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HtfceMjr pew dta. Official Journal of the United States. Official Journal of the State of Georgia. TUB W5W ERA Will Yetmoatb thz Pnracuixs am iai Policy c? tbs Bspoblicah Party, am Sdt- rosr its Nokhoes. ''State am National. CEIEHAL GRANT, Toe Pilot wbo oar am will wms the Ship o? State a aptly teboogh iyeby stobx. TEEMS OP 'PUR WEEKLY: 1 Copy on* S3 00 Clan, of Twenty or mor* Muon 1 Copy alxmonths...,. tl 00 THE DAILY: 1 Copy ooo year *10 00 1 Cop, six months * 00 1 Copy, :sss tims $100 per month. 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 TIIE LATEST NEWS. - Mail to tho Era.) 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.