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ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson.
VOLUME XIX.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 15,1867.
NUMBER 20.
IfrrhlQ Jntflligcucrr.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, May IB, 1866.
Atlanta Medical Collect.
Wc were present yesterday within this hand
some college edifice, at the opening lectures, be
fore the class now attending the regular course,
and were gratified, as well as edified thereby.—
The building itself lias] been thoroughly renova
ted, while the lecture rooms, or those ot them
which we visited, presented quite a neat and
comfortable appearance. It was our good for
tune, on the occasion of our visit, to hear the
several lectures of three of the able Professors
of this institution, to-wit: Dr. II. V. M. Miller,
Dr. D. C. O’Keefe, and Dr. A. Means. It will
he the fault of the class, if. under the teachings of
then, and we may add, the other urolessors of
this medical institution, they do not acquire such
knowledge of the science and 'art ot medicine
and surgery as to constitute themselves useful
and eminent in their professional career. The
Faculty, as it is now composed, embraces the
names of gentlemen of the medical profession,
who are widely known and have attained emi
nence in the profession. We append the follow
ing list for the information of those abroad who
are engaged in medical studies, and who may,
either now or at some future course, desire to
avail themselves of the teachings of so able a
body of professional gentlemen. It will compare
most favorably with that ot any similar institu
tion in the South:
A. Mbans. M. I) , Profs,,or of Medical and General
Chemistry.
D. C. O’Kbzfe, M. D., Profcasor of Theory and Prac
tice of Medicine.
W. F. Wbhtmokeland, M. D., Professor of Principlea
and Practice of Surgery.
II. V. M. M iLi.r.a, M. D., Professor of Ohatetrica and
Biseusea of Woman and Children.
Kuem Qiu.rtu, M. D , Professor of the Institutes of
Medicine.
li. L. Abmhtbom*, M. D., Professor of Anatomy.
J .U. Westmoreland, M. 1)., Professor of Materia
Medics and Therapeutics.
W. S. Armtsiuino, M. D , Demonstrator of Anatomy.
N. D'Alviont, M. D.,Curator.
The college, we are assured, is furnished in its
every department with apparatus and all other
appliances required in an institution of its char
acter lor the thorough instruction of the students.
It ojiens again with every prospect of success.—
Every obstacle trt its future us fulness lias been
removed. It lias now a united, and skilllul
facui.ty, whose labors to promote the interests
of the institution will be zealous, and whose ca
pacity to impart knowledge admits of no dis
pute. The class now in attendance, under all
the circumstances, is most encouraging. As
surances are given that it will be largely increas
ed in a lew days. As it is, the prospect is good,
and wc do not hesitate the prediction that its fu
ture will he one ot unparalleled success iy the
South. •
The Supreme Court as a Political Power.
The New York Journal of Commerce has the
following sensible article on the importance of
the Supreme Court as a department of the gov
ernment :
It seeius to startle some minds very much that
an application should be made to the Supreme
Court in so important a subject as that which is
now occupying its attention, to-wit: the opera
tion of the Military Reconstruction bill. There
are many good, honest citizens who have never
looked further into the construction of our gov
ernment than to imngine that courts are mere
machines for settling disputes about dollars and
cents between litigious individuals, and who have
never dreamed that the Supreme Court of the
United Stales is a department of the government,
an essential component part of that government,
independent ot Congress and President, often
times as powerful as either or both. We shall
not undertake to express an opinion on the ques
tion whether that court has jurisdiction in the
present case. We but seize the opportunity to
direct attention to the important position occu
pied by this court iu the groat system of Ameri
can republican institutions. Not long ago we were
iu a minority and somewhat despised withal, for
teaching the doctriue that the government was not
the administration. The accession to adminis
trative power ot Mr. Johnson fortunately, disa
bused the minds of ardent upholders of that
doctrine, who, so long as the President was their
man, admitted no oilier power than his in the
government Next we have been taught the
supremacy of Congress, and there are doubtless
not a few anxious and ardent people in the
country who really believe, what they earnestly
desire to be true, that all the power of the govern
ment ot the United States is lodged in the two
Houses ot Congress. If one of the houses should
be turned against them they would possibly find
reason for reposing faith in the other house as
the sole custodian of national force. The con
stitution is an old paper, well worth reading
over iu these days. It ought to be taught in the
common schools, without note or <#inmeut. It
is a simple instrument easily understood. It es
tablishes the Supreme Court of the United Slates,
and gives it powers which are not to be disputed,
lie is as great a traitor who resists the maudales
of that court os he who resists a law of Congress,
or a proclamation of the President It is time
to think of this. Perhaps before long the educa
tion of passing events will teach the people not
to repose their faith in President, Congress or
court as the government, bat to understand the
"beauty and value of the sublime combination,
Stale as well as Federal, which composes the
popular and free government we once cherished
aud defended.
The Mepubllrau Party.
A New York journal says the causes that are
“ disintegrating that heterogeneous compound
known as the Republican party, are at work
all over the country. But Hie process is slow.
When the present financial difficulties reach
their bight, the rupture will be thorough and
complete. It will be only fit and proper. The
Republican party liad a mission, and tulfilled it
Tbeie is no longer any occasion for it, and it
will pass oft the stage ot action. The people
have submitted to a deal of tvrauuv during the
iart few tears, because they thought ii necessary
iu ord-r to preserve the Uniou from being torn
asunder. Now that danger is past, they see no
need for submission to undue restraint. Those
who suppose them from their recent acts, in
different to personal Ireedotn, labor uuder a
great mistake. The freest nations of old bad
their dictators in tunes of emergency; but when
the danger was past, the dictator was obliged to
surrender his extraordinary powers'. So with
the American people. The day of absolute
j>ower iu the hands of a few is passing away.”
Attorney General Stauberry.
As the telegraph has given us a faint and dim
outline of Mr. Stanberrys course of argument
twfbte the Supreme Court on Monday, in the case
ot the Georgia and Mississippi injunctions, the
following in reference to his views prior to the
argument may not be uninteresting- We find it
among the Washington correspondence of the
Charleston Courier:
When Mr. St an berry's official position first re
quired his attention to these applications lor in
junctions, he was inclined by his tormer and po
litical predilections to favor them, or, at least,
against any opposition to them. It is now a
known tact that he had intended to resign his
office rather than resist the injunction, on the
niei iu ol the question. Upon deliberation, how-
••ver, he found that the applications were techni
cally ohjectiouableand would uot be sustained;
.■tint the President aud the Cabinet concurred
with him in this view. Mr. Staubeny, therefore,
stated last Tuesday, that he opposed the motion
to tile as a lawyer, and not as a politician. W ere
the question upon the Military Acts, he would
he on the side of the plain tills.
. I FOB THE INTELLIGENCER. ]
The Inequality ot Man, and tbe True Se
cret of Good Government.
All men are not created equal. A well de- i
fined difference in stature, in color, in tempera- !
meut, in physical or muscular power, and in i
mental faculties, characterize the human family; j
and tbe consequence of this inequality is the ex- j
istence of subserviency or subordination in some j
one or more of its varied forms.
Two men perfectly equal in every respect can j
never be in subjection one to the other; but let |
Brevities.
A verdict of $10,000 was lately rendered in
a New York coart, against tbe Hudson River
Railroad Company, in favor of Charles Enders,
who was run over and maimed for life by a
freight car of said road. Enders is twenty years
old, and the suit was brought by his guardian,
Chas. T. Platt.
Rev. E. P. Holland makes a wine from the
sumac, which is said to be an excellent tonic.—
One kind of sumac, has always been considered
one have superiority of mind or body, and tbe
other will be subject to his control exactly in pro
portion to the inequality.
We are endowed with “certain inalienable
rights,” according to circumstances. We are
not entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness, if we attempt to enjoy these privileges
through the destruction of the life, liberty, and
happiness of others. We are not entitled to liberty
if we have not knowledge or industry to take
care of ourselves; for the reason that imbecility
renders us a charge to others, giving them the
right to control us.
Thus it is plain such rights are conditional.—
“He that doth not work neither shall he eat.”
We arrest the murderer and hang him ; we
put the lunatic in confinement; aDd we govern
our children during minority. Such is the con
dition of mankind, and subordination is the con
sequence ; and this can never be altered except
by some radical change in the law of nature.—
This applies to all races, without regard to color.
There is nothing but an equal distribution ot
wisdom and physical power, combined with a
uniformity of circumstances, that can place men
on an equality; and nothing short ot this can
ever prevent subserviency.
In a world like ours, greatly diversified in soil,
in climate, and in ull that is useful or injurious
to man, the inhabitants will necessarily be great
ly varied, in their physical proportions and con
stitutional temperaments, and to the same extent
diversified menially and morally.
Knowledge is power—some possess it—others
do not. Money is power—some possess it—oth
ers do not. And so also of industry, economy,
and frugality—some possess these virtues—others
do not; hence we see the causes which have
led to the establishment of government, or some
governing power to prevent the strong from op
pressing the weak, or to keep the indolent and
vicious from wasting and devouring the sub
stance of the provident and good.
Legislation can do much for the amelioration
of inequalities; but the common drudgeries of
life, requiring no mental effort, will in most cases
be performed by men of uncultivated or inferior
intellects, whilst men of enlarged powers of
mind will guide and direct the various pursuits
of life to a successful issue.
The many difficulties which present themselves
when philanthropy attempts its work of amelior
ation, will ever be a source of disappointment to
visionary reformers. The truly enlightened
statesman and philanthropist, unbiased by the
“ wild hunt ” for office, will view moral, social,
and political evil*?, as resulting from the natural
iuequajities of man; and will study to apply the
corrective of just and equal laws, without in
dulging the vain hope of legislating men equal.
The self-evident fact that all are not created equal
gave rise to the suggestion of Jefferson, in favor
of “a wise and frugal government which shall
restrain men from injuring one another; shall
leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall
not take front the mouth of labor the bread it has
earned.” To live and l§t live, appeared to be
the governing principle of Thomas Jefferson.—
This principle properly understood reveals to us
the true secret of good government, and of hu
man happiness. We observe it at table, when
seated to partake our usual meals. We eat and
let eat. In fact, we help our.table companions
to the choicest and best dishes set before us, and
never permit ourselves to monopolize tbe nicest
dainties for our own gratification—leaving others
to feed upon crumbs anil crusts. The rules of
politeuess, thus carefully observed, are essential
to human happiness; aud if right at table in par
taking our customary meals, why not in tbe ac
quisition and enjoyment of wealth ?
The surface of our world is a wide spread ta
ble, luruished with all tbe ineaus to sustain life*
yet requiring labor to convert them to our use;
and here, true politeness, if nothing else, should
prompt every member of society to share, ac
cording to his ability, in the toil of body or mind
necessary to support life; and to refrain from
seizing tbe best dishes on tbe world’s table.
And here, in this connection it may be re
marked ; if politicians would take as much pains
to enlighten the people, as they do to deceive them,
we would see no more of bad government—of
wars and desolations; or if men in power would
lake as muck pains to restore peace and harmony
to tlie people as they do to engender sectional
and partisan animosities amongst them, or as
they do to use them as mere voting machines,
we would soou see the last ot military rule, and
the re-establishment of good government.
J. A. Stewart.
Tbe Oplulou of tbe Attorney General.
The opinion of the Attoruey General upon
the reconstruction acts, proper and supplement
ary, has not yet reached the public. A recent
letter lrom Washington says its submission to
the Cabinet was deferred on account of the sick
ness of some of the members. The letter adds;
The Cabinet will no doubt approve the views
ot the Attorney General, (which, it is understood,
place a very liberal interpretation upon the law,)
and they will then be issued for tbe guidance of
district commanders—all of whom will doubt
less cheerfully acquiesce iu them, excepting, per
haps, Sheridan, in the Louisiana district. He
seems determined to have his own way in every
thing, and were it not tor the positive command
ot General Grant, he would, ere this, have com
pletely demolished even’ vestige of civil author
ity iu Louisiaua and Texas, it, indeed, such a
tiling as civil authority cau now be said to exist
anywhere in the South.
Another letter says:
The instructions of the Attorney General Jo
the military commanders in regard to the regis
tration ot voters will be minute and definite, and,
on tbe whole, liberal enough to increase the rad-
j ical extremists in Congress, and, perhaps, to
. afford Mr. Stevens and Mr. Sumner more ground
for rejecting the State Constitutions and frustra-
; ting every effort lor restoration. But the com-
. mercial condition of the North becomes every
; day more critical, and the demand for Southern
j trade and the necessity lor Southern recupera-
j lion more pressing. Commerce could not pre-
: vent the war, but it may have an eflect to expe-
{ dite and preserve peace lietween the sections of
j the country.
The W iixnv of Bishop Pole.—A letter from
j Columbia, in the Louisville Courier, says:
Mrs. Polk, the widow of the lamented Bishop
Polk, who is not less remarkable for her Chris-
• tian virtues than her intelligence and high ac-
! complishments, is now engaged in iemale educa-
i lion, having associated herself with Dr. Beckett,
; the present principal ot Colombia Female Insti-
’ tute, one ot the oldest aud most justly popular
I institutions ot tbe South, tbe property of the
! Episcopal Diocese of Tenuessee. For this noble
| institution the church aud the country are chiefly
j indebted to her lamented husband, who first pro-
' jected it; and his widow could not more fittingly
commemorate his virtues and fill the measure of
her own usefulness, than by dedicating herself
to the purposes for which it was intended. She
has associated with her in the school an estima
ble daughter, who, by her superior accomplish
ments, adds grace and dignity to Urn high call
ing in which they have engaged.
poisonous, and used by tanners, in coring hides.
If anybody wants his hide “cured,” we should
advise him to commence on “sumac wine.”
Mr. Guy Cooper, in Portland, supports a di
vorced daughter. The other day she called her
father “a liar, flew at him like a wild-cat, scratch
ed his face, and then locked him up in the cellar”
—from which he escaped. Her husband must
have led a jolly life the time he was with her!
A Connecticut paper says: Tbe best joke of
the season, was the attempt to rob an editor in
Bridgeport, on Monday night. The rogue got
into an unfastened window, rumaged the whole
house without finding anything worth stealing,
and leit in disgust. He was a natural-bom fool,
that chap!
Williams, the man who has been sentenced
to the State prison, for cruelty to his little daugh
ter, last February, is thought by some to be in
sane, because he “keeps pulling out his hair.” It
is a charitable view of tbe case to believe so—
but there was so much method in the man’s mad
ness, that we think we would let him “pull his
hair” a litfle longer.
A resident of Whitewater, Wisconsin, while
riding in a car, put his head out of the window
and lost his right ear, through the agency of a
car standing ou the side (rack.
The Cincinnati Commercial in an article claim
ing lor Cincinnati the largest population of the
great cities of the West, says that at the recent
city elections Cincinnati cast 23,000 votes, Chi
cago 19,000, and St. Louis 14,000.
The Boston Post says that “ it is a singular
fact that Tennessee, which Congress singled out
as a special pet and favorite, has been the scene
of more disorder and difficulty since the war
ended than have occurred in all the excluded
Stales.”
On Wednesday night a planter named Smith
Wilson, residing in Germautown, near Memphis,
while sitting on a sofa talking to his wife, was
shot through the window by an unknown assas
sin. He fell ibto his wife’s arms aud expired.
No clue to the murderer.
^gentleman who had just read one of Sen
ator W ilson’s speeches to the colored men in
Richmond, exclaimed—“ I wonder if Wilson
was a3 poor a shoemaker as he is a statesman ?
If he was, there need be no wonder at his leav
ing tbe lapstone.”
It is about a year since Mr. Peabody landed
in tbe United States, and an exchange says that,
with the strictest economy, it must have cost
him at least $4,000,000 to get along during the
twelve months.
The columns of the Northern papers are
gory .with accounts ol murders committed
there, and disgustingly repulsive in their daily re
cord of crimes and outrages of every grade and
character.
A taking young lady in Cincinnati was
caught with about five hundred dollars worth of
silk dress patterns, hosiery, &c., which she had
purloined and secreted under her skirts. On ac
count of her “respectable” connections the store
keeper allowed her to go on her way rejoicing.
In Chicago the railway companies and man
ufacturers have decided to pay men by the hour,
by which device a pin is stuck clean through the
eight-hour bladder.
“Let me alone, you good-for-nothing fellow !"
exclaimed a bright girl seated by tbe side of a
dull lover. “Why, I ain’t a touchin’ of you,”
protested the astonished youth. “Well, you
might have done it—if you’d liked,’ 7 was the
suggestive reply.
During the earthquake iu Missouri, the other
day, an engineer tin the Missouri River railroad
turned down steam and jumped from the train,
thinking the engine was bursting.
During a recent thunder storm in Bolivia,
South America, about 100 persons were killed
by lightning..
The second day’s registration in New Orleans
was abandoned almost entirely to negroes from
plantations. Tbe Bulletin says that some of thg
old wealthy colored Creole population think
they are leit out entirely, and have lost their so
cial status, and on that account are preparing to
return to France.
The pi ice of cate is rising in Paris. Many an
unsophisticated foreigner will use cat soup during
the Exposition. By the way, one who has tasted
it thinks cat meat, when you don’t know what it
is, equal to rabbit. It is excellent mock-rabbit.
Tiie Richmond Dispatch of Wednesday says:
“The Governor on yesterday appointed John
Oliver, a mulatto man ol this city, a notary pub
lic for the city ot Richmond and county of Hen
rico. Oliver is the first negro notary public ever
appointed in Virginia. He is a man of respecta
bility and- intelligence.”
Among tbe tricks of New York legislators the
correspondent of the Buffalo Commercial men
tions the tact that a bill was brought before the
Senate as having been passed in the House when
it had nqt been acted on at all in that body. The
Speaker’s signature had been forged. Another
bill was stolen from the clerk’s desk in order to
prevent its passage
The Boston correspondent of the Evening
Post says that the sentiment in favor of abolish
ing the practice of whipping children in the public
schools, has received a new impulse from a case
of cruel punishment which just occurred in the
Dwight school. A young boy was whipped
nearly half an hour, until bis clothes were cut as
if by a knife, and until bis teacher’s strength was
exhausted. The teacher resigned and fled, but
a constable is after him.
A great deal of wheat is. being sown this
Spring in England—tile enormous price of flour
having set farmers to thinking whether they
cannot raise their own bread cheaper than they
can buy it
A gentleman named Wm. Whitehead, living
near Qreeneville, North Carolina, was robbed on
the 16th ultimo, by two freedmen in his employ,
of three thousand dollars in greenbacks. The
money was deposited in a safe in the house, and
the robbery was not discovered until some ten
days after tbe negroes had disappeared.
The New Bedford Mercury announces the
death of Mrs. Nancy Botch ol that city, at the
age of ninety-one. She was the widow of Francis
Rot£h, Esq., one of the owners of the ship Dart
mouth, celebrated as tbe vessel which brought
into Boston harbor the tea which was thrown
overboard by the “Mohawks” in 1773.
They are about to organize a society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at Philadel
phia. It is a good thing to do so. They skin
eels alive there, likewise kill negroes in riots, also
bum chinches, and occasionally murder an aged
female for no greater temptation than theeum of
fear dollars, currency.
Bceonttrnetloa ail Emigration.
One pressing need of reconstruction, the New
York Times says, is strikingly exemplified in the
returns of the Commissioners, of Emigration for'
the month ot April. These returns do certainly
present some strange features, whatever need
there may be for reconstruction to change them.
Says the limes: “Five years ago it was alleged
and believed that the existence of slavery re
pelled strangers from the South. Slavery no
longer exists, yet of more than twenty-five
thousand immigrants landed at this port last
month, only five go to Arkansas, five to Ala
bama, one to Florida, thirty-eight to Louisiana,
two to North Carolina, ten to South Carolina,
one hundred and sixty-three to Texas, and fifty-
fire to Virginia. All these States get but two
hundred and seventy-seven, while Illinois alone
takes two thousand six hunched and twenty-five.
New England more than Jtwo thousand, and
even the inhospitable Canada nearly three hun
dred. The South has most urgent need of this
laboring element; she bas land in abundance,
and of the sort which ‘whei^tickled with & hoe
will laugh with a harvest;’ yet in consequence
of the unsatisfactory condition of political and
social affairs, the brawn and muscle of Europe
turn away to the comparatively sterile North.
One hundred thousand skilled agriculturalists
from Europe or elsewhere might redeem an em
pire below the Ohio river. Bat ‘the situation
deters them, and until the perfect restoration of
order and the complete rehabilitation of the peo
ple, no considerable current off immigration will
set in that direction.”
“Perfect restoration” will, beyond s doubt, se
cure partial immigration to the South, but it will
be long, we apprehend, notwithstanding the fer
tility of our soil, and the vast resources of the
South, before tbe tide ot immigration West, will
be turned South. The South's reliance for labor’
is the freedmon in her midst, and will be so for
more than one decade of time, if w« are not
much mistaken, and it would be well if our peo
ple would seriously turu their attention to this
important consideration. Individual aud com
pany enterprise may introduce into the South
immigrating parties, but the extent of this will
be very limited in comparison with the demands
for labor. To regulate, therefore, the labor that
may be obtained in our midst, is the first grand
consideration to which the Southern people
must turn their attention, else our fields will
grow up in tares, and industry become paralyzed
throughout the whole Southern domain. To
what a wretched situation will the South be then
reduced!
A Reminiscence ot 1776.
We notice in the Savannah News <& Herald
the following interesting reminiscence. Itisem
braced in a letter from one of the Florida cor
respondents of that journal, dated at Fernandina,
the 3d instant:
“A baronial mansion erected on Cumberland
Island is known as “ Dungenness.” It was once
the estate ot Major General Nathaniel Greene, of
revolutionary fame. Here in the rustic burial
place ot tbe estate repose 4he ashes of his wife
and daughter, and of that distinguished Vir
ginian, Light Horse Harry Lee, father of General
Robert E. Lee. At the breaking oat of tbe war
Dungenness was a charming place; its depen
dent grounds were adorned With olive and orange
groves, aud shrubbery in endless variety from
every quarter of the globe. I^ere the date palm
of Arabia might be seen grooving in oriental
stateliness by tbe side of Palestine’s golden
acacias. Its proprietor, a gentleman of fortune
and culture, whose hospitality was princely, left
,the estate in charge ol the servants when the
Federal forces took Fernandina. Servants, li
brary, paintings, furniture, disappeared. Then
tbe house remained awhile tenantless. At length
many lamilies of ireedmen took up their abode
in its deserted hall9, subsisting meanwhile by the
manuiacture of olive oil and indifferent garden
ing. Not long ago it was reported, upon what
authority I know not, that DungAness was to be
repaired and refurnished. The negroes, how
ever, still continued to occupy it up to last week,
when a fire, accidental or designed, left nothing
to mark the scene of so many pleasant memories
but blackened walls and smouldering ruiuB.”
And thus has passed away one of those histo
ric mansions so long the seat of Southern hospi
tality, so beautiful, so renowned, and so sacred
by reason ot its surroundings. Greene and
“ Light Horsr Harry,” what memories do
not these names invoke? Then and now how
great, bow vast the distinction I Ths future,
who may tell ?
New Jersey.
The Radical party in New Jersey has hope
lessly split in twain on the question of black
suffrage, and the distress thereat among the
faithful is really painful to people afflicted with
a charitable bias. The same elements of discord
are at work among the party in other States
where it has hitherto been predominant, and tbe
signs indicate the probability of its dissolution
at no remote period. A party moved by no
higher objects than that which characterizes
Radicalism cannot endure. Tbe madness and
passion which gave to it its ascendancy mast
soon pass away. It had its origin in diseased
minds, and drew'its strength and growth from
the violence and corruption of the times. A so
ber, wholesome popular sentiment must neces
sarily prove fatal to it; and what is now taking
place in New Jersey will soon be occurring in
every other State in that direction. The leaders
of the party see it, and hence their efforts to
build up an organization of the kind at the South.
Threatening Kentucky.
Previous to the elections in - Kentucky, which
took place last Saturday, and which resulted in
favor ot the Democrats, the Cincinnati Gazette,
venomously Radical, threw out the following
admonition:
We are not authorized to predict that Ken
tucky will be forever free from tbe operation of
thoee wholesome and necessary laws enacted by
Congress for the restoration of loyal civil gov
ernment in th^ lately revolted States. In the
event the terms of reconstruction now offered
the Southern States in the military bill are rfo
jected by them, as have been all former offers,
however magnanimous and mild, we - are not
authorized to assure Kentucky rebels that they
will escape tbe harsher measure of confiscation,
which' Will certainly come upon the rebel States.
And if, by a democratic victory, and by what
ever hostile attitude she might take, she could
resist and stop the reconstruction and settlement
which is now going on in the late Confederate
States, what would be the result? Does any sane
man imagine that the nation is going to stop and
submit to a reaction of rebellion ? Trie rejection
of terms by the Confederates has only brought
more stringent requirements. If these are to be
revised, the penalty ot a just confiscation of the
property ot the leading rebels will surely follow.
And can it be supposed that the inhabitants of
Kentucky, who cast their lot in with the rebels,
and who will have prolonged the state of war,
will be exempt ?
Odclal.
We notice tbe following official order in the
advertising columns of oar neighbor, the New
Era :
HiADqcAxracs, Taras Hamw District, r
Atlanta, <Ja_, May 1st, 1907. f
General Orders, No. 12.
L Colonel James F. Meline is hereby appoint
ed General Inspector of Registration, and Chief
of Bureau of Civil Affairs for the Third Military
District.
Communications relating-to Registration, and
all other civil affairs, will be addressed to him*
By orffer of B’vL Major General John Pope.
G. K. Sanderson,
Captain 33d U. S. Inf, A- A. A. G.
Gen. Pillow’s splendid plantation of eight
hundred and twenty-five acres, near Colombia,
Tennessee, is to be sold at auction on tbe 24th
of June.
Tratk Forcibly Spoken.
The New York Express, iu an article on the
“ Capabilities of the South," utters the following
sentiment: “IF the North,” it says, “will be
content with non-interference with Southern so
ciety—if it will let the people, white and black,
act in their own interests—if it ceases all politi
cal -proselyting, it will soon find labor more set
tled, education more diffused, agricultural pros
perity more general, and the country more pros
perous.” Never was truth more timely uttered,
for the reverse of all this is unhappily the case.
The North, or rather that political party in the
North, which now governs both North and South,
will not let the latter alone—to take care ot its
own interests. It is even now laboring with zeal
to make political proselytes, rather than promo
ting, as it should do, the material interests of a
ravaged land, thereby advancing the prosperity
of the whole country. The efforts of this radi
cal party in the North, are now being zealously
directed to secure the lreedmen’s votes, rather
than to promote their education and impress
upon them the necessity of labor lest they perish
by the way. It is rather directed to array the
black against the white man, his former owner,
than to promote good will between the two races.
Into the political cauldron the freedman is to be
hurried that he may emerge therefrom, on the
day of election, seething hot with zeal to uphold
by his vote the radical party. The South is not
to be let alone to take care of her own interests.
With all her iron, and cool, and slate, and mar
ble; with all her lead, silver, and gold mines;
with all her water power and fertile soil; enough
to constitute her the greatest producing country
on the American continent, variety of produc
tions considered, and to make her, by wdl--di-
rected labor and the use of capital, capable in a
few years of attaining all her former prosperity
and contributing largely to the support of the
government-, she win not be let alone, but must
pay tribute to a party in the North at the hazard
of bier every important interest, and at the risk of
converting into barbarism a race which they de
sire to use for politick! purposes, that they may
fefain political power. Ho, however, “ who dis
poses while men proposes,” and who, in His
wisdom, lias ordained the freedom of the slave,
will surely save the South and the dependent
race that has just been freed, from the fate of
becoming victims to political demagogues and
office-hunting politicians. We lay this fops to
our heart, and shall cherish it there, till “ the
good titae cometh.”
memorial Ceremonies.
The Newbern (N. C.) Journal states that the
carrying out of the programme of the “Memorial
Association" at that place on Thursday, the 2d
instant, was, as regarded a procession, prohibited
by the military. A large concourse, however, ot
citizens assembled at the cemetery to witness
the laying of the corner-stone of the vault pre
pared to receive the Confederate dead. The
ceremonies, says that journal, “ were imposing
and appropriate; the prayer by the Rev. Mr.
Yaas was a noble one; the ode sung, by a few
of the ladies and gentlemen was solemn, yet
touchingly beautiful ; the Oration was chast4^^ tlj e foregoin
admirably written, and delivered in a style well
suited to the occasion.
“At the close of the oration, the persons se
lected descended into the vault, and deposited
within the cemented pillar' the following arti
cles :' A copy of the Holy Bible; first Confede
rate flag; second Confederate flag; Confederate
battle-flag; photographs of Davis, Lee, and
Johnston; a roll of officers composing first Cab
inet of Provisional Government; the names ol
the officers of the Ladies’ Memorial Association;
the names of the Mayor and City Council ; Con
federate money of all denominations; a Mexican
dollar contributed by a Confederate soldier;
army and navy buttons ; a United States silver
half dollar ; and other articles, of which we
were unable to secure a list. Then the stone
was capped, and securely cemented, the doxol-
ogy Was sung, the benediction was pronounced,
and the large and attentive crowd retired from
the scene.” ■ - . •.■.i -»
All over the South similar ceremonies mark
the appreciation of our people for their Confed
erate dead. In but few instances have the mili
tary authorities, miich to their credit be it Writ
ten, interfered in any manner to prevent tbe
mournful ceremonies attending the discharge of
so solemn a duty. What though these dead were
arrayed in life with arms in tbeir hands to de
fend what they esteemed to be tbeir dearest priv
ileges and rights, bave they not expiated with
their lives, wbat may be esteemed by the victors
.in the contest their error Gr tbeir crime; and
may not their countrymen, and countrywomen,
tbeir widows, sisters, and brothers, mourn, over
their sad fate, and deck their graves with flow-:
era, mementoes of the past ?: Christian sympa
thy does.not deny, nor does enlightened patriot
ism prohibit it. Loyalty to tbe existing govern
ment. is not violated in the discharge ot these
solemn rites; .nor is disrespect; in the slightest
degree, shown to that flag which now waves in
triumph over the wide hounds of the. American
Republic. We are gratified at being able to
state, that in this vicinity the solemn ceremonies
referred to are progressing with no interference
from the military authorities of this district,
to prevent or restrict them. This district is for
tunate in having as its chikf gommanpkr a sol
dier and gentleman, who, while, executing with
fidelity to. the government tbe high trust reposed
in him, does not think it proper to interfere with
the sad tribute which a vanquished people pay
to their valiant dead.
MeeUag Iu IKtltou County.
Alpharetta, May 3,1887.
The people of Milton county met to-day, in
the court house, for the purpose ot devising some
means for procuring supplies for the present ne
cessities of the people of this county. The
meeting was organized by calling Colonel R. P.
Lackey to the chair,W. S. Grogan to act as
Secretary.
A motion was made, by Dr. R. B. Andersou,
that ihe chair appoint a committee of seven, to
prepare business for the meeting, when the fol
lowing named gentlemen were appointed: R. B.
Anderson, W. P. Brown, Jackson Graham, H.
W. Howell, John Miller, S. G. Howell, and E.
J. Camp.
The committee retired for a 6hort time; re
turned, and reported the following:
Your committee report that they have consid
ered the condition of the county in reterence to
the destitution of so many of her citizens, and
regret to say that there is an alarming want for
the necessary subsistence of in r n throughout the
whole county; and, unless some 6peedy.relief is
offered, many will be compelled to suffer.* We
find two classes of our population in this condi
tion: First, those who are utterly unable to pro
cure bread, and no prospect of having anything
with which to buy; second, those who, although
they have no means to procure present supplies,
will, within a few months, (so soon as they can
realize upon the growing crop) be able to meet
promptly any engagement they could make to
get bread, by which immediate relief can be ob
tained.
Your eommittee feel it their duty to state that
this condition is not tbe result of a want of in
dustry upon the part of her citizens, but is attri
butable to the disastrous failure of two successive
crops, following immediately after a devastating
war.
Wa, therefore, recommend the Inferior Court
to appoint an agent, duly authorized, to proceed
West and purchase on time, and by donation
procure as much corn as will relieve the pressing
necessities of this people.
Aware of the frequent calls which have been
made upon the people of the West, and pro
foundly grateful for the noble manner in which
they have responded to these calls, we had hoped
that this county might be spared the necessity
of applying abroad lor aid ; and whilst we can
not realize this hope, we would not ask our
friends West to give to our entire destitute, but
sell to us on a credit, giving us an opportunity
to relieve ourselves. And by those who now
have no means, nor any prospect for the present
year of having, with which to buy, a donation
from the bounties of those who have, would be
thankfully received.
Robert B. Anderson, Chairman.
W. P. Brown, John Miller,
Jackson Graham, B. G. Howell,
H. W. Howell, E. J. Camp.
Tho proceeding of the committee was received
and adopted.
It was moved, by Judge Haynes, that the edi
tor of the Atlanta Intelligencer he request-
and oblige.
State News.
A correspondent of the Albany News writes
that the farmers of Southwest Georgia, as far as
his observation goes, have planted abundantly
of corn, and that if the seasons prove favorable,
they will not only have enough for home
supplies, but a large amount to export.
The News learns that the plahteiR have had
excellent.luck in getting a stand of cotton this
year. They are now busily engaged in plowing
and chopping it ont. If no nuafortunate befal
the present crop, .it. will be one of the best in
years.
A negro man fired atone of the Savannah
policeman on Monday night, the ball missed tbe
party aimed at, bat struck a negro woman, in
flicting a mortal wound. Tbe murderer was ar
rested and commuted to jail.
The Savannah News dk Herald states that the
steam tug Hope was burned at DawBon on Sun
day morning last. Loss ten thousand dollars.—
No insurance.
Governor Jenkins bas offered a reward of
two hundred dollars for the apprehension and
delivery to the Sheriff of Ttfttnafl county, of
Clement T. Bowin; who, sentenced to the Peni
tentiary, recently broke jaiL Said Bowin is
abont 5 feet 8 inches high, light complexion, blue
eyes, very quick spoken, weighs about 160 or 165
pounds.
The Rome Commercial says: Already the
wheat crop bas been cut short from the immense
quantity of.rain that bas fallen. Tbe head is
very-short, and the stalk tnrning yellow in many
places. We must hope lor tbe best, and not pre
dict a failure too soon. _
One of the papers at Louisville estimates thie
Democratic majority in Kentucky at 85,000.
Col. E. P. Lackey, Chairman.
W. S. Grogan, Secretary.
Stunning to Send,
There is no mistake about it—the signs indi
cate that the Radical party North is getting in a
bad way. The thousands of unemployed me
chanics in every city and town, the stoppage of
hundreds of factories, the destruction of the
shipping interests, and the oppressive and crush
ing taxation on labor and industry while bloated
and ill-gained wealth goes free—these, the work
of Radical legislation and Radical policy, are
doing the business ior the party, and will ulti
mately bury it beyond the hope of resurrection.
We would respectfully suggest to Mr. Wilson
and his missionary co-laborers now in the Ter
ritories, that they had better hurry borne; their
services are needed more in that direction than
this. As to those Southern men who, under the
mistake that the party is >o endure forever, are
rushing frantically into its meretricious embrace,
they would do well to call a halt . occasionally,
and go to thinking a little—their new-born zeal
is only likely to lead to disappointment—yea, to
political death.
Famine In South Carolina.
The Charleston Mercury of the 8th contains
reports from different portions of the State, set-
ting forth the distress and suffering among tbe
people for want of food. • From these the desti
tution is almost beyond conception. We copy
two or three of the reports:
Waterloo, Laurens District— There are in this
small neighborhood upwards of three hundred
persons, white and colored, without bread;
arhong.these are twenty-three lemales, heads ot
families, representin g ninety children.
Lexington District—1 have a list of poor, con
sisting of old men unable to work, and widows
with small children and no. resources. These
are now in a state of beggary and want We are
in the raided region, and-one person is not able
to assist another.'. i
Richland District—Including the burnt city of
Columbia. I jiave on my list four hundred and
fifty names, representing one thousand six ban
dred and seventy persons, most, if not all of
whom must be fed from day to day by charity,
or suffer. This list embraces both white and
.colored. We are in great and immediate want.
Sandy Bun, Lexington District—There is great
destitution in this section, both amorg wbite arid
■colored. I know of twelve lamilies who are sui-
•ering for- bread, aud am certain there are at least
.aS many more. . .
The list occupies some three columns in the
Mercury, made up of statements like the above.
The Injunction Case.—Tbe correspondent
of the Charleston Courier, says, in reference to
the injunction cases:
It is whispered that four of the justices—Clif
ford, Grier, Wayne and Nelson—will be against
the motion ot the Attorney General to dismiss
the bills. It may !>e surmised also that Justices
Davis and Field, who have a political future be
fore them, may also be unwi}ling, jp evade, the
qnestion by a resort to technicality. If the court,
refuse to dismiss tbe motion, then the bills for an
injunction will be eritertaihecf, and again fully
argued, though perhaps not at the v prcsent term.
Poland.—“ The news from Poland,” says the
Avenir National, “ is worse than ever, especially
that which arrives from tbe provinces of Yolhy-
nia, Padolia, and the Ukraine, fn which the
great body of the people, are treated with the ut
most refinement of barbarity. .Li the kingdom
of Poland proper the jxist office confiscates ail
letters which are not addressed in toe Russian
language, and the person q to whom they arc ad
dressed are fined in proportion to their presumed
ability to pay. 1 ’ What a benign and merciful
ruler, Mr. Seward’s friend, the Czar of all the
Ross las, most be. '
Found It.—Quite a commotion was kicked
up in Kansas City a few days ago, growing out
of the report that the body of a child had been
found in an out-obthe-way street ot .that flourish
ing borough. The indefatigable coroner at once
summoned a jury, and they, proceeding to the
place indicated, dug up—a mg baby i
Hard Knot.—Among the curious things Of
the Exposition is a b:ir of if- ti as long
and
khos
tige of crack or flaw, and the visitor is assured
that it was tied when cold.
Financial and Commercial,
The reader will find in the article below-
copied from the New York Day Book, some
thing to interest and to put him to thinking:
From all that we can gather, commercially
and financially, the grand crash so long specula
ted upon, and so universally expected, will cer
tainly occur. The flood of calamities which is
to roll over the country, is gathering its force,
like the vast accumulation of waters which press
upon the embankments and*dams before the
break takes place. There are thousands to-day,
who do not believe that a revulsion can come.—
They, as yet, do not realize the condition of
tliinga They little know the terrible load of
debt being carried by the commercial world, from
over importations, and heavy 6ales to the West
and South, on credit, which it is not possible to re
alize upon. They understand nothing ot the
enormous decline in Wall street securities, stocks
of all kinds, which lor months have been going
1 down—down—down, till at last many a supposed
millionaire can scarcely count his one hundred
thousand. They, perhaps, have yet to learn that
oar ocean carrying trade is next to nothing; out
manufacturing interests, as a whole, are worse
than at any other period in the past ten years ;
our coal, iron, copper, lead and petroleum in
terests almost worthless, as dividend-paying
securities; our-great dry goods uRepest in the
commercial centers of the North, on the very
brink of bankruptcy; in fact, the general stagna
tion, or, something very like it, which hangs
over the country, a certain class of dreamers will
not see, and are ready to declare that the nation
was never more prosperous than now. 1837,
1847, and 1857 were years of great commercial
crises, and when Daniel Webster, in the fall of
1836, in a public speech, described the stato of
the country as “overwhelmed with irredeemable
paper, mere paper, representing, not gold nor
silver. No, sir, representing nothing but broken
promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations,
cheated creditors and a ruined people," he pre
sented the picture of the country to-day. On
the let of January, 1887, the United States had a
paper circulation of $120,000,000, a specie circu
lation of $28,000,000, and specie locked up in
bank vaults, $45,000,000. The operation of the
specie circular, the payment lor public lands in
gold and silver, and the distribution of the sur
plus funds of tbe United States Government
among the several States in specie, caused a
panic, which finally suspended every bank in
the country. Tne impor ations of 18S6 were
one hundred and ninety millionsexportations
one hundred and twenty-nine millions, and the
flow of specie to Europe hastened the crisis.
The revulsion of 1847 was different In several
respects. Neither was it so severe in this coun
try as it was in England, but so far as it pre
vailed in each country, it seems to have resulted
from a similar set of circumstances in each.—
The currency did not play so important a part
among the causes as we are compelled to assign
to it in tbe crisis ot 1837, nor as it undoubtedly
did in 1857.- Neither was the amount of credits
so much enlarged beyond their usual or average
amount as is generally the case before a revul
sion. Railway building aud railway speculation
drew money from other channels, both in tnis
country and England, and the neglected interests
languished ; those productions which, had they
been fostered,- would have in time helped the
railway securities, having been allowed to suffer
through the absorption by the public mind of
one grand idea, heavy failures followed, and
widespread disaster occurred. The panic was
more serious in England than in this country,
but it was a calamity of very grave character
here.
The crisis of 1857 was more of a financial
character. On the 1st day ot January, 1856, the
hank circulation was shown to be $195,000,009,
with less than $19,500,000 ot specie in the vaults
ot the banks. Ten in paper for one in specie.
In the State ot Vermont there were eighteen
paper dollars for oae ot specie, and in the State
of Mississippi forty to one. This was the great
over issue which depreciated the currency, and
caused a rapid expansion of estimated values
for almost every description of property, and
thus made the anticipation of still larger values
a ground of credit. High prices encouraged
speculation, large returns accruing from almost
every species of investment, tempted merchants
to become borrowers on a large scale. The
failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Co. sent a
shock over the country, which destroyed credit
with the suddenness ot the lightning’s flash.
Merchants and business men came home from
the fashinable watering places and summer re
sorts with railroad speed. Confidence was de
stroyed in an hour. Everybody was called upon
to pay np, and each looked about for the means
to do it, and it was not to be found. Property
dropped down to 50 per cent, ot its original
value, inflation collapsed, and tbe banka sus
pended.
Now, what shape the next commercial and
financial disaster will assume, it is difficult to
say, blit that it will come in some shape ore
ioDg, is very evident When it does, gold will
“go up,” and tbe poor debtor who has pledged
his real estate and given his bond, will be swept
a.way as by a mighty whirlwind. Property will
shrivel to a skeleton, but the obligations to pay
for that property will sustain their original pro
portions. The only advice that can be given
to-day is, get out ot debt as quickly us possibly
and prepare tor tbe storm.
Tbe Crop* In Georgia.
A correspondent ou Flint River, near^
Georgia, writes to the Macon Telegraph i
Tbe crops throughout this seclionj
backward. This is especially true as
crop, very little of which is moretbanj
high. Wheat is, in most cases, quite
little sown, fully one-half tbe farm!
none. Of cotton, there is certainly an a
fully three-iourtbB of the land in cu tf
ing in cotton. Plenty of good seed
ble weather has resulted in fine “stanc
chopping of cotton will begin within;
ten days. The prospect for food and vj
is good. The negroes, in most instf
working better than they did last year,]
they will do when hot weather comes i 1
grease is needed, is quite doubtful, and
ot the most, serious apprehension amc
farmers. There is the greatest possible
of provisions in the country, and the exorf
figures at which they are obtained will bank?
almost every former in the country, many
whom ore discharging their hands, having no*
money or credit. With favorable reasons, there
cannot be enough corn made to support half the .
people twelve months.
Another correspondent writing the same pa
per from Wilkinson county, says:
The planters generally have planted largely of
cotton. Very few in this vicinity have planted
one-half of tbeir crops in corn and grain. I
think it would be safe to say that fiye-eighths of
the land in cultivation is planted in cotton, and
the remainder iu corn. As for wheat, rye, oats,
&c., there is so little of these planted they scarce
ly deserve to be mentioDt-d, though this year
would have been propitious for small grain had
it only been planted. The corn that is planted,
though late, looks remarkably fine and flourish
ing; nearly all of it, having been manured, it
will, it the year proves seasonable, yield a much
richer harvest than last year. The cool nights
and hot days we have had recently, have proven
very banefnl to the young cotton in this section,
much having died from the effects ot cold. There
are to be seen many large fields uncultivated
this year, scattered all over the country, which
renders it almost impossible to give any accurate
idea of the amount left uncultivated.
The freedmen, with few exceptions, are work
ing badly.
Another correspondent writes from Fort Val
ley, Houston county:
With reference to crops, I would say so far as
my information goes, they are not very promis
ing, if you will except wheat. This looks very
well, though I have seen rust in some places.—
Corn is late and small, with tolerably good stand.
Oats bid lair to do well, but this is a very uncer-'
tain crop in this section. I hear almost univer
sal complaints about cotn >n; many have very
poor stands, and that which has come up is dy
ing very fast. Serious apprehensions are felt of
failure in this important crop.
A Spectacle.—An extraordinary sight was
witnessed in the principal London streets re
cently. Rather more than a thousand of the
most miserable wretches that ever wore the
garb of humanity formed a procession and
inarched in silence from the neighborhood of
Wapping and, Whitechupal to the aristocr itic
quarters ot St, James’ aud Belgravia. There
was no disturbance or excess ot any kind —
Every man was in rags, and every form and
as thick as the pole of a carriage, tied in a I iace bore unmistakable marks of privation and
. . . .. . . , ■__ dialresi. A banner or two contained inscriptions
'-•‘“ though it were a nbb.m. u uWut a ves- indicaiive ot lheir clmrucler and llleir v Vante,
.. C ««J »l->o luDitAs ic n n roil > . . . - 1
sod a lew carried money boxes to receive any
donations that might be bestowed upon them.