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A. »THICT OOllTKVOTtOl 0» THK fiO»TITtlmi-i| HOICIT A!tl> EOa«OKIO\L AOHIXIUTRATIOBI OF IHI MTCUMIT. Ragland & Wynne, Proprietors. COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1872. Volume XLTV.—No. SO The Weekly Enquirer. JOHN H. MARTIN... .7. . . .Editoe. COLUMBUS: THURSDAY JULY 18, 1872. $8.60. THE NOMINATION |t)B COTEBNON. I The notion of the several oounty meet ings reported in this paper suffices to . show that the nominition of Go*. Smith for re-election is a “foregone conclu sion.” It can only be doubted, now, by politicians os infatuated as the few who, up to a week pterions to the assembling of the Baltimore Contention, hogged the delusion that Greeley wonld be defeated for its nomination. Not a aingle county i, has so far declared itself for James, and t j among those which hare apoken ia his I own oounty. As the contingency becomes more ap parent, the question, what will James do in the event of his defeat for the nomina tion, aasutnes more interest. He hss not yot publicly announced that he will abide by the nomination. But the intimations that his friends will prove refraotory ac cumulate. The latest of these that has met our eye is that Col. Carey W. Styles, editor of the Albany Nfiee, writing from Atlanta to hi* paper. In his letter of tho 5th inst., Col. Styles complains that the Executive Committee acted unfairly, and in the interoat of Gov. Smith, iu calling the Convention at ao early a day; says that time enough was not allowed for the opposition to organifce ; aaya that “the game" was not fair, and his irresist ible instincts make him ita antagonist; that Gov. Smith is not the choice of the people, and they would make a ohange if they had time and were not “tied hand and foot by pre-arranged manigemeut and he concludes by saying : “Give the people a chance, give Mr. James aud every other citizen a chanoe, a fair chance, and I uiu content, but I never did aud never will quietly acquiesce in a jt wrong, or bow submissively to results ac- 7 complished by unfair means." All of this, to our apprehension, smacks of a disposition to halt if Mr. James is not nominated at Atlanta. Possibly tho failure of tho bolting conspiracy at Balti more may act as a “wet blanket" upon all euch schemes. But then James may con sider that he has more substantial support to fall back upon than the would-be bolters at Baltimore could promise themselves. We shall see. The plea that James and his friends were wronged by the Committee selecting fo early a day for tho assembling of the Convention, will not bear examination. Ample time was allowed. The counties that have already held their meetings held them from one to two weeks earlier than the day appointed for the meeting of the Convention necessitated thorn to hold them. Among these was Col. Styles’ own county (Dougherty), of which, wo believe, ho is chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee ; and on Heturday last that county ehoso delegates iu favor . of Hmith! But the most complete refu tation of this plea is furnished by the action of Jumes’ own county (Fulton.) There a regular election for delegates was ordered; tickets for Hmith and for James were announced through the newspapers and printed for use on the day of the election; a nearly full Democratic vote was brought out, and the result was a handsome majority for 8mitU. And still it is intimated that James' friends will not “acquiesco" if he is beaten for the nomination, because time enough was not allowed him to make the race The plea involves the acknowledgment that the people were tor Hmith, end that James only hoped to change their predilection by time and work. Bat be has made a poor showing towards it iu coanties where he and his friends worked hardest; and the prospect now is that he and hie friends will carry so few of the counties that the same difficulty will be experienced at Atlanta a« at Baltimore—bis friends will have too few delegates in the Convention to organize a bolt with. The Sun asks us to “reconcile" the following extract from Mr. Greeley's late . speech made to the committee appointed to announce to him his nomination : “While yon, said Mr. Greeley, in mak ing this nomination, are not less Demo cratic, but even more so than had yon taken the opposite course, I, in accepting it, am not much less a Republican than 1 ever was. [Applause.]" If our neighbor will read the common * platform adopted by the Cincinnati and ’ Baltimore Conventions and Mr. Greeley's ^ letter of acceptance, be will see the con- i grnity (we suppose that is what he means) I of the above quotation. It means simply * that the co-operation effected doea not * require the Democrats to abjure their i Democracy, or Mr. Greeley to abjure his i» Republicanism, bnt that both parftiee put * in abeyance their distinctive political | ideas, wherein they differ, while they I unite to secure the suecesB of those more t urgent and imperative objects which they | agree in demanding—fall and universal amnesty, local government for the Htates, | the supremacy of civil over martial law, peace, equality and concord for all see- ” tions, the re-eeteblishment of an honest and capable civil service, Ac. The following, which we find tele- ’graphed to ths Western Press, ia, we pre sume, a more correct veraion of what Mr. Greeley esid: “The time will come, and I trust iu God the opportunity too, when the world will see that yon are no leas Democrats because you have pursued the course you have, and that I am no leas a Republican ^ because I accept yonr nomination." On Sunday morning last, a soldier was killed by an officer at Fort Pulaski, under circumstances that caused much exaspera tion amo-g the comrades of the slain soldier. There was a row on the parade ground, sod the sergeant of the gnard, Robert E. Carr, knocked down a refrac tory private with his gun. A soldier named Herman K. Jordan denonneed the act, when Carr struck at him, Jordan re treated, and then Carr shot him d The affair caused so much excitement at the Fort that Carr was cant to Savannah nod imprisoned there. On Dr.—That Willard Warner „ on# out for Mr. Greeley. Our infoi xtiou ia so direct that we are hardly at lib- Jfrtj to doubt it — Montgomery Advertim, H THE SIX CLKABIXQ AWAY THE HIST. The Sun says, in reply to our inquiry as to the “drift" or meaning of its Ku- Klux article, that it is “not responsible for onr understanding.” If it were, we wonld feel a solioitnde somewhat similar to that of John Randolph, when a stranger, who had proposed to him a bet on a horse race, suggested that his friend Smith would hold the stakes. “And who," said Randolph, “will hold Smith?" Our neighbor intimates that it was in terposing a warniog to the Southern Democracy not to hurrah too loudly for Greeley, lest their hearty support might frighten Northern Republicans back to Grant. The Democracy of the 8onth have up to this time engineered their movement towards a anion with the Lib eral Republicans very successfully with out the advice of the Sun, but rather in direct opposition to it, and they can douhtleas continue to do bo. We entreat neighbor to qniet its apprehensions on this score. When the Domooratio par ty supporting Greeley need the counsels of neutrals, or independents, or guerrillas —whichever position they may fancy— they will solieit it, and it can then be giv en with less liability to the charge of “impertinence.” If the Sun was only alluding to the Radical clamor about Greeley or bis Southern friends “Kn-Kluxing the ne groes," as a fanciful hobgoblin, without intending to endorse or tolerate it, why did it proceed to array a formidable “Hat of secetuda" and make suggestions abont the experience and tho kind of sorvioe that peculiarly fitted them for the business? Why did it not rather say that no section of the Union could furnish politicians moro sternly opposed to any outrage on tho rights of tho negroes than the distin guished Georgia gentlemen named in iffc “list of seecssia"? This is too serious aud too Atrocious a “Radical argnmont" to be treated with a levity or ambiguity that would admit of ready perviaion into a confession of its truth. We are twitted by the Sun with having received “Radical favor." If by Ibis it alludes to publication of Bullock's procla mations for a short time, we have only to say that the designation of our paper as ono of the journals to publish the procla mations was announced publioly by ad vertisement or order in an Atlanta paper, aud not by any private arrangement. It was moreover done without our solicita tion. Whon Bullock afterwards, in the same public raanuer, revoked bis order of publication, and substituted private ar rangements with favorite presses, ours was not included. We were of the opin ion, ns wo still are, that Columbus was ono of tho chief cities of the State in which tho Governor's proclamations, if advertised at all in a number of papers, ought to be published. We never heard of the Sun refusing a single advertise ment of the Executive Government while Bullock was at its head, and we remem ber that it received and published one or We also remember tbat the Sun, and not the Enquirer, was the recipient of ofliciul patronage from Milledgevillo while Ruger was Military Governor there. Wo did not suppose that the sourness of those gropes eo long disturbed the stom ach of our neighbor. We regret to find in the artioie which wo aro noticing an intimation that we were wrong, the other day, in concluding from the Sun'e declaration that it woe willing to do “anything to beat Grant and save tho South" that it had determined to upport Greeley as “a choice of evils." It now says that it “refuses to swallow Rad icalism, whether it comes straight like Grant, or 4 with sugar iu it* liko Greeley.” Well, good by, neighbor. We are sorry that our paths for the present run in dif ferent directions. Don't try to obstrnot ours, and we'll leave you free to follow yours, if it oarriee you to Tooiub's 4 ‘first choice." We refer the reader to an article whieh we copy from tho Mobilo ItegUter (John Forsyth's paper) to show how unreservedly and decidedly its talented editor supports the nomination of Greeley and Brown, now that his party has made it, though be energetically opposed the making of it, both as an editor and aa a delegate to Baltimore. In a subsequent editorial Col. Forsyth explains why he personally had no predileetiona for euoh a coarse, but why he felt coustrained to disregard personal considerations when they stood in the way of a discharge of a duty which be owed to his party and his country. The “Gov. Stanley of Califonia," whose death was reported by telegraph the other day, was Hon. Edward Stanly, whom President Lincoln appointed Pro visional Governor of North Caroline. Tooiubt, Brew a nl Lorhraee. The Atlanta Sun of Tuesday publishes a long card of Hon. Robert Toombs, which we notice only because it probably serves to show bow Gen. T. hss eleeted to treat a late card of Ex-Gov. Brown, which aroused considerable expectation as to tho manner and nature of Gen. T.’s reply. Gov. Brown had said that “if" Gen. T. meant iu a former publication to charge him with bribing through the Le gislature a bill in reference to tho Mitch ell property, “the statement was an infa mous falsehood, and its author an unscru pulous liar." Gen. Toombs says, in bis reply published in the Sun, that Brown in prefixing the 4 if" preferred hypotheti cal denunciation, the usual dodge of a vulgar poltroon," to asking an explana tion. He disclaims charging the Ex-Gov ernor with personally engaging in bribe- JJ—^ggestB that he is too canning for that—bnt intimates that be employed others. He denounces Gov. Brown’s course in reference to the Mitohell prop erty with great severity; also pays his re spects in the same strain to Judge Locb- rane, who had also sharply oontzmdicted Gen. Toombs' first letter. We node# the affair only to gratify public ourloeifyae to what was likely to grow oot of thie bit ter War of words. Ths Manchester Cotton Supply Imonia lion has disbandsd. It wee called into exietenoe during the dearth of ootton in cident to the war, end atrove to make jndfp^dtnt of the United States eoferes a supply of cotton ia eoaoemed, by Miniating its sbMtbHqb to India. THE COUNTY MKET1X08. ALL FOB SMITH ! fkattakoorkf* Coaatjr. A meeting of the citizens of Chattahoo- ohee county was called at Cusseta on tho 13th of July inst., for the purpose of ex pressing their preference for a candidate in the approaching Gubernatorial election, mid to appoint delegates to represent the County in tho Convention to be held in Atlanta on tho 24th lost. On motion, James S. All urns was called to the Chair, and N. N. Howard requested to act os Secretary, On motion, tho Chair appointed James Castleberry, W. B. Willis and Ab. Wool dridge, to draft resolutions. Said com mittee reported tho following: Kosolved, That tho meeting cordially endorse the administration of Gov. James M. Smith, and instruct our delegates to cast tho vote of tho county for Lis ro- nomination; Also, suggest tho namos of D. C. Cody and N. N. Howard as suitablo delegates to represent the county iu the Gubernatorial Convontion to meet in Atlautu on the 24th inst. The resolutions wore adopted unani mously. On motion, tho Columbus paper* wero requested to publish the proceedings, aud the meeting then adjourned. J. S. Allow, Chairmau. N. N. Howard, Secretary. Talliol County. The Democrats of Talbot comity held a meeting on tho 13th inst., at which tho following gentlemen were appointed dele gates to the Stato Convention to bo held on tho 21th: W. A. Little, C. B. Leitnor, John W. Parker, and J. W. Gamble. The meeting was harmonious, and strongly favored tho ro-uomiuation of Gov. Smith. A resolution endorsing tho action of tho Baltimore Convention was introduced and passed ; eliciting, howover, some oppo sition. llutU County. Tho Democracy of Batts county hold their meeting on last Wednesday, and selected Smith delegates to represent them in the State Convention. t.. tl.« Constitution.] Albany, Ga., July id.—Dougherty sends up six Smith delegates. >r II. Randolph. Outrbert, Ga., July Id.—A largo county convention was hold hero to-day to appoint delegates from Randolph to tho Stato. Convention. Resolutions re commending the re-nom illation of Gov. Smith were unanimously udopted. A resolution offered by a James iuku failed to get a second. ♦ Pulton County for Rmlth. The Democrats of Falcon (James' own comity) held their election iu Atlanta (of which city James is Mayor) on Saturday last, for delegates to tho State Conven tion. Both purties bad printed tickets, announced through tho papers several days before the election. Tho result was the eleotion of the Smith ticket by a majority of about two huudred. C’apt. W. T. Newman, tho highest candidate on the Smith ticket, received 1082 votes; and Clark Howell, highest on the James ticket, 81)0. For Smith. The Clayton County Democratic meet ing, held on Saturday, appointed dele gates to the Atlanta Convention, and in structed them to support the nomination of Gov. James M. Hmith for re-election. Clarke county, in her Democratic meet ing held on the sAtne day, unanimously instructed her delegates to support Smith. Bartow county chose delegates, on Sat urday, without instruct ions. The counties of Chatham, Jaspor, Cam den, Pierce, Bryan, Taliaferro, Franklin, Burke and Hall have appointed their dele- gates to the Atlanta Convention, and have all either directly instructed their dele gates to support the nomination of Gov. Smith for re-election, or strongly en dorsed his administration by resolution. So far not a single county heard from has declared its preference for James. At the Hall county meeting, an op ponent of Gov. Smith moved to submit the choice of delegates to an eleotiou by ballot, wbioh was carried, aud the Smith delegates were thus elected. A motion to make the election unanimous was then adopted with only one dissenting voice. In the Chatham mooting, Mr. Buckuer offered a resolution declaring opposition to the election to any office of any man who endorses “several of the items of tho Oincinnati platform. Tho Advertiser's report says: “The Chairman called for a vote on the above, bat tho verbal re- spones proving confused he requested those opposed to tho resolution to rise. The great majority stood up on their feet, but only a baker's dozen, as far as we could see, responded to tho coll for the yeas. It was a pretty fair exposition of the atAte of fublc sentiment upon nation al politics so far as Chatham county is concerned." S. H. Mitchell, former Marshall of Americus, was on trial iu that city, on Monday last, on a charge of providing Peter Black, alios Williams, a Penitentiary convict, with implements wherewith to effeot his esoapo from tho jail of Sumter county. The implements were taken from Peter, aud ho confessed that Mitoh- ell slipped them to him under the door. The affair oreated considerable excitement in Americus. I’eUtlesI Call. Madison, July, 13, 1872. Editors Constitution: The Republicans of Georgia who favor the eleotiou of the nominees of the Cincinnati 'and Bal timore Conventions for President and Vi e President are requested to meet in Atlanta on the 24th instant, st 10 o’clock a. m., for the purpose of consultation. By order of the delegation to the Cin cinnati Convention. Thomas P. Baffold, Chairman. Papers friendly to the election of Gree ley, and Brown please copy. • In OazsaptLLAB at the Bxcx.—The Georgetown Times says: “We regret to ton from some of our planters tbat a ■eeondermy of oaterpillara have made depredatipoa u# not oonfiaed to any par- | The Baadall Bridge Over thf t potelr. Cussxta, Ga., July 14th, 1872. Editor Enquirer:—The Randall bridgo across tho Upatoie oreek ia ono of con siderable importance to the oounties of Muscogee and Chattahooohee in particu lar, aud to parts of some of the adjaoent counties. It has coat a considerable sum of money to build it. Io oonaeqnenee of tho importunes of this bridge and in order to have a first olast traveling bridge, I extended to the contractors their own time to complete the job, and am proud to Bay that I succeeded in having a supe rior bridge bnilt of tbe moat choice selec tion of timbers tbat perhaps was ever put in a job of the samo magnitude. I could very readily excuse parties for manifest ing impatience at tbe timo consumed in tho erection of this structure, for it put many to great inconvenience; but not withstanding its importance, some incon siderate parties aro greatly endangering this property, and how to preveut them is tho question. A short timo sinoe I learned that wag- ouers wore in the habit of OAtnping in tbe bridge—had carried in dirt and built a fire on it, which greatly endangered the bridgo. I wrote requests that persons hereafter wonld plouae not oarnp in tbe bridge, and stated tbat they might subject themselves to e presentment by the Grand Jury for a misdemeanor, and bad these notices stuck up in the bridge; sinoe which time there have been other oamp- ers in tbe bridge, and had it not been for tho timely attention of another party who was camping outside, these campers would actually have burned tbe bridge. They had carried in fire and laid on tho floor, which had caught in a light blaze before it was discovered and put out. Thu party who curried tho fire in w*as per haps asleep, or at least paying uo atten tion to it. You will please give such notice of this inattor as yon may think most beneficial to the interest of our oountiea. I think it would bo well to suggest to our Repre sentatives to have a law passod, at tbe session of the Legislature about to oon- veue, to rnuko it a grave penal offense for persons to obstruct the public highway by camping in a bridge and endangering the property of the counties as this has been. Respectfully, Ac., James Castleberry, Ordinary. T1IE LEASE. Editor Enquirer: Frequent allusions having been made through the publio prints to the loose of the Western A At lantic Railroad, it is well that subject should bu looked at in ita practical re” suits. Frothy politicians may rant, and hungry oxpectants, whose rule of injus tice depeuds upon an interest in the re sult, may stir up the prejudices of the un thinking, but the poople who pay the tax-_ os will demand what benefit will we de rive from this virulent persecution of men against whom uo evidence of fraud hns been found ? The crazy and rampant lawyer, who meaauroa out justice in pro portion to the size of conditional fee, is only laboring in his vocation. We, who” have no interest in this, demand that the enormous oxpeuse already incurred in persecuting men who are far better aa citizens, aud equally as patriotic in ovory trial whon occasion demands a show of manhood, shall cease. Nover before since the road hns been bnilt has it ovor puid into tho Treasury (save a short time) any returns. Ever since it baa been in opera tion men of all partiea have used it to continue themselves in power, and many havo been the efforts to separr.'e it from tho inilnenoes of eaob succeeding admin-_ istrution oi the State. This separation has tuken place. Uoder the law, and whatever may be the faot, now that it an- nuully pays into the Treasury $300,000 per annum, it would be unwise to take tho chances of doing better by going to, law with a powerful combination to undo what tbe country has demanded should be done. Let the loaso alono. Be satisfied with doing well. Chattahoochee. A Forgery Exposed. From the New York Trilnino, flth. Wo have neither the space nor the in clination to notice tho thousand calum nies uguinst Mr. Greeley and the Tribune with which the Grant papers aro daily filled. Their favorite pursuit seems to be to ransack tbe old filea of the Tribune, and take from its correspondence or its clippings anything which may bo calcula ted to injure Mr. Greeley, aud boldly to attribute it to him. These garbling** and misrepresentations we have not noticed, and do not propose to. But Harper’s Weekly having gone beyond this and re sorted to forgery, aeeins to require a word of contradiction. In a recent number it prints a caricature of Mr. Greeley gloat ing over the ruin of a Southern family: aud knowing that the publio will reoog- nize tbe absurdity of a representation eo much at variance with his obaraoter and record, they have adopted the simple ex pedient of fortifying their earioature by printing iu Urge type the following sen- fence, which they Jiretend to have ex tracted from the Tribune of November 20, 1800. v “When the rebellious traitors are over whelmed in tbe field, and scattered like leaves before an angry wind, it uniat not be to roturn to peaoefnl and contented homes. They moat find poverty at their firesides, and see privation in the anxious eyes of mothers aud tbe rags of children." Wo deem it only necessary to say that not u word of the pretended extract is found iu the Tribune of that date, and no such words were ever written by Mr. Greeley. We leave the pnblio to. judge the moral quality of tbe act committed by the Measra. Harper. The Prairie Region or Mississippi.— The Columbus Index of Tuesday thus speaks of crop prospects in tbe prairie region: From all parta of the oonnlry the nows comes by mail and passengers, that the crops are splendid. There will be oceans of corn, which will make higher prioee for cotton and keep the money it brings from going West. In our own oounty tee farmers eeclare that the prospects were never better. Supreme Court of Gboboia, July 1C, 1872.—After delivering decisions in oases argued during last week, the death of Judge Linton Stephana was announced to the Court by Gen. R/Toombe, who moved tho appointment of a committee to report appropriate resolutions on ths call of the Northern Circuit} also, the adjournment of the Court The following members of the Bar were appointed on the committee: Hon. Robt Toombs, Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, Hon. Riohard F. Lvon, Hon. IvenonL. Henris, Hon. Henry L. Banning. The Court adjourned until 10 o’olook a. , m. to-morrow. JUDGE STEPHENS* DEATH. From tlio Atlnntd gun, Kith in«t.j It was with tho profoundcst grief and paiu that we announced last evening the death of Hon. Linton Stephens, whieh occurred at hi.s residence iu Sparta, at A o'clock p. ui. ou Sunday, the l4ih. We have obtaiued some additional particulars, which are reliable, which we now state for publio iuforination. Ilis disousu was congestion of the bow els uud lungs—tho result of causes which we now proooed to uarruto. After the exhaustive labors which be went through in the Superior Court in this city, three weeks ago, he went home to attend an adjournod term of the court in his owu county, which carno off week before hint. During this oourt bis labors wero so groat—so exhausting—aggravated . as they were by tho excessive beat, tbat j his strength failed, rendering it necessary to coutinue several of bis important oases iu cousequouce of bis inability to proceed With them. It was not, however, until Friday, the nth iust., that ho was coufiued to his bed; and nothing serious was apprehended until last Saturday, when his disease as sumed H daugcrouB typo, terminating aa wo havo stated. Judgo Stephens wus the youngest brother of Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, and was, as wo before Hinted, 40 years old on tho find day of tbin month. Many thousands of hearts will feel the same pangs of sorrow which we do on learning of tho death of this truly great aud noble man. In him 1ms passed away, iu tho primo of llife, and in the zenith of a well-earned fame, ouo of the brightest intellects, ono of the profouudest lawyers, jurists and statesmen, as well ns one of tho most powerful and brilliant orators which Georgia over produced. But the biightost trait in his chnraoter, and one that will be tho longest remem bered, was liis unswerving honor and in dexible integrity in private and publio life. His action iu till things was govern ed by principle. We have known Judge Stephens very intimately since 1855. We have seen hiui on many trying occasions; and iu min gling our tears with those most dear to hiui, we can truly say thutn truer,an abler or nobler niau we liavo never associated with. This offering of our henrt is but a poor tribute to bis memory. His proper eu logy we leave It* others. To the heart- strickon brother, widowed wife, aud or phaned children, we extend all the condo lence that one beloved frioud can extend to othors in those heavy afflictions which affect all alike, though not in the same degree. Tho ties of nature aro tenderer and stronger than any at taehiucnts spring ing from the most, devoted friendship or the highest admiration. Freshet In Alulinnia. The Alabama River was higher yester day and last Sunday than it has been kuown to bo before at any time since the war. Tho bottoms, embracing the most productive lands in the Stato, are every where overflowed and tho danittgo to the crops cunuot bnt be immense. This river and its tributaries wash not less than 2,000 miles of shore, and if the ovei (lowed lands average 20 acres to tho mile, tho loss resulting from this overflow cannot fall far short of two millions of dollars. In times like tlieso so great a loss is a great oalamitv, and ouo oulculatoiklo cause con siderable inconvonieuco if not actual suf fering among the plautors upon whom it falls. The great bend opposite this city, which a few days ago was covered with tho most luxuriant and promising crops in Autauga county, is now nothing but a wide wus to of rushing wider, unrelieved save by an occasional tree top which peeps out from the muddy torreut. The lied of the South and North Road along the lowlands contiguous to the river is completely submerged. Iu sevoral places the truck lias been completely washed away and it will be several days before it can bo so repaired as to admit of the pas sage of the trains. Wo havo had no northern mails hiuco last Friday, and it will he yet several days before they can get through.—Montgomery Ado., 1(»Ik, We learn that the track of tho Selma, Romo A. Dalton Kuilrond was washed away in several places by tho late rains aud that the spleudid new bridge across tho Coosa river is seriously threatened by tho floods. Wo hope, however, that it will esoapo serious injury and'that before many days the trains will again be run ning on their legular schedule.—Had, Dispatches reach us from Wetumpks that the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Alabama and other small stronms iu that neighborhood are about to overflow that histories) old town. At last accounts the Coosa Hall bad boon reached at a distance of 80 yards from the river, bnt the waters were sup posed to lie receeding at sundown. At that time the water was only four feet be neath the high old bridge that conuocts East and West Wetumpka.—Ibid. The Remains op Louis ITiilikpk.—Tbe Paris Gaulois states that tho question of tho hour in Versailles is the translation to France of tho ashes of Louis Philippe. M. Thiers has made no official promise on the Hiibject, but it is probable that the work of removal will bo dono privately and without any publio ceremony what ever. The Due d'Aumale and tbe Prince do JoinvUln will hoou go to Claromont in order to exhume the remains of the late king, whieh they will then deposit at the Chatonn d’Eu, where tho Orleans family will all meet. Tho ceremony will tuko place in tbe presence of a few invited friends, for the public are not to he ad mitted. In England, it is said, exists a curious superstition upon the subject of mortuary transfers of this chaiaeter. The English say that whenever a ruler author izes tho return to his country of the body of a sovereign of the past, trouble follows to him who rules. The fact is, that the return to Franoo of tho ashes of Napoleon tbe First did not bring good luek to Louis Philippe. A War Cloud in Brazil.—Brazil and the Argentine Confederation are pouring oat vials of wrath against one another.— The former allies and victors of poor, depopulated Paraguay have fallen out over the spoils of the war. The Minister of the Argentine Confederation, iu a long note addressed to tho Brazilian govern ment, taunts the lutter with angry re proaches of bad faith, cowardico, rapaci ty, downright dishonesty and downright lying. There is but the historical ex pression, “You lie, you villain, you lie!” wanting to completo tho delightful frank ness of the document. To tbit* insolent note, says a cable dispatch from Lisbon, Brazil has replied in terms still more de fiant. Indeed, tho excellent letter of our Rio Janeiro correspondent, which we publish elsewhere, foreshadows this an swer of the Brazilian government. It describeR the vast preparations for war, the relative strength of the two countries and the immineut dangor of hostilities. It la, however, to be hoped that tho two Powers will pause, and try peaceful means of settlement before they reopen > the bloody chaarn which bnt lately closed after auoh terrible sacrifices of human life and the annihilation of a brave nation.— N. Y. Herald, uth. firsts Draws. New Yobk, July 15.—Grata Brown, though able to be out, is not yet fully re- eoverfd. His wife will arrive in a day or two, abe having been telegraphed for in his first illness. Later.—Gov. B. Gratz Brown ia better to-day. He ia able to ait up and reoeive friends, although still confined to the boose. It is thought he will be out in n ftw dsjs. [From the Mobile RegUter, ISth.] PRESIDENTIAL. The Democratic party in convention' Assembled have nominated Greeley and Browo aa tbeir candidates for President and Vice Praaident in opposition to Grant aud Wilton. They have also adopted the exposition of principles oontained in what ia koown aa the Oincinnati platform. The Register accepts and will aupport the nom ination, because it sees no other way in which Southern votes oan be recorded against the Radioal administration, and because aa bftween Grant and almost any nominee of the Demooratio party, it can- not hesitate to choose. In other words, no administration of the Federal Govern ment that ia conosivable, oan be more dangerous than that of Gen. Grant. The Register doea not accept tbe en dorsement of the Cincinnati platform, for the reason, that while it ia full of aonud S olitioal doctrines, all of them taken freon ie life-long and traditional creed of the Democracy, there are other principles enunciated that we cannot conscientiously aubsoribe to, even at the bidding of a Demooratio Convention. On thia subject onr views were stated in a letter written from New York touching the results of the Fifth Avenue Conference, in whioh we said: “On the whole, I look upon the results of this conference aa establishing tbe poiut that the Presidential issue is made up between Grant and Greeley, provided Baltimore throw* its weight into the scale of the latter; and thia proviso seems to be assumed here. In that case every voter has to ohoose between the two. *At all eveuta, let ua hope, if the De mocracy doea surrender to Greeley and Brown at Baltimore, that it will do it upon terms distinctive of the true causes and features of the surrender—that iu the meanwhile the Democracy will uot accept with the candidates of Cincinnati the plat form of Cincinnati, but will make one of tbeir own, ont of their timber, and pub lish to the world that while they will join the Liberal Republicans to beat a common enemy, they abate not oue jot of tbeir traditional doctrines, and mean not one thought of disbanding tbeir forces or abandoning their organization. The Ala bama Democracy, in refusing to ratify Cincinnati in advanoe of Baltimore, and in Heuding their delegates to the family gathering at Baltimore with thoir hands uutied, have declared in favor of preserv ing the integrity of the party and against rallyiug under any new banner. For the rest, tbe Register does not change its po sition until tbe Democratic parly speaks by authority in National Convention as sembled.” But atill, we may support tho candidates and not approve the platform. Aud now, having maintained to the last what we regarded as the safest and sound est course of principle and policy for tho benefit of the whole country, as well as the Democracy, and having been over ruled by the voice of our colleagues, nt- fared iu National Convention, and having boon thus reduced to a aingle alternative choice ns to the best method of opposing the Washington despotism, we propose to walk iu the new path upon wbioh events inexorably direct our footsteps, in the open, direot and uncompromising manner that manliness commends in all political actions. For the future of this course we are free from responsibility; but we take our stand by oar Democratic brethren, aud it will be from no lack of effort on our part if that future does not prove roseato in its fruition of tbe brightest hopes and expectations of tbe latest buil ders at Baltimore. And now a word to Mr. Greeley's earli est and loudest friends in the Houth. Having hailed thia ticket with delight, see to it tbat you show a sober ear neatness in ita eleotiou. You may gush now like so euany perennial fountains, but wo warn you tbat there is work to be done, in Ala bama and Mississippi at least, to elect it. It is now to be proved whether the Gree ley move was a real outburst of the peo ple or of the politicians. What we know is, that there are thousands of Demoorata who are to bo reconciled and conciliated to the support of Greeley as against Grant. The Register will do its part—and the Register will have the heaviest part to do, because it is in a position to do it most effectually. What we demand is that when tho serious work begins, the “gush ers" will not retire aud wait for the vic tory and the divi»iou of the HDoils. Meanwhile we go for Greeley and Brown, because we oauuot afford in the slightest degree to be responsible for the re-election of Grant and Wilson. Proiul seat UepablleoaN Deelarlaa for tirrrlry. Washington, July 12.—The political advices from Pennsylvania at tbe Greeley and Brown headquarters arc very signifi cant. General J. K. Moorebead, long a Republican Congressman from Allegheny, has deolared for Greeley, and will run as an independent candidate for Congress against General Negley. He will be sup ported by tbe manufacturing interests, and oannot be defeated. Hon. John W. Riddle, the late Republican candidate for Mayor of Pittsburg, ia also out for Gree ley. Hon. Tom Marshall, the ablest Repub lican stumper io tbe western counties, will soon take the stump for Greeley. Hon. William Stewart, formerly member of Congress from Mercer, and one of the most influential Republicans in the West, baa writter here that he will support Gree ley. 8|*cia) to tbe Cluciouati Commercial ] Washington, July 11.—Information has been received at these headquarters tbat Governor Blair, of Michigan, is making preparation to give all the aid in his power to the auooesa of tbe Liberal Re form movement, and that be will throw the weight of hia inflnenoe toward carry ing Michigan for Mr. Greeley. Governor Biair will address a grand ratification meeting of the Liberal Republican* to bo hold at Jaokson, Mich., on the 18th inst. Mauy prominent ex-army officers, mem bers of the Grand Army of tbe Republio, have signified their intention to withdraw from that organisation, the purposes of wbioh are subservient to, and nnder the control of, Grant's military friends. The New Chairman or the National Committee.—The National Democratic Committee last night met and elected An- g ustos Hchell, of New York, permanent hairman of their body, to fill the vaoan- oy oreated by the reaignation of Mr. Au gust Belmont. Bach are the personal re lations of the Chairman who retires with the Chairman who succeeds him that thia eleotion affords the party the strongest possible assurance that ita iotereata will be administered daring the next four yeare in the same liberal and devoted spirit which has presided over them for now three successive Presidential terms. The name of Mr. Bobell is associated with tbe Demooratio hiatory and the Democrat ic triumphs of a score of veare in tbe poli- tics of New York and of the nation. Hia position in tbe social and financial world of New York will be aooepted everywhere aa a guarantee that undei hia leadership tbe Democratic body may be relied upon to maintain the soundest principles in finance and in commerce, to reject the “madneea of extremes," and to labor for all wise reforma in a just and temperate manner. Mr. Bobell has reoently aooept ed the position of Grand Saohem of Tam many, in oo-operation with ths movement for restoring to that anoisnt Demooratio organization tbe lustre of ite earlier end better days; end be bee for eome yeare held the position of President of the Man hattan Club in this city. fJrei etc York World. The “First National Beak at Amerioua” went into operation laet weeek with &. T. Byrd, Preeident, U. B. HatroML Vioe FrwUwt, Mri em* a Pw*, o**w*». From Uio N«vr Fork llerelil, lath. The Oppmuion or he South Ly 11m Polltl* dank—Are ffu to have n Uvntorrd In Ion f For somo years bufore tho war of the rebellion, wbeu Norihorn pohLiciuua weie endeavoring to consoliduto into ouo giunl political organization all tlio chuuetilH op posed to the Southern Staten of the Uuiuu either in interest or nonliiuent, a peisiot- ent aud systematic effort wus made to create prejudice against the white citizens of tho Houth. Apart from tho criiHude against the institution of Hkivery as an of fence ugainat the divine laws and a moral and » social evil, the slaveowners were denounced sh a elans and wore held up to reproach us uu-Amorican, iUHolent, over bearing and tyrannical.- Tho Southern people had tbcmsulveH to thunk for the auccesH of this unpatriotic attempt to ex cite aectional auiuioaity aud strife for po litical purposes. Their peculiar position had rendered them jealous, suspicious and arrogant. They hml been accus tomed to brow-bout Northern men in C’ou- greKH, and had conceived an unfavorable opinion of Northern courage. Tho ftcuso of tho insecurity of their rlave property kept alike iu their breasts u con stant feeling of hostility towards tho free Hiatus, aud the tone of tbeir press uud pnbliu speakers was offensive uml galling to tho North. Eventually the efforts of the politiciuuH nud tho indiscretion of the chivalry brought about secession and civil war. A bitter and codly experience taught the Southern men bow erroneously they had judged of the spirit of their Northern fellow citizens, while the suffer ings aud bravery of the Houth won tho syuiputhy and respect of the North, and wero accepted us an ntomnont for post follies uud offoucos. Wheu the hist gun of tho war had been fired, and the greul rebellion lay crushed uud de<id ut the foot of Grant’s victorious army, there was not citizen of the loyal Htates, outside u bandful of scheming politicians, who did not earnestly desire to see tho Houth re lieved as speedily us pos-ible liom the in evitable penalties of iicr madness and re stored to ull her constitutional rights un der the reconstructed Union. The North ern people required assurance that the late Con federates would eousent to accept in good faith the decision reached by the tribunal of urms, uud were willing, us i as this was received, to bury their auger and their sorrow in a common grave. Foremost among those who thus patriotically sought to restore tho Union in the lieui is ot lUu people was the soldier who hud rescued \t from actual destruc tion. Towards tho close of the year of 18115 Gen. Grant made an inspection of tho rebelions Htates for the purpose of learning by personal observation the sentiment of their leading citizens, aud of ascertaining what umouut of imlitury force would he required tor the preserva tion of ouler and the enforcement of the laws. In his report to lTcsidont John son the Lieutenant Gencrul expressed his conviction that tho Houth had not only accepted the decision of Imltle as finnl, bnt hud become convinced by reflection that this decision had been u fortunate one for both sections of the I'uiou. “My observations," wrote General Grant, “lead mo the conclusion that the citizens of the Southern Htates are anxious to return to solf-govuniiuent within the Uiiiou as soon as possible; that while reconstructing they want and require protection from the government ; that, they think, is required, and is not humiliating to them us citizens, and that if such u course were pointed out they would puiBue it iu good faith." It is to bo regretted," he adds, “that there cauuot be a groat or commingling ut this time between the citi/.ous of the two sections, ami particularly ol those entrust ed with the law-making power." The trouble of the receutly liberated negroes was liot overlooked by Ujo victorious General. lle found them to lie inclined to idleness uud imbued with the idea that freedom from bondage meant freedom from labor. But he trusted to time uud tho management of the Ktufa governments to render the frecdiuen willing to work and to remove by slow degrees tlio evil of iguorauce, the legacy ol their former condition. Nearly eight years have passed since tho wur closed and the General is now the President. Tho politician**, who have un fortunately surrounded and controlled his administration, have continued during tbe last three years and a half tho same course towards tne Houth udopted by them ss soon as the rebellion was over, wheu they were contending with President Johnson for the political control of that section of the country. Tbe off rts of tbese men have bciui to secure political power iu tho Southern States by coloniz ing the South with carpet-bag politicians, and holding with them the solid negro vote. The process was simple and easy. In ten of tbe ex-rebel States—Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Virg mu and the two Csrolinas—nnder the census of 1870, there were four milliou six hundred und twenty-four thousand while inhabitants to three million six hundred and thirty- four thousand ncgiOvS, or less thuu one million more •.bile than black inhabi tants. Taking the proportion of ono in five for voters, the white electors may bo calculated at two hundred thousuud moro tbau the black. In Houth Carolina, Lou isiana and Mississippi tbe negroes are in a majority. In Alabama there Aro ouly five thousand more whito voters than there are colored, aud in Florida tho white electors are only one thousand larger than tbe black. Proscriptive test oaths and disfranchisement laws wore re sorted to for the purpose of reducing the Southern white vote, and us amnesty be came more and more a political necessity, Ku-Klux laws, authorizing the suspension of the writ of habeas coiqjVH aud placiug tbe elections under the protection, or rather nnder the tyrauuy, of federal bay onets, were iuvoked to counterbalance the enfranchisement of the whites. In tbe lost session of Congress, notwith standing tbe notorious fact that the Southern States urc now as peaceful and law-abiding as thoso of tho North, the most disgraceful scenes were enacted in both llonseain the effort to force through a renewal of the Ku-Klux bill at the risk of tho interruption of the whole machin ery of the government. To-day the South is held under military despotism, subject to the rascally corruptions of cur- pet-bag civil governments uud tbreutcuud by the dark shadow of political negro su premacy. Her people havo done nil in tbeir power to prove tbeir willingness to accept the lessons and fruits of the war, and to obey tbe laws of their country.-- They point to tbeir paralyzed industries, to their impoverished homes, to their broken foi tunes, aud plead to be allowed to enter once again the highway of pros perity and happiness through tho paths of loyalty and peace. But the question occurs to the iniuds of the scheming poli ticians who hold power iu Congress, Are tbe white Southern citizens to be trusted politically? Will they uot use their re covered franchise against the regular Ito- publican party ? If tbjfo questions can not be auswered to the satisfaction t f onr present rulers the Houth must con tinue to he oppressed and the effort to foroe negro supremacy upon the South ern States must proceed. General Graot can have no sympathy with the eonree of the men who seek by •noh means to renew thoir lease of politi cal power. His whole life and tbe free ex pression of his sentiments on every occa sion show that be favors a government of white men and that ho despises those who endeavor to renew or keep alive Beotional prejudice and hate between tbe North and the South. When he suffers the politi cians who surround him to resort tosuoli legislation and such policy in his behalf, he riaM the lots of the sentiment of pnb- lio esteem und gratitude still dinging to fciHNrilBWiUlDgtQ MkmwMg* 10*11 misplaced. The people of the North de mand that tho Southern States shall no longer be treated ss rebels, but shell rs- ooivo in good faith, and without reserva tion, the pardon tbat has been extended to them. To give over the beautiful end commercially important States of tbe fair est section of the Union to the ignorant and degraded rule of negroes just releas ed from bondage is an insult to the whito citizens of the North as well ss of tho South, and an outrage on the whole na tion. To snbjoct them to the corrupt and reckless schemes of the carpet-bag plun derers is but little less infamous. To hold them under military subjection for political purposes ia not only a cruel injus tice, but is a dangerous assault upon the freedom of the republio. As s consist ent and independent supporter of Gener al Grant’s administration, we now call upon him to show his detestation of theee political Mschiavelisms by proclaim ing his determination not to avail him self of the Ku Klux law in the approach ing elections, and to withdraw from the Houthern States every federal soldier nol required for the aotual legitimate pnrpoo- os of the government. The enforcement of this odious law is optional with him, nud he has the authority and the power by proclamation to declare the South in u condition to warrant tbe restoration ol civil law and of the writ of habeas oor- pus in every portion of her territory. This will ouablo the President nt once to freo himself from the responsibility and the unpopularity of the measures of hia unwise supporters iu Congress, and a rad ical change in the character of the federal office-holders throughout the South will further show his inclination to do justice to the Southern people at last, h oi the future, whatever may be the result of the pending Presidential election, the Herald will insist upon an entire change of policy towards tho Southern States under the next administration, and will hold every Congressman up to the contempt and scorn of the American people who favors iit>y measure for the oppression of the wliito men of the South. We shall de- iwuud from President Grant or President Greuley, as the ense may be, an honeet ohcdienco to tho will of the people, whioh is, unrestricted amnesty and non-inter- ftuc nco with the domestic affairs of any ot tho Southern States. The Herald will diligently watch for and expose every fu ture attempt to control the Southern ne gro vote as a unit for any party, and any injustice that may be done either by leg islation, by executive action or through lho influence of federal patronage, to tna white electors of the South. We recog nize the courage, the manhood and the loyalty of the Southern people now that tlio rebellion aud its causes are alike dead and buried, and we admit their equal title with ourselves to all the privileges and rights of tho constitution. We shall hold uny administration in the future respon sible for u constitutional treatment of that section of tho country and shall regard an iissanlt upon their liberties and privilegea as a crime against the republic. The CirosBi of the Kadicali. From Hit* Kichmoml Whig.] The righteous souls of tho Administra tion organs are sorely vexed by the doinga at Baltimore. Their immsoulato virtue is such thut they cannot comprehend how it wus that “the Grand old Democratic par ty" could bring itself to nominate Gree ley. They recoil from the disgrace as if it were their own, and cry shame, shame upon tho base surrenderors. Some of them are extremely Hentimental, some even lachrymose, while the sterner sort ovince unqualified indignation. No doubt it wonld have been much more pleasing to them all if the Democra cy had stuck to old dogmas and nomina ted Bourbon candidates, only to be beaten. Such virtue would have been admirable in Radioal eyes, and would have received the heartiest commendations. But these organs are inconsistent; In one breath they call the acquiescence of the Democracy in the Cincinnati ticket and platform a disgraceful surrender, while in the next, they declare that if Greeley is oleoted Demooratio principles and policy will prevail. The fact is they confounded that they cannot under hand the obaraoter and meaning of the great revolution now in progress. If they could for a moment take in the fact that it is an uprising of the people for reform in the Government, a great upheaval against the extremes of Radicalism, whioh Hours above mere party dogmas and inter est, they would get an inaight into ita ohuracter and meaning. They could theu understand how it is that all liberal- minded men among the old partiea have united, agreeing to forget the past with all its divisions, antagonisms and animos ities, and to look only to the present and tho future. The whole thing will soon become clear to all who have eyes to see und minds to understand. Meanwhile we would suggest that in stead of weeping over the decay of Dem ocratic virture, they had better prepare to shed tears over that wide spread corrup tion which has so appalled the publio minds as to attract together iu common brotherhood men and parties heretofore hostile. The want of virtue complained of is not in the Liberal Republicans or their allies, the Democrats, but in the par ty whose abuses, corruptions end tyran nies have been suoh as to alarm the publio conscience and to exoite the gravest fears of patriots. An Angel Seen in Heaven bt Rev. tt. Bingham.—On Sabbath morning ltcv. R. W. Bingham, pastor of the Meth odist Church of this city, preached on the visitations of angels, lie selected no par- t icular text, but read many passages of scripture to prove that angels have often Whited the earth, bearing messages from God aud conversed with men and women, uid insisted that these angelio visitations are not limited to time and place, that the men and women of tbe present day havo seen angels and heard them sing and talk as well as those mentioned in the Bi ble. After the preacher bad concluded this portion of his diaoonrae, he related his personal experience. He stated that (lod had permitted his sainted wife, (who died ou tbe — day of June) sinoe her death, to visit him twice—once by night aud once by day. He declared that on u certain night after her death, about the haiuo hour of the night on which she had outered Heaven, he waa awakened by mu sic, sweeter than earth oan know; that lie was fully aroused, with every power at his mind in full operation, and, in faot, could see his wife and hear und under stand her words as distinctly as the ocn- grugation could his. Mr. Bingham added, I know I am neither inaene or eupentl- tious, and’ffet I would aa eoon doubt my own existence as the truth end reality of what I have told you.—Neuman Herald. Fatal Accident.—A severe and fatal accident, the result of gross oareleeeneM, occurred yesterday on the line of the Sa vannah, Griffin and North Alabama Rail road, at a place called Whiteaburg, about twelve miles from Newnan, by whieh one man lost hia life end two othere were in jured. It seems Geo. Pereone, Albert McCoy and John Anderaon were a “gang" engaged in blasting. The two former era colored. The lattor white, a Swede—to having charge. A fuse had bean put in that wonld not go off, and the man wee# engaged in drilling it out, whan Urn water. became exhausted, and without atopptngj was OQMHMd, to procure moze the work an explosion naturally f<— George Persona, broke killed \xeuigv * »*■*'—i ——— thigh, and injured Moftty. V«M r .. dad iu Uaoon, und hit body w bcotuM . here yeaterduy («* buriul.—]** 3 •' aTafh ' , . T - 7:,^ Pun muituia, Inly IT. OcMMl ( i MMttofu Mt.