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another important question is presen
ted. Will Congress by its action,
either directly or indirectly, sanction
the avowed purpose of Governor Bul
lock to prevent an election in Georgia
for members of the General Assembly,
on “Tuesday after the first Monday
in November of this year,” as required
by the constitution ? Or will not
Congress, knowing the purpose of Gov
ernor Bullock, declare in plain terms,
that the election shall be held as there
in required, and representative govern
ment maintained ?
In behalf of the people of Georgia, I
appeal to Congress to secure to us the
common rights and liberties ol Ameri
can citizens, and the common rights ot
a State of ibe American Union.
It is now five years since the close
ol the war. When the people of Geor
gia surrendered their arms they also
surrendered the cause of indepen
dent government for which they had
contended. With hopes crushed, with
property destroyed, with the wail of
the, widow and orphan still ringing in
their ears, thay did not iplay the hypo
crite and glory in their defeat or curse
their dead comrades as traitors, but
they did surrender in good faith they
did pledge an honest support to the
Constitution and laws ot the United
States, and they bare kept their pledge.
The great mass of people have been
law abiding, moral industrious and
earnestly desirous of peace and a per
fect restoration of the Union.
They appreciated the magnanimity
of the officers and men to whom they
surrendered, and they relied on the
promises of the Government, and the
common interests of the country, to
restore them to their common rights,
whilst they would cheerfully bear the
common burdens of American citizens.
When the war was over, as a gen
eral rule, the officers and soldiers and
a large proportion of the citizens, on
both sides, with the generosity which
characterizes brave and true men, re
cognized the settlement of a question
which had divided and agitated the
country from the beginning of the
Government, shook bands, were again
friends, and determined to work to
gether to allay prejudice,
ternal relations, and secure the union,
peace, and prosperity
country.
Why have the offers of these patrio
tic men been unavailing ? Why is
peace delayed and strile and
continued *
It is because there is another though
small class of men who were generally
skulkers in the war, or speculators in
the misfortunes of its victims, who,
when the war of arms had ended, com
menced their war of bombast and de-
iccarkr.
MILLEDQ-EVILLE:
Tuesday, Jane 14 1870.
STATE PORTRAIT GALLERY.
Stepping the other day into the lav of
fice of oar friend Judge Harris, we saw a
fine photograph of Judge Berrien, taken
by D. J. Ryan of Savannah, from a paint
ing of Mr. Maer, infend ed for the office of
the Attorney Geueral of the United States,
to be placed along the side of others who
had filled that high position in days past.
It will be remembered that the Hon. Jobu
M. Berrien was Attorney General of the
United States from the year 1829 to 1S31.
and filled that high position with honor to
himself and credit to his State. He was
one among the truly great and able men
of our State, and Georgia feels jnstly proud
of his services and memory.
Wb have been astonished that the State
of Georgia did uot inaugurate, years ago
Ga. fioin NoV. 1st, to Nov. 5th 1870
large premium list is offered.
Augusta is making grand preparations
for their Cotton States Mechanical
and Agricultural Fair.’Th come off the
Ia6t week in October, iu 1870. From the
catalogue of premiums offered, it will be
an exhibition of Southern Industry equal
to the State Fair.
Rome, is making preparations for an
other exhibition the coming fall. The
one of last year reflected great credit upon
the good people ot that city.
EatODton, will have her third exhibition,
A about it—we vouch let* that “it beats git
1 out.” 2d. That no wore perfect specimen
of Charles HT Dana can be obtained than
it pictures. The vary habit, as well as
the brains and heart, of the man, are re
flected—wo see the real Simon himself,
and “no mistake.”
We agree, however, in the main, witL
the Republican’s correspondent, and dep
recate no less than he,the increasing aban
don and highly discreditable style pervad
ing almoat almost all elassea of writers. It
not only is irritating to the tastes of*tbe
j low and vulgar, but the higher grades are
COJUjy. H. KENAN
The following sketch of the life anti
services of otic late fofio w-citizen, we
ll-li
beginning on the 12th October, 1870. An j gradually lowering themselves and unin-
inviting premium lift will be offered. I teutionally.bat surely, encouraging a slang
There may be other Agricultural Fairs j that will in the end debase the purity of
to be held, but we canuot at this time call our tongue and the chasteness of its idiom,
them to mind. It would be a good idea, Like the styles that Fashion is constantly
however, iustead of having mere county j substituting, they remiud us of the chaug-
es which have beau wrought in almost ev
ery department and where the pure, the
useful and solid, have been wantouly and
shamefully discarded. It is easy to award
to Lord Bacon’s word there fullest mean-
iu g-
“He that plot* to be the only figure
; among ciphtrt is the decay of the whole
age *
0?* Ill the Bullock-Augier investi
gating committee, ex-Comptroller Gen
eral Thweatt, was called to testify.—
Fairs, for several counties to unite, and or
ganise District Fairs. The cities that
hare organised Fairs, will succeed, from
the fact, that they are commercial ceuters.
A State the size of Georgia, with her rail
road facilities, could well afford to have a
dozen District Fairs, and we hope to see
our people continue fully alive to such im
portaut helps to our agricultural and oth
er resources.
Read the proceedings of a meeting
held in Baldwin county on last Saturday.
Milledgevillo is awake to the importance
of a District Fair.
Ita-
the leading men and presses
take fro.ii the Chronicle Sf Senfbieli
was doubtless penned by one who was was conquered
intimately^ «cqaair<teif with him* ftqd
knew his history from boyhood :
Augustus Holmes Kenan, the sub
ject of this sketch, w.us bom in Bald
win county n the yicar 1805, at Mont
pelier, east oltfie Oconee*river, a place
estalished during the last century by
the United Stales Government as a
military post to watch over the Creek
Indians, then inhabitants of all the
land west to the Chattahoochee, and
died near Mi Hedge vide, on the 1st
June, 1870.
Educated almost entirely at the com
mon schools ot the country, after an
absence o1 a year at Auburn, New York,
where he had higher educational ad
vantages than were then to lie found
at his home, he returned to Milledge-
ville and read law in the office and
under the instruction of Colonel Sea
born Jones, and commenced its prac
tice in the year 1826, in copartnership
with ivis . how-student, Joseph T.
Williams. In November, 1S26, a man
by the name of Henry Rogers was in
dicted for the murder of Bradford
Goodwyn. It was a case which ex
cited unusual interest. Kenan & Wil-
cverTf-Vesfige of prejudice disappeared,
and ffrer afterwards, in his service iu
Congress* he .was - the Last ami firm
friend of tfie President, ami stood by
administration until the Confedera-
Smce the farlutr,of this great-South-
ern movement Cblonel Kenan has been
actively and successfully engaged in
the practice ol law.
No mau has felt more acutely the
conditido.of the South, and with larger
foresight he saw the necessity of a
speedy teunion under the Federal Con
stitution* Had his conservative views
controlled the judgment and action of
ur«. that BKlgeu, Sate’
b4 as the receipts of the Stain
four months, corm„ em .; f D f oa,lfor
1S69, puts the road it, ( jA. . ™ ber
08,‘while Hulbert, with n f 4 *!! 3 ’"
S28 f “ *V«*ipUfcrfc
ponding months i S6s an(j ]8f q 0rre& -
mto the treasmy SISO,*,63.32 ° 9, pa,d
The Western dispatches M „
Bingham Amendment has' S L.„
strength it. Congress now than i,
had before, and Georgia will be 7
! rnitted wilh » Proviso leouiripor a '
; elei lion next fall. Tennessee, th P y
the
of the j a3Sert ’ W,U “° l 1x5 in,erfe red with.
* j ! Stale, repressing as he did at all limes, j There are in New York
any public exhibition of irritation or j Protestant churchps, with
indignation at the course pursued to
ward us, it is believed that our condi
tion would have been very different
from what it is.
Wilh great and vigorous talents,
with a reason almost as unerring as
instinct in reaching correct conclusions,
consummate tact in handling all ques
tions without the sacrifice of principle,
prompt and decisive in action, he unit
ed most of the elements of character
which constitute in stormy times the
great leader.
city 240
a member-
are also 140
Sunday
an
hip of 72,000. There
Protestant missionaries with 8
School organizations. The R 0 tn;
Catholic churches number 40.
The Southern Masonic Female Col
lege commencement exercises begj n al
Covington on the 19th of June.
The Georgia Mutual Fire and Life
Insurance Company, of Macon, Geor-
gia, has sold to the Cotton States Life
Insurance Company their entire Life
j Department. By this arrangement all
I We should judge from his testimony liams, assisted by Hon. Eli S. Shorter
which is quite long and very full, that,
the Committee, especially the friends
Oau of (he “Sun and the “Savauaah
publicauV Correspondent.
A communication iu the Savannah Re- : Bullock, had more told them than
publican uf the 2ud inst.,“pitches” iuto the | they wanted, or desired to know. The
editor of the New York Sun for misusing j exposure of Bullock s rascality by com-
a State Portrait Gallery of her distinguish j the King’s English, and quotes as a speci parison with the former Governors, is
ed men. Many of the Northern States have : men the following : i startliug. The fellow scetns to have
the portraits and busts of their distinguish , “What then is the platform whereon the j lost all sense of honor or responsibility
example, and strive to leave a record that ;
will make their names immortal in their j
State’s history.
We have, it is
restore fra- f ew °f our great sous, banging around our
legislative halls, viz : Govs. Jas. Jack-
of the whole son, George M. Troup, John Clarke and
the Hon. W. H. Crawford. They were
all great men, and did their State and
country some service, but there are u.eay
enmity j 0 tjj er8 w jj 0 were fully as great, whoes
; names and deeds are dying from memory
and who honorably illustrated their State
in their day. Justice to those whom our
fathers honored, demauds that their faces
be put opou canvass.
Not only should the faces of our great
nunciation of falsehood and plunder,i sous be preserved, but their deeds should
ed sons, and as one gazes upoD their faces j Democracy intend to plant themselves for
he reads in a great degree the seVvices of 1 contesting the Congressional campaign
, , , . , , , i which is now about to open <
those men,and their memory and deeds! r .
... , ..We are not the apologist of Charles
are kept alive, and acts as an incentive to ' T . , T o • , i t* , y-, • 1
. .. . . . , . i H. Dana, the editor of the Sun, iu any of' report of the Committee, and
each succeeding generation to imitate their ' . . . . ... , , . I *
1 a« relations to the public—we kuow him j t hey will make such a report as the
not, personally—have contempt for him
politically, aud regard his scholarly or |
of his position and spent thousands,
when other Governors spent only hun
dreds. We will wait patiently for the
see it
lease and facts justly demands.
From “July, 1868, to May 18, 1870,
defended the accused ; Solicitor Gen
eral Col. Gibson Clark, Wm. H. Tor
rance and Iverson L. Harris were for
the Stale. In this case the then three
young men, Kenan* Williams and Har
ris, made their maiden speeches. The
surrounding circumstances were re
markable. The Legislature was in
session. Judge Owen H. Kenan pre
siding. The testimony having closed
at candle-light, the court-room was
filled wilh immense auditory, made up
of members and strangers of distinc
tion from abroad. On the Bench dur
ing the whole argument sat five Judg
es of the Superior Court—Judges W.
H< Underwood, Charles J. McDonald,
Without any of the many marked ! policy-holders in the Georgia Mutual
characteristics which individualized “ ave not or| ly the policies ol that cow-
this gentleman being altered it was ev
ident to those brought into contact with
him in the last four years, that the
force and vehemence of his manner,
which often gave offence, had assumed ;
a softer and kindlier tone, and men !
who had been repelled, were won over !
to cordial intercourse and regard.
About eighteen months since he was
deeply afflicted by the death of a young
child, his pet, and in whom his whole
heart was wrapped up.
The granite ot his nature was riven by
this lightning blow. His pride and
self-reliance was chastened by the arm
of his Creator, and since then be has
pany, but have the guaranty of the
Cotton Slates, one of the most success
ful companies ever worked in this
State. The Cotton States assumes
the payment of all losses on policies
issued by the Georgia Mutual.
Apportionment of the Georgia Cotton
j Crop.—A legal friend says the grow-
j iug cotton crop of Georgia will bean-
propriated as follows : One third to
pay Fertilizers ; two thirds for West
ern com and bacon; one third for
mules, horses and other stock from the
West ; one third for dry goods and
other Northern purchases ; one third
for labor ; one third tor interest, wear
and tear and use of stock. The re-
been as a liule child, submissive, lov
ing and charitable and forgiving, and I maining thirds go to profits,
threw himself as a penitent before;
, Thomas W. Harris. Waii«"ro &htey’ If 11,r i 8t - »" <l ll,ro V$ b b l n ' bo P' d for *• j
true, tit. portraits of a classical attainment 5 , a/tor exhibitions, as , for regular* executive ! ai,tf Owen H. Kenan. > lorgtv.noM of In. <m.. Durmg htr | hl ,„
- Unmo. j ! noting beyond respectable mediocrity ; 1 , ^ r e1 „ Ql70 n „ ^ The Judges who presided have pass
ed away. Of the counsel engaged,
the Hon. Iverson L. Harris alone sur^
vives
but in the instance of imputed obfusca- !
clerk hire, $17,S72 90, for two Secre-
l 1 • , 1 , laries, S6,000, and for “extras” §7,-
tion as giveu above, we think he made ’ ’ . v ’
himself understood aud committed no of-* j ®-50 09, making a total of $31,423 99.
fence against grammar. The correspon- 1* or Ote years 1866 and 1867 Gov.
dent of the Republican is of a different i Jenkins spent for the same purpose
opinion, (which we confess makes us more | $9,463 50, and in 1S59 and 1860, Gov.
weak kueed for Mr. Dana) and supports Brown spent $8,575, showing a difler-
whole illness he continued in his right I
1 mind, set his worldly affairs in order,
j as be had designed before he was
; prositated by disease. Conscious ot
business. Not less than $3,200,000
has been paid out of the Federal Tieas-
j ury during the last twelve years to
! contestants.
The firm ofKennn & William., being i his sil . u ? Uo "' l> e bore bi “ ,! " e . M lbrou 8 h -
° out with a calmness and resignation to
against individuals and communities of! fi u( j a rec ord in a biographical sketch,
tneo, women, and children. This war j preserved aud filed away in the State
ol these demons of peace, these moral | „ chive8 and
to constitute iu time, bound
he&sts and birds of prey, has been con-1 , T .u- j ,
, c r . r 1 1 1 1 volumes. In this, our day, when the
United hvr years, and has been little 1 , ,
lo, Jiiutrou. to the interest, of the ! pbo'og'-pber ““ give . I.keness ea true
bis objection by saying—“a man can stand
upon a platform, or as Horace Grtely
oace said, ‘ho can “spit” on it,’ but how
a man cau plant ou a platform for the pur
pose of contesting a congressional cam
paign which is about to open and which
must, therefore, have been previously
planted, strikes me as an insult to the
campaign.”
It may bo ou.r perceptive faculty is at
fault,rather obtuse or that our philological
: ence between Brown and Bullock of
$22,S4S 99, and between Jenkins and
| Bullock of $21,961 49.”
I MILLEDGEVILLE COLLEGE.
'flie I’resbyterian Church, of Mil-
■ ledgetille, and the Trustees of Ogle-
I thorpe College, having made a fair and
j honorable partition of the assets of the
i old College corporation, the former
arms
country than the war of
preceded it.
To-day, after five years of nominal
]>eace, by the iuvitation and suggestion
of Governor Bullock, the State of Geor
gia is tuled by a military despotism
under Gen. Terry, who suspends the
writ of habeas corpus, and removes and
appoints civil officers at his will, in
violation of the Constitution and laws
of the United States
of Georgia.
To-day our pretty tyrant, Governor
Bullock, is urging and threatening
members of Congress to secure a per
petuating of his infamous rule over the
people of Georgia. Frotn such a Gov
ernment even military despotism is a
relief, and would be preferred by the
people of Georgia, until constitutional
liberty can be restored.
astuteuess as a general thing, is deficient, j P ar ^y have entered vigorously iulo the
which j to nature « 86 nature itself, and at such lit- j ^ rea }]y. if Mr. Dana’s sentence is am- j plan of a High School at Milledgeville,
tie cost, the State should at once through | hjg U0US or violates any technical propriety, j equal to any Seminary in the United
the Republican’s critic in an opiuiou, is but ' Stales. They start with fifty acres of
the Legislature, appropriate money to
have the life size photographs of all of her
Ex Governors, those who are now living
and of those who have left any paiuting of
themselves. Aud when taken they should
be bung around the Executive office in
the Executive Department, and as eaeb
and of tha State '• Executive g®es out of office, his face should
j find a place upon the walls of the Depart-
i ment. The effect would be suggestive.
Again, the Supreme Court Room should
j have by all means, the faces of every
Judge that has sat upon that bench. It
•an easily be done, for there are but
three dead—Judges Lumpkin, McDonald
and Starnes. There would be no diffi-
: culty in getting correct likenesses of them.
Nor would it be a bad idea, to bave our
.‘obscurutn per obscurius /”
land and Buildings that cost about
The question propounded by the Sun is, ; S75>00 0. Thev are determined that
Will not the Congress and the peo
ple of the United States open t heit ! Su P enor Coart room9 bun S aroond wUh
eyes to the evils which surround us' tbe * acea those who have sat upon the j
and adopt the means necessary to save j Bench.
In Europe, such is the universal custom j
with the high dignitaries of the land, and j
the effect is fine. It has an elevating and j
inspiring influence upon each generation ; j
it engenders a respect and admiration for
those who have been honored with high
position, and is an eloquent though silent
incentive to those who gaze upon faces of
those depaited, to be like them and strive
for like honors when dead.
□sand ihe country from the abyss ot
anarchy or despotism which we seem
to be so rapidly approaching ?
Never since the formation of the
Constitution has it been in greater
peril, nor has there been a time when
it was more important for patriotic
members of Congress, and officers and
citizens of all classes and parties and
creeds, to unite their effort for its pre-
aervatioa*
The constitution of government for j
the United States was formed and es- j
tablisbed by our fathers in a spirit of
mutual concession and forbearance
and confidence, which is necessary
its integrity and continuance. Its sacred
and ever binding purposes were—“to
form a more perfect union, establish
justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defence, pro
mote the general welfare and secure
the blessings offliberty to ourselves and
our prosperity.”
If we will but earnestly put away
prospective—“intend to plant"—being pre
cedent to and depeudeut upon the time ,
ichen the campaigu shall bave opened.— j
The word plautis figurative, and quite as
suggestive and appropriate as when used
in the more common way of fixing or plac
ing a flag upon a rampart. It forms also
part of an elliptical expression as joined
with “for,” the full meaning and construe
tion of which, will be apparent by adding
immediately after “for,’’the ommitted—
“the purpose of”—which Critia himself,
has supplied.
We cannot accept, at least for this sec
tion of country, another statement contain
ed in the communication referred to, viz :
“it is a well know fact that custom
makes grammar.” This, we most respect
fully ignore, cap a pie now and forever.—
We admit custom has forced many inno
vations upon the legitimate rules o7 proso
dy ; but they never bave been and never
can be,acknowledged a & grammatical—no
more than “nigger ou the brain” will
ever become a recoguized title with the
professional nosologist; or, “yon bet” an
accredited phrase of polite, dignified com
position ! Neither cau we allow, as fur
ther suggested iu the communication, that
“idioms” originally considered as mere
“•lang,” will, by coustant use, become
Middle and South Georgia shall have
a school at home, to be proud of; ca
pable of educating our son* and daugh
ters in the best manner.
Their new Board of Trustee*, met
in the College Chapel Saturday, and
their first step show* the liberality of
their views. They offer to furnish
gratis, houses and lots for ten years to
| any seven respectable families, who
j will settle on the College grounds, and
men of marked talent and brilliant
promise, did a large business, notwith
standing the Bar ot Milledgeville was
then very large and very distinguished.
In 1S32 the Troup party, to which
Col. Kenan wa* attached, was
up by the nullification movement of j
South Carolina, many of its most prom- j
inent rnen having identified themselves j
with this abstraction—such men'as;
Forsyth, W. Gumming and Wayne'
The United States Senate has 72
rneirbers. A quorum is 3S, and a
the will of God, which satisfied his rel-! majority of a quorum, or 20, are con
atives and friends that though he had ■ stilutiwnally competent to pass a bill.
The House has 229 members; quo-
: rum, 11-5 ; members constitutionally
] competent to pass a bill, 53.
i Result oj the Great Fire.—The fire
jin Constantinople, June 9th resulted
; iu a loss of 300 lives, 7000 buildings,
—-—• ■ '■ ■■ : and twenty-five million dollars worth
A. T. Stewart, on the 1st inst., had ! of property. English under writers,
made no open declaration of conver
sion by union with a Church, he died
broken j w ' lb lbe *'°P es a Christian.
CTJIEtllElTT ISnETWS.
Showing ihe Age and Body of the Times.
withdrew, and formed the great party j a reception al his store, the finest ever ! loss heavy. The American Cbuich of
called the Union Parly. Col. Kenan, known. The entire first floor was dec- ) the immaculate conception was on fire
with that decision which characterized ; orated by a grand display of the finest | several times, and is considerably
bis whole life, promptly united with j goods of the establishment, silks and ' damaged ; but the Gobelin tapestry, a
the seceders. His high talent, courage j other cosily fabrics being draped and i gift of the Empress Eugenie, with
and tact was necessary to the support j festooned from and around the numer- j which the church was decorated, was
of this-party in the Legislature, and he i ous pillars, and the whole being lit by
was accordingly sent to the Legisla-I gas, ptesented a magnificent appear-
ture, where he remained; for several j mice. The principal attraction wa;
saved unharmed.
j The loss of life is frightful; whole
! families were hemmed in and burned,
years as its ablest and most efficient : however, the immense rotunda, more Some, in a spirit of fatalism peculiar
champion.
In January, 1S36, he raised a volun-
than one hundted feet in diameter, and
upon which six stories opened from
teer company of cavalry, and hastened j base to dome, was lighted by GOO gas
to the defence of Florida. Upon reach- j jets and decorated by the finest and
ing Picolata, his men, with the excep- j costliest products of the world. Fore-
lion of five, refused to be mustered in
under the articles of war—entreaty,
shame, were tesorted to in vain—they
returned, but repented of their mistake.
Capt. Kenan remained, and sought to
go into the ranks of some volunteer
company as a private. This Major
General Winfield Scott would not per
mit. In a few months thereafter this
great Captain was by Geueral Jackson
engage to furnish not less than fi ve j placed in command of ihe^Qreek cam-
male scholars (sons or daughter*) reg- j paign in Georgia and Alabama ; and
ularlv, every year of their possession, j so favorably was he impressed with
Afrirollnrnl a*d Mrtiuoical Pain.
We see from our Georgia exchanges
:e | that Mr prople are .live t. Ik, imporl.DC. j
i and influence of Agricultural Fairs. We I „ e - , ,,
’ ' " ; stitute properties for proprieties, and the
! corollary might be, to some extent, admis-
A S
bave before us the premium list of the
State Agricultural Society of Georgia for
the Fair to be held at Atlanta, beginning
ou Wednesday. October 19th, aud closing
October 2Gth, 1870. The premium list is
quite ioviting, besides, special premiums
offered by certain individuals, amounting
to near $2,000. From what we see in
the evil* and corruption which like a j the Atlanta papers, wo take it, tbat the
swelling tide threaten our destruction
—if we will earnestly strive to emu
late the generous spirit and self-sacri
ficing devotion of our fathers—God
Almighty will bless us in the consum
mation of their designs.
Very respectfully, your ob’ent se’vnt.
NELSON TIFT,
Late Representative in Congress td Con
gressional Dut. Georgia.
In the last Presidental election, the
entire vote for General Grant was 2,-
9S5.S01 ; and for Mr. Seymour 2,649-
362 making Grant's majority in the
whole vote of nearly three millions,
only about 336.000. This majority
would not only be overcome, but per
fectly overwhelmed, if the people
could now vote.
. Chinamen are beiug brought from
, San Francisco to work in the itoot aud
; shoe manulactories of Massachusetts.
This is wbat the Radicals call “pro
tection to American industry.
Ninety-six millions of dollars, it is
estimated is invested in newspaper
properly in North America.
State Fair will be a grand success. Sys
tem, order and accommodation will not ba
wanting.
In Macon, steps Lave been taken by
the Georgia Agricultural and Manufactur
ing Company, to bave a first class exbibi
tion tbis fall. The gentlemen who bare
the management of the business will be
very apt to make it a success.
The Maeon Journal says ;
“L. M. 1 niton, Ehj, was elected Presi
dent, S. P. Salter, Eeq., Vice President,
aud H. S. Lamar, L. N. Whittle and Jobu
S. Schofield, Directors of the Company.—-
Resolutions were also passed, with a view
to immediately taking active measures to.
wards bolding the proposed fair at their
grounds—where the State Fair was held—
during the ensuing fall. The sum of $5,
000 lias already been raised by tbe com-
pauy. and their proposition will secure
$6,000 or §7,000 more. Let tbe merchants
in tbe exercise of a spirit of true specula
tion, raise $6,000 more, and improvement
and premium funds will be ample. The
gentlemen of tbe Company mean work,
and we hope their fellow-citizens will zeal
oosly second their efforts.
There will be an annual Fair of the In
dustrial Association held in Columbus,
sible. There is, however, a vast differ-
euce in these mongrel terms, and the ins
tioducticn of new, single words, which
have bean, and must continue to be, in
corporated into every language—some up
on tbe usual basis of derivatives ; some ac
cidentally, but being expressive and pop.
ulnr, will always have a rapid transmigra
tion ; while far tbe greater part, will be
tbe coinage of writers upon general learn
ing and captivating styles, will familiar
ize them to tbe common understanding
and convenience of tbe masses.
Having “given tbe devil his right,” we
must not deny him bis due—particularly
as the mail which brought ns the Repub
lican’s article, also contained, in another
of our Exchanges, the following morceau,
copied likewise from the Sun.
“When Gen. Grant was told that tbe
Republican party in New York was dead,
j he would bave made tbe same reply tbat
Anaxagoras did when informed that his
son had died, ‘I never supposed 1 had be
gotten au immortal,’ if he bad studied
Greek. But in his unclassical way he an
swered quite as well as tbe stoic did. He
shut one eye, and blew a mouthful of cigar
smoke rn a thin stream, up to the eealing !
Translated it said : Parties are dreadful
ly short lived. There is nothing enduring
but Havana cigars. Let us smoke.”
Now, if the foregoing paragraph is a
correct tianscript—and w© bavo uo doubt
and inclose their lots. Here is a rare
chance now for schooling ; no rent to
pay, and a home in a delightful, healthy
village for ten years.
MILLEDGEVILLE.
G7* We have received the Catalogue
of the University of Georgia, sixty-
ninth year. We are pleased to leant
that the University is ptospering. num
bering 292 students. Senior class, 48 ;
Junior, 46; Sophomore, 52; Fresh
man, 24 ; School of Civil Engineering,
10 ; Department ol Law, 17 ; Univer
sity High School, 96.
The elective system, allowing the
boys to select their studies in a degree,
works well. As soon as our State is
rid of the incubus of Radical and Con
gressional rule, it will be the duly as
well as the pleasure of the Stale to give
her Institutions special attention, and
make such appropriations as will make
it an honor and pride to her people.
The Russian government is about to
build a church in New York, where
services will be conducted according
to the Greek form of worship.
The Reunited Presbyterian Church
lacks hut fifty-one of having doubled
its ministers since the disruption in
1838, and but ten thousand of having
doubled its membership- Tbis does
not include tbe Southern Presbyterians,
who have S57 ministers and 79,961
members, and who separated since the
great division.
Red Cloud, the greatest of the Sioux
j Chiefs, who is now in Washington, is
described as a perlect Hercules. He
I is about six and a half feel in height,
and large in proportion ; indeed, there
is not a small man among them. Mag
nificent buffalo robes, ornamented ar.d
bejeweled are worn by them all. Red
Cloud wears red leggings beautifully
worked and trimmed with ribbons aud
beads, while his shirt has as many col
ors as the rainbow. Hi* robe was
trimmed aud crossed with silks and
seal slips.
! the manly person and conduct of Cap-
tAin Kenan in Florida, as he passed
through Milledgeville to assume com
mand he invited Captain Kenan to be
come the head of his staff, and that this
might be done Governor Schley made
him an aid, with the rank of Colonel.
It was thus Captain Kenan became an
aid of General Scott, with the rank of
Colonel, in what is familiarly called
the Indian campaign.
In May, 1S37, the United State*
Government confided to General Scott
the very delicate task of the removal of
the Cherokee Indians from this State.
So attached bad he become to his aid
that he was again invited and became
a inembar ot his staff’, aud continued
uutil the service had been accomplish
ed.
Returning to civil life in the latter
part of that year, he again was elected j am ounts in round numbers to $300,-
a Representative in the Legislature, 000,000. This currency is based up-
most among these was a specimen of
Gobelin tapestry valued at $10,000.—
It represents a view of the entrance to
the harbor of Marseilles. To estimate
the value of a specimen of this kind ol
work it must be remembered that it
requires tbe labor of one person for a
year to produce a single square yard.
A Quaker once hearing a person tell
how much he had felt lor another who
was in distress and needed assistance,
asked him: “Friend,bast thou felt in
thy pocket for him ?”
The Mormon missionaries who have
returned to Salt Lake report that tbe
people of the East do not care much
about religion, but invariably ask if
there is any chance to make money in
Utah.
The Census takers will be pleased
to hear of an increase of their pay fifty
per cent., the measure having passed
both houses of Congress.
The Rome Courier says the Etna
Iron Works will begin operations by
the fit'st of October. It also says the
saving of one ol the best erpps of wheat
ever grown in that section will com
mence this week, and believe that red
wheat will sell in the Rome market at
$1 25.
The circulation of the National Banks
and, with the exception of one year,
continued as a member in the Senate
or House for several years—at all limes
a prominent and leading man.
Colonel Kenan was elected a mem
ber of the Convention of 1S61, which
withdrew the State of Georgia from
the Federal Union. He was, in and
out of that body, a very decided and
active opponent of secession, coincid
ing entirely in opinion with Hon. A. H.
Stephens and Governor H. V. Johnson,
and co-operating heartily with them in
their efforts to defeat it. When, how
ever, the test vole had been taken—
exhibiting a majority only of four in
favor of immediate secession—so anx
ious was he that the people of Georgia
should act as a unit, he united" wilh the
secessionists in signing the ordinance;
and after having thus alligned himself
with his State, he continued until the
end of the war
ing supporter of the lost cause.
Colonel Kenan was c hosen as one of
the members of the Provisional Con
gress which met at Montgomery. I*
was there he formed the acquaintance
of President Jefferson Davis. He had
entertained previously very strong
prejudices against him, the result ot
Colonel K’s devoted fondness for Gen
eral Scott. Brought, by being a mem
ber of the military committee, into fre
quent intercourse with the President,
on bonds of the United States, on which
they receive six per cent, interest in
gold !
A mortgage from the Wilmington,
Columbia aud Augusta Railroad to
George S. Brown and Enoch Pratt, of
Baltimore, for $3,200,000, was probat
ed in Wilmington on Friday. The
stamps alone amounted to $3,200.—
This is the largest transaction that has
I ever been recorded there.
The amount of fractional currency
j redeemed at the Treasury Department
duting the week ending June 4, 1S70,
amounted to $44S,S00.
The securities held by the Treasurer
of the United Slates in trust for Nation
al banks, aaiouni to $758,511,750.
The value of stamps issued by tbe
United States Internal Revenue De
ne continued until me e „t for the month of May, was
tbe steady and unfalter- j
The national bank circulation out
standing on June 4th, was $299,505,-
042.
There'is a negro woman 37 years of
age, living on the plantation of Mr. W.
R. Battle, of Baker county, who weighs
300 pounds, and has 25 children, all
living. Mr. Battle says she is remark
ably healthy and is a g<»od cook, but
never cooks more than one thing at a
lime.
to their race, shut themselves up in
houses. Two hundred and fifty-two
men are dead, and many more miss
ing.
A Washington letter says : An in-
rormal canvass of the House shows
that Wbittemore will hardly gel tbe
seat to which his ignorant negro consti
tuents have returned him. Members
very generally say that they cannot
consistently vole to admit him when
they have voted at the same session
that he is unworthy to be a representa
tive of the people in Congress. Gen.
Logan will take the position, it is said,
that Whitteinore’s re-election is an in
sult to the House.
The Howard Investigation Com
mittee has refused to investigate tbe
bureau frauds iu South Carolina. The
witnesses were ready, but the Commit
tee would not hear them.
Four George Washingtons, six An
drew Jacksons, five Henry Clays, and
two James K. Polks reside al present
in the Louisiana penitentiary.
Be Careful.—An exchange says:
The ink used on the new issue of three
cent postage stamps is said to be very
poisonous. Take care how you lick
them.
Projected Sew County.—The \ aldos-
ta Times learns that at the coming
session of the Georgia Legislature an
effort wlil be made to form anew coun
tv, from portions of tbe cennties of
Wayne and Appling with Jessup as
the acwinlv site. It is proposed to call
the new county Ashby after the fo
mented General
fame.
Ashby of Virginia
Mr. Potter Palmer, ef Chicago,*
well known nabob, gives a notice i»
the papers of that city, that on the fir* 1
of July be will commence the erection
of a hotel, probably die largest in the
country. It will front on State street
two hundred and fifty-three feet, be
eight stories high and contain seven
hundred and fifty rooms. It will be
built in the style of the Louvre Palace*
Paris, and will cost, including d' e
ground over$2,500,000.
A chap named De Long, whom
Grant made Minister to Japan, writes
home that he can’t live on $7,560 a
rear, whereupon tbe San Francis 1 '
Figaro shows by the following how
Long is putting on airs :
Minister De Long finds it impossible
to live comfortably iu Japan on a
ary of $7,500 a year. Things must be
very expensive in that country. “ e
knew Mr. De Long to live comfortably
on a salary of $10 a month and W*
hash, when he was tending bar J or
John Atchison, al Foster’s Bar.
cou.ily.
The Rev. W. T. Brandy, D. D- » f
Atlanta, was married, Tuesday* IU
Mrs. Mattie Marslon, of Madisotv