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THE ATLANTA
WEEKLY SUN.
SUM-STROKES.
JLOCAJL MOTES.
THE DAILY SUN
Sunday, January 2Sth, 1872
Persecuted Mexico.
Unfortunate Mexico lias ever been the
sport of the Furies. Her republic was
bora under a fatal star. Always the
scene of usurpation and political and
civil disorder, she ^is now a suectacle of
war, rebellion, insurrection, revolt, con
spiracy, rapine and devastation, that
seeks in vain for a parallel in history.
Benito Juarez, the old Indian Presi
dent, is ill-snstaining himself, and, ac
cording to present advices, promises to
soon become the prisoner, if not the vic
tim of the Revolutionists. The success
reported to have been achieved by him
some time since over the insurgent Diaz,
in Oaxaca, proves to hav been totally
misrepresented. He only defeated a
small rear guard, commanded by Felix
Diaz, cousin of the Insurgent General,
who was left behind with a detachment
to cover the retreat of the main army of
the Revolution.
Minor armies of the insurgents are
concentrating their forces at Sal
tillo, a city in the State of Coliuila,
bordering on the Rio Grande. The city
of Mexico is excited by the report that
a body of the cavalry of Diaz is in the
vicinity. The Government forces have
been defeated in several minor engage
ments. The Northern frontier is entirely
in the possession of the Revolutionists.
Daily, prominent Generals, Governors,
and States, are withdrawing their alle
giance from the Government, and several
instances of revolt and desertion have
occurred.
If old Juarez can surmount these mis
fortunes, he is, indeed, worthy of the
cause. His government is in imminent
danger, and os the denouement approach
es, Lereda, another candidate for the
Presidency, appears, thus creating an
other source of dissatisfaction. In the
event of the defeat of Juarez, another
war, far more desolating, between the
adherents of Diaz and Lereda, the
two prominent candidates for the Presi
dency, will devastate and demoralize the
country. The only remedy for Mexico
is intervention, and even that is a desper
ate resort.
<l A Proud and Honorable Man.”
Those who read Benjamin Conley’s veto
of the Election Bill, will recollect the
very comic part of the grand act which
he played when he referred to the awk
ward position of a “proud and honorable
man” having to decide upon a case in
which he was interested.
Hieroglyphics.
The granite block of ten tons, in
Forsyth, is covered with sculptured char
acters from the circle, the symbol of
eternity; the square, the triangle, and
other figures, to numerous undefined
characters; evidently the work of the ex
tinct Mound Builders. I petitioned the
Legislature, before the war, to save this
relic from mutilation and destruction;
but the majority coaid see “no money”
in it, and the resolution was voted down.
The sculptures on the “Enchanted
Mountain,” in Union county, embrace
136, principally of animals and 23
of human feet, and one of the hand
of a woman, all of the natural size,
except two, which were different. That
of the man was 18 inches long, and had
six toes, (must have been a son of Titan),
and the horse 17 inches by 12—conjugate
and transverse diameters.
The Iudians had a tradition that this
was the track of the “ Great "Warrior,”
and the horse following him, was his war-
horse. The tradition asserts that they,
with all animals, come out of the ark,
aud left their tracks in the softened
rock. Tuis tradition evidently came
from the teachings of Jordine, the Cath-
< *lie Priest, who accompanied De Soto in
. 539 aud 1540, and sojourned in Nacoo-
< nee for a year. That this is not true,
e have only to say that the rock in
which are ''the tracks,” is phitouic, and
neither animals or vegetables could live
on the earth at that time.
In then tradition they say, “That it al
ways mins when any one visits the spot;
as if sympathetic nature wept at the re
collection of the sad catastrophe which
these sculptures were made to commem
orate."
It was on the 3d of July, that myself
and a select party, camped within four
miles of this interesting mountain, on a
scientific tour, to determine the truth of
the tradition. At 5 a. m., we were waked
up by our guide, and found the heavens
overcast with scowling clouds. We
quickly saddled our horses and pushed
for the “Enchanted -Mountain.” At 8
o’clock,we arrived at the main sculptured
table, and quickly broke a bottle of
champagne as an offering to appease the
wrath of Jupiter; and, after a toast to the
Fourth, we ate our breakfast and imme
diately commenced cutting out a beautiful
track of a woman, for a present to the Fe
male Academy at Athens, when the angry
clouds, surcharged with electricity, dis
charged a sharp thunder-shock and a del
uge of raiu to prevent the sacrilegious
act; but we breasted the storm and disin
tegrated the footprint of the lovely god
dess; and wrapped it in a scented paper
and galloped off for four miles, when the
6torm ended and we saved the Relic.
It is a pity and a shame that those in
valuable Relics of a once powerful, but
now extinct, race, should be lost for the
wont of the contemptible sum necessary
to their preservation. The Salisbury
collection, in England, cost over 8200,-
000, and the most of it was procured in
the West and Georgia for a mere l 'Baqa-
leUe.” M. S.
WASHINGTON CORRESPON
DENCE.
Sleeting only to Adjonm—Tiie Retrench
ment Committee — It* Development*—
Boutwell, the Spy—Punished for Tell
ing on Grant, the Defaulter— A Few
Word, about the Georgia Syndicate—
Fraudulent Indebtedness.
Washington* City, D. C., 1
January 22,1872. f
Editors of the Sun: Another week gone,
and'absolutely nothing done by Congress.
The two Houses meet at twelve, and re
main in session from one to two hours.
The House adjourned from Friday to
Monday, and the Senate from Thursday
to Monday. The motion to adjourn is
usually made by some leading member
or Senator of the Administration forces.
The indisposition to legislate by Con
gress, and the remarkably brief sessions,
is evidently of much political signifi
cance.
The developments made by the Senate
investigation committee have greatly de
pressed the managers and leaders of the
Radical party.
THE SWORN STATEMENTS
of a gentlemanlike the merchant-prince,
A. T. Stewart, may be technically dis
proved by a host of Administration re
tainers, yet, the conviction cannot be
erased from even a corrupt and debauch
ed public sentiment. The committee
will continue its investigations during
the coming week, when it is proposed to
resume their labors in this city.
It is believed by many, that the
present Secretary of the Treasury—
George S. Boutwell—an intense Puri
tan and devoted follower of Senator
Sumner—is devoting much of his time
and Treasury patronage for the pre
vention of General Grant’s nomina
tion. In other words, Boutwell is
charged, by the friends of the President,
as playing the same role in Grant’s Cab
inet as Edwin M. Stanton did in that of
James Buchanan—that is, acting
THE PART OP SPY
and informer. It is well known that the
President has given Secretary Boutwell
repeated hints to resign, but the obtuse
Puritan has a purpose in view, and that
purpose is the defeat of Gen. Grant for
the coming nomination.
Gen. Grant’s offensefcgainst New Eng
land was the dismissal from the English
mission of J. Lathrop Motley, the pet of
Sumner and Boutwell, and the darling
scion of Massachusetts. Boutwell is
more than anxious to be the Philadelphia
nominee, and he thinks his great finan
cial reputation will give him the nomi
nation; may be so; every Democrat hopes
so; for his defeat would be sure and cer
tain.
The two clerks, Hunt and Green, of
the Third Auditor’s office, who were
so indiscreet as to disclose the fact, that
the records in their division showed the
President to be in arrears to the United
States in the sum of 85,000, and the
Third Auditor 8500—have
PAID THE PENALTY
for telling family secrets. They have
been summoned before the Government
executioner, and informed that they “had
no right to know anything outside of
their official duties, therefore, the Gov
ernment could dispense with their servi
ces,” The Third Auditor is a New Hamp
shire carpet-bagger, but appointed from
North Carolina; he has refunded and so
has the President. * ‘Let us have peace. ”
If Bullock, Kimball & Co., would only
refund, like the illustrious examples we
have named, all Georgia would petition
Governor Smith to issue a proclamation
appointing a day of rejoicing and jubi
lation. Who will say that Bullock, Kim
ball & Co., will not refund ? Is it not as
reasonable to suppose that these great
‘developers of the resources of Georgia"
will refund, as it is to suppose
that the Legislature of Georgia will di
rect the payment of the fraudulent ac
count of Henry Clews & Co. ? If the
attorney and diplomat of Clews & Co.
can collect the one, he certainly should
be able to influence the firm of Bullock,
Kimball & Co., to refund—at least a sum
sufficient tojbalance the books, “even to a
■quarter of a cent.”
The claim of Henry Clews & Co.,
against the State of Georgia, is nothing
more nor less than the commissions on
brokerage for their assistance to Bullock,
Kimball & Co., in perpetrating
FLAGRANT SWINDLES AND DOWNRIGHT ROB
BERIES
on the impoverished tax-payers of Geor
gia. This is the plain English of the
claim of Clews & Co., and its presenta
tion for payment (when they were re
peatedly informed by the Treasurer of
the Stale, that their negotiations of ille
gal and unauthorized securities would
not be recognized; yet they continued
the unlawful transactions) is but another
proof of the bold effronteiy of the suc
cessful scoundrelism, from which the
South suffered so much in the last six
years.
The people of the North would not
submit for a moment to be governed and
robbed by thieves, as the South has been.
Look at the destruction of the Tammany
“ring”—fcheu it was only charged that
Tammany had stolen twenty millions
from the wealtiest community on the
continent—yet, from three to five hun
dred millions have been stolen from the
South, the most impoverished of all com
munities. And still the demand is made
for more bloed. Will the South stand
it? Can her people stand it? Where is
the sin of the repudiation of fraudulent
indebtedness? Has not the South illus
trious examples? Did not the -South
repudiate at the close of the late war
by the order of the President of the
United States? Did not Congres
pass an act—in 1863 — agreeing
to pay Kentucky and Maryland for their
slaves ? Congress, in 1S66, deliberately
repealed the act and
REPUDIATED THE CONTRACT.
The holders of carpet-bag bonds bought
them for a mere trifle, and they have al
ready received in interest more than they
gave for them.
The distinguished Representative of
the 5th District of Georgia—General
Dudley M. DuBose—never looked better,
and emphatically stands higher than any
man in Congress. D. Grey.
— “Small Talk,” of the Courier-Jour
nal, in order to be well posted against
the coming of Col. Alexis, consulted a
T,nHn Dictionary, in order to ascertain
what a lex is.
NOSCITUR A SOCnS.
Benjamin Conley a* a “ Proml jxn<X
Honorable Man”—The Pride, Honor
and Delicacy of Radicalism in Missou
ri and Georgia.
St. Louis, January 15, 1872.
Your Acting Governor Conley, in his
late veto of the election bill, seems to
think it is unconstitutional for a “proud
and honorable man,” as he claims to be,
to be placed in the awkward predica
ment of deciding upon his own case—
the meaning of which is that of being
compelled to resign a lucrative and very
desirable office, in order to prove his dis
interestedness, or to hold on to it in pur
suance of his honest convictions, though
it may snhject him to imputations of sel
fishness, greed of gain, and a disregard
of the wishes and rights of the peopie,
as well as a disregard of the Constitution
and laws, and of all public decency.
The basis of his pretensions amounts
to this: that by a trick, and in ntter dis
regard of law or morals, he, as Senator,
for one day, in a body that would not se
lect him for any office that could be
thought of, becomes Governor of the
State 1
The mere heel-tap of Bullock’s cor
rupt and profligate administration, upon
a technical quibble, has the “indelicacy”
to decide in its own favor, and grasp the
Executive functions of a great sovereign
Commonwealth. “A proud and honora
ble man” conld very easily have kept
himself out of the sad predicament so
hypocritically bewailed in his veto mes
sage. Would Conley now wish to be
Bullock ? And yet, is not this scheme
by which he becomes Governor, a part of
Bollock’s rascality ? Noscitur a Sociis.
But such anomalies are rather the nor-
mat condition of Radicalism, especially
of the bayonet and carpet-bag species.
It loves to sit in judgment in its own tri
bunals, and to decide in its own favor,
whether it constitutes a court of claims
to adjudge the rights of legitimate cot
ton claimants, or packs the Supreme
Court of the United State to reconsider
and reverse the decision in regard to le
gal tenders; whether it frames a new
State Constitution, or establishes courts
thereunder to justify its crudities and
enormities; whether it appoints judges
of elections to falsify returns or pre
sents its chameleon phases of reconstruc
tion to tantalize our Peoples, and defeat
the fair expression of their will Even
General Grant seems not unwilling to sit
in judgment upon bis own renomination
and re-election for the Presidency.
Long time ago, when Morton renomina
ted him from a balcony in Washington
City, his pride and delicacy did not pre
clude him from accepting it at ouce.
The highly honorable pride and deli
cacy of Radicalism were beautifully illus
trated in Missouri. Bayonet Radical
ism made a new Constitution for the
State, and disfranchised all from voting
on it who were suspected, from their cir
cumstances or antecedents, to be opposed
to it. The sweeping, disfranchisement
was not confined to those who had com
mitted any overt acts, or even expressed
disloyal sentiments, but all who might be
supposed, from surrounding circumstan
ces, to be unfavorable to the objects they
had in view; and then they received the
returns of the election and counted the
votes to their own liking—just as Col
Hulbert did in Georgia; and, notwith
standing their arbitrary bayonet disfran
chisements, ithere are thousands of the
best informed, honest, fair-minded men
in Missouri to-day, who believe that the
present Constitntion was not ratified,
even by those who were allowed to vote
upon it. But Radicalism received the
returns, counted the votes, and issued
the Proclamation. Its delicacy and its
pride and sense of honor were beautifully
illustrated. No doubt, Hulbert and Con
ley have a large share ot this highly re
fined pride, so characteristic of honora
ble Radicals!
This proud and honorable Radicalism
in Missouri, with its test oaths, registra
tion laws, aud disfranchisements, enabled
a small minority—a faction—to tyran
nize over the people of the State for over
four years, until the liberation under B.
Gratz Brown, in the autumn of 1870.
The men who fraudulently foisted the
new Constitution upon the State, were
not like Conley (professes to be!) in one
respect: they gloried in counting and
deciding in their own behalf, and with
out auy show of delicacy, boldly arranged
matters to their own liking. The con
vention passed an ordinance ousting the
Judiciary, including the Supreme Court.
The Judges of the Supreme Court had
been chosen by the people, on the ground
of their “loyalty” to the Union. These
Judges believed the ousting ordinance
was unconstitutional and were disposed
to hold on. It did not^uit the views of
the Radical framers of the Constitution
to have their work passed upon by the
Judges then on the bench: for, although
they were elected on the ground of being
very loyal, they were chosen by the peo
ple, and were suspected of not being
the very thing desired. The Radical fac
tion wanted a court of their own ; so the
Radical Governor ordered one Gen. Cole
man to take a military force, depose the
Judges, who, though “loyal,” were not
believed to be exactly of the right stamp
every way, and install the Governor’s si
mon-pure appointees. General Coleman
obeyed, and the new Judges were install
ed with his bayonets.
QOne of these bayonet Judges—Hon.
Isaac Holmes—is now a Professor in the
Law School of Harvard University, in
Massachusetts. Of course, such a court
must have been as reluctant to sit in its
own case as was Mr. Conley, but were
necessarily bound to maintain the posi
tions which they had accepted ,and the
Constitution and the ousting ordinance
under which they held them. On ! the
proud disinterestedness and the honora
ble delicatent ss of Radical officials both in
Missouri and in Georgia ! The people of
Missouri have honored one of theirs with
a title of nobility, for their Secretary of
State exhibited such ability in manipu
lating election returns to suit the Radi
cals, that he has been elevated to the
non-peerage, (as he had no equal,) with
the title of Count Rodman.
— General R. S. Ewell, late Lieuten
ant General in the Confederate army,
died in Maury connty, Tennessee, on the
morning of the 25tli. His wife died two
days before him.
— “Aflight of the imagination”—to
dream that, by some invisible force, yon
are borne away into some clime, where
spring is perpetual; where fruits are lus
cious and ripen in all seasons; where
pleasure wanders in a merry round from
year to year and the time for toil never
comes, and man has nothing to do bnt
be happy. The pretty of the thing is
spoiled, however, when yon are awake
and find that the only flight you have
made is from the bed to the floor on a
cold January night.
— The Boston Post is able to read the
resurgam that has been written just above
the WISDOM—JUSTICE—MODERATION which
illuminates the escutcheon and the his
tory of Georgia. It says: “The State
of Georgia has at length worked out its
salvation, and that in a manner which
proves, most encouragingly, tho vitality
of true American principles even under
years of repression. Georgia has had
more than its share of reconstruction.
Seven acts of Congress bound the State
down to the rack, while loyal plunderers
tnrned the crank; and three times has
the Federal Government displaced its
civil authority by martial law. But, in
stead of yielding to the force imposed,
conceding its rights and accepting the
fate which Congress pushed upon it, the
State rises again, free, strong and earnest
for a reform that shall establish it yet
more firmly in the rightful position by
wiping ont the last traces of Radical cor
ruption. The Radical Governor is gone,
a fugitive thief; the Radical Legislature
is superseded by one thoroughly Demo
cratic ; and one of the first acts of the
new administration will be to appoint a
Democrat, probably Hon. Herschel Y.
Johnson, to a vacancy on the Supreme
Bench, changing the character of the ju
diciary in an equally advantageons man
ner. The installation of Gov. Smith, to
fill out the term left vacant by Bullock’s
flight, completes the transformation;
and while we congratulate Georgia upon
its energy and vitality, we also commend
the example to others equally cursed by
Radical reconstruction.”
— The Hartford Courant has a pious
suspicion that Grant “will grow day by
day in favor with God and man.” He
has, probably, as much room to grow in
that direction as any man outside a State
prison.
— The word “gerrymander” has ob
tained so firm a footing in the political
lexicon of America, that it may be of
some interest to the people to know its
exact history and application. The word
is not given in Worcester’s Dictionary;
but Webster’s great lexicon of American
slang-uage, has it as a matter of course.
The definition given is: “to divide, as
a State, into local districts for the choice
of representatives, in a way which is un
natural and unfair, with a view to give
a political and advantage over its oppo
nent.” “This’* says Webster, “wasdone
in Massachusetts, when Eldridge Gerry
was Governor, and was attributed to his
influence, hence the name; though it is
now known that he was opposed to the
measure.”
The St. Louis Republican, however,
comes forward with another explanation,
which seems far more plausible than
that of Webster, and it is apparently
backed up with good testimony. The
readers of the Sun, however, are at lib
erty to makefcselection of whichever ver-
vision they prefer. Here is what the
Republican says:
When the State of Ohio had to be re
districted to conform to the census of
1850, Gerry Mander, a member of the
Legislature, and a leader of the party
dominant in it, introduced a bill of the
kind to which his name has since been
attached. It was a new thing in politics,
and made a prodigious stir, not only in
Ohio, but also in other States. One dis
trict was formed by a string of counties
stretching half way across the State, and
its boundaries formed a figure much re
sembling an alligator rampant; men old
enough to remember those times relate
that among the wood-cut carricatures in
the newspapers of the day a picture of
this annimal, as the newly-discovered
and voracious “gerrymander,” figured
extensively. The name of Mander,
sometimes spelled Manter, is well known
in Ohio, and s >me of our older citizens
will remember a gentleman of that name,
from that State, who was one of our
most popular young lawyers up to his
death in 1864.
— There is a very remarkable valley,
near the headwaters of the Yellowstone
river, which is said to surpass the famous
Yosemite, both in variety and grandeur
of scenery. Senator Pomeroy has made a
move in Congress to withdraw it from
settlement, and set it aside, forever, as a
public park. That would be nice, for
then the over-worked people of these
whole United States would have at least
one place to which they could take their
little ones every evening for a pleasant
walk. The nation, of course, ought to
have at least one grand Central Park.
— A Western Woman sounded Major
G. D. Alexis on the subject of woman’s
right. He said woman was entitled to
her rights, and ought to be permitted to
stay at home and enjoy them, none dar
ing to molest or make her afraid that
thieves would break throngh and steal,
and the moths do not corrupt her dresses
until her hosband is able and filing to
buy her some more.
To our Exchanges.
In our remarks yesterday concerning
what was said in The Sun some time ago
on the trial of Rev. J. L. Pierce, we
omitted to request those journals which
had published it, to copy the article of
yesterday also, which we now do.
Ordinary of Camden County.—See
the advertisement of Hon. E. A. Mc-
Yi hortsr, the Ordinary of Camden county,
whose advertisements will hereafter be
pnblishedin The Sun.
The Reported Death of John Bon-
SEK -—We are informed that the report
of the death of John Bonner, of Han
cock, which we published a few days ago,
is erroneous. He was quite ill, and his
death had been expected for some days,
and it was so reported and believed in
Sparta, and communicated to us by let
ter from that place.
We learn, reliably, that he is not dead,
and has so far recovered from his illness
as to warrant the hope that he will yet
live many days; meantime, that brandy
is on hand.
Recorder’s Court—Queen of Beel
zebub Park at Large.—Yesterday was a
carnival day with His Honor. Having
learned that the far-famed wily in
triguante, queen of Beelzebud Park, was
promenading the streets, His Honor del
egated a number of his trusty agents to
secure her for yesterday’s entertainment.
She was once a most fascinating, volup
tuous
BLONDE,
but a few weeks of revelling debauchery
and princely prodigality had reduced her
to penury.
••One more unfortunate,
Wicked and rash.
Strongly unfortunate.
Hard up for Cash!”
This was her plaintive but eloquent re
frain, as she wandered penniless,
friendless, and sorrowfully along Broad
street on Friday night. The pitiless snow
and hail drifted furiously against her ca
daverous face, but she heedlessly braved
it all. As she approached the Bridge (of
Sighs), some sacrilegious paraphraser
sang oat:
“One more unfortunate,—
Weary of life,
Rashly importunate.
Seeking a wife.’*
“ Fm your man,” said the exiled queen.
“But I want a woman,” said the voice.
“ Only 85,” said the queen. Then there
emerged from the bridge a youth whose
cheek was mantling with indignation.
“You’re a sorceress,” said he; you’re a
midnight siren, you’re a degraded Mag
dalene, and I despise yon.”
That was too severe for the royal queen,
who was once the pampered idol of the
princes of Beelzebub Park. “Sir,
I came hereto see you in this mid
night storm, and had the snow been roll
ing like the foam on the stormy seas,
stfil would I have come. And this is my
reward. Yon disdainfully reject the hand
of a proud but fallen queen. I despise
yon. The next moment she was
rolling in the snow, with a bruised
eye and — the curtain fell, while
His Honor called ont “810 and costs.”
WILLIAM MARBLE
begged to state that he was no relation
of Manton Marble, of the World. He
was brakesman on a “New Departure”
train. Anticipating its destination—ob
livion—he became too fractions to an
swer a polite question politely. For this
barbarism he was knocked down, and
taught a lesson in civilization that cost
him *?5.
TIMOTHY KJLKARNEY
“was a man after his own heart,’’and his
own “drap o’ the crater” also. When
“The stars had shed their silvery light
With kindness through the livelong night,”
a last gentle ray at dawn lighted a police
man to the spot where Timotny lay with
a shroud of snow around him. That
“star gazing” cost him 85.
AUGUSTUS STOUGHLEIGH
then came forward, and, with an humble
obesiance, said to His Honor that he had
a premonition of a coming spirit, that
even then he conld hear
“ Angels’ footfalls tinkliug on the tufted floor.”
His Honor charged him 815 for his su
perstition.
But His Honor soon had cause to
repent. Pat here intimated that he
smelt the Heavenly incense, heard the
rustling of wings and a poet’s sweet voice.
Sure enough there presently appeared
before the Court
A SPIRIT LOVER,
who, in tones of melancholy sweetness,
sang a serenade to one of Atlanta’s
beauties:
A Remembrance.
ATLANTA—1871.
L
. Soft, low and sweet, yet clear and strong,
Rose the rich volume of your song, I
While on the languid August air
That swept your face and stirred your hair,
—Invoked as by some magic spell
Wild gusts of music rose and fell.
In the vague hollows of tho night
The calm Btars swung steadfastly bright:
A star shook loose her fiery train
And swept across the sapphire plain:
Then all was still—except the strong
Rich diatone of your sweet song.
n.
I stood entranced: my soul was bound:
Melodious thralls enwrapped me round.
I lived agais, the wild, uncouth,
Dear, devious days of my lost youth;
But floods of song swept in and drowned
The old-time singers, sorrow-crowned;
I saw once more the friends of old,
And heard their voices manifold:
The waste, ■wan years slipped slowly by,
With many a change of sea and sky,
—With many a change of form and huo—
And left me happy there with you.
Sav. Si’ews.] . J. C: Habbis.
His Honor was overcome, and in the
transports of his delight, admonished
Johnson to place before that spirit lover,
who worshipped at the shrine of Atlan
ta’s fairest beauty, a sumptuous repast,
clothe him in costly raiment, plane a
chain of rubies about his neck, and treat
him altogether as if he were one of his
own princely household.
— The small pox is beginning to be
the occasion of some alarm in "Washing
ton. Possibly there is no city where the
disease could “spread itself” with better
advantage to the country at large.
— The Pensacola Mail, in speaking of
the Governor’s message to the Florida
Legislature, says: “ Give Reed all the
power he wants and he would soon start
a little * hell’ inJFloridathat would rather
* put the corn’ on the original institu
tion.” Then give it to him, by all means,
and, as soon as he gets the hell fairly
started, pitch him into it. By so doing
you will only anticipate what he will fi
nally come to, unless he repents; and the
chances are bad for that, as he is evi
dently less bent upon availing himself of
“the means of grace” than he is of ap
propriating the means of the public
Treasury of Florida.
— The Nashville Union and American
says: “ The people of Florida onght to be
happy, for they have plentiful supplies of
game, their flowers are blooming* in the
open air, although it is January, and
they have a State debt of less than a mil
lion of dollars.” And yet they are not
happy! for is not Reed stfil their Gover
nor? .
5
GEORGIA MATTERS.
Augusta has had a snow.
Morgan county—negro — wagon —W
broken. 6
Capt. Loran Cochrane, died in Savan
nah Wednesday.
Mrs. Oates, “the gay young vidder,”
had a benefit in Savannah Friday night.
The Berger family will ring up Ha-
Grange on the 3d proximo.
Mrs. Garnett Andrews, died in Wash
ington, on the 22d inst., of a disease of
the brain.
A meeting of the Elbert Connty Agri
cultural Society was held on the 19th
inst., and J. L. Deadwyler, H. A. Roe
buck iind J. P. Shannon w*we elec ed
delegates to the Agricultural Convention
to be held in Macon next month. Robt.
Hester, T. J. Herndon and J. D. Glover
were selected as alternates.
The Newnan Herald sa-,s: Gov. Smith
has reappointed Hon. W. F. Wright,
Judge F tue Ldiapoosv Circuit. As the
course of His Honor, since his first ap-
pointm. ut in March last, has been such
as to give abundant satisfaction to Bar
and people, this act of the Governor will
be cordially indorsed by the people of his
judicial circuit.
The Elberton Gazette, of last Wed
nesday has the following: We learn that
several large subscriptions to the Elber
ton Air-Line Railroad have been made
within the past few days, by citizens of
this county, which, in addition to the
amounts hererofore subscribed, runs it
bigh np into the tens of thousands.
From ail we can learn, the prospects for
a liberal subscription by the people of
this county are very flattering, and we
think we will be safe in saying that this
county will raise 8100,000 in lands and
money.
POLITICS UN MICHIGAN.
From tho Pontiac Jacksonian, (Mich.) Jan. 18,1812.
Tile Fight Going On.
The Democratic speakers and press
constantly charged, daring and since the
war, that the action of the Republican
leaders was directed towards the destruc
tion of all State rights, and the consfcrue-
tion of a centralized despotism. The Sfc.
Louis Democrat (Rep.) tacitly admits that
this has been the great point at issuer
and that the contest is still being carried
on. The clause in one of the amend
ments, conferring power to enforce it “by
appropriate legislation,” gave all tha
foundations necessary to stand npon fat
the destruction of the last vestige o£
State rights.
“When the rebellion came, the chronik
struggle of State and Nation culminate^
the latter triumphed, and sought to end
the strife forever by the Amendments to
the Constitution. But it reuewed and
will continue over the interpretation o€
the enforcement clauses of the Amend
ments. ”
This enforcement act will be constantly
interpreted to mean anything that its
authors desire. It has already led to
suspension ot he habeas corpus, and
placed Stages under Federal bayonets.—
What it is doing in one State can be done
in all. Legislation can be made assweep
ing as may lie necessai*y to coerce any
State, North or South. The vast mone
tary power of the government, with its
tens of thousands of officials and depend
ents. may render force unnecessary, but
it is held in hand, and can be med upon
emergency, as in Louisiana aud other
States. How do Republicans like the
idea of having a President forced upon
them, whether they like him or not?
TELEGRAMS.
New York, Jan. 27.—Counterfeit tens
on the Poughkeepsie Bank are plentiful.
The steamer Charleston arrived last
night with twenty-four Ku-Klux, guard
ed by a detachment of Federal infantiy,
and were taken to Albany this morning.
Several rows have occurred in the Re
form primary elections.
B. F. Mudget testified that he would
not believe Porter on his oath if he tes
tified that he had no connection with the
General Order business.
The Retrenchment Committee has ad
journed until Wednesday.
The following is the weekly bank state
ment : Loans have increased $1,875,000.
Specie has decreased $2,375,000. Legal
Tenders have increased $875,000. De
posits have increased 8625,000.
The Grand Jury has presented several
minor indictments. The enemies of the
alleged “ ring” are much chagrined.
“Brick” Pomeroy has been sued for
$25,000 for a breach of marriage promise.
Thirteen small pox cases and five deaths
were .reported yesterday, The disease
has broken out in a few places on the
Harlem Railroad.
The suit against Collector Murphy, for
an amount assessed from the salary of an
employee of the custom house, for polit
ical purposes, was discussed to-day. The
ground was taken by the defense that the
payment was voluntary.
The Produce Exchange has appointed a
committee to secure the passage of a law
forbidding combinations for strikes.
LouisviLLEr January 27.—Alexis has
accepted an invitation to visit here. He
will arrive on Tuesday.
Paris, January 27.—The Count de
Paris has visited the Count de Chambord.
Columbus, January 27.—The Senate
passed the'Sonthem Railroad bill by one
majority.
Cincinnati, January 27.—The verdict
in the case of the United States vs. Peter
Schwab, for alleged violations of the
distillery laws is $22,845, in favor of the
Government.
Boston, January 27.—Lotta Isaacs
Rich left the bulk of her property to the
Methodist Collegiate Institute.
San Francisco, January 27.—Heavy
frosts are reported in different parts of
the State. A quarter of an inch of ice
has injured the young orange trees.
Jackson, Miss., January 28.—Th%ro
has been a decided effort in the Legisla
ture to repeal the $4,000 a mile rail
road subsidy law. A hill to that effect
was killed in the House last week, and a
similar bill was indefinitely postponed in
the Senate to-day. This settles the ques
tion. Several roads, encouraged by the
subsidy, are making rapid progress. The
Middle and Northwestern, under the
management of Cotonel Mann, will have
100 miles done by the first nf September.
A bill has been passed to establish a
State Agricultural Bureau and to publish
monthly reports.
St. Louis, Jan. 27.—The Legislature
has passed a law authorizing St. Louis to
issue $1,250,000 of bonds for the exten
sion and protection of the water-works of
the ciiy.