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T HE AT L A NT A - WEEKLY SUN.
THE DAILY SUN.
Thursday Morning September 21,
TJ»e Isplits of 1S72 anil the Unity
of the Democratic Party.
We said the other day that-the folding
and chv'f issue in the contest of 1872 will
be Constitutionalism against Centralism,
and that it is essential for_ the Constitu
tional or Democratic Party, first, to be
thoroughly united upon the principles
which control this leading issue. In re
ply to the 2io- s il> on of some, that this
unity must first be brought about by an
unreserved acceptance of “the results or
fruits of the war," on the part of the
South, in order to satisfy the demands
of the Northern Democracy, we have
only to repeat what wo have often here
tofore said: that the Southern Democ
racy do accept, and in the most perfect
goal faith, all the actual results of the tear,
whether legitimate orothencise. By “the
war,” wc mean the tear against secession.
We have heretofore shown what these
results were. We have shown most
clearly and indisputably that they
do not include any of the acts of usur
pation by the Bump Congress after
the war against secession had fully ac
complished all its objects—and after the
Union, nuder the Constitution, was com
pletely restored—or, after (in the lan
guage of Mr. Liucoln,) “the restoration
of all tho States to Llieir practical rela
tions to tho Union, under the Constitu
tion.” This was in 18C5. It was then
that peace was declared. It was then,
and upon the Proclamation of that fact,
that all the States were entitled to their
voice in the Federal Councils: At that
time tho war had fully accomplished all
of its.xesults and had gathered all of its
fruits. No change in the status of Parties
to auy war, affecting their rights on either
side, can be justly or properly claimed
as the result of that war, which was not
accomplished during the period it lasted,
and before the declaration of peace. No
result, in this respect, can ever go further
than that allowed by the principle of
“uti possidetis.” The utmost extent of
tho principle is, that all parties to a war
shall remain as they stood at the end of
the war.
If “tcar legislates,” it never “legislates”
beyond this well-settled principle.
The Southern Democracy, therefore, do
accept in good faith all the results of the
war against secession.
But wo have shown that, since this war
was cuded, another war has bean waged,
and’is still waging, against the Constitu
tion, the object of which is the over
throw of the entire fabric of free institu
tions in this country.
Tho claimed results of this war the
Southern Democracy do not accept, and
never will, further than to yield obedi
ence to the acts of usurpation on the part
of the Ruling Dynasty, so long as they
ore clothed with power to execute their
de facto, but not dejure, measures. They
hold those measures to be gross usurpa
tions, and as such should be so deemed by
all friends of liberty for all time to come.
TVe believe, further, that there is perfect
unity now between the masses of the
Northern Democracy and Southern De
mocracy on this point.
It would be a gross imputation
upon the integrity and patriotism of the
Northern Democracy, and especially upon
that class known as War Democrats, to
suppose that they look upon any of these
usurpations of -the Rump Congress as
the result of the war in which they en
gaged ! or that they desire to share in
any such “fruits.” They fought for the
maintenance of tho Union, under the
Constitution, and not for its overthrow !
To suppose that the gallant Morgan, of
Ohio, or Davis, of Pennsylvania, to say
nothing of tho others of the thousands
of Wav Democrats at the North, look
upon these late usurpations of Congress
as the proper results or fruits of the
war in which they engaged, is equiva
lent to supposing that they are as untrue
to themselves, and their own “honor,” as
to tho Constitution. The truth is, they
look upon these measures very much as
we do.
Then we see no difficulty in bringing
about a perfect unity of tho Democracy,
North and South, upon the results of the
war.
All that is necessary is a clear under
standing of what these results are, and a
discrimination between them and the
claimed results of the war now waging
against tho Constitution. No Democrat
in the Union believes that the 14th and
15th Amendments, so cuffed,to the Consti
tution, are rightful results of the war
against secession—or have been right
fully incorporated in the Federal Com
pact. Where, then, is there any difficul
ty in effecting perfect unity in the De
mocracy everywhere upon tho results
of tho war? Are they not now thus
united, and is the “New De
parture” move anything but a derice to
divide them on it ? A. H. S.
eighth regular toast, which was:
“To the Alumni oil tho second quarter
of the present century—they present
mar.y heroic names, of whom our Alma
Mater may justly fed proud; but to indi
vidualize them might seem invidious.
Let us cherish the memories of the dead,
and let us love the living. We have a
heart for all our Alumni, of whatever
party or creed; a mother’s full heart
goes out to each and to all.”
Mr. President and Gentlemen: The
blood of the mother ever courses in the
veins of her children—her intellect re
produces itself in their brains. I feci,
therefore, that I can reflect no greater
honor on our Alma Mater than to recall
the names and recount the deeds of head
and heart of sons bom of her blood and
nourished by her intellect during the
second quarter of a century of her hie—
tlif> -npriod covered bv the toast to which
A SPEECH OP RAKE INTER
EST.
Remarks of the Hon. James
Jackson at the Alumni Ban
quet. Alliens, Ga. } 31st
US 71. _________
From the Farmer ana Artisan.
The following speech will be read with
the deepest interest by many hundreds,
and even thousands, all through the
Southern States, from the Potomac to the
Rio Grande:
lion. James Jackson responded to the
the period covered by
yon call me to respond.
Following the example jnst set me by
mv distinguished friend (Judge Hams)
I begin with the first class of that pe
riod—the class of 182G:
Two names on its roll are sufficient of
themselves to immortalize our illustrious
Alma Mater. The one is Daniel Chan
dler, who, in a great address delivered
before this University, gave the first im
petus to female education, and the mon
ument to whose memory is the beautiful
sisterhood of colleges, academies and
schools throughout the South, whence
educated woman is annually sent to adorn
and sweeten our home life. The other
still survives, and as the head of the bar
of New Orleans—preferring private sta
tion and poverty with the. South to the
robes of high office and wealth with her
enemies—as the head of that bar, and in.
that private station he reflects as much
honor upon the name of John A. Camp
bell as when on the Supreme bench of
the United States, he was the peer of the
proudest that sat by his side I
Sir, during this period of her existence
our Alma Mater gave birth to statesmen
illustrious on the high arena of national
politics. I name hut two. The one is
Alexander H. Stephens, who won the
proud appellation of the Great Com
moner of the South in the Federal Leg
islature, and who, unable longer to stand
upon his feet and pour the eloquence of
truth and patriotism into the popular
ear, traces, at Liberty Hall, with tremb
ling' pen, lines of immortal thought and
historic interest. The other has de
scended into the grave—a grave wet with
more tears than ever fell before on corpse
of public man.- Dear to me, sir, he was,
as was David to Jonathan; I revere the
grandeur of his intellect and the great
ness of his heart—the one exhibited in
the high positions he adorned, the other
in that constant flow of charity which
caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy
and the orphan’s eye to dauce with glee.
Need I mention his name? Connected
with this university as pupil and trustee
from Boyhood to the grave, and spring
ing now from every heart to every lip,
need I say I allude to Howell Cobb?
Sir, during this period our Alma Ma
ter gave birth to Governors of States.
Again, I name but two. Both, with
talents befitting their exalted stations,
uniting the virtues of private life, the
accomplishments of. Christian manhood
and the purity of unsullied honor and
honesty. The one is Herschel V. John
son, ex-Govemor of Georgia; the other
is the class-mate of my distinguished
friend near me, Judge Yason, and»my
own class-mate, John Gill Shorter, Gov
ernor of Alabama.
Sir, during this period, our Alina Ma
ter gave birth to Princes in Israel—illus
trious watchmen on the heights of Zion.
Again, I name but two. The one is
George F. Pierce, the Bishop of my own
church, under whose matchless eloquence
I sat at Oxford but the other Sabbath,
bathed in tears, and not ashamed of my
weakness, because all other eyes which
met mine were wet too; the other is
Benjamin M. Palmer, who sits now in
our presence, and whose power we aE
felt yesterday, and at whose feet I had
designed to. lay a little chaplet of flowers,
but the distinguished President of the
Board of Trustees, (Gov. Jenkins,) and
tho accomplished Cnancellor of the Uni
versity, (Dr. Lipscomb,) have scattered
them so profusely, yet tastefully, around
and over him, that I find no vacant spot
for my humbler offering.
Sir, daring this period our Alma Ma
ter made judges who fiUed the Bench
with ability and-dignity, and preserved
the ermine spotless in purity. Again I
name but two, Judges of Georgia’s Su
preme Court, whose opinions and judg
ments wEl live on her records forever.
The one is Henry L. Benning, of Colum
bus; the other, is Linton Stephens, of
Sparta.
Sir, during the same period, our Alma
Mater give birth to lawyers of power and
erudition sufficient to make a hundred
judges. Again I name hut two. The
one is Robert Toombs, of whom our la
mented Chief Justice Lumpkin said that
ho was the most powerful intellect he
ever saw in a court room; the other is
Wm. Hope Hull, who sits near me, most
worthy of aU the men I know to wear
the robe which feU so becomingly around
the person of that accomplished lawyer
and spotless Judge.
Sir, during the same period, our Alma
Mater gave birth to physicians, who, in
the more quiet walks and retired circles
of life, administered the healing art to
suffering humanity, soothed the sorrows
of the sick and smoothed the pElow of
the dying. Again I name but two—
deeply read in the science of medicine,
and whose name and fame as great doc-
tom are commensurate with the State.
The one is Dr. Paul E. Eve, of Augusta:
the other is Dr. Richard D. Moore, of
Athens; identified with this University as
pupil and Trustee from boyhood to this
moment, he sits quietly at this Board,
but hopes as high and works as earnestly
for the old Mother as any child she has
borne.
Sir, during thisperiod, our Alma Mater
made the men who themselves have made
Alumni. Great teachers and professors
have been born from her womb. Passing
by those who dwell within the curtilage
of her mansion and who minister at her
altars here—passing by another very dis
tinguished name, Professor Sanford, of
Mercer University—again I recall to your
memory but two illustrious names. Sir,
they have carried the fame of Georgia’s
J ulv ■ University to the far distant Pacific,
where the one as President, and the oth
er as Professor, of the University of Cal
ifornia, illustrate the blood and the brains
of this “Grand old Alma Mater,” nay,
sir, more; wherever science is apprecia
ted, ami scientific works are read, this, or
the other side of the broad Atlantic, the
names of Drs. John and Joseph Lecomte
are familiar as household words. Let
Georgia bring them back. Let this,
their mother, recall them to her bosom
to her in her new march to wider
fields of victory, under better auspices
and more Hberal endowment.
But, sir, were I to go on with this roll of
honor daring this period of our Alina
Mater’s history, to-morrow’s sun would
rise upon me stfil repeating the names
and recalling to mind the talents and
achievements, in every walk of useful
life, of those sods whom she gave to
Georgia, to the South, to mankind and
to God. There is one other class I may
not omit—heroes who fell on battle fields
of victory were born to her here. I name
again but two. The one is Francis S.
Bartow, the able lawyer, the cultivated
scholar, the accomplished gentleman, the
noble hero who fell in the arms of victo
ry on the plains of first Manassas; the
other is Thomas R. R. Gobb, the only
universal genius I have ever seen. Law
yer, scholar, statesman, soldier, orator,
Christian, patriot, it was his to complete
the circle of human virtues and to fill
the measure of inteEectual prowess.
Everywhere equal to everything lie tried
to do, and trying to do only what his
great heart told him was right, he too
feE in the arms of victory on the heights
of Fredericksburg, in sight of the house
where his mother was bom. “Par no-
bile fratrum /”
One thought, Mr. President, and I
have done. If, while struggling with
poverty, fed by Georgia, when fed at all,
with a niggardly hand, our Alma Mater
has produced such sons as these, what
wiE she not accomplish when enriched
with that endowmeut of a million of
money for which our hearts now pant,
and which our hands must secure for her?
Sir, mingling our hearts together in love
for her around this festive board, let us
pledge our hands to the work, and with
one vigorous, determined, united effort,
each in his place, yet all together, we
shall lift her above every want, and make
her rich in endowment and enlarged ca
pacity for good—the equal of the proud
est University in all the land.
lars per acre, are now commanding from
one hundred to one thousand dollars per
acre.
The building of street railways from
the center to the circumference of our
city, along the main thoroughfares, wiE
give a great impetus to the building up
of villas and suburban settlements. In
order to accomphsh the greatest results,
in this direction, it is desirable that those
who hold lands, in excess of their own
wants, should seE such surplus to those
who wiE improve and cultivate them.
Progress.
WASHINGTON CORRESPON
DENCE.
MARKET HARDENING! NEAR ATLANTA.
VEGETABLES—FK.UITS—JO AIRIES.
ACTUAL RESULTS.
By inquiry of Dr. O. J. Register, of
this city, who has had several years ex
perience in raising vegetables for the
Atlanta market, we have been famished
by him with the following facts, with
reference to the product of five acres of
land cultivated in the several articles
named, aE of which were sold in the At
lanta market.
The five acres were subdivided, as fol
lows: - . . .
One acre, first crop, 10,000
early York cabbages, sold at
10 cents eacb $1,000 00
Same land, Becond crop, 200 bu.
turnips, 75 cents per bush.. 150 00
Value of product $1,150 00
3d acre, first crop, 250 bush.
Irish potatoes, $3 per bush. 750 00
Same land, 2d crop, 450 doz. corn,
12% cents per doz. .... 53 12%
Value of product 8u3 12%
3d acre, first crop, 300 bush.
onions, $2per bush... 600 00
Same land, 2d crop, 200 bush.
turnips, 75 cents per bush.. 150 00
Value of product
Half acre, first crop, 50 bush.
beaus, $3 per bush 150 00
Half acre, first crop, 2,000 bch.
beets, 10 cents per bunch... 200 00
Same land, 2d crop, 200 bush.
turnipB, 75 cents per bush,.. 150 00
Value of product..
5th acre, carrots, parsnips, to
matoes, etc 200 00
Total product of the five acres
From which the following
deductions aie made:
For threo hands, 12 months, at 75
per mouth
For expense of horse and wagon
000 00
150 00
For seeds -io'UD‘1
150 00
For tools .'
25 00
For baskets, etc
5 00
For 250 loads stable and slaughter
pen manure, 50 cents per
load
125 00
For guano.:*...
90 00 $1,445 00
750 co
600 00
3,403 12%
Net profits .‘...$1,958 12%
Leaving net profits the handsome sum
of nearly two thousand dollars from the
cultivation of five acres of Fulton county
land! "What has been accomplished by
Dr. Register can -be done by other gar
deners of intelligence and industry.—
Every acre of land within five miles of
Atlanta should be placed in a thorough
state of cultivation, without delay, giving
to the city one magnificent garden, thirty
miles in circumference.
ORCHARDS.
We are informed by gentlemen who
have given special attention to the science
of pomology, that an acre of land set in
the best varieties of apple trees wiE uro
duce, when in full bearing, 600 bushels
of apples, or more, worth in the Atlanta
market from one to two doEars per bushel
Say one dollar per bnshel $600
One acre in standard pears, 400 bushels, worth
about $2 per bnshel in this market, say $1.50
per bushel... 600
One acre of dwarf pears, 300 bushels, $1.50 per
bushel 450
One acre in peaches, 600 bushels, $1.00 per
buBhel 600
One acre in other fruits 500
$2,650
650
From this must bo deducted for cultivation,
marketing fruit, &c., say
Leaving as net profits $2,000
It is said that strawberries wEl pro
duce 1700 gallons to the acre, worth from
one to two dollars in the Atlanta market—
say one doEar—§1700; from which ex
penses must be deducted—say §300,
leaving a net profit of §1400.
THE GREATEST PROFITS
may be obtained, however, by combin
ing a dairy farm, orchard and vegetable
garden. This combination would sup
ply the gardens with manure and the
laborers with milk and butter, and a
large surplus for the market; the dairy,
perhaps, yielding enough income to pay
the current expenses of the whole estab
lisliment.
Fulton County is capable of producing
all the milk, butter, fine fruits and vege
tables consumed in the Atlanta market,
thereby keeping at home, for the im
provement of her local interests, and the
enhancement of her wealth, hundreds of
thousands of dollars annuaEy, which are
now remitted to distant markets in pay
ment for these products. If produced at
home Jresh, choice butter, fruits and
vegetables wiE be abundant, and there
will no longer exist any necessitv for the
nse of the stale (and often unhealthy)
vegetables and butter now sold in oiir
market.
Atlanta is now a large city, aud in ten
years from date may number one hun
dred thousand in population.
Handsome fortunes have been realized
from the growth and extensions of the
city already.
Suburban lands, that were sold, ten I him names, abuse liis mot h
and twelve years ago, for five and ten dol-
Important Letter from Cato.
Read It and Ponder It:
Washington, September 15,1871.
At the time I write, numerous, and (as
the partisan newspapers have it) “as
tounding” frauds, peculations, stealings,
(or “irregularities,” as they are sometimes
termed, according as the shoe pinches,)
are rife. The “crop,” as to its vast yield
now harvesting, wiE have been reported
to yon long before this letter reaches At
lanta; hut a fresh “crop,” as the New
York World terms it, wiE be ready for
the sickle to suit aE conveniences of let
ter-writers. The land is as fertEe as the
banks of the Nile. In truth this topic fur
nishes a never-failing means by which I
could if I chose, give a freshness to my let
ters, merely by an un derstanding between
me and The Sun Office, to the effect that
my remarks to-day, for example, should
be made to apply to another set of thieves
unearthed a week hence!—for they are
aE plain cases of larceny.
“Astounding” frauds, indeed! Why
should they be thus characterized ? Has
there not been an “astounding” war
waged against the Constitution, since the
against secession was over? And
does not this fact, pet' se, ‘furnish an am
pie covering for the multitude of trans
gressions against the seventh (7th) com
mandment, which we daily witness ? I
should Eke to he informed what outrage
“this late infernal war” would not justify.
Everything, however, by Radicals, is
laid to the charge of the Secession
war! I heard a man, the other day,
solemnly declare that the enormity of
Mormonism was attributable to Seces
sion: and he easily got rid of the- anach
ronism by supposing the seeds of the
disease to be floating about in the air,
after the manner of the passage of the
cholera, at the time Joe Smith estab
lished his temple at Nauvoo. So we are
met, on every hand, by excuses for aE
manner of political heresies, of the
greatest importance, by the cry of the
“legitimate results of the Secession war!
The 14th and 15th amendments are
claimed to be results of this war, when
it is knewn that they are nothing but
claimed results of the late war against the
Constitution.
Did it never enter into the thick skulls
of politicians (North and South, East
and West) that there can be no social
honesty where there is universal and
glaring political profligacy in the admin?
istration of Government- ? Law may jus
tify thefts, as it did in Sparta, and thereby
elevate dexterity into something like a
virtue; hut at this day—the day par ex
cellence of Christian progress—is it not
out of place and time to recognize Mer
cury as the presiding deity of onr glo
rious Republic ?
But aE this, although somewhat to the
purpose, is not point blank to the pres
ent issue. I have known all along that
the public thieves, not only among the
High Priests of our common opponents,
but among a class of men within what is
esteemed the controUing influences of the
Tammany Ring of so-caEed Democrats,
were solely bent r upon plundering the
public—sometimes by connivance with
the enemy, and at others acting alone,
but always by the help of a gaping and
wondering crowd of fools and paid para
sites of either side 1 These very men
who, long before the current disclosures,
were named by me as the heads and
authors of the “New Departure” vE-
lainy, are shown, by recent develop
ments, to be the very heads and fronts of
the culminated rascahty which altogether
with others, brands this Federal Repub
Ec as little better, if any, than a single
people governed on aE sides by unbridled
power, cemented byr profuse expenditure
of stolen money either purloined from
the General Government, the State gov
ernments, or the municipal governments
—wherever these miscreants happened to
have a fancy and a'power to operate!
All this, it is said, is the legitimate effect
of the war against secessionl Every crime
is sheltered and excused under that sub
terfuge. It will take, I fear, almost
supernatural power to stir the honest
masses, so plundered and paralyzed as
they seem to be, by the gigantic strides
to power of the moneyed monopolies in
the hands of unscrupulous despots.
I had intended in this letter to go fur
ther into-detail. It is known that the
New York plunderers own (bodEy) the
New York World. It is further known—
and I say it advisedly—that the very men
now under trial at New York, established
and note own the Washington Patriot!
learn also that they have a controlling in
fluence over the Richmond Enquirer,
LouisviEe Journal and Montgomery Ad
vertiser—-sll red-hot “Departure” prints,
But I will reserve further disclosures.
^ Cato'.
OUR. WASHINGTON LETTER
The Campaign in Massachusetts
—Ben.jj Butler Carefully Art
vised.
make the “galled jade wince,” root
around the graveyards, and heap igno-
my on a dead ancestor, or hunt, up your
antagonist’s family secrets, and thrust
them at him through the newspapers.
If you get knocked down for your pains,
don’t nit back. Remember what the
Scriptures say about turning the left
cheek, when the right is smitten. And
it is so much more safe, and profitable
withal, you know, to bring a lawsuit and
recover from your assailant a good round
sum in damages.
In this sort of warfare the LoweU
quack and pretender is at home. He
can make more personal explanations at
being called a “liar” and a “ scoundrel”
than any man on the continent. But he
never fights. If he was a man of even
ordinary self-respect, he would, long ago,
have whaled Farnsworth within an inch
of his life for the insults the somewhat
coarse and belligerent Illinoisian heaped
upon him all last winter in the commit
tee room and even in the hall o*f the
House.
And in this sort of warfare the Massa
chusetts editois also seem to be at home.
They have now got somebody whom they
can lampoon without fear of personal
chastisement. The pale, scholarly and
high-toned Hterary squirts, who dilute
and weaken language in some of the
Massachusetts newspapers, can now ex
haust their vocabulary of cheap abase,
and feel all that martial glow which comes
when some foeman meets other foemen
worthy of their steel. (Steal is an old
joke in connection with Butler.)
Go in Butler. Blaze away, old Fish
er’s Fort; andpersevere, aforesaid hterary
squirt! The eyes of the world are upon
you. “There is Concord, and LexiDgton,
and Bunker Hill,’’and so forth! There’s
also Faneuil HaE, which came near slip
ping my memory. If either of you need
reinforcements, send for Ignatius Don
nelly, or buy up the mud-carts and sew
er- wagons which Tammany HaE always
has lying around for a e spare thousand or
two of voters to sleep in.
Ah, there goes my memory again: I
came near forgetting one greater than aE
above mentioned—perhaps the greatest
in the world (always excepting B. B. him
self). I refer to ex-Congressman Mullins,
of Tennessee! Stand aside, Mr. Ignatius
DonneEy! About face; double-quick to
the rear! Mud-carts and sewer-wagons
of Tammany, make way for Muhins!
Mullins, of Tennessee! All hail thegreat
Muhins! “By G—d, sir, we will reseat
them, or Georgia will he put out in the
cold and left there until h—11 freezes
over, unless she compHes with the very
letter and spirit of the Reconstruction
laws.” (Extract from Muhins’speech in
the House of Representatives, February,
1869, on the question of reseating the
colored Legislators of Georgia.)
Mullins would prove an invaluable as
sistant to B. B. in his present troubles.
He (Muhins) would be more terrible than
those famous weapons of the Chinese!
If B. B. would only eaE Mullins to his
aid, I would wager a month’s pay on the
winner.
As to the result, I am perfectly impar
tial. Not that I love B. B. less, but the
general-results more. Smash up the old
machine if you can, Ben. Better men
than you have tried it and faffed. But
it’s not a question of morals, and so
you’re all right. If you ,can only lift
parties out of their ruts in Massachu
setts, yon will not have lived in vain.
But unto the cliques 1 Show up the
rings ! Down with that corrupt oligar
chy, from whose selfish brain originates
tariffs, and all sorts of schemes and
“syndicates,” to oppress iabor and rob it
of its fruits, and aE in the name of pa
triotism.
Take hold of these fast-anchored hypo
crites, who hold a prayer-book in one
hand and a job in the other; -who howl
through their noses for reform, and
charge one hundred per cent, interest
for their time; who have a hook in the
nose of the RepnbEcan party, and lead
it around as though it were a dog with a
brass collar on. Remember your Sun
day school training. Remember—(not
Balaam’s ass); remember that heroic old
giant, Sampson, who, when tormented
by his enemies, coEected them all to
gether in[a temple, and then laying fast
hold of the pillars thereof, tumbled it
down upon them, and perished along
with his multitudinous enemies. Don’t
get mixed on your reference to Scrip
ture, however, and borrow an example
from this illustrious Israelite, and try to
slay your enemies with the jaw-bone of
an ass. This won’t do, or else Massa
chusetts would have’been depopulated
long ago through your efforts.
This advice is free, and costs you noth
ing. Observe it, and do the only sen
sible thing posterity will lay up against
you. Angus.
»-
Butfe*
P°pe” waa
were bivouacked in the streets.
cries of “Down with the
heard.
New York, September 21.—Tho
ernment sold §6,000,000 of gold to-d
and under the pressure gold decliuea £
13}, but rallied to 14}. ^
The committee has found the bond no
counts correct ^*
The evidence against Haggerty and
Balch seems to be conclusive. Th
were arrested upon the affidavit of Comrf
troller Connolly, who stated that a
rant was out for a person of high position
who had fled. u
igning,
TELEGRAPH NEWS
London, September 21.—While a party
of workmen were re-opening a mine at
Wigam 'it blew five to pieces, and wound
ed many.
The papers contain pungent articles
upon United States and Mexican rela
tions as effected by the outrages upon the
barks Brothers and Harvest Home.
Diamonds continue to be found in
great numbers North of the Cape of
Good Hope.
A Congress of Internationals com
menced its sessions to-day. Delegates
are in attendance from Italy, Spain,
France, Belgium, Germany and Switzer
land. Carl Marx presided. The object
of the meeting is to arrange for imme
diate action upon the continent.
Versailles, September 21.—President
Thiers has been presented by Amadeus,
King of Spain, with the Order of the
Golden Fleece.
Hall has no intention of
pending the investigations.
Haggerty, his wife and Balch have
been committed upon the chai-rre 0 f
stealing the vouchers. ° 1
Thos. Stein, bearing dispatches from
the British embassy, was killed in iumn
ing from a train. He was 83 years old
Samuel J. Tilden, Chairman of the
Democratic State Committee, was inter-
viewed to-day. Being asked if what is
here entitled the ring is absolutely devoid
of strength in the country, Mr/ Tildeu
said: I do not think it has any solid
strength. I told Mr. Connolly when he
first sought an interview with me. oh last
Friday, to ask my advice, that ho mi<flit
as well make up his mind that as a polit
ical power, he and others connected with
the transactions, which had excited the
public indignation, had ceased to exist.
My opinion is that the fall must carry
down the organization which these men
control. In other words, the Democratic
party of the city and country must be
re-organized by an edict of the Demo
cratic party of the State. The Demo
cratic party of the nation consists of four
mfflions of freemen of the State; it con
sists of 450,000 citizens of the city.—
More than 100,000 of these vast masses
of Democrats can never consent that the
sole results of their existence should be
that half a dozen men might enrich
themselves by public plunder, or that
when just arraying themselves for a Na
tional and State battle, they should be
impeded and dishonored by offences of a
small knot of local leaders.
A committee of seventy-three, this
evening, resolved to ask the District At
torney, Garvin, for permission to appeal
by counsel, in the examination and pros
ecution before Judge Dowling, of Hag-
erty, Balch and Mrs. Hagerty, who were
charged with stealing vouchers from tho
Comprollers office, and appointed Wm.
C. Barrett as such counsel.
St. Paul, September 21.—The Min
nesota State Republican Convention in
dorses Grant.
Cincinnati, September 21.—Delegates
to the Commercial Convention, at Balti
more, will leave to-morrow night.
Columbus, September 21.—Senator
Thurman is quite ffl with a fever.
Baltimore, September 21.—Judge
William Taylor, of Texas, delegate to
the Masonic and Episcopal C( nventions,
is seriously sick.
Archbishop Spalding has been ill for
several days.
The Baltimore Commandery wiE give
an elaborate silver service to the best
drilled Commandery.
Oyer fifty Commanderies were in pro
cession to-day, and nearly every Com-
ruandery had a band. The City Courts
and Stock Board was closed, and a gen
eral holdiday was observed.
Tim Royal Arch Chapter elected the
foEowing officers, ranking as named: J.
H. Drummond, of Maine; E. H. Eng-
Esh, of Arkansas; Chas. H. Oher, of Ma
ryland; Chas. Marsh, of California; John
McClellan, of Massachusetts; C. G. Fox,
of New York; Joseph Gates, of Wiscon
sin, and D. C. Dawkins, of Florida.
Boston, September 21.—The latest
returns are 386 against and 219 for But
ler.
Tho primary elections in this city re
sulted 56 for Rice and 41 for Butler.
Lowell seuds a fuE delegation for But
ler.
Springfield, September 21.—The con
vention for the Republican Congressman
at Large passed resolutions indorsing
Grant and in favor of a tariff for revenue.
Indianapolis, September 21. —Five
more dead bodies have been taken from
the caved sewer.
Charleston, September 21. —Four
deaths from yellow fever have been re
ported in the last 24 hours.
Washington, September 21.-—The
President will return in October. Bout-
weE and Spinner are here. Belknap and
General Sherman are gone for a week.
The Commissioners for removing the
Cherokees (some 1,530) from North Caro
lina, have gone Narth to buy the Indian
supphes. The removal will commence
next week.
The Ku Klux Committee has resolved
to send a sub-committee to North Caro
lina, Georgia Florida, Tennessee, Ala
bama and Mississippi. The Committee
will not visit Yirginia, Arkansas, Louisi
ana or Texas. The expenses will be paid
from a fund in the hands of the Attorney
General.
give: him some credit.
Tins Mask Tliroivn OIT.
Candor is to be commended at aE
times.
Dr. Bard has been claiming to be a
Democrat, and that the True Georgian
was, par excellence, a Democratic paper.
He has been so closely pressed with
charges that his polities were the same as
when he was the chiefest among the chief
of Radicals, that he has been compeEed
to throw off the mask and own up. He
fleece. . . I stffl clings closely to his old Radical prin-
Thiers held a protracted interview with . ° J x
Herr Von Arnim upon the subject of the j el P' cs - Here are his words:
delayed treaty between France and Ger- j Mow as Tiicn.
As a moderate National Republican,
we accepted the three Constitutional
Amendments with all the results of the
war, as finahties.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 17, 1871.
Ben. Butler is on tho rampage
Massachusetts, and dire nro the lamenta
tions of the puritanical wire-pullers and
tax-enlers thereat. Tho “hero of Big
Bethel,” as tho squint-eyed “member
from Bases” lows 'to be called, is at last
in his element. Ho is among a people
who will stand being called any amount
<>{ hard names, and whose only wither-
ing reply to the Lowell bummer’s de
nunciation is, “you’re another.” This is
the tine Massachusetts pluck. If you
can t hurt a man’s feelings by calling
ruse his mother, or make
up faces at his sister. If even this don’t
many.
Rochefort’s trial has been concluded. I
His sentence is transportation to the pe
nal colony for Efe.
Paris, September 21.—Thiers .has as
surances from Austria that, nothing hos
tile to Franco has occurred at Gastein.
Tho Germans have evacuated St.
Denis.
Calcutta, September 21.—The Chief
Justice is dead. The assassin feigns in
sanity.
Berlin, September 21.—Emperor Wil
liam has invested the Austrian Minister,
Yon Buest, with tho regalia of the Black
Eagle.
Odo Russell, the newly appointed
British Ambassador to the German Em
pire, will soon be officially presented
to the Empeior.
The German Reichstag will meet on the
15th of October.
Rome, September 21.—The celebra
tion closed without violence. The troops
:Vs a “New Departure Democrat,” we
occupy identically the same ground;
therefore, the charge of change urged
against us by some thoughtless people falls
powerless to the ground. Our course has
been unchanged and consistent up to this
writing—a fact no man, Republican or
Democrat, cau succesafuUy refute.—[Ed
itor True Georgian.
Captain John Milledge has been re
tained by the State to assist Hon. B. H.
Hill, Col. Farrow and Judge Underwood,
in the investigation now' being made in
to the alleged State Road frauds. Capt.
M. is an active young lawyer, of an in
quiring turn of mind, and we guess ho
will go to the bottom of the cases if there
is any bottom to them.