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I We introduce to the readers of the Jour-
I , ; / .£• Mr Hunger, this morning, Mr. A.
I Hkbse, who will, in future, relieve us,
H' H _, rea t extent of the laborious duties of
H ,r. 31r. Reese, being an old newspaper
I -..r (not an old man, however,) we can
I iiiise our readers an interesting paper,
a jjjucli more so than for the past few
I ;!i-,in which time wo have vainly tried
II on several positions at once—the edito
| ~-iug the least satisfactory to ourself,
■ .11 as to others, we presume.
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■ (,m the above it will be seen that I
1 , hereafter to be connected, editorially,
I , th! lis old and honored journal.
I ,1 .dre simply to say that I shall, to the
I .if my ability, and with an energy
|| 1 (h;iseverance measured only by physi
iiidiirauce, labor to make the Journal
~/ M< .ixnujcr a welcome companion of
h-isure hours of every class and condi-
In my advocacy of what i conceive
„• raiise of Right anil my country, Ishall
tk plainly but respectfully. Rattles
,;tv« never yet been won by pellets of
•ad; nor does it become an earnest man
1 hesitate in his choice of decent words
a lien holding up to public reprobation the
most desperate conspiracy against the
, berties of a gallant people that history
will ever blush to record.
The Sherman bill with its logical
(..-■liiewes of military rule, and the (Jon
-1 mi 1 loNaml Laws gagged and manacled,
L.ins lo me the very incarnation of a
L; -potism that even the trained masters
L the art in other lands would not dis-
L,n to father. So .believing, consistency
minds that I declare my unalterable
.; posit ion to legitimatizing its usurputiops,
I putting my countrymen on record ns
-.'iiting to their own shame,
flie issue will soon be made up, and
weal or come woe, 1 am willing to
ml or fall by it.
A. W. BEESE.
: n. B. H. Hill’s Notes on the Situa
tion.
We earnestly trust every subscriber to
Journal and Messenger lias given these
1 not one, but many, earnest peru
\\Y hope, too, they will carry them
nir neighbors, and invoke their
is consideration for the great truths
- illy, eloquently, and unanswerably
■ n th. lor resistless logic, clear as
■’ • .al, and direct as a rille ball; for over
ling massiveness of argument; and
n fairly glowing with nervous, fiery
1 In se letters have not been surpass
uive very much mistaken the tem
• I stuff'of which Georgians are made,
■y do not 4et the tide in a current that
*werp all before it. Give us three
1 .tbs more, and one more champion—
m < t ri ncrabile nomen /—and the re
• certain. The appeals of time-serv
cls and demagogues to the lowest
uscst passions of poor frail human
' , are fast wearying public iudigna
l'ho reaction is at hand, and we
stimulate it if the disease is to bear
• k ami the patient saved.
Tlio Now Alliance.
• iscroppingsoutln different portions
s tate, warn us that the Cougression
uistrucit ion party meditate, if they
,l "t already initiated, a fresh scheme
• ur y theii* points.
1 y are promising repudiation to the
1 class, the latter will vote
1 convention. In plain words, the
-al is A Help us to imbed negro equal
-1 the ..srganic law of the State, and
"'ll kielp you to cheat your creditors,
no man charge us with undue
of language, i 11 thusstigmatizing
c conceive to he a most dishonest
■ "'1 demoralizing p ar iy trick. The truth
"iild be tuUl, and never was the use of
very plainest Saxon more imperatively
minded than now. It is criminal to
with such grave questions, and none
less so to cover op an enormity in a
id of rose-water words.
fit suppose tliis plat, succeeds, what
• s' the gain to those who abet it under
G»cy that they thus relieve themselves
their pecuniary obligations? None,
-"lately none, just so long as the courts
'!i(‘ Fnited States can enforce their de
-• It is not much the fashion now to
t the acts of auy of these Southern
1 - done in their sovereign capacity.—
•Yirtliern creditors clamor for their
!"f flesh, a servile judiciary will not
' file to give it to them, though twenty
unions had voted it out of existence.
| ur <i, thou, both tempter and tempta-
ihe bribe is most alluring, but take
1 i>av it floes not turn to ashes on tiie
UU 1 late it is found that ne
“l ‘ t -\ " V, '” u fastened upon us,
"eS" J 'i«'k'«,»». ltolmve , lisown
I 1 reme as ever.
refer to tiie following from the Bain-
I rr Argus as confirmatory* of our sus-
The editor, it will he seen, Goes
v "r a conveiitioQjxr sc, but he ex
u anticipation, over what he con
ill be tiie action of tiie convention
repudiation question:
l ‘s a gratifying reflection that wliat
eviis may result from the holding of
I institutional Convention, under the
niati military bill, the Convention
e sure to relieve the people from all
'l'l.ts, which constitute the principal
"tedness of the jieople of Georgia.
♦ ♦- —.
I Atlanta (Ga.) newspaper nominates
al Grant for the Presidency. Pos
'Gieu the Atlanta newspaper sees
al t .'rant’s platform, as laid down by
‘ r al Uawlius, it will not iusist upon
'"dilation.
[ Chicago Times.
, you seen General Rawlings’ speech,
and if so, do you still hold that
H, "try can only be saved by Grant’s
H, If you do, we beg you will
s out of that “ plan of salvation.”
|9 Brownlow’s Circuit Judges tells
■ of theNew York ‘Times'
I m a " e aro boulul to curry this election,
’•gust) if we do it through blood !”
'■ ■••-".n lias been bitten by 14 b&st*
We tender the usual coudoleuces.
General Longstreet.
The telegraph tells us that this once
honored leader of brave men who staked
their lives for what they believed an inde
structible principle, has been pardoned by
the President. We confess, with shame,
that the announcement did not take us by
surprise. His new-found friends could do
no less for him,after receiving, with such ex
ultation, his recent monstrous declaration
that force "brakes right what was wrong
before that force was applied. Bold as he
proverbially is, we very much doubt,
though, whether lie would care to face the
hardy veterans of Hood’s, McLaws’, or
Anderson’s divisions with the proposition
that by the mere stacking of their mus
kets at Appomattox, they ceased to be
patriots, and became “rebels” and “trai
tors.”
Far better have died under the fire that
prostrated him at the Wilderness, than
live and go so far astray. Contemplating
his abandonment, not only of his country
men, but of the cause of liberty, we are
paint ally reminded of the reply of the
luirdy fisherman who was captured by
Arnold while on his way to ravage the
coast of Virginia: “What would the
Americans do with me if I should fall in
to their hands?” said Arnold. “Cut off
the leg that was wounded at Quebec, and
burry it with all the honors of war—then
hang the rest of your body as high as
Hainan.” So should we enshrine in the
casket of grateful memories, the deeds of
the stout-hearted leader of the old “Ist
Army Corps, N. V.”—then hang, upon
the gibbet of popular indignation, his
wanton, wicked desertion of his friends,
of his country, and of the principles whose
life he has watered with his blood and
illustrated by his scars.
What it Means in Louisiana.
We publish below a synopsis of the
platform adopted by the recent Radical
State Convention in Louisiana. A branch
of the same concern assembles on the 4th
of July, at Atlanta, and we call upon its
managers to come up to the mark like men.
Ret there he no cheating, nor attempt at it.
Tell the people of Georgia, what your
allies have told the people of Louisiana,
and go for a clean victory oraclean defeat.
1 f Farrow and Markham haven’t the nerve
just’.l/11, depose them,'and set up those who
have. We want the issue made so plain
that men will not dare mistake it. So far
as that consummation rests with us, it shall
lie done with an earnestness, a persisten
cy, ami a vigilance that will notask respite,
till the ballot box pronounces its decision.
“We will advocate and will enforce per
fect equality under the law m all men,
without distinction of race or color; en
dorse the acts of the Thirth-niuth and
Fortieth Congresses; will reconstruct
Louisiana upon the Congressional basis,
and send to Congress only true and loyal
men. Nominations (or office to he made
only of those who will enforce perfect
equality and the right to hold office, irre
spective of race or color. We will insist
on perfect equality, without distinction of
race or color, in the right to vote and en
ter the jury box, without any educational
or property qualifications being required ;
also on the right to practice all professions,
to buy, sell, travel, and be entertained, and
to enter into any and all civil contracts.—
We will advocate the granting of imme
diate assistance by the General Govern
ment for rebuilding the levees. We will
also advocate emigration and division of
lands of the State, as far as practicable,
into small farms in order that the masses
of our people may be enabled to become
landholders. We will advocate the repeal
of the cotton tax by Cougress; if not
granted, we will demand as a right that
class legislation be abolished, and taxes
laid on all the productive wealth of the
Union ; let products of agriculture, mines,
and manufactures be equally and fairly
taxed. We will advocate equality in schools
and the enforcement of the eight-hour
system, except in cases of special contract.
We will insist on a thorough revision of
the laws of Louisiana, that they may guar
antee equal justice to black and white
alike. We pledge ourselves to aid the
Government in paying the last dollar of
ihe public debt.”
The platform further condemns President
Johnson’s amnesty proclamation, believ
ing the disfranchisement of rebels to be
the highest duty of the General Govern
ment; favors the maintenance of an ade
quate military force in Louisiana to see
the laws enforced, and life and property
protected ; declares that no man is to be
supported for office who will not boldly
and openly pledge himself to make equal
distribution among white and colored
alike of all offices to which he may have
tke power of appointment. As the newly
franchised citizens constitute a majority
of the party, at least one-half of the
nominations for elective offices shall he
taken from that class, no distinction to be
made, whether nominees or appointees
were born free or not, provided they are
loyal, capuble, and honest. The party
will always discountenance any attempt
on the part of any race or class to assume
practical control of any branch of the Gov
ernment to the exclusion of any other
race or class.
Don’t Stand Back. —We heard a young
friend reply yesterday to the question
whether or not he had registered: “No, I
have not; the negroes were so crowded
around the place, that 1 turned away.”
Fully sympathizing with his repugnance
to elbow his way through the mob of ig
norant, unwashed creatures that Radical
hate and Southern lust for place and
plunder would thrust upon us as equals,
we yet most earnest ly protest against such
scruples. The crisis is too momentous
for hesitation or disgust. The supreme
hour of our destiny is upou us, and he
who neglects a duty so imperative as tliis,
may live to rue it in a bitterness of regret
that none of us would dare look squarely
in tiie face now.
Push your way to the books, take the
oath, and register even if the negroes are
as numberless as were the tiles on thq
house-tops tliatgrand old Martin Luther
declared should not stop him from Wurms
though every one was a devil. The hoarse
bawlings of the apostates and renegades
who are offering the honor, the dignity,
and the manhood, yea, even the very life
of our beloved old Commonwealth, for
sale in the Radical shambles, fill the land
like a howl from Pandemonium. Seize,
then, promptly, a “coign of vantage” that
may enable you to stop the sale, to defeat
these machinations, and to strike one
more honest blow for Truth, for Right,
and for Constitutional Liberty !
Female Suffrage.— John Stuart Mill
got T 8 votes in the House of Commons in
favor df female suffrage. TheNew York
Times thinks many of this number thus
voted for mere sport. It is notoriously
true that the English working classes op
pose it, aud so, too, do tiie negroes in tliis
country. Tiie Times says tiie negro is
hostile to any further extension of suffrage
and will give it neither to foreigners nor
women.
i l be -Albany livening Journal takes a
novel > iew of (he case. 11 says :
‘V\ omen at the ballot-box will be fnl
,°k , “.• v , Ww "‘ e, i iu the jury-box. How
delight,ill it will then he to serve one’s
country. Ihe class of professional jury
h * ,nc ‘ r case wonderfully. And 'there
„ n n '’objection to staying out all night
on a Knotty and interesting ease, either.”
A rumor prevails at Washington that
Secretary Seward lias received positive
infoimation that the life of Maximilian
will be spared in deference to tiie desire of
the United States.
An Important Question. —The New
Orleans Crescent says the darkies iu tiie
country parishes are ask of
the Radical emissaries among them how
it is possible for freedmeu to be free, iftliey
can’t vote as they please?
The break in the Wilmington & Man
chester R. R., has been repaired.
Acban.
The Bible account of this character is,
that he was an avaricious thief who,
while in the service of Joshua, stole and
secreted “a goodly Babylonish garment,
and two hundred shekels of silver, and a
wedge of gold, of fifty shekels weight,”
and that for this accursed conduct he was
stoned to death in the valley of Achor.
Another concise and startling statement
of him is that he “perished not alone in
his iniquity.” This language is loaded
with a great truth which is applicable to
ail men in every age.
Our first remark in proof of this position
is, that vice, in all its varieties, is conta
gious, and tends to infect all who come
within the sphere of its influence. The
fecundity of sin is everywhere taught in
the Scriptures, and is a fearful fact which
lies out boldly on the broad pages of all
history. Its power to propagate itself is
one of its essential properties and mos t
terrible developments. “One sinner de
stroyed much good,” is an inspired
aphorism—he can accomplish more evil
than an hundred good men can repair.—
We have known a community to he cor
rupted by the pernicious teachings and
examples of a gifted and popular infidel
and scoffer.
Are we then to conclude that sin is a
stronger and more pervading principle
than that of holiness? Certainly not, be
cause the latter is restricted by a multitude
of unfriendly influences which prevent it
from achieving its appropriate results.—
Give it a fair field for operation, and its
triumphs will be far greater than those of
its antagonist. We believe that the hu
man mind was formed with reference to
virtue—that there is something in the
original organism of man which approves
the virtuous and condemns the vicious.
But these noble, native instincts have
been perverted by the fall, and now every
human breast is the seat of evil passions
and affections which are ever prompting
their possessors to pretermit the calls of
truth and duty, and to plunge into all
manner of excess. “We go astray as soon
as we be born, speaking lies.”
According to the present lapsed condition
of human nature, it requires ceaseless
watchfulness and care to keep the heart
Pure and the life right. No man can
achieve a high and spotless character with
out many severe conflicts from within and
from without. The price of moral excel
lence is eternal vigilance, and unceasing
sacrifice. But' ou the other baud, vice
grows aud flourishes without cultivation—
it springs up spontaneously in the heart
it spreads its roots, and matures its
fruits by a rapid and vigorous process. No
effort is necessary to increase its vegetating
tendencies—jast let it alone and it will
work out terrific results, not only to the
individual himself, hut also toa whole cir
cle of associates and friends.
In the second place, the judicial conse
quences of our iniquities are entailed on
others, especially upon those who are
closely related to us in life. They may be
perfectly iimocent —they may have earn
estly entreated us to cease to do evil and to
learn to do well—they may have used all
the means at command to check our career
of profligacy and misery, and yet they are
judicially injured by our sinful practices.
The family of a criminal is sunk in the
scale of moral excellenca and of public
respect, and eati uever regain its original
position in society. If a father has com
mitted a cold-blooded murder, if a son
has been guilty of high treason, and if a
brother has been convicted and executed
for grand larceny, all those who are bound
to them by the ties of affinity and consan
guinity suffer a perpetual reproach. They
may change their place of residence; they
may travel beyond the broad seas, may
seek a home in the depths of the dark
forest, may accumulate a magnificent for
tune, may share the patronage of power,
may intermarry with the uobles of the
land, and may, in pointof fact, possess many
sterling qualities of mind and heart, but
still there is a blot upon their name which
no change of time, place and circumstances
can wholly wipe away. By the changeless
law of associated feeling they will always
be contemplated in the colors which are
reflected from the crimes of their kindred
and friends.
But dropping the judicial lftea in the
case, there are sad natural consequences
accruing from our sius and transgressions.
The physiological effects of dissipation
are often deplorable. “The family of a
drunkard shares in his poverty, disease
and infamy. The debauchee entails a
shattered constitution upon all his poster
ity ; and the profane swearer hardens the
heart of his children and friends as well
as his own.” The medicaljworid has long
ago decided that certain diseases are heredi
tary, that there are physical maladies
which are transmissible from one genera
tion to another. If a man will impair his
health, and derange his nervous system
by the excessive use of tobacco —if lie will
poison his breath and his blood by habit
ual indulgence in intoxicating drinks, or
if he shall waste his strength and beauty
in chambering and wantonness, he must
expect to bequeath a heritage of suffering,
sorrow and shame to those who spring
from his loins. It is on this principle that
the pedigree of a family is a matter of mo
ment. God has so constituted human na
ture that the physical argument for virtue
is remorselessly logical.andoverpoweringly
eloquent.
But there is still another aspect of this
subject, which is worthy of our considera
tion, and it is, that others suffer from our
sins and follies on the principle of affec
tion, on the law of love. “ The father, the
brother, the sister may experience none of
the ill effects of intemperance, dissipation
and debauciiery in a graceless son, yet they
experience other agonies. He may be a
heavier burden 011 the heart than the loss
of goods or health. He may wring tears
of anguish which no poverty or disease
could extort. No man who has a father to
care for him, a mother to love him, a sister
to pray for him, a brother to strengthen
him, or a friend to confide in him, can
perish alone in his iniquity. He is not
alone in the world, aud if he were alone it
would be to him an intolerable calamity.
Conceive of a being endowed with the
faculties we possess, cut off from all socie
ty — uo t an eye to beam upon him with
affection, not a tongue to move in cordial
greetings at his presence, not a heart to
beat in sympathy with his own, not a
smile to bless him, nor a tear to soften him,
and none even to hate him. It would be
far better to bea dog ora reptile,thau to be a
mau without sympathy with other miuds,
fatherless, motherless, brotherless, friend
less, without God, without a heart.”
Persons are often deterred from the
commission of sin from the consideration
of not destroying the peace and happiness
of family and friends. The wicked hus
band will not frequent the society of the vo
luptuous, because such visits would cause
the heart of a pious wife to bleed aud break.
The gay young lady will not participate in
certain popular amusements because such
a participation would militate against the
views and feelings of her Christian parents;
and the thoughtless young man abstains
from the use of profane language, because,
forsooth, his sw’eet sisters would be shock
ed and insulted by his blasphemous utter
ances. Is it not perfectly plain, then, that
no man can perish alone in his iniquity?
This, tlieu, being a sublime and tremen
dous truth, how circumspect should we he
in our conduct aud conversation ! We are
o interwoven with our fellow-men that
we cannot live a moment without mould
ing them for truth or error, vice or virtue,
happiness or misery, heaven or hell. If
we live in accordance with the dictates of
Revelation and reason, we may be instru
mental in promoting the present and future
well-beingofmultitude3of immortal beings.
But if, on the contrary,we lead an immoral
life, aud pursue an iniquitous traffic, we
may be responsible for the ruin of thous
ands in both worlds. The idea of meeting
those at the final reckoning, who have been
degraded and damned by our influence, is
awful beyond description.
The poet has drawn a vivid picture of
the rum-seller confronting his victim on
the morning of the resurrection :
T ,, u “ ‘ >n , e was the drunkard, early dead,
TlieoU,* r, he who hurled him lo the grave '
As the ft rave raised Us rattling Shroud, and'
Let their bodies forth, clothed, with dismal
immortality—the drunaurd started
As he slowly turned, and tix his horrid eves
On hi in who shrank from that look of death
And sprang to seek his hiding tomb. Moaning
He said—) •Spirit ! why gaze on me? Who art g
T shrieks 10 W6Bt thou T l 67 ’ ‘Know thee? - loud
Replied : • Know I tliiS judgment morn ? Know I
I he threat to meet thee here again ? stand forth“
thou doomed, unconcerned fiend! Ave well T
know J ' 1
?h e t w , e!ll h i no 'T on car,| L thv damning arts
T look !edme 10 the grave ? Stand torthT and
On yonder flowery spot, where rose to heaven
My angel wile aud babes, and re -d the
Inscription on their tombs, amt mine' lam
The murderer man thou sawext die, and thou
My murdered ; the monster seller of that ’
Ardent tire that burned my body, aud now
Burns my soul! But hark! the judgment trum
p6L
Calls! and we must meet the Judge! I told thee
So, when dying on my bed of straw, in
lender world. Away ! Away ! lor still the
trumpet calls! It calls for thee thou murderer'
And I will he a witness at the bar, ““‘merer.
And call on God to damn thy soul and mine!"
Blind . Blind ! Blind ! —The reports
tiius far received from the various points
in tlie States here tiie business of registra
tion has been commenced, are very dis
heartening. While the negroes crowd
with alacrity to the lists, white people
seem to go everywhere and do everything
else. An apathy as inconceivable its it is
criminal, seems to have taken fast hold
upon them. We almost despair of arous
ing them. Tiie vocabulary of argument,
appeal and warning is well nigh exhausted.
What more shall we say—what more can
we say ? If they care nothing for them
selves, have they no thought for those who,
in order of nature, must stand in their
places, and bear the burdens that drop
from their shoulders ? Let them see to it
that the innocent children who now play
at their knees, do not, some dark day in
tiie future, rise up and curse them. You
are gambling away their birth-right,
without even the poor consolation of know
ing that the game is fair, or your adversa
ry honest.
Read It. —We call the special attention
of our readers this morning, to the article
headed “ Interview with Tiiaddeus Ste
vens,” in another column. If those whose
feet are so swift to walk into the snare laid
by the Sherman bill, under the fatal delusion
that they will thus escape cou fiscal ion and
secureaspeedyreadmission into the Union,
are not persuaded uow of their error, they
would scarcely believe though one rose
from the dead. The emphatic “No Sir !”
with which tiie old malignant closed the
conversation, ought to ring through the
laud like an alarm bell.
Ben. Wade and tiie “Shoddies.” —
Tliis wicked old man, in his recent
speech at Lawrence, Kansas, enunciated
certain theories about property that seem to
have caused a monstrous fluttering among
fchat interesting class of our brethren North
who made “loyalty” pay during the late
war. They have forgotten Cuft'ee for tiie
time, and almost ceased their efforts at
solving the great problem of how to make
him the superior of the Southern whites.
Let us be duly thankful for the breath
ing spell.
Tiie extract below contains tiie hand
grenade whose explosion lias caused such
commotion :
“Senator Wade then proceeded to say
that there was another question upon
which he would express his views, al
though his hearers might differ from him
in opinion. We did dispose of the ques
tion of slavery, and now that of labor and
capital must pass through the ordeal. The
shadow of the approaching struggle be
tween these two great interests was already
upon us, aud it would do no good to turn
our backs upon the question. It must be
met. Property teas not equally divided ,
and a. more equal distribution of capital
must be wroughtout. That Congress which
had done so much for the slave cannot
quietly regard the terrible distinction
which exists between the man that labors
and him that does not. [Applause.] ‘lf
you (billheads,’ said the speaker, ‘can’t see
this, the women will, and will act accord
ingly.’ It will not be long before the labor
ers will demand of canvassers, upon tiie
eve of an election, ‘What will you do for
us?’ and they will have a satisfactory an
swer. It is not right or just that any man
should be compelled to labor until life is
worn out and being is a curse.”
The New York Times sounds the alarm
in the following very nervous article. For
ourselves, we do not hesitate to express tiie
belief that, in tlieend, Wade will triumph,
if lie and his party are not wiped out of
existence, and the government restored to
the keeping of those who are willing to
gather up aud preserve the fragments of
Constitutional Law and Liberty that sur
vive the despotism of the past six years.
Confiscation may come upon 11s, and it
will be awful; but God is just, and those
who take tiie sword shall feel its point
some day. French socialism and a gener
al division of all property at tiie North,
which means anarchy, ruin, blood, and
desolation, will be at one and the same
time the sequel to, and retribution for,
confiscation:
“Mr. Wade’s ‘jump forward’ is into
chaos. He passes over the heads of Stevens
and Phillips at a single leap. He springs
from the domain of American republican
ism to the region of French socialism. He
does not in specific terms indorse Proudhon
and assert that ‘property is theft,’ but he
assails the whole industrial and business
fabric of the country, and sends forth prop
ositions involving a general division of
lands and goods, the limitation of capital,
and the more ample recompense of labor —
all by acts of Congress.
* *******
“We have too much confidence in the
good sense of the American people to be
lieve that they will witness this ‘jump
forward’ with any other feelings than
those of astonishment and disgust. No
where in the world is property so univer
sally diffused as in this country, and
nowhere, therefore, will the protest against
every scheme for violating the rights be
uttered with such heartiness and effect.—
But Mr. Wade cannot be allowed to pro
mulgate a policy which imperils the safe
guards of society, and at the same time
arrogate to himself authority as a Radical
Republican. The views we have repro
duced from his Lawrence speech are the
views, not of a Radical Republican, but
of a leveler and revolutionist. To these
even the Radicals of the North cannot be
indifferent. Every capitalist, every farm
er, every manufacturer, every sober, honest,
and skilful workman is interested in
crushing them as speedily as they are ut
tered. The (piestion Mr. Wade has raised
is not one of politics, but of order and
peace. It is not one of party, but oue that
concerns the whole people. And it is
incumbent upon the Senators and others
who are ordinarily supposed to act with
Mr. Wade to disclaim sympathy with his
hospitality to capital, and to show that
they have no disposition to follow the
‘jump forward’ he has taken. - ’
We regret extremely to learn from the
Atlanta correspondent of the Augusta
‘Press’ that Albon Chase, Esq.,the Secre
tary of the Southern Mutual Insurance
Company, and one of the most prominent
citizens of that place, is in very feeble
health, and has been compelled to resign,
in consequence, his position as Agent of
the Pioneer Paper Mill.
The ‘ Intelligencer,” of Friday, reports
Joseph O. Kelley, of Newton county, as
committing suicide by shooting himself
througU the head with a rifle.
England Under Conservative Rule.
A London correspondent of tiie New
York Pound Table , states that au era of
unusual prosperity is commencing in Eng
land. Consols have risen in one month
nearly six per cent., money is easy and
abundant, the looms of Mauchester and
other manufacturing centres are working
(Vi. full time again, and the crops promise
most auspiciously. A judicious Reform
bill will also be passed, and a quietus given
to the Radical conspirators who, like their
allies in this couutry, are seeking to pull
down tiie pillars of the Constitution.
This is good news indeed, and should
stimulate all lovers of law and liberty on
tliis side the Atlantic, to renewed energy
in their battles for the Constitution.
The men who govern England now are
Conservatives, and therefore our natural
allies. They are the descendants of those
bold barons who wrested the Magna Char
ta at thesword’s point, from the treacherous
John. They went down later in history
before Cromwell and his cohorts, but the
Roundheads could not govern. The King
came to his own again, and these men
returned to rule a country whose history
they had illustrated by their intelligence,
their pluck, and their devotion to princi
ple. Is there no cheer in the story of their
fortunes for us ? They melted their silver
plate aud jewelry, they gave up their fair
possessions, they went to the block and
into banishment, but they were true to
tiie core through it all. They fought for a
principle, and they won it at last. Ours is
a battle for principle too —it is for liberty
against despotism, for law against anar
chy, for the Constitution against the
capricious tyranny of au irresponsible
and implacable majority. Whether or not
it shall be written of us that we were
true to the core likewise, and that finally
victory perched upon our banners, is a
question we must speedily settle for our
selves.
Hon. H. S. Fitch.—We see by a corres
pondence in the Thomaaville Enterprise
that this gentleman, U. 8. District Attor
ney, resident at Savannah, will address
tiie eitizens of Thomasville on tiie 4ih
instaut, on “ Reconstruction.”
We beg to suggest as a tex for his dis
course, the noble words with which he
closes his letter, to he found 111 another
column, to Mr. Gue.
We thank him for this brave utterance,
and adjure him by the memory of a past
in which no stauncher defender of tiie
Right was found in all the great North-
West than himself, to stand by it. Tll his
memorable speeches against Judge Doug
lass, in the State of Illinois in 1858, lie
painted in colors that even now are fresh
in the memory of thousands at the South
who only read his speeches, the dangers
and disgrace that inevitably wait upon a
departure from principle. Let him tell
Georgians now, what he told his own peo -
ple then. And he could not better do it
than to take, as we have suggested, for his
theme these words:
“ NEXT TO USURPATION OF POWER,
THERE IS NO HIGHER GRADE IN POLITI
CAL CRIME THAN A TIMID ABANDONMENT
OF RIGHTS.”
Losing his Temper.—We regret to see
that our usually urbane aud courtier-like
contemporary of the ‘ Era’ is losing his
sweetness of temper. Is it the hot weath
er, or does he feel the ground slipping from
under his feet? In his Sunday issue lie
charges somebody witii manufacturing
three separate and distinctly es about him.
Perhaps, though, he had seen tiie follow
ing paragraphs from the Louisville
‘Courier,’ and they have “kicked” like the
Queen-Anne musket “ Mark Twain” tells
us of:
Our Chicago contemporary mistakes the
capacity of the Atlanta paper for dirt eat
ing. After sacrificing its self-respect and
losing the respect of all true Southern
men, it will find it no difficult task to
work in the traces even under Beast But
ler or Wendell Phillips, and it will yet
come to this.
The New York ‘Herald,’ Ginseng Week
ly ‘ Pacificator,’ and Atlanta ‘New Era,’
having nominated General Grant for the
Presidency, it is thought the formality of
a convention will not be required.
Poor Surratt ! —The feet of those who
were so swift to shed the blood of this
young man’s mother, inspired by Hyena
Holt’s greenbacks, follow on his own trail
\vith the persistent venom of a sleuth
hound. Having murdered the mother, it
becomes necessary to murder tue son to
save tiie findings of the court “ organized
to convict.” One Lewis J.Weichman
seems the principal witness relied upon by
the prosecution to compass the foul deed.
If he had not fallen into Holt’s hands, we
would unhesitatingly declare that he had
lived too late, and that his name of right
belonged on the roll of those worthy gen
tlemen, Titus Oates, or Fauquier Tenville.
Large Cabbage. —The present season
has produced the largest yet known this side of
California, on tho poor pine lands in tiie vicinity of
this city. They were from the grounds of Mr. H.
N. Blls. By what means or manure tliis was done,
we have not learned, but it should be known. One
of them was intended for the Senior of tliis office,
aud another for that of tho Tdegraph —one weighing
eighteen and the other twenty-five pounds. On
“pulling straws’’ we lost, aud Telegraph won. The
fate of their cabbage we learn to be tliis: A Dutch
man has made a wager of one barrel of sour krout»
to eat it atone meal. lie has been going on with
that moal for four days, and expects to complete it
by the end of next week. Up to this time ho lias
drank but two barrels of lager beer, and eaten one
middling of bacon as an accompaniment to tho cab
bage. Particulars, or in part, will bo known by
Friday night. Sentoh.
The ‘ Chronicle & Sentinel,’ of Sunday,
charges that a white man was refused reg
istration because he had not been in the
State twelve months, but that a negro was
so allowed who had only been in the Stale
two months.
A “ man and brother” was prostrated
Saturday, by sun-stroke, in Charleston, S.
C.
A Federal officer, under date of June
27th, reports to Gen. Carlin, “Head Cen
tree” of the Bureau, in Tennessee, that
about seventy persons have died in
Memphis, of cholera, since Juue 13th.
Tomlinson, in jail at Tallalussee, under
a charge of murder in Gwinrett county,
in tliis State, attempted to break out Fri
day night, but was caught.
Albany correspondents say that Horace
Greeley slept calmly all through the ex
citing debate on the canal question, the
other night in tiie convention, Tiie next
day, all the pages were on a “wild hunt”
for his cravat, which was finally found
where it belonged—on his neck.
General Longstreet claims to be influ
enced by “practical considerations,” in hi
recent vault into the Radical saddle. The
Cincinnati ‘Enquirer’ modestly suggests
“loaves and fishes”, as a definition of these
words.
Up to June 27th, 320 persons had regis
tered at Crawfordsviile, and tiie blacks
were about 50 ahead—says the ‘Chronicle
& Sentinel.’
The correspondent of the Augusta
‘ Press’ says “ twelve lovely young ladies”
graduated at the recent commencement of
the Masonic College, at Covington, and
that Chancellor Lipscombe and .Gen. J.
B. Gordon delivered addresses.
Bathing in wine to make the skin smooth,
is the latest in New Y~ork. One young
lady uses up three bottles every morning.
Shoddy—you bet!
Brevities.
Radical pimps in Tennessee tell the
j freedmen if they don’t go to Browulow
meetings, they will to the penitentiary.
Registration in Columbus up toWednes
| daj’, 185—.8-5 whites and 150 blacks. The
1 Sun says the chief Dogberry of the board
thinks under the head of “ executive offi
cers” are included all who held military
commissions in the Confederate army !
The Sun also announces the arrival of
forty Scotch laborers, male and female,
brought over by Major R. J. Moses.
Burglary is on the “ rampage” in Thom
asville. The Enterprise notes three cases
in one week.
Col. Sprague, commanding Department
of Florida, prohibits, in a recent order,the
earryiug of concealed weapons.
The Nicholson pavement is pronounced
by the New York Journal of Commerce,
decidedly deleterious to health, when laid
in low, moist places.
The Mississippi papers are filled with
advertisements of lands sold for taxes.
Robert McKnight, father of “Asa Hartz,”
died recently. He learned the “ art pre
servative” in 17SS, and set type nearly 78
years.
The cotton crop of Alabama last year
was about 33,000 bales. In 1850, 900,000
bales.
Five hundred and fifty-three policemen,
and fifty-two detectives, commanded by
twenty-nine offices, guard the park and
palace of the Exposition at Paris.
England imports more cotton from In
dia than from the United States. In 1866,
1,847,770 bales, worth $165,000,000 were
received.
On the 23d the Mississippi at New Or
leans was only two feet below high water
mark of 1862.
The monthly consumption of snails at
the restaurants and private tables of Paris
is 500,000. They bring from two to three
shillings a hundred.
Up to Wednesday night, 2-34 whites and
205 blacks had been registered in Atlanta.
The Superintendent of the State Road
announces that after July Ist, no reduction
in freights on provisions for the destitute
will be made on that road —the corn pur
chased by the State excepted.
The Atlanta Era of yesterday says the
types put fiour down lower than the mar
ket reports justify. The rush was for the
article at seven dollars per hundred.
The New York Times' Washington cor
respondent writes that Speaker Colfax has
orered rooms reserved for him at the Na
tional Hotel, and says Schenek predicts a
t|uorum of both houses on July 3d.
An Atlanta correspondent of the New
York Times, finds “much common sense
and little cant in the political atmosphere
of Atlanta, and the daily papers preferring
harmless local blackguarding to political
discussion.” What sort of thing is “harm
less blackguarding - .’”
The thermometer stood 92 in the shade
at Memphis, on Tuesday.
Bishop Quintan! of Tennessee,is serious
ly ill at Rome, Ga., with gastric fever.
The Rome Courier of yesterday learns
that Messrs. Robert and Moses Foster,
now in jail at that place, under military
arrest, have been turned over to the civil
authorities.
Mrs. Brown got $2,500 damages, instead
of the $40,000 we announced her as claim
ing from the M. D. who gaveat Nashville,
her husband an over dose of morphine.
The Atlanta ‘lntelligencer’ noticesacase
considerable importance to be tried in that
city Monday next, in theU. S. District. —
The title to several thousand dollars worth
of valuable property in \ Floyd county,
sold for Confederate Treasury notes, but
possession not given, is to be determined.
The ‘Era’ announces the passage through
Atlanta, on Thursday, of four car loads of
wheat shipped from Rome to Pennington
& Cos., New York city.
(JtKo far the whites are still ahead in regis
tering at Atlanta—whites, 324, blacks, 306.
A case of genuine Asiatic cholera, ter
minating iatally, is reported by the
Louisville ‘Journal’, as occurring in that
city on the 25th instant.
Cwsar Rowuitree, f. m. c., aged 13 years,
made a dead tree of another boy of the
same name, in Lowndes county, on the
20th inst., with a knife.
The Valdosta 'dimes also tells us that 415
voters have registered at that place—two
thirds of whom were negroes.
A magnificent hose reel costing $3,000,
arrived at Charleston on the 26th instant.
It is the gift of the New York Volunteer
Firemen’s Association to the Hose Com
pany No. 1, of Columbia, S. C.
A rattlesnake, with two rattles and a
button, was killed the other day in front
of a store on one of the business streets of
Tallahassee.
Ex-President Davis has written to a
friend in Mississippi, that he has postponed,
only for a short time, he trusts, the pleas
ure ot a reunion with his countrymen of
that State.
A Mississippi planter informs the Bulle
tin people at Memphis, that he never saw
the crops in that State in finer condition.
Sarsaparilla and Cherry Pectoral Ayer,
has an income of $68,578.
Registration in Augusta up to the 27th,
1,229 —whites, 455, blacks, 774.
Abram Spann, a colored delegate to the
Radical Convention to be held on 4th
July, at Atlanta, shot and killed Henry
Clements, another colored man, in Louis
ville, Jefl'erson county, on the 25th—says
a letter to the Augusta Chronicle & Senti
nel.
The Sun, of Columbus, states that a re
ligious meeting, in which much interest is
felt, is in progress at Wesley Chapel
(Methodist), in that city.
Three days registration in Muscogee
county, shows 70 whites, and 222 blacks.
The Talbotton Gazette learns that De
vine 6c Barksdale, of Chattanooga, will
deliver first quality Hour at the depot there,
for $8 per barrel.
The Columbus ‘ Enquirer’ reports the
sale of a crop of cotton in that city, on the
27th, for 18£ cents—probable classification,
Liverpool middlings.
Registration in Augusta, to the 28th
inst., 1,637 —whites 505, blacks 1,044.
Registration to same date in Savannah,
468, of whom 126 only are whites.
In Muscogee county, around and outside
of Columbus, the list show’s, whites 97,
blacks 275. The 4 Enquirer’ gives us to
understand that the Dogberrys of the
board have craw’fished from their position
in regard to Confederate army officers.
The ship ‘Bombay’ cleared from Charles
ton on the 27th inst., with a cargo worth
$250,000, part of which was 1,303 bales of
uplands and 621 do. of sea island cotton.
The Atlanta 1 Opinion’ copies, with the
quasi endorsement of absence of comment,
the recent threat of Forney, that if the
Constitutional Amendment be not adopted
by the next Presidential election, and
President Johnson still in office, there
will be “ another fearful struggle.” Well,
make the threat directly to the people of
Georgia when you meet on the fourth of
July.
Letter from Milledgeville.
St. John's Day.—Supreme Oturt— Tribute
to Judge Lumpkin—Registration.
Milledgeville, Jan. 25,1867.
Messrs. Editors: Mouday, the 24th inst,
was celebrated by the Masons of our city,
as the anniversary of St. John the Baptist.
Quite a crowd assembled in the Represen
tative Hall, at 11 o’clock a. m., and heard
an eloquent and appropriate address by
■ the Rev. Mr. Johnson, of the Episcopal
Church. The procession then formed and
returned to their Hall, where, I learn, a
sumptuous repast was provided for the
inner man. Early in the evening they
commenced what those who know how to
cut the ‘ pigeon wing’ called a " mag
nificient dance.” And I suppose this
terminated the drama, in the sad history
of the departed Saint.
We were told, in the speech, that all the
teachings of Masonry were strictly sym
bolical, and their leading objects, truth,
justice and righteousness; ami if so, we
regard the sequel of the festival a disgrace
to Christianity, and of no credit to the
Order.
It must be remembered that the fascina
ting dance took the head of John the Bap
tist and we cannot consistently commemo
rate his preeminent virtues,and at the same
time the bloody deed of a heartless tyrant.
I cannot see how those jealous of the re
spect, honor, and integrity of the Order,
can endorse such perversion of its symbol
ism, and desecration of its principles.
No decisions of the Supreme Court have
as yet beeu published. The Stay Law will
be decided unconstitutional.
Quite a number of the elite of the city
assembled in the Senate Chamber, to-day,
in honor of Judge Lumpkin. Eulogies
were delivered by Gov. Jenkins, Judges
Warner and Harris, who portrayed in a
most profound and eloquent manner, the
distinguished character of this truly noble
and good man.
1 The work of Registration is tardily pro
gressing. I learn the negroes on the
country farms are not inclined to register,
under an impression made on them by
Ex-Gov. Brown, that not to vote for a
Constitution, would result in confiscation
—just what they want. Will send results
in a few days.
ABDIKL.
Our Alabama Correspondence.
School Exhibitions—Be freshing Showers—
Pleasant City—lxmdseeqie in Georgia —
Bureau — ltegistration, Etc.
Eufaula, Ala., June 25, 1867.
Messrs. Editors : This is sporting season
in Eufaula. I have no reference to the
turf, for our people are not in the habit of
going crazy over the wonderful sensation
of seeing one horse’s head before another’s;
nor do I allude to those innocent recrea
tions denominated “field sports”, neither
has any great and hilarious crowd assem
bled from all over the land to engage in
those honorable games—the Delpnian, the
Nemean, the Corinthian and the Olympic
—which have rendered famous enlighten
ed Greece. All I mean to allirm is, that
during the past few days young ul< ns have
been shooting in various directions, and
with different results; generally with
great satisfaction to all who attended their
exhibitions.
The schools —of which we have quite a
number in this city—one after another,
have been holding their closing exercises.
The exhibitions have reflected much credit
on the Institutions, and the young folks
“won golden opinions from all sorts of
people.”
The first one attended by tlie|writer was
Mrs. Brasliear’s, where the pupils exhib
ited a familiarity with their studies such
as I have rarely-seen. Every question
asked by their accomplished and energetic
teacher, met with an answer which seemed
ever to reston their tongue’s end. Though
it has been many a long year since I
passed through the elementary branches,
yet my mind was wonderfully refreshed,
I assure you. Yes, I was grammatically,
geographically, arithmetically, ami his
torically benefitted. I was forcibly re
minded by the attainments of these little
people, of the ideas of education enter
tained by a farmer who knew “as much as
any man ought to know.” He said he
intended to give all his children a good
education, and that it could be embraced
in three words, beginning with three It’s
—“lteadin, Ritinand Ritlimetic.”
Mr. W. H. Patterson’s exhibition took
place in the chapel of the Union Female
College on Saturday night. The hall was
crowded with the elite of the town, which
side by side with the oiaristoi of any other
city, maybecalled par excellence. Health,
wealth, and beauty commingled there,
presenting very much the appearance of
a garden of flowers, some admired for
their beauty, some for their fragrance or
virtues, and others just because they were
costly and valuable. But many flowers
were there that had not only the beauty of
the rose, but its sweetness, too. There
were no exotics in this group. Even the
•‘blue bells”, concerning which Burns
sang so sweetly, would have been unno
ticed and unknown,so intensely southern,
so “native and to the manor born” were
these flours dc printemps. The audience
were entertained until near twelve o’clock
with speeches, both original and other
wise, from young gentlemen connected
with the school, and several of these as
pirants for Ciceronian honors exhibited
both talent and progress in that art which
is as divine, I believe, as that of poetry.—
Prizes were awarded to those of the young
gentlemen who were adjudged the liest
speakers.
An attractive feature of this entertain
ment was the charming music discoursed
by the “Eufaula Band,” which has been
but recently organized under the efficient
management of Mr. Willis Cox, and is
composed of some of the first young men
in the city.
The commencement exercises at the
Union Female College will take place on
Thursday, and all are looking forward to
this largest feast w 'Ll) “longingappetites.”
Elaborate preparations have been made,
and we doubt not it will be a rich provi
sion. The indomitable President and bis
accomplished assistants arc well calculated
to cater to the literary taste of any commu
nity. A beautiful address is expected from
General Battle on the occasion.
Put I must change the subject. We have
recently been blessed with rains, to the
great benefit of the crops, as their gay
and luxuriant appearance will readily
testify. We have not had a sufficiency,
hut ever and anon the heavens darken and
a little more eomesdown. The ~un had so
parched up our gardens, and vegetation
generally, that now when he Ida/es forth
from mid-heaven, a mourner from the
skies* comes “ like Niobe, all tears,” to
weep over his cruelty to the suffering hus
bandman, and these tears, mingling with
the heat, produce just that state of warmth
and moisture needed to make our thirsty
fields rejoice and blossom as the rose.
I suppose that those of your readers who
deign to look upon these epistles hurried
ly thrown ofF, imagine that “ Mercury” Is
Eufaula-struck —but let me ask, was Gold
smith “struck” with the “ Deserted Vil
lage?”—even with the memory of that
once happy community? Hurely, then, it
is not strange that a place lovelier far than
“ Sweet Auburn,” should win upon ray
affections. Herewe have thriving business,
happy homes, good, kind people, choice
society, and an excellent climate, and last,
but not least, religion, calm, holy, peace
ful religion, has come and thrown her
mantle over us, to protect us from the
storms of an eternal night. “ Happy is
that people that is in such a case, yea,
happy is that people whose God is the
Lord.”
Situated upon a high bluff, wo have a
beautiful view reaching over into onr sister
State of Georgia. Magnificent fields of
corn and cotton are spread out in the dis
tance, rivulets roll along to the river, ami
cattle, “ ringstreaked, spotted and speck
led,' graze along the banks of the Chatta
hooehe, just as 1 imagine they do in that
beautiful vale “where the Mohawk gently
glides.” Identified with the Empire State,
yea, wedded to itin heartand feeling,with
this inviting picture presented continually
to my mind, I can but haveemotions akin
to those cherished by the sons of Jacob, as
they stood on this side of Jordan and gazed
on the “ sweet fields” that lay beyond the
swelling flood. I nni reminded of an old
lady in Israel, but of our day, who antici
pating the joys that lay beyond the river
that has an “echolessshore,” attempted to
“ give out” and sing a favorite verse; such
was the treachery of her memory the last
couplet was announced as follows :
“ So to the Jews old *vnelhi -j stood,
» :: ”
I will close this letter with the informa
tion that we have at last got that which
the Indians promised Artemus Ward—a
“ bureau.” It is established, and I sup
pose in the full exercise of its powers ; and
with the further intelligenee that registra
tion has been going on for two or three
days, a- a “ cloud of witnesses” assembled
at Webb’s corner daily will gladly testify.
1 am told that the latio of registration has
been about three blacks to one white. —
Verily, we may say with Cicero, “ Ttmgo
ra rnvtatur et nos mutamur m ittis."
MERCURY.
All Interview w itli Thaddrin Stevens.
Mr. Drake, one of the editors of the
Union Springs (Alabama) 'Times, visited
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, recently, and
had an interview with Thaddeus Stevens.
We make the following extract from
Mr. Drake’s report of the interview :
I told him who I was, the views I
entertained, and requested that he would
say nothing to me which he would desire
kept secret. As he had been talking a
great deal and was quite exhausted, I was
forced to question rapidly, and confine
myself to leading topics. The most of the
couversatian was heard by a gentleman
who called with me, and who can vouch
for its correctness, which is almost verbal.
1 told him l had come to hear from him,
whom l regarded as the great head and
master of his party, just what his party
demanded and where their demands won Id
stop—upon wliat terms and at what prob
able time his party would recognize the
Southern States as equal members of the
Government—andtoask his interpretation
of the present measure of reconstruction.
Then, prefacing the question with the
remark that it was an indelicate one to put
to a gentleman, I asked :
“Do you pursue your harsh policy as a
party measure for the purpose of intimida
tion ?'"
He answered at once, “1 do nothing
merely for party purposes. I regard my
proposed action as equitable, and resting
upon principles of law.”
“But, Mr. Stevens, by what provision of
the Constitution arc you warranted in
perverting a war made to resolve a doubt
ful question, and the rigtit itself to make
which was doubtful, into an excuse for
going beyond it.- purposes, in treating the
defeated so harshly as you propose?”
“ The Constitution does not enter into
the question—lias nothing to do with it
at all. You made an issue of war. The
North—whether wisely or unwisely, it is
no use now to inquire—accepted the issue
and conquered you. By a thousand acts,
which some of my party seeui now to for
get, the Government recognized you as a
beligerent nation, and your defeat left you
no rights under the Constitution, nor any
claim to be treated by its provisions.—
Wliileyou were belligerents I regarded you
also as great criminals, who had forfeited
all rights of person as well as property. 1
propose to deal with you entirely by the
laws of war, and, though not caring to
have those laws executed to tile full extent
of hanging the poor devils, 1 regard it as a
matter of the simplest equity to punish
you by fines at least sufficient to idemnify
loyal men for the damage sustainedat your
hands.”
“ Will you persist in your confiscation
measure, Mr Bteveus? Will you be satis
fied with no less?”
“No sir! Anything less would be un
just to those wronged by your crime.”
“ Yv'ill you be able to briugyour party to
your support ?”
“1 do not know. We bad i hard work
to secure the passage of ti e military bill;
but I shall take care of myself, and devote
all of my strength and ability to pushing
on this measure of justice.”
“ Well, Dir. Stevens, there are good men
in the South, honest men, who took an
oath of loyalty t<> the United States Gov
ernment in good faith, upon the assurance
that they would be treated as citizens.—
The unsettled condition of politics bears
hardly upon them. Lands are valueless,
and industry is discouraged. If you—and
I say you, because you are your party —
intend to perfect the proposed confiscation,
do it quickly. Do not torment the South
by delay and deception. Bring Wilson
home, and do not let him tell any more
lies to honest people. Let the issue be
distinct and well understood. You are
consistent, and have been frank, at least.”
Mr. S. now complained of being over
worked. 1 begged him to answer one or
two more questions.
“Would you lie pleased to see organized
in Alabama a government similar to that
of Tennessee under such men as Brown
low, a lew of which, I am sorry to say, we
have among us, Milt Satlbld, for in
stance?”
He replied, hesitatingly, “It is not a
matter’of men at all; it would depend up
on circumstances and principles. We
would inquire whether you had a State,
and—”
I here interrupted, feeling that he was
dodging, and asked the following ques
tion:
“Suppose, sir, Alabama should organize
a government enfranchising the negro,
providing lor his education and giving
ample guarantees for his protection before
the courts and in society, and under that
government should semi good men (who
could take the test-oath) to Congress,
would you admit her to representa
tion ?”
Without a moment’s pause he answered,
with strong emphasis, “No,” and thus
closed the interview.
Registration closed Friday in tin* first
ward of Atlanta—ll 2 whites ami S7ii
blacks. Jiy the way, why do the figures
always vary, as reported by the different
papers there? We take them as given by
the ‘ 1 ntclligencer.’
The Covington * i 'nteiprise’ informs 15.
I): Anderson, supposed to reside some
where in <ieorgia, that if lie will apply to
H. 15. Anderson, attorney, at that place, lie
can get information that will put him in
possession of 1,000. “Come out of your
hole,” 15. D.,or give us a“ a power of eter
nity” to “ draw for you.
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Mk. Johnson ani» tiii; “Opinion.”—
From the .semi-official outgivings of the
National Int> 1/ /* nc<r, we areied to believe
that the President will consult his old
hobby of “expediency,” and, after telling
the military satraps t ■ be good boys and
don’t do so any more, very quietly permit
the outrages they have perpetrated to
remain in nlatu yvn. Justice is justice.
If tills semi-official intelligence Ik? true,ami
we are inclined to believe it, how can the
President wonder if he is not loved at the
South as he is not feared at tiie North?
How can he wonder that General Pope
pays no attention to his endorsement of
the “Opinion” and General Sheridan flatly
refuses to obey his request for an extension
of registration in Louisiana? Andrew
Johnson’s father died to save the life of
his friend. So runs his epitaph. Wo
need not point the moral.
We had some forty pounds of rancid lard
which was valueless as it was. Knowing
tiie antiscepticqualityof chloride of soda, I
procured three ounces, which was poured
into a pailful of soft water, and when hot
the lard added, after boiling it thoroughly
together for an hour or two, it was setaside
to cool. The ;ard was taken oif' when
nearly cold, and was subsequently boiled
up. The color was restored to an alabaster
white and the lard was as sweet as a rose.
[ (icrrnantown T> kyraph.
Eighty-six recruits Brownlffw’s
militia reached Nashville, on the 2itli,
rom East Tennessee hen r oosts.