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cohtklo Constitution. 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.