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NEWNAN, GEORGIA.
race. Thus: six male3 are under sentence for
rape, and ail the six are negroes, seven are
Friday Kerning, October 2,1868.
remain mnte when brought before tbe
corom»&&ioners a second time. The sit-
under sentence for arson, and all of them are : tings were usually at Dight, in a spendid-
negroes. It would appear from these facts j ly lighted apartment, with refreshments
that the negro is moved to the commission of j of all kinds temptingly displayed on the
crime by his vilest and most
Letter of Mr. J. Q. Adams Accepting inclination of the Republicans in Con-; work of which human nature is capable
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the Democratic nomination for G?T- gress to allow it to undergo the scrutiny —the highest production she can boast, j ry i A . m _
of the Supreme Court, would seem to cow-! And let it be borne m mind by the young IlCBQ Qll3rt6rS Kikbt-
ernor.
, firm the reported statement of the lament-! working man just entering upon the stage
Quincy, Monday, Sept. 14, 1868. ed Mr. Stevens, “that only two d—d fools j of active life—let it ever lie at the found
ry tt7 r» _ o •]I,, iurt" hpiipvpd the Reconstruction i at inn and be the moving spring of his ef-
diabolical pas- j side tables. The president would usually ! Hon. Henry IP. Paine. President of the j in the party believed the Reconstruction j ation and be the movin
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FOR PRESIDEST.
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
Of New York,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
FRANCIS P. BLAIR,
Of Missouri.
STATE ELECTORAL TICKET.
FOB THE STATE AT LARGE.
Ge«. JOHN B. GORDON, of Fulton.
Hon. JOHN T. CLARKE, of Randolph.
FOB THE DISTRICTS.
1. JOHN C. NICHOLS, of Pierce.
2. Col. CHARLES T. GOODE, of Sumter.
8. RAPHAEL J. MOSES, of Muscogee.
4. AUGUSTUS 0. BACON, of Bibb.
6. Maj. J. B. GUMMING, of Richmond.
0. U. P. BELL, of Forsyth.
7. Col. JAMES D. WADDELL, of Cobb.
he would
sions. It is likewise manifest that the blacks be most gracious. Ry and-by,
commit more than twice as many crimes as the pa y> “ we W1 ^ ifyOuRke, ask you fo have
whiteg something to drink with us.” Tbe fever
t ] ie ’ and vertigo caused the prisoners to lose
nest ten rears at the same ratio ibeVb.™ for : their reason, anti the, generally yielded
Hunger would not have brought about
Again, if the convicts increase during
•xt ten years at the same ratio tl
the last two years, their number will be over
one thousand. The people of Georgia cannot
support such a vast congregation of thieves
and villains, unless tbe action of the Principal
Keeper in hiring them is continued.
the same result as thirst, which loosens
the tongue even far more readily than
1 drunkeuess does.
JOB EBPBESENTATIVE OF THE THIRD CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT,
HUGH BUCHANAN,
Of Coweta,
Iff 5 Hon. George H. Pendleton advises the
Texas Democracy to vote for President.
flTThe National Republican, of Augusta,
confesses itself “ ashamed of the loyal Legis
lature of South Carolina. Indeed, and in truth,
has the time come, when the loyalists of Geor
gia are ashamed of South Carolina loyalists ?
We thought we had a very had type of Radi
calism in this State, hut it seems that our sis
ter State has a far worse one. God pity South
Carolina.
Georgia’s Credit.
Efforts to borrow money on the credit of the
State of Georgia has been replied to as fol
lows :
Nr.w York, September 16.
Bank Cashier, Atlanta, Ga.:
The negotiation proposed is one that, in hap
pier and calmer times, we should have been
glad to have entertained ; but in the present
state of things, political and commercial, our
Board is adverse to taking risks out of the pale
of ordinary •mercantile transactions.
[Signed.] J. L. Worth, Cashier
National Park Bank.
This brief note tells us of Georgia’s shame.
The time, yes, the time was when this noble
Commonwealth was ruled by white men, her
true, native and adopted sons, that her credit
was good—above par, but now, under Radical
reconstruction, under a Radical, yankee Gov
ernor, under the threatened lule of the negro,
Bhe has no credit! Why is this true ? Because
capitalists know that such rulers will bankrupt
her people, and render them unable to pay the
debts of the State,
Ye men, who told the voters of Georgia, vote
for reconstruction, and the credit of the State
would be good ; many immigrants would pour
into our borders, and the blessed days of the
past would be upon us again ; where’s the pro
mised credit?—where are the immigrants?—
where is the capital ? Shame upon you, be
cause of this practiced deception. Look at
Georgia under the reconstruction you urged !
It is the first time, in the history of the State,
that she failed, on application, to borrow money,
and Georgians know it is likewise the first time
6he ever had a Radical Governor or Senate.
Let Them Howl!
Cast the Beam out of Your own Eyes.
The hypocritical Northern Radicals never wea
ry in declaiming against Southern lawlessness
and Southern disregard of private rights, and
Southern riots. To hear them talk, might cause
the belief that they were saiuts, who had nev
er done a wrong, committed a trespass upon
private rights, or engaged in a riot. Oh I no,
they deprecate such things so much that you
might think they had never gutted newspaper
offices, arrested their neighbors without war
rant or authority, and exiled them from their
homes—that they had never denied public
journals of opposite politics, transmission by
mail, that they had nevtr hung men and wo
men by drumhead Courts-martial, and trans
ported free American citizens to isles in the
Mexican Gulf, and put them to the torture at
pleasure, that they had never insulted promi
nent men of opposing political views. Yes,
of all of thesd things you might, from their
talk, think them innocent, if you did not know
they were guilty of their commission.
The reader, during the years of the war,
well remember that Radical mobs destroyed
over sixty Democratic newspaper offices ; that
their party arrested Mr. Vallandingham at his
own home, and without lawful authority, and
in violation of his Constitutional rights exiled
him; that the fearless leaders of this sarofe par
ty were then, and are to this hour, insulted
wherever it could or can be done with impu
nity ; that Mrs. Surratt, and others, were hung
without a legal trial: that Mudd, Spangler and
others, were likewise transported to the Dry
Tortuga?, put to menial labor and tortured at
the will of an irresponsible military officer;
yea, that in Georgia, in the year 1868, by the
order and command of General George G.
Meade, a Radical, white men and black men
were arrested without warrant, imprisoned
without warrant, confined in sweat-boxes and
suffocating cells without warrant—many of
them placed on trial without warrant, subjected
to insults and indignities without warrant. Ah,
all of these things, and many more like black
offenses and crimes, do our readers rememberto
have been perpetrated by this hypocritical par
ty. Yet, in the face of day, in the presence of
man and God, this same party covered all with
blood and wrongs, ha3 the effrontry to stand
up and taunt the white people of the South
with lawlessness. Was there ever before an
exhibition of such impudence?
But, perhaps it may be right to rob, exile
and murder white men, but nil wrong for the
white men of the South to shoot or kill negroes
in defense of the lives of themselves and wives.
It may have come to this, that the Christian
(?) North glories in sheddiugthe blood of their
neighbors, but think it criminal to slay a bru
tal, assaulting African. If it is so, we cannot
change it, but can and do despise such villainy,
and advise these canting sconndrels to remove
the beams from their own eyes before they at
tempt to pluck the mote from our eyes.
Special Dispatch to the Louisville Democrat.
The Greatest Political Demonstration
of the Campaign!
Indianapolis Ablaze with Democratic
Enthusiasm!
ONE HUNDRERD THOUSAND PATRIOTS IN
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COUNCIL.
Indianapolis, Sept. 23.
The great Democratic demonstration to
day in Indianapolis eclipsed anything of
the kind ever witnessed in the United
States. One hundred thousand persons
are in the city. The procession was
twenty miles in length. Twelve thousand
and sixty men reported themselves for du
ty as late as 5 o’clock, having arrived too
late to join the procession.
The torchlight procession to-night is
the grandest sight ever witnessed in the
State. Gen. F. P. Blair and Hon. George
II. Pendleton spoke to day. Not one of
ten of the vast audience could approach
the speaker’s stand in sufficient distance
to hear the remarks of the speakers. The
greatest enthusiasm prevailed during the
speaking. The State House square was
filled to its utmost capacity. It is estimat
ed that on Washington street thousands
of people were moving continually from
2 to 6 o’clock.
What right have the New England Puritans
to interfere in the affairs of Georgia and her
Southern sisters ? If the white citizens of these
States do without warrant or law, without right
or justice, without provocation or insult, kill,
yea, murder in cold blood, if you please, a few
or many negroes, what right have these canting,
intermeddling Puritans to say a word about it ?
Who gave them any right to howl over our mis
doings ? Who made them responsible for our
sins? Who informed them that conferring suf
frage upon the blacks would cause these mur
ders (we place the case in its strongest light)
to cease ? What mystic power is thero belong
ing to the ballot, that stops or turns the bullet,
or blunts the blade of the white man ? We re
peat, if we do wrong, why should New Eng
land citizens take it upon themselves to cor
rect the wrong ?
No, the Puritans are, in our case, only de
veloping their hellish instincts. From the days
they were spewed out of British society, to this
evil hour, these mouthiug, canting, witch
burning hypocrites have, on every occasion, in
which they could do so, without subjecting
their head#to the cudgel, interfered with the
affairs of others. It is high time these breed
ers of quarrels and wars were taught to mind
their own affairs.
They are not the masters of the white man,
if they are of the negroes of the South, and
if they raise a howl, why, we say, just let them
howl themselves hoarse, and repeat the opera
tion daily, until Old Nic gives them a fresh
start in his dominions down below. These
burners of old women, and these hangers of
middle-aged mothers, are just happy enough
when they see the Southern whites tremble
when they frown. Frown on and howl on, say
we, to your hearts' content. We advise the
white men of Georgia to do right, and if it be
comes necessary, in defense of life, liberty or
property, to kill an outlaw, black or white,
why just kill him and disregard the howls of
these sanctimonious wrethes as you would
those of beasts.
The Hon. W. H. F. Hall, of Merriwheth-
er County.
We take great pleasure in stating that
the Hon. W. H. F. Hall, at present
member of the House of Representatives
of the Legislature of the State—“a gen
tleman and a scholar ;” “native and to
the manor born ;” a graduate of the Uni
versity of Virginia; a member of the le
gal profession in this State; that noblest
work of God, “an honest man” and most
excellent citizen; has declared, and has
authorized Us to declare that he endorses
the nomination of the Hon. Hugh Buc
hanan as the Democratic candidate for
Congress in the Third Congressional Dis
trict ; and that he will not only support
his election, but will advocate and sup
port the election of Seymour and Blair
for President and Vice President of the
United States.—Atlanta Intelligencer
30/A.
We were not at all surprised on the pe
rusal of the above, Mr. Hall is too pure
and good a man to vote otherwise.
As an evidence of Mr. Buchanan’s pop
ularity, we will add that Hon. F. M. Scrog-
gin, one of the Representatives from this
County, is volutarily pledged to the sup
port of Mr. Buchanan. The truth is,
nearly all the whites and many of the ne
groes in this section, will take pleasure
in voting for Mr. Buchanan. Seymour and
Blair, will receive almost as many votes
We have been informed that Hon. P.
Sewell, the other Coweta Representative,
also endorses Mr. Buchauan’s nomination.
Special Dispatch to the Louisville Jour.
Indianapolis, Sept. 23.
The Democratic meeting here to-day
was the grandest display made since the
Douglas campaign of 1860. Over 15,
000 men were in line of march. The
procession represented, first, a company
of cavalry as an advance guard : second,
the “White Boys in Blue,” including
cavalry, artillery and infantry ; third in
vited guests in carriages ; fourth, delega
tions and organizations from the several
Congressional Districts. The displays of
the delegations were made up as usual,
with wagons tastefully trimmed and filled
with girls, work shops on wheels with
mechanics apparently pursuing their
usual avocations, and with innumerable
banners, mottoes and burlesques. The
whole procession presented a very im
posing aspect.
After making a display up Washing
ton street, they moved to the State House
yard, where several stands had been erect
ed for speakers for the past few years.—
Indianapolis has been noted as a rallying
ground for all political parties, its cen
tral location and railroad facilities giving
it an advantage over any other place in
the State. The Democracy of the State
are determined not to be outdone by the
late demonstration of their Republican
neighbors, and spared no efforts to bring
together a crowd which, in point of num
bers and enthusiasm, would be unequalled
by any display yet made during the cam
paign. Of the eight or nine railroad en
tering in here, each seems to have vied
with the others in trying to bring the
largest number, and a close estimate of
the number arriving by railroads alone is
set down at 70,000 persons.
Speeches were made by Hon. George
H. Pendleton, Hon. Jerry Black, and
Gen. Frank P. Blair. The speeches of
the two former were not unlike their form
er efforts. The speech of the Democratic
nominee for Vice-Presidency—which was
tljLe feature of the occasion—was a master
piece. It may be jregarded as the pro-
nunciamento of the canvass, and was re
ceived with the wildest enthusiasm.
Democratic Convention :
Dear Sir—In consequence of a some
what prolonged absence from my home, I
have only today recieved your letter in
forming me that the Convention over
which you had tbe honor to preside, se
lected me to be their candidate for the of
fice of Governor of the Commonwealth at
the approaching election. I am very sen
sible of the compliment thus, for the sec
ond time, offered to me, and although I
should have preferred a less conspicuous
service, I accept the nomination as frank
ly and heartily as it was given. I have
carefully examined the resolutions adopt
ed by the Convention, and I should per
haps content myself with simply assuring
you that I find nothing in them to which
[ cannot subscribe, but as I may not have
another opportunity, I wish to state niy
own views a little in detail. I am glad
that you have determined to require a
“rigid parsimony” in the expenditure of
the people’s money. This in a nation as
deeply indebted and as heavily taxed as
ours is but common honesty to the public
creditor, and mere humanity to the groan
ing tax-payers. Every 7 dollar not absolute
ly r. quired for the legitimate and neces
sary expeuses of Government and for
meeting our obligations in the fullest good
faith should be left in the pockets of the
people. As to the License law, our pro
hibitory friends in the last Legislature
used to declare that they cared very little
what kind of a law was passed, as in the
Presidential election the License law Re
publicans would not dare to bolt the reg
ular nominations, and those they could
control. I suppose, .therefore, that the
success of their ticket will be equivalent
to a return to the Prohibitory law, with
its attendant Constabulary. I think that
there are two matters of national interest
involved in this election, one of which is
important, the ether vital. The former,
which I take to be the financial question,
was not treated by the National Conven
tion in New York in a .manner which sat
isfied my judgment. By providing for a
payment of the bonds’-fenown as 5 20s by
surplus revenue alone,-thus ignoring what
seems to me the valuable part of Mr. Pen
dleton’s plan, a withdiawal of the issues
of the National Banks,- the Democratic
party appeared to commit themselves to
an indefinite extension of the intolerable
nuisance of an irredeemable paper curren
cy. I am too much of a Democrat to re
gard any such prospectjwith patience. I
believe in hard money, and therein I hold
myself to be a true Jacksonian Democrat.
This dishonored paper which we are all
compelled, as I think, unconstitutionally
to accept as money, is not only a standing
disgrace to the nation, but it is destroying
the ancient habits of economy aud thrift,
and undermining our old-fashioned honest
ideas by the constant spectacle and exam
ple of an insolvent Government. It lays
upon the poor man a butden heavier than
he can bear. It injures trade, commerce
and all productive industry each year more
than the whole sum of doubtful gain which
might accrue from canceling our dv.bts by
promises to pay which we do not redeem.
If persisted in, I think it must result in
repudiation and bankruptcy. In that
event, the responsibility will rest primari
ly with the party which made the notes
and then refused, when they had the pow
er, to make them good, and Dext with the
Democracy if they are tempted to follow
that bad lead.
It is with peculiar pleasure, therefore,
that I read your tfcmand for a sound and
honest currency. But even if I differed
with you on this subject, and saw any re
lief in the party chi^flj^ responsible, for
our present deplorable hpancial.condition
l regard the second or Yital question of
such moment, that my political action
would be governed by the attitude of the
opposing partiesdtf reference te that alone.
Tk/v wkink in mvr— inti flwnrfa Jill
Acts to be constitutional.” Even if they
were so, I should still deem them unwise.
The Union they impose is, to my eyes, no
more like a true union of hearts and hands
spring
f or ts—that this situation he must strain
every nerve to attain. It can be attained
by ali. Untiring industry and virtuous
ambit'o.) never fail to find their reward.
than a galvanized . corpse resembles a j They never yet were exerted in vain, and
healthy man. All the doings of men are ’ never will while honesty and justice find
governed by the laws of nature. The at-j a home in the human breast. It was re
tempt to suberdinate the trained and able! marked by an eloquent writer, that the
class of landholders at the South to the
poor, ignorant, debased and landless freed-
man, is one of those futile struggles to re
peal God’s law by statute, with which his
tory abounds. It must fail, but it is of
great moment that it should be stopped at
once. Every day it lasts it is encourag
ing false hopes in the negro and render
ing a resumption of a true relation be
tween the blacks and the whites more
difficult. I think that neither the in
stints nor the destiny of this people will
allow any permanent domination to the
African race in any State of the Union.
But the Republican Party is irrevocably
pledged to this idea. They have staked
their existence as a party on the triumph.
To this idol they have sacrificed their
constitutional obligations in the past, and
for it they must find fresh offerings in the
future. The blacks must have lauds and
arms and a standing army to maintain
them in their false position. They are
clamoring for them now, and the United
States must furnish them. The path upon
which Congress has entered permits no
halt, and retreat is ruin. In my opinion
we must start anew, taking the Constitu
tion for our guide and natural laws for
our limitations. It is true that the Dem
ocratic Party in success may violate the
pledges of adversity, and again subvert
the organic law. The teachings and the
practice of Radicalism have destroyed
much of the old reverence for the precious
legacy of our ancestors. We may dread
lest they should do this thing, but we do
certainly know that the Republican Party
has already done it. At least it is a
chance of salvation. If that fails us—if
we must submit, to the whims of a majori
ty without appeal—it matters but little
to me whether it rejoices in the name of
Republican or delights in the title of
Democrat. If a party in tbe nation may
constitute itself the sole arbiter of the
constutionality of its own measures, then
secession was illegal only because it was
not the act of a majority. The battle is
is between Congress and the Constitution.
For my part I am for the Canstitution.
Holding these opinions, I shall act with
the Democratic Party so long as it is the
party of the Constitution.
I am, sir, with great repect,
Your friend and servant,
John Q. Adams.
working man who had no inheritance but
virtue is tbe sole king among men, and
the only man among kings.
"He envies not the son of ease.
Nor lord in princely hall;
But hows before tbe wise decrees,
In kindness meant for all.”
[Picayune.
Humors of the Campaign—From Donnel
ly’s Speech against Washbnre, deliver
ed at St. Paul, Minn., August 28th.
The Georgia Penitentiary.
From the leport of the Principal Keeper, we
learn that there were ninety-one convicts in
prison, October 1st, 1866. Two hundred and
thirty-seven have been received from that date
to April 30th, 1868, making a total of 328. Of
the number, one has been pardoned by the
Legislature, 9 by the Governor, 12 escaped, 9
died, 2 killed and 13 discharged ; total 46,
leaving in prison, April 31st, 1868, 282. Of this
number 86 are white, and 186 are black males
and 10 black females.
The Principal Keeper, with the approbation
of General Ruger, hired two hundred of these
convicts to the Georgia and-Alabama Railroad
Company, at a net income of eight hundred
and seventy-fire dollars per quartar.
An examination of the list of the names
of convicts, a»d of the crimes of which
they were found guiKy, gives an insight into
the negro el - ractet not at all favorable to tbe
The Grecian Bend in Europe—
Women Devilish—Not Hideous.— 1
Although the following passage—extract
ed from a laay’s private letter—was writ
ten with no thought of publication, we
think our readers will be interested in a
criticism by one of the fair sex on a bad
fashion of the day :
“But what shall I say of Hambour*
life ? How can I describe the women
the gambling saloons, the manners and
customs of their frequenters, among whom
I recognize many American ladies ?—
The toilets are hideous—women positive
ly devilish. I wonder as I look at them,
if they are really flesh and blood and
have souls, or if. after all, Mahomet was
not partly right. Women of seventy years
or more, pain: fearfully, aud adorn them
selves with flowers, laces, jewels, false-
hair. heads and gewgaws enough to satis
fy the taste of an Indian squaw. Tbe
young girls deform themselves purposely.
They wear large humps on their backs,
and on these bunches wear bows of rib
bon three quarters of a yard wide—so
that it looks as if a monster bird had
perched upon their backs. The heel? of i
their boots are pointed, high, and exactly
in the middle of the foot—and their gait
is something startling. The young ladies j d
The Camilla Affair.
le approaching 45 degrees, causing the
hump or bunch before mentioned, to pro
trude still more monstrously, even to de-
The Herring Torture in Russia.
M. Emile Andreoli, who touk part in
the last Polish insurrection, and on his
capture by the Russians was sentenced to
twelve years’ imprisonment in Siberia,
has just published in the Revue Moderne
the first part of his prison recollections,
in which he describes what he calls the
herring torture, practiced by the Russian
police. He says :
I knew several who underwent the lat- .. . , , , .
. . i. • u treading on eggs—m such constant dread
ter, and they told me that no’hmg could I - .. ,, -
compare with the sufferings the, endured, j are ,he >' Th,s , “ “ od f
The, were confined in a will warmed ' L°S" e - and >t is supposed to he a reveal
apartment, salted herrings with bread and of the an0,eDt 6rMU, “ Bend!
water for the first few days being their
only food.
If they refused to answer the questions
of the examining commissioners the broad
was first of all withdrawn, and then water,
where upon the torture of intense thrist
commenced, depriving the sufferer of all
The issue which, in my"mind, dwarfs all
others is, shall tUe Gsmetitu-ion or shall a
party maudate be the supreme law of the
land ? Fidelity to the Constitution should
be tbe final test of political affiliation to
day. But to act with the party which has
ruled the country withr supreme dominion
for three years past, I must agree with
them that the Constitution contemplated
an ultimate absorption of the most import
ant functions of the Executive Depart
ment by Congress, that its fair construc
tion will authorize that body to wrest from
the Judiciary Department jurisdetiou in
cases where its judgment upon constitu
tional questions of the first magnitude
may possibly conflict with that of a ma
jority therein, I must stand ready to fix
my name to a declaration of political faith
which expressly makes approval of the
impeachment of the President a test of
party fellowship ; and finally, I must be
able to say upon my conscience that 1
consider “reconstructionj” for. the sake
of which all this and much more has been
done, is wise, statesmanlike and constitu
tional. Now I have always thought with
Mr. Seward the wisest way to treat the
wounds left by the war was to let them
heal “by first intention.” But Reconstruc
tion” has torn them uay by day un
til they are now a ma^s of well nig^ in
curable gangrene. I believe that true
j statesmanship would have imposed on the
Southern leaders the task of bringing :heir
Albany, Ga., Sept. 24,1868.
Col. Carey W. Styles—Dear Sir:
notice in the proceedings of the Legisla
ture of the 21st inst., the official report
of O. H. Howard, Bureau Agent, for this
district, in which he uses the following state
ment in regard to myself, viz : “J. W.
Armstrong, Jr. went from Albany to Ca
milla the previous night, and returned on
the day of the difficulty.” I beg to say
this is false in fact, and conveys a false
idea also.
First. It is false in fact, as I did not go
at night.
Second. I went with Mr. Virgil Powers
on Thursday as far as Mr. R. J. Bacon’s and
on Friday with Messrs. Powers and Ba
con to Camilla, in daylight, also to New
ton the same day, and back to Mr. Bacon’s
by Friday night, and on Saturday morn
ing back to Albany.
Mr. Powers is Superintendent of the
South-Western Railroad. I am agent at
Albany. We went on business solely
connected with said Railroad. Knew
nothing of the meeting to be held at Ca
milla until I casually heard it while there
had nothing to do with it in any shape
or form.
Aod as to the Bureau Agent’s report
relative to a member of the Young Men’s
Democratic Club, of Albany, goiug to Ca
milla for the purpose of instigating the
people to prevent the speaktng, if he al
luues to me, it is false in every respect
and I am confident no one from the Club
or any other person, went from Albany
for that purpose; nor do I believe that
any one else from Albany went to Camil
la but myself at that time, or about that
time, but the party who went with Pierce,
Murphy & Co.
I met many of them on the road as Mr.
Powers and myself returned to Albany
from Mr. Powers’, and they were nearly
all armed. I saw at least seventy-five or
one hundred, with arms, going towards
Camilla.
I have made the above statement in
justice to myself, merely to show to those
who do not know me, how completely the
Bureau Agent has made his tale out of
whole cloth, as those who know me are al
ready satisfied that in the main the re
port relative to myself, is without truth
Very Respectfully,
J. W. Atv-.xoTRONg, Jr.
Ben. Butler is troubled with strabismus,
and it is related of him that when he was
a boy he was assistiug a butcher to kill
an ox. The butcher was holding the
horns, when Ben. was to strike him with
an axe. Glancing up, he caught Ben’s
wandering eye, and asked: “Do you
strike where you look ?” He replied :
Certainly, I strikp where I look,” when
the butcher begged to be excused from
holding the horns.
Now for Elihu Washburne, to whom I
alluded when I addressed you last. I be
lieve God never made a baser man, and,
ndeed, I sometimes think that God never
made a baser man, and, indeed, I some
times think that God never made him,
but let him out to the lowest bidder, like
the custom-house, and that the devil was
the lowest bidder. [Applause.] My op
ponents have tried to drum up candidates
to run against me. Why, my tried and
true frieud, General Sanborn, was urged
to return to this district and become an
opposition candidate. It is said that the
great Iudian chief, Thunderbird, wa3 once
assaulting the position of some of our
troops in the mountains. The Indians
were pressing forward to almost certain
victory, when, in the haste and confusion,
some one touched off a swivel gun that
was fastened upon the back of a jack
ass.
The rebound sent the animal heels over
head rolling down the mountain side
among the Indians, upon which they beat
hasty and disordered retreat. After
ward, in treating for peace, the chief was
asked why he retreated on that occasion,
and replied : “Me stand white man’s knife
and pistol, but Indian no stand when
whole jackasses are fired at him ” I can
stand gallant Gen. Hubbard, or C. C- An
drews, rr any of my other opponents, but
I can’t stand to have a whole jackass fired
at me in the shape of one of the Wash
burne family. [Roars of laughter.!
—:o:—
-FOR-
IXRY GOODS
ASI)
GROCERIES!
W E have just received, and are dailv re
ceiving from NEW YORK, one of the
BEST AND LARGEST
STOCK OF GOODS
Ever offered in this market, consisting of
Calicoes,
Dross Goods,
Jaconets,
Swiss, Balmoral,
And Hoop-Skirts,
Dress Trimmings,
Hosiery, Gloves,
Hankerchiefs, Ladies Cloaks, Shawls, and
a general
Assortment of Notions! I
Also, a splendid selection of
Piece Goods, Kersies, Tweeds, Joans, Linseys,
Cassimeres. Red, White, Opera and Sauls-
bury Flannels, Bleached Shirt
ings, Sheeting, Osnabugs,
Bed Ticking, Yarns,
Fine Bed and Saddle Blankets, &c.
Ladies, Misses and Children’s Shoes.
Mens and Boys’ Boots and Shoes,
Ditching Boots, Trunks and
L£2 LSI LX* XMX £23 UB
CLOTHING,
Such as Coats, Pants,
Collars, Tests,
Under Shirts, Over Shirts,
Rubber Over-Coats, &c.
Also, a fine assortment of
CROCKERY & GLASS WARE,
Hardware,
Pocket & Table Cutlery,
Table & Tea Spoons,
Axes, Spades, Shovels,
Shovels and Tongs,
Steelyards, Fire & Sad
Irons, Breast Stetchers,
Trace Chains, Collars.
Castings, Grind Stones,
Nails, Tacks, Sprigs,
&c., &c., &c.
How the Maine Democracy Made their
Wonderful Gains and what Foes they
Fought.
(From the Bangor Democrat.)
The great contest is over, and the resnlt is
before the people. Never before has there been
such a close political contest in Maine, and ne
ver before has there been so large a vote polled.
Compared with the election of two years ago,
when^there was the last full vote in the State,
the Democrats have made a splendid gain.—
From the returns at hand it appears that the
Republican majority will fall below twenty
thousand. In 1866 their majority was nearly
twenty-eight thousand.
When we consider the circumstances under
which the results has been achieved, the De
mocracy of Maine have reasou to rejoice. Ne
ver before did they have such a flood of money
to meet. The Republicans could not have ex
pended in tbe canvass and election less than
one million of dollars. Every man who would
sell his vote at any price found ready purchas
ers.
Nor was this all. In the contest of last Mon
day the Democracy of Maine had to contend
against the whole power of the consolidated
capital of the country. Never before was there
such a pressure brought to bear upon employ
ees by employers. Democratic laboring men
in tbe employ of Republicans, were compelled
either to vote the Radical ticket or keep away
from tbe polls. One lumber-man in this city
discharged two young men because they had
the independence to go to the polls and vote
their honest convictions.
Nor was this all. It will be observed that
the Radicals make the great mass of their gains
in the cities and large villages where they had
absolute control of the poll lists. Take an ex
ample in this city. In Ward One the Radical
assistant-assessor failed to return over one hun
dred voters, and consequently their names
were left off the voting list. In addition to
this, late on Friday, afternoon, a gentleman
who is an honest man in his own opinion, if in
the opinion of nobody else, demanded that no
tices be issued to ninety-three more Democrats
whose names were on the list.
As Saturday was the last day for getting on
names, of course it was impossible to hunt up
those men and get them into tbe City Hall to
prove their right to vote. Accordingly the Ra
dical Board of Aldermen were only too willing
to strike off the uames of all those who did not
appear. Sixty were struck off at one fell sweep.
Of the one hundred and ten left off by the as
sessors we were enabled to get on but some 70.
This tyranny and oppression was practiced
to a greater or less extent all over the State
where the Radicals had control of the voting
lists.
In view of these facts, therefore, we say the
Democracy have cause to rejoice all over the
country over the fact that we have been ena
bled to reduce the Radical majority of two years
ago over eight thousand votes.
Coffee, Sugar, Fisb r
Syrup, Cheese, Flour,
Bacon, Sait, Powder,
Shot, Pistols, Pepper,
Spice, Bluestone, Sulpher,
Indigo, Madder, Smoking
and Chewing Tobacco,
Bagging, Rope & Ties,
Oil Cloths, Table Cloths,
Mens, Boys & Ladies’ Saddles,
And also, a great many other articles too nu
merous to mention.
All we ask is to call and examine our stock,
before purchasing. We are determined to sell as
LOW AS THE LOWEST!
Our motto is
£tr QUICK SALES AND SHORT PROFITS 1
No use of blowing the horn, come and see for
yourself. Our DRY GOODS are at the old
stand of J. T. KIRBY—our Groceries in the
house formerly occupied by Glass, North & Co.,
Greenville Street. Our
Prin’p’l Salesman, J. A. HUNTER, Dry Goods.
Ass’t, “ o. McClendon. “
Pr’p’l, “ R. L. HUNTER, Groceries.
Ass t, B. T. THOMPSON,
We will barter for COUNTRY PRODUCT!,
and assist the farmer in selling his cotton when
necessary, WITHOUT CHARGE.
J. T. & T. KIRBY.
T. KIRBY will be on hand to pay the HIGH
EST MARKET PRICE for COTTON.
Octl.1868—tf.
0 !
Plantation to Rent.
,N the first Tuesday in November next, will
be rented to the highest bidder, before
the Court-house door in Newnan, Ga., within
the legal hoars of sale, tbe Plantation belong
ing to the estate of Jackson Neely, late of Cow
eta county, deceased, for the year 1869, three
mile3 East of Newnan in said county, on the
Fayetteville Road ; embracing about two hun
dred acres of good farming land, upon which
is a good dwelling house, and other appurten
ances attached. The Plantation will be rent
ed all together or in two parcels to suit rent
ers.
Terms.—Notes and Securities, with lien oa
crops. J. J- NEELY, Ex r.
td.
i.erpie back into the Union, by frarklv
The W:rking Man.
He is the noblest man of whom our free
confidently offering to them, the day ! c»r-uiry can boast; whether in the work-
they laid down thei/anus, the right he- : \ :V.on or plow, you find the same ao-
of coarse, lean forward, incliniug their 1 .’“•y “T ’Y ' --t A ,i
’ , . ’ , . ^ 1 of c'J.yiog of the past and reconcilatuo., „!e ^—tea
hacks, from the waist upward, a.: ang- if at.’ if tbm
in the fature, which they might reject if
they wished or dared. “Beconstruetii n
scorned their protests, repelled their
and inflicted
r , n ...i aid, insulted their misery,
formity; ani they necessarily walk•_« if. on ’ t|)eo a „ sbaiemeIlt w ^ ich they fek to
he intolerable in posting over them their
slaves of yesterday to secure their pledge
of submission td the ^Constitution. B?*
for thia ungenerous and Suspicions policy I
believe we might now have been a truly
united people, the Southern white recoii-
Church Full.—An Ex Governor re
lates a good story of a man vrtEfee life bad
not been entirely unspotted, who applied
to a worthy deacoD for admierion into the
church. Unwilling to offend him, and
yet not inclined to receive him, the deacon
D J ^ U1UI | I vpwvj 1UC liUUIVU »*3 J UU J Uv b IJvfT^
abandon th« resolution which he had ■ when there is a vacancy I will notify
formed to die. V ery rarely did any one ! you.”
ee and independent being,
re ia a man in society upon
, hum we look with esteem and admira-i
MAERIED.
On Sunday, September 27lh, 1868, by J. P.
Reese, Esq., at the residence of the bride’s
mother, Mr. Henry Samples and Mias Mary
Ballard, all of Coweta.
On Sunday September 27th, 1868, by J. P.
tior. it is the independent, sober working- B*fcsc, Esq., at the residence of J. B. Newton,
eta.
man. \\ e care not whether he he farmer, j. H. Waits and Miss Sarah E. Dyer, all of Cow-
ci*>chanic or ^o^jjion iaborer -whether
his coils are. endurod in the workshop, the
fLld, or the cuu; n.ine; whether his home j
in tue F-'-kw-sous or io the neat cot
tage—our admiration is the same. Whatj
a happy picture he presents; what a re-;
ward ior r.is lata-r. who, by his own
eiled to the inevitable, the negro Scoaro aided exertions, establishes for himself a 1 tj, deceased.
GEORGIA—Coweta County.
11,” HEREAS John L- Bean applies for let-
W ters of Guardianship of the person and
property of Rutus Bean, resident of Alabama,
un- i minor orphan of J. F. Bean, late of said coun
in his civil rights; and attaining poliiio^'
privileges as he grew St to use them wise-
icspeecibta po.-iti"" ::i society ; who, cum- j
me^cincr [a poveray, by his skill and assid- j
ly. and the North, ennobled by a victory j uity, surmount?every prejudice, and finally
_ „ # , more glorious than any feat of arm®—the > succeeds in forming a character whose
moral strength, and even making him j replied, “The church is fail just ndr^ conquest of its own passions. I will not I value is enhanced by those who come af-
argue the aDConstjtutionautj of “xitcon- j ter aim.
struction.” The almost unanimous dis* Such a man we prize as the noblest
Thi3 is to cite and admonish all persons con
cerned to be and appear at my office within
tbe time prescribed by law and show cause, if
any they can, why said letters should not be
granted.
Given under my hand and official signature
October 1st, 1868.
Oct. 2-30d * J. H. COOKE. Ord’y.
GEORGIA—Coweta County.
W HEREAS John L. Bean applies for Letter
of Guardianship of the persM* ana
property of Mary J., Nancy M., Susan _-i
H. aud Martha W. Bean, residents of said C
ty minor orphans, of William M. Bean, late or
said county, deceased.
This is to cite and admonish aJ P er =? n3 °
cerned to be and appear at^my office» ™* h, f m7
time prescribed by law and show - ^ t '.
they can, why said letters should not be g
Cd Given under mv hand and official signature
J. n. COOKF, Ofd>
all 1
Heard Sheriff’s Sale.
On the first Tuesday in November next.
W ILL be sold before the Cooxt House door
in Franklin, Heard county, within the
legal bours of sale, the following property to-
wit:
Fractions of land Nos. 3. and 7, in the I2th
district, originally Carroll, now said county o
H ear( b _
Levy made and returned to me by G. D: Co3-
h, L. C. W. Si ECHOLS, Sh’fL
Oct. 2-td
GEORGIA—Carroll County.
W HEREAS James C.. Payne has made ap
plication to me for letters of admin
istration on tbe estate of Flail Payne, late o*
of said county, deceased:
Thi3 is to cite and. admonish all persons con
cerned to be and. appearat my office within tbe
time prescribed by law and show cause,!*
any they can, why said letters should not bo
granted.
Given under my hand and official signatur
Sept. 25th. 1868. ' „
Oct. 2-30d. J. M. BLALOCK, Qru.v.