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Newspaper Page Textf \ THE DAILY SUN. Published by the Atlauta Snn Publishing Company Alexander II. Stephen*, J. Uenly Smith, Proprietors. Traveling Agent* i jj. W. HILL. J* HEARD, Agents for The Snn, Iimm Aixn Smith, Knoxville, Tenn. Davz Bei*. Athens, Gs. J. L. Wbiobt. Woodstock, Gs. j q caixwxll, Thomson, G*. H.O. rt*wnTOS, Dslton, Gs. w C Davis, Jr., tstonton, Gs. Tappav Mapt * Co., White Plsins.'.Grecn Co., Gs J. "smith, Chsttsnoogs,Tenn. j. C. Basham. LsGrsnge.G*. U. A. Vabsedob, Thomzsvllle. G*. Q' ^’jluams. Union.Point. * Views of Mr: Pendleton. VOL. 2, NO. 32.) ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY, JANUAKY 17, 1872. WHOLE Q f X D Ml! E,l! , OT, Tiie lion. George. H. Pendleton lion hu the Situation. CONTENTS “ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,” FOB THE WEEK EH I) ISO WKDNKSPAY. JAXIIARY 17th, 1873. Page 1.—Ths Hon. George H. Pendleton on the Situation. T. G. Campbell, the Negro Senator. Hon. Linton Stephens on the Supreme Court vs- gesneies, etc. page 8.—Gen. Grant and Mr. Stephens. Haughty BuBBia. Beautiful Printing. The Legislature. Famino in Penis. Anarchy in Mexico. Vacant Connty Offices. Georgia Matters. Sun Strokes. Local Notes. Telegrams, etc. Page 3.—Georgia Legislature. Ex-Governor Con- ley’s Message. Page 4.—The Southern Farm and Home. A Hap py New Year. Georgia Matters. Inauguration of Gov. Smith. Inaugural Address. Body of a Lady Found. Railway Conversation. Local Notes. Tel egrams, etc. Page 8.—Georgia Legislature. Treasurer’s Re port, etc, , Page 6. Legislative Proceedings. Washington Matters. Sun Strokes. The Bonds of Georgia, Conley’s Pardons. Local Notes. Advertisements. Etc. Pago 7.—Now Orleans Correspondence. New York Custom House Rascality. Sun Strokes. Washington Matters. Local Notes. Telegrams. Etc, Page 8.—The Question of Vacancies Once More Florida Correspondence of the Atlanta Sun. Snn Strokes. Foster Blodgett’s Pardon. Commercial, Advertisements, etc. MARYLAND. The Horgln. Annapolis, January 15.—The prose cution continued the evidence in rebuttal all day. SPAIN Valmanda, Madrid, January 15.—The^ ministry has resolved not to from Havana. remove Valmaseda FRANCE. Polignac. Paris, January 15.—Prince de Polig nac has been appointed military attache of the French legation at Berlin. »-•-* OHIO. Another Death from Trichina. Cleveland, January 15.—The wife of the man who died recently from trichina pork is dead, and their child is in a criti cal condition. RHODE ISLAND. A Heavy Defalcation. Providence, January 15.—The defal cation of tho Rhode Island National Bank amounts to $220,000. MICHIGAN. A $100,000 Fire. Detroit, January 15.—The Council Company’s paper mills have been burned, Loss $100,000. MASSACHUSETTS. A $50,000 Fire. Boston, January 15.—C. M. Bailey’s oil cloth factorv has been burned. Loss $50,000. VIRGINIA. Another Prelate Dead. Richmond, January 14.—Bishop Mc Gill, for twenty-five year® Bishop of the Virginia diocese, is dead. Aged sixty-two years. KENTUCKY. Funeral of General IlnUcch. Louisville, January 14.—Gen. Hal- leck’s funeral attracted an immense crowd. Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota officiated. Louisville, January 15.—Dr. Stuart Robiusou has the small-pox, with little hope of recovery. We give our readers, to-day, a recent letter of this distinguished statesman of the West, on the present political pros pects of the country. The letter was written in reply to an invitation of a Committee of Democrats of Wooster, Ohio, requ--sting his pres ence with them on the 8th of January. With the general tone of this letter we are well pleased, and commend it to the careful perusal of all who feel that inter est in the approaching Presidential elec tion, which should be felt by every patriot in tho land. Mr. Pendleton, it will be seen, is for > “departure,” or “passivity,” on the part of the Democracy, in the coming contest, but tor standing by “the princi pies and example of the founders ot the Party.” He is for an open and square contest, as we understand him, with the Party in Power, on “the two great dangers'' which now “imperil” our Free Institutions.— These are Centralization and Corruption in the administration of public affairs. It wai against these two great dangers, mainly, that the Democracy was organ' ized in the contest cf 1800. Mr. Pendleton most truly says, ir speaking of “the present organization of the Republican Party,” that: “ Its foun- “ datum, its philosophy, its history, and its “ leaders recognize military power and the corrupting use of money by official pat- “ ronage, as legitimate forces in ordinary “ civil administration, and noxo, more than “ ever, are they brought into active exercise. “ The Democratic Parly confronts this “ theory, and denounces these practices." This is staling the living issues of the day in a nut-shell. On some points, however, we do not agree with the distinguished author of this letter, as our readers well know.— One is the idea, incidently expressed, that the Democracy, at present, do not em brace a majority of the voters of the Union. In speaking of the incorruptible and undaunted material of which this Party composed, Mr. Pendleton says: “ Its powerful organization enters every vil lage in the land, and numbers among its adherents nearly one-half the people —as intellectual, as pure, as patriotic, as unselfish, as any of their fellow-citi zens.” From the idea thus incident ally conveyed, that the real, and true Democracy of this country bn the issues stated by him, are in a minority at this time, ever so small, we entirely dissent. We maintain that the Democracy, organ ized upon “the principles and example of the founders of the Party,” constitute a decided majority of the people of these States. If they have met with reverses in recent elections,it wasbecause the great is sues against the usurpations and corrup tions of Power, which the masses were eager to meet, were not presented by their leaders. In many places in these elections, they were even called upon by their timid or treacherous leaders to sanction and approve some of the most odious of the measures of the Central izing Ruling Dynasty. This, thousands of them, and hundreds cf thousands would not do, and never will. But election statistics abundantly show that the Democracy, organized upon the square issue, as above presented by Mr. Pendleton, will carry not only a decided majority of the Stages, iu the coming election, but a very large majority of the electoral votes. We have not space to say more upon this subject to-day. We shall recur to it hereafter. A. H. S. n. Linton Stephens on the | with the advice and consent of the Sen-j It settles the question. supreme Court Vacancies. | ate \ I ™ s 'T er > b 5' ™ “cans- Such a The suggestion in T construction is dimly shadowed forth for House of Representatives, ) I *j£ sfc t “ n 7 e “Democrat,” a writer in Atlanta, Ga.. January 15, 1872. f * h ® C7 ' ro ."f e Sentinel of to-day but r .... ... ‘ r. I it does violence to the words—a violence Editors At.anla Sun. X.ie rollo\vin 0 I -^jeh must be specially appreciated by private letter from Judge Stephens was those who stickle for so confined a mean- written at my request, in response to one ing of “appointment” as not to include from me asking his views on the very im- “election. tant subject of which it treats. As there |. VThether appointment can properly . .- . , . ' include election or not, it certainly can is much public interest now manifested | not be so stretched an ’ d strained ^ to LOUISIANA. TUc Calm Before the Storm. New Orleans, January 14.—The city is very quiet. All are resting after the week of excitement. But few are on the streets. Even about the Mechanics' In stitute only a dozen worn-out looking Metropolitans can be seen. It is proba bly the calm before the storm. New Orleans, January 15.—Yesterday Carter expressed his determination to appoint a sufficient number of sergeants- at-arms to seat the Legislature. Warmotli has called out the entire militia for Mon day. General Emory will take no part, unless ordered from Washington. ENGLAND. The Tlchborne Case np for Trial. Admits it All. Now that Benjamin Conley has surren dered his claim to the Executive Chair, just as we all along said he would, his “organ” surrenders all rightful claim which he and his adherents and the “ organ” ever made to the office. The JSew E m a of Saturday says : Hon. Benjamin Conley held the position of Gover nor in virtue c f his office as President of the Senate. He never resigned hia seat in the Senate, as Repre sentative from the Augusta district. His place was never declared vacant. The question has therefore been mooted, by Democratic member of the House, whether Gover nor Conley will not now be entitled to the office of President of the Senate? By no means. A presiding officer, according to Cushing’s Manual, is elected only for each particular session. If he continues to fill the position at a sub sequent session, with the consent of the body, that is constructively a re-election. But when there is a reorganization of the body, as was the case with the Senate in November last, tbe officers then elected are the legal officers of course. That’s it precisely. Conley’s time as London, January 15.—The hearing cf Senator has not expired, and will not, for the Tmhborne case was resumed to-day, I gome Ume> bat his ternl ^ President of I 1 JB |1 Sir John Duke Coleridge opened for the 1 T _ .v™* defence. He said the testimony they the 8enate ^ the day of the meet- proposed to offer would show that the claimant was a conspirator, perjurer and forger—in fact, a common impostor and villain, and that Baigent and Carter, his accomplices, were unscrupulous rogues and concocters of this stupendous impos ture. The speech of the distinguished counsel was received by the crowded Court House with applause, which was immediately suppressed. A World special from London says it is reported that theMardaunt divorce will soon be re-opened, with the Priuce of Wales as correspondent, and another cose wherein the Duke of Edinburg appears as correspondent. ing of the Legislature in November last It is only by virtue of being President of the Senate, that any one can discharge the functions of the Executive when that office is vacant; and when Conley was no longer President of the Senate, he had no more right to fill the Governor s chair than any other Senator or any other in dividual. This the organ and Conley and the Radical Ring knew as well then as it does now—of which the foregoing quotation is a virtual admission ia in substance. upon this subject, and as the views of j include all possible or all usual modes of one so eminent as a sound constitutional filling a vacancy. It might be done by lawyer, and profound reasoner, will be \ promotion from some other office, by , ... ., T , . seniority of commission, by lottery, or by perused with avidity by all classes, I take ftny one of many other m ^ des> pos J _ the liberty of handing you the letter, s i b i e modes are open to the law; for the with the request that you publish the Constitution, in leaving vacancies to be same. Yours, Geo. F. Pierce, Jr. filled according to law, places no restric- i o-n ilon u P on the law, or the mode which Sparta, 5th January, IS <2. may be selected by the law. Appoint- Dear George: Notwithstanding all the ments are to be made (by the Governor), tangled-headed scribbling on the sub-1 “ unless otherwise provided by law”— ject, the Constitution contains but one that is to say, except in cases where a clause which regulates the filling of va- different inode is prescribed by law—law cancies in the Supreme Court, or in any now existing, or that may hereafter be other office whatever, except only the passed—leaving the law unrestricted as Governor and members of the Legisla- to the many possible modes. My oppo- tnre. For filling vacancies in these two, nents have the Herculean task of making the Constitution makes specific provis- “so appointed," cover all possible modes ion. Vacancies in all other offices, in- of filling a vacancy, after having most eluding Judgeships on • the Supreme strenuously denied that it can cover even Bench, are to be filled under article 4, the single one of election. Right here section II, paragraph TV: “When any the whole question hangs. Whether I office shall become vacant by death, res- am right or wrong, I know this is the ignation or otherwise, the Governor shall point on which the decision turns. If have power to fill such vacancy, unless “so appointed” covers persons who may otherwise provided by law; and persons be designated in any possible way under so appointed shall continue in provision of law, as well as persons who office until a successor i3 ap- may be appointed by the Governor in pointed agreeably to the mode in the absence of provision by law, then pointed out jjy this Constitution, my opponents are right and I am wrong, or by law in pursuance thereof.” The Then all persons who go into vacancies whole trouble consists, not in expound- by any mode except only the regular ing this, the only clause which relates to mode, hold only till a successor is desig- the subject, but in throwing off the dark- nated in the regular mode, and this des- ness which has been cast upon it by con- ignation of a successor in the regular fused conceptions of other clauses, which way, ought to be done at the earliest op- are really utterly irrelevant. One of portunity. But if “so appointed” cov- these is the clause which provides that, ers only such persons as may be appoint- after the first" appointment of Judges ed by the Governor in the absence of a of the Supreme Court, all subsequent different provision by law—covers only appointments shall be for the term of such as may be appointed in the befoie- twelve years, except appointments to fill I stated manner—then they are wrong, and vacancies. This is supposed to show that I am right. Then, persons who fill va- vacancies must be filled by appointment, cancies, not by appointment of the Gov- It truly shows that the framers of the ernor, but under provision of law, have Constitution understood that, under the a tenure which is terminated, not by the provision which they had made for filling appointment of a successor in the regu- vacanc-ies in the Supreme Court, appoint- lar mode, but only by the laio itself, or ment was one mode, but‘it does not show by the expiration of the term. This last that they thought appointment was the limitation results from the nature of only mode. If appointment could be any a vacancy. A vacancy in the Su- one of many modes, then it was necessary preme Court or Superior Court, (if to except appointments for vacancies, not in every office) is, under our present unless they had intended those appoint- Constitution, (though not in all cases un- ments, as well as all others, to last twelve der our former Constitutions, nor under years. The fact that appointment was the Constitution of the United States,) one possible mode of filling vacancies, simply a factional unexpired term. Of made the necessity for the exception, as course, a person holding an unexpired clearly as if it had been the only mode, term, can never hold longer than one who Therefore, the exception proves just goes in for a whole term. He goes out nothing at all as to whether appointment with the expiration of the term, was the only mode, or was one out of The meaning of the whole clause, many. In either case—whether it was the fairly construed, is that, in the absence only mode, or one of many—the exception of provision bylaw applicable to the would have been made precisely as office which is vacant, the Governor ap- it is. y Another clause which has \ points, and the person “so appointed” been tised so as to cast darkness, but holds till his successor can be, and actu- wliich really has nothing to do with the ally is, designated or appointed in the sbbject of vacancies, is that which directs mode for filling whole terms; that is to that the Judges of the Supreme Courts say, the Governor’s appointee does not shall be appointed by the Governor, with hold for the remainder of the unexpired the advice and consent of the Senate, term, but only until some person— This provision relates solely to whole either the same or another—can be put terms. If not—it applies to vacancies in for the remainder of the unexpired as well, then a vacancy in the Supreme term, in the regular mode. All this takes Court, or a Superior Court, can never be place only in the absence of a different filled unless the Senate is in session; for \provision by law. Where there is pro- under this clause, the action of the Senate vision by law, that is the rule of the case, is as indispensible as that of the Gover- and must be followed ia every respect, nor. The*fact is, that every opponent of except only such parts of the law as may my view of this subject confesses, in effect, be inconsistent with other clauses of the that this clause does not apply to vacan- Constitution. This clause cannot be in- cies, for they all, without exception, take consistent with any possible provision 'of refuge at last in the other clause, which, law, unless, indeed, the law should at- in terms, applies to vacancies, and to no- tempt to extend the tenure beyond the thing else. Now, nothing is more certain unexpired term. The matter in l|md is than that if one does apply, the other I the filling of vacancies, and any law going does not; for the mode of appointment or beyond this object would be void; but in selection, or designation, is widely differ- side of this limit any provision of law, ent in the two clauses. In one it is ap- whether covering only a part of the pointment by the Governor, with the ad- unexpired term or the whole of it, vice and consent of the Senate. In the is valid, and must be followed in all re- other it is appointment by the Governor specis. This clause imposes no limitation alone, if there is no provision of. law upon the provision of law, only that pointing out the mode; and if there is which results from the nature of a vacan- such provision cf law, then it is the mode cy—the provision of law must not go be- pointed out by law, whatever that mode yond the unexpired term, may be. Anybody who affirms, as they The difference between a law which is, all do affirm, that the Governor can make and another which is not, inconsistent an appointment for a vacancy without the w ith the Constitution, finds a happy il- aciion of the Senate, just as Bullock ap- lustration in the two existing provisions pointed Loclirane, are obliged to confess 0 f j aW) one for filling vacancies (so-called) that the tilling of vacancies is not govern- j n tee Superior Courts, and the other for ed by that clause of the Constitution filling vacancies (real ones) in the Supreme which directs the Judges to be appointed | Court. The first is in section 224 of the by the Governor with the advice and con-1 Code, in these words, “When a vacancy sent of the SenatojSs governed solely by occurs (or irom some cause there is a the other clause, which directs vacancies i failure to elect) the Governor shall ap- to be filled by the Governor, unless oth- | point sdme qualified person to fill such erwise provided by law, and according to t vacancy, and shall order a special election." the provision of law, where such provis-1 The subsequent sections, including 227, ion exists, whatever it may be. All doubt plainly show that the “special election” must be removed, simply by placing these) was to be held, not to fill the remainder two clauses in juxtaposition. They then 0 f a u unexpired term, but to inaugurate read—the Judges shall be appointed by * ” • - . . the Governor, with the advice and con sent of the Senate; but vacancies in these and all other offices are to be filled by the Governor alone, unless otherwise provided by law, and according to the provision of law, wherever there is a provision of law for the office in which the vacancy occurs. The whole question turns on the con struction of the one clause which pro vides for vacancies. This clause consists of two parts. The first part of it provides that tue Gover nor shall till the vacancy, unless otherwise provided by law. The second part pro vides that a person “so appointed,” shall continue in office until a successor is ap pointed in the regular mode. “So ap pointed.” How appointed ? Why, by the Governor. But does not this “so appointed” apply also to persons who may be, not appointed by tbe Governor, bat designated in any mode poiuted out by law ? Does not the phrase, “so ap pointed,” cover aC, as well those who are designated in a mode pointed oat by law, as those who are appointed by the Gov ernor; and do not all, therefore, go out of office when a successor is appointed in the regular way—that is to say, when a successor isSappointed by the Governor, The Sun of to-day is a very good one—to ebauge the present provision of law so as to have confirmation by the Senate substituted iu place of election by the General As sembly. But it must not be forgotten that, whether the law is changed or not, there are now two vacancies on the Su preme Bench. The seat supposed to be held by McKay is vacant—legally vacant; just as much so as the one resigned, first by Brown and afterwards by Lochrane. Ho claims that he was confirmed by the Senate after his re-appointment, he having resigned to get increased pay under .a new appointment; but confirmation by the Senate (even if it was a valid session of the Senate) has nothing to do with filling vacancies under the law—no more than election by the General Assembly can have to do with filling whole terms. The confirma tion of the Senate added nothing to the Governor’s appointment. This itself was void, ab initio, for the reason that it was made during a session of the General Assembly, if, indeed, that session (pro longed beyond the 40 days without a two- thirds vote) was a valid one. At all events, the appointment expired at the next meeting of the General Assembly, under the law for filling vacancies; and there is now a vacancy. Yours, truly, Linton Stephens. T. G. Campbell, the iVegro Sena tor. This pestiferous creature—the violator ot law, disturber of the peace, and inci ter to insurrection and violence, has been again plying his vocation in the county which he misrepresents in the Georgia Senate. Our readers will, no doubt, recollect tho account of his conduct at several meetings called by him, and his resist ance and defiance of law, in the town of Darien, which we published last fall.— During the late recess of the Legislature, it appears that he has been haranguing the colored population in his peculiar mischief-making style. We take the fol lowing from the Savannah Republican of the 4th instant. We hope the members of the Georgia Legislature—the Senate, especially—will take due notice, and will also consider his conduct ia the violation of international law in Darien, last sum a new full term, dockiug the preceding term, and casting out all of it that might remain unexpired. So much of this Act as requires the Governor to fill the va cancy is undoubtedly good; but that part of it which requires a special election to fill a new, whole term, is inconsistent with the mode which the present Constitution ordains for filling whole terms, and, there fore, falls by reason of inconsistency with the Constitution. Mark, however, that it is inconsistent with that part of the Constitution which provides for filling whole terms, but not in the least with the part which provides for filljag vaoancies. Now the law for filling vacancies in the Supreme Court is a very different thing. Whether different by accident or by design, is wholly immaterial. Tli-i point is, that it is not inconsistent with the present Con stitution iu any particular whatever. It deals with, and confines itself to, the un expired tei'm. (See section 202.) With this, the unexpired term, the Constitu tion itself authorizes the Jaw to deal as it pleases. The' whole term is the only “annointed” which the law cannot touch; and this law does not seek to touch it.— This law is entirely consistent with the Constitution. It is clear and explicit.—■ A violator of law and disturber of the peace, and one who counsels his fellow- men to resistance and defiance of the constituted authorities, is not fit to rep resent Georgia constituencies iu a Geor gia Legislature: Senator Casi»i>l>ell at Mischief. There seems to be no limit to the tal ent of this hoary old scoundrel for mis chief, and nothing to which he will not resort iu order to breed strife and con tention between the races. He has kept McIntosh county, in hot water for several years past, and appears to be a law unto limseif. Not content with the trouble of which he had already been tho fruit ful source, we understand from reliable citizens of that county, that he has recently used his Senatorial office for practicing upon the colored people of McIntosh a most wicked and infamous fraud. He has availed himself of the recess to mis represent and f 8lander,the Legislature, and even to instill into the minds of his black followers resistance to the laws. He has recently held several large meet ings, calling people from their work three days in one week, and delivering to them most inflammatory addresses. A gentle man who was present at one of these meetings, informs us that Campbell as sured his audience that the Legislature (or, to use his own words, “ the Demo crats”) had passed most oppressive and iniquitous laws against them—that one act makes penal all violations of con tracts on the part of negroes, subject ing them to penitentiaiy confinement and hard labor from one to two years. He also told them that the same Demo cratic law completely subjected the negroes to the whites—that whenever the negro laborer became impertinent or in sulting to his employer, it gave the latter the power to confine him with a ball and chain until the close of his contract. He therefore advised the negroes to sign no contract with white men, and to have no thing to do with them. And our inform ant says they are foil owing his pernicious counsel, and positively refusing to make engagements for the present year, there by subjecting the planters to great incon venience and loss. In the same address he openly counsel ed them to rebellion against the act of the Legislature, organizing a commission to take charge of the finances, roads and other interests of McIntosh county, and the commerce of the port of Darien, which has been well nigh broken np by his wicked k machinations. He said the Commissioners should not be allowed to take their seats, and that the books And papers of tbe county and town should not be surrendered to them. It is time this old scamp had been tanght that the law, and not his will, is to govern in McIntosh connty. We also hope the Senate will look into the matter, and, if he should be found guilty of the conduct reported above, promptly de prive him of his seat. The Senators owe it to themselves that no libeller of theii body should be allowed to sit and legis- Cincinnati, December SO, 1871. Messrs. Eslielmen, Ferishne, Baughman, Committee of Invitation: Gentlemen—I regret that I cannot ac- • cept your invitation to be present at the * next annual celebration of the 8th of January. It would have given me great pleasure to meet and take counsel of those who are so well grounded in the faith and practice of Democracy as the men of Wayne county, and with them to * recall the principles and example of the founders of our party. Two great dangers imperil free institu tions under tho policy ol the party now in power. Tho spirit of centralized mili tary government attacks everywhere the Constitution, and corruption iu office destroys the civil administration. I do not speak merely or chiefly of special de falcations however startling, but of the general degradation of the standard of official integrity until tho offices in both the civil and military service seem to be considered the property of the party, to be dispensed and administered primarily for party aggrandizement or personal profit. These dangers grow out of and are in separable from tue present (organization of the Republican party. Its founda tion, its philosophy, its history, and its leaders recognize military power and the corrupting use of money by official pat ronage as legitimate forces in ordinary civiLadministration, aud now, more than over, are they brought into active exer cise. The Democratic party confronts this theory and denounce^ these prac tices. Founded upon the idea of local gov ernment, jealous of powers granted to authority, taught that simplicity and economy are essential to the honesty necessary iu Republican institutions, it maintains ..with more determined pur pose that tho military must he subordi nate to tho civil authority, and that offi ces are a trust for the r aople, not spoils for the victors. Its powerful organization enters every village in the land, and numbers among its adherents, nearly one-half the people —as intellectual, as pure, as patriotic, as- unselfish as any of their fellow-citizens. They are too numerous to be cowardly, they are too patriotic to be lukewarm. They are too sincere in their purposes and convictions to be driven to despond ency by ten years of reverses. Thoy have shown constancy in defeat as well as wisdom in victory. If I understand their feelings, they will neither disband their organization nor flee the field before tho contest commences. Either course, they believe, would give undisputed sway to the present administration, which could then give undivided attention to the de serters from its ranks. An advancing army, with the enemy either dispersed or in flight, never loses divisions or regiments, or even compa nies, and is generally able to pick off or to pick up treacherous or thoughtless stragglers. If there be, as is claimed, many mem bers of the Republican party who disap prove the ideas which dominate the ad ministration of President Grant, and are prepared to oppose his re-election, they should declare their purpose, organize their party, develope and manifest their strength, and,if I may predict the future, they will have no just cause, even the most sensitive and timid among therm for refusing to co-operate with the Demo cratic party. When its authorized con- ention shall speak it will remind its ad herents that the ultimate and highest purpose of its existence is to secure the greatest prosperity, in its best sense, of every human being in the land; that principles of government are true or un true, as they contribute to this result; that parties and politics and offices are but means to this end; that- principles are of different application, and ques tions lose their importance in the ever-shifting changes of human affairs, and discarding all narrow ideas, abandon ing the consideration of all questions which have been decided or buried by the events which have passed; recogniz ing the accomplished facts of the pres ent, and appreciating the dangers of the future, it will invite, both by words and by deeds, both by resolutions and by nominations, the zealous, hearty co-ope ration of all men who believe that the Constitution is a better system of govern ment tlian martial law, and that reform in the civil service is a higher duty than rewarding prospective partisan effort by distributing spoils. By this course the party, I should hope, would attain success, if it should once more fail, as an honest, faithful, patriot ic minority, it will hold an important po sition and exert an immense moral power over the majority; and it may well wait with faith the inevitable hour -which will crown its fidelity and patience with the success which it will have deserved. I am, very respectfully, * Your obedient servant, • George H. Pendleton. Resigned. Col. J. R. Lewis, State School Com missioner, appointed by Bullock, has re signed. He tendered his resignation t<^ Acting-Governor Conley, to take effect whenever Gov. Smith should appoint his successor. This resignation was proper, and is creditable to Col. Lewis. He is aware of the fact that he cannot be useful in his present position, and that he is not acceptable to our people, and has surren dered the office. This is right, and evin ces a proper spirit, for which he is enti tled to credit. P. S.—Since the foregoing was in type,, we learn that Prof. G. J. Orr, cf Ogle thorpe University, was yesterday ap pointed and confirmed to succeed Col. Lewis. Prof. Orr is a scholar, an ex perienced and able teacher, arid we have no doubt will fill tbe office to the satis faction of our people. late among them. The National Publishing Company.— ■We invite attention to the advertisements of the National Publishing Company— one of the largest Publishing Houses in the United States. Book Agents will find it very much to their advantage to send to this Company for Prospectuses. They publish tbe most complete Bible we have ever examined. They also pub- l sh Mr. Stephens’ Constitutional View of the War Between the States. Watclmiglit at Roswell. Editors Daily Sun: The last night of the year 1871, was observed in this place (Roswell) at the Methodist Church, with peculiar solemnity and good effect- The members met and engaged in various re ligious exercises till within a few minutes of. 12 o’clock, when all bowed in silent prayer till the hour of midnight baa passed, when the Rev. Simon Fraser led in prayer, and closed the ceremonies. It was a pleasant and profitable meetii ing. 3iwe this havi It was a pi Churches should not fail to ol the closing night of every year ir way. Those who never attended them, have no idea of the good deriv ed from them. It seemed to ns that the great Fataer was preseat to bless, ns on that night. * An Om'mrEn.

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