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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 14.
CWThe people of the North ore becom
ing tired of the continual cry of Rebel.
r5T~Thc Radical party having, in tbe
passage of tbe 15th Amendment, completed,
tbe minion which Its most fanatical mem
bers claimed for it, Is disintegrating.
I3T The corruption and arrogance of a
few men in power is arousing a deep feel
ing of indignation among tbe tolling mil
lions who bare to foot the bills of enor
mous expenses incurred through their self
ish machinations.
t3T The Senate, though largely Repub
lican, persistently refuses to ratify tbe
treaty for the annexation of San Domingo,
although the President continues zealous
ly to “ button bole” members in its favor.
Alas! poor Grant!
V3T The utte' defeat of the party in pow
er, calling itself Republican, (though it Is
in favor of consolidating or centralizing
the Government, and establishing a Con
gressional Imperialism,) is a foregone con
clusion, else there is nothing in the signs
of the movements at the North.
£9* Central ism practically proposes that
a few men at Washington, known as a Con
gress, shall legislate in regard to all the
local and neighborhood affairs of a vest
imputation, Inhabiting a territory extend
ing from the Pacific to tbe Atlantic ocean,
and from the Frigid to the Torrid zone.
An Imperial Ukase, issued at Washington,
may deprive the humblest, as well as the
most exalted citizen, from his home and
deprive him of the right of trial by a jury
of bis neighbors.
Signs.
Any great change for the better in the
political condition of the people of the
South must be wrought through the softer
second thoughts of the people of the North.
There are signs of a cheering character
in that direction. The “Act to enforce the
15th Amendment” is producing great alarm
there. Tlic idea of dragging an offender,
or a pretended offender against that act,
before a Federal Judge, instead of trying
licfore a jury of his neighbors in tlic State
t^turts, is creating such indignation among
tlic masses of the people as to threaten the
niter discomfiture of the Republican party
in the North.
There is a want of unity In the counsels
of the dominant |mrty in Congress, and no
aecc|itcd leaders, either in the Senate or
House of Representatives. The tariff, tax-
ntinn, funding and expenditures create
dissensions. There is great dissatisfaction
about the appointments made by the Presi
dent and his Cabinet.
Many of tlic party complain of the Presi
dent's inexperience In public affairs. They
charge that, though very good to quell a
rebellion, ho can not preserve the unity of
Uio party.
He bas no foreign nor domestic policy,
say they, to support, which his party can
unitedly rally around him.
The disaffected charge that the condnct
of foreign affairs Is Imbecile and unworthy
of the country.
Four hundred thousand Republicans say
their own party organs stayed away from
tlie polls at the recent election in New
York. ^
Let tlic Constitution go to Ever
lasting Smash.
At the late Boston session of the Ameri
can Unitarian XSsociatlon, Rev. Dr. Bel
lows, of New York, said: “Just as far as
you get a thing into a written document,
you get rid of it. Take a motion and put
it into a constitution, and what will the
constitution do? We found that one in
our late war, and we said, ‘Let the Consti
tution go to everlasting smash—the nation
is to live;’ and it has lived.”
This is the political history of our coun
try, as a distinguished “ Republican ” di
vine represents it. When the party now
in ascendency seized the reins of power,
the Constitution “ went to smash ” That
party now boasts of it, and In exulting
strains pronounces the smash “everlast
ing.”
Every true freeman’s heart will supply
tbe proper comment.
Centralism Dangerous to Liberty.
That Centralism is a step towards Impe
rialism, and therefore dangerous to the lib
erties of the people, cannot be successfully
dlsprovcn. No evasion of this issue will
avail its advocates. No partisan clap-trap
in regard to tho Democratic party of the
olden time or of the present day can pre
vent tho people of the United States, if
permitted to reflect, from perceiving the
truth.
The great American Republic is a union
.of republics. The component parts or the
confederation at the formation of the
Union granted certain powers to tlic Fed
eral Government. They reserved to them'
selves all other attributes of sovereignty.
Among tbe wisest and best of the states
men of the country, tills fact was never
called in question, except by the old Fed-
vral party. Save only that party, until
since the war. there could not be found a
man claiming to be an American citizen
who had the audacity to publicly denounce
or deny this. After the utter defeat and
disgrace of tlic old “ Blue Light” Federal
party of “ Alien and Sedition Law ” noto*
toricty, such a man would have been pro
nounced traitorous by the people, both
North and South.
Andrew Jackson boldly advocated
strict construction of the Constitution,
and was a -champion or the re
served rights of the States. He than
dered anathemas at the nulliflcrs of South
Carolina, and favored tbe celebrated force
bill, which proposed to give the Federal
Executive the men and means of collect
ing duties on imports in spite of the threat
of the Legislature of the State to prevent
their collection within its borders.
He claimed that the tariff was a subject
upon which the Federal Congress bad a
Constitutional right to legislate; and, as
the Federal Executive, that it was his duty
to enforce it. He uttered, on a noted oc
casion, the celebrated toast, “The Federal
Union: It must be preserved.” He was
not a “secessionist,” and boldly denied the
doctrine of the right of “ secession.”
UU messages, and those of all bis prede
cessors. except old John Adams, clearly ac
knowledge that there were rights belong
ing to the States wiib.li must be represent
ed by the Federal Government. All of his
successors, including Mr, Lincoln and
Andrew Johnson, acknowledged that cer
tain rights were reserved by tbe States in
j|| I formation of the Constitution of tlic
j Union.
I Yet, in this enlightened day, there is a
party in the State of Georgia whose ac
credited organ advocates* centralized gov
ernment; and, in denying that the States
have reserved rights, secs no difference be
tween the doctrine of qualified State sov
ereignty and a denial of tbe paramount
sovereignty of tbe Federal Government.
Whenever logic and history fail to answer
its porposes in discussing a subject so im
portant in its bearing upon tbe liberties of
the people, it cries “secession! secession!
another rebellion! Tbe ‘Nation’ is in
danger if the States arc admitted to have
any rights.”
Tbe troth is, that comparatively few of
the people of the late Confederate States
ever embraced Mr. Calhoun’s theory of the
right of secession. They flew to arms be
cause they thought thelriiberties and prop
erty were in jeopardy. The Federal Gov
ernment did not propose to coerce tbe
States, or to snbdne the people thereof, for
any other purpose than to preserve the
Union as it was under the Constitution of
our fathers.
It triumphed. The Confederates laid
down their arms, and took tbe oath of al
legiance to tbe Federal Government, ac
knowledging its paramount sovereignty,
which very few of them ever theoretically
denied,, though they had, for four years,
been practically in rebellion.
Abraham Lincoln and Andrew John
son who, had muchtodowithwaglifgwar
agalnst.tbe South, and are, or ought to be,
good authority among Republicans as to tbe
objects of tbe war, always contended that
they wished to presesve tbe Federal Union
as it was, and not to change tbe form of
government to that of a consolidated na
tion, all tbe distinctive features of whose
elements or component parts should be
forever obliterated. They made a wide
difference between the doctrine of the se
cession and the constitutional reserved
rights of tbe States.
“Spirit” of tho Atlanta Press.
NEW ERA (RAD.)
The Constitution of this city, which Is
generally supposed to receive its inspira
tion from Captain Bryant, tbe new Demo
cratic leader of tbe House, takes the posi
tion that the late war settled no political
question. Consequently, the question of
paramount allegiance was not effected by
[A begging of the question.]
State sovereignty, and the “ right of se
cession ” is still an open fine. Primary al
legiance is still due tbe State government.
[Radical logic that is “played out.” The
right of “Secession” and the Reserved
Rights of the States under the Constitution
of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and
Jackson, approved and supported. Radicals
of tho present day attempt to make people
believe arc synonymous expressions. The
cry of “Scccsh,” Rebel, etc., has paid
political jobbers very largely in the last
ten years.
Consequently, should tho State Govern
ment re-open the slave trade, recognize
the right of property in man. nnd thus
come into conflict with tho Federal Gov
ernment, tlic allegiance of the citizen is
duo the former as against tbe latter!
[Intelligent readers .are, perhaps, not
courted by the Era. There never was a
State In tho Union that claimed the re
served right of tins States to re-open tho
slave trade. Tho very Constitution which
the Radical party bas so much disregarded
forbade tho slave trade after a certain date.
Tho Constitution of the Confederate States
forbade tlic slave trade. These arc noto
rious facts.]
Hence, another war, etc.
[The party in power here have so profited
by a war that they would like a “ little
speck ” of it in Georgia, just that Governor
Bullock and bis Legislature may prolong
their term of service. Hence, the logical
insanity of his partisans.]
B3T The home organ of Governor Bul
lock claims that its party la the old Fed.
cral party triumphant.
E5F* Tho old Monarchical Federal party
never could secure the approbation of the
people by force of reason. Hence it de
lights in the logic of the bayonet.
E5T The Republican members of the
Tennessee House of Representatives re
cently voted against a bill to encourage
immigration into that State.
ty The New York Sun (Republican)
says that those Republicans who voted for
tbe recent bill providing for continuation
of the tax upon incomes can no longer be
considered members ot tbe Repnblican
party. ^ w
ty Centralized government is a species
of Imperialism. The ignoring of the Con
stitutional rights of tbe States is dangerous
to American liberty. So said all the form
er Presidents of the United States, except
Old John Adams.
The Georgia Case.
In a feeble effort to destroy the force of
Tub Constitution's expose of the error
into which the New York Times, a leading
Republican organ, has fallen as to the true
position of Governor Bollock and his fac
tion in Georgia, the New Era, the home or
gan of the Governor, uses the following
language in its issue of yesterday;
The position of the Era involves the
proposition that since the present State
government is merely provisional, it can
not be said over to have entered upon its
Constitutional (or permanent) term; and
if it has never entered upon this Constitu
tional term, then that term is in the future,
rather than in the past!
This is directly contradictory of the as
sertion of the Times that Governor Bul
lock has never sought a prolongation of
hts term of office.
ty Tbe impression is rife in this State
that the New Era newspaper, the home or
gan of Governor Bullock, is not printed for
tho edification of the people of this State
or sectiou, bnt to throw dust in the eyes of
Northern Republicans.
ty Politico-religious partisans assume
that divisions in some of tbe religious de
nominations In this country originated
purely in political considerations. Such
would reunite the broken fragments on po
litical considerations alone. They would
make eminent divines.
ty Tbe Importance of shade as a means
of fertilizing the ground should not be
lost sight of by the agriculturists. It pre
vents the evaporation of tho gases in the
soil, which arc generated there, or peno-
trates it along with rain water. Mulching
is one method of shading the ground.
Clover, small grains and the grasses more
effectually shade it than cotton, tobacco or
com.
ty Tbe heirs of one Campbell have lain
claim to thousands of lots in tho heart ol
the city of Louisville. From an article on
the subject in the Commercial, of that city,
it seems that they have some grounds for
tbe salt they have entered. No one can be
too careful in tracing the titles to real es
tate which they purchase in rapidly grow
ing cities.
ST Does General Grant favor a Central
ized Government? Is he a Consolldation-
1st? Tbe home organ of Governor Bui
lock avows that the war destroyed all
States’ Rights. The Republican party at
tho North, according to Horace Greeley’s
Political Text Book, claims to derive its
principles from tbe utterances of Jefferson,
Madison and others, who regarded tbe doc
trine of Centralism as dangerous to lib
erty.
S' No political faction ever pursued
a policy so suicidal as have Governor Bui
lock and his friends in setting up a techni
cal claim to a prolongation of office be
yond that for which be was elected
How can members of tbe present Legisla
ture, who claim the right, under the recon'
straction acts, to a prolongation of their
term of service, look an honest constituen
cy in the face?
Suppose tbe claim is technically valid,
the honest masses will not respect those
who urge Jt. Verily, “ whom the gods In
tend to destroy thgy first make mad.”
Charles Dickens.
The death of this distinguished literary
character has called forth many remarks
upon his genius, and expressions of lamen
tations and- sorrow, on account of bis un
expected demise.
Mr. Dickens has, for more than thirty
years, commanded the attention and ad
miration of numerous readers of every
class in England and on this Continent.
His work,entitled “The Pickwick Papers,”
by Boz, produced an excitement wherever
the English language is read. Everybody
smiled whenever the amiable Mr. Pick
wick, orthequalntly humorous Mr. Samuel
Weller, was alluded to. Wellerism at once
becamo more popular than arc now the
sayings of Mrs. Partington, Artemns
Ward or Josh Billings. Since that time
bis popularity as a writer of fiction bas
never waned.
Mr. Dickens inaugurated a style of serio
comic humor, under tbe surface of which
there is a depth of knowledge of human
nature and the minuter phases of charac
ter. This he turned to good account in
drawing attention to the sufferings of the
poor, and pointing out the means of amel
iorating them.
While he amused his readers, be cultivat
ed the better impulses of their nature. He
was never so brilliant or original as when
depicting the heroism of the poor and
friendless outcaststruggling under difficul
ties in the path of duty.
That bis fame will last as long os the
English language is spoken or read, no
one familiar with bis works can doubt.
That they will be as universally popular
with the masses of future generations as
they have been in our day, time alone can
decide. Few men have so long delighted
their readers without wearying them. In
tlic estimation of finite minds the death of
such a man seems always to be premature.
The Great Earl of Desmond.
It is well known that the great Earl of
Desmond, though history pretends to dis
pose of him differently, lives to this hour
enchanted in his castle, witli all his house
hold, at the bottom of Lough Guir, in
Munster.
There was not, in his day. in all the
world, so accomplished a^tnagician as lie.
His fairest castle stood upon an island in
the lake, and to this he brqught his young
and beautiful bride, whom be loved bnt too
well; for she prevailed upon his folly to
risk nil to gratify her imperious caprice.
They had not been long in this beautiful
castle when she. one day, presented herself
in tbe chamber in which her husband
studied his forbidden art, and there implor
ed him to exhibit before her some of the
wonders of his evil science. He resisted
long; but her entreaties, tears, and whccd-
lings, were at length too much for him, and
he consented. Bur, before beginning tiiose
astonishing transformations with which lie
was about to amaze her, be explained to
her the awful conditions and dangers of
the experiment.
Alone in this vast apartment, the walls
of which were lapped, far below, by the
lake whose dark waters lay waiting to
swallow them, she must witness a certain
scries of frightful phenomena, which, once
commenced, he could neither abridge nor
mitigate; and if, throughout their gliastly
succession, sho spoke ono word, or uttered
one exclamation, the castle, and all that it
contained would in one instant subside to
tbe bottom of the lake, there to remain,
under the servitude of a strong spell, for
ages.
The dauntless curiosity of tbe lady liav-
ipg prevailed, and the oaken door of the
stndy being locked and barred, the fatal ex
periments commenced. Muttering a spell,
as he stood before her, feathers sprouted
thickly over him, his face became contract
ed and hooked, a cadaverous smell filled
the air, and, with heavy, winnowing wings,
a gigantic vnlture rose in his stead, and
swept round and ronnd the room, as if on
the point of pouncing upon her.
The lady commanded herself through
this trial, and instantly another began.
The bird alighted near tbe door, and in less
than a minute changed, she saw not how,
into a horribly-deformed and dwarfish hag,
who, with yellow skin hanging about her
face, and enormous eyes, swung herself on
crutches toward the lady, her mouth foam'
ing with fury, and her grimaces and con
tortions becoming more and more hideous
every moment, till she rolled with ayell on
the floor, in a horrible convulsion, at the
lady’s feet, and then changed into a huge
surpent, which came sweeping and arching
toward her, with crest erect and quivering
tongue. Suddenly, as It seemed on tbe
point of darting at her, she saw her hus
band in its stead, standing pale before her,
and, with bis finger an his lip, enforcing
tho continued necessity of silence. He then
placed himself at his length on the floor,
and began to stretch himself out and out,
longer and longer, until his head nearly
reached to one end ot the vast room and
bis feet to the other.
This horror overcame her. The ill-star
red lady nttered a wild scream, whereupon
the castle and all that was within it sank
In a moment to the bottom of the lake.
But once In every seven years, by night,
the Earl of Desmond and his retinue
emerge, and cross the lake, in shadowy
cavalcade. His white horse is shod with
silver.- On that ono night the Earl may
ride till daybreak, and it behooves him to
make good use of bis time; for, until the
shoes of his steed be worn through, the
spell that bolds him and his beneath the
lake will retain its power.—Appleton’*
Journal.
OUlt DALTON LETTER.
Kail road Festival—Crops, Etc.
- Dalton, Ga., June 0,1S70.
Editors Constitution: Tbe supper given
by the citizens of Dalton to the officers of
the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad came
off last night at the Tibbs House. The ta
bic was beautifully and bountifully spread.
It did great honor to Mr. Campbell and his
estimable lady and to the Committee of
Arrangements. Colonel Wash Johnston, in
a few pithy remarks, welcomed Captain
Barney and his associates to the hearts and
hospitalities of the people of Dalton—tell
ing them that we of the South were ever
ready to extend the right hand of fellow-
ship to all such men as they, who come
among us with their capital to build up
our waste places. . Captain Barney replied
in a plain, common sense talk—expressing
bow much pleasure such demonstration of
friendly regard afforded himself and
friends. Showing how great the benefit
such enterprises as the one just completed
was both to this country and also to capi
talists themselves, and telling us that many
monied men North whom we might now
regard as our enemies were really our
friends, and were ready and anxious to as
sist us to build up our waste^dsees. Af
ter which we all fell to and ail present done
full justice to tbe bounteous repast.
Dalton and Rome are having a severe
fight over the company’s shops. Of course
we think our chance is the best.
I had the pleasure of meeting last
evening the veritable “ Phat Boy ” of The
Constitution—as fat and jolly as when he
lived on green corn and poor beef during
the “ late unpleasantness.” Among other
amusing things, he told me of a pedestrian
feat he performed during that*(g£e from
Augusta to Smithville, North Carolina—
twenty-five miles per day. 'jBuld you
have believed it? I regretted vety much
that business and the 10 o'clock train took
him off before supper came on, ftr if any
thing is to be judged from appearance, a
good supper and champagne are rather in
lis line.
We were all somewhat startled this
morning by the appearance of a poster on
the front of Dr. Goodyear’s drug-store,
dating from “ Headquarters in the Moon,”
whereby the Grand Cyclops of the Ku-
KIux Elan (or some mischievous school
boy) notified the Doctor that the said Klan
bad nothing to do with the difficulties be
tween him and the North Georgia Citizen,
and advising him not to invoke tbe Klan,
unless he wished their attention—alluding,
I presume, to an article of tbe Doctor’s in
the New Era of the 7th instant.
Harvesting has commenced. I think
North Georgia will make at least twice ns
much wheat and oats this year than it has
done since the war. P.
Religious Items.
Rev. E. II. Osborne has been appointed
agent of tho Southern Baptist Sunday
School Board, for West Tennessee.
We hear that Rev. D. E. Burns, of Mem
phis, has received a call to the First Baptist
Church, San Francisco, California.
A protracted meeting has recently closed
at Mooresville, in tho Puck River Metho
dist Circuit, Tennessee, which resulted in
seventeen accessions to the chnrch.
The East Tennessee Baptist bas been
merged in tbe Christian Herald, Tuseum-
bia, Alabama, and its editor. Rev. D. M.
Breaker. D. D- has been added to tbe writ
ing staff on that journal.
A learned divine was in tbe habit of
preaching so as to be rather beyond tbe
comprehension of bis hearers. A friend of
bis, wishing to give him a gentle hint on
the subject, asked him one day what the
duty of a shepherd was. “To feed his
flock, of course,” was the reply. “ Ought
he, then,” said his friend, “ to piaco the hay
so high that but few of the sheen can reach
it?”
Dr. Norman Macleod recently met Pro
fessor Gibson, the well known opponent of
a union of the Scottish Presbyterian
churches, and sometbinglikethe following
conversation took place: “Professor,’
said Macleod, “ they say you want to enter
the established kirk, and judging from
yonr speeches lately, I guess it must be
true.” “God forbid! ” exclaimed Gibson.
“Well,” replied the other,” that’s jnst what
I said when I beard it.”
The Air-Like Railroad.—Tbe Char
lotte papers announce that Mr. P. P. Dick
inson, of New York, bas taken the entire
contract for the construction of the Air-
Line Railroad from Atlanta to Charlotte,
and proposes to let sub-contracts for sec
tions to parties along the line of the road.
He advertises for proposals for the grading,
masonry and bridging ol sixty miles of tho
road extending from Charlotte to Spartan
burg, on which work will be commenced
immediately.
Railroad Meeting in Polk County.
Cbdartown, June G, 1870.
Editors Atlanta Constitution: The ob
ject of an “Air-Line” RailroadJs too well
known to railroad men to need comment.
Much has been said about a road from At
lanta to Decatur, Alabama. Now, which
is the nearest and cheapest route? I an
swer, Atlanta via Van Wert, Cedartown,
Cave Spring, Georgia; Collinsville and
Decatur, Alabama. As to that portion of
tlic route from Atlanta to Tan Wert, I am
not so well informed personally, but have
the opinion ol railroad men who say it is
best to build the road to Van Wert on ac
count of Dugdown Mountain and the high
ridges below it. This granted, I proceed
to notice that part of it from Van Wert to
Decatur, Alabama. By reference to a rail
road map, it will be seen that it is a perfect
air-line across the Dugdown Mountain via
a gap in the next range of mountains, six
miles;soutb'of Cave Spring.from Atlanta to
Decatur, but as the road must vary from
that line so as to avoid Dugdown Mountain
and come to Van Wert, there will then be
a perfect air-line from Van Wert to Deca
tur, via Cave Spring and Collinsville.
By this route we will have a road
connecting Atlanta and Decatur nearly
one hundred miles shorter than the route
by Chattanooga, and forty miles shorter
than the contemplated route from Rome
to Dalton. As we now have found tho most
direct route, let us examine its practica
bility. From the report of^lnjor J. F.
Cooper, who made a preliiFfaFy - survey
of the route from Atlanta to 'wS.ji Wert, that
portion of the route iseutirely.practieahle,
and from Van Wert by Cedartown and
Cave Spring to Collinsville, tbe routo is
very favorable, and would be classed by
engineers as very light grade,and from Col
linsville to Decatur, we are informed by
Colonel Pennington, in his report of the
survey of the Memphis Branch Railroad
from Rome to Decatur, that it is the only
practicable route, for be was compelled to
deviate from a direct line in order to get
through at this point. Thus we see that
this route is practicable. And should it
be opened by a railroad, it will bring into
market an immense quantity of the finest
pine timber in the State, slate andiron ore
in vast quantities, first quality lime in any
amount, and also the produce from farm
ing operations of some of the most produc
tive and richest land in this country. This
route will pass near the Round Mountain
Iron Works. There is prevalent in this
community an impression that the Georgia
Railroad dompany will build a road from
Atlanta via Van Wert, Cross Plains to
Gadsden, Alabama. I think this impres
sion is erroneous, because this would make
a very crooked road, and would be more
expensive than the route by Cave Spring
ana Collinsville to Decatur.
In .regard to the extension of the Car-
tersville and Van Wert Road to Gadsden,
the best route is from Van Wert via Cedar
town to tbe bead-waters of Hurricane
Creek, and thence to Gadsden. This route
is shorter than the Terrapin Creek rente
via Cross Plains to Gadsden, and of lighter
grade. And if it should, prove to be im-
urricane Creek, on account of its partial
occupation by the Selma, Rome and Dalton
Road, then the next best route would be
from Van Wert via Cedartown to the
most northern branch of Terrapin Creek,
known as the Camp Ground branch, thence
down said creek to Cross Plains and to
Gadsden.
From the foregoing facts, it fully appears
that the route by Cedartown is the
best and most practicable, either to the
Atlanta and Decatur or the Cartersville
and Van Wert extension to Gadsden roads.
G. W. Feathebston.
Cedartown, Ga., JuneC, 1870.
We, the undersigned committee appoint
ed by a meeting of tbe citizens of Polk
county, held on the 4th instant, do heartily
concur in the foregoing statements.
Stephen A. Boepkrs. Chairman,
War. J. Howard,
A. Huntington,
J. S. Stubbs,
C. Philpot,
Committee.
Personal.
The King of Prussia is said to be in the
last stages of dropsy.
Bismarck has invested ins means so very
judiciously that he is getting rich very
fast.
A new county in West Tennessee is to be
named after Emerson Etheridge.
It is conjectured that the Bishop-elect of
New Hampshire will select Dover as Ills
place of residence, where a new church is
to be built.
The reason General O’Neil gave for not
leading the Fenian advance in person was
that he was engaged in making “stragetic
combinations,”
A handkerchief worn by tbe unfortnnate
Maximilian when he was executed is now
in possession of Mrs. Fairfax Gray, ol
Houston, Texas.
Four George Washingtons, six Andrew
Jacksons, five Henry Clays, and two James
K. Polks reside at present in tbe Louisiana
Penitentiary.
Disraeli says in his Lotbair: “There is no
real business in the Fenians. Their treason
is a fairy tale, and their sedition, a child
talking in its sleep.”
The son of the Viceroy of Egvpt has an
annnal allowance of three hundred thou
sand francs, and yet he owes more than
one million in Paris since bis arrival
there.
The editor of tfaeTcraki, a Turkish print,
has received from the Sultan a present of
£500 and tbe rank of Lientenant Colonel
for an eulogistic article on his majesty’s
late soecch to the Council of State. After
this who will say tbe press in Turkey is
not “encouraged ?”
. CSV The temperance society at Augusta.
Ark., has dissolved. By the rules they
were permitted to drink ale, hut one of
them, as he expressed it, found that bever
age “ bunglesome to his stomach ” and fell
hack on whisky. Tbe other members fol
lowed his example.
Georgia News.
W. J. Dclk. an old citizen of Cobb coun
ty. died on the Stli.
The health of Rome has greatly im
proved.
A telegraphic fire alarm and police tele
graph is to be established in Augusta.
Superintendent S. K. Johnson and his
wile have returned to Augusta.
The Cuthbcrt Appeal say* blackberries
are worth forty cents per quart In that city.
The Christian Chnrch at Valdosta will
be completed by the last of this month.
A public meeting at Cnthbcrt is sug
gested in aid of Andrew College.
Thomas Superior Court adjourned last
Monday.
It is proposed to build a new market
bouse in Savannah.
Another boat race is to come off at Sa
vannah, under the auspices of the Savan
nah Regatta Association, next week.
Tbe crops about Tunnel Hill are very
fine. Wheat harvesting will soon be gen
eral.
The “ Ready Hook and Ladder .Compa
ny” has been organized with sixty mem
bers at Cuthbert.
Two deaths occurred in the Cherokee
Masonic Aid Association during the month
of May.
Calhoun and a portion of Terrell county
has suffered severely from drought since
April last.
Mr. S. A. Smith, of Thomasville, has
raised, this year. Norway oats 6J4 feet high,
and averaging 75 bushels per acre.
There are 327 cases on the civil docket of
the Richmond Superior Court, which come
up for trial at the next session.
The Georgia Railroad lias just completed
the erection of a new, substantial and
handsome station-house at Bell Air.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says Mr.
Merry, of Woodlawn, near Augusta, lias
been missing since Tuesday.
The Commencement exercises of Furlow
Masonic Female College will begin on
Monday next, 13 li instant.
The farmers of Newton county have com
menced harvesting the wheat crop. The
crop was never better.
Mrs. John L. Alexander, near Marietta,
was bitten by a rattlesnake last week.
Whisky proved a saving antidote.
The Rome Southerner says the Mountain
City Fire Company will have a splendid
sapper some time this month. Cherries are
abundant in Rome. Business dull.
The Valdosta Times says Judge Sessions
has adjourned Ware Court to the second
Monday in June; Clinch, to tlic third
Monday in June. Echols, no adjourned
term.
The Covington Examiner learns that
Hulbert and Padgett will soon have in iuil
operation a large trunk manufactory in
the city of Atlanta.
The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad will pass moneyless applicants
over its line irec ofeharge to the city, when
recommended by the Mayor at Augusta.
The Columbus Enquirer says it is ex
pected that railroad connections with
Troy will be made by July 4th. Tho Coun.
cil will give a festive on the occasion.
The railroad bridge over tlie Ocmuigcc,
on the Macon and Augusta Railroad, will
be completed on Saturday. The road is
being pushed rapidly.
Shale tinged with traces of coal has been
obtained from a well in Dalton. Dalton
is becoming egg-hausted from the scarcity
of eggs in that market.
A new county is to be formed from por
tions of tlie counties of Wayne and Ap
pling, with Jessup as tho county site. It
is proposed to call the new county Ashby.
The Rome Courier, of the 10th, notices
the arrival of a lot of new wheat, the first
of the season. It was sold at SI 75. Bran
ham Dunlap, Jr., was kicked by a horse
and seriously hurt.
Councilman Noble, of .Rome, while re
cently at tho North, purchased two alarm
lire bells—one to be put at the Mountain
City engine house, and tho other at that of
tlie Rainbow. Their weight is about 500
pounds each.
The American brig, Alice M. Putnam
cleared at Savannah, on the 8th, with
$110,000 worth of cotton for Cronstadt.
The stevedore of this brig was the Hon. T.
Monroe, ex-Mayor of New Orleans.
The Mayor of Columbus refuses to issue
a proclamation, in accordance with the in.
structions of the City Council, for an elcc
tion by tbe voters of Columbus, to ascer
tain whether or not tlie city of Columbus
shall subscribe $400000 to the Columbus
and North Georgia Air-Line Railroad.
The Savannah Advertiser is down on
bigh-heeled boots for ladies. -A lady re
cently fell down stairs in that city on ac
count of them, seriously Injuring herself.
During a ball at thunderbolt, a resident of
Savannah was seriously cut with a knife by
one of the party.
The Rome Daily chronicles a rumor on
the streets that Dr. Angler, tbe State
Treasurer, had been arrested by order of
the committee investigating the State
Road frauds, as a defaulter to a large
amount, and placed in jail, and that George
P. Burnett had been placed in charge of
the State funds.
There is a negro woman thirty-seven
years of age living on tbe plantation of
Mr. YV.H. Battle; of Baker county, who
weighs 300 pounds and has twenty-five
children, all living. Mr. Battle says she
is remarkably healthy and is a good cook,
bnt never cooks more than one thing at a
time.
The Journal states that little Willie New
ton, G or 7 years old, son of Mr. Silas New
ton, was struck by lightning three miles
west of Marietta, on the 8th, and was in
stantly killed. He was leaning against the
chimney and the rest of the. family were
around tbe fire-place. AU were shocked,
bnt none of the others injured.
Tlie Macon Journal states that the lead,
ing merchants of that city will close their
places of business at six p.m. The “Mul-
loy” case comes up in the Superior Court,
at Macon, on the 13th (Monday.) Macon
rejoices in a monster bell in the steeple of
the Mulberry M. E. Church. Germania
Lodge, I. O. O. F., has been organized in
Macon.
The Augusta Constitutionalist says there
appears to bean impression that tbe South,
western Bailroad will terminate at Opeli.
ka. and the Georgia Railroad at the same
point. That is a mistake. Both roads
have their termini, ns heretofore, at Co
lumbus and West Point. Thence to Selma
is now known as the Western Railroad.
Both companies will run through trains to
Montgomery.
The Americus Republican says an em
bryo riot has broken out among the dark
ies on the plantation of Hon. J. M. Cobb.
Squire JobnEOn, on the 0th instant, issued
warrants for the arrest of four of tbe cul
prits, one of them charged with attempted
murder. Mr. Zachariah Bass, of this coun
ty, brought into onr office a stalk of cotton
over two feet in length, containing twenty
well matured squares. It is a fair sample,
Mr. Bass says, of twelve acres.
The Columbus Sun says: “The white man
and negro woman from Union Springs,
who were ostensibly married the other day.
were brought before the Grand Jury yes
terday. No true bill was found, as the
laws of Georgia make such marriages ab
solutely void from the beginning. If they
live together, they can be prosecuted for
fornication. We understand tbe pair
left for Union Springs on the 3 p. m. train.”
Judge D.W. Spence has samples of beard
ed wheat taken from his field within the
corporate limits of Covington, which yield
ed ninety large shocks from one acre. The
stalks exhibited were ail over six feet high,
and the whole field averaged five feet six
inches. The vicinity will hold a public
meeting on Saturday, June 18th, to offer
inducements to the building of a railroad
from Macon, Georgia, to Knoxville, Ten
nessee, via Indian Springs, Conyers and
Rabnn Gap.
The Albany News says it is probable the
S. G. and Florida Railroad will be formally
opened next week. The Brunswick and
Albany Railroad line is located to tbe Flint,
and the estimates are made up, though the
crossing bas not been determined on. The
location westward will be commenced in a
day or two. A company of contractors,
with Colonel B. G. Lockett at its head, is
ready to contract for the line from the Ala-
paha to Enfaula, and we floubt not the pa
pers will be signed this week or early next
week. The grading from Waynesboro to
tbe Alapaha is progressing vigorously.
OLD ENGLAND.
I love tbe racy English of < ltl times,
Before its Latin eoftness o'er It crept.
When mighty Scalds were valiant in tbclr
rhyme*.
Nor tamely o’er tho tinkling harp-strings
swept
As though the spirit nf their fathers slept.
Or spoke in Toweled whispers among limes.
Onr-nativc, rouglt-bewn words are less inept
Than daintier speech Hang off in silver chimes;
Our tongue should have a likeness to the land—
A smack of crag and torrent, tarn and glen—
In nouns and verbs that sbepnerds understand,
Meet for the use of hardy, lighting men.
Brief and sonorous, tin we seem to stand
And hear bravo Geoffrey Chancer rhymo again.
CHAN NINO JO SIE SHUTS.
“ In a little precious diamond
What a splendor meets the eyes 1
In a little lump of sugar
How much of sweetness lies I
So, in a littio woman.
Love grows r.nd multiplies;
You recollect tho prevent -ays—
“ A word unto tha wise.”
“ A wepper-c-rn is very smell.
But teasers every dinner
More tli tn all other condiments
Alihoug * 1 * * * Hts sprinkled th'nuur.
Just so a little worn in is
i will let ;uu win her.
•• And. as within the little rose.
You’ll And the r'Chestdyes.
And in a little grain of gold
Much price and valne ties;
So in a little womsu.
There’s a taste of paradise.
“Theskylight and the nightingale,
T hough small and light of wing,
Y'et warble sweeter in the grove
Than all the birds that sing.
And so a little woman,
Thoovh a very little thing.
Is sweeter Ibau ell other sweets
Even flowers that bloom in spring 1 ’
Governor Bard returned to this city
tills morning. He desires us to inform
Rev. V. A. Gaskiil, tho spicy paragraphist
of his friend Captain Blodgett, that, being
a “ prudent ” man. ho came via Augusta
and the Georgia Railroad.—Atlanta Con
stitution.
Western and Atlantic Railroad,)
Atlanta, Ga, June 10, 1870. J
The above appears first in your evening
edition of yesterday. Tlie short-lived Gov
ernor of Idnho has missed fire again. I
hold about the same relation to the letter
of “my friend Captain Blodgett” referred
to by Ex-Governor Bard, as the said Bard
holds to the Territory of Idaho.
I never saw said letter; said Bard never
saw said Territory. I could assaid “friend”
have seen said letter, bnt it has been cruelty
hinted that said Sam could not have seen
Idaho as Governor. He did not ever stand
on Pisgali and take a longing look into his
f iromised land. My friend Governor Bard
s a poor scholar, or he would have known
that my “friend Captain Blodgett” is a
“spicy paragraphist” himself.
Dr. Governor B. must be spilin for
fight, or he certainly would have passed
me by. at least, till the “ Truk (?) Geor
gian” could have been brought into the
action, ns tho last hope of Liberty and of
the State. The knife of my “friend. Cap
tain Blodgett,” went deep, or the Doctor
would not have hollowed so quick. Blod
gett has drawn the first blood from the no
ble Governor, and there is great danger
that he will bleed to death, nnd “perish by
tho wayside” before the “True Georgian ”
utters one scream in behalf of the Doctor’s
“promptings of -duty to Georgia.” [See the
Governor’s Prospectus.] Tiiose “prompt
ings of duty ” that surrendered tho chair
of State for tlic seat of “a private citizen,”
must have been terrible. All honor to the
man who will thus condescend for “ the
welfare and happiness of the people of
Georgia.”
Kings sometimes abdicate, but Govern
ors seldom resign; never, under such noble
impulses, and at such immense sacrifices,
ns have been made by the chief of the Ida
ho nation. Dr, don’t waste that free tick
et. If we kill you, on the Western and
Atlantic Railroad, you shall bo decently
buried, at the expense of tlie State, and
we, tbe people, will inscribe on your mon
ument, "Here lies a dead Governor, who
gave up 'a prospect of future promotion’ and
took his ‘place as a private citizen' for ‘ the
welfare and happiness of the people of Geor
gia.' Let the sweetest-scented flowers of
Georgia bloom freth over his grave forever.”
Dr, your future will be eventful, unless
Blodgett’s knife went too deep. I am so
glad you camo back, Dr, that I can scarce
ly contain myself. Reconstruction would
have failed without you. Besides, we, you
and I, will have many a war-talk as to
how we can smash Bullock, tako the State
Road out of Blodgett’s hands and run it
OURSELVES.
Your old friend, Gaskill.
Here, There and Everywhere.
The negro riot at Tuskcgee, Alabama,
was quieted Without blood-shed.
General Wade Hampton has purchased
a steam plow for $18,000.
Dr. E. D. Newton, of Rome, bifurcated
the tongue of a Mr. Crow a few days since.
A Universal Exposition will be held in
Vienna in 1873. It is intended to make it
equal in ail particulars to the Paris move
ment of a similar character.
Newton County Agricultural Society
propose to obligate themselves to raise
their supplies at home, and quit the ruin
ous policy of raising cotton to buy the nec
essaries of life. Sensible to the last.
The Superintendent of tbe N. Y. Police
Department states that hereafter no notice
will be paid to telegrams sent to liis depart
ment calling for tbe arrest of parties
charged with crime, unless full particulars
are given as to name, nature of offense, and
the authority for such arrest; and such
telegram must also be signed by the head
of the police department in the place from
whence the dispatch is sent.
Thirty-five thousands quarts of straw
berries nave been shipped the present sea
son from Richmond, per express.
Scientific.
San Francisco has a new Microscopical
Society.
Professor Mosler recommends benzine in
trichiniasis.
Dr. Wilis Richardson recommends am
monia as an antidote to aconite.
Oxalate of soda precipitates silver from
photographic baths, in a form for easy re
duction.
A new bridge-guard, for the prevention
of accidents, is being tried at Kinzlo street
bridge, New York.
The criticism of the faulty construction
of our new court-house wing is not liked
by the contractors.
Stains caused by photographic chemicals
should be washed off with chloride or sul
phate of zinc.
Chinese bamboo and Japanese plums
have been grown in California from im
ported roots.
M. Dolanricr propose* an apparatus for
concentrating the sun’s rays, so as to nse
them directly, instead of fuel.
Illuminating gas gives a great deal more
light when heated before burning, and a
great deal less when cooled.
A strong chalybeate spring of great vol
ume has been discovered in Girard, ahou
one mile from Columbus, Georgia.
Prepared wheat, the new substitute for
Graham llonr, contains, like the latter, all
the nourishing bone and nerve forming
constituents or the grain, and is for this
reason to be recommended as preferable to
ordinary white flour. Its preparation must
vary with individual taste.
A Wonder oe the Deep—A Real Mer
maid on Exhibition.—A real mermaid is
on free exhibition in the window of Mr. Jf.
Marks, CSS Broadway. It is dead, and bas
been exceedingly well preserved. It was
two feet long, and from the first side fins
to the tail, it is fish, and bears a- close re
semblance to tbe rock fish, scales and all;
but above the side fins, it has a small,
well-developed human head, neck and
breast. The black hair on its head is about
five inches long; the eyes, ears and nose
arc all well defined; the arms areabont
four inches long, with two joints, elbow
and wrist, and terminate in webbed, claw
like hands. It was sent to Mr. Marks by
bis brother from Y'okohoma. The English
Consul offered £100 for it, intending it for
tho British Museum, but the offer was re
jected. It is now offered for sale at $1,000.
New York Sun.
OUE PARIS LETTER.
Death of Gen. Goj-on—The Trage
dy at Nice—A New Way of Mark
ing Rioters—Editor vs. Soldier—
Tho Weather—Life iu Paris.
Special Foreign Cor. of Tbe Constitution.)
Paris, May 24,1870..
The sudden death of General Goyon, in
his carriage en route for tlie Senate, de
prives tlic Second Empire of it faithful
Scrvitcur. The General was suspected of
Orleanism, which but increased his zeal
for Napoleon. He loved to be known as
an aid-de-camp to his Majesty. It was in
Italy, particularly at Koine, that ho distin
guished himself- On tme occasion, he in-
; brined Cardinal Merodo, the Pope s Minis
ter of War. that he would box his ears,
only he respected tlie doth. In 1S5S, In
tlie June insurrection, lie commanded a
light dragoon regiment, which sabred so
icntly bnt completely the insurgents that
ds troopers were ever after known as
••Goyon’s young ladies.” When a lieu
tenant. his room was made up by a charm
ing maid named Anais. One evening on
returning he found Ids room locked. He
burst open the door and stumbled over a
jupon and a helmet. Striking a match, he
found Ids bed occupied by a trooper and
Anais, as happy as Don Juan and Uaidee,
Who sustained his head upon her bosom’s
charms.”
Beside tiie bed was tho lieutenant’s bot
tle of brandy emptied, and his uiecrshnum
recently smoked. Ho awoke the soldier,
told him, he turned his blind eye to the ca
tastrophe, and dismissed Anais.
Years passed on, nnd ono evening the
lieutenant, who had become General, was
introduced to a brave Captain and hla
charming wife, who formerly occupied his
bed.
Nice has just supplied us With a terrible
drama. A young gentleman, poor, but of
respectable position, was in love with the
accomplished daughter of a Parisian Li
brarian. Their means, they considered, were
not sufficient to enable them to support,
when married, that state of life, in which
it had pleased God to call them, they re
solved to die—and in death not to be divi
ded. Setting out one nfternoon from Nice,
with a bottle of laudanum, a cano sword,
and a revolver, they selected a romantic
nooktodie. M’lle hung.up her white ju
pon on a tree to enable their bodies to bo
found. They drank the poison, but it failed
to kill; and, wakening in the middle of the
night, it was resolved to end the pain by
the revolver. The young lady begged to
be shot, but not to disfigure her features,
it was done, but she lived to tell the tale.
Her lover, after firing upon her, shot him
self in the heart.
At Nantes, during tlie late voting, the
number of rioters arrested at one of the
military outposts was far greater than tho
soldiers, and escaped as soon as apprehend
ed. Pending the arrival of reinforcements,
the officer. to mark his “ quarry,” ordered
ail the buttons to be cut off the clothes of
the prisoners as they were brought in.
The Rappel is one of tlie several rabid
organs of tho opposition. Having stated
that tlie military were compelled to vote
as tho Colonels wished—which accounts for
the 40,000 votes against the Empire by the
soldiers, but too seriously proves tlic con
trary—a corporal waited upon the editor to
demand such a calumny to be withdrawn.
The brave soldier was unceremoniously
f lushed out of the office, receiving at part-
ng a kick
“Just in tho place where honor’s'lodged.
As wise philosophers have judged.”
He re-entered, seized some three of the
editorial staff, and threw them out of the
window, adding somewhat. “ that it was a
way we have in the army.”
Tlie weather has become so suddenly
hot that all Paris is flying to the country or
the seaside. The theatres are being emp
tied for the advantage of open air con
certs—very attractive and alwaj s agreea
ble. For many families to go to the sea
side is a work equal to a positive emigra
tion—it puts the boulevards almost in
mourning. It is the pain of separation
that causes several circles to pull down all
tho blinds and evidences of lllc in the fi6nt
of the house to lead a squatting existence
in the back premises, with a few square
yards of garden and a couple of sycamore
trce3 to remind them of such a tiling as
the vegetable kingdom. Even when oth
ers tako to tlie open country, they must
ever he in sight of tlie towers of Notre
Dame—dress and live, as at Paris. Tlie
mountain must come to Mahomet. The
bourgeois love flowers, and tho garret win
dow, with a few flowers, gives him all the
transport of a botanical garden. It is the
manner of viewing the delight that gives
tho pleasure, os tlic Hidalgo, when tlie
cherries served at his dessert were small,
was provided with magnifying glasses to
correct tho defect.
Bourrif.1t.
Punchinello’s Condensed Congress
—Tlic Senate—The 15tll Amend
ment Enforcement Bill—Its Pro
visions— 1 The Anathema—Medal-
some Senators—Drake Quacks.
The 15th Amendment Enforcement hill
provides:
1. That any person of a darker color than
chrome yellow shall hereafter be entitled
to vote to any extent at any election, with
out rciercnce to age, sex, or previous con
dition, anything, anywhere to the contra,
ry notwithstanding.
2. That any person who says that any
such person ought not to vote, shall be
punishable by fine to the extent ofhis pos
sessions, and shall lie anathema.
3. That any person who shal:, with intent
to prevent tlie voting of any such person,
strike such person upon the nose, eye,
mouth, or other feature, within one mile of
any place of voting, within ono week of
any day of voting, shall be punishable by
fine to the extent of twice his possessions,
and shall be disentitled to vote forever
after. Moreover, be shall be anathema.
4 That any person who shal) advise any
other person to question the right of any
person of the hue hereinbefore specified to
vote, or to do any other act whatever, shall
be punishable by fine to the extent of three
times bis possessions, and shall be anath
ema. •
6. That all fines collected under this Act
shall he expended upon tlic endowment of
“The Society for Securing the Pursuit of
Happiness to American Citizens of African
Descent.” And if any person shall call in
question the justice of such a disposition
of such fines, he shall be punishable by fine
to the amount of four times his posses,
sions, and shall be anathema,
Mr. Wilson objected to anathema. He
said nobody in the Senate but Sumner
knew what it meant. Besides, it was bor
rowed from tlie syllabus of a degraded su
perstition. He moved to substitute the
simple and intelligible expression, “Hcbe-
dam.”
The Senate settled their little dispute
abont who was entitled to a medal for
coming first to the defense of the Capital.
They decided to give medals to everybody.
Mr. Cameron was satisfied. If the Senate
only medaied enough, that was all he
asked. There were about five thousand
wavering voters in bis district, whom lie
thought hecouid fix, if he could give them
a medal apiece.
Mr. Couklingsaid he would like to medal
some men. But be did notlike such med
dlesome men as Cameron.
Mr. Drake moved to deprlvo anybody in
Missouri who differed from him in politics
of practicing any profession. He said that
many of the citizens of that State were in
carnate demons—so much so that when
they had an important law case they would
rather intrust it to somebody else than
himself. Was this right? He asked the
Senate to protect him as a native industry.
Cotton Factories South vs. Cotton
Factories East.—Tho Memphis (Tenn.)
Daily Sun proves that a cotton factory in
that city will clear $82 75 more on every
bale of cotton woven Into cloth than can
be realized by the mills of Lowell. Massa
chusetts, and that 3,000 bales in Memphis
would produce a profit of $248,000 in one
year, against the $30,000 of the mills of
Lowell, built at nearly the same cost. The
New England manufacturer pays $10 to
get a bale to his mill, and loses entirely
the profit of the oil from the cotton seed—
SGO per bale—all of which, with tlie advan
tage of labor at lower rates, enters the gain
of the home manufacturer.—Exchange
highly interesting case.
Power of Bullock’s Apx>ointccs to
ho Tested.
The Savannah Advertiser, of the 10th,
**5l case arose yesterday, in the offico of
one of our many vx-ofilcio Justices of
tho Peace and Notary Publics, which it
Is thought will he uie means of testing
the powers vested in the various ap
pointees of Governor Bullock, who have
been anil arc now exercising the duties
of the office of ex-officio Justices of tho
Peace. It appears that a party was in
debted to another in a small amount due
as a balance in a certain transaction, and
having failed to meet the obligation, tho
creditor proceeds to collect tho same by a
regulnr process. He appl ied at tlic office of
an ex-officio Justice of the Peace, and had
an execution issued against the party de
fendant. The fi. fa. was placed in the hands
of an officer, who proceeded to execute the
same by levying on a sufficient amount of
property to satisfy tlie execution. Thcdc-
fendant then proceeds to file a bill in equity
against the said officers, and prays an in
junction, which was granted, restraining
them from taking any action in the matter
until a final decree is had in the cause.
Tlie grounds taken by the defendant are,
that a Notary Public and cxtoffielo Justice
of the Peace has no right to enter up judg
ment or issue executions against him, as
the power granted them by virtue of their
appointment extended no further than al
lowing them to issue a process in tlic ab
sence of a duly elected magistrate, and that
said process must be made returnable
and tried before tho said elected
magistrate of the district in which tho
defendant resides; and, further, that tlie
officer attempting to execute tlie fi. fa. was
not a legal officer In the eyes of the law, not
having been elected to tlic office of consta
ble, and tlie proceedings of his apnoint-
ment were therefore Irregular and in op
position to tlie law. The proceedings of
this cause will be watched with more than
usual interest, as it affects the judicial in
terests nnd heretofore supposed vested
powers of several hundred appointees of
Governor Bullock throughout tho State.
Hon. Jefferson Davis Addrkssiko a
Sunday SdliooL Celebration.—Over four
thousand fire hundred children and ten
thousand adults attended the Sunday
School celebration at Jackson, Tennessee,
lastwcck. The schools of all the towns in
that section were represented. A letter
describing the demonstration says:
The Hon.Jeflerson Davis was introduced
nnd spoke ten minutes in an earnest and
thrilling manner. His appearance on tho
stand was hailed by a tremendous burst of
applause. The Hon. Jacob Thompson and
tho Right Rev. Bishop Qnintard were also
introduced and made a few pertinent re
marks. It was a great day for Jackson,
and I presume there never was a gathering
of tlie kind of like magnitude.
X3T Another curions case of conscience
has just benefitted the directors of a bank at
Brussels. In January last they received a
package accompanied by a letter request
ing that the former should not be opened
until three months had elapsed. When
opened at the proper time, the enclosure
was found to contain 84,000 francs restored
to tbe bank by a defaulter. “A good deed
in S naughty world.”
The Presbyterian Church (South).
The following is tlio closing portion
of the pastoral address or the General As
sembly of the Presbyterian Church (South),
prepared at its recent session in Louisvillo,
and incidentally referring to tbe proposed
union with the Northern Church:
In the adorable providence of God, our
peeled and desolated Church is pushed to
the front in this conflict. In the face of
those ancient Churches which, in Europe,
arc still entangled in State alliances, the
very foremost of which seem to be slow in
grasping tlie grand conception which tho
Redeemer’s discipline has been so clearly
teaching them, and in the face of the Chris
tianity of the Northern section of our
own land, which, in a temporary frenzy,
as we hope and pray, has subsided from
the truth, we thought it understood, this
suffering Church of ours is called to testi
fy. Tho pure, white banner, borne by the
Melvilles, Gillespies and tho Hendersons,
those noble witnesses of another age, for a
E ure spiritual Church has fallen into our
nnds to uphold. Floating from our walls
the superb inscription “Christ’s Crown and
Covenant” rings out the battle cry of that
sacramental host whieii by protest and re
proach. by testimony and suffering, will
yet conquer tlic cartli and bring it into
submission at the Saviour's feet. It is upon
the assertion of this great and general
principle, out of which a trucccciesiologv
is yet to spring, this assembly decides to
place herself and you. The royalty of tho
thought will render you kingly in all your
purposes and desires oven to debase this
testimony by yielding to tho lower resent
ments of the unsanctllicd heart in tho pro
clamation of your testimony.
These are tlie convictions which rule our
decision in relation to correspondence with
tlie Northern Church. Their offense
with us is that wc would not yield to tbe
mistaken consciences which permitted
them to bind tho Church of our Divine
Lord to the wheels of Cmsar’s chariot. We
cannot surrender this testimony for tho
privilege of sitting within their halls. Wo
declare, therefore, tint wo can hold no
official correspondence with tho Northern
churches unless the Saviour is reinstated in
the full acknowledgment ot His kingship
in His own Church.
A Revelation about Chewing Gum—
The following, clipped from an exchange,
interest to many who cannot
find sufficient employment for their masti-
c.store at the table} “ Chewinggum is made
at Poduck, Massachusetts, of gnm arable!
rosin and fat Any kind of fat, even that
of dead dogs, is used in tho manufacture,
and when all the ingredients are placed in
boiling kettles, a small quantity of the
mo3t nauseous liquid foam is put in to whi
ten the gum,” When this laet is known.
H they a wanUo fe0t rlEht t0 chew the gun *
Cburcli Choir.*.
Tho New York Herald bus n word of at
vice to singers in churcb choirs, which, w
fear, is not entirely out orplace elsewhere
“Believing that organs and trained choh
are useful and cfficientapplianccs ofdivin
service, by means or which manv wear
footsteps have been directed to the rigti
path after long traveling of tho wrong, w
give them hearty support. What wc dc
sire is that members of tlie choir, withot
exception, bo something tnorcnrchrislisr
and less of professional singers. It Is tro
thatthey are regularly paid to chant tfa
praises of tlie Lord in soprano, contraih
tenor, basso, and tho rest; but wlicthc
the notes of these warblers be wort
the infinitesimal part of a mill cael
or tho fraction of a dollar, or even a who!
Question. Wc propoc
that after they have ceased singing the
t0 * p . ra ? lnff or listening to tlj
preaching with tho balance, of the congn
SSSVwlE ? ft ? n has lt not ot
served that the instant members of a churc
choir have fimshed&hymn they settle dow
te a cosy chat, passing their little joke
with as much indifference as if they wet
not in a piaco of worship, or as if they ha
received information direct from hive
“ they need not trouble tlicmsclvc
about the question of their salvation
mean to say that tli
majority of the members of choirs ac
In this manner, bnt that a minor
ity, sufficiently great iu numbers to at
tract attention, do this no person will deni
Indeed, wo are assured that at some of tli
churches social topics arc discussed in th
choirs every Sunday ;.satlre and critic an
criticism are indulged in, and plcasan
stories are told between the pauses of tli
music. Such levity and irrcligion mcri
and ever receive our condemnation. Con
versationon social matters and pleasant
rics are very good and allowable things i
their way. but they are not appropriate s
chnrch. Let us trust tho erring mcinbci
of the choirs will heed tills ndmonitioi
behave better in the future and bccom
faithful and devout followers of Christ.”
Hard vs. Gaskill.
Atlanta, Ga., Jane 11,1870.
Ga **M: I hava hurricdl
yo » r c , ar<3 ’ printed In Til
that von dm Bnd am now MITSitisfic
d nQt , com P°sc the note of M
Blodgett, recently addressed to methrou”
the columns of the Press. The compos!
don Plndgett’s signature was, t
rmini Of i S n arp and respectable i
point of wit, while yours is feeble nnd it
sn P cl^lil 6i i ” Cere ^., rC K rct that y°° hav
succeeded in wnting yonrseif down a
s f' , at sarcasm is stlngles;
AS a friend, I advise you to deal, in fc
tU l2m eS ^l , !ri Chea J > c !dc ?? and crn l*y Word
1 am, my dear M Swallow-Fork,”
Your friend till death,
^ Sam. lUto.
..f^, ^ special telegram from Jacfcso
Misshsippi, to the Mobile Rcgktor tov“
»drta!( «j c :
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JhU smacks of tho Connecticut blue law
Z3f~ It seems that the mv
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225?. i'AXf , bccn .issued to lioubk
val imperial dock-yards am
2* ai >d that nil govern:
steamers arc to keep their fires bai
S^cihm .Precautionary measures ag
possible l'cnian plots and revolts, in i
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f . Among tlie last batch of Chins
ln San Francisco was on
rtoslty, being a horse with two tails.