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she |ottrnal. H. C. RONEY, 1 W. D. SULLIVAN,/ and Proprietors. Wednesday, February 21,1872. Hope Hi'i|rhtenN. The disagree media of the Radical leaden con tinually grow moro and more intense, and the branch between the two wings of the party widens day by day. The utter disregard of the Constitu tion, and the baro-faoed frauds permitted by an imbecile Administration, have to all seeming at last disgusted those of the Radical leaders who make any pretensions to honesty. But if we give the subject a close scrutiny, wo shall find a deeper cause for the disaffections now beginning to show themselves upon tho surface. The dissolution of the Radical party is a mere question of time, and if propitious circumstances do not occur to aid it, that lime is short—its (lays are numbered. Tho Radical, or Atiolition party, had its rise in the principle of opposition to slavery, and for years was not only kept in existence, Iml great nnm liers were continually gathered to its standards by playing upon and pandering to the morbid sentimen tality on this subject of those who neither under stood or had tho intelligence to understand that peculiar Southern institution. Indeed, it was a snbjcct upon which tlio New York Tribune and oth er journals of like kind could grow hypocritically sentimental over for thepurposeof furtheringtbeir own projects, without caring upon whose rights they trampled, whoso interest they injured, or oven how muoh they jeopardized tho existence of tho nation itself. They finally succeeded in tho ac complishment of their purposo. Slavery was abol ished; the end and aim of tho party was attained, and tho result must be tho dissolution of the party. This is at least a logical oourso of reasoning, and there is not tho slightest canso why it should not hold good in this instance. True, tho Radical party has succeeded in maintaining itself and keeping possession of tho government; hut it has done so by exorting tho most superhuman efforts to keep alive the antagonisms and animosities en gendered by the late war, using the military power of the country for illegitimate purposes, prostitu ting tho public money to the basest uses, and by other stratagems tho offspring of minds fertile “in ways that are dark and tricks that are vain.” But the end of all this must come; and plninly do tho Radical leaders soo tho death of their party in this end. Tho passions called into existence by the wnr and ita concomitants arc beginning to cool down, and the pooplo of tho North arc beginning to see with a dearer vision tho inevitable min of tho country's liliertics if the high-handed measures in augurated by the Radicals are not promptly chock ed. The Radical leaders’fiud it moro difficult every day to control the dements of the party, and, there fore, propose a modification of their principles—a change from the rabid policy heretofore pursued to moro liberal views. This modification is the first atop to an entire change of principles and policy, which change when porfooted is nothing more than a disruption of tlio party. This view of tho situation and prospocts of tho Radical party is not, as may bo supposed by some, cither chimerical or hypothetical. Tho objects for which tho party came into exisenoo nro accomplished, its issues are dead, and tho party will be totally annihilated by the first general defeat it may sustain. Now, let the Democratic party bo wise, bo oan tions, l>e firm, and the victory is theirs. Hut if the party stray away into tho forbidden paths of Now departurcism, that so noarly proved its ruin, and abandon the tiine-houorod principles inculcated by the sages of tho party, tho fathers of Liberty, it has nothing to oxpect hut overwhelming defeat— for it will surely come. Lot the Democrats bo wise, we ropeat, and tlio day is at hand when our eountry shall be freed from the thralldom that has so long bound hor; tho iron shackles torn from hor limbs, the yoke taken from hor galled neck, tho heel of tyranny lifted from hor prostrate form, the usnrpor hurled hoadlong from his high place of pow er, and our oonutry once moro nasumo hor ancient place of liberty and prosperity. Trloha uii<l Triclcwters vis. Honest Lnlme. Tho land is full of tricks and tricksters. From tho peculations of those holding the high est places of honor and profit down to tho ton eent prise-candy speculator, tho wholo land swarms with swindlers and tricksters ready with consum mate skill iu deception, and perfect in, tho prac tice of every device to deceive the ignorant or un suspecting. No place is froo from this host of vampires, who resort to any means to avoid honest labor, and to sustain existence without work.— Ojieu a newspaper, and tho eye moots frequent ac counts of astounding frauds; go on the oars, and you meet men engaged in the side of prize-candy holes and sensational periodicals, apparently pos sessing muscle sufficient to swing tho heaviest sledgo with profit to themselves and benefit to the country. No trick is left untried, no trap left un set to catch the unwary or trusting; and few have any idea of the largo amount of money thuß pil fered from thoso who live by honest toil. There is a limit to all things, and tho time comes when “forliearanoe ceases to boa virtue,” and the time seems to us to have fully arrived when a remedy should be applied to this evil. While tho Legisla ture is engaged in developing and punishing crimes of tho greater and graver kind against tho State, let them not forget the smaller swindlers, but take counsel and devise some means to drive them from their trick* to honest labor. ('ll WM iV Cos. Foiled. In tho Atlanta Sun of the isth instant, we find a proclamation from Governor Smith, repudiating a proclamation issued by actiug-Governor Conley on the 2Sth of December last, upon tho petition of Henry Clews A Cos,, Rankers, New York, for the seizure of the Cherokee Railroad, formerly tho Van Wert Railroad Company, for and in behalf of tlio State, as a security to Clews * Cos. for alleged claims held by them against the State. Henry Clews snd Co's, swindling bund ring have for some time flooded the Northern press with denunciatory articles upon Treasurer Angier and our State cred it, simply because an honest administration re fuses to pay the unlawful swindling debts con tracted by the Bullock and Blodgett administra tion. Georgia will pay her honest debts, but wilj in every instance spurn the payment of dishonest claims heaped upon the State by a corrupt and thieving administration. The cholera has broken out among the bogs in and ucar Amcricus. Wliut Would t ins South Do V It is just possible that the disagree ment of Great Britain and the United States about the Alabama claims may result in war. If England insists, as we have no reason to doubt she will do, on a reduction of the demands Presi dent Grant’s Administration has chosen to present to the Geneva Board of Ar bitration as inconsistent with arid not contemplated by the Washington Trea ty, aud the Government o( the United States proves obstinate, we suppose there will be no avoiding the issue, and that the Geneva Arbitration will have to give way to the arbitration of the sword. Now we have an idea that the “con structive damages,” the prefering of which on the part of the-United States is the truthful source of all this trouble, originated in a desire to make capital for Grant in the approaching Presiden tial contest, and that,having be n merely gotten up for buncombe, they will not be insisted on. If it should turn out that wo are mistaken—arid there is really a disagreement betwi en the Cabi • nets at London and Washington regard ing tho construction to be put upon the terms of the treaty—and, our Govern ment isisting upon its construction, England withdraws her aseent to the Geneva arbitration, why, then, of course an armed conflict would seem not only possible but probable. A warbetweeu Great Britian and the United Sfates would be a very serious thing. Both are powerful nations— powerful in all the resources of men captal required to make up a first class conflict. Such a war would be fraught with untold calamities to all concerned. Whatever might be the final issue, it is very certain that no real good could ac crue from it to the American Republic, Supposing that such a war should en sue from the present complications, the question very naturally suggests itsell, how would the South, or rather the people of the Southern States, stand toward it? This question can not but be one of grave concern to those who have the conduct of our national affairs, if indeed they seriously think of a resort to the sword. Without at all intend ing to depreciate the character of the Northern people, vve hold that it is a fact not to be disputed that the people of the fifteen Southern States constitute by all odds the most warlike race on the continent. For four years they held at bay by the mere force of deter mined resolve and dtspeiate courage armies which were to them a hundred to one, an<i at last gave up only because they were utterly worn out and exhaust ed by the struggle. Undismayed by trials and sufferings that would have broken tho spirit of any other people, tho South was found ready to storn) a fort, mount a breach, or take part in tho deadly charge up to the last mo ment when surrender to tho inevitable was prefered to annihilation. None know better than Grant and his advisers the importance of securing the sympa thy and co operation of tho Southern people in a foreign war. War with Great Britain on the issue presented might and perhaps would lie popular with New England, for New England has been anxious for such an event in order to cut off competition in her manufactures, pretty much ever since the time when the blue lights were displayed from her coasts as a signal to the public enemy. The Middle and Western States would have nothing to gain, and much to lose, by such a con tingency. And as for the people of the Southern States, they have not been so justly or genereously dealt with since, in good faith, they laid down their arms, at the term ination of the late civil strife, to enter with any great enthusiasm up on this quarrel of President Grant and his friends. Had a different policy been pursued it might be that the men of tin* South would respond, with the alertness they have never tailed to show when; the national honor was at stake, to the rallying cry, even though the point at issue were what it is. But if, under the circumstances, they could forget, in patriotic enthusiasm, that the question | of dispute between the United States and Great Britain grows nut of tin* countenance given by the latter to the Confederate cause, they will scarcely do so as the matter stands. The sympathy and aid of tho oppress ed and persecuted people of the South we conclude, therefore, can hardly be expected by Grant and his Cabinet lfas we do not at all believe, they seriously contemplate the inauguration of hostili ties against Great Britain on account of the Alabama claims. Indkcu nt Skauchi no.— The Laurens ville (S. C.) Herald gives an account i of a search made in that town during! the night, by a United States Marshal and a squad of soldiers, ot the house of B. S. Garlington, which for indecency and brutality, is worse, if possible, tlur, anything we have heard of since the war of persecution first opened.— They not only ransacked the house from cellar to roof to find Air. G., but they actually searched the bed in which Mrs. G. was lying very sick with an infant only a few days old. by her side. Mrs. G. and the widowed moth er of Mr. G. were the only persons in the house at the time. From the Norfolk Virginian. Tlio Democratic Party. • This organization is the life-boat of the Republic, and as its hull rises upon the billows and the strong erew bend to their oars, our heait grows lighter with the hope that the “Ship of State,” now* on the reef of Radicalism, nay be reach ed, and her topsuils backed to get her i once more into smooth water and on a constitutional tack. The men who are to do this are at the North _aud North west, and in both quarters we see them preparing for the brave endeavor. The moderate Republicans are to hold a Convention in Cincinnati in May and this movement is * understood to be in 0| position to the frauds and corrup tion of the present Administration. This promises well for the future ; but this is not all. The Democracy of Connecticut and New Hampshire are bending to their oars with a will, and we are full of hope that their noble la bors will be crowned with success. On Tuesday the unterrjicd met in New Ha ven, in State Covention, where, after recognizing existing facts, they lltsolccd, That local self goverinent, with impartial suffrage, will guard the rights of all citizens more securely than any centralized authority. It is time to stop the growing encr'dSctWients of the Executive power, the use of coercion or bribery to ratify a treaty, the pack ing of a Supreme Court to relieve rich corporations, the seating of members of Congress not elected by the people, the resort to unconstitutional laws to cure the Ku-Klux disorder. We de mand for the individual the largest liberty consistent with the public order, for the State self-government and for tfie nation a return to the methods of peace and the limitation of power. In this we have the supreme issues now before the American poop !e pre sented fairly to the eomitry, and it :s upon these, after all, that the country must decide, Mr. Burr, the President of the Convention, addressed himself with conspicuous ability to the discus sion, and in the course of his remarks declared that lie thought the country had already arrived at an era of central ization. “ Senator Morton had been sent out to the people to announce the doctrine of centralization ; the doctrine that the Government would protect the Stati s, and that the servants of the people would protect the people. Gen. Grant had proclaimed this doctrine in a proclamation of onlv five lines, issued under a law passed last spring ; a law under which he could suppress the leg islature of Conue uicut aud the Execu tive aud tho .Judiciary, lie had sup pressed the local government in South Carolina. Not only in tho South had he set aside legislatures aud courts, but on tlul soil of Illinois, the*; Itad been organized as a police forXe, and while the State protested tho army per-! severed.” Thus vve have Connecticut speaking in the familiar tones ol that gallant State; and from the Commonwealth of the granite lulls we receive the nrest cheering accounts. On this point, how ever, we prefer to produce the testimo ny ol tlio party in power, and to this end quote from tho Washington Chron icle of the; 7th the following significant paragraph : “Our private information from New Hampshire, says that paper, is not all encouraging as to the prospect for the coming election. Our friends there must be up an I doing. The self-confi dence which pretends to supineness will not carry that closely contested State. New elements and new forces are at work. They are not apparently pow erful, but success is sure only when they arc met at every point and counter acted." The meaning of this is obvious. Tile President’s organ sees the handwriting on the wall, and trembles as it reads. Interest. —No blister draws like in terest. Os all the industries none is comparable to th.it of interest. It works all day and all night, in fair and in foul weather. It lias no sound in its footsteps, but travels fast. It gnaws at a man’s substance with inv sible teeth. It binds industry with its film as a fly is bound by a spider’s web. Debts roil a man over and over, binth g him hand and foot letting him hang upon the fatal rnesli until the long-legged interest de vours him. There is but one thing on a farm like it, and that is the Canada thistle, which swarms around new plants every time you break its roots, whose blossoms are prolific, and every How er the father of a million seeds. Every leaf is an awl, every branch a spear, and i every plant like a platU on of bayonetts, i and a field ot them like an armed host. The whole plant is a torment ami a vegetanle jcurse. And yet the farmer ; had better make his bed upon Canada thistles than rest at ease upon interest. Judge Foote ami Captain Story, of j New Orleans, have purchased the Mur- J ray county talc qunny (or $7,000. When an Americus merchant doesn’t | sell but five bundled dollars’ worth a day, he sits on his door-step and weeps. Cartersville is disposed to elevate her j olfactories at her guano trade. AboliMltiusr tlie Frccdmen’s Bureau. The hill to abolish the Bateau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, introduced by Mr, Cobb, of N. Carolina, in the House of Representa tives, proposes that the Bureau shall be discontinued after June 30, 1572, and that all agents, clerks and other em ployees then on duty shall be discharg ed, except such as shall be retained by the Secretary of War for the purposes of this act. Section 2 provides that t.ie laws per taining to the collection and payment of bounties to the colored soldiers shall be carried into effect by the Secretary of War, who may employ such clerical force as may be necessary for the pur pose Section 3 grants the present Com missioner, under the direction of the Secretary of War, such time as may be necessary to settle the legal claims against the Bur .j, and to perfect the records of the same. Section 4 appropriates SIOO,OOO to carry into effect the provisions of the preceding section. Section 5 continues the Freedmen's Hospital in the District, under the con tract and supervision of a Board of three pers ns, to consist of the Surgeon Gem ral, the Governor of the District and the Surgeon in charge of the hos pital. Section 6 appropriates 870,000 for the support of the hospital for the fiscal year > tiding June 30th, 1873. The bill wa refered to the Commit tee on Freedmen’s Affairs. Traffic AflUir sit Montleollo. One of those tragic rencounters has occurred at Monticello, Georgia, that calls to mind the dark and bloody days of wild frontier life, where human pas sions rage unregulated by law, and persona difficulties find more ready set tlement by the fierce arbitrament of farms than before the slow and cir cuitous tribunals of justice. We have an account of the affair, recieved from private sources, that is by no means as circumstantial and cer tain as we should like to give, hut it is undoubtedly a close approximation to the truth. The dispute had previously orignated about the hire of a negro. The parties were Clinton Dighy and brother on the one side, and Seaborn Kelley and two biothers on the other —all farmers. They met at Monticello on the seventh instant, at. the election of ordinary.— The dispute revived between Clinton Digby’s brother and the three Kelleys. Young Digby drew his pistol, but be fore he could use it one of th Kelleys sized his arm and held it up while the other two Kelleys pounded away in sledge hammer fashion on Digby. At this junction Clinton Digby came up to the assistance of his overpowered broth er. As he approached one of the Kel leys shot him in the leg. Nothing daunted, lie fired killing the Kelley who held his brother; then wheeling quick ly, he shot down ahother of Kelleys, who died in about an hour. Then mounting a horse, he made furiously over fences and through the woods, and made his escape. It was a quick, sudden, desperate rencounter, as tragic in its results as fierce in its character.— Constitutor!. The (»i*«Mit Snow Storm The Cheyenne Leader, of January 24, sav : The weather litis been so severe at Sherman within the past thre; days, that the men employed to clear the road could not be kept at their work more than a few minutes at a time.— Neither money, threats, persuasion nor revolvers would avail to iteep them out. The wind blows a hurricane all the time, arid the thermometer ranges from ten to twenty degrees below zero. If the wind would subside, it is the opinion o railroad men that the road could be i pened in twenty-four hou rs. At Cheyenne, on Tuesday afternoon the wind suddenly rose to a tempest, The air was densely filled with snow, which whirle I and twisted in all direc tions. So dens was the mass of snow flakes in the air. and so powerful ind irresistible the wind, that one could not see a yard in advance, even on the side-walks, where the streets were sheltered by a continuous row of bn ld ings. A person was liable to be lost in the most familiar localities, and son e citizens who happened to be out lost their way within half a tdock of their own houses, one lady becoming bewildered when almost inside her own door yard. The children at the public school had to lie taken to their homes, as it would have been utterly impossi ble for them to have made their way alone through the storm. This terrible squall continued until aft *r midnight. The morning was one of the coldest ever experienced in the city, the mer cury indicating twenty degrees below zero. An old traveler tells a pertty tough story about being lost in the woods with his dog, where he could find noth ing to eat, and had to cut off the dog’s tail, which he boiled for himself and afterwards gave ■ the dog the bone. We would rather borrow a hundred than believe that story. planters, 3Coo(i to tjoui Interests I WBITMheCK’S YEGETsITOM l Sntr,KV's SOLUBLE IXL CfUAO IN agraiu offering to the Planters of Georgia and South Carolina these highly esteemed Fertilizer* of standard fully to those heretofore sold, and at Price-, we would refer to all who have used them for testimonials as to their worth. Our stock in par’ will consist of 500 Tons of Whiteiock’s Vegetator I daxh I’i ic;o, SOO. Time Urloo, S7 (>. 500 Tons of Sibleys Soluble Ixl Guano! Manufactured under our own forma?*, of our own ingredient*, and containing over four per cent of Ammonia. CASH PRICE. §t;o. TIME P/fICE, §7O. 100 TONS OF WHITELOCK’S DISSOLVED BONES ! Containing Thirty per cent, of Soluble Soue Phosphate. 100 TONS OF PURE PERUVIAN GUANO! 11)0 Top OF PURE NOVA SCOTIA I,AND PLASTER r I<»<> Tons oF Flour oi' Rawbone, Further particulars we will at all timer cheerfully give. J. SIBLEY 6l S ;NS, Colton Commission Jlerclintils ami Healers n <;nano, No. 159 Reynolds treet, Au"u>ta, C*a. . c ? n confident recommend the above Fertilizer*, as I have them. Planter* wil/ inak» it to their inierrst to calf on me betore bovine. N. B.— J- H. STOCKTON, Agent. Oglethorpe Fertilizer ! PKIOI>AKED BY THE OGLETHORPE FERTILIZER CO Maxey, Oglethorpe County, Ga. Gv.'Utx.VTJtßi) Fro. if Hrr Md i tkimtio.y. Caeh price, per lon, on cars at Maxey ... SSO SO lime price, per ton, on lien or acopiauce ... ... gy qq aa»The ■ompany manufacturing ihi, Fertilize eouiil give any quantity of good cenificates bur simply reler 1 lantern to tl.ose who have been so f„rluiia eas a it’fn. ilWa-t ten yens m ihc various j) rU of the -Mai*. CAPTAIN WILLIAM JOHNSON, febldml Agent, T horns n, McDuffie county Ga. PATAPSCO CrFATTO, MANUFACTURED under the superintendence of Dr. G A. LIEBIG, at the Patapsco Guano Company. Baltimore. Md. The undersigned is prepared to fill orders for this Standard Phosphate at the following rates : For Cash per (on of )< >0 pounds : : **<o2 Payable Isl ,\ov., lor ci’y arc planer or approved paper, S7O C’ily acceptance payable Ist of .fmie, taken aw cash. The Patapsco is steadily improving its quality, an.l the article now offered to ;he planters has Pure Bone Flour and Navnssa Guano for its base, giving from 3 to 3 1-4 per cent, ammonia, and 22 1 2 to 2S per cent, of Dissolved Phosphate. No cheap or inferior articles are used in its manufacture, in consequence of u Inch it has steadily gained upon the confidence of the consumers. The Agent can confidently assure the planters of Georgia and .South Carolina that they can use nothing that will repay them better than the Patapsco. ALSO, IN STORE, Pure Dissolved Bone Flour, with sufficient ammonia to start any crop, in addition to an extra quantity of of Dissolved Phosphate. M. A. STOVALL, No. I Warren Block. I can with confidence recommend the above Fertilizers, as I have trirU them. Planter* will make it to their interest t ca// on me before buying. J. S3. KTOCKTOX. A si., N. B.—Samples in t>tore. jan3l*2m NEW .G-OOOS FOUL 1872. —AT THE— ONE PRICE HOUSE. H. L. A. BALK, 172 Broad Street, Aiigii«|n, Ga. Great Bargains in Dress hoods! Great Bargains in Jeans and Woolens! Great Bargains in Cassimere and Flannels! Great Bargains in Linsey Woolsey, Bed Tick ! See. H. L A. BALK, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Dry Goods, 172 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. THE ONE PRICE HOUSE! I am nov? receiving the latest styles of Dress Goods, which were carefully se lected by me, for this market, at prices so low as to enable me to defy competi tion ! Beginning with Plaids at 1-5 ets.. Delaines at 20 cts.. Poplins at only 25- cts., Handsome Colored Silks at only 75 cts Also, a large and full assortment of Cassimere, Jeans. Woolsey, &e . beginning with Jeans at 20 cts.. Jeans (extra heavy) at 2a cts., all wool Cassimeres at 60* cts., Linsey Woolsey at 15 cts., heavy Mat trass Tick at 15 cts.. up to the best heavy Tick for holding leathers, together with a full line of Prints, Flannels,. Sheetings, Shirtings, Shawls, Cloaks. Boots. Shoes, and Ladies’ Trimmed Hats., at prices that will please the mos! fastidious. QF’Cut out this card and be sure to find the One P ic House, and you will save time and money. H. L. A. BALK, 172 Broad Street, jan3lm3 . Auous a, Ga.