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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 12, 1872.
THE AT LA N T A S lJ N
FROM THE DAILY EDITION OF
Friday, June 7tli, 1872.
MORE DBUOCRATIO opinion.
"The Drniocratir Pr«'»<i of Hie Comitry in
Uppo<it ion to the Indorsement of Gree
ley mnet Brown.
A few clays ago we reprinted extracts
from nearly forty Democratic papers of
Pennsylvania (including the leading ones
of tbe great cities of tbe State), in wbicb
the scliemo to have Greeley and Brown
indorsed by the Baltimore Convention
was repudiated with much feeling, and
straight-out Democratic nominations
were demanded. We give below another
batch of extracts from leading Demo
cratic paper3 of other States. It will be
seen that tbe desire to preserve the in
tegrity of the party is confined to no
section, but permeates tbe whole Union,
and that tbe persistent boasts of tbe
friends of Greeley that but few Demo
cratic papers oppose bis election are
without foundation:
From the LaGrango (Ga ) Reporter.
We are decidedly of the opinion that
tho Democracy should hold their nation
al convention, and put forward a Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency; and
we are decidedly of the opinion that the
party will demand it
From the Now Orleans Bee.
In fine, wo see not wherein he differs
from Grant and his associates os to the
principles of the party. How Southern
men can vote for Horace Greeley we can
not understand.
From tbe Staunton Virginian.
If the Democratic Convention dare to
indorse the nomination of such a man, it
will split the party into fragments. Ho
race Greeley will never be elected Presi
dent of the United States by the assist
ance of tho electoral vote of Virginia!
Mark the prediction.
From the Detroit, Michigan, Free Press.
The rupture created by the Cincinnati
Convention wn3 in tbe Badical ranks,
and its only effect on the Democracy will
be to blind it in policy more perfectly
than it has been for many years.
From the Linn, Missouri, Democrat.
If Democrats are expected to vote for
President, let them have a Democrat to
vote for.
From tho Buffalo, New York, Evening Post.
For the time-honored Democratic parly
to abandon its individuality and organi
sation and indorse Greeley and Brown,
as simply political suicide.
From the Bochport, Indiana, Democrat.
We have never entertained the idea for
•a single moment that the Democratic
party would ever let a Presidential can
vass pass by withont its own candidates
in tho field, with its old flag unfurled to
the breeze.
From the New Albany, Indiana, Standard.
Davis would have suited us much bet
ter than Greeley. Having had no choice
in the selection of the latter, we feel un
der no obligation whatever to support
him.
From tho Schenectady, N. Y., Evening Star.
We repeat, we don’t see how the Dem
ocratic Convention can indorse Mr. Gree
ley, and if they do it is doubtful if the
masses will indorse.
From the Corydon, Indiana, Democrat.
Our own individual preference is for a
straight-out Democratic ticket.
From tho Nashua, N. H., Gazette.
The contest being triangular, what are
the prospects ? It strikes us they are
decidedly favorable for tbe success of the
Democratic ticket. The Democracy will
go into the figbt compact and united.
From the Woodford, 111., Journal.
Iu this region the ticket seems to find
bnt few adherents.
From the Marshall, Mich., Democratic Expounder.
What have the Democracy to do with
Horace Greeloy ? Let the dead bury
their dead. Tbe talk of some Demo
cratic journals abont a fusion with Gree
ley to defeat Grant, is the worstf’piece of
oaonsense we have beard of late*
From the St. Anthony, Minn., Democrat.
Bnt, while thus extolling the virtues
<of the Liberal Republican candidates, it
does not follow that we shall not have
candidates to support whom wo believe
to be more in harmony with the true
spirit of our system of self-government
and whom we can more safely trust to ad
minister the affairs of the government
more equally and with greater wisdom
-and breadth of vision.
From the Chatfield, Minnesota, Democrat.
We desire to cast our vote in Novem
ber for a sound, able and reliable Demo-
*rat, and wo hope the National Demo-
- era tic Convention, yet to assemble, will
gratify us by presenting such a ticket for
- our suffrage.
From tho Frankfort, Kentucky, Yeoman.
Wo hold that tho Democratic party is
*.li3 best reform party, and believe that
the best thing which could be done
would bo to elect a Democratic Presi-
* dent, on an out-and-out Democratic plat
form.
From the -Sacramento, California, Rep arter.
-By making a strict party fight tbe De-
vnocracy c -a win an easy victory over a
divided opposition. As tbe field looks
siow, tho latter coarse seems the only
proper one to pursue.
From the Mansfield, Ohio, ShifMsnd Tanner.
Rut tbo,e is no ieasou why a great
party that numbers three millions should
be tho rear-guard of tho Liberal Republi
can party.
From the Washington, Ga., Gazette.
li the convention indorse him or adopt
the Cincinnati platform, and there are
any bolters, we belong to the bolting fac-
•- .tion, and vote their ticket.
From the Montgomery. Mo.. Standard.
Democrats are not to be driven or
lashed into measures by such taunting
arguments, nor can they be expected to
abandon every cherished principle and
their time-honored and blood-sanctified
history and name, to embrace the new
dogmas of an untried political revolu
tion, and hurrah for one the glory of
whose life has been his opposition and
hatred of the party we love.
From tho Litchfield, Conn., Sentinel.
Tho Democratic party is not in the
slightest degree bound by the Cincinnati
nominations. That Convention virtually
ignored us.
. From the Stockton, CaL, Republican.
The plain duty of the Democratic paity
is to call a National Convention and
nominate a full ticket.
From tho Vinton County, Ohio, Enquirer.
Greeley will not receive the support of
ho does not ex-
pect it; the Democratic partv is not 'in
tne slightest manner committed to the
action of the Convention that nominated
founder of the Republican party.
From the Marion, Ohio, Mirror.
A Democratic candidate can be elect
ed, now that the times are propitious for
such a grand result. We say this not be
cause any considerable portion of tbe
Democrats are in sympathy with the
Cincinnati ticket, but because the ques
tion of advisability of accepting Greeley
is raised.
From the Acron, Ohio, Times.
We will place no renegade’s name at
the head of our paper, and will fight
only for one out-and-out Democrat,
upon an out-and-out Democratic plat
form.
From the Somerset,New Jersey, Messenger.
We then most emphatically urge no
indorsement of Horace Greeley by Dem
ocrats.
From the New Jersey Constitutionalist.
The path of duty is plainly opened for
the Demotr .tic National Convention.^ It
is to nominate for President and Yice
President two thoroughly competent and
upright men.
From the New Philadelphia (Ohio) Democrat. •
Were tbe Democratic party to pursue
any other than an aggressive policy, it
would be false to its time-honored tradi
tions, and <les< rve to remain in a minor
ity.
From the Bridgeport (Conn.) Farmer.
Our own views are strongly in favor of
tue enunciation of a sound Democratic
platform and tbe nomination of the two
best men in tbe party. If the Democrats
are united upon them, they can and will
be elected.
From the Paris, Illinois, Times.
We object to indorsing Greeley or
Brown; we object to indorsing tbe Cin
cinnati Convention—we don’t like any
of it.
From the Fremont, Ohio, Begister.
The rural roosters are being heard from.
The Cincinnati Enquirer will find that
its mighty influence over the rural
roosters is not stronger than a spider’s
web. We Lave a few returns from the
roosters already, and they soundly go
against Greeley and tbe Brown crew.
They don’t crow over Greelt y fraud any
more than over Grant thieving.
From the Holmes County, Ohio Journal.
Under no circumstance would the
Democratic party disband or impair its
organization; bnt bad Mr. Adams been
nominated, we think it more than prob
able that the nomination would, have
been indorsed by the Democratic Con
vention, while we think it improbable,
in view of the long and bitter war that
Mr. Greeley -has waged against the De
mocracy, that any such indorsement will
be given him.
From tbe Elyria, Ohio, Constitutionalist.
We believe that after the Democracy
shall have had time to recover from their
surprise, they will unanimously demand
a straight ticket.
From the Putnam County, Ohio, Sentinel.
The position of the Democracy can
now not be understood. They will cer
tainly present a candidate for the Presi
dency, and that man will be a statesman,
who will command the support of every
voter who is not satisfied with either
Greeley or Grant. With snch a nomina
tion the Democracy can and will succeed.
From the Defiance, Ohio, Democrat.
The nomination of Greeley and Gratz
Brown is of no concern to the Democrats.
The fight is between Republicans, le£
them settle their own disputes.
From the Hackensack, N. J., Citizen.
Some eminent statesman like Hoffman
of New York, Parker or Randolph of
New Jersey, John Q. Adams of Massa
chusetts, Hancock of Pennsylvania,
Thurman of Ohio, or Hendricks of In
diana, will receive the nomination, and
the Democratic party will rally unitedly
and enthusiastically to his suppoit.
From tho Bainbridge, Ga., Democrat.
The Democracy will never support
Horace Greeley or any other Radical.
From the Vevay, Indiana, Democrat.
Let Greeley bow down to Grant, apol
ogize for and retract what he has uttered
against him if he chooses, Democrats
will battle under their old colors for
good government.
From the Adrian (Mich.) Journal.
Had Adams, Palmer, Trumbull, or
Hendricks been nominated and placed
at tbe bead of tbe ticket, we doubt not
that full three millions of Democratic
voters would have supported tbe ticket,
for tbe sake of making an indisputable
certainty of routing tbe Ring or Wash
ington dynasty. But true Democrats
cannot support Horace Greeley.
From the Borne (Ga.) Commercial.
The nomination of Horace Greeley is
not what the people expected and de
manded of tbe Liberal Republicans. He
can not, and ought not, to command tbe
support of the Southern people, nor
Democratic support from any quarter.
From the Mount Vernoon, Hi., Free Press..
It is possible that circumstances may
yet arise which will necessitate the pre
sentation of a straight Democratic tick
et. If that is done the duty of Demo
crats is plain.
From the Peoria, IU;, Democrat.
We owe the Liberal Republicans noth
ing. They have defied our strength by
putting forth a candidate whom they
knew would be as obnoxious to the Dem
ocratic party as any one who could have
been brought forward. So we are notin
their debt.
From the Goshen N. Y., Bepublican.
Before tbe meeting of the National
Convention shall take place the clamor
oi Greeley’s availability will have been
so thoroughly dispelled from all organs
of Democratic vision as to leave no
donbt remaining of the folly of any at
tempt at making Greeley the willing can
didate of an unwilling parly.
iFrom the San Francisco, Cal., Examiner.
The Democratic journals that are en
deavoring to forestall the action of the
Democratic National Committee on the
Presidential question in favor of the can
didacy of Greeley, is acting very unwise
ly. Circumstances, in our opinion, de
mand that regular nominations shall he
made.
From the New Paltz, N. Y.,JTimes.
The duty of the Democratic party is to
oppose all these movements of their
of a Democrat for Democratic votes.
From the Coder Rapids, Iowa, Signal.
If this is passive Democracy, we take
ours “straight.” We have thought we
would prefer any man to Grant, but
“from this last evil O preserve us
heaven.”
From the New Harmony, Ind., Begister.
We are of the opinion that no such
sacrifice from Democrats will be required,
and that a straight-out Democratic tick
et, composed of men of rocognized abil
ity and honesty, will be placed in the
field that will command the hearty sup
port of every Democrat, and attract the
greater portion of what is known as tbe
Liberal Republican vote.
From tho Waterloo, N. Y., Observer.
It appears certain that immense num
bers of stanch Democrats will refuse to
take this new departure—they have not
yet been convinced of its propriety or
policy.
From the Montpelier, Vt., Argus.
There are. other good men besides
Greeley, and many who are far more de
serving of Democratic votes than he is.
From the Lebanon, Ky., Standard.
If they will, why should not the Demo
crats stick to their own men, and elect
them as well as Greeley and Brown ?
What obligations do they owe to Gree
ley and Brown more than to tlieir own
friends? J
From tho Kingston, N. Y., Argus.
Among the Democratic masses iu this
section we think tbe feeling at this mo
ment is qnite strong in favor of the nomi
nation of Democratic candidates) select
ing therefor tbe ablest men in tbe party.
From the Miilcdgeville, Ga., Federal Union.
We are for the nomination of Han
cock for President by the Baltimore Con
vention.
From the Pontiac, Mich., Jacksonian.
The only rational coarse for the De
mocracy is to make distinct nominations
at Baltimore. Such nominations, while
they should distinctly and squarely rep
resent Democratic principles, need not
of necessity be of that ultra type as to
repel Republican support.
From the Greenport, N. Y., Republican Watchman.
This strange Greeley glamor is already
rapidly wearing away. Tbe prospect
brightens for a glorious Democratic vic
tory in November that shall save tbe
country. Never was there less cause for
despondency; never greater reason to be
hopeful, alert and vigilant.
From the Shreveport, La., Times.
We regard this as an unfortunate re
sult of tbe “ Modern Republican” party.
Mr. Greeley has heretofore had no
strength in the East, and his extreme
tariff proclivities render him unaccepta
ble to the South.
From the Hancock N. Y. Times.
It has been intimated that this ticket
will be indorsed by the Democratic Na
tional Convention. If this move should
be accomplished, it would fail to carry
the Democratic masses.
From the Stanford, Delaware County, N. Y. Mirror.
If, after the years of abuse the Repub
lican party has heaped upon Democracy,
when the money-makers, bond-grabbers,
speculators, and paid politicians who
profess to be party leaders, see fit to com
mit the Democratic party to Republican
keeping, will it not be the duty of every
Democrat to remain passive, stay away
from the polls, and be no party to the
villainous transfer.
From the Dubuque (Iowa) Herald.
But fortunately no such alternative is
presented to the American people as
Greeley or Grant. On the other hand,
the indications are that the man who is
nominated by tbe Democratic National
Convention will be the next President of
the United States.
From tho Bridgeton, New Jersey, Patriot.
There are at least half a score of Demo
cratic statesmen from whom a candidate
may be selected against whom no one
who accepts the platform of principles
adopted at Cincinnati can say aught.
* *. It will be the duty of the Balti
more Convention to present such a can
didate.
From the Newark (N. J.) Journal.
As it is, the Democratic National Con
vention will be held, but as -for its in
dorsement of tbe twins of- Cincinnati,
much as they may be respected in the
Democratic party for many excellent
reasons, the prospects are anything but
propitious.
From the Cincinnati Courier—German Democrat.
As for ourselves we have, since ex
pressing onr opinion on the day after the
convention, remained unalterably firm
in our views of the inappropriateness
and inadmissibility of the nomination
of Greeley and Brown, and we will not
be persuaded to abandon the position we
have taken, even if the Baltimore Con
vention should indorse them.
From the Charlotte, Mich., Democratic Leader.
The National Convention will meet in
July, and we trust that the delegates to
that convention will be selected with a
view to the nomination of reliable, con
sistent, and out-spoken Democrats for
the offices of President and Vice-Presi
dent, the adoption of a liberal platform,
and the inauguration of a vigorous and
decisive campaign.
From the Van Buren (Mich.) Press.
Organize, Democrats, and stand true
to the old banner that has yet never
trailed in the dust in dishonor. 'We de
mand capable, honest, and good men of
the Democratic party for our Presiden
tial nominees.
From the Aledo (III.) Banner.
We do not wish it understood that we
view it as possible for the Democrats to
vote for tlie nominees of the Cincinnati
Convention.
From tho Baltimore (Md.) Gazette.
The selection of Mr. Greeley places
an impassible barrier between the Lib
eral Republicans and the conservative
masses of the country. He can never
receive the support of the Democratic
party, or any respectable number of its
members. The men, or clique, in onr
ranks who would foolishly endeavor to
bring abont such a consummation would
be crushed to atoms.
From the Cincinnati Volksfireund—German Bemo-
cratic.
The adoption of Greeley by the Balti
more Convention would dissolve the
Democratic party; for the liberal and
fundamental Democrats would renounce
the party as soon as the same would de^
ny its fundamental principles and give
itself a blow. In this case, if there were
no third candidate, not forty per cent, of
the Democrats would go for Greeley;
a number of them, in their rage, and for
tho purpose of punishing the leaders,
would vote for Grant, but the greater
part would take no part in the election
whatever.
From the Rochester, New York, Union.
Of course the Democratic party will
pursue the even tenor of their way just
as if the Cincinnati movement had never
been made—will hold the National Con
vention, declare its principles, and nomi
nate and support its candidates with all
the positiveness and vigor that have ever
characterized its action.
From the Calaveras, California, Citizen.
It is now onr firm belief that if the'old
Democracy, purged and refined in the
crucible of defeat and trial, will nominate
a good, honest, and patriotic man, he
will be tho next President, and thereby
the country saved.
From the Green Bay, Wisconsin, Advocate.
Shall this grand compact, powerful
p; rt/ abandon its own leading men and
its own strength, and throw itself into
the arms of a fugitive, purposeless, sore-
beaded knot of agitators, who have no
strength of their own to bring?
From the Abingdon, HI., Democrat.
While we prefer Greeley to Grant, we
do not wish it understood that we are
for Greeley’s nomination at Baltimore.
If Democratic conventions nominate Re
publicans for office we shall be disap
pointed..
From the Greensboro, Ga., Herald.
We i elieve the Democratic party should
preserve tlie integrity of its organization
and send delegates to the Baltimore
Convention who will plant themselves on
the old Jeffersonian platform, and select
candidates who will heartily battle under
the old Democratic colors.
From the Norfolk, Ya., Journal.
If it is impossible for all the opponents
of Radicalism to concentrate on Mr.
Greeley, let us save onr cause and our
country by selecting some^other naan, on
whom patriots of all parties and all sec
tions can and will unite.
From the Savannah, Georgia, News.
In one thing at least the managers of
the Cincinnati conclave have made good
their words. They promised to give
the country a genuine Radical platform,
and a brace of dyed-in-the-wool nomi
nees. This they have done, and so far
as their candidate for president is con
cerned, they could not have found in
the ranks of their party one better quali
fied to fill the position; for has he not
been tbe life-long bitter foe of the De
mocracy?
From the Fredericksburg, Virginia, Herald.
The Liberal Republicans have a way
of their own, and we hope it suits them.
It was their undoubted right to nomi
nate whom they pleased. They acted
independently of all entangling alliances
with the Democratic party, and certainly
could not have expected to enthuse the
masses of that party by any such results
as they have given the country. If they
expected a throwing up of caps, and a
rending of the air with Democratic shouts
over “Greeley and Browu,” they will
find themselves mistaken. That’s all.
Important Discovery in South Caroli
na of Rich Marl.
In tbe Charleston Courier of the 3d
instant, we learn that immense deposits
of a rich fertilizing marl have been found,
underlying the remarkable stratum of
nodular phosphates, which has, within
the past fewyears, attracted the attention
of the civilized world.
This'marl is said to be the remains of
small animals, which have never passed
into the mineral condition of the phos
phates, and the bed or deposit underlies
the entile South Carolina seaboard or
low country. In the city it is found at
least sixty feet, below the surface, and
extends downward nearly six hundred;
but outside tbe city tbe stratum rises to
the surface, or just below it.
In appearance the.marl is a dark green
substance somewhat harder than clay,
and is hewn from the bed by pick axes,
and then burnt in a kiln, in this pro
cess it takes the appearance of lime, and
is said to possess all the valuable prop
erties of lime for building purposes.
In its native State it is said to contain
eight to fifteen per cent, of the phos
phates and about sixty-five per cent, of
carbonate of lime. When Jjurnt, the
product is fifteen to twenty per cent,
of selica, twelve to fifteen phosphate of
lime and the rest hydrated or slacked
lime.
Its value in this latter condition, as a
fertilizer, is very great—the lime and
phosphate being in a state readily con
vertible by the plant; and chemists say
that a ton of it will go further than a ton
of the raw phosphate, which will not be
taken up so readily by the solvents of
the soil.
Compared with the New Jersey marl,
which is dug up and exported for fer
tilizing purposes, it contains more than
double the quantity of fertilizing mate
rial. One of these mines and marl works
has been opened by Dr. St. Julien Rave-
nel, and others are projected. It is sup
posed that a very, large business in this
marl, os a cheap and valuable fertilizer,
is likely to be created at once.
Macon Telegraph.
Whitfield County.
The Democrats convene on the 15th
instant..
Whitman has temporarily abandoned
the Juscient turnip, and is imbibing
dewberries and cherries.
The Georgia House, at Dalton, had
barely.been dubbed the “Greeley House”
when it was, “very righteously.” struck
by lightning. .
The Citizen of the 6th has these
items: -
The corn crop in this county never
looked better at this season. The stand
everywhere is excellent, and with a con
tinuation of the fine seasons we are now
having, the yield will be unprecedentedly
large.
The negro man who murdered his wife
in Walker county, a month or so ago,
and who was in jail at LaFayettc await-
inghis trial, committed suicide on Thurs
day morning last in his cell by hanging
himself.
From all over this, Murray and Catoosa
counties, the wheat crop is so far ad
vanced as to be out of danger of the lit
tle rust that has made its appearance.
The yield throughout this whole section
of the State will be larger than it has
been for fifteen years past.
BIbl> County.
The Democrats convene on Saturday.
The Bibb County Agricultural Socie
ty, will have a fair on the 19th and 20th
instants.
Tho Telegraph and Messenger oi the
5th, has these items:
Mr. John Hamlin, living in Craw
ford county, near Culloden, Monroe
county, recently lost all his children—
three in number—in one week, from
bloody flux.
The reports from the wheat crop in
Middle Georgia are very good. We learn
that Captain Stafford, of Upson oounty,
realized from nineteen and a half acres,
measured land, 406} bushels, which is
20J bushels to the acre first quality
wheat. This is good cropping, and
shows that people who think Middle
Georgia no good wheat country, are be
hind the times.
From the Louisville Ledger, June 3.
DESPAIR, MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Sad End of a Ruined Louisville Girl.
Betrayed by a Villain, Sbe Seeks Refuge
in Death.
SHE DKOWSS HER ILLEGITIMATE CHILD
AND HERSELF.
The public sentiment of the country
has progressed to that point where it
deems the laws now existing upon the
statute books of the States inadequate
to the proper punishment of the seducer.
Hence, when one of this class of super
lative villains is shot down by an aveng
ing brother, father, or husband, no jury
can be found to convict of murder the
slayer of the doubly-dyed scoundrel.
We do not propose to discuss tbe moral
ity of this advanced public sentiment;
it is sufficient that it is now the rule of
justice, if not of right, and that fathers
and brothers and husbands do not usu
ally appeal to the disgraceful-law that
inflicts a fine as the penalty for seduction
and the debauchery of a daughter, sis
ter, or wife, but generally with a trusty
pistol or a well sharpened knife sends
the seducer to that hell that is so proper
a receptacle for him.
There are instances of seduction, how
ever, where there is no relative to take
swift and certain vengeance upon the se
ducer; cases in which poor orphan girls,
fatherless and brotherless, are ruined by
tbe practiced villain under pledge of af
fection and marriage, and then cast ofi
after being robbed of the priceless gem
of virtue to wander away into deeper sin,
or forever cover up their shame and end
their agony of soul in the grave. Below
we relate the particulars of the saddest
case of this latter kind we have ever
heard.
A short time ago there lived in this
city a young, very beautiful and attrac
tive girl, named Mary Frasen. Her per
sonal charms were equalled by her ac
complishments and gentleness of dispo
sition. She was an orphan, and resided
here with her grandmother, by whom
she was tenderly loved and liberally pro
videdfor, all her wants being promptly
attended to. She was artless, confiding
and truthful, and in her simplicity of
mind and truthfulness of heart, thought
every one else equally without guile or
deceit. She was therefore just such an
one, as was most likely to fall under the
wiles of the cold-blooded and soul-damn
ing seducer.
Mary Frasen’s attractive personal ap
pearance brought to her many admirers,
Among these was a man of some note
and position in society, we are informed,
but whose /name, we regret to say, the
person giving us these facts refuses, for
the present, to reveal. This man was
assidnousin his attentions to her, and in
time, by bis fine address and false pre
tenses, won her affections, an i then, un
der promise of speedy marriage, accom
plished her ruin. Week after week, from
one pretext and another, he postponed
the fulfillment of his vows, and held her
in his toils and at his dalliance, even
threatening, in order to do so, to pro
claim her disgrace; but finally finding
herself abf ut to become a mother, the
poor rail e& g rl told the story of her sin
and fall to her grandmother. This re
sulted in the girl being cast off by her
betrayer, and her grandmother, to hide
the disgrace that was sure to follow,
made arrangements to send the now
heart-broken and half-insanejgirl to some
relatives in a distant State, there to re
main in privacy until after the birth of
her child.
Mary Frasen departed from her once
happy home, where the years of her in
nocence had glided away so pleasantly.
Bitter tears were shed by her and her
distressed grandmother, and the parting
between them was one of deepest sorrow.
The poor orphan wrung her hands in the
agony of soul that this parting brought,
and earnestly prayed God to interpose
his mercy and remove her from earth, as
death was preferable to the torturing hu
mility, the woeful shame, and deep dis
grace that had overtaken her.
In due time she had reached her desti
nation. Her relatives had been ad
vised of all in advance; nevertheless they
met the half-distracted orphan with the
tenderest sympathy and the most cordial
hospitality. How heavily the hours
rolled away, and the days came and
passed to her, only her own soul could
feel and know. She wandered about the
house and over the farm like one lost in
that deep grief which makes the heart
and mind forgetful of.all passing events,
and shuts up the soul in a living tomb
to dwell with unspeakable grief.
In a few months after her arrival M iry
Frasen was a mother. Thera was no joy
in her soul at the birth of her offspring;
it was not to her a messenger of love a ad
hope; nor came there with it into the
world a single ray of light to shed its
effulgence over her now darkened path
way. She felt that her own shame would
ever be its disgrace, and again she prayed
most fervently for death. But this so
lace of grief came not, and in the bourse
of a month she was able to leave hei
room. She would take the child iu her
arms and wander out into tlie forest, and
oyer the fields, and along the banks of
the winding river, weeping bitterly, and
asking God for strength to endure her
misery of soul until the silver cord should
be loosed,and the golden bowl be broken,
when she hoped for that rest in the grave
which was denied her in life.
toor deceived, betrayed and forsaken
orphan, she has at last found that rest
she so much coveted. She sleeps upon
a beautiful hillside overlooking a river,
and folded in her arms in the same silent
bed, lies the little one begat in sin, but
upon whose soul no stain of sin will ever
rest. Wandering out on Tuesday last,
as was her custom, reason tottering on
its throne, she reached a bridge span
ning St. Louis river. She tarried upon
this bridge for a time, and then knelt
down, and with her child pressed to Ler
heart she commended its soul and her
own to the all-merciful God. How fer
vently she did so can only be imagined.
But when she arose from her knees she
seemed calm enough to those who, at
some little distance away, witnessed her
devotions. Then folding the child in
her shawl, and clasping it still more
tightly, she suddenly leaped from the
bridge into the river below, and
the souls of Mary Frasen and her
baby went to that God whose province it
is to have mercy, and before whose
bar there is One who forever pleads the
cause of the orphan, even though she go
to Him through the pathway of self-de
struction which the distracted mind so
often selects for surcease of sorrow. Was
it a murder Mary Frasen committed
when she carried the eYideneT^Tr'
guilt with her to the bar of thJ «
Judge. Oh, no; for all of ein thaf 1
in her act was that sin committed a> •
her by her vile seducer. W e xn**
had his name, that we might Wn* 6
with his infamy to the world.
would punish such a monster bv no 9
or at least by a verdict for money e '
ages. Is it to be wondered at m
that fathers, brothers and l,-, e ?>
money dam ’.
£ -. - brothe„~a„7 life-
shoot down or cut to pieces such
Orels as though they were wolves S!®’
enas ? We only wonder that so fel
thus treated.
Pike Caunty,
The Barnesville Gazette, of the Gil
has the following items:
The farmers are busy harvesting thei,
wheat, and we learn from some that h
yield will be very good. llat ““ 8
prop prospecta improving A
rain on Wednesday last. Corn thrift
Cotton taking a bold start during
warm nights. Gardens fine. Fruit L* 6
ising. prea-
In some portions of Upson and
bot counties, not enough rain has f£
since the ast of April to put the gS
m good plowing condition, and that hS
corn crop is damaged to such an eSt
that it will be impossible to make -S
thing like a half yield in those seeffi
of country. uoas
Letter from Taliaferro.
Crawfordville, Ga., June 4th, 1872
Editors Atlanta Sun: As an item of locii
interest, and of discomfort to the votm*
folks about town, I mention the carrying
off-in marriage-* few days ago, of fo!
Sallie Hammock, one of the loveliest and
most charming girls of the villatm
byM^Thos. E. Bristow, of AlabaS
Mr. Bristow is a grandson of Cheslev
Bristow, who was so long and extensive-
ly Knowp as the Clerk of the Superior
Court of this ccunty. superior
I will also state that the Good Tem
plars of Crawfordville, intend taking an
excursion before long, to yonr “all alive"
c i f y* Taliaferro.
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Pour Children Drowned.
A correspondent writing to the Colum
bia South Carolinian, of the 4th, informs
that paper of a sad affair which occurred
recently in Pickens county. The scene
of the accident was a mill pond on Bosh
Creek. Four young boys, Wm. J. Elli
son and brother, Andrew J., aged ten
and twelve years, aDd their cousins, Lee
and Willie Couch, aged nine and ten
years, were found dead from drowning.
They had gone to bath iu the pond,
and found a watery grave. A colored
man observing tlier clothes upon the
banks of the pond, gave the alarm to the
parents. Upon draining the pond, the
four bodies were found together.
Baldwin County.
The Democrats convene on the 15th.
The Good Templars celebrate their
first anniversary on the 14th.
Mr. James M. Gumm, an old citizen
of Baldwin, died on the 3d instant.
The Milledgeville Union asks : “Why
should Democrats vote for Horace Gree
ley/”’ Conudrum is too hard. Next!
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Falling into Line—Marching to Victory
Newnan, Ga., June 5,1872.
Editor Daily Sun: You will confer a
favor by sending me as many copies of
your paper containing Voorhees’ great
spsech as yoa can spare.
The e is quite a change here in the last
few days, in public sentiment, in favor
of an out-and-out Democratic nomina
tion at Baltimore. The Sun is highly
appreciated by the people. It is doing
great good, and I wish it could be in the
hands of every man in Georgia.
J. L. C.
■£
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*K?5L>Theodore Tilton asks, “WillBalti
more second Cincinnati?” The Demo
crats have never yet played “second fid
dle” to any branch of the Radical party,
and will hardly begin to do so as early as
the 9th of July.
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Tlie Bank Swindlers.
The operations of the gang of swind
lers who victimized the banks of Savan
nah, Augusta and Macon, a few days ago,
seemed to have extended over a wider
space of country than was at first im
agined. The Augusta Chief of Police
has received a dispatch from Mr. James
McDonough, Chief of Police of St. Louis,
stating that Holmes and Bennett had
passed forged paper on some of the St.
Louis banks, and requesting that they
be held here until an officer could reach
Augusta.
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A Baby Printer.
The other day, Sidney Alexis oleMil-'
lan, son of the proprietor of the Marion
(S. C.) Crescent, set 5,600 ems in nine
hours. Sidney is but eight years old,
forty-seven inches high, weighs fifty-four
pounds, and hasnotbeenat regular work
for much over a month. He has, how
ever, been assisting in the office for over
two months, occasionally setting a stick
or two of type.
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Ga«, meaning’bicarburetted hj crogen,
is a large element iu the festivities of the
Brazilians. Thus, at the recent recep
tion given to the Emperor at Rio Janeiro
on his return irom his long visit to Europe
tbe little bill of tbe gas company amount
ed to 3150,000. As festivals are held in
Brazil on very slight provocation, and
as they always conclnde with an illumi
nation, the companies keep on hand a
large quantity not only of flexible pipes
but flexible mains, so that gas can be fur
nished in any spot at an hour’s notice.
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The Fond du Lao Commonwealth says:
“A little, cross-grained, sour-disposi-
tion, snappish, ill-mannered, insulting
hotel clerk is nastier than a bloated po
tato bug or a shabbily brought up poodle
dog. They are worse than dirty little
curs whose upper lips lack half an inch
of covering their teeth, whose hair is
thin and stiff, whose mean little car
casses are flea-bitten. We hare a low
lived hotel clerk, we do.
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£ JGQP* Bennett leaves but two children
—a son and a daughter. They were at
sea, on their return to America, when
their father died, and have yet to leant
he news of his death.