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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER
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Wc publish iu another eolumn an article
from the Macon Telegraph, of yesterday,
which, though the editor does not .say so, wc
know refers to us, and we shall so treat it.
11;.,! the Telegraph done nothing more than
repudiate the inadvertent credit of the Shir,
me I display that talent for elegant sarcasm
and refined wit for which it is distinguished
—had it confined itself to calling us “terlium
quids,” and our article “a wonderful ululu,”
an d even had it described more graphically
the exjHctant strain of our “eye-halls”—we
should probably have had the bad taste not
to appreciate its effort sufficiently to notice
it at all.
But when the Telegraph has the impu
dence to put on the airs of unassailable j>o
jitical consistency, to assume the garb of
simon-pure Democracy, to present itself as
the steadfast champion of the Democratic
party, and affects to treat with scorn and
indignation any proposition of “voluntary j
or permanent affiliation with the authors and
supporters” of the “political crucifixion of
tin- South” and when it does this in order
to call in question our consistency, our fideli
t\, to the principles of Democracy, our
zeal in the Democratic cause, and our enmi
tv to the policy of the Radical Con
gress and to the “unconstitutional tyran
ny” of which the South has been the victim,
and read us a lecture on the duty of
a Democrat, we feel bound to brand the
clumsy counterfeit lest there might be one
man ignorant enough of the record of the
editor of the Telegraph and of our own, to
accept it as good currency.
We like plain speaking and plain dealing.
Wc invariably mean what we say and say
what we think. We think it host to speak
out or to be silent, to avoid all dodges and
awkwardly constructed paraphrases to servo
as loopholes of escape from the conse
quences of what we say, to he candid and
above-board, and whether we praise or blame,
to stick to the truth, avoiding alike the pal
pable. misrepresentation and the still mean
er “mendacity of hints.”
If the Telegraph's article means anything,
it is an attempt to magnify its own record as
an exponent of sound Democratic principles,
mid to belittle ours, and to make people be
lieve that it is defending the standard of
Democracy which we are preparing to de
sert.
Now had we spent the greater portion of
our life denouncing and assailing the Demo
cratic party and its principles, had all the
editorial distinction we ever gained been (de
rived from our bitter hostility to Democracy;
had we, when the hour of trial and danger
came made expediency the only rule of our
action; had we in the continued worship
of expediency, expressed a willingness to
accept for ourselves and advised our read
ers to accept, every “part and parcel
of the political crucifixion of the Southern
States and of civil freedom,” and had we
still, for the sake of expediency, consented
to "a political affiliation with its authors and
supporters,” even to the extent of earning
our living, in part., by taking it “out of the
public crib” had we gone the length, in or
der to win for ourselves the unenviable no
t iriety of being the only reputable paper in
Georgia, to call upon the Legislature to sur
render their Constitutional privileges, re
verse their action taken under the sanctity of
their oaths, and stultify themselves by re
seating’ the negroes and expelling the white
members had we done all this with the
consciousness of such a record, we never
would have dared to question the consis
tency of one who all his life long has stood
ly and fought under the banner of Democ
raev. who has never surrendered one inch of
ground to expediency or advised any one
else to ilo so where the surrender involved
the sacrifice of principle, of honor or of
self-vi ]'(‘et, and who has never advised any
body to take passage in the “rotten scow”
which plies bet ween honor on the one side, and
“ulUliatiou w ith the authors of the political
crucifixion of the Southern States” on the
other.
Our effort is to band together all the ele
ments of opposition to Radicalism in order to
annihilate it. "We desire to bury all old po
litical animosities and divisions which grow
out of issues long since dead, and whether
w e called ourselves Whigs or Democrats ill
the past, to call ourselves now the defenders
of Constitutional liberty, enlist under the
banner of “the Equality and Sovereignty
of States,” and march forward shoulder to
shoulder to the overthrow of the party to
which belong "the authors and supporters of
the pi litieal crucifixion of the Southern
States. I’liis is what we want, and
w< Mieve that it is a better and
a lottier purpose than that by which the
V- ■ jr.i/.1, confesses to have been actuated,
in recommending tile recognition of the
constantly growing and advancing demands
upon us of the Radicals, and “the closing
up at once with our tormentors at any pres
ent cost, so as to attain some settled status
mid a position affording some degree of self
defence.” We believe that we can attain a
position affording some degree of self
defence by a cordial union of the opposition
to Radicalism, and that to sink the name of
Whig or Democrat, however much we may
have prized it, is less of a sacrifice than to
embark in the rotten scow of expediency,
and try to get the better of the Radicals by
cheating them.
The Telegraph's article is studiously in
volved, so as to suit any emergency which
may arise. Its worship is about evenly di
vided between Democracy and expediency.
It is democratic where it pretends to be
lieve that we are for expediency, and it is
l'eadydo bo expedient if “no other help is
available. ”
We are not surprised that the Telegraph
finds its place uncomfortable on board the
“rotten scow.” It is no wonder that it dis
trusts such a craft for “a long voyage.” But
let it not attempt to make it appear that we
have taken passage upon it. We have al
ways loathed the scow and its despicable
t rattle, and we have felt pity for those whose
love of the “public crib, ’’cowardice,or want of
steadfastness of principle, led them to trust
themselves to its shiny, worm-eaten timbers.
We do not expect to escape criticism and
opposition. Our views may be erroneous
and ill-judged. Our arguments may be bad
ly chosen and defective. But we do expect
a fair and candid statement of our opinions.
We expect the same respectful considera-
tion which we arc willing to extend to oth
ers; and when anybody lias the hardihood
to state or to hint that we are unfaithful to
the principles of the Democratic party, we
insist on the enforcement of the rule of
equity, that our accuser shall come into
court with clean hands.
What Does it Mean 1
The Washington Republican, one of the two
daily papers winch derive their information
from that paragon of purity, truth, and be
nevolence, John W. Forney, wants the pass
age of asixteeuth amendment, disfranchising
every one who cannot react and write the
English language correctly. What does this
mean? What’s broke? What have our dear
colored fellow-citizens been doing to provoke
Forney to hurl this thunderbolt at them,
which will deprive ninety-nine hundredths
of them of tin* inestimable privilege of the
ballot?”
The fact is that the negroes were citizens
of African descent, equal to any white man,
sujieriorto any Southern white man, entitled
to the privileges of the ballot and every other
privilege, entitled to social equality at the
South, and the right to do many things which
arc denied to white men, so long ns they
voted the Radical ticket and “fixed things”
to keep Forney and company in good fat
Omcas. Tliuj wt*re blut K Ux«siUJL l»4*yu” 4«>
be caressed and fondled and tickled while
they burned their fingers polling the chest
nuts out of the fire for Forney’s dessert, but
when they dare to think that they had bet
ter stand by the white people who feed and
clothe and employ them, that they should
trust their old masters rather than Forney,
and that to vote tiie anti-Radical ticket is
the part of wisdom, they straightway become
ignorant, slothful, vicious, good-for-nothing
niggers, who cannot be safely intrusted with
political privileges, and Forney cries through
his two papers, disfranchise them by a six
teenth amendment.
The man who was hoisted by his own
petard, and Actaeon, who was devoured by
liis own dogs, could not avert their destiny
by a constitutional amendment. We rather
think that Forney and his fellow-Radicals
will find themselves similarly helpless.
The Conservatives in Mississippi.
The leading Conservatives of Mississippi,
following the example of the Conservatives
of Virginia and Tennessee, have issued an
address to the people of their State, advising
them as to the best course to pursue at the
election which will take place in November,
and on the result of which the w eal or woe
of Mississippi depends.
They recommend that there shall he no
“straight out Democratic ticket, but that
the battle shall be fought between the Con
servatives of all parties on the one side, and
the Radicals on the other. They believe
that if the fight is made iu this way —if all
who are opposed to Radicalism will unite
and coalesce for the common defence—vic
tory can certainly be won, and that if a third
party runs a candidate, they may be equally
confident of defeat.
Notwithstanding Gen. Grant’s recent ut
terances to Mr. Tarbell, and Boutwell’s man
ifestoes, and Creswofl’s telegrams, the Con
servatives seem to Ik> “bold and resolute,”
and “laugh to scorn the power” of the Rad
icals. At least we judge so from the follow
ing extract from their address :
We take it for granted that no true Mis
sissippiaiv worthy of that honored name,
can think for a moment of adhering to the
RadjpoA Republican party as it exists in the
State of Mississippi. From them we have re
ceived, nothing but cruel tyranny, unjust
persecution, and a degree of oppression and
humiliation unequaled, as we conceive, in
the sad history of conquered nations. Their
odious principles, as ignobly illustrated by
their past, party history, and not successfully
disguised, even in their cunningly devised
and insincere platform of July last, are con
demned by all intelligent and just men,
North and South. The conservative senti
ments expressed in their late platform can
not l>e confided in, having been forced from
rhem as a last desperate effort to seize the
State Government, with its offices and emol
uments, after the party had been relinked at
the ballot-box by the people of the State, of
both races.
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All 11 istoiical Document.
With no particular desire to “point a
moral or adorn a tide,” or even to produce
a sensation, but merely to present the cur
rent, history of our day, we copy the sub
joined mandate from the President of the
United State’s while eu route from a clam
bake at Long Branch, to a horse race at
Saratoga, to the U. S. Marshal for the city
of New York, in which the latter is com
manded to “use all means” to resist the law
ful process of a lawful tribunal of the sov
ereign State of New York, in a case pending
before it, which order would have certainly
led to a collision between the federal and
New York State troops, had not the Attor-
ney General, seeing the lawless arrogance of
his chief, obviated the eonfiiet by removing
the “bone of contention.”
When it is remembered that there was
really no charge against Major Piatt, but
one arising from a stupid blunder; that lie
being within the jurisdiction of New York’s
sovereignty invoked her protection against
false arrest under a writ of habeas corpus
issued by one of her judges, that he has
been since discharged by liis captors, on the
ground that there was no ground for his ar
rest, that New York is a loyal State whose
right to govern herself Ims not yet been ques
tioned, and that there is no state of war or
insurrection existing to justify the suspen
sion. even by Congress, of the constitution
al writ of habeas corpus , the ease becomes to
some extent pbjiutut, if not exciting, and the
President’s missive to his Marshal acquires
additional interest. Here is the document
as published by the N. \. World, and said
to be in General Grant’s own hand-writing:
“General Harlow, United St<ites Marshal
Southern District of New York:
I hereby direct you to maintain the laws
of the United States, and to resist all efforts
to take the prisoner .T. 11. Pratt, from your
custody, whether by order of Judge MeCuun
or any other officer in any of the State
Courts. I also authorize and request you
to use all means to resist the attempt to ef
fect your arrest, and stop the execution of
the laws of the United States.
U. S. Grant, President.
Appeal ia Behalf of a Vagrant’*
Home.
In all the Southern States where negro
v_i— x- - L i i • i • -*—
that the supply of laborers is wholly inade
quate to meet the demand. To our own
knowledge, in Georgia, many planters this
vear were obliged to curtail their planting
operations from tin ir inability to obtain the
working force which they needed to culti
vate as much land as they desired. The
same is true of all the otner States, from
Maryland to Texas.
Is" it not somewhat remarkable that with
this general demand for field laborers, the
Natiou.d Freedman s Belief Association of
Washington, IV C., should be obliged to
make an impassioned appeal to tie charity
of the country foifhelp to support the indi
gent negroes in and about the Cental 1
To the unsophisticated outsides it would
seem to be a wiser and easier point to make
the black jumpers go to work tlku to at
tempt to supjiort them in a state if profli
gate vagrancy —to make them go wjere they
will help to raise more cotton and Corn, in
crease the national wealth, and support
themselves —rather than eueouragethem to
continue a disgusting incubus upoisociety.
To put a lioe in their bands miglitleerease
the Radical vote, and might dojSve the
National Freedmen’s Relief Assotition of
the means of gulling and swindling s credu
lous public, but then, consulting tlj great
est good of the greatest number, wAre de
cidedly of opinion that to make they starv
ing thousands of Freedmen raise ibacco
in Maryland or Virginia, or cotton, cfci and
rice, further South is the best polietto be
pursued.
We would not give the National freed
men’s Relief Association the smallel frac
tion of fractional currency for the Ambi
tion and endowment of their A laaut's
Home. We would counsel the will and
black vagrants of the concern to earilieir
living by honest labor, and teach theft hat
their swindling operations are “playedut.”
Tbe Poor, Persecuted Texas Freied
lueu.
The New York Tribune whoso philan
thropy is proverbial, with tears iu its i yes
and any number of big capitals, tells us jtiiat
in Texas “many of the freedmeu have beeu
compelled to resort to robbery and ii dis
criminate plunder to sustain life, and that
the result is an increase of bitterness of the
feelings of the white population towards
them. ’’
Can anything be more heartrending? If
this is not a ease for tears and big capitals, what
is? The poor innocent, virtuous, self-dcii%
ing freedmeu of Texas, so famed for their
honesty and respect for the rights of prop
erty, have been actually compelled to resort
to indiscriminate plunder or jx-iish by the
way-side from hunger. They might have
avoided this terrible alternative by going to
work, but who that has a single spark of
philanthropy in his composition could ex
pect the freedman to work for white folks,
even to escape a resort to indiscriminate
plunder to sustain life? It is clearly the
Isjunden duty of the whites to anticipate
the freedman s wants and sustain him by
giving up their property. If they were
loyal and thoroughly reconstructed they
would do so freely. They have evidently no
right to expect the freedman to work to
sustain life, and therefore it is undoubtedly
the fault of the whites that he is driven to
mJi.n.nioui«S, ..... 'Filin iii OS I'll *U FOK
that two and two make four.
But tics is not all. The unreconstructed
and disloyal whites are not only not recon
ciled to this indiscriminate plunder, but there
is an increase in the bitterness of their feel
ings toward the freedman on account of it.
This is horribly unnatural. To (hive the
poor creatures to robliery as a livelihood by
refusing to support them in idleness and
then to have “hard feelings” towards the
robbers, argues a condition of unrepentant
rebellion which calls for prompt punishment.
It almost surpasses belief.
We are told that elsewhere besides Texas,
there are other inoffensive, gentle freedmeu,
who resort to robbery and indiscriminate
plunder to sustain life, and prefer it to work
ing for hire; and ire are further informed
that the white population who are robbed
and plundered do not enjoy it as they ought.
Is it possible, we ask, at this stage of tin 1
age of progress and civilization? “Can such
things be and overcome us like a summer
cloud, without our special wonder?” Is re
construction a failure? Is Gen. Reynolds
derelict iu his duty? Is universal suffrage a
humbug?
“All the Cabinet Absent. ”
The telegraphic dispatches of yesterday
from Washington announced that “all the
Cabinet are absent. ” We know, too, that the
President is in Pennsylvania about to “try
fishing,” and that the General of the armies
is away on a cruise. Now these gentlemen
of leisure receive annually from the .people
about $120,000, (besides perquisites, presents
and pickings,) in compensation for services
which they arc supposed to render; and it
lias been frequently urged that those services
are of such an arduous nature that the sala
ries of the officers should be largely in
creased.
It is evident, however, either that it is a
mistake that these distinguished officials are
so overpowered by their work, or that they
criminally neglect it.
Mr. Grant dancing at Long Branch, horse
racing at Saratoga or fishing in Pennsylvania;
Mr. Fish rusticating in the New York High
lands; Mr. Boutwell in the bosom of his
family at Groton, Mass.; Mr. Cox stump
speaking in Ohio; Mr. Robeson cruising;
Mr. Creswell nursing his elbow at Elkton,
Md.; Mr. Rawlins searching for health and
rural felicity through the Northwest, and
Mr. Hoar reclining under the umbrageous
elms of Worcester, Mass., while the foreign
affairs, finance, military, naval, internal,
postal and legal business of the Government
is left to a set of irresponsible clerks, present
a spectacle never seen before iu the history
,<>f the Government of the United states.
XL may Du Lli.it tiiu iii.nts do better til ui
their masters; but let not the people be told
that §120,000 per annum are not adequate
pay for the angling, dancing President, and
the rural, cruising, health-seeking Secretaries
and commanding General.
A Nclv Way of Conciliation.
The opinion is advanced that if the agent#
<u>f reconstruction in the unreconstructed
filates fail to secure the love and affections
of the people whom they are appointed to
cherish, it is not the fault of the agents.
They have such winning ways. They are so
tenderly considerate of the feelings of the
people.* They so scrupulously avoid every
thing which can tend to wound or annoy the
popular heart. Their words and deeds are
so studiously designed to promote friendly
relations and to banish every vestige of an
tagonism!
The Legislature of Mississippi appropri
ated a small sum of money to provide the
indigent maimed soldiers belonging to the
.Stale with artificial limbs. General Ames,
whose winsome and engaging manners are so
wall known, lias peremptorily forbade the
payment of the money thus appropriated,
thinking, doubtless, that the legless or arm
less soldier and his friends and kindred will
lswe him and the authority which he repre
sents all the more by a brutal prohibition
v>f the compassionate aid which the State
bestowed on her crippled soldiers. Such
acts are irresistibly promotive of peace and
good-will. However multitudinous Ames'
sins may be, his charity, asillustrated by this
one deed, is amply sufficient to cover them
ail
Decisions of tlie Supreme Court.
DELIVERED AT ATLANTA, TUESDAY, AUG. 17.
Pram the Atlanta Constitution.
John E. Jones a. al., plaintiff in error, vs.
The Macon and Brunswick Railroad Com
pany, defendant* in error. Injunction,
from Bibb.
Brown, C. J. ,
1. An injunction, which is a harsh remedy,
should uofflie granted uuiii a clear prima facie
case is made by the bilL The allegations
must be direct and positive. A charge that
they are true, “on information received from
•others,” is insufficient.
2. It is not necessary to the abjudication
■of t\iis case, for this Court to decide whether
the fifth section of the acts granting th< : aid
of the State to the Air-Line Railroad Com
pany, when applied to any other company,
is constitutional or not.
3. Said section, if constitutional, does Aiot
confer unoii any citizen <> v t iv nt
mis state any rfgm to institute any suit or
to tile any bill in any Court of this State, to
inquire into the conduct of the Legislature
in the passage of any act or resolution on the
subject of State aid, or into the conduct of
the Executive in issuing the bonds of the
State, as both are responsible to the people
alone, and not to the Courts; or to inquire
w hether the eouipany has complied with tin
terms of the act granting State aid, or
whether the necessary subscriptions have
been made, or to intermeddle in any way in
the affairs of the company, further than is
necessary to the investigation of the single
question, whether the company has sold the
bonds indorsed by the State for Jess than
ninety-cents in the dollar; and in ease of a
bill filed by a citizen or tax-payer, the Court
should confine the investigation to that issue
alone.
4. It was the duty of the Chancellor, under
the resolution passed by the Legislature on
the 28th of January, 1869, to dissolve t ie in
junction in this case.
Judgment affirmed.
William Dougherty, Lyon, DeGraflenreid
and Irvin, for plaintiff in error.
Whittle & Gustiu and W. Hope Hull for
defendant in error.
Secretary Boutwell.— We have seen a
private letter to a gentleman in this city,
from Hon. Geo. S. Boutwell, Secretary of the
Treasury, in wliieh he promises to be here
at the Fair in November next.
A Radical organ, speaking of the pros
pect of Ben. Butler’s election to the United
States Senate, says, with pious resignation,
“No one knows what afflictions Congress has
in store for the nation. ”
—Rolles C. lank & Cos., of Philadelphia,
have subscribed 87,000,000 for the Norfolk
and Bristol Railroad.
Vita sine Literis Mors est
Correspondence of the Journal and Messenger.
Letter from Coweta County.
News an, August 14, 1809.
Mr. Editor: In my last letter, I gave you
some facts l tearing upon the merits of New
nau as a place of summer resort. I now
propose to give you a few more, which may
be classed as advantages or disadvantages,
according to the tastes, objects and circum
stances of the visitors.
The Chalybeate Upriugs, which is the great
attraction here, is near the center of the city,
and at an easy distance from the Railroad
Depot. Hence, there is no stage traveling
to be endured, and no carriage hire to be
paid by the visitor. Newnan is forty miles
distant from Atlanta, on the Atlanta and
West Point Railroad, which passes almost
centrally through this city. There are two
passenger trains each way daily. Os course,
then, persons sojourning here have city priv
ileges in full daily mails, an Express office.
Telegraph office, Soda Fountains and other
luxuries dependent upon lee. Livery Stables,
eh-. Hence, not only is Newna-., with all
its comforts and luxuries, easy of access, bik
as a matter of course, strangers here can en
joy constant and rapid communication with
their homes.
There is not much appearance of gayety
here. Tills is largely owing to the fact that
the visitors are so widely scattered. There
is no large, overshadowing, all-absorbing
lintel here where the, yisitiira .ajcall crowd
ed together. Tile two hotels which ruPPT rn‘
wants of the city during the other seasons of
the year, are not nearly sufficient for the
summer crowd. A large number of private
family residences become boarding houses
jrro tem., so that there is no jam at any
point. The great majority of those here
are either invalids who came to regain
health, or persons living iu sickly localities,
who come for a healthy place of abode during
the sickly season. There are but few trans
ient, visitors. Nearly all engage board by
the month, anil are content to spend their
time quietly. Late in the afternoon of each
day, those who arc well enough resort to the
spring, where there is a large resting house.
After an hour spent here socially, they re
turn to their several homes. I will remark
here that I have not heard of the first in
valid who lias tried this Spring without ben
efit.
The “Savannah, Griffin and North Ala
bama Railroad” intersects the Atlanta and
West Point Railroad at this place. This road
is to extend from Griffin, Ga., to Decatur,
Ala., and perhaps to some point beyond the
latter place. The grading was about finished
from Griffin to this place—forty miles, and
the work was progressing finely, when the
Great Rebellion suddenly put an end to
operations. The scheme has recently
been revived; the work has been recom
menced. (Japt. A. J. White, the efficient
and gentlemanly President of the Macon
and Western Railroad, lias been made the
President of this new road; and liis name is
sufficient guarantee of the success of this
great enterprise. The importance of this
road to Savannah and Macon, as well as to
the country through which it is to pass, can
hardly he over-estimated. It will change the
seaport of Southern Tennessee, Northern
Alabama and Western Georgia from Charles
ton to Savannah or Brunswick, and it will
open to your city anew and cheaper pro
vision line than any now in use.
You might infer from the foregoing part
of thi3 letter that this is a monotonous place
for strangers. We have some variety, how
ever. One night since I have been here,
the jail was burned down. It was an
old building, and the loss to the county
was very slight. On two different nights,
exnihitions of operattas and tableaux
were given at College Temple, for which an
admission fee was charged. There is also
a brass band in the city, which helps to en
liven the evenings.
The drought lias been very severe in a
portion of this county, and the crops are
greatly curtailed.
The agent of the Southern Express Com
pany at this place, suddenly and strangely
ilisinn*4iiir»al n. n**.*t- nun llu to this time
nothing definite is known amoo# the people
generally, as to his whereabouts, or as to
the cause of his leaving. He hits left a dis
tressed wife and several children. S.
[We are always glad to hear from our es
teemed correspondent “S,” but the printers
would relish liis “copy” much more if he
would, in future, follow the rule in writing
for the press, and write only on one side of
the sheet of paper.]
♦ H
For the Journal aud Messenger.
Are Old Claims Out of Date 1
Mr. Editor: It is the impression in many
parts of the State that the recent decision of
the Supreme Court in the cast' of Battle vs.
Shivers, virtually annulled all the Acts of the
Legislature suspending the Statute of Limi
tations, thereby barring right of action on
contracts made and liabilities accruing prior
to the war. As I have seen nothing on this
subject from older and wiser heads, I hope
you will pavdon me a comparative tyro in the
law, for trespassing on your valuable space.
The decision of the Court in the case men
tioned was, that the 2863 section of Irwin’s
Code, declaring all judgments to become
dormant in seven years after its rendition,
where no execution lias been issued, or if
issued within seven years from the date of
the last entry, is not a Statute of Limitation.
Whether that decision was correct or not 1
will not now discuss. I think the sound and
conclusive reasoning in Judge Warner’s dis
senting opinion settles that question. But
to tlie subject: The Act of November 30,
1860, suspended the running of the Statute
until the Ist, of December, 1861. This Act
has been recognized as legal and valid by the
present Supreme Court, Brown C. J., ex
pressly concurring in the decision. Brian
vs. Banks. 38 Ga., p. 3(H). The Act of De
cember 14, 1861, suspended the Statute
during the war; and the Ordinance of the Con
vention of 1865, recognizes and makes valid
all Acts passed by the Legislature during the
war, not unconstitutional, with certain ex
ceptions which do not apply to this ques
tion.
Now these Acts of 1860 and 1861 have
never been declared unconstitutional, and I
believe have never been attacked, although
the slay-laws have. Any man of common
sense can see the difference between a stay
law and an Act suspending the Statute of
Limitations. As an example, suppose a note
was due the first of January, I#oo. The
Statute runs until the 30th of November,
1860. It is then suspended until the end of
the war. Six years being the limitation, it
will be seen that, giriug effect to the opinion
of Chief Justice Brown as to the 3rd section
of the Act of December, 1866, the right of
action wouiu not do barred till the summer
of 1870 but for tlie Act of 1869, which bars
them the Ist of January, 1870.
It would be well for the people generally,
aud the debtors especially, to consider this
matter carefully and compromise all old re
liabilities, whereby they might save them
selves mneh expense on account of litigation.
Respecrtully, Sergeant Buzeuz.
Perry, August 14. 1869.
How the Debt is Being Reduced. —The
Repuldican party has been in power not only
during the war, but for the four years which
have elapsed since. For the conduct of the
Government they have been for eight years
entirely responsible. The following table
shows haw they have reduced the public
debt. The "war substantially closed, says
Secretary McCulloch, on the Ist of April.
1860. It is at that period we commence our
table. We give the figures in round num
bers:
April, 1865 $2,300,000,000
September, 1805 2.75T.U00 ,000
November, IS6S 2,52”.000.000
Julv, ISG9 2,045,000,000
How long will it be, reader, before we pay
tlie debt, under this showing, with Republi
can rule? It is proper to say that the figures
above given are from the official reports of
the Secretaries of the Treasury, Messrs.
McCulloch and Boutwell. — Cut. Etupuirer.
Ratio Promotion. — Hon. Judah I\ Ben
jamin. late of the Confederate Cabinet, but
now of England, has. after two years prac
tice at the bar, been made Queen’s Counsel,
an honor almost without precedent in the
promptitude of its bestowal. Aside from
making him senior counsel in whatever eases
he may be employed, the promotion will
considerably add to his emoluments. Being
on the Liverpool and Manchester circuit,
he will be retained in commercial litigations
of importance.
MACON. GA.. TUESDAY. AUGUST 24, 1869-
Correspondence Journal and Messenger.
(setter from Sumter County.
Friendship. Ga. , August 17, 1869.
Mr. Elitor —This little village Is situated
in Sumter County, near the corners of four
! counties, to-wit : Sumter, Marion, Webster
and Schley. We all feel better this morn
ing than we did yesterday moaning. Yi*s
terdav afternoon we had a shower of ruin
that wet the dry ground. To day, instead of
wilted cotton, peas and potato leaves, every
leaf seems to l>e vieing with its neighbor to
aee which can make the greatest expansion.
Until the last few days, we have Ikvii favor
ed with occasional showers, which other por
tions of the, surrounding country failed to
get. Our crops have l»eou looking well and
doing well until about a week ago. I think
we have average crops of corn in this vicini
ty. I hear of localities where only half
crops are made. I hardly know what to any
of cotton. The dry weather lias injured it
very much. The rust has spread over some
entire fields. There is not a field that I
know of that has entirely escaped it. Upon
the whole, the crop will not exceed a half
crop, unless there is more made iu future
than I expect.. The rusty cotton cannot
make any more. The guanoed cotton can
not make much more. We are disappointed
in our fertilized cotton. We thought a month
ago it would make twice as much as that
without fertilizers; but we cannot tell very
,well about it now.
I’ w 1.111 TVII l.l mliUall Mr I);ivid
Dixon’s immigration letter to the Cultivator.
There is more practical, good sense in it,
than everything else I have seen upon that
subject. The masses have only seen one side
of this thing.
The greatest difficulty we have is that there
is too much lalior here now, unless it Ik*
more profitably directed. Let us use what
we have to more profit before we get more.
Half the labor we now have, properly direc
ted, will make more clear dollars than we
now make. Half the acres of land in Geor
gia that are planted do not yield one clear
dollar. I say, let us learn to use to good
profit what labor we have before we crowd
the country with other labor.
Respectfully, W. R.
Correspondence of the Journal and Messenger.
Letter from Bartow County.
CartebsvilxiE, Ga., August 17, 1869.
Yesterday afternoon, we liad a refreshing
rain, which was much needed. No rain had
fallen here for some time, and the growing
crops were in a suffering condition. The
corn crop iu this section will be greatly de
ficient. Wheat is plentiful, the yield being
a good average. This article is held at $1.15.
On account of this low rate, planters are
holding back, and it may be well, on account
of the deficiency of corn. In some localities
cotton bids fair to do well. Much of it is in
a very sorry condition at present.
I. C. M.
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SICK PARTIES.
From the Macon Telegraph of the 19th.
The Griffin Star does us the unmerited
honor iu copying and complimenting, as
from the Macon Telegraph, a disquisition up
on the state of political parties and the poli
cy to be pursued in reference to them, which
reflects the policy of the “terlium quids" —the
“great medicine men” of the time, who are
keeping up in the press a wonderful ululu
over the death beds of existing political par
ties and watching with strained eye-balls to
see some new growth spring up like a fungus
from the festering debri of dead organiza
tions.
We have no such impatience, and if par
ties were all dead and buried, unless the
Telegraph could find a successor which should
rear aloft the old banner of the equality and
sovereignty of the States and the supremacy
of the Constitution, we don’t think we slioud
care a button for the developments.
No party organization, not based upon
and pledged to the triumph of these funda
mental principles, is worth a thought by any
American freeman, who proposes to earn liis
own living, and not to take it out of the
puljllc Cli \j. It 1-T txiAV., ouvll *» »A*L**-A
now and then affiliate with some other party,
upon emergency, and, for a temporary pur
pose, when no other help was available anil
something must be done to save himself;
just as we understand the Democrats of Vir
ginia and Tennessee have done, and those of
Texas and Mississippi propose to do. They
will cross the stream in a rotton scow, since
needs must, but they would not prefer such
a craft for a long voyage.
In the political disorganizations, disasters
and distresses of the present, God only
knows what a man may he brought to. Wc
have been running necessarily on expedients
for four years and could not help ourselves.
It was that or worse; and we have blundered
in not recognizing the constantly growing
anil advancing demands upon us while
things were unsettled, and closing up at
once with our tormentors, at almost any
present cost, so as to attain some settled
status and a i>ositiou affording some degree
of self-defence.
But during all this time, no Democrat who
has endured negro suffrage imposed by Con
gress —military rule—the suspension of
habeas corpus or any other part or parcel of
this political crucifixion of the Southern
States and of civil freedom, could ever pro
pose voluntary or permanent political affiili
ation with its authors and supporters. The
whole system of measures and principles (so
called) are as abhorrent to his ideas of
Republican liberty as the Government of the
Grand Turk. The antagonism between
them and American civil liberty is perfect.
Oil and water will as readily intermix as these
two policies and their hearty and conscien
tious adherents.
Now, it is boasted in the South and in the
North that the opponents of this whole sys
tem of unconstitutional tyranny are forever
politically dead. But that has been often
said of them. The Democratic party has
been dead several times in the last seventy
years; but it lias stood over the graves of
many opposition organizations, and our pres
ent impression is that it will live to bury Rad
icalism and probably a score of succeeding
parties. Based doctrinally upon the true
system of American Republicanism and civil
liberty, as established by the framers of our
government, it will live just so long as that
system lives in the hearts of any consider
able portion of the American people; and
will die only as fast as the love of liberty
dies.
When it is finally dead American liberty
will be finally dead, with no chance for res
surreetiou, liecause every postulate of the
Democratic creed enunciates a fundamental
principle of American liberty.
If that catastrophe has, in fact, come, the
case of the people is beyond the skill of the
medicine men, and it matters no great deal
what party we join. We prefer to leave the
solution of this momentous inquiry to time,
and the course of events. We must live—
even if the people have become finally in
different to the old traditions and principles
and practices of the government. But we
will not accept the fact on insufficient war
ranty. We shall watch for the last for signs
of life; and although it is impossible to say
what expedients we may be driven to by the
stress of the situation, we shall be in princi
ple none the less a Democrat.
The Prospect in Pennsylvania.
The Radicals seem to be very apprehensive
that the coming election in the Key Stone
State will residt in the success of the Democ
racy. They are out of heart, apparently ap
athetic, and if they whistle now and then it
is so evidently to keep up their courage that
the music is painfully lugubrious.
Mr. Asa Packer, with his §20,000,000 —the
influence which twenty millions give—his
high character for honesty and integrity of
life, his administrative ability and unsullied
Democratic record, is a hard man to beat with
such timber as Geary. Besides, the Repub
licans of Pennsylvania are not as united and
harmonious as they used to be. There are
large numliers of Republicans in Pennsylva
nia, as there are in nearly every other North
ern State, who are sorely disappointed with
Grant, his administration and Radical nde,
and are determined to cut I oie from the dc -
structives and ally themselves with whatever
party can best oppose Radicalism.
The Democrats tire earnest, hopeful and
fully armed for the fight, Their candidate
is a'“self-made man,” who began life as a
carpenter and by hoaest industry and clear
intelligence has raised himself to his present
position.
THE NEWS.
—The whooping cough is said to lie very
prevalent in Atlanta at present
—The cholera has made its appearance at
Somerville, a suburb of Boston.
—The Colorado election for Territorial
Delegate to Congress takes place SepteuilßT
14.
—lt is rejMirted that CoL R. J. Moses, of
Columbus, lias received a small importation
of Chinamen—the simon pure Coolie.
—The fee of Caleb Cushing, as counsel
for Mexico before the Mexican Claims Com
mission. is $30,000 in gold.
—Snow fell near Montreal on the sixth of
August—jß’rkaps one of the many atmos
pheric modifications due to the eclipse.
—The Virginia papers say that not half a
tobacco crop will lie mado in that State this
year.
The schedule on the Western and At
lantic Riilroud lias lieen changed so that the
night passenger trains leave at 7:25, p. m.
—Dr. W. A. Carswell is said to have found
iron ore, eight miles from Rome, in Vann’s
Valley, with 65 per cent, of pure iron.
—Hon. Benj. H. Hill has, for several days,
been lying quite ill at the United States Ho
tel iu Atlanta. He is better at present.
—Black tongue is killiug cattle in the
Cliulio District, Floyd county. Four dead
deer were found killed by it.
—Ex-Senator Henderson designs to run
for Governor of Missouri on the Walker
«aatar-Dcnt-Hamilton platform.
—The California general eimrtrm *..
county officers and members of the Legisla
ture comes off September 1; that for Judges
of the Supreme Court October 20.
—Mr. Christian Arunt, an old and respect
ed citizen of Orangeburg district, S. C., was
thrown from his buggy last week, and so se
riously hurt that lie died from the injuries.
—The Walhalla Courier, of the 13th Inst.,
says: “We have been informed that heavy
frosts have fallen during the last few nights
iu what is known as Horse Cove, N. C.
—A letter from Weldon, N. C., dated Au
gust 12, says there has been no rain in that
vicinity since the 12th of June, and that the
crops are suffering badly.
—A corps of engineers has been selected
to locate the railroad from Cheraw, S. C., to
Wadesboro, N. C., and the Directors are de
termined to go to work at once.
—Late advices from South America re
port seven shocks of earthquakes, showers
of ashes, and other alarming phenomena at
at various points in Peru and Ecuador.
—The Russian Railroad Gazette says that
Russia has already paid upward of two hun
dred million roubles to American railroad
contractors.
—Ex-Senator Jesse D. Bright was re-elect
ed to the Kentucky House of Representa
tives from the counties of Carroll and
Trimble.
—A nephew of Patrick Henry was arrested
by the United States Marshal in Lee county,
lowa, the other day, for dealing in cattle and
hogs without a license.
—St. Josephs, Missouri, elected Samuel
Ellsworth, Democrat, Probate Judge, on the
3d inst.
—Prince Arthur, of England, the third
soil and seventh child of Queen Victoria,
sailed from Liverpool recently for Halifax,
N. S.
—Mr. Peabody’s health is improving at
White Sulphur Springs, Va., but he is still
feeble. He will probably return to Massa
chusetts in about two or three weeks.
—Dr. A. W. Kelley, a gentleman of North
ern birth, but for seventeen years a resident
of the South, has been appointed Mayor of
Jackson, Mississippi, in place of Col. Crane,
who was killed by Yerger.
—His Holiness the Pope is exerting him
self in the matter of a Congress all Na
tions for the purpose of revising what are
now supposed to be the international laws of
the world.
—A postal convention lias been arranged
with Switzerland by which money can be
transmitted between the United States and
that country by means of the postal money
system now in use here.
Tli«. o •• •
iiouneeil, will soon be commenced by a
French company, to whom a charter has
been granted by the respective Presidents of
Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
—The Paris (Teuu.) Intelligencer takes
very decided ground against ex-President
Johnson and in favor of Air. Etheridge tor
United States Senator to succeed Air. Fow
ler.
—Albert Crofoot, Esq., a member of the
Detroit bar, and belonging to a respectable
family in Michigan, has been convicted with
furnishing a piisoncr with false keys, by
means of which the latter broke . out of jai l .
—lt is stated that the Secretary of the
Treasury has directed that ex-Collector
Mackey, of Charleston, be prosecuted ac
cording to law, on a clyirge of having ob
structed United States officers in the dis
charge of their duty.
—The Tuskegee, Ala., News states that it
is rumored that some of the negro Radical
leaders about that place have been advising
their followers to mob the colored men who
voted till! Democratic ticket in the late elec
tion. .
—The last gift received at the White
House was a Im>x of one thousand fine cigars i
from a San Francisco firm, packed in glass
boxes of one hundred, with the monogram
of the President on each, and the small cud
of each cigar tipped w ith gold leaf.
—Mr. James C. Dobbin, a particularly
promising young lawyer of North Carolina,
and a son of the Secretary of the Navy un
der Pierce’s administration, was killed on
Friday last by falling from a window in the
third story of his residence in Fayetteville.
—The crop of Malaga raisins List year
was the greatest ever realized, amounting in
the aggragate to §1,950,000 boxes. The
yield the present season did not promise so
well at last accounts, and it was thought that
it would lie one-third less than of 1888.
—The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
will, in a few| days, issue a circular to the as
sessors throughout the country, instructing
them that all vessels, steamboats and barges
engaged in the carrying trade, whether on
the sea or rivers, are liable to tax as express
carriers.
—The Loud Mine in White county was
sold in 1833, for §3,500 dollars, to Mr. Blake.
Mr. Loud bought it soon after for §IO,OOO,
giving §II,OOO more. Up to 1845, it yielded
over one ton of gold, or $400,000. Green
Russell, discoverer of the Colorado Mines,
has charge of it now.
—The Democratic papers of Ohio receive
every hour the most encouraging assurances
of Democratic success at the coming election.
From all parts of the State the nomination
of Pendleton inspires the greatest enthu
siasm, and his election is regarded as a sure
thing.
—The heirs of William Ennis, a one
armed soldier, who settled in Wapach, Sus
sex county, N. J., liave lately received the
intelligence that a legacy amounting to
several millions of dollars has recently been
left them in Scotland. They propose to
send one of their number to take the neces
sary steps for securing the money.
—The numlier of frightful accidents aris
ing from the explosion of kerosene lamps,
averaging from four to five each week, is at
tracting general attention. The B*xird ol
Health of New' York are taking steps to
prosecute rigorously every violation of the
ordinance forbidding the sale of dangerous
illuminating fluids.
—The Covington Examiner says the eligi
ble location, on Yellow River, at the Georgia
Railroad bridge, three miles from Covington,
known as the Torrence Mill Shoals, has lieen
purchased by Messrs. Scaffer, Walker, Ham
mond & Shields, with a view of erecting
first class merchant mills and cotton factory.
—A Nashville dispatch says: Colonel
Van Dyne, on the part of the United States
Government, is in tliat city to sue tire Nash
ville and Chattanooga Railroad for sixteen
hundred thousand dollars tor rolling stock
sold by the government to the roadL The
road offsets the claim by a bill of over 83,-
000,000 for the use of the road during the
war. This will serve as a test case for a
number of other Souther n roads.
The New York Herald says: The re
cent political course of the President ap
pears to have had a most disastrous effect in
Virginia. Lawlessness is on the increase,
andseveral conflicts have taken place be
tween the whites and blacks. It is expected
that Gereral Canby will reqni.e the iron
clad oath to be taken by members of the
legislature, ®
A Scatliins Review of the Present
Administration.
grant's pigmy cabinet the sphinx policy
don't fill the bill—the I’Rial dent’s
pettiness—the dents forever.
Waehiugton Correspondence of flic Cincinnati
Commercial (Radical.)
A morning gust sweeps down upon us daily
from Long Branch. It is disgust. Forney
continues to edit Grant’s cigar stumps and
the hours of Mrs. Grant's baths. These
things are ambrosial to sycophants; they are
nauseous to sound stomachs. 1 bum my
cigar stumps no shorter than Grant’s. Your
wife keeps herself as dean with ablutions as
the Mistress President. Why so much fan
faronade? If details must Ik* told, the news
comes of the latter lady that she is hanging
to Grant's arm at Long Branch with every
step he takes, like a broken sprig of dog
woixl. How else would she Ik* known as the
lady of the President? Certainly. The
President, what of him? Grant, turning his
administration inti) holiday, sends for his
stud. The velvet sands of Long Branch
have not felt their magnetic, sinking tread.
Grant without a horse, loses his electricity.
The horses without Grant, lose their airing.
The block favorites must be sent to him, per
haps, as Dana accuses the Tallapoosa, at the
government expense.
We will wait a little. But, giving the lu st
guess from this standpoint, the President has
failed us. He is a disappointment. He has
not done one luminous act since coming into
power on tnc irn or ad.tjiat the
people have risen up and applauded him for.
lie is opaque to-day, as in the interregnum
forming his cabinet, and the thing clearest
in this capacity is that the light is not in him,
no more than in the tumble-down cabinet
affair. The people have pinned faith to liis
mystoriousness long enough, and it is all
that they have yet, or, perhaps, w ill have in
the end, to assure them of the future.
There is a kind of pretentious inconse
quence about the administration that is
ridiculous, a running to and fro of blue
breeched, shoulder-strap lackeys, a buzz of
bass drums in the background as if there
were being spread the net of some compli
cate, far-sighted, tremendous policy, a shim
mer and show of ponderousness that exists
only in the expectations of the people, The
doubt once iu a while grows thick, whetkur
Grant is not more at home in a gig lieliiud a
Havana than in the White House, fronting
the people.
Looking him steadily in the face, it occurs
to you that the Republican party, powerful
as it was, might have taken from its box the
first intelligent liaeknnm on the street, and
done as well. Grant’s face has no clearness
or illumination in it, more than had his mili
tary policy for breaking down the rebellion.
The Atlantic Alonthly lately contained an
article upon his “intelluectual character.”
It is in doubt whether it exists. Not a man.
woman, or half-grown child iu the country
but has constantly put the riddle these two
years : “How is it that Grant, with this
face like a stogy hoot, is a great man?” The
real query is as to the fact. The whole mat
ter will probably turn out simply enough,
that, like other men, he is what he appears
to be. The Brutuses who seem fools and
turn up wise men are few*. Grant swung to
the head of military affairs when the mo
mentum of the nation was ready to break
down treason. He swung to the front of
civil affairs when the party that gave su
premacy to ideas hail become a nation itself,
and he as a bubble borne on its surface. In
either ease, the people hare been of real im
portance, and the man of ficticious impor
tance. We wanted a hero and President,
and pronounced the word—Grant.
grant’s pigmy cabinet.
Grant came, believing in himself, and im
posed upon us. His oracular silence at the ,
beginning made us expect a cabinet of giants.
When the roll of these awaited Colossusses
was finally called in the Senate, the half of
them was too feeble to answer to their names.
Then some of them came and drifted away
again. The cabinet went to pieces, and
formed again like, a decimated buttailiou. ,
i lie ministers liang to il uuneaunj .suit, aim
“Who are to be Grant’s Secretaries?” is an
open question yet, just us if you asked what
grains of floating sand would go into petrifac
tion.
You have heard how Robeson was appoint
ed Rorie’s successor—a jolly fellow, intro
duced diplomatically to Grant, in a good
mood, on shipboard, and deftly carving liis
way into the cabinet with his knife as lie
dined at the same table. The people needed
introduction, too, to the new man. Rut
that was a little matter.
The monkey racers sometimes select their
leader, by the length of their tails. Louis
XVIJJ, made Monsieur d’Avaray a Duke for
helping him into his carriage.
OBA XT’s “I,OVE OK yUIKT AND RETIREMENT.”
Then Grant imposed on us with other pre
tensions. He lias published to an extrava
gant eccentricity his love of quiet and re
tirement. No public man of his station,
since the beginning of the government, lias
so constantly thrown himself in the way of
the people. A triuinplutl procession through
the country every six months since the war
has been the least of jt. As President, lie is
pushing his social prerogatives to the fullest
bent. Fourteen weeks have passed since the
adjournment of Congress. Grant has passed
half of them here, the rest in social unbend
ing elsewhere. They say he take# gyyjy to
the dance at Long Branch, sliding through
the figures more glibly than at Annapolis
and West Point. This is very well; but the
country in asking of him and his cabinet a
few serious questions that it would be well
to have answered from Washington, recep
tion hulls at the seashore notwithstanding.
What about Cuba, South America, Virginia,
the South, the Alabama mutters, and jHiliti
cal assassinations?
’RHE SPHINX POLICE DON T FILL THE HILL.
It je credible that the cabinet anil the
head of the nation, properly digesting these
tilings, would not find much time to Is* ab
sent from .the capital. Anyhow, the nation
is anxious to see looming above the rosy
horizon of the bulls, excursions, ban
quets, receptions, and seaside frivolities, the
executive head of a poworfu? republican ad
ministration. We hardly cox4*vld with this
sphinx-like policy, it may lie Delphic, as
Shellaharger said, hut is kips than rmmbli
can. The President would do well Cv ac-
cept humility from the cabinet and
consult the people henceforth. A member ;
of the Grant family is reported to have re- I
marked, just after the nomination : “It was
the general’s desire not to lie made President
by a party, but !>y the people.” Perhaps
here is a little light. Perhaps Grant believes
that the “era of good feeling” may return
again under his administration; that he is a
Colossus, under whose legs all people can
walk.
So far the
PETTINESSES OF HIS ALVIN HTBATCON
have Ueeu tne most objectjonaoic, and now,
playing President, he reminds you of a boy
who wished to lie a king, “ so Jliat he might
ride on the gat* 1 post all day, ” If he will
stop buying bagatelles in New York, and pa
rading liis presidency along the porches of
the Stetson, and keep to executive business
here, he will look more like a successor of
Washington—his ambition, we are told.
Cubans Investing in Georgia.—We
learned yesterday that a couple of Cuban
gentlemen liad purchased a plantation of
800 acres from Mr. Charles H. Denham, of
Columbia county, at a cost of SIO,OOO. This
tract of land is situated about seventeen
miles flora Augusta, and is said to comprise
some of the most fertile Lind to be found in
Columbia. These purchasers certainly be
tray no symptoms of a fear of Ku Klux vi
olence, when they leave their own fertile
but war-convulsed island, and make scch
heavy investments in a section of the Empire
State which has been held up as a bugbear
by the sensation-venders of the Radical
school. We opine that old Columbia will
cheerfully welcome to her borders all settlers
of this character, and that among no people
w'ill more cordiality lx; experienced than
j from the good people of Columbia comity.
[ Count Hut ionnliM, VMh.
A Friendly Hint. —Oar respected cotem
porary, the Griffin Star, does us the honor
to compliment a recent article of ours, but
credits it to the Telegraph. When our friend
favors what we write with his commendation,
do not let him, we pray, make any mistake
BB to.the author.
VOL. LXL, NO. 23
Literary, Art anil Scientific News*
—Hepworth Dixon is announced to lec
ture in England, on * ‘The Groat Prairies and
the Ihs’ky Mountains.”
M. Lmis Salvador Cherebini, Inspector
of Fine Arts, and son of the eminent com
poser, is dead, lie was t*S years old.
—lt was rumored in Florence that an In
ternational Exhibition would Ik' held at. ! .1-
rin, in 1H72, to commemorate tin' comple
tion of the Mont CVnis tunnel
—The death is announced at Mi an of
Professor Amcrico Rarbieri. author ot too
Ditumario Etu'icU>i**Uca </<■//<i Vwi i, and of
a S. im; i ytuir-i tU'.’f Arintim i <!■ ' S
—The agents of the Rritish Government
have Ik'cu making efforts to otitain the re
lease of quite a numlier of Englishmen, who
are held prisoners in Parguay by Lois-.
- “The literature and Literary nn*n of
Great Britain,” the well known book ot the
late Ahruhaiu Mills, has been republished,
in two Invoming volumes, by the Harjn'rs.
—l)r. Richard I'ongreve, of London, m
translating Auguste Couipte’s ••Positive Po
litique," It is the only important work of
that philosopher untranslated iuto the En
glish tongue
—The Commissioners of the Lmdon
World’s Fair, of 1851, has issue. 1 a prospec
tus for au international exhibition of lino
arts, industrial arts and scientific inventions
in the year IS7I.
—Mr. Simmons, of Florence, Italy, has
altout finislied in clay bis statue of K >ger
Williams, for Rhode Island. A Colass.il tmst
of (teiiiiral Grant, model from life, by this
artist, will soon Ic.tvt „„ u i^tho
White House.
—A curious series of papers by the Rev
Arthur Mureell, a divine very popular in
Manchester and the northern counties, is
announced to apjx'ar in Cassell's Magazine,
under the title of “Shady Pastorals,' bene
the exjK'rionee of the writer, of evenings
sjw'iit among thieves and house-breakers.
—The tomb of Antonio Stradivari him
l>een found in the course of pulling down
the church of San Domenico, at Cremona.
The remains of the famous violin player
will Ihi removed to the public cemetery,
where a monument to his memory will Ihi
erected.
—President IfeCosh, of Princeton Col
logo, said at the meeting of the Philological
Association, that he was “prepared, from a
pretty extensive acquaintance with the uni
versities of Great Britain, and with sm*,' of
those on the Continent, to say that the aver
age attainments of college graduates here
oiul there are about equal.”
—Santarelii has lately completed the de
signs for the monumental doors of the
Church of Santa Croce, at Florence, which,
for more than live centuries, have beep
wanting. The great valves are divided into
a dozen large pannels, iu each of which u
subject taken from Scripture history is in
troduced.
—M. deLessips, the engineer of the Sin-/.
Canal, has a still grander enterprise in view,
now that his first draws near its accompli -h
merit. He has found that the great desert
of Sahara lies below the level of the Red Sea,
and that a canal of seventy-live miles would
let in water sufficient to cover the now and
waste. It is believed by some geologists
that the desert was once covered by water.
Should M. deLesseps’ great project Ih> car
ried into effect, intercourse with the iuterug
of Africa would be far easier than it is now
—A. M. Giliiert has just published in Lon
don a curious book about the country of
Titian, and has revived an interesting and
more than half-forgotten association of the
artist’s famous “ Magdalen, {tainted tor
Philip 11. A neighbor’s daughter was acting
as a model, and the painter kept her so long
a time in a constrained position that at last
she burst into tears. Unluckily the incident
was so appropriate to the subject that, far
from shortening, it only proliingeil the sitting,
while the ruthless old paintey, going himself
without his dinner, transferred it to his
canvas.”
—An English patent lias been grnnhsl for
a method of testing iron rails for railroads
by subjecting them to the pressure of a rull
l“K UIUO.-I, 1./ • » —l..
they are liable iu actual use. A circular
track of about fifty or one hundred feet di
ameter is made up of the rails to lie tested,
which are bent, after rolling, to the required
curve. In the centre of this circle is placed
a vertical spindle, moved by steam or ual-T
power, from which pass a number of arms
reselling over the track, over which they
carry an annular framework, in which a num
ber of heavy rollers are placed. Tln-sc roll
ers, which weigh over 10,000 pounds each,
are moved around the track with a velocity
equal to that of a railroad train, which is
kept up for a suitable length of time. The
test ean lie modified in various ways, oas to
impart to rails all the trials to which they
would lie subjected in a railroad, as a sliding
and thumping, instead of an evenly rolling
one, etc. The numl*er of rollers is to he so
Tart Letter from Judge Dent tot lie
President.
The following is an extract from a letter
written to-day by Judge Dent, of Mi i
in reply to one received by President Grant
the early part of the present month. I’r* si
dent Grant, ill the letter referred to, gave
his reasons for casting the weight of his in
fluence in favor of the Radical party in Mis
sissippi, and it is to that part that Judge
De.nt replies thus:
Is it reasonable to suppose that a people
having the free choice of their repr< senta
tives would elect for their rulers a elass of
politicians whose aggiessiv and hostile con
duct IBiluato has rendered them jxculi.irly
obnoxious W,d disagreeable? This i - the
charge made the jieople of Missi ippi
against the Radicals, ojr “bitter-enders, as
they arc called. This charge is not mad*
because they fought against tin- South and
secession, for many of that class fought on
th<* side of tb‘* South.
It is not made because they are of Norll
era birth and education, for many ne nos
Northern birth and education and <>f the
Northern army are with us in antagonism to
this obnoxious party. It is not liecause they
are Republicans, for their antagonist were
among the first in the South to organize on
the Republican platform, and to advocate tho
civil and political equality of all men; were
sent as delegates to Chicago, and for their
consistency and constancy were rewarded by
you with offices of trust and honor. But
this change is made, as I liave said before,
because tin* proscriptive antecedents and ag
fwessive pollin' of these politicians toward
the peqnle of Mississippi have made them the
objects of peculiar abhorrence.
That policy consists not only in the con
tinual advocacy of proscription, but in
preaching to the freedmen, Uj a time of pro
found peace, such revolutionary iioct.-T—» aa
excite and direct against the white tneu qi
the South and their families a mo t danger
ous animosity, such animosity, indeed, as,
with a continuation of the same fuel, would
inevitably lead to a black man’s party and n
war of races. Neither are such doctrines
preached w ith an honest desire to ameliorate
the condition of the freedmen or promote
the ends of peace or strengthen the Repiibli
can party in the Bouth, but solely to alien
ate from the planter the time-lioi'ore. , '’ l '
fidenee and affection of this »•*•. in !
that the new political element urn • t ‘‘
lianner of republicanism rnig-A •*- *.**
controlled and subordinated *•> "
purposes of power and aggram iz« m .
Ami to this class of men. wlmni y*. u f'.ih,,
in tMr attempt to (ora y.
Mississippi the odious . . 1 , ,
at the boWliox. you now P*e tli* 1 md of
friendship andsuppirt, an ■) invit-t
--that other class, who. mee ting
tion of the R*paWK**» » * J / •
came in mass m A”; ‘ £x,s to
they wdl come m it ,
stand upon it- I Lewis I>i.vr.
principles- _
Western Railroad, desires usit* i »
»t fiwiiip members <>i in*.
sion tlirougb 1 jjjey have R . urn
;i W°bv r G.L Hurlbert. that free tickets wiJ
Y 1 ' • them over the M M • 8.. R • - -
2d returning, but that it willbe ne*- ;;7
for them t*. make application for t
either personally or by letter, so as J* guard
' t fraud or imposition. Tickets cl
lorsed bv the President will alone be BC«
cepted as‘valid by the conductors.