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THE DAILY SUN.
Saturday Morning July 8
quires this shuffling to support is is
rotten to the core, and to say it should
never be overruled is worse than
Spirit of the City Press.
Mr. Stephens in his organ of this
! r * From the Columbus Sun, 28th June.
Mow 1 See It, Mow I Dont.
*• Oh! what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive.”
Demoralized as the country may be
by Radicalism, there is still among
the masses of our people a great deal
of respect and appreciation for hon
est* open conduct and plain speech.
After the lapse of three thousand
years the language of the great Gre
cian warrior, Archilles—
H« who thichs one thing and another tell,
My soul detests him as the gates of hell,
is echoed "by every candid and
thoughtful soul. That there is some
double dealing going on among the
leaders of Democracy at this time,
and not to put too sharp a point on
it, that a lie is out somewhere, we
now propose to show.
Only a month or two ago the Dem
ocratic party was a unit in opposition
to the usurpations of Congress from
Maine to Texas. The reconstruction
measures were boldly denounced as
having been enacted “ outside of the
Constitution ” and consequently ille
gal, null and void. No one was insane
enough to propose resistance by arms
even to the Ku-Klux Act, which de
stroyed trial by jury, suspended the
writ of TTabeas Corpus, and gave the
President the power of a Czar or Sul
tan. The scales were everywhere
falling from the eyes of the intelli
gent and honest masses, and the voice
of reason and patriotism was digging
the grave and sounding the death
knell of Radicalism from the Lakes to
the Gulf, and from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. Grant was pronounced a
miserable failure, and the peaceful
citizen looked hopeful to the future
for the restoration of law and order
and the overthrow of ignorance and
corruption.
In the midst of this apparent hurry,
the voice of discord comes, small at
first, but soon to swell with the fury
of a hurricane. It adds to the treble
of hypocrisy the low bass of silly de
nunciation and malicious abuse of
those who they lately confessed were
the true defenders of constitutional
liberty and the haters of tyrants. It
first selects three individuals, against
whom prejudices may exist at the
N orth, as the victims of their slander.
The head and front ol their offend
ing is nothing more than an expres
sion of that opinion which every De
mocratic Press or Orator had uttered
a thousand times before with com
mendation. The wrath which has
been nursed against Radicalism now
bursts out against the whole of their
late professed friends. Hear the
Courier-Journalof the 24th:
There are only one or two journals
left in the South, of any degree of re
spectability, that assail what they call
“the new departure.”
The truth is that there is no “new
departure.’ No one seeks to win
power by adopting the Republican
doctrine. Those who impeed the
progress we are making by the dem
agogical cry of “ surrender of prin
ciple,” when there is no surrender,
are onr worst and most insidious en
emies. Each one is a Thersites in
our camp; and, if necessary to save
us from defeat in 1872, they should
be sent, scourged and howling from
it. The public good is the supreme
law. They excite mutiny and slan
der and vilify recognized leaders.
They clog the wheels of the guns
and impede the caissons. We must,
in some way, clear ourselves of all
such incumbrances. They are vipers
that fasten upon tne healthy
body. We must shake them off. It
is idle to parley with them. They
are as deaf to reason as an adder.
Yon cannot argue away convulsions
produced by poison. Remove the
cause or the malady will produce
death. It is time to be severe with
foes in and out of onr ranks.
Here, in a nutshell, is a mixture
of the falsehood and Radical venom,
against which we have warred and
shall continue to war, let it be pre
sented by Ben. Butler or the Louis
ville Courier-Journal. Can such an
editor read Southern exchanges ? If
he does, he lies—under a great mis
take. Can he hope to make enough
Radical friends to warrant him
crime, it is a hypocritical blunder that • £”£“5^*5 an
can expect no reward for its transpa- teentk ^ Fiftieth toaStaSL.”'Be
rent treachery but a snnle of con- says :
tempt. I “Whether the Fourteenth and Fif-
This ferocious “accept the new de- teenth Amendments be valid parts of the
parture” journal some.time ago taun- j™*
ted Mr. Stephens as an old fogy and
is not being up to the modem De
mocracy because, forsooth, he did not
lave in Louisville or some other- blue
grass city!! We thought of the re
mark of a philosopher to a fellow who
boasted he was a citizen of Athens.
Said the sage, tell me not that you
are any wiser because Athens has giv
en you birth, but tell me of things
you have done to make your birth
place more happy and illustrious.
From the Colombia, Tenn., Herald.
AN INTERESTING CHAPTER
OP UNPUBLISHED HISTORY.
The Personal Difficulty Between
William L. Yancey and Ben. H.
Hill in the Confederate Senate
Chamber.
m
calling his late political associates
“vipers to he shaken off,” &c. We can
tell the Courier-Journal that mean
ness and proscription, hacked by
power, may be feared, but when
coupled with impotency, they are too
low even for contempt.
But says' the Courier-Journal
“there is no ‘new departure.’ ” This
is a poor afterthought to bolster up
what you have again and again af
firmed and recognized. If no “new
departure,” why now denounce those
with whom you were lately in accord
as your “worst and most insidious en
emies ?” Why now admit what you
so stoutly denied, that with brave pa
triots a situation of fraud and force
never can be hut hypocritically accep
ted ! Why accept the 14tli and 15th
amendments and reject the Ku-Klux
Act ? Are they not eggs laid in the
same cockatrice nest ? If the one is
de facto, so is the other. If Congress
can impower. the President to destroy
whole States and force governments
on an unwilling people by bayonets,
why should it stop at the suspension
of the writ of habeas corpus and not
go on a step further and exclaim
“Hail, great Caesar ?” Can a man or
a party, that confesses these wrongs,
corruptions and usurpations in one
breath say “I accept!” and in the next
—“I cannot denounce!” them, but I
can denounce those who say they are
null and void ? A case which re-
Among the many events of personal
interest that transpired in the Scath dur
ing the late war, but few are of more dra
matic character or aroused a deeper in-
est among our people than the unfortu
nate personal difficulty which took place
in the Confederate States Senate at Rich
mond, during its secret session, between
Mr. Wm. L. Yancey, of Alabama, and Mr,
Ben. H. Hill, of Georgia. Several dif
ferent and conflicting versions of this af
fair have been given through the South
ern press, hut none has yet been pub
lished that accords with a statement we
recently derived from a gentleman who
was at the time a Senator, and an eye
witness to all that transpired on the occa
sion. , *
The difficulty had its origin in the
heated political contests so common in
this country prior to the breaking out of
the war. It was when Yancey, with his
dazzling eloquence, was “fixing the South
ern heart,” that a barbecue, attended by
thousands, was given in one of the South
ern counties of Georgia. It was here
that Hill and Yancey met—the one the
bold and eloquent defender of the Un
ion, and the other the boasted champion
of secession; and during the debate
which ensued words were uttered which
caused an estrangement which was never
afterwards reconciled.
The two men met again in the Confed
erate Senate, both doubtless smarting
under the recollection of past conflicts,
and entertaining no kindly feeling for
each other. It was when the cause of the
South was drooping, and every patriot
heart was heavy with despondency and
gloom, that Mr. Yancey, rising in his
place in the Senate, declared that the war.
could no longer be carried on with any
hope of success, unless many of the
Constitutional restraints and embarrass
ments were thrown aside; and boldly ad
vocated a radical change in the Govern
ment to meet the demands of the public
and the exigencies of the hour.
Upon the conclusion of Mr. Yancey’s
remarks, Mr. Hill promptly arose to re
ply. The scene was one of most intense
excitement. He deprecated the opinion
advocated by Mr. Yancey, and proceeded
with great severity, to review his past
political career, rnnning back to the be
ginning of the times when our sectional
troubles were first being agitated. He
said Mr. Yancey, not satisfied with hav
ing warred upon and disrupted the old
Union, was now crying out against and
endeavoring to subvert and break down
the Confederate Government. When
Mr. Hill concluded, the excitement alrea
dy at white heat was increased beyond
anything ever before witnessed daring
those troublesomo times. Mr. Yancey
arose, and in a calm, dignified and self-
poised manner peculiarly bis own, com
menced his reply, He described Hr.
Hill as repeating danders that had been
uttered against him for the past twenty
years; and that all which Mr. Hill had
uttered had been said innumerable times
before by every third-rate politician in
the country; and continued by saying
“ nature had designed the Senator from
Georgia as an imitator; that he had been
cast in a certain die, and it was vain to
attempt to enlarge his dimensions.”
Pallid with .rage, Mr. Hill mounted to
his feet, and seizing a heavy glass ink
stand, hurled it with all his might and
power at the head of Mr. Yancey, which
grazing his forehead, plowed its way to
the skull and passed #n in its furious
course, crushing a heavy window-facing
beyond. Without turning his head, Mr.
Yancey, who was at the time addressing
the Speaker, continuing his speech, de
liberately remarked, “It is always the
prerogative of cowards to strike from the
rear.” Enraged still more at this re
mark, Mr. Hill, gathering a chair, rushed
upon his antagonist, who, heedless of the
attack, was continuing his remarks as
calmly as if nothing had happened, when
a number of Senators interposing, the
difficulty was ended. Mr. Yancey’s wound
bled most' profusely, and a scene of the
utmost confusion prevailed.
It has several times been stated since
Mr. Yancey’s death, that it resulted from
injuries received in this rencontre, but
snch is not the fact, os he died from a
disease that conld in no way have been
superinduced by this cause.
We give our readers the foregoing
article, as we see it in several of our
exchanges; but in doing so we feel con
strained to state, that we have good
reasons for saying that the account
therein given of any personal rencoun
ter that may have occurred between
the parties referred to, in the Confed
erate States Senate, is not correct. It
but is a caricature representation of
the facts, so far as relates to the con
duct of both of the distinguished Sen
ators.
Mr. Yancey is not in life to speak
for himself. Whether Mr. Hill feels
at liberty to speak upon the subject
at all, or not, we do not know. But
in behalf of both, we feel it-a duty to
say what we have said in relation to
the article, as it is now going the
rounds of the Press, and is calculated
to produce very erroneous impres
sions. A. H. S.
Constitution or not, is not the question
we now propose- to discuss. That they
were carried by ‘fraud, perfidy and vio
lence,’ all admit. v.. ^
“Now, whether validity can, in this
way, be imparted to any private, judicial
or legislative act, might very well Seem
to be a superfluous question. • But what
we have to say, at tins time, is, that no
people, who are true to their rights, will
ever, voluntarily, give their sanction, ip.
advance, to the validity of such outrages
upon the rights of: the people and of the
States as those by which these amend
ments were openly and avowedly com
mitted.”
In that case, we earnestly ask Mr. Ste-
phens^to define the course to be pursued,
wilt rein the people of the South can suc
cessfully or validly resist the force - that
iias imposed these amendments upon
them by “fraud, perfidy and violence.”
If not by proseut submission, and final
repudiation at the ballot box, what else
can he mean more than Revolution;?
Of that we have had enough; of the bal
lot box, too little. Let us be wise.—Dr.
Bard’s Organ, 7th July.- • r : 0 j «£
The difference between Dr. Bard
and the true Democracy is, that; we
are for the repudiation of all sanction
of these iniquitous measure's—-not'by
revolution, hut ..by popular condem
nation at the ballot-box, while heand
those of his ilk are for accepting them
as “'finalities” and endorsing them as
valid parts of the Constitution, never
hereafter to he questioned at the bal
lot-box, or elsewhere; and this, too,
even before the question of their va
lidity has been properly decided.
A.H.S.
————" ■ : 4 '
Among the most promiient Democratic papers
that have not yet accepted the Dayton platform with
entire satisfaction we notice the Cincinnati -Enqui
rer, Louisville Ledger, Pomeroy’s Democrat, New
YorkDay Book and Terre Hante Journal. -TheI w
len reluctance with which these papers “move up”
suggests an expedient which we have seen effectual
ly employed in the army with straggling soldiers on
the march—a bayonet puncture four or five inches
below the small of the back.— Vincennes Western Sun.
■ Of course, the nearer you get tp. tie
Republican platform the bayonet c6mes
in your mind, and you instinctively want
to use it as a great moral agent. That is
what the Democrats complain of in the
policy of sham Republicanism.-— Cincin
nati Enquirer.
Threats of
bayonet punctures,
four or five inches below tne small of
the back,” or all oyer the body ten
inches long, will never drive tne old
Democratic party into the “net” set
by Vallandigham, for the benefit of
the Radical party. The bayonet has
already been used against the will’of
the people in forcing measures which
are a disgrace to the American citi
zens, and which we are sorry to see,
somo Democrats willing to accept as
their platform to walk into power on.
For our part, we had rather be honest
and live in the minority all the days
of our life, than to accept a fraud
even it were thought by so doing it
would place us in the majority. Pow
er gained by such means would be of
short duration.—Rockport,' (Ind.),
Democrat, June 10. J '
From the Mobile Register, 29th June.
Political.
Radical journals have circulated a state
ment, doubtless, fabricated for effect, that
Hon. Jeremiah S. Black was opposed to
the platform recently adopted by. the
Democratic Convention at Harrisburg, or
rather to the ninth resolution concerning
the amendments to the Constitution.—
The Pittsburg Post contradicts the story
in very explicit terms, and add? “He
was in Harrisburg during thye. sitting of
the Convention, being engaged in the
Supreme Court, then in session, and gave
his opinion in writing, expressing in the
boldest terms the blinding obligation of
the several amendments to the Constitu
tion.” ...
The binding obligation,” yes, to
this extent, that nobody proposes to
take arms to brush them frorrv the
leaves of the Constitution, and there
fore everybody proposes to acquiesce
in, and submit to, them while' they
stand on the pages of the Constitu
tion. But is not this a very different
thing from “accepting” and with
drawing opposition to them as “dead
issues?” If the “new departure” had
said we are not going, to throw away
time and strength in an effort to get
rid of these “accomplished frauds” in
this election, but as .soon as we are in
a position to wipe out the stain that
that they are upon the Constitution,
we shall make haste to do it, every
body would have understood it. But
as it is, the “new departure” is' a
double blind, or rather so intended to
be—first to the Radicals, who are to
he made to believe that the Democ
racy accepts that much of their plat
form, and second, to the Democrats,
to whom it says, to he sure, we ad
here to the amendments as a binding
part of the Constitution, but we are
fooling those Rads, and as soon as
we get the power we •shall wipe them
out. The result is an attempt at
double-dealing that does not deceive
either party. It lets go the meat and
grasps at the shadow on the water.—
We must confess, the cunning of this
is either too deep or too transparent
for us.
From the Greensboro (Ga) Herald, July 6th.
Principle*, Issues, Departures.
These are the words which enter large
ly into the political vocabulary of the
times. “We fear-their true import is not
always well understood, Principles and
issues are entirely distinctive, and should
never be confounded. A principle is pri
mordial, original, fundamental; the busts
of action. An issue is merely a question,
or sequence, or deduction from clearly de
fined and well established premises.—
Issues die, pass away with the occasions
which brought them into being. They
are, in politics and ethics, purely inci
dental. Men may “deport'’ from them or
bury’them out of their sight, without
compunction or regret. But not so with
principles. They are as undying as the
source which evolves them. Human
governments are founded upon principle.
Parties; spring up under these govern
ments upon issues or questions of
mere policy; or sometimes on adverse in
terpretations of -fundamental principles
Of law, and die with the issues, which
brought them into being. Now the orig
inal form of, Goveriunent -which came
down to us from our patriot fathers, in
cluding the Declaration of Independence,
(its great text, - ) in the purer and better
days of the Republic, the Americau peo
ple were in, the habit of; viewing as the
inspiration of heaven. As such, it was
reverenced, and cherished. The stars
and stripes Were everywhere joyously
hailed as the insignia of Constitutional lib
erty. But alas, a century has not passed
away,, before the great Charter of our
liberties, torn, mutilated, and interpo
lated, is trampled in the dust, aud with its
desecration and dishonor, has fled all that
enthusiasm which once glowed in every
true American: heart.
At this present writing; on this day
which commemorates the Anniversary of
the American Independence, in a large
portion of our land, the voice of jubila
tion is almost unheard, whilst all over the
Republic, the patriotic enthusiasm of other
and earlier, and purer days, has. we fear,
forever fled.
<\And why is this? It certainly cannot
be that we have so soon forgotten the
glorious deeds and sacrifices of our revo
lutionary sires, or cease gratefully to rev
erence the illustrious men who periled
all to achieve and transmit to posterity a
Confederated Republic; but we appre
hend it is because, through the flagrant
usurpations and depmiures of men in pow
er, the people everywhere! see and feel
that they no longer live under the gov
ernment of “their fathers; one of the great
fundamental principles and laws; but un
der a despotism of desperate and lawless
expedients. And;yet we are called Bour
bons, and every attempt of the true Dem
ocratic press to bring back the Govern
ment to its ancient moorings, where it
may be again loved at home and respected
abroad, is ridiculed and caricatured by
the Radical and semi-Radical journals of
the country.
On this day, which calls up so many
patriotic and sacred memories—as our
minds fun over the long list of illustrious
names that have shed glory upon the
American character and history; as we
look over our vast heritage, teeming with
an ever-increasing populace, it becomes
every Christian to merge party into
country, and unitedly labor to render
operative those great fundamental prin-
ples of Constitutional liberty, which have
imparted lustre to the past, aud which
can alone give beneficence, and glory to
the future. Then, on each recurrence
of this political festival, we can all
heartily respond to the good old senti
ment— '
Love and Melancholy.
BY A. H. -WATSON.
I.
When Nature, to her comely plan,
Had first begun to fashion T_
The elves and sprites to govern man
And hold t^e reins- of passion;
Mischief, who was her 'prentice work,
The poor, mis-shapen creature,
Stood by, with many a wicked smirk,
To loud a hand to Nature.
n.
And when in the old mother’s hand
Love’s perfect true ideal
Began, obedient to her wand
T' assume a sharpoly real:
Pert Mischief, the unsightly maid,
In frolic, or in folly,
Into Love's sunshine threw a shade
Reserved for Melancholy. .
ni.
So subtly well the trick was done
Nature could not undo it; ■
And since the light of Love’s pure sun )
Has had a shadow through it.
And so it is, the muses tell,
Through wicked Mischiefs folly.
The twain are now inseparable;
Love walks with Melancholy.
From Columbus, Ga., Sun, 20th.
Advancing Backward.
“The day wo celebrate.”
— —*-*-4 —
: The New Crystal Palace.
The Industrial Exhibition Com
pany chartered by the last New'York
Legislature, embracing among its
officers Marshall 0. Roberts, Wm. B.
Ogden, Moses H. Grinnell, Cyrns W
Field and others, lias secured a site
for its hew crystal palace, embracing
twenty-three acres, or four full blocks,
at-the comer of Fourth Avenue and
One Hundreth Street, New York.—
The Palace of Industry will he built
all around the plat of ground to the
depth of. 150 feet, leaving in the cen
ter a conrt of 11 acres. This will
bt covered with glass and form a hor
ticultural garden. The building will
he eight stories high. A series of
prizes, ranging from $15,000 down to
81,500 will be given for the six best
plans. One primary object of the or
ganization is to diffuse a love for art
among the masses. The completed
institution is to he able to accommo
date 70,000 persons at one time.
[fj ’ ' c> - From the Albany (Ga.) News.
• ■ -k-The Atlanta Sun.
The announcement of Mr. Stephens’
connection with The Sun, as part owner
and political editor, places that already
popular paper in the very front rank of
Southern journalism. Mr. - Stephens is
one of the profoundest thinkers of the
times, and has no superior on the contin
ent as a political writer.
We congratulate our friends Speights
and Smith on the valuable and noble ac
quisition, and cordially welcome the great
expounder and defender of States’ rights
and constitutional liberty, to the realms
of the Fourth Estate. His advent is an
epoch in journalism, and we feel honored
by the association. 1 *
We once read of a jolly crew of flat-
boatmen oh their way to New! Orleans,,
who concluded to have a big “drunk”
on the journey. At some town .on'the
river, the inland tars hitched up at dark,
and took a shoot for the nearest dead-,
shot liquory. They had their fun aud
at midnight they wended' their waving
steps back to their scow. All aboard,
they made old Mississippi roar: and boil
with mud ah imo pedore. They toiled
and struggled and the “cossin” could
hardly have been equaled, by Greeley or
old Ben Wade. They imagined they had
neared the city ,by fifty miles, but day
light dispelled the visions of their night’s
debauch, and they were astonished to
find that they had neither cut or lifted
anchor and, therefore, had sailed round
and round, or, as sailors say, tacked -with
the wind in their eye. Like old Peter
when he departed on his piscatory excur
sion, the merry fellows had toiled ull
night and never got a nibble.
This adventure of the boatmen is. a
prety good illustration of; the advance
ment backward so common in the bust
ling world. We meet with- these fussy
gentlemen on ’Change, in the streets, and
in all trades and professions. Hear
them talk and one would imagine that
they would every day discover at least
perpetual motion or the philosopher’s
stone, and look ait their eager looks and,
walk, and a sober stranger would, sup
pose that the world was on fire and they
the commissioned Gabriels to sound the
alarm. They blow and sweat terribly.—
They run to and fro on the track, and
then on the backtrack, and just as of
ten as any other way they overrun the
game. While all eyes are open to see the
end of this pother, some more sensible
persons observe that the anchor has' not
been lifted, and hence all this splutter
and much ado about nothing.
The latest political discovery and sen
sation of the day is what is known as the
“new departure.” The friends of this
move call all who can’t see in it either
policy or principle, “Bourbons,” “Not
up with the Age,” “Grass-grown Relics,”
“lied Hots,” and other awful anti un
christian names. They lay every day a
new egg in their mare’s nest aud cackle
over it like pullets. With all tueir folly,
they are so amicable and accommodating
that you cannot despise them. They are
willing to commit their interests, words
and even their thoughts, to the guardi
anship of their Northern friends, and'
whatever they do, the new departists are
ready in advance to endorse. They are
at times, somewhat boastful thac they
have lately discovered the Northwest pas
sage of politics with the ice and snows of
the Arctics, on one side, and the flowers
and fruits of the Tropics, on the other.
They spread all their canvas to the winds,
flash all their oars in the. water, bend
themselves and stretch their muscles to
their utmost tension and still, like the flat
boatman, they wake up in the one morn
ing and find that they have moved only
in a circle. They have failed to lift the
anchor.
To show our “new departure” friends
the estimation placed upon their efforts
by the party whose good, wishes they are
so anxious to secure, we make the fol
lowing extract from the Missiouri Demo
crat of the 27 th :
*Iu its effort to achieve a satisfactory
departure, the New York World has gonp
so far as to say that Jefferson Davis ought
to be banged ! This is progress, and it
is to be apprehended that the Wirrtd will
soon angrily add, “to a sour apple tree.”
It is plain that if Jefl mak"i but one
more speech, his life will depend upon
Republican protection from Democratic
departurism.”
The New York Times is still more ex
plicit aud “accepts the situation” as fol
lows:
“So thinks now the changeful World.
It is doing its duty in turning about on
its own axis, and making its day’s zenith
its night’s nadir; and rolling into the
light a little for the present, and seeing
balefcltno touch*.. As. a consequence
eotton*goes-iipr- Judging by the con
dition of afjaii^ toqClepi'gia* (and re
ports are worse* from other States,)’ it
wjll be hdpds&fbld fche United
States to raise 3,()0!WJ0(X. hales, with
the vitv best seasons, and they are
hardly probable. -.Scaroely' dta'a-.’ the
sun : an, opportunity; toitUy^me ground
has commenced in'earnest.. A force of
65/or haijids Has Dean engaged all'
of the present week, Under Col J. B.
Cummings, in clearing away the un
dergrowth,- extracting' stumpg, filling
ditches, etc,, and, before another week
will have expired, the necessary
buildings will have been planned and
Coflfyatfreffnim ' These will’constitute'
the mo®t ; import ant-part of the work
to be dbne, and th^ey'shoiildmot only
be eligibly rtoeatecb. but also as tasty
in design and durable as the funds in
hand will admit of. One of the
buildings should, we think, be par
ticularly attractive in appearance,
and as :nearly .-central in its-location in
tito grove as possible, v Tt. lias been
said t hat a^imHipg , of any soyfcj in
the center of the grove would mar the
natural beauty of the spot, A rough,
shapeless Snd !; ungainly
would, indeed, liave: that effects ’hut
one of the right design, light, open
anti handsomely, oniamented, wTtiT r a
Jreifcty "fountain, in ,th6 'Centre ,; 6f 4t£
would "add ; to* S the beauty of the
grounds and. improve the landscape,
as viewed) from, the mkin entrance.
The exhibition halls will probably
bo located to the,right of the-groveas
the-stalls fbrdive Stock,be to the right '
of and near the race tracks'. This wilT
be ,a gogd arrangfmient, and ^very
! : ‘ ’ *’ will
convenient, and. bp$
hot obstruct a View o'
ie river dur-
From the Lumber-ton, N. C., Robesonian, June 23th.
Hon A. H. Stephens oil tile New Depar
ture.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, distin
guished throughout the United States as
one of the ablest and purest statesmen,
as well as profoundest and most sagacious
political thinkers this country has ever
produced, has lately assumed editorial
control of The Atlanta Sun, a newspa
per in which he has been for some time
interested as one of the proprietors.
His salntatory is refreshing in these
days of political degeneracy and dis
graceful abandonment of political prin
ciple.
From the McDuffie, Ga., Journal, Jane 28th.
Honorable Accession.
Alexander H. Stephens having pur
chased an interest in the Atlanta Sun
will hereafter conduct and manage the
political columns of that sheet.. The in
fluence of the press is great, either for
good or for evil. Improper advice com
mg from the inexperienced, and dissem
inated through the land has lowered. the
standard of journalism and done much to
destroy the faith of readers in editorial
theories and suggestions.
The need of an impartial political edi
tor whosotheories are the result of prac
tical and personal observations has long
been felt in this State. The press has
gained such a one in the person of Mr.
Stephens.
Connected with the State and National
politics for many years, with the powers
of actually prospecting the future, ac
knowledged as pre-eminently the philos
opher of the times, the people all look to
him for advice, aud they now cry out to
him, “Watchman, what of the night ?”
arrangv-
ment of the buildings, as .indicated
m the plans we have .seen, ’s admira
ble, and they will he commodious and
»iit sduob ol isgool
Gur. ^Siiited’i; aiido acri^e i young
Mayor is fully alive to the import- -■ -
auce of the work lbefore him, anti;
an abiding* faith in 1 the business'^fe&t
and energy-df tl&iibaB ttt&li&lH&a&dT
lie will fully meet all expectations. ;
&e will have oveiwttyiqg in rea^ineur^j
froThfe Fair.^nd^aU.gotten nnan i^iaft.
and handsome style. bjiniioia aad td
1 vj From. thcl-New York. Kurald, 6tb. Aim til; ;; j
On Saturday, May 27th, while ilas.e ,
Murphy, a little boy of live years,
was playing in %he'. : streets of Savan
nah, near his fathers home, lie was
raccosted by- a WOmafiga fornifer ae-'*
qnaiii tanced: of the child’s deceased
mother. The woman took the child
.tft a store an^bbuglit himanew naEt
jacket and some candy, enticing him
imthis manner to accompany
board tbe steamer Magnpliabourrdfor
Xew York. nsorrami ml ^uitexliai
The father‘of the child (a’long
shoreman) on returning from his
work, not finding Ins boy at his
boarding place, and being unable to
obtain any tidings concerning him
since early in the day, went in search
of him. ; Hey searehtedally through
the city, including the police stations,
without avail. On Sunday the search
was renewed, with the assistance of .
some friends, with more success. -An
.did negro carman who knew the child o .
said he carried the boy and a - woman .
down to tlie dock and saw them em
bark on board the Magnolia .for New
York. / -a nAljSSIS
The woman toliV. the edd darkey /
thatjshe was the only living friend''
the child had; -that he had no father
or- mother, aad-thafA'she did not in-;
tend leaving diim in Savannah any
longer. • J; 3*
. The. father, on learning that the
child o^his W^y;-to J^fw-iY/prk,
immediately telegraphed here, to,, a
friend, (a Mr. Downy) who knew the
boy, requesting him to be at the-dock' ! ' J
when the steamer arrived and take tke ; b- r
child away from the woman, adding ;i i
that fie would come - on the next
steamer himself and claim the child.
Through some. mistake Mr. Downy
failed to be present at the landing of'
-the passengers, hence the child: es-
oapod. Mr;,- Murphy arrived in this!
this city on Thursday' only to
learn that, he , had lost all trace;
of the boy. Tlie Christian name only
of the kid-napper -is known to the
father.of the; child, and he is able to
'j&re j-jyt .jy ; -tB&gkfo description-of ?hi
haviugn.seept three
fftoies'ltg far as ^ remembers. ' She is
the popularity and intrinsic excellence yi about forty-five years of ‘age/ hair
Republican principles, it demands with
all the fervor of recent conversion that
its ass shall put on our lion’s skin. It
feels confident that the animal, with a
little training, can imitate the genuine
roar, and has majesty’s gait, to perfec
tion.”
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GEORGIA CROP NEWS.
Putnam-county crops are suffering
for rain—none in ten days.
From the Cartersville Standard, 7th,
While our wheat crop lias proven
almost a failure we are much flatter
ed with the corn prospect, a. we see
in our town this morning a corn stalk,
one out of a field, of the same sort,
6 1-2 feet high. Let ns have rain
and com bread will be plentiful in
Cherokee Georgia.
From the Early County News.
The past week has been one of sun
shine and extreme heat—the first in
a long time when the work of the
farm has not been interrupted by ruiu.
Our farming friends begin to look
more cheerful, though they are n6t
without dread that with dry weather
may come sickness, even before Gen
eral Given is brought under.
From tho Columbus Sun.
The semi-yearly count in Liver
pool shows that that port has - lieeii
turning gray, low-sized and thin, and
of Irish nationality. The hoy is aged
five years, large, for his age, light hair,
has a scar on his forehead, shaped
somewhat like a capital if. 0 ' ,Y
Superihtendeht Kelso has promised
the .poor”man to do:all in his power:
to restore his lost boy, declaring'that
he will find him if he is anywhere
within the limits of the city or State.
New- Departures JHuitngo: the
Entire Swine.
Forney, to his Philadelphia.Press, says:
“As the Democracy do not accept the
Ivu-ivlux bill. tlieiE new'departure,' so far
as they have accepted it, - is valueless.—
Amendments to tbe Constitution are dead
letters unlessr epfp rce .d--To aocept- the. (fit
amendment and at the same time to i&t
ject the law that makes it effective, is for
a party to stultify themselves. ”
It won’t do to say that the Ku-Klux
law is nivmthorTzed-'by-the XYth Amend
ment. The Radicals made both the
amendment aud the law, and \*ho shall
presume to instruct them in regard to the
proper- construction of either. Accept-
the-sitnatiou Democrats must eat the en
tire leek, ruptapjd branch, and make uo
reservations, or wry places eitla’ r .
The latest fashionable move in At-
reporting in her statements 130,000 > lunta is to attend praj ci meeting
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