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VOLUME
MILLEDtiEVILLE, GEORGIA, JULY 31, 1872.
51 it i o n ,
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For the Frdeia! Union.
A PEXAI, COLO MV MtiCFSTED.
" published -.vliEKLr
IS MIbbfcUGfcVIllLE, GA-,
BY
BOUpHTO.V, BARNES & MOORE,
(Corner ot li.inc»ek Mid Wilkinson Streets.)
At $2 in Advance, cr $3 at end of the year.
S. W. BOUGHTOWj Editor.
ADVERTISING.
Transient.—One Dollar p-r square of ten lines for
first insertion, and seventy-live cents frr each subse
quent continuance.
Tributes of respect, Resolution- by Societies,Obit-
caries exceeding ix lines, XoiuiiniUons for office,Com
munications or Kditorinl notices for individual benefit,
charged as trail -lent advertising.
legal advertising.
Sheriff’s Sales, per levy of ten linea, oriels, $2 SO
“ Mortgage ti tit sales, per square 5 00
Citations tor Lettets ol Admiuistratioii,--.-.... 3 tlU
“ “ Uuardiaiobp, — 3 00 j ' v . '
Application for dismission fioui Adiniiiistrution, 3 00 <j 1 It 1 (‘11V 30V1SG find JUStlTV.
:: .V leave'to sell 5 oo | Ail praise to the man who as Chief
“ for Homesteads, i 75 ■ Executive of Georgia has had the hu-
munity as well as the moral firmness,
•• pen.-tiatiie property, to days, j,FEquale. i 50 I to stamp under his feet the further
Fore^me'm’au>'"gage/r^sq‘.‘ea<jtime”!! ioo and shameful abuse of the pardoning
Applications toi iioinestfcada. (two veeks,).... i 75 power : who I)hs exhibited that confi-
le-iial advertisements. deuce in the Judicial Department of
Sale?Land, &<•., by Adiniuistra.ors, Executors our Government, which as a co-ordin-
oriiaaidiai.s, a e required by law to Bel.iW oi, the . |,rnnfli tl,r* finnsti tlltinn intended
first Tuesday lntue mouth, belweeu the hours ot 10 OrallCU, the tvOnSI 11Ultoil ItlLCtm u
in ttie loui.oon aud 3 m the atteriniod, at the Court should be accorded to it; and who has
House in the County in which the property is situated. i • i j . ill . 1. „
11 Notice of these sales must be givetfm a public ga the independence to uphold the Courts
zette to days l -evlouste the day ot sale. j n their honest endeavors to reform
>intictjs t«»r ili« sale t*l personal propfrty must be . . . .
given in like mu imer l" days previous tvsnleday. OU T SOclal .-status, by Tei US1 Ug to respite
Notices t«, til. debt.os and creditoib of an estate r n .. u ieve, commute or absolve, the
must also be published 10 uays. * ’ . , .
Non,-, that applies! ou win be made to the Court at condemned perpetrators, unless their
Ordinary to: leave to soULand, &.c.,miud.be publish ituioceoee, iiisiitiiiv or other peculiar
Citation-- for letters ofAdmiiihdratioudinardiansbip COudltiOiiS, are SO UII11. ISt a ka biy patent
Ac., mu-d be pubic • d id days— for dismission trim* . /• .. ( | ( ,nhtinfr would hs iin-
Adiiiinisl ration monthly three months— for dismission that lUiitltF UOUDling WOUIU OL 111
•from Guardianship, JbUiiys.
Rules tor foreclosure i^l Mortgage must be pulilisli-
The recent and simultaneous hang
ing, iii the town of Oglethorpe, Macon
county, of Ilolsenbake and Lloyd, for
murder—the first as pri cipal, the lat
ter accessory—besides that of several
negroes in different counties, forsimi
lar or like penal offences, combined
with the absolute certainty of punish
ment which Governor Smith has wise
ly delermined skull be meted out to all
transgressors, will go far to reverse
the ‘licensed, privilege to commit
crime, which Bullock and Conley’s
gross ami indiscriminate pardons un
doubtedly induced, if they did not in
numberless shifts which the artful
and hardened tricksteis so well under
stand how, when and where to use.
Will not Governor Bmith recom
mend to the Legislature, or will not
some member introduce a resolution
respectfully asking the serious and
prompt action of Congress to the
practicability of such a project? Our
country is rapidly being made the re
tuge of criminals and desperate ad
venturers from all climes and national
ities of the old world, who are organ
izing their bands and erecting their
links and lines of operation, aided bv
native outlaws, in all the States, so
that it behoves every law-abiding
community to confront their boldness
with whatever available mean* are at
command. Prominent, and pecidiotly
efficacious in this respect, is Deporta
tion—a ‘gill-net’ for the ‘small fry’—
whilst to the gallows must be con
signed those monsters and wretches
that will blacken even Pandemonium
itself. Watchman.
reasouabLe obstinacy, and the execu-
Murtgage must tie publmli- . . . . ... . , .,
.—for estiiioi.-liiiig 1*i.-1 pH-- tion id the punishment little less than
■e<i mtiuilily Jnr lour aioqili
pern toi tlie tul! «puee If three inoeth*—for compell
ing lilies from Exei-tifiirs or Administrators, where
bond Inis beeugiven by tlie deceased. llie full space ol
ttiiree months.
Publications will nlwpys be continued according to
these, the legal r< quire*.erts,unlessotherwise ordered
criminal vindictiveness. It is the sick
ly sentimentalism—the mistaken phi
lanthropy—whose distempered phi
losophy rejects, as harsh and unwar
ranted, the infliction of capital pun
ishment underbuy circumstances, that
demand purgation : it is the still great
er danger oi Weakening all law and
Agents for Federal Union in New Fork City subverting all liyil polity, by trusting
GEO. P. ROWELL & CO.. No. 40 Park Row. ’ a j l!ne to good Vill and Sympathy—to
mildness aud b'aeuey—to the holy in
Book and Job Work, of ail kinds,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
A I' II a It OSIKIt.
S M. PETTIX(f 11 L & CO., 37 Paik Row.
I ■g M kssus. (iaiFKis & Huffman. Newspaper . ,■ -1,„
itiNo. \ South *St , Haitiinori*, Md.. IiUtilise Oi Clilat, *111(1 tO tllC
•re (Inly a n't liori?..-.) t.. contiact for e.dv-it:.- en.cnts at j hacklH’Vcd but tuly Saving advantages
sun Itnrrs/ rates. 4drctis. is in that City we request- | , J , , . J . 9 , . ,
*d to leave tiu-ir ftivi .s with tliis house.”
Citu Director]}.
UAiL KOAU TIIVaS TABLE.
TTvi-l a,: )ippaituie<d Trn ; ns at Miiiedgeville.
J11ACON V AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Du’ Train.
D>rwnTrisi«i to Augun-i arrives at VI illedgcv., 8.17 a m.
Cg Tram ;U filacou frives at Miiledgeville, 5 24 p.m
* l til T r:i i n.
Arrives trou, Aiutust at 12:20 a m.
“ “ Ai.iconit 12:15 a to.
EATOXTOX t GORDON RAILROAD.
Up Ti ain to Eatontorarrives at Milledgev., 8 15 p. m
Down Train to Gordfi arrives “ 2 it p. n.
Poet Jfficc KTotice.
Mi.iniGBviLLt. .Ian. 18, 1872
From and after tint dale mails will rinse asiWows:
Mads for Atlanta nil Au-tista and points li*ynufl
goi u no I li and east, r i 1 <: ose a! S o'clock A ■ VL
Jltails tor Macon. S.-irliw-'s-ern Road, ant Fnintr
,1/ ' gnu u south west, will close at 5 P |
Mills ro. tr-. V)ll a! ,| u—rt.ln <1 si- at o,u p J|
H*:. , i for Etttolitfitra! (l .Vlontic lo doses at N:4 p Ai
1 tffict hmirsirotn 7 A. M unti ti.3ft P II.
fdficeopen uo Sundays from S ti»0 1 2 A. AI
Money Orders obtained from 7 A. M. until.. P. M
JO SI AS MARSHALL, P M.
Church Directory.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Sc'iees 1st ui d 3,1 Suudays in each nioDtl,atll
o cinck a m ami 7 p in.
Sabbaih Sdioul utt* 1 2n’cli ( k n in. S X Botghton
Supt. Rev. D E BUTLER, IVstor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Ilnurs of service on Sunday: 11 o’clock, am
and 7 p in.
Sunday School 3 o'clock p in.—W E Fiaukland,
Supeliiilei-'tont.
1- rit nds of the Sabbath School arc invited to visit it
S .* Missi.maiy Society, -i.oiitbly, 111. Sunday at 2 p m
J'rayer meeting evciy Wednesday 7 o’clock n m-
Rev A J JARRELL, Pa-tor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. /
tScrvico* eveiy Sabbntli (except the 2d in edb uiol
et i I o’clock a ui. and 7 p m.
Sa.bhaib School at 9 I 2 a in. TT Windsor, Snpt.
Prayer meeting eveiy Friday at 4 o’clock, p- in.
Rev O VV LANE, Fastor.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Wdlmut a Pastor at present.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock, a in.
Ziodges.
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\ »A. G. T. .
UlilU-d",1.,,,1-r No li.* meets in the Senate
Cliam’ „j tMe state House on ev. rv kVidn-y ev.-u-
iu. at 7 o’clock. c P CRAWFORD, W C T.
E P Lank, Sec’y.
Cold Water Templars met-t at 1 He State Ilou-e eve-
y Saturday alternoou at 3 o'clock. (
MASONIC.
nrnrrelrnt I.ori^r No 3 F A M, meets l-l and 31
Kniiiniiiv ill 'Ids ot each month at .Masonic Ha 1.
G L> Ca«, Sec’y. I. II HOWARD, W. M.
Tuiuplt 1 C hnpffr the second and fourth Sat-
turdav in tNfk montii.
G D CASK, Sec’y. S G WHITE, U P
niilledgex ille l.odge of Perfection A.-.& A.'.
S.-.R. . meets even Monday i.igl.t
S L M L G WHITE, T.’. P. -G.-.M.*.
Geo. D.^Cask, Exc Grand Sec'y.
1TY GOVERNMENT.
Mayor—Samuel Wii’ker. .
B ard.of Aldermen.—I. F B Mapp: 2 E Trice;
3T A Caraker; 4 Jacob Carakcr; 5 J H McCooib;
6 -Henry Temples.
Clerk and 1 easurer—Peter Fair.
>. . —Policeinan—T Tn'.ie.
*-AAuerseer—Peter Keirelk
Mare!,- Af,,,,,...!,
Depti||_ j,. H®elaitd
{^iV Surveyor—C T Bnyne^
City Auciioiietr—S J Kidd.
Finance Committee—T A Caraker,Temples Mapp.
**ieet “ • J C’Hraker, Trice, McCVnb
jjin-l “ McComb, J Caraker. 1 rice.
4' i-metery ,l 1 r ro pies, ,V1 a p p, J A Lh'aker
J-.uard meets 1st and 3<1 Wednesday nights iu eacl
month.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Judge If. R- Bell. Ordinary—office in Masonic Hal.
p l Fair. Clerk Sup’r Court, “ ||
ObadLh Arnold .Mieriff,
* > P Bonner Dep tv Miei iff, lives in the country.
Jnsins M irsliail Re'. V Tax Returns—at Poet Office.
L N ( allnwnv. Tax Collector, office at ins stole.
It Tail pies. County Ti easurer, otnee at Ins store.
IsnadC'usliing, Coronor, residence on W ilktUfon st.
Jolin penny, Constable, residence oil Wayne st, ii^ar
tl* Factot y.
[of general oducaion—which must be
guilt did against if Governments ex
pert stability amjiru>p rity to march
•hand in hand’ w.h tlie progressive-
ness of their ikiteriul possessions.
Moi al culture anddie exercise of char
ity do much to svtain the quiet and
well-being of socty, but they are
the adjuncts whiclflow from the posi
tive law, illustraing their secondary
qualities—and can never be appealed
to, oreutiiely relia upon, as the mov
ing and controling power. All histo
ry, sacred and pi tiane, attest such to
oe lact; while thefxperience of every
lay adds exampleim justification of
lie precept that tidCoUe uf'civil obli
gations and recipical duties—let it
ie ever so simple and perfect in its
provisions—will gi^i satisfaction, un
less coiiMstently, uniformly and rigidly
•jnforced. It is the. ceituinly of pun-
iihment, more tha/; its ad>quutcness,
/ hieh lias always constituted, and will
Imtinue to coustifute, the main, if
\|jt the only regulator, of the body
|)olitic. Crime has ran rampant over
J ie land long enough ; am! what have
ten charged as tht ‘influences of the
wlr, and the passions of the hour’ are
so perfectly threadbare and transpa
rent hat certainly iliey should deceive
or cajole no longet. The firm stand
good jmfgmeKt which Governor
Smtii has already evinced, will infuse
/I its gradual but certain effect, and
te;;h mulfactors to act thoughtfully
an dispassionately—to ‘look before
th]y leap’—else, disregarding these
vvije and uselui precautions—they
mist not hug the flatteiing unction ol
Executive interposition to their im-
pr «ned souls !
Hut with all these and more to en
courage the friends of llelormation,
thdje remains a strong accumulating
hertlvvav of guilt and violence, that
ca fur increase of remedial means—
quick in their application and tl or-
ouglil ■ effective. Luckily, one impor
tant moi„s is at hand, hitherto untried
i in this Country, but no less well un-
i deptood and deemed successful when
ever properly applied and strictly car-
ritid but. Indeed it seems, at the Vc-ry
lirst Lfksh to be of all other expedients
t d.‘ mosVsusceptible and necessary for
jrfsent aiiption, not only as far as
tiCorgia at d the other Southern States
sr relatively concerned, but for the
w rile United States. It is nothing,
in re t or less, than the establishment,
fr he General Government, of a. Penal
V any for the deportation ot a large
cl of offenders who are now sent
It he various Penitentiaries—whence
tKy-^eu<iiiate in crime arid revert to
stfiety sotTie -ritj^ pardons, some by
aping, and the ofTttrr^^ deilth 0 * r
e expiration of tlieir terms, of
de;but in all to renew their old
abits and career of wrongs, and again
come inmates ot the same or other
prisons—meantime, however, having
indulged their vicious propensities
Uvith, probably, exasperated iucid»mts!
A Penal Colony is what is clearly
emanded. It will arrest and lorever
[prevent recurrences of crime by the
medical board of GEORGIA. fsame parties, wiiilst it will humanely
® r ii4£r^ u ?ai i**™ to the banisiied, liberty of person
r aud a home in a foreign locality, that
V state lunatic AsiLLM. *thfcy may improve, and in itrocess ot
i F GREEN, Snperintendmf.“ J y I ’ l
ages, raise up to be anati^n respectable
aijd respected. Guilt has been made to
Dr THOS
M R Bf.i.e, Ti. At Stewurd.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
D B 8anford, s. f’v.
Tli« M & M Fg-u Co.
i.dii,.m. purge itself under a like regime, and
JOHN JONES. Chiefly * : V. • . ^
Mb Al tbe Court Room af mfelltugain piodl
produce similar.results.—
tbe first and llnrd 'fuesdny ri^hls in each month. ] IJllt tar more: the provision vjill relieve
SELLISTG- OFF
1
ievery community of a large batch ol
thieves and drones that infest and har-
i rasS tfie truly peaceable and industri
AT COST. f |ous citizens, who are annually taxed
TiPEPAR \TORY TO A CHANGE OF SCI,
1 , i.t; [ Iihvo dMormin. it to olo.^e out my
St.Kb Ot SHELF GOODS lit Cost tor Gash
to defray the enormous expenses which
fi- the vagabonds entail. It wtf likewise,
in ail human probability, restraiu
T , more effectually thau Penitentiaries,
ties bargniub uiuift call 80oi>. ^ jlliOlG GIldC llicii 1^ tiltili Jrtfiilt6ntl*iri68^
, , , - c B - munbay t i maiiv otienders who otherwise would
— transgress, hoping and relying u[tou
A
NOTICE.
. some one of the usual chatvjes to elude
JOHN BROWN AND III* FBIKItiD*.
An article appears in the July num
ber of the Atlantic Monthly on “John
Brown and his friends” affording very
interesting details of the operations ol
this fanatical old Murderer and Robber
preparatory to his famous Harper’s
Ferry exploit. The story is admira
bly told—not in the condemnatory
manner of you, dear reader, and I,
were tce telling it—but, quite as well
told; nay, better told, than if related
by unmitigated enemirs. The part
taken by his friends—a few cognizant
of all his designs; very many, in ig
norance thereof to g greater or less
extent—is catefully and fairly detailed.
It appears that Senator Wilson of
Massachusetts was one of the few of
Brown’s friends entrusted beforehand
with the real character of Brown’s
enterprise ; but justice compels us to
add that while he did not lay the facts
before the public and thus crush it in
its inception, he protested against it
and lent his persuasion earnestly to
prevent it. Altogether, it is a very
carious chapter of American History;
and we thank this able periodical for
presenting it to the public. In fact,
we read the Atlantic Monthly always
with exceeding interest. It is far the
ablest and truest exponent of the New
England mind of our day. We dis
sent from many of the vagaries of that
mind ; but we would not by any means
be ignorant of them, and the Atlantic
Monthly is the record in which they
appear most truly. Most of the arti
cles are free from yankee sectionalisin,
«nd are of such ability as would do
honor to the literature of any country.
Published by Osgood & Co., 124 Tie-
mont street, Boston, at $4 per annum.
G. W. Custis Lee, President of the
Washington and Lee University at
Lexington, Va., is said to strikingly
resemble his father, General Lee. He
is about thirty-nine years old, one ol
the best scholars West Point has ever
produced, modest and retiring to a
fault, but with great executive and
organizing ability, and a wonderful
hold upon and influence over men.—
He bids fair to be one of the great
college presidents. During the past
year the University has received a leg
acy of $75,000 from Mr. Bailey, of
New Orleans, and Mr. S. McCormick,
of Chicago, has piomised to give it an
observatory aud telescope costing at
least $250,000.
The North Carolina Election.—
No one can doubt what the result
would be in North Carolina with an
honest, loyal, fair election, and there
fore Grant is tilling the State with
spies and informers, to terrify the
whites into support of his candidates
under fear of a new Ku-klux crusade,
while the enormous sum of $223,000
has been taken from the public treas
ury and sent to the United States Mar
shal, under the pretense of paying
the expense of his office—formerly cov
ered by $5,000—but iu reality for the
purpose of corruptly influencing votes
in the interest of the Administration.
Mr. Beck, member of Congress from
Kentucky, examined the books of the
Treasury Department at Washington,
and found the particulars in relation
to this infamous outrage upon the fi
nances of the people. Their publi
cation has created a decided impres-
cioit upon the people of North Curo*
lina. They demand an explanation ot
the transaction, and Carrow, the Uni
ted States Marshal for North .Carolina,
has attempted to give one in the pa
pers and on the stump. He sets forth
certain itemless expenses for the courts
covering * period of more than two
years, in oitL»r to account for all the
money traced into hla possession. But
the indictment against the Grant j,ar
ty in North Carolina is bounded by a
single year, and when that period is
considered, the steal is more appa-
ient. Mr. Carrow begs the question,
and, in doing this, conl'essis the charge
is just, and that he and other office
holders under Grant have used and are
using the money of the Government
for partisan purposes.
The lightning-rod man will be dis
gusted to bear of a recent discovery.
It is to the effect that metal roofs af
ford perfect immunity from thunder
bolts by the vast surface of metal ex
posed, entirely neutralizing or dissipa
ting the electric curreut. Prof. Wise,
ol Philadelphia, asserts that there is
uo instance on record where a metai-
roofed building received any damage
from a thunderbolt, and as Professor
Wise is not known to be interested in
the manufacture or sale of metal roof
ing, bis theory is worthy of investiga
tion.
Jisr FOB frl.V
invent is to be restored to its national
It was rather a favorable excuse
with Willie Goodwin, whenever lie
la bot'ish prank. I tell you it was the ern
j last piece of mischief 1 ever did “just proportions and strength, our .State
! for fun.”—The Methodist.
Gram • lamtirri P»licr Simply I»frrnal
was deep in mischief or had to plead j speech of ho*, d. w
guiity when accused of some boyish
scrape, that it was done just for fun.
Many a time he resolved to try to j There ig another branch, however,
be more orderly and let. boyish pranks of ^ domegtic poMcy of the present
alone, but the next prospect ot tun r -
would banish all his good resolutions,
until the penalty recalled him again.
He was a middle aged man when lie
told me the story, hut even then he
could not speak without emotion of
his last piece of “ fun.”
We had been out for a walk,” he
told me, •* Frankie Ford, Tom Lee
and I, and were coming home at twi
light when we met Sammy Willets.
who was rather a favorite butt for
teasing, with all the boys. He was a
very timid, rather sickly boy of four-
ten, peevish and easily irritated, and
the rougher, stronger boys said, a cow
ard. As soon as we saw him coming,
the spirit of mischief seemed to pos
sess us all, and each one planned how
to tease the poor timid boy.”
“Let’s hide and jump at him,” one
suggested.
“Let’s tell him bis house is on fire,
and see him run,” cried another.
“I’ll tell you what we’ll do,” I
said. “ We’ll coax him down to Rut
land’s barn for a game of romps, and
shut him up !”
“ Rutland's barn was a large barn
standing alone at some distance from
any other building. The farm house
to which it had belonged had been des
troyed by fire, and the great barn had
been left standing when Rutland de
serted the place and went West. It
was a favorite play-room for all the
village boys, who spent long Saturday
afternoons in it, making it a gymna
sium and recitation hall, as occasion
required.
Although it was twilight, the sum
mer evenings were long, and Sammy
was not surprised to be told we were
going to Rutland’s barn for an hour
of play before bed time. He was
quite willing to join us, and we Were
soon in the old barn making it ring
with our shouts and laughter.
The hour passed rapidly, and it was
getting quite dark, when we sene
Sammy into tire hay loft on some er
rand, ran out ourselves and drew the
big doors alter us. It was hard w’ork
to fasten them with the rusty iron
latch, but we accomplished this, too,
aud then ran off
Just us we were at the edge of the
field, we heard one fearful scream, but
we onlv hurried on, laughing at the
thought of Sammy’s discomfiture.
I must say, in our defense, that pass
ing one night in the old barn would
have been no great misfortune to any
of us. We were all hardy, country
boys, full of life and health, free from
superstition or morbid fears, and we
could none of us realize what the darK
loneliness was to a timid sickly boy
with rather a weak mind.
It must have been after midnight
when we were aroused at home by a
violent knocking at the door. Mv
father spoke from the window, asking
what was wanted, and I heard our
neighbor, Mr. Willets, asking anxious-
*y :
“ Is Sammy here ?”
“No. Is he not at home ?”
“He has not been home since sun
set. I am very much worried, be
cause he is not well.”
“ III ask Willie if he has seen him.”
In another moment father was by my
bed, and I told him where they would
find clammy. Never shall I forget the
lather’s cry of horror:
“It will kill him! My poor timid
boy. He is atraid of the dark, and the
doctor has told us we must humor
him because he is not strong enough
to bear fright. Will you cutne with
me, Mr. Goodwin ?”
I was dressing as rapidly as I could,
atuLwas by my father’s side when he
lighted a lantern, and joiueu Mr. Wil-
Itt.
“ Let me go !” I begged. “ I never
meant to hurt him. I wouldn’t mind
staying there ail night a bit, and I did
not think it would really hurt him.
On ! sir, do you think it will kill him '?
It was all a juke, just for lull.”
“God forgive you, boy,”* be an
swered me in a choked voice. “I am
afraid it will be dear fun for us all.
Sammy, my poor boy ! Who will
tell his mother if harm has come to
him 1 Our only son—our poor, sickly
boy ?”
►So he lamented as we hurried across
tlie fields.^ eveiy wo.d ino.renei' g «>y
terror and remorse. It was my pro
posal, and I felt myself the only guil
ty one, though the others had helped
me carry out the cruel joke that
seemed anything but fun now. We
reached tlie barn at last, and undid
tlie heavy fastenings of the door. Mr.
must be free in one section as in the
— [others; we must have no line where
vooRHKEt. j freedom is halted by the bayonet on
American soil, and when all are treat
ed alike bv the government, they will
all all bear to it the same allegiance
whatever may have been the bloody
, . , . . • u l.o strangles ot the past. When this kind
administration ,.>* ofaunion „f heirt, in support of the
more strongly induced P government shall take pllce, having
lit,cal movement “g :m ‘ 3t ‘ „ "“"ed i L to base the principle, ol j,.slice.
Other, lor it comprises »it ..sell , ,[ t wiu , J hit
the \vroi) <, s and villainies ot all others, i .... * - i
r ■ , ‘ , el Uaa.i E . tion rise like a strong man after sleep
1 he condition of the .South n.is at last i . . , •
, , , ! ,1m,, r ar, d it» forth to new glories, renewing
aroused universcil uttention ® n , . •
arouseo universal ane u , ! the purines of its youth in connection
‘‘ '11- t j ie gigantic proportions of its
universal indignation
section is at last recognized as a pot -
tion of our common country, aud as
such is entitled to an equality before
the la w with all other Sections. Gen
eral Grant was elected to tlie Presi
dency exclaiming: “Let us have
peace,” but the erv has been a cheat
and a delusion. There has been no
peace for the helpless people ot the
South.’ They have longed for it, and
prayed for it, but it lias not come. A
worse form of war than marching col
umiis has preyed upon them. It has
been a war of robbers, spies and jail
ors. I say, without fear of intelligent
contradiction, in all that goes to <ies-
troy the prosperity of a country and
crush tlie welfare of its people, the
administration of public affairs in the
South for the last three years lias been
the worst, the most truly infernal ever
known in the history ot a civilized
people. It is a subject on which I
have bestowed an earnest attention,
and with which L have made myselt
familiar. During the last session ot
Congress I demonstrated from official
prools that a system of plunder has
been pursued under tlie protection and
approval of the present administra
tion, by which tlie entire eleven recon
structed States of the South luid been
impoverished, and a majority of them
made bankrupt. The debts and out
standing obligations, amounting in
tlie aggregate to at least $500,000,
000, have been fastened by official
thieves on tlie tax-payers of that
blighted region for the purpose of aid
ing in this wholesale robbery by re
ducing the Southern people to silence
and submission. While, it was going
on it has been falsely assumed that
they were in a lawless frame of mind,
and must be placed under laws as des
potic and infamous as an Austrian
edict against Hungary in J S 4 9, ora
British act of Parliament against Ire
land in tlie last century. The true
policy of the bandits prevails from Vir
ginia to Texas. Wherever tlie touch
of the administration and its followers
lias been feit it has been the money
of the people, or their lives and
liberties, and in a majority of the
States both. They have not only
had their substance eaten out by ad
venturous scoundrels, but they have
been deprived in their own persons
of every American right. Tlieir prop
erty is not only at the mercy of
these vagabonds, but under the legis
lation of the past :ew years any hus
band or father, wife or mother, son or
daughter in the entire South could be
consigned indefinitely to prison on the
mere suspicion of any brutal or de
praved spy, whether white 6r black,
there to lie, without hope of speedy
trial or release on bail, until those
who had deprived them of the benefit
of the writ o\habeas corpus either turn
ed them out or packed a jury lor their
conviction.
POWER OF THE SOUTHERN APPEAL.
with
age.
Liberal Democracy—Radicals
Astounded.
How stands the case ? A great party,
through fraud and violence, now hold
the reins of government, charged by
their own ablest leaders with corrup
tion and demoralization most vile.
Charles .Sumner their great high priest,
presents a bill of indictment—such an
one as was never before presented
against any administration since the
foundation of the government,—an in
dictment sustained by nearly all the
best men in tlieir own party— and in
Cod’s name they now appeal to their
life-long enemy for help, that some
portion ol tlie wreck may be saved
— that all may not be lost. Honest
men stand aghast and ask, is there no
help ? Is there no balm in Gileal?
Tiie Democracy, with its three mill
ions of good men and true, are never
theless in tlie minority, uttelry power
less of themselves to meet thecrisis
and rescue the country from the spoil
er’s h ind. They pause. Upon every
breeze from the once fair aud beauti
ful—the sunny South—comes the
wail of anguish, for these long, long
years the heel of the despot lias been
upon their necks. They, too, look to
the Border fo the gojden West, to the
rock-bound North, for help. The tyrant
who despoils them—lour-in-hand, pull
ing his long-nine in the face of the inva
lid at the sea shore, laughs at their ca
lamity, arid goes another C on the win
ning horse. The memories of the past,
the hopes for the future, the love of
country, all, all appeal to the Democ
racy as the only hope. They no longer
pause,—and with a magnanimity such
.is the world may well be challenged
to produce—have come to the rescue;
have said to the opposition, select
from your own ranks the learder,
erect your platform, atid we will, for
the time, join our forces with yours.
It is done. 'The leader brought for
ward—the second Moses named,—
than whom few men from tlieir ranks
more objectionable to the Democracy
could have been chosen. The plat
form erected, with lew exceptions,
is unobjectionable, and now the
Ex-Secretary Welles on the
Presidential Question.—The Hon.
Gideon Welles, ex-Secretary of the
Nuvy, has written a letter to a frier d
in St. Louis the main points of which
are as follows:
“We were a great deal disappoin
ted with the result at Cincinnati. *
• * * But while I have for a lifetime
been opposed to Greeley on most sub
jects I think him infinitely preferable
to Grant. The question is not a per
sonal one and ought not to be so con
sidered. The Republican party has
performed its missiou. Tlie organiza
tion is kept up and prolonged, not to
promote essential principles, not for
tlie interests of the country, but to sub
serve the selfish purpose of a few in
dividuals who nave their own ends to
accomplish. Under these circumstan
ces a change ot administration is abso
lutely necessary. We must get rid of
Grant, Grantism, and the hateful poli
cy which for several years has been
persued, or our federative system of
tie United States will be entirely sub
verted.— Let the government become
consolidated, and disruption will soon
follow. We shall be broken up into
sections of warring factions. Grant has
no comprehension of our government
system, nor does he care for it. lo
command and obey, are his ideas of
government. He knows nothing of
caiistitutional restraints. The place
he occupies he cousiders his right,—
a perquisite he has earned. We must
get rid of this man and all his evil
surroundings. Greeley is not the man
I would have selected, but lus elec
tion would be ao advance, an improve
ment on the present state of tilings;
A crooked stick may be made avail
able to beat a mad dog. It is neces
sary that we should dismiss minor dif
ferences and concentrate on one candi
date. If we cannot have our first
choice let us take the best we can get.
If we elect a new chief magistrate,
we can elect a new and better Con
gress, and we shall rescue the govern
ment from unconstitution d hands aud
from military rule. Some of’ the ex
treme and impracticable free traders,
as they call themselves, propose a new
ticket. This, if it can do anything,
will aid Grunt and other evils. Why
talk of free trade and revenue, while
the government itself is in peril? I
am for rescuing the government and
preserving free institutions, before con
tending on matters of mere expedien
cy. Grant has not a single qualifica
tion for chief magistrate: Greeley has
some. Grant has some vulgar cun
ning, ami is extremely selfish and avar
icious: Greeley has intellect and pat
riotic instincts. If he is elected, he
will have a new and different Con
gress, and all Presidents are more or
less influenced by their friends*”
New England.—In many places ia
gieat Democratic party, representing j New England, says the New York Ex
its three miilionaot invincibles, meet J press, alders are springing up in the
in council and with scarcely a dissen- j pastures, young pines appear in the
teing voice, without the crossing of | anc j e nt moving fields, and the feath-
a t or the dotting of an i, proclaim to ert .,j birches wave where once the
the world that they can rise to the farmers turned their rich furrows. In
magnitude cl the occasion they can New Hampshire nearly 9,000 people
lay all former jealouses and prejudices [ j e f t during the lust decade, and as
upon the alter of their beloved country, ! man y more left the agricultural towns
unlmni f nn t;n„ UJnJ Uln oiH ,, - cities and villages. Maine
and without looking behind help, aid j f or t ^ e
ami assist in this most noble and glori- jjj ar ely held its own during the last de-
ous undertaking; aud with God s help j cade. There was a loss iu the agricul-
\vi!l aid in rescuing tlie land from the tu ra i towus aud a gain in the manu-
clutches of the despot. It proof be facturing. Throughout New Eng-
needed that human nature is not utter-j i and g ener al agriculture is becoming
j ly depraved, that the children of men 0 f less account relatively each year,
are not totally lost to a sense of justice w hile special farming and manufactu-
, j anc ^ compassion, and that the teach- r j n ir is steadily on the increase. Of
W hen I recall and dwell upon these j i ng8 of the Sou of .Man, whilst on the six States east of fho Hudson riv-
appalling crimes against liberty and earth, have not been in vain, we have er> Vermont is the nearest to raising
against common rights of humanity, I j it here. A great political party pre- J its own bread—producing 454,000
caut wonder at tbe strong and bitter : 8e nt mg an example to the religious • bushels of wheat in 1869, or a bushel
cry which comes up from the South j wor |J that they may well intimate, ail( ] a p ec k to each inhabitant. Ta-
fur anybody to defeat the re-election | drawing tiiems. Ives into a closer Chris- kin t f je uriny rations of 22 ounces of
of the very man who has inspired j tIa:i union. The world looks upon it fl aur p er j ay as a basis for computing
with amazement! History will write the consumption of bread, it follows:
it dou n as the great achievement of Vermont raises bread enough to sup-
the nineteenth century! Patriotism p)y the people of that State thirty-
receives a burnish, giving it a lustre ■ secen days. To make up the deticien-
tliat must dazzle the eye even to the cy ^[ le . y ure obliged to purchase 3,-
, . . ... remotest corners ot the earth. All j g3(j out) bushels per annum. Maine
adopting any method, not criminal in | hail the time-honored Democracy! who procjuces 278,000 bushels, sufficient
itself, by which to save Imnselt or all j | ia v e thus inaugurated the era of a I [ 0 | ast , L d ay8> a „d purchases 6,500,-
that is dear to him. I nave, therefore, j brighter day. The wicked with an- : 000 bu-hels. New Hampshire pro-
them, regarded them with giini and
heartless satisfaction, and in many in
stances committed them himself. 'The
man who is drowning, or who sees his
wife and children perishing in tlie
flames, must not be censured for
pro
aMiemas upon their lips, must j 193,000 bushels—little more
flee the wrath to come. The aveng-1 tiian a ] la jf bushel to each inhabitant
tug angel is upon the track of j _ a[i(J p urc | iase s 4,260,000 bushels, or
Her urgent appeal j the destroyer—woe be unto them ! ten daV8 ’ supply. Connecticut makes
or the nomination of Mr. Greeley, has The just, the virtuous and the good a poorer show, producing 3S.U00 bush-
been regarded by her friends in tlie.| Ii;ay well rejoice and shake hands over e | 8 _ a 8U1 ,p| y uf bread for two days
North as the last despairing cry of a j the. Woody chasm,” looking with fond { _ aild purchasing 7,518,000 bushels,
brave and noble people reduced to a j hopes for the realization ol that era of
stened with perfect patience to the
voice of the South iu this crisis, know
ing, as 1 do, her extreme auu immedi
ate necessities.
Northern man will suspend his differ
ences with Mr- Greeley on account of
the people of the South, who would
not do so on his own. They believe
the election of Mr. Greeley will afford
Willets called his boy by name every I them reiiefi ami in that belief they
hopeless extremity, beholding as they j peace, love, unity and concord,
think, one more chance to^ save them- ju.ucli desired in place of the hatred,
koIvoo trom a ruiu nRiuittrJ y- woi (Jj 8l ;;,rd ami ititutftTBiiee with which
that) death. I fervently pray God that
this hope may be realized, ami many a
a large portion of our people at leest
have beet) cursed by these meq, who,
in the name of liberty, have well-nigh
destroyed its temple. “Oh, liberty,
what crimes have been perpetrated in
thy name!” Crockett.
r . punishment, or to modift its rigors
L LL pnrfi.L* indebted to the anderst^nen t >r the * ».. • c il \ - u.,
yenr 1871,arereuusatedix)call andgeUje »u 0IiCe i tllTOUgll tuC llJuU6UC6 of i{€liuS, OT by
*•£10*18/8 C ' B ’ I bribery or by some other q. (lie almost
Wheat is being sold at Gadsden,
Ala., at ooq dollar per bushel,
moment, but no answer came. It
seemed io me hours before the heavy
doors swung back. -Oue of them would
not open wide, and looking for thej
cause we found poor Hammy, white
and senseless, lying on the floor behind
it. His father lifted him.
“ He is not dead ?” he said,
we get water
have demauded Ids t omiuation. It
has been accorded more in deference
to tlieir condition and their wishes
than to any one cause.
If Mi- Greeley, under tlies^j circum
stances, should be elected, he will
stand pledged by the strongest obliga-
Can j tions that ever rested upon-au houoiu- point a great many weatherwise iolks.
hie man to bestow upon the Houth 1 Tne changes of tlie moon have no et-
The Moon and the Weather.—
Souse one lias written to the Universi
ty Monthly tu inquire if any changes
ui tiie weather are attributable to the
influence of the moon. The editor re-
terred the communication to Commo-
iore Maury, ilis answer will disap-
j Massachusetts raised only 34,000 bush-
s<) els, or just bread enough for break-
last and dinner, but not for supper!
The purchase was 20,300,000 bushels
ol wheat. Rhode Island raised 784
bushels of wheat in 1S69, and pur
chases 3,000,000. The six New Eng
land States together purchase from
lorty to fifty million bushels of wheat,
and quite as much of other grains, or
in round numbers 100,000,000 bush
els of grain.
water, but the boy was too lar gone
for that. Ol)! the long distance it
seemed to Mr. Willett’s aud beyond
that the doctor’s, where I ran at once.
I hurried to the well and brought; the blessings ol a just, kind ami Ira- j lect upon tiie weather. 'The moon
ternal policy of government. If he j cliunges, says Commodore Maury,
did not do so alter tlie confidence re-J every 7.2 Jays, consequently every
posed in him by that section he would j change iu the weather must take place
be accursed among men. Let us hope, j witmu the period ot 3.6 days either
Never shall I forget the face of Ham-1 however, with our brethren in the ; before or after a moon change. Hence
my’s mother as she took the boy’s lace South that the experiment may be a the popular fallacies about her changes
complete success, that bis election may j aud the weather, for every weather
banish misrule ami plunder trum tlieir j change must be within 3.6 days before
midst, restore peace iu reality as vveU ! or alter a moon change, aud her wor-
iu her hands and looked into it. Jt
was so white, aud still, I dared scarce
ly believe fw.jeally lived as I hurried
to the doctoT’s. He did live, recover
ing his health, after a long, dangerous
illness; but his mind was gone forever.
Home fright in those lonely hours of
darkness gave a shock to the weak
mind that was never cured, and he
lived only to be an idiot.
It is some years now since we laid
him in bis quiet grave, tbe victim of
as name, bring baok a cheerful and j shippers give her ail the credit for it.
contented devotion to the Jaws of the | The moon governs the tides, but not
Number of Hhingles in a Roof.—
J. D. Tat gives to the New York Far
mers’ Club a. rule for estimating the
number of shingles required lor a roof
of any size, oue which he thinks every
mechanic and farmer should remember.
Virst, find the number of square inch
es in one side of the roof ; cut oft’ the
right hand or unit figure, aud the re
sult will be the number of shingles re
quired to cover botit sides oi the roof,
laying live inches to the weather.—
Tue ridge board provides for the
double course at the bottom. Illus
tration ; length of root, 160 feet ;—
width of one side 30 feet—100x30x140
—432,000. Cutting off the right
hand figure we have 43,200 as the
number ol shingles required.
country, and a pride iu the flag which
affords an equal protecuou to all citi
zens. Let us hope that the deadly
paialysis so long affi’eting the Houlli
and destroying her past producing
energies may speedily be succeeded by
perfect health and vigor. If our Gov-
the atmosphere. The most m faithful
observers trave failed to detect any
tide in the latter, 01 any variableness
under the mouu’s influence. So this
vexed matter may be considered as set
at rest, aud we can defy tbe weather
prophets,
Bishop Vanderhurst, who was con
secrated a Bishop of tlie colored Meth-
•UUt Episcopal Church, two years ago
by Bishop Bierce, of Georgia, at the
Geueral Conference ia Nashville, died
in Charleston week before feat*