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|1 9i icd hi Savannah.
.t flairs in Georgia.
We have taken occasion to grace this
co i am u this morning with a few stray
ff . ms culled from the tables in the Comp
troller Generals report.
\ correspondent m Jasper county so
fax mistakes the omens of the hour as to
ask ^ vital statistics are not live figures.
\Ve refer him to any able-bodied disput
ing society.
Jud ,e Tompkins has decided that the
LeaUkof the late CoL Tunis G. Campbell
j., too feeble to allow him to take his seat
in the General Assembly.
, y r n w. Grubb, editor of the Darien
Gazette* was in town on Monday. The
fact that he was more than usually pen
sive and inquired very strenuously for a
ihv goods store, would seem to bo evi
dence that he was preparing to return to
his country seat by way of Brunswick.
Col. Smith, of the Brunswick Appeal,
is tghting the re-enactment of the usury
law with much avidity.
The Constitution says we sneer at At
lanta’s cotton factory. Well, the factory
is ignorant of it, anyhow.
When the Atlanta boys want to drive
the policemen home, they get in the al
leys and call Wiley Bedding.
There is a rumor in Atlanta that Col.
Sawver. of the Commonwealth, writes his
editorials, sets his type and mails the pa
per. besides eating three times a day and
chewing up two papers of fine-cut to
bacco.
CoL Pendieton, of the Valdosta Times,
has supplied himself with a patent inside.
Iu view of this, will he dare attend Sun
day School in this city as usual ?
There are in the State of Georgia 27,-
Got) acres of improved land, valued in
fhe aggregate at £00,511,035.
A correspondent of the Albany Central
City, writing over the signature of
Dougherty.” insinuates that editors
who oppose a usury law have a money
interest to subserve. The man is either
stupidly ignorant or absurdly malicious—
as are all men who cannot argue without
imputing unworthy motives to those who
differ with them.
The number of acres of wild and im
proved land in Georgia is 34,535,639,
valued at £98,703,789.
We regret to learn from our Eatonton
correspondent that the dwelling house of
Mr. Bobert Young was burned on Sun
day. Mr. Young is of the firm of W. T.
Young Ar Co., and is one of the most
estimable citizens of the town. His resi
dence, one of the most conveniently ar
ranged in Eatonton, was insured for
£1,500—a mere trifle compared to the
real value. All the furniture was saved.
Iu 1873, the total value of city and
town property in Georgia was £58,302,-
240. Iu 1874 the value is £57,218,248.
In lJibb the decrease amounts to £1G8,21G;
in Chatham to £1,513,80P; in Fulton to
§159,998. In Richmond the increase
amounts to £447,SOd, and in Muscogee to
§06,772.
The Atlanta editors deny that they be
long to the banditti.
Sandy Suther has been appointed town
marshal of Eatonton. Sandy has that
kind of a disposition calculated to allay
riots and keep the baddish boys quiet.
The Sheriff of Dougherty county died
last Thursday.
Borne has witnessed a triangular fight
of the old-fashioned variety*. It is true,
a pistol was produced, and a man shot
with the butt-end thereof, but no powder
was burned.
There are £3,G92,989 invested in cotton
manufactories in Georgia.
Burglars are still loafing around in
Harris county.
Borne has had a few desultory* flakes of
the beautiful snow—not by the author of
‘‘Betsy and I are Out.”
George Hays, colored, stabbed Mose
Morgan, white, fatally. George Page,
white, then shot George Hays, colored,
mortally. All of Lee county. Bo cards.
Georgia boasts of 115,330 white voters
against 84,220 colored ones.
The Middle Georgia Medical Society*
will meet in Forsyth on the 20th.
The Forsyth Advertiser, one of the very
best weekly papers in the country, has
entered its twentieth volume.
In 1>74 ibe Legislature cost the State
the neat little sum of £102,528.
The colored people of Georgia own
property* to the amount of £G,157,798—
more than the colored people and carpet
baggers of South Carolina, Florida, Ala
bama and Louisiana combined.
Mhen a Columbus man emigrates to
Texas he invariably kills somebody in
order that his friends may hear from him
through the papers. It is cheaper to
kill people out there than it is to buy
postage stamps.
Hr. Joseph W. Anthony, a prominent
citizen of Meriwether county, is dead.
Chief Justice "Wamei was a member of
the Supreme Court when it organized in
1845.
BaGrange is troubled with chicken
stealers.
Colored women in Wilkinson county
flourish the deadly* derringer.
Columbus has been buying cotton at
the rate of £10,000 a day.
1 io Xono College in Macon will be ded
icated on the 31st.
Mr. B. J. Boyd has bought the interest
of Mr. W. C. D. Roberts in the Louisville
*” < and Fcinner.
La Grange Reporter: What is to be
come of the negroes ? This is a question
yudi forces itself on the minds of the
thinking man of the South with peculiar
emphasis at this particular time. Here
tofore there has been no difficulty about
homes and employment for all the ne-
p*oes who wauted them. But matters
ave greatly changed in the last twelve
thontlis. Comparatively few white far-
hmrs will be able to obtain supplies this
.year with which to feed laborers, and
consequently the majority will be com*
lulled to do without laborers. This will
throw the negroes on their own resources,
aiu resources are—nothing. They
, iav je no provisions on which to live while
making a crop this year, and they have
m means of obtaining them. We expect
^ see considerable suffering among
1,s unfortunate class in the course of a
IcU mouths; and we expect also to see
au Manning increase of crime among
cm. Already petty larcenies have be-
°me lamentably frequent, and in almost
J. II. E STILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
every case provisions are the things
stolen. Ever since the war, as before
that time, the negroes have been entirely
dependent on the whites for their support.
The whites gave them employment, food
and shelter; but the time has come when
many of the former employers cannot
obtain food supplies for themselves, and
of course their former dependents will
have to shift for themselves. The Radi
cals have taught the negroes to hate the
Southern whites^ but the negroes will
soon find out who have been their true
friends in the past.
Rome Commercial: We were yester
day shown a silver medal which”is one
hundred and thirty-nine years old. It is
in the possession of Willie Adkins. It
was given to him by Mrs. Hazelton. of
this place, who is his grand aunt. Mrs.
Hazelton will be one hundred and one
years old next May. This coin was given
to Mrs. Hazelton by her uncle, Sir George
Frederick Walter, an English nobleman
and member of Parliament. The coin is
a little larger than a silver dollar, being
about one pennyweight heavier. On one
side of it is a figure of Queen Caroline wa
tering flowers, with the inscriptions: “Car
oline Protecting, 173G,” and “Growing
Arts Adorn Empires.” On the other side is
the figure of a helmeted man in one of
whose hands is a spear, and in the other
a sheaf of some kind of grain, with the
inscriptions, “Both Hands Filled for
Britain” and “George Reigning.” Willie
Adkins also has a gold ring over two hun
dred years old, given to him bv Mrs.
Hazelton, to whom it was given by
Thomas Wilson in 1791, he having re
ceived it from Sir George Frederick
Walter. These family heirlooms must
have a priceless value for their owners,
as about them must cluster many pleas
ant and interesting memories of other
day’s and other people.
The Army in Politics.
[From the St. Louis Republican.]
The obtrusion of the Federal army* into
the field as a new and governing power
in our politics is a fact now too well es
tablished not to be recognized. The
people may* think as they will about the
propriety of the obtrusion; they may re
gard it as violent, lawless, provocative of
revolution and dangerous; they may re
gret that they permitted it; they* may in a
stern spirit of vengeance call the daring
Executive who is the author of it to ac
count and grind him to powder in their
wrath; but they* cannot ignore the fact
that the army has become a governing
factor in our politics—rarely employ*ed,
perhaps, but called in at the critical mo
ment and then with decisive effect. Sev
eral unchallenged and unrebuked prece
dents have established this fact beyoud
dispute. The army* under Gen. Terry
was employed in 18G9 to disperse the
Georgia Legislature and install another
body which claimed to be the Leg
islature. A portion of the army*, with
artillery, was employed in 1872 by the
chairman of the Republican Central Com
mittee of Louisiana, to supervise the
proceedings of the Republican nominat
ing convention of that State, and give
the organization of it to one faction of
the party—the faction friendly to Presi
dent Grant. In the following year the
army was employed to decide who had
been elected Governor of Louisiana.
And now we have a formidable portion
of that army—a force of 1,800 men, un
der command of an officer eminent for
the ruthless vigor with which he per
forms his tasks, and for his reckless par
tisan devotion to the personal fortunes of
President Grant, interposing to determine
points of parliamentary order in the
organization of a State Legislf-
ture—to decide who are, and who
are not members thereof—to undo
the organization of it by one
party, and reorganize it so as to give con
trol of it to the other. All these acts,
committed with the approval of a par
tisan Congress, and acquiesced in by* the
people of the North, have acquired the
authority of sanctioned examples, and
unless condemned and reversed, will
serve as the Presidential warrant for still
more violent exhibitions of military force
in the future. No one can say what
limit the President recognizes. No one
can tell to-day* what he will not make the
army do to-morrow. If he has loaned
its irresistible power to his personal ad
herents and kinsmen in Louisiana, why
may he not loan it to his personal adhe
rents and kinsmen in New York ? If he
uses it to forcibly disperse Opposition
Legislatures, who will dare to gu&rauty
that he will not use it to disperse an Op
position Congress? If he has employed
the army and navy to install and main
tain a State Governor not elected by the
people, what right have we to assume
that he will not employ it to install a
President not elected by the people ? It is
no answer to these questions to say that
they are absurd. When we contemplate the
unexampled proceedings in the Louisiana
State House last Monday, and reflect that
these proceedings were the act, not of
De Trobriand, or Kellogg, or even Sheri
dan, but of President Grant; when we
recognize in this defiant answer to the
popular condemnation of his policy of
November; and when we perceive the
significant gathering around him of the
Republican leaders as if iu expectation of
some crisis that involves his fate and
theirs together, it cannot but be admit
ted that the questions are pertinent and
timely. Why w*as Sheridan sent to New
Orleans to take the place of Emory, when
Emory's authority was already implicitly
respected? Why is a more rigorous dis
play of the army power made in Louisia
na, when the merest show of it has here
tofore been invariably found sufficient ?
Why are the batteries of five war ships
trained on New Orleans? Why does
Sheridan assume to advise Congress to
declare the white inhabitants of these
States bandits, and turn them over to
him to be delt with by military process?
These things are significant end sugges
tive, if not suspicious.
We tell the people of the country that
this repeated use of the army as a politi
cal agent will end in trouble of the grav
est character. It is bringing us to a
crisis in which the issue wiil be between
a determined, unyielding President, with
the army, the navy, the treasury, all the
official machinery of government and a
strong minority party on one side, and a
passionate majority of the people, with
out official instruments of power, on the
other. Even supposing that the Southern
States shall submit peacefully to the policy
developed at New Orleans last Monday,
and make no resistance to the iron dis
cipline which Sheridan asks to subject
them to, it is certain that the Democratic
House that is to meet next December will
not submit quietly to it. That House, in
dignant at the President’s lawless conduct,
and inflamed by the piteous appeals of the
Southern whites, will fly at the throat of
the Executive, torture him with demands
for his authority for the prostitution of
the army into a gendarmerie, solemnly
condemn his acts, and, if it do not plunge
us into the harrassing excitement of an
impeachment trial, may at least attempt
to subdue its stubborn antagonist by
withholding the army and navy appro
priations, or making them conditional on
the withdrawal of the troops from the
South. With such a war ou the Presi
dent begun by the House, backed by a
popular majority in the North, and re
sponded to, all too eagerly, by the whites
of the South—and with the Presidential
election of 1871! (in which Grant may be
one of the candidates) held under this
tumult, there is no conjecturing what ex
cesses would be committed, and no tell
ing how the country would emerge from
the trial The civil war which Senator
Morton and others have predicted as the
result of a contested election held under
the electoral plan would, in spite of all
that wise and prudent men could do to
avert it, corno to give a tragic close to
the first centenary of our independence.
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
All fob Love.-A young girl named
Louise Sheinfelder, daughter of a tailor
living at West New Pork, eloped on Wed
nesday with a young man named Dun
ning, employed in a clothing store in that
city. The girl made her escape from her
parents by jumping out of a second-story
window. She broke her ankle, and was
carried off by her lovers friends. The
pair were married.
NEW YORK’S “ PATRIOTIC ” LEG
ISLATURE.
Pennsylvania Speaks W’itli No Uncer
tain Sound.
PillNCE BISMARCK AND KING AL
FONSO.
A Proclamation From Don Carlo*.
DON CARLOS.
New York, January 12.—A Ilei'iild special
from London says Don Carlos has issued a
proclamation, dated “Headquarters, Vera,
January 6,” in which he declares that, as
tlie head of the Spanish Bourbons, he con
templates with profound sorrow the attitude
ot his cOusiu, Alfonso, whose inexpe
rience has led him to consent to be the
instrument of the same persons who expell
ed him and his mother. Notwithstanding,
he makes no protest. The dignity of him
self and his army is the only protest he can
offer. Ho avers he will remain faithful to his
holy mission, and keep the flag unstained.
A PAT BIOTIC FIZZLE.
Albany, N. Y., January 12.—Gov. Tiluen
has sent a special message to the Legisla
ture, calling attention to the Louisiana af
fairs, and Senator Lord offered concurrent
resolutions condemning all persons respon
sible for tho interference with the Legisla
ture. The resolutions were laid on the table
on motion of Mr. Woodin, who said it
would be wise to await the report of the
Louisiana Investigating Committee.
BISMARCK AND 3PAIN.
London, January 12.—G a. m.—The Times
has reason to bciieve that Bismarck has
intimated to Spain that the German Gov
ernment will defer a recognition of Kiug
Alfonso until tho decree suspending two
Protestant newspapers, and closing a Pro
testant chapel in Cadiz, is repealed.
PENNSYLVANIA SPEAKS.
Harrisburg, Pa., January 12.—After a
spirited debate resolutions wero adopted
condemning the unparalleled usurpation in
Louisiana. A commitee of seven was ap
pointed to give expression to ibe sympathy
of the Legislature for the people of Louis
iana.
LOCK-OUT OF MINERS.
Hazleton, Penn., January 12.—A disa
greement ousts 20,000 miners along the
Lehigh Valley and Central Railroad.
BURNED.
Dalton, Mass., January 12.—Bristell A
Cutting’s paper mill is burned ; loss one
hundred thousand dollars.
THE VICKSBURG INVESTIGATION.
Testimony of Republican* a* to the Dis
honesty and Rascality of tlie Negro
Oflieinis and Friends of Atncs.
Vicksburg, Miss., January 7.—The
examination of Judge Speed was resumed
by the Investigating Committee to-day.
He testified that the Sheriff had authority,
under the code, to call out the entire power
of the county to quell riots, routs, .or af
frays. He said if the blacks in good faith
wouldassimilate with the whites, the latter
would divide the offices with them, if
good coloied men were selected. During
the course of his examination it was
shown that, at the last August election,
just as the vote had been counted, the
gas iu the Second Ward was turned off
and the ballot-box thrown out of the
window, but the tally-sheets were pre
served and the returns made from them.
It was from this ward that the colored
men were returned as School Trustees.
It was thought they were not elected,
but were so returned as a concession to
the blacks.
Judge A. H. Arthur testified: Had
been a member of the City Council six
teen years, and President of the Board of
Supervisors fourteen; had also been
Chancery and Circuit Clerk; had been re
tained by* the Board of Supervisors to
examine the accounts of Cardoza as Cir
cuit Clerk; Daveuport was Chancery
Clerk, and had discovered a large number
of frauds in Cardoza's case.
The record book of the court was
brought in, and the page allowances
made after the court adjourned were
shown; also others interlined in the min
utes in different words, all in Cardoza’s
handwriting, and numerous forgeries in
his returns to the Auditor of the State.
Judge Arthur produced evidence of nu
merous frauds perpetrated by Cardoza,
Dorsey aud Davenport, and told how the
books showing their guilt had been
stolen. He had preserved a list as
far as examined before the books
were purloined. Ho explained to the
committee at great length the man
ner in whirh lands were forfeited to
the State for taxes, and how* the records
of the same were kept, and how frauds
had and could have been perpetrated:
that Cardoza’s peculations as far as could
be traced by the returns of the Auditor
amounted to over £2,100, but afterwards,
when these frauds were discovered he
paid all but £1,027. Dorsey’s pecula
tions amounted to about £2,000, and
Davenport’s to over £1,000. A great
many frauds perpetrated could never be
discovered. When he examined Crosby’s
accounts as County Treasurer he found
tLem £3.800 short, which Crosby paid.
Also, that the Board of Supervisors al
lowed Crosby £700 for overhauling the
Sheriff's books to see how much the
Sheriff had paid Crosby as Treasurer;
didn't think Crosby, if indicted, could
h ive been convicted while the Sheriff and
Coroner were his friends ; all the officers
found guilty of corruption and forgery
were colored. He also testified that Da
veuport, after refusing to allow the taxpay
ers’ committee to examine his books, had
refused to allow* the Board of Supervisors
to do so. Iu regard to the relations beween
the two parties, the Judge thought the
dis*position of each was kind towards the
other, except a few wild and rabid men
on each side. He then instanced the con
duct of the blacks during the war and the
good feeling existing afterwards. He
stated that he had always been a Union
man, and voted for Grant because Grant
had been kind to tbe people of Vicksburg
when here. He denied that any colored
officials have been driven away simply
because they were negroes* - as some col
ored officials had been here ' all the time.
He thought the whole trouble with Cros
by* was an insufficient bond.
[The above is the testimony which the
Chicago Tribune, Grant’s organ, declined
to publish, and which the editor thought
ought not to have been sent over the
wires.]
The Governor of Tennessee on the
Outrage.—Nashville, Tenn., January 7.
—Governor Brown, in his message to
day, refers to Louisiana matters as fol
lows:
Permit me to express my congratula
tions that, unlike the Legislative Assem
bly* of our sister S*ate, you have been
allowed to assemble peaceably and perfect
your organization without intimidation.
No military force surrounds your capitol
or drives from their rightful seats the re
presentatives of the people. The edict
of a petty* tyrant does not here avail to
disperse the” State Legislature. Yet your
immunity from such an outrage is just
now made more conspicuous by the spec
tacle of Louisiana trampled under foot
and despoiled of her liberties. If we
may credit the reports that reach us
through the daily press, and which seem
to have the sanction of official authority,
tne power of the National Government,
through its military arm, is being used
for the subversion of the liberties of the
people of Louisiana. Possibly it is not
in your power to do more than interpose
a solemn and earnest protest against this
glaring crime. Yet, if this be all that
the representatives of so valorous a State
as Tennessee may* do, I trust that your
protest may be made with such emphasis
aud earnestness as to arrest the attention
of every patriotic citizen in this Republic,
and awaken the people everywhere to a
sense of the danger that threatens our
constitutional liberties,]
A CURIOUS LETTER FROM KEL
LOGG’S ATTORNEY.
Special Pleading on Constitutional Points
—Some More Kcconstruction (Granted.
New Orleans, La., January 8.—The
following letter was sent to the Hon.
Charles Foster, chairman of the sub
committee of Louisiana affairs:
New Orleans, La., January 8.—Dear
Sir : * It was made my duty to appear
before your committee during its ses
sions in New Orleans, as counsel for the
State organization of the Republican
party. In that capacity I have endea
vored what I could, to present the strong
est case for our side. You are also aware
that I have held, and now hold, an office
under the administration of Governor
Kellogg. In this relation I have consist
ently supported the State government
since its accession to power in 1872, and
have done whatever I could to aid in
such financial aud political reform as it
has been the policy of the government to
effect.
Consistent and conscientious in this
course, I have no regrets to express, and
no further explanation to make, but to
day, looking at the situation in Louisiana
from a higher standpoint than that in
dicated by my past relations to the gov
ernment, considering the troubled state
of affairs not as a politician but as a
citizen of the Commonwealth, I feel con
strained to offer your committee the fol
lowing suggestions: It seems to me that
Congress and the country* at large will be
unable to solve the problem presented by
the Louisiana case unless they consider
that everything that has occurred in the
State since the election of 1872 has been
revolutionary, utterly beyond due process
of law, and violations of those funda
mental rules and principles which underlie
a Republican form of government within
the purpose of the Constitution of the
United States.
Here the writer gives a historical re
sume of events in Louisiana, and holds
that everything that has occurred there
since reconstruction has been in reality
but revolution and counter revolution, in
which both parties resorted to force.
After referring at length to alleged vio
lence and intimidation by the White
League, he concludes:
Reviewing the whole affair dispassion
ately and calmly* it presents itself to me
iu this aspect: A revolution has been set
on foot by the opposition, aided by the
White League, to seize the government.
A counter revolution was the result. The
disturbance attending the attempt to
organize the General Assembly on Jan
uary 4 naturally and inevitably resulted
from the events I have detailed.
The evidence which w*as offered to
your committee establishes, I think, what
would not be denied here, that the oppo
sition, supported by the White Laague
as a military organization, had perfected
a plan for the seizure of the State gov
ernment by a bold coup rt 1 etat, but again
occurred a counter revolution, and the
coup (T etat was rudely prevented by the
timely* interference of Federal bayonets.
With this historical resume before you
I now ask you, sir, to consider with me
the inquiry, has Louisiana
a republican form of government ?
I answer, without hesitation and une
quivocally*, uo. The existing government
is not the product of an election duly
ascertained by regular process of law, but
of a revolution, or rather of a counter
revolution, set in motion to check an
other. It is not my purpose to discuss
that clause of the Constitution which
guarantees to each State a Republican
form of government, with the purpose to
define such form of government. I will
rest content with a suggestion that I have
called the attention of Congress to the
existing governments in one of the States
which is not Republican in form.
What then is the duty of Congress ?
Our position is not dissimilar to that we
occupied in 18G7. The State was then
reconstructed. Let that process be re
peated, aud, mayhap, with the experience
we have had, we can do better. We can
scarcely do worse. I care not what plan
be adopted so that we may have peace
and order, perfect fairness and equal jus
tice for all. l'our obedient servant,
Henry C. Dibble.
ULYSSES’ PROCLAMATION.
A Thrilling but Sati«factory Document—
He Declare* Certain Citizen* of the
State of liouisiana to be Banditti, and
Orders Them to be Executed.
A Planter’s View of the Cotlon Tax.
The cotton tax is discussed in a sensi
ble way by a plain * farmer of Arkansas,
who has addressed the Memphis Ava
lanche a long communication upon the
question of refunding it. The length of
the article prevents its publication, but
we subjoin the conclusion, as showing
the views of the farmer who produced it.
He says:
In our opinion the producers were the
parties who paid the taxes collected under
the acts of Congress of 18G5-GG-67, and
consequently* are alone entitled to reim
bursement; it makes no difference
whether they were landlords or tenants,
or whether they were laborers, white or
colored. In some instances the landlords
grew cotton with hired labor, aud hence
they should receive it: aDd in other in
stances landlords, tenants and laborers
were equal partners in its production,
and in such cases each class should re
ceive what they* actually paid into the
treasury. In no instance whatever did
the merchant, factor or speculator pay
the tax. When the commission mer
chant sold cotton for the planter, or
speculator purchased it from him, the
tax was invariably deducted from the
price for which it was sold. Then why
the formation of what is known as “cot
ton rings” to lobby the halls of Congress,
and among its members, beseeching and
praying them to refund the “cotton tax?”
What interest have they in the matter?
Did they pay* auy “cotton tax]” Or have
they purchased some receipts on specula
tion, and expect in the event the moneys
shall be refunded to amass or accumulate
fortunes in the operation? Or is it be
cause they feel a deep and abiding in
terest in the welfare of the poor unfor
tunate producers who wrongfully and
unjustly paid these taxes “in the sweat
of their brows’ into the coffers of the
public treasury. We fear (and hope we
shall be pardoned for the expression) that
the eagerness manifested on the part of
these combinations has had much to do
in delaying the action of Congress on
this vital question.
One more thought on this point, and
we close this already* too long communi
cation. In a discussion of this question
a few days ago with a revenue officer of
the government, and expressing regret
for the seeming indifference on the part
of Congress upon the subject, he re
marked “that the way of the transgressor
is hard.” This expression was construed
to mean that the South had rebelled
against the government, and as a punish
ment for the offense, this tax was im
posed and collected, and hence would
not be restored. If this construction be
true, then the act was passed through
malevolence, which is a great misfortune
to the country. The lesson taught by
our late national trouble warns us that
the most kindly feelings and friendly re
lations should subsist between the people
of all sections of our vast and extensive
country. These are worth more than
silver or gold. Engender strife and
animosity among the various sections,
and the prosperity of the country* is at an
end.
An Injured Husband Slays the De
stroyer of His Domestic Peace-—Cin
cinnati, January 8.—Hutch McDaniels,
a steamboat captain, was killed at Point
Pleasant, West Virginia, last Wednesday,
by Wm. Weitzel. The latter had been
absent, aud on returning home learned
that a criminal intimacy* existed between
McDaniels and his wife. Seizing his
shot-gun he started to find McDaniels,
who had just gone to the river to water
his horse. Overtaking him, Weitzel shot
him in the leg. wounding him badly, and
causing the horse to throw the man.
Weitzel then walked up to the wounded
man and placing the gun-muzzle to his
body, delivered another barrel, containing
eleven shot, killing him. Weitzel was
arrested and committed to jail.
At great expense we have procured
from Washington a copy of President
Grant’s proclamation, issued iu accord
ance with the views of that distinguished
lawyer, P. H. Sheridan, and tbe same is
published exclusively in the Troy Press:
Whereas, It has been represented to
me by Lieutenant General P. H. Sheri
dan, now commanding the military di
vision of the Missouri, that “defiance to
the law” exists in the State of Louisiana,
aud whereas such “defiance to the law”
consists, as it is also represented to me.
First. In contemning the person and
resisting the authority of a body known
as the Kellogg Legislature which I also
elected myself.
Second. In contemning the person and
resisting the authority of a body known
as the Kellogg Legislature which I also
elected myself.
Third. In contemning the person and
resisting the authority of one Stephen B.
Packard, Marshal of the District of Louis
iana whog I appointed to that office.
Fourth. In contemning and generally
despising one James F. Casey, Collector
of the port of New Orleans, who is a
brother-in-law of mine.
Fifth. In complaining of excessive
taxation, and accusing my friends of steal
ing the public money, when it is notori
ous that they have no way of getting a
living but by stealing.
Sixth. In a general hatred of thieves,
which, in a State ruled by particular
friends, is the strongest evidence of re
sistance to lawful authority.
Seventh. In denunciation of the elec
tion law and the State Returning Board,
which were both manufactured in order
to enable a minority of my supporters to
govern a majority* of my opponents.
Eighth. In forming armed “white
leagues,” when it is well-known that it is
my pleasure that nothing but “black
leagues” shall exist in the Southern
States.
And Whereas, The Constitution of the
United States has been supposed to pro
vide that the people may peacefully as
semble and petition for redress of griev
ances. And also that the rights of the
people to keep and bear arms stall not be
infringed.
And whereas, I am advised by the At
torney General that these two clauses
apply only to citizens of African descent;
And whereas, I am advised by the Hon.
P. H. Sheridan, an eminent lawyer, now
o? New Orleans, that I may by proclama
tion declare all persons obnoxious to me
to be “banditti,” aud direct them to be
shot or otherwise executed without fur
ther ceremony;
And whereas, the said P. H. Sheridan,
has publicly said that “there is law for it
somewhere;”
Aud whereas, I don’t know but that
there is, and it seems reasonable;
And whereas, I have recently telegraph
ed to the said P. H. Sheridan that I had
“every confidence in him and approved
his course;”
Now, therefore, I, Ulysses Simpson
Grant, President of the United States,
by the advice of said P. H. Sheridan, and
under the war power, do publish this my
proclamation, and do hereby declare that
all persons in the said State of Louisiana
who do not heartily, earnestly and with
out mental reservation, support the gov
ernment of the said William Pitt Kellogg,
are, and the same are hereby made, con
stituted and appointed banditti, and I do
hereby* authorize aud empower the said
Lieutenant General P. H. Sheridan and
any other man wearing shoulder straps
(whether his own or borrowed) to arrest
such banditti wherever they* may be
found, and to shoot, stab, behead, drowr,
draw, quarter, disembowel, or otherwise
slaughter such bauditti, and thus stop
their grumbling about their taxes, and
render them peaceful citizens aud con
tented with the government of the said
William Pitt Kellogg.
In order that the said General Sheridan
and his subordinates may not molest any
of my friends, the following rules are
promulgated for their guidance.
First. A white skin, straight hair and
tolerably regular features are presumptive
proof that a person is a bandit.
Second. An intelligent countenance
should never go unquestioned. The
probability that its owner is a bandit is
I overwhelming.
Third. Any person who is a clergyman,
teacher, physician, lawyer, merchant or
other business man shall be considered a
bandit.
Fourth. Any person who can read,
write or cipher, shall be considered a
bandit unless he can prove to the satis
faction of the officer arresting him that
he has been indicted for crime.
Fifth. Any person with a good educa
tion shall be treated as a bandit without
benefit of clergy.
Sixth. Auy person owning real estate
is hereby declared a bandit, uuless he can
prove that it was bought at a tax sale
with money taken from the State treas
ury.
Seventh. Possession of personal prop
erty to the amount of ten dollars or over
shall be proof that the owner is a bandit,
uuless he can show that it was stolen.
Eighth. Any person who has hereto
fore borne a good character shall be
deemed a bandit uutil the contrary is
proved.
Ninth. Persons with black skins, woolly
hair and Ethiopian features shall qot be
considered bandits unless shown to have
voted the Conservative ticket.
Tenth. Persons convict id of crime or
indicted therefor, shall in no case be con
sidered bandits, and for the purposes of
this rule a pardon from Gov. Kellogg shall
be deemed additional proof of guilt.
Any person may claim the benefit of this
rule who can prove to the entire satisfac
tion of the officer arresting him that he
ought to have been convicted of some
crime, and satisfactory evidence that the
1 arty so arrested voted the Republican
ticket at the last election shall be suffi-
cent proof of such liability.
And 1 hereby enjoin the said Lieu
tenant General Sheridan to be vigilant
and energetic in this great duty of sifting
the chaff from the wheat, so that the
population of Louisiana may, as soon as
possible, consist entirely of negroes and
thieves, and give a unanimous support to
my* administration.
Ulysses S. Grant, President.
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State.
Bully Sheridan—The Brutal Satrap
Writhing Under the Castigation of
Honest Men. — Washington, January 8.
—The following dispatches have been re
ceived at the War Department:
New Orleans, January 7, 1875.—W. W.
Belknap, Secretary of War, Washington,
D. C.—Several prominent gentlemen
have for the last few days been passing
resolutions and manufacturing sentimen
tal protests for Northern political con
sumption. They seem to be trying to
make martyrs of themselves. It cannot
be done at this day. There have been
too many bleeding negro and ostracised
white citizens for their statements to be
believed by fair minded people. Bishop
Wilmer protests against my telegram of
the 4th inst., forgetting that on Saturday
last he testified under oath before the
Congressional Committee that the condi
tion of affairs was substantially as bad as
sported by me. I shall soon send you a
statement of the number of murders
committed in this State during the last
three or four years, the perpetrators of
which are still unpunished. I think that
the number will startle you. It will be
up in the thousands. The city is perfect
ly quiet; no trouble is apprehended.
P. H. Sheridan, Lieut. Gen’L
New Orleans, January 8.—W. W. Bel
knap, Secretary of War, Washington.—
I shall send you this evening a report of
affairs as they actually occurred on the
4 th inst. My telegram to you of that
date, and those of the 5th and 6th insts.,
are so truthful of the condition of affairs
in this section, strike so near the water
line, that ministers of the gospel and
others are appealed to to keep the ship
from sinking. Human life has been held
too oheaply in this State for many years.
P. H. Sheridan,
Lieutenant General
Tlie Louisiana Outrage.
The interest in the Louisiana muddle
continues to increase, aud the views of
distinguished statesmen and soldiers are
being rapidly elicited. Amongst those
who have been interviewed is Gen. W. T. j
Sherman, Commander-in-Chief of the j
army, with whom a representative of the
St. Louis Republican had a conversation
on the 6th instant, in that city*. Gen.
Sherman expressed his views on the con
dition of affairs in Louisiana without re
serve, declaring that Congress would soon
be compelled to take some action which
would compose the difficulties as
far as practicable at preseut. He
regarded General Emery, who com
mands the Department of the Gulf, as a
good man, an excellent officer of the
old school, but perhaps a little timid in
interfering in the affairs of the State.
Gen. Sheridan, he said, is a kind-hearted,
noble-minded man, accessible to any who
may have a suit to urge. But he is a
soldier, also, and does not hesitate to do
his duty. If he thonght it necessary*,
and believed it a matter of duty, the city
of New Orleans would be no more re
garded than au Indian village. He would
not hesitate to level it. The military could
only obey orders. He thought the Presi
dent, having once recognized the Kellogg
government, had made up his mind to sus
tain it until declared by* Congress or the
Supreme Court of the United States to
be illegal. There is a great problem lying
back of all these troubles. The making
of laws taxing the people, by a party* that
pays little or no taxes, is a subject which
needs to be handled with great delicacy*.
Gen. Sherman was quite fervent in his
expression of a hope that a solution of
the whole trouble would be arrived at
without bloodshed. He is opposed to war.
In times of war the law is silent. He
desired peace above all things. In answer
to a question whether he thought the
people of Louisiana still cherished senti
ments of hostility to the Government of
the United States, and opposition to the
enforcement of the laws of Congress, he
said that he supposed their feelings were
not kind toward the Federal Government:
but he knew the people of Louisiana well;
had lived among them for many years.
He didn’t believe they would fight the
government, or offer the least resistance
to the enforcement of the laws by the
civil officers of the government. The
people of Louisiana believed that
they had a right to govern them
selves, and they doubtless behove
that the present State government is
not one of their own establishment, and
they would fight it at every opportunity.
The people would not resist the govern
ment of the United States. They never
had done so. There has been no firiDg
upon United States soldiers; no resistance
to United States officers, neither civil nor
military, and there would be none, as ho
believed. But he thought they would
fight Kellogg’s militia, his police
and constables, aud all the forces
he could raise if permitted to do
so by the military forces of the govern
ment. He declined to express his indi
vidual opinion as to the character of
Kellogg’s government. He knew the
people themselves to be oppressed, and
were greatly dissatisfied with his govern
ment. But he declined to say that he
believed it to be the wisest policy to sus
tain that government, or indeed to ex
press any opinion as to the policy which
has been pursued by the government to
ward Louisiana.
hotels aud Restaurants.
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150, 158, 1GO & 162
BRYAN STREET,
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No. 147 Bronshton Street.
-, Pre-
'T'HE Proprietor, having completed the nece*-
A* sary additions aud improvements, can now
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11 other Hotels at less than
HALF THE EXPENSE!
A RESTAURANT
ON TUB
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Has been added, where guests can
AT ALL HOURS
Order whatever can be obtained in the market.
ROOMS, WITH BOARD,
$2 00 PER DAY.
Determined to be
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satisfaction will be given.
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PROPRIETOR.
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20# bbls. Peerless, Rose and Jackson POTA
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10 bbls. CARROTS.
50 bbls. SILVER SKIN ONIONS.
25 bbls. and bags new NUTS—“Almonds,
Pecans, Walnuts, Filberts and Brazils.”
100 boxes RAISINS.
100 boxes FIGS, assorted.
5 Frails New DATES.
10 bbls. New CIDER.
20 half bbls. New CIDER.
10 bbls Choice CIDER VINEGAR.
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Wholesale Dealer in Foreign and Domestic Fruits,
Nuts, Vegetables, Hay, Grain, Feed, &c. Sole
Agent for Rogers' Pure Cider and Cider Vinegar.
141 BAY STREET,
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Profils every thirty days. Pamphlets showing
the various methods ol operating in stocks sent
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Stocks executed.
A. Waldron, formerly of Charleston, S. C„
and Augusta, Ga.. begs to state that he is con
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from his friends. dcciS-dm
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BROKER,
DEALER IN
Coin, Securities & Exchange,
No. llO Bryan Street,
(Georgia Historical Society Building).
L OANS NEGOTIATED. Advances made on
securities placed in my hands for sale at
current rates. Real Estate bought and sold on
commission.
Mr. H. J. THOMASSON will take charge ol
the Real Estate branch of my business, ana will
give his personal attention to the leasing of house*
and collection of rents. sepl-tf
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SECURITY
—AND—
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SAVANNAH, ........ GA.
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ein Sooting, &r.
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GEO- G.“WILSON,
No. 190 Congress and 185 St. Julian Sts.
Groceries, Wines and Liquors,
AND PLANTERS* SUPPLIES GENERALLY,
Which I will sell low for cash or good acceptance.
TIN ROOFING,
Gutters and Conductors.
Also, for making and putting up
GALVANIZED IRON CORNICE,
ORNAMENTAL BRACKETS,
GUTTERS AND CONDUCTORS.
REPAIRING ROOFS will meet with prompt
attention Orders solicted.
Cormack Hopkins,
No. 107 Broughton St.
jan»-tf
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Millinery ! Millinery!
—AT—
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C ONSIGNMENTS of Cotton and Country Pro
duce solicited, to which I will give my per
sonal attention, and satisfaction guaranteed.
Parties shipping small lots ol Cotton will find it
to their advantage by shipping me, as “my
charges will be small,” and remittances in cash or
gooas, as may be directed, made promptly,
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PRINCIPAL.
A FULL CORPS OF ABLE PROFESSORS.
Complete outfit of arms, apparatus, etc., for
thorough mental and physical training. Location
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and telegraphic facilities. For Illustrated Cata-
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T HE MORNING NEWS JOB OFFICE has the
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I AM now offering all of my Stock of MiiJinery
Goode, consisting of
PATTERNS.
BONN El’S, nATS,
RIBBONS, VELVET.
FELT and STRAW GOODS,
For less than they can be bought elsewhere in
the city. Also a fall line of Velvets on the bias,
in all colors.
I have just received a large and beautiful as
sortment of TIES, in all the new colors.
Also, a new assortment of Hosiery, Kid Gloves,
Corsets, Rnshing, etc.
My line of Ladies’ Underwear, made of the
best Muslin and Cambric, is still complete.
Real Hair Switch, Hair Ornaments, and Fancy
Goods.
Also, a large assortment of Silk Umbrellas for
Laaies and Gents.
I-adies, call and examine my stock. You will
find them cheap and of the best quality of goods.
H. C. HOUSTON,
jan.Vtf 22 Bull street (Masonic bailding).
fiats and (taps, &c.
New Year Calls.
All who intend calling on
NEW YEAR’S DAY
Should provide themselves with a Pair of
Angeles’
Seamless White Kid Gloves.
Also, one of the Latest Style of Hats,
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To decrease our Stock,
paratory to onr Annual Stock
taking, we will offer our Goods
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until the 1st of February next.
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