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Official Journal of the United States.
Official Journal of the State of Georgia.
TUB W5W ERA
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Policy c? tbs Bspoblicah Party, am Sdt-
rosr its Nokhoes. ''State am National.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, : DECEMBER 28.
OUR TICKET FOR 1872,
(Sohjsot to tbs action of tho Bopoblicss National
Contention,)
FOB PRESIDENT,
ULYSSES S. GRANT.
FOB VIDE PRESIDENT,
AMOS T. AKERMAN.
Too Sensitive.
The Constitution (a paper printed in this
city) feels sore under the fifth ribs because
lbs Era trill not confonnd it with the new
Constitution oftbeBtate. Now we take this
occasion to assure our morbidly sensitive
neighbor, that the Ena has no disposition to
make him (or it) the subject of ridicule or
“wit' Wo really know of no other way of
designating its claim to individuality. To say
au “Organ," would be indefinite. To say “the
Organ” would be a misrepresentation, since
then an other papers in Atlanta claiming
precedence as Democratic “Organs.” We
think therefore that oar sensitive neighbor
will see tho propriety of the designation
adopted by tho Eba, and which has, ns it
says, been generally accepted by tho people
of Atlanta!
Tho Fifth Congressional District.
In the Filth District, the revolutionary ad
vice of tho impracticable and implacable
Toombs, was more generally followed than
elsewhere in the State. It was when the Man
agers wero arrested and thrown into prison
because they refused to follow the advico of
Mr Toombs and Judge Stephens; that is, be
cause they refused to disallow the vote of col
ored men who had not pud their poll taxes.
The Statutes of the State make it illegal to
assess or collect poll taxes; and the election
law of the Stato provides that all men of law
ful age, irrespective of color, and of poll tax,
shall vote. In the face of this law, these rev
olutionary leaders advised the Managers to
reject tho votes of all men who had not paid
their poll tax; and they further advised their
followers to take the mailer into their own
hands, where the Managers failed or refused
to act upon their suggestion 1 Hence, the ar
rest of tho three Managers at Sparta. Their
successors were appointed, not by the Execu
tive of tho Stato as the- law provides, but by
the Democratic voters present at tho polls, as
Mr. Toombs advised. If this bo not revolm
^-tion. then what is revolution?
AVantcil—A Reconstructed Platform I
We do not wonder at the effort on the put
of one or two Democratic journals, in Geor
gia, to get rid of the Democratic Slate and
National Platform. They have found out that
it is, at least, three years too old for the times.
They realize that not ono man in ten, even
among the former opponents of Reconstruc
tion, now heartily endorse that Platform; and
the recent address of Hon. B. H. Hill has
opened their eyes to the fact that the Whigs
and Union leaders of 1860 cannot be expected
to support a heresy which they have fought
so nobly for a quarter of a century past.
Under these circumstances, the alternative
of abandoning the Platform and Principles of
1868, and which was readopted by the State
Democratic Convention in Angnstlast; or of
parting company with the forty thous
and Union Whigs, who never were and
never can he Locofoco3, is presented
for their decision. Somo of them manifest a
disposition to get just for enough away from
their party Platform to meet Mr. Hill and tho
old Whigs at somo half way station; bnt in do
ing this, they nccessariolly part company with
snch leaders as the Hon. Alexander H. Ste
phens, Hcrschbl V. Johnson, Judge Linton
Stephens, Martin J. Crawford, Gen. Yonng
and, in fact all the older and more influen
tial leaders of tho Georgia Democracy. The
attempt to form anew party has already proven
a failure; and there seems to be no resting
place midway between unqualified acceptance,
such as proposed by Mr. Hill, and a partial
abandonment by those who would assign him
a place in the Democratic fold.
General Amnesty,
A law of Oofijfrcss granting Amnesty for all
past political offenses, would indeed be a
moat desirable consummation. Every good
citizen in the State would like to see just such
a measure passed, whenever it can be done
without detriment to the Government. Cer
tainly nothing would be more desirable in any
community, than the assurance that Amnesty
for the past, would be a wise and judicious
thing in view of that present good behavior
which gives an earnest of guarantee for the
future.
Bat, so long as men continue to declaim
aginst the legality of the very measures under
which they demand amnesty, it is not proba
ble that Congress will he very solicitous to re
move all disabilities. In other words, it does
seem a little singular that tbs very men who
still proclaim their belief that the XIVth
Article is illegal, and therefore that it iz not
binding upon the conscience of the citizen,
should be the very men to grumble because
the disqualifications for holding office, im
posed by it, ore not immediately removed by
act of Congress! There are, it appears to us,
some very glaring inconsistencies involved
in snch a position as this; and yet it is just
the position assumed by the turbulent and
revolutionary faction of the Georgia Demo
cracy.
President Grant would evidently fovor s
proposition of General Amnesty, if these rash
end impracticable Democratic leaders would
but afford him an opportunity to do so. Bnt,
so long as these men army themselves in op
position to the Constitutional Amendments,
and proclaim a fixed purpose to fight them to
the bitter end, the President cannot be ex
pected to fovor their suit for Amnesty.
A New Dramatic Critic.
A day or two ago The Constitution (a paper
printed in this city) contained an editorial
notice of Edwin Forrest, and other stars, now
traveling through the Southern States. The
writer perched himself upon a top-loftical em
inence and tickled himself into a glorious
good humor over the exceeding verdancy of
his provincial friends, as manifested in their
admiration for a worn-out veteran of the
stage who had outgrown his reputation. The
article appeared to be leveled particularly at
Forrest, and it credited our Southern people
with an astonishing amonnt of bad taste and
ignorance. But our friend, the critic, was un
fortunate in his subject The people of our
Southern cities are not so destitute of culture,
taste and appreciation as he seems to imagine.
They ore familiar with the merits of tho best
actors of tho world, and here, in Atlanta,
scores and hundreds went to see Forrest, after
having seen him in his best days, upon the
boards of the metropolitan theaters. Forrest
is growing old and will soon he compelled to
abandon tho stage. It would, of course, be un
reasonable to expect Lim to render a youthful
character with the rim of a younger man. But
we have no hesitation in declaring that, in
some of bis favorite roles, ho is still unsur
passed by any actor on the American stage.
In Bichclien, for instance, his genius is most
conspicuous. We have seen, in this play, the
greatest actors of this country, from Crisp,
Dalton, and Edwin Adams np to Edwin Booth’,
and, with a vivid recollection of the latter
still uppermost in onr mind, we are forced to
acknowledge Forrest as his equal. In this
opinion very many intelligent and traveled
people among the provincials, so sneering!y
alluded to by onr contemporary, will cordially
concar. But wo leave the subject here. In
the meantime we commend the British
Blondes to our neighbor's critical attention.
The President's Views on the Amnesty
Error Corrected—A Gronntllest Assump
tion. f '
The Constitution (a paper printed in this
cily) has very courteously called oar attention
to a typographical error, in our issue of tho
22d instant The paragraph, as, it appeared
in the Eba, reads as follows :
One of the Bemocirtic organs of tbie State—the
ime one that hie bean so singularly unfortunate in
it* management of figures—mate* the charge that
'■the CnUoci Legislature coat us over a million dollars
A Bold Original Thtnher!
Tho method of reasoning adopted by Mr.
Toombs and Judge Stephens, in their recent
inflammatory address to the people of Geor
gia, dates a new era in the law of polemics.
For instance, only a few weeks previous to
this manifesto of Jodgo Stephens, he come
ont in a letter giving it as his matured opinion
that the three Articles of the Federal Consti
tution, known os the “Amendments,*’ were
illegal, and, therefore, not binding on the con
science of the citizen. He likewise maintained
that the,Reconstruction Acts of Congress, and
the Act providing for the enforcement of the
Amendments, were unconstitutional, nail and
void. And yet, in his recent manifesto, he as
sumes that the Election law of the State is un
constitutional and void,hecause.in his opinion,
it is iu conflict with this “illegal” and “void”
enactment of Congress 1 The XVth Amend
ment is itself, according to Mr. Stephens, il
legal and void; likewise, according to the same
authority, the Enforcement Aet of Congress
is illegal and void; nevertheless, according to
the same authority, a statute of the State is il
legal and void because it is, in the opinion of
Mr. Stephens, in conflict with the Enforce
ment Act! It is not often that the reading
public is treated to such a rare exhibition of
the logician’s skill. It has a brilliant prece
dent iu the effort of the Sophomore to prove
that a horse chestnut is a chestnut horse! We
do not apprehend that Jndga Stephens’ brother,
tho Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, would have
ever discovered this improvement upon the Ba
conian pliilosphy of disputation; and hence
mast be that Linton Stephens is the more or
iginal man of the two!
Tea In the United States-
During the past year the specimens of the
soils in which the best tea is produced have
been collected and carefully examined and
compared with the soils of various portions of
the United' States. Meteorological reports
from China and Japan have also been com
pared with those of this country, and the con
clusions arrived at are that there are large
tracts of country in tho United States in
which tea can be successfully cultivated.
Germany has to support 350,000 French
prisoners.
The Man with a Record*
In Mobile, Alabama, there is a new
called the Daily Register. At the head
Editorial column is flaunted tho historic
of Forsyth—John Forsyth. Mr. Forsyth
the Son of his father, and his father
named John, and was once a United States
Senator from Georgia. . The father was a rnnyy
ofMeciacdtaicnband soistheson. He was
» 8totiA.!B.ght Dmnomat/ jfa. jpfrfAfcJjg 1870, and the public notice given by yon ini
The following is set forth by the Washing
ton correspondent of the New York Tribune,
in a letter dated December 17th inst., as the
statement authorized by the President, respect
ing his views on the proposition for Gen
eral Amnesty :
The President said yesterday that tbs omission to
make any reference to the subject of amnesty In his
annual message was accidental. Ho intendeded to
have stated his viewe freely upon the question, bnt In
tho burry of making up the document in time to
it to Congress, be omitted to do so. Bis purpose was
to call attention, in tho first place, to the
misapprehension prevalent in the country, that *
large number of peeople are disfranchised in the
South by the Fourteenth Amendment and by the
legislation of Congress. This belief, which has been
fostered by the Democratio newspapers. Is wholly an
error, for in fact no man has been deprived of the
right to vote by the action of Congress or by the tore*
of * Constitutional amendment. Ail diafranc
haa been by virtno of laws enacted by the Southern
States themselves, through their Legislature,
which Congress la in no way responsible. This (act,
tho jPmsldent thinks, ought to be more generally un
derstood.
Be proposed, in the second place, to have discussed
the propriety of removing the disqualification from
holding office imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment
Bie views of the matter is that the people of the South
ought first to accept the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments, and give evidence that they fully ao>
knowledge their validity, before asking for Amnesty
under tho provisions of the first of these Amendments.
The only power Congress haa to grant amnesty la by
virtue of the authority conferred by tha Fourteenth
Amendment, and no long as the Democrats of the
Sooth natal that Amendment and deny UivaUdtir. It
tamanlfSaSedly laeawmatsat In them to aakfbr a re
moval of disqualifications under its provisions. Until
these Amendments are acknowledged and respected
ea binding, the President thinks the public sentiment
of the country will be evens to granting amnesty;
bnt when the attitude of the late rebels changes in
this respect, he believes that a sweeping amnesty
ahopld be promptly accorded by Congress The Presi
dent expresses his regret that be omitted to set forth
these views In his message, as it was his full in
tention to to have done.
These views are eminently sound and practi
cal. The idea of men railing against the Con
stitutional Amendments as legal anilities, and
yet asking for amnesty under them, involves
the greatest absurdity.
How It Isieka.
A Democratic candidate for the Georgia
Senate insisted, in a recent speech in Atlanta,
that every Democrat who has a colored man
in his employ, or wbo otherwise holds an “ob
ligation” over a colored man, ahonld pat a
Democratio ticket in that colored man’s
hands, and go with him to the polls and see
that it is “deposited.” Probably that same
Democrat is very violent in his denunciation
of the pretended “ose of the military to con
trol elections,” and extremely earnest in his
denial that President Grant had grounds for
tha assertion in his message that a free exer
cise of the elective franchise has, by violence
and intimidation, bean denied to citizens, in
exceptional cases, in several of the States
lately in rebellion.--Washington Chronicle.
The New Army BUI.
Senator Wilson's army bill, which passed
the Senate a few days since, extends the time
for mastering ont supernumerary army officers
from January I to July 1,1871. The reason
given for this extension is that it will at once
tnrow ont of the office one hundred and twen
ty-five officers, half of whom ought, accord
ing to the Secretary of War, to be thrown ont
for inefficiency, without giring them any time
to obtain situations elsewhere or to prepare
for the change. On the other hand it will
cost the Nation $200,000 to support them for
six months, which in the case of the inefficient
officers is clearly a waste of money. A dis
tinction certainly ought to be made between
the useful and the useless officers. The House
oommittee is, we observe, disposed to extend
the time, but it is not agreed as to the length
of the time.
The “Organ” referred to in the above, was
The Constitution” of eourse. That paper, of
yesterday morning, calls onr attention to the
foot that its language was not as quoted, but
that it was as follows:
"Hi* Bollock T*giN«tnr* coat a* over* million dol
lar*. or mare than ten years of Democratic legtala-
Boo, Ac."
Upon referring to the files, we find that in
onr quotation one comma and tho disjunctive
conjunction “or” were omitted, either by the
writer or by the proof reader. The error had
iped attention, and it affords na pleasure
to make tha correction.
Tha assertion, however, even as rendered by
The Constitution, is not sustained bythe facts
in tha case. In fact, it is ridiculously absurd.
The gist of the assertion is, that the present
Republican Administration has cost tha State
more than ten years of Democratic rule! Now
the facts in the case, as any well informed
man knows, or may know bya little investiga
tion, are, that whilst the public debt has not
been increased one dollar by Gov. Bullock’s
administration, it was increased nearly woun
uuion by the Democratio administration
next preceding if! And every intelligent man
knows, or may know by.atiittle investigation,
that the expenses of Governor Jenkins’ ad
ministration from ^October, 1866 to October,
1867, were over two ass a half
wtjjows; whilst the total expanses of Gov.
Bollock’s administration, for the same
length of time, ware only one million
three hundred and twenty-eight thousand two
hundred dollars, or less than tha expenses of
his predecessor by onk xnxiox these hun-
OBSD ASS DXTY-ONK THOUSAND OSB HUNDRED
xt-xhxxb dollars. We leave tha read
er to make bis own comments!
The disoonrteons innendo of “The Constitu
tion" that the error referred to “bears the as
pect of deliberate alteration" for electioneering
purposes, is simply too comtemptible for ref
utation at onr hands. The charge of deliber
ate falsification is not dirctiy made 1>y The
Constitution, and yet it seems to be covertly
insinuated. Now the editor of that paper
knows very well that the editor of tho Eba
would not wilfully or knowingly misrepresent
or falsify him.or any one else. If he means to
assert to the oontrary, we hope he will be ex
plicit There ahonld b* no room tbr miscon
struction on this matter, since it involves a
very grave issue.
The error referred to, was on* of the most
natural, if not common, occurrences, even in
the most methodical and well arranged offices
of a daily journal. It was one of those kinds
of errors that art particularly annoying to edi
tors; and yet it is oneof those kind that every
journalist of experience knows how to account
tor. A similar error occurred in one of our
editorial articles on the 21st inst—the very
day before the issue in which the error un
der consideration appeared. The paragraph
read as follows:
“W* desire to see genian end talent rewarded, bat
it afford* napleeaure to are them prostrated before
the footstool of power.”
Of course we intended to say that it “af
fords ns no pleasure to see” genius and talent
prostrated before the foot-stool cl power.
The tittle word no was omitted by the proof
reader—just as snch thing* have occurred a
thousand times.inthe best* regulated offices’
in the United States.
tor of the Register. He was an interest
writer and an agreeable stump
and so is the son, the editor. Wo
believe be once filled an important
foreign mission, and so did bis son, the ed
itor. As the father hated the National party
tore, so the son hates the National party of
the present day with oil the ‘malignity of a
Kn-Klox. The son was one of the Secession
Commissioners, accredited to Washington city
in 1861, for tbs purpose of obtaining terms
of “peaceable separation from the Union."
He was a Disunionist then, as he had been be
fore, and as be is still. He is one from in
stinct .It would bo as unreasonable to ask the
leopard to change bis spots or the Ethiopian to
change his skin, os to ask our friend Forsyth
to disavow his political heresies. They are
not chronio heresies merely: they are heredi-
hida; and I am informed there will be
it propositions submitted by different
ues, when it will become yonr duty to
decide between them.
.You and I are the official beads of twp co
ordinate deportments of the samo Govern
or bis day, with Ml the energy of his fiery na-
and this is a matter which involves
large pecuniary interest to the State, where
m*. Interest and that of the people may seem
to conflict I think it due alike to both of us,
and to those whom we represent that I should,
asTnowdo, tender to yon, unconditionally,
resignation as Chief Justice of tho Su
ns Court of this State, and respectfully
request that you accept the same before you
consider the respective proposals or deoide
between the different companies upon the
Ipicstion of the lease of the Road.
Thanking your Excellency for yonr uniform
courtesy to me, and the others officially con-
iuy. world, raetfanri. ** Judicial Department of the
* State Government which I have had the honor
to preside over, I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Joseph E. Bbowx.
integration, fire eating Democrat; and he will
go ont of the world a soured, sectional man,
and an incorrigible Secessionist
It is natural that such a man should take
umbrage at Mr. Hill pf this State for his recent
address to the People of Georgia. Mr. Hilf J^Scctive Department, State op GeoJqia, I
The New Rebellion by the Leader* ot tbe
>1* by (
Old.
The Election in the Fifth District seems to
have been tittle else than a force. That is
Toombs and Stephens' District It is where
their revolutionary advico was most closely
followed. It is where one of Mr. Toombs’
relatives was a candidate. It is where Mr.
Toombs'advice to ignore and set aside the
election law was pat into practice, by driving
away or arresting tbe Election Managers. It
is where Republican candidates wero, at some
points, forbidden to address tho people. It
is, in short, the strong hold of the revolu
tionary wing of the Democracy; and
where it is the avowed purpose of the
Democratic leaders to make unceasing warfare
upon the Constitutional Amendments and the
Reconstruction Acts of Congress. It is where
the people were told by such representative
leaders as Judge Stephens that all the Consti
tutional Amendments, indnding tbe Thir
teenth, are illegal and void. It is where tbe
revolutionary leaders are sufficiently defiant
to assure their simple-minded followers that it
is the object of the Democracy (should they
come into power) to authorize a Stato Con
vention, with a view of altering or setting aside
the present Republican State Constitution.
Being the stronghold of the revolutionists, it is
where the colored voters were either crowded
from the polls, or else driven away by
desperate partisans. It is in short where
desperate men felt authorized to act upon the
suggestions and advice of Mr. Toombs by
taking the law into their own handa; and
therefore in arresting or driving away the
Managers, in refusing to allow colored men to
vote as provided by the laws of the State, and
in openly setting at defiance the Statute of the
State.
never was a Democrat. He always belonged
to a political party which Mr. Forsyth hailed,
and still hates from instinct The Alabama
editor is too well informed a man not to kno
that Mr. Hill was never a Locofoco Secession
ist; but so long as Mr. Hill was content to
act with, and follow the old Locofooo
leaders, in opposition to the Reconstruction
measures of Congress and to the Constitutional
Amendments, Mr. Forsyth was too politic a
man to attack him. Bat now that the specific
object of the alliance is no longer attainable,
or even desirable, and Mr. Hill takes occasion
to sound tho key-note to the Old Union Wing
party of former days, Mr. Forsyth^comes forth
in all tbe savage acerbity of his nature. He
says:
Hill gives up the cause of liberty as lost; submit*to
the mutilation of the Constitution of hi* country, ac
cepts reconstruction *1 a finality, and like n spaniel
crouches in tbe dnal, before tbe lustful power of Badi.
cat ism. which he sacrilegiously deifies as the majesty
of uw. Why does he do it? Because he is a politi
cal Bombastes, who, having exhausted the whole stock
of his patriotism and lore of liberty sad truth in
splendid diction, haa not courage enough left in hi*
son] to atsnd to fight for tho right he had eo brilliantly
proclaimed. He is a very Ludifer in his fUL Whenhe
signed his last address, he had damned his good name
and famo as a statesman with every honest lover of
freedom in Georgia, both men and women.
It is all very well to assume that
Mr. Hill was once a Democrat! It may
go down before an Alabama audience
where the facts are less perfectly understood.
But it won’t do in Georgia. Even John Forsyth
knows better. He well knows that Mr. Hill
opposed the Reconstruction scheme, not as a
Democrat nor yet os one who ever expected to
be a Democrat; bnt as a National man, as a
Union man; as a man who accepted
Rule os the lesser evil than the alternative
then presented—just as hundreds of other
Union men did. He opposed the Sherman
Bill for tbe reasons that many even of the
Northern Republicans opposed it; that is, be
cause it was in some respects unwise,
unnecessarially proscriptive, and
bore heavily alike npoff the
the Secessionist
'--Thar issue trnnr
and bis friends is an
struction, os provided in the Sherman
an accomplished foct Tho Contitntioi
Amendments are verities. They are part of
tbe Great Charter of Government A politi
cal party pledged to longer oppose these
measures, is pledged to revolution. Mr.
Hill and his party were dragged into revolution ,
by tbe Looofocos in 1861. “A burnt child
dreads the fire.” Experience is not lost ex
cept upon tbe minds of imbeciles. The
Whigs and Union men who followed the Lo-
cofocosinto the seething whirlpool of Discord
and Rain in 1861, will not follow them into a
second Rebellion; and Mr. Hill’s manifesto is
bnt the forerunner of this. Moderate men
and moderate counsels mn3t prevail hence
forth, if we would have a prosperous country
and a contented and happy people.
Fir signal ion of Chief Justice Brawn*
Atlanta, December-24, 187oT^
JOis Excellency Rufus B. BiiBoclc, Governor cf
’ tg Dear Sir—I am associated with a
ly of gantiomon who intend this day to
for- yonr consideration a bid for the
' of tho tVestcm and Atlantic Railroad,'
is the property of the State, under the
THE ELECTION RETURNS.
” GLYNN COUNTY.'
FOR 41st congress.
Paine....... ... i.... 615
White. ........si 734
FOR 42d congress.
McIntyre 616
Hillyer.. .V 733
FOR REPRESENTATIVES. .
James Bine 671
James Houston 614,
J. E. Cornelius 56
FOB CLEBK COURT.
C. P. Goodyear 674
J. E. Lambright 608
W. W. Haskell . ! 61
FOB SHERIFF.
James M. Thomas 672
H. J. Read . 608
Frank Fleming..I'. 66
Tift, 1068; Whiteley, 519. Tift’s majority,
549. mr. - |
Representatives—j. A. Hcndly, 1053; W. D.
King. 602; J. E. Boothe, 1022; Saph, 100.
Balance—Shorten, 499; Boothe’s majority over
both, 413.
UPSON- COUNTY.
FOB CONOBESS.
W. J. Lawton... 931
J. F. Long .-... 845
T. J. , Speer
FOB SENATOR.
Lawton.....
Speer
Steadman
Lee
fob 42d congress.
.... 1,351
.... 963
1,355
1,019
816
EEPEESENTATIVES.
Summers
Davis
Smith
Thorn
Atlanta, December 24,1870. ’ \
Rt-Govconor Joseph E Brovenj
My dear Sir—lam in receipt of your com
munication of this date in which yon inform m
■fiat you have associated yourself with a com-
Jzmy of gentlemen who intend to submit for
oonaideation a bid for the lease of the Western
aind Atlantic Railroad under the authority of
*n act approved October 24th, 1870, and
that therefore yon feel it incumbent upon yon,
in justice to yonrself and to the people to
iever all connection between yourself and. the
8tate Government by resigning the high po
sition of Chief Justice upon assuming the re
lation of a bidder for the lease of the State
property. The positive manner in which the
resignation is presented, and the reasons
which yon give ms to sustain you in it, are of
such a character as to leave me no alternative
to accept it, and in doing • so you will, I
frost, receive my expressions of high regard
and consideration for yonrself and for the Ju
dicial Department 6f the Government, in pre
siding over which yon have, if possible, added
fr yonr well established reputation for'tbe suc
cessful administration, in former years, of tbe
Executive Department of tho State Govern
ment.
I am, my dear Judgo, very respectfully and
truly y ours*
Rufus B.. Bullock.
John C. Sullivan 671
John C. Moore. 571
S. B. Baker 62
Jos. Dongaix ,, 38
. COLLECTOR.
Moses McDonald 669
J. B. Pyles 602
Hosea Sherman 60
TREASURER.
D. G. Risley 669
G. C. Fahm 606
J. B. Cook 64
SUBYXXOB.
John A. Abbott. 665
James PaBtell 664
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A California girl runs a locomotive.
French women garrison tbe viliageA
John Bright iz retiring from public life.
lawyers monopolize most of the offices
the provisional government of France.
Lord Mayor of London was publicly
Ited the other day by French sympathizers.
Spanish faction threaten the;
8-
Thera
L. B. Davis 1,207
J.B.B. Baker... 45
CAMDEN COUNTY.
Henry HHlyer elected to Legislature by 350
majority.
MERIWETHER COUNTY.
41st CONOBESS.
Bethuue 342
42d CONOBESS.
Bigby 355
REPRESENTATIVES.
Hall 344
Moreland . 356
Craven, Sheriff 533
Boyd, Clerk Superior Court 739
Adair, Tax Receiver 1,0
Blalock, Tax Collector. 960
Adams, County Treasurer 1 443
Jacob Harris, Coroner 511
PUTNAM COUNTY.
Entire Republican ticket elected. Ma
jority 397..
CLAYTON COUNTY.
The following is the official count in the
election for Clayton county:
FOB 41ST CONOBESS.
Wright 378
Bethuno , 324
FOB 42d CONOBESS.
Wright 373
Bigby .’. 357
FOB SENATE, 35TH.
Bryan 352
Hillyer 390
POE REPRESENTATIVES.
W. P. Matthews 941
Wm. Guilford 779.
FOB REPRESENTATIVE.
John I. Uni! 1055
James BeAU. 633
George Carey ........ 94
Lewis Deloach \ .'....... 2-
FOR SHERIFF.
O.C. Shannon ,• 887
Robert F. Bradley. 667
. FOB GLEBE SUPERIOR COURT.
H. T. Jennings. . 1013
POE TAX BECEITEB.
A. E. Singleton. - 1068
FOB TAX COLLECTOR.
James Holliman 1014
J. At Cooper 411
FOB COUNTY TREASURER.
Wm. W. Hartsfield 1010
FOR SUBVETOB.
B. D. Shuptrino '. 933
FOB COBONEB.
N. Goyens. 910
WABBEN COUNTY.
FOB 41st CONOBESS.
8. Corker 860
T. P. Beard 463
Majority for Corker 397
fob 42d congress.
D. M. DuBose 856
Isham Fannin 462
Majority'for Du Bose
Columbus Heard 853
Newsom 000
Frank Holden 460
Heard’s Majority
The nominees of tho Democratic party for
the Legislature wero elected by the same ma
jority.
TALIAFERRO COUNTY.
FOB 41st conobbss.
Corker 485
Tbe leg drama in Savannah derives ad
ditional eelat from An occasional fainting
same ea tho stage.
■mantels Sum land Morton
The discussion last week in the United
States Senate between Mr Morton and Mr-
Sumner Mein to be particularly regretted by
the friends of tbe latter gentleman. That
gentleman’s egotism is proverbial. It is rare
indeed that we find so much of it in a man of
education and respectable talents. He has
patiently watched some time a favorable op
portunity to bring his own name prominently
before the world in a new role. Aggressive
and combative, he is naturally on the look
ont; and his vanity causes him to strike at
the highest official in the Government, the
Chief Executive. He selects the San Domingo
question as the special point of attack. In this
he probably counted upon the sympathy of
those real friends of the Administration who are'
still disinclined to admit the wisdom of the
treaty. Had he been less violent and dis
played more tact, he might have gained this
advantage. But his speech seems to have com
pletely alienated from him every Senator whose
regard for Republican principles outweighs
mere private grievances and minor disagree
ments. And able and influential as Mr. Somner
isjadmitted to be, he found here, as upon former
occasions, more than a match in Senator Mor
ton. Mr. Sumner seems to hare felt his dis
aster keenly. In foct ha got into a towering
rage, losing all self-control, and disregarding
the very courtesies of debate of which he ere-
while claimed to championship. There has
probably not been snch another scene in the
United States Senate, since the day in which
Mr. Clay humbled the pride and ernoified tbe
vanity of the imperious and dogmatic Ban-
The Macon Telegraph devotes a quarter of
aoolumnto.theEsi. It is a funny notice,
and the writer was doubtless in one of his
happiest veins when he indicted it Onr con
temporary has'our permission to copy this.
Germany is suffering from a want of eoeh 1 Honduras recently.
■ is said to be another’ division among
i Ministers. I ^
a new Merchants' National
J has
STATE NEWS.
Hon. Boland B. Hall, of Brunswick, has
lost a little daughter.
McKean Buchanan, the tragedian, isexpect-
I in Augusta in Fcbrurry.
In Augusta, thirty-six foreign residents were
naturalized Thursday.
Henry Van Pipes is the prize skater ol Co,
lumbus.
Newnan got through the election withonf
disturbance.
J. T. Waterman has started the “Houston
Home Journal” at Perry, Houston county.
In Romo the election passed off quietly.
The young men of that place are getting up a
theatrical entertainment for the benefit of the
Lee monument
The Borne Commercial of the 23d contain!
the following:
By yesterday’s steamer we learn of a serious
affray that occurred down the river a day or
two ago. A young man named Davis, accom
panied by a friend, had been visiting some
ladies. As tbey were riding home they were
fired upon, and Davis was instantly Idltod.
It was discovered that two negroes in the
neighborhood ware accomplices in the attack,
and a night or two afterwards, they were
taken ont and killed. This sad affair hap
pened about twenty miles below Center, at
what is called Pollard's Bend.
In Columbus the pews of the Baptist Church
rented as follows:
Thu* for 44 pews have rented for $2,167-
The three highest brought $150 each; the next
four $100; 1, $30; 2, $75; 2. $00; 9, $50;
2, $40; 2, $25; 9, $20. This does not
include 15 per cent, added for each note for
cburch expenses, which included will swell
tbe amount to S2.492 05. It is thought, us
there are 89 more pews to rent, $2,600 can tri
obtained, exclusive of the 15 per cent, which
added will make $2,990.
At tbe Columbus skating rink carnival, the
skatists represented tho following characters:
Morning, Night, Undine, Ceres, Minnehnhi,
Gipscy, .Sunshine, Aurora, Swiss Peasant,
Butterfly, Snowflake, Daughter of the Seg
ment, Madge Wildfire, and Fanes innuraerr.
bio.
Xapsicon and tha Empire.
From the Herald, of course: “Louis Napo
leon is in Germany a prisoner, at the head pf
nearly three hundred thousand of tho flower
of the old French army, all prisoners. They
love France, but they scorn the Republic. It
may occur that King William will insist upon
the restoration of the Napoleon dynasty, anti
Napoleon himself, or at least his Empress and
her son, may march into the capitol of FntnoC,
escorted by these three hundred thousand
soldiers and their Marshal’s MacMahon,
Bazainc, Canrobert, Leheeuf, and re-establish
the power and pageantries of the empire
With this restoration King William can veiy
reasonably Insist upon keeping at least one
hundred thousand German troops in Franc.,
and the Regency would very readily accede to
the proposition.”
Senate stands fifteen conserva
tives and fifteen Republicans.
Tennessee is waking np on the pnblic school
qnestion.
French war vesselsnre still ernising on our
Atlantio coast.
Hon. Mr. Penn, of Virginia, proposes to
change the name of the State to “Old Do
minion.’’
Bothemel's great painting of the battle of
Gettysburg was exhibited, for tbe first time,
in Philadelphia last Tuesday night.
Joe. T. Fields retires from the book firm of
Fields, Osgood Sc Co., of Boston, and confines
himself to the editorial dntiea of tbe Atlantic
Monthly^-
East Tennessee news.
B; Mail to the Era.]
The Knoxville Board of Trade passed com
plimentary resolutions in honor of the late
David Richardson.
There is a good deal of activity in wheat*
and corn along tbe line of railroad South of
the Tennessee river.
Bears about McMinnville attack travelers on
the high-road.
Wm. Homer, v of Knoxville, was knocked
down with a pair of brass knnuckles tbe other
night
* Tbe Germans of Knoxville will have a Fair
three nights next week for the benefit of tbe
wounded Prussians soldiers.
The county seat of Hamilton county lias
been removed to Chattanooga.
New York counterfeiters are flooding Knox
ville with their circular letters.
N. G. Hudson
£8. Hine.
MACON COUNTY.
FOB 41 ST CONOBESS.
Whitoley 504
FOB 42n CONOBESS.
Whiteley 503
FOB SENATOR.
W. B. Jones :
Society In Washington.
All accounts from Washington unite in the
assertion that the coming winter will be tbe
most brilliant ever known in the history of the
National Capitol. A week from Monday, the
grand reception day throughout the country,
the President will give his first reception.
Mrs. Grant’s reception will commence Tues
day, January 19, and continue on that day of
each week until the beginning of the season of
Lent. The ladies oi the members of Cabinet
will receive every Thursday, commencing Jan
uary 12. The President will give one evening
reception in January, and two during tbe
month of February. Tbe usual weekly Presi
dential dinners will not be given this season.
Several dinner parties will be given daring tbe
season, invitations for but one of which will
be extended. One of these dinner parties will
be to tbe Jndges of the United States Supreme
Court and Court of Claims; another to the
Cabinet; another to the Diplomatic corps, and
one to members of Congress generally.
Increase of Salary Wanted.
A few days since, there was a desperate ef
fort made in the Senate oi tho United States
to increase the salaries of certain Government
officers. The offices are objects of great de
sire at present prices. There is probably up
on mi average of ten applicants to each and
every office. Why then should the success-
fid applicant commence clamoring “for more,
before be gets settled down in the possession
of his prize? If be deems the pay inadequate
let him resign. Nine others stand ready and
willing to take his place at tho same pay.
it not astonishing that positions so universally
sought, and which are oiten obtained at great
saerifico of time and patience, should be deem
ed so trifling a consideration after tbe first few
months pay has been drawn and consumed?
Tbe young ladies in Marietta are becoming
desperate. One “little divinity” has informed
the.tocal of the Marietta Journal that “she in-
I tends to hang np a sack to see if there is any
man in town'eoarageons enough toplay‘Ha-
'jor Jones.'"
FOB SHERIFF.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES.
L. C. Jones.
W. Oliver..
FOB SHERIFF.
513
475
H. W. Jones.
FOB CLEBK SUPfeniOB COURT.
J. M. Greer ; 2,240
FOB TAX RECEIVER.
543
B. F. Holsonboke
FOB TAX COLLECTOR.
S. W. Sedenbough
FOB COUNTY TREASURER.
A. H. Greer 2,240
FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR.
E. Williams 2,240
FOB COUNTY COBONEB.
H. Wiley.
RICHMOND COUNTY.
FOB 41st CONOBESS.
S. A. Corker .3,024
T. P. Beard .2,548
Corker’s majority 476
42d CONOBESS.
D. M. DuBose 3,007
L S. Fannin 2 552
071
Majority for DnBose.
.455
LEGISLATURE.
Claiborne Snead 3,289
J. B. Camming 3,014
W. A. Clark 3,004
Daniel McHorton. 2,493
Doc Adams 2,485
J. E. Bryant 2,072
Wm. Halo 133
Long
... 887
.. 854
FOR 42d congress.
Speer..
Lawton...
REPRESENTATIVE.
Daniel A. Johnson
David M. Johnson
TAX collector!
■M- t). Bowdoin
W. V. Maddox ,
TREASURER.
J. M. Boyle
... 924
Thos. Simonton
Coweta County.
394
YOU STATE SENATOR.
a
T. P. Beard.
305
Corker's majority ISO
FOB 42» CONOBESS.
D. M. DuBose.. 480
Isham Fannin.. 309
DaBose's majority 180
FOB STATE SENATE.
Columbus Heard 474
Frank Holden 296
Newsom ; 26
Heard’s majority 152
FOB REPRESENTATIVES.
Flynt 487
Evans.
305
1,334
1,345
983
996
SPALDING COUNTY.
FOB 41st CONOBESS.
1,307
Tbe result of the balloting at Grantville is
as follows: For Congress, Wright (Dein.) 51;
Bethona (Bep.) 136; Bigby (Rep.) 141. For
Representatives, Simms (Dem.) 57; Smith
(Dem.) 52; Sargeont (Rep.) 117; Smith (Bep.)
112.
FOB COUNTY OFFICERS, (DEV.)
Sheriff, J C Lumpkin, 53; Clerk Superior
Court, ML Carter, 55; County Treasurer, Dan
Swint, 55; Tax Receiver, W F Summers, 54;
Tax Collector, J B Stamp, 54; County Sur
veyor, J B Goodwin, 54; Coroner, A B Ash
craft, 64.
FOB COUNTY OFFICERS, (BEP.)
For Sheriff^ Samuel F, Vineyard, 117; For
Clerk Snperior Court, J A McClure, 114; For
Receiver Tax Returns, Wm F Bryant, 115;
For Tax Collector, B W Hendrix, 116; For
County Treasurer, W D Orr, 111: For County
Surveyor, Pierce Sewell, ,116; For Coroner,
F. Smith 112.
Charles H. Sibley 3,041
Ellis Lyons 2,455
Majority for Sibley 586
CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT.
D. D. Macmnrpby .2,974
E. M. Bray ton 2,517
Majority for Macmurphy 457
COUNTY TRESUEEB.
Henry E. Clark 2,987
W. n. Stallings 2,516
Majority for Clark 471
TAX CELLZCTOB.
John A. Bolder 3,116
B. D. Glover 2,362
Majority for Bohler 754
RECEIVER OF TAX RETURNS.
B. J. Wilson 2,998
W. J. White 2,501
Majority for Wilson 497
COUNTY SU&VEYOB.
B. B. Beck *. 2,968
E. W. Brown 2,522
Majority for Beck. 446
CORONER.
W. F. Ponrnelle 2,981
W. P. Rhodes. 2,529
Majority for Fournelte •••.. .7 452
PULASKI COUNTY.
The following is the official vota of Pulaski
county:
Flynt’s majority.., 182
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
FOR 41st CONOBESS.
S. ^"Corker. :::..7. •.*.?:.■ 071
T. P. Beard... 360
Corker’s majority 311
Foa 42d CONOBESS.
1). M. DuBose G8S
Isham Fannin 365
DuBoso’s majority 324
REPRESENTATIVES,
W. W. Davenport 661
J. F. Smith 600
J. F. Cunningham 385
James Cunningham 181
J. P. Brightwood 205
Average majority 200
GLASCOCK COUNTY.
Total vote polled 328
POE 41ST CONOBESS.
S. A. Corker 320
T. P. Beard 8
Corker’s majority 312
FOR 42d CONOBESS,
D. M. DuBose 318
Isham Fannin 10
DaBose’s majority- 308
TtEPRTISBXTATlV P. T
W. G. Brady elected over Thos. Neal by
about the same majority.
GWINNETT COUNTY.
CONGRESSMEN.
W. P. Price, 1,134; Weir Boyd, 3; John A.
Wimpy, 74; J. J. Findley, 52.
Begnlar Democratic ticket for members of
the Legislature: William E. Simmons, 738;
Geo. H. Jones, 648.
Independent Democratio ticket: Wm. J.
Woodward, 347; Jos. T. McElvaney, 177.
Republican ticket: J. E. Mathews, 265; R.
M. Parks, 194.
FAYETTE COUNTY.
41bt congress,
Bethuue 393
Wright 344
42d congress.
Bigby 408
Wright 350
REPRESENTATIVES.
Harp... 375
Whatley :... 389
SHERIFF.
Avrea 305
Edmonson 425
CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT.
Stokes...' 745
No oposition.
TAX RECEIVER.
Franklin 407
Banks 350
TAX COLLECTOR.
Harrison * ’ * * 611
Braseil 151
The Democratio ticket for connty officers
exceptSherifif, was elected.
JASPEB COUNT.
FOR COKORSS.
Lawton 769
Speer 676
Long 676
REPBESENTTXVES.
Walters 767
Allen 676
County officers Democratic.
HENS* COUNTY.
41st congress.
Eawton 864
Long 1... : 444
42d congress.
Lawton.. 864
Speer. • 453
Bryant.
Dow—
SPIRIT OF TUB GEORGIA PRESS.
THE ROUE COMMERCIAL (DEU.)
Says Forrest is to play Richelieu in that city
on next Tuesday night, and - it advises every
body to go and hear him. Tie same paper
says:
Bard says; “He who is constant in wisdom
must change often." Sammy is evidently a
candidate for constant wisdom, as he .changes
about ns often as the moon docs.
THE DALTON CITIZEN (DE3I.)
Says that:
Akerman is a mean man. Not satisfied with
his devilish election -bill, he seeks to make
null and void the election that is now progress
ing by circulating bogus ku klax documents.
Some of these are said to have been sent to
one Dr. Amos Fox, of Atlanta, and which cre
ated such an excitement in that city a lew days
ago.
[Our simple-minded friend of the “Citizen”
has been the victim of a most cruel hoax.
The “Ku Klax Document” referred to wns
traced to some mischievous boys in this city;
and, in order to make the joke more ridiculous
the report was put out that Mr. Akerman, the
Attorney General of the United States, was tho
author of the document! One of our local
Democratic papers caught at tho bait, and
hence the joke upon onr Doctor friend.]
THE COLUMBUS SUN (DEM.)
Has -nearly a column of editorial abuse of
President Grant, wherein the editor says:
That Grant is a tyrant, no just man can
doubt, when the evidences against him are
around and about him everywhere to make his
will supreme over the law, and convert by tha
bayonet a nation of freemen into a nation of
slaves. .An ignorant tyrant, too, of all others
is the most exacting and despotic. Each con
cession to snch a monster is but a pretext to
further increased oppressions. Conscious of
the wrongs he has done, his fears multiply un
til cowardice impresses him, and a dieased
imagination tells him that in every bush
lurks an assassin and in every crowd is an
armed foe.
[Andrew Jackson was called a tryout be
cause he squelched oat the traitorous scheme
of Nullification. He was also called an “ig
norant” man once, by a little editor whose ca
pacity forbade a correct understanding of the
English language. Wellington was called a
coward by the King’s fool, after the battle of
Waterloo; and it is well known that General
Washington was called a coward, after tho
surrender of Cornwallis, by a fellow named
Payne, who struck him in the face at a pnblic
gathering in Alexandria. Payne was a skulk
er daring the war, and sought a personal dif
ficulty with Washington to preserve his mem
ory. He preserved it]
THE AUGUSTA CONSTITUTIONALIST (DEM.)
Expresses the wish that ladies could vote.
That paper ought to be squarely upon the
Woman Suffrage platform, since' it seems
“that way inclined.”
THE MARIETTA JOURNAL (DEM.)
Does not assail so much Hon.[B. H. Hill’s
present positipn, as it does the contrast
which it imagines exists between Mr. Hill of
1868 and Mr. Hill of 1870. The same paper,
descending to the discussion of <4 minor
topics,” intimatosthat the flippery of Sambard
is a matter of very little consequence any way.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NEWTON COUNTY.
fox 41st congress.
Lawton.
Long...
. 1,853
. 959
Editorial Raids.
Cartersville boys kick up the dace of » row
at concerts and other amusements.
Marietta Ravel made the yonng men of
Griffin stare their eyes ont
Tho Borne Commercial contains a very
pretty Christmas story from the pen of Mrs-
Ida Sonthworth Hubner, of Atlanta.
‘H4 who donhis is damned,” says the Co
lumbus Enquirer. “Oh! This lost and ruined
world!”
An Atlanta correspondent of the Dalton
Citizen devotes only half a column to an At
lanta editor who openly acknowledged the re
ceipt of a “Tom and Jeny."
A singular genius applies to the Athens
Watchman for a situation as local editor. As
a specimen of his ability he sends an elabo
rate essay on “goobers.”
By wearing the “Confederate colors” at tho
Columbus skating tournament a yonng lady
succeeded in getting a newspaper notice of
her beauty.
The British Blondes nearly froze to death
in Macon the other night They are not in
the habit of wearing much clothing on the
stage, and they consequently feel like a set of
animated icicles.
The yonng gentlemen of Columbus hare de
cided to observe Saturday, the last day of De
cember, as New Year’s day. They very sensi
bly observed that “pickles and coffee” woold
unfit them for business the day after their
calls, and, therefore, a number of them an
nounce through the papers that they will call
on Saturday, unless, their “fair and glorious
women objeoti”
The Macon Telegraph contains the follow
ing:
“Obstbuoied View.”—Hope M O P D IN
A “P” A. D. N.S. YAD Y.
This is about as intelligible as the majority
ef the editorials is that peptr.