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THE ATLANTA W EEKLY SUN.
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uo geographical limits, iu which is hi-1 Radical speakers were remarkably shrewd,
volved liot ouly the fate of tLe Demo-1 artful ami plausible. Yet see liow signal-
*■ the Political Situation.”
Unde r the above title there appeared,
some days ago, in the Angusta (Ga.)
(yironide aruiSentinel, the following com
munication, with the remarks of that
journal thereto appended, which we here
reproduce entire :
Neweers. Setvtoh Cocstt, Ga., )
Angiixt 8th, 1871. J
Editobk CnuoKicLE and Sentinel: I notice in
the Chrunic’r. anil SaUin'l of the 2d instant* letter orer
Uic signature of M. C. Kcit, purporting to betaken
from ’be MWdpUt Sir. and commended by you
as a "very able letter < n the political situation."—
This lelter appears to contain. In detail, the political
views of the Democratic party at Iho North, and your
commcntlaUon of these views argues tbit they are
the political sentiments of the South, consequently
we have in this letter, and your commendation to-
gether, a joint and harmonious concession of the po
litical views of tho Democracy of the United States.
This is an important matter, as it reduces the v
riel sentiments of the whole joirty to a unit, and
brings their views in bold relief to the gaze and com
ment of all who desire to see or respond to them.—
After commenting on the “vicious policy" of those
in power, and giving a catalogue of tho real or imagi
nary wrongs of which they have been guilty, tho wri
ter sums up the doctrines of the party in the follow
ing terse way. They accept in good faith the Thir
teenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to
the Constitution, in proof of which they sustain
1. The perpetaa' abolition of slavery.
5. The counting of all ex-slaves instead of three-
flilhs only, in making a basis for the apportionment
of representation in Congress.
3. The equality of civil rights toe tizens of all races
and colors.
4. The inviolable character of the Federal public
debt.
5. The perpetual Invalidity Of all the Confederate
debts.
6. The sacredness of pension and bounties.
7. Tho-disqualification til certain persons to hold
office unless relieved therefrom by -Congress.
8. Tho equality of aU citizens in political rights
find privileges, including suffrage.
0. And certain inhibitions on the States, and
negative guarantees, chiefly declaratory la more spec
ific terms of the pre-existing law of the land.
From what wo understand of the matter, this is
almost verbatim, the doctrines of the Republican par
ty s and if those arc the Democratic doctrines North
and South, and of the Radicals wherever found,
why not unite and put an end at once to the villain
ous partisan strife, so long continned, so potent in
mi-M'liU f, ami w <llagmoanil4o « «nlight”iied ag<-
and a professionally civilized people.? We ask for
information, and would T>e glad Tor a response
through yrcrar paper.
You know, and all sensible people know, that
whilst good and wise men may honestly differ in
opinion on almost any subject, yet party ism is pure
ly the work of demagogues, gotten up for their own
special benefit, -and for nothing else, and that the
common people are the tools with which they work
to carry on -their plans.
Most respec-fully,.yours, M. S.
Remarks.—Oar correspondent errs in
stating that the Chronicle aud Sentinel
approved tho views of Mr. Kerr, express
ed in a letter to Hon. Jeremiah S. Black,
of Pennsylvania, and published in these
columns some weeks since. Mr. Kerr
accepts all the amendments bayoneted
to the Constitution by tho Radical Con
grosses, among which are the infamous
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
The people of the South do not and will
not acceptthese-amendments as finalities.
They will, however, continue to obey
rthem until repealed. The Thirteenth
Amendment was ratified by the Legisla
ture of Georgia, and we accept it as a
finality—ns setting at rest forever,[so fur
as the State of Georgia is concerned, the
question of Slavery. Our people do not
want the institution reestablished. They
would .not if they conld, because they ore
satisfied that in the end it will be more
conducive to the development of their re
sources, and the growth and increase of
tho State, both in wealth and population
Neither the represenatives of the people,
nor the people themselves, have or will
approve the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments, because they believe the
measures iu violation of the letter and
spirit of the Constitution, and destruc
tive of the liberties of the people and that
freedom of action in the enactment of
Jaws and exercise of authority so vitally
toihe well being of theStates in their sove
reign character. Whenever the people of
iho SoolU aiul Notlb rctrxrir tu Hie JeUTel’-
sonian principles upou which the Govern
ment was administered in the better days
of the republic, these illegal enactments,
which we obey for the time being, but
do not iwscept or approve, will be repealed
aud erased from the statute books of the
country.
The Chronicle and Sentinel is of the
opinion that the best interests of our
State will be promoted by attending
to home affairs. The laborer, farmer,
manufacturer, mechanic and merchant
and professional man, who attend to their
private interests, will be better off at the
cad of the year than those who spend
their time in idle and useless discussions
of national politics. Let Us take care of
our home government ami see what we
can do to advance our material prosperi
ty. Tbfre is abundant time ahead to
devote to* carapaigu which will be fought
on Northern soil and between parties re
cently united in the conquest of the
South, but now arrayed against one an
other in battle for political supremacy.
We do not propose to trammel the action
of that party at the North whom we be
lievn and know to be friendly to the
South; aud while we do not approve of
the “new departure,” we do not intend to
enter the lists and wage a fierce warfare
against our friends and the only party in
tho North that we can ever hope to do
justice to the South and the Southern
people. We have no heart for such a
fight; but if any of our cotemporaries
South have, we purpose to leave the mat
ter in their hands. They will, we fear,
prove powerful allies iu the Radical party.
We have enough to do in Georgia to take
care of and purify our own State Gov
ernment. To this end our efforts will be
directed when the proper time comes—
about the ides of November.
Upon these “remarks” of our Augusta
Co temporary, the Savannah News of the
17th inst. comments as follows
Our Democratic cotemporaries who,
while they at heart repudiate the bogus
Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments,
and “ do not approve of the New De
parture,” yet are unwilling to [strengthen
the hands of the honest masses of the
Northern Democracy who oppose its in
corporation into the National Demecratic
platform by scheming political fusionists,
find their position a very awkward and
embarrassing one.
. To our mind there is a vast difference
between “waging a fierce warfare against
eur friends and the only party at the
North that we can ever hope to justiue to
the South and the Southern people.” and
a frank and candid protest against a sur
render of the Constitution aud the rights
of the States—in short—agninst a solemn
approval and ratification of the most ab
horrent usurpations of the Radical party.
To protest against these usurpations, to
denounce the unjust aud illegal means by
which they they were accomplished, and
to refuse to ratify and adopt them, is not
to make war on our Northern friends, the
large majority of whom are firmly and
conscientiously opposed to these innova
tions upon the Constitution.
It is a mistake to regard this ns a sec
tional issue. It is an issue confined t
cratic party, but of the Republic. To
ignore it, is treason to both.
Like our friend of the Chronicle, we
have no heart for a fight with our North
ern Democratic friends. We make no
such fight with the true Democracy of
any section when we simply assert our
unalterable devotion to Democratic prin
ciples, and our uncompromising opposi
tion to Radical usurpation. We wish to
ly they faued to darken counsel, with
their clicap fluency. The Democratic
majority cannot fail short of 35,000 and
may exceed 40,000. Largely more than
one-half the Radical vote is made up of
negroes.
Kentucky lias done her whole duty.
Especially proud are we of Bourbon’s
noble walk.
And now we would know where the
join hands with the true friends of con- Radical gain is, which the organs of that
stitutional government of all sections of v ftre boasting of ^ loudly .
the Union in restorinsi the Constitution, 1 J - _
the Union iu restorin_
and iu wresting the Government from the
hands of a vile faction of corruptionists,
usurpers and revolutionists. We desire
that the men of the North shall know
that the Democracy of the South are
true to the principles of tbo Constitution,
and that they demand nothing more. We
are unwilling either to stultify ourselves
or deceive them.
We have given the whole of the fore
going, that our readers may judge of the
merits or force of the reasoning on both
sides.
We do not agree with our cotemporary
of Augusta, that the discussion of such
questions, and especially at this time,
either “idle or useless.”
The price of Liberty is eternal vigi
lanceand just at this time, when such
insidious approaches by its deadliest foes
are being made, to the very citadel itself,
we think that every freeman ir. the land,
as well as every sentinel upon the watch-
tower, should be thoroughly aroused to a
sense of the danger, and active to the ut
most extent of his ability, in defeating
the wily arts of the enemy.
We take this occasion to add, in re
sponse to several of our cotemporaries
both North and South, who are so much
inclined to indulge in sleep, just now, and
who make such earnest appeals for
“unity,” “unity,” and “harmony” in
the Democratic Party that no one can
be more in favor of “unity” and “har
mony” in the Democratic party through
out the United States, than we are.
But who are the disturbers of “unity’
and “harmony” in it? Does this
charge justly lie against those who
stand by the flag and principles of the
party from tho time of its organization,
and upon which alone free institutions can
be preserved; or upon those bolters and
renegades who are advising not only the
lowering of the glorious old flag, but the
going over of the entire party en masse,
horse, foot and dragoons, to tbo grounds
of the enemy—carrying with them noth
ing e.ccept their name? And this wonder
ful movement undei the pretense of saving
the country from Radicalism !
Tho country, to be saved from Radi
calism by the sanction and approval of the
most infamous measures ever carried by
Radical usurpations? Was ever a propo
sition more preposterous ?
One of our cotemporaries, who is so
earnest for peace and nnity in the Dear
oeratic Ranks just now, says, we should
fire upon the enemy, and not upon
friends. That is exactly our position
but which of the * two was the
most dangerous enemy to Troy
the bold Achilles or the crafty, base, in-
-aidiincr smon 7 The citadel of Troy was
never taken by open assault. It was on
ly by deceit, guile and treachery that its
interior walls were finally entered after a
ten years’ conflict; and so it will be with
the citadel of American free institutions,
if the like deceit, guile and treachery, now
resorted to, shall prove to be equally suc
cessful with the too confiding, over-trust
ing, honest masses of the people of the
ELECTION IN ST. LOUIS.
Important Democratic Gains.
The Germans Come Over to the
Democratic Party.
The election which took place in St.
Louis on Tuesday of last week has de
monstrated the significant fact that the
Germans of that city who last fall united
with the Democrats in eltcting Gratz
Brown Governor over the administration
candidate, have taken a final departure
from the Radical party. The Democrat
ic candidate for Presiding Judge of the
County Court was elected over the Re
publican nominee by 1,800 majority.—
Every effort was made by the Radicals to
recover the support of the liberal Ger
mans of the city, but without avail. The
correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
thinks the German vote of Missouri irre
vocably lost to the Republican party, and
considers this a certainty in the event of
the re-nomination of Grant.
Georgia Press on The New
parture.
De-
States.
A. H. S.
THE KENTUCKY ELECTION.
The Lion Roaretli.
The Lexington (Ky.) Daily Press, of
the 16th, instant, says:
The Radicals who, following the cue of
the Courier-Journal, were so exultant
over the gains General Harlan had
made in the late election, must feel some
what crestfallen as the returns disclose
the true si ate of the case.
* * * * * *
The truth is, that subtract the negro
vote and repeating from Harlan’s strength
and Leslie’s majority would be larger
than that given either Seymour or Ste
venson ; showing that the gallant Gener
al has gained simply the vote of the new
ly enfranchised negro, and lost heavily
amongst the whites, who formerly acted
with the Republican party.
The tables of returns from the election
found in the same paper, are nearly com
plete. They show the following aggre
gates thus far in the vote for Governor:
Leslie (Dem.) 115,261
Harlan (Rad.) 79,685
The “Depaeturists” Embraced.—
The Marietta Journal of the 18th, says:
We copy from the Atlanta. jEW* an article
asserting the unity of principle of the
“Departure Democrats” and the Repub
licans. It looks as if there is no insupe
rable obstacle in the way of combination.
Nothing but a name and political associ
ations.
Again:
Texas‘Democracy.—The party in Tex
as adhere iu their platform to the Con
stitution as formed by our Fathers and
assert, as living any vital issues, every
thing, the New Departure pronounces
‘dead.”
The Greensboro Herald of the 17th
instant says:
THE RURAL PRESS OP GEORGIA,
almost as a unit is boldly and sternly ad
hering to the time-honored creed of De
mocracy iu all its purity. The Radical
mongrel heresies promulgated by a few
time-serviug hypocritical demagogues at
the North, and sustained by a beautifully
less number of the same ilk at the South,
couched under the name of “new depar
ture,” finds but little or no sympathy with
the rural press of the Empire State of the
South.
Democrats in Vermont.
The Burlington Democrat of the 10th
inst., says:
We do not want a high tariff in Ver
mont. Our State is an agricultural State.
Our butter and cheese.has a free outlet,let
ng, therefore, have a frceinlefc to compen
sate for what we send out. We have no
question of equal rights to dispute about,
for every one in Vermont has equal
rights, let us therefore make the most of
these rights, and help ourselves instead
of supporting a union of paupers, who
ask us to feed them while they do noth
ing for us. The fanner of Vermont
asks no protection on his butter and
cheese; if he cannot compete with others
he will try something else, Why, then,
should he pay a duty on iron, steel, tea,
coffee, sugar and other productions.
And further:
Each State should stand on its own
bottom and proclaim the old Jackson
principle of “free trade and sailors’
rights V” So it would seem to us.
Leslie’s majority 35,576
In the same counties last year, in the
election for Congress, the vote stood as
follows:
Democratic 89,360
Radical ... : 57,146
Democratic majority last year in
the same counties 32,214
The full Democratic majority last
year was .30,691
The majority this year, as far as
returns have been received, is. .35,576
And the Democratic gain, so far is 4,885
—notwithstanding the negro vote for the
Radical ticket this year, which was not an
element in the canvass last lear.
The Paris Kentuckian says it is a most
satisfying exhibit, and adds:
The State was thoroughly and earnestly
canvassed and with more than average
ability on the part of the Radicals. Lo
cal questions were
into the canvass by RadicaTorators
hope of diverting* the attention of the,
people from the vital issues which differ-1 live,
ence the two parties.
From the New York Globe, 15th inst.
LIVE AND LET LIVE.
VVliat it Costs to Eat, Di iuk aud
Sleep “Respectably” iu New
York.
Incredible as it seems, there must
be more than 10,000 families in this
city who keep up an establishment in
fashionable style, and spend at least
$10,000 a year. Ten thousand fami
lies—a hundred millions a year! The
figures will seem impossible, but here
is luculent proof. The number on
Fifth Avenue exceeds 750; those
on Madison Avenue exceed 570.—
There are between Fourteenth and
Fifty-ninth streets alone forty-five
side streets that will fairly average
150 houses between Sixth avenue and
Fourth avenue, the boundaries of
fashion. These alone would give
7,000, and with Fifth and Madison
avenues over eight thousand. And
now we have to include Lexington
avenue, Park avenue, the streets be
yond Fifty-ninth street, and the other
fashionable localities scattered over
the city—and the number of four-
story brown stone front houses will
easily reach 1,300, which would leave
our calculation far too low. Some of
the men who keep ns these establish
ments are poor. There is many
A POOR FELLOW ON A SALARY
of perhaps $5,000 a year—for a man
of $5,000 a year is poor in New York
—who lives in a nice brown stone
front house on a fashionable side
street. He has to keep, at the very
least, four servants: a cook, a scullery
maid, who helps her and may do at
the same time the laundry work, an
upstairs girl, and—if he has children
(poor people mostly do have children)
[ me xvatucais. JUO- 1 IT* fW* ^ 00 ° ^nt for
persistently lugged andj ^ ter he has paid his
[adical’orators iu the has nothing left to live on.
- -<• 'Nevertheless, it costs him$10,000 to
How can he do it ?
People live recklessly in New York,
and in the Vain struggle of emulation
they "0 far beyond their means.—
Thev starve themselves, as some Ital
ian nobles do, to keep up grand state
before the world. Your readers will
scarce believe it, that here in many a
family the food is scanty because of
the carriage being elegant; that many
a lady on Fifth avenue has notliiug to
wear at home because she gives par
ties iu which she likes to be gorgeous
ly dressed. There is nothing of the
morbid extravagance of New York in
your staid city. People in St. Louis
do not, as a class, make fools of them
selves because they see others fool
away a great deal of money. Here
they do, as a class.
fashionable hotels.
There are ten hotels here, kept on
the European plan, in each of which
some 100 persous board. These fam
ilies pay for a suite of rooms, consis
ting of parlor and bedroom, from $15
to $30 a day. This price is paid, no
matter whether the guests stay a week
or two years, In the Grand. Hotel
there are a few suifes which are high
er—§300 a week. Bnt the average is
not so high. Yon can get two good
sized rooms in most of the European
hotels for $200 a week, or $10,000 a
year. In regard to yonr meals, you
pay for what you eat. You pay for
peas 50c.; for a cup of coffee, 50c. An
examination of the restaurant bills in
one of the hotels gave the following
result: Average for breakfast (one
person), $3; for dinner, 810 or $11; for
supper, about $5 or $6. A whole fam
ily can live somewhat cheaper, for of
some of the dishes—as for instance
beef—an order for one will bring
enough for two. But on the whole,
the result is pretty much the same.—
A family of three persons will, living
economically, spend easily between
$30 and $40 a day on their meals,
which would amount in the year to
more than $10,000. .
$10,000 FOR TWO MEALS AND $10,000
FOB TWO BOOMS,
makes $20,000. ' Most of the fami
lies boarding in these hotels keep car
riages; they give little dinner parties
—evening entertainments they are
excused from in consideration of
these good dinners; they spend the
summer in Europe or at watering-
places; their girls have the most
fashionable dressmakers and best
masters. It costs them $40,000 or
$50,000 to eke out their existence.—
They might have a grand brown stone
front house for $10,000 a year, but
then they would be afflicted by a
dozen servants. You ask one of the
boarders of the hotel, “Why don’t you
keep house?” and you will fiud that
in most cases a woman is at the hot
tom of this extravagance. Either she
is in “delicate health,” or she cannot
get along with the “help.” And so
they leave their home, and its privacy
and indepedence, to getintotwo apart
ments, and to pay for them a price
with which they could rent a palace.
But the society of the hotel recom
pensates them. There are
HANDSOME YOUNG LORDS
and dashing young bucks of the
Union League club coming there all
the time, who are sure to admire them
when they come c(own to dinner in
grand state, and who will keep them
company if they should get lonely in
the absence of tker hyisbands. It is
a delightful life to one that likes to
do 'nothing. A woman in “delicate
health” will find here rest and deliv
erance from all household trouble.—
There are plenty of good rocking
chairs in which they can recuperate
by the delightful motion. The only
burden of theirs is dress. They sub
mit to the trouble for the sake of
evading others, aud gladly dress three
times a day for the company of ad
miring young gentlemen and curious
young ladies waiting for their appear
ance in the restaurant.
LUXURIOUS LESSONS EARLY LEARNED
Two of the most extravagant of
these hotels have been hut recently
built, and their number is still on
the increase. It is now ten. They
depend more on permanent boarders
than on transient custom, which is
absorbed by the great many hotels on
the American plan. Only those peo
ple who would not like the best of
American hotels for being too cheap
and too democratic, or Europeans
who prefer to live in their accus
tomed style, go to the European ho
tels. There they can
SPEND EASILY FIFTY DOLLARS A DAY.
We have been apt in learning the
art of luxurious living from. Euro
peans, and in these European hotels
no one sits down to a dinner without
his wine. Great many have a friend
to dinner, and then it is the easiest
thing in the world to spend $25 at a
dinner. Grand Dukes and Princes,
stopping at the Buckingham Palace
Hotel, may pay as much; but it is for
a week or two. Here people pay the
extravagant price for years; they
make it an every-day matter. In
deed, New York is the only place
where such a thing is known.—
Neither London nor Paris has such
boarding hotels, although the first
named Democratic city vies with the
splendor of our hotel aristocracy in
its very “swelly” clubs. In the sum
mer the boarders all go away. They
go to Europe, to Newport,"or Sara
toga, or their country seats. Of late
it has become more and more the
fashion to go to Europe in preference
to a watering place. In New York
it has become a regular item of the
household, $5,000 for a three months’
trip to Europe. There are many
families here who have not missed a
AMERICAN COUNTRY. SEATS IN EU
ROPE.
Traveling abroad becomes cheaper
the more American families learn the
ways of Europe, and some of our
wealthy men earnestly think of buy
ing a pretty place on the Rhine or on
the lakes of North Italy, whither they
could go every summer. The plan
is feasible, and will be tried soon by
several gentlemen who have found it
convenient to provide new places of
residence for their families while in
Europe. It would have obvious ad
vantages with regard to the noble
sport of Count hunting, which our
ladies of Fifth avenue delight in. A
lady whose husband died recently
just left her home on Fifth avenue
to go
ABROAD IN SEARCH OF A DUKE.
She will go to Italy where the com
modity is to be had in great plenty,
and thinks of buying a pretty villa,
and living there until she achieves
her object. How her friends here will
envy her, how they will chafe at Mad
ame la Duchesse. ’ It has been no
ticeable how large a number of New
York ladies go to spend considerable
time in Europe without the protec
tion of males. Married ladies take
their grown-up daughters, aud leave
their husbands behind to earn the
money they are going to spend, just
as they go to Saratoga without their
husbands. Americans trust their
wives everywhere; and let them wil
lingly stay at a hotel, go to Saratoga,
or dash off to Europe, as they please.
They all contribute to the glittering
show of Vanity Fair, in which New
York has now only two rivals—Paris
and London. We owe it to them
that it now costs
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
TO LIVE “RESPECTABLY,”
that is to say on Fifth avenue. In
this sum we do not include the rent
of the house, which would certainly
swell the amount to $30,000. How
this enormous sum—on the interest
of which many a family of refined
tastes conld subsist—is expended, is
easily demonstrated. A first-class
establishment on Fifth avenue has
eleven or twelve servants; a man
cook, with three female assistants,
scullery-maid, etc.; a man waits on
the table; a laundress; a coachman
and a footman—the latter may help
waiting on the table, as liis duties on
the box are not very arduous—a sta
ble man; two or three girls for the
upstair work, and, if there are ehil
dren in the family, a nurse. The
OUTLAY IN CARRIAGES AND HORSES
alone amounts to $10,000 a year.
The three or four carriages which
these families keep, one for morning
one for evening, one for the after
noon, one for the drive, tho park, etc.
want renewing very often in New
York, where the different styles sue
ceed each other as rapidly as fashions
do, and where carriages are not kept
so long in the family as in Europe.
There~my lady’s coach that was
bought ten years ago is good enough
still now; here Mr. Snooks wants one
at least every year. Then comes the
change in horses. Every one wants
to have a faster span of horses, and
fancy prices are paid for horses, which
are enormous expense. If anything,
$5,000 will be below the average spent
on the change in horses, and the same
amount for stable expenses; renewing
of carriages, buying new ones, etc., is
quite reasonable. With regard to the
other expenses, they depend on indi
vidual tastes and habits; but they all
have the best masters for their chil
dren; at least half a dozen big par
ties in winter; the most fashionable
dressmakers for the young ladies;
their country seat or their three
months’ trip to Europe; they have
to feed twelve servants, and where
will the $15,000 be when they come
to the end of the year ?
THE UPPER FIVE OF THE UPPER TEN
of such families—families that spend
between $25,000 to $30,000 a year—
there are about a thousand in New
York. It would be impossible to as
certain the exact figures, but the
above figures is a result of considera
ble research, and to be relied on as
very near approximating the fact.—
Easier is it to give a close figure as to
the families spending between $50,000
and $60,000 a year. There are about
sixty or seventy such families. Our
figures Avould stand thus: 10,000 or
13,000 families that spend $10,000 a
year; 1,000 that spend between $20,-
000 and $30,000 a year, and 60 or 70
whom it costs $50,000 a year to live.
These are the figures that explain
those gorgeous dresses you see at par
ties; those princely apartments with
aU the luxuries of the East and West;
the endless tide of magnificent car
nages and horses that flow in the
park; that gay and splendid life which
has made New York the Paris of
America—a city of luxury and friv
olity.
GEORGIA NEWS.
gives
GORDON COUXTY.
The Calhoun News ol’ the 17th
the following items:
An interesting protracted meeting i 8
beiug carried on here under the auspice
of the Baptist denomination. Rev. JJr
Hawkins, Pastor, is conducting it. '
The Times says a young Doctor in that
town has made a most important discov
ery, viz : the location of the “ bone of
contention.” He found it in the region
ol the jaw.
Hon. John P. King, of Augusta, has
donated a lot in the town of Calhoun
and a considerable amount of money’
we have been informed, for the purpose
of building an Episcopal Church.
r a zzrr i , it-.. , He does single summer for eight or ten years,
In short, leading do it, no matter if he can or no.— if we except last year.
All colo-ed recruits are ordered to New
Orleans to reinforce the Ninth Cavalry.
The Captain of an English vessel, at
Darien, Georgia, recently had occasion
to punish four insubordinate sailers by
confining them in the “hold.” The im
prisoned men, through their Attorney,
obtained a writ of habeas corpus from a
negro magistrate, who released them.—
The matter has been made a subject of
diplomatic negotiation between the Brit
ish Minister and the Department of State,
the Captaiu having complained to his
Government of a breach of international
law.
\\ ilmixgton, August 18.—The steamer
R. E. Lee exploded her boiler yesterday
Three colored boat bauds were killed and
three wounded. Capt. Mm. Skimmer
was seriously wounded.
Noah McGinnis, in Sugar Valley, was
run over by a log cart last week and was
seriously, probably fatally, injured.
Some recent rains have done good but
the corn crop will be a short one.
The Times believes that it is a general
ly admitted fact, that for number of bus
iness houses in Calhoun a larger per cen
tum of goods are sold than in almost any
town along the line of the Western & At
lantic Railroad. In other words, trade
is better here, all things considered, than
elsewhere along the Road.
The Times strongly advocates the build
ing of the North Georgia aud North
Carolina Railroad, and says it is in a fair
way of absolute certainty. It designates
a Gordon county man, who is not going
to subscribe to the Capital Stock as a lat
ter day curiosity.
HENRY COUNTY—NO RAINS.
We learn from J. M. Hambrick, Esq.,
of Henry county, that no rain has fallen
in the neighborhood of Stockbridge since
the 17th of July—now a month ago.
Mr. Hambrick is on his way to the
mountains for recreation and to improve
his health.
NEWTON COUNTY.
The Covington Examiner, of the 17th,
has the following items:
The Fall Term of the S. M. F. College
opened on Tuesday last, with favorable
prospect for a fall school. Quite a num
ber of young ladies from a distance, are
already here.
Rain is very much needed iu this vi
cinity, to enable our citizens to sow tur
nips, which is an important crop and
should be attended to.
We now have a mail from this city to
Atlanta, carried by the day passenger
trains. This is quite a convenience.
We learn that on Friday night last, at
the colored Baptist Church, a difficulty
occurred between two negroes, iu which
Frank Evans was dangerously cut with a
knife. Also, on Sunday night last, at
the Church, another difficulty took place,
in which Dick Livings tpn was seriously
cut with a knife. Blood letting seems to
have become a favorite passtime among
the darkies of this vicinity.
We learn that considerable sickness is
prevailing in this county, at the presen
time—mostly Billious aud Intermittent
Fevers.
The Newton County Agricultural So
ciety, held its monthly exhibition on the
12th inst., which the Examiner says was
a decided success, enlisting a lively in
terest and was well attended by visitors.
This is but a beginning, which we hope
to see followed up with more general ex
hibitions and increasing interest in the
various departments of Agriculture in
every county in Georgia—Peaches, Pears,
Grapes, Beets, Squashes.]
From the Covington Enterprise of yes
terday we obtain the following items :
Cotton on yesterday brought 16 cents ,
in Covington.
The Fall Term of Emory College, at
Oxford, opened on Wednesday last with
favorable prospects for a full attendance.
The Yellow River Primitive Baptist
Association will meet with Haynes’ Creek
Church, Gwinnett county, 18 miles north
of Covington, on the old Lawrenccville
road, commencing on Saturday, Septem
ber 23d.
On the 16th instant, in the absence of
the family, the residence of Elder Wil
liam Almand, near Conyers, was entered
and robbed of nearly $1,000 in money,
and other valuables. No clue to the per
petrators of this daring robbery has yet
been found.
BARTOW COUNTY.
The Cartersville Standard of the 17th
says the tax levied for this year upon the
people of that county is heavy : “ The
State tax is four-tenths of one per cent.,
$4 per $1,000. The county, tax is two
hundred and five per cent, upon that—
making $S.20 per thousand. Total State
and county, $12.20 per thousand.
“ The county tax is as follows: Forty
per cent, for the legal indebtedness of
the county, due and to become due; ten
per cent, for Pauper Farm, fifteen per
cent, for jailor’s fees; five per cent, to
pay coroner’s fees, bailiffs at court, fuel,
non-resident witnesses in criminal cases;
one hundred and twenty-five per cent,
for building new jail; ten per cent to pay
jurors.”
Ami Why was This S
The City Council on Friday night ap
pointed the Mayor, Alderman McLen
don, aud City Attorney Newman, as del
egates to a Commercial Convention, to
be held in Baltimore.
Is this a mere frolic, where those who
are appointed as delegates can go at the
city’s expense, and enjoy themselves
hugely, doing neither the city nor the
State any good ? If so, the action was
highly proper.
But if it is intended to look after the
mercantile interests and trade of Atlanta
and the South, why were not some of
our best merchants, bankers, manufac
turers or railroad men appointed on that
committee ? The gentlemen who were
appointed are very clever and worthy,
but are not the men to represent Atlanta
where her interests in connection with
the trade of the country are to be ably
represented.
