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THE
SUN.
vol. jr.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1871.
NO. 363.
THE DAILY SUN.
Published by Hie Atlanta Sun Publishing
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Alexander II. Stephens, Puli'it .tl Editor.
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currency.
Sheridan has been made an LL. D.
Hu always was an ’ll of a fellow.
The new chief of the Agricultural De
partment has taken hold. Watts his
name.
flThiors says “there are no riots in
Nice.” Nice riots are rather unusual oc
currences.
It has been ascertained that Colonel
Fisk’s wound wus occasioned by some one
stepping upon the corn on bis right foot.
The “Darwinian theory” dates the in-
cipiency of man about the time “the
baboon married the monkey’s sisters.”
The thermometer at Pittsburg marked
105 in the shade last Friday. No won
der the papers there claim the final “h”
in spelling thu name of the city,as it is cer
tainly au h— of a place.
The Boston Traveller says Colonel
Fisk “goes on record as a brave and gen
erous soldier,” and it might have added,
“as one who was remarkably successful—
iu gutting out of the way of danger.”
A telegram to the New York D'ibune
Hiiys, “Mrs. Cady Stanton is considered a
failure in California.” She was a failure
long before she went West.
The Toledo Blade sharply remarks
that “non-explosive” lamps and burning
lluids are generally found to differ from
others chiefly in the malignant and un
expected manner in which they explode.”
The New York Herald of the 13th was
so elated over the proceedings of the pre
coding day, that it published the entire
“Star-Spangled Banner” five times on its
editorial page.
The world is full of heroes. A great
many of them are endeavoring to prove
that kerosene can be safely used us kind
ling-wood. The exp rimeuts all result fa
tally.
Susan Anthony closed one of her Cal
ifornia harangues with an appeal for Mrs.
Fair. She was received with a storm of
hisses, and now says she never saw such
a lot of geese as those Californians are.
But a few weeks ago the New York pa
pers were praising Colonel Fisk’s piety \
now they are praising his gallantry. If
the Colonel would only do something
honcst % the measure of his praise would
bo full.
There is some difficulty experienced in
deciding whereabouts in this country
Rhull be the future abiding place of that
1G,00P Communists. It had better be
decided whereabouts outside the country
they shall be dropped. Enough is too
much of an evil and none would be an
abundance of Communists.
To Mr*. J.—Willow.
BY A. R. WATSON.
So piquant, and petite and pretty,—
All this, I own, you may be—
And wiusomely witching aud witty,
And yet not forme.
Though the sweetest surprise
That sliiues in your eyes
Is winning, I own,
I want the first beam
That lights up love’s dream
Or none.
Indeed, you’re so charming a body,
’Tis hard for a man to resist ;
Perhaps you may win some Tomnoddy
Your lips might be kist
They’re a-blush with the glow
Of Love’s wine’s purple flow,
And are sweet, I own ;
Yet, I want the first sip
From Love’s roseate lip,
Or, none .
Alexander II. Stephens on ‘‘Dead
Issues."
should not, be regarded "as ft legiti
mate result of the war.” lie says:
You own all tin* graces of beauty,
None know that fact better than I;—
Yet to love you is hardly my duty:
I don’t think I’ll try;
Though your cheek is a flood
With the royal rose-blood
As bright as e’er shone;
On cheek, such as this,
I must press the first kiss,
Or none.
Leave* Atlanta..
(AV> Da)
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Day Passenger Tr.un
You wore once in your weeds, and were
cliurming, (Hec,
You have wept for one husband, you
And I think—aud the thought is alarm
ing—
Would,perhaps,weep forme.
No matter how loose,
Another man’s shoes
Will pinch if they're won;
So I'll stand in my own,
And wear them alone,
Or none.
Prom tlie New fork World, July 8tli.
We have no reason to retract or
regret our cordial welcome to Mr.
Stephens on his entrance into the
Held of Southern journalism. We
desire to see no important question
of party policy decided without thor
ough sifting and full debate ; and
there is a manifest advantage iu hav
ing in tile arena of discussion (he
keen logic, ripe experience, and ro
bust sincerity of a statesman like Mr.
Stephens. He compels us to respect
his views even when we are con
strained to dissent from and combat
them.
Although Mr. Stephens' statements
are usually crisp and clear, aud quite
free from trimming vagueness, lie
seems for once a little misty upon the
dead-issue question. We are not cer
tain that we fully understand him,
and suspect that our views and his
are not so widely at variance as they
mqf seffn. We beg that on one or
two points he will he a little more
precise and explicit.
In a long article signed witli his
initials in The Atlanta Sun of
July 3, headed “On What issues Shull
wc go into the Fight?” Mr. Stephens
maintains that some of the issues of
our former politics are dead, and oth
ers full of sap and vitality. Tims
far, at least, we agree. So far as wc
differ, it is in drawing the line be
tween tile issues whicli have become
obsolete and those which still remain
as questions of practical polities. We
only disagree as to the comparative
length of tlie two catalogues. Our
list of the issues which should be la
belled “ dead” and laid away iu the
hortu.i siccus of dried specimens is a
little longer than his; hut this seems
to he the whole difference.
One of the points on which we wish
Mr. Stephens would define his views
with more precision is the principle
on which the dividing line should be
drawn. What are the symptoms of
death ? By what rule of classifica
tion must we determine which issues
shall he inserted in the catalogue of
dead and which in the list of live is
sues ? If we can agree upon such a
rule, the controversy is practically
ended.
Mr. Stephens declares it to he his
opinion that the right of secession is
a “dead issue.” Now let us examine
the grounds on which he rests this
opinion and see if the same rule of
judgment would not include several
issues which he insists are not obso
lete. Mr. Stephens still believes that
the secession doctrine is tenable in
logic; that it is a fair deduction from
the history of the Constitution and
the structure of the Federal Govern
ment; and yet, though believing it
correct in principle, lie unhesitating
ly consigns it to the limbo of lost
tilings. The Constitution has not
been changed on this point, by
amendment or otherwise. It remains
precisely as it stood in the winter of
1801. when Mr. Stephens felt coh-
itruined by the paramount allegiance
he owed to the State of Georgia to
follow it out of the Union against his
own judgment of expediency and his
own eloquent protests. Why then
does he so frankly class secession as a
dead issue? Solely because the logic
of events is practically more conclu
sive than the unrefuted dialectics of
Mr. Calhoun. We insert what Mr.
Stephens says on that topic:
The right of secession for all practical
purposes was, as we understand, decided
by the war; not that war can ever settle
or decide auy principle or truth iu matters
of government ot justice between men or
States, any more than in matters of sci
ence, art, or religion. War may decide
and may determine permanently ques
tions of policy, but never questions of
right.
A legitimate result of the late war, we
believe, was, the eettlement—and set
tlement forevcT—in this country of the
policy of secession as a practical modo of
redress against auy usurpations on the
part of the Federal government.
This legitimate result of the war has
been accepted in good faith by all those
States which recently resorted to this
mode of redress for what thoy regarded
breaches of the ^common compact and
threatened usurpations by their confed
erates. Hereafter, the mode of redress
for all abuses of power by the Federal
government which they seek will be to
make common cause with all the friends
of tho Constitution in all the States.
We are glad to find from the ablest
political pen in tin* Southern States
this clear admission that policy and
practicability are legitimate grounds
So of the old question of negro slavery.
The Southern seoeding States all—every
one of them—abolished that institution
by their own acta. This act on their
parts respectively may or may not bo con
sidered as a legitimate result of the war.
Whether the one or tho other, however,
it was done by these States themselves,
and after the close of the war—after they
had fully resumed all their obligations to
the Union under the Constitution, and
were fully recognized by the 1 Vd»rul
Government as constituent members of
tho Union, and entitled to an equal
voioe upon all questions pertaining to its
welfare, even those touching changes iu
the organic law. It is by the acts of these
States that tho XUHth Amendment of
the Constitution is now a valid part o f
which the Federal government may not
at its pleasure set aside.
On thin alone ire are willing to unite irith
all friend* of liberty in all the Staten of the
Hit ion, in the coming contest to pul out of
/lower those itho hare the present control of
the Federal gorernment, and who hare so
wickedly abused their high trusts—whose
/ f ogress, if not arrested, wilt end inevitably
in des/iotis/n.
If the battle bo pitched upon this
ground alone, with no soft words of usur
pations of any sort, there will be no need
of “levies.” Volunteers for their own ac
cord, when the signal is given, will pour
forth from every quarter with that enthu
siasm^ for the cause which love of liberty
ever inspires, and which in popular elec
tions is ever the surest “earnest of victo
ry.” A. H. S.
GEORGIANS EXAMINED BE
FORE THE KI’-KLIJX
.COMMITTEE.
Testimony of Hon. A. R. Wright
of Rome, and Dr. N. L. Angler
of Atlanta.
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No! she who has been Mrs. Jeflkins
Cun never become Mrs. Brown;
So I think, and my way of thinking’s
Well worth noting down.
Then go on with your wiles
And your winsomest smiles; *
They're charming, I own;
Hut from love's perfect bower
I must claim the first flower
Or none.
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Western Itiiiliond
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for setting a great controversy at rest.
We Biihimt that
Southern States
ratified the amendment abolishing
slavery “by their own actsbut no
body knows better than Mr. Steubens
that those acts were not voluntary.
They were done at the bidding of
Andrew Johnson, then the master of
half a million of soldiers. Mr. Ste
phens would need lint a small share
of his acumen ami logic tp make out
a strong case against the validity of
those extorted ratifications; hut it
would he an idle expenditure of argu
mentative skill. The real reason
why the abolition of slavery is final
anil irreversible is that it is sanctioned
by such a body of settled and strenu
ous public opinion, that mi attempt
lo re-establish slavery would kindle
the whole country into a conflagra
tion. ltislH-eaii.se of this slat
From the Wit-bin. .
he 14th and 15th instants, we make
lie following extracts—.first from the
testimony of Judge Wright, given
before the Committee on the 13th
inst.:
Ka-Klnx Organization*.
Mr. Pool, (a member of the Commit
tee, and Radical Seuutor from North Car
olina) demanded to know about Ku-
Klux organizations; whether there were
not such organizations in Georgia and
other ports of the South.
Judge Wright said that if the question
was whether there were regular secret
organizations, with secret signs and pass
words, and orguuized under a head, or
in accordance with any design to restrain
auy class of citizens from exercising their
privileges of citizenship, or with a pur
pose of resisting tho authority of the
Government, he answered no. He bad
no knowledge of such organizations.
But lie added that there were, iu some
.. localities, local organizations for the pur
... . '*! pose of preserving the peace and repress-
puhlic sentiment, that the stability oi jng lawlessness for tho general good, and
emancipation is so immovably fixed. | be bad no doubt but that such organiza-
aml that it would be so idle and in-, tions bail sometimes committed excesses,
tile to contest the validity of timd perpetrated wrongs against imlivid-
thirteonfh amendment. And if there ' . Th‘‘? wer ® organizations ef-
=- a similar slate of public- feeling re- TT? I ut * om - it ? m Tot '
,. , iiiq. nnil lie had known no instance m
which, in his Hoction of country, thoy had
specting negro civil rights nud m
suffrage, it would, he equally futile
and unprofitable to undertake a cru
sade against the fourteenth and fif
teenth amendments. If we accept
their substance (as we believe Mr.
Stephens does) what will it avail to
quarrel with their form? Practical
statesmanship disdains to waste effort
on the husks of a question after ac
cepting the kernel. As M r. (Stephens
does not wish to deprive the negroes
of their newly acquired franchises, he
practically admits that negro suffrage
and negro civil equalityare dead issues.
In opposing the amendments he is
therefore fighting with shadows. The
contest of Don Quixote with the
windmills had more of the character
of a real battle. There could not he
;ited such a thing. He stated that
the worst acts of violence he hail
witnessed in this regard were the violent
outrages committed by Itodical negroes
upon persons of their own color who had
attempted to vote with the Democrats.
He had once Been the white citizens or
ganized and armed to protect negroes
who desired to vote their personnl senti
ments, iu opposition to the wishes of the
ltadicul organizations.
ikIrc
Mr. Pool then questioned Judge Wright
as to his religious opinions, and was told
that tho witness professed a very humble
and simple faith; that be was, in fact, a
feet-wnshing Baptist.
This answer puzzled the North Caro
film Senator not a little, for it was evi
dent he had never heard of the feet
a more fantastic political comedy than I washers. He asked the Judge if fect-
to admit negro suffrage to he a dead
issue and at the same time make the
fifteenth amendment (which does
nothing but ordain negro suffrage) a
live issue. The comedian laughs with
with one side of his face and weeps
with the other, and it is not easy to
tell whether he is really jocose or
grieved. Be consistent, Mr. Stephens,
and if you do not wish to spill the
water make no futile attempts to
break the pitcher.
Mr. Stephens seems equally chi
merical in insisting that the recon
struction acts are a live issue. When
wc descend from the a-rial region and
cloud-land of vague declamation lo
the solid ground of fact and precise
ideas, we find that the reconstruction
acts cannot he repealed, for the sim
ple reason that they are no longer in
bins wan a doctrine or an observance.
The Judge replied that tho doctrine of
feet-washing was derived from the “Last
Hopper, ” ns described hv the Scriptures,
anil that its followers believed thnt it was
a Christian duty and privilege to perform
the same office toward one another, in
imitation of the humble example set His
Disciples by the Saviour of mankind.—
He added that ho had witnessed the ob
servance of feet-wnshing administered to
humble negroes by white brethren of the
faith, and would cheerfully perform tho
same ceremony himself if occasion de
manded. Tho disciples of this faith were
generally sincere believers in its efficacy.
pie reason that lliey are no longer in
force. IIow can an obsolete and do-1
finiet act of Congress lie a live issue?
Mr. Stephens might with as much
pertinence contend that the old Alien
and Sedition laws and the Embargo
law are live issues. By the
very terms of the reconstruc
tion acts they ceased to he operative
in any State from the date of the
admission of Senators and Represen
tatives to Congress from tliut Stale
Loyalty to the Government.
Mr. Pool wanted to know if the Judge
was loyal to tho Government.
Said the Judge, “that depends on what
you moan by the word loyal.”
“But,” said Mr. Pool, “I waut a direct
answer.”
“Then,” said the Judge, “you cannot
have it.” IIo then proceeded to say tliut
tho Irish people wore loyal to tho British
Clown in that tl lid not
tho English don.:
to the English rule. But the English
Government did not hold out any in-
ducomouts to that people to the loyal in
their souls to it. If Mr. Pool meant that
loyalty which has its seat in the soul of
the citizen ; which is true to a principle
because that principle is true, aud which
adheres to the government because itbe-
were uuable to resist his advances in this
regard.
“During the time he was in, he paid
out $58,000 in rewards for the apprehen
sion of fugitives. He paid out $08,000
for advertising bis proclamations, which
were unheard obexpemlitures in this re
gard.^ He expended betweeu $400,000
aud $500,000 for contingencies, aud nev
er showed a voucher for the money so
spent. He put Foster Blodgett iu charge
of the Atlunta and Georgia titate Rail
road, who knew as much about railroad
ing as tho‘learned pig.’ Blodgett paid
the State $25,000 the first month and
$20,000 the second mouth; and after that
never paid a cent or made a return. He
ran the road down, wore out its stock,
aud brought it in debt to the extent of
$700,000, which the State of Georgia is
now paying off. It is generally believed
that Blodgett plundered the State to the
extent of two or three millions. In the
meimtimo a bill VM worked through the
Legislature leasing the road to Senators
Cameron, Scott and others, for twenty
years, at $25,0(X) a month, or $300,000 a
year. To show’ what a good thing this
party have of it, it is only necessary to
stato that before the war the road brought
ill 1600,000 a year, and tbit at a time
business was not a third of what
uow. Thus the people have been
I robbed by the local governments the Fed
eral Government has given them to the
present time.”
•nl Intent* of tilt- People Tow a rrixNortli-
ern Men—Dr. Angler.
In giving tho terrible plunderings of
the State by Bullock and his carpet-bag
government, the Judgo was asked by Mr.
Pool if lie did not think some of his
opinions originated in his prejudices to
wards Northern men. “Not at all/’ re
plied the Judge; “I have no prejudices
against Northern men. God does not
uiuke good and bad men by parallels of
latitude aud longitude. Look at Angior,
our Treasurer; he is a Northern man—a
Republican, but an honest man. There
has stood at the door of the treasury,
fightiug all the while, like a lion at bay,
for the welfare of the people.”
The Judge was asked if Angier had
not joined the l)t moenits. “Not at all,”
replied lie. “He supports General Grant,
1 suppose, and goes with the honest Re
publicans. The people of Georgia owe
him an eternal weight of gratitude. Hud
he joined with Bullock and his public
plunderoi s, no man could tell the extent
of their robberies.”
nglir’fl
iiy—Tlie I*«ne of
TeMtlrn
Slate D
Dr. Angier, Treasurer of the State of
Georgia, was examined before the Com
mittee on Southern Outrages, tho 14th in
stant. Ho presented facts uud figures
showing a damaging record against the
Administration of Governor Bullock, of
Georgia. Aside from any exhibition of
partisan feeling, ho showed wherein Bul
lock had violated the plain letter of the
law in numerous instances. On the sub
ject of the issue of tho new State Taonds
mid the Governor’s effort to conceal the
amount aud disposition mode of fhem,
the testimony of this witness was most
crushing, ami fully corroborative of oth
er testimony un the same point, and
showed conclusively that Bullock had
both transcended nud disregarded the
law of the State. He exhibited samples
of the different clusscs of bonds the
Governor had had engraved, and proof
of the number and amount of each,
showiug an amount almost incredibly in
excess of the authority of the statute cre
ating them.
There was $200,000 to bo raised to pay
tho salaries of tlie Legislature, and
$350,000 to pay tho bonds of the State
falling duo this year.
The Legislature authorized the Gover
nor to issue currency bonds to pay the
$200,000, and gold interest bonds to pay
tho $350,000.
On account of flie $200,000 authority,
Bullock issued $2,000,000, and had the
State Treasurer’s name engraved on all
tho coupons, without tho knowledge or
consent of that officer.
To pay the bonds falling due, ($350,-
000,) he issued $4,000,000 of bonds,
bearing gold interest He has never re
ported to the State Treasurer, or any
State officer, how many of these bonds
havo been sold. Ho lias them iu his pos
session, and keeps his own counsel.
Dr. Anglr
Opinion alio
All tho Stales are* represented, and lioves tlie government to be just andhon
the reconstruction ants have become j «'st to tlie citizens, then ho did not think
void by their own limitation. An!f! ll ’"! wi "!„, m,,c ! 1 °’ ™«>) lujaltyin the
agitation to repeal them would be!^' utb ' They don’t feel it m that way. tne corrupt!.
Dr. A. said ho knew nothing of Ku-
Klux organizations except from rumor
and newspaper reports, never having to
In v i’.vledge seen a Ku KIux. He
t!;\t lawlessness had been in
dulged in in several sections of Georgia,
ns it had at times in every Btate, and
probably always would, lie could uot
say how far it had been political, but be
lieved it was such in some sections, and
that bad men, both while and block,
were now making use of the disguise for
private gain and personal revenge, and
by boys for mischief. Ho regarded
it as a wonder that the people are as
I quiet and poaeerble as they are, with
I the corruptions and tho terrible plunder-
A gentleman of this city who has just
| returned from a fortnight’s trip through
WalmniA. j seve ral of the surrounding counties,
v ; i M , porta the cotton crop in better condition
I than he expected to find it, though he
... .i 'i 1 found some miserably poor looking fields
•;;; J.'ft A V that had not been properly worked. This,
. .... o 4o - however, was the exception and not. the
•• 11:4 ® A ^ | rule. In several of the counties visited,
j he found tint timelv and grateful show-
I ors of rain had fallen during the late
.Miicon A Amrnsia Railroad. ^ drouth here, and corn was Hooking re-
\v. %?\i. KD rnarkubly well. With favorable seasons
l*«t« mauou i, imi a. m. from this out, the cotton crop will be
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The <i*y ptMencngfr train urtvlu# at Macou *t
T:40 P. M., and mak<** clone connection* with train* \ Jaffy was urged by her friends to
a rlo*e conm _ w
VMntf'e*!mT£i“murdMSX.i.Tuv marry *widower, and, oh au argument,
«**k with up day pMmug.-r train for iti*nu, Atiiotn*. they spoke of his two beautiful children.
Waahinfton in<l *11 point* on tin* Ocorir* roul, *ml ../y.ii/i.
Will connect at Atlanta with tram* for the West. • i r
PMrtO 8. I. JolIN-toN. sup*ni)L*n>la*t j tooth piuki
by this clear admis
sion Mr. Stephens ts estopped from
again arraigning tlie progressive ma
jority of the Democratic party for
recognizing irreversible facts. In
such cases charges of deserting prin
ciple for expediency are as irrelevant
as tiiey are discourteous. We do not
accuse Mr. Stephens of bartering
right for policy because lie lias yield
ed the convictions of his judgment
to the fortune of war; nor can it
serve any good end for him to use
sucli censorious language towards
Democratic opponents who apply tlie
same rule of judgment to other eases.
Every argument employed by Mr
"! Stephens and Ii is school against tin
ii! progressive Democrats i* an
valid argument for
controversy on tie
They arc as much
body to tlie charge of renouncing
principle for expediency. On the se
cession issue Mr. Stephens reasons
like a statesman; and if lie will apply
the same rule of jading to other is
sues, there will presently be no differ
ence between us as to which issues
are dead.
You cannot expect a people to love a
government that refuses their right* of
citizenship. Tlie witness himself could
not to-day lie a hulif to one of his form
er slaves if one of them were elected a
magistrate. There is no denying tliut
the Southern people think the Govern
ment made a grave mistake in coufer-
ring
I’nliniMi'd NtilTragr on Ihr Negro*-..
The whites down there don't believe
the n* gro race is fit for self-goverumeut;
and where a race so wanting in halnncc,
ridiculous. There is nothing to re
peal. What practical form, then,
shall the opposition to them take?
If Mr. .Stephens wishes to overthrow
the State governments which were
born of the reconstruction acts, let
him say so. He lias avowed no such
intention ; but if tlie State govern
ments are to stand, why raise unprac
tical questions respecting their origin?
A change in their respective constitu
tions, if desirable, is not a question of
Federal politics, hut of Stale politics,
and Mr. Stephens would place him
self in glaring contradiction to his
own cherished principles by making
the domestic government of the
States a Federal issue.
When Mr. Stephens shall have
more fully explained his views we
have strong hopes that we may he
able to agree with him. because lie is -gro race to govern tliemaelvea?
too practical and considerate a states- L,.,, „ f , hr , onthrrB
man to disturb me burmotiTor break * *• -
ings, Hiid over three hundred pardons
by the Governor, a large portion lor mur
der, in some oases before trial. There is
no such thing us a general disturbance,
and never has been. Many negroes and
some whites are addicted to stealing aud
licentiousness, and this lias caused dis
turbance and violence in some localities.
il' individual accounts are true, there
is a terrible condition of affairs in cer
tain neighborhoods. He thought, how
ever, that the pictures are overdrawn, as
they have been proved to be in most ca-
utirely false. Injured
and intelligence, and other self-govern- and interested parties were apt to give
ing qualities, largely dominates, as in extravagant accounts, aud with unpriuei-
muny sections of the Southern country, j pled men this wus a cheap afld conven-
and has unrestrained right to control' lent way of making political capital, and
elections, anything like good government j inducing large rewards for made-up sham
is simply impossible.” * * * “No cases. He tnought the State courts were
nation of white men upon earth is capa- sufficient to restrain lawlessness if the
hie of Belt-government but the American Governor would cease his wholesale par-
Dopnlar itamiln Srroing Hlatiiitua
► ” ? f'af
*25.00 Saved!
*25.00 Saved!
PRICES AND TERMS OP
WILSON SHUTTLE
Sewing Machines.
NDERFEED NETT CABH. $10 PB MO. $5 P* Mt>
No. 5. Pliin T*ble $ 45 $ 55 $00.
*, h*lf-e**e, pin bx 60 60 66.
do (An’7 65 65 70.
WARRANTED FIVE YEARS BY
WILSON SEWING MACHINE CO.
We wi*h it distinctly understood that theHC a
in the world, and that it will do a
plegant work.
N, Gen. Ag<
32 Pcachti
Ch?lybeate SDrings,
MERIWETHER COUNTY, GEORGIA.
to the public that i'
J 'in jx-j-fect readinew
for the reception of gae*tfl. To the old patron* of
the Chalybeate it 1* needle** to apeak of its merit*.
beate spring In tho United State*—issuing from tlie
North Hide of Pine Mountain, and discharging 3,600
gallons per hour. It is remarkable for the wonderful
i* per hi
it ha* effected. We have three other *priugs-
Hulphur, magnesia and freestone—the wholo em
bracing a most valuable combination of mineral wa
ters. The place is handsomely lighted with ga*.
vided, embracings flue
SKATING RINK.
One of the greatest attractions, and one* that we
One of the greatest attractions, and one* that
think will give most pleasure is the large, new
LADIES’ SWIMMING BATH,
depth to be regulated by the bather*, well enclosed,
and provided with plenty dressing room*. A beau
tiful, level drive, constructed along the summit of
afford pleasure to those who like that exercise.
Livery Htable on the place will be prepared to fur
nish flue horses and carriages.
A FINE BAND OF MUSIC
Will be in constant attendance. The table will be
supplied with the best, and the praprietor will exert
himself to make bis guests comfortable and happy;
aud iu view of the stringency of the times, he h*M
determined to reduce the price of board to $35 per
mouth. Washing done at reasonable and uniform
While every amusement will be provided for
C. B. HOWARD
PROPRIETOR.
Jy6-lm
KTOTIO £2.
College Commencements
LEGES will be held at
COVINGTON, June 18th, 1871.
OXFORD, July 16th, 1871.
ATHENS, July 30th, 1871.
Persons ’csiring to attend any of said Comi
paid going, and the Agent selliug
the full fare ticket will give return tickets FREE.—
tickets good for flftecn days, from Thursday
B. Z. DUTTON,
PRACTICAL
STENCIL CUTTER, DESIGNER AND
ENGRAVER.!
MAKUTAOTUnrB OF
K RASS ALPHABETS, dry an
FLUID 8TENCIL INKS, Stencil Dies,
Stamping Dies, Railroad and Hotel Checks, Mi
lirands, Ac., No. 61 Whitehall St., a few doors
Uuuter street.
r N. B.—Particular attention paid to Brands and
Htonclla for Merchants, Millers, Tobacconists and
Distillers; also, to Name Piat*H, for marking clothes,
Loafs, Memphis, Nashville an
Chattanooona Great Central
Through Line.
Chattanooga train leaves.... 9:50 a.m. and 6:45 p.n
“ airives...2:06 p.ra. and 3:45 a.u
Memphis train leaves 4:00 a.tu. and 3;0<
4.-00 a
arrivss.. ....9:30a
St. Louis train leaves..
•• arrive..
Shelbyvilletrain leaves..
i. and 6:00 p.n
i. and 6:00 p.n
nation, excvpt, pcrhapH, the English aud
Prussians. How, then, could any sane
person believe in the capacity of the ne-
doning. The rights of the negro were
safer lit tlie hands of upright, intelligent
white juries than in those of negro juries,
in the present condition of that race.
There was, with some persons, a strong
prejudice, aud even hatred Egainit the
iren.’Vjpplied Jheiladm s*%re like
liuka^ a fstn&ii wfcnti it* dwn **
i the political
hut a large
substuu-
i-eye;
citoiis to find points of agreement j "hMhavo'Vujjdered *^1 g r'obtol“rti« j
than pointa of difference with this people.
Ths no vermin ni of Georgia-Gov. flat, gain political and representative strength
lock uiotig. it and the state Hoad, j j or the ttouth. The South generally ad-
Huliock has excelled in tliiR Hurt o!' nut the Fgal binding foree of tho recon-
•tioe. He never woa elected by a ma- j Rtructiun
LANDSBERG'S
LUMBER YARD,
OPPOSITE GEORGIA RAILROAD DEPOT.
ATLA NTA.GA.
■•wed 81ilu(lo« and
XjAtlXS, Wliito 1*1x10
■aalx, Windows <*)
*rai t’Mfjiw
Ml Hilda ot Ortaaed and
rrarninr Lumber,
r.blMr a. LANDSBIKO k OO., t-ioprlrtan.
pointa
able publicist, and, as we believe, sin
cere patriot. These admirable, ring
ing paragraphs hit the mark in the
bull’ll-e
prnet
i ^befo^e^he'peotae^o^tho UnF 1 treilury bad ^been^plmidereiU He* was j mately, if clmuged at .U, claiming 'the
i K inSeed, The eonrt.Vutional i m two Vean, and a half, and paid 836,-; right of appeal or a jnd.mal negative:
— B — ,, auem1 „„, not whether a State has a right OUO in lawyers’ fees, and a good part of — .
although lie does not sdem re nr ((btbriivt-bvthT rtf tfe' itallffV an' *St‘of Con- U to Democratic lawyer*, whom be had* Ihe Amcricus aqd V»abq|l*,IW ,lr »WV
tive as to whether IhW '<rthrtAl.' a has any right Ignat fancy for feeing, and aomeoj whom I project u considered detuncL (
One of the great li
Mr. Stephens classes slavery as well |
as secession among the dealt issues,; qaaKttoa, not whether a Htate tipi a right (SKI in lawyers’ fees, ami a good part ot
^ _ and thu new amendments to
Under'hilTrnie tile 1 the Coustituliou, until changed legiti-
Georgia— Fulton County.
Fri.TO. Srrmol Cocet—Apkil Teem, 1871.
Maetma V. Bias )
Bbovt stated cue, does not reside in said cuunty of
Fulton, and It also appearing that he does not reside
’in said State of Georgia. U ns tharvft t* ordered b\
the Court that service of *a'd libel be made on said
George A. Ryan,
public gaaette
, bj publics
In this 8tat
i ot thU order in auy
* month for four
Abytl
J. M. Calhoun k 8on.. Plaintiff s Attorney.
A true Extract from the minutes of said Urn rt
'Jana 1st,i»tl,i-> < in . a .... a
ittne& latuim , W. R. V^NABO:,*!
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