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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN.
THE IjAILY
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Wednesday Morning
.. .August 16.
the surface, under the, United States and by thousands
j j ting again upon
• j jubilant cry of “how we apples swim!”
I am sorry to see even the Baltimore
Republicans beside.
Then, taking the
position that
JL l>lll DVXXV Iv OvO w» vi* vuw a^u*v*u*v* w | ' . . A .
( ! Gazette, previously so thoroughly imbued | these amendments have been engralt-
The Great Armageddon of Con- J -with constitutional principles, publish in . ed upon the Constitution through
stitutionalism Against Central- full, without comment, the letter of a dis-j f rau d and usurpation—outside of and
'J M • I "Do^iool nffi/«n.cAnlrckr tr^JO ifl 1 i ^ .1 it. -—. *■ nllrv
ism in the Country to be Deci- appointed Badical office-seeker,
ded at tlie Polls in 1872, Just stvled "the Hon. Henry B. Sta,
Beginning to Open.
Constitutionally
Bold Leaders Taking Positions
and Secret Enemies of Popular
Rights Being Unmasked.
1 ® j beyond the manner
of 1 appointed—a position which may be
styled “the Hon. Henry B. Stanton,
whole regiment expected to eome over;
Democrat—we assert that those
The late "no Ait” of "old Kentucky,”
and the unmistakable utterances of
the unfaltering Democracy through
out the length and breadth of the
land, from Maine to California, is
treating quite a stir among the
‘Bummers” and "Camp-followers” of
both sides, and especially among the
“Skcdaddlcrs” or “Dcparturists,”
from the Democratic ranks. *
We call onr readers’ attention to
day to Cato’s able letter from Wasli-
ishton city, and a scathing article from
the New York Day Book.
We shall very soon reply in propria
persona to the New York World?s last
attempt, (that of the 12th inst) to
cover its most ignoble position.
A. H. S.
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NEW YORK. CORRESPON
DENCE.
Letter from Observer.
New York, Aug. 11, 1871.
Editors Atlanta Sun : I have been look
ing into the New York World for some
time past for an answer to your article in
reply to his inquiries about the true line
which should divide between “dead” and
“living issues.” But instead of answer
ing or attempting to assail your impreg
nable positions, it shifts its ground and
comes back with an article propounding
and discussing the question, “ Is Alexan
der H. Stephens a Democrat ?” This is
regarded here as a hacking out on the
part of the TFbrW. But there are two
questions that under present circum-
stances>. might be appropriately put to
Mr. Monton Marble, the master editor of
the WorhL When did he become a
Democrat ? Is he now a Democrat of the
Jeffersonian type? The writer of this
letter has lived in the city of New York
during the last forty years—has lived and
moved in the Democratic party, in its
committees and conventions, and never
heard of the name of Manton Marble po
litically beforo he became an editor of
the New York World.
He has seen many Democrats change
front in those forty years, and a majority
of those who did so were led onward by
the motive that “to the victors belong the
spoils.” Some of them were renegades
from the Democratic party because of the
,.-djsriiyumn<mauf nf .tjolfinb
van Buren, who not being nominated for
tlio Presidency in 1844 retired to Linder-
wald, where the Wilrnot proviso was incu
bated. Many of the New Departure Dem
ocrats of the present day, like Judge
Chase, were free soil Democrats, anxious
to play the game that will most likely, to
themselves, win the victory. They are
regardless of the tremendous issue to be
tried in the contest of "1872—namely, in
the words of Thomas Jefferson, in 1801:
‘‘The support of the State Govern
ments in all their rights as the most com
potent administrations for our domestic
concerns and the surest bulwarks against
anti-Bepublicau tendency.”
“The preservation of the General Gov
ernment in its whole Constitutional
vigor.”
“ A jealous care of the Bight of .Elec
tion by the people, a mild and safe cor
rective of the abuses which are lopped off
by the sword of Bevolution, where peace
able remedies are unprovided.”
“Freedom of Religion, freedom of the
Press, and freedom of the person under
the protection of the habeas corpus, and
trial by juries impartially selected.”
“ Should we wander from these in mo
ments of error or alarm, let us hasten to
retrace our steps and regain the road
which alone leads to Peace, to Liberty
and Safety. ’ Observer.
to our side” in virtue of the Ohio and who are willing to accept the amend-
Pennsylvania platforms. This fellow . ments as valid parts of the Constitu-
declares that he will “go over” to the , tion, constitute the next party in or-
Democrats upon the following, among j ^ er Republican party in sus-
other fundamental conditions: t taininq extreme measures. All admit
i that the procurement of the obnox-
we have a Democratic administration, which accepts * ** • " ' 1 "* * ~
and will enforce the three amendments. Then ibe
Southern malcontents will give up their fight, and
submit to the situation.”
Now, wliat is this bnt saying that the
“New Departurists” will be more potent
in compelling “Southern malcontents”
(i. e., the Jeffersonian Democrats North
as well as South) to “submit”-to a sub
version of constitutional government, than
the Radicals themselves ?
But this raw recruit in prospective, (for
he yet remains unenlisled) besides demand
ing an unconditional surrender of all
principle on the part of the Democracy,
as the price of his apostacy, is, also,
pnnctillicms as to the “ candidate” to be
selected by its convention. “I shall not”
he says, “regret the success of a Demo
crat next year provided he is sound, firm
and trustworthy on the New Departure /”
He avows himself “an old Democrat”
primitively; but of what stripe ? John A.
Dix, Preston King, and such like, per
haps, were his idols!
His letter, it is said, was written to an
other “distinguished Badical,” perhaps
also of the debris of that party, to whom
he further unbosoms himself as follows :
‘‘Now, you aek me, will the Democratic party pre-
neat the right sort of a candidate. If they do, I be
lieve he can be elected, But will they ? General
Grant received * popular majority In 18(58 of about
three hundred thousand. If he is renominated,
and if the Democracy place a worthy candidate on a
progressive platform, do yon not believe that a suffi
cient number of those who supported Grant in 1868
will fall away in 1872 to deleat him? I certainly
think so."
ftThc “right sort of a candidate,” un
questionably means a man of the antece
dents of the writer. Sumner, Trumbull,
Chase, Logan, Butler, Dix, id genus omne,
were all professedly Democrats primi
tively, and every one of them are at this
moment sore-headed and disappointed Radi
cals, like the “ Hon.” Henry B. Stanton.
Let the Democracy of the whole country
ponder the programme before them.
Notliing could add to the weight of a
ticket headed by such material but that
the tail he made up with a Southern poli
tician of the metal of an On*, an Alcom,
a Brown, or a Hill! It is observable,
however, that the honorable gentleman
has shown by figures that there is no need
at all for the Democracy to make so tre
mendous a sacrifice, or to select candi
dates from renegades from either side.
In 18GS there were three millions of Dem
ocratic voters in the country. According
to the arithmetic of Mr. Stanton, “Gen
eral Grant received a popular majority of
only about v three hundred thousand.”
Over three hundred thousand Democrats
were disappointed in that election.
Enough to have beaten Grant. When it
is recollected that Grant was then a new
man, and that Seymour was betrayed by
the Tweed-Connolley-Belmont clique of
New York Skylocks and sharpers at
the last hour, can any sane man
doubt of the success of the Democracy,
under present circumstances, if strict ad
kerence be observed in the General Con
vention; to their time-honore
lilfvb^uetM^biii'tnctect fairly in the North
ious amendments was “ontside of the
Constitution,” and therefore extreme;
and yet we find Democrats who are
willing to accept, as valid, the traits
of fraud and corruption, and cry out
Bourbon, red-hot extremists, &c., to
the conservative Democrats whose
only sin is to adhere strictly to Con?
stitutional principles and to preserve
the liberties of the people and the
sovereignty of the States. Yes, and
because Constitutional Union Demo
crats are unwilling to step up in line
with the Republican party in support
of their e/xtreme measures, we are de
nounced as revolutionists by those
who know in their hearts they lie
when they make such charge.
The opponents of the Republican
party and its younger sister, the “new
departure,” constitute the only con
servative political elements of the
country. They only itesire to pre
serve intact the supreme law of the
land; and are opposed to all changes
in* the Constitution that have not
been made in the manner and by the
authority appointed in that docu
ment. If this element does not pre
dominate, civil and Constitutional
liberty in America will soon be at an
end.—La Grange ( Ga.) Reporter, Au
gust 11,1871.
WASHINGTON CITY CORRES
PONDENCE.
A Potent Letter from Cato.
Washington, August 11, 1871.
The coolness, not to say impudence, of
some people, borders upon the marvelous
as well as the ridiculous. Journals, here
tofore classed as Democratic—such as the
New York World, the Louisville Coianw-
Journal, and W ashington. Patriot, do not
scruple to publish at length, with com
mendatory comments, letters and speech
es, (from all quarters,) of sore-head Rad
icals, advising the great Democratic par
ty as to what it should do, and what it
should not do, to ensure success in the
next Presidental campaign—accompanied
with assurances that upon condition of
Democracy being turned into Radical
ism, they will turn Democratic. Of
course such recruits are encouraged to
hope for leadership in the “New Depar
ture’ ’ party—and why not? Having been
kicked out of the Badical organization
for divers offences having no reference to
politics, they think they see through the
owering of the Democratic standard to
this status, a glorious opportunity of get-
ern States, a change of only one hundred
and fifty thousand votes in them would
next, year ensure success, to say nothing
of the three hundred thousand and odd
at the South who are no longer disfran
chised. And yet a handful of men pre
sume to dictate the platform and candi
dates to upwards of three millions of
freemen ! And where, pray, conld this
minority go, in the event of the Democ
racy reaffirming the platform of 1868, as
to the fraudulent and void amendments ?
Grant will assuredly be renominated !—
I know it is thought by fools, and feigned
by knaves that the South must also per
force go with the North wing of the. De
mocracy, no matter what its platforms or
who its candidates. - This is a great mis
take. The Southern people must needs
stick to the Constitutional rights of the
States as their only-hope—and are, there
fore, of necessity in this instance at least,
oblivious of the spoils of office. The
people of the North, on the contrary,
lulled by the forbearance, as yet, of the
General Government, have leisure quiet
ly to calculate the chances of personal
emoluments. The idea, however, that
the great body of the Democracy, even
at the North, will rush into the adoption
of radical principles to save the country
from the baneful effects of Radicalism, is
too absurd to be entertained. It would
bo paralleled only by the coward, who, in
fear of a natural death, would fly to sui
cide. Millions . of freemen cannot be
made in this country, at this day, to suc
cumb to a few hundreds of mere time
serving politicians : A poet of another
oppressed land, sung to a different tune:
** So long as millions shall lie down,
And ask of hundreds for their own,
W hile hundreds proudly turn away,
And to the millions answer nay,
So long the merry reign shall be
Of Captain Bock and his company."
I hear of nothing new of political im
portance to-day. The Government is at
Long Branch. * Cato.
Politics iu Mississippi.
From the Tri-Weekly Courier.
Now comes Kentucky! The voice
of
her people has been proclaimed in thun
der tones at the ballot. Kentucky has
declared herself Democratic by an over
whelming majority. The voice of De
mocracy has been heard. The rank and
file have spoken the true principles of the
party. No new departure entered the
field in Kentucky. The leaders, Leslie,
Carlyle, Craddock and troetor Knott,
have all declared, in emphatic and clear
arguments, upon the living issues of the
day. These issues embrace stem and
uncompromising opposition to the fraud
ulent 14th and 15th amendments to the
Constitution of the United States. Some
“resolutions,” newspapers, and politi
cians, have alone advocated the “new
departure.” The voice of the people re
fused it upon its first issue.—Natchez,
Miss., Tri-Weeldy Courier', 9l7i Aug. 1871.
bnt one sovereign, and that is the na
tion.”
We would be gratified indeed if
Morton or some of his co-conspirators
would explain why, if the “Union was
formed by the people of the United
States in their collective and sovereign
capacity,” it required the ratification
of three-fourths of the States, as
States, as* requisite to its adoption ?
If the "people of the United States
in their collective and ^ sov
ereign capacity,” formed the Union,
then the votes of the majority of that
people would have been required to
ratify the compact. But it was States
that were represented in the. Conven
tion which framed our constitution of
Government—States in their separate
and independent character of sov
ereign powers—and hence it required
the separate ratification of each State
for itself of the compact, before it
could he proclaimed adopted and go
into operation. The ratification was
not referred to the peoples of the
States collectively, and as there was
no other peoples than those of the
several States, it follows logically and
necessarily, as wallas from the histor
ical facts which sustain this conclu
sion, that it is absolutely, logically
and historically false, that the “peo
ple of the United States, in their col
lective and sovereign capacity,” form
ed’the States-Union or our Constitu
tion of Government.
Another evidence that the "Union
was not formed by the people of the
United States in their collective and
sovereign capacity,” is the fact that
two States declined to ratify the Con
stitution of Union, and remained
outside of it for several years as sov
ereign and independent nations, be
ing governed solely by their respective
State organisms. If the people of
the United States, collectively, formed
the Union, how happened it that the
peoples of those two States were sub
ject only to their respective State gov'
ernments, until those States ratified
the compact and joined their sister
States ? Morton’s "issue” is so ab
surdly false, that even a perversion of
the facts of history, or the most plaus
ible sophistry, fail to make it appear
in any other light than a traitorous
attempt to holster up usurpation, and
imperialism.—Butler County {Ohio)
Democrat, Aug. 10.
POLITICS IN KENTUCKY.
From the Louisville Ledger.
The Courier-Journal anti
Election.
tlie
ing directly opposed Governor Leslie be
cause that gentleman wonld not follow
its leadership. It falsely says that it sup
ported him, wlieu the reverse is notori
ously true. That paper simply did noth
ing to swell the . Democratic vote. It
was disappointed in the result, and now
wishes to sneak back iuto the confidence
of the Democratic party, and make Dem
ocrats believe that it is true and faithful.
Had there only been eight or ten thous
and Democratic majority its rejoicing
over the effects of its teachings in Ken
tucky would have been so jubilant that
peans of “departure” would have flooded
its columns, intermingled with anathe
mas against the orators and press of
Kentucky, from now till the next elec
tion, if indeed it would not have, thrown
off its Democratic garb and hoisted the
Radical colors, and been lovingly receiv
ed into full Badical fellowship.
In its whining apology for its support
of Radicalism, that paper says: “Gov
ernor Leslie opened fire upon ns early in
the action, and without provocation.”—
This is untrue, unless the Courier-Journal
is willing to confess itself the embodi
ment of Radicalism. Governor Leslie
never mentioned it in his canvass, ap
provingly or otherwise. He.opposed the
departure, and could not speak a word in
praise of the Courier-Journal unless he
joined hands with Morton, who did praise
it, and tell its editor, who sat with hip
upon the stand, that if he was honest in
his departure notions his proper place
was in the Badical parly. But Governor
Leslie said nothing about the paper at all.
Badicals hawked; about its editorials
all over the State, and praised its course:
but Democratic speakers gave it the cold
shoulder, as the paper was doing for the
Democratic ticket.
It is now too late in the day for the
Courier-Journal to come to the front and
flannt the strength of its schism in the
face of the Democrats. The victory in
Kentucky of genuine. Democracy has
been won without the influence of that
paper, and in Bpite of it. Kentucky De
mocracy can stand alone without its help.
—Louisville, Ky., Ledger, 10th Aug., 1871.
T E.LE6 B A M S
The Arkansas crop prospects continue
excellent.
Seventeen dead bodies have been taken
from the shaft at Pittston, Pennsylvania.
Not one escaped.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars of the 7 per cent. Cincinnati water
works bonds have been taken at $1 04.
Several sunstrokes, one of which was
fatal, occurred yesterday at Louisville.
Official reports from ninety-stx coun
ties of Kentucky give Leslie 40,000 ma
jority.
The Czar informed General Leffo, the
French Ambassador that no treaty of al
liance of any description between Russia
and Germany is in existence.
The festival of the Assumption of the
Virgin passed off in Borne to-day with
the customary ceremonies and in perfect
tranquility. The dome of St. Peter’s
and many public and private buildings
are illuminated to-night.
POLITICS IN GEORGIA.
[From the LaGrange Beporter.J
Who are the Extremists'!
We propose to answer this ques
tion very briefly, and we hope to the
satisfaction of every honest and - can
did mind. The Democrats, who ad
here to the old landmarks of their
fathers, and oppose the "new depar
ture,” constitute the only really and
truly conservative political body in
the whole country. The Republican
party makes no pretensions to con
servatism. It has long ago advanced
beyond and outside of all Constitu
tional barriers in its national legisla
tion. To such legislation we are in
debted for the XIV and XV amend
ments, fraudulently forced upon the
people at thepoint of the bayonet,
and for the Ku-Klux and Enforce
ment bills also. These could not
have become laws of the land inside
of the Constitution. These facts are
a'm'tted by every Democrat in the
POLITICS IN OHIO.
From the Butler County Democrat.
Wliieht Party is Right 1
Senator Morton in his bite speech
said:
ino.ratio party of ihi&n.Oiintr.y.
i s Vt OTErruTirtnj v is'a compact
between sovereign and independent
States; in other words, that it is a- mere
copartnership between sovereign States,
into which they have entered as - States.
If that doctrine is true, the right of se
cession inevitably follows, and we have
no power to coerce a sovereign State. If
that is true, we have been in the wrong
all the time * * * * *
* * They say that the Govern
ment was formed by the States and that
it rests upon the States. Here we take
issue with them radically. We say the
Union was not formed by the States, but
it was formed by the people of the Uni
ted States in their collective and sovereign
capacity. We say there are not thirty
sovereigns, but one sovereign,--and that is
the nation.”
• "The Democratic party of this
country” r/o not "think that this Gov
ernment is a compact between sov
ereign and independent States,” but
they do "think” and contend that the
Government is the creature—the' re
sult—of the compact between sov
ereign and independent States, and
that, therefore, the Government thus
resulting. is subordinate to tlie States
from which it derives its powers.
What is Government ? Simply a
trust committed by the peoples of the
several States to their agents. What
constitutes the General Government
in this country ? The agents whom
the States stipulated in the compact
between them, should he selected from
time to time, to carry out the powers
delegated, and enumerated in the com
pact, and in the manner therein spec
ified.
The Compact, therefore, instead of
being the Government, is merely a
contract between the several sovereign
and independent States, containing
the powers which they severally agreed
should be exercised for their joint
benefit by their agent—the General
Government.
When Senator Morton takes issue
against this doctrine, he takes issue
against the facts of the history of the
formation of the Federal Union,
which he and a hundred thousand
such devils, while they falsify them,
can never change, nor prove anything
more than that they are a screw
of traitorous scoundrels, delibe
rately engaged in subverting the Un
ion of onr fathers and destroying the
common liberty. The doctrine that
there is ‘‘hut one sovereign and that
is the nationis the legitimate off-
spring of bayonets and consolidation.
"Force,” said Thos. Jefferson, "is the
parent of despotism.” Consolidation
of the several States into what Mor
ton calls the "Xew Nation,” or “one
sovereign ” is a despotism established
by the force of .bayonets. The sov
ereign and independent States had
first to he subjugated by force—mur
dered and robbed—before the mon
strous lie could he proclaimed that
We favor the largest liberty among
statesmen and leaders of public opin
ion in regard to all the non-essentials of
a party organization. Without some lat
itude and liberty of thought and expres
sion, there could be no such thing as ar
riving at a correct apprehension of the
will of the people. When men have
common end iu view, and are sincere in
the pursuit of that end, they may, with
out sacrifice of principle, bear with the
disciu-sions of each other, though, one 1 nponte are leavings Paris in-r* stampede.
that Thiers has no mends. J~ "
ENGLAND.
London, Aug. 16.—Advices from Paris
say that the city is excited and the situa
tion threatening. Trouble is apprehend
ed from various sources. To-day is the*
fele of Napoleon I, and the air is full of
rumors that the army will revolt against
the Versailles Assembly, declare McMa
hon Regent, and demand an empire. The
may not approve tne winding way
the other takes ot, attaining the common
goal. •
Democracy can not, indeed, be oppress
ed by thumb-screws, to follow out a pre
scribed course, but it follows willingly
when the divergence of leaders skirt
along in some well known direction, not
too far from some beaten track that is
known to be safe. But neither Democ
racy nor any other well defined idea em
bodied in organizations of the people, or
parties, can with safety listen-to the ad
vice or accept the leadership of those
who strike off atriglit angles, or take di
rectly the back track. In such a course
there is either treason to the party or a
lack of common sense, neither of which
inspires auy one with the idea of (safe
leadership.
Now that the election is over, and the
party may take a calm survey of the con
test,'and review the reports of the gen
erals from the battle-field, the time has
come to make up a just estimate, of all
the elements that conspired for our suc
cess, and note the hindering causes to a
greater and more complete victory. That
the standard bearers of the party did no
bly none can deny. They met the enemy
fairly and squarely, and fought inside the
Democratic lines. There were no com
promises, no dodging, no disgraceful
yielding of position, and no acknowl
edgement that Radicalism is not just
what it is, a lawless and despotic organi
zation, based upon false principles, and
destructive in practice of all the ends of
good government. These were the posi
tions taken by every Democratic orator
that entered the canvass. All the truly
Democratic papers in the State took the
same position, admitting nothing in re
gard to Badical measures, but that their
tendencies were dangerous to our free in
stitutions, and conducive to centralized
despotism. They battled earnestly
against its principles, its measures, its
tamperings with the Constitution, itsmis-
govemment of the Southern States, its
military despotisms and internal corrup
tions, by which the public domain is
squandered and the public treasure wast
ed. The people have beeu warned thus
against giving countenance, aid, or en
couragement to this party in Kentucky,
and every thing bid fair to give Radical
ism such an overwhelming defeat that it
would never again attempt to organize a
vigorous canvass in the State. But the
election day approached, and many in
the ranks of the Democratic party were
apathetic. There was evident lack
of industry and effort somewhere. It
was seen here in Louisville, and bnt for
the superhuman efforts of earnest and
faithful Democrats during the latter part
of the day, our city might have been
claimed by the Badicals.
What was the cause of all this ? The
question is answered in the humiliating
confession of the Courier-Journal yester
day morning. This paper, iu years past
the leading journal of the party in the
State, Btood aloof from the ticket. It
acknowledges itself the author of a schism
in the party that gave the Badicals such
buoyant hopes of success. It now con-
tinnes to threaten the disintegration of
the Democratic party in the future un
less Democrats will follow it in its Radi
cal wanderings. With bold and shame
less effrontery it claims credit for not hay
He is hated by
Republicans, Royalists and Imperialists
alike. The crisis is approaching.
In Konigsberg, Prussia, on the 14th,
sixty-two persons were attacked by the
cholera, twenty-two of whom died.
SUN-STROKES.
A remedy for dyspepsia— Efjl
your flour, nor other of your food.
B®- The wife of a Michigan f armet
has “gone off with a handsomer mag »
who is a negro.
"The richest man in Sacramento
was once a vagrant” and may be a -yj
grant again.
“A Terrible Temptation,” it
presumed, derives its name from tie
temptation one feels while reading it ^
throw it into the fire.
BSpriie Golden Age, Theodore Tilton’s
paper, would have been more appropfi.
ately named if he had called it the
of Brass.
J6@?* Vinnie Beam has completed Til-
ton’s bust. It has generally been thought
that nature made a “complete bust” 0 {
him. ~_
Mrs. Pauline Wright Davis sav s
“upon women, fall all the burdens of
marriage,” and she might have added, to
men are presented all the bills.
9®- The sensation-loving public is
promised the revelation of a state of so
ciety in New York that “will shake tlie
city to its very center.”
It is stated that Grant’s new sta
bles are being built adjoining the State
Department, which is all very approprf.
-ate—placing the horses along, side the
BgL- The Golden Age calls upon the
Sorosis for an answer to the question-
“What is free lovej?”—just as if the
Adonis of the Age did not know how it
is himself. However, if there is any
thing connected with free love that he
don’t know, the Sorosis cannot instruct
him.
BgU The Louisville Commercial crows
over the increased Bepublican vote in
that State and cites Trimble county
which, in 1868, gave Grant 33 votes and
at the late election gave Harlan 31—be
ing a gain of one vote, which is probably
that of the only “skedaddler” in the
county, and is perhaps due to the influ
ence of the Courier--Journal.
How the Courier-Journal makes sacri
fices for the support of the Democracy is
shown by the following, which recently
appeared in the Frankfort Yeoman. Rod-
man was one of the Democratic candi
dates in the late election. :
Louisville, —, 187
Mb. John Rodman :
To Courier,-Journal Dr.
1871.
May 21 : To advertising list of
appointments, 6
squares— average
21—d 2mos., and
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PRUSSIA.
The n-ithdraicnl of the fio-man forces.
Beblin, Aug. 16.—Provincial corres
pondence confirms the reports that nego
tiations are pending for the complete
evacuation of France; but affirms that
the provocations offered to Germany by
the French newspapers endanger the
peace between the two countries. It
adds: “If the French offer to make
eai-ly payments of the indemnity are fid-
filled and there be allowed no disturb
ance of peaceful relations, the withdrawal
of the German forces from French Ter
ritory will soon commence.”
FRANCE.
Thing's Get I ing a Xiiltte Uneasy—Prospect of
Trouble.
Pabis, August 16.—Difficulties have
arisen at Berlin in respect to the evacua
tion. Fonr departments of France are
still held by the Germans. The French
government has, in consequence, refused
to admit the Alsatian produce to the
French markets until after the German
troops shall have left the soil of France.
In the Assembly yesterday, Sirat sub
mitted a proposition that the President
communicate with the Assembly by means
of messages.
It is rumored that the right wing of
the Assembly has offered the Presidency
to the Due D’Aumale, and that he refus
ed it. .
He Orders Cum. '
The Charleston Courier says there was
great excitement in the suburbs on Thurs
day last, growing out of a report among
the Charleston negroes that orders had
come fromWashington, “dat Massa Phils-
bury should hold his office for ten years,
and all de negroes as voted for Wagener
should be imprisoned at Fort Sumter for
life.”
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Catching a Shark.
A party of fishermen consisting of Mr.
Wm. Preston and some others, whose
names we did not learn, while fishing for
the smaller fry on Friday, at the Isle of
Hope, thought, fox the sake of curiosity,
to put out a shark hook. They did so,
and the party went ashore, leaving their
smack anchored, with the shark line still
hanging out. After a while they perceiv
ed the vessel to move off, and thinking it
was drifting away by the tide, some of
the party returned to it. They took hold
of the shark line, when it was soon per
ceptible that it had a fish of some kind
on it. Palling it up as soon as it was
possible, with much difficulty, they found
they had caught a shark in deed. They
managed to bring the dangerous custo
mer to shore, when, to their astonish
ment, they found they had caught a shark
nine and a half feet long. He was haul
ed np and slain, and his carcass hung on
a tree for the admiration of all passers.
Such a fish wonld certainly have proved
dangerous to a person falling in the water
near him.—Savannah News, 15th.
GEORGIA NEWS.
The last Lumpkin Telegraph contains
the proceedings of the meeting of the
corporators of the Americus and Florence
Railroad, at Americus, on the 8th, mak
ing a permanent organization. Geo. H.
Hazlehurst, A. J. Lane, A. S. Cutts, J.
E. Carter, Sampson Bell, G. S. Rosser,
and- J. L. Wimberly were elected direc
tors. J. L. Wimberly, of Stewart, has E
been elected, by the board, President oi I
the company. Doubtless a good selection, t
He is a good lawyer, and most indefatiga
ble business man—good qualities for a J
railroad President. The Telegraph re- j
ports that $1,900,000 (?) have been sub-1
scribed to the road.
We learn from the Sumter Republican,
that Wiley Chambliss attempted to assas- i
sinate Henry Hardy, in that place, last j
Tuesday. Mr. H. was passing along the J
street when Chambliss sprung out from a f
store door and struck him a blow with a |
knife or dirk on the right side, passing
under and through the fleshy part of the
arm, severing the main artery and ren
dering the limb almost entirely useless.
Chambliss ivas committed to jail in de
fault of $2,000 bail.
The com, sweet potato, and fodder
crops of Decatur county are all good this
season.
The Savannah Advertiser, of Sunday
says that Rev. Dr. Landrum, of that city,
has received a call from the Second Bap
tist Church of Memphis, and that he will |
probably accept it.
Late in the afternoon of the Sth instant,
in Waynesboro, Henry S. Hill was as
saulted by John D, Munnerlyn, Clerk of
the Superior Court, and fired upon three
times, the first shot only taking effect I
The difficulty, as the Expositor is informed, H
originated in suits brought by Hill
against Munnerlyn for demanding ana
taking greater fees, in his official capaci
ty, than are allowed by law.
The Macon Jelegraph says: Mr. J. H- j
Hammond sends us the rattles from_a “
snake which he killed, a few days ago in
Taylor county. There are seventeen rat
ties and a button—the rattles over three j
quarters of an inch wide. Mr. H. says
the snake weighed about thirty poimds,
but he does not give the dimensions.
That was a snake we should expressly and
particularly decline to he bitten by.
The Blue Ridge Railroad is to be re-
laid and completed on a guage of three;
feet. The engineer estimates that tbis j
will be a saving in construction and eqmpq
ment of $140,000, and in running of 521
instead of 70 per cent, of gross receipts, j
The Eatonton Press aud Messenger of.
the 15th soys : We notice that a oorres- j
pondent of The Atlanta Sun, says tho.
negro who was so seriously wounded ofl j
Tuesday last, lived only about twelve
hours and died, but such* is not the case
the man is still alive and it is now though' j
he will recover.
.
The New York Mail has “come to tn
conclusion that ladies with naturally nut
heads of hair must be very careless iu at"
ranging them. Else why do they 0°®
down so often in the view of an aclmirms
public, as, for instance, at the dinner »'
ble in a lax-ge hotel ?” ,
