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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 24, 1872.
THE ATLANTA SUN
FROM THE DAILY EDITION’ OF
Friday, April 19, 1872-
“Tl»e 'Wagon is Coming/'
York city on Friday Bight, the 12th in
stant. It will soon be along in its rapid
progress “through tho Provinces;” and
all who have a mind to, had better be in
readiness to mount it as soon as possible.
For the information of such honest
Democrats as are in waiting for it, we
will give the substauco of the object of
those who have been so long construct
ing it, as set forth in the proceedings of
the great “Liberal” Radical meeting in
New York, at which its curiously' con
trived parts were put together, and start
ed on its electioneering tour.
The telegrams in the Sunday morning’s
issue of The Sun gave only the outlines
of these proceedings, with a great flour
ish of trumpets, intended to withdraw
popular observation from its more hide
ous features, by as much noise and con
fusion as could be created.
We now have full reports of all that
was then said and done at that meeting,
which was thought by the schemers pro
per to let outsiders know, at least for the
present.
Here, theD, is part of the feast to which
all Democrats are invited who may choose
to mount the Cariole. Here is the plat
form of the concern on which all passen
gers are to stand:
A DECLARATION OF rKINCIPLES HELD BE NEW YOBE
REPUBLICANS WHO FAVOR THE CINCINNATI CON
VENTION.
Webclievo that tho political action of individuals
and conventions should be left free from the influ
ence of poliUcal patronage; that businessmen should
not, under the fear of unjuat official interference
with their affairs, bo compeUed to pay tribute for
political purposes.
We bolieve that public offices aro, or should be,
crcatod for public convenience, and not as rewards
for partisan services nor lor personal aggrandize,
ment; that tho acts of officials should bo confined
within tho strict letter of tho laws creating such
officials.
Wo believe that tho triumph of Republican princi
ples is of paramount importance to the country, and
that tho Bucccsg of those principles in the approach
ing national election docs not depend on any one in
dividual.
Wo believe that tho prosperity of the country de
mands thorough, radical and immediate reform in
aU departments of tho public service, civil, military
and naval; and that tho‘‘one term principle" for the
Presidential office will conduco more to that end
than any other measuro.
New York, April 12,1872.
As an interpretation of this declaration
of principles, we give tho following letter
from Senator Fenton, which is also found
in i he proceedings of the grand occasion:
CoMirrrrzH of Finance, )
. United States Senate, l
Washington, AprU 11,1872.)
Dear Sir : I cannot bo with yon to-morrow night,
hut I doom it my duty to say that tho movement for
soform and purity of government in the State and
naUon, and also to seenro at the head of affairs a
Republican statesman, trained in Republican ideas,
has my cordial sympathy. It is a necessity of the
hour. I say this as a Republican, anxious for tho
snccoss of honest government and tho revival of
fraternal focllng throughout tho country. Very
truly, R. E. Fenton.
From these specimens it appears very
clearly to us, that the object of the build
ers of this Belmont “wagon,” is tb trans
fer the entire Democratic Party to the
support of an out and out Radical Ke-
publican for the Presidency—“a Repub
lican statesman,” as Mr. Fenton says,
“trained in Republican ideas” 1 that is,
trained in die ideas and policies of the
present Republican Pariy, so-called, in the
Dhited States.
All tho speeches delivered at the
•‘great meeting,” also very clear
ly indicate the same purpose.—
Yet the New York World, professing to
be a Democratic organ, says of this
meeting and its proceedings: “The
Cooper Institute meeting was a-fit
THING, FITLY DONE.”
We capitalize the sentence to call
special attention to its monstrous utter
ance, coming from the source it does;
But the readers of The Sun know very
well what has been our opinion of the
real principles, aims and objects Of. the
editor-in-chief of the New York World
for a long time.
We will in this connection furth
er add, that it will, before long
be seen, perhaps to tho full satis
faction of all, that we were perfectly
right in the opinion that this “Liberal
Republican” movement, so-called, was
not towards tho nomination of Judge
Davis, or any one holdiug the sentiments
he does upon the Radical Republican
Reconstruction measures, and the Radical
ideas and policies touching the suspen
sion of the writ of Habeas Corpus. On
this point wo take the liberty of giving
an extract from a private letter, just re
ceived, from a very high Democratic
source in Washington City:
“The Liberal Republican Cincinnati
Convention is still exciting much interest.
I told you I thought it was a bona fide
movement. I am remitted back to my
first doubts. The great meeting in New
York last night exhibits not one spark of
true patriotism—no sincere devotion to
sound principles — and nothing but
unmitigated Republicanism in a passion,
because its movers are not treated by
Grant as they think they deserve.”
As this writer expresses himself, so thou
sands and hundreds of thousands of
Democrats will doubtless feel when a
few more “lights” are thrown upon the
contemplated foul deed, by which the
Democratic Party was to be “Joabbed”
and butchered under the pretence of
only killing “Bourbons.”
But enough for the present.
A. H. S.
A revolution, reform, innovation,
or what not, has been proposed in music.
Herr Wagner, in an able discourse in
what he terms ‘ ‘The Music of the Future,”
proclaims a new principle. He claims
that musio in its highest development
should have a poetic basis, and proposes
that it shall mean something, that its ele-
ment3 he so constructed as to form a
language that will be intelligible, not only
to the composer and singer, but the
hearer also.
The following editorial if as writ-1
ten by Mr. Stephens on the 11th inst., |
and ou that day, with the article from
tho Courier-Journal therein referred to,
was forwarded by him to this office.—•
Owing to a strange miscarriage which
Tho Belmont Cariole set out fromNew ' sometimes happens, it did not come into
the proper hands till this morning—(the
18th inst.) £
This statement is necessary to explain
what might otherwise seem to our read
ers to be a very late day for the appear
ance of an article on the subject, the
writing of which was prompted by the
circumstances therein set forth:
Mr. Voothcei* Arraignment of the P»r*
tjr In Power.
One of the grandest speeches made in
Congress since the days of Calhoun,
Clay and Webster, was lately delivered
by Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, in the
House of Representatives. In tone, spirit
and lofty eloquence, it has much of the
fire of Patrick Henry’s soul-stirring ap
peal in tho Virginia House of Burgesses
in 1774.
This speech is a bold arraignment of
the Ruling Dynasty at the bar of public
judgment, for their high crimes against
the Constitution and the liberties of the
country.
W^intend to give its powerful strains
in full to our readers just as soon as our
space will allow; but, in the meantime,
to-day, give them a review of it, taken
from the Louisville Courier-Journal •
In this connection we can but ask,
how is it that the Courier-Journal does
not see and feel that this speech, on which
it comments so favorably, not only utters
the “key-note,” but announces the broad
programme of action for the Democracy
in the coming contest, if they hope to
succeed in a rescue of free Institutions
from the hands of present usurpers'.
Does not that journal perceive
that the principles and sentiments
so proclaimed by Mr. Voorhees, meet, not
only a hearty response from the breasts of
three millions of Democrats, but that
Jbey stir the blood and arouse the patri
otism of every friend of Liberty in the
entire land, whether called Liberal Re
publican or by any other name ?
How is it that this journal and others,
professing to desire Democratic success,
and the overthrow of Radical Centralism,
can be so assiduously laboring to get the
approaching Democratic General Con
vention to silence such utterances; and
not only to ignm'e these enormous wrongs,
and most flagitious usurpations, but to
foreclose all discussion of them in the
coming elections, by having them de
clared to be “dead issues” and things to
be “buried” in an “effete past 7”
A. H. S. •
From the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal.
Voorliecs on Reconstruction.
* • ____
In a recent general debate in Congress
Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, with more
than his usual impassioned eloquence,
set Congress face to face with its “mani
fold sins and wickedness.” His detailed
statements of the enormous crimA
which have signalized the Southern poli
cy since the war are remarkable, not only
on account of the magnitude of the
wrongs exposed and the irresistible force
and weight of the impeachment, but al
so from the just but exceeding bitterness
of the attack on Congress by a Congress
man.
Commencing on the cardinal fact that
the condition of the Southern States
“excites to-day the mingled
. * PITY AND INDIGNATION
of the civilized world,” and proving
that there is not a people under heaven
iu a situation so embarrassed and un-
happy, he proceeds to 'trace their calam
ities to their origin. He quotes the au
thority of “the powerful and philosophic
Buckle” ia corroboration of a tenet as
well recognized in political economy as
in physical science, to the effect that
‘ ‘certain events having already happened,
certain other events corresponding to
them will also happen.”.
This is nothing more than an assertion
of the universal law of the correlation of
cause and effect. What, then, is the cause
of these disorders, that comparative an
archy, which have so often been distorted
into "texts for Radical denunciation and
unconstitutional interference by force
and terrorism? To quote the speaker:
‘•I call upon the majority in this House to answer.
Have you not had all power from the beginning of
what you call reconstruction over that subject ? Has
there been anything wanting to your absolute au
thority? What has stood in the way of your wishes,
your partisan plans, your lawless fanaticism?"
While the people of the South have
not interposed any, impediment to the
development of the schemes of Congress,
being, in fact, utterly prostrate and help
less, neither have the Constitution and
the law of the land in any wise fettered
their discretion. It is forcibly charged
that their “own will, without let or
hindrance from any quarter, has been the
measure of their legislation.” With these
exclusive powers over the subject, backed
by “the irresistible army of the nation, '
controlling the nation’s purse, regulating
the President’s patronage, and dictating
the conduct of the President himself, it
is abundantly manifest that whatever ef
fects they have produced were direct and
immediate, unimpeded and uninfluenced
by any form of opposition. It is evi
dent, in other words, that the calamities
and consequent disorders of the South
ern States, which been frequently and
villainously assumed as pretexts for fresh
outrages, are direct and necessary effects
of which Radical misgovemment has
been the exclusive cause.
premeditated systematic outrage.
The speaker proceeded to show that
the process of destruction and outrage
commenced with the first dawn of peace,
According to the terms of the surrender
of the Southern armies, the soldiers were
to return to their homes and industries
with all their offenses healed by amnesty.
Mr. Voorhees claimed very properly that
these terms had received the sanction of
Government irn thousands of previous
instances—it being a well-known fact
that the welcoming arms of the Union
gladly received to their embrace any re
cusant Southern soldier, class or section
while the issue of the war was still doubt
ful.
The capitulation, therefore, embodied
both the construction and express theories
of government. But after Lee and John?
bou and their armies had surrendered
their arms and placed themselves hors de
combat, the terms of the surrender were
instantly and violently assailed by Radical
demagogues and openly repudiated by
Radical legislation. Any man who had
acquired the confidence of his fellow-citi
zens before the war sufficiently to he
elected “Governor, Auditor, Secretary, or
Treasurer of State; Attorney General,
Judge, Clerk, or Reporter of the Su
preme Court; Member of Congress or
State Legislature; Clerk, Sheriff, Treas
urer, Auditor or Recorder of his county;
Judge of Probate, Justice of the Peace,
Constable of his township #r Notary Pub
lic” was rigidly excluded from office—
thereby depriving the people of the aid
of their best and ablest citizens at the
crisis when they were inestimably im
portant to their welfare.
By the terms of “iron-clad” oath all
the wisdom and worth of the country as
approved by former services were sternly
interdicted from serving the State, if
identified during the war in any manner,
shape or form, directly or indirectly,
with the people among whom they were
bom and bred. .Even the commonest
officer of charity operated an official dis
qualification—as feeding a starving rebel,
or supplying a horse to a soldier in flight
for his life. “A more sweeping and
universal exclusion from all the benefits,
rights, trusts, honors, enjoyments, liber
ties and control of a government was
never enacted against a whole people,
without respect to age or sexiu the
annals of the human race.”
THE LION AND THE LAMB.
“Sir,” exolaims, the speaker, “shall a
people thus bereft of every attribute of
self-government be held responsible at
the bar of public opinion, or at the judg
ment seat of God, for the consequenoes
which have overtaken them ?”. “Now,
as the ghastly results of Radical control
in the South appear on every square mile
of that oppressed and plundered section,
the party starts back with horror and dis
claims its own offspring, the fruits of its
own unholy rapine and iust. "With pale
lips and afrighted mien it ejaculates,
‘Thou canst not say I did it.’ ’’ A well
known fable was aptly introduced to illus
trate this disavowal of its own crimes as
implied in their many oppressive laws and
deeds. A wolf and lamb were drinking
at the samo brook, the lamb being fur
ther down the stream than his ill-assort
ed comrade. The wolf, seeking an ex
cuse for the slaughter he premeditated,
upbraided the lamb for muddying the
water. “How is that possible?” ex
claimed the lamb, “seeing that water
can’t flow up stream?” "Whereupon,
with his ferocity hightened by a failure
of his effort to provoke a quarrel, the
wolf fell upon the lamb and tore him in
pieces. Not a bad history of the case
this, although prior to the surrender the
dominant party had been taught to re
gard the Southern people rather as a lion
than a lamb.
GEORGIA PLUNDERED.
Having located the crime, Mr. Voor
hees proceeded to measure its magnitude
and consequences. The State of Geor
gia, with from eleven to twelve thousand
square miles of territory more than New
York or Pennsylvania, abounding in ag
ricultural and mineral wealth, with un
surpassed facilities for inland and ocean
ic commerce, and containing withal a
large and enterprising and wealthy pop
ulation, was the richest quarry for these
vultures of all the Southern States. Her
State debt was nothing, and a railroad
owned by the State almost wholly paid the
expenses of her government. Such was
her condition when her destinies passed
into the hands of the Radicals. When
they were driven from the power which
they held there only some three years,
the world is astonished to find that the
State debt amounts to 650,000,0001 From
1855 to 1862 the average pay of the mem
bers and officers of the Legislature
amounted to about $110,000 per annum.
One Republican Legislature C03t the
State $979,0551 Prior to 1862 clerk hire
cost the State about $10,000 per annum.
The clerk hire of a Republican Legisla
ture amounted to $125,000! The pay
rolls of that villainous gang contain the
names of 104 clerks, which is an average
of one clerk to every two legislators. Al
though these are specimens of wrongs
whose number is literally legion, we
must pas3 on without alluding to more.
SOUTH CAROLINA PLUNDERED.
At the close of the war the debt of
South Carolina was only $5,000,000. Af
ter a few years of Radical misrule it.is
$39,158,914! One General Assembly of
Radicals in that small State drew for pay
the enormous amount of $583,651, and
for incidental expenses $91,500 in addi
tion. A session of the Legislature of the
great State of Ohio the same year cost
her prosperous people only $90,000! Mr.
Voorhees utters an undeniable but a
shocking fact when he declares, that if
the State of South Carolina would bring
at auction two-thirds of her appraised
value, which is $55,000,000, the proceeds
would barely pay the debt created by her
Radical government! He quotes in this
connection the just remark of Mr. Saw
yer, a leader of the Republican party
and a Senator in Congress, that the Re
publican government of his State is “a
disgrace to civilization.”
THE SOUTH ROBBED.
Such also, are the calamities brought
by the same party upon North Carolina,
Louisiana, Arkansas, and every other
State in the South, but our space forbids
alkbut a table of the gross results as mea
sured by dollars and cents.
In 1865.
Alabama, liabilities $ 5,900,000
Arkansas,
Florida, 1
Georgia, ‘
-Louisiana, '
NorthCarolina, ‘
South Carolina, 1
Mississippi, 1
Tennessee, 1
Texas, ‘
Virginia,
4.036.000
221,000
nominal
10.099.000
9.699.000
5,000,000
nominal
20.105.000
nominal
31.933.000
In 1872.
§38,381,000
19.761.000
15.763.000
50.137.000
50.540.000
34.887.000
39.158.000
2,000,000
45.633.000
20.361.000
45.480.000
Thus it is seen that about seven years
of Radicalism have added to the State
debts of the South about $275,000,000,
which is three times as much as those
debts had accumulated in three-quarters
of a century. But, in order to arrive at
a just appreciation of the ease, it is nec
essary to recollect that the property of
those States, which is to underlie and
finally pay their debts, is less than it was
before the war by over two thousand mil
lions of dollars. These facts viewed
together are almost incredible, for they
have no parallel in history.
It is with much regret that we dismiss
the subject. This able speech, these
solid facts, prove even more than the elo
quent speaker claimed. In the South
alone has Radicalism had unquestioned
sway. There it has wrought out its so
lutions with greater freedom than it has
ever had in any Northern or Western
State. Its fruits iu the South are con
sequently more purely and peculiarly le
gitimate and natural. The paople of
other States can, therefore, readily pre
dict their own fate under the same per
nicious sway.
Recorder’s Court—Cordial Greet
ing to Spring.—His Honor has been con
sidering some time whether it was not
becoming him, as clerk of the weather
and master of supernatural ceremonies,
to tender a reception to Spring. Bat,
with his usual wise caution, he has been
a little apprehensive that snch a demon
stration might be premature. Some
mornings, Spring, a pretty little innocent
creature, would meet His Honor at the
door of his home, and, lightly tripping
along, would playfully attend him all the
way to Court. One morning Spring be
came right bold; came into Court, order
ed Pat to extinguish the fire, went trip
ping around joyously, peeping in at the
windows and doors, noiselessly and play
fully crept into every crevice and corner,
ran around with beaming eyes and
sparkling wit, breathing her balmy breath
into His Honor’s silvery locks, tossing
fresh flowers and fruits promiscuously
about the room, until every person pres
ent was enthused with her bewitching
hilarity, and the Court room was wreath
ed in coronets of smiles. But, alas!
before His Honor could fairly settle
himself in his chair of state, that
old ruffian Winter came, demon-like,
roaring about the house-corners and
tree tops, and scenting the presence
of the blessed fairy, Spring, rushed into
the room, puffing, blowing and howling
like an enraged monster, and defying
Spring, the Court, His Honor and all,,
boldly threw his white gauntlet down,
and threatened if His Honor ever again
allowed that siren, sorceress Spring to
breathe her incense about there soon
again, he would banish her eternally to
foreign lands. Ever since that time,
until within a few days past,
the old villain has guarded the
threshold of the door, admitting only
his Northeasters and their boon compan
ions. But a few days ago the old mon
ster became weary of watohing and he
fell asleep—the sleep of death, and the
fairy Spring has returned with all the
glory of triumph. But notwithstanding
all this, His Honor believes she has been
conniving with the old King in torment
ing him; and so yesterday he gave her
the following little rebuke:
‘‘Well, spring, youv cum at last, hey you ?
The poet sez youv bin a sittin in old winter's
Lap—now aint yon ashamed of yourself? ’
I spose the old teller's been bussiu you;
I should think he hed from your breath
A bein so cold—but that’s tho way them
Old fellers hev a doin.
WeU, as I was spying,
Youv cum at last with your "bamy
Breth” a blowin from the northwes—
Wesconstant oi Nehrasky, I spose,
Great countries for bam I reckin.
Now youv cum wen
Everybody’s feed and korn and things
Hev all bin fed out! Now look at
Our kritters, will ye? Seeourkate!
On the lift, a hevin to be steaded by
Their tales whsn they gits up a mornings 1
Look at our hossis wats all reduced
To skeletons a weepin over a troft;
A hull troft fuU of kobs
A hull troft full of bitter reckeleckshuns! ’’
But he didn’t fine her $5.
MR. NILSSON REED
was born about 47 years ago. He was
named after Mad. Nilsson; hut as he
could not sing himself to death, he
thought he would try to drink himself to
death. He was in a fair way to succeed,
so His Honor seized “time by the fore
lock” and collected $5 from Nilsson,
thereby impoverishing the treasury of
the infernal regions to that amount.
ARCHIBALD BBOUGHN
has a very treacherous memory. He had
attained such an impetus and momentum
during last week in selling out “damna
tion at 10 cents a drink” that he forgot
to apply brakes Sunday morning, so he
dashed frantically right through Sunday.
His Honor has engaged himself to act
brakesman next Sunday at $20 a day,
which Broughn pays without a murmur.
MISS MQTiTiTE WILLIAMS
becoming a little lonely Sunday after
noon, sallied out to amuse herself’, if pos
sible, by giving a lesson in. swearing and
blackguardism.. Finding an eligible
position, she attacked a giocery store and
its proprietor, both of which trembled
under her thunder. She paid $5 hall
rent.
• FIVE OTHER
cases, together with the foregoing, real
ized $55 for the city exchequer, and His
Honor retired, conscious of having ad
vanced civilization two years and a half.
A Little Literary Lottery.—Daring
the recent auction sale of unclaimed
Express freight our fellow-townsman,
Mr. S. A. Echols, with inquiring eyes,
happened to light on a mysterious look
ing box, which, to all appearance, con
tained a lot of garden seeds. Having
been uniformly successful during the
morning in other purchases, he was en
couraged to indulge in a little experiment,
so he ran up the bid to about three dollars,
at which price it was “knocked down.”
Opening the box (imagine his chagrin)
he discovered nothing hut some circu
lars advertising a quack nostrum. How
ever resolving to convert the otherwise
worthless documents into wrapping pa
per, he removed the box to his store,
where, upon farther investigation he dis
covered two hundred, copies of the librettos
of Faust, the retail price of which is 50
cents. He who never ventures never
wins.
Personal.—John Rice, Esq., is in the
city. He arrived from Florida on
■Wednesday night. He says he intends
to remain till the charges argainst him
are thoroughly investigated, and that he
:is ready to meet any that have been or
I may be made.
Letter from South-West Georgia.
From an Occasions'. Correspondent.]
Ambbicus, Ga., April 16, 1872.
Editors Sun: Your humble correspond
ent has just returned from a visit to this
interesting and important place, and
takas this occasion to offer a few dots in
regard to what he saw and heard. Am eii-
cus is in the centre of the great cotton
region of South-Western Georgia, and
therefore combines many elements of
life and prosperity. It contains a popu
lation of three or four thousand inhabi
tants, and the growth of the city is steady
and solid. It attracts the principal trade
from several rich adjacent connties,
and the arena of its trade and influence
is gradually extending. It is confidently
predicted that its accumulating capital in
a few years will place it among the lead
ing cities of the Empire State. The
Furlow Masonic Female College, which is
located here, is under the control and
guardianship of the Masons and itslearned
and laborious President, Dr. Douglas, is
exerting all his energies-to augment its
efficiency and resources. The institution
is named in honor of MajorT. M. Furlow,
one of the most intelligent, enterpris
ing and pure minded citizens of Ameri
cas, and one whose exalted character and
public services have won the confidence
and esteem of all true Georgians. The
Major’s residence is in the midst of a
magnificent park in the suburbs of the
town, and his hospitable home is the
seat of the superior elegancies and re
tenements of a Southern gentleman. It
was our good fortune to share his
warm-hearted hospitalities for a suc
cession of days, and we are there
fore enabled to speak from a hap
py experience on this subject.
During my visit to this place, the Pres
bytery of Macon and the Superior Court
of Sumter county were both in session,
and as a consequence, had drawn togeth
er a large number of leading lawyers and
divines for a hundred miles around. The
rich conversations, brilliant speeches and
burning appeals of these cultivated gen
tlemen constituted a grand feast for one.
who was mind-hungry and heart-hungry
as well. These noble commentaries on
the law and the gospel, have left an
aroma which will linger with us for long
days to come.
_ The Railroad in progress of construc
tion from Hawkinsville to Americas,
promises much good to the latter. In
deed, the iron-lines which are now rapid
ly interpenetrating Southwestern Geor
gia, must aid greatly in developing the
vast resources of that magnificent do
main.
The veteran editor of the Sumter Re
publican, tendered us the courtesies of
nis sanctum, where we spent some golden
moments. This is one of the staunchest
journals of the State, and has, daring a
long career, struck many noble blows
for the right and the good. Haste.
Excerpts of Fun and Humor.
We met an old darkey trudging
along with a heavy side of bacon, which
ho had bought, swinging over his shoul
der. We observed that he was miserably
clad, and we felt sorry for him, for a bit
ter cold wind was blowing. We remon
strated with him: “Why do you spend
your money for meat ? you’d batter buy
a coat.” This old gentleman of African
descent stopped, looked us full in the
face for a moment, and said in the most
solemn tones: “Massa, when I ax my
back for credit, it gives it; when I speak
to dis (laying his hand upon his “bread
basket,”) it calls for de cash.—Excjiange.
JGSis- Pat having been sent by his
master to tho post-office after the letters,
was asked, on his return.—
“Well Pat, what was there for me?”
“Two letters and a paper, sir.”
“Well, hand them to me;—what are
you standing there for ?”
“Indade, sir, and you didn’t tell me to
bring them, at all, at all!”
“What did you go to the office for ?”
“You.told me to go to the office and
see what was in the box, and haven’t I
done it, sure ?”
• Pat had to go back again,—but mutter
ing as he went, that he wished his Honor
would “be after maning what he said
next time.”
BgL- “How dreadful that cigar smells 1”
exclaimed Cushing to a companion;
“why, it’s an awful smelling thing!”
“Oh, no; it’s not the cigar that smells,”
was the reply. “What is it, then $” in
quired Cushing. “Why, it’s your nose
that smells, of course; that what noses
are made for,” answered the companion.
May is considered an unlucky
marrying month by some people. A
young'girl was asked, not long since, to
unite herself to a lover who had named
May in his proposal. The lady hinted
that May was unlucky. “Well, make it
June, then,” replied the swain. Casting
down her eyes with a blush, she rejoined,
“Would not April do as well ?”
BgU “A man who’d maliciously set fire
to a bam,” said old Elder Podson, “and
burn up a stable full of horses and cows,
ought to be kicked to death by a jack
ass, and I’d like to be the one to do it.”
A New Paper In D'scon.
Messrs. Lines, Wing & Smith, have
recently commenced the publication of
the Macon Redly Enterprise, an afternoon
paper. Tho first number made its ap
pearance last Saturday, and the numbers
have all reached this office. Bridges W.
Smith is the editor.
The Enterprise will, of coarse, attempt
lo contest the ground with the Telegraph
and Messenger. If it can do so with
some degree of success, there is room for
it in Macon; if it cannot enter into a re
spectable competition with that old and
well established journal, it will simply
be de trop, and soon be lost within the
shadow of its more illustrious cotempo
rary. A wholesome, lively, considera
ble competition will be no disadvantage to
the Telegraph, and, at the ’same time,
will create a demand for the new paper.
The Enterprise is cordially welcomed
to The Sun’s exchange list. May it live
long, and its labors be iu the interest of
the true, the good and the beautiful.
From tho Sin Marcos (Texas) Times, April 8,
The Hon. A. H. Stephens, of Tm»
Atlanta Sun, has troubled and render*?
nervous the painfully conservative
of the editor of the World, simply bT
cause the former referred to the delay of
the National Democratic Committee 1
The articla in The Sun to which the
World objects, did not, as is shown bv
Mr. Stephens, convey the idea that it
was a complaint of the writer against the
Executive Committee for delay in calling
a general convention of the Democratic
party, but it was the silence of Mr. Bel
mont, the chairman, in not assembling
the committee for organization, and the
appointment of a lime and place for the
meeting of the general nominating con .
vention that suggested the editorial in
question. * ‘Locality, ” • ‘ ‘Provincialism ’’
“Vanity,” “regular ticket,” and “regular
compact, disciplined host,” were handled
by Mr. Stephens in a masterly manner
and so as to leave the World writer oc
cupying an nnenviable position.
.
Fusing.
The editor of the Thomaston Herald
says that in passing through Monroe
county a short time since, he noticed a
Masonicfflall, constructed upon a Primi
tive Baptist Church, as a second story.
In conversing with some of the neigh
bors, he ascertained that some of the
members of this church, Ramah, had
joined the lodge. This the editor re
gards as an exhibition of a more generous
feeling toward the'Masons than Hard-
shells generally exhibit, and was charac
terized by a neighbor as being the eighth
wonder of the world. Our friend of the
Herald, says the Monroe Advertiser, has
evidently hitherto underrated the pro
gress toward liberalism made in Monroe,
and in this instance has only chronicled
one point of many that might be noticed.
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FOREIGN ITEMS.
J3©°* There are about 125,000 paupers in
London.
The average number of births in
London for one week is 377; and tho
average number of deaths 1,687.
The number of children in aotual
attendance upon the elementary schools
of London is 400,000.
minister in England recently
recovered $5,000 damages for slander, on
account of a slander spoken by the de
fendant’s wife.
figk, In response to ithe appeal of the
Tichborne claimant for pecuniary aid to
carry on his defense, a Briton transmits
a check for $25, and in a communication
to the London News, without expressing
sympathy for the claimant or for his
prosecution, states that there is a mystery
about the case upon which the public de
mands to be enlightened.
The claimant to the Tichborne
estate, who now languishes in Newgate
on a charge of perjury, has addressed a
letter to the London News appealing to
the public for. pecuniary assistance to
enable him to meet the prosecution which
is now pending with a respectable de
fense. He declares himself penniless,
solemnly affirms that he is Sir Roger
Tichborne, maintains that he is shame
fully persecuted, and expresses great
hope that the British people will see
that justice is done him by securing him
a fair, trial.
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Col. Wm. Dudley Stone will deliver
the memorial address at Forsyth this
year.
Mysterious Shooting. — Some tim
since two ladies of prepossessing person;
appearance, and, to all appearance, c
considerable worldly means, moved int
and occupied the little ivy-covered co
tage on Walker street near its junctio
with Nelson. They have been livin
here some time, in retirement and sech
sion, unknown to the surrounding neigl
bors. There have been no indications c
life about the place, except when the usi
ally closed door was opened to admit
few regular visitors, who were stranger;
it seems, to all in that vicinity.
Yesterday afternoon, about 4 o’clocl
an elegantly dressed gentleman came oi
of the house, and had just passed out <
the yard, when one of the ladies came t
the door and discharged a pistol at bin
The gentleman took flight, when tb
lady, advancing a few steps farther, di
charged the pistol a second time. Neith<
shot took effect. The lady returned 1
the house and tho gentleman was allowe
tohontinue his flight unmolested. Tb
lady, whose name, we learn, is Mr. Mile;
in reply to some inquiries from the pc
lice, stated that she had been insultec
The case will be disposed of to-day..
Dust.—We have heard that people
under the stimulus of exciting emergei
cies and dangers, “get up in du3t;” bt
this law of nature was strangely and dis;
■greeably reversed yesterday—the dust g.
up in the people!
The Drug Business.—Mr. Henry (
Pope has most handsomely fitted up h
Drug Store. It is wonderfully impro-
ed and beautified, and the'stock large]
increased.
Mr. Pope has made a most favorab
impression upon our jieople since 1
come among us—fully sustaining tl
high encomiums bestowed upon him i
a business man and a gentleman by tl
press of Columbus upon leaving ther
Mr. Frederick B. Palmer is one of tl
most popular gentlemen in Atlanta, an
has a reputation that is unsurpassed i
this city in his line of business.
Storm and Hail.—Some rain wit
much wind and a little hail fell in tli
vicinity yesterday. The storm, we lean
was more severe along the line of tb
State Road, being quite violent in tb
neighborhood of Chattanooga and Da
ton. The'storm was violent enough t
interfere for the time, with telegraph:
communication between this point au
Marietta.