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A 8'Fit KIT CU.tlTltVCTIttX OF TltK OOXtTITVTIIIX-AI UO.VKIT A«ll HOOMOMIOAL. AOUI.’VIHTIIATIO.V OF TIIK OOVHHNME8T.
Wynne, Proprietors.
COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1871/
Voltune XLm.-No. 40.
Weekly Enquirer.
JOHN H. MA11TIN~
Mr. stt plipiifc !■ tk« Wag.
We copy from the Atlanta Sun of the
25th inst. Mr. Htcphens’ reply to our
i article charging him with “Uouble-Khuff-
OOLUMBU8: > ling.” He still insists that we “miarcpre-
TI1UHSDAT SEPTEMBER 28,1871. sented” him; ami the “misreprceeutc-
Editor.
—TrrtCit of Katwrrt|iUoa>-
Oae Vf«r in i.<lv«nc« ftgJOr
THE SOUTH (AUOLISA Kl 7 *KL?jTTU1AL.
This ease was decided on Thnraday last,
tion" couKiste in onr saying that in hia
comments on the 1th of September npon
the letter of his California correspondent,
he declared that he * regarded the three
several umundmunts to the Conntitntion,
by the conviction of eight of the prison- recently adopted, as a settlement in fact
ers and the ncq .ittal of three. Two oih- ; of h11 lhe i88UeH of the war, and that the
era hud plead guilty during the progress 8amu ure no longer issnea before tha
of the trial, and two or three others had i cou,llr y* We pnt the proposition in this
been discharged for lack of proof against 1 8 * m l ,e 80 88 *° thrust out of the way any j la*t, deponent was in the peaceable'und
tboin | briber discussion of the question } legally acquired possession of cortain
This conviction will be quit® A “feather whotlier, in .aying ,y % ^ %% —Mwhl£
in tho o»p" of Uon. Grant, and a mailer ! correspondence quoting from the plat- H aar,l Omumiwioners
of exultation for the Radical party gen- : * orm “expressed his sentiments exactly," ; for the auditing of claims of Western Ar
orally. They will boast that they have ! 110 uienut to suy that he fully concurred | Atlantic Railroad, proposing to perform
[From tin* Atlanta Constitution, iMth.]
Arrest uf L. Kcilwtnr. E. E. KswmoM, sw<l
('. ('. lUmniock.
C. P. M CALLS BUSS OUT A POSSESSORY
WARRANT FOlt THE POHSItSHiON OF
PRIVATE PAPJCSa.
Cam Set Down for Wednesday, 10 O'Clock.
Yesterday G. P. McCalla made the
following kftidavit before Justice W. M.
Butt:
State of Georoia—Fulton County.
In pemou appeared before mo the
uudersigued, au aoting Justice of the
Peace tu and for said county, Charles P.
McCalla, who being nworn says that in
said county, on the 24th day of August
proved the existence of Ku-Klux organi
zations in the South, and justified the En
forcement act. And yet the means used
to pr :cnre the conviction are sufficient to
make honest men everywhere doubt
whether the facts warranted it; and even
if they did sustain it, the crimes were no
grontor than offences that coaid more
easily be shown to have occurred in a
Bum'or of localities iu the Northern
States.
Tho wituesHes for tho prosecution wero
self-confessed Ku-Klux who turned
“State’s evidence". Who can divine tho
motives that inducod these men to swosr
as they did ? Who can implicitly trust
tho accusations of meu who by nocusiug
others shielded themselves from punish
ment, and perhaps obtained for thorn-
sol ves the common pay of the traitor and
the knave?
It was given iu evidence by these mon
that there was un urbanization in North
Carolina styled the “Invisible Empire",
w hoso objects and designs were revcnlcd
by tho following oath, which they said
was administered to all members when
initiated;
oath.
I, before tho great immaculate God of
llcavon and mutti, do tako and subscribe
to the following sacred and binding oath
and obligation : 1 promise and swear that
1 will uphold ami defend the Constitution
of tho Ouited States ns handed down by
our fathers iu its original purity. I prom
ise and swear thut I will reject and op
pose tho principles of the Radical party,
in ull its forms, and forever maintain and
contend that intelligent white men shall
goven this country. 1 promise and pledge
myself to assist, uccording to my pecu
niary circumstances, all brothers in dis
tress—females, widows und their house
holds shall be especially in my care and
protection. I promise and swear that 1
will obey nil instructions given me by tny
chief, and should I ever divulge or cause
to be divulged any secrets, signs or pasH-
woius of the Invisible Empire, 1 must
meet with tho fearful and the justful pen
alty of the trator, which is death, death,
death, at the hands of the brethren.
This oath, it was decided, established
tho fuct of an uulawful political coiu<]hra
cy, uud convicted the prisoners on the 3d
count of the indictinent. If it showed
any conspiracy ngainst the laws, it could
only be in the vow that “intelligent white
men shall govern this country.” This
Bounds very much like tho old Know-
Nothing oalh that “Americans ahull gov
ern Aiuorioa”; und yet nobody ever
claimed the right uf tho Federal Govern
ment to punish tho Know-Nothings for
swenriug iu their secret organizations
that this country should be governed ex
clusively by men whom tho constitution
did uot recognize as eutitled to uuch au
exclusive right. And many of the Radi
cal loaders of to-day—the men
passed and who onforce tho Ku-Klux act
—wero Know-Nothings of old. They
swore in their secret mootings that a class
of meu recognized by tho oom.tUution as
having equal politjpal rights with native-
born citizeus should not enjoy those
rights ; ami now they denounce as a crim
inal political conspiracy au organization
which declares that “intelligent white
men shall govern this country," and they
punish by line and imprisonment men
guilty of sudli a “conspiracy.” A won
derful ndvunco of the principles of indi
vidual freedom and popular liberty 1
We publish a brief telegraphic report
of tho lino of Argnment of tho prosecu
tion ami the defence, which will serve to
eaow the principal points raised and deci
ded :
The prosoention contended the act of
1871, so far as this case required, was
plainly constitutional ; that the power of
Congress to enact such a law was not de-
rivfu from recent amendments to the
. Constitution, but existed under the Con
stitution since tho foundation of the Gov
ernment ; that the iaiv was fully complied
with in the manner in which the charges
against the defendants were set forth in
tue several counts <»f the bill of indict
ment ; that the Invisible Empire, the
highest degree of the Ku-Klux organiza
tion, was an illegal association ; that their
oaths, orders and acts constituted it a
body of conspirators, and the acts of each
became tho acts of the whole.
The dofeuce contended that the prison
ers could not be convicted under the first
count of tho bill ofyudictmont, because,
from the evidence, it was cler*- that the
iuteut of those who committed the out
rage upon Mr. Justice was to punish him
for having said that their leaders should
bo hanged, and for the aotive part he had
taken before U. 8. Commissioner Wilson,
and not to interfere with hia right of vot»
ing; that, as to the intent of the offence, it
must be proved as charged; that before a
convictiou under the second conut the
jury must be satisfied that the intent was
to whip or kill Mr. Justice for having ten
months l>efore voted for A. H. Jones as a
candidate for Cougress, although he had
been beaten 4,000 votes; and, under the
third count, that tho oath of the Order
was not sufficient evidence in its terms of
a conspiracy ngainst the right of colored
men to vote, nor was it such as practical-
ly interpreted by its members, it being
abundantly shown that it waa established
for lawful purposes, there being no evi
dence of a single raid on a colored man
because of his Republican principles; and
farther that the evidence was not auffi-
cient to connect auv of tho defendants
with the Order or with the attack on Mr.
Justice, such evidence being that of men
unworthy of belief through their own in
famy, aud by their conduct on the witness
stand; the defendants therefore claimed
the benefit of the presumption of inno
cence which the law raised in their be
half, and of any reasonable doubt npon
any point of the defenoe.
Baldwin county has, for the first time
since “reconstruction” commenced, been
carried by the Democrats, who last week
elected their candidate for Tax Collector,
L. N. Callaway. He received 817 votea,
and John T. Arnold, tha Radical candi
date, received 480. Thus “one by one
Jfcc roses ML" i
in the quotation from the platform, or
only iu the correspondent's explanation
of its meaning. (It seems to us to bo so
plain and emphatic as uot to require any
explanation or lie capable of any uiodifi-
atiou by tho correspondent; but to Mr.
Htephetis’ eminent “seUBO und honesty”
it has a different appearance, and we ac
cept his disclaimer with some surprise
mind os astute as his failed to see
that the material matter under his reviow
was tho distinct decimation of the plal-
ioriu, uot a rather forced i lift retire from
tho aecoiupauying remarks of his corres
pondent.) „
And now, to wlmt extent does onr stute-
meut “misrepresent" Mr. Htephcns?
1>ops he deny that these amendments are
“a settlement in fact of ull the issues of
the war?" On Saturday, the Kith iust.,
ho declared in his paper, “we lmil as
friends nil those who acquiesce iu them
unde facto, but uot dt Jure purls of the
organic law. " Then they are now parts
of the Constitution in fact, by force of
circumstances which we cannot control.
Wo may deny that they are dc jure parts
of that instrument, but, as wo oauuot
uow obtain a bearing nu that point beforo
any department of the Government, no
thing is left us but present acquiescence
in them us such. Again, in the same par
agraph, lie virtually ndmits the only re
maining declaration of the quoted part of
the California platform—that “tho same
are no longer isHUcs before tho country.”
Ho says : “We have no objection to those 1 by 1 *Mr^C
certain things therein mentioned for
moderation, and which was not accepted
only on conditions by the said Board. He
was also iu the possession of a certain
other paper, being iu the form of an
agreement between himself end Muj. Z.
li. Hargrove, and w hich was dated ou the
2d day of June, 1871, nml which has not
yet boon executed, or sigued l»y deponent,
suid ps|»ers being of the value of $1,01)0.
And deponent further swears tnat on tho
said 21th day of August, G. L. Redwino,
G. G. llauituock, and E. E. Rawson, of
said county, cniuo demanding said papers
from the possession of the deponent,
under some pretended claim, and without
lawful warrant or authority. And depo-
liout further swears, G. L. Redwino, G. G.
Hammock, and E. E. Ruwsou, have said
papers now iu their possession. And de
ponent further swears that ho bona lido
claims the right to tho possession of the
said papers. Whereupon de|>oneut prays
the issuing of a warrant for tho arrest of
G. L. Redwino, G. G. Hammock, aud E.
E. Rawson, as well as the custody of the
suid papers.
Chari.kh 1». McCalla.
8worn to and subscribed bolero me,
this September 23d, 1871.
w. M. Butt, J. P,
Justice Butt issued a warrant for tho
arrest of C. L. ltcdwine, E. E. Rawson,
and G. G. Hammock, and they were ar
rested and brought beforo him. Tho case
was set down for Wednesday moruiug, 10
Nli'UEJIE COntT 0E GEORGIA.
Hcpfeme Court <*•■» (1 eoruik. —Septem
ber'2i\, 1871.—Argument of No. 32, At
lanta Circuit, was concluded.
No. 31 was argued. It is Samuel A.
Duran vs. G. W. Gray. Ejectment, from
DeKalb.
L. J. Winn, for plaintiff iu error.
Hill A* Candler, contra.
The Court adjourned till 10 o'clock a.
m. Tuesday next.
Monday is consultation day, on usual.
Six more cases remain on the docket of
the Atlanta Circuit.—Constitution.
State Road Investioation.—We have
boon informed that the following couusel
have been retained and have volunteered
iu tho State Road investigation. Re
tained by the Governor: Henry P. Far
row, Attorney General; B. H. Hill nml J.
W. 11. Underwood. Retained by Gol.
Furrow, Attorney General: Gartrell A , - .
Stephens. Lester A Thompson, Wofford I lr6ftsuror ’ wl 1 lhowt ft mirfwi/ Oovoruor
A Wofford, Col. W. Dabney, Gol. Wash 1approvn tbom, except thoso on tho
i Milled*'*'. Jr. Civil Establishment and Special Appro
priations—tho law iu these eases specify
ing the umount.
N. L. Anoiru,
Attorney General Farrow was stopped
inn taking a copy uf the papers in the
who accept tho ‘fraudulent amendments’
as txistii.g facts while the administration
uf tho Government is in the hands of
those who are clothed with the power to
enforce them." Thou, if they are in fact
now parts of the organic law, and must he
regarded us such while tho party now hav
ing possession of tho Presidency, the
Congress, and the Federal Judiciary re
tail* control of those departments, how
cun they mar he “Ihsiich before the coun
try" ? Is not the uttempt to force, such
note impracticable issues upon the country
a disturbing aud mischievous agitation—
a premature fire-brand thrown into the
camp of a great party gathering with cou-
fidouco in its ubility to overthrow the (X-
clflsiu authors of the outrages upon the
Constitution and the rights of tho 8tateH,
of which wo complain? If no Democrat
iu any part of the country voted for or
supported these outrages, why should wo
he so distrustful of their opposition to
them as to require them to pledge them-
rclves by “platform" declarations to the
accomplishment of a task at present im
practicable?
As to Mr. Stephens’ claim thnt he indi
cated opposition to tho quoted part of the
California platform by suggesting that it
did not give “full utterance” to the senti
ments of the people, aud might therefore
prove a dead w eight to carry in the elec
tion, the careful reader will probably re
gard it as rather a venture ae to the result
than a condemnation of what was ex
pressed. It is quite likely that the Demo
crats of California, in convention assem
bled, knew what kind of a platform was
Vheir “host card” for tho election as well
as Mr. Stephens did at a distance of three
d miles.
ephens classes onrs os among
ng New Departure papers.”
expressed onr dissent from
ttlH TWSP%ut 1<m the Pennsylvania
ho soys is the particular
“<lepaist which he “wars to
the knife^QmjndHiatituilly us Mr. Steph
ens did, cHwdpcvc earlier. But it is
evident tbutVjr%fib^pcratic party of the
North have d that far, for
their other Stati^^M&lions have uot re:
pented Uie uer)XkcM*| ia t 8th rfaola-
tion, nml wo sec n^AM^Mon to appre
hend thut tin y will c^^Kj^far in their
National Convention.TflbfBke we do
not join Mr. Stephens ii
hall, hut on tho eontrai
sistent agitation as hurtfi
erotic party, comforting to
and jeoparding to the sneeese 1
party at whose hands we ean b<
maintenance or vindication of tin
tutiou.
Judge Bond, of the U. 8. Circuit
of North Carolina, sentenced the Ku-KI
convicted, as hofore stated, on Fi
last. He sentenced two of them to aix
years’ imprisonment with hard labor end
$5,000 lino ; six to terms of imprisonment
aud hard labor ranging from two to four
years and to $r»no fine eaoh ; and two to
six mouths’ imprisonment!
Mnj. /.. H. II ngrovo nppenrs for tho
tJ'iinnff; and Attorney General II. 1*.
l’urrow lor the CotnniihsionuiH.
We ure indebted lo Maj. Z. B. Har
grove, attorney of Mr. C. 1\ Mel’alia, for
permission to copy the documents cluiiued
McCalla uh his privuto
The re-shipment from Liverpool to New
York, about two months since, of one
hundred bales of American cotton, will be
remembered. We learn from the New
York Journal of Commerce that this seine
lot of cotton has agaiu been shipped to
Liverpool, whence it will only be taken,
probably, by the English manufacturers,
for their supply of Amerieau oottou is
uow gelliug too low to allow the repeti
tion of sunh u speculative freak. It is
probable, however, that money has been
made bv holding this cotton fr
September.
That alarming and exoiting story of the
sinking of u portion of Florida is on good
and auffieiont. authority pronounced a
hoax. It had no other foundation than
the partial inundation of the low regions
by heavy rains.
Angler's llomlMtiell.
The following is tho full text of Treas
urer Angier's lost, manifesto, mention of
which was made iu our telegraphic col
umn of Sunday:
State Treasurers Omcfe, >
Atlanta, Ga., September 28. 1871. \
Whereas, Paragraph 7of the Codo of
Georgia, provides, “The Governor shall
reside at the scat of novern meat during
his term of office,” and
Whereas, Rufus B. Bullock, the Gover
nor of Georgia, has been remote from
the “seat of government,” even from the
State of Georgia,for nearly three mouths,
and no ono in tho State Department, not
even bis private secretaries, know where
he ia, or tho time of his return, and the
law requiring tho approval mid signature
of the Governor to all Executive warrants
on tho State Treasury :
The Arctic Expedition—A Leaf from the Log
of the t onjtrfff-.
[ Correspondence of the New York Ilf rah!.]
St. Johns, N. F., Sept. 10, 1871.
I have prooured the report made by tbo
United Status ship Congress on ariving at
Disco on the 10th of August, where she
met with Captain Hull’s exploring expedi
tion. Tho following is a eorreet copy :
“We passed
HUNDREDS OF ICEBEBOH,
but encountered uo pack ice. Ah wo ad
vanced ‘day becamo perpetual. Tbo sun
sank behind the horizon but a short time,
and the twilight was sufficient to read by
all night. The displays of the Aurora
Borealis were extremely grand; meteoric
lights, assuming magnificent arches, col
umns, scrolls and spiral stiiirwnys. We
found the PoUris at Disco hut six days iu
udvsuce. Captain Hall with eighty Es-
rants on tho Treasury will he paid by tho
papers.
Atlanta, July 12, 1871.
Commissioners of Claims Aycnts IF. <(•
A. Ji. Jt.: Gents: Believing that boiuo
error exists in certain accounts of tho
Western A Atlantic Railroad that are lying
dormant or entirely unknown, 1 propose
to examine such matters in my leisure
hours, and if possible establish such errors
aud claims for a liberal compensation, if
successful. Respectfully,
Cham. P. McCalla.
Should Mr. McCullu render any servico
outside of the current service due the
Western A Atlantic Railroad, tho Roard
would recommend u liboral compensation
for said service, if successful iu souuring
amounts which would iu all probability
be lost to the road. Ben.i. Conley,
Commissioner.
Atlanta, July 12, 1871.
To the Commissioners on Claims IF. <(:
A. Ji. Ji.: Gents* 1 hereby propose to
examine into ami discover auy errors or
omissions that muy bo foiiud to exist in
the settlements or disbursements of the
Western A Atlantic Railroad, old admin
istration, including claims lying dormant
or supposed to be uucollectablc, for a
commission of tweuty per ouut. on all
sums collected or adjusted.
Tho above proposition is uiado for
services entirely outside of auy duty I
may owe to said Western A Atlantic Rail-
roud as its general book-keeper.
Respectfully, Chah. P. McCalla.
We strongly recommend the acceptance
of within proposition, aud do hereby
accept it so far as we can legally do ho.
Western A Atlantic Railroad, )
Office General Hook-Keeper,
Atlanta, June 2, 1871. )
To 7.. JI. llanjrorc, lCsq.: You will
consider yourself retained as counsel for
Western A Atlantic ltailroud in the prose
cution and settlement of certain claims
against various parties, whose accounts
with said road are yet unsettled. There
beiu^ considerable attention nml labor
required in tho proper investigation of
said claims, by reason of tbe peculiar
circumstances hv which they are sur
rounded, yon will be entitled to oue-lialf
of whatever unionnt may bo scoured to
the State in tho adjustment of said claims
aforesaid. ,
General Book-Kooper W. A A. It. II.
Tbo facts in the ubovo case, as we uu-
staud them, are theso. Under the corres
pondence turning the papers and books
over to tho committoo, Major McCalla
consented upon condition that ho should
rstain his privuto pupors.
The committee in looking over the pa
pers decided that tho ubovo pertained to
tho Luhinu.su of tho road ; consequently
they were retained by them. Yesterday
Golonel Farrow asked for a copy of the pu
pors ; the committee decided that he was
eutitled to u copy, and upon thut de
cision the above action was tukeu by Mr.
McCalla. _
A fible Over One of tin* “.Narrow Gaapc*.”
Urn** Orw uwood'M !>U«r to tin* N. Y. Tiuioa.J
Denver, 8ept. 4, 1871.
I should have chronicled some time ugo
\ excursion ou the Denver and Rio
:rand Narrow Gauge Railway. We went
about fifteen miles—as far as the
were then laid. It was a charming
We bad a pleasant company of citi-
id tourists, and ull went “merry as
ige bell,” in the old days when
were of some account. On
yon arc struck at once with
tb'^BMAjiroportions of everything—
froi^HCMMmjtive, which seems like a
tbo “iron horse”—a fiery
|o the windowa and lamps
ia ears themselves are
utive affairs, cosy and
[onu like playing at
there is marvel-
The New York Sum neye theft it |Mh
authorized to state that the Hon. John T.
Hoffman is no longer a candidate for the
Froaideney.
There m no Med whaterer for eneh
flu
little
in the
bright, pi
oomfortabl
railroading,'
ously little tt^HKAUon. Never have
I known a traijHfejlbng so smoothly
and quietly. aHnajangine “buckled
right down to bAWM(*>jike Cbiquita,
and made uo riaRnd It. for several
miles, when, I grief^Mdhtf|be suddenly
balked, and had to IBKiftHhed." We
took another horse, ai
to the end of tbe roi
alighted, and watched
rails and driving spikes,
loss officers of 4bc road iui
July to ! correspondent paying b«r wi w .
a spike. It was a cruel tax ou
onlar Christianity.” The newi
port saM that I “drove the spj
triumphantly.” Bat I really t
wouldn’t go home till morning.”
This narrow gauge road, when fini
to 19 Paso, willbea wonderful route
pleasure, as well as ootumeroe, as it
be almost unrivaled for variety and grand
eur of scenery. The mountaiu views, the
Relaiind by the citizens: Gaudier A
Hill. Collier A Hoyt, Myirntt A Dell, uud
Gol. L. E. Bleckley.
Volunteer counsel: Robert Toombs.
R. J. Cowart, Z. 15. Hargrove/ Solicitor
General E. J*. Howell and G. Peeples.—
Atlanta (’onstitution.
The State Road Developments.—
Among the “rich, rare aud racy" items to
he uiudo public in this investigations, we
leuut, (hero will be the following:
There appeals us having been paid out
by the authorities $1,500 to James K.
Sprouls, formerly one of the host citizens
of Ihirtow county.
Now, as Mr. Sprouls died some fivo
yours previous to the time w hen he is rep-
resented to have signed the receipt for
the money, we presume that apiritiiiilistu
must have been extensively practiced on
the road, and the Witch of Eudor must
look out for her laurelH. Wo expect to
get into the whole secret, and when wo
do tho public shall know.—All. Constitu
tion.
Atlanta, Sept. 23.—Ou account, of tho
prolonged absence of the Governor of
Goorgia, (for nearly three months,) the
Htuto Treasurer gives liolice that he will
pay no warrants on tbe Treasury without
a lesideut Governor to approve them,
except on tho civil establishment aud
special appropriations, where tho low
specifies the umount.
A letter from Hou. R. B. Hinton, pub
lished iu the Americas Republican, says
tbe colored people of Kuoim Vista have
held it mooliug in the mtomstof the Ncw-
iiau und Aiuuid-uh Railrond, and subscri
bed 3,000. They propose to work out
the number of shares subscribed, demand
ing ono-liulf of their daily wages in cash,
the remaining half to be as a payment of
their stock ; and in this wuy they propose
to contiuuo to work uutil the number of
HburcH subscribed be fully paid into the
company.
The Alaiiama and Chattanoooa Rail
road—Trains to re Run Immediately.
We undeistaud that everything was aatis-
faetorily arranged at Gurtersville yester
day between the Receiver appointed by
Judge l'arrott and Geu. Giudrat. Judge
Parrott granted a perpetual injunction
restraining the attaching creditors from
selling or interfering with tho property
of the Alabama and Ghattaiiooga Rail
road attached, aud granted an order in
structing Gen. Wofurd, the Georgia Re
ceiver, to make arrangements for running
tho road. Both Receivers will be here
this morning, and it is probable that two
or throe trains will go out ou tho road
this week, and t ruins will run regulurly
after next. Monday.
Judge Parrott, only appointed one Re
ceiver for Georgia, Gen. Woford, instead
of two us reported yesterday.
We regard the whole nmttor as now
settled iu tho most advantageous manner
for all parties, and congratulate tho peo
ple upon tliu prospect of hiring the road
opened so soon.—Chattanooga Times.
Miss Thurston, who has made quite a
number of balloon uscensious this season,
had a disagreeable adventure last week.
8ho uiado a trip from Watertown on
Thursduy afternoon, aud came down in a
forest fifty miles from her starting point
about 7 o'clock tho same ovouiug. Tbo
balloon cuught iu a tree, and the young
lady was obliged to spend tho night ut un
elevation of ubout fifty feet from the
ground, with no human being within
sight or lieariug. In the morning she
threw out a rope, which sha thought
nearly reached tho ground, aud slid dowu
by it, but wheu she came to tho end she
discovered she was still twenty feet from
the eurth. As she could not climb back,
she was obliged to drop, after which she
m&do her wuy three miles through the
woods to a cleariug, where she procured
assistance.
Albert II. Birdsong, a son of Hou. Itobt.
Birdsong, the first Mayor of Macon, Ga.,
diod iu that city on Huturday last. lie
was a young man much cstcemod for his
geucrous qualities, and waH the book
keeper of the Gity Bank at tho time of his
death.
[PjM'Hnl t<» tin* guviimmli Dally Advertiser.]
Vakihnoton, September 2.7.—Tbo sub
Ku Kltu Committee lor investigating
Houtheru affairs, consisting of Beck, Poole
and Buckley, ono Democrat and two Rad
icals, agreed upon a report showing au
increase iu Ktato debts by carpetbaggers
and the character of the election laws,
but tbe fuels were so damaging that tho
fall committee, headed by Scott, refused
to allow it to be printed.
Gray of Boston, Freeman of Griffin,
Webster of Columbus, Bull of Americas,
and Grove, ex-Congrcssman,are applicants
far the Coliectorship of the Second Dis
trict.
A complete report of the indebtedness
of the Central Railroad and Bauking Com
pany to tho Government in the mutter of
tax on net earnings from 18GG to 1870 in
clusive, will be laid beforo tbo Gommis-
aioner of Internal Rovonue to-morrow.—
Tbe clsim foots up ono hundred uud fifty-
two tbonsaud dollurs, exclusive of penal
ties. As soon as these papers are filled
and examined, instraotions will bo issued
to tho District Attorney to proceed against
the road.
One of those prominent “Skowhogan-
ite” carpet baggers who lufest tbe third
Georgia District, to prove bis groat love
for the negro, lias boon trying to have
Belcher oustod and himself appointed col
lector.
Alberger, of Florida, in boro, making
war on Krzyzanowiski, with a view to
securing his place, with -donbtfull suc-
The cable brings intelligence of tbe
death of tbe Chief Justice oif India, from
the effocts of the wounds inflicted upon
btm by a native. His assassin, who is
said to feigu insanity, is in custody, but
the telegram gives no clue to the motive
which ptouipied him to tha foul act, nor
does it so much as giva the name of tbe
1 judge. There are three “Chief”
in India—the Hon. 8ir Kichard
K. B., of the Bengal Presidency $
i. Mir G. H. flenjlanri. K. B-, of tha
Presidency; and tha Uon. Sir M
>pp, Knt., of the Bombay Presi-
Slate Treasurer.
n, All h.
n«l Its Mlsri'j»ri'sni.
pietwre of river, and park and plain, be
tween Denver and Colorado Gity, are es
pecially magnificent.
New Yen, Hapt. 27.—Cotton firm.
Matoa mi balfi-Upla&ds 18}, Orleans
umably Mir B. Coo oh is the
referred to, as he was chisf
kdepartment of the principal
k India.—JY. Y. World.
er baa been tarred and
I croquet to while
— 1 between Me
The J reasurer dooms it hia duty to ; quimniix boarded hr a mile from tbe liar-
give notice that from this time no war- |, or . Captain Hull and bis meu are in
good spirits and sure of succour. Home
trouble had arisen between Captain Hall
and his scientific associates as to the spe
cial object of the expedition which threat
ened to be serious, but by tbe judicious
aud firm interposition of Cuptuiu Daven
port, who laid dowu the naval law and
stated that the paramount object was get
ting to tbe North Polo, harmony whs re
stored. The Polar ia sailed August 17, iu
the afternoon, amid choers from tbe Cou
gress. Captain Hall instead of going via
Jones’ 8ound will keep to the west side of
Smith's Hound, as there are ice drifts
southwesterly, which delayed Kane’s ad-
vanco aud, as the senson is open, he hopes
to get through this year. The Cougress
remained eight days at Disco uiul found
the regular summer iu Greenland. Disco
is the official residence of Inspector Gen
eral Smith, of North Greenland, and who
received the Congress with a salute of fif
teen guns. NY lion wo presented Secretary
Robeson’s letter, stating tbo object of our
visit and soliciting the co-opurutiou of the
Danish authorities, it was cheerfully ac
corded. The stores which the Polaris
could not take wero left iu Inspector
Smith's care nt Diaco. The Esquimaux at
Disco live comfortably. The
WOMEN WEAR 1111KKCUKH
and the high top hoots, the men arc in
dustrious, the childreu attend school, and
Lulhans. On Sunday tho luspec-
t at Ion iif Mr. Kt(*|»)ii>
Wo prosent to onr readers to day nu ar-
ticlo in full from the Columbus Km/uirer
of tho 2*lst instant, iu which the editor
. of that journal lias been pleased to iu-
I dulgo in some remarks about “double
shiiflling,” on onr part, Ac. In reply to
this, aud everything else suid by the /v'n-
tjHirer, ou the sumo subject,wo reproduce
tho entiro editorial ot tho San of the
Ith instant, to which reference has been
so frequently made of late by the /'inqui
rer nml some other carping “New Do-
pnituro" papers. Hero is our article iu
full:
“THE CALIFORNIA DEMOCRACY.
“Wo very cheerfully give place to-day
to a letter from the ‘Young Giant.' of tho
West. Tho tone and spirit of the lottor
are patriotic, i.ud true to the Constitution
throughout. With nil such Democrats
we can oo-operato most, heartily. Wo
have no objection to thoso who accept.
the ‘fraudulent, amendments' as existing ] * or u, t u ^ ">fe, Captain Hall uud
facts, while tho administration of tho
Govornmout is in the hands of thoso who
arc clothed with power to enforce them ;
hut. who do not endorse t hem as finalities.
Wo hail ns friends all those who'acquiesce
in them as dc facto, but not dc. jure
parts of tho organic law. Wo have not
soon tho Democratic Platform of Califor
nia, upon which tho presout. canvass in
that Stnto is conducted; hut. have no
doubt, from tho tone uud spirit of the
lottor of our correspondent, that tho dif
ference between him nml us (had wo
been in tho Convention with him) would
have boon a difference only ns to form,
and uot ono of substance, as tho proper
language in which tho true jxmtion
should have beou sot. forth.
“We have all along said but little about
the Ohio Democratic Platform. It is the
Wth Jtesolution of the J’cnnsglrania JJar-
risbury Contention against which wo war,
aud war lo tho knife!
“This is tho embodiment of tho ‘New
Departure' doctrine, against which wo so
earnestly protest. This contains tho
essence of what tho New York World and
all its coadjutors are striving to got. the
Democracy of the Union to adopt; and
this is just what onr correspondent shows
that he is quite us little disposed to do as
we are; for according to tho plain letter
und cleur intent of that Resolution, the
object is to get tho Democracy every
where, lo dodaro thnt thero was no fraud,
perjidy or usurpation attending the pro
posal or adoption of these amendments nt
all—that they have been incorporated iu
the organic law, Hn the manner and hy
the authority Constitutionally appidnUd;'
in other words, that they aro not only de
facto, but de jure purls of tho Constitu
tion; and that all discussion of tho gross
usurpations touching their projwsal und
adoption is not only to bo discounto-
nauced, hut 'deprecated.' It is against
this position, and this most shameful
abandonment of all Right, Justice and
Truth, that wo war.
“ Our corrospoudout nays that tho Cali
fornia Democrats, iu their Stato platform,
intended ouly to dooluro tbe threo amend
ments are 'a settlement iu fact of ull tbe
issues of the war, etc,’ aud not to aver
that they hnd been adopted according to
law, or that thov wero iu tbomselvos
eitheror right. On tho contrary, ho
nays that they have ‘an abiding faith in
the intelligence of the people, to pronounce
them null and void at some future day.'
“This is onr position exactly. This wo
believe to he tho position of uinoty-nino
out of every huudred of the honest masses
of the Democracy in every State of tho
Union. All thnt is wauted for a brilliant
victory in 1872, on these principles aud
with this view, is for thorn to got together
iu common council and set forth their
purposes and principles iu lauguago which
will clearly express their common ideas,
and about which thorc can be no mistake
or misunderstanding.
“Wo eay, in conclusion, to our corres
pondent, that while wo shall look with
interest and hopo to tbo success of bis
State ticket in tho election so near at
hand ; yet, wo greatly apprehend that ho
will fiud, w’hou the result of tho polls is
known, thnt tha party has been consider
ably ‘handicapped’ by a Platform which
did not give full utterance to the true
sentiments of the people.”
Now, will any sensible man, whether ho
be a “lawyer" or uot, liavo the fuce, with
out a blush of shame tinging his cheeks,
to say, that in this artiolo wo Raid our
jHMtitiou was exactly thnt of the words of
the California Democratic Platform ?
What we said was "our position exactly"
(aa any man of eonse and honesty will soo
upon reading; wus whut onr correspond
ent suid was his understanding of the real
sentiments aud views ot tho California
Democracy upon tho subject of the
“fraudulent amendments.”
Wo very clearly and distinctly expressed
our disapproval of tho words of the Plat
form, from his account of them in tho
concluding sentence, and ventured to ex
press to him, in advance of the election,
onr apprehension that he would fiud, when
the resnlt of the polls was known, that
tbe Party had been considerably “handi
cappedP* by “« Platform which did not
give full utterance to the sentiment* of the
The sequel has shown that onr appre
hension, thus expressed, was not iiuduly
entertained. A. H. 8.
IIall County Silver Mine.—Wo have
in onr office a specimen of silver from
the Hall county silver mine. The vein is
aix milos northeast of Gainesville, teu feet
thick, and has only been opeuud twenty
feet. Tbe assays in the United States
Mint, and by Professors Shepherd end
Hayes, aud Drs. Babcock ana Jackson,
show it to be worth from $20 to $<>0 per
ton for silver, end from $5 to $40 for
gold. The highest essay was 2,170 per
ton, uud the geuoral average $2 per ton
greater thau the Comstock lode in Neva
da, which lust year yielded twelve million
dollars. The mine belongs to Mr. A. M.
Oochran.—Atl. Const.
Chutese Relations.—York, >
Und.—The fimt Minister the
«eeeto have departed for home yfterdqr,
bet were notified by the French Govern
ment that they wod4 be facetted if they
’ to Fraa*e. Therefore they
_ their intentiona. The objeot of
mi—ten, aa Mated heretofore, ie to
reparation for the ma—aero of
\ fttiiafl# a| Xtoft-XaiBt
w, und
100 F.t<qmiimux, iii holdiduy attire, attend
ed divine service ou board tho Congress.
Dr. Newman preached."
The cheerful spirits of the Newfound
landers this fall evince the return of the
“good old times,” wheu their islaud was
Uolcoudn of the North Atlantic. Muny
years had elapsed before we ugaiti enjoyed
the utmost legendary uiiiiu.il reguttu upon
the beaut if ui lake, Luidi Vidi. This your
the old custom was resumed, and the
grueeful slopes that surround the lake and
tho familiar pond itself wero full of the
festivity amt uproar of the luces,
nouo but local crews engaged in tbe
aquutic contest' its details are not suffi
ciently important to ooiuiuuuicuto.
NEWS FROM LAHRADOR.
The stoumship Osprey, which returned
to St. Johns from her trip to Labrador,
briugs news from thut region to August
14. Tho catch of fish hud been uusually
abundant and the weuthor continued un
usually fuvorultle. In some settlements
tho fishermen averuged from sixty to sev
enty quintals a man, iu others from tweu-
fivo to thirty quintals. As a quintal of
codfish iH generally worth h pound
sterliug or $(i currency, tho fishermen
were, even at that date, amply remuner
ated for their toil; but the “voyage” will
uot closo until the end of October,
when the crafts engaged along the coast
of Labrador will bear up for their respec
tive destinations. Those fortunate enough
to posaess cod seines—huge nets employed
to draw shoals of cod—have taken from
five hundred to six huudred quiutals each,
Shortly before the departure of the Ospray
from Labrador herring iu large quantities
and of a valuable quality struck iu on all
sides. For the first time in very many
years mackerel, which had dosorted our
waters and migrated to Nova Hcotie, re-
nppeured this seuson ; and iu Little Har
bor, ou Labrador, one man took two
huudred barrels of that marketable fish.
The following letter, addressed by Gen.
Wado Hampton to the editor of The
Southern Home, is published iu that paper
of tho 18th inst. :
Columbia, 8. C., Sept. 3, 1871.
My Dear Sir: Tho Southern Home, of
the 5th inst., containing your editorial ou
the policy to be pursued by tho Southern
States in reference to the uext National
Democratic Convention, reached me a day
or two ago, und along with it the letter iu
which you were kind enough to ask my
opiuion ou this question.
Though I cauuot Hatter myself that any
opinions I may entertain, can have the
weight your partiality would induce yon
to attach to them, 1 most cheerfully com
ply with tho request contained in your
letter, because it is ouly by consultation
and discussion among ourselves that we
can hope to act judiciously and harmo
niously.
It would, perhaps, be sufficient to say
that I concur fully iu the views you have
expressed, aa to the impropriety of the
South tukiug any part iu the approaching
Convention; but, iu deference to your
wishes, I give briefly the reasons which
have induced this conviction in my mind.
1st. The Southern delegates in a Na
tional Convention oould exercise no influ
ence iu shaping tbe policy, making up the
issues, or selecting candidates for the next
contest, without seriously injuring the
prospect of a Democratic triumph. That
this would iuevitably be the case, is pro
ven by the result of the lust Democratic
Con von tion, where the very presence of
Southerners was used to prejudice tbe
action aud defeat tho candidate of our
party.
2d. If tho Southern delegates oonld not
with propriety exert auy influence in the
Convention, while their mere attendance
in it might result iu inAnite mischief to
the Democratic party, it iu sorely the part
of wisdom to refraiu from participating
in tbe deliberations of the Convention.
3d. The Northern Democracy will have
to boar tbe burthen of the tight in the
uext Presidential couteut, and it ia only
right that they should choose the field
and 6oIoct tho standard-bearer*.
These, in brief, ere the reasons, in oon-
jnne^on with those yon have already so
ably advanced, that have convinced me
that our true policy ie to abstain altogether
from ell participation in the next National
Democratic Convention. Of oourme, in
pursuing this policy, we should take care
to have our conduct and motives folly
understood by our Northern friends. We
should say to them, that we are eotoeted
solely by the desire (o promote the success
of Democratic principles end Democratic
candidates ; that we wish to leave them
free to act, ns the best interests of our
party demand ; and that wo pledge them
in the contest all the aid we can give, only
asking them to give ns a good platform,
and as acceptable candidates aa they can.
When tbe platform is announoed, end tbo
candidates selected, the Douiocracv of the
South cuu ratify the action of the National
Convention, und thoy can use every effort
to secure the success of the party; for on
ite suocoas depends the exuteuoe of the
Southern States.
If onr people eononr in this policy,
arrangements should be made in each
State to carry it ont folly end effeotnelly.
Should they not concur, we must, in any
Stent, sot in perfect aooard, and with
—tire harmony.
Too muoh ie at stake for ua to differ
egiong ourselves, end I for one am willing
lo yisid mg own opinions for the —eoe—
of any plan which will tend to —re the
Sooth fro— ruin.
I am, very respeotf ally end truly, yoors,
Wam Hamitoii.
/.XoQW'P.B'ttU*
4
A mo nu tli«> OloutUU,
A Miss Subuu A. King, e lady who has
accumulated quite a fortune by specula
ting iu real esiato in Now York oily, hut*
maue quite a tour through China, princi
pally in the lea growiug diHtriuls. A re-
t iurter of the New York World interviewed
icr the other day, and from that source
xve learn Nome interest ing facte about tho
social life of the Celestials.
She says tho condition of women in
Chius is about the same ae in this coun
try; that the higher classes of Chinese
ladies are taught, like ours, to control
their voices; that it ie not polite to speak
above a cortain tone. They also study
attitudes aud effects beforo their mirrora
for hours at a time, just like our* do, end
they bandage their feet for the very seme
resHou that our girls cramp theirs. In
fact, small feet are the “style,” and what
American girl wouldn’t walk on her head
to bo evon with “style" ? The ladies of
the higher classes are extremely agrooahlo
in manners. They are much more polite
thuu our ladies in some respects. They
always offer you a cup of tea and some
thing to ent. But, just as with us, busi
ness topics are tubooedand only “society"
talk alluwod iu the parlor, the difference
being thnt it is Mr. Chefoo instead of Mr.
Fitznoodle, aud the size of a lady’s foot
iust uud of her panier, winding up iu both
hemispheres with the length of Homo-
body’s purso. Education of a certain kind
is encouraged—uuything that is pretty and
useless is encouraged for womeu, just os
it is with us, and precisely for the same
reason—bocuuso men, wealthy men, will
not marry them if they have largo feet
and hands, coarse complexions, aud look
us if they were accustomed to labor. It
is all alike.
I oould not see any difference in reality
between the “civilization” of the West
und tho “barbarism" of the East. Iu
both casus the high class lady pridoa her
self upon her helplessness, upon how
little she knows, and how little she can
do—and the more helpleBs they ore, the
hotter tho meu like them, in Ne*. York as
well us in China. There are some of tho
smartest women in tbe world to bo found
utuoug tho middle class womeu in China.
They have natural feet, which would pre
vent them ever being tirst wives to men
of any social position or consideration ;
but thoy do business, can go anywhere
they please, aud are neurly always intelli-
gent and well road. Custom, which is
stronger thau law in China, gives married
womeu the control of money they earn.
The business women, the eampadoresses,
huvo their own money, aud spend a great
deal.
The New York women thought they did
great things in forming a little club, and
meeting onoo a month at Delwonioo'u.
Well, iu China the eampadoresses meet
.and gamble und dress and dine, just as
men do hero, and enjoy it amazingly. I
went to a number of these gatherings,
which take place sometimes at tho tea
houses, sometimes at their own houses ;
and I tell yon they dress magnificently,
and spend money exactly a* men do at
their clubs.
Ono important faot noticed by Miss
King was the entire absence of whiskey
and druukeuness in the interior of China.
It seems that wherever our boasted civili
zation penetrates, whether to the savages
of America or tho philosophical Celestials,
there fullow in its train drunkenness ana
bestiality. In all the parts of China or
Japan that Miss King visited she saw
much UruukounuHH uud crime among the
natives, but when she got beyond civiliza
tion the evils disappeared.
Tea is the universal beverage, and go
where you will you fiud “Tea Houses,”
and the moment you enter a cup of tee is
hauded yon, and perhaps some sweet
meats, a sort of sugar bean is the usual
kind. A cup of tea costa about one
“cash,” eleven of whiuh ore required to
make oue of our cents in value. - Living
is very cheap, Miss King says, if yon con
form to the Chinese methods, but if you
want European articles of food, ell of
which ure imported from England or
America, a fortuuo will be swallowed up
in loss than no time. For instance, the
cows are imported, end oost two thousand
dollars eooh; the ownership, therefore, ie
confined to a few wealthy European fami
lies and two or three great European ho
tels. You can imagine whet butter and
milk oost under such conditions as these.
A sheet of English note paper ooeto $1,
aud a.very poor, common bonnet, that
coaid be bought here for from $3 to $5,
costs $40 there. After e little experience,
says Miss King, 1 begau to adopt the
Chinese’ method of living, aud finally got
along very cheaply indeed. A Chinaman
can support a wife end family flrstrate on
ten cents per day; bo can do it toberably
on six, but ten cents provides really good
living. The middle class women don’t
spend their time cooking end house-denn
ing as the seme olaas do here. There are
oook-shops all along the streets, whore
men get their ehow-chow, end where wo
men send for dishes already oooked for
the family. Then they have no beds that
need making or covering theft needs wash
ing ; the better olaee sleep ou mete, end
the poor in the northern pert of Chine,
whore it is sometimes very cold, have e
corner bricked up, so as to make e sort of
great open oven or furnace. A very
small fire is sufficient to keep thie warm,
so that the children oan be pul in it at any
time during the day and the whole family
turned iu to sleep at night
Women don't live single In China;
there is hardly e single women to be found
in China; all the efforts of the pa
rents aro devoted to gutting her married,
and a female child is often promised to
to the son of e friend before she ie born.
Daughters are undesired eU over the
world, aud iu China with reason even
more thau in America, for the lot of a
girl, if she is poor, is terrible, end moth
ers end fathers, too, would talker see
them die then live to inherit it. TLit ia.
the reason female iufanticide is so oom-
mon in China. They consider it e justifi
able cot to rid her of the evils to some.—
Moreover, e daughter is hardly consider
ed as belonging to her parents, or in her
own family.
As soon as she is betrothed—which ia
as quioklv as a suitable husband can be
found—she is adopted into hie fa—Uy, is
brought up end eduoeted by them, end
Tin* Cotton Prospect.
Wo make the following extract fro— the
cotton circular of Messrs. W. C. Watts A
Co., of Liverpool, dated Bept. 8th:
The visiblo supply, as shown by our ta
ble above, is now. 20fl,310 bales in exoesa
of last yonr, whereas by our last report
the excess wo*: 100,730 bales. The stocks
at tho principal Continental ports, except- *
ing Havre, which is given in our table,
amounted on tlio 1st inst. to 170,300 bales,
against (8i,000 last yenr and 13,100 the
year before. The stocks held by English
spinners wo now eKtim&te at 200,000
bales, against 09,000 last year and
104,000 the year before at same date.—
Our latest ndvioos report Continental
spinners to have very fall stocks.
Manchaester market during tbe week
has been strong in tone, and buyers have
had to pay higher prices. To-day the
markot is reported active for yarns at £d.
advance, while for doth the demand is
sluggish. Quotations are for 8} Ih sheet
ings 9s. 0d.@10s. 3d.; No. 40 mule yftrn,
common 13gd., end 32’s twist 13}<2)18}d.
V It).
Bombay telegrams report that for tbe
week ending 1st inst. the receipts from
the tip country were 4000 bales, against
1000 the same week last yoai. The clear
ances wero to Great Britain 9000, and to
the Continent 1000 bales, against 10,000
and nil respectively sniuo week last year.
The stock on shipboard was 10,000 bales,
against. 20,000 lust year, and 29,000 the
year before. Latest dispatches report a
moro Hatisfaciory rain fall, aud improved
crop accounts may consequently be
looked for.
Home Idea of the Damage to thb
Croi s.—Iu our last issue we referred to
tbe immense dumage done the crops by
the overflow of the river, and the present
wet weather. Hince then, we have been
informed that all the river bottom lands
have been deluged and the ofops thereon
totally destroyed. Iu faotF lands that it
seamed would never have overflowed aro
now covered with water. Mr. W. E.
Collier iuforms us thnt tho better part of
his crop—which was plunted on tbe river
lands—is totally destroyed. He is certain
that he will lose fifteen bulea of cotton
and eight hundred bushels of corn. Mr.
Jesse Reynolds, Mr. Peter Henry, aud
many others, are in the same fix. Mr.
W. O. Homers loses his entire crop
amounting to twelve bales of cotton and
eight or uitte hundred bushels of eorn.
Crops throughout our whole section, so
far iut we h&vu lt'arncd, nro iu n iuo.it woo-
fnl condition. Wo trust, however, that
tho generrl aoaroity of ootton will Rtimu-
late priced, ho oh to Have onr farmer., and
tho ho depending un them.
fBainbridge Sun, 21 «f.
Democratic Unity.—This journal has
eameatly urged a oeaaution of tho eontro-
varay now going on iu the Domooratio
ranks over tbo action of tho Democracy in
the local contests in the Northern States
to bury war-idHiiea. Many Hoatbern jour
nals, day after day and week after week,
ksep up a hot and unnecessary tire, not
on the Jtadical party, hot on onr North
ern Democratic frionds. Thero is no in-
termisflion in tbe warfare. Not a lino
osn he spared against tbo Jtndicul faction
and its crimes, but tho Tolleys, bitter and
dasdly, pour into the ranks of onr North
ern allies.
Surely this ia not right, it ia not sensi
ble, it ia damaging in the extreme. It
ia hurting us widely, and we fear irrepara
bly. It ia doing uo good in the way of
aonviction, bnt simply widening the
breach, intensifying the division uf senti
ment, and embittering the wings of ths
party against each other, besides advan
cing the canBo of our adversaries. The
South ia a nnit iu its devotion to oonatk
tational law, and from necessity. It ia a
■actional matter with ns, the only hope of
onr oountry resting broadly and inexora
bly npon a strictly constitutional govern
ment. As tbo weaker aeotion of onr
Union, our nafety lies in the rigid preser
vation of the iutogrity of tha bond that
-duds ua together.
Tne battle ground, therefore, ia at ths
North. We of the South oannot in tho
vory nature of things comprehend tho
aitnation and neSaasitiaa North aa wall as
onr Northern friends of tha Democracy*
Therefore we are for letting th4m man
age their own light in their own way,
particnlarly in their local contests. And
view has been rivitad by the praotioal ob
servation we have had of the harm that
boa already been done by Southern agita
tion on the new movement to bury tho
war unties. '
We ore gratiBed and encoraged to re-
ooive endorsement of onr position from
Ml qnaiters of the State personally and
by latter. Everywhere the solid, sterling
min of tha party are bracing ua up in tbs
good necessary work of reoonoiUng ths
party dfferenoes and stopping tha ornaado
against Northom Demoo rats.—Atlanta
Omtitution.
Bsmovai, or ths Chkbokxxa non
North Carolina.—The Washington Star
has tha following paragraph ooneorning
the removal of the Ohorokaaa from ths
North State s
'Friend John D. Lang,acting secretary
to ths Board of Indian Commissioners,
returned from hia home, in Maine, this
r uing. Mr. Lang and Cob D. 0. Cox,
tha Interior Department, have boon
doaignalod by Boorotary Delano to pro
ofed lo North Carolina and remove ths
Cberokeea in that State to the Indian
Territory, and will leave some time next
week. There are about 1500 Cbsrok.ee.
in th. State, all of whom are anxious for
o ehange of reaidenee. Mr. Lang and
Oil. Cox leave for Philadelphia New
York to-morrow for tbe purpose of pur
chasing clothing for distribution among
the destitute of these Indiana. In this
S(y Mr. Lang acts for tha Indian Ooae-
Caaion, and Col. Cox represents ths De
partment of the Interior,
a A telegram in onr paper of yesterday
stated that “Friend Lang” had gone
northward to buy provisions for these In
diana. Thoy an vary quiet psopls, and
Hove continued to live down to this day
ia the land of their fathers. But they am
new to go. Whether with thair own aon-
■oat or by foroe, it ia all ona. They w
even if ba should die, would still bo at ths original owners—the lords of tbo soil
their disposal to bestow in marriage, if sad am foroad by ths natural diatlno-
they choose, upon aome ona else. Hha
ho» tbe alternative, however, of dedioat-
iag herself to the memory of her firat af
fianced, and auoh aa mot Jo considered
very praiseworthy. If aha ahonld do ao,
and live to bo 100 yean old, faithfully
fainting her vows, and worshipping tha
tablets of hia anoaatom, aha would bam ■
pagoda amoud to bar memory. Thom’
are several auoh in China. I aaw on. on
th. roul between Wwupoon and Canton.
Tablets am blocks of wood, oommon or
fragrant, upon which am oarvad names,
dues, or representations of the animal
which represents the year in which tbe
ancestor was born, and tha name and
date of the reigning dynasty. Thoy
form a sort of genaalogiaal record, sod
descend to tb^^ldaet sou, who, with hia
family, pay t^C oereuiouioua homager
Tablets are created in bondk of either
father or mother, or both, bat ■ daughter
may not have oue; aha is oxpootad to
worship tho tablata of bar nnaband'a
family.
Tha daughter* at poor man oomoHmso
marry rioh men. II ia Jam Hko it ia horn.
Ut® poor ~ ■“
a smnU-foqtod daughter, ap that ho
marry ha* well; iota as Soar mk
wfimom hMvmtndmsthtashsko
tlwir dnghtata wnlm and uosoflkM
so they «o» marry wullhy mow.,
dona between them and tha whites to go
away to new hnnting-gronnda, wham thoy
Will bo to themselves. Bnt how bug bo-
fora th.y Will bam to look out ones aaoreg.
for a ptaoe of rotmot from the polofoooor
Th* fat. of those poor mvidm is tat
■diking oontraal with Uut of • hothoro—
ataswbiofa, through the averts* of Dm
whit. mu. was imported into this sow*.
to. Wo drive away th* harhOrioos who
owaad th* land originally and w* atovata
ths barbarians that w* imported tram Af
rica to equality with tha whit* man—'wo
pnt thorn in ottee ud sand thorn to th*
IngtalaluTa and to Ooogmaa. Wo And
the African with all thefaoial in
of barbarism, and aome with Um
osarka of the cannibal, who ou
road nor write, sitting ia tha
Stats making laws for ns and aamgyiig
tha aa*U one* honored by th* gmotaot
mi ip tbi lend!
This wtmdarfpl ooo treat will adroit th*
teation of the fatal* historian, tad tha'
world will bo amend at ths menstrua
Mliaa at thaman at thus daym Jtart
taww^IWgwt®*-
iwontfsa to-day, was on* mtadmt*
ss^n.'S
add Kanawha aanal.
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