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6AINBH WEEKLY SUN.
Official of Decatur Cfttmty.
R. M. JOHNSTON, *. - - Editob
0.0. GtJRLEY, - - Associate
BiINB]iWOE ’ 0A '
Satcedat Mokxihg, Jun* 16th, 1872..
FOR GOVERNOR:
m. nuii l iifp.
Os Macon,
Resigned.
We see by tbe dispatches this week that
Secretary Fish has resigned from Grant’s
cabinet.
Stephens and Avery.
The editors of the Atlanta Sun and Con
stitution are having a fierce fight, and we
believe that Avery is getting a little the
best of the skirmish. Little Alex has lost
his temper and goes it blind, while little
Ave keeps cool and lets the hair grow.
German Immigrants.
The report of the German Immigrant
Society shows that, during the past month,
21,890 German immigrants were sanded at
Navi York—an increase of 10,700, as com
pared with the corresponding month of
bust year. Total of arrivals since the Ist
of January last, .48,851.
’ Sun Stroke.
According to a late writer sunstroke is
due to the action of light upon the brain,
exerted through the eye, and not as gener
ally believed, to an elevation of temperature ;
and it is asserted that if the eye be proper
ly. shaded from the glare of the any
extra or uhusual precaution in the way of
protecting the head or back may be dis
pensed with.
Injured at ft Fire.
We learn that at the fire which occurred
•on Monday last in Sayannah, Mr. John G.
Reardon,, the -city editor Os the Republican*
was seiriously if not fatally injured* by a
ladder falling on him. We regret to learn
of this sad aedident, as M?T Reardon is a
d6ver and worthy young man, bosides be
ing quite an ornament to the profession
which he has adopted. We hope that the
young gentleman may soon recover and
again assume his post of duty.*
Sensible Talk.
Tho following resolution, passed by the
Warren County Democratic Convention, is
the most sensible conclusion that any .of
the different primary meetings throughout
Jjha SHnta ii'ni arvOcipate
the course of the party in Convention at Balti
'niore. What may seem the best poncy now may
not be the best one month hence—lienee we would
discourage all committals in advance, transferring
f ° ° u r .delegates in Convention the duty and re
sponsibility of so shaping ifs .action as to advance
the interest Os the party, and promote the success
-of Bound constitutional principles.
Row with Spain.
There are indications that Grant intends
lo kick up a row with Spain about the im
prisonment of. Dr: Houard, who, after a
residence of thirty years in Cuba, was ar
rested ai an ally of the insurgents and sen
tenced to transportation. Secretary’Fish
has tried his best and been unable to make
out a case of citizenship, and, in point of
fact, no .doubt Houard considered himself
a permanent resideht of Cuba, without the
blightrst intention of returning to the Uni
ted States.
Perhaps Grant thinks he can see some
help to his re-election by kicking up a row,
but we don’t think it would benefit him in
the least.
FOR GOVERNOR.
It will be observed that we have hoisted
at our masthead the name of the Hon.
Wilmam A. Huff, of Macon, for Governor.
He is decidedly our choice, and we hope to
see him in the Gubemational chair the
next .term. Mr. Huff, or the “Young Ele
phant,” as he is called in Macon, is a pro
gressive, self-made man, and, would, in our
opinion, carry a larger and mox*e solid vote
than any man within the confines of the
State. He is atoan to whom no one
can offer the feast objection. He is no worn
out politician ;he is no scheming, plotting
chicaner ; ho has a clear and honest record
in the past, and, in fact, will come nearer
answering the desires and demands of the
masses of the people than any man who
could posibly be placed in nomination.
Mr. Huff is honored and respected by
the rich, loved by the poor, whose staunch
friend he is and ever has been, and regard
ed by those who know him els a man emi-.
nently capable of filling the position of our
chief magistrate.
Up goes our hat, with three cheers for
Huff.
Brunswick has ripe watermelons..
Mrs. Susafi Anderson, of Brunswick is
dead. “ - -
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O a a s4# bMI which was recently* received
by the Gardner J3auk was written : “This is
the iasfeokfli.Oa&left me by a fond and de
v Mcd liquor and -other
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Macon nas p.enty oi Sprang
A Savannah club is to take part in the
Macon regetta.
THE CAMPAIGN—OUR POSITION.
There is a too prevalent spirit among
some of the extreme Democratic journals
to forest*!’public sentiment. By noise and
clamor they seek to drive the timorous to
an adoption of their views, instead, as is
thft very evident will of an overwhelming
majority of the party, abiding the course of
events and waiting the settling of the per
turbed political waters. The condition in
which we find ourselves is anamolous and
peculiar. History does not furnish its par
allel The singular spectacle is exhibited
of a great and dominant party to whom
belongs all the power, wealth and patron
age "of government, so corrupted by the
very possession of that power and wealth,
and so utterly demoralized by the very of
ficials of that government, chosen by that
very party, that its. very “ corruption rose
to Heaven and stunk in the nostrils of de
cent men.” In this situation—the govern
ment corrupt; its head guilty of nepotism
and publicly known as a shameless gift
tlker; the spirit of peculation the
cabinet itself, under his very nose, and he
himself more than suspected to be a.sharer
in their ill-gotten gains; Congress prosti
tuted to a mere stock jobbing corporation ;
while to cloak its villainies it kept up an
incessant warfare by legislative enactments,
upon a people who had furled the banner
and grounded the arms under and by which
they had fought for the'constitutional gov
ernment of their fathers, and.the right of
local-self government. The very Judicia
ry manipulated, emasculated of its integri
ty and purity, until it too became, not a
power to hold legislation in check, by in
terposing the Constitution for the protection
of the weak against the encroachments of
the strong, but a mere tribunal for record
ing and giving dignity to the usurpatory acts,
of an ambitious, unscrupulous Congress,
whose aim, jointly with the chief executive,
seems, to any candid observer, to be to sub
vert the Constitution itself and in lieu there
of to erect a despotism, foreign ajjke to
our Constitution, to our social polity and
our national instincts. The revenue, ceas
ing to* be used for the just needs of govern
ment, had become at once an onerous tax
upon industry and a power by which au
thority could reward its tools and retainers,
and warp them to its purposes.
Amid all this corruption the Democratic
party alone stood true to the Constitution.
Nor was it idle.* It continued to deal blows
upon this corruption so panoplied by power
and wealth and patronage.
The result was developed in Cincinnati.
There a large portion of ‘this party —either
disgusted by its corruption as an organiza-
I a , J 1 ■■■■■ ■ ■■. pfTr* ■"■fty-m-iv
party for itself, and which the Democracy
had exposed and they well knew would con
tinue to expose—met in convention and
purged themßelvea of this record. And
not content with repudiating the actions
and policy of tlieir own, the Republican
party, presented the strange attitude of
adopting and giving im their adhesion to
some of the principles of their antagonists,
the Democratic party. We confess that,
though this actioq falls short of our desires,
yet it is a beautiful and refreshing specta
cle —one which, more than any event in
seven years; has renewed our confidence in
the idea of popular; governments ; and one
which evinces that there is a substratum es
virtue, and intelligence—and upon these
are based all true and rational principles of
liberty---in the great American heart.
Cincinnati.then, presents a platform of
principles winch show, that “our enemies
themselves being judges,” the mission of
Democracy has not been vain ; that its devo
tion to principle in the dark days which
followed the inauguration of Lincoln when
the Constitution was ignored; when, to use
the cant phrase of the day, legislation “out
side of the Constitution,” was not only legit
imate but a duty, is about to receive its
illustration and reward. And to-day we
see a large and respectable portion of the
late Republican party avowing Democratic
principles, and thus acknowledging tlieir
error In the past and paying the highest
compliment, possible to them, to the truth
and statesmanship, the purity and integri
ty of their late antagonists.
To this movement then there are two draw
backs ; that being converted to the true
faith they should have united themselves
to the existing party organization which
had been true to duty and right, instead of
diffusing and distracting the forces in op
position to the centralizing despotism at
Washington by h separate organization ;
and second, by placing in nomination a
man, upon whom are the dust and scars
as well as the .errors/and sins and short
comings of a half century of embittered
political warfare.
Moreover in the personal character of Mr.
Greeley there is nothing that commends
him to the support ofrthe South, as a section
‘or of ihe Democratic party as an organiza
tion. To both he has- been the foe. His
only advantage in this regard, being that
Mr. Greeley was honest in his hatred of
both -while Grant-hated heither, Until bribed
by the glittering bauble of the Presidency.
The one was magnanimous enough pot to
insult, but rather, aid'-a vanquished enemy ;
jfhfle the other, to convince his masters of
the sincerity of his conversion became so
[implacable and virulent ter his defeated en-
U-.Tc.es,' a& not oqjhuto eoi>neel r and -lend the
weight of pis office to oppressive and vin
dictive legislation ; but even as a civil offi
cer to nullify his own parole and give the
lit to his own sets and reports as a milita
ry chieftain. A belief in the sincerity of }
Greeley is possible—while it is impossible
to trust the honor of a hireling Hessian
whose likes and dislikes, are, just as his
official appointments, the subject of barter
and sale. . _
The position is peculiar as we have said.
The interest that gathers around the action
of the Baltimore Convention is daily in
creasing and intensifying. One circum
stance that the most careless observer of
passing events must have noticed, is that
rathe folds of the Democntoc party itself
(we speak of its Southern wing) there
| seems to be a difference of opinion as to
the policy of non-action by that Conven
tion. The most violent opponents of that
policy are from among the people them
selves—The leaders, war-worn and honored
in the past, the exemplars of the purer days
of the Republic—against whom even envy
has never breathed a doubt or suspicion of
their devotion and integrity to principle —
those to whom we have looked with vener
ation as our guides and counsellors, seem
to appreciate the vastness of the issues that
hang upon the action of that Convention.
They, with us, realize, that, as it acts wise
ly and dispassionately on the one hand, or
with blind and reckless bate of Radicalism
alone ofi the other, so will rise or<ank the
last liopo of constitutional liberty in this
country. They pause to reflect whether
our action as a party has been wise in the
past. Whether it is the part of true states
manship to growl over the picked bone of
dead issues, while there may be an oppor
tunity, by temporarily, throwing these be
hind them, to save some what of the energiz
ing, health-giving flesh .upon which, popu
lar liberty and constitutional freedom may
regain their wonted strength and vigoi.. -
Remembering that true statesmanship in
alleges and under every form of govern
ment consists in .wisely steering between
the Scylla of long established rights and
cu toms on the one hand, and the Charybdis
of a wild, ill-digested and scarcely well
conceived popular demand for reform on
the other, they now await developments.
Well .may they pause and ponder long and
deeply. Upon the result of its action de
pends, not the harmony— not only the well
being, but the very life of the party, and
with this will expire the. last hope of the
Constitution of our fathers.
Such is the situation as we conceive it.
Shall we then, with our limited political
horizon, illuminated as yet so dimly, dictate
tke.action-of that party ? _As this shifting
panorama passes in review, shall we pre
sume to designate whether the hopes of the
country arc centred in Greeley or in the
nominee of the Baltimore Convention? We
do not. We are not of that class of
« Fools who boldly venture,, where angels feat to
•We therefore advise our readers to await
the action of the Convention ak Baltimore ;
not to allow feeling or personal antipathies
to warp their judgment. All we can do is
to keep our predictions and judgment in
abeyance until Baltimore acts, and then,
relying ifpon the wisdom of that action,
with one .united effoi*t, make the best stand
and boldest fight in our powerfor the sal
i&f'W. A 1 ?
R. W. Davis, Esq., in a card to the
Democrat, answering a communication in
the same paper, of a recent date' over the
signature of “Democracy,” and of which we
spoke last week, gives-utterance to the fol
lowing. -
“First, then. I may say that my momentary con
nection with the Sun has t>een already fully and
truthfully explained by yourself. * It would be a
useless consumption of your valuable space to say
more.”—
It will be remembered that We, too, gave
an explanation of that “momentary connec
tion,” and we were informed by Mr* Davis
that every letter of our article was correct.
It is a matter of strange surprise- to us,.
therefore, that he failed to notice, .that we,
as well as Mr. Russell, gave an explanation
of the matter, and we are at a loss to know
why he gives such ready credence to Mr.
Russell’s statement and did’ not substan
tiate ours—when he knew it to be the plain
truth—unless it was, as we now* suppose,
intended as a reflection upon -us. Knowing
Mr. Davis as we do, however, and having im
plicit confidence in .his sense of justice, we
shall make no issue with him until we re
ceive 'a further explanation of the matter,
which we trust he will not fail to render.
IT IS NOT FAIR.
Those who insist upon a Democratic nomination
at Baltimore bold out the idea that any other
course would be an abandonment of principle and
a destruction of the party. Neither of these
things will follow. Did the Democratic members
of the Georgia legislature who voted for Joshua
I Jill as U. 8. Senator abandon their principles, or
did tf.eir support of him lead to-disbanding the
party? The.thing is simply absurd There a:e
verv few men either old Whigs or Democrats—
who have not, at some time or other, voted for a
man of the opposite party where two men were
running, because they considered him the leaat of
two evils; and yet, not one of these men believes
he abandoned his principles or that such a course
tended.to disband the party. Neither will any
sensible man now believe, that voting for Greeley,
provided there be no Democrat in the field, will be
an abandonment of principle or disband the party.
There is no argument in such clap-trap. —Athens
Watchman. '
J’hat’s the way we have got it down. It
is altogether a mistaken idea that to rote
for Greely—in the absence of a Democratic
nominee—is a virtual surrender of principle
and will be tantamount to the disbanding
of the great Democratic party. If any one
should be given the credit of trying to dis
band and surrender the party, it should be
these ultra men who are endeavoring in the
face of imposibilities, to secure a Demo
cratic election when these endeavors will
end in nothing short of the re-election of
Grant; and re-election will scatter the
party to the four winds.
Hon. T. M. Norwood, tJ. S. Senate, wjll
please accept thanks for documents sent us.
Savannah has had another fire.
The editor of the Albany Central City
claims that he resembles Greely. '
Taldosta is having Dolly Yarden pic nice.
edTt O BOjjgrjfcT E s.
i >; In and, out of the State.
The Grand Juries over the '
State' are reporting against the county
court bill • ■ '*■'*
Rat-shooting is peculiar to Lumpkin.
E. F. Spann and a Miss Eberhart, who it!
will be remembered were chfrged with the j
murder of Sarah Spann, wife of E. F. Spann,
are sentenced to be hung on the sth July, j
Both branches of Congress have agreed
to adjourn until the 3rdof Jply*
The trains on the Southwestern Rail
road,-' on Sunday last, commenced running
through from Macon.to Clayton, Alabama,
giving Eufaula the go by, The people over
theredon’t like it much, are indignant about
it in fact, at being made a way station.
A correspondent of the Americcus Repub
lican says the success of the Eufaula" and
Hawkinsville Railroad is assured and work
thereon will soon be commenced.
Rough Rice has “cussed out” and quit
Atlanta. >■
The negrp members of and Jacksonville jury
in , a murder case, have sent into the judge
a writen protest that the-keeper of a restau
rant,* where they went to get dinner, refus
ed to allow them to eat at. the same table
with the white jurors. • TJiey declare* it an
“imposition” which they will not submit to.
Yell, vot vill they do-? . • .*
Frank Evans, of the Albany News, says a
sure remedy for the cure of the fever is to
“bounce up at 5 o’clock in the afternoon
while the fever is at its climax—walk
one mile, and chat with the P. Gv in G.
it -is a sure and speedy relief, for we’ve
tried it.”
Crime is decreasing in Dougherty county,
says the News.
Everybody and their friends are going to*
Chalybeate Springs this season.
President Grant has issued a proclama
tion directing District Attorneys to dismiss
and discontinue all proceedings against per
sons charged with offenses under the four,
teenth Amendment, except the excepted
classes in the late Amnesty Bill.
Blakely is indulging in*Croquet.
Damascus is on skates.
Proff. Cummings, whose home is in Bain
bridge, is teaching a vocal class in Blakely.
There has been considerable bank swind
ling in Macon and Savannah recently.
A lady in Campbell county recently gave
birth to three infants. They all died within
an hour.
(reaar7 x ~ t, ‘ i r<m rj iln,.
Hon. George H. Pendleton of Ohio, en-
dorses Greely.
Joseph E. Brown President of the Wes*
tern and Atlantic Railroad, has paid into
the Treasury the monthly rental of twenty
five thousand dollars in cash, due the State
for the month of May. .
The most laconic correspondence on re
cord recently took place between a Minne
sota vigilance committee and a gang of
horse thieves. One letter was “you get,’’
and the answer, “you bet.” M
Cuthbert continues in her happy position
on skates.
The Cuthbert base-ball club got “licked
out” in the recent match game with a Mon
tezuma club. The Cuthbert boys are not
disheartened', however, and have accepted
a challenge from a Macon club.
Cuthbert has been enjoying some runa
ways recently. • ’
GEORGIA NEWS.
A f olumbus cart has given birth to four
pups. Enquirer 4
he wheat prospect in Walker county i
fine. Rome Courier
'he unday afternoo dril sos the Sa
vannah police have been discontinued.
Republican.
Mr* Van Tate of Randolph county, tells
u that there are plenty of blooms on his
cotto . C ops are growing fast and look
ing healthy —Cuthbert Appeal.
R ff 1 owing i.lub qf Macon have receiv
ed their new. paper shell. It is 41 feet long,
18 inches beam and weighs about 130
pounds —Telegraph and Messenger.
A correspond nt of the Franklin News
tells of a baby, the ch Id of a 1 rs. peadlin,
of eard county, who, when nine days
old dis inctly said “new mobn’ three
times.
Hill a workman on Mitchell’s mill fell a
distanee of fourteen feet, yesterday and
hurt bimse 1 senouisly No bones broken,
bu everything terribly battered. -Rome
Commercial.
There are about four hundred workmen
engaged on the can ah Woik on the Port
Royal Railroad is i rogres ing- Musqui
toes are beginning to ma e heir appear .
ance in Augusta -Cm itit uti on alist.
On Sunday morning 1 st a man named
Owen Hee le was found dead on the road
leading toward Colqu • bounty, about four
miles from < amillia. It was supposed he
and ed fro «• overheat and drinking too much
W iskey.- Camilla Herald.
Lawtonville lodge of Good Templars was
o ganized at Waynesboro Jane 2d nstant.
On Monday night last, during a severe
storm, in the vicinity of Huckhead Burke
county, a fiye horse the property of Mr
Alexander W a k lied by light
ning, dr Murphy had just dismounted*
him to seek shelter from the storm* ihe
crops in this county are in splendid ondi
tion _ ihe prospect then is good for a full
yield-—of cottoc. as a afte of course'
The little corn cr p also pronris s very
well. But that is only a secondary con-*
■' ideration The revival meetings at the
Methodist church are increasing in inter
est.— Waynesboro Expositor.
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v r harlea. S. •
ugust* at $2 50 apiece
boffttt empt was made cq
rob Mr. W H. Bohler, of the fivmeof Bob-
and Sc field, while on his* way home
in the country from the city Two men
fcttac ed him Hg was struck on the aide
of th head-by one of them with a slung
shot Ms B atten pted to draw his pia
tol when the ther man struc him ano
ther blow on-the ea . he horse of Air.
h became alarmed and dashed off at full
seed Mr B re'ached a house near by
where he spent th* night he. injuries
received a e of a serious character. -
•Chronicle atid Sentinel
In General*
The Radicals took out an' nsurance at
P iladelphia on Loga ’s rantism from
fear he might ha ge before he got back
to ' ashington Boston Post.
The House Os the negr po itican, Fred.
Douglas, at Rochester, was rece tly fired
by an incendiary ad destroyed, and with
it ougiesalost all hjs furniture and ut
house , and eleven thousand c llarsinl nit
ed ta e bon s h s private assets, which
were ept in* the hou e
The Effect of TobaC o —The Lynch
I'urg Virginian says that a very per ep ible
advano in the price of toba co has ta eii
place since the setthjm nt of the t&x. ques
tion he buyers manife t grea er anxiety
to get hold of the weed, and are wiling to
pay moie for it.
A Virginia paper draw ■* this flatterin g
portrait eff A. H Stephens; ‘He is
osopher wi hout eyes'; _ a de a e without
ears; a soldier without arms;- a statesman
without a pSlicy; an >i or withou paper;
and . c ptain without a com any. He ha*
be n a moral and a "politicjfcl coward in
war. and a vergal bully in time of peace.”—
Exchange .
nd now he has foupd a “big silly’* for
his biographer.- Mobile' Register t
Th* Duke of Devonshire allowed his son the
Marquis of Huntington, while-he was still under
age. $450,000 a year as college pocket money.
The Hartford Times crii s out lustily for a
“change,” and an end of horse statesmanship and
bullpuppery.
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