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The Daily Herald.
SUNDAY MAY, 11, 187?.
THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
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A HIST WHICH WE DON’T CHARGE
EXTRA FOR.
“I gave him a start in the world, and it’s
hie own fault that he failed.”
And laying this qualm-crusher to his soul,
the old man passed on, while the son, in dis
grace, went down. * * *
Of coarse he “gave him” a start “in life.”
Twenty thousand dollars in cool cash, and
his indorsement for double the amount. Quite
a good start, we should say.
But, reader, a start which way? Up or
down * That’s the question.
“Down,” wo say—“down.”
There can be no blunderer more flagrant than
the father who rears his son in affluence, pam
pers him not only the delicacies of the flesh,
but even makes classic tit-bits, and rhetorical
bon-bons his educational pabulum, skills him
in nc useiul trade, schools him in no econ
omy, tones him down with no system, and
then gilding his poor bloated and defenseless
body with silver and gold, flings him into the
arena with armed gladiators, wary of fence
and strong of arm, and bids him “hold his
own, and double it.”
One of the most remarkable phenomena in
American society especially, is the peculiar
rotation of fortunes, that coming and going
of c’asses by which rich families decay in the
first generation, and blossom again in the
second, only to decay again the third.
Take a rich man who has worked his way
up from the bottom round. Ho makes
himself a fool about his son, trying possi
bly to compensate for the sterility and
bleakness of his own young life in
the warmth and beauty of his son’s, ne
pets him, perfumes him, dandles him, hu
mors him, indulges him, over-dresses him,
and, as it were, regularly “parts his hair in
the middie.” This is all very well as loDg as
he lives to curtail the finances and supply
with gold the exhaustless void his own hand
has created. But when Colonel Codger dies,
and Augustas Fitz Hugh succeeds him as
manager ot the business and ruler of the
realm, a sad change comes over the picture.
Augustus (nice young man, you know,) goes
in on what he calls “an improvement on the
Old man’s plan”—drives at a slashing pace
fora while—then his false training begins to
tell; the lilly white hand falters; the weak
frame quivers; a moment of wilderment and
hesitation; then a false splurt, and then the
crash comes; and the miserai le wretch, utter
ly unable to rally, shrinks into the vapors of
his father s charnel-house, and soon dies and
is forgotten. In the meantime, though, his
son, rendered robust and hardy and self-reli
ant through necessity, pushes his steady way
into the throng of Earth’s people, and with
hard licks and plenty of pluck, wins to a cer
tainty the honors of his grandsire that were
dropped from his father’s incapable hand.
‘ *he thing goes in seven cases out of
^ , ,1, ' •’ness, and dissipation,
rten! The wortnico^ ’ . . L .
. « men has
and extravagance of the sons oi nw-
gotten to be almost a proverb, and the ■»
of this article need exercise no great pains ' ~
call to mind a dozen or so O 0 L these curled
darlings, living la idl ft 1g Sgft nd worthlessness,
A SAD RECORD.
“Twenty persons are condemned to be hnne
in Georgia within the next two months.”—
Exchange.
What a record of crime we have here ! There
is nothing like it in the annals of our State.
In a Christian commonwealth, with but a
fraction over a million of inhabitants, in the
light of the nineteenth century, twenty hu
man beings to be launched from time into
eternity, for crimes, and all within the brief
space of sixty days! How terrible the
thought! Does it argue an increase of
crime, or a more energetic administration of
the law against offenders? We thick both.
While the latter is a subject for congratula
tion with all good citizens, the former is
a fact that should startle from their slum
bers our statesmen and philanthropists. A
rigid execution of the law is calculated
to deter from crime in civilized commu
nities, and in this regard the public owe
a debt of gratitude to the courts and juries
of the State. That such will be the effect to
some considerable extent, we may look with
confidence; but, organized as society is in
the South at the present day, we may not
hope for that generous position from terrible
examples which communities differently con
stituted naturally enjoy. There are classes
of mankind upon whom example does not
associate with any considerable force. They
can neither be led to do good by the rewards
of the virtuous, nor deterred from crime by
the frightful fate of offenders against the
law.
There is a philosophy in this unwonted
lawlessness at the South, which should not
be overlooked, either by the philanthropic
engineer or by the makers of our laws. To
be properly understood, it is necessary that
we should look to the particular classes of
society which produce these offenders, or the
great majority of them. Upon the best infor
mation, we have been able to obtain, of the
twenty persons to be hung for crime in Geor
gia in the brief period referred to, in the ex
tract quoted, full three fourths, if not
more, belong t? the recently enfran
chised black population. This is
a significant fact, and we commend it to the
prayerful consideration of those morbid hu
manitarians and false prophets, in church
and State, who staked their reputation—and
we may say, the justification of their outrages
upon law and right—upon the theory that
freedom would elevate the blacks in the scale
of humanity and civilization. Before and
even during the war, when the negroes of the
South were in a state of slavery, crimes of a
high grade were almost unknown among
them. An execution was a rare event,
and as a general rule, society moved on nn-
shoeked by deeds of horror and the painful
spectacles of the gallows that follow in their
train. How do you account for the change?
Without comment, we state the fact and leave
the solution to those who claim to be the ex
clusive friends of the negro, and have violent
ly taken bis destiny in their own hands.
If there has been an increase of crime
among the whites, it is a Tesult naturally to be
expected from rational causes. Nor is it con
fined to any particular section of the Union.
A four years bloody conflict, in which the
masses on both sides are engaged, when law
is made to give place to might and the shed
ding of human blood becomes the business of
the day, has never failed to bring upon a peo
ple, however enlightened, for a season a
reign of recklessness and demoralization.
It is one of the legitimate fruits of war, and
hardly less to be deplored than the human sac
rifices of the field. In this instance, however,
the record is less fearful at the South than it is
at the North, and when circumstauces and the
character of their respective populations are
considered, immeasurably so. In our case,
with a faithful administration of the law, we
are encouraged to hope for a speedy and radi
cal amendment among the whites; but, as re
gards the negro, neither freedom nor educa
tion, nor the certainty and terrors of punish
ment seems to exert the least control over his
passions or conduct. He is a problem in our
civilization yet to be solved; and just here we
have opened up a new if not boundless field
for the statesman and j; nllan thropist.
EMIGRATION FROM GEORGIA TO
TEXAS.
continued increase ix OCR daily fresh outrage is the breeze that is fanning it | tenths of the men who voted for Mr. Stephen
circulation. | into a blaze. Let President Grant beware ' reecntly, understand it,
r*HE <*ATF- CITY guards.
General John B. Gordon has just returned
from Texas and he reports an immense im
migration to that country, not only from all
parts of the South but also from Indiana and
Illinois. This emigration is especially large
from Georgia, and we regret to learn from in
tercourse with the leading men from South
west Georgia, that in their opinion it will be
more general from that section of the State
next fall than it has been at any time since
the surrender. We are not surprised at em-
gration from the negro rule of South Carolina
and Mississippi, and Louisiana, but why any
citizen of Georgia, and especially a farmer,
should desire to leave their State for Texas, is
more than we can comprehend. To the far
mer we can demonstrate that there is no land
under the sun where as much clear money
can be made farming as in middle Georgia.
We are willing to admit that in some portions
of the West, and in many parts of Texas, the
lands are richer than they are here, but we
also know that there are a great many more
contingencies to encounter, from insects and
crop failures than are to be met with in Geor
gia. The writer of this article at one time
owned a large body of land on the Brazos,
most every acre of which would make a bale
of cotton to the acre without manure, but af
ter four years trial we became satisfied that
the aggregate profit from any four years crops
in middle Georgia would exceed the same
crops made in Texas. Now, when it is con
sidered that here we have so many more fa
cilities for getting our crops to market, and
can get so much better prices for all we make,
we cannot but regard this restlessness and de
sire for chaoge on the part of our people with
sincere regret. In truth, when we see a line
of wagons filled with well to do farmers and
their families wending their weary way to the
West, we can hardly resist the attempt to
stop them and dissuade^them’from their folly.
We have travelled over a great part of the
West and Southwest on horseback, and we
assert that wo met very few people who had
moved from our country who would not
gladly have returned if they could have done
so. There seems to be a prevalent idea that
way out “somewhere,” without any definite
idea where, that it will be easier to make a
living than just where we are, and hence, the
feverish desire for change. Go where you
may, my friends, you will find that labor is
your poriion, and if yon will just make up
your minds to put up with half the hardships
and privations in Georgia that you are sure
to encounter in Texas, you will make a for
tune here sooner than you can there.
Last year we read in the Southern Chris
tian Advocate, an appeal from Dr. Boriug, for
the Orphan Asylum. We felt our conscience
twitch ns that we had never contributed to
this noble charity, and while in this frame of
mind our attention was directed to an old
field that we had in apple trees. This field
contained a little over three acres. We deci
ded to plant it in cotton, and give the clear
proceeds to the Asylum. Alter a careful
debtor and creditor account with this three
acres, we found that our clear profit was
$44 50, which was accordingly turned over to
Dr. Boring.
This land was very poor aud cost U3 but $8
per acre. We used fertilizers, for which were
almost paid for by the cotton seed. It is
useless to say that this is an exceptioucl case,
for the same results can bo obtained every
year from almost any kind of land in this sec
tion.
To 3*oung men, we say what are you goiDg
for ? Why allow your fancy to dwell upon
the future of some little town on the Pacific
Railroad that will be sure to have ten thou,
sand people in it before five years.” Why go
to a place for the reason that it will be in ten
years what the place you leave now is. Stay
where you are. Go to work and you will have
no time to spend in idlo longing for the unat
tainable.
In this connection, we will suggest to the
railroad companies to offer the same facili
ties for emigration from Texas which they
pow offer to get.there, nnd we think it proba
ble that era long they will have their trains
crowded both ways. One way by foolish
people, and the other by those who have
learned wisdom enough to come back.
The continued increase in the circulation of
the daily Herald is surprising to everybody
conversant with the newspaper business.
Since last Saturday the number cf new names
placed on our books has averaged nearly one
qiure per day, and our regular subscription
list is now larger than it has ever been. In
this city alone, notwithstanding w e have had
for months past. by far the largest list of sub
scribers, the increase has been most gratify
ing, varying from nine to five new names per
day.
It is supposed by some people that the cir
culation of this paper is confined to the
larger towns and cities of the State. To show
that this is not at all so, but that the Herald
permeates every village and cross-road of the
State, we publish at random a list of thirteen
new 'daily subscribers received in one club
on last Friday, from Whitesburg—a ^village
itself not six months old. Such clubs come
in every day or two.
lest the flames burst out again, and the for
bearing people of this hour confront him stern,
implacable Men !
MR. STEPHENS’ POSITION ON FED
ERAL POLITICS.
We are glad to observe that the press of this
State have at length taken issue with Mr.
Stephens on the remarkable position be has
assumed touching Grant’s administration.
When such a paper as the Savannah News,
and such a man as Colonel Gardner, of the
Augusta Constitutionalist, are compelled to
censure Mr. Stephens, others more impulsive
and less conservative may be excused a frank
expression of opinion.
It is not too much to say that Mr. Stephens
has presumed entirely too far upon his per
sonal popularity. He has overstepped the
limits of public patience, and must, there
fore, prepare himself for that public con
demnation which his own written utterances
It will not do, however, for Mr. Stephens t
stand upon his past record and then ask us
to follow him into the support of radicalism.
Neither will his intolerant talk about “true”
Democrats whip anybody into his way ot
thinking. If, blinded by a sense of his own
importance, and misled by a belief in his own
infallibility and invulnerability, ^persists ia
preaching the doctrines of radicalism
tenets of Democracy, he will, before long,
flod himself placed into the radical ranks
besides Longstreet, with not a vestige re
maining of the wonderful influence he has
so long enjoyed in Georgia.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Prominent among the namea registered at the
National Hotel last night, were the following: W E
Kejner, Oxford, England; G W Bollinga end W R
De-more, Augusta; W A Hansel!, Rosewood; T J Pari,
Grceuaboro; W A Parka. Marietta; A R Collins, Savan
nah.
The following are a few of the prominent persons
, ..... | registered at the H. I. Kimball House last night:
It must bo borne in mind that the names | provoke. He blunders terribly if he imagines colonel p H Blomet, Macon; General Phil Cook,
of these gentlemen were never before on our i that an J number of the men who supported j American; Lue R Myers, Savannah; A Johnson, Car-
books. The following is the list:
W. W. Harris, Jethro Jones, Strickland &
Co., M. J. Velvin, Bullard & McMillan,
O’Rear & Bro., E. 8. Roberts & Co., A. J.
Richards, Jones & Co., W. L. McRea, W. E.
Crawford, A. G. Kendrick, R. W. Smith.
On yesterday we were informed that the
agent of a city cotemporary was going about,
asserting that eight subscribers to the Heb-
ald at LaGrange had stopped their paper.
Last night, as luck would have it, our agent,
Mr. T. J. Burney, returned to Atlanta from
LaGrange, and made his report. Every sub
scriber there, tcithout a single exception, whose
time had expired had renewed his subscrip
tion and paid for it in advance again, and in
addition the following list of names of new
daily subscribers was reported:
H. SchiTmarcber, C. H. Griffin, J. B. Holle
& Co., Doctors Ridley, W. A. Seay, W.
Brown, Pres Cox.
The reader vrill now understand what the
tactics of the Hebald’s opponents are. The
fact is that during the past week we have
added largely to our list at Newnan, Fair-
burn, LaGrange, West Point, Gainesville,
Cartersville, Marietta, Covington, Madison,
Barnosville, and, in fact, at almost every
point on all the railroads leading from this
city. Daring the same period of time the
number of stoppages has been exactly three.
We do not mention these facts in a boast
ful spirit, but merely for the purpose of show
ing to onr advertisers that their patronage is
well bestowed. The circulation of the Daily
Herald is now beyond question the largest of
i any paper published in Atlanta, and is proba
ble the largest of any paper published in
Georgia. By next fall wo expect to have at
least eight thousand daily subscribers, and
ten thousand before the close of the year.
him in his opposition to Greeley will now fol- 1 tersville; George Lumpkin, jr., Antioch; W B Wood,
low him in his march into the radical camp. j Macon ’ and B H Hill, Jr., City.
Whatever of wisdom there may be in his , The Latest by Mail.
course, the great majority of “Straights” can- j
not perceive it, and they cannot accept blind- j Samana Bay is declared a free port,
ly the assurance which the egotism of Mr. | The Missouri Supreme Court has decided agair
Stephens offers them, that whatever he says
or does is necessarily correct.
As Colonel Gardner shows, with admirable absorb the Pacific and Atlantic line,
clearness, there is not a tenable position now j The young cotton crop of Alabama is represented to
occupied by Mr. Stephens. Claiming to be a h » Te offered mucb from froat
woman suffrage.
The Western Union Telegraph Company wants to
We are truly glad to see the fttvakeuiug of
turning up thoi r noiesYtlhe common-coated, I the old military spirit among onr young ffien.
by mousU'^ed fellows (who happened to I
strike, *’ ue poor stratam in their generations,)
* ,v _ 0 are building themselves up fortunes,
fifty years off, and then the two classes will
be exactly reversed. It is really getting to be
almost a curse to be born the son of a rich
man in this fast and foolish country of ours.
This should not be so!
And the remedy is plain. Educate your
son to work aud to save, no matter what your
wealth may be. Make him self-reliant, above
all things. Limit his income to certaio in-
On a recent visit to Savannah we witnessed
the most beautiful martial display that we
have seen in eight years. It did onr heart
good to see the magnificent Volunteer Bat
talion, the Hussars and the" Artillery march
ing to the music of the fife and tbs drum-
IVe recurred to the old war times and could
not bnt fed that these years were the most
pleasant of onr lives. Then we had no debts
to pay and our ratious were found for ns. It
is true we bad bard times, bat we were always
so sleepy before we got rest, and so hungry
figures, and make them such that it > before wc got anything to .cat that we appre-
will require good management to live decent- 1
ly inside of them. Make him always pay for
ukai Le gets; the first time that he “ opens
an account,” he opens a gate that leads down
a very dangerous laue. Don’t stuff him with
so much Latin and Greek that you will force
him to omit the homely but useful multiplica_
tion table, and get him well educated in inter,
est and discount calculations, even if it neces
sitate his giving up his lessons on the piano
forte. Teach him some useful, honorable
trade, and develop his tody by healthful out
door work. And when he grows up, don’t be
ashamed to confess to him the poverty in
which you were born, but teach him to revere
and avoid it.
Teach him to honor labor for labor's sake,
and to work because God commanded it.
When rich and poor alike give their boys
this sc: t of education, we will have a steadier,
better and more reliable population; bnt not
till then.
Fathers, study the hints that these crude
thoughts would bring to you; accept their
suggestions and ponder over them. And yon
who have hoys to raise, raise them honestly,
carefully, sensibly. Don’t fondle them in
pomp nnd splendor all their lives, nud when
they are grown throw tlfem out, as yon would
throw out a careless, foolish dint-speckle,
whose only aim is to sport with the guut and
dance in the snnbeam.
There’s no fun, wo can tell you, in being
raised in a hothouse nnd fed on its languid
nirs, then suddenly transplanted (o some
Arctic Zone or other nud ordered to hnd,
blossom and bring forth fruit.
elated these material comforts in n manner
never before rtalized.
The marching of the Savnunth military
was simply perfect, nnd every where we were
greeted by the inquiry, “Why don’t Atlanta
wake up?” “What is Atlanta doing to revivo
the past,” until we wero really ashamed of
onr city. Hence we rejoice to call attention
to the announcement of H. W. Wooding to
the Gate City Guards. When we tell the pub
lic that young men like Miles Turpin, W. T.
Newman, B. C. Young and others, have this
matter in hand, they may know that the
work is about to commence in earnest.
We published in the Herald of the 7th, a
statement that by a recent decision of the
Court of Claims the Cotton Tax had been de
clared unconstitutional. This news has been
copied so widely in other papers and has
brought us such a number of inquiries that we
have decided to give all the information in our
possession through the columns of the Her
ald. Our friends will receive this as an apology
for not answering their letters in each caso.Maj
Ben. Ferrill the Ordinary of Chatham county
informed the writer of this article that he had
received information from a leading Attorney
in Washington, who was his associate couu
sel, that the case cf Berg vs the United States,
for the recovery of tax collected on cotton, had
been decided in favor of the claimant.
Berg instead of petitioning Congress brought
suit in the ’ Court of Claims. The case of
course will go to the Supreme Court and if
this judgment is affirmed, the result will be to
return nearly 80 millions of money to the
South. We have written to Mnj. Ferrill for
oil the information he may have on the subject
SIIPHKKE COURT DECISIONS.
Hereafter the Supreme Coart Decisions will
appear regularly in the Herald.
We simply reiterate our determination to
spare no pains or expense in enlarging tlie
sp 1 . ore of the Herald.
Though scarcely six months old, it is to
day ouo of the best organized newspapers in
the Sontb; though as yet only a hint of what
it will he in the next.
We call attention to the elaborate and s ir-
ring Special Dispatch appearing this morn-
in 4 from the Herald’s correspondent in
New Oilcan*. It wi.l he seen that ho quotes
a special which will appear in this mcruing’s
Picayune, which i* hone; rcli ib’ ?. It an
nounces important news.
and when his reply is received we will lay it
before our readers.
CAPTAIN HALL'S PATE.
The news of the sad fate of Captain Hall,
the Arctio Explorer, will be received with re
gret everywhere. The greater part of his life
was spent in the Arctic regions, and his great
est ambition was lo reach the Foies, ne
it was whose discoveries settled forever the
question of the fate of Sir John Franklin-
Coptaiu Hall was a native of the
United States, nnd a splendid sped men
of the adventurous seaman. Stout inform
and healthy in appearance, he seemed to
have many years of life before him. A few
days prior to his departure from New York,
he declared that he would not return until
LOUISIANA CRUSHED AOAIN FOR
AWHILE.
As wo predicted, ar.d as our special uis
patches from New Orleans report, the strug
gle in Louisiana is ended for the present.
Bather than come into conflict with the
federal forces Captain De Blanc has retired
from St. Martinsville and dispersed Lis forces.
Kellogg's ruffians are, consequently , In su
preme control. Protected by Federal bayo
nets, they can now lord it over the unfortu
nate people with impunity. At St. Martins
ville, then, the struggle is over, but it is
certuin to break out elsewhere.
Iu no spirit of bravado do wo say that the
use of the Federal forces against the people
of Louisiana is danger ous. The anxiety to
avoid a conflict with them will not always
exist. Forbearance is certain to give place to a
just exasperation if .Grant persists in using
the United States army to crush men who
only seek to defend their rights against a
band of conspirators. Louisianians would be
more than human if they yielded always. The
great danger to the Federal government is that
the patience they now exhibit will be exhaust
ed, and that the collision they now shun, to the
sacrifice of their manhood almost will be
sought with the anxiety of men driven to
despair by ill-treatment.
For what recourse has Louisianians save to
that of brute lorce in the vindication of iheir
ight to self-government? To their appeals
to Congress they have been treated with con
tempt; while the Northern people are apa
thetic, if not indifferent to their situation.
One man alone can servo them to-day, and
he is iu the ranks of their oppressors. It
ally looks a3 if Grant, with a view to a third
term as Fresident, was deliberately at work
goading the Southern people into another
revolution. It matters little that the troul le
is confined to Louisiana; for who is there
among ns, in whose veins courses the blood
of a Southern man, who could sit down quiet
ly aud witness the slaughter of the brotheis
and sons of tboso heroes of Hays aud of day-
lor, whose life-blood enriched the soil of
every State during our recent struggle, and
whose bones arc mouldering in every Confed
erate Cemetery, from Virginia to Mississippi?
It is a dangerous policy, wo repeat, this use
of Federal soldiers against the people. Some
dry will not the Louisianians justly say: “We
havo repeatedly exhibited evidence that we do
not desire to fight you. Not that we are
cowaids, but that wo wish tho people of Ihe
North to understand that we are not making
war upon’the United States Government.
You, however, persist in aiding our oppress
ors; you give them armed protection in ail
their outrages; you force ns to the alternative
of fighting you or dishonoring our manhood.
We accept the alternative of fighting, and
upon the heads of the men who sent you
against us, be every drop of your blood that
we may shed.”
Such a day must come, unless there is a
change in the policy of the administration.
The veriest dastard that ever lived is some
times forced lo rcsont a wrong, aud Southern
men are not cowards. Everything that Grant
is DOW doing is bused upon tho supposition
that the Sonthirn people will nevor summon
up courage enough to resist tho Federal
It is because the liadical
r: fZl nUni-it tbc United States colors on authority again
the pole. Ho w ill never return indeed, aud J party believe that the Inst vestige of resml-
hc never reached tho goal he sought.
Tlie NyuafiOgu
The sorvL
yest rtvtsy ev.
BeaideH tl:e l
IUC <
tho Synagogue on Whit’lsll utirct
r to ot a hly.U'y tuten-atii g nature.
xorvirfCR. tli« servlco of oonflrnu-
rrd to master Jacob Mt-nko. a nt of f >rb
. v M t].,;* iu;» te u *0:1 *»r t’.ie l»w.' still acioulucri
Democrat, ho nevertheless yields everything
to radicalism. No more important question
ever came before the American people than
that involved in the proceedings in Louisiana.
A State has been wontinglv, brutally outraged
by the Federal Government. The legally
elected Governor has been driven from his
magisterial chair, and a scoundrelly adven
turer installed therein. Tbi9 was done by a
corropt, drunken Judge, without a shadow of
authority, and President Grant supported the
act, and still supports it. Not eventhe most
radical of Congressmen have dared to defend
Durell and Grant. Senators Morton, Car
penter. and other equally radical men are
constrained to condemn the act as a gross
usurpation. Of all the prominent men in the
country, Mr. A. H. Stephens alone defends
and justifies it. This he does while claiming
to be a Democrat, and to be a believer in the
doctrine of the sovereignty of the States.
"Wo read that General Longstreet is re
garded with contempt by every man in
Louisiana, whose good opinion is worth hav
ing. Wherein Longstreet differs from Mr. A.
H. Stephens, we cannot comprehend. This
recusant is merely enforcing tho policy of
Grant, which Mr. Stephens defends; he
merely obeys the orders of tho man whom
Mr, Stephens lauds as a wise statesman and
pure character. It is very clear that if Long
street is wrong then so is Mr. Stephens, aDd
that if Mr. Stephens is right, then so is Long-
street. Tho only difference we can perceive
between them is that Longstreet boldly pro
claims himself a radical, aud that Mr. Ste
phens asks us to believe that he is still a
Democrat.
Grant, on a salary of twenty-five thousand
dollars per annum, has amassed a fortune of
over a million of dollars in eight years.
Notoriously he has accepted gifts of money
and of houses, and yet Mr. Stephens asks us
to believe that his personal character is free
from blame. His nepotism is also notorious.
More than twenty of his kindred Lave been
installed into office, and the long list of their
names have been repeatedly published by the
New York Sun nnd other papers. In spite of
all this evidence, Mr. Stephens, vrith calm
assurance, tells us not to believe any of the
statements concerning his fondness for giving
his relatives lucrative offices. There is not
a word of truth in it. No matter what the
facts may be, Alexander H. Stephens says it
is not true, therefore it cannot be true.
If we look at tho financial poicy of Grant,
we are told that it is absolutely unassailable.
Is this really so ? We defy Mr. Stephens to
prove that the financial policy of Grant has
been of real benefit to the country. Boutwell
and the Massachusetts coterie moulded that
policy. Its principal features are a reduction
of the public debt and a reduction of the
price of gold by contraction of the volume of
currency. What the effect of this policy
has been, was recently shown by the New
York Herald in a scries of able articles.
It caused the retention of heavy and op
pressive taxation; the contraction of
the currency, produced stringency
in tee money market, while the reduction in
the price of gold was followed by enormous
importations of foreign goods, which has left
tho balance of trade against us in spite of the
large sums produced by onr cotton, tobacco
and other exports. Grant’s, or rather Boat-
well’s financial policy has not been anything
more than an apparent success. It has made
the rich man richer nnd th.* poor man
poorer. Tho three or four hundred millions
of dollars in currency additional which the
people need are kept from them, so that a
handful of rich men might be benefited.
Thus it is that industry is partially par^yzed
iu the West, and. wholly so iu the South,
where from twelve to sixty per cent, interest
, H money is demanded and obtained.
At some other time we shall write at length
on the financial policy of Grant. To-day we
merely desire to prick the bubble that Mr.
Stephens has blown. It ia time, indeed, that
he should be made to understand how few
sympathize with his views. Months ago a
feeling of distrust was aroused, and we tell
him now that it was to this feeling of distrust,
os much as to anything else, that he owed his
defeat for United States Senator. We do not
for a moment question his sincerity; but we
insist that he does not represent the people
of Georgia in giving expression to 6Uch sen
timents as he publishes over his initials- in
the paper he edits. We have the authority of
Col. Gardner that ho docs not even represent
tho views of the people of the district who
elected him to Congress. We submit, th
whether he ought to take his seat iu tho
House of Representative* without first ascer
taining if he is there ns a Democrat orasa’sup-
porter of Grant’s administration. In view of
tho position ho has assumed we think it his
duty to resigu, and then, if he desires it, he
can take tho field, ou his present platform,
represents De-
The Massachusetts State constabulary are rigidly €
forcing the new prohibitory laws, and the principal
brewers of Boston are discussing a proposition to
send tbelr stock out of the State and suspend btui-
Edwin Booth has leased his theatre in New York.
The lease ws« made solely from a desire to gain more
time for study. He will sdd lo his roles King Lear,
and probably an entire new repertoire of impersona
tions.
The New Orleans evening papers, cf Wednesday, re
port that Kellogg offers $250 in Btste warrants as
bounty for the Metropolitans to go to the country.
The commander of the Metropolitans at St. Martins
ville appeals to Kellogg for a mounted force to assist
them.
A Washington dispatch says that the aggregate
amount paid into the United States Treasury up to
noon on Monday, by twenty-seven members of Con
gress, it being their return of extra compensation, is
$111,000 97, including the check received yesterday
morning from Secretary of the Senate, Gorham, on
account of Senator Summer, for $4,444 60.
The Trackee Republican says that there is a rumor
to the effect that Captain Jack bas divided his army
of fifty men into three divieions; the first, under the
Captain,is to capture and hold California; the second
is to sweep northward and subdue Oregon, while the
third forces its way over the mountains and sage
brush and devastates Nevada and Utah.
The wild oranges of Florida make a wine which gets
a man so drunk that he sleeps two days and nights
before waking.
Grant was fifty-one years old on Sunday. lie will bo
almost sixty when b6 finishes bis third term.
The receipts of the American Bible Society for the
past year wero $6G9,007—including $189,897 from lega
cies, and $125,697 from donations.
It is estimated that about one-third of the territory
of Alabama is now, by Legislative enactments, tern
perar.ee grounds. There is hardly a church, school-
house, college or seminary of learning of any kind
except those located within the limits of an incorpora
ted town or city, to which the law enacted during the
past session, "preventing the sale of liquor within
three miles of cb«r*hc« nsd echo®! bouses,” does not
apply.”
Hibernian Benevolent Society’s Picnic.
This jolly crowd are going to Iceville to cool off cn
the 13th instant. Of course they will have a fine time.
They are popular aud persistent in their efforts for
success. Prominent among the arrangements for the
comfort of those who accompany them on this occa
sion, ia securing the services of O. C. Carroll, who
will be in charge of the refreshment stand on tho
grounds. Everybody knows that Carroll never fails ia
anything he undertake, and it ia needless to say that
every comfort and luxury necessary for the inner man
wifi be provided. By all meant let everybody go.
These jolly Irish will do you good—and they don’t
picnic but once a year.
John Kkelt.—This prinoe of dry goods merchants t
has something nice to aay in our columns this morn
ing. about many nice things that he has to give away
almost, at the Loudon Store. Keely bought the ele
gant atock of goods there low down, aud intends sell
ing them the same way. Now we intend going there
Monday and taking a few articles, because they are
cheap. Meantime his elegant store on the corner re
open, and ia daily thronged with customers,
who take away piles of goods, leaving the greens be
hind them to gladden Bob O'Donnelly’s heart
Keely is a whole-souled fellow and well merits his
immense secces*.
Match Game.
A match game of base ball was played Friday even
ing between tho Osceolas and University nine, of
Moore's Commercial College. It resulted in a victory
for the Osceola, by a score of 36 to 24. Two very fine
double plays were made by the Osceola's, one by
Baldwin and Johnson; the other by Woods and Bald-
win. Hurrah for the Oaccola.
j ance Las been beaten out of us. nnd that we
] will submit to nny outrage, no matter how in-
! famous, that wc have witnessed Midi scenes ns
uactingin Louisiana. They err greatly. It
only a grand exhibition of gelf-restraiot ami
But meantime them is n sp.uk agninst s-mo cnndulate
and c..ch ! moeivcy as wc understand it and as nine
Our State Exchanges.
J. T. Carry, tho distinguished bigamist,
who has been practicing adultery in a flock
of his followers in Colombia, and who was
jailed iu effect of this, now writes to lae
Judge that bis stiff upper lip has wiited, and
that if tkey’U turn him out he'll leave the
country.
The Albany News say., “The Wicked Flea,
poem, was crowded cut of this issue."
We’ve always noticed that a wicked flea was
a hard thing to crowd out; it wiil be apt to
appear in “our next.”
The LaGrange Reporter says:
The Municipal election Wednesday resulted
in the election of W. C. Ysncey Mayor, and
E. Beall, G. Kener, H. E. Cobb, John X.
Cooper, F. M. Longley and H. W. Dallis al
dermen.
The “old soldiers” in Floyd county are
working up a monumental association.
Below we copy a few equba from Harris. It
is so delightful to sec a young follow retain
bis bubbling vivacity after marriage. It will
probably be fully twelve months before he ac
tually withers up:
The Atlanta Constitution announces that
the New Yotk Herald took its idea of pub
lishing articles in tho German language from
the Constitution. We have long labored un
der tbe suspicion that the Herald steals its
ideas, and now that the facts hare been defin
itely given lo the public wc trust that imme
diate steps will be taken to arrest and punish
the offenders.
10, of tho Macon Telg^mph, nnd Grady,
of the Atlanta Hewu.d, haVir Hdti -.'wi-
Yico rrcsidcuis ot tho Georgia Society for the
Freventieu of Cruelty to Animals. This
honor is well conferred, lieese faint:, when
ever ho sees a cockroach, and Colonel Giady
has long since given orders that tho restless
flea nnd tbe desultory bed-bug shall not be
murdered within the purviews of his de
mesne.