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ffg DAILY SUN. nbitehfA by tlie Atlanta Sun Publishing ‘ Company. AlcT.tnder H. Stephen*, V«Iiib»ld M. Speights, 'r llenly Smith, Proprietors. ^ulcr H. Stephens, Political Editor. , g. Watson, - - - - News Editor, r* Henlv'Sinith, General Editor and Busi ness Manager. Local Editor! WILLIAM H. MOOKE. J. M. vr. Traveling Agent* i •prrT.T^ J. W. HEARD, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1871. .■.-'•oraEr;~gr The Outlook, in Kentucky.” \Tji. EstELL, ^ r- ’ jgjSvnfor tale. News Agent, Savannah, keeps Agents tor The San, Thomas N. Hopkins, Thon-.asvme, Oa. James Allen Smith, Knoxville, Tenn. Pats Bell, Athens, Ga. jobs T. Roberts, Atlanta, Ga. j L. Wright. Woodstock, Ga. j G Caldwell, Thomson, Ga. G> Hamilton, Dalton, Ga. w C. Davis, Jr., Eatonton, Ga. TaW-ak. Mapp & Co., White Plains, Green Co., Ga j I, Smith, Chattanooga, Tenn. HOW TO REMIT MONEY. _;ii po responsible for the safe arrival of all , cn t ns by Money Order, by Registered Ret • ? 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Terms or Subscription = DA.IIj-S’: Three Months 2 ™ One Month 70 * WEEKLY PER ANNUM Single Copy,.... • Three Copies * Ten " Iwcuty “ Fifty. •• ; StogU Copies SQUARES. i WEEK 2 WEEKS 3 WEEKS 1 MONTH. 1 square $ 3 60 $ 6 UU $ 7 60 $ 8 50 2 .. 6 00 0 00 12 50 15 00 3 « 7 50 12 00 1G 00 18 00 4 0 00 10 f,0 20 00 24 00 i “ 11 00 18 00 22 00 27 00 C « 12 00 20 00 2G 00 30 00 7 .. 14 00. 22 00 23 0 0 33 00 8 •• 16 00 24 00 31 00 36 Or 9 •* 18 00 27 00 33 00 38 00 10 *• 20 00 30 00 36 00 40 00 11 «* 22 00 32 00 38 00 42 00 12 « 24 00 35 00 40 00 44 00 ;; Colmn 27 00 38 00 43 00 47 00 1 Colmn 40 00 65 00 65 00 75 00 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 lines of solid Noupereii typo, or oecupying that ^ as.the only sure hope of correcting much space] for the first insertion, and 50 cents for .U ' x __ ° 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 ? 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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- Tcrms of ■A.cLvovtisIng'. space] each aubscip.u-ut insertion. Advertisements in the Local Column marked with an asterisk, (*) will he charged 25 cents per line each insertion. Advertisements under the Special Notlco head leaded) for less time than one week, will be charged cents per line. , " , J6S“ Advertisements, except for established, busi ness houses, in this city, must bo paid for in ad- vance . , No reduction will be made on the above rates for quarterly, semi-annnaldr' yearly advertisements. 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. i —__ 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. ) .nfcal .el' hatoqathili hoot wttW 1 j lo '£trio{*ai « iaifi -woai sw css ill m/iH ] j ,8881 <n WioIJ k> wsioT ** F-oiev o) wwf In if Is 1 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.