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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.