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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- = 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.— „ ,, - pre 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. ' » . .II .8 .1 ! 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.