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" h nnU ’ JAMES DELANEY,
JAMES VY. AM)EKSON.
WM. W. CURK & J. ffl. PACE,
7 I AYE formed a partnership, and w ill trails, tall
11 business entrusted to thorn in the oo.„,, i ■- of
, .7 lasoer liuUs, Henry, Gwjunett, \Salion,
J | r Cio.i anil in the District Court of tile United
St a tea a t Attain ts. Special attention given to cases
b rtaukruytey.
w. w Clark,
q J. M. PACK.
j. <’. M O II 11 I S ,
ttorncy at Ijaw,
roN VERS, GA.
l. A N T 1) E K S O N.
■ icy Cit Law,
N II
I . 17 K.Q U I T Y
fixe, TO X. OK< > li CIA.
1 . 4 J«» K » ,
a 3 J T I » TANARUS,
EONYKRS, GEORGIA.
I e iretl to put up work in li is
tee s c mli cm from hi-* knowledge
i, in,iv m nis will rive satisfaction
I, - who in iv a- or him—3ni3
- - UIUOLL,
□ £ itl T i S T ,
COVINGTON GK.OliGll
Teeth I'dled, or New Tetth Inserted,to
the ties’ Style, and or. Reasonable Terms
s,fee Rear of R. King's Store.— 1 ltf
, l a K s M LE V Y
\V tchvdaker & Jeweler,
East side of the Square,
, urn' '* GEORGIA,
- e i el to !. pair Watches, Clocks
i |. .-I ui t,c bos'style. I’urtieul.ii- att.-n
--i ■ ■ eoi p .ii ing • atelies injured by in
-.ou t . wm-kmeii. All work warranted.
Pi’ W TUNS* AHI BSPAOEB.
r~T- I'K !'• Wil l lAM FISHER will
o-'f 'w Saturdays to Tuning
- ' f Dm l "epairing Plating. He will
iit i tie ii the country, a-ul convenient
ever cue wii' enable him to give satis
, i ,i his e In ors. Charges reasonable.
S•• It',’ to r fer to President Oil'.
~ .. , (I A ril 8 1868.—20 if
DIS. DEALING & PJHNCLS
HtV i. a s ciated themselves in the Prac
, c ,f MED ’ N and SURGERY, offer
■ i „ essimial services to the citizens of
■ entity. Toe. have opened‘l n ,ptft eon
» ''a<* side of the Squire, (next, door to S'
• w -.i n’s —,t re.l an e prepared to attend to
cl a 1 s -rompt.lv They hav • also a carefully
e c da s.rtident. o‘ the
V r y 53©3t Medicines,
. • yjii give their persiHtal a< tent ion to Com
ing Prescription*, for Physicians and
Special Attention given to Chronic Diseases
At ni I) . 1 taking wii lie found at, his
r» id i.ee, and It Pbinolh at his moms imme
d t-1 V r the Store of C. II Sanußrs & i>Ro.
y 15, 25tf
DOT & SHOE SHOP.
[would respectfully inform 'lie citizen? 1
of Covington ami snrrotiu■Ungcountrx jr Si
. In no * prep re Ito make to order
II 0 0 T S AN D S II 0E S
« Hi. ti-fcsi qualify. As 1 Work' nothing but
i i* best Matt-vial, I will guarantee satisfaction,
on ■ -vc !,'. King’s Stol e.
a II JOSEPH DAUBER
II T HEN KY.
■ sid e n t Dentist.
CnVI GTON. GEORGIA
% Is prepared with all the latest im
su provemenU in Dentistry, to trive sat
■' is tact ion to all. Office north side of
otiiiirc, —1 22tf
■ l Y. T INS LE Y
V itch maker & Jew.ier
~ vie I t i Repair latches, Ulo ks
-I in ;.eb >si -Mvie, at short notice,
r. nn. ai Old ibices, and Warranted,
b |,iw Hie t ourt House. —6tf
D" -n HARNESS SHOP.
q. ( would respect fully inform tlie
citizens lit' New to I. and adjoining
OvIBQi auntie-, Hint l hn-vo opened a
SAUDI.I! and IIAKNEsSSIiOP
dn n * Hi -ide n b ie square in COVINGTON,
. W ia> lam prepared to ni ke o ord-T, Harness,
a d es, ,t, c, nr Repair tbe same a short notice,
it'd t.a.. Peat sty e.
' 47 ‘ JAMES It. BROWN,
TH= WATER DRAWER.
M-J:» and, M-. RKs of Georgia, has pur
ha ed the r.g t tbr this most valuable
’’ -T'b gM i- i,e Ihe beat. Machine foi
d'i ing aer ta o.ii an nidi nary well, with
R i e and i, ii,a-s S lnple, durable, and c cap
any* laitd n Si> .yem-p can draw it. It emp
i s itaeil yli i g ( ami ,-an be applied to any
■" and ii lk, lea ure in - e'-ouimeiuli-tg it to
ne ,ub ,r. lli- lia- 1 unty and t ate Rights for
- - dan b, sine-8 man can certainly make
"hoy lit. yf jt. Adily, £9
•'d' l - )!,j M. 11. MARKS, Atlanta, Ga.
Ceorgia Railroad
Breakfast and Dinner House,
At Berzelia. Ga.,
‘ n.lt--t)Ns earin ' Augusta by the 7 o’clock
P issugrr (Morning) Train, Breakfast ay
e r.i>| a persons leaving Atlanta by the 5
’etc, k (Morin ,if) I’l-ain, Dineat Berzelia, Per
s-i ,s 'eiivia r b tbe Freight Trains can always
izei geo me da. Tables nl ays provided with
the best the market affords,
E. NEBHUT, Prp’r
THE CJBOKGIA BNTB1FKISB?
DR. O . S . PROPHiTI
Covington Gkorgia.
Will still ci ntiiiuc his business, where lie intend
ki.-eping on hand a good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs,
Together with a Lot of
Botanic Medicines,
Concentrated Preparations, Fluid Extracts. Ac.
lie is also putting up his
Livei* Modloiixes,
FEMALE TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL I I
Vermifuge, Anti-Bilious Pills,
and many other preparations,
£s*TWillgive prompt attention to all orders
PARTICULAR NOTICE.
Hen-after NO MEDICINE WILL BE DEWY
BRED, or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
O A. J3 IX !
Yott nee not call unless you. arc prepared to
PAY CASH, for I wi 1 not Keep Books.
Dct. 11 18G7. O. 3. Pitt)PH ITT.
Dr. Prophitt’s Liver Medicine.
Certifijjn'fe of Rev. M. W. Arnold, of Ga. (Dm.
f rAYINC used this Medicine sufficiently long
I I to test its virtue, and to satisfy m v own niinii
tliat it is an invaluable remedy for Dispepsia—
ftdisA3.sc from which the writer has suffered
much for six years —and being pcV-u ide l tlifit. ‘
Ini'"bed* wlo now suffer from this annoy ins eotn-
I>!ain I, would be signally benefited, as lie has he.n
by its use—we deem it a du’y we "«e to this
unfortunate class, to recommend to them the i se
of this remedy, widen has given not only himself,
but several members of li is family the greatest
relief NI. IV. ARNOLD.
if E AY S V* ft SI
At J. M. Hurst & Bro’g Old Stand,
North Side of the Public Square,
COVINGTON, GA.
[AM now receiving and opening a well se
lected Stock of
DRY GOODS,
Raady Made Clothing,
XI ats, oiiona,
A Very Superior stock of
- II O ES £3 w
I iiavc a’so a Fine Slock of
Family Groceries.
nnoc ku n v c. r. a ssw in f .c -n
Cali and examine iuv stock, and 1 will m .ke
tlie pric s satisfactory.
47tf T. J. SHI.PHEE.D.
ANDERSOU & HUNTEE
Are now riady for the
FALL AND WINTER TRADE i
JUST t-PENED, a large nrd well selected
stock ot
33 X* 37- Gr o o d’s ,
of every Description,
HAT’S & CAL’S. BOOTS &x SHOES,
every description of Gents’ Furnishing Goo 1-,
groceries.
Hardware, Agricultural Implements,
And any and every tiling else that i- ever kept
in a First Class Store. Give us a eall.-40tf
111 > t Vls.
PLANTERS HOTEL.
JOUSTA, GF.OHGI A.
furnished and refitted, unsurpassed by
It anv Ilotel Soutli, is now open to tlie Public.
T. 8. NICKERSON, Prop’r.
Late of Mills House, Charleston, and Proprietor of
Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia, S. C.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GKOUQIA
WHITAKER <& SASSEICN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passen
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets, _
AMERICAN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GKORGIA,
Nearest house to the Pns«cng.-r I>epnt.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Proprietors.
W. D. W [lev, Clerk.
Having re-leased and renovated the above
I Hotel, we are prepared tp entertain guests in a
i most satisfactory manner. Charges fair and
I moderate. Our efforts will be to please.
Baggage carried to and from Depot free of charge
FARE REDUCED
AUGUSTA HOTEL.
i rpifis FIRST CLASS HOTEL is situated on
L Broad Street, Central to the business por
tion of the City, and conveiiiem to the Tele
graph and Express Offices. The House is large
md commodious, and lias been renovated and
newly painted from garret to cellar, and the
beddiug nearlv all new since the war. The
rooms are large and airy ; clean beds, and the
fare as good as the country affords, and atten
-1 t,ive and polite servants.
I Ciiaboes. —Two Dollars per day.
Single Meals 75 Cents.
I ! ope to merit a liberal share of patronage
fiotu the traveling public.
Give me a trial and judge for yourselves.
8. M. JONES, Prop’r.
D R IED FRU IT
HyE WILL PAY THE . Flsr MARKET
Price for Merchantable Dried Fruit.
Those wi-hing Fresh and Reliable CLOVER
or GRASS SEED, can be supplied in quantities
to suit, by early application to
J ANDERSON A HUNTER,
J August 21,1868.—39tf.
COVIX.GT.ON, G.l, OCT. 30, 1808.
Restore Those Sun s.
IIV JAMKS LIE RLYTF.R lILACKH ell.
Restore those stars ! p|i. let tlic-tn shine
Upon otir flag again 1
And let them, as in days gone By,
Gleam o’er the land and main.
\Vo want "no mutilated ilag,
Where dismal blanks may tell
That mbs which once shone brightly there
Have Bid its folds farewell.
No ! they shall not Be stricken from
That constellation bright.
And, like the wandering Pleiad's fires,
lie quenched in endless night.
We'll set them in their place again
Os glory nml renown ;
And, like those circling round the pole,
They never shall go down.
Yes! they shall ever glitter where
That ineetor nag’s unfurled.
And he with all their kindred stars
The hope stars of the world.
O.ifuinßi'a, wipe away thy tears ;
Thy flag shall he restored,
With nc-t a single stripe erased,
Nor single star ohsemed.
And it shall float in ample folds.
And flaunt the hree/.e in pride,
Where'er the victor legions tread.
Or .amquertiig navies ride.
And every heart shall leap with joy
To.see that flag onee more
Triumphant- wave o'er land and sea,
As it was waved of yore.
—rtt, .. -dr*--. *——
“Bitlc Your Time.”
So said J. Q Adams at Columbia, S. C. So
say we, with all p ssible earnestness.
But—
Sit down l.e c m r man, in this 1 a rel of boil
ing pitch while I pour a hod full of live coals
into yeur lap and laston a heavy, white hot
iron collar around your neck. The situation
mav he unpleasant, hut don't lie impatient,
for I will scud a negro around every half Imur
ot so 'to spit in y on- fuce. and will e one myself
regularly to aliti-e Von !ik< 11 ih'g and tell all
manner of lies nrum you. Take it easy, hide
your time, and at the end of fbur or five years
if fin entirely satisfied that you have on unkind
feeling touaid tin; n-egro and love me—really
love l think I ought to Be ievetk why
then I may perhaps f rgße you, let you up
and permit ymi to work f r my Benefit ju<t as
von did before the war, and just as if nothing
All DA! rage.
A Wisconsin paper has e->ine in possession
.of the following particulars of a little Kit Iv'ux
outrage which was recently perpetrated in Al
abama. Tint boys wore rather severe in their
treatment of Mrs. Bagger, hut ,she prolmbly
deserve 1 it. and ought to thank her stars ti.at
she was not seriously hurt:
H A horrible outrage was committed in the
State, of Alabama a few days ago. Our infor
mant is ft reliable negro,, who hoard the pars
tieuiars from a member of the Loyal League
who got his information from a fellow who lost
a cousin in the late war. It seems that a- !r.
Carpet Bagger was attacked in his own house
bv 1,(712 Ku Kluxes, -armed with double bar
relled howic knives. They slaughtered and
ate nineteen of Mr. Bugger's children before
his eyes, and compelled Mrs. Bagger to cut
her own head off and hang it on a hook it) the
collar. She was then ordered ti keen still
upon pain of instant death. She happened to
sneeze,'and the leader of the dastardly crew
immediately had it thrashing machine sot up,
and run Airs. Bagger through. It is very
doubtful if she recovers. Mr. Bagger was
then forced to swallow four tons of gunpowder
and a handful of n'fro-glycerine. lie was next
dieted on live coals until an explosion took
place, which subjected Mr. Bagger to such in
tense pain as almost to deprive him of reason.
They next shot him full of holes, and made
him hurrah for Jefferson Davis and Horace
Greeley, and finally inoculated him with the
small pox. and soaked him in strong lye. lie
was threatened with instant death if he reveal
ed the names of any of the perpetrators of this
outrage, all of whom arc neighbors of Mr. Bag
<rci-i and who hate him because he was a loyal
sutler and cotton speculator during the war,
and now lives on a confiscated plantation, wiih
enough negroes to elect him to the Legislature.
It is feared that Mr. Bagger has sustained such
internal injuries that ho is not able to appear
as a witness at the military commission ap
pointed to try some ex-robels for reading Dem
ocratic newspapers."*
Worried to Death.— This is a very com
mon expression with a metaphorical meaning;
but many a time, alas! it is really true,
especially so with the over-sensitive—the too
high-strung. But it in rrften an unnecessary re
suit, arising from idleness, giving time to brood
over trifles, or from the, wicked and weak-mind
ed habit of getting into a worry about trifling
things. I once knew a lady to cry because
it rained before she eoulti have some work
finished around her splendid city mansion.—
All of us should accustom onrselves to take
things by their smooth handle, remembering
i that it has been wisely said : The secret of
comfort lies in not suffering trifles to Tex one,
and|in prudently cultivating an overgrowth of
small pleasures, since very great ones are let
on long leases.” — Hall’s Journal o f Health.
In North Carolina they are raising anew
kind of cotton called “wool cotton,” nearly the
I color of wool. It is said to be a superior article.
Let Its Have a Change.
Lei us have a change! says an exchange.
A change cau do no harm, hut u world of good.
The taxed farmers cull for a change.
The taxed mechanics, cal! for a change.
The tax’d merchants cull for a change.
The taxed laboring men call for a change.
Thefiieudsuf Republican institutions call
for a change.-
Tlio friends of the Union and tho Constitu
tion cal! fur a change.
All the people who cum their bread in the
sweat of their face, call for a change.
In God’s name, let ns have a change.
The men who do not want a change are—
rite-bondholders, who receive a g id interest
and pay no taxes.
The National bankers who are every year
filching from The people twenty millions in gold.
The public thieves and plunderers who arc
robbing tbe nation's -treasury.
"»je rsM-per-lwggets those lull siw-aks who go
Si’tuli to be elected to office by negro votes.
The military satraps, who rule tho South by
the bayonet, in order tq established negro sir
prertraey.
The negro bureau agents who are cultivating
cotton plantations for their own benefit at the
expense vs thft government.
Near England manufacturers and monopolists
who are fleecing the laboring people out of
tht'ir hard earnings.
These men do not want a Change, and
who keep up'the old cry of “copperhead” and
•''traitor, to divert the attention of the people
from the true issues.
Secret Trusts.
The United States Supreme Court has re
cently made an important decision on the sub
ject of the transfers of land, professing to he
an absolute conveyance, but accompanied with
a concealed verbal agreement between the par
ties, securing a benefit to the grantor at the
expense of his creditors. Tho court says that
the law will not permit a debtor in failing
circumstances to. convey his lands l»y deed
without reservations, and yet occupy it for a
limited time for his own benefit. Hence, when
a debtor, in pursuance of a private understand
ing, retains possession, rent free, for one year,
of land old by him, such conduct creates a
secret trust for his benefit, and he micro the
conveyance fraudulent a* to the creditors, and ■
void. And it made no differ onee in the legal
asjn-et of the case before the court, that the
interest reserved was not of a great value and
that the debtor did not intend t-e defraud his
orcilitors. —Rich rnffnd I Vhitj>
-.- K3- *- • ■ ■-**-
1 Record Good to Look Upon.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says : “The Dom
prSyuv party was in power during the most
The honor anJ crcdlfof tne government were }
maintained, and upheld at homo nod abroad.
By its broad liberal policy immigrants were
encouraged to make this their homo, and ho
com? its citizens. State after State was added ;
to the republic. Prosperity and freedom went
hand in ban 1 under the shield of constitutional
lihertv. America had pre-eminence among
the eldest and greatest nations of the world.
No Federal tax gatherer was seen among the
people. No hostile darkened the face of the
land. No military satraps were set up supe
rior to the civil power. The Union was pre
served by forbearance, kindness, and compro
mise. The general government was felt only
in the blessings it conferred upon the people.
And yet we are told that the Democratic party
is the enemy of the country, and should not
be trusted with the administration.”
Pei.mar Firing Up Again. —Deßnar, of the
Bureau of Statistics, is n"t to Be put down By
the Radical organs and speakers. Ills damag
ing ard in the main correct statement of the
financial condition of the Government, ns
brought about By the extravagance and mis.
management of Congress and the departments
which was lately published, and which created
a terrible howl in the Radical camp, is now to
he followed up by another official exhibit on the
rate of taxation at present as compared with
that before the war. lie will show, we under
stand, that, whereas the rate in 1860, including
Federal, State, county and town taxes, was only
four dollars and thirty-two cents a head for
man, woman and chill, tho rate in ISG9 is
twenty-three dollars a head—that is, the bur
den of taxation is over five times heavier now
than eight years ago. Let us have the facts,
Mr. Do hear, for they will be tbe strongest ar
guments before the people against Radical
misgoverninent and in favor of a speedy
change.— K. T 7 Herald.
There is the best authority for saying Presi
dent Johnson has neither approved the propo
sition to withdraw Seymour's name nor inti
mated any wish for nomination. Ou the con
trary, Mr. Johnson looks upon the proposition
to change candidates as ill timed and injudi
cious.
Frank P. Blair made a speech in St. Louis
ton large audience. lie said he came before
them neither dismayed nor discouraged; the
Democratic party would yet win, and if it failed
the republic would fail with it. lle expected
to continue to he a candidate for A ice-I’resi
dent, but was willing to make any sacrifice
the country demanded-
The jury in the Crangle-Blodgett case at
Chicago have found a verdict of $50,000 dama
ges in favor of tho plaintiff. It will be remem
bered that Blodgett was arrested on the accu
sation of the plaintiff for illegal treatment by
I Blodgett, as the leader of a vigilance committee
J while in the South in 1850.
The sun was obscured by a flight of grass
j hoppers, last month, in Belknap, Texas,
— -
Kindly Teaching the Mouth.
The Baltimore Commercial i epresent's tin
feeling of the men of Hie South (not of couitie,
tho low grades of negroes and attendant »plil
bii'Ouit carpet baggers), in relation to Mr.
Adams' condescending visit, as follows :
Mr. John Quincy Adams lias traveled till
the way from Masaehtisotts to South t'arolina
to tell the people, of tiiut State that they are
a conquered people, destitute of rights, save
those which the htws of war secure to a equ
quered people. lie tells Chain that they have
nothing to do with the Uoiistitutipn of the
; United States, and have no business troubling
themselves about whether it is violati-u by
others or not. lie tells them that they have
been made citizens, since the whites forfeited
all rights, and tho North had both thu power
and the right not only to take, away from the
whites hut to give to the blacks. He tells that
people that they busied..the nisei yes too liiujph
with politics, that they have made the North
angry with them for essaying to have opinions
about the country from which they so recently
sought to separate themselves. Ha tells them
that,they have erred in being so intensely
Democratic, so violently anti-Kudical, and ho
tells them that Grant will do them justice, and
be merciful unto them. It is a fact that the '
Southern States are conquered territories. Their
|u'ople did till in their [lower to sever their
connection with the North; they renounced all
allegiance to the Government of the United
States, and took up arms to make good their
nets. In the appeal to battle they were over
thrown and their people 'conquered. * They
made war as ("hates in their corporate Capacity,
and as States they wero conquered. The
Southern States are to he judged hv their own
tliepry, and according to their own theory, by
their acts of secession and confederation they
became to the United States, as to all other
nations, a separate and distinct nationality.
Wliethei the war waged against them bv the
United States was a “just war” Mr. Adams
does not stop to inquire—they failed in that
war and wore defeated in every pretension
they set up; and such was the theory of the
Southern States.
But such was not the theory of the North.
By their theory the actions of the States of
the South, as States, was a mere nullity, and
the people who were in arms wore simply re
bels who, when overthrown, might be punish
ed or not. as to their conqueror might seem
right and proper, and by the victory of tho
North, the victory of arms merely re-establish
ed the Union.
Neither the theory of the North nor that of
the South was carried out after the war ended.
The Congress submitted the fourteenth amend
ment to the .States in tho South, as States of
sion, and did not then attempt to enforce any
rights acquired by conquest. The Gougress
treated the State of Virginia as in the Union
when the ra.pe.of West Virginia was consumma
ted, and yet placed a military government over
a State. Such an act might have beeu legiti
mate toward a conquered people, but eouid
not have Been constitutional toward one of the
United States. The Government of thi United
States abolished slavery within States of the
Union By virtue of the right of conquest, and
against every principle of the Constitution.
And so every act of reconstruction might have
Been right if the Southern States wore tilieu
enemies and conquered States, hut were eleai*
ly illegal, unconstitutional and void, if the
Southern States were never da hors the
Union.
Thus the Radical party has played false to
the theory of the North; they abandoned
that theory, and late in the Jay, and long
after*peace, wont over to the theory of the
South, acknowledged the viridity of secession,
and sought to find in those ordinances justifi
cation for their reconstruction acts. This was
a mere subterfuge to cover up a scheme of
party advantage and to build up a radical [tarty
at the’South. They conferred, Regally and
unconstitutionally, the right of suffrage upon
the negroes of the South, that they might
reap a party advantage in the Electoral Col
lege. The evils that parties do live after them,
and when the history of the causes of the late
war, comes to he traced By future historians,
the people of the Southern States will ho jus
tified By the action of the Radical party. The
State Rights theory of the South as hel l be
fore the war. will find a justification in the
reconstruction laws of Congress,
Mr. Adams docs not approve of the aban
donment of the theory of the North by the
Radicals, and their surrender to the Southern
theory after peace has been won hv the North.
Tie fears that “it is impossible for any tolera
ble government to continue long, for it will de
generate into the mere squabble of contending
factions for a chance to oppress for a time their
less active or lets numerous opponents.” Mr.
Adams evidently fears that the despotism that
is now ruling and ruining tho South, may some
da' turn its force upon Massachusetts and the
North.
What Mr. Adams may think wrong in
the action of the Southern States toward the
negroes, is of no great importance now. It is
true that the Radicals made the legislation of
certain of the Southern States the excuse for
their reconstruction laws—but that legislation
toward the negroes was the mere occasion, not
the cause, nor yet the reason for these acts.—
Their continued rule, the safety of their party,
the spoils of office, the promptings of despo
tism, rendered their legislation necessary.
They have trampled upon the Constitution in
order to continue their power ; the South feels
j the iron now, but if it should become neecssa
! ry to turn their legislation against the North,
j the same reckless disregard for constitutional
I obligations will stand them in hand to oppress
YOU* 8. XO. 49
mi .7ry!i"iy, yii^ant^i^^mv^^een
laid upon the ELaatorai College, and sovereign
State. firl)i(T<le)i'te [i choice of
liuA’i't-Sdetit. It Id uCw '.tliadrlies
prostrate at the feet of Radicalism, but it may
Bo Now York or rtnyasylyania, shmiTd either
of tnose tVio Radicalism.
Such is MV. A'da'ttiV of tho future
comlitldn cf the’country’, : “ *” : " f
[From tlto-aL Y. Democrat.j
The Tide. Turned.
Neither the earlier October elrthidns, l nor
tho treason in this city, which was the off
spring of cowardice of apirit and unAoundhcss
m principle, nor the liiaktfngs of An insolent
foe, nor all combined, have shaken the fidelity,
cooied Ute uvdor, or checked thet advance of
the Democratic legions. In tilt face of-all
these,'West Virginia has voted. Ami the re
sult as indicated by the first, though scattering
returns, is that the Democrat* havo carried' the
' -f. Ii - ■ < r;
Stnte ngaihst u Jacobin majority, in 18(14, of
12,714 and in ISfiG, of O,C Bi. Lust ysar -
election was only fbr the Legislature and lecal
officers, but in this the Jacobins claimed some
small gains'on their Vofe of 1-'66: Now, there
is ground for r. confident n,-sitrance that the
Democrats have carried the State. Evon the
Jacobin press does not crow, But is Badly down
in the mouth. Tho etiief 'organ which is al
ways ready to swear to anything to win, says
"the ieturns from West Virginia are very
meager. Enough has been received, however,
to indicate that the Republicans have carried
the .State by a reduced majority.” On the
j other hand, tho Democrats at YYheeling claim
it By tvv o thousand majority..
Thun, onward 1 The Demoomtio party is
neither dead nor disheartened. Success is
within its grasp. Let it push on and win!
“Victory sits upon our helms I”
Those Guns tor Southern Negroes.
Tho. Memphis Avalanche, of the 17th inst.,
says': .
“We have good news for tire friends of peace,
tranquillity and order. The guns to be placed
in the.hands of the negroes to murder the in
nocent, unarmed and defenseless people of
Arkansas have found a watery grave. Instead
of being used for the Brutal purposes for which
they wero imported ill our midst, they are
quietly reposing Beneath the turbid waves of
the Mississippi river, whose muddy waters
will, we trust, hide them forever. Comer and
Richardson used every effort iu theirpporerw r er
.to expedite these weapons. They placed them
upon tho steamer llesper. Xb.ey were aided
in thiqir dirty wqrk by several carpet-baggers
from Arkansas, who lurked about with smil
ing faces, while they were stealthily laboring
to inaugurate a war of races. But these
schemes. steamed out as bright
as the beautiful star whose flame she bears,
hut errands of wickedntrss fire sdihetimes over
taken with disaster. Before the ITosper had
iidcSt twelve miles down the river, a platoon
of armed creatures suddenly sprang on board,
and the firms cante to grief. They were un
'coreinonimi'-ly pitched into tho river. No one
knows who these- mysterious being* are that
have exhibited so much antipathy to guni and
blunderbusses. Ferae are of the opinion that
they are mermaids, riding'ti[son the backs of
dolphins ; others believe that they are angels
of mercy, who believe in Grant’s motto, “Let
us have peace and that they have destroyed
them in order to prevent murder, and to give
peace to the people df Arkansas. Still a lar
ger portion of our people helieved that these
Vims wero sent to Memphis by Radicals, to
be destroyed by Radicals in order to frighten
the Northern people into the Belief that an
other rebellion had burst out in the Foath.'—
But such a hold and paltry subterfugo will
fail in its object, for if the “rcbel-s” wero not
for peace, they would have preserved and se
creted these weapons, imported in our midst
by Radicals for hellish purposes. We know
not, and care not, who it was that destroyed
these weapons, Hut we do know that the party
deserve the everlasting thanks of the people
that they were intended to shoot and murder.”
Slight Mistake. — llenvy Ward Beecher
has a son an officer in the regular army a bravo
dashing fellow, a terror to the Indians on the
plains.”— EgeuingHail.
We quite appreciate tho endeavor oftbe Mai
to Lc complimentary to Brother Beecher.—
The only difficulty about this paragraph is
that be has no son in tbe regular army, and
however bravo and dashing his sons may be
tbe one in the lumber business, another at
college, and a third in pinafores—the Indian
up to date havo heard nothing from them.-
Try again.—TV. T. Democrat.
Go*. Bullock offers S2OO reward for the ar»
rest of the murderer of a white man, but five
thousand dollars reward for the arrest of the
murderers us a negro ; which does Bullock
think was a citizen.the white mau or the negro?
Although overwhelmed By meaii9 of fraud,
voters from other States and a lavish use of
money such as has never before been attempted
in the West, thd unconquerable Democracy Os
Indiana, neither cast down nor dismayed, have
already commenced the work of preparation
for the election in November, when they will
give a glorious account of tbetnsclye3,—Ex
change.
Beautiful Extract—A handsome young lady
just helped out of a mud-hole.
Ashley,' the Impeaeher, was beaten in hie
District m Ohio, By upwards of 700 votes.—
“ Not a drum is heard—nor a funeral note.”
“Lotus have peace.—Gen. Grant. “Woe
to them that cry ‘peace!’ ‘peace!’ when there
is no peace.” . • ♦ '
