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UtoRty Intelligencer
ATLANTA, OEOBglA,
Wednesday. September 20, I860.
IH«|. T«b. O'Conner.
Wc are pleased to notice In the Knoxville
/Vw <£ Ha-old, that this gentleman, once a res
ident of this city, in which he has man/ warm
friends, has been suggested by the German
Turn Verien Society of that city, as the proper
man for its Mayor, at the forthcoming election.
The suggetfion was unanimous, and we trust it
will prevail. We know the Major well, and
he wUI fill well the office.
Col, Halbert’s Speech.
We devote nearly all our space, to-day, to the
remarks made by Superintendent Halbert before
the members of the Press, on board the steamer
Etowah, daring the late excursion.
In reference to this speech we have only to
say, that it is the outgivings of an eminently
practical mind, on a subject of which be is
matter—railway management—replete with sug
gestions as to the object of the construction ot
the State Road; embracing, also, a review of
the dangers threatening its prosperity, with a
note of warning to the Legislature and the peo
ple, as to what should be done to protect its
interests. In this connection Colonel Hulbert
makes an unanswerable argument in behalf ol
the development of the resources of the State
generally, but especially those ol and contigu
ous to the line of the Road.
It may be thought by some that it would have
been better policy not to have told the whole
truth ; but the true and brave General will re
connoitre the enemy, and try to ascertain his
fullest strength ; but in doing that, he will not
shut liia eyes to the weakness of his own posi
lion, if weak; or, if naturally a strong one, will
lie see to it that it ha9 no vulnerable poiDta un
guarded, and particularly will watch for, and if
/'OHtiltie prevent all flanking movemcn
'flic position of the Slate Road has all along
been regarded a strong one—it is a strong one—
a commanding one. It could not be injured,
hardly endangered, by a direct attack. Con
scious of this, the flanking movement of antag
onizing influences have uot l»een closely enough
watched. The revelations of this speech in
form the people, for the first time, that roads con
Htncting on belli sides of it threaten to divert
from it a large portion ot its best busimss.
Tim ubople, whose property this is, must pro
tect it from becoming worthless. When in do
ing this, it can be made subservient at the same
limo to the development of almost limitless
treasures possessed, and thus enriching them, it
is the dictate of prudence, patriotism and self-
interest, to extend protection at once, almost re
gardless ot cost.
We commend this speech to the public. We I an( j
hope it will be carefully read—its words well
pondered. It should open the eyes of our peo
ple to the condition of the road, and arouse
them to energetic action in the direction oi ma
terial development. The truth told, instead ol
paralyzing effort—appalling the mind—should
nerve every Georgian to increased energy, and
stimulate his mind to intenser activity.
Hoping and expecting this reasonable result
—the only one worthy the people of the “Em
pire State of the South”—we leave this com
mendable eflort with our readers, with the sim
ple additional remark, that in bis great efforts to
dfcvelope Georgia’s resources and build up
Georgia’s fortunes, Superintendent Hulbert is
understood to have the sympathy, and hearty
co-operation ol his Excellency Governor Bul
lock.
The Knoxville dc Charleston Railroad.
The Knoxville Press <£• Herald announces the
mortgage, to the South Carolina “Blue Ridge
Railroad Company,” of the Knoxville & Charles
ton Railroad, remarking that Knoxville will
now “be no longer dependent upon the whims
or the speculative freaks ot Cincinnati, but the
terminus of the Knoxville and Kentucky Road,
in the very heart ol the very richest mineral re
gion in America and will become the goal toward
which Cincinnati and Louisville will direct their
energies in spirited rivalry.”
The several delegations lrom Georgia to the
Southern Commercial Convention soon to as
semble in Louisville, will do well to note this
railroad item. Every eflort which Louisville,
Knoxville, and Charleston can make to prevent
the direct connection of Cincinnati with Chat
tanooga, and consequently with our own rail
road, will be made, we predict, in that Conven
tion. True, its deliberations will be only advi
sory, not legislative in their character, neverthe-
> less combinations may be formed which will
prove detrimental to Georgia, her railroad en
terprises, and her seaports. We have confidence,
however, that the Cincinnati enterprise is no
“ whim,'” but one of settled purpose, which time
will lully develope, and we would dislike very
much to see its progress retarded by either
Northern or Southern influence. It is one of
those grand conceptions, that must eventually
be put into practical operation.
The Proposed Tax on Coiion.
“ Among the modifications of the internal rev
enue laws to be submitted to Congress," says the
Washington Star, “ it is said, will be a tax of
one per cent, per pound on cotton. It is be
lieved that Buch a tax will yield fully $15,000,000
a year, and this would justify the repeal of that
portion ol the law imposing special taxes, re
lieving the laboring and manufacturing interests
of a great burden. The prosperity ot the South
warrauts the belief that the internal revenue re
ceipts from that section will be nearly fifty per
cent, greater for the present fiscal year than lor
tlic last year.”
In the name of all that is lair, aud reasonable,
and right, and just, to Southern labor, we pro
test agaiust any such modification of the revenue
laws. Why should cotton he taxed and the wluat
of the Western tanner escape such imposition ?
The reply may be, that wheat allords food for
man. Admitted, must not man be clothed, and
is not clothing as necessary to sustain life in
every civilized land, as tood ? And is not cotton
the prime material from which that which cov
ers the body ia manufactured V Bat from the
cotton grown in the South, $15,000,000 of rev
enue, can be early drawn. Away with such
calculations I It is downright robbery! A
tax upon the labor—the field labor—of a section
unable to protect itself, and violative of every
principle of justice. Cougeess, we trust, will
treat the suggestion, or recommendation, with
the contempt it merits. A more clearly uncon
stitutional proposition has never before been
made to that body
Education or Edltoi-n.
Commenting upon the proposition to estab
lish in a Virginia College ot high reputation, a
“ Chain of Current Literature” with the view ol
enabling those who may wish to become jour
nalists to learn “ the principles and practice of
the profession,” the Charleston JVetes says, it is
"inclined to concur with a Western paper which
advises any young man who has aspirations in
the direction of the tripod, to make up his mind
to ten years’ hard work in the subordinate sta
tions of newspaper life, holding out the cheerful
promise that at the end of that period he will
be an editor—or dead."
That Western editor knew about what he was
writing'whcn he gave the advice he did, and
the Charleston Hews, in concurring with him,
shows its good sense. Here, in Georgia, young
gentlemen as soon as they assume to become
Editors, go further and arrogate, most of them,
to give tone and direction to the press of the
State, and even go so far, before they have had
a twelvemonth's experience in journalism, to
«i»im to be the leaders oi the political party to
which they have attached themselves. The
“ wiry edge ” being worn off, all such will be
forced into their proper positions, recognizing
as they soon wiU,|thc force of thq "Western
Editor’s* advice.
JaSgc EnhlM’* Charia,
Below will be touad the charge of Judgp Era-
kine, in the case of David A. Walker, Charged
with embezzlement ia tbs Atlsato Post Office :
Gentlsmen sf the /wry—This is in indicimeat
against David A. Walker, the prisoner at the
bar. The indictment contains three coasts and
is based on the 12th seettoo of the Act ot July
1st, 1864. [Here the Judge read so much of
the Acf as the indictment was founded on.] It
is in evidence before yoa that the defendant was
found in pomeasion of certain moneys which
had been taken from two letters, one of which
contained three dollars in treasury notes, and
the other a twenty-five cent note, current
money, of the United States; also the letters
from which the money was abstracted. One ot
these letters was posted at Madison, in this State,
on the 27th of January last, and the other at La-
Grange, on the 28th of the same month, and
both were addressed to a certain named person,
Mr. Toon, in Atlanta. It is also evidenced that
the defendant, at, and some months before the
time be embezzled or stole them moneys, was
the delivery clerk in the Postofflce, at Atlanta.
On these uncontroverted facts, the Government
rested the case. The prisoner then introduced
testimony to prove, that, at that time, and pre
vious thereto, he was laboring under insanity,
and therefore, mentally incapable of committing
the offense. This, in brief, was the defense re
lied on by the prisoner.
If a person who has arrived at mature years,
from causes, temporary or permanent, natural or
supervening, be destitute of the capacity essen
tial to the exercise of criminal intent, no ofiense
can exist.
The main question for your consideration, is,
was there a criminal intent, and was the defen
dant mentally capable of entertaining it ? Ol
this yon most judge from the evidence adduced
before you, and it must be sufficient to prove to
your satisfaction that the defendant was insane
at the time the oflence was committed, it not be
ing sufficient that he was insane belore or after,
unless he was also insane at the time. The evi
dence in the main was intended to show that
the defendant was laboring under that mental
disease known as delerium tremens—a disease
that is generally superinduced from excessive
indulgence in alcoholic liquors.
When delerium tremens is set up iu defense,
the prisoner most show that he was under a de
lerium at the time the act was perpetrated, there
being no presumption of its existence from ante
cedent fits from which he has recovered. And
I may add, if insanity be asserted, it shall be
proven by direct testimony or by such a train ol
circumstances as would be of equal weight with
positive evidence. Sanity is always to be pre
sumed, but if evidence is produced to show that
the paity was insane when he committed the
act, the jmy most judge of it; and its effect on
the train issue of guilty or not guilty;
if, considering all the evidence
and considering the presumption that
what a man does is sanely done, and suffer
ing the evidence and the presumption to work
together in your minds, you entertain a reasona
ble doubt that the prisoner did the act in a sane
state of mind, you are to acquit him—otherwise
you are to convict. You will therefore consider
whether, at the time the prisoner committed the
act, he was in a state to comprehend his rela
tions to other persons, the nature of the act, and
its criminal character as against the laws (which
he is presumed to know,) of the land; or what
is substantially the same, whether he was con
scious of doing wrong. And this will be your
guide, whether the prisoner asks an acquittal
because he was in a state of delerium, or was
suffering lrom other uncontrollable mental mal
ady, when he embezzled or stole the money or
letters; for if you are satisfied the prisoner was
insane, the law does not presume his insanity
arose from any particular cause.
If you believe from the evidence in the case,
that the defendant, in violating the mail, knew
that he was doing wrong, and that be was lia
ble to be punished for the act, he is a proper
subject. So if his mind was in such rational
exercise as to enable him to discriminate right
from wrong, you will find him guilty, otherwise,
you will acquit him.
Two well known rules of law, both directly
applicable to the case before you—will be men
tioned. One is, that a man is presumed to be
innocent until he is proved gailty of the crime
of which he stands accused. The other is, that
men in general are sane, and the law presumes
each man to be so, until the contrary has been
proved. -
On the question of giving to the accused, the
benefit of a reasonable doubt, I have alread spok
en incidentally. I will now be more specific,
charge you, that the evidence must be sufficient
to produce a conviction of guilt, to the exclusion
of all reasonable doubt
Filed September 23, 1869.
The RharemaD-Tnrner-Harrls Affair.
The trial of the negro Shuremau in Washing
ton, for abstracting unsigned currency notes
from the Treasury Department, has excited a
good deal of interest there. Three negroes are
on the jury. From the Baltimore Gazette we ex
tract the following items concerning it:
A negress named Harris has already sworn
that Shureman took her to the bouse of H. M
Turner, late Postmaster at Macon, Georgia, who
then resided in this city. Also that Shureman
left on a bed in Turner’s house thirteen hundred
dollars ot the abstracted money, telling her, il
asked where she got so large a sum, to say she
found it. That attempting to pass a portion ot
it South, (where she was told to take it for
safety,) she was arrested. It seems she was used
as a witness in a prosecution in Georgia against
Turner, then holding the very respectable and
responsible office ot Postmaster at Macon.
It is notorious that Turner himself was dis
charged on that occasion, through the direct in
fluence of Government’officiala. Notwithstand
ing all this, the counsel lor Shureman has had
the impudence to move a postponement of the
f iresent trial, on the ground of Turner’s absence
he is still at large,) who, he stated, was a mate
rial witness for his client, and the District Attor
ney, in the lace ot the notorious fact that the
Government directly made interest for the dis
charge of Turner, had the hardihood to oppose
the motion on the following ground:
“District Attorney Carrington, with some
wanutb, argued that the affidavit did not comply
with the requirements of the statute, adding that
they, the prosecution, expected to prove that the
witness, Titrner, was really a partieeps criminis."
, [COMMUNICATED- J
Skeism's Optics Ga. Air Like R. R . I
Atlanta, Ga., September 2lei 1869. f
Intelligencer : Please allow me to correct
paragraph in yonr edition of to day, in regard
to the “Air Line Railroad.” Yon say, “we learn
that the cost lor the construction ot these first
twenty miles of the road, will be $327,400, the
available means for the same, of the Company
being $330,050.” The available means ol the
Company for the construction of the first divi
sion of twenty miles^rein round numbers $460,
000. On the available means, eighty per cent, are
required to build and equip the twenty mile
division, which after allowing for the difference
between the City Bonds and cash, will make on
the eighty per cent called, $330.050, as per your
notice, leaving twenty per cent still behind as
available means for the next or second division,
wbcili ’tis proposed to put under contract ss
soon as possible. I aut very Duly years,
B. Y. Sage, Chief Engineer.
Ws publish with pleasure the foregoing, but
must add that we gave the information to our
readers, as we received it, from a gentleman
occupying an official station in the Company.
[ Intelligencer.]
Newspaper Spensers.
An exchange well says there are many per
sons who either take no paper at all, ot else
Take one from a distant city, and when they
wish to see what is transpiring in their own
neighborhood, they beg or steal the local paper
from some citizen more liberal than themselves.
Many men of this kind are engaged in business
and frequently grumble because people do not
patronize “ home industry ” when they practice
the very tiling of which they complain.
We transfer. the following letter from “N.
B.” to the New Orleans 2 lines. It will be iit-
teresting to the friends of Atlanta:
Travob Thrsazh the Interior.
Atlanta, Ga , Sept. 12,186A.
To the Editor of the New Orleans Times: Thfe
letter is written lrom a city in which eleven
hundred and fifty new houses are building and
~l completed, or pet Imps as many as are being
constructed in any city of lue Continent. What
this assertion menus, it is not much easier to de
scribe than by saying that the side ot every
square averages at least one new building; that
scaffolding and halt completed walls intercept
the view of every window, and that the -tingle
of the bricklayer drowns even the screams of
the ever arriving locomotives. The place has a
magnificent opera house, (though it blows little
enough about music, and is never likely to know
more; and though, too, the building has been
disposed of to the Legislature) Besides the
Opera, there are several churches, including
the Baptist and Catholic, that are being erected
upon a grand scale, and when it is added that
the Granite Stone Mountain is but a few miles
distant, besides innumerable quarries iu the im
mediate neighborhood of the city, an idea of the
value and permanence of some ot these struc
tures may be readily formed.
At any rate, any one who now treads the new
city, and with difficulty endeavors to discover in
the streets ot to-day those which existed before
the war, will find some difficulty in realizing
that the whole place, including several churches
and institutions ot learning, were consigned to
the flames, and that Atlanta, like another Mos
cow, was two or three days in burning. None,
in lact, of the old houses, except in the suburbs,
are left standing, or, except those in which the
fires that had been kindled, were extinguished
by the exertions of interested individuals.
An interesting story is told of the night when
Sherman determined to imitate the example ol
AtUla and of Gengis-KbaD, and among other
buildings ordered to he dcsiroyed, included that
of the Medical College. In spite of the order
the building was saved, and to old Dr. D’Alvigny,
one of its prolessors, belongs the honor of hav
ing preserved it The Doctor, an old soldier of
France, was left behind at the evacuation ot At
lanta by the Confederate lorces, and was put in
charge of some wounded soldiers at the college
—then used as a hospital. It having at length
been announced definitely that the place would
be burned, the Doctor set himselt to gain the
assistance ot the hospital attendants, and as
whisky went a longways at that day, drinks
were distributed without stint. Finally, upon
the fatal nigh; appointed for the doomed city,
the Doctor, coming to the Medical College, dis
covered that the cots aud beds had been knock
ed to pieces lor kindling material,and that straw
was scattered about the floor. The time tor ac
tion had evidently come.
Approaching now the officer in charge, the
Doctor was definitely informed that the d—d
place had to be burned down. D’Alvigny now
stated the fact that he had served in three armies,
aud that this was the first time he had ever seen
wounded and sick men burned without giving
them a chance lor removal. The officer denied
that any sick men were in the hospital, and de
clared that they bad all been removed by mili
tary authority. D’Alvigny now threw open the
door where liis hospital attendants had been
sleeping, and who, it need hardly be said, had
been instructed iu their parts. In a moment the
apartment resounded with the most dreadful
groans and appeals ior help). The officer ended
the interview giving D’Alvigny until daybreak to
get the men removed, after witnessing this sight
but when that time arrived the danger was over.
Sherman’s army had already commenced its
line of march southward.
The most obvious characteristic of the place
is the energy and life there is about its inhabi
tants, and the honest, fair and friendly dealing
amongst them. The next is the extraordinary
number of citizens dressed in spun-truck and
homespun, and whom you would rather imagine
to be lresh importations from obscure back-
woods villages than leading business men ot a
place containing over 30,000 inhabitants. This
l itter fact is readily accounted for by its history.
The whole of the present city sold for a horse
twenty years ago, and the inhabitants had to
come from somewhere. The rise of Atlanta
was at the cost of most of i he interior towns
and villages that were any w here in the vicinity
of the rising city. Their inhabitants were
sucked into the limits of Atlanta like vessels in
a malestrom, and this in spite ot frequent and
sometimes deserved ridicule from older towns—
themselves not uufrequently the sufferers from
the growth of the young rival. The conse
quences oi this gourd vine prosperity can be
readily detected in the neighboring villages, even
at a hundred miles distant The houses look
old and uupainted, though frequently 1 toasting
the poetic covering of honey-suckles and roses
All of the young men are disappearing, but in
stead you see an extraordinary number of young
girls, handsome and good looking, and at the
same time at a frightful loss to kuow T what to
do about husbands and beaux.
Atlanta, as you now find it, is totally unlike
any other Southern city. It is the city born of
secession in ber death throes—the piosperous
product of the dragon’s teeth; or if ever a
threadbare metaphor was worth using, she is the
Phoenix rising from her ashes. Aside from the
immense amount of goods, particularly ol West
ern produce, that are sold here, the place is in
teresting, as representing the fusion point after
the war of a great many hostile and opposing
faiths, and it consequently happens that the peo
ple here have more live ideas upon the subject
of business and politics, and are less subject to
old fogy prejudices on the one hand and carpet
bag ascendancy on the other of aDy place in the
South. N. B.
Wa publish* the following article from the
Atlanta New Era.
General Longstreet did his duty during the
war, and we are sorry to see such intolerance
manifested towards him, simply because he fa
vors the peaceful restoration of our common
country:
GEN. LONG3TREET AND HIS ASSAILANTS—GEN.
GRANT AND PEACE—THE CONSTITUTION.
None of the Confederate Generals of the same
rank could lay higher claims to military genius,
to integrity and purity of character as a man,
or to a higher place in the affections of the
Southern soldiery and people, than General
James Longstreet. Throughout the entire pe
riod of the war, lrom Manassas to Appomattox,
he discharged his whole duty to the cause
whereof he was a Martial representative. As a
Southern man and a rebel, he demeaned him
self as one “terribly in earnest." As a military
leader, be was second only to Stonewall Jack-
son. He planned and iougbt w th a precision
and an eainestntss which left no doubts as to
where his heart was in the great couthct; and
he yielded the point at issue only when the Con
federate Government ceased to exist—when its
civil head was a fugitive, aud his superior officer
(Gen. Lee) had made a formal surrender. He
acknowledged the validity of the decision thus
made; and like a true and a really brave man,
accepted the situation and advised acquiescence
and peace in accordance with the issue of the
war.
Under these circumstances, he could not do
less than advocate re-uniou upon the basis ot the
principles that had thus triumphed in the san
guinary struggle. As a man ot honor, be had
appealed to the highest tribunal known among
men ; anu, as a man ot honor, he could uot do
less than abide by the decision of that tribunal.
Hence, he became a reconstructionist. That is,
he advocated reconstruction upon the basis oi
the Congressional enactments ; not, as we are
to suppose, because those enactments were such
as be would have made, had he aud bis section
been in a position to dictate terms; but because,
bv the issue ol the war, tbe terms lay With the
Uuited Stales Congress, and not with the leaders
oi the rebellion. As a reconsti u> tionisi, he was
honest, si not re, unequivocal. When he “ac
cepted the situation,” he meant the situation as
it was, in ail its political aDd social bearings.
With such a man as Gen. Longstreet, there can
be no mental reservation, no trimming, no eva
sion, no hair splitting, when great and vital in
terests are at stake. As the restoration ot the
Union must precede peace and stable govern
ment, he honestly sought restoration ; and as this
restoration must be bad upon the terms of tbe
conquerer, and by no other, he accepted the
terms of the conquerer.
Being a representative man of the South, his
noble example was emulated by others ot his
section. It gave piomise ot that dawn of reason
under which prejudice, 4>assion and hale should
give place to nobler sentiments. It was an ear
nest of reconciliation ana good wiil atler a dis
astrous fratricidal suite. Il was such an exam
ple as only a truly brave man cau give; and it
has been met by the great captain ot the (late)
opposing army, only as a truly brave and great
man could meet it 1' Gen. Longstreet has been
maligned by the small men ol his section for his
noble example as peace maker, Gen. Grant has
been maligned by the little minds ot his section
ior reeogniziug that example; Little minds have
snapped and snarled horn both sides; t*Cause
little minds are averse to great and noble ac
tions. Gen. Longstreet might have sealed bis
lips and floated upon the popular current of lo
cal public opinion—wholly indifferent to the
great iuture of his section and people. Gen.
Grant might have appointed a “carjiet bagger”
Surveyor of Customs in New Orleans* and thus |
Men like Longstreet sod Grant naturally rise
above the petty fends of an hoar. They out
never stultify themselves by deKending to the
ephere ot the pipviiicial demagogue, end pur
chase the popularity of an hour by the folly ol
a century. And whibt Gen. Longstreet may
be (for the time being) "politically damned” in
tbe estimation of Democratic bullies and provin
cial rowdies, be wilt live in tbe hearts ot his
countrymen when the blind follies ot the bullies
and rowdies shall have been forgotten together
with their authors!
Iu conclusion, we remark that it the Gmutita-
tion will refute the facts herein above stated, we
shall cheerfully give place to its article in these
columns. Without intending anything per
sonally offensive, we mast be allowed to say that
we consider the attack of that paper upon Gen.
Longstreet as unwarrantable, nnwise and shame-
tul.
Personal — *' The Athens (Teas.) Post.'*
The presence in oar sanctum, yesterday morn
ing, of our old friend—Mr. Bam. P. Ivins—the
Editor ot the Athens (Tenn.) Post, gave us much
pleasure. Most heartily diu we greet, and wel
come him to our city. His visit revived old and
agreeable memories, when an almost expatriated
citizen of Tennessee, he sat by our side in the
Intelligencer office, and labored for the pub
lic weal in ita columns. Time, however, re
stored him to his home where he soon resumed
the publication of his “ Athens Post,” one of the
most popular weekly journals in Tennessee pre
vious to the late war, and which is held now in
the same popular estimation. Of all our weekly
exchanges lrom that Stale, the “ Post ” is one
of the most interesting to us. It is always “rare,
rich, and racy.” “ Sam ”—he will pardon us for
being so familiar—is one ol the cleverest iellows,
and gets up one of the most readable papers in
bis* sectidn of tbe great State lrom whence be
bails—never tiling in his vocation, always sensi
ble anil practical. W^%re gratified to know
that the “ Post” is in ^flourishing condition,
having a good circulation in East Tennessee,
which is daily increasing. As an advertising
medium, we commend it to the merchants and
business men generally of Atlanta. Mr. Ivins
will remain in the city no longer than to-day.
“ May his shadow never grow less! ’
Southern (?) Commercial Convention.—It
looks very much as it the" North was about to
• take possession ot this Convention and run it to
suit its own purposes—it it can. New York
and Pennsylvania have appointed large and in
flueDtial delegations, and the latest announce
ment is that Ex President Millard Fillmore “wil!
attend and preside over the Convention.” The
authority for this statement is not given. It any
Northern man is to preside over our Convention,
Fillmore will, perhaps, be the most acceptable,
but really we think, in view of the great inter
ests to be advanced, the body should be Southern
in its organization and all its action. There is
not the slightest objection to the attendance oi
enterprising public men from the North, and
we should be pleased to have the benefit of their
experience and counsel, but we do object, most
decidedly, to giving them control of the Con
vention and the authoritative decision of ques-
• lions that will come belore it.
We clip the foregoing from the Savannah
Republican. Similar views were expressed by
this journal a day or two ago. The Georgia
delegation to the Convention will have to watch
well the movements of that body when it pro
ceeds to deliberate and plan out the policy, or
policies it will propose to inaugurate Let them
see to it that their State and Seaports are not
“left out in the cold.”
Tbe Gold Market la New York.
There has been a great rise in tbe market val
ue of gold in New York lor a week past. Duriog
that time it has advanced seven per cent. Tbe
cause no one seems to know. Some attribute it
to speculation, while others declare there is
reason and necessity for it. This, with the de
pression in cotton makes the money market not
only tight in New York, but all over the coun
try, North as well as South. 8
Cities.
The Richmond Enquirer says “that Baltimore
is the Monumental city; St. Louis is the Mound
city; Philadelphia is the Quaker city ; New
York is tbe Empire city ; Federicksburg is the
finished city ; Petersburg is the big city ; and
Richmond is the city of Brass Bands, consisting
principally of a drum and one tune.”
And Atlanta is the “ Gate City,” opening her
gale to receive and never closing it against the
enterprising and the honest.
Eneltoh Cotton Growing.
It is staled on English authority that “over
thirteen hundred thousand Hindoos and three
hundred thousand Egyptians have perished
within the last five years from starvation con
sequent upon the forced cultivation of cotton
instead of bread.”
Cotton that is grown at such fearful loss ol
life, can never successfully compete with that
grown in the Southern States. God, and hu
manity alike, forbid it.
Water for ifeo City.
The attention of our city readers is directed
to the following comma nication. It sorely does
not require any extended remarki from this jour
nal to induce our city authorities to act promptly
upon a matter ol so much, of such vital, impor
tance to our city. We can assure them, how
ever, that the citizens ol Atlanta, whatever its
authorities may contemplate doing, are not
behind them in recognizing a necessity tor
prompt action. More water—and an abundant
supply of It—must be had, elee will the health
ot the city suffer, and another Sherman confla
gration some day will reduce it again to ashes:
Nor lbs Atlanta Intelligencer.
WATER WORKS;
The loss by the late fire in this city has been
estimated at $100,000. It is easy to see that this
at ten per cent, would be the interest on a mil
lion. It is true that this great loss has to be
borne by the owners, occupiers, and insurers ol
the property destroyed, and not by the citizens
generally. Here the question very naturally
comes up, is it wisdom, taking the corporation
as capable of acting in the premises, that a tew
of our enterprising citizens should from time to
time be constantly liable to snch a loss without
an effort to save them lrom it ? As your city is
now supplied with water, it is evident that at
any moment some $25,000, $50,000, or even a
million may have to go the same way. You
have a most efficient tire department, but what
can it do without an abundant supply of water ?
Whi n your firemen roused from midnight slum
bers have run a quarter, half, or mile with their
cumbrous machines to a fire they of course have,
as good firemen do, to consider their resources,
knowing their locality and the supply of water
available. Il the fire is ahead of them, they are
in many instances obliged to “let it burn,” and
devote themselves and the water they can con
trol to the saving of adjacent property. If the
supply was abundant and they had confidence
in it, the case would be different, they could
then “pi’eb in” with some hope of confining the
fire to the house in which it originated, and by
being ‘ sharp and quick,” as they usually are,
save thousands ot dollars with a tithe of the
labor they have now to bestow upon fires of
several hours duration and without the vexation
and disappointment, etc., incident to the ex
hausting of cisterns or breaking down of pumps.
I see by your paper you are in earnest as to
supplying the city with water, and I hope your
fellow-citizens will sustain you and secure them
selves effectually against tbe “tender mercies” of
the incendiaries and the insurance companies,
and en joy the personal comfort of having clean
faces and hands (or rather more than ten con
secutive minutes every day.
Water Wobks.
A Novel Legal Firm.
The Chicago Times says that “Madame Myra
Brad well, one of the strong-minded sisterhood
in Chicago, is about to be admitted to the bar
as au attorney and councellor-at-law. Judge
Bradwell, the husband of Madame Bradwell,
will be retired in November next from the bench
ot the county court, and as he don’t know much
law himself, he naturally will want a partner
in the profession. The stylo of the new law
firm will probably be: “Myra Bradwell & Hus
band.”
We Eater too Oar Protect.
The Macon paper, says the Savannah Repub
lican “proposes that exploits equestrianism by
ladies be a part of the exercises of our State
Fair. We hojie not. Modesty is tbe brightest
jewel in the Southern female character, and we
should regret to see our ladies exhibiting them
selves as a show on such an occasion. Fine
specimens ot handiwork, exploits in domestic
economy, essays on family affairs and other sub
jects that go to ennoble and elevate the sex
with their own pretty faces, are the best contri
butions they can make to such an exhibition.’
We, too, enter our protest against any such
exhibitions. The management of horses, and
skill id riding them, should be left to the “stern
er sex,” at all public exhibitions, fairs or the
race track.
Death of a "DlstluKulMbed Friend.’*
The Editor ot the Louisville Courier-Journal
informs his readers that “ Twenty-one hundred
and ninety-one years ago to day (Thursdaj) our
distinguished friend Demosthenes died by poi
son.”
We saw, the other day, another friend ot De
mosthenes who exhibited to us one of the peb
bles which that illustrious orator used when he
was practicing on the seashore to cure impede
meat in his speech. It was worn smooth from
use and age, and was purchased with a large
sum at an auction iu .Paris lor the sale of “ his
torical curiosities.”
The Colored People—They Think of Go
ing Weal.
A met ting ot colored men was held in Nash
vide, on Monday evening, to take into consider
ation the project of an exodus of the colored
men fiom Nashville to the West. A Mr. Garter
moved that, a committee ot nine be appointed to
prepare for a convention ot the colored people
of Tennessee, to consider the propriety of emi
grating to the West After considerable disor
der, tbe chairman pnt the motion, when some
one arose and “ruled the chair out of order,” but
the question was finally put, when the ayes and
noes was so crowded together that it was im
possible to decide, and the motion was finally
lost by raising ot the hands
Rhcdall Brown then said: "I trust that the
honorable colored men here will not conduct
themselves in such a manner as to cause the
reporters to say we had a pow wow. I did not
wish to say so much now, but I am driven to
the brink; my heart bleeds for my people.
There are many of us here who have a house
ami home, but how many of us arc there who
have no root-tree to cover them that they can
call their own. We Lave low some fifteen
thousand colored men in tbis'fcioinity, and God
alone knows how they are supported now, and
bow they are to exist in the future. Let as go
to some place where we exercise our brain
and mnscle, and the gifts that God has given us
to make os a people. How long are we to be
hewers of wood and drawers of water ? Let us
take a place in society. I have a bouse and
home, it is true, but I do not value it as one. cent
where the welfare of my colored fellow men is
concerned. Thousands are crowding to the
West and in a short time u will all be tilled up,
and then where in the name of God are you
going to? ”
[from the Boston Herald.
The Woman JamplM-She Perform* An
other WonierlM Peat.
Recently we published the particulars of a
jumping match that the young people of Dor-
cliestt r had made up between a young man of
some local reputation as a jumpist, named
Michael Flynn, and a young girl of light figure
and quite prepossessing appearance, named
Katie Murphy. At this trial Katie won the
purse with a leap of ten feet 9£ inches. Her
antagonist and his friends were not satisfied,
nnd believed that Katie could yet be outjumped.
Yesterday arrangements were made for another
trial ot their jumping abilities, and in the pres
ence of some four hundred people the match
came off duriog the allernoon. As Katie made
her appearance, clad in her jaunty little jumping
costume, she was greeted with many hearty
cheers by the crowd. In tossing up for the fiist
jump the man won, and at once took his posi
tion, and straining every nerve made a leap ot
ten feet 6J iuches, receiving great applause for
his effort. It was Katie’s turn next, and she
came to the scratch very unconcernedly, and
taking her position, apparently with great ease
made a leap of ten feet and 8 inches. This was
discoaraging to the Flynnites, and their man
sold low in the pools. Time was again called,
when Fiynn made another leap ot 10 feet 9
iuches and won the heat, as Katie
jumped again right into her old tracks,
making only 10 feet and 8 inches. Here
was encouragement lor the Flynn party, and
they put out their stamps more freely. After a
few moments’ delay tbe third and last jump was
called. Every one was on tip-toe, and both
parties confident Flynn came to the scratch
well braced and well cheered, and like Sampson
of old bowing himself with all his might, made
the leap, clearing only 10 feet and 9 inches.
There was a moment of suspense, and anxiety
was mirrored in every face save Katie’s. She
seemed perfectly calm and not the least excited.
Nimbly she walked up to the line, with much
gracefulness took her position amid a most pro
found silence. Scanning carefully the ground
she suddenly bounded off like a youDg fawn,
making the extraordinary leap ot eleven feet
two and one halt inches. Cheers then rent tbe
air and the pretty and happy little champion
was nearly overcome with the greeting ot her
exultant triends. One gentleman who had $400
on the match, came forward and presented her
with a $50 note, lor which she most kindly
ihanked him. Tbe match was for a purse ol
$300, which was at once turned over to the vic
torious Katie. It is mooted that the defeated
parly are about to bring out another young girl
and match her against the little champion
Katie.
The Noblest Problem In Astronomy—Tbe
Transit ot Venus.
The Saturday Review states that the English
government has appropriated £10,500 to equip
expeditionary corps to be sent out to various
parts ot the world to observe the transit ot Venus
across the sun’s disc iu 1874,and thus aid in tbe
solution ot a problem in which all humanity
is redirect ly interested. The problem which has
to be solved, which the Astronomer Royal has
well < ailed “ the noblest problem in astronomy,’
is the sun’s distance lrom the earth.
THE PRESS EXCURSION*
Parana — Jacksonville — Oxford Iron
WorMO—Talladega—Selma.
Dear Intelligencer : Patona is located
just over the Georgia line, and about forty milee
lrom Rome. The company have purchased be
tween two and three thousand acres of land, on
which it is proposed to erect the shop, now tem
porarily located at Selma. The town is named
in compliment to Mr. Paton, one of its Direc
tors. The site is well chosen, being elevated,
(over 700 feet above tide water,) and while gen
erally nearly level, is undulating enough for
drainage and contiguous to running water. It
is also in close proximity to coal and iron fields,
and as healthy as any locality in the South.—
Patona must one day become a place of con
siderable note, as the shop alone fo* a railway
nearly 250 miles long, will form a nucleus and
basis for a population of several thousands, and
ol course be a good cash market for the surplus
products of the neighboring larmers.
Just below, Jacksonville, the county site of
Calhoun (formerly Benton) county, is past—the
town being about a mile from the line, but its
church spires stand out in fine relief against the
horizon. Jacksonville contains about 1,500 in
habitants, does a thriving business and supports
a weekly paper.
About 90 miles from Rome, we stopped at
the depot located on the edge of the prosperous
town ot Talladega, county site of the county
of the same name. This place claims a popu
lation ot some 3,500, and is located in a county
which, though rich in mineral wealth, is also
one of the most lertile agricultural sections in
the South. That it is a thrifty, intelligent and
wide-awake place and section, may be inferred
when it is stated that three large and well con
ducted weekly papers are handsomely sup
ported.
Between Jacksonville and Talladega, we pass
ed the ruins of the splendid furnaces at Oxford,
which, as viewd from the cars, present a most
imposing appearance; indeed, they look like a
deserted castle. Here, embraced within the
same masonry, are the remains of four furnaces,
which once produced daily sixteen tons ol
choice pig iron, and which had a capacity of
thirty two. The ore is known as black oxide,
and very rich The accommodating Superin
tendent stopped the traiu long enough to afford
such of the party as wished to do so an oppor
tunity to visit the furnaces.
We next stopped at Shelby Springs, where
the party enjoyed themselves hugely in drink
ing and commenting on the merits and delicious
ness of tne bubbling liquid. Its medicinal vir
tues have given it a wide-spread reputation, and
its remedial properties are regarded as very
valuable. Not being an invalid, a very small
quantity of it served to quench thirst. Here a fine
supper was provided, which having been pro
perly cared for by the hungry excursionists, they
reseated themselves, and the train was soon on
its way to Selma.
We arrived at Selma about midnight, where
the ever-thonghtful care ot Superintendent
Barnet had numberless carriages in waiting to
convey his guests (he captured Superintendent
Hulbert, and his entire corps at PatoBa,) to
the well-spread tables at the Troup House,
where a collation awaited us.
The next iorenooD, (Tuesday 31st) the streets
of Selma were fairly alive with the numerous
vihicles which had been secured, driving through
the principal streets of the city, filled with mem
bers of tbe party. Selma is situated on an ele
vated and level plateau, laid off with wide streets
running at right angles. There are many beau
tiful residences^ and a number of commodious
and substantially-built store aud warehouses.
Surrounded by a rich agricultural country, con'
nected by rail and water with rich coal andiron
deposits, and the Gulf of Mexico, Selma ought
to become one of the most flourishing and pop
ulous inland cities in the South.
It is to be feared, however, she does not fully
appreciate ber advantages. For instance : At
the close ot the war there was an immense debris
there, consequent upon the destruction of the
extensive and costly foundries and machine shops
used by tbe Confederate Government. The in
vestment of about $100,000 would have reinsta
ted them, giving employment to about 2000 la
borers, which would have formed the basis ot a
population of 10,000 persons. Supported by
that labor—to say nothing of additional thou
sands these would have attracted, ot other
vocations.
Bat the capitalists of Boston,.Mass., discover
ing the superior quality of the iron, came for
ward, bought, dug up, and transported to Mas
sachusetts the vast quantity buried in the ruins,
where it was manufactured, and, in all proba
bility, returned to us for cotton and more- iron,
wiih all tbe costs ot transportation and manu
facture added!
Alter a pleasant sojourn ol nearly half a day
oa Tuesday, at Selma, during which time the
entire parly w as generously entertained. We
resumed our liaiu, and, before “high meridian”
turned.our course towards home. J. 8. P.
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RT THE PRESENT ROUTE.
From Augusta taAMsatiu Ga
•* Atlanta to flalt«n. Ga
•« Lai too to Knoxville, Tenn
“ AngMta to Knoxville... 381 “
Difference In favor of the Clayton route 7~53 “
The true distance front Augusta to Louisville
Ky., by the two routes, are as follows : *
•> VU ATLANTA.
Freak Augusta to Atlanta... 171 miles
“ From Atlanta to Chattanooga las “
“ ch«ttanooga to Nashvijie 161 “
“ Uaihville to Louisville 135 «
Total
.645
VIA ATHENS AND CLAYTON.
From Augusta to Claston..... 191 >•
•* Claytoa to KilotVtlle . 134 ..
•* Knoxville to Kentucky Line... t6 «
“ Kentucky Line to London- the present ter
minus of the Lebanon branch of the
Louisville aud Nashville Railroad.... 40 “
« London to Loutsvil.e 144
675 “
Difference in fhvorol the Clayton route <y
These tables exhibit, at a glance, the advan-
tage for through freight aud travel ol the Clay
ton over the present roule. Ol tbe 134 miles
between Clayton and Knoxville, eighteen are
finished and in running order. Ot the 66 miles
from Knoxville to the Kentucky line, 4(j are
finished and in use. .
That the Atheus and Clayton road will be
built, sooner or later, we do not doubt; but in
our opinion, the s.>oner the beittr lor Augusta
and the Georgia Railroad. The problems now
are: First Whether the Georgia Railroad Com
pany should assume the work,making it an exten
sion of their Athens branch. Second. Whether
the road shall be built by an independent corpo
ration, with the aid ol the Georgia Railroad,
backed up by subscriptions from the peo
ple of Augusta, Athens and the counties through
which it would run. These problems are lor
future solution and cau be solved without much
trouble. The prime necessity ot the present
hour is to keep alive tbe sentiment ot piogiess
which has exhibited itself in this matter. We
rejoice to see that the people ot Northeastern
Georgia are lully aroused to their duly and in
terests. A public meeting at Athens is called
for on the 2d of October to consider this pro
ject. We would respectfully suggest that
our City Council appoint one or two of
its members or some citizens that are not
officially connected with the municipality, to
be present at this meeting. A gen
erous subscription by the people ail along the
route will greatly contribute to the prompt con
summation ot this enterprise. So much are we
impressed witli the superior advantages ot this
new route that it will not be unreasonable to
predict for it a destiny greater even than the
Georgia Railroad as il now pushes onward to
the West. We leel confident that, in something
like ten years hence, the new line will even sur
pass the old one as a business thoroughfare;
that the Athens and Clayton will be the main
trunk ol which the Georgia Road will be a mighty
branch. This view might seem a visionary one,
if indulged iu by us alone. But it is lully eu-
dorsed by one of the grandest aud most sa
gacious minds in the State. Let the good work
go on.—Augusta Constitutionalist.
Mr. Pendleton on (be 15th Amendment.
This great democratic leader in a speech re
cently delivered by him in Cincinnati objects to
the ratification of the 15th Amendment lor the
following novel reasons:
“I object to its adoption because it is part aDd
parcel ot a scheme to flood the country with a
forced inajwtation ot an immense number ol
Chinese Coolies, and to bring into oar alien
races a more difficu.t form of the social and
govet omental questions that have so unhappily
divided our people.”
Sickles, Sp<.lu and Cuba.
The Madrid papers, our Northern exchanges
tell os, remain deeply agitated by the Sickles
note. The Cabinet was discussing the proprie
ty ot returning the note to Minister Sickles, but
waited advice from Prim. A London journal
advises the American Senate not to confirm Gen.
Sickles’ appointment to Madrid, intimates that
his diplomatic experience is insufficient iu the
Cuban difficulty, and alledges that the island
revolutionists have not attained any success to
entitle them to recognition as belligerents. The
home organ of the English tories is more cau
tions in its expression en the Cuban question,
but inclines towards the cause oi Spain.
Another dispatch states that General Sickles
has withdrawn his note.
It is rumored also in Washington that Spain
had intimated that intervention on our part in
lavor ot Cuba would call for a declaration oi
war, and that in consequence our government
was discussing the propriety of disavowing
Minister Sickles’s note.
Several others had their say pro and con,
have appeased the prejudices ot little minds • when Randall Brown moved “that a meeting be
North—wholly indifferent as to whether tne I called next Monday night to consider the pro-
Union should ever be restored other than iu
name and by brute force.
Such, however, can never be the policy of
those who have the calibre of true greatness.— j Herald.
priety ot pre-empting land in the West,” which
was carried almost unanimously.
The meeting then adjourned.—Knoxville Press
The Nlae D. s. Ureail JaOcesfcipe.
Quite & struggle is going on quietly for the
nine U. S. Circuit Judgeships created by an act
of Congress last Spring. These positions are
regarded as very desirable by lawyers who wish
to retire from laborious practice at the bar, and
this class in general are seeking the nominations.
It is believed, however, that the President will
not name the appointees until Oongrewcoa-
venes.
Flanking the State Road.
The State Road is the property of the people
of Georgia—paid for with their money, and con
structed for their benefit. Every attempt, there
fore, made by rival enterprises in and out of the
Slate, to destroy its value by diverting from it
trade and travel, has hitherto, and we have no
doubt will still be, jealously guarded against by
our Legislature and the officials of the State into
whose bands its management is entrusted. W e
know ol no road now in contemplation, which
il constructed, will more effectually deprive ihe
State Road of travel and freight, thus lessoning
its resources, than the one to which reference is
made in the following article. It will effect too,
seriously, the interests ol Atlanta and that ol
our seaports, benefiting Charleston, to a large
extent, at the expense ot Savannah and Bruns
wick. The reader will require but little more
to convince him of this, it he will take the trou
file to peruse carefully the article to which we
refer, and which appeared as a leading editorial
in the Constitutionalist of Friday morning last.
Forewarned, the State should be forearmed, in
reierence to this flank movement against the in
terests ol her own great railroad, and we place
the ai tide before our readers that they may see
the danger ahead, and prepare to guard against
it:
FROM ATHENS TO CUVTON.
Prominent among the many projected Rail
ways in and through our State, the pro-rosed
road horn Athens to Ciayton must be ranked
second to none Its importance to Augusta and
to the 8« clion through which il would pass is ot
a magnitude at once considerable and beyond
dispute. Connecting with the Blue Ridge Rail
way—now an assured tact—tbe Athens and
Clayton route will push on to Knoxville, Ten
nessee, and Louisville, Kentucky, by a line more
direct than any in use. AH parties with whom
we have recently conversed concede that this
road must and will be built; the question as to
tbe completion being only one of time, and the
perfection ot such diplomacy as will harmonize
tbe different interests to be benefitted thereby.—
The apparent indifference hitherto manifested
toward this project by the people of
Augusta and the representatives oi the
Georgia Railroad was caused by the un
certainly banging over (lie affairs of the Blue
Ridge route. Until the completion oi the Blue
Ridge road, the buiidiug of tbe Athens and
Clayton liue would have been financial folly.—
Now, however, since the Blue Ridge road will
be certainly finished, our people are awakening
to this momentua schema The Directors of the
Georgia Railroad have shown their appreciation
of its importance by causing a survey to be made
of the route. This survey, just accomplished,
shows that tbe distance between Athens and
Ciayton is seventy-eight miles. It is presumable
that an estimate oi the cost oi building over thi»
gap will soon follow the estimate of the distance.
The distance from Athens to Clayton having
been ascertained, we are enabled to give the
true distances from Augusta to Knoxville and
Louisville by the new route in contemplation as
compared with the present route.
BY WAT OF CLAYTON.
From Augusta to Athens, Ga lie miles
' Athens to Clsjtoa. Ga. 73 “
Clayton to Knoxville, Tenn 134 ••
Augusts to Knoxville 339 “
From the Griffin Star.
Au Original Democrat ou Angler.
We have an old friend in the country who
has an idea that he can write for the press, and
he sends us the following communication which
we turned over to our boss compositor, who got
drunk by way of preliminary. The proof was
never read in this world, and probably never
will be:
LETTER FROM JIM GOOBER-GRABBLER.
8andy Plane, Oglethorp Kounty, Ga.
I reckun the boss ov this maden newspaper
produckshun is a dimykrat, boose virehu old
Jule Seizer cood knot impune. For thurty yers
Jeems Goober-gr&bbler haz never mist an eleck-
shun nor skraebt a tycket. Awl this tyme mi
religgun haz bin to hayte yankie pedlurs and
schule masters. Thare air 3 anymals whose
instyncts are the same in every member of
the brede: mules, niggers and yankies air
the wuns I meen. In karacter thyr aint no
difference alween wone niggur and awl tbe
bailance uv niggurs. 80 wytb mewls and
yankeys. I admyt that sum ov the latter hav
more impudentz than othurs. I seed the wuu
that taks the rag oph the bush for impudentz in
thys Empyre 8taiL He’s got a red hed. Sense
he's bin in Gorja he kalis hisseli Angyer, an be
boles the orfis that Joodas helled att the tyme
ov bis death, an sum Raddykills sa he’s guilt/
ov the trick tor which Joodas hung hisseli—
bemud his boss. 1 don’t perfes toe B lamed in
ettikett, but 1 knows wat looks wrigbt, an wat
looks rong wen I sees em. An raly I’m boun
ter sa that the baulfased impudents of Angyer in
writen letters for newspapers dereckted to tbe
“People of Gorja” is not ekalled by Bow Hiek-
man’sshrudest dodje. Tbe imperdeDt kuss tauks
to the people az it tha knowed him an az it lha
keered a dryed appel d—n how much his boss
Builurk purcekuted him. Know doubt Angyei^
kongratulates hisself on the ijea that he haz dun
sumthin smart bi his noospaper artykles. But
he’s barkin up the rong tie. He may whyne
till dumsday lur simperthy, but he won’t git
nary simperthy. Goijins maynt B az kute as
yankeys, yet tha kno enuff bout law tew kno
that noospaper artykles is knot the wa to tri law
800ts. Et Angyer has broke ther law, lett him
answer to ther law like a gron np man an knot
be disgustio thenaberhood bi blatin likeayerlin
kalt, beggin simperthy kase that big Builurk is
a hook in him. It wus bad enuff lur Angyer ter
persnme ter addres ther People, but wben be in-
sultz ther kommon sense by speclin um to swal-
ler sutcb sturt az he rites, he dubbles his krime
and choaks doun ther simperty yonsnally be-
stoed on ther lowsiest kalves, when hoocked bi
beter fed or more vaiooable kattle. In the lust
plase he mtermates tbat hiz indervidna) kredit
was beter than ther grate Stait ot Gorja. He
“rezorted ter hiz indervidual kredit” ter borer
muny for ther Staff. He cood borer butt Gorja
cood knot. I don’t beleve a durutd ward ov
that. The publik det ov Goija iz less bi meny
myliona than uiher Bothurn Staffs, an I ko hur
kredit iz beter thad eny pursin what has nuthin
but what he maid speckleatin on ther mislor-
tuns ov ther peeple whyle tbe Goober-grabber
tamyli wus follerin the fortun ot war in Virginy.
Angyer, don’t vecks the people by repetin tbat
falsthood or you mite hev a chants tew raze a
new krop ov hare—purhaps it wont B red next
tyme.
Angyer axes ther people tu take hiz word for
ther trooth ov assersbun that B4 biz elecsbun as
Tresyrer, be bad “legle awthourity for the be-
leet that he cood put the rent ov the people’s
muney in hiz own bag (Joodas Iscariot invent
ed the bag) Gorjans dont take that yarn.—
What legie awtbouriiy” did you konsult ? How
cood a lawyer hev told you U would B intitled
’o the inluiest when tbe Coad sea ptauely tbat
it shall go to a 3peahal tuu. We air expected to
bleeve Angyer when he now speki s of bis rite
to this inturest as a matter ov“dout.” Old Liuk-
jioinyuseJ to be reemimied ov a a lory by evry
ockurenls. Angyer’s wbiuings iemynds me ov
a curkumstants wbitcb happened in wun ov
hour backwud's chuches. Fully Letslip wus a
member ov ther chcrcb, wuz a mother, and
and stood in need ov a Liu bon, wbitcb she nev
er bad. At quarterly meeliu sum ov ther nwr-
ied murtilers cum with atones to stone Polly,
whych wuz bout to be dun, when
Polly’s mmther cum to ber resque with the
confesshun tbat altho Polly did hev a baby, an
tbe pour little thiug bed no dady, yet it wua “ a
mity littel wuu.” So with Angyer; be koufts-
ses to bev tuk inturust which did not blong to
hym; yet, it wuz only $336 10. Mister Edytur,
dont yu think Angyer haz siued just uz much hz
had Polly Letslip? Polly wuz lernd outin tne
cnurch, notwitbstaodin her baby wuz uiiiy lit
tle. Smart liars seldum tell onreesunable rales.
I cant giv Angyer kredit fur bein a smart y.muer.
Ef he wuz smart hisself, or didna konsiuer awl
Gorja a set ov damiules, he wud teh yarns that
wer plawsible. He wud make hiz kouuieileits
look jcnuwme. But biz hze dont look like the
trewtn. Et the unsuppoted ch.rge abont that
$17 000 wbal Boullurke and the Nasbuual hank
muz troo, who bleevi-s that ihe kasliyur vvuff
hev loald tbe sekrel to Aueyt 1 ? uot mutch.
l’m reddy to pitch iatu BuiJurk, hut I want
sumthin that looks rasbonal Angyer s<s tha
told him he cood make $100,000 bi s oin iu with
Builurk. Pshaw, Angjer, yer know you wood
go in with Builurk tcr-morrer, it yer cood see a
$100,000 under the thimble, aud beieeved it wood
be ther wben yer tried to pic it up. E her know-
body toald yer so or you cood not see the $100,-
000. The man that konlesete to $336 10 kant
make a Goobbergrabber bleeve he wood not
gonble $100,000 et be tied a good chants.
We, anuykrata, mister edytur, kno whar An
gyer’s pane iz. We onterrjtied made him bc-
Jeeve we was gwine to upset inis Suit govern
ment an run it az r dimykrratic merchine, ami
he raized a rumpus with Builurk in the hopeov
carryin tbe bag for hour party. We dont unud
yousia sucth critturs, but Simon-pure dimykrata
nevur onor ’em with orfis.
A word ov advice to onexperienced politfebuus
and othurs: The man what expects to g;.ne a
law-soot by noospaper appeals to popilar preju
dish generally, has a bad kace. AwJ hekan say
aginst hiz opponent kannot lessen inz gait.
Yours, Goobkrgkabbkk.
In hearing of how law is administered in some
parts of the country, we are occasionally remind
ed of the expression of Jerold, “ Law is a bright
babe begotten by Wisdom upon Justice.” Well,
we often wonder if the babe has not been ex
changed since tbe war. But it is right. Justice
has been^ vindicated, if litig ttion is| to be—
gorged.