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THE! ATTjATvTTA Til K A I I, \ N TA M N 1 Hk NOvkY lUYKKKr. It is pIc-Hkino t» *earn that tne N*-w York traders id uinii* v, Laving laded iu tL, ir attempt to Lady fcj*Tr*-iarv Rich ardson, have unlocked tbcir hoards, aud are again willing to accommodate thote who desire to l* rr>>w upou good security. Wtiat it* called by them “cheap money” removes toe clogs from the wheels o* commerce and mauntncitures, and give** new life to nil legitimate business enter- E rises. So we m iy expect easy times. lestdes, the Tit utury »ili commence this week to disburse some eightee" mi.uons of dollars iu gold, u interest ou the puo- lic debt, which will 1/6 followed l)V*the redemption of rift* millions of doll, r- of 1 Five-twenty bonds iu June, aud, s hi j later, b« ubont twenty lour midious o. i interest in gold erd currency in July. : Id addition i the.-*- large disburse oents j by the Oovi rnuien , v« iv large amount.** of money will be j aid a I ov r tin- conn- I try bv corpuraiio*>a and luoividuals for j renls, interest, and uividends within th* I next three mo ,rhs, win:* we /D this Di-- j ill . e • » nt-fi'i d, dl- •- I’ATRKMIUOIIU'. SKWKP.1PEKS." a Northern paper tells us that there ore several job print.ng offices in the citeis of New York, Chicago, and other places where the work is done of printing “patent-outsides” for newspapers. The paper says that THK BA ITLK «»K UlKISTH. Unpobllilud Lrtlcr of Gt» Van Dorn— 111* Explanation of Mi Defeat by Hose- era B< From the New York Tribune. The following lerter trom the lateOeu. Earl Van Dorn to Col. E. M. Yerger, oi Mississippi, has never before been pub lished. It gives his reasons for his san- aiuary repulse by Boseciaua on October matter enough for thfe 'two outside 4, 1862, in the attack on Corinth. It will tnct of Coiumbi rectly *,r mdiu* -tly, h*. :he disbursement ol liberal aoL,rop*i.tiioDs. Even thus- wb<> nuderti/i k to. howl ai Secretary Richardson have er.aol litir cr .king--, aud “dim> be l.appv jet.” We cli]> tiie above from the Wash ington City Chronicle of the 30th ultimo. Its statements are clear and explicit. If the facts therein asserted l true, (and we are aware of no ground upon which they can be successfully assailed,) they show con clusively that the opinion we gave some weeks ago, that the clamor ot the “Wall Street” “Money Bears,” of New York, against the financial policy of General Grant’s administra tion, were as unfounded as they were unjust. Our earnest desire was i0 put our Democratic cotemporaries upon their guard against following the lead of such malcontent Radical sheets as the New York Bun, and such quasi Demociatic sheets as the New York World, in making attacks upon points in the Administration of Gen. Grant when they must necessarily be most disastrously repulsed. We repeat to our true Democratic cotemporaries everywhere, that all assaults upon the financial policy cf Gen. Grant’s Administration thus far, will in our opinion, most certainly recoil with most damaging eflects upon tl ose who make them. During his ad ministration, tear four hundred millions of dollars of tne public debt has been paid, and the Federal, taxes have, during the same time been lessened several hundred mil lions of dollars. We are now also assured that fifty more millions of the public debt will soon be paid. When it may well be asked, did any Federal Administrat ion ever manage lhis department of the public interest bettei, or even so well? Whatever errors the present ad ministration, or the Radical party, during its existence, may have com mitted, its financial policy is not one of them—the real errors we believe to lie numerous, great and grave. They lelate, in the main, however, to out rages upon Public Liberty—outrages upon the rights of citizens and the lights of States. Their tendency is directly to Centralization, Empire and Despotism. These are the errors which should be assailed by the Democracy aod the friends of the Constitution in all the States, if our Free Institutions are to be rescueu and preserved. We repeat, that in our opinion, all assaults upon Gen. Grant’s personal character, his ability, or integrity, will recoil upon those wli® make t hem with an effect quite as damaging as those made upon his financial policy. Me believe, in point of fact, (hat it is ul terly untrue that he is either weak in intellect, or corrupt in money matters. The injurious charges against him of “Nepotism” a.\d “gift-taking” we behove to be utterly untrue in point of fact. If, therefore, the Democracy would oring about a rectification of the Constitutional aberrations in our system, from which spring those evils now so seriously afllicting the country, they must assail, and bring to popular condemnation, the politi cal heresies, which gave rise to these aberrations; and not confine their attacks to abuse of the officers to whom is committed the execution of theacis of Congress as they are judicially expounded. Again, we say, “Yerburn sapienti- ®tis.” a. H. s. pages—first aud fourth—of an ordi nary paper is put in type, made into form and put upon the press. From this form the job printer prints a few score copies each ior the Bungtown Battle Axe, the Weekly Wobbler, the Independent Idiot, and other papers of equally great circulation, merely changing the “ heading” or title for each paper, and leaving the second and tlrrd pages white paper. When printed, these sheets are bundled and expressed to their respective destina tions, bearing the cabalistic charac ters, “ C. 0. D.” And when these sheets reach their destination the enterprising editors, each for himself, shoulder the bundle and retiring to the sanctum proceed to complete the paper by printing the second and third pages. The advan tage of this system is that the editor is saved some brain work and a good deal of capital, and any person with a few dollars can become an editor. On our exchange list are quLe a number of papers made in this way, aud as they all come from one mill there is a monotony attending their perusal. A last year’s auction bill would rival them in interest. A year or two ago we had quite a number of these “things” in Georgia, hut it is gratifying to every member of the craft who has decent respect for his calling to know that they have nearly disappeared from the State— there being not more than two or three of them left that may see what they are. Very clever men publish such papers, for what we cannot tell. There can be but little money in them, and they can scarcely be re ceived as real genuine Georgia pa pers. In fact, they are filled gen erally with matter that can interest Georgia readers but little. We hope those who are engaged in the publication of these sheets, will discontinue the “patent-outside” sys tem. If they will, and go to work earnestly, print the whole of their own papers with energy and in dustry, they will find more money and respectability in their vocation. dk.ath op a phomixeivr OHIO citi zen. William Starling Sullivaut, a prom inent and wealthy citizen of Ohio, died at his residence, in Columbia, in that State, ou the 30th ult., in Ills 81st year. Tne parents of the de ceased were natives of Virginia, and removed from thence to Kentucky, and subsequently to Franklin county, Ohio, in the latter part of the last century. The subject of this sketch was the eldest of the family, consisting of three bojs, William S., Michael and Joseph, and was said to be the first white male child born in Ohio. Michael is now the largest landholder In Illinois, and Joseph still remains a citizen of the place of his birth. The deceased wa3 a class mate of Robert J. Breekinr dge, of Kentucky, and graduated at Yale College in 1823. He was a gentleman of re fined manners and high classical at tainments; and, as a scientist, Y*as well k..own, not only in this country, hilt in the most celebrated institu tions of learning in the Old World. He was a man of most exemplary character, esteemed aud respected by all who had the pleasure of his ac quaintance. He leaves a wife and nine children. MOKE OK rilh noOOC 1BAGEBY j A late Washington dispatch has the following: Captain ihuinas, reported among tne killed by the Moboes, was a son of General Lorenzo Thomas, formerly i Adjutant-Genera ol the army. Lieu tenant Howe was a sou of Major j Marshall riowe, and sou-in-law of j General Barry, commaudant at For tress Monroe. Lieutenant Wright was a son of the late General George! Wright, and nephew of the late Gen- 1 eral Sumner. The above >e seen that Van Dorn confesses to igno rance of the existence of the inner lined fortifications, wtucli he had reached after the first day's fight, aud which he faded to carry next morning : LETTEK OF COLONEL VEKGBB. “Jackson, Miss., Oct, 10, 1862. “ Major General Earl Van Horn, Holly Springs, Miss.: “ M* Dear General—Since my arrival here I lmd it Difficult to stay the s*orm of abuse which is oeing burled agaiust you since our unhappy day at Corinth. In fact, so various are the rumors being fiouted by certain heartless and cowardly traducers, I desire to have sotn tlnug GKFKHAL MTATK ITEMS. —The Georgia Society for the Preven tion ot Cruelty to Animals was perma nently organized in Augusta last Satur day, and is nowin working trim. —Richmond county is out of debt and has a cash balance of $10,000. Even the poor house bas becom*. a source of reve nue. —Rev. Dr. Lcvet Pierce, the veteran of the pulpit, was in Macon on SuDdav. —Bain bridge “is infested with a nest of thieves.” —Macon thieves bave begun spring operations. Tney affect buggy wheels. — M. J. Divine, a Savaunau typo, is startling the people of that city by his h’strionic talent, in which it would ap pear he is divinely gifted. — The reception of the new Catholic Bishop of Savannah in that city last Tuesday was a grand ovation to that pre late. — B 'Uily. of the Hamilton Visitor, is in bad health, and wants a printei. trom your own baud ty way of refill •- | None 1 ut a srn-m, sober one need apply. i i *■*- - He m U8 t; be willing to work like a man. —Nearly three inch of rain ielliu Mid dle Georgia on the 1st and 2d of May— m -r- than double th* quantity that fell during the entire month of April. — The Washington Gazette announces that Hon. Alexander H. Stephens will make a political speecn in that place during me prtsent court week there, if nis health will permit. — Harris county bridges are bad. A six mule team and tvugon fell through one of them . few days ago, injuring two of the mules, and t- e leg ol a Degro so much as to uecessnate amputation. — Says a writer in tbe Palmetto Shield, “Da we Campbellites appreciate the temporal blessings that surround us ?”— a question not to oe asked iu a frivilons maone. nor to be answeted wfih exact precision. — Tiie Newnau postofli -e has been swept up, cleaned up aud painted up. and tli* papers of that town are jubilant thereat. —Jesse Wooten has worked up a high sensation column iu the Newnan Herald, on the strength of a negro row in the outskirt of tuat peactful town. —Only five of the so-called Macon in- timidators, out of thirty-eight who are unaer bond, have been indicted. These are Ur. A. P. Coilins and Messrs L. P. Askew, Theo. W. Ellis, Geo. W. Gustin anil Sol. Jobuson. —Tne Macon city tax books shows the ua e of one party wnich pays tax ou $125,000; another that Days on 8106,000, and another that pays ou 8105,600. One l. dividual pays on $94,000, aud six oth ers pay on various amounts ranging from $80,000 to $87,500. The whole eleven pay tax ou $934,700. — The Pounds case is set down for trial in Washington, Wilkes eoou'y, to day. Pounds w -s indicted for the mur der of Harrison in Hancock county s« v- trai years ago. There tveie several mis trials in that county when the venue was changed to W.lkes. Tne case has been once to the Supreme Court and quite an interest is felt iu the new trial to come oil this week. Counsel for the State, Solicitor General Sam Luinpkiu, of Lex- lugion, Hon. George Pierce, Col. Jor don, of Sparta, and Hon James S. Hock, o! Augusta; ior the defense, Hon. Cbarie W. UeBose and General Robert Toombs. bus . A. poetaster propounds this simple but intricate conundrum for 6omebody to answer: bu>p 7 place!-aow can I go U»«doo^i°ch^!»y“‘ < *‘ t unknow,i grange, r I here are so many modes of qnick and hasty travel, we don’t see w.iy flu- eliow shou’d li.-gitafe to start at ion. not to I'e used unless the state ments of y< ur f. lends continue to be doubled. It is current here that‘every general i ffio* r opposed the attack,’ aud tb-it you ‘ .ibiacucd 40,IH)0 behind -n- treuchnjeuts wno 30.000.’ Let me hear fioin you s> it, and belfive me evvr faitnludj, “ E. M. Yfkglr .” KEPLY OF GEN. VAN DOKN. “Holly SpkI'Gs, Mies , O t. 15. ’62 "Col. E M. ¥■■ g-r. Jackson, Miss.: “Deah Yelukk—Your left r is kiud, but to tell you me tiulti, I teel but lirtle like attempting to vindicate my actions against this storm of abuse. I am not easny crusned. and l leel too much scorn ior those people wno would dumu an offi- cer upon the evun-uee of cowardly de serters irom their colon, and hangers-on of tue army about hotels, and receive the •itateinents of gentlem-. •> wno were in tne battle ‘for what they are north.’ These, true to their base so..Is, chi g to ‘their first lc-ve,’ rejoicing over .lie misfortuue that bus befallen me, and rejecting even a whisper that might weaken their prtj- udice aga'nst me. “To the few friends I have m Missis sippi, I will say that I have seen no edi torial statement in the newspapers re garding me in this mutter tuat is true. Ic is not true • hat every general officer opposed the attack on Corint h. I have mi official letter from Geu. Price, 'rom Guntown, stiting that he was ready to co-operate with me in an attack on Corinth. There was no council ot war held, aud I did not know the opinion of any other general officer on the subject. I knew that the army was in excellent ipirits, and although I have never court ed popularity or bpplause from the army (this vou well know), I was cheered by most of "he troops pass ng my head quarters as they tiled out of the town ou their march to Corinth. Alter the first day’s hghti'ig, us we all stood by our bivouac fires within turee quarters ol a mile of Corinth, and when it was thought by all that that stronghold, which had been frowning so long upou tbe very heart of our country, was won I received the congratulations of many officers of the highest rank and standing upOL the manner of the attack, the m n agement of the troeps, aud upon the glorious victory whicn seemed about to crown our efforts. The next day, when misfortuue fell upon me, cau it be that any of these gentlemen became my de tractors, think you? “It is not true that I attacked 40,000 with 30.000. nor 20,000 men behind ’n- trenchments with 13,000. The enemy had about 15 000 m u iu Corinth on the day the att ekcommenced. 1 had mere, as you knew. It is true the en my had a l >out 8,000 m*-n at RieDzi, luka and Kossuth, win-, iv ere brought up that night, out it was m-p* d that Corinth would be earned the first day of the attack, and 'bat therein: »rcements would reach the field too L: t; and but for the luck of water, the fu fi ning maich through a parched country ten or twelve miles be fore commencing the contest, and the unusual energy and skill dis- displayed by one of the most obstinate auu astute generals in the United States service, Corinth would have been ^urs at sunset Friday, as is testified by the enemy themielves. “Again, tbe works immediately around the town w.re constructed but a few days before rhe attack, aud Were not known to me m time to guide my ac tions. I had no means of knowiug their existence All the works known to me, tne first and second lines, were carried by our troops iu the mos- gallant manner possible, and Corintn should I ave been ours under all human calculation. “ Th** urm.v is now here, iu good con dition, with he exception of the gallant dead auu tn. wounded. There is another class—these should not be mentioned by tbe some Iq-s that give utterance to the names of those who fell beneath their glorious colors—I mean the skulking, slinking cowards who fell back from the ranks when tlieir brave leaders ordered tntm ou to tbe attack, and who to the rapid discharge of cannon, the rattling ot niuikeiry, aud all tie soul-stirring sounds of buttle were alike iusensibie, as th-y ileu die held, scaUern g false hood and abuse of Generals throughout the laud. “ To i he censorious public I have but to say, 11. ok to tim» to ; .it nit- right. I atn light; and military in< n, wli.u the f-urts are known, will uo me justice; so will the public, who now damn me to their heart’.- content. I know them too well to di*i under the infliction. Tru y yours, Fall Van Dokn.” South Carolina Items. — There are twenty-four public schools in Lancaster county. — All the schools in York com-ty ate ordered closed. * — Large shipmenls of uav : stores art being made through Darlington county. — The Union Times learns that tne military post at Spartanburg will be dis continued in a few days. — The South Carolina Agricultural Society Las resolved to exclude all descriptions of gaming from the fair grounds. — Au annual meeting of the stock holders of tne Clieraw and Salisbury Railroad Company will be held at Flor ence on Weduesuay, the 14th instant. — The friends of the projected railroad from Chester to Cheraw will ho'd a meet ing at Chesterfield Court House on to morrow. — Colonel F. W. McMaster, of Colum- oia, is to deliver the anniversary oration before the literary societies oi Erskiue College fit their next commencement in June. - -A fatal accident occurred at the con tract of Mr. Murdock, on the Air Line Railway, at lugah o river, on the 22d ul timo. One man by the name ol Wil liams, of Georgia, was killed by a falling derrick and auotber seriously injured. —The Camden Journal says: The an nual convention of the Protestant Epis copal Chur h for this uioeese wilt con vene at Grace Ciiuich at 11 o’cl ck a. m. on Thursday,- the 8ch inst. Ou Wednes day, the 7tli, at the same hour, the new church will be consecrated by the Rt. Rev. W B. Howe, D. D., Bishop of South Carolina. The Consecration Ser mon will be preac! ed by the Bishoo. Virginia Item-. — Suffolk Snu: The frost last Friday aud Si'ur.iay mghis did immense dam age 'o Kim- of the truck crops. — Mr. Y. Howe Peyt< o, lormerly edi tor of the Lynchburg News, has written further evidence of! ^ novel which will be published at an { AkflV Joy the deplorable sacrifice of human life : _Great complaint has reached us from iu the vain effort to avenge the bru- 1 all par's ot the country of the destruc- tal murder of Gen. Cunby and the Peace Commicsioners. Surely thj tion of tobacco plants by the fly. — Virginia Prople: Professor Minor is now making an extensive tou»-through military force of the Government is, 'h e Northwestern States, in the interest sufficient ro exlem.n.te » naudlul, •'Jl’JjJjgS; o iv, I, ot barbarous s vage& \*?5T, e * liiS hua formed the ir tenth n of pie -ring a already been too much child g play i oc tnre on Uqic 9 ot local interest inRict- n this matter, and the heart sickens j m ond, to be deliver :d ih«*re about the at the thought of the death and suf- j 15th iust ferings incurred by our soldiery under —A: a ia'e of theEx-entive seemingly incompetent hadeiship. (Amuiittve of ihe F-eutnoot Agricultural The idea of a few red skins sotting 1 Society, it »a» rt solved to mvi e tke ex- , i ^ ,, .... 8 outive * *! i - >»*rr-.*n tnra! at defiance * he military rower o, t b- ^ v , , fl . ... .-it-iif p \ r > ••*. '•{*' <1- h. '-file evil lit iv is too nu mil:.ting to the k , * -o ., y< t me.» n netfwd-j and di -uId in* no longer ]>* rmit- >| „.i.. ; t,f „u *, at ; . o*w»i o- Cul pepp-r. Mrange Pets. Susan Eherhart, tbe unfortunate wo man who was hanged at Pretton, on Fri day, while in prison w-aiting tne execu tion oi h r aw tul sentence, whiled away th*- solitary hours by making friends ot the rats that Lad access to her cell. A gentleman called to see her a few days before her execution, and, after some conversation with her, ioid her tnat lie had understood that she hao some pet rats. She auswtred affiriuaiivelv, aud he then told her he wanted to see ti eui. She tapped on *he floor, when oui ol their holes > »me tne rats, until fourteen of them had aD<*wered the call. They climbed upon her lap, and up to her shoulders and crawled about over her head, suffering her to caress and handle them as she pleased, and not one of them manifested the smallest symptom ot alarm. It is sad to think of the loneliness and misery which induced tne poor woman to make pets of animals that are usually considered so obnoxious; but no doubt they were a comfort to her in her desper ate condition, and their friwndship so laced many hours that would otherwise nave l>eeu burdened with unutterable pain. Possibly thtj were the only friends she had, and will miss her more than any o* her fellow-er-atures will. Alt”get' e- *t is a v»-r-. -urioui circumstance. A bad woninu > uni no. have tamed and m*d*- ,.**t8 of >i.o*e shy animals.—Macon Tele grail. An luac of 1S76. While it is, of course, far too early to possibly predict what may he the motive points of principles and policies of the parties to the next Presidential struggle —iu fact, whether parties themselves may not change their constitution so en tirely as to give a new face to the con duct of the campaign of 1876—tnere is still an element of sttength, already so pronounced and so rapidly growing in its power, that it must be taken into consideration even ihis early. Tne legislation of Congress, both in its nome and foreign aspects, will be a great point doubtless; but this lias time enough to shift a dozen times, and, ps.r- haus, to make the aggressive party of to- duv tne uefensive party of the iutnre. A f- reign war with a first-class power; or 1 an annexation scheme, such as Cuba. Mexico, or Canada, mieht turn the bal- ance either wav. But these motors are ephemeral in their nature; for their ha- j sis is upon the sliiftn-g sand of “party necessity.” But the patent powei jnsr ! now is one tint cannot change, aim tin* l party that seizes its alliance and welds it to itself, will have au ally stronger than all else. Heretofore the manufacturing interests of the country—with their aggressive co horts o- Protection and their defensive lines of Free Trade, Lave had tne wager of battle iu their bauds for decision. But nqw the agricultural iuterest. of the Great West are looming up iu such «hape us to overshadow all else. Protection will have to take a back seat, while low tariffs and anti-monopoly come to the front The claims of agiiculture—patient aud long-suffering as she is—cau ro longer be ignored ; and as the planting interest is in its very nature free trade; and the significant assembling of memners ot Congress at St. Louis this month, gives every reason to expect that the graver questions of the new Congress will be low freights a^d no monopolies. As a single evidence of the rapidly-grown power of the agricultural element—in the connection with which we recently quoted so tally from that independent press, the N. Y. Herald—we r emind our readers that iu the one State of Iowa, the farm ers’ Granges bave already absorbed more than one-half the entire voting popula tion. Aud what is true of Iowa is true of every other State in the Great West. Agriculture has waked up at last aud she is going for monopoly in earnest; for the “Grange,” a paper published in Washing ton, Iowa, declares that the leading prin ciples of the organization are •‘eternal acd unflinching opposition to monopoly abuses, extravagant appropriations o: the people’s money aud to all salary steals.” Mobili Register. NnrtH Carolina Items. -Olive Logan is to lecture in Wil- mrigton ou the 7th instant. Bill Arp, the great Souther-i humor ist, is to lecture in Raleigh on the 16ti , aud will probably visit Wilmington be fore lie return’s South. — A new guiuo manufacturing com pany is to be opened in this State. All the stock is to be owned in North Caro lina, aud to consist of two hundred shares of $1,000 each, — The Charlotte Southern Home says : We learn that Federal Judge Dick, at Statesville, expressed the belief that the KuKlux bid would be declared un constitutional, and advised the accused to lenew their bonds aud not stuud a trial, —The Raleigh News says: The State Agricultural Society will doubtless seud to the Vienna Exhibition a bale of beau tiful cotton grown in lfi.ruett Gounty, be ing a portiou of a lot ot over a hundred bales brought from tlnn c mty to this market recently, and said to have been the most beautiful cotton cv*-r purchased iu this city. —The Henderson Tribune says that Mr. R. C. Capebeart, living near Efittrell Spring, made last year 500 gallons of wine, and sold 10,000 pounds of grapes Mr. Hurt, also, during last year shipped 30,000 pounds of grapes and made 2,000 gallons of wine. Each of those gmde- men expect to do a laiger busine-s still the present year. —Tue Raleigh Sentinel says: Yester day Secretary ot the State Howerton re covered a valuable record for which search had been made in vain for several years past. It is “a register showing the names, alphabetically, rank, date oi com mission aud enlistments, periods of ser vice and occurrences, tsk**n from the original muster rolls of the North Caro lina line of the United States,” during the Revolutionary wur. Tue record is in au excellent state of preserv ition and is iu a good pluin Landwriting — A promiuent gentleman of Robeson gives tne Rockingham Spirit of t ie South some interesting facts in regard to the once notorious Henry Berrv Lowrey. He said that Henry Berry Lowiuy was certainly dead, having accidentally shot himself as reported, while engaged clean ing nis gun, the charge tak.Dg effect uuder bis chin, and ranging up through th roof of his m->uth. A Rockingham paper further intorms us that Steve Lowrey, the ouly surviver, a few even ings since captured Wilson, the slayer of Audrew -trong, aud carried him into tne swamps and kept lorn until the next day without harming him. Vol.Illl.3sro Machs. Journalism in \cw Yorli. The New 1'ork Express, in a review of its own history on the occasion of mov ing into the new hau. some building re cently erected lor it, gives the following interesting tact iu connection with journ alism in that city: But one of the old daily proprietors previous to 1836 survives, and Mr. Gree ley, wno st rted the Tribune in 1842, aud Mr. Raymond, the Time- iu 1851, each leudiug journalists, have followed in the merid-an 'f life, th*- former dying iu 1872 and the latter in 1869. In le«s t an twenty years one uunur-.a ■ ud nine daily journals have L.»d an existence iu this city, and one hundred ot >be num ber are dead, at a loss of over $25,001),- 000. The ex enses of publication have increased more thao six-fold *n twenty years, and are every day inert asmg. The competition is now sharper than ever, and though daily papers are not more numerous than they have been, every year adds to the telegraphic news, type setting and other expenses. In July ot this year he sj stem of free exchanges will be abolished, adding another ex pense in procuring Federal, State, local aud other intelligence. Tl»e Citizen, and «h- Beautiful s, Railroad •Monopoly Adver*, »„ , h ‘ U “* perlty of the CUy_, Co.ala- JV®** The Brown H„„. e _The Ma, cinnatt Kail road The Pedera! c'S. and Packed Jnr»e*_ T he Ma c„„ Klo * ers. So-called. re,ot * Macon, Ga„ May 5, 1873. Editors Daily Sur.; What a quiet, sober orderly city this is! It. must be a plea*! ant place to live and transact i*usine R «- none of the hurry, stir aud everlasting bustle which Atlanta exhibits almoft every day. And here the streets are t^ree .imes as wide as yourstreets, allleveland sandy; consequently winter’s rains bring no deep mud. The streets are not paved—do not need it, aud require very little money to be kept iu repair. Everv man seems to be quietly and ccnteutedly pursuing his owu way. Tue street ears, move slowly along. Nothing hurries, and nothing seems to disturb any one’s serenity. Happy city! Happy people! Hospitable, cultivat-d and well deserving their advantages and pleasures. Some of her citizens, however, com- plaiu ot wliui th<-> consider grievances They say the Central Railroau monopoly* since it leased the Southwestern Road 1 and its branches, aud the Macon and Western, thus controlling all the roads centering bare except the Maem and Brunswick and the branch from hen to the Georgia Railroad, is injuring the city. It requires eight uours tor the train to ruu from here to Atlauta, and six hours from here to Americus. The train trom Eufuula to this city airives here very ea'iy iu the morning, but it. is about a half Lour after it reaches he suburbs of the cit> before it comes up to the Pas senger Depot, anil win n it does reach the depot the tra n to the Georgia Railroad leaves iu ten minutes, so that a passen ger Yvishing to take that train cannot have time to walk tweuty-fivo steps to Brown’s Hotel to eat. breakfast, but must go on without eating, aud no ch m-e anywhere ou the road before Lim to get bleak fast. Several things ot tt.is kind are com- plaim d o: by some. I have made uo in vestigation, aud do not know wliat could be said on the other side oi the question. And this remimis me of the petty jeal ousy sometimes exhibited by some per sons in Macon against Atlauta, ami some in Atlauta against Macon. Don’t yon and your reader.- r- m -mber how Jones, of the Telegrapn aud Messenger, used to call Atlanta ll Kitnballvile,'’ aud Watson, of your paper, would tetort by ea ling Ma con “Wadley's Cross Roads?" Let us hope these two cities will in the tuture eu- conrnge and speak kindly, and not call each other names. I am informed that the mails for At lanta. arriving here on the morning train ol the Southwestern road, are carried to the post ffiee and ne there all day— though tne train tor your city does not have lure tor au Lour or more aliersu' h arrival. I do rot know whether this could be avoided or not—have made no inqivry. 1 find Capt. Malcolm Johnston, the laithful Assistant Secret ry of the State Agricultural Society, basy as he cau be, and the society and cry of Macon mukiug immense preparations for the grandest lair n?xt Oetooer that ever was held iu Georgia. Mr. Barrett, ’lie very learned aud ole Secretary, is at present in Wash ngtou, Ga. Brown’s Hotel is one of tbe institu tions oi this city. It is very conve nient —ouly across the street from tue passenger depot, and keeps np its long t lauding leputation as being one of the best hotels iu tne Soutuiru States. Ls present well known aud highly esteemed proprietors, like ah other hotel men, keep it tor tbe sake of the ui./nev it brings them; but they are really att* ntive to their custom ers, look alter tneir com.ort, and provide tor tlu-m generally, better thi.n what is common even among first class hotels. They are so obliging, tlia' it is a pleasure to stop with them. Saturday last the voters of the city voted directly on the proposition to aid the bundn-g of the Macon A Kti"xville Railroad. Public sentiment here is ah one way, or nearly so. The proposition was so universally favored that the vote was light, ind there wus no contest over it wnat* ver. Only 442 votes were cast, aud only 19 of these were against the neasute. Tbe unconstitutional “jury order,” fixed ud dy Judges Erskiue and Wood, Col. Farrow, tne United States Attor- u- y, and others, at Savannah in Decem- bei last, is not working as well as was expected by some. This lawless order, many people here believe, had for its main object the hanging of Col. Tom Hardeman and a few others of this city, wno were to be convicted of instigating what is termed the election “riots” of itns city, u which a number of negroes, the ignorant dupes ol Radical plotters of “ treason, strategem ano spoils,” as well a bloodshed and slaughter, lost their lives; Poor, ignorant, deluded negroes! They are to be pitied They followed the advice of pretended friends, who thrust them forward into lawlessness, where their lives paid the penalty of the outrage thereby committed. It is a pity these deluded creatures, and not those who advised and inst’gated them to the performance of their deeds, had thus to su-er. But I am almost forgetting to state that th-i packed jury of the Federal Court thus drawn has failed to find any- I tlnng against Col. Hardeman whatever, j and has ouly preferred minor charges j against five persons. I must now bia adieu for a few days to this, pleasant city—one of tne most pleas ant and agreeable every way in Georgia. On The Wing. —The Forest City B nt Club, of Sa vannah, will attend th*- nu u*l i* • a-’a ne Regatta Associatu n *>t C- srl«-*t. n on the 8ih and 9th of tne pitseut montu. The Uubtinaiorial convention. The proposed meeting of the Govern ors oi several Btates, iu Atlanta, Ga., on the 20th instaut, w.lJ be an affair ot more than ordinary interest if the subjects treated of bear as they snould, upon pub lic concerns of moment. It is not only matters connected with trade and com- mtree that demand attention from a rep resentative body like the one proposed, nut great politied questions m ght he discussed in a way that might have a sal utary effect upon the popular mind. Prominent among tfi*se questions is :hat of tbe Louisiana usurpation, in relation to wnicn the Governors of several States —notably Virginian have expressed chemsw.v«s in unmistakable terms. Let this Congress oi Governors, then, take ud *he Louisiana question and discuss it . all en i,. t* nr<l *=i.d liberal spiru, and uueh »*cm-i) may come ot the sittings. 1 ChartesUm Courier.