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Official Jonrnal of the State of Georgia.
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ATLANTA, GEOBGIA, AUGUST S, 1870.
The Ugblatnre.
An avalanche of new bills was introduced
into the House Monday, seme of .them- bear
ing upon questions of importance;, others not
so indispenoiblo os to anthorisds their pro
longed discussion when they come up for final
action - •’sort)
In tire Senate, the proposition to reconsider ,
the voto of Friday, on the “election
lion," was laid on the table.
was made to prevent an
of public opinion, and to
of Beconr,traction by threats
execration, and ostracism. Ono
ranting demagogue even went so far as to ad
vise wives to leave their husbands-ih case tho’y
would not bo dissuaded from voting for Re
construction I Other speakers invoked the
rity upon all who dared to
'outrage the sense of a virtuous people” by
advocating “negro snflmge” as provided in
the Acts of Congress known as the Reconstruc
tion acts.
And the mushroom “Democracy” generally
approved this plan of making a man's politi
cal convictions the test of his “respectability”
They sought to introduce political andpartr-
into social life, into the
churches, and into the family circle ; and an
honest expression opinion was, if adverse to
their way of thflHKng, an occasion for per
sonal fends and discord between neighbors
and friends.
It was a desperate expedient of desperate
men. It was the. logic of block-heads and
imbeciles who sought political prominence at
the expense of-the peace and order of society.
ItxrSs'bom oi the same spirit that put Galillio
to the rack for Announcing a truth in advance
of his times:- Hone but ignoramuses, knaves
*, jpr revolutionists or social outlaws will ever re-
to it. Men whohad the slightest claim
to intoUigsne or character were not in-
Bdi^lh They scorned alike the threats
and tho friendship of men so utterly destitute
or morality. An honest con-
be stifled into silence- in this
way. Thertrae men of 18C7 who honestly be
lieved Hat Reconstruction under the plan pre-
proscription,
AVo learn that ono of tho Republican Sena
tors, wbo is also a minister of the gospel in
good standing, was refused permission to _
preach in an adjoining town on Sunday htsL^ggU»yy°“gy e! «> : .» u c ' ,D f id « reJ '
Tho reason given for such refusal, was the
that ho had voted tor the substitute offered by
Senator Smith of the 7th district for the prof
ami do and resolutions of Senator Campbell.
This species of proscription is the sarno old
political tactics of the Hi Hites which lias kept
the State out of the Union, and if it is per
sisted in, will be the means or preventing onr
admission in December next-
AVhcn will tho revolutionary Democracy
learn tliat this is a fire country and that men
may enjoy and exercise their political opin
ions within the limits of law, independent ot
tho threats and intimidations of those who
would substitute force for argument?
Is tiiero any man in this State at tills late
•lay, so groat a fool ns riot to understand that
the Congress of the United States is pledged
to sustain its supporters in the South, or to
beliovo that Congress will hesitato to exercise
its flower through a loyal, firm aud patriotic
President?
Wo wonld advise the leaders of the new
revolutionary movement to pause and reflect
upon tho filet that the i-eoi-ee are for peace
and order, and are oppaKd to any and nil
action which will lead Congress to keep tho
Stato ont of the Union and subject to military
authority.
The Georgia Senator*—The Ian
The assumption of tho revolutionists, that
the Constitution provides for on election this
full, presupposes the legality of the Legisla
ture of 18(18. And this necessitates the fur
ther assumption that the Act of Congress of
December last was an usurpation, or rather
an act of revolntion. If revolutionary, then
it follows, that the organization of January,
1870, was illegal and revolutionary; and if
that be so, then tho present Legislature is an
illegal body, and this notwithstanding the tact
that it has been prononneed by the Federal
authorities to be “tho first and only legal Leg
islature organized in Georgia since the war.
The issue, then, is, was the Legislature of
1808 a'legal'body? Congress has decided
that it was not If not legal, then its mem
bers never entered upon their constitutional
term of office, beeanso the Constitution was
never of force. Under tho rulings of Con
gress, that body never bad any authority to
elect United States Senators—no more right,
in fact than bad tho Legislature of 18CC.
The clpirn, therefore, of Messra Hill and
Miller to seats in tbo United States Senate,
lsisoil upon the hypothesis that Congress vio
lated tho Constitution, in setting aside the
Stato Legislalnro of 1808 as illegal! In this
respect it does not differ very materially from
tho claims nrged by tbo friends of Messra
Johnson and Stephens, in 1807. Tho princi
ple involved is -about the same in both cases:
at least in so tar as it involves the legality
the Acts ot Congress setting aside the Legis
lative bodies to which each set of Senators
owe their election.
Wo con readily understand, therefore, why
the friends of Messrs. Hill and Miller vvant an
election this fall. Such an election wonld bo
construed as an endorsement of tho proposi
tion that the organization of 18G8 was legal;
- consequently that it had authority to elect
Senators. And these nro the parties that
charge the sin of selfishness upon others! An
election gives them a short term in the United
States Senate, by practically recognizing the
legality of the illegal body that elected them,
and denying tho legality of tho Acts of Con
gress !
As tho terms for which-Messrs. Johnson and
Stephens have not yet expired, and as their
eleetiqn is abont upon the same footing as that
of Messra Hill and Miller. and os they perhaps
come nearer representing tho people of the
State than do the last named gentlemen, we
suggest that Mr. Hill and Dr. Miller retire and
yiold tho place to cx-Gov. Johnson and Alex
ander H. Stephens!
Tho following is the preamble and resolu
tion of Senator Smith, of the 7th District,
adopted in tho Senate by a volo of 21 to 14,
os a substitute for tho preamble and resolu
tions of Mr. Tweedy, of tho House :
Mr.-SMITH, of the fith, offered the follow-
ng as a substitute for tho whole:
Whereas, The constitutional term of the
several officers of this Stato, including thnt of
this General Assembly, ore necessarily de-
Rendont upon tho timo when under the sever
al acts of Congress the constitution goes into
operation as the paramount law, freed from
military influence; and
Whereas, The act of Congress of Jnly 15,
1S70, does not fix said time, and the same
cannot not bo definitely settled, nntil Con
gress shall decide by tlic actual admission of
onr Senators aud Representatives; and
Whereas, It is unwise farther to complicate
affairs by the election of new officers while the
period when the State Government ns such
under the constitution, bfms Its existence is
uncertain. Therefore,
Resolved, That the General Assembly so
shape- its legislation as that no, election shall
1k» hold; for the various officers provided for
by tho constitution, until Congress, by the
admission of onr ticuotora and Representa
tives, or in some. other way shall definitely
determine whether tli6 constitution of this
State is held to go into operation as the para
ninnut law iu 1868 or in 1870.
best thing for the people of the State
imitated hot to say so. And they so voted
wtfen their sincerity was pnt to the final test*
And wlrnt was the resnlt? Did their wives
lemre them in accordance with tho mephitic
instructions of a reckless c&magogno and
his disciples? Nay, verily! Six months after
wards we saw persons importuning for posi
tions and favors at the hands of the very men
whom they had essayed to insult and ostra
cise ! And in . general, the very creatures
who were loudest in their advocacy of the
social and political outlawry of Reconstruc-
tionists and Republicans, becatne the most
truckling and importunate after the election!
And so it will be again. Mark well this
prediction ! Tho same weak and contcmpti.
bio fcjfecies of warfare is inaugurated to-day
to prevent the consnmation of Reconstruction
that was inaugurated to prevent its incipiency.
Tho some threats are made, and the* same
anathemas are hurled at tho men who now
dare to stand up and maintain in the State
Senate, what they honestly conceived to be
right. The object is to intimidate and to
overawe by a forced public sentiment. What
a miserable subterfuge! What a shallow pre
text ! The act of Congress of July 15th, 1870,
places tho State Government for the first
timo upon the basis of the' Constitution,
and therefore leaves the question of an elec
tion with tho new Legislature, thus constitu
ted. Their decision will bo final. There is
no appeal, except to that Congress which has
refused to order an election in 1870: And now
because a large majority of tbo Senate have
decided that an election before tho final ad
mission of the State, wonld bo unadvisablc,
there arises a howl from those who seek oc
casion to prevent the safe and speedy restora
tion of the State, in December next But this
howl will subside as soon as tho final vote
taken. • The Legislature will then proceed to
carry ont the provisions of the Con
stitution and put tho State iu a position
contemplated by tho frame ra(of.I*at instru
ment; ami in less than six months, the very
political adventurers and disappointed lenders
who seek an election through revolutionary
means, will deny that they ever seriously
meant what they said! It will be to them
what tho record of September, 18G8, was, a
fountain of bitter memories. And as the peo
ple held them responsible for tho evils and
the delay which that act of folly entailed, they
will hold them to account for this second re
bellion against tho constitnted authorities,
of the State.
tho District Commander,
upon the heels of this,
was Mr. Blodgett’s Homestead .measure.
This also passed, by the Republican
majority; and Congress, after making one or
two alterations—more verbal than real, so as to
admit of no construction adverse to the
Federal.Constitrition—accepted the measure os
part of the new Constitution. - And, in April
ISO'S, the people ratified, the proposed Consti
tution by a majority that left the-minds of
fossil politicians no longer in donbt of tho
fact that tho sceptre had indeed “departed
from Judah."
Of course the party and the men who had
thus responded to the demands of the masses,
became obnoxious to a class of politicians
who had outlived their era. Efforts were
made to hound down the men who could thus
strike tho popular heart and champion the
cause of the People. This was not unexpected.
On tho contrary, everybody looked for It Bat
the time is not distant when the party and. the
men who thus espoused the cause of the toil,
rag millions, wQl receive the thanks and com
mand the admiration of all classes, for thus
inaugurating a measure of public polity that
is destined to make Georgia one of the greatest
States of tho Republic by elevating her citizen
ship and laying the ' foundation for solid
prosperity and contentment among her peo
ple. .
iptly ratified ' vriU resist attempt to execute the law
| constitution except as w* (Democracy); have it
The gist of the whole business is, that
less the present legal Legislature
unless it make valid, tho election of
Hill and Miller by declaring that the
tive organization of 1868 was valid,
the constitutional term of the members com
menced in 1868, instead of with tbo admission
of the State; then, and in that case, these
revolutionary agitators will inaugurate a
hellion against the constituted authorities of
the State, and thereby violate their parole
(some of them at least) as prisoners of the
late Confederate Army.
The tune once was when the “Democracy' 1
me* argument by argument; but since the
time when it invoked the arbitrament of arms
to support the dogma of secession, the party
erotic Member of the Legislature,” published
seems incapable of other argument than tfcat in the Intelligencer a few days ago, saysr
of force.
Congress, by a large majority, refused posi
tively to enact that the Constitution of Geor
gia authorized on election in 1870; and as the
question as to when the election shall be, can
only be decided by Congress or the General -excuses (or a violation of the Constitution only
Assembly of the State, any appeal to arms
from the decision, when made, wonld be
suicidal. It would be rebellion in its xqostag-
Piiblic Debt ot the T«y> Belligrrnnt
tbau even that of England,
lion lfohka is, perhaps,
nd j*et five coll
ate to sup-
lwjt an aggressive war for a longer period
tipu twelve months, upon the scale projected
t is not ao much
debt is the smallest,
, of any of the
Franco goes to war under the pressure of a
heavy national dobt Already her minister of
Finance has. mado an effort for a supplemen
tal credit of five million francs. This sum; if
obtained, makes the national bnrthen larger regulation; for it is a notorious fact that a well
The Homestead-Exemption Law.
The benefits of a jadicions Homestead law
can never be folly appreciated nntil the sys
tem has had time to be fully inaugurated. It
requires time, first for the poor man to
moke the money wherewith to buy a home
stead; and, then, when this preliminary step
is passed, it requires time to make a judi
cious selection, and bestow the necessary im
provements to mase that homo attractive.
But the benefits of the system are already
seen in tho increased hope, industry and fru
gality of onr laboring men and artisans.
Under tho operations of the Home
stead-exemption law, every poor but
worthy man feels that, in time,
may 'become the master of a small tract of
land whereon to erect a home for his family.
This stimulates industry and economy. It
plants hope in the breast of the toiling masses.
Its tendency is to convert a dissatisfied and
restless population into cheerful, permanent
and reliable citizens. It gives new impetus to
business, tones np the industrial and moral
sentiment of the community; permanently
identifies the masses with the State, elevates
the standard of citizenship and strengthens
the government by making every citizen a part
owner of the soil of the State.
The Feudal system of the Middle ages,
bound every man, from the king to the peas
ant, to the soil. It made every man a soldier,
and thus as a military jiower, made tho coun
try adopting it, invincible. But it lacked one
thing. It lacked humanity. Its tendency was
to dwarf the intellect of the laboring classes.
It mado tho tenant tho vassal of the feudal
lord.*It denied to tho vlUien those Equal, Civil,
and Political Rights which is the strength of
tho American system. It made the lord in
Chief, the sole, ultimate proprietor of the soil,
and his subordinates were interested only in
so far as the nse of the soil was- vouched sftfe
by it
But our Homestead system embodies all the
strength sought to bo secured by the Feudal
system, without entailing its slavish or barba
rous features. It seeks to make every man a
partner in tbo soil of bis country, and thus to
interest him personally in its defense; and it
seeks, at the some time, to make each citizen,
however humble, tho political cqdal ot the
greatest land-owner. It seeks further to stim
ulate enterprises to elevate the -moral and in
tellectual status of tho masses, by on appeal
to Iheir virtuous impulses and to their lauda
ble ambition. It is the forerunner of
higher type of civilization which is supposed
to culminate in-on educated, contented popu
lace, and which gives to a democracy the guar
antee of stability. Its tendency is to elevate
the moral sense of the masses, by affording
them the means of securing attractive homes.
It is tho greatest auxiliary of a Public School
System, and Urns becomes an admirable police
Literary—The South
This sterling literary periodical will, after
October next, become the “organ” of the
Methodist Episcopal Church (South.) For
the lost four years its career has been one of
remarkable brilliancy, and its readers will,
many of them, regret that it is now to lose Its
distinctive literary character and become a de
nominational exponent
The last number, for >July, presents a very
attractive table of contents. The following sub
jects are discussed:.Human Nature; The Bible
and Egypt; Derby's and Bryant's Iliad; The
Esthetics of Friendship; Birds and Flying
Machines; Hamlet; Progress of Astronomy in
the Nineteenth Century; Ireland in 1870, and
Gladstone’s Ecee Homo.
The first of these essays is probably by
Bledsoe himself, and among other objects of
interest, discusses the nature of the influences
operating npon the framers of our Constitu
tion. Jefferson is mentioned as a disciple oi
Rousseau; a believer in-the Social contract
theory, and, from the nature of his studies,
disorganizer on principle.
Among the “Book Notices” is a scathing
review of J. Wood Davidson's “Living Wri
ters of the South.” Dr. Bledsoe literally
grinds this absurd production to powder be
neath his sledge-hammer blows. And it would
be difficult to select a book more open to crit
icism, ridicule and condemnation. After cru
cifying several of Mr. Davidson's pet peculiar
ities of style, the critic selects one passage as
“capping the climax of transcendentalism and
obscurity. Here it is :
“ I have said,” observes Mr. Davidson, with
his usual air of dogmatism, “ I have said that
Mr. Hayne has an intense love of nature. This
needs qualification. His love is intense ; but
it is for the grand and the pictnresqne that ho
loves nature. He comes not to her universal
vitality with tho affection of a single heart
“ He does not seem to clasp her to his bosom
with the fervid passionateness of a genuine
child of nature—of a suffering Human that
sighs ont his sorrows upon her bosom, mid
finds a mediatorial love in her intimacy,” etc.
If so,” writes the critic, (after recovering
from the stunning effect of this tremendous
paragraph,) “if so, then Mr. Hayne does per
fectly right, for with the eye, and the heart of
the Poet be comes to the beatiful forms of
Nature, and has no metaphysical nonsense
about her ‘universal vitality!’ If Mr. David
son comes to *• her universal vitality,* we can
not say whether he docs so with ‘the affection
of a simple heart* or not; but we are quite sure
that ho does so with ‘the affection of a simple
head.' If, at the same time, he fences that ‘ he
clasps her to his bosom with the fervid
passionateness of a gennino child of Nature,*
he only mistakes, perhaps, for ‘a genuine
gravated form. And wa fear that a.few more' of over forty years' standing,” bnt
revolutionary meetings, threatening resUta^ Berate o^he LogMatare wZ
to constituted authority for the purpose of in- generally voted with the Radicals on alt
timidating Legislators in forming their opiflx questions relating to “reconstruction.”
regulated and well conducted system of Pub
lic Instruction is, of all others, the
and most effective Police System for any eoun-
fay.
And this Homestead-exemption feature of.
our fundamental law, originated with the Re
publican party of tho State. It originated,
we believe, with the present Chief Magistrate
of the State. The record of 1867, and
child of Nature,’ what is, in the forcible lan
guage of Locke, called *a' perfect natural.”
Bnt if he comes as *a suffering Human that
sighs out his sorrows on her bosom,’ we know
not what to say ; wc are at a loss for language
to express our horror and indignation. We
can only cry out, away! away! great blubber
ing Human! and profane not the holy bosom
of Nature with thy touch, or tears. What!
oh ‘find a mediatorial love in her intimacy?’
’oor ‘suffering Hainan r sigh out thy sorrows,
but not, we pray, on the beautiful bosom of
Nature. Paul Hayne, the poet, has no doubt
often stood entranced, like a genuine child of
Nature, in devout contemplation of her ‘Awful
Beauty.’ We are glad, however, that he has
never rushed up to ‘her universal vitality,' and
clasped ‘her to his bosom with the fervid pas
sionateness* or indecent familiarity of a ‘per
fect natural.’”
This is severe, biit Mr. Davidson richly
merits the excoriation. His “Living Writers
of the South” is spoken of, in another place,
by the critic, as a “disgraceful book!” The
tone of the criticism reminds ono of Poe’s in
imitable review of Headly’s “Sacred Moun
tains.”
Dr. Bledsoe is possessed of a fine critical
acumen^ and few writers are better qualified
expose, ridicule and render contemptible the
literary charlatans whose very names are a re
proach to Southern literature. Like Oliver
Twist, we are inclined to “ask for more !’
Points.
If the Chinese come to New\ork, and the
workingmen abuse them, the “Societyfor the
prevention of cruelty to animals” will have
something to do.
Prevost Pu'radol’s suicide is now explained.
He was “interviewed" by a couple of New
York reporters the day before his dc&th !
Our language is entirely independent
analogy. Nearly every educated man, who
makes a fool of himself, is called a “rational
ist."
A contemporary brags abont its “chaste
correspondent” Tbe compliment is doubt
less merited, as tbo correspondent aforesaid
lias rcoently been chased by an indignant party
on account of a little personality.
Bayard Taylors poem entitled “The Bur
den of the Day” Justifies its name. - Bayard
ought to have spared ns during the dog-days.
Some “gump” talks about falling in love
with a “red-haired girl in the sunshine.” We
should never go near one, under such circum
stances, unless we wanted lb light a cigar.
A number of people at Long Branch who
don’t take to the water manage to moke their
heads '“swim” by drinking water—with a
“stick” in it.
Tho “War Contributor” is about to start a
paper in Cincinnati. The idea of a fat man
storting anything bnt perspiratior
weather, is supremely ridiculous.
Miss Muhlbach is going to rain the Em
press oi the French in a six volume novel en
titled “Engenie, or Mistress and Empress.'
It is to be hoped that sho will not lay toe
much mis-stress on the one, or too much
emprtsu-anad on the other.
An enterprising German preacher lou trans
lated the Book of Job into German iambics.
What a singular jpb it mast be !
'The New Yorkers wont fresh air. With all
the airs they pnt op, their -demand is simply
ridiculous.
REV OLUTIOX .
itcfct Effort of tbe “Democracy” to
nt the Restoration of Georgia- to
i Union.
re publish below, extracts from ourverba-
report of the speeches made by thP“De-
at the .City Hall meeting on
evening, It is the same old story of
us have our own way,”
npon an
not.Radicalism enough—toere-is-notusurpa-
**on enough, nor treachery enough, to force it
non a brave people, if they will but do their
ity. Let it be understood that we are in fa-
an election, and that we intend to
W. S. Gordon said:
If they [the Legislature] should contem-
,to such on outrage npon the peoi *
orgia, the vengeance of o '
tution and an. outraged peo^
a their heads. Yes; let them attempt it,
vro will tear .their hearts from them, and-
throw them as food to the demons of hell!
that it; will bo unheeded or denounced by all
the Democratic papers. . -
Tho Commercial closes its editorial, of
which the above is an. extract, as follows:
>wnsay “election in November;” when you
it up say “election in November;” when
»u come in* say '“election in November;”
hen you go out, say “flection in November.”
^ ei family,^invoke'1 lip**bl essingglity Tho Radical party blinded by passion have
~ ion in November. There is inaugurated the political fight The Delfio-
SPIR1T OP TI1E'GEORGIA PRESS
THE AUGUSTA CONSTITUTIONALIST (DEM.)
■Wants “sound, able and upright men” i
lccted for delegates to the Atlanta Democratic
Convention.
(Onr credulous contemporary most bo ex
pecting the miUeniuin.)
THE COLUMBUS ENQUIRER (DEM.)
Speaking of the communication of a “Demo-
He is willing, for the whole State to be “de
moralized” and plundered and misruled for
•two years longer than the constitutional limi
tation of the term of tho plunderers, to avoid
a little apprehended disturbance of labor for a
few weeks in some sections. Such frivolous
serve to Show that the writer is desperately on
the hunt for some excuse for an act of weak
ness or recreancy, for which he can find no
better. He may be, as bo claims, a “ Demo-
ions npon a question under discussion be&U
the General Assembly, will go tar towards da-
barring our representatives to the councils of
the nation in December, and thus prolong
military government. Every good citizen in!
this State wants peace and tranquilly. Men'
of substance and character want the State re"
stored to the Union, and no more delays
consequence of the arrogant, revolutioi
and turbulent spirit of the modem “Democ
racy.” #
The following extracts illustrate the manner
in which this “Democracy” is still seeking
to prevent the restoration of the State; and
we hope, for the credit of the State, that no
more such revolutionary harrangues will be
made at a time when the real peoplo of Geor
gia are supplicating for that peace, order
and tranquility which must precede anything
like material and commercial prosperity.
Dr. Miller, i:
said:
I bare heard of another story, or rather i
-proposition in the shape of a bribe. Tin
members of the Legislature whp want thei
term of office prolonged, say: If yon will kecjll
ns in office for two years longer, we won’t pu| 1
the militia npon yon; bnt if yon don’t kee]
ns in office two years longer, we will put th
militia npon yon.’ What do I care for thes
threats of Bullock or any other man ? Per
haps they may put the mititia upon us. Well
let them! I stand upon the law, and domain
my rights under it I do not propose to vio
late tho Constitution of tho State of Georgif
or of the United States. I hold them up as i
shield for my protection; but if Bullock oi
any one else seeks, by threatening to force
npon us a militia, to deprive us of does not exist? Perhaps our cotemporary
our rights, there are broad hearts an* j means that the Democrats, themselves, desiro
strong arms outside of his militia, peiv | 0 form £ sort of hybrid conservative party?
baps, that will meet, them eye to eye and loot ., 71 . * r
to foot If the militia has to come in order fop r a hybrid is it now. What a
secure me my rights, let it come. But I will [“thundering sight” of “political fools,” or po-
never yield my rights for fear of militia, Feds 'jitical ninnies, there must be in this coun-
eral army or any other organization, human ry>] ^
THE DAWSON JOURNAL (DEM. ) ^
[That is a singular criticism. The writer
first insinuates that the ‘‘Democratic Member’
Is dishonest, and then express^? tho firm belief
that he is a man of principle !]
THE MACON JOURNAL (DEM.)
Is jubilant over the effect whioh the war i
Europe will have on cotton. [Would it not be
well, then, to cultivate cotton instead of revo
lntion; to promote the prosperity of our coun
try, without engaging in foreign quarrels or
stirring up any among ourselves?]
THE LAGRANGE REPORTER (DEM.).
Says of the Era . V
The Atlanta Xew Era.—Attention is directed
to the prospectus of this paper. The Era,- bar
ring its awful politics, which are of the worst
stripe, is a well-conducted, readable paper. It
is handsomely printed, and edited with ability.
[We cordially return the compliment The
Reporter is certainly as much of an extremist
the course of Ins remarks^ bn the* one side as it imagines the Era to be
•m the other.]
TnE ROME COMMERCIAL (DEM. )
Says:
There is a great disposition developing
among tho people, induced by we know not
what, to compromise the principles of the De
mocracy and form a sort of hybrid Conserva
tive party.
And again:
There is no help for the State and the coun
try outside of the Democratic party, and he
who deserts that for any other combination
whatever is a political fool or political pol
troon.
[How can “tho people” “compromise” what
crats burning to avenge their wrongs and
scions of the integrity of their cause and the
vitality of their principles, are moving to the
charge! Conservatives to tho rear! Brave
men to.the front 11 Democrats, * nhort, sb**rp,
decisive battle is before you, and then glory
and freedom is yours.' ’
[These kind of appeals were very common
in 1860 and in 1861,]
THE ROME COURIER, (DEM.)
Speaking oi me in the Senate on Sen
ator Smith’s Resolutions, says:
Henceforth let each man who voted for this
odious measure, be held accursed by all honest
men, and let no means be neglected by the
people to drivo the miserable thieves and
scoundrels from the places they, now disgrace.
[This is the old Tar aud Feathers argu
ment. Beyond this “ Democracy ” assays not
to rise.] ' . .
Speaking cf the proposed, revolutidfmucy*
Convention of the State, the same paper says:
Tho people of Floyd arc strangely indifferent
to this thing. They should arouse at once and
go to work. Time is precious, Onr delegates
shqnldbQ appointed, and the pebg&shonld
her liearit^ The “ cock-eyed-spoon-ipief-But-
lerites ” in the Legislature should bd told, in
words, laud but firm, 'that their ambitious
schemes are not to be tolerated—that the peo
ple have rights, and those n)|ris must be re
spected. We call npon the Chairman of onr
Executive Committee to conven^a meeting of
onr citizens at ankariy day, tof&ppoint dele
to the Stale Conventions to be held o;
gates
ho 17th proximo.
[“The people^” are'tired of these revolu
tionary harangues, and have wisely conclude
to attend to fh«ir business and let the
ate Democratic leaders alone.]
THE MONROE WITNESS (DEMy)
Quotqg Attorney General Akerman’s circular
as having been addressed to the Marshals and
District Attorneys in Georgia, in view of a
pending election in this State. [Of course
the editor knew that that circular was ad
dressed to the officials in the Northern aifti
Western States, where Congressional and other
elections are pending.] _—
Speaking of the Republican members of
Legislature in connection with “prolongation 1
this cartailist saieth:
When the present band of office holders are
deposed the deliverance would authorize a ju
bilee equal to the grand jnbileo of Israel in
olden times.
THE MACON TELEGRAPH AND MES8ENGER (DEM.)
Advises all its readers to sow turnips. [That
is sensible advice.] It still speaks of the
Legislatnreos “The Agency.” [Agency of the
People? Well that’s all right too.]
TIIE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL (DEM.)
Attempts to brow beat the Democratic mem
bers who do not favor revolution. It savs:
Mr. O’Byrue, of this city, has
for several months. Some anxii
by his-friends Mr. Longdon Bowie died
suddenly Wednesday morning The regatta
Thunderbolt was u very pretty affair A
discharged soldier named Gilmore attempted
shoot- Meissner, a grocery cleric, the other
day, but was arrested, before he accomplished
his purpose.
LUMPKIN.
Quarterly Conference begins, the first Wed
nesday in Angnst More rainz.. .Warm
weather Cotton prospect unfavorable
ISusc ball aoterc.
TALBOTTON.
Wm. Connell nrarrried Miss Peuria Smith
last Sunday under a' license issued four years
ago. The happy couple then left in hot haste
for Alabama to avoid the avenging Nemesis in
the person of the “old man” with a double-
barrelled shotgun.
HAWKINSVILLE.
The exercises of the Academy closed" last
Thursday. Prizes were distributed as fol
lows: In Primary Department, Master Law-
son Way, first prize; Miss Eula Wooten,
second prize; Master Wm. Cox, third prize.
In Academic Department, Master Baskin
Phillips, first prize; Miss Hattie McCall,
second prize; Miss Amanda Henry, -third
prize. The prizes were presented by CoL C.
C. itibbee in a short but appropriate ad
dress.
COLUMBUS,
Crops suffering Rain needed. •
^ ^ AUGUSTA.
Joe Berryhill lias been arrested for the
tnnrder of Mr. Henry Griffin The question
of the location of the new Orphan Asylum' is
before the City Council
diabolic. And if the speaker of the House
Representatives should, by means of ratings
which are contrary to all la\v, and an oul
npon^ common D«bm
members of the House of a free and fail
r ression of their opinion npon this question,
would just say to tho good people of Grdcue
county, don’t whip Abe Colby any more.
‘inlly advises Napoleon to “stear clea
he will —of the Journal’s'advice !
THE TALBQTTON STANDARD (DEM.)
Very sensibly says:
Again, speaking of tho Republican Sena- \ Young men, remain in Georgia. Labor is
tors and Representatives wbo had favored the ?'• 3 remunerative and the productive capacity
Bingham Amendment, he said, “But, for the
encouragement and assistance which wo have
received from Congress, wo mnst acknowledge
oar indebtedness to those who have represented
the. Bullock party at Washington. They
went there and worked among the two
bodies, .House and Senate, with their own
money and there own means, os it was called.
But your Governor—gentlemen, I beg your
pardon for so styling him. In 1868 ho called
himself “Governor of the State of Georgia."
In 1869, he dwindled down to “Provisional
Governor,” and in 1870 he Is simply “Bul
lock.” Hence 1 do not call him “Governor,”
for I suppose, the title is not acceptable or
agreeable to him. I will say, therefore, that
“Bullock” was there also, constantly npon
the floor of the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives. * He stayed there so long that he
actually stank in the nostrils of Senators, and
to such a degree that all the champagne baths
which he is said to have taken, and all the
f the soil as great, under improved systems
if agriculture and commercial manures, as
ny portion of tho civilized earth. If you
rant a fortune, go to work and you can make
i iu Georgia.
1 [That’s it! Let politics alone and “goto
.rk!”]
THE ALBANY NEWS (DEM.)
s “red hot” over delusion that an election
rill be held in November. It says:
The War brought them [Republicans] into
lower, and to them we are indebted for all
ho extravagances. and robberies which have
>een-perpetrated on the State and Govem-
uenfr By them tho Friedmans' Bureau was
naugnrated at a cost of many million of dol-
irs, the honest disposition of which’ cannot
ow be accounted for. To them we are in-
obted for frauds of every description' perpe-
rated in high places and low places, for our
Macassar oil that he used, and’ all the omt_|.K esei 8<: hi B l ? and unequal tarifls,
matt which he puts upon Ids person in order nil) 11 *! alia unconstitutional
the more elegantly to perfume himself, could
not render his presence endnrable. He aided
us very materially.”
CoL Peeples closed Ins speech with the fol
lowing words:
“In this ernsade against popular right, wc
do not want any blood! LVo have had enough
of tlAt, God knows. Bnt, let the men who
rebel against the law, andoutrago the rights
of the people, know that they shall he treated
like public criminals, that they shall be looker
upon as public criminals, and be punished n.<
public criminals at the bur of public justice.’
CoL George N. Lester gave utterance to the
following sentiments:
If the people of Georgia submit to sucli
usurpation [holding the term fixed in the Com
stitntion], they are deserving of submission
to oppression and tyranny, and usurpation.
Why, fellow-citizens, do you suppose that,
this Legislature can deprive me of my right to!
vote ? Do you suppose that I jrill submit to
the usurpation of paying taxes to sustain iuis-
representatives who pretend to govern nu; and. ■
make laws for me and mine against the Con
stitution of the conntiy aud tho laws of Geor-'
gia?
“I lost my good right arm in a cause that I
believed to be holy and just, and rather than
that snch an outrage should bo committed
npon the peoplo of Georgia I will lose the
other.”
“There certainly can be no such measure
seriously contemplated. People say that an
election will . be prevented simply because
Tweedy has introduced such a resolution.
Let him introduce his resolution as much as
he peases. If such a measure should pass the
Legislature-if they do pass it, I will tell you’
that the people will rebel, not against 'the
Government, not against Congress, not against
the law, they will rebel against usurpation.
They will rebel against paying taxes to sup
port snch a Government; and when they
get $0 a day. they will get it from
somebody else besides myself. I will
not pay taxes to give them SO a day to usurp'
tho righto of the people of Georgia. No, sir
they can't cabbage my money in thnt way.
I have jnst come from the Cherokee Circuit,
and I have talked with several Eepublicans
there, and they are all opposed to tfiis usurpa
tion. They said, that whilst they were in
favor of reconstruction, and wanted to get
Georgia back into the Union, and were willing
to submit to personal inconvenience and sac
rifice, yet, when the Legislature undertakes to
tell them that, it will perpetuate iLself by
usurpation, against tho law and against the
Oonstltntion, they * will no longer go with
them, and .they will not submit Jo iL ** • -
Tweedy may not be afraid of the people
of the city of Augusta. He may lie able
to go back there, but ho conlff not
oome back to Cobb county after intco- —
dnclngimch a reflation ns that. Meii, wo-*v *
tnen, and children would spew him out' oFtheir .
months and freeze the marrow in his cowardly ~
bones with their denunciation. Idonotknow
whether the people of
" not. ~
end county cart
.the people of Pauld
Cobb, Forsyth, and Whitfidddo
A bare record of the voting number, omit
ting the yeas and nays by name, will afford
no serene from responsibility. Snch a subter-
lage will be too shallow to deceive. It is an
A*asy matter for such members of the Legisla
ture as favor obedience to the Constitution,
assemble and publish to the peo
ple of the State their adhesion to the
Constitution. Nor will the plea of absence
suffice. The lines can be promptly drawn,
and distinctly drawn, by a public meeting, in
the proceedings of which may be recorded the
name of every Democrat who opposes “pro
longation,” and such Republicans as will act
w ith them on this question. .The comparison
of snch a record with the official vote in the
two Houses of the General Assembly, will
leave no room for doubt as to who the State
Road suckers aud Poor School Fund benefi
ciaries are, who would violate the Constitution
by prolonging their term of office. When the
people conic to the polls this fiilJ, personal di
avowal Vill be of no avail.
[ This game of intimidutioiLond brow-beat
ing won’t go down. It is an insult to the judg
ment and independence of the members. The
question of an election is purely a legal one,
and all attempts to forestall a decision are sim
ply futile.]
THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN (DEM. )
After admitting that it “supports revolution,
says: ' v
Yes; but wbat sort of revolution? A revo
lution in support of the Constitution and laws,
and against a faction that seeks to overthrow
both. A revolntion in behalf of free consti
tutional government .in Georgia, against an in
famous crew who would, override aU law, usurp
judicial powers, throttle the people and rob them
of their rights. - This journal never advocated,
and never will advocate, the violation of any
_ revenue laws.
To them wo are indebted for military drum-
lead courts martial and sweat •'boxes, for
rials by military commissions, for offenses
lever committed by the parties arrested, for
4iartial law, for murder, for rape, arson and
bloodshed, w'hich have been wantonly
nitted upon the innocent and harmless. For
their illegal arrests and their contempt of the
hws and constitution of the State,
j [Our contemporary must have the “blues.”
|7e advise him to make himself thoroughly
{uniliar with the “situatiofi” before he rushes
into print his dark imaginings.]
THE ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER, (DEM.)
hi an article on “The Capitol Building,” says :
! Wo learn that tho Joint Committee of tho
Senate ancT the House on the Capitol Building
(frestion, has held several sessions, and have
arrived nt the conclusion that ah advance on
tie original proposition made by the City
tjonncil of Atlanta, is dne, all. circumstances
considerejl.tbe owners of that tine property,
^nd that Uio City Council will hold a special
uacroint! to-night to consider the Committee's
iition. Wo do trust that the Council
l act favorably upon the suggestion. The' stitutional right to so do.
it increase in tho value; of the property
and of the property ail around and
iib?ut it, aside from the increased
vnftxc which, the permanent location of
thl Capitol in Atlanta will give
to it, calls for such action on the part .of our
City Fathers. There should bo no halting
njw by the way. While Atlanta at one time
c4>uld afford to do without the Capitol, she can
.ret afford to do it now. Investments and
^improvements have been made, and enter
prises entered into, ‘with the viewthat Atlanta
‘lsito be the permanent capital of tho State.
Liberality, therefore, should characterize the
acion of the Council upon a question of so
Bidcli importance to the holders of property
li it. In a financial point of view, it is of far
gretter value to our city than any other enter-
pr What tho committee, therefore, desires
Or sug’.v sts, wo hope the Council will promptly.
Concede.
| [This is indeed an important crisis as affect-
ilg the “Capitol question,” and present econ-
t jy,-no less than the future interests of both
e city and the State, suggest such measures
as wtll set this matter at rest.]
THE DAHLONEGA SIGNAL (DEM.)
Says:
* We lay before our readers a synopsis of the
above named report, carefully prepared, which
we copy from the Atlanta New Era; and after
an examination of the two reports—one by the
Republican and the other by the Democratic
whig of . the Investigating Committee—wo be
lieve the synopsis to be “scrupulously fair.”
The two reports are published m most of the
Atlanta papers, and are upon onr table for the
inspection of any who doubt the fairness of
tiie report of the Era.
THE ROME COMMERCIAL (DEM.)
Speaking of the preparation to have a “ Citi
zens’ Meeting” in Atlanta, on the 16th, to take
.roK^ action in relation to the election question;
says: '
■ Wo are’emphatically opposed to the project
It smells suspiciously of the treacherous Third
Party movement—it smacks of Sam Bard and
tiio Hevil—it sounds like an effort to dis
and to the fast; extremity. When yon tie organize toe Democratic jaarty, and we hope
=
lion of St Patrick’s school came off Thursday.
The teachers received elegant presents from
the scholars.
MACON.
The Telegraph and Messenger saxs:
The injunction prayed for by alarge uum-
ber of citizens and tax payers of Macon, to re
strain the Mayor and City Council from donat-
lng city fuuds or property to Mercer Univer
sity, was temporarily granted, yesterday, by
Judge Cole, as the Mayor and Council were
not ready to respond to the bill of plaintiffs,
and until they do respond, the injunction
granted will hold good Fine rains on Fri
day The Mayor has issued a proclamation.
forbidding the assembling of armed men on
* H «et- at night, and the shooting of fire
arms.
MONROE.
Dysentery and fever prevail Agricultural
and Dctoocratic Convention to-day.
ROME.
Busiuess reviving Democratic meeting^
to-day. Colored J»eople -getting up a pic-’
EAST TENNESSEE ITEMS.
KNOXVILLE.
John Robinson’s circus is coming.
Jeff. Davirf passed through the city Wednes
day on his way to Europe.
Fatal chicken disease spreading.
A lady found a rattlesnake under her bed
the other morning.
CHATTANOOGA.
Themoineter 97 degrees.
Politics lively.
An application has been made to Judge C.
B. Cole for an injunction restraining the City
Council from making any appropriation for
Mercer University.
GRIFFIN.
Byth Barlow hanged yesterday Mas
querade last night.
NEWNAN.
Mrs. Mary Bigby, wife of Judge^Bigby, is
dead R. H. Barnes blown up by powder.
Not much hurt
COLUMBUS.
Captain R. B. Lockhart dead New City
Ilall progressing.
AUGUSTA.
One hundred and fifty Port Royal Railroad
laborers arrived. They are very mnch excited
over tho failure of the contractors, George D.
Chapman & Co., to pay their wages....The
funeral of Henry Johnson, colored pastor of
Thankful Chnrch, took place Thursday.
LA GRANGE.
Democratic meeting next Tuesday Supe
rior Court meets September 24th.,..Mrs.
Henry Long is dead Tho Episcopal Con
vention met last Wednesday night
WEST i*OINT.
Crops suffering for want of rain Negro
drowned last Sunday Ephraim' Nolan,
colored, killed^in a difficulty last Saturday.
Poiutx.
The papers say that there is a great reaction
against “ muscular Christianity ” in England..
Things hre coming to a pretty pass if a Chris
tian can’t “travel on his muscle” as well as
any other man.
Napoleon invites -Bismark to take Chasse-
‘pot luck.” *
In the Connecticut Legislature, Miss Olym
pia Brown received one vote for the position
of Major General, of Militia. Why not? It
wouldn’t be the first time that a woman com
manded infantry!
No babies at Saratoga. And yet people get
sumstruck there, every day.
Napoleon says, “Victory will follow in the
footsteps of his army.” A very safe predic
tion, as it would bo equally true in* case of
success or defeat •
law. Tho law^hs proclaimed and settled
tho constituted Authorities, it wonld uphold,
even by physical force, if necessary. That is
its position, and should he the feeling of every
patriot; and tho man whom it opposes would
break down every barrier of law in order to
hold power and plunder and oppose the peo
ple. Such is their purpose now, and against
it this journal wages nncompromising, eternal
warfare. We would oppose them first in the
courts, and the mandates of those tribunals
set at naught by them we would oppose? them
hand to hand. The Radicals of Georgia
would xlo well to remember that they are not
omnipotent, and the great political axiom,
never'dishonored in this country save by them
selves—“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to
God”—has yet a dwelling place in the hearts
of the American people.
[Ours is a government of law. The ques
tion referred to is-a legal one, and the Legisla
ture is the proper tribunal. Hence your im
practicable position.]
Democracy (So Called) is Revolution.
The following resolutions were adopted by
a mass meeting of “Democrats” in Sau Fran
cisco:
Resolved, That we form ourselves into an
organization, both military and civil, in order
to maintain our rights as freemen, and rid the
State of pestilential Chinese.
Resolved, That we wish onr representatives
at Washington to inform that intelligent body
of lawmakers that, if they will not pass laws
to protect and aid us from the further immi
gration of these barbarous slaves, we will
make both laws and lawmakers, as is our con
Commenting on this the Cincinnati Chron
icle says: ' ’ .4^.
Here is a bold me l nacAqfe(0 general Gov
ernment, a threat tbat^tlie Fifteeuth Amend
ment to the Constitultojcwiirbe disregarded
and over-ridden, antl'ra&Celestials driven out
of California by force mness Congress does so
and so. It is evkffent that Attorney General
Akennan has-not issued his circular of in
structions to* marshals, commissioners, and
other officers concerning the enforcement of
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to
the Constitution a moment too soon.
The resolutions are pervaded by the flam?
spirit which led top Southern Democracy ten
years ago to threaten secession from the Union
unless fresh guarantees for slavery were given.
The Democratic Party has but to incorporate
these views in its national platform in order
to encounter a more overwhelming defeat than
it lias ever yet sustained. Thousands of
voters who may be Averse to Chinese emigra
tion, will yet demand fair play, and frown
down any such programme as the California
Democracy demand.
' With the change of a few words, the resolu
tions would exactly suit the City Hall meeting
of Friday last Substitute the word “ Radi
cals” for -“Chinese” and the sentiments of
the Georgia revolutionists are fully expressed.
When men get in bad odor with their own
party and too worthless for use by the opposi
tion, they want “a third ^arty.” .Nothing is
more natural. But somehow the trick sel
dom succeeds. Plain honest .people see
therein tittle else than the most brazen sel
fishness. Feigned issues and ready-made
platforms by professional place-hunters Out
jit position anti out of public ‘favor, are easily
penetrated by top practical men of the world
who are sufficiently self-reliant to live without
a petty office. Hence we predict that the
third party” movement in Georgia xvill nev
er rise into respectable notice.
Kate Field can swim half-a-mile. ’
‘duck.” : “
She's £
Beuj. label. Esq., is dead.
SAVANNAH.
Aid. O’Byrne has been . heard from
Charles Holmes, colored, arrested for sssault
with intent to murder Street railroad is to
bo extended to Habersham strati
BAINB RIDGE.'
. Market full of melons, apples and peaches.
QUITMAN.
Judge J. O. Worton, Dr. M. Alexander and
J. T. Purdue, Esq., appointed-delegates to
the Atlanta State Agricultural Convention.
ALBANY.
A thunder storm Thursday did considera
ble damage to house-tops and shade trees....
Out-houso of Mrs. Edward destroyed by fire
.... A tittle colored girl burnt to death
Negro shot in a difficulty by a party of whites
on Monday last
TALBOTtON.
Colored barbacue last Saturday.
DAWSON.
Messrs. Gun & Tucker’s store robbed of
seventy dollars on Wednesday night
AUGUSTA.
The South Carolina Railroad bridge, across
the Savannah river, caught on fire Friday
morning, but it was soon extinguished
Hot weather Crops around the city looking
well.
COLUMBUS.
Weather hot and dry.
Business good.
Rain needed..
WASHINGTON.
Democratic meeting next Tuesday Rase
ball flourishing.
ATHENS.
University High School Exhibition came off
Thursday night A good many visitors
town to attend the Commencement
DAHLONEGA.
Wheat crop is turning out well Anew
bridge is to be buift over Bearden’s Ford, at a
cost of $8,000.
' ' THOMASTON.
Senator Wilson on tlie Removal of Motley.
The following is the letter of Senator Wilson
to President Grant, in relation to the removal
of Mr. Motley:
United States Senate Chamber, )
Washington, July 5, 1870. )
President Grant—Dear Sir : After much re
flection, I have decided that duty demauds
that I should write to you my views touching
the proposed removal of Mr. Motley. I fear
you will make a sad mistake if you remove
him. and I beg of you to consider the case
carefully belore acting. His removal is be
lieved to be aimed at Mr. Sumner. Right or
wrong, this will be tbe construction put upon
Can you, my dear sir, afford to have such
au imputation rest upon your administration V
Mr. Motley is on' of the best known and most
renowned of our countrymen. Iu letters he is'
recognized as one of the < eiuost living iin-i
thors of our country or oi no world. Office
can odd but tittle to his reputation. Removal
from office, while it will wound his feel
ings, will not affect his standing among the
most cultivated of the age. I assure you,
my dear sir, that tho men of Massachusetts,
who gkve yon more than seventy-five thousand
majority, are proud to number Mr. Motley
among their'most loved aud honored sons.
They remember that during the was his pen,
voice and social influence aud position were on
the side of his struggling country. They were
grateful to you for his appointment its Minister
to Ragland. I need not say that they are sur
prised at the rumor that he is to be removed.
They are pained to have it said that his re
moval is on account of Mr. Sumner s opposi
tion to the San Domingo treaty. His removal
will be regarded by the Republicans of Massa
chusetts as a blow not only at him but nt Mr.
Sumner. There has been much feeling about
tho treaty. Imprudent wcrdsjhave been utter
ed, as they always are when men’s feeling are
excited. Perhaps Mr. Sumner may have said
things that may have been distasteful to you,
but the people of Massachusetts are with him
as ten to one. Holding on general principles
that the prominent interests of the country
would be advanced by a foothold in the Gulf,
and wishing to sustain your administration
whenever I could do so, I voted for the treaty,
though I knew that nine-tenths of the people
of my State were against it I had nothing to
gain and something to lose by such a vote. I
am ready to take the consequences of that
vote, but I am not insensible to the fact that
tho dismissal of Mr. Motley, und<5r present
circumstances, will not only be a loss to your
administration, but a blow to me. Person
ally I ask nothing, but I do entreat yon, be
fore acting, look well to the matter. Your
administration is menaced by great opposi
tion, and it needs peace and unity among the
people and in -Congress. Ttie head of a great
party, the President of the United States, lm,s
much, to forget and forgive; but ho cau afford
to be magnanimous and forgiving. I want to
see the President, and Congress in harmony,
and the Republican party united and victo
rious. To- accomplish this we must all l>e just
charitable aud forgiving. “Very truly,
Henry Wilson.”
Aunt Mary Sledgo, colored, dead at 103.
Litttle colored lad drowned onMonday last.
Josh. Bailey and Bob. O’Neal had a fight
last Saturday. Both badly injured.
MACON.
Negro mail fatally cut in a fight last Satur
day... .Light showers of rain Horses
dying rapidly The Telegraph and
Messenger has the following on the
Mercer University question: A num
ber of the tax-imyers and prominent
citizens of Macon, through their counsel,
Messrs. Hunter and Jamison, Laid before bis
Honor, Judge Carlton B. Cole, yesterday,
hiU in equity praying for an injunction to re
strain tho City Council of Macon from making
any appropriations with a -view to securing
the location of Mercer University at this point
The petitioners base their action upon consti
tutional grounds, mid contend that-, under the
present charter of the city of Macon limiting
her indebtedness to $250*000, the City Coun
cil has no power to .make farther appropria
tions for any purpose, as the city’s indebted
ness has already reached the charter limit
The petitioners do not seek to cripple or break
down any proper and legal mode for securing
a first-class male college in Macon; but they
do ask the court, as tax-payers* to restrain the
City Council from making appropriations un
authorized by law, and; as they think, in pal
pable. violation of toe Constitution of the
State.. Tho moriteof the case will be argued
before Judge Cole at chambers this morning,
and his Honor has cited the Mayor and City
Conneil to appear and answer the bill of
pl&intiflk.
i. SAVANNAH.
Oiily 385 voters registered John Bowers,
second mate of the British vessel Hampton
Court* was accidentally drowned on Saturday
last:.. .Drayton street is to have a bridge..
The repairs of St. John’s Episcopal Chnrch
aru completed:... Hotel waiters run a footrace
this afternoon at tho ParaT... Clias. Houston,
colored 1 , feU from a scaffold Saturday, seriously
injuring hiinself..'. .Rev. Dr. Landrum has re
turned to tho city.
AUGUSTA.
River rising... .Crowds of the Port Royal
laborers are loafing about the city The
friends.of the common school' system held a
meeting Friday.night., ~.Theannual examinn-
Mu*t Cotton Culture l»c Abandoned:
Dr. D. L. Phares, iu The Rural Carolinian
for August, in answer to the question, “Will
the Caterpillar cause cotton culture to cease?”
says:
I think this will occur, at least, in many
districts,, unless, guided by intelligence, the
farmers unite their efforts to repel toe destroy
er. Many years ago, the annual destruction
by this pest of cotton, iu a portion of Louisi
ana which I repeatedly visited, forced planters
to abandon its culture. The plant being de
stroyed in June and July did not mature seed
enough to plant auother crop. In portions of
other States, the results of cotton culture have
sometimes been equally disastrous. This,
however, is not likely to become general in
all toe States every year.
I am often asked, “Do you thiuk cotton-
worms will come this year?” Now, I do not.
believe they have ever been entirely absent
from the United States since 1793. I suppose
they have been in America as long as cotton
has been grown, and will continue here prob
ably as long as we raise annual crops of that
staple. Some have supposed’'toe caterpillars
more destructive every third year; others look
for them every twenty-first year, because very
widely destructive iu 1804, 1825, aud 1840.
Hence, many expected a total, loss of the
crop of 1867. But that year tlie 1 destruction
was little greater than any one of the three
immediately preceding years, and certainly
much less than in 1868. There is no definite
period of greater or less invasion. Yet there
may be an approximation. In a lunar cycle of
nineteen years we have a series of eclipses
very nearly repeating those of- the preceding
cycle, - and to be reproduced iu the suc
ceeding one. There nro cycles in which the
magnetic needle oscillates through a
limited arc of a circle. .So there
| other cycles of other phenom
ena; -among them, cycles of .meteoric
phenomena, or of seasons/ as they are failed,
in which an average year of one cycle corres
ponds with some year of another. That is„
the amount ami character of rain, liail, snow,
fog, clouds, heat ai)d cold are repeated aud
similarly distributed through the year. Cer
tain meteoric phenomena Increase from year
to year till they culminate; then gradually
retrograde, to be repeated iu a succeeding
cycle. It Is upon these meteoric states that
the greater or less abundant propagation
of the chenilles depends. Like other in
sects, thev are extremely sensitive to atmos
pheric changes—more so than many of the
delicate testa contrived by liumau skill and
ingenuity. Hence, during some years, the
chenilles appears to be swopt entirely H\vay;
again, meteoric conditions favoring, more aud
more in certain localities, the insect increases
correspondingly, till finally one or more years
culminate in wide-spread destruction of the
cotton. Persons who have observed closely
for years, may, in June, without knowing'
whether there are any cotton moths in any
stage in top* bn tire country, predict with al
most perfect certainty from meteoric condi
tions whether or how r much the crop will ho
damaged by them daring the succeeding,
months. •