The Weekly sun. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1870-1872, April 01, 1873, Image 1

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The Columbus Sun, of the 27th, <a\> many individual* aud nations have prefixes, tb-rivi-d from character istics to their names—such as “ Wrathful Schilh**.” “Pious /Eneas,” “Merry England/ " lay France,” Ac., and thinks from Ini• * Congressional developments, our country is likely hereafter to be called the “ Pious United Slates,” and remarks that it is curious to note how excessively profli gate an individual or a nation will become after a “season of outrageous virtue,” and equally curious to vvit- m ss the “profound |>euifence and re turn to the paths of purity” mani fested by some of the late Congres sional robbers—coming up like Jones to the windows to lie prayed for by the faithful, and names some of those ni-mbers who have drawn their ill- gotten and unlawful extra pay, now returning it to the United States Treasury, or donuting it to build churches or hospitals with. The Cartersville Standard and Ex press of same date is gratified at the prospect ol Georgia being able to sell all the bonds of the new State loan at home, and adds: It will show to the world that the good people of Georgiu can and will, to the last dollar, pay every just and honorable obligation, while they re fuse to honor all infamous drafts drawn by political blacklegs upon her Treasury. The McDuffie Journal of the 2Gth, speaking of the 42d Congress, doubts if any Congress during the existence of this Government ever adjourned witli “so few enactments of a com mendable character to relieve the black record of their misdeeds.” The Savannah Republican, in no ticing the fact that Vice President Henry Wilson, “ the New England representative loyalist,” had invited Gen. Gordon, a true representative of vliaL “used to be termed the Southern Rebel,” as a “symptom of the ap proaching political millennial when the ‘Lion and the Lamb shall lie down together/ or rather alternately occupy the same hard seat,” and con siders it a “promising sign.” It also notices an item, “not equal ly pro vocative of gladness,” that Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, “who has a great interest in Georgia,” with a select party of friends—pos sibly including Secretary Delano, and other lessees of the State Road is to make a tour of the Southern States—of course taking Atlanta en route. The first named incident the Re publican denominates “The Dove”— that white-winged messenger of peace whicn the most ancient of navigators sent out lrom the Ark. The second it styles “The Raven,” “that bird of darker plumage which played the same navigator rather a scurvy trick —but which, unlike the modern ra vens, never came back 1” but takes the privilege of suspending any further expression of opiuiou, till it can “see the seoi>e aud objects of the black birds, who have already filled their crops so lull out of the fertile grana ries of Georgia.” The Republican also urges the hotel keepers of Savannah to make I the place an objective point for inval ids and pleasure seekers of the North at which to spend their winters, as was the case twenty years ago. They must provide ample and agreeable accommodations, pleasant society and something to amuse them. It also commends Gov. Smith for calliug a (convention of Southern and Western Governors to further the interests of the Great Western Canal, says there is “a natural alliance” between “King 001100” and “Queen Corn,” aud that the strengthening of this alliance, so beneficial to both, will be effected by the building of the canal. The Savaunah Advertiser of the • 1th, discussing the matter of Vice 1‘resident Wilson inviting Gen. Gor- lon to preside over the deliberations of the Senate, designates it as a “Tri- miph of Right.” It is the first time a Southern gentleman has occupied that eh air since Breckinridge left it —says the Advertiser, and justly re marks, that if Gordon and the people of Georgia had “listened to the siren tongues which endeavored to charm hem to a quiet submission and tame acquiescence in the outrages being prepared for and .orced upon them,” he would never have reached that seat, or entered the United States •Senate, and adds: Gordon’s elevation is the legitimate result of the prompt and bold resis tance of Georgia to Federal usurpa tion and Congressional tyranny. It is h proud compliment to the heroic endurance of a people who dared all and braved everything throughout a .dark night <1 despotism,sustained by the hope of a day o. redemption. Down-trodden Louisiana may learn a lesson from Georgia. Il'she winding to her honor aud her rights the time may not be far distant when one of lo r chosen senators mav In- called to »ii a here Gordon lne- -at. The Future 1 what solemn re flect i>>ns these two little words force upon the mind! It sometimes fills us with apprehensions and dark forebod ings. The Greensboro Herald, of the 27th, says that our present States, from feeble colonies, through enter prise, courage and patriotism, “have grown to be mighty nations, astonish ing the world by their powers,” but “ when enervated by wealth, luxury and corruption, mighty nations sink into decay and pass to the things that have been.” But wlmt of our future ? Where are we driftingnow ? We behold to day the mil'ions of our people, im mersed in their wealth, or intoxicated with the desire of gain, turningfrom the responsibilities of citizenship, while the leaders saturated iu corrup tion, are degrading the Executive and Legislative Departments of our Gov ernment, prostituting the Judiciary, sapping the vitals of our political sys tem, and inaugurating a condition that must end in despotism and an archy. Is the country doomed, or can she yet recover? Are the glories of the past and the hopes of the future alike to wither and perish, or can the past be retrieved, and the future made re splendent with a still more glorious career? It is with the people! * * We believe that a grander and more glorious destiny than we have dreamed of can yet be achieved by the Western world, but if some agency is not evoked to arouse the masses and array them against the corruption and tyranny of the age, we fear that star of empire on the Western Santana Bay Lessees or jobbers (as | any disturbance or disorder there | will unquestionably damage tneir in death O* JUe/iuP MclL r ;/.\/. The demise of no Bishop of the Protestant Church ever brought more terest.«) just as he has employed that J general heartfiIt grief to a people, »ume power to overthrow ‘he local j than did that of Bishop Charles Petit government of Louisiana, and protect ‘ Mcllvaine, of Ohio. The health ol Durell and brother-in-law Casey and the Custom House Ring. The News also notices the fact that several leading railroads centering in New York have notified the Post Master General, that u r tcr this mouth they will run no more Postal Cars unless the compensation is increased, and that officer having decided that he has no authority to grant the in crease says that if these great railroad corporations carry out their “threats they will give an immense stride to the designs of those w ho clamor :or national supervision of the railroads.” A resolution was olfered in the Senate a few days ago, to appoint a special committee to investigate the Postal Bishop Mcllvaine had been for some years declining, and lu-t year, with the hope of recuperating, he sailed for England with tin- intention of re siding there for a time with a mar- l* PI KIT OP t/TE Gf-ipr'iA' i fU.SS Tin Savannah Republican, discuss ing Georgia as a manufacturing State, a* compared to others, s^vs tin wealth of a country, State or cifr, depends on diversified interests, and that where only one interest predom inates, it generally predominates at the cost of all others, and should a blow be given to it there is genertu suffering; but not so when there are ried daughter, trusting that the other interests equally as groat ami charge ot air might afford him some relief. Early in the fall his official duties caused his return home, but still being feeble i e again sailed for England, accompanied by his young est daughter, and after again trying the effects ot that climate on his still tailing health, he was advised to try the more genial clime of Italy, wither he went, fixing his temporary abode at Florence, where he breathed his last iu peace on the instant, at 1873. 1873. 1871. ITTSl Republican ... 34,011 38,752 33,882 34. 1 rmocrat 36.584 34,009 '25.08* i .btral 6#0 1 empo.nuet>... 1 1)65 478 356 1.18T Labor Ml 'iS2 7 38* Republican majority 2*2 1.140 1.38* 1'autocratic plurality 807 Total 09,729 63.48* The Republicans a ill have a ma- whatever that during the recess a well matured scheme will be concoct ed for governmental supervision v.ver the railroads. Such a measure may be looked for the opening ot the next session, and this and other action on the rart of the railroads, which is considered unfair and unjust, whether truly so or not, will help the scheme amazingly.” The Chronicle and Sentinel of the 27th says Gen. Grant has done some good deeds, but they are set oft" by bad ones, and comments severe^ upon his re-appointment of Casey as Collector at New Orleans. His con duct has excited the indignation and disgust—not only of Democrats, but of the ablest and best men of the Re publican party, and “has been cor rupt and lawless beyond all example or precedent.” THE FREES ON JUDGE C1S10N. ERSKJNE'S DE- the Continent is doomed to sink, for an unknown period, into obscurity, and that over the grave of our hopes his tory will write—felo de se. The Savannah News, of the 27th, refers to the “recent Dominican out rage” as the legitimate “fruit of the Samana Bay Lease.” The case is briefly this: When the lease of the Bay became known one Nuezi, formerly Governor of Porto Plata in that island, was greatly in censed, alleging that he had not been allowed the liberty of expressing his views on the vote upon the ratifica tion of the lease. He charged that the people had been dragooned into voting for the measure, and that if coercion had not been used a large majority would have voted against the lease. He gathered some follow ers to make a popular demonstration against the measure, when Gonzales and his two sons appeared on the scene to arrest him. He aud his fol lowers took refuge iu the private residence of the British Consul, who refused to give them up when demanded by Gon zales, claiming that the British flag protected them in his private resi dence, the same as at his official Consulate office; but the fugitives were taken by force from the Consul’s residence, have been sent under guard from Porto Plata to San Do mingo, and thrown into a dungeon. This is the alleged outrage. The Consul protested, and is reported to have sent for an English man-of-war. “The affair, besides being an outrage on the prisoners, is regarded as an insult to the British Government, which Baez will doubtless have to pav dear for.” The News thinks President Baez would not have ventured to outrage the English flag had he not felt confi dent of the support of his American friend and Attorney General Grant, ana presents for our consideration the case of President Grant feeling constrained under pretense of enforc ing the Ku-Klux act or in the exer cise of some of his “war powers,” to espouse the cause of the Dominican Dictator, and remarks that there is no reason why he should not protect Baez in his outrages aud in this way also protect the interests of the Car business, and “there is no doubt r 'P” a g° °f seventy-five years aud two months. T he deceased j /elate was born in Burlington, Vermont, on the 19th of January, 1798; graduated at Prince ton College at the age of twenty-seven years; subsequently became Professor of Ethics at West Point, and obtained two honorary degrees, each from Ox ford and Cambridge. He was conse crated Bishop of Ohio in 1832, and had written several standard religious works, among them his Evidences of Christianit}’. Bishop Mcllvaine, at the time of his death, was one of the oldest pre lates in the Protestant Episcopal de nomination. The sorrowful news of his decease in a foreign land, far from home and those he loved most dearly, was received at the time with sorrow by men of every religious denomina tion, not confined to this country alone, but in every Christian land, men who esteemed him for his suavi ty of manners, his intellectual abili ties, his eminence as an author, his inflexible rectitude, his active philan- throphy, his devoted love of Country and his deep toned piety. He was truly a burning and a shining light, illustrating in his long, faithful and active life, that “ The Christian is the highest style of man,” and the faith ful Christion Minister an acknowl edged power for good. The Cartersville Standard and Ex press, of the 27th, says this decision “ appears to be rather the conclusion of a mind determined to decide in favor of the negro because he is a ne gro, rather than upon the real merits of the objection,” and “seemingly complains that because negroes are not upon the juries, convictions can not be had, upon the clearly intimated idea that they are either more up right or intelligent, or both, than the white men of the State,” which com plaint is not “in harmony with the truth, and reflects no credit upon the author,” and that on reaaing the de cision —“one cannot but be strongly im pressed with the opinion that Judge Erskine prefers the negro to the white man as a juror, and that it is his ju dicial policy to see to it that while he is on the bench, negroes shall be im- pannelled to try white men, to the exclusion of white men. The editor says those who knew Judge Erskine had hoped he was above the weakness of making so ab surd a decision, which “is in conso nance with extreme partisan of the lowest Radical form.” The Greensboro Herald agrees with the Macon Telegraph that the decis ion is a movement towards packing the juries of the Federal Courts. T he Augusta Chronicle and Senti nel, of the 27th says “an investiga tion by a fair and a trial by an im partial jury cannot be obtained under the new dispensation. The object of the ‘order* is to prevent fair trials. The object is to procure jurors who will indict and who will convict, whether the accused be innocent or guilty.” That journal illustrates by noticing the jurors taken from DeKalb county under this late “Jury Rule.” In that county having a population of eight or ten thousand there are just five white Radicals, and every one of these were drawn on the jury for this term —all the other jurors from this coun ty being negroes. Not a single Dem ocrat got into the jury box from De- Kalb. It predicts that the result will be the same or similar for every coun ty in the State as long as the “Rule” is enforced. Fifty per cent of every jury will be composed of colored Rad icals and the remainder of white Rad icals. THE PRESS ON JUDGE ERSKINE'S ClSION. The Newnan Herald says the more it investigates the late decision of John Erskine, Judge of the District Court of the United States, uphold ing the rule of Court by which ne groes are made jurors, the less respect it entertains for the decision or its author. The Herald says: Many bad things have beei#done in the South, since Lee’a surrender, by Uuited States officials, but we verily be lieve Erskine has done the worst, because we deem it a blow at the purity ot the jury box. We are well aware that his Honoris a man of feeble intellect and comparatively ignorant of law, yet we do not credit him with such feebleness of mind and ignorance that he is unaware of th*i fact that a rule of Court caunot re- peul a law of Congress. Wo go further and ilec ! are it a? our opinion thatErsk : ne did ’his thing reluctantly, but yet did it The Augusta Constitutionalist has an excellent article on the subject of “ Reform on Jury Trials,” in which it says that, “fortunately in our own State, under our laws the corruption has made comparatively little pro gress, and perhaps the only fault to be found is the sometime extreme re luctance of jurors to be the instru ments of causing the death penalty to be imposed upon criminals whose of fenses have made them amenable to it. But the evils are finding their way even into Georgia through the medium of the United States Courts.” Continues that paper: The decision of Judge Erskine, of At lanta, some time since, which was so for cibly condemned by Mr. Hill, will open np a fertile field for packing jury boxes in t bat court at any rate. And the evil once commenced, it is bard to tell where it will stop. The greatest protec tion to liie and property in the American Republic has hitherto been considered to lie in the fairness of jury trials in its State and Federal Courts. >44 Mr. Darwin is credited with the statement that infants do not know how to weep strong; for like the man who has capital invested in different kinds of business, should one fail, he still has other resources to fail back upon. The Republican makes the point that— “ the wealth of Georgia before the war, was invested in a great part in ne- giois. and wheu they were freed, th*rt * i* general bankruptcy or great financial embarrassments. Those who had then capital invested iu real estate m cities towua, etc., aud owned ruiiroud stock, lost but little—but the planter was ruin ed.” Says the Republican: The strength aud wealth of a people, or the great arms of power, ccnsnt, first, in Agriculture; second, in Mann facturitig; and thirdly, in Commerce. When combined, they are all-powerful, aud the nation or people that combines all three iu itself can langh defiance at nil threats. Had the Confederate States during the war been strong in manufac tures, and personally known to the world as exporting ana importing peo ple, owned vessels and traded direct, the war would not have been of a year’s du ration. The Rome Commercial, in noticing that the State Treasurer is meeting with admirable success in disposing of the Nutting Bonds in some por tions of the State, says: We truht that our citizens will not be behind those in other sections. Persons seeking an investment should give the matter their serious attention. These bonds are entirelv non-taxable; pay a handsome investment, and are of early maturity, and in giving them the prefer ence we perform a patriotic duty and lend our aid in sustaining what is dear to us all, the State's credit. The Columbus Enquirer doea not much like the suggestion that the Federal Government will claim and exercise control over the railroads of the country, as a means of forcing them to terms—upon which proposi tion it comments as follows: It it may do this for the convenience of its postal service, why may it not by similar measures press the State local offi cers into its service for the convenience of its revenue system or its judiciary ? We regard it as a question of naked right merely, for the Southern States are not munificently favored by the Government postal regulations, and their share of the inconveniences of the system are bnt little greater than would be their share of a grand burst-up of the national finan cial system. “Blessed are they who have little, for they cannot be made to lose much.” jonty of fifty-three iu the Legisla ture on joint ballot, as against sixty- three last year. But for the snows and severe weather in some of the back Democratic > untie . the aggre- ate vote of the State would hare been much larger and the Democratic gains in proportion. Robe rt E. Lee, son of the late General Lee, is the Democratic can didate for Governor in Virginia. CoL R.W. Hughes is spoken of as the nom inee by the Republicans. i— ■■■ ■■■«■ ..i ——*— menf. If t m -nitt-rinr to railroad eom- • and r KiMia thsir :«**»• wheat vor it b til Ul-pi st»l or iv neo- **v*r the railway c in -i••?»»* t n in n on a higher rate of compt-ns itiou l>-<n tne Oover.-nueut i* witling to ilV>w. w* visit not i-nperior to othere-unpnnies and able to d in whatever private property it pleasts ? Unless this superior power ia i!efim-<l and this right of “seizure” re- stricter!, we shall soon arrive at despotism pure and simple. THE NEW HAMPEHiKM ELECTION. The following is the result of the late electiou in New Hampshire, witR the exception of one small town, compared with previous elections: Ordination »i Colored bishopi* The ordiuatiou ot rti. mree Bishops elected Saturday by m* Conference of the Colored Metlio nst Church in Ameri ca, took place Sunday afternoon at 8 o’clock, at Trinity M. E. Colored Cburoh, on Jack-on street. The ordination ser mon was delivered, by Bishop George F. Pierce, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The newly elected Bishops, Rev. Joc^ A Beebe, Rev. L. H. Holsey, and Rev, Isaac Lane were tuen ordained by Bishop William H. Miles, assisted by Rev. Elder* William Taylor, of Texas; Job Croach, of Ten lessee; Stokes Steele, of Loui»> iana, and B. S. Newton, of Kentucky. Iu the ceremony of laying on of handa Bishop Pierce also assisted, and after ward delivered the Consecration Prayer. The ohuroh was crowded to its ntmoet capacity. There were a very large num ber of whito people present.—Augusta ConslitutioncuifU, 2i>lh. The Griffin News Inis interviewed the member of Congrts* tr«>m this dis trict to this efft-et, iu part. He says: Mr. Frteiuau is still of tne opinion that General Grant bus u< tnaiioe toward* tie South, and that hi* tummi-ti .tinn will be mild but firm. H ■ >, tn. Con federate officers wu . vp.it i.uu with great court»*»y and ci.siuercion, and their meetings are , onlial Tbs President is worried • -•»» «*l his sense by the everlasting tea-... ^ ot politician*, and the thousands <-t seedy ensses, each of whom secured Ins election, and now want a fat office to p - for it. A btaerouitm Kobo. I-.vpoultlwa- We learn that a Kd« in Alabama, in behalf ot bers-U »uu family, has ten dered to the Mouup.oliIbi Association, through the g< pend .tgeute, m present of sufficient marnle to ban.I t..»- Confed erate monument. 1< is of the purest white aud has been , rouocn > d as beau tiful as the far-famed Carrara. Tba quarry from which it u obtained lies on ly four miles from the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad. We are not permitted to pnblisli tba name of the lady who make* this splendid offer to aid, as she expresses it, “a cause so near to the aeart of every true Southron.”—Chroni cle <& Sentinel. several days old. until they are I'his is opposed to the authority of Sir William Jones’ epigram, which says that children weep “while all around them smile.” Perhaps the point of Darwin’s view is that children begin to cry the mo ment they have time to find out what kind of a world they come into. The Columbus Sun says it is cer tainly a cheering sign to see the unanimous condemnation of the Press in reference to the briberies, railroad thefts and peijuries, and the last Congressional steal. Says the San: It proves that, however deep professed dt magogues and office hunters may sink the country in the mire of disgrace and degradation, still the sonl of honesty and patriotism lives yet, among the masses of our people. Men may conscientiously differ about particular measures, and their good and evil effects upon the country, bat as to the crimes of theft, bribery and perjury, there can be bnt odo opinion in upright minds, and that opin ion must take shape iu the personal, so cial and political scorn end ostracism of tne perpetrators and criminals. The Albany News says, in order to comprehend the duplex, double-back action ot the Nutting scheme, it is necessary to compare time with the aggregate interest to be paid. It makes the comparison thus: The interest on our old six per cent, bonds equalled the face of the bond in sixteen years and eight months, and on the seven per cent, bonds, in fourteen years and a fraction. This new loan, if negotiated at par, will give ns the use of 81,200.000 for the period of seven years and six months, all told. And will yield seventy-five per cent, of the entire amount or $900,000. The Chronicle and Sentinel, refer ring to a Washington special, which states that it is probable the railroad companies will recede from the posi tion they have assumed, oi a deter mination to withdraw the postal cars after the first of April, as it is under stood that the Government would take most decided action in the mat ter and compel them to nm their cars. “The Government is superior to the railroad companies, and could claim their lines as postal routes, should the necessity arise.” Says it iB — about time that the people should know and understand what limits there are to the powers of the General Govern. Th< Cotton Pool. The cotton pool, which wa* formed by the Augusta Exchange, closed on tb« 18th. The envelopes sent in to the Sec retary, were opened by the committee^ composed ol Messrs. O. H. Phinizy, W. O. Sibley, J. J. Doughty, 0. B. Bacon, J. M. Burdell and W. S. Roberts, by whom the several estimates were exam ined, approved and recorded. The origi nal record and the estimates were then sealed and placed in tne bank, where they will remain until the close of the cotton year. The person coming nearest the total number of balee, as determined by the New York Financial Chronicle, ox September 1st, 1873, takes the money. Three hundred and fifty-seven esti mates in all, were received, ten of which were from newspapers publishing the notice ol the formation of the pool Tue average estimates were 3,764,§80 bales.— Augusta Constitutionalist 25th. The German Kmigrant* In Bartow. The following statement from the Oar- tersville Standard and Express of Thurs day explains itself: The statement made in the Atlanta Herald of Sunday last, to the eheot that the proprietors of the Bartow Iron Works, near this city, had deceived and inveigled a parcel of German emigranta to come from New York to Georgia, un der promise of getting steady employ ment in the gas works at Cartersville at good wages, turns out to be rather sensa tional than real. We are informed that out of about forty emigrants only four bad qnit work ana tried to run off, but three of them were arrested and brought cack; the fourth one is still at large. The Messrs. McNeal & Stones, proprie tors, are honorable, high-mindec, Chris tian gentlemen, and would not stoop to such Tow, dirty tricks to secure laborer*. They paid the fare of all these emigrants from New York, amounting to between $30 and $40, each to work in these iron works, and not in gas works st Carters* ville, as was stated. We have no gas works in this city. If each a promise as this was made to them, it was not mads or authorized to be made by these pro prietors. The four emigrants who tried to ran off intended to evade the payment of their passage money, donbtlees. One of whom had in his pockot, we are farther reliably informed, $400 in gold, and doubtless intended to set up shop for himself. The balance are all at work, and after they have worxed out their passage money, if they are dissatisfied with their wages and wish to qnit, we will warrant tnat the proprietors will not interpose an objection. Fitch has formed a literary society in Griffin for the purpose oi levating the tone of the Star.

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