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ATLANTA, GAMAY 23, 1868.
MOTICEi
Rooms Central Executive ComioxtebJ
Nat. Democratic Party of Georgia, >
Macon, Gil, May 20, 1868.)
The members of the above Committee
are requested to meet at the Lanier House,
in the City of Macon, on Thursday, the 28th
instant, at 3 o'clock, r. m.
E. G. Cabaniss,
Chm’n Cen. Dem. Ex. Cora.
Democratic papers requested to copy.
OUB CIRCULATION.
Despite the dirty lies of still dirtier men,
who are envious and jealous of the increas
ing success of the Southern Opinion, we
are glad to substantially know that our cir
culation is steadily increasing. The South
krn Opinion began its career with the
largest circulation in the city, while its
country circulation compared favorably
with that of the other papers in the city.
Since the first day of May, our subscription
list outside of the city has increased four
hundred and eleven up to to-day. We make
this statement only to contradict the lying
statements of men who have no just reason
for doing us an injury, but who are jealous
of our success because we are Printers and
poor men. We have no favors to beg of
any man or political party. We expect to
give full worth for all we receive, and ask
nothing more. Newspapers that live on
party ‘•pap” and a share of official patron
age, should be satisfied without arraying
themselves against workingmen, who get
all they have by honest labor.
We are not afraid of their breaking us
down, or in the least degree checking the
rapid increase in our business. The South
ern Opinion is upon a sound footing, and
does not owe a dollar to any man; and we
intend to run it on that line. We are a
permanent paper, and intend to go on for
the next five years at least.
Xf THB SlffL
Of THE LATft
elapsed since ttif altni
dd How:
>wn th
lbrrt on Fraud.
g from the Odum
the rev
quishedhost,prisoners of v^ir, und
to-AM-milltary authorities w t
United States. Two years and a half have
elapsed since the revolutionists have avail
ed themselves of the benefit of the amnes- J
IIkadq'rs Su
Office Scp’t
Atlanta,
John M. Duer,Esq^ Col\
GRAPH.
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Washington.
22.—The impegch-
uing their inqufcies
Into the charges ot bribery and corruption,
Dear Sir: Did Hinton, theSenatorelect ^^f^ure to convict the President, ex-
from your District, hold office before die
war?
amined the following witnesses:
dates of the conqueror. More than
years have passed*since the Congress of the work fit uncp find set... _ . - . k .
co-g™. Of .the «,«. Edm^S^Coope^^Um President’s lat
said he spent no money to influence
peicfament, and-dwitnes ausifulug qwe® 1
ICORi
lusii
>n ” l^^o lbU8 ’ ° r ^d^ k lil
txpreated 94 fr what would hrwjtf t settle- ~ ? A1
mentofall the questions and difficulties hear from them J
whieh are the natural conseuqences of the
TTVSIW:
The war was fought for the purpose of
establishing and enforcing the national
authority over every foot of the soil em
braced within the limits 'Of the United
The national army saeefeeded; the
revolutionists were beaten, impoverished
and rendered powerless. But the success
of the Government cost blood and pillions
of treasure. The failure of the revolution
ists cost them blood, and almost all the}'
possessed. Bat in the face of failure,they did
not expect that their loeses and sufferings
should count in their favor. They made no
demands, they had nothing to ask, they
stood still, awaiting the sentence of the
conqueror. But no legitimate sentence
has been pronounced, they have been ar
raigned before no tribunal for trial, no
man or men, clothed with judicial power,
has even pronounced a verdict against
them; they stand, to-day, treated as crimi
nals, with no other charge agaiust them
than of having failed.
There must be some means of settling
this whole matter which would be just
to all.
If the revolutionists committed a crime,
why have they not been arraigned before
some competent tribunal for trial ?
If they committed a crime, and thereby
forfeited their rights as citizens of the
IIkadq'rs Su
Office 8vt*r
Atlanta, Ga, May 8,1
John M. Duer, Esq., Columbus:
Dear Sir : Yours of the 6th at hand. We
want affidavits proving force, fraud, in
timidation, in violation of General orders.
We must have them, and plenty of them.
Go to work and get them up at once.
* ‘ “ r^he ■#*
Haven't You Forgotten Something.
The following rich scene, which occurred
ft . .. , . at a hotel in one of our sister States, was
United States, why they were allowed «>| relato , to us by a frien j who wa , an
Joe Brown's Chicago Sfkkch.—Joe
Brown, in speaking of the negroes, sai l
“In the State of Georgia, for instance,
where those who are included within the
Constitutional Amendment and who will
be voters, although they have no right to
hold office under our Constitution, come to
the ballot box, there are twenty thousand
majority white men there.”
We publish this extract for the informa
tion of the colored members recently
elected to the Legislature. But he knew’
his statement was false when he made it.
There is not one word or line in the new
Constitution of Georgia prohibiting ne
groes from holding office.
In another sentence he demanded the
immediate calling together of the Legisla
ture to “to give them the control of the
State patronage.”
Joe has an eye to the spoils, and is not
troubled with delicacy in making his de
mands for them.
Affair of Honor.—We see in our Sa
vannah exchanges, that a couple of young
men named Griffin and Wayne, attempted
to brand themselves with infamy by the
commission of murdor, by fighting a duel,
yesterday, near Savannah. The weapons
used were revolvers; distance, ten paces
neither party injured and only one shot
exchanged.
In the days of barbarism, when the
wicked passions of wicked men were fol-
legai tribunals fbr the adjudieation of all
questions of difference arising betwen in
dividuals, dueling is made a' crime by the
that they are saving their hoiftir, kill
each other in duels and thereby threw
away every paiticle of honor, and earn tor
themselves that public condemnation,
which all murderersdeaerve.
Rust in Wheat.—Wc regret to learn,
says the Athens Banner, there are unmis
takable signs of rust on the wheat In this
vicinity. It to true that it to yet confined
to the blade, and has not yet reached the
stalk; but still, It exists, and we dread its
ravages.
We have heard some complaint of the
rust in this section, says the Covl
Enterprise, but believe it to mostly
fined to the blade, and will not materially
injure the wheat.
lowed by society, murder was considered
honorable. But since the organization of they have only been insulted, and force
ala fn* tha aHinrli^lHnn nf all ’ . .......
take the amnesty offered by the laws of
the United States ?
If they are criminals, why is not some
specific charge, some definite crime at
tached to their acts so that a legitimate
punishment may be inflicted upon them ?
If; after having been pardoned from all
the pains and penalties attaching to rebel
lion, they are restored to citizenship, why
are they not allowed to exercise all the
rights and privileges incident to citizen
ship?
If the Congress is the proper tribunal to
sit in judgment upon these people, why
has not that body pronounced some sen
tence upon them ?
It, by a participation in the rebellion,
these people forfeited all their rights and
privileges, why was the law authorizing
the President to grant amnesty and par
don, enacted by the Congress of the United
States?
Was that law enacted pursuant to the
Constitution of the United States, or was
it a nullity ab initio f
If honesty and a sense of justice pre
vailed in the councils of the nation* if the
rulers were not actuated solely by a wick
ed desire to hold power, these questions
would all be answered in the harmonius
condition that would flow from the appli
cation of the stern rules of Justice.
The people of the South ask nothing but
justfbe. If they are criminals, in the eye
of justice, they are ready to pay the penal
ty of their crime. They have waited for
three years lor a trial, but none has been
offered them, and they have now come to
believe that none is intended, that the gov
ernment was only trifling with them when
it said, “If you will take this amnesty
oath you shall be absolved’'from k)l the
pains and penalties attached to the crime
you have committed.” And well may they
doubt the sincerity and honesty of the
government. It has deqeived them upon
every hand, and when they offered an
humble protest, and petitioned the high
powers to give them an ultimatum, pre
scribe the final terms which would satisfy
applied to make them the instruments of
their own degradation. The perfidy of the
government has been shameful, and such
laws of the land. Yet men, under the idea ^ would characterize the Boost degraded
and brutal despotism. And the end is not
jet. Will it ever be? Gan the people
ever hope for justice from the hands
of Chose who now have the power? We
fear mot. To hope for it nom taflke hoping
against hope. Where to the remedy? We
4mr the answer will be written in blood;
Its monuments a desolated country and the
graves of its victims.
lina, says “the carpet-bag party are llhe
bedbugs. They work in the dark; and
directly the light is introduced, they
scamper off to their hiding places.”
» 4 .1 A”\
■ 1 * »
Or the Right Sort —The Macon Mes
senger has beard of a young man who has
"beCn clerking in a store ever shicethe war,
_ ho to now out of employment for the
Nfftvyeason that times ate dull,offering his
services to drive a dray. Such a man will
never want for either money or friends.
t the
rJ person
ley need
can
The names of the
fidavits will not be
except yourself and the Board,
have no fears on that score. You
swear them before Capt Hill. Please go to
work “sharp and quick.” Get Chapman
and other friends to assist you.
The election in your county will be con
tested. Defend yourself by attacking the
enemy. Respectfully, Ac.,
E. Hulert.
He wants “affidavits, and plenty of them.”
The names of the parties making the affi
davits will not be known to any person
except the Board. If this is not an invita
tion to have a little peijury done, with a
promise of no punishment, we know not
what to call it. The query to, will the
Board accept any such affidavits from such
a quarter? We know the Board, and if
the above letters are genuine, we cannot
believe that they will. The face of sueh
evidence would be but a placard of per
jury.
eye-
good
witness to the scene, which is too
to be lost:
Scene at a Hotel.—Traveler Just Leaving.
Landlord—tapping him on the shoulder—
“See here, my friend, haven't you forgoten
something ?”
Traveler—“No,sir; I never forget any
thing.”
Landlord, following him on toward the
train—**I WiluK you CCIiaSuljr Karo forgot
ten something.”
Traveler—“No, sir. I never forget any
thing.”
Landlord—“Haven’t you forgotten to
settle your bill ?”
Traveler—“No, sir; I haven’t paid a bill
since the surrender. It was just a matter
of accommodation that I stopped with you
at all. I was invited by a gentleman who
met me at the train, to walk over and stay
with you; but for that invitation I would
have gone and remained with a friend.
You may think your house honored by my
presence.”
Landlord—“Well, sir, if you don’t ‘fork
over’ I shall call a policeman and have you
detained another day.”
Traveler—“Very we'.l. But ifittoyonr
desire 1 will remain with you another day
without the aid of a policeman.”
The landlord caved, and since then he
has not permitted his drummers to invite
any gentleman to lito house. A good hint
to landlords.
. ■ - ■
Board of Visitors.—The President has
appointed the following Boord of Visitors
to the West Point Military Academy: Gen.
W. B. Franklin, Connecticut; Gen. John
Williams, Tennessee; Prof. W. G. Peak,
New York; Gen. Leslie Coombs, Kentucky;
Gov. W. L. Sharkey, Mississippi; Prof.
Henry Coppie, Pennsylvania; N. B. Judd,
Illinois. ' . . ,
83F”Mr. Stevens evidently adds to his
contempt for sconsciencc, a kindly feeling
toward perjury when an oath obstructs his
path. At least he sa’d so, substantially, in
the House on Monday:
Mr. Ross—I ask the gentleman from
Pennsylvania whether, in his opinion,
Senators would be justified in perjuring
themselves lor the purpose of procuring a
conviction of the President.
Mr. Stevens—Well, sir, I do not think it
would hurt them.
The disgusting feature of these declara
tions and demands is, that they are pat
forward in the name orHh'e party that be-
‘ of
after the
Waves in moral ideapf and the j*t«ftph
right.” “Moral ideas,” indeed! The me
allty that despises conscience,
manner
for an
of Forney, and sneers at r&p
oath, accordiqg to the style
late
private secretary and a member of his
iMOy^ftWtotos that he was approacjfcd by
a brother-in-law of Senator Pomeroy, of
E. Hulbert. f!) Kansas, proposing, for the sum of fifty
thousand dollars, to secure five votes foiv
Hia acquittal of the President. The names
of Senators Morton and Nye were on the
list of votes proposed to be furnished.
Thoexsemination of telegraph operators
Uh8 dispatches still continues.
No session of Congress to-day.
A full Cabinet meeting.
Grant and Colfax were serenaded to
night.
It is stated that Senator romeroy is
about publishing a statement regarding
Cooper’s evidence. The general belief is
that the proposition was to trap and catch
the President’s friends.
The following to the text of the platform
wherein the South is effected:
First. We congratulate the country in
the assured success of the Reconstruction
policy of Congress, as evinced by the adop
tion in the majority of the States lately in
rebellion, of Constitutions securing equal,
civil and political rights to all; and it is
the duty of the Government to sustain
those institutions and prevent the people
of those States from being remitted to a
State of anarchy. [Cheers.]
Second. The guarantee by Congress of
equal suffrage to all loyal men at the South
was demanded by every consideration of
public safety, of gratitude, and of justice;
and must be maintained while the ques
tion of suffrage in all the loyal States
properly belongs to the people of those
States. [Cheers.]
Frtm New York.
New York, May 22.—The Arizona, with
$1,175,000 in treasure, has arrived.
Burlingame is abroad.
Telegraph soundings between Cuba and
Aspinwall are satisfactory.
Health on the Isthmus good.
The San Francisco Company who built
tb<» new telegraph bo vo organized. Among
the directors are ex-Gov. Lowe and Mayor
Coppfn.
Mining and farming news is encourag
ing.
Out of Danger.
Savannah, May 22.—Lieut. Charles E.
Moore, who was shot yesterday, is now out
of danger.
From Chicago.
Chicago, May 22.—The following are
among the members of the National Exe
cutive Committee: Alabama, Stowe; Ar
kansas, Rice; Florida, Raman; Georgia,
Caldwell; Louisiana, South worth; Missis
sippi, Fish; North Carolina, Sloan; South
Carolina, Jencks; Tennessee, Stokes; Tex
as; Burke; Virginia, Comes; West Vir
ginia, Kuras.
The Conference decided against the pres
ent election of additional Bishops.
- . Foreign.
Rio Janeiro, May 22.—Advices state that
United States Minister Webster is pressing
the mediation of the United States between
the belligerents, lud threatening interfer
ence in case the Paraguayan war is pro
longed.
The Queen of Spain has prorogued Coses.
London, May 22.—The London Court re
quires the Spiritualists’ Home to repay
Miss Lion sixty thousand pounds and cost,
on the ground of undue influence and halu-
cination, which induced her action,
markets.
New York, May 22.—Cotton a shade
firmer; sales 500 bales at 30>£. Freight,
steam 10.30; Southern 0.00a 14.75. Wheat
2a4c lower. Corn heavy; Southern white
1.17. Oats 8Ga90t^. Pork steady at 28.70a
28.86. Lard a shade tinner. Rice quiet.
Sugar steady. Tupentine 55a50. Rosin
unchanged. Freights quiet; wheat, sail,
2$d; steam 6}£. ’01 coupons 19^. Ten
nessee sixes 68^“. Money abundant. Call
loans 5 per cent.; paper Ca7 percent. Gold
139%.
Mobile, May 22.—Sales of cotton to-day
350 bales; middlings at 28a28 l 2 ; holders
asking 30c; receipts 147; exports'3,339. —
-Louisville, May 22.—Flour 8.75a9.00.
Own 94*96. Lard 18>£. Pork 28.50. Ba
con shoulders 14%; clear sides IS.
Augusta, May 22.—Market dull; nothing
doing; middlings nominal at 28; sales 2G
»ellera|as k 30; = a lc;
riMORH, May F>,—rv,.
[• Flttfrouict. WtoSfSjfttl,,
TSclive at 88*57 JJ- %
Met and firm.
BHtaw ■ II II _
EyThe Congressional Glow,,
ty-seventh Congress contains . l! ‘- * •
one made in March and the oth)
by different gentlemen, which I ,Q V
cates, the Bohemian who undent -
ply them, havlhg sold the gam?^ 10 *
bptiUBtfdtoiers. This is but a r !Bt
however, of what had hapj^ne.l • K
delpiMft in 1788, when a reU ‘
nished one of the “letters to e<>„ V ‘ ’
in which Congressmen then air»i
oquence, to the Hon.
of
htwever much the sidewalk, penniless fop
|y Ex-Governor Vance, of North Caro-l»*y sneer at him 1
Eilubp rt Lightning.—The Athens
Banner learns that a lady named King, was
struck and killed by lightning in Banks
county last Saturday.
Stevens, befits Sing Sing, much better than
the Republican party. The met that the
editors who write this degrading non
sense, and the politicians who talk it, do so
under the pretence of serving -anafty of
moral ideas,” and with a show or zeal for
“the right,” proves how cofopleteftr'the
Rad ical element to demoralized, and hew
hollow is its title to general suppoffk-«<AVt«
York Times.
m ~QFt
Down the Brunswick Road.—A friend
has been down the Brunswick Road for a
day or two. He reports that the planters
have fine stands or cotton and corn, but
are considerably in the grass. Heavy ra r
have interfered a great deal with plantf
operations, but uie people have a
stock of hope on band. The
small yet, but it is there and w
after a while.—Macon Messeng<
John
heir
Henrico county, Va^ anil then
batlm copy of the same epistle t.. 1 ■
Thomas Claiborne, of the Brun!J5*>
trict. Somehow, the two letter* w ‘
S ared, and although each cent^.1!
eavored to show that the ut ! ;
stole the letter from him. tin :
uents refused to re-elect either. ‘ ^
Information Wanted.—The u n j,.
ed most respectfully solicits Infor- "
concerning the members of Ju^ui '
family—a wife and two daughter*, f.'
ried the youngest daughter,
Oudley, near Marietta, Ga- 2*th flI jU
ber, 1863. By an order of Gen. 81.-
August following, the family Wi! “
North. (James Oudly was a
Jackson’s corps of the Virginia i-
Since which time, we haue heard i.
from the family. Any information
cerning this absent party w ill be \\
appreciated by an anxious da;,*-:/.,
well as by J.\s. Tatlol
Water Valiev.
Atlanta, Ga.. papers please copy.
Brown, on his first journcr
coach, not long ago, worried the ]•
beside whom he sat, with incessant <*■
questions about everything on the-
At last he got his quietus thus:
Driver—There’s been a woman lv
that house more than a month. .u' K •
haven’t buried her yet.
Brown—Not buried her yet: pnv
me why not ?
Driver—Because she isn't dead.
at reaped- bAlea; receipts 47 bales.
Mff*Mrs. Judd, of divorce case celty,
is soon to commence a lecturing tour,
speaks on Thursday evening in the
lin Hall, Bridgeport. Her *uhj<-
Shall women be subjected to cruti
nities and have no redress.”
NEW AJO VKJiTlSEJlES
DAVIS’ HALL
SAT URDAX
Positively the Last Nkj
GRAND COMBINATION
John Templeton, Mana s
SEVEN SISTEE
AND THE
KU-KLUX-KLA
ADMISSION:
Tickets
lteserved Seats
Children il&li Price. Gallery 5) *eat«
Pdf* Seat*can be secured atom, ;
performances of the BLAl K CRi »< >k •
A Crew’s New* Depot, National H<*t«'
Doors Open at 7 1-1 O’lltd
Commence at 8 O’clock,
may 23—dlt
DAVIS' HALL I
GRAND COMBIN ATI*'
PARLOR ITALIAN OPE
MISS ISABEL McCl’LLOfS
W ILL MAKE HEK FIRsT Al’I'fc.li
in the city ot Atlanta, after .
rd so brilliant a succwo at the “A *
Music,” in New York, ami at th» ,
“ Fike’s Grand Opera Hou»c in tu -j
where sbe divided the honors ol tin
ibe renowned Madame Dv I.a Grange
Miss MCCULLOCH has just « nun-
professional tour through her native
compaaied by the most distiiifrui?ht*t»'
present sojourning in lire Lulled otaU-
xe cotton to
riUttaKjiout
Wilmington, May 22.-Cotton firm-
middlings 29. Rosin, strained, 2.20; No. ±
2.20&2.50; No. 1, 3.50; pale, 5A0a7.00.
Savannah, May 22.—Cotton firmer; mid
dlings 80; receipts 43 bales.
Liverpool, May 22.—Cotton quiet.-
Breadstuff's quiet. Provisions steady. Su
gar firm at 27a29d.
New Orleans, May 22.—Cotton dull-
middling 29^; sales 300 bales: receipts 276
balnjtxpofts 3,958 bales; sales for week
5,060bales. Flour dull—superfine 8.87j^a
9fiO; J treble extra 10.25all; choice 13.0Oa
15.75* Com 1.03a 1.05. Oats dflll. Hay
‘ At 18.00a20.00. Pork dull at , 20.50.
dull—shoulders 14}£; clear sides
Lard in kegs 20}£; in tierces 19ja.
Gbrd 1.40*6. Sterling 51)6• New York
sight >6-
Charleston, May 22.—Cotton buyers
decline to sell at present rates; buyers of-
3TOYDAr, MAY 2.V*.
MiP6 MCCULLOCH will give c*v<
arttetitt taient* to the apprecnitM<
Atlanta in the grand Coin ic Opera.
TUB BARBER OF SEIILLE
BY THE IMMORTAL liO"!'
In which she will be supported by tin
eminent artist*
Miss ISABEL MCCULLOCH in
KOH1N A.
Signor GIOVANNI BOY K celcbm
role of COUNT ALM v\ 1VA.
Signer CARLO OR LAN DIM, the j - ’
Baritone, as FIGARO, t'Hh UAr.o-
Signor AUGUSTINO BUSINl. the J"-
and inimitable Bhsso. a* DON BAM
Signor VINCENZO LUC ATE LLI, the -
Basso in DON BABILIO,
Signor MASTRO TORRIANI. the !> j
ed Director of the Academy ot Mi.-.
York’, trader whose instruction tin-
THE SOUTH has achieved her :trti •
baa voluntarily offered to acootnpsn.' -i
tour through the cities of the Sonin.
On TUESDAY, MA Y >
MCCULLOCH WILL GIVE HEB*
AND LAST KEFRKSKNTATU ' \
XD03SJ" PASQXJA 1;
egant Opera of the llIu?trion«£
>omae«C with the following o* 1
proachable cost:
m^SABEL McCulloch I
Signor OK LAN DIN i ....... D*. I
Signor SL'biXi * .
Signor LOC’ATKLLI
TORRIANI, General l " r
PRICES OF ADIUSSldS J
Reserved Seats
General Admission
Gallery. , vjfl
Reserved seats mav be obtain**' 1 e jM
Phillips A Crew’s Book Store.
this morning. . meo^i
Hall open at 7,q o’ ock—to c, ' m ‘ ,\
o’clock.