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11ATKH OK SUDSOnil'TION. Olio Copy of llio Paper nno your *3 00 Ono Copy al tlio Paper oli month. f JJJ Ono Copy of tlio Paper throe months, * w Bluglo Copy of tlio Paper, 10 Club Ratos. Ten Copies of tlio Paper one year, Twenty Copies of tlio Paper ono year 4U uu All ButoHorlpUann must bo paid Invariably In ad vance. No discrimination in favor of anybody. *"#*Tbo Paper will bo otoppod, In all Instances, at tlio time ])aid for, udIohs subscriptions aro previously raiiowod. Addro6s all ordors to ... JONHS fc WILLINGHAM. Attorneys. w. O. TUUGLIC, ATTORNEY AT LAW, La Grande OtorglA. 3. X. TOOLE. 0l ** AU * tY * TOOfiB «b MABRY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. CUorgltt, W ILL practice In tlio Bnperlor Oourlii of the couiill,ih of Troup, llijuril. Carroll, Coweta, Meriwether mid llnrrle. A!»„, In the Hupromn Court of Oeorijle, anil III the Ifulteit Btutce IliHtrlel Court at Atlanta. _ OFFICE—Enut Bide of the Tiilillo Hqunro. oohO-tf ». 0. mnUEI.L, I ». j. IIAMMONO, I E. Wj lieMMOHD, LaOraniie, Oa. | Atlanta, tin. | lAOrango, tin. FEHHEI.I., HAMMOND <ii nRO., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, La Grange, Georgia, W ILI. pmctleo in Troup county. All tnialneea ontriut- cd to their earn will reoclvo poraotial, f.roinpt aud careful attention. . , ,, „ N. J. HAMMOND still remains a member of tho firm of A. W. Hammond k Hon, of Atlanta, uxoopt os to Troup county. Tailoring. NOTICK THIS 1 t THE SUBSCRIBER. thankful for past favors, and by n prompt iitLmtton to business, bopos for a contin uance of the samo Cutting and Work Done Promptly I 47- Torms CASH I No IFor* deli erred until Paid fori GILBERT FORBES. WN. E. LOVELACE, Tailor, [ HAS RE-OPENED HIS SHOP, up-stairs, ovor tbo Grocery Store of Wm. C. Yancey, West Hido Puidic Square, whero he Invites all to cull who want cheap work. PRICES: Colton Warehouses. FACTORS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, (No. 9 Boyce’s Wharf,) Charleston, South Carolina. O. r. OWES. J. M. UARNAllD. OWEN & BARNARD, COTTON W A U r: I IO U S E, La Grange, Georgia. fTHIANKVUL for the liberal pnironago bestowed on us I. last rear, wo announce to COTTON SHIPPERS AND FARMERS that wo liavo re-opened our old Stand, near the R. It. Depot, amt will give prompt and personal attention to all cotton stored with us. Wo also lmvo a NIGHT- WATCHMAN in the establishment. sepll-tf M. r^sro\all. COTTON WAREHOUSE GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, (NEW FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSE,) Southwost Comer of Bay and Jackson Streets Augusta, Georgia. IlLGtFOHD C. FROST, COTT O N \V AREI-IOUSE , (Fast Side Public Square,) La Grange, Georgia, H AVING procured the well-known WAREHOUSE for merly occupied by T. C. Miller, nnd thoroughly re paired it, is'propurcd to give bis best attention to the Storage and Shipping of Cotton TIIOS. M. JOXES, F. W. SIMS & CO., COTTON FACTORS and GENERALCOMMISSION MERCHANTS, Savannah Georgia. i enable Planters to HOLD THEIR COTTON, JlpmeiFtsTi'us. ami hold six month*, (tint subject to tlio shipper's orders, if he should desire to sell boforo that llpc t per month, for tlio P* r pauiut (but subject l)cfo RUSSELL A POTTER, COTTON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Augusta, Georgia, (FINE FIRE-PROOF BRICK BUILDING,) W IIX give their attention to the SALE AND STORAGE OF COTTON consigned to them; aud to SHIP- ’’hiladolpliia, Boston. Baltimore, ull other AMERICAN AND consignments, and KUROPEAL MARKETS. “ d LIBERAL ADVANCES made Puomit Uetchn'8 rendered on sain. CLAGHORN, HERRING & CO., COTTON COMMISSIPN MERCHANTS, No. 7 Warren Block, Augusta, Georgia ; yorncr Vendue Range and Accommodation Wharf, Charleston, South Cnrollna; 120 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I IBERAL CASH ADVANCES mndo nt all times on con- j Hignmenta of COTTON. 0S- JOSEPH S. BEAN, of LaGrange, Georgia, is our Agent, and will give prompt attonllon to shipiw ‘ Miscellaneous. sepll-tf 4 W. E. TERRY, FASHIONABLE BARBER AND HAIR-DRESSER, (In the Sims House,) La Grunge, Georgia. Ct PECIAL attention given to CUTTING CHILD 43?Gratofnl for past patronage, will, by diligent tion to business, hope to continue tho FRANCIS A. FROST, B ANKER, ^Office West Side Square, next door to Wise k Doui La Grange, Georg G OLD and SILVER bought and sold. Atlanta,bh York and Philadelphia EXCHANGE always on la Special attention given to Collections. « MEDICAL NOTICE I VOLUME xxn .! LAGKANGE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1868. (NUMBER 48. Our Own Col urn , A BOLD, LIVE AND STIRRINO PAPER 1 THE LACRANCE REPORTER. IN HANDSOME N12W DRESS! FURNISHED UNTIL JANUARY NEXT FOR NOTHINU ! TO THE READING PUBLIC. rpnK PROPRIETORS OF THE T,A GltANOE ItEPORT- doslriug to extend its circulation, and increaso its in Hie dissemination of correct nutiunal politl TIHK 1 JL KH, usnfulue cal principles, and in tlio promotion of tho material "inter ests of the Houtli, proposo to send tho Paper to all now subscribers, and to those whose subscriptions may expire between now and the 1st of January, 18G9, Until Januury, 1870, for Three Dollars l It is hoped that tho friends of the RKPonTKU will tuke soinn interest in oxtondiug its circulation. It la now, In our opinion, one of tho Handsomest Papers In the .South I Wo havo been at o considerable oxpenso In the purchase of A New and Complete Outfit I As an Advertising Medium, papers ii in in Wc> rl growing circulation Georgia. Advertisers would do well to vantages of this papor in that particular. POLITICAL DEPARTMENT. As is generally known, tlio Reporter is an active polit ical paper—over maintaining those principles nud idens of political economy, which its proprietors conceive calculated to promote tho host and highest interest* ol tho whole country in genoral, and tlio South in particular—regarding “ t Constitution and political landmarks of the fathers of > Old Republic ns the only correct guides for statesmen d tho Hiuost restraints upon tlio nggrariauiHin and dcs- tisin of niero partisan supremacy. Wo are for maintaining tlio Federal Constitution and porpetnating tho Union under its benign iniluenco aud teachings—regarding the Constitution nnd the Union as mcred inheritance bequeathed to this people by tho om and blood of our patriotic sires. The ltEPonmn sver stand tlio uncompromising advocate nnddnfendor icso hallowed bequests of Civil and Religious Liberty handed down to us by a patriotic unccstry. NEWS DEPARTMENT. In tills department great pains will be taken to keep our adors advised of the current events of importance transpiring throughout the country. We will always bo glad to receive news and important matter for this leaturo of tlio REPORTER. We, therefore, earnestly nsl^ our frioiids in the surrounding country, nnd at a distance, to Hend us all news of interest transpiring in their midst. It our desire to make tho REPORTER ns much of a buccoss this particular as it is possible to make a weekly journal. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT In the future, wa shall endeavor to give this department of the REPORTER that attention tho planting interests of ir section demands. Under tlio appropriate, heading, ir agricultural renders may always find something useful id entertaining to them in their great and noble calling. Useful articles written for this department of our paper o solicited and will be thankfully received. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. > tfcfc d«pert?nw!i. Wo shall endeavor to keep our readers posted regularly in re- to our locnl and the dist.iut markets. Nothing will im left undone wo are capable of accomplishing, to make REPORTER reliable in this important particular. IN CONCLUSION, wo say to nil who wish a bold. Uv stirring paper, to subscribe at once for tho REPORTER. Our proposition 1 * 1 ~ , ‘ 1 nothing for .the tlio pnblii * >f subscriber _ - early sub vo months is'a strong inducement oxtenoud this proposition to clubs Let . . Jriend of the REPORTER now come forward vo us a helping hand and wo promise them a good Respectfully. JONES & WILLINGHAM, Proprietors. ■tnok -m-'v t? n A T RIDLEY, having associated with himself, • I ) hl ' Jon, Dr. CHARLES B. 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Depot, Atlunta, Ga. ,,ctll) - tl ALEXANDER ERGENZINGBR, (Hunter Street, near Whitehall,) Atlanta Georgia, IxrOULD respectfully Inform his old friends in DaOrang© yy md surrounding country thut ho is prepared to fill all ordera for' FURNITURE, UPHOLSTERING, MATTRASSES AND BEDDING, DECORATIONS, WINDOW CURTAINS, Ac-, bc„ Ac. — All orders carW'Hy.nd promptly Mlondsd to, no feason.hlo teW For the La Orange Reporter ] THE ORPHANS RE VERY. IlY EPFIK. My father, lonely and woary, To-night I sit and think 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; Of disappointment so, to droary: Is thero rest boyond this life ? Is the sod soul thorc unfettered ? Will wo dwell with ChriPt together ? Are friendship’s ties never Bovcred? Will loved ones part there, ah 1 never ? Will sorrows cease, and tears quit streaming Down tho pale, won clieok of woe ? Will faces of souls there be beaming With delight we do not know I " Ah! then 'tis a blessod Heaven, Where ail sorrows ever close; • Where, when every tie is riven, Weary hearts can find repoae." May thy spirit guido me thither From this dark and troubled shore; Bear mo across the shining river, Whero, in sin, I’ll roam no more.. 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SIMS Is the Agent at LaG range. sepl-tf B LANtS, of all description*, neatly *nd handsomely -prWtf 4 on fine white r’T**. *t moderate prices. Georgia News from our Exchanges. 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. th\ 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. 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Half Column Three-fourths Col’i One Column rm t a 60 0 00 7 00 10 00 12 00 u 00 1 to 00 25 00 40 00 00 00 rasa IToo 10 00 12 60 16 00 17 60 20 00 22 60 36 00 05 00 70 00 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.”