About The Newnan herald. (Newnan, Ga.) 1865-1887 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1867)
0 v —^ fCBLISnED WEEKLY EVERY" SATURDAY KT , ( WOOTTEN, J- A. WELCH. \YOOTTEN& WELCH, Proprietors. VOL. II.] GEORGIA. SATURDAY, AATGrTTST lO, 1SGT [NO -48. wool !TOR. TKRM3 OF srTiSatlPTJON : »y one rear, payable in advance. ?T00 ,y six months....“ “ L'O , t hree mon'hs, “ “ I of six will bo allowed an extra copy, u numbers complete the Volume.) f»««< .«i.«*>3X^aiuyTCM NEW FIRM! EDWARD WILDER'S FAMOUS . Stomach Hitters. KIRBY & JOHNSON j Having formed a co-partnership, are now ( -.fferintr for sal •, at .1. T. Kirby’s Brick Store, j * opposite H. J.’ Sargent’s. Greenville’ street, j their stock of Sarins and Summer Goods, : READ THE FOLLOWING HOME EVIDENCE 1 | of its medicinal virtue and try it in your own which has been bought at the lowest cash family circle: prices and just received, viz: j La Grange, Ga, Jan. 17, 1SG7. I/lilies’ Dress Goods, ! Edward Wilder, Esq.: Calicoes, Muslins, Poplins, Linens, Hosiery, Gloves, Towels and Toweling, v ine assortment of Boots and Shoes for La- I fi dies, Gents and Children, si . . ( intlis Cassimers, Linens, &c., for Gents and , to introduce them into this part of the country, . . ’ I and knowing their properties recommended them j5oys ! highly, feeding assured that neither I nor my (Gnaburgs, 131 cheu amiunbl chert Domestics, j ~ ” Parasols and Umbrellas. From the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel. Notes cn the Situation—No. 13. I have said in all eases of doubtful c< tutionality the Executive Department coul become a court or judge in the matter. Xt can Congress be a court. But it was necc there should be a final arbiter, and, then the Constitution provided a third depart of government called the Judiciary. laws of the United States and treaties, etc Hut here a mm differences have arisen ; confined within it, and, tl ti.:y power nut t :i e i on sum it of reason and settled ant. ligh or low. wl n under these From tire Indianapolis Herald. The Chinaman in California. BY J. S. HESTER. suits for damages as individuals. That every such officer who arrests a citizen before anv bl arising under the Ci was a favorite oue c mill C and pt tjtuticn. committed. And I a rain b the matter tc rs. — ; »re prt Dear Sir : Having used your Bitters extensive- I Iv with my patients for the last three months, I great pleasure in saying that the effect ue- 1 has lA mi obtained in every case. 1 was first ine L she st Court refuse an inc oul l refer t as the final d to do so, insi [(•pendent, sepa te question arbiter, but rolina W; A full and well-selected stock of Hardware Tin and Crockery Ware, At low prices. friends would be disappointed in their effects. Hoping they meet with the success they so richly merit, I am yours very truly, D. II. MOIHUtiON, M. D. OUB ES Cotton Plant, Ark., Dee. 4. 1SC7. i Mr. Edward Wilder: Dear Sir: It is with great pleasure that I say believe the Buttle of your Bitters v> u nave me. i all rubs’ oity. Svved no life j.ln-% e-o •• . 1- \re fresh, and with a full assortment, which kept mo up until I reached home, and from the ,! w iH sell at low figures for i 1 have been improving ever since. My wi has just presented me with a fine buy, and, t show our appreciation ofvonr Bitters, have name the little fellow Edward’Wilder. Yours, very respectfully, E. G. BRADLEY. Cash or Country Produce. We have on hand a fine lot of TOBACCO, SHUFF, and everything usually kept, in a first class re- IT WILL CURE DYSPESIA, LIVER COMPLAINT, ; And all species of tail store. We have Bacon, Lard, Flour, Rice, Sir jar, Codec, Molasses, Syrup, Spices, Ginger, &c. —ALSO— FACTORY YARNS, COTTONADES AND STRIPED DOMESTICS. £ A We will pay the highest price for all Country Produce. Give us a trial and we will make it to your interest, to trade with us. Thankful to old niends and customers for past favors, we hope to see them in again, ami receive a liberal pat- It will cure COST 1 \ ENLSS. It is a mild lounge from all. ,1. T. KIRBY, and delightful invigorant for delicate Females. G. L. JOHNSON, It is a safe Anti-Bilious Alterative and Tonic U. A. JOHNSON, j for family purposes. It is a powerful recuper- | Greenville St., Newnan, Ga. i ant after the tramc has been debilitated and re-1 R. L. HUNTER, Salesman. [May 1-Gm. duced by sickness. It is tin excellent appetizer as well as strengthener to the digestive forces. I j It is desirable alike as a corrective and mild ca- ! THE TOMLINSON, LEM A REST CO. : ]t . is u ' in - usc<1 , atul | , , )v ;! jj p], ViSlcl . mS- as tlie lormula will be hand- Indigestion, Intermitten Pever, and Fever and Ague. And all periodical disorders. It will give im mediate relief in COLIC AND FLUX. 620 Broadway, New York, Have associated with them 3VEX-. ATYT. W. oodar-ULfT, Formerly an Extensive Dealer in Oarria^es and 33uggies, ed to any regular graduate. EDWARD WILDER, Sole Proprietor. EDWARD WILDER & CO., WJldesale IDruggist.-, No. 215 Main Street, Marble Front, JLomsviile, Kentucky. G A. sale wholesale or retail by HEnwi'VJS & fox, CORNER WHITEHALL & ALABAMA STRS. j ATLANTA, October 20-7-12m. | Southern Branch of the National Stove W orks, mST ewY or-lx. AT GlUFE]X AXD ATLANTA, GA. -:o:- L. Y. Sanford, Ij^OR the purpose of supplying Merchants and j C Planters at the South,*bv wholesale or retail, F. M- Richardson, g‘u w%r,;is. e uf °* n ’ i:u?CiS Bu ^ ios ° r riama ' | EIOHARDSOH & SANFGUD, Mr. Woodruff’s long experience in the carriage j business will enable us t o give mitUfaet ion in -up- Wholesale & Retail Dealers plving good, substantial work, such as the ci>uu- SiSS Y4 J in In Sieves, Ho!Sow-ware, Block Tin, hand j | Tin-Plate. .Sheet-Iron & Tinners' Findings, LIGHT CONCORD BUGGIES, |_ n . f ! Lamps, Cutlery & House-fiimisJimg googs. the same as formerly sold by Mr. Woodruff, and ! j e. HuitoTmin Wave which became so universally popular all through : L late Cl cv J-> 1 ItaiYUia \\ ai C , the south, as the best Buggy in use. Key-stone Block, WhitehaH-st., THE "W"OODRTTFF ATLANTA, GA. ! June IS, ’67.- tf. ATLANTA MACHINE WORKS AND I Iron and Brass Foundry. PORTEn c&? IS XT TXjSH, *■ PROPRIETORS. We are prepared to manulacture and repair —SUCH AS— Portable and Stationary Steam Engines and Boilers, Grist and Saw Mill Machinery, Ae. House & Brown’s Horse Power, W right s Pattent Cotton Screw, Gins, pans. Bark Alills. rUATATIOA WAGOAS! For TWO, FOUR and SIX HORSES, can he fur nished by special order. Address all orders to TOMLINSON. DEMAEEST CO.. «3uuc 16-l2m, 620 Broadwav, Xew York. IV. B. AY. DENT, MANUFACTCTER of all kinds of TIN WARE AND DEALER IN S' SST? &>~%T ¥«1 gg kinds ot Country Produce taken iu ex change. 15^“ill duplicate any Atlanta bill given to merchants. f April 27-tf. JN0. C. WHITNSSK’S General Insurance Agency. Fire. Inland, Life & Accident, Insurance Effected and Losses Promptly Paid, Omee at McCamv i Co’s. Drug Store, Franklin Buildings, Alabama Str’t., Atlanta, Ga. Refers to Rev. James Stacy, aud J. J. Pin- e °x, Esq., Xewcan. Georgia. Aug. 11-50-1 v Building Fronts, Iron Railing, Sugar Mills and Boilers. Pipes, Pulleys Car tYheels and Railroad Castings of every description. gTYCasfings made without extra charge for patterns when in regular line of work. g'WNurs Fe-Tooi/ird and Gummed in the best manner. terms cash. JAS. H. PORTER, i Old Stand of J. L. Dunning, R. H. BUTLER, ) ^ May lS-6m. ATLANTA. GA. Everybody take Notice!! Marble Head Stones furnished for Soldiers' t Graves—size, 2 feet by 10 inches, with inscrip- j tion—in any quantity, at $3.50. by S.B. OATMAN. Ae’t of WM. GRAY, Atlanta. Ga. 1 sovereignty, outanie of the express powers granted to Concress—j that this was apolitical question, affecting her j separate soverignty, and that she would not permit any other power to sit in judgment upon questions involving her sovereignly; that i in this respect South Carolina stood to the C. : States as she did to France or England. It was supposed that the peculiar doctrines • of State Rights had been decided by the war ! against the position taken by South Carolina, j and that hereafter the Supreme Court would j become, what the old Union men always con- ’ tended it was intended to be—the final arbiter upon all questions arising under the Ccustitu- ! lion, so as to leave no excuse or necessity tor an appeal to arms to settle controveisiea be tween the General Government and the States. ! G< orgia and Mississippi were the first to act ’ on the new idea. They did what Sou'll Caro- j lina refused to do. They applied to the Su- | preme Court (in, 1 think, a proper case made) ! to enjoin the enforcement of bills palpably j unconstitutional—admitted to be so—in their borders. The reply was. the question mad* i.s a political question, and not a judicial ease. The j Supreme Court refused to entertain the juris- j diction, aud thus simply affirmed what was j called the ultra State Rights doctrine of South Carolina. I am glad the question was presen ted. I am especially glad they were presented ! by Southern States, showing a disposition 1 thereby to abide the decision claimed to have ; been made by the war, and to recognize an \ arbiter of future disputes short of arms. These decisions, therefore, so far i’rom show-1 ing there is no remedy against these Military ! Bills, show clearly the reverse. They proceed ! on the very basis that the States are still sep- | arate political communities, and as such it j necessaiily follows that their internal domestic : governments cannot be abrogated, regulftted, ! or interfered with by Congress? Hence the ! way is clear for every State, citizen and corpo- i ration to make a case and test the Military ! Bills, w hen any person, by their authority, j shall interfere with a right of property, or of i person, or of liberty. I, therefore, beg every citizen, black and white, j even the humblest of the ten millions who j inhabit these ten States, to remember—never ’ to forget—that it is his right—his glorious, i unpunishable, unimpeachable right—to resist i every interference, by any officer, high or low, ! with his property, or his person, or his liberty, i under these Military Bills: and that each citi- j zeu owes it to every other citizen and to his [ State, and to posterity,: and to constitutional j liberty, to assert the right boldly and fearlessly against every such interference, Nor have ! military officers in such cases one particle I more protection from such resistance than civil j officers. The law is superior to all—is master i of all; and the strength, the majesty and the merit of the law make the citizen’s panoply in this issue. Hear what a distinguished Ameri- , can writer says on this subject: “It is now' settled in England and the Uni ted States that an officer of the forces who j executes an unlawful order remains personally ; answerable. If the highest in command, the j British monarch himself, order, contrary to : law an officer to quarter his soldiers upon the ! citizens to annoy and oppress them, as Charles ; I. did, the officer" remains responsible, in the : fullest sense of the term, to the law of the ‘ land. All that has teen gained by U !e ardu- . cus and protracted struggle w hich began to J •liy under Charles I., e few words, tl at the I law shall he superior to all and every one and every branch of government; that there is no- where a mysterious, supreme and unattainable | power, which, despite of the clearest law, may j still dispense with it or arrest its course. This is the- sum total of modern civil libertv—the great, firm and solid common’s liberty/’ Our Constitution—our supreme law, which no Congress, no President, nor other earthly power, can violate or authorize to be violated with impunity—is our ruler, our only ruler, and all the highest office holders, civil and : military, are but its servants, and bound, un der penalties, to obey its commands. Our Constitution declares— *• The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases j of rebellion or invasion the public safety mav require it.” ■•No bill of attainder or expost facto law shall be passed.” *• The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury. " “ No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quar- ; tered iu any house without the consent of the owner.” •• Congress shall make no law abridging the j freedom of speech or of the press. " Xo citizen •• shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamGus crime, unless on j a presentment or indictment of a grand jury.” ••Xo warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation.'” These are the commands of the only impe- . rial power in America—the Constitution.-^- j Thcv are so plain that a wayfaring man. the a fool, cannot err in reading them. They' cover e very State, and territory, and province. . and foot of soil over which the jurisdiction of, the United States can possibly go. Yet every ; one of these positive commands, and others ; besides, are violated and ordered to be violated by these Military Bills. They are. therefore. 1 assaults—unmistakable, traitorous assaults— upon the Constitution: and every man. woman or child, or officer, civil or military, in the I. : States who votes for these bills, or approves them, or accepts them, or executes them, or passively submits to them, is an enemy of the Constitution and an enemy of every citizen whose rights are protected by the Constitution. I care not what excuses are made, nor what . pretences are whined out about the power of Congress and the progressive radical party.— Such pretences only show cowardice or the treasonable intent in those who use them.— The only way to crush the Radical prrty is to bring down upon it that power which is great er than the Radical party—the Constitution.— If the President is a slave and bouud to exe cute the orders of traitors, the people are free men aud entitled to resist. The only question, and, therefore, the only danger, is, have they the courage to resist? A freeman should know no master but the law, and bend the i War up. a Him—His Religion—His Theatricals —His Chief Occupation -His Ordinary Habits 1 —His costume—The China Woman—Her Hal its—Use of Opium—BusinYss Habits ot the Race—Carious Names—Merchants—ine t, State or Federal, having ju- j Race adapted to Libor in Tropical Prodac- ..„ .i . tions. A curious feature of California population— fact of all the tuiuinz districts > l toe Pacific clos ay in the track ot dts ov. ry« t prt a ms me tals V ' . 1 '•/- zona, as well in California. When he first came to the country he was met with preju dices against him. so stubborn as, at one time, to threaten his expulsion. Mobs were incited persecutions were carried t > the exlravgant lcii-itii of a State law to prohibit his coming to the Stite, which failed of its object, Ir-eause ot of want of constitutional power to execute prevented by the sickly, iil'lll. it!/ wer whi law. t for a ling \u how itself most sigi nay be summed up in self uneonstituticnai. ir not violate law cannot annul or i processes, or . erne iies and penalties < Sue iu damages for every injury ; every crime. Be suie and include ti treasury agents who were lately sic county where the injury was or may be done, or the crime was or may he committed,— Whether defendants are present or absent, get the true bills. Don't let :he lapse of time bar you. Whenever you see me at court, under stand I will aid you wi:hout fee cr reward.— The written Constitution L my client, and the preservation of its protection the only fee i sh ell ask. The time for tiie law’s triumph over passion will one day come. If our peo ple will now, everywhere, assert these rights, nut by again abandoning the Constitution, but by claiming its remedies, that time will come quickly; aud then we shall demand the crim inals wherever found and they will he deliv ered. If the President himself should commit murder in the manner I have indicated, l do not hesitate to say that I would urge a true hill against him and demand him for trial when Lis term has expired. We owe it to ourselves, to our children, to free institutions, to teach all, however high or low, who t.ike advantage of degenerate times like these, to violate the great guaranties of the law, aud trample on the rights of the citizen, that whenever the political spasm is over they' can find no hiding place from the law's avenger, nor take shelter from its penalties anywhere iu the jurisdiction of the Constitution. Let this generation teach this lesson new, and teach it faithfully and well, and we shall have no more returns of such periods of sor row and crime for us or for our children, if we uo not teach this lessen, then sorrow and crime will increase their coming and prolong their stay, because rogues will steal; tyrants will oppress; little officers “ will cut fantastic tricks ;” and traitors will use fraud and force to perpetuate their power, just as often and lung as they think they can do so with im punity. I also earnestly hope the people of each of the ten -Stateu will L.’dly for ward, and pre serve and continue their existing State govern ments, and hold all elections in the manner and at the time prescribed by existing State constitution and laws, and by votes qualified by existing State constitution and laws. If any citizen or officer shall be interfered with in exercising his rights under these laws, or in discharging the duties of any office to which he may be chosen, let him make the issue fear lessly.' I would have them continue this until, and even after, pretended constitutions may be formed by deluded negroes and their designing inferiors under these Military Bills; and if an attempt were made to displace existing consti tutions and governments by pretended consti- t-L lions so formed and officers chosen thereun der, I would inuict every officer so attempting to subvert existing legal State governments, and 1 would then have our Governors or the Legislatures (if in session) make application to the Bresideut under the Constitution, to protect existing State governments “ against domestic violence,” and thus compel the Pres ident to decide whether he is bound to displace by force v. liat he admits to he legal State con stitutions and governments for those lie admits to he illegal, unconstitutional and tyrannical. I will add two important considerations why our people should thus resist and net or con sent to these usurpations: In the first place, if we once allow these new governments to become legally fixed on us by our consent we can never get rid ot them. The power will be in the hands of those who make aud administer them; aud. though de stroy, as they will, they will hold on to their iniyuitv. It will also require three-fourths.o: the States to concur iu the adoption of the odious Constitutional amendment, but it adopt ed it will then require three-lourths oi the States to get rid of it. But. in the second place, if, as is clear, tuese bills are so grossly unconstitutional, then t.iey can never be legally e-Ublisheu if we continue to resist them. Let ns commence cases now, and continue cases as fast and as often as they arrive, and if', even after these military con'ti- tutions are framed and organized, aud have oppressed unwillingly people for years, the court finally decide'the acts authorizing them to be unconstitutional, then, unlike a case ot onus between belligerents, everything done under them will be declared v oid- the wicked governments will be displaced, every man who has administered them will be a criminal, and our existing skate constitutions restored to us. Then will patriots meet again at Lashing- ton and at every State capital, and, gathering the records of tuese Radical traitors .-.nu ot a:l their State subordinates together, will Ju, a; our fathers in Georgia did when corruption had usurped power and soiled our honor as a people once before—we will catch fire fiuin Heaven and burn them up. If, then, we yield now, our remedies are gone and we are coi quered forever: but it we refuse to yield, our remedies will contmuo. at,d we can never be conquered. I) •spite this war up< diition continu-'d j it numbers at lea ity with which tl’ esti••< and laborers ts that thcv are gr n the race, the China teadjly t incres . and -t fifty thousand. The v get employment as on farms and elsewhere into fa- A Noble Woman.—A h-tter from Mexico says: Colonel Miguel Lopez, the traitor, after selling Maximilian and his Generals, went to Puebla to visit his wife. His reception was decidedly cold. His wife advanced to meet him. leading their little son l»v the hand, and addressed him thus: •'Sir, here is your son : we cannot cut him in two, take him. You are a base coward and traitor. You have betrayed, your country and 3’our benefactor. From this hour we are stran gers. for I shall this day retire to my family.— Go.” Tnr. Mexican Tiger.—One who has often seen Gen. Juarez describes him as about sixty years old, under the middle size, and inclined to tn- \ rcp-Ard. He has the color of an Italian, and. like the people of the Zapotic tribe, has a small forehead, high cheek bones, a broad and bent nose, large and beautiful teeth, bluett, small and lively eyes, and long Llaelt hair just tinged with grev. His voice is soft, sonorous and mournful, hut he is tond of garnishing his con versation with anecdotes and jokes, after the fashion of the lute lamented.” Many of them have donne 1 the costume < f i the whites; hut few of them have laid aside the habits and customs of the race. The per- i tinnedty with which they ding to them amidst surroundings exposing their folly, is the strong- i er when their habits of reflection are consider- I ed. Their religion—an intermixture of ridic- | ulous idolatry and a tolerably refined philoso phy—their puerile and nonsensical rites and i ceremonies, national anil religious festivals; their customs in social life, so at variance with those of any other people, and so well ! calculated, in the main to excite the contempt | of the mining population with whom they ! mingle; they cling to with a zeal halting at ! no obstacle. Their music—discord itself re sembling no known s und agreeable ‘‘to ears polite”—they prefer to any other, though sur rounded with, and in hearing of the sweetest strains from the ‘-masters.” The popping of file-crackers is as exhilarating to them as a national salute from twenty-four pounders to i a European or American soldier or sailor. In j theatrical performances they regard themselves I adepts, Often, as many a* twenty nights are j required to complete one play. The chief fea- i ture is the buckets full of blood spilled. They have an especial dread of evil spirits ; • and, to frighten them away, little lighted ta- | pers are stack about their houses, and iire- ! crackers set off and gongs sounded. Their chief occupations, outside of mining, i are as cooks and laundrymen. Iu these pur- i suits they are adepts, after a style peculiar to ; themselves. “Sprinkling” is per.ormed by ! blowing the water from their mouths At all ! hours of the day, they may be seen carrying I clothes through the streets of the larger towns i and cities, in baskets suspended from the ends of a pole slung across their shoulders. These ; baskets are quite as large as those in which die Merry \Y lves of Windsor bid Fir John, the ! fat and amorous knight. Thus ladened these ! Chinamen move along with a gait like that cf : a pacing cow. In variety of dishes they excel all other na- | tions. Their favorite one seems to be “chow ' chow,” an ollapotrida of all sorts of meat put : up in air tight earthen jars in China, and thence j brought to California. The smell emitted from ! from one of these jars on being freshly opened ! is exceedingly offensive. How much puppy i and rat and mouse enter in the composition j they alone know. Everybody has heard of ! their bird's nest soup ; and, of course, it is con- j sidered intensely nauseous. Yet, notwithstand ing its peculiar flavor and nutritions qualities ! are derived from disgusting sources, it is pro- i nounced excellent by Anglo Saxon epicures. In confectioneries they excel, but are deflpi- | ent in pastry. Some of their freaks in the culinary line are not very good appetizers. It is said that they ! have a haoit of spitting in their cooking uten ! siis to see if they are hot enough for their pur- ! pose. How many other eccentricities they i may carry into their business' we can only guess. The disclosure of the kitchen secrets of | even our own “first class” hotels would be illy ; calculated to provoke an appetite. No people are more industrious. They are j patient frugal and economical. Many o‘ them 1 arc now working over the “tailings” thrown I out years ago by miners and making fair wages. Tfiey live on much less than any other labor ! ers iu the country, rice constituting their chief i diet. The cue, known in California parlance as ; the -pigtail,” the true Chinaman clings to with I the tenacity of a Turk to his beard, or a bash- ! aw to his tails. These appendages are often j artificial. To cultivating the natural, he e:r i pends ranch care, cutting close all his ha I not necessary in the desired product, which he i suffers to grow ad libitum, plaiting when long j enough. This tail piece offers great tempta- 1 tion to Young America, who seldom allows an ; opportunity to pass by without taking atuy at Their women, in European costume, “cut a ! ridiculous figure. 'J hey are low in stature, and ’ with hoops on. swell like toads. To which, ! add their stumbling walk occasioned by their : senseless jfractice of compressng their feet, when children, into mere stumps, and a more ludicrous specimen of femininity can scarcely I be conceived. A handsome China woman is rarely found i on the Pacific slope.- Perhaps they have re tained their beauties for home consumption.— The manner in which their eyes are set in their heads—obliquely pointing downward toward i their nose—their corpse-like complexion, high I eheek bones and flat noses, forbid the idea ot i beauty. The color of their eyes, and their shape*too, like an almond—if in a different phvsi zn -my, might be passable; but when stuck in the* head la the Mongolian style, they are ever reminding one ot a monkey. I hey tie their hair so tight, on tnetop. ol their heads that their eves Seem as it starting Irom their sockets, 'incir flesh is soft and dropsical, and their skins glisten as if varnished. They lack that elasticity of movement constituting one of the chief attractions of Tahiti and the Sand wich Islands. They paint their cheeks and lips ouite as skiiliullv as do tae fading beauties oi tne white race. In social intercourse, they manitcot little more than the sharpened instinct of a trained inoiikev, to whose head, theirs, in general outline bear a close resemblance. I had occasion to frequently observe the movements- of a bevy of these "celestial nymphs” from a piazza of an office, where my business calls me in a mining town. For my lile. I couldu t help thinking of the probable truth ot that qutei account of the origin of the human family giv en by a quaint old philosopher, who assserted that man s progenitor was r. monkey who lost his tail bv rubbing it off on an ottei slide. In brutal Just and indiscriminate indulgence China women are without rivals. There is no concealment, no assumed modesty, nothing in dicating a higher estate from which, in an evil hour they had been driven. I he vice puts on a naive air—natural, unrestrained—in no man ner fashioned or curbed by fortuitous circum stances. It accosts one as unceremoniously up on a public thoroughfare as in a bed chamber, inviting to ita loathsome contact with a scale of prices defying competion. Tne use of opium is almost universal among the Chinese oF the Pacific coast. Large quan tities of the drug are imported for their benefit. I heir houses and their persons stink with it. Its effects are visible in the cadaverous visage and vacant eye. In business matters the Chinaman is an expert : a close calculator, shrewd in all the ‘ tricks of trade.' He calculates with little balls which lie handles with great rapidity. Everybody knows that his language is written perpendicularly, but few appreciate how strange the contrast when one sees both scattered about protniscu- | ouslv on signs, the European one way and the 1 Chinese the other. .Sling seems a favorite patronimic with them. 1 have seen the whole family Joe Sling. Jim | Sling, Samtjliug, Sli. Sling—except gin sling [ represented in various tawdry signs. Though patience and docility are character- i isties ot the Chinaman, when aroused by extra- I ordinary causes he is a ferocious savage, rev- i era* ve.irs ago at ban Jose, a t hinauum wanted to nuntv aCnina girl, whoso Lather reiuseil his \ consent; thereupon he announced his intution ; publicly to kill father, mother and girl, and i nroposed to another of his countrymen to steal, the old man s clothes while he was committing : the murder. Y-ing to the house where the; girl liva 1 with her parents, he demanded her again ot her father, when he was again refused. [ Immediately rushing upon the father stabbed ! ami killed him. then killed the mother, and j then mortally wounded anotheer Chinaman j who came into the house, attracted by the cries of the victims. The girl succeeded in making, her escape. j Tiieie is said to be a secret society among them, one of the penalties for violating the laws of w hich is death. Tliis penalty is often i visited upon its members in secret in Califor- 1 n fit- suicides are common among them. Death diseburgt s ail debts, and they avail themselves ! of that mode of payment more frequently than : any otner people. • The difficulty of learning the Chinese lan- ! guaae rondei > u nearly mipractiblc to get com- , potent interpreters. There are but two or three j j in the State. In lawsuits where they are con- j eerned, tne usual res a t is a Chinaman who has | a smattering of English. < *i course, through | such a medium, the iruth is imperfectly known. | There seems to be no sound of a letter iu their I : ian-ui igc like tli it of “It” in the English The | anal- ‘u as sou.i i is “ L. ’ lienee tuey say in : 1 speaking o’ Americans, “Mclicans.” Th-- Aborigines of the country manifest a i strong repugnance to Chinamen. The path nt, j ■ non-re.-i.-tant spirit ol the “celestials the red | man regards as cowardice. This feeling finds j ! its out cr >ppiugs in murderous assaults upon I Chinamen upon every convenient occasion. Their thrift and rigid economy are seen in j their picking up from street garbage many lit- | tie cast away articles, which they fashion into j various contrivances paiute 1 a la China ; and [ probably sell to the original owners at hand some prices. There are many peddlers, many of them tra- i verse the country w ith various useful and or- j namental articles of Chinese manufacture, | which they sell at reasonable figures. The merchants belong to a higher caste, and do not associate upon terms of equality with j the laborer. The former are polite, intelligent [ and thoroughly conversant with passing events I and commercial usages. | A care*ul study ot the habits of these people ! satisties me that t hey may he made available j as a substitute for negroes in cultivating cot- | ion, rice and other tropical products. They are far superior in intelligence, more honest, trustworthy and industrious. Their habits oi diet are peculiarly adopted to a southern cli mate. Their labor can be procured cheaper than slave labor ever was, by proper arrange ment with the companies who have successful ly brought them to California. At all eveuts the scarcity of labor iu the Southern States, the adaptation of Chinamen to this soil,climate and productions would justify the experiment of that kind of industry, and I have no doubt it would prove successful. “Second Sober Thoughts.”—The New York Commercial Advertiser says; Reflecting people begin to lift their eyes and thoughts a little ! above the horizon of Military Reconstruction I Law, discussing, in the future, what may prove I anything but benetici.il to those who are cast- I ing the responsibilities of Government upon a j class just redeemed from two centuries of slav- j cry The Springfield Republican indulges in j some reflections as follows: The prospect that at tLe first election under I the reconstruction acts the Southern States will I be carried by the Republicans is in itself grati- S tying. By the way in which tliis is to happen gives to thoughtful men some anxieties for the i future. The foresight that the negro vote is j to control everything is not having a favorable I influence upon the white men of the South, I and we cannot forget that the whites consti- | tute two-thirds ol the population of the States ' that are to be surrendered to the control ot a I mass of ignorant blacks, and that these white j men must inevitably become the dominant i class very soon, whatever happens this year. A majority of the whites will not attempt to ! register, or are excluded it they attempt, and j of those registering it is thought that a major ill vote against reconstruction under the Rates of Advertising. Advertisements inserted at $1.50 per squaie (often lines or space equivalent,) for first inser tion, aud To cents tor each subsequent in sertion. Monthly or semi-monthly advertisements inserted at the same rates as for new advertise ments, each insertion. Liberal arrangements will be made with those advertising by the quaiter or year. All transient advertisrnents must be paid for when handed in. The money for advortiseing due after tho fir-it insertion. SCHEDULE OF THE A. & W. P. R. R, L. B. GRANT, Superintendent. Leave Atlanta - - - Arrive at Newnan - Arrive at West Point Leave West Point - - Arrive at Newnan- - Arrive at Atlanta - - 7 00 A M. 9 20 “ 12 A. M 12 10 p m 3 20 “ 5 30 “ GEORGIA HAIL ROAD. E. YY. COLE. Superintendent- DAY PASSENGER TRAIN'. Leave Atlanta 5.15 Arrive at Augusta 6.00 Leave Augusta 6.30 Arrive at Atlanta 6.00 NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Atlanta 6.20 Arrive at Augusta 3.15 Leave Augusta 8.00 Arrive at Atlanta 5,00 P. M. A. M. P. M. P. M. A. M. P. M. A. M. POWELL & STALLINGS, Attornoys at Xj a w , NEWNAN, GA., \\T ILL practice in the several Courts of Law YY and Equity in the Tallapoosa and Cow eta Circuits, and in the United States District Court for the State of Georgia. Special attention given to the compromising and collecting of Old Claims, and Administra tion, Conveyancing, *vc. All business entrusted to them will receive prompt and faithful attention. JOHN W. POWELL, J. E. STALLINGS. Newnan, Ga. Senoia, Ga. March 9-12m. TENNESSEE ass, mm15 11 NOT A CASE OF CHILLS BfJT IS CURED By Hutchins & Warner’s Ague Pills. CURED FOR $1. A PURELY t VEGeLvW PILL. Warranted to cure, or money refunded! S nt hv mail to any address for One Dollar! Address HUTCHINS & WARNER, Winchester, Tennessee. jfe“We send to the editor of each paper in which tlys advertisement appears two boxes of these Pills, to be given to any one who has chills, ami we will risk, his testimony. May 25-3m. H. & W. OTTs.iE3A.rE7 souniEiirj CROCKERY EMPORIUM! McBride, Dorset! & Co., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS, ATLANTA, GA. r i «y The blacks, and small i Congressional plan, ; fraction of the whites will do all the voting and j reconstructing, and have possession ol tae 8tate i machinery under the new government. But ! it will be good enough tor the Obstructionists, ! indeed, but how io it coming out ? \\ e know j what the Kunnicutts aud other leaders ot the j nt n rocs have threatened, and what hopes and i purposes they have raised among their credu lous followers. Shall we see Browulow despo- i tism and anarchy extended over the entire ! >juth for tiie next ten years, and order pre- j served only by keeping the eight millions of ! whites quiet under the rule of four millions of • negroes bv stress ol Federal bayonets t CHINA, BLASS-WARE —AND— TIME MiTIfifl Prices as low as they can be had ill this Country, TORTS! OR SOUTH. • Lieut. Braise.—'The Macon Talegraph of f August 1st publishes a long account ot the ca reer and imprisonment of Lieut. Jno. C. Braine ! late of the Confederate navy. Lieut Braine j was one of the most gallant spirits oi the late j war. His record was pure and above reproach. ! ]*j s brilliant exploits won tor him the admi ration of nis enemies; yet notwithstanding j the amnesty granted to him in common with ! other officers, he still languishes in Kings County Penitentiary. Brooklyn, N. Y. Those who will read the article prepared by himself ! for the Memphis Bulletin, and those of Savan- ^ j,■ jb who know the man will not fail to respond ! to the following : “I have been a prisoner since the 15th of September, ISbfi, and not one of my Southern i countrvmen have called to see me. I cannot think that it-is their intention to desert me; though I must say it looks very much like re. I am perfectly destitute of money and clothing • and have no means at my. command to pay counsel lees. By puoiismng this, sir, you wili j oblige oue who has tried to do his duty to his •j country. I remain very respectmliy yours, i John C. Braine, Lt. Coin’g C. S. N. Iv. ’B ciiisa&K FRUIT JAR, Cheapest, best and simplest li the World! luuKIHG-GLASSES, CLOCK;- —AND— CUTLERY* Rain and Caterpillars.—We are now hav ing any quantity ol rain—almost every day a ! pine-knot flouting, soil-moving deluge, and the j fodder-pulling season being now upon us, much j of this very necessary article of horse feed must j be lost or damaged badly. \Ve learn that the caterpillar, that terrible ' scourge of the cotton interest, has made its ap pearance in our county, and it is feared will do great irjury to the growing crop. It is to be , hoped the fear will not be realized, as it would j bring much destitution with it.—Bainbridge \ Gearaiati. j Agents for the EXPEDIENT McBride, dorsett & co. April 6-12m. CHURN,
