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The Daily Herald. SUNDAY MAY, 11, 187?. THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, ALEX. ST. CLAIR-ABRAMS. IIENRY NV. 6RADT, R. A. ALSTON, Edllon and Managers. IHE TERMS of tte HERALD »r, u follow. : DAILY, 1I«I *10 00 I WEEXLY. 1 00 DAILY, < Month.... 6 00 | WEEKLY. 6 Month. 1 00 DAILY, 3 Month.... i 50 ( WEEKLY, 3 Month. 60 DAILY, 1 Month.... 1 00 | Atlterti.em.nt. Inserted at moderate rale.. Sub scription. and advertisement. Invariably in advance. Addres. HERALD POBLISHING CO.. Drawer S3 Atlanta, Georgia. Office on Alabama Street, near Broad. TO ADVEBTISEES. Tlie bona il<lc circulation of the Daily Herald It larger than that of the Consti tution. The bona iide circulation of the Dally Herald Is moie tnan doabre that of the San. We are pi parcii to verify this claim from our books. 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.