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all parties in out
the cemcus system
the purpose for
has become 4o lie
I no often, that it should
pthing else be instituted
Tine Democracy of tarroll
Have appointed Brown delegates, and pre
fer Senator Iverson to any other man in Geor
gia, for 17. 8. Senator. They have also sug
gested that the next Congressional convention
for the 4th District, meet at Newnan, on the
fint Monday *» June. Let that day be accept
ed, we say, and let all delegates to that con
vention be appointed in May, if not before.
V.
Falton Superior Court
Adjourned on Friday evening last, till Mon
day next. During the week, three persons
have been convicted of felony—one sentenced
to the Penitentiary, and the other two now
awaiting the sentence of the Court. Four di
vorces were granted. So it will be perceived
that the Court of Fulton County sets its face
firmly against crime, and stands erect iu the
vindication of the wrongs of injured women.
Men who wish to make a living by stealing,
and husbands who have a fondness for the
practice of wife-whipping, had better keep
away from Fulton Count}'.
Augusta City Directory,
This is a book containing 180 pages, with
which we have been complimented by the
Publisher, Mr. R. A. Watkins. It contains a
list of the names of all the citizens of Augusta,
business, professional men and others, and
their places of business as well as their resi
dences. The work was printed by Messrs. John
M. Cooper & Co., Booksellers and Stationers,
Sav annah, G eorgia. Besides the matter above
mentioned, the work contains a large number
of advertisements, showing that besides the
geneial utility of the publication, it is a good
advertising medium. The author is desirous
of getting up such a work for Atlanta, provi
ded he can receive sufficient encouragement.
Whether such an attempt would be a paying
one, we are not prepared to say, but we are in
clined to the opinion that the experiment is
worth trying.
The Meetings In Cobb and Cherokee,
From ever}' part of the State, we hear the
most cheering accounts of the prospects for
Gov. Brown’s nomination at the ensuing Gub
ernatorial Convention. In addition to the pro
ceedings of meetings, heretofore published in
our paper, we to-day, lay before our readers,
those of the Democratic Party of the counties
of Cobb and Cherokee. The Democracy of
these Counties speak out in a most emphatic
manner in favor of Gov. Brown's administra
tion. and of his re-nomination by the party
"for re-election. < Inc by one the counties fall
into line. His enemies tell us that certain
counties will go against him; when those coun
ties are heard from, they are for Brown. Soon
the "last link will be broken,” and the anti-
Brownites will not have “a loop to hang a
hope upon. ’ ’ Such men are struggling against
fate, und will soon find themselves deserted
an l forsaken by their former party friends,
“solitary and alone,” to wage a hopeless war
fare. Will they not retrace their steps and fall
into line, before they are overwhelmed by the
irresistible force of public opinion f
The Dcmocrery of De Kalb.
'lliis venerable County, so long and favora
bly known as true and loyal to the Democrat
ic party, ‘‘without variableness or shadow of
turning,” speaks out in the right Rpirit, us
will be perceived by reference to the proceed
ings cf a meeting held on Tuesday last, at De
catur, which we publish to-day. The reso
lutions adopted show a determination to sus
tain Gov. Brown, and the Hon. L. J. Gartrell.
It has been rumored “that the delegates ap
pointed to the Gubernatorial Convention,”
are not so very much in favor of Gov. Brow n’s
re-nomination. The facts of the case are, that
no delegates were appointed at the meeting
above referred to. Delegates however, we
learn, will be appointed on Tuesday of Court
week, and we have no doubt they will be of
the Brown stripe throughout. In fact, we have
it from reliable authority, that it would be
hard to find Democrats enough in De Kalb
county, to make an anti-Brown delegation, if
such a thing should be attempted. “Nufced.”
The Washington Tragedy.
The trial of Hon. Daniel E. Sickes, for the
killing of Phillip Barton Key, began cn the 4 th
of April. This case is exciting intense inter
est. A crowd of reporters are already on the
ground. Mr. Sickles has for his counsel Jas.
T. Brady and John Graham of New York, E.
P. Stanton of Pittsburg, und Samuel Chilton
and Daniel Ratcliffe of Washington. The
prosecution is conducted by Robert Ould, as
sisted by J. M. Carlyle.
The panel was exhausted in procuring 5 Ju
rymen. Several Jurymen were rejected be
cause they were not worth 800 dollars, and the
Judge would not consent to have the prison
er’s box placed beside his lawyers. The Judge
had never seen a man tried for murder who
was not placed in the dock. He was not dis
posed to make any exception in this case. We
gather the above from the correspondent of the
N. Y. News. Old Fogyism still prevails in
places. We feel mortified to learn that an
American freeman, in the city of Washington,
cannot sit on a Jury unless he is worth 800
dollars. This property qualification is a dis
grace to the age, and should be speedily and
entirely wiped from all our statute books. If
that Fogy Judge will come down to Georgia,
he can have the opportunity of Beeing a man
tried for murder, without being placed in the
'lock. He can find a plenty of Court Houses
without any dock, and can see a man being
tried for murder, sitting with his lawyers and
conferring with them as freely as any other cli
ent could do. V.
At Democratic meetings held in Butte,
Houston, and other counties, the course of
.1 udge Iversou as a Senator in Congress, has
been warmly endorsed. It is evident that the
Johnson and Cobb Democracy will not beat
him as easily as they anticipated.
The above we clip from the “Columbus En-
<\ uircr. ’ ’ There are some strange ideas in those
few lines. He sjxiaks of “the Johnson and
Cobb Democracy.” We would like for our
rotemporary to give us an introduction to this
new Democracy, which his prolific brain has
conjured up. He need give himself no uneas
iness about Judge Iverson. The Democratic
party of Georgia are fully capable of taking
care of that distinguished gentleman. If there
is any wAr to be made upon Judge Iverson, we
are inclined to the opinion that it will not be
made by the “Johnson and Cobb” Democra
cy. How muchscever the Know Nothing and
quasi Democratic press may endeavor to foster
a few feuds between Judge Iverson’s friends
and other meniliers of the Democratic Party,
tliey will find themselves very much mistaken
if they expect to create a breach which will
I >6 detrimental to either. Although “we love
Rome more and Caesar less,” yet if Judge Iver
son is the choice of the Democratic party for
re-election, he it our choice. And his special
friends are “flinging away their time,” in ef-
f- >rts to create the impression that we are hos-
liletohim. Let disorganize!* make the most
<>f this declaration on our part.
Thb Presidency.—When Mr. Buchanan’s
term ends, eleven years will hare elapsed
since the office of President has been held by
a Southern man, and that Southern man a
Whig ; and twenty-nine years will havojpase-
• 4, since* with a single exception, the nomina
te w of the Democratic party for that office
country. Many think J
has had its day-
which it wi
abused so grvselj
be laid asi le awl
in its place.
It is in places considered meritorious to run
against a caucus nominee. If a mav in the
majority party can carry enough with him to
control the balance of power, he may coant oh
the votes of the opposition to beat the nomi
nated candidate. You may often hear the mi
nority crying out smssdhsii and en
deavoring to prevent organisation* The cau
cus system lias its evils, bat he who would de
stroy it should offer something better. Has
anything better been presented ? There must
lie some kind of consultation to find out who
the people want. But it is objected that these
consultations are not representing the popular
will, and are forcing upon the country, and
foisting into position many men who, other
wise, would remain in obscurity. It is charged
that conventions are too often packed and the
popular will unheeded, in the mad strife for
the elevation of some favorite of a few. It is
charged tiiat in conventions, impudence and
trickery often over-rides modest merit, and
worth remains at home while wind blows up
success. It is charged that caucuses are ele
gant places for the maneuverings of dema
gogues and scheming partisans—that men are
not called out to take office by them, but that
they have become subverted to baser purj>o-
ses, and meu have got to using them, so as to
put themselves out upon the people without
an invitation fairly expressed
Are there no remedies for the evils which
are charged to nominating conventions ? We
think there arc. Will it not be easier to reform
existing abuses, than to inaugurate a new pol
icy ? We think it will. We think we can de
scribe how caucuses should be managed so as
to work well and represent the popular will,
and put out the right sort of men, in nine ca
ses out of ten.
1st, There should be a proper notice circula
ted in due time, and a proper hour for meet
ing appointed.
2d, There should be no haste in organiza
tion, to secure certain men to put through a
pre-arranged programme. But there should
lie a free and friendly interchange of sentiment
in the spirit of concession, and the man best
fitted for the duties required, who seems to
have the. most friends In convention, should
be taken as the exponent of popular feeling,
and personal predilections should never be al
lowed to become too urgent, nor should per
sonal hatred and grievance be carried so far as
to make war upon the representative of the
majority.
3d, Let there be a proper platform of prin
ciples adopted, expressing the object, of the as
semblage.
4tli, Let the men to tarry out the principles
of the platform, be chosen by ballot. There
is no one thing now going on and practiced
we are sorry to see very generally, which does
more to render odious the caucus system, than
the plan of doing everything by committee.
If it is necessary to raise a committee to draft
resolutions, there is no need of calling upon
that committee to give out names. The com
mittee may not suit the convention, and then
there comes up a delicacy which prevent*
many from expressing their wish against the
announcement of the committee. To a ballot
no one can reasonably object. A ballot throws
an equal responsibility upon every voter,
ballot allows a free and untramclled expression
for any name. Committee men sometimes have
to drop delicacy and suggest themselves, and
often the suggestion is entirely acceptable.
For the very men that the convention want
for delegates, are often placed on the platform
committee. One will more willingly oppose
in open convention, a resolution than amnv
Our word for it, a ballot as suggested, will do
much to remedy existing evils.
5th, Whenever scheming partisans, unwil
ling to see the people’s will prevail, pack and
arrange and put out an objectionable name,
let the people hold a mass meeting, and tbe
ballot will easily tell who are the people and
whom the people want. The Democratic party
will always accept “vox populi,” whenever
clearly and fairly expressed. This is much
better, than subsequently manifesting resent
ment by helping to heat the candidate of our
own party. This will eventually teach men
to wait for the wagon. '1 his will compel men
to yield to the fairly expressed majority of par
ty friends, (which all ought to do) or get out
side the traces, where they can do less harm
than inside the lines. This will deter office
seekers from fixing up the tricks slily with a
few favorites.
6th, Let the masses interest themselves more
in nominating conventions, and there will be
less complaining on election day*. If the right
men are put out, it will be much easier and
pleasanter to elect them. Let the above half
dozen suggestions, all sensible, we think, be
adopted by the Democratic party of Georgia,
and let him who will not stand to them, feed
in some other pasture, and our flock will feed
in green pastures, and Re down by still waters,
guided by a shepherd whose voice is famihar
—who knows his sheep and who is known by
them.
These rules would dignify poUtics, and many
of our best men, who now shun the political
arena, not wishing to scramble for place, would
find an agreeable field of labor m devoting
their entire energies to the service of an appre
ciating and loving constituency. V.
DEMOCRATIC MKKTIlfG.
Decatur, Ga., April 5th, 1859.
At the suggestion of several members of the
party, a respectable number of Democrats,
met to-day in the Court House and organized
by calling Mr. F. H. Gay, to the Chair, and
requesting Milton A. Candler, Esq., to act as
Secretary.
On motion, Hon. Jas. J. Diamond, explain
ed the object of the meeting, to be—“to take
some steps towards having DeKalb county,
represented in the Gubernatorial and Con
gressional Conventions. ’ ’
Thereupon it was moved, that the Chair ap
point a Committee of Five, to report imme
diately such action, as thev should think pro
per, to the meeting.
Under this resolution, Hon. Jas. J. Dia
mond, Col. J. W. Crocket, Samuel C. Masters
Dr. P. F. Hoyle, and James S. Elliott, were
appointed,—who retired and reported the fol
lowing resolutions :—
Resolved 1st., That the Democratic Party of
DeKalb county, are unanimously and decided
ly in favor of the renomination of Joseph E.
Brown, and declare that in view of the emi
nent economy, honesty and patriotism shown
in his Administration of the affairs of the State
and especially of its Bailroad interests and of
party usage heretofore, it would be unwise and
wrong, not to re-nomtuate him in the ap
proaching Convention without opposition.
Resolved 2nd, That the course pursued by
our immediate Representative in Congress,
Hon. L. J. Gartrell, meets without warm ap
proval, and we recommend his re-nomina
tion.
Resolved 3rd, That the Democratic Party
of this county, be requested to meet at the
Court House, on Tuesday of Court week, in
April, for the purpose of appointing Delegates
to the Gubernatorial Convention, to be held
on the 3rd Wednesday in June next, and also,
to the Congressional Convention, for the 4th
District, if any should be held.
On motion, the above resolutions were unan
imously adopted, and ordered to be published
in the Democratic papers of Atlanta, and In
dependent Press.
Meeting adjourned.
F. H. GAY, Chairman,
Milton A. Chandler, Sect’y.
0T A lady friend of ours says the lint time
she was kissed, she felt like a big tab of rose*
swimming in honey, cologne, nutmegs and
cranberries. That she was esoerted by several
cupidsin chariots drawn by angels, shaded by
biwwntrlw
iy.writer of, the “Professor at the
tting out Breakfast table." in the April number of the
Allantic Monthly, expresses his mind freely
on several of our great cities, Boston comes
fint, of coarse, and thus:
BOSTON.
Boston is the brain of it, the New
World,) and has been any time these hundred
years! That’s all I claim for Boston—that it
is the thinking centre of the continent, and
therefore of the planet.
“ And the grand emporium of modes
ty, said the divinity-student, a little mischiev
ously.
“Oh, don’t talk to me of modesty! an
swered tittle Boston, I’m past that! There
isn’t a tiling that was ever said or done in
Boston, from pitching the tea overboard to the
last eclesiast ical He it tore, into tatters and
flung into the dock, that wasn’t thought very
indelicate by some fool or tyrant or bigot, and
all the entrails of commercial and spiritual
conservatism are twisted into colics as often
as tliiS revolutionary brain of ours has a fit of
thinking come over it. No, sir; show me
any other place that is or was since the mega-
losaurus has died out, where wealth and social
influence are so fairly dicided between the sta
tionary and the progressive classes! Show me
any other place where ever}' other drawing
room is not. a chamber of the inquisitions,
with papas and mammas for inquisitors, and
the cold shoulder, instead of the (ley pan and
the gradual tire the punishment of ‘heresy.’ "
Baltimore.
We think Baltimore is a pretty civil
ized kind of a village, said the young Mary
lander, good naturedly, But I suppose you
can’t forgive it for always keeping a little
ahead of Boston in point of numbers, tell the
truth now. Are we not the centre of some
th!, g?”
“Ah, indeed, to be sure you are. You are
the gastromic metropolis of the Union. Why
don’t you put a cunvass-back duck on the top
of the Washington column r Why don’t you
get the lady off from Battle Monument and
plant a terripan in her place ? Why will you
ask for other glories when you have soft crabs ?
No, sir ; you live too well to think as hard as
we do in Boston. Logic comes to us with the
salt fish ot - Cape Ann ; rhetoric is born of the
beans of Beverly ; but you, if you open your
mouths to speak, Nature stops them with a fat
oyster, or offers a slice of the breast of your
divine bird, and silences all your aspirations.
PK1LADELPHIA.
“And what of Philadelphia ?” said the
Marylander.
“Oh, Philadelphia? Water-works, killed by
the Croton and Cochituate; Beu. Flanklin,
borrowed from Boston ; David Rittenlumse,
made an orrery ; Renj. Rush, made a medical
system; both interesting to antiquarians;
great Red river raft of medical students, spoil
tancous generation of professors to match ;
more widely known through the Moyamen-
sing House Company and the Wistar parties;
for geological section of social strata, go to
the club. A good place to live in, firstrate
market, tip-top peaches. What do we. know
about Philadelphia, except that the engine
companies are always shooting each other.”
THE METROPOLIS.
“And what do you sav to Ne’ York ?”—
asked the Roh-i-noor.
“A gent city, sir,” replied Little Boston,
“a very opulant. splendid city. A point of
transit of much that is remarkable, and for
performance of much that is respectable. A
great money centre. San Francisco with the
mines above ground—and some of ’em under
the sidewalks. I have seen next to nothing
grandiose, out of New York in all our cities.
It makes ’em all look paltry and petty. Has
many elements of civilization. May stop
where Venice did. though, for aught we know.
The order of its development is just this :
wealth, architecture, upholstery, painting,
sculpture. Printing, as a mechanical art—
just as Nicholas Jenson and the Aldi, who
were scholars too, made Venice renown
ed for it. Journalism, which is the accident
of business and crowded populations, in great
perfection. Venice got as far as Titian and
Paul Veronese and Tintoretto—good color
ists, mark you, o i the flesh-and-blood side of
art, but look over to Florence and see who lie
in Santa Croce, and ask oiit- of whose loins
Dante sprung!
“Oh, yes, to be sure, Venice built her Du
cal palace, and her Church of St. Mark, and
her Casa ’Oro, and the rest of her golden
houses; and Venice had a golden lxiok, in
which all the large tax-payers had their names
written, but all that- did not make Venice the
brain of Italy.
“I tell you what, sir, with all these magnifi
cent appliances of civilization, it is time we
began to hear something from the jeunesse (fo
rce whose names are on the Golden Book of
our sumptuous, splendid, marble induced Ve
nice—something in the higher walks of liter
ature—something in the councils of the na
tion. Plenty of art, I grant you, sir; now
then, for vast libraries, and for mighty sehol
ars, and thinkers, and statesmen—five for
every Boston one, as the population is to ours
ten to one, more properly, in virtue of cen
tralizing attraction as the alledged metropolis,
and not call our people provincials, and have
to come begging us to write the lives of Hen
drick hudson and Gouverneur Morris!
“The little gentleman was on bis hobby,
exalting his own city at the expenses of every
other place. I don’t suppose lie had been in
either of the cities he had been talking about.
I was just going to say something to sober him
down, if I could, when the young Marylander
spoke up.
“Come now,” he said, “what’s the use of
these comparisons ? Didn’t I hear this gentle
man saying the other day that every American
owns all America? If you have really got
more brains in Boston than other folks, as you
seem to think, who hates you for it, except a
pack of scribbling fools ? If I like Broadway
better than Washington street, wliat then ? I
own them both as much as anybody owns ei
ther. I am an American, and wherever 1 look
up and see the stars and stripes overhead, that
is home to me !
“He spoke, and looked up as if heard the
emblazoned folds crackling over him in the
breeze. We all looked up involuntarily, as if
we should see the national flag by so doing
The sight of the dingy ceiling and the gas fix
tures depending therefrom dispelled theiilu
Sion.
O, ever thins froffi'childhood’s hour,
We’ veaeeji our loudest hopes decay ;
We never had a dog, nor cow, nor
Hen that laid an egg a day,
But what ’twas marked andtuk away !
We never raised a sucking pig,
To glad us with his sunny eye,
But whan it growei up fat and big,
And fit to roast, or bile, or fry,
We couldn’t fiLd it in the sty !
WELCOME.
Welcome-, Smith O’Brien ! from ihy home across tbe
sea—
Welcome to our city, our country of the free ;
Thou slidere<i for thy native tend, and earned a patriot’s
fame—
Thou bast nobly won the right to bear a patriot’s
name ;
Xow thy day of gloom is past—thy martyrdom is o’er,
Thou hast again thv freodnm, though not the hopes of
yore.
Thy morning hopes are gone, like fairy visions faded.
Anil Freedom’s holy light with the noondav gun was
siiaded ;
May happiness and love, free from sorrow, care and
strife,
Fall gently like a twilight o’er the evening of thy life.
Again accept my greeting, warm welcome unto thee,
Welcome, Smith O’Brien. from thy home accross the
sea. POLLY
JV«? Orleans, 1859.
•y»“' ;—
at, APRIL 1V1869.
gif” We refer our lady readers to the new
advertisement of Mrs. M. A. Howland, which
appears in this issue.
An Attempted Assassination.
It is our painful duty to record that our hith
erto moral and intelligent Town, on last Fri
day night about 8 o’clock, was the theatre of
the most aggravated attempt to assassination,
ever perpetrated in a civilized and christian
ized community. The circumstances, we learu
are substantially as follows;—A negro man
named Phil, the property of Thoms L. Walk
er, (who is now absent in Texas) went to the
residence of Dr. A. T. Shackleford, one of the
oldest, most respectable and most inoffensive
of our citizens. The night being very darli
and showery, rhii after lurking around the
house, was discovered by the barking of the
dog6, when the Dr. weut out on his portico
with a lighted candle in his hand. After some
words, the negro informed the Dr. that his son
(who was in attendance at a meeting of the
Thomaston Sax Horn Band in the Court House)
wished his father to bring him an umbrella,
The Dr. first insisted that the negro should
perform this kindness for his son, but. after
some evasion on the part of I’hil, the J)r. start
ed off, the negro loitering behind, or probably
dogging his footsteps. In the act of crossing
a flight of steps leading into the Court House
square, a pistol was tired within a few paces of
the Dr., the contents (a load of large shot)
lodging in the steps. In a second after, an
other shot was fired, and a ball or buck shot
struck and penetrated the left leg of the Dr.
four inches above the knee. 1 lie assassin then
fled and was pursued a short, distance by the
Dr.
Phil lied whon he told the Dr. that his son
wished him to bring an umbrella to the Court.
House. He is now iu jail to await a trial.
The mystery which enshrouds this most sin
gular affair will, we trust, bo developed. The
secret which could prompt to take the life of
an old and harmless citizen, if now possessed
alone by the guilty actor or actors, will in time,
come to possess them. Such a crime cannot
go long concealed or “unwliipped of justice.”
—[Upson Pilot.
Wnute of points Decided by the Supreme
Coart In Atlanta March Term 1899.
Frederick Cabot vs. Nathan Yarborough et al
Equity from Floyd.
Held, when the court below retuses to pun
ish for contempt, this court will not interfere
unless there ha3 been flagrant wrong commit-
eh Judgment affirmed.
Mitchell for plff in error vs. Underwood and
Smith contra.
Mayor and Council of Rome vs. Frederick M.
Cabot et al from Floyd.
Held, that the charter of the City, of .Rome
allows the Mayor and Council of said city to
contract for the building of Water Works.
Judgment affirmed,
Shropshire and Underwood for pi fife in error.
Not afew people imagine that chil
dren should learn politeness from the public
teacher. This is wrong—that branch of the
tuition lies in the mother’s Up.
Joseph B. Cumming, Esq., has been appoint
ed by the two Literary societies of Franklin
College to deliver tbe annual address, during
coamlbostnent week, in August next.—[Col.
Sum.
Hon. James Jackson.
The above able and efficient Representative
of the 6tli Congressional District, accept our
thanks for kind attentions. And we will
here remark, that the 6th District cannot
send a man from that district to Congress who
will be the greater honor to themselves or more
benefit to country, than Judge Jackson. Lete
ns have him a few years more any way.—
[Rome “Southerner & Commercial Adver
tiser. ”
The above appeared in our paper a few
weeks since, in reply to which, .the Journal,
a paper published at Clarksville, Ga., has the
following :
Not so fast brother Wofford. You don’t
know all about matters in the 6th. We think
we can find a man in the 6th District, who
wiR be as great an honor to our people and
benefit to the country. We will try to look
after the Judge who is likely just now to give
you some trouble. Let every one see after
his own household.
Now we never intended to interfere with
the good people of the 6th District when we
wrote the above, but only expressed our prefer
ence for Judge Jackson. The Editor to the
Journal need not fret about any body giving
us trouble here—we are all right, onr candi
dates are invariable wiling to abide the decis
ion of our Conventions.
As to the Journal’s abiHty to find a man iu
the 6th District that will be as great an honor
to the people and as great benefit to the coun
try, is yet to be tried. The Journal thought
the same tliiug two years ago—but the people
decided differently, to the time of about 2000.
Does the Journal remember ? The editor
of the Journal is a very bad hand to guess, es
pecially at elections in the 6th District. We
are afraid he will lose his reputation as a pro
phet if he does not stop it before October.—
[ Rome “ Southerner & Commercial Advertis
er. ”
Retirement of prominent Statesmen.
Probably no other four men in the last Con
gress had so much to do with shaping the leg
islation of the country as John Letcher, of
Virginia, Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia,
George W. Jones of Tennessee, and James L.
Orr, of South Carolina. Their places, on the
first Monday in December next, will bo filled
by new men. Mr. Letcher goes into the gu
bernatorial chair of Virginia, and the other
three retire to private life. They have always
been remarkable as hard workers, Mr. Jones
of Tennessee, has been indefatigable. Seldom,
indeed, during his 24 years seivice, has he
been seen out of his seat- during the hours of
the session, unless his presence has been nec
essary in the committee room. Mr. Stephens
has been in Congress sixteen years, and has
won the very first reputation as a sound and
practical statesman, and a brilliant orator.
None of these men can well be spared from
Washington, aud it is to be hoped that if Mes
srs. Stephens, Jones and Orr cannot be in
duced to return to Congress, that their services
may be secured to the people in other positions.
They are all in the prime of life. Jones is 53
years of age ; Stephens 47 ; Letcher 45 ; and
Orr 37. The three last have been named fre
quently in connection with the Presidency,
and it is not altogether unlikely that one
of them may receive the nominat ion at Charles
ton. Among other distinguished statesmen
who have declined re-nominations to the
House are George W. Hopkins, of Virginia, J.
F. Dowdell and Eli S. Shorter, of Alabama,
John M. Sandidge, of Lousiana, and James B.
Olay, of Kentucky, all of whom have made
their mark in public legislation. Judge Hop
kins 55 years old, has been Speaker of the
House Chairman of the Committee on For
eign Delations. A number of prominent
men have been elected to stay at home for the
ensuing two years among them Erastus Corn
ing, George Taylor and Elijah Ward of New
York, F. P. Blair, Jr., of Missouri, Jas. Hughes
of Indiana, andH. M. Phillips, of Pennsylva
nia, and old Josh Giddings was thrown out
by liis pirty in Ohio. The gallant Harris of
Illinois, is dead, and John Glancey Jones has
gone to Austria. We do not believe there
has been so marked a change in the House of
Representatives at the end of a session, since
the formation of the government. The Sen
ate has lost Houston, Jones, of Iowa, Thomp
son, of Kentucky, Stuart, Bates, Wright, Al
len, Bell and others. Of the new coiners one
or two have been previously known to the
country, but the majority have their reputa
tion yet to make.—[N Y. Day Book.
Opposition Charges against the Democratic
Party.
‘Full many a shaft at random sent,
Hath hit the mark that was not meant.”
“Old Ben Hardin,” as he was familiarly
termed, or as John Randolph more appropri
ately styled him, the “kitchen knife, whetted
on a brick bat, cutting rough but deep,” once
said to his competitor in a discussion on the
stump, “beware Sir, of the rebound of your
balls aimed at me. Once upon a time my as
sailant was knocked down, killed for two
hours, aud seriously injured for life by the re
bound of a rock which he aimed at my de
fenceless head. The rock missed me and was
sent with tremendous force against a tree from
which it flew back into his own face, knocking
him down and producing the other conse-
qences which 1 have just related. The scar is
distinctly visible on his face this day, thirty
years after the occurrence.”
The opposition writers and speakers remind
us of Hardin’s old antagonist. Their “slings
and arrows,” aimed at the champions of the
Democracy, generally fly back with redoubled
force into their own faces. When they ar
raign the Democratic party upon the charge of
extravagance in Congress, we have but to
point to the recorded evidences of the fact that
the most ohjectioiHihle expenditures ot the peo
ple’s money have been made through the
opposition members, aided by the minority of
the Democratic members. When they talk
about the corruptions of Democratic rule, we
can point them tc the allowance of “Galphin
claims" by the last Opposition administration
—the allowance of unjust and fraudulent
claims, (according to previous decisions and
the subsequent judgment of the country, ) by
which cabinet officers were made rich in mon
ey. We can also show that so far as the leg
islative department of the government is con
cerned, the disclosures and developments of
the last few years arc greatly against the Oppo
sition.—Rich. (Va.) Index.
Death ot Mr. Foley.
The Savannah News of Tuesday, contains
the following melancholy announcement of
the sudden death of James B. Foley, Esq., of
the “Scriven House,” of that city f
“With fccUngs of deep sorrow we record the
sudden and melancholy death of Mr. James B.
Foley, proprietor of the Striven House, who
died last evening about 8 o’clock, from inju
ries caused by his lieing thrown from his bug
gy while driving on the Bay. The horses at
tached to his veliicle took fright while passing
the Exchange, and becoming unmanageable,
dashed off at a furious rate, keeping the open
street until they reached the corner of Whita
ker street, where they took the pavement.—
While passing over an open cellar door one
wheel of the buggy was torn off, canting the
vehicle in such a manner as to throw Mr. Fo
ley on the pavement, He was taken into the
store of Messrs. Holcombe and Johnson, where
medical aid was promptly in attendance. At
first his injuries were not thought to be serious
but his symptoms grew alarming after he was
conveyed to his house, where he expired in
about two hours after the accident.
In his death, Savannah loses a much valued
and useful citizen. Few men enjoyed in a
higher degree the personal esteem and confi
dence of h's fellow citizens. Elected twice to
a seat in the Board of Aldermen, he discharged
the duties of his office with impartial fidel
ity.
He was a sincere friend, a good citizen, an
affectionate husband and parent, and a kind
master, and leaves numerous friends and ac
quaintances, who will deeply sympathise with
his young and interesting family in their sad
den end meiancholy bereavement."
§£- Secretary Cobb, by direction of the Pres
ident, is acting Attorney General during J udge
Black’s temporary absence.
House BoUders
Are referred to an advertisement in to-day’s
paper, seeking “proposals for doing the wood
work, &c., of a building about to he erected in
Per.field, Greene Co., Georgia, for the use of
one of the Literary Societies of Mercer Univer
sity. ’ ’ A good chance is now offered for some
body to get a good job, and make some repu
tation. Crowds of people visit Penfield from
all parts of the State, at commencement seas
ons, and a fine building will give the name of
the builder an extensive circulation. V.
South-Western Georgia.
This interesting portion of our State is not
unrepresented at this session of our Supreme
Court. Yesterday we had the honor of shaking
hands with our special friends, Col. Samuel
Hall of Macon County, and Col. MarkH. Blan-
ford of Marion County, both lawyers of emi
nence in their section of the State. The for
mer will probably be the nominee of the Dem
ocratic Party of the 2d Congressional District,
for Congress, in case Mr. Crawford declines the
nomination, as he has indicated an intention
to do. Col. Blanford will likely be the nomi
nee of tbe American Party of his County, for
the Legislature, both of whom will, no doubt,
if nominated, be elected to the several offices
to which their friends design to promote them.
We have not room to 6ay more.
Yegro Thieves Speedily Arrested.
On Friday night last at 12 o’clock, our vig-
ilent Lieutenant of Police. G. W. Anderson,
and our Clerk of Council, C. C. Howell, left
our city in pursuit of two men who had stolen
a negro man belonging to the last named gen
tleman, Mr. Howell. They overhauled the
thieves and tire negro at Albany, Dougherty
County, Georgia ; arrested them and returned
to tlie city yesterday (Monday) morning, and
incarcerated the crowd in our city prison.
Whit Anderson is a hard case. If the rogues
who happen to visit Atlanta, don’t believe it,
let them try. The parties who took Mr. How
ell’s negro, are named James M. Drumright
and John Silas. The probabilities are, that
Judge Bull will put them in the way of learn
ing a trade before long.
Hon. A. H. Chopper.
It often does our heart good to meet and
greet a friend long known and long tried.—
We enjoyed thigjdeasure a few days since, in
taking by the hand the gentleman whose
name heads this article. He was our fellow
student under the iron rule of the notorious
N. S. S. Beman, and we have known him,
and have been some what intimately acquaint
ed with him. most of the time ever since.—
He was for several years a member of the
Georgia Legislature, President of the Senate,
a member of Congress, a distinguished lawyer,
and has always bore the character of a high,
toned, honorable gentleman. He has been
for several days in attendance on the Supreme
court in this city. He looks wonderfully well.
Time has dealt kindly with him. “Long
may he wave.”
Hon. «T. II. Iiiimpkin.
According to previous notice Judge Lump
kin made an address to the “Ladies benevo
lent Association of Atlanta” before the largest
assembly we have seen gathered in the city
during this year. The Judge stated that a
consideration of his reputation might have in
duced him to decline making a speech, but he
was willing to risk his fame, and make an ef
fort upon veryjshort notice to do some good,
The Judge proceeded to discuss the following
question—What has Christianity done for wo
man ? The Judge very elegantly referred to
Solomon’s description of a “virtuous woman”
whose ‘ ‘price is far above rubies. She stretch -
eth out her hand to the poor ; yea, sliereach-
eth forth her hands to the needy.” Solomon
teaches that the right sort of a woman makes
a good house wife. The audience was referred
to the past, to learn that woman has been de
graded wherever Christianity has not prevail
ed. We were reminded of women consumed
upon the funeral pile, with their dead hus
bands. The women of Greece were named.
Thucydides says of them, she is the best wo
man of whom the least can be said. Socrates
when he wanted female society had to associ
ate with courtezans.
Rome furnished but few noble female char
acters. 500 years passed without a divorce.
Gibbon says tiiat such was the servitude of the
wife that the husband was unwilling to give
her up and she was unable to get away. In
the fuliness of time Jesus came. The N. T.
abounds iu the fidelity of women. Jesus came
to elevate woman. It is a little remarkable
that he preached his messiahsliip first to wo
man—the Samaritan woman at the well. His
disciples were astonished at it. Wherever
the Gospel has been preached and where it has
been preached the most faithfully there wo
man has been most appreciated. Jesus loved
Martha and Mary. How tenderly lie spoke to
his mother as he gave her to one of his disci
ples, while hanging on the cross. The women
of Judea loved the Savior. They sought his
body to embalm it. To woman was first made
know'll in all its truthfulness and comfort, the
glorious fact that the Savior had risen. Wo
man was invited to “come, see the place where
theLordlay.” Woman ran “with fear and
great joy” to tell the glad news to “hisdisci-
ples” that “he is risen.” Why is that wo
man is so favored by the N. T. It is suited to
woman’s nature.
If religion should ever forsake our halls of
legislation—our schools and colleges and our
places of public worship, its last resting place
will l>c in a woman’s heart. The last altar
will lie found at the fireside. The last and
only teaching will be that of the pious mother
learning her prattling infant to lisp the Lord’s
prayer and telling of her loving and loved
Savior^ Men look upon women's suscepti
bility to religious impressions as a weakness.
What a mistake ! James Gardner brave as
C.Tsar or the Nemean lion—that noted En
glishman when Jesus met him, as unexpected
ly as he met Paul yielded like a child submis
sively, and became as famed for piety as he
had been for gallantry. We are just begin
ning to appreciate Cromwell. He was a devo
tedly pious man. Read bis epistles to his
danghters. Havelock, that brave general,
preached to his regiment—called the regi
ment of saints and if there was need for it,
baptized his soldiers. He w'as an humble
Christian.
Jackson, who only had to stamp upon the
ground and Kings would hesitate—-look at
him as he wends his way to that little church
which he built near the Hermitage. His iron
will yielded to the mandates of the cross.—
His like will not soon be found among us
again. Would that he were here. Such men
with all their greatness and bravery had
much of woman’s susceptibility for the religion
of the N. T. The interview of Jackson and
the preacher, when he was being presented to
the Methodist Conference, a short time before
he died, was characteristic of the man- When
he recognized him, who fought with him on
the battle field and at New Orleans, he em
braced him and weeping said, we shall soon
meet where the din and roar of the battle
field will be no more heard andthe smoke of
tho cannon will be no more seen. A man is
but a half a man, who lives only for this
world. Husbands lose much real joy who
cannot talk freely and gladly with their wives
about religion and their future prospects.—*
Huzbandz ask your pious wife, who through
timidity, hesitates to approach you on the
subject of your soul’s salvation aud see if she
does not answer with - a big tear standing in
her eye, that she has often longed to talk to
you about Jesus. Chivalry did but little for
woman. The ernsades injured her. She saw
too much blood and strife* Her moral na
ture was debased. See France where false
chivalry prevails, and what is the moral state
of her women? The women writers of France
need criticism before their books would be fit
for the family circle. Not so with English
women where Christianity has had a happier
effect.
There never was a country, or an ago, where
woman lias taken her true position, as nearly
as in some of these United States. Here wo
men are being consulted about important
matters, and what respectable man don’t con
sult his wife. The Judge did’nt want to
know him, if the was such an one. There i s
none so unselfish, and devoted and loving as
the wife. None better prepared to give ad-
She wants to suit her liushand, and
would see him prosper. If her dress dont
suit him, it dont suit her. The gospel abol
ished poligamy, and divorce at the will of the
husband, whenever it hud its legitimate ef
fect. Wliat ought woman to do for Christi
anity ? It has done every thing for her, and
she ought to do all she can for it. There were
associations of women to do good in the New
Testament times.
Y r ou are the legitimate successors of Dor.
cas, and those women who labored with Paul
in the gospel. How kindly lie spake of pious
woman iu his epistles. The poor are too much
overlooked. The last evidence that Jesus sent
to John, of his divinity, on a certain occasion,
was that' the gospel was prechedto tho poor.—
Clothe and urge the poor to the Sunday School'
You may l;e the means of developing another
Brainard. Mothers, you must teach piety to
your child on your knee. The world is rush
ing on to something grand or gloomy, with
rapidity unparalelled, and we believe tbe mor
al development, is behind the material. The
speaker believed strongly in prayer. A
young girl was very sick in Macon. Kind
friends attended upon her faithfully. A youn
ger sister at home, talking to her father, said
shall we not pray for those friends that were
so kind to sister.
The speaker preferred tiiat prayer, to one
from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Anoth
er new doctrine the N. T. taught. The be
lieving wife is sanctified to the unbelieving
husband. Wives should preach religion to
their husbands by living it.
Young women should teach young i:
that the vile, and abandoned cannot get their
esteem, and they should keep them far away
from the sacred precints of the heart. The
manner of educating females now is generally
very faulty. Accomplishment ! accomplishment !
accomplishment J is all nlie go. We want prin
ciple as well as taste. Women were not made
for heroines at watering places. Solomon
and the. Judge argure Woman’s first duties
are domestic. Then let her go about doin
good. All may not do like Miss. Nightengale,
on Miss. Dix. But all can do good. The
The speaker concluded by refering to the 25th
chapt. of Mathew.
“When the son of man shall come in his
glory and all the holy angels with him,” then,
“inasmuch as ye have done it into one of the
lesat of these my brethren, ye have done it un
to me” will be heard that judgment never to
be reversed, “come, ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world.” Those who never
give meat to the hungry, drink to the thirsty
homes to strangers, clothes to the naked, n >r
visits to those in prison, will hear the sentence,
equally irreversible,” go away into everlast
ing punishment.”
Judge Lumpkin accomplished good. He
need not fear for his reputation. That large
crowd went away pleased and benefitted. As
this is the first, we hope it will not be the last
speech of the sort, that Judge Lumpkin will
deliver. We notify the country tiiat he can
beat half the preachers on religious subjects.
As the Hard Shells say,he is a great Scripturian.
Call him out, as he rides the circuit. Make him
lecture, it will do him much good and the
country more. V
SABBATH EVENING REFLECTIONS.
“Young Bleu likewise Exhort to lie Sober-
Blinded.”
In the chapter from which this verse is ta
ken, it will he seen by examination, that Paul
lias directed Titus what to speak to severs?
classes of persons. Speak, he says, the tilings
which become sound doctrine. And lie goes
on to enumerate some of the tilings that lie
should speak. As a sound doctrine, he directs
him to exhort young men to be sober minded
—evidently implying tiiat it is not the nature
of young men to exhibit tills noble trait of
of character. It is worthy of remark, that in
every class of individuals, before that of youn
men, mentioned in this chapter, this same
truth is enjoined upon him to teach, together
with other truths. But when he comes to
speak of youny men, lie only tells Titus to ex
hort them to lie sober minded, as though this
were a great thought, and deserving to stand
alone and compose a whole verse in that book of
books, where each verse is a pearl of great
price. That young men are not apt to be sober-
minded of their own accord, or as one com
mentator has it, “to watch against the sins of
their age and condition, and every sin that
doth so easily beset them, is a fact that expe
rience teaches every one who notes their char
acters. ’ ’ The Scriptures often recognize t hem
as needing to be taught knowledge and dis
cretion, wisdom and understanding, as foolish
and proud, conceited, and too regardless of a
good character. How true it. is that the path
of a young man is full of dangers, and that lie
ought to take the more earnest heed, lest,
when he thinketh he standeth. he fall. How
few young men voluntarily take heed where
they stand! Be the place they are treading
ever so slippery ; with a self-confident trust in
their own strength, they too often say to those
who would warn them of their peril, leave us
alone, we can take care of ourselves. And if,
while rushing on in their mad career, one
points them to the ruins of many who have
pursued the same course, as warnings to those
who would follow them, they are too prone to
reply—think you we shall fall where we see
all around us these warnings? no, we are not
so weak as that.
They forget, or never knew tiiat Solo non
says, “Be not wise in thine own eyes. The
way of a fool is right in his own eyes ; lint he
that hearkenctli unto counsel is wise. ’ ’ Many
are arise enough ‘.o hearken unto counsel, or
are honest enough to own their folly, and ad
mit that reason teaches them to get out of the
dangers around them. But they fail “on reas
on, to build resolve, that column of true maj
esty in man,” and by their irresolution, with
open eyes, are borne on by the accumulative
tide of temptation and indulgence, till at last
they are conscious of their ruin, and only wait
to be plunged into that gulf of-despair where
“the worm dietli not, and the fire is not
quenched.” They knew their duty and did it
not. O, what must be the inconceivable ago
ny of that young man, who lias been shown
“the way, the truth and the life,” and yet, in
spite of reason and of conscience, in spite of
the warnings of parents and of friends, in spite
of every motive that could be presented to him,
to influence him to be sober-minded, and in spite
of many a broken resolution, to return to his
father’s house; too late finds tiiat lie has pass
ed the rubicon, and brought down swift de
struction upon Iiis own head. Truly can lie
exclaim—
“Every hope is fled, every fear is terror;
Slumlier e’en I dread, every dream is horror.”
This is no fancy sketch, having no ex
amples to illustrate it. In many of our cities,
young men have been brought, in the vigor of
manhood, to see their ruined state as gloomy
as the pen can depict it, and have laid violent
hands on themselves, or have taken to the in
ebriating cup, and hurried themselves prema
turely to a drunkard’s grave. There is no safe
ty for a youpg man but to be sober-minded,
and continually to guard against temptation.
Perhaps we cannot bettor illustrate the truth
of this remark, than by considering a few mo
ments the character of that man who wrete,
“that the grand end of human life is to culti
vate an intercourse with that Beiug to whom
we owe life, with every enjoyment that can
render life delightful; and to maiutain an in-
tegritivc conduct towards our fellow-creatures,
that so, by forming virtue and piety intoa hab
it, we may be fit members for that society of
the pious and the goodj^whiefa reason and rev
elation teach us to egfkct beyond the grave.”
A man who stands secooflto none of Scotland’s
sweetest hards, and whoee lyre has hymned
forth, in notes almost divine, praises of that re
ligion which alone ekhorts young men to be
sober-minded—the religion of- Jesus of Naza
reth, the son of the living God.
"fis this that wards the blow or stills the smart.
Disarms affliction, or repels its dart;
Within the breast bids purest raptures rise ;
Bids smiling conscience spread her cloudless sties.
Such are some of the beautiful lines penned
by Robert Burns, in praise of that religion
which he had not moral courage enough to
take as his only guide through this wilderness
world. His spirit often seemed willing, but
the flesh was weak. And giving way to the
natural inclinations of a young man’s heart,
he led a viscious, dissipated and miserable life,
and at the early age of 37, old in sin, he re
signed to his God a life full of warning to ev
ery thoughtful young man.
We have chosen the character of Robert
Burns, to exhort young meu to be sober mind
ed, because he possessed in so eminent a de
gree, a curious compound of magnanimity and
meanness. And uninfluenced by the principle
contained in the theme of our discourse, his
lusts were allowed to rage unrestrained, and
pollute a life which, by soberness, and that re
ligion which lie so otten praised in such a
glowing manner, might have been glorious
and God-like, and thus avoided the sad spec
tacle “of the shattered fragments of a soul im
mortal, xvith rubbish mixed and glittering in
the dust.” He says of himself, in his 19tli
year, while away from home at school—
“Scenes of swaggering riot and roaring dissipa
tion were, till this time, new to me.”
At this age, he says he learnt “to till his
glass, and mix without fear in a drunken
squabble.” He failed to be sober minded in
the pride of life, and fulfilled the divine say
ing, tiiat “such shall not live out halt their
days. ’ ’ He saw his folly and owned it, but he
preferred “the pleasures of sin for a season.”
He lived for the present moment—-aimless,
reckless, careless; and in relating his own his
tory, he says, “The great misfortune of my
life was to wantanaim.” What volumes this
short confession speaks to every young man
who wishes to start in life, and pursue tiiat
course which lie will not be obliged to look
back upon and say with Burns, “ ’twas a rue?
ful prospect! What a tissue of thoughtless
ness, weakness and folly ! My life reminded
me of a ruined temple. What strength, what
proportions in some paits! What unsightly
gaps, what prostrate ruins in others!” In his
momentary sober-mindedness, he would ex
press prayers and praises of religion, which
would honor a sainted lip, but when reilecting
upon his sad career, in a fit of melancholy in
which he almost gained a glimpse of Hell it
self, he would exclaim, ‘ ‘I wish I were dead. My
worst enemy is myself What a union of reas
on and minlness ! O, with what overpowering
weight does that saying of wisdom, "lie that
ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh
a city,” rest upon the mind of every one who
contemplates a mind so brilliant, so b se—so
good and yet so bad, so pious and yet *•> wH-
ed•
Young friends, there is but one influence in
this wide universe, that can restrain such a
spirit, and hold it iu its proper place. And
that influence is obtained by listening to the
calm whisperings of the spirit of God, which
exhorts all young men to be sober-minded.—
May we, young men, never be led to say with
Burns, foolish-minded, “Life is all a variorum.
We regard not how it goes. Let them cant
about decorum, who have characters to lose.”
But may we with Burns, sober minded, say—
“Religion is the true comfort. Jesus Christ
was from God..” And may we be guided by
his spirit. Y.
Kalb.
v Decatob, April 5tb, 1859.
A large number of the citizens ot DeKalb
county in accordance with the call of a meet,
ing held in the Court House on the first dav
of March, met to take into oonsidt ration, the
manner of bringing and the matter of the tax
suits returned to the April term of the Sm»
rior Court of this county against certain cifi.
zens of the same.
The meeting was organized bvCol. J am .
W. Crockett, taking the Chair and Mr. p
Rosser, acting as Secretary.
Milton A. Candler. Esq., after a few i n t ro .
ductory remarks, presented the report of the
Committee appointed at the March meeting
which after being read was on motion, putXj
tho meeting—preamble first, and then each
resolution separately, all of which were unani.
mously adopted—as reported.
Whereas; there has been several suits Wi
tuted in the Superior Court of DeKalb county
against citizens of the same for fraudulently
and falsely giving in their taxable property
These suits instituted in the name of Alexan
der Johnson, Clerk of the Inferior Court u Pon
the information of Zudoch Blalock, have bee,,
brought, without the direction of the Inferior
Court or under the recomrm nda’.ion of the
Grand Juiy or any citizen of the county, ^
informer in these actions is a non-resident 0 f
this county, a stranger to us, and as we are
informed is not acquainted with the
Property
Bliimtc of points decided by the Supreme
Court at Atlanta—Blarcli Term, 1S59.
Claiborne Gorman vs. Stephen Rentfro motion
from Campbell.
Held, that the 8th section of the Tax act of
1804 was repealed by the Tax act of 1845. —
Judgment reversed.
Stone & Fitch, Tidwell for plff in error. Bla
lock contra.
M. S. Culberson admr. vs. J. M. Gray debt
from Carrol.
Judgment reversed. Conyers & Bleckly for
pills in error. Fletcher contra.
Lambeth Hopkins vs. S. B. Watts Assumpsit
from Campbell.
Judment reversed. Overby & Bicekly for
plffs in error. Ezzard & Collier contra.
Religious Discussion.
The following points of Christian doctrine,
will be discussed between Rev. Itussell Reneau
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Elder
G. M. Thompson, of the Primitive Baptist
Church, in Calhoun, on Monday the 18th day
of April.
1. Do the Scriptures teach tiiat God before
the foundation of the world, elected uncondi
tionally, a certain and definite number of the
human family to ’everlasting life and that
they and thev only, will or can l>e saved ?
THOMPSON, Affirms,
RENEAU, Denies.
2. Do the Scriptures teach the uncondition
al, final perseverance, and final salvation of
all who are horn of the Spirit ?
THOMPSON, Affirms,
RENEAU, Denies.
3. Do the Scriptures teach that Infants are
proper subjects of Christian Baptism ?
RENEAU Affirms,
THOMPSON, Denies.
4. Do the Scriptures teach tiiat Immersion
and immersion alone is Christian Baptism ?
THOMPSON, Affirms,
RENEAU, Denies.
5. Is the Methodist Church government a
proper government for a Christian church ?
RENEAU Affirms,
THOMPSON, Denies.
[Democratic Platform.
A Gleam or Twoof Sunshine.
Amidst the general gloom, occasioned by
the several opposil ion victories at the North
anp West, we have a couple of rays of sunshine
in the Brooklyn and Milwankie elections :
Brooklyn, April 6.—The wuole Democrat
ic ticket is elected. The Mayor’s majority is
three thousaud.
Mii.wavkie, April G.—The Democratic can
didate for Judge of the Supreme court has
tiiree thousand majority. The result in the
state is coubtful.
Affectig Interview rx the Jail—A Scene of
Sorrow, Repentance and Remorse between
a Father and his Daughters.
A day or two since, Stephen J. McGroarty,
esq., counsel for John Kain, now in prison
awaiting a new trial for lulling Singleton, the
seducer of one of his daughters, succeeded in
effecting a reconciliation between the father
and his two girls, also in jail charged with
larceny—to whom their parents had not spo
ken since the domestic tradgedy, more than
two years ago.
By the kindnes of the jailor the daughters
were allowed to visit their father in his cell,
when a most affecting interview took place ;
the girls falling on his neck and weeping like
children, while from the eyes of the stern,
strong man who had slaiD the vile destroyer of
his child’s honor, and had known her to fall
step by step to degradation and despair, the
great tears ran like rain—the agony of a heart
wrung by affliction aud agonized by terrible
suffering to a woman’s tenderness.
For some minutes no one of that irio spoke.
Sobs checked their utterance, and the memo-
rvof the fearful past awed them into silence.
Their sorrow melted them to sympathy, and
love aud grief, remorse and repentance filled
their hearts to bursting. In that moment
they were purified ; in that, hour their errors
were blotted out by the tears of deepest con
trition, and atonement made to Nature and
themselves.
At last one of the girls, the dishonored and
avenged, fell at her father’s feet, and said,
with still streaming eyes :
“ O, father, dearest father, can you forgive
me ? ”
“ Yes, yes, my child, with all my heart, ”
was the solemn and impressive answer, “ as I
hope to be forgiven ! ”
Then both his daughters knelt and received
his blessing, and a moment after he was by
their side offering up a prayer for strength to
resist temptation and avoid evil in the future.
The father embraced them tenderly again and
again, and assured them of his entire forgive
ness, while they promised amendment and re
form, and resolved to seek comfort and sup
port in the faith their parent recently had
sought.
Thb scene ns witnessed was extremely pa
thetic, and such as our plain pencil cannot
paint. Several who witnessed the reconcilia
tion were, in spite of themselves, melted into
tears, and left the cell with a better opinion
of that human nature which, however it may
err, is always held by a golden though invisi
ble thread to its native heaven.—[ Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Death or Mrs. Blalock.
We regret to learn that Mrs. Blalock, wife
of Rev. D. Blalock, died on Tuesday morning
in this place. Rev. D Blalock, is the minis*
ter of the Methodist Church of Forsyth.—
[Ed. Journal.
of any of tlie defendants in these cases—and
lias founded his cases upon the evidence fn r
nished by the tax digest of file in the Clerk s
office—the fact that these defendants had gi ven
in their slaves at an average value, less than
five hundred dollars' These actions brought
under such circumstances have excited much
feeling with the people of our county. Thev
that perjury and corruption is directly chur^l
upon these defendants—men who lived Ions
and stood fair in the county, some of them
who were the first settlers of the county, have
raised families and whose heads are now
whitened by tlie frosts of more than three
score winters, their neighbors abvav S
finding them blameless. They feel that
it would have been better that some respond-
ble citizen of the county under the direction
of the Inferior Court, with some more conclu-
sive evidence than a mere fact that these mtn
had valued their property below a certain av
erage value—a fact that proves nothing with,
in itself, should have instituted these actions
They feel that as a people, appreciative of m
unspotted and an unsuspicioned reputation
they should not be doing their duty should
they fail to condemn unequivocally, suih a,
reckless, disregard of injury to private chant,
ter; as these actions show. Men should nut
bq charged with crime unless there is suffic
ient evidence to show them at least, prim
facie guilty. The records of the county after
a legal investigation of these charges, will if
the cases are determined in favoi of the dt-
fendants be in truth a reply to the charge-
vet it stands. It must to some extent
ever be annoying to the persons sued and
their children after them, to know that such
a case is of record against them.
It is well that were you indicted fot the
crime of larceny or other heinous offence, that
a jury of your county should pronounce you
not guilty; who would not prefer that he
never hail been arraigned upon such a charge.
The people of this county are a law-abiding-
a law-sustaining people they favor the enforce
ment of the act under which their suits hav-
been instituted if it lie indeed the law; thev
say if any of their citizens have violated the
tax laws, have fraudulently or falsely and
knowingly valued their property to theta
receiver, that they should suffer the penalty „f
the violated Law, still they feel that they have
tlie competency, to manage their own aife
respect for the laws and aversion to crime suffi.
dent to cause information of fraudulent act,
and prosecution with Courts and that then
opportunities are much better than thosed
non-resident strangers for ferreting out th
violators of the law. Therefi ;re
Resolved, That we condemn tho practice
itinerant informers bringing actions in th:
Courts of our county—actuated not by patri
otism or a sense of duty but alone by the
hope of gain.
Resolved 2. That we discountenance and
condemn the institution and prosecufnn of
suits founded upon fact not establishing prim
facie guilt as destructive of the good order and
quiet ot the country.
Resolved 3. That we have reason to believe
that the aforeasaid actions, instituted with the
expectation of conn remise and extortion from
the defendants, and with no desire of benerit-
ting the county. Therefore we recommend that
defendants reject all offers of compromise |
from the informers and prosecutors in the
cases.
Resolved 4. That it is the duty of the M-1
rior Court as the guardian ot the integrity and
interests of the county to see that the tu
laws are properly enforced within the limits
of the county, and that all actions under them
should he brought under their direction, asi I
we condemn the bringing of suits by selfish [
adventurers as an uncalled for and oppressive
interference with the affairs of our county.
Resolved, 5. That tlie Clerk of the Superic;
Court should at the commencement of the.
Superior Court next to be held in this county
have his name stricken from all these case
unless he is otherwise directed by the Infen:: I
Court, or unless lie is informed by some re-[
sponsible citizen of the county or knowsofhs
own knowledge that there are any cases i:
whieh there has been fraud, practiced by tin
defendants.
Resolved G. That we have known for mat; I
years the defendants in these tax suits as; I
tiiat we believe that none of them would ft: I
the paltry sum to he saved by falsely anil
fraudulently valuing their taxable property |
sear their couscience by false swearing.
On motion, ordered that the Atlanta paps I
Independent Press and all other papers fiiv
able to the resolutions be requested topnbM[
the same.
Meeting adjourned sine die.
JAS. W. CROCKET, Chat.
E. Rosser, Sec’v.
Death of Dir. Wm. G. Lockett.
It is our painful office to announce tha' |
above mentioned gentleman died at his ret
dencein tills city on Saturday afternoon. tt|
9th iust. A few weeks ago he was the pk
t.ire of health, but being severely attache:I
with pneumonia, he rapidly sunk under tie I
disease in despite of every effort that the tel
medical skill could suggest. |
Mr. Lockett was a useful and estimable rifi; |
zen, and had attached to him a large cird^
friends, who will deeply feel his loss. & I
leaves a wife and several children whoI
our heartfelt sympathy in then bereaves:- |
—[State Press.
Attempt to Murder.—Monday night ah’-1
81-2 o’clock, a deliberate attempt was |
to murder Harry Jennings, the well kno r - i
keeper of tlie sporting house, No. 49. Madte I
street N. Y., by a person claiming to be i>J
brother. A double-barrelled pistol was I
sentedto his breast, one ball from whichfu:.* I
his collar bone, and the other shattered hr
hand. The attempt grew out of a misuntW'l
standing relative to the conduct of the tam
per employed in the house.
Baldwin Blues.
This volunteer corps, Capt. Poles, have v I
ceived an invitation to tamp with the HFI
Ritles of Macon on the third day of May Dl f [
The Blues have accepted the invitation.
lie
Montgomery (Ala.) True Blues will also*!
camp with the “Rifles” at the same time. I
Capt. Doles must bestir himself, for he 1
have to cope with “old soldiers.” Me V [
tlie Baldwin Blues will not be behind « I
old brethren inarms. They willJMf**' I
soldier’s welcome at Macon; and we wish -I
a good time generally.—[ Federal l ni,in J ■
Brooklyn Election.
At 2 o’clock this morning the report of;
Brooklyn Municipal election had not re* r '
ns. \Ve learned, unofficially, that the ‘
cratie candidates for Mayor. Comptroller. •
ditor and Treasurer had been elected,
claimed that the Opposition haveaiMr^
of the Board—of Aldermen or Supervisor.
were not informed. We cannot ao'oun
the election returns being thus deiayet.
Y. Times.
Cowuided his Wife —A lively I
was created a few nights ago in u I
hotel bv a brute of a fellow eowhid l,
wife, in their room, at a late ' lour :.,.,, jrv i
and screams alarmed tlie whole btnidirt'^
when persons attracted to the spot ope
door, she ran out in her night dress, p • j
by the infuriated husband, whobr 0 ^ ^
rather drove, her back and lwhaveu - . t
lently that, it seems, no one presen |
interfere. The secret of this outcu ^
mestic fury was not divulged, and no
particulars of the affair had transp 11 ■ ^ j
Washington, April 4th.—Hon-
Jones ef Iowa, who recently deihneu ^
sion to Bogota, telegraphed yesterta-y^
drawing his declension. He h :w
to report himself at the State Bop* 11
- idM
Hen 1 *:
Boston, April 4.—Tlie trial ol .
Brown, for causing the death of » _ JjiiJ
line Webster by illegal practice, ^ the
in bis conviction. The punishuie ^im-
offence is from seven to twenty-° ne ■
prisonment. y
St. Louis, April 4.—The St.
Jourual learns that an extensive,.
ment is on foot betweeil various 1" sjjfM
on the plains, headed by Minneog-.^
ationa are pending between vario