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THE
NEW ERA.
VOLUME IV.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1870.
NUMBER 30
A Plea In Advance of tbc Act.
For tho better protection of the Ku Klax in
their oontem{doted aeU of nrnrder and lawless*
neee daring the approaching eannao, an ab
oard story baa been started by the Macon Tel
egraph to the effect that BepaUiean leaden
aeek to become accessories to maiden in order
that the crime may be charged to the account
of the revolutionary Democracy for political-
effect.
This stylo of partisan warfare is eminently
in keeping with the morals of the Kn-Klnx
Chiefs, in certain localities in Georgia. It
reveals a rottenness of heart and a recklessness
of purpose that should pat all good men upon t*t, equally as causeless and suicidal as tint
their guard. A party that would incite' •"'hifc Jpd been waged agamst c
riots and, by means of organized JWoo- Tli« disappointed politicians • of
bands of assassins, attempt
bom tbs free exercise
organise*^
to awe men
their consti-
„W„ men Ri»t party, enrag^ at their failure,
the cry that onr pee
was in danger. T^onLnflnencea of Plymouth
tutionol right, os elector., fe a dangerous ele* *as ,n <***£**- ™ influences oiriymouin
meut in society. U h jnst such an clement *• Mayflower were destroying the
tliia that has kept Mexico in a state of anarchy
far years. Bat when these desperate men as
say to prepare the publio mind in advance for
the perpetration of their wicked deeds, it is
certainly getting time for all good and peacea
ble citizens to bo vigilant. When men thus
proclaim, inadvanee, a purpose to commit mur-
der, and then to ialrely lay the crime to the
doom of innocent men, it portends anything
hut good for society.
fUpmrststln Journalism-
We have a class of newspapers in Georgia
that would be well calculated to damage the
character of our people abroad, were they gen
erally circulated ontside the limits of the State,
dodged by these journals, the Southern people
might be regarded at a set of barbarians, os
malignant and uncivil os they were ignorant
and vicious. But fortunately this is not the
case. The class of papers referred to, do sot
represent tho Southern people, but only a
small faction of disorganizers and malcontents
calling themselves '‘Democrats.’' They do
not even represent the Democratic party of the
State, but only respond to the sentiments and
feelings of the irresponsible bummers and ig
norant interlopers of that party. What, for
instance, wonld a genuine Democrat of the
old school think of being represented abroad
by sneh utterances os the followiife.' which we
And in a Democratic paper published at For
syth in this State:
Acukkan—don't you c ? has recovered
from bis billions attack engendered by the
venom of bis little son), and returned to Wash
ington. This thing yon call Providenoe is a
mysterious affair.
It is the men who thus betray feelings of the
most refined and delicate nature; who thus
confine themselves to the language of gentility
and good breeding in speaking of the highest
officers of the Government; and who thus
evince the deepest piety in their allusions to
the Supremo Baler of the Universe—these are
the ''gentlemen," par excellence, who ossnme
to speak not merely for tho Georgia Democ
racy, but likewise for tho Southern people!
Wo havo a few exceptional examples of the
same kind of ‘‘chivalry” claiming affiliation
with the Bcpnblican organization; but fortu
nately for onr party, nobody recognizes their
claim oven to membership, mneb less to a
representative position.
Sh.ll we Have a Fair Klrrtlon t
Tlio conduct of tho Democracy yesterday
upon tho passage of tho Election bill was
pregnant with the characteristics of the party.
Ono wonld think in listening to tho declama
tions of their champions, and witnessing
their strategy, that the bill was a most heinous
measure, designed to give tho advantage to the
Republicans, and placing tho Democracy at a
disadvantage.
As to the latter contingency, tho Democracy
may be right They am always at a disadvan
tage when they am not allowed to practice
fraud, intimidation and violence, and it is to
prevent these practices that the bill is de
signed. It is not a law for a part of the peo
ple, or for a party, but applies to all, Republi
cans and Democrats alike. The very fact that
any man opposes the bill is evidence sufficient
that bo does not want a fair election, because
the bill is for that purpose, and that only.
If Democrats were subject to more restraints
than Republicans, then they wonld have a right
to complain, bat they arc not.
How is it the Democracy, a party of sneh
mmaculnto parity, are always found opposed
to every measure that is intended to provent
fhtnd, violence and intimidation in elections?
Everywhere, throughout tho United States,
upon tho Democratic party rests the stigma of
political trend. We need not point to the city
of Now York, whero their rascality is so opon
and flagrant, bnt in onr own State it is well
known that the villainies at the polls for many
years have been committed in the interest of
tho Democratic party, and the murders and
outrages so common of late years have been
in the same interest. Ob, Democracy! De
mocracy ! what crimes havo been committed
in thy name!
Now this election bill which will come up
for reconsideration to-day is designed to pro
mote fairness at elections. What possible mo
tive havo the Democracy in opposing it, ex
cept that it tends to prevent band? What
champions in tho Legislature pretend to speak
for the people? By what right they do so is
not easy to understand, for a majority of the
people ore honest and desire nothing else than
a fur and fall expression of the will of the
majority. Bnt modern Democracy thinks all
fair in politics, and if by band and violence
the minority can bo brought into, and kept in
power, bo much tho better for the little ring of
aristocrats who govern that party and call
themselves Democrats, par excellence. Their
motto is. Bole if wo can by majorities, bnt we
have not a majority, rolo by any means.
The 1Var.
Tho Latest intelligence bom tho seat of war,
confirms tho opinion that the surrender of
Paris is only a question of time. The pooplo
of that onee gay and beantital city—the gayest
and most beautiful in the world—are divided
against themselves. Tho strength so much
needed in the defensive da-sgainst a common
enemy, now thundering at the gates of the
city, is being frittered away in a war of fac
tions, os was the caso in 1702.
With tho surrender of Paris, tho war will
probably end. Strasbourg and Metz will be
unable to survive tho moral effect of the fall of
Paris, and the other important cities, yet un
injured, will doubtless see the propriety of
ending a fruitless oontesh The terms of peace
proposed by thoFrnssian Minister, however
bard and exacting, wonld donbtlera be acceded
to as (he only available method of terminating
a hopeless contest—a contact began by Napo
leon ^without cause, and now waged by the
Prussian King in violation of his own declara
tion that it was the Emperor and not the
French people he sought to punish.
The English tones condemn Bismarck’s
coarse in not making peace with the French
Republic. They say that the cause of Franco
is not yet lost, and Prussia, may regret her
arrogant conduct.
Politics In tbc Scliool Room
The surrender of Gen. Lee terminated the
most gigantic straggle of modem times. The
mass— at home and the scarred and veteran
legions in the Arid, regarded it os final and de
cisive. The political philosophy of the 8onth-
era Democracy was only understood by its
leaders, and hence the soldiers of Lee and
Johnston thought, os they sadly turned their
bees homeward, that the war was at an end.
They were The thunders of hoe-
tile cannon had scarcely died away before' a
new war-cry was raised, and the leaders of the
Sou thou Democracy inaugurated another con
genial Civilization of Jamestown and Yama-
craw. In support of this assertion, they point
ed the finger of scorn at a few ladies from the
North who were teaching school in their midst.
Against these'refined and delicate women,
Democracy prepared to wage a deadly and re
lentless warfare. Men who learned their al
phabets bom Yankee primers, or perchance
graduated at Harvard or Yale, joined' in t^e
insane crusade with that ardor winch belongs
to Bigotry alone.
Their efforts met with some degree of suc
cess. Northern teachers did not core to live
in a community where merit was practically
ignored, and where every person was tried by
the test of Sectional Prejudice. But this was
not enough. In the eyes of the leading Bour
bons, Southern civilization was endangered by
the Northern press. A bitter crusade was com
menced against the leading publishers, whose
establishments happened to be North of the
Potomac. If a Northern magazine contained
a complimentary notice of some Southern wri
ter or Union hero, the tact was promptly pub
lished in the '* Southern" papers, and the peo
ple warned to neither read nor handle the ac
cursed publication. Nor did the "patriotic'
crusade stop even at tots point. TUo Sooth waj
flooded with ‘‘Northern Mbngl-book*." They
numbered among ttemgpifef the finest text
books in our languagef-ivorks of approved
merit; and so esteemed inKniope as well as in
this country. The Bourbon Democracy issued
the decide, “These bodes are dangerous to our
Civilization; wo must use ‘Southern’ text
books alone!" With the weak-minded and the
disloyal, this appeal hj|diis effect. Numbers
of broken-down "8oufl(cTn" teachers (some of
them hailing bom the North) set their pens'in
inOtion, and grammars, histories, readers ana
epeedk-books were turned ont in countless
numbers. These books were .“Southern,"
therefore they were good. Excellent logic!
It convinced many. The Louisville
Board of Trustees adopted a “Southern”
ached history as a text-book, because it
ignored the Declaration of Independence, and
devoted much of its space to ao apology for
Secession and a justification of its leaders.
Other notice teachers adopted reading books
because they were filled with selections bom
■Southern" authors. Speech-books, compiled
from the inflammatory barangneMbfiecession
orators were in high favor, and grammars have
mot with large sales -soIoly--beeau.se the ex
amples of fill so syntax were purported to come
bom Lincoln's addresses and messages.
Tho contest still continues. Sectional pre
judice never appeared more absnrd than in
this, its latest and most suicidal development
Bat it is the last hope of the Democracy. To
poison the minds of onr youth with erroneous
and revolutionary doctrines, to prepare them
for the work of arraying themselves against
the constituted authorities—this is the real
object of the crusade against Northern school
books. A number of Democratic aspirants
to civic boners are prominent in the movement,
and they receive tho hearty co-operation cf
worn-out political hocks who retain just
enough mental vigor to make them malignant.
We trust for tho sake of tho rising generation
that the fathom and mothers of the South will
make their voice beard in this matter. Let
them proclaim to the teachers, who educate
their children, that they demand the best text
books in the conutry; and this, withontregard
to their authorship or their place of publica
tion. Let this be done, and Southern civiliza
tion wiU always bo strong enough to take care
of itself.
A Discordant Note.
The ink had acaxoely dried on Judge Ste
phens’ second letter, in vindication of “the
principles of tho Democratic party of the
Union," asset forth in the National Platform
of 1868, when the New York Democracy re
pudiate both him and tho National Platform
itselt. For, at the late State Convention of
the party at Syracuse,a Resolution was adopted
declaring that all the old issues growing ont
of the war and reconstruction “are forever
settled!" The XTVth and XVth Amendments
‘fixed facts;” Reconstruction has ceased
to be an “nsurpation unconstitutional, nnlt
and void;" and tho New York Democracy is
henceforth quite willing to accept all as legiti
mate, right and properl In other words, they
go sqoarely back upon the record, and repu
diate alike the men and the measures of 1868.
We confess to a little curiosity to see how
our Democratic biends in Georgia, will view
this unconditional surrender. To ratify it
would be of course to abandon the State plat
form, constructed at tho Silent Convention of
the party held in this city in August lost. It
wonld moreover be in bad faith to the party in
Tennessee and Virginia, where the XIVtk and
XVth Amendments and the Reconstruction
Acts of Congress are still regarded ns “ the.
moat gigantic wrongs ever inflicted opon a
bee people.” Furthermore, it would bo acting
very treacherously toward tho organization in
Ohio, celling itself “Democratic," and
which still repudiates Judge Chase on account
of his anti-bell urn Abolitionism, and his post-
bellum advocacy of the payment of the Na
tional Debt And in California, for instance,
where the XVth Amendment is held in sneh
abomination, that no man calling a
Democrat dare even apologue for its enforce
ment this action of tho Now York Democracy
can but be regarded as treasonable!
Thus, it will be observed that now as in
1856, Democracy may mean one thing in New
York, and a very different thing in Georgia
and Ohio. The “accept-tho-situation" wing
of 1870, corresponding to the “non-interven
tion" wing of 1856; and the faction of the “re-
spcctability-whito-man's-govemment" of 1870,
corresponding to the Dred-Scott-Decision-
force-Sleveiy-into-the-Tcnitones faction of
1856. But now os then, the various platforms
and crotchets of each wing are all compre
hended in tho one little dissyllable, to wit:
ana! This is the beginning and the ending
of all Democratic aspirations, and it proceeds
upon the time honored assumption of its di-
vino right to cram.
John S. C. Abbott is writing a history of
Prussia. It is in this diabolioal way that he
revenges the defeat of the Third Napoleon.
Old Tit® Barnacles in Georgia.
Those who can agree with the Rev. Thomas
L. Harris, that Charles Dickens was on in
spired man, find in the character of his Lord
Decemios Tite Barnacles, and in the shoal of
Barnacles whereof old Tite was King Bee, a
prophetic representation of much that is
now transpiring in the political arena of
Georgia. Mr. Dickens created old Tite B.
some thirty years ago, when the Reform
party (of which the great novelest was even
then a quiet but powerful leader,) was just
emerging from the chrysalis state. This cre
ation was for the purpose of representing a class
of English numbskulls who claimed tho di
vine right to rule. The aristocratic branch
of the Engfl«h Government, or cir
cumlocution office, as it was humorously
styled, had an insane dread of “Radicals,”
and of radical innovations upon the docaying
fragments of the old Feudal System ! Their
science of government consisted of but one
maxim, and rested upon but one precodent.
They always studied How not to do it, and
their precedent ways a notable paternal Barna
cle who had been eminently successful in the
practice of How not to do it. Whenever one
of the pestiferous “Radicals” suggested an
innovation, however dexterously, upon this
time honored maxim, or suggested, however
courteously, a slight departure from the inex
orable precedent, Lord Decimus and his ret
inue of Barnacles and Stiltstalkings would go
into spasms or gloomily predict the early and
irretrievable 4 ‘ruin” of the country.
In this way was Albion 44 ruined” several
times over. She was 44 ruined ” by the exten
sion of an important franchise to all free hold,
ers. She was 44 rained” a second time by the
extension of the same franchise to all house
holders who paid a stipulated rental. She
was 44 ruined” a third time by an innovation
upon the patent laws of the realm, whereby a
cunning artisan might bring a valuable inven
tion before the public without consulting the
Circumlocution Office, and without contribu
ting to its coffers. And in this way the “ruin’
had been steadily progressing for a full half
centnry; »s><1 i* w ill fwsrewbg most ro-
lentiesdy.
There has been a corresponding innovation
upon “good old times” in what was once
Oglethorpe’s Colony, North America. And
those who look for the Armageddon in “Little
Dorsitt” rather than in Isaiah, may well con
clude that Mr. Dickens* admirable story had
“on internal sense” revealed in the past six
years of the political history of Georgia.—
Thus the State was “ruined,” first by the
XHIth Amendment. All remember tho cir
cumstances. It occurred in the nature of a
compromise between the Bourbon and the
Radical, whereby the slave should have the
disposal of his person only—the ballot to be
held in obeyance. It made ninety thousand na
tive citizens amenable to a State government in
which they, as free citizens, had no voice what
ever. It clothed those citizens with personal
liberty, but denied them redress in the civil
courts under the usual form of law. The next
‘rain** of the State occurred in the passage of
the Civil Bights Bill. This gave all free citi
zens equality before the law courts. It was a
terriblo blow, and the Georgia Barnacles
gravely proclaimed that the country was “ru
ined” world without end. The next “rain’’
was more’serious still. It was the XTVth
Amendments, which had been once rejected
only to appear again in a still more 4 ‘ruinous’’
form, to wit, in the Reconstruction Acts. This
rained the State utterly, in that it enfranchised
ninety thousand native born citizens. The
last “rain” was the XVth Amendment; and
yet this had barely done its ruinous work be
fore the Election Bill is passed. This last
measure gives the finishing stroke to poor old
Georgia! It actually protects the ninety
thousand enfranchised voters in the exercise
of their right to vote for whomsoever, and for
what public measure soever they may choose.
It oven provides on opportunity for every legal
voter in tlio State to cast his ballot without in
timidation or molestation. It thus seeks to
make our government in practice what it has
long been in theory, that is,* democratic in
spirit and republican in form. And this, we
are gravely told, is to “rain” the State by de
feating the Democratic party and giving us a
Radical administration!
A ProIItie*• Surrender.
There ore over ninety-five thousand colored
voters in the State of Louisiana; and, until
quite recently, the Democracy of that State
havo denied this large class of their fellow-
citizens constitutional rights which henceforth
they will concede and defend!
This is certainly a hopeful indication The
selfishness and craven spiritednessof this un
conditional surrender of the Democratic leaders
docs not in the least diminish its good results;
though it must be conceded that it docs dete
riorate from tho virtue of the concession.
Whilst, therefore, we hail this unconditional
surrender of hie Democracy as an omen
of good to both races and the whole country,
\vc know what pangs it cost tho leaders of that
party to moke it, and also how little they will
gain by it
Nevertheless, we cannot withhold our admira
tion of the humility that can thus eat so much
dirt without receiving tho least reward there
for. Twenty negroes wero admitted to the
State Democratic Convention, after a three
days* discussion over tho 44 propriety '* of the
thing; and^now ihirteen of the twenty are in
active co-operaSon with the Republican party!
In New York, the surrender was, if possi
ble, still more unconditional and profitless.
When the Democracy of that State wanted to
rescind tho State's ratification of the XVth
Amendment, less than twelve months ago, and
expressed the determination to fight “nigger
suffrage” to the bitter end, it did not occur
to them that they would live to need negro
votes! And now, by way of penance, they
make this inglorious surrender in a State
where the colored vote is infinitesimal, and
where it is, almost without a single exception,
pledged to the support of the Republican ticket!
What He now Says.
At a meeting of Spiritualists in Brooklyn, a
few days since, the spirit of J. Wilkes Booth
was called up, and in answer to a question as
to whether he had seen Lincoln, and whether
he was sorry for haling lolled him, he said:
“He says he is; that he has become recon
ciled to Abraham Lincoln. They walk out
daily. He says the assassination was based
upon a misunderstanding. They are now good
friends. He wasn't in his right mind when he
shot him. He yielded to an impulse. He has
now gone through two states of progression.
He is entering on a third. He says he re
gretted his act while he was dying.”
Booth has evidently been improved by hi
transit As there are, aocording to this faith
“seven states of progression,*’ and Booth has
already passed two in four years, he will, at
this rate, reach the seventh heaven in ten years
Affairs in Mexico speak badly for the gov
ernment of that country. Agriculture, com
merce and industry ore declining; poverty is
general and the Treasury is bankrupt.
The Democracy and Hr. Akcrnian.
The manner in which the nomination of
Attorney General Akexman to the second place
on the National Republican Ticket for 1872,
is attacked by the Democratic press, is but an
additional fact favoring the selection. Mr.
Akerman Is justly considered by the Georgia
Democracy as the most available man for the
position to be found in the Sonth. Hod we
nominated some second or third doss man, or
some lukewarm Republican of dubious record,
the Democracy would have doubtless deferred
opening the campaign until the nomination
had been ratified by the National Convention.
As it is, they take time by the forelock, and, by
their abuse and misrepresentation, materially
enhance Mr. Akerman’s chances for confirma
tion. . _ :
This is what we anticipated, and we only
hope they may keep it up until the Convention
assembles. It will cause the Republicans of
the East to nnitc upon the man from the South
who can thus set the Democracy a howling
two years in advance of the election. From
the day in which Mr. Colfax's letter was made
public, positively declining the re-nomination,
and recommending tho nomination of a man
from the South or East, Georgia Republicans
have looked to Attorney General Akerman as
the 9 right man for the position.—
The silly effort of the Democratic press,
and its secret allies, to create the impression
that this nomination was sought or ex
pected by Mr. Akerman, or that either he
or his immediate personal friends were privy
to it, ha« had no weight whatever. Neither
Mr. Akerman nor his most intimate personal
friends knew anything of such a purpose until
thoy saw it in the Eha. Those who know the
Attorney General need not bo told this, and
this statement is only repeated for the benefit of
a few persons North who might otherwise be
misled by these false insinuations of certain
Georgia journals, published in the exclusive
interests of the party of intimidation and vio
lence.
THE LATEST NEWS.
By xuu to tbc Atlanta Era.]
The proposition to cede Cuba to the United
States is favorably considered in Madrid.
The father of Livingstone, the African ex
plorer, still believed him to t)0 alive and safe.
The theatrical season in New York is unu
sually brilliant.
The National Guards arc making a deter
mined effort to preserve order in Paris.
The Universalists in tho North have made a
big thing of the centennary celebrations.
The good people of Charleston, S. C. f aro
crazy over skating rinks, oysters and reform.
The Prussians are greatly excited over the
arrest of Jacoby, the Republican. Liberal
journals in Paris denonnee the arrest.
French gunboats are hovering around our
Northern ports trying to pounce upon German
vessels os they put to sea.
Schleswig-Holstein wants to secede from
Denmark and would like a little help from
Prussia.
The Industrial Exposition at Cincinnati did
not complete its arrangements until three
days after it had been opened to vlsitom.
The Brothertou. Brothers, bankers in .San
Francisco, have been sentenced to fourteen
years* imprisonment for forgery.
Paris continues to send out mails regularly
by balloon. The Prussians fire at them with
out effect
Earl Russell has written a letter in wliieh ha
maintains the doctrine of contraband of war
laid down by Washington, that troops, armed
and organized, and ships,-armed and manned,
ought not to bo permitted to leave neutral
ports. He does not consider anus and coal
contraband of war.
Victor Emmanuel’s letter to tho Pope, an
nouncing the occupation of Rome, is condemn
ed in England as too arrogant by some, and
too dutiful by others.
The fifty mile walk for tho championship of
America came off in Boston on the 20th. The
winner was J. Adams, of New York, who made
tho trip in nine hours and fifty minutes.
The New York churches were filled to over
flowing by the fashionable last Sunday. Their
pastors had returned from their summer tour
and the pulpits resounded with the 44 clamor
ous report of war.”
The people of Paris suffer os much from
the 4 ‘roughs” as they would from the Prus
sians, Vagabonds and jail-birds have taken
possession of the streets, and burglaries aud
murders are of almost hourly occurrence.
The officers and crew of the American steam
frigate Franklin, now lying at Portsmouth,
England, made the largest donation for the
relief of the suflorers by the loss of the British
ship Captain. Tho London press is loud in
its praises of American generosity.
It turns out that tho indisposition of M’llc
Nilsson, in New York the other night, was
caused by the failure of Strakosch to make a
little deposit of $25,000 as a guaranty. He
come to time the next day, and the fair song
stress recovered at once.
General Ripley, of Confederate notoriety, is
making himself generally useful in Paris. He
has improved the fortifications, and, one place
particularly, between Forts St. Denis and
Mont Valorien, he has protected by on elabo
rate combination of mines, torpedoes, etc.
Napoleon does not fully realize what it is to
be a prisoner. He drove ont the other day
his imperial carriage and put on os much state
as if he still resided at the T cilleries. .As a
delicate hint King William sent the illustrious
prisoner two of his state carriages. Nap. has
kept within doors ever since.
The London Times tells a story about the
Empress Eugenie which, if true, speaks well
for her financial ability. In connection with
on American speculator, she is said to have
made a large fortune out of government ap
propriations.
Gen. De Wimefen spoils that melodramatic
surrender of Napoleon, by asserting that his
perial master did not court death, nor did he
t “to die at the head of his army.” He
was in too much of a hurry to lay his sword
at the feet of King William to think 'about
fighting or dying.
A fellow by the name of Kipling, who had
evidently been tippling, was arrested in New
York as tho murderer of Nathan, the other
day. It seems that Kipling is a half-crazy fel
low, with a weakness for spinning long yarns,
and he got himself into trouble by boosting
that he killed old Nqjhan.
The Canvass tn Onto.
We have encouraging reports from our Re
publican friends in Ohio. The canvass opened
early and has j^en conducted with'energy and
spirit. A member of tho State Central Com
mittee in a letter addressed to a friend in this
State, says- the. Republicans are confident of
being able to ca&y fourteen of the nineteen
Districts, and that tho Republican majority of
the popular vote two years ago, will be fully
Republican meeting in Bartow County.
Editor Era: A called meeting of the Repub
licans of Bartow county was held at Carters-
lillo on the 27th instant, and organized by
electing the Hon. W. L. Goodwin Chairman,
and J. C. Maddox Secretary.
A committee on business was appointed,
which reported as follows:
-Whereas, the time for holding an election
-fcr representatives in Congress, for members
of the General Assembly, and county officers,
fe near at hand; and
Whereas, an election bill, familiarly known
as the 4 ‘Akerman Bill,” is now pending before
Our General Assembly, and which will doubt
less become the law—the provisions of which
lfill being such as all men, who desire a peace
able and fair election,’can heartily approve;
therefore, be it
Resolved, That, following the recommenda
tions of our State Central Committee, we
now proceed to select two delegates aud two
alternates to represent tho Republicans of Bar
tow county at the Nominating Convention, to
bo held at Kingston, on the 5th day of next
October.
Resolved, That a committee of six, residing
in different districts of the county, be appoint
ed by the Chairman, which committee shall
gnate aud recommend suitable persons as
‘gates—such recommendations to lie ap-
-ved by this meeting.
Winch resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed.
The committee—Captain E. D. Puckett, W.
K. Harris, Robert Parrott, Thomas Duckett,
Aaron Collins, and Robert Cooper—reported
as follows:
We, tho committee, do recommend John C.
Maddox and Dr. H. J. Fite as delegates, and
Danfe] McGee and Robert Cooper as alter
nates, for Bartow county, to the convention to
be held as above stated,
Which report was unanimously adopted.
Resolution by Captain C. C. Blacker—That
tho editor of the Atlanta New Era bo request
ed to publish tho proceedings of this meeting.
Which was adopted, and the meeting ad
journed.
This meeting was composed of zealous Re
publicans, who evinced a wil} to enter tho com
ing campaign with that energy whiph is neces
sary to succeed.
We also noticed several of onr most promi
nent and worthy Democratic friends present.
§liort speeches were made by several Republi
cans, and the meeting passed off the most har
moniously and pleasantly of any we have ever
attended in our county—a perfectly friendly
feeling seeming to exist between the two par
ties. Many of the old bitter prejudices which
formerly existed are now passing away, and
we have cause to hope that the time is near at
hand when every citizen will be accorded that
right of a free expression of his political opin
ion, which each one desires for himself.
G..
For th® Era.]
The Republican Party in Hall County,
At meeting of the Republican Party of Hall
county, held in tho Court-house in Gaines
ville on the 23d September, for the purpose of
mganizing a Republican Club, G. W. Jolm-
Esq., was elected President, Benjamau
Duuagan Vico President and M. P. Caldwell,
Secretary. It was resolved that every trao
Republican in the county be respectfully in
vited and urged to co-operate with the State
and National Union Republican organizations
in the coming campaign, and that we pledge
ourselves to use dne diligence to disseminate
the great principles of said organizations and
secure tho election of our candidates, and
earnestly and respectfully ask conservative
voters of all parties to unite with us.
Col. Benjaman Dnnagan and Maj. M. P.
Caldwell were appointed delegates to tho Con
gressional Convention on the 12th of October,
at Gainesville, and G. W. Johnson, Esq., and
A. P. Prater, Esq., alternates.
The Club adjonmed, earnestly asking every
Republican in the county to meet at tho
Court-house in Gainesville on the 12th
October, to agree upon a candidate to repre
sent tho county in the Legislature. Wc hope
every district in tho county will bo repre
sented. M. P. Caldwell,
Secretary,
Gainesville, Ga., Sept 23, 1870.
Fortbe Eba.]
Republican Meeting In Gordon County.
Calhoun Ga., September 21, 1870.
According to previous notice the Republi
cans of Gordon county met in Calhoun tho
24th instant, and, on motion of J. A. Fite, G.
W. Bansun was elected Chairman, and John
Hill to act as Secretary.
On motion of J. A. Fite, Mr. J. E. Parrott
was unanimously elected as a delegate to at
tend the Seventh Congressional District Con
vention to be held at Kingston the 5th day of
October next
On motion of Dr. B. W. J. Gideon, it was
unanimously agreed that tho Republicans of
Gordon county postpone, for the present, the
nomination of candidates for the General As
sembly, and for county officers.
G. W. Ransun, Chairman.
John Hill, Secretary.
The Vice Presidency for 1872.
Vice President Colfax having withdrawn from
the canvass for the Republican renomination
for the Vice Presidency, and, it is supposed,
thrown the weight of ms influence in favor of
Attorney Genl Akerman of Georgia for the posi
tion, the Georgia papers give their sentiments
thereupon in their own peculiar language.
We give an extract upon the subject from a
Georgia paper, rather mimical, we imagine, to
the proposed nomination. Akerman is proba
bly President Grant’s choice for Colfax’s va
cancy. He rather likes Akerman, and the
“nearest of kin is nearest the throne.” Per
haps the Democracy may have something to
say on the subject.—New York Herald, 24/A
It is quite needless to say that the “extract
rather inimical,” which the Herald gives “from
a Georgia paper,” is from one of the Opposi
tion sheets of this State. That class of jour
nals do not like Mr. Akerman's politics.
Tite Canvass in Alabama.
The prospects now are that the Republicans
will carry Alabama at the ensuing election on
the 8th of November next, by greatly increased
majorities. The Democracy of that State are
divided among themselves; and it is said that
tho dissatisfaction is so great that several
prominent and influential leaders of that party
will be absent during the remainder of the
canvass. The Republicans ore well organized,
aud this is the secret of their triumph.
Senators who voted for Akerman’s election
swindle ought to be lashod out of civilized
society.—Democratic paper.
Such is tho opinion of men who prate hypo
critically about 44 free opinion” and ‘ fair elec
tions.” The truth is, give the people of Geor
gia the right to think and feel and .speak and
vote, each elector for himself, and this thing
calling itself Democracy” will be at an end.
Tho cholera in Havana is. carry ing off vic
tims at tho rate of aboat ono hundred per
day.
The State Road.
Rome, Ga., Sept 26, 1870.
Editors Rome Daily—Gentlemen: It may not
be amiss to give to the readers of your Daily,
some figures and explanations pertaining to
tho condition ar d management of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad, the State’s property:
I am aware of the fact, that there are many
readers of your paper, os well as others, whose
conclusions have been misled, os to what has
been done, and to what is being done, with
the net earnings of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad.
I have observed, closely, the management
and tho policy adopted by Col. Blodgett, the
Superintendent of this Road, from the date of
his authority to take possession of it
Col. Blodgett entered upon his duties as Su
perintendent of the Western and Atiantio
Railroad on January 1st last- He found the
road in a dangerous condition; he found the
rolling stock insufficient; he found the mo
tive power wholly inadequate to perform the
service required; and he fonnd the road al
most totally destitute of wood from one end
to tho other. These are facts nncontroverta-
ble. What then was best to bo done ? Was
it to hazard the lives of tho traveling public,
and to wilfully neglect the moving of freights,
both North bound and Southbound, placed at
the head and terminus of the road, in his
charge for transportation, simply to pay money
into the State treasury, losing sight of respon
sibilities far more important to the.people
ha n money ? Would it have been best for the
people that he should have recklessly attempt
cd to have forced the policy of his predeces
sors, and at a time too, when he fonnd the
road at its most critical point, to-wit: To have
began the patching up business: that by means
of such a course he would have been able to
have paid into the State Treasury larger sums
of money than his predecessors, thereby en
dangering life and utterly failing to have trans
ported the meat and bread, horses and males,
and other indispensables, designed for the
people of Middle and Southwestern portions
of the State, as well as otbor sections no less
dependent.
Now, should such a course have been adopt
ed by Col.-Blodgett? It is for the people to
say whether or not such a course should not
have been crowned with condemnation?
But what lias been the policy of Colonel
Blodgett? Wc will see. He has put the road
in better condition than it has been since 1865.
He has rebuilt the old locomotives, and many
of them are now almost good as new. He
has added five new locomotives to the orig
inal number, at a cost of sixty-five thousand
dollars. He has purchased over ono hundred
now box and coal cats, at a cost of seventy-five
thousand dolla. j, besides having built nearly
tho same numbe r at the State shops in Atlanta.
He has bought cue handled and fifty thousand
dollars’ worth of iron and ties, and over eigh
teen miles of the same has been laid down, and
still he works. So, in proportion, other work
for the good of the road progresses. Thus,
you see, the net earnings havo gone in a direc
tion that, in my opinion, tho people will en
dorse.
Yon will observe that if Colonel Blodgett
had paid into tho treasury of the State tho two
hundred and ninety thousand dollars paid for
engines, iron and cars, together with the forty-
five thousand dollars, already paid in for the
months of January and FebruaryJLast, thejsuxn
total would have been to this date no less than
three hundred and thirty-five thousand dol
lars.
Now, Messrs. Editors, should the people
sustain this policy, and Colonel Blodgett can
be permitted to go on in this good work, be
fore another twelve months shall have passed,
the Western and Atlantic Railroad (thk mas
ter of railroads in Georgia—-that holds in check
her connections, both at her head and her ter
minus), will not be surpassed in her elegant
coaches, in her supurb freight cars, in her mas
terly locomotives, and iu every other require
ment necessary for safety, comfort, speed and
profit by any road in America.
Observer.
desk is filled with numerous inquiries from
various Department officers in reference to the
appropriation claims, Ao., all of which will be
answered daring the week so as to promote
the executive business.
Mr. Akerman is confident that the political
troubles in Georgia are at an end. He says
the election laws passed by the Georgia Sen
ate will doubtless pass the House of Delegates,
and that an election will be held in the early
part of December. This time is selected be
cause it is considered best for both white and
colored, and because the cotton season will be
over and tho workmen throughout the State,
will have a chance to vo's. He indorses the
election bill, and says that Governor Bullock
and his State officials also indorse it, and de
clare that this will assist in having a fair ar d
honorable election. He says that the only
men who are disappointed, are the members
of the Legislature who desired to hold over
for two years longer, without the chances of a
popular vote, while against these are the thou
sands at home who desire the election. He
fonnd the colored men throughout tho State
exceedingly anxious for an election, and he
feels confident that the State will be carried
by tho Republican party.
Fashion Items.
Metal buttons are considered very stylish
and pretty when used on c’ark merii 3 dresses.
Yellow and red are 1’ie two prettiest contrast
ing colors for an ev^ 'iig dress for a brunette:
A skirt of sackcloth trimmed with ashes
(of roses) is said to be the thing for visits of
condolence.
The new styles of silks just imported are
shaded in rich contrasting colors, and are very
beautiful.
The prettiest boots for ladies have very
pointed toes, and arc laced at the side in
stead of buttoned.
Jet trimming has come in fashion again,
and is used for trimming bonnets, cloaks and
dresses.
New York Houses show high hats of felt
and velvet, but they are essentially vulgar,
and cannot be jierpetnated.
Tbc most fashionable for next winter will
be chinchilla. Ermine has gone entirely out
of fashion, aud is now only used for opera
cloaks.
Young ladies wear very pretty and coquet-
ish little bows of gay colored ribbon or
agrettes in tlia hair, which aro becoming very
stylish.
Large gold daggers, with jeweled hilts, have
come in fashion again for tho hair, and are
used to pin the heavy chatelinc braids to
gether.
Many ladies who do not liko to have
their ears pierced wear a small gold wire bc-
liind tho car, which clasps it in front, and
holds the ear-ring.
The Trianon hat is lowered over the fore
head, in the shape of a vizor, and turned up
flat against the crown at the back, having the
appearance of a sugar scoop.
The fabric that is creating the greatest sen.
sation is the Turkish brilliontine. It is made
of pure wool of the Turkish goat; is heavier
than mohair, and h;is a lustre equal to that of
satin. Long ostrich feathers are employed on
expensive hats, and are arranged to drop low
over the chignon. Iu addition to these, and
pompons and aigrettes, wc have exquisite spec
imens of flowers and fruit. The most striking
novelties are the velvet pineapple, with a tnft
of leaves at the top and a few leaves on its
short stem; Malaga grapes with beautifully
tinted leaves, and velvet chestnuts with their
prickly shells half open.
The Cost of a Flirtation.
Some years after the Divorce Couit became
a British institution, Lord Chief Justice
Campbell remarked, when summing up a case,
that in future, at all events, no one could urge
that divorce was a luxury ouly for the rich (by
reason of its expense,) for here was a suit in
which the petitioner was a costermonger, and
the respondent the conductor of an omnibns.
It would seem, too, from a recent trial, that *
breach of promise cases a remedy is equally
open to the injured, whether she bo a countess
or a cook. A demoiselle employed in the latter
vocation claimed £200 from a gentleman’s
coachman, and the lady’s counsel stated
that he had in his hand 200 letters—his
client apparently estimating her damages at a
sovereign a letter from the perfidious wretch.
At the mention of this awful collection of Je-
huian amorousness, and the prospect of hav
ing to listen to its perusal with the thermome-
tor among the eighties, tho Judge grew pale,
and even the stout British jury quivered; but
the matter brightened when the learned coun
sel made the startling announcement that the
style was “prosy,” and he didn’t intend to read
it all. The generosity of the plaintiff’s conn-
sel in this respect seems to have produced a
corresponding emotion on tho part of the
jury, for the unhappy groom, for declining to
be a bridegroom, was mulcted of £80—more
than a year’s wages. Trifling with tho affec
tions of tho British female is clearly an ex
pensive pastime. We commend the conduct
of the jury to tho approbation of the Sorosis.
New York World.
GEORGIA.
Tlic Election Bill.
The Washington correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Commercial, in a dispatch dated 25th
September inst, says:
Attorney General Akerman was at his office
yesterday, after six weeks absence in Georgia.
On his way to this city he was attacked with
bilions fever, and lay quite ill at Angusta r
Georgia, for a week. He is now convalescent.
Mr. Akerman resumed the duties of his offico
yesterday, which relieved Judge Richardson as
Acting Attorney General. It is his intention
to progress ns rapidly as possiblo with tho nu
merous cases before h n for tl 3 Supremo
Court, and havo till' n ready for an immediate
trial on tho reassembling of tho Court Hfc*
THE ERECTION BILL,
As prepared by Attorney General Akerman
and unanimously approved by tbc State
Central Committee.
" Section !. The General Assemble of Geor
gia hereby enacts, That on election shall be
held, beginning on tho 20th day of December,
1870, aud ending on the 22d of December,
1870, for members of Congress to serve during
the unexpired term of the 41st Congress of
the United States, and for members of the 42d
Congress; for Senators in the State Senate for
each district numbered in the Constitution
with an odd number; for members of the
H«use of Representatives of the General As
sembly; for Sheriffs, Clerks of tho Superior
Court Tax Collectors, Tax Rec ivers, County
Treasurers, Coroners, and County Surveyors,
of the several counties of this State.
Sec. 2. That the said election shall com
mence on the said 20th day of December, and
continue between the hours now fixed by law
for three separate days.
Sec. 3. That said election shall be managed
and superintended at tho Court-houses at the
county seat, and at any election precinct that
may exist or to be established in any incor
porate and organized city or town by man
agers chosen as follows:
Sec. 4. It shall bo the duty of the Governor
of the State, by and with the advice and con
sent of the Senate, os soon after the passage
of this act as possible, to appoint five fit and
projicr persons of intelligence and moral
worth for each election precinct established at
the county Court-house, or in any city or incor
porate town in this State; and said five per
sons, or^ any three or more of them, may and
shall hold the election at said Court-house and
precincts in said city or town.
Sec. 5. It shall be tho duty of the Gov
ernor to cause the said appointees to be duly
notified of their several appointments os afore
said; and it shall be the duty of said appoin
tees to appear at the said court house and at
said precincts in said city or town, on the day
fixed by this act, for the said election, within
the hours prescribed by law, and hold said
election.
Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the Governor
to furnish each of tho Judges of the Superior
Court with a list of said appointees in the sev
eral counties of their respective circuits, and
at the next term of said court in each county,
after tho said election, it shall be the duty of
the Judge to inform hmself if said appointees
have appeared as required by this act and held
the said election, and if any such appointees
have failed to appear, and the absence of his
signature to the returns required by law to be
made to the Clerk of sold Court, shall be prime
facie evidence of such failure, it shall be the
duty cf the said Judge forthwith to find such
appointee one hundred dollars; provided, that
said fine may be remitted on said appomtees
satisfying said Judge that his failure so to at
tend was caused by severe sickness - or other
unavoidable causes, or that ho was legally dis
qualified from serving.
And provided further, That said appointees
shall each of them bo citizens of the county
for which they are appointed and voters of the
same.
Sec. 7. In addition to tho duties now pre
scribed by law for the managers of elections,
it shall be the duty of said managers to pre
serve order at and near tho polls, but they
shall have no power to refuse ballots of any
male person of apparent full age, a resident
of the county, who has not previously voted
at tho said election.
Sec. 8. They shall not permit any person to
challenge any vote, or hinder, or delay, or
interfere with any other person in the free and
speedy casting of his ballot
Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of said managers
to prevent rioting, disturbances, and rioting at
or near tho polls, and to secure the end it shall
be their duty to present more than one person
and he, only while voting, approaching or re
maining within fifteen feet of the place of re
ceiving ballots, and said manager may, if they
see fit, require the persons desiring to vote to
form themselves into a line, and when a line is
thus formed said managers shall present any
persons not in the line from approaching the
polling place nearer than fifty feet, but in no
cose shall more than one vote at any time be
permitted to approach the polls nearer than
Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of tho Sheriff,
Deputy Sheriff, Town Marshal, Bailiffs and
Police officers, the whole to be under the or
ders of the Sheriff or his Deputy, to attend at
one or other of said places of voting during
the election, and obey all lawful orders of saic.
managers, or either of them, and to act os
conservators of the peace, and for tho protec
tion of the voters against violence, intimidation
and all unlawful attempts to influence voters
or to interfere with the perfect freedom of
each voter to cast his ballot according to his
own wishes.
See. 11. The said managers, or any two of
them, shall have power, by patrol, to order
the. arrest and confinement during the day of
any person disturbing the peace at or near the
polls, or disobeying any reasonable order for
the enforcement of these provisions for the
preservation of order and the protection of
voters; and tho Sheriff and his deputy shall
also have power, without warrant, to arrest, or
order the arrest of any person for the causes
aforesaid.
Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of said mana
gers to receive each ballot and deposit the
same in a ballot-box, and it shall not be law
ful for either of them, or for any clerk, to
open any closed ballot until the polls are
closed and the counting of the votes is com
menced.
Sec. 13. It shall be the duty of said
agers to prevent any person, except themselves
and the three clerks, by them to be appointed
and sworn, to remain in the room when the
ballots are received, so near the ballot-box or
polling place as to examine the tickets, or to
handle any ticket, and they shall have the
some power to enforce this os other duties
herein cast upon them.
Sec. 14. The said managers may select three
competent persons to act as clerks in keeping
the list of voters and tally sheets, but said
clerks shall not be permitted to handle any
ballot or examine th* same.
Sec. 15. One of said managers shall receive
the ballot from the voters, and hand them to
a second, who shall deposit tho same in a box,
and at no time shall any vote be received un
less there be at least three of said managers
present
Sec. 16. Said managers, clerks and officers,
except police officers actually on duty, shall
receive from the County Treasurer throe dol
lars for each day’s doty at said election.
Sec. 17. It shall be in the power of said
onagers, or any three of them, to fine any
Speriff, Deputy Sheriff, Marshal, or Police
leers not more than one hundred dollars, as
for contempt, if he fails to obey any lawful or
der of said managers, or either of them, for
the enforcement of the laws, for keeping the
peace, or preserving order, and for tho protec
tion of the freedom of (flections on tho day of
election. , . *
Sec. 18. Said managers shall each of them
take the following oath:
Idoswear that I will faitlifoliy, fnlty and
impartially hold the present election; I will
prevent no person from voting who is of appa
rent age, a resident of the county, and who
has not previously voted at this election; I will
not open any dosed ticket antil the polls have
been dosed, nor ^rtil l-divulge for whom any
person has voted, unless called upon to do so
by some legal tribunal.
I will permit no one to challenge, delay, or
hinder any voter from the free and speedy
casting of his ballot.
I will in good faith, to tho best of my ability,
endeavor to carry into effect the provisions of
this act, and the other laws for holding elec
tions.
I will make. a fair, correct, honest aud im
partial return of the result of the election.
So help me God.
(Any manager may administer this oath to
the others.)
Sec. 19. Nothing in this act prohibiting
challenges at the polls shall bo construed to
authorize any oue to vote who is not, by *hc
Constitution, a qualified voter in the county of
the election ; but all persons not duly qualified
to vote are, and shall continue to be, subject
to all the pains aud penalties fixed by law in
case they vote illegally.
Sec. 20. Each of the said clerks shall bo
sworn fairly, impartially and truthfully, to keep
the list of voters, and fairly and honostly to
keep tho tally-sheets at said election.
Sec. 21. It shall bo the duty of the ordinaries
of the several counties of this .jiato to furnish
stationery for the purposes of said election;
also, to have ready, and furnish for each of
the sets of managers provided for by this act,
a ballot-box sufficiently large to bold, the bal
lots likely to be cast at said polling place—
said ballot-box to be made so that it cannot be
opened without serious damage to tho box, on
all sides except one, and on that side to havo a
movable lid, with an opening there sufficiently
large to admit the pushing in of the ballots
one by one—said lid to be so constructed as
that it may slide' into grooves in tho
box, und liave a lock thereon; and it
shall be tho duty of the managers to open
and examine said box at tho opening of
said polls, and then to lock the same aud
at tho close of the polls on each day it
shall be the duty of each manager to put upon
said lid a strip of paper with his name thereon,
aud affix the same by adhesion to the box, so
that the box cannot be opened without the
rupture of said paper, and this being done,
the box for the night shall be entrusted to the
keepiug of ono of the managers, and another
of the managers shall take the key; and
it shall be the duty of any such managers en
trusted with said box or key to permit no one
to tamper in any way with tho same, aud if
such tampering be done, the managers en
trusted with the same shall be prima facie
guilty of haring done the same, and on con
viction, shall be punishod as provided in 4608
section of the Revised Code for the punish
ment of misdemeanors.
Sec. 22. An election manager or clerk, or
other officers on duty in the holding of any
election, who shall be guilty of any frandulent
practice in changing any ballot, or in using
any trick or device by which any false retnrn
is made, or any ballot-box tampered with, or
who shall, in any way, be guilty of any false
or frandulent practice or act by which any
vote actually cast is not fairly coanted and re
turned, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction snail bo punished as provided
in section 4608 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 23. Repeals conflicting laws.
Newspapers.
Those who would become sculptors or paint
ers know the necessity of a sojourn in Rome,
where they can study the finest works of art,
and avail themselves of the best facilities for
improvement. This is sometimes rendered
impossible, and is frequently delayed by very
slender resources; for richly-gifted with cre
ative beauty os they are, youth is often to them
a struggle with poverty. This quiet, persist
ent effort, this absolute faith in ultimate suc
re beautiful features in the lives of
these children of art.
Thus little Benjamin West made a hair pen
cil from tho for of a cat, obtained indigo from
his mother, red aud yellow from a party of
wandering Cherokee Indians, who also gave
him instruction in coloring. Thus he per
severed until, as a portrait painter, he attracted
the attention of two merchants—Kelly of New
York and Allen of Philadelphia—who, by gen
erous aid, enabled him to visit Rome.
So Claude Lorraine, whether successively
an apprentice to a pastry-cook, a valet, a cook,
and mixer of colors, and a slow, laborious
student “of tho art of painting 1 , i.. some au
thorities assert; or, according to ethers, an
orphan, alone and on foot, seeking the protec
tion of his brother, remaining a few months
with him, where he learned something of
carving cx engraving in wood; and then,
through fortuitous circumstances,in Rome with
no friend and little money, revealed resolution
and perseverance worthy of his great achieve
ments.
While few writers find the road to fame, or
oven competence, a smooth, level one, poverty
is not so great an obstacle to them. Indeod
now, when newspapers are in almost every
house, and when at public schools all children
can acquire some degree of education, thoso
who are bom with a talent for writing aro nn-
consciously trained for their work. How strong®
tho childhood and early youth of these must
\> e to them! Each one must feel that he is
somewhat different from other children, that
he does not think in tho same way or about
the same things that Bhey do, that their enjoy
ments are not his, that he does not wish to do
when he will have become a man what ho
hears them plan. As he ponders on this dis
similarity, it tronbles him. Is it a defect?
He gradually abandons tho effort to bo like
them, and turns to reading. Possibly he has
neither book nor nowspaper, but a neighbor
takes a paper, and he can borrow that. Though
at first he understands little that he reads, his
comprehension gradually enlarges. Month
after month, year after year, his fond of gene
ral information is increasing; and without
knowing definitely what rhetoric is, he is gain
ing a practical knowledge of the differences
between concise and diffuse writing, nervous
and feeble style; is forming bis own standard,
which in future time he can never rest until he
reaches.
When wc read an interesting book, when
wo hear a fine speaker, few of as thiuk how
ranch of the instruction has been derived from
the daily papers, how largely their editors
havo contributed to the formation of style by
patient perusal of manuscript and high stand
ard of publication. It may be that none of
us realize how much the moral tono of a peo
ple is influenced in the samo way.
Some Fcatum of a Jewish Sabbath.
Let us accompany a good orthodox Jewish
family through their calm and cheerful Sab
bath, and see how thoy keep it and enjoy
it. I select an orthodox family, instead
of a “Reformed.’/ merely because tho ortho
dox Jew is an historical person; os ho keeps
his Sabbath, his fathers have kept it for many
centuries. The Jewish Sabbath begins on
Friday evening, half an hour before sunset,
and ends on Saturday evening, half an hour
after sunset, or when a star is visible in the sky.
On Friday, the day of preparation, tho women
and girls of the family are busy providing for
the morrow the best food of tho week; for what
ever is eaten or drunk during the joyous sacred
hours must be the very best tho family can
afford. Poor Jews will pinch all tho week In
order that their wives aud children may have
something delicious to eat on tho Sabl>ath.—
But that savory food most be cooked or pre
pared for cooking before the Sabbath begins:
for our Israelitish brethren observe with just
strictness the law which gives rest on the Day
of Rest to their servants. They shame ns in
this particular. They will not use even their
horses on their Sabbath. On a Sunday, about
twelve M., you may see iu front of Dr. Adams’
fashionable Presbyterian Church in Madison
Square, New York, or around Dr. Tyng’s fash
ionable Episcopal Church, in St George’s
Square of tho same city, from twenty to forty
well-appointed ’equipages waiting for tho last
hymn to be finished; but you will never see a
vehicle before the superb Temple Immanuel, a
Jewish synagogue in the Fifth avenue, al
though there aro many families within who
could ride homo if they would, in their own
carriages. I do not say that the Christians
are wrong or the Jews right in this. It is no
one’s business bnt their own. But if we bor
row the Hebrew’s word “Sabbath” and adopt,
verbally, their Sabbatical law, our practice per
haps onght to conform in some degreo to our
profession. It probably does not severely
tax those coachmen and footmen to show off
their gay turnouts and brilliant liveries on a
fine Sunday morning in the Fifth avenue. But
for the heavily-laden drudges of the boarding
house kitchen, and the maid-of-all-work in
average families, I could wish we were all
Jews from Saturday night till Monday morn
ing. It is a dastardly shame to compel or per
mit women, who have faithfully toiled for us
from Monday’s tub to Saturday’s scrub, to
work hard oil through tile best 1 >ars of Sun
day, merely that we may gorge ourselves with
dainty food. The Jews avoid this barbarous
as. Their servants rest on their Sab
bath.—James Parlon in the Atlantic Monthly
for Ot y.:,\
