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s:j 00 PER ANNUM THE enterprise 13 rUDLISHKD WEEKLY BY DEIiNKY & ANDERSON. TKKMR OK SUBSCRIeVIoN. One Copy, Three Months, ~2 One Coi-'y Six Months, ------ « *j> < )nc Copy, One Y ear, - ■ * To Club.'S Six Cojiies One Year - - - * la 00 ADVERTISING KATES. One Square, (W Unoe of Br ‘7 icr > or 3of Mi,,,on i\ on Bsi-s:, t t sl “ JZlUcoilou as Terms —Cash on demand. Job Printing. w . are prepared to do all kinds of Job Work;swell **Xrds Circulars, Hand Bills, Posters, Ac., Ac., on short uoticc, and at the KY< JAMES W. ANDERSON. professional tfKfcfc * L. H. AN 1) ERSON, Attorney :t,aw ’ SOLICITOR I 'I EQUITY COVINGTON, GEORGIA. WM. W. CLARK & J. M. PACE, HAVE formed a partnership, and will transact all business entrusted to them in the counties of Morgan Jasper, Butts, Henry, Gwinnett Walton and 'Sewton, and in the District Court of the Lulled States at Atlanta. Special attention given to c “ B< * in Bankruptcy. ' w . w . C lauk, oct. 3 if M ~ t,ACK ‘ jrC. M O KRIS, Attorney at Law, CON VERS, GA. R . A. JONES, DENTIST, CONYERS, GEORGIA. Will he found prepared to put un work in his line which he feels confident, fromdus knowledge of the late improvements will give satisfaction t.n tliose who may favor him 3m3 JOHN S. CARROLL, D E N T I ST, COVINGTON, GEORGIA. To- 11 ' Filled, or New Teeth Inserted,in best Style, and or. Reasonable Terms Office, Rear of R. King’s Store. 1 ltf .1 AM E S M . LEV Y, Watchmaker & Jeweler, East side of the Square, COVINGTON, GEORGIA, Where he is prepared to Repair \\ atches, l locks and Jewelry in the best style. Particular atten ti*>n given to repairing atchen injured in competent workmen. All work warranted. PIANOS TUNED AND REPAIRED. PIMP. M’11,1,1 AM FISHER will his SATURDAYS to Tuning Jl§ )f ftnnil liepairing Pianos. He will ■visit families in the country, and convenient i points on the Rail Road for that purpose. Ills I ,mg experience will enable him to give satis- I faction to his employers. Charges reasonable, lie is permitted to rvf.r to President Otr. Covington, Ga., April 8,1868.—20 if DRS. DEARING & PRINGLE HAVING associated themselves in Hie Prac tice of MEDICINE and SURGERY, offer their professional services to the ci’izens of Newton county. Tlrey have opened an ofti eon the East side of the Square, (next door to S- Dewald’s Store,! and are prepared to attend to all calls promptly. They have also a carefully ►elected assortment, of the Very Best Medicines, and will give their personal attention to Com pounding Prescriptions, for Physicians and others. ■Special attention given to Chronic Diseases At night Dr. Rearing will be found at his residence, and l)r. Pringle at his rooms imme diately over the Store of G. 11. Sanders & liito. may 15, 25tf BOOT & SHOE SHO [would respectfully inform the citizens >v&[j of Covington and surrounding country Jyßl that lam now prepared to make to order G-t- BOOTS AND SHOES of the finest quality. As I work nothing but the Best Material, 1 will guarantee satisfaction. Shop over It. Kiug’s Store. e 6 au4ly JOSEPH BARBER H. T. n E N R Y, Resident Dentist. COVINGTON, GEORGIA. Is prepared with all the latest im <7/ provements in Dentistry, to give sat- J ~UUI_Lr isfaetion to all. Office north side of bsuare, —1 22tf JOS EPH Y. T INSL EY , Watchmaker & Jeweler Is fully prepared to Repair Watches, Clocks »nd Jewelry, iu the host Style, at short notice, All Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted. 2d door below the Court House.—stf Ceorgia Railroad Breakfast and Dinner House, At Berzelia. Ga., IT3BRSONS leaving Augusta by the 7 o’clock 1,, 1 (Morning) Train, Breakfast at ■jliorzelia. All persons leaving Atlanta by the 6 o clock (Morning) Train, Dine at Berzelia, Per sons leaving by the Freight Trains rim always ge . good men Is. lables al * nys provided flitli <he best tho market affords, 1 E. NEBIIUT, Prp’r SOLOMON DEWALD, AL nis old stand, sign of the BIG WATCH, Has received his Stock of Spring and Summer Coods. I He wishes to purchase all kinds of Produoo, or which he will pay the Highest Market Price *“ kAhH, or Goods.—2 40tl E ST T I S T XT Y . »RS. It. & ». IVOBLE, ’ SURGEON k MECHANICAL DENTISTS. t hep!nlbi rne v Rroild Rnd streets, in • nebuildmi known as ti,e Bell Granite, over aa oo lnckß ( ,r P et Store, Attastv O, THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE. DR . O . S . PROP HII T 1 Covington Georgia, Will still continue liis business, where be intend keeping On liaud a good supply of Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Together with a Lot of Botanic Medicines, Concentrated Preparations, Fluid Extracts. <tc. Ho is also putting up his Livor Mod-lcinos, FEMALE TOXIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL IT Vermifuge, inti-Bilious PilU, and ikany other preparations, ty Will give prompt attention to all orders PAimuiJLiit soricj:, lUr.after NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELIV EREI). or SERVICE RENDERED, except for CASH! You nee not call unless you tiro prepared to PAY CASH, for I will not Keep Books. Oct. 11, 1867. 0. S. PROPIIITT. Dr. Prophitt’s Liver Medicine. Certificate of Rev. M. W. Arsold, of Ga. Con. HAVING used this Medicine sufficiently long to test its virtue, and to satisfy my own mind that it is an invaluable remedy for Dyspepsia— a disease from which the writer has suffered much for six years—and being persuaded that hundreds who now suffer from thisaunoy ing com plaint, would be signally benefited, as be has been by its use—we deem it a duty we owe to this unfortunate class, to recommend to them the use of this remedy, which has given not only himself, but several members of his family the greatest relief M. W. ARNOLD. Rail Road Schedules, Georgia RaliroatS. E. W. COLE, General Superintendent. Day Passenger Train (Sundays excepted,) leaves Augusta at 6.00 am; leave Atlanta at 7am; ar rive at Augusta at 5.30 p m ; arrive at Atlanta at 4.20 p m. Nigitt Passenger Train leaves Augusta at 10.10 p.m ; leaves Atlanta at 5.10 p m ; arrives at Augusta at 3.00 a lit; arrives at Atlanta at 7.45 a til. Passengers for MffledgeviHc, Washington and Athens, Ga., must take the day passenger l rain from Augusta and Atlanta, or Intermediate points. Passengers for West Point, Montgomery, Selma, and intermediate points, can take either train. For Mobile, and New Orleans, must leave Augusta on Night Passenger Train, at 10.10 p. m. Passengers for Nashville, Corinth, Grand Junc tion, Memphis, Louisville, and St. Louis, can take either train and make close connections. Through Tickets and baggage checked through to the above places. Sleeping cars on all night pas senger trains. MACON & AUGUSTA RAILROAD. E. W. COLE, Gen'l Sup’t. Leave Camak daily at 2.40 i>. m.: arrive at Mill edge vine at 0.20 P. M.; leave Milledgeville at 5.30 a.m.; arrive at Camak at. 8.55 A. n. Passengers leaving any point, on the Georgia R. R., by Day Passenger train, will make close connec tion at Camak for Milledgeville, Entouton, and a!! intermediate points on the Macon A Augusta road, and for Macon. Passengers leaving Milledgeville at. 5.30 A. M., reach Atlanta and Augusta the same day. SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. 11. T. Peake, General Sup’t. Special mail train, going North, leaves Augusta at 3.55 a m. arrives at. Kingsville at 11.15 a m ; leaves Kingsville at 13.05 p m, arrives at Augusta at 7.25 p. m. This train is designed especially lor through travel. The train for Charleston leaves Augusta at 7 am, and arrives at Charleston at 4pm; leaves Charles ton at 8 am, and arrives at Augusta at 5 p in. Night special freight and express train leaves Au gusta (Sundays excepted) at 3.50 p in, and arrives at Charleston ai 4.30 a m ; leaves Charleston at 7.30-p m, and arrives at Augusta at, 7.35 a m. WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R. Campbell Wallace, General Superintendent. Daily passenger train, except Sunday, leaves At lanta at. 8.45 am, and arrives at Chattanooga at 6.35 p m ; leaves Chat tanooga at 3.20 a in, and arrives at Atlanta at 13.05 p m. Night express passenger train leaves Atlanta at. 7 p m, and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.10 a iu ; leaves Chattanooga at 4.30 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at 1.41 a m. MACON & WESTERN RAILROAD. E. B. Walker, Gen’l Sup't. Day passenger t rain leaves Macon at 7.45 am, and rrives at Atlanta at 2 p tn ; leaves Atlanta at 7.15 a -n, and arrives at Macon at 1.30 p m. Night passenger train leaves Atlanta at 3.10 p m, and arrives at Macon at 4.25 am; leaves Macon at 8.30 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at 4.30 a m. Hotels. PLANTERS HOTEL. JGT'STA, GEORGIA. ATEWLY furnished and refitted, unsurpassed by L - anv Hotel South, is now open to the Public. T. S. NICKERSON, Prop’r. Late of Mills Honse, Charleston, and Proprietor of Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia, S. C. United States Hotel. ATLANTA GEORGIA WHITAKER A SASSEEN, Proprietors. Within One Hundred Yards of tho General Passcn ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets, AMERICAN HOTEL, Alalwima street, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Nearest house to the Passenger Depot. WHITE & WHITLOCK, Proprietors. W. D. Wiley, Clerk. Having re-leased and renovated the above Hotel, we are prepared to entertain guests iw»a most satisfactory manner. Charges fair and moderate. Our efforts will be to please. Baggage carried to and from De.pot free of charge TOBN T P S ! ('I ROW THEM LARGE AND FINS, AND I PLENTY OF THEM. Now is the lime to sow the Seed, but first thoroughly prepare your land ; and if it is not rich enough, call on us and get a reliable FER TILIZER Don’t neglect your own interest, by failing to use all proper means to ensure a bountiful tupplv of this most, excellent Winter crop— good for man and beast. We are closing out our Summer stools.,. At Greatly Reduced Prims! Aug. 14.—SStf ANDLKriuN it HUNTER- COVINGTON. GA., SUIT. 4, 1808. From the Charleston Mercury. Notes and Queries. [A correspondent sends us the following poem If any of ottr readers know the author, we should he glad to hear from them. These beautilul Hues, which must touch more or less deeply the hearts of all of us, first made their appearance some twenty five years ago iu the columns of an obscure news paper published In Ttpi<ernry, Ireland. 1\ c thought at the time, and still believe, they could have come from noue other thou the pen of the lamented Ger ald Gray.— Ed. Cxi. Mick.] WE ARE GROWING OLD. We are growing old —liovv the thought will rise, When a glance is backward cast, Oil sothe long remembered spot that lies Iu the silence of the past. It may be the shrine of our early vows, Or the tomb of early tears ; But it seems like a Cir-oIT isle to ns, In the stormy sea of years. Oh ! wide and w ild are the waves that part Our stcqis trom its greenness notv\ And we miss the joy of many a heart, And the light of many a brow. For deep o’er many a stately hoi k. Have the whelming billows rolled, That steered with us from that early mark — Oh ! frieuds, we arc growing old! Old in the dimness of the dust Os our daily toils and cares— Old iu the wrecks of love and trust Which our burthened memory bears, Each form may wear to the passing g azu The bloom of life’s freshness yet. And beams may brighten our latter days Which the morning never met. But oh ! the changes wc have seen, In the far and winding way, The graves in our paths that have grown green, And the locks that have grown gray! The Winters still on our own may spare The sable or the gold ; But we see their snows upon brighter hair, And, friends, w e are grow ing old! We have gained the world’s cold wisdom now, We have learned to pause and fear, But where are the living founts whose fjow Was a joy of heart to hear ? We have won the wealth of many a clinic, And the lore of many a page; But where is the hope that saw in time But its boundless heritage ? Will it come again when the violet wakes, And the woods tlicir youth renew ? We have stood iu tlic light of sunny brakes Where the bloom is deep and blue; And our souls might joy iu the Spring time then, But the joy was faint and cold; For it never could give us the youth again Os hearts that are growing old! The licit. Jefferson Dnvis In England. AVe copy from the London Standard, of the Bth instant, the following article on the arrival in England, of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, ex- President of the Southern Confederacy. It pays a deservedly high compliment to Mr. Davis and tho gallant soldiers who fought bo nobly to sustain a cause which was dear to them. It will well repay perusal: The arrival in England of the late President of the Confederate States has naturally excited much interest and attention. It could not be otherwise, considering the deep and anxious feeling with which men of all parties and of opposite sympathies watched for four long years the progress of the American struggle. To the enthusiasm of that political sect which makes a species of religion of its devotion to the negro and its abhorrence of slavery, Mr. Davis was during those four years the repre sentative incarnation of political and social evil—the leader of the last effort of the failing cause of tyranny in its conflict with the spirit of progress and humanity. To an opposite class of minds he was the representative of the cause of law and order against the anarchical and democratic tendencies of the age; the chosen champion of a people, who, from tho peculiar time and circumstances of their strug gle appeared to be maintaining the critical and decisive contest of the old order against the new, of aristocracy against democracy, of lib erty against the despotism of majorities, of Conservatism against political chaos and social revolution. In the opinion of not a few of those who dissent most strongly from the pre valent worship of ‘‘the nineteenth century,” the interest of the South was the common interest of all monarchical and aristocratic societies—of all orders whose position rests upon settled law and ancient tradition, as against the leveling temper of American De mocracy. “This by no narrow hounds was circumscribed, It was tho cause of chivalry at large.” And there can be no doubt that the fall of the South gave an impulse and encouragement to the progress of the Democratic spirit through out Christendom greater than any it has re ceived since the French Revolution. To a much larger class than either of these two extreme parties Mr. Davis is simply the chief and representative of a lost cause, in which millions flf Englishmen felt a strong and earn est sympathy, which they believed to be the cause of constitutional right and substantial justice, as well as of national independence and public liberty, and whose fall they still regret, lie is tho defeated leader of a gallant but unfortunate people, whose heroic struggle against overwhelming odds elicited the reluc tant admiration of their enemies, and excited tho warmest interest among multitudes of mhn indifferent to or ignorant of the original merits of the quarrel. lie is the tiro of the nation which for four years, asser ted its independence against armies fourfold greater than its own; which, with half a doz en cruisers, almost swept from the seas the commerce of a power whose naval force was Second only toour own ; which without money, without foreign trade, blockadod by sea and land, held its own during that long period against a foe possessed of boundless resources, and lavishing them without stint; which fought to the last in a spirit of chivalrous courage and generosity, never provoked by its sufferings into ■'savagery, or exasperated by outrages into cruel retaliation; and which, after its surrender, commanded as inueh ret' cretiee by its patient fortitude and loyal accep tance of the inevitable, as during the struggfo it had excited admiration by its gallantry aftd endurance. Mr. Davis comes to us the representative of Virginia and her sisters in Struggle and suffering ; as*the commander-in chief of those armies which under Leo and Jackson, Johnson and Beauregard, achieved so long ■ a series of extraordinary though finally fruitless victories ; ns the chosen chief and finally the long-suffering martyr of the 1 cause for which Lee and Johnson fought, for which Stewart, Stonewall Jackson, Morgan, Cleburne and Ashby fell. It is in this capacity that he chiefly calls forth the sympathies of Englishmen ; it is not as the enemy of ttic North, nor as the repress cntntivC of Secession, least of all as the cham pion of slavery that ho is welcome to as. It is the chief of the ‘Southern armies, the head of th Southern people, the statesman whoso wisdom, skill and tenacious courage we learnt during that arduous strug gle to appreciate and admire — tho suffering prisoner of Fortress Monroe, the exiled patri ot, who was so heartily cheered on the quay at Liverpool, and will be cheered with equal heartiness wherever lie appears before a crowd of Englishmen. It would he a most unfortunate as well as a most unjust interpretation of the reception given to Mr. Davis if it were understood or represented in the North as a demonstration of hostility to the present Government or Consti tution of the United States, or of ill-will to the conquerors in the war. The Americans should remember, in the first place, that we have nothing to do with their political feuds, now that the sword is no longer invoked to decide as between nation and nation. We have no concern with the existing relations between the North and South, or with the antagonism be tween Democrats and Republicans; nor can we, in our treatment of distinguished Amer ican, be expected to take cognizance of the exclusion of his State, or of the order to which he belongs, from Federal privileges or civic rights. To us the South is now a part of the Union; in Mr Jefferson Davis wo welcome a citizen of the United States. It would be most ungracious on our part to assume to take notice of the fact that this citizen is proscribed and disfranchised, or that the people with whom, in his person, we sympathize are not really represented in Congress or admitted to the Union. There can, therefore, be no affront to the United States, as a whole, in courtesies shown to the hero and martyr of the South.— And our sympathies with the Confederates in th - past, as with the weaker and defensive side, being notorious, it would be merely contempti ble on our part, and certainly would be no compliment to the good sense of the American people, if for fear of offending them we were now to pretend to have changed our views and repented our feelings. We accept, as the South has done, the result of the war. without pre tending any more than she pretends, to be ashamed of a cause -which was gallantly sus tained. because it was finally unfortunate. In receiving with a cordial welcome the chief representative of that cause, we are doing honor to the dead rather than to the living— are expressing our sympathy with tho heroism and the misfortunes of the past, not with the resentments of the present or the possible as pirations of the future. And if it be the case Mr. Davis is more warmly welcomed than a Northern statesman of equal eminence would be—if we should greet General Lea more heaitily than his victor—Americans are suffi ciently akin to us to understand how much more strongly greatness in misfortune appeals to our affections than greatness in triumph; to remember, moreover, that the conditions of the conflict gave to no Northern chief a chance of such distinction and honor as the Southern leaders have earned by their heroic struggle against adverse fortune—by skill displayed in creating resources out of nothing; by victories gained against unparalleled odds; by the courage that never quailed before the darkest prospects, and an endurance that never broke down under the heaviest load of labor, anxiety and calamity. These are the achievements and the qualities that wo honor in Jefferson Davis; nor, in honoring him and them, can we be said to do wrong or discourtesy to those who were onoe his enemies, and are now his fellow-countrymen, Letter from Gen. John B> Gordon. Atlanta Ga., August 17, 1868. Messrs. IF. IF. Screws , Jos. Hodgson and A. 11. Moses — Gentlemen : Yours of tho Bth iustant is received. My heart is with you, as would be my hand and head in action and council on the day you designate if a multi tude of public and private engagements did not absolutely forbid. You understand the momentous character of the issues before the country. No hyper bole can exaggerate them. Why is the whole country so aroused? Why are we at the South and the great masses at tho North enlisted in this campaign ? Why do we seo the “White Boys in Blue” uud the white boys who wore “the Grey,’ the soldiers of the North and tho scldiers of the South, the men who recently confronted each other in the war, now moving side by side with looked shields under the tame banners ? The reason is obvious. They have now a common enemy. They surrendered secession and accepted Union under the Constitution. Tho soldiers of tho North enlisted to fight secession. They and those who gave their money and sons to the army, believed its triumph of tho Union and the Constitution. The Constitution is tho only bond of this Union. Upon this all are agreed. There can bo no other bond of union under our system. Yet without a blush, with out a pang, tho oracles of Republicanism— this common enemy—in utter scorn of respon sibility and in utter contempt of public opin ion, proclaim and pructioe a policy of tyranny “outside of the Constitution.” Hence the South fcclsshe has been deceived ; while many at the North, who supported the war, feel that they have been defrauded of the just trophies of their triumph and cheated out of their blood. A® sequences of this “outside” legislation have followed a series of wrongs, each of which has been the parent of a whole blood of evils and oppressions. “Disunion” has been perpetuated in viola tion of the implied terms of the surrender against the manifest wishes of a large majori ty of the people, of both sections. Taxation without representation, at which Saxon Liberty turns pale because it has al ways been the portent, the precursor, hitherto the banner of bloody revolutions; this shame less outrage has been perpetuated by this common enemy, not only without authority, but without the condescension of apology. The open coronation has been made in the face of day, of the military over prostrate constitutions, and all the old sacred institu tions of civil liberty, the substance, the es sence, the very definition of despotism. Ten States of this Union, like captive mon archs of antiquity in old Rome, have been made to march before the chariot; while the Federal Executive and Judiciary, repres entative of tho rout, have been dragged at the wheels of this triumphant tyranny. They have evinced the same reverenoe for the Constitution of our Fathers that Caligula did for the Roman, when in contempt and de rision of the people, the haughty monarch in vested his riding horse with the dignity of the consulate over the prostrate neck of that once proud people. Even when they have used some of tho simulated Constitutional forms, such as’elections, to perfect the schemes, these have only been the sheath of tho poniard that they might give the fatal stab to liberty with more cunning security. To crown all and cap the climax of these enormities they have made a recently servile race the political superiors of the educated classes of the South, and now by the vilest tools of party to shape the prejudice and in crease the hatred of this race] against the whites, by representations, which they know to be false, and thus to provoke a war of races, which they know to be imminent. AYhat are we to dot Endure 1 That 16 the great virtue wc must continue to practice until the magnanimous millions at the North, who feel outraged by these wrongs, shall right them at the ballot-box. We have borne much —we have much to do now—particularly you of Alabama. But let us exercise the extreme of self control, abstmin from violence and un due excitement. Radicalism lives upon ex citement. It is a great speculator in the pa thetic. It attempts to deceive and madden the honest sympathies of the North, by get ting up a spectacle of blood, just as the Mata- of the Spanish bull-fight goads and mad dens the noble animal to bis death, by waving beiore him the object of his special aversion— the blood red scarf. Let us endeavor to dis appoint them. Let us not visit upon the heads of the unfortunate and deluded negro the sins of the bad white men who teach him to aban don, hate and insult his best friends. Let us be kind and forbearing toward him still—remembering that he is beguiled into the commission of outrages by unscrupulous demagogues, all over the South, who are now persuading him that if the Democratic party triumphs, it will rc-enslave him. I repeat, let us be kind and forbearing. We may thus avaid collision. Os this, however, I am not sanguine, for the Radicals among us are intent upon it. Blood, not truth is their capital in trade—excitement and passion their only am munition in this campaigh—and we must not permit them to get up a row, blow out the lights, and then in the confusion of false is sues, escape the just judgments of the long suffering Southern, and indignant Northern people. I am, gentlemen, with high regards, yours most truly, J. B. Goroon. On The Brink—Are We Abont To Be Plunged into a Revolution? All recent movements of the managers in the Republican party point to the conclusion that the purpose of tho leaders in that party is to inaugurate Mr. Grant in the Presidential office against the will of a majority of tho American people. The disfranchisement of so large a majority of white men as to give the political power iu tho Southern States to Ethiopians and carpet-baggers was the first bold movement in that direction. The act declaring that the electoral votes of Virginia. Mississippi, and Texas should not be counted was intended for that and for no other purpose. AYhat difference could it make concerning the assumed right of Congress to deny to thoso States representation in the Senate and House of Representatives whether their electoral votes were counted or not ? It has not even been pretended, in any quarter, that it could make any difference. Certainly it could not. If it had been supposed probable that those States would cast their electoral votes for Mr. Grant, no jacobins iu the whole list would have thought of denying their right to vote for President, or could h»ve been per suaded by any argument to favor so outrageous a position. It was simply and only the, belief that they would vote for Mr. Seymour that caused the leaders in the party to say their votes should not be counted. The suggestions from the Jacobin directoty, or “Congressional Republican Committee,” m VOL. 3. NO. 41 AVashington, to the black-nnd-tan legislatures, that they, and not the people in the Southern States, should appoint the Presidential electors, was another move toward the same object.— It was caused by apprehension in the Jacobin mind to which recent information from the Southern States has given rise—apprehensions that after all the time spent, and efforts ex huusted, and armies emploped, and public revenue squandered, to reconstruct the South ern States so that the Jacobin party could count their votes in Congress and the Presi dential election, tlicir schemes will fail unless they can prevent even the voting negroes and carpet-baggers that have been elevated with so much trouble to the station of ruling class, from appointing the Presidential electors. The applications of the carpet-bagger offi cials for arms and ammunition mean the same thing. They mean the enforcement of official power against tho authority of numbers—of the minority against tho majority—or might against right. They mean tho giving of eleo toral votes to Mr. Grant by overpowering the will of the majority. Tho recent declarations by prominent Re publican candidates in the Northern States that, should Mr. Seymour receive a majority of the electoral votes, his inauguration will bo prevented by the power of cannon and bayo nets, is simply an expression of the same par tisan purpose—the purpose to inaugurate Mr. Grnnt in the Presidential office against and in spite of the will of the majority. Tho many indications pointing to this con clusion ought not to he overlooked or lost sight of. They are portents too serious to be trifled with. They are omens of evil that no soph omorical subterfuge can disguise from the people who will pause to think. The will of the majority, expressed in the lawful way, is the highest possible law in this, as in every other republic. To prevent the lawful ex pression of that will, with intent to defeit it, is to defy and override that will itself. It is treason of the worst character. It is revolu tion pure and simple. Let it he generally understood that tho Jacobin party, assisted by bondholders’ gold, intended to defeat the will of the majority by fraud and force, and it will need no further political argument to assure a majority for Seymour and Blair in every State in the re public. And there is no disguising the fact that the movements and declarations of the leaders in that party clearly indicate such a purpose. —Chicago Times. From the Boston Post. Mr. Pendleton’s Speech. In his masterly and statesmanlike speech at Bangor, which for breadth of view, an intelli gent appreciation of public affairs, and a phil osophic understanding of the character and working of our Government has no superior among the purely political efforts of the time, Mr. Pendloton remarked, with solemn truth, that this is “the supreme hour of our fate” as a nation. “We are engaged,” he said, “in no scramble for office. We are stimulated by no last for power. This struggle touches tho life of ou r confederated system. It will decide in the far off future, the destiny of our country. If our opponents succeed, we shall have, first, unity (not union,) then despotism, then revolt, then separation, and then—whatever God, in his wrath, may inflict. If they fail, we shall have the Constitution obeyed, the Union main tained, liberty enjoyed, prosperity abounding, peace everywhere, and all the glories of our past career will he but as the early bud com pared with the blooming beauties of the full blown flower.” The solemn significance ot this contest has not been overstated. What we have to meet in the form of usurpation, consolidation and tyranny, we already have a chance to under stand. The problem has lost its mystery.— We see the yawning gull into which all that is dear is threatened to be thrown. The road on which we set out, that is the very one which we are asked to follow; and, experience testifies that it leads straight to destruction.— Look at the long list of Radical measures, pre texts, schemes and legislative inventions, by which liberty and money are both snatched from the possession of the people. Why these Commissions, Bureaus, Military Courts and Governments, Amendments to the Constitution,. Reconstruction laws outside the Constitution, and plans for arming the negroes-against the whites ? For nothing but to perpetuate Radi cal power. Nothing of the sort is required for I the proper administration of tho Federal Gov ernment in the South. Nothing of the kindia demanded for the pacification of the people, the restoration of fraternal feeling, or the renewal of constitutional relations. These things are so many devices, conceived and framed in the interest of Radical supremacy. That party simply seeks to keep the negroes uppermost politically, because it believes it can control their votes. And for such a reason the people of tho North are taxed certainly two hundred millions a year more than they ought to be, and will in all likelihood continue to be so taxed as long as there is anything left froiu the results of labor to be sweated into the ser vice of this usurping party. Why are prices still so-high, taking one hundred millions a year from the industry of the laboring people of the country? AVhy ar* there not full crops of cotton, rice, tobacco and sugar, from the productive Southern States t Why is there so slow a home market for tho products of tho AVest, and no commerce for the merchants and shipowners of tho East ? Whj to this general stagnation and half-palsy to added a system of high taxes, the practical diminution of wages by the enhancement of prices, and a genoral cost of living and govern ment under which the whole country groans f AVhat is the necessity of wringing from the people nearly sixteen hundred millions of dol lars in three years, w hen so moagre a share of it has been devoted to the reduction of the debt. The same party that is respDusible for such a state of things, stands arraigned for its efforts to corrupt and destroy our republican system of government. If it is entrusted with a longer lease of power, we shall soon have neither property or liberty. It is a leech that has fastened upon the vitals of the Republic, and will destroy its life, unless its own is de stroyed first. When such a crisis has arrived for a nation, it is indeed the hour of its fate