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THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1872.
M TUBE DEMOCRATIC
TldtET.
For PmUtnt .f the VbIM lUtci«
GEN. WINFIELD S. HANCOCK.
For Vlee-P*-ciiIdc»t i
HON. THOMAS A.. HEN DRICKS.
Fob Governoror Georgia:
The noble old Roman who now so ably fills
that position,
HON. JAMES MILTON SMITH,
■'* Of Muscogee.
A FEW REASONS - .
Why the Scalawags Should be
Drivr^'From Office is Decatur
c OU|*V
First*-Vhey are traitor* to their
race and section.
Sheond—They have arrayed the
negdfles against the whites by pro-
jpa^ating.thc .damnable principles of
Better, 8a inner, Greeley & Co.-
Third—They prevent immigra-
tTdii' to our country, for capitalists
amf. industrious laborers prefef
keeping out of the bounds of Radi-
cal misrule. -
Fpurth—They do not represent
the taxpayers of tue county, but an
ignorant poverty-stricken rabble;
therefore the property-holders havh
filled up with men of patriotic princi
ple, and not cringing cowards ready
to answer the beck and call of tbe
arch enemy -of ibe South, Herace
Greeley. We think this a derlisb
poor way of showing that Ibey prefer
a Democratic nomination. If -they
did, they would wortofot it, and never
would they attempt to foist Greeley
upon tbe party, until tbe party itself
accepted him at Balttmore. If they
prefer a Democratic nomination,
again, we ask, why the deuce don’t
they advocate it!
no voice in their own Interests.
"Fifth— 1 They have plunged the
cOurity in debt, and its paper is al
most worthless.
Sixth—They have-done ail in
their power to aid the hell . hounds
at Washington in -trying to crush
tliespirlt'yfilie. Southern.peoph;^.,
Scventh-4-Their feeling is in uni
son with that which actuated the
Yankee vandals who laid Waste
.our laud, burned our houses, insta
ted our women, and even.* robbod
the graves of our dead; felsfc, why
could the craven-hearted crew affili
ate -With the Radical party. ' \
^Highth- 1 —Prominent in their -Tanks
Are villians, who, during the war,
infested our swamps and bushwack-
cd our soldiers.
Ninth—Their appropriate sphere
is.iiv the' society afiuegroes and car-
pet-baggers, and gontfiei ''
should drive thorn “lock stock and
.i,»rreir Into it.
Every Radical nigger and dog
that attended the Philadelphia Con-,
vention had “Grant” marked on
their collars* Ot course Grant was
nominated; and may the devil get
him before the election.
Grant and Wilson.
The Philadelphia Radical Conventou
have nominated for the Presidency
and Vice-Presidency, Grant and Wil
son respectively. They propose to
conduct the campaign in the ultra
Radical spirit, and in fact they can
well afford to do so being backed by
tbe Congress and Treasury of the
United States.
Tyranny will hold high carnival in
thie contest. Bayonets, bribery and
corruption will go Land in band. Ac
tuated by nothing save personal mo
tives and avaricious principles tbe
Radical party will enter the campaign,
not as a political organization but as
a band of merciless plunderers and
robbers.
Grant may triumph again. Democra
cy may have to bide its time four years
longer. The South may lb bleeding at
the de e pot’s foot for some time yet
Outrage upon outrage may yet be
committed; but just ascertain as
just God rules the universe, a day ot
retribution is coming. Tbe hand of
vengeance will "not always be stayed.
With tbe exception of Horace
Greeley, Grant and Wilson are tbe
most damnable knaves (the Southern
scallawags excepted)' in their party,
and they make fit leaders.
Shall they be elected ? It ie a ques
tion for tbe Democratie party to ans
wer, If they are true to their tradi
tional principles at Baltimore, we’U
wager our bead, that Grant and Wil
son will retire into obscurity after
next November.
ELEY
; old
-The chances
of this old demagogue for Democrat
ic endorsement are getting “smaller
by degrees and beautifully less.”
He has developed no strengt h with
tfie Radicals since his nomination,
While. Scburz, Trumbull and other
eminent Reformers have abandoned
hint ..in utter disgust. His ouly
strength lies in the frothy- fulmina-
tioqs of a few weak-kneed Democrat
ic newsfifipert. - .
The Senatorial Election.
ThaJCamilla Herald claims Mitchell
cbnnty to be entitled to the next Sen-
•(orirt.1 nomination, and whether or
not the claim of that county is para
mount to Miller and Decatur we are
not, at this writing, fully prepared to
say. -ff
The beet. way, however, to deter
mine which eonnty shall have the Sen
ator is by a Senatorial Convention,
when the claims of each, can be rep
resented and fairly considered.
If then, Mitchell is found to be en
titled to the nomination, we shall give
her nominee,our undivided support,
provided he is a Democrat of our
school; that is, anti Greeley, anti-
weak-kneed, untorrified and true ^as
steel in the faith.
We are net personally acquainted
with Cf>l. Bacon, ‘the aspirant from
Mitchell, but the -name is good; anol
we have heard of him as a man of
ability.
If Decatur should secure thp nomi
nation, her candidate wi.1 more than
likely be Dr. H.^S. Jones, a man too
well and favorably known to need
any cdiWmeedation from ns at this
time. '., ..
Away with Greeley.
Horace Greeley has developed no
strength whatever in the Republican
party. We doubt hi* rarriimr a .inrrje
northern SValeJshould the Democracy
endorse him. The entire Northern
Republican press condemn him as a
deserter'and a party renegade. A
straight Democratic ticket will ■ com
mand twice as many Republican votes
ns heesn. This we firmly believe af
ter a careh.il persusal of the leading
newspapers of all parries.
Greeley’s only strength lies in the
fears of a small portion of tbe Demo
cratic party, perhaps a third of it. Now
suppose this third should control the
Baltimore Convention, is it reasonable
to suppose that tbe balance of tbe
partv will endorse their, action.' No,
never. If, through the machinations
of a few leading milk-and-water Demo
crats, the party sellout to Greeley on
the 9th pros., the true Democracy of
the country will ignore their action
and bold a Conventioif for the purpose
of expressing the sentiments of the
party at large.
We bope that such necessity may
not occur,, but. just as certain as it
does there will be no half-way action
on the part of the'Democracy, but
timely, judicious and unequivocal.
Again, let us say, throw Gree’ey and
the Radical party to the dogs, for we’li
none of them.
Whtthk Deuce Don’t they Advo
cate a Democratic Nomination.—The
Atlanta Constitution puts down a list
®f twenty-six Georgia newspapers as
preferring a Democratic nomination,
but if Democratic success on that line
iis impracticable choosing Greeley be
fore Grant."" If these papers prefer
B Democratic nomination they have a
decidedly funny way of showing it.
Their editorial columns teem with fob
sotne'-praisea of Greeley and his Cin-
cinoatti platform,, and.argtjmyjfe to pesL Down, with Greeley! Down,
prove that a Democratic success i^im^ ^\yith Grant,!! Down with Radical-
possible* They tairl broadsides of ijm!!! Up with Hancock! Up with
venom at Alexander B. Stephens li»fl Democracy ! I say we.
Col. W. T. Thompson because they Governor James M. Smith is just
Editorial Raids.
Keep, the editor of the Live Oak
(Fla.) Times, is ilx search of a wife
to help him Keep house.
Hon. Henry W. Hilliard used to
be a Methodist preacher. He is
now a Greeley politician. ‘ ‘Ye Gods,
how the mighty have fallen.”
In the proceedings ■ of the Grant
Convention at Philadelphia, we see
the name of a fellow from Georgia
styled “Hon. James N. Sinn.” We
never heard of him before, but pre-.
sume him to be first cousin of the
Devil, the father of sin and the Rad
ical party.
The white nigger who edits the
Savannah Journal regrets that
WhiteJey voted against the late Ku-
Klux Bill.
Mr. W. C. Gunn writes to the
Cuthbert Appcaf to the effect that
the local editor of the Macon Tele^
graph is a dirty Radical. If so, we
advise ihe Tdegraphto kick Mm out
without further ado,
“When thieves fall bnt honest
men get their dues "—apropo of
Sumner and Grant.
“Up with Greeley f down with
.Grant!” says the Brunswick Ap-
as good a Tuler as the people of
Georgia want, and they’ll have no
other.
Some wretch says: “Don’t marry
dimples, nor ankles, nor eyes, nor
mouths, nor chins, nor leetb, nor
simpers:” That fellow’s either a
natural fool or. crazy.
The only Greeley men in Decatur
county are scalawags who see no
chance for elevation in the Grant
party.
We notice that the Greeley papers
throughout the South are slandering
many of our Confederate Generals
by publishing them as for Greeley.
We hope the Camilla Herald will
never again confound The Demo
crat with the scalawag organ of
this city. • *
If the Democratic party of Deca
tur will act like'tbeydid during the
Seymour and Blair campaign there
will be no doubt as to the result.
Reply to “Democracy.”
Bainbridge, June Id, 1872.
Editor Democrat:
In your issue of last week I ob
serve a communication signed
“Democracy,” calling.upon me for
an expression of the principles with
which I expect to enter the coming
political campaign, in aspiring to
the Legislature from this county;
and asking of me an explanation of
my connection with the Southern
Sun of this city. First, then, I may
say that my momentary connection
Vith the Sun has been already fully
and truthfully explained by yourself.
It would be a useless consumption of
yo.ur* valuable space to say more,
That Tdiffer with all who favor in
the least - the Liberal Republican
movement, may be seen by what I
here say of my political faith.
1st. I believe in -the Democratic
party, and in each and every of its
principles, as the only party and the
only principles capable of guaran
teeing Constitutional liberty and of
finally redeeming a corrupt and dis
solute government, *
2nd. I believe it would be worse
than suicidal to made one concession
or to give up one iota of our just
principles to any sect or creed of in
dividuals to come crying tC us that
we are weak; asking us to ground
■*' to tlioiu that they
may use us in carrying out unholy
schemes of ambition thatperr.ain no
more to our interest 'than they do
to our salvation in the world to
come. Our hope lies only in the
tenacity with which we may cling to
our own ship.
3rd. I believe we should have a
straight-out Democratic nomination
at Baltimore, and I trust that it may
be so. h
4th. I believe that Greeley said
Grant are brothers in corruption,
who have fallen out not from consid
erations of national importance, but
ior reasons purely personal and
Selfish. Greeley may possibly be
the less “evil,” but since it is possi
ble to remedy both, it would - be
wrong to accept?either.
5th. I believe if we will but help
ourselves, Providence will also help
us, and that the day is not far dis
tant when our three millions of Dem
ocrats will be increased to a major
ity that shall forever drive opposi
tion from the land, and raise the
banner of constitutional liberty on
the ramparts of national prosperity.
These are my principles, and it is
to them that I would refer “Democ
racy” for his reply.
That I aspire to the position of
Representative from this county, I
do not deny; but I have no wish, no
ambition that is not subject and sub
servient to the will of the people to
be expressed through their nomina
ting convention.
With thanks to yon, Mr. Editor,
and to others of my friends who have,
kindly urged my name for that
position.
I am, respectfully, &c M
Robert W. Davis,
Nor for. Greeley.
Editor Democrat:
To enthuse Domocrats, nominate
at the Baltimore Convention Han
cock and Hendricks, standard bear
ers that all true men of the nation,
North, South, East and West, can
support with an assurance that all
constitutional laws will be executed
and enforced. To paralyze the votes
of the country, let the Democratic
Convention endorse and ratify .the
nominee of Cincinnati, a candidate
whose heterogeneous record is dis
tasteful and unsatisfactory to all
parties and policies.
In- the one case the masses will
arise in the majesty of their power,
to triumph over despotism', central
ization and corruption: and in the
other, the true and tried friends of
Constitution, sentinels on the watch-
tower of liberty, will remain luke
warm and inactive, powerless to
protect or defend the great princi
ples handed down to mlTby the Pa
triots of the past. < • • - «
Numerical statistics giving the
electoral vote of different States, are
greatly In favor-of a straight-out
Democratic candidate. The people
feel that in the signs of dissolution,
so apparent inthe Republican ranks,
that now is the accepted time—tlie
time to win and the*tirae "to restore
peace, prosperity, hoiKsty, dignity
and happiness to this great nation.
Give us the unobjectionable ticket of
Hancock and Hendricks, and the
victory is almost certaiu. J. .
Our New York Letter.
Faces on Wall Street—Habitues
of the Street—A Demoralizing
Place—Relics of Old New York
—Haunts of the STnickerbock-
ers—J une* Amusements—Death
of James Gordon Bexnet—The
Home of Edgar A. Poe, ect.
New York, June 6 1872.
I wonder if there isn’t some subtle
influence in Wall Street, that writes
itself on the faces of men, and makes
that peculiar expression which you
see in the habitues of no other locali
ty. Perhaps it is only a fancy of
mine, but I always leave the erbwd
with the sensation of having just
coine out of a high-toned Pandemon
ium, wherein humanity -exhibits its
most distorted shapes, and the revel
ers wear such countenances as dogs
and children turn from with instinc
tive dread. You may hunt the pur
lieus of the old Five Points, and find
tilth, and rags, and crime, undisguis
ed; but if you want to encounter a
mass of well-dressed rascality—a
procession of social hypocrites—hard,
blunted, soulless, selfish men, whose
faces would stock a first-class Rogues
Gallery, and fitly illustrate passions
and vices that one would not like to
run against after dark—just walk
through Wall Street. Let me show
you some of the pictures from my
mental portfolio—types of classes.
Here is a boy of twenty-one or two,
dressed in tbe height.of fashion; a
swaggering member ot the Gold
Board, or Stock Exchange, and a
loud-mouthed, impudent member of
•society generally. His father has
money, and the son gambles with it.
In a lew months he will have been
fleeced out of his bottom dollar, and
you will hear of a forgqry, defalca
tion, or flight. Meanwhile he ijni-
tates his seniors to-the extent of
his poor brains, drinks his wine with
a gusto, drives home in a
coupe, and uilishes. the day with a
lrolic aittfiruf tha dr a ViimJj
sonic, fasluauahle. tiger-
Another, lhis subject is gray-
haired, smooth, sleek and oily. A
parson couldn’t be more circumspect.
He almost purrs when he talks to
you, and yet is a living falsehood
on the street, at home, and in the
church. Those cold, green eyes,
never shed anything but crocodile
tears, and never looked real sympa
thy on any'-child of want. They seeiu
to be a part of the straight, thin
lipped mouth,’which has just, said,
savagely—“Crush ’em!” m
Here is a third, with a. face that
might have belonged to old Fagin;
sharp-nosed, with strong lines run
ning down, and apparently hooking
on to the corners of his mouth, which
they twitch up in conversation until-
you see the snaiT that precedes the.
bite of the dog, and wonder if he
Has tusks. An animal built for dirty
work, from his cranium to tendo.
Achillis.
The fourth specimen. i3 a fellow
born to good luck, for it has kept
him out of the penitentiary and put
money in his pocket. He has man
aged bogus stock companies by the
score; don’t hesitate to change a
few figures here and there, to make
his accounts balance; knows the de
tectives and politicians to a dot;
keeps in the ring, and - is a first-rate
stool-pigeon for its peculiar business
“on the street.” * He spends money
freeley; is quick, plausible and po
lite, and has a bank account that
insures an entre into “our best
society.” -
I might go and describe dozens of
other characters—the old men who
totter among their former haunts,
“just to feel the pulse of the mark
et;” the fancy clergyman, in his
straight-buttoned, frock and white
cravat, who has come down to make
a call on some rich parishioner; the
nabob who moves millions and is the
wonder of young clerks; the poor,
round-shouldered fellows, who drive
their pens and rack their brains from
morning until night in keeping the
run of the business on which their
employers thrive; the hurrying office
boys rushing to or from bank with
their books or boxes containing
money, chained around their bodies
to keep thieves from snatching the
treasure, en route—all these and
more, but the want of space forbids.
Come and see the panorama for
yourself, and you will say that it is
a mixture of moral pigments that
represents every shade oi humanity,
and every road on which it is journ
eying, save that which leads to
heaven. In short, Wall Street is an
immense sum in vulgar fractions,
and the more you meddle with them
the worse you are off.
By the way, it is not generally,
known that the locality derives its;
name from the fact that the wall or j
boundary of old New York here ran
across the city from river to river, i
It was removed, however, long be-1
fore the Revolution, at which time, tised infill the Grant newspapers in
the present City Hall Pari was call-., that much goveilied city, at a cost
rwl ilia Pialik orwl Ampripun i of $1^8291^ * " j
prisoners "were executed the#.
The "Changes that have taken
place within a hundred years have -
obliterated most of the old land
marks, but a few are still, preserved
and cherished.
At the foot of Broadway, for in
stance, the mansiona me standing that
wereoccupied by Gen. Washington,
Lord Howe, Bene-ift Arnold-and
other historical celebrities. * Castle
Garden itself has in its- structure . the
bones of a eolonitfl fortification. Bow-;
iiqg Green in the same neighborhood
is surrounded by the identical' iron
railing from which lhu patriots broke
4 ff the iron knobs repiesenting the
head oi King George, to u«e as cannon
butts. The present city post office is
apart if the fatuous Dutch' church
used first by the settlers for worship,
and subsequently bv the British as a
military riding school and prison.
Further up town one-will find on the
comer of’t'lii ripen th street and Third
avenue, a pear tree planted Uv Gov.
Peter Stnyvesani in 1647. Ever)
May it^j covered with b'ossoma, a pa-
iriarciRwo hundred and twenty-five
years uld, standing in tbe midst oi
strangers, crowned, with hoary honors
of age and clustered with wonderful
associations. Another ancient chap
el in the neighborhood enthrones the
tombs of SriiyVesant, and many of the
•lead Knii*keib«ckers. Go-still fur-
‘her up the island,.and yon.will find
on either shore mansion* erected, and
once occnpied bv the aristocratic citi
zens of New York a hundred years
ago as country resiliences, now, alas!
converted into resoits whither people
flock on Sundays to enjoy horseflesh
and whisky. Perhaps you are' not
aware of the fact, that the.name 'Man
hattan signifies in the Indian vernacu
lar - ‘a place of drunk ness,” and there
is no doubt tbal the inhabitants are
fully determined to maintain its titu
lar reputation.
June opens, gloriously. Music in
allnf tbe parks attracts the crowd I wo
or three times a week, and the base
ballists, and ya?htsmeq have begun
their usual summer c ntesis. .Racing
week has commenced at Fordl om on
the elegant Jerome grounds, and - ev..
eryjay witnesses 'a congregation of
fashionables and celebrities of both
sexes in full dress that is posilively
dazzling. Returning from the race
course..qne may pass ihe little low-
roofed cottage.wherein Elgar A. Poe
wrote “The Raven.” 1 The poet, here
passed some of tbe happiest and sad-
dest years of Iris curious life. !
The death of Jam. s Gordon Bet.nett
was npi’unexpected. He was worn j
out with halt a century of toil, and
five years ago he rptiied fmm the sc- !
live management of the Herald. The
paper goes into - tlie hands of h.is son j
now -11} ElllOpe, who has heel) educated j
nu
agert.’enl which charaqierises the im-
meuse estal’i siiaient will in no wise
be affected by lh« 'oss oi its Jotmer
chief.
I he Aldine for this inoi.th .contains
some of the most beautiful j>;c titiS
that have been ptihl'shed in any Amei-I
can periodica). Every issue is, if
possible, better dian tho last, ai^l tlie
circulation' has ciept stea ily up to
50,000, The publishers are Raines
Sutton & Co., 23 Liberty S:. ■
Brave, Generous and Manly.—
Editors Constitution-. Will you please
allow me,through the columns ofyour
valuablq journal, to throw a stone at
some dogs and a.cat, who were too
cowardly even to growl at me while
I had a! paper to reply to them. But,
as goon as I hJtd. tbe misfortune to
faU, they set up a terrible! barking
anti growling, when they saw no pos
sible chance to get into any danger.
I mean crazy Fitch, of the Griffin
Star, and sap-head Grady, of the
Rome Commercial, -who have . brass
enough in their ‘face to build a mill
wheel, and sap enough in’their heads
to turn it, but are not brave enough
to attack a live man; but as soon as -
he is dead they go for him. The cat
of Athens had better leak out or
the rats will eat him. Poor little
Grady says “Rough Rice had'better
suspend himself.” If Grady- had his
dues he would be suspended by the
heels and nibbled to death by young
ducks. Yours, etc.
Rough Rice.
OF THE-- *
BAHST^RUDGE DEALERS
' . • Ri THE MARKET WITH THEIR SPLENDID STOCK OF
Nprfin g Good s!
Vie are now offering our usual FULL ASSORTMENT of GOODS, ajuung *hj c |,
are to be found v \. -
ORGAND1S, GRENADINES, CAMBRICS. WiRTE PIQUE. LAW^ LINEN nd
SEERSUCKER SUITS, BEACH.PARASOLS, HAMBURG TRIMMINGS,
BLEACHED and BROWN SHEETINGS and SHIRTINGS,
COTTON.iDES, LINENS. DENIMS, CASSIMERES,
NEW STYLE HEAVY SHIRTINGS, UN-
• " TRIMMED HATS for Ladie* A Mis-es,
(in black, brown . and white)
ALPACCAS A PRINTS.
«@“IN GREAT VARIETY AND AT LOW PRICES!
SCHOOL BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
McGUFFIE’S and GOODRICH'S READERS. DAVIES' and SMITH’S ARITH-
_ METICS, MONTEITH’8 GEOGRAPHIES, arid ALL
the School Books tnmally uaed.
rST* Also Billet, Bommereial, Note, Letter, Fuokdap arid Legal Cap Pspere. |F1
3MC «ro
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Uf - IJAT^ and SHOES of all styles, sixes and prices, for the million and th« min'ioniim
- • CJrt
An assortment, in .Granite a
BAUUERS, <nd other
I.ANTE
ERY.
LATES, DISHES, B\K
Also JUGS CHURNS, JA
r oil or candle.
w-
CUES n]
liif e Xest«l 9 Oils,
AND THE FAMOUS
“TOWN AND COUNTY PREPARED PAINT,” *
Respecting which any information wiil be given upon application."®!
Iron. Steel, Nails, Faping and Gardening
-■ m-wmjmk exvtsi,
To which special attention Is asked
Hfteoii, Flour, &c.
Ten’Thousand pounds Bacon, 10T) bbls. "Flour,
io LLfo. ew-nr {mt -grkacs‘j, rosaces Coffee, 20 bbk
Whisky,
To All of which, and "a complete stock of other goods, we respectfully uV the
lion of C'ish and prompt, paying buyers. • (a HI ly)
BABBIT & WABFULD.
THE OLD RELIABLE
WEST- STREET
op
James Gordon Bennett’s will is
understood to give his Fort Wash
ington Heights estate to his daugh
ter, Jeanette, his Filth Avenue man
sion to his-wife, and the New York
Herald and the real estate connected
therewith, being nearly the entire
block, bounded by Broadway, Ful
ton, Nassau and’ Ann streets, to
young Bennett. He cannot sell the
Herald. It must remain' in the
family.
— —.
The Democratic organ in this city,
the chairman of tbe National Demo
cratic Committee, Vorhees and his
friends in Congress, and hosts of
others are already od the side of ther
administtalion.
The writer of the above for the
New York Herald, knew he lied
when he penned the assertion, and
we were astonished to see it copied
by the Columbus Enquirer, and
made the foundation for an editorial
reflecting on the Northern Demo
crats.—Columbus Sun.
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LATEST STYLES A1
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Very Xiarge Stools, of
Staple Groceries
ALSO,. • •
HARDWARE, WOODWARE, WILLOWWARE,
uuiv »U uviMjum Vi j/uj muilb UI IGA* : g ^ *
es amounting to $584 12, .with ac- • Jq f act there is nothing wanted by the public that they cannot supply at TDOst J**
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Hot Times for Tax Payers.—
The loyal negroes in Washington
are putting tax-payers - through a
course of sprouts: A lot on Penn
sylvania avenue was recqptly put up
for sale in default of payment of tax- ■
kpril6
PATTERSON it MCNAIR-