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work.
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La Grange, Georgia.
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I. last rear, wo announce to COTTON SHIPPERS AND
FARMERS that wo liavo re-opened our old Stand, near the
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to all cotton stored with us. Wo also lmvo a NIGHT-
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Savannah Georgia.
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(FINE FIRE-PROOF BRICK BUILDING,)
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OF COTTON consigned to them; aud to SHIP-
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ull other AMERICAN AND
consignments, and
KUROPEAL MARKETS. “ d
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120 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Miscellaneous.
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THE ORPHANS RE VERY.
IlY EPFIK.
My father, lonely and woary,
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Of happy days that wore not dreary—
Of lovo without ono broken link.
Hiuce those days grim Death lias come
Aud snatched away our fairest treasures;
Rendered cheerless our little homo,
Aud boro thorn to a world of pleasures.
Ono ho took In tho early spring,
When the fresh priinroso began to bloom—
Wlion tho mocking bird began to sing,
And winter had tlirown off Its gloom.
Over tho river, the boatman polo,
Bore anothor—the household pet;
His white hair played in the gentle gale—
Idol Jimmies 1 I seu him yot.
He crossed on his breast his tiny hands,
And closed his bright beaming eyes;
Wo saw him launch from tho silver sand-’,
As the victor bore off his prir.e.
Anotheii futher, still was taken;
Ypu remember the time full well,
Wlion, wiH -wll-nigh breaking,
Mother kuma nini her last tore well.
At last, fiithor, with fiendish eyes,
Ho gazed upon thee. Thou dldNt fail
As a lamp grows dim, flickers, then dies:
You become, O l so still—so pale.
Now tho green grass grows upon thy mound
In tho country church-ynrd still,
Whero the night owl keops his solemn round.
And tho whip’will chants her requiem shrill.
Yos, in a strange land thou art laid;
But thy orphan’s heart wanders there yet:
And oft when twilight lengthens its shade,
In fancy, your grave w ith tears I wet.
But kind angels beckoned thee away
To that bright, that spirit land,
Where chorubs sport in endluss day,
Aud tli' ransomed are at God's right hand.
Darling parent, we’ve grown woary
Of the cold world’s toil and strife;
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Is thero rest boyond this life ?
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Will sorrows cease, and tears quit streaming
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Will faces of souls there be beaming
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" Ah! then 'tis a blessod Heaven,
Where ail sorrows ever close;
• Where, when every tie is riven,
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Bear mo across the shining river,
Whero, in sin, I’ll roam no more..
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The Democratic candidate for Mayor of Atlan
ta is not thirty years old.
Tho South Georgia Conference will assemble
in Albany, on the 16th of December.
The Griffin municipal election has been post
poned until after the Legislature meets.
Judge Erskino has appointed Sam Daily, of
Macon, commissioner of his Court for the South
ern District.
The Georgia Enterprise has seen a bunch of
fine bananas grown on a gentleman’s farm near
Thomas villo.
Thomas Adams was killed by B. B. Cade, on
the Petersburg road, near Elborton, on tho third
of t'iiiu mouth. 1
Several plantations in Sumter county have
lately been sold at prices ranging from six to
nine dollars per acre.
Mr. G. M. Hay, of Sumpter county, has dis
covered a preparation which destroys all desire
for alcoholic stimulants.
A gin house and contents, belonging to Mr.
Allen Knight, of Washington county, was de
stroyed by fire recently.
One of the most prominent citizens of Savan
nah, came near dying on Tuesday, 17th, from
an overdose of laudanum.
West, tho swindler, and Kirby, tho horse thief,
oscaped from the Macon jail on Tuesday, but
were chased and recaptured.
The North Georgia Conference of the M. E.
Church, South, will convene at Griffin on the
first Wednesday in December.
Tho Ordinary of Chatham county has appoint
ed J. J. McGowan tax-collector for that county
vice Hopkins killed some months ago.
Bcv. Dr. Reese, tho Rector of tho Methodist
Church, has been preaching a series of interest
ing sermons in Sandcrsville rccontly.
A man by the name of Deboarder, living near
Macon, committed suicide the other day by
placing himself in front of an incoming train.
The Atlanta Era has official returns from all
the counties in tho State but one, and. after foot
ing them up, concludes that Seymour has a ma
jority.
W. H. Rozar, a citizen of Griffin, and a Radi
cal appointee on the State road, was knocked off
a train on Sunday the 15th inst., near the Chick-
amuuga bridge, and killed.
It appears that tho Legislature having failed
to provide for a city registration in Maeon, there
will be no municipal election there until aftor
the meeting of tho next Legislature, in January.
We learn from tho Chronicle if; Smtind that the
prices of tho August!* mills have been reduced.
We now quote 4-4 Sheeting at 14c, 7-8 Shirting
at 12 io, 3-4 Shirting at 10 Jc and Drilling at 16
cents.
In Savannah, the News reports that 63 prison
ers were arrested by the police during tho two
weeks ending with tho night of Saturday, Nov.
14th, 1868; a decrease of one from the number
for the proceeding fortnight.
Tho Newnan Herald says that indications pro-
duco the belief that 1500 or 2000 bushels of
wheat will bo grown next year on small plats of
ground in that city. There have been some
efforts made to form a wheat club.
According to the Baltimore Gazette, that city,
during the week ending on Saturday last, receiv
ed one hundred and ninety-five more bales of
cotton from Charleston than from Savannah.—
The receipts from Charleston were 460, from Sa
vannah 265 bales.
A convention of the fanners of Georgia will
be held in Macon on tho 0th of December, to
take into consideration tho best means of influ
encing immigration to this State, as well as to
devise moans for furthering tho agricultural in
terests of Georgia.
Lotteis patent have been granted to Mr. J. A.
W. Justi, of Savannah, for an “Improvement
in Looomotive Smoke Stacks,” by which coal,
cinders, sparks or ashes, are prevented from is
suing from tho smo^ce stacks. He is very san
guine as to the success of his invention, and we
hope Mb anticipations moy be realized.
The Washington (Ga.) Gazelle says that the
result of the late election of Wilkes county de
velops the fact that a majority of tbo registered
black voters of the county, at least seven hun
dred in number, voted^with the white people.—
And the remaining si* hundred, with very few
exceptions, declined t.o vote at all, many of them
stating only that they would cease to aot a part
against tho white pooplc in the matter of which
they knew nothing.
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TIIK DROWN-M \tlTIN AFFAIR.
Brown Completely Answered.
Mkbidiak, Mibs., Nov. 13, 1868.
Editor La Grange Reporter: I havo received a
copy of tho Era containing Governor Brown’s
wordy attempt to refute aud explain the charges
of villainy I have preferred against him; also, I
have been shown a note you wrote u friend, in
which you say, doubtless, without due reflection,
that ho has placed mo on the defensive. Read
ing liis prolix effusion, diffusive, discursive and
wordy, with tho mind's eye steadily fixed on the
issuo I havo made and submitted to tho public—
his criminal connection with Fanny Martin—and
you cannot fail to perceivo, the scrutinizing pub
lic cannot fail to perceive, tlial his defence is a
signal failure. His own bare assertions of inno-
conce are not to be taken as evidence against tho
proofs of his guilt that I have adduced. Aud
what olso has he brought but an array of nega
tive proof against positive -testimony of guilt—
tho letters which tell the tale of his criminul
love and, almost, of criminal love’s fruition ?
But, first, let me attend to tho dodge of the
practised demagogue, thayhe is to divert atten
tion and cast a doubt upon tho motive of ar
raigning him upon this charge.
A friend, to whom I gave the letters of Brown
to Fanny Martin—himself connected with the
newspaper press of this city and lately a citizen
of Georgia—considered that here was not tho
proper placo to give them publicity, but in Geor
gia, nnd sent them to you, remarking in his note
that you might give them to the public, if you
thought them worth any thing to the Democratic
party of Georgia. I am not a Georgian; havo
no close relationship with her people, and havo
no special interest in the political broils in that
State more than any other patriotic Southern
man might have. Joe Brown seizes on this with
the adroitness of a consummate demagogue, to
arouse a suspicion against the genuineness of the
charges; that they arc made “in the midst of a
heated political campaign," for political effect
merely, well knowing that tho public of Georgia,
in these heated contests in which he has often
taken part, have been taught to regard with sus
picion charges that ruay be flying about damag
ing to the reputation of prominent men engaged
in “heated political campaigns." But, with but a
a slight attention to the testimony, which ho hoped
the hurrying public might not give, this wily dodgo
entirely fails of its purpose. It was in evidence
beforo him when ho was writing, contained in
tho statement of Mr. Sam’l J. Johnston, accom
panying my last communication to you on this
subject, dated September 25th, and which at last
brought him out, that I had shown him these
letters fourteen months before, aud then stated to
him my intention to make them public, for the
purpose of “ exposing the villainy of the man." It
wdffc in evidenco before him, in the certificate of
Mr.’.L. II. ICerlee, accompanying the same, that
I had shown them to him fourteen or seventeen
months before, und that I spoke then of publish
ing them. Brown attempts to excite a suspicion
thut they may ha^e been fabricated for political
effect. Was ther-J any “heated political cam
paign" progressing then in Georgia? I do not
know. I did not care if there was. I intended
then-and I have carried out the intention—
whon it suited me, without any reference to the
political effect of the exposition, to make it.—
Itwas Brown, the max and^ hiy villainies, as a
man in the private relations olflife, I intended to
expose, and not Brown thief political trickster
and turn-coat. And I will say now, upon this
subject, that there is a gentleman living in this
city, an honorable gentleman, to whom I sub
mitted tho letters when they came to hand, ft3 I
have alleged in my first statement accompanying
them, and of this he would make oath, and that
they aro the same us published, without so much
alteration as the crossing of a t or the dotting
of an f. Had Joe Brown then turned traitor to
the people of Georgia, that I should fabricate the
evidence of so heinous a crime to injure him,
politically? There is a law Arm in this city
whom I employed to bring a suit for divorce be
fore Fanny Martin’s death, to whom I exhibited
them, and they can testify that they are the same
I gave to tho public. And, I may stop here to
remark that, in their legal opinion, they consti
tuted, with attending circumstances, sufficient
evidence of infidelity to entitle me to a decree of
divorce from the bonds of matrimony, and the
suit was commenced. And now, further: is it
probable that a man, with a spark of pride or
ever so obtuse a sense of honor, would trump up
and fabricate a charge and give it to the public,
merely to throw into a “ heated political cam
paign” for political effect, 4 which advertises to
the world that his bed has been dishonored aud
an incffhceuble blot and disgrace Mas fallen upon
his life? Common sense laughs to scorn the
thought.
Tho public now sees, I trust, how ridiculous
and futile the artful dodgo of the arrant dema
gogue to excite a suspicion of the genuineness of
my proofs of his villainy, because brought forward
in tho midst of a heated campaign, and because
tendered you for publication through a friend,
and who, perhaps, thoughtlessly, and certainly
without any suggestion from me, advised you
that you- might use them in the interest of the
Democratic party of Georgia, in which, being a
Georgian, ho felt a special interest that I did not.
Brown’s tactics, in his voluminous defence,
are those of the scuttle fish which muddies the
water to prevent tho pursuit of its enemy. IJe
regards himself fortunate if he can seize upon
something which may direct attention away from,
or blind tho vision to, the main issue. True to
his instinctive mode of defence, ho talks about
my opening the grave, hyena-like, of my dead
wife, and reproaches my honor, which has rested
four years under tho knowledge of a great wrong,
and nover domanded satisfaction. It is true, I
‘havo not called him to the field of honor, os ho
has no honor, nor waylaid and shot him like a
dog. In tho trial of this case before the tribunal
of public opinion, whoroin I havo charged Gov.
Brown with having an illicit amour with Fanny
Martin, my wifo, I cannot perceive that it can
possibly help his case to cast a slur upon my
honor because I have not sought to redress my
wrong by irqbruing my hands in his blood; and
the suggestion against my honor, in that respect,
could only come from a coward, considering that
his sacred person has been all that time under
the guardianship of a military despotism, having
the-power and the will to arrost and manacle and
cast in filthy cells, with insults more galling
than the hard iron that chafes tho racked limbs,
to send before military courts for conviction
and procure witnesses by suborning or torturing
them into swearing to the fitting facts, and to
sentence to the gallows or Tortugas for the slight
est offence against the person of “loyal" men,
like Joe Brown, who doubly dyed his soul in in
famy by prosecuting, in the Ashburn coses, and
taking a fee for assisting in the diabolical attempt
to commit wholesale murder of citizens of his
own State through tho forms of a military com
mission. Joe Brown may satisfy the people of
Georgia that I am a coward; how can that satis
fy them he is not a villain?
And, if the grave has boen opened, bo is re
sponsible, unless it can be maintained that hiu
philosophy is the correct one: that vilhans must
be let to walk tho earth unwhipt of justice, be
cause “nothing nhould bo said of the dead but
that which is good." But, conceded that I have
done violence to the sacred maxim, and that I
hffvo justly subjected myself to the reproach of
invading tho habitations of tho dead, whom I
cannot injure, how can that save him from tho
execration of all just and honorable mon for in
vading tho sacred precincts of married life and
disrupting the poace of the living ? It is the liv
ing monster I am in pursuit of, and, would to
God I could havo followed him without any ne
cessity of disturbing tho smallest atom of the
mound of earth that covers the dust of one
whose wrongs I have forgotten, or remember but
to forgive!
CoL J. A. Andrews’ statement of the contents
of a letter handed him by Fanny Martin on a
certain occasion named, directed to the Post
Master at Macon, Ga., and which, by tlio acci
dent of getting wet and coming open, revealed
another enclosed to Gov. Joe Brown, aud which,
also, coming unsealed, was discovered to con
tain a missile breathing of love and affection,
and impatience at the separation, from we may be
sure, a reciprocating love, stands in tho way of
Brown’s defence, and can neithei be got over
nor around. Hero, again, ho resorts to his tac
tics of trying to get tho public, which is trying
this case, to look at something else and not the
stubborn facts" of the contents of Fanny Mar
tin's letter, proof, next to positive, of his guilt,
which, of course, could not be established with
out including his. He invites the public to look
at Col. Andrews’ breach of confidence reposed in
him by a lady, and submits, if the public could
believe him on oath, after reading his own state
ment, making thus, at the samo time, an argu
ment against his veracity. Leaving out of view
Col. Andrews’ high and unimpeachable charac
ter where known, conceding, as must be done,
that it were dishonorable to speak of the con
tents of a letter, delivered to him by a lady in
confidence, the fact that he has done it argues
tho reverse of the conclusion Brown attempts to
lead tho public judgment to, that he is unworthy
of belief for it is inconceivable that he should
invent and report a story which necessarily dis
graces him unless believed. Can it be believed,
that any sano man, valuing his own reputation,
would invent a story to add another shade to a
character so black as Joe Brown’s, which, being
proved untrue, would more damage his own?—
No ! By Brown’s own test, Col. A.’s statement is
true. And all we have to do with it in the trial
of this issue is, to find it true. But, I go farther,
and submit to the public, if Col. Andrews came
to the knowledge in the manner he has stated,
that a crime had been committed, if ho is not
justified in giving his testimony to convict the
criminal ? If he had consented to become tho
pimp, or go-between, betwixt Fanny Martin and
her lover, then, I confess, upon the principle
tliat there is honor among thieves, he should not
have done it. Fanny Martin handed him the
letter, saying it related to a secret mission she
was on, meaning for tho good of the Confederate
cause. It was with tho belief that he might be
aiding that cause that he took it nud undertook
to have it posted. When accident discovered to.
him that he was attempted to be rnudo the mes
senger between lovers, in an illicit amour, what
should he have done ? Who will say that he
violated any confidence he ought to have kept in
giving information to me, and then, when called
on, tho statement which I have made public ? I
had asked him to keep the contents of the letter
fresh in his mind* as I should need the evidence
‘ in a suit for divofee, and I doubt not he has re
peated it as nearly verbatim as human recollec
tion could accomplish.
Supposing the facts, which ho calls falsehoods,
to be true—my exposition with accompanying
proofs-—ho asks, how much sympathy, as an in
jured husband, am I entitled to ? It will be time
enough to ask that question when I seek for
sympathy. I ask not of the public to bestow
sympathy on mo, but execrations upon the mis
creant and fool who imagines that my firm pur
pose to expose the villain, and so wreak ray re
venge, could be unsettled by a womanly desire
for human sympathy.
Brown quotes from my publication, wherein I
mention that Fanny Martin left home in August,
1864, and I never saw her again until in February,
1865, and that on tho 13th of September there
after, she was delivered of a bastard child, of
which ho was the father, and says, from Septem
ber to February, she was beyond the Federal
lines, and I knew it, and, from this, argues that
from the ordinary period of gestation the child
should have been begotten about the middle of
December, and, therefore, he could not have
boon the father of it. Certainly, no moro could
I have been the father. But I did not know
then, nor do I now, nor believe, that sho was be
yond the Federal linos, though Brown asserts
that he ascertained that she had been in Carroll
prison, in Washington, where he was incarcer
ated after the surrender. I only know that she
said she was going, and I received a letter from
her, purporting to come from the borders, where
in she said sho was about to cross the Potomac,
and after thut I could hear no more from her,
though I corresponded with her people in Goor-
gin. For all that I know, and believe, she was
hid away in Georgia, or elsewhere, for Brown’s
convenience. Bo that as it may, it is sufficient
that his letters betrayed his belief that ho was
tho father, for that carries with it the conviction
of his guilty amour.
He expresses a doubt if she had a child, or, to
quote him correctly, a “ bastard” child.
I had put her away from me in June, she de
parted, saying she was going to Galveston. I
have now before me a letter dated, New Orleans,
Monday, (up month) 18th, 1865. She speaks of
having employed a distinguished midwife, and
then says: “ Well, as it looked like I would die
in spite of all^t Dr. Stono gave me medicine to
bring on premature confinement, end lust Wednes-
day night I brought into this troublesome icorld a
icec little, black-eyed, delicate girl." There is the
testimony that she had a child. Again * on the
26th September—the letter is before me-“ This
is to tell you of the health and whereabouts of
your poor little Fannie and her darling little babe."
I wiU hero state, I wrote to the chief of police
of New Orleans, to watch her, for I apprehended
she might hide away and abandon the child, or
mako way with it when born. I have never
doubted sho wont there by advice of Brown. In
a letter written subsequently, but not to me,
speaking of a lawsuit she threatened to instil
tute against me for slanderous words spoken of
her and Brown, she alludes to this and says, “let
me subpffinn the chief of police, his detectives,
who were put upon my tracks, tho lawyer who
cleared me of child murder in Orleans," &o, Joe
Brown doubtless knows more of her history in
Orleans about this time than ever came to my
knowledge, for, it is not probable that a lone wo
man, who had constituted him her best friend,
as appears from his own statements, who had re
tained him as her lawyer and confidential advi
ser, and urged him to take the guardianship of
her children, would have failed to call upon him
in this, the hour of her great trouble, for aid
and sympathy.
It oocurs to me here, to remark, that Brown
speaks of his intercourse with Fanny Martin as
being limited, and upon that I remark again,
that they got very thick on short acquaintance,
according to his own showing.
But, perhaps,'jou meant, in the note abort al-
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ludod to, that Brown had put me on tho defen
sive in the matter of the charges ho has made
against me about the cotton orders he says 1
obtained from my wife, Fanny Martin, and about
which he says she consulted him and endeavored
to obtain hiu legal services to bring suit against
me, which he has dragged into this issue in the
same spirit of demagoguery that characterizes
his defense all through, with the two-fold pur
pose of making it appoar that he had a proper
aud honorable motive for correspondence with
his “ dearest and best," and to arouse a preju
dice in the public mind against me, and take
what he might of the popular vordict on that.—
I do not considorthatl am called upon to defend
myself against these charges before I can moke
good my allegations of villainy against him.—
But his cross-action shall not avail him. Ho
says Mr. Farrabee, guardian of Mrs. Martin’s
daughter, now holds my receipts, and writes to
him to know if ho will undertake to collect the
value of the cotton from mo. If Brown will
tuke the case and present me the receipts, I will
deliver up to him the original orders, which I
now hold, and which were never of any value
that I know of. And moro: I will cancel and
deliver over to the “dear friend” of his “dearest
and best" her promises to pay for monies ad
vanced to her when she was about setting out to
go beyond the lines, and at various other times,
to a considerable amount. She did not return
to me so promptly tho sums she borrowed, as
Joe Brown says she did the money she borrowed
from him. I did not expect it, though, nor ex
acted it. And, in this connection, I will say to
Brown’s allegations that Fanny Martin informed
him that I had treated her cruelly, &c., that I do
not believe a word of it. My reason for not
believing it is the simple one, that sho had no
pretext.
Brown admits that he handed Mr. Harris a
letter, and it was the only one, to be delivered
to the lady, and says it was about the guardian
ship and nothing else. Tho letter I have given
to the public as the one enclosed in • another
from Harris, in which he said “Governor Brown
is all right," has a history not revealed. It was
handed me, opened by himself, by her son. He
came to me about three weeks after Fanny Mar
tin had left me, going, as she said, to Galveston,
and, as it turned out, to New Orleans. Ho said,
hero are two letters handed me by Mr. Harris, of
the Brown Houso, in Macon, ono from himself
and one from Governor Brown. Ho hud
reason to expect to meet his “ Mu" in Mobile;
and not meeting her, had opened them, and ask
ed me if I could read the one in cipher.—
I told him I could have it done. After I had
had it deciphered, I submitted to him its con
tents. He was a noble youth, and from the
depths of my heart I pitied him. The blighting
stroke of fortune that had descended on me had
not left him unscathed —for ho, too, had sensi
bility.
If the boy’s statement was trae, and I have
truly stated him, what escape has Brown ?
I have attempted to clear away, and am vain
enough to believe with some success, the mist
and fog Brown has attempted to raise to confuse
the investigation, and have noticed things of but
little relevancy, and others tliat may be said to
be entirely foreign. I now proceed to notice,
briefly, matters more pertinent to, and more con
clusive of, the issue.
Brown puts his defense on the assumed ground
that my publications are fabrications, and pub
lishes a large numbor of certificates from men
who soy that they do not believe the originals
arc in his handwriting. Upon these certificates
he triumphantly claims to have established that
they were forgeries. Against these I have adduced
tho" testimony of Messrs. Johnston and Kerlee,
two Georgians I have met here, and the only two
who professed to be familiar with Brown’s hand
writing. You, and some others of tho editors of
Georgia, from a personal inspection of the origi
nals, have certified to a firm conviction that they
are in the Governor’s own proper handwriting.
And, I doubt not, if I could have canvassed
Georgia for certificates, as he has done, that I
could have piled up testimony on the side of
their genuineness, proof for proof. Tried upon
these proofs alone, and the issue might be left in
doubt Brown is a lawyer, and well knows that
he could not sustain an indictment for forgery
against me one moment upon the proof now on
record. While I cannot prove a negative that I
did not fabricate the letters, I can present some
reasons why I conld not have done it:
In the letter bearing date 10th March, Macon,
a reference is made to things I could know noth
ing about, as I am not a prophet nor tho son of
a prophet. For instance, saying the Legislature
will adjourn in two days, he tells her how long he
will remain in Afaoon. How conld I, on tho Wcet
era confines of Alabamh, read the intentions of
Joe Brown In the capital of Georgia ? He tells
her how long be will be absent How could I
divine that ? Could it be supposed that one, fab
ricating a letter as if from another, would venture
upon such absurdities and expect to pass it off as
genuine ? He says he must sec Eugene O. Smith.
I don’t know Eugene C. Smith; and if there be
such a man, as I suppose there is, could I, in
forging a letter for Brown, have ventured on
using his name unless he was my confederate
and ready to back me in the lie ? This man, if
living, could, doubtless, a tale unfold. Who is
he, and where is he ? If this meets his eye, let
him come out like a man and say if Brown had
any occasion to speak of him as connected in
any matter of interest between Biown nnd Fanny
Martin. What was it ? He directs that her let
ters be sent to Weitzfelder & Co., MiUedgeville,
who would deliver, Ac. I don’t know them—
never heard of them before—and have never yet
seen any one who did know them. Brown says
they wore his merchants. In fabricating the let
ter I must have hod a gift of vision beyond the
ken of common mortals to have hit upon the
names of his merchants so pat, nover having
seen nor heard of them.
But enough. If the letters were a fabrication
the forger iB yet unknown. They were not fab
ricated by me; and I append the proof that they
came into my possession whon and how I have
stated, and that they have been made public as
they came, without alteration. It is the strong
est the case is susceptible of, that I did not forge
them, and it leaves Governor Brown to find
another and a tenable ground of defence, or
stand convicted of being on adulterer, a base
hypocrite, an unconscionable villain.
JAS. H. MABTIN.
P. S. I perceive that I have omitted something
I had intended to insert in the body of this re
joinder, and will put it in a postscript.
From the time I was married to Fanny Fara*
bee, in the spring of 1861, upon one pretext or
another, she was always gono, and did not stay* fit
home more than from three to five days at one
time until the latter part of February and the
first part of March. 1805, when she remained
about twenty,four days. I thought nothing of
it, as she professed to be a tmeret agent of the
Confederate Government, and to go, on business
connected with the pubiio servioe. Attunes, whofi
home, she has shown letter*, written in cipher,
which the said were from Gov. Brown on impor
tant publio business. My suspicion of an iffieit
correspondence, or that she was any thing but a
government agent, were not sroused until after
X got poMSMianot U* latter* *°
thefmwSTjStothat X that she
was any government agent at all. I have no
doubt that when she was going so often on se
cret missions, as she said for the government,
she we a, by pre-arrangomont with him, on a
secret mission for the gratification of Joo Brown's
lust. J. H. M.
P. P. S. Joe Brown says ho oorrespondad with
Fanny Martin. If ho has the letters aha wrote
to him, lot him publish them, or send them to
The La.Gp.anoe Reporter office for inspection,
J. H. M.
Meridian, Miss., Nov. 16, 1868.
About the last of March, or first of April, 1806,
J. II. Martin, then of Gaston, Ala., handed me
a letter headed, Macon, Maroh the 10th, 1865,
envelope post marked same month and date, and
written in part English nnd pan cipher; when
said Martin handed me the letter be acked me if
I could decipher it. Having seen and learned
Copeland’s alphabet several years beforo, I very
easily deciphered the letter from it, with some
slight alterations of the alphabet. In Juue of
the same year, Foutleroy Farr.boo, son of Fannie
Martin, came to the home of said Martin, and
har.ded him an envelope addressed to Fannie
Martin which, he onid, wes given him by Harris
of the Brown House, Macon, Ga.; Horris tolling
him it contained frr*o letters, one from himself
and the other from Gov. Brown. V?hen Fontle-
roy handed Mr. Martin the envelope, ho said bo
had opened it and read Harris’ letter, but Brown's,
being in cipher, he could not road it, end asked
Mr. Martin if he could. Mr. Martin handed me
the letter and requested mo to write it in English,
which I did in the same manner as the first let
ter. Tho three letters, as above described, are
the same as published in The LaGbanoe Repor
ter the latter part of last summer.
S. W. L. KENNEDY.
Meridian, Miss,, Nov. 15, 1868-
This is to certify that I was present when 8.
L. Kennedy deciphered the two letters written
in cipher—that I saw the two letters written in
cipher and also the one written by Harris, and
they are the same as published in The LaGranoe
Reporter. N. B. KENNEDY,
Physician and Druggist.
Hummnry of News from oar Exchanges.
Canada is garrisoned by 12,500 British regu
lars.
The amount of national bunk currency now in
circulation is $299,948,925.
The infant son of the King of Greece has re
ceived the title of Duke of Sparta.
Keys of gold embellish the rose wood doom of
an up-town mansion in New York city.
The Swedes are populating Kansas. One jfar-
ty of them is purchasing 23,000 acres of L-nd.
Dorian, the Fulton Market oystennnu, has
made a fortune of $500,000 from th-i bivalves.
About seven hundred pianoforte makers aro
on p. strike nnd out of employment in New York
cit".
“ Humty-Dumpty" has cleared $100,000 for
the manager of the Olympic Theatre, in New
York.
Cuba has o ; j,u00 foreign whites, 730,000 natives
of European extraction, and 100,000 negroes and
Chinamen.
A Fiench writer accuses Mrs. Ann S. Ste
phens of stealing her books from third-rate
French authors.
John McCall has boen sentenced to be
in Lncsterneia, vs.. f.u* r*
for horsestealing.
The Marquis of Hastings, so notoriously un
fortunate in his turf 0 p erft tion8, died recently at
the age of twenty-si; , .
Admiral D. G. Farragut has been detached
from the comn'.e^^ 0 f the Europen squadron
and placed on wt^. U g. orders.
It was recently Stated in a New York paper
that Mr. Helmbold become insane. The
statement is pronounce false.
Two thousand letters containing notices to
creditors of petitioners for bu-r'kraptqY
mailed at Jackson Miss., week before last.
Returns from all the Parishes in Louisiana,
except one, shows for Seymour 81,742 votos
and for Grant 26,552—Seymour’s majority 54.-
190.
Since the first of Septembe 5.435 bales of cot
ton have been received at Petersburg, Ya., Sand
since the first of October 447 hogshead of tobac
co have been received at that port.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Kehoe a few days ago
seized about one hundred barrels of whisky
from the merchants of Newbem, N. C-, for alleg
ed violation of the U. S. reveuue laws.
Grant’s majority in Wisconsin will reach 25,-
000. The total vote of the State is about 200,000,
against 142,510 last year. The vote of Illinois
has increased about 100,000 in two years.
The parties engaged in the riots at Asheville,
N. C., in which James Smith was killed, have
been held to bail in tho sum of 83,000 each to
answer at the next term of the Circuit Court.
Gen. Cafcterson and staff have left Little Rock'
Arkansas, to take command of the Southwest de
partment, consisting of twenty of those coun
ties in which the Governor has proclaimed mar
tial law.
A bill will be presented to the next N. Jersey
Legislature for tho consolidation of Jersey City,
Hoboken, and Hudson City as one city. The
proposition is favorably regarded in the places
interested.
Attorney Genoral Evarts has delivered an opin
ion on the redistillation of spirits, in which he
states that there is no frustration or evasion of
the revenue acts in the redistillation of low wines
to the production of proof spirits before leaving
the distillery.
Sydney Burton of Monticello, Florida, was
kicked to death by* oolt a few days ago. A few
days previous a Mrs, Carroll, who lives near
Monticello, fell forward from her buggy while
attempting to stop the horse which had started
to run qv*d was kicked to death by the frighten*
ed animal,
The carpet-b^sjieaker 0 f the Alabama Legis
lature, Harrington, was lately introduced by a
young scalawag into his father’s family. A dis
cussion arose, during which Harrington fired at
ono of the brothers, a Democrat, with a pistol,
but missed him. The young man gave him a
sound thrashing and he left in disgust,
A man named Cooble, living near Salisbury,
N. 0., made a bet that he coujd drink a quart qt
brandy and walk home, a mile distant, before it
would throw^him. He drank the Uquo^ and
started home* but when about half way, feU to
the groujai and was left by his companions.-
He was found by a neighbor and canted v
and died the next day.
, The New York Hef&d iaya:
recently expressed to an army t-—
contempt of the statesmen who arei
own merits as office-holder*
that be would make up his Cablnctj *
oeived a certificate of election,
would know whom he had t
thair names got into print. 41
Aing a campaign until you
ho.”