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VOLUME XLI.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, JOE 28, 1S7I.
I M B E i: 48.
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CiNCiNNATl, o., June J9.—At aj »b. Stephens 9alctat6rv.
meeting of the citizens this morning at j .
the Board of Trade rooms to take ac- Since the “Announcement” of Mr.
tioo'in regard to the death of Mr. V&l- j Speights on the 15th instant, it is
landigham, Air. J. L. Valteer wascalled P ro P er f° r me t0 state to the patrons
to the chair, and a short address was j °* The Sun that, in consenting, as one
made by Hon. Win. S. Groesbeck, in i the proprietors, to take charge of
which he alluded to the high personal fbe Political Department of this paper,
qualities of the deceased, aud especial
ly to the loss to the State and nation
at this time in the following preamble
and resolution, which was adopted:
Whereas, The sudden deat h of Hou.,
osseedifig six lines. Nominations for office,Com- j 0. L \ allandigham by a casualty, uu- j 5^®® tiiore^ than half a century.—
ifions or Editorial notici .-for individual benefit, ; ( j e |- circumstances ot great public in- j The object will be to advocate such
| terest, has awakened the sympathy 0 f j doctrines as will secure a perpetual
my object is to make it a trueorgan
of the Jeffersonian principles of the
Federal Government, under which the
Peoples of the United States lived in
so great peace, prosperity and happi
*01 THRRN OPINION.
a mr.n* Word, from n.b» ltwo historic characters, so utterly tin-
rr i ,i \i n . r w r» ! like in other respects, should so closely
roomls on Ok A«r Departure of Ilk De-1 re8emWe Mch 1 ’ otl , er in the8e t , v0
to be the champion “ svvearist” in the j those proposed by Sherman, but it can j “Do you fear, as Mr. Stephens does,
Fourth ward. Strange, isn’t it, that 1 never be the fruit of the oppression that; that this government is about to be-
we have had to suffer since the war.” come a centralized despotism.”
ed a* tran.-ient advertising.
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. ilieation for dUiaisSiou from Administration, 3 00
“ “ Guardianship, 3 00
“ leave to sell Laud, 5 00
for Homesteads, 1 75
bravery,
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re to Debtors and Creditors,
.. ot Land, &e., per square 5 00 j
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
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or Cuardiaus, are required bylaw to be held on the
arst Tuesday intlie mouth, between the hours of It
[:,e forenoon aud 3 in the afternoon, at the Court
]|o ; in the County in which the property is situated
\ re of these salts must be given in a public ga-
... rr to days previous to the day of sale.
Xnti< i s for the sale of personal property must be
jvr’r n like manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notices to the debtois and creditors of an estate
n,r:-' also be published 10 days.
.V .r that application will be made to the Court ot
Orbuury for leave to sell Land, &c., must be publish-
,| j. .r two months.
Citations for letters of Administration.Guardianship,
\ must be published 30 days—for dismission from
t,illustration monthly three months—fordismission
, :n Guardianship, -JO ilavs.
17.; . f.r foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish-
ui'ly for four months—for establishing lost pa-
:.. tor the full space of three months—for compeil-
, < from Executors or Administrators, where
h as been given by thedeceased,the full spaceof
tfiree months.
Publications will always becontiuned according to
• ese. t hi legal requirements, unlessotherwise ordered.
itnti harmonious union of tbe States un
tier the Constitution, in the spirit and
tor the purposes for which it was
originally made by the fathers; and
upon the principles announced by
Jefferson, maintained by Madison, and
set forth by Gen. Jackson in his “au
thorized” explanation of the principles
of his Proclamation on the Nullifica
tion movement in South Carolina iu
1S32, and in his Farewell Address.
Upon these principles arid those an
nounced by General Washington, he
1 as such expression there- j wbo was “first in war, first in peace,
and first in the hearts of his country-
the people who honor his
and
Whereas, The citizens of Cincinnati
irrespective of party have met to min
gle in sorrow with the family and im
mediate friends of this widely known
citizen ; and,
Whereas, The death of a citizen dis-
intelligence, is always a public calam
ity, but when this loss occurs under
such circumstances the sorrow and
sympathy of tiie whole people are
aroused ; am
fore he it
Resolved, That the city of Cincin- j merj ” . The S,1 » will stand. Its posi-
nati unites in deep sorrow with all sects! r j ou ' V *G be, that the Government of
and parties in Ohio, at the sudden j United States is a “Confederated”
death ot Hon. C. L. Vallandigham, and ; °f “federal Republic,” formed by the
earnestly appreciating his noble qual- >^ ta tes, possessing in itself no inherent
ities, and sincerely sympathizing with I Sovereignty ; but that all its sovereign
his family arid friends, the officers of ; Towers which are specific and limit-
this meeting have appointed a Com-1 ® d are be ^ d entirely by delegation
jnocracy—lie thinks (hat there are worse
Occupations for a Gentleman than fight
ing—“ It is Time to Begin the War
Again," fyc.
Correspondence New York Herald.
Sparta. June 7, 1S71.
After a two days wearisome hunt I
have succeeded in finding Mr. Robert
Toombs. I left Atlanta day before yes
terday morning, reached his home ac
Washington late the same afternoon,
and at once made my wav to hisfami-, „ . - , -y . ,
ly mansion-a stately building, with ! Deorg.ans respect and admire him, and
huge white Grecian pillars, and an im- i , wl11 ^eri^y sing his praises by the
meuse flight of front steps. I rang the j h ? ur ^ther, there ore but a few who
hell and demanded of Aunt Dinah, or T ace m “ cb confidence m Ins judgment.
Lucy, or whatever was the nameof the ! 1 h p\ tel1 >’ ou lie 18 tlie g reatest orat . or
African portress, if the Georgia chief- j ai ' d the «nost generous gentleman u. the
tain was it home. | S / ate ? but hey add . th " he 18 T P t °l
_ j the most violent prejudices, and that
he is little to be trusted as a pariy
leader. Some, too, will say furtlierthat
ble American foibles?
Before I proceed to give the conver
sation which I held with “the General,”
it is well to say that, in the opinion of
your correspondent, Mr. Toombs is
PROBABLY MISTAKEN
in thinking that his sentiments are
shared bv a majority of his fellow-cit
izens. Conscious of his former popu
larity and power, he very likely exag
gerated his present political strength.
But while a very large majority ot
Book and Job Work, of all kinds,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT THIS OFFICE.
‘IT
mittee of Escort and have also provid
ed a Special Committee to complete
arrangements and attend the funer
al.
The funeral of Hon. C. L. Vallandig
ham which taLes place to morrow
atone o’clock, will, from present indi
cations, he the iargest ever in Dayton.
from the several States, and that the
States are absolutely Sovereign in the
exerciseofa.il reserved or undeleguted
Powers.
The Sun, under mv general control
“Mr. Toombs.” she repeated, pen-1
sively, after me, as though the words
were strange and unfamiliar, and con
veyed adoubtful meaning to her brain.
“ Mr. Toombs ; do you mean Massa
Bob ?”
“Yes, Mr. Robert Toombs.”
“Ah ! Massa Bob done gone away
on the kyars yesterday morning.”
Following in Massa Bobs<racks by
the first train thereafter, I at last came
upon the genial fire-eater himself in
the court room of this little Georgia
village, surrounded by a score or so ot
rustics, who listened with open mouths
and staring eyes to his unceasing flow
of talk, now and then applauding with
a hoarse laugh some especially pungent
ripple of political or social bitterness.
of its political course, will continue to I did not wait long before I recognized
TEIE BOV AND THE IS KOOK.
Longfellow’s new Poem ]
It un from yon distant mountain height
Tlie Inonkiet flows through the village stieet
A boy comes forth to wash his hands,
Washing, yes, washing, there lie stands,
In the water cool and sweet.
“ Brook, from what mountain dost thou come 7
O my brooklet cool and sweet !’’
"1 come from yon mountain high and cold,
Where lieth the new snow on the old,
Ami melts in the Summer heat.”
•'Brook, to what river dost thou go ?
O my brooklet cool and sweet!”
“ I go to the river there below.
Where in bunches the violets grow,
And sun and shadow meet.”
•Brook, te what garden dost thou go ?
O my brooklet cool and sweet!”
T go to that garden in the vale.
Where all night long the nightingale
Her love-song doth repeat.”
“Brook, to what fountain dost thou go 7
O my brooklet cool and sweet !”
“I go to the fountain, at whose brink
The maid that loves thee comes to drink,
And » .enever she looks there n,
I rise to meet her, and kiss kei chin,
Aud my joy is then complete.”
President Davis in a letter to Col.
Styles of the Albany News, complains
of the manner in which his speeches
at Atlanta and Augusta have been mis-
construed by the Northern press. He
I says he never wished directly or indi-j ( j,V
j rectly to counsel the Southern people
j not to tolerate tlie situation. He thinks
i they ought to wait patiently until the
returning good sense ot the Northern
! people bring about a reversal of the
j more obnoxious features in recent con-
j gressionai legislation. He disavows
most strongly anything like a revival
j of armed resistance. There was one
j part of his Atlanta speech which was
! not. reported before, saying he did not
! accept the situation. Davis asked any
i Northern reporter who might be pres-
! ent to take particular notice of his
| words, and then said he did not desire
i to be understood as advising anything
like disioyaltv to the Government.
stand upon the principles ot the plat
form of the Democratic Party ot the
Union, as announced in their last Gen
eral Convention at New York in ISbS.
A chief object will be to show by
calm and argumentative appeals to the
good sense and patriotism of the true
friends of the Constitution, North as
vveil as South, that any departure from
essential principles ot that plat
form will he exceedingly dangerous, if
not fatal, to the liberties of the whole!
country.
the one trait in his character which
friends and foes alike accord to him—
the strength and fearlessness and wit
that mark his criticisms of men and
things. He is one of those men who,
without being bad-hearted, give free
vein in conversation to every brilliant
ly illuminated idea that comes into his
head. He is a saver of smart things,
and no fear of offending against the
laws of well-bred society; no misgiv-
he is a man behind his time, and that
he is too old ever again to come up
with the level of his age.
Id appearance, Massa Bob is very
stout, with a pleasant, nut-brown,
healthy face and bright hazel eyes.—
You might take him for a sort of better
class farmer ; hut the first few words
he utters will be accompanied by a
lighting up of the features and a quick
-and electric glitter of the eyes, which
will reveal his true intellectual rank.
By the way, his inability to keep si
lent and the brilliancy of his conversa
tion, were his greatest peril wlieu he
was running away to Cuba, and sever
al times nearly betrayed him.
“ Do you think tlie people of the
South prepared to accept the
NEW PLATFORM
of the Northern Democracy, Mr.
Toombs?” said I.
“ Why, of course they won’t accept
it. They cannot do so, without being
false to every principle of justice and
freedom.”
“ What are they going to do about
it ?”
“ I don’t know. But they cannot
ing, lest the highly esteemed words
may prove the seed of undying hatred j support it. For my part, I see no dif-
The great “living issue” now before j has power to curb his tongue. Hisjference now between the Democrats
the Peoples of the United States, is i friends warn you, ere they present you : and the Republicans. I should advise
between Consolidation, Centralism and to him, not to pay any attention to hisj the people to make the best bargain
Empire on the one side, and the sacred j shrewdish lapses from verbal polite- j they can, and side with whichever par-
sovereign right of local self govern- ness. “ He doesn't mean any harm,” ! tv bids the highest.”
merit by the Peoples of the several: they say; “when you know him you! “You have given up, however, all
States on the other ; or, in other
words : The great question now is,
whether the Peoples of these States
are to live under a government of laws
or a government of bayonets. This
is the great practical, absorbing, “liv
ing issue” at this time.
Wiiat Women Eat.—The following
will love and admire him as we do,” ! hope of making armed resistance
which is perfectly true. After talking \ the United States Government ?
to him ten minutes you will seethathe Not at all. I don’t know but that it
is very much like one of those surly ’ is about time for us to
uncles in an old play, who preface; fight again.
some unusual exhibition of largeheart- j 0ur only hope is in ourselves; every I
i edness by outbreaks of snappish ness ; p U1 qy in the North abandons us. I nev-!
U ith regard to the past usurpations j and rudeness, which, in any one else, j er expected much from Northern Dem- j
aud revolutionary measures of Con- would be simply unbearable. ocrats since they deserted us at the!
gress since the restoration of the Un- j Boh Toombs belongs to 'beginning of the war, so I am not
J 1 ie resumption of A T ype of southern gentlemen | greatly disappointed. I know the men j
the^Consriturion °bv * all the* States I wb ‘ c h the social revolution that is fol- j ,' vbo are tljeir leaders, aud they are j
which the Judge could not preside as j vv j,i c h had attempted to withdraw j l° w ‘ n f? on tlie heels of the war will |j U8 * : as unscrupulous as the Radicals.-—j
rom it, and for which alone the wZ • P robabl y ^veep away forever. A hun
dred years hence some historic novelist
Judge vs Judge.—In Dougherty
Superior Court, Judge Strozier pro-!
j nounced the Relief Act constitutional, j
i In a little while a case was called, in j
Don’t you regard the acts of
THE RECONSTRUCTED LEGISLATURES,
then, as binding upon the Southern
people ?”
“ Of course not. Those Legislatures
have not been legally elected, and what
ever they done is therefore invalid.—
They represent only a part of the peo
ple—and the worst part, and I have
no doubt that most of what they have
done will be at some time or other un
done.”
“Would that involve the repudiation
of the State debts they have incu rred ?”
“Of course it would.”
“And what is your opinion about the
debtof the United States; do you think
that that will be
REPUDIATED ALSO?”
“I have never believed that public
debts in a country governed by uni
versal suffrage will ever stand firm
against any great pressure. Just now,
the people of the North are very
prosperous and the debt is pretty well
distributed among them, so there is no
particularly strong cry of repudiation;
but as soon as the shoe pinches—in
some bad season the people will
turn round and throw off every dollar
of their public indebtedness. That
would happen in any country where
universal suffrage prevails.”
“You may say that the Democratic
party is •
BEING BETRAYED
by some of its leaders who do not wish
that Democratic principles should be
successful.”
“ Yes. They do not want to keep
this country a free republic any more
than the Radicals do. This new plat
form shows that. They are anxious
for office, of course. Principles are
nothing to them, or rather they are in
favor, at heart, of much the same
principles as the Radicals.”
“ But they seem to be supported
enthusiastically by the masses of the
party.”
“ I don’t think so. W ith the old
platform the Democratic party was
every year growing in strength, and
would have been successful in 1S72.
Its leaders, however, have changed it,
and, so far as Southern men can see,
thereis
NO VISIBLE DIFFERENCE
in principle between Democrats and
Radicals. It is a mere scramble for of-
to j fice. I don’t care now which party
| wins, and think it the best policy to
! make whatever terms we can, caring
j nothing about the name of* the organ
ization we support. Tlie South holds
j still the balance of power, and can
I probably throw victory in either scale.”
“But if this platform be unpalatable
! to the mass of the people, won’t the
■ Democracy melt away into thin air.”
j “Why you know as well as I do,
that the Northern Democracy consists
practically of a few score of men, who
he had been of counsel. Mr. J. D. Pope j ^
aniclo from Appleton’s Journal, we | was appointed Judge pro km. The I, „ profei8e j be d j j.
case was an oto one Mr. Pope de- tio „ thi8 attempt, Tbe Son will ad-
dared tlie whole Relief Act unconsti- „„ . • - r , • , ,
. . , . j , , , . , . i vocate and enjoin strict obedience to
tut.onal. j lie Judge had to stand it, „n __x- ,
„ , j .*• - , ’ all acts ot Congress and acts ot State
as Mr. ropes decision was as potent T „ ,, ,. , ,
. . ‘ j j -,| ’.I Legislatuies under them which have
as Ins own, and stands til reversed by t„„, , , ,
J 1 the form ot law as expounded by tlie
! courts, State and Federal, and impos-
must have! ed by tbose bl authority clothed with
the clique who run Tammany and the j have 8eized u P on its machinery and do
1 just as they please. The masses are
cal! the ladies attention to:
It is a popular belief that women eat
nothing. It is of course conceded that
they sustain life by the consumption
oi some articles of nourishment, but. , . ,
eating, in the whole acceptance of the ! a h, g ber tnbuna1 ’
it is supposed to be foreign to
Northern Democracy don’t want Dem
ocra
they
••That is the present tendency, of
course, I don’t think, however, the at
tempt will be crowned with ultimate
success.”
Such are the sailient points in a
couple of brief' conversations which I
had the honor of holding with “Massa
Bob.” I have excluded in the above
report the man’s side allusions to the
mean and sordid character of Northern
civilization into which Mr. Toombs
occasionally “broke,” as they say of a
restive trotting horse.
The type ot Southern man to which
he belongs have for twenty years din
ned into our ears our own unworthi
ness, and Mr. Toombs simply repeated
the usual strictures upon our manners
and character. In his eyes, the South
ern gentleman is the embodiment of
chivalrous honor and indifference to
mammon and high culture—a generous,
hospitable, conscientious atul gallant
image of his Maker; and the North
ern visitor at the South cheerfully en
dorses the general truth of such a pic
ture. But Mr. Toombs further be-
lieves that at the North there is nei
ther virtue nor honor nor liberality.
The masses of our people, he says,
are the serfs of miserable money-rfiak-
iDg milliionaires, who spring from the
gutter, who amass enormous wealth
by grinding the laces of the poor, and
then distinguish themselves at home
and in Europe by their vulgarity.—
Our clergymen are equally sordid, and
advocate any form of ismntic theology
that pays the best. Our politicians—
well, I would not like to repeat all
that Mr. Toombs says about them.—
He is coming North himself in a coup
le ot weeks, and will doubtless abuse
them to their faces with that lavish
wealth of invective which strikes fear
and trembling into the breasts of all
his Southern euemies.
The Story of the “Tribune.”—
The New York correspondent of the
Rochester Democrat writes as follows
of the Tribune :
Harrison’s funeral day was the
birthday of the Tribune. That day,
as I opened Edwin D. Morgan’s whole
sale store on Front street, where I had
a clerkship, I saw that a small sheet
with the above title had been thrust
in. On examining its proposals I
learned that it would be issued daily,
at nine cents per week, and that its
editor was Horace Greeley, well
known as the log-cabin man. Before
an hour had f assed the little folio was
forgotten, nor did it get a patron in
that concern until a long time after
wards, for it had no commercial value.
But the solemn dirge that marked the
funeral pomp was the welcome of that
new-born journal which seemed in
spired with vitality, endurance ami the •
highest moral heroism. Born amid
this scene of sorrow, the Tribune hits
always been imbued with sympathy
for the masses, and has won an envia
ble name as the friend of humanity.—
for the most part so many sheep, who ! Of the entire force which was enlisted
may study him as Thackeray has stud- ; ocr aUc principles to be successful; | Jprine most part so ....... .
ied Dick Steele or Joseph Addison ! they would rather lose the. election i 0 ovv t ‘ iem > aD( ' know nothing and , m this great work of building up the
word!
iemule nature. This fallacy is founded
and ustained by women themselves,
who during the affected period of their
lives, cultivate small appetites as being
ot semi-angelic construction. When |
tiiis pernicious nonsense is conscien
tiously carried out, the results upon
the would-be angels are squalor, red
noses, certain loss ot vigor, general
linipidness, and some other unpleas
ant consequences. But, as a rule, the
smallest appetites at the fashionable
tables are exhibited by tbose shrewd
girls whose natural and healthy wants
have been thoroughly appeased by se
cret stuffing. Need we refer our read
ers to the historical poem concerning
Violante in the pantry, gnawing ot a
mutton bone, reminding them how she
gnawed it, how she clawed it, when
she found herself alone ?
All this is a direct deceit, however,
practiced upon the unsophisticated old
bachelors, who, when they have made
the dainty caeatures theirs, find out
by the bachelor’s book, an ocular prool
what sturdy trencher women they have
married. Watch a healthy girl at sup
per, dining the intervals ol dancing;
she consumes by installments four times
as much as her partner, and seems, and
is, none the worse of it. Our experience
tells us that women eat, in pioportion
to their weight, as much as men, aud
are no more fairies in this respect than
in the manner ot weight.
Horrible Famine in Persia.—A
correspondent of the Levant -Herald,
writing from Tabreez, April SO, gives
an account of the famine, which goes
to confirm the later telegraphic news
of the extremities to which the people
have been reduced. The writer says :
The details which reach us here
ot tlie destitution and misery which the
Crime.—Assuredly we
fallen upon evil times. Never do we
remember to have seen such continu
ous record of crime in all its phases,
as has been forced upon our attention
lately through the public press. Mur
der, suicide, infanticide, abortion, and
indeed, all other crimes have been re
ported in such succession that one is
almost led to inquire if that period—
when the devii is to be let loose for a
thousand years, has not arrive I. In a
New York paper the other day no less
than five suicides were reported. Our
telegraphic reports have barely been
without a suicide a single night in a
fortnight. It is rarely a paper reach
es us that does not contain the bloody
details of a murder.
Really crime seems to be holding a
high carnival, and it remains for our
m m'wts and humanitarians to sug
gest some means for its suppression.—
It is time society were becoming alarm
ed. The public is not safe. Tretnen-
dious assaults are being made upon
the citadel of purity and virtue. The
people evince an alarming morbid ap
petite for reading the shocking details
of crime. Those which are the result
of domestic infelicity and most sick
ening their details are the most
eagerly read and discussed.
It is time, now, to pause awhile and j
think this matter over. Things are!
growing worse daily. Grime is stead- j
ily becoming more common. The pub
lic taste is growing daily less and less .
sensitive. Where it will stop heaven j
only knows unless the pulpit and the
press preach against and fight against
it, ana if possible turn the current be
fore it becomes an iiresistable torrent.
[Atlanta Sun.
The foundation stone to a great
monument to the author of “Waverly”
they | journal, Greeley is the only oue left.—
how During thirty years which has inter
power to execute them.
Constitutional Liberty is the off
spring ol Reason—not of physical
force.
The
rectification of all
c 4.- i. • * i I than h‘ive it lvsnltin a victorv fnr the ' care not ver V much about what
r„ ! Idoetri orthe part;? UreV ars ! voting fo>. Every one know, bow j During thirty y
that day, when the evil that his preju- i bondholders, and are just as much ia ! the j vened he has labored (how intensely
dices have prompted him to work is ! favor of a centralized despotism as the j c,t > of * ew ' ork ’ I "o one but he can know) on he place
well nigh forgotten, only the nobler j laicals ” “negro suffrage, where he commenced. The Tribune is
lineaments of his nature will be brought ’ “But you surely ao not seriously | I suppose, you regard as tlie most ob- ; ® 0 '‘ > paper in e i .ty y .icu ias
out in bold relief The man ot the 1 mean that the war ought to begin | noxious provision in the amendments? j °°t ebauged us locality, and it was tlie
twentieth century.’ while he will feebly i again?” ' Why do you object to it so strongly ? | to make that spot a center for
mark the energy of his misdirected! “ Yes I do.” In your own county a majority of the ; journalism.
public spirit, his blind, passionate ha- “And do you remember the blood-j negroes are Democrats.
. I j x J ^ I i |HI LMlb I lly 1119 UliUU) |IaooiUllfttr llti“ J
wrongs and usurpations under our sys-1 tred of the dominant form of American | sb ? d a ” d misery which that ,mi8t ' in_
terns of Government, should be sought ; ^vxhzatioo, and his careless impetuos-1 volve ?
through the instrumentalities of the! ,ty of s P eech ’ Wl11 dweM WIth S rPater
It is no particular trouble for us to How It was Done. It appears that
make and keep them Democrats. The ^ be endorsement ot President Grant
‘Yes
Constitution-through the peaceful P Ieasur « U P°° the frank honesty that I peace man. It.
operation of the ballot-the Legisla- ; has made him ever 8corn to cloak h,s ! MA * Y W<
I am not a ; negroes all over the South might be
induced to vote for their former mas
ters. In my county, where, as you
by the recent Pennsylvania Republi
can Convention was obtained by a
trick.
The Committee on Resolution deci-
but what of it ?
There are
ORSE OCCUTATIONS
live, Judicial, and Executive Depart- j real 8entin ? ent8 by vocal or un- for a gentleman than fighting. Besides j 8ay ’ * be ^^o 8 thieafs^ an^di^not dad bv a vote of two to one not to re-
- ' - mea,,m S P brases ’ h,s generosity, hos-, everything nearly in the way of politi- , false Dromi^ I told them j a word in favor of the President;
pitahty and chivalrous gallantry ot his cal freedom has been won in battle— , “7 t y* k P ™v ought to hive I' a “ d the platform was introduced with-
fo^nttt'trlherke of £."S i «1 many j on. any Lotion of his e- Aflj,,
lines in .Magna Chart., that contain the ; mc - II 18 precisely for the reason that j « h a ,Jb “ n adopted,^anj when the
meiits of the Governmen
But no people devoted to Constitu-j
tional law, need ever expect to secure J
a re tilication of admitted usurpations
of Power by accepting them as accom-1
plished facts, and granting, iu advance !
a complete absolution to the perpetra-!
tors ol them. The position of The
Sun towards all usurpations by Con
gress, will be the same as that of Mr.
Jefferson towards the “Alien aud Se
dition” acts. This is quite enough for
tlie present.
It is proper, however, to add for
mind, and the breadth and acuteness
and the kindness of his heart.
You cannot be in Georgia a week
without having it impressed upon your
mind that Toombs is one of
IIER MOST FAVORITE SONS.
Every man you meet will tell
that he has the “ grandest intellect”
and the “ biggest heart” in the State.
Just now he is politically under a pass- 1
ing cloud of unpopularity, but his
name is none the less a name of might, i
fundamental principles of Anglo Saxon
freedom. But terrible as was the price
j the rights secured were well worth the
' sacrifice. So with us. The right we
^ 0U struggled for in vain—the right of self-
government—would be cheaply pur
chased by a few generations of fight
ing.”
“When are you going to raise the
standard of revolt ?’’
they can so easily be coaxed into vot
ing for us that I oppose negro suffrage.
Men so easily influenced ought not to
have any political power. A vote
ought only to be iu the possession of
citizens who are conscious ol tbe re
sponsibility it involves, aid are intel
ligent and conscientious enough to use
it rightly. For the present we might
strengthen ourselves, perhaps, against
general information, that it is not my I Endless will be the examples you will; 1 the Radicals by the negro vote. I look
intention to change my present reai- j hear of his pecuniary liberality, nnd | _ ^ n 2 to the (inure. U - •-*
deuce. There is no prospect of my “ his stories ” are caught up and re- v , “ TP' ne g r0 suffrage,
ever being able physically to do so, peated from mouth to mouth as the, at , the North are divided among VOU r- : negro sun a 0 e,
even if I were inclined. All commu- qu.ntescence of wit. Oue of ; selves m at war with some foreign pow-
Convention was on the eve of adjourn
ment, the Grant resolution was offer
ed by Judge Shannon, and accepted
without opposition, as an open repu
diation of the President, it was feared,
would have a disastrous effect.
It is a curious question whether the
endorsement of President Grant, pro
cured by such means, will do him as
much good as his eudorsement by the
Convention under any circumstances
will do the Republican paity injury.
GOOD GOVERNMENT
uicatious, therefore, to me, connected
with my engagement with The Sun, |
must be addressed to me at this place.
Alex. H. Stephens,
Liberty Hall, Crawfordville, Ga., 16th
June, 1S71.
The time will come, sooner or la- , at the South will always be impossible. I j ourna | s{iys .
HIS LATEST,” ter. And these men” (here Mr. Toombs The white people of the South are now J ma k e y VV eek I v
i by the wav, illustrates pretty well the pointed to some farmers standing near a unit; but the time will come when
venality of a certain portion ol the j “ would fight again, to-day, if need
Negroes Dying Out.—The Rich
mond correspondent of the Norfolk
“Our board of health
mortuary reports, and
these reports always tell the same sad
State Government, and may be inter- b e-
estiug to Governor Bullock. Toombs
was hired to defend a murderer, and
You
a unit
they will be divided, and theu thev ' . ,1 *1,a..; 1
•I, i •, r ,i , , tale, that the negroes are dying here at
wili bid for the negro vote, and the: ,
rnncf dvdiiI nolltr onrl i»-»
CANNOT CONQUER US
Singular Tragedy.—A singular
story comes from Washington comity,
Kansas. A man named Hammond
was aroused by his wife the other
night with the cry that there were
wolves about the house. Half asleep
except by killing us all oft’, aud that is j
received a fee of $500. The evidence,; an [^possibility.”
however, was too clear, and the man ‘ ‘
was found guilty and sentenced to
death. His friends at once went to the
rought ol last year has caused in the j will be laid August 15th upon which
w don’t you think it unwise to
. , , , . .. , talk about it ?”
State capital, and after a while came, „ No gir j think it time tu let the
back w’lth a pardon. They . called
upon Toombs to tell him of their sue-'
he grasped his gun and excitedly ran | cess. We ask nothing but that—to be let!
out, and went on a keen run lor about j “ Now, how much did this thing cost! alone . and jf we can > t Bet it> i 8ay we j
halt a mile before he stopped at the j you ?” inquired he.
, sight of a wolf. He raised his gun to “That’s not a fair question,” was the
central and southern provinces of Per- , falls the one hundredth anniversary ol take a j m> when he found his gun had answer ; “ but I can tell you this, it
That j the birth of the poet—in Central Park j, een discharged. On returning to the was a d—d sis
negro yum, unu “I”'arate that must eveutually end m
worst men will naturally make the | the}r tot#1 deBtruction . 0 nr white
biggest oiler and control the State. A. j lstion com p ar ed with onr color-
, , 8 e° od . c ‘“ zen ' ‘herefore, I can never! * dj ‘ js in the ratio F 0 , 100 t0 75> SI)(| yet
“lint it von want to start lighting 1 to ■ 8 ' ce P t tbe '• |th An,enli - in the mBtter of mortality the ratm is
1 n’l. ilL more than reversed- Take the figures
“ 1 he Radicals believe that the negro i , . cr.. . . , , r
... , ® . . of last week. 1 he total number of
wi I support them, at east for the next 1 . ,• , , , .. . . .
M ,’ f ... , persons who died here at that period
generation, on the score of gratitude; ' r ,,t . ,
6 ° ’ j was 35 ; of these « only were whites,
; find 2S were colored ; four negroes to
-pi , . j c ... , one white. This, of course, is not us-
I he best definition , „ , _ ,
tal. at least not in so great a degree ;
Northern people know that we are
ready to fiizht if thev won’t let us alone.
but of course you don’t share that
opinion ?”
“It is absurd.
R 'a are fearfully heartrending. * — (
the people are dying of hunger eveu
in the streets of the capital is a minor
phase of this terrible calamity. In
Khorassen parents are selling their
children as slaves to Turcomans in or-
der to keep them alive, and in Ispahan
is said men have been seized in the
art of nigging up the corpses to serve
hs food for their starving families. In
Shiraz-Kerman and Yezd the wretched
offerers endeavor to support life on the
grass and roots which they find in the
neighborhood, and as might be expec-
Te< i pestilence followed hard on the
footsteps of famine ; between them, the
half of the kingdom of Persia is being
rapidly depopulated.
it is estimated that the Darien Can-
* will cost $S5,000,C00.
N. Y., and on this will be subsequent
ly erected an exact copy in bronze ot
the marble statue in Princess street,
Edinburgh, which was pronounced by
Lockhart to be oue of the best like
nesses of Sir Walter Scott in existence
the celebrated bust ot Chantry not
even excepted. The copy will be per
fect in the leasfc particular, and wili,
therefore, also include a representa
tion of his favorite and world-renown
ed hog “Maida,” lying at his feet,
seemingly awaiting his commands.—
This magnificent tribute to the poet
is now being cast in Edinburgh, and
is expected shortly to arrive, together
with the pedestal, the entire cost hav
ing been subscribed and paid in by
the natives of the “land of Scott” in
New York and vicinity.
;ht cheaper than a law-
house he found his wife a corpse, and | yer’s fee.”
his four children crying about her Toombs has
bleeding body. As the husband rush- : Tw0 particular weaknesses,
ed out of the door the lock or the trig-; , , • , „ „„„„„ i . • . .
. , , . , , , • 6 also, which commend him to popular
gvr oi tbe gun bad caught on the ,a,„, |avor T , are the 8ame which lior-
aud waa discharged, the contents lodg* GreeIe ' f consciously or uncon-
,„g m too breast o the unfortunate , , a8ed „ |^ er8
woman. The singular part of the f hearl8 ' of his countrymen. First, he
lair is that Hammond did not bear the bM a i0 „ |or fal .'„,j and illcs
report ot the gun nor feel its concus-i . • V ... _ t. .- ° . K
siou. This was his statement, at least,
and the coroner’s jury believed him,
as he was acquitted of all blame in the
matter.—Ex. .
About S50,000 tons of coal are used
annually iu London in the manufacture
of eight thousand million cubic feet of
gas, at a cost of some $3,000,000.
pretense of peace, such as
now.”
“ But success in such a struggle is
impossible.”
“It would be a desperate undertaking
of course. But there is always a chance
of success, ami the chance is worth
trying.”
“Will nothing short of Southern in
dependence satisfy you ? ,:
“Oh yes. I suppose the North and
the South might be kept together on
himself Upon being one of the best ag- • the basis of tlie Constitution. But you
riculturalists iu the State. He is ready destroy our local governments and
impose another government upon us
at tlie noint of the bayonet. That can-
had better again have war than a false j of political gratitude ever uttered was j j t j 3 a t .[ ja( . tkoiJ
have i that of an English statesman, who de-
o tiie negroes
are in the minority here, they steadily
•l 1 • . l* I • • a fllC III vllv lllillUIMiy
i scribed it as a ‘ lively appreciation of , • , „ J
, ^ r J- H . i furnish, week utter week, a majority
future favors. That is especially true i o f tk0 deaths »>
when you apply it to the case in puint ” : , ,
“Du you tbink ireedom has made the j Tup Champion Walkist.—Col. De
negro lazy and the rest of it, as was at j MaUier, whose pedestrian exercises
one time predicted? have attracted notice in Europe as well
as America, has been sojourning for
at any time, like Horace, to further
prove, by incontestable figures, that
a pecuniary 7 success ; but
his farm is
not long be persisted in among people
this is a thing about which even hislwhoinherittraditionsolfreedomwith-
best friends are good-naturedly incred-j out a revolution. When law is over-
ulous. And, second, he is, in seasons■ thrown men naturally take to the
of provocation, the profanest of living i sword. A lasting peace might possibly
Georgians, just as Horace is believed | have followed generous terms, like
‘Oh, the
NEORO will do well
enough if he is only let alone. He
would never have given us the slight
est trouble but for these men who
have come among us and have tried to
gain power by flattering and tempting
him. In some cases they have been
successful, and the negroes have been de
moralized by their lying promises.—
But the negro, left to himself, wheth
er freemen or slave, will always be our
most faithful laborer. He works pret
ty well as it is and we find no great
difficulty in keeping him in order/’
several days in this vicinity. Col. De
Malher is a remarkable man. He is
only 52 years old, and has visited al
most every portiou of the globe. He
has traveled over 22,000 miles on foot,
and has during the last few months
visited SO counties of Georgia. He
proposes spending the summer in the
mountain region of this and adjoin
ing States. He takes notes of his ob
servations, and makes sketches of the
scenery and.objects ot interest. Col.
Malher is a Virginian, and served un-
der Lee.—Athens Banner,