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•''? —- *—— THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN THE DEPARTED. A MOST DOLEFUL DITTY IN MEMORY OF THE LOST GCBEBNATOB. BY A HOBBOWFCI* ONE. He Lm gone troro the Mansion, and gone from the city, He has gone from hi* office, he low gone in hte regarded as so disgraceful as lack of in* genuity and sharpness to prevent its dis covery.” And so grows the evidence that, if the Radical family is not destined to he a happy one, it is, at l^nst, determined to be a "wealthy one. Not a few Southern Conservative journals half-way indorse the proposi tion ■ tion for the Democracy to put forward no Hi* clan, in their sorrow, cry aloud. < what a pity, j candidate in 1872. This means a general That he, who came proudly, should go like a thieC” break-up, and its significance lies in the evidence thus furnished of wide-spread discontent with the old leaders. The world moves.—Memphis Atcdanche. ’Will the Avalanche please inform the public whether any Southern Democratic journals either “half-way” or wholly in dorse the proposition. That word ‘"‘con servative” is very ambiguous. Nearly the whole tribe of Southern Radical journals delight in calling themselves “Conservative” or “Moderate,” which is the stme in application; and it is quite probable that they indorse the proposi tion ulluded to, or would indorse any other proposition that would assist Grant in walking over the track without opposition. But if the Avalanche knows any Southern Democratic papers that can go even half the pig, let it name them. Ho has flown, borne away, as tome fearful tornado Whisks awsy on Its wings a poor handful of chaff! Oil Blodgett, come tickle us! Harris do tickle us 1 Twcody please tic kle us! We all want to laugh. He came like a vision, and basked in his glory, He camo as a pigmy, rose tall as a steeple, And now all the world knows the wonderful story— The Governor’s resigned and so are the people. And all tbrongh the State now is heard a lamenting That he did not evacuate sooner by half. Foster please tickle nsl “Fatty" do tickle ns i Ephraim come tickle us! We all want to laugh I Could he know of the sorrow of those who deplore him. He would not have left them in bitterness so; Andoh, what a sadness, what grief must come o’er him. What pain must attend him where'er he may go I And those Bonds, which are spouted 1 thoso Bonds how they bind trim Away from his friends who would gladly bear half 1 OU, B. I. come tickle us l J. C. please tickle us 1 E. N. do tickle us"! "We all want to laugh. 'Tissald he has squandered a good deal of cash inall. That State Bonds have "woodblned” excessively rash, But no one can tell us—except the Fourth National, Which side of the sheet bears the balance of cash: And 'tlsvery much feared when the statement is rendered. We’ll find Madame Humor hasn’t uttered the half; Ob, Harris come tickle us 1 Tweedy please tickle ub-! Blodgett do tickle us 1 We all want to laugh 1 Oh, great Gubernator, how sad is your story, "A way faring man" and a stranger to peace, On a small pair of stilts you walked straight updo glory. And slid down again on a tubful of ‘'grease,” Farewell to the Bullock who’a fled from our pasture, And left to his followers nothing but chaff: Oh, Ephraim come tickle us I Foster please tickle us I "Fatty” do tickle us 1 We all want to laugfh:? SUN-STROKES. The Camels hair coming—in the •form of mantles for ladies. JB@“* Iowa has the champion thief.— He stole a Bible and pawned it for whisky. Heury S. Foote, jr., has been nominated for Mayor of Canton, Mis sissippi. Queen Victoria gave $2,500 out of her private purse to the Chicago suf ferers. Did Grant give as much as a sor- ereian ? The great unanswered conun- dram that is now passing from lip to lip among the friends of Governor Bul lock is, where is H. L Kimball ? JJSjr Grace Greenwood calls Joaquin Miller “the wild singer of the Sierras.” The “singer” may be a little “wild,” but some of tlie songs are tame enough. ►#« SQp- Mrs. Woodhull said to the Balti moreans, “wo mean secession.” She’ll see a session of some criminal court, one of these days, if she goes on/ The Columbia Phenix says it is rumored that there will be a concentra tion of ten thousand Government troops in that city, during the State Fair, to keep the pence. CSy^Gov. Davis, of Texas, threatens to resign if the Legislature refuses to sanc tion his martial law business. That is the only way in which he can do the peo ple of Texas a favor. It!®- The Indianapolis Journal says: “The Democracy may bo regarded as a thing of the past.” Certainly—“athing of the past,” a thing of the j resent, and a greater and more glorious thing of the future. Yesterday was to have been ob served by Chicago as a fast day. If she repented “in sack-cloth and ashes,” she had but little trouble in finding plenty of “ashes” for the occasion. The Boston Po6t says: “It is more than suspected that a Washington Ring is after Brigham Young’s tin.” It has long been suspected that the “true metal” of the x>rosecntions would “ring” out after awhile. CSs- O’Donovan Rossa is spoken of as Tweed’s successor as Senatorial candidate for the Fourth New York District. The Democrats have found that Tweed don’t wear well, and think of trying Irish linen. Tho Radicals, during the last three years, have started more papers, than were started in the entire previous history of the country, but they were subscription papers for tbe benefit of Grant. i. : ' *■ • « \ The New York Herald speaks of Brownlow as “ that wrathful and re- GEORGIA MATTERS. The Ball has opened in Savannah. Krzyzanowski gave $10,000 bonds. The Macon Citizen understands that “a female, whose character is not as spotless as it might be, passed through thiat city on Saturday last, en route to Mont gomery, bearing with her ten thousand dollars in money and diamonds which she had stolen from a resident of Mil- lcdgeville.” The idea of a citizen of Mi'Iedgeville having §10,000 in diamonds and money is too grotesque—too thin. The Savannah Republican of Sunday has this item: Mr. Frank Herbert, the gentlemanly and obliging route agent, who has served ns so faithfully in this section for several months past, left for Atlanta and Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, on Friday night last. He goes to take “posish” on the Western and Atlantic Route as route agent. We envy our At lanta friends in thus securing the service of one of the most obliging, gentlemanly and faithful route agents that ever open ed a mail bag. Frank is a brick, and we wish him luck wherever he roams. The Savannah Republican says: There is no doubt that well defined cases of yellow fever have, within the past two days, mode their appearance in the city, confined, however, to a street (William) bordering on the canal. Three cases are reported as existing, one of which has proved fatal. There is evidently something on the tapis of more than ordinary interest in connection with the proceedings of the United States Court. Count Kryzyanows ki might have been seen running here, there and everywhere yesterday noon. The usual redness of face had given place to a paler which told of something rotten in Denmark, and evidently the investiga tions of the grand jury and something to do with the unnatural movements of this official. It is reported and believed-that Mr. Gould, the late Revenue Collector, will be here on Monday to testify before the grand jury in relation to the conspiracy to cheat and defraud the United States government, of which Gould was the cat’s paw (as it is said.) The developments will not be so brash,as those displayed in the unearthing of the frauds in New York city, but will be equally interesting to the small circle of listeners who vibrate from Gazan’s corner to the Post Office.—Sav Rep., 26. From the Mobile Register. Chicago and the South. We observe, in some of our exchanges, allusions to a speech of the notorious Ben. Butler (the document itself has not fallen into our hands) in which that miserable wretch denounces the failure of the South to contribute its proportion to the relief of the sufferers by the Chi cago fire. ,.f Now, we have no sympathy with the spirit that would withhold help, when it can be given, from any human being, or set of .beings, in distress, nor do we be lieve that any such spirit prevails in the South. “If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink.” That is the only rule upon the subject that we acknowledge. But, at the same time, it comes with an ill grace from men who has been as largely instrumental, as was the infa mous Butler, in plundering, robbing, and ruining the South, to complain of her sparse contributions to an object of charity. When Columbia was burned and plun dered by Sherman, we trow the wretched, houseless, homeless, helpless wonderers, who were then aud there turned adrift, received little help or sympathy from the North. Nay, it is said that Chicago was illuminated on that occasion. Whether this is literally true, or not, we are un able to say, for our records of what oc curred at that period outside of the Sout h ar i very meagre. Following this is a statement from the Baltimore Evening Journal which was copied into The Sun a few days ago,— The Register then adds: As another reminiscence, that may not be inappropriate, let us append a state ment, from the records of the New Or leans Howard Association, of the assis tancoTeeeived from abroad for the bene fit of the sick of that city in the epidemic The Stokes’ Sensation. No official advices were received here yesterday from Washington concerning the charge upon which General Stokes was arrested there. The following dis patch was sent to hi n last night: Nashville, October 28, 1871. To General Wm. B. Stokes, Washington, District± Columbia : If yon require any additional bonds men advise us immediately by telegraph. R. P. Jenkins, Wholesale druggist S. B. Spublock, Wholesale grocer. A Washington dispatch to the Cincin nati Commercial of yesterday says: “Ex-Congressman Stokes, having given satisfactory bail, was allowed the freedom of the city to-day, and went up to report to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. He affects to make light of the charges preferred against him, and says he can easily disprove them when his trial comes on. With regard to Captain Beaty’s company, he says that at one time it con sisted of three hundred men, and that the lowest average of those who performed service in said company was one hun dred and three persons, for whom his private bills contemplated relief. The President has relieved Stokes from fur ther service as Supervisor of Internal Revenue in Tennessee, and ordered the Assistant Supervisor to discharge the du ties until further orders. According to the specifications in the warrant on which Stokes was arrested, the latter had charge of all the papers on which the money was obtained, and that, notwithstanding claim agents here were employed in several of these cases, certificates for bounty money were issued to Stokes, those for the pri vates for $1,060" 6acb, and for officers from $2,000 to $3,000 each, the sum total aggregating abont $120,000; whereas, ac cording to the statements of Government officials who were sent to Tennessee to work up this case, the fall number of men legally entitled to relief, including officers, was only thirty-five, and conse quently there were over sixty-five names improperly placed on the rolls, and fraud ulent claims were thus allowed for $68,- 400.” The Washington correspondent of the Louisville Ledger telegraphs under date of Friday: “Ex-Congressman Stokes a had long in terview with the Commissioner of Inter nal Revenue this morning, during which he recited at length his version of the story of bounty swindling. He declares that he is able to prove Ms entire inno cence.”—Nashville Banner, 30th. nu>r*oV'* s old mouthpiece of Sulphurous °* 1^®' • Satanism.” If the Parson don’t "reform g** York. ?. .t.m«. t - :***$54,687 in a very short time, Ms declining health BostSu!' ?' * 9,401 admonishes his friends that the “mouth- Baltimore : :. h“.'. j.;. piece will soon be in its proper place. Philadelphia... .m Louisville “The old, old story is told again” i Chicago.... by Mr. Cobb, Supervisor of Internal | Havfen Revenue for Texas, who, according to a dispatch to the Baltimore Gazette, “has returned to Washington ami makes re port of the official doings. He has caused to be arrested, or the indictment of, eleven collectors aud assessors, for al leged malfeasance and rascalitv in office. He says fraud and stealing are common, and almost respectable among officials in Texas, and prevails as well among State as Federal officers; that among people there the criminal act of an officer is not dMH' 8,601 5,950 4,470 3,500 200 175 We have never‘heard that any com plaint was made in New Orleans, or else where, o’fTaek of liberality in magnificent and prosperous Chicago—nor do we make any now. * • - The Catholics of Chicago, tbrongh their religious establishments churehes. &c., lost heavily by the great fire in that city. Among the buildings destroyed were seven churches, eight schools, six convents, two asylums and two hospitals It has also been staled that fully thirty thousand persons of the Catholic faith have been made homeless by the fire. THE CAPITOL. A Good Prayer. Rev. Charles Volsey, the English cler gyman condemned for heresy some time since, is attempting to fonnd a new church. Among other novelties he uses litany wMch contains the following be- seechment: “That it may please Thee to help all literary persons and editors of the public press, that they may use all their powers in the cause of truth and righteousness, and rise above the praise and blame of men.” STATE MATTERS. The Savannah News of Tuesday says: We are called upon to notice another outrage by armed negroes on the Louis ville road, leading to this city. On yesterday, at about mid-day, Mr. Geo. Claiy, a gentleman who resides in Screveu county, in company with his wife, was proceeding to the city, and when near the Fair Grounds, at the same spot where a former occurrence of this kind took place, he was halted by a mob of armed negroes, and though no firearms were brought into use, Mr. Clary and his lady were the subjects of outrageous in- salts and menaces. Mr. Clary states that he offered no provocation whatever, and, unless they mistook Mm for some other party against whom they had a grudge, was totally at a loss to know why the attack was made, In addition to very threatemng overtures, every manner of profane and obscene language was used by the highwaymen, in heaping insults upon Mr. Clary and his wife. This is the third outrage which has been committed by these vagabond ne groes, and it is passing strange that no cognizance is taken thereof by the au thorities, or at least such action as would virtually put a stop to 6uch proceedings. It is a nice state of affairs when persons cannot peaceably visit the city without being intercepted on the road, and re ceiving insults of the most dire nature. The Americus Republican has the fol lowing: Page, the murderer of young Miller, whose trial was to have come off yester day in the Superior Court, didn’t come to time. He preferred forfeiting his bond to risking his precious life at the- bar of justice. We learn that he has gone to Atlanta to hike his seat as a Rep resentative from Lee county in the Legis lature. Now, can a man under indict ment for murder take a seat with the law makers of the State ? Is he eligible to his seat until Jhe has been pronounced innocent by a competent jury? We think not. It would be an extremely "bad law a murderer would make, for the good of society and the commonwealth, and we think the honest men of the State, would prefer a better man to fill the seat of Geo. Page, from Lee county. Grady, with his wife, has returned to Rome. • - Qmte a number of South Carolina refugees are in Rome. A man named Jorks Swords was ran over by the cars, on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, and killed. Theodore Meres, a Savannah snake fancier, was bitten by one of his snakes while exMbiting them in Saxony. But, as he has been bitten previously by the same kind of reptile, he is getting "used to it now and has no fear of consequen ces. The fifteenth session of the Savannah Medical College began yesterday. Augusta had the first fibst of the sea son Monday night. The Chronicle and Sentinel reports a rumor that a company of soldiers has been seut to Burke county. Henry Stumpf, of Monroe county, was robbed of $80, during the Macon Fair. Bishop Pierce will preach in Forsyth next Sunday. Judge Erskine adjourned his Court in Savannah on Monday, having finished up the business. To conceive the whole of the meaning of the word “change,” one has only to call up a memory of what the last Legis lature was, and, with the memory distinct in his mind, go up to the State House and look upon the body which assembled yesterday. It is change of the most dis tinct and pleasant character, change in composition, change of faces, change of color, and, more important of all, a change of purpose. Withal, it is a most agreea ble change, and one that promises well for the future of the State. Faces that were familiar are no longer in those halls. In the Senate a new face, and a more friendly-looking one, is on the President’s stand. The Behemoth no longer occupies his accustomed seat on the floor. Tom Speer—Tom, the lively aromatic Radical—the facetious man of the old Senate—has qmt his Sen atorial ways, and gone to mis-representing a Georgia District in Congress. Dun ning—honest Dunning, who could stand erect in his seat, aud in the excitement of eloquent debate, slap the sole of Ms left boot with all the fervor of loyal Rad icalism—is there no longer. Hunger- ford, who occupied two days in saying what might have been said in five min utes, is now on a far different “guage,” and no longer thunders his oratory like a new Cicero. They are gone—gone so fur into the past that fame, with the tramp of a thousand Gabriels, will never be able to resurrect them, and again set them up as Mentors to frame laws to govern the people of the State. In the House the saintly Caldwell is no more. The dainty Tweedy, who dresses like a dandy and legislates like a — any- tMng— is among the departed. The illustrious Skowheganite has packed Ms Representative carpet-bag, and, for all the publie knows, or cares, is now heeling it somewhere among the hills of Ms own State of Maine. McWhorter, paunchy and dull, no longer thunders away with Ms gavel. Even the begemmed Johnson has left Ms seat to be contested by two others of the same name. They, and others of theiilk, have gone—have departed this political life—and the seats which they once occupied, will be occupied by them no more forever, and all the people say “amen,” and while looking after their retreating reputations, all unite in one soft-sounding, but exuberent vale, vale, lunge vale. Some of the old faces are back—some of which are welcome. They bore the brunt of the battle when the battle was the sorest. They fought like Spartans when outnumbered two or three to one, and when they went down, it was with colors flying and .with an echo of defi ance thundering in the ears of those by whom, they were “over-powered—not conquered.” It makes one feel glad to see them back, and pleasant must it be to them to look over the seats and see friends by the score when foes were once as thick. For the first time since Reconstruction came, the Legislature of Georgia approxi mates a representation of the intelligence and wishes of the people. Before,it seemed as if the highways and by-ways of the nation had been raked for men who were most willing to misrepresent the people and frame laws that were opprobrious to the tastes and damaging to the real in terest of Georgia’s proper people. Men who had no particle of sympathy witlrus men whose intelligence barely fitted them for the corn-field or cotton-patch—men who were the avowed enemies of thepeople of Georgia, were there as our Representa tives, framed laws for us, and squandered money, as if greenbacks were “as tMck as autumn leaves in Vallambrosa.” Now it is far different. A Georgian may look upon either branch of the present Assembly, and feel that his friends predominate. The men who now compose “the assembled wisdom of the State,” are men who are identified with the State—men who are interested in having good laws—men who were citi zens of Georgia years ago, and who ex pect to be citizens of Georgia for years to come—men who will do to trust with the making of our laws, and the man agement of our political affairs. Though there are a few black sheep in the flock, they are in a hopeless minority, and only await their turn to pass off the political stage forever.' With this understanding of what was and what is, of the past and the present, one can hardly help exclaiming, with the poet: “Bing out the old, ring in the lif-w, King, h»ppy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go— King out the fa'se, ring in the true! * . * * * * * * Bing out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; • Bing in the love of truth aud right, Bing in the common love of good.” be true, if the following paragraph from the 'Washington special to the Savannah News may be credited. A Boston boot and shoe firm, wMcli has an extensive Northern Republican trade by reason of its loyalty, lately hit upon a plan to advance their trading South. They invented a sort of square- toed boot, in the leg of which was im printed the likeness of General Robert E. Lee, and this was to go into the Southern market A fine boot was then made with the picture of Stonewall Jackson, also imprinted in the boot-leg, and this was intended specially for the Virginia dealers. The firm then applied for a patent at the office here on their trade-marks. The examiners to-day de cided that tlie application could not be granted, on the ground that these trade marks tended to encourage disloyalty in the South. The firm have taken an ap peal to the Commissioner. SUN-STROKES. “Vade Bollock.”—Macon Tele graph. BcDt, TMee thousand public schools are teaching the Virginia young ideas how to shoot. E0=> The Courier-Journal calls the peo ple ot Bangor, Maine, by the zoological title of “Bangorillas.” And now Boston—the hot-bed of loyalty—the seat of Fanenil Hall—the home of the Puritans and all that kind of thing, has iaid herself open to the reproach of being disloyal. f , "can aucli things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, "Without our special wonder.’* Yea, veiily, it seems in one instance to Fisk took the field manfully in the New York riots, but now the Mans field is about to take him. £§?* Edward Hartell, a San Francisco portrait painter, shot Mmself through the head. Rumpled domesticity. The delay of Alexis is explained. He stopped on the way to take in Ma deira. Is the young fellow bibulous? EQV, The Cincinnati Enquirer, of yes terday, comes out for Thomas A Scott for President. How big is the Tom Scott movement, anyhow? This thing grows interesting. »-•'-< Stokes has been called “the Ten nessee bald-eagle of Radicalism;” bnt recent developments have shown that he deserves to be ranked above the other buzzards of his party. g@t=The Macon Telegraph, beingjin a correcting mood, says: “An article upon Kimball’s money was headed ‘Macon and Brunswick Road,’ instead of ‘Albany and Brunswick Road.’ ” It can now correct some more, and maybe it will get it right in a few more trials. BgU The Courier-Journal remarks that “Whenever a poetical gem appears at the head of the Small Talk, Alexander H. Stephens copies it into The Atlanta Sun,” and adds, “it isn’t good journal ism;” wMch charge is ‘admitted, as it is not “ good journalism”, to copy anything from the Courier)'-Journal. and financiers, and such, we trust, will be placed on the committee. The article referred to, commences by alluding to the great cry of the Radicals about the Democrats of New York rob bing that city—a charge which every Radical editor and politician knows is unfounded and unjust; for, whatever of wrong doing they may be guilty of in that city, it is only iu a single community, and is a local concern, and the Democratic people of that city are dealing with it sternly and in their own way—not being hindered by bayonets; and, besides, all the New York stealing is mainly the re sult of a Reform Charter imposed on the city by the Radical Legislature of that State; while the robberies of the South ern States is a matter for which Grant and the Radical Congress, and the whole Radical party, is responsible, and from which they cannot escape; for they have pinned us down with bayonets and manacled us, while their agents and favorites have rifled our pockets. And,the Patriot might have added, that the New York robbery was performed by those so-called Democrats, who have tried to kill tho party. They are the moneyed men of the country—the bloated, bonded aristocracy—who, though Democrats in other tlays, are now unwilling for tlie Democracy to come into power, lest they might be made to pay their part of the taxes, like those who are not rich. The following is the article. Read and study it carefully: “Asubject of far greater magnitude and graver import, affecting the whole coun try, demands attention at our hands.— We refer to the enormous robbery of the Southern States, perpetrated by the agents and emissaries of the National Administration, in support of its policy, and intended to promote the re-election of General Grant. The figures are de rived from official reports, or the latest census returns, and may, therefore, bo easily verified.” LOUISIANA. 1871. State debt, per report of Auditor..$41,104,173 Excess of receipts over expenditures 8,778,018 Debt of New Orleans by census returns.. .26,500,000 $76,473,091 1801. Total debt 10,009,074 Increased indebtedness .$00,374,017 GEORGIA. 1871. Debt, by report of State Treasurer.. $20,137,50 Bonds, authorized and issued to rail roads by Badical Legislature and Governor 30,000.000 $50,137,500 1:01, Debt..* ...3,170,760 The' Savannah News says: “It has been discovered that Atlanta time is ten minutes slow. But we suspect the whole thing is an advertising dodge.’ Of course it is “an advertising dodge;” but what sort of a “dodge” is it on the part of Savannah that induces her to re main twenty years slow. ►— B@=“What is the matter with Idaho?” asks the Courier)'- Journal, which is moved to the conundrum by the fact that the third appointee of Grant has resigned the position of Governor. The Courier- Journal remembers that Bard was the first man appointed and first to resign; and it ought to have sense enough to know that any position that Bard would resign is not worth having. “Mrs. Leary, of GMcago, stoutly dernes the story that the great fire was caused by the upsetting of a kerosene oil lamp in her stable wMle she was milk ing her cows. She says the stable must have been fired by incendiaries. She always milks by day-light.” Well, it is barely possible that Mrs. Leary’s cow may be robbed of all her fame, but the claims of kerosene have not been, and never will be exploded. Up with the oleaginous “non-explosive 1” . — >-•-< jKgr 1 Robb, who has been dubbed the “fighting Illinois Colonel,” is evidently a man of tender passions, and none too strong for a little womanly weakness.— The Washington correspondent of the Savannah News telegraphs, on the 30th, the following: Robb met his opponent to-day, and during the interview was affected to tears. He expressed a hope that his opponent would receive the appointment of Collec tor, aud said that he would retire to pri vate life and save further expense in the matter. Dick Yates must have witnessed those tears and been moved by them to greater efforts in behalf of his pet, for it is an nounced, in the Washington dispatches published yesterday, that no change will be made in the Savannah custom house. Radical Robbery of the South. The Washington Patriot of the 22d ult. has an array of statistics, giving some faint idea of the erroneous frauds, rob beries and plunderings of the people by bayonet Radical rule iu the South, which we annex to these remarks, and ask the special attention of the Legislature to it. The plunderers in Georgia have not succeeded as well as in other States. Dr. Angier has been in their way—though the extent to which it hois been done can not be known till a thorough investiga tion is had—the performance of which devolves on the present Legislature, and which, we have no doubt, they will thor oughly do by an able and impartial joint committee of both Houses. In this investigation tbe principal men, and the clerks and books of New York houses, with whom Bullock and Kimball have had dealings, must be-carefully examined and searched, and the holders of the bonds which have been issued by Bullock must be hunted up, and the manner of their pos session must be inquired into carefully. This important duty will require able men—able and experienced accountant < Increased indebtedness $40,066,750 In 1861 Georgia was almost entirely exempt from taxation, by the receipts from the Western and Atlantic Railroad, which covered the State expenses. This road was recently sold to Cameron, Delano, Bullock, and others, for one- third of its value. 1871. Debt and liabilities.... 1861. Debt and liabilities.... Increased indebtedness NORTH CAROLINA, . $43,688,263"- ..20,115,666- .$25,597,566 1871. Admitted debt 1861 Debt and liabilities. ,.$30,215,915 ...14,575,375 Increased indebtedness $15,640,540 The lowest Radical figures of the present debt are adopted, although they do not include five millions of additional obligations. VIRGINIA. 1870. Debt $47,287,141 1861. Debt 34,977,298 $12,399,843 Increased indebtednes SOUTH CAROLINA. 1871. Debt and liabilities 1861. Debt and liabilities .$17,500,000 ...5,090,000 Increased indebtedness $12,500,000 1871. Debt and liabilities $17,258,010 1861. Debt and liabilities 5,000,000 Increased indebtedness ..$12,268,010 TEXAS. 1871. Debt for railroads $12,000,000" Other liabilities have been incurred, bnt no official report of the aggregate can be found. There was no debt pre vious to the war. In 1860 the tax on property was ten cents on the $100; it is now $2 25. The taxes of 1871 amount to $5,890,000. or ten times the amount ever levied before reconstruction. ARKANSAS. 1871. Debt and liabilities • $13,500,000 1861. Debt and liabilities 3,000,000 Increased indebtedness $10,500,000 The Cqunty taxes are enormous. MISSISSIPPI. 1871. Debt reported $1,800,000 The amount of railroad bonds is large, but not stated in the Radical reports.— The county taxation is enormous/ and does not appear iu the local returns of the State taxes, FL03IDA. : The debt and obligations of this State have been purposely concealed, and are estimated to range between six and six teen millions of dollars. The bonds for railroads have been manipulated by some of the managers, who robbed North Car olina.' RECAPITULATION. ' Louisiana. "..... $66,374,017 Georgia ;.. 46,966,750 Tennessee 25,572,597 North Carolina.......;. 15,630,540 Virginia 12,309,843 South Carolina 12,500,000 Alabama 12,258,600 Texas, (lowest estimate) .". 12,009,000 Arkansas ; 10,500,000 Mississippi, (partial) I.huO.OOO Florida, (lowest estimate, 6,000,000 $221,911,747 North Carolina, additional, not included iu Badical report 5,900,000 Badical robbery in three years ...$226,911,747 Appalling as these figures are, they do not represent the entire indebtedness by tens of millions. The Radical authorities have deliberately concealed aud misrep resented the actual and outstanding ob ligations, for political effect. This gi gantic debt was mostly incurred during the last three years, under pretext of building railroads aud making other im provements. But the bonds were sold and stoleu, and there is nothing to show for tbe two hundred and twenty-six mil lions, but the sudden wealth of carpet bag Governors, office-holders and mem bers of Congress, who shared the spoil? Literally nothing. But the oppression aud outrage upo the^e unfortunate people does not en< here. Not satisfied with the pluude thus appropriated in the shape of bond* by means of corrupt aud infamous legis lotion, the screw Inis been turned whei ever Radicalism still holds possession of power, by the most outrageous county taxes, to say nothing of State at large.