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THE ATLANTA SUN 1
ANSWER V ro CORMMRP XVESTS.
A subscriber in Montana Territo-;
ry, inquires if we have retired from
The Sun. In reply we say to him j
that we have not, and do not intend
to do so. The change spoken of in
our connection with this paper relates
only to the proprietorship of it. We
are no longer to be concerned with
its financial transactions, or business
affairs; but ere still to retail! our po
sition as chief political editor, and in
this position onh to be considered as
responsible only for such articles, in
the future, as in the past, as appear
over our initials.
Another subscriber in Indiana
wishes to know the price of latids in
Georgia—whether there are any Gov
ernment lands in the State, and what
would be the prospects of immi
grants, etc. In reply to him weh#ve
to say that cleared lands in Georgia
range in price on an average, we
should think, from two to twenty-five
dollars j>er acre. There are no pub
lic or government lands in the State;
but, in almost every section of the
State, on whatever quality of land
that may be judiciously selected, a
profit of twenty per cent, may be
realized by good husbandry on the
capital invested.
This remark is not intended to
apply to those who attempt to run
plantations or farms without capital,
or wno rely upon procuring provis
ions by giving liens upon their
crops. Advances of capital on such
liens ar? usually not under forty per
cent. The general result is taat
those who thus attempt to run plan
tations or farms realize a loss instead
of a profit. We mean only to say
tliut actual capital—cash in hand—
judiciously invested and properly
managed in almost every part of
Georgia can be made to yield a profit
of twenty per cent
This applies to the general agricul
ture of the State—the production of
the great staple cotton, with a suf
ficiency of the cereals, corn, wheat,
oats, Ac., with garden vegetables, etc.,
to keep up the plantation, or farm,
as the case may be.
Lands in Georgia can be easily
bought in any quantities from 25 to
2,500 acres—but it would be diffi
cult, perhaps, to get the higher priced
lands in quantities less than 200 or
300 acres.
As to our opinion of the prospect of
immigrants, etc., we can only add in
further reply to our correspondent
that we do not know any other equal
portion of the globe where the induce
ments for making a permanent home,
with the view of success iu life, by hon
est labor or enterprise of auy sort, are
stronger than in Georgia; or, iu
other words, where labor in auy and
every one of its departments will
yield ampler returns than in this
Stale. This we think we demon
strated in the House of Representa
tives! of the Congress of the United
States, in 1854, in the contrast then
exhibited between the productive ca
pacities of “ Georgia and Ohio.” We
refer our correspondent to that speech.
In reply to what he asks about oqr
State Government, and the condition
of society, we can assure him that all
is now moving along well and har-
raouioualy. It is true we were greatly
cursed for a while with Radical mis
rule under the gross and infamous
usurpations of the “ Reconstruction
Acts,'’ so-called. But, with a “patient
suffering” for a while, which few peo
ple ev?r exhibited, Georgia, without
resorting to auy other force thau the
peaceful instrumentalities of the law
and the ballot-box, has thoroughly
tucceeled in rescuing the administra
tion of her internal affairs, and driv
ing fmn power the usurpers who
were fattening upon har substance.
Peac?, quiet, harmony and pros
perity now prevail throughout the
State under exercised rights of local
self-government
In no one of the States are the
rights of person and property, in
cluding ail classes, black as well as
white, better protected than in Geor
gia at present This is our firm con
viction. It is true we are still suffering
from the effects of the misdeeds of our
late ruler?. They greatly increased the
public debt. To meet this, as far as
good faith requires, and only so far,
imposes the burden of increased
taxes. This burthen, however, is not
so heavy in Georgia as it is in several
of the Northern States, to say noth
ing of our other down-trodden sisters
of the South.
This is all we can now say to onr
Indiana friend upon the subject of
this enquiry. Other correspondents
will be attended to at an early day.
a. H. s.
•* democratic stead fasts ess.'
In
^ ATLANTA WBElKLiY ^CTJST—A PR11
ronit, . ... , , 1 hose differences. Unlessthe Demo-! Antimiitioc «t
reply to our neighbor of the'emtir ...t UlT 16S Ot
Constitution, in its articl£ vesterdav 1 . P ? d . he "° te ° f wa ‘' nin « *
momincr ^ ^ i ,n time, there will be other “ trusted , . r .
we havf’t ^ wk f b ° Ve 5* pt,Cn ’ Baders” who will rise un to decoy and 1 STRANGE HIEROGLYPHICS wbtnV
we have to repeat that “we have no deceive us as ia the past. * • ' »-■— ■
5=2 lo r /3.
repeat that
quarrel to make with those of our
Democratic friends who conceived it
to be to the best interest of the conn-
try, under the circumstances at the
time, to vote for Mr. Greeley; but
what we most desire is that they
should profit by tbe blunders of the
past and take warning from the latal
results of a Presidential campaign
conducted ou a line of laise policy
which divided the Democratic party
and scattered its forces, and came
very near destroying its vitality.”
What we say ou this point is said
in no spirit of crimiuation. Our so
licitude for Democratic success in the
future is the prime motive that con
strains us to plead for Democralic
harmony ami unity on the right line
ol principles, and to warn our friends
against the intrigues anu schemings
of political trimmers and traders who
would Radicalize the Democracy and
sacrifice public liberty in order to at
tain their nefarious ends. That the
lurge bulk of the Democracy that
supported Mr. Greeley did it consci-
enti iualy we do not pretend to ques
tion, 60 far as it was a question of
choosing between evils ; but that they
did so, believing that they were voting
for a strict maintenance of Demo
cratic principle, we do not and can
not believe. It was seemingly forced
ujxrn them by “ trusted leaders,”
whose designs were not so much
Democratic as they were to promote
central government. The “ rank and
file” of the party never dreamed of
the nomination of Mr. Greeley, the
most intense Abolitionist and Radi
cal in the country, until it was made
at Cincinnati, and then they did not
believe the nomination would be in
dorsed at Baltimore.
We most emphatically deny any
animadversion upon the party proper
in whatever of support from its rank
was given to Mr. Greeley. We con
demn the policy that ignored well-
grounded and long-cheiished princi
ples, the going outside of the party
for its candidates, and tht threatened
disintegration of the party by so do
ing. and the fatal results following so
stupendous a piece of political folly
As to “ the destructive course of the
Straight element,” we have only to
reply that they showed better discre
tion in adhering to time-honored
principles, and refusing to make a
single step in the direction of the so-
called “ progressive ideas of the day.”
They were faithful to the past record
of the party. But the writer who,
himself, voted for Mr. Greeley, upon
the grounds stated in our issue of
Tuesday, does not, and will not, pre
tend to say, that the Straights are
better Democrats than thousands who
voted for Mr. Greeley; but he does
contend that they acted the wiser
part, though, perhaps, with no better
motives than those who acted differ
ently. And in so contending, and
appealing to the party to avoid simi
lar blunders in the future, the writer
does so in no Pharisaical spirit, an
imputation he can only treat with si
lence.
We hope our neighbor will not at
tempt to strain the meaning of our
article in its efforts to make it appear
that we claim Democratic fealty alone
for the Straights, when we do no
such thing, and sternly repudiate
such pretension. We have set up no
such claim, nor shall we do so. Men
of the best and purest intentions
oftou differ, and one sid£ or the other
must be nearest the line of right. As
one who voted with the bulk of the
party last year, we simply contend
that those who refused to do so, we
think, acted more wisely than we did.
Because ol onr earnestness in ap
pealing for the harmony and unity
of the party upon a line of correct
Democratic principles, we trust our
neighbor will not impute to us any
motive looking to toe condemnation
of our Democratic friends for the
past We believe most seriously that
they were actuated by honorable in
tentions. ' Honest and conscientious
men are liable to be misled as thou
sands were last year. No reflection
is intended upon their political integ
rity because they were so misled; and
it is not better known elsewhere than
it is in the office of our neighbor,
that The Bun has no other object
in view on the points under discussion
than to raise its voice against the in
troduction of future “ilisturbing ele
ments” into the Democratic ranks.
In conclusion, we repeat what has
so often been said iu these columns,
that we are for burying the past dif
ferences in the party, but not for bury-
jj,.r the principles of Democracy with
It is b\ re
v-rting to the errors of the past that
wtf niay avoid error* in the future.
SPIRIT OF THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Savannah News, in an article
on railroad monopolies, and the dis
cussion ou the sunject by the press, i
thinks that its centralizing tenden
cies are too apparent and the nsuk
entirely too doubtful, and that the
agitation, nevertheless, is ominous,
and it would be well for those who
have the management of railroads to
take some steps to prevent a series cf
contests which promises to be as dis
astrous as the foolish feud between
capital and labor. Concluding, the
News says:
The question involving the relation
of railroads to the people—to agricul
ture and commeroe—is an extremely
delicate one and involves various in
terests. Carefully prepared laws by
competent State Legislatures might
do much to prevent odious discrimi
nations in the t/ansportation of
freights, but the matter is not one to
be disposed iu an ex parte manner.
Referring to the murder of General
Can by by the Modocs, the Macon
Enterprise pronerly thinks no brave
or honorable man, of course, will ap
prove of the treacherous and cowardly
manner'in which the man met his
death. The Enterprise as justly at
tributes the prime cause of such
trouble. It says:
But this Modoc war is directly
traceable to that band of thieves em
ployed by the Government ol the
United States in its intercourse and
dealings with the aboriginees. They
buy their lands and agree to pay them
in agreed upon sums for them. The
money is duly drawn from the Treas
ury and the ageut for its disburse
ment then forms partnership with a
lot of swindlers who accompany him
to the stations, and instead of paying
the cash, they pay off in cheap
toggery—in beads, feathers and Cin
cinnati whisky.
Condemning the Indian policy of
the Federal Government with specia 1
reference to the murder of General
('auby by the Modocs, the Chronicle
and Sentinel says that if the Indians
murdered the settlers of the border,
violated their wives, and carried their
children into captivity worse than
death, broad-brimmed commissioners
were sent to explain to them the sixth
commaudment, and offer them arms
and money in unlimited quantity
and amount, to make peace with the
Government of the Great Father at
Washington. In conclusion, that
paper says:
But if the citizens of a great State
refused to submit to -usurpation, and
opposed usurpers with the machinery
of the courts, the military power of
the nation was soon arrayed against
them, and every attempt at resistance
promptly crashed. While the bayo
nets of united States soldiers were at
the throats of the people of Louisiana,
Captain Jack and tke Modocs were
allowed to murder and rob with im
punity. The President, who lights
with the South and treats with the
Indians, is responsible for the tragedy
of the lava beds.
The Milledgeville Union and Re
corder, on the subject of new parties,
involving the disbandment of the
Democratic party, says the old De
mocracy is good enough, and if Re
publican institutions and a free gov
ernment are ever restored to the
country it must be done by the Dem
ocratic party. Says that paper:
We might as well talk of dissolving
the Republic and destroying the Con
stitution as of disbanding the Demo
cratic party. Let those ^Republicans
who have become disgusted with the
corruptions of their own party come
up like men and join the Democracy
and help ns drive the rascals from
power.
In regard to the Atlantic and Great
Western Canal, the Athens Watch
man thinks that if onr people are
determined to continue the present
policy ot depending upon the West
for their prevision supplies, it be
comes a matter of stupendous impor
tance to them to reduce the cost of
transportation. It makes this centre
shot in its favor:
As water carriage is but a trifle
compared to the expense of land
transportation, the canal has become
a necessity to the people of the South
and West. Railroad transportation
robs the Western producer and grinds
the Southern consumer. The pro
posed canal will relieve both sections.
A TrigriCA ' ,,nje ® *°me »rmeu n-nord**, *uch record-,
>-!* are no» uow known to exist, be du>-
! oov-red.
1 be oeieniifi • wnrM will bail tbe da'
do * future clmuipn n shall ex nos-
• htxe burntlyt'iiH-a, when
; some future riuiulvolitt nr Bumeubitcli
M*THC THE (XR1 llVur TH« P**T dw'fjf U»“ rtcea.ai.d wtien, if It
: l*e possible, » uie tntnre Prescott or
I Magpie} ► hal! rairaiv wifi accuracy and
nu'Qld'lnn tn« i-n. quest-, nud explain the
dtotomu'ic iiiau >rj ..f tti-ae uow unknown
■JHUOLS, «>nr pret.ccea* ix >n possession
of tbe western n-tut-plier*. May the
nnie not t*o ft.r dt-taut «h.-u nil t*t all be
tn ide plain co 'cerjing tbe aut>quitieeof
America.
HISTORY'S Dl.tl DISTANCE !
BY W. C 8
It is staged that the importa
tions into this country so far the pres
ent year are enormous, and have
uever been equaled in the annals of
our oommeice. To this is mainly
owing the present high price of gold.
Self-laudation on the part of a
journal tan be ve.v pita-ant au 1 aoios-
( .,g ,u.- i« la •« s- .-4 o f u t« »-t-
nt-firs‘n peorue o as-.e
For the San.
For more than three • nudied vrur*
.‘be subject of American Antiquities ba>
eDgased the minds and occut i. d the
time of scholars in Europe and America,
especially that of historians, autiqumaus
tnd students of Ethnology. Dnriuir
these three hundred years of genntne
effort in this direction, a.though nineb
paper, with pens of gold, steel and
feathers, with a corresponding supply of
ink, has been consumed, almost nothing
has been made known concerning the
origin a> d history of those mvstenous
rH*T atilt mtate papers.
— Athens has lieen risked by several
fios'u wisliin tne part week.
—Tee public well seems to be the oen-
tre ol Fort Valley.
— A Savannah negro attempted to kill
hi? wife or Tuesday. He was arrested.
— The Athens Cornet Band, nnder the
lead of G**orge Davis, are getting up a
a ve-y ueat nmform.
— At Fort Vai’ey, the son of Mr. Da
vid Preston died of meningitis on Mon
day night last.
—Col. W. A. Little, of Talbotton, islo
be invited to deliver the memorial ad-
races once inhabiting the whole of this! dress at Fort Valley.
vast Continent.
We mean those mound-*, buried cities,
with their pyramid-, temples, and
statnes, and those loitidcations, which
are to be found m gieater or less
abundance all over the inhabitable re
gions of North and South America, and
uot the cities nnd fortifications which
Cortez saw *n Mexico, which were the
work of the Aztecs, or th paolic road:-,
temples, aud other poolic buildings seen
by Pizarroin Peru to be .he woiz of the
Incan.
The olonds of mystery have never yet
been lifted which lmugs like a dark veil
ever the history of these mounds, an
cient fortifications and caves, whose
rocky floors are strewed with the sknils of
an unknown rece, which are to be found
iu North America; the buried cities, cov
ered with a thick growth of aged trees,
aud shadowed in the deep gloom of a
tropi -al forest, the gigantic monoliths,
ihe rained pyramids and ciumbling tow
ers of Central America; and the mined
temples, almost hidden in the deep val
leys, with the remnants of Titcan gran-
duer in South America. By whom, and
at wbet period of tne world’s history,
those curious and intricately carved hier
oglyphics, which the traveler discovers
on toe walls of the temples of Palenque,
or on the massive statues of Copan, scho
lastic ingenuity, backed by the patient
and critical eye of the antiquarian, has
failed to discover; neither are the found
ers of the monuments on which
they are graven known to the
scientific world. The hieroglyphics
themselves are a mystery, how mncli
much greuter a mystery are the histories
thpy nurrate, the manners and customs
they describe, the song they singl
The sculptured gods and hetoes of
Copan remain unworshipped and nnad-
mired; the stony palace of Pallenque no
longer beholds, for walls have eyes, the
proud|maguificence; nor hears, for walls
nave ears, the haughty manda es, or the
secret consultations of tbe Kings who
once lived therein. Tbe lofty temples
and commodions dwellings of Uxmal,
which seem m the pale light
of a summer moon, to the trav
eler who oomes suddenly npon them to
be the temples of Genii, or the house of
wood-sprites, no longer are filled with
prayers or incense, nor ecno to the
voices or resonnd to the tread of their
former occupants. All is now Bilent
tuere and undisturbed, save by the
stealthy tread of a passing savage, or the
pryiru hand of the explorer of antiqui
ties, aud the serpent, the lizard, and the
toad, now are inhabitants of the oity by
day, and the next, tbe bat and the owl
by night.
Mighty trees, spread their gnarleo
and knotty limbs over the stone terrace s,
or grasp the huge stones of the pyramids
with their snake-like roots. Long, long,
no mortal knows hou> long, have the re
mains of unknown grandeur and magnifi
cence waited for the retnrn of their
builders.
The massive walls and crumbling tow
ers of Tin Huacan, no longer uphold the
fighting host, nor are filled with the
sbonts of the victor, or the cries of the
vanquished; Mitla, silent mausoleum of
the dead, and Santa Cinz del Quiche are
no longer filled with funeral processions
of strange solemn.ty, nor with the clang
of armorers’ hammers, as they forge new
weapons for welfares. The civilized
tiib-'S of Central anu South America are
amoug tne things whose vary names have
been forgotten.
Again, we wonder at the Btrange taste
of those ancient inhabitants of the
United States who built their mounds
nor the dead above the snrfaoe of tne
earth, aud dug subterraneous chambers,
which we tiud abounding with stone and
copper utensils uml ornaments, and some
times with skeletons, on whose necks are
found chains, and in whose ears are rings
of gold aud silver, for their daily resi
dence.
Again, what warlike race built those
long lines of fortifications, as in Arkan
sas, or those circular and square forts
and double lines of defense, as in Ohio
and Kentucky, or founded with infinite
labcr the massive rains ot Tubao, in
Arizona, or of Zunini, New Mexico ?
Should we ask poor history how all
these thing" were, she would throw down
her pen in despair and weep for vexa
tion.
All, all, is so far a mystery. The
Egyptian, the Norwegian, the Chinese,
hypothesis for accounting for theee re
mains, by supposing that one or the
other of these nations once peopled with
emigrants this continent, and built or ex
cavated them, give no satisfaction. But
they are of a different type of architec
ture and sculpture from the buildings,
ancient or modern, of any one of these
three ancient pioneers in disooveiy.
They may indeed be a kind of combina
tion of all tnese three styles of architec
ture, together with an ancient Hindoo
t_\ pe, though this is very uncertain.
If tne hieroglyphics of Central America
could t« deciphered, they would no doutn
throw much light upon the origin and
history of one of the most civilized of
those truly aboriginal races, who once
iuhabiied bat deligbtnl region; probably
npon the history ol the Toltecs, said by
tbe Aztecs to be the original inhabitants
of that conntrv. Bat tne moands of
Nouh Aa.o.u», and tbe ante-ineal rains
ot S*ut i Am-rica, o ust ever remain
covered with obecaritv, unless ia future'
—Walker Upshaw (colored) and W.
R. Manning are the n-xt United States
Grand Jurors from Floyd eoanty,
— Opposition has induced the aban
donment of the Sunday Hchool picnic at
Cathonn.
—Bishop Beckwith confirmed quite a
number of persons in the Episcopal
Churches of Augusta on Taeeday last.
—A large black African tiger was de
tected carrying off a yonnggoat from the
farm of a gentleman a few miles above
Augusta, last Monday.
—Frank Shedreck an individual of the
Augusta colored persuasion, was arrested
by the polioe on Tuesday, on the charge
of beating his wife.
—The Rome Courier twits the Com
mercial upon its bad grammar and the
Commercial disparages^the orthography
of the Courier.
—The Athens Watchman regards the
wheat crop in Clarke connty and the
surroandiug section as rather unpromis
ing, but the editor says thiB is regarded
as a Bign of a he>vy yield.
— The residence of Mr. Archy Miller,
near Colnmbus, was totally destroyed by
fire on Thursday nignt of last week.
None of the contents were saved except
two feather beds.
— The Borne Commercial says: “ The
Etna Iron Works are not maxing iron
now. The hearth of the blast chimney
has been taken out and a new one is
being put in place. This will only re
quire a few days when the works will be
put in full operation.
—Two negro men had a difficulty in
Muscogee county last Monday, about a
woman. The result was that one of them
was beaten with a persimmon pole in tbe
hands of the other. The negro beaten
afterwards borrowed a gun and deliber
ately shot the other.
—Mr. Hope J. Brogdon, living near
Buford, on the Air-Line Railroad, died
on Thursday night of last week. Mr.
Cashwell Brand, another old and highly
respected citizen of Gwinnett, died at
his residence, in the lower part of the
connty, last week, after a long life, well
spent
—A man was arrested at Berzeha on
Tuesday last by United States Marshals
from South Carolina, for the crime of
murder in that State. When the said
officials landed from the cars, the guilty
man attempted to get out of the way by
flight, bat was shot in the shoulder and
then arrested.
—The firemen of Augusta, taking advan
tage of their approaehing general parade
and contest, are organizing a pool. Th3
prices of ohanoes ia fixed at $1. The
one who comes nearest naming the num
ber of feet and inches played by the v>o-
torions third class steamer take* the pool.
— The vigilant Fire Company, No. 3,
of Augusta, will don a handsome new
uniform on the oooosion of the grand
firemens’ parade next month. The ooat
is of black broadcloth, trimmed with red,
and the pants are ot blaok material.
Tbs Hirolm ot th« A elastic—Am Amer
ica* Girl.
A Halifax letter, in reference to the
Atlantic disaster, says: “ One of tbe ro-
man tic incidents of this terrible calamity
has been tbe discovery that one of the
men, a common sailor, and one whose
life was sacrificed in efforts to save
others, was a yonng woman of about
twenty-five years of age. Her sex was
not known nntil the body was washed
ashore, and tbe rude clothing removed
preparatory for burial. 8he had served
as a common sailor for three voyages,
and was a favorite ship-mate with alL
She is described as having fewer of the
vices incident to a sailor’s life than is
usual, but she was, nevertheless, as jolly
an old tar as any of them. One of the
survivors of the erew, in speaking of her,
remarked: 'I didn’t know Bill was a
woman. He used to take bis liquor an
regular as any of as, and was always beg
ging and stealing tobaooa He was a
good fellow, thongh, and I am sorry he
was a woman.’ The most aingnlar part
of the whole story is that the woman was
an American, and was about the only one
of that nationality belonging to the erew.
Who she was, and where she was from,
and her motive for leading such a strange
life of hardship, never was, and never
will be fully known.”
Asfsits Pnibfltrr.
The “ Presbytery of Angosto” at ita
meeting at Sparta appointed 1st Sabbath
in May as the day for the installation of
Rev. George T. Goetchius, called to the
Preubyterian church in this place. Rev.
C. P. Beeman was appointed to preach
the sermon and propound the constitu
tional questions, with Rev. R. C. Smith
as alternate. Rev. Henry Newton to de
liver charge to the pastor. Rev. C. W.
Lane to deliver charge to tLe people.
Rev. W. 8. Bean received a call from
Washington, Ga., and will be ordained
and pastor of the Presbyterian church at
that place the same day.
Rev. Thomas Cleveland will be in
stalled pastor of the Presbyterian church
at Gainesville about the same day.
Rev. T. P. Cleveland and Ruling El
der Henry B. Smith of Bethany cbnrch
were appointed Commissioners to the
Presbyterian General A-semoiv to meet
at Little Rock, Arkansas, on the 15th of
May next.—Milledgeville Ueion and Re
corder, 16/A. _
Mrs. N. P. Willis has a home at Rome.
-Ft Mia /SAY MtmmmtjrM.
•I*.w be nrc*roe Jad|t-A Pier* of WSW*
Published ftilstorjr.
From th* Columbia* boo.
Now that tbe official whose name bwadi
bis article occupies a space in the publla
miuo at> Urge as it is unenviable, it may
interest the |>eop)eot Georgia to read s
bit of unpublished history disclosing tba
circumstanceo wnioh placed him in tbs
high position he so anworthiiy occupies.
Every one remembers the chaos whieb
enveloped our State following the sor.
render of the Confederate armies. Oof*
ing these dark days of uncertaintv and
oread many meetings w* re held through,
out the State by citizens Hm. wu asUutoft
but honest men, to appoint del gates I#
proceed to Washington and secure order
and civil government from !resident
Johnson. One ol the largest of theew
meetings wis held at Columbus, eat.
bracing representatives from a number
of counties. It was composed of gooA
citizens aud tax-payera. Men who w<
origins ly Union men and opposed to t
cession, but who did not forget he IMS
of kiuured, and were not false to th*
claims of neighbors and friends.
Amoug the dt legates appointed by th*
Columbus conveimuu vas Col. M., with
others, who nailed upon Mr. Johuso*
and were kiudlv received. Tne Pieat.
dtLt, knowing of the representation afe
Washington i.om Geor ia, requested
lb<w Uio deiega.es eh uul hold a meeting
a*nl designate acceptable men who would
undertake to onug aoout ord> r and se.
cure peace to Georgia. The meeting
was held and Hon. James Johnson sug
gested as Provisional Governor. House
ted by the Columbus delega.es, ae
he was a lellow-iowustnan and a man ot
talent aud integrity.
About this tune he members »f th*
meeting preseut, with a show of an.
thority, were disgusted to find them
selves outnum' ered by a ring ot
Washington hangers-on from Georgia,
led by “bland uud childlike” Loch*
rane. One Rid lelev or R^dlet, of 8*>
Yanosh, was proposed as United States
Marshal. Who is this man ? asked Oak
M. There he sits, was the reply. QtM*
tions duly put demonstrated that he wag
not a citizen of Georgia, and soon th*
ring dropped him. Stone was then se
lected against the protest that no moo al
any position oi that name lived in Sav**--
nah.
Then Jno. Erskine was named to flit
the high position as Judge of the United
States District Court. Co). M , ever
on the alert iu the interest of bis Stated
demanded, who is Jno. Erskine? Me,
Erskine ia immediately on your right, re
plied one of the ring. But who is he f
asked the vigilant delegate. I assure thin
meeting, he added, that I know whereof
I speak and I unhesitatingly auy that
(here is not a lawyer in Georgia of any
reputation whatever, named “Erskine/*
But the ring uad tne programme cut and
dried, and Jno. E'skiue was thrust npon
tbe people of G ••.rg.a against the will of
the delegates who were pre ent with *
show of autnorry.
Public meeting lu Cruwfordvllls*
Whereas, In purntiauce of an invitation
from HisExoj1I«uc>, Governor James M.
Smith, iu his prouiaxiution of tho 7tu
ins*., inviti g tne cities and corporated
towns of this >Sru r e i<f jo:u in the delib
erations of a convention to be held in
the oity of Atlanta on the 20t.li of May,
prox., to consider the expediency of con
necting the Great West with the South
by Canal, by seuding delegates to said
convention, the Hon. Geo. F. Bristow
was eailed to the chair, and Wm N.
Mercier requested to aot as Secretary,
The object of the convention being
explained, and the great aud pressing
necessity for a cheaper, more certain,
communication with, and transit for trad*
between the two great agricultural re
gions of the Union—the South and
West —in a short, pertinent and spiritual
speech by the chairman; whereupon th*
following resolutions were offered by Col.
James F. Reid, and were unanimously
passed:
Resolved 1st, That we approve and
cordially endorse the objeets of said con
vention, and especially do we hope wild
delight the assembling of any delibem-
tive body, which has for its objeots th*
establishment of more intimate and eon-
dial relatives between those two greet
sections of the Union—tbe North, weal
and Sooth—by giving to tbe produotiona
of each cheaper rates of freight, and
thereby closer into State communication
between their people.
Resolved 2d, That the following nimod
gentlemen be end they are hereby ap
pointed delegates to said Convention,
with power to appoint alternates to aid
in the deliberation of said oody, and tahe
soch other steps as may be neoessaiy fa*
the attainment of tbe objects indicated
in first reeolntion, viz.: Hon. Geo. F.
Bristow. James F. Reid, Esq., Wm. H.
Brook, Esq., Wm. N. Mercier, Wm. Q.
Stephens, Esq., L. A. Stephens, Wm. J.
Norton, C. E. Smith, Quintnes Richards^
Chas. Bergstram and Dr. R. J. Reid.
Whereupon the meeting adjourned
after passing a resolution that the Seen
tary furnish proceedings of this mnoting
to The Atlanta Sue and Augusta Ohrote-
iole and Sentinel.
Geo. F. Bbistow,
Wm. N. lissom, Chairman.
Secretary.
OaAWtomnuM, Ga., Apr. 16, 73-
EaUrpriK.
Two of oor Atlanta ootemporaries, th*
Herald and Constitution have been for
some time toying eacn to outdo the other
in the sort of enterprise that characteri
zes quack doctors, consisting chiefly in
persistent blowing, flaming handbills, end
a sort of impertinent intermeddling in
each others affairs. They make then-
selves prominent in the same fashion that
a belligerent Hibernian at a Donnybrook
Fair foroes quiet people to notioe him,
by a free use of his ahillellab and urgent
invitations to the bystanders to taeaa on
the tail of his ooat,
Saving up matter for a whole week,
and bringing out quadruple sheets on
Sunday may serve to amuse our Atlanta
neighbors, bat they are being edified a*
the expense of those who foot ink and
paper and composition biffs. But then
we never read that tne boy» in tbe fahl*
stopped flinging stones when expostulat
ed with by the frogs.
We presume the readers can stand th*
fan as long as the printers. Let the show
go on.—Chattanooga Timet.
Street costumes, elaborately embroid
ered wit a brilliant colored worsted, will
oe amoug the spring novelties.