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OLUME xxiii
ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 6, 1869.
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France Shaking Hands with the. United
States.
The French cable is completed, and now
there are three lines of telegraphic commn-
nicatiou between Europe and the United
States, all in perfect working order.
The termini of the French Cable are
Brest, France, and Duxbury, Mass.
The following are tht first dispatches that
passed over this new cable, between the
two chief Executives of the two nations :
Paris, July 28,8:45 a. m.
To the Hon. Secretary of State, Washington.
The Emporor of the French to the Pres
ident of the United States, Washington :
I am highly gratified to inaugurate the new
line of telegraph, which unites France with
the Doited States, by sending to you the
expression of my good wishes for you and
for the prosperity of the United States.
[Signed] Napoleon.
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The Committee «« Outrages.
«ir i f the eight members of fop Oca-
*“ •< fin rfonmiittee
oslAsieioblj, composing ti e Comuiittee
HI AfthCIPWM? — r . TT..
, Outrages, are tP this city viz : Hou
? -V Cbotruion, wd
tt’.l*. Price, of Luuipkw
tlfcirn. Carpenter, Lre and Ellis, of the
Home,and Hungerford and McArthur, of
tie Senate. Those absent are Messrs.
Nesbit, of Dade, and Welch, of Dougherty,
ll the State Treasurer honors the Execu
te warrant, defraying the expenses of this
eeaadltee, the investigation will proceed,
if not, are aie informed that the committee
will adjourn and go home* At. Era.
We most sincerely hope the Treasurer
srill not honor the above named warrant,
sad that this useless eommitteo will have
lo pay their own expenses, jf they choose
o stay away from their own private busi
ness.— Koine Courier.
What in the name of our country does
oar friend Dwiuellinean by givingsuch ad
vice as the above. The committee was ap
pointed by the Legislature and its duties
clearly defined. The State is hound to pay
the expenses—and there is no way of get
ting around it—and it is useless to advise
otherwise.
Hon. Wm. P. Price, of the county of
Lumpkin, Chairman of the Committee, bw
been in the city for several days, and we
had t very interesting interview with him
ea yesterday, and he gave us a fine report
itfthe state of tbidgs in Northeast Geor-
©»•
The great body of our people are con
servative, and are determined to support
the government as it is, and as it will be,
egardless of extremes on either aide.
Col. Price is strifctly conservative, and
highly esteemed and greatly respected by
all who know him, .end we hope he may
live long and do .much good for the coun
try.—A*. M.
We would inform our friend of b' le I n ‘
■telligeucer that we meant precisely what
weeaid. Our,remark woe evidently based
'upon the Treasurer’s possessing the right
ua iponor,af,dissolving the Committee on
Outrages by rduSing to honor their draft-
We can see no good likely to result ,to
the State from their remaining in session
two or three months, at an expense to the
■State of five to ten thousand dollars. If a
majority of the committee are conservative,
>nd they should make a fair and faithful
■report after minute investigation, North-
•erc Radicals would pronounce the whole a
set of Copperhead lies, and disregard it. If,
■on the other hand, a.pajoritty of them are
radicals, their report, taking a party bias,
■would be filled up with negro and scalawag
affidarits,,moat,ofthc(gi suborned, and all
■ialse intheir essential features, and Bul
lock s policy,af,returning the State to mil
itary rule, .would receive just the support
■that Northern Radicalism and Southern
scab wags and carpet baggers desire.
No, the true policy of Georgia is, to em-
phat'caiiy mind her own business. See that
or own laws and those of the Federal gov-
rl nment afe faithfa,1 y el cctxted within her
boundaries, and command respect by being
worthy of it. It will be of no use to be
to disprove thenlah-
ies of mercenery caterers to Pnri-
•banical hate and bigotry.
Tie committee have adjourned and gone
“Thanksgiving for a Demijohn of Whisky.”
We publish to-day a beautifully written
epistle by Rev. A. G. Haygood, upon the
gTeat power,-for good or evil, of the newer
paper press. His criticisms upon the de
flections of this great engine of moral, so
cial and political power, from the “straight
and narrow path,’’ are, in the main ho less
sgvere than just; and we hope the lecturo
hft gives will have the effect to put ns all
more strictly on our guard, in reference to
the moral tenden-y of whateygr jpfluence
publishers may possess. Probably the
“Fourth Estate” in the South is, at least,
as little demoralized as any other element
in society, but this is nr reason why it
should not strive fer perfect purity and en
tire freedom from the degenerating ten
dency of the times.
■'•one, and
‘°°U8 course.
we command them fortheir judi-
Lxcitements in Dirt Town.
<* learn that last Thursday, the 29th,
^ was a very exciting day in Dirt Town
1 eyi Chattooga county. Two negroes
' e ®P eyed in running a thresher for Messrs.
. at Mr. Herndon’s, fell of the fraternity.
^Wofteem, Taylor Wooten, cut,
? 1 totally, George Lawrence, the
r - The latter made his escape. .
n the same day, in the same neighbor-
i^Ir. McClendon,an old citizen, died,
** *f # ' a son—about 13 months oil
of John Jones, jr.
P *M0NAL.-0ri Thursday we received
Utrom Mr. Henry K. Heydon, Esq.,
. _ T of the New York Mercantile Jour
a IV ?r J - ^ er «uttbtlo Jonrnal is
forJ 6 1 Dews paper, intended especially
crehants, and is unrivaled in its ex-
vear 0 ' ^ et potations., Price 85.00 a
J«r. Addrr* * *’ ‘ ‘
Pe «fstrm^Y erCantile Jt0Uroa1 ’ 35 ° ;
Washington, D. C., July 28.
The President of the United States to the Em
peror of the French
I cordially leciprocate your good wishes,
and trust that tSe liberal policy of the Uni
ted States, pursuant to which the sable has
been landed, may result in many such means
of communication, especially between this
country and its earliest ally and friend.
[Signed] .* U. S. Grant.
The Game Checkmated.
The Chronicle & Sentinel reports a ru
mor that Mr. Huibert—who is said to have
been strenonsly opposed to the appoint
ment of Blodgett—has determined to man
ege the proceeds of the State Road, so that
the nominal Treasurer shall not handle one
dollar of the money Jf the Superintend
ent will but do this thing, he will receive
the cordial thanks of every honest tax
payer in the State.
S ecret History of the Southern Confeder
acy.
We have received a copy of the above
named book, by E. A.. Pollard, from the
National Publishing Company, at Atlanta.
It is sold by subscription only. It is a
beautifully printed volume of 536 pages,
and has as the frantic piece a well’en
graved likeness of President Davis, execut
ed from a photograph taken recently. The
expression of the fiioe indicates a lofty spir
it, broken down with anxiety and trouble.
We have not yet had tin# to peruse the
book, but presume it exhibits the author’s
inveterate hatred t iwards the pure and pa
triotic head of the Southern Confederacy.
We expect to read with mnch greater
satitfiictioD the “Memoirs of the war,” by
Gen. Henry Lee, revised by Gen. Robert
E- Lee. This book will soon be published
by the University Publishing Company, of
New Fork.
Workmen's International Exhibition In JLon
• don.
Floyd Superior Court.
By reason of a unanimous request of the
Grand Jury, for the second week, Jiidce
Kirby has decided to bold court next
week for the purpose of trying eases on the
criminal docket, ft is hoped t at all the
jurors will be present, so that as many as
possible of the cases may be tried
We understand that a large number of
true bills have been found for gambling,
and minor classes of .crimes and misdemean
ors, during the present week.
The Court adjourned ygaferda-j evening
to Tuesday morning, when two or three
civil cases will be tried before taking up
the crimii.al docket.
Funeral.
The funeral ofonr highly esteemed fel
low citizen, if. F« Hooper, took place at
Bush Arbor Church, last Thursday after
noon. The sermon was preached by Key.
J. W. Pullen, and the remains buried with
Masonic honors.
The Polk Superior Court Postponed-
The Augiut term of the Polk county
Superior Court has been postponed to the
first week in November- See adv.
Thp Drouth still Continues.
Paring the past week we have had two
or three very slight showers, but nothing
like a good season in nearly four weeks.
Bg^Romemembor the sale of Stillwell’s
lot on Howard street, at auction, Saturday,-
11 a. m—at Powers and Whiteley’p stable.
Terms half cash—half 60 dayB. -No
bybidders.
The Alabama Election
For members to Congress takes place next
Tuesday, August 3d.
Much Obliged.
IF# received by last Thursday’s boat, a
yery large and delicious water melon, from
our friend, Wm. McGhee, of Cherokee
county, Ala. We should not get vexed
about it if others should happen to remem
ber us in the same way.
Anderson .& Lamki# have the McGhee
melons—which pre’not surpassed in this
section—for sale.
Southern Masonic Female College,
We take pleasure in calling attention to
the advertisement of the above named ex
cellent school, loeated at Covington, Ga.—
The corps of teachers is full and of the high
est order, and, as they educate gratuitously
» large number of indigent orphans of de
ceased Masons, they deserve well of, and
have especial claims upon the patronage
Good Shaving.
.The colored barbers, Haley & Hamilton,
at the Choice Hotel, can give you a good,
clean shave, or ageutpo) hair dressing, at
short notice. Give them a trial-
UA.Judge Johnson, ■—rr** ---
in Columbus. Police is to be uniformed in
light bine.— Columbus Enquirer.
“There is not a drop of humbug in an
ocean of Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid.” This
is the emphat ic declaration of the distin
guished CoL W. F. Sanford, of Ala., after
he had tried and proved the virtues of that
ivmnderfhl agent.'. ' ’■
British Consulate, 1
Savannah, July 26,1869. j
Arrangements have been made to hold'
in London, in the year 1870, an “Exhibi
tion entitled “The Workmen’s Internation
al Exhibition,” and her Britanic Majesty’s
government taking great interest in the sue
cess of the undertaking have instructed
British Consuls at foreign ports to bring
the mafiter to the DOtice of the public,
with the view to ascertain whether contri
butions can be forwarded.
The committee of the exhibition have ar
ranged that the name of the workman, or
workmen combining to prodace the same
article shall in all cases be attached to the
article exhibited; and they desire to im
press on artisans the necessity of exhibi
ting artioles of really good quality upon
which they are employed in their own
trade. Such articles shonlddisplay manip
ulative skill, or some economy of process,
so as to set forth some special merit on the
part of the inventor, designer or maker.
Medals and certificates of merit will bp
giveD,vs also, in special cases, prizes in
money.
Her Majesty’s Consul for Georgia will
be glad to firnish every information in his
power to those artisans in this State who
may-feel* disposed to take part in the Exhi
bition, and recommend the project to their
notice and to that of their employers.
Country papers please copy. -Savan
nah Republican.
Yerger? Probable Fate.
From tho Cincinnati Commercial, July 38.
The findings and sentences in the Yer-
ger case are, according to rule, kept secret,
till they are approved by the reviewing au
thorities at Washington. We are advised,
however, that the proceedings in this case
have been forwarded to Washington. Now,
as the sentence in any case short of capital
punishment wonJd have needed only the ap
proval of the commanding General of the
District—General Ames, in this—we can
arrive at hnt one conclusion, namely: that
the plea -of insanity has not availed; that
the commission did not find for cither of the
lower degrees of crime—justifiable homicide
or manslaughter but that it has found that
the killing of Colonel Crane was murder,
and the punishment awarded—death.
Suez Canal.—In the month of October
next the Suez Canal will, tfaronghont its
entire length, have attained the required
depth of twenty-six English feet with a
width varyipg from one hundred metres
(327 English feet) along the greater por
tion of the canal, to sixty metres (196 Eng
lish feet) at three other points along the
lipe as specified ip the plans. The offi
cial inauguration has now been fixed to
take place on the 27 of November
next.
Death of an Estimable Lady,
On Friday, 23d July 1869, the spirit of
Jennie, the lovely apd accomplished wife
of George H, Wood, Esq., of the JJ. 8.
Treasury Department, Washington, gently
passed, almost without a struggle from
earth to Heaven.
Mrs. Wood was the daughter of the late
C. A- EHs, Esq., of* this city, and tho be
loved sister of our well known fellow-citizen,
Henry N. Ells, Esq. Here Bbe wpstorn f
and here, UDtil the date of her marriage
her life was passed. Loving and beloved
by all who knew her, she was ever sur
rounded by warm personal friends, all of
whom will learn with deep regret that she
is no longer the pride, of that domestic cir
cle she was so /eminently fitted to adorn.—
Jtlacon Afcss.
General Le e’s Book.—TheUnlyersJjy
Pnblisning Company, of New York, are
about to issue the “Memoirs of the War,”
by General Henry Leg, revised by Gen.
Robert E. Lee, who adds a life of bis fath
er It will be handsomely illustrated.. Gen.
Lee is interested in the book, a fact that
must enhance its sale. To he sold ly
agents,—A/. Const.
Affray at Tilton.
At Tilton, on Tuesday night, a mas
named Hogan, was stabbed badly by an un
known Alabamian, who pspsped. TbP
parties were drinking. The stranger ask
ed Hogan to treat him. Hogan said he
would give him- a gallon if* he wanted it.
They started off to the grocery together,
and on the way the stabbing occurred.
Hogap ig pot expected to live. Hogan
is paid to be an employee of the State
road, s
These are the facts os detailed by a gen
tleman who came down this morning.—At.
Const, of 24<A,
Death of General Steadman.—A
correspondent of (be New York Herald,
writing from Santiago de Cuba on the 8th
inst., says :1
With deep regret I have to announce the
death on the 6th Gen. Steadman, United
States Consul at this port. The General
only Arrived on the 29th ult., and was soon
after attacked by yellow fever. On Satur
day his condition became critical and de
fied all medieai skill to save him. The fu
neral took place on Wednesday, and was
attended by a large official concourse. The
General’s dpatb caused profound sorrow
in town, although from the recent dafe of
his arrival he had made b»t few acquaintanc
es. Pending the nomination pf General
Steadman’s successor, the business of the
Consulate will he attended to by My. A. E-
Phillips. . Ttjr . ’ *
#®*Tlie old expression “I smell a rat,”
eepms to have died out. No wonder, since
Darby’s Prophylactic fluid puts an end to
all bad smells, wherever it goes. •
[From the South Carolina Advocate.
Thanksgiving for. a ‘‘Demijohn of Whisky.
Mr. Editor—I believe in the Pi
“the fourth estate of tho realm.” No man
knows its power. Its Briarean bands
touch every sphere of life and affect every
department of activity. The influence of
the press is felt in. every fibre ofonr civil
ization. It discusses all questions. There
is no issne so grave bat that it may be flip
pant in the disposal of it; there is*’ nothing
so trifling that, Upon occasion, it will not
magnify it into grave importance. Its
voice directs those great movements of the
people that make or nnmake administra
tions, and Jit determines the results of an
election for constable. It sets forward
grand enterprise of sci nee and-energy like
the Atlantic cable, or the Pacific railroad,
and reports the proceedings of a village de
bating society; it tells t he world of political
revolutions that give new governments to
miliums, and parades, in a perfect ecstacy
of interest, the details of the last prize
fight or trotting match. The press wields
the best and the worst, the most conserva
tive and,the most destructive agencys that
give shape to society and sow the seeds of
histories yet to be. It is ubiquitous and
irrepressible. No man is beyond its infln-
ence: one cannot stay in society and avoid
it. To escape it he most get out of the
world—as he would escape the atmos
phere.
The press and public opinion are the Sia
mese twins of society. What moves the
one inspires the other. Public opinion is
reflected in the press and the press forms
public opinion. The one may be-judged
by the other. The utterances of the press
give ns the diathesis of the times. The
newspaper is the sliding scale by which we
may measure the rise and fall oi’public and
private virtue. Do the conductors of the
press generally know the tremeidous power
of this enginery ? The words of Caesar
were but the hand of a child to this her-
cules of our civilization.
Is the pr< ss outside the great law ef re
sponsibility to God that binds every soul to
“obedience of the truth ?” Are publishers
and editors, like railroads and other cor
porations, without soul ? and shall they,
along with railroad superintendents, and di
rectors, claim for themselves utter irrespon
sibleness to God and man ? Is it not true
of publishers and editors, as of other men,
that the abuse of a great power is the per
version of a great trust ? a heinous sin
against God and a grievous wrong upon
man f
We give thanks thatamong the condufc
tors of the press are earnest and true men,
who fear God and labor for man’s peace
as ever in the great taskmaster’s eye.”—
There ape some who have words of cheer
for every good tiring, and who, unmoved
by bribes or frowns, look sin in i$ji brazen
face and, in Gad’s namp, rebuke it, always
and everywhere. Heaven grant them re
inforcements, for in the wide harvest field
such “laborers are few.”
What the press is, what it ought to be
and what it may be, what influence it is
now exerting, are questions of grave impor
tance to every man who thinks.
It is a matter for thanksgiving thpt per
tain classes of publications do not have
their origin in the Soqth. There is not a
Southern city that t^onld sustain such
treasuries of villainous wood cuts, obscene
recitals and diabolical suggestions as are
paraded before the country in those c arling
organs of Pandemonium—the “Police
News” and other creeping things, after its
kind. When the depraved among qs da-
light their prurient tastes with such rare
bits of sensualism they are obliged to im
port it. It takes New York or Chicago
to cater successfully to- such appetites. Up
to date, Southern Bishops and divines—
Heaven be praised—have not entered the
oolumns of Bonper’a Ledger —trotting for
pay with Dexter and Beecher. But the
carnal appetency is showing itself. The
importation of this depraved literature is
constantly inpreqsing, and, if thp truth
may be spoke*i—onr secular press is largely
responsible for it. Some of onr Southern
papers are doing their utmost to debauch
Southern sentiment. If the result is in
tended, it is criminal in the last degree, as
conspiring with the Devil against the life
and parity of eopiety; if if is Uflt intended,
and thp wicjted thirgs that are written and
approved by some of our editors afe Bimply
spontaneous expressions of the thoughts
they think and tho principles they enter
tain; if they write as they do, because, be
ing what they are, they cannot write oth
erwise; or, if indifferent to the good or
evil they may accomplish, they only “grind
for the loll,” in any case the character of
many of onr daily papers demonstrator the
mental and moral nnfitness of their man
agers and editors for the places they have
presumed to occupy.
The time has come when—“for the mon
ey”—the most disreputable business maybe
advertised and the most unworty adventu
rer be editorially endorsed in the columns
offhrp'e-fourths of the secular papers in the
country. There is not a vagabond gang of
tenth-rate minstrels—too mean for editorial
commendation; there is not a circus tronpe
so meaere in ife appointments, so contemp
tible with its spavined horses, and so loath
some with its drunken men and coarse wo-
men. that editorial rhetoric cannot be
bought to exalt it into a magnificent oor-
tego. a most delightful entertainment;
there cannot come this way an imitation of
Black Crook, or other Devil’s show—so ap
pallingly node, so revoltingly obscene, but
that editorial sanction shall immediately
glorify as a pfiaptp. “exhibition”—“a spec
tacular drama of thrilling interest.” Of
the majority of these papers there is hard
ly a single issue that is uot defiled with dis
gusting personalities, with half suppressed
blasphemy, with, low jests and double en
tendre that may amuse the wits of the bar-
V09P and the bagnio, but that make every
pnpe woman blush and eyery right-mfeded
maq ashamed.
If to any charitable person these remarks
should seem unduly severe, I only ask that
he will attentively consider what evidence
of the tenth the next dozen papers, he may
chance to see, will afford, and I am per
suaded that he will object to my state
ments only .because they are deficient in fi
delity of analysis and energy of expression.
On last Sunday morning two, at least, of
the daily papers, published in this city,
presented to their patrons—along with re
ligious notices for Sabbath reading, ex
travagant laudations of a certain ale -house-
and drinking shop that in the local colnmn
had won editorial favor by the magnificent
present of a whole “Demijohn of Whis-
HV |” It threw these geqtlemen intp_ a
state of preternatural mental activity
while they invoked both prose and poetry
to express their unutterable gratitude.—
Yoq may think that my acpoqpt of the af
fair is mere burlesque, but I assuio yon,
sir, there was no burlesque about their
gratitude—it was sincere and raptnrous.—
One of our city papers has repeatedly, with
in the last few months, publicly returned
thanks to various bar keepers for so small
a favor as a single bottle of whisky.
is not easy to determine
whether so violent a strain npon courtesy
and gratitude is the evidence of uncommon
thirst or of extreme impecuni* sity.
Not long since we were regaled with sn
editorial leader, strong and eloquent in
commendation sf a certain “Lottery,” lo -
cated here, and run in the nadfe of Mason
ry and benevolence; for which I refuse to
believe that Masonry is Tesgonsible, and,
upon which—since it so antagonizes the
Paulino am. Christian methods of benevo
lence, I cannot expect the blessings of
Heaven to rest. I rejoice to know that
there was one paper in Atlanta, that could
not be bought over by the “management,”
to the advocacy of this immoral device for
making an easy living. When, sometime
since, it was charged that the late man
aging editor of the New York Tribune had
sold the influence of his paper “for a con
sideration,” a howl of indignation was rais
ed that startled the sleeping virtues of the
“Fourth Estate,” from Maine to Oregon.—
What is the difierence ? That the Trib
une man could not be bought with “demi-
iohnsof whisky,” nor other such beggarly
iribes. Chiefly therefore, a difference of
price.
If snch things as aie under considera
tion were private affairs, mere expressions
of individual tastes and opinions they might
be passed by iff commiseration of their
weakness or contempt for their venality.
Bat, Mr. editor, a newspaper can in no
wise be made a private affair. It claims to
reflect and ga de pnhlic opinion. Its ut
terances concern the peace of society,
the sobriety, virtue and destiny of onr
children.
Those of ns who do not believe that the
amount of whisky a man consumes is a true
measure of his civilization, nor a conclusive
proof of his fitness for the office of editor,
are entitled tc demand that, if every low
sink of iniquity and appliance of demc rali-
zation must be advertised, it shall not, at
least, receive, editorial endorsement; that
those-who assume to guide onr opinions
shall not thus unHnshingly proclaim to
the world that their own are for sale-
This evil is not peculiar to Atlanta. It
is epidemic to a most alarming extent. Ve
nality is the sin of the age, and the press
furnishes hundreds of conspicnon3 and
shocking examples. I suppose that there
is no business man of our cities who does
not know that a good fee will command for
the merest stranger the strongest editorial
endorsement; that for money enough, lan
daturas can be pa chased, of which their
writers do not believe one word. This has
gone so for that no man who is acquainted
with these moral indiosyncracies of the press
pays the slightest attention to any commen
dation of an advertiser that can be made.—
That maq must he green indeed who, going
as a stranger into rae of onr cities, would
enter a place of business simply because
the editor hadrecommended it.
Who does not know that the majority of
these papers will publish a more emphatic
and extended notice of “Kenny’s Ale
House,” for a “demijohn of whisky” than
of the oldest and most reliable establish
ment in the'eity that confines itself to le
gitimate advertising ?
I do not hesitate to say, and with all
possible earnestness, that such conduct is
criminal and injurious to the last degree.
As far as snch newspapers have influence it
is exerted to make vice respectable. It
tends to confuse the moral perceptions of
the young, to blunt their sensibilities, to ac
custom teem to vice and harden them
against tee truth.
It is true that the abuse of a great pow
er is the perversion of a great trust. The
greater tee power tee more criminal and de
strnctive is a careless or miliciouz use of it.
It will not answer for these gentlemen of
the press, who recklessly play with thun
derbolts, to raise their hands in horror
when they behold the wreck and ruin teat
has been wrought, and exclaim, I did not
intend it.
They are under every sanction of human
and divine law to intend not to do it. ‘If
fire break ont, and catch in thorns, so that
the stacks of corn, or tee standing corn, or
the field be consumed therewith; he that
kindled the fire shall sorely make restitu
tion. If I, for one, did notsee that a li-
sentious press, is responsible for the rain
of thousands of oqr fellow citisens; if I did
not recognize in (lie press a moat potent
agent foi^good or evil, I should hold my
peace. If a pure press is tee mightiest of
the mighty means, on whieh tee arm of pro
gress leans, a perverted press is the most
destructive agent of sin and ruin that can
breed apostacies from faith end from liher-
tv. Hell’s great leader is terrible not sim
ply because he is wicked, bat because he is
also powerful; he is Satan and Apoilyon.
bat he has been “Lucifer, Son of the morn
ing.
I have written these plain words because
silence has ceased to be a virtue; because,
with my conviction *, silence would be as
wicked as the iniquities I deplore.
Such persons as may find themselves em
braced in . the indictment have no just
ground for complaint. If they believe
what they say, they should thank me for ex
tending a knowledge of their sentiments; if
they do dot believe it, upfi only publish
what is paid for without regard for the
tenth, they should not blame me since them
selves have already advertised their insin
cerity to the extent of their circulation.
I ask yon, sir, in solemn earnestness,
whether there are not enongh good men in
the country to sustain a secnlar paper that
we shall notfearto take into onr houses; a
paper that will not be the organ of cliques
—that shall be free and pure—teat taking
the heayenttempered sword of truth in loy
al hands “smite with fiery force” the most
hoary untruths and tee mightiest and the
mightiest and most mexpungable corrup
tions of the rulers, and of the people t
Attictjs G- Haygood.
.The Garden of Eden.—A London
letter to Scribner's New York Boole-Buy
er contains the foUqwiqg, wki°l l .P r0I Bi8es
to settle the long-mooted question of the
site of tee Garden of Eden :
“Sir Harry'Kawlinson, at .the last, meet
ing of the Royal Asiatic Society, gave the
remarkable announcement that the progress
now reached in the collection and irrange-
ment of the Nineveh inscribed fragments,
made it beyond a doubt that they wonld
be able to derive the whole of the history
given in the Book of Genesis, from the time
of Abraham, from the original documents ;
and it was not too much to expect that al
most the same facts and descriptions wonld
be found in the Babylonian documents as
m tee Bible. He hoped ye[y soon (o hare
ready a paper on the Garden of Eden, in
which he woulfi show that was the natural
name of Babylon. The rivers here the
very samp names, and the Babylonian doc
uments gave an exact geographical account
of the Garder of Edon. The Flood and the
Tower of Babel wonld be found to be most
amply illnstrated in tee Babylonian docu
ments. •
The way (o frud a teaman oul-r-Call
In when she isn’t atbome.
GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS.
- Second Week, July Term, 1SC9.
Georgia, Floyd County.
We, the undersigned Grand Jurors, for
the 2nd week of the July term, 1S69,
Floyd Superior Court, having taken the
qualifying oath, according to law, beg
leave to make the following general pre
sentments, being the result of investiga
tions by committees chosen from our body.
We have carefully examined the pre
sentments of the Gvand Jury for the first
week of this term, and take pleastgfe in
finding teem mainly correct; and especially
do we subscribe to theirremarks in refer
ence to common schools, disturbing pub
lic worship, our dnties to freedmeo, the
proper regard for their rights, and the
kind words of counsel and advice due from
us to them Also, to' tee ovils resulting
from the indiscriminate exercise of the par
doning power by the Chief Execu ive of
tho State of Georgia.
Wo endorse tee sentiment that the hope
ofExecntive pardon encourages tee com
mission of crime; and will add further that
an easy exemption, or escape from the
penalties ef law, through tee artifices and
cunning of evil doers, wonld, to a great ex
tent, destroy the untility of onr courts, and
discourage the just in bringing criminals
to justice.
To prevent men from . injuring one un-
other,.is tee true end of all good . govern
ment.
To secure each and every one in the en
joyment ofthe products of his labor, to re
strain the strong from oppressing the weak,
and to shield tee weak against -the aggres
sions of the strong, leaving ns otherwise
free to regulate onr own pursuits of indus
try and improvement, is all that is neces
sary to promete the pnblic good, and to
close the circle of onr felicities.
We are all creatures jf edacatian, . sub
ject to the oontrol of surrounding infln-
enecs. We will bevirtnons or depraved,
according to examples set before ns, and
the temptations which beset hs.
If parents wish to shield their children
from evil habits, they should be careful
never to set them the example. If we de
sire that onr sons should not play at cards,
or other demoralizing games, we should be
careful not to indulge in gaming ourselves.
If we wish to shield themfrom the horri
ble and brutalizing habits of drunkenness
and debauchery, we should never set them
the example of entering tippling saloons,
and taking what, in fascinating phrase, is
termed the “social glass.” : If we don’t
want onr sons to chew and smoke tobacco,
let ns quit the abominable practice our
selves, And since the safety of cornmnn-
ity renders it essential that concealed wea
pons should not be carried, let ns see to it
that onr sons are not allowed to make fools
and bullies of themselves in disregard of
wise and wholesome laws, for restraing this
cowardly and nngentlemanly practice; and
let ns teaoh them that implicit obedience
to the laws of onr country is thp distin
guishing characteristic of all honorable men
This coarse rigidly pnisaed by parents
and guardians, wonld greatly relieve onr
courts ofthe burden of trials for misde
meanors and penal offences. Bat in the*
absence of any aid from tee beadspf fami
lies, or from moral suasion, the dutyHm-
posed on conservators of pnblic good be
comes arduous indeed.
When drinking and gambling, chicanery
and fraud, find encouragement from the 11
centious practices of tee educated and well
horn, tho restraining power of the wisest
laws offers bat feeble resistance to the con
tagion of moral turpitude.
In State prosecutions, it often becomes an
unpleasant task to fiad true bills, yet, when
proof of guilt is clear, we feel it our duty
to urge that none, though the subtilities
and chicanery of the practice of law, be al
lowed to escape tee demands and penalties
of justice; and to express a hope that onr
worthy Solicitor may he able to defeat the
tricks and artifices, employed by gamblers
and other disturbers of thepnblio good, to
evade tee law.
In bringing these reflections to a . close,
we cannot do so without appealing most
ii practicable, be held the second Monday
in January, and the third Monday in Ju
ly, annually; these being the seasons of most
leisure with the tanners; and that the
courts will not be allowed to adjourn to any
time that will prove detrimental to the
farming interests.
We also, recommend that a law be pass-
jd more effectually enjoining secrecy under
oath, on the part of witnesses testifying
before a Grand July.
£ ROADS.
Our committee ou roads report that all
the roads in Cliulio, Flat Woods and Liv
ingston, except t ne leading from Living
ston church to Webb’s creek, are in bad
order. Tho roads in Barker’s Cave Sprin
North Carolina, Etowah and Floyd Springs
districts, are in a very good condition. One
in North Carolina district, leading from
CoosaviUe tothe State line, is hard to keep
in good traveling order, and there are not
HS
District of Columbia.
hands enough on it to do the work neces- ger of tec Treasury, for uttering bogus
earnestly to onr law-abiding citizens, to
unite with ns in uttering our most un
qualified condemnation of the' frequent
practice of insubordination to onr civil
laws; and to join ns in Words of warning to
inconsiderate youth, against the suicidal
habits of drinking and . gambling, as from
these, spring most 9? the" disorders which
sap and undermine the foundation of good
government. Let ns inculcate, both by
precept and example, a high sense of hon
or, characterized by energy and industry
in laudable presents, and by implicit obe
dience to tee laws of our country,
Let us keep constantly in view, that in
subordination to law, and manifestations
of contempt for legally constituted authori
ties, is an offeree of extraordinary magni
tude, and one of tho most dangerous inroads
npon the public welfare, meriting not only
prompt punishment, but the unqualified
condemnation of every good citizen.
MATTERS FOR LEGISLATION.
We see so many persons in attendance
npon the court, waiting from day to day for
the cases to come up, in whieh they are
called, or interested, while other business
at home is necessarily neglected, that we
can but ask, is there no remedy ? Is it
essential to the ends of justice teat parties
and witnesses npon the criminal docket,
ihoqlfi be required to attend, while the
civil business is being disposed of? To
remedy evils so palpable, wc wonld most
earnestly urge onr representatives, at the
setting.of the next Legislature, to extend
the term of holding courts in this county
to four weeks; the two first to be occupied
exclusively in hearing civil cases; the two
remaining weeks to the hearing of fT>W-
nal eases; and that the Grand Jury be dis
pensed with while the court is npon the
criminal docket; and that this coart shall
sary. Some 35 or 40 hands in Ervin’s bend
are exempt from working on public.roads
by code 650. We recommend the build
ing of a bridge across the creek between A.
G. Ware’s and D. B. Hamiltons; also, one
on Beach creek, at Rices. * We recommend
that the portion of the Blnff road, nearest
Gen, Black’s be improved, and if uecessjry,
an appropriation be made to bay powder,
and to pay for such blasting as nmy be
needed.,,-
. STRAYS,
There have been no strays reported since
last September.
*', )■ J, POOR HOUSE.
It is the will of this body, and it is here
by recommended that the Ordinary pay to
W. S. Cothran the amount due on the lot
of land purchased for the benefit of the
poor; or so much thereof as to procure a ti
tle to the same; and that’ it be done at
oneq. We recommend a change of Super
intendent ot the Poor. House. The present
location not being considered a suitable
one, we would advise in making a change
for the better, to sell the same (120 acres)
to tee best advantage.
THE COURTHOUSE.
Should have blinds to the windows and
good shatters, locks and keys to all tee
doors where they may be lacking.
THE JAIL.
Should be provided with mattresses, and
sufficient covering for jtee necessary com
fort of criminals. -
FREE BRIDGES.
We recommend free bridges, across tee
Etowah and Oostanaula rivers, leading in
to Home; and to this end, we advise the
purchase,from Messrs. Shorter and Wright,
those now in use; provided they can be bad
at a reasonable price, and oh reasonable
terms We suggest the propriety of build
ing a free bridge across tee Etowah river
at the head of Howard, or Sooth street; and
offer this as matter for consideration by the
Grand Jury for the next regular term _ of
Court. ••
CLAIMS AGAINST THE CODNTY.
A committee consisting of J. A. Stew
art, J. L. Camp, C. E. Hills, R. T. Har
grove and John Gnffin, has been appointed
to investigate claims against the county,
and instructed to co-operate with a similar
committee, appointed by the Grand Jnry
of last week.
His Honor, Judge F. A. Kirby, will
please accept our sincere thanks for his
kindness,, and for h<s earnest efiorts to dis
pense justice to all
Onr worthy Solicitor, too, CoL Forsyth,
has onr highest regards frr his kindness,
and for the valuable assistance rendered us
in the performance of our arduous duties.
The favors bestowed on us by the edi
tors of bo*-h the city papers, were thank
fully received, and we, also, as did the jury
of last week, recommend that his honor pass
an order for the publication of the forego
ing, in each of tee city papers, and for
paying for tee same.
W M Shropshire, Foreman. .1 ^ ’*■' *
D*H Herron,
RT Hargrove,
C C McKenzie,
E H West,
E H Cole lough,
C E Hills,
John Holbrook,
John Griffin,
J L Camp,
G W Watters,
John A May,
Allen Bolt,
Gabriel Jones,
C W Rttah,
W B Turner,
J ii Roberts,
Robt, A Holt,
W C Howell,
J D Ford,
J A Stewart,
S B Sale,
Thos. J Perry.
Ordered teat tee above be published as
requested.
r F. A. Kirby,
jnly 30, 1869, J. S. C., R. C.
The Accident on the Memphis, C„ and
Louisville Railroad.
Private Bispateh.
We are indebted to Mr. W. L. Van
Nest, “South East” Agent of tee Memphis,
Clarksville, and Louisville Railroad, for a
copy of the following “dispatch received by
him.
Louisville, July 28—Train number
two Norte, went into Bndd’s Creek trestle,
8 miles South of Claiksville, at one
o’clock this morniDg. Engineer, fireman
and two passengers killed, nine passengers
serisusly, bnt not dangerously wounded, and
thirteen slightly wonnded, and bruised.
Trains will run as usual.
* . ;. W. H. King.
J®*A colored individual who says he has
“bin gon ded, and kum to life agin,” was
arrested yesterday upon the charge of va
grancy. He has been preaching to his
colored “brethren and sisters” around here
some time, and has run a good many of
them almost crazy by telling them of the
wonderfnl sights he saw to the other world.
According to his yarn he visited both
heaven and hell, and gives a description of
both places.—Bainbridge Sun.
A writer at Long Branch writes of the
bathing for ladies: “There is a rope stretch
ed from the shore aod anchored out a few
rods. On this the ladies hang themselves,
looking exceedingly like newly washed
clothes on a windy Monday.”
Washington, July 2
The Hon. A. H. Stephens, ra writing to
a friend here, says:
“I am gratified at the result of the elec
tion in Virginia, and earnestly hope that
•Judge Dent may be elected in Mississippi.”
Dr. 0. P. Culver leaves for Macon to
morrow, for the purpose of placing tee lab
oratory in the possession of the Georgia
Agricultural Society.
The President, it is expected, will be
here in time for the Cabinet meeting on
Friday, -i" '
Mr. Greeley, with a party, has gone to
Virginia.
. Hoar contemplates being absent a week.
Field will officiate during his absence.
• Revenue to-day $300,000.
Treasurer Spinner has received a coun
terfeit three dollar coupon from Germany,
which was evidently manufactured there.
The imitation of tee engraving, signatures,
seals, etc., is good, bat the paper is bad.
Proceedings have been commenced
against Sherman, colored, former Messen-
money. Turner, the negro Post
master at Macon, is to be brought here as
a witness.
District of Columbia.
Washington; July 28.—Cubans here
have official advices to the 20th. Quesada
destroyed two important bridges on Neuvi-
tas and Puerto Principe Railroads, and
holds the country between * the two cities,
which are closely invested.. The garrisons
are suffering from diseases and have short
supplies. Several sorties from Neuvitas
were driven back with serious loss. Quesa
da has a number of prisoners, which he
holds as hostages, to insure proper
treatment to Cuban prisoners.—
The Cubans hold (several po] sitions
on the coast, giving them direct communi
cation with the United States. The fight
at Remedios,resulted in theloss af one hun
dred and fifty Spaniards killed, wounded
and prisoners. The fight at Sagna Ie
Grand, lasted several hours; the Spaniards
finally drew off with a loss of three hun
dred. The Cnban leaders have no doubt
of ability to maintain themselves against
the force now in tee field. A vessel with a
large; amount of arms, ammunition, and a
battery, and three hundred and sixty men,
landed near Neuvitas. The expedition
safely reached Quesada.
District of Columbia.
Washington, Suly 29.—Gov. Hahn, of
Louisiana, dined with Gov. Dent, yester
day. The table conversation indicated no
intention on tee part of Dent, to abandon
his position in regard to Mississippi.
Boutwell decides teat the Ohio Shakers
Society are only entitled to one thousand
dollars exemption from income tax, instead
ol one thousand for each adnlt male. The
same rule applies to Trinty Church, New
York, and several other associations through
out, the country.
The pressure ou President Grant to
throw tee influence of the Administration
in favor of tec extremist of Texas and Mis
sissippi is quite heavy. The extremists
here are in good spirits this morning—
nothing definite, however.
Sherman, it is stated, said to-day, teat
his department would not interfere, be
yond securing fair registration and a peace
able election.
South Carolina.
Charleston, July 27.—A negro riot,
which, at one time, threatened very serious
consequences, occurred list night, on the
occasion of the departure of a visiting base
ball elm, from Savannah. The club was
accompanied oy a brass bard, composed of
colored men, who were said to be Demo
crats. As tee club was leaving in proces
sion for the Savannah boat, they were, at
tacked with sticks and showers' of stones
and brickbats, by a negro mob of several
hundred men. Several shots were fired on
both sides.
Mayor Pillsbury was on the ground, hnt
said he was powerless to quell the riot, and
called on Maj. Oglesby, for the assistance
of United States troops. The club was
then escorted to the boat, between platoons
of tee Sth infantry, followed by a large
crowd of yelling and infuriated negroes,
throwing stones and compelling tee sol
diers, at intervals, to face about and threat
en to fire. Several were wounded, mostly
members ofthe colored hand. The affair
causes intense indignation among tee
whites. .
BUFFALO.
Buffalo, July 27.—Edward Halpin.an
elderly man, fell into Niagara Falls a
distance of one hundred and eighty feet.
Ho was instantly killed.
New York, July 29.—Stocks steady.
Money steady at 7. Sterling 9}. Gold
1 36. -
Flour dull,drooping. Wheat dull. Corn
drooping. Pork quiet at 33 12Ia33 25.
Lard dull. Cotton quiet at 34.
Liverpool, July 29, noon.—Cotton
steady; Uplands 125; Orleans 12J; sale
10,090 bales.
Convicted of Perjury.—The jury on
Saturday convicted Taliaferro Page, door
keeper to the Radical Senate, of the crime,
of perjury, and we presume Page will be
sent to the Penitentiary. Still* we do not
beblieve that half the negToes understand
the nature of perjury; and we think that
under the circumstances the penalty should
not be too heavily imposed. It would be
infinitely better to send two-thirds of tee
Radical Senators themselves to the Pent*
tentiary.—Montgomery Advertiser.
The North Carolina Homestead
Exemption.—The following’ is tee provis
ion in the constitution of North Carolina
which has been lately decided by the Su
preme Court of that State (Chief Justice
Pearson dissenting) to be not in conflict
with tee Constitution of the United
States, and therefore valid :
Art. X.—Sec. 1. Tho personal prop
erty of aDy resident of this State to tne
value of five hundred dollars, to be selected
by sqch resident, shall be and is hereby ex
empted from sale under execution or other
final process of any court issned for collec
tion of any debt.
Sec. 2. Every homestead and the
dwelling and buildings csed there with, not
exceeding in value one thousand dollars to
be seleoted by the owner thereof, <kc., shall
be also exempted.
_^*The Supreme Court of North Caroli
na has just decided that intermarriages be
tween a member of the colored and a mem
ber of the white raoe is unlawful,and there
fore void, according to the law* of the
State.
s.