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‘ERROR CEASES TO BE DANOUROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jetferson.
VOLUME XXII
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1(5. 1870.
NUMBER 7.
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PilHLihUED DAILY AND WEEKLY BY
JARED IRWIN WHITAKER,
1‘roprietor.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, February 10, 1870,
A HI aeon Slander Mill.
Macon, Februnry 7.—Great indignation is
manttesud bv (he people over the statement of
the Allan's Intelligencer, a pretended Demo
cratic p:ip 'r, that they endorse tbe designs of
the Bullock faction. The Intelligencer is in
tbe pay of Bullock The people ask Congress
to give them the benefit of a fair construction of
tbe act to promote reconstruction, and save them
from plunder and ruin. The people ask Con
gress to carry out its own act in good faith.
The foregoing audacious and lying telegraphic
dispatch was transmitted to this and other
papers connected with the Associated Press, on
Mondsy night last. Seeing that it originated
in Macon, we waited patiently the arrival
of the only daily paper now pnbliahed in
that city, to see iroin whence the reporter of
it derived the information he had the audacity
to communicate to the presses he. intnat capacity,
represents. We expected he had, possibly
some authority from “ the ptop’e ” for whom he
bad the presumption to speak, to represent tbe
Intelligencer as he did, but save a miserable
diatribe from the pen of some of the editors of
the Macon Telegraph & Messenger on the comae
of this journal—to whom we shall pay cur re
spect in our next issue—we saw nothing to war
rant his assumption nor fiis slanders. If that
reporter at Ms con wil l only continue as it appears
he has b«gun, in the dispatch we Lave placed at
the head of this notice, he will be sure to become
as notorious for slander, and as unworthy of the
position be holds, as was ever the most venal
and bought-up reporter any telegrapbic company
has ever had in its employ. What he has re
ported in his dispatch concerning the Intelli
gencer, is devoid of*all truth ; and did we not
feel convinced, that the dispatch itself was insti
gated by an outside and malicious influence, not
altogether confined to Macon, we would deal
with him in harsher terms than we have done.
Talk oil “ slander mill,” why the man who
penned (he telegraphic dispatch referred to is
capable of running a dozen such mills, each of
the greatest power to scandalize, and doubtless
would engage to do so, if any company would
risk the keeping of him in its employment
A <tempt or Senator* to Vorce Attorney
General Hoar to Healgn.
The Seoatois, says the Washington corres
pondent of the New York Herald, who defeated
the nomination of Attorney General Hoar for
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, are now
devising wnys and means to get him out of the
Cabinet. Some of them have made bold efforts
to inform the President that Hoar’s presence is
a weakness to the administration, and that its
success, not less than that ot the Republican
party, demands his retirement. The President,
it is understood, refuses to coerce Hoar to re
sign ; at least he has given no encouragement to
induce the belief thai he will do so. It is not
thought possible, in view of the decided vote on
bis rejection acd the personal assaults that have
been made upon him, that lie can remain in the
Cabinet. Il is staled that in case Hoar resigns
he will be nominated tor a foreign mission, per
haps Minisier to Prussia in place of Bancroft,
who, it is said, will be retired.
It la 1
Said in some quarters that it is somewhat con
sidered with some would be leaders that the
question will be made before tbe proper tribu
nals whether President Grant or the Congress
of the United blates shall any longer exercise
any auibority whatever within the limits ot
Georgia. This may or may not be; but we ap
prehend the sun will still rise, as usual, in the
East, and set in the West, and ihat Georgia will
be restored as a member of tbe Union of States
under the new state of things.
PsivmsI Goaaly.
Juarez Is on his last legs.
Fechter is still drawing crowded houses in
“ AsKxnos Eassts, tub Copt,”—This is tbe
title of a “ Romance ot Modern Egypt," by
Edwin Db Leon, late United States Consul-
General for Egypt, whose connection with the
press for many years has made him personally
known and popular in tbe South. Through the
publishers, J B. Lippiucotl & Co., of Philadel
phia, wo have received advance sheets of the
forthcoming work, and augur Irom them, that,
when published, it will create quite a sensation
in literary circles, and become one ot the most
popular literaiy efforts ol the day. As the resi
dent Consul-General at Egypt, tor the United
States, Mr. De Leon bad superior advantages
for studying the character of the modern Egyp
tian, and obtaiuiug information which weaved
Into romance, unist make his hook a valuable
contribution to (be literature of the day. He is
besides, a brilliant writer, the fire of true genius
sparkling from his pen. We shall look tor his
forthcoming book with much interest.
The XIX Century.—We have received the
February number ot this most excellent maga
zine, and have read every line ot it with much
gratification. “ The tetorm and the Sunset" by
Henry Cleveland, is commenced in this number,
and bids fair to create excitement in Southern
literary circles. Ol it, the editor writes :
Our continued story, “The Storm and the
Sunset,” progresses finely, and we have now all
ol the manuscript betore us. From the average
to the page, it has 164,880 words, and has yet
several months to ruu. We have gone through
all of it, and can assure our readers (hat it is a
masterly plot. I< possesses that all but iegalac
curacy ot part with part, that underlies the suc
cess ot “Foul Pih\” aud “Griffin Gaunt” The
B lot is as aitistie as the “Mutual Friend” ot
'ickena
There are two ways iu which an author can
treat a story. One is to tAke the reader into bis
confidence so tar as to let the conclusion be
guessed at, and Lt the intere-t lie iu the man
ner of treatment. For instnuee, the lover will
surely get the girl—but how ? 1 he other is to
make each chapter aud character ot interest,
but require the leader to so 'ar trust the writer
as to believe that the relation ot each to ail will
be shown at last. Readers who do not see all
ot the varied threads that the sktiled weaver
holds iu Ins hands, oltcn ihiuk ihat he has them
in a hopeless tangle, or that the pattern woven
will not please them As the writer of “ Storm
and Sunset” has chosen the latter treatment, we
have .only to sty that he is a trained master ot
his arL Tuere is not a part, or cuarsctex, but is
an inseparable part oi the perfect whole ; and,
like the mishappen and lrasiuieniary pails ot a
Chinese puzzle, all will come to form aud shape
at last.
We are pleaded iu th s story to see fidelity to
reality in a milter generally ovt riooked. There
has a traditional myth come dowu to us trom
the old romances, that all true lovers are faith
ful, a d tha: hte can kuow but one great love.
That there arc such lives, aud such loves, we
admit; but it is the exception, not the rule. It
is hard to find a youth ot niueteen who has not
mote loves in his mt niory 'ban buttons on his
coat. Few gills thai have not had sweethearts
from babyhood; and he who mairiea to lips
that have uot been aact tiled by the kisses ot boy-
lovets, i* apt to have an undesirable article.
We cannot too highly command “The XIX
Century” to out readers. The subscription
price is only $3.50 per annum. Direct to the
publishers at Charleston.
Imoierauee.
The people ot Georgia have seen and wit
nessed great intolerance on the part ot certain
newspapers in the State tor the last three years,
and we do not taesiiafo to stale, that in our judg
ment, the pros ot Georgia has done more barm
to the people and country generally than any
other power or influence since the war. This
has been the result ot bad newspaper adminis
tration. L<ke all other business, its success and
usefulness always depends upon tbe honesty and
faithfulness ot those who conduct and control in
every department of business. We trust the day
will Again come when the people of Georgia can
boast ot a pure and undefi ed newspaper press
—a press that w ill tell the train and vindicate
tbe right.
Georgia, aud Teuoeuec.
The proposition made by Mr. Nisbet, of Dade,
a member ol our State Legislature, for the ap
pointment of Commissioners to visit the Con
vention and Legislature ot Tennessee, for the
purpose of negotiating tor tlie transfer of Chat
tanooga and part of that State’s territory adjacent
thereto, to Georgia, docs not seem to take well
with the Tennessee Legislature. On tbe contra
ry, we notice that a counter proposition was
made in the House of Representatives ot the
Legislature of that State, on Saturday last, by
one of iU members, Mr. .T imes, of Hamilton, in
the form of a preamble and a series of resolu
tions providing for the appointment of Com-
miasioners to visit Atlanta tor the purpose of
negotiating with tbe State authorities, whether
civil or military is not specified, for a large
slice of Northwestern Georgia. The Union dk
American Bays of this move. ** It will
be seen that the resolutions of Mr.
James, which are published in fall
in our Legislative proceedings, pledge to all
residing within the .desired limits all the bless
ings of civil and constitutional liberty enjoyed
by the citizens ot Tennessee, “ without regard
to race, color, or previous conditions oi military
servitude.’’ We can assure our Georgia neigh
bors that Tennessee has not the remotest iuea
ot parting with her “City of the Mountain and
the Flood.” It would certainly be more in con
sonance with the convenience of the residents
ot tbe territory (we intend no pun), that at least
those citizens of Georgia who have to come
through Tennessee to get to Atlanta should be
added to Tennessee, than that we should con
sent to a change ol oar boundaries, which would
occasion a yielding to another State of a termi
nus of two of our most important Railroads.”
We do not propose to question the conclusion
to which our Nashville cotemporary arrives in
regard to the proposed negotiations tor a slice
from either State. Deeming the present condi
tion of both States unfavorable to negotiations
of any kind, upon a question of so much impor
tance to each, we are for an “ indefinite post
ponement ’’ of it on the part of both legislatures,
and trust no committee will be appointed by tbe
Georgia Legislature to Tennessee until that
State shall have abandoned all idea oi adding a
portion of Georgia territory t > her own.
Georgia.
The telegraphic reports of yesterday morning
indicate that the action oi the Georgia Legisla
ture on tbe Morton Reconstruction bill, will be
acceptable to Congress, as it appears to be sat
isfactory, also, to tbe President. They indicate
even more than this—that the Legislature is pro
visional, and all of a political nature, that was
done before, even tbe election ot United States
Senators, will have to be done over again. Of
this, we never hud a doubt, and although, when
we expressed tbe opinion that the construction
pat apon the reconstruction act by the Attorney
General of the Slate, would be the construction
put upon it by the Federal Administration, and
that it would prevail and be sustained at Wash
ington, we were derided and our Democracy as
sailed by the sensation press ot the State; still
we did not hesitate to lay, then and since, be
fore oar readers, the truth, rather thau to de
ceive and allure them with statements ot an op
posite character. Time will prove that we have
been right.
Alr-Llne Railroad.
The Air-Line Eagle, at Gainesville, on tbe 4lh
instant, says:
“We learn that parties are in town making
preliminary preparations for commencing work
on this end of the second section of tbe Air-
Line Railroad.”
It also says: “Tbe engineer corps of the Air-
Line Railroad, in charge of Captain Ira Y. Sage,
tbe Assistant Engineer, left here on Saturday
last for tbe Eastern end of the line. We learn
that they go to survey the line from Greenville
to Charlotte. The corps is composed of high-
toned gentlemen, and ,we bespeak lor them a
generous welcome and the hearty co-operation
of the people ot that section.”
A New Discovery or Gold Fields.
The report comes that gold fields have been
discovered in Clark county, III., and that the
people of the neighborhood are wild with ex
citement and leaving all other business to search
for the precious metal. It strikes us they would
find gold in larger quantities by sticking to their
regular vocations.
Olive Logan on Anna Dickinson.—Miss
Dickinson is not married yet. 1 believe it is
true that she has bad two hu idred offers of mar
riage ; any girl with $20,000 a year would likely
have as many. A man with the same income
could probably have as mauy wives as he
pleased. Anna is twenty-six years old. She
ought to persist iu celibacy if she likes. She
has not time for marriage. Joan ot Arc did not
darn stockings ; she may have darned them in
her younger days, hut her mind was not fully
developed then; she did not darn them after
she took up the sword. Even if all women’s
minds were iuily developed the stockings would
be darned; women would then invent darning
machines and establish a hired system ot labor
for the employment of impecunious men and
women as darners. Chinamen might become
darners.
I would like to encourage Chinese emigration,
but would not give them the ballot, as they are
disqualified by lack ot intellect; I wouid like to
establish an educational test, and have for a
standard fluent handwriting and the intelligent
answering of a series of questions relative to the
history of our country. There would be more
than another generation if womeu's minds were
fully developeJ. Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Livermore,
ana Mrs. Julia Ward Howe are motheis ot fami
lies. The instinct oi maternity would remain.
Anna Dickinson may yet succumb to some iasci-
nating Chicago man. She would make a splen
did wile; she is a glorious girl. She has a great
idea ot historic art. She would go on the stage
and make as much money as now, if the du y of
devoting hers If to her sex was net incumbent
upon her.— Olive Logan's Lecture at Chicago.
New York.
Jordon succeeds Quesada as Generai-ic Chief
of the Cobaa forces.
A well-known dancing woman is 8&id to make
$10,000 a year, working only eight months ot
the twelve.
Tbe Duchess ot Argyle has resigned her
office of Grand Mistress ot tbe Robes to Queen
Victoria on account of ill health.
The Philadelphia Post says Butler laid Dawes
out on Wednesday ; bnt, it should have added,
it was Batter’s funeral on Thursday.
Louis Napolecn is bringing his son up care
fully, and with that attention to physical educa
tion common in European royal iainilies.
M. Emile Olivier pers in illy interceded for the
men who were implicated in the strike at Aubin
and obtained their pardon trom the Emperor of
the French.
Revels intends organizing a Congressional
minstrel troupe. He is to preside as the “ bones,”
Sumner as tbe dignified basso who is always
drawing “ bones” but, Chandler as the tambour-
inist, and Butler as the champion jig dancer.
A woman doctor in Boston—Sirtb A. Fictch
er—has turned her home into a hospital lor the
shelter and reformation oi inebriates, i t is said
that she has succeeded, without money aid, in
reclaiming a large number ot the victims ot in
temperance, and making them naeiul members
ot society.
Dona Yarona, of Cuba, wbile giving the gatto
for free Cuba, was shot by a Spanish assassin
recently. More recently Dona Louisa Fernan
dez has been condemned to death by a c< urt-
martial at Espiritn-Santo. 8he will not be shot
or garroted for the crime of haring concealed in
her honse one ot the insurgent chiefs.
A letter from Rome says: “ Among the
American Catholics in Rome, the most uisiin-
guished by the Papal favor thus tar have been
a certain Mr. and Mrs. Oliver, of California—
These excellent persons brought to his Holiness
a huge nugget of silver, valued at over five thou
sand dollars. Eight stal worth Swiss guards
bore it up stairs into the Papal presence, and the
Pontiff was so pleased with the gift that he uot
on ly accorded the donors a special audience, (in
these times a most remarkable condt scent ion),
but presented to Mrs Oliver a handsome cameo
set in oriental pearls.”
Prince Narixkine has renounced his collec
tion of pictures, perhaps tbe most valuable, at
least that has ever been possessed by one person,
and presented them to tbe Emperor ot Russia.
The collection is so remarkable that we annex
an extract with the approximate value ot each
picture: A. Robert de Hooge, value $81,400;
the portrait of Senator Muff el, by Albert Durer,
$16,000; “The Hay Harvest,” by Wouverman,
$12,000; portrait of an old woman, by Rem
brandt, $11,000; tour negro heads, bv Rubens,
$8 000; “The Fisher Woman,” by Gerard Dow,
$10,000. The loDg catalogue is filled up with
productions trom the brushes of artists such as
Teniers, Bailly, Troyon, Brascuasat, Bellange,
Isabey, Deschamps, and Rousseau.
Leopold II., once Grand Duke of Tuscany, is
dead, at the age of seventy three. He was edu
cated in Germany, where he studied his native
literatute so earnest that in the year 1825 he
published at Florence an admirable edition of
the works of Lorenzo de Medici. In 1824 be
succeeded his father Ferdinand HI., and, though
personally esteemed, continued a traditoinal
policy of subservience to Austria, which, though
he endeavored to change it for one more liber
ally adapted to tbe demands of his people, yet
brought about the events of 1849, which com
pelled his flight. Reinstated by the Austrians,
he held power until 1859, when, alter a revolu
tion in his capital, consequent on the breaking
out of the war of France and Sardinia against
Austria, he left his country, resigning his throne
in favor of his son Ferdinand IF. In 1860 the
annexation of Tuscany and Sardinia was con
summated.
The Philadelphia Age relates that when Presi
dent Andrew Jackson was told that Parser Ran
dolph, who was dismissed from the navy lor
del&lcation, had been arrested for his assanlt
upon him, he exclaimed : “ Yes, and I greatly
regret it, and have ordered his release. It I had
not been interfered with, I would have punished
tbe scoundrel on the spot. I do not want the
aid ot the law to protect me, or redress my
wrongs. My dear mother, God bless her, when
was a boy, gave me this piece of advice,
‘ never to sue for slander, indict for assault aud
battery, or permit a personal assault to go un
punished on the spot;’ aud God knows I have
most religiously adhered to it throughout my
life;” and dashing a long-stemmed white clay
pipe, which he had been smoking, on the man
tel-piece, by which he was erectly standing, he
broke it into atoms.
Don Piatt says: “ I was in love once with a
fat girl. She was very fleshy. She was enor
mous, bat the course ot my true love came to
griet. I was sitting with her in the dim twilight
one evening. I was sentimental; I said many
soft things; I embraced part of her. She seemed
distant. She frequently turned her lovely head
from me. At last I thought I heard tbe murmur
ot voices on the other side. I arose and walked
round; and then I found another fellow court
ing her on the left flank. I was indignant, and
upbraided her for her treachery in thus conceal
ing from me another love. She laughed at my
conceit, as if she were not big enough to have
two lovers at once.”
Modern Paragraphing—That was a bitter
joke ot the man in New Jersey, who put a quan
tity of jalap in some beer his triend was about
to drink The funeral was very generally attend
ed.—Exchange.
A man in New Jersey couldn’t wait for the
cars to git to me depot and jumped off. His
widow lias sued the insurance company.
Few men would attempt to dry dampened gun
powder in a kitchen stove. A man in Canada
did. His afflicted family would be glad ol any
information as to his whereabouts.
In Massachusetts tbe other day a man thought
he could cross the track in advance ot a locomo
tive. The services at the grave were very im
pressive.
A man warned his wife in New Orleans not to
light the fire with kerosene. She didn’t heed the
warniug. Her clothes fit his second wife re
markably well.
A boy in Detroit disregarded his mother’s in
junction not to skate ou the river, as the ice was
thin. His mother don’t have to cook for so
many as she did by one.—tin. limes.
Bishop Quintard Sick.—We regret to learn
that the above named prelate is quite ill at the
residence ot bis brother in-law, Dr. H. M. An
derson, ot this city. He is now improving,
though he is still not able to sit up.—Borne
Conner 8d insL
Living iu Harrodsbuig is an old negro wo
man who is nearly or quite white. She is over
one hundred years ot age, aud during the lapse
of a century the black pigment which gave color
to her skin has disappeared. Her lace, hands,
neck and arms, are of pearly whiteness, and her
hair is snow white, besides having lost much of
the kicky appearance which is characteristic ot
the negro’s wool. The old woman says she was
“ born a nigger,” and felt no little alarm when
she began to turn white. Though she does not
remember General Washington, she gives an ac
curate description ot tbe uuiform of the British
soldiers daring tbe revolutionary war.
Immense excitement was occasioned in Buf
falo yesterday, at a direct statement made in the
Commercial Advertiser, to the effect that D. S.
Bennett, member of Congress, had obtained
eighty or ninety thousand dollars from banks on
receipts from the Elevating Association, for
grain stored in bis elevator, belonging to said
association, and then privately selling and mov
iog said grain from the building.
Fisk-al.—“ Now, gentlemen,” said Jim Fisk,
as he bowed himself out ot tbe Banking Com
mittee room, where he had palaveretUand per
spired for four long hours, “Now, gentlemen,
when you come to New York, send me your
cards and come and dine with me, and I’il show
yon around and take yon to my grand opera
house.” “ Thanks, Mr. Fisk, for your kind
oilers,” kindly responded the chairman (General
Garfield), “ and permit me to express the con
viction mat a nisi class actor was lost to the
world when you became the “ business mana
ger.” Tbe committee tittered, and a perplexed
expression flitted athwart the sunny countenance
ot Prince Jim as he gently closed the door
behind him.
Some amusement was afforded to a number
of persons at a fashionable church in Indianap
olis, ou Sunday last. A lady leaned forward in
prayer, and the bill of her bird—one of tropical
plumage in her head-wear—caught in the chig
non of a lady sitting in the next pew. She could
not raise her head tor tear ot losing the tod, or
her whole hat; the lady iu front was in an
agony lest she should lose her hair, aud sat bolt
upright, while the intervention of a third party
was called to make the nsugty bird loosen its
hold.
Rufus Choate was the worst pennman ever
connected with the Boston bar. He could not
decipher his own manuscript, and made it oat
only by recalling the sense ot the subject-mat
ter in hand. After his death his friends could
make little or no use ot the manuscript-matter
which he left, acd to this circumstance is mainly
due the fact that no complete volume ot his life,
writings, etc., have yet been published.
Matrimonial.—The Union Springs Tones
contains the following:
Wanted.—A wife, possessing intelligence and
a moderate allowance of beauty, by a young
man, passably good looking, and enjoying a
handsome income. Any young lady, matrimo
nially inclined, may find a correspondent of like
inclination by addressing.
Kasst Batkx,
Union Spring*, Ala,
TSe Maeon Ti-ifgriph aad BXesaeager.
This paper, in its Tuesday morning’s issue,
bestows nearly a column's notice upon the In
telligencer For invective, misrepresentation,
and abuse, it is a decided success 1 We congrat
ulate the writer of tbe article upon his achieve
ment 1 He has fokly earned the reward which
usually attaches to such prostitution oi the pen 1
No mountain ever labored harder to bring
forth something than he has done, and he has
excelled even tbe one that succeded in bringing
forth “a mouse”—he has written an article “full
of fury, signifying nothing” save thevain attempt
that is patent in every line of it to demolish at
one “fell swoop” tins journal, and “to kill it ofl”
with the Democratic party of tbe State. Hercu
lean effort this, but alas1 where is tbe Hercules
to achieve the-feat! , The play of “Hamlet,”
again with "HamleU felt oo» t
We shall not attempt * reply to the charges
which have been brought in the article referred
to, against oar Democracy or fealty tothe Demo
cratic party. If a long life-time, almost, service
to that party, and tethe principles upon which
it is founded, and a steady adherence to them
up to tha time we write, do not constitute us a
Democrat, and the journal we direct in the main
tenance of those principles, a Democratic paper,
then we do not know what would. What Mr.
Nelson Tilt said before the Reconstruction Com
mittee at Washington, and what the Telegraph,
dk Messenger says in reference to the position of
this journal, are without any foundation In
truth. We are the “ hired instrument ” of no
one. When Mr. Tift made the assertion that
we were, if he ever did make it, he stated what
was fa’se, and those do also, who endorse the
alleged statement of the aforesaid honorable
gentleman. Neither has the Intelligencer
ever endorsed the opinion of Attorney-General
Farrow on tbe reconsti action acts of Congress.
It laid the opinion before its readers at length,
and only expressed its opinion that the con
struction would t»e sustained by tbe Federal
authorities, as it seems non, from all accounts
received from Washington that it bas been, or
certainly will be.
That we did sneer at the “Bryant Democracy”
so-called, is true. Nay we went farther than
this; we denounced the movement, as ihe Dem
ocratic party of the State will, we feel assured,
denounce it, should it ever be called upon to
pronounce its judgment upon that unfortunate
movement. From its polluting influence we
have kept free, and shall treat with disdain any
assaults directed agdost the Intelligencer
coming from so-called Democratic journals who
sustained that combination, or who otherwise
aunme to denounce this paper. A s for reading
the Intelligencer...*?^ of the Democratic
party, the idea is so supremely ridiculous, that
we cannot but smile at the loliy which could
originate such a thought.
We might say more, but we care not to
trouble our readers with any further notice of
such fulminations as the one in the Telegraph, dk
Mtssenqer that has called forth this response.
The Bryant Democracy.
The Augusta Constitutionalist, in one of its re
cent editorial articles, says: “ Of cunning Con:
servative*Republicans, we should beware. Both
desire our ruin and both must be slimmed as tbe
leprosy or plague. Of the two, we sincerely be
lieve tbe latter element to be the more danger
ous. Leaders ot this faction openly proclaim,
under the pretense ot saving the State, that they
labor to keep their party Irom death and con
demnation. Democrats in Georgia may amuse
themselves with the idea that they are using
Bryant & Co., but tbe greater probability islthat
Bryant & Co. are usmg them in order to accom
plish the salvation and reorganization of a Re
publican party here, which will be very bard to
annihilate.”
These are “ words of truth and soberness,”
and it will not be long, we predict, when it will
bs as hard to fidU a Democrat who connected
himself with the “ Bryant Democracy ” at the
late election for Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, openly avowing it, as it was some
years ago, after the overwhelming defeat of the
“ Know-Nothing Party,” to find one of its lead
ing members avowing himself as having been a
participant in the proceedings of the dark lan
tern lodges of that defunct party.
The Foilcj ot tbe Future.
Congress in its policy for tbe future towards
the Southern States, if there be any wise states
manship in it sufficient to control the action of
that body, would do well to heed the counsel
given to it by the New York Times. That paper
says: “ The policy of the future is to heal the
war-wunnds. Since sooner or later every State
will be in full er.joymeDt of its rights and privi
leges, the sooner the betttr for us all. The true
move for Congress is tbe lorward move—not to
wait to dole out its concessions, but to give
them freely. To higgle out possibilities, to con
trive hypothetical cases requiring future action,
is unworthy and unstatesm&nlike.”
This good advice, and coming as it does from
one of tbe leading Republican papers of the
North, ought to have some influence over Con
gress. True, we have very little hope that it
will with the present body, bat there is no life
time lease bestowed upon the members of the
dominant party in it to hold their seats, and
with change, for that “ is the order ot nature,”
will end tbe Radical despotism that now con
trols it.
Fob thb Atlanta Lntkllisehckb.
Freight on the State Road.
The following telegram appeared in the Press
dispatches, of Feb. 8th.
Nashville, Feb. 8.—No freights; for points
beyond Chattanooga are received by the Nash
ville & Chattanooga Railroad, owing to & block
ade at Chattanooga.
This is calculated to mislead, and cause the
public to form a wrong impression, as to the ca
pacities of the W. & A. R. R., and the business
it is doing.
During the past six days, the W. & A. R. R.
has made an average of 180 cars per day, from
Chattanooga—and the past three days, over 200
can per day.
Our yard report from Chattanooga, this morn
ing, Feb. 9., shows waybills for—
Greco Line cars ; 65
Box cars for transfer, 59
Stock cars for transfer, 5
Coal cars, 1.3
Local Freight, 12
Total care,... in
With a capacity to move, and as we have
been moving, 200 cars per day, tbe above does
not look much like a blockade.
A.L. Harris,
M. T. & a, W. & A. R. R.
Southern Securities in New Fork.
. The New York Herald, of Saturday last,
quotes Southern securities in that market as fol
lows:
“Contrary to the general direction of tbe mar
kets, the Southern btate bonds were strong and
active. The Virginias were again one of the
features, the new bonds rising to 664. while the
Louisianas were buoyant, the levee eights touch
ing 83: The South Caroliuas continued their
upward movement, and 89 was at one time bid
far the old bonds, and 874 lor the new. Tbe
Teanessees were steady and quiet. North Cai-
olinas were active in the Dew bonds and special
taxes, and strong in tbe old. The following
wen the closing street, prices ot the Southern
fiat: Tennessee, ex-coupon,54| to 55; do, new,
484 to 48f; do., five per cent, 42 to 44; Ylrginia,
ex-conpon, 624 to 62f; do., new, 66 to 67;
Georgia sixes, 81 to 82; do., sevens, 93 to 94;
do., sevens, interest payable in Georgia, 86 to>
87; North Carolina, ex coupon, 424 to 43; do.,
new, 28 to 264; Missouri sixes, 904 to 90f; do.,
Hannibal and St. Joseph, 91 to 93; Louisiana
sixes, 71 to 73; do., sevens, 77 to 78; do., levee
sixes, 71 to 73; do., do., eights, 81 to 83; Ala
nia eights. 94 to 944; do , fives, 63 to 63 ; jjo.,
fit, sterling, 89 to 85; South Carolina sixes,
to 90; do., registered stock, 80 to 84.”
From the foregoing, it will be seen that Geor
gia securities are in advance of those of the
other Southern States. When her reconstruc
tion shall be complete, and she shall again be
recognized as a State in the Union, wc have but
little doubt that her securities in the market will
be on a par with those of any of the Northern
States. Even now, according to her liabilities,
or indebtedness, her resources are greater to
meet them than are those of most, if dtft all the
other States; while in enterprise and in indus
try, her people will compare most favorably with
any of them.
The Orphans' Free School.
We are informed by the managers of the
Georgia State Lottery that near eleven thousand
dollars have been paid by that institution on
prizes drawn in the month of JanuarjL
The “ Orphans’ Free School,” which is sup
ported by the Lottery, is in a flourishing condi
tion, and lor the last twelve months has con
tinued to grow in usefulness and increase in
numbers. Over one hundred and fifty orphan
children have been receiving instructions during
that time, under the superintendence ot Mrs. E.
Y. Hill, assisted as heretofore by Miss Hoyle
and Miss Bomar. The managers of the Lottery
say that their splendid new school house which
is now completed will comfortably accommodate
four hundred pupils. The course of instruction
will be thorough, and the well-known character
of the manager and teachers gives assurance
that the moral and intellectual training of these
children of misfortune will be everything that
could be desired by a Christian public.
Fob thb Atlanta Inteeli&encer.
Education In LaGrange. Geur-iu.
LaGrange, February 7,1870.
The new year bas opened auspiciously for the
interests ot this old aud cultivated town. The
merchants are busy with their customers, the
politicians with politics, and the preachers with
their flocks. This place was remarkable iu the
good old ante bellum times, for its schools and
colleges. Under the direction of such men as
Dr. Brown, Rev. Otis Smith, Rev. Carlysle Be-
man, Rev. J. E. Dawson, Milton E. Bacon, J. T.
1 Montgomery, and others, the educational inter
ests of LaGrange overshadowed all others. But
war came, our beautilul college edifices were
destroyed by fire, and those who once filled their
halls were scattered in every direction. Now
that the war is over, good and true men are put
ting forth Hercullan efforts to restore the educa
tional interests to their former prosperous condi
tion. Captain Park and his assistant, Mr. Dow-
dal, have 80 boys in their high school, and still
they come. Rev. Morgan H. Callaway is in
charge of the LaGrange Female College, with a
reasonable prospect of success, a3 he is a gen
tleman of excellent standing.
The Southern Female College is also located
here, and is presided over by Mr. J. F. Cox,
than whom there is no more efficient educator
in the State, or any where else. His College has
opened this term with a larger number oi pupils
than ever before, and as he is amply provided
with able teachers in every department, there
need be no limit to his expansion. No better
place than this for tbe education oi youug ladies
can be found, and none are better qualified to
train them, than the modest J. F. Cox.
Vtator.
Death of Lie a tenant General SlrCharlc*
Windham, K. C. B. At Co.
It will be remembered by some ot our citizens
that at the close of the past year, this distin
guished officer and his staff passed through Sa
vannah on his way to Florida, lor the benefit oi
his health. During his short stay among us,
the simplicity ol his frank, opeu character made
the most favorable impression ou the minds oi
all who came in contact witii him, ami he left
us with the good wishes of the best oi our com
munity.
The change to Florida hiving failed to arrest
the distemper—disease oi the heart—the sur
geon oi the staff telegraphed to Canada to La
dy Windham, that her early presence was im
portant. She came down under the escort of
Sir Alexander Mackenzie, and reached her no
ble husband at Jacksonville only in time to see
him sink. He took leave oi Lady Windham
and bis staff on Wednesday evening, and at
eight o’clock, in lull possession oi his faculties,
he died as he had lived, a brave Christian sol
dier.
A friend in this city repairing instantly to
Jacksonville, found the good people there had
anticipated every want ol the occasion. A dis
patch of the most grateful character was received
yesterday by tbe widow trom Prince Arthur,
also one from high sources in Canada, where
the deceased had been Commander-in-Chief ol
Her Brittannic Majesty’s forces.
Saturday morning the Atlantic and Gulf rail
road train irons the South brought the remains
to this city, attended by Lady Windham, the
staff, Sir Alexander Mackenzie and the Maiquis
de Talleyrand. They were met on their arrival
at the depot by some ot our ieadmg citizens,
who accompanied the dead Chiet 10 the place
ot embarkation per steamship San Jacinto,
kindly detained by her worthy agents, Messrs.
Jno. W. Anderson’s Sons & Co , on the occa
sion.
Sir Charles did good service in the Indian
mutiny at Cawnpore, and his subsequent con
spicuous gallantry at the storming ol Sebastopol
obtained for him the sobriquet of “ Redan
Windham.” He died in his liny-eighth year.
He was a favorite with the Eugiish nation—
especially with the Queen —who had signifi
cantly marked her seuse ot his distinguished
services,—Savannah Republican.
The Young Men’s Party.—The LaGrange
Reporter, makes some sarcastic flings at tlie
Young Men’s Party. Cnarges us with having
been very industrious trying to get up such a
party; aud intimates that our efforts have not
been very successful. We’ll admit all this ; we
would beg leave to ask our LaGrange friend how
he is getting along mustering under the leader
ship of his pet man, Caldwell, the chicken-lifter ?
And what does he think of the product of suc
cess on that line ?— Griffin Star.
Lord Lytkin has perpetrated an injustice to
Sir Robert Walpole by repeating the associa
tion of his name with a base maxim which, in
reality, he never uttered. The title of Lord
Lytton’s new comedy is, “Walpole; or, Every
Man has Ha Price.” This sentiment, or this
saying, has been so often attributed to Walpole
(generally to Horace Wa'pole ) especially in this
country, that it is hardly worth while to give
the fact in the matter with any expectation of
correcting the popular misapprehension about it.
Bnt tbe actual remark which Sir Robert Wal
pole made, with the attendant circumstances, is
given in the fourth volume ol Cox’s “Memoirs ”
which may be found iu the Astor Library. By
this it appears that it was in referring to certain
quack-patriots of bis day that Walpole said,
“All those men have their price.”
(ivuibern Neiv* Items.
Richmond has a woman’s rights society.
Virginia is to be divided into sixteen judicial
circuits.
Local politicians are making an active canvass
in Memphis.
Jackson, Miss., wa3 partially lighted with
gas on Monday last.
Burning tobacco factories seems to be a com
mon occurrence ot late.
Columbus, Texas, boasts of seven schools,
plain, and one school colored.
One or two journalistic enterprises in Rich
mond are under consideration.
Internal revenue collections in the Memphis
district for January aggregated $40,000.
A gray eagle, measuring nine feet irom tip to
tip, was killed iu Arkansas the other day.
Tbe Vicksburg oil mills turn out not less than
twenty-five barrels per day, worth about six
hundred dollars.
A negro died in Memphis on Wednesday
from the effects of a dose ot chloroform adminis
tered by a physician.
Justices Rose and Parker, of Montgomery,
Ala, are having an interesting quarrel, and one
has had the other arrested.
Mr. Warner Wallace, an old citizen of Texas,
died a few days ago, near Austin, in the seventy-
second year ot ids age.
The receipts ot loose tobacco at Shockboe
warehouse, Richmond, have averaged about 70,-
000 pounds per day tor some time past.
Hiiam T. Revels, the new colored Senator
from Mississippi, was born in Fay ette, Cumber
land couDty, In. C., of free parents, in 1822.
A mau named Clatk Anderson was killed at
Athens, Tennessee, last Saturday, by Thomas
Crawford. The assarsin made good his escape.
Mr. Whaley, proprietor of the Whaley House,
Macon, Mo., was shot and killed a lew days ago
by Col. Summers, a saloon keeper. Bummers
surrendered himself.
The Tallahatchie (Miss.) News says: The wa
ter in the bottom is still rising, beginning to
come through from the Mississippi. Persons,
however, can still get in on horseback,
Alex. Meeha was arrested in St. Louis last fall
for vagrancy and discharged. He afterward
sued tlie city for $10,000 damages, and on Wed'
nesday judgment was rendered against him.
The passenger tram from Meridian, Miss.,
gomg west on Monday morning, ran off the
track one mile west of Forest. The engine was
overturned and the engineer, Henry Horton, and
fireman, Mike Eider, oi Vicksburg, were severe
ly, though not dangerously scalded.
John Glasscock and Byron Glasscock, tried
by a military commission in Austin, Texas, in
August last, on the charge of murder, were
found guilty of a “felonious assault with the in
tent to kill aud murder,” aud sentenced to three
years confinement in the State Peniteutiaiy.
The Military Mayor of Marshall, Texas, in a
“special order,” gives notice that it is reported
that several cases ot small pox have occurred on
the river amoug immigrants coming to Texas,
and enjoins that the citizens of that place take
nch precautionary measures as to prevent the
spre cl ot the disease.
The editor of the Rockport (Texas) Transcript
was presented a lew days ago with a ripe straw
berry, measuring nearly four inches in circum
ference. He says: “There were many more on
the vines, but this was the first one ripening
The others are equally as large, and will ripen
in a lew days. What locality can beat this in
size of ferry and time ol ripening?”
“The Dead of the Synod of Georgia.”^
Wa have been favored with “Part Third”
of this highly interesting publication, by cur
Wghlyjlesteemed and reverend fellow-citiztn,
John 8. Wilson, D. D. We give the contents
of the number below, and advise subscribers
and all others who may desire to obtain a copy
otit, that ltcan be procured at the “Franklin
Printing House” (Mr. Toon’s) on Broad Street
in this city.:
Part 1 hiud—Content^—Necrology
Rev. John C. Humphrey, Rev. Daniel Iugies,
Rev. George Whitfield Ladson, Rev. Biehurd
T. Marks, Rev. Jesse Hume, Rev. Charles Col-
cock Jones, D. D., Rev. Andrew Rutherford
Liddell, and Rev. William Mathews,
FRANCIS.
WASHINGTON.
WHEN 19 A LEGAL TENDER NOT A LEGAL TEN
DER ?
Washington, Feb. 7.—The case of Hepburn
vs. Grisw.qlcL brought from the Court of Ap
peals of Krniucky, involving tlie legal tender
law, was decide-! in the Supreme Court to-day.
Cine) Justice Chase delivered the opinion. The
court below held that a contract made before
the legal tender law could not be discharged in
United States notes.
The opinion of the Supreme Court Is very
lorg, and discusses at great length the power of
Congress. It holds that Congress had no right
to make Government notes a legal leader lor
preexisting private debts. It does not touch the
question ot contracts made since the law was
passed. This opinion was concurred in by Jus
tice Nelson, Justice Clifford and Justice Field.
Justice Miller delivered a minority opinion,
concurred in by Justices S wayne and Davis,
holding the law to be constitutioual, and treat
ing it principally as an incident to tbe war
power.
NOMINATED.
The following nominations were sent to the
Senate to-day: Jos. P. Brandley, ol New Jer
sey, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
tbe United States; Wm. Strong, of Pennsylva
nia, Associate Justice of tbe Supreme Court ot
the United Slates; Jolm W. Lonsgear, District
Judge of the Eastern District of Michigan.
WHEN DID HE QUIT ?
Commissioner Delano resumed official duties
this morning.
EFFECT ON GOLD
The price ot gold advanced this morning on
private telegrams from Washington to the effect
that the decision would be in favor of all con
tracts made before 1863 being payable in coin;
but when tlie other part ol the decision wa6
known this afternoon the price of gold declined,
Irom the lact that Congress under the decision
cannot issue any more legal tenders.
THE CUBAN MASSACRE.
Secretary Fish read to-day a telegram from
Havana, through American official sources, sta
ting that yesterday one citizen of the United
Slates was killed and two wounded. The Sec
retary telegraphed for particulars
25,000.000 LBS. OF PIG LEAD.
In reply to a resolution ot the House, the Sec
retary of War reports the public interests will
be subserved by selling some 25.000.000 pounds
of pig lead on band at the various urseoals, and
that legal authority therefor is believed to have
already been granted by the joint resolution ol
July, i868.
SI RETCHING THINGS.
The case ot the Providence Rubber Co., vs.
Chas. Goodyear’s executors, was decided as in
the Court below, in lavor ot Goodyear.
WILL STItEEr.
ON THE LEGAL TENDER DECISION.
New Y’ork, February 7.—The Supreme Court
decision on the legal tender qnesiion was the
great subject of discussion in the financial circles
this afterncon. The decision, as understood id
Wall street, is, that the legal act was justified
bv the war, but that Congress has no power to
issu't any more legal tender notes, and that all
contracts made betore 1863, are to be paid in
coin. In this shape the decision is certainly a
very important one, but its influence on the stat
utes is remarkably slight.
gold premium on $100,000,000.
The decision makes some hundred millions of
railro id l>ood3, and an immense aggregate ol
State and city bonds, payable io coin, both prin
cipal and interest, the interest ol which for eight
years has been paid in greenbacks.
THE EFFECT OF PROTEST.
The payments of interest on the principal since
1862 having been accepted by the creditors, will
not be affected by the decision, except where
money has been accepted nnder protest, accom
panied with demand tor gold, which cases are
ot course, very accepttonal.
TENNESSEE INTERESTED.
It is perhaps not improbable that some of the
poorer States, with heavy debts, a9 North Caro
lina and Tennessee, being unable to provide for
their debt, even on a currency basis, may be
driven by this decision into open repudiation,
pleading the action of the Supreme Court as
imposing ou their obligations, which they could
not honor.
Lady Jane Grey was Qieen of England
lor only ten days. It happened in this way.—
Lady jane was the daughter of the Duke of
Suffolk and Lady Frances Brandon. She was
born in 1537, and she possessed great beauty
and talents. At 16 she was married to Lord
Guilford Dudley. E l ward VI was persuaded
by Lady Jane’s friends to make a deed of set-
tiemens, leavine the crown to Lady Jane, and
setting aside Mary and Elizabeth and Mary,
Queen of Scots. On tbe death of Edward,
Lady Jane was proclaimed Queen, and up to
this time wasignorant of the conspiracy. The
English raiired to the support oi Mary, who be
came Queen after the defeat of Lady Jane’s
triends. By Maty’s warrant, she and her hus
band, Dudley, were executed.
ROCHEFORT ARRESTED.
Paris, February 7.—Rochefort was arrested
at his residence at Belleville in the Northeastern
girt ot the city, at au early hour this evening
His irienda are in the assembly in great crowds,
serious trouble is expected:
barricades !
Pahis, February 7.—Later.—The troubles at
Belleville are serious. The streets are filkd
with Bhouting people and barricading has com
menced. A detachment of troops have arrived.
more barricades—troofs called out.
Paris, February 8, A. M.—Barricades arc
erected in Fauburg Temple, Rue St. Maur, Kuo
Grange, Aux, Bdlia aud other streets in the
vicinity of Belleville. The scene o! disturbances
is near Northern Strausburg Railway Station.
Additional detachment of troops arrived, but no
fire arms used yet. The troops iu garrisius in
that vicinity and city, are ordered to hold them
selves in readiness at a moment’s notice. Great
precaution is taken by military authorities. It
is believed the riot will not be attended by any
serious consequences.
extending.
Paris, February 8—7' a. m.—The trouble nt
Belleville lasted ail night, and have extended
northward to Laville, the extreme North
eastern arrondissemeut within the fortifications.
The troops have not yet resorted to firearms.
The police are active, aud made many arrests.
Beyond the excitement naturally incident to
such an occasion, the rest of the city is tranquil.
The Government continues its precaulionury
measures.
details.
Paris, February 8—Noon.—The following
details of the disordor in the Northeastern
arroundis8Qments are gleaned from newspa
pers:
Rochefort was arrested as he was on tbe
point of entering the political meeting in Rut-,
De Fiander. running from Belleville to Laville.
Although there was a great number of people
present, mainly of his own partisans, he made
no resistance and no appeals to the crowd.
As soon as the arrest was made known to the
meeting, the wildest scenes occurred. Gustave
Flourens, who presided, rose excitedly, drew a
sword, fired his revolver and declared that the
insurrection had begun. The meeting broke up
in disorder, and tbe crowd, under the leadership
of Flourens, immediately proceeded to barricaa.-
streets. This was accomplished without loss of
time, by the confiscation ot omnibusses and
other vehicles from stables in the neighborhood.
A Commissary of Police, who accompanied
the guard charged with the duties of arresting
Rochefort, was forced along with the crowd
and badly injured by their maltreatment.
Tbe district lying between the Rue Du Fau
bourg du Temple and the fortifications at Lavel-
lette, a distance of about two miles, was in pos
session ot the rioters.
police charge the barricades.
At eleven o’clock a body ot police charged
the barricade in the Rue DuFauberg du Temple
and attempted to carry it, but were repulsed.
One of the Commissaries was dangerously
wounded and one policeman killed.
At other places barricades bad also been
erected, but not defended. The military are
now out in force, but thus far have not made use
of their fire-arms, although the insurgents have.
The latter had pillaged the armories and iu that
way obtained their weapons.
Several of the police were wounded in these
skirmishes early in the evening. A great num
ber of arrests were made. At 3 o’clock this
morning over three hundred persons had been
taken into custody aud imprisoned in the bar
racks ot Prince Eugene. Many were mere boys,
all armed, and tbe most of them under the in
fluence of liquor.
the leader reported arrested.
It is reported that Gustave Flourens, who is
looked upon as the leader of the rioters, has
been arrested, but this is not confirmed. He is
said to have announced to his mother, before
going from home to the meeting, that if Roche
fort was arrested, she probably would never
see him again. At this hour all is quiet.
THE GOVERNMENT REBUKED.
Paris, February 8 —6, P. M.—In the Corps
Legislate to-day, M. Keratry, one of the Liberal
Deputies, demanded to know why Rochefort
was not arrested before going to a political meet
ing, where 5,000 were assembled. It was not
necessary that this meeting should have been
thus disturbed, and the people who were parti
cipating in it aroused to violence. The act of
the Government was a provocation to the dis
turbances which took place.
A member of the Ministry explained that the
authorities had refrained from arresting Roche
fort at Chambers to avoid the scandal to which
his arrest at such a place would give rise. He
asserted that the friends of Rochefort had pre
pared to make the demonstraiion which they
had made, and upon this tact the Ministry would
rest the responsibility of what, had taken place,
and the country would judge between the Min
istry and the rioters.
He said there need be no unnecessary uneasi
ness tor the people. The Government was ani
mated by tbe best sentiments toward them. The
Minister of the Interior followed with the asser
tion that the friends of Rochefort had deter
mined upon a demonstration had Rochefort
been arrested at the Chambers.
M. Olivier praised the conduct of the police in
dealing with the disorders. He said tney bad
acted with prudence and humanity.
peter’s pence.
The Government has exclnded Papal curren
cy irom general circulation in France.
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The Ltdr Broker* ot Itew York—Tii«
Last Sensation.
A telegraphic dispatch from New York gives
the following account of the last sensation pre
vailing there. It says that two policemen have
to be stationed the entire day in front of the of
fices of the “lady brokers” to keep out the
crowd of callers. These “lady brokers” keep
their offices at 34 Broad street; are known by
the firm name of Mesdsmes Woodhull and
Cl&flin; and deal in stocks and bonds to a large
extent. The dispatch says :
“A large sign warned visitors that no ad-
misssion was allowed, ‘except on business.’ Tbe
ladies are thoroughly in earnest, and feel con
siderably annoyed at the damaging statement
made by some of the sensation papers in regard
to their intentions and operations in the midst
of our financial centre. It has been again stated
to-day that the lady brokers are really backed
by Commodore Vanderbilt, who, it is said, as
sists them in their business by his vast experi
ence, and warns them not to mind the jeers ot
the press or the public. He is reported to have
told them this morning to aet independently of
outside clamor, and not to take notice of the
statements in tbe press. Says the Commodore,
•* ['key’ll say next that I have eloped with them.
The agent ot tbe Arcade Railway Company
states that he is indebted to the ladies for an in
troduction to Commodore Vanderbilt, and now
that the Commodore has taken hold of the en
terprise tbe lady brokers will not be enabled to
deal largely in the stock of the company. For
tbe present the firm of Woodhnll, Clafln & Co.
are the great sensation on the street, and tbe bolls
and bears find great relief irom the turmoil of
tbe long-room in a few minutes’ chat with the
lady brokers.” ^
la Calvert, Texas, a few days ago, four gen
tlemen, of Bryan, put in a bid for some 16,000
acres of land, situated in various portions of
Texas, and sold under tbe hammer to satisfy
rininn in a bankrupt suit. Tbe land -was
knocked down to them for about eight cents
currency acre.