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•ATLANTA, GEORBU,: s NOVEMBER 0
(MJR TICKET FOR 1872,
Subject to the action of the EepnbUcan National
Convention.)
FOR PRESIDENT,
r .-ULYSSES S. GRANT.
a FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
' AMOS T. AKERMAN.
Reiinbliean Congressional Nominations.
FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
roa TOHTT-TOMT COKG&ESS,
RICHARD W. WHITE, of Chatham.
KOR FORTY-SECOND OONORESS,
VIRGIL im.LYER, or Camden.
SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT,
roa fOBTY-mar and forty-second congress,
RICHARD II. WUITELfW, or Dccatnr.
THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT,
TOM K0RTT-FTR3T CONGRESS,
MARION BETHUNE, or Talbot.
’^0 tom romr-sEooND congress,
JOHN S. BIGBY, or Coweta.
FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
FOB FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS,
JEFFERSON P. LONG, or Bibb.
YOB FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS,
. THOMAS J. srEER, or Pike.
SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
FOB FORTY-FIRST AND FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS,
GEORGE P. BURNETT, or Floyd.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE!
FIGURES DO NOT LIE!
WHERE IS THE EXTRAVAGANCET
Who Squandered the People** Money!
READ! READ! READ!
When Governor Jenkins was inaugurated
the total debt of this State was only 82,356,-
G35—when be was removed from office, hav
ing been in only a fuw months more than two
yean, the debtor the Slate was $6,256,635
—showing on increase in the pnblio debt of
nearly FOUR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
Under the present State Government, the
pnblio debt bos not increased a single dollar,
v (withstanding tha-oitraordinaiy legislative
expenses forced upon the (State tvj-^^aw
Democratic rebellion of September, 1868, and
under which the colored members were forced
The expenses of Gov. Jenkins' administra
tion from October 16th, 1866, to October 16th,
1867, wbs 82,700,950,58 less $11,686,73
cash in Treasury at last named date, making
the total expenses for tho yoar @2,689,363,-
85.
The expenses for Gov. Bollock's adminis
tration from October 1st, 1868, to October 1st,
1869, were $1,444,895 00 less $116,695 00
cash in Treasury at last named date, making
the total expenses lor the year $1,328,-
800 OO being ONE MILLION THREE
HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE THOUSAND
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE DOL-
LARS leas than the expenses of the eoonon-
Icnl "Democracy" under Governor Jenkins for
the same length of time.
THE PUBLIC DEBT HAS NOT BEEN
INCREASED ONE DOLLAR UNDER GOV
ERNOR BULLOCK'S ADMINISTRATION.
Gov. Bullock at Marietta.
We bear Governor Bullock's Marietta speech
commented upon in the most flattering terms.
A prominent Democrat who heard it, pronounc
ed it “one of the most sensible talks he ever lis
tened to.” The Governor, Ceing on ex-Rail*
road President, and thoroughly familiar with
the subject of Internal Improvements o
Georgia, never foils to interest his audience
on the subject of Railroad enterprises. His
Marietta speech (which we published in the
Eba of Friday) is being very generally copied
and favorably commented upon by the press.
“Trfwon Mast be Mstlc Odious.**
The people of the United Stntt-s are indebted
to on© Andrew Johnson, the present great
Mognl of the Southern Democracy, for this
euphonious sentence. It was Mr. Johnson,
as Military Governor of Tennessee, who as
sayed to make “odious” an act which he ad
vocated in 18G0. It was reserved for this
Southern renegade to advocate tho hanging of
men in 1864, for committing an act which, in
1860, ho defended as “constitutional” and ap“
planded as “patriotic.” It was the province of
Andrew Johnson to refuse to entertain a peti
tion for ihc pardon of a Southern woman
charged with complicity in tho crime of as
sassination, in I860; and 'then, two years
later, to become the champion of the very
party in whose interests tho assassination
was perpetrated. It was reserved for this
same Andrew Johnson to threaten a violation
of parole between honorable soldiers, and to
seek to bring General Lee before a tribunal
“organized to convict" him of Treason, thus
imposing tho necessity upon Gen. Grant of
issuing an order announcing that the terms of
Gen. Lee's parole should be enforced os
against Executive usurpations.
It gives ns no pleasure to refer to this dis
gusting episode in bur national annals. It is
a subject which tinges with very shame the
cheeks of honest Southern men who thus be
hold the depravity and duplicity of one of
their former leaders. And yet, it is well that
the ekiM of journals in Georgia which habitu
ally abuso Grant and deify Johnson, should
be reminded of these unpleasant pecadillos of
their political Gamaliel. It is all the more
appropriate, in view of the fact that these
journals now seek to make a littl* political
capital out of the death of the lamented Lee,
and the refusal of the Congress of the United
States, to pass without amendments, the Gen
eral Amnesty Bill. Hence, when a Demo
cratic paper (like the Savannah News, for in
stance,) attempts a play upon the words which
head this paragraph, it is fair to presume that
the editor is either himself ignorant of their
origin, or else, knowing their source, exhibits
a contemptuous opinion of the intelligence of
his readers. In either case, it is proper that
the People be reminded of the origin of these
catch-words, and that the responsibility for
their use bo placed where it properly belongs—
that is, with the present leader of the South
ern Democracy.
The Reign of Bullylsm.
Tho late riot at Albany, originating in drunk
enness and resulting in the violent death of a
number of persons, is n terrible commentary
on that species of hnllyiam and swaggering
"manhood" which has long ran riot in cer
tain sections of this State. Such scenes
are always in inverse proportion to the
standard of intelligence, industry and moral
worth recognized by any community. They
will l>e repeated jnst so long as drunkenness is
respectable, and so long as the exercise of
shooting men down npon the slightest provo
cation, is deemed a chivalrous exhibition of
"manhood.” Tho time has arrived in the his
tory of this State, when bnllyism should bo
subordinated to law, and consequently, when
a little judicious hanging would have a salu
tary effect npon tho conduct of "gentlemen"
who deem man-slaughter and murder a genteel
accomplishment. A drunken beast bellowing
through the highways unarmed, is one of those
public nuisances that shonld be seldom wit
nessed in an educated and well regulated com
munity; but when a man thus becomes ool
taiaruMs demon', it is simply an act of mnrder
to permit him to carry deadly weapons where
with to outrage the laws of Society and avenge
his imaginary wrongs in the act «f wholesale
mnrder.
Yl'liat la the lint 1
We havo been honestly endeavoring to in
duce the Macon Telegraph—one of the ablest
and most influential Democratic papers in
this State—to define the real issue made by Us
party in the present canvass, bat thus for
without mooses. If the Telegraph would
either renounce "the platform of the Democ
racy of the Union” as a whole, or tell ns pre
cisely how much of the platform of 1868 it
means to odheito to, then we wonld be enabled
to arrive at a clear understanding of the is
sues involved. But that paper seems disin
clined to do either. True, it intimates that
the party cannot quite undertake to cany
either the Blair manifesto of 1868, or the
Stephens letter of 1870; end yet oar Macon
friend would foin be recognized as on expo
nent cf the high pressure Democracy.
Now if it repudiates tho National Demo
cratic platform of 1868, and likewise the Steph
ens letter of this year—which are practically
one and the same thing—it is quite clear that
it abandons the whole issue between the Dem
ocratic and Republican parties. This propo
sition is so seif evident, that we will not insult
the intelligence of our Maoon contemporary
with specifications or illustrations. The con
stitutional amendments, tho laws of Congress
known M (ho roooWrnotion uU, tl>.
State Constitution and the laws of the State
enacted in accordance therewith, all these ore
either verities, “fixed foots," legal, and there
fore binding npon the individual citizen as
much as any other parts of the Federal Con
stitution, and other laws of the National and
State Governments, or else they ore, as Frank
Blair said, and as Mr. Stephens intimates, mere
■nullities." Now to which side shall we
-sign our Macon friend ? If to the former,
then it is our pleasure to announce that there
itnoismu between ms. If to tho latter, then
the issue is simply that of 1868.
"Only this and nothing more."
Mr. BlodgcU'l Speech.
The speed! of Senator Blodgett, delivered
in Augusta, on Thursday last, is one of those
practical common sense talks which respond
to the sentiments and feelings of the mas
and which Mr. Blodgett knows so well when
and how to make. Himself a man of tho peo
ple, he addresses the masses in the most sim
ple, and, for that reason, telling manner. He
seems to aim at nothing gorgeous or grandilo
quent. either in language or style, but dis
cusses the issues of the day in a manner at
ones the most simple and powerful. It is one
of those kind of speeches which men are likely
to remember, and which will be felt at the
day of tho election. The points are well
made, and his castigation of a clique of dis-
organizera who sought to betray the party into
the bands of the enemy, is chaste and digni
fied, and, for that reason, all the more severe
and telling. His appeal to the Old Line
Whigs is particularly opportune, and we appre
hend that those who voted for Bell and Everett
in 1860, will find some difficulty in rendering
an intelligent reason for supporting the dog
ma of Disintegration at this late day. We
learn that the speech was well received, and
that it created considerable comment in Mr.
Blodgett's native city.
Theology anil Politic*.
One of the tiro Methodist clergymen, who
■ was a candidate for Congress from the First
Tennessee District, has withdrawn in iavor of
the other. His name is Gillenwatera. He
wbs a “eirenit rider” in 1858, and n Judge of
the Circuit or Superior Court in 1866. He
withdraws in favor of tho Rev. (and Hon.)
Nathaniel G. Taylor, who was a member of
Congress in 1&52, and a Fillmore and Don-
bMk»u State Elector in 1856. He is a man of
great talents, a Eepnblican, acd will contest
the race with R. R Butler.
A Rich Poem—"The Haunted Stars."
Several days ago we gave onr readers a la-
dioroas extract from o pretentious poem, un
der the above caption,published in the Sparta
Times and Planter. The entire concern was
so ridiculous that we were compelled to make
fan of it, and it affords us pleasure to see th«t
the Times and Planter lias candor enough to
agree with ns. That paper compares the Eba
to Jeffreys and Gifford, and pays a high com
pliment to onr taste in criticism.
We supposed that tho Times and Planter
wonld discontinue the publication of the poem
in question, as its "ridieolosity” sms apparent
to every one, but, to our niter astonishment,
wo find a second installment in the last num
ber of that paper. A careful review confirms
our former opinion. The poem goes on* to
describo a “skinny" old negro woman, named
Notvb, and accuses her master, Mika Orlan,
of being a miseegenatiouist, because
For eighteen years they lirod alone.
The Joyless man and aged crons.'.
This is pretty strong, but we can stand it,
if Miss “Elzey Hay" can. It occurs to us,
however, that "Etzoy'- goes it a little.too
heavy when she / aecnses Nerva of having a
“fair child” by Mike Orlau. And “her coro
net of amber hair" is, perhaps, a little too far
fetched—wlicn wo consider the color of her
mother. But a delicate consideration for tho
feelings of our readers forbids farther quota
tions. We appreciate the compliment paid to
onr critical taste by the Times and Planter,
but we cannot, on that account, speak in com
plimentary terms of its doggerel,' U matters
not whether it is written by "Elzey Hay” or
by Tom, Dick, and Harry. Patience us
when we meet with 1 ‘sepulchral sounds,”
“shuddering horrors," “secret mischiefs,” and
"dark abodes.” We give it np! That poem
will take the prize. Tho moral, tho diction,
and everything else settle tho matter.
In the Dark.
A little Democratic paper in one of the
Southwestern counties in this State,and which
knows even less of State politic* than it does
of the English language, makes “apomt" on
“tho nine dollars per diem of the Radical
Legislature.” Does not Che blockhead know
that Andy Johnson's Legislature of 1865 fixed
the pay of its members at nino dollars, and
that tho Constitutional Convention of 1867
simply adopted the per dim of the (Demo
cratic) Legislators that preceded it? f AM
; know further, that itw.is the same
body which expelled the colored members in
1868, that voted its members “nine dollars jier
day and mileage each way?" aO
The Peace Pro.pcct.
On the Fifteenth day of the present month,
tho people of France hold their elections for
the Constituent Assembly. The armistice,
however, will extend until about the first of
December, so that the new Assembly may be
chosen, organized and charged with the bosi-
i of legislation, some fifteen days before
the close of the armistice. This fact looks
favorable to the close of the unequal conflict
It is a war which all enlightened nations depre
cate, both as causeless in its inception and as
one sided in its results. A farther prosecution
of the conflict by France, is simply miutnrsa.
It would be murder in the first degree, and
impose a fearful responsibility on those
thoughtless men into whose hands the Pro
visional Government of France has fallen. A
peace involving no sacrifice of national honor,
though by no means omitting a large modi
cum of national humiliation, might now be
effected in the handa of a wise and skillful
diplomacy. And Germany certainly has noth
ing more to gain by the farther prosecution of
a war which has already accomplished all (and
more) than her original purpose in taking np
the sword. There is every reason, therefore,
to hope that this armistice is the practical
ending of a war at ones the shame of France
and the disgrace of modem civilization.
‘•Sam Uioivnlow's Ghost.*'
Editor Bn: In your Daily of November 1st,
I see an extract from the Boston -‘Banner of
Light,” purporting to be a communication
from the Spirit Land, made by the disembod
ied 'film Brownlow," whose ghostship, when
in the flesh, had boen a chattel of the venera
ble Senator from Tennessee, Rev. Wm. G.
Brownlow.
The “Banner of Light” has been hum
bugged by some spirit of darkness rather
of light Senator Brownlow never owned a
slave in his life, and was never anybody's
“master" in the sense of tho word as employed
by this spurious spirit To those familiar with
Senator Brownlow’s career, it ia well known
that he was always opposed to slavery, and
never owned a slave, notwithstanding bis con
troversy with Dr. Pryne in 1858, and his Cu
ban Annexation policy of that and a former
period. He was Proslavery for the sake of
argument only. In his first published book
(which appeared in 1834) Senator Brownlow
aid “I am not. slave-holds, r and I pray God
I never may be be.” (See Brownlow's Expo
sition and narrative, p. HO.) And he never
was a slave-holder, notwithstanding his de
fense of slavery for the sake of controversy
with Dr. Pryne. Wilhelm.
The New Scheme.
The proposition to refer the settlement of the
Alabama Claims to the individual claimants
and the British Government, and thus to take
the matter at least temporarially ont of diplo
matic circles, meets with faint approval even
at the hands of the anti-Adminlstration fac
tion. The absurdity of this proposition is
shown np in a long letter from a distinguished
American jurist, addressed to the Secretary of
State, which we publish this morning.
EAST TE.VSESSF.E SEWS.
Little Frank Shropshire injured by a fall.
Criminal court adjourned. During the a
sion fifteen persons wen convicted.
A new trial has been granted Julia Hoffman,
found gnitty of infanticide.
Preparatory work on the Custom House has
commenced.
Concert for the benefit of the Lutheran
Church next Thursday.
A grand Conservative mass meeting
called for last night
Man met curb-stone and hurt himself.
Pickpockets about the depot
Subscription getting up for the benefit of
the French wounded.
CHATTANOOGA.
Fred. Simpson, colored, was accidentally
killed at Tunnel Hill the other day.
CoL Thos. F. Dudley is dead.
Store of J. Knnz burglariously entered.
J. Muller knocked Squire Browning down
with a hammer the other day.
City Marshal Kroft has been suspended.
Quack cry.
There are three papcis published in a re
spectable village in Northern Georgia, each
claiming “tho largest city, county and State,
circulation.” Of course each “defies refuta
tion;” and the announcement is made in each
case “for the benefit of advertisers.”
Retrenchment and Reform are the charac
teristics of President Grant’s Administration.
For weeks past, tho work of consolidating the
Internal Revenue districts has been under con
sideration. This important reform Las al
ready been commenced in many of the States.
Over five hundred assistant assessors have
been dispensed with in the Southern and
Western States. New York and Pennsylvania
ore to be likewise subjected to this reform.
The saving to tho Treasury by this process
will be large, and verifies the prediction that
the present Administration would correct the
abuses and extravagance of its predecessor, i
Thing*.
Four women were discovered among a body
of Turco prisoners.
Dumas is now said to be recovering from
bis illness.
‘He-winks-at the sky” is a distant relative
of Spotted TaiL He never, no, never, winks
at any of the Loesses.
Jeff Davis and Jobal E. Early were present
at the opening of the Virginia State Fair in
Richmond.
All Boston is humming a new song called
Let Me Be."
A Roman Catholic newspaper is announced
in France with tho title of the Christian Era,
the object of which is “to insist on tho intro
duction of religious liberty into the Catholic
oihnrcb, and its alliance with the genius of
modern limes.”
The Judge of a court in session at Keene,
N. H.. at the time of tho earthquake, ordered
the sheriff to arrest the person who was dis
turbing the proceedings with so much noise.
The officer reported that the oflender had es
caped from the State of New Hampshire.
‘ 4 Young First Principles of tho India House”
was tho name which Mr. Disraeli, years ago,
gave in one of his novels to John Stuart Mill,
then a clerk in the India House. 41 Dizzy,”
with the presence of genius, had already re
cognized a fellow-genius, and deemed him
worthy a place on his canvas.
Queen Victoria’s prospective son-in-law, the
Marquis of Lorn; is said to be chiefly remark
able for the symmetry of his legs. Wo had
fondly hoped that the Princess Louise would so
far vary the custom of royal marriages os to
seek a husband whose attractions would natu.
rally manifest themselves at a greater distance
from his heels.
LATEST NEWS,
By Mail to the Era.]
Order reigns in Mexico.
St Louis Democrats are willing to run
colored man for Congress.
Six men were drowned in New York harbor
in one day last week. ^ ' r
The North Germanic Confederation 'fur
nished 740,000 troops for the invasion of
France.
An attempt to assassinate King William last
week, resulted in the wounding of Gen. V
Boon.
Garibaldi has been pitching into the Jesuits.
Peasantsjthreatened to shoot him if ho didn’t
do better.
Something or other is to be done abont
Schleswig Holstein.
The rising in Domingo has been suppressed.
Another revolution in Costa Ricajias been
suppressed.
Charles Summer’s lectures are creating con
siderable interest this season.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company lias
been permanently organized in New York,
with Mar4hall O. Roberts as President Gen.
Fremont declines to serve.
A gale^n our Northern lakes last week did
great damage to the shipping.
Now that King William, Bazaine, Napoleon
andEngenie have laid their heads together
there is no telling what to expect
Janauschek draws well in Philadelphia.
Jeff Davis made a short speech at the Yir
ginia State Fair.
A nitro-glycerino horror in Ohio killed four
men.
The Chinese massacre foreigners because
they fear them.
Many lives lost on Lake Erie last week.
Thirty priests are coming to America to
found a monestery.
Should policemen be fat, is the question in
New York.
Plenty of snow in New Hampshire.
The antiquarians of Nashville are excited'
over a Grecian Bend found on the streets.
A Cabinet crisis has occurred in Holland.
Doctors Flock and Van Bosse.
It is now definitely ascertained that District
Attorney A. B. Long, of Louisiana, committed
suicide.
Lawlessness in Missouri. Lives lost.
Several persons shot in a political riot at
Norfolk, lost week.
The Pope wants a European Congress.
A burglar in New York was shot by a spring
gun, last week. Burglar’s friends prosecuted
tho owner of the gun. He was acquitted.
Two more preachers have put their feet in
to the Fulton-Tilton muddle.
Louis Napoleon is said to hold mortgages
on New York property to the amount of ten
million francs.
run^a traction at the rink.^Mrs. M. A. Meeker,
the authoress, is ux town. She CuTabout~re-
Another abortion case in New York, with
death as the result
A quiet little revolution in Uruguay is now
progressing.
President Grant is a great admirer of Prus
sia’s military discipline.
German Republicans oppose the project to
make King William Emperor of Germany.
Ohio had a small tornado a week or two
•go-
The Legislature of Louisiana is to incor
porate a Union League Club.
orgo&izod in Paris.
Napoleon is having a very nice time at
Wilhelmshohe. He feels his position.
Another gunpowder plot has been discover
ed in Ireland.
Fisk ia still kicking np a bobbery in New
York.
Steamship DeSoto has been in a big hurri
cane.
Republican majority in Iowa was 41,000.
Correspondents say that the Prussians have
already commenced reducing thir armies.
New York municipal election oomes Off to?
The story of Bazaine’s treachery is founded
npon the fact that four months’ prorislona
were found in the city of Metz.
Arnold Brentlinger, of Lima, Ohio, is the
hero of a terrible wife murder.
Herr Twesten, a celebrated Prussia Repub
lican leader, is dead.
Insanity as a plea in mnrder cases, in New
York, has been superseded by another pica—
political animosity.
Richmond has a Lee Monumental Associa
tion, with Jeff. Davis for President
Seventeen States elect Congressmen to
day.
Another anti-Chineso movement in New
York.
Chief Justice Chase is still very ilL
A splendid portrait of Tonssaint L’Oaver-
tnro is on exhibition in Detroit
Editorial Raids.
It is generally believed that Colonel Jim
Phisqno did not go to the Columbus Fair.
Aaron Alpeorin, the pet of. the Kn-Klnr De
mocracy, is speaking pieces in his District
The Savannah News says: “ There is a tear
for all who die.” Cheer np, old fellow; nobody Brooklyn's belle’s marriage.’
wants to “ tear” von no! . _ • .
wants to “ tear” you up!
Tho Madison Examiner calls for money, on
one page, and harmony on the other.
The Augusta Chronicle, in mentioning an
expected duel, kindly “suppressed” the names
of the parties. It the duel comes off perhaps
one, or both of the parties, themselves, will
be “suppressed.”
Turtles, in Savannah, -are called “beasts,”
by the papers of that city. : y t yr ,.. j j
The editor of the Brunswick Appeal has
been presented with a pair of scissors. He
has been giving “scissors” to liis contempo
raries for some time post
The Macon Telegraph devotes a column and
a half to “A Real Vampire—The Story of
Man who Banquetted on the Blood of His
Fellow Boarders!” These cheerful little arti-
ST.VTE NEWS.
home.
A champion New York skater is the at-
Conatit rationality or the RelieV Law.
^ His honor Judge Hopkins, in his late decis-
ired from injuries received at the Atlanta
Gen. Colquitt in tho'city;.. .Rain Thursday -
night. >.Ti r 'U
Quito a number of visiting ministers in
town Mr. Oxford was tho name of the citi
zen killed in the affray in Ames’ circus.
HAWKIXSVIIXE.
Two railroad negroes killed in a fight the
otboWay.^.. .Little business transacted in the
Superior Court... .Episcopal convocation was
held'last week.
XZWHAK.
Political meeting lost Saturday. Speeches
by Wright, Caldwell and Freeman.
COLUMBUS.
River low—Fishermen doing nothing....
Weather warm... .Boat race come off Friday
... .Fair said to bo well attended.
WEST POINT.
Trade lively.... .Robinson’s circus coming.
... .Rev. Dr. Boring preached last Sunday.
Alligator shot near tho toll bridge Ru-
of an approaching duel between two
mown gentlemen....The colored Bap-
are involved in a row.
LAGHANGK.
Skating Rink to bo established.... .Episco
pal 'Indies getting up a Fair People met
on Tuesday and listened to an address on Gen.
LeCybyBev. Morgan Calloway.
SAVA2dAB. *
Stevedore on a strike Forty-five marria"
ges lost month The French Relief Concert
was a success The Florences open at the
theater Monday evening....Savannah Base
Baft Club challenges ^very Club in the South
Welcome rains Female shop-liflers
about....The Savannah Free School estab
lished fifty-three years ago is doing very well
... .Cotton advanced a quarter of a cent on
receipt of the news of an armistice in Europe.
THOMASTON.
'Republican meeting last Saturday... .Mon
working on this end of the railroad.
-V MAOON.
Central Railroad train ran off the track
Friday, injured a man and demolished five
care Harry McCarthey in town....Third
stoiy of the new Court House going up.
COLUMBUS.
Fifth day of the Fair a failure.
BAINBUIDOE.
Gulico ball last Thursday night Fire
men held a Lee memorial meeting the other
night
Lee memorial Meeting comes off to-morrow.
Eulogy by Hon. Jno. T. Clarke. ...Lawless
ness on the rampage.
Mr. John Molcom shot and wounded iu the
dark by unknown persons.
* Bob. Jones, colored, convicted of robbeiy
has escaped Citizens voted Saturday on
the water works question.
Negro boy stabbed another dangerously the
A regiment of women have actually been other day Six cars smashed up at station
ast Frida
.Steady rain Saturday.
Residence of Mr. Chas. Strong destroyed
by fire the other night
BRUNSWICK.
Dr. D. H. B. Troupe is dead.
savanjuii.
An effort is bring mode to raise a fond to
baild a Lee Monument....The stevedores’
strike has been settled.. .Mayor Screven de
signates the 17th as a day of thanksgiving...
Peter Doherty was run over and killed by tho
train the other day. Fonr survivors of the
ill-fated steamship Vanina have arrived in the
city. Thirty-six passengers were lost
AUOUSIA.
Lecture of Rev. It A. Holland much ad
mired Chapman Sisters have aniTed...
Plato Chisolm, confined on account of inabili
ty to pay jail fees, lias been released on habeas
corpus The rain commenced on Saturday.
Thing*.
Philadelphia lawyers are cowhiding each
bther.
Kentucky has a Christian statesman, which
ibis name is Speed.
An American traveler reports that “when
Spurgeon gets excited, lie howls like a wilder-
A New York saloon advertises “ Smythe
Cocktails, Fulton Lager and Tilton Wine.
Mayne Reid is said to have lost fifteen thou
sand dollars by his magazine Onward. It not
only went onward, but upward, and took him
with it
Memphis is tho only city in the United
States where there ore more marriageable young
men than young ladies.
Corns on her feet so that she couldn’t stand
up, was what caused the postponement of a
des give a spice and variety, without which The amount of familiarity which Kfog Wil-
The Savannah Republican says “every man
can vote.” Bat not on the “early and often
journalism would be monotonous.
The Rome Commercial gets off the follow
ing; on & political opponent:
We cannot call him a brute—because that 1
would be a libel on the commonest cur dog
that lives. Wo will not call him a scoundrel,
because that v.-ould lay a slander on the char
acter of the vilest wretch 1 that ever robbed.
Wo will not call him a. traitor, because that
would blacken the memory of Judas Iscariot.
Does the above sound like Junius? If so
how much?
The Rome Courier no longer advertises for
an apprentice. Failing to get the “It” at first
advertised for, the Courier agreed to take a
‘Ho !* Now the question is, which one did
the Courier get? And what is tho “natur of
the baste?”
“Democracy grows,” says the Monroe Wit
ness. So does a mushroom.
The Cuthbert Appeal is quite enthused over
tho lively time in that “burg,” consequent
npon the “unmitigated cussedness” of some
of the inhabitants.
What sort of piece did Bob Toombs speak
liam exhibits with the opinions and wishes of
the Almighty, ought to qualify him as tho
most traascendant spiritual medium of tho
:1
A Cincinnati genius accounts for the aurora
by the upsetting of dye-pots of gjoiy and the
leaking of their gorgeous contents through
the firmament
The Cincinnati Chronicle tells us ft*t
‘Louis Napoleon us^d to write sentimental
peotry for the New York Mirror when he so
journed in that city.
James Fisk, Jr., will, it is said, bring suit
against the Times for $100,000 fora slander
ous article accusing him of keeping a mistress
under cover of the Opera Company manage
ment
Mr. J. J. McElhone of the Washington
Globe, is said to be the only short-hand man
who can write with both bands at the same
time—the left taking notes and the right
transcribing. This is without parallel.
The late Capital-removal Convention at
Cincinnati was a decided failure. Only nine
States were represented, by sixty-fonr dele-*
gates; of these, Ohio famished twenty-four,
and Illinois twenty-four, leaving the others to
be distributed between Iowa, Kentucky, Kan
sas, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Nebraska, and
Washington Territory. No distinguished men
wero present,'and nothing was done of any
importance, but the Convention came very
nearly doing one sensible thing—the adoption
of a resolution declaring the agitation for the
removal of the National Capital uncalled for
and unwise.
ion upon Relief seems to have entirely over
looked the most prominent feature of the law.
-The-folldwing- iaa—portion of the abstract of
the law as given by his Honer, of which we
itaKciso certaraporticms:
The first section of that act provides, in sub
stance, that it shall not be lawful for the plain
tiff to have a verdict or judgment in his favor
in an action founded upon any debt, contract
or cause of action, made or implied,'"bfefoie'the
first day of Jane. 1865, until he has made i*
appear to the Court that all legal.taxes c&anjea-
ble by law upon the debt have been duly paid'&ich
year since the debt was created. The 2d section
provides'that in suits now pending for. Such
causes pf action, the plaintiff within sx months
after the passage of the act shall file with the
Clerk of the Court an affidavit that such taxes
have been duly paid for each year since the mak
ing of the debt, and that he expects to prove
the same upon the trial; and, npon failure to
file such affidavit, the suit shall on motion be
dismissed. Section 3d provides that in suits
upon^ such contracts, the burden of proof
showing that the taxes have been duly paid shall
be upon the plaintiff withont any plea setting
up that defense by the defendant Section 4
provides that in every trial of a suit founded
upon such cause of action it shall be a condi
tion precedent to a recovery that the debt has
been regularly given in for t&ces, and the taxes
paid, and that in every such case, if tho tribu
nal trying it is not clearly satisfied that the
taxes have been duly given in and paid, it shall
so find and the suit shall be dismissed.
The inseparable and intimate connection be
tween this law and the payment of the taxes
legally required to be paid, seems not at all to
have attracted the notice of the learned Judge.
The power of the State to levy taxes is not
to be disputed, and its power to affix penalties
for tho non-payment of those taxes, is equally
beyond dispute.
This view of the law places it in entire har
mony with the Constitution. Zt ia not in any
sense a law “impairing tho obligation of con
tracts” but it is a law providing a penalty for
the non-payment of taxes. There were, and
are certain taxes chargeable by law upon debts.
If the creditor has failed to pay those taxes he
has violated the law. He is not an innocent
party. He comes into Court a law-breaker,
and the Legislature says, as a penalty therefor,
his remedy shall be abridged upon on such
claims for which he has not paid his taxes, and
upon those only.
The whole of those principles quoted by the
learned Judge (and no one has a higher re
spect for his learning than the writer) relating
to the constitutional provision respecting the
44 impairing of the obligation of contracts,”
have no application to tho Relief Law, so-
called. .
That no State has any power to pass any
law impairing the obligation of & contract, is
very true. No one who has ever read the Con
stitution will deny it
It is also an undisputed fact that every citi
zen has tho right to the free use and owner
ship of his property—his lands, his houses,
his goods and his chattels, his choses in ac
tion, and all manner of property not personal
or mixed, which is his; but it is also true that
all jhis property is subject to taxation by the
State, and if he fails to pay the tax, his lands
and his houses, and whatever is due him upon
contract, are subject to forfeiture for his fail
ure to pay such tax.
Tho law in question docs not impair the
obligation of any contract. It only in effect
says, “that if any person in violation of law
has failed to pay his proper taxes upon the
debts due him, he shall not have the same
remedy and the same privilege that other citi
zens have, who aro not delinquent in their
duty to the State, who are not violators of the
law, by neglecting or refusing to pay their just
and legal taxes.”
If it were true that this law modified or
abridged the remedy upon contracts to on un
limited extent without any distinction what
ever; if it sought to make its provisions abso
lute upon all persons whatever, then, indeed,
some question might arise as to its validity,
for the reasons stated in the late decision. But
the law in question does make a distinction.
It only modifies and abridges the remedy
in respect to a certain class, and that class
one composed of persons who have not re
spected tho law—who have not, in good faith,
os good citizens should, returned and paid
their taxes. To all others the courts are open as
before, the remedy is the same as before.
That the Legislature has the power to make
such a distinction is os undoubted as its power
to establish the tax. The very power to estab-
ish the tax carries with it the power to fix pen
alties for the non-payment of the tax, and the
just and proper penalty is the forfeiture of the
property liable to the tax.
It is said in the late decision, that this law
establishes a 4 'condition precedent” This
not true os relates to the contract itself. There
is no **condition precedent” established as to
the original contract
It was the law before, is now independent
of any provisions of tho act in question—that
the citizen should pay his taxes upon that as
well as his other property. It is true that his
remedy is abridged, as a penalty for the non
payment of his taxes. It is required that the
plaintiff must first show the court that he is
not liable to the penalty for the non-payment
of liis taxes.
The view of the law above set forth places
it in harmony with the Constitution.
It is tho duty of a court always to endeavor
to carry out the manifest intention of tho law
makers, and it shonld in no event declare
law void or unconstitutional if by any means,
it maybe well to harmonize with the Consti
tution. It is only when an legitimate and
proper means to uphhld a law and
carry it into effect havo failed, that
court is justified in declaring a law void,
must be in its nature totally and radically in
consistent with, and contrary to the provisions
of the Constitution, before it can be consider
ed void; and even then, if any part of it can
be made to harmonize, those parts must be al
lowed to stand. “Ifc is but a decent respect
due to the wisdom, the integrity and patriot
ism of the Legislature to presume a law valid
until its unconstitutional ity is beyond an
doubt.” The above is tho language of the
Supreme Court So it is seen that if there is
any doubt the Legislature has the benefit of
the doubt and the law must be held valid.—
Fletcher vs. Peck, 6 Cranoh, Marshall, C. J.
Odgen vs. Saunders, 12 Wheaton, 270. There
ore a multitude of authorities to the same ef
fect The law on this point is not doubted,
It is much to be regretted that his Honor
in his decision, gives no evidences of any at
tempt on his part to harmonize its provisions
with tho Constitution. Entirely overlooking
tho intimate relation of the law to the subject
of taxation, and the paramount power of the
State in that direction, he has appeared blind
to everything in the act besides its relation to
contracts, and hastened to apply tho well-
known-provision of tho Constitution, which
hfis but a remote and very doubtful applica
tion to t^a subject. Fulton.
Aq£.£v1870.
Georgo Wilkes, editor of the Spirit of the
Times, and James Brooks, editor of the Ex
press, are contestants for Congressional hon
ors. The election, it is thought, will be close,
although the District has heretofore been Dem-
It
Glynn County.
• su n ri'. J&jrcsiBWKgx, CU-, Nov. 4, J$7D-
J&lUor Atlanta Veto Era—Deab Sin : At a
meeting of the Republicans of Glynn county,
held at this place, Thursday. November 3d,
instant, Hon. J. M. Colman was chosen by a
unanimous vote the President of the Glynn
County Republican Club; IT. T- Shuftou, Vice
President; C, P. Goodyear, Secretary, and
J udge J. F. Rowe, Treasurer of the same.
The utmost harmony prevailed. Look out
for a rousing majority from old Glynn,
;aily.
Republican Congressional Kominntinfi
. Convention cf flic Fiftli District.
Pureuaut to the call of the State Central
ConHnittee of. the Union Republican party
the Convention met at Greensboro, November
; G • :«• l.cAudid.iti'-, I*.• r the list
and 42d Congress. The meeting was called
to order, and on motion Hon. W. H. McWhor
ter was called to the chair. After an address
the Chair, on motion r Hou. McWhorter
Hun^vrlord was elected Secretary. The
call of the State Central Committee was read,
and on motion a Committee of five were ap
pointed, consisting of Hons. Moses A Gard
ner, Thomas Brooks, Jesse Wimberly. W. Eh
Harrison and A. Colby, on credentials and to
draft suitable resolutions. The Committee
brpught in the following report:
We find the fWlJ^ing counties represent
ed with delegates HfNAho proper credentials.
Richmond county—Moses Gardner, Thos.
Payne, Richard Lamar.
Greene county—A Colby, Luke Crittle.
Hancock county—W. H. Harrison, E.
Bapies.
Morgan county—Thos. Brooks, Edmond
Pape.
Burke county—John Warren, Jesse Wim
berly, Alfred Lee.
Lincoln county—Platt Madison.
Oglethorpe county—Jos. McWhorter, J.
BridwelL
Glasscock county—Alfred Murphy.
Taliaferro couuty—Frank Holden.
We respectfully recommend the following
named gentlemen os the Executive Committee
for the Fifth Congressional District of Geor
gia.
Richmond county—Win. J. White, Moses
A. Gardner, W. H. Stalling.
Burko county—Aaron W. Gilbert, John
Warren.
Jefferson county—Robert Brown, Alex.
Stone.
Hancock county—Eli Barnes, Asa Carring
ton.
Wilkes county—IL W. Graham, W. T. Rat-
lej.
Columbia county—J. M. Rice, Charles
Steam.
Lincoln county—J. M. Dill.
Elbert county—W. IL Heard.
Oglethorpe county—J. Cunningham, IL
Maxwell.
Qroen county—Jack Heard, R. Johnson.
Morgan county—Monday Floyd, J. A. War-
Talliaferro county—L F. Loyol.
Glasscock county—J. Harris.
Warren county—Henry Fowler, Thomas
Flournoy.
Washington county—Daniel Palmer, W.
Simmons.
Also to represent this District in the State
Central Committee, Benj. Conley, of Rich
mond, Abram Colby, Greene, W. H. Harrison,
of Hancock, E. Tweedy, of Richmond.
We also recommend the nomination of the
following named gentlemen to represent the
Fifth District in the Congress of the United
States of America, and hope every .Republi
can will stand by the nomination and be at
their post on the 20th, 21st, and 22d of De
cember:
Hon. Thos. P. Beard, of Richmond, 41st
Congress; „
Hon. Isham S. FanninjMergan county, 42d
Congress. SC
We also recommend uORuoption of the fol
lowing resolutions:
Resolved. That the administration of his
Excellency Rufns B. Bollock, meets tho hearty
and cordial endorsement of this convention,
and that snch has been his constant devotion
to Republican principles that his namo is cn-
deared to all lovers of liberty throughout the
land, and wherever the flag of our Fathers
waves and where Freedoms exists.
Resolved, That this Convention invito all
good citizens of-both political parties to use
their beet endeavors to maintain peace and
order at tho polls at the next election, to the
end that a fair expression of onr people
may bo had, and the best interest of the peo-
plo of Georgia subserved by placing in office
such persons as will ever advocate a system of
free school education, and will endeavor to
promote the best interests of the whole peo
ple of the State and of our common country.
Resolved, That the delegates to this Con
vention give expression to the wishes of tho
Republican voters of this District, that pend
ing the present campaign there shall exist no
ill feeling on account of a difference of politi
cal opinion, bat that every voter will accord to
each and all a right to the olective franchise
and a free exerciso of snch franchise, and that
this Convention: indulge the hope that the
prosperity which Georgia has hod under a Re
publican administration may be perpetuated
till the ravages of war shall not be visible nor
felt, and that Georgia willjregain her ante-bel
lum name, ‘"The Empire State of the South.”
Resolved, That this Convention endeavor to
nominate such persons to Congress as will givo
the colored voters of the District all the politi
cal rights granted them by the Reconstruction
Acts, and vouchsafed, eventually, to them by
the Great Jehovah, who is the Author of every
good and perfect gift.
On motion, the proceedings of the Conven
tion were ordered to be published in the
New Eba and American Union.
The report of the committee was unani
mously agreed to.
McWuoktkb HnsoEBTonn, Sec'y.
Lee, Major-General John B. Gordon, Major
General Edward Johnson, Major-General
R. Trimble, Brigadier-General W. B. Ti
ferro, Brigadier-General William N. Pen
ton, Major-Gen al William Smith, Brigai
General H. A- Wise, Brigadier-General J
Imbodcn, Colonel Charles Marshall, Colo
Walter H. Taylor, Colonel W. K. Perrin
Colonel Peyton N. Wise, General M. Ransom,
Captain Robert Pegram, General L. L. Lo
max, Colonel Henry Peyton, Colonel J. K
French, Colonel R. E. Withers, Major William
N. Berkeley, Colonel William Willis, Colonel
William Preston Johnson, Lieutenant Mann
Page, Privates William O. Cane, of Lonisa
county, Va.; Robert Martin, of Fanqnier; G.
Hough, of Baltimore, and G- Elder, of Mary
land, and Sergeant W. Wirt Robinson.
Secretaries—Capt E. S. Gregory, Sergcan
George L. Christian, Capt. C. U. .Lawson,
Sergeant James P. Cowardin, Capt. W. A. An
derson, Private Abner Anderson, Capt. S. D.
Houston, Capt. George Walker, and Maj. Wm.
B. Myers.
Tho report was unanimously adopted amid
great applause.
TME ALABAMA CLAIMS.
A Kcw Plan of Settlement Proposed—111-
rect Application by Individual Claim
ants to tlie British Government for In-
dcmnity-Why the United State* Govern
ment Cannot Consent to Such a Proce
dure*
The following letter to Secretary Fish, is in
reply to a series of letters of Hon John A.
Parker, who advocates the settlement of tho
Alabama Claims by direct application of the
individual claimants to the British Govern
ment After stating the proposition of Mr.
Parker, the writer says: .
I Buppose at the outset that the proper ope
ration, if not tho letter of international law,
would stand in the way if there were no posi
tive statute of the conntry to bo infringed.
Sorely this most bo regarded as settled in all
ordinary cases, that Governments transact with
Governments where claims are to be enforced;
and this is not a case where the British author
ities employed tho claimants to perform a
given work for a stipulated price, and might
possibly be impleaded in their courts but
where reparation is sought for a wrong.
These claims grow only out of an alleged wrong
which it is the duty of the Government to seo
righted, and individuals cannot right
Again: These claimants are indebted purely
and solely to - what our Government has al
ready done for the fact that England ia now
ready to recognize any claim whatever on
their part, if that Government is so far wil
ling, os they allege. If they had stood alone,
and onr Government had not interfered, be
yond all question not one dollar wonld they
ever have been able to recover or England
wonld ever have allowed. It wonld be strange,
then, it at tho moment when they believe the
Government has placed them in a condition
to regain their losses, they shonld be permit
ted to ignore its authority and value, tom
their backs npon it, and expose its honor to
the ridicule of foreigners, as if it were an in-
capapble or nutrastworthy agent Real pa
triotism would hardly proceed in snch a man
ner. And suppose they should fail after all?
Is tho Government again to take up at all this
disadvantage tho cause which they havo so
seriously embarrassed. It is to be remem
bered that whatever might be imagined,
respecting a caso not yet touched, this
case, either by tho requirement or
the very cordial acquiescalto of
these parties, is now, and from tip first lias
No Poll Taxes!
The Comptroller General has sent to each
Tax Collector in the State a copy of the follow
ing instructions, from which it wili be seen
that no poll tax will hereafter be collected
until farther orders on the subject:
COMPTBOLLEn GEMEBAL’S OrfTCE,
Atlanta, November 8, 1870.
To ail and Singular Vie Tax Collectors <f this
State: You are hereby directed to observe
and conform to tho provisions of the following
Act ol the General Assembly, approved Octo
ber 25, 1870, to-wit: *
Section 1. Be it enacted by tho Senate and
Honse of Representatives of the State of
Georgia in General. Assembly met, That all
poll tax assessed and imposed on the people
of this State for the years 1868, 1869 and 1870
is illegal, and not warranted by the Constitu
tion of this State, and that Tax Collectors be
instructed to desist from collecting the same,
and that Tax Collectors be relieved from all
such poll tax os appear unpaid in their re
spective digests.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws
and parts of laws militating against this Act
are hereby repealed. Approved October 25,
In accordance with the above recited Act,
yon are hereby ordered to desist from collect
ing any more of said poll tax after the receipt
of these instructions, and not to pay any com-
missions to Tax Receivers on the poll tax as
sessed on your digests, and not collected prior
to the receipt of these instructions.
Yon will in no case refund any poll tax that
; roo may havo collected before receiving these
i attractions. Respectfully,
Madison Bell, .
Comptroller GenepaL
Jeff. Davl« Elected l*re«Xdcnt of the Lee
Monument Association -» He ko
Speech.
Last Thursday night a large number of the
citizens of Richmond, Va., assembled for the
purpose of organizing a Leo Monument As
sociation. The Richmond Dispatch mentions
Jeff Davis in the following terms:
As Mr. Davis arose to walk to tho stand,
every person in tho house rose to his feet, and
there followed such a storm .of applause as
seemed to shake the very foundations of the
building, while cheer upon cheer was echoed
from the throats of veterans saluting one whom
they delighted to honor,
Mr. Davis spoke at length, and with his ac
customed thrilling, moving eloquence. We
shall not attempt, at the late hour at which
Write, to give a fall report of his ad-
dress.
He addrpised his heave*? as “Soldiers and
sailors of the Confederacy, comrades and
..... a {0 -
Speeches were made by distinguished ex-
Confti.derates, and the following permanent
organization was agreed upon:
Praciflni
been, in the hands of our Governdrent There
then, it certainly appears, it should remain
until finally settled. At least, if the Govern
ment chose to permit a different course, yet
the claimants could have no right to demand
it But further: The money claim is but part
of the case made with Great Britain. That of
itself became a claim, because of the wrong
under which the money was lost; and to assert
the dignity and honor of the country and re
pair this wrong, so that the like may not again
occur to jeopard the pecuniary interests or the
interests of peace and righteousness between
two great nations, is at least os high and valu
able an end ns the recovery of any given
amount of money. Would the payment of
these claims in tho manner propos
ed fairly and frankly moet that ob
ject? It might be interpreted, indeed,
into an admission on the part of Great Britain
that there was some remissness on the part of
her officials which might impose upon her a
degree of responsibility; and that, I think,
she has admitted, and thereon is willing to
endure some amount of damages. Bat wonld
it repair the indignity of the hasty and un
friendly neutrality act? tho indecorum of
Lord John Russell’s sneers at “the late United
States” while he was the member of the Ad
ministration with whom onr country (at amity
with them) was jto deal? the injury inflicted
by other privateers ? Mr. Gladstone's depre
ciating speeches, and the,bad moral influence
of their whole course while our dreadful
war continued? Could it do all this? I
think not On the contrary, it must weaken
the position of onr Government fatally, as it
seems to me. It would bo a miserable back
ing ont from the high, but just position wc
have been understood hitherto to maintain,
and would go very far to render us contempti
ble, and justify Great Britain and any other
nation in inflicting indignities: for if only a
money consideration should be offered it wonld
heal all wounds of honor. But where the dig
nity of a nation is at such a point, its useful
ness, its grand life, all its moral power over
the world are gone. No creditors, for any
amount of money, have the right to ask, to
hint at, any such sacrifices, on the part of their
country. It seems little short of treason.—
And that this application was, therefore,
promptly denied by onr Government is mat
ter of no surprise or complaint
There are incidental points deserving no
tice. The appeal to the authorities abroad
before consulting those at home (it appears an
agent was employed) must intimate to the En-
nKnl. iVfti 4L.M. I - VI -A?. Z- - A I l 1 .. — ~ * A l. A \. .
glisli that there is dissatisfaction here with the
way in which the negotiation is Conducted,
and of necessity encourage Lord Granville
to raise obstacles and to resist a fair settle
ment It injures the country; but it likewiso
injures their own cause.
Tho letter to Mr. Frelinghuyscn—was it
courteous to the Government? Was ifc proper
toward Mr. Frelinghuyscn? These parties
are bent apparently on ignoring the Govern-
fc Mr. F. was not to be their agent
ment But!
or the agent of any private parties, but of his
Government to represent its views and to car
ry out its purposes To address him, there
fore, as if he would side with individuals
against his Government seems the height of
indecorum, which might very properly have
been resented. Sir. Frelinghuysen is a man
of more nobility of mind than to be made a
tool by any parties, and I know him well.
Having been very recently in England, and,
having conversed with gentlemen of intelli
gence there, I not only feel some special inter
est in this subject hut I believe I know some
what of tho sentiments common among tho
English. .1 believe there is a strong friend
ship among them (the people) toward us, aijd
they wish these matters of dispute settled and
out of the way. But I am also convinced that
they should not bo hnddled up by a hollow
truce, but be terminated on grounds of justice
and right in which the honor or sensitiveness
of neither party shaft be needlessly invaded;
|n which, however, great questions of interna
tional right and ooortesy (an imperfect right)
shall bp defined, and the friendship
of the two great protesfiyut peoples of
the world shall not hereafter fee endan
gered, nor their influence for good over tbs
civilized world bo impaired, by the stupidity
or selfishness, or cupidily and loro of gain, or
S lide or ambitjon or ill will of either pariy.—
result snch as this growing out of these diffi
culties is a consummation most devoutly to bo
desired, and would be honor enough to moke
any administration prominent wad distinguish
ed through all time. But to narrow the whole
to a mere question of dollars and cents, and
then to place it in tho hands Pf the money
changers for collection at a discount, would
be an opprobrium to our country.
I hope you will pordon this intrusion, my
dear sir, for I seo the interests of religion,
humanity, pjid aatiox^l cd’-^cement and use
fulness bound up with this subject 4»d feg*
lieve mo, very respectfully, your obedient serr
vant, * *
Brick Pomeroy Exit.
'Where now,” asks the Cleveland Leader,
“is the rampant and terrible Brick Pomeroy,
who three yeas ago went down to New York
to teach his brethren of the press that pro
fanity, obscenity and foul-mouthed abuse were .
tho essential elements of success in journal
ism? Quite chopfallen. His money, which
he shook so offensively in people’s faces, all
spent, his credit gone, the fneuds of his pros-
] >erity scattered, he now retires from the pro
fession he could not degrade, and tfei§ ? from
the Round Table, a staunch'Democratic pq,-
pey\ i§ his epitaph:
The .“Deihovr^t, lii^ler tho charge of ifr. J.
H. Lambert,is rapidly recovering from pm aai£ v
aging influence of ifis late editor, and is doing
well."