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The Bainbridge Weekly Democrat. Published Every Thursday y “HERB BEALL THE PRESS TttjEPEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED R7 INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BT GAIN.” i Two Dollar c Per Annum. Volume V. IA » ffl MM ram " ' 4“ BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 87, 1876. Number 41. A Southern man, who was interviewed in New York, has this to ay in regard to tbe feelings entertained by the Southern people toward those o the North. -AM hostile feelings are -buried in the graves with our dead solders. Although we still mourn our bereavement we cher ish no revenge. Our lost cause cannot be recovered. We have laid down oar im plements of war and taken np those of husbandry and industry. AM we ask is thit new-comers will do the same. We can bear oar misfortunes if they will only be silent on tbe subject. Let them come among ns as citizens of our State, to unite with US in maintaining our common rights as such, and we have in our breasts the warmest welcome for our former foes.” Phe Weokly Democrat. BEN. E. RUSSELL, • Proprietor. Bainbridge, Georgia. July 27,1876 Ma. J*o. D. Hsaaau. is the General Agent of the Dimocvat, and is authorised to receipt for subscriptions and advertising. Next Wednesday is the day for the State Convention to meet, and it will then be decided who bus the necessary imple ment with which to detach the coveted Gubernatorial persimmon. If Colquitt gets it we shsll heartily exclaim hurrah for Colquitt! If its Johnson we wil' at trace rise ard remark three cheers for Johnson 1 If some other man should reach up and grab the fruit, all we wnald have to do would he to say bully for some otb er man I The New York Herald has this little '‘mess of gab” for old man Grant: “Let Grant take his heavy hand off the South. Of our soldiers we may say to him as Richard III said to Stanley; “What do they in the South when they should serve their country in the West 1" Why should Mississippi be strongly gar risoned while troops are wanted to fight Hitting Bull in Dakota and a i that region which is now threatened with a long, cru el, and possibly a disastrous war.” “Old Zeb Vance,” as he is sometimes called by the boys, is a candidate for Gov ernor of North Carolina, ou the Democrat ic ticket. . We had rather see Zeb in Con gress, but if nothing will do the everlast ing old tar heel State but to elect him Governor by fifteen or twenty thousMd majority, why we’ll have to give if- The rink w'ittl%En.lerprUt'■ The result at Bain AJfONG OUR VBIGHB0B8. A Thomas county colored man has eon to sell, and has invested $500 in good curitiee. Brooks county has made tbe culture of rice successful. According to the reports made to the agricultural bureau at Washington, the cotton crops of North Carolina and Geor gia are exceptionally good. In all the other States the crop waa reported below the average condition at this time of the year. Dr. Mark M. Shivers, Captain J. B. Johnson and Col. John G. Webb are can didates for Legislature bon; n in Clay county. Hon. A. T. McIntyre is the choice of Brooks county for Governor. Johnson second choice. Thomssville insists that she has discov ered a mineral spring. Cutbbert Appeal-. Mr. Hunter, who lives about six miles down the river, has five hundred and twenty-three head of sheep. A man in Randolph county refused to work on the public roads, and went to Jail for 12 days. Henry McIntosh is worrying with a case of billinus lever. Dawson Journal: If it were to rain down mush and milk, you would find a certain class running around and whining because it didn’t rain spoons to eat it with. Ain't that sof Fort Gaines was to have had an excur. sion to Apalachicola on last Tuesday. The Outhbert Messenger wants Col. R. E. Kcn;;on, of Fort Gains, for Elector of the Second District. A good selection. we would like to hear the old^El more at Washington, aaCiJ'only it. ^ stripes The following predictions by a Minnesota paper, at le\ii- before the’Radical Convention ml^‘ trust the third may be as true as first wero ; First: Gov. R B. Tlayes of Ohio, will be the Republican nominee for President at Cincinnati). Second : Gov. Samuel J. Til den of New York will be the Democratic nominee for President at St. Louis. Third : Gov. Tilden will be elected in November. A Correspondent of the New York Sun says on the morning of July 5th Gover nor Hayes was sworn in as a member of an American society which has for its motto, “Down with the Dutch and Irish,” and that he wrote a letter to the Secreta ry fully approving of the aims and pur poses of the organization. The Now York Heraia says: Unless the Republicans put an end to this new episode of Csesarism, this business of de grading honorable men to please Boss Shepard and avenge Belknap, they may as well close their canvass.* Hayes and Wheeler will be whipped as badly as Scott and Graham. A country exchange now has Jt that Kendrick has confessed to one of his brethren that he told falsehoods in regard to his criminality with Fanny Bush. The case has ended as far as the Superior court of Muscogee county is concerned, but it is yet liable to a brilliant run in tbe news papers. A popular lecturer says it is inelegant, and, in fact, there is no such thing as “in our midst.” That being the case, we would like to enquire where or in what locality he would place the pain caused about the time of year when watermelons ore slow of sale at a nickle apiece. The Committee on Naval Expenditures have agreed to report a bill directing the Judiciary Committee to prepare articles of impeachment against Secretary Robe son. "One by one the roses fall,” and. step by step the-Radical thieves step down and out. Bee Hill will be invited to make a few speeches in Southwest Georgia during the approaching campaign. Mr. Hill's speech es had such a good effect during the last great fight that tbe people down here want the great Georgian to do so some more. around in cS%la#lP l 9 th, in th. nomination of The- Cuthber%ed fr> « » candidate of tbe Hays, of ihrt ci«W«A^ tMa 8e “ at0r “ 1 D,s - , ' . , ' , .Taclopy. The Convon- s on, a handsaw, . , , . . . ail issues before it in a hu'uclred and tl^tou and • candidate not only strong m 'uif it is nfj t'Dfc/w w ° theV.vo “A .Vie, nut worthy to le strong in the other counties. Hurrah fqr Bush! The Neus says that the colored people of Early county met at the court house on last Saturday and organized a Reform Society through the instrumentality of which they propose to advance the inte rest of tiieir race morally and intellectual ly. The suppression of thieving is one of the principal planks in their platform. Good! Dawson Journal: The crops of this section are so good that the planters can’t find anything to complain at when they come to town. The rains have washed the rust off, and their faces are as smooth and bright as the nail-heads in empty dry goods boxes around town for seats. We extended our hand to a fanner the other day, and was surprised to find that he felt too big to even shake hands with us. Well, we are glad to know that the crop prospects are so favorable, and a few more good rains will make planters inde pendent, sure enough. The Dawson Journal records the fol. lowing deaths in that town: In this city, on the evening of the 7th instant, after an illness of about 13 hours, Mrs. Edwards, wife of Mr. Frank Edwards. We heartily sympathise with the young husband in bis great loss. Mr. Thomas Garrett, an old and highly respected citizen, died at his home about two miles south-east of this place, on tbe night of the 16th instaut. udge Harrison Roger’s mother died at his home, in this city, last Tuesday even ing. She was, perhaps, the oldest lady in the county, being in her ninetieth year. Mr. Thomas Seay, an old and much esteemed gentleman, died at home in the 11th district of this county, on the morn ing of the 18tb inst. Dawson Journal: Last Saturday, after the convention had voted to ascertain the wishes of the people of this county, as to who they wanted for Governor, and the vote declared 20 for Colquitt an 80 for Johnson, one man, who voted with the minority, got up and said: “Mr. Presi dent, I see one fellow in the house that voted for Johnson, who don't live in the deestrick. Tbe Quitman Reporter, under tbe bead "Good News from Florida,” prints this: Albany News.] LETTER FROM COLONEL WIL LI AN 0- FLEMING- He Beelines to lu as Elector—In- tarratiag, Sensible and Painted Yiewe- The first bale of cotton of this years growth has reached New Orleans. It was sold at 12 cents s pound, and was bought for a Liverpool firm. It was classed strict ly low middling. As fast as the different counties in this District hold their meeetings, they en dorse Hoc. W. E- Smith and announce in his favor for another term. The campaign in Florida is getting red hot, and we learn that the election of tbe Democratic nominee for Governor is al most certain. Gen. Wade Hampton is mentioned as a probable candidate for Go vein or ofSouth Carolina. It is a source of great gratification to na to hear tbe good news that comes to us through private sources almost daily from the campaign in our sister State of Florida. The white people seem to have gone to work in earnest to whip the fight at the ba'lot box in November, and the indica tions from all parts of the State are more encouraging than ever before since the war and the commeneemert of Radical and negro rule. In our adjoining county of Madison we learn from onr old and esteemed friend, S B-T., that eighteen reform clubs have already been formed and put into operation, and three more are to be organized this week. Many of the colored people are forsaking their Radical task-masters and enlisting with the Democrats in the fight for honest g >v- ernment. and the dav of Florida’s delive rance from Radical rule is near at baud. God speed the day. BanmuDaB, Gjl, July n, 1875. Editors Albany Noct: In the issue of your paper of June 29th, I aae my name suggested as elector for the tod Congressional Distrito. While I thank yon sincerely for yoar complimen tary notice, sod also for the honor done me by tbe suggestion of my name for so honorable a position, I must decline to allow my name to go before the Atlanta Convention. Circumstances beyond my control, would prevent me accepting the position even were It tendered me. I make this withdrawal at tbe very first op portunity presented me since seeing the announcement in your paper, and request you will give it publicity. I might close at this point but the ex pressloa “lead gallantly” in the article alluded to in your paper, has suggested a train of thought that I trust you may par don me for expressing here. It does seem to me that the time has comefit is strange if it has not) when the people all over the country, not only Georgia, will press to tbe polls without tbe necessity of much leadership—u-ing the word in its ordinary exceptation. The people North, South. East and West know already from expe rience—have felt and have groaned under the wrongs and oppression heaped upon them by tbe government, under Republi can Administration, until now it has become absolutely insufferable. Never before in any civillized country has rais- government been so plainly written upon all its institutions, industries and its en terprises. It has descended even to the private citizen, involving nearly all in hopeless bankruptcy and ruin. Our in stitutions of learning are but poorly sus tained for tbe want of means to educate our children, our commerce has sensibly diminished on the high seas; our factories and work shops are closed; our merchant princes bankrupted; our agricultural in dustries crippled, and individual laborers of all classses and callings roam over the country in search of work. Even lawless ness marches in the train of aH these other evils, until anarchy appears to threaten the country. It is a noticeable fact that this condi tion of things is more clearly discern ible at tbe North than the South, which is perhaps a fortunate circumstance in view of political events. And yet all these wrongs and oppressions exist in the coun try at a time when “the eyes of the rulers ol the people stand out with fatness;” when tile salaries of ail Government offi cials are double, as in the case of the President, or largely increased; when tbe laige array of Government employees (mostly ouly political bummers) are re tailed without necessity for their services, at maximum prices; when Government contracts are let at figures sufficiently re munerative to enable the contractor to enrich the Congressman, by whose influ ence the contract is obtained; when men never elected to Congress get the full pay of the position, because they contest for the seat the people never elected them to fill, and so ou ad infinitum. We will pass by individual instances of official corruption and malfeasance, as il lustrating any of the positions we have taken, and go at once to declarations and acts of the party in power, illustrating its opposition to retrenchment and reform. In passing, however, we will take time to say that in the future, when the new words that have been given to our lan guage—Babcockism, Btiknapism and Schenckism—are heard, they will not be suggestive of virtues of which these great Republican leaders were the embodiment. The acts and declarations of the Repub lican party, as opposed to retrenchment and reform, to which we would allude, is the present attitude of that party in Con gress on these measures, and the negative endorsement that has been given to their course in this matter by the Cincinnati Convention, by tbe absolute ignoring of these great measures altogether in their platform. This silence, and the acts of the leaders of the party in Congress, is a direct insult to the people of the whole countiy, who have spoken out upon these issues in the election, which have in tbe last three years taken place in the States, changing the complexion of the House of Representatives from Republican to Democratic. This is the people’s branch of Congress, and little will they care that it ha* been dubbed tbe “Confederate House of Representatives” by a man now under Ha impeachment, if it will be but true to itself and the countiy in the reforms it has inaugurated, and will save by the retrenchment it proposes 44,000,000 to the public treasury. The eyes of the whole countiy are now fired upon the scenes being enacted in Congress. A Republican Senate refusing to listen to the people’s ery for retrench ment and economy, and a Republican President insulting the House of Repre sentatives by threatening to close the De partments of tbe Government unless they will the appropriations demanded by him. It is said of the Bourbons that they never learned a lesson or profited by the teachings of the pto% and this would ap pear true also of the Republican party. Over a quarter of a century ago, under Democratic rale, the country was finan cially distressed aad similar evils, hut not to the name extent, afflicted the people. It was all charged to the administration hi power, and the Democratic party was swept from place—Mr. Yen Boren being replaced by Mr. Harrieoa. It is the extravagance, roguery and mis rule now that baa aroused the nation and (riven to the country a platform, one the applauded ftatutts of which is trenebment in the expenses of the Gov eminent and reform in the administration of our public affaire, and placed on that platform a wan for President who is the veiy exponent of these measures. But retrenchment and reform are not the most import.nt issues in this campaign; yet, perhaps, in no other way could tbe minds of tbe people have been arrested and their attention turned to the true and great Issue. Tbe undeniable tendency of such a state of things as that we have been considering is to the destruction of Repub lican institutions. This is fn'ly illustrated in the history of republics that have been and are uo more. Monarchies and empires may live corrupt, but a Republican Government—"a gov ernment of the people, by the people and for the people,”—in which there must needs be two great parties nearly divided upon the great issues that arise, it Is, in the very nature of things, impossible for such a government to live corrupt. Once the people are aroused, par y bands are broken as ropes of sand3 The corrupt patty in power is opposed by a party of yirtue, whatever may he its political name and the government is wrested from the corrupt party in possession of it, unless that patty has obtained such complete mastery over the powers of the govern meat as to hold it against the will of the people ; then, of course, the form of gov ernment is at once changed. What intel ligent patriot who has watched the course of events for the past eight years and studied facts as they have been developed, with bis mind illuminated as to what his tory teaches, has not trembled at what might be the denouement of the politi cal problem that has arisen as the result of the war between the States ? Our country has furnished no denial of the maxim that “revolutions never go back wards.” The war accomplished the re sult for which it was waged—the re-estab lishment of the Union,—but from that time, now more than eleven years ago, the war has been going on, being wage. 1 by the party in power in a mannemore dangerous to the Uuion than when the blue and the gray opposed each other on the tented field. It is not now the Union alone that is threa.ed but Republican in stitutions. The result of tbe war wa9 to give a lease of power, and invest with a grandeur beyond other men the leaders, civil and military, who guided the ship of State while it, the storm. This was nat ural, and would have been well euough if they had been all Washingtons who could refuse a crown for the good of his country; but not so these men. The love of power has grown upon them ; the wealth acquired by official opportunity must not be abated or cutoff; the corrup tions and extravagances in the adminis tration of the Government must not be exposed ; their own private malfeasance in office must never be brought to the light. And how can all this be accom plished except by holding the Govern ment in their own hands. By every ar tifice, fraud and device, waiving the bloody-shirt and crying unrepentant South, the party in power will seek to re tain the Government by vote of the peo ple at the polls ; but if this should fail, there is tooo much at stake for this patty to give up the Government without a struggle —only a Waterloo defeat at the polls would deter them from such an effort. Looking forward with a far seeing wis dom, the party in power has sought by legislation to provide against what might be tbe verdict of the people in November next. Under the pretence of nxesfity, a large standing army is yet maintained in States of this Union in times of profound peace. For shame, too, for while these soldiers rot for want of employment, in peaceful States, a handful of noble sol diers, meant for tbe protection of our bor der citizens, are murdered by hostile In dians. Preparatory to the elections, too, enforcement bills are sought to be enact ed, with a view of preventing, if possible the free expression of the people’s will at the polls; and if this should fail, a pretext at least has been afforded of scattering armed forces through the country. The language as well as the a ts of the patty in power, has been such as to train the ears of the people to listen to political heterodoxes, and prepare their minds for tbe announcement of the most radical changes. This preparation has gone on to such an extent that it is not tbe least alarming sign of the times and many good and patriotic, bat unthinking, men can calmly discuss our Republican form of government as a failure and coolly pro claim that man is incapable of self-gov ernment. This second grand issue of which I have spoken in this article, is to me by far the greatest and most sonl-absorbing. In my hnmfcle Judgment the evil appre hended to oar institutions can only be a retted by an overwhelming defeat of tbe Republican party at the polls In Novem ber next Not that the results apprehend ed would spring at once from the re-elec- •ion of tbe party in power, bnt U will be dangerous for the people thus to endorse the strides the Republican party has al ready made towards centralisation and the change of our form of Government It will be too easy to another four years of lease of power, if it should be necessa ry to suit their views and promote their schemes, to so rivet the chains as to for ever bush the voice of the people. What is iraperitively demanded is a change of administration. It Isas impos sible for a corrupt party to reform itself aa for a man afflicted with a cancer to use the kuife in his own body. Give tbe countiy in November a change of admin istration ; let the reforms inaugurated by the Hom>e of Representatives be prosecu ted vigorously ; let th; proposed retrench ments in tbe expenses of the Government be made, and still greater under the new administration, thus assuring the bond and money holders of the recuperative powers of tbe Government and that tbe last dollar of its debt will be paid accord ing to the pledges of the Government, and truly this centennial year of our exis tence as a Nation will mark an epoch in our national life. Then the soldiers— North and South—will not have died in vain, for their blood will have cemented a more perfect Uuion. Very Respectfully, Wm. O. Fieiinto. HON. W E. SMITH. Southwest Ga., July 15. 1876, Editors Telegraph & Messenger: During tbe present heated term, while the merits of onr public men and rival candidates are being generally discussed, I desire a little space in your columns to mention one, whose worth and ability have not received their full measure of acknowledgment. To those who know him intimately, the native modesty of the gentleman, however, will probably account for this. We allude to the Hun. W. E. Smith, the uccessor >f Whitely. and the present efficient Representative from the Second Con gressional District, whose recent speech >n the currency, stamps him as one of the soundest financiers in the House. This terse and admirable speech deliv ered in the House on the 14th ult. may be looked upon as a compendious and unanswerable argument in favor of that portion of the St. Louis platform relat ing to the currency and the repeal of tne resumption act; and it adds no little to its merits, that it outlined so ciearly the policy which was there adopted. Like the gallant Gordon, our Repre sentative appears to have grappled at race with toe most abstruse and diffi cult questions for di>cussion, passing by the tejuptation to display, so alluring to others, afforded by the ‘state of the country” in the committe of the whole.” This speech, while very modestly dis claiming "the power of declaring any new principle of finance,” and confined to "such impressions of he t abject ns the average business, not scientific, citizen usually receives and retains,” is yet calculated to unlock some of the mysteries oi onr financial situation to many, to whom these subjects are a sealed book. And we believe it will find scores of intelligent readers, to whom the splendid rhetoric of Hill. Harris. Norwood and other eminent and eloquent names it known only by report. It is lucid, logical, to the poiut and short, and should be extensively circulated. The people of this district, we think, are satisfied with their Repressntative, Gapt Smith, and unless we mistake the signs, will*eot readily be induced to look around very far nor wide for a successor to him. A Subscriber. THE CENTENNIAL. Graphic Letter from a 8011th West Georgia Man. Philadelphia, July 14,1876. Dear Democrat: At oare one ia impressed that the Centennial is a grand success, and nothing oan give the mind a fair con ception of it without beholding it with the eyea. A short visit of a few days oan only give yon a general and confined idea of the great exhibition. A few weeks systematically devoid! will eo define this confined idea as to enable yon to speak intelligently of it, but to fully comprehend tbe infinitude of the dis play would require months. You will It is truly wonderful what life can be given stone. Jo the Caatellani collection of Italian sculpture ere many old works. Among these are stone h-ads of Emperor Au gustus, Verna, Alexander, Sappho. These are very old. The artists are not given, end in many instances not known, as some of these were exhumed from ruins long, long yean ago. I found only two or three pictures of Julios Caesar, and only oue of the great Napoiean. One of those of Cae sar his assassination, tbe other symboli cally representing ambition—Caesar, mounted on a horse, trampled down men, women and children as he went j two veiled angels, with seythes, went by his aide a little in front and mowed down opposition ; behind him he drag- see reason in what i ray, when you eon- d ^ world> 80me ,, 8nd 8mi . mder the immensriy of the show. There ,- othe „ r^um-Hood, death, are about forty-eight acres covered by fife gQd doV88tation followed ; n his th a 1% a Mma a.m... 1 L . -1-1 . — L am! J * w • Gov. Hendricks Makes a Speech.—In response to a serenade after tbe Democratic ratification meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Saturday night. Gov. Hendricks made a brief address, closing in the following lan guage: ■I would not say a word against Gov. Hayes. I would speak of him as well as his most partial friend, bnt his election is but a continuance ia power of the men who have controlled the policies and the appoint ments of Grant’s administration. If elected can he disregard Gov. Morton’s pow«*r in In diana, Cameron’s sway in Pennsylvania, or Conkling’a lordship in New York? They say-he is an honest man. Was not the same said of Gen. Grant fonr years ago ? In a speech which I made in the Academy of ifusie, the first in my canvass for Governor, said that if left alone Grant would make a better President, but the surroundings, the influence, and the political power that would control bis administration would bring upon the people the ill which we now deplore. 1 have been informed that during tbe next week I will be formerly notified of my nomi nation on the ticket at St Louis. I will then announce mv action, and I trust it wU be satisfactory to the Democracy of Indiana. The boilers attached to the steam saw railll of Messrs. C. C. Bnchannan & Co., at Wares boro, on tbe B. & A. R. R, ex ploded on tbe morning of the 17th, com pletely demolishing the building, serious ly scalding the firemen, a colored man named Cater, and slightly injuring two white men. Some enterprising thief robbed poet office at Quitman last week. tbe the five principal buildings, besides th avenues, Ac., making with them about seven ty-.fi ve acres, whereon are syste matically arranged, with little if any vacant space, except the aisles, tbe products of thirty-eight of the greatest nations of tbe earth. Besides this, there are separate buildings erected by twenty-one of the United States, and eleven by foreign countries ; in many of which are exhibits, and in some very fine displays. In taking a survey of the whole, we are constrained to say we have a great country. But this leads me to regret that Georgia has taken no part in it. Georgia is not here, and apparently is nut missed. I would not attempt to give yon a detailed description of tbe exhibition. Among many things which attracted my attention I will describe a few, as they may interest some of your readers. The lump of silver (I mention this first as we all feel moat interested in such) in the Mexican Department of Main Building, is shaped like a common ap ple pie—flat—-thicker i,i the" middle and round. About 6 or 7 feet in diam eter, about 8 inches thick in the mid dle, and weighs a little over 4002 lbs. capelled in German capelling furnace of 333 metres in diameter, and worth $72,000. The Alntn caves in the American Department are huge lumps of crystal- ized alum One of these weight- nine tons, and presents the appearance of a weird cave, the hall of which is over hung with grotesque stucco crystaliza- tions. The geographical plats in the Span ish separate building demonstrate great artistic skill in the Spanish. They are miniatures of the countries which they represent, and give you a fine geograph ical and topographical discription of tbe same. Each department in the main build ing is fully and finely represented, and shows the different characteristics of each people. But in all the christian ized and highly civilized countries which have had years of communion and interchange of commerce, you can sue that they have ao borrowed and lent ideas that there is a great similari ty in their products and manufactures. The difference is to a great extent that difference which would exist between the same people of different climate and soil but of same country. And I must say I was a little disappointed in not finding that striking dissimilarity be tween tbe different nationalities I ex pected. Memorial Hall is a grand display of tbe artistic genins of the world. Eu rope and the Americas vie with each other in presenting their works of art. But the Americas fade before the re- splendant rays of European genius, particularly as Europe has the magic touch of time upon many of her works. And time yon know gives a charm and lustre to genins, especially when we view it through the dim vista of the historic part. Without more time to drink in tbe veiled spirit of these great works, I would hesitate to express an opinion as to what collection is best. Many of these depar meats have splen did collections of paintings, bnt Italy comes to the front with her statuary and lays down tbe glove to the world. I am not ns; ally enthusiastic, but if there is any thing that could awaken my lethergie senses, which the heat of Philadelphia has about seared into tor pidity, to frantic zeal, it would to be. hold this grand display of Italian art- and the angel of death with sorrow in hand railed over him just in the rear, cannon pointed forward to a monument of fame and glory whose base was stain ed with blood and whose column was broken and lying in tbe dust. That of of Napoiean represented him company with Goette and Wicland. It is strange that Franoe did not have the great Na poiean more conspicuous, but nations are not always proud of their great men. All that I have found Confederate about Philadelphia (except the battle of Gettysburg) are tbe portraits of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Leo and the Seal of the Confederate States The portrait of Davis is located in a little side building near the U. S. Govern ment building. That of Lee is located in the Norway department of Art Gal lery. I regretted to see that the Com missioners had placed Lee’s picture in that position. I had hoped that in this glorious Centennial year there would be ‘on earth peace, good will toward men,” and tbat little soul and maliec should give place to magnanimity and fraternal feeling between sections, bat not so. Strange how few men are re ally great. By this action they do not hart the name or disturb the sacred ashes of Lee. No ; the urn wherein his ashes rest are the hearts of his peo ple, and the petty spites of other men cannot change it. •Lo, the poor Indian.” There is much siid now about the late Sitting Bull affair with Caster. I noticed in a Philadelphia paper that Georgia had offered some volunteers to "avenge the insult to the United States flag.” The Centennial Commissioners de serve great credit for their fine regula tions at the grounds. Everything goes on smoothly, without the least seeming confusion- * * * A RADICAL LIE NAILED- We have it from reliable authority that E. C. Wade told some negroes da ring a recent visit to Thomasviile that Gov. Tilden was a Roman Catholic, in order of course to prejudice the negro against Tilden. Now it is well known that Mr Tilden is a Presbyterian, and any statement to the contrary is unqual ifiedly false. If Wade and others can not get along without lying, they had better quit the race. To be deprived of that strong element and mad sill of their party, however, would deprive them of the bulk of their stock in trade We give tne redoubtable Colonel and bis white allies due notra that we shall front this time forward show them and their false statements and promises up whenever they come to oar notice. We shall do this iur two reasons. First, to vindicate the Democratic party, and second, to prevent the freednten from being imposed upon by their unscrupu lous white leaders. Whenever and wherever false impressions are attempt-, ed to be made on the ignorant and un suspecting during this canvass by whomsoever, we shall expose them and their authors regardless of consequen ces. Just stick a pin down there and govern yourselves accordingly. It would seem that a white man his reached the bottom when be affiliates with negroes and goes against bis race and his people, but when tbey add falsehood and misrepresentation to thi unnatural and repulsive alliance, hej just get one step lower down.—Thom asville Enterprise. Cnthbert Messenger: We learn tbat,on day last week, Capf. W. F. Davis wa bitten by a large, stump tailed Moccason while fishing a sein. He caught the ,<nak- about six inches from the bead, and wb« be raise'! it above the water, it bit him m the back of the band, folding on untl Capt. Davis pulled it loose with the cth* hand. Tbe snake then wrapped arose his wrist, when be caught it by tbe tai unwound it; and pulled it out straig* while a gentlemen present cut its It* off. Strange to say, Capt. Davis *M; - affected in the least by tbe bite of coisoDous reptile; be did notbing fe> but wash tbe blood off, sack the ww and apply tobacco.