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THE GEORGIA BILL AND THE COMING
CONVENTION.
Immediately upon the passage of the
Georgia Bill by Congress, we stated that,
in our opinion, the questiou of an election
this Fall was left doubtful and obscure by
the wire-workers at Washington, and in
tentionally so. This ambiguity was pur
posely done to /irate the Democratic fire, and,
if possible, compel the enemies of Radical
ism to expose their policy prematurely.
Fully impressed with thatficllef, we judged
that discretion was the better course of the
public press and the party at large, be
cause If Is always good strategy to first
find out what your opponent desires and
then to disappoint him. Many of our con
temporaries were of a different opinion.
They no doubt acted upon motives of the
highest patriotism, as we did, and so there
need be no quarrel over a matter of pure
■peculation as to manocuvcrlng.
As to the results of an election, If It be
held, we can only give what seems to us
the probabilities of the case. If it goes as
the Congressional Committee recommend
ed, that la, If all candidates chosen are
pliant tools es Power, whether Bullock
or Blodgktt or anybody else who will ac
cept usurpations as verities or fixed facts
never to be questioned, all will be right
•t Washington. It Is wholly Immaterial
whether the parties elected be Radicals or
Democrats, so-called. Pliant tools of power
qrc very much in demand, and If complying
Conventions will nominate such and help
elect such, all will be lovely and serene uo
doubt at the head centres of Radical au
thority. The State, under such auspices,
will be permitted to eail back Into the
Union, so-called. But If the election
should go otherwise; If a real Democrat
be elected Qoveruof, and real Democrat* be
chosen to the Legislature and Congress,
another turn of the Reconstruction sorew
Is & probability so strong that It smacks of
certainty. This opinion we venture with
candor nnd reluctance; but, however un
palatable, ifls worth reflecting upon. And
ire here respectfully observe to all who
violently differ from us, that he Is uat al
ways the truest friend who tells the most
flattering tales.
Having thus stated some of the misgiv
ings that beset us, wc now proceed to an
other view of the subject, which, by the
call of a Convention, has become a matter
of Instant practical Importance.
We are for an election, a fair and square
election on principle. This brlugs up the
whole question to Vie decided by the Con
vention :
Fir»t: Shall wo have au election, not
withstanding the intcntloual ambiguity
and double dealing of the Georgia Bill ?
We answer, emphatically, Yes !
Second: Shall we as Democrats be gov
erned lu nominations by the sinister de
signs of this Infamous BtU If
With equal emphasis, we answer No!
Bat at this point the Democracy should
be guided both by polity and principle. We
would, for Instance, advise the nomination
of a man for Governor who could qualify,
if elected. No principle la violated by
this action, far such meu, good and true,
can be found—men *who will openly de
clare that they hold these acts of Congress
creating disabilities null and void. No
man should be nominated who does not
thus hold, and no man Is worthy of sup
port who will not thus declare himself.
The same course should be taken with re
gard to the nomination of members of
Assembly. Had such a course been pur
sued by the members of the July Conven
tion of 1808, with regard to Democratic
electors, It might have been better for us.
No principle would have been yielded by
following such advlco at that time, and
none will be yielded by thus acting lu our
present emergency.
For members of Congress, the case may
be different. No one need object to the
nomination of a true Democrat uuder no
disabilities, so-called; but we would pre
fer to run the strongest Democrat la any
district without regard to the disability
act of usurpations. It would be a matter
of congratulation to see a true Democrat
fairly elected to Congress whose disabili
ties, so-called, were not relieved. Then we
should have the Wilkes and Luttrell
. case renewed In all Its power. If the Demo
crat so elected should be denied his seat,
let ua keep ou electing him Mi** quotiee
until the whole country ehoutd be con
vulsed wlta the monttroue usurpations at
Washington.
The Convention will mou assemble » u d
then we shall see who la who and what U
what, h may be that an attempt wilt lie
made to wheel the Georgia Democracy Into
line with those who accept the 14th and
15th Amendments as ** verities." never to he
warred agaiae: or disputed If a ma
jority of the party favor this mode of pro
cedure, the case is indted a bad one. If
they do not favor it, tker should take care
to send wise, lust, moderate and patriotic
men :o represent them in the Convention.
Richmond county should do her whole
duty now, though every other county
iu the State deserted her. We have con
fidence in our people In this county, and
feel assured that a majority of the conn
ties of old Georgia, i: not all, will come
up squarely aud boldly to the issue.
A LEAF FROM THE HISTORY OF
RETRIBUTION.
| Several years ago, we were never weary
! of pointing our people to the example of
i Huugary in her struggle, after the battle,
with Austria. We pointed out, agaiu and
tlgaln, how very analogous her position
was with that of the South, and vainly
1 suggested a similar Hue of policy which,
after seventeen tremeudous years, euded in
the most splendid triumph that a down
trodden nationality ever gained over the
tyrant. It is too late, perhaps, to Imitate,
at tills time, the *• masterly Inactivity " of
' Hungary, who kept her faith aud bided her
time ; but the history of the Magyar has
receutly furnished another grand lesson for
Southern pondering, which should not lie
lost upon us or upon our children. We
had iuteuded to make thfc application In
our pwu way, but the Baltimore Sun has
done it so beautifully, so graphically and
so exhaustively, that we glidly push aside
what had been fashioned by our pen and
avail ourselves of the superior effort of our
contemporary. The Sun siys:
“In the concluding portion of Scott’s
novel, ' Waverly,' there Is an affectlne
passage, where the hero, himself just am
nestied for complicity lu the rebellion ot
1745, makes an unavailing appeal to au
official friend to save the life of Fergus
Mclvor, who was about to suffer death for
high treason at Carlisle. The functionary
appealed to writes back to Mr. Waverly to
say that he Is very sorry for ‘ the unfortu
nate young gentleman,’ but cannot Interfere
In his behalf, so that the law must take Its
course. Such, Sir Walter Scott pauses
sorrowfully to add, was the mode of reason
ing common among persons of honor and
humanity only 'sixty years since.’ The
London Telegraph, which reviews this sug
gestive fragment from Waverley, applies it
to the case of the Hungarian patriot, Count
Louis Batthyanl, who, only tweuty years
since, was hung by the Austrian Govern
ment for the sole crime of patriotism, as
though he had been a murderer, or a dog.
“In this period of European perturba
tions, aud also-as affording au iustancc of
the chatfge which has taken place sluce
political matters were conducted In Austria
a iid Hu Hilary with such a hlyh hand, aud
when it was quite consouaut with the code
of repression adopted by the savage com
manders,- of whom Hayuau was the most
prominent type, to hang and shoot men and
tp flog women, the story of Count Bat
thyani may not be without Interest. One
of the most distinguished of the Hungarian
maguates, he signalized himself at an early
period by his zeal In behalf of* the Indepen
dence of his country, and after waging a
fierce war against the Austrian Govern
ment he became afterward Instrumental in
promoting Kossuth’s election to the Diet.
Subsequently he officiated as Prime Minister
of the revolutionary administration. On
the approach of the Austrian army towards
Pesth the members of the Diet aud of the
administration withdrew. Batthyanl alone
would not desert his post, aud the conse
queuce of his clilvalric resolve was that he
was arrested and sentenced by court-martial,
presided over by the Infamous Marshal Hay
nau, to die on the gallows. A horrible
story was current at the time that on the
night before his execution the Magyar’s
noble wife, anxious that he should avoid
the Ignominy of the gallows, forwarded to
him, in a packet of clean linen, a long,
sharp, crooked nail, with which he Inflict
ed a jagged, but not mortal wouud; in his
throat. Other accounts have it that he
stabbed himself with a dagger, and inflict
ed so many wounds upon his neck that he
could not be hung, aud, accordingly, was
shot. He met his tragic fate with heroism
and resignation. The resentment of Aus
tria extended also to his wife aud his three
children, who were expelled from the coun
try, while his property was confiscated by
the Government. This was only twenty
one years ago; but a change has come over
Austria In its treatment of the heroic race
upon whom It will have hereafter to rely
as Its right arm In battle. The policy of
cruelty and oppression has given place to
the wiser counsels of clemency aud con
ciliation. The people of Hungary stand
once more erect, aud one of their latest
acts, which Austria evinced no disposition
to repress, was to do justice to the memory
of Louis Batlhyaui. Treated even after his
death like a felon, and burled with muti-
lated rites, his remains havefoeen receutly
removed from the place Into which they
were hastily thrust, aud, after lylug In
state for four and tweuty hours at the
Church of the Franciscans, they have been
escorted to the new cemetery at Pesth by
40,000 Hungarians, while for three miles
along the route the windows—nay, even
the house tops—were alive with men, wo
men aud children, looking down with pride
aud love, upon the ashes of the man who
died for bis country lu her darkest honr.
In view of the-war clouds which are now
boverlug over Europe, aud the poaalbljlty
that Austria may some day have to make a
life straggle for her own existence, itisper-
for her that heroic Hungary la
herself oaee more, aud no longer treated aa
a subjugated and vassal race. Let the lea
son be applied here In the Catted States lu
regard to our Southern brethren "
North Carolina.—By systematic chok
ing and other modes of torture, Holden's
myrmidons have forced sixteen-weak breth
ren to confess they were members of a sort
of Ku Klux Klau. Among these victims
of the inquisition was one J. E. Botd, a
nominee for the Legislature. This wretch,
not satisfied with criminating himself,
through lear, basely heaps odium upon his
friends who sought to honor him. The
election will end on Thursday next, but, as
the Richmond Dispatch eloquently observes,
there are other things which will not end
with It—“ the sown wind—the seeded retri
bution—the embalmed revenge.”-.
And the man who so glibly prated him
self into power by words of peace is the
abettor of the worst of strife. Let him be
ware. He may want friends even in North
Caroliua one of these days.
Very Strange.— Of the five prominent in
-tlgators of Mumford’s death, but ope— the
chief assaasiu—remains alive, and he,
though as hard as flint to the world’s re
proach, is a moral leper. The other four,
according to the New York Democrat , have
died terribly and swiftly. Andrew J.
Butler lived miserably after his return
from the South, and then desperately com
mitted suicide. Bell, a member of But
ler’s staff, and also of the military com
mission, died a raving lunatic. Haggerty,
the Judge Advocate, perished In the streets
of New Orleans of delirium tremens. An
other member of the staff, and an Interested
party, recently, at Hong Kong, blew out
his brains.
A ' *
The Widow’s Art. —Speaking of the
liability of English statesmen of repute to
marry widows, and the happy relations in
cident to these matches, the New York
World makes this fine point:
“ We decline to entertain for a moment the
“ hypothesis that the skill which Is so often
“ displayed by a lady was acquired at the
“ expense of her first spouse, on which she
“ experimented as on a corpus vile until he
“ became a corpus cold. Far more proba
“ ble Is It that the first was made even
“ more happy than the second—so happy
“ that flesh aud blood could not stand it—
“ aud that, being warned by • this experi
** cnce, the widow who becomes a wife
J 1 gives to her second husband only just
“ that amouut of bliss that is good for him
“ and uo more.’’
How to Do It.— The New York Sun
shows how the troolv 101 l are exalted.—
Describing the triumphal exit of a great
and good patriot from Gotham. It says:
“ The ex-policy dealer went In on the
“ make, aud sold out the Republican party
“ which gave him his office, sold out his
*' fellow Commissioners, sold out the city,
“ sold out his Mends, sold himself to the
“ devil, and Is now going to Europe to have
“ a continental spread on the proceeds. He
“goes down the bay this morning with
“ ccfafk-that Is to say, with tugboats ac
“ companjluar. and music playlnjr, and the
“American banner floating on the breeze.”
The satire Couched in the last line Is
simply exquisite—and so appropriate.
Beware of the Rebound.— The New
York Herald, alluding to the murder of the
millionaire Nathan, says:
“ This shocking event has created a sen
satlou of horror and fear throughout the
entire community. People feel that we
live In the midst of a terrible class of
lawless ruffians, at whose hands no man’s
life is safe from hour to hour.”
People who break down all reverence for
law, in order to be revenged upon others,
must expect an upheaval of the bad ele
ments of society In their own midst. Com
placent aud devilish concocters of lying
Ku Klux outrages at the South are having
their curses come home to roost. The end
Is uot yet.
A Sticking Point. —The “ Hon. John
W. Fohney, who Is nothing If not epigram
matic, says:
“In Prussia, as well as lu the United
States, ‘ Bayonets think." ’
We may observe likewise that, in the
United States, they also lie occasionally,
at the rate of 40 cents per line. We dare say
It Is the same thing hi Prussia. Bayonets
when they think or speak, at the bidding
of tyrants, must perforce of their confor
mation have crooked ways.
Snubbed. —When NapolEon heard that
a Yankee spy and Prussian sympathizer,
named Philip Shkiudan, was sailing
from the United States to observe his
movements, he seut a telegram by cable
forbidding foreign officers from coming
near the French army. Yankee tricks do
not always succeed.
Mum. —Attorney general Akerman has
been written to by several Georgians, ask
ing him to place his opinion in writing on
the status of Georgia under the bill passed
on the last night of the session, admitting
the State, but he declines to do so uutil it
Is bfought before Idm in a legal form.
A Commercial Conundrum.— Shall the
negro have his life insured ? It is thought
that, as a XVth Amendment and one of the
political “ verities,” he is just as much en
titled to do so as to ride In a street car, go
to the United States Senate and bay a
ticket in the lottery.
VrryUnreliablb.— France and Prussia
control and manipulate the telegraphic re
ports from their respective camps. Pre
scription : Two gratus of salt to each tele
gram.
The Cbncus Brings Atlanta Down.—
The Atlanta A'« Era, referring to the re
sult* of the census, says:
Mushroom cities, exulting in their swell
ing population, find themselves suddenly
curtailed of their fair pro|K>rtions, and
mode to look as if they were « sent Into
the world before their tine, half made-up,
ete."
War Dots —The New York Freeman»
Journal {Women Catho'.tc) says:
- Very stupidly It has been asserted that
the triumph of France would be for Catho
licity, and the triumph of Prussia for
Protestantism. We believe it will be so
accepted, at large. And yet the Catholic
Church Is more free end more happy In Prus
sia than she is in France.
“The miserable course taken by the
present French Ministry towards Rome
well represented by the doctrinaire Parodol,
who shot himself—makes ns doubt about
whether the success of France could be for
the benefit of Christianity.”
John Mitchel gives the following ad
vice to his fellow-irishmen:
“Our plain policy is to do nothing unless
it be to accumulate money in the hands o.
local trustees (avoiding carefully New
York Headquarters), to refrain from boasi
ina, expressing rash sympathies, which we
might have to turn into antipathies before
long; and, in short, to take no ‘action,
and to hold our tongues. - ’
The New York Herald shows, in a pithy
paragraph, that German Unity, or rather a
Prussianized Germany, may be better
brought about by war than by peace.
The Prussian reason is thus given:
«i u a state of peace the South German
countries have an independent existence,
but during war they become practically a
part of the Prussian Power. War, then,
effectively joins South Germany to the
North German Union. And this is the
reason why war may be regarded without
displeasure at Berlin; for when war has
once added these South German States to
Prussia we may trust Bismarck that they
will never be free again.”
A German correspondent of the New
York Times puts that paper right on the
whole question. Thus:
“I merely wish to state that Prussia,
since Sadowa, has continually been work
ing for a German unity, which could only be
achieved by a war against that despot whose
main oblect has always been to impede, if
he possibly could, the attainment of the
desired aim.”
To which the Times responds:
“ Then what becomes of the statement
“ that France, and France alone, is respon
« sible for the war ? Our correspondent Is
“ doubtless right. German unity could not
“ have been accomplished, at least so soon,
« without a war with France. The end
** may be worth a war; but is it just to
)* saddle Napoleon with the whole respon
“ sibillty of it ? Can we not give' ‘ moral
“ support ’ to the Germans without falsity
“ lug all the facts of cotemporary history ?
“ It is all very well to renounce Napoleon
“ and all his works, but surely something
«< is due to our own credit as the chronl
“ clers of passing events.” •
Physicians for the Prussian Army.—
The New York German Patriotic Associa
tion has resolved to send over to Germany
young physicians who speak the German
language, to assist in the care of the sick
and wounded, knowing, from official
sources that this course will be very ac
ceptable to the Prussian Government. All
appllcants-are examined by a commission,
and if found qualified, receive a certificate
and a letter of recommendation from Dr.
Rosing, Cousul General of the "North Ger
man Confederation, to the Prussian Gov
ernment, which will insure their appoint
ment.
IFrom the New York Timea, editorial.
“Lawlessness in the South.”
The sea serpent and the monster goos
berry render periodical service to a certain
class of newspapers. There are others, and
those, we are sorry to say, of the Republican
faith, with marvelous regularity, descant
upon “the reign of lawlessness In the
South." The heading appears periodically.
We accept it as a sign, when Congress is
in session, that some extiavagant measure
is In contemplation. At other times, the
stale story Is Intended to serve some elec
tion purpose, or to afford a semblance of
justification forsomeextraordlnary assump
tion of authority of the kind with which
Governor Holden is familiarizing North
Carolina aud startling the country- What
ever the end to be served, we are quite sure
that usually there Is an unavowed purpose,
the accomplishment of which seems to ren
der expedient the awakening of popular in
dignation against the South. * * *
“The reign of lawlessness jn the South” is
a stereotyped expression, which is used to
fire the Radical heart when the tendency
in matters political Is to Indifference and
stagnation.
The device is a blunder even in a party
1 sense. We do not say that It Is destitute
of effect. Experience has shown that an
Incessant repetition of sensational stories
relating to crime in Southern communities
influences the action of Congress, and Is
effective as au electioneering agency in the
North and West. *****
Thus, criminal incidents which are pass
ed unnoticed at the North are invested
with a political significance when they
occur at the South. We have plenty of
lawlessness In New York,.but who among
us proposes to hold the entire community
responsible for it ? Who proposes to make
It an excuse for Federal Interference, or to
use it for campaign purposes in Ohio or
Mississippi? Yet the whole South Is ar
| raigned at the bar of Northern opinion
I because murders are committed In Tennes
! see or North Carolina. The whole South
-1 ern people are made the text for solemu
! exhortations and loyal threats and warn
! ings, because some drunken rebel in Mem
' phis shoots an industrious negro, or be
. cause a gang of ruffians In Georgia insult
' and injure some worthy Northerner, who
! has gone there to earn an honest living.—
i These occurrences are bad, whether report
ed from Kansas or the South. But we act
unwisely and unjustly when we apply the
-generalizing process to one case, and omit
It in the. other. Os this injustice the South
may reasonably complain.
Asa whole, the South is as free from
lawlessness as any other part of the coun
try. There are bad localities in the recon
structed States, but so there are in this
city and In this State. The general con
dition of things is, however, one that the
Southern people have no reason to be
ashamed of. Virginia, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and Missis
sippi may safely challenge comparison with
States similarly situated In ordinary re
spects at the South and West. There has
been a fair average of progress everywhere.
The mala body of the population lutve ap
plied thetuoelvea to industrial pursuits,
with a steady determination which ha*
already borne good frujt. They are re
building vilieg*** and cities, cultivating
farm* and familiarizing themselves with
enterprise* which will yield more than the
old prosperity
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, July 28,1870.
The intense heat of the atmosphere, from
being the cause of much
become the source of much distress. The
mortality of the city, from an average of
about'4oo per week, has Increased to about
1,100. Persons predisposed to apoplexy,
and all young children, have contributed
in a severe ratio to the increased mortality.
The thermometer has not ranged so -high,
on the average, as last week, but we have had
this week a murky breeze from the south
east, which has been an additional burde i
instead of a relief. Upon animals, and
upon persons engaged in active employ
ment, much distress has been inflicted.
The city railroad companies lost nearly n
hundred horses in one day (Monday last), and
many have been compelled to suspend their
accustomed pursuits; and yet the mortality
has not been so great as in previous heated
terms of far less intensity and duration.
This may be attributed to the .scarcity of
ice and the difficulty of procuring cold
drinks, which, however agreeable to the
palate, are lull of danger to the health.
We have fortunately had frequent thunder
showers, of moderate violence, which have
preserved vegetation from drought, and it
is in a most luxurious condition. As I
write, we are experiencing a considerable
modification of temperature, with a strong,
cooling breeze. The heated term has
six weeks, and we feel as though we ought
to be in the middle of August Instead of the
last week in July.
Politics are In abeyance. The leaders
are employed in feeling the ground, but
have not yet announced plans for the com
ing Fall campaign. .Senator Fenton is
near this city, and his friends give out that
he is determined to “get square” with
Grant for the manner in which his (Fen
ton’s) friends have been proscribed, but is
not quite ready to take the responsibility
of a bolt from the Republican party. A
politico-temperance movement, for which
there are abundant facilities, may be re
sorted to as the safest means to the de
sired end. There is no longer any doubt
that Grant will be a candidate for re-elec
tion; and it is just possible that his fight
with Fenton is all sham, being a prelimi
nary to the nomination of Fenton for Vice-
President instead qf Colfax, as a measure
of “harmony.” In fact, if Fenton shall
quietly submit to Collector Murphy, and
join in his efforts to rescue thi- State
from the Democrats, you may rely upon
it that the sacrifice of Fenton’s friends is
the result of a “ bargain ” between Grant
find Fenton, looking to the next Presi
dential contest.
The ocean yacht race is, tor the moment,
the leading sensation, owing to the ar
rival of the Cambria (British) yesterday
afternoon off Bandy Hook, beating the
American yacht, the Dauntless. - It is said
that this result demonstrates the advant
ages of the northern over the southern
route, westward across the Atlantic in
Summer. Os course, our British-born resi
dents have been very jolly over the result,
which was announced by displaying the
colors of the victor from the City Hall, and
firing guns in the Park. The newsboys
complain somewhat of this interference
with their pursuits,
The tremendous shock of arms which is
approaching on the Rhine, will doubtless
take place as soon as this letter reaches you.
The feeling In business circles continues to
largely favor the Prussians. The French,
and the friends of the French, find it advis
able to keep very quiet. And yet, there is
very little significance to this fact. I re
member well that ip January, 18(51, all
“ down town ” strongly favored the “ Crit
tenden compromise,” and a hot Radical was
“ hustled ” on ’Change one day for denounc- -
ing that scheme for accommodating the
troubles which had arisen between the
North and the South. Let Louis Napoleon
gain one great victory and we shall see
another illustration of the truth of the
adage that “ nothing Is so successful as
success.”
A strong effort is being made bv the more
thoughtful men of the Democratic party .to
improve the Democratic side of the next
House of Representatives. There is need
of more vlgorus blood there. The great
interests involved demand this. The devil
ish malevolence of the Radicals has shut
out mast of the Southern men of ability
and experience, and Tammany Hall will be
appealed to to supply the deficiency. Mr.
Brooks and Mr. Cox are the only real strong
men from this quarter, and they do not
agree, for the reason that Mr. Brooks is ribt
really a Democrat, but an old Webster
Whig, and entertains a. my exalted view of
the rights and he regards
inversely the duUes of property. Cox is
more an adroit party leader than a great
statesman. Mr. Fernando Wood has
knowledge and experience, but Is not the
sort of man to have influence in ft legisla
tive body. Os the other three from this
city, Messrs. Calkin, Fox, and Morrissey,
it can only be said that they are conscien
tious, faithful Democrats.
The war in Europe has produced an ex
citement in onr cotton market. Outsiders
come rushing in to make a “ turn." But,
forgetting that prices had already serious
ly declined; that stocks on that side of the
Atlantic arc at this season small at all
points-, and forgetting that the advance in
gold would do something towards making
good the decline abroad, these outsiders
went on and sold low middling for July
delivery down to 18t£. But when they
came to make their deliveries and close up
their contracts, they “ saw another sight,”
visions of a “ corner ” appeared unto them,
and it was a dream that was not all a
dream; the ambitions outsiders have got
their” turn” by paying 19)£@20 for cotton
to deliver on contracts at 18>£918J£. The
old story and the old result—you can’t
win nnless you bet, then yon are apt to
lose:
“ He who sells what isn’t his’n
Must bny it in or go to prison.”-
Breadstnffs advanced largely on the war
news, bat have declined almost as rapidly
in this and the Western markets. Stocks
continue enormous. The intense heat is
doing much damage, and an abundant har
vest is about to add to onr supplies. South
ern people need not be worried for the pres
ent, lest food shall be too high.
The Mercantile Library, according to
the annual report, now contains 115,831
books, of which 13,000 have been added
during the year which has just expired.
The total circulation has been 234,130 vol
umes, of which, in one day, 1,833 were
given ont. Besides this large circulation,
there are 1,000 readers who visit the read
ing room dally.
Daring the same time, at the Astor Li
brary, 1,573 books have been added to the
collection, which now comprises 139,106
volumes, and there have been 77,044 vol
umes taken from the shelves for the use of
readers. The whole number of those who
have profited by the library Is 33,634, or
115 readers a day. The endowment o< the
library being now $751,000, ol which the
income la expended annually in different
ways, It fallows that the actual expendi
ture Is $1 61 tor every one bencfltted by
tills library, while the cost of each bene
ficiary of the Mercantile la centa. The
(inference between the praollcil utility of
these two libraries le very great, the Astor
Lliirtry helug lu truth available only to
men or leisure, and tu Boat part learning, j
who can afford, in this maelsfrom' iJfWW.
ness excitement, to spend tranquil morning
and afternoon hours in the pursuits of lite
rature, the library closing at 5 o'clock, the
time when bnslness Is well nigh over, and
no books being allowed to be taken away,
the institntion is vlrtnal’y sealed to the
many. During the evenings, on the other
hand, the Mercantile Library Is more
crowded than at any other time by clerks
and business men, who, In thousands of
instances, deprived of all domestic sources
of pleasure, and* living alone In the midst
of crowds, endeavor to fill up their hours
of leisure by reading; this, however, bring
in the majority of cases of a light and amus
ing nature. ' During the day the ladies
flock In numbers. . A considerable diver
sity also exists in the character of the books
which are read in the two libraries, as at
the Astor there is but a small proportion
consulted which come under the head of
novels, while at the Mercantile aboflt half
the circulation is of this class.
The most notable purchases of single
publications in the past year, at the Mer
cantile, were those of Miss Alcott’s “ Little
Women” and “Old Fashioned Girl” of
which 250 copies were bought; and next on
the list comes Miss Evans, there having
been of her last publication “ Vashti,” 200
copies bought. Considerable purchases of
books in foreign languages have been made
during the last year, amounting to 931
volumes. The Astor Library is free to all
who may come, no books, however being
allowed to be taken away, but at the Mer
cantile, a tipket is required, the cost of
which per annnm Is to ordinary readers,
$5, while a reduction of more than half this
sum is made in favor of clerks.
Willoughby.
[For the Constitutionalist.
Meeting of the Democracy of Jefferson
County.
In compliance with a previous not'ce, a
considerable number of the Democracy of
Jefferson county assembled at the Court
House in Louisville, for the purpose of gjv
ing expression to their views, and to ap
point delegates to the convention of the
Democratic party to be held In Atlanta on
the 17th of August. _
. On motion of Gen. R. W. Carswell, Wm.
S. Alexander, Esq., was appointed Chair
man, and James C. King, Esq., Secretary of
the meeting.
The Chairman, in a few earnest remarks,
stated the object of the meeting directly to
be the appointment of delegates to repre
sent the county in the convention of the
Democracy soon to be held In Atlanta;
also to organize the party In Jefferson, and
to prepare to contribute all In onr power to
secure the triumph of the party in the com
ing election and the restoration of good
government to onr State.
On motion of Gen. R. W. Carswell, a
committee of three, consisting of the move
ant, Dr. E. H. M. Hunter and John G.
Jordan, Esq., was appointed by the Chair
man to nominate suitable persons to the
meeting to be chosen as delegates to the
Atlanta Convention.
The committee, after conference and con
sultation, reported through their Chair
man, Dr. E. H. M. Hunter, the names of
Hon. Herschel Y. Johnson, Gen. R. W.
Carswell, WilHam S. Alexander and John
W. Alexander, as suitable persons to repre
sent the county in the Atlanta Convention,
and, on motion of’ CoL J. G. Cain, the re
port of the committee was unanimously
adopted by the meeting.
After a full and free conference among
the citizens assembled on the Interests of
the party in the county, anfl a unanimous
determination on the part of all to do
everything in their power to secure the
-ftlumphant success of the party in the
next election, and the complete overthrow
of the miserable band of political harpies
that have so long preyed on the vitals of
onr mother State, the meeting, on motion
of Dr. E. H. M. Hunter, adjourned sine die,
with the relfnest that their proceedings be
published in the Constitutionalist and
Chronicle and Sentinel, ot Augusta.
James C. King, Secretary.
Louisville, Ga., August TANARUS, 1870.
Republicanism or Monarchy ?—An
enthusiastic German at a public meeting in
New York the other night uttered the fer
vent hope that King William might drive
out Louis Napoleon, that William himself
would be driven ont of Germary by her
people, and that then Germany would be
come a united republic. The orator did
not pray for a similar fate for France, but
leaves her in possession William of Prussia!
When will this republican dream cease to
vex crazy people? It bamboozles the
minds of men in this country, and how
much of republicanism have we? •
If European nations can do cobetter than
America they had better put an embargo
on republicanism. Assuredly, however,
the people of Europe want no snch thing.
They prefer monarchy; and from the devil
ish manifestations of the Republican theo
ries at different periods of modern times,
they may well dread their rale as the most
horrible of all kinds of government yet
devised. —Richmond Ditpateh.
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie. —A dis
patch from London announces the death
of Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie, the well
known American authoress. She was a
daughter of Samuel R. Ogden, of this city,
and was born in Bordeaux, France, where
her parents were temporarily residing. Be
fore she had attained ber fifteenth year she
was married to Mr. James Mowatt, and
after his death became (in 1854) the wife of
Mr. William F. Ritchie, of Richmond, Va.
It was after the failure in business of her
first husband that she first appeared before
the public » a dramatic reader, and subse
quently as an actress. She remained on
the stage from 1845 till her marriage with
Mr. Ritchie, achieving great success in
America and England. Mr. Ritchie, her
second hnsband, was the well known editor
of the Richmond Enquirer. In 1856 she
published her first work, “ Pelayo; or, the
Career of Corodonga, in five cantos,” a
poetical romance, which brought her much
reputation. She subsequently wrote and
published a large number of novels, poems
and dramas, all of which gave evidence of
the great ability possessed by the authoress.
There is, in fact, no name better known in
American literature than hers. For some
years past Mrs. Ritchie had been residing
in England, engaged in literary labors.—
Many of her letters to the newspapers of
this country attracted marked Attention
for their admirable style.—W. T. Herald.
Brunswick and Alabny Railroad
W. W. Hrilbert, Esq., has been Assistant
Superintendent of this road and will have
the immediate superintendence of the em
ployees in charge of the Transportation and
Supervisor’s Department, yard and shops.
The energetic General Superintendent, Col.
E. Halbert, is poshing forward this import
ant work with great vigor, and has now
compfeted more than ninety miles, and has
the telegraph line advancing pari pauu
with the rplls.
Four new and neat passenger cars for ths
road arrived here last week, aud we hope
soon to have dally poaseuger trains ruu
uing.—Druntteiek Appeal.
The will of ths late Edward Psdslford,
of Savauuab, will require $7,500 worth of
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