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W All bills due after first insertion, unless special contract to the contrary be made. Atlanta and Charlotte AIR-LINK, OFFICE GENERAL MANAGER, Atlanta, Ga., Mayju, 1877. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE, To Take Effect Sunday, May 13, GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta 4.00 p. m Arrive at Gaineavllle 0.37 p. m. Now Holland 0.42 p, m . Lula (Supper) . 7.13 p. in. Mt. Airy 8.10 p.m. Toccoa 8.53 p. m. Greenville 12.24 a. m. Sp.mnbnrg 2 15a.n). Charlotte 6 00a.m. Charlotte (Ilailroadi Junction 6.15 a. m. GOING WEST. Leave Charlotte (lUtlro.’d | Junction 0.00 p. m. Charlotto U.IU p. m. Arrive at Spartanburg 12 55 a. m. Greenville 2.30 a. m. Toccoa 5.58 a. i.i. Sit. Airy 6.40 a.m. Lula [ Breakfast] 7.20 a. m. New Holland 8.15 a.m. Gainesville 8.20 a. m. Atlanta 11.00 a. m. ACCOMMODATION TKAIN. Leave 7.20 a. m Atlanta Arrive 5.20 p. m. Sundays excepted. G. J. FOKKAGRE, General Manager. W. J. HOUSTON, General Pass, ami Ticket Agent. CLEVELAND HOTEI U 13-sr W-. 23. BBLD, LI, Ulcvelund, YVliite County, Ua. r rE PROPRIETOR OF THIS HOTEL IS L now prepared to accommodate all persons that may wish entertainment, as ho has reno vated and .fifT; l rged his house. the Hotel he has a Hack to Gainesville twice a sh transportation from the following places by vise: lllairsville. o.' ”kB - Hayesv/ e ;; 7 *•“ .7 a. m In ( Line weok M haeif < 3 U ‘t GREEN SUItGEOJNS. Are pi' -and* of work atsliorl notice. PrlcoH SEE' “ WV* wt; PUCKETT, Athens St., near Oor. Summit, GAINESVILLE, A., tfl prepared to mako all kinds of JEWELRY outo I>UUE (tKOItGLA GOLD. Ho will also repair WATCH3S, JEWELRY, &e, * For specimens of his work, reliability, &c., ho re fora, by permission, to Reilwine A Estes, at i’aple of ttce. W-X.PUOKET. AND GENERAL .Business Ag’eney, Atlanta, Gra. rPHE UNDERSIGNED lias opened au oilice -*- in the city of Atlanta, for the collection of Claims, Private and Public, and the transaction of business generally at the State Capital and at Washington. Prompt attention will Vic given to business with the various State Departments, salaries and other demands collected, and information tarnished wheu desired. Charges reasonable. Orders solicited. Address, J. R. SNEAD, may i-Cm P. 0. Box 518. GREENVILLE HOTEL, GREENVILLE, 8. 0. A. >l. SPEIGHTS, Proprietor. New Management, New Building, New Furniture. aß'Take Street Cars. apr'27-tf J. K. BOONE. A. RUDOLPH. BOOM k RUDOLPH Public Square, Gainesville, Ga., GENERAL DEALE US IN Staple Dry Goods, GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, HARDWARE. Etc. may2fi-tf J. L. PEEKS A. A. CAMI’BEL L PEERS & CAMPBELL. COMMISSION MERCHANTS Nos. 7 and L> Marietta Street, Atliintn. Ga. References—Wm. R. J. Lowry, J. R. Wiley. J. 0. Carter, Stephens A Flynn. apr27-Bin DU. 11. B, A I).V IK, DENTIST, Gaincvillo, Ga. Jaull ly A. C. MOSS, Attorney at Law, Homer, Banks County, Georgia. WILL ATTEND PROMPTLY to all busi ness intrusted to his care. marO-lv MARLEK & PEltliY. Attorneys at law, gaixesville, ga, Olhee in the Court House. One or the other of the preseut. Will practice in Hull ami adjoining counties. aug2s-ly The Gainesville Eagle. Devoted to IVew* of the D„v. The Farn, interest*, Home Matter*, Choice Mi*eellay. VOL, XL THE HOGUES’ RAID AMI TIIE RUBBERS’ REWARD. The Federal Marauders in the Georgia Mountains. Blacklegs Clothed with Authority Di iviug the People to Desperation. Midnight Raids upon Helpless Children, and Women Insulted in the Presence of their Manacled Husbands. Commissioners, Deputies and One-horse Lawyers in Collusion to Bleed Timid Countrymen. A Fcople Driven to the Verge of Despera tion, Robbed, Insulted and Spat Upon. 'The Means by which Blacker, Sheridan, Glenn, Goodwin and Others Enrich Themselves and Disgrace the Government. Showing the Marshal’s Service of Georgia to he More Unprincipled than the Bashi-Bazonrks of Bulgaria. Scenes that Would Make Nero Weep, and Put Satau Himself to t he Blush. Report of Colonel Sam Williams to the Governor on the Facts Connected with the Death of Lieut. Intyre. (continued from last week’s issue.) Statement No. 21. John li. lieece, of Pickens county, says: ‘ln the year 1873 I was inform ed that there were warrants against ine and William Akins for violating the United States revenue law in the hands of A. W. Hit flyman sent us word that for twenty-five dol lars each he would settle our cases I went and saw him myself, and tried to get him to cut it down some lower. He would not do so, and we sent the money to him by A. W. Davis; we never heard of the warrants any more. I saw him frequently afterward, but he never said anything about holding any warrants against us.’ Statement No. 23, Sylvestus Harmontree, of Pickens county, says: ‘ln the year 1874 I was informed that there was a warrant against me for violapm V " T ' v Q rev enue laws, in P /JU , ' Je department. man, as U. informed L’ that for fcA witnesses * missioned miTTor viola™ laws of the U of a Mr. nn United! • paid, or cans s'2o as a compromise or settlement of the charge, with the express under stand mg that I was not to be convicted on the charge.’ Statement No. !Ji. Samuel L. Taylor, of Pickens coun ty, says: ‘I was charged with a viola tion of the United States revenue laws, by a warrant in the hands of Mr. Whitmore, who was said to be an U. 8. revenue official. I paid, or caused to be paid, the sum of fifty dollars on a compromise or settlement of the charges against me, with the distinct understanding that I was not to be convicted on the charge. On Christ mas day, 1871, I. met A. J. Glenn iu the road near my residence, and ho informed me that there was a warrant against me for the violation of the revenue laws of the United States. He said that Capt. Whitmore had the war rant, and that if I would pay fifty dol lars to him, (Glenn) he would pay it over to Whitmore, who would destroy the warrant, and that would cud the case. 1 refused to do so. Several weeks afterwards, Captain Whitmore, and Captain Huil'man came to A. J. Glenn, and Glenn came to see me, and told mo that they intended to have me if 1 staid in the land, if 1 did not pay over the fifty dollars. I thou gave Glenn fifty dollars to pay Whitmore, lie went to Jasper that day, and met Whitmore there. I did not go. Gleun came and toid me he had paid the money to Whitmore, who said 1 was now all right and could run a still if 1 wanted to. I thought 1 was all right and ran a still a while, but got uneasy about it, and told Gleun 1 was going j to quit, lie told me 1 had better pay * Captain Diacker some money, and run on. Ho told me to make five gallons of whisky, and send it to his house for Blacker; that then pay Blacker about fifty dollars, aud I could run on. I sent the whisky, but refused to pay the momw. I was then soon arrested by Deputy Marshal Findley, and car ried to Atlanta. I plead guilty, and served out my time. After I was ar j rested, Glenn came to me in Atlanta, and said he had paid Findley one liuu ] dred and four dollars for me to get out.’ Statemi ntNo. 35. B. M. Cowart, of Pickens county, says: ‘ln the month of August or September, 1873, A. W. Huffman was au United States deputy marshal, and he told me he had a good many war rants against parties in mv county— that he had warrants against three of the Harmouiree; that if they would get him up forty dollars, and manage through some friend to have the money paid to him, he would destroy the warrants, and that would beau end to their cases—that he could not receive the money directly from these parties himself, but would take it, I though, second hand, through some friend. He requested me to receive t’ue money for him. I refused to do so, aud told him I would have nothing to do with it. I learned afterwards from the parties themselves that they ! did pay the money, and that their cases were settled.’ Statement No. 26. Marimon Moss, of Pickens county, says: “In the spring of 1874, I heard there was a warrant against me for violating the revenue laws of the U. S. Afterwards I was informed that I could settle my case with Captain Huffman, who was an United States marshal. I then paid to A. P. Mulleux fifteen dol lars, to be paid to Captain Huffman, with the understanding that my case was to be settled. I have “never heard any more of my case. Ido not know until this day whether there was a warrant against me or not. I never saw it.’ Statement No. ‘47. A. J. Glenn was duly qualified, and on oath says: “I am a citizen of Pick ens county'—am about sixty years of age. By profession, lam a farmer. I have never practiced law, and have no license to do so. I believe the cause of the arrests in this and adjoining counties, is the violation of the reve nue laws of the United States govern merit. lam acquainted with Commis sioner Collins, Deputy Marshal Black er and Goodwin. I have never made any arrangements with the aforesaid officers for the release of any citizens who have been arrested for violating the laws. I have been paid money by citizens of this and other counties, to assist them in getting out of trouble when arrested for violating the laws. This is as plain answer as I can give for receiving money. I never made any arrangements with any one for re leasing a man from arrest. I have t<j!d men that if they were convicted, 1 would refund the money, but I never told any man that I would refund the money if he were ever brought up af terwards for the same offense. I know a man by the name of Milton Holt, in Gilmer county. I met him on the road I don’t recollect that I told him I had ever seen Blacker at any time. I nev er showed him the names of any wit nesses against him. He never gave me the names of any witnesses to be put on the warrant against him, as I recollect. Fayette Southern was with Holt when I met him. Mr. Holt paid me one hundred dollars, to be return ed if he did not come clear. I don’t know whether I told him that Blacker would call for him when they wanted him at court or not. He went to Cartersville with or about the same time as others from whom I received money on the same conditions as from Holt. They were all tried and acquit *‘K?.. I know Mrs. Johnson, wife of the eGTohnson, of Fannin. I saw her The extvdle recently, and told her I at ( J a. m. night with Goodwin the Smith,’ of’ H 1 to m y recoi ; axt-ii , „ J er that for any sum I \Vlikes, of Husband released. I greetings tk^jjy e< 3 money from Miles were condu£ Jtu buunueiu. * v Como -n, money from a Mr. Bur ' P’ , ta Se d; I think about fifty of officers for^ 0 qi ng) United States had, the resu' in Cartersville, has sold Preside!*- think three at one time. I Vice. - to W. N. Ledford, and one to . w-Harris, of this county, and one of Mr. Frix, now living in Pickens.’ Statement Nn. 38, George B. Chamberlain says: ‘I am an internal revenue agent of the U. S. government. My ideas of the causes of the recent arrests made in the coun ty of Gilmer, is that parties in that couuty, and in the counties of Pickens and Fannin, in this state, have violated the United States revenue laws. The eauso of troops being sent there re cently was that reports had been made to the department at Washington, that the violations of the law were on the increase, rather than on the decrease. Representations were also made that it was impossible ft r the civil officers to execute the law in that locality, without the protection of the military. These representations were made by me on information given me by officers charged with the execution of the law, and from my own personal observa tions. Just prior to sending troops to Gilmer a deputy marshal by the name of Goodwin had his prisoners taken from him by a posse of citizens, his own life threatened, and his horso shot. I think this occurred in the lo cality where the troops were sent. I do not know of any other direct resis tance of officers of the government, since the killing of Emory. But I have been frequently informed by various persons, some of them residing in that locality, that it was useless to attempt to make arrests there without tho aid of the military. I do not know the names of any one there who gave this information. The legal way of getting out a warrant for the arrest of a vio lator of the revenue law is for au offi cial to swear it out on his own knovvl | edge, or by information given by an ! other. The warrant, after being sworn out, is delivered by the U. 8. commis sioner to the marshal, who is charged with the execution of tho same. The usual instructions given are that tho warrant shall be shown, or read, to the man arrested, unless it is where a man is caught in the act of violating the law. Except the .Mclntyre case, 1 know of no instance where any person has openly raised authority, other than the one already mentioned. There is no way of settling any case, after an arrest has been made, except by au ex amination before the prescribed courts, or by compromise on an order from the secretary of the treasury. Any marshal, or deputy, receiving any money or other compensation to settle a case, or to release a prisoner, before or after a trial, is a violator of the law, aud subject to a criminal prosecution therefor. There are no circumstances where any U. 8. official has the right to sell a still to any one, except it be that it has been forfeited to the gov ernment, destroyed, aud ordered by the proper authority to be sold as old copper. From my own observation I believe that the increase in the num ber of violators of the revenue laws has been caused by the prevailing opinion among the masses of the people (in the localities where such violations have taken place) that there would be a change of the administration, aud GAINESVILLE, GA., MORNING, MAY 25, 1877. ■ - 1 - that the law would be repealed, or a pardon would be given to the offen ders.’ Stalrnunt No. 30. Aaron Collins says: I am circuit court commissioner for the northern district of Georgia. I know nothing to have caused the arrest of citizens in my district recenty, except that they had violated the revenue laws of the United States. Ido not know of any citizens having resisted the authorities who were arresting them, except in the case of Memory Turner and others, about two months since. This occurred in Cherokee county, where a wagon and team were taken from some depu ty marshals. The evidence showed that a wagon and team was taken from Turner, against whom there was a warrant. The wagon contained two barrels of whisky. James J. Brough ton, a deputy United States marshal, had it in charge. This man Turner, and others, pursued Broughton and his posse and wrested the wagon and team from him. They were tried and bound over, except Turner. I know nothing of the result of their final trial. Except this, I know of no in stance recently where there has been any resistance to any officer in the exe cution of a warrant, or in the discharge of his duty. I know of no reason, ex cept what I have stated, for troops being sent to the counties of Gilmer, Fannin, and Pickens. I issue war rants upon the application of a collec tor, his deputies, or his agent, on their subscribing to the prescribed oatb in such cases provided. Only occasional ly have men, when arrested and brought before me, made it known to me that they had not seen their war rants. I never ask any man if he has seen the warrant against him, but have asked them if they knew what they were charged with. I have heard W. L. Goodwin instruct his special deputies never to show any warrants, but tell the men they could see them when they arrived at court in Cartersville. This was done after some warrants had been taken from one of his deputies and destroyed. The usual mode of procedure in my court is, to announce order, ask the parties if they are ready for trial, and then call on the marshal for witnesses in any case on hand. When a case is called, and the witnesses against the party are examined, if there is enough testimony against them, I bind to ap pear before me again at any time they may designate,, when they can bring the witnessses on their sides. But few cases ever appear in this way. 2lmong all the men brought before me recently from Gilmer and Fannin counties, I do not remember now, any man asking to send for witnesses. I know of no way of compromising a ! case except through the proper cham nels at i rit.v . T -.--I AIOAU ft A. II U Mi f |- I | %/ , . wreu to give an official opinion as to the right of an United States official, who is connected with the revenue de partment, to buy or sell stills, without further investigation in regard to the law. I know of no cases of compro mise except those made through the channel before mentioned. I know A. J. Glenn, of Pickens county. I sold him three stilts. Ido not know who hauled them from my place. These stills were sold by the proper revenue officials, after seizure and destruction, as unfit for use, were bought by me, and afterwards sold as above. The reason I try a man before his witnesses have been sent for, is that I would have to hold a number of witnesses at the ex pense of the government, in case I awaited for his to be summoned and appear. I take down the testimony of the government witness in writing. I then, (if said testimony appears to me sufficient to convict,)commit the party tried, with the privilege of giving bond for his appearance at some fixed time when his witnesses will have time to arrive. Statement Ao. 30. YV. L. Goodwin says: “I am a debu ty United States marshal for the nor thern district of Georgia. The cause of the arrest of citizens of this state, recently made in the counties of Fan nin and Gilmer, are, that warrants were placed in my possession, charg ing them with violating the United States revenue laws. The majority of the warrants on which I made, or had arrests made, dated from, or about the term of 1875; September, or the March term of 1870. Most of the ar rests were made in the night time. I had in my possession warrants for about four hundred persons in the counties of Fannin, Gilmer and Pickens before the recent arrests were made About the month of October or November a man by the name of Anglin, sent by me to arrest a man in Murray county, was surprised and wounded. This occur red at or near his own house. I knew nothing of this except from his own statement. In consequence of the foregoing and another act occurring iu Cherokee county, I felt the necessity of calling for troops. Not at any call, however, but on that of Mr. George B. Chamberlin, revenue agent for this | department, were the troops furnished. He notified me to make arrangements to raid that country, as troops would be furnished me to assist in making ar-1 rests and destroying distilleries. I have | at various times visited the houses of j men in Fannin and Gilmer counties, j and did not find them at home iu day- j time. Of my own knowledge, I know ; of no man ever having resisted iu ei ther Fannin, Gilmer or Pickens coun- , ties. My idea as to my authority as ' an officer is that if I have a warrant for a man, and do not have it iu im mediate possession, I have the right to I arrest him. I might at some time I have refused to show a man the war } rant against him when he asked to see | it aud when I had it iu my possession, j My reasons for not doing so are that | the objects of the arrest might bo de i feated by so doing, as I know the wit ! nesses might be run away. I have | never known a case where a man was | arrested, whose case was settled before lie went to trial, or who was not tried on account of said settlement. Myself and Mr. W. It. Whitmore were at the house of Milton Holt in July or August j e found a still near his house. : 4He still was cut up by myself or some one else, and I saw it cut up. I never I sa t v Holt after that time, that I re member of it. I might have done so. L was simply accompanying Blacker and Whitmore at that time. The ueaal way of getting out a warrant is foi, a debuty collector or revenue agent it out on information given. A revenue official has not, to my knowledge, the right to sell a still, ex ce >t it has been condemned or fofeit ed I know A. J. Glenn, of Pickens county; he never had authority from me to say a case could be settled, except through a proper channel: The pro per channel is through the authorities at .Washington city. No one else has ths right to make settlements, to my knowledge. The day after Mr. Go. . wii made the above statement t ne tue following as additional: V*.- ’ln addition to what I have r ,and, I wo.j Id say that in one instance (about September 1, 1876) when returning fro a 1‘ annin and Gilmer counties to Cartersville, I attempted on the way to . .rest a man by the name of Moss. I hud prisoners in my custody at the and was attacked by Jasper Thompson, Pick Bowens, Andrew Bowens and William Fisher. They attempted to wrest the ; ,isoners from prevented me from making the arrest. Statement \<>. 31. George W. Ware s.ys: “I am a dep uty collector for tua 2d district of Georgia. The principal cause of the recent, arrests in the counties of Fan- nin, Gilmer, and Pickens is that par ties-there have violated the United States revenue laws, either by stilling 01 trafficking .n some way in whiskey. went to those counties with the Jfficers charged with executing the rev w.ue laws, before any arrests were They went for the purpose of aiding in making arrests in case of re sists .ce, and to guard prisoners and prop rty. [ do not know on whose ap plies 1 11 they were sent. Except in the Joneb ease, and in the house of Fin dley Gn Fannin county, I know of no other case where any resistance was offend to an officer of the United Stab s. The arrests were principally mad* in the night time. I know of no case of my personal knowledge where a ut was shown to the parties ar rest. !, at the time of arrest, except in the vise of the Suddeths. There may have been more. I know of no wav in whit* a case can be settled after an ar- rest as been made, except through the proper channels in Washington city,by a trial before the proper legai tribunals. lam not an arresting officer My duty is to accompany the mantis and take charge of all the l Jl ' i , ' '■ mu m the h&nds of viola to foj&uWaCj or forfeited to the government. The law by which I am governed in the execution of my duty, requires me when I find beer, mash, wort or mash prepared for distillation on the same premises, to seize the same. In case the property is so situated that it can not be conveniently removed without too great expense to the government, the same may be destroyed on the premises. I was with the party which visited the distillery near Tom Jones’ house , about two weeks after the first visit of the marshals to Frog moun tain. This is about one and a half miles from Ayers Jones’ house. I found a distillery furnace in the house, and Destroyed three barrels of still slop. There were hogs killed there, but not with my consent, or by my authority. I was the only official present who had authority to make seizures of any property on these premises. The parties who killed the hogs are known to me, at least some of them, but until it bhall be necessary I prefer to call no names. I have heard | cursii g and swearing in tho presence I of women and children, by those who | wer) officials of the United States gov | eminent. My opinion as to tlie treat j ment of prisoners after arrest, is that !it was generally as good as the cir j cumstances of the case would admit.” j Next week we shall conclude with the statements of Blacker, Sheridan and Robbie, and the conclusions of the Commissioner. 18 THERE A HOMESTEAD l J. D. Stewart, Esq., who is said to be one of the best lawyers in the State, answers the above question as follows, in a speech to the citizens of Pike couuty: “Tho Supreme Court, by different decisions, have virtually repoaled the home stead. They have decided that the homestead is a mere use; that those already taken are subject to be levied on and sold, that is the revision ary interest. Those who have already taken a homestead are only entitled to it as long as they are the head of a family, consequently an old man when lie is jjo longer able to toil for his liv ing, is liable to be turned out of doors because his children are no longer minors. He clearly demonstrated the partiality of the present homestead. A man who is possessed of three thou sand dollars worth of property can cover the whole of it with a home stead, but a poor fellow who takes the benefit of the law to keep two or three hundred dollars worth of property can never add to it as he works and accu mulates; if he consumes his hundred dollars worth of corn and meat in making corn and meat, his creditors can levy on his new crop and sell it, and he cannot have it included iu his homestead, so if his horse wears out or dies, he cannot take the proceeds of his labor and invest iu another horse, and have him protected under Lie homestead, because be has taken the homestead once and cannot take it ! again, nor supplement it with other property.” The tax bill now before the South Carolina Legislature provides for just half of what the levy was last year. So much for the Democratic adminis tration is that heretofore tax riddeu State. THE SPRING BONNETS. Take a Toscany braid of the yellowest shade, Of sniiable te—Uire and size. With a funnel .-Japed crowu, anil a brim that turns down, To shadow her beautiful eyes, Next with pale yellow silk, like cream upon milk, Just btrid it up tier after tier. Tis so jiisb, they say, in the pew or parquet, To sunt out the view from the rear; Now l. dash tilleul, just to make it look cool, M’yed into the ruche on the face; Th ,J hang on behind, to flpat on the wind, J vo streamers of gold dotted lace. *-v .right jeweled pin, here and there ■ sprinkled in, To garnish the fanciful thing; Next pepper with roses and nondescript posies, And lo ! you’ve a bonnet for Spring. THE LOST CAUSE. Ex-President Davis Makes a Speech lo a Mobile Association. The following remarks were made by the Hon. Jefferson Davis to the Lee Association of Mobile, on the oc casion of the recent excursion to this city: Mr. Chairman and Members of the Lee Association: Ladies and Gentle men—l am deeply sensible of the honor you have conferred upon me by this visit, and gracefully recognize the kindness which bas prompted the com plimentary expressions of your ora tor. Not the less so because I feel that they very far exceed any merits which the unprejudiced would ascribe to me. Believe me, lam the rnoro proud of this, as it is the manifestation of a more rare virtue in the people I have served to the best of my ability. Never before in the history of man has there been, so far as I know, an in stance in which a fallen chief was fol lowed with more affectionate devotion than his associates had felt towards him in the days of his power. For a people capable of such magnanimity, hie would indeed be a tame spirit who did not feel it to be a glory io have suffered. We have passed through a terrible ordeal of deprivation, of wrong and injustice; and you have borne it with a fortitude only equaled by the gal- lantry displayed in your desperate ef fort to maintain a cause which has been crushed, but not destroyed, for it was the cause of truth, which is eternal; and with all these sad memo ries clustering around you, you come, not to upbraid me as responsible for. your disasters, but to shield me in tie) 4gptbs of my adversity with the war% Of your hearts’ best affec ture whicli cficT not find TrUthls a so lace for all its disappointments, and r consolation for its ruined hopes. i From the bottom of my heart*'*, thank you. Though the silver liniug of the cloud be but faintly discernible, yet be not dismayed. But that I need not say to men who never feel any other fear than that of doing wrong. Then let me say rather, ‘Be not with out hope.’ The cause for which yon struggled was that of justice and of truth. The triumphs of these may be postponed, but in the ordering ol Providence must come at last. Your motives must be appreciated, sooner or later, for your sacrifices were made for constitutional liberty; and those who died bravely, though they fell vainly, are not to be reckoned as the most unfortunate; for, whether bear ing a sabre or a musket, whether on the battle field or upon the vessel’s deck, the proper place for man to die is where he dies for man. For the honor of the comrades whose untimely deaths you mourn, for the respect due to the cause you loved, for the pride you feel in your ancestry, for the hopes you cherish for your prosterity, let not your eyes revert constantly to the past; but, confront ing thG present and looking patrioti cally on the future, let your efforts be made to repair what has been injured, and to build again, higher and broader on a more solid foundation, the temple of human liberty, after the model left you by your fathers. You engaged in no war for sectional aggrandizement, you fought no battles for personal advantage; you were prompted by no malice and your knightly escutcheon is tarnished by no sorbid hate or desire for mean re venge. The war left you stripped of all save honor, and your chivalry was as incapable of inflicting wrong as it was of submitting to it tamely. The past demands, then, knightly generos ity and faithful devotion to the princi ples you inherited from revolutionary sires, and which you will best bless mankind by transmitting unchanged to your posterity. Thrice and four times I am thankful for the indications which the day brings to us of the revi val of the spirit in which our Union was founded, from which our prosper ity springs, and upon which its per petuity must surely depend. 1 had not expected to do more than simply to return my thanks to you. It would be in vain for me to attempt to express the gratitude I feel. My cordial thanks are all I have to give, and they are truly yours.—New Orleans Times. In the dim, uncertan twilight of the soft May evening, a distracted figure was seen hastily flitting down the street of an Ohio town in the direction (if the railway station. It slapped a lank and hungry gripsack on the bracket of the window and demanded in husky tones: ‘Ticket!’ ‘Where to? calmly asked the unruffled monopolist behind the win dow. ‘Any where !’ was the frenzied response. ‘Auy where! Clean through! Clean acrost! To Burglary, or Proosy, or the Danube, or Diffendorfer, or any place. Any where out of an ungrate ful country that coldly turns its back upon its deserving children. Any where out of America.’ And ho bowed bis head and wept. He was the only man in Ohio that, didn’t get an office. — Burlington Havvkeye. THE TRIUMPH OF THE SOUTH. The ‘Solid South’ is doubly victori ous. It has not only wrested its rights from the Administration, but com pelled the supporters of that Adminis tration to concede their justice. This moral triumph of the Democracy is very gratifying. It is ample vindica tion of their cause, extorted from their opponents sorely against their will. The position of the Democratic party is the same as that occupied bv the Administration. It was urged last fall t ,at if Mr. Tilden was elected, it would be through the votes of a solid South; and every Southern State would pas* under the control of the ‘Rebels.’ Mr. Tilden was elected. Mr. Hayes stole the office away from him. The Christian public of the North was urged to wink at the crime, on the plea that it was necessary in order to keep ‘the Rebels’ out of power. If that, is so, then there ought to have been no hesitation at resorting to keep ‘the Rebels’ out of power in Louisiana Mr. Hayes is no sooner in position, however, than he takes pains, as the New York Times terms it, to ‘surren der’ the governments of those States into the. hands of ‘the Rebels.’ Nichclls and Hampton were lawfully elected Governors of their respective States. In securing for them an un disputed title, Mr. Hayes did no more than President Tilden would have done. The latter, however, would have been visited with the vilest abuse. Mr. Hayes, indeed, is not' free from the same indecent though more sup pressed clamor. Some of the supporters of the Ad ministration occupy rather narrower ground, in defending its surrender. They place themselves on the ancient Democratic doctrine, that whether Nichoils or Hampton was really elect ed or not, the President of the United States had no power over the matter. This concession of the soundness of the principle which they have de nounced for many years yields the vital issue between the two parties. Mr. Hayes, however, has not acted upon principle. He summoned Hamp ton to Washington, and sent a com mission to Louisiana. He kept the appearance of Federal surprernacy, and turned the governments of the two States over to the lawfully chosen Governors, because rightfully entitled thereto. There is wide difference between the two positions. If Mr. Hayes had withdrawn the Federal troops the first that he ~ c?5.; 0 “Aft lloi.se/ ' cessitv. au i n>. an this suggestion. If both branches of Con gress wete .Republican by decided ma jorities, neither Nicholls nor Hampton would have been recognized. This line of defence is that taken by the masses of the Republican party. They hold as tenaciously as ever to their narrow and vindictive ideas, and they are unquestionably sincere. At the s imc time they see that Hayes is in the hands of hostile Congress, liable to im peachment., and utterly unable to hold Packard and Chamberlain in office. Still, they are not reconciled; for they find Packard contending that if his title —which is as good as that of Hayes—had been recognized, he could have maintained himself without Fed eral troops. Hence, there is a grow ing sentiment in the Republican party that Mr. Hayes ought, to have with drawn the troops ou the sth of March, as he was in duty bound to do, and left tiie States to have settled their own affairs. This is Democracy; this, also, is Republicanism, as now ex pounded by the Republican critics of the Administration. A fourth class of the supporters of Hayes do it, on the ground of policy. These follow the dark lantern of the Whig party rodivivns. They hold it to be necessary to disintegrate the whole of the South, and they think the policy of Hayes will bring it about. Never were men more sadly deluded. The ‘Solid South’ has been compacted, solidified, cemented, by the unjust ex ercise of overwhelming force by the Republican party. Thus held togeth er, and growing stronger and wiser I within, its unity has extorted the con cession of its rights. Its peoples have been knit together under pressure. They have grown into a compact and homogeneous body. They cannot now be disintegrated. They know that divided they fall, and they will not be divided. The policy of Hayes will disinte grate the Republican party North, without dividing the Democratic par ty South. The South never ought to have been compacted together by in justice. It is now too late to divide it except after a long series of years, in which there shall be no unjust oppres sion. As its present unity has been a matter of growth, so its disintegration must, lie a gradual process, it will be slow in believing that justice is to be conceded it hereafter, without ques tion. It, hears Republicans every where, m striving to hold their follow ers at the North, saying that the new policy is only an experiment. While this fail treatment is held to be an ex periment at the North, it will be so re garded at the South, and the latter will therefore remain as “solid.’- — Albany Argus. Josh Billings says, bachelors are al ways bragging over their freedom! freedom to darn their own stockings and poultice their own .shins ! I had rather be a widower once in two years regularly, than tew be a grunting old, hair-dyed bachelor only ninety days. _ 1 —— l • ■ TTwwrir—TTn^rTMrnrTmHifw ~ THE TONb. i. OF SLASHER. There never was anything more vile than the tongue of slander. There are in all communities a class of peo ple who delight in whisperings of some dark story detrimental to the charac ter of others. When these whisper ings are made against men it is bad enough; but when they implicate the reputation of female character—virtu ous womanhood and innocent girlhood —we believe them to be unpardouable sins. Tim man who would breathe aught against the character of an hon est woman or a guileless girl without cause and for the sake of scandal he is destitute of all the impulses of true manhood. There can be no viler trait in one’s character than to to be guilty of so foul a depredations udou societv. NO. 21 The Express will always be found the unflinching champion of female character and defender of the sanci tity of the family circle. It despises the baseness of any one who would in vade the sacred precincts of either. In short, we despise the slanderer as we would a rattlesnake and would not hesitate to treat him as such where we were personally interested. No father, husband, or brother, we are glad to believe, could be prosecuted success fully in this country for taking the life of the slanderer for blighting the reputation of a virtuous daughter, wife or sister. Hell is too good a place for the slanderer of female character. Such a character is as much to be feared as a mad dog in the community, and pow der and lead is the quickest way to get all such out of the way.—Cartersville Express. THE OTHER SIDE OF I HE QUESTION. The New York Express, commenting on the opinions of other journals as to the good effect of an European war on American business propects, looks beyond the immediate to the ultimate results, and says: “But, good sir, there is another side to this question. War means more cost to the consumers for bread and meat to eat at home, bonds to be returned to the United States for payment, a higher interest on gold, less income on foreign imports, war speculations and productions, which oftener end in dis aster than proceed to profit. War undoubtedly mean- business, but un- fortunately it is not the right kind of business. It may break the commer cial stagnation which hangs like a pall over the land and almost over the world. It will substitute soldiers in Russia, Turkey and elsewhere for growers of wheat and producers of other grains. There will be a great slaughter of men and horses, towns burned, cities devastated and all the beauties and glories and consequences of war, but it can hardly be that our national prosperity will depend upon such an aggregation of evds as war. Look on the war picture f inflaticr., speculation and false expectations even at homo, and against it offset the little present gain against the present and ultimate cost., and the balance, even in national profits, will not be much upon our side. 1 ' - o THE PUBLIC PRINTING!. *%r State*prmtiug. It is the q? „ ’ fork of the kind *on record. ief The three volumes are of good W 1 ~ printed and bound in an exctTEU manner, and otherwise capitally got ten up; reflecting much credit upon the State Printer, Mr. James P. Har rison, and the splendid printing and publishing bouse so admirably pre sided over by him. He commenced to deliver the bound copies of the laws on Friday of last week, and by the end of the present, will have delivered fully 500 copies, to gether with all journals, (which have been ready for some time.) This will enable our present efficient State libra rian, Mr. Frank Haralson, to begin the work of forwarding the books to the several counties during the next week, and enable him to complete his duties, in this important respect dur ing the present month.—The Grange. The Detroit Free Press says the con trast, at the present time between the position of the Democratic and the Re publican parties is marked. The former is compact and united. All is harmony and true earnestness. The party feels to-day as keenly as it did at the con clusion of the electoral count that it was tricked and defrauded out of the Presidency. It is fully conscious of its own power, knowing that it has a majority of members in the house of Representatives, and almost in the Smate; that it is in the majority in States having considerably more than half the electoral vote, and that it has only to hold its own to be triumphant in the general election of 1880.— The Republican party, on the other hand, is divided and demoralized through Hayes’ policy, and is only held together by the knowledge of its own weakness and the binding force of office holding attachments. South Carolina now breathes free and easy at the final departure of Chamberlain. Hon. B. H. Hill has been invited to deliver the annual address before the Texas State Association. The people of Augusta are stirred up mightly about the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad. ‘That parrot of mine’s a wonderfnl bird,’ said Smithers; ‘he cries ‘Stop thief so naturall that eyery time I hear it I always stop. What are you all laughing at, anyway?’ The Chief Justice of New Hampshire is a frank sort of person. He has tend ered his resignation to the Governor, ‘m order,’ as he says, ‘to enter upon ! the study of the law.’ A bean panic threatens Boston. The true significance of this impending horror can only be understood by those who in the great Hub, ‘live and move and have their beans.’ Come South where they are plenty. At the outbreak of the panic of 1873, a solid business man down East said: ‘What this country needs is to get back where a thousand dollars will look like a large sum, and twenty-five thousand dollars a comfortable for tune.’ The per.ple are going that way and there is light ahead. the Gr has ts laikught ther wn 9 Mm's at a aa^ tie 1$ ; r U .y