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THE WEEKLY NEW VOLUME V. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1871. NUMBER II glew ®ta. The authority of the General Government through Congress, as the supreme law making power of the nation, to build national high ways and construct public canals and thor oughfares, has ever been maintained by na tional men as essential to the very idea of Nationality. It was at one time a pet hobby of Mr. Calhoun; this was, however, before he became debauched by unhallowed ambition. It was the great idea of Mr. Clay’s life. And even Mr. Jefferson, who as a mere politician opposed it, afterwards found it necessary as a statesman to advocate it It was the distin guishing feature of the earlier Federal Ad ministrations; and even General Jackson left a record which, upon the whole, favors the theory of Internal Improvements by the Gen eral Government It was one of the very foundation stones of the old Federalist party. It was one of the main planks in the platform of its great suc cessor, the Whig party. And it is now and has ever been, a favorite thesis with the mod ern representative of both those grand old parties, the Republican organization of the present day. The proportion to build the great Southern Railway from Cincinnati to the Tennessee Valley, and thereby to put Atlanta and the State of Georgia in easy and direct communication with the great Lakes and cities of the Northwest, as well as in close commer cial union with the fertile valleys of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee was in accord with these doctrines of the early statesmen of the Republic. It 'was defeated upon a mere ab straction -defeated in the interest of that po litical faction which stands ever ready to sac rifice commercial to mere party interests, and thus deferred till a season when it will, per haps, be too late for Georgia to reap the full benefits of the enterprise. For a time, at least, Louisville is to enjoy her monopoly. The stream of commerce is to be diverted to the Mississippi Valley; and Northern and Mid dle Georgia is to pay the piper, whilst Ala bama and New Orleans enjoy the feast Another enterprise, very similar in its na ture, and involving similar interests, is now in contemplation. We allude of course to the scheme for opening the Atlantic and Great Western canal. It has been already brought to the attention of Congress ; and, we rejoice to say, with less prospects of meeting objec tions in the ranks of the demagogues and mere partisans, than was the fate of the Southern Railway bilL The measure will probably pass Congress at its next session in some form or other, and its influence upon Atlanta and North Georgia cannot be overestimated. The proposed canal is to connect the Ten nessee and Coosa rivers. It will pass through the rich coalfields (yet undeveloped) of North Alabama. It will bi-sect the iron regions in the vicinity of the Coosa and Etawah rivers. It will tap the Chattahoochee river near War saw, and from thence proceed to the Ocmni- gee, say at some point in Newton county, leaving Atlanta some twenty or thirty miles to the westward. Such is to be the probable direction of this proposed National canal. If ""built, it will do much foT North Georgia. It can be made to do much for Atlanta, if Atlanta will but comprehend the situation and govern herself accordingly. It can be made the beginning of an era of manufactures in and near this city ; and from thence the beginning of the era of her real prosperity and greatness. All this, however, upon tho contingency that her citizens and capitalists so will it A branch canal from this (proposed) main trunk to Atlanta, would give us the facilities for the much desired wa ter works. This would be an important acquisi tion ; but it would be the least of the advanta ges that can be m&de to accrue from this en terprise. It will give us the facilities for those manufactories without which the unexampled growth and prosperity of Atlanta must be of comparative short duration. We have ever advocated this, as we have ever been instant, in season and out of season, in the advocacy of all similar schemes of internal improve ment looking to the future greatness of Geor gia. But contingent upon the consummation of this particular scheme, Atlanta has a great work to perform. We call attention to it thus early, and urge upon our capitalists and busi ness men to be vigilant. This is a critical epoch in the history of the “Gate City ot the South.” Tht Hawpdsa Roads Conference. This conference, as everybody knows, pre ceded the evacuation of Richmond only a few weeks. The Confederate Commissioners were three in number—Stephens, Campbell and Hunter. Of the incidents of that conference a writer in the Montgomery Mail of a reoent date says: "We bare Information from a gentleman of the highest respectability, who had it from one of the Confederate Commlaeionera In person, that the single word ‘union* waa written by Mr. Lincoln at the head of a blank sheet of paper and that the Confederate Commissioners were told to write beneath that word their own terms, and that those Urmi would be ac- oepted! Mr. Stephens and Mr. John A. Campbelj favored the acceptance of the terms thus offered, bnt having been hedged in by Instruction* that they were not at liberty to transgress, the last hope of the South withered with the destruction of that comparatively insignificant scrap of paper." The question arises. Which one of the “Con federate Commissioners ' was it that authorized the above story by “a gentleman of the highest respectability ? " The question grows impor tant in view of its manifest discrepancy with the official report of that conference, as well as with Mr- Stephens' account of it in his “War Between the States.” And the question is all the more curious since Mr. Stephens has denied the truth of the above statement under date of May the 15th instant. In that denial Mr. Stephens says: Mo proposition of the character alluded to by the writer in the Montgomery Mail la there mentioned, and I feel quite confident that none such wae made. Indeed, no word wae written by any one at that con ference. Neither pen nor pencil wae uaed by any one of the parties on the respective aides, for any purpose whatever connected with the conference during the entire interview. So there must be a mistake about the writing of the word "Unioak" What Mr. Lincoln said about the •* sine qua non" with him of a pledge for the ultimate restoration of the Union, as a condition precedent to his entertain ing or considering the subject matter contemplated by the Confederate Commissioners in asking the confer ence, is therein also set forth very folly in substance. Mo material word or Idea la omitted. But in nothing that wae aaid by the Commissioners, or either of them, was any reference made to their in- I will here further state for the information of your readers, who may not have seen my statement of the facta oonnected with this celebrated conference, as well aa to its origin and its objects, as what transpired at it, about which so many errors exist in the popular mind —that the Confederate Commissioner* had no written instructions other than what was contained in their let ter of appointment, which has been extensively pub lished North as well a* South, nor had they any verbal instruction* inconsistent with the letter of their ap pointment This puts tho writer in the Montgomery Mail—who claims to have his authority cor rect from one of the Confederate Commission ers—upon the defensive. The onas is now with him to make good his statements or else retract them. The truth of history demands this. The Ku-Klux Art *nd ihr Stale Au thorities. The editor of the Columbus Sun is mistaken when he assumes that the Era charged him with inconsistency of opinion on the Ka-Klux law. We charged nothing of the kind. What we did say was, that the Sun's first article, by legitimate construction, assumed the position that the Ku-Klax law superseded the State law and State Courts. This, we undertook to show, was not the cose. The law of Congress g ive the United States Courts concurrent ju risdiction on tho Kn-Klux outrages. It does not, os we oouceive, destroy the jurisdiction of the State Courts, or suspend the opera tion of the State laws. These may be enforced as well now os at any previous time, and their enforcement will, as we have always main tained, supersede the necessity of the enforce ment of the law of Congress, and thereby ren der the Ka-Klax law itself practically in operative. In its subsequent article, we understood the San as construing its previous article so as to mean that it held substantially the same opin ion with the Era ; and consequently, that it denied the correctness of the construction given its former article by this journal. This of course left no issue between us, since, as to Georgia, we held, and Lad ever held, that the law of Congress was wholly unnecessary. The enforcement of the State laws was all that was ever necessary to preserve order; and os this was being very generally done in Georgia, we regretted the passage of a measure so vague and geueral os is the Ku-Klux Bill. If the dis orders in South Carolina were of the character that defied tho local authorities, then the aid of the General Government could have been invoked without this Bill. Iu a word, now that Georgia is one of the States of the Union, on an equal footing with New York and the other Northern States, we opposed any legis lation in its nature supplementary to Recon- traction. Chnrlrt Read*'* New Novrl. When Reads gave “Foul Play” to the world, he gave us seme of the very highest evidences of genius. For originality, boldness o ception, terseness and vigor of style, the book has few equals and perhaps no superior, in modern fiction. His “Put Yourself in His Place” is thought by some to be a work of still higher merit, but it evidently lacks that originality of conception and that dramatic consistency which gave to “Foul Play” so much popularity both in Europe and America. His last work, now in process of serial pub lication, entitled “A Terrible Temptation, belongs to the lower and more lascivious class of fiction. It is eminently unworthy of the anthor of “Foul Play.” It reads more like the fifth rate efforts of Engene Sue, or Dumas the elder, than like the production of the peer of Dickens. The plot, so far as re vealed, involves some of the greatest absurd! ties. A spirit of lasciviousneas lurks bent its every scene. True, the language is chaste, bat it abounds in obscene and immoral snggea tions. It is a covert, but ingenious, appeal to the baser passions of our nature; and its iuffnencc is all the more unhealthful by reason of the unobjectionable exterior. Words which throw the thin gnaze of Refinement over the horrid features of Immorality and obscenity, are lost sight of in the idea which tEe author manages to inject into the mind of his reader by those little arts of composition of which Resile is master. P The story is now well advanced. It is be ing published in two of the leading literary journals in this country. Of course it is be ing very generally read, and when republished in book form, as we ore assured it will be, the demand for it will be great It will put money into the pockeU of both author and publisher. To this we do not object But it also puU the devil into the head of many a giddy young man, and iU baleful influence on female virtue and social morality can never be accurately estimated. Were we an inveterate enemy of the human race, and in full league with the veritable Mephistopheles in a crusade against morality and virtue, we should feel like pat ting the fereat English novelist on the back, and saying “Well done thou good and faithful Hot and Cold. One of the most ridiculous stories of the times has grown out of the recent meeting and reorganization of the “Grand Army of the Republic. " This organization is composed of the officers and ex-officers of the Union Army. It does not appear to have any political signi- cance, since its membership is composed of both Republicans and Democrats. At its last annual meeting, Gen. Burnside was elected President, vice Gen. Logan; and this fact Las been seized upon by certain partisan editors who endeavor to create the impression that, in the election of Burnside, the organization has repudiated Grant and his Administration ! It does not appear, first, that Grant had any thing to do with this election, directly or indi rectly; or, second, that the election of Bum- side, even in such case, had any bearing one way or the other on the policy of the Federal Administration. The statement that General Pleasanton was defeated by Burnside, and that Pleasanton was Grant's candidate, is not only gratuitous in its object, but mistaken in its source. The whole thing is a misrepre sentation, bnt too thin to have any weight with intelligent and fair-minded men. In the absence of anything better it, however, serve* to show the straits to which the Opposition is reduced; for, when their party journals for one purpose denounce the existence of this organ ization, and then for another purpose defend and eulogize it, the real animus cannot be mistaken. Lord Amberley, who has lately been trou bled about the rapid growth of population in England, has had the temerity to suggest that some means be invented and enforced of hav ing small families; three, it seems, being the number of children that his Lordship consid ers desirable in a family. The Court Journal, however, has cruelly called upon him to ex plain how it happens that he himself, to begin with, has set so bad an example in the matter. His Lordship should treat this home thrust with proper contempt, and refuse to make any promises regarding his future conduct More Normem from Victor Hago. Victor Hugo says that the French nation will commence arming from now; that in ten y perhaps in five years, it will be able to take the field against Germany with an army of four million of soldiers; that it will conquer and drive out their Emperor for the Germans, as the Germans have driven ont theirs for the French; that the two nationalties will then fraternize and lead the way to the foundation of the United States of Europe. TH£ BAPTISTS IS COUNCIL. | STATEMKWS. The Convention ot Soathern Baptists— j By XaiiTta £k] Fourth Bay's Proceedings—Number of siitvmnTv o-i>gsUi from Each State—Baptist The* • ■ABNE4V1LLE. leal Seminary—Report of Commit* The Augusta Convention i ■d the State The Atlanta and Savannah Railroad. The Columbus papers have never had to fight Atlanta on the North and Sooth Rail road project, although every man in Atlanta well understood froqo the beginning that the pletion of this Road would injure the business of the State Road, and, through it, the business of this city. In return for this comity on the part of the Atlanta press, the Columbus press is now fighting the proposed Atlanta and Savannah Road. The purpose is of course to divert the appropriations of Savannah from the Air Line Road via Teonelie to Atlanta, to the construc tion of the proposed line from Opelika to Tusoumbia, Alabama. Snob a diversion would indeed put Columbus on a line of communi cation between Savannah and Memphis ; but it would close Savannah to the trade of Cin cinnati, Louisville, Nashville, East Tennessee and Northern Georgia. The interest of Sa vannah, it seems to ns, is first to secure the trade of Georgia by direct lines of communi cation to the great inland Depot of the State, and from thence to the fertile valley of the Tennessee. And this seems to be the view entertained by the Savannah press. We publish this morning Mr. Hill's rejoin der to the speech of Gen. Toombs, before the Stockholders' Convention of the Georgia Rail road. On to-morrow we shall publish the verbatim report of Mr. Hill's third reply to Gen. Toombs. It is a rich specimen, wherein Mr. Hill speaks his mind quite freely in relation to the lease of the State Road. We observe that the Era is the only paper in the State that has given verbatim reports of this discussion, as it was the only journal in the State that gave full and accurate reports of the speeches at the decoration at Resaca, and of the recent Cobb County Agricultural Fair. Of course all these things cost monev. but then what is a news journal without the mews ? The Last Departure. The Ohio Democracy, in utter defiance alike of Tammany aud Frank Blair, and with out the least show of deference to Messrs. Toombs and Stephens, are preparing for a new and real departure from the old land marks. They propose to “accept the situation’ folly and frankly, including the Amendments, Reconstruction, Enforcement Acts, and alD and then to bnng oat for Governor a gentle man whose entire record has been against all reactionary movements, and who supported Grant in 1868 ! In other words, they propose an unconditional abandonment, once and for ever, of the entire Democratic platform; and to become Republicans under the old Demo cratic name and ensign. This is progress certainly. But what will the Blairs, Toombses, Stephenses and Forsyths say to all this ? The Last Platform. The very latest effort in the way of a “Dem ocratic Platform," is that by a State Conven tion of the party in Kentucky, held last week at Frankfort. It is a cariosity. Not that it asserts anything; for it really means very little. And yet we do not see why it should not an swer every parpose. Here it is, every word of it: First. In favor of universal And unqualified am- servant r Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad has twenty-two miles of roll laid; twenty-five miles more graded, and will lay nine miles of track per week and will be south of Arkansas river by July 1st - The Pcnaijlvanla Riots. We have the solemn assurances of its advo cates that the Kn-Klux Act was not intended to be of sectional application, bnt that it had in contemplation the suppression of lawless- i all over the whole country, North and South, East and West, wherever such lawless ness might be found to exist. We must of course presume that this was the intention of its framers, and the under standing of its advocates. We mast presume, moreover, that the Act was not intended as a bmtem futmen, but that it is to be enforced. And if to be enforced, we presume of course that Scranton, Pennsylvania, will not be con sidered beyond the jurisdiction of the United States. The Scranton rioters hare set all law at defiance, and serionsly endangered the liv< of the good citizens of that town and vicinity. The State authorities appear to be either un able or unwilling to do anything to stop this disreputable state of things, and ws presume the Force BUI will be pnt into execution at once by tbe Federal authorities. Second. Equitable taxation, so that each section of tbe country shall bear its proper share, and Third. The rest ration of all the rights of the States under the Constitution, and firm opposition to and strong denunciation of the Ku-Klax bill and the Con gressional election law. Fourth. Unqualified endorsement of the recent Democratic Congressional Address to the American Fifth. A firm intention to prevent all local disorder, and to put down all resistance to law and authority, by laws enacted by its own legislature, aud Adminis tered by its own courts. Now, who or what party in the South is not “in favor of universal and unqualified am nesty” for all political offenses ? Nobody that we know of. Who or what party in the South is not in favor of au “equitable taxation, so that each (and every) section of the country shall bear its proper share and no more ?” Nobody that we know of. The “restoration of the rights of the States under the Constitution ( s it note is,) is compiisbed fact, now that Reconstruction is complete. Hence, no one except those who bold this Reconstruction to be “nail and void” can be said to oppose the “restoration of the rights of the States under the (present) Constitution" of the United States. The Ka-Klax bill we have ever opposed as being both unnecessary and impolitic. The Election law is objectionable only to those who reprobate the XVth Amendment as “revolutionary, null and void;" and therefore objectionable only to those who ore not in favor of 8apporting “the Constitution and Laws of the United States” or of the restora tion of the (legitimate) rights of the States under that Constitution. The late Democratic Congressional Address means just nothing at all. It does not toach a single living issue. Hence it is quite safe to “endorse” itl The ‘‘firm intention to prevent all (farthur) local disorder, and to put down all (further) resistance to law and authority," is certainly one of Che hopeful signs of the times. When the Democracy fully pledge themselves to this, and then keep their promise, the Ka-Klax Bill can work no possible injury. It will oloficsi Seminary—Report tees - Sew Boards — Next Convention— Rev. J. L. M. Curry, of Alabama. St. Loins, May 16, 1871. The Southern Baptist Convention, now holding in this city, continued its session yes terday. A large attendance was present, in cluding a number of the laity. After singing and prayer by Rev. Dr. Stover of your State, the minutes of the last day’s session were read by the Secretary, E. Calvin Williams, and ap proved. The REPOBT OF THE COMMITTEES ON CREDENTIALS was presented by its chairman, Rev. J. S. Colman of Kentucky. The number of dele gates present from the various Southern States follows: Virginia 33 Maryland 8 North Carolina 1 Sooth Carolina 9 Georgia 23 Alabama 19 Mississippi 26 Louisiana 8 Texas 6 Arkansas 5 Tennessee 38 Kentucky 50 Missouri 78 West Virginia 1 Florida 1 China 1 The following are the sums contributed by the States to the boards of the Convention, including the Board of Foreign Missions, that of Domestic and Indian Missions, and the Sunday School Board. THE STATES* CONTRIBUTIONS. Virginia $4,182 44 Maryland.. $4,154 27 Carolina.. 2,179 52 S. Carolina.. 3,675 16 Georgia 12,841 50 Alabama.... 7,897 54 Mississppi... 4,527 05 Louisiana... 1,14135 Texas 1,319 82 Arkansas.... 452 71 Tennessee. . . 5,815 87 Kentucky. .. 9,365 02 Missouri .... 4,323 96 W. Virginia. 514 52 Florida. . . ... 122 85 THE BASIS OF REPRESENTATION one delegate to every {sum of one hundred dollars contributed to the missions of the de nomination. The number of delegates pres ent from several States is therefore largely be low their rightful quota: AUDITING OF ACCOUNTS. The committee appointed to examine the reports of the treasurers of the several boards reported that the accounts had been properly andited. Rev. Mr. Gwin, of Alabama, offered the fol lowing: GREENVILLE BAPTIST SEMINARY. Resolved, That, recognizing the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at Greenville, South Carolina, as worthy of the highest ap proval of our brethren throughout the South, we gratefully recognize the Divine blessings hitherto attending that institution, and pledge to it our united and cordial support ANOTHER SEMINARY. Rev. J. P. Boyce of South Carolina made a few remarks in support of the resolution, said the seminary was originated by an edu cational convention of the Baptist chnrch, sitting at Louisville in 1857, and the members of which were delegates to the convention of the Baptist Church South of the same year. Nominations for vacancies in the board of trustees are made by the convention. When the population of the West and Southwest should render such a step necessary, he would favor the establishment of another seminary in that section. But he believed that the ex treme East and the extreme West, the majority of the people, not only of every State, but of every county, were in favor of standing by the seminary rather than erecting another at present After further remarks by Rev. J. R. Graves of Tennessee, Ryland of Kentucky, Teague ot Alabama, and Dudley of Kentucky, the resolution was passed by a large majority. The Committee on Nominations reported the following officers and members of new boards, which were confirmed by the Convention : FOREIGN MfeSION BOARD, located in Richmond, Virginia : President—J. L. M. Curry. son, Ala.; J. A. Hackett, Miss.; G. H. Chris tian, Vo.; Henry McDonald, Ky.; J. T. Wil liams, Mo.; Wm. Carey Crane, Texas; R. Furman, S. C.; Moses Green, Ark.; F. Coutt- ney, La.; Matt HHlsman, Tenn. Corresponding Secretary—J. B. Taylor. Treasurer—Edwiu Wortham. Recording Secretary—W. H. Gwathnacy; Auditor—C. T. Wortham. Board of Managers—J. B. Jester. A. B. Clark, A. Snead, H. K. Ellison, A. G. Worth am, A. H. Dickenson, C. H. Wmston, J. F. Keessj, L. B. Watkins, Well. Gadding, J. C. Williams. J. 0. Chambers, T. J. Evans, N. W. Wilson, J. R. Garlick. DOMESTIC AND INDIAN MISSION BOARD, located at Marion, Alabama. President W. H. McIntosh; Vice Presidents, Jno. M. Wil liams, Md.; E. T. Winkler, 8. C.; J. B. Searcy, Ark.; R. H. Browne, La.; T. H. Pritchard, N. C.; E. S. Dulin, Mo.; L. H. Tomkins, Fla.; H. W. Dodge, Vo.; J. H. DeVotie, Ga.; A. T. Spalding, Ky.; A. P. Lowry, Miss.; C. H. Winston, Wm. Howhard, Texas.;P. H. Lundy, Ala. Corresponding Secretary—M. T. Sumner. Recording Secretary—W. H. Fiquet Treasurer—J. B Lovelace. Auditor—S. H. Fowlkes. BOARD OF MANAGERS. J. F. Bailey, Porter King, C. C. Huckabee, L. C. Tutt, A. Lawson, W. T. McAlister, D. R. Side, E. A. Blunt, A. J. Battle, W. W. Wilkinson, J. R. Freeman, E. B. Thornton, J. B. Vaidon, J. H. Lee, A. B. Goodhue. SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD, located at Memphis, Tennessee. President, T. Tichenor. Vice Presidents, W. E. Pax ton, La.; B. Manly, S. C.; A. F. Crane, Md. W. S. Webb, Miss., W. D. Mayfield, Ark.; W. T. Brantley, Go.; Geo. Hunt Ky.; B. W. Justice, N. C.; W. Pope Yeaman, Mo.; T. C. Boykin, Ala.; J. G. Jones, Tenn.; Rufus C. Burl-on. Corresponding Secretary, T. C. Teasdale. Recording Secretary, W. M. Phillips. Treasurer—R. G. Craig. Auditor—E. G. Wicker. Board of Managers.—J. R. Graves, W. S. Taylor, N. 3. Bruce, A. Hatchett, J. L. Nor ton, P. S. Jones, Jos. Bruce, W. L. Radford, J. L. Vorser, S. M. Jobe, 8. C. Rogers, C. V. Voorhis and B. May. IN THE AFTERNOON the reassemblingof the Convention took place, and the proceedings were opened with the usual devotional exercises. The largest portion of the afternoon was taken up in the discus sion of We have received from D. P. Fanlds A Co. wholly inoperative. Its very existence will be forgotten. And we fully endorse the plan of doing this by the enforcement of State laws by the State Courts. This is just what we w M a wore n mt±o mna «nHtk* ^ i “V 11 ? ®P° n °? r D® mocr *tic friends I Don Quixotte and Sancho Panao, Hudibras a very pretty song, entitled the Parting for months past are glad to see them and Kalpho, Foletoff; Bardolph and ancient filing illtO line. * Pirfni ««m nil m«n nf onnrom# nolinMB. Mr. (yieon Bernes is de&d, at the age of eighty-ore. 4 NEWMAN. The Lauderdale orphans were in town last Wednesday Strawberry festival at the rink last nig^j. GRTFFIN. Sir. Lew lectured on the 16th The Peo ples Banquet addled the-whole city. It was a grand aif.ir The picnio fever is still raging. .... 8o£ha excitement about the skating ac complishment, which the Griffinites are learn ing. AUGUSTA. A new ootton manufacturing establishment is talked of. Horse toeing is the chief amusement. . . .A detachment of the Georgia Fire Comp iny left for Cha leeton on tho 16th to attend a Fire man’s C<*ebration in that city. .. .The Const! tutionalist reads the Era [vide its notice of AttorneyjGeperal Farrows’ opinion. ] COLUMBUS. Sickness prevalent . . Marriages ditto. Five cojrinon hens lay nine eggs'per day. The Hody Water Works Company) bid $104,000ffor the contract to supply the city with wa< r Colored people had tableaux, ch&rade£*j*tc., last Monday night, for the ben efit of tbe African Baptist Church... .It costs the Eagi • and Phoenix Mills about $2,000 per day to k'ep running. 1 ROME. The CJufederate graves were decorated last Thursda^afternoon. The ceremonies were very imrising. Captain C. Rowell was the orator of tho day. A beautiful poem of rare merit w? written for the occasion by Colonel George k Snyder Mrs. Dr. J. H. Nolin is dead... ‘W*$Ieth odists have raised S600 for the puru Hae of a new organ. .. .Three hun dred ne books have been received by the Library adlatfon. MADISON Has h 1 cold weather for the season.... Sxating i:ak in contemplation ... .Colored . fc a great success, rammer: the colored teacher, deserves iher skill and management in very person present expressed and gratification at the fine speaking, and general good be- present.. .Mrs. Stovall, wife of is dead. 8AVANNAH. litan fire company has gone to n excursion... James Hogan wn and robbed of fifty dollars j with a double barrelled shot gun in his hands. Raising the weapon, he fired. Mr Stevens knocked the gun upward, and the load lodged in Mr. Staley's house, on the opposite side of the street. The horse sprang forward, throw ing both Mr. Strother and Fair ont backwards. Col. Kenan again fired, but as they were fall ing, the load passed over them taking effect in the leg of a negro on the sidewalk. A crowd immediately assembled, and any farther de monstration of hostilities was prevented. Mr. Strother was considerably bruised by the fall, and has been confined to his bed ever since. Not the slightest clue to the motives which prompted CoL Kenan to this act, is given. Even Mr. Strother is in doubt as to the cause. Col. Kenan was arrest ed ; but gave bond in the sum of $2,500, for his appearance at Court The friends of both parties are fearful that another meeting between these gentlemen will result fatally to one, if not both, as they are men of the most noted personal courage and fearlessness. Their mutual friends will do their utmost to heal tbe breach, lest it term inate more seriously than before.” The Recorder says Col. Sneed, the reported bigamist, is in Millegeville, having been brought over from Macon, He hires his own guard and walks where he pleases. He will remain nntil the August term of court. ‘Bring on moral greatness. 4tnd Atlanta Railroad is is opposition....Boating is Coqper Club have received a forty-one .feet long, eighteen out-rigger of course. She i: “Anna Huger**. ...A train of 1 Savannah the other day via MACON. Jf ?ge Cowles presiding, is is large... .They have -Whcob The ces a murder at Station No. Railroad. It appears that when the np freight train stopped at that point, a Mr. Drew, one of the train hands and another hand, left the train a short distance, and were met by an unknown man, who first asked Mr. Drew’s friend if his name Drew, and receiving a negative reply, he then, addressed the same interrogatory to Mr. Drow, who replied “that is my name, sir.” Where upon the assassin placed a pistol within an inch or two of Drew’s breast and fired, the shot killing Drew instantly. The murderer then took to the woods and effected his escape. No cause is assigned for the cold-blooded murder. It is presumed, however, that the murderer had received some offense from Drew, and took this method of revenge Mr. Law’s lecture came off on the night of the 15th. CARTERS VILLE. Ksst Tennessee Items. Chancery Court in session at Greenville. Andy Johnson at home. Grand temperance celebration at Bristol on Thursday last. The whole “region round about" was out Two men named Littrel were arrested near t he Virginia line, last week, charged with shooting Federal soldiers two years ago. Certificates for eleven wild cat scalps were received by the Comptroller on Wednesday of last week. During the year 1869, three hun dred and seven of these scalps were taken in one county, and received by the Comptroller i so many dollars in taxes. The Bristol Courier states that Major Henry F ink, with a corps of engineers, has been ap pointed to survey the line of that portion of the A. M. and O. Railroad, leading from Bris tol to Cumberland Gap. The party arrived at Bristol on Tuesday and immediately went to their work. Michael Davis, sentenced to four years’ im prisonment, at the February term of the Tip- ton county Circuit Court, for grand larceny, and Edward Clark, for ten years, at the Octo ber term, 1870, of the Knox county Criminal Court, for burglary and larceny, were par doned Wednesday. The most remarkable instance of supeisti- tion occurred at Loudon last Sunday. A col ored woman inverted a looking-glass over a well, looked into the glass, and saw or fancied that she saw the forms of her children in ap parent health, and her own enveloped in a shroud aud laid out for burial. She died the same night. THE WOMKV. Tfce Strong-Minded in Council—What They Want-How They Mean to Get It—Speeches—Greeley Flayed Alive. The Woodhull branch of the Woman’s Suf frage advocates assembled in Apollo Hall, New York, on the 12th instant. Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker called the meeting to order. Samuel Heywood, of Princeton, Massachu setts, who is connected with the Labor Reform movement, was introduced. Nothing, said he, is more characteristic of the spirit of the times than this revolt of women against the old order of things. All institutions are the creation of human thought; and now all ot them—governments, churches, educational systems—are undergoing trial in the great court of reason. Of course, the women who come here do not indorse all that may be said here. Courts of justice, churches, la ws, the mar riage relatiou itself, have to be tried; if they do not agree with liberty and justice, they must be swept away I am surprised at the tone of your city papers. Do they suppose that women fear an investigation into this thing? Women have nothing to fear on a comparison of morals with men—no, not even with the editor of the New York Tribune 1 [Great laughter and applause. ] There is soon to be a great washing day—yes, we will have ont the universal washing machine, and hanl the dirty linen. When that washing day comes, it will cost those gentlemen, who talk in so high and elevated a tone about those matters, more than 75 cents a dozen to get their dirty linen washed. We are here for investigation, and I observe that those who object to tbe position taken by some of the ladies upon these matters, are the very men who have most reason to fear an exam ination into their own private affairs. Let us never forget that while Mrs. Stanton and MisH Anthony went for liberty for the whole of the negro race, Greeley only went for the male half. Mrs. Marie Howland of Hamilton. N. J., said: What is the use of all this discussion about whether we are citizens or not ? Women is allowed to send out ships to foreign ports, which is a right granted only to citizens, and she is obliged to swear that she is a citizen. Since we are citizens, what hinders us from taking the rights of citizenship? Nothing bnt a few half-rotten shreds of red tape. Are not we, the women of America, strong enough to break these feeble bonds ? FOR” GREELEY. hing tor see this u and l cellars—old women, poor women, crippled women, in whose faces were no touches of light, of love, of happiness—young women, sad and sorrowful, begging for mercy of this gov ernment ! Ob, it would be a grand thing tor us. to stand at least once a year and see f‘ * mighty pageant of woe. and sorrow, ai ery, and so learn whether, indeed, we _ the rights we want Suppose that you i are in that comfortable condition of life in which we have all our wants bountifully sup plied. Does it behoove us to say we have all the rights we want, and selfishly shut ourselves up from this mighty multitude of sorrowing women ? Oh, my friends, we shall never re generate society until we go down to the very depth and find out what is there. And as the great Father, in His first grand operation upon the depth of chaos, called, “Let there be light, and there was light;” so, no matter how we may be bombarded by all creation, we say, “Let there be light." [Applause.) THE XVTH ARTICLE. Victoria C. Woodhull, at the request of Lucretia Mott, gave a brief exposition of the platform of the Woman’s Convention, setting forth the reforms that are to be embodied in the Woman's Utopian Republic to be estab lished next year. The following was offered by Mrs. Stanton: Resolved, That in answer to the letter of the Hon. John Bigelow to the Hon. Roscoe Conkling, asking how our national centennial birthday coaid best be celebrated, we would say that as the true republic proclaimed by our fathers cannot be realized until all our rights are secured, the only measure before tho nation commensurate with the importance of the event we are about to celebrate is the en franchisement of the 20,000,000 women of the nation, a step of progress worthy to crown the nineteenth century. AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION, offered by Rev. R. H. Graves, of Memphis, Tennessee. The object of the amendment was to exclude all but members of their own denomination from sitting in the Convention nnder the article providing for a delegate from every church and organization subscribing one hundred dollars to the boards of missions. A long debate followed tho proposal, in which it was opposed on the ground that the context rendered the proposed insertion of “Baptist” unnecessary. The amendment was finally laid on the table, but will probably come np again to-day in some other shape. It was resolved to hold THE NEXT CONVENTION. at Raleigh, North Carolina, in May next EVENING SERVICES. In the evening religious services were held, when an eloquent sermon was deliveied to a large audience by Rev. C. C. Connell, of Ten nessee. The subject was justification before God. TO-DAY the convention will probably adjoarn, to meet again at Raleigh, N. C., one year hence, un less some arrangement is made for a biennial meeting. LECTURE THIS EVENING BY REV. J. L. M. CURRY. Rev. J. L. M. Carry, L. L. D., of Virginia, and Rev. E. T. Winkier, D. D., of South Carolina, will deliver addresses on the subject of education at the Second Baptist Church, corner Sixth and ijocast streets, this evening at a quarter before eight o’clock. Phllospohy pf UgllmeM. It is a curious fact that an ngly face is gen erally the sign hung over a witty or hnmorons mind. Even in fiction, ugliness of face or form is generally the attribute of shrewdness and humor. £sop was little and ugly, bnt so was Socrates. Scarron, the favorite wit of France, was wry-necked and deformed, but he was the greatest pet of the ladies of his day. Pistol were oilmen of supreme ugliness. More skeletons and Indian relics have re cently been unearthed on Colonel Tnmliri’s plantation. The Express says: “We are requested to notify the public that a meeting will be held in the Court House, at Cartersville, at 11 o’clock, a. m., on Tuesday the 23d day of this month, to consider the propriety of taking immediate steps towards the grading and building of the Blue Ridge Railroad. This road is the Eastern extension of the Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad, and is designed to run from Cartersville to Rabnn Gap. Major Cooper, the President of this road, will be present, and address the meeting upon the interests involved. Greatly con cerned in all that may affect the prosperity of Cartersville, and the development of the re sources and interests of this portion of Geor gia, wc bespeak a large attendance at the meeting, on the part of the citizens of Carters ville, and the surrounding country. A Curiosity. —The following carious image was plowed up on Col. Tumlins’ land and is exciting much interest among archaeologists. It is described by the Express as follows : “It is about eighteen inches high, one arm broken off, the hand of the other resting on its thigh, holes in its ears for rings, and one in its head, in which we suppose had been a plume; it was only the bust of what it was in- teuded'To represent The shape of the head, the features, and in fact the whole general physiognomy resemble those of the Esqui maux, natives of British America, more than any other tribe we know of. All who have seen it concur in the opinion that it was an idol, and worshipped as such by the tribe to whom it anciently belonged, and as the Indians were not idolaters, but worshipped the sun, which they believed to be the abiding place of the Great Spirit^ it, of course, did not belong to them. Scientific men, who have examined this relic of the past, think it positive evidence that this country was inhab ited anterior to the time, what we term the aboriginees, inhabited it, and that to them tbb truly great curiosity belonged. vm.T.immmT.T.P'- Mr. John T. Arnold accidently killed a mnle by discharging a rifle A Good Templars’ Lodge is about to be formed, and the Record er says “noplace needs reform worse than does Milledgeville.” The Milledgeville Union of the 16th says: John T. Sneed, the man who recently mar ried Miss Mvrick, of this county, was brought over from Macon last week. He has up to this time failed to give the required bond— $5,000—but is permitted to remain at the Mil ledgeville Hotel nnder guard, at his own ex pense; thus giving him ample time to commu nicate with his friends before being sent to jail. Serious Difficulty.—Tho Southern Re corder thus describes a difficulty which it is feared will result fatally: “ On Tuesday evening about two o’clock difficulty occurred between two well known g intlemen of this place, that almost resulted tolly. Mr. John Strother, in a baggy, ac companied by Mr. P. Fair, Jr., had stopped in front of Moore k Co.'s store on Wayne'street CoL Lewis XL Kenan, a member of the bar, stepped oat ot Moore k fc Co.’s store Tennessee News. By Mail to the Era.] The Great Industrial Exposition at Nash ville is very largely attended. The exhibition of the East Tennessee Hor ticultural Society, now going on in Knoxville, is a perfect success. The decoration of the Confederate graves iu rcuoxniie cuuioott last W ednesday evening. The Winchester Home Journal reports the arrival ol twenty-five or thirty Swiss, who propose settling in Franklin county. At the late term of the Circuit Court for Bradley county E. S. DeLany, who bad sued the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail road Company for $20,000 damages for injuries sustained by his wife by an accident that oc curred near Cleveland in January, 1870, ob tained judgment for $4,166 50. A man named Wolfe, who was injured at the same time, got a judgment for $1,800. These cases will likely be appealed to the Supreme Court. The Tennessee Press Association will meet on the 1st of June. It is to be presumed and hoped that a full attendance will be present, as matters of moment and importance will be presented for consideration. It is expected that arrangements will be made for a North ern tour during the summer in which event a graud£ime may be anticipated. The Byeraburg Gazette says: “ The woods, fields and gardens in this section of country, alive with armies of small caterpillars. They are destroying vegetation and fruit trees to an alarming extent. We have seen large forest trees stripped entirely of their foliage by these rapacious worms, which are now the curse of Dyer county.” The Trenton Gazette complains that there has been too much rain in Gibson county. Much of the grain that had been planted was misplaced or washed away,and will have to be resown. The farmers are in general very late with their crops. A large part of the cotton crop is still to be planted, and if the ground does not soon become dry enough to receive the seed, the crop will be extremely late. The Morristown Gazette of the 10th instant says : “ From what we have seen and learned from our country friends, the apple crop in this section will be exceedingly light, the trees not having bloomed, bat that the peach crop will be an average one ; while the smaller fruits, such as cherries, gooseberries, grapes, etc., will fall considerably short of the last year’s yield. ” Southern News. By Mail to the Era.] The present annual production of tobacco is estimated to be 4,000,000,000 pounds. An elopement in Norfolk between a step brother and sister has created quite an excite ment there recently. It is thought that the Florida Central Rail road Company will build a block of brick warehouses in Jacksonville. The wheat prospects in the Western counties of North Carolina are excellent, says the New Berne Republican and Courier. The Raleigh Telegram says the fishing sea son along the North Carolina coast and East ern rivers has been the most extraordinary known for years. The graves of the Confederate dead at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, were decorated on Wednesday last The sum of $310 waa contributed on the ground for the purchase of marble headstones for the graves The Richmond correspondent of the Cin cinnati Commercial says : CEBEBRO-SPIN AX.-MENINGITIS is the name given by physicians to a fatal dis order now prevailing here and elsewhere in the State. It is a kind of paralysis of the neck, by whiob the head is drawn back, and so held firmly until death ensues or relief is obtained. Some idea of its prevalence and its fatal char acter here may be gained from a statement in the mortuary report of last week that nine persons died of this new disorder here in that period. By the way, the number of deaths here last week was forty-two. of which the victims were nineteen whites and twenty-three negroes. The monthly report for April gives tbe number of persons who died at one hun dred and thirty-one, of whom thirty-eight were white and ninety-three were colored ! In Norfolk, daring April, the deaths were only forty-two, of which nineteen were of whites and twenty-three of negroes. The population of Richmond, however, is nearly four times bat of Norfolk. MBS. STANTON “ OC Mrs. Henry B. Stanton—I want to say a few words in compliment to the Tribune, for the change that has lately come over it. The edi tors have been bombarding at us for several years past, because they thought they would frighten us away from the cause. But now as we have taken our place in public esteem, and our cause is going to prove a success, the Tri bune, the Times, and all the rest of them— “ Blanche, Tray, Sweetheart and all”—are coming out quite in approving tone iu regard to ns. They have all come round; and this morning the whole press is as respectful as possible. I think we have special cause to congratulate ourselves on the new position tbe Tribune has taken. When tfio editor of that journal found that we all came into line and asserted the old Southern doctrine of Se cession, and that unless the men propose to do us justice and give us a declaratory statute, affirmiug our right to the ballot, we intend to avail ourselves of the right ot revolution, and form a government outside of this Govern ment. [Great applause and laughter.] And when we declared that our government should be based on the grand idea enunciated by the Fathers, that no just government can be formed without the consent the governed, then I presume thought it would be advisable to take a different oonrse. [Laughter.] A gentleman asked me this morning how we could manage that. Said he : “Why the men hold the purse; yon will have no money to start witb. ,r Ah, that is a great mistake! Men are putting their property out of their own hands into the hands of their wives. [Renewed laughter.] The ladies of the nation hold the purses, and we intend to use them. So now, as I am de lighted to find, the New York Tribune advo cates this idea, and throws up its hat for us. Its editors persecuted us for many years, but now they are coming over to us. Because we advocate that great idea, because we say we believe in the right of secession, they are go ing to help us, aud to argue for our cause as favorably as possible. We have nothing to fear when the great, grand Horace Gret-ley is for us. I have been asked again aud again, What is the matter with Horace Greeley? Is he getting into his dotage?” I said, “Oh no, that can’t be. He is not quite 60. I think there is some particular crotchet in his head, just as he had in the anti-Slavery times.” You remember when the Liberty party was running Henry Clay for President, aud then only gave him 60,000 votes, Horace Greeley was so angry that he turned round and was down on the whole idea of Abolitiou and anti-Slavery. But as soon as that trouble was settled, and the Republican party was formed, Horace Gree ley came into hue, and he has been speaking grand words for Man—for Man— ever since ! [Applause. ] WHAT THEY INTEND TO DO. When you have heard ot all our plans you will begin to think that we are in downright earnest in this matter; and that women don’t intend to pay taxes any longer to a Govern ment in which they have not any voice. It is no child’s play, I assure yon; we are going to commence this Government next winter unless Congress gives us that declaratory act. I was asked this morning a very silly question—for all these frivolous objections against Woman’s Suffrage are continually emanating from tbe male brain. I am sorry they show so little capacity to reason on great subjects. I was asked: “^Tould it not be very demoralizing for the women to come to the polls and mix with men ?” Demoralizing to come to the polls ! Why, we have enunciated this grand idea of self-government, the grandest that the world has ever known; and can it be demoralizing for an American citizen to hold a ballot his hand? In the ballot lies all our religious and civil liberty; and can there be anything degrading in holding that scepter of power? “Oh, no, the ballot is not de grading !” Well then is it degrading for us to drop it in the ballot-box ? No, that was not degrading—but it would be so degrading to be mixed up with thsse men at the polls. Oh, what a libel on manhood ! [Laughter and ap plause. ] My friends, are w e not mixed up with these men everywhere. Can we go anywhere bnt we find these men? We jostle against them on Broadway, in churches, at theaters, in street-cars—everywhere we find those men. They have even the audacity to come into our homes. I am the mother of five sons, and every day I have to eat my breakfast, and dinner, and tea, with six men. Only think how demoralized I am. [Ap plause and laughter. ] See how absurd that objection is. But then, says another, only the vile and vicious women would come to the polls—the virtuous and the refined would stay away. Would they? I ask what type of women have for the past few years been demanding the wright of suffrage ? [Ap plause.] No matter what your newspapers havo said, I pronounce them the grandest, the noblest type of womanhood that the world can boast of. I have seen women in many countries, and I assure you I havo never met a purer and more intelligent class of womtu than those I have always met on the Woman’s Rights platform. [Applause.] I have seen our own Lucretia Mott in England side by side with the Duchess of Sutherland ; and I can assure you that in listening to her conver sation, and noticing her refinement of manuer, I have felt proud of my countrywomen. Any editor who dares to sharpen his pen and utter a single word reflecting upon the women who stand upon this platform, is unworthy to be the son of a woman. [Loud applause.] When Queen Victoria enters the British Parliament, every voice is hashed and every heart beats proudly with reverence and respect; and yet I can tell you, men of America, that there are many women in this country to whom no crowned head in Europe can compare. Let the vile, the vicioos, the wicked women come up to the polls 1 It would be a grand event for the education of the higher class of women who to-day wrap the mantle of complacency around them.and say they have all the rights they want Oh. what a grand thing it would be for the mighty multitude of suffering women to come down from their garrets and up from their Personal Gossip. Kossuth has received a legacy from a de ceased relative of 50,000 florins, about $20,- 000. Madame Woodhull threatens a rebellion. A new constitution, new government and new matrimonial laws is the object of the crusade. Memphis is sending cotton to California for the manufactories there. One order for 300 bales was received last week. Wild Bill, once famous in magazine litera ture, has just been appointed Marshal of the town of Abiline Kansas. The famous Lord Brougham once, in his youth, got into a row in tho streets of Edin burgh, and wa9 put in the watch-house, where he lemained all night. Nothing from Frank Blair, Brick Pomeroy, Shin Bone Brooks, or the “twelve gentlemen of St. Louis” of late. Coburn and Jim Mace now occupy attention. General Crook succeeds General Stoneman in command of Arizona, the latter retiring on account of bad health. General Gordon Gran ger has assumed command of the military district of New Mexico. A desk Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have learned to write on was put up at auc tion in Newport, R. L, a few days since, and on account of the reverence felt for the eco nomical memory of poor Richard, it was knocked down for the princely sum of ten cents. “ Little Tad” Lincoln, who used to climb to his father’s knees at the White House, nine or ten years ago, is now a young man of about twenty, of middle height, robust form, whose beardless red cheeks are apparently the evi- ■ttence of perfect *' ■'friUp. —mi—— Mortimer Jones, of an interior town of Illi nois, was recently tarred and feathered by his fellow citizens because he thought proper to play croquet twenty-four hours after his wife died, and he ha9 brought the matter before a jury to know if these things can be. The pretty spot on the lake shore at Chicago whero repose the remains and stands the mon ument of Stephen A. Douglas, was permitted to go by delault into the delinquent tax list The City Council has stepped in, just in time to prevent some lyux-eyed tax-title speculator from gettiug a lieu on tho grea : statesman’s bones, and has ordered the annual tithing to be liquidated from the public fund. Jas T. Fields prefaced the reading of firet Harte’s poem at the military re-union in Bos ton, last Friday, by reading some verses of hi-; own, ot which the following were a part; M But his soul waa responsive to *11 that was grand. And his loyal young spirit leaped into flame. And he fought with hi* for his dear struggling land As yon with your swords, non* of glory and fame." A Mississippi correspondent says that Jeff. Thompson, who was known during the war as a vagabond soldier and a rebel rowdy ot the first rank, is now trying to raise cotton on a small plantation in that State, with indifferent success. An infatuated youth squandered a week’s salary on a front seat and a gorgeous bouquet for Nilsson’s concert in Nashville. The for mer he occupied, the latter he “hove” to the songstress, who dipped her little jewel of a nose in amid its petals, shot a death-stab out of her lustrous eyes over the top of it, and—a few hours later tossed it to the grinning appa rition who strapped her baggage. He sold it for a quarter to a friend of the despairing giver, who has since had not a moment s peace. Presbyterian C hurch. United States (South.) The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (South), will con vene in the Presbyterian Chnrch in the city of Huntsville, Alabama, on' Thursday, the 18th of May at 11 a. m. The opening sermon will be preached by the Rev. Robert L. Dabney, D. D., the Moderator of the last Assembly. Dr. Dabney is a highly distingnished Profes sor in the Theological Seminary, located in Prince Edward, Virginia; and is well known as the biographer of General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson. The General Assembly is a representative body, composed of delegates from fifty-five Presbyteries, two from each Presbytery, a Minister and a Ruling Elder, and meets an nually. The Commissioners of the Presbytery of E ist Alabama, to attend the Assembly at Huntsville, are the Rev. George L. Petrie, of Greenville, and Ruling Elder Edw.n Fay, of Prattville. We subjoin the following statistics of the , Presbyterian Church (South,) which will be. interesting information to many of our read ers. They are taken from an authentic source, and are given for the year ending April, 1870: Synods 11 Presbyteries. Ministers.... Licentiates . Candidates .. Churches . 840 53 161 1,469 Members added 7,999 Communicants (total) 82,014 Baptisms 5,084 Sabbath-school scholars 47,317 Contributions for causes—benev olent and Congregational $872,355 Miss Vinnie Ream makes her busts in a blue veil, wrapped round her head like a bandanna handkerchief, a purple skirt, and a ^ong- sleeved calico aprou, bordering on pmk, girt round her waist with a cord On her own bust blazes a Maltese cross, given her by tne Pope, or else an emblem of her Masonio rank—it wasn’t clear which, on the face of it.