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WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Weinesday, Angmt 23, 1865.
LETTER FROM JUDGE LOIHRANE
Atlanta, August 16,18657
Editor Atlanta Intelligencer :
Dear 8ir I regret my condition pre
vents my complying with your request this
evening in addressing my friends ot this city,
and take this occasion of Btating my gratifi
cation at the evidences oi industry and
spirit which 1 see around me. Some tew
weeks ago 1 went through Atlanta and met
only ruins; the deal seemed, to inhabit as
with ghosts the streets; the sound ot the
living was like the echo of despair; piles ot
brick were tumbled together on the high
ways and scarce a hope seemed to live in
the deserted thoroughfares. This day
met the spirit of energy, moving into action;
I heard the music of labor, the ring of the
~ hammer, and saw the smiling face of Hope
and Enterprise, where ruins blackened to
the eye. I saw stores and mansions lifting
their heads to the sunshine, and lelt your
city would soon put off her garments of
mourning and laugh like a bride iu the em
brace of prosperity. What Atlanta is doing
must be done by the whole 8tate; and Geor
gia must rise from failure and disaster to life
and iadustry. The abolition of slavery is
no cause for despondency; for all the proph
ccics that this disaster would prostrate the
interests of the people; that your streets
would grow up with grass, your houses be
come tenant less, your homes desolate, and
the land covered with rags and poverty,
have flitted away with the evidences of the
present. Slavery is abolished and not a
single house can be obtained tor rent; prop
erty nas in many places, been'enbanced in
value, and the fl jw of capital already start
ed will rush ou for investment, to an extent
that will raise the brightest hopes of the fu
ture. The decrees of Providence, exhibited
in our failure, will, I trust, briDg to light
brighter dreams ot glory. The great ques
tion for statesmanship is the solution of the
Free Labor system. We must grasp the
full import of duty imposed upon us by the
crisis. The idea that the com’ng conven
tion may adjourn after recognizing slavery
at an end, and the State go into the Union
on the presentation of sne'a constitution is
a fallacy. We must go iurther and give the
guarantee of constitutional protection to
the rights which freedmen have acquired by
the results of the war. The dominant party,
which has fought for years in the press,
the forum and the field to abolish slaver;
after four year's war costing millions
to the country, and the sacrifice of
lives, mw that victory is upon their ban
ners, and a majority in Congress of largely
over one hundred votes, are not going to
allow the admission of Southern delegates
until the full results ol lire struggle are ac
knowledged and asserted, beyond the ca
price of men, or the voice of legislatures.
It will bo imbecility to expect Georgia to
assume her position by the votes ot men
who have fought this question, without we
discharge duties imposed by the crisis. We
must not only acknowledge the freedom of
the slave, but we must go farther: we must
recognize his right to acquire property—
the right to testify in courts for its protec
lion and his own, and placj crime and po
lice regulations upon a common principle
of legislation. We cannot have distinctions
of class in crimes—all violators or law
mu9t stand equal before tho law, and our
legislature control the policy of interest by
general laws adopted to preserve the peace
and order ol society against all rogues and
vagabonds of every clars and color. This
principle of public policy will savo us from
Negro Suffrage; and this last dogma we
must resist; for the Negro, though free,
must be an inferior in the privileges of citi
zenship. The Government of the United
States is a Whiteman’s Government; and
while under the benignity of its laws,
industry, and person, and property
will be protected, we cannot consent to
lower the standard of oar civilization, we
must teach the freedinan his duty, as well
as proclaim his rights, his responsibilities
must be made known to him; and the follies
which have entered bis brain with his new
born freedom must be driven out. We
must be just to the. whites as well as to the
blacks; and fanaticism on this subject will
only lead to trouble, flattering the negro
into a position of folly, that will impede the
progress and industry ol the country. On
this subject I am proud our people are so
unanimous, accepting the full length and
breadth of the failure, and its legal and prop
er results. We have a spirit of pride still
left, that leads us to the support of President
Johnson, and the great Union Party of the
North and West, which so fuliy maintains
the equalities of the States and citizens, and
granting protection to the freedman, is still
just and statesmanlike to the true interests
of the country.
Hoping the country will rally to the prin
ciples of public policy laid down,
- 1 aui, very respectfully,
O. A. LOCHR ANE.
THE CONSPIRATORS.
From the Washington Chronicle, Ang. 9th.
In the course of a pleasant conversation
with Captain George W. Dutton, Company
C., 10th Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps,
who has just returned from the Dry Tortu-
gas, we have obtained some interesting facts
relative to the conspirators, a id their trip
to the rock-bound fortress, which is to
be (for three of them,) their last earthly
home.
Captain Dutton, with a sergeant, three
corporals, and twenty-six men, reported at
the Washington Arsenal on the morning of
Sunday, July 16, and, taking charge ot the
prisoners, placed them on board the steamer
State of Maine, bound for Fortress Monroe,
which point they reached at 4 p. m. on the
17th. They were then transferred to the
Florida, Captain Budd, all on board with
the exception of Gen. Dodd being entirely
ignorant of the vessel’s destination.
At dark on the 19th, the Florida reached
Port Royal, S. C., where she discharged a
cargo of cordage, &c., and coaled. On the
21st she sailed for the Dry Tortugas, reach
ing that barren and inhospitable spot on the
24th, just one week after her departure
from Fortress Monroe.
During the voyage all the prisoners were
more or less afflicted with sea-sickness, and
at one time half of the guards were unfit
for duty. Dr. Mudd and Arnold were par
ticularly wretched.
Spangler, although quite sick, was given
to practical joking. Finding that, while
sick, he could get from the Surgeon, Dr.
Porter, & modicum of French Brandy, he
concluded to take sick at various odd times,
always with pains, for which vini galliei spir-
if us is supposed to be a sovereign cure; but
his trick was discovered, and he wks, much
to his chagrin, compelled to quaff Jamaica
ginger in place of the more palatable- bever
age.
He was generally quite talkative, and ex
pressed himself as being satisfied with the
action of the Military Commission, but con
tinued to assert his innocence of participa
tion in the crime of assassination. In a con
versation with Captain Dutton, be remarked
that he knew nothing of Booth’s designs,
and that even after the murder, while Booth
was passing through the theatre, he-was
unaware of ihe foul deed which had been
committed. “The fact is, Captain,” said he,
“Booth was a privileged character at Ford’s.
He had the run of the house at all times,
day and night; bad access to the dressing-
rooms, and frequently came to the rehears
als unannounced, and always by the rear
entrance. He was a great favorite, and
spent money freely. Whenever he came
with his horse he always called lor me to
groom the animal, and i have many a time
blacked his boots and done other menial
work for him. 1 did not close the door be
hind Booth. It wis a spring door, which
you can se? when yon get back to Washing
ton, and closed of itself unless you held it
open. There was nothing unusual in my
bolding Booth’s horse on the night of the
murder, for I had done it twenty times be
fore. I didn’t see how the Commission
which tried me could have decided other
wise in my case, considering the evidence;
but I am not guilty of having auythiug to
do with the crime.”
Spangler was very lively during the voy-
sge and several times rau up the ladder
from the hold, three steps at a time, heavily
ironed as he was. He was quite jubilant
over the idea that he would not be a pris
oner for life. “I’ll come out all right - six
years is not such a long time after all,” said
he. “You need not felicitate yourself on
having a short time to slay, Spangler,” said
Dr. Mudd. *‘I don’t know where they are
taking us, but if it is to the Dry Tortugas,
there is no more chance for you than for
me. None of us will live more than two
A gossiping correspondent says that
Miss Braddon, the novelist, has her domes
tic dark spot She is not the wife of Max
well, the publisher, at whose boara she sits,
while Maxwell’s wife is confined in a mad
house. The pair live at Windsor.
The Savannah Herald of the 31, an
nounces the arrival in that city, of Captain
Carter, A. Q. M , in charge ot $3,000 in sil
ver, and $2,000 -in gold . This money is
said to have been scattered by Mr. Davis in
his flight, near the re3»dence of llowell
Cobb, late general. C. 8. A Capt. Carter
was en-roate tor Charleston, S C.. from
which point the coin i? to b; 3'upoed to the
North. _
‘iST'The Richmond Whig makes a shrewd
argument against uepro suffrage. The mil
itary authoriiie- uiterfore between the frecd-
inen and llu ir cmpfoy~ra to regulate wages,
on the plea th^t u e ig u.rmt uetrroes could
be imposed up »n ; li. uce the Whig could
not discover the consistency «,f granting the
ballot to people so ig‘..,rant that they can
not be trusted to make their own contracts.
years."
Up to this time, not a word had been
dropped in reference to the ultimate desti
nation of the conspirators, but they had oc-
cupid themselves in discussing the proba
bilities of a residence at Albany, a-trip to
some port on the Gulf, or a sudden death
by drowning. O’Laughliu was, very re
ticent, rarely entering into conversation
even with his fellow prisoners.
Mudd carried with him a printed copy of
the evidence educed during his trial, and
took great pleasure in picking it to pieces.
He is described, by our informant, as a man
of good education, considerable shrewdness,
and strong rebel proclivities. He was never
off hiS guaid, always pondered a question
well before returning an answer, and inva
riably spose of Mrs. Surratt as having been
unjustly executed. It will be remembered
that on the trial, Mudd denied all knowledge
of Booth previous to the visit of the lame
assassin to the Doctor’s house, but to Capt.
Dutton he confessed that he was acquainted
with Booth for some lime before the mur
der. In regard to that deplorable crime, he
asserted that he did not know of it uutil af
ter Booth’s departure.
Mudd was very gloomy during the voy
age, and fears were entertained by his guard
that he contemplated suicide. He was ac
cordingly closely watched, very much to his
indignation.
“ Why do you beep me so closely guard
ed said he to the officer in charge of
him.
“Because,” said Captain D , “I am afraid
I may lose you. ”
“How lose me? There.is surely no chance
for me to escape here, and you do not sus
pect that I would kill myself?”
“That is just what I fear, and until I get
my receipt for your body from the com
mandant of the post to which you are con
signed, I deem it my duty to have your ev
ery step strictly watched.”
“Well, Captain, you need have no fear on
my account 11could put an end to my mis
erable existence, but for the thought of eter
nity. 1 am »if aid to die, although I can
beaf this terrible life, which is t=o much
W-Orse than death.”
When oft' the coast ot Flouida, the weath
er being warm, the prisoners were allowed
to sleep on deck, and during the day their,
irons were removed. They were very
grateful for this unmerited kindness, and
showed their appreciation by giving as little
trouble as possible to those who had charge
of them.
When the steamer came in sight of the
Dry Tortugas, on the 24th, and it was made
known to the criminals that this treeless,
lifeless place was to be their prison, their
emotion could not be checked. They cried
like children, Mudd and Arnold in particu
lar, evincing the most poignant grief. The
former paced the deck, wringing his hands,
and exclaiming time and again, “There is
no hope for me.” Arnold bewailed iiis fate
in piteous tones. He said, “if this were
Albany, or any other place where my moth
er and sisters could sometimes see me, I
might bear my imprigpnment, but here I
shall have no one to live for.” Mudd de*
dared, when his paroxysm of grief had sub
sided, that he should lose no opportunity to
effect his escape. When asked where he
would go if he succeeded in eluding the
vigilance ot the garrison, he cried out,
“Home I Government would not touch me
there. It could not hunt me down in the
midst of mj wife and children.”
Shortly after the landing of the steamer,
Colonel Hamilton, 110th New York Volun
teers, commanding the post, proposed to as-
sign Dr. Mudd to duty as hospital steward,
and Arnold as clerk, and provide the others
with employment to which they were best
adapted.
__ On the following day the Florida left for
Key West, to coal, Spangler sending to Mr.
Ford, by Captain Dutton, a message to the
effect that he (Spangler) was innocent.
The steamer was detained for two days
at Key West, and after taking in coal start
ed lor New York, where she arrived in due
season.
From the Nashville Union
Many of the Northern papers have
adopted the short-sighted, or malicious pol
icy, of seizing upon isolated instances of
violence and crime in the Southern States
j—especially, if the negro is in any way a
victim—and commenting upon them to the
prejudice of the returning loyalty and sense
of justice of the Southern people. * This
course is extremely reprehensible. The
great majority of the Southern .people are
as free trom violence and crime as*any oth
er people on the globe. They participated
in the rebellion, because they were led to
believe their rights ot liberty, property and
the pursuit ot happiness were in danger:
but, having been defeated, they have accep
ted the result, and are desirous of conform
ing to ft, and re-establishing themselves un
der the protection of the Federal constitution
Some may make false steps—bad men
may commit crimes—byt it is manifestly
improper to hold all responsible. Tht:
Southern people must not be judged by
the expressions of opinion from this or that
man, nor by the actions ot others in a pri
vate capacity. When they speak through
regularly constituted bodies, representing
public sentiment, then it will be proper to
weigh their acts, and if found wanting, to
condemn them.
Suppose we were to take up the records
ol crime, wesee daily in the newspapers,
and as-utne that they represent public sen
timent and morals in the North. We might
point to the murder by a son of a mother
and sister for money ; ot a father and moth
er by a son ; « f the barging by a mob of
negroes; and the ordering ot others out oi
a State by unauthorized authority. We
might, hold up the statement of the Wash
ington correspondent ot the Pittsburg Com
mercia), which declares of the National Cap
ital—
“Oar city is at present a huge den of high
way robbers, burglars, and garroters —
There is scarely a night but some person is
knocked down and robbed in the most fre
quented streets of the city. Hardly a night
but dozens of houses are rifled ot articles by
tbe cart load. Men cannot go to market
without having their pockets picked. No
arrests are made.”
Or we might reter to the startling fact
that within the past three months more
than twenty thousand persons have been
arrested in the city of New York alone, tor.
crimes representing all grades, lrom murder,
arson and theft, down to drunkenness. We
might refer to the thousands of other in
stances of crime and violence, with which
the press teems; but who would justify us in
declaring them to be but the offspring of
Northern society,—as n flections if the
spirit and character of the people ?
Still it would be quite as ptoper for such
interences to be made, as many that the
Northern press deduce from isolated in
stances of crime in the South.
Let us ali be just and honest. See things
as they are, and deal with them iu a spirit
of toleration and fairness.
TBE GREAT NAVALENGAGEMENT
BETWEEN BRAZIL AND PARA
GUAY.
New York, Aug. 11.—The following ac
count of the naval engagement on the Pan
ama River, is given in the Journal tie Rccifi:
At 8 o’clock A. M., the Paraguayan ves
sels were seen to descend the river, and
about 9 o’clock they were within roach of
their, enemy, and at once opened a furious
fire.
The Braz lian account, the only one which
has reached us, admits that the Paaaguay
ans fought with the utmost bravery, aud
the result was for sune time doubtful, until
the Brazilian steamer Amazonas, being con
verted into a ram, made terrible havoc
among the enemy’s fleet, sinking three
steamers, the Paraguay, Salto and Jeghuy,
and one floating battery, and compelling
one steamer aud five batteries to surrender.
The remaining tour steamers, which were
likewise considerably dam aged, then retired.
The battle lasted until 4 o’clock P. M.
The Paraguayans, who supported the fire
of their fl.*et by a land battery of thirty
gun?, are reported to have lost 1,500 men of
their squadron, and 500 of the land battery.
The Brazilians estimate their loss at about
300 killed, wounded and missing. Nothing
could excci d the ferocious valor of the Par
aguayans ; they seemed determined to con
quer or die.
Among the wounded prisoners who fell
into the hands of the Brazilians, was Roble,
commander of the Salto, one of the sunken
steamers, and a brother to the command
ing General of the Paraguayan army in
Corientes.
Hia wounds were tenderly dressed by-the
Commander in Chief of the Brazilian fleet.,
Barosa, but Roble with his teeth. tore off
the bandages from, his wounds, preferring
death to captivity.
Most of the commanders of the Paraguay
an vessels are among the dead.' The artil
lery, ammunition, banners, &c., are im
mense. The wat material fell into the hands
of the victors.
hs arguments put f >rth with such
relentless force by a certain class of men in
Massachusetts, not very many years ago, in
favor oj protecting the ballot with the prima
ry qualification that every voter should at
least be able to read and write, retnrn upon
the heads of those same men new with a
force which they certainly ought to feel.—
Then it was not so true as it is now that
suffrage was “an inalienable right,” as Mr.
Ward Beecher maintained in Faneuil Hall.
Then there were certain social interests as
well as political rights and powers to be
guarded—and how so eff dually guarded
as by certain healthy restrictions, of univer
sal application, laid upon tbe ballot f The
education and elevation ot those who sought
to become voters was declared to be a ce
cessity in the State. But on a sudden a
new tune was played, out of the same in-
strumen , and by the same performera—
Those who were so sore that tbe ballot and
intelligence should go together, are sure of
exactly the contrary now. Thi Chief Jus
lice ol the United States tells a 9eiect as
semblage &t Dartmouth College that the
black man, so lately ground down in the
degradation of servitude, is just as fit to
vote as any of the educated men who beard
his voice; that any man was qualified to be
a voter it he knew enough to take a ticket
from the hand of 8 unebody e’se who made
it up for him. and deposit it at the polls.—
We do not wonder that the audience was
dumb with amazement to hear such a the
ory from such a source. It this is the top
and crown ot our system of judiciary, of
what particular service is our legislative or
executive department In co-operation ? But
people are inquiring to know what haa be
come of the old arguments for education
before being admitted to the fnll ei jayme^t
of those rights which citizenship coolers.—
Boston Post.
Fcr the Intelligencer.
MUSIC AT MIDNIGBT.
A RHAP3JDY.
Led enchantment breathes around me,
Heaven rises la my soul;
Music’s spell divine hath bound me,
Answer stars! as on ye rolL
Now in melting murmurs dying,
As the zephyrs whisper low ;
Now the breezes peeper sighing,
Bear along the swelling flow.
Thoughts of heaven! thoughts of heaven !
How my senses swim in bliss;
Say. can harps to angels given
Breathe enchantment more than this ?
Silver moonbeams soft descending,
Seem to quiver with the sound ;
Soft and full, harmonious blending,
Silent nature seems spell-bound.
Eden, in her pristine glory.
On my vision breaks in light;
Brighter than In number’d story
Poet* brings it to my sight,
Now through flowery paths I wander,
Odors breathing all around;
Now anon I stop to ponder
On each blissfu sight and sound.
’Til ray filled and ravished spirit,
all intoxicate with blls3;
Life more holy doth inherit.
*> Of a brighter world than this.
Mu$ic! emanate of heaven,
Ever sweet and thrilling power ;
Strongest influence is given—
Thee, to charm at midnight hou \
T.S.
•Milton,
CONI ERNING EX-PRESIDENT
PIERCE.
The Nashville Daily Press <& Times of the
12th instant, publishes the following letter,
stating that it came to light under the fol
lowing c'rcumstances. “ The letter was
captured with tt mass of other papers, by
Col. James B. Browidow, at Bellefont, Ala
lamhf iu 1863, and lay unopened lu a box
whose contents were investigated for the
first time last Wednesday, at t-be Capitol.—
It is a telegraphic copy, a fac simile of the
Ex-President’s hand-writing, and bad evi
dently been published by the rebel leaders
in that form tor broad cast circulation over
the South, in order to ‘ fire the Southern
heart and precipitate a revolution.” Here is
the letter verbatim:
Clarendon Hotel, Jan. 6,1860.
My Dear Friend :
I wrote you an unsatisfactory note a day
or two siuce. I have just had a pleasant
interview with Mr. Shipley, whose coui age
and fidelity are equal to his learning and
talents. He says he would rather tight the
battle with you as the standard bearer iu
186 J-ihan under the auspices of any other
leader. The feeling and judgement of Mr,
3., iu lhi3 relation, is, I am confident, rap
idly gaining ground in New England. Our
people are looking for the “coming man ;
one who is raised by all the elements of bis
character above the atmosphere ordinarily
breathed by politicians; a man really Sited
for this emergency by his ability, courage,
blood, statesmanship and patriotism. Col
Seymour (Thos. H ) arrived ti is morning,
A — kin Viinma in I kici t*o!.ition in
and expressed his views in this relation, in
almost the identical language used by Mr.
Shipley. It is'true that in the present state
of things at Washington, aud throughout
tn country, no man can predict what
changes two or three months may bring
forth. Let me suggest that iu the running
delegates in Congress full justice seems not
to huve been done to the Democracy of the
North. I do not believe that our friends at
the South have any just idea of the state of
feeling, hurrying at this moment to the
pitch of intense exasperation, between those
who respect their political obligations, and
those who have, apparently, no impelling
power, but that which fanatical passion, on
the subject of domestic slavery imparts.
Without discussing the right—of abstract
power to secede, I have never believed that
actual disruption of the Union can occur
without blood, and, if, through the madness
of Northern abolitionism, that dire calamity
must come, the fighting will not be
along Mason and Dixon’s line merest.
It will be within our own borders, in
OUR STREETS, BETWEEN THE TWO CLA! SE3
OF CITIZENS TO WHOM I HAVE BEFERRED.
Those who defy law and scout constitu
tional obligations will, if we ever reach
THE ARBITRAMENT OF ARMS, FIND OCCUPA
TION ENOUGH at home. Nothing but the
state of Mrs. Pierce’s health would induce
me to leave the country now, although it is
quite likely my presence at home would be
of little service. 1 have tried to impress
upon our people, especially in New Harap
shire and Connecticut where the only elec
tions are to take place during tin corniog
Spring, that while our Union meetings are
•all in the right direction and well enough
for the present, they will not be worth the
paper upon which their resolutions are
written, unless we can overthrow political
abolitionism at the polls, and repeal the
unconstitutional and obnoxious laws which,
in the cause of “personal liberty,” have
been placed upon our statute books. I
shall look with deep interest, and not with
out hope, for a decided change in thi3—
(word illegible)
Ever and trulv your friend,
FRANKLIN PIERCE,
Hon. Jeff. Dayi?, Washington, I). C.
CHARACTERISTIC LETTER FROM
HORACE GREELEY—HIS RELA
TIONS WITH THE TRIBUNE,
The “white-coated philosophei” of the
Tribune, writes the following note to “Ag
ate” of the Cincinnati Gazelle :
New York, Aug. 4.
Friend Reid Thank you for yours of
the 3d. Your enquiries are laughable. The
facts are these: ~
We elect an editor of the Tribune annu
ally bv a stock vote (one hundred shares
one vote each) Once, many years ago,
fwovo’es were cist against me for editor—
none before or since.
I have never heard that any stockholder
desired my withdrawal from the Tribune.
I mean to reduce my work on it at the
earliest moment, and have so sta'ed to all
who have a right to kuow. I am over
whelmed with labor. I grow old, and want
rest and comfort. My idea is to get some
body else to take the laboring oar, reeeive
the kicks and cuff j, and let me farm a little,
travel a little, fish some, and write when in
the spirit. Such is my dream. I hope to
realize at least a part of it during the year
1866; but may not till some time later. You
know how circumstance--, c mired every
thing.
At present I am writing about an average
of two columns per day lor the Tribune—
too much ; 1 mean to write ksa whenever I
can.
That's all /know about tbe matter. Per
haps they know more at the Herald office.
Vol. II., I grieve to say, does not get on
so fast as it should. I have too much other
work, a very sick wife, and am not very weli
myself, and tbe weather is good for coi n and
turnips, but bad lor history. I hope for im
pact vement in many if not most respects.
Yours,
[Signed.] . HORACE GREELEY.
LATE NEWS.
MISSISSIPPI CONVKTION.
New Orleans,-August 12 —The Mississip
pi Conveniic.n elected, is largely conserva
tive.
It is said that there will tr 25,000 bales of
cotton raised in Mississippi ihe present
year.
THINGS IN VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA
New York, August 14 —The Herald’s
Washington special says that difficulties
have arisen betweeu the citizens of Martins
barg, Virginia, aud ihe freedmen. The pres
ence ot armed negroes in the country dots
not operate to stay the ravages (f the free
negroes, who cor queu ing one or two promi
nent points in the country, kill sheep, poul
try, hog?, devastate corn ifolds, melon ami
other patches. The white people arc re
ported as bring psra’zyed, refusing to pro
tect themselves, [earing the military power
will bear heavily upan them
A Beaufort special says the address of
Governor Perry, r.t Greenville, has given
great dissatisfaction to loyal peop’e.
The Savannah llera’d says, G 1) Howell,
J« ff Davif-’ brother in-law, who was arrest
ed for drunkenness aud disorderly conduct,
and uttering h s thing and di>foval language
has lu on 'sentenced to piy a fine ot $250
and be imprison, s x months, rubs- qtu-ui- j
h , to b • scut out of tho di -triet Another
reliei whv> parudipatetl with Howell in his
deu.onrtrat:orisbas been i iij. ri baud in ti.i
City Guard House.
Cine nimti, Augn-t i-4 —The three story
brick ou K ;ee street used as a t nemeut
house, lell down yesterday morning, huty-
rix families in Ihe ruin? ; tree woman killed
dead and several b-diy wounded. A quar
termasters clerk named Russell was arrested
yesterday, charged with absconding wish
$20,000, good lunds, while stationed at
Louisville.
New York, August 14 —Tho steamship
Bremen, from Southampton, the 2 I has ar
rived.
A telegram to-Valaiso from ihe Great
Eistern, 29 I), says an accident occurred to
the cable, cause unknown. Insulation to
tally lost; no communication with toe
Great Extern; 700 miles paid out. Aug.
1—ten hundred and fifty miles laid success-
tuliy; fill going well.
The Petersburg Express siys the war ol
races su) I continues. There is eons a at
trouble between white citizens and negroes.
The plantations are sending a large
amount ot cotton into Petersburg. Rail
road communication completed.
FAILURE
New York, August 14—The Commercial
says that a gold operator named R. R
Meansford, ID Wall street, failed to provide
for his checks. Saturday he received a large
amount ot gold, staled to have been sr rae
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, giv
ing his checks iu payment. None of the
checks have bten honored up to noon to
day. Party himself has not been lous'd.
GREAT EASTERN.
Halifax, steamship China-, Q leenslowu
dates ot the 6 h, report that coonuunicition
wiih the Great Era tern remains suspended.
Nothing has been heud ot her since the
noon of the 2d.
GOLD AND COTTON.
New York, August 14 —Gold one dollar
foity-lour and a halt. Cotton dull and
heavy a? forty-four.
From the Grand Rapids (Midi.) Eagle.
A 1HVS1CIA1V SHOT FOR KISSING
HIS PATIEVT.
A terrible tragedy took place in Leighton,
AHcgan County, on the night of the 19 h
inst., resnbiog in the death of a citizen ol
that township. It appears from the infor
mation we have been able to gather of the
melancholy occurrence that the rash act was
caused, without any real foundation, by tbe
promptings ot the gret u t y< d monster called
jealousy. John Bright, a- Union soldier, re
turned from the service on Monday last,
with ihe determination, as evinced, to kill
Dr. Colburn of that plac ’, whose moral rep
utation was not good, for insulting his wife,
which insult is said to be no more or less
than that the Doctor was sceD, when upon
a professional call upon Mrs. Bright, some
time since, to kiss her, which liberty was
resented by his wife, and the physician dis
charged. Hearing of this affur from some
communicative friend, before ard alter bis
return, Mr. Bright resolved on. shooting the
offender. Meeting the Doctor in the after
noon of the fatal day, the sff .ir was talked
over and an amicable settlement agreed up
on, by which the Doctor was to call at
Bright’s house the next morning, talk the
matter over, and make the amende honora
ble S3 far as possible before and to Mrs.
Bright.
Here the parties turned front each other
to their respective homes, and they hael gone
but a few steps when Bright, stopping, turn
ed suddenly around and, iu a violent man
ner said to the doctor: “We will settle the
matter right here this evening.” Accom
panying the words with the action, he drew
revolver from hi? pocket and shot the
doctor when Dot over six paces from him
the ball striking bim in the side and pass
icg entirely through his body. The doctor
then started on a run toward a marsh close
by, and the assassin, thinking he had not
killed him, fired at him without effect twice
more, and snapped his pistol a third time.
His weapon failing to fire on the fourth at
tempt to discharge it, he threw it away as
being worthless.
Bright, seeing the-doctor still alive and
cared for by the citizens, who had gathered
on the alarm, said that he was sorry be bad
not killed him. The doctor lived until next
morning, when death relieved him of his
sufferings. He was buried yesterday.—
Bright stayed at bis home until next day,
saying that he would stand all trials, when,
doubtless, becoming frightened in view-of
the results of the case, lie-lett, and has not
since been heard from by the authorities or
the people in that locality.
THE CAMBRIC CHEMISETTE.
IN A ROM INTIC AND ECONOMICAL POINT OF VIEW
Oh Chemisette • the falre3t yet,
That ne’e hid bosom purer, whiter !
Thou dost not kuow what envious woe
The veiling snow hath given the wtiter.
So neat v fril ed—so pL.mply filled !
. And then the ey> s that shine above It!
I sigh—I long—nor is it wrong—
( < t least in song)—Dear giri, t love it !
Sweet Chemisette ! the coral set.
To chain thy folds in gentle duty,
Fling round a glow u.ir>n the snow
To heighten so thy blushing beauty :
And ne’er before, on sea or shore,
Did coral feei a softer pillow—
Nor could the gold ar und it rolled,
Though tea times told, d se ve t e pUlow !
Oh, Chemisette ! below thee met
A rosy ribbon binds her boddice ;
A nd in her mien is clearly seen
O e half the queen, and one the goddess,
Her voice Is low—h .w sweet its flow !—
Her upper lip disdains the under;
Her hair is like dark waves that strike
a marble cliff and rush asuuder.
Oh ! ripening grace ! Oh ! ra ilint face !
When love in love, it kuows no m -asuiv I
Her hands are small but yet can call
The power of music at their pleasure,
Anil as they peep from sleeves of deep.
Wide gimpen lace ‘ la nuxte Kant MU* ”
ller lingers seem, or else I dream.
Like stamens in tiie bells of liilies.
Thy robe of blue—the violet hue -
The gr en leaves in thy dark hair gleaming !
Thy feet. Umt move as light as lo\ e—
Thy breath—thy lips have set me dreaming '
My cheeks aie w t—that Chemisette
Was frilled and worn by some enchantress;
But much I fear, ’tw^re dreadful de r,
Were she my wife, t > pay her hnindrcs- ‘
Persons visiting Atlanta from A'pha
retia, Canton, Cummirtr, Marble Worts,
D tilas, J vsper, Wnlosca, anil Chappcl Hill,
will please call for mail packages for tho
above named offices. ju!yl3 3t
OR. SHERWOOD'S F.5RM RR 8 L C ,
Near Indian Springs.
T) fX 5T ACR>C8, 73 woodland, well Watered, with large
waJ(J House Good stand for a 8 rre ot Tavern.
Poach and Apple Oich>rd. and Vineyard; excellent
Piauo, Pa> l <r Furniture (Uahogau ); large Stove that
Will cook for .30 pe sous ; i prim ; Cows ; Wegon, Bug
gy, Ploughs. Harness, a 11 varl ms other useful artle'es.
If notsoid privatelv, all will be s >10 at Auction, on Fri
d-iy, the 15to of September, at 10 o’clock A. M
" julylR-wlO*
GEORGIA, U bn it y County:
S IXTY days afterdate application wi.l be rn» t ,e to
U e Court of Ordinary of HeDry ctunty for leave to
sell thereat ertat-i belonging to ihe estate of Alex and r
PrtceTlate of stblcou.t- deceised. or the benefit of
the heirs of sdl estate .TuscvO 1S63.
Printer’s fee $i*. ELI (RICE, Adm’r
GEORGIA, Fulton (ocnty:
W HEREAS Jam- s A. Pate app'i- s t > me for lct'ers
of a minis ia io» up n the isi.ate ot Mrj. Sarah
A. Bellinger, late ot sa d c uuty, decease :
These are, therefore, to cite i:nd adm r.i h all at d
singular, the i>i >dred and cm!i nrs oi said dcceaset , I
to be and appear at h j Ord nary’s < ffi -e for saiu c> ua-
t-, on or beiore the flr.t Monday in Sep'ember next,
and :h )W cau >e, if any they can, why said letum should
not be gra ited the hp.dic int
Given under my hand a d official s'g lature, this Au
gu t Xat, 1363.
D3KIEL PITTMAN, (>>d’y.
P. Intel ’j fee $o ang4-,t8od
GEORGIA, Fn.TOX Cousvy :
W H^RHaS Will'aio A Bast and Mrs A in M. C--
z\it apply to me for letters of edmh.'s ration
up m the estate of Cu>bard W. C. zir', late of erid
ccunty Recess 5d ;
Ihese are, then! ire, to d'e an 1 aim >□ si aJi an J
ti guUr, the kindred an t c edit rs >>f sai 1 d -.cess to
be and appear at my office r n or nefoi e the Orj> M >noay
In September nejt, and »how cau* , If any they can,
why said letters should not be granted the appllcaa s.
biv-n under my hand a -d official signature, Augu.t
Is', 1S65 DANIEL PITMAN, oru’ny
PriLter’s 'ee $3. „ aug4-w8ud.
GKORGIA, Coweta Coo.nty :
W HEREAS William H. Kelly aoplles to mj for let
ters of adrni hu rati n upon the estate of Izi.kiei
Bailey, late of said cou lty, deceased :
't h-se are. therefore, to cl e an' 1 admonish all and
singu’ar, the kindred at <1 c-eoitorj < f sal I deceased,to
be and appear at my office within the time pret c. Ibed
by law, and show c me, if any they huve, why said
letters ohauld n>c be granted the applicant
Given under my hand arid officl U signature, th’s ltth
Argust, 1S65. li II. MIrolIriLL, Ord’y
Printen’s fee $t. auglL-w8fld
GEORGIA, Coweta Countv:
HERE AS John F Co k, administrator o r J hn O.
Perkin?, represents to tf>e Court in his ,,, at.jon,
duly filed and entered on r- c rd. Urn ha? .ul y -.1
miniitert d John C Parkins’ <-»tite :
This is therefore to rite all peiaons cono^rard, kin
dred snd creditors, to sii >w cause, if a ay they can, why
said adrsinistratir should mt be dis-h rg.d from hi?
administration, and rec< ive 1-tiers of dism s.lcn on the
second Monday in January,!S33,
B. H. MITJHELL, Ord’nv
Printer’s fee . julyl -wflmi
W 1
GEORGIA, Milton County.
W HEREAS, John M. Rainwater and Lacey D. Rain
water, aomh-is ra'ora on the estate of J- b Rain
vater, represent to ihe cmrt In heir petition duly filed
and entered onrre >rd hai they h ire fn.ly adm’uistered
Job Rainwater’s estate:
Tols Is, therefore,to el’e all perrons concerned, kin
dred and creditors, to show c iu?e, If at# th :y cau, why
said administrators shou d not b : d a :h urged from thi ir
a Imiuistration, and receive letters of dismission, on tbe
first Monday tn October, \S65. April llth, 1S65.
O. P. SKELTON, Oru’y.
Printer’s fee $16. &pU9-w6m
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.
GEORGIA, Fayette County :
B Y virtue of an order of the chart of ordinary of Fay
ette county, will be sold on the first Tuesday In
October next, at the court house door in said county,
between the legal hours of sa'e, fifty acres of iaud situ
ated .and lying in said county, it bel ig the Southwest
comer of lot of land number one hundred a- d six (103,;
in the fiftb (5itv, distrirtof originally Henry, now Fay
ette county, belonging to the est ate of William Elkins,
la:e of Favette county deceased ; -old for the benefit of
the heirs and creditr rs of sni 1 deceased. Term? on the
day of sale. Augmt 11, 1S65.
JKVS3E BAGR2NTINS, Adm’r. -
Prinltr’a fee augl6~w4')d
From the Richmond Whig,*Aug. 3.
MATRIMONIAL FAMINE IN RICH
MOND.
The clerk’s office of tlie Hastings Court
being vacant in consequence of ihe inability
of the clerk elect, Mr. Robert Howard, to
qualify, because of tbe non-exis’ence of the
Court, no marriage licenses are issufd there
from, or deeds recorded therein. Noj can
such official act be legally done. The Gov-
ernor alone can iesue marriage certificates
>r the city t f Richmond.
Several days since an officer of the Uni
ted States aimy applied to the clerk for le
gal permission to take captive a fair damsel
of the city. The clerk stated his inability
to furnish the necessary bit < f paper?
referred the officer to the Governor. The
Governor furnished the necessary permis
sion, aod the officer carried it j-rylully to
Dr. fiiianegerode, who was to perform the
hymenial service. The Rev. Dr., skilled in
such manors, was a little c.uu ious and ap
plied to Judge Lyons for the law. The
Judge, well versed in law, informed him
that, a3 the statutes stand, auy minister who
performs the marriage ceremony for per
eons not in possession of a proper, legal
certificate, issued by the cierk of some court,
laid himself liable to prosecution, and six
months imprisonment upon cenviction.—
So, we believ>‘, the knot, remains untied,
and the biidie at l&rge for the present.
This is a nice embmglio for yonng cou
pies contemplating matrimony. But tfo-re
are remedies it» all cases, except where the
lady resides within the corporate limbs,
when tbe gentleman may obtain a license
from any of the operating County Courls,
or they may both fly to some “ Gretna
Green,” and there cooaumw He their vows.
GEORGIA, Fayette Cjuktt :
FBI'TO mouths alter date application will be made to
■ the cou: t of o tlinary of Fayette ccu ity, for lepve
to se'l the land belonging to th? estate of L B. (bark,
late of said cou .ty, decea *ed, for the benefit of the bel.a
and creditors ofaa d deceased. A-gi?t 11, 1865.
H. V. CLARK, Executrix.
Printer's fee |6 00. aagl6-w2m
GEORGIA, Cobb County:
Henry G. Cole, I la the Superior Court of said
■c8. > County, March Term, 1865.
D. J. ,Di uinkej. ) Mortgage, &c.
I; appearing to the Court >y the petition of Henry G,
G 1? Uiat, on the twenty seventh (^Tih) day of April,
eighteeni-uodred and sixty-three ('860). the defendant
mad? and ce.-ivered to the plalat.tf hut certain promts-
ory note of that date, whereby he promised, on .or be
fore the fint day of January, eighteen hundred and
gixtj-five (!865), for va’u jrec-ivod, to (ay said plain-
t<ff or bearer Five Thousand, Two Hundred Nine Dol-
•»ra and Six C-n's, with interest from date, the Interest
pryabla—nnoallv . And afu rwari s. on the same day,
made and delivered to said plalnt’ff his certain Deed of
Mo. .gage, conveying to said plilntiff all those tracts or
p-trcel? of L-aad lying In the city ot Marietta, In said
county, njmelj : The Houses and Lot on the SouthsUe
of ihe Fabric Fqaare, known bs the "Marietta Hotel,”
and known as Lots Number N.oe (9), Ten (10), One
Hundred and Sixteen (116), One Hundred and Seven
teen (III); also, a an ill Lot then occupied by tire said
Hotel, ana formerly known as the Barber Lot”; a’ao :
all that ti y Lot in the said city, lying broadside to a
Lot oLJ. B. O’Neill, sol i to E. J. Camp, and described
in said Deed, bounded on the West by Fowder Springs
.'.tree*; on the E >st by an Alley running cp io the Liv
er/ Stable; on the No. .h by a Lot belonging to the Ei-
tate of J. A G. Anderson; and on the S>i.th by said
Camp Lot, in wid* i Twenty-sne and a hair feet, and
une Hundred and Thirty feet long, more oi less. Aed
also, that parcel of Land and Rouse In said city, fully
d cribed >y A. J. Gamp’s Deed to H. O Cole, and for
me’ly octupied by A. W. York, containing one-fourth of
an acre, more or leas. , „ ..
Audit appearing thEfcaald n”»te la wholly unpaid.
Therefore, ordered,that the said D J. DLmauej Jo pay
inlotMs Cour t on or before the first day ot the next Term
thereof, the Principal and Interest due on said note
and tue Cast of this proceeding, or show c, ute to ’be
c intrary, If *ny he cau ; ani on L lu.e »o t j do, the
M-ify ofredWprion n and to said Mortgaged pram’s a
I., fnMkvpr th^renffo r b'Tff’ifiDd f)Kcl meJ*
b AndU fn tber ord-r d that th’? Rule be published
«n the* A lanta I teillgencer” oie a month io. three
mnntl s Dret .ous to »he tax. teim of thi? C u or
Srved on the defendant or Id? Special Agent, or Attor-
ntv At es-t thiee month? previous to the next term of
.^’n nr A KOBE W J. II tNSELL,
Plaintiff? Att> rney.
GEO. D. RUE,
Jul*e Superior Court
** ox »R3IA, OO'B COU STY,
ri zax's Off.ce. Cobb tcpaaioa ourt.
June 15th, 1365.
TeertH/ th’t ihewlthlais a true extract fiomtha
Minutes of a»ld Court. DILLAbD M. YOUNG,
Cierk Superl ir Court Oonb County, Ga.
jane23-x2mos (A J H)
thtsC nr
Granted.
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