About Georgia weekly telegraph, journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1880-188? | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1882)
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All eoMBtutteetlon*. tototrtad tor publication bum b« accompanied by the wnatnuu and eddroee. not tor pabUaailoa, hot a* as eriabooe ofrood talib. rn—»fll ant lie wkmeA ftarraepoodenoe eonklnln* lrnportAatnsw* and dlecueeloo* ot Urlof topics. it eolldved bat Mart bo briaf aadboWTitlonapooba- ■neald* of the paper, te have ettentfon. 4emi ttaoeee ebon Id bo made by Kpraea Money JnSrijerehnnld^ add'■meed to KACON THMAPB 1KD IESSENSO FRIDAY, MAY 5. Qr~n Sirmns is fragrant enough to start a "commercial fertilizer factory with. Tkz committee expect to strike ammo nia in paying qnadtRiee when Senator Blair if atm pled. Mm Belmont is ‘determined to inspect the Penman guano butineea despite of Blaine’s pro tools. The British lion ia at liberty to lie down and lick his chops. Mr. Bobinson, of New York, haa ceased to twist hia tail. Htfw quickly these political meteora flash and depart I We eearch the gloom in rain for “Freeh,” the administration valet, and his assumed wife. ^ Hunt Chisf. a brothor of Judge Crisp, and an actor of fine parts, died in Chicago on Thursday night. Ho went to school in Macon when a boy. Thebe is an old-fashioned, eone-ehaped extinguisher balanced over the head of the average Congro-smen at large, and “good night” is about to be said. Atoitob Alum caned Deputy Auditor Dysan in Richmond, Ya., in' a difficulty about the bond bribery business. They Are both Billy Maboneite3. . While CeL Marcellos E. Thornton haa been consulting with Arthur about the “syndicate,” some of the Atlanta boys have been feeding the P.-A. cn a dish of very humb’e pie. Tna nows from our old and esteemed friend at Augusta, Judge Gibson, is of so inflammatory a character that we have Ordered a bow and arrow to reinforce our armory. _ The negro wants to build school houses and tear down the penitentiary. If he will work, the school houses will follow, and if he will behvre himself the penitentiary Won’t bother him. Evrnr now and then somebody comes along and makes arrangements to start another paper in Macon. Somehow they always think better of it, and seek for smoother fields to revel in. Mm Blaixb ought to be allowed to re move his hat and apply ice, or the eonntry will suffer from another sunstroke. In the meantime, a subpeeny go-fetchnm might be put in the wake o Monty Blair. Tnx Atlanta Conti Hut ion is wrong. Per ky Belmont is not of the gang to which it alludes. It is his elder brother, “Orgoost,” Who toots the talented horn on Colonel De- Loncy Kane's intellectual four-in hand drag. The Republicans can force only about three hundred majority for Lynch over Gen. Chalmers. Yet the negro majority in the district is numbered by thousands, and the Republicans claim r.s their own all the negro votes. Benny Bbewsteb speaks glibly of “our Southern brethren.” In the name of the Boutbern brethren, we rise up and exclaim in the language of the Timea-DemoeraVa recent article on Darwin, this is an “aw ful kinship." If Benny Brewster would haul down Ali unde Joe from the Supreme bench and convict him of bribery and corruption in the Tilden-Hayea election fraud, what a triumph it would be! At the same time, What a disaster for Benny! SmpnEnn Is bound to corral all of his flock if faithful search can effect anything. Several sheep, however, give evidenoe of being eo everlastingly lost that nothing but a tetter trained to follow & warm gu* ano scent can ever recover them. If Georgia had the educational facilities she to much needs, she would work out for herself •Wonderful prn*pertty.-.Voa/ezsaia IT«Hy. And her educational facilities will never be complete until she has schools of tech nology for the instruction and develop ment of the labor and talent in her bor ders. Mayor Sbakesper-e, of New Orleans, baa succeeded in advertising himself In rather an unpleanielt way by the seizure of the illustrated Meucot, * weekly publication of that xlty, conducted on the order of Puck, mention of whtch was made ia these columns yesterday. Aside from (be fast that this is the tint seizure of a respectable American Journal reported since the war, there U nothing asotw striking in the event than the tadietoas rage of the city’s chief magistrate «* bar ing been made U» victim of a ortoco. The Incident, to Isolated, will hardly furnish a text fee any lengthy harangue on the liberty of the press, and will eerve chiefly to run up the subscription list cC the publication which baa been give* such an extensive advertisement. Doubt less era this large orders foe copies of the edition which brought on the *«rm have begun to pour In. Such ia the ef fect in nearly all instances ot fine or seizure. The keen French Journalist un der ban of official displeasure, is greatly consoled during his enforced atopse In prison by the thought l » yprrnal outside ia “booming” under the Impulse given it from headquarters, and that the tour thousand franca wrung from hia ex chequer are being restored with tenfold Interest. Recently the London Punch was received in Berlin with a cutting car toon ou Bismarck. By some oversight it was distributed before the plethoric in spector had time to examine into its con tents, and only by a chance copy strayiDg into official hands was It known that the mtebty Prince had had a Journalistic bomb exploded under his chair. Then followed one of the most ridiculous sights of the year. Six-foot police officers, heav ily armed and sternly solemn, visited every reading room and news depot In the city and with a great display of Indig nation destroyed the offending pictures! Imagine the scene! How the Punch ed itors must have chuckled over the huge advertisement, and wbat a temptation it was to bring out yet more hlAons traves ties. Nor did the Joke end there. With chsracterlalicshrewdness, the yankees who edit Puck copied the cartoon in glowing colors, put’lt on the inside of the edition, and sent it unsuspected into Berlin, where a genuine laugh at the offlcU's and a big advertisement regarded them. Mayor Sbakespere may imagine that he has done a laudable act and crushed out his tormentors, bnt hia triumph will doubtless be shortlived. He had no more authority for his set than Hayes had title to the presidency, and the Southern press comments upon the one will be as posi tive as upon the other. The statute under which he p.-oceeaed reads asfol- follows: Art. GG3. It shall not bo lawful for any person or persons to expose, circulate, offer for sale, ■ell or distribute, within the limits of the city, any obscene, scandalous or libelous book, print, newspaper, pamphlet, circular or periodical, caricature, picture, drawing, statue' or other object whatever ot any immoral or scandalous nature, or calculated to excite scandal, I minor* ality or the disturbance of peace or tranquillity Any person committing any of the offenses or violating any of the provisions herein before ■amed In section three shall bo fined not leas than <J5 or more than f100, and In default of payment shall be Imprlsqped for a term not exceeding thirty days. The cartoon, it is said, was libellous and a caricature, bnt nowhere does the law give the mayor authority to consti tute himself judge and Jury and hia offi cer’s bailiffs, to execute a sentence before it was passed, and annihilate where the law says fine. If we do not mistake the American temper,the mayor will find In the next issue of the Mascot a terrific carica ture, and the editor will be perfectly wil ling to pay the light fine, or even to repose in jail thirty days for the sake of the income and advertisement secured. Shakespere has made a tremendous mis take, and this is one instance in which it will not do for Shakespere to repeat. the Supreme Court in Ua better days. Age does not seem to have impaired his abili ties, and hit argument was pronounced by those who beard it to be simply unan swerable. It would ba wild work tospecnlate upon the probable decision of the court, whose bench is now Bill, bur the judgment in thin cabs will be looked to with absorbing interest, for, If against LonMana, It will open wide the doors for prolonged litiga tion smd onerous taxation. county.’’ The public, not confidentially l sentiments of his people when he eug- 1 nil mate with the rimes’ editor, will be at gested that aiding the independents was Ccthbebt brags of com in the silk, and McDuffie of cam in the shoe, bnt it is re- served for Bibb county to come forward ■ with wheat in the boot IThanks; bnt it has token ns two days to formulate this, and we are in no condition to acknowledge -compliments.] As an ofbet to a repent paragraph in the Constitution concerning the exclusiveness Of the colored men’s caucus at Macon, del egate Jarkron McHenry rose in the meet ing ana confessed to having promenaded through Atlanta, arm In nrm with Grady. The humor in this occurrence can be found without tho aid of a field-glass. A Bzlxkpontaine Ohio dispatch saya “During the high winds and rain storm, minnows and small fish were picked up from the streets of DeGraffe, in this oounty. The fish were three inches in length.” This is tough, bnt wo pass with the privilege of coming in when Tom Cab- nuif s and his party report from the Oge- chee. The «■ These i> evidently a disposition on tho part of Editor Americas Glesmor to attrib ute the pea green tint of tho last IVarren- ton Cbj./>er to jealousy and bile. The mis take is, perhaps, natural, bnt we happen to know that Col. Shivers ia the patentee of a proc- os by which paper can be mnnu factared from pea pods. A slight misun derstanding will stmetime* cause a coo! ness betwet n worthy gentlemen. The Past-Appeal very emphatically says : It ii riiiti ul n* for the average Georgia l-o’.I- Uclan toquote the words of Mr. Stephens, "So man has a right to decline the call of his peo ple." Tiie average politician is not called upon by tlu- [»cople to any very large extent, and the only call he hears generally proceeds from a man stationed in the t-ack yard who has l-ccn hired to do the vociferating. It most te admitted that Mr. Stephens is at lea«t an average politician, and the Post-Appeal's editor ia the only men do ing the gubernatorial vociferating for him. Are we to understand that Col. Thornton has been hired to stand in the j backyard and raise this racket ? A New and Important Question. The Supreme Court of the United States now has under advisement a ques tion of great importance to the conntiy at large, but more particularly to such States of the South as were compelled to repudiate the load of indebtedness saddled upon them by carpet-bag legislatures dar ing the process of military reconstruction. The case of tho State of New York vs. the State of Louisiana was argued and' sub mitted hut week. Certain citizens of the State of New York, holding bonds of the State of Loui siana upon which tho Interest had been remitted, assigned their claims to the State ot New York under a recent act of the Legislature-Of that State, and amt is brought to recover the interest due. And upon this point the court is to pass judg ment. As originally drawn, the federal con stitution provided that the Judicial power of the United States shonld extend to “controversies between two or more States” and “between a Stale and citizens of another State.” Soon after the adop tion of the constitution the Supreme Court decided that under the provision last quoted a State might bo sued in the federal courts by a citizen of another State on a money demand. This decision caused no little dissatisfaction ameng the State rights politicians of that day, who felt that the right of an -individual to en force a pecuniary claim against a State was not compatible with true State sov ereignty. Cdbsequently the eleventh amendment of the constitution was adopt ed prohibiting a suit from being brongbt against a State by the citizens of another State. Under the constitution as thus amended it seems to be clear .that one State may be sued on a money demand in the Supreme Court by another JState, but not by the citizens of another. The ques tion that the court is now called upon to determine is whether a suit may be main tained by a State on a money claim as signed to it b7 ono of its citizens. The constitution bars the citizen from bring ing such action. It may be remembered by many ot our fellow-citizens that Judge Lochrane and ethers, representing certain foreign bond holders, have been threatening to have the constitution of tbo United States so amended that these parties might bring suit against tho State of Georgia., The threat is an idle one, for while the Re publican party, if strong enough to com plete this action, would not hesitate to do so, it is not within the range of possibili ties that the party wilt ever have the power to do it. But if the Supreme Court shall decide this case In favor of the State of New York, Georgia and the other Southern States will be harrassed with lawsuits by parties who desire to recover moneys for which they never gave any equivalent. The case was argued in behaif of Lon- isiana^by Judge John A. Campbell, I g Georgian, and an ex-jutilcrf ot We bad reached the conclusion, which •eemed to bet common one, that Blaine had successfully eliminated all of the un pleasant odor out of the Peruvian guano business, when be had gotten through with Shipherd and left him a wilted jobber and liar. There was nothing left of him, and public enrioaity began to feel and reach ontfor^Senator Blair and Boutweilto put them to the rack. Bootwell’s repn talion was infamous, and Blair had re ceived money,been frightened and return ed it It was supposed that some suc cessful mining could be done la this di rection, but it looked as though Blaine had been smart enough to cover bis tracks and dear his skirts. “Things are not wbat they seem.” Our noon dispatches give a glimpse of what must have been a highly exciting and dramatic scene in the foreign relations committee room at Washington on yesterday. It looks bad for Btsioe that be lost his tem per under the probing of Mr. Belmont. The young New Yorker eeems to have struck a sore and tender nerve. The public will look with interest to future developments. In the meantime, the Washington correspondent will wallow In imaginative gore. Blaine baa intimated that Belmont Is not a gentleman, and Belmont has pronounced Blaine a bully and a coward. It is moreu tban likely that both are wrong. We know Belmont, and know him to be a modest, able and accom pllshed gentleman, and while Blaine never fails to make a point by abraab manner and a bold front, we do not.take him for a bully or a coward. He must have lost bis bead very badly If be un dertook to bully Belmont. He comes of a stock that will not submit to that kind of treatment, Hi» father carries a stiff leg as prefert of bis manly courage in protecting a lady fromlnsnlt, and the young man inherits the blood of Commo dore Perry. Blaine cannot conceal the fact that be is a statesman with a decided reputation for commercial methods. He has grown rich in the life which makes most honest men poor. If he has a clear record In this miser able business, it should bo capable of proof in bis official correspondence. A cool man thus armed can parry the thrusts of an eager adversary, and save himself from barm. A display of temper and the resort to denunciation are evidences of a weak cause, and Blaine's case may revive fra grant memories of the episode ot the Mul ligan letters. Some days siqce, In a communication to this journal, Messrs Mynatt and How ell, attorneys, of Atlanta, stated that they had been employed by the Railroad Com mission to represent that body before the courts in the case of the Georgia railroad, and insisted that the commission bad the power to engage their services. In a recent interview with a reporter of the Atlanta Constitution, Governor Smith says: “Mynatt and Rowell have been employed Tor that purpoae by merchants who are Inter ested in sustaining the action of the commis sion.” It strikes ns as something unusual that merchants of Atlanta, ontside parties, should pnt into a suit at law between a State and a citizen, or a corporation. A suspicion has long been afloat to the -effect that the action of the Railroad Commission in regard to certain roads has been influenced by the interests or complaints of certain Atlanta merchants. Tho appearance of attorneys in a case made by a railroad against the commission can have bnt one effect, viz, to intensify this suspicion whether It be well grounded or not. All merchants, in every city in the State, shonld be in faTor of the commission when clearly right, bnt for ontside parties “who are interested In sustaining tho commission” in a certain action, to come into court by their attorneys, to say the least, does not lock well, and will not tend to strengthen the commission In the minds of fair and Just men. The com mission for the time is the State and is represented by her law officer. No citi zen or corporation seeking to test rights under the law should be crowded by out side interests. Again Dissatisfied. Our Columbus contemporary,the Times. is nothing if not dissatisfied. Sometimes we are tempted to term him the “Colum bus Daily Negative.”^ His recent sources of complaint are, first, the gift of one mil lion dollars by Slater to the cause of edu cation among Southern negroes; second, the building by the State of an academy for the colored blind, at this place. The cause of his first complaint is a far fetched philosophical idea that Mr. Slater should have bestowed his gilt upon the poor mill hands of New England, and not upon the poor uneducated blacks of the South Discussion on this point is useless. Few people can be found willing to say that the money was not well bestowed, and fewer still to donbt Mr. Slater’s right to carry out his own idess wltn his own money. The dissatisfaction of tbo Co lumbus Times concerning the academy for the colored blind doubtless grows partly out ot his ignorance of State affairs- Says be: - Wo approve of educating the blind of all col ors to a useful point by the State, when parents are not able to educate them, but we are op posed to the State frazzling out her money in small sums, too small to confer benefit on any body—In the vain, if not foolish effort to have a college or an "institute” in every county. The State Institute for the deaf, dumb and blind, should be centrally located, and large enough in Us accommodations for all of the class In tended to be benefited, of both colors. The same building need not be used for both races, nor would it bo best to have the same teachers, but it all should be under one general and competent director at some on* point. We find it necessary to state to our contemporary that the Georgia Institute for the Blind is already located at Macon; that this new branch for the colored blind will be under the same trustees and man agement; that tbe separate building was rendered necessary because of the crowd ed condition of the present establishment, and that the Stale has not within the rec ollection of any Georgian “frazzled” out money for educitlonal purposes which conferred benefits upon no one,nor yet es- a loss to understand upon what grounds a single institute for the “deaf, dumb and blind,” abwaM be established; or where can be tonud a director of such varied en dowments as to be able to preside over an institution in which the ear and eye are to be treated intelligently, and with a view to permanent benefit. Our contemporary may not tie aware of the fact, and yet the fact is not doubted among intelligent peo ple, that either one of these branches con stitutes a subject upon which a life may be usefully spent In study, and something new learned every day; that each is a specialty, requiring the aUedHon of spe cialists. By no tie or mason are they Joined. It might Jost aa well be argued that the State University shonld be made part and parcel of the Lunatic Asylum, with a room In an upper story for the Legis lature's biennial assembly. Under the cir cumstances we fail to see why any two of these institutions should have a general director, or why our economical contem porary should desire to burden the State with this additional expense. It may be that be baa a general Idea that the crazy peopla will not mind having company of any kind; that the blind would not mind the association with people not visible, and that the general racket would not disturb the deaf. These ideas, however, are not vividly attractive enough to cause the State to sacrifica her present institu tions and pool the varied interests at a large expense. What the dent* Jost now the South U being flooded with a circular issued by the Washington Republican, asking for aid in the way ot subscriptions. By way of a bintlo South ern postmasters, a deep line la drawn with a bine lead pencil under the announce ment of the fact that Frank Hatton, first Assistant Postmaster-General, is one of the proprietors of the journal, and expects the faithful to support it. The circular says: The success ol the libera! movement In Vir- ginla, resulting as it did in the overthrow of the Bourbon Democracy in that State, was the beginning of the break In the solid Sonth. The avowed sympathy of the administration with the Virginlacoalition is the best assurance that similar movements elsewhere will receive like approval and encouragement In these paragraphs we have the declar ation that the Independent movement, in Georgia means a Mahonelzing of the State by a possible alliance between the blacks and a lot of discontented men with white skins, and that as Arthur rewarded the renegades In Vifginiahe msy be relied upon to help the Georgians who may de sert their duty, their friends, neighbors and families in order to keep from honest toil by living on the emoluments of office. As in Virginia, Arthur and Mabone gave the fattest and richest pickings to the men with white skins, so in Georgia this rule of division Is likely to be followed and the negro will have, at usual, to take care of himself as best be may. The di vision has already been made here. The syndicate of white Republicans have taken the offices, Pledger and Pleasants have small ernmbs, and Parson Felton and those who may elect to follow the lead may get wbat they are willing to fight for, and wbat they may be able to capture. This is a fair statement of the esse. Now let us see what Maheneism has done in Virginia. The Richmond Dis patch sums up the villainy as follows. “Thirteen millions of the State debt repudi ated; the Court of Appeals turned out; Read- justcr judges chosen to fill offices which the highest court in the Commonwealth had de cided were not vacant; the election of H II. Rlddlebcrger to the United States Senate; the displacement of all tho officers of all the luna tic asylums; the removal of the Boards of Visi tors and Boards of Directors of all the State in- ■tituUons of learning, charity, etc.; the chang ing tor the worse of the city charters; and, gen erally speaking, the doing ot whatever onght not to have been done, and the leaving undone of whatever ought to have been done. And ail of this and more besides is in store for Georgls, if by sny chance the mongrel eoalilion shonld succeed. How the good people of Virginia have stood this is a source of wonderment to all men capable of thinking. It is strange that the people did not rise in their wrath and majesty and disperse the Mabone Legis lature, as Cromwell did the Long Parlia ment. But Mabone had rcacl.cd the length of his tether. Four of his quondam follow ers became frightened at tho ruin wrought. They rebelled and refused to follow him further. His motion to gerrymander tho State was defeated and so his attempt to prolong the Legislature. He returned to Washington to his Republican allies with a confession of defeat at the supreme mo ment, upon his lips. And now the courts of Virginia, in in vestigating a bribery case, have develop ed the fact that his friends and associates were speculating upon the necessities of a people whom they had ruthlessly robbed. The independent movement in Georgia Is Radicalism pure and unadul terated, covered under the disguise of words. The men who are its leaders are in all respects as lad as Mahone, and if they succeed Georgia will meet a worse fate than has fallen to Virginia. There can be no safe dalliance or compromise with such a movement, engineered by snch leaders. Safety may be sought alone in a vigor ous and unflinching assault on both. the best way to overthrow Boorbonlam. The resolutions declare, in effect, that while the negroes, at represented by the convent loo, will be controlled-by the Re publican organization, they will help men of bero.c and patriotic action. This re fers, of course, to Parson Felton and the coalition colonels, bnt what of patriotism or heroism there may be in seven men locking themselves m an up-stair* room In a hotel and conspiring against the good people of the State, we are unable to see. There was at the outset a disposition to show np some ugly temper, but the news of the death of young Joiner, at Atlanta, quieted the delegate down who edits the Defiance, and he introduced and support ed some pacificatory resolutions. It waj never at any time absent that the mem bers of this convention intended to agi tate the‘question of social equality when ever opportunity offered, and to endeavor to make all possible capital ont of this sure device to fire the Northern heart. Without giving public announcement cf the name of any particular person, the convention left no room for doubt but that it was in active sympathy with the Independent coalition. We were disap pointed at the result. We do not mean by this to convey the idea of a personal disappointment. But we, in common with all good citizens, can find cause for regret that a convention of colored men, composed of the most intelligent and edu cated of their class, after a session of two days, could do nothing better tban to draw with ominous distinction the line between themselves and their white fellow-citizens. This regret would be deepened if we thought that these trained and profession al politicians could carry their people in a body with them. But the negro who bandies the ho*, who holds the plow, tbe carpenter, the blacksmith, tbe mason, and the thousands who earn their daily bread byjhonest toll) were not represented and can not be led to sacrifice themselves lor tbe ambitions of tbose who convened the caucus and controlled it. which the nominating conventions are baaed is that delegt’cs will be sent who will consider and select the beat rep resentative of the principles of the party, the one likely to combine tho moat strength and insure success. While not at all given to primary elections, the mod* and manner by which the people may select delegates to tbe convention is a matter of small import to us. In our jadgroent the suggestions of Mr. Garrard are calculated to produce that harmony and unity ot action that is not only de sirable, but absolutely necessary. The Republican party, by order ot the admin istration, is going to make fight again in Georgia. The convention recently held In this place develops tbe nucleus of or ganization, and tbe Markham Hoase con} ference has promulgated tbe hope that the party is to be recruited by ambitions and dissatisfied men who want offices. Da. Benjamin Duooab haa been induced to retire from the Congressional race- in the ninth district. This will not save Speer. It would appear from our Washington dispatches, that Representative Hooker made a neat job cf skinning a skunk on yesterday. The Atlanta Knight Templars were so much pleased after prancing about with Pierce Young that they have resolved to be a “kritter kmnpny” all the time. - Cloox-wohx stocking* have come back into fashion at Wesleyan Collage. This leads ns to fear that our girls will only get through the redbeg season with a scratch. Thebe is a dangerous typographical er ror in an artiole which appeared in Mike Burch’s Eastman Timet, under the head ing, “What shall we do with our daugh ters?” Tbe Catered Convention. The ring performance of a circus never fell further below the impossible pictures ■which heralded Us coming on fences, con venient corners and bill boards, than fell tho colored convention under its premon itory programme. In place of a conven tion composed of the ablest and most prominent colored men of tbejiouthern States, it turned out to be a caucus of the most notorious negro politicians of Geor gia. They came of their own motion, barring an invitation from Jefferson Long, and the only credential asked for was, m the language of one ot the delegates, “a black face.” It was inauaged by Jeff Long and Pledger, and accomplished nothing that can be called tangible, except to consolidate tbe assembled brethren for an active campaign against the Bourbon Democracy. It behaved no better and no worse than political con ventions usually no. There was tbe usual amount of intemperate oratory, a display of jealousy between rivals, out. breaks of bad temper, a good deal of ma neuvering upon the part of opposing leaders, and the never tailing accompani ment of the brother who gets full and falls from his chair. The proceedings in full, except those of the secret session, have been laid before ocr readers. Jell'Long gave tbe cue to tbe movement when he admitted, in his opening address, that he had no matured ttblubed “a college or institute in every views on education, but that be voiced tbe Mr. Stephens In th« Gubernatorial Canvass. Sometime since Mr. Stephens com municated to personal friends, and th»r j n turn to the public, his uesire and^n- '.“LliCr. to again retire from public life. He has reconsidered the declaration then made. In response to Inquiries of a re porter of the Atlanta Constitution, Mr. Stephens says: "I don’t know,” he said. “I receive a great many letters on the subject, more I think tban I ever received on any question before. They come from ray own district and from others, mod from all parts of the State. They come from organized Democrats, from new move ment men and from Republicans. They denot insist so much on my return to Congress as on my making tho race ;for governor. They urge me for many reasons, to do so. They seem to believe that certain troubles aro threatened, which 1 might assist in averting, and that some dissensions exist in the Democratic party, which I might help to heaL In fact, I have been assured by men on whoso judgment I can rely that there la a general wish among the peo ple of Georgia that I should be a candidate for governor." • "How have yon answered these letters and assurances f” "How could I, except a* I answered a friend who wrote the other day and asked m? if my resolution to retire was Irrevocable and lnexor- able ? I wrote to him that I thought no pub lic man had a right to say that Ho ought to be at all times at the command of his people, if ft lay In' his power to serve them." “8uppose your health continues about as it Is now, and there ts ageneral wish to have you enter the gubernatorial canvass, will you not deem It your duty to do so T ” “With my present state of health thcro is no imperious reason why I should not.” We have no doubt that many friends and admirers of Mr. Stephens would be pleased to support him for governor if he desires tbo position. We shall do so most cheerfully if be be nominated by the Democratic party, and placed upon a sound and acceptable platform. But we imagine that some of tbe cor respondents and friends of Mr. Stephens are unduly alarmed and excited at tho situation of affairs in Georgia. Upon a careful and daily inspection ot tho situa tion, we can discern no troubles or dis sensions that the party may not heal within itself without difficulty. It is quite certain to our mind and judgment, that troubles which are covered and smoothed over by spontaneous agree ment and action, will break oot again with renewed force, just as pain returns with redoubled strength after the powers or a sedative or narcotic are exhausted. The Democratic party of Georgia Is confronted and challenged by a coalition with principles and purposes as badly mixed as the complexions of its members. This .coalition has gone to tbe people and changed that the Democratic State government is partisan and corrupt, that the Judges will not give the law in a spirit of equity and justice, that executive offi cers will not fairly and strictly discharge tbelr duties, that taxes are unwisely laid and the revenue unequally divided, in fact that tho organization is untrust worthy of tbfe confidence and support of tbe people, and should be overthrown. Tbe party that fails to respond to such an arraignment, and cannot meetit at any point successfully, does not deserve popu lar confidence and support and should be at once and forever driven from power. There is but one way to meet it. It is for the party to assemble in convention, boldly proclaim its policy, define its prin ciples and Join issito with its accusers- Thu woman who lists to alover's tale. The castle that answers tho herald's hail, ' Soon will surrender. Hr. Uirrnrd’i ■nnrcatloita. Mr. Louis Garrard, of Columbus, in a letter to the Atlanta Constitution, makes some very pertinent suggestions for the consideration of the State Democratic committee at Us coming meeting. We re produce tbe most pertinent points ot the letter in this issue, and take occasion to say that they should receive favorable consideration. It is the policy and prac tice of tbe Alabama Democracy, and per haps that of other States, to have the ex ecutive committee decide upon and give notice of the ratio of representation in State conventions. Tbe basis, as sug gested by Mr. Garrard, strikes us as beiLg lair and just. His position as to proxies is very strong. The evil upon this point ia a cry ing one and should be remedied, if tbe power lies in tbe committee to apply tbe remedy. We would add co this sugges tion that no “dle in-the-ditch delegates” Bbowx, the colored Colonel of the De fiance, in his resolntion introduced at Fri day’s meeting, practically recedes from tbe gory position token in the Rountree af fair. The resolution is the reenlt of sober second thought, and well-timed. Otra Albany contemporary fears that a coolness has sprung up between Editor JSarris and th# Teleobafh, inasmnch&s he has dropped the prefatory “esteemed.” The fear Is well ue referred to ns as “bilions,” and we have ent the telephone wires. A Wisconsin Congressman hat present ed a petition from the Norwegian citizens of that State, praying Congress so to amend the treaty with Great Britian as to prevent Irishmen from coming to their country. A Republican Congress would do it, if it had the power. Db. Lamson has ended his career at the end of a rope. English journals say that Benjamin Brewster’s interference in his behalf reflects no credit upon him as a man or a lawyer. Tbe impression gains ground that Benjamin is not mnch of either. Oub foreign editor stnmbled over French sentcnco recently, and was prompt ly picked np by the Post-Appeal. This comes of profoso gratitude. It was only a short time ago that the Post-Appeal's for eign editor stqmbled over an Atlanta young man and had to be picked np! The Atlanta Constitution mistakes Mr. Belmont. He does not play shinny on a bob-tailed pony, nor does he toot the horn on Col. DeLancy Kune’s red wheeled stage. Ho is a modest, accomplished gentleman, and has cb great a contempt for Arthur and hie methods us the Constitution itself. A PiBLWWA journal says: “The 'colored citizens’ of Venango county held a convention at Franklin, a few days ago, for the purpose of ‘demanding their rights,’bnt-a few Republican politicians got hold of them, and then their 'rights’ did not look the tame color.” Jess, so jess.*o. As the great Lick telcscoc-e is unfinish ed and not available, it is difficult to un derstand how the administration is going to witness the “brilliant naval display” Tit fortress Monroe, contemplated by Com modore Billy Chandler.. The commodore onght to borrow a few oyster scows from Maryland to givo brilliancy to tho occa sion. “Ukxebal Gaufield once said, in walk ing through the Treasury Department, what struck him most forcibly among tho clerks wa3 tho absence of well developed, bock heads.” The Gonerol ought to havo known that the gentlemen with abnor mally developed back heads have positions as chiefs of departments whoro young women are employed. The memorial reporter of tho Atlanta Constitution says that, after the address, “tbe band played a fantasia on gospel hymns." Well, well, we aro getting o;<^ and slow. We thought tbo band ployed on tbe trombone, tho opheieide and tho boss dram, bnt this is a brand new trick. We have heard of the strap game, the box game and the three-ball game, bnt where were the police when tbe band wss playing tins new'thing on gospel hymns ? _ , John Cubban, of Mobile, indniged in a, poem on Memorial Day. The Register, of that city, publishes it as an advertisement. The rhythm is open to the criticism of be ing a little stringhnlty, bnt the lost stanza has truthful inspiration, if it may lack di vine affiatns. It runs thus: And the world may rear, And the world may rant, But our Leo wss as far superior, As was Napoleon to Grant. “Richelieu” Robinson not only twisted the British lion’s tail, but ho mado the bird- o’-froedonrsail away. Hear him: "When I came here I found the American eagle drugged and drowsy, her blood poisoned with political pymmla, her wings wet with the mildew of monarchy, and her beak filled with Lowell garbage. I roused her from her Igno ble slumber, I brushed the duw from her mag nificent pinions, I g»ve her voice to the musle of freedom,'and sent her with her magnificent wing to fan the tempest and soar to the sun.” Although a married man, he has lost none of that pleasing and courtly address for which he was noted in tho days gone by.—Eeemnr Stu-t. This shows pretty well what sort of a u idea Judge Gibson has of matrimony. In the celibacotio brain, if oor right to invent a term be unquestioned, u married man is pictured as a pickled cucumber. Our bach elor contemporary will neter learn what trae politeness is until he has acquired the art of trolling a baby in tho wee sma’ hours, while his better half dreams of childhood days and new spring hats. To the Public Macon, Ga., April 2t»th, 1^2.—One Dr. P. K. Court nay, a veterinary surgeon, a member of Royal Veterinary College, ..uu ».>• _ v . Scotiand, late veterinary inspector for Mit- ...... | ryland, by order of the Hon. Win. be sent to a convention. \Y bile it ts quite j q-_ Hamilton, Goveruor, cuch is his slate- impossible to prevent gentlemeu having ; insnt while here. strong and natural preferences for panic- j “if&S Unduly ulircandidates, they should be satisfied , to warn other communities Against him, with a proper and modest expression of in onr opinion, unworthy of trust such preferences. The offices do not belong to individuals nor should they be controlled by cliques and combination*. The theory upon to the smallest amount. riHUEBLlKB Sc. CHAPMAN, H. T. Johnson, W. R. Kent, J. E. Russel, A. B. FABqUHAB & Co. fhtion of the world. Generally tney know the disadvantages under which they foognt; they know the great achievement* with which our soldiers covered themoelveai with glory, but there is much that is bb»(?. known. You may ask the sohoolboy on> the lowest form who commanded a* toe- pass of Thermopyla?, and be out tell yoog but my friends, are there not many ff tfci great audionee who, if I naked, canid tell who commanded «t Sabine poae, and yet E tell you, that the battle of Bahia* Pasa was more glorious than tho battle of Thermop- yl®. Who remembers how the iron-clad 1 fleet came steaming up the river with nothing to oppos© it but a mud fort wqiwd with Arid guns and held by forty-two men; how it* commander waa asked by a com rade what was to be done, and suggested that they had bettor retreat; but how this- rallant man raid, "We will never retreat I” Sow they shook hands with each other,- and saio, “We will fight to the death!” How the ironclads came steaming in but were repulsed by that gallant Utsle army' of forty-two men. This was lfl63. Now who knows of Dowling ? And yet this Dowling I hold higher than Lecuidsa. It ia such events as this that wo must pre serve. They will be lost. Ferbap* it will oocur to some that if all this was in mjr knowledge, why I didn’t put it in m, book. Well, I will Answer. I did, every word ot it; all the facts and all the names- of tho forty-two soldiers. The State of Tent* honored these men by striking off a medal- on the one side of which wa* the date and Sabine Fuse : on tbe other the letter* D.G., and D. G.—1 think you wont take it ns egotism on my part—stood for “Davi* Guards.” The company had done roe the honor to take my name, and 1 wss the only honorary member of it. Bnt aa the virtue and conduct of our hero* aro known to- ourselves, we deairs to perpetuate it tor the benefit of posterity. Be it ours to keep their memory greon forever: yet we bn* wish to show that they do not belong to ue alone. They belong to the whole country? they belong to mankind. We do not desire to deprive the whole country of the glory of our heroes. Nor weie these service* ren dered alone ia our war. There was Jack- son, ths man who, even after he bad inarched up to the storm of battle.waa often hezrd to mutter ac ejaculatory prayer: that man had marehod into the valley of Mexico amid tho fiercest oonilict before our war had commenced; that man who had been the terror in the hour of battle of all who encountered him, was as peaceful a* a lamb as. soon as the conflict whs over, and who, when he found himself in tbe arms ol death, resigned bis soul to God and said "Let u* croea over the river anil rest nude*' tbe shade of tho trees.” We do not claim or appropriate him, but W8 do claim every other part of him that nobody else want*. And there was- Lee—the oalm, feariee*. rosolate, unflinch ing, faithful Lee. We do not desire to take him away from those who hove a® equal right to him with us, bftd t a»? if would be well if they would claim some share of the grand conduct of Lee at tbo Wilderness, Chnccellorsville. Fredericks burg and everywhere that soldiers met sol diers. even egaiust great odds. And there was the great Albert Sidney Johnston, eon- tpieuous at tbe storming of Monterey, bolding a position which might have in duced him to, remain in the Northern <Fmy, whoaaMfcdered in 0 rckr «•” - ““ 1,1 “ vindicate the principles which be believed to be true, and came to us with nothing but kin right arm and hia good sword aud offered his services to the Confederacy. Never waa man more true; never was man more brave, as- was shown in tho way of his death, when on the field of Shiloh, hav ing swept every place before him, save one, tho ono which he deemed the most important to carry and without which victory- weald not be complete, rode forward to lead in person the sfdrill find received tho death wound, but still he rode on, until ho fell dead. Then I repeat the idea of before. Do such men to’orig to us alone ? Shrd! Dot the memory of £uoh men be preserved, nud shall not rising genera tions feel the influence of such men t In any future struggle, where will you find such men ns I have enumerated, aud mnuy others that 1 could add to the listIt all depends upon you, friends, whether the South will have them or not, whether yott will give your children a true statement of the deads of taeic fathers and the princi ples that nctMted them. The other side will then understand ns, and it is to bo- hoped that the tim-> is not far dis tant when the off-nsivo epithets, only too comtron to-day, which defile the Eng lish language, will soon be blotted out of the Ncrthc-rn vocabulary. Wo are not re vengeful. The fact is, tho Sou-horn peo ple are not capable of hate, and I tell you why I think so—hate is the child of. fear, md bravo men do not hate like cowards. Neither are bravo men over cruel; eo 1 wish you to draw from those who can testify on both sides of tho war, that we did everything in otir power to as sist those taken prisoners during tho war— wo tr.ed to release them: we tried to have them exchanged, and I want those facts to go down to posterity, so that oor children cannot have the name of Ander-onvillo thrown with opprobrious epithets in their faces. It is false, utterly false, that our people ever did treat prisoners with cruel ty, aud I want the fnct drown as it can be shown. You can get witnesses who were prisoners:. you can get the men who when ' prisoners were paro'ed. went to Washington lo get relief, were denied an audience, and ha the honor to come back to prison. Yo can get these men to testify that if the were not treated as well i's they might have been, there wore cause#, thr-ru were physical causes there were cliru&itc causes ; we were wantiog in supplies : wvro wanting in medicines; were wanting in the food to which they were accustomed—even iued- icire was uihde a contraband. How could wo supply them ? It ij.nl! the vilest slan der that ever was perpetrated. It is here where the Historical Society cau assist u» and if you can succeed in giving such at impulse to tht> orgauizutiou us wii! pirdl servo the society and increase its useful-’ ness, you will have another claim to the gratitude of your country. Why, friends, it is somewhat difiicult for a Confe terete, whose heart’s love ties bur ied in the grave of our cause, to speak to you on a subject which revives the memory of that period, ia speak to you with that forbearance and meekness which the occa sion requires. I br.ve tri'd to do so, and Ml I can nay ip that jf J hfive ( xwode<3 tho proper limit, j-on vlon’t know how hard l have tried to keep ^iti in it. And now my friends, ladies and gentlemen, let me assure you that this same affectionate re gard for you, the samo hope for jour fu ture destiny, the same lielief in your pros perity. the same high expect ntioi s of New ! a S whicb 1 have 80 often declared, will follow me m tbe few remaining days which I may yet live among you. Mr, Davis received tnmuUam.s applause- at the close of his speech, which wa# fre quently interrupted by loud plaudits Yf- ter he finished he was presented with a wonderfully gorgeous flora! tribute that seemed to afford him mu h plea#ure. CongrcKKinao Miliar, ol Pruoay I v*aia. H'a.A'KOto* Vorrcpondrnet n.,d Courier. 1 don t think that I have y*t drawn Mil- iere portrait for yon. He is a bony iudi- viduui, with ferret eyes sad a goatee: and he bears a very strong facial resemb- lanee to Gutteac. I sny “facia! r< semb lance advisedly, for I do not mean to in timate that Mr. Sam H. Milter is at ail cox parabiG to Gatteiu in trae troodnoaB.- I nope t ui Gmtcxu will not be shocked at tiie cot,junction of Mr. Miller's name wire his, for I appreciate the farq that in mak- tng any comparison between the two X nm taking a great liberty with the ULtmgnLh. edpisoner In brief, Mr. M.lter hafcmi- leati s fanaticism without his religion, his vengefa ness without his extenuating in- *..mty, hi* un-crapulousntss without his ont tea !lii e S ot '*rn with out tos affability. He ts a trueAype of the Sonth-bater lie oorrows h: 3 voice from Hoar and laa CupoMtion from Hades. The firs, sets tny t-.ath ou edge and the. iflnt awakeus aQpi<j4is:int old uujuacriaa ofi- wdter-moc using. ** A Trw •jz Iron, Cg*«Jia Letter in tn* S*raeu,e Standard The iron palmetto is tho greatest workVf ftri Sts the State-house yard. TSia ; j r * , ing wholly of W ^memoratto^ of’it. If liehsd any heart,"he "musf be on * nnme*° ara“ a fo£ad < inrafad 10^^ his own side. I would not give tuppence J brass tablets *t the bas^ Th* ' °“ Evro ’ for tne man wno-w heart was »o cold that this casting consists in o4f he could Ire q lie impartial. We ail re- tion of the livtfig palmetio fK 'i member the fable of the lion who saw a I tree of Sooth Carolii'£u u'rr. t ^ e fa ’ w,dte * at ue which represented a lion prostrate i this statue in other i,ti*ta* w R V , ? f * r<i at the feet of a man, and who said: "If the ' been able to believe»e*»r lion had made that statue, the figures ! bis leaves b^dinffi in Jho would have. been reversed.” I want our ' jug this phenomenon «uTopLteMlte. npp06 - eide of the history. bnt such is real y the <»Xb tw** ,! It may ba like tne other, but we don’t Jeeves of lion, life- ike oven te lake exactly an equal view of it. Bnt the ' fibre* of the twigs 1? kxir-Ww two will be compared by some one who ' tremulously to ev.rv ’ rs W> comes after ns who will do justice to our ^ tree, [minted arti*ti~Jlv };L “„ , cause and our people. You sU know it flernbiance to the rtml “ **■ would bo needless for me to speak of it; ’ the arniest oboerrer at the dtei*V° how thoroughly unprepared we were when rod*. tee distance of five we engaged in war—without mcnoy, with- ■ T htse tmd memento** of „ out a mime amorg the nations, without cause all the gloriesW . 8 PXat credit, without provisions, without arm*, triumph* of viiSortoua *rmt r t P**«r without ammunition, without even facto- pitiable m-isnifieanVi to .•“‘k into rtf* to make it: we went in relying solely thetic tribute to the *>2^22? gta- upon brave hearts and bravo arm*, whose iievers in ttvi W °* f «U«t ae- ... J —- 'T^V »h«to 6ritk WM DA VIS. xfo UA KVa of tne Confederacy Me. look to ua Al«»»r-A* Address fee- in re tbe MathtraBlotariral Society *1 Hew Orleans on Decoration XMty. Ladies and Gentlemen—It would be al most superfluous to address to ac audience of New Orleans any argument in favor of the preservation of the history of oor Con federate straggle. Your coatee is too well known—marked by too many deeds, both in w*r and peace, to render it at a!! doubt ful that your hearts be tra* to the cause for which so many of oor friends and brothers have died. Tho early colony of Louisiana was constituted of men who were refugees from oocquerors, and who, guided by patriotism and sustained by valor, came into a wilderness to make for themselves a now home. And their de scendants have shown from that day to this tbe same characteristics wbioh marked their fathers. I believe it has boon gen erally conceded, and I think most truly, that never was a people more universally gallant than the creoles of Lonisiana. At the very first sound of the late war your citizens ran forth to the defense of their country, and gave their sons to die upon it* altars. It was from here that the chief- tan who distinguished himself on so many batiie fields went forth to battle, the ohief- t*n whose name is so honored, General Beauregard. It was here that so many brave women gave up their homes ou l lux ury to serve almost by the side of their brothers and fathers. It would ooDBume the whole evening were I to attempt to enumerate the list, but you have seen juat standing before you the maimed wreck of one who went forth sound aud vigorous, who lost one limb and was sent back, who went into the field again and lost anotbeij aud never faltered in his zeal. It is here that the daughters of Louisiana, always roremost in good works, instituted the plan of decorating the graves cf the Confederate dead, and bringing their fragrant tribute, which in it* beanty and annual recurrence expresses the heartfelt love you bear the dead. Then here, first too, was organized the Historical Society in view of preserving the record* of the Confederate war. That society has boon removed from here, but still look* back to this, the place of it* birth, and here where you have been swf pt by the beoom of deeolation, where you nave had more trouble tban any other town which was overrun, hero has arisen more monu ments to tbe Confederate heroes than auy other city of the South. People of New Orleans, yon havo a right to be proud of the past; and w* have a right to do confi dent of you in the future. But there is yet a higher nd more important duty to per form. Monument* may crumble, their in ecriplions may be defaced by time, but the records, the little slips of paper which oon- tain the memoranda-of what is passed, will ^7* forever, To preserve these records faithfully is the higher and holier duty still. They are now said to be in danger, but when did Lonisiana ever hesitate to put forth efforts whenever any j)f her friedtis were in Ganger, zirey ww* appeal to you now in the midst of disaster; hero when your country has been over whelmed with the flood; here when every thing points more to the want of your selves than a«pledge to fnrnish •applies to others, they etill come to Loniriana as the first place in which they ask that the Confeder ate records may be preserved. I do not doubt tnat you will respond to the extent of your power. I do not donbt that yon will nobly aesist the organization, which growing from year to year, and spreading from cify to city, will render seouro the perpetuation of those records, the value of which it would be impossible to compute. This is the duty that we owe to the dead— the dead who died for ns, bnt whose memo ry can never die. This is the duty we owe to posterity, an obligation to see thst our children learn the worth of their parents ; to seo that the sons grow np worthy of their noble mothers, their mothers who never faltered in all the hours of trial through which wo have passed. They who now sleep in the grave cannot be benefited, it is trae, by anything we do. Their cose is gono lo a higher tribunal than that of any earthly judgment, but their children and their children's children are to be benefit ed by preserving the record of all they did, and of all tLo motives for whicb they died. As for mo I only speak for myself. It is to me a most desirable object that the Conduct of our men in the defense of that cause should be so presented to the world as to leave no stoic upon it. They went through strangles which might have corrupted weaker men, bnt yeti during the whole wsr, I never went into the army be fore a battio without finding every camp engaged ia prayer, and after the war wss over, seo how many of tlwaa men forsook their arson and went into the ministry ol God, as in case of that worthy young man you havo the good fortune to have preside over your dioqeso now.t'-e soccerscr to one who gave his l*st breath for tbe cause he loved so well. It is not enough that we hand down wbat was Fettled, that our men wero brave, that our men were noble and that our men exercised solf-denisi. You must add to that, if yon would have your children rise to the nigh piano I de sire thorn to occupy—yon must add to that the evidence of tho morality, the sobriety, the forbearance, the nbsenco from that crime and stain of the soldier, nnder all the circumstances of the war. True we did not invnde to any great extent; we did to some, and it is a fact which I choose to remember that, when our army invaded tbe enemy’s country their properly wss sa cred. I draw no comparisons, but if any body else didn’t behave well, let it icsti We had no army, our troops were not pro fessional soldiers. They were men who loved their wives and children and their peaceful occupations, but at the first call of.their country they seizod such weapon as they could gather and stood around their country like a wall of fire to defend tbe rights their fathers left them. Coutd there be cause more sacred tban this? If there be anything that justi fies human war, it is defense of duty, de fense of country, defense of family, de fense ot hom< and defense of constitution al rights. Then, if I be asked, as possibly I may be, why I wish to perpetuate such painful memories, I say, in no spirit of vengeance, in no deeire for vain glory, and in no wish for sectional exaltation, bui that the posterity of the men, such ns I have referred to, may rise equal to their parents—higher if possible—and that the South hereafter may be remembered in all time, and all tho glories recorded which Bhe has heretofore manifested; and it U only by preseivicg these records, by gath ering thoee facts together that you can ever hope to convey to posterity an exact idea of the men who fonght *nJ perished in our struggle. It is not enough to show where some general won a battle, or suc cessfully carri. d'soine bieastwork; it is not enough to show where one army destroyed another, but what was the character of the meu and how they behaved themselves ou the field; and this you can only do by col lecting such evidence as Gov. Nicholls stated to you it was tho object of this soci ety to gather. The highest quality of men is self-sacri fice. The man who gives his lire for an other, tho man who surrenders all his earthly prospect*, that is lhe man who most nearly fo! ows that grand exemplar which is given to us bs the model of weak hurnuuit/. Thai wo had many of these, it is tho purpose of this society, by collecting the evidence, to show to the world. Let it suffice to say here that I wocld have our children’s children to know not only (bat our cause was just—that may be ln tori- uilly established—but I would have them know that tho men who sustained it weie worthy of the cause for which they fought. These are the great objects of the society. The other side has written and is writing their history of the cause. We want to preserve ours also, (hit the future histo rian, by comparison of both, may cvolvs that fair stalem -nt which probably noctn- temporary could make. I would frankly acknowledge that 1 would distrust the man who served the Confederate cause and was capable of giving a disinterested account anu unanimity ox car people, a no Hero- WMToh list fajleti lik/i . , ism of our soldier* has caused the adnsl. da-kwa* over «ji of -—- ' - mmmmM