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VOLUME XXV.
ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 27, 1871.
NEW SERIES-NO 22.
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ro BOLLOCK.
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IXSHE1?
-In a letter "1' jours published a
jj.,, re p|y to “a prominent Dein-
stli'j ha l "done yui the honor” to
, to what ought to be
rec.-it Democratic victory
v >ur lubit of misrepresenting
-•-.t.!eena affairs of Georgia, breaks
m0 | u (common wit i Geueral
’■nil the whole 5th Congressional
.-1 a! such c.iluu uius charges, as jus-
... ai I. tli exposing the calumny and
purpise i; was .mended to
Ti.lr. raeiou.ly coucediug tin general
an 1 validity oi the ci.ction in all
fire State, vou make a special
•ii.o el the hth Congressional district.
: -av that in that district‘-a distinguish
i-i II loader, and a learned Attor-
rLivt made a law unto themselves, and
s . :iit,mail lear of, or affection for these
;he white citizens generally have
idii.eir alvise, and have set aside
in Unit's the laws of the State which
• i laiirit: ninlly enacted, and are force
rtttotiuaally declared void.”
Las. v j speak of the election in the
ilanct a- a case where a whole] dis-
ts-tthehwat defliuee, and under the
s tf leading public u.on nullified the
asweai provided by law for holding
ihctii'D. overawed, arrest -d and con-
:: el-a iiy constituted managers, and
si tii-rs of their own unauthorized
I’iiuent .n their stead.'
i i yet again: you characterize the con-
■ . the whole 5th Dis rict as an -‘in-
■ictim and usurpation ”
■a.’i this obviously alludes to noth
in die legal prosecution of the man-
s« election in the single county of
mat, and the general adoption of the
se .’i.vii in an address, which was sub-
I-::: the people of Georgia just before
atecthii.sigued by Gen. Toombs and
smi as it appeared in the Chroni-
- r '-line!I signed also by Geu. Wright
“f the Democrats Congressional
Mee of the 5th District. You will*
“Rttadto deny that these are the sole
a--;: winch you have based your charg-
.•ta.’ar.I question then is, what are
I'si.i.i-.' What is the chara’ter ol
■ m.ov which was generally followed
ases where there was occasion for itsap-
Hiiat were the grounds on
id tile mode in which, the arrest
i.!acut of the managers in Han-
accomplished ? The address
: r ttstif. A candid perusal ot it
• : refute everything that you have
■ :t .s character, and brand you as a
-•‘■■Oft you to point out auy part of
aivi-es ‘-iusurreetion or usurpa-
: j tw selling aside of any law “eon-
■“ ; '‘Uj enacted,” or any part which
> it- authors a law “unto them-
ha the contrary, I affirm that it
’’ J beginning to end in letter and
•ao earnest appeal to the people to
''-’ sustain the cCostitutionand the
- indeed as they had been declared
r-tudyour Legislature, but as they
'*expounded aud administered by
• -hirers dues indeed demonstrate by
7 " t hat a certain leelaratory act of
-. sliture, pronoucing the poll tax for
• Dha. 18G!I and 1870, to be ille-
aise, unconstitutional, null aud void;
■ certain parts of the Akerman elec
^tsjiiijjj aauagers of election to
‘ 'asm classes of persons to vote who
- ■ t-'i-ess the qualifications prescribed
tr > by the Constitution, are also uo-
pT 3ll0 P*l a ad null and void.
- opinion, so far as the Akerman act
( p -sd. is manifestly held by your
,;‘ " riic r General, Mr. Farrow, a very
S, p ° l , ? cin * ,er of your own branch of
W .WM'cau party; for be, notwithstand-
- previsions of tbe Akerman act,
published opinion that the man-
i right, belore receiving the bal-
‘ £tts pscted illegal voter, to re-
i ; ,;' i l'° 1 . take aa oath that he had all
prescribed for voters by
■; JJ -*‘itution.
- ! »1» been stated
in the Atlanta
■ tLi ric ' v 'P s P e r.- “by authority”
: er -tor Drown, then Obief Jus
';.-_ Lat| r, another most prominent
■' F ar ty, held the same opiu-
4 . iuc! ' jJ ' 3 -'Ir- Chief Justice
-j-. ttorne y General Farrow in
v . ie "insurrection” “usurjia-
tj. eE j ettl "?, asi< l e of “laws cons'itu-
” .V” v an< h “making a law unto
ildiup th^ ° a ou 8ht to do so, or else
clla rges from the 5th
cnd fr °“
1 tk- refuse this justice even
, ' 1 ' ‘ OaiG. ?.= uis 5 led secession leader,”
s ; ‘’ or 'rben, at some hazard to
**Ser ,) c l • ou i ‘ u P t the question from
f, dtsTf,, act er, as is sometimes done
7.Weeu m, n cr ‘® m l al cases, tfaeparal-
2f Tites . i- no I aDli these = joar two con-
^aiteceJ . . cou P le,c ‘n their so
^'.at&l^ 1 have shown it
al ioaallv P „ n,0nS J 0fBOme y° ur l aws
1 kn °' T ii is a
b!«eW,jr pa f ty ( with °°-
ei •‘•law-’’ ° S lv °tho name and
ltl ' State*1 “ J i aCtS 0f ‘ Congress and
e - t0 Ur part^»n v- tures P a35cd ad-
objects, although such
acts may be in plain violation, or avowed
ly outside of the Constitution from which
the legislative body derives all its powers.
But a very different view of the metier is
taken, not only by the address in question
by the people of Hancock, the people of
the 5th Congressional District, aud the
peopled Georgia; but also by oilier States
which have spoken iu recent elec’ions at
the North and the South, and I firmly be
lieve by the great mass of the people ot the
United States.
The common creed of all Americans who
prefer constitutional government to the des
potisrn of usurpers, is that acts of the leg
islative body in violation or outside of the
Constitution, from which it derives its pow
ers, are not laws, but usurpations; and that
the men who enact them, and the uicu and
tribunals, and executives who uphold; and
enforce them with a knowledge of their
want of constitutional authority, are trait
ors to the cause of public libeily.
When you accuse me of opposing usur
pations like these, and appealing***) -the
courts for their suppression, do you not per
ceive that you do but hold me up as
the defender of the Constitution and laws
and show that it is you who aro the advo
cate of “usurpation,” and that it is you
who truly hive “made a law unto your
self?” Vou shall uot be allowed to ignore
tbe fact that the specific advico given by
the address was that these unconstitutional
acts should be set aside, uot by lawless vio
lence, but by judicial punishment of the
criminals who might take refuge uoder
them.
This brings me to tile prosecution of the
managers of election in Hancock. They
excluded a man from voting who was of full
age, was a resident of the county, and had
not previously voted in that election; and
who was, therefore, by the express terms
of tho Akerman ct, not to be excluded.—
They unanimously excluded him ou the
ground that he was an admitted convicted
felon ; thus holding that th; Akerman act
conflicted with the Constitution in this
case; and, io the extent of this conflict, was
void.
• Vet after this, three of them (constitut
ing a majority) received tho votes of sever
al persons who confessedly had uot paid
their poll tax for the year next preceediug
the election,as required by the Constitution.
After the arrest of several of these illegal
voters, under warrants judiciously issued,
the three managers were also arros ed by
jduicial warraut charging them, ruder the
laws of this State, as principals in the sec-
one degree, with the crime of illegal aud
felonious voting, being preieut, aiding ani
abetting the commission of the crime.
They placed their defense, on their oath,
under tho Akerman act, requiring them to
receive the votes of all persons who were of
full age, were residents of the county, and
had not previously voted in that eleetion;
and also cn the the aforesaid declaratory
act of the Legislature, pronouncing sent
ence of illegality and nullity upon the poll
tax.
The Judge, after hearing argument on
both sides, adjudged the oath as construed
by the accused to be iu conflict with the
Constitution, just as they themselves had
held it to be in their previous exclusion of
the felon; aud lie also adjuged the aforesaid
declartory act, as to the poll tax, to be false
unconstitutional and void. ITo overruled
the defense as bad iu law, and committed
the accused to jail with piiviledge of
bail.
The Judge, James Clarance Simmons,who
issued the warrant and passed the j ugde-
ment of commitment, was one of your own
appointment. The source from which he re
ceived his appointment is stated simply as
a fact, and not at all to his discredit; for
his heroic maintenance of judicial integrity
on this occasion, his name deserves a high
place on the roll of the defenders of Consti
tutional Liberty.
The three managers—headed by Judg -
Gonder. a man of marked ability and un
doubted courage, and being within sight of
the United States soldiers, sent there under
pretenso of executing the Enforcement Act
of Congress—quietly submitted lo thejudg.
meat of the court, and declining to offer
bail, went to jail; not because they were
‘overawed,’ but because they were only du.
ly awed by the power of truth, and the
majesty oflaw as administered by a judicial
tribunal.
If you deny the validity of Georgia laws
as cxpnuuded and applied by the proper
tribunal, will you not at least admit, that
these three managers were guilty under the
famous Enforcement act of Congress,wliic'
you claim as a ‘law,’ and which,in its 15th
section, provides a penalty of three ycais
imprisonment and $500 fine,for those who,
in any Congressional election st all kuow.
iugly and willfully receive the vote of any
person not entitled to vote under tho laws
of h>s State.
You will make this admission unless you
have the hardihood to deny that the Con
stitution of the State is a higher law than
acts of the Legislature.
After the three managers had been com
mitted to jail, the other two declined to act;
and a new board was organized, and pro
ceeded to hold the election clc novo, not
under a “law made unto themselves,” but
under the Code of the State, providing that
an election may be held by as many as
three freeholders, if, after ten o’clock, a. m ,
the managers designattd by law, shall fail
to act. This is the true history of the elec
tion in Hancock. It is a record of which
her people are justly proud. Tho only vio
lation of law was on the part of the first
managers, and was corrected by judicial in
terposition at the instance of Democrats.
These arc tho facts, showing bow utterly
unfounded are all your charges. But there
are still other facts which show these charg
es to bo not only unfounded, but absolute
ly preposterous.
How could the laws have been set aside,
and a reign of “insurrection and usurpa
tion” introduced either in the 5th District
or anywhere else by Democrats? Under
the infamous Akerman act, three oat of
the five managers at every polling place
were appointed by you, and tho other two
had to be confirmed by the Senate, of whom
a majority were your partisans, and some
were tho creatures of a joint manipulation
between you and General Terry. These
five managers, thus appointed, were clothed
with most extraordinary powers over the lib
erty of the citizen, and supplied with Uni-
ted States soldiers to execute their orders
iu most, if not all counties of the State,
certainly all the 5lh District. Intimida
tion, usurpation, and lawlessness of all kinds
were, under this machinery, almost impos
sible to Democrats; and that they were not
practiced by Democrats in the 5th District,
is plainly proven by the fact that your man
agers made no call for the interference of
tho military at any place in that District.
Can just thinking people allow you to es
cape from the weight of these crushing
facts?
And now allow me to ask yon, even if
the conduct of Hancock county had been
such as you represented it, how is it that
yon seek to hold the election in a whole
Congressional District to be invalidated by
the action of a single county, whose entire
vote eould not possibly change tho result?
If the entire election in Hancock weiesct
aside; nay,^t the highest vote ever east by
the county "in any previous election were
counted as an cctirety in favor of your par
ty, the Deaaocrotic candidat s, Corker and
DuBose would still be elected by over three
thousand majority!
How is it, also, that even if tho address
were of the character which you have as
cribed to it, you seek to fastou all its sins
upon a single district when it was made to
the whole people of Georgia, and its advice
was followed to a lesss or greater extent in
all sections aud all districts ol the State?
The public will he enrions to know the mo-
lire for the concentration of your entire
attack upon one district, when oil the dis
tricts stand substantially upon the same
footing. Your gracious exemption of the
other district* is as insidious aud cunning
as your charges against the 5th are false
and calumnious. “ Tiinco Danaos it dona
frrentes.you grow gracious iet De
mocrats beware!! There being no just
ground for discrimination among the Con
grcssional Districts of th; State, was impu
nity for a!! the others tbe price with which
you hoped to buy their co operation, or, at
least, their silence in your crusade against
the 5th? Did you have still furthe hopes
that your patronizing kinduess might u jt
only cause them to tolerate a foul outrage
upon their brethren of the 5th, but might
also seduce them into a repudiation of the
principles e-mb azoned on the banner under
which our common, splendid victory has
teen won? If so, you ore mistaken. Vic
tory is the signal, not for retreat, bnt for
rmewed onset, each still more vigorous than
the last, until the forees of usurpation shall
be driven from their last refuge. Under
the inspiring iufinence of success, true men
will become as bold as they are true. This
bauaer, hoisted at A lauta last August,
pledging the Democratic party of Georgia
to the principles of the Democratic party
of the Union, whose last utteranep was at
New York iu 1SC3, denjuueing the whole
rceonst-uetion scheme of Cougress as revo
lutionary, unconstitutional, null and void,
was hailed with enthusiasm when it was
first thrown to the breeze. You may rest
assured that it loses nothing in the affec
tions of Democrats all over the Union, when
it is now seen floating triumphant in victo
ry, li ast tattered where it was borne boldest
and hebl highest in the conflict,
Lr.NTON Stephens.
loth January, 1S71
MAGNA CHARTA.
This was the subject of Gen. Toombs’
lecture la«t night, at the City Hall, before
the Library and Historical Society. We
wish that every man, woman and child in
the State einld have hca'd and appreciate 1
it.
' another. That legal judgment of his peers
can alone pass upon his cause, and that too
according to the laws of the land.
“Nee supereum ibhnw, nec super mittr-
mns." may excite the cavil of classical lit
er-! nrs, and its literal interpretation be
un nianipg, hat th; great spirit of truth is
The groat truths and principles set f rth | felt, as the most unphilosophical negro in
and illustrated by him effect every man, the land may feel the warmth of the sun-
woman and child, not only in this land, but beam without being able to aualyzo its prop
al! ov; r the world, wherever the claims of I ertics.
THK FIRST BOOK OF TIIR CHRO.NI-
CI.F.S OF GEORGIA.
humanity aro respected, or the rights of a
man are recognized by hi? fellow man.
We propose in this article not so much
to review this lecture, as to set forth such
thoughts of onr own as were suggested, by
the eloquent and logical addicss of the dis
tinguished speaker.
We premise them, by stating that this
subject, so vitaliy connected with all that is
really goad and true in human life, is bat
poorly understood, and still more poorly ap
preciated.
In the wild hunt after wealth, honor and
positijn, men, from the highest to the low
est, have unconsciously forgotten the first
duty of man towards his fellow man, and in
the eagerness of self preferment, has trod
den down tho rights, proprieties and feel
ings of all others.
The grasping greed of ambition centres
upon self as its living focus. It knows no
law save the law of self aggrandizement.
Dependent fur its brilliancy upon the height
it can attain above all others; its natural in
terest is to rise Ly its own worth, if possi-
sible, if not to rise by depressing others.—
The common eye of th; world estimates
character relatively, and reckons a man as
The history of Magna Charts, as given
by Gen. Too nbs night before last, was an
interesting one. and it was for this that we
expressed the with that every man in tho
Stitc—h'gh or low. rich or poor, could
have heard him. Its history affords us
mnch of encouragement to hope that its
great, living principles may yet again ob
tain ig oarown land. The obstruction of
its operation by the madness of the times,
is not the first instance on record. Often
before has its* strong arm been palsied, and
its voice been hashed, by the violence of
despots and the idiot yells of miJtnen. But
ic could not he crashed—like the pliant
reed that bows beneath the blast o f the
storm, it rose again alter th; furious breath
was exhausted.
While our land is given up to the rnle of
fools and thieves, wc must not despond—
only hug the precious “bible of liberty” to
onr bosoms, be guided by its teachings, and
free and unfaltering in oar devotion to its
principles, and all will yet be well.
Let us spurn the false and cowardly shib
boleth of thieves as a thing of death.—
Not bury, bnt embalm in onrseeret and sa
cred souls, our “dead issues,” nursing them
:ood only in proportion to the meanness ofjas did Tam o’ Shanter’s dame her wrath,
Francis llret Ilarte.
The Sau Francisco correspondent of the
Topeka .State Record, gives a btography
of the n;w poet essayist aud humorist,Fran
cis Bret Hart;, whose sudden pop
ularity is one of the great events of recent
American literary history. Mr. Ilarte was
horn in Albany, in 1837. He io.-t his fath
er (a professor in the Albany Female Senti-
narp) wh;n he was a mere child, ani after
receiving an ordinary school education,
obtained employment as a clerk in New
York.
At the age of seveuteeu he went to Cali
fornia to seek his fortune, and after losing
wlu.t little money he possessed in San Fran
cisco traveled on loot to the Sonora mines
and opened a school, lie did not .succeed
in this, and was cqaully uulucky at places
mining which he triea u xt.
After various adventures he became a
compositor in a newspaper office at Eureka.
Here lie used to surreptitiously contribute
to the paper, transferring his essays from
his mind to his composing stick without the
intervention of pen and ink, and crediting
them to “exchanges.”’ They attracted no
tice from the first, bnt it was sometime he.
fore tiie authorship was discovei cd.
lie refused a situation in the editorial
room, wishing first to master the mechani
cal part of ;he business ; but he
once took charge of the paper for six
weeks, during his employer’s absence, com
posing his editorials mentally, and setting
them up at once in type. Having narrow
ly escaped mobbing, because he denounced
an indiscriminate massacr; of Indians by
the whites, he returned to San Francisco,
and became a compositor iu the office of the
Golden Era, until his literary abilities were
discovered, and he was promoted to the ed
itorial department.
He field positions successfully iu the
United Slates surveyor general’s office, the
United States Marshal's office, and the
branch iuiut,and was concerned in the man
agement of the Californian, a weekly pa
per started by Charles H. IV bb. It was
with the foundation, however, of the Over
land Monthly, in July, 18G8, that his real
celebrity began.
He has been tho editor of this racy and
excellent magazine from the outset, and
written for it his best poems, and those
characteristic pictures of California life
which have been so keenly appreciated on
both sides of the continent. He has recent,
ly refused a professorship of literatures in
the university of California.
A Man Shoots llimscif on Mis Wires’
Grave.
On Saturday afternoon a well dressed
man, about twenty-six years of age, drove
up to the Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Vil
lage, and, showing a ticket, was admitted
to the grounds and directed to a grave,
which he said was the grave of his wife.—
In a very few minutes the attention of the
attendant was drawn to the locality by tho
explosion of a pistol, when it was asccr-
ta ned that the man had shot himself, his
body falling across the grave to which he
had been directed.
An inquest was held yesterday by the
Coroner of Hunters’ Point, whoa the fol
lowing facts were ascertained : The name
of the unfortunate man was Peter Smith,
He resided at SO, Thorp avenue, Williams
burg, was a carpenter by trade, twenty-six
years of age, and some weeks ago lost his
wife and only child by that terrible dis
ease, smallpox, whieh had been raging in
that part of Brooklyn the past few months,
since which time he has been very discon
solate, saying that he wonld soon meet his
wife. About noon he hired a horse and
buggy, saying that he was going into the
country, when he deliberately drove to the
cemetery and shot himself. Verdict of the
jury—death from his own hands.—N. Y.
Deraid.
Seeds for tbe French Peasants.
A public meeting was held in England
lately, presided over by the President of
the Royal Agricultural Society, Lord Ver
non. The object was to raise a collection
to purchase grain and other seeds for the
French peasants whose lands have been des
olated, and whose crops have been consum
ed and destroyed by tho German armies,
to enablo them to sow and plant another
season. A thousand pounds were snbscrib
ed on tho spot. Withont such assistance,
famine most follow war in France.
The Pnblic Printing Office, in Washing
ton, is to bo connected to the Capitol, by
telegraph, and a pneumatio tube is talked
of. for carrying messages, proofs? &c.
his surroundings. So he is batter than oth
ers, it mutteis not how had lie is. Uueclips-
cd by the glare of the sun, the cvenesccnt
tra'k of the meteor shines out even bright
er than day itself. In tho murky hour of
midnight the phosphorescent coldness of a
rotten chunk will light up the tangled paths
ol a swamp. Bnt fir all that,'he meteor
light is fitful, aud the “fox fire” ol the
swamp is cold and slimy.
And it is irue also of those great lights
of humanity, that shine out only because
all around them is dark. They are as dc
ceitful as the rajs of a meteor, and as cold
as the lambent light of the “Jack o lan
tern
An! this i-> ihc great mistake of man
kind. It worships the semblance, rather
than tbe substance. It honors a man for
what ho appears to be, rather than for
what he really is. It looks to places of pow
er and distinction for its ideals of virtue
and of worth; measure; the virtues of its
heroes by the vices of its ennaiile.
True worth is not so to be estimated. It
consists in positive rathe than relative
merit. Is good and pure and true within
and by itself—unaffected by its external
surroundings.
Robt. Toombs, the persecuted, disfran
chised and obscure man, is greater to day
in his own privacy, than Ulysses Grant in
ail the pride of his high station. \ r et he
is not so regarded—the world loots to the
high place of the one, and the low place
of the other, us the standard of their rela-
ativo merits, and as a standard of their
relative merit*, it may not be wrong, bat
the great wring is in the application of
a relative standard at all. In moral phil
osophy there fhuti’.d bo no such tC9t of char
actcr. Snee s may be the reward of mer
it, but it can never be the test. Tyranny
and wrong are as often successful as is lib
erty and right.
The blunt, direct, but truthful principles
put forth by the illiterate barons of Eng
land, have never always been the power of
the land The needle of the compass may
always point steadily to tho North pole,
but the vessel often drifts before the storm
far off its rightful course. But the storm
will expend its fury at last, and then the
compass again becomes tho friend, the
guid; and the salvation of the pilot. And
thus it is with truth. Hide it as deep as
yon will beneath the filth and tbe dirt of
error, it will eventually burst out again.
Freeze it over with a solid bridgo of ice,
yet it is quick beneath, and cannot be still
ed.
“Tho deepest depths that ever froze.
Can but o'er the surface close,
The living stream lies quick below,
And flows, nor can it cease to flow.”
And in what does this truth consist—
what is its great characteristic, and what
is the great mission it has to perform up
on earth.
Truth consists in the honest, genial,
glowing love in the human heart. Its
grand characteristic is an unselfish disre
gard of its own importance, and a concien-
tious regard of the happiness of otheis. Its
great mission is to combat error, to sustain
tho weak, to lift up the fallen, and to main
tain the right.
It is the basis of all human happiness,
and the first principle iD all human laws.
Upon it, in the rude age of 1215, was
founded the Magna Charta—the “bible of
liberty. By it, even before tbe haughty
tread of a Norman conqueror ever pressed
soil of Eugland, the old Anglo Saxon laws
were framed.
The embodiment of this principle in the
form of a charter upon the 15th day of
June, 1215, was but a re-assertion of tbe
rights of man, that had been so loog out
raged by tbe Norman Kings, and while to
the Magna Charta, indeed, wo owe the de
sign of onr own political structure, yet to
the ioate principle of truth and of right,
born in tbe breast of tbe hardy British Is
landers, ani qnicked into life long yean
before King John drove it to the hazzard
of asserting itself, even in the face of all
his power, are we to look to the origin of
all that is noble and grand in American or
English laws.
Magna Charta, which has very aptly been
oalled by Hallam, the “keystone of Eng
lish liberty,” has for its foundation this,
the great truth ol nature, that the rights
of one man cannot prejudice the rights ot
and in tho providence ol God who doeth
all things well, we will yet emerge from the
depths of our humiliation and sorrow.
As to a critical revi;w of Gen. Trombs’
lecture, wo must frankly confess that onr
powers are inadequate to tho task—:t is
high above our reach, and in the enthnsi
CHAP. IX.
Benjamin dreams a dream; he is fascina
ted by the beauty thereof, and goes a hank
cring after strange gods. The King reach
es oat his arms to embrace him, and invit-
cth him to a feast. Benjamin attend’ th
the feast 'nd makes a speech. He also
writeth a letter.
1. And it came to pass that in the land of
Georgia there dwelt a certain man by tho
name of Bcnjaxin, sur named H Hill.
2. And this man Benjamin was a man
of parts and of good breeding.
3. And, moreover, he Cometh of a good
and noble stock, and belonged to one of the
P. F. G.
i. And, like Juda* of old. this same
man Benjamin was honored and trusted by
his friends and by his neighbors, oven as
Judas was honored and trusted by the Apos
tles, whose Christ ho afterwards betrayed.
5. For amid the dark days of the rebell
ion, when the power of the North was put
forth to crush the people of the land of
Georgia, ho, Benjamin, stoed forth as the
friend of his people,
G. And encouraged them with much
good advice, and besought them every one
to die in the last ditch before they should
giro up to be spoiled by the people of the
North.
7. Howbcit soever, Benjamin took care
not to die there himself, neith;r did ho get
in the last ditch at all.
8. Yet, for all this, Benjamin was a right
valiant man nevertheless, and when, at last,
the enemies of the land of Georgia did pre
vail,
9. And her strong and lusty yonog men
were all killed, and her flocks all stolen, and
her cities all destroyed, and the homes of
her people all burned, and her fields laid
waste, and the darkne;s of death was over
the land,
Ifl. Then it was that Benjamin stood oat
asm of onr hearts, we could see only the i by Irmself, solitary and alone, like the peak
richest and rarest geui? of thought, and of
expression—each of itself sufficiently daz
zling to faeinate a less ardent soul than
ours. The General was nut ambitious of
an oratorical display, nor did he care for
scenic effect; yet, all unconsciously he, so
warmed with his subject, as to grow sub
limely eloquent, and an occasional bnrst of
hts great sanl wonld enthu e the honse with
the wildest emotions of applause.
Forrest, who has made the study of hu.
man passion the business of his life, could
not tnrow more fire of expression in the ut
terances of a Richelieu than burst in a natu
ral, unstudied, soul-felt, blaze from-the lips
of this great man.
WonXVthat we had* more such as-he, to j
speak for the cause of humanity, and the
great truths of liberty. That such a mas
ter mind 33 his should bo denied the exer
cise of the functions of even a common
magistrate in the land, while the thickest
skulled negro in all the borders of the Uni
ted States can find a place in the Senate
of the nation, is ‘I disgrt ;e to the civiliza
tion of the age.
Letteb ov Hon. Linton Stephens. —
The letter of Linton Stephens, whieh we
publish on the first page, deserves a care
ful perusal. It is an able and complete
answer to the gratuitous charges by Gov.
Bollock, against the poiple of the 5;h Con
gressional District, in general, and tbe peo
ple of Sparta in particular. Mr. Stephens
shows that the Governor has not only made
an ass of himself, but proves himself to be
an exceedingly sore backed and vindictive
one.
The old issue in this case may be a dead
one, but its ghost is as impudent and obsti
nate as that of Banqno.
From a private letter received from Mr.
Trammell, of Dcsarc, Arkansas, wo are
able to announce that Mr. Cornu t and
family, and Mr. Eskridge, who was sup
posed to have been lost on the Nick Wall,
are safe and sound at their new home, in
Arkansas, never having been on the ill-
fated boat at all.
Eugene Aram In Real Life.
Edward Rnloff, recently convicted of a
most villainous murder at Binghamton,
N. Y., has a history that is realy stranger
than fiction. He is sixty five years of age,
and has for twenty seven years led a life
of crime. Deceiving, swindling, robbing,
murdering; yet in the midst of all these ac
cursed deeds he found mnch time to devote
to the acquisition of knowledge, to the
mastering of of tasks and promblems that
happily make the majority of men gentler,
nobler, and batter.
This cold-blooded murderer, and consn.
mate scoundrel is a profound ph ilologist,
a good criminal lawyer, and possesses con.
siderable intimacy with the cognate sciences
of medicine and chemistry. And strang.
eat, perhaps, of all is the startling fact that
this hardened crimnal is a self taught man
—one who was a dose student for the pare
love of knowledge.
Admiral Porter and Gen. Butler.
The Washington Star publishes a cari
ous letter which Gen. Butler has received,
it purporting to be addressed to him from
or on behalf of Admiral Porter. It alleges
that Gen. Butler gave passes to allow reb
els to take clothing and provisions into
their lines, and attempted to entice the Ad
miral into a cotton speculation; that at New
Orleans he sold to his brother vessels cap
tured by the navy, and made a large
amount of money therefrom; that he is in
triguing against President Grant, and that
Admiral Porter can destroy him if he de
sires.
It also asserts that the Admiral has to
support him an organisation called the Mis-
issippi Association, and the entire Western
press, and that it is the interest of General
Batter to unite with him instead ot oppos
ing hia confirmation. The letter professes
to be elicited by the report that Gen. But
ler will shortly publish another letter writ
ten by the Admiral in denunciation of Chin.
Grant, and denies that any sneh thing is
in existence. Admiral Porter denies that
he itrote his anonymous communication
published in the Star, which created con
siderable talk in politioal circles.
of Toneriffe stands oat in the midst of the
stormy waters of the Atlantic, and defied
tl e wrath of the foe. *
11. Ani Benjamin wrote sundry and di
vers sote3—not such notes as the money
changers nso—but earnest, patriotic notes;
12. And Benjamin called his notes
Notes on the situation;
13. And these notes were straiahtways
put in circulation, and all the people of the
land of Georgia did endorse them:
14. An-1 in these cotes did Benjamin
exhort the people to stand true to princi
ple, and let interest go. v
15. Aud for these notes was Benjamin
accounted to be a great patriot, and a
wonderfully smart man:.— - .
16. And straightway would Benjamin
have been made Grand Cyclops of the Ku
Ivlux. had there ever been such a thing as
the Ku Ivlux in the land of Georgia.
17. And Benjamin was very proud of his
post helium biilicosity, and nursed his wrath
against the spoilers of his country with a
very jealous care.
13. But after awhile Benjamin’s wrath
began to cool off, and the intense patriotism
of Benjamin began to wax faint.
19. And after awhile Benjamin began
to secretly reach oat his hands and to with
draw his notes on the situation.
20. And at last, when he had supposed
that they were all withdrawn from the pub
lie, Benjamin felt exceedingly cool and
plersant.
21. And it came to pass that a little
while botbre tho evil day of the election,
so much deraded by Rutus Behemoth,
snrnauied the Bullock, the King, it camo
about that Benjamin fell into a quiet slum
ber.
22. And behold Benjamin had a vision;
23 And he lifted up his eyes in his vis
ion and lo, and behold, lie saw a beautiful
plain opened ont before him.
24. And that plain was covercd with
roses and flowers, and all manner of pretty
things.
24. Anu streams of water, and rills of
wine and brooks of whisky, and rivers of
brandy flowed through that plain, and
sparkled in tho- morning sun like pare
streams, rills, brooks and rivers do sparkle
in the snn.
45. And there were mounds of cupper,
hillocks of iron, hills of silver and moun
tains of gold surrounding that plain;
27. And right through the midst of the
plaia, traversing it from South-East to
North-West was stretched ont a mighty
railway;
28’ And apon that railway was a train
of cars daawn by a powerful engine, whose
wheels were as large round as tbe span
fall moon, and looked as if they wonld
crash oat all things else in that piain.
29. And to this mighty engine was
hitched a long train of cars and one car
was labelled gold, one car was labelled
silver, one car was labellad greenbacks and
one car was labelled “grease.”
30. And Benjamin’s eyes were dazzled
with the prospect of so mnch beauty—of
'so many flowers and streams, and such glit-
terin" heaps of gold and silver.
31. And he beheld also browsing apon
this beautiful plain a stately Bnllock, who
lashed his splendid tail in all the pride of a
beastly monarch.
32. And Benjamin’s heart at once
reached out with love towards this kingly
beast.
33. And behold the Bollock approached
the place where Benjamin was resting, and
the Bollock fonnd a voice to speak.
33. And behold tbe Bollock opened its
month and spake, and this b what the Bnl
lock said,
35. Benjamin, I know that thoa art a
good fellow—though be it thou hast been
a great rebel, now behold all this fair
plain spread beforo thee.
36. Now it, in all its beanty, b open unto
thee, to tread its flowery paths, to drink its
nectarine streams, to delve its monnds and
hillocks, its hills and its mountains of gold
and silver, and to have a share in that great
railway, which is so heavily laden with its
cars of gold and silver and greenbacks.
37- All these ye shall do, and shall have,
and more too, if thou wilt only renounce
thy manhood, and b ’come as me, a Bul
lock.
38. And then did Benjamin forget the
fate of the great King Nebuchadnezzar, who
wns transformed into a beast, and did cat
the grass of the fields, and he promised to
Cast off his manhool and to become a? a Bid
lock.
39. And then did Benjaiu'n awaken from
his vision, and he marveled much at the
strangeness thereof
40. And the beauty of th; vision did so
haunt his mind that he became bewildered
thereat, and straightway did Benjamin write
a letter in which he jid renounce bis past
IBknhood, and became ns a beast of the field,
that walks upon allfonrs. »ad eons irts with
a Bullock
41. Aud when Rufu* Bgiieaioth,
named the Bu'iock, the King, read the let
ter of Benjamin, then was he rejoiced and
made exceedingly clad.
42. Andstraightway li.-gave a feast, to
which he invited Benjamin.
43. And Benjamin put oa clean rai
ment, and went to the f ast of the King.
44 And the King placed Benjamin up
on the right hand o! the Iviog, and invited
Benjamin to make a speech.
45. And Benjamin did make a speech to
the King, and before the Kings’company,
and the King and Kings' company were do
lighted at the speech that Benjamin did
make.
Communicated.
tVheat, 11 heat, IVhcnt.
EniTOit Courier :—
Our city i- the best market
iu North Georgia fir-lie sale of choice
wheatjand our farmers of Floyd and adjoin
ing counties make a> g-’od as ever was
raised, but they fail in qu ntity.
The millers now in our -ity and vicinity
are ordering wheat fro: • Tennessee and
Kentucky, in considerable quantities: and
when the three other mills in process of
construction here, are ready for operation,
the demand for wheat will fie greatly in
creared, making a constant and remunera
tive market for all that can be raised in this
section.
As millers,wo woo'd prefer ge'.ting ouren.
tiresupply from wagons hauled directfrom
the farms; aud we hip; the next crop may
be abundant, and guod; that onr money
will not necessary have to co to other mark
ets to get supplies.
Our farmers are i.uproviug in the knowl
edge of wheat growing, but some of them
are behind in the art of saving it after It is
made.
'Vheat should never be threshed when
it is damp, espccialL if there is stunt in it.
It will dry in shock - more thoroughly and
speedily, than it ever will after thresh-
'* THE SEAGO-BlXHXiETT COJIPf"-
The following card,'which we find iu ibr.
Atlanta ConsQtnli"ie, ought to settle the
matter of Governor Bulh.ck’s refusal to en
tertain the higherjbid of tho Seago-Bbxl.
gett Company for the State railroad It will
be recollected that the railroad companies
represented below were the only enretiv? of.
fered by them:
Macon, Georgia, Jan., 14,1371.
As some persons expressed doubts whetb
er onr letter to Governor B dlock,-fully
covered the ground of a refusal of our com.
panies to go as sureties < n the bond of the
company com; osed of Scago Blidgctt and
others, as bidders for the lease of the Wes
tern aud Atlantic railroad, wc state nne-
quivocal!y,thatuei.thcrthe Central Railroad
and Bakina Company of Georgia, nor the
Southwestern Railroad Company, nor the
Macon and Western Railroad Company au
thorized sneh company to nse their namos,
as they were used as sureties for said com
pany, composed of Messrs. 8eag>, Blodgett
and others, and now state that said compa
nies wonld not then,, and wonld not nL any
time since,have gone n the bond of Mess s
Seago, Blodgett aud others
And they would not have endorsed for
any compitiy bidding the exhorbitant
amount offered by them, as wc beiieve no
company could safely make any such con
tract with rtascnable hope of comply
ing with it and beeping faith with the
State.
W. B Johnson.
Agent Central Railroad and Bankiog Co.
W. S noi.T,
Prcs’dcnt Southwestern Railroad Co.
A. J. White,
President Maccn& Western Railroad Cn
BULLOCK’S LAST OUTRAGE.
There is but one feeling moving the
‘ ,ar ” breast c f every honest man in the State
in regard to Bollock’s appointment of dis
trict Judges and that is one of universal
condemnation. The appointment of the
illiteiate ne;ro Simms to preside over the
rights and pass upon ti c cansc of th;j ew-
pl; of Savannah is an outrage that no civ
ilized people was ever before called upon
to submit to.
The Augusta Chronicle thus speaks of
Damp wheat should never be bronbgt to
market. Millers can’t afford to buy damp
wheat ai any price.
Sr;wart, Austin & Co
Rome, Ga., Jan., !9th 1871.
Death Of Maj. Walker Reynolds.
From a dispatch received by a gentle
man in this city wc learn that Major Wal
ker Reynolds died suddenly at bis residence
ntar Alpine, in Talladega county, at oue
o’clock p. M. yestor lay. Extensively and
favorably known, this intelligence will
be receive! with •; irrow throughout the
State.
Major Reynolds was born and educate d
in the State of Georgia. I n early manhood,
about the year 1830, ho removed with his
family and settled iu Talladega county,th;n
a part of the Creek country and improved
the place where he has lived for more than
forty years and where he has fonnd a last
resting place.
Early engaged in the purchase and sale
of land ho vapidly amassed a large fortUDe.
Distinguished for his strong practical com
mon sense, and almost unerring judgement
great energy and indomitable will, he caily
acquired great influence in his s;ction of
the country, and, if we arc not mistaken,
for some time represented his county in the
State Legislature. He is better known
perhaps by his connecti n with the Ala
bama and Tennessee railroad. It may be
state!, withont exaggeration, that bnt for
the liberality of Maj. Reynolds, the readi
ness with which he subscribed for the stock
of the road, and loaned it bis money when
money could be obtained from no other
source, tho road never wonld have crossed
the Coosa river. For many years ho was
a Director, and at one time, we believe, the
President of the road. He often, loDg be
fore the road was accessible to travel from
that part of the State, attended the meet
ings of the Directory in Selma, traveling all
the way on horseback.
Now that Maj. Reynolds is dead, to bis
friends in this hoar of affliction, the sweet
est consolation most be that his life and
death were hallowed hythe^assnrances of
r< ligion; that no stain rests on his fair fame,
and that in a life extending over a period
of seventy years, he was eminently disiin-
guished'for rectindo of character, -strict in
tegrity a”d high moral purpose. A kind
and most indulgent husband and lather,
in the home circle where the true man is
always best known and loved, his death will
be most painfully felt.—Selma Times.
A suit for divorce has besn commenced
in Illinois by Jesse M. Elliott, who asks to
be divorced on the ground of desertion.—
They were married in Alabama in 1861;
his wife wanted him to join the rebel ar.
my; he declined: was drafted, and finally
deserted to the Union lines and joined
the Union army, in whieh he remained nn.
til the end of the war. His wife utterly re.
fuses to live with him.
An Irish paper says, “ in the absence of
both editors, tbe pnblirhers have socceed in
securing tbe services of a gentleman to ed
it the paper this week.”
Cant Bear ^Them.—“I never could
bear children," said a crusty old maid to
Mis. Partington. “Perhaps, if yon conld,
yon wonld like thfem better,” mildly re
plied jhe old lady.
A Knoxville editor has pat the editori
al paste-pot to a new nse. He pat oat
with it tbe eye of an assailant who under
took to warm the editorial jacket.
So lur as onr knowledge extends wo find
iut one black negro on th:. list, aud he i*
graciously awarded to our sister cit.-, S r
vannnb. Simms, the ocero appoincee for
that District, was formerly in the service of
Hon. John E. Ward, as groom and carriage
driver.
We suppose that Bullock thought that
he might f ave learned something ol the
laws of the State from having driven the
eaariage nfa good lawyer. It h fair to sup
pose that Simms is as good a iawjer as
many others on the list.
He certiinly can’t know less than old
Jake Watson and the Spotted Horse, both
of whom are made Judges.
The appointee- for Judge of this District
is as good a selection as we c’nld have
expected—that of Braytoo, the most in
competent and utterly worthless that could
have been found anywhere.
He is a man of notoriously bad charac
ter, even for a carpet-bagger, and has an
indictment pending now against him in
this county for keeping a disorderly house.
Ho has never practiced law, and knows
nothing abont the profession.
To this the Savannah News answers.
Well, we have the “black negro,” aud
Richmon d has the carpet-bagger Brayton;
but as these appointments have to pass the
ordeal of Senatorial confirmation, and as
that body is no longer a mere tool of Bul
lock and his banditti,we need not appro!" end
the meditated inflictions.
As to Jim’s qualifications, we were not
aware that he had ever been the groom and
coachman of a prominent lawyer. His ca
reer in another capacity, and as an expert
fiddler is well known, but it is not presum
ed that even Bollock considered these ac
complishments as especially qualifying him
for the bench.
Scottish Wit.
Since the time when the accession of
Jau.es the VI to the English Tbrouc at
tracted so many of his poor countrymen to
Engla-d —to push their fortunes iu Eng
land, and sometimes, if not often, at the cx-
peme of Englishmen, who wonld have been
glad of their places—to the day when Lord
Bute’s administration nndcr George III.
made all Scotchmen unpopular for his sake,
and when Dr. Samuel Johnson vented, in
and out of seasoD,his real or pretended dis
like to that people, up to the time of
Charles Lamb and the late Rev. Sydney
Smith, who followe 1 his silly example, It.
has been more or less the fashioD in Eng
land to indulge in little harmless jokes at
the expense of the Scottish people.
It has been the stage enstom and the lit
erary habit, at the same time, to portray
them, not only as overbard, shrewd and
“cannie,” in money matters, bnt as utterly
insensible to “wit.” Sydney Smith, who
was a wit himself, and possibly imbibed his
jocosity from the conversation of Edin
burgh society in the days when, as be him-
seif said, he “cultivated literature upon a
little oat meal,” is guilty of the well known
assertion that, “it takes a surgical opera
tion to drive a joke into a Scotsmans’ head”
Wc shall not attempt to enter into any
discussion on the differences between “wil”
and “humor,” which are many, or strive to
define the divergency between what the
English call “wit,” the French “esprit,”
and what the Scotch call “wot,” but assert
in contradiction to the reverend joker, that
the “wnt” of the Scotch is quite equal to
the “wit” of the English aid the “esprit”
of the French, and that the Scotish “hu
mor’’ is iofinitely superior to any hnmor
that was ever evolved ont ol character to
the south of Yorkshire.
There is one thing, however, which per
haps, Sydney Smith intended when he
wrote, perhaps withont thinking very
deeply, if at all, abont what he said: the
Scotch, as a rale, do not like and do not
understand banter, or what in the current
slang of the day is calhd “chaff” and “ban
ter,” there is bnt litte wit, and that of the
poorest, and ao humor whatever. “Cbafi”
is simply vnlgar impertinence; and tbe
Scotch beiDg a plaio, serion? and honest
people, though poetical, aro slow to under
stand, and unable to appreciate it- Bnt
with “wit” “esprit” or “wnt,” and hnmor,
that arc deserving of the name, they are
abundantly familiar; and their very eerions-
ness enables them to enjoy them the more.
The wittiest of men are always the most se
rious, if not the saddest and melancholly;
and if the shortest possible refutation of
Sydney Smith’s nntonnded assertion were
required, it might be fonnd in a simple
reference to the works of Robt. Barns,
Walter Scott and John Wilson.
“EoJojed Her Murders.”
An old lady once told her doctor that
she knew she was in fading health, because
in reading the newspapers she noticed that
she “enjoyed her mnrders” less thsn for
merly.
Now it strikes ns that the Radicals are
in the condition of the old ladv in two re
spects :
1. They formerly enjoyed their mnrders
hogely, and gloated over every invented
story of the ku klox fraternity, because
they thereby expected to be able to pro
long thrir lease of power in the Southern
2. They ‘Ipnjoy their mnrders” less than
formerly, became tbe recent elections have
shown that the Northern people are be
coming disgusted with their tides of hor
ror, and the Radicals most be convinced
like the old lady, that their party is
“Ming health.”—At. Const.