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Newspaper Page Text1 “ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS AY HEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COAIBAT IT.”—Jefferson. “ 1 ' — - - - ' VOLUME XVIII. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17,1866. NUMBER 41. Intelligencer PCBUMIED DAILY AND WEEKLY BY JARED IRWIN WHITAKER, Proprietor. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wednesday, October 17, 1866. The ('Idea and the Country. While we look with pride upon the rise from i heir ashes, of many of our cities, especially of our own “Gate City while it gratifies us to gaze upon the costly buildings reared on every side of ns for commercial and for manufacturing purposes; we fearfully apprehend that the true source of wealth—that by which our noble old common wealth can oAly be restored to her for mer prosperity—is Jwigjjpdly neglected. It is to the country unc^^Kto the ritim we must look for restored nttj^Hty. Agriculture must pre cede couun|^Hr!sc commerce will languish ; it luiut^R’C^Tinaniifactarics, else there will lie notmng to manufacture; it must flourish, els our cities will decay; empty warehouses and tenantless stores, the result of that mistake which neglects the country while costly edifices are be ing erected in cities. Our people must begin to think. Too many of them are turning their at tention to Qur cities and to commerce; too few of them 1o agricultural pursuits. On the part of our State Legislature, too little 1ms been done to promote agriculture; too little to encourage it.— The wealth of Georgia is in her soil. From its products only can she derive wealth. These will build up her cities; these will establish uvuiufactories; llir-se will promote commerce.— “Goil,” it 1ms been said, “ made the country, and man makes tin* cities;” but before a city, before even a village sprang into existence, the country was tilled, and under tillage, the soil g.ivetfortli ibLvidd. Previous to the late disas trous^wnr,,G<NRBKi was emphatically an agricul tural State Her wealth consisted in what hersoil had yielded; her prosperity, in her agricultural resources. She still possesses the same soil; the war has not affected its productiveness; it 1ms only reduced its labor. Farmers may not now cultivate large plantations, hut they can cultivate small ones. If their products, consequently, be not so great as when slave labor was used, they should remember that they have not those slaves to support, to Iced and to clothe, and that their profits will be Use same—not the same to pur chase more slaves to support, and to buy more lands to wear out by improvident use thereof, but the same in respect to clear gains and all that pertains to the accumulation of wealth ; wealth that may be considered only as a com- parativc term. Side by side with an Astou ora Sticwaht, the limn possessed of only his hun dreds of thousands, will not be considered a rich man; and side by side with them, the man pos sessed o! his tens of thousands, will be deemed noor. Nevertheless he who produces more than he needs is rich indeed ; and he who produces, if but “two blades o( grass where one grew before,” adds to the material wealth of the Slate. The country prosperous in its agriculture, our cities will flourish. The former depressed, neglected, tin* latter will decline. When our Legislature next assembles, we hope to sc*' more time given to, and more interest taken in, the subject oi ag riculture, titan has yet been manifested by that. body. All other subjects for legislation sink into insignificance, when compared with this. The weeks spent in discussion over broken ban ks, corporation monopolies, and so forth, if devoted to the ealtn consideration of the agricultural in terests of the State, and to wise enactments that promote the same, will be well spent. Let this he done, and our cities will be sure to flourish ! The latter is, and must, in the nature of things, be dependent upon the former. There can be no prosperous cities, where there arc no agricul tural resources, and in proportion to these re sources, so will he the commerce and prosperity of our cities. Negro Insurrection. A gentleman who reached Atlanta yesterday evening furnished us with a copy of the Mem phis Actilnncht of the preceding day, which con tains a lengthy account of an insurrection among the negroes on the plantations in the vicinity of Cat Island. The late hour at which we received the paper, and the extra labor incident to the ac cident to our forms yesterday morning, prevent us from giving the lull account as furnished by our Memphis cotemporary. We are able this morning only to state the main facts. It seems that the suspicions ot the planters have been aroused for some time by the movements of the negroes, and that partial steps had been taken to thwart any contemplated outbreak. Premising this much, and that the negroes had procured arms and ammunition from Memphis, we extract as follows: Satisfied that mischief was at hand, and ar ranging their plans, the brothers, Isaac and llenrv Hargett took the road, each being armed with a shot gun aud revolver. They had not ad vanced tar before they were met by a body ot about fitly negroes, w ho ordered them off their mules, accompanying the order with a rapid and indiscriminate tiring. Fortunately none ot the shots had any effect. Mr. Isaac Burgett quickly alighted from his animal, and raising his gun to his shouider, fired, killing the leader of the crowd and wounding two others. His brother, Air. Henry Burgett, had by this time got in the rear of the scoundrels, and, together with the other two gentlemen, who, it will be remem bered, had started in an opposite direction, pour ed a volley into their ranks, which had the ef- tect o! scattering them in all directions. It was here that the other negro was killed and two more wounded. By this time some ten or twelve white men gathered around the place, and quick ly succeeded in arresting aud placing under guard the entire gang. Forty new rifles, thirty-five re volvers, a keg of powder, and two large hags of shot were captured. In about an hour after the capture, two more squads of negroes were dis covered about a half mile oft, but immediately dispersed in confusion upon hearing of the dis astrous defeat of their infamous brother-plotters aud assassins. Au examination, afterward, of about twenty of the negroes, showed plainly that it was concocted by heads far more capable of doing mischief than those of the ignorant, delu ded negroes; but the planners lacked the cour age of executing their damnable schemes. This part ot the work they left to a negro named Bill Dickinson, who assumed the leadership, and who, as is staled above, was killed. This out break, which was to result iu the murder of all the whites in the neighborhood, to be followed bv an indiscriminate plundering, was planned and originated here in Memphis. There can In* iio question about it. The ammunition and arms lor them were purchased by white men in Memphis. This is the testimony of the negroes. New Orleans.—The statement that the New i )t leans Picayun, had gone over to the Radicals and was ready for the constitutional amendment, negro suffrage, and all, turns out to have been in correct, or at least that venerable sheet denies the soft impeachment. We thought there must be some mistake, either the report was unfound ed. or the paper had gone off in haste. The people of the Crescent City can hardly be pre pared for that yet. TnE attention of our city readers especially, is called to the following communication. It addresses itself to every interest of Atlanta. The construction of the “Jacksonville Railroad” is vital to the future pros]K*rity of our city. But one other enterprise—that of the “Air Line Railroad”—can at all compare with it; indeed tlie latter will become an adjunct to, and would certainly follow its construction. Our citizens should “wake up" and see to it that this “Jack sonville Railroad” be constructed as speedily as possible. Our capitalists should not delay for a day the commencement of this important enter prise. We trust that the suggestions embraced in the article ljeiow will find a prompt response in the action of our citizens. Action is now de manded. Who will move in this mutter ? Read, and then lor action: Tlie Jacksonville Railroad. Mr. Editor—Permit tne to draw the attention of the Htizens of Atlanta to a subject of no lit tle importance to the future ot our city. 1 mean tlie building of the railroad to Jacksonville, or some other point in Noriti A1 tbama. It will lie recollected that a large amount of stock was sitbserilted to this road beforethe war. A Board of Directors, with Colonel Richard Peters as President, was Organized, and t he line from here to Jacksonville, or a greater portion of it, sur veyed and located by that accomplished gentle man and efficient engineer, L. P. Grant. But for the war, and the road would now lie in suc cessful operation In the opinion of the writer, the importance of this road to Atlanta cannot lie over-estimated ; and yet no steps have been taken to revive it.— Our people arc sleeping over their highest mate rial interests. Rely upon it, “brick and mortar alone will not, cannot sustain, much less increase and advance the trade and commerce hitherto enjoyed by Atlanta. New avenues of trade must be opened—-new connections formed. We can not live and flourish of and within ourselves.— Our vision must extend beyond the boundaries of the city. Other towns are alive to tlieir interest and moving in the matter of railroads. Augusta and Macon are hard at work on the road connecting the two places. Columbus and Griffin are both looking to a direct connection with Alcmphis through North Alabama. The sooner our people wake up and take hold of the Jacksonville railroad in earnest, the better. Delay, in this case, is emphatically dangerous.— It won’t do to wait (or other people to build this road for us. We must co-operate with those willing to lend a helping hand. The people of Atlanta have, heretofore, contributed but little either in Uteir corporate or individual capacity to the bunding of railroads. And yet, railroads have made their city. Here is afforded au oppor tunity lor the highest exercise of that energy and perseverance lor which our people are noted. In order to arouse them to early action in this matter, allow me to append the remarks of Col. Sam. Tate, President of the Alcmphis & Charles ton Railroad, contained in liis last annual report, in reference to the value and importance of this road: I cannot close this Report without calling attention to your situation in relation to your connecting roads, finished aud unfinished. “First, and of mo^i, imp* n i" < to your com pany, is the completion of a road front some point in North Alabama to Atlanta, Georgia, about one hundred and forty to one. hundred uni seventy miles. This road completed, would give you practically, an air line road from Alem- phisto Charleston, on the shortest line that can ever be built between Charleston and the Alis- sissippi river, three-fourths of which is now completed, on, practically, an air line. When this road is finished, you can defy all competi tion for the improrted goods from New York and other Eastern cities, as well as tlie mnnu- retured articles from New England and other Northern manufacturing districts, to be con sumed in the Valley of Mississippi south of the mouth of the Ohio, as well as for Western pro duce, to he distributed over its entire line. By steamer from New York to'Ohaileston you have tlie cheapest transportation lor a like distance known. The time is two and a halfdays; the distance by this line to .Memphis is six hundred and sixty-five miles, and could be run in two and a half days by a day and night lreight schedule, allowing twenty-tour hours for transfer at Charleston, and you have six days between New York and Alcmphis, and the shortest rail line that can ever be had between the points named. The time and the price would settle competition for all Eastern goods to tie con sumed on the line, as well as at Memphis or south of that point, as low as the mouth of the Arkansas river. From St. Louis to Memphis is two days run of steamer; goods can be placed on the cars at Memphis lrom St. Louis at twenty cents per hundred pounds; from that to Charleston tin* time would be two and a half days ; allowing twelve hours for transfer, would give five days between SL Louis and Charleston. The time and price here would again give you loaded cars going East, everv mile of the line requiring Western produce. These lines would all then be in one interest, and would he worked as one company, without change of ears—another great inducement, as it adds facility to transportation, saves labor aud liability to damage and pillag ing while transferring. The distance being six teen miles nearer from Atlanta to Savanah than Charleston, the same anvamages would accrue to you lor the trade of that line. It this line was completed, the distance from Alemphis to Atlanta would be three hundred and fifty-eight against four hundred and lorty-seven, via Chat tanooga. The distance by rail from Louisville to Atlanta is four hundred and seventy-four miles. Should Cincinnati ever build a line direct to Chattanooga, it will be at least tour hundred aud fifty miles from Cincinnati to Atlanta. At lanta being tlie distributing point for all Georgia aud South Carolina, it becomes the competition point between St. Louis, Louisville and Cin cinnati. for that large trade." From this we infer that the Memphis A Charleston Railroad is bound to have a direct connection with tlie Atlantic seaboard and are ready and willing to co-operate with our people in carrying through the proposed line via Jack sonville. In the event, however, of failure, or delay on our part, they will certainly seek and find other influences and connections. In a recent letter to a gentleman iu this city, Col. Tate uses the following significant language on this subject: “ If your people will not aid ns we must call on our Savannah friends with their Griffin ex tension to Jacksonville." Will not the people of Atlanta move at once iu this matter? Can we not have a public meet ing, at which every man who feels an interest in the present and future of the city will attend ? Who will put the ball in motion ? Where is Col. Peters ? * Cornfield Darkey.—The Memphis Argue has tlie following notice in reference to an insti tution now rapidly disappearing from the coun try. It says: Some of them die of cholera after eating rot ten watermelons: >ome become “culled gem- men" and sell whisky, while most of them are vagrants and thieves.' An antedeluviau darkey, if there ever was such a being, was arraigned to answer tlie charge of disorderly conduct. He had evidently been “ioteh up” on a plantation in the interior, and coming to the great Alecca of country niggers, did'nt know how to get out-— He was about live feel three, wore an animated expression like a dried up apple, and a brass ring on his middle finger. IBs toggery was loyally blue—in truth he was colored. He stuttered out briskly in his defense, but was fined neverthe less, aud corked up. Moke Cholera.—The Nashville papers state that several deaths have occurred from cholera at Pulaski, Giles count}-. The disease is con fined principally to the colored population. [cOXXrXICATEB.] Trouble* In Henry County, Georgia. AIcDonough, Ga., Oct 8th, 1866 After adjournment of the morning session of the County Court of Heury county, Georgia, to day, a meeting of the citizens of said county was called, and organized by calling Elijah Foster to the chair, and A. M. Campbell requested to act as secretary. Oa motion, the Chairman requested Colonel G. M. Nolan to explain the object of the meeting, which he did in a clear, concise and forcible man ner. It was then moved that a committee of thir teen be appointed to report matters for the con sideration of the meeting, which committee con sisted of the following citizens: Colonel Geo. AI. Nolan, Chairman, A. W. Turner, Archibald Broom, R. AI. Walker, Ileury C. Merritt, John Johnson, Charles T. Zacliry, Levi II. Turner, Lewis Coleman, Smith IL Grilfiu, E. Cagle, W R. Henry and Benj. N. AIcKnigbt, Tlie committee then retired, aud after a few moments deliberation reported, through their chairman, the following preamble and resolu tions : Whereas, For months past reports have oc casionally reached our county that as citizens we were charged with disloyalty and lawlessness; that our opposition to tlie Bureau of Ireedmen, &c., was op^Tand hostile; that “night-hawks” or “jay-hawks” literally swarmed within our borders; that tlie press in some parts ot tlie coun try, and a prominent journal in the city of New York have published that three hundred organiz ed “jay-hawks” infest the county; that it is impos sible for public offenders and violators of the law to be brought to justice; that the courts and ju rors are alike slow and unreliable in the admin istration of the law. And whereas, a detach ment of United States soldiery are now quarter ed in our county—tlieir appearance among us, doubtless, attributable to the above, or similar re ports. Aud whereas, longer silence on our part, or a failure to express ourselves would be great injustice to U9 as a county, therefore, in meeting be it Resolved, That as a county we have been terri bly misrepresented; that morally, socially and po litically, we have nothing to fear in comparison with our sister counties of Georgia, and certain ly nothing to fear from any section, North or South, that would thus wantonly traduce us. Resolved, That the citizens of Henry are law- abiding, and that the courts and juries are ready, iu every case, to measure out justice with an even hand, without regard to position, person or color. That we indignantly repel the reported charge, which stings our honor aud pride, that impartial juries cannot be obtained iu Henry county. Resolved, That we suppose it is in consequence of such aspersions upon the integrity and impar tiality of jurors of the county, that the com manding officer of said detachment here, iu pur suance of orders, has, after making some arrests, forwarded the prisoners to distant posts without day’s notice to said prisoners, and without specification of the offenses wherewithal they are charged. And this, too, when the civil au thorities had expressed, iu writing to said com mander, a perfect readiness and willingness to take cognizance of tlie cases, and folly investi gate said charges. But it is due to state that said commander, Captain Lord, has courteously pro posed to forward the said communication of the civil authorities to General Tilson. Resolved, That so far as we know and believe, even the occasional difficulties which have oc- cured between the whites aud blacks have been magnified, yea, shamefully misrepresented by evil, designing persons, and by none more so than the agent of the Bureau at this place; lie doubtless having thought it necessary thus highly to color (and perhaps to manufacture) reports iu order to establish, as a fixed fact, the necessity of an agency here, and to secure to himself that agency or appointment. Resolved, Until this date we have forborne a public expression of opinion ot this agent, be cause it was unpleasant so to do. We now de clare, as our cool and settled opinion, that a large proportion of the trouble which lias oceured in the county, is directly traceable, to bim and liis indiscretion—that we believe, from having known him for many years, mauy ot us, that he is mor ally, and intellectually, utterly disqualified for the position he holds. Wetherefomrespectfully recommend, to the proper authorities, his early removal, and the appointment of Quinces R. Nolan, Ordinary of said county, or any other gentlemen of honesty and intelligence as his suc cessor, believing that such action would be as oil poured upon the troubled water, and would restore perfect peace aud quiet. Resolved, Though in this, as in other counties, there have been occasional acts of violence, yet such action on the part ot any man, or set of men, we heartily condemn, aud trust, ere long, by honest endeavor, and stern enforcement of the law, to prevent the perpetration of such of fenses. Resolved, That the authorities controlling the same are most respectfully requested to return to this county any citizen that has been, or may be arrested under any charge cognizable by the courts, iu order that the legal rights of defend ants, and the constitutional guarantees vouchsaf ed to them, may be observed, and we believe that the law will be as fully vindicated in this, as in any county in the State, or anywhere else. Resolved, It is stated that the citizens of Heury county recommended the agent here for said ap pointment, but we have labored in vain to find a single man who signed said recommendation. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Atlanta Intelligencer and the Savannah Herald, and that the Griffin and Augusta papers be requested to copy ; and that a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to Gen eral Davis Tilson. Upon tlie reading of the resolutions seriatem they were unanimously adopted by the meeting, which was composed of a large number of the citizens of Hemy county. Elijah Foster, Chairman. A. AI. Campbell, Secretary. An Excellent Example. The “ Alarine Bank” of Georgia, at Savannah, gives notice that it is prepared to redeem its out standing circulation, and desires that the holders of its notes will register the same, in order that the amount necessary for their redemption'may be ascertained. This registration may be made in the absence of a presentation of the notes. All that is desired at the time of registry, is the name of the holder with the amount of notes in his possession. We trust that the other Banks in the State, especially those which are supposed and believed to be entirely solvent, will soon take the initiative step to the redemption of its outstanding liabili ties, that the Alarine Bank has done. The hold ers of their bills are becoming impatient at their “ long delav.” —* •» §|The Cotton Tax.—A resolution has been adopted by the New York Chamber of Com merce, declaring that in view of the depressed condition of affairs in the South, where material prosperity had been so nearly destroyed, it was the dictate of sound policy to make no discrimi nation against the great staple crop of this sec tion of our country. More Ctoaslp. The New York Herald, ot the 8th, introduces the following in an article upon the Congressional elections: The indications gathering in the political hori zon here point to radical triumphs throughout the North, in which event the President will say to tlie Southern States and the world, “I have submitted my plan to the people, and, so far as the people have had an opportunity to act upon it, their verdict has been in tavor of the proposed constitutional amendment. Under the circum stances, the best advice I can give is that you (the Southern States) adopt the amendment, in order that you may be restored to the Union, so that all the people (that is, all the States repre sented in Congress) may consult upon the future of our great country.” “This,” says the Herald, “are assured from a witness who ought to know, is what the Presi dent says in reference to his future Southern policy, should these Northern impending elec tions reveal a decisive weight of Northern public opinion in favor of the constitutional amend ment of Congress.” We shall wait for some thing more authentic before giving any credence to the statement. Body-Snatchers.—A man named Peter AVei- man was shot at Louisville on Alonday night, while engaged in stealing a dead body from the grave. Unfortunately.the old scoundrel’s wounds are not mortal. He had an accomplice who es caped, though fired at several times by the sex ton. Fatal Affray.—A rencontre took place at Houston, Texas, on the 5th, between John .John ston. of the eminent law firm of Henderson <fc Johnston, and Robert Himes, in which the latter was shot and killed. proclamation r,v the president. Washington, Oct. 8. By the President of the United Stab's : A Proclamations—Almighty God our Heav enly Father, has been pleased to vouchsafe to us as a people, another year of that national life, which is an indispensable condition of peace, security and progress, and, that year, moreover, has been crowned With many peculiar blessings. The civil war that has so recently been among us, has not been anywhere re-opened. Foreign intervention has ceased to excite alarm or appre hension ; intrusive pestilence lias been benignly mitigated, domestic traquilitj has improved, sentiments of conciliation have largely prevailed, and the affection of loyalty and patriotism have been widely renewed. Our fields have yielded quite abundantly, cur mining industry has been richly rewarded, and we have been allowed to extend our railroad- system far into the interior recesses of the coiaitrv, while our Commerce has resumed its wanted activity iu foreign seas. These national blessings demand a national ac knowledgment Now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnson, Presi dent of the United* States, do hereby recom mend that Thursday, the 29th day of November next' he set apart and be qbserved everywhere in the several States and Territories in the United States by im people thereof, as a da)’ of thanksgiving and pjayer to Almighty God, with due remembrance lliat in His temple doth every man speak of His ilynor. I recommend, iuso, that ou the same solemn occasion we do huiflbly and devotedly implore Him to grant to ouf National councils, aud to our whole people, that divine wisdom which alone can lead any nation into the ways of all good. Offering these National thanksgivings, praises aud supplications, we have the divine assurance that the Lord shall reign a King for ever over them; them that are weak shall be guided in judgment, And such as are gentle shall He learn His way ; die Lord shall give strength to His people, and the Lord shall give to His people the blessings of peace. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, the 9th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and of the independence of the United States the ninety-first. Andrew Johnson. By tlie President, Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State. Impeachment of the President. The following article, from the Cincinnati En quirer, was, of course^ written and published be fore the congressional elections. It, however, loses none of its significance because of the re sult of those elections, now being laid before tbe country: Ben. Butler spoke at Mozart Hall, in this city, last Saturday night, in which he took decided ground for the impeachment of President John son when Congress meets next December. He stated the grounds of impeachment and argued their validity. He also took the ground that so soon as the House of Congress presented to the Senate its articles of impeachment, the Senate has the power, and must exercise it, of ordering the President into confinement. He admitted that this would be likely to bring on a civil war. On this point he said We are told that this will bring on a struggle. Very well. I am convinced of one of two things: either that tlie struggle, if it should come at all, must come in this wav, or it will be precipitated upon us in the next Presidential election, when we come to inaugurate our President—when the States still in rebellion, if they should not have accepted tlie terms of Congress to come back, will endeavor,Jby the aid.ef their sympathizers North, to foist tmon tl^e. Northern State a Presi dent ->f tWir ^v>ict. ; ?f 7 ai?3 «Golwi case it might not be so clear who: o exactly was the legal right. It 1 am correct in my statement of the law of impeachment and the form of trial, the right and form, if right, are clear. And, therefore, if tlie trouble must come, whicu God forbid, let it come in March, 1867, not in Alarch, 1869. Let us have this thing done with. This country has been in turmoil, and trouble, and difficulty, and commotion long enough from traitors and their sympathizers. [Great applause.] Let us settle this question at once and forever. If Baal be God, let us serve him—if the Lord God be God, let us serve Him !” [Great cheers.] We suppose it will hardly be denied, after this speech, that the intention of the Radical Congress next winter is to depose the President. Nor will it be denied that civil war will follow the at tempt. Butler says, let it come. But what say the holders of Government securities ? What say the people ? What say men of families ? What say men of property ? To avoid this threatened reign of terror and blood, there is but one way, and that is to vote down the Radicals at the polls to-morrow. If the people condemn, by their votes, this Radical programme, the Radicals of Congress will not dare put it into execution.— Therein lies our only hope of future peace. Spies and Informers. The Montgomery Mail of the 10th has some severe but just remarks upon certain characters who are said to be now plying their vocation in some ot the cities and larger towns of the South It is hard to believe that such despicable wretches exist, but the Mail seems to know what it is talking about. We don’t suppose that any such characters as are described below are doing their dirty work in Atlanta: Here in our community a few heartless villains are plying their base avocation. Under the cloak of Confederate antecedents they beguile old acquaintances into imprudent remarks, and forthwith report the same io their employers. They visit the stores of merchants who are not acquainted with their present avocation, and take advantage of a friendly reception to exam ine whether any provisions of the Revenue Law have been neglected. Having investigated the business affairs of their old acquaintances, they report to the district attorney and, in conjunc tion with that officer, reap the rewards of deceit and treachery. Such wretches are a disgrace to human nature, and should be avoided by our citizens as they would a pestilence. Lawyers should expose them in court, and business men should kick them from their doors. It must not be understood that our remarks are suggested by a desire to cloak the illegal acts of any one, or to prevent the exposure of what the courts should properly know. Our purpose is merely to condemn the manner in which the system of espionage is carried on, and the per sons who sell their honor for such a disgraceful occupation. jcomnmicAT*D.l Educational. I see through the columns of your valuable paper, that there is an, effort being made to build up a Female College at Stone Alountain, in De Kalb county , a work which, I think, is com mendable iu the highest degree, and worthy of the most candid support of all the good people of the State. If there is a locality that is adapt ed to the establishment of such au institution, it most assuredly is Stone Alountain, being one of the most healthful in the State. Its grand natu ral scenery—the ease and readiness with which it can lie reached by railroad—tbe pure, bracing atmosphere, and the peculiar advantages that the village affords for the education of youth, render it a choice spot for a school—second to none. Tlie Rev. H. C. Hornady, to whom the Presi dency has been tendered, is an honor and credit to any like institution, being a gentleman noted tor liis pious aud upright walk through life, and admired by all who know him for his rare intel ligence and extended views. The citizens of Stone Alountain may consider themselves ex ceedingly fortunate in making the selection they have, aud no doubt the institution, under the supervision of this estimable gentleman, will prosper and be an honor and credit to the State. W. B. Seals, tlie gentleman to whom the Pro fessorship has been tendered, is well known to the people of the State as a man eminently qual ified for the important position assigned him, and extensively known as a popular and successful teacher, and as a gentleman of much experience in the profession. The institution is one of which mauy are needed throughout the State. The inroads that tlie ravages of war have made upon the educa tion of the females, as well as males of our State, are beginning to be sadly felt, and in a few years will be more sensibly felt than at present, and it is high time we were up aud doing something in the way of building up our schools and colleges that have so much retrograded in the past few years. And where is a better point to begin than at Stone Alountain ? I know of none better.— It seems that nature lias designated it as a point for the building of public institutions. The ma terial for building is there in the greatest abun dance, and surpassed perhaps by none in the Union. May God speed the good citizens of Stone Alountain in the praiseworthy enterprise in which they have so earnestly engaged, and may “ Stone Mountain Female College” ere long be hailed as one of the first in the State. Floyd County. Earing Robbery. One of the boldest robberies that has been re corded since the one perpetrated last summer, at St. Louis, occurred on the train which left this city over the Jeffersonville Railroad at 3 o’clock p. m. Saturday. Just as the train moved from the depot at Seymour, Indiana, between six and seven o’clock p. m., two men, masked and other wise disguised, stepped aboard and entered the Express Company’s car by the runboard. They seized the messenger, Mr. Miller, gagged and securely fastened him to the side of the car, and the proceeded to rob tliesafes in the most syste matic manner. Taking the key from Mr. Miller’s pocket, the small safe containing all the local-run money packages from St. Louis to Cairo, to Cin cinnati, and a sealed bag from Nashville, was unlocked and rifled by the thieves; after which they pitched the large, through-safe overboard, and raDg the bell for the train to stop. The train was checked up, and the robbers signalled the engineer to go ahead again, just as they leaped oft. Everything seemed to tavor the nefarious scoundrels. Their plans were conceived with the utmost precision, and executed with a bold ness unexampled. The messenger was alone in the car, and was overpowered so suddenly that no alarm could be given. No suspicion was ex cited by the signals, for they were rung as cor rectly as if the conductor himself had pulled the rope. As soon as the messenger could extricate himself, he rang tlie hell and gave the alarm.— The train was run back to the point where the robbers jumped off, and about sixty yards from tlie place the large sealed safe was found. It contained over thirty thousand dollars in coin.— Fortunately it was not opened. The villains had procured from the other safe the key belonging to this large one; they had no time to use the key, and the safe was too heavy to handle, so they had to abandon it The amount of money stolen from the smaller safe was between twelve and fifteen thousand dollars. When tbe train ran back to tlie place of tbe robbery. Air. Tem ple, the route agent, took a posse of men and started in pursuit of the daring thieves. Super intendent Alfred Gaither, Cap. Johnson, agent, and one and all of the officers and employes of the company are using every exertion in their power to apprehend the perpetrators of this pre concerted and extensive roobery. A reward of five thousand dollars is offered by the company for the arrest and conviction of both, or two thousand five hundred dollars for either of the robbers, and one-fourth of all the money recov ered. Tlie money stolen was in numerous package's of small amounts, so that the loss will not fall very heavily upon any one. No uneasiness need bfi felt by shippers, as the Adams Express Com pany are abundantly able and always prepared to pay. Appalling Disaster-Three Handred Lives Lost. We are indebted to Air. J. Rutledge Finnegan, the Purser ot the steamer Sylvan Shore, for the following facts, regarding one ot the most terri ble marine disasters that ever happened on our coast—tlie loss of the steamship Evening Star, while bound from New Y T ork to New Orleans. She left New York on Alonday, October 1st, at 10 o’clock, a. m., with a valuable cargo, and up wards of 300 souls on board, including the crew. On the morning of the 2d instant she encounter ed severe weather. A tremendous Northeast gale taking the ship, she labored heavily and her fires were extinguished. At six o’clock, when alKiut one hundred and eighty miles oft Tybee Light, she suddenly went down. Eighteen per sons succeeded in making their escape by taking to one of her small lioats in which they were at sea, without, water or provisions, for ninety-six hours. The boat, we are informed, capsized several times, and a number of its unfortunate occupants, on each occasion, thereby lost tbeir lives; among whom was Captain Knapp.— After suffering agonies at which the mind shud ders, the third mate, three sailors and Air. Frank Gaward, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,—a cabin passen ger—were providentially enabled on Sunday morning last to reach the beach near Fort Clinch, Fernandina, Fla., in an exhausted condition, with the dead bodies of two of their companions who had died from want and exposure. Three other boats filled with passengers—how many it was impossible to learn—left the ill-fated steamship at the same time; one of which, con taining the purser and engineer was in company with the one which reached Fernandina, until Friday, when it was lost sight of. A rumor had reached that place when the Sylvan Shore was about to sail, that the missing boat had arrived at Old Town, but no further particulars were known regarding its fate. Nothing was known of the other boats. The Evening Star was an A 1 side-wheel steamship of 2,000 tons, was valued at upwards of $250,000, and owned by Alessrs. Garrison and Allen, of New York.—Sav. Republican. Judge Sbarkef. The New York Herald, having read the admi rable letter of Judge Sharkey, of Alississippi, which was published in the Intelligencer last week, devotes a column and a half of its precious space to a refutation of the positions assumed by a distinguished Alississippian, and concludes that they are insidious and revolutionary. It also insists that men who entertain opinions such as are enunciated in Judge Sharkey’s letter, are not fit to represent aDy State in Congress. Should the Herald's labored review attract the notice of the Judge, he will doubtless at once take the hint, tender bis commission to the pro per authorities, and retire. t To Our Ansel Mother. WRITTEN FOR HENRY. WILLIE, AND EDDIE. Wo miss theo. dearest mother, In the early morning light, When, with aching hearts we waken, From the fleeting dreams of night. For the night time brings thee, mother, ('ft iu sweet and holy'dreams; Again we see thv tender smile, '1 hy dear eyes’ loving beams. CUORCS. We will meet, but we will miss thee; There is now one vacant chair— We will linger to caress thee. When we breathe our evening prayer. Oh. we miss thee, dearest mother. When around the board we meet; We miss the loving hand that served. The voice so fond and sweet— For thy presence, darling mother. Made our home a heaven of love. Oh, remember us and bless us, Iu thy home of bliss above. Oil. we miss thee, dearest mother. When the daily task’s all done ; We’d seek the loving eyes that spoke Sucli welcome to thy son. Then we miss thee, darling mother ; Theu we feel we are alone— And our sad hearts echo only, “Our precious mother’s gone.’’ But we will not miss thee, mother. When our life's task’s all fuldlled ; If guided by tlie sacred truths By thy faithful lips distilled. We shall stand with thee, sweet mother, In the Savior’s home of love, Aud with Him and thee, forever Live in perfect bliss above. Mary Fekrel Moore. From the New York Review. McArou on Rheumatism. There are no roses in the wilderness of vines that inclose the piazza of the country house where I write, but au easterly wind of much asperity and virulence, is making itself very much "at home there, and whistling like a first class boatswain whose mother was a calliope. Easily enough this east wind brings me to the rheumatism. -It also brings the rheumatism to me. Did you ever have a red-hatred man throw a millstone on your head, and then bore into your elbow with a centre-bit ? That is the sensation of the inflammatory rheumatism, as performed by me tor seven con secutive days and nights. I had some very line, eccentric and humorous ideas during this period; but when a fellow’s right thumb is swollen to the resemblance of a Hamburg sausage, and his fore finger has a wire run through the bones lengthwis, be is not in good condition to wrile down even the most brilliant mental scintillations. Neither is he expert with those frail, unassum ing, but potent instruments, the knife and fork. Buttons, too, at such times, present a formid able resistance, and a razor becomes a vain and impotent toy. The only thing, in fact, that runs eai9er and slides the more vigorously for rheumatism, is profanity. There is a peculiar twist to the elbow, coupled with simultaneous twinges in the hip and knee, that produce great fluency in that particular. The remedies that one’s friends suggest are by no means the least troublesome portion of the complaint. One suggests a common horse chesnut or “buck eye” carried in the trousers pocket, as an infal lible preventive. A lady says that an application of cotton bat ting is a sure thing. 1 once knew of a famous cricket player who was cured of batting by rheumatism, but I never knew that the rule would work both ways. A third suggestion was that I should be envel oped from head to foot in blue clay, not to be disturbed till it cracked ofi itself. This last struck me as a good idea, especially if I were to be placed at the bottom of a pit six feet deep, to be thus enveloped, the hole to be then filled up and a neat headstone erected to mark the place. I a in assured that the clay, tinder these circum stances, would crack and come off of itself at about tlie time when Gabriel performs his solo obligato for the trumpet. These are but invalid conceits; of the rheu matism, rheumatic; but I can hardly do better to-day. This paper is, in fact, the first I have written for nearly a fortnight, aud is but a sort of experiment. Indeed, if it gives you the same pain in the elbow to read it, that it gives me to write it, I sincerely pity you. But if, as*I said, “easy reading is bard writ ing,” this stands a chance of being uncommonly easy of perusal. I am a little out of humor with Fate, or what ever you may call it, for this shabby treatment. It was rather rough to give a fellow a whole summer of billions agonies, with no remittance to hope for except remitent fevers, and then to crowd on a cripling rheumatism at the end of it! It is hard on a fellow’s stamina, and constitu tion and tilings. The thought of dumb bells makes a weak feeling creep down my back; and when I walk, leaning on my cane, you might take me for some old sport, like Professor Holmes’ “Last Leaf.” New York (lily. The Richmond 'Times, always entertaining and instructive, pays a well-deserved tribute to the enterprise and conservatism of tbe great free city of New York. It says : The great city of New Y'ork has more brain, heart, patriotism aud decency than can be found in all the gutters of Radicalism North of the Potomac. There we find enlightened views and expansive sympathies prevailing, which extend beyond the citizen’s door-sill anil comprehend in their range not only the kindred South but the civilized people of all nations and climes. Foolish, narrow-minded Radicalism looks not beyond a day or night of hate and passion to be spent in some provincial town or at some railroad station. But the grand and comprehensive intellect of that Conservatism which characterizes the city of New York overleaps the barriers of prejudice and grasps with foresiglitcd penetration the ad vancing truths ot the future, i ears and years be fore they are apparent to the bleared eyes and be sotted senses of fanaticism. Hence it is that the city of New Y'ork has so wondrously grown and prospered despite that hate and jealousy which have frequently been meanly leveled at it by the fools and fanatics who have at times gotten into power tit Albany, and sought like mousing owls to strike tit and bring down the great eagle tow ering in bis pride of strength. But wealth, brain, decency and refinement have been too potent tor the Radical dogs and jackals to make tiny impression on the Queen City of the Western world, or to seriously dam age her interests. While the storm of madness and blind rage has swept tbe provinces and minor cities of the North, the city of New Y'ork has stood sternly and heroically unmoved amid the general decadence of popular virtue and patriotism, a conspicuous monument of uusullied republicanism, when all around her have bowed the knee to false gods and listened to false pro phets. Boston, hide-bound in its self-conceit, purse-proud in its wealth, sinful in its self-riglit- eousness, and ridiculous in its pretensions to supe rior wisdom and godliness, is simply contempti ble when we view her politically, socially and morally by the side of New York.’Philadelphia, called by way of burlesque “the city of Brotherly Love,” in intellect, dignity and decency, is an odious pigmy by the side of tbe great Free City of the Western hemisphere in all that dignifies and ennobles the metropolis ot a vast State. The world respects and honors New Y'ork; it langhs at and despises the meanness, bigotry and fana ticism of Boston and Philadelphia, which are no more than brawling, gossipping little cross-road villages compared to the liberal and whole-souled city which flings wide her gates to the commerce and civilization of all Christendom. In the march of ideas, New Y'ork is a century ahead of the two Radical cities to which we have alluded, and if there was some asylum for crazy towns and villages, Boston and Philadelphia ought to be sent there and kept in straight jackets until they manifest cerebral improvement and return ing sanity. The scabies of Radicalism has in fected every city of the North of any importance except New York. There it can make no effec tive lodgment. The people of that emporium of the New World have done nothing to be asham ed of, and hence no need to expunge their re cords. They meet and welcome us like brothers, and when a President visits their city they know how to behave themselves. Utah.—The Alormon paper in L r tab, called the Daily Telegraph, utters this threat: “Even in a material view it does not seem to pay to utterly despise the people of Utah. They have exer cised and may yet exercise no mean influence on the material as well as the political and moral welfare of the nation, and it is not safe to tram ple them under foot too long.” The Education Needed Now. The following we find in an exchange, “credit ed to a New Orleans paper”—by the way, a rather shabby style of giving credit to an article possessing so much merit aud good sense. We commend it to the careful consideration of our leaders—ami when they have read it carefully, we would also commend them to hand it to their neighbors to read, who may be too poor, or too something else, to “take the papers.” The people of our State are in a like predica ment with the man who has the house destroyed from over his head. We have to rebuild a home for ourselves and families. The old home was a mighty comfortable one. Its low, hipped roof, large airy rooms and extensive pilastered porti coes gave it a quaint, and yet comfortable appear ance, as well as reality. The comforts aud luxuries ot the past are henceforth only the wealth of the imagination. Alemory may linger with fond retrospective glance, aud revel in idealities no longer to be realized. But the stern realities of the present arouse us to actual life, and bid ns lay aside nil “fond imaginings,” and deal with the' necessities of the hour. Circumstances have entirely altered our con dition. “Times change”—and wc must change with them. The past must be buried in the past. The present and tlie future is all that lives to us. Let us no longer linger round the grave of buried hopes. Having paid, the necessary tribute of the heart to the “loved and lost,” let us now turn to the realities of fife. For many years to come, at least, luxury, ease and indolence must give way to energy and labor. Y T es, labor, protracted, persevering la bor, must be our lot; and the sooner we get to work in good earnest, the better. We must, ourselves, take hold ol the plow, the anvil and the loom. We must cultivate our long neg lected muscle, and find, in vigorous exercise, not only wealth, but heretofore unknown health and happiness. But while we, who are now arrived at the age of manhood, may do much—while we may re build our long enervated systems upon a muscle- developing basis—while we can do much to re pair our shattered hopes and regain our lost wealth and influence, it is to the rising genera tion that the South looks for that full develop ment of all her resources, and that complete and full regeneration that shall lead to her economi cal success, and her ultimate, relative and com plete independence. This must be the great industrial power of the South. This is the practical leyer by which we shall overturn all obstacles in our path to nation al greatness. Upon the muscle and mind of the youth of our land we must rely for help. But here the laws of necessity tollow ns as persist ently as in any other of nature’s domains. Ends must he accomplished by means. In order to accomplish successfully these great ends, tlie pre paratory means must be used. The muscles as well as minds of these important workers-out of our destiny must be cultivated on practical prin ciples in order to attain practical ends. They must be educated—thoroughly, practically edu cated. The term education is a very extensively in definite one. It represents very different states and conditions, as wc look at it from different stand-points. In its original acceptation, it is a very forcible and perfect expression. It is the e, or ex duco, tlie drawing out, or developing what ever is to be educated. Nothing could be more opposite to our present purpose. We need the e-duco—the drawing out or development of the minds and muscles of our young people. Our people seem to have entirely overlooked that only real and proper school of a nation’s hope and success; that only school in whieh are taught practically, and in a manner never to be forgotten, theJjreat lessons of fife—the school of experience. This is the only successful teacher the world has ever found. In it must be taught the masses—that fundamental basis of a nation’s iiopfl, power iuad wuAJth. W a iiavo li«d <MKMiyii of the old system. We must now try the, to us, new, though it is the one adopted by the world around us. Our children must be taught not only to “ read ” a book, but to read tlie great book of nature; to “ write,” not only elegant epistles, splendid fictions, and all the lackadaisa- cal nonsense of perverted literature, but to write their name high on the scroll of success; not only to write, but to do right; not only to “ci pher ” through the pages of arithmetics, and the abtruse works of mathematics, but to cipher their way through life, over all obstacles, to in dependence and success. Let the youth of the South, then, be at once put to school under this great and only great teacher. At the plough handle, at tfie forge, at the bench, in all the various departments of prtje-^ tical business life; let them learn in childhood and youth those lessons that will be of priceless value to them through fife. Let us have more muscles and less of mind—at least, simple, theo retical ideality. Let the mind and body both be developed in harmony. Let the boy or girl learn in the living, breathing, real, practical world, those lessons of life that will dispel all the false notions with which novelists and such instruc tors of youth poison the mind, corrupt the mor als, and completely wreck all just hopes of their parents and country. Educate the youth of our State in the realities of practical life, and you will have a people successful, happy and free. Ssvannali, Griffln A North Alabama Rail road-Regular Annual Meeting. Newnan, Ga., October 4,1866. Alajor Grace in the Chair. On motion of Judge John I. Whitaker, a com mittee of three was appointed to report the amount of paid in stock, as also the amount of paid stock now represented in the meeting.— Committee—J. I. Whitaker, J. AI. Thomas, and J. H. Gresham. Reported two hundred and eighty thousand dollars paid in, and two hun dred and thirty-four thousand dollars represented in the meeting. On motion of Thomas W. Thomas, Esq., Resolved, That no power shall hereafter vest in the Board of Directors to sell or lease the road, nor contract liabilities leading to such result, without the consent of the stockholders. On motion of Judge Whitaker, Resolved, That the stockholders now proceed with the annual election of officers, and that J. H. Graham, C. D. Smith, and S. W. Alangham act as supervisors of elections. Major William M. Cline nominated Colonel Robert A. Crawford, of Spalding, for the Presi dency—whereupon Alajor Grace, desiring unity of sentiment and of action, withdrew his name —casting bis ballot lor Colonel Crawford, who was unanimously elected president of the road, and being invited to the chair, jiroceeded with the business of the meeting. On ballot, the election for directors resulted in the choice of the following board: Hon. John I. Whitaker, of Fayette, G. J. Drake, of Spalding; Captain H. J. Sargent, Thomas W. Thomas, Esq., and Hon. G. O. Wynn, ot Coweta; and Hon. B. AI. LoDg, of Carroll. On motion, Resolved, That the papers of Savannah, Ma con, Griffin, Atlanta and Newnan, he requested to publish tbe proceedings of this annual meet ing. S. AV. I.Iangitam, Secretary. Eastern Sews. A Berlin date to the London Times says: The disturbances in Epirus, where already the Turkish troops have had an unsuccessful skir mish with the insurgents, the riot in Syria and the attitude of Greece are all supposed to show that some foreign aid must he given to Turkey, if it is intended that the “ sick man ” is not to be left in imminent danger of having his end accel erated. The telegram which announces that the Amer ican squadron has been ordered from the Baltic to the Mediterranean has given rise to much comment; and the Nord Deutsche Zeitung, in remarking upon it, publishes a portion of a letter from St. Petersburg, which says: Tlie alliance with the United States is of especial value to Russia; it protects us from a repetition of the unfortunate incidents of the period between 1853 and 1856, and assures us of a steadfast friend in case of the opening ot the Eastern question.— The American Alinister in Stamboul has already taken the affairs of the oppressed Greeks under his protection, and perhaps the Alaiutopomoh will go to Larneka, in order that there united with similar ships of war she may be near the Christians, who are shamefully persecuted. A half dozen of such monitors could blow tlie whole Turkish fleet to pieces. Wages in San Francisco.—In San Fran cisco, tlie demand for laborers is very great.— Tbe liest of wages are given to all classes. Car penters receive $4, masons, bricklayers, and plasterers, $5 per'day of ten hours. Ship car penters, joiners, and caulkers, receive $5 per day of eight hours. Female servants, such as cham bermaids, laundresses, cooks, etc., receive from $30 to $50 per month. .iif

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Weekly Atlanta intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1865-18??, October 17, 1866, Image 1