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Th» Tru j Mlulon of tho Oaln»TlU» ttouthroa, »• fcprooo^ by a LstMr rrotb n» Mulatto Cor- rvopondom la A than*. Iu our i»\Mt controversies with the Gainesvliie Southron we have always spoken or ami looked upon its editor as a political fanatic from the north, who having sold himself and influ ence »o tlie southern branch ol the radioal party, was endeavoring to earn his bread, and at the same time gratify his wish to degrade the people among whom he lived—by selling their political )towers to our old ene mies at the north—and accomplish tills, too, by working under the eioak of democracy. But it was not until yesterday did we discover that this Yankee adventurer had stooped so low. and sought such vile means to further his ends, as to gather around him a corps of radical negro corres pondents, who delight to abuse and villify the white men of Georgia. But s'leli is tlie case. By reference to a communication in another column of the 1! a x \ Kit-Watvii man, from agen- lleman who lias made it his business lo trace up and investigate these anonymous contributions in the Gainesville Southron, it will tie seen that Lawsiik’s Athens corres|iondent is a mulatto negro from Augusta nam ed K. T. Fleming, a notorious radical. 1 lie day the Southron readied our city this fellow, armed with a batch of pa per- sent him by his friend and co-ed- iior of this so-called independent dem ocratic organ, ipiit work and spent liis entire time circulating the vile sheet among tlie negroes, and wherever he could collect a crowd of idle blacks would proudly rend to them his incen diary etlunion. Surely tlie blush of shame mantles our cheek when we consider that we have condescended to enter into a controversy with such a political leper; ami but for the fact that our tove of party and country re quires this sacrifice, we would have Mr. I.AWMik anil Ills mottle/ hoardc of radical correspondents to the silent contempt they deserve. But there are now in the titli congressional district of Georgia many misguided democrats, ■vho through personal friendship to Mr. Speer, or charmed by his plausi ble eloquence, have I icon beguiled into voting forth** success of republican ism in Georgia, under the sugar-coat ed guise of “independentdemocracy.” It is our duty to these gentlemen— who we know to lie as bitter enemies to radieai rule and negro supremacy as the editor of the Bannkr-Watcii- .m ax or any other organized democrat —that wo tear the gauze of liypocracy from the face of tills party and show its mission up in tlie true light. Here is the lirst paragraph from Fleming’s letter: * * *. ()ne important question for us I., decide is, whet political party is there in Georgia with whom we ean ally ourselves that will best serve our interest. Or, what party will behold and fearles*) enough to administer tlie allairs, Isiili state ar.d national, with out showing that everlasting hatred for near one hulf its population by de barring them from elective privileges guaranteed by law? *** Here no pomp of eager array in chambers of royalty awaits the liirtli of a boy or girl to wield an hereditary sceptre whenever death or revolution pours *ui the oil of coronation. We know no scent re and should know none, save a majorities constitutional will To wield that sceptre iu equal share is the duty andright.nay the birthright, of every American, white or black. Till* is certainly a bold declaration, and one that we have never seen pro duced in aught but a black radical sheet. It is a bid lor tlie negro vote— upon which tlie radical-independent NO. LI. ATHENS, GEORGIA, T; lAlY, WSSSt 4* ISHa. whelming odds, yet no one cun lie elected to a ay position, from a countable up, tinlet* ... , able up, Unlit* , lie can abuse tUc negro mart tkmvmi* fppfr- In compliance with your Intolerance of free action and equal n S . Political, or eveu business uiluirs by the organized democracy, is too patent and flagrant to be denied °r *J. ou ’ , *ed. One glance at Georgia elections proves ostracism, tyranny a, !f* wro ug in monstrous proportions. Ihe votes of Georgia were registered before the election in 1S76. The white say that the Presiding Officer was the votes numliered 95,303, and the ne groes numbered 93,458. In 1870 the whole republican vote couuted was only 5,257. Pretenses have been nuide that the negroes of Georgia do not care to vote, and often vote the democratic ticket. But the savage laws of Geor gia, under tlie Action of vagrancy and prison mniiageuicnt, uni! their sicken ing, beastly administration, will not allow any negro to vote the organized democratic ticket unless it be through fear and coin pulsion. In many sections of the state the organized democracy gains and keeps control, not by numbers, not by hon esty. not by law, but by stifling free discussion und action ot the govern ment *>■ every part of the slate. They are guilty and monstrous, and every effort to put the control of the state in the hands of a more liberal party, should be made by the negro. Democrats and white men of Geor gia—whether you call yourself organ ized or independent—ean you, do you endorse tlie above? Are you ready, through personal regard for an aide orator, who charms you as a ser pent hut to destroy, to now turn your section over to all tlie iniquities of radicalism, and battle under such banners as that Haunted in your face by tlie negro and circulated by P. K. Lawshk? We believe not. We can not think that tlie white mcti and democrats of the 9th ongrcsaional district have so far lost their self-re spect, and are so bowed down to liian- w orslilp, as to vote for a party whose mission it is to elevate an ignorant and depraved race over tlie heads of iutelligcm-e, and stoop to accomplish that end by the organ of the party sounding in your curs advice from an imported radical negro politician. Great God! How tlie mighty have fallen! It was only a few years since that Emory Speer was the admir ed and honored leader of tlie democ racy of his country, und liis greut or atorical powers were exercised in pro moting tlie success of that cause. Our jieople looked upon this young man as their deliverer, and stood ready at tlie proper season to place upon his brow their brightest crown. But in an evil hour Mr. Spekr gave ear to the en chantress ambition, und—fell. Doubt less, when lie first marshalled tlie in- dependent host in our district he was so blinded by the thought of self-pro motion that lie took not time to con sider the degrading results of the step. We will cast tlie mantle of charity over the first wrong stepof this young man. Hut since that time his downfall has been rapid und terrible in results, until to-day we see the adored lead er of the young democracy in 1870 grovelling at the feet of a repuhlii an administration, that he may force white democrats from office und muke The Georgia Baptist Convention. Mr. Editor, I furnish the following account of .the recent session of the above body, sis reading that may be of interest to numbers of your readers.’ The attendance was not aa large as usual, but the spirit of harmony was manifest. It is scarcely necessary to places for negroes, upon whom he can party kim.v tli.y must rely for support | now only rely for support. Hilda ' prophet In 1870 foretold this hot-blood- fxt fall. .'»**x( comes tin* old charges by iiie Sonihrii.i against tin* Banner-Watch man, rehashed in a nut shell; and it shows the public conclusively that P. F. I .aw.siik inculcated his view of the late murder of young Rountree, and shaped Ills editorials ou that outrage from information lie received by con fabulating with negroes during his late visit to Athens, (’an any south- ern-born white iiian read the follow ing und Uien vote a ticket endorsed by the Gainesville Southron f A man need not lie intelligent to understand tlie blinded prejudice of one faction of these parties, nor learn ed to see it its desire to annihilate the negro* Read tho editorials of the dai ly and weekly Banner-Watchman, published at Athens; the Atlanta Con stitution, the Macon Telegraph and every organ Ofthe organized democ racy; then look at the blood shed in <>glcthor|M-, Wilkes, McDuffie, and throughout tlie state in the past. Here is another specimen of “inde pendent democracy” by tlie same dusky writer. It shows that the ne gro intends solidly to unite with the independent party; that by so doing he may Africanize our set-1ion and turn it over to the radical party: Every democrat who sees the state flooded with immigration, capital flowing in tlie state to work the vast fields of minerals, and to cultivate our barren farms, and to set up manufac tories from which every citizen will be profited; every negro who desires work, increased wages and free schools kept open, should lay down all the past and unfurl the banner 'of inde|ieiiilentisin,and march in a solid idiiilunx to the polls next fall and hnry that party who kept back tlie progress ol the state by bloody wars on the ig norant race and ostracism on tlie oth er race, so deep that it will never be resurrected. If you wisli any further evidence on this point read tho following para graphs : ed young southron the great change that but little more than a decade would bring forth in his political hear ing the interpreter of liis destiny i would have hail “the lie flattened in Every negro should toad the plat form laid down by the independent party, and should awaken to the im portance of assisting them to take the government from the control of the laourlmu democracy. liis teeth.” Yet such is the downfall of one of the most gifted and eloquent sons tlie University of Georgia has ever produced. To-day we see Con gressman Speer arrayed on the side of tlie race und party lie once so ubly loaned his name and eloquence to de feat, striving for the elevation of Afri cans to important offices over the whites, upon which former raee he must hereafter solely rely for future support; and we see him upheld and ids cause espoused by an imported editor from the north, who is aided in liis ignoble task by a corpse of radical negro correspondents. 1 TOO THIN." * * * I believe it is the liest in terest of all law abiding citizens, white nnd black, that the great inde pendent party should succeed next fall. * * Enemies because they have driven oft emigration by their bended prejudice; enemies because they have shut tlie. doors of the state against northern and foreign capital by their ostracism of men who would think for themselves politically. Tlie Southron's Athens editor winds up ids letter with the following infa mous tirade against democracy, In w hich lie confesses that his race are republicans at heart, and unite with the so-called independent movement because its mission is identical with radicalism: It has been the united effort of these editors to place the responsibility of tlie killing of Rountree on the ne- S ro politicians and independents. ut the chief cause was editorials pub lished in the Banner-Watchman abu sive to negroes. These editorials made the young whites believe that negroes Purpose.if being kicked and killed, regardless of law. The negroes, seeing this and having none of the fears of slavery on them Im d » k 2S. wln 5 t !* e condition that the ? h «l e Iif d,tor ™ the Banner-Watchman !t^JS.°i- negro< *** , t. nd whites in Ogle- them having at one Ome resided there,) and being educa- todup to the standard of fr£s hood would take no Insult, and as the paper prepared the minds 0 “ the whites to offer insults. It also caused insults^ 0 to prepare himself to meet Awjssagsssvsst The Cartersville Free Press says: “It “ is a work of patriotism to rid thiscoun- “ try of Bourbonisin and Radicalism. It “ is a work in which every true friend of “ Georgia should take a deep and active “interest. It is to tlie advantage of “every interest connected with thepros- “ perity of the country and the Welfare “ of the people that Georgia should lie “ rid of such incubuses upon her material “ growth and advancement. This ncces- “ sity for reform has brought into exis- “ tence a great independent movement “ that should sweep tlie State from the “ seaboard to the mountains.” Tlie people of Georgia, with Malione before them, are not to be deceived by this glittering generality. Tlie indepen dent movement, as is now well known, under a pretext of destroying “Bour- lKinism,” is simply the left wing of tlie Republican party, which means, not the annihilation, but perpetuation of Radi calism. Tlie people of Georgia compre- liend well enough that tlie only thing that stands between them and tlie recon struction programme, of old days, is the Democratic party. There will be a sweep from the seaboard to tlie mountains. The Democracy will hold the broom, and the Independent will be swept summar ily. “ Reform,” in such a connection as Mahoneism, here or in Virginia, is sim ply a mocking, catch-penny phrase, which has as much significance as “liberty and equality" during the French Revolution. Tlie people of Geor gia will never be reformed backward. Augusta Chronicle. distinguished Chancellor of our Uni versity, for to him belongs this posi tion, by right of his unsurpassed qual ifications, and by the additional right of the desire of his brethren who so clearly and gladly recognize these qualifications. Besides the usual mat ters which eugage the atteptiou of this body, two of extraordinary inter est were presented: First an invita tion from the Home Mission Society of the Northern states, to participate by representation in their semi-cen tennial to be celebrated the latter part of May this year in the. city of New York. Tlie special committee to whom the communication conveying the in vitation was referred, reported against accepting it, but the report was amended by the body after a protract ed discussion so as to accept. The principal reasons urged by the com mittee and supporters of the report were,first, t\)e informal and nntechni- cat manner in which tlie invitation was given, it not having been ad dressed to the Georgia convention through tlie Southern convention of which the Georgia is a constituent; and second, the apprehension felt that this is a move to bring Southern Baptists into organic connection with northern societies, to tlie destruction of the organizations through which our missonary and other benevolent denominational work is curried on. The replies to the reasons were of va rious character and form and coloriug, the general import of all being that the spirit of fraternity should be culti vated and that organic union of south ern and northern Baptist general or ganizations is not to be uppreheuded, as it is not desired certainly, by the southern, and almost certainly be the northern bodies. The second matter of extraordinary interest was a question sprung too late in the session for discussion in refer ence to Bible work by tlie Baptists. This question has grown out of tlie re cent action of the American Bible so ciety, declining to carry out an argree- nient understood to have been made by it in 1879 to aid in the publication and circulation of cer tain translations of Baptist mission aries of the scriptures into the lan guages of the people among whom those missionaries have been labor ing, conspicuously that of Judson, in to the Burmese, and Mason, into the Karen dialect of India. The Ameri- ban Baptist Missionary Union recent ly asked a donation from the Ameri can Bible Society of $2,000 to print and circulate Dr. Judson’s Burmese translation, and that society declined tlie application on tlie ground that tlie translation “was deficient in the qual ity of catholicity as used iu the By Laws of tlie American Bible Society.” This declinature led to tlie Baptists adopting preliminary steps looking to tlie performance of their own Bible work, and thus the question came be fore our convention. Resolutions were adopted advising Baptists to with draw co-operation from tlie American Bible Society, and expressing sympa thy with the movment toward doing their own Bible work. Upon this question there was difterence of opin ion, not as touching withdrawal of co operation from American Bible Socie ty, but as touching the second resolu* tion expressing sympathy, tlie appre hension being felt that sucli a resolu tion might interfere witli the freedom of our future action. Proof of the gener al spirit of harmony in the convention already spoken of is fouud in tlie fact, that this was the only question during the entire session, lasting from Thurs day until one o’clock p. m. Monday, on which it was necessary to call for a division of the house. The entertainment of the body was in the usual style of generous hospi tality for which all portions of our beautiful and affluent southland—af fluent in natural resources and all so cial, intellectual, and christion quali ties which make it desirable—is noted. Many signs of matcriul progress were apparent in the city itself, to which the already extended length of this communication forbids that I should more particularly allude. C. D. Campbell. GEORGIA RAH-ROAD. Report of the President nnd Directors to the Augusta, Ga., April 12,1882. The Hscal year was commenced with: Cwh on hand . » 708,180 OS Kceeipta during the year (per alato- ment No. A) Net earnings ot the Bank 51.TC4 52 CONGRESSMAN SPEER—PAST AND - PRESENT. V -cA# Stats Executive Committee Call. Atlanta, Ga., April 25, 1882.—A meeting ot the state democratic exec utive commitee is hereby called to as semble, at .the breakfast room of the Kimball house, in Atlanta, on the 18th day of May, next, at 2 o’clock, p. m. A full meeting is desired, as bus- iness ol importance will be before the committee. The following named gentlemen are members of the com mittee, for the state at large: J. E. Shumate, R. J. Moses, L. Mynattand Win. Phillips. Jones, Burke irubb, McIntosh a-'"; F- •Richard Hobbs, A. Harris, ^AiCoMijSoim George P. Wood, Pulaski ter oounty. Fourth District—4, D. Abrahams, ’Troupe ttognty; J. D. Willis, Talbot ooupty. . Fifth District—W. T. Newman,Ful ton county; J. H. Mitchell, Pikecoun nksalMS hH ■ »si ‘tn-ei m«i ».* r .IftiH'jll $r»l Nell till*- 4 if |.» *HV ■ •ffrthJifatot JteujvU Wimberly, JwigfcilSiWftty; JfcWl*/ Hardeman, *1.368,847 10 Expenditures (ss per statement No - 6 > ..*1,090,28145 Balance commencement of newTYT^TR The directors,believing that the earn ings of the oompany warrant it, pro- nBt t eonntv seventy-five cents per share, instead of two dollars and fifty cents, aa here tofore. vj. The Geogia Railroad and RanHi. g Company has paid In dividends since the war the Immense sum of *4,626,' 576. ‘ Over three grains of arsenic were found in Jennie Cramer’s stomach. ■Arthur H. Gray, Catoosa County; N. 3. Tumlln, Polk 3V \f vi- - Eighth District—Wilberforce Dan d county; F. H. Dolly, mam DUlrieU-C. J; WeUtoonw, Union county; T.' M. Peeples, Gwin- Wlth its dying throes the Watkins- ville Advance—the only independent pa per in the district outside of the Gaines ville Southron—reproduces an old oom- pliment that we paid Mr. Snocr in the Echo, anil during tlie race of thatgeo- tleraan against Hr. Bell. Had the edi tor of the Advance referred to the files of the Watchman, only a few months Since, he would have seen where we onrtelf re ferred to not only the article he copied^ but also to a personal letter we had writ ten Mr. Si-ecb In reply to one of thanks from that gentleman, in which we reit erated our editorial comments; and moreover, we here boldly aaArt that had we been in the district at the last election we would certainly have cast no impedi ment in the way of that gentleman’s election. Up to the time of his contest with ME Bell but little could he said against the official record of our con gressman. He seemed to be earnestly striving to do his duty by his constitu ency, while at the same, tiiqe he gener ally worked with and for the democracy tlie party of the south. But no sooner Bad Mr. Speer been firmly pliinted m his seat by a majority of 4,000 votes than the cloven foot enpeared. First we hear of his hob-nobbing with the late Presi dent Garfield, and minors were rife that he aspired to a foreign mission. But Guitkau’s bullet having destroyed his chances there, and the bitterest parti san in the republican ranks being eleva ted to power, our congressman seems determined on retaining his popularity with the chief of the dominant party, even at a sacrifice of liis principles. So the first decided step we see toward rad- iealism iu Mr. Speer is his refusal to en ter into a democratic caucus, although for months prior to that time hisvaseilat ing course, that leaued strongly toward our enemies, caused mauy of liis warm est friends to lose faith in their candi date. From this first step his downfall was rapid until we to-day see our dis trict Hooded with negro office-holders, w hite men thrown aside to make room for this raee, and u state of affairs even more degrading and demoralizing than the ejioch which marked tlie reign of R. B. Bullock and his crew. In Athens wc have a colored postmaster and a col ored clerk in that office; on the North- Eastern railroad we have a a colored mail agent; another colored man was ap pointed census enumerator in Clarke; one was a mail agent ontlie < ieurgia road; and only a few days since was another Ethiopian curried from Athens and plac ed in charge of the Atlanta custom-house —and the place given him, too, to bribe liis silence with liis race during tlie next campaign. Thus we see the highest and most lucrative offices iu our district turned over to tlie African, while the poor whites must take back seats—for it seems tliut out of the large white vote polled for Mr. Speer at tlie last contest he could not find a single Caucus-dan compe tent (iu his opinion) to hold an office. And dare any of Mr. Speer’s friends deny that lie of his own free will and accord, broughtaboot this degrading state of affairs ? Cast your eye.over every congressional district iu Georgia, aye, in the south, and you do not see a similar prostitution of high offices? It is only in the jioor, independent-ridden ninth tnat ijcursed am) flooded with African officials. And can Mr. Speer look his honest white constituency iu the face and say “This uot in v work!” We defy him to do to! And while on this subject we would respectfully request Mr. Emo ry Speer to stand up and answer the following interrogatories under oatli: 1. “Did you endorse a white man or a negro for the Athens post-office?” 2 “Please name the man you used your influence to have appointed.” 3. “If you did uot recommend Post master Davis, did you make auy effort whatever to prevent his appointment or confirmation V’* 4. “Did you at any time, during you present term, urge the propriety of ap pointing a white mau postmaster at Ath ens?” 5. ’‘Were you not endorsing tlie ap- paiutment of a negro all the time?” Please reply to these questions through the columns of the Banner-Watchman, or any other paper that you may select. White men ol the ninth congressional district: The time has come when we must tight the old battle of reconstruc tion over once more. We are more to day uuder the negro and radical rule thau in 1865. Then we were oppressed and insulted, but even our foreign con- quesors spared us tlie mortification of negro office-holders. No ; it was reservr eil for a so-called independent democrat ic congressman in the year of our Lord 1882 to fix this crowning infamy upon liis people—or at least it was done un der his administration, and we cannot hear of a single instance wherein he raised his hand to avert the degradation. The only hope now for the ninth d.strict is to again draw the color line, and let Mr. Emory Speer either coraeover to the white side, and pledge his allegiance to and trust promotion in the democrat ic party, or he must rely solely upon liis black friends for further preferment. Tlie party lines are drawn for the fall campaigu. There is no longer a neutral ground. A candidate must cither gang with negroes and rank as a radical; or lie must avow himself a democrat and rest liis claims solely in the hands of tlie intelligence and worth of the land. Tba independent fence has been torn awap. Too many blacks used it for a stepping- stone to office over tlie heads of white men. There are to-day but two parties in Georgia—the dtmoeratic, striving for white supremacy; and the republican, whose mission is to wrest old Georgia from the grasp of her free-born citizens and turn it over to radical and negro rule. We can exect no farther aid from the negro vote. When the democracy attempts to use them it must stoop to their level and lose its self-respect. This we cannot afford to do. So let the blacks centre on their candidate and call him independent, republican or any o.her name. It is not the ticket that any true bom southron can -support—the only path being left for us is that which leads to the organized democratic fold. We have no personal war to make upon Mr Speke, but we shall continue as long as our hand can wield a pen to expose the infamy of his so-called i ndependent dem ocratic party, the claims of which are now being heralded to our people by a Minnesota Yankee at Gainesville and a mulatto radical negro in Athen .f Now isn’t this a nice pair to dictate*politica to the intelligent white men of Ge rgta? Have we Indeed sunk so low as to have to choose our political advisers from gers deep down in the hearts of th •rule or ruin” party in tile south,; ■in disposition to fight the federal gove ,, W VfiT : YYVTTT f 11 *-' 1 .* 4 ai ! d ”ut its officers, when TUL. . AAV11I, in the discharge "of their plain duly, •** ' tl ;cy«huppeu > to ruu counjerto the willcya; RIBPFS^ ICTEDINTHEDEAD URS OF NIGHT: Qj By Three Hoble-Heuted and Patriotic Gentlemen of Athens. , y • 1 A Happy Su; Ey. that will Greet tho e Ladies’ Memorial Re*t on embalmed and sainted dead. Dear aa the blood ye j?*ve: No impious footstep here Khali tread The herbage of >'our prrave: Nor shall your glory be forgot While fanie her record keeps. Or hone r points the hallowd spot Where valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel’s voiceless stone. In deathless none shall tell. When many a vanished age hath flown. The story how ye fell; Sor wreck, nor change, nor Winter’s blight, Nor Time’s remorseless doom. Shall diin one ray of holy light That gilda your glorious tomb. Weehi •We.will, howevi cle )hat api !wi taken,' was written by a intimate friend to Elder t havo^f reflected upon the inSmoiy-orgod^wo^te of the deceased,) or wounded the feeyngs of his family jor friends: Washington,^a., Api Editor Athens see a piece -Na tion taken ; !W. manVand] ridicule. \ imagine, u want I For the past month or more the La dies’ Memorial Association of Athens have been making what seemed fruitless appeals to our patriotic citizens for the means to place an humble monument over the graves of the Confederate sol-! 118 * le unde rstood it; and if we had should he has at some time had a controversy with the did Elder and gotthe'worst of it. and feels a lit tle sore yet; but ttd|on’t seent. to me a very brave man wtflildasaanlt another whan he knows there is no chance for him to defend himself. ' I am not a Primitive Baptist nor don’t know much about the little church in Athens that the writer speaks so contemptuously about. My impression -was, though that a very wealthy gentleman who lives in Ath ens and was a warm friend of Elder Patman furnished the most of the money towards it; but us poor and dilapidated as it is, I think it shows u want of tlie great Christian virtue, Charity, to ridicule it. It is a great mistake about his hav ing such fear of those mischievous college boys. He was not afraid nor ashamed to express his views to the best and most talented men in the land, anil why should he feai; a set of inexperienced boys? He would have treated their impertinence witli the silent contempt it deserved. And as to tlie foot washing scene, I have wit nessed it myself, anil I thought it very solemn and impressive, and why crit- icies it? Surely the Scriptures author ize it as much as tlie communion ser vice, and if our Savior wasiied his dis ciples’ feet and commanded them to wash one another’s, why not the Hardshelis do the same, when they profess to lie humble followers of tho Savior? And us to the old Elderboast- ing of his Bible knowledge that is an other grand mistake, lie was too huin- biea Christian to boast of anything he knew. It is true he could remember and quote passages of Scripture more readily thau any man I ever knew; lie madeg his Bible his daily study and tried to live according to its teachings dlers buried in Oconee cemetery. They ; eaou 8ti such men this would he a bet An advertisements in a Virginia, Nevada, paper reads 1 “Two dwelling houses—one of ten rooms, marie fin ish, with fine verandah. Both houses built since the big fire, of good new lumber. Also two cooking atovea, some bedsteads, spring mattres chairs, crockery ware and oi tblaiw.; ,Sricc.fec whole. ;*fi0.. Ta£sa for 1882 already paid.” sochacrewT How an man can be so blinded ly thinking to personal white >r- tnan can oe so ounaed to personal pref erence for a selfishly ambitious candidate as to sacrifice his’country and self-re- * - ken. cause „ district —and to-day boldly announce to Mr. Sfeeb that from this hour be must choose between the two rival parties race, nod whose ] ignorance and cri intelligence and worth. placed a contribution box in tlie post- office, but the cdlleotions were so insig nificantly small that these noble ladies felt that their appeals were in vain, and with sadness an I deep pain they recog nized the fact tii.it our people had al lowed the soothing hand of time to blot from their -memories the gallant deeds oftifobhtmajMMMr */*iRs|i9*tipi held the banner of tlie lost cause and now sleep in unmarked anil neglected graves. Only a few days since we had a conversation with Mrs. Lipscomb, tlie indefatigable President ofjthe Ladies’ Memorial Association, and who, togeth er wfth her noble mother, has done as much to keep green in the minds of our southern people the memory of these fallen bravts as any one in Georgia. This lady expressed deep regret at (he wan ing interest of our citizens in this noble cause, and spoke with sadness ot the changes a few years had wrought in their patriotism. But with tlie noble la lies of Athens Mrs. Lipscomb had de termined that if the men proved forget ful of the great sacrifice these slee]>- ing heroes had made for their country, that they would prove to the world that tlu-ir deeds were yet fresh in their minds, and that tlie fair hands of true southern womanhood would beautify and bedeck with the fairest offerings of spring the grass-grown mounds beneath which re pose the bones of the bravest men the world ever knetv. So quietly and with out display these ladies had determined this evening to repair to our cemetery and there spend an hour iu paying their humble but sincere tribute to the mar tyrs of a hopeless cause. But these noble ladies were not alone in their good work, as they will find this morning to their surprise aud joy. With out display, without asking the aid or adviee of auy one, a single magnanimous firm in Athens, comprising Messrs. C. G. Talmadge, W. D. O’Farrell and W. H. Jones, set to work and built and erected a beautiful and imposing shaft over these graves, and so secretly and unostentatiously was the work done that none knew of its extstence, save those employed upon Us construction, until the monument, like Jonah’s goad-vine, sprang into existence in a single night, and this morning, when these noble and patriotic ladiss repair to the cemetery with their simple Floral offerings thr.y will And confronting them a beautiful and imposing monument recording in a few words the sacrifice of these heroes and pointing upward to the Heavens, At the head of this article we give an correct representation of this monume It is of galvanized iron, panted perfect ly white, and at a short distance cannot be detected from a shaft of the finest Italian marble. It was made in the shops of the North-East Georgia stove and tin-ware emporium, save the wreath that Was brought from franoe, and is a beautful work of art. The base of the monument is filled with brick and mor tar, and a pole planted therein reaches to the top of the shaft, which renders it aa firm in its place as a cenotaph of gran ite, and will endure for years. As we stated, no onesave the gen'erous donors knew of the efferlng. The shaft was quietly constructed, and the first rntimation given of its existence wak yesterday morning, when those called to the cemetery were surprised by finding a handsome cenotaph, sixteen feet tall, at the entrance gate and over the graves satn&didDtivtf lows: TO THE HpBLK LADIES OF ATHENS AND TO THE MEMORY OF OUR SLEEPING COMRADES 0» THE CAUSE WE SO WELL LOVED AMD res WHICH THEY DIED, WE LOVINGLY DONATE THIS SIMPLE HOHDHSHT. MAY IT ENaUBE, A8 WILL OUR LOVE TOE .THEM, • eternally and forever. Very respectfully, W. D: O’FAXExuJf W. H. Jones, r.» C. G. Talmadge. ter world than it Is. He was an hon est Christian gentleman and carried his,religion with him every day; didn’t pnt it on with liis Sunday coat. And as to his being a dissenter from the Baptist chureli that is a mistake again. “Tlieon” will find, If he will read the history of tlie Baptist in Geor gia, he belonged to tlie. same church the Revs. Jesse Mercer, Abram Mar shall, and many other good old Bap tists that are gone did, and when tiiey left the old church and founded new institutions, as they were ealled in thosS days. Elder Patman and many others held oh to tin-old Baptist creed audthere the Primitive Baptists stand yet. Elder Patman was by no means the ignoramus Tlieon tries to muke him; lie had as good ab education as most men raised seventy years ago. Forty-five years ago I trudged along by his side to school. Jib as toucher, and T :ls si-1 iiilnr, and there are many now living ih Ogletl xl old man. If we could all I ve aa blameless a life aa he did and peet in that better land we : won’! *re whether we were Hardshelis if iftshells - “ m.! ,ran ; nineteen i spent with the Pr **»*»'. *I h »ve seen a good deal' otAlae world's fashions and follies since then, an< V. u ‘?° kl P8 back at the past I must saythe happiest part of hly life was spent with those plain, unassuming And now,Me. Editor, Jam done. I have no excuse to qfier for troubling you, only wounded feelings, and there are many who #111 Join me, not only fire whole community ib which be Jived. One and all loved ahd 1-joked up to him os a father. . . L. •/". ' M.B. THE CROWNING INSULT. Gwinnett county, and saw Hii, the proprietor, enter und make all arrange ments to carry on that day,; his illegal work. Ho afterwards left the still housq, and was pursued by the officers, who had in their pds8esklon''ttUipItf authority for his arrest. In'endeavoiu ing to make the arrest, he (Hix) was shot and killed. At the death of this old law-breaker, the people of Gwin nett county, it we are to credit the newspaper reports, arose en masse— Christiana, temperance men, good tern- In our last we intimated, that with that Issue we would conclude the dir- uo longer defile our columns, or furth er intrude upon the decency and in telligence of our readers, by noticing again this miserable renegade aud carpet-bagger from Minnesota. But as several of our readers have called our attention to the article, in the Southron of the 4th inst. headed “tlie rule or ruin spirit,” and which is cer tainly the crowning insult yet of fered tlie democracy, as well as tlie good, honest nnd law-abiding people of Georgia by this creature, who, the outlaws of nature and justice he seeks to use, as the necessary . tools of his tnmult and political nefariousness, we trust we will be pardoned for a brief notice of this most iniquitous insult from this infamous defender of outluws. The article referred to is one in re gard to tlie outrageous, brutal, and unprecedented murder of old man Hix of Gwinnett county by a set of cowardly, law-breaking,and doubtless drunken revenue officers. As will be remembered by all who read the ac count of tlie murder of this old man, and the assault made upon his poor idiotic son. It exceeds in brutality, and cold-bloodedness anything to be found in the history of outlawry or banditti. It is, or may be true, that old man Hix had been vio lating the revenue laws, but did that furnish an excuse for the wilful ani) cold-blooded murder of this unarmed and defenseless old man by these stout, able-bodied young men? Sup pose he had -resented arrest, could they not have taken him and bis whole household without shooting him? The law of tfye, land, does not justify such violence towards offenders of the county who rge remember those'blessed days of child hood long past.' I think Theon speaks very unkindly of the country people of Clarke county, as they and the ne groes were tlie only ones who went to the little despised church after the curiosity of tlie refined people of Ath ens was gratified. / I have always thought some of our moat substantial aud refined people lived In’ the country, anil ga to the negro, I thought tiiey belonged to tlie shouting persuasion, and I know the Primitive Baptist don’t suit them much. I know there are many good Christian men and women in Athens, but with all that, to walk the streets and see the tan colored evidences of sin and shame one would feel like saying as the Rev. Jimmy Danelly of past years said, behold the refinement of Athens—aud as to the Elder preach ing I have never heard him in ; many years, but it seems that a man Who un derstood his Bible as well as Theon ad mits hedid, could hav«i.varied his ser mons sometimes; and as to his con version by the old stump, he always looked hack to it as sacred ground and loved to talk about it, for there he re ceived the blessed hope that was his guiding star through life; and with the host of professing Christians now- a-days if they have naplJ stump nor spot to remember aa sacred ground, they are in abad^Ay to reach Heaven; and as a friend told me once, has need to do thi ir first work oVer. And as to his taking off his coat to preach I nev er saw nor heard of his doing it, though I don’t pretend to say he didn’t, for he was so in earnest about his Mas ter’s wprk he didn’t give forms and appeerfinee a thought. Aa he advanced in years lie increased ifiTflesli, and no dpubt he was more comfortable with out his coat^-tblnking.what He taught is of more importance than his ap- uance. He was temperate In all ings. He would; as Theon says, take Kiciail'ilasa; bat he nfede no secret it im many do. It waagjpe ofthe cus- *■**—g ago that h^- kept up tH and never abus- gefietef _ I and t hey ^refrained .from; : any opinion whatever, ^ —— —. o—It or innocence of those charged With the killing, In order, as tiiey said, that tln> accused mighthuvo » impartial. trial. Wpa itoot •fi tho Hix case? The foots, are ye- fresh in the minds ‘of all the! readers of newspapers In Georgia. ’ Deputy ted .States Marshal Bolton, (with deputy collector* ol internal. rev* i t! visited an illicit , distillery in to I plars and all—in f ecute the duly the government, who had been seht to Gwinnett county to break upon unlawful distillery and bring to j ‘ ‘ ' f were sworn out against them and the services of the Solicitor General were brought to bear anil other able lawyers were retained, to prosecute the offend ers. Then the newspapers opened vig- to gratify a little orously, and in order l personal spleen and carry out the ‘red hot” programme, deputy Bolton singled out aud his blood demand ed to avenge the outraged law. The accused avuiled themselves of a right granted them, by tlie laws of tlie Uni ted States, and removed their case from state to the federal courts, aud over tliis another vigorous, long aud deafening howl goes up. A prelimi nary investigation is had; Hix’s wife, daughter and idiotic graudsou swore positively to the guilt of Bolton, while Freelaud swears on the investigation that he did tfie killing in self-defence, and Miller confirmed his testifliony verhutim; both affirmed, positively, that Bolton was unarmed! No w why has all this parade been ‘ y did the l indulged iu, and why did the Georgia bourbon press, 1*d on by the Atlanta Constitution, try to fasten guilt, right or wrong, on an innocent but faithful officer of the government? Docs not each aud every one of the bloody handed crew know frill wffil, that if tnese three man had hftu taken back to Gwinnett county for trial, that a lawless mob, led to the conflict by Abe ...” AVOO U4UM. 4tu w lAtvJ vUIIUlwv Ujf Vile position of the Constitution and other papers, would have tukeh tlie law into their own hands and murdered Bolton, Freeland aud Miller? There is uo doubt on this point. Well, what rea son then, can lie urged for tlie posi tion ofthe bourbon press on this sub ject? Only tlie narrow contracted idea that by making this war on Bol ton, they could thereby stab General Longstreet and throw a wet blanket over tlie independent movement in Georgia. But in this, bourbons will make a sad mistake, as they always do, when given rope enough to hang themselves. Bolton lias been tri umphantly vindicated and set at lib erty, and tb<* “red hots” are left to an occupation th it suits them well—paa’- iug uie ground and howlin*. Lomr- —T-—---— 1.— ing tlie ground and howling. Long- law, except incaseS.of extreme neces- street comes forth as he has always sity. What was the necessity in this case? Was the old main, seeking to escape? From the evidence given in on the.trial of the case, this could have - been the 'ifflj) excuse. Then ooUld-aot these three young, active, and stalwart revenue officers have pursued and captured this old mau without takinghis-llfe; yea without brutally shooting Him ‘down as he stood on liis door steps, while his aged wife earnestly entreated these officers not to shoot her husband as he was unarmed aud did not intend to resist them? Such is a brief statement of the facts in this case, and the revenue department or United States officials, knowing that under a trial before the district court ofthe state, where the case would be tried uuder the law and facts governing such cases, that these offenders and violators of law and jus tice would be made to suffer the criminal law of the laud pro vides, hud the case removed to the United States district court, the result of which was, under a most partial proceeding to again turn these out laws loose upon society. This conduct and this proceeding, such an outrage as it was upon the whole people of Georgia likewise.thqlaw.of our state, called forth the “ri^btewfe: indigna tion” of all good,pCaee-loying ahd law abiding people, aa well as the honest and proper criticism and condemna tion of the press generally. Now be cause the good of society, the safety of life, liberty and property demanded such criticism, and such condemna tion, this Yankee adventure, this ren egade from the wil£ west, this incen diary of society, rises up and charges upon the good and true people of Geor gia; the democratic party of Georgia composed as it la of the honesty and intelligence of onr land, with that spirit of “ rule or ruin” which would induce them to defy uhd “to fight the Federal government, and seek to crush out ite ; offioere.”,. AhLtHl* miserable adventurous reviler of our land and our people stops not witlr his assail- ment of the democracy of Georgia, but with a demoniacal spirit of hate and revenge, even goes so for as to assail “the Christians, the temperance men and Good Templars” of the state, who’ lie says, “arose en masses te prosecute the only accredited officers of the gov- eminent.” This unscrupulous slun- done, when traduced, with Hying col ors. The bourbons have simply made a little more notoriety in a field that lias grown sterile and unproductive from over work. The people—tlie blessed people—that the bourbous say * they are guarding, are watching*their capers and weighing tho reasons for their antics just ut this particular juncture. They have been led and driven before to conflicts with the fed eral government by this same “red hot” element, and the results are fresh upou their minds, The law abiding, peace loving, sober people, depreciate these bourbon antics, but there is no denying the fact that there is yet here in Georgia, “a rule or ruin” spirit oc- laliy croi ‘ - - - casionally croping out, that time only can cure. Our advi-e to tlie people of Georgia is to obey the laws as graded in the first section of Irvin’s Revised Code, and when this is done, there is no conflict of jurisdictions, and no use of frantic appeals to prejudice. “The - government still lives.” A Valuable Receipt derer and rev, party arid oil his being a black- her mistake and ’ little Theon really knew ' He \had a blacksmith t planters do,- and no doubt ve worked in it too if he ’' " “vas ingenious and a f good judgment, Hut work in a : anywhere else didn’t trouble Tible and tbeiicare of ties filled verinwant. That was so, for he had enough to live on at home. He didn’t preach for money, but if his churches gave contributions it was thankfully received. It la true he will be greatly missed, not only by his own church but otheo^also. Some of his warmest friends were members of other denominations. - In speaking of the church, during his last illnessT our ield, ihorts- as oval of these ett couuty to that the good of that grand *£***? Ve8 murderers Infesting as r a people aa ‘lied? L ssioh and spirit - of this miserable Yhrikee adventurer—who dares to assail our course in the murder of youtig'Roun- tree, and who defends and-upholds one-of the most brutal; murders ever perpetrated in this Country,—we shall reproduce His entire article. Read It arid then tell us if Beast men insulted* SMhMM and mos ierer < com ‘ era people ever known couid surpass it. And yet this creature dares flaunt in your face the flag of defiance, one- corner of whlohis upheld by a mulatto negro in ’ Athens, and claims to lie the spokeman of a large majority of the white men of the liinth district. Read the following^ ^" n entire from his filthy sheet, and ^ yon ever saw such Infamously sal' doctrineB inculcated in the th—and can you support any tlokj We consider the following receipt of such value that wc transfer it to our. col umns from tlie Stockton (California) Herald: “I herewith append a recipe, which has been used, to my knowledge, in hun dreds of cases, It will prevent or cure tlie small-pox, though tlie pittings are filling. When Jenner discovered cow- pox, iu England, tlie world of science hurled an avalanche ot fame upon his he fid; but when the most scientific school of medicine in the world— that of Paris —published this recipe as a panacea for small-pox, it passed unheeded; it is as unfailing as fate, and conquers in every instance. It is harmless when taken by a well person. It will also cure scarlet fever. Here is tlie reeept as I have used it, and cured my children of scarlet fe ver; here it is as I have used it to curg suiall-pox; when learned physicians said tlie patient must die, it cured: Sulphate of zinc, one grain; half a tea- spoonful of water. When thoroughly mixed, add four ounces of. water. Take a spoonful every hour. Either disease will disappear.in twelve hours. 1 For a child, smaller doses, according to age. If counties would compel their physi cians to use this, there would' be no need of pest houses. If yon value advice and experience, use this for that terri ble disease.” Death from m Oetfleh Via. Last Wednesday, one' week ago, a colored woman named Margaret Sims, at the residence of Mr. H. H. Epplng, was cleaning fish when she accident ally pierced her hand with a catfish fin. The next morning she got up and her hand was so swollen as to prevent her from doing her usual work. It began to pain her and the pain 1 increased until she soon was compelled' to take her bed. She suffered violently with it until yesterday, when she died. The attending physician says'that her death was caused from erysipHlt&’atid septisemia or blood poisoriirig. ‘We have seen some very severe results from Wounds Inflicted by the fins of 1 salt' water catfish,' and tiiey' ^-.-e con sidered very poisonous and dthigerous, but this M the flrtt death of \vhteh we can remember having ocbritfSil from the fin of a fresh water fish.—Columbus San. ' "• ” ’ —: i; ,.i,4c..i Macon, Ga., Aprll SS.—l'he state con vention of colored men adopted a plat form to-day in sympathy*with any move ment to overthrow the bourbon democ racy, and will offer better inducements than the Republican 'party. The resolu tions demand tho repeal or lriodlficatiCa ofthe penitentiary systeta Ofthe state, and a larger appropriation for education al purposes, and ; declare that the poll tax ought not to bo made a prerequisite to voting. The convention then adjourn ed sine die. ' n.v T- »■■».»/v-."i llittjMBfl . . . , , A little girt in Milwaukee has dfedyy et endorsed by such a slanderer of from hydrophobia.