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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN- THE DAILY Thursday Morning QTT"M" I For years past the party has been, led —J. j by fourth-rate politicians, and it is now .October 19. I time for our best men to come forward — ’ and direct oar movements. The Ineligibility Question. .Upon Democratic principles, led by true and honest Democratic leadera, we For the iniormation of our readers. ! can carry this State by at least 30,000 generally, and in answer to numerous; majority. Wo could have done it this ■ i -JR • . fus. ..rtinln s year had we have had a Democratic plat- special mqnnes, we give m this article, ^ ^ ^ Wk upoQ tho m»iin provisions of tho Jjill upon this : .. — -# -4 subject, which passed tho House of Be- A Democratic Outlook, presentatives, on tho 10th of April last, at: call special attention to the follow- the celled session of the present Congress. | tog editorial of the Bangor (Me.) JDsmo- From tliis, it will be seen wbat classes of j 0 f the 12th instant: persons, by its terms, aro not relieved from j The clouds Pmuing Away, the disability clause of the so-called 14th "When Mr Yallandigham promul- J . . , „„ I gated Ills “New Departure” in the This Bill was not acted on yf 0n tg 0 mery County (Ohio) Convention last May, the Democracy all over the country were full of hope and confidence. For twelve months fortune had smiled upon them wherever elections had been held. Tennessee, North Carolina, Geor- Amendment. by the Senate before tbo adjournment, but remains on the calender of business in that Body, to come up at the session to meet in December, now approaching. The Bill removes political disabilities from all persons who do not come within the following classification: Kn<£-Members of the Congress of the United SUttrt who withdrew therefrom, and aided tho rebel- lion ; . Second.—Officers of the Army and Nary of the United States, who, being above the ago of twenty- one years, left said Army or Navy, and aided tho re bellion ; and Third—Members of State Conventions which adopt ed pretended ordinancea of secession who voted lor the adoption of such ordinances. Besides these main provisions, the Tivrd section, sets forth the manner in •which the general provisions of the Bill ..are to bo carried out, waich fire not given in the language of the Bill, in the Con gressional Globe, of the 11th of April, from which we have taken the above statement, but they do not affect the substance of its material parts. If this Bill passes the Senate, ns it has passed the House, the ineligibility dis qualification of the so-called 14th Amend ment, will no longer apply to any person who does not come within one or the other of the three classes, so set forth in the BilL A. H. S. Called Meeting of the Democrat ic Executive Committee. We soe, in several of our exchanges, the following notice, which wo suppose to be ^genuine: Stale Democratic Committee. ' The members of tho Stato Democrntlo Executive Committee are requested to meet at the office of tho Chairman, in the city of Macon, ou Tuesday, tho 24 th day of October, at 10 o’clock, a. sa. A full at tendance is desired. CLTFroED Anderson, Chairman. What business is to be submitted to the Committee, for its action, we know not; nor cafi we imagine any that can be properly submitted to it, except to agree upon the proper time and place for tho next meeting of a Convention of the v*Party in the State. All the other execu- ... • tivo powers of this Committee, as we un- , del- tand it, are *‘fu*cti officio." They terminated with the canvass and election of last/ year. It is usual for executive committees, after tko.ebiects and occasion for which they were specially raised have passed . away, to call future conventions of the Mfcrty, and we know of no other business that can properly come before this Com jnittee, at this time, for any authoritative .aetion. A. H. S. ■WjihsylTania. We give below an extract from an editorial of the Jeffersonian, of the 14th •instant, published in Westchester, Penn sylvania, from which our readers wiil see Hie views entertained of the late election . there, by this able paper, and the chief . cause of the result, ns set forth in it— i some wise counsel, also, as to the future, will bc'found in the extract, which is as .follows: The result of last Tuesday’s election cannot be considered a Democratic de feat. The Republicans, to be sure, car ried the State, but not against the Demo crats. The Ninth Resolution of the Har risburg Convention, which a few corrupt Democratic politicians, at tho instance of Republicans, succeeded in having passed by the votes of Beventy-six men, sealed the fate of McCandless and Cooper, and left to the true and honest Democrats of the State a choice only between two evils. ’ The defeat of the State ticket cannot and will not be considered a cause for regret *>y a single Democrat in the State. The loss upon the county ticket, by which the Radicals obtain control of the Senate, and increase their majority ia the House, is the only thing that will cause grief. This,tobesure,wastobeexpecteJ, because the party was so thoroughly dis gusted and disheartened that it was im possible to bring them out to the polls, not withstanding they knew that the next Leg islature would apportion the State into Congressional Districts for the next ten years. The result, instead of beiug dis couraging, is decidedly encouraging, for it demonstrates clearly and plainly that the good old Democratic party is as firm ly as ever attached to the teachings of Thomas Jefferson and our Democratic institutions. It shows that the Democ racy of Pennsylvania cannot be sold out by a few dishonest and truckling politi cians to the enemies of free government, and that hereafter as heretofore they will fight upon principle, or not at nil. Away with expediency and its advocates. An other good result, which must necessarily flow from the defeat of the New Depart- urists in this State and Ohio, will be the unanimity of sentiment in the next gen- eral convention. No such odious and •anti-Democratic doctrines as this negro d eparlure movement wiil ever hereafter bo heard of. Another benefit to be derived will be tbe retirement of our political leaders who brought this disgrace and seeming ^defeat upon the party. For some time .past onr leaders have been an incubus upon tho party; they could not command the confidence of Democrats nor the re spect of Republicans; they staked their all upon this New Departure movement; have ignominiously and ingloriously failed, and must now retire to the rear ranks and let more honest, more honor able and more competent leaders take their places. Unless this is done; unless we havo new leaders before the next cam- paign; Grant will be the next President. gia, and Alabama had been wrenched from the plundering grasp of the carpet baggers. California, Nevada, and New Hampshire bad all been redeemed. Vic tory had crowned our efforts in New York and Indiana. In Pennsylvania a drawn battle had been fought, whilst in Maine and Ohio the great Republican majorities of former years had been re- dneed to a narrow margin. The Republi cans were despondent, and the Democ racy felt they were advancing to certain victory in the Presidential contest of 1872. Such was the political situation when the “New Departure” was promulgated, Its eminent author had declared that the new- doctrine paved the way to an easy and certain victory. As such it was seized upon with avidity by those politi cians to whom success and plunder are dearer than the vindication of sound principles, The masses of the Democracy, how ever, were stupefied with amazement at the “New Departure.” Bata few months had passed since the whole Democratic press of the country had denonneed the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments as a complete overthrow of the principles of the old Constitution. Every Demo cratic member of Congress had voted against them. Every Democratic Con vention, County, Congressional, and State, had denonneed them. The Demo cratic Legislature of the Empire State, by a unanimous vote, bad rescinded the resolution by which a previous Republi can Legislature had adopted the amend ments. Not only had the united De mocracy of the country denounced the amendments as subversive of the founda tion principles o? the Constitution, but they bad declared the coercive nreans by which a nominal adoption had been pro cured, illegal, and the proclaimed amend ments themselves a fraud, nnauthorita tive, and void. In full view of the infamous wrongs and outrages which had been perpe trated in England by Attainders, the creatofs of our old Constitution had de clared that, ,{ 2fo Bill of Attainder or Ex- Pod Facio Law shall be passed.” But the Fourteenth Amendment, in one sweep ing clause, without information, without trial, and without conviction, attaints two hundred thousand of tho best and leading men of the South. Yes, that third section of the Fourteenth Amend mend attaints the great mass of the moral and, intellectual worth of thirteen States! It was this monstrous piece of injustice and wrong which the “New Departur- ists” called upon the Democracy to ac cept, indorse, and acquiesce in! Is it any wonder^hakuS'ttfl'el&ecf' on the monstrosity which Democratic State Conventions had thoughtlessly adopted, they became cold and chilled? Is it any wonder that vantage ground was lost in Maine; that the cause of Democracy went down in ruin in California, and de feat came everywhere save in Kentucky, West Virginia", and Texas, where the monstrosity was repudiated? Last week, in their despondency, the eyes of the Democracy of the whole Union were turned to the Empire State. There was a universal feeling that, if the Democrats of New York should, in their State Convention, sanction the heresies of the “New Departure,” then all would be lost. All honor to the Democracy of New York ! In the critical hour they proved true to the old Constitution; true to their traditions; true to the fame of their de parted statesmen; true to the rights of the States, and true to tbe fundamental principles of republican liberty as pro mulgated by the immortal Jefferson. The key-note of the duty of the De mocracy of the land was sounded by Hon. Sarnnel J. Tilden, Chairman of the Dem- Falr Dots. Sharp & Floyd have an elegant dis play of jewelry in Floral Hall, snch as to attract the attention from nature’s jewels to those of art. Col. Steadman’s bull is the best part of tho show on the Fair Grounds. If Fan* Associations would offer liberal premiums for beasts of burden, and less for fancy animals, they would show hard sense that would tend to encourage an improvement in stock, and which would benefit the farmers, instead of a display that puts money in the po bets of that cussed set known as fancy town stock men, who are able to pay for such animals, which, like the town loafer, produces nothing, and does the community no good. The Colonel’s bull can pull a ton to market, and return with the purchases made by he farmer, saving drayage both ways. That fellow, Hightower, who runs the heavy business in Griffin, had the temer ity to bring up to the fair his fancy span of blacks, “Tige” and “Bots,” but ar rived too late for the show of good draft horses, and, of course, to take a pre mium to which he would have been en titled. How are you, Miss Lewella Anna Jane Sopha? Sparks Lee drove the handsomest team about the grounds yesterday. The “Combination” Mare put the beer on a sorrel gelding yesterday afternoon, at the Oglethorpe race track, just so easy as never was. It is trying to the souls of sinners to witness such a sham race. Oliver Jones, for the edification of the public, allowed “Black Crook” to be rattled through by that rattling cream gelding “Rattler,” yesterday afternoon. The intention was good, and we com mend Mr. Jones for it; but it is a bad plan to make such a race, as honest and unsophisticated people are often taken in by such matches. Hon. Ephraim Tweedy entered “Lady Lee” for the premium offered for the best harness nag, and took the premium from our friend Bell’s black gelding, “Nimrod”—one of the handsomest hors es in the country. Tweedy can’t say there was any discrimination on account of politics or previous condition in this contest, as “Nimrod” is a stunner, and if he had not gone plumb up head, be could not have taken the stake. The negro walkist made a half m : lo in side of four minutes round the track yes terday, which was poor walking compar ed with that done by a darkey of our ac quaintance in ante-bellum times, who carried a bushel of ’tatersand a pumpkin fifteen miles, swapped for . three pints of whisky, and made the return trip before day, bringing tho whisky inside his skin. The Haadley engine, that runs a half dozen qin mills at the Fair Grounds, is a good thing. Mark Johnson thinks it will run as many as the people can hitch to it. It gins with and without feeders, and condensers, and cottons to none of them. The Shingle Machine at the Fair Grounds, is a success. It makes shingles faster than Lee Smith makes cocktails. Mr. Ragsdale, at the Agricultural De partment, has stalks of cotton with 300 to 400 bolls, from the Oxford Dickson’s. The bolls are as thick as the hair on a dog’s back, and we compliment him on being able to stick them on so thick. The Dickson cotton lays over Holmes’, which is no small thing itself. A. T. Finney has everlastingly spread himself at the Fair Grounds on a dis- asharp yrM?, out we would not be sur prised if Finney don’t put the “Irish Whisky ” on them for the prize. Mercer’s saloon is the most popular establishment on the Grounds, notwith standing there are no prizes offered at that establishment. B. W. Wrenn shows himself perfectly competent to the task of “ transporting”’ all the visitors to the Fair. There have been no delays nor trouble on this line, and if there were ten thousand more vis itors to the Fair, Wrenn could provide for their quick transit to the grounds. The last train that canle in from the Fair last night was composed of nine cars, each car containing nine hundred passengers—more or less. Wrenn was the last man on the last car. Rosalie,! owned by Master F. HI War ing, we understand, took the premium as the best brood mare. Mr. F. H. Waring also received premiums (or the following at the Fair yesterday: Belle, best two year old filly; Gipsy, hestpony, 13 i hands high, exhibited under saddle and bridle. From the Mobile Register. IMPORTANT .LETTER. Read It. oerutic State Committee, in calling the . Convention to order. In another col umn we present his most admirable speech. It is replete with eloquence and with logic. In language most terse and vig orous and beautiful, he sets forth the ends and aims of the Democracy. In repul sive contrast he holds up the ends and aims of effete Federalism, revived in the Radi calism of the present day. In that brief speech, worthy of a place by the side of Jefferson’s great first Inaugural, Mr. Til den has done the Democracy of all the States a most signal service. Like the bugle-blast of war, his eloquent words have summoned back the disciples of the Sage of Monticello from following after strange heresies and strange political f ods, to the one true standard, and the efence of the one true principle which can never die. After the speech of Mr. Tilden, and the tumultuous applause with which it was received, there was no place in the Convention of the Democracy of the Empire State for any “New Departure,” for the enforcement of any monstrous Attainder, or for the overthrow of the corner-stone of the Rights of the States —State control of State suffrage. The Convention was harmonious. The Amendments were entirely ignored. The Resolutions were of a high character, and worthy of the Democracy in the halcyon days of Jefferson and Jackson. The old Jeffersonian standard is once more ad vanced to the front, and the Empire State leads the van. All despondency in the ranks of the Democracy is vanishing away, and high hopes are taking the place of despair. “Now is the winter of onr discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of Tori- And alt the clouds that lowered upon our house Iu tho deep bosom of the ocean buried.’’ In November, in spite of the cloud which now rests upon the city, the De mocracy of New York will march to cer tain victory, and that victory will he a glorious prelude to the crowning triumph ! t T ' nocracyof the Union will it Presidential contest next Daring the painful intermission yes terday—while five thousand people were waiting for something, our friend Vol. Dunning showed himself equal to the emergency, and started McCauley, (col ored) on the tramp. He walked the half-mile in 3-32. Vol. said it was as good walking as he did in front of his friend General Sherman. -¥ t T _ W m A ” * 1 1 11 11111 ' 1 1 \>e must nave a thorough and com- which tho Democracy of the Union will plcto reorganization of the Democratic }win in the great Presidential contest next party of this State if we wish succe The Great State Fair at Macon. The Annual Fair of the State Agricul tural Society commences at Macon on Monday next Those who are attending our Fair will have to make only a short trip to attend the one at Macon. It will be worth seeing. Mach has been done by the city of Macon to make it a grand success. Her energetic Mayor, sustained and encouraged by the liberal citizens of the city, has spared no expense neces sary to make the Fair Grounds the most beautiful, convenient and well arranged. We have inspected the grounds nnd the entire plan, and do not hesitate to pro nounce the same unsurpassed. Secretary Lewis and bis assistants have done what they could in arranging for the Fair; but the burden—the work —of preparation has fallen upon the city of Macon, and right worthily has she performed her duty. Instead of accepting a reception in Boston, Grant recommended that the money he sent to Chicago. He has no notion of accepting anything that he could not carry off with him. If Boston had offered him the §20,000 in clean cash, he never would have thought of Chicago. The mountains of California are reported to be on fire.' Joaquin Miller’s poems must have caused the conflagra tion. They are very fervent. THE DEPARTURE. Views of a Maryland Conservative. jfb the Editor of the Register:—Although you have entered largely into the discus sion suggested by this title, still you may allow space to an old Democrat—or an old Whig on Democratic principles—for some thought upon it. I confess I db not think the question can well be ig nored. Already some, attracted by a new scheme, are turning away from the old paths. And there may be others, who may even need to be reminded what it is. I will state it anew: ought the Demo cratic Pai'ly,inilsannouncements, to main tain and approve the articles lately added to the Constitution, as the XIVth and XYth Amendments ? To be sure of my ground, I have turn ed the book; and from these amend ments I take the following: “No persons shall hold any office un der the General Government or in any State, who, having taken an oath, at any time, to support tbe Constitution of the United States, shall have espoused or aided the Southern cause in the late civil But Congress may remove the dis ability by a two-third vote of both Houses.” “ No State shall pay any money for debts incurred by the war.” No State shall deny the right of the blacks to vote at any S'tase election.” When I read these provisions my first impulse was to rub my eyes to make sure that I had read aright that these things are now in the Constitution. “ Could it be so that the people of our State Gov ernments shall not elect their own offi cers, in the exercise of their judgment of fitness, without the consent of Con gress ?—that they shall not choose the citizens to whom they would confide their interests in Congress? that they may not pay debts of their own creating? that the States are not to decide who shall have the right of suffrage? and that Congress may carry these things into ef fect, if need be, by force? ” This I que ried. But so I found in the new book. But it is not the Government, as 1 re member it. It is not the Government as it was framed by Franklin, Washington, and Madison. Intelligent men, whoever they are, see that these provisions change the foundation of the compact by which the States, when they were wholly sovereign, entered into the Union. It is a new great step of the Government out of its sphere—a step into an abyss, of which we do not seethe bottom. And yet some of our own people avow their intention, in seeming earnest-, to “ depart ” upon this career. Nay, having resolved upon it, by some process of permutation, they have become the complainants, and they give to those who will not join them the soubriquet of Bourbons, and if they re monstrate they are “fond of questions," and “disputation,” or they are “in sane! ” what is this departure? It originated in a convention in Ohio, It reads thus : “That waiving all difficul ties as to the extraordinary means by whieh they were brought, about we accept the natural and legitimate results of the war, so far as waged for its ostensible purpose to maintain tbe Union and the constitu tional rights and powers of the Federal Government, including the then several amendments of the Constitution- *ooor.« y nijimtorl no -> settlement in part of all the issues of the Avar, and acquiesce in the same, as no longer issues before the country.” With all earnestness I ask you, disci ples of Jefferson, do you really “accept” and “acquiesce in” this onward stride to wards consolidation ?—this commence ment of the American Empire ? To ac cept, in its weakest- sense, is to receive with an assenting mind. To acquiesce, is to rest satisfied. Now, to read it in this, its true sense—“we,” the departers, “receive with assenting minds, these seve ral provisions, as part of the legitimate results of the Avar, and we wdl rest satis fied with the same, betog no longer issues before the country.” You subscribe to this, and you rest satisfied with these en actments, and you mean to “build upon” them, and to maintain them now, hence forth and forever. If there is any mean ing in language, you pledge yonrself to all this. Six months ago, you believed in the right and control of the States, in all interests save those of a national char acter. Then, you viewed these articles with stem reprobation. When did the change come ? When were you first sat isfied with them ? And how? An d why? No hope, no prospect, real or illusion, should cause you to forswear yonr old faith. It was an honest one. It was a safe one. For myself, though it is possi ble that some fatal crisis may compel me to vote for a candidate on such a creed, I should do so, just as I might take an odious potion, to rid me of some evil greater than itself. But the departers’say we are now bound by the rale of majorities, and that by this rule, we have adopted these measures ourselves, constructively. Let us see. The departers “waive” the means by which these articles were brought in. So do not we. The means were the root of the matter. The root corrupted the tree, the upas which sprang from them, and the tree, in turn, will bear evil fruit. To go back a little. Congress first ap pealed to the Legislatures of the States to ratify the ~XTilth Amendment, abolishing slavery. They ratified it. The Legisla tures at the South ratified it, and they were counted as States, for this purpose. The very same constituencies then elected Senators and Representatives* and they went to Washington. But Congress then did not want them, and shut their doors upon them. Two-thirds of the residue of this fragmentary Congress then proceeded to propo se the XIVth Amendment, though the Constitution required the vote, for such a purpose, of two-thirds of both Houses of Congress. The record shows, that if the ten States had been present, it could not have been done. They then called on aU the States to ratify it. At the first action of the States, it was re jected, more than a third of the States voting against it. Upon this result, Con gress, in violation of all principle, insti tuted a second process, and by refusing to allow two States to retract their first vote, by disfranchisements, and fraud in other States, and by reforming some States by military rule, throttling and compelling them, they obtained a bare majority, Secretary Seward himself hav ing confidence to give only a conditional certificate. And this is termed the obligation of the Republican rale of majorities! The confessed production of fraud and wrong by a process “outside of the Constitu tion,” it cannot be said, except in a technical sense, that we have adopted this provision. Still it is not to be de nied that we are bound to obey it as long as it remains on tbe statute book.* The ratification of the XVth Amend ment, which made the suffrage of ne groes in the States compulsory, was brought about by means not less irregu-/ lar aud odious. But it is needless to narrate them.. Crimine abuno desce omne.-. The one history above given may suf fice. I repeat, a loyal obedience to law is not the point: it is, whether as a party, led by a hope of success—and a baseless reason for hope it is—we shall announce our support of enactments which we so lately denonneed with our lips, and which, in our hearts and our judgments, we still utterly condemn. No—it will not advance onr cause. Here, as in everything, honesty is the true policy. Look at recent events. They speak loudly on the question. They illustrate the motto, “the bolder and higher we lift onr flag, the surer we are of success.” Senex. Baltimore, October, 1S71. »- ♦-« Cool Down, and Talk Calmly. The Milledgeville Union, of the 18th inst., charges us Avith having “tried to make out that the people of Atlanta had not violated their contract,” and then says that “instead of famishing public buildings to the State for ten years free of expense,” we “agreed to pay a small amount towards purchasing Kimball and Bullock’s Opera House,” &c. It was wrong in the editor of the Union to say this. He knew that the city of Atlanta had, in good faith, enter ed into a ten year contract, to pay over §10,000 per annum, in compliance with her obligation to furnish public build ings for the State for that length of time, and by that contract had, in many re spects, furnished the State Government and the Legislature with better accom modations than they ever before had. He also knew that the city of Atlanta afterwards, in good faith, paid §135,000 at once, in lieu of the §10,000 a year for ten years in which there was, at least, a loss of interest. He also ought to know that the people of Atlanta had nothing to do with proposing and engineering through the purchase of the Opera House for the use of the State, either as individuals or in their corporate capacity. A few per sons may have had a hand in that specu lation, though we doubt if any of our cit izens outside of the OAvners of tha': building, profited one cent by the opera tion; and the idea that our people had anything to do with it, is preposterous. As we stated before, we have no doubt the Opera House would have been pur chased by the Legislature, if Atlanta had refused to pay any part of the pur chase money, or had even opposed it. It was a measure which, on its merits, did not receive the approbation of our citi zens generally; but the people of Atlanta had no voice or influence in the matter, mrero not consulted. NoLlame can be attached to them. They did not orig inate the trade. The proposition Avas made to Atlanta to pay the §135,000 at once instead of the §10,000 a year, and was accepted. That is all. The editor speaks of the Opera House having been sold to the State for nearly §400,000, when it had recently been pur chased at auction for about §30,000. As before stated, the people of At lanta had nothing to do with getting up or proposing the trade; but, perhaps, it would have been as well, had the editor stated that when the property was sold at auction for §30,000, it was not even a half finished wall. The half of its cost had not then been put upon it. Then he says, “ all the money (mean ing the §400,000) went into the hands of the people of Atlanta.” Such a reckless statement shows that the editor is in a passion, and is not care ful about tbe words be uses. Whether it was right for the Legisla ture to purchase the James House and the Opera House cr not, we do not pre tend to say, but the people of Atlanta are not to blame for it. The Legislature made the purchase—the members from Baldwin, no doubt, voting for both these measures. The James House is not a “sham building”—neither is the Opera House building. If the editor don’t know about this matter, be ought to in form himself before making such statement. Then he winds up by assertiug that “every intelligent man in the State i knoAvs these are the real facts.” This assertion has not even the merit of “spec ial pleading.” We hereto annex the article in full, that onr readers may judgo of its merits and the fairness of our comments: James House for another hundred thou- and dollars making the State pay about half a milhon to the citizens of Atlanta for two sham buildings. Every intelH gent man in tbe State knows these urn the real facts in the case, and no special pleadings of The Sun can alter them — The people of Georgia as yet have had no voice in the matter, but they intend to be heard before the matter is settled ° Treasurer Angier Sued. At the instance of Major Williams Governor Bullock’s warrant clerk, and by Bullock’s prompting, Dr. Angier has been cited to appear before Judge Hop kins, on Saturday, the 28th inst., to an swer for his conduct in refusing to pay Executive Avarrants, drawn while it was known that the Governor was beyond the limits of the State. We have heretofore published the law and the facts in this case. The Gov ernor cannot lawfully draw a warrant on the Treasurer, while he is outside the State; neither can he delegate his au thority to draw such a warrant to another person. The law requires him to do so, and to be at the seat of government, Avlien he does. The Treasurer did right in refusing to pay Avarrants—known by him not to be drawn in accordance with the require ments of law. It was a duty he owed not only to the people of the State of Georgia, hut to himself and his bonds men, for their security; for when he pays out money illegally, he lays himself and his securities liable. SUN-STROKES. The Nashville Borner has some thing to say about the “agitation of sound principles.” The Banner's prin ciples are all sound—and nothing more. JOSS'” The New Orleans Picayune is striA’ing to show its readers “the bad ef fects of lotteries.” The Picayune, prob ably, has never succeeded in purchasing any but blank tickets. JB@y”Tke Nashville Union and American thinks it a matter of surprise that Grant, though a native of Hlinois, and reputed to be very wealthy, has not given a dol lar in aid of the Chicago sufferers. Bnt that paper forgets that Grant stands at the head of the list of prominent Ameri can paupers, and is thankful for all pres ents tendered him, having nothing to give away. All that he has comes from I the noble charity of office seekers. Of I course the illustrious pauper could not I be expected to aid others. fJQyThe Mobile Tribune says: “Isn’t it rather crowding the language to build a Masonic hall with stores for rent on tlie ground floor, and call it a ‘temple ?’ ” That may be true, bnt it is not new fora building so used to be so called. Per haps the Register man has not read of how one Avent into a “Temple,” many years ago, and drove out them who were “ money-changers,” and Avho sold doves. The book and the incident are very old, aud may have been overlooked by the Register in its rummages among the his toric ages of tho world. The Whole Story in a\ilut Shell. The Atlanta Sun last week tried to make out that the people of Atlanta had not violated their contract made with the Georgia Convention. That instead of furnishing the public buildings to the State for ten years, free of expense, they agreed to pay a small amount towards purchasing Kimball and Bullock’s Opera House. That is, Bullock, having, by the assistance of Fatty Harris and Gen. Meade, remodeled the Legislature by turning ont honest men, whom the peo ple elected, and putting in thieves of his OAvn selection, got control of what was called the Legislature. Bullock’s clique in the Legislature bargained with Bol lock’s ring in Atlanta to pay Bullock and Kimball nearly four hundred thousand dollars for the old Opera House, which had been sold at auction for about thirty thousand dollars. By this sharp opera tion tbe State avos swindled out of nearly, or quite, four hundred thousand dollars; and all tbs money went into the hands of the people of Atlanta—and besides this, this same combination purchased the BSL. Akerman, thebeloved disciple of Radicalism, who passed through Atlanta a few days ago, ostensibly en route for Washington, Avent, it seems, no farther than into South Carolina, where he has since been awaiting the imperial edict, giving him the liberty to fasten his eager claws upon the throats of the people. A Washington special,to the Savannah Nm of the 18th has the following : This crowning act of persecution toward the people of South Carolina, avos decided upon at the last meeting of the Cabinent, and the proclamation was written and signed by Grant, previous to his depart ure for the North. Akerman Avas notifi ed to proceed to South Carolina, and have mattei-s organized for the acts of persecution to be committed under the authority of this proclamation, and he has been in constant correspondence with the officials here since his arrival in South Carolina. This proclamation was not issued until near ten o’clock to-night, and then was rushed out hastily from the Department of State, after the receipt of a telegraphic report from Akerman, ad vising that it be issued at once. It appears from this that the highest law officer of the Government, has been delegated to the petty work of persecu ting the people of South Carolina. There is no doubt of his readiness to do the work. Though it is entirely incom patible Avith his high official position, it is in strict consonance with his feline nature. He has been watching and wait ing and hoping for such an opportunity to occur. He has no sympathy Avith the people of the South. He has no feeling in common with them, and he would de light in seeing them humbled and pro# trate at the feet of a system of vindic tive persecution. Perhaps, at no time in his life did he ever enter into any thing with more relish than he will begin these persecutions. South Carolina has long been esteemed as a symbol of that Southern chivalry, of which his New Eugland birth and education gave him no earthly perception. This chivalry he will delight in persecuting—believing that he can humble it—and all the ener gies of his crabbed nature will be di rected to that end. The mystery of his selection as a Cabinet officer is rapidly being explained. This is the Avork unto which he was ordained by his master, Grant, and he was selected because of his bitterness toward the Southern peo ple, aud because, if there was a las* feather to break the camel’s back, hi would not hesitate to lay it on.