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number 1 VOLUME MILLEDtiEVILLE, GEORGIA, JULY 31, 1872. 51 it i o n , * 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. \ l \ »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*