Georgia weekly opinion. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1867-1868, September 24, 1867, Image 2
GEORGIA
THE WEEKLY OPINION.
BY W. h. ICBUOOS AND J. B. DOUBLE.
FIUDAY MORNING:::::::;;;SEPT. 30.
DECLARATION
or Tin
UNION REPUBLICAN PARTY OF GEORGIA
ADOPTED BY inn STATE COEVESTIOS,
Atlanta, July 4th, 1807. •
WuKKEis, Wo, humbly acknowledging our do.
Ticndcncc upon an overruling Providence, who
shapes the destinies o! men nnd nations, thank Al-
<iie recent rebellion. And
Where ah, The loyal men of Georgia desire the
earliest practicable settlement or the disturbed
condition of the country: and whereas, wo believe
that the establishment of justice Is essei
during peace, that patriotism should
m tuo, and it is the duty of tho State to chcr-
oarty of tho Union, nnd for the unconditional sup
port or the Union of these States.
Resolved, 9. That wo pledge our hearty support
to the reconstruction measures of the Congress of
tho United 8tates,
Revolted. 3. That it is the duty of the !
educate all her children, and to that end,
commend the establishment of a general system
of free schools.
Knotted. 4. That the Union Republican Party is
identified in its history and by its essential prin
ciples with the rights, the interests nnd the digni
ty of labor, and is in sympathy with tba toiling
-masses of .society, and that tho working men of
Georgia will receive at its bands every encourage
ment and assistance that may be necessary to pro
tect their full rights; and, that in tho uininten-
.inco of tho position token nnd the principles
we have this day avowed, wo cordially invite the
■ co-operation or all citizens, without regard to their
. political antecedents.
Knotted, 5. That tho Union Republican Party
in ull respects, with tho requirements of the Acts 01
• Congress, and who prefer the Government of the
United States to any other that could be framed.
Errors About the Amnesty Procla
mation*.—Mr. .Johnson's late proclamation
of Amnesty, whatever its merits may be,
is having an injurious effect in this State.
Its equivocal language has misled a large
portion of our people and public journals.
The latter are assuring the people that a
arge majority of the disabled class will bo
allowed to vote, and that the President
will soon issue an order extending regis
tration to those who have hitherto been
disfranchised by the law of Congress.
It is not strange that such a mistake
should occur. The President's allusion to
the wrong of disfranchisement in connec
tion with the evils which he proposed to
remove, is well calculated to create the
impression that suffrage was among the
benefits to he realized from the pardon.
But we should not allow ourselves to bo
thus deceived. Congress will exact irom
us the full conditions prescribed in tho Re
construction law before admitting us to
our rights and privileges in the Union.
We should therefore shape our course ac
cordingly, regardless of the President’s
proclamation.
QT The Intelligencer of yesterday, has
an editorial headed, 44 A Miserable Radical
Trick.” Th»» circular of Colonel IIulbkrt
lias terribly alarmed the Jntttligencer, and
It has almost gone into spasms over what
•it calls such electioneering tricks as this one
of Mr. K. Ui’I.uert and his radical compeers
at these Headquarters.” Mr. Intelligencer
might he bcneflttad by just walking across
the street and talcing a collide glasses of
Artie soda water by way of cooling oil'.
Keep cool, dear friend; we see no trick.
Mr. IIui.beht has simply published his in
dividual opinions, plainly and boldly, nnd
said over his own signature—
— Let tho motto of the Reconstruction
Party in Georgia he ‘Convention and Re*
lief.’” The Intelligencer has done Colonel
IIulhkrt a favor by giving his opinion in
the premises to its readers. Its readers
will judge the circular upon its merits,
without the colorings of the editorial.
We predict that tho circular will make
live converts to the Reconstruction Party
where the editorial will drive one away.
'Keep the circular standing, Mr. Intelligen
cer. Cull attention to it daily. You will
unwittingly aid the Convention Party.
Such relief us can ho legally granted the
Convontlon will grant. What do you
say, Mr. Intelligencer, of relief? Are
you for it or not? Speak out plainly. No
“ tricks ” now.
Don’t try to carry water on both shoul
ders. Can’t do it. Bo on one side or the
other—for or against Convention—for or
against relief. Raise your banner, nnd t**ke
your chances. No time now to parley.
"These are troublous times for timid
men.”
The Election.—The attention of the
reader is directed to Order No. GO, publish
ed this morning.
This order should be carefully read and
studied by all who arc entitled to vote, or
who expect to participate In tlmt election.
The Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth
sections of the order should be especially
heeded by those Interested; as neglect of
duty on this point may lead to trouble.
If this order is faithfully executed fund
we have every reason to believe that it will
he), we shall have one of tho most quiet
and orderly elections held in this State for
many years.
Unauthorized.—A circular, edited Jit
Savannah, and calling a "Grand Republi
can and Relief Moss Meeting, to assemble
on the 30th Inst.,” and signed by Ex-Gov.
James Johnson, Wm. Markham. C. II. Hod-
kins and Aaron Bradley, has been
thrown broadcast over tho country.
Gov. Johnson and Mr. HorKixa deny
any complicity whatever in tho movement.
And we are authorized by Mr. Markham
to say that lie knew nothing of the scheme,
and that his name has been signed to the
circular without his knowledge or consent.
It is hoped, therefore, that those pub^
11c journals which have given tho clrcu
Jar publicity will do tho gentlemen named
.the justice to make this or reft! so
MB. HILL’S LAST 11 NOTE,”
The twenty-second and last “Note on
the Situation ” has been issued. The vo
cabulary of vituperation has been ex
hausted. The dysentery of words lias sub
sided.
Mr. IIill began these Xotes some thre?
months ago, by asserting, in his usually
confident manner, that the Convention
would be voted down In Georgia. Ho now
admits tho probability of a Convention.
Ho goes further. He gives us the assur
ance of his own convictions, that a Con
vention will ho called. He docs this all un
consciously, by advising "respectable white
men ” to keep out of that Convention! Wo
quote from his last "Note”:
I give my opinion now, that no decent
white man can go to that Convention and
retain Ills diameter. There is an effort to
get respectable men to go to the Conven
tion. Why? Not to shape its proceed
ings, for these are dictated from W ashing-
tou, and no discretion Is permitted. The
purpose Is to make character for the wick
ed movement!
lu November, 1SG5, when, under Mr.
Johnson’s Policy of Reconstruction,
wad proposed to elect members to Congress
from this State, Mr. Hill took occasion to
write a letter for publication, in which he
asserted tlmt "no respectable white man
from Georgia could desire a sent in the
Federal Congress ”! Less than four months
thereafter, Mr. Hill was found denounc
ing nnd abusing Congress because South
ern members had been excluded.
Mr. IIill would not endorse tho proceed
ings of Mr. Johnson’s State Constitution
al Convention of 1805, because, as he as
serted, they had been dictated from Wash
ington. and were unconstitutional. It was
Andy Johnson's Convention ’*; the
of the people had not been consulted.
Nevertheless, we now find him hurling in
vectives at Congress because they would
not recognize Mr. Johnson’s State Gov
ernment as Constitutional! Did Mr. Hill
change his mind as to the legality of that
movement; or did ho only seek " to make
character” for an unconstitutional and
wicked movement ?
After admitting that tho people of Geor
gia have determined to disregard his teach
ings, call a Convention, and adopt a Con
stitution, in compliance with the laws of
Congress, Mr. Hill goes on to say:
Of the correctness of one legal principle
there can be no doubt: Unless a pinjoilty
of the legal white voters—qualified by ex
isting laws—give their consent thereto,
this negro Constitution can never he val
id. Let us, by nil means, nnd under all
trials, withhold that consent. Then, if the
force of law is'over restored, the whole
proceeding will be set aside as void from
the beginning, and every officer under it
will be declared a criminal.
Mr. Hill once asserted that tho abolition
of slavery by the octlou of tho Georgia
Convention in 18G5 was unconstitutional
and illegal; and that it would never stand
the test of Judicial Investigation, because
that Convention moved only as it was
moved upon by President Johnson. Aiid
yet in a few months thereafter Mr.
Hill undertakes to defend the action of
that Convention upon constitutional and
legal grounds; and only a few short weeks
since he expressed a willingness "to die”
for the State Constitution adopted by it!
How long will it be before Mr. Hill will,
In order io seek office under it, defend ns
constitutional the proceedings of the very
Convention in which lie says no “respecta
ble white man” will consent to sit as a
member? ,
Mr. Uill’s whole political life lias been
a singular combination of blunders nnd
contradictions. A "Know Nothing”—
bound by secret oaths and clandestine grips
and pass-words—ho anathematizes secret
political organizations. A Union man, we
find him voting for an Ordinance of Seces
sion. An advocate of civil supremacy, he
votes for an indefinite suspension of the
Habeas Corpus writ and the establishment
of Military Star Chambers. An advocate
of free speech, we find him supporting a
measure to muzzle the press, and seeking
to run the pulpit with detailed conscripts,
A stickler for constitutional law, we re
member Iris opposing the establishment of
a Supreme Court, because all laws of Con
gress should be supreme, whether consti
tutional or not. And assuming to he a gen
tleman of culture and refinement* his lan
guage is not unfrequently that of the fish
urket; whilst Ids egotism and arrogant
assumptions, aro equalled only by his in
stability of purpose and ills shameless pre
tensions to consistency. Such a medley of
contradictions Is rarely found beyond the
region of a shallow or distempered mind—
a mind that may indeed display some
brilliant parts, hut which is utterly want
ing In ail the attributes of sound Judg-
tnent. |
Religious Revivals.—The Rome Cou
rier of the 10th says: "The meeting at the
Methodist church In this city Is still pro
gressing with increasing interest. Quite q
large number have professed conversion,
and the altar Is nightly crowded with
mourners.”
The Albany paper of the 17th says: "A
protracted meeting has been in progress in
tho Methodist church in this city during
tho past week, and will probably continue
for several days longer. On last Sunday
afternnpu eight converts wore received
Into full oomniunlon with the church, and
two wore received by letter.”
I'eraoual
EEKLY OPINION.
I3P The Iowa State Board of Equaliza
tionUua finished its work on the assess
ment returns of thedlfierentcounties. The
returns show a valuation of realty In the
State or 8atl7i4,43C. and of personal prop
erty, $00,000,359. Total, $314,080,705.
t2T The report of tho House Judiciary
Committee on Impeachment is now being
printed at the Government printing office
In Washington. Tho employees of tho of
fice have been sworn to secrecy.
At Connersvllle. Indian
Inst., Rev. F. C. Halliday, F
J. W. Locke were elected d
General Conference of the 31
copal Church.
Archbishop Purcell assisted
cation of St. Joseph's Catliol
Hamilton, Ohio, on Sunda;
Four trains conveyed about
persons from Cincinnati, and then
sides, at least a thousand
Dayton, to witness the ceremony,
A Marshall (Texas) paper reports the
murder of Mr*. Bon they, wife of Judge
Davis B. Bonibcy, Collector of Internal
Revenue for that district, who Is himself in
custody at Jefferson, charged with thy
murder of his late assistant, Colonel W. H.
Fowler.
In Chicago, a few days ago. Dr. Charles
Pertholdy was called on to attend a daugh
ter, eighteen years old, of G. Aurbach hhe
was eonsldsred at tho point of death, and
was speechless. The doctor, under pretense
of making a private examination, induced
all others to leave the room, when lie rav
ished the girl. She did not die. but in three
or four days recovered sufficiently to ac
quaint her father with what had happened.
The police were put upon the track of the
doctor, but he has thus far managed to elude
them.
Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in 3letn-
pldson Saturday night to resume coin
maud of his regiment.
John II. James, of Chattanooga, A i
of some local note, is lying very fl. at the
hotel on Lookout Mountain.
Gov. Browniow has appointed Tfin. II,
Williams, of Smith county. Attorney Gen
eral of the Sixth .Judicial Circuit.
Frederick Hobbs, a young man doing
business in Boston, who has failed twice
before, nnd who is one oftheMilnlriglights
ill society at Charlestown, where he resides,
has been detected in forgeries to the
amount of $20,000.
Jacob Woll and his wife, Magdalena Wolh
committed suicide on Thursduy, at East
Liberty, five miles from Pittsburg, by tak
ing arsenic.
Gossips say that the object of tho royal
meeting at Salzburg was to arrange a mar
riage betwee.i the Prince Imperial and the
Princess Gisete, of Austria, a charming lit
tle inlss of eleven years—in fact, a perfect
little pearl of a Princess, a sort of good
fairy to all around her, and lull of simplic
ity and tenderness.
John B. Gough Is to receive 812.000 for
ipeakiugoti temperance in Chicago during
the coming winter.
Beautiful Sentiment.—In the new piny,
Under the Gaslight.” now 1 in such high
favor, the heroine gives utterance to the
following: Courtship is the text from
which the whole solemn sermon of mar
ried life takes its theme. AsioVcrs aredls-
contented and unhappy so will they he as
wives and husbands. So us you would bo
happy all the years of your life, listen to
the voice advising you: Let the woman
you look upon be wise or vain, heautifiil
or homely, rich or poor, she has hut one
thing which she can really give or refttse—
her heart! Her beauty, her wit, her ac
complishments she may sell to you—but
her love is the treasure without money and
without price! She only asks in return that
when you look upon lie
speak a mute devotion, that when you ad
dress her your voice shall he gentle,loving
and kiqd. Tlmt you shall not degpisc her
because siie cannot understand all at onc<
your vigorous thought.* and ambitious de
signs— for when misfortune and evil have
defeated your greatest purposes, her love
remains to console you 1 You look to the
trees for strength and .grandeur—do not
despise flowers because their fragra
all they have to give. Remember, love Is
all a woman has to give—hut It is the only
earthly thing that God permits us to carry
beyond the grave.
Projected Railroads.—Tho St. Louis
people aro striving to extend railroad com
munication from St. Louis tip the Missou-*
rl to Council Bluffs, to reach the trade of
Western Iowa, Nebraska and Dakota, and
the effort soeniB likely to be successful,
road is also to be built from Macon, on the
North Missouri Railroad, to the mouth of
the Des Moines River, In.tho northwestern
part of Missouri. There It will connect
with the Iowa railroads, and with those of
Illinois, by means of the road which ter
minates at Warsaw, on the opposite side of
the Mississippi. Part of the proposed road
lias been surveyed, and several hundred
hands are at work. The counties in Mis
sour! along the line hqvo subscribed very
liberally In aid of the road,
City Finance.—The Chattanooga Union
calls the attention of Its readers to the re
port of the Finance Committee upon the
Metropolitan Police, and says if the State
legislature has any compassion at all upon
us it ought at once to repeal the law estab
lishing this force. It is utterly impossible
for us to pay $13,000 for a police which, by
the roport of Its chief, Is proved to be en
tirely unnecessary, making hardly two ar
rests per day, and each arrest cdsttug the
tax payers $10.
Right lUv. Bisttot* McGill.—This em
inent prelate, says the Richmond Dispatch,
who tins been absent fbr several month* on
s vlk|t to Romo and other portions of Eu
rope, returned to Richipppd last Frida}*,
the 15th instant. We are pleased to hear
that tho Bishop lias enjoyed uninterrupted
gopd health, nnd Is looking at this time
rcmatkablywe^.
C$rFrom the manner in which the In
telligencer is exercising Itself over Messrs.
"Markham,Farrovf, Gaskill nnd Dunning,”
tlio public Will be led to believe that Col.
wjiltaker regards them as the piost able
and efficient advocates of Reconstruction
In the State. IVc do not know that the
compliment is intentional, .but such U,the
interpretation of the public.
Charleston News docs not ex
pect the President’s amnesty Will operate
tb enfranchise persons cut off from regis
tration by the Reconstruction Laws. r
Across (lie Sierra Nevada*.
The great tunnel of the Central Pacific
Railroad at the summit of the Sierra Ne
vada Range Is opened. The track Is being
laid on the Eastern slope, a locomotive Is
already running In the Truckee valley,
and iu u few days the road will have reach
ed theopen country of the Salt Lake Basin,
’after which progress will be rapid and easy.
This overcomes the only noticeable obsta
cles on the Western portion of-the through
line; and its significance is understood
when we are told that the cost and diffi
culty of grading the 150 miles now nearly
completed, Is greater than for the 020 miles
next fallowing. The Chief Engineer* ex
pects to average a mile a day across the In
terior valley next year. The local traffic
oil the completed portion surpasses ail pre
vious estimate, and is lucrative without
the immense through business which we
may expect to flow over it.
In accordance with the Act of Congress,
tlie Central Pacific Railroad Company re-
a largo Government subsidy, and aro
is-ulngtlieir First Mortgage Bonds.to a
limited amount. The merits nnd advan
tages of these securities as un Investment
are fully set forth In their advertisement in
•titer column.
*3118 Working People. — TJie trades
unions of Cincinnati hnvo nominated a
candidate for Congress in opposition to the
regular party nominees. The platform
these trades unions have adopted favors the
repeal of the law establishing the national
banks; advocates the payment bonds in
legal tenders, and not in coin \ says the
public lands should be appropriated to ac
tual settlers, nnd supports tho eight-hour
labor system.
Egr The New York Post says: " The
hii-ge insurance and brokerage agency of
J. F. Dobson & Co„ of Boston, which has
branches in New York and Chicago, has
suspended payment. Their liabilities'are
said to bo $200,(KK). nnd uiahv insurance
companies pf New York, for whom they
acted as agents in other pinch*, are suffer-
TJII-J STATE ELECTION OUDEB.
IliuixiiTAJiTJtKa, Thikd Military Dibtbict.i
vUeorglu, AU«ttum and Florida;) >
Atlanta, (in., Wuyteraber 1'J, 18G7.»
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 69.
I. —Whereas, By tho terms of an Act of
Congr^s,entitled, "An Act to provide for
the more efficient government of the rebel
Whites,” passed Marcli 2d, 1867, and the Acts
supplementary thereto, it is made the duty
of the Commanding General of this Mili
tary District, to cause a registration to he
made of tho male citizens of the State of
Georgia, twenty-one years of age and ui*-
warai, and by the terms of said Acts quali
fied to vote, and after such registration is
complete to order an election to be held, at
which rite registered voters of said State,
shall voro for or against a Convention for
the purpose of establishing a Conftitution
and civil government for said State, loyal
to tho Union, and for delegates to suld
Convention; and to give at least thirty
days notice of the time and place ut which
the election shall he held; and tiiesaid
registration having been made in the State
Of Georgia, It is ordered:
II. —Inat au election lie held In the State
of Georgia, commencing on Tuesday, the
26th day of October, 1807, and continuing
three days, at which the registered voters
of said State may vote "for a convention,”
or "against a convention,” and for dele
gates to constitute the convention, In
case a majority of tho votes given on that
question shall be for a convention, and in
case a majority of all such registered
voters shall have voted on the quesilou of
holding such convention.
• III.—It shall be the duty ot hoards of
registration in Georglu, commencing four
teen days prior to the election herein
ordered, and giving reasonable public
notice of the time and place thereof, to
revise for a period ot live days the regis
tration lists, nnd upon being satisfied that
any person not entitled thereto has been
registered, to strike the name of such per
son from the list, and «ucb person shall not
he allowed to vote. The hoards of regis
tration shall also, during the same period,
add to such registry the names of all per
son* who at that time (Misses* the qualifi
cations required by said Act, who have not
lieeh already registered.
IV.—In deciding who are to he stricken
from or added to the registration lists, ihu
Boards will be guided by the law unU.thc
Acts supplementary thereto; and their at
tention is especially drawn to the supple
mentary Act dated July 16th, 1*6..
Vi—Tiie said election shall be held in
each county at the County Seat, under the
uperlntcndence of the Boards of ltegis-
ers by tho failure.” t tration ns provided by law, and in
; unco with instructions to be hereafter ls-
. HP Numerous suits are. to he brought to said Boards,
before the Courts in the District of Colum * J l1< ^ e811
bin. to test the constitutionality of the
Confiscation Act; Eminent counsel lihve
been .retained to try the issue, including
Caleb Cushing, it is said. •
Registration and Elections. — A
WashingtonTetter to the New York Times,
under date September15th, says:
The anticipations expressed some days
since, that the President would order the
reopening of the registration and the post
ponement of the elections, are about to be i SSSSTmE!
muallyloicpU 1 ™ “SkT 1 ^ ' meb ***"“'
dges and Clerk* employed in
Conducting said election, shall before com
mencing* to holdthe same be sworn to the
faithful performance of their duties, and
shall also take an.it subscribe to .the oath of
office prescribed by law Tor officers of the
United States.
VII.—The polls shall be opened at each
voting place during the days specified, at
seven oclcnk In tile forenoon, and closed at
six o’cloejt In thd afternoon, and shall l»e
kept open between those hours without i»-
tennis: ion or adjournment.
Vill.—Commanding officer of the
District oli Georgia, will issue, through the
spired by the Preslnent himself are to he
relied upon. He will evade tho Congres
sional prohibition against his interference,
by couching his order in the shape of a
suggestion or recommendation, which will
Ik; put In official form. This, he hopes, wMU
accomplish with the district commanders
what a positive official order, involving a
direct con diet, would not. An Executive
suggestion, with a little of the odor of
Commander-in-Cliief aboiu> it. he hope*
will induce the district coimnnnder* to do
what he desires, on their own responsibili
ty. it isaltogher likely that it will fail of
ffccUas the law requires registration to
lose by the 1st of October. Tho stattment
that the purposes of the President, as above
indicated, meet with the concurrence of
Gen. Grant, is unmitigated falsimod. Tho
matter lias not been submitted td him. and
ids
statement that snen
not be approved.
interference would
A Modern Jonah.—James P. Browniow
thus describes an incident which occurred
on hoard a vessel hound from New York
to California:
One lady spiritualist, who had lost a
friend on hoard by death, came to mo in a
most beseeching manner, her eyes filled
with tears, and said the ship could be sav
ed—that she had communication from the
spirit-world that there was a Jonfth on
board, and It was necessary to throw him
overboard to save the vessel. I asked who
the person could be? She replied. - You,
Captain Browniow.” Said I, "My good
woman, there must be some mistake about
this matter. The spirits have got the wrong
sick at the stomach by sporting with sucl
characters.” Sho immediately vamoosed,
with the opinion that my training had not
been Very good.
Mr. Fessenden and Impeachment,—A
gentleman in Washington has received a
letter from 8cnator Fessenden In which
occurs the following passage In relation to
the report recently published, that ho had
expressed himself in favor of impeach
ment;
"I have written no letter nnd expressed
no opinion on the subject of impeachment.
It will bo time enough for me to express
an opinion on that subject when the cose
conics before me. You are nt porleet lib
erty to contradict that report, m I do not
like to he considered as giving the lie to
all 1 have said in the Henhto with regard to
my duties Mra Senator in such a case J*
Wilkes Booth's Trunk.—Says a Wash
ington correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun: 1
His (Wilkes Booth’s) brother, hearing for
the first time, in Baltimore, of the where-
atiotits of tho trnnk, accepted a kind offer
of a' friend to procure- It, that friend
having previously learned that It had been
for two .vents and five mbnths at the Na
tional Hotel, Washington, rtady to be de
livered dii demaud. The Government lie v-
cr took possession of It and the refusal to
permit its removal Is by orders from the
Bureau of Justice.
The Prick of corn in Florida.—A
Tailuhusseo paper of this week contains
the following item:
Within the last wreck wo have noticed an
innumerable number of wagon* on the
street loaded with fodder and that rare
sight, "old-fashioned corn in the shuck.”
Tills corn is generally tho portion of that
crop falling to tho laborers' share, and is
eagerly offered for salo. Much Of It Is
bought at one dollar per bushel, the maxi
mum price asked being one dollar and
twenty-five cents. ■ * ■ »w *
State, such detailed instructions as mnv'be
necessary to the conduct of said election
in conformity with the Acts of Congress,
and as far as may be with the laws of
Georgia.
IX. —The returns required by Jaw to lie
made of the results of said election lo the
Commanding General of this Military Dis
trict, will be rendered by the persons'ap
pointed to miiicrintend the same, through
the Commanding officer of the District of
Georgia, and in accordance with the do
tailed instructions already referred to.
X. —No Registrar, who is a candidate for
election as a delegate to the Convention,
shall serve ns a Judge of the election In
any county which he seeks to represent.
XL—All public bur rooms, saloons, and
other places for the sale of liquors at re
tail at tho several county seats, shall be
closed from six o'clock on theeveuing the
Twenty-eighth day of October, until six
o'clock on the morning of the First day of
November, 1807. And the Sheriff ot the
County shall bo held responsible for the
strict enforcement of this proliltdtiou. by
thearrestofall parties who may transgress
the same.
XII. —The Sheriff of each county is fur
ther required to lie present at the place of
voting during the whole time that the polls
are kept open, and nntll the election is
complied, and is made responsible that no
interference with the judges of election or
other inturruption of good order shall oc
cur. And any Sheriff or other civil officer
failing to perform with energy nnd good
faith the duty required of him by this
order, will upon report made by the Judges
of election he arrested and dealt with by
Military Authority.
XIII. —The foilowingextracts from Gen
eral Orders No. 20, from these Headquar
ters, are republished herewith, for the in
formation and guidance of all concerned:
, " XII.—'Violence, or threats ol violence
" or any other oppressive means to prevent
“ any person from registering his name or
" exercising his political rights are post-
" tively prohibited; and it is distinctly an-
" pounced that tio contract or agreement
••with laborers, which deprives them oi
" their wages lor any longer time than that
"actually consumed in registering or
" voting, will be permitted to he enforced
" against them in this District; nnd this
"offenceor any previously mentioned in
" this paragraph, will cause the immediate
" arrest of the offender and his trial before
" a Military Commission.”
"Xllli—The exercise of the right of
4 every duly ruiiiorized voter, uuuer the
" Into Acts of Congress, to register and vote
" is guaranteed by the Military Authorities
" of thlfc District; and hll person* whoso-
* Dver are warned against any attempt to
" interfere to prevent any man from exer-
" citing this right under any pretext what-
" over, other than objections by the usual
u legol mode.”
XIV. —The State Senatorial Districts ot
Georgia, as .established .by Btato Daws,
being found convenient divisions of the
State for the purposes of represonsntlon in
a State Convention, aro hereby adopted and
the follow ing apportionment of Uelegatot.
among said Districts, Is made in accord
ance with tho provisions of the* second
section of the Supplementary Act dated
March 23d. 1867.
To the 1st District—cpuntlcs of Chat
ham, Bryan and Effingham, eight (8} dele
gates.
To the 2d Dlitrlct—counties of Liberty,
Tatnail and iMcIntosh, two (2) delegates.
To tho 3d District—counties of Wayne.
Pierce and Appling, one 0) delegate.
To the 1th District—counties of Glynn,
Camden and Charlton, one (1) delegate.
To the fith District—counties of Coffee,
WAre und Clinch, one (1) delegate.
To the 6th Di.-triet—countie* of Echols,
Lowndes and Berrien, two (2) delegates.
To the 7th District—counties of Brooks
ttir, Mitchell and Miller, three 3d ■ dele
gates. • T * ** • ' ' .
To tho 6th District—counties of Ears.,
Calhoun am! Baker,-three (3) delegate.
To the 10th District—counties of Lee,
Dougherty and Worth, four (4) delegate*.
To the 11th District—counties of Clay,
Randolph and Terrell, four (4) delegates.
To the Pith District—counties of Stew
art. Webster and Quitman, three (3) dele
gates.
To tho 13th District—counties of Sumter,
Schley and Macon, live (5) delegates.
To the 14th District—counties of Dooly,
Wilcox and Pulaski, four (4) delegates.
To the 15th District—counties of Mont
gomery, Telfair uud Irwin, one (I) dele
gate.
To the 16th District-counties of Laur
ens, Johnson and Emauel, two (2) dele
gates.
To tiie 17th District—counties of Bul
loch* fcjcreven nnd Burke, live (5) dele
gates.
To the 18t ♦ District—counties of Rich
mond, Glasscock und Jefferson, seven (7)
delegates.
To the 19th District—counties of Talia
ferro. Warren and Greene, five (5) dele
gates.
To the 20th District—counties of Raid-
win, Hancock and Washington, six (6)
delegates.
To the 21 st District—counties of Twiggs,
Wilkinson and Jones, four (4) delegates.
To the 22d District—counties of Bibb,
Monroe and Pike, eight (8) delegates.
To the 23d District—counties of Hous
ton. Crawford and Taylor, five (5) dele
gates.
To tiie 24th District—counties of Marion,
Chattahoochee nnd Muscogee, live (6)
delegates.
To tho 25th District—counties of Harris.
Upson and Talbot, five (6) delegates.
TO the 26th District—counties of Fayette,
Spaulding and Butts, three (3) delegates.
To the 27th District—counties of New
ton, Walton and Clarke, five (fi) delegates.
To the 28th District—counties of Jasper.
Putnam and Morgan, live (ft) delegates.
To the26th District—counties ot Wilkes,
Lincoln and Columbia, five (5) delegates.
To the 30th District—counties <>t Ogle
thorpe, Madison and Elbert, four (4) dele
gates.
To the ’Slat District—counties of Hart,
Franklin and Habersham, three (3) dele
gates.
To the 32d District—counties of White,
Lumpkin and Dawson, two (2) delegates.
To the 33d District-counties of Hall,
Banks und Jackson, three (3) delegates.
To the 31th District—counties of Gwin
nett, Du Kalb and Henry, five (5) dele
gates. , . r '
To tiie 35tn District—counties of Clay
ton. Fultort and Cobb, seven (7) delegates.
To the 30th District—counties of Coweta,
Campbell and Merrlwcther, five (5) dele
gates. , i
To the 37tU District—counties of Troup,
Heard’and Carroll.-live (ft) delegates.
To the 38th Disfrict-^oUntfes of Haral
son, Polk, and Paulding* three (3) dele
gates'.
To the 30th District—ediiutic^ of Chero
kee, Milton and Forsyth.'three (3) dele
gates.
To tiie 40tb District -counties of Union,
owns and Rabun, two (2) delegates.
To the 41st pistrlct-T-counties of Fannin.
Gilmer and Pickens, two (2) delegates.
To the 42d District—counties of Bartow*.
Floyd and Chattooga, live (5) delegate*.
To the 43d District—counties of Murray,
Whitfield nnd Gordon three (3) delegates.
To the 44th District—counties of Walker.
Dude und Catoosa, two <2) delegates.
. JOHN POPE,
Brevet Major General, Commanding.
T£LEGUAl'ltIC INTELLIGENCE.
From tlic New Yoik l’rest Association.
Washington, Sept. 10.—Sir Frederick
Bruce died of throat disease in Boston this
morning at 2o’clock.
A Lieutenant who forced a woman into
a hotel in Gen. Ord's District has been
court mnrtialcd and dismissed from the ser
vice. Tiie sentence has been approved at.
Headquarters.
Gen. Hancock arrived yesterday, nnd
spent the night with Gen. Grant. It i*
stated at the War Department that his
movements are uncertain.
Buffalo. N. Y., Sept, 19.—A fire oc
curred iu this city last night, destroying
one wing of tho Wadsworth House. Loss
$20,000.
A woman Jumped from tiie fourth story
of the building.
Detroit, Mich., Sent. 19.—The tug W.
R. Muir exploded, killing six and injurlug
four persons.
New York, Sept. 10.—The Arago has
arrived. Among her passengers are Jlenry
J, Raymonfl, Park Goodwin, and Bishop
Potter, of Philadelphia.
New ORLHANs.Sept.19/—Interments from
yellow fever within the lust twenty-four
hours, endiug at six o’clock this morning,
fifty-five.
Baltimore, Sept. 10.—Several failure*
are renorted on the streets, but uono aro
verified.
Washington, Sept. 10.—The steamer
Ifearsage, licfore reported on fire at New
port, lias since been pumped out, and Is
now afloat. She is badly burned, the fire
having evidently smouldered during the
great part of her passage.
The 3Jontutm volunteers have been re
inforced with 80 men and one piece of ar
tillery.
Tho Crow Indiuns, while professing
peace, are undoubtedly committing depre
dations.
Two thousand hostile Indians surround
Fort Dodge.
They captured five of forty wagons load
ed with ammunition stores within thirty
miles of Fort Dodge, on the loth, and on
the next day attacked another train, killing
'our men and capti ' " * * *' _ “ * “
Tw o fatal cases
Omaha yesterday.
The Commissioners are at the North
Platte holding a council with two hundred
Indians, including Spotted Tull, Standing
Elk, Swift Bear, aud otliers.
Gov. Fenton, Gen. Grant and Gen. Han
cock had a prolonged Interview with the
President to-day.
The revised cotton regulations will be
mailed to tho Collectors to-morrow*. They
cover a pamphlet of sixteen pages.
Baltimore. Sept. ID.—The <Hty ratifies
the new Constitution by 10,000 majority.
Charleston, Hepteiiiber 19.—Registra
tion closed here to-day with a colored ma
jority of 1,801.
Discovery of Rock Crystal in Ar
kansas.—The Commissioner of the Land
Oflhfo has received from the Register of the
Local Land Office at Little Rock, Arkan
sas. u lieautlfUl specimen of rock crystal
sufficiently transparent fbr lenses. It\Vas
found In Washington county, in township
2, south of range 22 west, in which locali
ty it is said to exist In large quantities. It
is reported that the crystalU found follow
ing in the range of tiie mountains running
south of the base line to the Choctaw na
tion, und in section 30, township 2, south
range 27 west. Rock crystal has hereto
fore been imported from Brazil and Scot
land, it not having been discovered in tills
country. The specimen received by Com
missioner Wilson is said to be equal to any
nno(|ad. .