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THE ATLANTA SUN
•WHAT I* DBVOCBAuTt AMO WHO
ARK DEMOCRATS *”
In another column of The Sun
to-day, will be found an article from
the Mobile Register under the above
caption, which we commend to the
careful pern sal and stndy of every
true Democrat in the land. The
articlj is long, hut the subject is
great, grave and momentous in its
right understanding and^ coirect
solution. To say that it is treated
by a master hand moved by the most
patriotic motives and the most
philosophic princip'es of real states-
mansnip, wouid come short of ex
pressing our full appreciation of the
merits of this article. If the liberties
of this continent and the rights of
the Peoples composing the Union of
the States, now constituting our
oceau-bound Federal Republic (the
grandest in its structure in the
annals of the world’s his
tory), are to be rescued and
perpetuated, it must be done by the
Democracy. It was the high mission
of the Democracy, under the lead of
Jefferson, the great Apostle of liberty
in his age, to found these Institutions;
and it is equally the high, if not the
higher mission of the Democracy in
this day to save and preserve them.
Hence, the pertinancy ana impor
tance of the questions, ‘‘What is
Democracy, and who are Demo
crats?” This query is as momen
tous in its range as was that of the
great Cato when he exclaimed
“TO I5E on NOT TO BE ?
that’s TIIE QUESTION !
Our answer to these questions is
that the test of Democracy and Dem
ocrats—the touch-stone by which
to know those who are made of the
right stuff to redeem and save onr
matchless Systems of Government—
State and Federal—are those great
leading principles recently so clearly
set forth by the Democracy of Ken
tucky.
These constitute the “Ithnriel
Spear,” upon the application of which
will instantly be disclosed the real
and true character of all who are
now calling themselves Democrats.
If the Chicago Times, the Mont
gomery Advertiser, the Memphis
Avalanche, Louisville Couiier-Jour-
nai, New York Sun and World,
*‘et id cmne geuus” can stand this
test, and will place themselves
square 1 )’ upon that Platform, then
they may bt hailed as true Demo
crats, and recognizi d as members oi
that host upon whom devolves the
grand, noble and, we may say with
reverence, the holy work of bringing
under popular condemnation Usur
pation? of all sorts, whether in
the. Legislature, Executive or Judi
ciary Departments of the Govern
ment, and purifying the temple of
American iiocrty.
This grand achievement is to be
effected b) the united efforts of the
true Democracy, thus tested in all the
State.. in a general rally at the polls,
with banners bearing in burning
emnlazonrv, their own time-honored
principl s; and with the sole intent
of working out the deliverance of
common country through th
ful instrumentalities of
Federal Constitution.
should refuse a pardon on proper ap
plication, then the cases would be
analogeotu—and “ Mr. Stephens ”
would not be less prompt to make
known (if inquired of) his disap
proval of President Grant’s re
fusal in such case than he has been
of Gov. Smith’s refusal in Miss Eber-
bart’s case. But non-approval is not
denunciation, much less abuse; and
if Gov. Smith should not be denounced
for sustaining the decision and judg
ment of a Court in this State, or not
pardoning where he could mercifully
have done so, why should Gen. Grant
be denounced for sustaining the de
cision and judgments of Courts in
Louisiana on matters within the
range of his jurisdiction, where the
discretionary power of pardon had no
application.
“The quarrel” of liberty-loving
men in the Louisiana c;.se, should be
with the Reconstruction Usurpations,
and the iniquitous Enforcement Acts
based upon them; and not upon
those on whom devolve the execu
tion of those measures as judicially
expounded, however monstrous they
may be.
Radicalism—root and branch—
must be thoroughly eradicated if the
country is to be relieved from the
baneful effects of its worse than Upas
fruit in any department, a. h. s.
There is considerable discussion
among the State papt-ts over Mr. Ste
phens’ assertion that the South’ ru peo
ple should not abuse Grant. We mav be
wrong, but we have a sort of indistino!
notion that a Sent hern man who will not
abuse Girut, deserve*, abu-e him?- If.—
LaGrange Reporter, May 23d, 1873.
This is about what might be ex
pected from any one whose opinions
are founded upon such crude,
confused, and “indistinct notions.”
Those who would render sound
judgment upon any subject, should
not only see clearly, but under
stand thoroughly, what they are
about, in order that they may be
enabled to decide wisely. Conclu
sions of any sort, arrived at from “in
distinct notions” are very apt to be
erroneous and lead to “indiscreet
action.” What “ Mr. Stephens” has
said is that Gen. Grant should
be dealt fairly by and not abused
unjustly. Will any man with “dis
tinct” ideas, and a proper sense of
justice say that this is not right.
A. H. S.
Kill ItiH W > § 1 O TH ► SOUTH.
a
ace-
a common
A. H. S.
.c*- h at aiitthi be
upon uie *u>j-. of
' • i t.«.r t<« i ardor.
U tur Co St;
g it' 1' u>
“To prevent au li ter-
d.aWu i ! aj our a. 1 net
o; the rr M»ai ot Un- umw-ii,,
tqis UUlollUUHte iu .. *, ...
Until.) ’O e tv ihut vv ,. o ,
that reiUr.il. We looked dj.t
as one eminently Cuauatju.ii
Ex ecu iivu ciunencj.”
So says A. H. S. It is curious, but
Mr. Step lens condemns Governor smith
for sustHiiiing the verdict of an honest,
impartial Court, and defends Grant for
sustaining the decision of a drunken, in
competent Court—in Louisiana. What
is the matter? Foreign appointment?—
LaGrange (Go.) Reporter, 23d May, 1873.
“Mr.
Stephens” has not “con
demned Governor Smith for sustain
ing the verdict of an honest, impar
tial Court.” He has done nothing
more than say he did not approve of
Gov. Smith’s refusal to p&idon in
the case of Miss Eberhart, It is
often the duty ol Courts to render
judgments of conviction, when it is
clearly the right, if not equally the
duty, of the Governor to exercise the
pardoning power. It was to meet
just such cases that the great merci
ful power of pardon, wag lodged with
in the chief executive magistrate. It
ne\er was intended in any sense to
be considered as in antagonism to
to the Judicial Tower, or to save the
guiltless, but to extend mercy, ir.
proper cases, to th 3 guilty.
The cases before Gov. Smith and
Gen. Grant have no analogy. If any
of the unfortunate persons now under
arrest for resistance to legal powerg
in Louisiana should he convicted in
a Federal Court, and Gen. Grant
The Harrisburg (Penn.) State
Journal, which seems to be a little
partisan and sectional journal, con
tained an article in its issue of the
23d inst., from which we extract the
following:
If the Southern people hud acted witli
prudence and liberality wbeu the\ were
j fairly whipped in rebellion, it wniid not
have been necessary for them to m ke
special efforts to secure ioreign emigr»-
tion to smte on their waste lauds, to 3e-
Y«*lo • their mineral resources and estab
lish manufactories in their midst. The
men and t-..e money were both at hand
in tbt Norte, ready and anxious to do
ali tins, but the bloody atrocities of Ku-
klux, and the senseless arrogance ol
poverty-stricken traitors, living in actual
oe^gary, prevented them from doing it.
The manner in which the Southern peo
ple have acted towards Northern men
1 who sougiit settlement m the South has
I become known all over the civiliz-d
world, aLd will for years prevent for-
' eiguers *rom seeking homes there. It
a ill keep thousands of Bturdy (ai mers
l and able mechanics troeu settling there,
*nd millions of dollars from being in-
v s'eii in the same locality. It is a les-
' >u w.ici the cLivalrv ot the 8 mill will
i»e I ft, to ponder rj poverty lot some
years yet to come.
No people ever acted w’ith more
uvudeuce thau the Southern people.
If to define ..heir principles and vote
for them when called upon to do so,
like men, constitutes imprudence,
then perhaps they were imprudent.
This we do not concede. We were
opposed to reconstruction and all
other usurpations of Congress and
cast onr ballots accordingly. We
would not have been men, but slaves,
had we acted otherwise. While we
have maintained our principles we
have extended the most cordial wel
come to all who desired settlement
among us as good citizens.
The talk about Ku-klux has been
made the mean slogan of political
tricksters and office-seeking “bum
mers” to array Northern sentiment
against the South aud to their own
advantage. This cry is threadbare,
and is too thin to be raised at this
late day by a journal pretending the
least respectability or intelligence.
No man need fear Ku-klux in the
South; hut good men of all classes
are most cordially welcomed to onr
unequaled climate and soil, and will
be protected in all their rights as citi
zens, politically and socially; and will
be respected as long as they demean
themselves as ladies and gentlemen
and do not attempt to arrogate to
themselves superior intelligence, and
endeavor to force obnoxious senti
ments upon their neighbors.
DECO RATIOS OW SOL. DIKIIS’ GRAVE*
Friday, the 30th inst, is set apart
by the Grand Army of the Republic
for the- purpose of strewing the
graves of Federal soldiers with flow
ers. The Washington City Herald,
referring to the subject thinks that
“ it may occur to some that, as in
life all the dead were equal in bravery
and manhood, so in death, all should
be respected; that some errors do
not extend beyond the dread pre
cincts of the grave; and that for the
survivors to make distinctions after
death is but to belittle the great
cause which they would glory.” Con
tinues that paper—
“Bat be that as it may, the flower-
strewing on tl e 3 >th of this month is
clearly arranged to be ar exclusive affair,
and we bo'd it in bad taste for any
friend of Confederate soldiers to intrude,
as we woaJd also bold it in bad taste if
the Gravid Army of the Republic were to
interfere in any way on a day set apa.t
for floral and eulogistic honors to the
Confederate dead. The time may come
when snen demonstrations on the part of
either party will be held in bad taste.
They assume the character of picnics,
and, save in the case of tne few leally
bereaved, don’t seem to tend in the least
to eitner patriotism, religion, or recon
ciliation.”
The Chronicle, of the same city,
endorses the sentiments of the
Herald, and says, “let nothing te
done on Decoration day to mar the
moral beauty of the ceremony. Any
thing done by the friends of the
Confederate dead or the friends of
the ‘lost cause’ in the spirit of
rivalry or bravado would be un
worthy of the spirit of the occasion,
as well as discreditable to the charac
ter ot any who would attempt it.”
Concluding, the Chronicle says:
“Tne emotions inspiring every bre>st
should be tuose of tenderness and love.
And if iu the distribution of flowers on
the graves of Union soldiers a garland
should be laid by a friendly band on a
Confederate urave placed by the side of
those who fought as t-ntmus and fell
together in battle, let there be no inter
ference from any quarter. Tue asperi
ties engend-red iu the conflict of life
suoula uot be carried to the grave.”
The true soldiers on both sides in
the late war—those who fought for
principle and were actuated by pa
triotic moth es—deserve equal h^nor,
which must be fully accorded and
acknowledged, before “the asperities
engendered in the conflict of life”
can be removed and national har
mony and unity of sentiment re
stored.
The Northern soldiers fought for
the preservation of the Union, and
those cf the South for the the prin
ciples of civil liberty, which consti
tute a combination of sentiment,
diyested of all side issues in the late
war; that commends itself equally to
the people of both sections.
The cry of “the Union !” was well
calculated to arouse the patriotism ot
the masses of the Nortn^rn people;
the cry of “State Rights!” was
equally well calculated to call forth
the martial spirit of the South. The
first contended for what is worthless
without the vital principle of State
Rights for which the latter contended.
Those who fought for the preserva
tion of the Union, and those who
fought for the perpetuation of those
great principles which make the
Union worth preserving, were actuat
ed by noble impulses, and their
graves should become equally sacred
if we would preserve the Union and
perpetuate the principles of civil
liberty.
Tlius may be -beautifully blended
in harmonious union the sentiments
of both sides in the late war, both of
which are based on principles that
alone will preserve the national gov
ernment and perpetuate the liberties
ot the people of all sections.
Mtum the Mobile Begieter, Utb May, 1873.
Whet la Democracy ; and who arc
Democrats!
Remarking, rot long since, that the
Chios go “Times” was turning a cold
shoulder upon ihe attempts that had
bee* made in various quartern, more or
lees authoritative, to lay down the plants
of a “Democratic creed,”and to deter
mine who veritably constituted “the
Democratic party,” we invited that in-
fluentialfWestern Democratic journal to
try its own hand on the job, and to tell
ns what its own programme was. With
equal civility, ingenuity aud ability, the
“ Times ” mee's our request in a long
editorial. From the tone of that article
we think that the “ Times" is
hardly satisfied with its own Delphio
response, and did not expect to satisfy
“the rest of (expectant) mankind.” It
tells ns many truths, it poi its to many
planks of doctrine, acceptable to all; bat,
as a complete and ronnded platform, bev
elled and water-ti ;ht in all its joints,
wide enough to hold all m*n of sound
Democratic sentiment and faith, and vir
tuous enough to exclude from its pos
sess io pedis aU such as do not believe in
the doctrine of republican liberty, bat
hold that self-government is a snare and
a myth, and that mankind for their own
good, need a master, the “Times’' con
fesses to a failure in its attempt to ‘'build
wisely.’’ Nor are we surprised at the re
sult; for in truth,we felt that- we were im
posing npon it a task too he'ty for accom
plishment under present political enlight
enment. In politics, just now, “ohaos
has come again.” The wind and rain
storms nave beaten upon the Old path
ways of political parties, tom away their
landmarks and oblitered the rats and
grooves in which they were accustomed
to ran. Principles remain, it is true,
and like stars, are yet destined to rise
above the tempest. Bat they are to par
ties like the standard of a rou'ed and
scattered regiment. It exists, and the
dispersed men are true to it, but they
know not wnere to find it. Yet it exists,
aud will be rallied to whenever its folds
are shaken out in tne battle or the breeze
to the vision of its old champions. We
do not suppose that the man lives
who is wise enough to foretell wheo, how,
by whom, and by what instrument lit j,
the new banner-raising is to take place.
But to say that the time wi 1 come, is only
to say ihat the cause of human liberty is
not dead in the hearts of the American
people. Wheu the watchers at Washing
ton, (“Old Probs”! of the wonderful
workings of the atmospheric laws, find
portents of danger at any point, they
order the red flag or light to be hung out
at their signal stations. Tnen pruuent
sailors do not put to sea. So, ton, a ship
keeps quietly at her anchors in port,
wheu camis or head winds await her out
side. A verse from an old hymnal ir
watted to the waiting mariner from the
memories of the past:
no hope for it. It can never march to
*ny but • Thyme viotory nnder a Lie-
oral Republican flag. The Democratic
people showed it last year, and they will
•how it again whenever the same experi
ment is repeated. It is for this reason
that we confidently look for a revival of
the Democratic party. It is the only
method of getting rid of Grant; for we
repeat, put Grant against the malcon
tents of hia own party, and he will beat
them every time. In line, a true
Democratic party has hopes of
success; fer a Radicalized Dem
ocratic party, there are not the
possibilities of victory. And at last, who,
save the mere office-seeking politicians,
want or value such a victory. Our coun
sel, then, is} to Democrats of principle to
stand fast, hold on to their faith, put
out their anchors, bow and stern, and
bide their time. Radical principles ot
Government can never be obliterated by
Democratic alliance or compromise with
either of the wings of the party that sus
tains them, Such 'a course is {only to
surrender the Democratic flag to its ene
mies; and we are strong enough, with
steadfastness and time and patience, to
defend and uphold it with our votes. We
have a fancy that in the mam, our Chi
cago contemporary does not far diflLr
from us in this general statement of the
Democratic situation.
will Of Horn. u*k*. A ^
A-joording to the Travail.* „ ’
Hon. Oa.cs Ames was ndmiiw^ 114 0|
bate on Saturday. The wit* *°
Moeee Dillon, N. G. Ordwaypt-^
Sawyer. The bequests areai iT 11
To his wife, Eveline O. Am*
all the household furniture
carriages, ana the use of his a•
house daring her life. To his rt’Tk! 0 *
Susan K French, $2,000
her life. To each grand dauoh J I*?*
000. To his son, g Frank 8 « g ^ r ’ $20 ' g
his interest in
on, Frank M. Am J
the Kingsley 1*^
Machine Oo., and in the houSi/iaS
and buildings bought or receJSj f*
the estate ot Lyman Kingsley ,
ton. To his sons, Oakes 1^:
Oliver Ames, all las real estate in E«t<J
Canton, Baintree and West BndnewT’
with fill maohintivc in/sL x ^
with all machinery, tools and tinS
that pertain to or in any wav ,
oi $50,000 seven per oeut raifr^a tt*
to be used for the support of schonk;
School District No. 7, iu Nortl & n
All the rest, residue/ and rem*i^ U)B '
be equally divided among his thr^LJ
Oakes A., Oliver anil Frauk M im.? 1
Oakes A Ames and Oliver Ames kb
sous, are appointed executors. ’ “
LOUISIANA.
At anchor laid, reinore from home,
Toiling, I cry, sweet spirit, come!
Celestial breeze, no longer say,
But fill my sails and speed my way.
MILLEDOEVILLE UNION’S
SONS.”
Whilst the Capitol has been in Atlanta
mnch more oorrnption and swindling
has been practiced than iu all the time
the Capitol remained in Milledgeville.
This is another of the “reasons”
given by the Milledgeville Union
why the Capitol should be restored
to that city. It is a little remarkable
that the editor of the Union seldom
gives any reason why this should be
done which is not more or less slan
derous to Atlanta.
He knows that for most of the
time the Capitol has been here, the
government has been in the hands of
a set of Radical plunderers, for which (-viued, and hopelessly divided,
state of things Atlanta is far less re
sponsible than any other city in
Georgia, or than the people of Mill
edgeville themselves.
, This we have shown in a recent
leading editorial.
A fearful tornado passed over
& portion of Hlinois and Iowa on
Saturday last Many persons were
killed.
* O inada is im|>orting English or-
Dbaus for domestic service.
It seems to be clear to all Democratic
miuds, that t e present is an eminently
safe aud proper time to stay in port, and
that to undertake any voyage is only to
enoounter bafliiug winds, storm , or what
is equally detestable to the sailor, dol
drums. Tne thine; for the nonc«, then,
is a secure anchorage, and a mooring to
such grand and indestructible principles
as still shine out through the wade of
wrecks. After creation once begins,
chaos is transition. The existing politi
cal chaos bids us watch and wait, hold
fast to what we know is true, and be
ready, like the virgins, with lamps Durn-
mg for the hour when “ truth crushed to
ear h shall rise again.” Individual crafts
may be put to sea in quest of forlorn
adventures and rash speculations; but
ti.e great Democratic fleet will not be
put in motion whin her admirals are
without chart or compass to guide or def
inite port to mn for.
We do not propose to undertake 1o
solve a riddle that so puzzles our contem
poraries. But we think we can point to
where tbe difficulty of the solution lies.
We believe that the Democratic party
owes its present distraction to the Radi
cal leaders who quarreled with Grant at
the close cf his first term and sought
tueir revenge by putting themselves at
the head of the Democratic party, and
that it was the Democra 1 ic weakness tLat
allowed this act that is the parent of all
cur woes. What do we see to-day ?
The Democratic party divided between
Simmer and Trumbull, and Dana, Gree
ley’s friends, Farnsworth and Curtin
aud Banks, etc., on one side, and Grant
on the other. These arc worthy allies,
truly, not to say leaders, icr Dem
ocrats. We hear Mr. Stephens,
of Georgia, aoused every day for
saying some good things of Gen. Giant.
Dots that mean th.it Mr. Stephens ap
proves of G-n. Grant, or foves him per
se? Nos at all. It only means that as
a choice between Trumbull, for instance,
aud Grant, the latter has done less vol
unteer work to make him obnoxious to
the South than the former. Grant uim-
self once expressed the idea in these
words: “I do not kuow wav Mr Tium
bull finds so mu.b fault *ith me, I have
done nothing but execute h:a own laws.”
While it must be confessed that Grant
has executed these laws like an avenger,
with relentless ferocity, he oan say what
Trumbull & Co. cannot—you mads these
laws without compulsion—my oath of of
fice compels me to enforce them. Now
we reckon tuat Mr. Stephens sees, as we
certainly do, that in another Presidential
issue before the country, between Grant
& Co. and Trumbull & Co., Grant &
Co. are sure to win, just as they
did last November; and, >s Mr. Stephens
pronounces, “ a plague on both your
houses,” he do“8 not wish to see any
such issue. The resole is that the Demo
cratic party cannot afford to stand on a
platform made by Trumbull aud the
Radical malcontent?. And it is just be
cause a great many Democratic journals
are trying to shape events to such au
issue, that the Democratic party is di-
Thi8 is
what many of our Democratic contem
poraries are pleased to call the new ieaf
turned over in the history of American
politics, “ progress ’" to-wit : ana the
cutting away of the cables thnt held the
Democracy to itB old Bourbon anchors.
In other words, it is to abandon Demo
cratic principles to be towed into
power in the wake of a Radical
faction and fraction that created
reconstructive Radicalism. The De
mocracy split on the Cincinnati and Bal
timore rock, aud a gieat many so-called
Democrats show no dis position to pull
Uer . ff those rocks and set her afloat
again in deep water and nnder her own
flag. Wo mu ntain tba* until the Dem
ocratic party outlives this illusion there
Proclamation of the President.
As many errois occurred in tne tele
graphic report of the President’s procla
mation, we give below the full text of it
from the Washington Chronicle:
Whereas, that under the pretense (hat
Will'am P. Kellogg, the present Execu
tive of Louisiana, aud the officers asso
ciated with him in the State administra
tion were not duly elected, certain tur
bulent and disorderly persons have com
bined together with force and arms to
resist the laws and constituted authori
ties of said State; and whereas, it haB
been duly certified by tne proper local
authorities, and judicially determined by
the inferior aud Supreme Courts of said
tS’ate, that said officers are entitled to
hold their offices respectively, and exe
cute aud discharge tue functions thereof;
and whereas, CoLgress, at its late session,
upon a due consideration of the subject,
tacitly reeogLized the said Execu
tive and his associates then as
now in office, by refusing to take any ac
tion with respect thereto; and whereas, it
is provided in tne the Constitution of the
United States that the United States
shall protect every State in this Udiod on
application of the Legislature, or of the
Executive when the Legislature cannot
be convened, against domestic violence,
anil whereas it is provided in the laws of
the Uuried States that in all cases of in-
sun ection in any State, or of obstruction
to the laws thereof, it shall be lawiul for
the President of the United States, on
apulication of the Legislature of such
otate, or of the Executive, when the L g-
islatn.e cannot be convened, to call
forth the militia oi auy other State
or States, or to employ such
pari of the land and naval forces
as snail be judged necessary for
the purpose of suppressing such insur
rection or oausiDg tbe laws to be duly
executed; and whereas,the Legislature of
saiu State is not now in cession, aud can
not be convened in time to meet the
1 resent, emergency; and tue Executive of
said State, under section 4 of Article IV
of the Constitution of the United States,
and the laws passed in pursuance there
of, has, therefore, made application to
me lor such part of the military force ot
the United States as may be necessary
aud adequate to protect said S ate aud
the citizens thereof against the domestic
violence a”d to enforce the due execu
tion of the laws; and whereas, it is re
quired that whenever it tnay be neces
sary in the judgment of the President, to
use the military force lor the purpose
aforesaid he shall forthwith by proclama
tion command such insurgents to dis
perse and retire peaceably to their re
spective nouiee within a limited time:
Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant,
President of the United States, do here
by make proclamation, and command
said turbulent and disorderly persons to
dispeise and retire peaceably to their re
spective abodes within twenty days from
this date, and hereafter to submit them
selves to tbe lawB and constitutied au
thorities of Buid State; and I invoke the
aid aud co-operation of all good citizens
thereof to uphold law and preserve the
public peace.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand, and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this
twenty-second day of Mhv, in
tbe jear of our Lord, eight 4 en
hundred and seveuty-iBree, mil
of tbe independence of the
United States the niuetj-*ev-
enth. U. S. Grant.
By the President:
J. O. Bancroft Davis,
Acting Secretary ot Sta e.
|n s.l
Died of Snake bite.—A negro bov
eighteen years old, in the employ of j'
M. Kimbrough, seven miles south 0 «
Hamilton, Harris oounty, went fishing
on the 18th inst., and was bitten on the
finger by a moccasin snake, from which
he died on the 20th inst. A pnvsician
was called to him eighteen hours after
the oite and found him in a comatose '
condition, talking incoherently. xh e
doctor says he frequently blew like
adder, protruded his tongue and struck
at every one within his reach—always
striking at anything he hit at. He
would seize tne bed clothing ami shake
it, and in every way imitate the actions
of a snake.—Hamilton Visitor, 23rf inst.
Another Snakebite.—The Mariana
(Fla.) Courier of a recent date says; Lf-
tie Ike Irwin, son of Col. J. M. F. Ir.
win, of Greenwood, was bitten ou Sun
day last by a rattlesnake, which has
caused the little fellow great suffering,
The brave brother of the uuloitunate
sufferer, Bryau Irwin,immediately tucked
the vvouud, and also brought the venom-
ous repti'e aloug with his little brother
to the house. Col. Erwin applied the
insiae of a freshly killed chicken, while
warm, to the wound, and gave heavy
doses of whisky toddv, with satisfactory
success; and little Ike, when Learn from
on Tuesday, was rapidly recovering.
I
Personal.—We were gratified to
receive a “pop call” lrom our long,
time friend, Mr. John II. Martin,
until lately the editor of the Colum
bus Enquirer. Mr. Martin was con
nected with the Enquirer for many
years. He is one of the best jour
nalists in the State. He was liter
ally raised up in the newspaper busi
ness, beginning in the humble, but
honorable capacity of “printer’s
devil,” going through all the grades
of newspaper work and attaining a
high position as an editor. Such ed
itors we love to especially honor and
are a ways glad to meet them.
A Kansas Farm.—The Atchison,
Kansas, Champion, has a long eulo
gistic article descriptive of an “Atchi
son County Stock Farm,” owned by
Hon. Geo. W. Glick, which is said to
be a model of neatness. Mr. Glick
moved from Ohio to Kansas about
sixteen years ago; is a lawyer of fine
ability; represented Atchison in the
State Legislature, and in 1801 was
placed in nomination by the Demo
cracy as their Governor, and although
running largely ahead of his ticket
preferred to stay at home and take
care of his farm.
__ This is just a trifle personal, but
it’s the way they put such things out
West. A St. Louis editor, in speaking
of a brother writer, says: “He is young
yet, but he can sit at his desk and brush
the cobwebs from the ceiling with his
ears. ”
ffia?” P.rs*-!' I’lfiicatnoiH „re that Hod.
Sttimtel S U.-v l be i.e Democratic
candidate foi C 'Ogress iu lue oixtu Dis
trict of New Y'-rk to Oil the unt xpirel
term f >r wLueh James Bii/Oks was
eh Cted
Tile Late father DeJSmet.
Iu the death of Father DeSmet, which
occurred yesterday at the St. Louis Uni
versity, the Catholic Church loses one
of its most enrneut and venerable rep
resentatives iu the United States. For
mere than forty years, a resident of this
country, and for a number of years
making his home in St. Louis, a con
siderable port’on of this period was
spent in religious labors among the
Indians of the far West, with whom his
success was unprecedented in missionary
anaals, as his memory will be long and
affectionately venerated by the benefi
ciaries of his norde self-sacrafice. Full
details of this distinguished gentleman’s
life and eventful experiences, as also the
arrangements for his interment, will be
found in our local columns.—Ex.
“Personal.”—The senior editor of
the Macon Enterprise disavows the
authorship of an article published in
his paper during his absence at the
Atlanta Convention, written by a
former editor of a Radical paper pub
lished in that city, and says:
“It is known that its [the Enterprise]
senior is a radical Southron—that he
peremptorily refused to vote for that
bar room politician and gar con ailing lit
tle scoundrel, Frark Blair, who ran upon
the ticket with Horatio Seymour, and
that old abolitionist, Horace Gteeley, and
that contemptible Southern skunk, B.
Gratz Brown.”
Slightly “personal,” that.
IN 'IKJU HY Of ADVII AiBIRT.
D»p»rt«-<1 »hf» Uf« 'he 'HUh <l*v ol March. lS73.ll
his home iu the county of Talif arro, near €r»»foni-
ville. tn the 72nd year of his age, of Congestion ol
th# Lungs—Adam Asbuhy.
The deceasfd —•• Uncle Altm.” as he was famil
iarly called—was for mtny years a pious an t exem
plary member of the Baptiat Church of Chris! ard
tn all the relations of life he aus’ained a characta
unblemished, ever conducting himself with su ey
single to the high standard of Christian excellency
he steadily and uudevi&tingly pursued ihe evec
tenor of his way, amidst all the vlsUitudes and trial!
to watch he waa exposed, "a living epistle, known
and read of aU men.” And it may be truly siid of
him, that he died as he had lived, with a conscience
void of offence toward God and man aud at the good
old age of three score and ten, sank into the tomb,
mourned alike, by hia white and colored friend*
Though a man of colot hia character for uprightne*
and Integrity was such ae to drawf rom frienJsi
acquaintances a tribute of respect for his m mo
The writer of this tribute knew him well, for n
than a quarter of a century, an! bears willing te
mony to hi* pure morality and uprightness of chtr-
acter. Tae deceased leaves an aged and sono*
stricken wife and b leaved children to mourn n«
loss with the CUristiaflkoLce to temper their griei,
viz: that their loss is nls eternal gain, “that he
gone to his Father’s House, in which are many min
sions;*' and, therefore, is not dead, but sleeps.m
•te® 118 - , , ,,
- Blessed sleep”
‘•From which none e’er wake to weep.*
J. F. B.
i
OBITUARY.
Died, at her residence on the old Homestead of
Hon. Alexander R. Stephens, near Crawfordvili*.
Ga., on the nightof the 14th inst., Fatst, the mother
of Euza, the woman servant in charge of “Liberty
HaU.“
The deceased was in the 85th yeai of her age. She
had retained her physical energies in a remarkable
degree. She waa in good health when ohe retired
for sleep that night. About 12 o’clock she woke on*
In the room, and gave information of sudden Ttolen
In a few minute* she ceased to breathe, an
pain.
her pulse oeased to beat. It is supposed the on-
looked for and fatal attack sprung frun disease of«
heart. Thus has pa^ed out of Ufa one of the hum
but faithful and aged oi the land! The circle o <
acquaintance waa limited; but all who knew -
whether white or colored, will cherish in mem ry
the many excellencies and virtuts *Uich mar»e
“the even tenor of her way” in her ai.ottid