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WASHINGTON NEWS,
THE_ DAILY ^SUN
Monday Morntno June 26
General Forest’s Opinion of the j
Ku-Klux.
It was announced some days ago that
General Forrest had been summoned to
Washington to testify before the .Ku-Klux
Committee. The special correspondent
of the Louisville Courier-Journal tele
graphs, on the 22d instant, that the Gen
eral had arrived there, and then proceeds
to give the substance of some remarks
made by him relative to what he deemed
to be the origin of what the Radicals
style “Ku-Klux outrages
The General said he was charged as being the or-
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1871.
SOUTHERN FEMALE COL
LEGE.
Commencement Sermon by Rev
D. Wills, D. I).
The commencement exercises of the
ganger and leader of tnat organization, bat as yet he Southern Female College, at LaGrange.
had laded to ascertain that any snch kiau exists, ex- , , , . , ° 6 *
cept in the imagination or those who, for political opened yesterday with a sermon by Rev.
fSS&TTSSSS:*%?££££? JS »• Wk ». d.. oi os. Predaent oi
in its existence. General Forrest was then aaicod pondent has beenvery vigilant, and sends
the question, “What, then, in your opinion, Is the I , ,, , . .
cause of so many acta of violence being reported and as full UOtfiS OI the 8ermon, which W6
SSKi.’E&t 'SSS5”SSS£ ISS P*MM» below. For the very prompt
causes; my theory, however, is that a class of men delivery of the uackace we nr a indebted
who have not the welfare of the South at heart came h ^ tUB package we are indented
from the Nortu, aim, knowing that the political to Conductor Herrington, of the Atlanta
rights of many of the Southern people are denied . ,
them, they operate with the negroes to secure their ® " OSt J. Oint Railroad.
votes to elevate them to positions of trust and respon- I m rm -r
sibility. secret leagues are formed, incendiary XJtlx—1 fien 1 Commended mirth, because
speeches, calculated to do irreparable injury are a man hath no better thina underftlie sun
uiadtj, the employer ia denied the services ol his paid I o -„ 7 f~, , , r ‘
- laborers as they dock to tueue leagues andare taught and to drink and to be merry.—
K ._ 1 they dock to tuese leagues andare taught . .
' hiHuUirdination. The result is that among the sub--I Jbcclesiastes, Vlll, 15.
(Aktsutial citizens of the section of country wherein 1
th««e men operate they are regarded with distrust
merry,
tastes, vm, lb.
The term mirth has been perverted
and tociauy ostracised. They secure lucrative odi- from its original meaning bv modernized
™,n, e in ...«—— — I interpretations and associations. In
ces,' defraud the people, and in all their acts seeming
ly endeavor to excite public opinion against them. 1 - . , _ ..... ..—
As a natural consequenco, at intervals, the indig- pure Anglo-Saxon it implies Something
nation probably of an individual may be aroused devout and elevating in contradistinction
and au individual assault made, whicn is soon mag-1 a_ „y.„l ; :e 0 , ,
aided into a Ku-KJux outrage. Now, I do not pre- J?, ^hat IS Vociferous and dissipating.—
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tend to deny that in same instances men have been
killed; not, however, indiscriminately slaughtered.
The’same motive that impels a man to kill his bro
ther in New York, Massachusetts, or Maine applies
as well in Alabama, North Carolina or Tennessee, the
difference being that in the latter States the victim
by his conduct tends to aggravate the mnrderer to
suen bloody work. The cases are few, but of course
are credited as being the work of the Ku-Klux, and
hence, public opinion North is directed against the
whole South os a blood-thirsty people. Again, bad
men come South with no dzed purpose iu view.—
They seem to float along, aud like Mr. Macawber,
“wait for something to turn up.” In their idleness
they operate among the negroes, excite their super
stitious feelings against their employers aud cause a
general stagnation in agricultural pursuits. When
remonstrated with for such conduct, instead of allow
ing the planter to peacefully pursue the even tenor
College Temple.
The nineteenth commencement of this
fine school for young ladies, located at
Newnan, will begin to-day and end on
Wednesday. To-night the entertain
ment complimentary to the patrons - of
the school will take place. To-morrow
morning compositions by the junior class
and other under graduates will be read,
and at night the annual concert by the
music class will take place. Wednesday
is commencement day proper, and will
be the most interesting of all, as in the
forenoon the candidates will compete for
the degree in English Literature aud
Maqistra in Arlibus. The Alumnae Es
say will be read by Miss Ellen J. Paison,
M. A., of Newnan, the Annual Poem by
Miss Rosa S. Johnson, and the Degree
will be conferred by M. P. Kellogg, A.
M., President of the institution, the
whole to conclude with the Seniors’ Fare-
well. ‘fUimnKBj
We have to thank Professor Kellogg
for an invitation to be present
Chaucer, the father of English poetry,
has attached the true sense .to this word.
Mirth, in good old English, induces
the most sacred sorts of cheerfulness.—
Hence the old Psaltar praises God with
“awful mirth.” The Apostle James has
reproduced this idea of Solomon when he
makes the recommendation, “Is any
among you merry, let him sing psalms.”
A merry heart in Scriptural parlance is
simply a cheerful heart.
First, The effects of cheerfulness on
the body are strikingly manifest. Bv
lug uiopjttiiujr w ptaiceiuujf pursue me even uuiur i 2 , •* • «. , Z
of hia way, they attempt to revive old sores and I reason of tlie intimate and inexplicable
make'assertions calculaUA to excite anger and bad union subsisting between the mnWi?d
“ ‘ " and immaterial part of our nature it is
impossible for the one to be affected
without the other sharing in the affection.
Leibneitz, the learned philosopher, dje
nied this, but his ingenious hypothes s
is contradicted by a multitude of stub
born facts. The Roman mu-rim is
Mens saner in corpore sans.
feeling. The result may T>e that such men are or
dered to leave or pursue some avocation, just the
same as avagraut maybe locked up in Washington or
a suspicious character ordered out of: it This, 1
presume, is at once called a Ku-Klux outrage.
As far as he goes, General Forrest is
undoubtedly correct in his opinion. Had
the people of the South been let alone
and not crowded to the utmost stretch
of patience by the bands of adventurers
that tbe war threw into their midst, there
never would have been any foundation for
these reported “outragea” There is,
mid can be, no enmity between the South-
A melancholy man cannot use his in
tellectual and muscular energies to ad
vantage. If Luther had been a dyspep
tic, the great Reformation of the 16th
century had not been achieved. A spirit
of melancholy is pernicious to personal
beauty and loveliness. It takes away the
•em whiteman and the negro. The latter I rich gloss from the hair, and the beanti-
ia too valuable to the former to be alien- bd lustre from the eye, the roseate hues
ated and made an enemy of, while he, at
the same time, feels too much his depend
ence upon the whites to voluntarily seek
to create an animosity be tweed the two
races.
But aliens have intruded themselves
upon the South, aud, moved by greed
and ambition, have sought places of pub
lic trust. They knew from the start that
He Dlacouraeth. Upon. Being Inter,
viewed*—“Be Aliy Now Me Darlint.”
Tbe readers of Thx Sun probably bear in mind tbe
published report of an interview, had a few days ago
with Hon. Ephraim Tweedy, relative to a railroad
accident that had almost wiped him out, somewhere
away off amid the jungles of Mississippi. That pub
lication has called forth a communication from Mr.
Tweedy, which we publish below:
Augusta, Jane 23,1871.
Editob or The Sun:—X was a little surprised to
see by the article in your paper of the 22d, that Ih&d
been made a victim of the practice of interviewing,
or rather boring, which has become too common
of late among the attachees of newspapers. It is
very true, I had some conversation with you in ref
erence to a railroad accident which had happened to
me. I was not aware at the time that I was being in
terviewed, or perhaps I might have been a little more
reticent in my discourse. I was very weU aware,
however, that I was being awfully bored
Alter Many Bays.
Two sisters, who, for thirty-three years-pthe av
erage length of man’s life—had not seen each other,
had the pleasure of meeting last Saturday, at the
residence of one of our citizens. The pleasure of
such a meeting can be appreciated only by those
having experience. - .
from the cheek, and the musical tones
from the voice, the superior skill from
the hand, and the noble elasticity from
the step, and it covers the face -with
wrinkles and rust. The beauty of cheer
fulness and contentment surpasses the
choicest productions of art—it throws in
to the shade the richest roses of the gar
den and the most brilliant colors of the
rainbow, the majesty of mountain scenery
and the splendors of thb starry heavens.
Second. Cheerfulness is the antidote
these places could not be _ obtained by for more t]ian the ills of life. It is
consent of the white people, consequent- not the elaborate prescriptions of Hyp-
ly they sought those localities where the pocrates, but the simple substitute of
negro population predominated over the Solomon which effects such wonderful
e , , cures. Physicians tell us that many die
white, and at once commenced a system- £j. om the disease of despondency, and
atic training of this ignorant element in that many recover from acute and chronic
order to attain the end of their ambition complaints by the force of faith and pa-
Leagues and societies were formed, into lienee. Hence the manifest propriety of
^ a cheerful countenance and conversation
jCOMMUNIOATED.J
Dr. Wills* Covington Commencement
Sermon.
:j Atlanta, June 24th, 1871.
Editob Sun : In yoor issue of this date, I notice
a discourteous, and would be willy communication
over the signature of “Truth,” which in my estima
tion is as complete a misnomer as ever was adopted.
As stated in my Covington letter, I did not hear this
sermon, and “Truth” says he did,, yet my inform
ant I have known as strictly truthful for more, than
twenty years, and I thus distinctly reaffirm my con
viction of the exact truth of my first statement and
indorse it on my personal responsibility.
My proper name is at the service of “Truth”
whenever demanded of yon, and I shall be in Atlan
ta all this week,
■Very faithfully yours, &c.,
Walter.
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The Atlanta University. ?rn<
The Anniversary exercises of the Normal and Pre
paratory Departments of the Atlanta (colored) Uni
versity will commence to-day and end with Wednea
day. The examinations will take place to-day and to,
morrow. The Board of Examiners, appointed by
the Governor, consists of Hons. Joseph E-Bro-sJn
John L. Hopkins, W. A. Hemphill, James L. Dun
ning, W. L. Scruggs, A. M. Speights, David Mayer,
Jared L Whitaker, Dr. S.H. Stout and Rev. J. H
Knowles.
Wednesday the rhetorical exercises will lake place,
and will consist of original essays and original and
selected addresses by the pupils of the school. The
annual address will be delivered by Rev. W. B,
Brown, of Newark, New Jersey; at the close of which
the report of the Board of Examiners will be read.
• : < 'iUOtfifliOiq /
| in the chamber of sickness and sorrow.
The effects of cheerfulness on religious
’which the negroes were gathered. These | ;
were the negroes’ schools of poli
tics. Here they were taught, that the I experience opens up a boundless field of
Southern white man was their worst ene- thought, which the time woidd fail us to
„ ,, . .. ... .. I traverse to-day. In the fourth chapter
any. Here they were taught that the .Alexander’s work on Christian ex-
Northem men had given them freedom; perience you will find this subject ably
that the Northern men were their only discussed. Spiritual distresses are often
friends; that if they had their way their produced by physical causes. An emi-
, . ,, _ . nent physician once said that he never
former masters would soon reenslave p ions person to die a triumphant
-them. They were taught, too, to violate I (jeath whose disease was below the dia-
their labor contracts,
also to have their petty grievances adju-
•dicated before that judicial abortion, the
Freedman’s Bureau. They were taught
to believe they would eventually become
•owners of the Southern country, or a
•large portion of it. They were taught to
become arrogant and insulting. The
wonder would have been had they not
become so, after the political curriculum
through which their Northern, “friends”
have conducted them.
Taking all these things into considera
tion, it is not singular that some negroes,
and some white men were maltreated.—
Murders are committed in Massachu-
They were taught | phragm.
In the second place, let us consider
the sources or elements of true cheerful
ness.
The first element is constant employ
ment. Activity is as essential to the
health of the sonl as to the health of the
body. The good old Cecil says, “There
are many who sit at home, nursing them
selves over a fire, and then trace up the
natural effects of solitude, and want of
air and exercise, into spiritual desertion.
Cloistered piety is not productive. The
grand panacea for tedium vttce is doing
good perpetually. Sweat of {he brow,
sweat of the brain, sweat of the heart, is in
dispensable to our highest well being.
The second method of promoting cheer
fulness is the selection of suitable society.
We are all, says Locke, a sort of cha
meleon, who take our moral tinge from
This question, which threatens to become a 'moot-
case, aB celebrated as the unsolved problem of “who
struck Billy Patterson,” .is in a fair way of obtaining
final adjudication at the highest tribunal of the
State.
A divorce case came up before the recent term of
the Superior Court of Muscogee county, and Hannah'
was the Christian name of one of the parties to the
suit. Several eminent lawyers were employed as
counsel on both sides, among them one from this
city. In the argument of the case each of the gen
tlemen started ont with the premising. proposition
that he would enlighten the Court and Jury in re
gard to “what’s the matter with Hannah.” The case,
as decided, not giving satisfaction to the parties in
terested, will be carried to the Supreme Court, where
it will be again argued; and it is confidently expect
ed that, between the elucidations of able counsel and
the opinion of the learned triumvirate upon the
Bench, the popular question will be finally and satis
factorily settled, and the world will know beyond
a doubt “what’s the matter with Hannah.”
setts and Ohio ttpon smaller provocations,
andamite as frequently as they have been I tke objects which surround us. One-half
■x* a - 1 of all our gloom is gathered from the som-
committed in the South, y bre . airs and desponding speeches of
would think that bands of men are or- neighbors and friends, whilst a cheerful
ganized in those States for the purpose countenance and an encouraging word
of committing murders, though the act with magical power upon the pros-
ground for such opinion is quite as appa- W 6 ^^ , tTl1 - T1g g^gn^ to c b ee rful-
rent as that upon which is based the j nes g is a good conscience. There is no
charge that there is a Ku-Klux Klan, passion of the human breast which par-
having a general organization throughout 80 atmosphere of per-
f i I dition as that of remorse. Summer re-
tlie South. | crea tions and winter dissipations, bril
liant associations and high sounding
panegyrics of friends and flatterers can
not silence the clamors of a guilty oon-
The commencement exercises of this I science. Many a young woman whose
taction opened jesWJay. . »-
mon by Bov. D. Wills, D. IX, of j ggat of thought,” beeause she is secretly
city, President of Oglethorpe College.— sinning against God, and many a young
Examinations took place Thursday and man who assumes to be gloomy on some
LaGrange Female College.
Friday, and will be concluded to-day.
To-night a pretty operetta—“Grand-
Ma”—will be presented by the vocal class.
Tuesday, the junior class, eleven in num
ber, will read original compositions, and
the exercises will conclude with an address
by W. J. Samford, Esq., of Opelika, Ala.
other subject, is simply laboring under
the upbraidings of an evil conscience.
The last thing necessary to cheerful
ness is the innate dread of dying. The
true antidote for death is a tender and
unwavering reliance on the infinite merits
of Jesus. The Sun of Righteousness
casts a blaze of glory over the gloom' of
the grave as the May morning beams
Tuesday night, grand concert of vocal make the rose and violet bloom with
J 6 1 fresh beauty and fragrance.
and instrumental music. A rare pro
gramme will be given. Wednesday is
commencement day.
graduate. _ I
•delivered by Rev. Dr. Brantly, pastor of I mane, numbers 25,000,000 members in
the Second Baptist Church of this city. I Europe.
.. ... i A Palis correspondent of the London
Eight young ladies x^es writes that the International Soci-
The annual address will be! ety. from which sprang the Paris com-
’ ,T /' ’ MilOO ‘
What is tbe Matter With Hannah.
HON. EPHRAIM TWEEDY.
MORJG OF THAT DUEL.
A Card from one of the Principals—He
Puts the Beer on His Antagonist.
Tfio following note was handed us for publication.
It will be seeu that our statement of tbe affair in
Saturday’s Sun was incorrectly reported, according
to the following:
George Valentine and I bad a little dispute, and I
challenged him to go ont of town and Bettle it by a
fist fight; but he knowing that I bad the best of him,
did not accept my challenge, but proposed to fight
with pistols, which I accepted. The time was set, he
failed to meet me. aud acknowledged to his second
that he was a coward.
\~ . - James Goodpett.
Colonel James W. Lawton, of Macon, arrived in
thiscityon Saturday. He was appointed by the Ag-
-cultural Convention, which met iu Macon in Feb-
your talent for interviewing, you should have been 1
prudent enough nof to have made your victim ap
pear ridiculous, nor to have ascribed to him language
and a brogue not commonly used by tho most igno
rant bog-trotter. By such a course, you destroyyour
chance of ever interviewing any body else.
In your estimation it may be a cause of reproach
to me that I was born in Ireland; but I consider it
no misfortune. If ydu do, you ought rather have
condoled with me than ridiculed me, for it is ungen
erous to reproach or ridicule a man for natural mis
fortunes which he cannot help. I never blamed you
for being born such as you are.
You further make me give an absurd description
of the manner of making artificial ice. The enter
prise I and my associates in Atlanta have undertaken
Will lesult in benefit ta the whole community, and is
certainly deserving of more serious treatment at your
hands. Already has the beneficial effect of our en
terprise been felt in the reduction in price of natu
ral ice from four to two and a half cents per pound,
in anticipation of the success of the Atlanta Ice Man
ufacturing Company.
We would like to have the support of your valuable
and influential paper, but whether we do or not our
enterprise is an assured success, and it is useless to
throw cold water on it.
I hope that the next time you take a mint julip
with me as you did on the occasion of the interview
ing, (though you undertook to ignore that julip), it
will be cooled with our ice.
Yours very respectfully,
Ephkaim Tweedy.
It appears from the above that our principsd mis
fortune consists in the accuracy of our report. Mr.
Tweedy, it Is true, was not aware that we were inter
viewing him, nor did we intend that he should he
made aware of it, for this reason—we wanted
plain unvarnished ’’ statement of facts, and were
fearful that if the party interviewed knew the use to
which we meant to apply them, he might put just a
slight coloring to the tale in order to make it look
well in print. Men like to become heroes. They
like to he the heroes of brave deeds, of narrow es
capes, of dreadful Occidents, of pretty romances.—
It makes one feel proud to occupy such a position
before the public. It makes one the subject of con
versation—gives a notoriety for the time being that
elevates one above the common herd. Now, we do
not say {hat Mr.* Tweedy has any anjbition in this
direction ; but we were afraid to trust him, know-
mg as we do, the many little weaknesses of‘the
race.
Again, Mr. Tweedy does us a wrong by supposing
that by reporting his exact language, we meant to
cast a slur upon his nationality. By no manner of
means was this so. We couldn’t go bock on our an
cestry that for. We couldn't go bock upon County
Limerick, the McLaughlins, the Blarney Btone and
Irish Whisky in any such way. The “ brogue ” is so
tangled up upon our tongue that we can't eliminate
a dozen words of Anglo-Saxon without a few eccen-
trio *• arrahs ” just to add music to them. No, we
love the “ Onld Counthry ’’ so well that we never eat
anything bat Irish potatoes.
Again, we favor and we advocate that Ice Manu
factory. We expect to support it. We mean to eat
it and drink it. Wo want a brick of it every day to
carry in our hat. We mean to cushion our easy chair
with a block of it. We want some sheets of that ice
to sleep between these hot summer nights. In fact,
we have concluded not to go through with much
more of the summer without it. Wamean to get up
a company and buy a patch of it large enough to start
a skating rink. In fact, we don't see any possible
chance to get along without it, and we hope soon to
learn that the factory is ready to supply it at one cent
a pound. We hope Mr. Tweedy will hasten it up.
' In regard to that julep, we hope the public will
take it as we did—through a straw. But we don't
mean to take any more until they are cooled with Ice
from Mr. Tweedy’s factory,
Agricultural Colleges.
ruary, one of a committee to visit the various agri
cultural colleges of the country, with the view of
making a report to tho society. The colonel is now
setting out upon that mision. He will go first to
Maryland, and thence he will proceed to visit tho va
rious institutions in the North, East and West, inves
tigating them all carefully, with a view to under
standing their several advantages, in order that a
benefit may be -derived from them in tho establish
ment of a similar institution in this State.
Tho Colonel is a good man for the business and wo
are sure he will make his investigation thorough and
come homo laden with useful and practical infor
mation.
Police Captains* Meeting.
The Augusta Cl.i onicle proposes that the Captains
of police of Georgia, instead of holding thoir moot
ing in Atlanta on the 4th day of Jply, that it be hold
on the 4th day of August and in the city of Augus
ta. Well, that’s an idea. What in the world do you
want with so many of these officers on hand at one
time? And what is the object of the meeting?—
If it i3 for the purpose of mutual benefit and to es
tablish a better detective business, all right. But if
it is to be something on the style of press excursions,
green line excursions, and other affairs of that kind,
we would advise them to come to Atlanta, as at about
tliatseaBonof the year tho heat‘of thov;eather at
Augusta aud the mean whisky they would .be com
pelled to guzzle there would be too much, and for
our part we shall object to our Captain going. Be
sides, provisions have been made for their reception
here, and this is the place for them to come.
A NEW DISCOVERY IN METEOROLO
GY.
Why it lifts rained so mucli this year—-
An Almanac maker Sues for Dam
ages.
A well known gentleman and an old citizen has
adopted the theory that by planting large tracks of
land in graBs it would so effect the atmosphere as to
produce rain. * Several articles on this rather new
tb eoTy. have appeared at different times in an Agricul
tural publication in this place. The gentleman in
question has a “patch” of grass of about eight acres
to which he*attributes.the great quantity of rain that
has fallen the present year, and writes an article in
vindication of the truth of his theory. It seems
hat an old Almanac maker in the Southern part ol
the State, and of whoso calculations as to
the weather probabilities are much more
reliable than the telegraphic reports of the
Associated Press aud who has gained the confidence
of a number of people as to the reliability of his
calculations, predicted quite a drouth this year about
the time there was_so much rain. This, of course,
has shaken the confidence of the people in their
heretofore reliable Almanac, and the -calculator now
threatens to bring suit for damages against the grass
planter for producing rain in that manner, thereby
circumventing the prediction of his Almanac.
THE STATE ROAD LEASE.
Seago, Wallace, Wyly & Co. Discard Fos-
s , { ' , ' : . ‘ter Blodgett.'
Mayor's Court Saturday.
The Court met as josnal, jmd Alderman Lowry pro
ceeded to investigate the cases on the docket. The
first called was
JACK CBUMBY WHITE,
He had taken on too much firh beer, and got his
mind rather addled. In pasaing the negro eating
house, he discovered a tame coon, and mistaking it
for a baby began playing -with^ it. The coon wasn’t
any baby though, and did not like the' rough way in
which he was handled and sung out. This brought
out the colored owner, who wanted Crumby to go
on his way. This raised some loud tailk and profane
language from Jack, and he was up to account for it
The price of a ticket to that Menagerie was selling
at $5 that day. OSCrH) fWft
When Johnsing called ont for'
PAT KENNEDY,
alias, Pink Top Harris. This individual had a profu
sion of red curly hair, and. every one took him to be
Harris of the Savannah Hews. The resemblance
was striking. But be only claimed to be a near re
lation of that gentleman—first cousin. Well Pat had
just served out the day before a term In the chain
gang, and the first prayer he uttered after getting off
was, “Oh, for a drink,” He got it—got lots of them.
Hia price of liberty woe eternal drunkenness. Pat
had no distinct recollection, but thought he was guil
ty, and in consideration of his good patronage at
the bar, be was fined only five dollars and costs.
JOSHUA NOBTH **•«
was a very small negro boy from the South, but was
up for running his hand-carton the west sidewalk,
and His Honor made the yeast rise in him for the
cefste of the suit,"' ** i®*
Y* BES. BCTLKB BBOWH ’** V™*
is a very saucy looking negro boy, and has no more
manners than his name-sake. Benny got hold of
some ten cent.liquor.and it made him wild. He
cursed, and spouted, and-took on, when the police
took him to the calaboose. The spree coot Ben $6
and costs. -.(\c«ic'tq Baa Srisosi ol |
The numerous little idle negroes about tbe city
have a way of congregating in the City Park to ploy
baseball, marbles, leapfrog and any other game at
which a big noise and disturbance con be raised—
This has been going on for some time, and Hia Hon
or mads an entering wedge of . -
- tfrm fc
an $800 plow boy, who passed all his time there
and was about the biggist pill in tbe box, in the yell
ing line. He was required to pay $5 and costs.
A difficulty between Thomas Nunan and H. Bonne-
• eld was settled by dismissing Nunan and fining the
• orrner $5 costs.
The following is a true extract from the minutes of
their meeting;
Atlanta, I6th June, 1871
Col. Fosteb Blodgett:
Sib—At a full meeting of our Company held this
day, the following preamble and resolutions were
unanimously r-dopted. Respectfully,
A. K. Seago,
J. It. Wallace,
A. C. Wyly,
B. F. Wyly,
T. J. Hightoweb,
John Collieb,
S. B. Hoyt,
J. M. Habwell
and thair associates:
Whereas, As it is our opinion that Foster Blodgett
is exerting all his energies secretly for the purpose
of defeating our Company in securing their rights as
thelawful lessees of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road, and
Whereas, As we cannot resist the conviction that
his real interests are with the present lessees, there
fore.
Resolved; That Foster Blodgett he and he is here
by discharged from our Company.
-Slit
Life Members ot tbe State Agricultural
Society.
In our editorial Saturday morning, accompanying
the letter of Hon. Mark A. Cooper, we gave what pur
ported to be a list of the “life Members of the Geor
gia State Agricultural Society.” We should have sta
ted that the list embraced only the earlier members
—the pioneers. The names were copied from the old
records of the Society, therefore was not meant to
cover the members more recently elected.
Mr. Hinkle, the Assistant Secretory of the Society,
very kindly finishes out the list for us by giving the
names of the life members that have been more re
cently elected. The following is his communication,
for which he will accept our thanks:*^ ]
State Agricultueal Society, >
at Atlanta, June 24, 1871. J
Editors or THE Son: I observe in your issue of
to-day an editorial accompanying the letter of CoL
Cooper an error In regard to the life members. The
thirteen name* to which you refer are the old mem
bers—the pioneers in tbe last year or two.. The fol
lowing gentlemen have become life members:
George H. Wiring, Bartow county; Henry E. Wil
liamson, Spalding county; George M. Logan, Bibb
county; J. H. Nichols, Habersham county; W. G.
Morrill, Fulton county; Green P. Culvsrhouse,
Crawford county;,-M. C. Fulton, McDnflis county:
Samuel Hall, Houston county; H. L Kimball, Fulton
county; Samuel Barnett, Washington county; Dr. A.
.Means; Newton county; 8.' W. Bloodworth, Spalding
county; James W. Harris, Bartow county; Ex-Gov.
Joseph E. Brown. Fulton county; Edmund J. Camp,
Milton county; Frederick Decker, Fulton county; K.
Hulbert, Fulton county; Henry E. Colton, New York
City; 8amuelA. Echols, Fulton county.
Very Respectfully,
G. W. Hinkle,
* ‘i Ass’t. Sec. G. a. A. t),
In Trouble.
On Tuesday last we permitted Ferguson to describe
an electrical phenomena as witnessed by him during
a thunderstorm the night previous. In said article
we did not intend to give offense by simply .stating
that a young lady residing in a certain locality had
been kissed by her intended, and that said ceremony
had been,.by reason of a sharp flash of lightning, wit
nessed by Ferguson. We always thought “hissing’s
na sin,” for
“If it was na lawful,
lawyers would na allow it;
If it was na holy
Ministers wo uld na do it,
If it was na modeBt,
Maidens would na tak’ it:
If it was na plenty
Pulr folk wad na get it”
This was our philosophy, but judge of our surprise
when upon the Wednesday following we received
twenty-seven notes representing fifty-four persons,
each of whom imagined that he, or she, was one of
the party referred to by Ferguson. To each of the
writers we hereby apologize, and as the young ’udy
assures us “that she never kissed any person except
Johnny,” we shall decline to give names until she
requests us to do so. That only twenty-seven couples
Were in a position to imagine themselves watched,
proves that Monday night was not much of a night
fbr kissing anyhow.
Arrested.
A young man, named Joe Berry, formerly on the
police force, was arrested yesterday afternoon under
tbe following circumstances : He went to. Mullins’
stable, near the bridge, to hire a horse and buggy to
take a ride. Mullins told him that he did not have a
buggy, and did not keep horseB and buggies for hire.
Berry then went to Bell’s stable, on Alabama street,
and engaged a buggy, after which be returned to
Mullins’ stable. Mullins not being there, Berry told
the negro in attendance, that Mullins had said that
he could have the horse if he could get a buggy and
he had gotten one. Upon this the negro let him
have the horse. Mullins returned to the stable after
a while and finding what had been done, he put a
policeman on the track of Berry with orders to arrest
him. This was done, and the young man was locked
up in the calaboose. The understanding is that
Berry meant to do nothing wrong, but had under
stood Mullins to say that he could have the horse, if
he could get a buggy elsewhere. ,It is possible that
Mnllins acted a little hasty in ordering the arrest,
The New Trinity Church.
The brick work on the new Trinity Methodist
Church was let out on Saturday to Messrs. Healy A
Berry. The wood work for the base and first floor
was let to Cook, Pitts & Co. The granite work to
Young & Welsh, and the iron portion to Withers &
Joues. Contracts for the entire building will be
ready for letting by the time these are filled. The
excavation will begin to-day on the lot corner of
Whitehall and Peters Btreets, and the building will
commence as soon as the cUrt is removed. It will
be enclosed by tbe first of November, when nothing
will be wanting but the finishing touches. This is
to be one of the finest churches in the city, and
we congratulate the congregation upon the energy
and efficiency of the building committee.
Bom B»wi«ri.
The Osceola Club, on Saturday, beat the Gate C itv,
Jr., seventeen. ■ Theee ore imlantile clubs of ihts
city, but play very welj tor their size and ages.
The KH-Hhi.r Commillrr—Heart/ on BaA'ralt—
Jleemum Clnimt to be a Oeorffinn—Genera
for rest “Inter deseed." 9 h
Washington, June 23.—The testimony
before the Ku-EIux Committee, to-day
was the most damaging to the conspira
tors yet given. As it-now stands, the
Democrats have the advantage, and the
Radical members will probably call new
witnesses.
Mr. Beck of Kentucky thinks the in
vestigation has been a decided advantage
to the Democrats and tho States assailed
by the Radicals. -rr • ,r» ;!T
When the President ordered the Sec
retary to issue instructions to Department
Commanders to assist in the civil author
ities in the Southern States, in putting
down the Ku-Klnx or like disturbances,
it was expected that instructions would-
also be sent to the II. S. District Attor
neys and Marshals, but the Attorney Gen
eral deferred this till such time as in His
opinion the condition of affairs would
warrant it. Mr. Akerman says he is a
Georgian, and thinks he knows best how
to deal with- the people of that section;
and does not believe in precipitating mat
ters; conseqently, no insttractions of any
kind have,been issued by him. j
Gen. Forrest will be examined on Mon-*
day. I He left for New * York last night.
Before leaving he was “interviewed,” and
wasasked: i. ( - f V • -• 37C
“What thou, in your opinion, is the
cause of so many acts of violence beiug
reported, and telegraphed North as Ku-
Klux outrages ?” 7
To this he replied as follows: “It may
arise from various causes. My theory
however is, that a class of men who havo
not the wellfare of the South at heart,
came among them from the North; and
knowing that the political rights of many
of the Southern people are denied them,
they have operated with negroes’ to se
cure their votes, to elevate them to posi
tions of trust and responsibility. Secret
leagues have been formed, and incendi
ary speeches, calculated to do irreparable
injury are made. The employer is de
nied of the services which are his dues,
from his paid laborers, as they flock to
these leagues and are taught insubordi
nation. The result is that among the
substantial citizens of any section of
counfay, where these men operate, they
are socially ostracised. They secure lu
crative offices and defraud the people,
and in all their acts seemingly endeavor
to excite public opinion against them.
“As a natural consequence, at inter
vals, the indignation, probably of an in
dividual, may be aroused, and an indi
vidual assault made, which is soon mag
nified into a Ku-EIux outrage.
“Now, I do not pretend to deny that
in some instances men have been killed—
not indiscriminately slaughtered. The
same motive that impels amanto kill his
brother in New York, Massachusetts or
Maine, applies as well in Alabama, North
Carolina or Tennessee—the difference
being that in the latter States the victim
by his conduct, tends to aggravate the
murderer to such bloody work. The cases
are few, but of course they are credited
as being the work of the Ku-Klux, and
hence, .public opinion North is directed
against the" whole South as blood-thirsty
people.
Again, bad men come South with no
fixed purpose in view, they seem to float
along, alike Mr. Micawber, waiting for
something to turn up. In their idleness,
they operate among the negroes, excite
their superstitious feelings against their
employers, and cause a genenU stagnation
in agricultural pnrsnits. j
When remonstrated with for such con
duct, instead of allowing the planter to
peacefully pursue the emi ’tenor of his
way,'they attempt to revi^ild sores, and
make assertions calculated to excite anger
and bad feeling.
The result may be that such men
are ordered to leave or pursue some
vocation—just the same as a
vagrant may be locked up in Washington,
or a suspicious character ordered out of
it. This; I presume, is_ at once called a
Ku-Klux outrage.
No Northern man, settling in the
South, with a fixed purpose of develop
ing its resources, would be molested,
even though he entertained strong Radi
cal opinions; on the contrary, he would
be welcomed. Let the people but know
that he comes to be one of them, that
he comes to live among them,
and by his labor or means to buildup the
waste places. I care not what his poli
tics may he, he would be gladly received
and ever assisted by the Southern people.
He said he believed he was charged with
organizing bands of Ku-Klux among the
men employed in the construction of a-
railroad from Selma, Ala., to Memphis,
Tenn., and for which he had been sum
moned to answer before the Outrage Com
mittee, but the charge was so absurd that
I often wonder who could have furnished
such information, or whose brain could
have conceived it: I am constructing a
road from Selma to Memphis, and em
ploy large numbers of laborers. Upon
assuming the work I gave special instruc
tions to those under me in authority that
whoever were in charge of obtaining me
chanics, workmen, &c., under no consid
eration to allow politics to be a barrier to
the employment of any man; on the con
trary, to secure good workmen, be they
white or black. As to forming bands of
Ku-Klnx among them, it was too ridicu
lous to entertain a moment. Why, I re
ally believe that were a vote taken to-day
among those workmen under me in the
Construction of that enterprise, there
would be found three Republican votes
to one Democratic. The people of the
South had accepted the situation, and
were as orderly and law-abiding a people
as can be found in any section of the
country.
fire in SI. Louie. - .•
St. Louis, June 23.—The Hemp and
Bagging Factory of J. S. Lytle Co.,
corner of Carey and Collins streets, was
totally destroyed by fire last night. The
loss is estimated at between 810,000 aud
650,000. It is not known what amount
of this is covered by insurance.
f *4tllandig’hain»
Dayton Ohio, June 23.—It has been
decided necessary to summon additional
medical aid for Mrs. Vallandigham^ which
it giving rise to great apprehensions in
regard to her conditio^
“Be Sure IVftr Sins B'iU find »*«« Out."
Chicago, June 23.—A man calling him
self C. G. Jacobs, surrender*! himself to
the police yesterday, stating that he was
the murderer of Weatherly, in Texas,
some time in May Tost. Hesaya tho quar
rel btween them originated aboutjxftM
ieau woman, to. whom they were
taclied.