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THE DAILY SUN
Wednesday Morning Sepi ember 20.
Persons who believe Hon. A. EL
S^pbens capable of successfully per
forming the role of prophet, will no
doubt be strengthened in that belief, by
reading the following extract from one of
his speeches, delivered in 1862:
Mott of th« wealth ot th- North cornea from us.
* * * New York is brick aud mortar,
else. If the war laats it will be no better than the
arid plains of Babylon. * * • Their wealth
comes from the two hundred aad fifty miUioaa sold
us, just as the wealth ot £«ypt comes from the de
posits of the Nile. * * * Htham is powerful, but
cotton is more powerful. Forty thousand seamen
arc employed in the transportation of cotton alone.
* * * liarlut led six hundred thousaud troops
a-rainet the Grecian States. Eleven thousand met
their host* and put them to flight, having sixty
thousand dead upon the field. * * * No people
in the wotldhavc such a productive capital aa the
South. • • • Four million bales of cotton arc
worth tiOd.OOO.OO". • » * Unless there la »
change or revolution in tire North, 1 should not
wonder if, in three years, Lincoln and his Cabluet
came to the guillotine or the gallows.
To-day, in the light of events, this
reads like the ravings of a madman; ye
it "was even more plausible then than are
the doctrines Mr. 8. now daily preaches—
that the engines which move the world
can be reversed, and the world itself sent
whirling back into a dead decade.
We clip the above from the Memphis
Avalanche of the 13/A insl., and very re
spectfully say to the editors of that jour
nal, that the “ravings” which he attri-
utes to Mr. Stephens in 1862, are uothing
but forgeries and base fabrications from
beginning to end. Mr. Stephens never
uttered any such words or sentiments in
his life—nor are the doctriues which Mr.
Stephens really and in truth taoglit in
18G2, or now, to be put down by any such
tricks as the editors of the Avalanche,
and others of our cotemporaries, are of
late resorting to. When public journals
abandon the field of argument and be
take themselves not only to direct mis
representation, but the publication of
forgeries, sensible men will soon regard
their tirades as little above the “ravings’
' of madmen! A. H. S.
States, or ma i° r ’
as they,fMdld. should aedareJM* etiact-
meut adopted, (lot in inch manner was
the XfV and XV amendment* declared
adopted in the Southern States); that it
ras then promulgated as such. This
‘New Departure” would then say oi this
o-called amendment that it was adopted
‘in the manner and by the authority
to soon fight»Araipion , i“ I “f n Te no. «t *
Mace, triTiSe horror. tW«»ve bo■
Southern and Western cities,
sparring exhibitions, and perhaps Savan
nah will be in his route.
What possible chance could Coburn
have in a “mill” with Harris, the re
nowned pugilist of the Is civs ? None
caped.
an hour and a. half later.
People are rushing from the scene of
disaster. Our camp is crowded with the
terror-stricken inhabitants from the
in our rear. Everybody is wait-
FK03I SAINT LOUIS.
A Correct View of tlie True Prin
ciples and Tendency of tUe New
Departure.
Editors of the Atlanta Sun: It is grati
fying to see, amid the present politic?!
degeneracy so prevalent, that there yet
remain a few public organs that have not
abandoned the cause of civil liberty and
given their adhesion to an iniquitous
doctrine .(so-called) whose only fruits
must, sooner or later, lead to centraliza
tion—a doctrine significatly called the
“New Departure.”
Nothing, indeed, could have been
more unfortunate, ill-timed and ruinous
to the welfare of onr country, or so
calculated to cripple, and, if generally
acquiesced in, even destroy, constitution
al republican government.
If the Democratic party is the party
of the Constitution, whose creed is that
the General Government was brought
into existence by the Constitution; that
that instrument confers certain definite
and specified powers, and that the Govern
ment can exercise no powers not dele
gated, or absolutely necessary to carry
into effect some power so delegated; if the
Democracy is the party of Jefferson, Madi
son, &c., holding to a strict constrnction of
the Constitution, which it received from
those who framed and adopted it; a con
struction under which the government
was conducted down to 1860; then this
new doctrine is, os it is called, a “depar
ture;” and in the history of the Demo
cratic party, a “new departure.” It is a
departure from Democratic faith and vir
tue, a falling in with, and sailing down,
the stream of Radical corruption, which
flows on—slowly it may be, but surely—
to Centralization, Despotism and Impe
rialism.
Those, then, who “depart,” cannot
complain that there remain some stead
fast to dutyi and that because they have
changed, others do not see fit to change
with them. Yet, they have so complain
ed, and from certain quarters comes the
bitterest invectives, because all who have
been Democrats do not renounce the
principles of the Democratic party, and
fall in with the “new departure.” Let
them but remember that they are the
traitors.
They say; Let the Democratic party
turn its attention to the living issues and
bury the dead issues. This is all • very
good; but what are the living and what
are the dead issues ? In a free country
the greatest living issue is the preserva
tion of a free Bepublican government;
in ours, the protection and preser
vation of a Federal Republic under
the Constitution, this issue can never
become dead. Especially is it a living
issue at a time like the present, when re
publican institutions are threatened and
are in danger of overthrew. This is the
living issue, and cannot be looked over
or consigned to an unnatural" death by
those who would lay it in au ignominious
f grave, while its enemies are diligently
obliterating all traces of its existence.—
The living issues, according to the “New
Departure,” is not this, but is such ques
tions as the tariff, civil service, reform,
&o„ &<L
These are, inth emselves, great ques
tions, but are all subordinate to the greater
question, shall we still have a Republican
Government ? Shall any party or set of
men by fraud and corruption, so amend
the Constitution as to destroy it ? Shall
Congress, by refusing to allow any State
its representation in Congress, and by
placing it under martial law, force such
State to adopt its measures, in the shape
__ of Constitutional Amendments ? The
“New Departure” says when this is done
it is done, and is legitimate. Then if it
can be done in one case, it furnishes
precedent for doing the same thing again,
where then will this lead to ? Reflect
but a moment. Congress, professing to
act by virtue of the XIV and XV Amend
ments has passed the Enforcement Act,
the Ku-Klux Bill, and other kindred and
equally iufamons acts. Suppose the
President should, in accordance with one
clause of the latter act, declare martial
law in the Southern States, and assign to
each a major-general. Then suppose that
Congress should propose an amendment
to the Constitution, declaring, for in
stance, that Grant shall be Emperor, and
Ins son to succeed him; that this so-
called amendment was submitted to the
And what matters it whether we have
a tariff for revenue, or a tariff for protec
tion, if we have not free government ?
If the Constitution is to be amended
away, and in its stead we are to have a
despotism, it may be that, pecuniarly,
it will be to them a boon, that a tariff for
revenue will practically be a tariff for
protection. The effect will be the same,
although called by a different name.
It is not to the XV amendment
that the Democracy object, because not
one in ten thousaud would ever consent
to the re-establishment of slavery; be
sides, the late slaves hold tlieir freedom
higher or her authority than that amend
ment, that is, by provisions of the State
Constitution; and his status as a freeman
having been jHeed by this, no State could
possibly, even if it were so desired,
again make him a slave. It is to those
portions of the XIV and XV amend
ments vesting all power in the general
government, that they are unalterably
opposed. They are opposed, also, to the
mode by which they were adopted (?)
opposed to having it go into history as a
precedent.
To the issues settled by the war, name
ly, that a State cannot secede as a practi
cal remedy for evils suffered in the Union,
the Avliole South acquiesces. This is the
true dead issue.
The people, I am gratified to observe,
iu this locality, are commencing to see
through the “New Departure” humbug;
and a policy which would pledge the
Democratic party to a system of fraud
and force, destructive alike of all free
government and all sense of justice, is
destined, as far as countenance from the
Democratic party is concerned, to
speedy a3 well as merited death.
At the same time there is something of
a contention between certain persons be
longing to the Radical party and some
who formerly affiliated with the Demo
crats—the latter trying to pull the former,
who are known as liberal Republicans
(Radicals) into what they call the Demo
cratic party; and the former trying to
bring the latter into the Radical parly.
From present prospects it looks as
though the Radicals would take these so-
called Democrats, body and soul—they
and their principles (if they know what
they are) into the Radical camp. This
may be a solution of the “New Depart
ure,” that is, as these gentlemen seem to
understand it—the Democratic party
going over to the Radical. J. D. S.
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 16,1871.
GEORGIA NEWS.
grtfitn.
The Middle Georgian of yesterday
yields the following items :
There were twenty baptised at the Bap
tist Church on Sunday night, by Rev.
Dr. DeVotie.
Two negro women got into an alterca
tion, and one cut the other severely with
a knife, causing her entrails to protrude.
An average corn crop has been made
in this section, but in many places the
com (has been blown down, and
there is a probability of its rotting on
the ground before it can be gathered, if
the rain continues..
SAVANNAH.
The following official statement of the
exports of Savannah, for the fiscal year
ending June 30th, is taken from the
Morning News, and is of interest to all
the people:
EXPORTS FOKEIGX—FOREIGN VESSELS.
Value.
Upland Cotton... Bales, 265,509 $18,508,355
Sea Island Cotton. Bales, 1,869
P. P. Timber and Lumber. ,M ft 14,461
Miscellaneous.
232,400
217,619
62,728
Total foreign exports in foreign vessels, 19,021,102
AMERICAN VESSELS.
Upland Cotton Bales, 197,456 13,605,076
Sea Island Cottom. Bales, 648 58,974
P. Timber aniFLuruber..Mft 6,043 124,920
Miscellaneous 47,830
Total foreign exports in American vess’ls 13,836,800
Total valnc of foreign exports.... 32,857,902
EXPORTS COASTWISE.
Upland Cotton Bales, 258,326
Sea Island Cotton Bales, 4,424
1,726
18,437
Domestics
Lumber
Hides
Miscellaneous.
140,021
Total coastwise exports. 23,057,663
Total foreign exports 32,857,902
Grand total value of exports for year
ended June 30, 1871 $55,915,565
Value of exports for year ended
June 30, 1870.. 58,850,198
Decrease 2,934,633
Bales of cotton shipped..
Previous year.
Increase..
223,613
The JNews of Monday hn« these para
graphs:
A new telegraph office has been opened
at Fleming (No. 2), on the Atlantic and
Gulf Road, and that little village is now
in communication with the rest of the
world.
There was a difficulty between two col
ored seamen by the names of Charles
Cole and Isaac Havelow, in which the
latter received a cut, from the effects of
which he has since died.
Jo^oburn, the great pugilist, who is
upon Maj. * Hargrove, for the defense
arose and said that the proposition was
acceptable, coming a* it <Hd, from the
prosecution, and further remarked that
he and his client were ready at any mo
meii to give an account of all the money
tint had ever come into Maj. McCalla’s
Ends. Being thus agreed to, the inves
ligation was postponed indefinitely.
We think it likely that this is the last
if any prosecution of McCalla, and that
"iis suspension of proceedings is a vir-
ial abandonment of the case, and ive
lall never more hear tell of it.
This abandonment of the prosecution
[as turned all the tide of public opinion,
•hich seemed to have set in against him,
|ery strongly in his favor. The public
:e seeing the correctness of the points
lised by us in our Monday’s issue:
That he would not have procured the
[rrests of those against whom he has
[referred such serious charges, if he him-
ilf were guilty:
That it was not only- not his duty to
lake any entries iu the Treasurer’s books,
>ut his imperative duty not to make such
(ntries.
And that the fact of no entries what-
|ver having been made on the books was
le very highest evidence of his having
itended to do right.
These points seem to be visibly im
pressed on the public mind, and every-
>ody, nearly, expresses the fullest confi-
lence in his integrity. This is the drift
>f public opinion now.
TELEGRAMS.
Turin, September 19.—The municipal
ity of Turin gave a bauquit to-day in
lonor of the completion of the Mont
enis Tunnel. The representatives of
[he Governments who participated in the
ceremonies of the formal opening were
present.
Vienna, September 19.—A ministerial
crisis here is imminent.
Baron Lingeran has been appointed
ibassador Extraordinary to St. Peters-
Jurg.
Paris, September 19.—The Paris forts
tire to be formally surrendered by the
xermau occupants to the French to-mor-
|:ow.
The four departments contiguous to
?aris follow immediately.
| Arniih and Thiers settles the details of
peace convention to-day.
Berlin, September 19.—The German
Irrny will be placed upon a peace footing
Immediately, and reduced to the effective
Strength of four hundred thousand men.
r on*Moltke has been created Marshal of
the Empire.
I London, September 4=9.—The hop
prop is small, being 'one-third of au av
erage crop.
The. Morning Advertiser has an article
Imputing the blame for the Corean war
|o the Americans. It says the result of
le recent battle will be the driving of
areiguers from the country. It also
jiys England will not-join the United ^ ,,
tates bo«ftU0o eLo w^o -oonoiiltAflJbe- while St.ntAat.Lm-a appac-i-g fry he
ire the Rogers expedition entered Core
|n waters.
The cholera is increasing at Konigs-
|urg. The ratio of deaths has ai
med from fifty to seventy and even
Ifghty per cent.
George Alexander Hamilton, perma-
snt Secretary of tne Treasury, under
lie Derby Government, is dead.
The Postal Money Order System, be-
veen the United States and Great Brit-
will commence October the 2d.
Cincinnati, September 19.—The Pres-
lent reviewed the military,police and fire
departments this morning. At noon he
ras introduced on ’Change and spoke
briefly, expressing gratification at meet
ing this reception from the people and,
11 the more, because it was from the
people of a great nation and .not from
lose of a divided country.
Charleston, Sept. 19.—One fever
leatk has occurred in the last twenty-
Vir hours.
rTbs Board of Health, after a thorough
jivestigation of the eight wards of the
fty, publishes the following statement:
“The reports from the various wards
low the city to be in a remarkably
leal thy condition, even when compared
pith years when no yellow fever existed,
the number of cases of yellow fever Id
lourse of treatment does not exceed an
Iverage of two in each ward, and the
(mmber of persons sick from other causes
astonishingly few.”
Baltimore, September 19.—The nine-
leentk triennial conclave of the Grand
Encampment of Knights Templar con
vened hero to-day. The ceremonies took
[lace in Masonic Temple. The speech of
Welcome was made by John H. B. La-
1'obe, Grand Master of Maryland, and
jas responded to by Sir Knight, Wm.
|ewall Gardner, Grand Commander of
ie Grand Encampment of the United
fates.
The entire city is decorated with Ma-
tmic emblems.
’ President Grant has accepted an invi-
ktion to visit the Carroll County Agri-
altural Fair, October 3.
Bosxoir, September 19.—The Journal
authorized to say that Senators Sum-
ler and "Wilson deeply regret and deplore
Butler’s course. His nomination would
fe hostile to the best interests of Mas-
ichusetts.
The small pox continues with numer
ous fatal cases. A temporary hospital
jas been erected. A red flag by day and
• r ed light by night are used to designate
ifected places.
New York, September 19.—A meeting
9f Democrats who are opposed to Tam
many was held last night. It was pre
sided over by Sami. G. Courtney, District
attorney under Johnson. Among those
[present were Ben. Hood, ex-Sheriff
[O’Brien and Congressman Roosevelt.
All is quiet at the City Hall this morn
ing'
General George B. McClellan declines
I to accept the office of Comptroller be
cause he would thereby, under existing
I circumstances, become a contestant for
I the position. Had Mr. Connolly resign-
1 ed, he would, under ceatain stipulations
[have accepted.
LATER.
The committee of seventy has just
Iheld a meeting and adopted resolutions
[sustaining Mr. Green.
The latter has issued a notice that the
I interest on stocks and bonds of the cor-
1 poration, falling due on the first of No
vember, will be paid by the City Cham
berlain, in the new court house, on that
day, and that the transfer books wifi t
closed on Wednesday. De
A letter from Richard O’Gormau .
the Mayor, says, in relation to the action
of the latter concerning the matter of
the Comptroller’s office, he should be
governed more by considerations 0 f ei
pediency and sound policy than by those
of merely strictly right or legal p 0Wer _
He cannot advise the Mayor to take anv
steps that may lead to complicated le
gation. He advises him to treat Con no L
ly as Comptroller. If he does not think
him entitled to fill the office dejure, treat
him as Comptroller de facto. This course
be thinks, will prevent financial difficul
ties and the continuance of that excite
ment and sense of insecurity which a
prolonged legal controversy would inten
sify. .
There was excitement in Wall street
to-day, caused by manipulations for high
er notes of interest, and before the close
of bank hours call loan notes were nut up
to 7. For the first time in months they
were up to the legal rate of interest—an
advance in money not warranted by the
legitimate demand.
At one time during the afternoon it
was reported that a large city bank had
called in its loans (about $5,000,000) and
agreed, for a consideration, not to lend
any money for a specified time. This re
port, which was not without its influence
was authoritatively denied at the close.
The gold syndicate made another suc
cessful squeeze iu cash gold. At au early
hour the syndicate and its Canadian bank
and other friends called in their gold pre
viously loaned and sent into the gold
room, to beat furiously and iu au extrav
agant manner for the use of cash gold.—
By this device the borrowing rate for
cash gold was run up to f and 7-16.
Bichard O’Gorman, counsel for the
corporation, has written a second letter to
the Mayor, saying, since the decision of
Judge Barnard in “Foley vs. the Mayor
and others,” in which he gave quasi
judicial sanction to rumors which had
been rife in the city of gross extrava
gance in some of the bills presented by
various contractors, and paid out of the
city fund, it seems to him proper that
the coiporation take effective legal steps
to recover these moneys, if sufficient evi
dence can be obtained to sustain action.
He asks for instructions.
The Mayor responds substantially leav
ing the matter to O’Gorman’s discretion,
knowing that he will perform his duty
regardless of consequences outside of his
duty’s sphere.
Washington, September 19. — The
mixed Claims Commission, under the
treaty of Washington, will meet in this
city next Monday. It consists of Russell
Guerney, Commissioner; Henry Howard,
Agent, and James M. Carlisle, Counsel
lor, on the part of Great Britain; and
Judge Janies O'. Frazer, Commissioner;
and Hon. Robert S. Hale, Agent and
Counsellor for the United States.
The Secretary of War to-day designa
ted a Court Martial, to try Hodge, the
defaulting Paymaster. Gen. Meade is
President of the Court.
IgTlie General Ku-Klux Congressional
Committee will meet to-morrow.
The sub-committee has prepared a re
port upon the financial condition of the
Southern States. The finances of North
and South Carolina, Georgia and Louisi
ana art, reported to be in a bad condition,
an improvement. The sub-committee
will also report on the election laws of
the Southern States, giving their most
most essential features.
The General Committee, to-morrow,
will consider a future course of action in
volving the questions as to whether the
sub-comroittee shall be sent South to take
testimony, or whether it shall be taken
here.
Reported Killed.
Joseph Fry left the city last Sunday
for parts unknown. The report is circu
lating round town that he has been
hilled. We cannot say authoritatively,
who started this report, or what the ob
ject is. We think it safe to give it as
our opinion, that Fry is not dead, and
that Foster Blodgett, and perhaps others,
have induced him to leave. If, in any
trial hereafter, he should testify, as he
already has, it is certainly to Capt.
Blodgett’s interest for him never to
testify.
No doubt this is one of Foster’s bung
ling tricks. He is considered sharp on
sly tricks and cunning schemes, and
has been dubbed “The Augusta Mink,”
but all his tricks and schemes to hide the
rascalities of the “ring,” have been
bungling botchwork, and will fail in the
end, most signally. Such, at. any rate,
is our hope.
Before any arrests were made, when
very few persons knew that any actual
trace of the plunder had been found,
and while those, who had been quietly
but earnestly pursuing the matter, were
urging the delinquents and defaulters
to pay up, au agreement was made with
certain parties that on a certain day some
$35,000 or other large sum should be re
funded; and Foster Blodgett himself
seemed very anxious for the settlement
to be made, and agreed to pay $20,000,
if all investigation could be hushed up
and kept from the public.
The day passed, and the money was
not refunded, whereupon the parti e3
were notified in writing, that arrests
would be made, unless the restitution
was made by the following Tuesday, (this
was on Friday;) and late Saturday, or
very early on Sunday, Foster Blodgett,
of his own motion, without consulting
those who were pressing the investiga
tion and in violation of an agreement with
them, had Fry very quietly arrested and
bound over in a sum of $250! andb)
next train—Sunday evening—-on the
State Road, Fry left.
But the train was intercepted that
night at Bellwood, by Foster Blodgett,
and Fry was brought back, remaining
at Blodgett’s house that night.
morning be voluntarily appeared beior
Judge Smith, and gave bond in the sum
of $2,000, and took the next train going
West. ,
We mention these matters connecter
Fry’s first arrest, and his leaving tu
city, because they point to Blodgett a
having something to do with his pi‘ e3eu
absence.