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VOLUME I.
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[FROM MtKKN's’ ** HOUSEHOLD WORDS."]
The Long Ago.
('li! a wonderful river is the stream ol Tutu,
As it runs through the realm of tears,
AVith a faultless rythm and a musical rhyme,
And a broader sweep and a surge sublime.
Ami LK'iala wit 2* U)0 OcNMU of Y€l\fSL
ll.nv the winters are drifting like flakes of snow.
An i t!ie summers like buds between,
tei the year in the sheaf—so they come and they
On the river's breast, with its ebb and flow,
.b it glides in the shadow and sheen.
There's a magical isle np the river Time,
"Where the softest of airs are playing;
There's a cloudless sky and a tropical dime.
And a song as sweet as a vesper chime,
And the Junes with the roses are staying.
And the name of this isle is the Lost; Aon.
And we bury our treasures there:
There are brows of beauty and bosoms of snow—
There are heaps of dust but we love them so!
There are trinkets and tresses of hair.
There are fragments of song that nobody sings,
And a part of an infant's prayer;
There's a lute unswept and a harp without strings,
There are broken vows and pieces of rings,
And tho garments that she used to wear.
There are hands that are waved when the fairy
shore
By the mirage is left in air;
And we sometimes hear through the turbulent roar,
Sweet voices heard in the days gone before,
When the wind down the river is fair.
Oh! remembered for aye be the blessed isle,
All the day of life till night—
When tiie evening comes with its beautiful smile,
And our eyes are closing to slumber awhile,
May that “greenwood of soul be in sight”
YHisttllitntons.
The Glass Rail Road.
‘lt seemed to me as though I had
been suddenly aroused from mj slum- !
ber. I looked around and found my* j
seif in the center of a gay crowd.— ;
Tlte first sensation I experienced was
that of being borne along, with ape- I
culiar motion. I looked around and
found that I was in a long train of cars
w hich were gliding over the railway,
and seemed to be many miles in
length. It was composed of many
ears. Every car open at the top, was
tilled u r ith men and women, all gaily
dressed, all happy, all laughing, talk
ing and singing. The peculiarly gen
tle motion of the cars interested me.
There was no grating such as we hear
on the railroad. They moved along
without the least jar or sound. This,
I say, interested me. I looked over
the side and to my astonishment found
the railroad and cars made of glass.
The glass wheels moved over the glass
rails without the least noise or oscilla
tion. The soft gliding motion produ
ced a feeling of exquisite happiness.
I was happy! It seemed as if every
thing was at rest within—l was full of
peace.
‘While I was wondering over this
circumstance, anew sight attracted my
gaze. All along the road, on either
side, within a foot of the track, were
laid long lines of coffins on either side
of the railroad, and every one con
tained a corpse dressed for burial, with
its cold white face turned upward to
the light. The sight filled me with
horror; I yelled in agony, but could
make no sound. The gay throng who
were around me only redoubled their
singing and laughter at the sight of my
agony, and we swept on, gliding on
with glas wheels over the railroad
every moment coming nearer to the
bend of the road, which formed an
angle with the road, far, far in the dis
tance.
‘Who are those?’ I cried at last,
pointing to the dead in the coffins.
‘Those are the persons who made the
trip before us,’ was the reply of one
of the gayest persons near rue.
‘What trip?’ I asked.
‘Why, the trip we are now making.
The trip on the glass railway,’ was the
answer.
‘Why do they lie along the road,
each one in his coffin?’ I was an
swered with a whisper and a half laugh
which froze my blood;
‘They were dashed to death at the
end of the railroad,’ said the person
whom I addressed.
‘You know the railroad terminates
at an abyss which is without bottom
or measure. It is lined with pointed
rocks. As each car arrives at the end,
it precipitates its passengers into the
abyss. They are dashed to pieces
against the rocks, and their bodies are
brought here and placed in the coffins
as a warning to other passengers; but
no one minds it, we are so happy on
the glass railroad.’
‘I can never describe the horror
with which those words inspired me,
‘Whatis the name of the glass rail
road?’ I asked.
‘The person whom I asked, replied
in the same strain;
% Wftlilj) —Urt otti) fa literature, politics, anti dmnil lllisullimii.
‘lt is very easy to get into the cars,
j but very hard to got out. For, once
•in these cars, everybody is delighted
with the soft, gliding motion. The
cars move gently. Yes, this is a rail
| road of habit, and w ith glass wheels
| we are whirled over a glass railroad
; towards a fathomless abyss. In a few
moments we’ll bo there, and they’ll
I bring our bodies and put them in eof
| fins as a w anting to others ; but no
i body will mind it, will they?’
Twas choked with horror. I strug
gled to breathe—many frantic efforts
to leap from the ears, and in the strug
gle awoke. I know it was only a
dream, and yet whenever I think of
! it, l can see the long train of cars move
gently over the glass railroad. I can
see cars far ahead, as they are turning
the bend of the road. I can see the
dead in their colllns, clear and dis
tinct, on either side of the road, while
the laughing and singing of the gay
and happy passengers resound in my
ears. I only see the cold faces of the
dead, with their glassy eves uplifted,
and their frozen hands upon the
shrouds.
‘lt was, indeed, a horrible dream.
A long train of glass cars, gliding
over a glass railway, freighted with
youth, beauty and music, while on
either hand are stretched the victims
of yesterday—gliding over the railway
of habit, towmrds the fathomless abyss.
‘There was a moral in that dream.’
‘Reader,* are you addicted to any
sinful habit? Break it off ere you
dash against the rocks.’— Lippard.
A Striking Illustration.
A company of individuals united
themselves together in a mutual bene
fit society.
The Blacksmith comes and says:
‘Gentlemen, I wish to become a mem
ber of your association.’
‘Well, what can you do ?’
‘Oh, I can shoe your horses, iron
carriages, and make all kinds of im
plements.’
‘Very well, come in Mr. Black
smith.’* *
The mason applies for admission in
the society.
‘And what can you do, sir ?’
‘Oh, I can build your barns, houses,
stables and bridges.’
‘Very well, come in, we can’t do
without you.’
Along comes the Shoemaker and
says: ‘I wish to become a member of
your society.’
‘Well, what can you do?’
‘Oh, I can make boots and shoes for
you.’
‘Come in, Mr. Shoemaker, we must
have you.’
So, in turn apply all the different
trades and professions, till lastly, an in
dividual comes, and wants to be a
member.
‘And what can you do ?’
‘I am aßumseller.’
‘A Rumseller! and what can you
do?’
‘I can build jails, prisons and poor
houses.’
‘And is that all?’
‘No I can fill them ; I can fill your
jails with criminals, your prisons with
convicts, and your poor-houses with
paupers.’
‘And what else can you do?’
‘I can bring the gray hairs of the
aged to the grave with sorrow; I can
break the heart of the wife; and blast
the prospect of the friends of talent,
and fill your land with more than the
plague of Egypt.’
‘ls that all you can do?’
‘Good Heaven ?’ cried the Rumsel
lcr, ‘is not that enough ?’
When you should take your
Hat. —Young man, a word. We want
to tell you when you should take your
hat and be off. And mind what we
offer.
When you are asked “to take a
drink.”
When you find out that you are
courting an extravagant and slovenly
girl. N
When you find yourself in doubtful
company.
When you discover that your ex
penses run ahead of your income.
When your are abusing the confi
dence of your friends.
When yon think that you are a
great deal wiser than others and more
experienced people than yourself.
When you feel like getting trusted
for a suit of clothes, because you
haven’t the money to pay for them.
When you don’t perform your duty,
your whole duty, and nothing but your
‘duty.
Our Sentinels.— The United
States is represented at Madrid by a
Frenchman, at Genoa by an Italian at
the Hague by a German , at Naples by
a Scotchman , and by an Irishman at
Libson. Hebbc, Russo-German, repre
sents us somqwhere abroad—we forget
where.
Curious Title. —A book was print
ed during the time of Cromwell with
the following title: “Eggs of Charity,
layed by the Chickens of the Cove
nants, and boiled with the Waters of
Divine Love—Take ye and eat.”
EATONTON, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1854.
J.V.n.IL HEP OUT
OF THE
PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS
OF THE
EATONTON BRANCH R. ROAD CO.
November 14th, 1854
Ollicc Eatonton lfrnnch Railroad, I
Eatonton, October 31st, 1854. j
To the Stockholders of the Eatonton
Branch Railroad Company.
In our last report we stated, that un
der the second stipulation of the con
tract by which our Road is leased to
the Central Railroad & Banking Com
pany, an Engineer had been upon the
Road making its admeasurement, but,
for causes therein mentioned, no re
port had been made upon which an es
timate could be predicated of the cost
of placing it in that state of repair
which would conform to the specifi
cations of said contract. Since then,
after considerable delay, owing to
several causes, a report has been made
—the substance of which has been
laid before us—by which it appears
that there is a deficiency in our Road
of about 82.000 cubic yards of exca
vation and embankment, and about
25 culverts reported deficient —which
deficiency of excavation and embank
ment, it is claimed, will have to be
supplied, and the culverts made anew
to place our road in a suitable state of
repair. This report, exhibiting a
greater deficiency in our Road than it
was believed existed, we called the
attention of our late Engineer, Col.
William G. Bonner, to it—who, upon
its examination, objected to its cor
rectness, and demanded of this Board
that there should be a re-admeasure
ment of the work. Thus circumstan
ced we brought the matter before the
Central Railroad & Banking Company,
stating the objections and demand of
Col. Bonner. That company, through
their President, Col. R. R. Cuyler,
readily consented that there should be
a re-admeasurement by a competent
engineer. Accordingly, efforts were
made to procure the services of an en
gineer, but because of the delicacy of
the quest/'■a growing out of the differ
ence in tho estimate of Col. Bonner
and the engineer who admeasured the
work', ,;e ,:1; failed to accomplish
the object. Such being the case, and
it being believed by the Board that we
could not get an engineer, it van pro
posed that this Board and Cel’s. Cuy
ler a - c Wadley, president and super
mteu „:it of the Oe. Leal Railroad &
Banking Company, should go on the
Poad and personally examine its con
dition, and, if practicable, approxi
mate the amount of work to be done.
In pursuance of this proposition,; in
the month of June hst, several mem
bers of thv Board .nd Col. Wadley
vent upon the Read lor its inspection.
This, however, .:suited in nothing
definite, except the confirmation of
the Board in the opinion before enter
tained, that there are many culverts,
which it is claimed will have to be
made anew, that can I>c made fully to
answer their purpose, and fully an
swer the stipulations of our said con
tract without being made anew, but
merely by repairing them. This ite;
alone, if the opinion of the Board be
correct, will materially diminish the
cost of repair. At this point in our
efforts to have the matter definitely
settled, we were stopped by the preva
lence of an epidemic in the city of Sa
vannah and the consequent interrup
tion of the business arrangements of
the Central Railroad & Banking Com
pany by the sickness of its chief of
ficers. Therefore the whole matter is
still unadjusted; but it is hoped that
it will be fully settled during the ap
proaching Winter. We feel that it is
due to both companies that there
should be a final adjustment at the
earliest moment practicable.
It is further stipulated by our con
tract with the Central Railroad &
Banking Company, that after an esti
mate is made of the quantity of work
to be done, an estimate of the cost of
that work is to be made by a compe
tent engineer to be selected by both
parties. We state that, for this pur
pose, with the approbation of that
Company, we have selected Maj.
James F. Cooper, superintendent of
the Western & Atlantic Railroad, and
entertain the hope that he will act.—
His services, however, will not be re
quired until the guantity and kind of
work to be done is agreed upon.
“ H'/TUOI T FB.tR, FAVOR OK AFFKFTIO.V»
Notwithstanding the report of the
admeasuring engineer has not been ac
cepted by this Board, still we feel it
due to all concerned to say, that it is
quite probable the cost of the repairs
to be made on our road to meet the
requisitions of our contract will ex
ceed the estimate we had formerly fix
ed upon it, and which was stated to
you at our last convention. Believing
that it is your wish to be informed of
the actual cost of the repairs to be
made, we would gladly submit an es
timate of the same in this report were
it in our power to do so. We will
state, however, that if we understand
correctly the estimate of the same by
Col. Wadley, it seems that the cost
will exceed the sum of $30,000,00. —
But while we believe the cost will ex
ceed the estimate we had formerly
made, still we entertain the hope that
it will fall short of this sum.
Whatever may be the cost, we are
glad to be able to state, that the Cen
tral Railroad & Banking Company
have kindly consented to take our
bonds for the same —thus giving us
time iu the payment, and enabling us
to use the $14,000 00 due us annually
by that Company for the lease of our
road, for other purposes.
For a statement of the fiscal opera
tions of the Company up to date, we
refer to the accompanying report of the
Treasurer; by which it appears, that
the amount collected from the Stock
holders on their subscriptions to date
is $130,485 12, and by loans and bonds
of the Company, $37,212 00, making
an aggregate of receipts to date of
$167,697 12 —and that there have been
expended for Road construction $136,-
417 67, and for other purposes as therein
stated, $31,740 71, making an aggre
gate expenditure of $168,158 38, thus
making a balance in favor of the Treas
urer of $461 26. The collections made
during the past year have been mainly
employed in the reduction of the debt
due the Branch of the Bank of the State
of Georgia at this place, and in the pay
ment of interest on our debt. The
debt due the Branch Bank at this place
has been reduced $2,172 00.
The first and 2d semi-annual instal
lments of interest on our bonds nego
tiated with the Central Ralroad &
Banking Company, as well as $7,000
00 of those bonds, have fallen due du
ring the past year. The first install
ment of interest for $735 00 fell due
February 2d last, and was promptly
met. The 2d installment of interest and
bonds to the amount of $7,000 00 fell
due August 2d last: but these have
not been paid because of the fact, that
before they fell due, on the Ist day of
April last, the first annual payment of
$14,000 00 due us by the Central Rail
road & Banking Company for the lease
of our road became payable, and the
same, owing to the unsettled business
of the cost of the repair of the road,
was permitted thus to remain until
that matter could be definitely ad
justed.
The income derived from the run
ning of the road by us prior to its be
ing leased to the Central Railroad &
Banking Company, after the payment
of some expenses connected therewith,
was $791 00—which, by a special or
der of the Board was placed in the
hands of the Treasurer, to be used by
him mainly in the payment of the
debt created for the hire of repairing
force before the lease of the road, and
to be accounted for by him to this
Board by proper vouchers indepen
dently of and disconnected from his ac
count of receipts and disbursements for
the Company. He has submitted to
us an account of the disbursement of
this fund, accompanied by proper
vouchers, to the amount of $755 55,
showing a small unexpended balance
in his hands of $35 45.
In our last report we stated that the
debt of the Company, exclusive of the
cost of the repairs to be made on the
road, amounted to the sum of $50,-
284 00. During the past year this
debt has been reduced, as before sta
ted, by the sum of $2,927 55, leaving
a balance now due of about $47,-
357 00. To meet this, we have the
unpaid balance due by stockholders on
their subscriptions, about SIO,OOO 00,
from which may be realized as col
lectable the sum of $7,000 00, and
the sum of $14,000 00 now due us
by the Central Railroad & Banking
Company, as before mentioned, ma-1
king an aggregate of available means
for the extinguishment of the debt of
$21,000 00, and which being applied
to that debt will reduce it to the sum
of $26,357 00. This, however, is to
be understood as the debt of the Com
pany, exclusive of the sum which will
have to be paid by us for the repairs
to be made as stipulated in cur con
tract with the Central Railroad &
Banking Company.
The Board are deeply concerned for
as prompt extinguishment of the debt of
the Company as our means will allow.
Therefore, not willing to grant further
indulgence to the Stockholders in ar
rears in the payment of their sub
scriptions, we have caused notice to be
given that if satisfactory arrangements
arc not made for the payment of their
subscriptions, suits Avill be instituted
for the collection thereof.
To this course we are compelled, in
justice to the other stockholders, as
well as by the urgency of our liabili
ties.
A few cases of damages for the right
of way through the counties of Bald
win and Putnam remain unsettled.—
One of these has arisen since our last
report; but the title of the claimant,
as we are advised, being doubtful, we
have thought it prudent to withhold
payment until the title is made out.—
An investigation has been instituted
in regard to the same, and is still pen
ding, at the making up of this report.
In conclusion, we take occasion to
say that the embarrassments by which
we are at present surrounded, in the
opinion of the Board, furnish no just
cause for an undue depreciation of the
value of our stock. It is true that our
indebtedness may prevent the pay
ment of dividends upon stock until its
extinguishment. Yet we are ho; eful,
that by the appropriation, for that pur
pose, of the collectable balance due by
stockholders on their subscriptions and
of the $14,000 00 due us annually by
the Central Railroad & Banking Com
pany', in a few years the whole debt of
the Company will be fully paid, when
we shall receive dividends upon our
stock, and may then confidently expect
that the stock will appreciate to a fair
market value.
M. DENNIS, President
RECEIPTS.
Amount received from Stockholders to date, $180,485 12
Bonds of the Company, 21,000 00
Discounted at the Branch State Bank at Eatonton, 11,212 00
“ “ “ Bank of Savannah, 6,000 00
Balance in favor of Treasurer, 461 2G
$ 168,158 38
Office Eatonton Branch Railroad,
Eatonton , October 31 et, 1854.
DISBURSEMENTS.
By construction of Road, 136,417 67
“ Repairs of Road, 6,414 27
“ Depot Buildings,.... 1,596 25
“ Chairs and Spikes, 3,014 72
“ Engineering, 7,520 00
“ Experimental Survey, 220 00
“ Right of wav, 4,572 00
“ Office Expenses, - 298 35
11 General Expenses, 1,949 67
“ Premium and Discount, 8,832 21
“ Salaries, 2,200 00
“ Printing and advertising, 123 24
$168,158 38
J. ADAMS, Treasurer.
The Triumph of Russia in Ac
cordance with Prophecy. —A learn
ed Hebrew has just published a book
to prove that the fall of the French
and Ottoman empires, the occupation
of Egypt and the Holy Land by the
British, and the formation of a Rus
sian Latino-Greek confedercy, by which
Egypt, Palestine and Jerusalem will
be invaded and conqured, are already
laid down in prophecy, as the events
which are to precede the long-expect
ed deliverance of the Jews by the
Messiah, his subjugation of the world
through their agency, and the conse
quent establishment of the kingdom
of Israel. If this interpretation of the
Scriptures be correct, the Russian war
promises to be a tolerably long one.—
A. Y. Herald,
Abolitionism vs. Know Nothingism.
A political organization which ig
nores the question of slavey, over
looks all the solemn issues connected
with it, entertains no principles, no
aims, no policy, in relation to it, or its
aggressions, has no title to tho respect
or confidence of the people, especially
of sincere Anti-Slavery men. No
Anti-Slavery man can assume its obli
gations, without at least endangering
his fidelity to the Anti-Slavery cause.
Has not this always been our position
in relation to the Whig and Demo
cratic parties ? What is there in
the new party to make the reasoning
inapplicable ? If we misrepresent the
Know Nothing party on this point, let
our correspondent prove onr error. If
his party has taken any ground on the
subject of slavery, let him say so ; and
let him tell us what it is. Give us
your platform. State distinctly what
your party believes and proposes in
regard to slavery and the slave pow
er. AYe say, it ignores the whole sub
ject, and no Know Nothing can deny
it. In Massachusetts, it puts up in one
place a Freesoiler for Congress, in anoth
er, a Hunker. In Pennsylvania, it
votes for an Anti-Nebraska Governor,
and at the same time, for a Nebraska
Canal Commissioner. In New York,
it votes against the Temperance and
Anti-Nebraska candidate for Gover
nor, and helps the liquor men, the Ad
ministration men, and the Silver Grays,
by running a silver Gray as its guber
natorial candidate. In some districts
of that State it may have helped Anti-
Nebraska candidates for Congress; in
one district, it seems, it defeated Fen
ton, one of the verjr best Democratic
representatives in Congress, who stead
ily resisted every Administration in
fluence to seduce him into the support
of the Nebraska iniquity. All this
proves what we have asserted—that
the organization has no principle on
the subject of slavery. Some jfoint
to the West, and tell us there it has
helped the Anti-Slavery movement.
Aye, it has helped it this year, and
next year may hinder it.
For ourselves, we worship no strange
gods. We affiliate with no political
organization, which rejects the issues
identified with slavery, or refuses to
make them paramount. Our views in
regard to secret political associations,
sectarian tests m politics, religious tol
eration, and liberal policy to natural
ized citizens, were formed long since
—settled upon principle. AYe urged
them when something was to be gain
ed by them to the Anti-Slavery cause ;
we shall not abandon or compromise
them now, when it is thought by some
that this cause, and the Era too, may
be injured by them. The principles
of the Anti-Slavery movement are at
war with all oppression, whether of
mind or body, wheter attempted by
priests or laymen, by the Church of
Rome or a false Protestantism, by
kingly despots or unkin gly slavehold
ers—at war with all proscription on
account of religion or race. AYhatever
others mny do, by these principles we
abide, and these principles we follow,
withersoever they may lead us.—Na
tional Era.
Statement of Receipts &. Disbursements of the Eatonton Branch R. R. Company, up to Oct. 31st, 1854, inclusive.
Greeley on the Know-Nothing?.
For the benefit of those, says the
Southern Watchman , who, like the edi
tor oftheAYest Point Beacon (if any
such there be) affect to believe
that “ Know-Nothingism is free soil
in disguise,” we publish the following
extract from the New York Tribune,
in which philosopher Grcelv, the prince
of free soil editors, makes his last ap
peal to the voters of New York just
before the election:
“ Then, why,” says this abolition,
sheet “is there supposed to be danger
that a part of the Whig State Tickets
may be beaten?
“ Simply and only because several
thousands of our Young Men have
been inveigled into the midnight con
claves of the “ Know-Nothings.—
Good men and true have been enticed
into those dens, and there bound by
oath to vote as the managers shall di
rect. Those managers are of both the
old parties, but their common plat
form is hatred of William 11. Seward,
and to all that is reformatory and
progressive in the political sentiments
of our People. They are in league with
slave-drivers to stifle the glow of indig
nant feeling which teas just now fusing
the North and West into a common pur
pose to oppose and repel the encroachments
of Slavery. The rank and file are not
permitted to know this; they are some
times soothed by an expression of
empty and aimless Anti-Nebraskaism ;
but the triumph of the “Know-Noth
ings”, in polling such a vote sos Ull
man as will defeat Clark and elect
Se} r mour, will be universally regarded
as the death blow of Northern resis
tance to Slavery aggression.
“Freesouled men, who have been
drawn into the “Know-Nothing”
snare, we entreat you to break 3'our
shackles forthwith 1 Your country
has prior and stronger claims upon
you than any secret society can have.
Give your votes and your influence
to the ticket headed Myron H. Clark
—to temperance, Justice and Free
dom.
j TERMS, $2,00 A YEAR,
NUMBER 34.
Who- is Doesticks ? Doesticks,
whose articles, published in the De
troit Advertiser, have been copied so
extensively for their wit and satire,
says the New York Post , is a modest
young clerk in this city, whose life
thus far has only spanned some twen
ty-three years, and he is disinclined at
present to part with his anonymous
obscurity. lie has nothing to offer
the publishers at present, and when
he has, if ever, he thinks it will be
time enough to reveal his whereabouts
and whatabouts. He is not looking
to literature as a profession, sees no
literary merit in what he has done,
writes to the Detroit Advertiser to
oblige a younger brother who is con
nected with that journal, and for no
other object. He was one'of the stu-‘
dents of Michigan University, who
were expelled some years ago under
the decree issued against secret socie
ties in that institution.
His father is a lawyer of some rank,
of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
“ Doesticks on a Bender ” was the
first of the series that was published.
It was written in a private letter to a
friend, who gave it to the editor of the
Peninsular Quarterly & University
Magazine —a periodical published at
Ann Arbor, which had a brief but
creditable existence. The attention
which it attracted led to the publica
tion of others, until now fourteen have
appeared. They all contain passages
of wit and humor which linger in the
memory, and display powers of obser
vation from which much may yet be
expected.
In a political view we recognise in
this Know Nothing movement some
thing of positive and immediate good
to the country. We recognise in it
the practical overthrow of the Seward
disunion alliance of the North, and of
the imbecile spoils coalition at Wash
ington. It breaks up the plan of a
Northern anti-slavery crusade against
the South; it demolishes the despotism
of those disgusting democratic Balti
more conventions; it removes the rub
bish and clears the track for anew
order of things in 1850. Mr. Wise
may think differently. His opinions
and those of the Cabinet organ at
Washington, and of Horace Greely,
seem to be the same—that the Know
Nothings are a detestable party, and
that their projects are full of mischief
to Seward and his allies, and to the
administration and its spoilsmen. So
be it. Bead the manifesto of Mr.
Wise. It presents us, in connection
with the Cabinet and Seward organs,
anew political conjunction. The Vir
ginia democracy, the administration,
and the Seward alliance. Singular
coalition. Curious state of things.—
N. Y. Herald.
As to the nomination of Ullman,
whatever may have been the influ
ences that started it, it is notorious that
it was actively sustained by the Silver
Grays and the Hards, the National
Whigs and the National Democrats,
as they affectedly style themselves—-
with a view primarily to defeat Clark,
the representative of the Anti-Nebras
ka and Anti-Liquor parties. With
them it mattered little who was elect
ed, so that Clark was defeated. It
were well for the country if they would
remain united. They are one in opin
ion, feeling, and policy. They are op
posed to anything like progress, and
are disposed to accede to any terms the
slaveholders may dictate, as the basis
of what is called a National Party.
Withal, they sympathize with the
Know Nothings in their war on citi
zens of foreign birth. What is there
to prevent a union of the three fac
tions ?— National Era.
“Something to be Proud of.”—
Under this head, the editor of the
Griffin Jeffersonian chronicles the fact,
that in company with two negroes
with two ’possums, three dogs, and
last, though not least, in bulk, his Ex
cellency Herschel Y. Johnson, he re
cently promenaded the streets of Ma
con at 1 o’clock in the morning. W heth
er the editor was most proud of the ne
groes, the ’possums, the dogs, or his
Excellency, is not distinctly stated.” —
Chron. & Sen.
We knew that his Evcellency was
a celebrated Coon-killer , but really, this
is the first intimation we have had of
his propensity to become a slayer of
’Possums ! Wc are also struck with
the looseness of the night police regu
lations of our sister city, in thus per
mitting negroes to loiter about their
streets at late hours of the night in
the company of suspicious persons /
Atlanta Republican .
Decidedly Moral. —The Sunday
trains on the Pacific railroad from St.
Louis, have been discontinued. In
stead of affording those who cannot
get out of town any other day, a little
recreation, the operatives on the trains
will be allowed the opportunity of
getting “ tight ” on lager beer or bad
whiskey.
- .Paste this up in your mind.— Let
you be ever so pure, you cannot asso
! eiate with bad companions without fal
| ling into bad habits.