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ATLANTA SUN fjiJRMSOP WUBWCRIPTION DAILY und WEEKLY Dally—Mingle Copy» Twelve Month*....*10 00 | Three Month* » «u Month* 6 00 | One Month....”./” 1 w Clalx for n*llf~t , »r An»»ni i 27 00 I Eljfht Copte* «* Ten 84 0 6 Three Oopte* Tour ** ....... 35 00 •• 43 00 | Single p»P«r •Weekly—Per Anna"* 1 nr* copiee........ 8 00 Tidy ... la6 qo One Hundred Copies " Weekly for 81* Month* t ffingloOopy I go I JJgtSjSvVCS £ 4 00 | One Hundred Cople*«o 00 Flye Copte* ....... ^ ^ | sinKlo paper........ Set* VOL. 3, NO. 17.} ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1872. | Ten Copies. C O N T U N T S OF THK “ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN,” for THX WZZK KJtBWO WKOIHCSDAT, OCT. I6th, 1878. BDITOKIALS BY MB. STEPHENS— Got. Smith*’ Greeley Serenade Speech 3 Tbs Savannah News and Mr. Greeley 3 Three Replies to the Herald .’. •••••■ I...*...*......... 6 4 New Books..;-. New Turk 8tr*l*h-out* O’Conor for the Presidency, Greeley’s Peace and Reconciliation. 5 Tbs Cbrooide and Sentinels Regrets* Theliesson of the recent State Election*.... O'Conor and Adam* Grant and Ore* ley’k Assailable Point*... ON PAGE 1— The Negro Question in the Good Templars; Change of Religions Faith almost at the Hoar of Dea.h; Su preme Court Decisions, Ac. ON PAGE a— Political Akticuu.—Items: Georgia Election Dispatches; Jeff Lon,' EtplUns/ Col. Beck Nomina- ted; Tne Senatorial Contest in the 18th. Mi«c*ll»j«eoos.—Morderers Confession; Death of a m»n from Glauden; A dead Woman Turned to Wax; Ltlttle Sunbeam—A Poem. OK PAGE 3— Political—The Great Auction sale of States Miscellaneous—The Public School Question The Road Bteemer; The King of AbasBlnla. L O. G, T. at Rome; Supreme Court Decisions, Ac. ON PAGE 4— Poutical—Letter Atom Msj. Jennings. Other Auticli:-!—DeKalb county Fair; Savannah Domestic Tragedy, Locals, Ac. OH PAGES— Political- The SUlo Press on the let# Elec tions. Miscellaneous—Wayside Dlalo gue;,Greene conn ^y Fair; Clarke cotin ty Fair. ON PAGE0— Political—Address of the Jeffersonian Demo* cracy to the People of Georgia; The ’Greene county Fair; Trials of Citizens chasged with Violating tbo enforcement Act in tbo late Election in Atlanta. ON PAGE7— Advertisements, Ac. ON PAGE8— Telegrams Andvortisements, Markets, Ac. WEARINESS. DT XUIY A. H. OAT. I am tirod of toars and laughter And men that laugh and weep. Of what may como hereafter For men that aow to reap; I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers. Desires and dreams and powers, And everything but sleep. —Swinetume. I am tirod of fame and glory, And drawing painful breath or U(e’a dull, irksome story, That no sweet romance hath; I am weary of books and reading, Of paths no whither leading And feet both torn and bleodlng, And everything but death. I am tired of ghouls and glourrlng, Of worms with gluttony rifo. And hideous things devouring My limbs, where once was life; I am weary of death and sleeping, Of coffin, clay and dripping. Of ghosts and devils gibing. And everything but Ute. I am tired of men and mortals. And worlds to devils given; Of suns in eastern portals, And flowers that fade at even; I am weary of strife eternal, Of fionds and sins diurnsl, Of smokes and fires Infernal, And everything but Heaven. whole, -iicr N D M B a Rlid FBOM OUR DAXLT EDITION OP Tuesday, October 15, 1872.. Written Expressly for the Atlanta Son. THE FOUR SCENES. nru. a. b. oat. SCENE I. The spot Is low and grassy; Two lovers there are sitting ; Tne pines are softly whispering, ~ And happy moments flitting Unheeded by. sceneh. A mansion is aurrourdefl By orange trees and flowers. Pomegranito.'fig and peach trees Beyond tho summer bowers Together mingle. Bananas, cocoas, grapes are jJeyoao t,.e <emons growing, ' The almond, lilac jasmine ' Around their perfume throwing And sweeten all. i ■ }■;. .... • •, •• ■ . : And in the distance, pine trees Aro to the breezes sighing, , And corn and cotton growing; And birds aro singing, trying To tell their lovo. • Two fonns aro soen among the Pomegranate, figs and flowers; And hand in hand they enter Tho flower-covered bowers, And smi'e in lore. Now voicee soft are murmuring. And eyes with love are glowing; With smiles ana faces radiant Within tho bowers, showing True happiness. A gate Is shutting; softly , The sound of cattle lowing Cornea o’er the fields; end chickens Are scrathing, cackling, crowing Around the yard. The plowman's voice sounds mournful; Far off a colt is neighing; A huntsman's dog la raking; And little children playing Among the flowers. scene m. '/ The pines are mournfully sighing Around two graves; and flowers Above two bOAria are growing. They left the summer bowers Long, long ago. SCENE IV. Two loving spirits, basking In sempiternal glory, Their golden !.arps ar^tuning ■■**- To the Heavenly story * ’-"C.. i O ' ' Of "God is love.” The war of life is over And separations ended. .. M Their life is just lugimung , I: And now their love,!* blended. Etebnallt Platform Adopted by the Jeffersonian Democratic State Convention Assem bled la Atlanta on the aoth Aufnst 1879. 1. Resolved, That the Government of thfe United States is one formed by sepa rate States; that it is one of limited pow ers, delegated by the Stakes for specific purposes and objects set forth in the Constitution; and tnat it possesses of itself no original or inherent power whatever. • , _ - , . 2. Resolved, That the Union estab lished by the Constitution is a Union of States, ‘Federal in its character, com posed of States thereby united, and is incapable of existence without the States as its constituent integral parts; that the indestructibility of ,the States—of their rights and of their equality with each other—is an Indispensable part of this political system, and therefore, the per petuation 61 the Union in its integrity depends upon the preservation of the States in their political integrity; the Government of the United. States being a Federal Republic, and not a consoli dation of the whole people into one homogeneous Nation. 3. Resolv- d, That the “right of local State-government” with the “subjection of the military to the civil autnonty, and “the security of the pnvilege of the writ, of habeas corpus,” m time of peace, with tbo power to enforce “the rights, and promote the well-being of its inhabitants by snch means as the judg ment of its own people.may prescribe, aro reserved, secured and guaranteed un der the Constitution of the United States to tho several States of the Union; and that too, not “subject to any solemn Consti tutional obligation upon the p^ft of the Federal Government” of any kind what ever; but on the contrary, the Federal Government is tender a solemn Constitu tional obligation not to interfere tn these matters in any tcay; and when it does so, it becomes a usurper of power, an oppres sive tyrant arid an. enemy to the liberties oj the country. ; FOB PRESIDENT: CHARLES O’COHOR, OF NEW FORK. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT: JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Jr. OF MASSACHUSETTS. ELECTORAL TICKET OF THE > True Democracy of Georgia. For the Congressional Districts t 1st II. L. MER3H0N, of Glynn. H. H. PERRY, of Burke, Alternate. 3d. — HON. T. L. GUERRY, of Quitman. H. W. HARRISON, of Randolph, Alternate. 8d. — HON. JOHN H. WOODWARD, of Dooley. DR. EDWARD W. ALFRIEND, of Lee, Alter nate. ' ‘ ■ 4th—HENRY PERSONS, of Talbot. mtt.fr EDWARDS, of Donglas Alternate. 5th—DR. GEO. M. MoDOWELL, of Pike. T. O. JACOB, of Monroe, Alternate. 6th—DR. H. J. BATES, of Nowton. J. W. BURNEY, of Jasper, Alternate. 7xn—COL. ALEXANDER S. ATKINSON, of Cobb. DR. 8. S. BAILEY, of Cobb, Alternate. 8th—HON. MILES W. LEWIS, of Greene. JUKI AH H. CASEY, of McDnffie, Alternate. 9ih—HON. G. M. NETHERLAND, of Rabun. JOHN T. EZZARD, ot Forsyth, Alternate. FOR THE STATE AT LARGE. HON. PUBMEDUS REYNOLDS, of Newton. COL. WALTER H. WEEMS, of Fulton. ALTERNATES 5 : < ’ '-j DR. HENRY. F^ ANDREWS, of Wilkes. i ' HON. S. A. McNEIL, of Randolph. O’Conor and Adams. We have heretofore said that we regard ed Mr. O’Conor’s last letter npon the subject of bis nomination as equivalent for all practical purpose* to his direct ac ceptance of the Mime. Ho unequivocally waives all objection to the use of his name by bis friends in connection with the Presidency if’they chose to cost their suffrages for him for that high office. We are now informed from a aou'ce on which we rely, tbut Mr. Adams haa ac cepted tne nomination tendered him at Louisville for the Vice Presidency on the ticket with Mr.. O’Conor, and that „the statement which we saw a few days ago that he had come out for Gen. Grant, incorrect, Taking this to be the truth of the case, we, therefore,now hoist the names of these two distinguished statesmen as the stan dard bearers of the True Jeffersonian De mocracy of Georgia in the coining elec tion A. H. , a. We, too, do not think the most all assailable point In the Radical po.iey is its financial mismanagement. It would be hard to tell what its most assailable point is. It is assailable on all points. It is rotten inside and out. through and through. But we agree with our neighbor in thinking its most important assailable point is its outrages on the Constitution the rights oi the States, and the personal liberty of individuals.—Atlanta Constitution, 1HA Sept. 187a. The above extract, from an editorial of our neighbor, has been upon our table for some time. Other pressing duties have prevented us£ until now, from giv ing it Mint notice which we intended to give it at the time of its appearance, ihe notice intended, however,|js just as pertinent now, as it would have been then. What we intended at the time to ask of onr neighbor,' and now ask, is whether there has been a single “outrage on the* Constitution, the rights of the States and the liberty of individuals” by the Cen-' tralists at Washington, during the Ad ministration of Gen. Grant, Which was not approved by Mr. Greeley, and wnich is not now sanctioned by him ? Nay more, is there a single one of them whioh", is not covered and justified by the principles set forth, not only in tlie Oineinnnti-Baltimore Platform, but by Mr. Greeley’s own epitome or exposition of the principles of that platform in his letter or acceptance'? ’ *'*■ These are important and grAve ques tions for an intelligent and free people to consider. The worst of these outrages was, without doubt; the second recon struction of Georgia. Was nofcthis earn estly demanded by Mr. Greeley ? After this, did he not insist that greater outrages still saouid be perpetrated upon the rights‘and liberties of some of the people of Georgia, which General Grant refused to do? ) r Whbn Governor Bullock, proclaimed, after our State election in 1870, that the then Fifth Congressional District was in a state of insurrection and rebellion, and called upon General Grant to put its “law-abiding” people under military des potism, did not Mr. Greeley then back Governor Bullock in his demand? Did not Mr. Greeley positively refuse to allow tho people of this District, even hearing through the columns of his newspaper, the New York Tribune, against the charges of Governor Bullock? Did he ever complain of General Grant, or oppose his Administration, until after General Grant refused to sus tain Governor Bollock in this matter, and refused to push these “outrages on the rights and liberties of the people of Georgia,” any further ? . Even in the matter of the second re construction of Georgia, when her regu larly constituted Legislature under the first reconstruction acts, was reorganized by bayonets under General Terry, who is the most responsible for this “oat- rage,” General Grant or Mr. Greeley T We say both are responsible and as Bailable for it in a high degree; but of the two we maintain that Mr. Greeley is the most responsible and assailable. It w*3 he who, with his “transcendent power with his Party, procured the Con gressional edict for this monstrous “out rage” upon Public Liberty, and the sc ored right of local State self-govern ment. He then held it to be, as he now does, the duty of the “central authority,” un der its “Solemn Obligation” “to pro tect” what he deemed “the equal rights of all” in Georgia, to oommit this unpar alleled wroug upon the reserved rights of this State. As for General Grant, he .barely sub mitted the question, with a fair state ment of the facts of the case tothe judg ment of Congress, without any recom mendation on his part, for or against the iniquitous edict! When the edict passed both Houses of Congress, he failed to veto it-, but con formed his action to the mandate of Mr. Greeley and Congress. By so doing he, in our judgment, ren dered himself responsible in no small degree for this most atrocious enormity, Bat if the principles of Mr. Greeley be correct, (which onr neighbor has aga in, and again represented as the em bodiment of “constitutionalism,”) Gen. Grent cannot justly behold responsible for it in any way or in any degree; for, according to Mr. Greeley’s creed, the veto or “one-man power,” as he styles it, should not be exercised by the Presi dent. We, however, nd more agree with him in this one of his ideas of “constitution alism,” than in that which maintains that mil the rights of Jthe people and of the States are “subject” to the control of the “central authority.” Gen. Grant, therefore, in onr judg ment, is responsible.for this great “out rage” to the extent stated; and it const! fcutes one of the “most assailable points in his Administration.” Bat will oar neighbor assume to main tain that Hr. Greeley is not, at least equally responsible, and assailable for his partin this signal “outrage?” We be lieve ho is more so, as ;we have stated and wc believe, further, that this will be the impartial judgment of the intelligent and unprejudiced for all time to come. Wdo, however, is hardy enough to deny that he is equally so ? No one, we suppose. Was it not because Mr. Gree ley was himself conscious of this, that, he insisted as part of the terms of this coali tion at Baltimore, that these most assail able, points in Badical principles and policy should be utterly ignored, not only in the present canvass, but forever, in the future ? Onr neighbor admits that these “ont rages’* constitute the mest a?.-ailab points iff General Grant’s administra t!on—much znoVe so than anything else connected with it, “rotten” as it is, in his estimation, “inside and out, through and through.” How, then, can he main tain before an intelligent and liberty- loving people that a Platform of princi ples, whioh sets out with a sanction for all time to come of these stupendous usurpations, is the “embodiment” of “Constitutionalism against Centralism;” —a Platform by the acceptance of which he and all who get npon it pledge them selves as men of honor never more to say ought against what he openly admits to b9 the worst acts of General Grant’s ad ministration? ■ . If onr neighbor and his “New Depar ture allies” and confreres at Baltimore could do this, in order to “shake hands” with Mr. Greeley across this hideons chasm” made by him in tUe Constitu tion, for that peace reconciliation and good government which may be expected from it, need he or his allies be sur prised,if an over Whelming majority of the people of these States shall prefer to enjoy this sort of “peace, reconcilia tion and good Government” under the Presidency of General Grant, who had nothing to do with bringing on the war,- and nothing to do with the reconstruc tion usurpations;'than under the Pres! dency of Mr. Greeley, who has been one of the chief actors in all these iniqui ties from the first to the last ? Frcfax the creation of the five military districts to the passage and execution of the Enforcement and Ku-Klux Acts; every one of these outrages he aided in perpetrating and the principles of every one he stands pledged to cairy out if he should be elected. Who then, we repeat, would have any cause to be surprised, if, under these cir cumstances—the contest being left be tween them—General Grant should be preferred to Mr. Greeley, by an over whelming majority of the people of these States, even upon the questions of sec tional strife, “peace, reconciliation and good government ?” We trust that all true friends of Con stitutional Liberty, who see no more to admire in the “good government” of Mr. Greeley than that of Gen. Grant, will rally to the support of the standard- bearers proposed by the Jeffersonian Democracy.'* A. H. S. From the Confutation. HBAli SOTE3 or THE DKCIMIMS OF irHE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA. Delivered in Atlanta, luesday, CcL 8, ’72 Fannie Hill vs. John Hill. iUiotany, from Wnitfieid. McCAY. J. The act of 1870 in relation to tempo rary alimony, whilst it authorizes the minor children, when in Ihe custody of the wife, to be included in the alimony granted, does not change the role which authorizes the ‘jude to look into all the facts and circumstances, and grant or re fuse tne alimony at his discretion. In this case we do not think, under all tne circumstances, that the judge acted contrary to a sound discretion in refusing the alimony as to either the wife or minor children. Jadgmeot affirmed. D. A. Walker, Jos. Glenn, for plaintiff in error; McCutchen & Shumate (repre sented by B. J. McCamy) for defendant. S. P. and Julia Green vs. J. H. Lowry. Complaint, irom Whitfield. McCAY, J. a i . When in November, 1864, a contract was made for board for a year, and in- February, 1865, a note was given for the sum agreed on, bnt the boarding ceased in August, 1865, and in November, 1865, the parties had a settlement, and the equities of their Confederate contract were agreed upon, the true value of the board actually received, settled, and a new note given for what was due: Held, That this contract of Novem ber, 1865, was not a removal of the note of February, 1865, and that the tax affidavit required by the Act of October 13,1870, was not necessary. In this case we think the verdict of the jury is fully supported by the evidence, and there being no material error in the oharge of the court, there was no error m refusing a new trial. Judgment affirmed. . 7 , McCutchen & Shumate, S. Greene, re presented by R. J. McCamy for plaintiffs in error; W. K. Moore, by brief for de fendaut. Harden, Cole & Co’’s Nurseries.— The importance of raising fruit is not appreciated by many persons as it should be. In a few years a good orchard will be esteemed as never before. Let every man who has a few acres plant trees. And be sure to have trees bearing good fruit— no mistake;—trees that are acclimated and adapted to the soil and latitude. We take pleasure in recommending Messrs. Harden, Cole & Co. (see their advertisement) as gentlemen whose state ments may be relied on. We have long known them personally. They are gen tlemen of integrity; and all persons may rely confidently upon getting just such fruit as they order from their nursery. The Negro Q,ue*tion in tho Good Tern plan. The question of admitting negroes into the Order of Good Templars is at tracting general attention among the friends of the Order, and is being dis cussed in the Grand Lodge Meetings in the States; It was agitated in tne late meeting of the Grand Lodge of Georgia, lately held at Rome, which declared in favor of organizing negro Lodges, sepa rately under a -diff irent Ritual. We see that the same action was taken by the Grand.Lodge in Kentucky, a few days ago, which adopted a resolution au thorizing the G. W. C. T. to appoint suitable person to prepare a ritual for the exclusive use of colored Good Templars, in separate and distinct lodges, chartered by and subordinate to this Grand Lodge. Under this resolution Dr. H. A. M. Henderson was appointed to prepare an appropriate ritual, and the Executive Committee was authorized to make soitabie allowance for. preparing the same, as also for printing the ritnal in the usual book form. This is right. Let the colored people have the full benefit of all such benevo lent societies and organizations as Good Templars, or any other, for the improve ment or bettering tne condition of man kind; but let the commingling of races be kept distinct. .It is best for both white and black, and will far more ef ficiently promote the welfare of tne black race. Let the .white man-extend a help ing hand in all snch measures as this. Let his kindly fostering care watch over and encourage the blacks in sill such efforts to do good to them and their race, They need our counsels and guidance. Let it nut be withheld, but freely be stowed in carrying out the plans recom mended by the Georgia and Kentucky Grand Lodges. The Grand Lodge of Good Templars of Kentucky, at its session a few days finding of the jury in the trial de novo, shall not bf> more favorable to the ap pealing party that the finding of the jury under the writ of ad quod damnum in the first instance,” and taat “if the trial de novo on the appeal shall not be more favorable to the appealing party than the original trial and verdict, the party appealing shall pay all costs of the whole i-roceeding;” and again, tha “costs shall be paid by the company, ex- oept in cases where appeal is taken, in which cases the costs to abide the result of the trial in the Circuit (Superior) Court as herein above provided.” Judg ment affirmed. Johnson <fc McCamy, for plaintiff in error; McCntchen & Shumate, repre sented by E. N. Broyles, for defendant. Jamea Lay vs. A. K. Seago. Equty from Gordon. MONTGOMERY, J. 1. A deed of land given by an insol vent debtor to a creditor in trust to secure the payment of his debt, which deed provides that if the debt is not paid in four months the creditor may sell the land at public outcry, and reimburse himself out of tho 'proceed' for his debt, costs and expenses, and that he is “to pay the balance, if atiy there is,” to the grantor,.is not, on nceoant of suoh pro vision for p-iymerrt of the balance, void under section 19i2 of tbo Code. The law would give that direction to the balance without,the. provision. 2. An accommodation acceptance of a bill of exchange for a commission, to enable tha drawer to raise money by dis counting it, where commiwuou and dis count amount; to more than legal interest-, is not. per si usurious ou the part ot the acceptor. Iu a suit by the acceptor against the' drawer to recover the amount which he alleges had to oay ou his accep tance, whether this metnod was used as a cloak- for usury, or not, is a question of fact for the jury. If the acceptor was the real lender, it would be usury ; but if tlie transaction was a,bona fide sale of credit it would not. The Judge in this case, to whom was referred questions of law and fact, hav ing found tho transaction untainted with usury, which finding is supported by evidence, this conrt will not disturb the judgment. 3. If a surety on a contract originally usurious, pays it, and in payment in cludes the usury, he is entitled to recover it of his principal, nnless previous to the payment, he had notioe of the intention of the principal to resist the usury. Code, section 2136. Judgment affirmed. Fain & McConnell, D. A. Walker, by brief, for plaintiff in error. W. H. Dabney, for defendant. -» CIxango .of Religious FsutU Almost at tlie Hour of Death. West Tate vs. The State. Murder from Oglethorpe. , \ McCAY, J. On the trial of an indictment for mur der, when there is a general plea of not guilty, it is not error as against the prisoner for the Judge to charge the jury as to the law of justifiaDle homicide,even thongn, from the evidence, it is plain that the prisoner is in any event guilty of manslaughter. An error of the Court in his charge to the jury, which could not in any view of.it, have injured the prisoner under the evidence, is no ground for a new trial. When the evidence showed that, with out any considerable provocation, the pris- ouer “went at the deceased with an axe,” and the deceased standing in his place picked up a heavy oak stick, and was stricken by the prisoner with the axe and killed as he was raising the stick, and the Judge charged the jury that if the de ceased picked up the stick to defend himself, the prisoner was guilty of mur der, but if the deceased picked it up for mutual combat, the prisoner was guilty only of manslaughter, and the jury found the defendant guilty of murder : Held, That the charge was not one of which the prisoner could complain. J. D. Mathews, Edwards & Shannon, for plaintiff in error; Sam Lumpkin, Solicitor General, Robert Hester, for the State. R. A. Whitman vs. James Rolling. Ejeetment-, from Catoosa. MONTGOMERY, J. 1. It is not enoug-i for a bona fide purchaser of realty who has had posses sion of the same for four years, where the property is levied on under judg ment against a prior owner and offered at Sheriff’s sale, to give notice at the sale, at which he was present and bid on the property, that he holds the title to it. He should state also that it is not subject to the execution. If he fail to do so he is estopped from denying that the judgment was a lien on the property in a subsequent suit to recover the land bought by him against the purchaser who bought at the sale. 2. Evidence that a prior owner of the, land sued for was authorized by attorneys for plaintiff infi/fa. to control tne exe cution under which the land was sold by the Sheriff, and bought by defendants, should have been permitted to go to the jury, where there was some proof that such fonaer owner was then acting as agent for the plaintiff in the ejectment suit in effecting the sale oi the property for the purpose of perfecting the title of his principal, to whom lie had sold the land by a warranty deed, but which pur pose had failed by reason.of the defend ant in ejectment bidding more for the property than the plaintiff, as his said agent, was willing to pay. 3. It is no error in the court to refuse to allow t>-.e jury to mould their verdict so as to effect the interest of a person not a party to the suit. Judgment reversed, E. M. Dodson, W. W. Payne, for plain tiff in error; J. H. Anderson, A. T. Hack- ett, represented by W. H. Dabney, for defendant. A. C. Leak vs. The Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company. Right of way, from Whitfield. MONTGOMERY, J. Under the charter of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company, if the writ oi aa quod damnum provided for by tlie charter, issues to assess the value of land taken by the company for the pur poses of its .road, and the jury summoned by the Sheriff return a verdict for $1,500 from whioh the road appeals and the ju ry in the Superior Court render a verdict of $900,-the owner of the land must pay the coats-oi the proceedings on appeal, under those clauses of the charter, which provide that the appealingparty must give t “bondconditioned to pay the partyap- ! pealed against all the coats of the trial tie ago,- appointed delegates to a World’s Convention ef Good Templars to assem- j novo.nB~w^vUte writ‘o*f blejiu London in May next: ‘quod damnum, in the event" “ The. Savannah News of the 10th re lates the following: Alexander Porter, a steward at Mc Connell’s restaurant, who was taken with a slight headache, which rapidly de* veloped into spinal meningitis. A few hours previous to his death he remarked that he was a Presbyterian, and had oeen raised in tnat faith, when some oue in quired if he did not d*«ire to have a Presbyterian minister with him. He re plied in the negative, aad stated that he had considered the matter, and desired to change his faith, that lie wished to die a Catholic, and requested that a priest be summoned to his bedside.— The conversation seemed to affect him greatly, and he soon dropped into a sort of stupor. Father Dominick was sent for, and soon arrived. He approached the dying man, who appeared to revive considerably at the' sight of him, and inquired if he knew who he was. The deceased replied yes, that he was -a Catholic priest, and expressed an earnest desire to join the Catholic Church, stating that he knew he was dying. We are informed that the presence of the priest had a very re markable effect upon him, and that he rallied to such an extent as to be able to sit up in bed and converse. His wisa. was complied with, and he was solemnly inducted into membership of the Catholig Church. He died within a short time afterwards, apparently perfectly at ease in mind. This is the first case of the kind' we have ever known of where a dying person desiring to change the re ligious faith of his life upon his dying bed. The deceased had. been in the employ of Mr. McConnell only about five weeks, and was without money, friends or rela tives here.' The funeral took place from St. Patrick’s Church, Father Dominick preaching the sermon. The remain# were interred in the Catholic Cemetery. Deceased was born in Brighton, Eng land, and was twenty-five years of age. He arrived in this city about fifteen months since. His family is said to re side at Sand Bends, England. A Walkist at be Fair. Mr. O’Hara, a walking man called on us this morning. He is a light, spright ly, airy looking man, a perfect picture of health and agility, and a professional walker of reputation, either for speed ojx a short stretch or for endurance on a long one. We find the following notice of him in the Nashville Union and American of Saturday last: THB ([WALKING MAN. O’Hara, the great walkist appeared on the track at about 1 o’clock, and it was announced that he would irafce three miles inside ot thirty minutes. He started out on bis journey anu walked the three miles in 29 minute* and 45 seconds. He was cheer ed frequently during his walk, and this part ot the entertainment of the (lay proved to bo satisfactory to the crowd. We trust he will be engaged to walk upon the race track at the Fair in view of the great multitude. ► • ■< * . The New Jersey Straight-out Demo cratic State Convention met at Trenton yesterday, and selected an electoral tickt, including Samuel J. Bayard and Wm. M. Iliff, ai large. Social and Political Equality.—The Savannah Republican has a news item tnat “About thirty-five colored men have joined the Greeley club in Dawson.” And has it come to that ? The Illinois State Register says John A. Logan was once a circus rider. Well, John hasn’t got through performingft'-J^ ** the dirty rings yet. j> * The new Libei al ArkuaDsas^ 11 ^ tnutai et has been formally Little Rock Ga but