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ATLAMTA, GEORGIA,
Wodneaday, September 22, 1800.
Major Z. B. Hargrove, the efficient and
popular Mayor of Roan, called to wc us yes
terday, and ws were inch pleased with the ac
count he gave of the section of country about
Home.
Thi CianllsSii ut ■ stclllfemesr.
These Atlanta dailies have been in a small
contest tor some weeks in regard to the Demo
cratic fidelity of the latter. The Constitution
has at last brought the Intelligencer to bay, and
that paper declares the tact that it will —rp^* “ Geoqpan*'
the butte and Federal administrations Since
then the Constitution announces itsclt the Dem
ocratic organ of the capital.
We clip the foregoing from the “ Ptoptft De
fender? of the 15th Instant, a paper published
at Newt!an in this Slate, in order to correct
the assertions made fa H, in regard to the posi
tion of this journal, where it says tim Intelli-
ubkckw " declares the fact that It will support
the Stole and Federal administrations.” The
inTKi.MOKMCBB never declared its intention to
pnraue t-.uy such course, and wc challenge the
** Defended* to show when and where il did so.
We opine there is a material difference
between giving snppoit to the Slate and
Federal Governments as Ihey exist, and giving
support tondministrationnot those governments.
•Mono iiut those who can and will not see, will
tail to recognize the difference. As lor tlx- De
fender's discovery that the “ Constitution " has
“at lax; brought the Intelligencer to bay,"
end that 'since then the Constitution nnuotiucea
ilselt the Democratic organ at the ca[>ital,” we
lave ocly to remark that the Defender is entitled
-o it* own opinion, which we a<lmit is worth
1 unwitting, when that opinion is based upon
-'nets; otherwise, nothing; and, we will add,
ior the benefit of our Newnan coleiuporary, that
be has been late in discovering that the “Consti
'tutien* announces “ itsclt tin: Democratic organ
at the Capita).” This il did ioug ago. Its “ as-
sutticy ” knows, and has proverbially known,
HO bounds. What that sheet will not claim lor
Itself the Lord only kuowetb.
•god at to the Poll'heftier * Coir mere i»l.
The Isiltst nofi-Rallork. Rrnw*, Hrjr>
•si *n4 Bara, In C«snell—Th« Drno-
or*M i>f 6Mriil» Forewarned.
Atlanta, Oa., Sept. 14, 1H«9.
BA Southerner d: Commercial:
I have Just time to say, from what I have
eenrd, that the conclusion to which t had ar
rived in reference to the Intelligencer
aurrech
Brown cortro.s the movement. Whitaker
Will cot resign as momlrer of tlio Committee, I nick is not involved, cannot be inquired into by
[PUU TUB ISTKI.LIOESCKM ]
TS« Miaattoa.
The youthful “ dodger” of tbe Constitution, in
his paper yesterday morning, published a com
munication signed “ Georgian,” recommending
tbe reseating of UB expelled colored members
of tbe General Assembly. Tbe editor dodges
eodomemcat of tbe comae urged by fas corres
pondent, tret says: “ We have not had time to
examine it card ally. It is written by a citizen,
not i politician.” As the IamuoKscEB has
made giad the hearts ot many of our citizens by
the arereaneement that it intends to parses an
independent course, and to give tbe people tbe
whole truth upon all public issues, with its per
mission I will notice tbe communication from
He says “ let us look at tbe facts
as connected with this very important question.
Tbe facts as stated by tbe writer are not ques
tionable, but lrom official sources.” He then
goes on to make many statements which are not
“ facts,” when compared with “ official sources.”
He quotes tbe title of tbe bill of Mr. Butler, of
Mass., U. R. 259, as “to set aside the State Gov
ernment of Georgia, and to enforce tbe Four
teenth Amendment to the Gonstitntion”—when
in fact the title is U A BUI to enforce the laws of the
United States in the State of Georgia''
lie further states that Messrs. Hill and Miller
appeared at the bar of the Senate in December,
and presented their credrntials, and that the
credentials were referred to a select committee.
The truth is, that Mr. Hill alone presented his
credentials at that time, because it was believed
that Mr. Hill’s supposed Union record, and his
willingness to take the oath, that he bad never
sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise
the duties of any office, &c., «fcc., during the so-
called rebellion, would give him a better chance
o( success than if encumbered by tbe credentials
of Dr. Miller, who was unwilling to take such
oath. Tbe credentials ot Mr. Hill, therefore,
were tbe only ones presented, and these were
not "referred to a special committee” but to tbe
regular standing judiciary committee, as involv
ing important and delicate legal questions.
Tbat committee made an elaborate report ad
verse to tbe application ot Mr. Hill, not, how
ever, as “ Georgian” says, “ the expulsion of tbe
negroes being the sole cause alleged tor the non
admission of tbe Senators from Georgia,” but
as tbe committee say, “ Your committee are ol
opinion that the act of June 25th, 1868, which
required tbat tbe constitutional amendment
should be duly ratified, must be held to mean
that it must be ratified by a Legislature which
has in good faith substantially complied with the
requirements of law providing for its organiza
tion ; ” and again, “ The election and qualifica
tion of members of the Legislature, where the
existence of any Legislature authorized to act as
hot will cry out intolerance and per.m*rulion,
and <a?" v pon all Democrats who lavor the 15th
Amendnietil and re seating the negro represent
ative to go with him and save the State. By
’.hie course it is hoped to divide the Demo
cratic !’u;ty and consolidate the negro vote in
Georgia
Bui jjk, Bard, Brown, Bryant and Whitaker,
bare, no doubt, made u treaty ot peace.
Toe opinion of Attorney General 11 on r, that
tbe test oatti cannot be required of members of
the Legislature has defeated one of Bullock's
idem—and all ol the clan will advocate the pas
sage ot the Edmond's Bill, and there is great
danger that Congress will pass it—therefore,
yon percieve the situation.
Tbe business before the Executive Committee
will he to decide whether or not, we are to have
an electiou lor members ot Congress this fall—
and, perhaps they, though not certain, may
consider the situation.
I will write again to-morrow evening.
Sentinel.
The above is from a gentleman whose long
and active participation in the politics of the
country enables him to speak knowingly. The
l>eople ol Georgia lasing forewarned will be
forearmed. We predict an overwhelming de-
leat ot these well concocted but nclurious
schemes. Wc say unto all, WATCI l
The Southerner «£• Commercial will endeavor
to keep t he people posted at every cost
We clip the foregoing extravagantly se.nsa
tional letter from the Homo
Southerner Com
mercial with the editorial endorsement of that
paper appended to it. From this editorial en
dorsement, we recognize, wc think, its author.
Gan it be that we are right in attriliiu-
ting its authorship to the gentleman
who sought to serve as the proxy ol Gen.
Biack upon the "Executive Committee” and
"whose long and active participation in the
(politics ol the country” has given him no little
notoriety in tbe State? It so the "mare’s nests'
which the writer of the letter discovered, when
he wrote it, existed ouly in liis lerlilo imagiua-
tiiu. Iu what he has written ot our position,
he kuows now full wcll.as he kuows what trans
pired before the Committc, that his letter docs
us greul injustice, and a repetition of it will re
sult iu the production in these columns ot cer
tain corresiumdeucc and conversations, which
have been laid aside ior liiture reference should
fho interests of the Demociatic party require
their production.
Ut'lwccs of Ivaulior.
A correspondent ot the Jewish Messenger, gives
a new explanation of tbe reason why the late
Washington Irving always remained a bachelor.
Spaa king ol Miss Rebecca Gratz, a Jewess ot
Philadelphia, distinguished for her zeal in works
cf Charity, who bus just died at the ii|>e age of
88, he rays:
" Twenty yours ugo 1 heard I lie story, a story
tbat bus i. eg been current iu Philadelphia in
Jewish ci:c!cs, among her Irieuds aud acquain
tances, and which has again been revived bore
dm her death. It runs thus : Many years ago,
when MireGtaiZ was a young gul. Washington
Irwin*, then already rich iu literary rcpuUlion,
came to Philadelphia, aud tucaine a visitor at
the Loose jt her family. It is said that in youth
ifatolttry beautiful and very good ; and as
her acquaintance with Irving increased, tbe
aeauty ol both her character aud her h a Lores,
together with the tact that she was a living rep
resentative of that nation whose whole history
fa romanct, so wrought upon bis heart that be
became deeply enamored with her. It is need-
leas to say that had his attachment fa-ou never
so aticng, with her strength iu her luilli, it
vr.uld have been wasted. As it was, it was
wasted. Irving left the city, hut did uoi forget
tire lady of hie love.”
Washington Irving subsequently mentioned
to Air Walter sicctt his knowledge of the beau
tiful Rebecca in Philadelphia, at the time he
was writiag, or about to write, “ Ivauhoo,” and
upon the strength of Irving’s description <4 the
iovdy Jewess, ao firm to her faith, named liis
•heroine " Rebecca.”
yna Air Um Railroad.
The nJhar es’oa tiers has the following en
couraging paragraph in relation to this toad :
"The Air Line Railroad which is to connect
Charlotte, N. G., with Atlanta, Ga , fa cviilently
a pope 1 at enterprise in the up-country, aud the
people of several towns—Walb dla among the
rest—are pressiog rival claims tor the privilege
of having the line so located as to jvtss through
their respective limits.”
A Georgia Spoilt in Difficulty - The
Dsrald, ot the 11th, gives the details ol tin ar
rest ol three persons in that city ot fine address,
and who bad gained a status in social and liigui
oral circles, charged with passing aud dw.liug in
counterfeit money. About a thousand dollars
in counterfeit twenty-fire cent currency was
found no the persons ot the prisoners. Two ol
them claimed to have purchased the bogus
money from the third, who is known as Wood-
want. He, however, declined to expose tbe
name of the manufacturer.
Woodward fa one of the old Qeorgia chival
ry, the officers say, who fought the “tiger” with
more success than the Yankees during the war.
His age fa about forty-one years, and he isknown
iu sporting circles in Georgia aa the "venerable
Judge Woodward,” of Atlanta, Macon or Mil-
ledgeville, as the exigencies of the case may re
quire. The officers say he is the gentleman
who some months ago furnished to certain par
ties fa North Carolina $90,090 worth of coun
terfeit tobacco stamps, much of which was put
in dreufatioD.
No such character as “ Judge Woodward, of
Athmta,” Is known Atlanta, not even to the
ideal Ubabitas taereof.—[Intelligencer.
the Senate in determining the right of a Senator
to bis scat. Your committee hold that the
question involved in this case is not whether
persons not entitled to seats in the Legislature
were received by tbat body and allowed to vote
upon the election of a Senator, but whether the
body assuming to be the Legislature violated the
conditions upon which it was allowed to organize,
by permitting disloyal persons to participate in its
proceedings.”
In noticing tbe proposition that the Legis
lature having examined into the eligibility ol its
memliers under tbe Fourteenth Amendment,
and having pronounced all eligible, aud that
their action in the premises having been ap
proved by General Meade finally disposed of
the question the committee say " whereupon
the two houses went through the form ot an in
vestigation. But from the evidence before your
committee, the investigation does not appear to
have been conduced in good faith, or with any
intention either of finding the facts, or of ex
cluding persons known to be disqualified. A com
mitted was appointed iu each house. In the
Senate the majority oi the committee found all
the members qualified; but there was a minori
ty report which gave an abstract of the evidence
and found four Senators disqualified. The evi
dence consisted of flic admissions of the Sena
tors themselves; which, it true, they sluruld have
been excluded. Yet the Senate passed a resolu
tion, under the operation of the previous ques
tion, admitting them all.
Referring to the number ol disqualified per
sons in the Legislature the committee say: "For
the purposes of this report, however, your com
mittee did not deem it necessary to ascertain
the number ot disqualified persons admitted.
But the fact that any were knowingly admitted
was not only a violation of the 14th amendment,
and a failure to comply with the requirements of
Congress, but manifests a disposition to disobey
and defy the authority of the United Stales. If
one could be admitted why not all ? And will
it be contended that if the entire body had been
composed of men who had usurped the func
tions of the Legislature, against the express
provisions of the reconstruction acts, they could
have complied with the provisions of those
acts so aB to create any obligation on the part
of Congress to receive their senators aud rep
resentatives ?"
Thus it will be seen that the “ sole cause al
ledged ” for the non-admission of this State to
representation fa not the expulsion of Hie ne
groes, but that the primal cause is the fact that
we have not “ in good faith substantially com
plied with all the requirements of law provi
ding ” lor the organization ot the Legislature
at the start.
That tbe expulsion ot tbe colored members is
the act which attracted the attention of Con
gress to this subject, and caused a rigid exami
nation ot the manner in which the reconstruc
tion laws had been executed, no one disputes ;
but it is important for us to remember tbat the
simple restoration of the colored members will
not now settle our troubles. We must not ouly
put out the "new issue,” and restore the darkie,
but must exclude the white members from tbe
Legislature who are disqualified by tbe law from
holding office, before we will be admitted to
representatiou. And Attorney General Hoar
says, “that until Congress^shall have approved
the Constitution and tbe action under it, and
shall have restored the State to its proper place
in the Union by recognizing its forniot govern
ment as republican,and admitting it to i epresenta-
Ho i, the Legislature fa not eutitied, and could
not without violation ot law, be allowed to
transact auy business, pass any act or resolve,
or uudertakc to assume auy oilier luuctiou of a
legislature, if the Ust oath hat. not been requtr.a
of its m, ml* rs."
[As we have been expressly denied admission
to representation, our condition in the light ol
this opinion fa anything but satisfactory.]
Tbat the Legislature is committed to reseat
ing the darkie because ol their resolution direct
ing tliat a case involving the eligibility ot col
ored men to office should be brought to the
Supreme Court, is, iu my opinion, all bosh.
The State Senate took action rtf using to abide
by the decision, and the House would not en
tertain a motion for the purpose of pledging an
observance of the decision as to tbeir own mem
bership. The Legislature is bound to restore
the darkle liecanse il never bad the right to ex
pel bi n Let's !*o mnnly and meet the question
honestly
, The issue with Congress rests upon our Leg
falstois not having complied with the law when
originally organized,—and uulil we get a lawful
organization we will ucitber be recognized by,
or admitted to, Congress.
As I read the ordinance of the late Conven
tion the members ol Congress were elected for
the 41st Congress. They were admitted to the
40th Congress npon General Meade's certificate
that they had received the highest number of
votes. The then anxiety of the Radicals to go
into the Presidential Campaign with the appear
ance of a perfect reconstruction, doubtless in
duced Congress to seat these members as they
did, a day or two before the summer adjourn
ment ; and il was easier to vacate their seats by
allowing them to remaiu until adjournment ot
the 40th Congress than to expel them.
That the expected decission of our State
courQHipon the Negro question had such a con
trolling influence upon the action ot Congress
as is supposed by “Georgian” becomes very
improbable when we know that there was no
ddttbt Jltfeatever in the minds of mefabers oi
OongifH uo4B the question, and that the Judi
ciary QMnmittee ot the Senate in Iheir januaiy
t laid: “Your committee are of opinion
the Constitution ol Georgia there is
no distinction in the right to bold office on ac
count ot race or color, and they are confident
that each was the opinion of Congress at the
time It approved that Constitution.”
It fa a tact not generally known, that the only
bill yet proposed in Congress on the Georgia
question, which involved anything more than
tbe carrying out of tbe reconstruction acts, was
the fall of Senator Edmunds, which proposed
to repeal the act by which we were to be admitted.
This bill would practically have destroyed all
that has been done towards reconstruction, for,
the enabling act for oar admission upon
certain conditions being repealed, we would
be left out in the cold during the pleas
ure ol a Radical Congress, and perhaps ad
mitted some time in the future
under new and more harsh conditions. For
one, 1 am in favor oi having our nine-dollar
per day patriots comply with the present laws
fully and completely, and as promptly as possi
ble; and if, under the lead of fools and sore
heads, they refuse to comply, 1 Lope Congress
will cause the present laws to be executed, and
then let us go along alone, without any new or
harsh terms.
I must beg pardon tor tbe space I occupy, but
the subject is of vita) importance aud one about
which there is great misapprehension.
Y EBIT AS.
Atlanta, Sept. 16,1869.
necessity for the
of the recognition
ot the communities that bad been
lion are once
bo restored Si
their internal organ!
ceases. Tbs one
Was to secure the
that power ot coi
dition precedent
■ate of things. What
It was the
eat to being a loyal
in the administration ot tbe State government
■t to Not So.
The Atlanta Constitution says that, “ He
-(Governor Brown) iasaid io bold a heavy mort
gage on the Intbluobscbb, and to be influ
encing his old lriend, the proprietor ot that
journal”
The object ot the Constitution fa to injure ns
in our business, and to impair our inflsencet
We become tbe sole proprietor of the Istkl-
whoi a State government was resforal. The LiajtscJtR the lfiihday of July, 1803. and no
National government said: It n oar right and
Wku Next 1
We Sad by our Northern exchange! that
many of the Radical journals in the interior are
dissatisfied with the opinion ol the Attorney
General on the Virginia case; and as the papers
generally represent the views ot the masses-oI
the people it fa very donhttul whether congress
will sustain the liberal views and opinion ot the
Attorney General
We publish the following article from the
Buffalo Express, for the purpose ot showing our
people wbat some ot tbe papers think ot the
opinion,
We hope our people throughout the Union
Will learn wisdom and prudence, and tbat all
discord may soon disappear.
We want peace and prosperity again in the
land of our Fathers:
The Teat Oath iu Virginia.
We have very carefully read the full text ol
Attorney General Hour’s opinion,relative to the
exaction ot wbat is known as the test oath from
the members of the lately elected Legislature in
Virginia, and we fail to feel satisfied with its
reasoning or its conclusions. It seems to us
rather an evasive than a logical interpretation
of the law in question, as though the inquiry ol
the Attorney General had been more to find out
whether tbe test oath ran lie put out of tbe way
on some technical ground, than to determine
whether tbe spirit and intent ol the law actually
prescribe it.
Tbe question submitted to the Attorney Gen
eral turns mainly on tbe operative effect of sec
tion 9 of the Supplemental Reconstruction act
of July 19, 1867, which declares that “all per-
“ sons hereafter elected or appointed to office in
“ said military districts, under any so-called
“ State or municipal authority, or by detail or
“ appointment ot tbe district, commanders, shall
" be required to take and to subscribe the oath
ot office prescribed by law lor officers ot the
United States.” The oath in question fa the
test oath ot loyalty prescritied by tbe statute of
1862, which is administered to the uiemtiers ot
Congress when they take their seats, aud to cv
fry officer in the Government of the United
States, high or low.
The Attorney-General admits that, so loDg as
Virginia is not restored to her constitutional
relations with the government, ami fa not recog
nized as a reconstructed Slate, by the ad mis
sion of her Representatives to Congress, hut is
still waiting to be refindowed with the inde-
pedent rights belonging to a S’ate in the Fed
eral Union, so long the provisional Legislature
that she has elected, in preparation for her re
stored autonomy, cannot be a lawful body, com
petent for any general acts ot legislation, it its
members are not qualified under the aliove law
by taking tbe test oath. Strangely enough, he
contends, nevertheless, tbat it fa, without taking
the qualifying oath, a body lawfully competent
to ratify the pending Fifteenth Amendment
thus assuming a legitimacy with reference to
one legislative act, and not extending to other
acts, which may be comprehensible to lawyers,
but certainly is not to common minds, unprac
tised in the fine hair-splitting of distinctions
without differences. Passing this dubious point,
however, for the present, wbat we wish now to
note particularly fa the tact that the Attorney-
General does distinctly affirm the disability oi
the Legislature to act as a law-making body, if
tbe test oath is not subscribed by its members,
up to the moment when the new constitution, by
approval of Congress, becomes the Constitution
of the reconstructed ana restored State of Vir
ginia. He says:
“ I am of opinion therefore that it (the Legis
lature) may come together, organize and act
upon that amendment; but that uutil Congress
shall have approved the Const itution, and the
action under it, and shall have restored the State
to its proper place in the Union by recognizing
its form ot government as republican, and ad
mitting it to representation, tbe Legislature fa
not entitled, aud could notfwithout violation of
law, be allowed to transact any business, pass any
act or resolve, or undertake to assume any other
function of a Legislature if the test oath has not
been required of its members; and that no officer
elected under the neic Constitution can enter upon
the duties of his office without hiking the oath,
while the military government continues."
Now, between Uns conclusion and tbat which
goes beloie it, as the substantial answer of tbe
Attorney General to Gen. Caoby’s inquiry, there
fa what seems to ns to be a quibbling evasion of
the lair and just logic ot law. For he has put
Geo. Cauby’s official and legal duty, relative to
the imposing of the teat oath, beloie that com
mander in this light
* When Virginia is restored to its proper re
lations to the country as a Slate of the Union,
its. officers and Legislature will be such as the
Constitution ot the Stale provides—deriving
their powers from that instrument; and it will
clearly not be in the power of Congress to impose
any requirement ot additional qualifications
upon them different from those which, under
the Constitution ot the United Stales, may be
required in all tbe States. It, therefore, any
tests were to be imposed upon members ot
the Legislature not provided by tbe Consti
tution ol Virginia, or any restriction imposed
upon the people of tbe State iu their choice ot
officers, not recognized, by it, and no* made ap
plicable under tbe legitimate powers of Con-
giess to all the States, tbe Legislature aud
officers would not, iu my opinion, be the Legis-
1 iture and officers of Virginia uuder its Consti
tution. I do not see tbat Congress can under
take to lurois.’i the Stale wiiti a suitable Legis
lature to start with, or to exeicise auy control
over its composition which could not be exer
cised over subst queDt Legfalamres. I am
therefore, of the opinion that the oath prescribed
by the statute ot 1862, and by the statute of
July 19,1867, chapter 30, section 9, required to
be taken by all persons “ elected or appointed
to office in the said military districts, under any
so-called State or municipal authority,” is not
to be required of the officers ot the* State ot
Virginia, or members of the Legislature elected
under the new Constitution."
Divested ol its verbiage, the decision of At
torney General Hoar is just tht> : The Legisla
ture elect in Virginia, if its members do not take
tbe test oath, is not a legally constituted and
qnalified Legislature until Virginia fa “ restored
“ to its proper relations to the country as a State
“ in the Union;” but when the Slate bas been so
restored, by the action of C<mgr.-ss, then, the
subject ot the qualification ol Uic members of
tbe Legislature of Virginia having passed outoi
the domain of Congressional legislation and
come under that of the Constitution of the Stale
of Virginia, tbe taking of the lest oath ceases to
be an obligatory condition of the lawfulness and
competency ot the Legislature. Now,'what fa
this, in reality, bat dodging the responsibiliiy of
oar duty to keep arCivedisloyalty ont of power
~ in these States when they are first re organized,
“ although we cannot oonuol them afterwards.”
In this mew and with this intent tbe reconstruc
tion acta were iwauMt.anxfiftiieydid noVoon-
tempUie the prevention ot just tbat which At
torney General Hoar’s opinion encourages the
Virginia rebels to think they may do, they were
the are real foolery in the world;
Tone, tbe idea that this Legislature eC Vir
ginia, not being qualified to act as a provisional
Legislature ot nurecoeelrncted Virginia, with
out the subscription of the test oath of loyalty;
yet must be allowed, by the recognition ot Con
gress, to become the qualified Legislature of re
constructed Virginia, fa utter nonsense. The
original act of reconstruction, passed March 2,
1867, provided for the existence ol provisional
governments In the rebel States, and what doubt
can there de that it was tbe intent ot Congress
tbat the restoring governments of the restored
States should be shaped, as such, in tbe mould
of loyalty, before being erected into established
and independent authority ?
Tbe very requirement of prior action on tbe
part of this Legislature, in its stipulated ratifica
tion of the Fitteentb Amendment, shows that it
must be qualified under the law to act in a 1* gal
and official capacity before tbe State is restored.
Attorney General' Hoar says that it can ratify
the Fifteenth Amendment, but that it can tran
sact no other business lawlully. How is that
possible? It it is a lawful Legislature it can do
any legislative business, it it fa not lawfully a
Legislature, bow can it lawtully perform ibis
highest legislative' act, of Constiiuiioc-mukiug.
It cannot ratify as a convention, liecause the
Constitution oi the United States only sanctions
that mode ot ramication in cases where Con
gress shall have proposed it—which Congress
did not do in this case. On tbe contrary, Con
gress has specifically required the ratification ot
the Fifteenth Amendment by the Legislatures ot
three States particularly named—to-wit: Vir
ginia, Mississippi, End Texas. Il fa clear, there
fore, that the Legnlalure ot Virginia must be a
lawtully qualified Legislature—which it can
only be wben its members have taken the pre
scribed test oath of loyalty—before it can ratify
the Fifteenth Amendment, and before Congress
can consistently admit the State to representa
tion, under tbe reconstruction laws. If tufa is
not tbe view takeu iu Congress, wo very much
mistake.
“BUI Arp” on the Pren Exeunlon.
Mr. Ilenry IF. Grady ; «
My Desk Young Friend—You ask me
what I think of tbe Press Excursion. As an
old man full of years and lull of honors (sich as
they are) I will say that, taking the whole con
cern into consideration, from Bullock and Rans
Wright down, and up, to Hulbert and Fitch, I
will say that I have been seriously considering
whether the Excursion were a success or not.
Some of the editors say they were sucked in. 1
suppose there were some suckers along, and
some sucking done, but 1 do not think that kept
it f rom being a suckcess.
Now, Mr. Grady, I like editors—they are a
respectable family of people, and 1 suppose can’t
be bought—tor a less price than other folks—
everybody bas his price, and so has editors, I
suppose. I don’t know wbat fa tbe price ot ed
itors, but I don’t know that they arc frequently
bought. I noticed that soon after they had vis
ited our high mountains there was some tradiu
done. Some organs sell purty high, and some
less, acoordin to music, and it fa arnnsin to sec
em change their bass. Now, I’m in tor all the
fun that can be eDjoyed, and alter a poor editor
has wore out his braius and his body a lyin ou
one side, I think its good for his constitution to
turn over and lie on the other.
But this is all lurren to the subject. Too
question is were the Excursion a sucksessy i
was thinkin that editors had things most tu
mnch their own way, but I don’t see really tiow
it can be helped. They are their own judges
and juries, and nobody else can say a word agin
em. Nobody else has got a paper, and it any
body else wanted to criticise or abuse em, it
would be a little too late to get it in. I’ve got
uolhin special agio editors, only this: They all
stand up to one uuother, and can buse every
body, and nobody has a chance to fight back.
There aint but, one thing that makes em mad
with one another, and that is for one feller to
git more pap, or daddy, than the rest git. Tiien
the fur flies, and hides are put on a pole. The
whole unfortunate concern gits mad, and they
remind one ol a pig runnin off with a year ot
corn, and all the litter squealin after him. Edi
tors say its high principle actuatin em, but a
close observer says, they are mad because the
fortunate individual sold out for a less price than
they had been askin.
But, to go back to the main poiut—were the
Excursion a aucksess ? If that fa the question,
what constitutes suckscss? Why to carry one
pint Well, I might say sarkastically, that the
excursion done that and half a pint over. But,
seriously, if having a good time at other people’s
expense is a aucksess, then they had it, aud they
enjoyed it, and we all enjoyed it, and have been
ieelin good about it ever since. We look back
at it as a green Oasis, and have nothing to regret
about it, only that they didn’t stay any longer.
I like editors, and have only made tbe foregoing
caustic remaks out of deterence to the public,
who like slander. You needn’t talk to me about
tbe Atlanta Slander Mill I’ve watched human
natur tor several years, and my opinion is tbat
every man bas got a small slander mill in bis
own bosom. Slander fa as necessary to good
moral health as turnip greens in the spring of
the year. Its right hand to live without it, and
my opinion fa that it does more good than harm.
I always ieel kinder toward a man after I have
abused him. It sorter restore the cquilimrium
But the question fa, were the Excursion a
sucksess ? Fitch says it was, and Filch ought
to know, for wbat lie didu’t see. and hear, and
partake of, didn’t belong to the concern. Fitch
developed as he went along. He drew his pints
from history and Galilee, aud St. Paid, and Gas-
kill, and-ef ceteres. He says he wasn’t demoral
ized or contaminated by Bullock, or Hulbert, or
Glascock, or Httucock, or any other rooster.
Fitch fa aa honest editor—I don’t know what
bis price fa, but PI I bet he don’t ask as little as
some folks who put on more pretensions. Sev
eral of em don’t seem to know how to wri'e
about it. After gittin all the good ot it, tbeysay
well, wc—had a—very—go*id—time—and—but
—and Bullock aod Hulbert—they—will, &c.,
and sor forth. Willingham enjoyed it, and so
did Fitch, aud they talk out ot school Filch
says there aiut l*ul two honest editors in Geor
gia—one of whom he fa which, mid modesty
forbids him to name the other. There fa a heap
ot coui|>etition for that other—and 1 don’t know
who’l git it, but I rather supiiosed it would be
between Whitakers iront and Dr. Bard’s rear.
Bui, me question fa, were the Excursion a
sucksess ? Ooe thing is fenain. I’m in tavor ot
baviu em once a year, just for the tun of the
thing. It whs a galonous occasion, and done
tbe editors good. The trouble with editors is
that they can see other people’s faults, but they
can’t see their own. Nobody ever writes about
em—every one praises the other’s pipers. They
even say they aie gratified that you. Sir. Ueury
have lied your time and talents to such an able
sheet as Mr. Dwinell’s 1 Great spoous ! Good
saki-s! as Gol Akin would say. But I shani
make any inuendoes. I’ll refer the matter to
Filch. Editors can write as tool things as any
body, hut nobody dare to tell em ot it. Tbe
reason fa nobody have got a paper to fight back
in. I’ve thought I would buy a paper, but then
if I did I suppose I would jinu the fraternity
and stand up to my crowd.
But the question fa was the Excursion a suck
cess? Hulbert says it was. and Hulbert fa a
man of parts. 1 might say he was a whale, and
that the Press was Jonah—but I wont make
such painful allusion—nevertheless, Hulbert was
a sucksess—that’s certain. He got the editors in
the cautious state. They whispered “ cat in the
meal-tab,” and he hollered in a great big,
double bass voice, “ IRON.” They said there’s
politicks in all this, and he shouted, “ coal—an
thracite—hematite marble gold,” aud they
hushed and »r«il along as geiitlv as drove ot
hogs hUh-rm a leaky corn wagon, I tell you
Hultiert had a devil,of a lime of it, for there
were a lew barrows along who wen- hard to tole,
but he lolled em. Ho 4k! cell.tin, anJ they
eat his corn, and it was good, sound corn,
and il tatteiicd em, and they ouglileui hi be
ashamed of it. I don’t Ihiuk there has tieen any
such a thing,
by my friend Big John.
The retuarkwas
one else from that date bas had any interest in
this paper, directly or indirectly. We have con
ducted oar business in our own way, and expect
to continue without bring controlled by others.
Governor Brown never did have or bold a
mortgage, or any other lien whatever, on the
Intelligencer, or against any property what
ever belonging to tbe Proprietor of the Intelli
gencer.
We have been and are still friends, and we
trust will be during life. The Governor thinks
and acts for himself, and so does the Proprietor
of the Intelligencer.
Wonld it not be well for tbe Constitution to at
tend to its own business and let other people’s
private matters alone ?
.Horn Cotton.
John Bright, one of the most influential,
most popular, and one of the ablest of all living
British statesmen^ recently said: “ It is more
Gotton that we want, and not more taxes
on imports” This utterance of Mr. Bright,
now that cotton has been declining in price tor
several days, ought to encourage the growers of
it in the whole South. Surely none but those
who aie literally forced to sell, will do so on a
declining market, with the experience ot the
past year to guide, and the information commu
nicated to them through a source so distinguish
ed, as Mr. Blight fa, that Great Britain wants
“More Gotton.” Aod it is even so. The
number ot cotton manufactories has not only
increas'd in England s>nce the close of the late
war iD this country, but the demand for cotton
has also increased. The cotton planter should
remember that it is not tbe domestic,
but the loreign market that finally controls the
value of the great Southern staple. The cotton
speculators in New York, it fa true, may tor a
lime, control its value. A combined effort to
tbat end fa now being made, which has already
been attended with partial success. We trust,
however, that it will affect tbe interests of but lew
of ihe growers ot cotton in the South, and regret
that it will affect deleterously any of them.
Through great toil and tribulation they have
grown a crop which, shortened as it has been by
tbe worm, and the drought, and other calamities
attending it, will scarcely prove a remunerating
one at the prices prevailing three weeks ago.
Let them take courage, however, for, wo repeat,
they have assurance in the language of Mr.
Bright , that England wants “ more cotton.”
The London Times, commenting upon the re
mark ot Mr. Bright, says: “ The sadden de
struction ot tbe old cotton trade hns been at
tended with ihe destruction of the old condi
tions. Tilings are no longer as they were.—
Though the cotton supply has comeback again,
ue.w fields and lactones have been opened, some
under the shelter of protection and some in a
more natural atmosphere. The more extensive
demand ior the raw material raises the price,
and that rise deprives us of the condition essen
tial to tfie superiority w*e once maintained.”
[voit THE atkanta mrr*i.uoMC|m.L . L From the Nachville Union A American, Utb tank
A toiler Irani ArkuiMi.
Lamartine, Ark , 1869.
Having once been a citizen of your grand old
State, and lived and toiled thete for many long
yenra upon its rocky hills, and having seen root of n man named Richard Dove, by Dctec-
io many parsons laboring upon lauds that' > tivns Starkey and Fuuston, charged with mur*
Ju tor laborer and dering « man at Foptar Spring, below Clarks-
Would not make a competency tor laborer and
landlord; therefore, for tlie information of nu
merous Irienda and acquaintances, and tbe sat
isfaction of such ns may have a desire to emi
grate farther West, I will give my experience
and observation in Arkansas for nearly seven
.New York aud tbe Fifteenth Amendment.
The New York ILcrold of the 14th instant
says: “As to the New York ratification ol tbe
filteenth amendment, it appears that Governor
Uoffoiau has had no idea ot attempting a nulli
fication by withholding its transmission to the
Secretary ot Slate at Washington. On the
other hand, to put an end to all quibbling, he
lias quietly forwarded the papers to the State
Department.. The Governor has got beyond
the gaming of the small politicians, and his
motto is Excelsior.”
Spalu and Cuba.
The latest foreign intelligence in regard to
Cuba is to the effect that General Prim had
reached Paris from Vichy, and that at Vichy
the Geneial bad a conference with the Spanish
Ministers to England and France relative to the
American policy towards Cuba, at which the
course ot the Cabinet in Washington fa de
nounced as “ungrateful and officious.” Detach
ments of Spanish troops bad sailed for Cuba.
The Spanish Cabinet contemplates the abolition
of slavery in Porto Rico and a general plan ol
colonial reform.
A Fight with Llonn.
Mr. Lucas, the lion tamer, had a narrow es
cape ot being eaten by his lions, August 20. at
the hippodrome in Paris. He went into the
cage where there were two lionesses, with only
a whip in his hand, instead of a heavy cudgel,
whicu he generally carries. A lioness, presum
ing npou his being unarmed, sprang at him and
seized him by the nape of the neck. A cry of
horror arose from the spectators. Many women
tainted, and others rushed out of the theatre.
The other lions, attracted by blood, rushed upon
Lucas, and bit and scratched him severely. In
u few moments he would certainly would have
tieeu killed, had not one of his assistants, who
was not in tbe habit ol entering the cage, came
forward and knocked the lion about the head
with an iron bar. It is reported that Lucas said
to him, “Go away, leave me to die alone.”
However that may be, the man dragged Lucas
away lrom the lumg. He is now at tits mother-
in-law's house. No. 31 Avenue Montague, in a
most precarious state. The doctors have dis
covered no less than thirty-one wounds It fa
leareii thul even should tie recover, he will be a
cripple for hie The heroism ot the man by
whom he was rescued fa the thome ol enthusiastic
praises Mr. Aruaud, manager of the hippo-
d'Oujc, had the presence oi mind to close the
uoor ul the cage when the faithful servant got
Mr. Lucas out ol it, otherwise the lioua might
have made a raid upon the audience.
yearn.
In the tall of 1862 I left Fayette county. Oa.
13 miles southwest ot Atlanta, and came to
Columbia county, Aik., a distance by the public
road, via. Vicksburg, of 625 miles. Started Ufa
81at of Octolier, and arrived hero the 31st of
November—just 31 days—with two-horse wag
ons, traveled every day, should have rested at
least every first day of tbe week.
First. The health of this country fa tar better
than that of Georgia. For example, there were
thirty persons in our party, not one of whom
has died yet. 1 have yet to see a case of well
developed typhoid fever. 1 have never seen
case of consumption. Only three or four casts
of bronchitis, and those not fatal. But a few
casts of congestive chills and some ot conges
tive fever. Bilious lever, and chills, are the ills
ot this country. The climate is decidedly tem
perale; consequently, there is but little pneu
monia and rheumatism ; in fact, the water ot
this country is a panacea tor that form ot di
ease. I have practiced physic for 22 years in
Georgia and Arkansas, and know that my state
ments'are principally correct. I say this in
justice to this country, because the idea of peo
ple in Georgia is that Arkansas is a grave yard
Take the example above aud tent it.
Society fa as good here as in other States. They
can boast no longer ol greater facilities, and ot
a larger number of inhabitants. There are
scores ot Methodists, Presbyterians, aud Bap
lists on both sides; also, a good number of
Christians or Disciples. Our schools cannot be
excelled. There is provision made tor the edu
cation ot every child trout 5 to 21 years old, ai
public expense. Our school funds are almost
inexhaustable, it properly husbanded in the
start. In the space ot a tew months we hav<
established 400 free schools -which will be
doubled in less than four weeks. Our State fa
thoroughly reconstructed, and peace and almost
uninterrupted tranquility abounds throughout
her bounds.
Crops have never been better; there will be
corn in abundance this fall at quite a nominal
price. This is certaiuly a cotton country ; there
is not one acre oi land but will produce that
staple, be it rich or poor—some more, some less,
from five hundred to thirty five hundred pounds
per acre. Corn from ten to sixty bushels per
acre. Wheat is uncertain, and can’t be profile
bly raised in South Arkansas; but oats, rye ami
barley grow finer here (especially oats) than in
any country 1 Lave yet seen. Peas and pota
toes, and all vegetables, grow here to your
heart’s content. Peaches, pears and apples
grow in sufficient quantities to. meet the wants
of all who take the pains to plant and care for
them. Stock of all kinds common to our cli
mate thrive and flourish to great perfection
The water is generally freestone, and as good —
and in many instances better—than in Middle
Georgia. The well water is extraordinary
spring water not so good.
Our navigable streams are the Ochcta, Red
river, Saline, Rege, and Bartholemevv. In South
Arkansas and Mississippi our shipping points
are Moro, Camden, Miller’s Bluff, Arkadelphia
Elderado, Mary Saline, and Alabama Champa
nal. On the Ocheta, the two first named are
places ci considerable business. On Red river
there are Shreveport, Louisiana, Fulton, Arkan
sas, and some other intermediate landings.
The Saline and Bartholomew arc navigable only
in the spring season.
The interest manifested in railroads amounts
almost to a' mania. Railroads art in progress
lrom Memphis to Little Rock; Cairo to Fulton;
Little Rock to Fort Smith and Touson ; Indian
Territory, Mississippi, Ocheta and Red River
Railroad ; also from Little Rock to Pine Bluff
aud Monroe, Louisiana. We have every grade
of soil and climate , in our State that can be
found in the temperate zone A man may fancy
to himself what kind of a place he wants, and
he can find it in Arkansas.
Land can be bought in Southwestern Arkansas
from $1 to $2 50 per acre. Improved land when
it can be bought at all, is much higher; fine red
river land $10 to $30 per acre. Land that will
make from 600 to 1200 lbs per acre of cotton,
can be bought at the first named price, improve
ments and alL
Stock is low, horses sell at $50 and $200,
mules about the same. Cattle range at ahout
to $8 per head. If selected, the best cows
and calves $20. Persons wishing to emigrate
here, should come by private conveyance in the
fall and public in the winter and spring.
I write this as a sort ol circular letter, hoping
tbat if you see fit to publish it that some one of
your read' rs may be ben« filed. Hoping tliat it
may receive your approval 1 subscribe myself,
your most oiiediout servant,
W. A. Beasley.
u damage done to these editors. They’ve had a
the question and throwing the onus, (if onus j good, jolly time, aud it will make em live longer,
there be,) ot the strict construction ot law, ujkmi I It there’s anything wrong about it, it fa owin to
>r Congress to say w liether the tact that editors are so poor generally that
Congress. It remains for Congress
the reconstruction acts have tiecn fairly complied
with, if the test oath bas not been sulwcribed
by tbe members of the Legislature. If Con
gress fa not satisfied with the compliance, aud
declines to recognize the_reconstruction ot the
State m complete, tbe Legislature remains iu-
compatent, by the Attorney General’s decision,
to act even in a provisional capacity. He has
simply said to tbe Virginians, “ if you can get
“ yonr work through Concreas without apply-
“ mg the test oatli to tbe Legislature, yon need
“ not apply it.” Bat it needs neither an oracle
nor an Attorney General to say that. The whole
a lieu any tiling fa offered em gratis, they go in,
whether it comes ir*uu St. Paul or the Devil.
Most of them are in tbo condition of my friend
Underwood, who said be was ready tod e in the
name of the Lire!—for he was even with the
world—that fa, he owed at>oul as many as he
didn’t owe, and nothing to pay with.
But the main question fa, were the Exclusion
a sucksess?
Yours, truly, Bill Asp.
P. S.— Il was not nw that said our Rome pa
pers contained about m much information as
two last year’s jay bird’s nests. I wonld not
Tile History of it Sacvexilul Jlbu.
Mr A T. Stewart’s peculiar success in tbe
mmipul iiiou ot almost every enterprise he uu
S«-n«k<- It is awakened the admiration of thou-
fcaiids ; and it is, therefore, not strange that one
mind should desire to '<e enlightened as to how
lie came ny his maltifarious lacully. A corres
pondent j>rbpoaes that Mr. Stewart should
write and putifish the history of his tmaiues-*
career, so that he, “ a beginner” in tbe game
ol lite, may see and know what go*-s to the
development ol a good player. Will he do
it? We will bint to bim tbat such a history
would be al) tbe more uselul il put into tbe
compass ot a lecture aud delivered by the suit
jeet bimsell. By the way, would not Stewards
lite be a good card lor Bonner ? He is the
m in who lias other men’s lives done with the
greatest success. At one time there was a little
story current tlial, il true, would serve us the
first tact in this history, and .we turufah it. Ti
was, that alter ritewart, Mien young, hud been a
certain time in this country iu the dry goods
line, and not over successful, he was called
home—to Deland—to receive Jiis share in the
distribution ol ^oine small inheritance. Having
bis money, aud being on tilpoiut of returning
fo America, be stopped at some dealer’s ot his
acquaintance, in Bellas!, and priced a small
article in the way of linen trimming. It was
cheap, and he invested in it hfa whole inheri
tance. This purchase he brought to New York
—paying the duly, oi course—and here sold it
for as much per yard as he paid per piece. This
has been spoken ot as Stewart’s first venture as
an importer of drygoods.—V. T. Deraid.
Grant and Senior.
A Nushville correspondent ot the Memphis
Avalanche, writing under date ot the 8ib instant,
gives tbe following details of the interview be
tween Gov. Scoter and President Grant. The
Governor called ou the President in New York
to see him ou the subject ot ihe railroad inrer
est in the Slate ol Tennessee, aud, after having
explained lo him in detail the condition of ihe
different roads in ibis State, upon which the LT
S. Government prelends t > have lions, be ar- se
to hid the President farewell, when the fatter
said:
• But, Governor, wait a lew minutes, and talk
to me a little in regard to the late election.”
Senter—“I bad not inn nded, Mr. President,
to touch upon that subject, but as you desire it,
I will take pleasure iu doing so.”
Giant—“Did you get any Republican votes
at the late election in your State?”
Seuter—“As to that, Mr President, I can say
that I got about 25,000.Republican votes in tbat
election.”
Grant—“Did Mr. Stokes get any rebel votes?”
Senier («*innbaticnllv)— * oe aid dot."
Grant—“Then rhe rebels nil voied for you,
aud they, in conjunction with the 25,000 Repub
lican votes that you received, uiaue your tie-
ni'-iidon-, majority ?’’
Senter—“ No, gir. I did not get any rebel
votes. vVe have no relicts in Tennessee now.
Our people are thoroughly reconstructed, and
tue vote cast tor me iu the late electiou was cast
by Republicans, Old Line Whigs, Conservatives,
anti ihe representative men of'all former politi
cal patties, who are in lavor ol peace and or
der.'
G’ant - “ i am delighted lo hear this, and it
places the coin lit inn ot things iu Tennessee in a
different attitude from wbat i had anticipated ”
Senier—“it bas been represented in the news
papers, Mr. President, that you would pr<ib.tlily
interfere in the affairs ol the Stile ot Ten lessee ”
Grant—“That, sir, fa wholly a mistake. In
the fir-t place, I do not conceive that I have Ihe
constitutional jurisdiction to do so, aud if 1 lmd
the right I would not feel inclined so to do. I
would as soon attempt to inti-riere iu the local
elections ot New York or Massachusetts.”
A BRUTAL nURDEB.
A Man’s Head Seven* from Hla Body
With an Axe.
We made mention several days ago ol the ar-
viBe.
The particular* ot this murder came to hand
yesterday, sod the facts, as elicited, prove it to
lie one of s most brutal character. The killing
occurred on the night of the first Wednesday in
August, at Poplar Spring colliery in Montgom
ery county, and the victim was a man named
William Diggona. The parties, it appeared,
lived together in the same bouse, and had quar
reled during tbe day about A woman. That night
Dove arose- when Diggons was asleep, and ap-
proaehlnfc the bed with an axe in hfa hand,
struck tbe fatal blow, and severed his head from
his body. Not satisfied with this fiendish act
ot brutality, he afterwards cut off a hand and a
foot.
Dove remained in the neighborhood for a day
or two, declaring his intention to kill his wile
and some others whom he naiped, but left that
part ot the country without executing the threat.
He came to Edgefield and remained about tbe
premises of his mother for about teu days. In
formation of tbe murder was conveyed to Star-
key and Fnnston, who, knowing Dove, went to
work, traced biui to Edgefield, and finally cap
tured him in the market house in this city on
Saturday last, and had him committed to jail.
V. -u relay the prisoner was delivered over to
J. G. Reid, Deputy Sheriff ot Montgomery coun
ty, upon a bench warrant from Judge J. E Rice,
and the officer with the prisoner in charge left
on the 3 p. m. train for Clarksville yesterday.
Dove is a man about 35 or 38 years oi age, aud
tor years past has borne a bad character.
Prom the Knoxville Press & Herald, 16th Inst.
Pass Among Georgia Bdllurs.
Gol. Hulbert, Superintendent ot the Western
aud Atlantic Railroad, lately invited the Geor
gia Press Convention on an excursion mto the
coal aud irou regions in the northern part of
the Slate. Since these editors got hack they
have been growling at the Gol., aud Gov. Bul
lock aod at each oilier, because Ihe affair did
not go off" exactly as each one would have liked,
and the most rabid an.ong them are trying to
read our old friend. Judge Whitaker, ol the
Atlanta Intellioencer odt ot tbe Democratic
party, because he won’t agree with them. In
an editorial in the Athens Banner, referring to
the editors who are making themselves unhappy
about the press excursion, we find the following
paragraph :
” They de nol rnud lln- pri st, in any way, lo
Col. Hulberi’s political view's, or (o his railroad
policy; and it is an insult lo the meanest mem
ber ol the press gaug to intimate that a free ride
and a prolession of official hospitality, can
mould the press of Georgia to accept liis views
or policy, if they conflict with the public good.
The few disgrunrled grannies who staid at home,
because they could not accept a courtesy Iroin a
radical official, aud one or two Kausey Sniffles,
who went along growling as they guzzled the
delicacies of the trip, will scarcely convince the
public that they embrace all the intelligence or
virtue ol the Georgia press.”
t:, Tlie Constitution
Tufa paper assumes to propound, in its Friday
afternoon’s edition, queries to the Intelligen
cer. It does not see any “ difference ” between
support rendered the government—Slale and Fed
eral—and that rendered officials who have
been elected lo administer either government.
We are not surprised at that paper's blindness,
but we feel under no obligations to remove the
scales lrom its eyes, nor to luruish it with under
standing. But as some of our Slate exchanges
have exhibited a like desire for information, or
have, id unhappily and hastily following the lead
of the "Constitution!" manifested a similar desire,
we shall take occasion.at an early day,to show tbe
“difference;” that is, to show that a support of
the Government, does not necessarily involve
a support of those who have been called upon
by the people to administer it, nor of their ad
ministration of it. A government—State or Fed
eral—is not so obscurely defined by wbat is re
cognized as authority upon the subject, by
statesmen ol the past and present, as to leave
any doubt upon the minds of the intelligent, in
regard to the proper signification oi the term.
Editors who recognize no difference between
support given to the Government, and support
given to those called upon to administer it,
would do well to attend for a term or two that
Virginia institution in which it is proposed lo
educate young men lor a profession some ol whom
have prematurely entered.
AMumarjr.
Speaking oi the Constitution, we said in a re
cent issue : “ Its ‘assumacy’ knows, and has pro
verbially known, no bounds. What that sheet
will not claim tor itself, the Lord only know-
eth ;” but even then with our boundless belief
in the “assumacy,” we could not have credited
the following, which we found iu its columns of
Eriday:
The Imperialist has ‘gone up.’ WE treated
it from first to last with the ridicule we thought
it deserved, and that we believed must kill it
most effectively "Hit
How we apples swim !” Oh!!
Suicide.— W. H. Ciiiiun, of Lawton, Ga.,and
ivui.j a UH-ichant of this pfaee, cotniiiiiL >1
suicide near the Alalia store, Tuesday, 31st nil.
If seems Miat Mr G. had been down to Fort Og
den ou business, aud ou the way back spent the
night with hfa frsend, G. B. Lightaey. He com
plained ot lieiug sick and downed eating any
thing. Ahont ten o’clock the next morning be
got 'up and dressed himself and quietly with
drew ui ihe woods, when his prolonged absence
caused some u>i< asiness; two small boys were
dispatched to hunt him up. Tbey tonnd bim
sealed iu a clump of bushes, blending profusely
lrom three death wounds, and two stabs in hfa
lett side not considered so dangerous. Upon
being interrogated, be said that he had done the
cuttiug himself, and requested than not to tell it
until alter liis death. We ate ignorant of the
causes leading to so fatal a result, but suppose
jiecuoiary embarrassments made lite a burden,
i Ie leaves a wife and family, with many staunch
irieuds, to mourn hfa untimely end.
A post mortem examination was bald, sub
stantiating the above particular*.—Tampa (Fla.)
Peninsular, 5th.
Spanish Warfare.—Dr. Simmons, lately re
turned to Now York from Cuba, says:
The Cuban army Ins oil three different occa
sion* dfiitvu ns lines • lose itr*«rud i’lierto Prin
cqie. When about lo' uiiil-i- .n iD'ack, winch
must have been s-iiccti-siiti, the Sp uiisii com
mander Iihs at the baymiet’n point sen' all the
Cuban ladies and ciiiidreii in dense crowds to
the van of the Spanish garrison. These in no
cents each time have been pushed by hundreds
to places ol dangei, to stand as shields before
the hirelings of Spain and Cuban volunteers.
Quesada, for humanity’s sake, has withdrawn
lrom the attack. Dr. Simmons says that the
nUer wretchedness caused the wives, childieu
and sisters of the Cubans by the hellish conduct
of unprincipled Spanish officers and soldiers
fa beyond all description. They mean to fill the
trenches with murdered women and children
before the city Bhali be surrendered to the revo
lutionists.
The Ives Grape.
Our old friend and fellow-citizen, Mr. Jona
than Norcross, has kindly presented us some
bunches ol the famed “ Ives Grape,” which
were plucked from the vines of his vineyard
near Cincinnati, Ohio. They . are as fine and
delicious as any we have ever tasted, notwith
standing, as we are informed by Mr. N., the
severe drought that prevailed during their
youth to maturity. The samples before us, we
are also told, are only about one-haif the usual
size. This being the case, we do not wonder at
tbe prestige tbe “Ives Grape,” has attained in
the West, and wherever else il has been cultiva
ted, nor from its delicious tavor and sweetness,
do we wonder at the good wine made from it—
that which we some time since tasted, through
the courtesy ot Mr. N , being oi a rcmaikabiy
riae quality.
From the LaGrange Reporter.
To Owner* o» Mineral Lands, Etc.
Al a ihectiug ol the Georgia Press in Atlanta,
the undersigned were appointed a committee to
correspond with Col. Mai k a Cooper, Carters-
ville; Rev. G. W. Howard, Kingston; General
William Phillips, Marietta; Hou. W. P. Price,
Duhlouega; Chancellor Lipscomb, Athens ; Gol.
Seaborn Jones, Van Wert; Messrs. Noble &
Sons, Rome; and such others as the commit'i e
may think proper, for information upon the
mineral resources ol Georgia, and compile and
publish such information as they may obtain.
We respectfully invite all who have know
ledge of valuable mineral deposits to communi
cate with us: and, where il is practicable, send
samples, which will be exhibited by us at ihe
Fair at Macon, where they will attract the at
tention of seientific gentlemen and capitalists
lrom all parts ol the country.
S. K. WpSTi'N
Dawson Journal
S A Atkinson,
tbu/dicrn Bonner.
C H. C. Willirghaji,
LaGr.ini/e Hep,,) ter.
Gtuigia papi-is will p!ea.-<- copy.
Hovel PoiUknenL
A “domeatio infidelity” case bas been deci
ded in the Sandwfah Islands. The false witu
lad her ears cut oft and the gay deceiver lost J Fouu Splendid Cotton Farms are advertised
s fingers in the same way by the executioner. I par sale iu to day’s issue, by GoL G. W. Adair-
[r .It THK IHTBI.I,I«eKCEI:.J
Uoiuniuulcitted.
After reading the editorial in this morning’s
Constitution—•“Newspaper Kutlorsenu nt” I am
satisfied that I did wroug iu charging that paper
with an inb-ni to *’ dodge” an endorsement of
Ute position Liken by “Georgi-.n.” The “news
paper rule” stated by the Constitution ,. s no doubt
correct, and I therefore withdraw that portion of
iny communication which relcrs to the Constitu
tion, aud express my regret that l rh.mlo have
charged it with a di.sp<*Mlioii Lo ev.ule . resniu
sibiiity which it waa in no wise called upou lo
assume. V eh it as.
Atlanta, Sept. 18, 1869
Influence of “Tito EmiiiilaiM.”
An exebauge f-ays that at Ihe Inst interview
which Governor Walker had with the President
about Virginia matters, the question ot the
Senator ship came up, when President Grant
unreservedly expressed bis persona) preference
for General Robert Williams, of Ihe army, aud
tbe husband of Mrs s- -*nt r Douglas.