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Official Journal of llie United States.
Official Journal of the Stale of Georgia.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, - MAY 18, 1S70.
Fernando Wood's charges against General
Howard, like those of Mr. Angicr against Got.
Hnllork, turns ont to bo a mistake. The In
vestigation discloses no evidence -not event n
scrap hook. . J V :
A Failure,
The effort lo organize “s white man’s party"
in Delaware has cotno to grief; and Senator
Sanlislmiy is desperate. The “niggers',
wouldn’t attend the call, and so the thing
wouldn't take! The next move wilt he to about
face and declare for Impartial Suffrage, Ac.
-shoo Fir r»
The Atlanta Era nays 'The new crop of dies
is very abundant—they have conic in swarms."
We interpret the foregoing “thaslyThe
Itadieal ‘ilies,” i. e. carpet-baggers, scalawags,
etc., are swarming aronnd the -flesh j>ots" at
the Opera House. Are we correct, Em?
Xarih Oeorgia Often.
We presume so, as we team the editor of
tin North Georgia Citizen was hanging aronnd
the Opera House a few days since, begging for
Execntive patronage, and—he got it!
Is this satisfactory?
Liability or Railroad..
Judgment lias just been given against a rail
road in a case of interest to all travelers or
yearly tickets. A traveler purchased a ticket
that entitled him to a hundred rides. He paid,
therefore, for one hundred rides; bat when he
had taken fifty rides ho lost his ticket, which
was the only evidence he had of having paid
bis money. The railroad company tried to
take advantage of his loss by compelling him
to pay again, and he sued for so ranch money
as would pay for the fifty rides yet dne, and
railroad company had to come down.
A last for the - Captain” Bryaul.
And now the Dalton Citizen manifests a
rcstiveness under the leadership ot Bryant
It don't care if Bryant was the Democratic
candidate tor Speaker in January. It don't
rare if Bryant was accredited minister plcni-
ixdeutiary by the Georgia Democracy to Wash
ington in Fehrnary. It don't care if Bryant's
expenses were paid by Democratic small
change. In the face of nil thescihiugs, the Cit
izen has discovered that Bryant is simply on
adventurer, and that,
He is a hod man, and would plunge Georgia
into chaotic confusion in the accomplinlnnunl
of his in furious personal aspirations.
A change of leaders Is demanded. Bryant 1
n failure, and hence the Democracy want to
shift him! Who will be his successor ?
The Sugar Crop.
The sngar crop of Louisiana last year was
87.000 hogsheads, against 84,250 the previous
year; $57,047 the year before : 41,000 in 1836 ;
15.000 in 1865, and 0.CG8 in 1604. The yield
of molasses was 5,724,250 gallons, the average
being 68 gallons to the hogshead against 72J
the year before. The rice crop is set down a t
100,748 lorreis, estimated at 200 pounds each
an increase of S3,833 barrels, or 40 I*-r cut.
over 1808, A great many of the plantations
that liave lain fallow since the war will ho rnl-
tivate.l this year, that is if the great scarcity of
labor can Is* overcome.
MaJ. Gen. J. P. MrCurvan.
Most of our Confederate friends remember
tien. McCowan, of the Western nituy, who
Gen. Bragg had in limbo at Chattanooga.
Well, be is now in Arkansas, and from thence
writea to a colored man in East Tennessee as
follows:
“I have not forgotten how faithfully yon
served me, nor have I forgotten my promise of
25 acres of land. If yon see proper to come
here this fall, I will give yon forty acres of
lend. I do this because I think votir services
to me doting the war deserve it- Let me
know certainly what yon will do, and if yon
come, how yon propose to travel—na I can in
von as to the best re
form yon i
Jr.
t rente, what to bring.
“Yon cancel good wages here, if you wish
to labor. This is a better country for a color
ed man than Tennessee. Yon can find vacant
land that you can enter cheap."
Abuut Dog. and Hydrophobia.
A paper recently read before the Faria Acad
emy of Sciences on the subject of “Hydro
phobia" gave statistics tending to establish
the foot, often asserted by physicians, that
cases of canine madness are no more prevalent
in sontmer than in other seasons. Also, that
muzzling dogs predisposes them to the malady.
In Constantinople, it was stated, the mnzzle is
never used, and hydrophobia is there un
known.
The South and the Tariff.
The recent Convention at Charleston d,
dared that from two and a half to three mil
lions could be saved from manufacturing cot
ton into yams and woollen goods. Yarns, itis
alleged, have been mann&ctured much cheaper
there than in England, and at a profit of 4}
ccuta a pound at the South when there was no
profit in the North. The country as a whole
needs cheap goods and good wares, and with
n revenue tariff, which of itself would afford
very great protection, we should see nil sec
tions more prosperous than at present.
Ex-President Johnson.
Andrew Johnson Inis retired to private life,
it >' ..portable circumstances. Ho owns one
of tile finest flouring Mills in East Tennessee,
in addition to a fine fern of 350 acres, and
good property in the town of Greenville, where
he used to make coats and pantaloons.
He lives in great retirement, within twenty
paces of his old tailoring shop, where the
weather beaten sign “A Johnson, Tailor,” is
still to be seen.
He spends most of his time in rending and
writing. It is confidently asserted that he is
writing a hook in vindication of “My Policy.
The bettor opinion is that he is waiting for
Brownlow to die. He wants (o be United
States Senator. His ambition is not yet sat
isfied, nor can it ever be.
Who Wrote “Shak.prarr! ”
Somebody is writing a series of let tors to a
Washington Sunday newspaper to prove that
Sbakspeare did not write “ Shahspcare,” bat
that finding n mass of MSS. plays stowed away
in the theater to which be was attached, he
simply went over them, revised them, and pro
pared them for the stage. The writer thinks
he placed little value upon these productions,
and pat them together simply to fill the public
demand far novelty, and that it was far Irani
his thoughts that they would go down to pos.
Urity.
Leg.*
Status of the lit-ili Government
suit It. Trlin -f Oilur.
The Columbus Entpurer is still in the j on
es. It cau't understand how the Provisional
Government can enter upon its constitutional
terra of two and four years, after the State is
admitted; mul therefore after the Provisional,
becomes the permanent, legal Government of
the State.
The “Sherman Bill" and Supplements, pro
vided for a registration of votes, and thence
an election for n State Constitutional Conven
tion. This election was had inOctober, 1SG7,
and resulted in tho calling of a Convention
and tho election oi delegates thereto. This
Convention met December 9th, 18C7, and fin
ished its labors in March, 1868; and the Con
stitution Utns framed, was ratified by the
People in April of the same year. In accord
ance with the terms of the Reconstruction
.lets, the Governor and members of the Gen
eral Assembly were elected at the same time;
and, by the same Acts, assumed the
dnties of a Provisional Government July 4th,
1868.
Had Congresa then approved this action, and
admitted the State to representation, the Recon
struction Acts would have become inoperative;
and from that time, the Governor and members
of the General Assembly would have entered
npou (he constitutional term for which they
were elected. And this term, as prescribed by
the Constitution, is fonr and two years; which
term, in the very nature of the case, dates
from the tipie the Government is placed upon
the basis of the Stale CunMMUm, and not from
the time of the election, nor yet from the time
of the inauguration of a Provisions! Govern
ment that rental solely upon the lan of Onngrttc.
Bat, inasmuch as the organization ot the
General Assembly (ns hail in July, 1868,) was
not approved by Congress, bnt held to he ille
gal; and inasmuch os the State was not ad
mitted, the Reconstruction Acts were still of
force, nud consequently the State Government
still provisional. And if provisional then, it
most be provisional now; since the State is
still excluded, and the Reconstruction Acts are
still of force in Georgia, as we see by the
presence and authority of the District Com
mander.
If, therefore, the Government of Georgia
was Provisional in December1869—as Congress
then declared it to be—when did it cease to be
Provisional? Did its' provisional functions
cease with its organization of January, 1870,
which, according to the President and General
Sherman, was the first and only legal organi
zation had since the Rebellion? And if it is
to date its legal existence from that organiza-
tion, and is from that time to be considered at
resting upon the State Constitution; and if
that Coustitntion provides for a term of four
and two years respectively for the Governor
and Legislature, is it not clear that these
terms end January, 1872, and January, 1874,
respectively ? If, however, the term is to date
from the time onr Senators and Representa
tives are admitted, then it rests with the Oppo
sition end with Congress to say vehea the Con
stitutional government shall begin to date its
existence, and consequently when its term will
expire under the State Constitution !
To claim, therefore, that the term of the
present Legislature expires in 1870, is to claim
that it has for two years rested upon, and de
rived its sole authority from the State Consti
tution ; whereas, the facts in the case aw, that
it has rested upon the laws of Congress, and
derived its only authority from the Recon
struction Acts.
Viewed in any light whatsoever, there is an
absnrditv in the proposition of the Democ
racy, that the Coustitntion provides for an
election this fall. For, if the proposition he
tree that the members of the Legislature
should date their term of office beginning with
the organization of July, 1868, their term ex
pires July, 1870—three months in advance of
the time iusisted upon by the Democracy for
an election! According to their own theory,
there shonld have been nu election lost April,
not in November next, as they now lusist!
No! there is lint one legitimate way ont of
this difficulty, and that Is, to date the term of
the Assemblymen from the time the organiza
tion was prononuced legal; from the time it
ceases to be Provisional. In other words, from
the lime it niters upon its functions os a Con
stitutional body, and derives its authority from
the Constitntion as its basis. This is what
the Republicans of Oeorgia claim, and every
fair minded loan--who will give the subject
attention,— will, regardless of his partisan pre
dilections, concede the legality and justice of
the claim.
bio ignorance of the history of Ure Democratic
party, has the audacity to claim that tho Free-
trade or anti-prutcetion policy has always been
a cardinal principle with that party! Verily,
may overy one acquainted with the history of
portiex in this country, suspect it of trying to
Bell out the opposition to the party in power,
there is ranch goo. 1 , reason to suspect it
aided in doing, when it and its co-conspirators
foisted Seymour and Frank Blair upon the
Democratic ticket for the Presidency andVioe
Presidency in 1868.
But the question of the tariff docs not now
present the same aspect it did in ante 6t3.ua
times, even it the New York World's historical
iniseences were true. The National debt,
the changed condition of labor in the South,
and the opening of new fields of enterprise, so
complicate and have so changed the interests
of various sections, that it may well be doubt
ed whether a national contest can be made on
the issue of Free Trade vs. Protection.
In the arranging of the tariff! the largest
statesmanship ought now to be brought to
bear. The common sense oi the real people,
in every section, will have a keen eye to their
own interests. It will demand that the Na
tional debt shall be paid in a way that shall be
the least bnrthensome and irritating. Ab
stract theories of political economy, will hard
ly be suffered to divide them in a national con
test in presence of realities that come home to
every man's interests, sad address thcraselvi
practically to the contents of the purees now
annually Assessed to meet the necessities and
to protect the honor of the Government.
The Tariff.
The Tali A 1 , or table of dnties on imported
goods,(bom the very foundation of the National
Government until the Slavery question became
an exciting topic, was n subject about which
statesmen and partisans debated and wrangled.
Early in the history of the nation, as at this
day, taxation was a subject oi leading interest
to the people. The Federal Legislature is, by
the Constitution, empowered to regulate com
merce with foreign States, and between tho
several Suites of the I'nion; to levy dnties on
imports and exports, and to raise revenue by
direct taxation.
Dnties upon imported goods are indirect
taxes. Their practical effect upon the inter
ests of individuals or of classes of the people
always excites discussion. A large revenne
may ho raised by this species of indirect taxa
tion without the people being watted on by the
tax gatherer.
Sir. Jefferson advocated the raisiug of reve
nue by this means in preference to direct tax
ation. The “Whisky Rebellion,” which oc
curred in western Pennsylvania not many
years after the adoption of tho Federal Consti
tntion, was an indication of the unwillingness
of the people of that day to submit to direct
taxation, imposed by the General Government.
A Tariff may lie so arranged as merely to
answer the purpose of raising a revenne ade
quate to the needs of the Government, and
such a Tariff is called a Revenue Tariff!
it may be so arranged os to protect home pro
ducts and manufactures against the ruinous
competitions of foreign products, both in a
crude and manufactured state. The Tariff
may be so high on a given article ns to virtn.
ally prohibit its importation.
Among the advoe ites of a Protective Tariff!
may be enumerated Presidents Jefferson, Mad
ison and Monroe, who in their annual mes
sages recommended the policy of protection.
George Clinton, De Witt Clinton, Daniel
Tompkins and William L, Marry, while Gov
ernors of New York, each advocated the same
policy. Henry Clay, while the leader of the
party that rallied aronnd the adminstzation of
Mr. Madison was then, as ever afterwards, the
champion of Protection.
The first Tariff expressly enacted for pro
tection was that of 1824. Andrew Jackson,
Martin Van Rnren, John H. Eaton, Thomas
IX. Benton, Silas Wright, and others who were
prominent Democrats at that time, supported
the policy of protection as embodied in the
Tariff! of 1824 and 1828.
The above reminiscences are recounted to
indicate the fact that Free-trade was not the
policy of either of the- great parties of the
olden time. But coming down to a later period
—excepting a very few men in the South—
Free-trade was never avowed by the great
statesmen of this country as a judicious policy.
Even James K. Polk, Fierce and Buchanan
advocated a Revenue Tariff which should be
so arranged as toiucidentally protect American
manufactures and products.
The New York World, with an unpardona-
Tile McFarland Trial Endrit
McFarland lias been acqfuttcd, as eveffijbody
supposed he would be. “There is au-^jrrit-
ten law in America, that any man
pots with the family of another, must k
consequences." No American jury hits y
pnted the potency of this law, nor is it
ble that they ever will. And yet in the
this, stands a written law making it in
for an injured husband to shoot his
paramour, nud tho penalty for murder i-
by hanging.
In American society, women enjoy
dom that is little understood in Europe;
erthdess, he who presumes to take adi
of this, must abide tho consequences,
icon homes are open; bnt that custom
opens, also guards them.
There was a peculiarly aggravating circum
stance connected with Richnrdson-McFarhmd
tragedy. It was the conspiracy to dative
tho father of bis children by the saim^Mrty
who deprived the husband of his wife. [Wihis
part of the drama, seems even more lienious
than the other. To be deprived of his Chil
dren, whose natural affections had not lieen
destroyed, and to whom his love and core was
due, was doubtless a much greater cahugM^to
the prisoner than to lose an alienated and
corrupted partner; and so the jury seemed' to
consider it This conspiracy was not only
clearly proven, bnt the evidence, as reported
in the New York journals, showed that die
don of the children was a condition to
the possession of the wife; and that, nntil the
children conld be kidnapped from the father;
the mother refused to forsake her borne.
Tit* Tariff Again—Interest, or Georgia.
Suppose that blind leaders, like the New York
World and other partisans of its ilk, shonld
sneered in making the Free trade or anti-Pro-
tretion prineip’e a cardinal one in the Demo
cratic platform during the Presidential con
test of 1872, and foist upon that party candi
dates of their choosing, what would be their
chances of success?
In those regions of the country where for
merly the anti-Proteetion theory bad numer
ous advocates, Protection is now almost a
necessity, or it is so palpably the interest of
the people that it will be generally advocated.
There is a large number of influential men
everywhere, that formerly advocated what was
known as Mr. Clay's American System; and
these will not permit their affiliation with the
present Democratic party to induce them to
renounce their life-long convictions upon the
propriety ot protecting borne industry.
The subject of Protection to American In
dustry comes home in various ways to people
in every State, and section. Discussions will
spring np, not so much in regard to the ques
tion of Protection in the abstract, bnt with
reference to what pursuits or branches of in
dustry shall be protected by the Tariff! and
to what extent Thus some will be deeply in
terested in protecting the Iron interest, some
Cotton end Woolen manufactures, some sugar,
etc.—almost ad irfnitiua.
It will be impossible for either party to force
the question of the Tariff into the next Presi-
tial election as a national issue.
The Free-trade doctrine looks to Direct Tax
ation for the means of paying tho national
debt, and of paying the expenses of the Gov.
eminent. Now everybody knows that this
matter of taxing the people lias been nnpopn-
lar from the foundation of the National Gov
ernment — .
Free-trade found most of its advocates in
the South before the war. Why? Decease
many cotton and tobacco planters contended
that they were unequally taxed under the tar
iff, inasmuch as they were not engaged in
manufacturing. Not so the sngsr planter of
Louisiana; because bis produce was pro
tected.
The changed condition of the Sonth renders
it necessary to diversify the pursuits of onr
people. Statistics prove that if fostered by a
protective tariff, cotton mannfactoreni in lbs
South ran successfully compete with those of
Sew England. Therefore many of ^lie anti
protectionists of former times will become
protectionists, for the intelligent men of the
South see the necessity of diversifying the
pursuits of the people, and few will be guilty
of the folly of abandoning the vantage ground
which they occupy in the cotton growing re
gion in the contest for the profits that accrue
from converting the raw material into fabrics.
In their zeal to make np an issue with the
Republican party, certain defeated leaden
would sacrifice the success of the party they
profess to lie desirous to serve, in defiance of
feets, and the palpable ahsnrdity of the issue
they propose. Such conduct can only be ac
counted for on the supposition that in their de
spair of success they only aim to keep them
selves prominent before the people, and there
by to enjoy sonic of the loaves and fishes of
office in certain localities where they reign su
preme.
They profess to belicTe that by springing
the issue of Free Trade they will be able to di
vide the Republican party. In this, only
those who do not seriously reflect, can be sin
cere. For, admitting that there are Free
Trade or anti-Prolection Republicans of influ
ence and position, such cannot and will not
soon slab off from their party. The National
debt has to be paid; and Republicans in the
land are in favor of paying that debt The most
popular way of paying it is by raising the
means of doing so as much as possible by in
direct taxation; that is, by dnties on Import*
Were mere party triumph the only desire,
this article would not have been written. For,
in the event that the opposition make a contest
upon the issue of Free-trade, the Republican
candidate for President in 1872 can distance
his competitor, and easily walk over the coarse.
Bat the great interests which the Southern
States, and especially Georgia, have in the
question of fostering home industry, shonld
Btimnlate every patriot to lift up a warning
voice against the machinations of defeated
leaders in the North and elsewhere, who would
sacrifice the interests of the people that they
may aggrandize themselves.
The South has suffered already enough (and
two much) by blindly following the lead of the
corrupt Democratic leaders of New York. In
common with every opponent of the Adminis
tration party every Republican in Georgia is
interested in the recuperation of Georgia's
material interests; in the education of the
children of the people, and the moral and so
cial progress of her citizens.
Georgia is destined to become a great
manufacturing State, if only the fostering care
of the National Government over the In
dustrial pursuits of the people, is continued.
Her Commercial Marine most sooner or later
become a very large interest, if Congress
wisely legislates upon the subject of the Re
vival of American Commerce.
To guard these interests, to maintain the
prestige of the Empire State of the South, the
united wisdom and concerted action of all her
public spirited citizens is demanded There
fore, the subject of the Tariff hr the present
exigency, and the Revival of American Com
merce are subjects upon which Georgians eon
and ought to dispassionately harmonize, inde
pendent of signal notes from the bell-wetlietu
of any party.
tUssfls Republican* Arc United.
In the face of the fact that Gov. Bullock lain
been sustained by the Republicans of the
General Assembly, with on unanimity almost
unparalleled in the annals of political history,
it is still asserted (and only asserted) by the
Democracy that there is n split in tbe Repub
lican party in Georgia
Upon what this assertion is liaseil, would
indeed be diffionlt to tell. There was an in
stance of slabbing off, more tlinu eighteen
months ago, upon the issne made by the GoY-
regard to the expulsion of the colored
members and the illegal manner in which tbe
Legislature waa organized in 1868. Some ,tf
the bolters were ambition* some venal; bntalh
opposed Congressional “interference” (as the/
called it) in 1869. They acted with the De
mocracy, in the isano thus made. They
wanted the Legislature to stand—grossly ille
gal though it wra in its organization, and
shamelessly revolutionary though it had be
come by expelling eligible members, anil puts
ting ineligible persons in their stead.
A State Convention of the party was had in
1868, at which the names of these bolters were..
lopped off! and Resolutions passed folly sns-‘
taining the Executive. Bryant, and Caldwell,,
and one or two others, thence ceased to be re
garded as Republicans. They acted uniformly
with the Democracy upon all questions spring.
Ing from the Reconstruction issne. They lob
bied Congress to defeat the Act of December!
1869; and when that Act became the law of tbe
land, they united with the Democracy to de
feat its practical enforcement in Georgia
They consorted with the Ben HUlites of 1867-
'68, entered and participated in Democratic
caucuses, and one of them, (Mr. Bry
ant,) became the candidate of the Democracy
for Speaker of the House. Joshua Hill, who
bad been elected to tbe United States Sen
ate by this illegal body—elected by the
Democracy, and over the regular Republican
Mrs. McFarland.
In her vindication, as published in the
Tribune, Mrs. McFarland expressed the
opinion that McFarland was 4 ‘a man born to
commit a murder." She contradicts tbe en
tire testimony (except that by the free lovers)
that McFarland is a drinking man. She says
he was a beastily drunkard, a maniac,
possessed a bad, vindictive temper; and, worse
than all, (as would seem) be was poor, whereas
she thought he was rich when she married him.
It is probable that this woman was more
sinned against than sinning. She fell into had
company; placed herself nnder the counsel of
a had set of women, and then completed her
mistake (and her rum) by making the fellow
Richardson her confidential adviser.
was nothing for the party—everything for
Joshua HilL In the hope of securing a seat
in the U. S. Senate, he turned his hack upon
given it by all, except a few, who may li2 s^orxd^linT"degraded. Tho Constitution, that
blindlv partisan as to follow llxe beck and i ^dble <**k which has withstood the storms and
obey the nod of tho corrupt IcaderT# the
New York Democracy, who since the orguui/a-
1 tionmore than forty years ago of the celebra
ted Albany Regency, liave acted upon the
‘•rule or ruin” policy and fathered more cor
ruption tlmn can he justly laid to the charge
of any “ring” or combination tin* hits - at
tracted the notice of the country iu the last
half of a century.
These considerations, to which might ho
added many others, expose the folly of those
unwise and ignorant, (wouldhe,) leaders, who
pretend to think that upon the question of
the Tariff they can divide and break the
strength of the Republican party, and unite
against it a formidable and finally to be
triumphant Opposition, whose motto shall he
Free Trade—which being interpreted in its
practical operation means Direct Taxation,
the destruction of onr manufacturing and
mining interests, and the confining of onr
people to the single pursuit of agriculture.
> Constiti
MB.
The National Scandal.
The McFarland case was a perfect Godsend
to the Press-gang. For weeks every penny-a-
liner in the country has devoted his gray goose
quill to the elaboration of the nice little tit-hits
of thepaurient scandal developed during the
course of the trial. McFarland’s acquittal, as
a matter of course, gives a new impetus to
their pens, and even outsiders cannot resist
the temptation to rush into print and record
their perturbed emotions for the benefit of
present and prospective readers. A Wcste/n
poet thus summarily disposes of the plea of
insanity filed by McFarland’s counsel. Here
after let no advocate risk his case upon the
insignificant fact that his client is non compos:
This is man's justice:—When he breaks
A law that in his power he makes.
Why then, he pleads • intone ! *
And his twelve * peers,* with perjured souls.
Cry out 4 Xot Guilty '—and the rolls
Of hell are blackened with the stain 1’*
Dismissed.
In addition to taking gin and milk—or
rather of feeding his unwelcome guests and
newspaper sponges on that diet—the Rev.
Mr. Smyth has been convicted of attendance
M at the Black Crook exhibitions; and for this
‘^latter offense, (though committed nearly two
years ago,) more perhaps than for taking gin
and milk, he has been dismissed by his
congregation.
SPIRIT OF TUB GEORGIA PRESS.
THIS AUGUSTA CONSTITUTION AI.IST, (l*EM.)
Discussing the Georgia case in Congress, says
The true policy at this time is masterly in
activity.
v When a party striving for the Right cannot
control events, their best course always is so to
ict as not to become responsible in any way Jor
nominee—wanted a seat in Congress, as he [ s ^ one
wanted to be Governor of Georgia in 1863r The best course, probably, for a Democrat
That was dearer to Trim than all else. He m Congress topursue on the Georgia.casernto
vote for the militaiy amendment in lieu of tile
pending hill, and, if it should ho carried, vote
against the passage of the bill and defeat that
too, if possible. Bat, in no event and under
Even North Carolina lias the Air Line Rail
road on the brain. An editor in that sober
commonwealth recently regaled his readers
with a series of articles headed with inch cap
tions as the following: “Air Line Snakes,”
'Air Line Saddle Ox,” “Air Line Sbakspeare,”
‘Air line Breeches,” and seventeen others
equally original, startling, and refreshing.
the Republican party, and joined the crusade no dremratouces, should a vote be cast
of the^* Democracy against what they term,,
‘•Congressional interference.” , He n an q iil iij|p iii. il
willing to see the State handed over to the
power that controlled its action in 1865-G
quite willing to see the Reconstruction acts
nullified, first by an illegal organiza
tion, and second by the revolutionary
action of September, 1868; trilling to
see the new Constitntion overridden by the
men who opposed first its formation and then
its ratification. In a word, he was band in
glove with the democratic leaders, then as he
Is now. Ami yet it in asserted (for political
purposes) that even he U still a Georgia Re
publican!
• The action of the State Legislature, at its
last session, in unanimously sustaining the
Execntive, was hut a foil and unreserved rati
fication of that Republican State Convention
of 1868, which endorsed the policy of Gov.
Bullock. Ui der these circumstances, it re
mains to he seen whether Congress will delib
erately hand over the State to the Radical
Democracy, and make it another Kentucky
and Maryland as against the Republican party.
Tbe South and tbe Tariff.
Upon tho question of the Tariff there must
necessarily be great diversity of opinion be
tween members of Congress hailing from dif
ferent sections of the country. To conciliate
these, and to justly arrange tbe schedule ot
duties, demands tbe exercise of the wisest
statesmanship.
The general interests of the whole country
must be considered paramount to those of a
particular section. Hence a Tariff wisely ar
ranged, will be the result of compromise. In
many sections of the great Northwest, where
manufactures have not yet been extensively
embarked in, and where agriculture is abun
dantly rewarded by the production of proviso
ions at so small a cost as to defy foreign com-,
petition, many are perhaps indifferent as to Dr. Angier/after so
the policy of protecting American industry. '*’* ^ ‘ * ”
But, for the necessity iff providing for the pay
ment of the National Debt, some of these
might become bold and open advocates of
Free Trade.
The iron and coal mining interest of the
Middle States, where manufactories have not
yet been extensively erected create a demand
there for a Protective Tariff. In Louisiana
the. duty on imported sugar is a necessity.—
Without it the sugar planters would cease to
grow the cane.
In the cotton producing States, now that
slavery is abolished, intelligent men of all
dames ami pursuits are informing themselves
opon the subject of manufacturing. The cot
ton factory in close vicinity to the cotton
field, offers inducements to enterprise not
excelled in Old or New England. Though in
former times the strong hold of the Anti-pro
tectionist was tbe Cotton producing region,
the necessity of now diversifying the pur
suits of the people and the obvious advantages
of protection in 'he infancy of industrial en
terprises, liable to competition with the pau
per labor of Europe, afford arguments against
Free trade in the cotton producing States, that
no logic founded %pon theoretical assnmp-
Especially is Georgia interested in the wise
arrangement of the Tariff Her flourishing
Cotton factories suggest an increase in their
number and extent Her great beds of iron
ore and coal, the salnbrity of her climate, her
capacity to support and maintain a dense
population, her undeveloped mineral resources,
her forests of timber yet unappropriated ex
cept for house-building, and a thousand other
considerations demand of her Statesmen and
public spirited citizens a calm and non-
If, by the assumed choice of the people of
Georgia, military rule, under Shendau, or
some other shoulder-strapped tyrant, be estab
lished, how shall we ever again, effectually as
sail despotism ? We believe that the most ju
dicious and patriotic course fo^mnuiournals
and leaders to pursue Is decidedHBptd firmly
to protest against all such monstraais usurpa
tions of power; to advise the people to endure
patiently for a while longer, until reaction
comes; to call upon the friends of Constitu
tional Liberty in Congress never to sanction,
nnder any circumstances, the usurpations of
the pending hill or of the substituted military
amendment Both are equally abominable,
violative of all Constitutional principles, and
should be equally denounced, loathed and
hated.
[The Constitutionalist does not seem to fall
veiy readily into the position that Military
Rule is preferable to whAt it is pleased to term
the 44 extension of the term ” of the ]>resent
government]
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION (BRYANT DEM)
vulsiou, lias at last been struck by fanatic
power and all its blanching honors lie wither
ing in the dust
[And the euro for all this is, according to
tho same authority, a government by the thing
called “Democracy.*]
THE COVINGTON ENTERPRISE, (DEMl)**
Discussing Congress and Reconstruction,
says:
If with their unscrupulous purpose of sub
verting the liberties of the people they conld
combine the wisdom to direct their schemes
to fulfillment their would be no hope for de
liverance from them; but the same corruption
winch originated their plot has demented their
leaders so that there is yet hope that dissen
sions among themselves may defeat their par-
poses although they are so cunningly devised
os to seem to defy the opposition of those
whose attachment to liberty will not yield to
the selfish considerations offered to those who
partake in the wicked work of ruin.
THE TALBOTTON STANDARD (DEM.)
lias had an editorial absence - an event of very
great general interest
THE SAVANNAH NEWS, (DEM.)
Speaking of the Georgia case in Congress,
says:
The Pomeroy hill contained the substance of
tho Bingham amendment to another form of
words, and since then Bullock lrns lost instead
of gained strength in Congress. The newspa
per statement that Bullock paid the Chronicle
SI,800 for the articles published on Georgia
outrages is a mistake, the sum actually paid
being more than double that sum.
[Of courso the bare assertion must ho no*
ccpted. No proof is necessary !]
THE ATLATA INTELLIGENCER, (DEAL)
Speaking of Bryant, the uew Democratic
leader, says:
A graver mistake was never made by the
Democrats in the Legislature who took him up
and put him in the lead, casting their votes for
him for Speaker, and otherwise endorsing
him. We believe, too. with the Citizen, that
had he not gone to Washington, the Georgia
hill, with the Bingham Amendment, would
this day have been the Law of the land, and
the State now one of the States of the Union.
No benefit can accrue to any party in Georgia
that will recognize snch men as Bryant and
the “Wahoo” Bradley as leaders in it. Their
offenses against the State have been so rank
that “they smell to Heaven,” and the sooner
that jjortion of the Democracy who took the
former of them np and attached importance to
him, and who seem now to ho willing to em
brace “Aaron Alpeoria,” cease to do honor
unto them, the better for Georgia.
[The Intelligencer, Macon Telegraph and
one or two other Democratic journals, refused
to take up Bryant, and for this were sought to
be read out the party; and Mr. Bryant even
charged that they were “in the pay of Bul
lock.”]
THE MACON TELEGRAPH, (DEM,)
Commenting upon a “Woman’s Rights Con
vention in Richmond, Virginia, says:
Now Virginia will be traversed and disgusted
by a troupe of crowing hens, shrilly trumpet
ing the necessity of female liberation from the
restraints of decorum and womanly decency.
She will have to endure the hrazou presence
•and indecent volubility of the nnsexed crea
tures who prate and rave and stomp on plat
forms and in pulpits over the WTougs of wo
men. She may probably have to hear the bur
den of a McFarland trial with its sickening
panorama of panders, procuresses and free-
lovers—women who conspire for the purpose
of driving a man’s wife into the lustful embra
ces of a paramour especially selected for her.
THE ROME COMMERCIAL, (DEAL)
Speaking of the probable fate of Georgia iu
Congress, says:
We shall not be surprised if tlie whole mat
ter is postponed for tho balance of the session
and the State and its people left at the mercy
of Bullock and Blodgett and their thieving
gang-
THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN (DEM.)
Pitches into Senator Brownlow forbids recent
consolidation teachings.
THE COLUMBUS ENQUIRER (DEM. )
Is still distressed over the prospect of Social
Equality with the negro.
The same paper requests us to give the list
of the Muscogee men who petitioned Congress,
through the. St&to Execntive, for relief from
political disabilities. [How can we, unless
there have been such petitions ?]
THE AMERICUS COURIER (DEM.)
We now have simply to tell the Era that it is
a humbug, that its $500 man is a myth, and
iu proposition unnecessary bluster, all of
which everybody believed before. It declines
to do QMthisgttU woujlshow jjjfoffer gen
uine. We have driven it to the wall
[This is in allusion to a proposition, made
by a ‘responsible party through^ tho Era
some weeks since, to pay the sum of $500 for
moot of the assertion that the Atlanta
dispatches to the Washington Chronicle were
false, or not folly sustained by the facts at the
time.
The party who offered the reward, is every
tcay responsible. It only remained for the
Bryant Organ to produce the proof, and claim
the reward. This it has utterly failed to do;
and its repeated and disiugenious efforts to
dodge the issue, is simply puerile; and its lu
dicrous assumptions furnish additional evi
dence of mental constipation seldom wit
nessed in respectable journalism.]
STATE NEWS.
MACON.
Sunday School Picnic.—On the 13th, Windsor
Chapel Sunday School had their annual picnic
in the grove in front of Judge Calhoun’s resi
dence. Miss Ellen Wood was crowned “Queen
of May.”
Singular and Fatal Accident.—A negro man
known as Uncle Peter, had his hack broken
while cleaning out the well of Mr. McPhail in
East Macon on Friday last The bucket fell
upon him iu consequence of the fracture of
the rope. He was taken ont alive hut died
shortly after.
ilather Primitive.—An ancient colored wo
man was observed, yesterday afternoon, carry
ing the coffin containing the body of a dead
picauinny, upon her head, going towards the
oht bnrying ground, followed by a small
crowd of juvenile darkies. What a’ commen
tary this upon ancient customs!—Journal,
12ih last.
Obeying the Law to the Letter.—Major Danse,
of “Tho Planters’’ lias placed a collar on each
of the iron dogs at the entrance of his Hotel.
The City Hull rejoices iu a new coat of
paint,
Died of Ills Wounds.—Mr. J. E. Benton,
who was shot a short while ago at Crawford’s
Station, in Monroe county, by Mr. W. L’ardy
Perkins, has died of his wounds. Mr. Per
kins is ont on bond tor his appearance at the
next term of the Mouroe Superior Court
Telfgrajdb and Messenger.
AUGUSTA.
A man named llalford loaded a musket with
bird shot ou Thursday, and fired into a gang
of boys who were bathing iu the river near his
residence in Augusta. He brought down
three.
partisan consideration of the Tariff with
reference to protection of home industry. It I boastofferor American citizen,
is believed that snch consideration will be I has become dethroned, demoralized, dishorw
Is still squirming under the $500 reward for
the proof of its assertion, that the Atlanta
correspondent of the Washington Chronicle
made statements not folly sustained by the
facts, at the time. [Quit squirmiug Mons.
Organ, aud bring out the proof.]
THE GRIFFIN STAB (DEM.)
Says;
Mobile is organizing a “white man's party.
So it appears the fools ore not all dead yet A cer
tain class of people never learn auything by ex
perience. The man who fears negro suprema
cy, or apprehends, any such thing as negro
equality, ought to have a guardian appointed
forthwith. The whites are just os certain to
rale foe country as the sun is to rise and set;
nor will the negro ever associate «n terms of
equality with toe white man.
A “white man’s party” is therefore simply
ridiculous, and likewise an insult to the intel
ligence and worth of the Caucasian race.
Of Mr. Angicr, the Star saieth:
. - „ - - ^ a time. - lias con
cluded to pay off the printers' warrants for ad
vertising, executive proclamations, etc. He
waited, however, until some of the more needy
publishers had shared off to brokers the little
scrip that he refused to honor. Tho amount,
after off, is no big thing, and the money has
fallen into the hands of as needy and clever a
set of mien as there is in the State, and will he
immediately spent among the people.
THE GRIFFIN GEORGIAN (DEM.)
Repudiates Bradley as a leader, and desires
us to say so. [Certainly. Now authorize us
to say that you repudiate Brjant and Caldwell
also. We certainly thought you favored a
Military Government to what you call “the
Bullock government,” and as Bradley is of the
same opinion, we innocently enough supposed
that *‘things equal to the same, were equal to
each othfer.”]
THE DALTON CITIZEN (DEM)
Says of the Investigating Committees :
The one appointed to investigate the charges
preferred; by Angier against Bullock will, in
onr opinion, accomplish nothing. Whether
this will be owing to a lack of sufficient evi
dence or the magical influence of a little hush
money, none will ever he able to find ont It
will he only one among the many mysteries
that envelop Radical misrule in Georgia.
[Now, how much more manly and honora
ble it would be to furnish the Committee with
all the facts in support of the charges, if there
be any facts. This effort to forestall a report
by the Committee of Investigation, carries its
own comment.]
THE SAVANNAH NEWS (DEM.)
Has much to say about the “ incidental ex
penses” of the Execntive Department [Will
it now foot hp the sum total of the “ incident
al expenses” incurred by Gov. Jenkins? Give
ns the figures!]
THE ALBANY NEWS (DEM.)
Government was once the pride and
” To-day it
Says: We notice that some of- tho appoint
ments to office in Georgia, os well as orders
for removal from the same, are signed by Bul
lock Governor, while others are signed by
Terry, General.
Will somebody he kind enough to inform us
whether the government we live under is civil
or military .*
[Suppose you look again. Are they not
signed by “Bullock” as l'ro visional Governor,
and approval by “Terry” as District Com
mander?]
THE AUGUSTA REPUBLICAN, (DEM.)
Bryant says he wantof to do something to
save his State from bankruptcy. [A wag wants
to know what Is Bryant's state. Some say
Maine; others, that it is a state of lunacy.]
Bryant says he*is surprised at the ungenerous
treatment which he has received At the hands
of the Georgia Democracy. : [No one else is.
That party lias no use for the traitor, notwith
standing they appreciate his treachery. ]
Bryant gives the Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore Gazette the lie. [That Is
bad]
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL (DEM.)
Pitches into the little spree of the Rev. C. B.
Smythe, of New York, as
*'Another of those shameful evidences of the
fearful demoralization of all olasses of society
in that modern Sodom, in the shape of the
“gin and milk” proclivities of one of the lead
ing and shining lights of the orthodox minis
try of that ungodly city. ”
[This is really milder than we expected of
the Chronicle and Sentinel under the circum
stances. Why not call the “ministry of that
ungodly city” a set of “whited sepulchres;”
or accuse them of “stealing the livery of
Heaven to serve the Devil in;” and then sadly
conclude with
“Can such things be and thus.
'Overcome us like a summer’s cloud.
Without our special wonder?”
This, it strikes us would *be an appropriate
and striking finale to the Chronicle’s spicy
diatribe.]
THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN (DEM.)
Gets off the following on the condition of
working women at the North:
We believe it Is emphatically a struggle for
life; and, that it should be permitted, is not
creditable to 3Iassachusetts nor to Connecti
cut, although it has been going on for years
within sight of the pulpits and under the very
noses of New England philanthropists, who
rant and worry themselves into a hysterical
passion on account of the condition of South
ern civilization. But we do not know how a
term such as civilization can be appropriately
used iu reference to any community that per
mits such a system of slavery, and of mental
and physical degredation to be tolerated as Con
necticut and Massachusetts tolerate it Bar
barity-heartless, cruel barbarity of society on
ly, can permit such on outrageous state of things
to exist; and many New England pulpit ora
tors who, in their ambition for popularity and
notoriety, aro weekly delivering their weak
sermons on charity ami education of the
heathen, might, with lom show and with
greater sincerity, make a display of their phi
lanthropy nearer home, and besides, do more
real good. We in the Sonth have very little
faith in these traveling missionaries and out-
in-the-comer-of-the-world, preachers. We in
Sonth have good clergymen, who preach the
Gospel to their own people in a very satisfac
tory manner. They are the pride of out
Church-goers; they are models in onr society.
They talk to us; they counsel us, and have an
interest in onr spiritual welfare. They say
very little in their sermons aboat the slavery
that exists in New England. Their charity be
gins at home, not in Africa or in the pine
woods where many Northern missionaries are
desirous to go whenever a favorable opportu
nity presents itself, to take a long semi-roman
tic and semi-religio-philanthropic trip.
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION (BRYANT DEM.)
the machinery of the Eagle and Phenix Fnc-
tory, on Saturday last, was caught by one of
the bands and hod his right aria, iu the fleshy
r above the elbow, terribly lacerated, and
left hand and wrist badly braised. It is
thought he will recover and that amputation is
unnecessary. —Enquirer.
Tho Fair Grounds have been laid off for
improvement They will contain two tracks,
one three quarters, and one half a mile.
Sunday School Picnic.—'The teachers and
scholars of Mount Zion Sunday School, had a
picnic cm Saturday lost at Cropp’s Springs,
near Smith's Station. The exercises were
recitations, singing, Ac. Also, a bountiful
dinner.
More Fine Stalks.—Mr. John B. Wright has
sent us specimens of fine wheat and rye grow
ing in his garden in this city. The stalks rn*
about six feet in length, and he describes the
bight os being so uniform as almost to present
a level platform. Such rank and flourishing
garden patches serve to show what great
yields of the small grains could be obtained
in this country by having fields of equal fertil
ity and culture.
AMERICUS.
Destructive Fire. —We regret to learn that the
dwelling house, kitchen, smoke-house and
other out houses of Mr. Samuel Hart, about
twelve miles North of this city, were con
sumed by fire on Wednesday night Of
clothing, house furniture, and a year's supply
of provisions laid in some time since by Mr.
Hart, nothing whatever was saved. Indeed,
we learn that Mrs. Hart and one or two of the
children very narrowly escaped being burned
in the house before they conld be got out. We
also learn that only a few days previously Mr.
Hart had sold his cot ten and the money re
ceived for it was loot in the fire. He has the
sympathies of the entire community, in his
severe loss. The fire was plainly visible from
Americas, and caused some excitement among
the firemen and citizens. The companies as
sembled quickly when the alarm was sounded,
and the engine was brought out before the
locality of the fire was ascertained to be
elsewhere than in the city.—Charter.
AUGUSTA,
Augusta has transmitted $403 25 to aid the
Richmond sufferers.
Hard to Decide.—Last Saturday Charles J.
Rhodes was arrested and brought before Jus
tice Ells on a possessory warrant issued at the
instance of one Patrick Minahan, charging
that Rhodes had a horse stolen from him in
Juno last Fourteen witnesses swore the
horse was the property of the defendant, and
precisely a simular number swore it belonged
to the plaintiff. The case was dismissed. It
will be takan to the Snperior Court by
certiomri.
Picnic.—The colored societies held a picnic
on Saturday last at Aiken. Everything pass
ed off in an orderly, quiet manner.
Tlie News hints at a delicious mystery in the
following paragraph :
On Wednesday night “big brothers,” using
a cowhide for a cue and tlio Albany House
piaza for a table, played a littlo game of Poole,
and made ranqis on the first strike. Tlie skill
and swiftness of the “big brother’s" play
completely closed the game, aud we doubt if it
is ever resumed iu Albany.
COVINGTON.
Mr. W. J. Corp exhibited iu our sanctum,
on Monday last, a samplo of Rye, sown among
cotton, at tho lost plowing, which measured
six and one half feet high, heads seven inches
long, and 58 stalks from one groin. No fer
tilizer used. Also a sample of Barley, planted
as above, 33 inches high, an average sample of
4 acres. Also Red Clover, 20 inches nigh,
raised on bottom land, x>lanted one year ago,
on land that has not been plowed for 12
years. —Esaminer.
On Tuesday night the 10th instant, Mr.
Robert L. Williams, one of the most highly
respected citizens of Newtou county, died
very suddenly at his residence in Oxford. Mr.
W. was about 62 years of age; and although
he hod been affected for some time with some
thing like rheumatism in the region of the
chest, ho showed no unusual symptoms pre
vious to his death. He had been smoking his
pipe and talking cheerfhlly till bed time when
he retired. Soon afterwards his wifo spoke
to him and as he failed to answer, she went to
him and found him dying.—Enterprise.
TALBOTTON.
A Talbotton man captured ten prisoners
before breakfast a few mornings since.
ROME.
The Daily announces the arrival of straw
berries.
Schuman’s Biorama is in Rome.
SAVANNAH.
We liad occasion only a few day3 since to
refer to the munificence of our esteemed fel
low citizen, Mr. Edward Paddleford, in dona
ting ten thousand dollars to the hospital abont
to he established in this city for colored peo
ple. We have been informed that the same
generous donor has, within the past few days,
given to the Episcopal Orphans’ Home of this
city three thousand dollars in addition to the
donation already mentioned by ns. making a
total of seven thousand dollars.—Xetcs.
Savannah men beat Savannah women some
times. One is now in jail for that little diver
sion.
ROME.
The supply of cotton on Saturday was full,
and sold readily at 20@2flj.
Com is scarce..
SAVANNAH.
A Sjilertdul Work <f Art.—We learn that at
the solicitation of nenry Williams, Esq., Mr.
John Maier, of Atlanta, the gentleman who
painted the portrait of Judge Wayne, which is
now in the United States Circuit Court room
in Savannah, visited this city recently for the
pnipose of painting a portrait of Hon. John
McPherson Berrien, who was Attorney Gener
al daring the administration of President Jack-
son, and for two terms a member of the Uni
ted States Senate for the State of Georgia.
Mr. Maier was furnished with a daguerreo
type by Brady, and paintings by WOgus and
Healy, from which he has succeeded in pro
ducing a splendid likeness of the illustrious
deceased.
This picture was made at the special request
of the Attorney General of the United States,
to complete the portrait gallery in his office.—
We arc told that Mr. Maier has painted por
traits of Gov. Troup, Hon. Alexander H. Ste
phens, Charles Spaulding and others, which
are considered by good judges to be excellent
likenesses.
The portrait of Judge Berrien will be on ex
hibition at Mr. Schreiner's book store to-day.
UepHbTtcan.
Ou Thursday last a liou that was being
shipped by the General Barnes to New Yorfc
hroko loose, causing some consternation.
Oil Friday some wild cattle did some dam
age :iud caused some excitement; several men
and a horse were knocked down. Three of
the steers ran off, one up the hay and two np
Fort side; one fell a victim to a policeman's
pistol.
Pavements. —The report of the Committee of
the Savannah City Council on the subject of
pavements, was presented to that body at its
last meeting. The News says:
From that report it appears that the stone
pavement, in combination with iron rails,
based on the plan of the engineers, which is
represented as one of the most durable road
ways adapted to this climate and soil, will cost
one dollar and ninety cents per superficial
yard. This is by for tho gentlest estimate
ever made to pave the street* of Savannah on
her great thoroughfares, aud it becomes an
economical Council to take tho estimate and
make the experiment, nnder the report of the
committee of experts.
Wooden pavements are considered a failure,
stone including, “Granite” blocks, “Russ”
and cobbles too expensive. Fish concrete a
humbug. The council have as yet taken no
action. |
MONROE.
The Sentinel says it is informed that the
citizens of the towns of Albany and Decatur,
have enjoined the authorities of their respec
tive towns to prevent their levying the tax voted
at the recent election in aid of tho S. R. V.
R. R.
Tbe uew village Board has organized, F. F.
West, os President; E. M# Bartlett, Clerk.
Sabbath School Celebration. —On Saturday hut
the teachers and pupils of the East Macon
Sabbath School and their friends, took place
ou “The Green.” The entertainments con
sisted of songs, speeches, Ac., after which the
company took a pleasant little railroad excur
sion six or eight miles and back on the Cen
tral Road, and on tlicir return partook of &
sumptuous dinner in the new East Macon
Church. The good things having been dis
cussed, the company again returned to the
Green aud enjoyed themselves until a late honr,
in innocent amusements.
A Prominent Citizen Shot—On Saturday
afternoon between three and four o”ciock, as
Mr. John Broughton, prescriptionist in the
drug store of L. W. Hunt A Co., was walking
from dinner along on First street, between Oak
and Arch streets, he was hailed from the op
posite side of the street, by Mr. Henry G.
Ross, and he stopped to ascertain what Mr.
Ross wauted. The latter gentleman walked
across the street to where Bronghton was
standing, and asked him a question in regard to
some family difficulty which has existed be
tween them for some time past, and while Mr.
Broughton was replying, Mr. Ross drew his
pistol and shot mm—the ball entering near
the centre of the breast-bone and ranging
diagonally through the body and right lung,
passed out near the centre of the right shoul
der-blade, inflicting what his physicians say,
is an exceedingly dangerous, but not neces
sarily, mortal wound. When shot, Mr.
Broughton staggered back ogaint the fence
and fell, and his would-be murderer turned,
and walking hastily to the corner of first and
Arch streets, then started off in a brisk run
and effected his escape. Mr. B. was taken np
and carried to his residence near the Macon
Cotton Factory, where he received the surgi
cal attention of Drs. Geo. W. Holmes and
Crowell W. Johnson.
The affair produced quite a sensation
throughout the city, as both men ore well
known—the assailant having been raised here,
and the assailed having lived here since the
close of the war. He is a native we believe of
Norfolk, Virginia, and Is known as a worthy
and estimable gentleman. Ross has not been
found. The police are active.—Telegraph and
Messenger. •
Policeman Shot.—On Saturday morning
Henry W. Shaw an ex-policeman while drank
shot John Cooper a policeman. It is presumed
that Cooper was endeavoring to arrest Shaw,,
os they lxad a struggle, and while Shaw wa*
on the ground and Cooper was above him he
drew his revolver and fired, the hall passing
through Cooper’s side near the top of the
right hip bone. Shaw was arrested.
GRIFFIN.
Mercer College.—A meeting of the citizens
was held on the 9th inst, in the City Hall, at
3f. il, Judge John Still* ell in the chair, A.
D. Nunnolly acting as Secretary. Resolutions
were adopted favoring the location of the col
lege at Griffin, and committees were nominat
ed for Spalding, Henry, Pike, Meriwether,
Barks and Clayton coantics, to solicit sub
scriptions.
SAVANNAH.
Cotton for Cronstadt.—Messw. Wilder A.Ful-
lerton on Saturday cleared the hark Alamo.
(N. Ger.) Captain Weisseuhom, for the above
port, with 2,000 bales of upland ootion, weigh
ing 920,220 pounds valued at $202,448.—Rr-
publicnn.
METHODISM.
COLUMBUS.
A Painftil Accident—A lad named Prather,
some ten or twelve years old, while attending
The Church,
The editor of the Knoxville Whig—C. W.
Charlton—who was himself a member of the
Holston Tennessee Conference in ante-bellum
times, and who was an uncompromising
“Southern Confederate" during the war, thus
speaks )Jg mind oilmatters:
Perhaps it is no business of ours to say one
single word with regard to the foci that the
General Conference of the Southern Methodist
Church, now in session, in the city of Mem
phis, does not intend to change the name of
theChureh; that is to say, to get rid of the
affix, “ South." . We are, however, conducting
a free press, which simply means, we can write
our sentiments freely.
Does this great Church suppose that it can
now cany this sectional load, such as this
little word requires? Has not the tune ar
rived when it shonld wisely consider that the
times, good or bad, as they may be, will not,
cannot, must not, tolerate sectional distinc
tions and sectional animosities in the propa
gation of the Christian .religion? Tbe word
“ South" was a misnomer at the start It nec
essarily tied down this powerful organization
to certain “metes and bounds, beyond
which it could not go.
Bnt, if wrong at the start, what can saga
cious men think when it is gravely proposed,
at this late day, to let it remain? .Has there
been no change of circumstance* ? Have we
had no war—no violent revolution which swept
away old land marks, and even upheaved so
ciety and sent it adrift upon the angry billows
of agitation and strife ? Why send snch a
church forth into the worid with this little
affix sticking to its frontlets, as if it were anx
ious to proclaim its nativity and its habitation ?
As matters now exist, it should have a^ broad,
national name, so that it may push its con
quests into every part of the world. How can
it enter the Northern States with this sectional
accomplishment? Did not the church, itzelf,
recognize this difficulty when i t ^essayed ^to
establish a Conference in Illinois? If not, why
was a neic name given to that organization?
We are for wiping oat the post—obliterating
it forever, ifpot«aifa-enfl hence, we do not
think it wise, politic or just to stick to any
thing which can, in anyway, revive tbe pas
sions and prejudices of the past.
Men lounging on corners on Sunday ore ar
rested in Manaynnk, Po.
