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^Vrcklii fjleu; (Eta. TERMS OF THE WEEKLY - : Official Journal of the United States nil RlrtO '•Gnd term of Monroe'; to the reveille of ottr own. They come fifth ulmiuis- | without reenutihg or abandoning those opli » entertain ami express them, apt, therefore, directly or indirectly w socially or politically of American citizenship, ariauce with our professed desire to lem seek homes in our midst Official Journal of the State of Georgia* CJE.VKli.AL. GHAXT, The Pilot who can akd will guide the Ship o? State safely through every storm. THE NEW ERA Will Vindicate the Principles and the Policy op the Republican Party, and Sup port its Nominees, State and National. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, :: JUNE 8, 1870. Tlie Xrw Dimm vaUi IMatfmm. In an advisory address, the Chairman of the , Kentucky Democratic State Central Commit- Da. F. F. Tarek is a and receipt for Subscripts account of the New Ei:a. oii zed to solicit and Job Work on Del in lit!*. After the 10th we shall discontinue the Era to all mail subscribers who are delinquent on onr books. If you fail to get your paper you will know why. the Fl it will be seen, by reference to onr dis patches this morning, Dai the Democratic Agent of the New York Associated Press was mistaken in his statement that the Reconstruc tion Committee had agreed to amend the Geor gia Bill so as to require an election in Novem ber next. This puts a very different phase npon the “ situation ” at Washington. The a’cuMoring organ (with a little o) of the Bryant Democracy, s'coMeretb a caf-alectic rat-aclysm of cat-achrestic wit over a fancied mistake in the colnmns of Thursday's Era. The x’eaMerer displays a little “method in its madness" by heading its criticism, “A Cat astrophe." It ctd-erwauls over the caption “State Metes," which appeared in the Era of Thursday, uud bumptiously tells ns to— “x’cal r Now if tbo s’caf-tcrer docs not know the meaning of the word mars, it is time for it to learn. “Mews” is a noun and signifies “an enclosed, or confined space;” and therefore “State Mews” might,- with perfect propriety, be used to denote a space in a paper, set apart for State afflux*! The aW-terer is perhaps too busy to pay much attention to words or their significations, but if Jt would keep a Web ster's unabridged on hand, »1! the time, it might avoid many ridiculous errors nut typo graphical. So, in reply, we also say “scat’ 4 the s’mf-tcrer’s “cof-aatrophe.” Tlie Grcut Roman Council. Few some days past, the cable has had a good deal to say about the proceedings of the Council at Rome. A brief glance at the news may not l>e devoid of interest The Schema de Homan* Pontifice, embracing the Inedi bility dogma, is still under discussion. The friends of the dogma are full of confidence. Absentees have been summoned to Rome, and the Curia can now count on a majority. The retirement of certain Eastern Churchmen, and the protests of a number of Catholic Powers has no effect, and Cardinal Antonalli gently intimates to France, Austria, and Bavaria that they may as well attend to their proper business and leave the Church alone. M. Venilott, the Ultramontane editor of I/Uni verse, has presented the Pope with one hun dred thousand fraucs, an emphatic proof of his approbation. The Council will probably sit all summer, or at least until the iufidi- bility. dogma shall have been adopted or re jected. Tlir German Intellect In Amrrlm There is a journal in St. Lofiis devoted en tirely to speculative philosophy The views of Hegel, Kant, Fichte, and other great Ger man thinkers, are reproduced in this periodi cal for the benefit of American readers. It is interesting to observe the changes wrought in our literature by the speculative intellet of Ger many, and U is appereut that natives of that country; who have adopted America os their home, are beginning to exercise considerable influence, social, moral, and political, npon our destinies. We see its effects spiwd out before us in tho public, prints, we hear its voice in the halls of legislation, in the school room and courthouse. In fact the Germans in this country are writing our school-books and oar law books, and are even making oar laws Among them are to be found some of the best thinkers in the world; and their amalgamation with the practiud Americans, affords the hap piest possible combination of thought and ac tion that could be mode. The possibilities yet to be evolved out of this subject, are of a grand and brilliant character. That they are not mere fancies, is demonstrated by the realities al ready accomplished. 1 tration down to the present time, no politicaf I ions, but claiming the right, ns American party has ever been uble to elect a President izens, or as men seeking American citizeii- unless it had gained strength enough to carry ' ship, the House of Representatives two vears be- j Any ntt fore. In view of this precedent, and the rapid made to ostracl approach of tho fall elections, the Democracy for this prerog; is getting nervous and figily. The leaders of j is the forlorn hojie, fully appreciate the fact that hr they cannot elect their candidate for the Pres idency in 1872, unless they can secure a inn- j jority iu the lower House of the uext'Congn Hence they are beginning to look about thi to map out their campaign and set their house in order for the contest. Unfortunately, they have no National Platform of Principles, except blind op position to issues now settled, or resistance to asures now part of the law of the laud, ey have gotten so far in the rear of all the ing issues of the day, and have so steadfastly lived in the memories of the Post, that they appear not to know their exact bearing. In deed, they seem so utterly lost iu the mazes and mists intervening between them and the People ; so completely dumb-fouuded over the confused visions of a somewhat long but fitful slumber ; so startled at the strange and altered apj>ear»nce of things, and so disconcerted and chagrined nl not being recognized even by whilom friends and acquaintances, that they know not where or how to begin a renewal of an acquaintance with practical issues or living realities. What is to be their platform ? Repudiation is now odious, even in Ohio. The XVth Amend ment is a fixed fact even in Kentucky and Maryland. Free Trade does not possess the charm it once did, even with Southern Demo crats; and Secession, State Sovereignty, Penca- ble Separation, Triple-Confederation, Wild Cat Banking—all these issues and political crotchets revive unpleasant associations, and must therefore be abandoned If therefore Democrats would hope for sne- ss, they must relax their grasp upon tho Past They must prosecute with vigor a therongh re form of their party as respects its principles, measures, its name,, and, posibly, its leaders also. Old contests which sprang ont of Slavery, must be abandoned. Opposition to Impartial Suffrage and to the issues involved in the Reconstruction policy of the Govern ment, must be abandoned also; and leaders must rely for success upon the strength of the Prin ciples of their parly (if inded they have any principles,) rather than upon a shameless pros titution of the ballot-box through fraudulent registation and gangs of repeaters, as practiced in New Y’ork City. It must reduce to practice its professions about reducing the taxes of the people whenever, as in New York, it Inis con trol over the public expenditures. It must de clare in favor of the abolition the Income Tax. It must wipe out its old record and sat isfy the people that it stands ready to vindicate the national unity and honor whenever the au- thority'of the Government is resisted from with in and from without Iu a word, “the Democ racy" must not only abandon its heresies, its old platform, its name and its leaders; but it must become Republican in fact, if not in name, by adopting, in some disguised form, the entire Platform of the National Party. Some of the abler and more practicable minds in charge of the sick and sickening Democracy fully appreciate the exigencies of the test*, uud have boldly proclaimed for an advance movement They did this even iu 1808; but the iucorrigibles aud impractica ble* among its sectional leaders, could not rise to A comprehension of tho issues of the hour, and so division and disaster was the result And so it will be again. The strength of Hie parly oo*w»«l4. «*ow, «*« m *W> lentiug prejudices uguinst the negro; in its hostility to the doctrine of paramount allegi ance of the citizen to tho Federal Government; in its blind adhesion to the dogmas of a post decade; and that Democratic leader who dares step beyond the barricades of passion and prejudice, will, like Judge Reagan of Texas, or Rosecrans of Ohio, not only cast his pearls before swiue, but place himself under the ban of those who embody “all its virtue and respectability!” tee declares that “ the affairs of the Govern ment shall bo managed and conducted by the white race." Nevertheless, “the negroes have been made voters de facto," saitli this oracle. queutly, “if colored men sec fit to vote the Democratic ticket, it is the duty of Demo crats to enceurage and protect them ”1 Other wise (L e., in case he does not “see fit” so to vote) “the negro ought not to be recognized as a political element ” in the Democratic or ganization; and consequently “ought not to be permitted to take part in the primary elec tions or conventions of the. party.” This is certainly a very subtile dictincuon. The negroes may vote for the Democratic can didates, after the nominations are mode; but they may not be allowed to have anything to do with nominating the ticket, or with con structing the Democratic platform! Nor is thi« position peculiar to the De mocracy of Kentucky. The Augusta Consti tutionalist, (one of the oldest Democratic or gans in Georgia), holds substantially the same views. That paper combats the propo sition to resurrect the Democracy upon a Chase platform. It wonts Democracy pure and simple—issues of 1850-G0 aud all—or not ut tdi. Nevertheless, in view of an elec tion this fall (which, however, it says is “ex tremely problematical,”) it behoves the De- monicy to make war on no doss”—not even the carpet baggers! “It is not necessary, says the Constitutionalist, “even to moot the question of the policy of negro suffrage;" the least said about that is.the best; but “we can simply claim the constitutional right of the State to regulate the question of suffrage for herself," and therefore (we presume) to make the issue after the election, in case of snccess! The same paper favors “any system of suffrage that works fAc best after a fair trial and experi- and hence, if the negroes should vote the Democratic ticket, and give promise of doing so for all time, “our people can be left to control the block vote" without “any loss of dignity or compromise of principle." Most assuredly ! and the Constitutionalist never doubted that the black vote in Georgia could be controlled" by Democratic influences; but it “never will admit that the negro should be recognized as a political element,” or that ‘negro suffrage is a fixed fact” The idea, in both instances, seems to be about this: The ratification of the XVth Amendment, and the late act of Congress for the enforcement of that Amendment, make the negro a voter. As an elector, his ballot is not to be despised or wholly ignored. Pend- venture he may vote the Democratic ticket; if so, well. In that event, he shall be gra ciously permitted to do so ! He will even be protected in the exercise of this high privi lege. But lest this should not be the case, Democracy reserves to itself the right to abol ish this Amendment, and make him “simply a free nigger” when it comes into power. If however, after “fair trial and experiment' the negro manifests a willingness to vote the Democratic ticket and ask no questions, then, and in that case, Democrats “can be left to control the black vote without any loss of dignity of compromise of principle!” John T.ntlirop .Wo*Icy. For once the intellect and public opin ion of the American peoplo find a repre, sentative, at the Court of St. James, who would reflect credit upon any nation. This is John Lathrop Motley, the polished scholar, brilliant historian, and profound thinker. The course pursued by this gentleman, since his arrival in England, has bcou such os to excite the warmest commendations, from the friends of the Administration, and from those opposed to it Scarcely had the press ceased to ap plaud the Naturalizution treaty negotiated by Mr. Motley, than tliu telegraph informs us that he is about to succeed in establishing nu Inter* national copyright and Patent right system be tween the two countries. This will be a fine thing for iuventors; aud the tired brain-work- mxu, who have been compelled to quietly sub mit to the systematic liferary pilfering now go ing on, will gladly welcome the tardy justice which ri cognizes their right to profit by their own labor. Inventors liavc had much to com plain of, but authors, that genus IsrilqbiD, have long been fretting over the State of affairs which rendered exertion more profitable to the idk> than to the industrious. This new treaty will odd fresh laurels to Mr. Motley’s reputa tion as a diplomatist. Folly, Two men iu Loolsfaua. went ont with their seconds, Urn other day. to fight a duel. Ser- geons were on hand onticijiating a bloody termination of the affair. The combatants didn't like tbe looks of things, and by mutual consent, when the signal was given, they dis charged their pistols at a tree instead of firing at each other. They then shook hands, de clared their honor vindicated, ami returned home to be tho laughing stock of /fie town. and t)l« Finnegan*. . And now it is announced that Mr. Tweed has “come down with the dust”—with enough at least to defray the expenses of the remnant of the Fenian army home, where they are much needed for the dirty work of the thing ♦‘Democracy. Tweed is so full of the “milk of Unman kindness" that it is continually • ‘slapping over” and “greasing" every son of J natives of a distant clime, to come and seitl Tammany who has a vote. Ga-lorions Tweed !! aud invest their means in our midst These Iliimlgru* Ion-—How to Encourage It. There la one thing upon which all men of all parties in Georgia, LO far as we know to the contrary, are agreed. AU agree that immi gration is desirable. AU profess a willingness to encourage it All are therefore presumed to be favorable to any and all legitimate, hon orable means of procuring so desirable an end. Tbe immigrant to be a valuable or desirable acquisition, should be something more than nu animal. He should be more even than a mere intellectual animal. He should have on ideal of home, and the aspirations of a psycho logical befog. This introduces him to the Social System, and to the Family relation. He wiU therefore, in the nature of things, have social and domestic ties; and, to make him a contented and valuable citizen, the wonts growing out of this relation mn»>t bo supplied. His children must be educated. This creates a necessity for Schools. A1 immigrants are not wealthy, and therefore not able to patronize Colleges and Universities. Many of them, in deed most of them, like oar own natiye popu lation, are poor but honest and worthy men. But their very scantiness of means, coupled with industry and economy, will make them all the more efficient co-laborers in the develop ment of the industrial and commercial re sources of the State. Hence the necessity for a Public School System, suoh as will place the means of education within the reach of the humblest citizen. This is a condition precedent to any and all sacessful Emigration schemes. Without this, we may indeed have serfs and peons, and homeless and hopeless ad venturers without number, but not immigrants. Skilled mechanics, enter prising traders and artificers may indeed come among, us, not to seek homes, but to make money wherewith to purchase aud beau tify homes elsewhere—thus becoming the in struments of depletion rather than accumula tion. If we would have them become citizens, we must offer inducements equal to those of fered by the States of the North aud Week In Wisconsin or lows* for instance, n skilled la borer wjll work cheaper than in Georgia, for the reason that his children may there enter an efficient and well conducted Public School, and complete their education free of cost; whereas in Georgia, it would require his entire earnings, five times over, to send his children to some distant Academy or Boarding School until their education is completed. And, for the same reason, a small farmer with a capi tal of say one thousand dollars, would invest in a home in Wisconsin or Iowa rather than ju a country whoso climate is indeed superior, but where his children must either grow up in ignorance or jvhere their education involves bankruptcy or continuous poverty. Conse quently lands in those Western States where Free Schools arc established and kept np in every sub-district, are ready sale at ten and fifteen dollars per acre, whereas in Georgia they are a drag npon the market at from three u> ton. There Is another fact connected with the sub- ject of immigration, and the investment of for eign capital in Georgia, that is worthy of atten tion. We invite the immigrant and the capitalist This last stroke of policy eclipses even thine own audacity, and that is almost Gorganian jn its brazen majesty. men have their peculiar ideas of civil polity and social pleasures, the same as we have;and not unfrequently they hold opinions directly Georgia Luilil Owner* and Immigration. A few years since, a gentleman of fortune who owned a body of unimproved laud lying within the (now extended) corporate limits o Atlanta, gave a poor but worthy and industri ous man a buil liug lot on a remote “‘Corner of his plat. This was upon the condition that the donee should build upon and mike it his home. Iu a few months, a handsome cottage I lueu b was erected, the grounds enclosed and im- I proved, aud the family installed iu their uew | home. It was the only dwelling perhaps within a quarter of a mile around. \ The re mainder of the plat was divided into residence lots, with conveniently arranged alljps, and put upon the market at accommodating terms. few mouths, over half the lots ifid been sold to first-class settlers, and tastefully ar ranged dwellings sprang up where before were unsightly gullies and red clay banks. The re sult of it all was, that a single residence lot of one hundred feet by two hundred on the same cently sold for nearly three times the sum asked for the whole ten acres in 1865! ^fhe example of the Atlanta landlord lias its moral. It is full of instruction to tVe land- owners all over the State. Georgia lns noth- ing in such superfluous abundance as lands. We simply mean by this that there are unim proved lands enough in the State to support a population twelve times our present number. Aud this population, (if it were of the right kind,) would not only make our lands twenty times inoro valuable, but would make the State twenty times richer in manufactures^ agriculture aud in commerce than she now is- Most men will admit this. The question is, how to get this additional population^-wnd in getting it, how to select it from the best ma terial—for we want none but a good^cfass.of population, not drones, paupers, vagrants and convicts. Our Atlanta friend, just Referred to, seemed to comprehend the subject. And yet the manner of his solution of the prob lem seems never to. have suggested itself to the owners of thousands of acres now held at from five to ten dollars per acre! In addition, therefore, to the conditions of school privileges and freedom of opinion and speech, as mentioned yesterday, there should be something like enterprise and liberality on the part of land owners themselves. Both are essentially necessary to induce immigration. Our State Legislature may deal in glittering generalities about population os conditional to wealth. It may extend a cordial invitation to foreign immigrants. It may even fend agents to Europe, upon comfortable salaries, charged with the duties of drumming up im migrants. All this and more has been cpne, but no immigrants yet! Meanwhile, the tide continues to pour into Wisconsin, Iowa, Kan sas and Minnesota in,one unbroken stream of living humanity! Why is this? Do yon, in deed, ask why the first cottage was built u that unsightly and desolate ten-acre lot wil the suburbs of Atlanta? Po you ask 1 that man’s property came so suddenly demand; and, consequently, why hi? un sightly community of red-clay hills and gul lies is now a beautiful villa? The same policy pursued by the land owners in the county aryl all over the State would, in time, produce like results. Do yon doubt it? Look at the sterile plains of the Northwest, where whit was a morass or a wilderness of last year, is a thrifty looking little farm this! But Georgia has no public domain? True. Neither had that surburban village of Atlanta; but its landed proprietor made one. That was the starting point He adopted that species of organized immigration, (so to speak,) that has made Wisconsin and Iowa what they ore and, he succeeded. It is organized immi gration that is making the North West Tbe **3frw Democracy” or Oliio. Even the Ohio Democracy have become ashamed of repudiation. They have adopted a platform of formidable length, but they say nothing about repudiation. This leaves Mr. Pendletou out in the cold It is likewise a virtual repudiation of the National platform of July, 18G& Iu all other respects the new structure Is fiercely orthodox. It begins by resolving that the present tariff be denounced, aud that no candidate for office is worthy of confidence who is not in favor of a low reve nue tariff. The tariff must be low enough to approximate the old hobby, ‘‘Free trade.” It resolves, in the next place, that the iuterual revenue system of the United States is “un- indnmble and oppressive in its exactions; and, in anticipation of the passage of the mea sure now before Congress for the abolition of the income tax, it makes the repeal of that acta condition to its membership! It then wants the collection of the internal revenue ensirusted to State aud county officers, as the best means of evading it! It resolves, in the next place, to “denounce the profligacy of the present Federal administration. ” Bat here is the gist of the whole matter: Resolved, That we regard the act recently passed by Congress to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment as unconstitutional, unjust and oppressive, an invasion of the rights of States, snbaenive of the best interests of the people, and therefore demand its repeal. In other wards, they want the Act repealed because it enforces a clause of the Constitu tion which the Democracy alone opposed! The XVth Amendment was bad in itself; but then its worst feature is that which gives Congress the power to enforce its provisions “by appropriate legislation.*' But for this “appropriate legislation” the Amendment might be very readily evaded, os it was in California. Hence they can get along very comfortably with the Amendment, provided it is never enforced! The platform closes with a resolviT denun ciatory of a system of National Bonks, and de mands an immediate repeal of the law creat ing them. In other words, it wonts the old “wild cat” system revived. All of which is good “Democracy!” - Hiaily-Mndc Men. One glance at a list of popular books affords a pretty correct idea of prevailing tastes, ideas and wonts. We see advertised manuals of conversation and manners; books professing to make orators, writers and scholars. These publications are very popular. Charles Au gustus buys them alL He verily believes that one hasty perusal will make hiuj a Chester field, with the wit of Tlieodre Hook and the speak ing talents of a Chatham. He thinks that they will teach him the art of writing letters which will dwarf Bryan's, or those of Junius, into comparative insignificance. Poor Charles Augustus, there is no royal road to these ac complishments. Others cannot give them to you. Native genius must create them. Learn this truth now, and savo yourself a bitter dis appointment Apart from the comic view of the subject these books and their popularity show' the disposition of our youth to bo some thing in the world, and this is 'a gratifying sign. But we never expect tp see a ready made man. “Greatness thrust upon,” etc., is contemptible. Resolve at the outset to achieve. Go in for action, sublime God-like action ?" Wf«ton . The indefatigable Weston is at it again. Not content with the puerile feat of walking one- hundred miles in twenty-two hours, he showed the New Yorkers last week that it was possi ble lo get though fifty miles in nine hours, fiity-eight minutes and fifty-five seconds. He propv.Nf- ii- \t t«> st.utle the English sporting world, but in order to ipjlke a reputation there he will have [to increase lih. iq*0cd over cue mile per hour, or he will tell behind Capt. Barclay. induce immigration, create a sort of joiut stock domain. Organization abroad for immi gration hither, is not possible unless those promoting it are able to speak positively in regard to the region awaiting settlement. Bnt Ibis can be effected only through joiut effort agreement by and between the land own ers of tho State. Until some System, based upon the principle here indicated, con be effected, our land owners will find it necessary to moderate their expec tations respecting foreign emigration. They will find it necessary to await the slower pro cess of immigration from the Northern and Middle States, and trust to the limited coloni zation which Northern former* and mechanics may find profitable. They call this aoepril affair a Tournament, whereas it is nothing more or less than an old-fashioned gander-pulling, with a ring hung up to be pulled down, instead of an un fortunate gander with his neck greased! As the Roman gladiatorial, shows were the origi nal of the knightly tourney, so the gander- pulling has degenerated into tho “Tourua- If any one doubts our theory, let him nsult Lougstreet’-s “Georgia Scenes.” So ancient and modern chivalry are alike in and iu. their ridiculous features; alike in despising honest industry and attempt ing to enslave labor; alike' in endeavoring to shackle free thought an I gagging free speech; alike iu their disposition to persecute for opin ion’s sake; alike in their contempt for the law; and alike in their desire to keep education from the ignorant. As the ancient Knight was proud of his descent from a long line of ancestral rob bers and murderers, so our modem Bayard Sidney is proud when he is able to prove that he had a great grandfather (few American families can safely trace their pedigree beyond the third generation,) though the respectable old gentleman would probably, were he olive, be heartily ashamed of his descendant It were to be wished that our modem chiv alry had some of the good qualities of its ancient namesake, with none of its manifold vices, and more of the virtues of modem civi lization; bnt as tjje world progresses, we doubt not that tho bastard thing we call “chivalry” will go down beforo the advance of education and enlightenment, os Knight Errantry was prostrated before the pen of Cervantes. The A RACY LETTER. id the •nor of ldali Road. The spirit of “investigation” which has so stirred the bile of local politicians for weeks past, seems not to have wholly omitted the I correspondents, reporters and attaches of the SPIRIT OF THE GEORGIA PRESS. Friday next... .Jos. D. Waddell compromised with the Rome Railroad for $15,000. The jury gave him a verdict for $35,000 Crops flour ishing Sheriff L. P. May dying T. W. Akxauder elected President of tho Building J aud Loan Association. TUB SAVANNAH HEWS, (DEM.) Of the bill for the enforcement of tho XVth | Amendment saitli: It remains to be seen whether the Northern people* against whom at present the Radical - I junta at Washington has no pretext for daily press. So now that “interviewing" has I ploying the government of the drum-head and become somewhat antiquated, “investigating” J bayonet, and who are yet, nominally, at Wtoy do Immigrants Avoid tbe South! Iu a recent agricultural Convention in South Carolina—which, however, seems to have been more political a partisan than “ Agricultural” —Mr. D. W. Aiken declared : “ If any man occupies my land as my equal, he mast do it after my death.” In the very next sentence, he said he wanted immigration l He did not tell us what ho meant by immigration. That is left wholly to inference. Being a gentleman himself, he wanted no gentleman to migrate to South Carolina and occupy his land, either as tenant or purchaser! In all probability, there fore, he means peonage when he says “ immi gration.” Any other construction would do violence to his notions of “equality.” It is needless to say that, as yet, South Carolina is not seriously overburthened with immigrants and, in view of such sentiments, entertained and expressed by the land owners of the State, it is not likely that she will be. Nor is this idea peculiar to the South Caro lina land owners. They have the same notions Louisiana,- as we infer from this circum stance : A large planter made an experiment for tho introduction of German labor. “He pat the immigrants into his old negro quarters, and gave them rations consisting of a peek of corn- meal, three pounds of bacon and a quart of molasses ! ” In other words, he treated them as he treated his servants before the war. Of coarse the Germans became disgusted, and left And so it will ever be. The'laud owners of the South have much to learn before they can reasonably expect immigration. Men like Mr. Aiken, for instance, mast get off of their stilts and cease to “tarn np nose at poorer men in plain clothes.” They must learn that such a policy will drive away men of spirit. It may not effect the vagabonds or Chinese jugglers ; but it will effectually keep out of the State that class of tenants and small farmers who seek homes among strangers. We are glad to know that this stnpid idea does not posses tho minds of many of our Georgia planters—especially in the Northern, Middle and Western portions ot the State. There Is perhaps less of it in and abont At- very naturally takes its place. - Under these circumstances, private papers will sometimes find their way to tbe printer; and this seems all the more natural in view of the fuct that, daring such seasons of Investi gation, papers and private correspondence cannot claim immunity from examination, the more especially when the investigators are conjured, by all that is sacred and holy, to make a “clean shucking” of the work before them. Thus it was that one of the Era reporters came into possession of the following racy letter, which he picked up, as he tells us, somewhere abont the Superintendent’s office at the State Road Depot. As this letter is very readable; and, moreover, as it is of in terest to the public, we have concluded to pub lish it and take the consequences; Western and Atlantic Railroad, Superintendent’s Office, Atlanta, Ga., June 3d, 1870. Dr. Samuel Bard, Philadelphia, Pa.—Dear Sir: Your favor of the 29th ulL, with which you surrender your free pass over this road, given ‘you in January last as editor of the New Era, aud in which you also inclose your ««wl as editor of the “True Georgian, "--thereby intimating your desire for a free pass as editor of the last named paper—has been received. I hand you, with my compliments, a free pass over our rood as editor of the “Daily and Weekly True Georgian.” I fear, however, it will be of little use to you if you really beliti e the following state ment, which occurs over your signature i your Prospectus of “The True Georgian"— ‘The State Railroad, which, under former ad ministrations, was an unfailing source of large and constant revenue, though its gross re ceipts have greatly increased, has almost ceased to contribute to the State Treasury. The road, meanwhile, suffers for want of necessary repairs, ami is actually looked upon as unsafe and datujerotts,” etc. Now, if this be true, or, if you even believe it to be true, I apprehend that yon would hardly put yourself in a position where your life would be in constant and unnecessary peril. Furthermore, if you really believe what you say iu your Prospectus, that fact will, in all probability, preclude the possibility of your ever believing otherwise; for I am persuaded that no prudent man like yonrself would voluntarily put himself in the way of positive danger or peril, merely for the pur pose of demonstrating to the world, and to his friends, that the road is “unsafe aud dan gerous,” and, consequently, that what you say is tme! Whilst I regret, therefore, the unfortunate state of your mind which will prevent yon from nsing the free pass, I hope yon will do me the justice to remember that I consider the road perfectly safe, aind, consequently, do not, by compliance with your delicately insinuated wish, mediate auything like violence to your person, or indulge the hope that you 11 may perish by the wayside." In conclusion, allow me to thank you for your warm expressions of personal friendship, and your best wishes for my happiness aud success, aud beg leave to subscribe myself. Your obedient servant, Foster Blodgett, Sup’t. least, in the enjoyment of the rights of’citi zens of a Constitutional Republic, will submit to a law which virtually strikes down that Con stitution.— [Is not the XVth Amendment a part ot “that Constitution” about which you are eternally prating?’!] THE AUGUSTA CONSTITUTIONALIST (DEM.) Has a three column panegyric upon Mr. Ste phens and his history of the war. ALBANY NEWS (DEM.) Breaks ont thusly : The spirit of democracy, the spirit of right, lingers not for a moment; like the waters of a AUGUSTA. River 10 feet 7 inches Fist aud skull fight on Broad street Saturday Randall Beverly and John Gautt arrested on suspicion * of robbliiB .aA-A.’sg—- nug=snootiug endangers the lives of citizens. William Smith, colored, has been missing for some days, and Thursday his mangled body was found under a pile of rubbish. A match trotting race came off at La Fayette race course Saturday. “Harlem Boy” won in 3:12. Police to be uniformed in gray flannel blouses, white linen pants and Panama hats. The Chronicle and Sentinel claims for Augusta an equal population with Atlanta. ... .Summer fights, frequent Recent cool sparkling rivulet, it moves along unsilent, and I weather caused by spots on the sun. At least, » **» the Cbronide ,na Sentinel. by its achievements in the future. Thc teeomo Tllx . [The achievements of tbe Democracy! Sec TU e proposition to repeal the Income Tax the hundred thousand Confederate graves, and continues to excite discussion in Congress. It a land filled with widows and orphans.] j occupied the House all day Friday, hut on ad- the yumds Basssc. (nr.ir.) jourmneut was had without a vote or any defi- Iu the lace of the Beport of the “Corruption “t* results. The debate, however, disclosed Committee,” males this statement for the hen- the fact that the opposition to thc Tax is rap- cat of those of its readers who may have never hlly gaining ground ; and it is not improbable read that Beport: that members will ultimately yield to the de- It was not the amount of tho bids, but tho uiands of their constituents, and repeal this character of the currency that defeated Bui- f ock*8 scheme. If he had offered greenbacks nstead of Brunswick and Albany Railroad bonds he might have stood some chance of success. But what loyal Radical Senator) in his sober senses would sell his vote for $10,- 000 Brunswick and Albany Railroad bonds, which are to be repudiated whenever we have a legislature representing the will of the hon est people of Georgia. [Why did not the Banner let the Committee say what they thought about it? No, that would not do. The baseless charge must be kept up, even iu the face of the fact that it is utterly false.] THE LAGRANGE REPORTER (DEM.) ’.ante than iu almost any other locality iu the 3E? And whirt is th» couseauenc':? Whilst the availability of immense bodies of land, either , as part of tho public domain, property of the railroad companies o»* as the property of those large laud owners who, to Chivalry, Ancient aud Modern. It is sometimes an interesting study to trace the derivation of words, and the signification which becomes attached to them in the ccnrse of time. Thus, in the case of the word “chivalry,” at first signifying riders on horse-back or cavalry, it came to be synonyme for ’ generosity, bravery, hu manity and other noble qualities. Gentle men in the olden times went on horse-back, the commonalty on foot—the one clad in armor, the other in rags. The knightly vow of service to God, the King and the ladies, which bound all gentlemen, Aed a sort of ro-, mance abont the ancient Cavalry or Chivalry, until at last, qualities were ascribed to the rider on horse-back which in many cases he did not possess, and a respect was paid him which he did not deserve. With some good traits, ancient Chivalry had many of the meanest. It did something to redeem the world from the pandemonium of the dark ages, but nine-tenths of the old knights coold not read or write their liames; and the knowledge of letters would hav« been wholly lost if literature had depended on them for its preservation. Yet they were after a fashion honorable, faithful to their words, true to their equals; while they were false, treacherous, -tyrannical and cruel to their brother men, if they counted them feriors. Chivalry was but another name for an oppressive Aristocracy which the world was well rid of. But we have a modern “chivalry" which apes tho ancient in all but its few virtue*. The new-fangled article has all its prototype’s meanness, vanity and blood-thirsty vindictive ness, all its disposition to tyranny without its power, but none of its honor, none of its truth, none of its courtesy and litde of its courage. It robs by slander better uien than itself of their characters; it murdeis when assassination is a safe operation; it lies, and is fearfully indignant when told that it lies. It. oppresses all whom it dares to oppress; in sults any who are not in a position to resent insult; tramples on the weak, and cowers cow ardly before the strong. It turns its dirty pen aud wags its filthy tongue against the reputation of innocent women what it eau do so with impunity; and its most (valorous crusade is .against “Yankee school-tuarms,” Its highest exploit is to proclaim through the newspapers, to tho universal public, that it is going to violate tho law' by fighting a duel, and then to proclaim that the quarrel is eided “by the interposition of friends.” As the knights of old had their Tournaments, which were serious affairs, aud in which kings were sometimes slain, and broken ribs and cracked skulls were common, so our modern “chivalry” lave what they call “Tournaments,” in which youngsters, clad not in weighty iron armor, blit in a fan tastical costume something like 51 circus- rider's umble around an enclosed yard and try to poke long sticks through a brass ring! th»i consequence? Charleston is rapidly degenerating iuto a third- class city, Atlanta is rising from her ashes with rapidity that astonishes even Chicago! Charleston has lost nearly one-third her pop ulation and more than half her business, with in the last ten years. Atlanta has doubled her population and perhaps tripled her business within the last four years! In many sections of South Carolina, lands are not worth the tuxes paid npon them, for the reason that nobody will either buy or rent them. In Georgia we have an increased demand and an ascending scale of prices. The State bonds of South Carolina are next to worthless. Those of Georgia are ninety-five and ninety-eight higher than those of any other Southern State. Whenever thc land owners iu South Carolina learn to forget their prejudices, and to successfully solve the problem of Free Labor, the crisis will have been passed. They will then realize that it is a community of small farmers, composed of spirited, industrious and frugal men, that give wealth and power to a State. Large plantations now wholly idle, or else badly cultivated and without respecta ble improvements, must be ent up into small tracts to suit the wants of purchasers. And when a transfer is made or a lease negotiated, it must be without any of those feudal heredi taments which impose upon the neur purchas er or upon the lessee a species of. social peon age. Otherwise, worthy settlers will become disgusted; and betake themselves to other lo calities, where no such peculiarities attach to the soil. ’ ' The “Middle Purty.” The “third party” in Tennessee is having a sickly childhood. It is still in its swaddling clothes, and is being literally dosed to death by the wet nurses that have \\ in charge. It lias been christened three times by distinct names, and now it is awaiting baptism under a fourth. It was first “Conservative," then “Union Conservative,” “Conservative Demo cratic,” and now it is to be known as the ‘^Peo ple’s Party,” and to be organized (by old Dem ocratic leaders) under the disguise of “Fann ers’ Clubs.” All this is simply nonsense. There are but tw'o parties jkr'Tennessee as in Georgia and elsewhere, the Republican and the Democratic. There is no middle ground, for the simple reason that there are UP Hying issues not made by tho former or opposed by the latter. Soured and disappointed leaders, out of office and position, want a third party; the People do not Doicil with Tliclr Own Phy*le. Of course everybody expected the Demo" cratic press to oppose tho bill for the enforce ment of the XVth Amendment, just as it op posed the ratification of the Amendment itself. And a party that deliberately violated the XTVth article, even in the face of a solemn oath not to do so, would not hesitate to evade the XVth, if oppostunity should offer. This was not unexpected. But then we did give some of our Democratic friends credit for more prudence than to threaten a violation of the last named article in advance of an oppor tunity to do* so, and thus hasten the passage of an Act which they now condemn! Marriott Women in England. The liberal protection to the rights of mar ried women under the laws of Georgia, has been the subject t>f much invidious comment It is, therefore, interesting to note the fact tbit there is now pending in the British Parliament a hill which gives to married women exclusive control over their property, acquired before aud after marriage. It has passed the second reading, and will probably u Tho tendency, the world over, seems to bo in favor of recognizing married women as entitled to justice as a matter of right, instead of letting it go as kissing does—by lavor. C. A. PlllVbury. The readers of The Constitution have doubt- -!«. ss beru ii.-'-U edified if not instructed the Washington correspondence of that paper in which a “penny a line” correspondent over the signature of “Argus" has made the most reckless, extravagant and false charges against Governor Bullock. We simply give the testimony in full of C. A. Pillsbniy alias “Argus” before the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate, to show how a Bohemian can write the most damning charges, and when put on oath, testify that he knows nothing of auy facts to sustain them! A “hired scribbler’s” conscience is very easy. Charles A. Pillsbnry sworn and examined. By the Chairman: Question. What is your business in Washing ton?—Answer. I am the correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette. Question. Are you the writer of the article in the Baltimore Gazette of the 19th of April, containing Hm following paragraph: “Rumors of Bullock’s lobby schemes liave at last reached the ear of the Senate. It is a little singular ibis body should have been so long finding ont that Bullock was bargaining for the votes of its own members, and hat. stated in this correspondence of Friday last, offered bonds indorsed by the State of Geor gia to a Senator for his vote against the Bing ham amendment On motion of Mr. Edmunds, the Judiciary Committee has been authorized to examine into the matter. There is under stood to be ample evidence to convict Bollock of attempted bribery. ”—Answ er. I am. Question. State upon what you based that statement—Answer. Upon a paragraph taken from ills-Washington ounaapondeane of: the Richmond Dispatch of somo days previous. By. Mr. Stewart: Question. Who is that correspondent?— Answer. I do not know positively. The Richmond Dispatch contained this statement from its correspondent: “Railroad bonds in dorsed by the State of Georgia have been offered to secure votes against the Bingham amendment to the * Georgia bill. In one in stance this can be proved. The Senator who was to have beep influenced has declared his intention to vute for the amendment, and the party proposing the trade was promptly ex posed to the friends of the amendment” By the Chairman: Question. On that statement you based your letter to the Baltimore Gazette, containing the extract which I have read?—Answer. Upon that and a paragraph in tho Evening Star of this city to the effect that the bonds hod been offered to two Senators or relatives of Senators. I do not recollect exactly the tenor of the article. Question. Have you that article?—Answer. No, sir. Question. Hud you quY other basis for this article in the Baltiniarc Gazette than that you have stated?—Answer. Nothing more than that, except that it has been a general sub ject of comment here that Bullock was lobbying, and I supposed he woqlil buy anybody he could. Question. What makes you suppose that?— Answer. From his own character. Question. Do you know any fact going to show that he Las used or offered to use means to influence votes?—Answer. No. I do not know it of my own personal knowledge. I have no acquaintance whatever with him. Question. Ilnve you heard of his having used means in any direction other than from these newspaper reports?- 5 ” Answer. Only these reports aud general statements made at various Question. Have you any knowledge from information or otherwise of means being used by anybody in respect to the Georgia question?—Answer. No, sir, I have not, otherwise than by distributing pamphlets, and such things as that. Question. Have you from information any knowledge which you oould give that would put the Committee upon the trace of any facts going to show that any means have been used m respect to this matter?—Answer. No, sir; 1 do not think f could. Broadway Brigand*. Brignimls are not confined lo the classic soil of Greece. They live and move and have their being in the great American Metropolis. A few nights age two men invited a diamond merchant into their room at the St. Nicholas, promising to show him some diamonds, and then and there robbed him of his money and personal ornaments. All this was Jjone in one of tho first class hotels of tho city! Tho scoundrels succeeded in making their escape, and their bold adventure is the talk of the city. Is still troubled about its social equals. That’s a private matter—not political. THE ROME COURIER (DEM.) Says Conservatism is synonymous with Cow ardice. It says the right place for every man opposed to the Republican party Is in the Dem ocratic fold, os there are but two parties, the Republican and the Democratic. THE.SAVANNAH NEWS (DEM.) Says of the Act to enforce the XVth Amend ment: This is the vilest law ever enacted, because it practically abrogates all State authority over the personality and the manner of voting, and indeed, almost everything else. It prescribes duties for State officers, it annexes Federal pen alties, to be enforced by Federal officers in Federal Courts. It obliterates the last vestige of State Rights and establishes The Empire. Bat it will be overthrown. The day of deliv erance is dawning. [The prediction is rather indefinite as to time, bnt we presume it is satisfactory.] THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN, (DEM.) After quoting extensively from recent emi gration statistics, says: The Germans ore moving in the matter.— What are onr Irish fellow citizens doing to wards this great and desirable accomplish ment ? What are the Southern men doing to encourage our German and Irish fellow-citi zens iu the work ? Iu climate, we have at the South almost every variety of the Temyerato zone—from the mountains to the seacost. Iu soil we have, without exception, every variety. And in products of mines, agricultural staples; water power/or manufactures; railroads for transportation; and seaports for commerce, we could maintain ourselves without any ex ternal aid. All the advantages-are to be de veloped. For this, the element we need is population. THE NEWNAN lnaau), (DEM.) Iu the course of its remarks on the “Georgia Bill,” says: We would suggest u> the people of this State, in that event, not to grow restive, as delay increases our chances for ^investment with all of our political rights, becalm every day witnesses increased divisions in the Itoai. cal ranks, hastens the hour of that parti’s de mise, and the consequent return of Demo cratic rule. Radicalism was born with the negro’s proiuiuent adveut iuto political measures, aud will naturally die when Cuffee leaves the sfage. He is hastening off, the Democratic Columns are advancing, and what Georgian w'ould not consent to n delay in Congressional action on the Georgia bill, if, thereby, our friends and not our enemies should have the power of determining our fate? Democrats, delay, iu this matter, “breeds danger,” but not to us! [We have often expressed the opinion that none but The revolutionary Democracy now stand opposed to the admission of Georgia without restrictions. The men who represent the material interests of the State desire au ending of the wrangle. None hut disap pointed Democratic leaders and adventurers desire u perpetuity of strife.] • odious aud unconstitutional import. Tho resolution of Congress in the first in stance, in obedience to which Incomes are taxed, was simply a war measure. At the time, there was doubtless a necessity for it, and all true patriots yielded a cheerful compliance. But now that the war has been over more than four years, and consequently that the exigen cies which called the measure into existence have passed, the Tax itself should be repealed. There is no longer a necessity for it; conse quently no longer any valid reason for the ex istence of a measure so repugnant to the spirit of the Constitution. The revenae of the Gov ernment is ample, without this tax, to liquidate the public debt iu a very short time; but if it shonld be thought desirable not to diminish the public revenue, then let the duty be in creased npon Imports not of prime necessity, and thus afford protection to Home Manufac tures os well as relief to the citizen from an odious species of Inquisitiod that contrasts so strongly with our free institutions. “Onr Boy*.* T Elizabeth Cady Stanton has a son, which fact is not universally known. This son has just completed his Collegiate course, and is preparing himself for tho lecture-field the coming winter. His name is Henry, that is,. Henry Stanton. His snbject is announced to- be “Our Boys,” from which it would seenn that he does not propose giving ali hi* time and talents to the “woman question..*' although he is a single man. If he has a tithe of his mother's talents, en ergy and courage, he will make his mark. The same intellectual qualities that have made heir the foremost woman of America, will make Henry one of the first men in America. We Jliall therefore look for the report of kis. first intellectual effort with more tbAUoc<&m*y u»- ? terest, the more especially ok tho title of his forthcoming lecture would seem to indicate his purpose, take “tho man-side" of the ques tion !” Lolft Mont ex nuit ln-r Daughter. New York always has a senation on hand. Edith, the pseudo-daughter of Lola Montez: and King Ludwig, of Bavaria, is lecturing to the Gothamites on the wrongs of her mother.. Whether Edith is the daughter of a King is a question. Her notorious mother was for some time tbe mistress of Ludwig. Her influence converted the dull uud respectable capital of' Munich intobne of the gayest and most im moral cities on the continent. She had a; nice time there with her pet dogs, until at. last the enraged populace rose in their anger * and kicked out king, strumpet* dogs and all!! From *hat time, her career is familiar, enough: to every on*, if the daughter has the mother w genius, she will am^^eed in creating a sensa*- tion; but if she expeew to create sympathy' over the wrongs of Lola, she » perhaps sadly mistaken. Another Spanish Oatrugr, Oscar Cespedes, the son of the Cuban lead er, has been executed by the Spanish com mander De Rodas. And thfa is lo be the fate of every Cuban who falls into the hands of the Spaniards. How long fa that to Iasi? When will the United States, the natural champion of liberty in the New World, rise, lion-like, in the path of tyranny and proclaim that the Old World shall plant neither foot nor princi ple upon American soil? STATE NEWS. By Lut Night** Mail to the Era-] AUGUSTA. Judge Levy granted an order releasing Hoepler on condition that he paid the jail fees. River measures 11 feet 3 inches. .. .Weather warm... .Fifty-three dogs shot in one day by the police... .Steamer-Swan arrived. THOMASTON. Wheat crops good. Moor rain. Superior Court meets July 11th. COVINGTON. Fine rains. Crops looking well Jesse | Lamb lias returned to his family. He was pardoned by the Governor,. ..Warm weatlior. The Crop*. Crop accounts from Louisiana are extremely favorable. Com from wagons sold in portions of South. Carolina last week at $1 CO per bushel Refreshing rains have fallen in nearly every section of Alabama during last week. The cotton crop on both sides of the Ar-. kansas promises fine. The com is not so prom ising. The drought has b^fen very severe on eafetn* in some parts of Georgia, especially in the red lands, where it is dying out It is feared the hail storm in Southwestern Virginia hist week Injured the wheat crop, as a great deal of it was headed. New potatoes in Savannah are worth $4 per SANANNAH. Ray street is to have a wooden pavement. Colored hospital to ho built.,,. Richard son & Barnard cleared the ship Rivfal for Liv erpool with about3,000bales cotton... .Mason picnic on St John’s day. JJ;In the Wade Col lins case, the jury hml not returned a verdict Friday night River 8 feet 4 inches Cho- The Georgia oat crop promises to be a failure. The Valley of Virginia has never presented a more flattering appcaranco than this spring. The wheat generally is fine, the oats looking well, tho grass luxuriant, and the com prom- ‘ ising. Reports from Plaquemine Parish, La., say the rice crop this year will not reach 60,000 « barrels rough rice; the demaud is active; the , stock on hand is about 3,000 barrels. A Texas paper says the weather in that sec-, tion has been delightful. The fields present^ ral Association Concert a success “Irene’ j the. appearance of newly-swept parlors, th. bought by Tatuall Boat Clnb Money draw er of T. B. Chisolm robbed Markets full of everything.... J. W. Lathrop building an ele- gaut private residence German Immigra tion Aid Society have a meeting soon....Peo ple going North in large numbers... .Chapel of the Sisters of Mercy nearly finished. BRUNSWICK. Town improving. People coming in to set tle. Weather fine. Crops promising. COLUMBUS. Cotton market dull J. M. McNeil ad mitted to the Bar. Opelika train with Pres ident Wadley and Staff ran off the track Satur day. .. .Saturday the hottest of the season Tom. Moore bitten on tho nose by a dog,,,, Vegetables doing well BAINBIDGE. Adam Hines dead after two hours illness./ Firemen’s parade last vcc-ek a graud affai* r> Survey of Baiubridgo aud Quiuey completed. MONROE. More rain. Streets muday..’Small Pox in- creasing. ...Corn doiug veil. Oats gone np.. Cotton improving. J .YME1UCCS. Rains. Crops promising Much interest manifested iu the Railroad, from Americus to Newnau... .GoodTemplars flourishing. ROME. Dr. J. M. Trotter lectured Saturday. Ho is looking out suitable locations for Virginia and European colonies.. Excursion down the Coosa I com to tassel and the cotton to form squares. An enterprising Knoxville firm, in the brOom manufacturing business, being nnab) 0 to procure a sufficient supply of raw mater* have leased a farm and planted it all iu > room com, which is now looking well. T’, e ^ also sent out a largo quantity of t the country, ami tUo produet East Teniiesaea xvUl bo r To® ondentof the Eouisville Journal says, . .£ orn promising. Oottou m up with* rot d sUlDdandwo) h L Labor iu this part ot UncIe ^o^et- ™-dant—no scarcity. Not au Tuf° vvn r 4 y .il lies uncultivated this year. 25 1 ^ * .eudments, under the healthful ^ a considerable quantity ot whit a rjyJRjf' o^ntly imported from Kentucky, P.vw <eo ant \ Georgia, are doing remarka- Crops all .planted in the best of V/ .er, with a reasonable assurance of good -dlturc." The Baton Rouge Sugar Planter says: “A peculiarity particularly noticeable about the weather is in the cold nights we now have. Toward daybreak a blanket or heavy coverlet is necessary for comfort, and from that time until the sun is up it is quite cooL Of course it has an effect upon the cane, retarding its growth, while it is of no particular beuetic to cotton and com. The writer has a vivid recol lection of the chilly nights of the month of May, 1833, when as late as the 20th, the good people of this vicinity had not entirely ! thrown aside their heavy spring clothing. The year proved fruitful, but it was a sickly one.” The crop news from oil parts of the country, except California, is most encouraging. Cot ton, wheat, com aud oats promise au abun dant harvest, and tho indications are that fruit will be plentv. Even grapes are said to bo earlier and better than they have been for - years.