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ATLANTA, OA, AUGUST ». 187).
oar OrralaiM.
X* «rr glad to knnntinrt to the many
fn ti'!' of Trri. OisnirrTKn that new -nb
». r ihm are psrbinz m at the rate of fifty or
■; tty a week. This it the dull aeaaon, and
vt. have nude no special or umuual effort
t extend our aohecription list We liare
it, doubt, judging from the present rate of in-
< leans, that we shall soon have a weekly
average of more than me kunrired new eub-
r- .'Vo For the increasing interest mani-
f. ted by our friends and for recent marks of
favor, we return our warmest thanks.
stnaiaii tr ntstLTs.
1 he Present InwmsS«ntlan al suit
stand Caaaa, aaS ska Praapaes.
The people of Atlanta hare been cxcr-
€ iecd the present week by a succession of
sensations, that bare created no little <
Mi nt. A homicide attempted and another
• barged, arrests of State ltuad officers and citi
Sena alaoonding of parties, together w.t 1 :
stir in (eilitical circles over the indication. of a
• huge of base by the Radical organ, bare
I mlritiuted to render this week quite a lively
tine. Rut everything else was comparatively
forgotten, and all interest was concentrated
upon the exposure* Mng made of the Radt-
■ - .1 administration of the State Road. A
► t.-.rt review will lie instructive, for present
it-eorrences are destined to have a marked
relation both with
PAST ago Vl TfR* DEVEItOPWENTS.
¥ : two years the people of Georgia have
_ led Inqieleasly against a Radical incu-
l,u that oppressed them sorely and cmclied
tiieir energies The finances of the State
were bring handled, mismanaged and misap
propriated by unscrupulous Radical office-
holders and their corrupt rings, bat the peo
ple could only groan licncalh their burdens
'I'n k CovSTlTfTlog and the press of the
State assaulted, denounced and exposed. For
two years this his been their unceas
ing work. But to what did expo-tire
amount, when the whole State government
was in the hands of the Radicals, with
whom honesty is only the exception and not
the rule.
Governor Bullock's unwarrantable and
reckless manipulation of the
■OSIM OP TEE STATE
lets licen continuously set forth in The
OismTCTto* for a year or more post. The
lavish and outrageous expenditure of the
jtf*iplt-’i money by hundreds of thousands,
where former Governors spent only a lew
tli lntrl, the enormous waste upon the New
Kra, the criminal use of the pardoning power,
n» shown by figures which we took from
the records and have made the circuit of
tin Union, and the damning exposures about
t wo months since, showing where $8,5000) the
jKople’s money went in e single caee, on
Uuk Mir mittiont wert erptiided in two years ;
all this the press have lioen thundering But
with all power in Radical possession, it was
feared that rascalities could be to covered up
that the evidences of gnilt would never be
discovered. But the prospect brighten
The existence of
coast:pt hinos
for plundering the revenues of the State
Road, a fact all along believed, has been
clearly demonstrated. These ring! were
comp i*ed Isilh of office-holders and citizens,
but the names of only a few have yet lieen
a i erUuucd.
The recent investigations have alto clearly
dev eloped perhaps the leading modu*optrn.idi
by w hich the Slate Road Treasury has been
depleted. It is known, we believe, as
LOAIHNO A MIX.
Thai is, where goods have been pnrehased
till- hill for the saint; has lieen increased fifty
or one hu/utmi per oat, and when paid the
overplus was divided among the ring,
li S way the twoks and accounts would ap
|icmr entirely regular upon their fare.
Another mode was by accounts altogether
fraudulent, and still another by tiro payments
for the same bill. Thus thousands of dol
lars were stolen, and doubtless at leaet
A HALE Mil.1.ION
of dollars went in these various ways, for he
yond all question the profits of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad for the years 18611 anti
INTO amounted to that much. It will be remora
berej that we gave a few months sine
following as the enormous aggregate of the
c\|ienditures, namelv :
P.*1«M M
for ISTU 63.UW.37! 00
Tiiis shows an increase of expenditure in
1 s;o of more than $600,000, and this is proba
bly ataiut the amount of the people’s money
that lias found iu way
INTO PRIVATE POCKETS.
Tills explains how palatial mansions have
Urn built, and men without incomes have
suddenly become rich and dash about in
splendid equipages. When the Legislature
meets, end appoints its investigating com
mitters, with the facts now before ns, the
wli.de truth will probably be ferreted out And
n glorious day for Georgia it will be, when
the plunderers will be exposed in their naked
iniquity to the acorn and condemnation of
the people they have robbed. We have suf-
fi real, but the day of tribulation is rapidly
P t*aiug and the dawn breaks of the miiienial
mom, when corruption shall disappear and
the last vestiges of the Radicalism, which
has cursed, and plundered and oppressed the
Umpire State of the South, shall linger only
in the stenches arising from its grave.
We are gratified to see that the press of
Hie South are awaking to the fact that a
divided Democracy in the South will inevi
tably lead to defeat iu the next Preaidcutiai
< unvaaa. To succeed, the Democracy must
not only lie united, but must so act ua to
obtain lilt' assistance of some in the Mot ihern
Slates who voted for Grant in the last t-lcr-
ti >n. There were thousands of vote- EMI
for him not because the voters liked
the man or the party of which he v:n
candidate, but hecauae they believed,
either from Radical misrepresentation or
Democratic indiscretions, that if Seymour
and Blair were elected, the government would
be immediately placed under the control of
> called rebel influences. The Noil'll MU
mind was not prepared for that result Nor
is it now. If heated partisans of either side
succeed in begetting the impression that such
i* to lie the result of Democratic sucicss in
the next election, not only will all who are
recognized as Conservative' Republicans and
non-partisans in the North, but a large Ilein-
.s-ratic vote will also be driven front the
liemocratic ticket Tnis may by some be
termed sickly sentimentality and an unneces
sary prolonging of the prejudices of the war,
but it is nevertheless a fact which hss to be
t aken into the count There is a fight going
on in the Radical ranks. Let that fight con
uuur, for, if we stand united their dissensions
will prove of essential advantage to us. I he
s ountry must he relieved of the men in [low
cr. Their extravagance*, frauds and corrup
tions if not soon stopped, will reduce the
country to such a condition, that will s arcc
lie worth saving. The honest people long
for, and prav for retrenchment and reform,
but they- will not seek it through the Demo
cratic party, if we are given over to domestic
strife.—SasknUc Union and American
Fen and Flew .
Perhaps no two gentlemen in the recent
agricultural convention at Rome were listened
to with more real interest as were Col. D. W.
Aiken, of South Carolina, and ex-Gov J. E.
Brown, of Georgia. The views and suggest
ions of Col. Aiken, especially, being an ex
tensive planter, were considered very valmMe.
His speech was pointed, practical and spicy.
Planting as lie kxs dace fiioeVar in Smth
Carolina, sod contending against the vex
ations and uotwua im inanl lo.M$$wred*, ha
baa nevertheless by careful management and
scientific farming, been very successful—re
taining his old alivcs and “made money”
while others lost Soccewaful farming by
men of letters shows that the American far
mer need not be the American “ green-horn,”
and shows that a farmer ran he of service in
both " field and forum "
Ex - Governor Joseph E. Brown is
known to be tine of the best and most suc
cessful farmers in upper Georgia, and his
knowledge of the country around Rome, as
well as valuable advice and suggestion*
a iout hay anti grain fertilizers, etc., made his
remarks peculiarly Interesting to the dele
gates generally. Judge Dupont, of Florida,
was among the prominent planters in attend
ance upon the Convention. . *
From the Georgia Enterprise we learn that
on the 16th, in the absence of the family, the
residence of Elder W. D. Allmand, near
Conyers, was entered and robbed of nearly
$1,00(1 in money and other valuables. No
clue to the robbers.
a paralytic stroke.
The great sheep runs of California, like
tb'r?e o! Australia, seems to be a kind of mild
form of Botany Bay for their respective
mother countries. Old shepherds of long
experiences in either country will tell y «i of
sron-s of men with college* and even ni.ivcr
kity educations, whom themselves or their
friends have banished "for their country’s
good,” and who are now gathering their
melanchol y crops of wild oats at the same
time they watch the docks on the hill- nib
ble theirs. Kufua A. Lockwood, one of the
greatest and most erratic geniuses ever seen
in California, and whose biography has lieen
written by Hon. Newton Booth, Republican
candidal*’ for Governor, once herded -beep
in Australia, and that, too, after he ha l be
come known as one of the most brilliant]
law vers of San Francisco.
Mr. (’arr’a overseer told me that duringI
single year ho had employed a biihop’* son
an editor, a banker, a civil engineer, a priest,
and a l>ook-kcepor as shepherds. Every
summer day there are several hot hours
when the restless sheep are compelled, for
once, to lie still, when the shepherd lolls at
bis ease beneath a tree; and you shall not
unfrequenlly see him reading some magazine,
or, like Alexander the Great, who always
carried around a piece of g*»od literature with
him, or, perusing p*»ems of his own cotnposir
ti*»n clipped from the village paper.
The shepherds of California, as a cl*.-«, are
probably the most worthless, morally and so
cially, the most unprincipled, reckless and
roll ipscd company of vagabonds to be found
iy civilized country, unless it be Austra-
Tliey are the riffraff of the world; va
grant miners who gamble away their mouth's
wages as soon as drawn—runaway sailors
from ships in San Francisco, who sell tbeir
blankets for a pillow-case full of biscuit*, and
then get never a pinch of grub for two days,
measly old grogy soldiers, who fall asleep
under a live-oak, and let the coyotes pull away
Ulamb.
The good old Bible word “shepherd” is not
heard in California, it is cither “wool-grow-
‘ranchero,” or most cumbrous and ab
surd “«heep-raisers,” and, for the man who
does the work, he is a "sheep-herder.” And
when he goes so low down as to lie a ‘vheep-
bcnler” in California, he had better go and
dig a hole in the ground, insert his head
therein, and ask some pittying friend to
cover it up. He is lower thau a Greaser, for
this is the Greaser’s natural business that he
was born to, and he is therefore respectable.
Greasers and vagal*ond sailors together have
brought contempt on sheep-herding.— San
\l'rane : .aco ('vYi'espondtnre.
Prom ihe Indian Spritga Miwor.
Stmt tat lea mf Batts Cmnty.
The statistics given below having l*een
carefully compiled from the books of the Tax
Receiver, may be relied upon as exhibiting
correct data in every particular, as stated:
POLL*.
DbtrkU. White. Colored. Total.
JDm _
, jy and )“**»• „
joyal improving from a para:
Colonel Alexander, at the Mar,
Lis ronm rick. At ths moating «f the fire
men of Griffin, the Chief Assistants and the
Presidents of the two companies were ap
pointed to attend the Firemen’s Convention.
The Herald leys that Mrs. Torbert, wife of
B. F. Torbert, died in Greensboro on the
11th. .The Herald aaya that Rev. Mr. Hen-
dee of the above place, has been elected Vice-
President of the Presbyterian Female Col
lege, in Louisville, Ky., and arrepte the po
sition. Rains have been general throughout
Green for the last week; and have been of
great benefit to the planting interest
The Seaport Appeal report* that it fears
tbe rains with which that section of country
is now visited, will be of serious disservice to
cotton crops. Two new engines have been
received it Brunswick for the Brunswick and
Alhsnv Railroad. Dr. W Watkins Hicks
delivered his lecture on “Moral Greatness"
Brunswick the evening of the 17th
Brunswick wants a laundry. The local of
the Appeal boasts of tbe beauty of the ladies
of Brunswick. No doubt they tnerirhis en
comiums.
The Marietta Journal is Informed by Die
farmers of Paulding county that about half
crop of com and cotton will be made.
Evening musical concerts in the Park by tbe
Comet Band delight tbe citizens of Marietta.
A fair crop of com will be made in Cobb,
more baring been planted than last year. Dr.
A. Connel, of Houston, formerly of Marietta,
is dead. The above paper also states that
Marietta iarapidlv advancing toward the di
mensions of a city. The Journal also con
tains an interesting account of tbe 25th an
niversary of the Marietta Bible 8ociety.
Tbe North Georgia Citizen says that Ring-
gold presents signs of thrift and improve
ment. Arrangements have been perfected
for the erection of extensive iron works two
and a half miles South of tbe place, on the
Western and Atlantic Railroad. The same
paper states that much interest is being mani
tested in religious meetings in Dalton. Quite
a number of business bouses and fine resi
dences are springing up in Chattanooga. Tbe
Citizen says that Chattanooga is to have a
four-story hotel—a second edition of the
Kimball House.
Tbe Calhoun Time* says that an interesting
protracted meeting is being carried on in that
place under the auspices of the Baptist de
nomination. The same paper states that
Hon. John P. King, of Augusta, has donated
a lot in the town of Calhonn, and a consider
able amount of money, for the purpose of
building an Episcopal Church. Twenty-
seven thousand two hundred and three bush
els of com from tbe 1st of January to the
15th day of August have been shipped from
tbe Calhoun depot—three thousand five hun
dred and sixty bosheis of wheat during the
same time. The same paper above mentioned
save that the building of the North Georgia
and North Carolina Railroad Is in a fair way
of absolute certainty. Borne recent rains
hare done good, but the com crop of Gordon
county will be a short one.
Esaeral News lte
, frin MOgjUn-
for Justice and right.
Tow Jtlii;a
Irou Springs....
I»ublin
lutlian Spline*
LAM 1 in AMD TOWM PROPERTY.
No. acres. Value. V*l. town. Total.
7K.5T9 9.7-15 88,224
58.297
.58,843
47.0*6
56.135
54,537
50.504
51,991
Y«aof ■•■■•lit of the IV* T. Brral4
Two or three years ago a Western journal
ist waited upon the senior Bennett and said
that he came on behalf of himself and cer
lain capitalists to see if the Herald could be
purchased, and he was authorized to offer a
roond sum for it, passing up in the digits of
Mr. Bennett, after some conversation, re
plied that, at his age, he would have accepted
the oder. except for his son.
*My son.” he said, “is the best edit
America to-day.”
This opinion is general at the Herald office
among the employees. The Bennett of the
second generation is an American, liberally
educated, socially esteemed, courageous, and
w nh all his father's instincts for newg. The
lich*T>our of the paper during the recent riots
iu New York was admirable. It is now in
the exclusive management of the son; its
editorial tone is national and cheerful; it is
purged of old personalities and eschews the
fraternal bickerings which used to mark all
tbe New York dailies. Old complaints against
i: no longer apply. The Herald is another in
»■ lance of the redeeming power of energy and
enterprise to reform their own excesses, and
of the impossibility of anything being planted
in America that must not feel the humanizing,
chrisiionizing influence of popular sentiment.
Whatever i» too useful to perish from among
n* must be elevated.—Gap. Alfred Tmtntcnas
Letter.
56,127
50,504
94,020
736,181
Jackson *0,*64
Worth\ Ule 11.338
Batin*!!* 13,179
Coody# 12.935
Towaliga 15 071
Iron Fpring* 14 019
Dublin 10.646
Indian Spr.nga . 12.49!* 51,991 22.025
115,331 456.946 33,0)0
Bnttrrlli* (<*ol.) ... 150 450
Money and solvent
debts
Talnaof me- rban
ds**
Personal property.
Total.
Total tax on professions, $125 00.
The colored population is taxed on proper
ty valued at $2,310 00, as follows: Land in
ButtreH’s district, 150 acres, valued
$450 00; personal property—ButtreU’s,
$850 00; Iron Spring, $300 00; Dublin,
$710 00. From this it will be seen that the
amount of tax paid by tbe colored race, to
ilefray county, school and other expense, is
so small a fraction as to be scarcely worth in
cluding in the estimate.
The Vafabtnd Sage*
An old man of very active physiognomy,
answering to the name of Jacob Wilmot. was
brought to the Police Court His clothes
looked as though they might have been
bought second-hand in his youthful prime,
for they suffered more from rubs of the world
than the proprietor himself.
“What business ?”
"None. I’m a traveler.”
“A vagabond, perhaps?”
“You are not far wrong. Travelers and
vagabonds are about the same thing The
difference is that the latter travels without
money, and the former without brains.”
“ W here have you traveled ?"
“All over the continent.”
“For what purpose V*
“Observation.”
"What have you observed ?”
“A little to commend, much to censure and
a great deal to laugh aL”
“Humph! what do you commend ?”
“A handsome woman who will stay at
borne; on eloquent preacher who will preach
short sermons; a good writer that w ill not
write too much; and a fool that ho- sense
enough to hold his tongue.'
"W hat do you censure ?”
"A man that marries a girl for her fine
clothing; a youth who studiesmedicim while
he has the use of his hands; and the people
a ho will elect a drunkard to office."
‘‘What do you laugh at?”
“I laugh at a man who expects his position
to command that respect which his |M-raanal
qualifications and qualities do not merit.”
He was dismissed — Herald.
The Butterfly Lotta at Booth’s.—The
fall and winter season at .Booth’s Theatre
opened last evening. The butterfly Lotta
drew a crowded house. At 9 o’clock the line
from the box office extended up Twenty
third street as far as Fifth avenue, and many
were turned away. The play of the evening
was Brougham's dramatization of the "Ola
Curiosity Shop"—not the most brilliant of
that author’s dramatic efforts, but serving
charm inly to develop the capacities of Lotto.
If the talents of a coramedienne are to be
measured by her power over an audience,
Lotta must assuredly be assigned a high
place. In pure pathos she is utterly w.inting.
The tender, loving little Nell of Dickens
find4 but a poor representative in her. But
as the Marchioness she exhibits a degree of
power unrivalled. She is simply inimitable
in her personation of the roguish, hoydenish
sweetheart of Dick swivel!er.
Mr. Arthur Hildreth, son of the historian,
returned from Europe recently.
Ex-Secretary Seward and party left Con
stantinople on the 11 ih ult, for Vienna, in one
of the Austrian Lloyd steamers.
George C.»tiin, the American artist, will
return from Europe to this country in Sep
tember next, after an ahsense of thirty yean.
He is now 76 years of age.
Mr. Paine Aldrich, who died in Worcester,
Massachusetts, recently, aged eighty-nine,
was the inventor, in 1835, of the railway
turn-table.
The Marquis of Lome writes to the Lon
don Times that "he was prevented from vo
ting for Prince Arthur’s allowance by his
absence in Wales and Ireland.”
Mrs. Flynt, the now famous Boston dress
maker, is about to tell the public tbe whole
of the absorbing story about her “little bill”
in a chaste volume from her own pen.
Will M. Carleton, the new Western poet,
is a journalist by profession, and aged only
24. He resides at Hillsdale, Michigan, and
graduated from the college at that place in
1869.
Mrs. Isabella Dallas (Miss Glyn) will shortly
begin on engagement to play at one of the
Boston theatre*. She has recently suffered
from inflammation of the eyes, but her health
is now improving.
Rev. Elkan Herman, pastor of the Fifth
Avecue.8ynagogue in Chicago, has been ex
pelled by his congregation for failing to com
ply with the regulations, he having broken
fast by eating ice cream on a day of fasdhg.
Lookout Mountain is well patronize J.
Edwin Forrest is irrevelontly called ‘‘old
piano legs.”
The Millerites have fixed September 3d
the date of their new departure.
Scuppemong grapes are selling in Wilming
ton for 15 cents a quart
There were 3,121 arrests in New Orleans
in July.
The Louisville and Cincinnati 8hort Line
Railroad lias changed to narrow gauge.
There are 40,000 head of cattle in the neigh
borhood of Chicago and no market for them.
The Mobile and Northwestern Railroad
will be completed in two years.
Cincinnati has 1,400 tenement houses, with
from six to eight families living in each.
Surprise parties are the order of the day
in Chattanooga.
A Wisconsin man has smoked a barrel of
tobacco in a year.
Philadelphia belles outshine all others in
the matter of engagement rings this season.
The stock of Bacon on hand at the West
is said to be very large.
Forty negroes voted the Democratic ticket
in Bourbon county, Kentucky.
The Texas papers are generally complain
ing of a very severe drought.
An explosion of fire damp in the Eagle
Shaft at Pittstou, Pa., buried seventeen
miners alive.
Mrs. It T. Colburn has been arrested in
Columbus, Ohio, on a charge of poisoning
Buffenbarger.
The number of new buildings erected in
the city of Brooklyn, within the past year
was 2,214, valued at $4,930,900,
E<len Park, of Cincinnati, cost half a mil
lion of dollars, it will cost $2,000,000 to com
plete the improvements.
A Cincinnati painter, In falling from a
building, struck, and broke in two an iron
awning frame, and atill survives.
A new paper in Pennsylvania starts off by
calling a neighboring editor a scoundrel, liar
The champion woodchuckist of Vermont
L a dog belonging to Edgar Bragg, of Fair-
lee, which has killed 105 during the summer.
The largest scales factory in the worid is
at St Johnsburg, Vermont. It covers several
acres of ground and employs five hundred
men.
Chief Justice Chase has purchased five
acres of land op the Heights of Narragan-
sett, R L, and will soon erect a residence
there,
A Lynchburg colored woman fall thirty
feet out of a third story, striking the ground
head foremost. They are filling up the hole.
She wasn't hurt any.
The custom of wearing cadet buttons has
been given up by the indignant belles at West
Point since cadet Smith presented some of
his to a lady of color.
Joseph Kirby, of Cincinnati, has an estab
lishment devoted exclusively to the manufac*
Dire of bungs of all sizes for barrels. He
turns out from 60,000 to 90,000 per day. His
sales average 75,000. One house in New
York buys one thousand barrels of these
bungs annually,
Ftrelva Mews Items*
Queen Victoria is sick.
A case of cholera has appeared in London.
The cholera is on the increase in Germany.
England refuses flatly to deliver French
refugees* under the extradition laws.
The military fcrce of C mod* Is to be re
duced.
The crops of England have been damaged
by great storms.
The Mohauunadon in urrection in North
China, is still formidable.
The vine disease prevails iu Portugal, and
the wine crop is expected to be short.
The new government works satisfactorily
inFeejee.
Railways everywhere in France are choked
by the enormous quantities of traffic.
An explosion of gun cotton at Stowmark-
et, in England, killed twenty-two persons,
and injured fifty-seven others, more or less.
Bismarck hss gone to Gsstein to attend the
meeting of the Emperors of Austria and Ger
many.
The amber gathered on the Prussian coast
of the Baltic is*of the yearly value of half
a million of dollars.
Tbe “ Boston Floater ” is a popular drink
in Paris. It consists of a glass of water
with a cork floating in it.
Oat of six hundred and twenty-five houses
which formed St. Cloud on the 1st of July,
1870, only twenty-five are still standing.
The outburst of a volcano, followed by the
rash of a wave factyfeet in height, has swept
from the Island of TagaLndo, in the Malay
Archipelago, all the human beings, cattle and
horses. Twe number of beings who perished
is believed to he 416.
While cleaning the site of public schools
of Thirteenth Ward (which was covered
with building stones), a workman found
under a stone fl,04ftJMtt, which are supposed
to have been stolen by an Insurgent from
the French Treasurer.
To An-Lm-The Carolina Spartan is
informed that the employees commenced
potting down iron on the Air-Line Railway
at Charlotte on Monday, tbe 7th instant
The grading from that city to Catawba river
is completed—a distance of eighteen miles.
Tbe mmam ^ paper adds;
We lesni thxt Msjor Well ford thinks tbe
can win be running to this plsce esrly next
spring. We are swan that great energy is
now being displayed in the constnctian of
this road. If tbe bridgework along the Use
can be completed by tbe time above men
tioned, then we bare good lesson to believe
that tbe eariy spring of TS will tiring with
it direct railroad communication with Char
lotte. So mote it be. ^
VA ten-year-old boy, named Henry
Ward Beecher, bee been arrested in Kanms
City for petty larceny. Why will parents
persist in nartiaa tbeir children down kill by
rfrfag them rack .. . - .
Journal.
and
SI aiiiiini |I I f eiwfl
tbeir power, and employing all tbeir villain
ous appliances to slander, dhrtde and destroy
their opponents. The Sonih. more then toy
section of tbe cbnntry, fa interested in tbe
issue, end in the success of the great Nation-
•Ufeweui*-
outh con hope for
fleeing this, Tn Constitution determined
to apeak promptly and loudly against the
auicidd policy of distracting and destroying
the party by premature discussions, bege tting
diaaensions and bitterness. We stood not
Everywhere it turned, it beheld the
noble press of Georgia «traggling against the
folly that would recklessly pursue a course
leading inevitably to division, disintegra
tion, political dtaUt.
In another column we publish an article
naming journals that have taken a decided
stand in favor of harmony and for the Na
tional Democratic party, platform or no plat
form, seeing that it is our only friend against
wrong, persecution and oppression, and our
only hope for the future. But the West
Point Shield modestly omits the mention of
the weekly press, doing yeoman service like
itself in the cause of the people against
schism in Democratic rank*. A host of
them come into our mind—the Athens
Watchman, Cutlibert Appeal, Talbotton
Standard, Cartersville Express, Griffin 8tar,
Cartersville Standard, Netvnan Defender,
and a number of others, from one of which,
the New nan Herald, we print a “centre
shot” this morning-
The article in which Tire Constitution
reiterated its position and declared against
the imprudent controvesies exciting the Geor
gia Democratic Press, and reaffirmed in
unmistakable language its resolution to stand
or fall with the National Democratic Party,
even though it did not adopt a platform alto
gether such as we might dictate, ha3 been ex
tensively copied and endorsed, We in turn
have copied able articles from our Georgia
Press. We notice that a Georgia Daily claims
to have been the first to speak for harmony
and against dissension. The Constitution
contests that claim, and asserts that at least
two months ago it announced its course in a
lengthy editorial. But the honor belongs to no
Daily, for one of our Weekly exchanges first
moved decisively in this matter. But let the
credit lielong to all the Georgia Journals and
earnestly again we appeal for a united press in
the grand crusade against Radical corruption,
misrule and oppression. We republish the
sulistance of our article on the ‘ New De
parture,” as upon the views therein we
stand immovably, backed by on over
whelming endorsement of the Press and
the people of Georgia. Wc believe the
sentiments below meet the unqualified ap
proval of four fifths of the Southern people.
“ The course of The Constitution front
the very outset of heated discussion upon
the New Departure, has been explicit, and
has received the warmest congratulation and
encouragement of the people. If the North
ern and Western Democracy are determined
to fight their State battles, preliminary tn
Presidential contest of 1872, ttnon the plat
form of the * New Departure,’ is it right for
us by our opposition and ceaseless agitation
to supply the Radical party with weapons to
•lefeat them, thus endangering or rather
Utterly demolishing the prospects of n&tioD; 1
iiemocratic victory in 1872, upon which
depends our most vital interests? Is not
such a course political suicide ?
But again, it creates the impression of
growing division in the Democratic ranks.
We all know, whatever our differences of
opinion as regards the "New Departure,” wc
shall heartily unite upoo the national Demo
cratic platform when declared, and, like our
gallant Kentucky brethren, lock shields to
gether in the Democratic assault upon Radi
calism. But this wrangling and dissension
strengthens the enemy by an encouragcraeut
to persistent efforts to misrepresent the Na
tional Democratic party, the Southern i*eople,
and the true issues involved. The animus and
plan of the Radical leaders are clearly mani
fested in the infamous campaign documents
published elsewhere in The Constitution.
We hnve an unscrupulous, victorious foe to
meet, backed by the powers of the govern
ment, and representing the passions and war
prejudices of the Northern people. In view
of the tremendous odds against us, harmony
becomes essential to the achievement of suc
cess.
Victory is what wc want—must have.
The defeat of Radicalism demands our first
consideration. To sweep from the adminis
tration of the government the destroyers
alike of the Constitution, the rights of 8tatcs,
the peace and welfare of an outraged, tax-
ridden, and plundered people, is the para
mount object. Our first duty is to strike down
the most corrupt party that ever disgraced
the history of States or nations. Let us, first,
rescue the government from centralists and
knaves, and put into the hands of a God
fearing, C onstitution-loving-right, respecting,
honrtf party. Then wc can set about the
work of restoring the country.”
cm
Va., Ai
Editor CoTudhttion: Dear
village is the Coart House town of Botetouxte
county, one of the bwt coontw* in the valley
of \in$n\A., Prior u> a. disastrous fire which
occurred here about eiglitw**jaonthi since,
it had a population of 1,0(Kh*About three-
mtai Skfii-
eJNhrie rrfin.
Uo ^*&steL, i
August IS, 1871. j
Editor Constitution: My friends at Mont-
▼ale hare called me back again. My prom
ise so cheerfully and readily giren to yoo, I
was unable to keep. In one short week after
My of VentaiLcs ntst. -reti the*, a: tbe sat.,a
lime stigmatizing their conduct as oabecom
ing upright men. It was umlctttood the cas
tigated would resign, but four months have
From tbe Newnan Herald.
The Enemy 1 * Plan •* Campaign,
diary in 1878. This fiend aetve to a livery
stable in the west end of the pUca, on a very
windy night in Marcn or Apitt, and in less
than a half hour the whole tows’was in flames.
Large pieces of burning hay ani fodder were
blown from the stable upon the houses at the
distance of four or five hfindred yards.
About seventy-five or one hundred families,
many of them the families of. dead Confed
erate soldiers, were burned out cf their homes
at a late hour of the night t> witness the
heart-sickening sight before tlem. A little
child of three years was seen rushing into
the flames to die with its mother, but was
prevented. Tbe citizens of the county have
contributed liberally to the nants of their
suffering people The Court House was the
only building left in the business part of the
town. The town is now being built up rap
idly with brick buildings, and. these houses
are nearly all insured in the Virginia Fire and
Marine Insurance Company.
The heat is oppressive here to-day; not a
tree near, and the reflection from the pave
ments and bare brick walls is intolerable. I
have not an opportunity of consulting a ther
mometer but suppose it stands about 90 or
95 degrees. The quarterly cotinty court is
now in session here and scoops to be trans
acting a good deal of business, mostly com
mon law actions or contract Only two
commonwealth cases on the docket—one, a
prosecution against a negro^lor wilfully
shooting another negro. There seems to be
very little crime and everything seems to be
quiet and orderly. Among other reason* for
this, I assign the following, fin>£»punishtnent
after con riction is certain. A convicted crimi
nal has little chance of a pardon. Gov.
Walker is very slow to interfere in such
matters and says in reply to applications for
executive clemency, “ let the law take its
course.”
I have heard so.ne even intimate that he is
not lenient iu some instances. Would that
this was the only complaint against Gov.
Bullock. Gov. Walker seems to be giving
general satisfaction to the people of the old
Common wealth, and is quite popular.
Secondly. The systems of prosecution is
more effectual than iu Georgia. Here, the
Common weal, h has an attorney in each
count}*, who gets a salary of $300 or $400
(and fees for convictions, etc.) He prose
cutes ail criminal offerees in his county.
One of the great advantages he has over the
Solicitor General of Georgia, in thi3 particu
lar D, that he has an opportunity of getting
up all the evidence in all cases. He hears of
things in connection with his ca es that uevir
would come to the ears of a Solicitor who
has to attend ail the courts in his circuit
where, in most instances, he is an entire
stranger, and the local lw»r, which is general
ly employed against him. imposes on him in
the selection of juries, and sometimes put
upon him, men that are ukin the defend
ant or biased in his favor.
I hope that the next convention held in
Georgia will so alter the CflBEtitution as to
provide a Solicitor for each mmnty. There
is a homestead provision here, which exempts
$2,500 worth of real and personal property,
but the right to avail one's sell of this exemp
tion may be waived in the boflfi or other evi
dence of contract, so it amounts to nothing
us to new debts, since in all doubtful cases
this waiver is required before credit given,
and the State courts declare that so far as
this provision attempts to operate against
contracts made prior to its adoption, it Is un
constitutional. 4k
The farmers here are preparing for a large
wheat crop next year, aud the agents for the
sale of commercial manures are doing a good
business iu the sale ofm their phos
phates and guanos. There was a rail
road meeting held here in th£ Court House
to-day, in the interest of the Valley Railroad,
which is now completed as far up the
Valley as Harrisonburg, will be built on to
Staunton and thence to Salem, thereby tra
versing the very best part of the State. This
county subscribes $200,000 exclusive of indi
vidual subscription. The meeting was pre
sided over by Ilou. J. T. Anderson, a lawyer
of prominence in this State, and whose house
(a fine dwelling near Buckhanan on James
river) together with his barns, etc., was burned
by General limiter on his destructive march
through the Valley. Colour Anderson was
a relentless r«bel Scnafor, The Valley is
rapidly recuperating its former wealth and
prosperity. Splendid brick bams and grain-
eries and substantial stone walls have taken
the places of the bams and fences destroyed
by tne torches of Hunter's and Sheridan’s in
cendiaries, and when wood is scarce coal
is the substitute for fuel.
Gen. Toombs is at the Virginia Springs
and is always ready to denounce tbe “ new
departure ” and its advocates in such terms
as only Gen. Toombs can use. The people
here seem to think him rather hot-blooded,
and most too uncompromising in politics.
Virginia is now decidedly Democratic, and I
think from what I am able to learn will sup
port Hancock or some other compromising
Democrat- 5t was upon this platform that
Walker was elected Governor here in 1870.
The free school system is in successful ope
ration here and the people not so bitterly
opposed to it as at first.
Yours,-&c.,
Xcursionist.
since elapsed: tbe sinner:
ically repented, bat have not pbshed matter*
to the tragic by voMntar&y resinning. Human
nature still. Japan is ahead of France in hap
py dispatches. The laws against intoxication
will be rendered more summary and severe.
During thcHast forty years the consumption
of alcoholic drinks has Itecn increased three
fold. There arc no temperance societies in
France, and the cold water cure is not popu-
WEFE NEAR Eli HOME.
*[Tbe following sweet little Sabbath School
song will be sung for the voluntary by the
havn platon- c j lo i r G f the Central Presbyterian Church
Human :—Constitution. ]
J, and 1 was
time, only, to lay a flower on a precious grave.
The arms which had so often tenderly shield
ed me, and in which I had been folded in
dark hours of trouble, were folded over his
own still bosom, and he had been lain away
from my eyes forever. Tears that ever called
forth a caress from him, must fall unnoticed
on the leaves that heaped his grave. And
the gliding shadows that came “like heralds
from the realm of sleep,” awoke him not as
of yore to their beauties. The days of pas
sion, of power, of pride, of sorrow, are over
with him. It is sweet to look out at the
waking stars, whose gentle light ever hushes
bitter thoughts, and feel that the same light
I* bathing our tear-stained face, which glim
mers on a loved, lonely, new-made grave.
"There te no heart but hath it? inner anguish.
There is m» eye but hath w ith team been u**t.
There is no voi'ce but hath been heard to languish
O’er hours of darkuess it cam ne’er forget
Therei# no cheek, however bright it* rofw,
Bat perished buds beneath its hues are hid;
No eye that iu its* dewy liptot reposes,
lint broken star-beams tremble ’ncath the lid.”
I have somewhere seen a letter defined as
a nerve of feeling, stretched from heart to
heart. The idea is very sweet aud it is very
true. I could not write to you to-day but
that I believe this. A silent language uttered
to the eye often touches the heart, for after
all we arc but brothers in this land of dream
ing “Hand meets hand, and eye to eye re
plies.”
The crowd at Montvale is much larger
than when 1 left three weeks ago. Strange
faces greeted us on every side; but they were
very sweet faces—bright, happy, sonny.
Everybody seems happy here. It may be
that I notice it more now; but one can easily
be that in all this freedom, music and beauty.
1 bave heard that women knew how to be
idle better than men; that somehow they
have more faculty for leisure—but I doubt it.
I think the gentlemen make a charming
business of idleness, and it is well, for leisure
properly employed gives refinement and
certain repose of manner to every one. Wc
like a bustling man on the stree t—we like a
man of quiet elegance and re*t in the parlor.
I have not been again on Chilhowee. It
would be very nice and romantic now to dis
cover a trace of Imam Hassan Ben-Sabbath.
SVe will look to-morrow.
The nights here are delightfully cool
which fact refreshes one and prepares the
system to endure the warm days.
* I do not think I have ever seen so many
children together at any watering place.
Our Southern mothers, you see, do not
always leave their little ones at home
with their nurses. Montvale is just the place,
too, for children. Lawns, back and front of
the hotel, and large shade trees, make a beau
tiful playground for them. fi!nd then you
know* these little ones harmonize. It matters
little to their pure young hearts what circle
each of them moves in.
There are not many Georgians here now,
but I hear a large party from Augusta will
arrive iu a few days. Col. B. n. Hill and
family came last evening. The Colonel tells
me he is greatly pleased, and will remain
several weeks.
I hear so little gossip that you will be
doubting soou if a woman is really writing
to you. The young folks are very quiet in
their flirtations. There is not a boisterous
loud” person at the springs. While
sweet face3 mean a great deal, they arc un
satisfactory as items.
To prove to you how fascinating is Mont
vale, a certain Colonel from Mississippi tore
himself from its charms Monday morning,
and late that veritable afternoon, when the
stage dashed up, out crawled the Colonel.
He had ridden to Knoxville, twenty-four
miles, and when the hour for the return of
the stage came, he felt a weakness ior Mont
vale he could not overcome.
Some enemies of mine in your office made
great nonsense of my former letter. Printers
are cruel. Chiquta.
vicious. Their enthusiasm is worked off in
singing or speechifying. Matty prefer solilo-
xnies. Intoxicated women are rarely to be
met with. They enjoy the top of the morn
ing by a little anisette,'but do not »lt ink deep
ly of their favorite Pierian spring. Ab
sinthe La the great banc. The jm rson once
addicted to it is lost. It is the opium of the
nation. For the momint it lifts the consum
er into a special paradise But tbe reaction
is terrible. One-half of the suicides testify
this. The officers of tin* army pa
tronize the beverage largely, especially those
who have been in .Algeria to dispel the ennui
of a lotus-eating life. Civilians are uot on-
]>osed to it, as a walk down the Boulevards
lietween five and six—Thturc rfabsinthe as it
is called—of an afternoon will show, in the
passes filled with a muddy greenish-yellow
iquid, fitly called a perrvqmt and tbe crowds
sipping it in front of the cafc.-v
Tbe appointment by Congress of what is
known us the Ku-Klnx Committee, and 9uch
portions of the report of that Committee as
have reached the public eye have fully devel
oped the Radical party's plan of campaign
for 1873. No man need ffoubt the stock in
trade of that party wdl be the same as it was
In 1868: “the disloyalty of the Southern
whitei,” “the rebelious acts of rebels,” “the
persecution of loyalists, black and white," in
brief, “the Ku-Klux Klan” will be the hobby
on which the Radicals hope to ride into office
in.1872.
If the elections which will be held be
tween now and the assembling of Congress
result favorably to the Radical party, we
would not be surprised if the members of
that party in Congress do not attempt the
passage of some act relative to the South,
which will have no parallel in their past
legislation, for the boldness and depth of
its stab at the vitals of the Constitution.
Then how silly, not to say criminal, it is
in Democrats to be denouncing each other
in the presence of such danger. Let the
platform of 1868 or the platform of the ad
vocates of tne “New Departure” triumph' yea
let the Democracy sweep the Union on no
platform rather than the South should suffer
the horrors of another reconstruction. The
enemy, made bold by our oupposed divisions,
has thus early made known his plans, and if
the Democratic leaders are not the veriest
dolts, the silliest of mortals, they will hush
their notes of internal discord, counsel har
mony, and give blows to none but the
enemy.
From the West Point Shield.
EyThere has been more discussion and
wrangling, we believe, about the “ New De
parture” (so-called) in Georgia, than any
other of the Southern States, but we are
glad to note that the moat influential papers
in the State, such as The Atlanta Consti
tution, Macon Telegraph, Augusta Consti
tutionalist and Chronicle and Sentinel,
Savannah Republican and (olambus
Enquirer, recommend that the true
course to be pursued by those
who wish to whip the Radicals in the
next election, is to eschew wranglings
and bitter dissensions, and unite as one
man with the Democratic party of the North,
upon whatever platform they may be pleased
to put forth. This is sensible, and seems to
us the only course the true patriot could
pursue, who wishes to see his country dis
enthralled and freed from the galling bond
age of Ku-Klnx bills, enforcement laws, etc.
To the Northern Democracy we look far re
demption, and it illy becomes us to dictate to
them upon what grounds they shall enter the
fight in 1873. So far as we are individually
concerned, we are perfectly willing to leave
the planning of the campaign in the hands
of such men, as Pendleton, Vorhees, Hen
dricks, Thurman, Black, the Brookses, satis
fied that they will committ ns to no policy,
inconsistent with sound principle, or detri
mental to oar honor. These men have been
life long friends of our people as well
as constitutional liberty, and we are
willing to trust them.
Tak« Freely.
A ship was sailing in the sooth waters of
the Atlantic, when her crew saw another ree-
sel making signals of distress. They bore to
wards the distressed ship and hailed them:
“What’s the matter?’ 5
“We are dying for water," was the re-
OUR FRENCH LETTER
Thiers—Tl$e Assembly—Uni* XI—
Caulleotti — Tbe Deputies — Paris —
Carriage—Newspaper*—Rapole<
Lantbessa—'Temperance — Absinthe
Dip it up, then,” was answered; “Yon are
in the mouth of the Amazon river! ”
There those sailors were thirsting, and suf
fering, and fearing, and longing for water,
and supposing that there was nothing but the
ocean’s brine around them, when, in fact,
they had unconsciously entered into the brood
month of the mightiest river on the globe,
and did not know it And though to them it
seemed that they must perish of thirst, yet
there was a hundred miles of fresh water all
around them, and they had nothing to do but
“dm it up !**
Jems Christ says: “If any thirst let him
come untome and drink.” “And tbe Spirit
and Bride say come, and let him that heereth
my come, and whoever will, let him come
and take of the water freely.” Thirsting
soul, die flood is all around you; “dip It up!
and drink, and thirst no mor
Ohrittian.
From file Springs near Gainesville.
White Sclphue Springs, \
Near Gainesville, Ga., Aug. 16,1871. f
My Hoar Constitution: |The day after you
say you saw me “take to the woods at Nor-
cross,” I returned to that point and had my
self shipped by rail to Gainesville, and from
there by stage to this delightful watering
place. I had beard a great deal about these
Springs, their ourative properties, etc., and I
am now satisfied that the half had not been
told me. Many here now, who came here
few weeks ligo* lean and lank, but not hun
gry, had no appetite, after drinking this
sulphur water a few days, can devour s
COMMON size chicken,
and other eatables in proportion at each meal
and suffer no inconvenience from it, but on
the contrary are fattening about one pound
per day. 1 have been here but one week and
have fattened right pounds; this you per
ceive is a little over the average, which I
attribute to the fact that, in addition to all
the other good things such as good mountain
beef, mutton, lamb, etc., eaten by the other
visitors, I devour some eight or ten ears of
com. I do wish your Local was here just
to eat a few square meals, and fatten up
some; he needs it. We have a nice party
here of
FORTY OR FIFTY VISITORS,
majority of them from Savannah, Athens,
and Atlanta. The pleasure of our party was
greatly increased on yesterday by the arrival
of CoL Lucas, and young Mr. Phinazy, of
Athens, with their fine violin. We amuse
ourselves here during tbe day in various
ways, and at night we dance from about 8i
to iOf The big dance of the season is to
come to-night. A party of ladies and gents
from Gainesville are coming out this evening,
which added to the party already here, will
make up a lively party. I expect to be in
the midst of them. I have an engagement
for the first set with Mrs. W. from Athens,
who is here, not so much to promote her own
health, but more to look after the comfort of
her accomplished daughter, Mrs. M., and her
FOUR LITTLE GRAND CHILDREN.
I am having a nice time, and regret ex
ceedingly, that business will, in a few days,
compel me to give up this delightful sulphur
water, these balmy mountain breezes and
good eating, in exonange for the hot sun and
red dust of Atlanta.
Yours truly,
Dick Dooly.
Dr. Sprloff’* Anniversary—Pastorate
•f Sixty«nne Years.
In the Brick church, last Sabbath morning,
at the close of an excellent sermon by Rev.
E. N. White, of Buffalo, on the text: “I
know that my Redeemer liveth,” the venera
ble Dr. Spring rose and said: “As this day
closes sixty-one years of my pastorate of this
church, it may be expected that I shall say a
few words.”
He then spoke of tbe great changes which
hod token place in the religious world in these
sixty-one years. He referred especially to
the progress of religious liberty, spoke of the
changes in Austria and Spain, and other Ro
man Catholic countries, and of the openings
for the spread of the pure Gospel. He re
ferred to the theological discussions in his
early ministry, and to some of the men who
conducted them. He spoke of the founding
and perpetuation of our theological semina
ries and great benevolent institutions which
had accomplished so much, and of tbe men
who had been active in carrying them for
ward.
He spoke with still more emphasis of tbe
great revivals of religion which had been
experienced in all these years. These precious
seasons had often occurred in the brick
church. He was permitted to remember as
far bock as 1816, when the work of divine
grace in the brick charch was so powerful
that it arrested the attention of “Wall
street,” and was the theme of serious con
versation on ’Change.
Not onto as, but unto God be all the praise.
He had said, as he was preparing to come to
church, it might be for the list time, nor
should he be sorry if it should prove to be.
He knew not why he fimild be longer con-
tinned fame, when each useful men es Drs.
James W. Alexander mid Potts snd Phillips
and Krebs were called away.
Specinl Foreign Correspondence of The Constitution.
Paris, August 5,1871
If M. Thiers were elected President as pro
posed, or King as suggested, it would have
the advantage of terminating the unseemly
conflicts between the first citizen of the re
public and the commissioners of the Assem
bly. It would expel the fever of anxiety,
and assure the country repose for a time.
Thiers is the Alpha and Omega of the situa
tion, but this does not exempt him from being
attacked, ridiculed and undermined. Each
day produces its incident or its scene, threat
ening to engulph tliecountry in the unknown.
All turns out to he a mountain in labor, a con
ciliatory mouse being accouched.
In this collision between M. Thiers and
the Assembly, they Ixuh resemble a society
for the matual diminution of influence. Har
mony is secured by reciprocal paralysis. Yet
neither side ha9 yet found the means to give
the nation the security it aspires for ana de
mands. We know no mote how we politi
cally live. The introduction of projects of
law on the military organization of the coun
try; on free public and compulsory educa
tion ; a revision of the electoral laws, etc.,
would have produced a healthy effect. But
the session draws to a close, and the serious
business of the nation does not seem to have
advanced. How France is to live is not the
palpitating question, but how long the As
sembly is to assist. Will it fix its dura
tion for two or three years, correlative with a
like lease of office to Thiers. If so, both
may hold out. Louis XI. intrigued to have
strangled his as'ronomer, Galeotti, and sum
moning the savant demanded how long he
believw he had to live. “ Sire,” replied the
astrologer, “ I will die just eight days before
your majesty.” Naturally, the King ordered
every care to lte taken of Galeotti. M. Thiers
is not an institution but a personality—which
constitutes the strength of hU exceptional
position. The Assembly, however, demands
a definite constitution—written down in
black and white—if only for the pleasure of
subsequently having it torn to pieces.
The deputies/seemed to lte delighted at
having received tbeir medals, in silver, and
which they carry about with them as a scapu
lar to establish tffe identity of their calling.
Round the Assembly they wear a badge
fringed with gold. This good humor led
them to listen to a project of law by one of
their body—that called the cumulative family
vote—permitting a father or mother to deposit
votes in the urn proportionate to the number
of their children. The plan would develop
many more fruitful houglis, and increase
that remarkable average—two children—
which fashion limits to each family. France
is in no mood to remember Maftlias. An
other project is to tax bachelors—and is said
to be seriously entertained by the Cabinet—
it would yield the estimated revenue, 100,000,-
000 millions of francs. There is no country
in the world where ladies are more justified
in popping the question, *‘ Why don’t the
men propose, mamma ?” than in France. In
Paris, at all events, when a man marries, he
retires from the world, to allow his wife to
enter it. Also will be struck w ith a tax,
photographs, and those letters of invitation to
marriages and interments which, if the
parties principally interested believed, would
be omitted, they would hesitate before giv
ing occasion for the ceremony. " Friends
will please acoept this notice, is a serious
thing. It consists of a large sheet of letter
paper where, in the name of every branch of
the family tree, you are invited to the obse
quies, and to recite a de profundis in any
case. Several printing establishments are
supported by this industry, and to strike off
the circulars, at least within “ two hours
after decease,” ia the test of business capacity.
Newspapers have ever been a remunerative
“fuid” for French ministers of finance. In
stead of the complicated plan of taxing sheets
according to size, weight or character of mat
ter, the imposts will be consolidated into a
common tariff of 15 francs per 112 pounds
on the paper to be printed. This will be sud
den death for many a broad aud narrow sheet
The minnows will be devoured by titons, and
these latter are not sorry. Yet Frenchmen
take kindly to journalism. It is the path to
fame. No statesman in France has ever be
come such without printer’s ink. Thiers
passed through the mill, and so has the new
Foreign Minister, Remusat. The profession
is feverish and exacting here as elsewhere.
In the crowd of passers by there is no mis
taking that man in sober black and white
neck-cloth. He is writing—mentally, as
he walks—most be np in every subject from
the cod fisheries to the Immaculate Concep
tion, at home on law, finance, politics, phil
osophy, exact sciences, music and dancing.
He meditates when he can, reads as he may;
but writes ever—writes amidst the diu of a
cafe, the whirl of printing presses, the
importunities of “ devils,” at the aide of the
deathbed of a wife or child. When not
writing he must be everywhere.
Alter the coup <f dot, Napoleon found
French judges enough servile to sit in judg
ment on the victims of order whose crime
consisted in opposing the violation of the
constitution. Lambessa and Cayenne re
ceived them. When the Republic swept away
the empire, these magistrates were removed,
bat their office being permanent, the Assem-
Generel !>cws Items.
Milwaukee boasts a new opera house.
Rochester exhibits a double tailed gold fish
The Nashville races begin September25th.
Bloomslutrg, Pennsvvania, has had a $75,-
060 fire.
The keno war is still living waged in
Mobile.
Rahigh ha- a mechanics' and laboring
men’s association.
B. II. Hill and family are at Montvale
Springs.
The corn crop in Northern Alabama will
yield considerably below the average.
Jacksonville, Alabama, is to have water
works.
They have check-apron dances at Ford
Dodge, Iowa.
War is again being made in New York on
the keno gamblers.
A St. Paul blacksmith lately made twenty-
four horse shoes in fifty-eight minutes.
Encouraging reports of the cotton and
corn crops from all parts of Arkansas.
Hoffman, the poet and novelist, Is in an in
sane asylum in Pennsylvania.
Shreveport ships 100,000 bales of cotton
annually.
Delaware has shipped so far this season
1,063,500 baskets of peaches.
There were seven deaths from excessive
heat in New York, last Wednesday.
A car load of new rice was received in
Charleston on the 17th.
Robert R Pittman, a well known cotton
buyer of Memphis, is dead.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, is to have a $125,-
000 opera house.
[Arkansas is lively at this time with rail
road barliecues.
The Globe newspaper, in New York, is to
be sold b} r the sheriff on the 23d.
Dr. McClusky's residence in 8|>encer coun
ty, Kentucky, has been burned.
There are seven hundred convicts in the
Texas State prison.
Valuable coal beds have l>een discovered i:
Linn county, Oregon.
Five hundred men are employed at this
time in salmon fishing below Ktdama, Oregon.
Whooping cough is prevalent in PHtsylva
nia county, Virginia.
The new well at Terre Haute has reached
a depth of seventeen hundred feet.
At Pittsburg, $40,000 worth of houses were
recently dstroyed by a flash of lightning.
Captain A. L. Davis, a well known steam
boat Captain of Nashville, is dead.
The Manchester and McMinnviile Railroad
has been purchased by the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad Company.
A Maine man took Barn urn’s posters for
pictorial representation of the New York
riots.
The Millerites who haven’t already gone
up expect to make a new departure on the 3d
of September.
Mr. Sardy, of Rockbridge countv, V
threshed out 820 bushels of wheat, which
averaged 69 pounds to the bushel.
Amount collected from income since the
revenue law was passed, may Ik? set down at
$332,000,000.
Mrs. Colburn, who was arrested for the
poisoning of a former husband, has given
bail in ttie sum of $25,000.
New Orleans has a pumpkin measuring
five feet three inches in circumfereuce, and
weighing eighty pounds.
Chicago has appropriated 1,055 acres of
land on the southwest side of the citv, for the
purpose of a public park.
Colonel Younge is stocking numerous fi9h
ponds in the neighborhood of Opelika, Ala
bama, with fine fish.
The Illinois Liquid Fuel and Illuminating
Cqaipany have organized, with a capital of
$500,000.
The next National Sunday School Con
vention will be held at Indianapolis, April.
1872.
It is thought that three thousand pupils
will attend the public schools of Nashville
during the coming term.
A new steamship is being built at Rich
mond, Va., at a cost of $165,000, the lowest
estimate for which at the North was $201,000.
. The verdict in the Westfield boiler explo
sion case censures the engineer, and impli
cates the President, Superintendent and Di
rectors for employing so incompetent a
person in such an important position.
“* Golden Shower ” by permission of W. B. B.
Word* by K*te Cameron.
We know not whfttl* ho/ore u«.
What trials are to come;
Bat each day passing over as
Brings us still nearer home.
We're nearer, nearer home.
Our biessed. bsppy home.
Where grief and sin c
Nearer tomy happy home;
Nearer home.
Nearer home.
Our blessed happy home.
n.
Though dark our path, and lonely.
And clouds our sky o'crcast.
I^*t ns remember only.
That it wiU soon be past.
We're nearer, etc.
IU.
Whate’er of eloom or i
WOMAN'S* OPINION.
! were married, it was "Emily, dear,’
Let me live for yoi
foolish to think it was tr
w we’re mXrried, it "Come,
•w up thin hole, put a huttou o
must cook for me, oake for me.
> do.
Before we were married. I never knew strife.
Rut I’m never without it now I am a wife :
bo, maidens. I bid you beware ;
I .or me tell to yon—pray to you—
Talk to you -say to yon—
Meu are deceitful and wedlock's a snare!
A MAN'S OPINION.
Before wc wort* married, it was * William dear,”
"in* let n»e have that,” and "Let me go there,”
"Let me toil for you, fly for you-
Let me live for you—die f
3 foolish to thii
TVOtl !'*
nk it was
And now we’re married, it’s "Mr. Spratt.
•lust dry up your foolishness. I’ll have none of that.
You'll hire my cookiujr. my hakinsr for me,
Menuing for me, mikimr for tne !”
Ami I'm so foolish as to go and to do.
Before ne were married, 1 never knew strife.
But I’m never without now nor expect to in life;
So, young man, I bid you beware;
Let me tell to you- pray to yon—
Women are deceitful and wedlock's a snare.
WHIP-POOR. win.
' IlliNRY S. BAKNKt.
Listening to the plaintive murmur
Of some lonely whip-poor-will;
How sadly plaintive comes the echo
Of each sweetly warbled note.
How we listen for the trembling
Coming from his silvery throat.
'Round the fav'rite "Bird of Song,"
As she tells in mournful cadence
Of some great and fearful wrong.
Which she fears might pass unheeded
Should she ever fail to tell.
So she slugs on in the twilight,
Clear and startling, "Whip-poor will.’
Tell. O! tell us. Bird of Twilight.
What thino evening carol means.
Why yon sing from dusk to midnight
And till the morning light begin*;
Has he played the faithless lover?
Left thee for another fair ?
Is this why you're singing ever
"Whip-poor-will,” so loud and clear?
So we ponder then in silence
Aa we clamber up the hill.
What can so have roused the vengeance
i»f our charming whip-poor-will ?
From the Ci'jton Times.
Ceaac Strife an* Wark In Harmtny.
The next Preaiclential chttion will be an
eventful one—one ip. which the fate, not only
of the South, but that of the entire Republic,
j, involved, as well as the question of free
government, and it behooves the advocates
of white supremacy to ally themselves with
that partv at the Xortli which is endeavorinj;
to restore the government to something »o-
proximating its former purity, and to abide
the decisions of that party in regard to the
tactics to be adopted in thccomingcontest at
the polls. Of course, the leading Democrats
at the North, front their stand point, are in a
better position to take in and comprehend at
glance, the situation as it really is, than are
those of the South. Then-fore, w e think, if
the Democratic press and politicians of the
South would cease their fulminations against
each other, and work together in harmony,
until tiie time of action, ami then fall into
ranks with their friends at the North, tliey
Would U- doing much iK-tter service than
they arc at present, by stirring up strife in
the ranks of the party. Incalculable ex il to
the country can only result from useless dis
cussions iu regard to minor issues, w hich ap
pear insignificant, when contrasted with the
general issues involved in the next Presi
dential election. Our position, then, in
short, is for harmony, brotherly love, and
charitable tolerance of difference* in opin
ion.
Foreign Itoiun.
General.Garibaldi is severely ill.
Cats are taxed five francs each in Frauce.
A ministerial crisis is imminent .at Munich.
The Emperor and Empress of Brazil have
arrived at Brussells.
Montreal reports a slight shock of earth
quake on Monday.
M. Lnnfrev, tit.* author, has refuted the
post of French Minister to Switzerland.
There were sixty-three cotes of cholera in
Koniaberjr, Prussia, on thel 4th instant.
Lord Courtenay, in F.ngktn.l, has been
declared a lmnkr.ipt, with «lehts exceeding
$4,115,000.
The Liberal journals ia 11 mu* express a
readiness for Italy t«» nc.vp! an alliance with
France.
Twelve thousand p rsons were present on
the 16th at Dundalk, Ireland, :»t the meeting
in favor of home rule.
At a census recently taken in Vienna, that
city numlteted 10.250 houses, and a popula
tion of 607,514 :rhabitants.
The cx-Queen of Spain, and some other
European heads, an* negotiating with parties
in New York f.»t clitr'ible country residences
in that neighb >rhoo !.
Timothy Trinun, the once famous editor
of the Paris Petit Journal, recently died in
the French capital. !!•* had tin* reputation
of being lictter acquainted with all kinds of
gossip titan any man in Fram e.
{3*^ The concluding p;res
Ewing’s speech pre-« nt so 1<
sion of the Democratic part
serve a conspicuous place it
devoted to the rights aud l«I>c
pie. Wc cannot comm^l
vs of General
•ihly the mu-
tlmt they dc-
•vety journal
ivs of the p« o-
> highly
GOOD NIGHT.
In whlapers low. Good night, my sweet.
Move eoftl > iu t
Somewhere beoeath those gracious skies
her, happy wii
i her folded h&
To where she sleeps, my whispered prayer:
The day has brought the nignt forlorn—
God keep thee, little dove, till morn.
I* TWISTT TKAl’i
WINKLE.
Political Items.
The Baltimore American still urges the an
nexation of San Domingo.
The Springfield Republican, the leading
Radical paper in New England, savs “the
Radical party is dead.”
Hon. Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the
interior under Buchanan, and financial of the
Confederacy abroad, accepts the new de
parture.
The New Orleans Times says that the war
between the Radicals in Louisiana “ pro
gresses with a ferocity and vlndiet iveness
and unscrupulousneas never before shown by
any party or faction contest in this State.”
Chief Justice Howe, of the Supreme Court
of Wyoming, renders the opinion that under
the Fourteenth Amendment, women in the
United States have the same rights a« men in
respect to snffrage and office holding.
A Philadelphia correspondent of the New
York World says, “ I confidently assert that
the second Tuesday of October will convince
the Republican party that its hold upon
power in Pennsylvania has lieen effectually
broken."
The Times and Chronicle defends the
employment by the Grant administration of
the bayonet to control the Republican State
Convention in Lousiana. This is significant
as showing what is expected rf the news
paper organs of the President.
Andy Johnson expresses himself tliusly of
General Grant: “ General Grant ia wanting
in Integrity, wanting m intelligence, ana
wanting in the will to promote the good of
the country. The little fellow is selfish and
avaricious beyond bounds. He is no states
man and no soldier.”
Henry Stanton, a zealous Radical, says
“ the appetite of the Republican leaders
K ws by what it feeds upon. Right there
the danger. Under the present regime
the government is lapsing into a consolida
tion. I, therefore, should not object to the
election in 1872 of a State Rights Democrat
of the moderate type of our old friend Silas
Wright”
Platt HalMa takes a New De.
fatten.
Two lawyers of the Gate City recently
paid a visit to Texas. In the course of their
travels, so the story goes, they stopped in
the town of Marshal. Their arrival from
Georgia was duly noted by the press. Some of
the leading politicians inquired if they knew
Major Madison, a member of the Legislature
who made such a gallant stand against Radi
calism in Georgia. They didn't recognize
Major Madison under that guise. Shortly
afterwards they were met in the streets by
Platt Madison, who seemed glad to see them.
He inquired, “Has Bullock and the rest of
them thieves left the State?” “No,” they
replied, “when did you leave?” “Oh!
time ago. I'm fighting for the Democracy
now,” etc.
Some time ago, one of the lawyers above
referred to met the local of The Constitt
non on the street sad related the above
to him. It has circulated the grand rounds
of the press, but, except in one or two in
stances, no credit has been given to The
CoHSTrrtmoH.
WThe Radical party has become so cor
rupt and so smells to heaven that it is likely
to breed a pestilence. It la impossible, how
ever, for it to breed s worse pestilence then
itself; and it ought to be soaked in carbolic
add at onoe.—Churier-Journai.
LINKS
WRITTEN- AFTER "AN INTERVAL <
BETWEEN THE ACTS OP HIP ?
Joe Jefferson, tny Joe Joe!
When we were first acquent,
Yonr loeka were thick aud bonny binwn-
Your bonny brow was brent! '
Bat ~ * .....
Y(
This comes of sleeping _
Joe Jefferson, my Joe:
Joe Jefferson, my Joe Joe!
When just knocked off yonr beer
That yon should take a nap, Joe!
Was not so monstrous queer.
But folk that oversleep them solve*
By twenty years c
We’ve clamh Catfkill thegithcr,
A very pie sant matinee
RVve had wi’ ane anither.
Now you must totter down, Joe,
And homeward we mu»«t go.
How well you wear that Frosty wig
Joe Jefferson, my Joe!
THE SABBATH.
When aweet church bell* invite ua
Tbe house of God to fill:
In His earthly courts we listen
To the story of our King,
How He came to earth and died for us
That we His praise might sing.
Let us try to do His will.
And here within our troubled seals
His bleased “Peace, be still."
Every passion let us master.
An eternal Sabbath'8
«r One of the most graceful stanzas ever
addressed to a woman, was that of an Eng
Halt nobleman, Lord Herbert, to an Italian
nun:
"Die when you will, you need not wear.
An Angel ready-made for Heaven !*’
(Ecchartf/e.
Anecdote* of David Larrlck.
Many stories have been told of this great
actor's doings and savings which will bear
repetition again. On the occasion of he and
Quin playing in the Fair Penitent, the one as
Horatio and the other as the gay Lothario,
they were greeted with shouts ot applause
on their meeting together in the second act,
which continued so long that both the actors
were seriously embarrassed by this over
whelming token of the public appreciation.
Quin was too proud to acknowledge his feel
ings on the occasion, but Garrick was heard
to remark : “Faith, I believe Quin was as
much frightened as myself.”
One or Mr. Garrick’s great characteristics
was the ability to express any passion he was
called upon to represent. No matter when
or where or how he was dressed, he would at
pleasure identify himself immediately with
any given character, with such completeness
as to create the strongest impression upon
his audience. Clairon, a French actress, al
most worshipped him for his good nature,
but more for his talent, and on one occasion,
when Garrick was depicting the agony
of a father who had let his child fall
from a window, the company pres
ent were moved to tears, and the
impulsive actress ttung her arms around
his neck and kissed him heartily, and then
begged Mr. Garrick's pardon, as "she pos
itively could not help it.” During his con
tinental tour he once deceived the driver of
a concon into believing his vehicle was full
of passengers, simply oy presenting himself
at the door a number of times, each lime
with an entirely different expression on
the face. At one time, during a session of
Parliament, all strangers were ordered from
the gallery ; but a special exception was made
in his case, after some discussion, inasmuch as
several of the{members felt themselves indebt
ed to him for their elocutionory training and
abilities. His mobility of countenance was
wonderful. Grimm relates of him, that on
one occasion he elicited a general cry of ad
miration from a social assembly, by acting
the dagger scene in Macbeth, gunply in his
ordinary dress, and the moment afterward
set them all laughing at his marvellous im
personation of a pastry cook’s stupid ap
prentice, who had let fall his tray of tarts in
the street. At another time he actually
frightened Hogarth by assuming the face of
his dead friena, Fielding, the novelist
Atlanta Constitution—Friend Avery,
the versatile editor of this live paper, is now
on a tour North, and is writing very inter
esting letters from points of interest The
Constitution has richly earned the enviable
position it now holds in Southern Journalism.
People of this section who want a good
Democratic paper from the Georgia capital
will find The Constitution the very paper
they wont.—Cuthbert Appeal.
In this content the Democratic party is the
sword and buckler of the people. It lias
fought every existing abuse, and tried to ap-.
ply every appropriate' remedy. Though
sometime controlled bj’ slaver}', and racked
by discord aud by war, it has kept the laith
in the people and free government, wlin-h
Jefferson, its glorious apostle, taught It rep
resents no faction, but the whole people; no
section, but the whole country.
It is not a white man's party, or n black,
man’s party; a poor mans, ora licit man'-,
a Christian’s, or an infidel’s party. It is the
people’s party. It will trample on no man,
and give no man preference I adore the law.
It stands for the reserved rights of the peo
ple and the State's, because libel tj’ dwells
ith them. It is jealous of every extension
of Federal power, because the path to con
solidation leads on to despotism. It fights
luality against privilege—Democracy
against aristoraey—government by the ballot
against government by the dollar and the
buvonct
It looks to the people, ami seeks direction
and strength from them, whenct tomes the
ipiration of every great reform. And it
now especially calls on the masses of the
Republican and Labor Reform parties—the-
"plain people,” who are interested least iu
mere party triumphs, and must in such meas
ures as shall give to tin* workingman a fair
share of the wealth he creates, while laying
on him only a fair share of the just Umlens
of government—to help overthrow the Repub
lican party, all of whose policies tend to
strengthen* exempt, and exalt capital, and
weaken, burden, and degrade labor.
nml Gossip.
I tica proposes to have .a boulevard aitmnd
the city of eight miles.
All the hotels at Saratoga nre filling up.
The Grand Union Hotel lms 7,200 guests.
Why is it that Mount Vesuvius never
sleeps ? Because it is ulwavs yawning.
Why is the tol.ing of a 1k*11 like the pray
ing of a hypocrite V Because it is a solemn
sound by a thoughtless tongue.
A citizen of Louisville, chewing on a large
purple egg-plant, remarked : "They don’t
raise as iuicy melons now as they did before
the war.”
Robert Kcnacj’, of Pittsburgh complain*!
that his wife broke a b.utie of sarsaimrifla
over his head the other night. He thinks hcv
blood is bail, not Ins
W The Lexington Press says of McKean
Buchanan's departure from that c ity : “Buch
anan is gone. He departed in anger, breath
ingottt fierce anatbem; s against I.cxingb i
and ite< inhabitant-:. He raved at the people
ut unmeasured terms, and hoped that an
earthquake Plight swallow up the city ami
every man that did not attend his perf«*r
inance at the theater the night before. W<
can cosily account for the |Kx»r g» ntlemanV
feeling. He is completely ab.-oilw-d in hi*
profession, and in his old age clings to it.
supporting it, now that it cannot support
him. He swore :.t It is actors Is’cause they
blundered in pulling the hadne upon the
conveyance that was to take them off. He
said they were a pack of fools, which showed
that the people were not much mistaken iu.
their estimate of these worthies. But Ba^n-
anan is gone, aud we tren.n e for the fat* of
Lexington.”
A Sec ret.—W
daughter on the *'
life,” contain- a p
deal or happim
want to tell you a
yourself pleasant
attention. The v
ler at Mansfield ‘'
not he, bccaii*'* ni
the whole world woui
gave them the cause.
you do cate for them hv allowing them what
Sterne so happily called the small < annexes
in which there is no parade, whose voice is
too still to tease, and which manifest them
selves by tender and affectionate l.K>ks ami
little acts of attention, giving others the
preference in every employment, at the table
in the field, walking, sitting and standing.’*
* We.”—The editorial "we" is of royal «V.
scent,* having been first employed i n
manner by kings. K n- John, of Engl ^,<1
began it in the year ot our Lord 1199. Be
fore that time, sovereigns usut the fir it tier-
son, singular, in all their edict*.—CW jn's In
stitute*. The German Emperor* an* 4 French
Kings began to employ the plural ‘ we” about
tiie year 1»0-Hma-lt. It U no * in lls ,,
ail monarch* in the civilized wo:.|$|. j t
formerly used in public, journal* i,y jillco'n'
tributors, as an indication that the journal <*:
paper was filled with productions from 1
plurality of pens. In the literary world it i-
now reserved the exclusive use of editors and
assistants, as becoming their roval style an >
prerogative.
Ilium i:t s letter to his
n;:?:i - v. 1 < mrtesies of
. r < from ahieii a great
- might 1m; learned: “I
m < ti i. 'I no way to make
oolite;.* h Jo show them
ude world is like the mil-
bqfiarel for nobody—no,
vxlv cared for him/ And
vould serve you so if you
see that
t3T A stronger went to church at Miduie-
towu, Connecticut, on a Sunday recently,
and sat down in a pew, when, just as he was
getting interested in the sermon, a rough
looking, pious church memlter came in and
took him by the collar, and threw him into
the vestibule. He thought he would star
there and hear the rest of the sermon, wb*r.
the sexton kicked him off the steps If,
went to the side of the church to liste n, to tin
sermon through the window, when one of
the members said "Amen" to something the
minister said, and then spit tebae^ mine out
of the w indow into the listener's
says a man can’t enjoy much religion at Mid
dletown.— Virginian.
iy As an indication of the course to *?»o
pursued by the army in the next iVeaiueMtial
campaigif the New 5 ork Wbrld reports, thai
a Major m the army made two bets iu that
city recently of $100 each with an e: A -officer
of tbe army ana a civilian that General
Grant would he the next President or in
sportme parlance, bactin« I he Ge neral HEaimq
the field. 1 his, coming from an army officer
shows how well drilled and disciplined is the
army for that campaign,—ifep,, ’■/,><„, Banner.
The newest thing in the way of medi
cal advice is to wear goggles for the purpose of
preventing Bunstroke— the theory of some ot
the oriztng savan being that these attacks are-
due to the action of light upon the brain ex
erted through the eye, ahd not aa generally
helteved, to an elevation of the temperature.
Fo**ihly 80. But let us look at the case
from both sides. Wouldn't a healthy, full-
rigged, sensible man rather be sunstruc'k than
wear goggles t—Pttenbuig Indtr.
tar “Let us do full justice to Gen. But
ler," says the Albany Kvening Journal. JVu
may do him full justice if you chooee. For
our part, we never mix ourselves up with the
hanging of anybody.—C<mritr-Joumat.