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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, FOR THE WEEK ENLING OCTOBER 30 1872.
I’HE ATLANTA SUE
rUuM OUR DAILY edition of
Fridur* October 25* 1878.
■ p* »-e-H «»f lion. EU]»b H. Norton, of
lllfioori, Delivered »t St. Loula, 7th
October.
Wo give our readers to-day a part of
(he great f‘p**ech of this distir guished and
mu daunt* J Democratic leader.
Wo regret our space will not allow us
publish it in full. The portions we
produce reserve, and we trust will re
.-ive, the careful perusnl of everyone
unto whose hands this issue of our paper
.< a/ fall, who desires to perpetuate the
i.« institutions of these States.
When we stated the other day that Mr.
<v reeley’s Platform was the completest
. lubodiment of the principles of a Cen
i: alized Empire ever before presented by
.my party in this country, we spoke only
of oar own understanding of the clear
:c:port of its words. We were not aware
«« the time that Mr. Greeley bad himself,
u substance, so declared it to be. Mr.
Sortoa quotes tho language of Mr. Gree
ry in his recent speech at Pittsburg,
{ uu, where he announced that the Plat
oon “teas the most intense, the most com
,,4ste Republican [that is, RadicalJ that haa
-rur been presented ly any convention
-.Jnsteverf*
Mr. Greeley is represented by his ad-
v jcntca as an honest, as well as an able
... «n ? Does he not understand his Plat-
. «ui?
Is it we or his advocates who misrepre-
i-at him ?
They say it is Democratic ! We say it
the embodiment of Centralism in
to most od.ous forms.
Let Mr. Greeley’-* own declaration of
(.is own understanding of it settle the
-question. ^ A. H. S.
SUN-STUOKBS.
—* Tho Straight-Outs voted to a unit in favor of
•fi uitlt for Governor. Yet he is an enthusiastic ad
* cala for Greeley. Lebxafter.
a. CarrtijxituUtU of the Avgusta Chronicle and Senti
nel of the 'J.d October, 1872.
Governor Smith, it seems, had enough
•of Greelcyism about him to keep his en-
thusiasm for his Radical Ciiuf mostly to
ii'.mself, and not to let it be generally
k.towu until after he had received the
-otta of the “Straight-outs.” Had it
- oea known that ho was “an enthusias
tic advofuto for Greeley,” he never would
aave received the confiding vote he did
of the “Straight-Outs.”
—XT, for no other reason, the S-ratb should cordial,
y, heartily, and with unanimity, vote solidly for
Greeley and Brown as a protest against President
Great's official message to Congress, declaring that
neither life nor property is sale in the South. There
t stands uncontradioted, unrecalled. It is quoted
a the emigrants' olhco. It is quoted on ‘Change in
.he money centres. It is quoted by Northern fana-
dei. It is quoted by emigrant agents
'* Europe. It is quoted in Lon-
lee -—in Berlin—in Frankfort-on-tho-Maln, and in
AL..--6 aud Lorraine. No capitalist is willing
to*.iafc Uis money where property is not safe. What
istue result? Money abounus in New York, lies
idle in London aud Frankfort, while at the South
Uioro is no money to run firms or to carry forward
the productions of which tho world stands daily in
need—except at two, three, four, five and six per
out. per mouth. Twenty-four to fifty per cent, is
- the oommou ususnee to a farmer. Une-qnarter to
oue-half is the rate of interest to tho merenant who
would buy the farmer's cotton for sight exchange
that is, for a draft or check payab.e juntas soon as
Cio mails will carry It to its destination.
The capitalist will notloau bis money to farmers
where neither life nor property is safe—he will not
even trust it to remain for a few days—nay, for a
f-'W hours—at the South to make the purchases of
t mtherji products which are an absolute necessity,
because he believes that life and property are not
Bafe at the South, and President Grant has so offi
cially declared.
There stands the message upon tho official record.
IIow can wo rebut this damaging slander? Tnere
* no protest left the 8outb except the ballot. Let
(he South, then—tho intelligent South, without dis
tinction as to caste or color—vote sorrily against
this official slaxder—vote for Greeley, peace, uni
versal amnesty and prosperity. There is no other
way by which a protest can be made.
This sort of “protest” against the
ec slander,” so stated, must appear very
fitrango to intelligent minds, whether
capitalists or emigrants, not only in
l{ew York, London, Berlin, Fmnkfort-
'H-the-Main, Alsace and Lorraine, but
sowhere.
So far from viewing the support of Mr.
'cley by the South as a “protest”
^ “ slander, ” they can, as intel-
men, look upon it tnly os a “con-
■ firm at ’ lJ ” °* truth of the charge,
with & desire, on their part, that by a
more rig J system of laws under Greeley’s
Bole in-t ^forcing “ the equal rights of
oil,” a bt tter day may dawn upon cur
; fortunes!
. In the na. 216 of all that is true, if what
General «Gr: ict said in his message to
Congress-refi ,rre d uj, be nothing but
•‘slander,”- J originated it ?
Was it not lA r - Greeley who announc
ed that ‘-'five tiu 'aeand negroes had been
miurdered- by il» wlmea in South Caroli
na, alone uuringvGvat, fc’s administration,
im.i not one had been punished for it.”
Was it not Mr.* Greeley himself who
j>rodaiun.diu March, 1871. after Grant
would not again recoostruttk Georgia at
Idalh'Ck’a- las’ancs, that any country
^.-alich tolerated such crimes, against life
tuuifBZopertj, as were perpetrated in the
cSoutiiaen States “ought to be swept from
•the face-of'God’s earth."
What sort of “protest” against this
■* ‘slander” will the election,by the South-
•ean people, to the Presidency of the man
who made the charge, be deemed by
men in New York, London, Berlin and
Prankfort-on-Uic-h.*tiu, Alsace, Lorraine,
■*- or anywhere else?
^ — The St. >Louis Democrat publishes,
■ -editorially, and for the second time, the
” following interesting wager. It finds no
;akers: _ “The Democrat will take the
-ist of delegates to the Cincinnati Con
vention, and will give $1,000 for every
man on it who had not applied for and
.been refused a federal office, or been de
jected for office by the people, if any
other newspaper in the land will agree
.io give $100 for every man on it who was
. a defeated or disappointed candidate.
.. 4 Thus, if more than one in ten of those
V * o composed that assemblage can show
oV .. ">rd of disinterested patriotism, we
Thei^Vt , »P*' Se mone J’ stall be oat of
In VerxzMto- "BBt in proportion as we fail to
tho first w edm^j: ninety per cent, of the Gin-
d “ i ’* tn*—* ~'w»igateswere bummers and
^5^-itb^t^ids open
*
Kxtructa from the 8|ietcb union. Bnjah
H. Norton, of Mlunonyl, Delivered in
St. Loots, 7th ofOctober, 1873.
It is needless for me to speak of the
personnel of the Cincinnati Covention.
ft is sufficient to say that War-moth, Bur-
bridge <fe Co. were there.
The oppression which existed in the
Southern States, has been produced by
the effect of Greeley’s Enforcement bills
and bis infamous Ku-Kiux Act, and by
the fraudulent and forcible adoption of
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments, under which the governments of
the States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mis
sissippi, Alabama, Florida and Sontk
Carolina, were completely turned over
to the negro population and the carpet
baggers, who were invited by such a
condition of things in their midst. And
it will be no better with them so long as
the causes remain to produce the effect.
WE ABE TOLD,
however, that the Baltimore Convention
having nominated Greeley and adopted
the Cincinnati platfom, we are bound to
his chariot win els and must yield him
our support and stand on his platform.
A Democratic Convention when they
do nominate, have no right to nominate
other than Demociuts, nor adopt any
other platform; and if they nominate a
candidate who telis them before and af
ter the nomination that he is not a Dem
ocrat but as good a Republican as be
ever was, what role of party fealty is it
that requires any Democrat to yield him
his support?
The Baltimore Convention not only
FURLED THE PROUD BANNER
of the Democratic party as a worn-out
aud nseless thing, and laid it aside, but
marched in a body into the enemy’s camp
and made a bill of sale, so far as they
could make it of the party, and sold
them to the most obnoxious purchaser
who could have been found in the whole
country; a purchaser whose treason to
the old Whig party in 1856 in deserting
Fillmore and placing John C. Fremont
on the track, buried the Whig party, and
out of its grt.ve resurrected the Republi
can party, and placed a dagger in its
hand with which it has stabbed the na
tion to dea»li, destroying in some of its
most essential features, the form of our
government aud converting Governors
into Mayors, and States into municipali
ties; a party which was the proximate
and immediate cause of
RED-HANDED REVOLUTION
and civil war raging through the land
like a consuming fire unsettling the
foundation of society and demoralizing
the people to such an extent that liberty
is surrounded with perils which may ut
terly annihilate and destroy it; a party
which has
SURRENDERED THE LABORER
of the country to the capitalists and mo
nopolists, and the people of the States
to the absolutism and centralism em
bodied in Congress by virtue of powers
forcibly and fraudulently conferred un
der the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments.
The bnilder and chief architect of this
party, and who still adheres to it, was
the nominee of the Baltimore Conven
tion. They did not nominate a Demo
crat, nor did they adopt a Democratic
platform, but
BOLTED OUT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
into the Republican party,and because we
do not follow them they have the audac
ity to charge us with bolting from the
Democracy. Mr. Greeley himself, in his
letter of acceptance, coolly intimates to
them that by nominating him at
Baltimore they have not made a Demo
crat of him, but have made good Repub
licans out of themselves. *
What reason did Charles Sumner, on
the eve of his departure, on the 30 th of
August, for Europe, “ to give his poor
brain rest,” give in a public speech?
He said this, speakiDg of Greeley and
Grant:
‘At the approachingPresideutial elec
tion the people are to choose bttween
two candidates. Two courses seemed
open: one was to abstain from voting,
and I confess that that was my first in
clination; but it is not easy for me to be
neutral, nor is it my habit to shrink from
responsibility. But the doubt that beset
me was removed when I saw the Demo
cratic party adopt the candidate opposed to
Grant, being nn original Republican al
ready nominated by a Republican conven
tion, and at the same time
ACCEPT THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
on which he was nominated. An old
pai tj which had long stood out against
the Republican cause, now placed itself
on a Republican platform, tbs.best ever
adopted-, with a Republican candidate
who was the most devoted republican
EVER NOMINATED.”
Again he says: “The imputation that
his election would be the return- to pow
er of k the old Democratic party, is much
like saying that he will cease to be him
self, and that bis surpassing individuali
ty, making him so- conspicuous, will be
lost. They who make the imputation
forget that this old party, if it has not
ceased to exist, is dtsmged ino character.
Standing on a Republican platform with
a Republican cai didate, it may look the
Republican party in the lace and claim
ing for itself tho future, not the past.
Plainly it is not that Democratic party
against which the Republicans have con
tended. If Democrats have influence
wi*h Horace Greeley, it will be because
they have placed themselves sincerely by
his side on a platform which distinctly
announces all that Republicans have ever
claimed.”
According to. Sumner the Democratic
party died and became the best Republi
can party that ever was when the Balti
more Convention nominated Greeley and
swallowed his platform. What does
Honest Horace himself say in a speech
MADE IN PITTSBURG,
on the 19th of September, while swing
ing his white hat and white coat around
the circle, ala mode Johnson, he uses the
following language: “And thus coming
together in a solemn, convention representa
tive of the Southern people have given their
assent to the platform of the GincinnatiCon-
veniion, which was the most intense, the
most complete Republican platform that had
ever been presented by any Convention
whatever.”
Greeley and Sumner ought certainly
to be good judges of what it takes to
constitute Republicanism, and they say
that the conversion of Democrats at Bal
timore to Republicanism was not partial,
but complete; that they did not take a
dose of Liberal Republicanism, but .that
the dose they did take, in Greeley’s lan
guage, “ was tne
MOST INTENSE AND -COMPLETE
that was syer presented.by any National
And in the face oi all tins we are told
that if we do not take such a dose as this,
white hat, coat and all, that we are bolt
ers irom the Democratic party.
Because, forsooth, we refuse to take
Horace Greeley and the Cincinnati plat
form and become Repuolieans, we there
fore cease to be Democrats.
If we refuse to choose between two
evils, as they say, and make an honest
effort to maintain our principles, and
place upon the track a true and brave
hearted -man, wuo has never been false
to his country, the Democratic party or
its principles, we are to be made the sub
jects of vilification and abuse and read
oat of the party by a gang of place-
hnnters, who, in order to sucoeed, have
bowed the knee to Baal and deserted to
the enemy.
They say let the vessel go to pieces
without an effort to save it; for if yon
attempt it you will break up the Cincin
nati-Baltimore coalition and interfere
with the bargain made two weeks before
the assembling of the Baltimore Conven
tion, between the
TAMMANY HALL CORRUPTIONISTS AND THE
GBEELEYITES,
under which Greeley was to be nomi
nated, and under which they were to be
remembered when Greeley came into his
kingdom.
There are hundreds of thousands of
Democrats in the United Stat< s who be
lieve that if the country is saved at all it
can only be done by administering the
governments, both State and National,
on Democratic principles, aud they have
no heart in a contest (as the Presiden
tial contest now is) where it reduces it
self down to a simple and miserable
strife for place and power, without re
gard to principle. They would not turn
over their bauds to turn one set of cor
morants out and put another set in and
cnauge simply the officers of the govern
ment without the principles ou which it
is to be administered.
They regard the contest as between
Greeley and Grant as having reduce.’
itself down (o a battle between the office
holders who support Grant aud the office-
huuters who support Greeley and that
neither ought to be trusted ui control
the executive department ot the govern
ment.
So believing, the Democrats have
placed in the field
CHARLES O’CONOS
as their candidate, before whose pres
ence the Tammany thieves fled as from
a destroying angel. He it was who, at
the request of seventy citizens of New
York, without fear or reward, walked
into that corrupt ring of robbers, ex
posed their frauds, peculations and thefts
to the extent of $70,000,000 in three
years, and brought purification to the
official atmosphere of that great city. A
Democrat of the Jeffersonian school, like
his great prototype, he never has sought
and does not sow seek office. He has
been content to occupy a position at the
head of the American bar, and Mr. Davis
recognized the fact when he chose him*
as his chief advocate from all the legal
talent of the North as well as the South.
In his great letter to the National
Democratic Convention at Louisville, he
puts himself on the time-honored prin
ciples of the Democratic party, and ad
vances the true theory and principles on
which the Govern men tj National and
State, should be administered. Pay as
you go, and a prohibition on States,,
cities, counties and towns from going in
debt, abolishment of three-fou. tbs of the
expensive governmental machinery, a-
tariff duty to be imposed strictly for
revenue, an honest administration in all
the departments of the government, are’
the high notes with which he goes before
the-eountry.
And they will meet-with such a re
sponse from the people in November as
will* teach the politicians of the country
in all future time to regard principle as
more sacred than success We present a
candidate pure and spotless in character
and who in grandeur towers, in intel
lectual power, as far above Greeley or
Grant as the majestic oak aoes over the
shrub that grows nnder its shade. While 1
Greeley A life has been that of a political
trickster, wire-worker and office hunter,,
both lor himself and others, that of
O’Conor has just been fee* reverse, dis
charging all the high duties of a citizen,
as became a man and a patriot; and if ho
should so far forget himself as to swing,
around the eircle electioneering for the
Presidency, as Greeley is-doing, like a.
constable for re-election, He would forfeit
his cla<m, to a grt at extent, to pubkeH
supports
Tho Cincinnati Convention having,
success-alono in view, took
GREELEY^.
because-of his intense Republicanism*
supposing that he would be able to divide
the Republican vote more largely than i
any other Republican, and that, as for
tlieir promised allies, the Democrats,
that they would be like a nest of starving
jay-birds, and all that they would b- ve
to do would be to go to the West, make
a noise,.aud they wouldsflop open their
mouths*, shut their eyes and swallow a
c ireass as corrupt politically as Horace
Greeley’s always has been.
But they say he is honest, and many
who one year ago damned uim as the
worst enemy of his country, have so
fallen,in love with his- honesty that they
use no other fan in keeping tnemselves
cool than one containing his image con
stantly staring thf m in tne face.
HE WAS HONEST, i
no doubt, when he indorsed the John
Brown raid into Virginia, the ofojget of
which was to murder; but such honesty,
instead of entitling him to the high reward
of the Presidential office, would rather
make him a criminal as an accessory
after the fact and entitle him to punish
ment. He was honest, when of all the
papers, his was the only one which in
dorsed the infomous New Orleans order
of Butler whicn authorized his soldiery
to treat as women of the street the ladies
of that city who did not show them as
much respect as they might consider
themselves entitled to. Such nonesty
should consign him to infamy and not
elevate him to the highest office in the
gift of a free people, and so the parallel
might be run through a life of
FORTY YEARS OF POLITICAL CRIME.
during which time if he was ever guilty
of a political virtue, I have failed to see
it. *******
They (our Greeley friends) say you
can’t elect O’Uonor. We say we will try,
and if beaten will live to fight again-with
an organized force in the field, defeated
bnt not demoralized, ready for the next
battle,’ with our banner up emblazoned
with our.-principles. Weaffirm that mere
success without principle is far more
than a defeat with a ^"dple. I f we do
not eleef our candidate, at the end of the
contest we preserve oar organization and
constitutes nucleus around which the
hosts of constitutional liberty and good
government will rally after they have
gon e through a financial crisis such as has
never been witnessed before in this coun
try, and which is sure to oocur during
the next four years, whether Greeley or
Grant be the next President. It will re
sult as a necessary oonsequenoe. Gird
up your loins, then, for a Bhort, sharp
and'decisive contest, remembering that
there never has been a great govern
mental reform brought about that was
not achieved and won by a bold and fear
less minority- contending for it earnestly
and ardently as true and brave-hearted
men.
NEWS.
— The Austin (Texas) State Gazette re
pudiates Greeley and Brown, and flies
the names of O’Conor and Adams.
— It is reported that Forney has sold
his Philadelphia Press to a parly of poli
ticians.
•
— The next South Carolina Legisla
ture will be composed of 78 Republicans;
21 Bolters, and 20 Conservatives.
— A live contest is progressing m
Texas betwe n Houston, Waco, aud oth
er cities for the State capitol.
— The Augnsta Fair opened on Tues
day. The tournament was announced to
take piaoe yesterday.
—The Jefferson (Texas) Times and the
Galveston Civilian renounoe Greeley and
support O’Conor and Adams. Niue pa
pers in Texas fly the O’Conor ticket.
— Mr. J. Madison Cutts (whoever he
is) says he firmly believes if Stephen A.
Douglas were ahve, he would be a Gree
ley man. That elects Greeley beyond a
perad ven lure.
-Messrs. B. H. Hill, H. V. M. Miller
and Thomas Hardeman, Jr., had appoint
ments to speak in Lawrenceville yester-
.lay. The gallant Voorhees, Gratz
Brown, and others, being indisposed,
were unable to shed the light of their
countenance upon the occasion.
— The expectation that there wonld
be a Democratic Congressional Repre
sentative elected in S^uth Carolina was
not realized. The delegation consists al
most exclusively of negroes. Tnis is the
Way Greeley Democrats redeemed South
Carolina.
— The Congressional delegation in
Pennsylvania, as selected in iecent elec
tion is: Democrats 51, Republicans 22.
At the previous election it stood: Repub
licans 17, Democrats 10. The Republi
can majority for Congressmen at Large
was 46,000. Ohio’s Congressional dele
gation stands 13> Republicans, 6 Demo
crats and one Greeley Liberal.
— The following mournful epitaph is
significant of the feeling and- forebodings
of Greeley men.
“Killed, October 8tb, by the Pennsyl
vania aud Ohio' explosions, B. Gratz
Brown:
Peaceful be xny gentle slumbers,—
Come, Frank Blair, and close my eyes;
We shall fail frr -vant of numbers,
Wake meuj when Greeley dies.”
List of Appointments lay the Georgia
Conference of the Northern Methodist
Church.
The following, is a list of the appointments made
by the Georgia Conference of the Northern Metho
dist Church, which convened in this city on
Wednesday last, Bishop Merrill, of Cincinnati, pre
siding:
ATLANTA DISTRICT—R. H. WATERS, 5, X.
Atlanta, Loyd street, E. Q, Fuller.
! Carroll and Harrison, J. L. Fowler, W-, C. Walker.
Fayette, S. D. Brown. J. Murphy.
I Jonesboro, L. D. Ellington.
Pii>- and Upson, A. Dorman.
Columbus, to be supplied.
Rock Spring end Walton, 3. H. Thurman,
i Simpson and GainesviUe, W. E. Tarpley, J. P.
.Bazemore.
; Dawsonville and Camming, J. H. Dunn, one to
be supplied.
: J. W. Lee, President of Clark Theological Semi
nary, llembrr of Loyd street quarteraly confer
ence.
C. W. Parker, Conference Sunday school Agent,
member of Loyd street qpirterly conference.
J. H. Knowles, transferee! to Newark.Conference-.
Dalton District.—j. s. pitman, s-. e.
Dalton circuit, J. M. Hall,
Dalton and Rome, to Le supplied.
Walker and Chatooga, N. Trimble, one to be sup
plied.
Murray and Gordon, B. M. Hlpp, A. Hi Bazemore.
Marietta, T. H. Triplett.
Cherokee and Pickens, W. Sullivan.
Ellijay, P. Groover, B. E. Ivy.
Fannin, G A Hill, supplied by W Ballew.
Union, H Shufficld.
Towns and Raybun, D W Chase.
Cass Mission, P G Stewart.
. NORTH GEORGIA DISTRICT—W ERETTSMAN, t X.
Rome, T B Gurney.
Floyd, M. Robinson.
. Cave 8prings„ supplied by H. Mullins.
Cedaitown, James McHenry.
Cartersville, B. Alexander.
Kingston ana Pine Log, H Stricklin.
Whitfield, J C Johnson.
Gwinnett, to be supplied.
Oconee, N Martin.
Nail's Creek Mission, to be suppled..
Elbarton Mission, supplied by W O Wagoner.
LaGbange District—n. ck£e, e. e.
LaGrange, G> Standing.
LaGrange circuit, supplied by M-Neil.
Gi-autvihe aua Hogansviile, one to be supplied, J
Seweli.
WhitesvilJe, B.Hall.
Gr. enville, A Woo-..
Palmetto, fcupplied by D Pickard.
Newuan, 11 McClendon.
Hamilton, to be supplied,
Bowden, supplied by D Wood.. »
Campbell, to bo suppled.
Atlanta, Clark chapel, W H Thomas; Fairview, to
he supplied, x; 1 V . . . i.
Fulton, to be supplied.
Clayton, to be supplied.
Rough and Ready, to be supplied.
Macon District—B T Ksnt, P E.
Micon, to be supplied.
Griffin, Samuel Smith.
Barnesville, J Elsby.
Forsyth, A Palmer.
Liberty HiU, J Walker.
Jackson,.to.be aupp.ieaL
McDonough, George Ansley..
Wnitewater, H Elder.
Senoir„to be snvplied.
Sunny Side, to be supplied.
Zebulon. W Fincher.
Colnmbas Ciicait, to be supplied.
Monticello, to be supplied.
Oxford and Covington, W H Francis,
Oak HiU, suppUed by E.Little.
Newton, to be supplied.
AT GUST A DlsXRICr—T. A. PHARR, E. K.
Augusta, Green street, R Miller.
Augnsta Circuit, to be supplied by W H Gooding.
Edgefield, C T Roberts.
Waynesboro, J is Gooilier.
Waynesboro Circuit, Airon Johnson.
Old Church, Thomas Raker.
Loni&vilie, P BelL
Charlestown. Moses McKinney.
Mount Zion. A F Ellington,
scriven, L & Preston.
Statesboro, to be supplied.
Thompson, to be supplied.
Warrenton.to be supplied.
Glasscock, to be supplied.
Satiila, J J BaUeW.
Savannah District.—O O Fisher, P E.
Savannah—Asbury, S P Huskins; City Mission,
E Lacy.
Savannah Circuit, R L Black.
Blackshire and Jessup, W Hunter.
Drunswick and Darien, AG Amos—one to be sap-
plied.
ReidviUe Circuit, to be supplied.
\Vare8boro, to be sudpUed.
Camden, E B Davis. , v
Trader's HiU and Centerville, to be supplied.
8u Mary’r, A Pool.
Written for the Atlanta Sun.]
THE FALLING LEA YES.
H. XINOSHAOX.
Oh falling le»Te«! my heart conceives,
The story of thy fate,
E’en from the day the sun’s worm ray.
Caused life to germinate.
Thy budding forth and rapid grovrih,
Proclaimed returning spring.
Whose halcyon day in th’ distant maze,
Drifts yet on memory’s wing.
Thy summer sheen of gorgeous green.
Adorning every bough,
Where lovers hied at eventide.
Ales! art fading now.
The golden brown of autumn’s frown,
Soon chills thy summer breath;
A moaning breeze sighs in the trees,
The herald of thy death.
So too, ah leaves I my heart conceives,
The story of my life;
A fitful breeze o’er summer seas,
Which fal’lng ends the strife.
TO TEACHERS
And the Publi Generally
Local Matters.
FBiN'KKAL OF MR.
.DOUGHERTY.
WILLIAM
Uis Life, Death, Remains and Last
Resting jflacc.
The srmains oi Mr. William Douuherty, recenUy
deceased m New York city, reached this city yester
day morning at 6:45 o'clock on the Georgia Railroad
tram. The body was accompanied to some point in
Virginia by Mrs. Dougherty and her two sons, Rob
ert and Charles Dougherty, where, failing to make
connection with th* express, the family came in ad
vance, reaching the city yesterday morning between
,2 and 1 o'clock
The remain* were conveyed to the residence of
Mr. >*»rcus A. Bell where the daughter, Mrs
Macon, oi New Orleans, is at present sojourning.
At three o'clock yesteruay afternoon, the funeral
services took place at the residence, where many
frionas of the family, many citizens, and persons
from abroad assembled to bear the funeral discourse
The remains lay in tne parlor, and around it were
assembled the immediate Mmily. Judges of the Su
preme, Superior, and United Stales Courts, and
many distinguished members of the bar. Th* lulls,
the porches, the colonade, and the walks of the
yard were thronged with spectators. - Especially
did the members of the legal fraternity pay a noble
tribute to the distinguished dead, in, attending al
most enmawe the fun- ral servioes from the resi
dence to the cemetery, it being estimated that be
tween eighty aud ninety members of that profes
sion were present.
The funeral discourse by Rev. W. M. Crumley of
LaGrange was eloquent, touching: and impressive,
He discoursed about a half hour, and spoke with
much earnestness of the many virtues and excel
lences ot both heart and mind.
Upon the conclusion of tho services, the body was
removed to the hearse, and trainterred to the Ceme
tery.
The profession was a most imposing one, includ
ing about seventy or seventy-live .carriages. The
following was me
(ORDER OF procession:
1st—Pall bearers and Reverend Clergy.
2nd.—Hearse.
3u.—Family.
4th.—Judges Supreme and U. S. Courts.
5th.—Judge Superior Court and officers.
6th,—Committee of Arrangement.
7th.—Members of the Bur.
8th —Citizens.
The pali-oearers were: Judge John Collier, Col.
P. L. Mynati, Col. James M. Calhoun, Col. N. J.
Hammond, Judge R. J. Cowart,. CoL; Cincinnatus
Peeples, Judge O. A. Lochrane aud Judge Wiilum
Ezzatd.
The remains were born* in that elegant new
hearse oi Messrs. Groomes & Reece, which was sur
mounted by mourning plumes- and drawn by a
splendid span of horses.
In the family were tho widow. Mrs Dougherty,
two sons, Robert Dougherty and Charles Dougherty,
two daughters, Mrs. Ruth and Mrs. Macon, both of
New Orleans.
Next were Judges Warner, Montgomery and Mc-
Kuy, Judges ot tne Supreme Court, and Judge John
L. Hopkins; then Gen. L. J. Garirel). Judge D. F.
Hammond and Mr. A. B. Culberson, Committee of
Arrangements. Then followed the members of the
Bar, among whom were Logan E. Bleckley, B. H.
Hill, Warren Akin, John D. Pope, Wm. Erskine, aud
others.
The procession, under direction- of Gin. G.
T. Anderson, proceeded out Collins- street to
Decatur, down Decatur to Bell, ont BeU across the
Georgia Railroad to Fair, and thence to the ceme
tery. After reaching the cemetery the usual oere-
mouies were performed, aud the remains deposited
in their las. restir g place, after which the carriages
slowly filed away, and left the great man to lie in
peace, enshrouded not alone in the habiliments oi
the dead, but also in the gratelul memory of an ad
miring people.
The remains of tho deceased were interred near
the entrance on the north side or the cemetery in
accordance with his expressed wishes, he having
ae ected the locality some three months ago, previ-
ona to his departure for New fork. It was the de
sire of his family aud iriends to have his remains
deposited in a vault, but Mr. Dougherty objected,
and gave explicit directions fur his luneral.
He requested that no public display or unusual
demonstration take place on the occasion of his fu
neral, and with this view directed that the Borvioes
take place, not at a church, but at a private resi
dence. It is understood that he selected Bev. Mr.
Crumley to deliver the funeral discourse..
The grave was liued - with brick and cement, and
made perfectly water-proof, the coffin, being pro
tected from encroachments above by a-wuouen arch
surmounted bj three iayerd of brick.
Died—At the residence of his mother.in this citv,
about 12 o'clock last night, Mr. T. A. Ortagus.
He was a young man of high moral character, and
much admired by his many friends, and it Is under
stood professed religion before he diod. He was a
printer, and had been engaged in this office np to
the time of his sickness.
Speeches of Govt rnor Smith, aiui Major
Campbell Wallace.
Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the
State liaveralty.
The Board of Trustees of the State Universiiy
convened in this city yesterday morning with ex-
Governor Charles J. Jenkins presiding, Thete were
present:
Ex-Governor Charles J. Jenkins, CoL W. L. Mitch
ell, Hon. Mark A. Coopi r, Col. J. A. Biilupb, Col. B.
C. Yancey, Hon. B. H. HiU. Mr. J. J. Gresham, Hon.
Dunlap Scott, Mr. Pope Barrow, Maj, Lamar Cobb,
Col. N. J. Hammond, Mr. Wm. Hope HuU, Dr. it.
D. Moore, and Governor James M. Smith.
Tho object of the meeting was to dispose of accn*
undated business, pertaining to the Interest and
policy of the University. Nothing, of very prime
importance is before the Board, though it is under
stood that the Land Scrip appropriation engaged
some of their attention.
EjThe Board met in tho Senate Chamber yesterday
morning, adjourned to the Kimball House in the
afternoon, where they continued, in Bsssion untU
midnight last night.
They were in deliberation all day, and up to 8
o’clock Iasi evening no business of public interest
had been transacted. The proceedings, it of im
portance, will appear at an early day.
Uglt.—The Griffin News says there is some com
plaint in Griffin of a few farmers in the country
contiguous, purchasing their present year's supplies
from provision dealers in Griffin on the security’ of
the crop, and' that they have- gathered and sold their
cotton in other markets and refuse to pay the mer
chants who furnished them the needful supplies to
make the crop with. Tne News says, to the credit
of the planters generally, that they have paid their
merchants promptly—many before their bills were
due, but that a few have acted as before stated.
Personal.—We, yesterday, had the pleasure of
meeiii g with Capt. B 'H. True, who planted a pros
perous colony of northern people in Morgan county
soon alter the war. He has beta in New York city
for some months, and is one of the managers of The
South, a weekly paper of very large circulation, de
voted to the agricuitnral.mineral and manufacturing
resources of the Bou\h-rn slates.
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E. J. HALE & SON, 17 Murray street,
New York, have just issued
ASGHOOLHISTORY
Of the United States.
By HON. ALEX. H. STEPHENS,
Professor of History and Political Sci
ence in the University of Georgia.
TESTIMONIALS :
A Review, by Rev. D. WILLS, D. D.
President of Oglethorpe University*
Atlanta, Ga.:
This valuable work, which has been anxiously
looked for, has recently appeared in a decidedly at
tractive and popular form. It3 typographical and
mechanical execution reflects credit on the houie
which has Issued it, and its convenient size solid
binding, and happy arrangement into chapters and
sections, admirably adapt it to the use oi school*
and colleges. As a textbook, we predict for this
compend a hearty and extensive adoption, and as a
work for general instruction no reader in the land
ought to be without a copy of it. The Southern peo
ple may be justly proud of this n<-blo contribution
to their growing literature, and the grand old com.
mou wealth of Georgia will doubtless evince an ao-
preci ation of the industry, patriotism and talents of
her distinguished son by giving this riuhly stored
volume a cordial welcome to the thousands of her
intelligent and happy households. We believe that
this work of the gaeat Georgian is destined to be
come the standard of Historic truth and excellence
for centuries to come, just as Mr.Step hens’ work, on
the War Between the States is acknowledged to be
the most complete and triumphant vindication of
the Southern people ever placed on record.
From Rev. J. J. BRANTLEY, D. D.,
Professor of Belles Lettres and Modern
Languages; Mercer University,Macon,
Georgia ;
t tniuk you are to be congratulated on having
ciought out a School History, which, on account of
its fairness, its Southern origin, and especially the
fulless and accuracy of the later political history of
the country, ought to> supersede all others at the
South.
From Hon. MILLARD FILLMORE,
late President of the United States :
1 think it exceedingly well written, and admirably
well calculated for academies and schools, it is ne
cessarily greatly cond-nsed, but it seems to contain
tile pith and marrow of our history, romewhat
tinged, as was natural, with Southern views, but as
impartial as any we can expect at this time, either
from tne North or South. I regard Mr. Stephens aa
one of our ablest statesmen, and certainly very com*
petent to write a history of the United States.
From Hon. HERSCHEL Y. JOHNSON.
The method of the work ia admirable. Each pic.
tore is distinct; each is in-its appropriate place; and
they are bo connected and grouped as to present to
the mind's eye a clear, intelligible and harmonious
sketch of the history of tho United States, from col
onial infancy to present development—accurate in
its delineations, and copious, but still compendious,
in its details. The work is admirably suited to the
use of schools and the higher institutioLB of learn-
ing. It would be unjust to omit to say that the
book, as to material, is gotten up in most excellent
style.
From Pbof. RICHARD M. JOHNSTON,
of Pen Lucy Institute, Maryland :
I regard the Compendium of the History of the
United States, by Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, a
most important addition to American literature. It
ia a book for the Schoolroom, the College, the Uni
versity, and every library. Though severely con
densed, yet it is most complete aud perspicuous. In
my opinion it is the only history in which an Amer
ican, whether youth or adulunan, may find a just
account of the basis on which the Constitution and
Government of his country wero founded. Every
one. and especially every student, should have it
From Prof. E. A. STEED, of Mercer
University :
Those Teachers in the South who have taught the
Hisiery of the United States since the war will re
joice when they see this book. They will be espe
cially pleased with that portion of the History per
taining to the late war. because in this part of the
work they will find what has not yet before met my
eye in schoolbooks: a 'air, unprejudiced statement
of facts connected with the bloody war between the
States. Southern youth can read in this book a
truthful history of our great struggle for free gov
ernment by on e who is. of all others, most compe
tent to write such a work. Let them read it, study
it, and heed its lessons of wisdom.
From the N.Y. EVENING TELEGRAM
It is a notorious fact that even, in colleges little at
tention is paid to tho philosophy, of politics. * *
Mr. Stephens supplies this knowledge. From the
discovery of Columbus to the establishment of
American Independence, he carries the reader
quickly and gracefully through all of toe leading
events that transpired, developing those facts in
colonial history which led to the organization and
growth of the present form of. government.
« * * *
In the treatment of these various subjects, Mr.
Stephens is not a partisan. He addresses his read
ers from a point of view far above the influence of
passion or prejudice, ana in the statement of facts,to
which he mainly confines his work, there is an ex
hibition of impartiality that forbids the question
whether this man who thus summarizes the history
ol his country is from the North, South, East or
West.
*********
The book is apropos to the times. It abounds fa
information with which every American citizen
ought to be familiar, and which he will not find com
piled elsewhere, l or the youth of the land it will
prove invaluable, and we believe that teachers
throughout the country will adopt it as a substitute
for all other histories of the United States, as soon
as they become familiar with-its- pages, and observe
wi< h what tact aud impressiveness the distinguished
author has arrayed his knowledge to the end that it
ui.\ be in oat easily and eagerly acquired by the
young.
kiwm. the eatonton PRESS AND MES
SENGER.
L ■; i. I. ut ixiu«.-i. .-lie ;ut larmly arc le, into
he school-room -i-v-ivu acre over this broad land,
or it not only i* instructive as well a« entertaining
to youth, b e is a mom useful compendium for all
grown-up people who desire to be well informed.”
From tii* WILM1NGTON' STAR.
A» fi noot compeud this work is a success in
evn; way. It gives a prominence to leading politi
cal .-veutu, aud tlieseure made to subserve no parti
san interes' whatever. The book ia absolutely ires
from secliiiUAt coloring, though it is tho production
of oue oi the great leaders of So-uhtm .hought,
himseli an actor in eo»n*- cf the grand scenes he de
scribes. From i cn.-s. perusal of that part of the
boot commencing with the chapter conta ning an
see intof Fierce’s adrnilustration, and subsequent
chapters mrough to the beginning of the current
year, we are satisfied Mr. btepiteus has given a true,
unvarnished, lively picture of the tremendous agi
tation through which the country has passed during
two decades of her history.
All the prominent occuirenoss, civil and military,
of the war bet ween the States, are sketched in rapid,
but distinct outline. Mr, hyphens’ style is easy,
terse, pure, graceful and strong He makes no special
effort, as most of school-h story writers do, to write
down to the comprehension of his juvenile readers.
Bat there is nothiug in style or details that the
simplest intellect cannot grasp.’’
From the TOLEDO (Ohio) SUN.
The work as a Text-Book on Schools and Colleges,
is one of the best condensed histories of the United
States we have had the pleasure or perusing. It is
amply illustrated with.portraits of emineHtmenwhO
figure to American history, battle scenes, and the
coats of arms of the different States.
NOTICE BY THE PUBLISHERS.
This Compendium of History should
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History of the country—a necessity to al
who wish to know what has been done
and why it has been done, by those who
made and those who have administerd
the Government of these States. It pre
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History, bnt its pervading spirit, and
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