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VOLUME XXV.
From tho Imperialist.
General Robert E. Lee*
Tho Frcsldont (so-called) of tho ITtmft&BtAtos
Imh just selected from amona tho thirty-five
millions of tho American people. DanmR Sick
les, to represent the honor, dignity, gtld power
of this country at tho Capitol of tho ftiont punc
tilious Nation in tho world. Tho political tramp
speeches of Mr. Sickles, and his tempriitff rulo
aH the South Carolina Radical RoeonHtruJMjp
Tyrant—from whicli ho was so ingloriosUr de-
J osod by Chief Justine Chase and rresUUpt
olinson—may ouablo those, who aro acquaint®
with his record in those respects, to form a uret-
ty aoourato opinion of the mental qnalifloflons
of our now Minister to Spain for tho impotianj
post whoso delicato duties ho is called upon to
discharge. Rut we propose at this time to pijs
sent, as furnished by tho New York Tribuni ill
ars, and by tho World and other lfw f
past years, ana by tno world ami other now.,
York Journals recently, a brief epitome of thN;
personal and public history of this notorious
personage,
He was born In tho city of Now York in 1821,
and is consequently now in his forty-ninth year.
ay
At 17 years of age ho was already an actl
ward politician, and is represented to have hoi
an oxpert in all tho mysteries of ballot-b<
stuffing in the interest of candidates who migl
pay freely for such felonious services.
In 1337 ho was indicted in tho Court of Sos^
sioiiH in New York city on tho chnrgo of obtain*.; }
ing money and goods under falso pretenses.*-
His youth aud certain political influences, hOw-
•er, brought him safely out of this scrape.
Iu 1839 ho wasarraignod in tho samo Court,, |
and compelled to disgorge a sum of money to
*' * funds ho li
ono Mooro, whoso f
od.
had misappropriat-
In December 1840 ho was indicted by tho
Grand Jury and tried for tho crime of grand
larceny, but was acquitted on tho plea of tho
Statute of Limitations.
In 1847, having boon elected to tho Legisla
ture by a New York subterranean constituency,
he took with him to Albany his then mistress,
Fanny White, a famous courtezan, and intro
duced her into tho Assembly Chamber, for which
impudent and shameless act tho House passed a
mblio vote of oonsure upon him. A curious in-
ident revealed his connection with this disre
putable woman.
It seems sho resided in Mercer street, and a
milk bill being due at hor bagnio, tho milkman
called for payment at an early hour in tho morn
ing, and whilo Sickles was asleep Fanny took
tho money from his pocket and gavo it to tho
servant girl to pay the bill. Tho money turned
out to bo counterfeit, tho servant girl was ar
rested, and all the facts were proved before tho
Court.
In 1852 ho was arrested for robbing tho mail-
bags in tho New York city postoffiee, but tho
matter was hushed up and never came to trial.
In 1855, having been appointed Secretary of
Legation to London, as a reward for political
services of a very questionable character, Mr.
Buchanan, tho thou Minister, soon found it nec
essary to send him homo. In tho meantime, lie
drew drafts upon tho Treasury which Mr.
Guthrie, tho then Secretary, refused to liqui
date. It is unnecessary to say that he come
home in debt and disgrace.
Having been elected to Congress by tho
Roughs and Shoulder-hitters of Now York city,
ho assassinated Philip Barton Ivey, one Sunday
morning, for alleged criminal intimacy with his
wife; and became for tho fourth time, tho occu
pant of tho dock in a Criminal Court, under an
indictment for murder. Ilis usual luck attend
ed him, and ho was acquitted on the written
confession of his wife of her adulterous perfidy.
Shortly afterwards, tft tho / disgnst of his
friends and enemies alike, he condoned his
wife’s unpardonable offense, aud took the wo
man back to his bed and board. It was behov
ed, however, that lie submitted to this dire and
disgusting humiliation under moral compulsion.
It is said that ho had forged tho endorsement of
ono Bagnioli, his father-in-law, on certain prom
issory notes which had become duo at the Shoe
and*Leather Bank in tho city of New Ydrk, and
tljgt the alternative was tho penitentiary.
The groat crisis of tli© world’s progress are
sure to develop or bring forward great central
characters— moil of exceptional power and go-
liious—round whom not only men but events
naturally group themselves. * Such an one. be
yond all doubt, is the man whoso name wo havo
placed at tho head of this rtrticlo. Whatever
differences of opinion may exist as to tho nature
of tho moral responsibility which ho assumed in
accepting tho command of the armies of the
Confederacy, it is hardly to bo presumed that
manv men, oven at tho North, are still so blinded
by the bitter feelings engendorod in tho great
conflict that they fail t.o discern and acknowledge
tho romarkablo ability of the chieftain whoso
single name and individual force so long sus
tained a sinking cause. Hardly in tho gathering*
clouds of the closing scenes of his militmy ca
reer is tho strength and dignity of General Leo’s
character obsofirod. Even those who fought
afteinst him, and wo wore among them, cannot
withhold from him a certain amount of respect-
H Admiration.
Our object at this time, however, is by no
ifians to preparo a eulogy upon tho great South-
fern leader and champion. In previous articles
havo tried to point out tho fact that more
T __ n a fow of tho representative men of tho North
were silently but assuredly awakening tho truth
Of the position which Tho Imperialist so boldly
assumes, and it is our boliof that tho stronger
and clearer minds among our Southern fellow-
citizens are not wanting in a similar perception.
We have therefore selected General Lee as a
name sufficiently prominent to point our moral.
From tho day when he surrendered to Gener
al Grant and Accepted the failuro of the political
enterprise for which 4io had sacrificed ro much,
his position has been ono of silent and dignified
acquiesenoo in tho results of tho war; but it is
not to be gathered from this that ho fails to
comprehend those results in all their length and
breadth. It may rather he believed ho clearly
1801 ho suddenly turned lladical patriot,
and proceeded to raise a brigade to preserve tho
“life of the nation;” and white doing so, ob
tained $11,000 from the Union Defense Commit
tee. lit*, afterwards took the men’s receipts for
the money to Washington, and received the
amount over again, oir the allegation that ho
hud paid that sum out of his own pocket.
But worse than all, it is charged, and confi
dently believed, that ho held criminal inter
course with his wife’A mother before his mar
riage with the daughter.
During the last Presidential canvass, although
drawing pay ns an army officer, ho engaged in
the business of stump speaking in favor of tho
election of the Radical candidate. Gen. Grant
was elected, and Sickles has been appointed by
way of reward for his political services, with a
fall knowledge of Mil the fonts connected with hi
famous career, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy
Extraordinary to Madrid. •
What a spectacle for the world! How can wo
bear tho tho unmoving finger of scorn pointed
at us from all quarters where the United States
have an enemy to hiss and deride us? It will
be said that there is no Rhamo left in tho land.
Ami, truly, is there any left ? Perhaps tho Senate
may reject this nomination, but the stain of
such.a selection by the Executive of tho nation
can never be removed.
In commenting on tho New York Tribune's
commendation of this offensive appointment,
the Syracuse (N. Y.) Courier and Union says:
And yet a murderer, and a villain, the New
York TYumnc, in an article on his appointment,
lauds him to tho skies, as “a faithful represen
tative of tho men of tho United States,’’ as one
“whoso social qualities befit the station,” and
whoso “record which ho has made in our histo
ry recommends him without further comment.
With su-li unblushing impudence does the
Tribune, which claims to bo the “gentlemen's
and “the organ of intelligence of
wspaper,
the United States,” send Dan Sickles to misrep
resent this country at tho Spanish Court. In
early life Sickles was a trickster and a tliicf.—•
Bawdy houses and their occupants wore under
his especial protection, and his scandalous con
duct with a notorious New York courtezan,
whom he took up to Albany and introduced in
the Assembly Chamber, drew down upon him a
great deal of indignation, aud tho house, by a
vote, passed a censure upon his impudent, act.
As Secretary of Legation to London, he suc-
c jedod in incurring an innumerable quantity of
debts 2-nd then decamped leaving them unpaid,
Key is fresh in tiiC min'iu or mi. sympathy
was then witli Sickles, for tho public did not
then know that he was a pra£tic<?T oi the very
crime lie professed to loathe. A y.
lowest kind himself, ho murdered in cold .'teoa
tho man who was his confidant in crime, his fa
miliar in vice, and who in turn outraged hij
wife. Shortly afterwards ho took his faithful
spouso back to his bed and board. As a milita
ry man, ho was a blunderer, and blundered into
success.
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Bit moat rttaouabl® ternja.
A Geoegia Rebel Giul—Shocking Impbd-
dexce!—Tho Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Oaictic gives the following:
At tho time when war rumors were thiekost,
and before tho tripplo alliance dispatch had
come to bo generally disbelieved, thero was
much talk about tho probablo attitude of the
Southern people in the event of a foreign war. —
Fornoy, who is at any moment to let loose the
dogs of war on perfidious Albion, saw in a for
eign war the means of escape from rocoustruo-
tion ontanglements. The South wpuld “rally
round the flag,” Canada would be annexed, Cu
ba ditto, aud glorious Union w:uld bo onoomore
fully restorod. In other quarters a less hopeful
view was taken of the sontlments of the South
ern peoplo. A morning paper of yesterday, un
der the caption of “Seoession not dead” p'.ih-
lishes a conversation betwoeu a young lady from
Georgia and a gentleman of this city, in which
the former expressed the hope that this country
might got into a war with England, France and
Spain, that tho South would thereby gain their
■independence. On bein' asked if the South
would fight against tho old flag, “We'll light
with England against tho United States and get
onr liberties." The Editor in concluding his
comments on tho “ confident fearless tone of
tho conversation says: “ The gentleman who
heard the conversation has resided many years
in the South, and has just returned from Geor
gia, and he regards the -language of the young
lady oa embodying the generwomd ruling feel
ing throughout the Southern States. We may
eoo by this that tho serpent is sootchod but not
What terrible punishment is to be inflicted on
the South for the outspoken sentiments of this
“young lady from Georgia,'' os retailed by some
ker-hole listonor, has not yet transpirod. Any
thing short of sending tlib whole white popula
tion to the Dry Tortugas in irons, should scarce
ly he iu keeping with Radioal ideostrf vengeance
qnpoople who still dare to express tjJiSir thoughts
fu pnUif:
perceives the drift of public affairs, and is con
tented like thousands of others of onr best and
wisest, to wait in peaceful patience for tho inov-
iblo developments of tho future.
Conscious that tho old public has ceased to
ish the sagacious loader soes no reaons for try
ing to "persuade himsolf that tho country can
continue forever in its present transition state,
but calmly waits for the futuro in tho attitude of
a maq who will assume no responsibility for
that which he cannot provent And in all this
General Lee and all tnoso who imitate him, are
acting well and wisely. Their courso can give
offence to any, white it tends to allay those
partisan prejudices which if fostered by the jeal
ous watchfulness which, their too speedy return
to public life would cause, might hereafter inter
fere with their patriotic usefulness iu tho hotter
dnvs to come.
Still, in pondering tho great events in which
they hav# been partakers, such men must at
times bo struck with the vast difference between
that when they attempted, and that which they
accomplished; they attempted simply to divide
the Union, and they determined the fact that a
Republic was no longer possible in America; re
fusing longer to be governed by tho Constitution
they enabled the country and world to see that
tho Constitution no longer governed anything
in defending “State rights” they secured tlioab-
olition of even State lines, and they may now,
as they consult together over the past and tho
future* nay to one another, “wo indeed failed,
but a great work has boon douo nevertheless.—
Let us wait.”
That General Leo has no high opinion of our
existing inutitutions must bo evident to r.11 who
have watched his courso, nor can even tho most
rabid idolater of tho caucus form of government
blame him if ho refuses to shut his eyes to the
hope of better things wliicli is hold out to him
by the greater national strength and industrial
freedom which tho empire will guarantee.
We havo simply presented General Leo as a
representative man, a prominent type, but thoro
are others not less so, of whom wo shall speak
hereafter.
The Pacific Railroad.
It Ih the President’s intention to tako measures
for the suppression of crimoin Georgia. Ho
was in conference with Secrotwy Rawlins to-day
as to tho best plan to be adopted in oo-opcrnUon
with tho Governor of the Htnte. If the latter,
as is oxpocted, will call on tho General Govern
ment for troops on the plea that the Htnte au
thorities aro not capable of suppressing an al
leged domestic insurrection, the Executive will
then have the color of authority tdifeond Federal
troops into tho fttnto.—Washington fHspalch.
Wo do not understand what are the Georgia
troubles that demand tho interposition of tho
President and the Bonding of Government troops
to that State. If Govornor Bullock, the scala
wag, alleges that “domestic insurrection” exists
thou Governor Bullock, the scalawag, alleges
b.iuu uuiuiunuinin. viiu nuuuiwiiH,
what lie knows to be false, and what President
Grant knows to ho false. Thero is no domestic
insurrection in Georgia; oven tho Radical organs
of that State do not charge that there is one.—
If Federal troops bo sent, they will bo sent for
other purposes than tho suppression of domes
tic insurrection.
Wo read all tho principal papers of both par
ties in Goorgla, and wo can say, what oven such
Radical organs aR the* Now York Times say, that
tho amount of crime committed in Georgia is
not greater than tho amount committed among
a population equally largo in any portion of tho
North or West. With thooxcoption of tho mon
strous amount of stealing done by tho destitute
and lazy negroos, there is less crime committed
in Georgia than in any Northern or Western
State. Five times os largo amount is commit
ted in Tennessee, ten times as large an amount
in proportion in tho city of New York in a sin-
glo week than in Georgia in threo months.—
Yet we hear of no military commissions sent to
examine tho murder cases in New York, no Fed
eral troops sent to quell domestio insurrection.
Govornor Bullock, in a messago to the Geor
gia Legislature, said thero was an extraordinary
amount of crime in that State. Tho Legisla
ture, as in duty bound, made a formal call upon
him for evidonoo of tho truth of his charge, but
ho was dumb under tho call. And so in Louisi
ana; when Governor Warmouth imputed unpun
ished political outrages to certain parishes, tho
Louisiana Legislature asked him to furnish tho
particulars and tho testimony at his command,
but not a particular or a particle of testimony
was forthcoming. Undoubtedly it was oxpocted
that important partisan objects can be subserved
by tho sending of Federal troops in Georgia to
act under tho instructions of tno infamous Gov
ernor and of course wc must prosumo that they
will bo sent.. Tho President may hold confer
ences with Secretary Rawlins or with tho whole
cabinet or with political leaders out of the cabi
net. hut the conclusion will be to send tho troops
for the quelling of that terrible domestic insur
rection. Who has ever dreamed of events in
Georgia constituting domestic insurrection ? In
what caso has the administration of the civil law
boon arrested in that State by armed men ? In
what single case has a prisoner under arrest been
insolently rescued from the custody of tho law V
Georgia is a State. Sho is as much a regular
State as Massachusetts. Sho was counted as a
State by the. Radical Congress in the Presidential
election. Why this audacious outrage of send
ing a Federal army to put down a domestic in
surrection that has no more real existence than
the monsters seen in the delirium tremens ? We
all know why?—Louisville Courier-Journal.
At tho Commercial Convention, which met
last week, tho Committee on the Southern Pa
cific Railroad made the following report, which
was traanimously adopted amid great applause:
To Mr. President and Gentleman of the Conven
tion: Yonr committee, to whom was referred the
matters relating to the Pacific Railroad, respect
fully report tho following resolutions for your
consideration:
Resolved, That in tho opinion of this conven
tion the interests of tho whole country, espe
cially tho Southern States, could be subserved
by a main trunk railroad liue from San Diego,
California, -through Junction river, Colorado,
and Gila and and along the valley of Gila, south
to El Paso on the Rio Grande, aud thence to a
convenient point near the thirty second parallel
of latitude east of Brazos river in the State of
Texas, from* which the main trunk feeder roads
should load from St. Louis, Cairio, Mem
phis, Vicksbnrg, Now Orleans and other points,
all of which feeder roads having equal rights and
connection with said main trunk, while similar
feeder road* from San Francisco and other
points on the Pacific coast should havo similar
equal rights and connections.
Resolved, That tho President of this Conven
tion be requested to forward a copy of this reso
lution to the President of tho United States,
Vice President, the Speaker of tho House of
Representatives, and request them to present
the samei) rtepoctive houses of Congress.
The committee which is composed of repre
sentatives from Beventoon States including three
members of Congress, gives tho following rea
sons for the report:
1. It is the shortest lino connecting tho Gulf
of Mexico afcd the valley of tho Mississippi with
the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
2. It is the line of most easy grades and cheap
est coustrrtction per mile.
3. It passe® through less inhospitable and bar
ren country, and over more fertile and hospita
ble lands thanr other unoccupied route proposed.
4. This lino is touched by water transporta
tions at three points, affording the greatest fa
cilities for construction and consequently has
tening and cheapening such construction.
5. Thi§ line will open to tho great minoral re
source^ of Arizona and Sonora, and render more
valuable the great stock raising districts of Tex
as, New Mtaico, and northern Mexico, and will
thus enjoy unrivalled traffic.
C. It will inevitably attract numerous feeders
from tho neighboring Republic, aud thus not on
ly stimulate, .enterprise there but secure to our
snipping ■a greater portion of the bullion which
now sebiuB Europe by hazardous conductor^ and
smuggling vessels.
7. It wul open a now cotton growing aroa in
Texas,''i Now Mexico and Arizona.
8. It is well known that some roads which
would h® among tho feeder roads referred to in
the yesqtation, havo not only been projected but
are alrc^J active course of construction with
out waiSfe /or government subsidy or encour-
nK 9. m L?ist thongU noi least, tDo construction of
this route niore than all etetJ besides, will encour
age aud build up what wo feel to be a great ne
cessity of tho hoar, immigration and direct trade
with Europe. Respectfully submitted.
Locun H. Roots, Chairman.
B. Bjbaumont, Secretary.
Tb4H oveb the Pacific Railroad.—The
Colorado Register of tho 15th ult., says:
On tho'of May fifteen thousand people in
California wire booked for an overland trip by
rail. The t)ff« of travel has fairly commenced,
and the timalias now come when tourists will
make a Arip to tho Rooky Mountains before
climbing rae ^Mps or indulging in assail to the
Rhine. “Foster American to visit Europe for
pleasure before he has Been onr own magnifi
cent landRoapeji or mountains, waterfalls, waving
pines, and brpiid green parks, is ridiculous trad
-
to unfavorable criticism
untain scenery is a*wild, beau-
id sublime as any Europe can
advantage that it is on a much
To brooks sparkle brighter or
with trout than ours, and no
more invigorating, clear and
One might spend a dogen
ig our mountain chains, and
' not have been seen. Let
ho have tho leisure and mon-
_ in health and vigor, come
h our beautiful nooks, bathe
mineral springs and regain
health. No portion of tho
variety of scenery, aud it
understand it If they
y, let them road Samuel
__low his example. Our
date onr importance, and
e in great numbers to
beauties to canvas, bpt
alone in the onjoymont
Judicial Convention.—A friend has furnished
ub with tho cipy of a circular signed by the Hon.
C. B. Cole, J. D. Pope, J. R. Parrott, and D. B.
Harrell, says tho Macon Telegraph, calling for a
convention of tho Judges of the Suporior Courts
of tho State for tho purpose of revising and
mollifying tho rules of practice of the Superior
Courts.
This movo is in tho right direction and cannot
fail to result in groat advantage to the bench
and bar of tho State in tho administration of
justice.
It is anticipated that thero will bo a full atten
dance, not only of tho Judges, hut that many
prominent members of the Georgia BftT will be
present, to aid by their consultations in so modi
fyiug the Rules oT Court as to give effect to the
practical teachings of actual experience for tho
last quarter of a century.
It is also suggested that the occasion will be a
suitable ono for tho gonoral assemblage and so-
Rial reunion of tho members of a profession dis
tinguished aliko for its erudition, wit and social
worth.
The following is a copy of tho circular referred
to:
Cuthdert, Ga., May 13th, 1SG9.
To the Honorable Judges of the Superior Courts: •
Dear Sirs: In view of the fact that the rules
of Court, established by the Judges in Conven
tion .many years since, are defective in various
particulars, and on account of the changes in
our organic system and current legislation, fail
in adaptability to the exigences of onr present
government and laws, we propose a Convention
of the Judges of the Suporior Courts of tho
Stato to revise and modify said rules under tho
authority granted by section 3181, Irwin’s re
vised Code.
We, therefore, respectfully ar.lc yon to meet ns
and the other Judges in Convention at the Capi
tal, in Atlanta, on Tuesday, July 13th, next, at
11 o’clock, a. m„ for that purpose, and also to
consider other things of importance and interest
to tho profession aud to tho peoplo.
C. B. COLE. Judge Macon Circuit,
C. B. COLE. Judge Macon Circuit,
,T. l). POPE,'Judge Atlanta Circuit,
J. R. PARROTT, Judge Cherokee Circuit,
D. B. HARRELL, Judge Pataula Cirouit
A correspondent of tho Petersburg (Va.) Ex
press makes the following statement. We can
only hopo that Grant may always koep as drunk
as he was represented by Wells to bo on the oc
casion referred to:
Wells does not report well of Grant.. To the
exclusion of other items, I will give his account
of his last interview with the President, as re
ported to me: “Grant is an ass,” said Wells
nitterl
itterly; “ and what is more, he is a drunken
is. When wo entered tho room, ho was lean
ing ovor tho table, with a sogar in his mouth,
and his chin resting on both hands. His eyos
wero fishy, and ho ineffectually attopipted to
rise as we came in. We introduced our busi
ness at once. “ Mr. Wells,” says ho, “ my de
sire is peace and harmony throughout the coun
try, and I will oven sacrifice my principles (if I
havo any) to secure those things. Of courso, as
far as I can do ho, without interfering with my
main purpose, I will favor yon as a good Repub
lican, but you must not expect mo to venture
the succes of my administration in your b, half.
I consider that the Virginians themselves are
chiefly to bo consulted in this matter, not you.
I say this after due deliberation., and I shall put
the same views before iny Cabinet.’ ”
“I told him," said Wells, “thathe was acting
iu a way very injurious to his part}’. “My
party,” answered Grant; “well, I know very
well* whatvCm mean by ‘my patty, but I was
elected bv the peddle, and I can afford to do as
I please, in spite politicos and their orgnm-
mS£? I iutoncl to do so. I Uo P 9 you mav be
elected Governor of VirRinm, but I sIMUl do
nothing offleinlly to effect that result. Yon must
dopond on your own popularity and tho strength
ol your party. As for the constitution, I intend
to submit to'it, as far as possible, not to suit you
and other immigrants, Tint to suit tho nativo
Virginians, always protecting the equality of tho
negroes." . „ ,. ,
“Such was the comfort wo fP**, <soutaned
Wells, “and if we had not succeeded hotter with
somo of hiH Oabinot, the constitution would have
been shorn of evory provision that protects loyal
interests against rebel invasion.
Tho first favorable testimony of Brazil we
havo noticed from an actual settler, is in tho
Constitutionalist, of Wednesday. It js a letter
from A. T. Oliver, formerly a citizen of Ogle
thorpe county, who left there tho 13th of Au
gust, 1800. His letter is dated tho 10th of last
March. Ho speaks well of tho government, and
and ill response to tho agricultural capabilities,
ho says:
This is tho best sugar country in tho world;
plant it once, and it will produco thirty years
without planting again. It is the nativo homo
aud climate for coffee.
This is the most healthy, most productive
country I ever saw; tho best climate, the purest
water, * and tho finest timber. We can make a
bale of live hundred pounds of lint cotton on
every acre of land. We cultivate fifty to sixty
bushels of corn, and as fine rice and tobaoco as
tho best and most favored portions of Virginia
and South Carolina. Wo havo all of tho tropi
cal fraits; besides, all that you can raise in Geor
gia. wo ean have here. Vegetables, of every
kind and variety, that you have, wo havo here
in abundance. Hogs are as liue as you ever saw
from Kentucky; horses, cattle, mnlcs, sheep and
goatR aro abundant and good. Poultry, of every
description, in tho groatestabundance. In short,
it is a land of peace and plontv, and I believe
will ultimately provo to bo the Cornucopia of the
world. It is now tho asylum of tho oppressed
South, and they aro fast coming to her peaceful
and pacific bosom; aud, like a nursing mother,
she will receive and support them.
“ Tho mercury novor rises higher in the sbftdo
here than 83 to 85 degrees; that is our hottest
weather. Wo havo just frost enough to kill veg
etation. Our planting season is just tho oppo
site of yours-—September, October, November
and December wo plant. I will begin to pick
cotton to-morrow, (11th of March): a hand can
pick one hundred and fifty pounds. Com is
nnrd enough to grind; and I think (and so do
all who havo seen my cotton) that it will make
750 pounds of ginned cotton per acre. I have
plowed twice and hoed it once; that is all tho
work it has had. I made last year, on new
ground, 500 pounds per acre; it is much more
promising this year.
“I would say to those who wish to leave the
United States (so-called), to come and look at
Brazil before they settle. There are about 1,000
good and true Southern men within twonty-llvi
How Odllioino.— 1 Tho Imperialist newspaper
established by Northorn money, edited by North
ern men, and giving nttoranoo to the ideas of a
certain olass of Northern men. warns Hr- Jay
Cooke and T)is fallow millionaires:
“ That without a Crowned ltoler and a Cen
tral Govemmout snffloiently Imperial to defy
tho mob, the day is not tar distant when they
and their national dehtwiUbe fngititive and for-
10 Thcso Imperial gentlemen are very kind to of
fer to take chnrgo of the interests and safety ol
tho bondholders. Their liberality is so broad
that they offer to take care of the wholo country
and its thirty millions of peoplo and to releive
thorn of all the cares of government. If they do
not mind, some of these tine mornings the peo
ple will relieve them of the breath in their in
solent bodieB.—Mobile Roqtster.
miles of mo, and still they are coming in monthly!
hv every arrival of a veHHel from tho United
States. Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Mis
sissippi, Ijonisiony, Tonuessoo and Texas aro nl
here, and doing well."
FROST, HALL A CO.,
OR00BBS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
RorOi Side Public Square,
Gums of tiieTennebsek Radual Opera.—The
Radical Convention at Nashvillo last Tursday
and Friday banted up in the greatest sort of a
row. Both sides nominated their favorites.—
Stokes lias the negroes on liis side. Renter is
backed by tho young men of tho Republican
party. Among other things said aud douo by
tho delegates, we copy the following:
Nelson—How is that Mr. Chairman ? When
was that vote token ?
Three groans for Butler. Immense noise.
Threo groans for Renter. Still greater noise.
Ray, Barbour, will you go back to Shelby?—
You will never go back to Shelby.
Jim Brownlow—I movo that tho Rnperlntcu-
dant of tho Lunatic Asylum bo instructed to
take that man out.
I put in nomination—
Bah ! bah ! Hur-r-r-rah !
We will give you lx—11 in your district Mr.
Cato.
Mr. Cate said ho was requested to read a tele
gram from Memphis to the workin;
Nashville, from Senator Sprague.
Give it to some one who can read it.
Jim Brownlow—I movo that Senator Sprague
iH an abortion.
You have, not got as much norvo as a louse.
Mr. Williams attempted to speak.
Oh sit down Williams ! Is that Sweet William
or tho other Williams? Tako Williams out on
a chip!
“Mr. Chairman,” from Mr. Williams.
We have no Chairman; talk to the people.—
T o.r popull, vox Dei.
Go to li—11 with your Roman !
Hurrah! hur-r-r-ah ! liur-r-r-ali for Sen ter.
of
The Democratic Party.—Tho Now York
World is taking “ observations.” as the seamen
say, of tho present position and future prospects
of»lie Democratic party. Tho result is encour
aging. President Grant’s blunders, in the first
place, wo are told are plowing tho ground deep
for a Democratic harvest. Another indication
which tho editor thinks, augurs well for the fu
ture success of the Democratic party, is a roceut
exposition put forth by Mr. V&llandigham, who
explains that at tho time he precipitated, in the
Democratic National Convention, the crisis that
resulted in the nomination of Gov. Seymour, lie
really dosirod the nomination of Chief Justico
Chase, and expectod it to bo accomplished by
Mr. Seymour’s persistence in declining. The
World reasons that:
“This may ho fairly accepted as a proof that
the leader of a very extreme wing of the Democ
racy is willing that bygones shall be bygones,
and that the policy of tho party shall hereafter
ho shaped witn reference to the new issues which
must arise out of a new Rtote of things. When
tho loador of the ‘ coperheads’ thus announces
himsolf as the apostle of an ultra-progressive De
mocracy, we are justified in presuming that
thoso samo ‘copperheads’ do not mean to bind
the party to obsolete issues, for the Rake of vin
dicating their own political antecedents.”
Tho renewal of tho popular interest in the
question of Free Trade, wo aro also told is
another excellent sign.
There are other grounds of encouragement,—
the moral of all which is, that tho party must
keep up its organization, aud be ready to take
advantage of the tide.—Montgomery Mail.
Reconstruction.—Texas is dortmed to be
without civil government till November if not
longer. Mai- Mooro of the San Antonio Express
assures the President that it will ho folly to ex
pect tho Republican party to gain a victory, in
case an election is ordered in Texas immediate
ly, and urges delay; and the President states
t\iat there would be no election in Texas before
Novembor, in any event. Major Mooro, wo are
told, was an Adjutant of Gen. Sheridan’s De
partment of the Gulf, in 1865. and was listened
toby tho President with much interest. Of
course, Gen. Sheridan’s military adjutant is
heard before the people of Texas, and no early
the peopfe afresh ovor to a military power, after
over four years of peace; and, secondly, to deny
them any election until it can, by military means
and appliance, bo manipulated in favor of the
Administration.
Virginia continues much excited over the Pres
ident’s refusal to pormit a separate vote on one
of tho most obnoxious Clauses of the proposed
Constitution, though knowing very well that all
tho negroes of tho State will vote upon it. To
what end did Gen. Grant propose to have peace
among tho people, if he meant to do all he
could to keep them more and more alienated ?
—New York Express.
A Compliment to the Chinese.—Wo bclievo
it is now generally conceded thnt the work on
tho California end of the Pacific railroad has
been conducted with far more regularity and
good order, if not despatch, than on the Union
Pacific. Tho feat of laying down ten miles of
rail in one day, last week, astonished the Union
Paoiflo managers. It is also a fact that tho la
borers on this end have been much better be
haved and disciplined than on the other end of
the road. We do not call to mind a single death
by wanton violence on tho lino of the Central
Pacific during the past year, while hardly a day
lma passed on the other encl of the road, without
some act of murder or other atrocity. We
think a groat deal of this good order and ab
sence of violence is fairly* attributable to the
natural docility of the Chinese race, who have
composed a great part of the foroe on the Cen
tral Pacific. Doubtless, much of it is duo to
the rule whicli excluded ardont spirits; but not
all. These Ohineso have honestly wen a com
pliment for good order, sobriety and good work
whioh ought to shame those white ruffians who
are in tho habit of traducing their morals at the
same time they aro murdering each other.—Sac-
remento Union.
Crops.—The Union Springs Times says: Plant
ers generally represent tlieir corn crops promis
ing, at least, notin a discouraging condition.—
Cotton has thus far had a hard time. It has
suffered from froBt, excessive rain and cool
weather: On the whole, howover, as many far
mers speak cheerfully of their present cotton
prospects os gloomily.
BVB1BYBODY
La Orange, Georgia
FIND8 THI FLACK!
BUY GOOD GOODS.
Kf ona«»» nl>l<
J. SI. BEALL A SOX,
Dry Good* Merchant*.
vv vv
VY TV
WVV
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IlH HH
HH HH.
SHH TTHH
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC!
I AM NOW OFFERING STAPLE AND FANCY
r>XIY GOODS,
CLOTHING,
HATS,
IH TIIK PLACE
BUY CHEAP GROCERIES.
BOOTH,
SHOES,
NOTIONS,
frO.,
AT GREATLY
' C? JE -M9 JPRXCKS T
A LL persons having tho MONET, and wanting to bur
GOODS, will do well to call and noe me at onco, as I
have determined to make It to their interest. Will prloe
Goods so low that all will feel that just like they had found
something. I am offering a certain line of Gooda at eartra-
ordinarily low figure.*,[apr30]V. L. HOPSON.
GO AND SEE “MIKES”
Whftt XtiwpoMition Xtulloclc Made
UNACCOUNTED FOR FUNDS.
A
cluhlon that if farmora wish to got their supplies at
Reasonablo Price*.
they must buy soon, and pay tho CASH, as no man knows
wlint becomes of hin money when they buy on CREDIT,
and pay the exorbitant prices now charged. In fact, this
f enforced; and. without arrangements can be made h
as to overrule them,
ncsH but to auch parties
good accurity wo will aeU, or for CASH O]
will have to close on tho lien bust-
make a good lien with
)NLY.
hand and to arrive—
30 CASKS BULK MEAT,
4,000 BUSHELS CORN,
500 " OATS, (good seed.)
30 BARRELS SYRUP, (Aaaortod.)
10 X "
40 BABBELS SUGAR, (all grados,)
30 . " POTATOES,
5,000 LB3. FLOUR, No. 1, (warranted,)
Hardtrara, Woodeuwars, Hollowware, Croekery,
EVERYTHING IN fllK GBOCEHY LINE.
Soliciting all to call and examine before buying,
_ . ,NTON k f
February fitli-ly
JOHN N. COOPER,
COTTON WAREHOUSE,
GROCER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
(Woat Side of tho Public 8quare,)
La Grange, Georgia,
FILL give his personal attention to the STORAGE,
HELLING or SHIPPING of COTTON entrusted to
consignments to Au-
Guano! Griinno!! Guano!!!
A GENT for Wilcox, Oibba k Co.‘a Manipulated GUANO.
JOHN N. COOPER.
Salt! Balt!!
J AM, alao, agent for the Virginia
JOHN X. COOPER.
Lime!
QNE car load Alabama LIME on UaniL
JOHN N. COOPER.
Now Orionn* Syrup and Sugars
c? ic jsl.
D. MICHAEL Si CO.,
receiving additions to their stock of
SPRING & SUMMER GOODS,
SUCH Afl
X>ry Goods,
CLOTHING, NOTIONS, HATS, BOOTS AND SHOES,
Gents’ Furnishing Good*, /
ALSO,
ITamily Orooeries*
AND A LABOE STOCK
Engliali Crockery and GlaMware,
O-THE CHEAPEST IN LAGRANGE AND NO 1
j£S*TAKE—3ARGANIN8 WILL BE GIVEN.*
ALBERT LEHMAN,
WATCH-MAKER AND JEWELER,
La Grange, Georgia.
NEW JEWELRY.
[TST received a large stock of
OOLD AND SILVER WATCHM,
WATCH CHAINS, CLOCKS, (of all ■
JEWELRY, (of the very latest styles.)
POCKET AND TATTLE CUTLERY, (very beat quality,)
SCISSORS, (every size, and the finest that can be bad.)
PLATED WARE, (all doaorlptkms and beat quality.)
SPECTACLES and SPECTACLE CASES, (of all kind*,)
and many other fancy article*. All of whioh I will aa
low Jar Cath.
uov<WSa-tf
montvale SPMNGS, ISO®.
T his favorite sumiEit resort. iitu«t«Ui
comity. Kut Tennesaoc, yritl bo opcbM. **
ccpHoa of vUitors, on tho
FIRST OF JUNE-
The mvheil beneficial reunite a
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