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ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS. Political Editor. A. It. WATSON. Newa Editor. _ , J. HENLY SMITH, General Editor and Business Manager. Traveling J. 31. W. HILL. 9 Agent* lor the Sin*> l lK t*rt James An® smith. Knoxrille,|Jl|lin. j *i:.J X)AVR Burn,, Athens. Gs. ft J.L. Wright, Woodstock. Gs. toil. 1 ■ '!> J.O.Om.iavvi.i.. Thoinimi’n, Oa. H. ('. 11am:i.tos, 1 >»lton. Oa- tftoriCb.!°wS* Plains. Green co., Ga. J.L.Smith.Chattanooga,Tenn. t , J. 0. Pabiiam. LaOrange, Ga. R. A. VABNF.no*. Thotnaavilie, Ga. i at l E. G. VriUJAS**, union Point. VOL. 2, NO. 37.1 ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1872. "WHOLE NUMBER 89. Da try—Single Copy—Twelve Month*. $10 JO; Sis Months, 6 00; Three Months, 3 00; One momb, 100. Clufes for Dally—Per Annam— 1 Three Co pies. $27 00; Four Copies, 35 00; Fire Copies, 43 00. ‘■’icht Copies, 68 00; Ten Copies, 84 00; Single Copy, Scents. UU. "Weekly—Per Annam—Single Copy, (2 00; Three‘Copies, 5 00; Fire Copies. 8 00; Ten Copies, 15 00; Twenty Copies, 28 00; Fifty Copies 66 00; One Hundred Copies, 125 00. Weekly ftor Six Months—Single Copy, $1 00, Three Copies,. 2 50; Fire Copies, 4 00; Ten Copies, 7 50; Twenty Copies, 15 00; Fifty Copies, 34 00; One Hundred Copies, 66 00; Single paper 5 cents. ; t»i0 N T E'WT’8 “ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,” yon THE TOS KRhnta h.-etui WEDNESDAY, FEBROAUY 31st, 1873. “State Rights and People’s Pol icy,” Page 1.—“State Rights and People's Policy.” Folk county Prisoners, etc. i l lot ' *’7 • Page 3—The Dictionary Controversy. Corrupt Dishonest Cliques and Dishonest Rings vs. the People. “Degradation of School Books.” Wor cester's Dictionaries not Partisan. Seven Gentle men from Georgia. Forney's Reeignation. Abol ishing the Freodmen’s Bureau. Sun Strokes. The Girl Who Wins. Local Notes. Worse and Worse. How ihey Manage It. Page 3.—Georgia Matters. Supreme Ccmrt De- etaiens. Our 8pecial Mardi Gras Correspondence C Eee and WHUe Gray. Georgia Matters. To lope Talent, etc. J) ni)t(iiqo :>ii Pago 4.—Tlio Florida Impeachment. Northern Xu-Klux. .Amnesty. iyGood Joke on a Legisla ture. Poking Fun at Colfax. * Colfax and Forney, A New Anecdote of Washington.' A“Boyal Bace gun Strokes:. The Great Customs Manager Georgia Matters. Sunshine Gossip . from "New York. Can Woman keep a Secret. Local Notes. Telegrams. * Pago fl.—The Railroads. Judge W. W. Montgom ery. Mardi Gras Letters No. 2. Mardi Gras Let ters No. 3. Georgia Matters, etc. Page 0. Removing Land Marks. Partisan Changes of Definitions in Webster’s Dictionary. Tho Magnet. Sun StrokoB. That Crazy Man In Elbert. Lent. Verified. Telegraph News. Page 7.—Georgia Matters. Archbishop Spal ding. The Crockery Trade. A Laughable Love Story. .Who Stated tho Case. Grant's Situation Telegrams. The Coffee Trade. The African Mail Service. Tho 8age of Liberty Hall, etc. Page 8.—Commercial and Advertisements, etc. The Steam-Washer.—We ask special attention to the advertisement of Mr. A. B. Fears of this city. He has a number of certificates and references of our peo ple who are well known here, and who have the confidence of this community. Governor Smith.—We are glad to re cord the fact that the Governor, who has been quite unwell and confined to his zoom for more than a week, has recovered, and is again at his post. He first came to his office on Saturday last. Foster Blodgett.—This notorious in dividual has disappeared! He is gone— no one knows where. It was understood lately in certain quarters that he was at home sick; but a few days ago, some gentlemen, who had imporlanl business with him, visited his house to see him and found he was not there. Wo are of opinion that ho has not much confidence in that pardon. DP*. PBOPHITT’S {ANTI-BILIOUS -PILLS Give universal satisfaction. ^.Tbe pro prietor has never sold a box to any one but what would call for another. jan30. LB. PBOPHITT’S PAIN KILL IT Will till any Pain thnt flesh is heir to. Try one bottle and you will like it. janSO. ^ ( Half Dollar. 50 Cents. DB. PBOPHITT’S CELEBBATED LIVER MEDICINE Never fails to cure Liver disease in any form. Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Costiveness, Colic, Chronic Diarrhoea and Chronic Chills and Fever. For sale at every Drug house in Atlan ta, at 50 cents a package. We yield our editorial space to-day to very able article from the Louisville (Ky.)■ Ledger, of the 13th inst., and the editorial of the Cincinnati Commoner, to which he alludes. • This, we repeat, is “the seed time of ideas.” It is now, before the Presidential campaign of this year opens, that the people, if they would preserve and perpetuate their rightmost read and study—must make themselves thoroughly conversant with the principles on which those rights are based. No people can either achieve or maintain free Govern ment who have not the intelligence to understand its principles, the patriotism to be devoted to them, arid the inflexible virtue to maintain them, especially at the ballot-box. Subjoined will be found the articles referred to: .ft A. H. S. From the Louisville (KyJ Ledger. Slate Rights and People’s Policy We republish iu another column an article taken from the Commoner, because it affords us a fair opportunity to dis claim any unfriendly feeling toward our neighbor, the Jeffersonian Democrat, and pt the same time to say a few words in relation to the doctrine of State rights and the necessity for co-operation upon the part of the interior States of tne - Union for the preservation of their own Fifty Cents. janSO. Half Dollar. Special Notices. Au, Tire Yeah Eovkd. and in all parts of the world, the elements of disease are present in the air, the soil and the water, in a greater or less de gree, and, therefore, the Great Vegetable Antidote to these invisible enemies of health, Hostetter’s Stom ach Bitters, is invaluable as a household medicine at all seasons and in every latitude. At no period of the year is a regulating and correcUvo medicine more needed than toward the olose of winter, when the sun and rain are beginning to break up the win ter blockade, and from the softening soil arises that terrible miasma, which weighs like an incubua upon the vital machinery, and depresses the animal spir ts. It is then that the aeeds of intermittent and remittent fevers, of rheumatism and rheumatic gout, of obstinate stomach complaints, of disorders of the liver and bowels, and a whole host of pulmo nary and nervous complaints are sown. The best, the surest way to prevent this disas trous seeding is to invigorate and refresh tho sys tem with a course of the Bitters. If this precaution be taken now, there will be no danger of the mias matic germs taking root in the fluids and tissaes of the body, and bringing forth terriblo fruit ia the spring. Now iB the time for prevention. Remember that vigor is the enly safeguard against the virus of disease, and that Hostetter’s Bitters is the purest, the safest, the most powerful and perfect invigorant ever administered, either aa protective medicine or a remedy. A change of season approaches which almost always proves more or less disastrous to per sons of s weak, nervous organization. Brace up at onco with tho leading Tonic of the age. Purge from the blood all morbid matter, strengthen the nerves, and regulate and purify the secretions with the Ve getable Elixir, which combines the juices of the finest medical roots, herbs and barks, with the most lolcsome of all diffusive would be to trespass upon the acknowl-1 sideration—for which we thank him he edged rights of the most powerful for- will permit us in the same spirit to make eign nations. Interference by that Gov- one to him, and we do so with proper eminent with the domestic affairs of the deference to his greater age and ability. States, no matter upon; what pretense, Does he not think that thepractice of ap- unlessit.be in accordance with the re-J plying the inexorable rales of logic to quirements of the Constitution, is, in every man’s political opinion, and, leav- every respect, as great a wrong as inter- ing out of consideration the present prac- ference in the internal affairs of any tical results of his doctrine, is calculated country in Europe. If the administra- to exclude from the party much valuable tion of General Grant were to send armed material? Will it not ultimately reduce soldiers into Canada to superintend elec- the party to a select circle of political tionsand overawe the pebple, it would philosophers who argue perfectly upon be just cause of war; and yet, in onr theories, but have no power whatever to opinion, it has as much legal right to put them'into practice? send them there as it has to send them A political party, considered as a force into Ohio or Kentucky for such a pur- for the correction of governmental pose. ’"' ' , . ’ J abuses and the ins titution of government- Every State in the Union, and every al reforms, may be not inaptly compared to citizen in every State in the Union, is vi- an army. Its efficiency depends far more tally interested in the restoration of the upon the skill with which it is directed true theory of the Constitution, and all than upon the theoretical opinions of its should co-operate in an honest effort to component parts. It might be desirable accomplish that result. But it is pecu- to have them agree precisely about every liarly the interest and dnty of the great thing connected with their operations, States located in the interior to insist but it is not possible. We might find upon the acknowledgement of their men enough in the United States to rights and powers in the Union. They frame a system of government who agree must always be inhabited by an agricul- exactly as to what it should be, but it is •tnral people who, from the very nature of tolerably certain that we could not find things, have but little to expect from the enough to control it and operate it after General Government.except the privilege it was formed of paying taxes and tributes in various forms to the Eastern constituents of the [From the Cincinnati Commoner.] men who control the policy of that Gov- •*-^ e Louisville Ledger shows a mani- ernment. They have but few manufactures fest improvements in its new dress and to be sustained at the general expense; I enlargement. Whether Mr. Carlisle has no shipping interests to be fostered by y e fck&d time to take any serious charge I bounties; no fisheries to be pensioned °f i* s columns as the leading editor we ra the country; no harbors to be im- do no * know, for he is both an executive ved and fortified by .Federal appro- aQ d legislative officer at Frankfort, and ations; and, in short, they have scarce-j therefore has a great deal to divide his my of those interests- which require attention. But we think we see his con- i care and protection of a great central victions coloring a little the character of ver. Their industries and their rights the editorials we do not altogether know of the kind which the State itself can by whom prepared. It will be both it promote and protect. They have grief and disappointment to us, should contract with foreign governments, the new head of this paper not carry the 1 no commerce with foreign people. Ledger still upward and onward in the eir habits are simple, their tastes are direction of staunch Democracy, and the iderate, and their necessities are com- RRion of tlie_ interests and classes all ratively few and easily snpplied. over oar interior country. Sere, too, in this great valley, is to be We are large proprietors of the com- i seat of political power in this conn- mon property, and of institutions far ', if the political power of the States | pore precious than any property, and it d people is to exist anywhere under 1 i* upon the frank, able, intelligent and 3 Government. Such a people should outspoken of the Democratic press that ve a policy of their own, and should be we nmst depend for the recovery of our epared at all times to assert it and reap i° st right to the expression of a voice in a benefit of it. There has never been a I partnership management. Long ae in the history of this country when enough has the Atlantic slope taken upon sw England did not have a well defined itself the sole direction of measures, and otective and aggressive policy, or when the selection and control of public senti- e did not number among the warmest pent. We will be greatly disappointed pporters of that policy many of the it the Ledger does not join hands with lest and most influential public men the true friends of its opinions and of other sections of the Union. Her its section, so aa to insure perfect har- ilicy is as triumphant to-day in the leg- mony and co-operation, beginning right lativeand executive departments of the here at home. jderal Government as if the President Why should not the great river cities of id his Cabinet and all the members of GinCmaati and Louisville be the gates of ingress had been bom and educated the Union, always ready to open or c’ose meath the shadow of Plymouth rock. the bidding of the Constitution ? We er protective tariff, her fishing boun- would not give utterance to our real sen- 38, her spnrions circulating medium, I timent if we did not declare that we con- jr latitudinarian construction of the I ®der the rights of the States, and the institution in behalf of Federal power, liberty of the people, much safer in our sc arrogance and intolerance, her ava- hands than in the power of the present ce, her stubborn and unyielding enmi- Federal authorities. Upon the ordinary her religious and political fanaticism, I issues of peaceful policy, we are clear •e all incorporated with the machinery I tiiat the general good would be more i the Government, which now unfortu-1 faithfully consulted if we wielded the ately makes and enforces laws upon al- power the census gives us here at home, lost every subject affecting the interests instead of exercising it by delegation as E the people in the West and South. we have so long been doing. It is time, we say, that these people, The Ledge*' should press right on to that >o, had a doctrine and a policy in accor- goal. It has everything to hope andnoth- ance with it. There is but one doctrine iag to * ear - I* Aa® the most innumerable lat will preserve them, and that is the body of supporters which exists in any Id-fashioned and much derided doctrine S tate for the very doctrine which has f Jefferson and Madison and the Con- been the accepted creed of Democracy Station. There is but one policy that from Jefferson’s time to ours. It is the rill give them their proper weight and | Kentucky doctrine, fallen now, it is true, afluence in.the Government, and that is into some discredit, but not into such tie policy of harmonious co-operation 1 discredit as the States which have lis- pon the basis of State rights in opposi- tened to the false and Shallow counselors Lon to the New England policy of ab- who have advised and consented to its orption and centralization. We will abandonment. We feel like asking Mr. Din hands with all who propose to advo- Carlisle not to allow flings at the expense ate this doctrine and policy, and we will of its next neighbor on Market street, ;o with them wherever the argument the Jffersonian Democrat, which is a de- ogically takes us. j corou8 and useful ally in the great cause Those who expect to frighten the De- of the Union under its Constitution, nocracy away from their principles by The Frankfort Yeoman stands very he cry of nullification and rebellion, j near the line of Democratic truth; per- vill, we trust, be wofully deceived.— haps it advances upon it, and is ready to iVhatever the Constitution, properly in- defend it to the very letter. General erpreted, permits the States and people Johnson has improved the literary^ style o do for the preservation of their rights of its columns, and for doctrine it has ind liberties, we shall not hesitate to ad- j not receded from its true position of the rocate when it becomes necessary. Neith- central organ of the parly. Under the sr the ghost of a past rebellion nor the I Majors, it was a powerful and true cham- ihadow of a future despotism should pre- pionof the old faith, and always breathed rent a freeman from speaking and voting a free .and noble spirit of constitutional ris real sentiments upon all public ques- {liberty. ions, and whenever they do have that ef- There is a cluster of choice spiritsl at :ect, the end of all speaking and voting Frankfort, who cannot desert^ the in- )n such questions is not far off struction of their, fathers and the most There are hundreds and perhaps thou-1 cherished convictions of their youth and lands of practical men in Kentucky act-1 manhood. ■ They were born and baptized ing and voting with the Democratic par- by both blood and water in State rights cy who do not agree with us precisely and State sovereignty, and they never ipon this doctrine of State rights in its j Wilt yield that impregnable citadel to the whole length and breadth, bat they do | craft or violence of centralization, agree with us practically upon all the . * * * 7 measures which the exigencies of the **reat. country now demand, and which that n_.i - o. doctrine alone can justify. They oppose ^ 0 consolidation as earnestly as we do, and rests Sf 8 they appreciate the value of State rights f «*hons.of^ Statewitiun the nerf as highly as we do, and yet if we were to f ® w . ^ or °® ce ,^ discuss abstract theories with them we ^ ° would differ perhaps from the first pred- United Stotes. The cases wall come be- icate to the final conclusion. They feel f 0 ^ t ^® United Stetes Courf, of course, that, however limited the powers of the We find the foregoing in the jf? a States actually are under the Constitu- ? f ^ There J tion, they deserve at least some respect F 1 13 , 1 ?, ol ,4 ing . 0 1 at t|io hands .of the General Government, I iu violation of the unconslUutional 14th and they see plainly that they are receiv- Amendment, which is, in itself, a gross ing none whatever. outrage upon persoual liberty, forced The services of such men are valuable WP on P e °ple for the brae being y to the country, and should not be dis- f° rce > , nn< \ intimidation, and ex pensed with even if we had the power f? rce ^ ^ ^ e L rn ^’ at behests o to succeed without them. Not only in 1 theadvoc of Empire. Kentucky, but elsewhere throughout the < - )f course this is a bugaboo—a scare- country, they are to be found standing I ^ow-erected. by those who belong to side by side with their ancient political 1 tlie D b^ve fallen, o enemies, doing hard service in the cause expect soon to fall, under the he. vy of the people against the minions of I blows ot the law as it strikes clown offen- power. They have been faithful allies 1 . . and friends in many a heroic struggle . Ifc . is :o awe somi since the close of the civil war, and we umpire 13 a counter movement on - - - ition ’ and ade _ tho part of the accused and their friends, THE FOLK COUNTY PRISO NERS! ALL BUT FOUR DISCHARGED. PERSECUTION, NOT PROSECUTION! THE PROSECUTIONJA PARCE. ley and James Crocker at her house that night. Her testimony conflicted with her husband’s iu stating that CroTcer came into the house, and that she did not go in the yard. She said she did not say a word to them, but refused to explain the cause of her silence. Mrs. C. was quite obstinate and was indis posed to answer the interrogations. Thomas Daniels testified that Mr. no The examination of the Polk county prisoners, charged With maltreating and ^ A ? i T\ a Perjured Crocker had assured him he had uu before u’-i , ZT ^ " aym0rD ^ knowledge of the whipping, ami that B Wh T? Commissioner ^ Crockerwas.fearful Allred would.ap- ±>. binith. The examination occupied , , ,N. * . . , . . .. v , pose he had reported him to the Ku- the entire afternoon and much of the ™ . x ,, f. j- , Klux, and that Mr. j Allred had stated to evening, and resulted in the discharge of , . -r. - , . Y;. fiVo of +i,o • t, -r, tt him (Daniels) that he was not positive live of the prisoners, viz: Dr. E. H. , . , L , * • . , 5 . 7. d;„i,o^o„, m. i t, _ : _ Uhat lie saw Crocker on the night of the Eichardsou, Charles Bunn, John CrGck- l ! , • ■ „ ■ er, Thomas Crocker, Alfred Waits. These whipping. He further stated that he were dismissed at 'tire tastance'ot the h”' r « 11 »it>i AUred’e ohar- prosecution for want Of evidence. acter, and oould not believe him on his rri,.„n,„„ T n ™ , oath, and instanced, a oase in which All- Ihe others, Jas. Crocker, Wm. Ctocker, “ j jU , .• . , . , tx . ~ ■ , red had been detected in stealing and Ihomas Davis and George Mobley, the 1^1: u prosecution hope to commit this morning ° 1 * , „ ,, . ... NTT , ,, Mrs. Eogers, AUred s daughter,, testi- upon what they consider indisputable' e evidence, but which all impartial minds pronounce flimsy and insignificant, ot These’prisoners, who are identified by the most prominent citizens of ‘ Polk county as gentlemen of unimpeaohable fied that she recognized Mr. James Crocker as one of the party who had en tered her father’s house on the night of the 22d June, but obstinately and per sistently refused to describe his disguise infer™-. ° - “T ' Til • * "hen questioned -by the defense, other- integrity, are in a degree the victim of . +,? ... _ u,- one Mastin Alh-ed, a notorious and con firmed thief and robber, who, during the war, skulked in the mountains, and now maintains a livelihood under disguise of a farmer, by stealing hogs and committing taon ^* numerous other thefts upon his neighbors. Allred alleges in the warrant that these did, oh the 22d of June last, visit his home at night, violently entered his house, dragged ihim out and beat him. Having failed to convict a single one in the Courts of his county, he now renews his persecution, and, arraigning them be- wise than the paper he had on his nose. “She seed enough to know him, and that was enough; she knowed him.” Here the prosecution closed their testi- THE DEFENSE introduced Mr. Thomas Davis, who tes tified that he he had not been in Allred’s house in three years; that,ha on the night of the 22d June was at his home at Mr, James Crocker’s, where, together with Mr. James Crocker, Wm, Crocker, and Thomas Crocker, he remained all night; Mr. Crocker confirmed his testimony, fore the United States Court, swears they , , , .. , , , , , 3 , , , and declared he belonged to no organ! have committed an unpardonable out- .. ,, . , . . TP-.., . ... . ,, . zation nor “deu, “ except Ins own cab- rage. With a view to securing their ar- 1 rest, he has been to the city on several occasions, we learn, to consult with Uni ted States Marshal Smyth. Finally Dep uty United States Marshal Blacker, ac companied by AUred and a detachment of United States soldiers, proceeded to in, if that might be called a deu.” Thomas Crocker testified the same. The counsel for tlie defense then intro duced Cob J. D. Waddell, formerly of Polk county, Judge J.W. H. Underwood, a regular attendant upon the Polk Supe- fioJovVoib ■ t> u V - . .. rior Court, Mr. Ivy F. Thomason, of Ce- Cedar Valhy, m Pott coonty, and, at the | ^ Tora> ^ A . Peck, Judge Wm. M. Hutchings', Dr. S. A. Borders, and Mr. J. O. Waddell, all instigation of Allred, arrested the parties above named, using violence in some in stances. Mr. Mobley’s house was entered by breaking down his door. Many of the prisoners were manacled and hand cuffed, and brought to this city on the 10th inst. and committed to jail, to await the investigation, which was held yester day. f • The counsel for proseention were Col. D. P. HiU and John L. Conley. They were employed at the instance of Judge Pope, who had business of a more press ing nature. We learned, however, that Judge P. was really unwilling to prose cute gentlemen of good standing upon such a shallow pretext, and even said, had he known the character of the pros ecution, he would not have issued the warrants at all. Counsel for defense: L. E. Bleckley, Geo. Hillyer, Judge fJ. W. H. Under wood, Col. J. D. Waddell, and Gen. Phillips. Judge Underwood, we learn, tendered his services voluntarily, with no leading citizens of Polk county, who, de claring themselves acquainted with the general character of Mastin Allred, stated that they could not believe him on his oath in a question where he was person ally concerned or interested. Miss Ellen Crocker testified that she knew Mr. John Crocker was at home all night, and John Crocker confirmed the same. They both stated they heard a noise in the direction of Allred’s'after j midnight. The prosecution-her eintroduced Mr. J. T. Carter, a son-in-law of Allred’s, who testified that he had heard Mr. Mobley attempting to effect a compromise with Alli-ed for being implicated in the whip ping affair. Mr. Mobley denied this, whereupon Carter admitted that Mobley was drinking at the time. “"Here Mr. “Shad” Conley moved to discharge all the prisoners except James claim for compensation, knowing, as he I an< ^ Wm. Crocker, Thomas Davis and said, that innocent citizens whose good J ^ eo * Mobley, which motion prevailed character was { beyond question, had | aU( ^ was susteined cordially by Commis- been shamefully outraged by an ac-1 s i° ner Smith. knowledged outlaw. This morning at 91 o’clock he proposes Mr. James Crocker was first placed on I ®5ow beyond a “lingering shadow of trial. The prosecution introduced Mas- d° u bt” why these four should be corn- tin Allred, who testified that on the night J Blitted? but being nnable to discern a of the 22d June a partly disguised party, I single pretext for a prosecution, we ex- of whom hi? recognized James Crocker J P e °t uu effasion of eloquence that will and Thomas Davis, came to-his house j na elfc the Court into a river of tears on about 2 o’clock in the morning, called I which the prisoners will be transported to him out, stating that they wanted to fc ^ eir dreadful doom of a penitent’s settle with him for-beating some sheep | prison, and ‘gouging’ their eyes out; that he re fused to appear, whereupon they broke down his door, took him out from the house some distance, together with his son-in-law, Mr. Kogers, and there beat _ ....... . him, giving him 24 lashes," each one of I moving with spirit and increased confi- eight persons administering three licks; Th^ifeensof Elberiten^ fie^Sng that all,of them in some way were disgrns- fco subscribe liberally to its stock. The ed, though some of them wore no masks. I road will be of much interest to the peo- James Crocker wore a piece of paper on | of Atlanta, and we will be glad to his nose; his (Allred’s) wife scrutinized ha Xf her P re8s andfeeo^e come forward , , -x, . . , ., . , I with encouragement m our behalf. We them closely with a pine torch; that £ he I jg e l confident that the people along the recognized several of them; that she went I line will be liberal in helping os. out into the yard with the ,torch; that a I After we have made earnest efforts, if fend had existed between him and the J we should be a little short of means to Crockers for 8 or 10 years; that he had this enterprize an eariy success . . . would it not be wise policy in Atlanta prosecuted them for the scourging in | and the A ir-T,ine Road to lend us a little help? We will not ask for a large sum, if any; but think that Atlanta and the Air-Line Boad should be considering the benefits offered them by the construction The Railroad from Elberlon to the Air-Line. Elberton, February 14th, 1872. *8» Editors Atlanta Sun: Our people are RHEU5IATISM. Linch’s Anti - Rheumatic FOWPKKS. jJ. F OR THE LAST THIRTY YEARS I HAVE uscJ tliem in mj- private practice, and for the last 2D yeard liavo occasionally published them to ai —— — , , , „ . _ . , . , ■ ., : mf ^irnmryiau• - limited extent, nnd i win venture the assertion thzt lished it. We do not want to disturb it, think that a frank recognition auu bug- , , , , A; but we do want the authorities to see it quate reward for their servjces are de- sympathisers, aiders andabettorsto di- .crrc^mccvortaovriuothc ^ _ manded by every consideration of justice up c , onfll31on ’ The Federal Government should be as and good policy! ® ldst . of s " me l P. J, eit ^ reluctant to encroach upon the reserved Now, as our friend the Commoner has 1 P ar ^ 5 ^ rom ^ IC P unislim ' lights of the States and people as it I made one or two suggestions for our con-1 ttieir crimes. profession Enclose $5.00 with description of case and prompt attention will be given. Address J. G. GIBSON, dcc27-wly Eatonton, Go. Polk Superior Court but had failed to j convict them. Bogers, Allred’s son-in-law, was then introduced,\who testified that he did not I of the Elberton Air-Line Branch Boad, see either James Crocker or- Thos. Davis and be ready to join ns ift case of emer- on the. night they were whipped, and I , . , ,. „ , - . J “ 1 The cost of construction we are led to believe will not be large, and a small that he thought the scourging took place in the fall. His testimony conflicted with Allred’s in several material points. He was at best an ignoramus, bat assured the Court that the whipping took place amount from each of those corporations will insure its success. Hart and Franklin counties are now beginning to take deep interest in tnis matter. There will be a meeting held at after he had gathered liis corn, and that I Henry’s Church, Hart county, on the the next work he did thereafter was to I 24th mst., and from present indications, we expect a large attendance. Our reg- ~ow wneat. I ular monthly meeting will take place on Mrs. Crocker testified that she recog- tlie 15tll ot - jx-aroh, at the Franklin nized William Crocker, Gebrge Mob- springs. Very respectfully, Thomas Davis, Grif. Mot-1 ^ 1 THEVlS ' ley,