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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1868)
Chronicle & Sentinel. WKBXKBDAV MOB.MM,. ACkTSTI*. Drown! Brown! portentous name! Brosrn! synonym of Georgia's disgrace and humilia tion ! Brown ! indicative of treason and j knavery ! is at last Chief Justice of the j Bute of Georgia' Collards and Baoon! Brick buildings and Bonds! Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold! “what a fall is there, j my countrymen. Then you and I and all i of us fell down,” and Joe Brown “flourish- ! ed over us.” We had hoped that he was kill- j edin the Legislature; but,alas! he was only “scotched.” Bullock, the all-powerful Bui- 1 lock, grasped the wounded viper in his I arms, and hors him aloft to glory and re- | nown! “Brown!” he exclaimed, “Brown! j friend of my soul, I love thee, I feel for thee, I weep for thee. Let me embrace thee. Let me console thee- Let reward thee. I have taken thy advice, and am putting corruption and villainy in : high places; I will give thee the first seat | 1 will give thee place, honor and profit. I j will reward thee Brown ! Brown I ) Brown! You shall indeed be Done ] Brown !” And then the martyrs to carpet baggery embraced each other, and shed siient tears over their unhappy country’s woes. The fat B. nominated the lean B the Senate approved, and the demagogue and traitor now disgraces the seat onoe occupied by men wliose names have illus trated Georgia’s honor, and shed ineffable glory upon Georgia's name. “Oh ! shame . where is thy blushOh, decency ! where is thy abode ? Oh, honor ! whither art thou gone V Hast thou indeed “fled to brutish beasts” and left us only infamy and disgrace as our part ? Bullock—Brown—Brown—Bullock. How doth the great fat burly B. improve each shining hour ? He ignores honor, truth, and worth, To perpetuate hts power. And then the lean tank busy B. Improves Av, shining hour, Lsy saving ooHards, and liiv bacon, Through treason’s awful power. But enough ! the Grand Mogul is on the Bench ; and beside him his equals, if any can be found, will be seated ; and on all the other beuuhes the numerous little Browns will find places. If Georgia has erred, greviously has she suffered for it. Heaven grant that her day of deliveranoe from native treason and imported tyranny be not far distant! Iu justice to Win. Hale who says that he has been falsely aspersed by the negro incendiary whose arrest by the oolored men of Hancock county we noticed on tho 11th instaut, we publish the following disclaimer from him.— \Ed. C. A S. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: —My at tention has been called to the following piece which appeared in your paper of the 11th instant : “Ncoho Incknhiauy AniU'xricn—A negro, calling himself Charley Jones, has boon arrested and confined in jail in Han cock county, to answer charges made against him thereof an attempt to force the negroes into a military organization, which ho hud instructions and orders to raise * * * * amt that he received his orders through Bill Hale of Augusta.” Ah l am the only Bill Halo in Augusta, 1 suppose this man must have referred to me; aud as far as 1 am concerned, his state ment is ftilse, without one word of truth. ( know no man in Hancock county named Chas. Jones; never was in that county myself; never had any correspondence with any uian living in that county, or any other county, outside of my business; and never in my life persuaded or encour aged any measure that was likely to cre ate a disturbance. Furthermore," r have never been a member of any militia organization, a member of any secret league, or other organization ; and never havo boon, or ever expect to no.the “tool” of any man or set of men to do tlieir biddiug. it is true tii at my pa me has appeared on several occasions as Chairman of public meetings; hut 1 have never made a public speech, and have but few associates outside of my business. Why X am thus falsely represented, XJo not know. Jdo not claim to boa politician aud ask only to be let alone I was born in Augusta, havo lived here all my life, and,have Always tried to act so as to bo respected by all good efti /.etis. I never was guilty of any action that I gtn ashamed of, and now take this method of denouncing Gluts. Jones’ state, inent, as tar as it concerns Bill Hale, as false, and hope that no good citizen, nor any of my acquaintances abroad, will give it any credit. Wm. Hale. August!*, Qa., August 12, 1 SOS. A Soldier's Speech.— A Committee of citizens of Tennessee, composed ofex- Oonfederal Generals, recently presented a petition to the' Legislature of the State, protesting against the organization of the militia as proposed by the Brownlowiles. The petition was referred to the Military Committee before whom the Committee of Confederate Generals appeared. General Forrest, as a member of that Committee, addressed the Military Committee as fol lows : I feel it due to myself that I should make a few remarks. The only thing that 1 can give you as a guaranty of what I can do, is to refer you to what I have done since the surrender. 1 have never, since L received my parole, failed to yield obedi ence to the laws of.my country. I have endeavored in every way to have the laws executed. I, at one time, offered to fur nish the Chief of Police at Memphis one thousand meu, if necessary, to keep the peace at the election. I can call out to day fifteen hundred men in the city of Memphis to support the laws. I stand hero to-day to pledge myself to the Gov ernor of the State, to the Legislature, and to you, that l will give my hearty eo-ope ratiou toward keeping peace. We are here in earnest. We mean what we say, and we intend to carry it out. We do not intend to disobey the laws of the eoun - try. We are hereto uphold you and to sustain you in all that you do. In regard to the enfranchisement of the people I have not a word to say—that is with you. The Southern people do not want any col lision or difficulty in any manner. I have written many letters to quiet the people. I aui satisfied that if you will give us the right of franchise we will have peace. Abolish the Loyal League aud Ku Klux tvlan. Let ns come together and stand toother, aud be as one man in the State of Tennessee. 1 had the pleasure of going to New York to the National Democratic Convention, and met a large portion of the Federal soldiers. It was doubted whether 1 would be received as a delegate, but I declare that 1 never spent a more pleasant week in my life. lam willing to forgivo all that has been done in the past. Let us go to work iu good earnest. I want to see the best men put in position. There will then be no danger. Every man can go to his home and be not afraid of assassination. I laid my arms away when I surrendered aud have not seen them since. Gf,n. Grant.— Old "Let us nave peace” is going East again. At Galena he said: " I shall not on this occasion, nor upon any other, make you a speech, which I suppose you are well aware of.” Well, why didn't he make one that “ you' ’ were uot so well aware of? When he gets back to Washington he can sing: I’ve beeu to the North ; I've been to the South ; I've beeu to the East aud West; I’ve been out among the Indiana, too; Aud now I want some rest. So Instead of speeches, “ let's have peace" ' For ou having that I'm bent; Therefore, I’ll take my whiskey straight, j Aud let Seymour be President. A Base Slander. —Forney’s Press says: Ten years since there came to Nebraska a party of one hundred Irishman, all of them without a dollar in the world. They were worth only their spades and a Demo cratic vote a piece. They took up land in Douglas county, around the then unknown town of Omaha, and now all of them are enjoying affluanoe, and many of them wealth. W ith clean shirts and comforta ble homes, and their cattle covering a hundred bluffs, a political as well as social change has come over these American citi zens of Celtic decent, and every one of them votes for Grant and Colfax, We ll bet our bottom dollar that that is a falsehood ; and we'll bet the next one we get, that, if it is true, the one hundred Irishmen have acquired their affluence and wealth through the political charge of greenback arguments in behalf of the Know Nothing ticket. They are moral and political lepers, and their "clean shirts’ ’ will not hide their leprosy. True.—Hon. Garret Davis, in a recent speech truly says: "The revolution sweeps on, but it is act yet accomplished, and will not be uutil General Grant is carried through that mockery of an election, and installed into the office ot President. He will then be Imperator and sway an Empire, but be cause of his own ignorance, necessarily by pimps and parasites. Congress, like the Senate of Home, will become but an effigy the real centre of power will be CaeSr, I Imperator’ and when he is incompetent, but has a Sejanus for his favorite, Sejanus will rule in fact.” Misrepresentation. The Radical papers of the North, finding it an upl ill busicess to meet the arguments of the Democratic orators and Democratic journals, are compelled to resort to that ’ low species of trickery—misrepresentation. > In the North, Democratic statesmen, j orators and soldiers are pleading the cause of ! true political principles with all the eloquence I and ability which they possess; while at i tho South those who led the Cenfederatc 1 cohorts in the war for Southern Independ- j enee arc still battling for Constitutional j liberty. And it is these latter who are the objects of Radical misrepresentation. If General Cobb, or General Toombs, or i Gen. Hampton mount the stump and tell j i the people of the South that they must j stand together, work together, and fight ! together in this great contest for Constitu tional liberty”, the Jacobin press gets up its dismal howl that “ these rebel leaders i mean war!” And so they try to deceive f the people of the North, and influence j ; their passions against the people of the i South. These Jacobins know that their j j assertions are false; they know that they , are deceiving their people ; they know j that they are misrepresenting the soldiers of the South; but what do they care'f Falsehood, deception, and misrep resentation are the only stock in trade which they possess, and they must, there fore, display them to the best advantage. We hope, however, that the people of the North will read their speeches and judge for themselves. And we call upon the Dem ocratic press of the North and West to set these men right before their readers. Every Confederate soldier who has taken the stump for Seymour and Blair has de clared for peace. They have had enough of war, and it is because they have had enough of war that they are devoting, to day, all their energies, talents, and influ ence to the cause of the Democratic party. In wzr, they were gallantsoldiers—in peace, they are good citizens. In war. they exerted a wonderful influ- | ence over the men who followed them to the battle-field ; and in peace they are ex- ’ ertiog that same influence to rally these men around the peaceful banner of Con stitutional Liberty. War ! why, they want not war. If they did, they would rally to the support of ! Grant and Colfax. They would ally them , selves with the Radical party : and shout hosannas to the man of blood, whose mis sion is, to-day, to light the fires of civil war in this Union—to array race against race—to drown the Constitution in fra j terna! blood ! Oh, no! they want no war. j The people of tho South want no war. ! Peace and Liberty is all they crave— all l they ask. Frdm every stump, and on every occasion, the military leaders of the South, from the highest to tho lowest, are raising thoir voices in behalf of peace. Day and night, anywhere, everywhere, they are working with energy and patriotic devotion to sty qre the triumph aud restoration of | peace. Hero is hoard the bugle blast of Cobb, there the clarion notes of Hampton; boro the potent voice of Forrest, ! tin it: the sonorous words of Toombs ; I ea’.tug upon the people of the South to unco in the cause of peace—to work now with t hearty good will and untiring ener- Igy to be vigilant, sleepless, unceasing, in | the eiu.se of Constitutional Liberty—“not | to overthrow the Government, but to 1 preserve the Constitution’;” not to make war upou any section of tho Union, or upon any race or class of people, but to restore peace and harmony to all parts of the country and to all our people ; not to destroy the Union but to restore it to what its fathers made it, and intended it should ever be— “ The land of the free and the home of the brave.” Youa Ox and My Ox.— The New York Times groWs eloquent in defence of the Constitutional rights of Austria, and the right of the Austrian people of self government ! But never a word has it to say in defence of the Constitutional ri.lits of the South, ami the right of the South ern people to self-government. Isn’t it funny what a difference it makes when ' my. bull goes your ox and your bull goes jmyox ? Oh, funny Times! Oh con i scieutious Times ! Oh, liberal Times ! j Sometimes, but not all times the friend of | Constitutional I'bcrty and the right of I self-government. A Miscegenation Case. —The Wash ington city Evening Star of August 10th says that a white department clerk was married to a mulatto girl on that day. The lair damsel is of the Catholic faith, and consequently insisted on being mar ried by a priest of that Church. Applica tion to the priest of her parish failed, as he refused to have anything to do with the matter. The Star says that the clerk and his would-be mulatto bride at length succeeded in haviug an interview with the Archbishop of the Dioeese of Baltimore, during which they requested permission for the proposed match, and wore peremptorily refused. Nothing daunted, however, they returned to this city and found a Methodist Minister who made them man and wife. Editorial Change.—We stated the other day that our local brother of the Constitutionalist was about changing his base. He has done so, and hauled up in Atlanta; taking a hand in the Intelli gencer, which journal we congratulate upon its acquisition, and at the same time bog leave to re assure John of our continued good will: and good wishes; The Intelligencer of August 14th, says: We transfer to our columns, from ilie Augusta Constitutionalist of the 12th iust.. the foregoing, amt take pleasure in inform ing tlie readers of the Intelligencer that Mr. Ells has already entered upon the dis charge of the duties assigned him on the editorial staff of the Intelligencer. The compliment paid by the Constitutionalist to Air. E. is well merited by him, and we trust that our citizens generally will give to him that cordial greeting and hearty welcome which as a gentlemau, and as one coming among them to aid in ad vancing their interosts, and that of the “Gate City" in the character of a journal ist, lie merits. From the readers, especiallv of the Intelligencer, we bespeak tor Mr. Ells those kind civilities and cordial greet ing which they have never failed to be stow upon gentlemen connected with its editorial department. As much of his atleution will be directed to local, or city affairs, information connected therewith communicated to him will be thankfully received. Can the Southern States Rid Them sei.vei.ves oe Carpet-Baggers?— The usually well informed correspondent of I the Baltimore Gazette writes as follows; A highly important question has been mooted, and is now being discussed in po | litieal circles here, as to whether the Southern States can by any constitutional or legal means rid themselves ot the car pet-baggers who have succeeded iu creep ing into the l nited States Senate without ■ a constituency to represent, if it be shown that they do not represent the people of i the States from which they pretend to hail. Prominent legal gentlemen have given an opinion that it could lie done by 1 the means of the writ of quo warranto, to bo taken out by the Governor of each State, and thus bring the question into the Supreme Court, where the legality of the Southern elections could be thoroughly tested and determined. liow THE BOYS LN BLUE ARE USED. — The 1 rib tine says : "Those of our citizens who are in the habit of dispensing their spare change to the crippled soldier organist, may be in terested to know that few of the objects ol their charity receive the full benefit of their generosity. The soldiers are nearly all of them merely the employees of the more wealthy Italian proprietors of the organ, and are to be paid by the day for their services.” For "wealthy Italian proprietors” sub stitute “scheming Radical politicans,” j and you have the whole story of the "Boys iu Blue, ’ in whatever guise they appear 1 to evoke the public sympathy. The dis- I ference between the Italian organ con- ; tractors and the politicians is, that the former makes a square bargain with the soldiers to pay them so much for their services and stick to their terms, while the politicians use the soldiers and then fling them and poeket all the gains.— Brooklyn Eagle. A Radical says that Seymour can "make the worse appear the better reason.” It I does not follow that he does so, but it is an acknowledged fact that Grant cannot make anything appear the better reason. He is "Remote, upfrJended, melancholy, dumb.” i When Goner id Grant reached Denver, Colorado, all the soldiers of Company B, 3d Infantry - , saluted him with a Seymour ' and Blair nag. The General felt Enable to remain in that towD, or even to alight j from the coach. FROM GREESSBOUO. Moss Meeting of the Democracy—Radical •Jiitlge— Gordon s Speech An able Effort , —CvL C- IF. Styles' Ad'lras Democrat ic Organization in Greene —Torchlight j Procession y Sec. , Ac. {•PKut c:uti' or i«« eskccJicLt 1 sentinel ] Greensboro, August 10, 1868. Editors Chronicle k Sentinel: The Democracy of old Greene turned out j en Mdae on Saturday, ath test., at this j place. In the morning the white voters of 1 the county and some hundred and fifty colored vot re assembled upon the square at the north front of the Court House. Mr. Speaker McWhorter, with two others of the same kidney, held a barbecue — (charging the darkies tweuty-five cents per head) at “the Forks” (Apalachee and Oeonee Rivers)—tokeep away the Radicals from Democratic influences. To the praise ok' old Greeße, be it said, the only ones wearing white skins, was the aforesaid so-called Speaker, his brother and. hand kerchief sueking Kitchens of the Fork. Tho first speaker who addressed the as sembly was General John B. Gordon. Col. Miles Lewis, introducing Ueneral Gordon in behalf of the Democratic Club ofGrecDe county, under whose auspices the meeting had been called, introduced him as the rightful and duly elected Governor of Georgia under the Congressional Recon struction Acts; but in making claim for . this tide for the gallant soldier who was 1 about to address them, wished it distinctly understood that he made it in opposition | to the pretensions of the “Express Agent,” j whom Meade and his other Express ) Agent, Hulbert, bad made de facto Gov j ernor of Georgia under the military power which he possessed, in the exercise of the i “discretion” laid down for his government ; as Military Commander of the sub-district I of Georgia; but by no means to the preju ! dice of that noble Georgian, Charles J. Jenkins, who was Governor dejure, by the clear and expressed willcf the people. On a former occasion the people of Greene j had the pleasure of listening to the gallant | Georgian when, ina spirit of compromise, under the expectation that a tiee and fair ballot— not that awed by bayonets and controlled by Military Bureaus, with their stuffed ballot-boxes aud fraudulent votes— they submitted to an appeal to the people. He now had the pleasure of introducing him as an Elector for the State at large, upon the Democratic ticket, headed by those gallant standard-bearers, Horatio Seymour of New York, and Frank P. Blair ; of Missouri. • - General Gordon upou taking the :-tand, briefly but feelingly alluded to the kindness with which he had been received and houor- I e.d, on a former occasion, by the people of Greene, again renewed by this largeassem bly of his fair-country women and t he sons of ; the soil—the honest and honorable repre - sentatives of the State, the true guardians jof the country’s welfare, and of civil ! liberty and the principles of pure Democ racy. He came among them to-day as the represeptative of certain, well defined principles, clearly and distinctly set forth in the Democratic platform ; and ho would ask thorn to consider briefly what was affirmed in that platform —what was meant by those principles—how their en forcement, as the practical and settled policy of the Government, would affect j their interests, present and to come, in all j the relations and in all the conditions of j life, whether social or political. J After discussing the several resolutions J of the Democratic platform, General Gor ! don proceeded to analyse the Chicago platform. He dwelt particularly upon that doctrine which affirmed that negro suffrage 1 was good enough for the South--both ! those now in tho Union and those which ' it never it ad been pretended had been out, and those which had been and were now j undergoing the process of reconstruction, | as it is called by Congressional enactment, | lie had nothing to say against Gen. Grant personally—would not pluck a single well earned laurel from his brow as a soldier. It was not for hint to say what might have resulted if at the close of the war Gen. Grant had chosen to eschew all political pat ties aud boldly proclaimed ’himself and declared the influence of his great name for the. preservation of Constitutional lib erty—for the preservation of the Govern meut as our forefathers made it. That was a tide in the affairs of man seldom offered to the great, Tha’ was a picture spleudid to behold. A sublimity as yet only attained by him who, having been First in War , became First in Peace, and thereby First in the Hearts of His Countrymen. But Gen. Grant had chosen otherwise- lie had become the representative of a party —a politician. It I was of General Grant tho politician he I spoke—the representative of a p'iebubld party, one wing of which sought to alter, and in altering to subvert Republican Gov j eminent and substitute therefor a con solidated Government but slightly removed j from the rule of an Empire; while the ! other and dormant wing made a squint ! eyed benevolence the pretext to retain po ! sition and povv.fr. and emoluments, pro ! claiming that 1 — | “From Greenland's icy mountains To Texas’ coral strand ; i Where Western sunny fountains, I Roll down their golden sand. | To-eveny Southern river, j To every Southern plain, * * We send them negro suffrage And Reconstruction chains, And taxed New England rum; But these, from us, good Lord deliver And keep away from ‘hum.’” | This was the character of those who, I under cover of General Grant’s name and ' military prestige, sought their votes. They i were the Beast Butlers and Sumners who sought to rulo and ruin, aud if successful : would act toward Grant as they now act \ toward Andrew Johnson- and peace and prosperity would forever depart from the country. He would, therefore, call upon all who desire a stable, sound Government— such a Government as our forefathers made—one that they could glory in—whose j national ensign would be the emblem of j true liberty and justice and power, to rally | with him to the support of Seymour and | Blair. The honest masses of the North had been arou-ed. They were moving in i solid column full of enthusiasm. He called ; upon the Union men to support them—to [ lead the boys in grey—hundreds of whom he recognized as his companions on many a field—in untold hardships—would follow in an unswerving line. | Gen. Gordon, having addressed the au- | j dieuee lor nearly two hours, gave place to i | Cel. Carey W. Styles. Col. Styles said : that an editor’s brain—daily accustomed to ! serving an olla pudrida for the public— was illy adapted tor the coiuage of a set speech; but, in obedience to their flattering j invitation, he was present to serve them as heat he could. He was particularly delighted to see so large an assemblage of ladies,’well knowing that where they in- ; terested themselves, ail would go right. Aud why should they nut take deep in terest in the present issues? Men could stand or escape from the tlircatenings, al most consummated, of moral and social degradation which Radicalism utters. But for our wives and daughters, our sisters, and, above all, our mothers there is no escape, lie was glad to see them present, and hoped that they would uot only take a deep interest, but bring to bear every influence with which partial nature had j endowed them to avert such calamities, lie did not propose to touch upon the issues so abiy handled by the gifted orator who had preceded him, but proposed to givethem some insight into practical politics —to show them the character of the Radi cal pnrty in Georgia as exemplified by tueir deeds. He then proceeded to expose the unblushing frauds which had been practiced in the several election districts in the last election. His closing delineation of the character of J. Hamilton Mc- Whorter, Senator from the adjoining coun ty, was terrible. He stated that this so called Senator, finding himself defeated in spite of bureau and bayonets, after the closing of the polls, received, upon Hnl burt’s order, the ballot-box, and, in his own house, made two of his own sons rob the ballot-box of votes and fraudulently iasert others —sufficient to give a majority of three votes, and now he sits as a Sen ator and votes in his own ease. The Colonel declared that a baptism in all the waters of the Carnbean Sea could not eleanse such a man of guilt. All the soap Colgate ever manufactured could not. purify him : all the labors of all the wash women, and ail the washing machines could not make white his char acter. Nothing could remove the black ened stains except a regeneration by the mercy of God. and this would not efface it from the memory of those with whom he and his children lived. At the close ot'.Colonel Styles' speech the assembly adjourned amid salvos of ar tillery and the enlivening strains from West's brass band. The Democracy of Greene met in con vention after dinner, and completed their organization by the election of Vice-Presi dents for each Magistrate's District, who were empowered to organize subordinate clubs, and to nominate and indnet into office Presidents of colored Democratic Clubs. At night a proeessmn was formed, which marched by torchlight through the town. The town was illuminated, many admirable transparencies were exhibited, conspicuous among which was : “General Grant Lost among the Politicians.” Fireworks and National salutes from the "Baby-waker” closed the first day of the campaign in old Greene. Democrat. At a Probate Coart in Ohio, upon com plaint of a father that he had never been permitted to see his first born, two months old, the Court gave him permission to see the child at all reasonable times and placea The Judge declined to interfere in the : further eouipiaiot of the father, that the’ child wa« christened Geo. H. Pendleton, without hi? eonsent. A maa in Massachusetts has invented a > combination lock, which, is, he says, re- j markable for its simplicity. We should , think so. It has only 1,0€0,000 eombina- 1 lions. FROM ATHEgS. Hon. Air. Ifardeman's Address —“7 he Conflict of Life' —Addresses by Messrs Cox and Grady — '’'Purposes," and “Castles m the Air"—Presentation by the Law School to Prof. Mitchell — The Speech by Air. Green----Georgia's Love ly Daughters. [SPXCiAI. COEUMPJSEKSt’Mor TBI CHOOSICLJ « 6SMTTXML. j T Athens, August 10, IS6& V™ Chronicle :—Restricted space and the volume of those that ard specially des ignated ».s collegiate exercises, has hither- i to prevented a reference to what are termed ! the literary addresses. Upou the joint invi- i tation of the two Literary societies con- I nected with the University, the Phi Kap pa and the Detnosthenian, the Hon. I Robert Hardeman, of Macon, delivered ' before these bodies an oration upon this j theme—“The Conflicts oft Lite. The distinguished orator handled. “I s subject from a standpoint on Life's i Meridian. He presented in sharp outlines I the nature cf the conflicts which those up- ' on the threshold might anticipate when j within the temple, revealing its inmost re- I cess, and displaying in prospective its lcniest riches, and, by brilliant antitheses, . forced his audience to pronounce upon ; their character and value. Giving loose reins to his imagination, he gathered the causes of conflict as with a cast net, from ! the great deep of the past and from the surface ot the present—bringing cow I to view golden apples From the garden of the Hesperides, and now the I golaen roiears of the modern counting ! houp—now exquisite textures, the hand- \ work of a classic Helen or an imperial Dido, wrought with threads brilliant by Tyrian dyes, and picturing deeds of lofty valor and highest renown ; and again, flexible hoopskirts of latest fashion, from modern New England's hugest factories ; ! holding up now a block of wisdom from the great King who builded the great temple at Jerusalem; and now a hollow form from the hands of the great sovereigns who reconstruct the temple of Republican liberty at Washington ; again displaying the great causes which provoked celestial wrath among the great gods and goddesses of Olympus, and again the great causes which moves the dire anger of the poten l tial sovereigns who now control this uni verse at its hub. Throughout, from the beginning to the end, round after round of applause, ofteu prolonged to interruption, greeted the orator: And when the stream of sound, >s * * had passed away, A consciousness survived that it had left,' Deposited upon the silent shore Os memory, images and burning thoughts' Which cannot die. The succeeding orations were from the chosen representatives of the two literary societies represented by Mr. A. 11. Cox, of LaGraDge, and Mr. IlenryGray, of Athens; the former selcc’ing for his subject “Pur pose,” and the latter “Castles in the Air.” Although nothing could be more dissimilar than the subjects treated ot by these rival representatives, nevertheless the goal ar rived at was identical. Mr. Cox’s was a clear, well pronounced, well delivered, distinct utterance of one who, with firm resolve, had carefully analysed the lives of the successful, and had determined for himself a well defined object of manly am bition with the stern, unalterable resolution of pursuing it unceasingly and unremit tingly. Mr. Grady, admitting the utter futility of youthful castle buildings as founded upon thin air, and tracing with unfaltering hand and in severe logic their inevitable sequence —from the rustic milk maid which forewarns the earliest years to the dreams of fame, of glory and re nown, which empurples the dawn of manhood -nevertheless plead that it should not be utterly condemned and destroyed because it was the nursing mother of those finer feelings and traits which adorn after life. There was a genial glow in these pleadings which would have charmed the author of Elia. We confess, in the absence of decisive plaudits, whatever may have been our judgment, our sympathy was with his plea. Among other iuteiosting incidents of the Commencement, the Law class presented their Professor. 1 01. Wm. L. Mitchell, with a beautiful cane, upon which occasion Mr. Thos. F. Green, Jr., of Milledgeville, as the organ of the class, spoke as follows : Col. Mitchell—l have been selected by the class to present to you this cane as a simple testimonial of the high regard aud true attachment which we entertain for yourself. The presentation is not a mere idle cere mony, nor is it done in simply a compli mentary spirit—it comes as a voice from the heart. It is a genuine expression of genuine feeling. For several months past you have been our kind and able instructor in thatsciencej than which (Theology excepted) there is none more sublime. You have, with re markable clearness and force, enlightened us iu the intricate and grand science of Law. And, sii, yen have not only thus efficiently discharged yourduties as a Law- Professor, but while in the discharge of those duties you havo’done a far nobler work, aud one which imposes upon us a vastly greater debt .of gratitude. You have instilled into our minds ancl hearts, correct views aiu,noble.seutiments. You havo excited within us lofty aspi rations, ari elevated moral influence has pervaded your instructions. Our hearts are deeply thankful and we earnestly ask that Heaven’s tonderest benedictions may ever rest upon you. Colonel, we must part, but hope that the cane which we present may often, while it supports your declining years, recall to memory those wliose hearts have been made better, and whose heads have been made wiser by your efforts and your instructions. And I trust that the sim plicity, earnestness and integrity which mark's you as a man, may characterize each one of us. To this the Professor responded in a few appropriate remark-. If we may take young Mr. Green as an example of this first class to receive the degree of Bachelor of Law ad others to follow, we may indulge the hope that this department in our State University is destined to do much to elevate that noble profession to the highest point of usefulnessand dignity,a profession which enters into and pervades all interests ot society. We can hut congratulate our State and her noble University upon having fairly inaugurated this Law department. We un derstand that this department will open on the third Monday of this month, and that does not observe the usual College vacation, but is open all the year, taking only the recess of commencement week. There are four Professors connected with it as a branch of the University—Chancel lor Lipscombe, Dr. R. IX Moore, Hon. Benj. 11. Hill and Wm. L. Mitchell. Much has been written of the orators of the occasion, and of those who partici pated in the College exercises, but as yet lit;!e mention of the fair daughters of Georgia—of the beauty who graced the occasion by their wit and charms. Your correspondent is far too great au admirer of the gentler sex—far too gallant to omit a tribute to their softening and refining in fluences, in tho.-e classic Halls, where, for more than half a century, the wit and beauty of Georgia has welcomed the graduates of'Franklin to the stage of man hood. It is safe to say that the present assemblage may fairly challenge the past, and will long be remembered as a i standard in the future. Where so much dazzling beauty was congregated, it is extremely difficult to particularize, and this task is rendered doubly onerous because of disagreement among youthful and competent critics. But if not too hazirdcus, permit me to iudieate a few of the prominent. Athens has long been famed for its rare loveliness. Among those who. now command universal admiration was the beautiful Miss Y—, and again Miss S. H. and Miss B. H. As one and another, and another of these exquisite beauties were pointed out to your cor respondent. he could not but exclaim that if ancient Athens could boast her excel lence by the possession of’the beau ideal in temples, our modern Athens may j fairly challenge comparison in the I beau ideal of woman. Nothing could surpass the exquisite loveliness of those beautiful violet colored eyes of Miss Ella B—which are only rivaled by the brilliant competitors of her cousin Miss M. K. of Milledgeville, as brilliant and as ; soft in radiance as the evening star. Au- ; gusta was well represented by the bewitch- [ ing Miss W — and by Miss 0 — and Miss S. The lovely Miss R. N. represented | Covington—the daughter of a brave Con- j federate General, whose dazzling black i eyes are now far more potent than the sword. The graceful Miss D. G. of Ma- j eon, and her charmiug hostess Miss C. of j Athens ; Miss 8. S. of Savannah ; the ; Misses C. of Greensboro ; Miss M. A. of Madison and Miss B. of Griffin ; Miss T. of Washington; Miss G. of Elbert eo., and that petite'blonde, Miss 8., cf Atlan ta, who wore as a bracelet upon her dimpled arms, as a cherished memento of the "Lost Cause,” the collaret with its insignia of a gallaDt Confederate; and ‘'La belle Creole,” the charming Miss McH., of Green.-boro, were among those peerless beauties, who lent inspiration in approving smiles, and bestowed coveted rewards in choice bouquets and eracefnl wreaths. M. A Youthful President. —Hobart College, Geneva. N. Y., has_ chosen a new president, Mr. Samuel Kent Stone. Mr. Stone is only 23 years of age, having been born in Boston in 1340. He is a grandson of Chancellor Kent He was graduated at Harvard University, and subsequently spent between one and two years in the University of GottingeD. Germany. When the war broke out he entered a Massachusetts regiment as a private, but was soon promoted. He was afterward elected professor of Greek at Kenyou Ooiiege, and one year ago he was chosen president of that institution. The trustees of Hu;.art College have placed in the bands of this young president almost dictatorial powers, authorizing him to nominate his own professors, and giving him control of the fund lately raised to in crease the salaries of professors. Gough’s new lecture is on "Cireumstan ces.” Some men lecture under circum stances—of extreme depression. FROM ATLANTA. The Bradley Case—Radical Knavery — i Campbell a Second Bradley—lnfamous j Decision of the Senate —Negroes in the \ House—Contrast between This and For - i mer Legislatures—State Aid to Rail roads—Relief—State Printing—Negro Eligibility , Ac. , dee. tsrrcriL ooaaxiposccici or tux chxqkiclx a surnsm..! 1 Atlanta; 28th August, 1868. ) In the Senate to-daj the session was j speut in the discussion and consideration of a branch of the Bradley imbroglio. This has consumed more or less of the time of the Senate for thirty-two days. Every ruse and evasive movement of Bradley's friends to delay investigation had been ex hausted and on Saturday last they were driven to meet the case upon its merits or fabricate some new evasive expedient. Ihe Special Committee appointed to in- j vestigate the eharges against him submit- | ted a majority and minority report. The j discussion of these reports consumed the j day on Saturday, Bradley occupying the ■ floor most of the. time himself. It was j evident, from the disclosures during Sat- j urday s proceedings, that the. charges I were fully sustained, and that over the I alls “Aipeoria” must go, unless Rad- i fical ingenuity aud fraud could evolve some political dodge to save his credit, I This they succeeded in doing, but in j so doing have only added another to j that long list of disgraceful frauds, j which makes up a large part of their legislative record. Under tho Code of j Georgia, now of force, it is provided that, j in ail eases where the person receiving the largest number of votes is ineligible to of j See, the person receiving the next largest ■ ! vote shall be entitled to qualify and hold j i the office. In this case A, white man and ; j a Democrat, and, above ali, a high-toned I gentleman would corns in and occupy the . > place usurped and illegally held by Brad ; ’ey. In order to avoid this the miserable ; | farce of a resignation was resorted to. A | short note, tendering his resignation, was sent by Bradley to Governor .Bullock, and the Governor replied, acknowledging the receipt of the resignatiqn, addressing the Hon. A. A. Bradley—calling that honorable than which few creatures exist | less entitled to the appellation. This eor | respondence was published in. the Sunday’s t papers. The first - business in order on Monday morning was the unfinished busi ness of Saturday, being the Consideration of the report of the Committee. The point of order was at once raised on the Republican side, that the resignation of Bradley deprived the Senate of juris diction of his case and precluded all farther proceedings. The Chair decided the point well taken and an appeal was taken from the decision of the Chair, and, upon this appeal, yesterday was consumed in discussion, and the discussion continued until half-past one o’clock to-day. The most of the time was consumed by Republicans, and a great part of it by the negro Camp bell, who is little less of a nuisance than Bradley. About two o’clock to-day the Senate reached a vote upon the question and cer tainly respectable, honest-thinking people will be astonished to hear that the Georgia Senate voted to sustain this unprecedented ruling of the Chair, by which the infa mous negro, who has cost the State of Georgia fifty thousand dollars, is screened from the just sentence of the Senate, aud the wav opened by wljich his place can be supplied by so ne rice field hand from the neighborhood of Savannah. The vote stood : yeas 20, nays 19. I would give the names but they are upon the record aod will stand there forever as a monument of honor to the minority. There will be a motion to reconsider in the morning, which will probably be success! ul. Scarcely less presumptuous and certainly not less overbearing than Bradley, is Camp bell (negro), who,iu debate yesterday, when called to order by the presiding officer, recognized not the right of any one to dis turb him, and finally the hammer of the presiding officer came down, and while the Senators were bat in hand, he was left standing “alone in his glory,” wondering, no doubt, why he was not treated more courteously- The other negro Senator, Wallace, though never before emancipa tion having enjoyed the boon of freedom, is, wheq compared with the two of whom I have spoken, polite and unobtrusive, hav ing, no doubt, as much hatred toward his white brothers hut not inclined to take ad vantage of his position to vilify and abuse them. In the House there are twenty eight negroes and but twopl them are inclined to enter into the debates. .1 allude to Turner and Sims. The former very frequently speaks and generally with some point—he ii conservatively disposed, is fully conscious that he is a negro and always addresses his race as such. » Sims has little use for white folks— thinks it a burning shame and disgrace to Georgia that his race'is ignorant and de based—and were it in his power he would put his heel down on the white race, and he and his black brothers would run riot over the land. * Too much' prominence has been given these, in my eorrespondenee, but the his tory of this, the first mixed body of Geor gia legislators, would have been incomplete without it. They fire men of some shrewd ness, a gread deal of impudence, and hav ing, as before remarked, an intense hatred of the race from which two, at least, of them claim their paternity. In more than one instance they have illustrated the venom which characterizes Thad. Stevens’ policy of annihilation, extermination, the utter humiliation and degradation which were his humane intentions toward the Southern whites. To understand fully the meaning of negro supremacy, one but to spend a day in witnessing the de liberations of the Georgia Legislature. In what strange contrast to the days when Cobb, Toombs, Jenkins, Troup, Meri wether, Miller, Jenkins,. Crawford, Gor don, Milledge, and a host of others, illus trated Georgia and the Caucasian race— when giants in intellect arid statesman like prowess contested for the prize of party ascendancy, the inauguration of some great political policy; when foemen, when worthy foemen’s steel made the halls of legislation resound with eloquence of which the National councils need not to have been ashamed. State aid is asked for the Air Line, the Macon and Augusta, and the Griffin and North Alabama Roads, and even for a Street Railroad in Atlanta. It is doubtful whether it will be granted ; the more prudent and conservative members being not only doubtful of the policy, but sagely concluding that the State has no aid to give, no credit to lend. It is pretty certain that the Committee which has these bills in charge will report "adversely" to their passage. Relief has not yet assumed any definite shape. There is a strong disposition to declare null and void all debts contracted prior to June, 18G5, while those who advo cate any stay upon debts created sinoe are few. An interesting question was sprung in the House yesterdav, as to the printer for the present Genial Assembly. Under the Code, Dr. Bard certainly is not, nor can he be, till the Code is altered. Ac cording to all precedent, and. law, Mr. Burke is printer to this Assembly, but a strong effort will be made to oust him. The Radical party must have a press in •every .Congressional District, and being unable to sustain it themselves, they fain would have it sustained out of the public Treasury.. Bryant’s resolution, a day or two since, to have the Governor nominate to the Senate a press in eaph Congression al District, which should be the recipient of all legal advertisements, means noth ing more or less than the perpetration ofPope’s order No. 49—none but a "loil” paper should have any -public or official patronage say the Rads. If Bryant can carry out his scheme every white man’s paper in Georgia will be put under the ban. Mr. Tumlin’s resolution declaring all the negro members of the House ineligible meets with more favor than was at first supposed. Many of the Republicans favor it, or are afraid to vote against it. The close observer of the tendency to social equality, as evinbed in the present House, may weH cause the whites to ponder-to reflect. The action of'this House, too, will be placed asaprecedent by future Legislatures. One thing ip certain, the whitesmust make laws for the blacks, or the blacks must make laws for the whites. Negro su premacy or white supremacy must’be the policy of the South, One race or the other must go under—must be subordinate. "The wayfaring' man, though a fool need not err as to the ultimate solution. V\ eaith and intelligence wiH ever control poverty and ignorance. Constitution. Gen Halpine’s Opinion of Seymour and Blair. —Among the last written words of the generous and gifted General Halpinc were his opinions of Blair and Seymour: "On the whole muster-roll of our army no name shone more cocspicn- : ously for personal gallantry than that of Frank Blair ; few ofScers have been more ■ desperately wounded, and no officer has ! been more gloriously conspicuous for never saying ‘go’ to bis men. but ‘follow me.’ ” I * * * "Knowing Seyipour well, and having had opportunities to know him thoroughly, officially, and personally during the war, we reluctantly but firmly apply t& whomsoever shall question his action and practical loyalty, the famous words of the j great Radical chief who answers every 1 charge which he deems unfounded by this i striking phrase of the pure Sgxon dialect. 'You lie, you villain, you he ;’ and—what the great Radical philosopher does not do —we are willing to be held responsible fur these wordy.” The Smith gold mine, in Spotsylvapia county, Va., containing one hundred acres, was sold at a trust sale last week forsl,4oo. A year or two ago Northern capitalists ! bought it for $15,000. 1 FROM ATLANTA. Aaron Alpeoria A<piin— Bradley's Hand- Bill— Ineligibility of Negro Members— Brawn's Opinion Character of the ' Legislature-^Superintendent if Educa tion Governmen t Aceomnmlations Augusta Municipality. fFiOiAL C R3t6P HDXSCt or IHI C3K NICLI 4 SENTINEL. Atlanta, August 13th, 1868. Editors Chronicle dc Sentinel:— The irrepressible Bradley is still occupying the attention of the Senate. After a long dis cussion a vote has been-reached, declaring that Aaron had never had a seat, this, too, after having allowed him, under protest of the minority, to vote on every question from Senator down to the most trifling measure. It is also still stranger, that this blot, tlmstigma, even to his oivn race, should have claimed so much consideration when, upon a heal vote, there were but Jive who voted to sustain the minority re port, which declared him eligible. These five are Adkins, Campbell (colored), Hig ( bee, Sherman and Wallace (colored). Im mediately alter the vote on the minority re j port, the majority report was carried by | the sound; whereupon Mr. McArthur in | troduced a resolution, seating Hon. Rufus :E. Lester. This was not taken up, but l lies over, under the rule. It will come up i to-morrow. I enclose Bradley a hand-bill, taken from his manuscript. It is an e.cact copy—ver batim, liter at urn, et spellatim. The em phasis and punctuation are likewise his : “OGEECHIES! RALLY, RALLY, RALLY ! j • For your alters and your fires; ; For tho green Graves of your Hires, For God and your native land, j The year of Jubilee lias come : “Every man. woman and child must go out to the Groat Political (Jarnp Meet ing at Station No. 1, Gulf Road, Bryant > County, Saturday 29th, and Sunday, j August 30th, 1868 : “And also at Riack's hair, Wednesday, September 2d, each beginning at 10 o’clock A. M., for Speaking, Preaching, and Pray for General Grant Colfax ; and A. Alpeorla Bradley for Congress. Ail good men and women are invited, called by A. A. Bradley.” With this I close Mr. Aaron’s case. •We next shall hear of him in the Halls of Congress, where more congenial spirits will surround, and doubtless a more hearty welcome will greet him than have fallen to his lot in deliberative assemblies in j Georgia. j In the House, there is but one very ex citing question, to wit: The resolution to declare ineligible all the negro members. This will come up in a lew days. Mr. Bryant, always alive to the business going on in the House, never tails to “rise to a point of order” whenever it is proposed to take up the resolution. Many | Radicals have caudidly said, that they did not believe negroes could hold office under the new Constitution, and that j while they are unwilling to turn those out yet they are peri'ectly willing to say they shall not in future hold office or be : eligible to seats in the Legislature. It is generally conceded that Chief- Justice j (that is now), was in earnest, when he said, during the late canvass, that the negro could not hold office, and I have heard it hinted that this opinion con tributed largely to his confirmation. Be this as it may, I predict that negro office ho'ders in Georgia will not be again. What a day will that be for Middle, South ern and Southwest Georgia. With the ex ception of the last named section, the ; Black Belt, as it has been called, is most j wolully misrepresented. From Atlanta ' to the Tennessee line, not a negro has been returned, but their representatives are either natives “to the manor born,” or adopted citizens of the highest re spectability. From Atlanta to the sea board, with some honorable exceptions, negroes and white adventurers, “to fortune and to fame uuknown,” have usurped the places once filled by the first talent of this good old Commonwealth. The heart sickens, and the pen almost refuses to record ,the wrongs perpetrated and being perpetrated under the operation of the infamous measures under which this General Assembly was elected and con j vened. The new Constitution provides fora Gene ral Superintendent of Education. There are hut four aspirants, as I have heard tor the place. Colonel Milledge of your city is :in the field, llev. Joshua Knowles is also ! an aspirant, and Mr. Montgomery of At* | lanta ; but I very much fear that all these native Georgians, if 1 mistake not., must yield to the pretensions of a Mr. Ware, a Downcast schoolmaster, arid at present, Superintendent of Freed men’s Schools in Georgia. * » • .The question of accommodations for the State. Government is about to be settled. Messrs. Kimball & Cos., of Sleeping Car notoriety,and late purchasers of the'Opera House, agree to furnish the building when completed for $7,000 per annum . * The City Council, however, at whose cost and I charges these accommodations must be i supplied, are more favorable to the plan of enlarging the City Hall, as they think the situation more eligible, and that it will take a smaller outlay of money and produce less depression upon the market value of their bonds. On a motion this morning to refer the bill bringing on the municipal election in Augusta, there was a considerable debate j Had this bill been on its third reading I think it could have been passed. The familiar form and jovial face of Capt. Geo. T. Barnes has been seen in the hall of the House for the last two days. Were hq a member of the present House, he might win laurels and, at the same time, | subserve the interests of your beautiful ! city, who, when she could speak, always | honored him. It is to be hoped that both : he and the city of Augusta may outlive ! the "disability. ” Constitution. ME THE CHEONIcj.S k SENTINEL. letter From Oglethorpe. j Grand Rally of the Democracy in Ogle thorpe County—Speeches of General's Cobb, Toombs and B. 11. Ilill— Barbe \ cue — Torchlight Procession, &c.,Ac. Lexington, Ga., August 12, 1868. Messrs. Editors : Yesterday, the 11th, was a grand day with the Democracy in Oglethorpe county. Early in the morning large numbers from th« counties of Greene, Taliaferro, \Y ilkes, Elbert, Madison and Clarke assembled in Lexington and they j continued to do so until 11 o’clock A. M. At teu o’clock A. M , with the sigual of a | spirited piece by the band, the vast crowd, estimated by many at four thousand, formed into a procession and marched from the Court House to Church street, and thence to a stand prepared for the speakers in the grove near the Female Academy. Banners and flags bearing the names of Seymour and Blair, were to be seen in many parts of the procession, and when the procession reached the stand the very welkin rang with cheers and shouts and ! huzzahs for Seymour and Blair. When ; the excitement had partially subsid ed, the orators of the day were es corted to the stand by the Marshal of the day, Benjamin A. Gresham, and his Assist ants. W. H. Foster, W. G. Johnson, S. 11. Hardeman and H. 0. Latimer. After prayer by the Rev. Dr. Jno. J. Robinson, of Eufaula, Ala-, Dr, Willis Willingham in troduced to the vast assemblage the first speaker—Hon. B. H. Hill. Mr. Hill spoke one hour and a half, and made one of his clearest and ablest speeches. He said nothing offensive or harsh to the rank and ; file of the Radicals, and his arguments to i the negroes, who wejre present, were un- j ! exeeptionable and unanswerable. To the ’ ; leaders of Radicalism he administered I blisters neither too severe nor too frequent. * Mr. Hill was followed by Gen. Toombs, i who spoke ODe hoar. Gen. Toombs was ! followed by Gen. Cobb, who spoke one ; hour also. These gentlemen delivered able and eloquent speeches, that fully con vinced every one present of the magnitude ; and importance of the issues involved it. I ! this campaign. They held up to the ! burning indignation of the thousands as j sembled, the infamous corruption, wrongs, villainies and indescribable enormities of the Radical party, the Radical Congress, the I Radical Governors and Legislatures of the i South. The day was bright and beautiful, and the ladies were there to grace the passing events of thi? great Democratic festival. Every part of this continent, if possible, should hear Mr. Hill, Generals Cobb and Toombs. Their eloquent voices have swayed the American people in m ny exciting campaigns, and these great men, this grand intellectual triumvirate are equal to the issues involved in this mighty struggle for Constitutional government* and "are exposing, with the clearness of sunbeams, the aims, ends and consequences of that hideous monster Radicalism, now infesting all parts of the American conti nent. Georgia had her Troup and Clark in the day3 of mighty issues—her Berrien and Colquitt, too—but none were more equal in any day, age or country, to any ! contest than Ben. Hill, Bob Toombs and Howell Cobb to the dangers now threaten ing us. The Radical (so-called) stump speakers will not and dare not meet these intellectual giants before the people of Georgia, for to meet them would be the signal of their political burial. After the speakers concluded the assein- ' blage, under the management of the model j Marshal, repaired to tbe tables, where a magnificent barbecue wasprepared inquan- i tity sufficient for all present, white and black, j to "feast sumptuously. At the tables the numerous concourse remained until all were satisfied and many then .dispersed to their homes and many remained to par ticipa'e in the torchlight processian at j night. At half-past eight o’clock last I night Thomas S. Gresham and William M. ' Lane, Lsqg., headed the long procession ! with torches burning and gleaming through every street. As the vast procession pass- . ed and halted at the residences of the citi zens of Lexington, the residences illumin ated, remarks of welcome and wishes of Gfe! speed for the suecess of Seymour and Blair, were made by each oceupanh Speeches, full of fire and enthusiasm, were made by Hon. Joseph H. Echols, Gen er»l Toombs, E. Young, Esq., Dr. W. YYillingharu, J. (J. Reid, W. G. Johnson, Rev. J. J. Robinson, Judge J. G. Gib- * son, llev. T. A. Harris, J. Harper, S. Lumpkin, J. T. Ilaire, T. S. Gresham, Jas. S. Sams, R C. Latimer and Col. B. F. Hardeman. This Democratic rally began at eight o’clock in the morning and ended at twelve o’elock last night. Old Oglethorpe is ablaze end determined, by a thorough organization, to route Radi cal ism,horse-fcot and dragoon in November, and cast her vote for Seymour and Blair. Old men and young men—the boys — j women and children are enthusiastic for the Democratic nominees. You perceive then, Mr. Editor, that the Democracy of old Oglethorpe have opened the canvass in this county in true Democratic style, with banner, flags, trans parencies, torchlight processions and speeches; her bar, pulpit, merchants, artisans and farmers, supporting the van of Democracy, Constitutional Liberty and Constitutional government, determined to work with all their energies for the success of Seymour and Blair. O’d Oglethorpe bids you God speed in the success of Democracy. Passenger, From f/u Qrijjin ((fa.) fri-Weekly Star. Newspaper Enterprise. We are pleased to notice that the Chron icle & Sentinel of Augusta is exhibiting a vast amount of energy just now in the way of telegraphic news; their issue of Sunday last contained a full column of special telegraphic news from Atlanta. This is light, and the fact is, that city dailies who do not freely use the miracu lous influence of electricity in supplying their readers with tho news of the day, will sooner or later “go up the spout.” We are fully apprised of the great em barrassments that the Southern Press labor under—one of the principal causes of which, is the fact that the Southern people don't take papers as they ought Long before we had the remotest idea of ever being connected with a newspaper en terprise, we would- as soon thought of doing without our breakfast as being with out. our papers, both local and foreign, and we supposed the feeling was a gen eral one until We happened to go into the profession, when we learned, to our sur prise, as well as chagrin, that a major ity of the people took no paper at all. A respectable and intelligent®minority took some paper, which was loaned out to those who took none, while a vast num ber relied entirely upon second-hand news gleaned from neighborhood gossip. This is all wrong, and while it continues the South ern Press must languish. Under this burden our Southern Papers have relied too much upon advertising patronage—a very uncertain source of revenue at best, and when considered as the main depend ence for sustaining a paper, it is a broken reed. A paper which < annot make at least a fair support from its subscription list, should shut up shop at once. Perhaps another reason why our Southern Journals do not enjoy the patronage they desire, is the morbid desire for Northern Sensation newspapers. Men will turn out under our very noses, and get up clubs for “Brick” Pomeroy, the New York Ledger, and even the Police Gazette, while the Journal & Messenger, Telegraph, Augusta and At lanta and Savaunah, standard papers are completely ignored. Now, then, Northern Journalists care nothing for us, except to “take in out of the wet” our surplus earn ings, while the home papers are the bul warks of our liberties, and the tests of our prosperity, and in many cases are actually superior in ability to the Northern sheets. Y\ 7 e say this in no spirit of illiberally to our Northern cotemporaries ; we only state facts. Every man of intelligence knows that an able, pure and free press is one of the very essentials of Kepubliean liberty. Without it all is chaos, uncertainty and ignorance ; with it, we have a power which tyranny itself cannot overcome. None know this better than the Radical giant which is now attempting to crush out the last vestige of liberty at the South, and make our people the vassals of a Northern oligarchy. If the people will sustain the press, the press will hold up the hands of the people, expose the villainy of our oppressors, and do more than their part toward the redemp tion of the South, from a worse than Egyp tian bondage. The Electoral College-Prospect of Difficulty Ahead. • From the action of the Florida Legisla ture, from the apparent determination of' the Radicals to choose the President by manipulating the electoral vote for this purpose, tjiould the contest be a close one, and from several other difficulties looming up with regard to this question, there is j some reason to fear, serious .consequences, j The Radical Legislature in Florida and the ' Legislatures in some other of the recon structed States show an evident purpose of frustrating the popular vote for President ial electors, in ease that vote is likely to be against them, by giving the Legislature | the power of choosing electors, as was formerly the case in South Carolina. Sup posing even the Legislatures have this power legally—but that is questionable— such an abuse of authority would be con trary to the spirit of the constitution, to our republican institutions and to the avowed principles of the Radical party, which all along denounced the South I Carolina mode of choosing electors as auti republican ; but worse than that, it might j lead to great trouble, or even to civil war. Then there are three States—Virginia, Mississippi and Texas—not yet fully re- 1 stored and not likely to be before the | Presidential election. Are they to be ex- ; eluded from the Electoral College because i their representatives have not been ad mitted to Congress '! They will doubtless send electors to the College. Will it be left to the President of the Senate, whose duty it is to count the Presidential elect oral votes, to say whether these States shall be excluded or not ? Their votes might decide the election. The contest may be so close that the votes of these three Stales counted for Grant and Colfax would elect these candidates, and without | them Seymour and Blair would be elected, j In that case would the Radical party and | would Mr. Wade lose the opportunity of j securing the power and patronage of the ' Government ? The prize is an ernormous one, and, judging from the antecedents of Mr. Wade and the Radicals, we think they would not lose the opportunity. True, Congress passed a joint resolution, and that over the veto of the President, ex | eluding States not reconstructed and enti i tied to representation in Congress, which j was evidently intended to apply to Vir | ginia, Mississippi and Texas ; but this l resolution could be repealed or a special ; act of admission passed between September ! and November, or any time before the | counting of the votes, if that became a i party necessity, to secure the election. | ! On the other hand, should Seymour and j I Blair receive a sufficient number of votes, which by counting those of the three ; States named would give them a majority in the Electoral College, would not the j President of the Senate, acting upon the j joint resolution of Congress and in favor of j his party, refuse to count the votes of! Virginia, Mississippi and Texas ? These are some of the complications and dangers of the approaching President elec tion. The President in his veto message of the Eleotoral College bill referred to holds that all the Stales, thoughsome may not be represented in Congress, have the constitutional right to vote for President and Vice President, and, of course, this includes Virginia, Mississippi and Texas. The Democratic party will probabiy insist upon this right. W e can imagine, then, what a terrible conflict may tiecur should the votes or exclusion of-the votes of these ! three Stati s, decide the election one way I or the other. This is not a fancied danger nor an improbable one. There is a fearful prospect of it. The only way to avert it is 1 for the people of the Northern States to cast such an overwhelming vote for one or ' other of the tickets that the election may ; not be left to a few of the Southern States or to the contingent action of Congress in ] any case.— Aew York Herald. To Old Line Whigs.—Geo. D. Pren j tice says : If there be a solitary human ! being within our reach, who, by some whimsical hook or crook of heart or brain, has got od the wroßg side of the line of battle —particularly if he had been an old Whig or Union man, and considers it a sort of duty to go against the Democrats— we entreat him to pause and reflect upon what he is about to do. Why should he go with the Radicals ; and. what reason oan he offer ior not going with the Dem ocrats ? All the issues over which we used to fight are dea l. The Democratic party itself is reorganized after a division which completely destroyed and recreated it. In 1860 it foqght within itself as reso lutely as we ever fought against it. Times nave changed , men have ohanged j issues have changed. Clay, if he were living now, would be a Democrat. Webster could be nothing else. All the reputable old-line VY tugs that remain are Democrats, from Fillmore to John Bell; and God knows, L can there is no one of their fodowors in the by gone times who has any excuse to h*»!d back.— Prentice. The Mexican debt, now acknowledged by the present Government, foots up $100,000,000. This is $1 260 per capita ior the whole population." Os tbe whole sum, $5U,0u0.000 are due to English credit or.-, about *lg,UovkO.*o, to. Spam, *d,ouu,- 000 to France, and a small sum to tbe United States. General Logan, of the’ G. A. R. (Grant aßd Rum), commands “fall in.” The order is obeyed from Grant down. From the Atlanta Intelligencer. - * 6 orgta Legislature. SENATE. Wednesday, August 10.— The Senate met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Rev Mr Prettyman. Mr Higbee moved to reconsider so much of the journal of yesterday as relates to the action of the Senate on the appeal from the decision of the Chair in the i**o of A A Bradley. Mr Campbell moved that the same be laid on the table, whereupon the yeas and nays were required to be recorded, and are—yeas 18, nays 21. Those voting in the affirmative are: Messrs Adkins, Bowers, Campbell, Col man, Corbitt, Dickey, Gridin of the 6th District, Harris, Higbee, Jones, Merrill, McWhorter, Richardson, Sherman,Speer, Stringer, Wallace, Welch. Those voting in the negative are: Messrs Anderson, Bruton, Burns, Cand ler, Collier, Fain, Graham, Griffin (21st District), Hintou, Holoombe, Jordan, Mo- Arthur, McCutehen, Moore, Nisbet, Nun natty, Smith (7th District), Smith (86th’ District), Welbourne, Winn, Wooten. The question then recurred upon the motion to reconsider the previous ques tion, which was agreed to —yeas 21, nays 18. The question then was the motion to re consider the main question, whioh was agreed to—yeas 21, nays 18. The Governor sent "in a sealed mo sage through Mr DeGratfeuried, his Secretary. Mr Higbee moved that the Senate go into executive session Mr Candler opposed the motion until the Senate had disposed of the reconsidered | question. Mr Harris was in favor of the same, be -1 cause lie wished that the world could see we were doing something. ! The motion to go iuto < xecutive s. ssion I prevailed, and your Reporter, with sever al others, retired outside. Atler Executive session the Senate re sumed the regular order, which was the reconsideration in the case of A A | Bradley. j Mr Candler cited from authorities, bear ! ing on the case in point, that the Senate | had acted erroneously. '1 he main point assumed by Mr C was to prove that Brad ley was never a Seuator and therefore had nothing to resign. A woman may have been elected, a felon, or a duelilsi,but they are not entitled to a scat. He assumed further,that a party Ineligible cannot hold office, therefore, the office is vacant. He cited the case of Genera 1 Shields, who was a foreigner and could not hold his seat as U fc> Seuator. He had lived here 17 years, had fought gallantly. Illinois sent him as her Senator, and yet not being natural ized, he resigned,and vet Mr Webster said that be could not resign as he held no office to bring about such a result. The vote in this case was 12 to sustain the res ignation ami 32 against. Mr Higbee followed in opposition. Mr Burns followed, stating that the Board of Registration has decided under the ioc ustruction laws, lie could not reg ister-then how can he resign ? It would not surprise him to see the same man back here iu ten days Mr Merrill moved to extend the time to two o’clock, for the purpose of going into Executive session. Agreed to. After Executive session the Senate ad journed. HOUSE. The House met. Praver by Rev. Knott. OF THE COUNTIES. Mr McDougald introduced a bill to ex empt from jury dutv the physicians of this State ; also, a bill to provide for an elec tion of municipal officers in Columbus. Mr Turuipseed—A bill to prevent hunt ing on the Sabbath day, in Clay county. Mr Cloud—To amend 4,478 th sec.ion of the Code. Mr Long—A bill to be entitled an act to allow defendants to redeem property sold under execution and for other purposes Mr Powell—A bill to increase fees of Justices of the Peace and Constables. Mr Williams, of Dooly—A bill for the relief of Isaac Williams. Mr Fryer—A bill relative to duty of road hands. Mr Sisson - A bill to authorize the Build ing Loan Associations. Also a bill to de clare the forced effect of contracts made between buildings, incorporated by the Superior Courts of this State, Ac. Turner, of Bibb—A bill to prevent com mon carriers from distinguishing between white and colored persons, in aceormno dations, Ac. Mr Ellis, of Gilmer—To repeal an act re quiring certain criminal prosecutions to be not prosed. Mr Erwin—To authorize the survey of 6th District, of Habersham county. Mr Franks of Bibb—A bill for the relief of BF Henry of Bibb. M r Ayer—An act to allow any citizen of Jefferson county to retail spirituous liquors. Mr Fryer—An act for the proper man agement and ventilation of county jails. Mr Williams of Morgau—An act to reconstruct public roads and protect the same. Mr Walthall—A bill io be entitled an act to abolish the lien of judgments upon property so soon as the same is bona fide disposed of by the judgment debtor. Mr Cunningham—A bill to appropriate mouey to purchase corn for the indigent, etc. • j Mr Warren of Quitman—An apt to I change the 1,640 th section of the Code of Georgia, and define the fees of Solicitor Generals iu certain cases. Mr Humber—A bill to be entitled an act prohibiting persons from selling Or bartering from boats or water crafts on the Chattahoochee river. Mr Betlmne—An act to organize a coun ty court in each county of the 28th Sen-’ atorial District. Mr Wilcher—To allow W J McGill to peddle without license. Mr Tweedy introduced a memorial from citizens of Richmond; without being read referred to Committee on Education. Mr Drake—A bill to provide for a board of physicians. Mr Shuinate—A bill to fix the yenue of suits against the Superintendent of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and for other purposes. BILLS ON THIRD BEADING. F'or relief of securities of Daniel W Reeves. Lost. Mr O’Neal, of Lowndes, Introduced the lollowing bill: An act to carry into effect the provisions of the Constitution with re gard to District Courts in certain districts in this State, and abolish the same in other districts. bills on third reading. To authorize the payment of certain c.aims against the Western & Atlantic Railroad, taken up and made special order for Tuesday next. Speaker McWhorter being unwell Mr Hudson, of Harris, presided to the entire satisfaction ol the House. He is dignified, courteous and prompt—strict in the en- ; forcernent of order and anxious to progress , with the business. Speaker McW deserves tho thanks of the House for appointing Mr H as his temporary representative. The House adjourned to 10 am, to morrow. SENATE. Atlanta, August 13—The Senate met pursuant to adjournment aud was opened with prayer. The journal was read and approved. Mr Higbee moved that the Senate go in to Executive session. After some discussion, on this motion, the Senate refused to go into Executive session. The Senate resumed theunfinished busi ness, which was whether the decision 0/ the Chair in the Bradley case having been confirmed as tbe judgment of the Senate should be reversed. The decision of the Chair was that as the Senator had resign ed, therefore the case was no longer before the Senate. After considerable discussion, in which Messrs CampbpiJ, Adkins, Crock and Smith of the 7th participated, the Senate reconsidered the decision of the Chair. The majority and minority reports were then read. Mr Candler then called for the previous question, which was sustained; the same being tire adoption of the minority report, whereupon the yeas and nays "were re quired, and are yeas 5, nays 30. The majority report was then adopted, which declares Bradley ineligible. It was adopted by the sound. Nays but few. Mr McArtCur introduced a resolution in effect, seating Mr Lester Objection was made to action on the same because the rules had noi been sus pended. The objection was sustained. The Senate then went into Executive session after which the Sebate adjourned. HOUSE. The House met pursuant to adjourn ment (Mr. Hudson in the Chairj, and was opened with prayer, The Journal was read and approved. Mr. Scott moved to reconsider so much of the journal of yesterday as relates to the postponemes t of the bill to pav cer tain claims against the Western and At lantic Kailroad. Xhe motion prevailed and the bill was referred to tl e Judiciary Committee. J A message was received from the Senate announcing that the Senate had adopted a resolution authorizing the Governor to order an election for members of this House, aud c unty officers in the counties of Teliairand Irwin. The resolution was taken up and con curred in, and ordered to be transmitted forthwith to the Senate. BILES OS THIRD BEADING. A bill to incorporate the town of Trion, in Chattooga county, and providing for the election of Commissioners for the same. Passed. A bill to allow James M Richards, of Pickens county to practice medicine and collect tees for the same. Lost. A bill to incorporate the Citizen’s Bank, Os Dalton, Ga. Passed. A bill to fix the pay of grand and petit jurors, and bailitls, in this Btate. Kefurred to the Judiciary Committee, A biil to pay each maimed soldier in this Stale tbe sum of sixty dollars per an num. Laid op the table. i A bill to relieve James Goode, a blind ! man, from taxation. Lost. A bid to encourage internal improve ments, railroads, Jtc. Lost. A bill to reduce the pay of the Sheriff of Clay county from ten thousand to five thousand dollars. Withdrawn. A bill to continue in force all laws now of force in Georgia until the same are re pealed. Referred to the Judiciary Com miitao. A bill to deprive the Mayer and Alder men of the town of Valdosta of ail lees, J and fix their salaries. Passed. A bill to define the liabilities of In- 1 surauve companies in this State. Referred to Judiciary Committee. A bill for the relief of Georgia, and to : prevent the aaie of property for a limited | time. Referred to. the Special Committee j on Relief. A bill to change the law of evidence. This bill allows prisoners, when on trial I for lelony, to make statements to the ! court—not under oath—and that the jury give such weight to the statements as they may think proper. Mr Andersou and Mr Williams, of' Dooly, addressed the House in opposition to the adoption of the bill. Messr. O’Neal, of Ijowndes, Shumate, Hall, of Meriwether ami r 7 h ‘ of passage' of ■MtaiMd,\h« 9 iHMn qaesHo 03,10(1 and the bill passoc. 90081100 was put, and Mr Williams Os Moivan . , resolution to appoint . Vr,,’ nt f f,duced a fer with tho late S,?r. b ° Ulumtee to con " Western A Atlantic Rakroad”* ° f the into the justness of certain and in 9 ulr « said road. Nottaken ClulUls a « alQSt Tfi® rules were not suspended A bill to reorganize the MunVi»„l ernmeut of the city of’Augu to Mr Madison moved to the JudiciaryOominittee. li st llle bIU 10 Mr Rice moved to refer the bill to the Committee on Corporations. On this motion*! he yeas and nays were and yeas CM, Ilays - lß< I he bill was then made the speJial order for Wednesday next. This bill provides that an election for Mayor and members of Council f„ r the city of Augusta shall be held ou the 2d of September next, in the manner establish ed by law, and by the ordinances of said city, as they were of force on the first, dav of April, 1566, and that tin- officer so elected shall continue to Ikil.l their offices until the regular auuual election in Vnri I LSoi), and until their successors are elected and qualified. Mr Lee introduced a resolution that tho Capitol be permanently located in the city PnrGmnt- la ’ llal Committee on Penitentiary be requested to report on the expediency Os removing the Penitentiaiv to btone Mountain. Not taken Up. inor Uouso “'Uonrned til-110 o'clock to- SENATE. Friday, August 14, 1868—Senate met pursuant to adjournment, and wasonened w.th prayer by the Rev Mr Smith, tor from the 7th District. approved. rnaior - VeßU>rday Was rwul and A sealed communication was received wffh ?: ~Vernur; t,lat tlle same be cousid erea in executive session. A document from the Governor was read requesting the Senate to repeal Sie tion l’ftn of the Code, [the replug of this seeffon authorizes the Public Printer 6 t< L PJltt ‘ r upon bis duties at once.} Mr Nunnally moved that the Senate now go into executive session, which was sustained. The following nominations were con hrmed during executive session ; Associate Judges Supreme Court—H K McCay, 8 years ; Hiram Warper, 4 years „r N ,V rU,eru Circuit—Garnett Andrews of Wilkes county, Judge ; and John M M thews, of Madison, as Solicitor. Macon Circuit.--"Carletoir R Cole,of Bibb Judge; and Ezekiel W Crocker,of Twiggs’ as Solicitor. Pataula Circuit.—S Wise Parker.of Clay county. Solicitor. Southern Circuit.—.l R Alexander of Thomas, Judge; and W li Bennett,’ of Brooks, tt> Soueitor. After executive session the Senate re sumed its regular business. Mr McArthur moved to suspend the regular order of business for the purp >se of introducing a resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Senate to employ ad ditional clerks. The regular order was suspended and the resolution was adopted. A document from the Governor was read containing lengthy reports from the Pro visional State House Officers. On motion of Mr Harris, the reports were referred to the Finance Committee. Mr Campbell (colored) moved to recon sider so much of the .journal of resterday as relates to the action of the Senate in the adoption of the minority report in the case of Bradley. He urged iu lengthy and: emphatic remarks the reconsideration. He hoped the Senate would excuse liis warmth, as the case was near to him as a colored man, and was also near to the white race. If Bradley was sent forth up on the world with this foul imputation resting upon him he would be met by the sympathies of 92,000 voters of a down-trod den race. Pending the remarks of Mr Campbell, the Senate adjourned until 10 o’clock to morrow morning. HOUSE. Friday, August 14.—The House met pursuant to adjournment end was opened with prayer by hpv Mr Knott. Mr Hall, of Mefi wether, rose to a ques tion of privilege, so fer as relates to his re marks being utisi epresented by tbe re porter of the Constitution-he simply used the words by way of illustration. Mr O’Neil, of Lowndes, al-o rose to a question of privilege as to bis remarks be ing misrepresented, when he used the name of the Hon A II Stephens in sup port of his argument. The ground as sumed being that the reporter introduced to convey the idea that this was tho only argument he urged io support of the bill, aud the language “benefit to the poor ne gro” was tho only argument used by the gentleman from Meriwether in support of tbe same. On a call of the roll the following bills were introduced and read the first time : By Mr Hamilton— I To incorporate the Baptist Church of Union, in Scriven county. Mr Bryan rose 40 a point of order, that the bill could uot ho entertained on ac connt of being Unconstitutional. The Chair decided that tbe bill could not be entertained under the rules of the House. A bill to provide for the removal of the penitentiary was also introduced by Mr Hamilton. By Mr Johnson—A bill to reduce the Sheriffs bond of Towns county. By Mr Shumate—A bill to incorporate the Dalton and Morganton Railroad Com pany. On motion of Mr Scott, the rules were suspended, and the House took up the special order, which was A bill to incorporate tho Cherokee Manufacturing Company of Floyd county. A motion was made to re-commit the bill in order to have it referred to the Finance Committee. The ground taken for the bill taking this course was, that a question of finance, in the way of taxation, was involved, also the same privileg, s could be granted to all. Mr Phillips opposed its reference to tho j Finance . Committee, and moved to the Committee on Internal Improvements, and two hundred eopiesbe printed, which was agreed to. The regular order was resumed for bills on first reading. • By Mr Wllclrer—A bill to prevent the organisation of armed companies in cer tain eases. By Mr Salter—A bill to change the lines between the counties ot Wilcox and Pu laski. By Mr Strickland—To change the resi dence of John T. Shipp. By Mr Pickens—lA dispense with tho District Court of the 41st District. By Mr Halt—A bill to amend the 7th paragraph of 1711 section of the Divorce law. By Mr Cobb—A bill to organize a fire company in Americus, Ga, to be called the “Wide Awake Fire Company.!’ By Mr Kellogg—A hid to organize a | District Court in each Senatorial District I in this State. | Mr Rumph—A resolution that the Mes- I senger eject one A A Bradley, a convicted i felon, from a seat on the lioor. | A motion was made to suspend lire rules | in order to take up the resolution, j Mr Bryant hoped that the House would j proceed with the regular business, as this thing of Bradley’s case happened twenty years since. In a case happening so long since— The point of order was raised that the question was to suspend. The Chair decided the point well taken. Mr Scott—Mr Speaker, has a seat ever been tendered to this personage? Mr Phillips, of Echols—ls it not the duty of the Chair to eject such personages with out resolution? The Chair—There is no rule governing on this subject, though I thluk no one ob noxious to the House should he allowed to a seat on the floor. The previous question was culled for and sustained. On the rar lien to suspend the yeas and nays were required to be recorded, aud are yeas, 85 1 nays, 35. It requiring a two thirds vote, the rules were u :t suspended. Mr Turner, of Bibb, liegged to be ex cused from voting on such an insignificant proposition. By Mr Butt —A bill to regulate the en forcement < f contracts between landlord and tenants. By Mr Lee of Newton—A resolution that when this House adjourn to-day it adjourn until the 19th August, and that the per diem be suspended. Laid over. By Mr Madison—A bill to define tho qualifieationsof officers in thisStato. (Con siderable merriment was manifested at the reading of this bill, reason we could not gather from the confusion.) By Mr Htone—A bill to exempt Phy sicians of Jefferson county from serving on Petit and Grand Juries. By Mr Felder —A bill to authorize the Macon aud Brunswick Kailroad Company to construct a branch of iheir road from Hawkinsville to F irt Valiev. Mr Hudson moved that when the House adjourn it adjourn until Wednesday, whereupon the yeas and nays we*n re quired to be recorded, and are ycmmCiO, nays 56. So the motion prevailed. » Nearly every member, after the vote was taken, changed bis vote, amidst much laughter and confusion. A resolution was introduced authorizing the clerk to draw an amount not exceed mg SI,OOO from the Tn-a-ury to purchase | stationery, etc * 1 The House i ■•>.. u. ’>'<• <- of tin* j Governor in reference i < the payment cf ; provisional officers of the State, Referred to Committee on Finance. t Mr introduced a bill to incorpo ‘rate the Turtle River A Semen Railroad Cos. j By Mr Scott—A hill to fix the time of ! holding elections for membersof Congress ;in this State. Also, a biil to incorporate ! the Memphis Branch Kailroad Cos., and ' grant certain powers aud privileges to the ; same. By Mr Ballard—A bill to incorporate the Central Georgia Mutual Insurance Cos. By Mr Hail, of Glynn—A bill to incor- g orate the Manufacturing,Marine Railway ommercial and Dry Dock Company of | Brunswick. By Mr Hurrency—A bill to authorize a fishery to be established by joliu Over street, of Appling, on the Tattnall side of the river. By Mr George—A bill for the relief of criminals confined in prison. By Mr Osgood—Resolutions from Board of Aldermen from city of Sataunah, in reference to registvation and election. By Mr Powell —A resolution requesting tbe Governor to direct the Superintendent not to permit persons to travel on the W astern A Atlantic Railroad With passes except officers and employees. [This ex cludes members of the Legislature.] The House then adjourned until Wed nesday next at 10 o’clock. The carpet-bags used by the" Radical office-holders ot the South are notable for their large side-pockets.
