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ATLANTA, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 10.
Grant 1 * Financial Policy,
“I* it not true that General Grant’* admin-
A Mrlklaf FarmlUt-Wka* earned
the Death of Ut.Wklf Pnrty-It.
Aopllcatton.
Let ns leant by the error* of the paat
The Democratic party boot of power to
ff ty, on account of it* divbkms in 1880
The war and Southern deaoUtion are the re
aula. The cry of boltera then waa, that in
the nomination of Douglass, principle ww
abandoned. The independent movement, at.
far from preferring the principle, pat it* er.
rate*in power and gaye the principle tie
deadlier! defeat it erer received.
We hare not'recorrred yet A chance for
lu re-establishment a at laat in oorgratp
Nothing bat Democratic diriakm can loae
to ua Yet there are thoae among aa belpir g
ouch division upon the aame'delusive id. a
*>f preserving principle.
“Straight’’ friends, pause ere you commit
the fatal act Let ns reason together aa
brothers, seeking the common welfare, ar d
after the right
We believe the very integrity and ciisln.ee
Of tbe party is involved in its united support
O Greeley aa the representative of the great
J left of constitutionalism.
Let ns refer to the paat A striking ki-
torie parallel there b to teach us our. duty.
In 1852 Scott w*s the can.lidato of tl.c
Whig party for President, and I’icrco of the
Democracy. Tbe Whigs had the numbers.
A portion of tlio Whigs, including Ale*
under H. Stephens, bolted the party nnd< r
the plea that support of Scott meant aband
onment of principle, and nominated Dani. 1
Webster, then dead, and Charles J. Jenkins
V- preserve principle. The ease was parallel
to tills one now. What was the resnlt?
—77* Whigs mere defeated and the. Whig parly
pisudintohistory. Thcmfatakcn experiment
to preserve principle, killed the party. The
Whigs as a political organization died out,
aid Alec Stephens, the pure Whig, that was
so much of a Whig that bo would not go for
the Whig nominee, but threw away his volt-
on a dead man, to vindicate lib! Whig princi
ples, went oven to tub deuocbact, and to-
d-iy seeks to put On Democratic party through
the came proof of dividing and debating ii
to preserve its principles.
Hark it, friends! Should tbb foolish and
fatal experiment succeed, thon the same it-
eulls will follow—«4 Democratic party mill
•pom into history. The ill Judged movement to
IUU WDUICJ^VCmUKUb U|l
preserve Whig principle by dividing it de- miIlionl Grant’s in 1870
otioyed that party. The same ill-judged
movement to preserve Democratic principle
-will destroy the Democratic party.
This la the crisis of the Democracy. Think
well before deciding. For us, bolding iu
memory the lesson of a similar crisis in the
nation’s history, we cling to our organization,
and shall triumph or fall In its glorious
ttralioo ha* paid over three hundred million*
4 the public debt and leiiencd the taxes
v—r three hundred millions of dollars he
ebies?
u hat then can be made before an intelli-
juit public of the cry ever eo vociferously
aide of ‘rottenneaa* and ‘extravagance’ in
die face of these facta?”—A.H.8.
Mr. Stephens bin the Add as the cham
pion of Grant’s financial administration. We
accept the issue. We refer him, to begin
with, to the conduct of Secretary Robeson
about the Seeor Claim, published in ycater
lay’s OoxiTrnmos. And we point him to
another article in to-day’s Consuluhom.
We propose to give the evidence of tbe
-’corruption*” and “defalcations” of official*
under Grant’* administration, that have
•hocked the country, and disgraced his
rale.
We could All a column with the charges
and evidences.
A law was passed to fund $1,200,000,000 of
the debt. Boutwctt could only fund $200,-
300000. Tbe law allowed him one-half per
oral, for all expenses to place the loan. Bout
well paid $3#tt£)0, or $2,000,000 more than
the law allowed. The Administration pays
no regard to law.
Dootwell sent $27.1,000 to North Carolina
to spend on the election. The fact was dis
closed. An attempt waa made to account
for it as the expenses of the Federal Court
It was shown that such expenses could not
ran over $1,000, and the details were called
for. Tbe Administration could not answer.
The Administration steals the people’s money
to carry elections.
Our neighbor claims that Grant, in three
years, has paid $£10,000,000 of the public
debt Mr. David A Weils estimates it st
$200,010,.128. Andrew Johnson’s Adminis
tration paid $510,050,MO in three yeare, or
33 per cent more than Grunt.
But the Treasury records show thst the
Grant claim of a reduction of debt is a fraud.
The Finance report of iioutwcll for 1870,
page 270, »hows that the debt was $2,489,-
U02.480 58 on July 1, 1869. The report for
1872 shows that the debt July 1,1872, was
$2,294^957,142 C5. This, according to the
official showing, only makes tlw reduction
$104,015,71152, instead of $320,000,000, as
our neighbor and Grant’s folks claim.
Bui again. Buutwell claims more than our
neighbor. Ila claims to have reduced the
deist $354,213,152 11. Well, the debt
July 1,1800, be reported at $2,489,002 58.
reduction of $330213,152 11 would show the
debt now to lie $2,138,789,329 47. But in
stead of this Iioutwcll reports the debt July
1,1872, as $2,504,957,143 05, or ($155,000,000)
one hundrcil and fifty-tit millions oj dollars
knocked oir from his boasted reduction,
which dribbles down to under two hundred
millions by hb own figures.
Our neighbor says Grant has reduced taxa
tion over three hundred minions. Of thb
$173/100,tOO or more than half were reduced
in Johnson’s administration.
The last year of Johnson’s administration
Ibc whole government expenditure
703 millions
1871,893 millioas; his annual average has
been 692 millions, or 107 millions more than
Johnson's, while he has paid 33 per cent less
of debt.
We propose at intervals to follow up tbb
financial exposure, anil show that Grant'
financial administration has been tiro most
rotten, fraudulent and extravagant ever
known.
pen before then to put the market down
while we do not see anything to advance i:
much, without the caterpillar cab the cottoo
after it b picked and baled. Every one b
buying now—the bear b buying, for fear o!
comer; the '
because the crop b destroyed.
Thb excitement will stop boob, then wb<
will want to buy, and who will take care ot
tbe market, or will it be left alone to tak<
care of itself, and seek iu proper level,
which it always docs in the falL
BesoluUen* on *J*e press.
(ADOPTED bt tub ar.*nau. rax-8 ASSOCIA
TION, ASSEMBLED IS ATLANTA, BEFTEKBEK
6,1872.
At the late meeting of the Association, on
motion of Colonel Christy, a committee war
appointed to draft suitable resolutions on the
matter of various Press interests. The com
mittee consisted of J, H. Christy, of the
Southern Watchman; J. J. Toon, of the
Christian Index, Carey W. Styles, of the
Albany Newa; J. L. Waterman, of the Hous
ton Journal; and E. Y. Clarke, of Tux Cob
Bimmoj. On motion, J. H. Estell, of the
Savannah News, President of the Association
was added. The following report was agreed
upon by tbe Committee, and read by E. Y.
Clarke:
When**, The late Legislature matt clgsallr failed
lo recognise the acrrloe* of the pee**, and the right-
of ite taemben ae dtizma of Georgia, by according
to them thatcomideratioo Joetlr doc them; and,
Whereae, It refuted to pate several bill* prepared at
theinitancaof the Press Assodstkm for thecomata
ooedtof ilataanbeaa; therefore, be it
Braolrrdby thePraaaof Georgia la convention aa-
senbled. That wo csuusdy dcprcca-c thucooraeof
the late Legiahuare, and especially of tbe Senate, in
ref sal eg to ’cgiatabj ta behalf of newspaper In tercets
. foal and equitable boats. Unanimously
Mr. Stephen* sand The L-oustitatton
Beam.
Mr. Stephen* replica to ua in a two column
Article.
Mr. Stephens lias broken from the ranks of
Uie Democracy, and 1* fighting the formal
tit lion of iu regularly constituted atulinritit-s
with the certain icMtlt of electing Grant and
securing the popular indorsement of Radical
ism and Southern oppression. Ho la fighting
against the army of the Constitution, and
r-gainsl the Democratic programme to defeat
centralism and restore constitutional govern
ment to tho country. lie b acting with a
a minority that was unable to prevent the
Democracy adopting the policy he and they
oppooad, and bo now not only refuses to go
with the party, but leeks to defeat it and its
cause by a course that will give victory to our
Ho b aiding Grant in the most effectnnl
way thst he could, much more effectively
than if he was to declare for him. Thb lie-
will nut deny, and he has no right to ignore.
If lie pursues a course whose result b plain,
1h< docs so with a foreknowledge of the re
sult and a responsibility therefor. And when
that result b the defeat of hb friend* and
the friend* of constitutional government on
ihejr ctmscw smt unallarsblo programme to
carry out their views, he stands knowingly
liusUlc to them and their great cause, and
knowingly friendly to and abetting the ene
my and hb cause.
Thb b the plain logic of hb position
Stated by us, respectfully, yet plainly.
Now, hb whole article b a long and irrele
vant quibble. We beg hb pardon for trench
ing on Us ground. Wo have given to him a
monopoly in the nao of words of personal
disparagement. Wo have the "face” to use
the word “quibble,” simply because it ex
presses the idea exactly.
He does not deny hb bolting, but seeks to
break its force by a labored cUbrt to make a
•art of an antagonism between our action and
some part of the Greeley pbtfonn.
our fancied error* were a Justification of his
real ones.
There are part* of tho Cindnnatti platform
that were not palatable to the Georgia Demo
crats, but in the main it contained sound doo-
trioe. The Georgia Democracy while sus
taining the general action of tho party, par-
sated that course, that In their opinion placed
them right in principle, and kept their record
consistent. And they did thb among
other reasons to generously
the views of the “Straights.” And now
Mr. Stephens has the want of generosity to
nae thb very thing against the party. The
very matter that was done by hb friends Iu
pleas* and satisfy him, and cnoeiUatc hb op
position, securing harmony, b now unmag-
nanimoosly argued against the party, to
sophbtically put it in an inconsistent position
and b qulbblingly used to Justify desertion of
the party, opposition to lb nominee, and
practical aid to the enemy.
The Georgia Democracy did ignore the
Baltimore platform, and made the identically
substantial platform famished by Mr. Ste
phen* to hb convention of Straights, and
they thereby did all that can be practically
dooe to preserve Democratic principle. They
recorded their faith. They preserved their
creed. They announced their cherished prin
ciples, and they did it in full fealty to the
party action, and in tmbon with the great
party programme. They did it, too, recog
nizing the solid anhetralum of constitutional
doctrines imbedded in the Cincinnati plat
form, which Ur. Stephens has to ignore to
get ground far opposition to the party.
Mr. Stephens must bo hard run when be
tries to bolster up hb bold and unqualified at
tempt to disorganize the party, and thwart
its official action by our pretermission of
partial antagonism to tho Cincinnati and
Baltimore platforms, while wo approve their
cosnubl features of constitutions] doctrine
and stand to the nominee of the party.
We apeak plainly uf the matter, as it dc-
•ervea, in no spirit of disrespect, impugning
no honest motives, bat stating effects. The
r<tb b one of those important ones
-»_cre plain dealing, always courteous
ns to manner, b required. We have
great respect for all “Straights” who
are animated by a sincere desire to pre
serve principle. We cordially enter into
their purposes. At the same time are
the great majority of the Democratic party
-who are committed to the support of Gree
ley by solemn action of the recognized au
thorities of the Democracy to be equally
honest In their desire and purpose to pre
serve principle, to be equally faithful Demo
crats, and at the same time fo have the only
chances cf carrying out their plan.
We shall reply to the other point of Ur.
Stephens’abide in another number and tfren
copy iu material portions.
Cotcoa-
for
The receipb tilts wreck are 15,000 bales—
<1,000 more than last year, and 4,000 more
than two years since. It is likely the receipb
for next week will be over 30,000 lnlea, com
pared with 13,COO last year and 18,000 the
year before; and tbe receipts at tbe interior
towns 8,000 bales, compared with 3,000 last
year and 7,000 tbe year before.
Tbe weatber this week lias been delightful
for five days—tlw past two have been quite
hot* The thermometer averaging for the
week 81 degrees at noon, and for the past two
days 83 degrees at noon; clear sky and
mitt all (lie week. The earth U too dry
vegetation, but the dews at tills time of the
. car are much heavier than in the spring and
summer, as the cool nights condense the
moisture iu Die atmosphere much more
readily now than then.
For next week there ptay lie local rains,
but wc do not expect general nips for some
time to conn*.
Since writing our last, tbe damage to tbe
cotton crop has been vciy severe; As tbb
the loginning of the new cotton year,
will ntnke our estimate tbb week fur tho total
crop at 3,000,000 bales, with the privilege
changing our figures when we believe, from
the facts, there will bo more or less. But
will make this statement now: In two months
the receipb will ba so largo that many will
believe in a crop uf 3,750,000. For thb ffeck
New York and Liverpool have both been
live, paused by damage to the crops from
rust and worms, but we do not expect the
price to advance much more, Jlowcvcr,
situation looks very strung just now, aa the
receipb at Bombs/ ore only one-fourth
much as lost y car, and will out Jic over 20,000
lnlea for two months to come; and
the sleek iu Bombay b very small, the
exports will be much smaller than for the
same limo lost year; and the quantity
afloat for Liverpool Is only 200,000 bales
compared with 5(9,000 bales same time last
year. Tho Manchester spinners bavebcen,
for six weeks, and are now, making very
largo profits, fully 2 > per coat above the prices
last year; and although the milb are running
full time, stilt the demand for cotton goods
for export has been eo large that the enor
mous export figures of last year have been
increased, and there b no pressure of stock
-nywlu-rc. Manchcstcrspinncrs are believed
to be well under contract, and have only
almut ten days supply of cotton at the mills.
The exports from Liverpool to the continent
are double tabs! they were tbb time last year.
The stock of American cotton in Liverpool
it only 196,000 bales, compared with 231,000
laat year, wheu there was barely enough, and
orner; the boll b baying, hoping for »
; Sbatbvw dealer* and piaatenioM buying
Georgia campaign Botes
CoL H.G. Tamer, the Greeley elector for
the 22d District, b doing good work—m-tm,
telling speeches.
Echols county b for Col. B. W. Phillips
for Congress.
Pike county has nominated John C. Thomp
son for Representative. He b a sterling Dem
ocrat
P. F. Smith, elector in the LaGrange Dis
trict, b working hard for the Democracy.
The Coweta Democracy has nominated
Mr. Anselm Leigh for Representative.
A J. Smith made a strong speech at New-
CoL Mathews nude an effective Greeley
speech in Wilkes county on the 3d.
Johnson county b favorable to General
Wright for Congress.
From all the corn ties come up reports of
Democratic organizations. The party b
rapidly getting into working trim. Altogeth
er the prospects are brightening.
The Two Platt am
Ilcsotved, Thai we strong!? coedesi* tee action of
* Lrj^iUtnre, Aral In tbe bi*t «ry of Osoixia to im
pose a tax upon Ibc prea®, utterly ignoring its effort#
behalf of liberty, education, rood gover&meut,
civilization and CbrlatUaitjr, and the general iutcrce t*
of Uie pnifile and State. Unanimous!/ adopted.
IUedrcd, That in defeating tbe bill regulating lh<
mattf i of legal advertiaeacnU, the Legislature acted
capricioualy and unreasonably, aa said bill affected
chit fly publishers and their rights, and did not In
fringe upon the rights or legal interests of others.
(Juauimru*?y adopted.
Resolved, That we express our unfeigned artonhb-
ment at the coarse of certain Senators in going be
yond legitimate argument in denunciation of the
Press, and that we pledge ourselves to hold np to just
censure any public man so far behind the times and
age in which he lives, u to deny the Press its proper
and rightful rank among tbe grand foremost agencies
of progress and civilization. Unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That we regard" the newspaper as an in
dividuality, as an institution, separate and apart
from either proprietors or conductors, with an exiet-
a!l Ua own, and aa such wielding an influence
greater than any single person or act or persons and
• none in the land; and certainly not inferior
to that if many men in public station notoriously
elevated to their position by the power of the preae.
Unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That tho committee appointed at thecast
•emi-annual meeting of the Association to superin
tend the various press interest* needing legislation be
and are hereby Instructed, to push them before th
in-coming Legislature in Janasry next, and publish
their report on tax aa toon as possible; and that we,
members of tho press of Georgia in convention, as
sembled, do hereby determine to assert our rights
wl;h one common voice, aud pledge our individual
and professional influence and energies in aid ot the
beforemeutionod committed*, in their efforts
secure those rights. Unanimously adopted.
By Mr.R. Y. Clarke-adopted:
Resolved, That the prera of the State be requested
to publish those resolutions and the forthcoming n
port of tbe tax committee. Unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That tha thanks of this Association ai
due and are hereby cordially tendered to Governor
3m! th and those legis'ators, who] Lave nobly advo
catcd the Just claims of tho press.
By Colonel Styles—adopted:
Resolved, That the Execnllvo Committee of the
Press Association be instructed to report at the next
met ting whether there are a^y patent outsides still
published in the State, and slap to report any devia
tion of rates that came to their knowledge.
A distinguished statesman once said,
'Show me tbe songs tbe people sing and I
will tell you their politics.” For the benefit
of those who see no difference between
Grant and Greeley, we propose to give the
musical platform of each party as expressed
by tbe great musical bands at Philadelphia
and Baltimore:
GRANT’S rLATFOUif.
“John Brown's body lies mouldering in the ground.
Bat his soul goes marching on.”
GREELEY’S PLATFORM.
“Way down South In Dixie.”
“We’ll hoist on high the Bonnie B!oc Flag.”
“Yankee Duodla coma to town.”
Chose yc which ye will have, John Brown
or Dixie—the old murderer’s memory or the
Bonnie Blue Flag.—(JriJJia Star.
upr. o’Hellijr.
Tho death of Father O’Reilly, of tho At
lanta Catholic Church, is a heavy loss to the
Atlanta ministry. He was a good man and
an able minister. He was beloved by his
congregation and respected by the entire
community. He was an honor to his church
And a true typaof the Christian. He leaves
none hut friends to regret his death and re
member his c^celleflcius. ffe was esteemed,
aot only for his .Christian traits of .character
and generous charities, but also for services
rendered our poopls; for it is well known
that much property in Atlanta was saved da
ring Sherman’s occupation through bts ef
forts. The writer, ono of the editors and
member of a Protestant Church, knew him
well, and can speak very freely. He has of
ten visited Father Reilly; in his library has
often conversed with him; and had reason to
esteem him 40 4 ffiend. In his death Atlanta
has lost a true Cbfisffui 1nan, 43d the church
a true and devoted minister.
then our own crop has been cat short 85 per' moment.
cent by rust and worms. These are the
reasons why cotton should go np, or at least
not go down. But to our bear friends we
will say the crop will be the earliest on
itconl, and the nviiptt will soon be
so large that many will forget the injury to the
crop, and only look at the large and
ooasuuitly increasing receipts. We see
no reason why there should not be one weeks
receipts of 150,000 bales within the next three
months, the prices are so high there will be a
natural desire to get the benefitof them, and
the pressure of such, one to sell first, will sup
ply the demand, and the price will go down.
It b almost impossible to hold cotton up in
the fall; all consumers naturally believing
that as soon as there is plenty in market the
price will be lower, will bold off, and only
bring enough to supply their;immediate
wants. We estimate that the receipts for
three months, say to November 89th instant,
will be 30 per cent, of the crop, 900,000 bales;
oar own spinners took from the ports, in the
past four years, for just three months of tho
cotten year, as follow*: 1C6,000,159,000,197,-
OX), 190,000; if we estimate tbb year at 200,-
000 for the same time we will have 700,000
bales for stock and export The total export
for same timf, for tho past throe years was
878,000, 459,000 and 335,000; estimate this
year at 350.000 for same time, and we will
have 350,000 bales for stock December
1st, which b rather larger than any
year since the war. If these esti
mates comes true, will the/ not bare a
depressing effect on prices for tbe times. To
show how tci/ fast the crop is being saved
•head/, one correspondent writes ua that he
planted for ten bales, and a moaih ago the
prospect was good; for that amount now, fire
bales would be all he would make, and his
hands picked one bale that da/. We would
caution our Southern friends against bo/ing
contracts for the earl/ winter months, as we
see no hopes for an advance, and the price
may be lower. To thoeewhoareptyingSl
cents for low middling for February and
March, it seems to ns as though they thought
there would not be any more to buy after a
few woks. The price may be at that, or
even higher, when the time comes; but it is
a long time to wait Many things may hap-
Oemocrats, How d. Von I.lke is!
Wc have recently scon a “strictly confiden
tial" letter from the Radical head quarters to
a "good brother of the cause” asking the
names of ail Democrats who oppose Greeley.
“Hire a reliable man to canvass for their
names, the money will bo refunded to you,'
it says. Bure enough wc learn that a num
ber of our friends who were for a while op
posed to Gredcy are getting Grant documents
sent them—such as tend to embitter them
against- Greeley. How do yon like
Democrats to be fed on soit com front tbe
vilest enemy you haTO ? How do you like to
pay Uie expenses of theso canvassers athong
you who so kindly furnish your names to
headquarters as a “good Democrat’’—one who
wouldn’t support the ticket that is likely
to overthrow Grant’s administration. The
money comes out of tho United States
Treasury.
We reiterate how do you like to be patted
on the shoulder and told by a Radical that
you ore a “good Democrat”—one he respects.
Is that pill woraa that the Greeley one?
Valdocta Times.
1 tie Three Caesare.
Tho meeting of the Emperor of Germany,
Austria and Russia at Berlin b the leading
sensation now.
A vast amount of speculation it has engen
dered. The three monarch* represent mil
lions of people, and cany upon their shoul
ders destinies of incalculable magnitude and
The Italian monarch was invited but do-
dined to attend.
It b supposed that the conference origina
ted in the fertile brain of Bismarck, and looks
to the ratification of Germany's acquisition
of Alsace and Lnrainc.
Neither England, France nor Spain are said
to have been invited.*
Whatever be the object, it fa yet a profound
mystery whoso solution b eagerly looked to
by the civilized world.
Slow uadlcmls Steal.
Tho Administration organs have a great
deal to say about reform. Here b an exam
ple of their reform, retrenchment and bon
esly. Alhcrmarle, in North Carolina, b a
pert of entry—a very modest port. The
total foreign commerce of Alhcrmarle daring
tiie calendar year ending December 31,1872.
Exports..!—!....!!!.!.! ...11!'..Nothing
To superintend thb foreign trade of Albe
marle, amounting in the aggregate to $336,
it required the following offidab:
Total ..vrt,...:: $3,971 30
The figures are official, and the above ex
penditure was actually incurred daring 1871
to take care of a total commerce amounting
to $330. Now, wc simply ask who ahoald be
more ashamed—a whole people for being
subjected to such a rotton swindle, or an ad
ministration that boasts of reform and econo
my allowing it to go on for tha three years
that they are in power?
Mr. StephcnaT attention b called to thb evi
dence of the economy of Grant’s adminbtra-
tWThe Straights have recently flourished
their trumpets over the statement tfi»t Sena
tor Stockton, of New Jersey, had declared
for the Straight Outs. He has done no such
thing. Tho Newark Daily Journal, published
at the Senator’s home; says be will vote for
Gredey.
Democratic nomination la Fayette
Coanty.
mnarltable Identity or bla Views
willi those ot ttie Imperialist.
Siitors Constitution: fhave been seriously
- and laboriously engaged for tbe laat several
hours, calling to my aid the most approved
works on political sdence, and also Webster’s
Unabridged, in order to understand the letter
of the Hon. Charles O'Conor to the Blraights
at Loubrille; But- (tiding no doe to hb
meaning from the works referred to, I was
about to abandon tho task In despair, when
my eyes fell upon a cop£ of the Imperialist,
published in New York, July 24, 1869. In
the first column of which, aud on the first
page, 1 discovered a la'dj exposition of the
true intent and purpoawof tin distinguished
writer.
The Imperialist says: “We believe but a
nail percentage of the American people can
be considered fit, by character or education,
for the unrestricted exercise of sdf-gotern-
ment” O’Conor says*- “Absolute equality
has proven exceedingly mischievous by Its
erroneous multiplication of offices. AJone.
it affords no permanently effectual restraint
upon power. To the inquiry, how snch a
restraint can be imposed in our country, poli
ticians have responded: “by the virtu re and
intelligence of the peoplehut this is a do-
tusice speech. In a great and prosperous
country, such popular guardianship cannot
be had, and the only efficient protection
against offlrial misrule is in totally prohibit
ing those powers which cannot be effectually
regulated by law. Paternal government is
not necessarily mischievous in a monarchy;
but in a republic, baaed upon universal suf
frage, it cannot fail to foster innumerable
evils. It b in fact the sutn of all villanies.”
Wc are thus furnished with a clue to the
chief author of the Imperialist. Tho striking
similarity of sentiment and language points
at once to O’Conor aa' the brain joiner tbat
ventured upon and conducted tho publication
of the Imperialist in 1869.
O'Conor says: “ The true policy b national
regeneration. * * J Existing indebted
ness should bo held a
Thu Imperialist sai
A nomination was made in Fayette coanty
on the 3d instant, for member of the Legis
lature for Fayette county. Several promi
nent citizens were candidates, W. P. Red
wine, J. J. Gilbert, 8. W. Leach aud R.T.
Dorsey.
Mr. Dorsey received a majority'of the
votes cast, and was declared the nominee.
He b a young lawyer of fine ability and will
make a useful and creditable member. He
was favorably mentioned for the Senate in hb
District, and but for hb age—he being under
the age required—would doubtless have been
nominated for that position. He b popular
with all who know him, and hb election b
generally conceded.
Oreeley Growing In Strength
There has been, of late, a decided improve
ment in the political situation. The froth
with which the campaign was inaugurated
has blown off, and there b a settling down to
hard work, which begins to tclL The discon
tent among Democrats b rapidly disappear
ing, and there b little inclination to follow
the Loubville movement That will do more
good than hurt to Greeley; it will increase
and confirm hb Republican support, and di
vert folly as many Democrats from Grant aa
from him.—hew York cor. Augusta Consti
tutionalist.
major XV, E. Simmons,
We received too late for this issue the pro
ceedings of the Gwinnett coanty meeting for
the appointment of delegates to the Congres
sional Convention. Wc barely have time
say that Major W. E. Simmons was unani
mously recommended for Congress.
The Seventh District,
General Young was re-nominated by the
Congressional Convention fjt Cartcrsville last
night on the 43il halloL The other candi
dates withdrew on tbe 41st ballot, and Col.
Lester’s name was put up.
Young on the 43d ballot got 21{, which
gave him the nomination.
Father Ilt nc nttio married
The marriage of Father Hyacinthe b
striking instanco of the progress of the age.
Ho has married a Mrs. Ernilie Jane Mcrri-
man, an American widow thirty-nine years
of age.
The Father has been one of the most noted
preachers of the ago.
Hb presetting b thus described i
la scenic effect notlnnr could exceed tho beauty
tho trtblvsu-the dirk background of the pulpit, „
ancient car red oak; the form of the preacher render
ed more 8tr<kln» bjr tho robe of his Order, (he Is r
Cirmdite monk, and wean a long serge gown, will
oulr sandal* on his feet) with his white cowl throw.,
bark upon his shoulder, hb* head shaven so a* to leave
only a chaplet of hair upon Ids brow, while the light
nrely, if he had studied all this vitsee tn tmta bets
amaslcr'inlhetfn.’-llfe bejna to’-epesk, aa A *rom
that moment I wiabeti to milere In the alocertty. la
tho jiictr. In too Christian faith ot this man—for if
he fa not si] that he pcofanrathe moat beautiful "if!*
of Proytdcuce. Nevcrdiilaaoice more sjmjjotheUe
strifes my car; never dbt art Moropcrfert * '
and control the bosun heart.
(or Congress,
At a Democratic meeting in Lawrenccvilte.
Gwinnett county, on the 3d day of Septem
ber, -1872, to appoint delegates to the Con
gressional Convention of tho 9th Congres
sional District, to assemble injGainesville on
the 25th instant, with Colonel J. N. Glenn,
Chairman, and Daniel M. Byrd, Secretary,
the following proceedings were had
On motion of Colonel Thomas E. Winn, a
committee of one from each Militia dis
trict—consisting of Thomas E. Winn, Chair
man. Burton Cloud. M. Ia Sammou. A A
Tribble, R. D. Pounds, J. O. Hawthorne, A.
A Dyer, P. F. Jones, Jno. A Born, H. R.
Hannah and J. P. Brockman—was appointed
“to report business for the action of the
meeting” -
The committee, through its chairman, Col.
Thomas E. Winn, mads the following re
port:
We, the committee appointed by the mcet-
“ Wc arc in favor of
le public honor os
it of tho public in
the preservation
pledged fur the
debtedaesa ” .
Thus wo see both tO’Conor and tbe im
perialist iu favor of protecting the rich bond
holder against repudiation; and wc see very
clearly' that they are both in favur of exclu
sive privileges to concentrate power in the
hands of the few to govern many; and thus
may our Straight-Oupfriends bo put on their
guard against the imperialists who prefer
Grant to Grcclev, because Greeley is an advo
cate of free suffrage apd representative gov
ernment Ad Revbb!ckdum.
miLTON count IT,
Discussion about Greeley—Col. Hot
combe Suggested (or Congress.
Altuauetta, Ga., Sept 3,1872.
Editors Constitution.: Thb being tbe da;
upon which, as previously announced, Col
A. W. Holcombe would address tbe people of
Milton county upon the relations, merits of
Mr. Greeley and General Grant as the respec
tive Democratic and Radical candidates be
fore tlio people for tlio Presidency of tbe
Untied States, a large numbers of citizens of
tho county assembled at the court honse,
when J. U. McCollum was called to the chair
and O. P. Skelton and Thomas L. Lewis re
quested to act aa secretaries.
Colonel Holcombe addressed the audience
in a telling speech in favor of Mr. Greeley,
and then resigned'the floor to H. K.
Shackleford, of “Atlanta, who replied in
able speech for the Btraigl
lowing resolutions
Resolved, That thb convention send as
delegates to represent Gwinnett county in the
Congressional Convention to be held for tbe
Ninth District on the 25th day of September,
1872, the following named gentlemen, aa del
egates, with power to appoint their own al
ternates: S. G. Howell, M. L. Gordon, Geo
H. Jones, Barton Cloud, Thomas IL Mitchell.
Resolved, That this convention recom
mend to said Congressional Convention the
name of Hon. Win. E. Simmons as a suitable
candidate to represent the Ninth Congres
sional District in the next C ingress.
(Signed.) Titos. E. Wins, Chairman.
On motion cf Colonel Thomas E. Winn,
after an explanation made by him in reply
to a motion of John Cain, Esq., to amend by
striking out the second resolution, the report
of the committee was adopted.
On motion of J. P. Brockman the procecd-
tisli
and on motion of Coloucl Thomas E. Wine,
by the Gwinnett Herald, Gainesville Eagle
and Mountain Signal.
Ou motion of Colonel T. E. Winn the
meeting adjourned sine die.
J. N. Glenn, President.
D. 51. Byrd, Sccretaiy.
S ht-Outs, which waa
ombe in a few pun
gent remarks, in which tho Straight-Outs
were held up to view 111 a manner not at all
favorable to themselves.
After which, on motion of Jackson Gra
ham, a committee of five, comsiatlng of Mr.
Graham,H.J-ScalnW. P. Brown, J. G."
Cantrell and RobertThompson, was appoint
ed to report the names of two suitable per
sons os delegates to the approaching^ Con
gressional Convention of the 5th dbtricL
The committee reported the names of
Thomas L. Lewis and W. P. Brown delegates
in favor of tho nomination of Colonel A W.
Holcombe, of Milton. Adopted.
The meeting then adjourned.
John B. HcColluu, Chairman.
O. P. Skelton and Thomas L. Lewis,
Secretaries.
A Bio Vinbvabd.—The largest vineyard
In California b the Buena Vista, in Sonoma
county, where there arc 500 acres of vfnes.
The whole tract, belonging to the Buena
Vista Vineculturist Society, covers 6,000
acres, ou which there are several creeks, and
sulphur, iron, and soda springs. An avenue
a mile long leads to the houses, planted with
locust and mulberry trees. The company
makedifferent classes of red and white wines,
and 160,000 gallons were produced there in
1871. Sparkling wines were made with the
foreign varieties of grape.
The press-house near the hill",is three sto-
rcis high and one hundred feet square, and
three cellars dug into tho hill in the shapo of
tunnels one hundred feet long. Oncof these
cellars is termed the “Libriuy,” where they
have samples of different kinds and ages of
wine for sampling. The other cellars arc not
disturbed for such purposes. This house fa
provided with tanks holding from 1,009 to
2.000 gallons each.
The champagne house fa also three stories
high, and from it arc two long tunnels run
ning into the hill containiug at present about
60.000 bottles of sparkling wine.
The company make their own champagne
baskets from willows grown on their ranche.
They have a cooper ahop where their casks
are imported direct from the cast. They
also have a distillery for making brandy.
From forty to one hundred men are employ
ed, according to the season. They have now
about 450,000 gallons of wine in the cellars.
Pacific Rural Press.
luxurious ladies to become entombed
in heavy masses ot flesh? At any rate
Madame R. seems to be here at
Troavillo a person whom I am glad my poor
dead Southern friend cannot look upon. He
took her to the great bail; he offended the
oourt and offended hb own Government by
it; ha escaped a recall by the skin of hb
teeth; all far her—and she
fluted aw at vnow inn like a buttee-
FLT
At the first call of some martinet in scarlet
and gold.* Hither, thither, from flower
to flower, she passes, knowing very-
well th«t in the Courts of Europe vir
tue b a light cloud, while beauty and
wealth and a grand name are keys which
will unlock any courts. She became by
marriage the first lady, officially, in Italy,
next to the Queen—thb woman who had to
cling to the skirts of her American lover to
get a court ball. Meanwhile the American
no sooner hears that the war between the
North and South, which he had long ex
pected, had begun, that he throws down,
with scorn, the commission which no
longer represents hb beloved Virginia,
and hurries back to join in the struggle.
Life, indeed, had now but few attractions
for him. Ho had lived ages in hb years,
though they were not yet forty in number.
He is soon wounded while serving on the
staff of an eminent Coufederte General; but it
b only tbe arm that b in ruins. Ho recovers
enough to return again to the paper which
had onco been the daily sensation of the
South. But he has an eve keen enough to
see the coils of fate closing sround hu be
loved South.
TBAT 11R0KB HI3 UEAKT.
When th* army of the Union was drawing
near to Richmond, he wrote, I remember, an
editorial, in which occurred these words:
If the Federal army ever enters Richmond,
those who shall be unfortunate enough to
live to sco that day,” etc. The day came
when the Federal army did enter Richmond,
and at the dawn of that day were closed
in death the eyes of the most gifted man
the South has produced in recent times.
When in the brilliant saloon I saw tbe
woman be loved so long end devotedly, and
for whom he braved the world, I saw the
gloomy brow and hb magnificient black eyes
spectrally beside bcr. But I should sav, il
be were setting beside her, it must havo been
in a very shadowy way indeed, not sufficient
ly pronounced to interfere with the newest
flirtation on hand.
But I should remark that tho countess of
whom I have been writing b not Italian by
birth; she is French.
Public meeting In Walton County
IIonuoe, Q A., September 3,1873.
Editors Oonstilutian: A meeting of the
citizens of the county having been previously
culled, the house tms organized by calling
Dr. F. 8. OalJsy tofthe chair, and electing B.
S. Walker secretary.
The object of the meeting having been
staled, the following gentlemen were chosen
delegates to the convention to be bold in
Milledgevillc on the lOtit instant, forthepur-
posc of nominating s' Congressman for tbe
Sixth District, viz; Messrs. U. D. McDaniel,
Charles L. Bowie and Eli A. Smith.
The house then passed th® following reso
lution unanimously i
Resolved, That masmnnh as we have the
greatest confluence in tbe talents end Integrity
of our fellow-citizen—the Hon. D. n. Walker
—our delegates are hereby instructed to sup*
liorl him in the nomination to the extent
which prudence would dictate—further than
this they he left to their own discretion.
The meeting then adjourned sine die.
p. & Cat,LEV, OUairr m.
B. S. WALjvEB, eecretafy.
Seeking omee.
That there b a strong disposition among
the people to put in practice the good oldrulo
of haying office to jeek meq and $ot men the
office b shown in njany ways. Tlio gradual
growth In public esteem that comes from
life of jndgment, duty and public spirit, b the
proper basis for public promotion. Unfor-
iunatejy it b difficult to enforce the rule
against a thousand unfavorable circumstances.
But the spirit to do so b growing.
The editor took occasion, in declining to
enter a contest for nomination for Congress
in tho 5Ui District, to mukc a protest against
tho demoralizing practice of intrigues for
place; Thb has brought os many letters and
communications approving the protest.
We trust that we shall be pardoned tho
publication of the following among the num
ber, relating to the editors individually:
Atlanta, Ga, September 5tb, 1872.
Colonel I. W Artery :
Sib: It basoccasioncd many of your friends
the most poignant regret to read in your
paper the several positive refusals to allow
your name to go before the public for Con
gress. Why should thb be so? Surely
when the people feel their obligation to a
valued public servant whose prominent fa-
bora anti sacrifices for the good of the coun
try have endeared him to the public heart,
a ihould not be denied their wishes in
vent to their generous gratitude. Can
you not be induced to review your decision
and let ns triumphantly carry your colors
through the approaching Convention at Grif
fin. Tours, truly,
P. 8.—Happening to be in the city and hav
ing failed to see you, I drop thb in theoffice,
hoping your reply will reach my friends at
borne, through your paper, as as soon as I
da Ism one of those who believe in select
ing the men to fill our offices of trust, and
shall always go for one such in preference to
one who pub himself forward and insists on
hb own election. —.
UABICAI, gllfe ABH1E.
Seme navo par.ret Of Coemption ot
Officials Under Grant’s Administra
tion (or Sir. Stephens—W Ito Con
duct the Canvass.
Edtion Constitution: As one of your
readers it gives me great pleasure to see the
people indorse tre course of The Cossrrrc-
Tioit by proposing to use the services of CoL
E. Y. Clarke, one or its proprietors, in the
Legislature of Georgia, and to employ the
editor. Colonel L W. Avery, in representing
hb district in Congress.
The first it too well-known in hb own
coanty for hb mental and moral worth in
addition to hb gallantry in the bte unpleas
antness, to need ought from my pen, but as
many new counties have been thrown to
gether by the recent change in the districts,
allow me to contribute my mite in regard to
Colonel Avery by saying that any district in
Georgia may deem itself fortunate in secur
ing him for a representative.
The strongest minds in the State have re
cognized CoL Avery aa their equal, and hb
pointed editorials evince an intellect of rare
analytical power, of quick perception, ability
and a mature, dispassionate judgment seldom
found in so young a
Hb title was won on the battle-field, and
he b not one of the many brevets commis
sioned since the surrender, anti if nominated,
hb full discharge of duty daring the entire
war, will endear him to the heart of every
former soldier and make him a popular can
didate; His duties since the war have tended
to increase hb fitness for the position of
Congressman, and with more such men in
Congress, Georgia's future in national affairs
will rival her glorious past.
High Pbivatb.
De Bernals.
Mr. John Humphreys, of Resacs,on Tues
day fast
Mr. F. Krensor, of Savannah, died on the
4th instant.
Mrs. M. J. Camden, of Cherokee, died a
few days ago.
Mr. William Key, of Louisville; died a few
days ago.
Mr. Samuel Dodson, of Chattanooga,
died on Wednesday last.
What the administration did in North Car
olina they arc, as far ns practicable, repeating
in Maine'. Tnerc fa the same army of ofilco
holders leading jin the canvass, and in the
Custom House alone the following officials
SIC working in a single ilcnartment m tbe^v
ports of the State:
Port. -No. of Officials.
lo^
Kennebank *
Mscbtu
Pori’s d
Psssamsqttodllv ...
Wiacasrct .........
Totals
Where Portland, under tho previous col
lector, had 20 persons, and tho expenses were
$26,000 per annum, the present number is 64,
at a cost of $926,422, and so on all through
tho State, although the amount of business
then transacted was greater than it is now.
The use of money b perfectly systematized,
and In the Fifth District, according to the
Belfast Republican, the following b the
scheduleiof prices for votes:
“For a man who can command hb own
vote and nothing more, $100. For one who
can carry his brother with him, $175. For
one who can carry two brothers, $250. For
rent, $325. Town - committee man, $275.
For each additional; voter he brings, $100.
For county committee man, anything he asks.
For tavem-koeper, $300 and refund fine
For saloon-keeper, $300 and dispensation to
sell cider.”
The Internal Revenuo Civil Service b even
worse than this, and the following shows
how fine the swindle b kept up. In 1866-67
there were 1400 small and large articles sub
ject to internal revenue tax, which brought
$2651)20,474 revenue. In 1871 there were
but ten specialties left for taxation, which
brought $144,0U47Gl The cost of collection
in the States waa in the two periods under
Johnson and Grant, for assessing and col
lecting, as follows:
Johnson. Grant.
States. 1956-67 1871-73. Toe.
AUbftm* ^ 43^03 93 $ 59,000 37 p. C.
Arkansaa. 3*901 06 **,000 «0p.c
District of Colombia... 14.033 33 17.000 Up c.
Dtoot* VOJUO 85 375.500 5t p e.
233.006 43 161,000 31 p. c.
Iowa 55£38 49 35^00 36p.C.
ToUto •Sm.W'IOT $637,000
Increase of expense in six States by Giant
in 1871-72 over Johnson in 1866-67, $194,-
332 03, or an average of nearly 42 per cent.
Thb brings ns to a letter addressed to
Ethan Allen, Esq., Chairman Republican
National Committee, which b worthy of
"Sir—I notice that the Grant party boast
that they are rich and thet Greeley’s friends
arc poor. They expect to buy the election.
Has it come to this, ttttt the will of the peo
ple can only be expressed through the purses
of the westhy meal Every poor man’s pride
revolts at the idea. Spread the news of thb
danger of monopolism (to coin a word) worse
than monarchism, and let the ‘plain people’
bear their champion, Horace Greele-y to power
in defiance of money-bag tyranny. 1
Money and fraud, with official manipula
tors as acton and dispensers, it b clear, arc
the main things to be relied upon in the elec
tion of Grant—IV. T. Express.
Tennessee Stews#
There are three candidates for Governor in
the State.
Two restaurant cars are to be placed on the
Nashville and Northwestern road within the
next two weeks)
The stone columns and arches of the first
story front of the Methodist Publishing House
have been erected.
Hymeneal.
In Coweta on the 1st instant, Mr. Pleas
ant Stafford anj Mbs Colins E. ftolling.
Mr. K. Bowman and Mbs M. J. Hix, of
Chattooga, were married September 8d.
Atlanta, Ga., September 6,1872.
Editon'.OonstUution : I understand that tbe
foreign element in tbb city have met in
solemn midnight conclave, and after a hasty
delibcratiou, have fulminated an edict that
only such persons ss Itbeyjrccommcnd are
entitled to hold offices iu tbb county,
large number of usjiad supposed that the
ghost of Know Nolhmgfam had .been laid,
hut it seems that il still stalks abroad, though
under a ditj'ercnt and more hideous garb. The
American people in 1853-oil, in a broad and
charitable spirit of toleration, rebuked an
effort made by sumc foolish persons
to exclude our foreign* fellow-citizens
from an active participation in the govern
rr.ent. By so doing titay vindioaled the wis
dom of our- institution;’, and made ns an ex
ample to the whole civilize;! world. Ilfa but
nifest a like spirit
I am their friend, and they most excuse
mo when I say that they arc lending them
selves to a very absurd movement, gnd one
that is sure to result disastrously to them.
Thb movement of theiris lias already pro
voked an agnation among the native citizppa
of this comity, and it is even now a question
with them whether or not they shall com:
bine upon certain candidates. Friendly as
I am to them, lot me beg them to
pause aud consider. Wu all cheerfully
accord to them a participation in the direc
tion of public affairs, but we shall never sub
mit to their dictation. For a certain portion
of any class to meet and appoint a commit
tee to recommend certain persons as alone
suitable to fill certain officers, and that the
action of such a committee is to f>e bindifi'g
upon every one of that fclabs b utterly re
pugnant to £(ie spirit of Republicanism. T
I trust that the great body of our German
and Irish fellow-citizens will not permit
themselves to be draggoued into tbe support
of designing office seekers. FmK.Nl).
AN EltATIC CenTiltEBATE;
The Inlntnntlon or John 111. Damot
oflThc reicItmond'Examlner, With
The speech made by Hon. R. P. Trippc at
Barnesvillc the other day for Greeley ap
pears to have been avery powerful one. He
thus puts the crisis, and it b n new idea iu
the canvass and on unanswerable one. Tbe
liberation of the country can only come from
the people ar.d through a member of tbe Re
publican party. Wc take the extract from
the Upson JSctcs.
Col. R. P. Trippo.then arose and com
menced hb speech by saying; Ladies and
gentlemen, I havo often appeared as a coun
sel for myself. I have appeared as & counsel
for others. I have often appeared as counsel
News Br Telegraph.
Washington, D. C.. September 5.—Alex
ander H. Stephens, Vice President of the
Southern Confederacy, has addressed a letter
to the President, deploring, in this cnlight-
nnerers convicted under the Kn-klux law.
He proceeds at much length to give his
opinion on the subject, and believing that
the punishment already suffered Las
condoned to some extent for past offenses,
and earnestly entreats the President to extend
to all the Executive clemency prayed for by
Gerritt Smith in the cases of three, and
further rbeommeuded by the chief cf the se
cret service division. The magftanimily of
such an exercise of the pardoning power,
now that the government has shown itself
capable of suppressing all kinds of disorders
in the once insurrectionary States, would be
akin to that which has heretofore rocom
mended general amnesty.
Louisville, Ky., September 5.—Tho fol
lowing is the communication in fall present
ed by tho Louhtana delegation to the Na
tional Democratic Convention as. representa
tives of the Democracy of tho Btate of Louis
iana:
The solemn duty fa imposed npon ns at
thb moment of voting unanimously for
Charles O'Conor as candidate of thu Dem
ocratic party for President, and for John
Quincy Adams for Vice President
Wc believo that wo represent, so far
as an individual opinion can be .represented
in a political body, the trae principles of rc-
f mblican government. It came on us as an
nspiralion that Charles O'Conor and John
Q. Adams might save the republic. O’Coner
has refused to be our standard bearer.
History must pass on liis reasons. Wc be
lieve him to be a citizen eminently pnre and
devoted to tbe Republican form of Govern
ment os contemplated by Jeffeison and by
Jacksou, anti without ostentation when the
occasion required heroism in tho assertion of
principles. With profound regret wchave
beard of tho epithets applied to him by mem
bers of this convention aince hb absolute
declination has been made known, which
could only be applied to the basest of meu—
hypocrisy and cowardice attributed to him.
We believe tho last hope of the republic
rested with thb convention. To us '
Welt Put.
for a party, hut 1 now appear before you as a
sclfora downtrodden, suhiugateJ, suf-
counse! _ _ _
feting and bleeding countty. Wc all want
liberty—some want it only in their own way.
but l'for one am willing to have it in any
way we can get it. The man who asks relief
should not dictate the mode for giving
relief, but should receive it in whatever
way it comes. I havo seen from the be
ginning tbat the war bad put us under a
new dispensation, and the only remedy
b in a counter revolution. I appeal to all
bistory to. show that no people in any age
of the world ever regained tlieir lost liber
ty by a party, it b contrary to the natural
order of things for such to be. I have seen
from tho beginning that our only remedy
lies in bringing about a revolution in the
minds of the Northern people; He then
said some of our Straights want liberty, but
they arc unwilling to have it on any but a
Straight platform, for his put he was willing
to havo it ou the Cincinnati ami Baltimore
platform with Horace Greeley ns its candidate.
England never regained her liberty until she
received it at the hands of a foreigner,
and lie a Dutchman. That this Dutch
man and hb men came to Iter rescue, and
if England could receive her liberty at
the bands of a foreigner, surely we of the
South ought to be wiiliug to receive our lili-
ertv at the hands of Horace Greeley, who fa
a Yankee. He (Ttippe), for his part, was
willing to lie down, not only with Horace
Greeley, but even with the devil himself, if
tfaat would restore liberty to bis counntiy.
He reiterated his former assertion, tlmt u
jjjjgdc never regained their lost liberty at the
a party, that it was impossible
that the Democratic party could ever restore
liberty to this country, he cared not how
straight might lie their platform, help must
come from a counter revolution, lie then
referral to the French revolution and show
ed that none but a Jacobin could have put
dowu Jacobinism. That Robespierre, the
most bloody tyrant that ever lived, never
could haveliccn brought to the guilloliuc by
any other than ono of hfa own party, lie
said if we could have elected a man ou a
straight-out platform as soon as the war had
dosed that such a man would have been pow
erless to restore liberty to the South, for they
being of the conquered party and in the mi
nority would have been afraid to dp anything
for the relief of the South for fear of offend
ing tlio North. That relief must come to us
as it baa always done, by a counter revolu
tion from the conquering section, and lie
knew of no man belter suited for this than
Horace Gtuky. This gentleman’s speech
was quite hSgTjy, and throughout abounded
in forcible arguments.
(Icracbcl V* Johnson,
Tkh distinguished Georgian was written
to by a “Straight” in Cnlnmbns about the
Lonfavill Convention. This b part of hfa
reply
“I respect your opinions ami can fully ap
preciate tUc patrioiic feelings which prompt
the IHuisvillc movement I do not approve
it, hut'I am not at liberty lo question it* sin
cerity, much less to consum. I deplore all
schism among Southern people, especially the
people of Georgia. If it were in my i>ower,
1 would exorcise forever the word* of crim
ination aud recrimination, that wc might all
be linked in the bonds of brotherhood, tole
rate honest differences of opinion, and cover
each other’s faults with the veil of charity.
This is the lesson taught by common ruin
and common sorrow.”
A DhffBttcil Delegate to tUo Grant-
Duncan Convention Comes Out for
Greeley*
Four Wayne, Ind., September 5.—Mr.
Samuel C!cm, an old citizen of this comity
and a life long Democrat, and one of the two
delegates from the Ninth Congressional Dis
trict to the Louisville Convention, has re
turned from that city, and this evening pub
lishes a card in the Sentinel, saying:
“I went toLouisviUoaaa delegate honestly
believing that the convention was called for
TUB STOUT OF TEE BAT WHO £&
NO UBO ED THB WORLD.
mo* toe rnzxcn or u rosnisi"
in a icgcouvo,
Iluw a ccrtalh rat. grown tired of ttrir*.
And the care that Kwct hi* ntthip'a life.
Wishing to nedt'ateathi* me.
Took np liia &t>odc in a Holland c
lie found
Thi* great round
Gave rolitmlc, rhclter, and plenty to eat,
* of hU teeth and his feet.
Atul by diligent i
lie soon a ha
Its walls audits floors with good victuals 11
This rat
Soon grew fat.
And be raid lo lilofctf: “Gol blesses his owe*
Idy tody wos'doely oe skin ssd bona,?
If I hadn't turned hermit. I really must ray
Kenoanc’os the world U tho better way/’
To Ms chocac.
On' heir k&ccs.
Came tome rep. eeeu tail res from the rata.
We are colng for aid .o a forehrn land;
Old neighbor do lend us a helping hand.
Without
A dollar to p
Dorivcuta
We'll be very grateful, we'll e
« e u oe very grateful, we 11 suray repay.
If we lire to rctmnon ihc next New Year’s Day. n
JJui for rake of old frietkUbp ]
pray as
Were at their disposal; what oould hermit dm
“Oh thenuity
Of cluuity"
Among the rat family! If men tire at _
And tht? world is to them a &rcai Holland
When their friend* are di»tressod a:.d In sorry
plight,
l)o Ihijr f vc only blcraiuge, then dose the door
TUB WAY MARKED OUT FOR JIB.
b dark and turbid.
For 1 sec no w«y beeide,
e arc calmer tides for another.
There are Wander wind* at i>
For t see lira purple waters.
In the tnurky. heaving tide.
Some good t hut 1 ne'er had gathered, •
From any |«alhway hc*Hiu.
Borne treasures go down In the *tn
heme joye Ui.it we vsnnot cave;
For. oh. where Is the lift* ungrounded.
W.
Hone joy® that we ^annot cave;
’ — 1 “icrc is the lift* nnwouudi.
of the in-areful crave f
Mind at the hrst and thwktean.
Th.s si ’•
Our evil® wc deem onr cood.
But Tlii* hand has market! ont my rotne*.
And 1 know, though wsn and tirod;
That my crors, he it hard and heavy.
Is the one iliat I required.
Bo I'll take th<* tide at HI® bidding.
And trust in lllscmdancefrm;
For, wild all of it® brooding dtama
’Tis the way mnrked out for me.
Uclkftioua Information,
In the have of Stnslmrf cathedral
one of the most !>cautiful pulpits ever erected
U was built iu 1430.
The Religious Remembrance is said to
have been the first religious paper published
ia the worid. Ila first mini Iter appeared in
Piiilmlelphh, September 4,1813.
Nilsson’s husband, Knuz&nd, who was a
Roman Catholic, stands self-exccmmun»cated
having been married in an Anglican church!
Nilsson herself was In ought up $ Reformed
Lutheran.
A colony of English Conemrntfonalbt*.
with Rev. Thomas Drew, Uieir pastor, have
settled iu Charlotte couuty, Virginia. They
arc of the stauuch and sturdy stock of Eng
lish nonconformist**.
The Christian Union wisely says: “Wheth
er women ought to preach depends upon
whether they can preach. Experiments
should be made, but cautiously on a small
is a matter of utter indifference whether ^efurtiicnuice of sound Democratic princi
fj rant or (IrMlov imrmda. Yv iih unrl heart* tan ^!lf^ Intercourse With tllC managcls of that
Grant or Greeley suceptfa. With Bad hearts wc
foresee the death of Democratic principles
and Republican government. Let ns pray to
God that the impending revolution may be
without'Mom), w* cams hero in the spirit
pf fratrruity, qntl in that spirit wo part from
the majority of you. Tho Convention, be
fore the denunciations of CI'Gonur were ut
tered, had not, in our opluion, exhausted all
heoomisg means of prevailing on him to
accept the distinguished honor tendered him.
Gentlemen, wc leave yon with tho painfnl
conviction that we can no longer serve our
common country, onr State, our principles,
by remaining W(th you. ‘ '
David Scully,
E. C. Kelly,
J. H, Lam.
Qoinct, Mash.., September 5.—'The follow-
ing'b the letter of acceptance of John Q.
CU. Dtanlon Duncan, Louisville:
I will gladly serve as Vice President with
O’Conor, but will qcoept nothing else.
O'Conor must po^iuyely stand.
[Signed j John Q. Adams.
Tho following b Goodlett’s resolution in
full:
CrllliantPrstllCountesa—Tlxe Ashes
o( a scad Love,
Moncure D. Conway is-writing some very
gossipy and interesting letters front the
French- watering places to the Cincinnati
Commercial. The letter from which we
make on extract fa written from Trouville,
and tho distinguished American referred to
fa the late John M. Daniel, Uieeditor and pro
prietor of tho Richmond Examiner. The
letter says;
Yety different associations aro aroused by
tbe sight of tbat brilliant Italian Counices,
whom 1 have already mentioned as being at
Trouville, bqt whom I will now call Madame
IL Inheriting
ONE OP THE MOST DISTTSGUIBED NAMES
That the world has over known—lint a name
which covers as little moral principle as any
in recent history—she has for years glittered
in every Court of- Europe. At fast she
gained such notoriety that some of the Courts
began to close doors against her. Il was
rattier curious tbat ono of the fiirtto exclude
Madame IL (then Madame B.) from its recep
tions should be that whose moral odor fa tlio
very worst in Europe—that of Italy. But so
it was, that, some years ago, when a grand
ball was to be given at the palace in Turin,
tho beauty set in her villa expecting the in-,
vitation, which del not arrive. Her most
intimato friend there, according to Italian
gossip, was a young American, who, after
having achieved tbs reputation ot an intel
lectual phenomenon, streaming through the
Southern skies with a brilliantly-edited news
paper for hfa comet-tail, had been made
Charge D*Affaircs at Turin. Thb young
minister was a man of genius and a scholar!
bat he was very erotic. He had fought
A DOZEN DUELS IN HIS NATIVE vmGINIA,
And politically he was. a fire-eater. Yet I,
who knew him well through many years,
knew that he had a true and tender heart
deep beneath the proud and formidable ex
terior he chose to put forward in the eyes of
tho world. She. who has since become
Madame R. found ont the same, and man
aged to become the object of as deep a passion
as man ever felt for woman. Despite Ike se
vere exclusion of tbe Italian Court, all the
more because of it, the intrigante resolved
that to that ball sbe would go, and she in
voked tbe aid of bcr lover, ths American
charge, to take her there. Take her be did.
He asked an invitation for her; it was re
fused. Nevertheless, when the ball was at
its height, In walked the American with the
ostracised beauty leaning on hb arm, and
dressed in a way that might have excluded
her even had her character been less the sub
ject of gossip. In tbe great day when the
sea gives np its dead tbe correspondence
which thb event occasioned betwe eo the vir-
tnons John B. Floyd and the charge at Turin,
and between the Turinese and Washington
governments, may see the light. The row
was tremendous, though it was earned on in
diplomatic circles, and tbe public heard only
s little of it A gentleman who saw the lady
—now Madame K.—on that occasion declared
to me that sbe was the most beautiful being
he ever beheld, and Uiied hb idea of a Roman
goddess. I remembered the remark when I
saw her at the last carnal "in Rome, dashing
along the Corso b a fine equipage, gaily
dressed, and throwing bon-bons and flowers
to the crowd. Tbe masses did homage to
her beauty. Her husband, one of the emi
nent Italian statesmen, stood, I remember,
with ns in the crowd, and as he smoked hb
sugar looked with a half comical, half-cynical
expression upon the sensation hb brilliant
was causing.
Bat when I met her the other evening, in a
room for the first time, I wondered where
the beauty had fled. I saw a woman, not,
indeed, without some attractions, but with a
great deal of boldness and a strong inclina
tion to be fat Her complexion was artistic,
and she had that most painful expression of
a woman clutching at her vanished youth.
May it nut be that the ancients, in what they
narrate of faithless, unchaste vestals buried
alive, cunningly signified the tendency cf
Resolved, That it b the sense of this Con
vention that Charles O’Conor, having fully
and heartily approved qf the offideta and
purposes of thp Convention, auu having
been unanimously nominated for Presi
dent, aud John Quincy Adorns, of Mas
sachusetts, for Vico-Prceidont; tbat the
delegates of the Democratic party here as
sembled, jure unwilling to mnkc other nomi
nations in their steau and the Democratic
party will give them in any event tho undi
vided support of the party,
Tho convention refused to allow Duncan
to cast th* vote of Maryland and Texas.
Goodlctt’a resolution was adopted by yeas
554, nays 30.
After udoptlng tho usual complimentary
resolutions theconvention adjourned sins die.
X mcley-Living* tone.
At last all doubt b settled as to tho fact
tbat Stanley saw Livingstone. The conun
drum b solved. Tlio puzzle b ended. The
doubt fa forever knocked cold. A letter has
been received by tbe New York Star that do
fie it beyond controversy. It b a letter from
Livingstone himself, and bears evidence of its
origin.
Here it fa : •'
Telegram from Dr. Livingstone to tho Star.
Ujui. ok la kb Tako aktiri, August 25.
DkauSir: Since Stanlejr left me I have finished
my line of telegraph to Zanzibar, and sood you the
first message over the wires. It will reach you via
Aden, Buck, and Marseilles. Since Stanley toft 1 have
lived on the fat of the land, and my “ruckle of bones’’
are rejuvenated. I have traveled up U ono degree of
lived on the fat of the land, and my
are rcjnv&iated. I bars traveled u.
south latitude, and seen what Uerodotua, I'tolcmy,
Nebuchadnezzar, and Pontius Pilate did not see—tbe
source® of tha White Nile. They are nridscly at one
! and agility. The®
i aro lovely.
^^Blygamy prevails, and it costs but about $10
a year to support a woman-or say (ten percent, off).
$ao will maintain ten of the ddsky charmers. Chig
nons and crinolines are not in fashion. They live oo
fruit and berries, aa Adam and Kvc did In the primal I
Kden, and sleep under tbe "watershed,” which laTSO
miles ioag, and will shelter thousands of tho brunette i
darlings. Nature crimps their hair; fig leaves are iu
I should hare ro-
ley, but the attractions here are su
preme. If ever I do rctnrn to civilisation, 1 will visit
Arne — ' “
Star,
Noth, the nisn who had a high old time in an ark
Noe; he is a truthful a
Democratic Reeling In Wilkinson
County.
iBvriKGTtur, Ga., Sept 5,1872.
A convention of the Democratic party of
Wilkinson county was this day held at lr-
winton, oompoeed of delegates from the mi
litia districts, being five delegates from each
of the nine districts in the county. CoL J.
G. Ockington, Chairman of tho County
Executive Committee, called the con
vention to order, and stated the ob
ject to be the selection of delegates to the
Congressional Convention to assemble on tbe
19th instant at Milledgevillc, and to nominate
a candidate for Representative. On motion
Dr. R. J. Cochran was called to Uie chair and
G. E. Carleton was made secretary. ILJ.Coch-
ran, Ira Chambers, L J. Fountain, L. Ethridge,
J. N. Shinholser.J.T. Lingo, G.W. Bishop,
G. E. Carleton, E. J. Coates, W. F. Cannon
and G. \V. Butler,were appointed delegates to
the Congressional Convention. After several
ballotings Wyriott C. Adams was nominated
for Representative, which nomination was
made unanimous by acclamation. The ut
most harmony prevailed.
On motion it waa resolved that the pro
ceedings be published in the Macon Tele
graph and Messenger, and Ths Atlanta
Constitution and the Union and Recorder
be requested to copy.
R. J. Cochran, President
O. E. Caeleton, Secretaiy.
affair at Louisville has satisfied me that il
was instigated and managed l>y men wholly
for selfish purposes and to secure tho re-clcc-
tion of General Grant,—Special Tvhy.~am
to the Couvncrcial,
O’Conor’M Letter,
This letter is getting fits. The variety of
comment is amusing and vuifoimly severe.
Its vagueness^ its author of words, ilscliimcri-
theories, its impuicliivibility, iu inconsist
encies, are all touched up deftly and sharply.
Occasionally a little squeek of faint praise
Is uttered, but It timidly avoids particulars,
as If conscious that thu would titTord too good
chance for successful refutation. The Haiti-
more Gazette is unsparing. It calls tlic letter
“pessimism, abstractions aud twaddle.’*
It thus alludes to a point of thu letter on
Vfliich wc have touched:
“As to the former, he tases h!s ronr1n*!on on ih.i
notion, th*t “once bis wound term shall hr.vs bet-n
eoenred, tlcnersl tintnl's only motive for iotlictinL;
misery on that portion of hi® countrrmcn will cc-uc.”
Thi-rnforc, 1>y all moans, ho thinks we ou^ht. to do
what vre cin, la promote the uteci ion of » PwsMml,
who is cuimldc of inflicting misery ou hi® roantrv-
mcn in order to secure i.i;. o«nu runoamuliou, aud
bus no higher motive for CM.idug to do so, than the
far.t thst Be cun mskc nothin? by it! After flits Mr.
O'Couuor's cativA-'stng of Mr. Urccicy's merit® is
mere child’? play.”
It wakes a line stroke in tVs passage:
“Aud whato far;c It fa for Mr. O'Conor to pm
tend to berniktux et corrunliou by Hi ; fureffpra-
com of repudiattnenman tvlio be knows to be hon-
cst—whom l;e recognize* a* *»ao lit iho maidcr
- - political opinion* favor legislative lntronebdling,
and interm;aldiing produce* corrup.loti — when there
beftiro him in the person of Crank and his Cabinet,
arid Ids purveyors stands corruption itself incarnate 1
Why shrink from tho ron.oie and specuhtUve theory,
and etnhmce thu ueerand living mid Ion bsorae (sett
Why talk of Grant in the some breath will; 'National
rrj-enrralien.’ and breaking ‘the sceptre cf the
trading politician:'*
ii|/nklndcKtrulof a 11*’—Jnc!;;c Lyons;
Chairman, Bepuctlales tho l*rocecd.
lngsot the Convenliou.
Louisville, September 5.
James Lyons, Prenidunt of Ike Demo
cratic Convention in Ihfa city, in the rotunda
of the Galt Home this afternoon, declared
that tho proceedings of tho Convention to
day in pnaiung thu nomination on O’Conor
and Adam* were a farce, and he would not
support Adam*.
The Correspondent of tho World states
more fully Mr. Lyons’ iwsition lliua:
“I made inquiry or tho President of the
Convention, Judge Lyons, of Virginia, who
had refused to take the nomination in place
of G’Conor yeatorday, and he owned that
the convention was a :;rcvio i3 disappoint
ment to him- Ho had liccn led to believe
that in the convention lie would meet tlic
gentlemen of the North and the old-time,
trusted leaders of tlic Democracy; hat in
stead he caw only roughs and men of no
idea*, earnestness or political capacity. As a
convention he bad never Been aueh a turbu
lent set, and ho was heartily glad shat lie hail
escaped as well as he did. The movement,
bo believed, was worse than a failure—it wan
an exhibition, not of weakness only, hut of
want of purpose and pitiable division*. He
regretted being identified with the affair, and
would return to his home, and when lie
voted would probably vole for Grim;."
The following letter was written by a
Memphian at Long Broach to another at
Saratoga. It is seldom that salt water, ceru
lean naves, politics, flirts, religion and ro
mance are blended into so beautiful a mo-
sale:
Loho Bbahcu, N. J., August 16,1872.
Dead : Wliy don’t von leave that
Inland town, wilh its slinking waters and its
dirty,enssing politicians, and come to the aide
of the rushing sea, and be mode happy ?
Come, now, and inhale tas life-giving
breeze* of the deep Mac sea, and forget that
crowd of thieving politicise: and heartless
flirts.
Here the pure and good aro resting every
day upon the bot of old ocean, uul are
made happy by continually giving tbr.ni-
selves up to cleanliness.
You should ece uc dive into tho sea and
float upon its blue waves
1 think of dwelling forever by the side of
tho sea and listen to the music of its waters
All true Christians should live npon the
was happy; and when he traveled to the
interior he was set npon by thh ving politi
cians, that fa, men who desired to rale the
country, and was hung.
So you cannot be saved unless you come to
the eea side.
Yours truly,
Qf* Lord Derby spoke like a copybook, in
bis address at the faying of the corner-stone
of a school house. He argued that young
children wanted play as well as work; that
“little legs easily get flgety with sitting still;”
that “young brains could not bear tension
without injuryand that scholars appreciate
“courtesy aud justice iu little matters.”
scale.”
It is said that since tills country lagan
more than ihrce hundred islands of Eastern
and Soulhei n Polynesia alone have been led
by tbe Gospel, as taken to them by missiona
ries, to renounce llicir heathenism.
Spurgeon told D-. Cuylcs, recently, that be
never wi ote a serin on, and would rather be
hung tlir a do such a thing. He works np hb
points, draws on hfa Bible knowledge, gener
al information and good sense, and then
preaches straight at them.
A Buffalo clergyman rent around the con-
iribuliim boxes tor the dear heathen and col-
loobui sixty cents, ten cents of which was in
soda water checks. Sixty thousand dollars
were offered in purses for the races.
Rev. 1>. M. Palmer, P.D., of New Orleans,
is collecting unlrials for a biography of tho
distinguished Dr. Tbomwcll, deceased, to bo
prefixed to nn edition of’ bis works now itf
preparation.
Episcopalians have flatted sno’.licr German
church in New York, on Fitly-eighth street.
It is a handsome chapel, but fails to attract
an audience. Oil a laic Sunday Ibc nntlienco
consisted ut two, including thu sexton.
At the lute commencement at Gambler, O.
six of tho graduates were ordained to'tlio
deaconate in titu Episcopal Church, and nix
alvanccd lo the priesthood. Your of tho
deacons take immediate pastoral work in tho
diocese.
The Reformed General Synod, at Brooklyn,
considered the right of female inciulters to
vote for ckl'jr? anil deacons. The question
was at fast left for the decision of earl; church
for itself. Most or the Reformed Churchen
suffer not a woman to vote in church matters,
but there arc exceptions.
The Rev. Dr. Muse, pastor of the Galntn
Lutheran Church, oo High street. Columbus,
Ohio, has notified his congregation that tho
communion will lie withheld from all members
of arorct s'k-ictiej. The result is that a largo
number of bis member* have withdrawn ami
will probably form a separate organization.
At a recent camp meeting one gave testi
mony as follows: " I was raised a hnnl-skcll;
I was taught f.oio childhood * election, elec
tion ; ’ 1 grew to manhood without being con
verted, nnd was troubled lieyond measure to
know whether I was one of the elect Final
ly, ua I was driving along the n ad one day,
I reasoned U.113: 1 1 am not a Chiislian, but I
want, to be saved; if I am to he elected, I
must become a candidate for election;’ and,
brelhrcu, the moment I became a candidate I
was elected.”
A new religious community bnow attract
ing a considerable attention in I
. _ — Iowa, where
itsmembcis, lo the number of fifteen hun
dred, are settled. They have puichiseil
about im.fiO-t acres of land on the Rock bland
and Pacific Railroad,and havccrecledseveral
mills and manufactories which they canyon
them-elves. They call themselves “Aman-
ians," and are Germans without exception.
Ail pro|ierty in buhl is common,and the affairs
of the soeiely ate managed by liflcen trus
tees, or fathers, as they arc called. Each per
son Is allowed to druwaoertain amount from
Ike co-operatite sloro yearly .and numember
is given any wages or money for personal
expenses. Meetings are held every day for
religion* services. In addition th the thirty
thousand acres of farming land already men
tioned, the society own large flour and wollcn
mills on the Dcs Monies river. Tiny manu
facture a flue quality yarns and Ifannel in
colors which stand high in the market. Thu
Amanians are noted for their honesty and
fair dealing, and arc much respected by their
neighbors Marriage is not encouraged
though it fa not forbidden, aud as the com
munity is not receiving any new members, il
will probably, in lime, die out.
The Catiiedual ok Cantehuury.— 1 TUo
civilized world wil! rejoice that Uie Ore which
threatened the total destruction of tho Ca
thedral of Canterbury waa subdued, doing
*■— U’”-- 1 ■ -• - icejj!
but little damage to thb grand historic 1
lice.
Tho ol licet part of the present Cathedral
waa built in 1148, but it stands on the site of
the yathcdnil anciently founded by SL Au
gustine, in 587. It is especially renowned
by being associate j with the first establish
ment ot Christianity in Eerland. Within
ila walla Thomas A’Hcck. t was murdered by
the followers of Henry II. and at tbe ahrino
of the sainted martyr, for centuries, devotees,
fmm n!l nariu l5.ts---v.-c*. I. ..... at. »_T v ’
from all parts uf Europe have paid Uieir de
votions.
There b no building more intimately or
proudly connected with the history of Eog-
huid, and its destruction would have been a
loss to tiie whole world.
The damages will he speedily repaired and
the sacred adornments of the edifice will again
be restored.—iWL
Greeley's A'a.lilon on Slavery.
Some of our “Straight” friends use Gree
ley’® record on slavery against him. Mr.
Greeley never believed that Congress
bad a right to interfere with slavery in the
States. —«. . .
Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay both
were opposed to slavery as Greeley was,
generally.
And in 1845, January 25, we find that Mr.
Stephens mmle the following remarks in hb
speech on the annexation of Texas, which
embody Greeley’s general idea of opposi
tion to the extension of slavery.
“ I am no defender of slavery in tbe ab-
tlract Liberty always had charms for me,
an l I would ndorna to see all the ana of
Auam's family, in every land and clime, in
the ctyoymeat of their righu which are set
forth fn'thc l)uelaration of 1„„.
“natural and inalienable” if a <
bearing the marks and impress of the hand of
the Creator himself, did not in some care in
terpose and prevent Such b the case where
slavery now exists. But 1 have no wish to
see it extended to other countries; and if tbe
annexation of Texas were for the wb jiarjuwi
of extending slavery', where it does not now
and would not otherwise exist, I should Op
pose it”