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Dl'IHOCltA'riC) IN rOLITICH; lMJltl'J AM) UlOAimFUL IN LI r riORATUindi AM) PUOGHKSWIVE IN HOUTHEBN IN r rEUESTH.
BY J. % WHITMAN.
DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER (j, 1870.
YOL. Ill—NO. 40.
!niNi:m,ANi:uVN r.iitiiN.
^ to tiio on*
nt Or. Ui
May lit, 1870.
Attorney (Join-ml AkorniiUi'N N|»ecel»o*
-AnNtvcr to III* rhnruei by Alexander
Y\R. IIAMMOM), II. Ntc|>tieliH.
* 9 Ijmt^h HVron^ona ^ im , UTY ]1 ALL,CRAWtORDVlLLK,Ga. I
21st September) 1870. ]
I 2b the Editor of If to ConstitxUwnditstfA^ir
T v \t i.'m a wi .I il. I nustdy (h orgin:
” V, wiioIchwIi* I dear Sir: You will, I trust, allow mo.
Qrocor ami Commission Merchant,, the use of your columns to take notice of
Ati.asta, UKonatAi two speeches recently made by lion. Amos
1 T. Akorman, Attorney General of the Uni-
HERNDON, ! tod States, ns I think duo to myself, duo
April 28-Oin.
B.
| to him, and due to .s
o higher posit ion in the scalo
than mere legal corpom-
oqimlity and rights of the several States Union havo
unimpaired? of cxistenci
15tli. Is it an error in fact to maintain, tions.
as the Book does, that when the seceding | Shades of Ames, Samuel Adams, re
states abandoned their struggle for a sen- ! sons, Ellsworth, Hancock. Madison,
aratlon, and agr:ed to the terms of capit- j Hamilton, Marshall, Jackson, Jctl’erson
illation which wan substantially an ac- j and Washington!
quiescence, so far as armed resistance was | I will not say that such a doctrine
concerned, in the declaration upon which i ought to he suppressed, hut with all the
the war was waged against them; thcoth- » respect for high official position which I
er Stales, thocovciiant breakers themselves j can command, T will say, that tho Attor-
—under tho rule of the same Revolution- j ncy General of tho United States, in put
ty ill give prompt attention to linsim*
<11.VH. I*. <■<>!! DON,
Umh UIh profcsslonulservice to llioolt-
Dalton and surrounding country.—
iml vigilant at lent Ion will lie ulveu to
Medical Surgical uml Obsletrleal. en-
o hiy (Hire. Oct. 14-ly.
11. M. C4UE1MIA,
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llio collection OfClriws, re
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW',
Up Stairs In King Building, Dalton, Ga.
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nospitaUty, Comfort,Convenience
hiy comltlnod.in tho management.
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Opposlto Prt&songor Depot
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Tch.Sd, 1S70.
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ATLANTA, GA.
Special attention paid to collections for par-
lies’residing at a distance.
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WAlUUA, 31. !>.,
very grave matters referred to lty
both.
In the first of theso speeches I am di
rectly charged and accused by him with
having promulgated doctrines which ho
clmracterlJics as “pernicious,” and which
lie says "'must be suppressed.”
In the other of theso speeches, delivered
at Atlanta, Georgia, while my name is
- — — J omitted^ yet his ollloial denunciations, in
dentist, likespirit., are chiefly' directed against tho
i Treating and J same political horesieB, according to his
standard.
Theso dangerous and “pernicious doc
trines” he is pleased to say, are. to he
found in the two volumes published by mo
upon tho “Into war between tho States.”
This quad public arraignment by the
Attorney General of the United States,
and would-be, perhaps, “Crown Otlleor”
of a firmly established Empire, I am by
no means disposed to evade; and, there
fore, ask tho favor, through tho medium
of the Constitutionalist, to enter a trav
erse: and to make known to him and to tho
world, that I hold myself in readiness to
meet him, or any body else, upon the mer
its of his “Bill of Information,” thus fil
ed; and without any technical exceptions
on my part, as to the informality In which
‘ has been brought forward.
Tho only tribunal I desire is the bar of
an enlightened public opinion. Tho only
arena I wish, for tho settlement of all tho
questions involved, is the forum of reason,
wheto no weapons or force arc to be used,
but tho power of truth ami logic. So
armed on such a field, I do not shrink
from tho fullest investigation of all mat
ters discussed in the work, to which ho al
ludes, nor from the judgment which may
be rendered upon them, after such a hear
ing, by the intelligent and unbiased of the
present or futuro generations.
What, then, are the errors in fact or ar
gument in either of the volumes referred
to, which, in the opinion of this high ofll-
ccr, are so dangerous and “pcrnicioas”—
so poisonous, ana death-producing—ns that
they ought not to be thus inquired intoj
or even tolerated by discussion, but ought
tobc summarily ail'd arbitrarily ”suppress
ed*} | M j
at least, of the ary faction—ufter tho sacrifice of Inin-! ting forth such sentiments ought to have
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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m
l’lijslcliui. NrirRf.il mill Accouolicmr,
3«~dlllccou Kins strecti In tlto old UAXOn
House. :*•
'Dolton, Go., Jon. 13-1 y.
J TM I I II STATES 1I01T.I.
rn,V Mineral SinNnns, :.'.;. -
Atoast.1, — Cl Conor.
GKO. JOU$S0K *t POX, rrojlrlctotf'.
Jxo. II. 11 nn'licnfON, rn-rl.-, unir. in.
•prOME'AG.UN !” ___ .
■ a - ,T. C. RAWLINS,
At lit. own nousoi.Kaln.
CHOICE IX O T S3 13,
Broad Street, Rmne,Ga.
l»iv»scngcra taken to and from .Hofei free ot
, blinrso. Juno-.t-tr.
... „ . ^ . KiroxVttLR, Taxjf.
. .This House la situated in the lieavtortlie CUy,
Is the largest in RilOxvilla, und law been tlior-
Viuglvly repaired nnu furnished With, good
and responsible porters nlvraysi
. 'tlm Depot on tin)
. itovoiisi.'wTO-v:!".
lCttx-x’intr« It oixiPtH ox-y
CniTlnsc JlntorlnlSi trnrnosli, Ac.
No. Ollrond St., Gronlto Illoclc, Atoaxt.i, Gi.
/SS-Uan'ln'>c!inndt\'naons)nonnfnclnvcil nnd
■ vonovutml In tholiWt ntylomidut short notice.
FobrunryJO, lS70-12m. •
dveds of thousmute of lives and thousands J blushed, if not for his own reputation, at
of millions of dollars^ changed their posi- least, from a proper sense of reverence
tion in Congress, and said that they could for tho memories of the illustrious
not safely permit that to lie done for which dead.
they lmd waged tlm war—that tlmv could Tim Union of these Stales, nothing but
not safely allow a Restoration of the tin-1 a Union of a sort of corporations to be
fashioned, moulded, controlled, and shorn
of their rights by and at the will of the
Central Government 1
This “Confederacy” of States, as "Mar
shall styled It on the. bench of tlm Supreme
Court—this “Confederated Republic,” ns
ton styled It. in hi!
ion of tlm Stales under tho Constitution
for which they lmd shed so much blood
and expended so much treasure! But
that tlicso acquiescing States should he.
shorn of tlmir “dignity, equality and
rights” by a process of “Reconstruction”
according to their liking, though outside o ._
of tho Constitution, before being allowed I tho Senate—this “Union of
representation in tlm Congress of tlm members.” ns Jackson spoke of it in his
States? inaugural address, according to tlm teneh-
10th. Is It an error in fact or doctrino I ings of tlm present Attorney General, is
nothing hut an aggregation of corpora
tions! Ban! captures of municipal law!
This, in BUbstancc, is my understanding
of his most, insidioushj inculcated Im-
perializing doctrine.
If by llio suppression of truth, this doc
trine can ho established, then, indeed, will
consummated that most lamentable re-
11 which Hamilton thought need never
bc feared, oven by the most vigilant and
zealous guardians of popular rights, wlicu
lie, declared in the Convention of New
York, which ratified the Constitution, that
The States con nnrv lose their powers till
the u'hede people, of America arc robbed of
their liberties.”
Yours, most respectfully,
ALEXANDEU II.'STEPHENS.
Now I I.uy Mo Ho tv it I o Sloop.
Wrtlako tlm following oxqulaltoly beautiful
u*h from 1’utnuui’n Magiwsluo:
Gulden bead ho lowly bonding,
Little leet ao whttuuml bare,
Dewy eyes bull’ shut, half opened,
Lisping out her oyoiiIuk prayer.
Well him known when she is aaylnjr,
“Now I lay me down tofdeep,"
•TlH to God thatnlio 1h praylug-
I’rayli'K lllm her nonl to keep.
Hall* asleep, and murmuring faintly,
“If I ehould die before I wako"—
Tiny tliiKers elanped ho Haintly—
“I pray tlm Lord my noul to take."
Ob, tlm rapture, sweet, unbroken,
Of t ho houI who wrote that prayer!
Child ron*H myriad voleua float Ing
Up to heaven, record it there.
If, of all that has been written,
1 could choose wlmt mi^ht lie mine,
It should bo tlmt ohild’n petition
lilting t6 the throne divine.
PEN X EH A N I) M tNSO It ED.
Tlm first velvet factory in tho United
States lms been started by tv Fvouch colo
ny at Eratiklin, Kansas.
At tile municipal election in Nashville,
Twin., on tho 24th, tho Democrats wero
tho victors by 2,000 majority.
Tlireo young women of Worcester,
The Armitffedden uml ill r«t>llMMl.
Many years ago a certain Dr. Baldwin
wrote, what was called tho Armageddon;
it being a prophecy based upon certain
passages in tiie Be vein tions of John* In
that lie prophesied that in tho year 1ST® a
war would commence in the West of Eu
rope, and spreading eastward, involve the
wholo civilised world. That the finaltat*
Mass., recently promenaded tho main tic would bo fought upon the Eoatlmnkof
—m.w. „ 1 the Mississippi. That blood would fttow
street of tlm town, smoking cigars,
Tho Young Men’s Democratic Club, of j to tho bits of tho horscB’ bridles, aud it)*
Savannah, though only a few days old, carnage would ho stupendous. Heftirther
predicted that tho toudoncy and mult of
tho war would bo to overthrow monarch-
I has over eight hundred persons enrolled.
Chattooga county 1ms made corn enough
i to do tlm people five years. It is now of-
ism and establish Republicanism.
JOII7V 1IIGGI3SH,
Watchmaker. and jeweler,
• Plii)]i in‘Dr. llrown's Xmv Dnip Move,
11 mu II t on Street, Diiltqti, Geovuln.
IIi)nilNomcst°clcoriiuve Ji'.vrlry. foi* I'H'IIi'n
gssssfsa.
J.COIIEN&CO., 3mporteI , 01
* Brandies,Wines, Gins, Scgars
Dcalcvs in
Stye,-Bourbon.and jl/imoir/n/ieTa Whitkics
. Mauuractuvvrs of the (.TTcbraD-d
BTOJVl.XA^VX,!- Itl i' l lOHS
Ang-ly M’hltobnll Street, Atl.mte, Gu,
J, lr ' ^^Vllli Mi)i‘'JjIAX, STAI.r.Y & CO.
* 1 ‘ . wboie«ud ■ ’
Uf V •• KMMnkAi . ? A
1st. Is it an erroneous unu '>cnuaotls
iiortn'nc” (o maintain, us tlm liook docB,
tlmt tlio United Stntes constitute, not a
tingle Keimblio, imtn Federal llcpublio;
and tlmt tlm Union, about which Mr. At
torney Cieueral says so much, is a Federal
Union—a Union of separate, distinct
States, each State of tho Union being a
perfect Slate, a3 known in Public law?
■J. Is it an error in fact or doctrine to
hlnintain, as tlm Book does, tlmt theso
States, upon c'nlcrin" into this Union,
were recognized by themselves, as well
as other Bowers, ns separate, independent
sovereign Slates?
a. Is it an error in fact or doctrino to
maintain, ns the Book does, tlmt tlmUon-
stitutlpn or 1787 is.thc basis of the pres
ent Union; and that it was formed by tlm
States in tluiir sovereign character, and
(nr them in their sovereign character; or in
other words, that it is a Constitution
“made by States and for Slates;” and that
the Sovereignty of tho States was not par
ted with.® them in its ratification?
4th. Is it an error in fact or doctrino to
maintain, as tho Book does, that- the, fed
eral Government is entirely Conrcidiwiai
in its character— tlmt it was created by
the States solely with a view to the heller
regulation of their intcr-Stato nnd foreign
allhirs, nnd tho greater security of their
perpetual existence as Sovereign States by
their 'mutual pledge and guaranty to this
end—and that tho Federal Government,
so created, possesses no inherent powers
whatever—that all.tho powers it rightful
ly holds or can rightfully exercise are held
from tho States and from them by delcga-
1 6th. fa" ilan errorin factor dOotviuo to
maintain, ns the Book does, that alt tho
powers, so held by-tlus Federal or Con
ventional Government, are particularly
on the review of this conduct, to ask, ns
Ihr. Book does, “is Ihcro to bo found in tile
annals of mankind a parallel of such un
blushing, double-faced, insolent, nnd in
famous imipiitv?”
These, Mr, Editor, are n few of the po
sitions and doctrines maintained in the
two volumes referred to by Mr. Aftorncy
GoneraUnnd if they, founded, as they are,
upon indisputable facts, set forth irrefuta
ble truths; to wlmt or whops! let me ask
him and the world, is the® promulgation
either dangerous or “jirniieioiis/” Is it
to tho enusu of public liberty; or to tho
trim friends of the institutions of our an
cestors, or only to the policy nnd secret
designs of thoso who aro aiming at their
overthrow and subversion?
Mr. Attorney General in his Bill of In
formation makes very few distinct specifi
cations touchiiigtho“jJC)'iucioiis”doctrincB
of tho two volumes wIMiyho says, “must
bit supmessed." Two only of theso arc
deemed worthy of notice at this time.
The first is, tlmt I havo asserted that
“Llio lteconstruetlon measures wero mou-
stroiis, aiid pronounced tlmt all the Gov
ernment had done for four years was mon
strous, and threatened tlm liberties of tho
l--.pl-.”
In answer to lids I have simply to say,
tlmt if tho foregoing positions maintained
ill tho Book are unassailable, is it not un
deniably true, tlmt the wholo of "theso
ltcconstruotion measures,” with nil their
concomitants, aro not only, wonsli-ous Out-'
Sin£ulor FntnIHy Attending John Mo
rluMij 'fi Encinlc*.
A singular fatality 6eems to attend the
men who make il a business to pick per
sonal quarrels and get up collisions with
John Morrissey. Every one of them 1ms
died of tho bullet at tho hands of other
parties. Bill Boole was tho first person
with whom Mr. 31. lmd a brawl. Subse
quently ho was shot and died from tho
effects of tho wound. Next, I’anden pick
ed a quarrel with Morrissey, nnd lie, loo,
foil by another’s hafid. Bill Mulligan next
attacked the ox-pugilist, and in a little
while lie was shot and killed. This Sum
mer John Casey tried lira hand nt it, nfld
, .. on Saturday night ho mot his death as nil
rager, hut most-Serials blows directed nt his predecessors lmd.done—by tho bullet,
the very ritals of the Constitution, as well Wo mention this ns li siugular coincident,
as tlm liberties of tlm people? and ns ono not nt all rolTeoting upon Mr.
Tho other of these specifications is, that Morrissoy, who had no Band in tho dentil
I have attempted to show that “Mar- of any ol the parties, nnd who was always
dHin.>j|and others: named by him, “w$ro * L)e).-j.ci,s_2x .-,r
wrong, nnd tlmt Calhoun was right’; in
his views of tho Constitution.
In answer to this charge it is only nec
essary to refer to the Book itself, which
Mr. Attorney General may very well wish
to have suppressed, if for no other object
than to shield himself from Hie exposure
of having made a very unfair statement
not to say palpable misrepresentation. In
the Book no opinion of Marshall is assail
ed; hut, on tho contrary, some of the
most important positions ill it—those
doubtless deemed by the would-bo "Crown
too generous to wish even a morlal foe tti
slightestlmrni. Thiovesaudloafersought
to learn from this record that tho safest
.lung is to let him alone severally.
A Negro for Vice President.
The New Orleans Times says:
Sinco the withdrawal of Mr. Colfax from
luhlio life, a strenuous and united effort is
icing made by the colored wingofthu Rad
icals to impose Frederick Douglass upon
tho party as the candidate for Vice Presi
dent in 1872. Tile moVeiuent is also har
monized with hv tiie more-ultra Kadioals
kens ofiDnltotfaiL— umcni-- --4 ■
ciAl attention Riven to all chronic civkc_.
onto-, ilui-luS t lie tiny, conn-r of Kin :r.V l’cntz
stroote, uml niaht at rnxliloiicu on Thornton
Avonnn. formerly occinilotl by Mr. J. II. King.
a usurpation, and should he set aside Uy
tiie Courts as a nullity?
lith. Is it an error in fact or doctrino to
maintain, as tiie Book does, that tho Con
stitution of tho United States, so made,
was a compact between tlm Stales ratifying
il—the States being tho parties to it; and
that it is landing between them, ns all oth
er like compacts by the laws of nations?
7th. Is it an error in fact or doctrino ti
maintain, as the Book docs, that all dele
gated powers by sovereign Stntes can, by.
tho laws of nations, he rightfully resum
ed by tho parly delegating them, when
the purposes for which they.wero delega
ted are not attained?
8th. Is it an error in fact to assert, as
G-rocers, Liquor & Commission Xorthern Slates of the Union', before’llio
■ jiKBCiUXSsf. - - —
45 Soutli Ilowm-a Howard slrcet-i. Uclwccn
' Lombard and Pratt Streets,
BALTIMORE.
Orders solicited;' Slay 20-10m.
•^K.nlGAT, AND SffltGKKVI. XOTICK.
XXi'fS. A. W. X?iv iutV« A Son,
Formerly of South Carolina,
Tondftrthoir Professional fcrvieus.to tho citt-
— ’ ‘ - Tftivdjgxti'i'mitiding country
of nil tho doctrines set forth in the Book,
which Mr. Attorney General is so anxious
to have “supprrssrd.” And perhaps
moreover the true solution of his unqual
ified denunciation of the whole work is
Unit the array of fads presented in the
two Volumes, and the irresistible conclu
sions established by them, are so “jimii-
cious” -to tho schemes of tho would-bo
“Crown Officer”, and his. co-workers in
Avaniiu,mu
AvW. Diving*,
j. Q. Divings,
J5^^ 5IKO ' V V, K^o'8m, D.u/rox,
••Insurance and Land Agent;
Aatmt for AfffiaHB) midFIro Iiram-miep Coin-
- . imnv-: also, Jcilorson ami James River
tiro Insuvancu Comnan!<**, ol > a.,
Entorprise, Cincinnati,and
Putnam, Hartford.
ALSO, GENERAL LAND AGENT
For anybody \vhoe»trutHthcivl ) u*inc*s to him,,
W-Uefnrs loCol. C. !$. \Yclborn, Atlanta: uml
Tnl \V II. Tlbb*. Lowry & Eason, lion. l>. A.
Waikorund C«l. J. A. It. llajvUs, Dalton, t«a.
January 0-12m. * * - ‘
K OTIGE—Tho
from hlsbrc
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable,
Crawford Street. Dalton, Ga.,
pleased to furnish to tho
public: nt all liours, No. 1 Horses and Now Btr -
trie*. I bavu a oommodlous Hack; also
wagon,.and horses, to let: and would vu*
BptMrtfnllyivsk tliecltizcuHiuid public generally
totrWtne a call. Stock fed on short notice.
Termsmoderutc. Will buy or sell siook.
Xov G. II. SNIDER, l’uoprietor.
secession of- any of its Southern mem-,
hers, (under the influence of that faithless
Faction which now rules this country by
fraud and usurpation,) did openly and
confessedly refuse to perform their cove
nanted obligations under a clause of the
Conslitutioir, without which that Cdm-
pact nover would have bceu'agreed to, or
the Union, under it, entered into by tho
Southern StuUm?
9th* Is it an efrot iii fact to state, as tlio
Book docs, that tho present- Chief Justice
Chase fully admitted this breach of faith
on the part of these Northern States;and
openly declared in tho Fence Congress in
February, 1801, that they never would
perform these admitted obligations on
their.part?
10th. Is it an error in fact to maiutniu
as the Book docs, that no one of the South
ern .Slates which seceded or attempted to
secedo from the Union, because of this
breach of faith, oil the part of their Con
federates, was ever untrue to her covenants
lh the Compact of Union?
Uth. Is it an errorin fact or doctrine to
maintain, as the Book does, thattliis open
nnd confessed breach of faith on the part
of their Northern Con federates, according
to the laws of all nations, whether savage
or'civili/.ed, completely absolved the South
ern States from their obligations under
tho Compact, and fully justified their with
drawal? 1
nationalists, centralists, and consolida-
tlonists of this couutry in 1798-’99 .which
ended in the ever memorable Alien in ’
Sedition “Jews, so-ralhd of. that period.
Tlm doctrino ot tlm advocates of eo
trines which in 17'.)S-’D9 were, as now, con
sidered exceedingly “pernicious’” to their
schemes by all the enemies of these insti
tutions. By the earnest promulgations
of tlicso doclriues, and a tirin mainte
nance of tliem, at the polls, by the peo
ples of tho several States of this Union,
the rights of the States,, as well as their
own, were rescued from tho; hands of
usurpers at that time, and on a likcqn’O-
mulgalion and maintenance of the same
... ... doctrines at this time,'rcst^.the only sitre
IStli, is it ail error in fact to maintain, hope of the future rescue and preservation
ir -'- - --> of the same rights and liberties from the
oul, On faith dor
u.ving
A fllorj With a
A young man paying :
to a yoUng lady, met wi... .
incident (Hiring one of his visits:
Being invited into tho parlor to await j
the ladyV appearance, lie entertained
himself as best he might for some time,
and was becoming very weary, when a
little girl about live years old slipped in
and began to converse with him.
“I can always tell when you arc com
ing to our house,” she said.. “Why,
when you are going to he here sister be
gins to sing and get good; she gives mo
cake and pio, and everything I want, nnd
she siims so sweetly when you are here,
and when I speak to her she smiles eo
pleasantly. I wish you would stay hero
all the wliilc, then l could have a good
time. But when you go oliVister is not
good. Phe gets mad, and if I ask her
anything she slaps and hangs me about.
This was a poser for the young man.
“Fools and children tell tho truth,”
he muttered, atwl taking bis hat ho left
and returned no more.
Mural.— Fa rents wishing their ill-na
tured daughters married, should keep
their small children out of the parlor when
strangers are there.
fered at thirty-threo cents a bushel in the j laughed nt when ho wrote tho .book;
| lcn p > but now in 1870 we see a bloody war open*
i. 5c 1i«,. ^ „„„„ ' cd in Europe, with a fair prospect of Ita
U is raid that Hires quantities of corn } ‘ n ’. ( „ y to ^ i Rat ^ rd , nnd
Mnpiillri>nt I.ttcrnry rubric.
Webster’s Quarto Dictionary has pass
ed through various cditions7%aqJi an im
provement. upon and an enlargement of
the preceding, until it 1ms culminated in
he engaged in Dawson and other
ties of that section at twenty-live cents per
bushel.
Col. Nelson Tift has been rc-nominated
In the 2nd District for Congress. This is
a good selection—a better could not have
been made.
A man named Dow r attempted to kill
his wife at LuFayette, Tcnn., on the 27th
Moral. ult., and was fatally shot by her brother,
pedal attention j aged sixteen,
the following j j ( ,] in Simpson, of Iowa, showed agh-1
how to firo a gun, nnd she succeeded in j p russ - lftu interests,
quenching his vital spark by aiming the
wrong way.
Gov. Iloldcn still retains a company of
negro soldiers at tho expense of North Car
olina, as a body guard for his immaculate
person.
The survivors of the Fifteenth Missis
sippi Regiment have subscribed 95,685 for
the purposo of erecting a monument to
their fallen comrades.
Tho United States Government has giv
en 171,287,848 acres of land to tho various
railroads, and yet refused to givo the poor
negro “forty acres and a mule.”
An analyzing dame reports that she
has heard of but one old woman who kiss
ed her cow, but she knows of thousands of
young ones who kiss very great calves.
They aro going to have street cars in
Athens, Geoi»ia. The papers of that an
cient burroi1gTiffin4“taking on” qyyr the
prospect like an old lien ovor one chicken.
Officer,” most “ucrmcioiia” to Ins own .atUniXm-tli; In this matter, tho negroes
views, alms anil oWts-nro not only for- nv0 perfectly right, having solongtan
tilled but incontestably cstnbl s iediby-the- .gfo olfwitli n few insignificant offices nnd
nutbqnty of tins eminent Chief Justice cmj)ty promises. Now that they have
of the bupreme Court ot the United Couglit so long nnd so nobly for itadlcal
. , success, they deserve some more substau-
It was lie whoannoungca from thcbcucli. tial recognition at the hands of their allies,
of that court the most “pernicious doc- F rc d Douglass is at least tho peer of Gen-
trmc,” that the States composing this Un-. oral Grant in intellect, and 1ms certainly
ion at tiie tuho formed their present Con- tip no inucli more.for tlio causo of .eniancl-
htitutiou as sovereign btales. pation. A "ctiel-al movement throughout
It was he. who held nud pi qclaimed from t |, 0 country in ids favor would cauratlio
tho same bench, that alltne legislative demand to bo heeded, and now is tho on-
powers of the Congress ol btates, -under p or tunity for its creation. We advise tlio
the Constitution, depended upon the will negroes of this seetionlo stand up fo'r their
of a majority of the btates. riglils,andniake'FredI)ougIaraMibinina-
Itwashqwhohcldiu thocqnvonUon of tion nil ultimatum at tho next ltadieal
A lrgiuiiv that ratified tlio Constitution, Convention,
that tiie powers conferred by that iustru-
meat could bo rightly resumed hy those A Gold Mim- in n t'niic.
who conferred them. At tiie coming Slate Fair them will be
This, -perhaps; is tho most “pernicious” a large cake oil exhibition, containing::
. j.i, 1 gold dollar, one diamond null; pearl clua
tori'inc, valuedattjl2.7, tendiamondrings,
valuedat S30 each, and ten rings, consis
ting of pearl, ruby, garnet, emerald and
plain gold, valuedat from'SfO (081.7each.
The cake will bo eitt into sliers, and sold
at two dollars per slice. The person hold
ing tlio gold dollar will be entitled to a
fall grand piano, large size, rosewood, 7J
. v.vnu ... octaves,-agrairo-bridso, tlireo unisons,'
tlio erection of a centralized Bmpiro-'ovcr handsonio iopandplintli moldings, carv-
thevuinsof tho principles of that wonder- edlega audlyre, from Hallot, Davis &
fill Federal Union, established by. tiie Co., Boston; valued at ®1,200.—True
.“Fathers,” that they cannot bo tolerated Qtargian-. ■
hy them; and lienee.' the official mandate 7 ,,, —- ,V —
that.the doci l-incs therein set forth i‘, '
Porno effort having been made to rid
Grant’s chief jaw officer li-oni tho odium
unmistakable language of tyrannical men
in power in all ages and countries, when
they feel the force ot truths which arc in
deed dangerous and most “pernicious” to.
their own guilty acts of usurpation upon
the rights of Slates as welLas the. liberties
of outraged peoples! This language from
the present Attorney General smacks
strongly of like cabinet anathemas of tho
the result of tho war la, tho overthrow, of 1
monarchy, and the establishment of a Re
public. Is tho prophecy of tho Armaged
don approaching its fulfillment?
(ionium Unity.
According to tho dispatches German
unity not only demands Eastern France,
but permanent possession of a fort com
manding tho city of Paris. The French
in despair say they will die before conced
ing it. The French also assert that tho
stories of revolts in Paris aro gotten up in
Emigration to Liberia.
Tho negroes appear to be leaving North
Carolina in large numbers. Tho Wilson
Plaindealer says some eight hundred col
ored people from that State have applied
for passage to Liberia, in an expedition to*
be sent out by the American Colonisation
Society on the 1st November next.
What Taxes Expire la Oetaber.
As a matter of public interest we state
that taxes on gross receipts sales, except
those on tobacco, spirits, nnd wines, will
expire on October 1st, and the income tax
on incomes over 82,000 will bo 2 1-2‘per
cent. After that date, the use of stamps
promissory notes for . less than tlOQ 1 ,
and also receipts, will expire. On deeds,
lenses, and contracts, the tax remains.
A now cotton faFTdC^^sting-WO^jtOO
and running 5,000 spTflTllc.TKftWp lognjsu
ary, ^
Tlio Democratic Executive Committ^
of the Stale met in Macon on the27th ult.,
and elected Hon. C. A. Anderson of that
cltyChairmajj, vice lion. Linton Stephens,
resigned. *•
the present magnificent literary and lin- will bo in opcratidri*in RoswciV»&Ch
iruistic fabric. The reputation of this ebunty, Gn., by the 1st day of next Janu-
cork is not confined to America. Wc
find it stated that in the Aloxnndro ease,
tried in the Court of Exchequer at West
minster Hall, under nurely English law,
no other dictionary, English or America,
was quoted or alluded to than his. The
Lord Chief Baron, in his decision, pro
nounced “Webster's Dictionary a work
of tiie greatest learning, research, and
ability.” Besides tlio numerous illustra
tions with which the volume is interspers
ed, there arc at the end sixty-seven pages
of tho most finished pictorial illustrations
representing almost every conceivable ob
ject in nature, science, uud art. It would
bo unnecessary, if we wero competent to
the task, to subject this work to a critical
analysis. Its renutation is firmly estab
lished. It is built upon a rock, and can
bid defiance to any potty storm that the
critics can raise.—mchmond Whig, May
8, 1800.
TolcftrnpUlc Communication with the
Carilen of INIeit.
. A traveler in tho East writes that tho
Garden of Eden is, according to tradition,
located nt the junction of the Euphrates
and .Tigress, at an Arab villago called
Koruch. Scattered along tho Bank arc
about two hundred houses, mado of reed
and thatch,' while on tho extremo point,
when: the rivers meet, a slmnly has been
built for a telegraph station! It is (well
says -Tiie Churchman) somewhat curious
to think of telegraphic dispatches being
sent to the Garden of Eden; and it re
moves a certain halo with which our im
agination has surrounded tho-pot. But
modern progress has penetrated, those
countries of the East which have been
long in decay, and they are doubtless des-
An Illinois editor says: ‘^Trying to do
business without advertising is like wink
ing in the dark; you may know that you
aro keeping up a powerful winking, but
nobody else has atiy idea of it.”
The Iowa wheat crop of 1870 was gath
ered from two million acres, nnd it will
amount to twenty-four million bushels.—
This is about twenty-four bushels to ev
ery person in the .State.
Vanderbilt is of the opinion that the
gigantic diamond which flames upon thq
shirt front of Jimliak liko the head, ligliL
of a locomotive, is the only honest thing
about him.
An cxchango wants to know wlmt Gen
eral Grant will do when his tcnn of ofllee
expires. AVo imvc no idea wlmt he will
do; but if he does wlmt he ought to have
been doing for the lust three years he will
go to keeping a livery stable.
Susan B. Anthony sunk ten thousand
dollars in her newspaper enterprise, and
is now begging the public to pay it back.
The poet has said that “when maidens sue
men givo liko gods,” but this is not tho
Heavy One.
A Chicago paper is responsible for tho
story that a few days since some boys in
4)iat city dropped an anvil weighing 200
pounds out of a fourth story window on
tho bead of an African who was passing,
and he had them arrested, lie said he
was willing to lot the boys have fun, but
when they jammcini “gcmmanV’ hat
down over his eyes and spoiled it in that
Way, the law must take its course,
Nice Time for lhe Boy*.
The Augusta Constitutionalist says:
A number of youths and girls took pas
sage on Saturday on tho little steamer Os-
sabuw, for an excursion trip down to Horse
CAVek. The boat grounded upon Kirkpat-
of having originated the infamous election
hill now pending, the Atlanta JYciu Era
thus settles the question:
Now the truth D, tlmt tho State Central
Committee having a high regard for the
legal attainments and political opinions of
Mr. Akcrnmn, requested him to prepare a
bill providing for an election. Mr. Akcr-
nmu acceded to the request of tho Corn-
mil tee, and a hill was prepared under liis
advice and by his direction (he being too
unWell to givo the matter physical atten
tion), and the bill so prepared was fully
JmIE mul scut
lined to undergo a wonderful resurroc- u 5110 l l(M '’as talking about,
tion. j
Wlmt Nlici-ldnn Nai<l.
All the wisdom in tiie world will proba
bly not die with General Sheridan. A
war correspondent represents him con
gratulating Count Bismark upon the
French surrender at .Sedan, and us com
paring the “surrender of Napoleon to
that of Gen. Lee, at Appomattox Court
House;” Tliat Js simply nonsense. Lee
and his men fought literally in and to the
“last ditch,”.anu only gave up when gun
powder and rations pave out. Even t hen
Grant succeeded in bagging less than for*
ty thousand of them. ‘Napoleon, on the , yrmm( i that “thi-ir /.dim- w
contrary, had a great army—four times j f. rounat Klt 1 L0 01 "
as great, # numerically, as Lee’s—not fa- | Ihe success of tho party.”
tigued with campaigns runninp: through They have turned up an ancient grass-
ong, weary years, and supplied with all j i l0imer \ n Missouri measuring four inches
the modern improvements in arms; yet . V P /, 1 measuringiour ucnta
their surrender was quick and uncondi- m * 0 ngth, an inch across the hack, and
tional. There was no "last ditch” about having hind legs three ami one-half inches
Ujril.lllilK 111V \lllj , I1J MVU •-’J
Mr. Calhoun, as Mr. Attorney General
most adroitly attempts to mako the peo
ple believe, but by Mr. Jefferson amt bis
associates, was, that these acts of usurpa
tion were not laws hut nullities.
The doctrines inculcated in the
volumes referred to, Mr. At torney Gener
al well knows, are the doctrines of Mr,
Jefferson', the great apostle of tho Ameri
can Federative system for the main toil-
micu abd preservation of'free institutions Monthly for October: X7itliingiiko<:ram-
by neighboring States. They are the doc- mar; belter go without a cow than with
rccommouded its pin
in the General Assembly; and we now
have ample authority for saying that with
in the. last twenty-four hours Attorney
General Akerman has expressed himself
decidedly as approving the bill in all its
parts, and earnestly recommending its
NotlilhK I,ll«o Grnuinmr.
AYe take the following from Harper's
At the 4lh Congressional District Con- \
vc.ntion, which assembled at Forsyth on i
the 21st ult., Col. W. J. Lawton, of Ma
con, was nominated as the Democratic
candidate for the uhexpired ton'll of the
•list, and for the full term of the 42ml, Con
gress.
The American Union, the most bitter
and outrageous Radical paper in Georgia,
protests against negroes running for Con
gress, and rebukes the aspirations of some
of them for Congressional honors, on the
ill jeopardize
k's bar so fast tlmt she could not beg
oft’, and the party, having no boat With
which to reach tho shore, were compelled,
to niuko land hy wading. The gallant
Youths shouldered their responsibility as
far as they could, and transported the
young ladies to terra.firmti in their arms.
Some, of them happened to be of such di
mensions that the gallantry of the youths
could not serve them, and they, too—lust
waded to laud. So ended the excursion.
Gen. Ill pipy Among (tie Defender* «f
FnrlK.
The following paragraph, which comes
among our latest cable telegrams from be
leaguered Faiis, will be read witji special
interest by Southerners: “lien. Ripley, of
the Confederate army, and two artillery
officers of tho United States army during
the war, havo a command under Trochu,
Many Americans have volunteered.”
Tho Worst Plnro In III® World.
We hayo read of the worst woman, but
Vallejo, in California, must certainly be
the worst place in tho world, if what tho
Recorder, published there, says of it be
true. That paper says it hnrbora men
who “have become so saturated with tho
oil of condensed damnation as to commit
an act combining all the horrors of a cen
tury of crimes into one.”
it. Give these gallant .Frenchmen
due—but what is. llio use of drawing his
toric parallels, whole no paralel exists.—
jYcio Turk Express.
out that. There are numberless “profes
sors” who go .“tramp, tramp, my boys!”
around tho country peddling a weak arti
cle, hy which in twenty days they guaran
tee to seta man thoroughly up in English
language. Ah instance in point .comes
from Greenville, Alabama,, where the
professor had labored with tlio youth of
that people, and taught them to dote on
grammar according to Morris’ system.—
During one pf tiie lectures tho sentence
“Mary milks the cow,” was given out to
bo parsed. Each word had been parsed
QABUIA.GE AND
Wagon >Iamifa<*tory»
Dalton, Cloioiia.
SHORT &fBEOKNER,
Have lust completed tluiir now Shops, uml aro
now ready to truraafaotnrc Hacks for mnil
' routes, 1 itc'lit Spring Wagons, single or double,
. Plantation Wagons, of nil sizes, with woollen,
tliiml.il’ sUciii--. : ml inn. :t\l'-.
Old C-.u-i-lnups and Bugsies vciuoddlea and
painted, and all work varrrthtod aucl fluislied
ia beat stylo. . , ,, '
Also, all farm work (lonoon short notice.
in length. It is supposed to be tho grass
hopper mentioned by the preacher as like
ly to “become a burden.”
Russell, correspondent of tho London
Times, writing to that paper a description
; of the battle-field around Sedan after the i lions of dollars.
The Hurt of Heavenly Vcnacnn
Wnrnliiir.
Our cable telegram nows reports lo-dav I ,
go to show tlmt the Old World is about to j surrender, says it looked like “masses of
• q-dm on high, a | colored rags glued together with blood
2 shapes
For Liberia.
The ship Ooloonda, belonging to tho
American Colonization Society, now in
the port of Baltimore, will sail on the first
of November for Liberia, carrying out a
full expedition, numbering some two hun
dred emigrants,principally from the South
ern Stales.
— ♦
ClintnpiHrue.
Tho champagne wiue producing districts
of France, including the great depots of
Rheims nnd Chalons, with their million*
of bottles in store, having been occupied
by the German armies, it is pretty safe to
say that for sevoral years to come the sup
ply of genuine champagne to tho outsiao
world will be very short. Tho year’s vin
tage of the, champagne region, and tho
mdljons of bottles in storo two months
ago in the great depots of that region, am
all gone, and the total loss to the vineyards,
Wino makers and merchants directly con
cerned, will probably exceed twenty mlt-
rccelvo il direct warning from on high, a j colored rags glucc
stroke of vepgcitrilSB irJricK nray cniira Llio * ami brains, mul jjin:
The Cellar* of l*nrl*.
It is reported that tho cellars nro rent
ing in Faria at 2,000 francs, os places of
reftigo in case of bombardment. Tho vast
cellars of tho Cafe Anglnlse, Hotel du
Louvre and Grand Hotel, are being fitted
up into regular subterrancau caravnusa-
The Wrnili to Come.
The Freeman’s Journal, nu ultra Cath-
. —t • jsavoono, which fell to tlfe lot of Rob U .... , T
stitution breaking States did afterwards hands ot the usurpers who now hear 1^, sixteen year old, near the foot of tho
hold that tho Seceding Stales were till | sway. < Ono of the most important as well J class, was commenced thus: “Cow is a*
bound to perform their part of the Com- as saving of tho principles of these uoc- noun, feminine gender, third person, and
pact, notwithstanding their own ucknmvl- trines is that no danger need ever he fenr-. stands for Marv." "Siands
. r .
edged breach of faith, andllmt they wont
to war acainst them to compel them to
remain in the Union, and discharge their
onligations under tho Constitution?
lath. Is it an error in fact or doctrino to
pfthc80;.do<^;
; o . - over bofear-1 stand’s.for -Mary.“Stands i’or Mary I”
cd m a free conn try from any error oi said the excited professor. “How dare
* you mako that, out?” “Because,”'an-
opinion or doctrinchowevorgreat, “where
reason is left free to cambat it.”
This Cabinet ukase of Mr. Attorney
t General'shows nothing more clearly than
maintain, as the Book docs, that the war. i tho potter of the truth promulgated in the
thus inaugurated, was a “war between two volumes thus denounced. He and his
States,” and in no proffer or jdst sense a
Rebellion or Civil war?
Mill. Is it an error in fact to maintain,
ns tho Book does, that the only, pretext on
the part of the Northern States, for Wag
ing this war, thus inaugurated between
tho States, was “tlio preservation of tho
TJuion of‘tho States, witlnill tho dignity,
associates know anil feel, that, by noth
ing 8hortof a suppression of 'those truths
directly or Indirectly, and the obliteration
if possible, of nil llio great fads of our
history, can they bring tho public mind to
receive the doctrine attempted to he instill
ed hy him in his Atlanta speech, which
amounts to this, that tho Statos of This
ercci the noble pupil, “if tho cow didn’t
stand for Mary, how could Mary milk
her?”
.. , „ pinned into strang
warring lorces to paiH$ m their work ol . , f t t -, „
human desolation in dread of a blow which ) ‘o • c •
may he struck nuainsl both hy a power ! Fensacola, Florida, lms been sold out;
higlu-r tlmu either: ami with a hand which j u ,e |oko is that she lms hid herself in
is lust and impartial as it is terrible. N:-! , r . lrt
vere hiekness has appearuVm the Prussian ^ G aU( ^ scalawags who
armies operating Ihilbre Metz and Stras-; run tho city government, had levied illegal
bourg; the cattle plauue has broken out j taxes that the city would not pay; aud j
very generally in 1 rupsia, includin'' Bor-1 the, property was put up for sale for taxes,
lin, and is extending rapidly. Cholera I-vr.* i , ...I •
has appeare«l in South Russia. There j woiilu bid, and the city bought in olio paper, says baboons without tails aro
were hundreds of eases, with forty-three I H lc property. tr}-ing to run the French Government, but
!!! d i uri 28 li ‘ G J a - st ' Tho silvery-haired editor of tho Atlanta ! their efforts are vain and will soon como
Persia. B’ucli. are a few of tlio Old World ' Eilellujenccr has got lus “dander up” and j in a conclusion. The Journal opines that
visitations whiclmyeliaye to record to-day. | gone to using “cus words.” The Colum-1 Europe will bo iu flames, everywhere, in
ys appeared to j bus Sun said something about that “sus- i a few weeks—except prayers prevail to
i ihnd ,/inu . . ‘id not like, prevent the catastrophe. Governments
ho didn’t i nro ration, and the peoples have lost tho
lions which came directly from a power j caroa “continentaldamn” about the Sun's ! coumgo to teach the govcrnoi-s their dntj*.
higher than kings or diplomatists.—A r . Y. j opinion. For shame, brother Stcoll We are on tho eve of great events, but
’ — * — . Great Britain is in dnngsr-Gon. Grant! tll ° resuU of thcm i ^ 10t ^ 0wa
nuiorle Fhrn««*. j threatens to whip her, (so the papers re-1 Wnnii>u only im Vfticvn.
T rcncli commander at, port,) if she docs not adjust tho Alabama j The white Republicans of tho First DIs-
Bileli visitations have
Tlwyshould | i( . ioll5 crftft „ wllie|l „= llot l!ia
he accepted, ns ol old, as intimations ol ■ , , . . , ,
tho absolute .necessity of peace—in lima- j u,u ^ 10 retorted by saying that 1
Gnml KnilorNcmcut.
The
cinnnt
oval Brow
cratslmvc
lie ha:
Radical, and stealing somewhat (o confirm Prussiuus arc likely to find such a sain- U P f° r true, will como to terms metsm-
Wsloyaltj;. - ' j • * - *.- ■ .u~
i miuiUcr father hnru of digestion.
though they constitute nln. -teuttis of the
parly. Isn't that so, Samho?