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Oflicial Journal of the United States.
Official Journal of the State of Ueergia.
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ATLANTA, (iEORMIA, : : MAY 24, 1871
OUR TICKET FOR 1872,
I Subject to the action of the Republican National
Ojuienllrm.)
FOB PRESIDENT,
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOE VICE PRESIDENT,
AMOS T. AKERMAN.
The weather throughout England is fair and
favorable to the growing crops.
Tbero is a great deal of sickness, this season,
in Southwestern Georgia.
Fastidious people in New York object to
smoking in the street cars.
Federalism appears, at present, to be the
leading idea in Austrian politics.
At the peace celebration, in Philadelphia,
the other day, there were 30,000 Germans in
line.
The Lincoln Monument, at Springfield,
Illinois, will be inaugurated about the 1st of
July.
Boston brags about her “free baths," but
New York points triumphantly to her “free
fights.”
Rochefort was cheered by tho Parisians the
other day. A sure sign that his bead is in
danger.
Hon. C. C. Bowen, M. C., of South Caro-
lina, will bo tried for bigamy, in Washington,
on Tuesday next
The New York Times accuses the Legisla
ture of passing laws so framed as to serve the
interests of .Tim Fisk and Jay Goold.
Franco is coquetting with the Pope. Ca
tholicism is able to dispense with so feeble and
fickle a friend.
Tho Now York Advertiser sneeringly re
marks that Georgia diamonds will bring about
ono dollar per pound.
Mace says he will “ put in ** at Kansas City
on June 2d. If Coburn dosen’t come to time
he will claim all the “swag.”
‘•State Rights” in its Last Analyst*.
Among the Rights of the States under the
Federal Constitution, as defined by Mr.
Stephana and accepted by the revolutionary
party in this and other States, is the “right”
of Seoession. Therefore, commenting upon
the assumption of an “accept-the-situation-
Democrat,” the Newnan Herald says:
The only thing settled by tie war was that the at
tempt at seeessioa (oaly oae of the many rights of tho
States) made by certain States, was abortive. The
effort, we aey was e failure, bat the right remained
unimpaired, and when tho Confederate armies surren
dered, the United States Constitution soli recognized
every right the States ever alloyed or claimed. The
subsequent legislation of Congress need not now be
discussed.
True, such discussion is wholly unnecessary,
if not wholly impracticable, under an hypoth
esis that makes the will of a single State para
mount to the authority of the United States.
The very hypothesis precludes all argument
tonching the validity of the amended articles
of the Constitution, as well as of the Recon
struction acts of Congress.
For, admitting the premise that the “right**
of secession is inherent and constitutional, no
elaoae in our fundamental or statute laws can
be valid that provides against the peaceable
execution of this right of secession. Nothing
can be more self-evident If a man has the
right to mnrder his neighbor, no law having
for ita object the prevention of snch murder
can be valid. To enforce such a law wonld
be to do violence to a “right” inalienable, and
therefore subversive of all civil and politica
rights!
If Georgia, or any other one of the thirty-
seven States, has the rbjht to secede, then all
legislation by Congress, and al! constitutional
amendments by “the people of the United
States,” looking to a denial of the right to
exercise that right, is indeed “usurp
ation, revolutionary, null and void.” Only
think of the absurdity of the thing.
Here is a State polling some two hundred
thousand votes. Of these two hnndred thou
sand voters, one hnndred thousand and one
are competent to say just when and how, and
for what cause the State may secede from
the Union. That is to say, one hundred thou
sand and one voters in Georgia hold the desti
nies of the National Government They have the
•right” to perpetuate that Government or de
stroy it according to their Sovereign pleasure;
and all articles of fundamental law, and all
acts of Congress looking to a denial of this
■acred right is “usurpation, revolutionary,
nail and void." All such articles of funda
mental law,and all such statutes are necessarily
"revolutionary, ** because thoy practically deny
the existence of a Rioht, by peremptorially
denying the right of its peaceable exercise or
enjoyment!
Hence tho present admirable Government
of Mexico is the highest type of a free govern
ment, because it fully recognizes tko principle
of Local Sovereignty. And since the wars
and feuds in that country always result from
this great principle of Local Sovereignty, they
are clearly “Constitutional! ”
The wheat raising belt is said to be shifting
to the southward. Texas, it is predicted, will
I ccomc tho empire wheat raiser.
The present state of affairs in France provas
conclusively that Paris is not France. The
entire country is arrayed against the insurgent
city.
Central K on tacky is strongly in favor of the
Southern Railroad. The “State Sovereignty *
shriekers with their uanal stupidity, oppose
the project. The Republicans favor it.
When a man fools with poison he ought to
die. Mr. Henry M. Bragg, of Brooklyn, tried
a little hydrate of chloral the other night, and
didn't wake up any more. Served him right
Tho LaGrange Reporter criticises the or
thography of tho Rome Commercial. Shade
of Webster, we invoke thy presence ! The
Reporter's audacity is sublime.
They refase to accept education as a charity
in North Carolina. Teachers employed under
the Peabody trust have been warned to desist
from their noble work, although they educate
white and colored children alike.
A Tennessee critic calls Blind Tom a child
of song and prodigious performer, and pre
dicts that among all the wonders of the age
Blind Tom will be remembered and recorded
iu the pages of history as the most wonderful.
It is a curious fact that most of the great
musical composers have been childless.—
llaydn, Beethoven, Corelli, Tergolese, Rossini,
Spontini, Auber, Wagner and Schumann are
among the instances.
The Atlanta Sun calls the Rev. Mr. Froth-
iugham, of Boston, “a fool.” We advise our
contemporary to let preachers alone. The re
mark quoted above shows very plainly that
ho Sun never heard of Frothing ham before.
The Atlanta Constitution says that Thiers
“ must go down.” Our neighbor doubtless
feels exultant over this state of affairs, as it
now entertains the firm conviction that it
“ must go op !**
We have received another copy of the
Deutsche Zeitung. It contains a very well writ
ten article on Die Grundzugt des von der lichen
Commission Vereiobarten fbrtrages. We do not
copy it, however, as it might prove “Caviare
to the general.”
Tho Tribune calls tho World ‘"an absurdly
hysterical paper,” and accuses it of telling
“silly fibs.” Now, after snch a slam as that,
what can Manton Marble. Billy Hurlbut, and
Salem Dutcher do but sit down and tear their
hair in sheer despair ?
Having lost all hope of ever being able to
induce General Grant to accept the Demo
cratic nomination to the Presidency, our
Democratic triends have picked up Gen. Sher
man. The Marietta Journal leads tho way.
It is for Sherman.
Tho L mdon Saturday Review is trying to
bolster up the House of Guelph. Labor lost.
Tho English people like peace and good gov
ernment, but they an* becoming very econom
ical, and they are unwilling to throw away any
money upon kings and queens and their pro
geny-
We are inclined to regard Pyatt, one of the
leaders Paris Communists, as being both fool
and fiend. He desires to blow up the Hotel des
Invalides because that boliding contains the
remains of the First Napoleon. Now that the
Parisians have sank to the level of brutes it is
only natural that they should desire to annihi
late everything in the shape of a Maw, living
or dead !
The Artof Tslkiag and Cite ArtofWa
As a general rale, great military captains are
very indifferent talkers. As speech makers
they are positive failures. There is very little
imagination in the mental make up of a great
captain. Frederick tho Great could play his
flute, as Carlyle tells us, but he could not
make a speech; and he had the good sense not
to try. Neither Napoleon nor Wellington
were good talkers. Washington and Lord
Clive both wrota readily and well, but
neither of them could make a creditable
speech. Andrew Jackson could barely man
age to say “thank yon” in response to a toast
General Lee was never guilty of blabbing,
either tx-cathedra or upon the Ilia
words were few and well chosen. He had net
a single element of the orator. General Grant
has always evinced his aversion to speech
making. He can’t make a speech; he knows
it, and has too much sense to attempt it
Neither -lo. Johnston, nor Longstreet, nor
Beauregard, nor Albert Sydney Johnson were
ever guilty of speech making. That pleasant
duty was usually left to the “ political Gen
erals " and “ cross roads Colonels.”
Very recently there was a military reunion
at Boston. Some of the ablest and most dis
tinguished of the United Slates officers were
present There was plenty of wine, of
oonrse; and General Hooker seemed to
bo laboring under the apprehension
that somebody had laid a plot to
make him President of the United
States. He was constantly upon the qui vire
as to what was said to or about him, as well
as to what was expected that ho would say in
return. He enjoyed the banquet, but hoped
there were “no politics' in it! “I came not
here,” said he, “to acquire the reputation of
a politician, but to see soldiers. I don’t
care at all for talking soldiers, but for those
who can fight. I am hero not to talk, not to
play politician. I do not waul to do either.
And having thus relieved bis mind. Fighting
Joe returned to his wine and almonds. He,
for one, is in little danger of being ranked
among “the talking soldiers,” being, as be
most emphatically is, “one of those who can
fight” General Sheridan was brought to his
legs, but he was back again in his chair in
about one minute. General Burnside merely
remarked that “he came there for the express
purpose of listening.’’ General Heintzelm&n
was through in a few seconds.’’ General Cas-
tar merely “bowed bis acknowledgements.'
General Ingalls addressed the company as fol
lows: “I am very much obliged to you!”
SncU are the specimens of martial oratory.
They are golden brevities, such as military
men usually delight in. There were, we are
told, long speeches and good ones; but the
speakers were almost unknown as military
leader*. They belonged to the politician
olass—men who obtained “handles to their
names” and epaulets for their shoulders by
raising regiments of volnnteers rather than
by planning successful campaigns or storming
batteries.
Floyd County.
Mr. J. A. Stewart, of Rome, is, if we under
stand the significance of his latest political
manifests, a candidate for the Legislature. He
seeks the position of Representative from
Floyd county, made vacant by the death of
Mr. H. A Gartrell. He is opposed to carrying
the State Road lease before the next General
Assembly for adjudication. He thinks the
State Court is the place to settle the validity
of the contract whereby Ex-Gov. Brown now
holds possession of the Road.
Mr. Stewart is not a Democrat—in the party
sense. He is not a Republican. He is not a
Radical He was a Whig when the Whigs had
an organization. He opposed Secession, and
he opposed Reconstruction.
He discloses considerable ambition. He
hM written mnch since the war; was once
spoken of in connection with the nomination
to Congress, and would like to be Governor,
as several other worthy gentlemen would like
to be. Like quite a number of good and true
men, bis party has not yet been organized.
We believe his platform has never been clearly
announced, or if announced, not now remem
bered. Bat be is a good man. He is a rep
resentative man. He would make a very
creditable member of the General Assembly.
In*Treating Corrcipondrncr.
Lave l>ccu permitted to copy from the
records in the Executive Office the following
interesting correspondence:
LxFatette, Walk eh County, Ga., I
May 12 th, 1871. {
Hon. Rufus B. Bullock, Governor of Georgia:
Sib—I am a Democrat I believe that you
and your party are fast driving the ship of
State to ruin. I wonld not, therefore, will
ingly and wantonly furnish you with a sword
to stab my party, which I conscientiously be
lieve to be the only hope of the country. Po
litical motives wonld, therefore, prompt me
not to write this letter.
But a great crime has been committed. A
fellow mortal has been hurled, without a mo
ment’s warning—with his sins all fresh upon
him—into the presence of his God by the
hand of one to whose footsteps the highways
of crime are familiar, and under ciscumstances
which constitute tho crime a murder. My
duty to the memory of the murdered dead —to
the lacerated feelings, the torn and bleeding
hearts of the surviving relatives of the de
ceased—and more than all, that higher and
holier duty we all owe to the vindication of
violated law and outraged society, outweigh
all motives of a political nature, and prompt
me to make the following statement and re
quest :
On last Saturday (the 7th of this month)
one Marcus A Ellison—who says he is the
same man for whose apprehension a reward o
a thousand dollars was paid, for the mnrder
of a negro in Walton county some time ago,
(since yon were in office) and who was tried
and acquitted for the offense last year, I
think--shot and killed Thomas M. Coalter, in
this connty, under circumstances of great
coolness and deliberation. It was a political
quarrel, as the accompanying extract from the
testimony before the committing court will
show. The murderer is of my party, the
murdered man of yours. The murderer has
been arrested and tried before two magistrates,
one of each party, and has been committed to
jail and is now in jail at this place. The evi
dence (see extract) has a tendency to show
that the man is a Ku-Klnx, and it is the gen
eral opinion of all who witnessed the dogged
indifference to his fate manifested by him on
the committing trial and while under arrest,
that he is connected with some band of organ
ized outlaws that he feels will come to his
relief.
Almost every man who has been put in our
jail since the surrender, on any serious charge,
unless he was a negro, has been broken ont
or has gotten ont in some way. It has not
been six months since a man was put in it on
a charge of assault with intent to murder, and
a band of disguised men came at night, de
manded and obtained the key of the jail from
the jailor, and turned him out in less than
three weeks from his committal.
I have no idea that this prisoner
main in our jail till our Court, on the last
Monday in Aogast next I therefore most re
spectfully suggest that yoar Excellency order
his removal to the Penitentiary or some other
safe place for safe keeping. Your Excellency
has a precedent for such a course set you by
Governor Brown in a noted case.
I am a brother-in-law to the prosecutor who
was a brother to tho deceased, but I am not
related to the deceased, nor was he at the
time of his death on speaking terms with me.
I refer you for information iu regard to me to
our Solicitor General, Colonel Forsyth, and to
Judge Harvey. I am counsel for the prosecu
tion.
Respectfully, D. C. Sutton.
P. 8.—We want no troops here. They
wonlc only aggravate and make matters worse.
But what we want is that the map should he
removed to some safe place until court The
civil laws are ample if we can only keep the
man here. D. C. S.
The following is an extract of the testimony
in the case as taken down by R. N. Dickerson,
Clerk of the Superior Court, a disinterested
man, and a Democrat:
“There seemed to be a difficulty between
them. Witness was iu the house. Coulter
and defendant was out of doors. Witness
went out to them three times and asked them
to keep peace. Witness went out and under
stood what the difficulty started from. Elli
son said Coulter had accused him of being a
Ku-Klux. Witness then went back in the
house. The fuss commenced again about
Grant Coulter said something in Grant's fa
vor which defendant did not like. Defendant
drew his pistol and presented it towards Coul-
Conlter was on his right and defendant
on his left,” Ac , Ac., Ac.
wealthy, intelligent and law abiding citzens,
and it is unfortunate for the reputation of our
tfiate as a body of law abiding people,
that a gentleman occupying the important
position In one of the most desirable
counties that you do, should arrive at the
enormous conclusion that the misdoings
of bad men can be Q6ed, even figura
tively, as a sword wherewith to stab the party
which you conscientiously believe to be “the
only hope of the conntry. ” Hopeless indeed
would be tho county if its onlyclependence
were upon a party that wonld shield the man
who commits a mnrder because hif victim had
the temerity to speak well of the President of
the United States. |i
Your report is that you are tearful that a
man who boasts of having been apprehended
under the influence of a reward one thou
sand dollars, charged with committing a mur
der upon a negro, for which crime he was
tried and acquitted, and who has now openly
and publicly, as you report, eouimitted a
murder, will not be allowed to remain in the
custody of the high sheriff of tEe county in
which the crime was perpetrated, and to whom
the prisoner has been delivered by the order
of the magistrates, and that therefore it is
necessary that the prisoner should be trans
ferred to some other connty jail, or to the pen
itentiary. You do not assert that there is any
want in your county of the necessary and usual
jail buildings and other means for securing
and detaing prisoners, but on the contrary yon
inform me that you fear that local sympathy
with the criminal will be sufficifcfiT'cause of
action with those whom you believe will re
lieve him, because the prisoner Ifr* Democrat,
and is supposed to be a Ku-Klnx, and that
almost every man who has been? put in your
jail since the surrender on any serious charge,
unless he was a negro, has been Igoken out or
gotten ont iu some way. Now, sir, as yon,
being a lawyer, are well aware it is not
ly the privilege under the law,but the duty,
of the sheriff to summon any number of the
good and law-abiding citizens d| your county
to aid him, when necessary,
ance of his official duty, and tha^
of the Ordinary to provide for
expenses incurred in that conAction; there
fore, until this effort to enforq the law has
been made and fails, I am unwi mg to admit
that there are not a sufficient nt aber of good
citizens in yoar county ready anc rilling to res-
Are Wc a\mtion !
sr J. XORCEOSS.
, in the perform-
thajit is the duty
le necessary
ent to which
The New York Tribnno asks, “ Shall mur
der be punished ? ” Certainly not H. G. is
evidently behind the times. Has he not heard
of Maithns, and his terrible statistics? Has
he not read what Lord Amberley said the
other day about the alarming increase of pop-
nlation ? Under all the circumstances it | John ^ 1>og . n Dan. Voorhees have the
wonld, perhaps, be better to let mnrder go no- flnegt , oicM of any two men in Washington.
punished. It relieves this suffering sphere of
its superfluous humanity, and then it is popu
lar. As an evidence of this fact we point tri-
amphantJy to the verdicts of American juries
all 0T67 the country.
The New York Central Park is to have t
nice little pet in the shape of a cinamon bear.
The brute will only weigh abont eight hun
dred pounds.
Executive Department, i
Atlanta, Ga., May. 20, 1871. f
D. C. Sutton, Esg., Attorney at Law, Lafayette
Court House, Walker county, Georgia:
Sib—I am in receipt of your communication
of the 12th instant, forwarded through Solici
tor General Forsyth, from Rome, under date
of tho 18lh instant, wherein yon inform me
that a prisoner has been committed to the cus
tody of the sheriff of Walker connty, charged
with the crime of murder, after the proper
preliminary proceedings, before the magis
trates, and that you have fears the prisoner
will be unlawfully taken from the sheriff’s cus
tody and set at liberty, and for this reason you
suggest that I issue an Executive order for the
removal of that prisoner to the penitentiary,
or some other place for safe keeping. Yon
also inform me that I have “ a precedent for
such a course, set for me by Gov. Brown in a
noted case.” You further advise me in a post
script that you want no more troops, that
“ they would only aggravate and make matters
worse.”
The above are the material points presented
in your communication, but in the opening
paragraph of your letter you write as follows
am a Democrat. I believe that you and your
party are fast driving the ship of State to ruin.
I weald not, therefore, willingly and wantonly
furnish yon with a sword to stab my party,
which I conscientiously believe to be the only
hope of the country. Political motives would
therefore prompt me not to write this letter
Now, the impression necessarily created by
this paragraph from yoar letter is that your re
porting to me officially in yonr capacity as an
attorney-at-law the fact that you have
tody of the sheriff a prisoner who is charged
with murder, and that in yonr opinion there
is danger that other persons sympathizing
with bis crime will, by force, take the prisoner
from that custody, must necessarily be under
stood and accepted as cause for discredit to the
political organization known as the Democratic
party. In other words, that by so reporting,
you furnish me with “a sword to stab yonr
party;” a paity which you believe to be the
only hope of the country, and that, therefore,
your political opinions would prompt you to
withhold the report.
Uyon this point, I would respectfully sug
gest—and I doubt not but that upon reflection
yon will agree with me—that in this you do
the Democratic party grave injustice. I belong
to a political organization known as j“the Na
tional Union Republican party,” or in other
words, I am a Republican, but I do not be
lieve, nor so far as my knowledge extends, do
my political associates believe that the party
opposed to us is made up of, or, as a party,
should be held responsible for the wrong do
ing of every sooundrel who violates the law
and then seeks to shield himself from its pen
alties by claiming to be a Democrat On the
contrary, we believe, as we claim for ourselves
that the majority of those making up the Dem
ocratic party in this State are of the most
pond to the call of the sheriff
in holding for trial the mi
this murder. To accept the
would be to assume that the
the county of Walker sym]
were ready to assist in or pel
a murderer because that
Heved to be a Ku-Klux, ai
a member of the Democratic
man who lost his life was
“had said something in Grant'
the murderer did not like.
I do not believe that you
ing citizens of Walker con:
it to be said that a man
your county because he is
National Administration,
derer shall either be
abroad, untried and
Iu urging me to
effect admit this, you
action of Governor Brown
named, daring his admini
civil administration of Gov<
one that reflected great cri
and wonld necessarily add
of any one of his successors
fortunate enough to equal ik
dent in believing that Gov<
he iu my place, would
by his action
pie ot V* all
in this case to act upon
you refer me, and order this prisoner to be re
moved beyond their control.
With your suggestion, that no troops are
needed in your county, that their pres
ence would only aggravate and make
matters worse, I heartily concur. The
military arm of the National Govern
ment, without martial law to make it
effective, has no terror for evil doers,
and can prove no protection to peace
able citizens. The presence of troops
under snch circumstances would neces
sarily aggravate and make worse a con
dition of affairs wherein good people were
trying to maintain and uphold the author
ity of civil law, and were assailed by
bad men who sought to create sympathy for
themselves by assuming to be members of a
favorite political organization. The presence
of United States soldiers under such circum
stances, without authority to act, simply
serves to encourage the assassin by the free
dom from their arrest, which he feels even
when he strikes down the citizen in their very
presence for speaking well of the President,
their Commander-in-Chief.
For the reasons herein stated, I must de
cline to accede to yonr suggestion, and shall
hope and believe that when you and the sheriff
call on the good citizens of your county to
aid you in holding yonr prisoner lor trial that
you will find them ready and willing to res-
spond promptly and efficiently.
Very respectfully,
Rufus B. Bullock.
It is quite evident that the chief strength,
if any strength it has, of Mr. Calhoun's and
Mr. Stephens’ State sovereignty dogma, and
tho non-sovereignty and non-nationality of
Uuited States is derived from the
omission of the word sovereignty and the word
nation in the Constitution of the United
States, jusi as if a large vessel with three
masts would not be a ship, because the word
ship was not painted on it, or just as if a farm
would not be a farm because it had no sign
stuck up with the word farm on it, or just as
if a covenant could not be a covenant between
two or more persons because the word cove-'
uont was not written in the instrument that
forms the covenant. It is evident, then, that
the plendid array of logic and rhetoric, the
structures and castles of these gentlemen are
all reared, or chiefly reared, upon this light
and airy, this soft and sandy foundation ot
omissions. I referred to the fact in a former
article that the words confederation, compact
and alliance were only employed in the Con
stitution in a prohibitory and restrictive sense
upon the States. And it is clear and incon
testable that no State in this Union, unless it
be Texas before it became a State, ever
has for one moment, or on any occasion,
except when in a state of rebellion, ex
ercised the rights, powers or attributes of
sovereignty or a nation, or has been so regard-1
ed, or so treated, by any other part or people of
the world. Whereas, on the other hand, the
Government of the United States has through
some thirty or forty provisions of the Consti
tution, and for more than eighty years,
exercised all the attributes, all the powers of
sovereignty and a nation, binding the States
and the people thereof in treaties and laws,
in all relations and forms, in peace and in
war, without even asking or consulting any
persons, powers or parties except the con
stitutionally appointed delegates of the States,
and the people who constitute the Government.
And all other people, all other nations, and
the whole world have so esteemed and so re
garded this Government and the whole peo
ple from the beginning, not daring to treat
or regard any State, or auy fraction of the
States, or of the people, in any other light
than as a sovereignty and a nation as a whole
Again, it is quite evident, it is self evident
to those who will stndy and reflect a little,
that the legitimate result and end of Mr. Cal
houn’s and Mr. Stephen’s elaborate structure
of logic and rhetoric, if any such result it has,
is either to send the sovereignty and nation
ality of this country back to tho British Crown
and the British people, or to resolve this Na
tional Government and alt the governments
of the country into uothing, and leave the
conntry and the people in a primitive and an
archical state. Without taking into account
our late civil war a careful study of the history
of the United States from the latter part of the
Revolutionary war, to the adoption of the
Constitution in 1789, when State Soveignty
pretentions were noisy and rampant, will con
vince auy one of this.
But the main object of this article is to quote
some of the sayings and sentiments of the
Fathers of the Constitution and Government,
on this very question. Are we a nation?
Thirty years constant din of this polythistic
dogma into the ears of the people, to tho exclu
sion of the sound and safe political theology of
our fathers, and the revolutious and rebellious
spirit the dogma everywhere engenders, the
dark and repulsive cloud it casts over our pros
pects and heritage, demand that the sayings
and sentiments of the fathers, should be often
consulted.
The first quotation I make is from the ad-
^’kfirete oi uieiLaerui'coL.uuuuu fv*u*oa
ATLANTA. ^
Philadelphia
A correspondent of the Philadelphia City
Item, who has been traveling through Georgia,
writes under date Atlanta, May 12th, as follows:
From Angusta we made a run at eight hoars
to Atiauto, on our route passing many inter
esting towns and villager. At one town, Mad
ison, I think, some enterprising typo has
hung out b» shingle, and is publishing a pa
per called the Madison Journal Atlanta is
the city of Georgia—rattling, bustling, busy
Atlanta —the Gate City of the South and West.
Here is the place for capital, .Igjr- enterprise,
for energy exerted in every way. Not pat
down on the map of tho United States in 1&0;
in 1850, a town of considerable importance;
in 1800, a city in name; in 18G5, torn, burned,
destroyed, scarcely recognizable by those who
knew it before the war; in 1871, it is a flour
ishing, growing, vital city, tilled with business
men, all anxious to make money, and all mak
ing inouey, and yet all courteous, kind, gener
ous, open hearted and hospitable.
People from the north, sooth, east and west
are invited cordially to come to the Gate City.
Come and bring your capital, your energy,
your business talent; come and help to build
up the city, help to beautify it, help to render
it attractive, and build yourselves homes,
where health will be preserved and built up,
where the climate is delightful—the winter not
too cold nor the summer too hot—where wealth
is sure to flow into oar coffers, where the citi
zens are peaceable and quiet, whare schools
are good, and where yon are sure to prosper
in every way.
There has been much opposition to the ad
ministration in this Btate; bat it has been by
tho extremists, those who were disappointed
in the results of the war—the failure of the
Rebellion. But tho extremists are being
completely shelved, pnt away, and a mnch
better feeling exists now than at any time
since the war. In South Carolina the ex
citement is still kept up by demagogues
of both parties, but it will gradually die
ont The people, not leaders only, were
disappointed by the failure of Congress to
pass a general amnesty bill, bnt they feel
assured it will come at the neprt session, and
so they go to work determined to build up
their fortunes.
We have received a copy of “The English
American,” a handsome eight page paper,
published by Charles W. Field, at 21 York
Street Chambers, Manchester, and No. 15
North John Street Liverpool England. The
paper is printed by young girls, and is inter
esting and valuable to English and American
renders.
the Constitution of the United States, when
they had completed the work. This address
was to the Federal Congress, by whose au
thority the Convention had been convened, and
by whose authority the new Constitution was
to be submitted to the p.eople of the States for
ratification. It was unanimously adopted by
the Convention and Bigued by Washington,
the President of the body, September 17,1787.
‘In all our'deliberations,” say they, “upon this
subject, we kept steadily in oirr view that which
appears to us of the greatest interest to evary
American, the consolidation of onr Union, in
which is involved our prosperity, felicity,
safety, and perhaps our nrtional existence." In
this short quotation we have the gist and spirit
of the whole address—the condensed sentiments
of the very men who framed the Constitution,
for they continue, “this important considera
tion seriously and deeply impressed our
miDds.” I have italicised the words, “consoli
dation” and “national existence,” as I suppose,
they were in the original copy.
The first and probably the only recorded ex
pression of Mr. Jefferson, touching the new
Constitution, daring its discussion and adop
tion (for he was Minister to France daring the
whole time) is found in a letter to Mr. Madison,
dated Paris, Dec. 16th, 1786. In the letter
this sentence occurs: “To make us one nation
in foreign concerns aud keep us distinct in
domestic ones gives the outlines of the proper
division of power between the -general and
particular governments.” “Nation” and
“outlines” were words expressive of the pre
vailing views of that day. We need not quote
from Mr. Jefferson when he was aspiring for
the Presidency fourteen years later. He was
then writing and fostering in the dark the Vir
ginia and Kentucky State sovereignty resolu
tions for the purpose of partisan and lec-
tioneering capital, and upon which resolutions
he is accused by Mr. Calhoun and others of
going back after his election. But be that as
it may, we find in his first inaugural address
(1801) these sentences and sentimentss
rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful
land, traversing all the seas with the rich pro
ducts of their industry.” His first annual ad
dress commences thus: “It is a circumstance
of sincere gratification to me that on meeting
the great council of our nation," etc. Farther
on he says, speaking of the recent election
“Being now decided by the voice of the nation,
according to the rales of the constitution, al
will array themselves under the will of the
law.” And so on he frequently uses the word
nation and national when the words union,
United States, or confederation would do
qnite as well Iu a word, be was no longer a
Federalist or a State sovereignty man. but a
National Republican, and a very bold and arbi
trary one he proved to be.
But let us go back and quote from the Fa
ther of bis Country and other Fathers of the
Republic. Washington in his first Inaugural
Address, 1790, speaks of our “national pros
perity” and recommends “the institution of a
National University.” He never fails to em
ploy such terms when they will answer his
purpose- In bis ever memorable Farewell
Address he uses the word nation and national
not less than twenty times, and as all know,
his heart and soul were set on the consolida
tion, perpetuity and gl6iy of the people as a
nation.
John Adams, tho successor of Washington
in the Presidency, in his first Inaugural, 1797,
calls Congress “the Representatives of the na
tion,” and usetf snch terms as these : “Rela
tions of the nation and country,” “happiness
of the nation,’-’ “the nation for the national
good,” “national income,” “throughout the
nation,” “the continuance of God’s blessing
upon the nation," and so on in all his State
papers, daring the very time when Jefferson
was firing up the old State jealousy and pre
tended State sovereignty, with the Virginia
and*Kentucky Resolutions, and which as we
have seen and as every historical reader knows,
fell flat to the ground as soon as Mr. Jefferson
was in the Presidential Chair, and which were
never heard of, or revived thereafter until about
the year 1832, when they were brought out
from the musty records to back up nullifica
tion, secession and rebellion, which was then
contemplated, and snubbed by Jackson, yot
still kept alive until these destructive ends
were consummated.
But let us go back and begin again. We
will now quote from the Federalist a series of
papers as all know written by Mr. Madi
son, Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Jay, to explain
to the people the new Constitution. In these
papers, these friends and advocates of the
Constitution, work of their own hands, for
they were all in the Convention that framed it,
would naturally soften down and apologize
for all its features against which attacks were
directed^ It was attacked with the greatest
severity by mauy, and especially by all those
who feared the loosening of their hold and in
fluence upon the States by its adoption.
Mr. Hamilton in paper No. 1, thus speaks:
“ The vigor of Government is essential to the
security of liberty. Iu the contemplation of
a sound and well informed judgment, the in
terests of the people can never be separated
and a dangerous ambition more often lurks
behind a dangerous zeal for the rights of the
people, than under the forbiding appearances
for the firmue9.s and efficiency of Government.”
Mr. Jay in paper No. 2, says : “This
country and this people seem to have been
made for each other, and it appears as if it
was the design of Providence that an inheri
tance so proper and convenient for a land of
bretheren, united to each other by tho strong
est ties, should never be split into a number of
unsocial communities and alien sovereignties.
In No. 3: “Although town, or country, or other
contracted influence, may place men in State
assemblies, or senates, or courts of justice, or
executive departments, a more general and ex
tensive reputation for talents and other qualifi
cations will be necessary to recommend men
to offices under the National Government.
* * Hence it will result, that the adminis
tration, tho political councils, and the judicial
decisions of the National Government will be
more wise and judicious than those of indi
vidual States, and consequently more satisfac
tory to other nations, as well os more safe
with respect to ourselves.”
The chief and vital point sought to be gained
by the new Constitution was the right and the
power for the General Government to take ef
fect directly upon the people—upon individu
als—instead of legislating for States as such,
as was mainly the case under the Articles of
Confederation. On this point in truth hung
the question whether the States were to con
tinue in a Confederacy only, held together by
a leagne, an alliance, or a compact only, to be
broken at pleasure by any State, or that the
people were to constitute a nation politically
and legally speaking, as they had been con
sidered by tho outside world, morally and his
torically speaking, ever since the Declaration
of Independence. In the Convention to form
the new Constitution a contest had taken place,
not as tc whether the people did or did not
then constitute a nation, bnt &9 to whether the
General Government should l>e authorized to
inforce its decrees upon tho States by the co
ercion of tho sword, or by direct legisla.
tion upon the people, and iu the “last analy
sis” of course by the sword also. In no case
did any member of the Convention argne
against the right of coercion per se, on the
part of the General Government On the de
fects of the Confederation, on the imbecility,
the confusion, the wreck and rnin it was
everywhere producing, and the comparative
merits of the two kinds of Government, both
Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Madison treat at large
Mr. HmmIUb UkM * UiOA.
reticul and Mr. Madison a historical view.
Mr. M. closes the disenssion on bis part in
these words—Paper No 20 :
I make no apology for having dwelt so
long on the contemplation of these Federal
precedents. Experience is the oracle of truth;
aud where its responses are unequivocal, they
ought to be conclusive and sacred. The im
portant truth which it unequivocally pro
nounces in the present case is, that a sov
ereignty over sovereigns, a government over
governments, a legislation for communities as
contro-distinguished from individuals as it is
a solicism in theory, so in practice; it is sub
versive of the order and ends of civil polity
by substituting violence iu place of laic, or
the destructive coercion of the record in place
of the mild aud salutary coercion of the mag
istracy."
I would like to quote more extensively from
these great masters in logic and statesman
ship, for the reason that nobody at the Sonth
read them since the days of nullification.
Almost everybody reads the heresies of Cal
houn and McDuffee instead. I would like to
quote enough to show the views, both of Mr.
Madison and Mr. Hamilton, as to the National
and Federal character of the Constitution;
also their view’s of the powers left with the
States; but I cannot do so without making
this article too long. I must close with one
other extract from Mr. Madison. In Paper
No. 40, he discusses the authority under
which the Convention act in forming the Con
stitution. He gives the preamble and the res
olutions the Federal Congress passed in
September, 1786, as follows. The italics are
the same as found in the book:
“Whereas, there is a provision in the Arti
cles of Confederation and perpetual union for
making alterations therein by the assent of a
Congress of the United States and of the leg
islatures of the several States; and whereas,
experience hath evinced that there are defects
iu the present confederation, as a means to
remedy which, several of the States, and par
ticularly the State of New York, by express in
struction of their delegates in Congress, have
suggested a convention for the purposes ex
pressed in the following resolution; and such
convention appearing to be the most probable
means of establishing in these States a firm
National Government:
“Resolved, That in the opinion of Congress
it is expedient that on the 2d Monday in May
next, a convention of delegates, who shall
have been appointed by the several States, be
held at Philadelphia, for the sole and express
purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation,
aud reporting to Congress and the several leg
islatures such atteralions and provisions therein
as shall, when agreed to iu Congress aud con
firmed by the States, render the Federal Con-
stition adequate to the exigencies of the Govern
ment and the preservation of the Union. ”
On these Mr. M. says:
“From the two acts (that at Annapolis, and
that at Philadelphia, February 4th, 1787,)
that the object of the Convention was to es
tablish in these States a firm National Gov
ernment. 2. That this Government was to be
such os would be adequate to the exigencies of
the Government and the preservation of the
Union. 3d. That these purposes were to be
effected by alterations and provisions in the Ar
ticles of Confederation, as it is expressed in the
act of Congress, or by such further provisions
as should appear necessary," etc., etc.
Such are some of the views and sentiments
ot the fathers, tonching this question,
not supposed, it is not claimed that they over
looked or ignored, or intended to overlook the
importance of the States, or their n<
rights and powers. But they did claim and
hold that the true and absolute sovereignty of
the country was in the people, the whole peo
ple, and that their only organ or means for
expressing it was the Government of the
United States. To this end they formed the
National Constitution, and bronght all their
powers to bear in favor of its ratification by
the people, which, through God, was done
Whosoever heareth and abideth by these sen-
ments and laws of our fathers, and doeth them,
may be likened onto “a wise mau who built
his house upon a rock; and the rain descended,
and tho floods came, and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house and it fell not, for it was
founded upon a rock.” And every one that
heareth and abideth not by the sentiments and
laws of our fathers, may be likened unto “a
foolish man, who built his house upon the
sand; and the floods came, and the winds
blew, and beat upon that house and it fell;
and great was the fall of it”
State News.
By moil to tbe Bax]
THOMAS TON.
Mr. A. H. Brown is dead.... The Methodist
District meeting will be held here the 5th Sun
day in July.
LUMPKIN.
Some unknown fool, signing himself
“Sphinx,” advertises in the Telegraph for a
wife.... Heavy rains.
spasta.
Cotton crop injured by the rain... Another
tournament will come off soon... .The tourna
ment last Wednesday was a success.
NEWXAX.
The Lauderdale orphans sang on Friday
evening Sunday schools are flourishing..,
A horse and mule killed by lightning... .The
Bowden Sabbath school have had a fine cel
ebration.
TALBOTTON.
Dr. S. K. Oneal is lying seriously ill..
has been raining during nearly the whole of
the present month Cotton prospect blue.
Wheat crop will be almost an entire failure,
owing to rust. ... Good Templars thriving well.
ATHENS.
The Banner of the 12tb. learns that Mr. M.
W. Park was killed by Mathew Harris, &t a
grocery twelve,miles from Athens, on the 6th
instant. Cause: whisky... .Tho rust in wheat
not so bad as first reported. There will be an
average crop... .Mr. Law is announced to lec
ture this week.
The boys are training their horses for the
coming race Hon. Jno. P. King is expected
here iu a day or two. He has something to
say about the Memphis Branch Railroad ques
tion The library was opened yesterday....
A “Rome Stove and Hollow-ware Company”
bos been organized.
CUTHBHBT.
Quite a nnrober of the hands on the Bruns
wick and Abany Railroad buy their rations
here.... H. I. Kimball was in tho city last
week.... Robinson stabbed Osborne the other
night and injured him severely. Both col
ored .... ltev. R. B. Lester, pastor of the
Methodist church, lost a daughter a few days
ago.
COLUMBUS.
Mr. L. G. Schuessler has been elected Al
derman of the Fifth Ward to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Capt. J. J. Grant.
Business men are in favor of giving $150,000
iu bonds to the Savannah and Memphis Rail
road. .. Everybody went to Troy, Ala., on a
picnic, last Friday... .The Fair Grounds have
been very much improved by the planting of
trees.. . .There are now over 1,500 children at
school in this city.
AUCUSTA.
The Chronicle of the 21st says:
On yesterday morning the usual dullness of
Augusta life was relieved by an earthquake,
which pnt in an appearance about eight
o’clock. Two distinct shocks were felt in va-
Ti<rtaa fortioM of the city, there ueing an inter
val of a few minutes between the shocks. They
shook the houses a good deal, and frightened
the inmates of some of them very badly. The
shocks were also very plainly felt at the resi
dence of Mr. C. H. Sibley, on the Milledge-
villo road, and at Richmond Hill, on the
Southwestern Plank Road, both places being
about five miles distant from the city. The
earthquake seems to have increased in vio
lence as it receded from Augusta, and it may
have done a good deal of damage in other por
tions of the State.
The Oglethorpe Manufacturing Company
will be organized in a few days The wit
nesses in the C. C. Bowen case have left for
Washington City.
MACON.
Superior Court has adjourned until the 2d
Monday in June The Colored Baptist
Church was entered and robbed the other
night... .Katie, the little daughter of Mr. J.
H. Otto, fell into a tub of water the other day
and was drowned.... The Telegraph of the
21st has the following :
A difficulty, growing out of some business
transaction, occurred yesterday afternoon at
R. F. Woolfolk’s stove and tinware establish
ment on Third street, between a Mr. E. Mc
Donald and Sidney Ives, in which the latter
fired three shots at the former. Ives was
ning from his adversary while shooting, but
would turn aud fire every chance he got
Neither of the shots strnck McDonald, but
of them took effect in the thigh of Mr.
Janstetter’s little son, Theodore, who was on
the street at the time, inflicting merely a flesh
wound, from which, as Dr. Green informs ns,
he will soon recover.
GAINESVILLE.
We clip the following items from the Air
Line Eagle: ^
The colored population ot this city are
abont to erect a house for public worship.
Two car loads of freight were delivered by
tho Air-Line Railroad, on Wednesday, two
miles from this city.
We learn that the engineer corps of the Oc-
mulgee and North Georgia Railroad will re
sume the survey of this road on or about the
first of Jane.
The bell purchased by the Methodist Church
of Mr. A D. Candler rang forth its clear tones on
Saturday evening last It weighs 786 lbs.,
and when it is put in proper position, can be
heard some distance from the city.
A mass meeting of the citizens of Hall
county, in favor of a railroad from the city of
Gainesville to Dahlonega, will be held in the
city of Gainesville on Tuesday, the 4th of
June. All the citizens of Hall county are in
vited to be present Several speakers will ad
dress the citizens on this important question.
A heavy hail storm last Monday, which
damaged the crops. . .The Brunswick and
Albany Railroad is progressiug satisfactorily.
It is to be completed to Albany by the 4th of
July, and to the Chattahoochee by Novem
ber... .Thro nateeska Fire Company visited
the Wide Awakes of Americus.
WILKES COUNTY.
Mrs. Lucy Crosby dead; aged 88 years....
The Mississippi orphans received a benefit at
Washington on Friday... .Cotton crop injured
by recent heavy rains Grand Jary of the
ooanty advised the Solicitor General, Math
ews, to resign... .Judge Barnes, of the Dis
trict Court, attempted to hold court last Mon
day, but there being no Sheriff, Ac., present,
no court was held—so says the Gazette.
MACON.
Superior Court still in session. The verdict
of the jury in the case of Goode vs. the South
western Railroad has not transpired Judge
Lochrane was in the city on the 19th Rev.
E. P. Walton is lecturing on Swedenborgen-
ism... .Ten Indians of the Choctaw tribe in
the city The Base Bailers are active Six
negroes escaped from the guard house Thurs
day night
COLUMBUS.
Superior Court meets on Monday A
street railroad is talked of.... Water works
are to be erected The Sun says:
A regular passenger schedule between Ope
lika and Lafayette, ou the East Alabama and
Cincinnati Railroad, went into operation ou
Wednesday last Trains leave Lafayette at 6
a. m., and arriving at Opelika at 7; returning,
leave Opelika at 4 p.m., and arrive at Lafay
ette at 5. A small but handsome engine,
styled “Chambers,” with two elegant passen
ger coaohes, will run betweeu the two points.
This schedule will not be likely to benefit us
much, unless we can secure a connection per
Western Road.
SAVANNAH.
Aquatic sports are fashionable... The Ad
vertiser of the 18th says: Yesterday while the
dredge boat in charge of Capt J. S. Keanard, \
was engaged in excavating the embankment
from in front of the proposed entrance to the
new dry dock, about six feet below the sur
face, and a distance of abont seventy-fire feet
from low water mark, a small vessel was dis
covered imbedded in the solid earth. After
removing the top earth sufficiently the craft
was discovered to be that of a small schoone*
Her masts, which projected lengthwise to
wards the river from where she had careened,
were taken out of her. There is no telling
how long the vessel has been buried
sight, in all probability, since the days of
Oglethorpe. . .The Metropolitan fire company
visited Charleston.... It is said that Gould
has been murdered in Florida The Atlanta
Ice Machine has arrived.... Recent import
dues amount to $41,000.
The new Episcopal Church was dedicated
last Sunday night. Bishop Beckwith preached
last Monday night and confirmed some ten or
twelve persons. Heavy rains have injured the
®rops. Rev. Mr. Smith will deliver a lecture
at an early day, in behalf of Edgar A. Poe’s
sister. The Dalton Citizen has the following:
A man named Lewis liale, 87 years of age,
living in Bradley county, Teun., near Red
Clay, Ga., lost his life on Friday last under
the following circumstances: It appears that
he and a man named Harris, a near neighbor
and hitherto warm friend, got into a dispute
about some remark the latter had made, in
which Hale gave Harris tho lie, whereupon
Harris strnck him on the head and neck with
his fist, from which he died that night. Ilale
never spoke after he received the first blow.
He was buried on Sunday last at the Red Clay
graveyard. Harris is said to be a peaceable,
clever man, an exemplary member of the
church, and tho melancholy circumstance is
said to affect him deeply. Hale was one
the first settlers of Bradley county, and his
tragic end produced universal sorrow in the
neighborhood iu which be lived.
An effort is being made to induce Swedidfe
immigration. .. .The ia9t County Fair was a
brilliant success... .The Journal gets off the
following:
Atlanta sent a train load of her negro popu
lation up to Marietta, on last Monday, picnic-
ing. They came beating drums and blowing
brass horns, and marched pell-mell down to
Glover’s grove, where they fiddled, danced,
drank whisky and fought like wild cats. We
learn that one negro woman shot another
negro woman’s nose off, while several more
pistol shots were fired and flesh wounds in
flicted. Rocks, sticks, and bottles were used
freely. These colored troops fight nobly every
time they come up here to have a picnic.
They went back fully satisfied and hoping
that they may never see Marietta again, and
we hope so too.
AUGUSTA.
Some little excitement about small sums of
counterfeit money that has been imposed upon
some of the bar-keepers Mrs. Lucy P.
Read, an aged lady, was run over by a butcher
wagon and seriously inj ired on the 18th....
Cow thieves are numerous. Some of them
have been arrested.... A. Mr. Gordon, teacher
in one of the public schools, was arraigned fqp
paddling one of his pupils at a picnic. The
case was dismissed by the magistrate.... The
Savannah River is in good boating condition.
....Local papers urge the manufacture of
blacbberry wine.... Tho turf men are prepay
ing for another gm'rnt trot The pt
$1,000... Eight days have elapsed since a
“pair” of marriage license have been issued.
THE BAPTISTS IN COUNCIL.
Tbe Southern Baptist Convcntioa—The
Law* Day’s Proceed ing*—Amendment to
tbe Constitution—Report of Committee
on Publication Department —Resolution
of Thanks—Orphan Asylum, &c.
St. Louis, May 17, 1871.—The Baptist
Southern Convention concluded their session
yesterday. The attendance was small, as a
largo number of delegates had departed for
their homes, and others were engaged in tak
ing a view of the “future great city of the
world ” before their departure for the South.
A considerable body left at the close of the
session to attend the Convention of the Baptist
Church, North, now holding in Chicago. The
MOBNING SESSION
was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. T. Sum
ner, of Alabama, and tho minutes of yesterday
were read by the Secretary.
The usual devotional exercises were dis
pensed wifh.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
An amendment was offered to the Constitu
tion providing for the insertion of the words
“Regular Baptist” iu the article defining the
qualifications for members of the Convention,
but which, after considerable debate, w&s laid
on the table by a large majority, on th*
ground that it was entirely unnecessary.
KAPOBT OF PUBLICATION DEPARTMENT.
The report of the Committee on the Publi
cation Department was taken from the table,
and discussed. After numerous verbal altcr^
tions, all that part of the report suggesting
changes in the Home and Foreign Journal was
stricken out.
Rev. W. D. Thomas, of South Carolina,
offered
AN AMENDMENT
opposing the establishment of a general pub
lication department, and urging the Churches
and Sunday Schools of the South to co-ope
rate with the boards in their legitimate work,
which, after a lengthy debate, was carried by a
vote of 78 to 17.
STEREOTYPED PLATES.
Rev. Mr. Van Hoose, of Tennessee, pro
posed a resolution authorizing the Sunday
School Board to sell their stereotyped plates,
and devote tbe proceeds to its legitimate ob
jects. Lost.
Rev. Mr. Imnan, of Tennessee, presented!
the following
RESOLUTION OF TH.OtKS.
Resolved, That the thanks of this body he
hereby tendered to our brethren and sister^
generally of St. Louis for the hospitality
tended to the members of the convention dur
ing its session, and to the proprietors of the
papers of this city for their reports; also to the
several railway and steamboat companies who
have passed the members at reduced rates
also to the hotels of this city who have enter
tained the delegates at reduced rates.
HEAVY BLOW AT THE PRESS.
Mr. John William Jones, of Virginia, got up
from a table, where he had been struggling
with a mass of newspaper writing paper, and
opposed the passage of the resolution. He
was thankful for the reduced fare at tl^ hotel*
and the kindness of the railroad companies,
bnt was not in favor of the bestowal of thanks
on the newspapers.
The clause referred to was stricken out ana
the resolution adopted.
The Committee on an
ORPHAN ASYLUM IN THE CHEEK NATION
made their report, which was adopted
On motion adjourned.
What it C*«ti to be Kducated at West
Point.
The New Orleans Picayune foots up the de
tailed West Point appropriations, with the
following results : We find the amount to be
about 316,000. If the corps averages one hun
dred and twenty cadets, tho year’s expenses
will be about $2,600, so that the four years’
tuition, training and subsistence oi every grad-#*'
uated second lieutenant costs to the Govern
ment a sum not exceeding ten thousand dol;*rs.
An estimate may thus be made as to the cash
value of an officer’s education and commis
sion, of the extent of his moral obligation to
retnrn an equivalent to the Government, and*
of the cost of a collegiate course in one of our
first-class colleges.
The first number of the Daily Citizen is be
fore us. It is a neatly printed paper of eight
pages, and is full of interesting reading mat
ter. The names of the editors and proprie
tors do not appear.