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Prole? siotial •ngagf.nents and other
pressing duties have prevented ns
from commenting, at an earlier ohv,
upon the dee’sion of the Supreme
Court of ilie United States, published
by ua fast week, and which is n<»« re
ferred i<* in <>.;! caption.
At this time we can only briefly politicians,” but really imagines and
saj of this decision— ! actually asserts that it moves “ along
1st. »\n distinction in this case is w jth rare grace, precision and direct-
made hj tlK Court between the 13th, ness.” It al o denies being Demo-
14th and 10th Amendments to the cratic, and yet does not squarely pro-
.•SMAMsauin politicians.”
A few days since, in referring to
the Memphis Avalanche as a Demo-
arojic journal and i*s shambling
course in politics—at one time one
tiling, at another something else, and
finally coming to nothing at all in
politics—we stated that its tendency
is towards the Radical party more
than to anything else. It denies be-
ng the representative of “ shambl’ng
tjmromTJjrr jbpbbbb tbmbk..
Tallsfer-o Superior Court.
uc Bill Again*! Cantrell, far «l»e
Murder of Alexanuer.
INTO
Krdnal I rl-
doctriues of Radicalism as the tenets of T «»e Proposed Atlantic
•UR find him ; * rn ttnm. 1 ' ° r, *i
Mr. Stephen*’ Position
ttt , . . T' . ., Democracy, he will before long find him I "" fanai.
We are glad to observe that the pre*. 8elf p i. c * d into the Radical ranks beside I Governor Smith of G,,
ot this State have at length Uken issue Long8trM ,. with not a vestige remaining ! -esttng great actfv.’tv in * ?'*’ ,s
with Mr. Stephens oa tho remtrkabla t)f wonderful influence he has so long j a general interest in KeBono* ,0 '
P ™A 0 “.!L® *2 ! enjoyao in Georgia.-Atlanta Herald. \ in be construction of ,i V. b aU(1
Trial In Progrrs* and the
on Both Side*.
Co noel
Constitution. No question as to the
validity of the latter two, arising
from the mode and manner of their
proposed ratification or proclamation,
was raised either in
or above.
nounce in favor of Radicalism. Po
litically, the Avalanche may be re
garded as a sort of go-between—a
kind of nondescript, having neither
the Court below head nor tail nor front of aay mean-
1 ing. Its disordered brain has dis-
In this detL-ion, therefore, they are torted its imagination into the belief
all treated alike and all assumed to be that the Democracy is dead, and does
equally binding and obligatory as no t exist as a live and active noliti-
parts of the Federal Const.tution.
iincl. The decision assuming that the
three amendments have all been prop
erly incorporated as parts of the or
ganic Federal law, yet clearly main
tains that they have effected no essen
tial change in the character of the
Government—that they have only
imp >sed u few more voluntary re
straints upon the States as States,
with the delegation of a few addi
tional powers to the Federal Govern
ment.
It cbarly maintains throughout,
tha* the States us States, are just as
Sovereign in all their received rights,
cal organization.
The Avalanche makes tlm bold,
naked assertion that “ the people a- d
the old Bonrbons have separated for
ever ”—meaning those
who still adhere with unflinching
fidelity to the great principles of free
government which have made this
the greatest country “the world ever
saw.” The truth is, the Avalanche
is weak in courage and weak in its
politics. It cannot bear defeat, and
is not capable of comprehending the
importance of success on piiaciple.
It would succeea, and how to succeed
is a matter of no consequence soeuc-
as they were before the adoption of | cess is attained. Its politics are of
these amendments ; and tha' among i that sort that they yield to policy or
these unquestionably reserved rights, expediency more than to principle or
is full p.'Wor on the part of each consistency. It would be what it is
State to regulate and control all the pleased to call a “ Bourbon Demo-
civil relations of its citizens in all' crat,” if success were certain; it
matters not embraced in the new pro- would be a Democrat of the “pro
hibitions on .he '■dates as States; just gressive ideas of the present genera-
as amply and completely as before tion ’’sort if that would succeed; oril
tluse amendments were proposed.
This is our understanding of the pur-
p >rt and meaning of the decision.
3rd. From all this we infer if the
case is ever made, that the same Court
will hold that all those provisions ol
the Enforcement Acts of Congress,
which interfere with the internal
polity of the .States regulating the
government of its citizens, not com
ing within the purview and express
objects of t lie new prohibitions on the
Stales, are unconstitutional, null and
void. If our inference he correct,
then most of these infamous acts, un
der which Louisiana is now groaning,
will bt remedied by an appeal to
the ].careful instrumentalities of the
Constitution which has ever been so
persistently urged by the “Bourbon”
“ Rev oh. t ionary Demociacy.”
This decision, as we understand it,
covert and sus ains every position of
tin brother of the writer of this—who
was tne “ light of his life ”—m his
argument on the construction of the
15th Am. ndnient, in his own defense
before the Federal Commissioner in
Macon, Ga., in 1811. %
He ami we, and others who be
lieved w tii ns, were then held up as
“impute: tal e”—and as “Revolu
tionary Democrats,” and as “Boui-
bons” who could “ learn nothing and
forget nothing.”
Verily, the world does movt; and
some people may learn som thing if
others d. not. What friend of Con-
stitu ional liberty, now in all this
? that the
d liberations
Stead !USt,
: tin? true
luiiuded.
A. H. S.
it appears neither will succeed, we
suppose the Avalanche would have
country, does not s
s u res t way o 1 ivc 11 fy i u g
iu the Goverum-uS Is
peaeefu l maini a. uenee
principles ou which it i
THE MOBILE REGISTER 0.1 THE
FUTURE OF I.KHUCSACT.
Read in to-dav's issue the article
taken from the Mobile Register, of
tlie 11th instant.
It is truly refreshing as well as en
couraging in these days of tempta
tion, when so many of those who
have heretofore acted with the Dem
ocratic party are listening to the
guileful words of men iu their ranks
whose object is but to mislead and
betray.
A'ow, as we said two years ago, is
the “ seed time of ideas.” It is now
that the great principles which should
govern the next Democratic cam
paign should be discussed and settled.
Ah who are not willing to act with
the party on its acknowledged and
time-honored principles ehould seek
more congenial associations at cnee.
_ _ A. H. s.
23?“ Mr. George W. Wylly is Prea-
id. nt, A. M. Sloan acting President,
. H. Footman Secretary and
little difficulty in falling among the
thieves and robbeis of the party of
Centralization.
Says the Avalanche: “ Is it surpris-
ing, therefore, that in three succes
sive Presidential elections the great
Union majority have refused to re
store this old Democratic orgainza-
tion to pow er ? ” What is surprising
is, that the party has kept so well to
gether under the Fad of “ shambling
politicians,” of which the Avalanche
is a tolerable fair representative. It
is suqirising that they are to-day
so well organized under the lead of
sucl. politicians. The tenacity of the
Democratic neartto the principles of
free government, as they are em
bodied in the doctrines of genuine
Democracy, have held them together
in spite of bad leaders and “sham
bling politicians,
gretted, have arrogantly assumed con
trol of the party and directed its de
liberations for the three past Presi
dential campaigns. These blunder
ing leaders have failed to lead a glori
ous party to victory that would have
triumphed but lor the demoralization
ami the division caused bv the policy
of the “ shambling politicians ” who
threw themselves in the front as
leaders, without capacity to lead and
without principle to guide them.
Iii conclusion, let us say to those
“progressive Democrats,” so-called,
that their policy is a failure, and their
exjR-diencv outrageous blunder. The
Democracy of the country—the true
f: lends of free government—have
done with their policy, their expedi
ency and their leadership. They are
total lailures, and their advocates
should quietly, it not modestly, re
tire to the serene shades of political
obscurity, and let the strong Democ
racy, the true Democracy and the
brave Democracy, guided by honest
and courageous leaders, carry the
The Grand Jury ol Taliaferro county,
yesterday, returned a true bill against
Cantrell, of White county, fo” the mur
der of Alexander. This is the Alexan
der tragedy case, so often referred to in
Thb Sun. Both sides announced ready
and the tiial immediately commenced.
It will, perhaps, last two or three days.
Some fifty or sixty witnesses are said to
be in attendance, including those on both
sides.
This will be an exceedingly interesting
trial. The State is represented by So
licitor General Lumpkin, of Lexington;
James F. Reid, of Crawfordv>'lle; M G.
Boyd, of White county, and Col. John
B. Estes, of Gainesville. The defense is
conducted by William H. Brooke, of
Orawfordville; Col. Underwood, of
White county, and Mr. John C. Reid,
of Lexington.
Onr readers may remember that we
published ou the 2 l JMi of lust January an
Democrats i MCumlljf of a mysterious and bloody affair
which occurred in Taliaferro county, the
particulars of which under date of Jan-
ary 27rU, were furnished us at the time
by Mr. J. L. Chapman, of that county.
That letter stated that the murder took
place near the junction of the Washing
ton and Greeushor > road, iu ihatcounty,
the previous morning, the circumstances
of which were these : Tnree wuite men
and a colored driver camped with-their
teams on the road a short distance from
Mr. M. D. Wallace’s on Saturday night.
A little ueforo day on Suuuay morning
two of the men awoke Mr. Wallace, iu
search cf the third man, whom they stated
left their camp about four o’clock, they
supposed, and not returning, they had
instituted search for him but could find
him nowhere. Other neighbors were
aroused and a general search begun.
Tlie body was found after light about
500 y ards from the cam p, and some 30
yards from the Washington ro <d, witn
the throat cut, almost severing the neck.
His hat, with considerable blood on it,
was lying several feet from the pool of
blood. A knife, recognized as the knife
cf the deceased, was found iu his right
baud, and in a position tobav- given the
stroke. Justice Nash snd a jury were
summoned 'tnd an inquest held over the
body. The verdict was, the jury was
of opinion that deceased came to nis
death ffom a cut received oy his own
nands.
The men gave their names as W. N.
Payne and Z. B. Cantrell, and the name
of deceased W. A. Alexander, all of
White county, Georgia.
Their statement is th-*t de?eased had
been in bad health for four or five days
oast, and seemed not ti be in his right
mind at times on Saturday, but that he
ate his supper and wtnt to ued Saturday
night apparently better eft than for sev
eral days past; that h* appeared perfect
ly rational when he got out of the wagon
Sunday morning, and stated that he felt
as well as ustfa 1 . Z B. Cantrell says he
was employed by Mr. Alexander to do
his trading for him ou this trip, and that
he had paid near one hundred and thirty
dollars in money.
Sometime between the 20t.h and 24th
of February, it we remember correctly,
the examination of the Alexander mar-
who, it is to here- der, or suicide, as it was then thought to
be, commenced. Quite a number of
wi.r ess e were examined. The investi
gation was prolonged until 12 o’clock at
night. No new light was tnrown upon
the mysterious affair except the state
ments of Jeff. Oliver, the colored man
which deeply implicated himself as well
i a Cantrell in tne rauraer of the deceased.
The next morning both { arties were com
mitted for trial before the Superior
Court, which is now engaged in the same.
Fiotn the Mobil? Register.]
The Democratic Parly anti the Demo
i ratlc Creed—What arc 1 hey !
administration. When .*ncn a Daper as
ti e Savannah News, ind such a man a,
C .louel Gardner of the Constitutionalist,
are compelled to censure Mr. Stephens,
others more impulsive and less conserva
tive may be excused a frank expression
ot opinion.
It -8 not too much to say that Mr.
Stephens has presumed entirely too far Democratic creed” or
upon his personal popularity. —
Great We-iern Canal, - le
I;
Journalistic Foes.
The late James Gordon Bennett, of
the Herald, very seldom went anywhere,
uis hie being divided between his office
and his borne. The only public occa
Sion on which I remember to have seen
him was at the dinner given by Sir Mor
ton Peto, at Delmonico’s alter the close
of the rebellion. Benner then seemed
out of place, and was personally a stran
ger to tne company, many of whom did
not even know hi* lace. Besides him,
Horace Greeley, Henry J. Raymond,
Man ton Marble, Tnnrlow W. ed, James
Brooks. Wiiiiam Cullen Bryant, Theo
dore Tilton, David M Stone, Parke
Godwin, Sydney Howard Gay. G<-orge
William Cortis, and other noted journal
ists were present.
Not a few of these were unacquainted,
and still more were unwilling to speak
to each other. Greeley, Bennett and
Bryant, passed and repassed each other
without a nod of recognition. Weed and
Greeley ignored one another’s existence
so did Ravmond and Marble. Stone and
parly to success under its ancient Brooks, Tilton and Godwin. Gay and
banners.
The Columbus Enquirer.—This
old and popular journal has passed press,
from the hands of the Ragland fam
ily, and Maj. A. R. Calhoun, late of
Philadelphia, has become its editor
and proprietor. He will hereafter
matte it an independent paper as to
politics and the discussion of all pub
lic questions.
Curtis were, and are still, personal
friends, and the letter seemed to be al
most the only gentleman holding arnica
ble relations with his brethren of the
I did not see any one of the fra
termty speak to Bennett during the
whole evening, and he held himself
aloof, as if afraid he might be spoken to
The terms on which the principle scribes
were at the time have not materially
changed since, thongh Greeley, Bennett
and Raymond have quitted this planet
for one, let as hope, in a hich there is
more professional courtesy and esprit de
corps.—Chicago Tribune.
and R.
Treasurer of the Savannah and Thun
derbolt Railroad.
'•©“‘The Kahn of Khiva baa offered to
surrender to Rnssia. which is probably
as wise a thing as ne coaid do. People
have f- It little interest in the matter,
since it became evident that England
Was determined to continue her passive
policy. The evil day of the great con
flict is put off a little longer. Russia ad
vances another step, and “ the area of
encroachment ” between her and India
grows narrower.
—Smoking has been forbidden in the
strreta oL. Japan.
Montana has wooden buildings at
which cluos are introdnoed.
It is hinted that there is considerable
speculation going on in regard to the
Chief Justiceship.
His Excellency, the President of the
United States, is 51^6*1* old.
The Rhode Island strikers; wisely ab
stain from blows.
Mr. Gooch, born in Buncombe, N. C.,
died lately at the age of 89, Buncombe to
the last.
The Rout!edges bought Lord Lytton’s
copyrights.
Swinburne derives his inspiration from
opinm. Poor habit and poor poetry.
He has
overstepped the limi's of public i alienee,
and must, therefore, prepaie himself for
that public condemnation, which hi*
own written indulgences provoke. He
blunders terribly if be imagines that any
number of men who supported him iu
his opposition iO Greeley will now fol
low him in his march into the Radical
camp. Whatever of wisdom there may
be|m his oourse, th* gre->t majority of
‘ Straights” cannot accept blindly the
assurance of which the ezot sm of Mr.
Stephens ofiers them, that whatever lie
says he does is necessarily correct.
As Colonel G .rdner snows, with ad
mirable clearness, there is no; a tenable
position now occupied by Mr. Stephens.
Claiming to be a Democrat, he n^verthe
less yields everything to radicalism. No
more important question ev. r came bo-
fore the American people than that in
volved in the proceedings in Louisiana.
A si- ate has been wantonly, brutally out
raged by the Federal Government. The
legally elected Governor has been driven
from his magisterial chair, and a scoun
drelly adventurer installed therein. This
was done by a corrupt, drunken Judge,
without a shadow of authority, and Presi
dent Grant supported the act, and atul
supports it. Not even the most Radical
of Congressmen have dared to deftkid
Durell and Grant. Senators Morton,
Carpenter and other equally radical men
are constrained to condemn the act as a
gross usurpation. Of ail the prominent
men iu the country, Mr. A. H. Stephens
alone defen >8 and justifies it. Tins he
d u-s whiie claiming to be a Democrat,
and to be a believer in the doctrine ot
the Sovereignty of the States.
We read that General Longstree' is re
garded with contempt by every man in
Louisiana whose good opinion is woith
having. Wherein Longstreet differs from
Mi. A. H. Stephens we cannot compre
hend. Thu recusant is m- rely enforcing
the policy of Grant, wi ichMr. Stephens
defends; he merely obeys the orders of
»he man whom Mr. Stephens lauds as a
wise stuterman and pure character It
is very clear that it Longs f reet is wrong
then so is Mr. Stephens, and if Mr. Ste
phens is right, then so is L ngstr, et.
The only difference *e can see between
them is that Longstre t boldly proclaims
himself a Radical, and that Mr. Stephens
askh as to believe that ne is still a Dtino-
crat.
Grant, on a salary of twenty-five thou
sand dollars per unuuui, has amassed h
fortune of over a million of dollars iu
eigluyeai!. Notoriously hehasaccepteu
gitts of money and of houses, and yet
vlr. Stephens asks ns to believe that tiis
uersonal character is free irum blame.
His nepotism is notorious. More than
twenty ot his kindred tiave been installed
into office, and the long list of their
names nave been repeatedly published
oy the New York Sun and other papers.
In spite of ad this evidence, Mr. Ste
phens, with calm assurance, teds us not
to beiieve any of tne statemei ts concern
ing his fondness for giving his relatives
lucrative offices. There is not a word of
truth in it. No matte 1 ’ what the facts
may lie, Alexander H. Stephens says it
is not true, therefore it cannot be true.
If we look at the financial policy of
Grant, we are told that it is absolutely
unassailable, is this really so ? We
dety Mr. Stephens to prove that the
financial policy of Grant has been of
real benefit to the country. Bout
well and the Massachusetts coterie
moulded that policy. Its principal fea
tures arc a reduction of the public debt
and a reduction of the price of gold by
contraction of the voiume of currency,
What the tflect of this policy has been was
recently shown by the New York Herald
iu a series of able articles. It caused
the retention ol heavy and oppressive
taxation; the contraction of the currency
produced stringency in the money ma -
set, white the reduction in the price of
gold was followed by enormous impor
tations of foreign goods, which has left
the balance of trade again-1 ns in spite
of the large sums prouoced by our cot
ton, tobacco and otner exports. Grant’s,
or rather Boutwell’s, financial policy has
not been anything more than an appa
rent success. It has nmde the rDh man
richer and the poor man poorer. The
three or four hundred mitiions of dollars
in currency additional which th® people
need are kept from them bo that a hand
ful of rich men might be benefiited.
Tiius it is that industry is partially par-
ahzed ia the West and wholly so in the
South, hhere from twelve to sixty per
cent, interest ou money is demanded
and obtained.
At some other time we shall write at
length on tne financial policy of Grant.
To-day we meie.y desire to prick the
babbie that Mr. Stepliens ha- blown.
It is time, indeed, that he should be
made to understand how few sympathize
with his views. Months ago a feeling of
distrust was aioused, aud we tell Uim
now tnat it was to this feeling of dis
trust, as much as to anything else, that
he owed his defeat for United States
Senator. We do not for a moment ques
tion his sincerity; but we insist that he
doe - not represent the people of Geor
gia iu giving expression to such senti
ments as he publiahea ov« r his initials in
the paper he edits. We have the author
ity of Col. Gardner that be does not
even represent the views of the people
of the district who elected him to Con
gress. We submit, then, whether he
onght to take his seat in tne House ot
Representatives without first ascertain
ing if he is there as a Democrat or as a
supporter of Gran’t’s administration,
xu view of the position he has assumed
we think it his duty ‘o resign, and then,
if he desires it, he can take the field, on
Qis piwseut platform, against some can
didate who represents Democracy as we
understand it and as nine-tenths of the
men who voted for Mr. Stephens recent
ly understand it
It will not do, however, for Mr. Ste
phens to stand upon his past record and
then ask as to follow hint into thesapport
of Radicalism. Neither will his intol
erant talk about “ true” Democrats whip
anybody into his way of thinking. Ii,
bunded by a sense ot his own import
ance, aud misled by a beiiel in his own
infallibility, he persists in preaching the
i n - wl ‘>cu -i, ,
posed shall coune t the Ttnne
with tha Coosa river at a point «’'
two streams approach each otLt-r™
Our fiiend of the Chicago Times re- '- , P BBe d. boats wtuld
- . r i a * i f* * * lrom tat ieuuessue river tie 1 •
iuses to accept anybody s detmmou of „ << , thr »mvi, . ■
“ *»« •>*••
A nnrnwr ot out c u t.m,.or«- ^' j
rien ot the craft have tried tin lr hands at 1 wo ild “ * ’ 'f r hl S : ‘W; v t ,1
the job-tor instance, the New York *?,Jl..- i
World, the St. Louis
’■P i . .1 lalld u^ ; g“tiou, one of whichTV ’
,s Republican, the, tlie predu-mg remon ^
Kausas City Times
coufrere passes all then efforts in review j ot Southern States
only t-condemn them as figments of the be practicable, it would
oram or shadows ot tne past. A Demo- Y(ist l)eU etit to the States mul
orailc State Convention iu Kentuc ky had aud communic.de
It such a
cer;an,|j bt
j| | , «#m
aud
mit that it would be difficult in tbest
disjointed times to tell what an assem
blage of ad the men who have heretofore
ot hum la],.i
uon-preclnc^l
sections
accordingly interested iu the coil
structioii of a cheap trauMponJ
tion route over which they i-, iu caf J
iheir caips at a small cast to their
ern customers. The Northwestern t«t|
ers want buyers tor teeir vast suq lus,
grain, aud those ot the t’otunwestt
purchase breadstuff* and meat ana se
cotton. Each section rauts wi.a tul
other lack;, and by mu'uat supiortat l
Md, by providing a cheap channel to>|
the exchange oi commodities, botu boG
tious will prosper. The common adficj
in this case is lor the South to stop gr u s.
ing so much cotton and raise grain it !
stead But Governor Smith n.ji, th|
the average proauc’ion ol corn in
booth to make up the deficiency m
require the cultivation ot Uve imlii.rl
acres; the same acreage devoted to <?•.[
ton culture would produce l,25U,i
wales; thus, fixing tfie price ot ueJ
tou at fifteen cents per pound ahl
corn at one dollar per bnelul, t..|
loes to tne South wou.U be fiit\ umlid
easy outlet to the mark t n ,
the world. In these lour States, aiv I
tug to tne Governor <,f Georgia’ n.Jy
. i , . > -p, . „ .. an annual deficit ot 50,UOO.OOii husLi
acted WPh the Demociatis party, would j grain; aud this deficiency nsrau
to-day gr. - upon as a working platform creasing, owing to the luck • - 1
ot creed. And it is irom tne fact that iiud tne rapid lucreuMug
the tunes arc morally out of jomt that the population. For this vas. UU411IltT w
difficulty arises. It is not a ques ion of yram tne , olu . Sttttes mention, u a "L'
what are Democratic pnncioles, for any j * im ost wholly eu the West
candid enquirer can finu that out *ith- Northwest, aud these
out a guide. But the real question
which makes the real uifficuby is, m7* c.h
of the principles of ihe Democratic f uu
do men now dare to avow aud stand
U] ou ? Heucb where there is no ques
tion about the taich itsell, and about
what constitutes “the principles of the
Democratic party;” there is an immense
doubt about who constitutes “tLe Dem
ocratic party.” Iu onr opinion the cus
is clear as to who should constitute the
party. It is precisely those who profess
and are ready to stand by and act up to
its principles. These are the corps d'ar-
mee. of the grand old party—the nut and
the nucleus of its powtr—and, lute all
strong armies, it will have its auxiliaries
for a thousand different motives of inter
est, expediency or chance welded upon
it aud help ng it in the day of battle.
But tho las! are useless without the Sbhd
nucleus of formation. It toltows, vliat
iu order to form or to reform any power
ful political organization, there must
Urst he a basis aud framework ol
und and i ositive opinions and ! dollars annually. It is better, thet, kI
principles upon which to ouild There concludes, lor ea ih section to cumvik
may be the widest diversity of opinion the crop which is best adapted to ih|
and sentiment as to what would consti
tute n Democratic creed as a whole.
Therefore, if a Democratic platform is
built on the ground of expedie; cv, with
an eye to pleasing and uniting tne great
est number, ihe work is a failure fr >tu
the b gtning. Bui, built, oi tne solid
timber of unquestionable Democratic
principles—a platform of the era of An
drew Jackson—while many may hesiure
and quest-on the expediency oi ctrtein
planks, none will question the purity, the
authenticity, and tne enduring worth of
the whole structure. In otuer words, if
you would have ycur house stand, build
t ou the solid rock of principle, and not
ou the shifting sands of expediency.
Nothing is more common than to bear
it confidently said thut the Democrati
party has lived out its days of usefulness
and possible life—“played cut,” to use a
common phrase; but this is not because
Democratic principles have iOst any of
their salt, or saving power. Indeed, they
are the very medicine for the political ills
of the hour. Applied to the rules of gov
ernment at Washington, every disorder
on the body politic, from Maine to Texas,
would melt away, ike the mist3 of a
morning befoie a summer sun. Why,
then, will not the Democratic party reoi-
ganize and spring to the front of govern
mental power in this country ? I
If it does not, it will be
because the men who belong to aud be-1 -piurd District—Bishop Keener—Ljuis-
lieve in it have been .righteued out of vllle> pnucetou, October 1- Holstoc,
their wits and courage by t e howl of I jq arl0Ui October 15; Virginia, Norfolk,
its enemies, that its day is gone, that the I November 20; North Carolina, Colosooru,
war bus revolutionized ti.e government; I p> eC; - m t)er IU; Mexico, January, lbTL
that the republic nas entered upon a, E our tfi District—Bish.p iUe id Le
xington, Oopltlnuer 3;
. _ _ , Frunklin, October 22; ileui-
is turned to foolishness, and their chil-1 p u4!5> Memphis, November 22; boum
dren into slaves, because we have had a fcjumter, December 10.
civil war of four years’duration. What; p ltiu jy^tnet- Bishop Baiue—North
American Democrats need is faith -■ - " 1 — 10
soil and climate, ana establish a eiuti j
channel of intercommunication oelwm
each other. Gov. Bin it U further |
that tfie increase ot railroads will not I
meet the wants of the people, unu iim |
the sole relief is to be founo iu Rate
transportation. He then deuiouhtiates I
the leasibiluy of the coustrucuou oti
canal lrom tbe We^t to the seaboard,
connecting tne lakes with the Ohio, am
the Ouio wuh the Jam»-8, and the lVi-
UcSsce with lUc Ocmulgee, and thus cun-
nee' tne Aiississiopi with the AUuuuca:
Noth lk and bavunuau. a route La:
been surveyed by uisiinquished engi-
n ers of the War nteparimeui, aud has
been pronounced practicable. — LouiseiL-. |
Courier-Jour ual.
Episcopal Visitation.
The Coliege of B shops of the Metho
dist Episcopal Cnurefi aouth, jr-io
arranged tne ioilowing pmu oi vi-iiatiuu:
First District—Bisnop Wignuaun—
Western Coulerence, AcUiaon, Bcptom-
ber 10; West Bi..Louis, BpnngfiuU,Oc
tober 1; Bt. Luius, Charleston, Ociobtr
15; Brandon, Decembet 10.
Beconu District—Bishop Marvin-
West Virginia, Ashland, September 3;
Illinois, Buna, September 17; North Ala
bama, Tafiadega, November 19; Ala
bama, Selma, December 10; Louisiana,
sinply | i3 atou Rouge, January 7.
Luae mo icpuuuo OBJ rumeu upon a. , p UUrtU LtlSlr
new era of progress; that might has sub- j Kentucky, LeJ
jugated right; that our father’s wisdom Xennesbee Frai
in t n i* •. ia/1 try f, ,Aiclinnfau onr) TKaii* r>l ll.i n < , -
their faith—in its energetic aud saving
principles, in its power to wortt
reform, to restore liberty and
r,ght to forty millions of people and
to abuse bad men who have stolen into
high places, and to root out ihe pernici
ous practices and punciples tnat have
brought the institutions of onr ancestors
to the verge of destruction. Yes, it is
easy enough to find out what Democratic
principles are, but t.> find mm with the
nerve and the courage to uphold them,
hie labor, hoc opus est. Democrats nave
got the cause; ail they want is the pluck
to stand up to it. We are of those who
firmly beheve in Democratic resmrec-
tion. Not to believe it would be to Joe*-
taith in ths native sense of tbe American
people, aud to give them over lc. a mas
ter. And now mat no journal or conveu-
ventiou sterns able U lay down a pro
gramme of Democratic faith that is ac
ceptable to the Chicago Times, will tot
that able and influential journal tell us
what its platform is ?
FROM OREGON.
Mississippi, Grenada, November 12;
North Georgia, Newnau, November. 26;
Boutb Georgia, Macon, December 17.
Bixth District—Bishop Fierce—Indian
Mission, TahUquan, Octouei 22; Arkan
sas, Daruuneaic, October 29; While
River, Forest Oitv, November 12; fintle
Rock, (JamU'-n, Noveiuoer 26; i lornla,
Jacksonville, January 7.
Beyeutn District- Bisnop KavaL-augh--
Nortbwest TeXub, Waco, October 13;
Tnuiiy, Dallas, October 27; East Bxat,
Fateb.iue, No\t rnnci i2; West leia?i
Lockhart, Nuvemotr 2(3; Texas, Austin,
December 10.
Eighth District — Bishop Doggett-
Coiuaobia, BiowUnvilic, Btptemnir 3;
i’ac.fio, (JcIush, October 8; Los Augl-loe,
S ... .,n^, Oc.oa^ci 22, B i.i lmole, ALiciiti-
Bi.-O p E lly, oean n -U^UuM, ed, !S
.D* U» *kii V VU’lll.
,,E d YORK.
New Yore, M..y 15.—The Brooklyn
horse-shoe bosses nave conceded to the
demands of their employees.
A special dispatch to the Herald reports
a complete victory for the Carlists at
Fuerto, in Navarre. The battle ended
with a grand charge, causing a total
route.
Lava Beds, May 15. —Lieutenant Har
ris is dead. Surgeon Lerning is recov
ering.
The Modocs are in another rocky for
tress, 27 miles below the last scene, for- j Qreen writes lrQm Sactiig0
ttfyrng. The troops will not attack nn- De ^ ^ tfaffic with tLe interior is
til reinfo.ced. J C ut off by the Insurgents. Green be-
Dawes and Gillem narrowly escaped lieve3 the Insurg ents are better supplied
drowning in Lake Tulle ' than ever W.th arms and ammunition,
Dawes will endeavor to hold the In- ^ ^ m6Urrection is daily becoming
dians where they now are until rein- ^ ^ formidable
fcrced - ; R«v. John Hall, in a letter on the Pres-
Tha Modccs have their families with byterian General Assembly, which com-
them in thtir present stronghold. : m ences its session in Baltimere to-day,
It is hoped the Modocs will remain in u re p resents the church formed lrom
their preient position until some provis
ions are made for the women and chil
dren. In the meantime Davis expects
rein I orcr meats. Mortars are harrying
forward. Tbe Modocs bad two killed in
Saturday’s fight, and lost a portion of
their horses, ammunition and clothing.
The Modocs entered the fight etripped
to their breech-clonts, bat could not re
sist the Warm Spring Indians who ran
tb< m beyond their stores, and captured
about two tons of provisions.
the recent anion of what were known a*
Old School and New Behoof churches-
It does not include the United Presby
terians, who maintain separate existence
on “ matters of praise,” nor the large sec
tion ot Presbyterian chuiches in the
Southern States stid standing out ou the
issues of the late war, nor the Jovenant-
ers, who still retained some of the pecu
liarities of the historic body in Bcobauu.
nor does it include the Reformed cunren
who lately dropped the word “duties.