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iJ— ^tcchig <®ta. Official Journal of llie United States. Official Journal of the Stale of Georgia. GE>ERAL GRANT. The Poor who cm mo mi, ocide the Ship or State uhit through etiet stork. THE SEW ERA Win, VnCMSAT* THE PXISCtrLZS AIS TIE PaUOT OT TBS BEmucix Pabtt, ABO Scr- port its Nokdieis. State aid Matiomal. TEEMS OP THE WEEKLY: 1 Com odo year f] do. Ctttlio of Twenty or more $1 30«w* 1 Copy all month* |1 00. THE DAILY: 1 Com otto yeor »W M. 1 Copy oix months J 00. 1 Com. loootimo It toper month. 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.