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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1871.
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We publish, to-day, an article in full,
taken from tlie Louisville Courier-Journal
of the 5th inst., under the above caption.
This we do, as it is our purpose to
make some comments on it, which we
wish to submit to our readers generally,
and to tbe editors of the Courier-Journal
specially.
The article throughout is directed,
pointedly, at the Political Editor of The
Sun, who is represented as holding ex
treme views of policy, which will prove
disastrous to the Democratic Party of
the United States if followed. New, in
all sober earnestness, we ask the Courier-
Journal, what are these extreme views?
What are “those exaggerated utterances of
Mr. Stephens' 1 and “ the desperate reme
dies" referred to? What is “Mr. Stephens’
prescription,” which the editors of that
paper consider “ the -eery worst treatment
which Georgia could be subjected to,”
and which they are so “certain” the Dem
ocratic Party at large can only he injured
hy? Let us understand each other. In
all that we do, and say on Public affairs,
or on Public questions, we are prompted
by no motive but the dictates of the
most unalloyed patriotism, guided, as we
suppose, hy the clearest principles of rea
son and justice. ll,i C* ' . , •
These questions involve issues and
results of momentous importance to
the present, ns well as all future genera
tions on this Continent. They should
be discussed fairly, fully, and candidly.
The Courier-Journal professes to be will
ing so to discuss them.
Wherein, then, we most respectfully
ask the editors of that paper, have we
made any utterances inconsistent with
the averments stated above, or with those
high objects which should be the aim of
every faithful sentinel upon the watch-
tower, in all times of danger and peril?
If Georgia is groaning under the weight
of taxation” “piled upon her” by the
rapacious robbers and plunderers who
are devouring her substance—if she “is
hedged in by a wilderness of bayonets”—•
if she is * ‘pressed to the earth by corruption
and persecution”—if “the very air” from
her seaboard to her mountains is “ thick
with the malaria of misgovernment,”
what, in the name of candor, truth and
fair dealing, has Mr. Stephens “uttered”
in the midst of these misfortunes, but a
distinct announcement of the fads as they
exist, and an earnest appeal to the people
to rise in their majesty and redify these
iniquitous wrongs at ihe polls? Has he ever
advocated any other remedy? Most assur
edly he has not. ’ t ><-
Then, are we to understand that the Cou-
riei'-Joio'nalh.o\(\a it to he a “desperaterem-
V r - ■ peri' -J than one week, f 1 per square (ten 1 edy" to call Upon the people to rail} lo the
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The Courier-Journal admits the imminent | Houses of the Legislature were rescued
danger of coming Empire—but says, by j from Radical rule. This is the present
way of argument, as we understand it: I condition to which Georgia is subjected
“The effort to avert it must be made in
“the North—not in the South; and,
“wb*n reason cannot be appeased, the
“South is asked to yield, at least, its pre
judices.”
Now, why should not the effort be made
n the South as well as the North ? The
time has been, it is true, when the South
ern States could do nothing. They were
then prostrate under the heel of Despo
tism—denied all voice and all representa
tion in the Government. This is not so
now. Though they still he “hedged in
by bayonets,” yet their people are now
under the “Stephens prescription,” which
the Courier-Journal seems to think so
badly of.
It was nothing but the peacef ul, law-
abiding mode of urging the people to go
to the polls as freemen, and there condemn
usurpations, corruptions and all acts of
misgovernment by their votes, by turn
ing out of office bad men, and putting
good ones in their places, without any
acceptance or indorsement, as “finalities”
or “verities” of any of the iniquitous acts
of the Rump Congress, known as the “Re
construction Measures.” Wherein was
permitted, after a manner, at least, to go it either unwise or inexpedient ? Wherein
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to the polls and there express their oven free j
will, without the mandate that if they do
not vote as the usurjycrs require, the re
sult will be set aside. Their action is j
not now the bare registering of Dynastic 1
Edicts for their own degradation.
As, therefore, they are now once more
has any mischief come of it? What
‘evils” have been “increased by it?”
“Why does the Courier-Journal com
plain of it ?
In this connection we take occasion to
say that the account given in the Cowrie)'-
Journal, in another article, which we
politically on foot, why should they re- have just seen, of the part taken by the
main longer ina itive ? Are the Peoples Hon. Linton Stephens in that canvass, is
of the Southern States, in the condition
described by the Courie)'-Journal, less in
terested in the questions involved, than
the Peoples of the Northern States? Are
the Democrats; in the'South less interest
ed in them than the Democrats in the
North? Surely not. Then why should I received the unanimous
they not co-operate, and adively co-ope- the Convention. • It was
exceedingly erroneous. The State Plat
form, which was the old Jeffersonian
creed, with its time-honored flag
unlowered, was hoisted, as is well
known, with his hearty concurrence,
to say the least of it. But it moreover
vote of
under
the bare possession of office or its emol
uments in 1868; and we trust that they
will prove themselves still to be so in
1872. At least, all of our advice, coun
sel, treatment, prescription, and reme
dies for the political evils of the day,
are based upon this assumption.
It is with these views, we deeply sym
pathise with the gallant masses, whose late
efforts have been sacrificed by the impoli
cy of their leaders in California; and
rejoice with those of Kentucky, who
have gained so great honors to them
selves in the signal service they have
rendered the country in their late elec
tion.
It seems, however, that the Courier-
Journal has quite as little regard for our
gratification at their achievement, ns for
our association in the common struggle—
almost as little as any Radical sheet.—
This, it is true, is not a matter of much
concern to us. •
But, the editors of that paper, if they
be really in earnest, in wishing proper
‘efforts” to be made to “avert” the dan
ger of threatening Centralism and Em
pire, may, perhaps, think better of ns
when they know more of us; and
when they see the workings of their
“treatment,” compared with ours, they
may, perhaps, also, appreciate both a
little more highly than they now do.
A. H. S.
rate, with the friends of Constitutional | this standard, with a dauntless fac
Liberty in all the States, in a common ing of the enemy in their fancied
struggle for the rescue and preservation strongholds, by the Democracy, that the
of their common heritage of “free Institu- victory was won. It is true that in some
tions ? "What reason can be given for localities, the too timid, under telegraph-
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CONTENTS
“ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,”
FOE THE WEEK ENDING
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13,
1871.
Pago 1—Tho Outlook in Kentucky—Reply to the
Courier Journal. Big Fire atLawrencevillo. Uni
ted States District Court, etc.
Page 2—Tlie Now York World and Atlanta Sun
again. Washington Correspondence. A. H. S. as
a Political Counsellor and Prophet. A Vacancy in
tho Offico of Governor, etc.
Page 3—Henry Clows. A Naked Usurpation. Su
premo Court Decisions. Georgia Nows. Tele
grams, etc.
the abuses of misgovernment? What
does our cotemporary mean by “desperate
remedy?" We repeat, let us understand
each other. We are in pursuit of irulh
in all these discussions—we wish no eva-
The Public Liberties of this
country are in danger. This we thor
oughly feel with, the profoundest emo
tions; but if there is anything “morbid in
our temper,” in looking upon the threat
ening prospect, we are not aware of it.
We feel that while life lasts we can suf
fer the greater threatening ills—if come
they shall—witfh as much composure as
we have suffered, and do suffer those now
upon ns, and with quite • as much equa
nimity of temper as any other of the mil
lions of the victims of Power, who may
be crushed under the wheels of Empire.
But we feel it to be a duty we owe to our
fellow citizens everywhere, to warn them
of the coming danger, “and to counsel
them as to the only way in which, in pur
judgment, so sad a catastrophe as the en-
their taking no part in the “effort to
avert” the “coming Empire ?”
We do not know the grounds upon
which the Courier-Journal excludes them;
neither do we know what is really meant
by the Courier-Journal in the use of these
words
"Where reason cannot be appeased, tbe South is
asked to yield, at least, its prejudices.”
What prejudices of the South, and to
whose asking are they to be yielded? Is
it hbre really meant to characterize the
great truths of the wrongs which have
been inflicted upfin the Peoples of the
Southern States asnothing but prejudices?
Is it further meant by. these words, to af
firm that these bare “prejudices” must he
yielded to the demands of the “Departure
Democracy" of the country, which “can-
not be appeased by reason?" Is this the
course recommended by the Courier-
Journal to the Democracy of the South
(and of the North as well), to pursue with
view to save themselves from mis
government, and usurpations? . Is this
the meaning t ? ' Is this the healing
“treatment” .the Courier-Journal ad
vises for the Democracy at this time?—
Are the Peoples of the Southern States,
and the unfaltering Democracy of all the
States, required to abnegate reason, deny
the truth, abjure right, outrage justice,
and declare that all the most infamous
wrongs and iniquitous acts of the Dynasty
now in Power, are nothing but measures
adopted “in Ihe mannei'. and by the auihori
iy constitutionally appointed?” Are they to
do all this, (and thus, in fact, rivet the
chains of Despotism upon themselves and
their posterity forever,) at the demands
Louisville Courier-Journal, 5th
tember, 1871.
Scp-
The Outlook in Kentucky.
Page 4—Letter from Ivauhoa. Darien. Tho Pub-
“ c ® cbt i Mr. Stephen* and bto catio*. Q«anr»| Hre^vferthrfiW' of free Institutions in this
country can be averted !
Is there anything “morbid?’ in this
Nows. A Bloody Stabbing Affair. Gcvcrnor Bui-1
lock heard from. Telegrams, etc.
Page 5—Tho Montgomery Advertiser. Caliiornia.
Well! Well11 Well!!! A Circular Letter issued Was there anything “morbid” inthe tern-
by the Chamber of Commerce. Mayor's Court.
Georgia News. Telegrams. Washington Rumors
about Bullock and KimbalL New York Weekly
Cotton Statement, etc.
Page 6—Washington Correspondence—from Cato.
Radical Plunderer b. Thelate.Railroad Convention
in Atlanta. The Authorship of that Pamphlet.
Georgia Nows. Telegrams. Illness of Dr. Mell.
Etc., etc. mot i . P q,;-.ii i;i ..
Page 7—Sun-Strokos. Georgia News. At Sarato
ga-Terrible Trial* of a Youth. A Pleasure Seeker
in Trouble. lively at the Depot. Advertisements.
Etc., etc.
Page 8—A Club of 104 Subscribers. Telegrams.
Goorgia Westom Railroad. Clayton Superior
, Court. Georgia News. Post Office Established at
Norcross. Special Premiums. Telegraphic Mar
kets. Now Advertisements, etc.
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Secretary's Office, ]
Atlanta Agricultural and Industrial Ass’n, 1
Atlanta, Ga-, Sept. 11, 187L.
0OWSELTHO1US A. HOWARD, „ U» 1 Iimils
tentative of this Association, will address the peo
ple upon the agricultural interests of the country, at
the following places, and on tho .days and dates
tamed. ( ~ ° D ' X1 SAMUEL A. ECHOLS,
Secretary.
NorcrosB, Thursday, September 14.
, Lawrenceville, Friday. 15. "
Gainesville, Saturday, 16. ' :) i . <,
Canton, Tuesday, 19.
Camming, Wednesday, 20.
Dahlonega, Thursday, 21.
Griffin, Monday, 25. - ’ SCO! *
Newnan, Tuesday, 26.
LaG range, Wednesday,'27. J
Cmapbellton, Friday, 29.
Palmetto, Saturday, 30.
Conyers, Monday, October 2.
Social Circle, Tuesday, 3.
Greensboro, Wednesday. 4.
L nlon Point, Thursday, 5. I : ■
Lexington, Friday, 6.
Athens, Saturday, 7. sepl2-tf
eel adviefe of Mr. Samuel Randall, did
lower the flag; but in such places, gener
ally, they were beaten. Nothing is truer
than what Linton Stephens himself
said of the result after the election was
over, which was that the flag hoist
ed by the Convention had been . “least
tattered and torn wherever Upas berime bold
est and held highest in the confhd."
But what we wish to impress upon
the minds of the editors of the Courier-
Journal, and all idquirers after truth, is
the great fact, that Georgia was carried
last year by peacefully bnt firmly facing
the enemy at the polls, upon the “picked”
Democratic “ground” of Jeffersonian
principles. ' . ;
California and Connecticut were so
carried two years ago. Indiana was so
carried at her last election. Nelw Hamp
shire was so carried this year; and Ken
tucky has been so carried in her
late most triumphant vindication of
the right, over all the power
and influence of the Courier-Journal
against the policy of the Democratic
leaders of that State. Has not every
Democratic victory, achieved in this
country from 1800 to the present day,
been won by “facing the enemy?" Is
the ■‘New Departure” movement, so
strongly urged by the Courib'-Joumal,
anything bnt “turning the back" of the
Democratic army “to the enemf'J Is it
anything but a retreat from the “picked
ground" of the-Constitution, on which all
its victories in the past have been gained?
Under the blast of this ‘-‘Key note,”
was not Connecticut lost last spring
Was not the District of Columbia ’ lost in
per of Paul, when he urged with earnest
ness that the only hope c-f safety for the
crew, was not to “Depart” from the
ship ?
We repeat, again and again, our request
that the Courier-Journal shall state what
is the “ desperate remedy" that we recom
mend, which will injure either the people
of Georgia or the Democratic party at
large?
Have we asked them to do anything, or
recommended them to do any thing, except
to proclaim the great truth, as we have
done, and as the Coutner- Journal has done,
that Georgia, and ten other sister States,
“are hedged in by bayonets,” “pressed
to the earth by corruptions and persecu
tions,” and that “the very air” through-
‘ is thick with the
malaria of mis-govemment?” Is this an
“exaggerated utterance?” oris the “utter
ance” any more “exaggerated” when made
by ns than when made by the Courier-
Journal.
Will the “utterance” of these great
tm-exaggerated truths injure the Democ
racy in any State? Is this what our co-
temporary of Louisville, Kentucky, means
to be understood as maintaining ? If so,
how ? Let us have the argument, with
the facts and reasons upon which it is
founded. We profess to be guided by
reason, and no “morbidity” of temper.
of a Faction which “cannot be appeased by,, . . _ , ,, _
m tlio foolish hope o{ the Dempsey
saving their liberties by committing them
to such hands? Is this the “course”—
the “treatment”—the “remedy” or. “pre
scription”—of the Courier-Journal? If so,
we say to our contemporary that we, in
dividually, will never be guilty of an act
so marked by personal stupidity and base
ness as we consider the acceptance of this
treatment would be; nor do we believe
that the Democracy of the Union will
ever subject themselves to the degrada
tion of such “treatment;” for no Peoples
will ever commit such an act of treachery
to Liberty, who do not deserve to be
slaves; and slaves of the least pitiable
character—slaves made so by their own
voluntary act.
We speak plainly our own sentiments,
without wishing to be considered as in
tentionally offering any personal offense
to anybody who may differ with ns.- -
These are great Public questions, involv
ing the characters of whole P^ples, as
well as their liberties. We~’ n ly state the
conclusions to which -° ur reasmi leads
us, and determines. °of own conduct.
Guided hy tWs, we take pleasure in say
ing, that we find one thing in the article
of the Courier-Journal, which we fully
indorse, and that is this: ■ 'j- r > hl%
of California just been utterly routed
under the fatal blast of the same “Key
note”? How it will be in the other
States, where it has been sounded, a few
months will disclose,
But how any man, upon any rational
principles, with even a common: knowl
edge of human nature, could expect any
thing but defeat upon such a programme
we cannot see. The Courier* Journal may
rely upon it, that “no good fighting” can
be done either in politics or war “unless
we face the enemy." T f Mr. Mcaton and
liis Dynasty are displaced from
Power, they mr dfc met and faced in
assaults upo^ tlieir highest crimes against'
the libert 1 -' 3 °* ^e country, a nd not their
smaller qff enses > t^ e Enforcement Acts,
Ku Al ux bill, and the like. These aie
^ 'corollaries of the others.
Long as this article is, we cannot dis
miss the subject without- a few words
upon the statementthat “it is believed”
tbat the Blair-Broadhead programme
beat the Democracy in 1868.
We have again and again shown that
no such belief couldbe rationally enter
tained by any one vto understands the
facts of the case. Bit suppose it be true,
is the Democracy te abandon the cause
In politics, as in war, no good fighting can he
done unless we iace the enemy. No army wan ever
known to win a battle with its back turnud to
the enemy; and it must be remembered that one
side alone does not pick the ground.”
This is exactly the counsel we gave the
Democracy of Georgia in tneir great civic
struggle last year. Some in Georgia then,
as in Kentucky since, wished to turn
their backs to the enemy by “departing
from the “ ground picked” by the De
mocracy from the days of Jefferson, in
all contests with Power. Onr advice was
to “face the enemy." “No army was ever
known to win a battle with its back turned
to the enemy.” In pursuance of the
advice, the old Jeffersonian banner
was hoisted. There was no lowering of
the flag or departure from principle. The
result was a brilliant victory. Both
of Liberty, becausethey lost one elec
tion in endeavoring to maintain it?—
How often did the jeople of Middlesex,
under the advice ol Chatham, rally un
dauntedly to the pels irt vindication of
popular rights, agaist the gross usurpa
tion of the House olCommons; and how
much more gloricuriwas their ultimate
victory, when, by thir unfaltering devo
tion t-o the Constitutin of their country,
they saw the Tory akninistration finally
driven from Power! ■
Have the People Q the United States
less cause to be fervQt, constant and un
ceasing in the mainthance of tbe prin
ciples of their Goveimaut, than were
their British ancestors
We believe that tliiDemocracy were
actuated by much hiper motives than
xnDistinct pkint
P'lv
Every man’s opinions are affected more
or less by his circumstances and his sur
roundings, and the exaggerated utteran
ces of Mr. Stephens may be attributed to
the wretched plight to which much mal
administration has reduced tho State of
Georgia. Desperate evils seem to require
desperate remedies.- Often the remedy,
thus desperately chosen and desperately
applied, only increases the evil; and rare-
does it modify or avert it. In our
opinion, Mr. Stephens’ prescription is
the very worst treatment which Georgia
could be subjected to, and we are quite
certain that the Democratic party at
large can only be injured by it.
Assuredly iu Kentucky, where our con
ditions differ from those that prevail in
Georgia, we have everything to lose and
nothing to gain by falling into Mr. Ste
phens’ -morbid temper. Kentucky is
sound and well, strong and hearty, cheer
ful and robust, and she cannot afford to
follow the lead of Georgia. We need no
doctors, and least of all Mr. Stephens and
Mr. Tooinbs. To mate with them is like
a well man going to bed with a sick man;
like an athlete deliberately undertaking
the regimen of a consumptive. Counsel
from Mr. Stephens, delivered from amid
the misfortunes to which Radicalism has
brought Georgia, reminds one of a survey
taken from a deep-sunken hollow shut
out from the world by hills and trees and
made dark and dismal by fogs. The
Radicals have piled mountains of taxation
upon Georgia. They have hedged Geor
gia in by a wilderness of bayonets.. They
have pressed Georgia into the earth by
corruption and persecution. The very
air of Georgia is tliick with the malaria
of misgovernment. Yet Mr. Stephens,
depressed 'by these circumstances, under
takes to sketch the political situation and
to trace out the campaign for the Nation
al Democracy with all the clearness of a
man who stands upon an eminence over
looking the whole country and far above
the heating and misleading influences of
the plain below.
All of us—the very best and soundest
of us—can but see the future as we may;
doing only what we can. That there is
danger no man doubts. Where the dan
ger lies. we are tolerably sure. The
effort to avert it must be made in the
North, hot in the South, and, where rea
son can not be appeased, tbe South is
asked to yield at least its prejudices.
It is believed by the most intelligent
and well informed Democrats that the
Blair-Broadhead programme of 1868 beat
us. All of us believed in it and fought
for it at the time, - and it lost. It not
only lost, but r all of that which it pro
posed to resist was carried over our heads
and has gone into effort. We could not
make the same fight over again if we
wanted to. We could as easily fight
over tbe battle of Manassas. We could
as easily turn back the course of time
itself.
In polities, as in war, no good fight
ing can be done unless we face the enemy.
No army was ever known to win a battle
with its back turned to the enemy ; and
it must he remembered that one side
alone does not pick, the ground. Both
sides have a hand in that-, each striving
to pick the ground that seems best suited
to its purposes. Six months ago Mr.
Morton, of Indiana, undertook, and with
great adroitness, to fix the ground for
the Democrats, and he laid down a very
pretty plat-. It embraced every one of
the positions since taken up by Mr.
Stephens and Mr. Toombs and rejected
by Mr. Vallandigham, Mr. Pendleton,
Mr. Groesbeck, Mr. John Quincy Adams
Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, Judge
Doolittle, of Wisconsin, and numberless
Democratic conventions and Democratic
newspapers. These latter object, as we
do, to having the Radical leader fix our
plan of action; and we object to taking
Mr, Stephens and Mr. Toombs, with all
their troubles upon them, as «aFa
guides.
Kentucky, in particular, cannot afford
to follow them. Kentucky is nothing if
she be not national; she is nothing if she
be not a bell-tower for all States. Some
of. her politicians have gone a little astray.
But there is every sign that a hopeful and
healthful augury could wish to see tbat
they wiU come round all right before the
assembling of our next State Couventiou.
That body will not declare against the
amendments, or do any folly of which
the party elsewhere can complain. Even
the local press, which lias hitherto been
most obdurate, is showing a practical and
willing spirit of acquiescence in tho “New
Departure, ’ alias the moving up of the
Democr itic masses iu frout of the enemy.
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A few hot-headed and intemperate per
sons may hold out merely for the fun of
abusing the Courier-Jour nil, but even
these will “come to cubly,” when they
find that we ask nothing but what is due
a most candid and disinterested effort te
do our best by the State, the party, and
all the people.
Of this class we can say, as old Sao^
Houston once said to his enemies in Tex
as, “If I have done you wrong you have
had your revenge; and if you have done
me wrong, God knows I forgive you.”
We have several months ahead of us in -
which to discuss the questions, that divide
the Democratic people. Those questions
have been distinctly stated in these col
umns. It is all-important that they be
disposed of now and forever. Hence we
shall discuss them as we have discussed
them, abating none of our freedom or in
dependence, and confident that events,
no less than the popular reason and com
mon sense, will bear out the wisdom and
integrity of our course. That being
maintained, we have no quarrel remaining"
with any Democrat, be he n captain or bo
he a private soldier, be he a Bourbon or
a progressive, and if there is any factious
spirit displayed anywhere, it will not
come from our side of tho house.
The people understand very well the
difference between upright and fearless
criticism, which spares neither men nor
measures, and that sort of factiousness
which would rule or ruin, which would
have its way or raise a disturbance. The
people appreciate also the need of an or
gan, unbought by any clique and unsup
ported by any subsidy, which is able and
ready to keep watch and guard over their
representatives. The politicians are al
ways disposed to separate into cliques and
need to be brought into constant pres
ence of a candid and impartial inspection.
As far as the leaders and measures of our
own party are concerned, they shall be
treated frith impartiality and candor, and
if they mistake this for captiousness, the
fault will he their own, not ours, for we-
have only the public interest to serve and
advance, and have no motive for being
either prejudiced or partial.
So much for the harmony which some
of our friends in the local "press are ask-
ing us not to disturb by quarrels which
we have never engaged iu and never
dreamed of.
Tlie Court Jlouse and Couiity Record*
Destroyed.
BIG FIRE AT LiUVREKCEVIIiliE.
"We learn from Mr. Rogers, of this city,
who was at Lawrenceville night before
last, that tho Court- House at that place,-
together with all the County Records,
were destroyed. Tho fire occurred at
about 1 o’clock, and before the town was
aroused it had made such headway that
it was impossible to save auything of
value.
This was undoubtedly tho act of an-
incendiary. A man was arrested on-
suspicion. He was under bond to answer
for some criminal offense. He had a box
of matches and a pistol on his person-
Several men left town on horseback as
soon as the alarm was given, and went
off shouting and firing off pistols. It is -
believed that thoy are the gang which
did the work.
The Superior Court was to have open
ed there yesterday, and-this man’s casa..
would have been brought lip.
Considerable excitement prevails, and
strong efforts will be made to capture -
the incendiaries.
United States District Court.
The tribunal met at the Court-house
yesterday morning, and was organized
and proceeded to business at once. The_>
prompt attendance of the jurors was ft’
gratifying fact, and prevented any delay
in the proceedings. . Only one case was
tried, and that was for illicit distilling.—
The prisoner plead guilty, and was sen
tenced to imprisonment iuEulton county
jail.
The charge of Judge Erskine to the
Grand Jury, was rather lengthy, but a:
very able document. Wo regret that we
cannot lay it before our readers this
morning.
The following - is the list of Grand and’
Transverse. Juriors drawn for the term:
GRAND JURY.
Archibald Howell., Foreman, Cobby.
Hugh W. Houston, Clerk, Troup; A. C.
H. Griffith, Campbell; A. H. Jackson,.
Clark; Jas. R. Sanders, Greene; W. T.
Lane, Fulton; John Holt, Gilmer; G. W.
D. Cook, Fulton; Q. M. Landrum, Fay
ette; J. D. Walker, Gilmer; Ed. Ban
croft, Clark; Raleigh Hightower, Henry;
J. W. Zaeliry, Rockdale;3ozeman H-
Adair, Paulding: James Bray, Haber
sham; Elisha Elliott-, Newton; Jas. J.
Burt, Dawson; Jno. W. Pruitt, Banks;.
B. F. Hawkins, Bartow; B. B. Alfred,.
Troup; Theodore F. Goldsmith, Bartow;..
J. S. Gilbert, Fulton; J. N. Beach, Bar
tow.
TRANSVERSE OB PETIT JURY.
C. E. Grenville, Foreman, Fulton;
J. W. Bennan, Troup ; Max Franklin,
Troup; I. N. Hamsick, Clayton ; A. Ci.
McIntosh, Cobb; J. M. Stephen?, Chero
kee; Ben Outw'ell, Forsyth; Francos M.-
Hays, Newton; Dan Lowry Jr., B-irtow;
W. H. Bonner, Gordon; A. C. Russell,
Coweta; W. J. Waites, Fulton;
A very large majority of the criminal'-
docket is for illicit distilling. The Jail -
was full last night of offenders of this
kind.
“It is said,” says the New York
Globe “that Judge Watts, the new Com
missioner of Agriculture, is weeding out-
the Democrats and half-way Republicans,
which, like parsley, have crept into his
department, chokiug down the true-blue-
loyalists. What could be more appropri
ate than the weeding out of the Agricul
tural Bureau?” Before he went fit Judge-
Watts said that he should run tho Bu- -
reau iu the interest of uo party; hut it
seems that something has occurred to
change his mind, and it would no’ he sur
prising if he should finally agree to take-
a hand in the cultivation of the usual.
Radical crop—cabbwje.