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FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 3.
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1 Hi. SECOND BOOK OF THE CHRON
ICLES OF GEORGIA.
Commonly Called The Book of Rufus Be
hemoth Itit .Bullock•
CIIAP. XV.
1 And it oauie to pass that after the
•mall Fry had been offered up as a sacrifice
and as escape goat and bad fled from the land
of Georgia.] bearing the sins of Foster who
was also a Blodgett, that the confusion of
the thieves demanded yet another off ring.
2. And a convenient Judge being again
found, another one of the thieves was ar
rested, and brought before the Judge to be
a propitiation for the roguery of the thiev
ing party.
3. And it came to pass that the Judge
put ou a look and manner of stern justice,
and he heard tlieclammoring of the thieves
against their fellow thief with a mock dig
nity.
4. And after he had heard the elamuior-
tng of the thieves, he dismissed the victim,
Saying, “Go thy way in peace, I can find
no guile in thee.”
5. And one after another of the rogues
and thieves were arrested and brought be
fore the Judge, and after a semblance of
justice were pronounced guiltless as suck
ling babes, and dismissed to go their ways
rejoicing.
6. And after all the principle rogues and
thieves had been white-washed by the
Judge, and theirrogaery sanctified by the
semblance of law, that a messenger was
sent privately unto Rufus Behemoth, the
Bullock, the king, who yet abode in his
secret place in the land of Calafornia.
7. And when the messenger reached the
place where Rufus Behemoth, the Bullock,
the king did abide in the land of Calafor
nia,and went into the presence of the king,
he found the king heavily oppressed with
fears, for the king dreaded to receive tid
ings from the land of Georgia.
8. And at the sight of the messenger the
countenance of the king paled with dread,
and he opened his mouth with trembling
9 And the king spake and said, ‘ Is it
peace you bring?”
10. And the messenger answered the
king and said. ‘ It is peace”
11. And the king spake again saying,
‘‘How goes it with my brethren in iniq
uity?”
12. And the messenger answered, ?and
paid, “It is well with them. Foster who is
also a blodgett hath been washed as white
as snow. Farrow hath also been made
clean as wool. Harris is also as slick as
grease can make him.”
13. Then was the countenance of the
king made bright, and he spread out his
lips and sni'Ied.
14. And the king arose up from his se
cret place and returned unto the land of
Georgia.
15. And it came to pass that when the
people of the land of Georgia heard that
R'tfus Behemoth the Bullock, the king,
had returned, that they were sorely troub
led thereat.
16. But the fools and thieves were great
ly rejoiced, for they wantel the counte
nance of the king to comfort their guilty
souls.
17. But the glory of the king was of
hut short duration, for’ had not the king
but a month before opened his lips and
prophesied, si'c transit gloria fungi.
18. And the time wasdrawingnigh when
the power of the fools and thieves of the
land of Geotgia was to depart.
19. And the offices of the lools and
thieves of the General Assembly was to be
vacated, and the places filled by good and
true men choseu by the honest people of
the land of Georgia.
20. And when the king heard again the
murmurs of the people of the land of Geor
gia, and reflected upon the number and in
iquity of his offencer his heart failed him
again.
21. And he privily summoned into his
presence a few of his most intimate rogues
that he might consult with themwhat was
best to be done.
22. And the king’s chief servant and his
intimate rogues went into the presenco of
the king, and did condole and consult with
the king.
23. And they counseled the king to
again seek safety from the wrath to come
by flight.
24. But first they besought the king to
do all the evil that he could by appointing
bis ebiefest rogue to be the king in his
stead.
25- For said tley, “The people of the
land of Georgia have not yet been suffi
ciently oppressed, we have stolen all their
substance, now let us visit them with our
wrath.
26. And this counsel pleased the mind of
Iho king, for the king was as malicious in
his heart as he was avaricious in Eonl.
27. And it came to pass that the king
hearkened unto the counsel of his chief
rogues, and so he gathered up his old car
pet bag and family, and fled from the land
of Georgia.
28. And after a few days had passed and
the king had reached a safe refuge, then
did his rogues whom he had counseled with
meet privily and anoint one of their num-
her to be king in his stead.
29. And when they had anointed a king
lobe king over the people of the land of
Georgia, in the Btead of Rufus Behemoth
the Bulloek, then did they proolaim the
flight of the Bullock and the anointing of
the new king.
30. And the new king whom the fools
and thieves anointed to be king over the
people of the land of Georgia,was the chief
of the defunct General Assembly.
31. And bis name was Benjamin, and
he was likewise a Conley.
32. And he was a shoemaker by trade,
but while he tinkered thesolesof other men
he had no soul of his own.
33. And the reign of Rufus Behemoth,
the Bullock, was short, but full of roguery-
34; And the reign of Benjamin will be
likewise.
Rbnt Paid on State Road.—On last Tues-
i • » *r> - .1:—
Edit-rial Correspondence.]
Atlanta, Oct. 25th:
The usually pleasant run from Rome to
Atlanta, was rendered still more pleasant,
ty the genial companionship of Mr. Henry
Coitou, the accomplished and excellent cor
respondent of the New York Tribune.
Mr. Oidtou is on liis Southern fall circuit,
and was going to the Macon Fair. He is
a capital correspondent, observing every
thing with a “critic’s eye” and jotting it
down with a graphic power, and purity of
language and style that makes it not only
valuable, but pleasant and interesting.
He had been down in Alabama, among
the coal and iron’beds, and was astonished
at the magnitude and richness of their de
posits.
He read Gen. Blair’s Speech, with in
terest, and to a remark that I made, “that
it would be a surprising drift of events if
the Courier was to hoist the name of Hor
ace Grecly as the consevation, anti-Grant
cindidate for President,” he replied, “that
it would save the country from the ruin
into which Grant is plunging it!” I quite
agree with him.
He saw no Ku-Klux in his Alabama and
North Georgia peregrination.
The quiet which usually Fuccecds a
great excitement, as the calm follows the
storm, has fallen upon Atlanta, and to this
is to be added the absence of a great many
of its busiest citizens in attendance on
the Macon Fair; making the city, since
their Fair last week, as dull and quiet as
any city possible could be.
The unexpected and unfortunate decline
in cotton has cast a shade of dullness,
amounting almost to stagnation over the
Commercial world, while the rumored fail
ure of H. I. Kimball, and the Bullock
complications therewith, has unsettled the
Financial.
Various conjectures are enunciated, rel
ative to Bullock’s movements and designs,
the most probable of which is that Kimball
with the cognizance and approval of Bul
lock, has hypothecated a large amount of
illegally signed, and issued bonds, and hav
ing failed in his efforts to raise money with
which to redeem them, an exposure of the
illegal transaction is imminent, to avoid
which Bullock has, much to the surprise
of his most intimate friends, left the city
and State, after first by proclamation, seized
the Brunswick & Albany Railroad, and by
implication, repudiated the bonds.
Bullock’s action in seizing the road, is
clearly illegal, as the act authorising the
endorsement cf the bonds, provided for the
seizure of the road only upon the failure of
the road to pay any installment of interest
thereon.
The road has made no such failure, and
there is no such installment now due and
unpaid, consequently he has ro right to an
ticipate a failure.
Coupled with hisJVPioclatnalion takiq
possession of the road, is a notice to the
holders of bonds, that proof will be de
manded, of the purposes to which the
money realized upon the sale of each bond
was applied before the bond will be consid
ered valid, and unless it was applied to the
legitimate uses of the road, the bond would
be repudiated.
Here again the Bullock is overstepin;
his authority, as the act authorized the
issue of so many bonds to each mile of
road complete, and it mattered not to what
purposes the bonds were applied. If the
toad was entitled to the issue, it was enti
tled to the free use of it, but if the road
was not completed, each consecutive section
according to law, it was not entitled to the
issue, and Bullock was derelict in duty to
make it. This Bullock knows an illegal and
over issue of bonds has been made, and
Bullock’s object is to so depreciate the
bonds by a threat of repudiation as to ena
ble him and his co-exploiters to buy them
up, and thus escape the miserable conse
quences that will follow an exposure.
Should he succeed in this nefarious de
sign, we may possibly see him back again,
but in the event of a failure we may lift np
our hearts in thanksgiving and praise, that
the most consumatc scoundrel that ever
disgraced the gubanatorial chair, has releiv-
ed the State of his presence forever.
The Ku-Klux-Klan is still holding its
inquisition in the United States Court
rooms. It is a pitable and disgusting sight
to sec its outer courts. Its halls an 1 ante
rooms are crowded with a motly mass of
wretches and vagabonds and negroes—old
and young—"big and little—male and fe
male. The stench arising from their filthy
carcasses, is possitively revolting and sick
ening, while the moral stench that goes up
to heaven from their guilty and perjured
hearts, is enough to damn our land with the
fate of Sodom and Gomorrah.
I have uot yet been edmitted to the in
ner den, but have seen and heard enough
from the wretches who are waiting without
to almost disgust me with human kind. A
more ignorant and scurvy set of vagabonds
was never before congregated. One partic
ularly bright sovereign, a “truly loil” from
Jackson county, was very bitter against
his neighbors, and affecting the sanctimony
of Beast Butler weepiog over the memory
of his father, he deplored it a« a God-for
saken county. A gentleman evidently im
pressed with the loilty and charity of the
man, quietly asked him if knew the first
commandment.
The ‘loil’ saint hesitated a moment and
then replied that he had so many and much
more weighty things upon his mind, that
he did not know what it was! The gen
tleman then told him what the first com
mandment was, and added, “the second is
like unto it, ‘Love thy Neighbor as thy
self.’ ”
And it is upon the evidence and prejudi
ces of such a wretch as this onr State is to
be judged.
The members of the Klan have been
pointed out to me, Horace Maynard is
the Grand Mogul of the den. He is a
slender wiry framed man, with a cold heart
less eye, and if the countenance docs not
belie him is a man of harsh and bitter
prejudices. He is originally from Yankee-
dom, but settled long years ago in Tennes
see, where he commenced life as a peda
gogue, but finding the tricks of a dema
gogue mote congenial to his soul and fitted
to his mind, he adopted that. role, and has
ever since been a curse to the land.
Schofield one of bis Republican confer-
rees is a different looking man altogether.
His face is kindly and pleasant, and pne
feels in looking at him, that be was in the
presence, if not of a friend, at least no
very bitter enemy.
Mr. Lansing the other Republican mem
ber of the Klan, is also a kindly looking
man, but both are completely under the
influence of Maynard.
Senator Bayard, of Delaware is one of
the Democratic members. He hasa youth
ful appearance, a goodcouutancncc,.rather
small of stature,but an atl lete in intellect.
D. W. Voorhees of Indiana, the other
Democratic member, is the finest looking
man of them all.
I remember years ago reading the great
speech he delivered in defeuce ol the young
man Cook, who was concerned in the John
Brown raid,and the impressions then made
upon my mind were pleasant and grateful.
No man whe could utter such noble words
could be other than a good man ; a glance
in his face confirmed that grateful opinion,
and I wanted to reach out my hand and
call him friend. And he is onr friend, and
ourcountiy’s friend—would to God we had
more such as he.
The figure at the top of this page ad
monishes me that I have written enough,
but I cannot close without one paragraph
about the H. I. Kimball House. To write
of Atlanta without speaking of the Kimball
House, would be like playing Hamlet with
Hamlet left out.
In a few words it is the clicif attraction
of this very attractive city. In point of
architecture it stands unrivaled in the
South; an imposing strnctnre outside, with
its interior designs perfect and complete
The magnificent court, with its ample space
its c'asic pillars, brilliant chandeliers, and
crowded with bright and beautiful ladies,
presents a scene grand and pleasing.
Its rooms arc furnished in the most c-lc
gant style, and its fare is sumptuous.
The only drawback there is to my unqualified
estimation, is the exalted position to which
I have been assigned. I have been elevat
ed to the fourth story, and am now en-
sconsed in the Northeast corner, where the
continuous dread of fire keeps me awake
half the night. However as they send me
up in an elevator and I can slide down
astride the banisters it is not so much mat
ter how high I am.
Several gentlemen are working very asid-
nously fqr the United -States Senate, and
every stragling member that chances to
appear is buttonholed tn his most ambi
tious satisfaction.
S.
[Communicated-
Mr Editor:
I do not know that you care tohe troubled
with individual interests, or individual com
plaints, but I wish to say a word in behalf of
those who are compelled daily or weekly to
visit Rome by the Summerville Rond.
IVc have felt greatly encouraged by the
efforts made to make the creeks on the road
passable, and thought that our worthy Ordi
nary had determined we should have a safe
and sure passage to and from Rome. We
thank him sincerely for what be has done,
but we must express the hope that ho will
not now suffer the good work to stop before
it is finished.
The embankment recently made at the
first Dry creek is now complete, but is impas
sable, indeed it is worse than it was before,
unless it is covered with stone or Mc’Ada-
mized in some manner, when the winter
rains set in we will certainly have to try the
old ford again. - It will take, wo arc inform
ed five or six hundred dollars to perfect the
work. We are further informed that one
man proposes to give one hundred dollors to
wards raising the sum. While we approve
and commend his liberality, we cannot see
the justice of making individuals pay for a
public road.
If the work ought to be done the County
ought to do.it. I do not think there is a good
citizen in the County who would object to his
small part of the tax for such a purpose. The
truth is our people arc not so picayunish as
some unkind persons think. I have never
known the people to complain of any tax
that was expended upon roads or bridges.
I do hope that our Ordinary will take this
responsibility upon himself fearlessly, and
have the work done before the winter rains
set in.
SUXVERVILLE.
We have had an interview with Mr.
W. G. Foster, our efficient Deputy Sheriff,
and he assures us that an injustice has
been doue him by onr community upon the
action of parties who were before the Unit
ed States Grand Jury, relative to the
charges against the Livingston rioters.
Mr. Foster states that he was not actuated
by any hope of Bullocks reward in bring
ing the matter before the Grand Jury of
Floyd, but simply by the honest effort to
correct an evil that was working a great
harm to an otherwise peaceable community.
His presence before the United States
Grand Jury was not of his own volition, as
he appeard before it in obedience to a le
gal summons which he could not disobey.
We based onr strictures upon the state
ment of parties whom wo considered re
liable, that the presentment was made at
the instance of another party with an
eyesight to the large reward Bullock had
offered ior the offenders, as was evidenced
by the sworn statement that Mr. Penny
was to receive the sum of two hundred and
forty dollars for his evidence.
We are glad to bo able to place Mr.
Foster right before the public, and no
one will go farther than we to sustain him in
an honest effort to uphold and enforce the
law. God knows, we want no division
among ourselves. We shall need the Ira-
ternal co-oparation of every man to resist
the terrible misfortunes that so imminently
threaten our people. It is hardly necessa
ry for us to state that no reference was
had to our excellent Sheriff J. H. Lump
kin in our article last week.
The New Governor “Conley.”
Fourth Paragraph, Fourth Article
of the Constitution of Georgia, is as
Follows :—“In case of tho death, resig
nation or disibility of the Governor, the
President of the Senate shall exercise the
Executive powers of the Government nntil
such disability be removed, or a successor
is elected and qualified. *****
The General Assembly shall have pow
er to provide by law, for filling unexpired
terms by a special election.”
Is Mr. Conloy Governor? A id if so how
long will he be Governor? If it is the
President of the Senate, who shall exercise
the Executive powers of the Government,
can he do so after his Presidency ^expires?
It so how long will it take the General
Assembly to provide for a special election ?
One thing is certain, we will have a
Governor of onr own choosing before veiy
many days.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
All reports from South Carolina concur
in representing the reign ofterror complete
and nio-t pitiable. Hundreds ot citizens
are fleeing from their homes, and their
families, leaving their wives and lilile
ones at the mercy of the out-laws and
robbers that will be sure to spring up in
the shadow of martial' law. Many are
hiding in the wcods, while others are being
arsted by scores and pluugcd in the al
ready crowded jails.
The crops are neglected in the fields,
and property is being plundered ancTrob
ed by ‘.he negroes and bad men.
The wildest confusion and anarchy pre
vails, and it is creditably reported that a
collision between the soldiers and citizens
has occurred, in which five soldiers were
tilled.
The responsibility of all this anarchy,
rests upon President Grant. In the time
of death, and the hour of judgement, the
murder of these five soldiers, will cling to
his perjured soul, and the cry of all these
women and children left unprotected, and
ontraged will rise np against him. And
it may not be until then, that the hour uf
rettributive justice will bedefered. The
spark kindled so wantonly by him, and his
minions in South Carolina may burst into a
flame that will over spread the nation, aod
pnrge it with distraction. The rod of
Nemesis may already be raised, and the
hours of his triumph already numbered.
The patience of onr people, we mean the
American people is Borely tried, and free
men cannot much longer endnre the ty
rant’s sway. Tho Northern press'is crying
oat against it, and Northern men are stand
ing shocked at the outrage. Wo most ex
ercise patience and fortitude, enduro as
long as wc possibly can the oppression,
and trust, that in a short while, an ontbnrst
cf indignation will ariso at the North,
whicl? will seal the tyrant’s doom.
The followiog exceipts from South Caro
lina papers shows the indignities to
which the people are subjected:
THE REIGN OF TERROR—SHAMEFUL CON
DUCT OF THE FEDERAL OFFICERS.
[From the Camden Journal.]
In Spartanburg we are informed that
the jail is so fall of so-called Ku-K!ux
that many are camped outside under guard.
In York wo are told that all the roads lead
ing to the court house are picketed by
soldiers, aDd any one attempting to pass
either way is arrested, and in many in
stances thrown into jail, and that in one
case where a party had gone to make an
arrest at night they intruded upon the
privacy of young ladies’ chambers, and
palled the covering from their bodies, pre
tending to search for their victim. We
are further informed that many persons
are leaving their homes in order to avoid
these arrests, not that they feel themselves
guilty, but because they may be arrested
npon mere suspicion or idle accusation* and
put to great trouble and expense to pro
cure bail, and perhaps by perjury be con
victed of the crime alleged, and sect to
the penitentiary, all of which is not only
possihle, but very probable.
THE COIL OF THE EMPIRE—LET THE PEO
PLE BE PRUDENT AND HOPEFUL.
[From the Columbia Phoenix.]
That the cause ol law and order should
be maintained in South Carolina is right;
bat it does not follow that to effect this
the severe measure of martial law should
have been resorted to. Against this, how
ever impotent it may be, wc raise an indij
nact protest The grounds upon which
the President predicates his declaration do
not, in point of fact, exist, and his edict is
but the exercise of the despotic power that
he derives from a partisan Congress.
Great is the provocation, and greet is the
desire of onr foes that disturbances may
occur.
We say to our people, be prndent—be
firm —he true —be discreet. We are pow
erless now, and must yield to power. But
be of good cheer. This state of things
cannot last. As “the coil of the empire”
draws closer and closer around ontraged
communities and so-called States, wider and
wider, we think, will open the eyes of the
North. Throughout the North there are
thcosand3 and thousands of gallant men
that are knit to us of the South in closest
bonds. The reaction, then, must come.
Courage, faith, endurance, hope—these are
the qualities that OBr citizens arc called
upon to illustrate.
BE PATIENT AND PRUDENT.
[From the Winnsboro' News.]
In view of the great provocations and
of the manifest design of this procedure,
we would counsel onr people to the exer
cise of a greater patience and prudence
than we have yet been called upon to ox-
hibit. Resistance to such oppression, as
natural as it might be, would best subserve
the interests of those who inangnraled this
condition of things. Emboldened by a
resistance upon which the whole power of
the General Govcromeat would be brought
to bear, with what fiendish glee would they
press on to spoliation of our property, the
insult of our families, and the final confis
cation of our lands? To onr people, then,
we repeat, “be patient,” even though by
cruel and tyrannical measures we be torn
from our families and throwD into the
common jail.
Keeping Sweet Potatoes.—I notice
K., in your journal of February 23, wishes
to know how to keep *>wect potatoes. We
have them perfectly sound and good all the
year ronnd, and though onr way may not
succeed in a colder climate, I give it:
Dig just before heavy frost, and having
plenty of perfectly dry dirt, and making a
layer of it on top of the ground, in a pen,
house, or out cf doors, lay the potatoes on
it, (to bo very certain of not rotting, let no
two touch) and another layer of dirt, and
then one of potatoes, &c. An obtase cone
shape is best. Layers of dirt to be one or
two inches thick. After disposing of all
yoar potatoes in this way, cover them with
tho same dry dirt, then with dry straw,
fodder, or something of the kind, and pro
tect it from the rain by boards, ete. In
getting them ont for nse, use cars, and take
out enongh for several days at oace, and I
think you will succoed. I suppose the straw
covering will need to be thicker in your
country. Of course you can regulate that
to suit. The principal point is in having
the dirt dry, and keeping it so. A trench
around the pile with an ontlet is first rate.
— Country Gentleman.
Bullock Resigned, Conly Becomes
Governor of Georgia.—Tho following
dispatch was received at 5 o’clock yester
day:
Atlanta, Oct. 30th.
Bnllock has resigned, and Conly is Gov-
or. * Sawyer.
What does all that mean ? Has Bollock
became satisfied that resignation is better
than impeachment, aod henoe is trying to
flee the wrath to come? Or have the cor
ruptions of his Administration prompted
the Federal Government to interfere in
behalf of onr plundered people? There is
no doubt he has got a big scare in |some
way.
———
Sooth- Carolina is the point upon which
all eyes are now turned. The events now
transpiring within its borders ore watched
with anxious forehoadings a by the nation,for
upon their issue depends the hopes of
American freedom.
If the cloud of anarchy gathering there
is to spread over the entire land, then in
deed is the doom of Republicanism scaled,
and the tyrant’s sway fixed npon American
freedom.
It is no sensational spirit that prompts
us to fill our columns with so much that is
unpleasant and ominous, but it . is to.let
our readers know the truth. We are upon
the verge of a terrible revolution ^nd it be
hooves ns aa men and as patriots to look
the danger fairly and squarely in the face.
It is dot to fire onr Sonthera hearts »with
a just indignation that we publish the out
rages inflicted npon onr countrymen in
Sonth Carolina, bat to prepare their minds
for a simnlar visitation npon our own State.
The fate of South Carolina will be visited
upon Georgia. It is to subserve the ambi
tious purposes of a wicked man that this
enginry of oppression is put in motion
and until that purpose is accomplished no
county may claim immunity from Us oper
ations. Let ns then stndy "its workings
with a calm judgement and decide the ques
tion, how tar it may be prudent and hon
orable to submit, before the emergency is
upon ns.
The following is a Northern view ot the
matter. It has the merit of .being impar
tial, and can that far be trusted. We ’clip
from the New York Sordid-.
Newberry, S. C. Oet.24,1871.
The proclamation suspending the writ of
habeas corpus in nine counties of this State
has been a grave though I trust not fatal
blander. Since my arrival in Sonth Caro
lina I have been engaged energetically in
coming to a just conclusion of the real con
dition of affairs, and I am compelled to re
port that nothing has occurred which justi
fies the grave step taken by the President.
In this connty, Newberry, the people seem
more stnperfied than indignant, and yet it
is easy to see that behind their stnpeiaction
there is a
cared by frauds and misrepresentations to
President Grant on the part of the carpet-
baggers and scalawags, because of the gen
eral belief that without military interfer
ence the democrats will carry the State at
the next election.
FEELING OF -EXASPERATION
which may exhibit itself if the arbitrary
measures instituted in Union, Spartanburg
and other counties are carried ont in this.
'.i hat there bare been troubles in this sec
tion of the State is unquestionably true,
bnt I am inclined to believe that they have
been more of a social than of a political
character. Upoa the incompetency and
dishonesty of the State officials most be
charged many of the alleged outrages per
petrated by theKu Klnx. It is a fact that
in this connty there have been more white
men mnrdered Oy negroes since the war
ended than negroes by white men, and yet
only in the cases of Lemuel Lane and Sam
uel Dnnwoody has ever partial punishment
been inflicted npon the murderers. I am
assared by some of the most prominent cit
izens here that where a negro criminal be
longed to the Union Leagne it was almost
impossible to convict, and, although this is
denied by radicals, the evidence of the ac
quittal of the most
NOTORIOUS NEGRO SCOUNDRELS
in the Sonth" by prejudice! negro juries
stands on the records of the courts for the
examination of all. It is easy to see what
made the Kn Klux possible when it is
known that murders, outrages npon women,
barn and house burning have been of com
mon occnrrence, while but afew ofthe per
petrators have been punished; and yet it
is admitted by the Republican officials here
that there is no opposition to the enforce
ment of the laws. I asked the military
commandant of this place if any case had
coma to his knowledge of the United States
Marshal being resisted, and he replied in
the negative. I farther inquired if there
was any organization, secret or otherwise,
in the connty inimical to the government,
and he admitted that he knew of none.
The Radical Connty Auditor, who told me
that there had been a great many distur
bances, confessed that he conld not give
me the particulars of any single one which
has occurred since November last, and he
also admitted that there was no opposition
to the enforcement of the laws of the State.
I have conversed with persons cf all parties,
whites and blacks, and I cannot discover
any evidence that the slightest resistance
has ever been made to the State or federal
officials. This is the troth—the solemn,
honest troth. A great deal is said by the
radicals about what the whites wonld like to
do, but of actual overt acts they cannot
give particulars. Every rencontre between
a negro and a white man growing ont of
personal quarrels is magnified into a Kn
Klnx case. Thus far bat one arrest for Ku
Kluxism has been made in tho connty aad
that was made before the proclamation of
the President on the ex parte statement of
a negro. The accused surrendered with
out resisting the Marshal and protests his
innocence. In the upper counties of Spar
tanburg, Chester, Union and York a
PERFECT REIGN OF TERROR
exists. Bands of soldiers traverse the coun
try after dark, taking persons from their
beds at midnight and harrying them to
jail without explaining the canse of their
arrest. Nearly three hundred men have
already been arrested in this way. The
military authorities, acting, it is said, un
der the instructions of Akerman, who is at
Yorkville, refuse to permit relatives or
lawyers to sec the prisoners. Among those
arrested are some of the most prominent
citizens of the counties named, some of them
old men, incapable of acting the part alleged
against them. Hundreds of families are
moving into Georgia and North Carolina.
Business booses have been closed, planta
tions abandoned, and a general gloom pre
vails everywhere. To add to the despera
tion of tho whites the radicals have began
promulgating falsehoods The reports of
collisions betweenjthe Ku Klux and the
United States soldiers are positively untrue
as no baud of armed men has yet been met
with anywhere. How much longer I can
say this, however, is diffiealt to predict, as
all accounts agree in representing the feel-
iogin the upper counties as being very in-
tense. The worst feature of the whole af
fair is the fact that any negro can have as
many white men arrested as he desires by
simply swearing that he saw them with the
Ku Klux, and thus innocent men ire like
ly to be, if they have not already been, in
carcerated in prison. It is unquestiona
bly true that
A KU KLUX ORGANIZATION EXISTS
in upper South Carotins, but it is simply
a vigilance committee, and in nearly every
case brought to my notice its victim had
been gnilty of violation of law which the
State authorities had not punished. I re
gret to say that martial law is more likely
to increase than to lessen its numbers. A
system of denunciation similar to that of
the first French revolution is in vogue and
no man however innoceot, is safe from ar
rest. The door has been open to the
WREAKING OF PRIVATE VINaENOX
by means of peijnry, mad this accounts for
the extraordinary exodos taking place.
President Grant his been most shamefully
deceived regarding affair* here. I repeat
that in not a single county has there ever
been sny opposition to the enforcement of
the laws, nor can I find a single person who
can mention a single instance of snob ’op
position. The belief is prevalent that the
proclamation of martial law has been pro-
[For the Cornier.
Messrs. Editors:
I am do politician, never have been one,
and never expect to be one; a long life has
been devoted to industrial pursuits, attend
ing to my own affairs, and not interferring
with the affairs of others. So wbat I have
to say in this communication, may fall still
born upon the pnbiie ear.
But, let it be so or uot! A close obser
ver of passing "events, through life, has
caused me to see or at least to notice even's
transpiring, aod discuss coming events.
The times are disjointed, sadly so, Politi
cally Commercially and Socially: a change
most take place, and that shortly; first, for
the wotse, and then, for the better
General demoralization has nearly reach
ed its hight, its iofinances are scattered
broadcast over the country, its leven has
worked, and all is corruption. And as the
storm follows the calm, and the calm suc
ceeds the storm, revolution and its rcac
tion, must follow their general demoraliza
tion.
We are on the eve of a revolution !
What are the signs ofthe times Politically ?
The people are dissatisfied, distrustful
and no confidence existing. It is partly so
North, decidedly so South.
Commercially ? AH is wild, everything
is based on speculation and an inflated
cnrrency. The least contraction wonld
conse an explosion. Everything is now rest
ing on a balancing point, with an unsettled
tendency.
Say what they may, Insurance is badly
crippled, $75,000,000 will be taken from
Boston and New York, aud from the legit
imate channels of Trade, to be put in brick
and mortar in Chicago. The foreign bal
ance is against ns in gold; defalcations in
Government departments, large and
increasing, and a short crop based on high
figures, which is now impossible, shows in
what condition the Commercial aspect
stands. It is all rickety, and can only be
bolstered np temporarily, for greenbacks,
and speculation are equally as demoralized
as the politicians themselves.
Socially? All is wrong, as extravagance
rales all, and there mnst come an end of
each also. Wh»t are the hopes against
snch ?
First, Politically; a change of adminis-
tratratioo: Conservation most rale, or rain
is inevitable. Let the people select Horace
Greely as the next President of the United
States Let ns have brains and consistency
ol character, ia place of dogged perverse
ness and imbecility.
It is all nonsense to talk of Democracy
and past issues. Strive to organize an
American Constitutional party, and save
the country, and elect a President, if we
can, on that basis ; aud Horace Greely is
the most available man that can be concen
trated on.
‘Secondly, Commercially; reefs most be
taken in the sails to meet the squalls, we
are going under too much pressure,too fast
headway. It is time to cast the lead and
see what soundings are made.
Thirdly, Socially; Economy shonld be
gin ; square up; rub out and begin anew.
The extravagance of the day is all false
pretences and must prove so in the end.
These are the opinions of one who judges
things from the stand point of canse and
effect. •»
Floyd.
With a great fl urish of trumpets, it has
been announced, through the Press by tele
graph, and otherwise through the press,
that Governor Bullock, with commendable
good judgement,' bad selected the great
Banking House of Henry Clews & Co. as
the Financial Agent of Georgia—the same
House to whom had been given the Un:
New York Observer.—The year 1872
will be a jubilee year to the New York
Observer, which was established in the be-
gining of 1823. This paper is one of the
most influential in the country; and has ac
quired its influence by a rigid adherence
to, and a fearless advocacy of, sonnd prin
ciples in Cbnrch and State. It has both a
Religious and a Secular Department, kept
distinct; and although not political or par
tisan in its character, it freely expresses
and ably defends its views on matters of
publio policy. It has been for almost a
century a light in the Church aod a pillar
iu the State. It will celebrate its jubilee
by presenting to eaoh one ot its subscribers
a New Year-Book—an encyclopedia of the
most valuable information in regard to all
those matters in the Church and in eivil
life whieh every one desires to have con
stantly at hand. The book alone will be
worth a yedr’s subscription to the paper.
Send for a specimen copy of the paper.
New Subscribers will receive the paper lree
until January 1st.
Georgia Legislature.—This body assem
bled in Atlanta yesterday. We hope to re
ceive a synopsis of their proceedings, before
we go to press.
Tuesday night there was a caucus of the
Democratic members of the House, bat owing
to the absence of many/the meeting adjourn
ed to 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, when it
was expected nominations would be made for
Speaker and other officers,
Democratic Senate Caucus.—At a meet
ing of Democratic Senators last night, the
following nominations were made for officers
of that body: .
For permanent President—L. N. Tram
mell.
For President pro tem—B. B. Hinton.
For Secretary of the Senate—T. W. J-
HH1.
For Door Keeper—G. Whit Anderson,
For Messenger—A. J. Cameron.
These nominations were made unanimously.
At a late meeting of tho Good Templars
the following officers were elected for the en
suing quarter:
W. C. T., P. M. Sheibly; W. Y. T., Hiss
A. B. Armstrong; W. S., A. S. Hawkins; W.
T., J. P. Griffin; W. F.. 8. T. M. Smith
(cousin Tom); W. C., Rev. L. B.jGwaltney;
W. A. S., A. D. Harbow; W. M., J. B. Car
ver; W. D. M., Hiss Mary McDonald; W.
B. G., Mias Mary Sheibly; W. O. O., Ed
ward Elam; W. R. H. S., Miss Willie Un
derwood; W. L. H. S., Miss Clara Mills.
Trustees, R. H. King, T. Roper, and J. P.
M. Bird.
Lodge Deputy, J. T. Moan.
The Installation of these officers will take
place next Monday night. The public are
invited.
Cherokee Kail Road Work Still
Progressing.—The track laying oa the
above road is going on. The narrow guage
track is being laid between Taylorsville,
and Rook Mark and will be completed to the
latUr place probably next week. Cedar
Town is anxiously awaiting the sound of
the whistle.
Some Rascality In This.
Suites Financial Agency in London, which
by
waa so long and so satisfactorily filled
the Barings.
This statement has been made and
lieved for months. Now, the House ..
Clews & Co. deny being the Agents of the
State, as will be seen by the following
letter to Dr. Aogier, which fully explains
itself:
Bnk’g House of Henry Clews& Co.,
32 Wall Street, New York,
October 21,1871
Son N. L. Angler,State Treasurer, Atlanta,
Georgia:
Dear Sir: Your esteemed favor ofthe
7th instant was daly received, in which
yoa desire ns ‘as Financial AgeDts
Georgia in New York,’ to furnish an
count of onr transactions in the bonds
that Slate, setting forth ‘the amount and
kind issued; the amount sold or hypoth
ecated; the amennt realized by snch trans
actions, and especially the amount dis
bursed, and an itemized statement on wbat
account.*
In reply we have the honor to say that
the Fourth National Bank of New York
are the Financial Agents - of your State
here. Our firm has never held that ap
pointment.
We have submitted to Governor Bullock
an account covering onr transactions with
the State of Georgia. The same doubtless
has, or will be, laid before yon in time for
your report to the Assembly.
Yonrs, very respectfully,
Henry Clews & Co.
Dr. Angier, it will be seen, propounded
the proper questions, covering the whole
ground. He wanted the information to
lay before the Legislature. He has failed
to receive it.
It wiU be seen that Clews kept the Doc
tor’s letter on hand long enongh to com
municate with Bollock before replying.
This means something.
Bnt Clews & Co. deny that they are Fi
nancial Agents ofthe State. This we shall
show is not true:
The following is an extract of a letter
from Henry Clews & Co., to the New York
Times in the early part of this year:
The last report of the Treasurer
Georgia is actuated by violent personal hos
tilities towards the Executive, as is evinced
by the whole language of the documents.
With this hostility we have nothing to do;
bnt as Agents of *he State, in connection
with ita loans, we are in a position to know
ofthe amonnt ofthe new issue of bonds re
ferred to by the Treasurer, and finance of
the State in general. The amonnt of in
debtedness at the fcegining of 1870, was
stated by the Treasurer to be $6,014,000.
This has been increased since, only by an
additional issue of $2,000,000 gold 7 per
cent, bonds, for the sale of which we are
Agents tor the State.’
On the 30th November last, the follow
ing letter was written by Mr. H. C. Corson
Gov. Bollock’s private secretary, to G ”
Curry, Esq., Augusta, Ga:
‘I am instructed by His Excellency, the
Governor, to inform you that bonds of this
State, which have faUen due, will be paid
upon presentation to Messrs. Clews & Co.
No. 32 Wall street, New York City, prin
eipal and interest to date of payment.’
Other proof might he introduced, but
this is enough. There is rascality in the
matter.—Atlanta Sun.
Arrests bt United States Marshal.—
We are credibly informed that under the di
rection of a deputy United States Marshal,
the soldiers that passed through Rome last
Monday haTe arrested James Casey and
Thomas his son, David Lowry and Jacob
Thomas of Polk Connty; also Duncan Mon
roe and his son-in-law of Haralson Connty.
They say they expect to make other arrests
in that vicinity.
It is conjectured that true bills were found
against these parties in the Federal Court at
Atlanta. They are preparing to give bail.
A Peaciful Gathering.—It is rumored,
(says the Columbia Fhctnix,) that during
Fair week, there will be a concentration here
of ten thousand United States troops to keep
the peace. We give the rumor as we hear it,
although it is proper to say we discredit it.
If, however, the impression bas been made
npon the Government at Washington, that
such a precaution will be necessary, we deem
it proper to say, that whilst we would be
pleased—in a financial point of view—to see
the troops here, we believe that there will
not be the slightest occassion for snch a move
ment.
Gxoxcia Legislate be.—This body was or
ganized on Wednesday.
SENATE.
L. N, Trammel was elected President.
B. B. Hinton, President pro tem. T. W.
J. HiU,Secretary. C. Whit Anderson,Door
keeper. A. J. Cameron, Messenger.
HOUSE.
J, M. Smith was elected Speaker.
J. D. WaddeU, Clerk.
Capt. Scott offered resolutions declaring"
that L. N. Trammel is entitled to exercise
the duties of Governor. Resolutions not
acted on. House adjourned.
Market Reports.
New York, October 31.—Cotton
firm; soles 3,155; nplanda ISi; Orleans 19}:
floor, southern, dull and lower; common
to fair extra $7 75; choice $7 70a9 25;
whiskey 94}: corn 2a3 lower; western red
61; common Io lower 77a79; pork unchanged
lard unsettled 10i;oavals firm;tallow91a9|;
freights dull.
The sales of cotton to-day, for future
delivery, was 9,950 bales at the following
prices:
November, 18fa 18); December, 18};
January, 18|al9i; February, 19}al9},
April, 19}al9f; May, 20.
Money irregular and close at 7; sterling
8{; gold 12}al2}; governments steady at }
advance; states doll and steady.
for
WASHINGTON.
Washington, Oetobfer 31.—The sus
pension ofW. F. Forbes, pension agent,
charged with $25,000 defalcation.
A full Cabinet to-day.
General Sherman leaves Boston next week
a six months European visit. There
assurances that Col. J. G. Stokes, of
Alabama, will be appointed Counsel to Rio
Janerio.
Contracts ior Post Office Departments
engaged to-day, considering bids for un
completed contract rentes, including 1st
Virginia, 3rd Virginia, 11th North Car
olina, 2d Georgia, 4th Florida^Sud Alabama,
78th Mississippi, 2nd Arkansas, 50th Lou
isiana, 12th Texas.
There are good assurances no change
will he made in the. Custom House at Sa
vannah. Effbtv are still being made for
Colleotor Robb’s removal.
The Kn Klnx arrests are being consider-
in the Cabinet Applications for bail
were referred to the Attorney General, he
having exolnsive control.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston, October "31.—Two fever
STATE OP Gl
Departmen
I. Oct. 30,
1 have
i possession
Atlanta,
To the Son. „
the Senate:
Sir: I
cation from
his resignation
the State of G_„.
being transmitted
of Col. R. H.
the Executive
I hereby
Capitol io
—IT OP StATF- I
1,1871 2 o’clock,^ j, [
Benjamin Conk,/
i; lre *uknto/
the
lives.
at this moment, L,.. ,
t of the enclosed , °
anol the office
Georgia—said com™ ™ or ° f
-itted to me throughthe’? 110 ' 1
Atkinson, the See «
1 Department. of
, gWe you notice to tm,;
Atlanta within len daw^?' 1 '
jf and take the oath
before any Judge of the u®"
of the Superior Court;
my duty to consider ion,
—o je d, and l shall proceed ' : r T
Speaker of the House of K “ fwo
‘ Respectfully, your obedient sen 011
David G. ConoT*'
^Secretary ofSt^,
vajMtvi iu aiuui
date hereof and
Governor
or Judge
it will be
iog resigned
To whom
Be it
easons
resign
to take
, and <
One,
to the
the Senate
Executive Department
State of Georgia ’
Atlanta, October 30, IS71
z if may concern— Gredin,,. -
known that good and sufEei £el
me thereunto moving, I do
the office ol Governor of this a?*
^ «... effect oa Monday next
day of October, in the year of our Wdn'
and Eight Hundred 2D( j e
“don that day and date deliver^
Hon. Benjamin Conley, President r
— -enate, the Executive Iw f
Government, until the election aud mJa
- of a Governor iu the mode^
by Paragraph IT, Article IV
of the Constitution of this
je Secretary of the Executive" Ik
partment will enter the foregoiog of rJS
* t Executive Minutes, and pla^J
ol Building, Executive Records Dm,
', SeaI ]> and Mansion, ia the con W
- said Benjamin Conley, upon ha
taking the oath of office prescribed by Para,
graph V, Section 1, Article IV, of ih.
Constitution. Rufus B. Bullock
Governor.
cation
crifcsd
tion 1
And
the!
1 the ]
Capitol !
meats,
of
the
General Stand Wattie.—The death
of this distinguished Indian chieftain rot-s
the Cherekee nation of its greatest onu.
ment and blessing. It will be remembered
that at the outbreak of our late war the
Cherokee Indians e-poused the cause of
the South, and it was mainly due to Geo.
Stand Wattie’s position in, and inSueun
with his tribe that this result was accox.
plished. For this service, as well as ia
recognition of his great abilities and bran,
ry in the field, the Son of ti e Forest wa
made Brigadier General io the provisional
army of tne Confederate States.
But the Genera! was not distinguisbed
by his feats of arms alone. He was a ana
ofgreat intelligence and of much ability
as a ready writer. One of the most beau-
tiful tributes ever paid to the memory of
Stonewall Jackson was the proudest of his
pen. In person he was said to hare beta
short and stout, while his complexion tai
that peculiar to bis race. Like other In
dians, he was cautious, wary and reticent;
but amid the inspiring roar of battle his
countenance was lit with the glow aad ar.
dor of the born soldier. He was the half
brother of Maj. E C. Bondinot, the dis
tinguished representative of this people
iu the Confederate Congress, whom maoj
of our readers will remember. In his
death the Cherokee Nation has lost one of
its noblest sons, whose devotion to the
South merits this notice at our hands.-
Mont. Adv.
A Boston organ of the Spiritualists ao-
nounces ‘that all or very nearly all the
crowned beads in Europe are to-day believ
ers in spirit communications, although to
the Qaeen of England it has been reserved
to courageously announce herself a Spirit
ualist.’
Married, on the evening ofthe 25th,
at the Baptist Church by Rev. LB-
Gwaltney, Mr. S. Lester of Atlanta, to
Miss Sallie Findley of this city.
Oar kindliest, bLst wishes attend the
happy groom, and his fair bride. MiJ
sunny skies ever brighten their walks, and
their paths be paths of peace.
Married on the evening of the 19ti o f
ber, at the residence ef the Brides Fotta '
Rev. R. Allen, Mr. J. D. McComu, to !Ia
F. B. Pries, all of Walker Connty, Ga
Printers fee. O. K.—Much oblige
pen?
The Hiram Phillipps’ Place at
Auction, Nov. 20.
T HE above named Excellent Fs.m nMr ^
dar Town, will be sold to the
Highest Bidder, Nor. 20. J
The Ple«« contains 700 acres oil
the best land in Cedar ^ alley, ^
wi thin a mile of Cedar Town,with
Story Dwelling House, Gm House a
and ell necessary Out Buildings. ^
There is an excellent Iron Ore bat^
place. —-—
Marshal’s Sale-
W ILL bo sold in front of tb»<j»
the first Tuesday
lot of Household Goods, l l“ !,1 f’ rt . 0 f J.J.
Dresses, Ac. Levied on as the property ^ £
Dresses, Ac. Levied on as tne m 0 „
Jemmison, to smtisfy n fi
Council of Rome, vs. J.J. Jemnusoc-
iVUDCIl UI IWtuv,
NovemberDbmi- G
R
GEORGIA, Walker County. ^
N. DICKERSON,
annexed of Dowell K°g iblonvinf u it.
for leave to sell the I»d»
s of said dec’d- being 1 ^ gjeiwri
.u. No. HO in 12th District^nd ^» ~
said Connty Th«is thtfefcm firs! ngoM
sons interested to show esuse ( tiiril
- - "ourt after the exp. d|(n sl.
order should not no
plied .
estate
of lot
term of tho Court
days, why an
ing the
rhy an order should not Do ^
tne Administrator leave to sell
fovember2nd,RUfiSERO
term ot tne lionrs —
days, why a guardian should
for said orphan.
NovemberafeMgfr RpgsELIsOggU
GEORGIA
rOHN
the
exemption
la, Dade County. . nnli ettiO*
F. AMOS, having
Court of Ordinary °( ^T M ttin|
iASsfssas yjflS
*1,1871.
J. C. TAVLOR,
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
kUAAA, * "J — - tfj ft.
hereas, f. c. Stay,
and valnation
upon
day of
This
VEXSZl
» — »» i E 0 o f eloe* *• *
November, 1871, at 1°
i the same
his Oct.
within
GEORGIA, Walker Connty
j, be sold before
a the Town of L» f U on th« y ri
the legal
ran, vi c—-
lor the use of
atnttfi. sold for costa.