manures, during which many very valuable suggestions and interesting state ments have been made. My judgment, however, is that the clover is the best of all fertilizers. It enriches the land, and continues to keep it rich, if you con tinue to alternate the clover with other crops, or to ran it a considerable portion of time in clover. The first two acres which I sowed in river bottom in Chero kee county, as an experiment, was sowed in the middle of a corn field, that it might be sure not to be pastured the first year. With the clover I sowed some Heard’s Grass seed. For three successive years I got heavy crops of clover from the land; The clover decidedly predomina ted over the Heard’s Grass. On. the fourth year the crop was pretty, equally divided between the two; and the fifth year it was about three-fourths Heard’s Grass. This shows that the Heard’s Grass will stand longer than the clover. The latter should be plowed up every third year. The Heard’s Grass might be continued indefi nitely, were it not that briers, broom sedge and other wild growth, will spring up and compel yon to cultivate the land to get lid of them. In the Fall of the fifth year I had the two acres above re ferred to turned under with a two-horse turning plow, and I afterwards sowed it, as I did the corn land around it in wheat The following Spring, when the wheat was about maturing, you could see the difference to the very row, from a very considerable distance. That where the clover had been was from twelve to eigh teen inches higher than that around it The next year it was cultivated in corn, and the tenant informed me that he could shut his eyes before he came near the place and tell by the looseness of the ground, the moment the plow struck the part that had been in clover.— The com crop was decidedly better on hillside ditching and draining. M e have heard some very interesting statements here, on the subject of hill side ditching and drainage. In my opi nion, the very best hillside ditch that can be made in this climate, is made of clover and grasses and deep plowing. If you will plow your lands deep, and keep your hillsides in clover and grass, aud use them mostly as pasturage for your stock which will pay you better than any other crop you can put upon them, you will have no use for hillside ditches and the deep plowing and the clover and grass will prevent any wash. A REPROACH TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGLV. I desire to state a fact here which is really a shame to the people of Georgia. The records of the W. & A. Bailroad show that there was imported over the road into the State, during the six months from the first of January to the first of July, in round numbers, 33,000 bales of hay. This was worth about §200,000. If the same quantity should be imported for the last half year, it will be, say 66,600 bales, or §400,000 worth. Every pound of this should be grown in middle aud upper Georgia, aud if our friends who raise cotton in the sandy lands should de sire any hay, we should certainly furnish it to them. I trust onr people will wake up to this subject. Not only should we raise all our own hay, but we should raise our own stock. Where we have our lands set with grass, we can do this easily and cheaply. As an illustration—I keep upon my farm neither a mule nor a horse to aid in doing the work, but I work mares entirely, and I have a jack and raise mule colts. Last Fall, in No vember, I was on my plantation in Gor don county, and my manager, Oapt. Fin ley, asked me how he should treat the colts. I told him to turn them into the bottom land upon a.clover field where we had mowed it for * the winter, and let them run there as long as it would sup port them, and then give then! a plenty of hay and some com, if necessary, for the balance of the winter. The FaU had been a favorable one and the clover was np a very considerable height and thick over the ground. The winter was wet and bat one really very cold spell came about ^Christmas. The result was that there was enough clover for them to feed upon all the Winter. I again visited the farm the first of March, and ’ went with Captain Finley to. see my colts, and found them in good growing order, doing well, ear* of "corn, during and that they had run' there upon the clover field and had had nothing else, ex cept that they had probably eaten about half a cart load of my seed clover, under a shelter. This.was cut when it was rath er dry and hard, for hay, when the seed got ripe, and "they did not like, it, and indeed they did not need it.— They are now going on two years of age, and I do not suppose they know what com is. A mule colt, on a clover farm, I find costs me less than a bull yearling to raise it. near your stables, aud will plow your horses during the summer, giving them plenty of clover bay, and allow them to run in the pasture nt right, with one feed of com each day, you may keep them in good order and work them olt summer. CLOVER AS PASTURAGE EOB HOGS. This is not confined to < at le or horses, A clover field is a most excellent place for your hogs. I set apart a field for that purpose, and have now from 130 to 140 hogs upon it, and they have been doing well nil summer, with scarcely auy corn. W hen tlie weather is very wet, the best plan is to move them off from it, to prevent them from rooting up the land. They will graze on the green clover all the while, aud it is an excel lent food for them. The cheapest way to make meat iu the up country is to have a good clover pasture for your hogs, and after you cut your small grain in the summer, turn them in for a time and pasture them there. Taking the two together, you need feed them very little corn until August or September. Then as soon as your corn is iu roasting ear, fence off’ a small piece at a time (for which Mr. Charles Wallace Howard’s portable fence, a model of which is now before the convention, would be very convenient), turn them upon it, or cut it aud throw it to them, stalk and alL— They will eat the ear and chew up the cob, the stalk and .fodder, aud it is all nutritious. You. will find it will start them off to thriving, growing and fatten ing as fast as dry corn, and they get a great deal more out of tho stalk, includ ing tlie fodder, ear, &e., than they do out of a dry ear of corn. In this way they may be carried on until corn-gathering time, and then feed them a short time upon dry corn, and they are ready for the butcher. HGW TO OBTAIN SEED. I of when* i suits a purpose..) because fiord of. On my best river bottom, in the clover land than on the same quality A word now on the subject of seed.— Until last year I have been buying my seed each successive year, from Ken tucky, because I did not wish to have the trouble of cleaning the seed. Last sum mer I had the second crop on ten acres set apart for seed. I let it stand until the seed was ripe and had it mowed as I would mow hay, and. hauled it up and put it under a shelter. In the spring when I wished to sow, I had it thrown out with forks upon the hard ground near the bam, and a couple of hands took flails, such as our fathers* formerly used in threshing wheat, and a few licks would beat off all the pods-from a considerable bed of it. That was thrown aside and another portion thrown down, and by continuing in the same way I had the seed thrashed off of the entire quantify. With the seed which grew off the ten acres, I sowed about sixty acres, the past spring, and got an excellent stand. It was sowed in the rough seed chaff and all together, from seven to ten bushels to the acre, on fresh plowed land, sowed in oats and brushed in* as already stated in the the case of clean seed. The seed off of ten acres, if 1 had purchased it from Kentucky, would have cost me about §100. I therefore recommend every far mer, of the first year, to save his own seed. Buy your seed and sow the first few acres; then set apart a portion of the second crop of each year for seed, and save it and prepare it and sow as above stated, and you will have no difficulty about it. You need therefore, after the first year, spend nothing for seed; nor need yon spend any labor on the clover crop, except the simple labor of cutting and housing it. This is certainly much better, under the present labor system, tb an our old habit of breaking up our land, planting com and cultivating it all summer, and pulling fodder and then gathering the com, hauling it up, shucking it and throwing it into the crib and carrying it out in our arms in baskets, and throwing it to onr stock. Instead of all this labor, sow your hillside lands, such as you cannot well mow, turn your stock upon it in the summer, and, unless in case of drought, they will do well upon it all 'summer, without any of your labor. Set apart some of yonr land, bottom if you have it, to mow; cut and save the crop there, and you have nothing to do but to throw the hay to the stock, with a little corn, and you carry them through safely.— There is, therefore, no comparison be tween the two crops, so far as your stock is concerned. If you will sow a lot in clover and gras > HOW TO TURN A CROP UNDER. Before I conclude, a word more in refer ence to turning under tlie clover crop. As already stated, you do not pasture it the first year, and your fist crop is saved, the next spring after it is sowed.— That year you may mow it twice, and the next year twice. Tbe third year, you should cut the first crop and save it for hay, and you should turn the second cropunder with a two horse turning plow, giving it to the soil, and either sow it in wheat that fall, which is probably best, or cultivate it in corn, the next spring. It should not stand more than three years, without being turned under, as the fourth year’s crop will not be a very good one, and the wild growth and broom sedge will become trouble some by the fourth hear. I may also remark that the first crop cut each year, which in Cherokee, Ga., is ready for the mower about the last of May, is much the«best for hay. The second crop will make your horses slobber, though the hay is very good for cattle. The proper time to mow the crop, is when it is in full bloom, and a few blooms, here and there, of the earliest, are beginning to fade, preparatory to ripening the seed. The old theory was to let it stand until a third or half the blooms were fading, but this is not the best, as the stalk becomes rather hard and the hay is not as good. If cut in full bloom, when only half of the earliess blossoms are changing color, your hay will be more nutritious and better. But I have already detained you too long, Mr. President. My object was not to make a speech, as I do not care to do that further than to offer a few practical suggestions, the result of my own expe- tlie people to the great importance of this subject, we will not have labored iu vain. I thank you and the Convention for the attentive hearing which you have given me. University of Georgia. This venerable and deservedly popular Institution of Learning enters upon its seventy-first year on the 15th of Septem ber next. We inrite attention to its ad vertisement in our columns this morning. We have frequently heard it remarked by intelligent gentlemen, during the last four years, that this Institution had the ablest Faculty and was really the best school in the Southern States. W. II. Howard & Son. The card of this firm in Augusta ap pears this .morning in The Sun. This i s an old and well established commission and cotton warehouse, well and favorably known in Georgia. The junior partner, Mr. W. H. Howard. Jr., has resided near and transacted business in this city for • near two years, and is highly esteemed as a good business man, Read their card.. This house proposes to advance moneys on cotton in store, and purchase supplies for customers with care and economy. »-♦-< The Superior Court of Spalding ad journed on Saturday last. Many of" the attorneys in attendance left for Merri- wether Court at Greenville—among, them Judge Linton Stephens, who accompa nied CoL A. D. Nunnally. State Road Plunderings. We learn that investigations into tho great State Road robbery will be resumed in a day or two. Parties have put their hands to this plow who wi Knot look back. It will be probed to the bottom, and ev ery thing connected with it exposed. ;. Joseph Fry Heard From. We have received reliable intelligence of Mr, Joseph Fry’s whereabouts. Ho will return to this city in a short time. We deem this notice necessary, as Mr. Fry has communicated his intentions to ug . Z. B. Hargrove, E. P. Howell. The Courier-Journal says: The five-column flashes in The Atlanta Sun are said to be due to the Alecktricity in the concern, but they are not particularly enlightening.” The babblings in the Courier-Journal only those of water, but they were not particularly dampening to Democratic prospects in Kentucky daring the late elections. XM Dl STlN CT