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GATE-CITY GUAEDIAN.
V C. IOWAM Ud L A. CIAWFORD,
CO-EDITOM.
ATLANTA, OBOBOIAi
RSDAY, FEBBUABY- 14, 1801.
The JYIrw tiovernment,
radical principle! of free government
beea ao thoroughly ditcuased in the laat
year* by the American people, that,
existing habitudes of thought and
i (he subject, little remains to be aug-
I the reconstruction of a system for the
But the practical workings of the late
l Tery surely evinoe a failure in the
i tendency of oertain principles per
objectionable in thcmaclvea. Exeeu
nag*, perhaps, does not seem more
ag than patronage to the same amount
! by Congress, or a Cabinet, or an
Yet the whole drift of this power,
tod in the history of the late Govern-
towards corruption and ruin,
|y pursuaded that the myraids of
reed in a one-sided way, which
the hands of the President of the
by due course of law, would
Aer hare proved too much for ths
of any Constitutional Republic.—
of view the neoessity for a recon
our old confederation on acoount
heresy of consolidation, we think
lion by ths Government of the Pa-
presented such a grave departure
d constitutional authority, that
Ined State interposition was called
from such an outrage on the
^ty. Yet, cavil and philosophise
~t the proper mode and princi-
ng State patronage, it it and has
of most difficult solution with
ring men. Where parties exist^
ntend for the control of theGov-
far eaaier to sneer at the rather
of Mr.Marcy, that 44 to the vie
spoils," than to answer it. But
of party largesses on the public
snd evil continually. The teach-
riitics, as well as of our pulpits,
t the private station of individ-
ing honest and well-earned in-
the one most appropriate to the
ri conducive to the virtue of the
seman. The track of the Ship
been through the drift of many a
ok, which, but for the lust of
official power, would never have
Can we not have an eoonomi
1 Central Government, and yet
T We can, we think. Aggran-
at the expense of the Central
Restrict that power to as few
few privileges, and as few grants as
r do all this by holding tbe money in
: that make it. Without a large ex
, and fat offices to give away, no self-
men or corrupted school of politi-
will ever be able to see their thrift in
up a tyranical usurpation of power, or
in. Mrrnpting a pure Government. Men—even
Wdf/laii man—moat be well paid for such aw-
M VFbrk aa this. If, then, the Central Govern
ment is kept poor, the inevitable consequence
Will b4y that tbe prime talent of the Confeder
ation will be engaged by the States, and not by
th# General Congress, where, as of old, that
kisnt may eithsr be bought or overlaid. We
have given much thought to the subject of Di
rect Taxation, which many of the moat patri
otic men among us regard as the true remedy
for many of the grievances of the late Govern
ment. We candidly confeea that our former
objections hare weakened down under the very
forcible arguments of the friends of the sys
tem. If our new relations to the world, and the
perfoct homogeniousoess of the States compos
ing tha Southern Confederacy, do not material
ly affect the doctrine of proteotion, we are of
opinion that tha ohaapest, most accountable,
and boat checked Government that possibly can
exist, will bo secured by a system of Direct
Taxes. It is demonstrable beyond all doubt,
that every man who does not live on his own
industry, making within the resources of his
own homo much the larger part of all ho uses,
that the Direct Taxation is the lightest. It is
not certain if the present high protective tariff
before the United States Congress becomes a
law, that a fine sait of cloth bought under the
operations of that tariff 1 would not, besides cov
ering the body of its wearer, cover also the
amount of a year’s taxes in the excess over a
fair prioe.
We shall watch, with intense interest, the
progress of public and Congressional opinion
upen tha two subjects of a system of Taxation,
sad of Executive Patronage. With these two
vital questions favorably settled, and the well
ballasted conservatism of a planting people, we
may well thank Providence for “ our lives hav
ing fallen to us in such pleasant places."
Appointment*,
We are informed, just on the eve of geieg to
press, that Gov. Brown has appointed O. Har
vey Thompson, of ths Gats City Guards, and
A. M. Wallace, of tbe Atlanta Grays, Captains
in the State Army. These are admirable ap
pointments, and shows that His Excellency
has a keen appreciation of true merit.
Anther Seixure.
The telegraph reports the aeisure, by the
Police of New York, on the 18ih instant, of
three boxes of ammunition, mainly percussion
•ape, and ball cartridges, bound far Savannah,
an board the steamer Huntsville.
0P The chronological order of the Secession
movement is as follows:
; 1. December 20 South Carolina.
2. January 9, Mississippi.
3. January 9, Florida.
4. January 11 Alabama.
bi January 19 Georgia.
0. January 20, Louisiana.
The Deputy U.g. Marshals of this State,
wa are informed, have recently received drafts
for half their pnj for takiog the census, with
an assurance that! be reraaiader will be prompt-
lf forwarded as aeon as their returns oan be
examined by the Department.
_ . Correction*
Wejfud the subjoined stirring liaes going
the roods of the paper# as the production of
one not their anther. They were composed by
Mr. Anannaon On*, of this ellfr-e gentleman
of excellent taste end fine scholarly attain
ments. These verses, set to music, we believe,
and sung by Mr. W. H. Bernes end Mr. Wright,
of this eity, have msde dewy the eyes and
bounding the pulses of thousands of our peo
ple just before our lest election :
HOUTII CAROLINA.
■T AMDBBSON W. OBR, Of ATLANTA.
Carolina I Carolina ! Heaven's blessing* a tie ml her ;
While we live we will cherish, protect and defend her;
Though Yankees may sneer at, and witlings defame her,
Our hearts swell with pleasure wbeuever you name hsr.
Chomis.—Huual huzza 1! Carolina forever—
Huzza! huzza for the fearleas and free !
Carolina ! Carolina ! her flag floats in glory—
Her prowess la written In song and in story;
She has sworn she will never submit to oppression.
And her sons are ail wHllug to die for Oeeession.
Ouoara.—Huzza! huzza I kc.
Carolina ! Carolina! though Lincoln may curse her.
And send down his cohorts to drive and coerce her,
Uell And that her soldiers are totter and braver
Than the traitorous foes who attempt to enslave her.
Caoacs.—Huzza huzza! Ac.
Carolina ! Carolina ! with nerve firm and zteady—
With hearts brave and dauntless, old Georgia standi
ready
To share In your perils—repel all aggression,
Then three hearty cheers, aud one long loud hosanna
To the brave baud of heroes across the Savannah,
Who have taken the lead In the new Declaration,
That gives us our freedom and makes ua a nation.
CaoacB.—Huzza 1 huzza I Ac.
Confederate Stolee of America,
At this particular juncture it will be inter
esting, in view of coming legislation, to note
some of the statistics of the several seceding
States with reference to their population, State
debts, Ac. They are as follows :
e—Population in ISM.—a State Debt
Free. Shire. in 1S.W.
South Carolina 308,186 407,185 $ 0,192.743
Georgia 615,336 467,400 2,632,722
Alabama 520,444 435,473 5.888,134
Mississippi 407,051 479,607 7,271,707
Louisiana 354,245 312,186 10,603.142
Florida 81,885 63,800 158,000
2,287,147 2,165,651
3,287,147
Total 4,452,798
This is a population exceeding, by 522,926,
that of 1790, at tho close of the Revolutionary
war.
The New York "Herald,"of the 11th,speaks
thus of the new Confederacy :
"Our telegraphic reports announce that the
Southern Congress, in session, at Montgomery,
Alabama, has, by a unanimous vote, adopted a
form of Provisional Government for the se
ceded States, and elected a President and Vice-
President. We are told that ‘ a vigorous Gov
ernment will go into immediate operation, with
full powers aod ample funds/ and that 4 no
proposition for compromise or re-construction
will be entertained.
"The intelligence is a fixed fact. The peace
makers at Washington should act accordingly.
They should dismiss from their minds the de
lusion that the seceded States can be restored
to the Union, for this idea is a delusion and a
snare. Those States are gone beyond recovery.
All compromises at Washington should be
based upon this fixed fact, and with reference
to the peaceable recognition of tbe new Con
federacy. We refer, in this connexion, not to
the Washington Peace Conference of irresponi-
ble politicians, but to the peacemakers In Con
gress. If they want peace, they must prepare
for the recognition of this Southern Confeder
acy. There it is; there it will stand; and it
will be folly and madness any longer, ou the
part of our Congressional peacemakers, to close
their eyes to this fixed and irrevocable fact.”
•IbrlArrn anti Southern *Xtalions.
The Washington correspondent of tbe
Charleston " Mercury" says that Cassius M.
Clay, of Kentucky, now in Washington, is one
of those men who believe what the boys in tbe
Northern schools and colleges are taught,
namely, that the destiny of Southern nations
is to be conquered and overrun by Northern
races, just as the Germans overrun the Romans.
He said as much in conversation with Elwood
Fisher. “Why," replied Fisher, In his quiet
way, " I have read history very differently.—
The civilized world has been conquered seven
times—five times by Southern men, and twice
by Northern. Tbe Greeks, led on by Alexan
der, were Southerners and slave-holders; so
were the Romans, under Csss or; so the Arabs,
under Mahomet; the Spaniards, under Philip ;
and the French, though not slave-holders, are
Southerners. I need not tell you wbst they
did under the great Napoleon, nor what posi
tion they bold at this day, undor his nephew.
Have you forgotten how the Moors penetrated
to Vienna, and, but for the valor of John Sobi-
eski, would have mastered all Europe ? And
do you forget that Roman legions, siding with
ths Germans, under Aiaric, conquerdfi Rome ?
If history teaches anything, it teaehee that a
united South has always defied tbe world in
arms, and never knew defeat till disgensiona
took place among themselves. Finally, to
bring the matter home, see what Southern men
—Italians, commanded by Garabaldi, and fight
ing for their liberty—are doing to Austrians,
Northern men. When you, gentlemen, talk of
coercing the South, you had better lay to heart
lessons taught by historians who are not Yan
kees." Cassius was completely nonplussed-
used up.
„ t*W« find the following item in the last
number of the Columbia (8. C.) "Guardian
"On Friday last, it is stated that forty-two
thousand pounds of powder sffd ball passed
through Raleigh, destined for Atlanta, Geor
gia."
IN- The Rev. Dr. Porter, of Chelsea, Tenn.,
has discovered that a superior quality of gas
can be made of cotton seed, with the addition
of a little rosin. His Church and dwelling are
lighted with it at a trifling cost.
Univerulty of Georgia.
W« are pleased lo learn that notwithstand-
isg the unsettled state of .Stir., ih. -war. and
ramorsof were," ike Slat. University i. now
<*•*■* b.u.r tkan ii. friends rxpeelsd
batadltod ky th. electof 1*. Jo../ who
TMignod hi. plana seme eight years ago Th«
FaouU, ia now aa abl. 00., preaid.d ov.r by
Dr Upeoomba, whoa. tal.nl., .nor,. „d
Warning would bo an honor to ao, literary in-
a tit u lion in tho land, aul.tod h, tho loaro.d
and akW Dr. P. H. Moll. W« trnot that o bo,-
tor do, ia dawning upon old Franklin, and that
tha lira, la not dlatanl whan hundred, of th.
•one of tho South will orowd its holla and olaa-
M. grow*.—Athene Watchman.
from the Mew Yerk Herald.
The Southern Confederacy end Its Pro*
visional Government.
The Federative Convention, or Ceimss of
tho seoedsd States of South Carolina, Georgia
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi apd Louisiana,
Id cosalon at Montgomery, Alabama, bat «c-
oompUibed the task of orgahitixga Provis
ional National Government, and the details
thereof, to far as aseortained, are before our
readers.
First. A Constitution has been adapted to
oontinus io force one year from and after tbe
Inauguration of tbe Provisional President
elected under it, said Constitution being sub
stantially that of oar United States. It #«#•
braces, however, a section expreesly forbid*
ing the African slave trade, a provision giving
to its Congress ths power to prohibit the In
troduction of slaves from any Stats not a mem
her of the Confederacy, a rigid provision for
the reclamation of fugitive slaves, and a pro
vision for the settlement of matters between
the States of the new Confederacy, 44 and their
late confederates of the United States, in re
lation to the publio property and tbe public
debt" of the late Union, at the time of tho
separation, respectively, of the for mer8tates
from tho latter.
These are impertant and very suggestive Con
stitution stipulation*. Tho prohibition of the
African slave trade, for example, dissipates
that industriously ciroulated Northern anti-
slavery idea, that the great incentive, objeoi
and purpose of these seceded Slates has been
and is the rival of African traffic. Now it is
to be hoped that our Republican agitators of
ibis dreadful scheme will b* relieved of their
apprehensions. If these radical Cotton States,
in which alone the policy of re-establishing
this African traflio has been advocated, seise
the first opportunity uoanimiously to ropu
diate it, surely we need fear no danger of the
repeal of thia organic law, with the absorp
tion in to tho now Confederacy of the border
■lave Slates or any of them.
But the power with which the Provisional
Congress of this Southern Confederacy is in
vested, “ to prohibit th* introduction of slaves
from any State not a member of the Confedera
cy," involves a very significant stroke of poli
cy. It is simply a warning to the border slave
Slates, and to Norik Carolina and Tennesaee,
that in making ibsir election between the
General Government at Washington and that
at Montgomery, they must act upon the alter
native of losing or retaining the profitable
market for the aurplus slaves which they have
thus far possessed in tbe Cotton States. All
the Southern States atill remaining in the Un
ion, excepting Arkansas, are producers of
slaves for sale. We believe that the proceeds
of tbe annual eales of slaves in Virginia alone
lo plantere in ths Cotton Stales exceed twen
ty millions of dollars. Maryland, in tbe
same way, disposes of a still larger number
in propertion to her slave population, as is in
dicated in the diminution of her slave aggre
gate >ccordingto tbe late census. Missouri
has, also become a large exporter southward
of slaves, notwithstanding tbe inoreaee in
this olass of hsr population during ths last
ten years. North Carolina, Tennessee and
Kentucky derive also aunually a considerable
margin of solid profits from their sales of
slaves to ths Cotton and Sugar planters of lbs
seceded Stales.
Our slave producing States, therefore, are
now reduced to this nice alternative of a mar
ket or no market for tbeir surplus negroes.—
We apprehend, loo, that tbe result will be
accession to tbe Southern Confederacy of said
States, in order to retain all the advantages
thus offered them, and to secure the mutually
protective benefits of homogeneous institu
lions. Between the suggested exactions of
this Southern Confederacy and the anti-slav
ery power of the North, what other course,
for inatanoe, can Virginia take in default of
new aecurties from the North, broad and full,
than the blending of her fortunes with those
of the Southern Confederacy ?
But, again ; Tbe provisional constitution in
question provides that tbe Congress thereof
"shall have power to lay and colleot taxes,
duties, imposts and excises, for revenu# nec
essary to pay the debts and carry on tbe gov
ernment of the confederacy." The Congress
thus empowered to act is that whioh is now
in session at Montgomery. To render its
legislative powers complete snd effective, it
has elsoted Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi,
and Alexander II. Stephens, of Georgia, the
Provisional President and Vice President of
the confederation. In lieu of a Cabinet the
President has been authorized to appoint Con
gressional committees on foreign, financial,
ilitary, naval and postal affairs; so that
from this little elementary Congress ws find
that all the depart menle and officials of a com
pact Republican Government have been ex
tracted, and the whole system has been put
into praotical working order.
There it is : The systematic initiative gov
ernment of an independent Southern confed
eracy, organized, located and in praotical op-
ration within fifty days from what was con
sidered ths rediculous session ordinance of
South Carolina. In this Government six States
are embodied. Two others—Texas and Ar
kansas will shortly join it; but if this enter
prise threatened to go no further, we might
feel comparatively aure of some satisfactory
reconstruction of th# Union, Southern Confed
eracy and all, in good season. But Virginia
and the other ‘border slave States, exoepting
Delaware, may be lost to the North. They
are only awaiting the issues of a compromise
or no compromise from tbe preseut Congress.
What will be tbe result? We apprehend it
will be decisive to Virginia in favor of seces
sion. In a word, with an independent South
ern Confederacy in full bleift, inviting tbe
juncture with it of the border slave States on
the one tide, and with an Impracticable aiti-
slavery party coming into possession of the
general government on tbe other side, we can
tardly hope for the retention in our Union of
Virginia lo the day, or beyond the day of Mr.
Lincoln’s inauguration.
Ths events of tbs present week at Washing
ton will probably settle tbe question either in
favor of a compromise for the reconstruction
of the Union, resting upon ths mediation of
Virginia, or in favor of a powerful and perma
nent Southern Confederacy. The issue ia
with (he republican party in Congress. We
oonsider the esse foreclosed, and that the par
amount question now to be considered it peace
or war with this organised Southern Confed
eracy.
Jibt Say Dat Agix." — A darkey living
with a gentleman near Charleston, in this
Stats being accused the other day by another
darkey ef being in favor of Linooln’s elec
tion became very much incensed at tho charge.
Pulling off his coat and squaring himself «-/«•
41 Hteoan,” he dared bis sable friend to **Jis4
•ay dat agin." He would knock tho devil out
of any nigger dat eused him for being la fh-
vor or *• Lincoln."
Cvurjn RuiuMATitw.—Bath# the pans
affected In water in which potatoes with their
aklni on have been boiled, ae hot as oan bo
* onto, just before going to bod. By tho oekt
morning the pain will bo mooh relieved, if
not romovod. Ono application of this simple
remedy bat eared tho moot obstinato rheuma
tic pain#—Mngliek Pojm.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA.
CONGRESS.
Monroonnar, Fob. IS, 1101.
saTha Congress mol at tho usual boor, and was
oponod bp Prayor.
Mr. fffophons of Georgia, presented tho mod
el of a flog and devise for a seal for the South
ern Confederacy, which wore referred to tho
appropriate Committee.
Mr. Wright of Georgia, presented a commu
nication from Mark A. Cooper of Georgia, of
fering the Etowah Iren Worhf, in that State,
as a suitable place for a Confederacy Foundry,
The communication was appropriately refer
red.
Mr. Curry of Alabama, said that he had sev
eral memorials for a similar object from Ala
bama.
Mr. Conrad of Louisiana, offered the follow-
leg resolution ;
Eteolved, That the Committee on Military
Affaire, and the Committee on Naval Affairs,
be instructed to include, in any plan which
they may propose for tbe organisation of the
Array and Navy, suitable provision for such
officers of the Federal Army and Navy aa have
tendered tbe resignation of their commissions,
as a consequence of their adherence to any or
all of the Slates of this Confederacy. Tbe res
olution was adopted.
Mr. Crawford of Georgia, presented a com
munication relative to Poetal Affairs, which
was referred without being read.
Mr. Memminger of South Carolina, offered
the following resolution:
Eeeolved, That the Committee on Commercial
Affairs be instructed to enquire into and report
upon the expediency of repealing the naviga
tion laws of the Confederate States, and tnat
the Committee have leave to report by bill.
The resolution was adopted.
Mr. Brooke of Miaaisaippi, offered the follow
ing resolution:
Eteolved, That tbe Committee on the Flag
and Seal for the Southern Confederacy, be in
structed to adopt and reports Hag aa similar as
possible to the flag of the United States, mak
ing only such changes as may be necessary to
distinguish easily one from another, and that
they adopt a banner in the arrangement of
which the Stars and Stripes shall occur with
the number of States in the Confederacy.
Mr. Brooke accompanied his resolution with
some felicitousTemarks, in the course of which,
referring to the Stars and 8tripes, he said,
"That flag ia the idol of my heart, arouud
whieh duster the memories of the past, which
time cannot efface or cause to grow dim."
Mr. Miles of South Carolina, opposed the
resolution, and aaid that he regarded, from bis
youth, the Stars and Stripes as an emblem of
oppression and tyranny.
The debate grew interesting, when, at tbe
suggestion of Mr. Stephens, Mr. Brooke with
drew his resolution.
Congress then went immediately into secret
session, and nothing has since been made pub
lic.
United Staten.
6TATE OF AFFAIR8 AT THE CAPITOL.
Washington, Feb. 13,1861.
Gov. Floyd now says that the floating news
paper rumors of hit complicity in the robbery
of the Indian Trust Funds have culminated in
a report to the House Committee from a respon
sible source, and that he will meet them so
soon as he can examine tbe evidence educed
by that Committee.
The credulity of the Administration is ex
ercised to such an extent as to lead them to
believe that a scheme was on foot to blow up
the Capitol and other public buildings in this
city. A military night guard has, in conse
quence, been for some weeks established ; while
freqnent searches have been made in the vaults
of the Capitol and Departments for explosive
materials.
Gov. Hicks, of Maryland, testified before the
Committee to-day to the effect that he was ira
pe sed upon by anonymous letters and newspa
per reports, relative to the attack upon Wash
ington City. He says thathe does not now be
lieve that any scheme for such a purpose ex
ists.
Abraham Lincoln’s speech at Indianapolis,
indicates a determination to deny the right of
Secession ; to enforce ths laws; recover prop
erty that has been seised, and collect th# rev
enues. He opposes coercion, except to gain the
above objecte. Tbe ultra-Bepublienns were
highly delighted.
At Cincinnati he repeated what he laid tbe
year before the election, when he, predicting
Republican victory, that the new Administra
tion would be conducted on a strict construc
tion ofi the Constitution.
CONGRESS.
8ehatb.—Nothing of importance transpired
in the Senate to-day. At one o’clock the Sen
ators proceeded to the House, and counted the
electoral votes, resulting in a majority for Lin
coln.
Honan.—Unimportant. During the session,
ths Capitol was surrounded by a considerable
guard of the regular military, as they were ap
prehensive, doubtless, of some outside attempt
to prevent the count of electoral votes.
Tennessee.
Indications show an aggregate majority of
fifty thousand for Union, and twenty thousand
against Convention. Only two Secessionists
were elected.
Virginia*
The Convention met at the Capitol yester
day. John Janny, of Louden oounty, was elec
ted President, and made a Union speeoh, but
said that Virginia would insist on her rights as
a condition of her remaining in the Confede
racy.
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The Feinting Orvic#.—Tke Printing Office
has proved a better college to many a boy,
hsa graduated more ueeful, and oonepiououe
members of eoclety; has brought more Intel-
lest out, and turned It to practice), useful
channels; awakened more mind#; generated
more active and elevated thought, than many
ef th« literary Collagen ef tha oountry. A
boy who oommenoes ia such a school an a
Printing Offioe, will kata his talents and ideas
brought out; and if he it a careful obeevar,
experience in hie prefeoeiom will contribute
more towards an odueaiion than can be ob
tained in elmoat any other manner.—Metical
World.
FRENCH CALF HUM,
A LARGE LOT, just received direct from
the Importers, and for sal# by tbe doaen
skin, at low prieea, by
or single
DlMlCK, WILSON A OO m
Peeeh Tree Street, Atlanta, Georgia.
The ttcJxurc ol the Capital.
liTTU raoM ax imfinaoB wise.
The Hon. Henry A. Wise ha# Written ths
following letter to a gentleman In Philadel
phia:
Rollestov. near Norfolk, Va., 1
February 4, 1861. /
For many months 1 have been confined to
tbe bedside of sicknees and Buffering, nursing
with one band and attending to numerous
pressing domestic duties with tbe othsr ; not
visiting Norfolk once In three moat ha ; seeing
but few friends at my house, and these from
my own immediate neighborhood ; receiving
my mail even not daily, or regularly, and not
oariog to be oppreesed with lie disgusting and
distressing details of ruin, and of the deatruo
lion of my beloved country ; in a word, 1 have
beea perfectly retired and ioaative regarding
every publie concern. Named hare as a can
didate for our State Convention, I have not
moved an inch from tny door to meet an as
semblage or to see a voter. And yst public
and private accounts have me reoruitiag raid
armies to take Washington, and I am actually
assured that General Boott has alleged as a
reckon for raising a standing army around ths
Capitol that I am writing and speaking and
acting a rebellion. The Black Republicans
snd tbe Lieutenant General are disturbed io
their apprehensions of a bug-a boo inrittform
of Governor Wise. This would be ridiculous,
•imply if tbe motive of the alaoder was not
tbe basest and most dangerous; if the safety
of tha oountry was not at haxard and a pri
vate reputation was not falsely assailed.
In my Norfolk speech, in mv letter to Vir
ginia, everywhere, and at all times, I have
disclaimed all raids, and pledged m/self to
await the sovereign orders, first of my own
Slate, and failiog in having them, of aomeoth
er State. 3iill my publio speeobes and letters
are made tbe pretext for raising menacing
forces. This ie base in motive, for General
Scott oan hardly be affrighted at a single poor
oivilian, who never set a squadron in tha field,
and la now at home, alone, and in utter dis-
tresa from sickness in bis family, and from tha
dangers which he fears General Soott is rush
ing tbe nation into. Fear is not tbe motive of
this slander—it is worse—it is treason. A
pretext, some pretext is needed to concentrate
the army to establish a military despotism.—
Scott is but a martinet and commissary, but
his vanity, in his old age, stands up like the
hip-bones and withers of an old horse, from
which the muscles have fallen away ; and the
Seoond Lieutenant-General aspires to rival
the First Lieutenant General ie being eaoon-
ized as tbe eecond Saviour of his country. He
had better take care, or I will take the field
and take the feathers off hie peacock pride.—
Now, you are perfectly welcome to put this in
print, to dispel the apprehensions of all tbe
grannies in the North, or to put to shame those
who would malign by slander one who never
engaged in secret war, but who would claim
our capital and our flag as belonging to those
who have kept the covenants of the Constitu
tion, and not to those who have broken them,
and who will fight Geo. Scott himself to defend
them both. I have opposed seoeseion and ad
vocated fighting in the Union, against those
who have denounoed tbe Constitution as a
covenant with hell. I have endeavored to
preserve this Confederacy against all newly
constructed ones, and especially agaiaet the
plots of Black Republicans to form a Northern
Confederacy with Canada, under tbe protec
tion of Great Britain. I am opposed, and ev
er have been opposed, to dissolving tbit Un
ion, and giving its capital and everything up
to the demon of deelruetioo. But I have no
authority and no means of attempting to pre
serve either from the military despotism
which is in the very act of inauguration before
tbe inauguration of Lincoln. If anything
oould make me join a raid it would bs General
Scott’s demonstration at Washington. See
slip as to your idea of a Cotton Bank. No
need to fear about copyright. My wife la still
very Ul. HENRY A. WISE.
Newspapers aud Education.
Some days sinoe a little girl accosted us on a
ferry-boat: •* Pleas* tell me what o’clock it
is, sir ?’’ " It ia just nine." “ Then," Raid
she. “ I shall be late at eohool." 44 Do you
cross the river to go to school ?" 44 No, sir,
but I have been to my aunt’s en a visit, and 1
am now going baok; I’m afraid my mother
will not lot me go again if 1 am lat«." "What
are you studying?" 44 I’m in ancient geo
graphy, rbetorio, composition and grammar."
" Do you not study modem geography ?" 44 No,
•ir, but 1 am going to etudy physiology and
metaphyaios." 44 Are you indeed ?" 44 Yet,
sir, my mother says they are tha fashionable
branches ; modern geography and arithmetic
are ao common, you know— everybody learns
them. She wante me to learn tha higher
branchee." 44 Will you take a message to your
mother from me ? Tell her that you met a
gentleman on the ferry-boat who told you that
geography, rhetoric and physiology,
are not tho studies for a child of your age;
and that modern geography, arithmetio, sod a
good newapaper, are the higher branches.—
Don’t forget this."
It would bo for ua a perilous undertaking to
assert that girls, in general, are not equal to
boys, and consequently that women are not
•qual to mea. Wo assert no such thing. Wo
art afraid to do it—we fear almost to put the
oase hypothetioaUy. Are girls equal to beys,
sad women to mea, io tact and ability to ac
complish what is equally within the oapaeky
o/ either sex ? Have they equal preaeaoe of
mind in danger, equal readiness of resource,
equal knowledge of passing •vents, equal
power to seise new arts, and to take advan
tage of opportunities ? To sum up in a word,
do they make as muoh and as good uaa of lhair
faculties as bo vs and mea ?
Why not? Is it beoauae matter Bob aa-
•arts a divine right to a newspaper of morn
ings, so that his sister, poor little soul, is oh-
liged to go to school to have all the philoeo
pby thruat down her intellectual throat, with
out say knowledge of tbe reel matter* in life
by which they ere illnetmted aud io which
they ere applied? Is it because th# poor
child must drink in rhetoric without haviog
raad tha fine periods of Reward and Ever
ett, or the glowing eloquence and critieUm of
tha leading columns ? Is it because she is in
these aid’s hand to he 44 fixed up,’’ with her
thought# and aapirstieae dirtoted le a ##w
hoop-skirt, aud to hare her hair aud her mind
twisted into eurle, while Boh is catching the
magnetism of dutiful groat deeds, by reading
telegrams from California, Franoo, England,
Italy and China ? “Hirrah, Garibaldi Is at Na
pies! Hurrah! the Sardinians have whipped
Lamorioiere and the Fope is geieg be ki#bed
out of Rome," shouts Boh, aa tiule keep slfort
comes into tho breakfast room, and simpers ie
her darling accents t 44 Ma, 1 want a pair of
jet armlets—Eveline Louies flophreu Smith has
a pair, and 1 think li e a shame that I eea’t
have them. Won*! you make Bob qon that
drea-a-dful eotee ?" 44 Yee, dear, yen #JUU
have the armleta/' -N«. *111 to out Oil tot
thorn thlo ,or, doj."
Mo io goiag lo »oho korootf o«» «nio
ia hoi ohild. Bbo oooor rood, tho uan,
MOtptiof tho BarriafM aa4 fothioao. »«d tho
horrort tod tho oiohooiog roaoaooo oad tho
•aoll (OoiIb, ud *hf should hor doubled
Sob, judioiouo foaWoo oad oirolot bum ho
ouo^od fro* tkio mu ooriootnro, whoro wo
II it poHlblo thot *0 oo.rrott lb.
ot tho uewopspor oh on oduooiioo’
tbiak sol. It i« Ihoooicoof ibtlij
It !■ history. •«, philosophy, tc) ^f
justioo, rbolorio, gronnor, U <1
olso—not ooaitsd with fsUokood ud
••■»•, hot oet • aoro so aiiod pi,,
bonis iofsot schools for glrU, f,„
hoys btosh swsy bsforo tbtir boass s
Ihsir gristle. Tsko groaasr, on—
ty, rhsiorieasd ooaposii'oo. Whsoi
so wsll uught os io Iks osrsfully
peptr t Wh»t better leeson io rh.ioH,
some popular writer or fanout ses.u
tod alivo oo iko hod cool, of oriii«i, a J ? ’
oro bettor oxeaplos of tasteful eo —
Wbtro ise bettor osbioet of nstaiai
Wbst la all Ibo world escapes tbe
editor f Aod if h« coratsit, bisodsn
ear. or logic, or faoi or philosophy
forthwith screed upeo a gridiron by
Wbsra. but ia tho newspaper,, wilt
e running hidory of all the |it tru
day ? Where else are you laid sb*
you tn.ty safely buy, what are not
ting on your shoiro, aad wbst would
ful lo the aladt ef yeur children a
lo Iheir bodice?—Century
Why does e howth Wind make Iks
walks wet without Hater
Yesterday the weather wee cool „d
but thie morning there i, s warm
wind, tad the sidewalks era co,
aeisturw, though lbar, has bean as
As our eitisens come out to iheir d«'
they all notiae tha fact; but haw
the impressions that it prodeeel a
Binds 1 Ths liuls ragged girl sbirm
asked sole of her root prestes tbe
eeos, mad she anticipate, the luxury «f
lag presently upon a warm grating
whiof ths steam is escaping from
terranean steam engine ; the dealers h
shoes aad umbrellas look forward la ,
day's trade, and the shipping merchag
dors whether it will rein aad prtrsalfc
eel from diecharging tbs remainder sflh
go. But to tho student of science, hi
nomenon suggests ths ides ef its -■—
leads bis aied into a train ef though
ramifies into eeery department of User
The deposit sf moisture from warts
on a oold stouo is owing to a properly
atmosphere which produces a large
of phsaomoas. After air has receir
tain quantity of mosture, it will take
but warm air will hold mors water I"
sir. Now, when sir has been ,slur*
moisture by resting osar southern r—
to the North snd come in contact with |
flag sloao. a portion of its moisture is
sed upon the alone. The proportios
■n ths air bss a eery important iota
on ill properties, especially to relsti-
skis, Inega sad othsr risers of the ,
Probably Ihs Injurious effects of fer
dwallinga art principally owing to ths
ity of tha air for moisture, and thus
it lo dry the lungs sod skin. With o
ths heat is radiltd through ths sir di~
the bodies ef of people io the room,
therefore not neoesesry to best ths sir
as a furaaoe; haaes, it will absorb
more rapidly, la other words, it is
iag.—Scientific American.
GUANO!
BIKER 4 J1BV1YUVD
FOR BALE BY
FRANCIS R. SHACKELFORD,
Agent ibr Atlanta.
Feb. 14.—6t
•AH KIRKMAW.
JOHN %
KlltKMAN , LIKE,
COMMISSION MERCH
No. 170, Seoond S
,ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.
Refer to Jobe Kirkman, Jamb* W:
Greenfield, Naahvillc, Teuo.
•DOE ». feOBBON. ROBERT C.
S. B. ROBSON &
WHOLESALE UR0C
Commission Met
Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA t
Sell Everything in their Line of
The Croweet Price* for
octlw
WH* HC HILLER. T. r. F LB If INC.
Ml MILLER, TLEMHI
GENERAL PRODUCE
COMMISSION
MERC!
•emth Hide Paaoeager I
ATLANTA *
K ZXP always on hand, aad In la
Uos, Bacon, Lard, Flour, Onra,
foct, everything usually to be found
HIB8I0N HOUSE.
Thankful lor tbs liberal pat;
test year, wo hope, by itriet a Was the
I Hisinem, to merit a costiauenos ef
Consignments respectfolly solicits®:
jan? McMULEN. FLZMI
IMPROVED
METAL 1C BURIALC
L80, s general
. Wood(S>«us,ir
Wood sad Mahogany.
Marshal’s Shoot Metallr Bali
Aa aotlroly saw ertiole, nearly salt
' closed l
'®g
» . up with India Rubb
sale at my Rooms, la Markhams
- — Whitehall etrset, up stairs
Residence oa Bridge street, seer
Collier's.
Orders, by telegraph, or olhrr
’ attended to
HORNES FO« I** 4
TWO largo yoosg N ,
Are aad six years old I
Oao pair Carriage ■
Four Canada HORSS8-al! as
Mfo, for sals. WJOOII8, T"
ORB sal TROTTING kbXKI
fsetured by No. 1 workmen.
Apply at G ft
a.JS BslefteUs.
CHOICK MZATA
daily el my Hall"
sag*
T Haviappointed Mr. WIL
Amy Agent for the sale ef
IXmiGWXIi'S GAB
ia Atlanta, Oeorgla.
Mrs. M.