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•ICESOAT MOKSIKV, SEPT. 7.
Not for Grant —California has gone
Democratic. Uer Legislature is largely
Democratic and is opposed to the Fif
teenth Amendment.
Murdered at Oakland. —Mr. Wil
iam Ottwas waylaid and killed Friday
night near Garland, on the M. and M.
railroad, by unknown parties. His horse
tv*-also shot and killed.— Monty. Mail.
Hohuible Murder —The Moutgoni
civ Mail says that lshatn Buuby, col
ored, beat his son, a hoy nine years of
to death. Ishaiu is in jail.
Printers Wanted. —Two first rate
r imjiositors can obtain permanent situ
ations by making immediate application
at this office Selma Time*.
Sudden Death. Tne Augusta
chronicle & Sentinel regrets tuh-arn
ihat W. ft. Clements, Esq , «•!' .1-11 raon
county, fell ■dead in his yard at Dine
Hill, in Dial county, on Friday lust.—
M; idements was an old citizen id Jes
bison, and at one time represented his
r ,unity in the Legislature.
A ScoKCHEtt. —The silence ol G. net
si Wright, editor of the Chronicle •&
Sentinel while on the Press excursion,
prepared us for the scorching exposure
of the trick which lie has published, j
and which we will reproduce at the
earliest opportunity. In the meanwhile
we give from his journal the following;
correction:
Not Bo.—We see that several of our
exchanges state that the Little Perjur
er was with the late Press excursion.
This is a mistake. There was quite
enough of such cattle along without
exaggerating their number and personel
hy false reports.
Boiled Owls —The Native Virginian
uys, editors returning from the Press
Ball at White Sulphur. A sad, sad
sight. Many ladies wept over them as
they got out to refresh at the way sta
tions. It is not true, though, that the :
editors got into a fight with the Band
from the Salt Sulphur and cleaned them
out It was the editors who were
cleaned out, but not by the Band. Ah!
those be shocking times, and the Pey
tons have much to answer for.
Meeting of the State Democratic
Executive Committee.— We find the
following notice in the Atlanta Consti
tution of Sunday:
Atlanta, Sept. 4, 1809.—The mem
bers of the Central Executive Commit
tee of the Democratic party of Georgia,
are requested to meet in the office of
Dr. J. F. Alexander, in Atlanta, on
Wednesday the 15th inst., at 9 o’clock
a. m., on business of importance.
E. G. Cabaniss, Chm’n.
Democratic papersjn Georgia are re
quested to copy.
Gin House and Mill Burned.- -We
regret to learn that the gin house and
mill, with thirty hales of cotton, be
longing to William G. Woolfolk, were
consumed at his plantation, about eight
miles below Columbus, on Sunday last.
We did not learn the cause of the Are.
Columbus Contractors.— Messrs.
Harringer and Morton, of this city,have
been given by Mr. R. C. Jeter of Opeli
ka, a contract to build a three story
brick building in that place. The build
ing will have three store rooms on the
lower floor. Upper apartments will be
used for hotel purposes.
Sudden Death. —His many friends
will be saddened io learn of the death
of Mr. Eugene G. Stewart, one ot the
leading and most promising young
merchants of Columbus, aged perhaps
■ >uie 30 years. He died late last after
noon of congestion of the brain, after
an illness of a few days. In all bis
dealings be was upright, honorable and
diivalric. During the war, for three
y, o i a he was a private in the Columbus
(illuds, when he was elected a Lieut
enant in the same company. He did
bis duty nobly. The funeral will lake
place to morrow.
Novel Case for Columbus —lt will
be remembered that last summer Mr. i
1 W. Bradley, proprietor of the Ex
change Restaurant, in this city, died.
It was supposed he was unmarried; his
relatives live in Charleston, S. C. Mr.
John Johnson was appointed temporary
administrator (no will having been
made) of the estate, which, we under
s and, is valued at some §B,OOO. Yes
t rJay morning he applied for letters ot
'i iministration to the Court of Ordina
■v. tlu usual legal notice having been
iviu Through her attorneys, Gen.
H l< Benning and G. E. Thomas, Esq,
■ Auman named in tile documents as
i. Emma Bradley, but better known
■ Mrs. Emma Tomlinson, entered a
invent, claiming that she is the widow
u! said Bradley, having been legally
married to him ; aud that as he died
childless, she is entitled to his estate
and to the administration thereof. Mr.
Johnson said that he was surprised, and
i-ked that the hearing bo postponed
mail the next term of the Court, to be
in Id ou the lirst Monday in October.
No objection being made, assent was
granted. About thirty witnesses, male
aud female, had been summoned and
assembled, among them Rev. J. E.
Evans, pastor of St. Luke (Methodist)
church, but no evidence was offered.
We know but little of the merits of
the case. The Ordinary tells us that
there is no record of a license having
*>«:« n granted at this office ; but good
authority states that this is not indis
pensable to a legal marriage. The case
promises to be one of interest. No
counsel represented Mr. Johnson.
Council Proceedings Yesterday
-The loliowiug are the only matters
of interest that require notice this
morning:
Absent, Aid. Jeter,
A communication from the President
of the Savannah and Memphis Railroad
asking that the city subscription ot
$65,000 to .buy iron be granted to the
company at once in bonds, was receiv
ed and referred to a committee com
osed of Aids. Colzey, Grant and Bass.
The majority report to the Railroad
meeting was presented, and also by re
quest the minority report. Both re
ports were received and referred to the
committee just above named with the
addition of Aid. Salisbury.
City Attorney reported at length that
Military City Council had a right to
contract for the Franklin street bridge
and issue bonds in payment.
the bonds for sewer contracts were
referred back to committee.
VOL. XI.
Bronght to Bay.
The Grant administration has been
brought to bay at last. For the present
at least, outrages on and persecutions
of the people of the South must stop.
It has been agreed that nobody shall
be hurt or hung by military commis
sions, until after the action of the
Supreme Court in October, and Mr.
Attorney General Hoar has given an
opinion which prevents Canby from
cramming the iron clad test oaths down
the throats of the reconstructed Vir
ginians.
The english of all this is that the ad
ministration is scared. In October
elections are to take place in the great
States of Pennsylvania and Ohio,and the
Radical party is already so hard pressed
in both places, that the small fry offl
cials about Washington have been
turned loose as stumpers and canvassers.
Hoar’s opinion refers the fate of Vir
ginia to the Radical Congress, but it is
curious to see the coon, who but a few
weeks since declared that war was
still raging at the South, now prate most
pacifically. The hounds on our track
are brought to bay—if the Democracy
ol Pennsylvania and Ohio can win,
they will seek their kennels, otherwise
they will be at our throats.
The oia Ilumbux Squelched.
For some weeks past the radical jour
nals of Cincinnati, Ohio, have engaged
in furious controversy over old Jesse
Grant, who by common consent, is as
great an as3 as his son. It seems that
old Jesse charged that one Bill Storms,
a radical politician, pushed him down
the Capitol steps on inauguration day,
and then begged Ulysses for an office
because he picked his father up. Bill
says old Jesse was drunk and fell down:
and so the war has raged. Old Jesse,
jn the meantime, has become so trouble
some to the whole of Hogdom, that the
Commercial has been compelled to
give him the following setting down :
Father Grant has been interviewed,
His main point in that the Chronicle is
the only loyal paper in the city. The
Gazette and Commercial have commit
ted disloyalty, at various times, in crit
icising the conduct of General Grant.
The old gentleman regards a failure to
appreciate his son as disloyal. Ken
tucky is a mean State in the eyes of the
old gentleman, because his son is not
popular in that State. He thinks he
has been abused, and can not understand
what the Commercial is about. Perhaps
we may enlighten him. He has been
meddling in public affairs, about which
he knows nothing. He has been boast
ful of his influence with the Adminis
tration, and has had an influence which
he has used with great indiscretion.
He has been used by designing men to
get favors from persons high in author
ity, and has been laughed at by those
who have used him. He has just made
himself ridiculous by bis incoherent
talk to a reporter, wno took notice of
his conversation, with the purpose of
ridiculing him. If this will have the
effect of keeping him out of public bus
iness, it wiil be an excellent thing, for
his bother about offices in this part of
the country is a bore. If the oid gen
tleman will attend strictly to his private
affairs, he will not have reason to com
plain of the newspapers. If he contin
ues rumaging about the Departments or
scribbling letters to heads of Depart
ments, trying to get places for his old
old friends and new flatterers, he may
expect public notice of a character that
is not agreeable. The following extract
from the interview indicates that Father
Grant is not impressed with the great
ness of the Dents :
“Reporter—The newspapers, I see,
are accusing Boutwell of using his pa
tronage to secure the next Presidency.
“President’s Father —Ob, that’s Louis
Dent’s story. He don’t amount to
much; he wants to be something, and
can’t; he never did have much sense,
and never will.”
The Haii»l>ri<l(je, Untliberl au<l t'o
turn litis Kail Road.
The Bainbridge Argus, says the corps
of Engineers of this road returned to
Bainbridge on Sunday, August 39th,
having completed the survey and the
location of the ’line on the larger por
tion of the route between that city and
Columbus. It says the engineer corps
commenced on Tuesday morning last,
to run the line from Bainbridge to
Tallahassee, Fla. The same paper says :
“We are informed hy the President
of this road that a sufficiency of stock
has been subscribed to complete the
road bed to Cuthbert; and that so soon
as the line is run to Tallahassee, and
specifications can be made out, he
intends letting out to contractors forty
miles of the road towards Cuthbertand
twenty miles towards Tallahassee, or to
the Florida line.”
The Adkins Mystery —The Atlanta
Constitution says, notwithstanding the
fact that the military have been so long
in Warren county, and have been very
vigilant, it appears that no arrests have
been made. The family of the deceased
claim to know the perpetrator, and yet
no effort has been made to bring him to
punishment The public are anxious to
know whether the whole movement was
not gotten up to gratify the revenge of
a miscreant, or for party purposes, or
that silence is maintained because the
murderer is not a Democrat! A gentle
man from Warren county informed us
yesterday, that the current belief in that
county was, that he was killed by an in
terested part}’, as his life was insured
for §IO,OOO. It seems passing strange
that after all the efforts made to discov
er the slayer of Adkins, nothing should
be elicited.
As Yuba Dam was coming out ol
Fish Henry’s yesterday morning about
twelve o’clock, wiping his mouth, lie
met a charming young widow of his
acquaintance. After the usual saluta
tions the following :
“Have you been to church, Mr. ?”
“No, madam, but I have just had a
whisky toddy.”
“Oh, me ! You had better say your
prayers. I will go home and pray for
you.”
“Do. You will not have to pray
long before you get me.”
The charming widow did not swear,
i but proceeded on her journey, like any
I other dear little Christian.— Louisville
! Express.
River News.—The C. 1). Fiy, Capt.
Abe Fry, arrived at our wharf on Thurs
day morning lust, the worst used up
boat probably, that almost ever floated.
The planks and timbers in her stern for
twenty feet had been torn away, when
she struck, and she sunk to her guards,
her cargo was gotten out, in a damaged
condition, and the indomitable Captain
and energetic crew went earnestly and
quickly to work to raise her. With
hardly any tools, they managed to build
a bulk head—dispatched to this place
for pumps, and in ten hours after the
latter had been got in operation, the
steamer was afloat. Too much praise
cannot be awarded the gallant Captain
and his crew for their laborious efforts
which were continued night and day,
unceasingly. It will be near the flrßt of
next month, before the damaged bus
tained can be repaired.
We understand that the river at Fort
Gaines, has been entirely blocked up,by
the company now building a bridge at
that point. This will put a stop to all
river news for the next two weeks.—
Won’t somebody have to pay for this
luxury ? We ask for information. —Eu
faula News.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
That Kunli.
Slavery abolished, there was to be a
Rush to these Southern States, and
chiefly to Virginia. Rush of Yankees,
Rush of Irish, Rush of Germans, Rush
of everybody. Time was when we be
lieved in That Rush. Now nobody ex
cept a few land agents, believes in That
Rush. There is, indeed, a momentary
excitement about a supposed Rush of
' Chinese. The Dispatch is agitated.
It is well for us that we are getting
better of the delusion about That Rush.
|lt is not to be. The Pacific Railroad
; opens a domain so vast that a century
lof rushing will scarcely fill it. And the
movement of That Rush is in that di
rection, not in ours.
Be it so ; since so it is. Let us take
the fact to heart and act upon it. Our’s
is to be the growth of the oak, not of
the mushroom. Ten years hence, the
population of Virginia will be what it is
now, a little more perhaps, perhaps a
little less. What we shall gain by
Northern immigration will be lost by
emigration of our young men and the
decrease of our blacks. We must aban
i don at once and forever all idea of That
Rush. It is not coming.
We must build this ruined State with
our own bands. “I have learned,” said
the melancholy Pestalozzi, “that no
man in God’s wide earth is either will
ing or able to help any other man.”—
Help must come from ourselves alone.
That Rush will never help us. It. is so
written. Why, we may some day learn.
But our business is to recognize the
truth and act upon it. For a while, the
blacks will serve as our laborers. But
they are passing away, and in the end
we must be our own laborers. Our sous
must work in tne field ; our daughters
in the kitchen. Nothing is more sure
than this. No man who looks upon the
crowd at our county villages on Court
days can doubt that the Virginian aris
tocracy are dead. A few gentlemen,
indistinguishable in the mass, are left,
but fine gentlemen of the olden time
there are none at all ! They are gone
forever. Plain farmers have taken their
places, and the redemption of the State
is in the hands of these farmers and
their children, and must remain with
them.
That Rush has served its day. It
buoyed us up after the war, when we !
needed buoying, but its longer linger i
ing in our thoughts, our daily literature,
and our legislation is fraught with mis ;
chief and only mischief. It paralyzes i
us. When once we have wholly elimi
nated That Rush from the Virginian
mind, we shall begin to work under-
with a fixed purpose and an
aim which is not delusive. Not before.
Away, then, with That Rush. —Native
Virginian.
Bearing Fruit. —The special corre
spondent of Rome Courier, closes his
last communication from the Press
Excursion as follows :
So long as Hulbert does bis duty as a
railroad man, and shows a disposition
to work for the good of the people, we
shall sustain him; but as Bullock has
never done anything but attempt to
ruin and oppress us, we have no praises,
no sympathy, no respect, and but little
charity for him. Asa matter of policy
we may strike a truce with him, provi
ded, in future he will behave himself,
but we can never forget what he has
done, and tried to do. We can never
forgive him unless he will do works
meet for repentance. We hope that
the Press will remain true, and as we
bade them farewell, we hoped—but still
had fears, that some of them had cross
ed the Rubicon.
We deem the Excursion a success,
and that the result will be beneficial to
the whole State.
It is true that some of our brethren
may have fallen by the wayside, still
we hope for the best, and if they have,
we can only say we part with them in
sorrow, without regret, for we would
know who are for us and who are against
us. In this struggle there is no middle
grounds.
TnE Cuban Expedition. —The Ma |
eon Telegraph says one or two of the ,
young men from this city who left here j
on Wednesday last to join the Cuban re
bellion, returned yesterday from Fort
Gaines, whither the party from this
point had gone to take a boat on the
Chattahoochee river. One of them says
the recruiting officer is dealing most
harshly with bis men at Fort Gaiues,
and bad tied a number of them to a boat
and crossed over to the Alabama side to
prevent them from deserting or being
recovered by their friends and relatives.
He also brings the sad intelligence
that Mr. Wallace Poe, a son of Hon.
■Washington Poe of this city, was shot
on Tuesday night last by some unknown .
person, and be is now lying in Fort j
Gaines in a critical condition.
If what we hear in regard to this ex j
pedition is true, the officers who are j
connected with it should be arrested at j
all hazards and punished in the severest
manner known to the law, in such cases
made aud provided. They have caused
much of the keenest grief and sorrow
within a week past among some of our
best families, by enticing away from
their homes the young sons and broth
ers who arc so loved and cherished, and
induced them to enlist in an illegal en
terprise and one fraught with the great- j
est personal danger.
Off for Cuba.— Quite a sensation |
was created in our town on Wednesday j
evening by the arrival of twenty-eight :
Young Americans, said to be destined j
for the island of Cuba. They were good ;
looking young fellows, and seemed to
be in fine spirits. They doubtless have j
stout hearts to prompt them on such a
perilous expedition, and to subject them- j
selves to the privations and difficulties
that await them. We learn they are go
ing to Cuba for the purpose of joining
the Cuban army in defense of that is
land. We know how to sympathize
with them, as we have seen the elephant
ourselves. War is no child’s play and
should bo engaged in with some deliber
ation.
Since writing the above fourteen more t
men have arrived and joined the party
already here. The United States Mar
shal came on the same train with the
last squad, on Thursday evening, and
made some efforts to arrest the whole
party ; hut failing to summons a suffi
cient posse, abandoned the arrest until
United States troops could be had, which
it is said, he telegraphed for. The Cu
ban expedition in the presence of the
Uuited States Marshal conducted them
selves very orderly, and at a late hour
last night, quietly left for parts un
known. — Chattahoochee Mirror, 3 cl.
Down in Front.— On yesterday
evening a little tangle foot became pret
ty Well scattered among our guests
bound for Cuba, and made them a little
unmanageable. In front ot our office
quite a disturbance occurred among
themselves; brick bat3 and whisky bot
tles fairly flew ; pistols drawn, but by
the exertions of the sober portion of the
‘■young bloods,” nobody hurt. After
nightfall a party of them went over to
the black belt, foraging, where they
were met by an enraged force of negroes
armed with double barrelled shot guns,
but no damage done.— lbid.
Mistaken.— A telegram from Fort
Gaines, yesterday, says the reported
shooting of Mr. Wallace Poe, at that
place, on Thursday night last, is a mis
take. Our informant, who left there
on Friday morning, heard the report
just before he left, and believed it until
the contradiction above alluded to wa3
received. We are glad to know that it
is all a mistake.
Aftek ’em. Col. John Milledge,
two or three U. S. Marshals, and a
squad of fifteen or twenty other Gov
ernment officials, left here yesterday
morning to arrest the band of Cuban
expeditionists that left here on Tuesday
and Wednesday last. It occurs to us
the officials are a day after the feast. —
The expedition was gotten up here
last week, boldly and openly, and then
was the time to arrest the leaders and
stop the matter. — Macon Tel.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1809.
The Byron Scandal.
Mr. Bonner Would not have Published
it for a Million of dollars.
New York, Aug. 30, 18G9.— I To the
Editor of the Herald : In your paper of
this morning I find the following state
ment, copied from the Louisville Cou
rier Journal, in regard to Mrs. Stowe’s
recent article on Lord Byron :
“Dana and Bonner fairly burst with
spleen—Dana because he didn’t invent
the Byron scandal, and Bonner because
he didn’t get it for the Ledger. ‘Dam
nation !’ cried Bonner, when he first got
an inkling of it, ‘why didn’t she first
fetch it to me ? Why, I'd have paid her
a cool $.1,000 for it.’ ”
This is not only a falsehood, but it is
a falsehood which no one at all ac
quainted with me could ever have in
vented. Whatever I might have thought
about Mrs. Stowe’s article, it would
have been quite contrary to my habit of
speech to characterize in by the word
“damnation;” but this I must say, that
a million of dollars could not have in
duced me to print that gross and inde
cent article in the Ledger, no matter
what the publishers of the Atlantic
Monthly were willing to do. Few wo
men have evinced so much talent as
Mrs. Stowe. I have myself purchased
articles -from her for which I have
cheerfully paid her a high price; but
they were very different articles from
the one under consideration. And Ido
not believe that any true friend who
was himself in his right mind could
have advised her to sell for any sum that j
morbid, terrible and unnatural halluci- i
nation about Lord Byron. For her sake 1
I sincerely and deeply regret that she !
has done it. I know of no article pub
lished in my lifetime calculated to exert
a more injurious and demoralizing influ
ence on the rising generation, and for
this reason I wish everybody to know
that nothing would have tempted me to
publish it.
Robert Bonner
Tli« Chinene the “Jlmlel Domestic.”
The New York Journal of Commerce
publishes a letter from a gentleman of
very high standing in California, de
scribing the Chinese, according to the
Journal, exactly as they are in every
variety of service in that State. Whilst
according them credit in various depart
ments, n would seem that in the sphere
(or which there is so great a demand in
all parts of this country, domestic ser
vice, they especially shine. The state
ments give ground to the hope that the
“model domestic” is at last coining to
the rescue of distressed housekeepers.
The correspondent represents that al
most without exception the families who
have made experiments of their service
have come to regard it as a great and
blessed relief in the matter of housekeep
ing. He says he has had this service
for many months in his home. The
new servants are neat, cheerful, skillful,
careful and economical; they put ou no
airs ; they stipulate for no privileges ;
they entertain no company ; they look
sharp after all the “odds and ends.”—
They are satisfied with a very humble
commissariat for themselves. They
make no complaint of “large washings,”
or “much company,” or “sweeping
days,” or “irregularies in the family,”
such as many have beard for years.
They take hold of the tasks of each day,
no matter how heavy, with the same
uncomplaining cheerfulness, and carry
them patiently through to the consuin
ation with a quiet acquiescence which
is most admirable. They never “an
swer back” to your instructions and
exhortations, except with the simple,
hearty “all right,” which assures you
that they comprehend and will do what
is told them. Any new service, beyond
their experience, when once shown,
they achieve with an imitative dexteri
ty that makes it a pleasure to teach
them.
Retiring From the Stage. —At last,
Sothern lias commenced to "retire from
the stage.” Just as we are beginning
to have a tangible hope that after For
rest and McKean Buchanan, and the
Florences and Barney Williams shall
have played sixteen more “farewells to
the stage,” and finally died from old
age, imbecility and dry rot, we are go
ing to have a rest, up comes Mr. Sothern,
and doubtless we are to be afflicted with
his lingering eternity of a farewell.—
One of these old mildewed former favor
ites is harder to shake off than the con
sumption. The great McKean Buchan
an having been driven from all the
world’s great cities, many years ago,
still keeps up a pitiless persecution of
the provinces, rattling with undimin
ished fury before audiences composed
of one sad manager, one malignant re
porter, and a Sheriff waiting to collect
the license, and still pushes his crusade
from village to village, strewing his
disastrous wake with the corpses of
country theatre. Edwin Forrest hung
on to metropolitan farewells till there
was nobody left before the footlights
to say good bye to, and then adjourned
to Jersey to farewell those unoffending
foreigners to death. Kean fareweiled
until his teeth were all gone and he had
nothing left to hang on by. Charlotte
Cushman kept it up until Washington’s
body servant had forgotten the date of
her first farewell. Tbe cities did have
only those tiresome Florences and Wil
liams left, but this Sothern has begun
this dismal torture of “retiring from the
stage.” Gag him '.—[Mark Twain.
Beast Butler at a Camp Meeting
—He Refuses Conversion —The New
York World say3 : The average Massa
chusetts ‘minister’ believes that he can
do anything, unless it may be to per
form a miracle, and even this has been
tried in the Martha’s Vineyard camp
meeting, in the deliberate attempt to
convert Doctor Butler.
The scene is graphically described in
the Boston papers. Gov. Claflin was
on the ground, and “spoke earnestly,”
and Senator Wilson “eloquently ap
pealed to the unconverted.” Amid these
and other appeals from all quarters,
Dr, Butler stood not only unconverted,
but unmoved. Whereupon, Claflin hav
ing failed, and the Natick cobbler hav
ing snuffled and howled to no purpose,
“an anxious sister singled out Butler
and earnestly entreated him to come up
to the altar.” But the “anxious sister”
even could not arouse Butler or bring
him up to the stand, where the uncon
verted were to be specially prayed for.
Whereupon “a zealous brother on his
knees begged him to go forward,” aud
the “clergyman in charge besought him
strenuously,” even promising “to keep
open the meeting all night,” it Butler
would only try to be converted. All
these means failed. Butler was obtuse
to the zealous brother, deaf to the ar.x
ious sister, and callous to tbe open all
night clergyman. The trouble was,
these over eager people endeavored to
convert Butler —as some sinners are said
to take the Kingdom of Heaven—“by
violence.” Persuasion would have been
better—say a dozen spoons or a silver
teapot, hong over the anxious seat.
A Negro Tournament.— The Mil
ton, (N. 0.,) Chronicle gives the fol
lowing interesting paragraph. It will
be gratifying to the world of modern
tilting chivalry, with “horse and lance
and ring,” and various other conflute
ments:
“The negroes of Russelville and
vicinity indulged in a colored tourna
ment a few days since. A Queen of
Love and Beauty was crowned. She
wore No. 15 brogans ; the hollow of her
foot makes a hole in the ground; and
her under lip weighs two pounds and a
half-light weight.”
There was a terrible time atGet'ys
burg the other day. The main effort
was to drive a stake where Dan. Sick
les lost his leg. The exact spot could
not be found. A stake was, however,
driven. The leg is in a glass jar in
Washington.
Some Mississippi negroes have sent
the treasurer of the Lincoln National
Monument some two or three hundred
dollars worth of neat looking Confed
erate money, as a contribution to that
object.
From Woiihlnxton.
Washington, Sept. 6.— Fessenden is
somewhat better with slight hope of fa
vorable result.
Revenue to day $873,000.
Imported cigarettes may be repacked.
A comparative statement of revenue
from March till August, inclusive, shows
an increase of eight millions thus far
over last year.
Several breweries in New York, in
cluding Huffel’s, worth several hundred
thousand, have been seized.
Huffel, himselt worth a million, lias
been arrested and bailed in the sum of
five thousand.
Personshaving business with the rev
enue department regarding claims must
communicate the same by mail. No
person whatever is allowed communi
cation with clerks or employees, with
out express permission from the Com
missioner, or Deputy, or Solicitor.
Employees in the currency bureau
will work.two hours extra daily until
the females are relieved.
Gen. John A, Rawlins, Secretary of
War, died at ten minutes past four this
afternoon.
Grant arrived at 5 p. m.
Sherman becomes Secretary of War
ad interim.
Washington, Sept. 7.—Tho Fenian
arms and ammunition are being used by
Cubans.
Rawlins’ funeral takes place on rimrs
day.
The departments except lor necessary
business will be closed till Friday.
Gov. Walker, with prominent Virgin
ians, will be present.
Troops will be called from adjacent,
post to assist.
Fractional currency wiil hereafter be
issued at the rate of one quarter million
daily until prcssiug;wants are supplied.
Itevenvie $354,000.
Private correspondence between rev
enue officials and members of Congress
it is said foreshadows an increase in the
Whisky tax.
Frinn Pennsylvania.
Scranton, Sept. 6—Great excitmunt
here in consequence of the burning of a
coal breaker at Avondale, about 20
miles south ol this city. About 200
men and boys were in the mine. The
shaft, which was their only means of
escape, was choked by forty feet of
burning eoal and rubbish. Veutiilati.m
is totally stopped, and there are great
fears that some, if not all will he suffo
catcd.
Scranton, Sept. 7.—A1l works are
suspended iu this vicinity.
Two men who volunteered to go
down to rescue those in the mine per
ished.
Trains are bringing help from all di
rections, free of charge, to aid in rescu
ing bodies, whether dead or alive.
The widows and orphans will not be
less than COO.
A prolonged strike, just closed, in
creases destitution.
The men descended the shaft found
the doors at the bottom closed, aud lost
their lives while waiting below for im
plements with ivhich to force doors,
supposed to have been closed by miners
to exclude flames.
Latest—The only hope of the safety 1
of the 203 men in the Avondale mine,
lies in the probability that they may
have shut themselves up in a remote
part of the mine, away from the shaft. 1
The death of those who descended the
shaft to rescue them was caused from \
foul air coming from the mine.
From Mobile.
Mobile, Sept. 7.—A suit for libel
damages, laid for ten thousand dollars, j
was entered to day. Summons was j
served on Col. Mann, proprietor of the i
Register, for the alleged defaming of
the character of one Train, carpet bag j
Superintendent, of public schools in this j
city. The offense charged was the pub- i
lication of a communication from a
distinguished citizen charging Putnam
with having been indicted for embez
zlement. A like suit has been institu
ted against Col. Forsyth of the Regis
ter, and author of the communication.
The Cuban Campaign Comes to
Grief in Macon.
We take from the local column of
the Macon Journal and Messenger the
following interesting account of the
closing scenes of the Cuban excitement:
About six o’clock last evening we
met the first detachment of Cuban
Patriots that our eyes ever rested upon.
They consisted of something like four
teen patriots, ranging from fourteen to
twenty years of age, who had been
captured at Eufaula, Ala., by Hon. J.
C. Milledge, U. 8. District Attorney,
Major Watson and ;U. S. Deputy Mar
shal Cox. The party left on Saturday
morning for the ‘‘Queen of the Antil
les,” and were found camped out at
Franklin, Ala., where they surrendered
without firing a gun. The whole party
are now carefully imprisoned in the
rooms over Hon. W. C. Morrill’s office,
and will be examined by that officer at
10 o’clock to-day. Among them is one
of the fair sex,dressed in men’s clothes,
wkowas as enthusiastic as her com
panions. The whole party will be dealt
with to day in approved form.
Through the courtesy of Hou. J. C.
Milledge, we were favored with an in
terview with the lady recruit, who sta
ted to us that her age is twenty-four
years. Her husband was killed at the
battle of Gettysburg, when she was
left a widow with a little child, now
seven years of age. She fell in love
with a young man, who met her at her
residence in Atlanta, and she agreed to
go with him on the Cuban expedition,
with the intention of leaving the crowd
in Florida where her relatives reside.
At the time Gen. Costa was beating up
for recruits in this city, she occupied a
room at Brown’s Hotel, where she had
her hair cut and assumed the habili
ments of the opposite sex. As soon as
her sex was discovered Col. Milledge
gave orders to have her placed in a
room by herself where she now remains
under guard. The whole affair will be
investigated this morning.
The Cuban recruiting office in the
city of Macon, we are very happy to
leant, ranks among the things that
were. Gen. DeCosta and staff’ have left
for • avannab, and unless we are misin
formed are guests at the Screven House.
. We sincerely trust they may remain
there and keep away from the city ol
j Macon from henceforth and forever.—
Affectionate parents have been scared
within an inch of their lives, young
j boys have forgotten the fifth command
ment of the decalogue, those rascally
violators of the neutrality laws have
made thousands of promises they never
once intended to keep, our city police
have been put on extra duty, U. States
Government officials have been sent
here, there and everywhere, and what
is of far greater importance than all,
the ‘‘local” has been teased out of his
| seven senses (including smoking and
chewing) by the thousand and one ap
plications made to him for information,
as though he cared a button about Cuba
or anything relating to it, more partic
; ularly anything relative to the late
stampede. _
Racing.— Lady Thorn beat Mountain
Boy, mile heats, in harness, last Friday
at Pacific Park Grounds, near New
York. Time J.
WEDtS EMIAT HORMNG, SEPT. S.
Disgusted. —Hon. J. A. Boyce, of
Cincinnati, heretofore a prominent
Radical, in a communication to the
Cincinnati Enquirer, says: “I have
severed myself from the Republican
party, because it is an organized hypo
crisy, a shuffling dissimulation, a
fraud, a delusion and a snare, a combi
i nation of grasping fanatics, fattening
on the vitals of tlio wealth producers
| and wealth distributors of the country.”
Mr. Boyce evidently understands the
organization from which he has parted.
KuKlux in Pennsylvania. The
I telegraph gives us the following:
Philadelphia, Sept. C. District
Attorney Valentine offers a reward of
$5,000 for the assassins of Revenue offi
cer Brooks. It is believed that Brooks
was assassinated by hired ruffians.
Brooks was well acquainted xvith the
Whisky ring but did not recognize bis
assailants. The ruffians were followed
to Fairmount Park where the trail was
lost.
This happened in the city of Broth
erly Love, the place where John For
ney publishes his two papers, both dai
ly. Even more, Meade lives there,
him of the sweat box memory. Yet all
of these things could not prevent some
body, tired of being oppressed by tax
gatherers, from knocking one of them
in the head. II the burdens are not
lightened many more of them will be
apt to go iu the same way. Five thou
sand dollars will not get the men who
did it. Won’t Grant try the military ?
If this thing had happened in Georgia
what a howl would have gone up from
“loil” throats. Send for spies, detec
tives Smythe, Whitely, Meade and the
sweat-boxes. Arrest the leading Dem
crats of Philadelphia, and let us have
the blood of those who killed the reve
nue man.
Arerdeenand Elyton Railroad—
A meeting in furtherance of this enter
prise, was held at the Court House of
Fayette county, Ala. The object of this
road is to form anew and nearer route
from Aberdeen to New York, by two
routes—the one by Chattanooga, Knox
ville and Lynchburg, by the road from
Elyton to Chattanooga ; the other, by
the same road to junction of that road
with the one now projected from Rome
to Decatur, Alabama, and thence via
Atlanta aud the Georgia Air Line road,
to Charlotte, North Carolina. This
road will doubtless be built. It will
be important as a feeder to the Savan
nah and Memphis road, as well in bring
ing in the cotton of the country through
which it passes to this city iu search of
an eastern market, as an inviter of
freights from New York, via Savannah,
destined for the country on the line of
that road and to Aberdeen, for the rea
son of its being much nearer titan any
route now existing or that ever can be
built. This will give additional value
to the stock of the Savannah and Mem
phis road, and at the same time add to
the commerce of Columbus.
A Paddle from the Depths. —The
other day on the place of Mr. M. G.
Cherry, who lives seven miles east of
Columbus, while digging a well in a
spot where none had ever been before,
the workmen found,at the depth of thir
ty five feet, in a stratum of mixed sand
and clay, a small white oak paddle, sim
ilar to those used in making butter. The
instrument looks like it had not been
fashioned with a knife but some rough
instrument. How the thing ever got
there we can’t imagine—only it did.
Probably it was the same that old Mrs.
Methusftleh the 7th used in paddling in
fants, acting on the prineiple that each
must paddle his own canoe. Who
knows ? **
Two Negroes Drowned.—Yester
day morning two negroes, named Sam
Watson and Alonzo Johnson were
drowned while working on the dam of
the Eagle and Phenix manufactory.
They were aiding a number of others in
floating a large beam, some fifty feet
long to the dam, and were employed
near the Alabama shore. Alonzo slip
ped from the timber in water that was
a little over his depth, rose and caught
Sam by the neck and both went down
together. The river is very shallow,
but the current where they were drown
ed is very swift. The body of Johnson
was recovered about I p. m.; that of
Watson some hours after. Both were
taken to the Alabama shore. Johnson
had come to work on the dam for the
first time that morning.
Intolerance
We have seen for some time past the I
evidence of a combination ou the part I
of the Chronicle and Sentinel, Colum- j
bus Sun, and the Atlanta Constitution, ;
to impair and injure the well-earned |
reputation of the Atlanta Intelligencer i
for fairness and independence.
These three papers, to say nothing of
the lesser “lights” of the Georgia Press,
have in their studied and unjustifiable
efforts sought every opportunity to
make an attack ou the integrity and in- i
terest of the Intelligencer, and have j
even gone so far as to read the Propri- j
etor of this journal a lecture on his pri- j
vate and social visits and' entertain- j
ments—and above all, and the most ri- |
diculous—to undertake to teach Dernoc
racy to the Intelligencer.
The Union Democrats of Georgia will ;
never consent to be led by such ultra |
and intolerant journals. The whole
country—and the people of the State !
especially—have already been injured
too much by these papers, and so far as
we are concerned, wo do not intend to ,
be governed and influenced by them 1
any longer, but will pursue an indepen
dent course in support of the State and
Federal Government, and such meas
ures as will best promote the interest
and prosperity of the people, and we
call upon all good and true conservative
men everywhere to do the same with
out regard to threats of proscription.
We shall notice this 'subject agaiu in
our next issue.
The above article appears in the At
lanta Tntelltcrencer of Sunday last.
Wli ■) Judge WbHalter is through we
shall have something to say ou the sub
j« ct '
Senator Fessenden.
Por iland, Sept. 4.—At midnight
last night both of Senaior Fessenden’s
physicians gave up all hope of his re
covery. He was gradually sinking,
and appeared to be in a delirious stupor.
He was taken ill on Tuesday morning
with stoppage of the bowels, since which
time the disorder assumed a violent
form, inflamation having set in. It is
thought he might possibly live until
morning but bis death is a mere ques
tion of time.
Portland, Sept. 4—Noon. Senator
Fessenden is about the same. Dr. Lin
coln thinks his complaint i3 complicated
by the remains of the poison taken into
; his system at the National Hotel in
Washington some years ago, and from
! which lie has suffered several times
: since.
1:30 p. m.—Senator Fessenden is
somewhat better and lias taken some
nourishment.
Portland, Sept B.—Fessenden is
* dead.
Terrible Tragedy between Two
White Men. —Yesterday morning hap
pened one of those sad tragedies which
are of such rare occurrence iu this sec
tion, between William Eyles, master
I machinist at the South Western R. R,
shops in this city, and John Radchffe,
a machinist iu the employ ot the Cos
lumbus Iron Works. Both at this wri
ting, 3 p. in. are supposed to be mortal
ly wounded.
The rencountre is thus related by
witnesses. Radcliffe came to the S. W.
depot about 9 o’clock in the morning
and asked for Eyles, to have a private
conversation. He joined him and they
went into the round house. Here hot
words, commenced by Radcliffe, were
succeeded by the latter knocking Eyles
down and stabbing him with a pocket
' knife, with a not very long blade.—
Eyles shot at him with a small pistol,
once on the ground and twice alter lie
had risen, all three balls taking effect—
one in the thigh, another in the hip,
and another in the bowels. The last
wound appeared to be bleeding inter
nally. All this while, Radcliffe was
cutting Eyles, stabbing him in the back,
breast and bowels, the blade penetra
ting to the hollow—in all, inflicting
eight wounds. The parties were sepa
rated and Radcliffe arrested by Deputy
Marshal Colvin, who came up about
that time. Eyles was carried into the
shop, where his wounds were dressed
by Dr. Terry, and afterwards examined
by other surgeons. He is still there. —
Radcliffe, in charge of the Deputy Mar
shal, walked as far as the new depot
buildings, where, from weakness, he
fell. He refused ail surgical aid, saying
he had been shot before, and could doc
tor himself. He was taken in a wagon
to his residence on Oglethorpe street.
The difficulty originated about some
application for work and alleged prom
ise of it. The details of the story differ.
It is said Eyles would have given Rad
cliffe a job of work had he come early
enough, and that previously R. had not
been at the shop at the time engaged
upon. Radcliffe stated to his brother
workmen at the foundry that Eyles had
promised him $4 25 in lieu of the three
dollars he was then getting. As we
have stated, the details of the origin of
difficulty differ and the account of each
throws blame upon the other. Eyles
had intimation of threats made by R ,
and hence the reason of his beiDg arm
ed.
Eyles is a man some fifty years of age,
and has a large family. He has been
here some twenty years, and for a con
siderable period was foreman of the
shops of the Eagle Manufacturing Com
pany. He is said to always have sus
tatned a most reputable character. liad
cliffeis about twenty five years of age,
has been here but a short time, married
here, was originally from Water Valley,
Miss., and lately from the machine
shops in Macon. He has a young wife
and child.
New England Barbarians.
The following horrible tale of cruelty
practic :d by wealthy people in New
England, should furnish Mrs. Bowe,
who delights in depravity, the ground
work for a romance that will surpass
Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
Last week a girl 17 years of age nam
ed Sarah Maria McKeering, died in
Lawrence, Mass., who in her earlier
years was made the victim of most
shocking cruelty at the hands of a
wealthy farmer and his wife well known
in that vicinity. Her sad story is as
follows: She was born in poverty at
Deer Island, and at an early age she was
taken by a Mr. Sanborn, a childless
father, to his happy and pleasant home
in Salem. She was then about 19 nonlhs
of age. While there she enjoyed all
the happiness of which a child was ca
pable until her kind protector died and
left his wife in poverty. She, too, also
fell sick, and soon the only supporter of
the two was what Sarah, then but four
or five years of age, could beg upon the
streets in cold, rain and snow. Some
gentlemen found out the state of things
and took charge of Mrs. Sanborn, and
Sarah was taken to Tewksbury. At the
age of six years this mere infant was
taken by a wealthy family in the vicini
ty of Lawrence, and it was naturally
presumed that she would be kindly
treated and educated. At Tewksbury
institution a few years since it was
thought proper to appoint an agent to
inquire into the welfare of the waifs who
had been taken from the institution. In
the case of Sarah, the iamily who had
given bonds to educate and bring her
up in a respectable manner repotted to
the agent that, after living with them
for four years, she had runaway. Fur
tner search resulted in finding Sarah
with a respectable family in Lawrence,
who had taken her in on the day
after she left her place, and who
were led to do so by hearing
of her as being at the house of a
neighbor, where she had obtained shel
ter overnight, and where she came the
afternoon before in a pitiable condition,
with arms black and blue from apparent
recent ill-treatment. When found she
was sick and helpless—a beautiful girl,
some sixteen years of age—emaciated,
and pronounced to be in a consumption
by four different physicians, who had
been called to her aid ; and she told a
sad story of abuse and shameful ill
treatment concerning the family into
whose charge she had been given by
the State ten years before. She alleg
ed, substantially, that on one occasion,
having not enough to eat —being fed
for days in succession on nothing but
cold potatoes and salt —she took a piece
of apple pie and hid it; but her master
found it, and to punish her, took her to
the barn, and compelled her to eat
moist cow manure from a large spoon
held to her mouth; that, on another
occasion, her mistress dragged her to
the kitchen stove, and put her hands
on the hot iron, holding them there
until they were blistered; and at an
other time, held a chamber vessel to
her mouth and forced her to drink
urine; that, another day, when she
was discovered eating a piece of pie or
cake, her mistress made her take a dose
of epsom salts, saying that she would
“physic it out of her ;” that, while the
family always allowed the hired help—
men aud women—to sit and eat at the
same table with themselves, she was
compelled to eat her meals alone, and
from a tin plate, sitting on a stool in a
sink room leading out of the kitchen.
And she further alleged that, for some
slight nit Mii-iii' Itei mistress took
her into the niii-c. mid tyiDg her to a
post, having first snipped off every
particle of her clothing, terribly beat
her baro flesh with a bunch of four
sticks, till they were nearly worn up ;
and she alleged that the reason why
she left them was that they had threat
ened to give her another beating, which
threat put her in such great dread that
she ran away, clothed so shabbily, as
is said by those who first took her in,
that it could not be judged from the
medley of her garments whether she
was boy or girl. Such was the girl’s
story of her cruel treatment, and she
adhered to it in the presence of those
who had so foully abused her.—Boston
Herald.
j The State Journal, in an article on
, the removal of the State University,
i concludes by asking what Elyton haß
to say on the subject.
We reply, that unless it is entirely
1 purged of the set who controlled it
during the past session, Elyton would
| ask to be excused.- —Elyton Herald.
NO. 27.
From the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Tli© liftte Pr©NN Excnrftlon.
Many comments have been made up
on the recent Press Excursion by those
presses who had no representation on
that trip, fto far as we have seen the
Columbus Sun and the Savannah Morn
ing News have indulged in the severest
strictures upon the excursion itself and
those members of the press who accoin
panted it. Some of these strictures are
eminently just and some are unfair and
illiberal, at least as applied to a portion
of the press who accepted Ilulbert’s in
vitation.
Having been a silent but attentive ob
server ot the various incidents of tne
trip, aud being familiar with most of
the developments which the occasion
brought to the surface, we propose to
give, as briefly aud succinctly as possi
bie, a fair and candid exposition ot the
whole affair as it was presented to our
minds.
In the latter part of July last we re
ceived, by mail' a printed circular, of
which the following is a copy :
Western & Atlantic Railroad, I
Superintendent’s Office, >
Atlanta, Ga., July 24, 1809. j
I have the honor of inviting you to
accompany the Members of the Press of
Georgia ou an Excursion—lor which 1
have tendered them a Free Train—
which will leave Atlanta ou the morning
of
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25TH, PROXIMO.
The Excursionists will leave here for
Chattanooga by rail—theuee they will
proceed by steamer up the Tennessee
river to visit the Iron Works. Ou their
return they will proceed, via Kingston
to Rome, Georgia ; thence by steamer
down the Coosa river, to visit the Iron
Works below Rome. On returning to
the latter city they will proceed by the
Selma, Rome aud Dalton Road to visit
the Iron Works along its line, whence
they will return, via Rome aud King
ston, to Atlanta—making a trip ol ten
or twelve days.
As the country to be traveled over
possesses remarkable Natural Resources
in Minerals aud Water Powers, as well
as great historical interest, it is believ
ed the Excursion will be attended with
unusual pleasure, and be followed by
beneficial results.
Hoping to have an early notification
of your acceptance, and the pleasure ot
your company, I am,
Dear sir, your abedieut servant,
E. Hulbert,
Superintendent IF. §• A. R. R
To this we returned no reply, but be
ing iu Atlanta on the 24th ult., in atten
dance upon the Georgia Press Conven
tion, then assembled there, inquiry was
made of us whether we would join the
Press Excursion. To this we gave our
assent and received during the session
ot the Press Convention a ticket or pass
as follows:
Agriculture, Mining, Manufacturing,
Western & Atlantic Railway,
Atlanta, August 25, 1809.
Pass Gen. A B W right,
Ed. Chronicle & Sentinel.
E. Hulbert,
Superintendent.
Coal.
Development.
On tlie morning of the 25th we took
our seat in tbe cars provide for the oc
casion and found some 30 or 40 of the
representatives of the Press also on
board the train. We noticed a tew
scalawag members of the Legislature
and two Democratic members, witb
some dozen other persons total strangers
to us at tbe time, but who we afterward
ascertained to tie leading members of
ttie Radical party and most of them
State officials.
Just alter crossing the Chattahoochee
river, someone passed through the car
iu wuiclt we were seated aud iuvitedall
present to pass to tlie rear car to observe
some improvements which were being
made on the road. Being engaged at
the time, we did>not go back, but soon
after we were informed that on reach
ing tbe rear car they found the creature
Bullock, to whom the members of tbe
Press were severally presented as they
made their appearance. This was the
first intimation that we had that Bui
lock was to be of the party.
We saw nothing of Bullock ourselves
until the train reached Cartersville,
where he and the Editor of the Macon
Telegraph made short responses to Maj.
Cooper’s reception speech. We did not
hear tbe speeches, but learned that they
were of the mutual admiration order,
and that at their close personal courte
sies were exchanged over a bottle of
wine.
Upon arriving at Chattanooga we
learned that arrangements had been
made to exhibit the Bullock again, but
from some hitch on the part of the
Chattanooga authorities, no personal
presentation was made. After supper
we were called upon by some of our
Chattanooga friends to respond to the
address of welcome then about to be
made by the Mayor of that city to the
Press Association, and we declined the
honor because we knew that arrange
ments were on foot to display Bullock
agaiu. The Chattanooga reception,
however, passed off without the morti
fication of a Bullock presentation.
We neither saw nor heard any more
of Bullock until our a: rival at Rome on
Friday morning. Here arrangements
were made by the city authorities to
furnish the Press with a drive over the
city, and the Mayor designated a par
ticular carriage in which Bullock, two
others aud ourselves were to be seated.
We declined the offer distinctly on the
ground that we would not in any way,
permit ourself, to be associated with
such a person as Bullock.
Upon assembling for dinner in the
dining room of the Choice House, and
after the gentlemen bad commenced to
discuss their food Mayor Hargrove arose
and made a short speech, in which he
was highly and pointedly eulogistic ol
“our Governor,” and wound up by a
sentiment complimentary to him. This
called the Beast to his feet, who, in a
few disjointed sentences, whined his
thanks, and then, in the most patroniz
ing manner possible, called upon Col.
Clisby, as the President of the hlale As
sociated Press, to respond for that body
Os course we kuew that, after the ad
journmetii of the Convention in Atlanta,
to meet on the 16th of November at Ma
con, Col. Clisby bad no more right to
speak for, or, in any manner, commit
the Press than any other individual
member of the Association. Indeed we
knew that the organization of that As
sociatlon is so far only temporary. Yet,
being called out as he was, as tin- Presi
dent of the Press Association, whatever
he might say would be regarded, to
some extent, as the sentiments of the
members of the Press then present.
Much to our mortification and regret,
the speech of Col. Clisby even excelled
the Mayor in fulsome compliments to
to Bullock and his administration.—
Among other things he said that he
“believed that all that Governor Bullock
bad done as Governor, and bis main
aims were to aid the people of the State,
and foster and develop their material
interests.” These, we believe, were
his exact words, and we were in
expressibly shocked at their utterance.
It is, perhaps, due to Col Clisby to say
that we have been informed by a gen
tlemen of the Press, who soon alter
spoke to him ou the subject, that the
Colonel declared that, as he was unac
customed to public speaking, he did not
know what he was saying.
This Rome demonstration satisfied us
that we could no longer, even by our
presence, give countenance to such pro
ceedings, and candidly informed Col.
Ilulbert that, owing to the political turn
which had been given to the affair, we
1 should be compelled to retire from the
i party. He expressed deep regret at
! what had been said and done, and de-
clared that it was without his consent
or approval, and hoped we would con
tinue with the party.
Colonel Cothran and Captain Elliott,
owners ol the steamboat line plying on
the Coosa, extended to us, in common
with the other gentlemen ot the Press,
an invitation to take a trip down the
river and examiue the deposits of iron
and coal along its course. This wo ac.
eepted.
On returning to Rome on Sunday
morning we were invited by Capt. Bar
ny, Superintendent of the t>< Ima, Borne
and Dalton Road, to take an excursion
down his road with a view of cxauiin
ing the various deposits of coal and iron
found along the line of- his Bond in (Ins
State and iu Alabama. This polite in
vitatiou we all accepted, and neither
saw or heard anything ou thy trip
which the most sensitive* Democrat
could tuke exception to until we reached
Peytona on the line of tite road ou our
return to Rome. Here, on Tuesday
night, a dinner had been prepared by
Captain Barny for us, aud here we had
again a surfeit of very p°°Y speeches
very poorly delivered. Here we had,
however, one manly, straight-forward
talk from Major Burns, from Home.—
Here, too, we learned that a Democrat
ic editor read—we arc glad we did not
hear it—a toast to “Bullock, our model
Governor.”
After this there was no more die play
of Bullock until we reached Atlanta, ou
Wednesday at noon Here, at a dinner
given to the “Press,” Bullock presided
and a long string ol complimentary
resolutions were read aud carried with
but one dissenting vote. These reso
lution we have not seen in print—we
heard them read imperfectly >i may
have been mistaken in their import.
The second resolution, however, was
complimentary of Bullock and we mov
ed to strike it aud all that followed, out
of the report To this mol,ion we failed
to secure a second and a vote could not
he had upon it.
We have given a fair but not us lull a
report of the political and social aspect
of the excursion as our space will per
mit. That we were deceived iu the
character of the company to be on the
excursion we admit. That we have
been deceived in the character and firm
uess of many of our Democratic confre
res of the Press we also most sorrow
fully admit. That the presence of Bui
lock on such an occasion was an insult
to every gentleman will not be denied.
That the presence of nearly or quite Ju
score of scalawag members and Btute of
ficials was ill timed and improper will
be conceded by all who knew the os
lensible object of the trip.
Wo are glad to be able to add, in con
clusion, that a few members of the Press
preserved their consistency and their
self respect by refusing any association
or intercourse with Bullock whatever.
While, we are pained (o say, a large
number seemed to vie with each other
in lackeying to and fawning upon the
individual who, through fraud and per
jury, disgraces the Gubernatorial Chair
of the State.
This much we have felt constrained
to say in explanation of our own pres
ence in such a strange company. Wo
have stored away in our mind many
pleasing incidents of the trip, aud have
collected much useful information in
regard to our iron and coal deposits, all
of which we shall present to our read
ers, from time to time, as our space may
allow. _
Tliauks Tor (he Ewhimlkb,
The editor ot the ltome Courier, fresh
from the Press Excursion, lets off the
following on one of the hosts of the
occasion. We would respectfully en
quire if the Courier man is certain that
the “cherry good humor” in Bullock’s
eyes was not cherry brandy. The thing
is vastly fond of truck of that sort pur
chased with the public funds :
We were delighted with Gov. Bullock
—he is the right man in the right place,
and will do all that any man could do
to restore Georgia to her former condi
tion of peace and prosperity.— Talladega
Sun.
Iron.
The above tribute to the Accident
that now occupies the Gubernatorial
Cliair, though clipped from a Radical
paper aud written by a Radical report
er, whose official duty has become eu
antored of the Accident, and all of his
party, has a considerable significance,
notwithstanding.
The truth of tbe matter is, that any
man who knows nothing ot Bullock’s
political filthiness, will inevitably be
come “delighted with him, etc.” We
have never, in the whole course of our
life, seen a man who was gifted with so
great an amount of beguiling blarney as
is this man. Present him to a Demo
crat, and the sweetness of his counten
ance is absolutely appalling—infinite
smiles ripple over his cheeks, and break
in soft laughter on his lips—a thousand
little benevolent sparkles are beamed
from his oyes—his nostrils play with
kindly palpitation, and—believe me,
for I tell you tbe truth—his whiskers
resolve themselves into a standing com
mittee to invite you just to walk down
into his heart, aud take a place in that
large and open receptacle. Oh ! his face
is tremendously delusive.
We were presented to him, and went
to the presentation primed with about
a dozen pardon proclamations, and
about three of his reports on the condi
lion of Georgia. We had seriously
contemplated taking a friend along to
present the murderous onslaught,which
we were afraid our outraged feelings
would urge us to rnako upon the Acci
dent, when introduced to it. And lo !
when the crisis came we found ourself
basking calmly beneath his radiant
countenance like a rose beneath an
April sky. A clear voice saluted us
with a dreamy kind of tenderness, we
found ourself exclaiming, “surely this
man is not our enemy.” We looked
for tbe famous “sinister expression,”
which, according to novelists, invaria
bly resides about the nose and eyes of u
villain. But we found it not—the nose
possessed a very mild curvative, and
the eyes were gushing with cherry good
humor. Instantly, as a last resort, we
had to commence recounting liis crimes,
iu order to protect ourselt against bis
blandishments, and actually had to
come down to the appointment of Fos
ter Blodgett before we could sufficient
ly hate him to satisfy our Democratic
conscience. How deep down aud how
effectually docs this man hide his ras
cality '.! „
So much the more dangerous is he.
No man who visits him, without about
one third of bis political villainies full
in view, is safe. Beware then, of this
mermaid, with a siren voice—he will
welcome in your face, and then pardon
the brute that ravished your sister. lie
is far more dangerous than Swayze—
though the latter is his superior iu force
—for in the eye of the latter there is
warning that put us upon guard. A
child is never hurt by a poisonous toad
—it is the bright serpent, with its spots
of purple aud gold, that charms and
stays him. We do not fear the uncouth
ruffian, that is with hideous leer distor
ted, but the soft and supple gentleman
scoundrel, that “can smile and smile,
and play the villain still.”
Another Chapter for Gault's
Report.—The character and intelli
gence of the Justices of the Peace, ap
pointed by our model ot a Governor,
Powell 1., cannot better be illustrated
than by recording their official acts and
decisions. We published a short time
since, the official acts of one of these
model Justices and this week we learn
of another equally as ludicrous : A short
time ago a writ of bastardy was sued
out against a young man about twenty
yeais of age, by a woman about forty.
The Justice who issued the writ inform
ed the young man of it, aud told him
that he must do oue of three things
give bond of SSOO, leave the country,
or marry the woman. At this informa
tion the young man was very sorrow
ful, and told the Justice that he could
not give bond, he didn’t like to run
away and leave his friends, and there
fore he would marry the woman. Ac
cordingly they started lor the woman’s
house, and arrived after she had gone
to bed. The young man knocked at
the door and said to her, “Git up here,
you (turned old heifer, and let 's git mar
ried ; you’re the ’casion of all this fuss."
And all en dishabille as she was, she
arose and opened the door, and he went
in, and “the twain were made one
flesh,” then and there. The ’Squire
knowing that the docket must be satin
fied, wrote opposite the case, “Scrape
settled by defendant marrying plain
tiff.” We learn that the parties are liv
ing as happily together as could be ex
pected under the circumstance*. —Ar
Kansas Paper.