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The Rome Courier
FRIDAY MORNING. Mir. 25.
Irr the Right Dirxcsion.—By refer
ence to onr telegraphic columns, it will be
Been that the Merchants of Nashville ate
prct- sting against the action of Congress
in reference to Tennessee. This«» a cap
ital move. The commercial men repre
sent the conservative power of the land.
Congress'
bnt she cannot resist the impertons requests
of the commercial giant. We warrant that
this appeal of the Nashville Board of Trade
will save Tonnessee from further recon
struction la not th* move worthy of imi
tation? Slight not the Georgia merchants
save onr State irom the “wrath to comer’
ree* may resist the appeals of politi- thoughts that are strong in themselves
vahd the threatening* of jonraslwta, jnd will shine by their own light.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The Columbus Enquirer learns that of
the Peabody educational fund, bequeathed
hy that eminent philanthropist to the pub
lic schools $85 000 has already been appro
priated, and 55.000 bools distributed—
Columbus has received 1500, and Savannah
1,000. Atlanta has been promised two
thousand and Augusta and Tunnel Hill
have had liberal offers. How about Rou e?
The Miiledgorille Union laughs at the
idea of a third party, and is dauntless in
the cause of the simon.pnre Democracy.
The Constitutionalist does not want the
Democratic Senators to vote for the Bing
ham amendment, because the who’e biQ is
wrong. The Savannah Republican en
dorses this doctrine. Very pretty talk, gen
tlemen, bat Very unwise. Goats of patri
otism have thrown whirlwinds of angry dust
about your judgment, and you can’t sea
elearly.
The Telegraph ft Messenger shows that
the extracts msdo from its oolnmns by
Northern papers were garbled to suit par
tisan purposes. The integrity of the pa
per having been attacked, the ^uior edi
tor thus answers the otarge:
“In thirty years connection with the
Press, we think God we can say this day,
ooDScieniodsljr, that -viro' have never writ-'
ten a line at war with par honest convic
tion of truth at the time: or . suggested by
"^To-aiokH^?*
RM
"We alluded, some time ago to the essays
of this' striking writer, at present being
published in the Chronicle & Sentinel, and
promised that we would reproduce portions'
of the last one for the benefit of our read-'
sis-
The essay is written upon “The Develop
ment Hypothesis.” We have not space
to reproduce the whole article, or even the
scientific argument, that is in many points
Startling, and in all points novel, bnt most
content ns with reproducing a few episod-
Withont more preiude, we let onr favor
ite speak for him self:
Science is the latest and the wisest in
terpreter of religion. While yet the world
was yonng, superstition served its time as
the best, and indeed the only beneficent
instructor of mankind in its weakness and
its iguorance.
Jnst as in nursery days, the tender fic
tion of Santa Clans and the fond romance
of Fairy-Land are ever the worldwide
•wakeners of the infant mind. Santa Clans
and Fairy-Land, though false to mere fact
are toithfol to the higher forms of trntb.
Santa Claus, at the birth day of Christ, is
typical of him who came into the world
with blessings. Fairy-Land with its fair
imaginings is typical of that heaven which
the infant mind can best comprehend
through the gandy culoriog of genii and
giants. But, as time rolls on, the more ad
venturous spirits in the nursery begin to
question the truth of these stories, at war
with reason and experience. Forthwith
such doub‘3 are hailed by the nursery
priesthood as heresy and treason, out, ad
vancing youth inevitably rends the vail.—
The temple is deseorated, the mystery
brought to light-, the idol thrown down.
Hereon, as before in the nursery, child
hood busied itself with baubles, so now in
the May Day youth worships fanoy and
first love. But, in after years, man hav
ing tasted the summit oflife’s glory tas in his
turn for the May dieams of youth bat a
a passing smile.
So the world, as the world grows oldet,
most pnt away childish things. The modes
of thought which were wisdom to oar an
cestors are folly to an age like ours. Even
around the roots of religion the sapient
soions of soienee, npspringing with the in
spiring e-senee of their youth, - are overlap
ping and overtopping the parent tree.
The soions have not been fruitless. To
them modern civilization is indebted for
many a triumph over the realms of night
many a step in man’s approach to the prom
ised order of the angels. But, meanwhile
the mere religion of the priesthood and the
church rails and rages in the language of
a by gone time to a world, grown wise*
than they, of a creed to which faith, and
faith only, half mad and half divine, blind
folded, still clings fondly on. Meanwhile
the mind of the jnst, longing to believe,
fearing to deny, refuses to think. Bat in
oar day, to understand religion in a differ
ent light from onr ancestors grows, more
and more a necessity for religion itself.
We have said, in a former artielc that
seieaoe everywhere seeks for the spirit in
vain The subtlest investigations detect’no
track or trace of what the ehureh calls the
soul. To banish the supernatural, to ex
plain all things by rational law,haa become
the inevitable lesson of knowledge Only
by that omnipotent fling of faith, which
anchors itself to a hope that knows no rea
son, can man abut his eyes to the plain de
monstrations of logic, and assert through
the heart what the mind denies. Through
out all the world the wise make this great
sacrifice of the omnipotent mind upon tin.
altar of the impulsive heart. Tho Hindoo
and Chaldean, the Mohammedan, the Jew,
the Roman and the Greek, have each one
felt ready to risk his all upon creeds as va
ried and adverse as the cunning imagina
tions o! their prophets. To follow impulse
and to reject reason, leads to the same inev
itable *esu!t—'ending in confusion thrice
confounded. Bnt the scientific researches
of the wis; have ever been harmonious,
useful, immortal.
By regular steps, aud iu obedience to
immutable laws, the great universe itself
glowed into glory. As far as thought chooses
to range from present effects backward to
their causes, we find no undeniable evidence
that any greater mouarch than the supreme
law of nature ever swayed a sceptre or
held dominion. The God which, by evi-
de* ces internal, we all feel or fear, is either
the law himself, or else, in the grand con
sistency of his nature, he never violates the
decrees emoted for his orea'ures. Bnt,
howsoever this may be, the law is with ns
id around na. We know that it is trne,
and wo know that it changes not.
After discussing the development, by idea
engrafting certain striking new notions on
the well known Darwinian theory, onr ee-
bribery.'
Mr. Clisby. we believe yon.and the peo
ple of Georgia believe yon. As to Bol
lock bribing .Brother, Reese to co-operate
with the Radicals—why, the hate Boling-
broke, might as soon have tried to bribe
Hotspur Harny into the service of Henry,
the Prince of Wales.
The LaGrange Reporter thus swings
back on the Griffin Star, and its twa ’dle
about the third party. The Reporter’s
bead is just as level aa a tarn floor:
Suppose tfie Stai had the. influence to
get up a third party interest in its own im
mediate settlement, what oan it promise its
misguided adherents in the way of success?
It tas no prominent leader. We do not
know of a single influential journal that is
in favor of dividing the well organised
Democratic party to build up the new and
unknown party upon the rains thereof. We
do not know of a single politician or gen
tleman of influence sufficient to give the
new party prestige and impetus, who is
willing to attempt a thing so haaardona as
au experiment of organising a new party
in opposition to the Democracy. The hon
est men of the country are seeking to over
throw the corrupt rule of the Republican
party, and all snoh are united upon the
Democratic platform. None des're to have
two lines of battle when a single on: i
more formidable to whip out the enemy.—
None desire to scatter the forces of opposi
tion to the Republican party when it re
quires a united, solid force to repel tbe en
emy as be advances upon us
The Savannah Republican thunders a
phillipie against the policy of tbe Radicals
in Congress, who will not remove the pres
ent. villainous rulers of Georgia, until “(he
people promise to re-elect them.''
The Chronicle & Sentinel thinks that the
chief reason the Southern carpet-baggers
desire Federal troops to be sent to the dif-
put Southern States, is .to provoke the peo
ple to violate, and to bn-klnxism. si that
they (the carpet-taggers) dan get* a new
tevse of power, and counsels the people to
endure and he patient. Onr contemporary
H right rn hi. opinion, nod his advice is ex- “J" 1 w,nds «P “
aellent.
The ' Athens' Banner thinks, with the
Constitutionalist and the BepnJlHoati, that
Georgia Democrats a ho aid not sanction the
Bingham amendment—suicide painted in
gay and fervid colon.
i The Savannah News does ant think that
the "Radicals of Georgia are justified in
complaining that the’ Democrats do not so.
dally, or politically tolerate them —because
(in aubstauoe) au hoaert man cannot toler
ate a thief who so far differs with hiai in
opinion as to steal his goods.
fh» Uylu ubiw Rua -as a merited tri
bute to tint staunchness, the boldness and
$hefir eami of the Northern Democracy,
end is diwj m the third party m /vc.'ieat
Our egos iugea give «s the following on
the Avery-tetogram affair s
The Constitution shows that the real
cause of the strike among the (lands waa
that they were not paidoff, and that Bab.
eoek (a Radical euip oyee) waa another
sense He hid been turned >ff himself.-—
Thu 8avaan*h pipers show up Awrj'«
eVancter. v#ry tally, and (Senator Cindler,
U t :e Constitution, curries him severely
Many pr mtnent Northern own send tale
gtama to Sen itora cj. tradlftlng the slan-
ijere tent by -Avery. IV Tebfcfrspb ft
Messengeraidein the work by producing
several personal causes that induced Avery
to telegraph, and the last card is from Co-
iiaUt, (ftyety's partner) who tries t > oover
up th* matter by denying what Avery tad
said, and ssying tb*t tint tolvgngl was gar
bled Consul says that the people era bo*-
piubtg and clever, and that the suae fnaa 1
would har* occurred aoywhero. Oaro in-
tmis this. Tbe State Legislature gave
Avery’s road 515,000 * mile, provided fifty
miles were built by » eertota day. Avery
was afraid tout be would’ot be able to
- finish by the day appoiated-vhenoo wanted
the present Legislature kept io power so
that-he could gat his time • j woded—kuow»
jog that if honest mva ***} in power hia
p miLilIj- schemes wotakd bo eheeked, hence
taseat the telegram ctioulnted to kill the
Bingham amendment, and keep Bullock in
power for four years, fa the meantime
a be road was completed ip the time pro-
posed by the ooaditjoa. of tft. binds, and
ha want* no help from Bollock. Avar/
rut* (through hi« partner) hie vile stow
At last, man, the long announced actor,
step# upon the stage. Forthwith, fanned
by his own thoughts, the fire of life monnta
high. In the spring time of the world,
burning the rubbish of the long winter, the
fire of man’s life leaps np against the iky
end becomes thereafter stained with thw
purple coloring of religions fervor. Hav
ing gained the eummit of phyeieal endeav
or. be .trikes boldly out into the realms
where reasan and moral glory await to crown
the eternal promise of hta coming.
Here we find oorselvea at the threshold
of an all-absorbing question. How >s the
Bible, with its wonderful wild miracles and
its promise of a life beyond the grave, how
is the Bible to be reconciled with this ra
tional theory ?
The key-note of the answer lies in that
necessity which demands that whatsoever
must be done can be done. Since both are
Irne, their reconcilement is only a question
tf time- Whererer the literal statement
of Scripture are plainly contradicted by
Science, they must be understood figurea-
tirejy. When this ip done, it is qo| igtpofr
sib!* for future discoveries tp tyaoe a pqt,
feet accordance between science and reve
lation. Indeed, all who hare Igtejligeotiy
and earnestly examined the question, have
risen from it with their religion, feeling*
confirmed by a strength whieb none bnt
the wise can know. Indeed, upon examin
ing the Scriptures the conviction forces it
self, with startling significance, that noth
ing short of an inspiration, far higher than
njere human intellect, coaid have so caught
tbe spirit of creation and untwisted all the
ebaiusnf harmony that lie hidden in the
purpose of the ages.
I say boldly <o all tbe churches, yua
mast accept this doctrine or you most sur
render. If you persist in explaining 8crip
tare to tho world in its manhood after the
fashion of tbe world in its infaoey, yon will
lie false to yonr own high mission.
The mighty anuy of rational thought, in
vincible, illustrious in lineage, sweeps on,
eager to snatch the interpretation of God's
word from nut the hidden sanctuary of
yonr time worn temples. Say onto all tho
people that religion cannot die, because
science and religion are one. Announce,
(o'tiu. name of tevelation that man must
rise again, bnt proslaim in the name of
science that since ali thipgs must be done
by rational (aw, this resurrection most be
accomplished in the future by the same
eternw laws through which all thing* have
been accomplished in the past- Hereon w«
torn to modern science with a keener in'
terest, knowing that herein lies the eonio-
mate hope of onr promised immortality.
Law and self development have bitoght Si
thus far. Law and self development will
terry ns to the end Who shall set limits
(0 the eehleyemegti) of science ?
flnlvnrant unto this human
eternity of time.and it will show you an in
finity of result'
"'Such an eternity'is necessarily ours.—
Matter is indestructible. Though earth
quakes shatter the world's crust and com
ets poison the air; though the great glebe
itself fall inward apon the sun like a moth
into a lamp and barn to white heat in tbe
flames, amid all no atom will be lost. Forth
with the inevitable laws of self develop
ment, Phoenix-like, will resnrge to work
ont by Jong degrees the exultant prophecy
of God’s holy woid.
Bnt such destruction is extremely im
probable for many millions of years to
come. Long before that time man will so
analyse and master all physical things, so
study and correct his own errors, that bidd-
S " lance to earthquakes, comete and ih-
of systems, he will long ago have
his trembling yet triumphant foot
steps to the threshold oi the unspeakable
gateways that lie beyond the stars.
Knowledge, tin price for whioh Adam,
long ago, bartered ignorance and bliss, re
jected of the early bnilders, becomes the
keystone of tbe arch. Th* Bible, thus un
derstood in the light of science, beco nes
the loftiest system of philosophy that ever
soothed an agony or saved a world.
But onr space does not permit us to
dwell upon many details that tempt us. The
perfection of medical science, the inevita
ble finding of the elixir of life, the calling
back of the regenerated dead by tbe sci
entific regathering of their atoms—these,
and many things else of which tbe reader
dreams—all these lie hidden in the hur
ried whispers of To-Morrow.
We advise all oar readers.who desire to
read the finest, clearest and most brilliant
essays that hive appeared in Southern jour
nalism since the war, to send for the back
numbers of the Chronicle ft Sentinel, and
read after this remarkable writer.
THE POLITICAL HOROSCOPE.
We can’t see ahead—and if we eonld, we
wonld hit it. Everything is maddj and
mixed op—the political dust that elouded
np from the fight over the 15th amend
meat tas not yet settled, and consequently
nothing definite can be traced in tbe fa-
tore.
Tbe fight over the Bingham amendment
is still progressing—it is probable that the
vote will be taken about Friday. The re
sult we cannot confidently predict,yet Lope
rises strong in onr breast when we careful
ly oontempla x the guns and losses of the
past week.
Carpenter, Conkling, Edmunds, and oth
er Republican Senators are fighting bravely
for the amendment, and old Carl Schurz
as bloody a Radical as overdrew the breath
of life, has announced himself in favor of it.
The Democratic Senators will do their da
ty. Every Northern paper lhat we have
noticed, save Forney’s Chronicle is in fa.
vor of tbe amendment. Among those con
spicuously supporting it, we rank the Chi
cago Tribane, the New York Tribane, the
Herald, the Times, and many others of that
ilk.
(These facts gain additional force when
we remember that these politic papers are
blown on every track by popular opinion,
and that their veerings towards conserva
tism may be taken as an index of the wi.-h
of the people.)
Bryant is working like a bee to over
throw Bollock, and showers continually a
perfect torrent of little pamphlets on bis
devoted head. The many lying telegrams
sent from this State to Senators in Wash
ington have been killed by a multitude of
convincing£deniaIs sent by good Northern
men now traveling through onr country.
Let us hope for the best, but prej are to
endnre like men,.the worst, that can come.
During the past week there have been no
important elections recorded Berlington
Vermont has gone Democratic for the first
time in its history. The interior cities of
New Ycrk have given largely increased
Democratic majorities, thus sealing New
York.permanently a Oemoeratio State.—
With New York in the North, Georgia in
the Soath, Kentucky in the West, and Cal
ifornia on the Coast, as eternal rallying
points fer the pare Democracy, we need not
fear extinction. These four fortresses, the
very Gibraltar* of the Republic, will al
ways float the good flag.
The April eleation promises to be a Dem
oo ratio success. Canvassing committees
are busily at work. The non-policy action
of the government towards Cuba Is being
used with effect by the Democracy, and the
general taxation schemes, and personal cor
ruption of the present administration gives
them an ample text to preach from.
The Connecticut election will be the
first one in which the negro will vote by
the requirements of the 15th amendment.
We take great encouragement at the unan
imous determination that the people ex
press to stood by the old Democratic party,
and frown down the impertinent “third
party” movement. We call to mind, at
present not a single journal of any influence
(save the Mobile Tribone, and- the move
ment has emasculated it) that advocatesthe
third party movement. We should, per
haps, except the Griffin Star. We wonld
do so, ba' are convinced that Fitch will be
fighting in Democratic ranks ia two months.
A glance at our “Spirit of the Press,” will
give the reader some idea of the unanimity
which prevails in our State upon this ques
tion. Success is certain if the opponents of
Radicalism and misrule will congregate an
4er (be Democratic tanner and stand firm
iq the fight. If they split and divide in
the attempt to form new parties, they will,
before long, meet witb the melancholy re
alization of the fact that “a boose divided
against itself cannot stand-’’
ocr roiEiGi roller.
The advocates of the administration con
gratulate the people upon the peaceable
and thrifty relations that we enjoy with re
gard to the countries act ces the water
Before we accept their congratulations
and gratefully glorify onr rulers, let ns look
into the matter a little.
Is the diplomatic attitude of America
one which should swell with pridean Amer
ican’s heart ? Bow do we stand at the
Court of St. James ? How do the sturdy
Britons regard us ?
We answer that we oocupy the position
of a blustering coward, and that we are
just'y regarded with contempt. The Ala
bama claims are unsettled, and all advance*
in the direction of a settlement are treated
by John Boll , with contempt. Reverdy
Johnson was first sent to collect the little
amount due on that score. Instead of pre
senting the claims of a government in an
earnest ami bold manner, he closeted him
self with a famous cook, and. determined
to dine the English into a compromise.—
He substituted turtle soup for argument,
tarts for threats, pastry fer p rsnasion, and
dumplings for diplomacy. The Englishmen
devoured his dinneis, hugged him tender
ly,and laughed at his requests - for cash.
He was recalled by the President in dis
grace, and is living on the memory of his
greatnees in the backwoods of Maryland.
Sumner then took up the fight, and de
clared war, if England did not plank down
the cash. England tas not planked the
cash, and there is rumor of a war.
The wise Motley was then sent to
try his hand—he has boasted and bragged
and stormed, and scolded, and England,
snouting at hia yankee gasconade, tas ruled
him ont of polite circle* because, as
Punch My* “he’s so dem’d snobbish, you
know.”
A few days ago the Captain ef an Eng
lish frigate (the Bombay) ran into, as he
says, “a dqsined yankee frigate (the Onei
da) eat her open and sank her,” and sailed
off with the shrieks of two hundred drown
ing men ringing in his cars.
The government tas taken no action in
the matter, because, as John Bull says, “a
nation that’s afraid of old crazy Spain is’ut
going to clinch with England.
How about Spain ? How about Cuba ?
How about tho Spanish gnnboats that were
seized, and then (wf en Spain demanded it)
released. How about the young American
citizens that were murdered in Havana,
because they wore bine cravats ? Has their
blood been atoned for ? How about tbe
note of the bnlly Sickles, and its retrac
tion ? How about thegrief-freighted cries
that come from straggling Cuts ? How
does France, who once helped us when we
were straggling far liberty, regard our ac
tion iu respect to Cnba? Is tbe govern
ment too cowardly to giro tar help ? Stall
not the demands of three million sympa
thetic Americans be heard ?
Bnt we desist from following this subject.
We have produced enough evidence to show
that wc are at peace with foreign cations,
because we are cozardly, selfish and un
grateful.
Peaceable and thrifty, indeed !
It is the peace that is attendant upon
servile cringing, and the “thrift that fol
lows fawning*”
Give us war, Gen. Grant, give ns war!
We call the attention of our readers to
the maiden Bpeecl of Senator Revels, pub
lished in another column of to-day’s paper.
As the Gist speech ever made by a colored
man in the Senate chamber, it is worth
preserving. It U a r .ther forcible lehath
of old and seedy thoughts. Some say that
Bollock wrote it. We think that proba
ble, as Rufus bas been at leisure since
Blodgett took to writing his messages for
him* _
Homicide in Dalton.—We learn by a
private letter, thalfa man named Black shot
a man named Edwards, in Dalton, on Rat
urday. Edwards died on Sunday He
was shot in the throat, and in the back.
Black escaped. Cause—old difficulty, re
newed by alittlo quarrel in a bar room.
*Th» Co it of the Period.—The small
clerks of Macon are wearing the black apike-
tail ooat aa a business ooat. They part
their hair in the middle, and use canes
when they can borrow them.
■ The ashoel building burned in Colum
bia, on Wedaedsy, waa insured for 52,500
the polkv cu which expired just fifteen
utat to the burning . .
The' elephant of John Robinson’s Circus
got loose in Tnskcegee, went into A'r. Ad
am’s grist mill, upeet the hopper, threw the
miller into the loft, aiid the* showed him
something bigger than “a cat in’ the meal
kJB •
Edward A. Pollard, that venomousghonl,
after having ruined his wife’s character by
publishing slanders upon her, proposes to
gratily his further taste for that sort of
thing by diatribes against Jefferson Davis.
He writes a letter in which he traduces Da
vis and MeCleilaa, aud pronounces Giant
the greatest warior of the age. Gree’ey
calls him a liar, and Greeley is very newly
correct.
The-last thing from Brigham is that he
i* going to bundle ap his goods and his
wives, ahd : tale them to one of the coral
island* of the Pacific, where, beneath the
fragrant palm tree, he can enjoy hw reli
gion and his opinions^ in peace. Fanned
by tropica] breezes, mellowed by a tropical
sun, gorged with tropical 'fruits* and filled
with tropicol passions, these Mormons will
soon blossom into very interesting flowers.
A'feilow named Sam Patch, who used to
make his living by jumping from lofty
spring boards into the water, is being “done
up” by the newspapers at present. He
leaped at tbe Gennesseo Fails in October of
1828, from an elevation of pver a hundred
feet, sank bnt a shprt distance below the
water, and swam ont with ease. He then
determined to leap from a point one hun
dred and twenty-fire feet high. He filled
himself with whisky, staggered to the plat
form, took the 'fatal leap, end—well, tbe
fish of the neighborhood took their water
mixed with whisky for some days after
ward.
Corn in upper Alabama is worth more
than wheat. When will the farmers learn
that it is dangerous to trust to a foreign
source for bread and meat 1
Anna Dickinson is getting afraid that
she wont eatoh a husband. She announc
ed some time back, with tearful regrets, that
she “tad lost her dimples.” Unless she
can buy some more, this loss is disastrous,
for she bought her teeth and plumpers to
match the dimples, and she may lose the
whole sett. She used to be a professional
man hater. Now she coyly makes the fol
lowing tomantic admission :
“That she is not a man hater, ant she
does object to being regarded .‘as a play
thing that smells sweet like a flower, and
sound-sweet like a flute."’
If she don’ntget some more dimples, she
will be pleased before long to be regarded
even as a thing that “smells like a flower
and sounds like a Ante.”
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
That damp and monldy old blossom, So
lon Robinson, of the Tribune, who has been
snnning his carcas amid the orange groves
of Florida, caught a negro sftaling hia fruit
the other night, and deposited a load of
buckshot io and aronnd his heart.
Charming consistency, Solon. Yon will
denounce in the Trib une Southern men for
killing a negro who has raped a woman or
killed a child, bat let a poor starving freed-
man steal a Isingle grape from you, and he
is shot like a dog.
Gov. Holden, of North Carolina, wants
the habeas corpus suspended iu that State.
All right; the people want Got. Holden sus
pended. If he eerrye his point, they will
carry thebe.
The New Orleans papers are compiuniag
of the tremeodoae infleeaee that New Yeah
exercises over South era oottoe, and pro
pose! the setablbbment of a cotton bu
reau in some leading Southern port. Thu
is a good move. Anything to free ourselves
from commercial bondage to the North.
George Wilkes, of the Spirit of the
Times, ha* been the most unprincipled slan
derer of the Sooth that we know of. A few
dayB ago he iloadered Major Leland, of
Saratoga, and he was publicly cowhided by
the latter. Hurrah for Leland, and a curse
for the cowardly Wilkes.
The remainder of Pierre Bonaparte’s
life,promises to be lively. It -rill be re
membered that he killed Victor Nob. Fifty
of Noira’-friends tare sworn that they, one
after another, will challenge and fight him,
till one of them kills him If he don’t
fight, they are going to pnbliely horsewhip
him. His lifers worth jnst about four cents
in the dollar.
A sensible little woman, named W-ibb,
is lecturing against woman suffrage in Cali
fornia, or, as she says, “against masculine
women and feminine men.” She very pret
tily delivers herself of tbe following trne
talk:
Woman may be the greatest of auto
crats if she will; ehe tas the power if her
sweetness and amiability be used, for they
make tar autocrat of the heart, and the
heart leads the brain captive; affection
always persuasive, though perhaps the gen
tlemen would not thank her for revealing
now they are managed when they least sus
pect it. She quoted from Pope to show
that “she tas her humor most when she
obeys.” A single sweet, refined woman
can accomplish more anywhere, even with a
body of legislators—than a thousand bine
stockings. A self-asserting or “strong-
minded” woman tas been the reproach of
every poet, ancient and modern.
Butlersent a negro to West Point. Mc
Cormick, of Arizona, now proposes to s*nd
an Indian; Let Revebsend in his hybrid,
and some Western Senator a Chinaman, and
Wyoming send a woman, and then
then sell the concern to Barnum, and let
him advertise and travel round through
the country with it.
The Wall Street speculator* have ehoaee
queerish names for themselveo. A
who tries to ran gold up is oalled a “bear;"
one who trigs to ran it down is oalled
“boll,” one who simply lets on the rise and
fall of gold is called a “goat;” the
speeelateis are called “deer;” end a man
who le tricky, end play* the
“’EY WIFE'S RELATIONS, YOU KNOW
AND HY FA.”
It is a pity that Dickens dosed the his
tory of Tommy Traddles, jnst where that
unlucky wight married himself to the
“fourth gfrl in a family of ten.” For on
ly in the,entanglemente into which that poor
fellow’amatrimonial alliances led him would
We have found a paralell for the troub
les of Gen. Grant with “my relations you
know.” The husband of the eldest “who
was a Beauty,” i would have matched the
immaculate Corbin. Sarah, the second
who “was helpless and tad somethiog the
matter with her spine,” wonld have sym
bolised the Dents, while the old lady into
whose constitution “the damp had settled”
wonld represent tbe old man Jesse.
Verily Grant does have a hard time with
them. Corbin with his*greedy stupidity
has gona end dabbled in a dirty scheme,
and rained the reputation of his sister.—
The Dents are all of them half-simples;
one of them disgraced in Mississippi—an
other turned out of a clerk’s office in New
Orleans on the flattering charge of ineom-
petency, and a third the butt of the' ha
gen on at the White Haase. The old man
Jesse insists on having cabbage for sapper
and kisses all the girls who come to the
reception—claiming this uxorious privilege
because “he ia the father ot h : a son,” and,
as tha amorous old codger oan’t be kept
sway, the White House is achieving* rich
thing in the way of gentility.
Poor Grant—enlarged edition of roly-
poly Traddles, we pity you ! in truth, we
pity yoa !
sisnppi.
Mr. Kerch then commenced his remarks,
which, daring their entire delivery, were
listened to with the closest attention.- He
said :
Mr. President—l rise at this particular
junction fa the discussion of tbe Georgia
bill, with feeling* whieb, perhaps, never be
fore entered into the experience oi any
member of this body. 1 rise, too, with
misgivings as to the propriety of lifting my
voice at this early period after my admission
in tiie Senate. Perhaps it were wiser for
me, so inexperienced in the details of Sen
atorial duty, to remain a passive listener in
the progress of this debate, bnt when I re
member that my term is short, and that is
sues with which this bill is fraught are mo
menta ts in thtir present and future influ
ence upon the well-being of my race,I wonld
seem indifferent to the importance of the
hoar, reereau; to the high trust imposed
upon me, if I .neglected to lend my voice
in behalf oi the loyal people of the Sonth.
I, therefore, waive all thoughts ns to pro-
Tta Baltimore Sun’s Washington letter
of the 15th says:
A delegation of colored wen from Geop
gia, representing the colored people of that
State, composed of Simon W. Beaird,
Chairman; Alfred Katctam, Secretary; T
G Campbell, Sr., Rbmuias Moore, S M Al
len, W H Hamson, George Wallace, Abra
ham Colby, J T Coster, T. G Campbell, Jr,
and John Warren, all ot whoa are mem
bers of the Legislature, except the Chair
man and Secretary, called at the Presi
dent’s house this morning and tad an in
terview with he President, during which
they asked him to use his influence to de
feat the Bingham amendment, aud urged
him to procure suitable legislation to secure
rights to the colored people ia that State,
as they say. they do not enjoy them. They
also ignored all action of the Bryant party,
informing the President that be did .not
represent them, and that his course was ob
noxious to them. The President listened
patiently and courteously to their represen
tations. and signified his desire that all the
colored, at well as white people of the Sooth
should have their fall rights.
The army bill reduces the number of
Major-generals to three and empowers the
President to make the reduction. As there
are now four officers of this rank on the
list, Halleek, Thomas, Meade and Hancock,
it would be easy to guess whose services
Grant will dispense with when be gets
the opportunity. Hancock is a Conserva
tive.
Mr. Ryan, a * Conservative member of
Congress from Louisiana, is likely to lose
his seat, his majority over the gentleman
who contests the seat being only seven
thousand. Bat then the loss of Dewees
and Whittemore must be made up in some
way. Whose turn next ?
Cuthbert tas had a furious rain and
tail storm*. Hail stones two inches in di
ameter were picked up four hours after the
storm tal ceas'd. That is what the Ap
peal says.
“Brick’, Pomeroy says pictures of Ben
Butler are used iu AlaskxNe idols. Well,
if a picture of that beast won’t make a
savage get down on bis marrow tones
and pray for deliverance, what in the thun
der will
A drunken drayman drove with a load of
tarn* twsntyone time* ataut a block in
Cincinnati one day last week, imagining
that he was making a straight trip to aur-
kst. Thai load travelled aboat seven
auks bsftV* a Policeman slopped its air-
GEORGIA.
Revel’s Speech Agalwt the Blagham
AateaSaeat.
SENATE. ''aBfcJsS
Washington,March 16.—At one o’clock
the Georgia bill was taken npjhe gallerias
being thronged in anticipation tf a speeeh
by Mr. Revels.
Mr. Morton,who was entitled to tile floor.
yielded in favor of the Senator from Mta- ol Bticket is quite dangeicus, if n t mor-;
- * - tai.—Southern 'Recorder, lath.
We learn that a difficulty happened yes
terday, the 14th, at- tbe plantation of Mrs.
E. A. Robinsou, between Mr. J. A. P.
Robinson and Mr. Bricket. They exchang
ed several shots, and we understand that a
Mr. McCay also shot at Bricket, audit is
(opposed that he was the party that put
the ball into the breast of Bricket. Mr.
Robinson was shot in the foot. The would
%rri
ing through a generally understood etiquette
of this body, when question- arise whieh
bear upon the safety and protection of toy
al white and colored peo{ to of thoee States
lately in rebellion.
I have about me, daily, the keenest sense
of their wants, and that feelinT prompts
me now to lift my voice,for tbe first time in
the council chamber of the nation, and,sir,
I stand to-day on this floor, to appeal fob
protection from the strong arm of the gov
ernment for her loyal children, irrespeetive
of color, or race, who are citizens of the
Southern States, and particularly of tbe
great State of Georgia. I am aware, sir ,
that the idea is abroad that an antagonism
exists between whites and blacks, that that
race whieh the nation raised from the deg
radation of slaverj, and endowed with full
and nuqaalified rights and privileges of citi-
zrnsbip.are intent npon power, at wtatevei
price it can be gained.
It has been tiie well considered purpose
and aim of a class,not confined to the Sonth,
to spread this charge over the land, and
their efforts are as vigorous today to edu
cate the people of the nation into their be
lief as they were at the dose of the war.—
It was not uncommon to find this same class,
even daring the rebellion, prognosticating
a servile war It may have been that the
wish was father to the thoughtiand. sir, as
the recognized representative of my* down
trodden people, I deny the eharge,aad hurl
it back into the teeth of those who make it,
and whoj belieTe, have not a trne and con
scientious desire to farther the interests of
the whole Sonth.
While the Confederate army, pressed in
to ils ranks every white capable of bearing
arms ,the mothers, wives,daaghtetB and sis
ters of Southern soldiers were left defense
less and in tho power of the blacks, upon
whom chdinu of slavery were rivetted,and
to bind these chains was the real issue for
whieh so much life and property was sacri
ficed. And now, sir, I ask how did that
race act ? Did they, in those days of Con
federate weakness and impatience,—
evinee the malignity of whieh we hear eo
much ?
Granting for the sake of argument, that
they were ignorant and besotted, which I
do not believe, yet with all their supposed
ignorance and credulity, they, in their way
understood as folly ms you or I the awful
import of the contest. They knew if the
gallant oorps of national soldiers were beat
en back and their flag trailed in the dost
that it was a presage of still heavier bond
age. They longed to do as their fathers
did before them for the advent of that ep
och over whieh was shed tbe hallowed light
of inspiration itself. They desired to?,with
their fathers to welcome the feet of stran
gers shod with the peaceful preparations of
good news.
Many years of bondage tas told their
tale of sorrow to the country. In the sb
senceof their masters, thry protected the
virtue and chastity of the defenceless wo
men. Think, dr, for a moment, what con
dition this land wonld be into day, if the
slave population had rise i in servile insur
rection against those who month after
■nonth, were fighting to perpetuate that in
stitution which brought them all the evils
of which they eomplain. Where would
have been the security for property, female
chastity and childhood’s innocence? The
bloody history of cruelty and wrongs vmld
have been panilellei only in those chapters
of Jewish history aa recorded bj Josephus,
or in the still later atrocities of that reign
of terror whieh sent the unfortunate Louis
XVI and Maria Antoinette to the scaffold.
Nay, the deeds in that drama of oold-btood-
ed butchery would have out-h eroded the
diabolical acts of Herod himself.
Mr. President I maintain that the past
record of my race is a trueindex of the feel
ing which today animates them. They
bear toward their former masters no re
vengeful thoughts, no hatred, no animosi
ties.
They aim to elevate themselves by sac
rificing not one single interest of their white
fellow-cit tens They ask bnt the rights
which are theirs by God’s universal tow.
and whieh are the natural ontgrowtb and
logical sequence of the condition in «hicd
the legislative enactments of this nation
placed them. They appeal to you and to
me to aeo that they receive thac protection
which alone will enable them to pursue
their daily avocation with success, and en-
oy their liberties of citizenship on the
same footing with their white neighbors
and friends. - I do not desite simply to de
fend my own race from unjust ana unmerit
ed charges, but I also desire to place upon
record the expression of my full and entire
confidence in their integrity and purpose.
Upon the conclusion of his remarks,
which were extended, Mr. Revels received
tii* congratulations of many Republican
Senators and others, and then the immense
crowd in the galleries which inelnded many
persons of color, slowly dispersed
STATE NEWS.
Miss Annie Pierce, daughter of Bishop
George F. Pierce, was married tost week to
Mr. Jas A. Harley, of Sparta.
The Columbns Sun says 300,000 pounds
of hides are sold annually in that city. At
7 cents a pound, they represent a business
of 821,000.
The Athens Watchman begins its 17th
year. Its editor has been thirty years in
the business, aud makes a handsome and
meritorious paper.
The Colombo* Sun tas not yet definitely
ascertained what became of the negro who
murdered the little white boy in Hama
county on Sunday. Hz confessed the crime,
and it is authentically reported that while
being carried to Talbotou jail he waa “lost.”
The Columbus Sun, of Saturday, says
that thus far in the season cotton las de
clined in Columbus about 12al2f cents;
and in New York 13} cents. We heard
one who was well posted say that the de
cline tan caused a loss to holders in Co
lumbus (speculators) of 5500,000.
The young men’s Library Association of
Atlanta tas been presented fifteen volumes
of the London Art Journal, Worth 5225,
by a number of gentlemen in Atlanta.
The Sparta Journal reports tha knowl
edge of four case* of meningitis ia that sec
tioo—two proving total within forty-eight
hears after the first aymplnsse It tas been
eonfiaed chiefly to tbe negro population
Rev. Mr. Singleton, of Forsyth, has pt r-
fected an invention of an agric’ltnral ma
chine intended to facilitate aud equalize the
distribution of guano, aud to sow seed with
regularity and dispatch, which the Monroe
Advertiser thinks will do all that is claim
ed for it A patent will be applied for.
The Cartersville Express reports 'that
about two o’clock last Thursday morning
quite a number of persons in that ricin ty
witnessed a strange something which star
tled them fiorn their morning nap, and led
them to suppose that a youug earthquake
was pi-sing this wiy. They describe jt as
c sudden flash of ir*htr~and then a dull,
rumbling sound, and a palpable shaking; of
houses, rattling of window frames, eto. 'fhe
sky was cloudless, and all agree tfcat.ji wav
not thunder and liuhtuing.
■g.t s. tF® .ardi<~i>si xura i «■
The wheat crop, say# t'.t Daiito'.i.-gu
Signal, is fine and heavy, and big crop ex
pected. Corn bas gone up to SI -fit IV.'.ni
the wagon. • BwW ** I
The editor of the LaGrange Reporter has
a pair of andirons made at the West Point
Foundry from shot and shell used - in the
fight at that place ia 1865, nearly the last
battle of the war.
JOHN E. KEISTER,
General Agent, Maton, <;»,
Dr. T. N. PODTiLAUr
llO-t; A lt STEPHENS
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SPECIAL PEATUfcEs,
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2d.—It affords absolute security.
3d.—Guarantees a Cash Surrender rriu,
4tb.—It does not Limit Travel aa other i
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5th.—It allows 30 days’ grace in P <TC ,„ J
Premiums. 1
5th.—It Loans the Sarreuder-nlue atii: I
All its Policies are Non-iorfeitaM, I
the only Company guaranteeing the s q l|
feiture of dividends. The followm- (w|
inserted in each policy: ’§
“The Dividend on a Policy once deeintil
non-forfeiting, and no Policy will 1; "
Payment of Premium, until the Div_
turned in continuing the same ia f-. .'.I
should the assured desire to diieoati,„Vl
insurance, ho can receive the CASH VAtrfl
his Dividend in a PAID-UP POLICY, tia
Company cannot canceL” ■
Security as regards Policy Holda|
Asets os per New York Insura
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Liahiiities as per Insurance
Administors Sale.
TJY an order from the Ordinaxy of (
Jj county, will be sold on the first!
May next, before the coart House doer is Ss
raerrille, within the legal hoars of calc
Lot of land Ho. 55, in the 14th diSDd4
4:h section of originally Cherokee now C
ga. county, u the. property of Iiaiab !
deceased. - -TAS. A. BEARD, tit I
mar25-70
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Woolen k Cotton Mill Fladl0t|
DYE STUFFS, COTTON VIARPS,
mine non j rat nu am
Card Clothing, Roll Carding Miduu I
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Separating Machines Leather lot
Kahber Bel tlma* Lace Leather
Steam Packing, Hose, Act
Agents for all kinds of -Woolen ut
Cotton Machinery.
LOUISVILLE, It |
Band Iter a Catalogue.
The Sun says during the present session
the Columbus public schools, 600 pupils,
male and female, have been in attendance.
At least 875,000 has been saved the citi
zens of that place by these schools.
The gardens, says the Early county
News, have gone up, as also the corn and
Irish potatoe crop. Everybody will be
kept busy replanting for a week ortwo,
Mr. J. R. Christian, of the Americas
Courier, and J. P. Clisby, will commence
the publication of a paper in the ’ town of
Lumpkin, about the 1st of April, to be
called the Lumpkin Telegraph.
m m tel •-
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Gov. Mullock and the Syrens of the Lobby—
Where the State Road Funds Go—What
the Rahcmlans think of Bolloek—The
Senate Record oo the. Georgia BUI—The
Prospects.
Special Correspondence of the Constitution.]
Washington, March 13^1870.
Editor ^Constitution; Gov:-mor' Bullock
may rest to day from his unholy labors.
The Senate is not in session. He may solace
himself with the society of the syrens of
the lobby, whom he has employed to tempt
into evil ways Senators who yield only too
readily to the voice of the tempter. He
may bathe himself id wine at Welcher’s
entertainment—the carpet-baggers of the
Senate at the same resort—and blow dqllf %*P ort $17,37* oi.
care to tbe winds in the smoke of his pa<ti-
gas. Its a fine thing to be a carpet-bag
Governor when you can have your hands
up to the elbows in the Treasury of the State
you misrepresent. * ;
It is a tot thing, loo, to have the picking
of a State Railroad, is (it not, “Blodgett,”)
when you can take the meat, and leave the
State the bones? But then a man who
could grew rich keeping a toll gate at
8300 per annum, and commit peijury for
the sake ofaa office, need not starve.
When the accounts of the State Road
are next made up, it will be found that
many items charged to expense acaouDt
should be explained by the words in brack*,
ets: As, spikes [cigars,] cross-ties [female
lobboyists,] pounds iron [wine and wine
bitters,] ate. Hack-hire will come in, as
wellas other items in various disguises; for
the expense of maintaining here the Bol
lock Blodgett crew, and the negro members
Legislature, ordered hereby Bullock
amounts to no small sum per diem, and
will, iu one way or another, be taken from
the revenues of Georgia. -*•- - r * ,
Georgia's mishepresentatives. '*,
Bullock, Blodgett, Whitely, Farrow and
Prince, may be seen daily on the Senate
floor daring tbe sessions, and if they could
bear the criticisms made about them iu the
Reporter’s galleiy by Repulicans as well as
Democrats, they would not feel at ail com
plimented. Captain Bryant takes his seat
duly now among the Bohemians; and of
late Bollock tas had oi e or two of his spies
stationed among the newspaper men, so
that he may not burst iu ignorance of
what they do and say. He may;not be able
to le irn it in any other way, and so I take
the trouble to inform him that he has not a
friend among the correspondents here. He
has plenty of enemies, and that he well
knows. They ali say his face would tang
him anywhere without'other testimony, and
gentlemen of onr profesion are usually
judges of character. 'I do not think they
err in this instance. ■ .
THE BICORD OF THE SENATE.
The following Senators have spoken on
the Georgia Bill, for and against the Bing
ham Amendment:
For. Against.
Trumbull, Stewart,
Edmunds, Howard,
Schurz Pomeroy,
Williams. Revels,
Drake
Morton.
The following are indicated, by nature of
questions asked, etc., that they favor the
Bingham Amendment, or are opposed to
it. . _ .
For: Against.
Conkling, Taylor.
Carpenter. .• ’ ■.viK.-o.w t.-to ayww^saty*
Kellogg. ' *
There is, of couree no certainty that
the latter gentlemen indicated as favoring
the Amendment, will vote for it. Bnt I
take this means of placing on record those
who have spoken in defense of the right
an ! the laws, that the people or Georgia
may give them the credit which is their
due.
Bullock baa a formidable list of attorneys,
but in numbers only, however. The abili
ty is decidedly with those who have >p-
posed his uawairentable schemes.
THR SITUATION.
is by no meant hopeless. Georgia’s friends
multiply; bat whether they will muster in
sufficient force when it c? me* to a vote, is
yet a matter of doubt. Opinion here is
pretty nearly divide* as to the tote of the
Bingham Amendment. Some who have
watched the debate closely, declare, with
the utmost confidence, that the Amendment
will be retained. Others are just as cer
tain that it will be defeated. As to the
action of the House, should the bill be re
turned there without Mr. Bingham’s
Amendment, public opinion is similarly
divided.
Argus.
In a NuTSHKLL.-^rkT Hon. A. P. Ed-
gerton, of Indiana said tbe other day:—
“When the tote war broke out, a good
loyal streak come over me, and I lent the
Government $100,000. I have received
8300,000 in gold from the Government,
and still have the 8100,000 due me.” .
This is loyalty, and all the loyalty this
country ever witnessed—the loyalty that
paid. Tax-payers, yon most sweat out that
ether 5100,000.
H. W. Beecher is aaid to keep lectures
iu stock of different qualities to suit par
ch seen. A quiet article for oountry use
is about 5200; a somewhat more durable
fabric, suitable for Boston wear, 5400; fan
cy goods for the metropolis are from 5600
to 5800; and as on. Lectures maaatoe- _
ured to order from entirely new stuff, of LA
coarse, oom* higher then ready made
goods.
GEORGIA—Chattooga County.
"TYTHEREAS, Samnel McWhorter, Ai»r6
It will annexed, of the estate ot 5*J!“
roll, deceased, applies for letters ef i
from said executorship:
These are therefore to cita and six
and lingular thoee concerned, to be ata
at my office within the .time presrir
to show cause, if toy they hare, wlj»
should not b«granted. ,
Given under my hand, this Msrei U- >** L
marlSw J. B. Hitt, Orff J
sadsisusski
GDORGIA, Chattooga Cmaty,
A.AHmsa»ppliob
ijsion be® thesis?
W HEREAS, Nelson
for letters of dismission bo® ~ ~ .
(ration of the estate of Nelson AJburajj'J
These are therefore to cite »»»;
and singular those concerned to M ’ y.
at my office within the time present” 7J
to show cause if any they hare why »■ I
should Lot be granted. . „ «* f
Given mider my haud, Umbts^U^j
GEORGIA—Chattooga Connty.
XL7HEREAS C. V. Abridge, Adm’r «if _
TV estate of John B. Al
plies to me for letters of t
administration.- . ..
This is to cite and admonish allot t |
the persons concerned to he sndtfte- |
office within the time prescribed by
cause, if they can, way said Jetton ■
marls. J* -"I
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