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y&t, WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. PUlSLISULD DAILY AND WEEKLY DY JARED I. WHITAKER, PROPRIETOR. OFFICE"AccuDd Floor Crew’s DuilJing, Wiile Stairway, Alabama street. NEW HATES. Daily per month $ . or 110 per annum Weekly, $3 lor nix mouths, or |6 per annum. Single copies at tlie counter, 10 cents. Liberal discount toNe/« Agents. e DYERTISING R»TES. One si,uare lu li es, Ural Insertion, $100, second In sertion *•-, tliird Wise t on $3. fourth insertion, %'6 50 filth lnse tion, ?4, one week. $6. LEI ’.ALA DVKRTISKMENT?. Sales of Land l.y Administrators, Executors or Guardians, am required hy law to be held on the first Tuesday In each month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in t*.e afternoon, at the Court House in the county in which the property is situated. Notices ol these sales lu-st be given In a public ga zette 4t| days previous. Notices of tiic sale of personal property must be given lu like manner, tin ugh a public gazette, 10 days previ ous to Sale day. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate, must be published 40 days. Notice that application will he made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land must he publish, dfor two months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, Ac., must be published 30 days—for dismission from Ad ministration, monthly six months—for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for the foreclosure of Mortgage* must b* pub lished monthly for four months—fur establishing lost pa pers, for the full space of three months—for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where bond lias been given by ll.e deceased, for the full space of three months. Publications will a ways be continued according o these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered, at the tollun iug RATES. Mu-riff's Sales rer levy ol ten lines or less, f 30 0 blierilFs Mortgage fl. fa. sa’es, per Lvy, 5 00 Tax Collector’s Sales, per Lvv, 5 00 * 'Rations for letters of Administration, 8 00 Citations for letters of Guardianship 8 00 Notice of application for dismission from Adminis- tion 6 00 Notice of app ication for dismission from Uuardl- aiinli p, 4 00 Application to sell land COO Notice to Debtors and Creditors 8 00 Ha'e of Land, per square 60 r^ales of perishable property, 10 days, 2 00 Eslray Notices, sixty days, 4 00 Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, 60 For man advertising his wife, (lu advance,) 10 00 Marriage Notices 1 00 J4TAll pet MoitH writing: to tills Office will itluuso HdilrcNM tlietr Letters or OoiMiiiiinlcatloiis to “ Intelligencer) Atlanta, On ” WEEKLY INTELELKrENCR ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.'Wtferwm. VOL. 8. ATLANTA. GA., SEPTEMBER 20, I860. NO. 8 Truk.—A coleiuporary says nothing is moroct niniou than to hear people talk ol what thi y pay newspapers lor edvertising &c., aa so much g'.vea iu charily,and copies the following from s<miu exchange, every wind ol which is true: “Newspipota, by enhancing the value ol proper'y in their ueiglib n h tod, and giving the localities in which they arc published a reputation abroad, bent lit all such, particu larly ii they are merchant? or real estate owner?, thrice Ihc amount yearly of the mea gre sum they pay lor their support. Besides, every public spirit* d citizen has a laudable pride in having a paper of which ho is not ashamed, even though he should pick it up in New York or Washington. A good looking, thriving sheet helps to sell proper ty. gives diameter to the locality, and in all respects is a desirable public convenience. 11 lrom ary cause, ihe mailer iu the local or editorial columns shuuld not be quite up to your standard, do not cast it aside and pro nounce it of no account until you are satisfied that there has been no more labor bestowed upon it than is paid lor. If you want a good readable sheet, it must be supported. And it must not be supported in a spirit ol charity, either, but because you feel a ntci-s.-'ity to supp >rt it. The local pres? is the power that moves the people.” ♦ •*. —■ Wk emr the following from the Augusta Constitutionalist. It is from the pen of one of its correspondents, anil shows what oth ers, than curst 11, think and say of the “Gate City Atlanta is mending her way9 And she can shortly claim again to be the Gate City of the Slate, if not the great one. The sound ing bauimrr, ihe grating saw, the metal clang of the trowel, the “aye, aye,” of the hod carrier, the screaming locomotive, the moving cars, the raiding wagons, the busy, moving, jostling crowd, the tumbling down ot old walls to be"replaced Dy new, is a fair picture of Atlanta to day. Those who saw the city a month since would be astonished to see it now. Houses are built iu thirty days and opened for trade with large stocks ol goods. When war commenced, Atlanta contained about twenty thousand inhabitants; when Gen. Sherman entered wiih his army there were he.e only six'y two males and a few bund rid ti males; io-dsv, even with halt her fair proportions marred and charred b> fire, she must number over ten thousand cit izen«. Atlanta has had her phases; but she is a busy place, and like the tabled biid, was only burned to be renewed, and in her renewal will be greater than before. (iOOI) NEWS FROOT MISSISSIPPI. The following extract from a letter from Major A. J. Donelson, who recently left this place on a visit to his plantation in Mis sissippi, is encouraging. Every day our hopes of Southern redemption are bright ened. The white people and the colored people will yet do their duty towards each other, and the South be more prosperous than ever:—Nashville Union. Mem rats, Sept. 5, 1SG5. 1 am here on my return from the planta tion, where I found affairs in the best pos sible condition. There is better discipline on the place than there has ever been. No grumbling, no disobedience, no disorder among the negroes, and as good a crop as could have been expected after so great an overflow. The people are greatly cheered up by the good conduct of Gov. Sharkey and Presi dent Jehasou. Uadr their instructions there will be no collision with the Freedman’s Bu leau. The negroes on my place say they never wish to leave it. As a general rule all the plantations will be profitably worked and the n«groe9 will be compelled to lulfill their contracts. Companies are forming and paying as high as $15 per acre rent tor open lands on the Misshsippi. It is also believed negro laborers will build up the hvee. The following Ci'MFLiicKNT is paid to a man who has ever been a steadfast friend to the South, in a New York letter to the Macon Telegraph: But >n Mr. B. Wood, editor of the Netos* I found a man who, by his appearance, commands inspect, and, by bis manners, wins esteem. He is affable,geDial, friendly, and bears “genius” and “character” stamped upon every lineament of his face. He would be taken for a man of mark any where, and appears just the person to take and maintain the bold stand he has, in pol itics. AN INTERESTING LETTER. Wk ahr PKasiiTTBO to lay before our readers ihe following interesting letter, ad dressed to our fellovci'iz n, Col. R A. Alston, in response to the one recently ad dressed by him to Mr. Crec'y of the New York Tribune, and which was copied ioto this journal a few da?9 ago. The name of the writer we withhold. It is to his experi ence in the South, the scnUmenis he utteis the conclusions at which he arrives—tl e justice that he does our people—we invite the attention of all c>nsei votive Northern men. We aiso ste much in ibis lentr to en courage our ow.i people; to sati3:y tienn that they have friei.da in the N>>rih ; and to subdue, as it should, that spirit ol hostility to Northern men—“ Yankees”—which long years of heated political controversy origi nated, aud which war and its desolations fo rneuted. Perhaps, iu days pas’, we have indulged in this hostile feeling as much as any one. In honest sincerity, we affirm that the time is past lor its further indulgence.— Honor, duty, interest, patriotism, alike for bid it. In the new era that, has dawned, new responsibilities devolve upon us, and upon each individual ci;iz;:n of the South Let all meet and bear them as mbn, not as children 1 Then peace will come; ibeu law and order will prevail—then the Federal bayouet will disappear from our view—then jusiice will be done us by the North, and the South will once more be a land of plen» ty. There is strength enough in the North- to save the South from the degraded condi tion to which radical fmat cism would re duce her. Northern men—‘Yankees”— who feel as the writer of thu following let ter does, need have no fears a9 to their re ception in Geoigia; it will be one ot such welcome, as they would give to m — Nay, we g> farther and say, notwith standing they may slander and misrep resent; mdign and persecute; ilie most venomous black republican in the North may pass from one end of our State to the other, and none will attempt to make him afraid, to molest his person, or to interfere with his constitutional, political, or legal rights. Such is the spirit that n >w prevails among our masses—ninety nine out of every hundred—of our people. Below, the reader will find the letter to which we refer: Albany, N. Y., Sept. 4th, 1865 R. A j Alston, Esq : Sir:—I have read your letter in the New York Tribune with the most profound satis faction. Two years in the South during the war convinced me that, could it be* rightly touched, there is a chord in the Southern heart which would render the people thor oughly, enthusiastically loyal to the Union and the new order of things. Although Northern in my sentiments, with the Tribune for my organ, and Mr. Greely for my friend, became enamoured of the Southern soil, climate, and people. With small farms and free labor, the South can be made to excel the North in everything that goes to make the wealth of a State; the soil and climate combine to this end. We have long believed what has proved to be a mistake, that North ern men could not go South without the al most certainty of losing their health. Sta tistics will show that Northern troops in the extreme South have suffered less mortality from sickness than those serving in any other section of the country. As to the peo ple, I have never in my life met any who, aside from their political notions, pleased me so much ; my stay among them was the happiest portion of my life; I have no lan guage to express my delight. As command ing officer of a District, I made myself per sonally acquainted with the people, and my inflexible rule was to treat them kindly, justly, generously, Srmly ; saying to them all—“ I recognise you as political enemies, Southern and secession in sentiment, but I will persecute no one for mere opinion’s sake; no one shall be annoyed for his thoughts or hisbelief; so long asjou are within my lines I expect you to keep quiet, afford ing neither aid nor comfort to the enemies of the Union by word or deed; go to work; cultivate your plantations; I will aid and protect you.” They did go to work, and I protected them To me and my authority I believe they were in thought, word, and deed, loyal from the crown of their heads to the sole of their leet. They said to me often— “If this were the Union, we could be con teuted, happy, and loyal.” I firmly believe there is a way to win the heads and hearts of the South so that they shall, if possible, be more loyal to the new order than the North itself. I read it in your letter; I kuow it lrom personal txpeii- erce. Yet my faith has at times almost for. ook me through the reports of the news papers, whose informants and correspon dents, I verily beliva, sine? reading your letter, are false and bast. While serving in the South I resolved to h cjte there after the war, but have been alraid that “Yankees” and “Yankee * Ulcers” would not ba well received. Sj I have been studying the newspapers, only to be more and more dis couraged, and waiting replies to letters ask ing for"intormation. Your letter ’.o the Tr.bune is in the tine, noble Southtrn spirit, as I experienced it.— You are most happy in your expiessions, and your lelttr cannot fail U> do good in the right direction. And, radical as he is, Mr. Grrely is the best friend the South has got at the North. He has the ability, the power, and the will, to do more for the real, lasting good of the South/han any other man at the Noith. Yon and be are both imbned with the same spirit, and working to the same end. The final, successful, and happy pa cification of the South,will owe more to Mr. Greely and the Tribune than to all others. In writing yon, it was my intention to have said more of a personal, and less of a general nature. Being out of the service and out of business, I am looking a new home, with my inclination all toward the South. Through the reported disturbances in nearly every Sjuthern State, I wai about to aban don my Southern preferences, when your lei’er met ray eye in the Tribune, of which 1 m ii a daily reader—though I do not adopt all ns notions. Mr. G. is a great and good man, as the 'Tribune is one of the best and ablest paper?. Your letter sounded like a meesage from the friends I made in the South. So kind, noble, and patriotic, were its sentiments, I rtsolved at once to address yon. Pi ay pardon and indulge the fretdom. May I presume upon the spirit ot your let ter, as it comes to me, to seek infoimatiou and advice lrom you? I would be glad to know something of your section and its prospects. Whether purely’ agricultural or varied, industrial pursuits are open ?— For wha’ price lands can be purchased compared with 1860? Are there streams and water power, limber and farming lands for9Hle? are there minerals ? Otcours large capital has advantages, but are there chanc ;s lor men of moderate means? and in what business? Can plantations be had to work on shares? Can partnerships be lormed iu other Uiuds of business? Have you uianuirtcturing hy water power? What is the soil, limber ? <£e, &c., I might refer you to Guv. Fenton of N Y.; Senator Harris of N. Y., and Mr. Greely ot N. Y. If desirable can procure honorable testimonials. A reply will greatly obl'ge Your ob’i s’v’t, N. B. I might mention numerous instan ces like the ease ot your nearest neighbor. In Louisiana I received calls from fami lies who, before the war, had rolled in wealth and luxuries—having horses and carriages—coming to me now in a cart drawn by a mule, so poor as to be unfit to steal. Thus came refined and educated la dies, with the same ease and elegance of manners of their better days, saying to me “they might as well laugh as cry, though it w r as hard to bear.” In both Louisiana and Virginia, I saw the same class of ladies without servants, doing their own work—many having learned to spin and weave, and moke garments—and actually spinning yarn, weaving cloth, and making clothing for their families. Those wno had never lifted a finger to labor,doing it njw, however, with a grace and buoyan cy altogether indescribable. This is cer tainly a noble spirit; a spirit to be admired and worshipped, however much we dislike the cause. Such heroic conduct deserves respect; and turned in the right channel by wise counsels will make a country richer, nobler, and more united than the world has yet seen. So mote it be. W. H. Watson, Assessor Internal Reve nue 4’h District ot Georgia, has made the following appointments as Assistant Assess ors of his district: 1st Division, consisting of Troup, Heard, and Meriwether counties, Henry Hodges, As sistant Assessor—head quarters at LaGrange Georgia. 2 1 Division, consisting ot Coweta, Fay ette and Clayton counties, Hillsbury R^Har- rison, Assistant Assessor, headquarters at Newnan, Georgia. 3i Division, consisting of Carroll, Haral son, Polk, Paulding, Ca r s and Floyd ct un ties, J< bn J. Armstrong, Assistant Assessor, headquarters Rome, Ga. 4 h Division, consisting ol Fulton, De- Kalb and Henry counties, Daniel Snyder, Assistant Assessor, headquarters Atlanta, Georgia. 5 h Division, consisting of Cbattooca, Walker, Dade, Cato* si, Whitfield, Gordon* and Murray counties, George W. Selvidge- A^sisiant Assessor, headquarters Dilton t Georgia. 7 h Division, consisting of Towns, Rabun, White, Habersham, Hall and Banks coun ties, Aurelius M. Willoughby, Assistant As sessor, headquarters Clarkesville, Georgia 8 h Division, consisting of Walton, Clark, Madison, Hart, Franklin, Gwinnett and Jackson counties, Henry R. Sanfoid, Assist ant Assessor, headquarters Athens, Geor gia 9 h Division, consisting of Cobb, Camp bell, Cherokee, Forsyth and Milton counties, William F. Dura, Assistant Assessor, head quarters Maiietta, Georgia. No appointment yet made for the 6 h Di vision. [communicated ] The following pla, ful tribute to General L“e may be justly cited in proof of the en thusiastic devotion with which he inspired the men whom he commanded. At a dinner party, in January last, at the Headquarleis of the Second Army Corps, it was asked by one of General Lee’s staff of ficers, if we had ever noted the care which the General habitually exhibited in the ar rangement of his hair behind—bestowing greater pains there than in the front? To which it wa9 replied by one of the officers of the Corps’ staff, that the habit was exclu sively appropriate in General Lee, tor, said he, all the world's behind h ’m ! J. M. p. Sympathetic, possibly with the ladies, or rather in advance ol them, the General culti vated the waterfall. Our repugnance to this adornment, must henceforth cease, a gallant man, even in the opinion of his enemies, should be imitated in his virtues, and tolera ted in his caprices.—[Ed. Int,] From the New York Round Table. TIIE FfTCJRE OF THE NEGttO. In discuaiug the future condition of the negro race |n this country, we beg leave to say that w*j advance no opions that we are not ready to abandon or modity under the teachings of observation and experience.— For the problem is so vast, it involves so many new elements, that very different con clusions miy well be reached by minds equally dehrous, in good faith, to come at the truth. fHe who has thought most upon the subject will be the least positive and dog matical in ?4s tone. That slavery is now practically extinct in this country is a fact which we assume as beyond coEpoversy, and it is a result which no well-organized mind can contemplate without tiie greatest satisfaction. Nor should, this satisfaction be confined by any means to those who, for the sake of destroy ing slavery, were willing to assume the per ils and burAsus of a civil war. Men might differ as t*rthe expediency of the means used, they may differ now a3 to the cost of the experiment, but all good men must re joice that tjie land is free from the curse of slavery. f But the extinction of slavery does not put an end to the relation of white men and black men Sving together in the same com munity, an<i refusing to coalesce or amalga mate, and from this relation there arises a new class ;*Hke ot duties and of dangers.— As Anthony Trollope well says in his excel lent work, “The West Indies and the Span ish Main“The discontinuance of a sin is always the commencement of a struggle.” The hatred of slavery so general in the Nor thern States, was a vehement sentiment, and, like all such sentiments, it was undis- criminating in its regards. It did not dis tinguish the evils ot slavery proper from the evils which spring from the lact of two races livingon the same soil and separated socially by the impassable barrier of color. For the terrible fact in American slavery is not that the slaves are slaves, but that they are blacks. The emancipated slave trans- >rnits to his remotest descendants the stigma of slavery in the color of his skin. The ex tinction of slavery gives new significance to the question of race. The slave has ceased to exist, but the black man remains. What is to become of him ? We assume it as a fact that God has cre ated different races of men, and bestowed upon them different degrets of capacity for mental growth and material progress. He has made white men and yellow men and red men and black men. And he has im planted in every human being certain sym pathies and antipathies of race, which make him prefer those of his own race to others ;. and to this extent a repugnance of race must be admitted to exist. That the white man is superior to the black man iu intelltc ual power, in force ot temperament, in rapacity for progressive civilization, we presume no one, nof, the most zealous abolitionist , will deny. The degree or extent of that superiority it is unnecessary to discuss.— Whenever a higher or a lower race meet to gether on the samesoil, the testimony of his tory is uniform as to the result, The lower race either voluntarily assumes a position of inferiority and subjection, or it disappears, either by removal or extermination. Two such races do not and will not blend to gether so as to produce a third race, partak ing of the characteristics of the other two.— In England the aboriginal race has been ex terminated, aud such must be the late ol the aboriginal red man of North America. But in Barbadocs, in India, in Cuba, and in the Southern States, we see too Tacts livihg to gether in acknowledged relations of superi ority and inferiority, of domination and de pendeuce. The elements are not identical in these several countries, but they agree in the one great lact or law above stated. We trust that we shall not be set down as an advocate of slavery when we say that the condition of the black man in the South ern States will not, for the present at least, be in all respects improved by emancipation, especially by emancipation imposed by, su perior force, and coming at the close cf a devastating war. For slavery, and the per sonal familiarity to which it led, did some thing toward modifying the repugnance of race. The white child who was tended in inlancy by an Afriean nurse, never recoils in after life from a black face with the re pugnance felt, though it may be overcome, by one who perhaps never saw a negro till the impressible period of childhood was passed Beside?, the white man in a slave holding community can venture to treat a black man with condescenaing kindness, by reason of the impassable social barrier that lies between them. The black man can never presume upon or take any advantage ol the familiarity which the white man may extend to him. The idea of rivalry between the two races is as impossible as between a man and his horse, or his doe-. But make the black man the social, and, still more, the political equal of the white man, and the latter will constantly, by his manners, re mind the former of the natural inequality which exists between them. The EogHsh civilian or officer in India treats his Hindoo servants more distantly, more haughtily, than the slave-owner in the Souih treated his slaves. For the statement that theexiinc tion of slavery does nQt lessen the repugnance of race, we have the high autority of De Toc- queville, who says: “Whoever has inhabit- ed the United states must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the negroes are no longer slaves, they have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of the race ap pears to be stronger in the States which have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists; and nowhere is it so intolerant as iu those States where servitude has never been known.” Again; “If I were called upon to predict what will probably occur at some future time, I should say that the abo lition of slavery in the South will, in the common course of things, increase the re pugnance of the white population for the men of color.” equal freedom under the same government, so insurmountable are the barriers which nature, habit, and opinion have established between them.” De ToequeviUe himself dis cusses the future of the three races which inhabit the territory of the United States in a chapter which bears strong marks of his penetrating and sagacious genius, and he evidently considers the extermination of the black race as a possible event in the future Among other things be says: “When I con template the condition of the South, I can only discover two alternatives which may be adopted by the white inhabitants of those States; namely, either to 1 emancipate the negroes and to intermingle with them, or, remaining isolated'from them, to keep them in a state of slavery as long as possible. All intermediate measures seem to me unlikely to terminate, and that shortly, in the most horrible of civil wars, and perhaps in the extirpation of one or the other of the two races. ” These are melancholly anticipations, and yet history is not without teachings to con firm them; and upon our own soil this les son has been taught with peculiar force.— We have seen, we ate seeing, the gradual disappearance of a remarkable race, once iu full and undisputed possession ot the whole continent, and a race in some respects sit perior to the African. That the Indian will at some time or other utterly disappear from the land, is a result which may be predicted with as much confidence as any thing in the future. Aud why, it may be said, should not the fate of the negro be like that ol the Indian ? The law is inexo rable, that the, weaker race must wither and die in the blighting shadow of the stronger. At this day {he same process is going on in the Sandwich islands, in New Zealand, and in Minnesota. Everywhere the weak is sacrificed to the strong. The Indian is of a tougher and more tenacious fiber than the African, but the white man’s stronger na ture has bent and broken him. The poet may lament, the sentimentalist may sigh over the extinction of a race of such mark ed and unique characteristics; but nature is not governed by sentimental laws, nor is the world carried on exactly as poets wonld have it Outalissi and Chactas are fine fig ures upon the poet’s canvass; but the earth can better dispense with them than with the homely, prosaic man who plants corn'and weaves cloth. When the negro ceases to be the white man’s slave he beginE to be the white man’s rival, and the cutting edge of the white mah’s rivalry will mow him down like grass before the scythe. Men who are no longer young, whose temperament is not hopeful, who, in short, are pessimists—to use a doubtful word oi ri cent origin—will he inclined, to adopt aud maintain the above views. But we are not prepared to assent to them—certainly not entirely and to their whole extent. They seem to us the growth of & sweeping gener alization which overlooks some of the mod ifying elements of the problem. The ex tinction of slavery may arrest the increase of the black population? in the* Southern State?, but we do not believe that it will lead to their final, absolute disappearance— We do not believe that the fate of the Afri can on our continent is to be exactly parral- lei to that of theTndian r and in another ar tide we propose to state some of the grounds on which that opinion rests. There are not a few persons who are of the opinion that the disappearance of the negro begins with4.be extinction of slavery, and that the time will surely come, though no one now on earth may live to see it, when a negro will he as strange a spectacle upon the soil of the United States a3 an In dian is in one of our Atlantic cities. “Noth ing,” says Jefferson, as quoted by De Toc- qHeville, “is more clearly written in the book of destiny than the emancipation of the blacks, and it is equally certain that the two races will never live in a state of Fr.m the Lexington Gazette. GEN. R. E. LEE PRESIDENT OF THE WASHINGTON COLLEGE, LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA. The gratifying duty of announcing to tbe country the acceptance by General Robeit E Lee cf the presidency of Washington College has been devolved upon the under signed by the Board ef Trustees of that In stitution. The accession of this distinguish' ed gentleman to the Faculty of this venera ble College, and as Its honored Chief, is des tined, we trust, to mark the commencement ot a new era in its history, and most cor dially do we congratulate its numerous friends on this most auspicious event. The high noble, and patriotic motives which im pelled our beloved Chief, in accepting the honorable, but comparatively humble posi tion tendered to him by the authorities of the College, must win for him a new title to the admiration and love of his countrymen. The College, under the administration and supervision oi General Lee, will resume its exercises on the 4th instant. At a.meeting of the Board of Trustees of the College, convened in Lexington, on Thursday, the 31st ult., the following reso lution was unanimously passed, the publica tion of which is demanded as an act of jus tice alike to General Lee and themselves: Resolved, That the Board heartily concurs iu and fully endorses the sentiments so well expressed by Gen. Lee, in his letter of ac ceptance of the Presidency of Washington College, that ‘fit is the duty ot every citizen, in the present condition of the country, to do all in his power to aid in the restoration of peace and harmony, and in no way to oppose the policy of the State or General Government directed to that objectand that “it is particularly incumbent on those charged with the instruction of the young to set an example of submission to aulhorU ty:” sentiments that cannot fail to com mend themselves to the approval of the President of the United States, and to the unqualified assent of all sensible and virtu ous citizens.” la dedicatiog his future life .to the holy work of educating the youth of his country, General Lee presents a new and interesting phase of bis grand and heroic character, a character than which no more perfect mode) exists among living men. “ ’Tis a model fabric and will well tnpport the lanrels that adorn it.” L t the young men of tbe cono- try, North as web as South, be wise, and profir, not less by bis precepts, than by his example. John W. Brockbnbrough. Rr-ctor ot Washington College. Lexington, Va m Sept. 1st, 1865. Thr feat of breaking the bank was again achieved on the 12ih* at Baden-Baden, and this time by three players, one of whom was the Maltese millionaire who performed it alone exactly a month before. Another was a Russian prince, who played very high. The three champions chose the black.— There are at present at Baden Baden seve ral.individuals who are noted for their ex* iraordinary luck, and it is given out that the bank is in danger of losing this year — Nothing is said, however, about those unfor tunate individuals who are broken by the bonk. That teat ii not so eXlraordioaiy. — . Thz London Times speaks of Gladstone as “ discrowned and disrobed of his aca demic encumbrances,” and as having “gone into the ranks of industry and retrieved his disaster.” ltTC«Jf. Tbe (oft ctlna days of miltanin once agists Have brought that lovely melancholy Welt \ . Which bind* the hearts of thinking, dreaming men With that mysterfona lingering ken Which, tf It has no fature tale to tell. May tarn into forgotten past and dwell On all it* scenes of happinets and pleasure then. And while theaun is struggling to diffuse .. . IU bright effulgence through the soft dfm air, It Is not aU within our power to choose The many subjects .of our though ta v but muse— In memory freed trom every care— In thought to wander—scarcely knowing where Wtile subject to this changing, mystic, Autumn ruse. Who has not stro'led along some aylvl ,n stream, To h?ai the genUe whispering of the tide, When leaves were falling through the sun’s pale beam, And watched alone till aU was like a dream f And in that dream how many to our side Have come again, with genUe words to cMde, By saying, '*Ah, how cold we aU, in absence seem ?” How oft I’ve asked the future if ’twere mine • To live so good, so upright, and so pure, That, when this life was sinking In decline, The Ught of Heaven would as softly shine As this to-day, and calmly thus allure Tbe chastened soul to realms that .hall endure ; Where all is like the God who made It—alt divine. Louisville Freight Controversy Set tled.—The controversy which has been going on recently between the Louisville, (Ky.) merchants, the Express Companies, and Railroad, the Nashville Press & Times pronounces settled, and publishes the fol lowing correspondence, which will be found interesting to the merchauts of Atlanta and the South: Louisville, Sep. 7, 1865. To the President and Directors of the Louis ville and Nashville Railroad. Gentlemen In compliance with a res olution of the Board of Trade, and repre senting the business interests of the city, the undersigned committee desire respect- folly to Invoke the prompt action of yonr Board in making the necessary negotiations with the managers of the different railroad companies connecting with yom road at Nashville, which will insure to our mer chants and manufacturers, at an early day through bills of lading for freight at fair rates to all the important cities and towns connected with ns by railroad and trading with this city. In addition to the regular freight line, the business interests of the city would be great ly promoted by the establishment of a fast or time freight line, with through bills of lading from yonr company at tair rates of freight, and extending to the cities and towns above indicated. All the principal Eastern railroad compa nies have a regular freight line and a fast or time freight line under their own manage ment; this is all we ask. We have fall confidence in the ability of year road successfully to make Buch ar rangements as will ultimately result, not only in greatly promoting the business of our city, but also in greatly increasing the trade and travel of all the roads forming such a combination. We are aware that in the present disturb ed state of affairs in the Southern States, you will have difficulties to encounter, but they cannot be insurmountable, since, not withstanding the military occupation of the roads South of Nashville, there is a monop oly obnoxious to our business men, and also to the bnsiness men South of ub, and having no community of interests either with our city or State, is now giving through bills of lading at enormous rates of freight to the points named. With the Southernj’ailroada alJ.rcstored to their respective companies, there can be no serious difficulty in accomplishing an ar rangement so essential to the business and prosperity of our city and advantageous to all concerned. Asking your favorable consideration of this important matter, with an earnest de sire to procure from you such a response to this appeal as will give to those we repre sent the strongest assurances that you will carry out their wishes as indicated in this communica' ion, we remain,, very respect fully. Yotir obedient servants; W. B. Hamilton James Bridgfobd. R. A. Robinson. Louisville, Sept. 9,1865. W. R Hamilton, James Bridgeford, R A. Robinson, Committee: Gentlemen:’Your letter: of the 8th baa been reqeived and laid before our Board of Directors. I am re qnested, in reply, to say that the Louisville and Nash tf lie railroad is in possession of au equipmentJully sufficient, as they believe, to do promptly and to the satisfaction of shippers, all the freight busi ness between Louisville and Nashville, and on their branches, and as soon: as the rail roads South of Nashville are restored to the control of their stockholders; the Directors of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad to all points connected with them by rail, and as soon as they, can safety do so, will arrange for through bills of lad.ng^ in encourage ment of the busineas ot the road; they will also endeavor to secure 8 tariff of rates over all the roads which wijl be tair and just to. the shippers and stockholders. The fretgnt business of the road has been confined to regular freight at the same tariff and time to all shippers. Until now there has been, no call for a fast time freight line on their road, and a fast time freight line with other roads can’t be made;without the concurrent action of the connecting roads. The Directois are prepared to give such a line, with the concurrence and in conjunc tion with other roads, a fair consideration and trial, so that shippers shall have the ad vantage of such a line over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and Southern con necting roads. Fast time will always require a greater expenditure thau slow time, and tor that reason requires a higher tariff. If such a line is a separate organization front that of the regular freight Hue, the cost of the or-, ganizatioa must he paid • for, and that will enhance the tariff. If the se parate organi zation must have a profit, that will also en hance the tariff. The Directors will .investigate how fast freight lines are organized and operated by Eastern railroad companies, separate from their regular freight lines, and how the joint organizations are arranged, with every dit-i position tp give shippers over-the Louisville and Nashville railroad all the advantages of such fast freight line?. The objects to be obtained are well expressed by the commit.-' tee, but might not result from £ fast freight line organized for profit,yet might from one organized by connecting roads. The Direc tors desire that shippers should acqUa£at themselves with the tariff and regulations of the company and make known their ob jections and their suggestions for-improve ment. They will give them.a fair conside ration and act according to their best judg ment for the interest confided to their irnsL Very respectfully, JamksGuthrie, Pres. New Spangled Things.—Mrs. Partington says she can’t conceive why people now.-a- days are continually getting up so many * 1 new spangled things. Digby, Who was pre* sent, wished to know to what she ’ particu larly alluded. The old lady laid, down the newspaper she was reading, and gravely, re plied: •; . -ur “Why, la! T see they have got to mafang trout preserves,^ jest as though people didn t have .enough, things to make preserves od^ without making ’em ef fish.” . . _ „ - .vSk •* . 7? - ' rc'-iT' \ :• V* -