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THE WEEK
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDN
itew (Era.
*1ast ten ycar» closes one of the most
|ir»rkable decades in history. It has wit-
1 wonders in human events that prophesy
>lf could have scarcely anticipated. Ten
rs ago, there were, in the United States,
irly four million of slaves. These are now
tout; and by onr constitution of goyem-
nt, stand unchallenged at the ballot. One
their number has actually held a seat in
i United States Senate, and both races are
day represented in the lower House of Con-
The reaction from servitude to the
ftlUicat balance power, has been sudden and
|ovoogh. If the pendulum has swung too
m the opposite direction, it will, within
Je next decade gravitate to the golden mean,
hving the extremes on cither side.
In Europe, the past ten years is as niemora
le for important events as in America. Ger-
any has risen from a congress of petty
r:nqii>alitidsand conflicting states, into a con
ciliated Empire of gigantic proportions. It is
the foremost of the great European pow-
-t has risen to this proud eminence
the lsst five years. Since 1861, the
jfi^rte dynasty has been completely over-
hrowu, and France has descended from a first,
o a second class power.
In Italy—tho land of poetry and song—the
last ten years has wrought a marvelous change.
As a temporal sovereign, the Pope has been
dethroned. Rome, 4 'the seven hilled city.” is
again the sits of royal power. The palaces of
the Cmsurs are once again the residence of au
Italian monarch. The ancient bouse of Savoy,
originating with the conquests of Charle
magne, is now ruling in Rome over the “king
dom of Italy.” Other members of the same
roval boose aVe seated npou the thrones of
both Spain and Portugal. Thus three king-
-jparale and iudepeudout, and the old-
the known world, are ruled l>y this
tJ) f Italian Prinoea.
*ulna, v* the first lime iu the world's his
U'«>, has, daring the past ten years, sent
eiphawdes from- her exclusive court to the
nation >f ('hri->u>udoui; thus showing that
even *V ' »r ; > nt s not infallible to the world’s
progress ...kewiae Japan: she has fought,
u years, her batting of rovolu-
act Feudalism, enUbiished a
anarchy, oonveued a Parlia-
s» fix?.t rime in her history,
» to the outside world and
•«itoi*4 .u.-v.ions : pijicefui diplomacy.
>V itui: the same ton vttars, science h*.,- not
only kept pace with the progress of the nge,
^pt h« j o]wd« I new and startling fle’d* of
inquiry Fret* inquiry has be< j stimulated to
a degris- that threatens th$ existence of much
•*f our orthodox Church creeds. Certain it is,
that the phiiosrvhio mind demands, and it is
now making, a rigid reexamination of the
title deeds to old dogmas. . elcgrapliic
OuL.alion has boen established across
oceans, linking together the four great conti
nents of the globe iu almost inaiaut&ueoua
com.tofl ii. Within the same period tho
gi amidst muuuuaent of human genius and en
terprise, 4 he Great Pacifio Railway, has been
upUted; tnua oonpeeting the two great
Chords of oar continent,
otic and the Pacific
-^oiif.eVTrT
futeipriso has been die-
oa! success achieved,in
tne great Snez canal,
i with the waters of the
- Urns uniting at one stroke
three continents, the great his-
f Africa with the seas of Asia And
pe, one common channel
tip* are now bearing the corn-
f one half the world to the other. «
These are some cf the more striking of the
cnderful events of Cits most evontual de-
, from 1861 to 187T, the most eventful
ej>och of ten yean that has transpired in the
world’s history for perhaps two hundred years.
«ta of Disappoint in« i>*.
Tlie Last “Sew Departure”—Mr. Stephens'
Paper Turning Repnbliean.
Mr. Stephens’ paper, published in this city,
now professes great admiration for Mr. Madi -
son, and adopts the Madisouian, as the true
theory of our Constitution!
We are glad to see the Bun thus abandon
ing its extreme position in politics. From
Calhoun and Hayno, to Washington and Madi
son is a wide “departure.” It exceeds that
of the Harrisburg, Pa., Convention beyond
all comparison. “ Saul also appearing among
the prophets,” was not a more notable con
version from error to truth, than this turning
of the Sun from C&lhoan to Madison.
We most heartily welcome “A. H. S.” to
our platform! Madison was the great forerun
ner of Republicanism. He advocated tho
very principles which Mr. Stephens hi^ spent
a quarter of a century iu combatting. $f.
therefore, Madison is to become the political
guide of the Stephens wing of the Democra
cy, then we can havo no issue with that fac
tion.
Mr. Madison held the idea of '‘strict
construction ’’ to be wholly inconsistent
with the nature and scope of the Federal
Constitution. Mr. Stephens has here
tofore been a strict constructionist Mr.
Madison said: “I hold it for a funda
mental point, that an individual sovereignty,
or independence of the Slates, is utterly irrec
oncilable with the idea of an aggregate or Na
tional sovereignty." “Tho State authority,"
says Mr. Madison, “is always subordinate to
the National.” Mr. Stephens, until quite re
cently, held to the doctrino of “State
Sovereignty,” and denied the existence
of anything like a direct personal al
legiance of the citizen to the Na
tional Government ! Indeed, he denied
that we had any National Government at all !
In its stead he wrote “Compact" and “A1P
auee” between sovereign Republics; ** n d
thence derived the monstrous doctrine tbs
“Constitutional right of Secession.”
“Centralization” hns been Mr.St-'pbeus’ great
bugbear. On this point Mr. SA J s: “The
necessity of a General or Naw° xal Government
proceeds from the jnrojynsity °f the Stales to
pursue their particular iuterests (as corpora
tions) in opposition to the general interests.’’
“This propensity,’' ho goes on to say, “ will
oontinue to disturb the system unless effectu
ally controlled. Nothing short of a negative
on State.-Jaws will control it." Mr. Madison’s
interpretation of tho scope and powers of the
Federal Constitution is thus stated by him
self.: “According to the views of every tnemh/r
(of the Federal Constitution Conventico)
the General Government will have powers far
beyond those exercised by the British Pirlia-
meut, when the Colonies were parts d the
British Empire.” Again he says: “Th» true
policy of the smaller States lies in promoting
those principles aifii that form of Government
which will most approximate the Statu to the
conditioner counties
And Jfct the Son now indorse* Madison's
theory! The Era could not go farter in the
direction of “Centralization ’’ if i would, and
it certainly would not i ftt could
No mar. in tho United States has, of >Ue
Years, been ..tf're heated aud unreasonable it
* abu-e ot President Grant than Charles A.
of the New York Sun. He has Abased
President so constantly for the last two
> ir» that Lis savings have ceased to attract
i. It is looked upon as a matter of
i'd if fall* utterly harmless,
as is well known, wanted to bo Col-
Customs in New York. Failing of
(bis, he intimated a desire for a first-class for
eign mission. Failing in both, he became the
tdlv cf Fi3k and 'Gould and the Tammany
K.ag in their indecent assaults upon the Ad
ministration. Before his disappointment, Mr.
Dana, like Mr. Sehurx, could not say enough
in praise of General Grant. In proof of this,
we gi\e the fallowing sample, taken from one
of Dana’s publications, made before he de
spaired of recognition by the President:
•*1£or!y in i860 he (Grant) accepted a proposition
from hi* father to remove to Galena, and join hi*
brother* in the leather business. Devotinp himeelf
with industry and good sense to the new occupation,
he soon became familiar with all it* branches, aiul
achieved a fair degree of success. But, not being at
all demonstrative in his manor rs. nor inclined to take
an aettve part in the affairs of the town, he made but
few acquaintances, and those mostly among the peo
ple with whom he hetTbusiness. A few of the best
citisen* had broke®, through his natural reserve
aud discovered Os sterling qualities if the man y though
ii is bat Isir In say Ah»i ao one then suspected that
lAMLindiiii iiiT and obacure Je^L.-r dealer would*
ever become the mnet distinguished *•*./hit time.
••When the rebellion was precipitated upon the
csoontry by the attack upon Fort Sumter, Grant bad
just atta:n« 1 hie thirty-ninth year, and having been
blaased with a strong and elastic constitution, an eqna-
bJo temper, a stoat and well set figure capable of great
endurance, he had psssod through the varied experi
ences of hi* l:fe witk continue’!} increasing powers. He
had not r*arhf d full mental development with
nod. bmt had^inrirascd steadily in mental and
. 4DV*rt by Hr trials through which he had gone, rather
tb* L« l»y the years that had passed over his he*!
••Kt had neither whims nor hobbies, neither pet theories
nor vitfemary schemes, but was entirely free from preju
dice t/'lnry sort, and better than Aft he had reached
CoJ*OJ|Sfc*,NsE, which, com-
steadfast courage,
imCuT,^Mfnand simple in his ad-
drits, •;:*** manners nnsfiildj^by the world,' direct in
las purposes, slow ti anger, t)fSE& qf words tn public,
free from pan.'* and s’, amt. qf cuflt sort, and faithful
atn thing/, he Mj rejn/Shd alii fra* friend, ag
This maka^ inwrbaling rending, when com-
pawd^wiLh some of Mr. D.tna’s recent assaults
upon IV.o President-
The hate 1'.lection Fairr-A Laugltablc
Spectacle.
From the bes^ informalim we can gather,
there we* e not exceeding 35,1 oO votes cunt at
the late Dtm.ocr&tie “elee: .-a" tor Governor.
-•
200,000 —the most accurate estimate is ‘205,000.
So that the vote on the 19th nit. did not ex
ceed three twentieths of the vote of the State !
No one is surprised at this. The election
w, and the manner of its passage, was held
to be illegal by the aider and better in
formed of the Democratic leaders themselves.
Ah a legal proposition, it was a qnot! ion upon
which the Democrats were divided—
and the vote shows that the aiajority,
even of that party in the State, either bold
the election to be illegal or else regarded it as
utterly useless, ineunriug an unnecessary ex
pense to the State of not less than one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars. Hence,
should Colonel Smith, by hook or crook, bo
admitted to the Gubernatorial Chair, his ad
ministration will incur an extra expense to the
State of not less than $18,000 per month.
Let the reader take his pencil, divide $150,000,
the cost of the election and inanguration, by
9, the number of months for which he was
electea. it i 8 a plain problem iu Arithmetic.
Any school boy can solve it.
All this for vihal? Why for putting a man
in office contrary to the express wishes of sev
enteen-twentieths of the legal voters of the
State!
It is hardly probable, under all the circum
stances, that Smith will pu»h his claims further
than a formal demand for possession of the
office. We cannot believe thav be will make
any farther issue, when less than ‘hree-twen-
tieths of the vote of the State, and cvQ S jj era .
bly less than one-half the voitof his oicn party,
is at his-bock. It would be a very damag**^
showing to go abroad, especially in the fa
the fcell known fact that the vacancy is al
ready filled in the manner and by tho means
constitutionally appointed.
rsnu'Tiox
> WITH TRUTH
nnuoff Vu nt:
Howlong will timber last when completely
iraimrsfd'hi waterThis quest ion receives
a p*ru»l j.matr at in the example of tfct
'piles -t t tuo bruftv. - built by tho Emperdr
ifihe. One of these piles
Vl *aken np. at d : . :nl t i i <• petrifi* d to the
of ttir»«-foomm of au inch: bat the
i >t of the w..od wm little difl. rent from its
ordinary though it had been driven
v.i&h than un-oeuto*>H. The piles under
tLc |4trR o/ old London Bridge have been
driven abgtt GOO years, aud. in 1746, it did
net aj pb*tr lliat they were materially decayed;
vndetid they were louod to bo jsnfficiently
;»»nd to support the massive snporstructnre.
Tl*cy were Cbiefly of ehu.
TIic Bonil Investigation.
We hekr some startling coDjecttfes in
reference to the efforts that Lave beer made,
aud that are still being made, to dpreciate
onr State securities.
The opinion is now becoming qrite preva
lent that the recent act of the Legislature,
calling in all State bonds issued after a cer
tain date, and suspending the tterest there
on until after investigation can be had, by no
means implies a monopoly of nrtae with those
who originated it. That thee is an immense
job covered up in this transaction, has been
more than once hinted at; ivad this suggestion
comes from those who do ipf believe there will
be any Repudiation !
If these bonds can oe depreciated and
thrown upon the market at a heavy discount,
there will be some fttrge private fortunes
amassed in Georgia within the next few years
Mark well this prediction!
Another suggestion: The Ceutral P-ilway
Company, which has been a mo*®p°ly
Georgia for years past, is greatly interested in
the indefinite delay in the completion of the
Brunswick and Albany *°ad. The Central
monopoly has fought tUs enterprise from its
inception up to the resent hour; and its in
fluence is now felt 5* * movement looking to
the depreciation * repudiation of securities
upon the basis which the Brunswick and
Albany Road depends for completion. *
Furthermore, all the facts aud informa
tion prifessfe! to be desired by the Legislu-
ture, could have been obtained by application
either at the Executive or Comptroller Gener
al’s office, or ftt both; and hence this expen
sive Inquisition and consequent depreciation
of our credit was wholly unnecessary.
Ti>*t there have been bonds issued irregu-
]p>iy, we thinly quite probable. It is not un
likely that Mr. Kimball asked for and obtained
bonds in advance of their becoming due,
under terms of the law; but if the holders
of those securities will now complete the Road,
then the Smte will lose nothing and the
holder of the bonds wiil bo likewise secured.
But thf*c facts, seems to ns, may be elicited
without suspending the payment of interest
on all bonds issued since 1868, and without
oparing aa avenue to greater frauds than have
betfc known to exist in Georgia.
The Campaign Ope:
The political canvass of 1872
and earnestly. The first electi*
a Congressman in the 0th
trict, on yesterday. The election
Republican. To-day tho Republic
Hampshire and the Labor Reformers ol
necticut, bold their State Conventions,
the 17th of the present month the Temperance
men of Maine will hold a State Convention,
looking to action in the next State election,
in November. Parham, *he present inenm-
bent, will probablybe the Republican nominee
for Governor.
January 24tb is the time set for the State
Convention of the “ Liberal ” or “ Sorehead ”
Republic*^ of Missouri. Gratz Brown is
expet^iog the re-nomination, aud at the same
tij*e “ a uew national party ” is expected to
be born.
The Democrats of Connecticut will hold a
State Convention February 6, to nominate
State officers and to consider this “ Missouri
movement” The National Labor Convention
will be held in Coin mb us, Ohio, February 14, and
will probably nominate candidates for Presi
dent and Vice President. Their most promi
nent candidate for President is Mr. George
W. Julian, of Indiana, whose name is pres
ented by the St Francisoo Labor Reformers
and other societies. A National Temperance
Convention will be held in Columbus, Ohio,
February 22. On the same day the Indiana
Republicans will hold a convention to nomi
nate candidates for State officers, and the
regular Republicans of Missouri will meet lor
tho same purpose.
The New Hampshire and Connecticut
elections, early in the spring. In the former
State, the Democrats and Labor Reformers are
already iu the field with full tickets. Jiewel
will, in all probability, be renominated by the
Republicans of Connecticut. The Democrats
will hunt a new man it ia understood that
English “has had quite enough" of defeat.
The contest, however, iu both States promises
to be very animated.
Oar Tlond* Abroad.
There are said to be nearly three millions of
Georgia securities now iu Germany; and we
gather, from the tone of some of the late
financial jonrnals in that conntrv, that un
easiness exists in reference to the temper
and tone of recent legislative proce dings in
thi^tate, squinting nt Repudiation. The let-
t#r of Governor Conley to Messrs. Clews &
Co., dated November 11th, which we translate
from the leading financial paper in Fraukfort-
on-the-Main, will be ryad* with interest a9
touching this point The Governor, it seems,
did not believe that Repudiation would be tol
erated by the people ot Georgia. That the
people of Georgia are unalterably opposed to
Repudiation iu any form, is certainly tree;
and no political party can long advocate it
and live, either here or elsewhere.
Convicted of Kw-l£lu
The first important conviction for Ku-Klux-
ery, in York District, South, Carolina, is one
Samael Brown. He is a large land holder.
He was formerly ft magistrate. He was a man
of wealth, position, and influence; and he is
qaite old enough to be free from all mere
“fun frolics,” and other temptations of wan
tonness. And yet the proof, as published
officially is most direct and conclusive. It
appears beyond all reasonable donbt that he
belonged to a secret band which had commit
ted at least one murder, and many outrages of
a revolting character. He was a distinguished
loader of the Bourbon Democracy. It would,
however, be manifestly absurd and unjust to
dbnolude, as some of our contemporaries do,
thkt all Bourbons are Ku-Kluxicol in senti
ment or association. *
••The motto mounted,” is the last elegant
i of Mr. Stephens’ Atlanta paper. It
r. Stephen*' Opinion of President Grant
-The Most Itcmarkable Man of the Age.
Iii his work entitled “The War Between the
States,” vol. II, page 51)7, Hon. Alexander H.
Stephens says: “I was instantly struck with
the great simplicity and perfect naturalness
of his manners, aud the entire nbscnce of
“everything like affectation, show, or even
‘ usual military air or mien of men in his po
sition. • • * There was nothing in his
‘ appearance or surroundings which indicated
* his official rank. * * * His conver-
‘satiou was easy aud fluent, without
*“ the least effort or restraint. Iu this, nothing
“ was so closoly noticed by me as Hie point
i 4 and terseness with which he expressed what-
4 ever he said. He did not seem either to
44 court or avoid conversation, but whenever
“ be did speak, what he said was directly to
“ the point, oad covered the whole mat-
44 ter ia a few words. I saw, before I was
44 with him long, that he was exceedingly quick
“ in perception, aud direct iu purpose, with a
44 vast heal more of brains than tongue, as
“ready as that was st his opinion mi. * * *
4 ‘The morrT became acquainted wilh him,
44 the more I became thoroughly impressed
44 with the very extraordinary combination of
“rare elements of character which he
44 exhibited. • • * * Upon the
“ whole tho result of this first ac-
“qnaiutauce with General Grant • * • was,
44 the conviction on my mind that, taken all
44 in all, he was oue of the most remarkable
“ men I had ever met with, and that
44 career in life, if his days should be pro
longed, was hardly entered upon; that he
“ himself was not aware of his power, and
“ that if he lived he would in the future exert
“a controlling influence in shaping tho desti-
44 uies of this country,” Ac.
Do They Mean Miirhlrf!
The Legislature re-assembles ou the 10th.
The session, it is understood, will be a long
one, as the main object will be to reorganize
the State Government.
This wiil incur a heavy expense upon the
State. The 165,000 voters who took no pari
in the recent election by the reactionary
faction, will have to pay the expenses,
other words, seventeen twentieths of the voters
of Georgia, are tc be taxed to pay the expenses
incurred by the wild and revolutionary
scheme of the three twentieths who partici
pated in the late election farce.
Thus it appears that the great majority, not
only of the voters, “but likewise o." tho Demo
cratic voters in the State, are unalterably op
posed to this disorganizing scheme. They
rtcoguized no necessity for an election, and
*hey wanted none. They did not participate
m c te election; and they now look to Gov
ernor Conley a3 the only breakwater to this
reactionary movement by a small faction of
the Democratic party.
The unexpired term of Governor Bullock is
already tilled in tho manner prescribed by the
State Constitution. That term i9only for about
ten months. There is no objection to Governor
Conley, aside from the fact that he is known
t*> be a Republican in politics. And in view
of the fact that, in the opinion of some of the
ablest lawyers in tbs Democratic party, the
special election act was unconstitutional; that
the election itself was wholly unnecessary and
indefensible; that, at the faction, not exceed
ing three-twentieths ol the vote of the State
was polled, and consequently tb»t the people
aie with Governor CouleyT aud not with those
who seek to displace him—in view ot these
facts it has been suggested that Mr. Smith’s
friends will not push matters to extremes.
We hope this may turn out to be the case;
but there is a settled apprehension ot a long
ami expensive session, aud of trouble growing
dfct of the persistence of those who seek to
reorganize the State Government; and this
apprehension is serious y damaging the busi
ness interests of the State-
NING, JANUARY'" 7* 1872.
NUMBER 43.
Orgaulxt-d
It is the shame of partisan journalism that
it is venal, slanderous, and recklessly inde
cent. This is especially true of a class of
Ku-Klux organs and their Washington corres
pondents. The following is a sample, clipped
from a late issue of a Democratic organ at
SavuDnah:
Fred. Grant, son of Mrs. Grant, but no rotation to
General Grant, lias gone off on a foreign
staff of the General of the Army. General Grant made
good many enemies by th;* business, bat it
vr.tu’e fault. Wfien Wiethe people cease bothering
tlie General of the United States for acts which Mrs.
Grant does ?
Newspapers thus lost to all sense of shame
never essay legitimate discussion of prin
ciples or policies involved between themselves
aud political opponents. That would
Paper Currency.
Department announces that
January 1, 1872,) defaced or
States notes anfractional
of being redeemable*
by the United States Treasu-
discount for mutilation, will bo
their full face value in new notes
icy by the Treasurer, the several as-
irers, aud designated depositories
ted States, and all National Bank
Depositaries, and will be received at'their
full value by all officers of the Treas
ury Detriment iu payment of currency
dues tl the Uuit-d States, provided
that twee-fifths of the origi:^ pro-
portioB-*of the notes are preserved in
one pi Its. Fragments less thau five-eighths
wilj be jUi-emed only by the Treasurer of the
,t*s. If more than one-half aud less
;hths is presented, half of the face
Ije paid. Less than half a note wiil
only on affidavit that the missing
been totally destroyed,
the new rules, any person, lum,
{■oration, or public officer, will be
|p forward five dollars and upwards
currency, and fifty dollars and
. __ a T tender notes, ior redemption
f xJLfury, by express, at the expense^
£mect, under the Government
Adams Express Company. Hen
ng less than $500 was entitled
lion at Government expense.
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z and tlie Democracy.
ible that the Democratic editors in
u have forgotten ex-Presidont John-
of Carl Schurz ? m
remember why Schurz wj^ sus-
a lucrative position by the Presi-
ruptcy, aud hundreds of thousands of labor
ing men reduced to starvation; and such men
as Clay, WcWter. King, Berrien, and Preston
were ostracised from the councils of the na
tion and pa; • ike criminals. But why
should we ; l'here is no end to the fol
lies ard ci. ommitted under this word
democracy, r. ‘ imagine, if you please, just
such an individual, aud scores of them, and
just such scenes, ii such a thing were possible
and bearable iu this oar changed condition;
for Democracy is “time honored and unchang-
able”—what say for. will be the fruits and tho
harvest ?
The word Democracy, said our Revolution
ary fathers, is unsuited to our country; it is
anarchical, it is dangerous, it is insurrection
ary, and should be tabooed as a party name.
But, srid your Van Burens, your Bentons, and
your Euchanans, it is delectable, it is taking,
it is facinating, it is the very word we want,
we will take it for our creed, our ritual, our
tocsin, and onr war cry. And so they did.
with all its horrid results. But I abandon for
the present further search for its meaning
a«d significance, and propose in an other
article to say something more of the glorious
old Whigs and their labors.
Common Sense.
GEORGIA FIXASCES.
IT WAS DOXE.
The Cincinnati Southern Railroad Pro
ject—How It was Defeated by a Drunken
ant Venqil Legislature—A Prediction
Verified—The Louisville Monopoly vs.
Geergiu—Tammany Rascalities Out-
dose.
From the Lexington Correspondence Cincinnati Com-
maicial.]
Tbp chances of the Cincinnati Southern
Railijpad charter in the Kentucky Legislature
aro materially improved from what they were
last year. We do not say it will pass, but the
addition of a little more honesty and the exo-
das af a heap of corruption has brightened its
prospects so that it will hare little difficulty in
douse and gather more votes in the Sen
ate. It the Senate had all come fresh from
People, like the House, there would be no
douSt of the question of the passage of the
charter through that body. But half of them
held over, and consequently there can be no
new coant of the old noses in the way of
light
It is complimentary to the present Legisla
ture to say it is more honest than the one
which went out as its predecessor. Yot it is
not saying much in the aggregate, for it would
have been a poor excuse if it had not been
better than
THE CORRUPT THING
Georgia
sou’s ?pi
Do t
pended ^
dent ii
Do>tfy remember w’hat J. Harvey Wat tor-
son sddof this Scharz’s complicity with cer
tain riovmnnent ootton transactions in the
So a fieri States in 1865?
r»ey remember these thkjg.-;, as we pre-
sumo most, do they no#- consider that
Presjdeht Johnson lied, and that Schurz was
a slandered and ill used man ?
They thitk so, else why do they now
hold up Ur. Schurz as a man of immaculate
purity sfejtoman integrity ? *
Let tttojtruthbq told. Schurz has ho higher
claim to respedability with the Democracy
attadies to him in virtue of his
Preiident Grant; aud these slan-
dbetfer origin than the refusal of
j|tanominate Schurz Minister to
Iniflsia. This was the begin-
IJe official patronage iu Mis-
tJeen dispensed ia the personal
ator Schurz. This is the end-
I^tttk* Peirbcratic party so sorely pressed
ujjpuui-uis. mail woum VB _Mi ,> , .. ’ • .
wholly beyond their depth. Ignorant, mall- 0^'^ * ^ °P » “ d ‘
cions? and peevish, these creatures deal in t^>tQr-r wfco abandons his principles and b, 3
nothing more elegant than slang, and hfl^itu-
ally substitute personalities and calumny for
argument. If the average iuteiligeaca of their
party is to be determined bjigpch a standard
of excellence, who would no^egard iLs acoes-
ston to power as an ijarelrieTable calamity ?
press
princ^jflesand
party rr -roly because his leadership was not
reoognir. fl ?
It wolbd indeed seem so. Nevertheless, .ex-
Presider- 4 Johason*s opiuiojf/ik still of record;
and “A^riy" is still the iaol dr the Southern
DemociAsy!
Some of the critics have made out a case
against Senator Sumner’s Grammar, as dis
played in the first words of his proposed Six
teenth amendment to the Constitution. The
words are, “ Xo person shall be eligible,” Ac.
The question is how “ No person” can be eli
gible to anything ! Such “peipiou” never ex
isted, or ever will exist
Those who sustain as well Mr. Sumner’s
Grammar as his proposed aineniment, make
this defense: To make out tho case the critic
must prove that “No person” over existed.
As, however, that involves general,jmnihila-
tioc, the proof would be profitless. Xommoo
sense affirms that to say 44 Xo personttiaH” do
this or that, is eqnivalent to saying Umt John
is qgite scholastic, though it is doe **A. H. S.” Smith, or George Brown, aiul the rest of us,
to sif that it does not appear over his initials ^hall > o! do it.
.Literature.
It is important that tho freedom ol the
be guaranteed. But it is still
Iks forking of thisgrfiitp
engine of civil and religions liberty should be
properly regulated by law and by public
opinion.
The freedom of the press does not mean
licentiousness. Under the Constitution and
laws of this country, every citizen has a right
to express his opinions through the medium
of tho press, with tho single reservation, on
the part of the supreme power in the State,
that the publication of those opinions be not
calculated to create breaches of the peace,
and debauch the morals of the people. This
very restraint is one of the strongest safe
guards of the press. No good citizen can
object to it.
It is deeply to be regretted that our law
makers and judges have not paid more at
tention to this matter before. Tho evils con
sequent npon the abuse of privilege by a li
centious press are becoming day by day more
painfully apparent. For years past the press,
periodical and daily, has teemed with publi
cations the most seditious, obscene, and de
moralizing that can be imagined. Half a cen
tury ago the infamous ‘Minerva Press,” in
London, was in full blast, and the weak
minded youth of England were made the
constant spectators of vice, portrayed in her
most attractive form by Mrs. Behn, Fielding,
Smollet, Monk Lewis, G. W. M. Reynolds,
and scores of others equally as bad, and per
haps worse.
But matters are by uo means* improving at
present. Nor do wo except our own country.
The yellow backed literature with which the
counters and shelves of onr book stores are
crowded, is a disgrace to any age and country.
The influence of these productions upon those
who read them, is pernicious in the extreme.
The instances are innumerable where the
youth of both sexes hive gradually allowed
themselves to be drawn from the path of vir-
ture by the allurements so fascinatingly pre
sented to them by our “ Dime Novelists,” and
others cf the Ned Bcntline clique. Only
the other day a woman was murdered in
Louisville, and the general conclusion
arrived at by those who knew her best was that
the murderess w*s affected with a homicidal
mania, caused by the constant reading of the
criminal literature of the day. The mental
food of this woman consisted of such scandal
ous publications as the “Day’s DoiDgs,”
“Sporting Times,” “Police Gazette,” “Dime
Novels,” and other publications of even a dark
er hue. This is only a solitary instance. The
evil is growing, and un.ess the licentiousness
of the press is checked, and its privileges reg-
Gk*ed by law, the “art preservative” will
be regarded as the art destructive.
Let our legislators and magistrates take the
matter in ha&d. Every consideration of
ality and decenc»nrge us to suppress licentious
publications. Unless we do this we shall live
to see the “ Fourth Estate ” shorn of its power,
prestige, and glory.
Tlie Great Southern llat\«-oucl.
We publish elsewhere extracts from a. recent
letter written from Lexington, Ky., to the
Cincinnati Commercial, and invite special at
tention thereto. It shows the state of moral
ity that prevailed in a Democratic body twelve
months ago, and by ichat means Georgia was
deprived of this outlet to the markets of the
Northwest. Those who were readers of the
Era pending that notable discussion, will re
mem ber’that we then made the prediction that
time wonld prove the Legislature to kave
been subsidized by Louisville and the Louis
ville aud Nashville Railroad. In confirmation
of thi? prediction, we now relet the reader to
the letter under consideration. It shows what
an exceedingly cheap commodity a Demo
cratic Legislature may sometimes become!
i..U«i U :
As a
ns. Historical ami JL*ulltical-
hst Democracy Hie&ns.
ioaj
appropriate part of these reool
iapu
jttto lutther
search f<|t tue meaning and significance of tho
word democracy in modern times. There are
some things in this world which have names
that are hard to define and hard to under
stand, except by their effects. Such is ma
laria, lightning whisky, and tlie like. Then
again, the meaning of words and names change.
Such was the case of the word tyrant, which
once meant a civil and legitimate ruler.
Now it means a despot, a usurper. So it is
and has been with the word democracy.
Its meaning and signification seems to change
and be changed to suit all climates, all condi
tions and occasions. Even the word Tam
many once meant a respectable tribe of aborig
ines; it now means a den of thieves and rob
bers, and, with all due respect to honest citi
zens, we have to inform them that it is now
tho head-center ot Democracy, aud in its dark
caverns have been hatched schemes to corrupt
even the word Republicanism, and thwart its
noble mission. Even Atlanta has not entirely
escaped its poisonous contamination.
The Greek republics,” says au able histo
rian, 44 was never at any time Democratic in
the modern sense of the term ”* * * “They
were all aristocracies.”* * * At the most
splendid period of Athenian history, only
14,000 persons, or about one in lorty of the
population had a right to vote.” “Inli
ninety years A. C., one in fifty voted.” let
these were called Democracies. But in mod-
times, Democracy, as understood and in
terpreted by the mass of mankind, means,
if any meaning it has, the absence of any or
ganized government, or a government entirely
subject to the will and caprice oi the multi
tude. Or, if not this, it means ail power,
the lav/ making, the judiciary, aud the
executive powers concentrated iu one man
or one leader, to be changed with every
change of weather, as was the case
with the French Democracj' from 1789
till it played out; and the same in the recent
communal war. Or perhaps it means license to
each one, or each little squad that happen
be in a situation to co-operate, to give full
vent to their passions, lusts, prejudices, and
revenges, in the form of Ku-Klux Klans.
But without searching further, and to be can
did and frank, I would like to see the lexico
grapher—excepting always tho Democratic
orators—who can analyse and define the word
or the party which bears it as a name in
modern times further than to say it is what
the i^jcients called tumultes, the French
emeutes, or anarchy, or despotism, or office,
plunder, or any thing that may best
suit the occasion and the opportunity. A
wag once said that a people under
taking to legislate or govern nnder the
name of Democracy was liko all the beasts of
the forest, the fields, and the birds of the air,
from the elephant to the jackass, from the
wolf to the mouse, aud from the wild goose to
the screech owl, turned into a farm to culti
vate it and harvest the crop; and it is pre
sumable that his metaphor is not a bad one.
Crerfil, die
We translate tho following from the
Deutsch-Amcrikanisher (Economist, (Gormau-
American Economist,) of December, 9th, 18^1,
published at Frankfort, On-the-Main, and one
of the leading financial and commercial jour
nals of Germany:
Executive Department, State of Georgia,
Atlanta, November 11,1871,
Mr. Henry Clews Co., Ao. 32 Wall Street,
New York City:
Gentlemen : I| affords me pleasure to ac-
know ledge tholfeceipt of your communication
of the 4th instant, this day received.
Permit me to assnre you of my high appre
ciation of the friendly congratulations tender
ed in your letter, aud to return you my sincere
thanks for the kind sentiments of confidence
and encouragement so freely expressed. Com
ing, as they do, at this juncture, from gentle
men whose business and financial reputation
is so wide-spread and so justly celebrated for
integrity and fair dealing, they cannot fail to
be gratifying inn high degree.
Tho excitement and confusion consequent
upon the unejqiected resignation of Gov
ernor Bullock, and the change which
followed in tho administration of the Govern
ment had, in a great degree, subsided, and
popular sentiment is fast assuming a moro
healthful aud deliberate tone, and it is confi
dently believed that the causes which have
hitherto operated to the embarrassment and
desangement of bur financial affairs no longer
exist. There, is entire harmony among all
the officers of tie Executive Department of
the Government, and they are all united in
their determination to do everything that can
be done to pHce the financial affairs of the
State upon a trm and substantial foundation,
and . restore t;^e confidence of the monetary
world in our securities.
It is not bclAved that the present Legisla
ture will adopt aay measures looking to repu
diation of oblimtlons hitherto incurred by the
State. The pAjarity of the members of both
Houses, thougi Democrats, are conservative
men, and are Ii -posed on the whole, aside
from questional of strict party policy, to
act for the bestt interests of the State "in all
matters concerning her material welfare and
prosperity. It A not adjudged therefor :hat
measures which yould forever ruin the crudit
of the State, andjpperate so disastrously upon
nil her interests, Material and financial, would
meet with their kanction and co-operation.
On the contrary, 1 believe that it will be their
care to seo to it twit every obligation of the
State is faithfully Viel and dischq^ged. This
is, however, a matfer c f private judgment and
not oi positive information. Of one thing,
however, I can assf with absolute cer
tainty, aud that my firm determiu-
—* tHsSftkF 4 / may
position of Govetqoref ihis^fcftau.
which left its cigar stumps, whisky bottles,
and its character strewed loosely about the
State capitol, lost year. Talk about your
Tammany Rings, your Gold Rings, your
Fsmfif RaifrOad Rings, and your 4 .‘ cat skin
ning operations ” in Indiana, as much as yon
may, there was iu neither of these'TRiomina-
tions any criminality* rascality, or festering
pollution that did not find a counterpart in
the history of the Kentucky Legislature of
1869-70. The facts attending the pending of
the Southern Railroad charter i^Jbre that
body reek with disgrace. Menroefcs were
bought and sold as sheep in the shatfibles. It
is mock modesty aud poorer charity to deny
it. The soothing unctions q( the Louisville cor
respondence, glitteriug with tribute to the in
tegrity of members, were flnt a cover to the
operations of go-bekweens iffthe matter of buy
ing votes against "the charter. Virtue was
talked about as if an infallible spiritual and
moral attendant of every member of that de
lectable body. Extra cautions were heralded
to members against the alleged proposal of
Cincinnati to buy Kentucky with ten millions
for a railroad,* while there were legislators al
ready bought to vote on the side of Louisville
and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
We are not writing wildly. We are talking on
paper of things that w’ere of common noto
riety in the capital, aud about which the evi
dence was too plain and clear to admit of
donbt.
Parties well postoif in the existing status
laughed at the effoi .s of the Cincinnati Trus
tees, who very foolishly, as they thought, were
putting reason, virtue, and honesty against
money. Where money was king, and reason,
virtue, and honesty were in the minority, it sa
vored of the humorous to talk of principle
and statesmanship. What was needed was
“businoss.” “We can afford,” said
stockholder in thff Louisville and Nash
ville Railroad, “to spend
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
per annum with the Legislature iu defeating
the Cincinnati charter,and then make money.”
But they didn’t spend that much. It was not
needed, tto long as the Cincinnati Trustees
relied upon virtue and intelligence, there was
no great fifecessity for being lavish.
At the critical mom^pt when the Senate was
revolving tho charter m its mind, taking into
consideration all* the votes secured by hook or, move m sums nuiu^mi
crook on the side of the Louisville and Nash- business men to some extev
GENERAL ITEMS.
By Mail to the Era.]
The Board of Emigration Commissioners
of New York report that they have a large
number of unemployed laborers on hand who
want to go South.
Queen Victoria intends, it is said, to cele
brate the restoration of herself and the Prince
to health by a number of brilliant state recep
tions.
Andrew Johnson has a prejudice against the
practice of writing the middle name in full.
In a recent interview, the ex-President de
clared that he ‘ •never knew a man who wrote
his name in that way to be any account.”
The marriage service in the Ritualist Church
lasts nearly an hoar, and is a very imposing
ceremony. Tho priest who officiates usually
wears a robe of white satin, trimmed with lace
or embroidery, and the altar is decorated with
flowers, wreaths, an^ banners.
•It is rumored iu ^New York that Mr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes intends to sue Jamos R. Os
good & Co. for defamation of person for pub
lishing such an abominable caricatuto of him
in the last number of Every Saturday. The
so called portrait looks old enough for Methu-
saleh’s grandfather, and uglier than Calipan.
It is believed here that Holmes ought to have
at least $50,000 damages.
Alexis is constantly iearniug something, and
among other discoveries, the fact that West- %
eru grain ei. vatore are not light houses, ac
cording to his first impression.
An Indianapolis paper thus sums up the
divorce market: ‘‘The brisk competition
among the . lawyers lias brought down the
price of divosces very low'ia this market. We
quote: Common separatioa $15; small ali
mony, $25; large alimony, $50 to $100. There
are but few of the latter in the market. Gen
eral business good ftnd increasing.”
An Italian paper, in noticing the funeral of
the late General Robert Anderson, says that
“there was no display of ribbons, decorations,
or medals of honor, because Americans live
and die for their country, not foa svowy dis
tinctions, but as a matter of duty, oad they
know no other distinction save virtue and
patriotiso).”
•Dr. Balmanno, a London surgeon, has suc
cessfully applied the magic lantern to the
study of diseases of the skin. A transparent
photograph of the skin is taken, and then
placed iu a magic lantern. A strong hydro
oxygon light casts the picture enlarged on a
white sheet, and in this way the smallest de
tails are brought out with astonishing min
uteness.
The new ministry of Belgium are all Catho
lics, not one being suspected of Liberalism.
The new President of the Council, Count de
Theux, is almost eighty years old, and has
been in Parliament many years. Ho has no
portfolio, his duties being confined to the
Presidency—an innovation upon the usual
practice.
The Savannah News says there was au im-
prov§ment Thursday in the money market,
and complaints of “hard times” were less lre-
queut than during tho past few weeks. A gen
tleman well informed in finances stated
Thursday that he thought the crisis had
passed, and that money wonld now gradually
be more plentiful The large sums sent into
the interior to purchase and pay for cotton i3
now tending towards the ciri©
it will move in sums sufficielv
ville Railroid, the sum of
THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
would have carried 4he bill, and giv2ii Cincin
nati an outlet to tho South. The way was
which they have been cRtrying
months.
-A projeot is on foot in Pifcfpbnrg. Ta., to enect
a monument over the rdu«#du8 of Rev. Mr.
open, and nothing neededexcept fqr the Trus- Spaulding, in Amity churchyard, Washington
tees to put up the money. But they declined, county, Pa., who, as itas claimed, wrote for
hi* own amusement and that of his friends a
romance which afterward became the “Book
all tho influence an l energy I may possess to
the paramount object op maintaining the
credit of the Stnt inviolate, and of main--
taining untarniajj' I the reputation Georgia
has always b<>r: e ‘ r integrity aud tho faithful
performance • her legal and moral obliga
tions. So f • iy efforts can secure it, every
just claim oe State, however large or
however sm.». , .v-ull be fully satisfied.
Shcuid any leisure be proposed by the
legislative brand.of the Government looking
to a contrary _X)licy, it shall meet with my
hearty and determined opposition, and I shall
use every rueaui within my power to thwart
and defeat It.
It will afford mo pleasure should the oc
casion require to avail myself of the services
so kindly praJered, and I trust that the har
mony aud go*l will which have hitherto exis
ted between this department and yourselves,
may bo steadfastly maintained iu the future.
Again thanking you for your kind congratu
lations, and assuring you of personal good
will aud esteem, I am, gentlemen,
Very respectfully, yours,
(Signed) Benjamin Conley,
Governor.
New York, November 16, 1871.
I certify that the above and the within let
ter is a true copy of the original document.
Edmund J. Moulton,
Not ivy Public City and County New York.
The Chicago papers are quarreling fiercely
over the location of the new government build
ings. Congress, it will be remembered, voted
an appropriation of $4,000,000, which is to
cover tho cost of purchasing the land and
patting up the custom house and post office.
The gentlemenfcharged by Mr. Boutwell with
the duty of looking over the ground and fixing
upon the site are Mayor Medill, Judge Drum
mond, and John L. Beveridge.
They had na authority to go into that sort of
business. 1J»ey were fulfilling a trust, and
aside from personal objections, did not feel
authorized to expend the monej of the peo-
P 4 * °* Cincinnati iiiMytimate way to se
cure legitimate results. ,
r- ■
The enemies of the SouAherc Railroad char-
accomplishment of their obj ect. Handsome
presents, appropriations voted to local enter
prises, and pledges of support for official po
sition, were used to convince obstinate minds.
Men who had agreed to vote for the charter
found, all at once, the most insuperable diffi
culties in some innocent section of the
bill; others suddenly became aware that
their people at home were decidedly against
the measure, and they could not go against
their people. It became a common joke with
the friends of the enterprise that this, that, or
the other member had been “seen,” and
it was no use to talk to him upon tho subject
farther. Corruption was as rife, as deep,
and disgusting as e’er disgraced the coun
sels, or festered in the footsteps of Tammany.
Tom Scott could not have reduced public
morals or private character to a lower ebb.
Night after night there were drunken carousals
ia the capital—wine and waissail keeping
carnival till the small hours of morning. The
bar room and general grocery established by
Louisville in one of the large rooms of the
Capitol Hotel furnished liquor free to all mem
bers who applied, with cigars ad libitum. The
yielding of virtue to temptation in the one
case of voting against a railroad charter,
seemed the highway to general demoraliza
tion. There appeared a general breaking
loose of moral restraints. It was no unusual
sight to see a member of the Legislature stag
ger into the chamber, keeping his perpendicu
lar with a sort of forced dignity, while his
eyes were inflamed with liquor, and his face
swollen with debauch.
THE UNITED STATES TREASURY.
Itt-ceipts for tlie Year—The Balance*.
The receipts from internal revenue for the
first six months of the present fiscal year end
ing December 31, 1871, will fall short of $66,-
OOtyOOO. The estimate for the year is $125,-
000,000, and, with the additional receipts from
increased business, it is expected the total re
ceipts this fiscal year will exceed the estimate
fully $10,000,000. The Treasury balances at
tie close of business to-day:
Coin $111,175,035
Currency 10,100,481
Coin certificates 35,006,200
CURRENCY OUTSTANDING.
The following is a statement of United
States currency outstanding at this cate:
OK 1 demand notes J 92,801
Lej;a! tender notes, new issue 151,271,538
Legal tenders, series of 1869 206,226.864
“ 118,447
40,552
83,302
721,190
4,391,809
3,190,709
4,696,608
18,458,975
10,029,773
Total ..$399,274,7’
_ series of 1869...
One j’ear notes of 1863
Two year notea of 1863
Two year coupon notes of 1863
Compound interest notes
Ymill "„nri ii fcFractional currency, first iss“-
limii, anti a Fractiolial currc ncy, second
Imagine, if you please, a man as tali as a
hay stack, with arms like a r T«n,,..iP—■"■■■ j
voice like a locomotive, before a crowd, be!- J Fractional currency! third flme
lowing in this style: “ I am a Democrat. I j Fractional currency, fourth issue ..
belong to tho time-honored and unchangeable J Fractional currency, lourth issue, seco
Democracy; its principles aro time-honored;
and unchangeable. I speak to Democrats.
You are all Democrats, all of you arc
unterrified Democrats. I am a sovereign
you are all sovereigns, you are the backbone, !
you are the top of the pot, you are tli<j j
rulers, you are the law makers, aud the law
repealers; all powers are in your hands; your
will is omnipotent; all laws claims, and pre
tenses averse to your will aro usurpations, rev
olutionary, null, and void, and I call on you
to-day to put them down. Put nil uristocm-
cie3, all monopolies, down. You are tho un-
terrified, the time honored and unchangeable
Democracy, and I call on you to swear that
you will assert your rights. Hurrah—hur
rah—hurrah—rah, rah, rah.” Imagine I say
a scene like this, and you have oue phase of
Democracy which has been seen during the
past forty years on more than forty thousand
occasions, and the chief means by which
th« Democratic party arose to, and held
power, and how it was and why it was The lull opinion of the United States Su-
that the motly multitude was excited and in- preme Court iu the legal tender cases will be
duetd to bellow, “Down with the banks ! ” delivered ou the loth of January. Those who
“Down with the national currency ! ’ “Down will unito.ir. the majority are Justices Davis,
with tho tariff!’ “Down wtth internal im- I Strong, Miller, Sayue, and Bradley; and those
provements !” “Down with everything !” un-1 in tho minority. Chief Justice Chase, and As-
til the whole country was plunged into bank-
POL.ITICA1* MALIGNITY,
iry A. Wise ami Ili* Ncv Book.
The Ciuciunati Enquirer very properly says
that so much ot Henry A. Wise’s new book as
refers to Henry Clay must be takea cum grano
sails. Mr. Wise declares that theRTeat states
man was vulgar in manner, and of an excess
ively violent temper. At one period of his
life, Wise was the great Congressional sup
porter of Mr. Clay, but during the adminis
tration of John Tyler he adhered to that gen
tleinan, and became personally and bitterly
antagonistic to the Senator froai Kentucky.
.Much of that which he has written against
Mr. Clay was undoubtedly owing to his malev
olence.
sociate Justices Clifford, Field, and Nelson.
CARL. SCIIURZ.
A Graphic Sketch cf Hi* Career.
From an Exchange.]
The life of this man, in any country but
ours, would have been considered versatile
and adventurous. He was wall educated at
Cologne and Bonn, and became an editor
prior to the revolution of 1848, which -made
him popular in Germany and forced him into
the besieged town of Rastadt. When the
German republic broke up, he became a refu
gee in Switzerland, Paris, and London,
whence he wrote for the newspapers at home,
and taught languages, Ac., in the private
schools. Only nineteen years ago he came to
America, satisfied that the large German popu
lation here would be willing to appriciate him,
and allured also by the courteous character of
our laws, which permitted easy naturalization
aud even high distinction iu the Govern
ment He had married well in London, and
while very poor. The Germans in this coun
try knew him instantly; for thousands had
fled from their fatherland on the failure of the
revolution, and they were well informed on
the points of Schurz’s life; how he bad, at the
peril of his neck, ingratiated himself into a
fortress near Berlin, with the romantic notion
of getting out his old college professor and
chum, aud all knew that he had succeeded iu
his task and crossed the North Sea to Scot
land with a price on his head. Schurz figured
as an opponent of slavery amoog the Ger-
mans^and he was their favorite stump
speaker. In deference to the German vote,
Mr. Lincoln, in 1861, only nine years after
his arrival in this country, sent him as Min
ister to Spain. After long exposure in the
war, where fortune was against him, Schurz
turned up in Washington at its close as merely
a correspondent, and he was probably the
finest specimen of that genus ever sent here,
not in performance, but in general grades.
From that vocation can probably be traced
his present attitude in politics--independent
all the time. From Washington he wont to
Detroit to edit an English paper there, but
Detroit being a conservative, dull city, he
failed. Then he went to St Louis and took a
German paper; and the Germans of St Louis,
having been electrified by the Blairs, Gratz
Brown, and others, so as to be aware of tbeir
importance in politics, resolved to have one of
their number in the Senate, and they took up
Schurz.
It is reported that Senator Schurz will move
to strike out all after the first clause of the
Amnesty bill, when it comes up again in the
Senate. ” The bill will then provide for gen
eral amnesty.
Ice on the track detains many of the Virgi
nia traius.
ofj Mormon.” Mr. Spaulding is said, to have
priced his manuscript in the hands of Ea*
Ruhert Patterson, father of one of the editors
Urthe Presbyterian Banner of Pittsburg. It
w^ oqpied by Sidney Rignon, then in his em-
Fqjseph Stoith, tlmibjrmon
b« thought, however, that a sufficient moun*
ment to Rev. Mr. Spaulding and his eccentric
production had already been erected in the
beautiful city at Salt Lake.
STATE RAILROAD NEWS.
By Mail to the Era.]
The Monroe Advertiser of the 2d inst con
tains the following:
We learn that the engineering corps on thb*
work has established headquarters at Indian
Spring, and is engaged in making additional
experimental surveys in that vicinity. Col.
Boynton, President of the road, reports that
ten miles next to Griffin have been graded,
and are now ready for the superstruction, and
that several hundred hands are pushing the
work vigorously. This looks promising for
the success of the enterprise. Col. B. is urg
ing the importance of the road upon tho peo
ple of Augusta, and the press supports his
views warmly,
Speaking of the Brunswick and Albany
Railroad, the Albany News says: “There is a
faint glimmer of hope that order may yet
come out of chaos. We have information
that important propositions are being consid
ered by the company and stockholders; that
these prepositions embrace tho payment of all
claims against the road and its speody com
pletion to Eufaula, and there is reason to be
lieve they will be accepted and the work re
sumed within ten or fifteen days. We havo
nothing definite, and eveu hope is weak; but
partiesj deeply interested and better informed
have confidence in tho programme.”
The Savannah Advertiser, of the 2d instant,
speaking of the Savannah, Skidaway and Sea
board Railroad, says:
The new lessees of this road, Messrs. Wil
liam McRae & Co., took charge yesterday, and
ene of the first steps inaugurated by the new
company toward the successful working of the
road was a reduction in fare, twenty tickets
now being issued for one dollar. Several of
the old conductors have been reinstated, and
other reform movements will be made.
The Advertiser of the same date as tho
above gives the following list of Directors of
the Augusta and Savannah Railroad:
At an election held at the banking house of
Wallace Camming & Co., in this city, yester
day the following gentlemen were elected as
directors for the ensuing year, viz : A. R.
Lawton, William Duncan. R. A. Allen, John
Davison, Wallace Cumming, Geo. S. Owens,
and John L. Hardee. At a subsequent meet
ing of the board Wallace Cumming, Esq.,
was elected President.
FOREIGN NOTES.
The commander of the Mexican revolutiona
ry forces iu the vicinity of Matamorfts has
given tho Texans permission to puisne Indian
outlaws across tho border, aud to punish them
f captured ia that country.
Fresident Thiers, in alluding to the threats
of the Germans, said that silence was the best
reply to the haid words of Bismarck.
The London Times thinks that “tho present
Cuban policy of the United States may soon
be exchanged for a more active one.”
Yokohama is one of the most important of
our consulates. The exports of tea from that
port to the United States during tho past year
have been over thirteen millions of pounds,
from which the Government derived $2,500,-
000 revenue.
The recent floods in the north of China will
leave destitnte^ficcording to the admission ©f
a high officiaffmo less than two million of peo
ple. There is a talk of an immense snake,
which is believed to bo a water gcd.
The Louisville Ledger says: Tho next
Republican National Convention, it is said,
will be held at Philadelphia. Cincinnati and
St. Louis were not considered favorable points
by the National Executive Committee on ac
count of their lack of hotel accommodations.
The Temperance party will soon present a
memorial to Congress, adoption of an amend
ment to the Constitution declaring ineligible
io all places of official trust all who are ad-
dicted to the uso of intoxicating liquors ah a
beverage.