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A STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.
Two Powerful Men Clinch in
Deadly Conflict.
From the California (Mo.)
A terrible affray occurred between
seven and eight miles from this city,
on the road leading to Marion, on
Wednesday last, between John Bry
ant. and Alvin Logan, both powerful
gan is coroborated by all the circnm-1 THE HAPPY LAND OF TEXAS,
stances preceding, attending aiid fol
lowing the dreadful struggle for life.
The men, as already intimated, both
possessed great muscular power, and
had learned to use it to the best ad
vantage. The gun, revolver, and
slung-shot were identified as the pro
perty of John Bryant. It was prov
TTrifi, v • t n I fftuded by the curb-bits of Radicalism.—
. « . . * ^ ^ 1S i° r Thanks to a Republican Governor and
men physically, resulting m the death betore the allray, pretending that he Legislature and to the Radical party that
of Bryant. Intelligence was brought was going to shoot some turkeys. | elected them. Give us us a decade of
a i.1 • -* 1 mi. .1 -■ _ * __ I TTm/XWI +-h A -fAM J MA ni-AM
Two Pictures Sketched by Dif
ferent Authors.
The Jefferson, Texas, Radioed says:
While the Ku-IQux are scourging oth-
er Southern States, Texas is prancing
iliP bon cp 18^7 the great road of progress,
to this city on Thursday morning,
when District Attorney J. W. Moore
and L. F. Wood, as counsel for Lo
gan, went to the scene of the tragedy.
An examination was held at the resi
dence of Esquire English. It ap
pears that a difficulty existed between
Bryant and his son Frank, respect
ing the ownership of a farm which
was being worked by Logan, both of
them claiming the rental—the title
being in controversy in court. We
give the following detailed statement
of Mr. Logan, as no one witnessed
the deadly strife, though the firing
was heard distinctly by several per
sons:
He (Logan) was plowing. The
elder Bryant came into the field and
asked him who he was going to pay
the rent to. Logan replied that he
should pay it to Frank Bryant, as he
had rented it to him. Bryant then
said: “Alf, I’m going to kill yon !”—
Logan replied that he “reckoned a
brave man would not kill another
without giving him a chance to de
fend himself.” “I am ready now,
Alf!” Logan sprang around the
horses and kept them between him
self and Bryant. Bryant then said:
“I will not hurt a hair of your head
if you will go with me over to John
English’s and sign a writing to pay
me the rent.”
Logan then asked him where Eng
lish was, and Bryant replied that he
was in his field. Logan said he would
■ go up to the house, leave his team,
and then go over and sign the papers.
'Bryant said he should not do that,
for if he got to the house he would
not come. Logan then said: if he
must he would go, loosed his team
and started. When they reached the
middle of the field Logan said he did
not see anything of John English.—
Bryant replied, John is up by the gate.
Arrived at the gate, English was not
there; Bryant then said, “He and
Dick Hickman are up this hollow,
and you’ll have to go up there.”—
[This hollow is a dismal, unfrequent
ed place.]
Logan objected, but- Bryant or
dered him to go, holding, his gun in
readiness to fire. Logan says although
he thought it strange that English
should have such papers in his field,
he was not much frightened before;
now he became alarmed. Bryant
said: “You bother me too much. I
believe you’re going to try to make a
bulge on me. Go on!”—at the same
time aiming the gun at him, which
Logan thought was cocked. They
started thus up the hill. Logan
thought that if he tried to pick up a
stick or rod Bryant would shoot him.
He had two or three ideas in going
up the hill; one was that if he had to
defend himself he would have the ad
vantage of the hill; another was that
when on the top of the hill he wonld
be in sight of Frank Bryant’s house;
and another that from the top of the
hill the other side was very steep,
which, with the timber, might enable
him to escape; but as he advanced,
Bryant followed, so that he could
gain no advantage. When he found
that he could not get over the hill,
he made up his mind that he would
do the best he could, and that what
he had to do must be done quickly.
He had no arms—not even a pock
et knife, and concluded that he could
wheel suddenly and give Bryant such
a blow that he would not use his gun.
He executed this purpose, and hit
him fairly, staggering him, then
seized the gun, Bryant still holding
on to it.. They exchanged blows, hut
without much effect, both still having
hold of the gun, and a severe tussle
ensued. Logan got the gun, and
then struck Bryant with his fist.—
Bryant drew his revolver, which was
the first Longan knew he had one.—
Logan said: “I knew it was a
struggle for life or death, and prepar
ed for it. I grabbed the barrel of the
revolver, with all the strength I had,
pushed it around, as I thought,
against his side, when it went off, but
I don’t know whether it was fired by
me or by himself. We then had a
hard tussle, both holding on to the
revolver until we were perfectly ex
hausted. Both of us then got hold
of a bush with one hand and swung
around it, the other still grasping the
revolver. We talked some; Bryant
said: “Al, you hit me too hard, let’s
quit and be friends.” I replied “ I’ll
ao it if yon’ll give up the pistol.”—
He said he would do it I knew it
would not do to let him keep it, for
he would shoot me down as soon as
he got loose; so we began , to scuffle
again. I seemed to have rested more
than Bryant, for I succeeded in
throwing him the first time. I had
been down before. In the fall I got
possession of the revolver. It Aias the
hardest work I ever did to hold him
down and use the pistol. I fired
twice and let him go, and fired a third
shot, hardly realizing what I was do
ing, or thinking of
From the facts and circumstances, such Radical rule and Texas will not on- f
the inquest found that the killing ly be the pride of the South, but of the w
was clearly in self defense, and Lo- whole American Union.
gan was accordingly acquitted and And the Ty er ( Texas ) Reporter re-
released from arrest. As far as we pl !£ 8 ., , . .. .
know there is not an individnal in Yes > State 18 “Poncing gaily
kno v tlie e s not an lnaivicuial m al on g» into bankruptcy, and the people’s
the neighborhood that dissents from money is “prancing gaily” into the pock-
tile decision. Logan appears to jbe ets of the most heartless set of thieves
deeply affected at having killed a | that ever disgraced God’s footstool.
man! It has been intimated in our |
hearing that Bryant may have been:
under the influence of temporary in
sanity. This is possible, hut we pre-1
sume all will agree with us in the
opinion that if so, he manifested “ a
method in his madness” very extraor
dinary.
Treated Badly by His Brother.
“Give us a decade of such Radical rule
and Texas” will be all that Radicalism
desires—a monument of Radical imbecil
ity and rascality.
Post Routes in North Georgia
back, and, pale as death, she murmured,
“I? was cruel, Susan!”
This was after she had been married
twenty-three years to the second hus
band, and gray hairs crowned her brow
with their pure glory ; and I gave it to
show how long such a man as I have des
cribed fives in the hearts of those left
behind, in unabated love and honor.—
Oh, that earth possessed more such!
MAYOR’S COURT.
A Crowded Home—Jiong Session and
Some Damage Done.
him, a-d wanted to move aw»y. The Court moYed
him. It put tea dollars worth of gratae on his ma
chinery at ono time, and aa His Honor lit the stamp
of his cigar, he remarked that he gnoased that would
run William for awhile.
Then the Court adjourned to give Paddy Fltsgib-
bons an opportunity to fumigate the chamber.
FEMALE KC-KLUXES.
A Sun Man Runs Into a Battalion of
Ghosts.
Yesterday mor ning about daylight, aa an attache
of the Sun office was returning home after getting
the morning’s paper to press, and just aa he came in
the neighborhood of Evan’s. Chapel, he espied six
or seven females in the middle of the street. They
were all dad in white dresses, or what appeared to
him to be white. As soon as they discovered him
such a scattering and scampering and sudden disap
pearing took place as to suggest to his half sleepy and
worn out senses the idea of ghosts. The time, place
and surroundings caused each particular, etc., for a
while. It was not light enough for him to tell
whether they were white or black. Who the robed
morning glories were, their business, and whither
Becently Col. Price addressed a let
ter to the Post Office Department,
making several suggestions in rela
tion to mail service in this section
The following scene occurred at a I °f the State. - The Post Office De
wedding recently, not a thousand partment, replied that as soon as mail
miles from this city. The bridegroom service shall have been ordered on
was twenty years of age and the bride the new railroad between Atlanta and
fifteen. The happy groom, had a Gainesville, the propriety of altering
younger brother, about sixteen years the routes will be considered by the
of age, present at the wedding. The Department. Among the suggestions
ceremony commenced, and just as ^ade by Col. Price. were the estab-
the minister asked if any one knew lishment of a hack line between Dah-
why the coupls before him should I lonega and Gainesville; the re-estab-
not be joined together, young Bud lishment of a. weekly mail .from
commenced to weep loudly and vio- Cleveland, White county, to Hays-
lently. The man of God paused, the ville, North Carolina; a weekly mail
young bride prospective blushed and froni Clayton, Rabun county, ^ to
trembled with embarrassment, the Blairsville, Ga., and one from Elijay
bridegroom turned pale and looked Duck Town, Tenn.; also, the re
confused, the assembled party were establishment of Sundry post offices
consternation-struck, and the father an d post masters, heretofore discon-
of the .weeping hoy seized him and I tinued by the Government,
demanded the cause of his strange We are glad to note the fact that
conduct. Amid sobs and tears and Col. Price is working for his District,
divers shakes, he blurted out:—I a p d "won’t he long before mail fa-
“Brother has treated me badly. She cilities will he felt throughout sec-
ought to have been mine; I loved her tions of country that have heretofore
first, and^she loved me before she did | been sadly neglected.
him.” The old “parient” jerked the . 7 _
weeping, heart-broken boy out of the Deatli of a VeneraWe Citizen of
Yesterday saw the usual crowd of offenders, spec
tators, loafers and lawyers in attendance upon the
Monday morning's levee. All kinds and descrip
tions of people were there. But the XVtbs had a
majority of noses had a count been taken.
‘■Some were black and some were blacker,
And some were the color of a chaw terbacker.
His Honor had, somehow or other got the inside
track: of the catarrh, of which he complained so
much on Saturday, and was lolly able, and did do I they went, are thoughts which occupied his leisure
his part of the talking on this occasion. [We learned moments all day yesterday,
afterwards from dousing that he had taken some of
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. He was threatened |
with a case of teething—eye teeth.] Anyway, the
continued case of
SCOTT FLEMING WAS CALLED,
but he did not appear. What disposition was made 1
of
it was kept dark. Thit is a case of just "nothing
all, and is occupying time to the great ad , antage
of no one.
A continued case of the Cii# against
. J. T. HUNTER
was up. Several witnesses swore to Mr. Hunter’s
being drunk, and abusing his little boy and disturb
ing the neighbors. His Honor knew that Hunter
was not a vicious man—could tell that at a glance,
but then he knew that Hunter was drunk, and being
drunk, was ont of his proper mind, and being out
of his proper mind was satisfied he did things for
which he then felt sorry. Hunter was required to
discover ten dollars.
Then was called, what appeared to the audience,
THREE FEMALE KU-XLUXES,
named Carrie Sanders, Laura O’Neal and Sallie Cox.
As their names were called they rose out from the
black cloud hanging over the railings of the Court,
and came marching before his Honor like spirits from
room, threatening hickories by the
dozen; whilst, after some time m re
storing equilibrium, the ceremony
went on.—[Jackson Whig.
Charleston.
A venerable patriarch in Israel has filled
I the measure of his appointed days, and
is now peacefully gathered to his fathers.
Mr.'Jacob Cohen, who for so many long
THE CONDITION OF THE COT- years has been going out and coming in
TON CROP. I among ns, died at his residence in this
city last evening. His pilgrimage on
Report of the Agricultural I earth extended to near seventy-five years,
Bureau and leaves behind it impressions of a
Washington, J,™ !5-The D 3LSS&&
partment ot Agriculture has received n i ee , a patriotism, fervid and full of
returns from nearly three hundred vigor in its devotion to heme and conn-
counties representing the most pro- try, and a heart true as steel in its re
ductive districts of each of the cotton sponse to the vibrations of friendship,
States, and showing the comparative mar hed and leavened and honorable a
average and the condition of the crop ^ Touching the generations
dnrinu the first week of Tnne A ahke of the P 88 *’ and the incoming, he
,. o . weeK 01 J une. A was ever a mos [ interesting and welcome
cumumtion in the area planted m constituent in the social circle, while the
cotton appears in every State except cordial geniality and pleasant courtesy of
Florida. The most careful analysis his manner, graced the silver hair of age,
of the returns, with due regard in »nd won the warm attachments of the
making averages, to the extent of cob- y° an g« Peace- to his manes!—Courier
ton production in the respective
counties, gives the following percent- Coroner’s Inquest.
age of reduction compared with last -
year: Virginia, 30 per cent.; -North I At a very early hour yesterday morn
Carolina, 13; South Carolina, 13; ing, B. F. Sheftall was called to hold on
Georgia, 12; Alabama, 13; Missis-1 an inquest over the body of Har-
sippi, 15; Louisiana, 8; Texas, 14; net Do* 10 , a negro girl, who died quite
Arkansas, 16; Tennessee, 12. suddenly at her residence in the south-
m. „„„ n, „ ’ j , , western portion of the city. Thecircum-
These State avenges, reducol to a stances>welearned> ar " that t he girl
general average the assumed aver- was sitting in a room with several other
age of the respective States being an members of her family, and very sndden-
element in the calculation—will place ly commenced coughing, which she con-
reduction of the cotton of 1871, as tinned for some time, soon after she be-
compared with that of 1870, between S a “ to Mood, then to vomiting blood,
fourteen and fifteen per cent, equiva- aad g<™g into the bedroom sat dovraup-
. . . n , on the bed, wnen she died qmte sudden-
lent to nearly a million and a third L •^ Iyrendered as ? heir verdictj
01 acres, -this would leave between I death from hemorrage.—[Say. News,
seven and a half and eight millions
of acres as the present area in cotton. 1 Cutting Affair.
The average, yield has hot, in former # —-
years, exceeded one hundred and fifty A cutting affair, which came near re-
pounds per acre. That for 1870 was suiting seriously, occurred last night at
more than two hundred pounds. ’ * he Scre T en g ra8e - s ° me
f - t a tween a bar-keeper and a waiter in the
The condition of the growing plant hotel caused the former to make an effort
is below an average in nearly every to strike the waiter, who had gone to the
State. The spring has- been unusu- bar, it seems, prepared, and who met the
ally wet and cold, retarding the bar-keeper with a razor, which he used
growth, causing many of the plants on him quite freely, cutting him in sev
to turn yellow and die, and obstruct- er£d places on the neck. They were soon
ing cultivation to a large extent— “ na a P h J“ f”; !*»
ReWting. however, ha/refflied the
\acant spaces 01 imperfect stands. When we saw him - at 1 o’clock he was
The weather has recently been j doing well—Savannah News,
more favorable, and it is not impossi
ble that an average condition may be | Life Incident,
attained by the commencement of the
picking season, \The condition of
cotton in July of 1869, a year favor
ed with an abundant yield, was only
A run of a few days in Forsyth county has enabled
us to see something of the crop prospects jUx that
section. The wheat is all harvested and does not
amount to half a crop. The fly and rust sent it to
pot prematurely. Oats are doing well and a full
crop will be made. Cora is growing finely, though
it is sadly In the grass. Bains have been almost in'
the black quarters of the other world. They were I cessant, but the farmers are putting in lively licks
evidently “cases,” and good ones too. We coold see between the showers. Bottom lands are almost
his Honor give a smile of satisfaction as this bevy of Orowned ont Cotton is backward and spindling-
damsels made their bow. GnLt was so plainly writ- owing to too much wet The blackberry crop prom'
ten upon each countenance that the question of j B6B to jj Q n.iii,nri«n+
guilty or not guilty was merely put to them as
matter of legal etiquette. The policeman swore that
they laughed so loud on Saturday, that ho heard
them a quarter of a mile off. This was cer
tainly a jolly laugh, and his Honor spoke of that lo
cality as being the jolliest one he ever-knew, any
how: Two of these hyenas were old offenders,
and he gave them $10—the third he hashed up in the
same style for fear she might get to be an old war-
horse.
FISH BERRY BEER.
The Mayor intimated that he was wrong in saying
the other day that Fechter & Mercer put fish berries
in their beer. He had since found ont that the beer
which made the fellers go so wild and disorderly was
imported beer. Ho had been wrong in his analysis,
supposing the sample he had was Atlanta beer,
when, in feet, it was made somewhere in the West
He recanted, and would, if necessary, endorse the
purity of home made beer. But this did not prevent
his docking -
G. F. THOMPSON,
for ten dollars and costs for g* tting “glory hallalu-
yar” on beer Sunday. His Honor rather likes to soe
man able to take a glass and not get drunk; but it
completely wears his patience to shreds to see a fcl"
low make a hog of himself. He is morally certain
one glass won’t upset a man, and there is no use in
putting in the plea that “ITonly took one drink.” Just
as sure as a prisoner makes that remark he is gone
up.
But the bitterest pill in the box was
BELLE HIGHTOWER,
coal black wench—so black that ink would make a
light mark on her countenance. Belle lives near the
Barracks, and is stir, onnded by a set of neighbors
that wonld pollute his Honor himself if he lived
there long cnongh. The irrepressible Mrs. Fletcher
was on hand to testify against Belle. This time
Fletcher was arrayed like unto one of the lillies of
the valley. She looked charming; and when Bhe
came sailing into Court, with her .muslin de lain
walking dress, silk basquetine and white vail, she
set things in a flutter.
I once knew a lawyer great in his pro
fession and great as a man. He wonld
pause on his way to the court- house
1 • a,, , u - ,, I where life and death, through God’sper-
a little better than the showing for mission, hung upon his words, to speak
J une of the present year. While the I a word of comfort or counsel and give
prospect is slightly improving, there needed dollar to an indigent beggar by
is nothing in it of a decisive charac- the way-side; he would turn from a
ter. The percentage below an aver- crowded court-house, where, hearts had
age condition is respectively as fol- kughed and wept at his bidding, and
Craolma, 10 per cent. South Caroli- ^ once. It was worth all of life to
na, o; Georgia, 10;. Alabama, 17; have known him. This man died ere the
Mississippi, 16; Louisiana, 10; Tex- full meridian of life shone upon his hon
as, 7; Arkansas, 17; Tennessee, 10. ored head, and I continued to know his
In Florida the condition is 3 per cent ^ id , ow - the course of years she mar-
above an average ned a 8 a i Q and raised up children by this
Ar.offldalestimateof tteKrt
result, so early in the season, would their father full as well as the first bus
bean absurdity. The influence of band. I thought I detected that this
future rains, floods, frosts and insect was as much to persuade herself as them,
enemies coiinot be calculated in ad- and felt curious to know the truth; so
vance; but in view of the extremely u P? n on0 occasion after she was done ut-
favorable circumstances affecting the ^ring these aMurances, I turned quickly
.... .. crop last year, these cannot he ex- -Su^osTinaugel were to appear now
w 0 illing him until] pected m the pic sent year, upon a before you, and say, ‘Will you have your
T saw the blood come inio his mouth. I reduced area, a crop exceding three first husband back?’ what would be your
Then I became dreadfully'frightened, I and one-half millions of bales. An answer?”
seized the gun and pistol, and ran | early frost, or the prevalence of in-1. 111 811 instant the tears gushed from
j possible in the union or severity of give him to me!
give
The next instant her
Kourtli of July In Roswell.
We were glad to meet with our friend Dr. B. B
Anderson, of tho charming town of Boswell, in our
city yesterday.
From him we learn that the people of that quiet
and beautiful place intend to have quite au interest
ing occasion on the 4th of July.
The Methodist Church there, a very substantial
edifice, is being thoroughly repaired. The Corner
Stone of the building was removed from the building
during the war; and it is to be relaid by the Masonic
Fraternity on the fourth. Several Lodges will be
present, and addresses delivered by M^]. Winn, Gen.
HanSeU and others. A basket dinner will be served
up, and a good time generally is expected.
Crops in Forsyth County.
Obituary.
Little Sophie Smith, aged three years, daughter of
G. C. and E. M. Smith, of Griffin, died suddenly in
that city on Sunday night last, of inflamation of the
stomach.
She was one of the most remarkably lovely and in
teres ting children in the community, and it has fre
quently been said of her that Bhe was too sweet, too
angelic for this world and would never grow up to
womanhood.
Thus are the doating parents and the affectionate
relations bereaved of this tender, beautiful flower,
which was blooming for paradise while mingling
with them in the scenes of earth. Though it has fa
ded it this world, it blooms in eternal beauty on high
and the fond parents have a cherub attraction in the
world of bliss which did not exist before. .May this
be a comfort to them and bind up their' broken
hearts. The fond mother alone had to meet and bear
this sad less, while the fond father is &r away .in
Texas, and does not yet know that the spirit of bis
beautiful Sophie has flown to the spirit land.
“The great Jehovah from above
An angel bright did send,
Who took the little harmless dove
To joys that never end.”
The Last of the Johnson Family.
Next to the prolifi:’family of Smiths, the John'
sons are the next numerous. In the good city of
Griffin, about every other person you meet is a John
son. It is of these people we desire 'to say a word-
taking them as they come till we arrive at the par'
ticular one which we desire to personate. Dau and
H.
Dave are the politicians; while Joseph
and Bussell, Black Tom and “ Billy” are all in the
merchantile business; and “Painter” Tom John
son is a parson. Besides these, there are a thousand
others, descendants of the above. Among the scions
of the house of-Dave, is one “Harry,” who has been
connected withjTHE Sun office for some months and
She had with' her a lassie of I interest in the paper has preyed upon his mind
some sixteen summers’ nights, with a yaller dress and latterly till he has had “Son’’ on tho brain. But we
well turned pair of ankles, encased in clean stock* I were sure relief would come, and we are happy to
ings, which she was no doubt vain of, as she took learn that he is the happy father of as promising an
great pains to display them. The pair were swift urchant as genera ly comes to the lot of those con
witnesses against poor Bella, and soon had the beer I nected with ^printing offices. The name of fbin
on her. Belle told Mrs F. that she wasn’t Mullins | Johnson has not been designated, but we feel sure
it will be named for ns. We are ready with the pre
sent. May he become President Johnson No. 2.
nor no other man. That if Mrs. F. thought she
could scare the dog water out of her she was might
ily mistaken. Mrs. F. said she saw a very respecta
ble doctor drunk go into Belle’s house, and she didn’t
know what that -meant. The Mayor thought Belle
was the bell wether of a very sickly flock of sheep in
her immediate bailiwick, and asked her to loan him
ten dollars to bny snlpher for them. She gave
him a check on her bank.
WILLIAM FINGER
is a German. He didn’t deny that. He couldn’t
well do it, and get any one to believe more than
half of it Well, William got his finger intq Mr.
Walton’s pie,tand there was a big fuss. Walton acr
cosed Finger of insulting him in the most outrag
eous manner, by words, which were too strong for
his Honor’s stomach. One witness got over it and
when the next one came to that part of it, he was ex-
C£ Tlie Path of Victory*”
We publish in another column of to
day’s issue an article from the New York
World, under the above caption.
From this article, it seems that the
World is veering towards the right,
far as relates to principles, but still re
mains egregiously wrong so far as relates
to policy.
The sure “path to victory” now is the
same as that pointed out by Jefferson in
cused. Mr. Walton made his speech, and Mr. Fin-1 the great Civic struggle of 1798—99. Let
ger had the closing argument. But Walton had the [fog Democracy make the fight upon the
most witness ana they swore Btroug, and so Finger of J effer60n ’s Inaugural in
had to finger his weasle for $10 and costs. I ; , . . ,
r. n. walton 1801 (the last paragraph of the World s
was charged with profane language and disorderly article) and a most signal triumph, will
conduct, it was his part in the Finger case, ana as k 0 achieved by them in 1872. We want
nothing was proven to the satisfaction of the Court I , ,, ...
to warrant a draw upon Mr. Walton, he was dis-1 110 better platform,
missed.
t. J. KENDRICK
couldn’t deny the tender impeachment of being
drunk, but owned it np like a little man, and conse
quently got off with five dollars and cream.
RESISTING AN OFFICER.
On Saturday evening, Anderson Moore, colored,
had nothing more to do after his day’s work was
done than to get oh a full head of Marietta street
Now, whether the World is really in
earnest in what is here set fort 1 ! with so
much seeming fervor and patriotism, we
regret to say that we are compelled to
question. Among others, the following
are some of our reasons for doubting.
1st. What Mr. Jefferson meant by “the
benzine, and mount his stilts. His sweetheart tried I support of the State Governments in all
hard to get Anderson to “ come back Stephen,” but rights,” is well known. It Was Well
he’d be dod rotted if he didn’t go to town. As he! , , , , ,, , , ,, ,
was laying the worm for- a fence along Marietta understood at that time, and thero^ has
street, officer o’Shields was a little further np stak- never been any question about it since,
ing it off for him, and as Anderson got up to him he JJ e Lni) just been elected in one of the
most exciting political contests ever
made a grab and caught him. Anderson jerked
loose, stepped a few paces back, picked up a brick- 1 _
bat and intimated to o’Shields that he would ,, rock known in this country, before or since,
him to sleep, mother,” if he approached. o’Shields and had achievediihe victory, leading the
called ou some boy.s and Anderson took to his heels.
They chased him for some distance before he gave
np, and was housed in the calaboose. Anderson
made his own defence in Court, examined the wit
nesses, and puzzled the Bench. For such learning
made the Court mad, and it asked Anderson if he
had license to practice. There the Judge had him.
Democracy in their rescue of the liber
ties of the people, from the grasp of the
Centralists and Imperialists of those
days.
With the bold and unfaltering an
and the spectators knew it, but Anderson was game, I nouncement that the powers of the Gen
and laid down argument after argument, and kept
on laying down “pints” until he was floored, to his
great astonishment, by a demand for $25 and cost
with which to pay for his license.
“WHY, CLARK, AIN’T YOU ASHAMED!”
A tall, sleek, intelligent-looking negro, named Wil
liam Clark, was np upon complaint of his future
wife, for kicking np a row Sunday night. Clark was
a little in his cups, that was evident; and although I ffioritaiive, void and qf no force.
the girl had had him arrested, she did not tell all she _ „ __ _ -
knew on William. Her great love for him overcame Now, does the World really m
her temporary anger, and it vraa with difficulty she j understood SS standing Upon the truth Of
could be got to tell anything. She said he cut op this declaration, on which Jefferson won
awfully and she tried to get him to hush. That even . - ^ ^ oddg j n 180 0?
at 4 o’clock in the morning he wanted to raise the I tne n e ul “e 1 * 1
| end Government were definite—that they
were delegated—and that each State had
I reserved to itself all “the residuary mass
of right to their own self-government; and
(that whensoever the General Government
assumes undelegated powers Us acts are unau-
T Ue account thus given by Lo-1 several of these causes of failure, | hands fell beside her, her head dropped | miaewer. she said she eouia uve in no peace with I If so, why did that paper oppose the New
York Democratic platform in .1868? and
why does itnow insi.it upon any “De
parture’’ from its essential principles.in
the future? Was it not essentially the
same as that of Mr. Jefferson, so far as it
related to the rights’of the Stfites-atidthe
usurpations of Congress?
2d. If the World intends truly and
firmly to stand upon, the Jeffersonian
Platform, how c&u it indorse the9th Res
olution of the late Harrisburg (Pu.) Plat
form, which asserts that the striking down
of ten States of the Union, and tramp
ling upon all their rights by a majority
faction in Congress, was done in the man
ner and by the power constitutionally ap
pointed ?
3d. Another reason for our doubt as to
the sinoerity of the TPorM in this matter,
springs from the reasons given in the ar-
tiole which we publish to-day, for the
New Departure” as a question of policy.
These seem to us most singular aud ut
terly unsound.
The argument amounts to this: That
the Democrats must obtain the votes of
some Republicans in 1872, or their cause
will be hopeless. A number of Repub
licans, it is argued, have become satisfied
that their party has acted wrong, aud that
even they themselves, have supported
measures which are mischievous, but they
cannot be induced “to brand themselves
with dishonor,” by putting themselves
upon a Platform which holds these meas
ures up for popular condemnation.
Now is it really true that any Republi
can votes are necessary for Democratic
success under the Platform of 1868 ? This
may be so, and yetit may be questioned.
That Platform received 2,648,830 votes.
The number of votes cast against it was
,985,031. The popular majority in the
United States against it was only
336,201 votes. This majority would
have beenmore than overcome, but
for the usurpations of Congress, by
which the people of the States
of Virginia, Missouri, and Texas, were
denied the right to vote, and for other
like usurpations, by which tliousauds of
Democrats were disfranchised in Tennes
see and Missouri, to say nothing of other
States. We give it as our opinion that
but for the grossest of usurpations by
Congress in the disfranchisement of the
States alluded to, the popular majority
would have been in favor of the New
York Platform of 1868. These disfran
chisements no longer exist.
Who then can assume as fact that the
majority of the people of the United
States, to-day, are not ready to stand
squarely upon the same platform, with
out the accession of a single disaffected
Radical vote?
Bat, for the sake of argument, suppose.
it to be otherwise. How many Radicals,
or dissatisfied Republicans, does the
World think would vote the Democratie
ticket upon snch a platform as will not
require any sacrifice of principle or con
sistency on their part? Does it put the
number at one, two or three hundred
thousand? Or does it run the figures up
to four hundred thousand? Then, we
ask, is it good policy, or right in itself, to
call upon the two million six hundred and
odd thousand Democrats to dishonor them
selves by indorsing measures which they
have most solemnly pronounced to be
usurpations, in order to save tbe honor,
or even consistency, of those compara
tively few Republicans who now seek
Democratie alliance to save themselves
from the results of their own misdeeds?
Shall they come to the Democracy, or
shall the Democracy abandon its prin
ciples and go to them, and monnt their
platform? If as many as five hundred
thousand Radicals can be secured on
these terms, will not more than five hun
dred thousand Democrats be as sensitive
of their honor as those Radicals sought
to be obtained in this way? It is not “in
human nature” to be otherwise.
On the point of honor, we have this to
say to both Radicals and Democrats: If
any of the former are convinced that they
have done wrong, it is highly honorable
to admit the fact and rectify the wrong
as far as possible. If any Democrat has
changed his opinion and come to the
conclusion that the Radical policy was
right, then it is not dishonorable for
him to say so; but when he does it, the
only honorable course for him to pursue
afterwards is to go and join that party.
The World says that no party can hope
to succeed whose only ground of appeal
to the people is opposition to the acts of
its adversary. This is the substance of
the remark. We say that no party ought
to succeed, which goes before the people
in a party contest upon any other grounds.
Principles and administrative acts mark
parties—not the men who head them. A
party in power onght to be turned out, if
at all, for its misdeeds. If its acts be
right, if its policy is not to be reversed or
assailed, it ought to be sustained by all
who so believe.
It was for their misdeeds that Jefferson
arraigned the Imperialists of his day. It
was for these and these only, that he
brought both the authors and their meas
ures under public condemnation. His
platform was the right one. 11 In hoc
signo vinces,” we now say to the De
mocracy of the Union. This points out
“the ‘true' path to victory.”
A Washington dipatch says: Among
the names mentioned in connectionwitn
the appointment of an arbitator of Ogne
va on the Alabama claims, is that of sen
ator Sumner. It is stated ongood.au-
thority that the Massachusetts Semwo
would not be averse to accepting
sitdon in case the President tendered 41m
the appointment.