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“ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jeferson.
VOLUME XXII
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1871.
NUMBER 11
IlIrrKh) Jutdligeuffr
PL'iiLlSHKn DMLY AND WEEKLY BY
SAMUEL BARD,
I* ro i> »■ l o t or.
ATLANTA.GEOEGIA,
Wednesday, March i5, 1871,
A OAttD TO Til ft I'lnuc,
My connection with the Intelligencer
ceases with this issue, and Governor Samuel
Baud takes charge ol the same.
JAHKU 1 KWUt WfllTAKKR.
A CARO TO THE Pl'BLIC.
In assuming the management of the Intel
Moknceh, I shall discharge my duty to the
public icaiiessiy and without regard to con
sequences. Bam. Bard.
Centralism tin' l«»ue.
The Government <>! 'he United States went
into oj erm ion under the auspices of the Fede
ral party, v hub held llm reins lor twelve yeats.
Genera! Washington was, in principle, an ar
dent Republican nut during bis administration
be n lied orincipHly rpon the Federalists tor
supp'.Tt Uiwing these times, the wisest ot our
filntei-.tr en urptehended daDg*-r trom the weak-
Hires oi the Government—trom too Jit tie energy
iu the General Government, and too great power
in Use Slate governments. Dismemberment and
disintegration, according to their views, were the
roftks to be shunned. They seemed to appre
hend little danger irom usurpations by the Fed
eral Government. Hence, during this period of
our history, the legislation of Congress was
shaped according to this theory. It sought to
strengthen the hands of the Federal authorities
by stringent laws, and in the attempt, linally,
went bo lar, that an indignaut peopie rose in
their might and hurled the party Irom power. The
principal cause ol this cuauge in the adminis
tration ol the government was the measures
known as the uuen and sedition laws. These
measures broke down ibe Federal party—made
its very name odious, and elcva'ed to power the
Deinoc.atic party, under the lead ol Mr. Jeffer
son. I’lie loiuier gave the President the powei
to banish Ir nn the country loicigucrs who might
become obnoxious. The lulter—the seeitioD
laws—made it an olfense to publish any libel
ous matter against the government, also any
unlavvlul combination lor opposing any law oi
the United Slates, or any act ol resistance to
any law, and annexed puni.-h ncuts thereto,
moio or lets severe The enactment of these
miasutca convulsed the United Stales, irom one
end to tbt other With the most violent excite
ment, and brought dtsgiace and ruin upon tne
auth'us of them. They acre denounced as in
roads upon the reserved rights ot the
people and upon public luetty, as usurpations
by the party in power. As objectionable as
these laws were, they do n»i compare in atro
cious abuse ol power w ith the late legislation ol
Congiess, known as the euiorccmem acts;they
are not to be named in the bauie day. The lor-
mcr struck at tne liberiy ol the citizen and in
vested tne Executive with power iiaoie to great
abuse. Tne latter nave done tins, hut lar more.
They strike at the Siute governments, the Inun
dation stones ol om led, m ive system. They
are intended lo give the party in power the con
trol ot the ballot, winch Wili be Virtually the
control of the government, i'iie Control oi the
elections has hcretoiore been exercised by the
Btates, wnere it ngutiuily belongs. Tntse
mea.-urts tiansler it to Congress und ihe f‘resi
dent Appointees oi the lulter, marsUals and
deputy inarsbaiB,are to execute the law, anu to
enable them lo Uo mis, they are placed in Com
mand ol the uniuuiy loiccs ol the United
Blates Generals ol me aiuiy aie made subor-
dlate to them, uud ale bound to obey their sum
mous. They are empowered lo arrest citizens
without waiiunt, and to use the military lor i^its
purpose The TTesiucnt, as Couiuiaiidi-r-m-
cinel, uas tm power to send ihe army where he
pleases. He wul tend n wnere it may be Used
most elleciua iy lo coutioi the result ot the
election Is ever has there been concocted in a
tree goveiuuiehl, a viler scheme to overthrow
the libei ties ol me pcop.e, aua seize by baud
and violence the inns oi power. Flo other ob—
jid than ill s wascoulemplated by the heads in
which u hid Us ougiu—me President anu
his adviseis. The people should not de
ceive themselves with the idea, that the ac
compli buienl ol this object is luipiucncabie—
that the United Dimes mihuiiy lorce is loo small
to be used in mis w ay. Tuis is a great mistake.
Suppose that i allies were divided so nearly
equal mat the vole ot me Stale oi Hew \uik
wou.d ueCioc the Fiesiueulial election, it is
wei known mm. the ccy ol New York controls
the pot ties ot the mate. An ambitious aspirant
a reauy in power, would sen i a sufficient num
ber oi troops to me city ol Hew Yoik and take
control of me elections mere. He could senu
the wiafle L'uued S aies uimy mere. Military
science and discipline have been earned to such
a degree oi perie uiou uutv. that a body oi ten
'housaud iroops will overawe the populace ol
an mini :s.-e city. Aug as, us Caesar organized
loe T an, nan Guam to protect hitn in ms Usui-
pa'iohs, and render bis power siacte and secure.
Uuoer ia cr Emperors it became the ruling
power " me btate—made aud unmade Ernpe-
lorsjtmd “ Whsthcti'-MEyinpiom aud cause oi the
dtei.i l in the lioui m empire.“ The tact is well
kho.su tint 'i put up the empire to ihe highest
bid let wtnn Julian became me purchaser, lnu
uiiiituiyciganiz-tUba wh.cn exercised mis author
ity—mis ansoiuie power, at no lime exotuded in
number sixteen iUous .uu men, V\ ben we con
sider to \v nut exirtmea party spirit has run—
what subsetviency is shown io us cxucilBhS, we
may i xpeci ihe exe. Uuve lo be sustained oy a
in.ijoniy oi Lis party in auy uiitinp. he may
mane to lelain power by me use oi me bayonet
T his w ill addVtniengib—moral, it net material,
to ihe military anu, in executing his designs,
aud icndei Uicir ixecunou pi.iet.cable, wun a
compmauveiy small loice. il tne people have
not lost all pubuc value—ah mveot liberty—all
hope ol saving me country iroia central despo
tism, they wm nip m me b..u tins monstrous
growth ol usurpation ana tyranny, aud nuri us
authors irom mo seats ol power mey have so
louity dishonored.
Peusylvauu Bullllci,
The Pensylvauia Radicals are by no means
harmonious. 1'ho Fauadeipuia Age says :
file rianieai Convention ot tne saute was to
have assembled on me lOtn last. It bas been
postponed until the 10m oi Play. Way this
demy ¥ .Because lucre io a outer light between
the city aud country party, wmen must be
healed ociorc a oouveuu n can be held with
suiety. Tne country parly, headed oy Senator
Lameron, are determined to conquer or die.
; hey nave maisliaied their loiccs, and are
le-try lor the sauggie. On tne other nand, the
e,i.y “King ’ are heice aud defiant. They rnaiu-
imu mat Senator Cameron has mteriered with
local affairs in mis city, de.eated regular uoon-
nalions, and must oe put out in the cold. To
u i ,i a Mute UouveuUon under such a state ol
i . s ,'oulu be ruinous, and nence the posipone-
me..t ol tne meeting.
e. ae senator Emolt, a hitherto prominent
Rep .oilcan poiiuc.au, has appeared in a caid m
me iuuianapo.is papers, announcing lus aban
donment oi me rotten and moribund iiepubh-
cau parly. He say s:
in me organization ol the Senate I acted in
dependently oi pony at a time wnen my vole
cou.d beUtiit some trienus, anu could not have
brougui success to me Bepuolican party. Since
men, in ah lest questions, i have voted wuu
Uie Republican patty until this evening, when
i Was surprised and mortified to nuu the party
voting to sanction uie uiun&uous violation ol
me constitution ol me United states in com
pelling lour SouUuru Sla.es to ratify the
liuteuih amendment ai ihe dictation ol Con
gress. in tue meantime 1 nave been so gross.y
Ubu.ed liy ltepUbllCaU neWSpapCIs, seil-COUSd-
lui.v, ica^eis, cnarged wim treason, bribery, Ac ,
tba. se.i-.espec. loimus me longer io ackuowi-
euge myce.i a member ol that party or to act
wun it. fae responsibility must lesi witn tnoae
wno have persecuted me. I shall meet them
bciore me peop.e at the proper time.
Ttoe Present and the Fntnre— The
* Democracy.
It is with the issues of the living present that
our people have to deal. The impediments that
are now bariing the rapid progress of our
country to the summit oi physical and moral
perfection, and which have been laid in its path
either by the currents ol unavoidable circum
stances, or by the malice or stupidity ot party
factions, must be removed, slowly but sorely,
legitimately and calmly, not by any process of
political iconocidsm, or in the beat ol unprofi-
lab'e passion, but in a manner that shall con
serve the invaluable interests ot our common
country, and that shall lay a sure foundation
for a sound and just public policy, secuie against
all the assaults ol political chiconery in the
luture, and w.sely reared with a view-to avoid
the glaring w eaknessea oi our government in the
past. Wisdom is opposed to the counsels ol
ihe violent; the calm logic pi tact successfully
rebuts the fieiy attacks ot mere denunciation,
and where matters are concerned, involving
permanently tue most sacred and valuable
treasures known to the polity ot a tree people,
the majority will naturally incline to the voice
ot prudent leaders, and made wiser in the stem
school ot experience, loliow the leadership of
prudent and patriotic men in preference
to that class ol politicians whose public
life is a continuous scene ot excitement
and ol visionary schemes, who love agitation
better than the soberness ol peace, and whose
xxupation, like dike lo’s, woufd be gone
should the people turn a- careless car to iheir
dangerous precepts and inflammatory philipics
We have been led to these remarks by no
ticing a growing tendency in ibis section ot our
common country, among a small yet influential
class, to assail, in an impetuous manner, utituei
warranted by lact or pruuence, the eliorts ol
honest aud conscientious men to unite our peo
ple upon a common platform, wnick Uas lor its
sole basis the greatest good to ihe gri atest num
ber, and wiii), uuuer the guardian aigis ol the
great .National Democrats party, seek to gather
in one miguty and invincible host evtiy good
citizen and iover ol nis country, lor the great
and linai assault upon political lutamy aud Rad
ical misrule in 1872. Eabuied attempts to create
dissa.istaeiiOL between the great body ol Hem
oeruts North, aud those ol their uretbien bouth,
and the upholding ol certain oi.s dele dogmas uy
a taction ol Me latter against the expressed
policy ol the lorrner, must eventually end in a
schism dangerous to the perpetuation ot sound
democratic principles, aud which, it allowed to
widen, would seriously endanger even the suc
cess ol that great party itself in the next Presi
dential campaign. A nouse divided againd lt-
sell must tali, and it behooves every sound and
wise citizen, every man who nut only loves tne
South, but nis entile native land, to take active
step5 lor the prevention of the success ol this
evil, and to unite in solid phalanx against ever>
insidious attempt to retard the approaching era
ol peace aud good tellowship.
Let us recognize the changes that have taken
place in the government ol our Republic, ear
nestly striving in Me luture to adopt its provis
ions to our necessities, should time aud wisdom
call lor any change, salutary to Me whole peo
ple, yet holding firmly to whatever good Mat
Me experience ol parsing years has graded upon
our governmental policy, and ail or Mis can he
accomplished wtMout unnecessary rant and
violent disturbance, both ol which are enemies
to good sense anu goou government.
We believe that Me wtsn ol the leading
minds ol the Bouth is to develop the resources
ol our glorious country, and to assist each other
in reinstating her to her proud position in the
nation. The conservatism ol Me majority ol
our people is a good augury lor the final tri-
uinpu or the .National Democracy, aud ns lullu-
enee upon the deliberations ol that party, when
discussing, in Convention, Me best means loi
reiormiug our pieseut government, will be pro-
louud. We must have a well-administeied gov
ernment, and in order to Compass this desirable
end, ihe Conservative BouMern masses must up-
uold and strengthen their struggling pally DreM-
ren in an inner j?aris ot me counuy. Ibe sen
timent ol intelligent conservatism in the Bouth
is against any violent setllemeut ol social aud
political questions Mat have ueen quielly ac
cepted, aud it is willing to leave ucau issues lo
ihe matured judgment ot coming yeais. The
uuty ol thinking men is plain, aud Mey will not
allow themselves lo be misguided to au> serious
extent by any one, North or Bouik. in this
connection, aud us an endorsement oi our views,
we leel justified in quoting the language ol au
aoie ALbama contemporary wined pertinently
says :
“ it becomes Me conservative masses ol the
Bomb, leaving questions ufieciing ihe oiganiza-
uon ol society to settle themselves, as Mey will
do in any event, as surely as water will seek its
.evel, to rally to Meir standards, not neglecung
Me development ol their country, but making
it a cardinal leuture in their piaiiorm, urging
the importance to the whole country ol our
uarbors, our rivers, our railways, and our agri
culture, taking Me lead and resuaining Me lossil
elements who can only ihiuk ol the past, ana
Me impetuous Hotspurs, who are eager lor war,
deeinmg it unmanly lo choose me vantage
ground; but must perlurce rake up out of Me
past Me deud aud settled issues Horn which to
make their cuivairous battles.”
General Ainuesty.
We have no doubt Out that a general amnesty
law will pass Congress in spite ol the ltantic ei-
torts ol Me enquu ol Radical extremists who
are endeavoring to Irusirate it.
From Me North aud Me Bouth, Irom the East
and the West, Me voice oi tne people has been
gradually swelling upon the ears of Congress
until ns thunder tones cannot be mistaken uy
Me servants ot Me peopie in IV asbiugton. Tbe
band of lime is unmmakabiy pointing to Me
Uour which sha.l strike the dealh-kuell o! politi
cal and social persecution lu a ir<.e laud, and the
demauds ol justice cun no longer be denied lur
Me sake ol poiieal capital or Radical buncombe.
Even the prudent and lar-sighted ltaui is ol Me
Radical party, who are abi« to see a little lar-
MtT Man Me ends ol their noses, have long
since loreseen Mat Mis just demand ior general
amnesty lor loug-past political oflences is not
only right, but even in the light of paity policy
should nave long ago been granted in order to
prevent Me alienation ot honest aud dispassion
ate men from the ranks oi Me Republican party,
and as Mis ieeang has now oecome supreme, we
believe tnat a general amnesty iaw Will surely
loliow at Me eatiiesi period.
*■ From the firiug of Me first gun of the late
war,” says tne Carnaeu Republican, “ an All-
wise providence poiuteu to Ulysses B. Grant as
Me leader oi Me Union armies aud the savior
oi nis counuy." Tneu, wnen Ulysses B Grant
appded at me commencement ot Me war lor
Me position ol sutler lo an Illinois regiment, it
wa~ un Aii-w.se providence wmeu caused ms
application to oe rejected, aud not Me otficer in
command. These are lacis wlucu Me muse oi
history sfioaid look into.—Courier-Journal.
To the Dublic,
We will spare neither expense nor labor to
make the Atlanta Intelligencer a first
eiass daily newspaper, aud io extend its influ
ence by tue exercise ot every legitimate means
ct journalistic enterprise.
The reading public shall be kept posted in all
the political, moral aud social events of this
stirring age, and our local department will be
lound luliy up to the highest standard ol that
important branch oi a daily journal. Tne in
terests ot Georgia and oi Atlanta, shall be Me
paramount considerations influencing the con
duct ol Me Intelligencer. Let a generous
aud discriminating public assist us in our earn
est eflorts.
Radical Troubles ill Arkansas.
Governor Clay ton, oi Arkansas, one of that
notorious ring oi Radical political tricksters ol
wnom Holden, Bcutt and others are shining
inks, nas escaped lmpcacUment by the Assembly
oi his Btate. It was a narrow escape lur Ciay-
loh. In order to refloat, ir possible, the Radical
ship oi Btate which is about to go to pieces
among the Arkansiau breakers, Clayton resigns
Me position ol United Buies Senator, to which
he had lmnseii elected, and remains in that
commonweaun to assist the wreckers. Owing,
however, to me rottenness ol Me hulk, and the
uiuiinous crew now upon it, we see no earMly
hope tor saving Me worthless crait, and we
seriously douDt w he Met any nigUer powers Man
those ot earth would inter!.re in its lavor, and
Mus prolong Meir lawless term oi tyranny sd
plunder, uukansas is certanny lost to i-Ua.eai-
isrn as well as Georgia, and Me good ana honest
men oi Mis Union can only Mjoice at Me rapid
decay ol Me onscrupu ous oligarchy which has
lor so long a lime usurped the legitimate exer
cise of law in Mis afflicted land.
Georsia tVew*.
Madison elects her Mayor in April.
Reports from the wheat crop in Clarke and
adjoining counties are not very encouraging.
Columbus is fixing up lor a horticultural fair
in May.
The line of the new railroad between Bain-
bridge and Quincy (Fla ) has been located.
Tbe jail in Fannin county is so conveniently
built that a murderer and his two sons escaped
from it last week.
“ Transfiguration ” is the name used by the
Madison Journal, and applied to the pruning ol
certain trees.
The Columbus Sun recommends the raising
of goats by Southern planters, as a substitute
for hogs.
In an affray at Mallonysviile, Wilkes county,
a citizen named Harmon Beil was killed by a
drover, name not known.
The people ol Athens are clamoring for an
extension of the street railway in that place.
Cock-fighting and cotilion parties relieve the
monctony ol Macon.
Madison elects her Mayor and Aldermen on
the fir=t Wednesday in April.
A Rome man invested two hundred and
seventy-five doliars in a New York jewelry
swindle.
The Athens Banner reports the wheat crop
prospects in that section as discouraging.
The first strawberries of the season grown id
Me open air, made their appearance in Savan
nah Saturday, aud were sold at about 9f cents
each.
Tbe sentence of Anderson, convicted of mur
dering his wife in Muscogee county, has been
commuted by Bullock to imprisonment for life.
The Presbyterian Church made a raid on the
sinners ol Columbus, last Sunday, and captured
twenty-seven.
The residence of Mrs. A. M. Ward, about 12
miles trom Cuthbert, together with her furniture
and most of the clothing ot herself and family
was burned last Sunday night.
Hiram Coff, of Dooly county, has committed
suicide. He was mixed up in the recent death
of Irwin Brown, but had been discharged from
all blame in the matter.
A gentleman, named Crosson, was badly
beaten and robbed by a negro on a public road
in the vicinity oi Lumpkin, last Saturday night
week. The negro is now in jail reflecting on
the lollies ol his youth.
The Western Railroad, since September 1st to
Friday night, has brought to Columbus,en route
ior Savannah, 53,176 bales ol cotton against
29,783 lor Me same lime last season. This is
Me result of President Wadley’senterprise.
A negro, supposed to be from Americus, last
week made a raid on clothes lines in the
vicinity of Lumpkin, and got the hang of things
by capturing the week’s washing of three or
lour families.
The Biub Couuty Agricultural Society assem
bled in Macon and wai addressed by Mr. James
Tinley on the subject, “Economy ct the Farm.”
The Society is to meet again on the 18th in
stant, at Mr. Tinley’s plantation.
A man named FJeman was severely shot in
a difficulty with Mr. J amt-s Smith, of Oglethorpe
county, the latter part of last week. We have
heard various versions of the affair, all ol
which we deem it best to omit for the present.
We learn that a meeting was held in Jeffer
son to consider the subject of a railroad from
Athens to Clayton. Hon. B. H. Hill made a
stilling speech, and awakened a good deal ol
enthusiasm on the subject.' Subscriptions ol
about $15,000 were raised on the spot, and an
interest awakened that promises to result in
iibeial subscriptions throughout the county.
Eatonton had a meteor on Tuesday morning.
It exploded, and the concussion led to the belief
Mat there had been an earthquake.
One thousand shares ol the Charlotte, Colum
bia and Augusta road brougUL $4.0 3-J.6 per
share at a recent sale in Columbia.
There was an attempt at highway robbery
by two negroes, the other day, in the suburbs ot
Alilledgeviile. The offenders were arrested and
Mrowu iuto jail.
A recent visit in the country convinces the
editor oi the bparta Planter that guano is being
used almost as generally as last year, and it the
seasons are lavorable to the growth of the cotton
plant, there will be fully as much raised this
year as last.
The Chronicle Publishing Company, of Au
gusta, propose to publish, on the first of June, a
Directory of Me large cities and towns ol Geor
gia. Tneir agent and associate, Dr. W. G. Phil
lips, will canvas the Btate.
Buliock has commissioned Honorable W. F.
Wright, of Newnau, Judge ot the Tallapoosa
Circuit, lo fill the vacancy occasioned by elec
tion ot J. B. Bigby to Congress from that Dis
trict. Judge Wright is a Democrat, aud was
the opponent oi Bigby lor Congress in the re
cent election. •
A letter from Fort Gaines to the Macon Tele
graph states that on Wednesday last, a youth
tilteen years of age, named Perry Cinquefield,
Me only son of a widowed mother, and a ne
gro man, were fishing in the Chattahoochee,
when the boat capsized and both were
drowned.
The Superintendent of the Central Railroad
cautions tbe public against buying or using cer
tain passage tickets stolen irom the warehouse
at Green’s Cut, on the Augusta and Savannah
Road, on the 2d instant.
Ex>Seuator H. V. itt. Milter,
This disuuguimed gentiemau arrived home
yesterday. W e are g.ad to welcome back tais
able and uncompromising patriot. His course
flas received Me unqualified approbation ol our
people, and we.trust Mat nis eloquence and
patriotism will soon again be made available
101 Me Denefil and best interests ot Georgia.
A Lodge of Good Templars is to be organized
at Newnan.
A Blow willi a Flail.
We do not paiiake ot the apprehensions ex
pressed by many sensible Democrats that the
aggressive aud unconstitutional enforcement
law just enacted by Congress is to operate to the
detriment ol the party or reiniorce the Radicals
at the polls. All eflorts in that direction,
whetner made by Congress or State Legisla
tures, have bilheito produced a contrary effect.
Our majorities in Mis Btate have steadily in
creased ever since Me Republicans attempted to
fortiiy themselves in Me metropolis by usurp
ing powers Mat belonged to Me city, aDd insti
tuting commissions and other associations to
peitorm Me lunctions belonging to the munici
pal government.
lne recoil is always more effective than the
discharge of guu3 ot that description. The
Radicals are the lineal descendants of the
Bourbons. Experience teaches them no les
son. They learn noMing and lorget nothing.
Ever since the surrender ot Lee, uongress has
been legislating to secure the ascendancy of
Me Republicans in the Bomhera Btates. They
have . disregarded the Constitution and the
dictates ot common sense, as well as the mate
rial interests of the country, in striving to re-
lnlorce tne carpet-baggero in the Btates lately
in revolt. Tne substantial, orderly people, who
were ready to accept the consequences ot Me
reDeltion and acquiesce in all wholesome meas
ures looking to me reconstruction ot the Btate
governments and Me restoration of public tran
quillity. have been oppressed and persecuted in
every way—ground down by military exactions
and put at Me mercy ot the negroes, who have
shown more moderation and forbearance than
suited Me purposes of the demagogues at W ash-
mgton. Aud wnat has been the result ? Pre
cisely what intelligent and sagacious men fore
saw. Btate alter Btate has emancipated itself
irom the control ol these people until four-filths
of mem are in the hands of the Democracy,
aud Me remainder are on.y abiding their time,
until the federal lorces are removed and the
power ot the ballot box can oe peacefully as-
SCI ted.
Tue experience of the city of New York
will be repeated all over Me country. Radi
calism cannot be maintained by intimidation
or coercion. Wnen Me Republicans under
took to reinforce Meir paity by seizing upon
me authority ol the city government, and in
augurated Me sjstein by instituting the Metro
politan p Uce and other kmdred commissions,
our m ijurides were ireq.rently counted by
h indr<ds. These atgu handed measures bore
tlieu u.c-vuaoie .rmu Reflecting men ei all
pai tits oecauie auLmed, and our streugM at
Me polls nas been steadily increasing up to
me present day. Like causes produce like
efiects. Every unconstitutional or irregular
measure undertaken by Me Radicals to aug
ment and consolidate their power will prove a
source oi weakness. Aud the more aggravated
and indelensiDle the outrage, Me more general
aud certain will be the reaction. Therelore,
w hile we applaud Me vigor and determination
with which our Iriends in Congress have re
sisted Radical usurpation, on this and all other
occasions, looking at Me matter irom a party
point ot view, aud foreseeing the consequences
oi Me ill-timed measure, we have no moan to
make over Me enactment ot the Enforcement
Law.—Albany Argus.
National Democracy—Harmony Necessary
to Success.
It is asserted that a nfejority of the Northern
Democracy are disposed' to rake up dead issues
at present, and to lug tlmir discussion into the
coming Presidential campaign to the exclusion
of more important living ismes, but that “ they
are venal and time-ser^jag, and will not make
the fight, unless they ser the South determined
to a degree that would if sure success ”
We deny the assertion that a majority ot the
National Democracy c; tbs North and West
are disposed to open tl**i great political cam
paign of 1872 upon anj; such dead issues, as
they are too well advis*d of the tremendous
stakes ior which they ate playing to risk the
triumph of the people’s fatty on vague and (in
stable principles.
In order that the Democratic party, in its
whole and national S'iose, may successfully
overcome the cohorts U Radicalism, a fresh
departure, tree from all the trammels of the
past mast be taken. Il v ill not do to arouse in
the great masses of the. American people the
latent lear that revolutionary leaders and the
schemes of mere lactions ; will be allowed again
to drag the country into anarchy, and that un
stable and disturbing elements will be allowed to
foment political troubles, and divert the current
ot passing events into partisan cnannels. sub-
verrusive of peace and permanent order As we
have repeatedly urged, it U easy to rectify in a
quiet, legal and legitimahrjvray all grievances
of a national character ^ at good sense ana'
sound statesmanship may hereafter find to be
evil, and so declare, and toe w ; ll ot the people
will as firmly sustain any legislation ot an earn
est and profitable kind in t ha luture as it now
sustains acknowledged and legal statutes, bind
ing upon the whole Repuolic as the expressed
will of the majority. Bu‘ lor any faction to
force matters that have been formally set at rest
upon the Democracy at this time, aud by ever
lasting denunciation and the agitation ot pas
sion and prejudice, disturb the harmony oi the
party, and cause disquietude throughout tbe
land, is to act contrary to the best interests ol
National Democracy, and to play into the hands
ot its worst enemies. Besides, we deem it to
be exceedingly bad Taste to denounce
the majority ot our Norti-en. frien - as “ venal
and time-serving,” when'it is no unous th t
upon the shoulders ol our friends at the N rth
lies ihe greater portion of the present struggle
against Radical usurpation’and p .w r, and t*ia‘
Without their gigantic sti.neth and excellent
organization, the peop e of the Bouth wool i
never be able to free themselves Irom the toils
ot their oppressors, and the victory o! Demo
cratic principles in 1872 beeo ne impossible. Let
us be charitable, prudeni, aud tree from sectional
prejudice unbecoming our present situation, aud
let us not mistake brag lor power, or p irtisan
vagaries lor cool and statesmanlike sagacity.
Tbe Balance oi Power.
The South is evidently about to start afresh
on the race for wealth a.-d power. In the next
ten years, beyond a o ubt, we shall find that
the fitteen Btates which c iinprise the Valley
States 4 and whose interests are wholly agricul
tural, will be the weal driest portion of the
Union. The South is to become rich and pros
perous by developing immigration aud laying
hold of the great assisting enterprises of the
age. Establishing direct commerce with for
eign ports; laying the rails'ol an unobstructed
road to the Facific; redeeming and securing
rich lands that are rendered valueless by inun
dation; encouraging the steady flow ot immi
gration, and diversifying the objects ot indus try
to the largest extent; these are the means by
which that section ot the country is to become
restored, and, once being restored, to take its
place in the Union with the influence that legiti
mately belongs to it. The V/est and tbe Bppth
together, both being agricultural in their funda
mental interests, will verjfthcrtly throw two-
thirds of the votes in Congress; and these be
ing backed by such material prosperity and
growth as the world never beton -aw, it is not
necessary to emphasis ; the inferi i«o*» which so
naturally follows.”
An Important Railroad Enterprise.
We see that the Mayor of Columbus, Georgia,
has issued a proclamation ordering an election
in that place on the 31st ot this month, in order
to get an expression ot the sentiments of its peo-
>Ie, concerning the proposed North and South
Railroad. The matter is causing considerable
stir among the merchants and business men of
that city generally, and as Me building of the
postponed road would add greatly to the wealth
and prosperity of that city, a lavorable expres
sion ot public sentiment may readily be ex
pected.
Cotton.
We sincerely trust that our planters will
profit by the experience of the past, and. not al-
iow themselves to be misled by the false glitter
ot prospective gain to overburden their fields
with cotton, to the exclusion of cereals, in the
ratio that it has heretolore obtained. Let wheat
and corn reassume their important station in
the agricultural world of the South, and sup
plying at the least the home consumption of our
county, make ua independent of the North and
West in the way ot breadstufis. ’ Halt of the
area formerly planted in cotton in the cotton
Btates would be amply sufficient to keep tbe
price of this staple up to a respectable and pay
ing standard, while the millions that are an
nually being expended by our people lor the
staff of life to outsiders, would remain in the
country as permanent wealth.
The “Outrage” Gnat—A Special Message
on the Matter.
A special to the New York Evening Post
from Washington says: 44 On Thursday the
Special Committee on Alleged Outrages in the
Southern States will submit their report to the
Senate together with Me evidence taken,
amounting to nearly one thousand printed pages,
and on the day following, it is said, the Presi
dent will send a special message to Congress
relating to the same subject, and asking for leg
islation before adjournment.”
Intelligencer.
This morning’s Intelligencer contains a
brief announcement that Judge Whitaker re
tires from and Dr. Bard takes charge of that
paper.
We wish the Doctor great success, and the
out going proprietor, Judge Whitaker, pros
perity in whatever new vocation he may seek.
[Constitution, March 9i7i.
Of forty-eight Bisters ol Charity tending
the md ail-pox patients in the Bioetre Hospital
at Paris, eleven died ot the hideous ma auy.
Volunteers trfini the sisterhood were caheU tor
to fill their places, and thirty-tnree instantly re
sponded. Many a man nas borne himself
bravely enough upon the battle field, who would
shrink trom each a trial ot courage.
A surgeon was called in the other day to a
house in Ban Francisco, to amputate the leg ol
a woman. He is a near-sigflted man, and
when he reached Me nouse, he got into tne
wrong room, and calmly sawed otl the limb ol
Me servant girl, wfio was a German, and who
nad just come over two days hetore 1 She said
nothing until Me operation was complete, be
cause she thought it was one of the customs ot
the country, which all toreigners had to sub
mit to before they could be quaufiedto remain
in the land of liberty.
Blot, Rapine and Murder In Mississippi.
The loll i vioff details of a horrible affair at
Meridian, JlissUsippi, hive been received. A
dispatch irom Jackson, ot ihe 7th, says :
There was a riot at Meridian, ninety-three
miles east of here yesterday, during* which
Judge E:amle-te. Judge of the City Court, and
eight or ten negroes were killed. A number oi
whites aud negroes were wounded.
A fire occurred at Meridian on Saturday night,
destroying $75,000 worth of property. Loften,
a negro who was arrested as the incendiary, was
being tried betorc Judge Bramiette, when Tyler,
a negro, rose in the court room and shot Ju Ige
Brsmletie through the heart, killing him in
stantly. J. Aaron Monroe, neg:o, a prominent
politician and member of the Mississippi Legis
lature,.who v,3 also a prisoner as accessory to
the burning, was shot, it is supposed, mortally.
Laat night another fire destroyed the church
and other buddings,
A meeting ol the citizens was held, and a
safety committee, to co operate with the Sheriff
in preserving order was appoin'ed. All is now
quiet.
Another account from Meridian under the
same date, say
Yesterday, daring the trial of three negroes,
charged with riotous conduct, one of the pris
oners, named Finley, alias Tyler, shot and in
stantly killed Justice Bramiette, who was pre
siding. An indiscriminate firing ensued, and
two negroes were kiilet in the c-'Ort room. Ty
ler jumped from :a ; second .story to thegrou
but was pursued by tbe Sheriff and shot to
death. The citizens assembled in laige num
bers, armed, to assist the officers. The Sheriff
ordered them to disarm the negroes, in doing
which several were killed.
Last night the total killed, as far as was
positively known, were six negroes and Judge
Bramiette.
The white Mayor, William Sturgis, has long
been obnox : ou3 to good citizens as a planner ot
much inischiet among the negroes. This morn
ing he was, on his own motion, given a safe
conduct to the cars by the citizens, on a pledge
to go North and never return. Ke had, in the
meantime, tdnoered his resignation.
The Intelligencer.
The yesterday morning’s lnteiligencer an-*
nounced that Judge Jared Irwin Whitaker had
retired trom its editorial and business manage
ment, and that be would be succeeded by Dr.
Samuel Bard.
Our best wishes attend Judge Whitaker in
his retirement, as also his successor under whose
management the Intelligencer is to be con
ducted.—Mew Era, March 9.
Southern Cultivator.
We have received the March number of this
very interesting and valuable agricultural
monthly. Its various departments, comprising
agriculture, mechanics, horticulture, household
economy, the diseases of animals, and the edi
torial pages, all evince earnest journalistic la
bor, good taste and experience. It is published
at Athens, Georgia, by Wm. and W. L. Jones,
at the low rate ot $2 per annum.
I3T* A New London Court has fined a man
$2 and costs for kissing a married woman wiin-
oat her consent. He refused to have ms nguis
as a free agent, thus compromised, and ap
pealed to the Bupenor Court, out tne husband
ot the woman, unable to await tne stow course
ot justice, thrashed him to about the amount of
the fine, and now intends to let the law do the
rest.
The Charges against Senator Sprague.
In tbe Senate yesterday, Mr. Tburmau, Irom
the select committee to investigate the alleged
traffic with rebels in Texas during the war,
under the resolution offered by Senator Sprague
on D cernber 13, made a report covering nearly
150 pages, signed by Messrs." Thurman, Hamlin,
Howe, Willey, and Trumbull. The committee,
alter reviewing all the papers furnished by the
War Department, report that they find no evi
dence of any complicity on the part of Senator
Sprague iu auy unlawful transaction. That
there was guilty traffic by Hoyt, and possibly
some others, is quite probable, they say; but
there is nothing ia the papers to implicate Sen
ator Sprague therewith. The committee next
quote tliestattmenlsolHon Thomas A. Jenckes,
of Rhode Island, and incloses tbe list ol wit
nesses furnished by him, some of whom are in
Texas, others in Colorado, others in New York,
and an important one in England—consequent
ly there was no time to examine them. The
report concludes as follows : “ All that your
committee can do un■ ■ er the circumstances, ana
alter haviug found that there is nothing in the
papers implicating Senator Sprague, is to ask,
as they now do, that they be discharged from the
luither consideration of the subject.” The
committee was discharged.— Washington Chron
icle.
The New Cougreas.
The New York Evening Post (Free Trade
Republican) makes a survey of the Furty-Secoud
Congress, which organized on Saturday. Speak
ing ox the political complexion of the House, ii
says:
“The members who took their seats on Satur
day, are 130 Republicans, 96 Democrats and
one independent Free Trader—Mr. James G.
Blair, oi the Eighth District ot Missouri. Ol
.Uioao 00.7 mi-m'a-ra, aa Hue showed in Nov ember,
120 are confidently counted as revenue relorin-
ers, while uot more than 75 can be called “pro
tectionists.” The new House ol Representatives,
therefore, is not only pledged to a better policy
on the subject of land gram* and subsidies gen
erally, but will be lound decidedly in favor of a
thorougb revisiou of Me tariff in the interest ol
the people aud against the monopolists.
The Senate is now the chiet object ot inquiry,
and in that branch ot the government vvu be
lieve that a change relatively as great has been
wrought in lavor of honest and judicious legis
lation. On the 4th ol March the terms ol
twenty-five Senators expire. Twenty-tour oi
their seats have already been filled by election,
although oue, that ol Mr. Revels’ successor in
Mississippi, has been vacated again by the resig
nation ot Governor Alcorn, making it probable
that Mr. Revels will be re-elected. Mr. John
ston will be succeeded by himself or another
Democrat in Virginia. The prospect is that
every Btate will be lally represented. The Sen
ate will, theieiore, oe composed politically ol
58 Republicans and 16 Democrats—a Demo
cratic gain ot six.
Of the twenty-five Senators who enter upon
new lerms, eight have been, or will probably be,
re-elected, and sixteen are new members. Tbe
new members are Powell Clayton, ot Arkansas ;
John A. Logan, ot Illinois; George G. Wrigbt,
ot Iowa ; Alexander (Jaluwell, of Kansas ; J.
K. West, of Louisiana ; Thomas VV. Ferry, ot
Michigan; William Windom, of Minnesota;
Phineas W. Hitcecock,of Nebraska ; and F. T.
Freiinghuysen, of New Jersey—all Republicans;
and George Goldthwaite, of Alabama; Eii
Baulsbury, of D laware; J. W. Stevenson, ol
Kentucky; F. P. Blair, Ju, ot Missouri; Zsbu-
lou B. Vance, ot North Carolina; Joseph P.
Kelly, ot Oregon ; Henry Cooper, of Tennes
see; and Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia—
Democrats.
In point of ability, we believe, there is a
marked improvement in mo3t of these changes.
* * * # *
There are several noticabie features in these
Senatorial enuuges. In the first place, the most
prominent advocates ol tne Ban Domingo
scheme have been rejected by their constituents.
Messrs. Howard, ot Michigan and Thayer, ol
Nebraska, were membtrs of tbe committee ap
pointed to investigate tne transactions ot Gen
eral Babcock in Ban Domingo, and weie very
active in nis favor. They hare supported the
Ban Domingo job at every stage oi its history.
Warner, oi Alanama; McDonald, oi Arkansas;
Howeil, of Iowa: Cattell, ot New Jersey ; Ab
bott, ot North Carolina; Drake, ot Missouri;
Yates, ol Illinois ; ami Williams, of Oregon,
have also supported every recommendation of
tne President in regard to Ban Domingo. They
are all succeeded, we uelieve, by men who will
better represent the wishes ot the peopie on
this subject.
This probably decides the fate of the annex
ation scheme. The last vote in the Benale on
the ratiUcation ot Babcock’s Ban Domingo
treaty was a tie—28 to 28—sixteen members
being absent. It is not only certain that no
treaty of that sort can now receive the consti
tutional majority in the Senate, but very prob
able that even the bare majority necessary for
annexation by joint resolution cannot be nad.
In the next place, several well Known pro
tectionists have been excuanged lor men ot veiy
different views, and there is some hope that Me
Sena e will second the House in relorming the
revenue. All ot the new Democratic Senators
are believed to be decided revenue reformers.
Messrs. Logan, Claytou, Hitchcock, Caldwell
and West, among Me Republicans, are also rev
enue reformer*. Mr . erry, or Micnigan, is
saia to have become disgusted with tne rapac
ity of his protectionist mends; he will not op
pose moderate reforms. M r . Windom ha3 been
claimed by the protectionists as one ot them,
but immediately after his election, he made a
speech wherein he distinctly asserted, lor the
avowed purpose of correcting any misappre
hension, Mat ne lavored the reduction or the
tariff to a strictly revenue standard.
D'OctkioiiM oi Supreme Court ot Geo rat a--
January Term, 1871.
Order of Circuits with the number of cases
irom each:
Macon Pircait 13
Flint Circnit 12
Tallapoosa Circuit 10
Aba alia 0
Atlanta Circuit 17
Rome Circuit 5
Cherokee Circuit 11
Northern Circuit
Middle Circuit 0
Ocmulgee Circuit
Eastern Circuit..., 10
U.-nnswick Circuit 4
AI any 12
Augusts 2
m
Tuesday, March 7, 1871.
judgments ol affirmance were
Carrie Ketchch, the young woman in New
Orleans who, about a year ago, was slabbed and
wounded nearly unto death by her ioriner iover,
and who retused to utter a single word in the
courts in condemnation ot him, alMough she
was thrice Eent to prison lor contempt oi court,
was arrested in the same city a few days ago as
a vagrant. In prison she was greatly affected,
and assured tne Recorder that she was no va-
The followia
rendered :
James Marriu, sheriff, plaintiff in error vs
Mark A. Hason, defendant in error—Rule
against she sheriff from Bibb.
John W. Burge, plaintiff in error, vs. Charles
Stroberge, defendant in error—Case from Bibb
Alark. A. llusoa, plaintiff in error, vs. James
Martin, sheriff—Rule against the sheriff Irom
Bibb.
Theo. W. Ellis, plaintiff in error, vs. J. H
Z .iliu & Co—Demurrer to a bill in equity, irom
Bibb.
Thomas N. Mims, plaintiff in error, vs. J. B.
Rosa, ct. al.—Homestead from Bibb, and in tbe
ea;: ol the Bou’-uw.stern Railroad Company,
plaintiff in error, vs. Malinda DeBrode, defend
ant in error—Case from Bibb.
Iu the case last stated, the Chief Justice did
not preside. Judge Warner and Judge McCay
disagreed, so the judgment of the Court below
stands affirmed by operation of law.
In the case of Geo. M. Logan, trustee, plain
tiff in error, vs. T. Stewart, tenant, and
Wm. P. Goodall, executor, landlord, defendants
in error—Ejectment from Bibb—the judgment
ot the Court below was reversed on the ground
that the Court erred in refusing to grant a new
trial on the fourth and tenth grounds set
fourth in the planitiffs motion. It being the
opinion of this Court that if the leasehold was
paid for with the separate funds of the wife,
the lease was in equity for her separate use, and
as only one undivided half ot the lot had been
sold to White, she was not estopped by Mr.
McLaughlin’s knowledge of the Sheriff’s sale,
irom setting up, through her Trustee, her right
to the other undivided half.
In the case oi P. Btolesburg, plaintiff in er
ror vs. R. S. Lanier, Administrator, defendant
in error—the judgment ot ihe Court below was
reversed on the ground that the Court below
ened in ai lowing the defendant to take a ver
dict in the case when it should have been dis
missed.
In the case of Stephen V. Walker vs. Elihu
H. Walker, the judgment of the Court below
was rever-.ed on Me ground that the Court erred
in view of tbe facts contained in the record, in
charging the jury as stated in the third excep
tion thereto.
John T. Hall, Esq, of Thomaston, was ad
mitted to the bar,
No. 3, Flint Circuit—James R. Walker, et
al,vs. David K. Walker, et aL—was called in
its order. It was argued for plaintiffs in error
by Judge Alexander M. Speer. Col. Sam Hall
replied tor defendants in error.
Pending argument in conclusion by Col. C.
Peeples, the Court adjourned till 10 o’clock, A.
Al., to-morrow.
Wednesday, March 8, 1871.
Argument m No 3, Flint Circuit—James R
Walker, et al.', vs. David R. Walker, et ah—
was resumed and concluded.
No. 4, Flint Circuit—John A. BruCfc vs.
Jatne3 H. Turner. Executor—was argued for
plaintiff in error by Judge J. J. Floyd, and for
defendant in error by James M. Pace, Esq.
No. 6, Flint Circuit—Harry Camp vs. James
M. Peace, Administrator—was substituted lor
No. 5, and argued for plaintiff in error by
Colonel C Peeples.
Pending argument in conclusion by Mr. Sims,
the Court adjourned till 10 o’clock, A. M., to
morrow.
Thursday, March 9,1871.
Argument of No. 6, Flint Circuit, was re
sumed and concluded.
No. 5, Flint Circuit—the Newton Manufac
turing Company vs. H. and T. M. White—hav
ing been substituted for No. 6, was called in its
order.
Pending the argument of this case, the Court
adjourned till 10 o’clock, A. M., to-morrow.
T. P. Westmoreland, Esq., ot Atlanta, was
admitted to the Bar.
Friday, March 10,1871.
Argument of No. 5 Flint Circuit, The New
ton Manufacturing Company vs. H. & T. M.
White—was resumed aud concluded.
Coi. P. L. Mynett and Judge J. J. Hoyt for
plaintiff in error.
Col. C. Peeples and Judge Alex. M. Speer for
defendant in error.
No. 6 having been previously disposed of, No.
7, Camp vs. Phillips—was next called, and at-
gued lor plaintiff by Judge Hoyt, and tor de
fendant by Judge Bpeer.
Pending opening argument in No. 8, the
Court adjourned till 10 o’clock a. m. to-morrow.
FoMi-Fint Congress.
We publish the following extract from the
New York Hot aid’s resume of the Forty-First
Congress— its sins of omission and commisson:
The Forty-First Congress expires at noon to
day. The verdict upon it will be that it has la
mentably failed to come up to the standard of
the people. None ol the great measures which
it was expected to mature and perfect into acts
of legislation have been accomplished. All of
them have remained iu the condemn of mere
pr. jccis. The General Amnesty bill, which
would have restored io all the people of the
South those political rgli!*- which many of the
best of them forfeited bv rebellion, and which
would have been attended with the best results,
socially and politically, was allowed to sleep in
the unfriendly embrace of the Reconstruction
Committee.
The several bills reported from the Commit
tee of Ways and Means to repeal the income
tax, to abolish the duty on eoa 1 and to reduce
the duty on salt were strangled in the House.—
Various propositions to reduce the tariff and in
ternal taxes were smothered in committee and
never permitted to s c the light. The question
>i civil service reform, which so nearly concerns
the existence of our political institutions, was
the theme of much useless discussion in the
Senate; but no practical measure of reform was
proposed or could be carried out. The proposi
tion to incorporate a company for the building
of to air line railroad between th's cuy cr.d
Washington was sue ped in the House tn . par
liamentary quibble, aud never could get over
the impediment; and as to the revisat ol our
commercial and shipping interests, the move
ment in that direction was limited to the ap
pointment ol a special committee, which took
evidence that exposed the paralysis and decay
which had seized upon those great elements of
national prosperity, but stopped there and pre
scribed no remedy ior tbe evil. And now Con
gress expires to-day, having been performea no
single act of legislation on which it can appear
to the people tor an endorsement of its wisdom
or ability.
On the other hand, what schemes of private
hd it not foster and promote ? Let the reckless
manner in which tbe public domain was voted
away to great railroad corporations answer.—
Let the peculiar legislation by which the securi
ties ot the Union Pacific Railroad Company
were appreciated at the expense of the national
Treasury answer. Let those projects tor
making the people of the United States pay tor
the losses incurred by the South in the rebellion
answer. These schemes, together with politi
cal measures to keep alive jancor between the
sections, and to establish a federal police to con
trol elections in the Btates, occupied the time of
Congress to the exclusion of these useful and
necessary measures of legislation to which we
first referred. In a word, the expiring Congress
may, with its last breath, repeat that confes
sional phrase ot the Episcopal liturgy. “ We
have done those things that we ought not to
have done, and we have left undone those things
that we ought to have done, and there is no
health in us.”
Effects of Peace on Foreign Goods.
Prominent importers of French goods, the New
Yoik Times tells us, do not think the effect of
peace will be very marked immediately, bat that
me summer and fall trade will be materially
affected. When the siege of Paris became im
minent, the goods were hurried into the English
markets, so that they became glutted to such an
extent as to depreciate the value ot the goods.
American merchants took advantage ot this
state ot affairs and purchased liberally, which
will account tor the excessive importations dur
ing the last hall of 1879 and thus far in the
present year. It is expected that the price of
raw silk will advance immediately, as also the
price oi labor througnout France, and that here-
aiter, and lor many years, the price of silks and
velvets will be greatly enhanced. In view of
ihe impoverishment of the French people, the
enormous debts they have to discharge, and the
laying waste of many ot the manufacturing dis
tricts, the importers do not see how it is possible
tor French goods to be any lower than they are
now, and expect that Mey will appreciate in
value irom thirty to fifty per cent.
The. same may be said ot German goods, tor
it cannot be expected that the people who have
been compelled to sacrifice their industrial oc
cupation will be enabled to return to them tor
many monthe.
Visible Supply of gotton.—The following
table shows Me quantity ot cotton in sight at
this date of each ot the two past seasons. We
are again without our usual cable dispatch to
night, and give therefore for stock and Ameri
can, afloat, the figures of last week:
1871.
Stock in Liverpool 764,000
Stock in London 78,332
Mock m Ulaecow 350
Stock in Havre 48,8(0
brock in Marseilles 4,600
Stock in Bren’en 3,750
Stock rest of continent 35,000
afloat ior Great Britain (Amer,).. 394,oOO
Afloat tor France (Amer. and Bnz)
Total Jnd. conon afloat for Europe 143,495
Stock in L'mted siatee ports 659,708
Stock in Inland towns 133,385
Total 2,139,290
These figures indicate an increase in the cot
ton in sigh' to-night ol 547,010 bales, compared
wnh the same date of 1869.
l ne exports oi c Htou this week from New
York show an increase since last week, the to
tal leaching 19,010 bales, against 14,571 bales
last week.
1872.
292,000
75,136
300
80,500
4,600
6,700
30,000
386 000
43,560
101,336
663,7W
101,384
1,590,280
grant; Mat she had been arrested for spite or _
malice, and that when the officer took her 9he j of his views, beyond saying, to-day, that he
Radical Tricks.—The Southern Radicals
are endeavoring to operate on the fears of their
party associates to bring about a prolonged ses
sion, in order to secure some such bill as Gen
eral Butler tried to lorce tnrough the last House.
a number oi them waited on the President to
day to ask his influence in recommending such
legislation. It is reported that a delegation of
negro legislators is on the way here from South
Carolina, with an unblushing declaration that a
condition ot quasi war exists, against which
their so-called Btate organization is powerless.
Great activity prevails among the more ultra
Repuolican3 in circulating these statements as
reasons lor Congress remaining in session.
The President has not given any intimation
was on the way to make some small purchases
tor her employer.
Rev. 3Ir. Cheney, ot Cnicago, the recently
suspended Episcopal clergyman, gave notice to
nis congregation on Bund ay last, Mat members
wouid oe received into the Church as usual; but
that, ior the present, the rite of confirmation
couid not be administered,
thought it would he well for Congress to remain
here two or three weeks. The general impres
sion, however, is that the Senate will amend
the House resolution and substitute Monday
next as the day on which au adjournment will
be had.
Mr. and Mrs. Watkins are filling an engage
ment at Augusta.
The Late Bishop Andrew.—The Mobile
Register of the 3d pays the following tribute to
the memory of Bishop Andrew, of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, who died in that city on
the 1st inst.:
The death of the revered patriarch of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, which was
announced Wednesday night alter our columns
were closed, is one of those events which touch
the hearts of thousands with solemn awe. A
spirit has returned to its God, that has held con
verse with multitudes lor generation alter gen
eration, from the aged fathers who listened to
his earliest ministi atioB3, down to children who
out now gazed with a reverence inexplicable to
themselves upon his venerable form, while they
could scarcely comprehend the lessons that tell
from his lips. Buch a life bridges over centuries,
&nd connects us with the dnys of Wesley and
Whitfield, and we experience a feeling of iso
lation when this connection botwe&n ua and Uio
historical characters ol the past is broken. The
lines *are down between us and the worthies
oi a hundred years ago.
But it is not only a long, a busy, a useful and
a holy life that has closed tor this world but
one that was passed in eminent otations. ’ He
walked on the heights, not in the shaded dells.
Especially from the lime of the events which
led to the separate organization ot the Southern
Methodist Church, has James O. Andrew—not
even then a young or unknown man—been be
fore Me world, maintaining as tong as his phys
ical strength permitted, that foremost, place
which circumstances illustrated his fitness tor
occupying.
Bishop Andrew was native of South Carolina.
He had passed sixty years in the ministry,
which he entered at the age of 18, and was con-
decratea in 1831. I 4 or some time past he has
been feeble, and gradually declining, and a
week ago last night he was brought over from
New Orleans, paralyzed in one side, and con—
veyed to the parsonage of the St. Francis street
Methodist Church, to tbe family of his son-in-
law, Rev. J. W. Rush. Here he sunk away dav
by day and hour by hour, and expired at fifteen
minutes past 11 o’clock last night, the 1st. inst.
murder of Colonel Flsli.
The Savannah Republican says :
The Macon Telegraph states, what occurred
to us on the first announcement, that there is a
general impression at Oglethorpe that Colonel
Fish was shot through a mistake, the assaesm
believed him to be another person, for whom be
was lying in wait. The following extract from
a letter to that j urnal repels the idea that the
aflairhad anything to do with political differ
ences:
There are ma' y and various speculations a’d
conjectures among Me citizens as to the cau e
of the murder. Borne seem to think his late
appointment to tbe district may have had some
thing to do wit/ >t, but I cannot see how that
could probably . , for the citizens generally
were satisfied with his appointment. I have
never heard a man express dissatisfaction wuh
it, and he was decidedly the best man lor tne
position of any who were applying for it. 1
know that the Democratic pany were generally
well pleased with the appointment.
Politically, Colonel F. claimed to belong to
neither of Me political parties, but was a con
servative man, and called himself a conserva
tive. I was quite intimate with him, and say
what I believe I know when I say his sympa
thies were with the Democratic party. Fur
reasons of his own he voted in 1868 lor Gover
nor Bullock and the constitution. He voted lor
Seymour and Biair lor President and Vice Pres
ident, and in the late election he did Dot vote.
Two persons have been arrested, a white man
and a colored man, who will have a prelimina
ry trial on Friday, but the evidence, so lar as 1
am informed, is only circumstantial.
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Xlie Baronet BUI.
The odious bayonet bill was successful in the
United States Senate, after an all night session,
just as it came Irom the House, and will to-day
receive the President’s signature. The opposi
tion on the part ot the Democrats has been
strenuous and peisis'ent, but they had a dogged
partisan majoriiy to encounter who were deter
mined upon pacing the bill at all hazards. Mr.
Eldridge properly ebaracterized it as a cheat, a
delusion, and a snare. Judge Woodward, in
his able speech, alter demonstrating that-the”
15th Amendment is no where opposed, ex
plained with equal clearness the wicked absurd
ity of this “enforcement” as designed' not to
“enforce” any constitutional provision, but to
tear away the political power of tne country
from white men to deliver it up to irresponsible
Federal supervisors, who are backed by all the
forces under the control of the Commander-in—
Chief. Challenges, arrests supervision—all are
arbitrary. The elections will become simply
the expression of iheir will; the people are lett
no free choice whatever.
During the debate on Friday, General Biair
stigmatized the bill as intended to enable Gen
eral Grant to re-elect himself, and unquestiona
bly that is its object; bayonets and compulsion
being in accordance with his philosophy ot
government. To pass it Congress has thrust
aside income tax, tariff, commercial, financial,
and civil service bills; Me vast interests of the
country are neglected, the complaints ot the
people at high lood and high coal unheeded,
and business is permitted to languish, and taxes
to overwhelm me nation vainly begging for re
lief, that an atrocious outrage upon the freedom
of elections may be perpetrated. The resemb
lance ot oar Republic to the Empire created by
Bismarck, discerned by Grant in his recent pub
lic expression ol sympathy with Germany, ia
made palpable to every mind by this last and
worst act of Congress.---Boston Pott.
Madison ha3 witnessed a meteor, and felt an
{ earthquake.