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■■ THE DAILY . SUN Thursday Morning Seri ember 23 Cato s I^ettcr. We call the attention of our readers to- dawspecially- to the letter of Cato, from Wellington. The disclosures he mokes are of a very important character. We have personally no knowledge of the facts stated by him, but from our knowledge of-the writer, we take it for granted that he feds well assured of being able to sus tain by proof all his allegations! It is with our confidence in his judgment, in tegrity and sense of justice in this par ticular, that we give his letter to the pub lic. It is certuinly.time for the honest masses of the people, the toiling tax pay ers everywhere, duly to consider whether they are being driftted by the corrupt ring of political trichstcrs, into whose hands they have fallen. A. H. S.. Words of encouragement greet us from every quarter—not only in ap proving letters from nearly every State ill the Union, but in long lists of sub scribers daily received. We have the strongest evidence that the masses of the people everywhere ore in earnest, and that there is “life in the old land yet.” WASHINGTON CORRESPON DENCE. Letter from Cato. Startling Disclosures. Washington, September 22, 1871. The public press in this city seems to bo in a curious condition. I except the Sunday papers, and a morning and eve- iiing prunella, for the reason that I never see any of them. The Chronicle was es tablished during the war, by that incom parable [patriot, “Colonel” John W. Forney. Ho made it pay ^handsomely during the Presidency of the “Martyr.” Subsequently, however, somehow the cash account exhibited a preponderance of big figures on the wrong side, and he magnanimously sold out to an attachee of tbe Senate, (a Mr. Morris), who forthwith showed his teeth in an anti- Grant direction. It was one of the won ders of the world hereabouts-at the time where the purchase money came from; if, indeed, it were not merely nominal. No one susj>ecteil Mr. Sumner, nor Mr. Carl Schurz, nor Mr. Trumbull, nor. any of the other expectants of the. next Demo cratic nomination for the Presidency, of contributing a red cent. In the"'first place, they are all too pure, honest, and abovc-aboard, to think of such a thing. In the second piace, they are all parsi monious to a proverb; and thirdly, and' lastly, and conclusively, they are known to be as poor as snakes in March. Under these circumstances, it was with more wonder still, (if wonders may be said to have degrees of comparison), that the public read a recent announcement that the Chronicle had passed into the hands of that other huge patriot, ex- Governor Holden, of North Carolina !— When this worthy son of the South, (who, if my recollection serves, was one of the “original” secessionists), came to this city, he was minus tlfe dimes to pay his way comfortably. He paid a visit to New York, and just in time secured a suf ficiency of money to get Morris out of his pecuniary scrape 1 I have it from a good source that his feigned loyalty, how ever dexterously putin market, has failed utterly to affect him of the cigar ! But, where did the money come from ? This has become a National question of the gravest importance. It is known that Tweed, Connelly & Co., established the Patriot newspaper in this city, wider restrictions as to its political course. It is an acknowledged stipendiary of these sharpers, and at any moment may be stopped at their behest. How mildly the Patriot deals, therefore, with these ras cals ? For every dollar they stole, bodi ly, it shows a counter dollar stolen by the other wing of the same financial confed eracy—bnt not a word of condemnation of either ! This washing of one hand with the other, is not an invention of the Tamma ny Bing. But the subsidizing of public presses upon both sides is! And now, probably comes in the information that I am enabled to give in this very import ant letter. It is that Holden got the money to sustain the Chroni cle from the Radical adjuncts of Jhe Democratic Tammany Ring. So we see that the Metropolitan press employed to abuse and recriminate each other, and thereby throw dust in the eyes of the public, are owned by one and the same body of men, who, for convenience sake, divide themselves into Democratic and Badical coteries, the better to fleece the country of millions upon millions. The common ground upon which these vil lains meet is the “New Departure,” a most superlative humbug, designed from the beginning to cover up frauds, politi cally fundamental and fundamentally fraudulent and felonious. I hope these truthful and alarming disclosures—none of the implicated parties will dare deny them—may have some weight with the thinking men all over the country. No man can be called honest in a pecuniary sense, who proposes to avail himself of fraud and knavery in furthering his political prospects! Cannot honest men, throughout the land, be brought together upon a common platform of honesty in politics, as well as in dollars and cents? There are important movements just ahead! Cato. - > H Hr. Stephens and “Law and Order.*’ To-day we lay before our readers the following correspondence, in yhich they may take some interest. It is copied from the Constitutionalist, of Augusta, Ga. The letter of “Law and Order,” ad dressed to Mr. Stephens, appeared in that paper of the 21st inst. His response appeared in the same paper of the 34th We shall continue the republication of this correspondence in The Sun, as it progresses. It is directly upon the vital i- of constitutional liberty. * Since you have become editor, you have impressed the public mind with the conviction that you have assumed as your special mission the defeat of what you are pleased to style “New Departure.” When it is remembered that the New Departure, properly and truthfully por trayed, simply represents a prudent pol icy deemed essential, to the future tri umph of the great Democratic party of the nation,and is sanctioned by tbe ablest, purest and wisest of. its leaders, and heartily sustained, as it is believed, by the almost unanimous voice of the National Democracy of the North, it can but be confessed you have taken upon yourself a Hercuhan task. While this may indicate both your sincerity of con viction, and your confidence in your own power to crush what you conceive to be an errer, it must nevertheless pro voke surprise and chagrin that so illustri ous a foeman should be willing to thrust his glittering steel at the hearts of his own friends, and seek to spill their blood. What, then, is this policy of the New Departure,of which you are so unsparingly denunciatory, and that causes you to per secute its friends even unto strange cities? Let the question be answered first by showing what it is not. And first, it is not what it is so often stated to be in The Atlanta Sun—“a new name forBadical- ism”—nor is it a pretext for sliding into the Bepublican party, as you often insin uate, if you do not distinctly charge it. Nor yet is it an endorsement or approval of the principles and policy of the Badi- cal party, which resulted in the adoption of the (fourteenth and fifteenth amend ments and the unconstitutional laws. The Departures, so-called, neither ap prove nor endorse 'as constitutionally adopted, even though a compliance with form and manners may have been had, any of the recent amendments, including the tbw-teenth. Still they accept them alias accomplished facts, as proclaimed and recognized parts of the organic law, and say they are to continue to be recog nized and obeyed until the people, who alone have the power, see proper, in a legitimate way, to repeal them. The thirteenth will never he disturbed, since it was most solemnly acquiesced in and agreed to by the whites, the masters and owners at the time of its presentation to the Southern States for their acceptance; and for the additional reason that the in stitution of slavery could never- again be desirable in the South. The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments have also been added, as .the New.Departurists conceive, in violation of the spirit of the Constitu tion. Still they have been thus added, and there is now no escape from obedience to them. But you say, this is a departure from the platform of the party in 1868. Grant it. -But that platform was so ex treme in its demands that the author of the Broadhead letter, which letter caused the insertion of the weakest plank in it has since, with his own hands, ripped it np and thrown it aside. General Blair and the party tried that plank thorough ly, and found it would not do, and hence discarded it as an element of mischief and tending only to unite the enemies of the true Democratic theory of govem- If you persist in standing on it still, its capacity may prove ample to hold the minority who will stand there with you, and you and they will have for your compensation the reflection that you defeated your party and gave a new lease of power to Radicalism. By per sistence in an unwise policy, already con ceptance of a lie make it tbe ....... aswer, No, never! But to de*0' e Itence of the lie akan accompl. I, if not in itself an untruth, . lost untenable absurdity. But t paund upon your rights of pP c * t enacted, and without theshao institutional right, when you were?® J kllnrl . ih /\ _ * j * _ Wvn piled to accept the emancipation 0 iur slaves, tell us of your acceptance!,® by a “constitutional constituency,”?] iherwise, was equivalent to an endorse Lent of the policy and the modus ope\ indi ? If yes, then indeed are youconf, stent in saying that those who now ac* ipt the fourteenth and fifteenth amend ents as parts of the organic law to b\ leyed until repealed necessarily endors _ ieir policy and the modus of their adop tion. But if no, then indeed is your logic lame, though you be a sound logician. That you should be so confident of the correctness of your own positions, and so distrustful, if not intollerant, of tliri views of others, can but excite commcut, in view of some few prominent mistakes of judgment occurring in yonr political history, which have not .entirely faded from the memory of your constituents. You sustained the policy of the Missouri restriction in your bold advocacy of the compromise measures of 1850, and you even found in your support of it consti tutional authority for Congress to ex clude slavery from one half of the Ter ritories of the nation—upon the princi pie of ^ — -Tr henever the authors and concoeters, as jell as all supporters, of this movement pall say in plain terms that they do not lean by it to affirm that the 14tli and fcth amendments have been constitution- ly adopted, and are therefore not “fraud- nl" but rightful parts of the organic ■ of the Union—not hereafter to be riled or questioned—then my opposi- J>n to it will cease. |No one is less disposed to make war >on friends of auy sort than I am; but, this instance, I think, if “Law and wrier” will take paios to inform himself little better, he will find that I am not liDg upon political friends when I fire Ion the authors of this movement, or i objects; unless he considers those as llitical friends whose policy is to get |e general approval and sanction of the femocracy of the Union of the righfut- p of the most flagitious usurpations of Iwer in the history of representative J>vernment ! Usurpations openly lowed by the perpetrators of them, tenjthey boldly proclaimed that their volutionazy acts were “outside of the institution. ” iThere are many points in the letter of pow and Order” which I should like to btice in detail; as, for instance, what he s about General Blair’s abandoning principles of his Broadhead letter; Jiat he says about the “New Departure” |ving received the approval of the pur- F and ablest Democrats in tbe country, i., and divers others which time will not pw me now even to allude to. But there is one other point in his let- • which I cannot omit a reply to, heavy [the pressure upon my time is. He Ns the Democracy neither acquiesces in F approves of (my) extreme policy.”— Jow my reply to. * 'Law and Order” on lis is, let ns understand each other. As intimates that this is but one of senes of letters he intends to Idress to me upon the general Ibjeets embraced in the one before me, Ivoiild most respectfully ask of him to hte in the next of his epistles what is • , f stl ' e “ e Policy” I advocate to I be re ^ er ' s ■ Is it extreme to say ■at these amendments were not consiitu- vnally earned? Is it extreme to say that ley were neither proposed nor ratified I provided, for in tbe Constitution ? Is bt tins an admitted truth by every just bn in the countiy, North and South ’ I “ e ? tre “? to maintain . that what was Cotton is opening prematurej^fcTT'' and short. Farmpro i.i ” hnthg^ Faxnjers and short. but half a crop, „„„ A ,, fall, of which we have ind’iS wiH make two-thirds of the yieldS/ 6 though the rains of the laJttlv 18/0 > are iniurin.cr Q . 0 weeka are injuring some by causing growth In making your es&atfc 0 ^ may not count ns mn,- 0 n... “ ate you may not count us more than on ^ y five-eighths of 1870 with certafcfr^ 0r COLUMBUS. B. G. Stern, a wed-known rrxwu died Sunday night. lan *> A $75 cup is to be the prize a f ti boat race during the Columbus Fair - MILLEDGEVILLE. The Recorder of the 25th says • On last Friday a Collector of gw was chosen for this cc unty to , es vacancy caused by the absence* duly elected incumbent—andvesnuJ an overwhelming vote for V H? Callawav. bismai.MMliT K„; -N. /-j i. vote for Mr T V last delivered an^addreet™!'^).;',!'’’^ SAVANNAH. The News of yesterday has the folW mg: Mr. James Bussell, -who we , last week os mysteriously disappS from Ms home Iras turned up, STr® We learn that lion. Charles U tlo a late aspirant for the State sLmSp' and who received three votes in P, robbed a strange white min IIS' ’T’ night of ten dolfars in men”) 10 ° tter saundbbsville. The young men of Saundersville have concruded thata tournament is absolutely necessary to their happiness. The Georgian of the 27th, has'the fol lowing: * A Httle boy got lost in the woods in this county, one stormy evening last week, and was not found until after houS H* T rCl l md far int0 ^ S He was finally discovered by the yelu- ing of a dog that had accompanied him. Dr. A. G. Thomas, we are gratified to PFV 11- * — ^ 1 - “ VOUL -n-as not ery Democrat in the country—the declared at I polls . Is it extreme to urge upon le people everywhere to yield obed ea- i to these usurpations as defacto acts of tanny, so long as they are enforced by lem- bn°t W , lth power t0 execute lem, but never to sanction them as de to r f?n rf - par I S of; the fundamental ■at tbA he Um °“ ? Is extreme to hold KJSET* ofrectilying these abuses I the high trust of office remains in the \ople of the States, and that this rectifica- bn can be effected by them peacefully I we pods! Is there'any thine violent |n?s , o“eld‘'’“' Kl0l ' li “'’ iu ‘ he d0 °- tiffed be “ law an <l order” fou in every step of policy I recommend Ir the rescue of the liberties of this luntry and if in any thing I propose I am KcfaS™ 1 ! t0 f kuo - v iu what - 1 do hii 1 K w *» teyer is unconstuUqually by -, Congress is “null and Lx! a , should he so pronounced K sm 13 tkere a man in I™ States — even Senator Morton Imself—who will dare dispute this be- tre an mteUigent audience in any State (i the Umpn ? Am I extreme in holding ns position ? b Jig? further; and maintain that, in the JWof persons prosecuted for a viola- ion of acts of Congress, founded upon liese amendments, which were earned * admitted ztsurpations, that the juries A judges of the validity of the law, as El as the judges. Is this an extreme ■sition . Can any man deny or dis- Ite its correctness ? Have I recom- eu any course or policy for a recti- aiwn of the usurpations of Congress Inch is not founded upon a strict ob- Irvanee of “law ana order” throughout? ■ay, more: have I recommended any tl7? h i 1Ch ’ ' ! fP ursued > will not most Iitamly bring about a complete rectifica- ELS i al <- tbeS f usm 'Pations, after a ■bile at least, uniess the Peoples of the fnited States are themselves ripe for yespohsm? 1 I These are plain questions and I wish lem answered. I do not myself believe tat the Peoples of this country are at LL ready for Imperialism, or Monarchy in oy shape, and that all they want for the Maintenance of the Bight, is to see how hey can save and preserve their liber ies m a constitutional.mode and manner IwJ » ° Ut a A Dy TioIation of “Law and Alexander H. Stephens. General Toombs and the State Road Thieves. . Gratefully remembering all that Geor- gj- kasdone for him, General Toombs hag nobly tendered his services, without. 1° a £ sist in the frvestiga- on of the State Road frauds, and the punishment of the thieves. He lias al ready devoted much time and patient la- “"I - ei ) T d ^ leave 110 unturned m his future efforts and deter- inmed purpose to unearth the hidden s tie to the Ail eyes are now turned to him as coun- sel for the Commonwealth, and we are proud to know that he not only appre- ciates the responsibility that rests upon him, but that he has gone into the inves tigation and prosecution with a high sense of duty to his grand old mother, welfare 1 * 6 deVOtl ° n to her honor and her Who doubts his fidelity or his ability 9 As true as the needle to the pole in his fealty to his people and their liberties, grand in the conception and vindication oi the right and God-like in intellect, he has given the world assurance of a man, to be trusted, and there are none to ques tion his integrity, impugn his patriotism, or disparage his power. Knaves and fools may affect disregard for Ins great qualities of head and heart, but m their souls. they lie and tremble with fear at their own convictions of lect ° Wenng genius and P ower of intel: Mr. Toombs seeks not to implicate or persecute innocent men—all such will hna him ready and bold to proclaim then- innocence and vindicate their hon- nor; but rogues and their accomplices will be unable to escape his vigilance or av oid his search. They are just as cer tain to be unmasked and held up to pub- hc scorn and exposed to the vengeance of offending justice as the coming of any event within the range of human agency. The people may, therefore, dismiss all apprehensions that the investigation is to result in a farce, and rest contented on the perfect assurance that their cause is in sale hands, and will be safely eoi> Set'lSn. ^ {Ga ' ] y™*’ 22(1 & L- GEORGIA NEWS. • MONROE C0UNTT. The Advertiser of Tuesday furnishes ie following: Yesterday gave us the first indication |i fair weather that we have had for two yeeks. A few bright days will greatly |Sds° Ve ^ mtuation ” in the cotton lrIif Ud f d olir Iast issue-to the Irobable rate of taxation in this county lbnSL CUrr (f ^- ai '-- Ifc i9now evident ■bat the authorities intend to create an S und - Th * e official order bn thi 0 ^S° ? undredand fif ty per cent. +L oi ta Ann tax L 0r » ln °tifer words, $10 Sf Hhn 00, rn The State tax is 40 cents fcfcfc ' 100- e t J bns lfc Avi11 be seen the tax payers of the county have to ante to jhe tune of $14 on the ‘$1,000. AUGUSTA. The Chronicle & Sentinelhas the follow ing paragraph : The Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Lompany seems to make business. Its Kit W i bwished from Washington hty to Charleston, and is to be rapidly rxtended to Savannah and this city. On resterday Dr. Morris, and other gentle- pen ^Presenting the company, were 1 the . P ur P° se of seeming the bght of way through the streets. | MACON. The Telegraph notices the arrival of f a fc r - p ^ed cotton in that market: I The Telegraph has the following from Ranks county: Crops are short in Banks. JVe had a very destructive rain storm 1 out the time of the Savannah gale yiat prostrated our com, and much is ftamaged by being submerged by the fverfjowing streams. The corn crop will fc f a fc 1 ! °f°P , or a little more, but I do aot think that it can reach two-thirds How do those Southern Badical papers, who delight in buttoning the cloak of “moderation” close under their chins, as if to say, “behold me ! Im not so very Radical after all!” like the fol lowing from that central organ of Radi calism, the Washington Chronicle: One of our Southern (Georgia) cofcem- poraries puts himself down as a “moder ate Bepublican.” Whyisthis? Isitnot well enough to be a Bepublican? The Republican party was not very moderate while , it was engaged in suppressing the rebellion. It could not fire paper wads, or put velvet on its bayonets. But it has been moderate ever since. When a man says he is a Christian, but a “moderate” sort of one; we ask him if he is a Chris- han? Why should he thus bate his breath and qualify himself ? A Bepub- hcan m a Bepublican. This may seem very simple, but we cannot make anv- thmg more or less of him than that. It was cruel in the Chronicle to thus tear away the garment of deceit from its Southern allies and cotemporaries. It should have had more respect for their feelings. They are trying to smug gle Badical principles into the Southern people, by conveying them under a false label, and now the Chronicle comes in and *-•- Perhaps never before, in the his tory of American politics, did two such disorderly conventions assemble upon one day, as the Bepublican State Conventions of New York and Massachusetts. In New York the police had to bo Cxalled to the platform to preserve order, while in Massachusetts the body seems to have resolved itself into a mob. These are two admirable instances of the excellent harmony (?) that exists in the Badical party. Certainly Grant ought to rush up there as soon as’possible,[and utter his old war whoop: “Let us have peace !”