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COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1872.
Volume XLIY.—No. 9.
Tho Weekly Enquirer.
JOHN II. MARTIN
.Editor.
COLUMBUS:
TTirilSDAY FEBRUARY :
22, 1872.
—Term* of sub«rriptioa—
One Year iu «(h H ncv
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The ('nrpet-ltaa Uovenion.
Tho fact that all of the carpet-bag Gov
ernor* of the Southern States, imposed
upon them in the full tide of “reconstruc
tion", have come to grief sml disgrace, is
of itself sufficient to prove the iniquity
nnd malignity of the Congressional policy
of dealing with the South, 'ihere is no
exception to their career of corruption,
usurpation and fraud, and none to tho
iutainous record they have left behind.
The only two “recountruction" Governors
of these States, who have oscaped im-
peuclmjeiit or disgrace, and w hose terms
ure not wholly infamous in our history,
arc Smith of Alabama, ami Alcorn of
MisMKHippi, and these men inn not car*
pet-l agger*—they are South* ru men, the
one by birth, aud the other by nearly life
long residence, 'lliey were gentlemen of
education ami association, and this quality
exhibited itself—as it always will exhibit
itself—in their official conduct, though it
could not enable (hem w holly to lesiat or
to restrain the plundering nnd knavish
propensities of other leaders of the party
to which they were attached. Of the real
of the late and present “reconstruction"
Governors—all carpet-baggers—tho Balti
more (.iait tie briefly but pointedly nays :
Bullock, ol Georgia, and Holden, of North
Carolina, are both of them iugitives from
justice. Scott, of South Carolina, has
just escaped impeachment by a trick.
Heed, of Florida, is now under impeach
ment. Davis, of Texas, is under indict
ment in the Circuit Court of the United
Slates for tampering with the elocliou
returns. Clayton, of Arkansan, now tho
Senator from thul Slate, baa been convic
ted before a committee of Congress of
bargain aud corruption, and Warmoth, of
Louisiana, is licensed of similar p: act ices
by the opposition wing of the ltopublicau
party iu that State.
Fx-tiovernor lloblea.
Wo made a curious mistake, yesterday,
in puttiug Holden, of North Carolina, in
the list of curpet-bag Governors of the
Southern States. Curious—becuuso Hol
den and wo learned the printing business
about the suiuo time, in tho same city,
aud were personal acquaintances then.—
The mistake was chargeable to hurry and
carelessness. But tho point of our article
is by no moans blunted by the fact that
one “reconstruction” Governor native to
his Slate lins shared the fate of all tho
carpet-baggers.
Air. Stephens, iu tho Atlanta Sun,
makes a very happy and conclusive reply
to a statement by the Atlanta Jnde)tendml
that “tho old Wiig party, led by Mr. Cluy,
advocated ‘cou.iolidutioii of tho Govern
ment,' a ‘standing army' and ‘abolition-
isrm.’ rt Mr. Stephens, in reply, simply
quotes tho following resolutions for which
Air. Clay voted iu tbo Senate of the
United Slates, wheu lie was in the prime
of his statesmanship and his power ns a
party leader:
“Resolved, That in the adoption of tho
Federal Constitution, the States adopting
tho same acted severally, us Free, Inde
pendent and sovereign Status: and that
each, for itself, by its own voluntary as
sent, entered the Union with the view to
its increased security against all dangers,
domestic as well as luruigti, and the more
ported and secure enjoyment, of its ad
vantages, natural, political, and social.
“itesolved. That iu delegating a por
tion of their powers to bo exercised by the
Federal government, the States retained,
severally, the exclusive und hoIu right over
their own domestic institutions aud po-
lioe, to the full extent to which these pow
ers were not thus delegated, and are alone
responsible for them ; und that any iuter-
jueddliug of any one or more Stales, or u
combination ol their citizens, with the
domestic intitutious and police of the oth
ers, on any ground—political, niorul, or
religious- -or under any pretoxt whatever,
with tho view to their alteration or sub
version, is not warranted by the Constitu
tion, tending to endanger the domestic
peace and tianquility oi the States inter
fered with, subversive of the objects for
which the Constitution wus formed, and,
by uecessary consequence, tending to
weaken ami destroy the Union itself.
See Cougrcsidoual Gk<ho and Appen
dix, 2d Session, 26th Congress, page 98.
The Presidential Cheek-BeaN.
The first political National Convention,
called to take initiatory action in reference
to tips next Presidential election, will be
that of the Reform Republicans, of whom
Senators Trumbull and Schurz, and Gov.
Brown of Missouri, are oonspiouons lead
ers. That Convention will meet on the
Oth day of May, at Cinoianati. There is
every reason to believe that it will notni-
nate a candidate for the Presidency—per
haps Trumbull—certainly not Grant—and
adopt a political platform. In view of
this convention and its probabla action,
tho policy of “masterly inactivity" on the
part of the Democrats at preaent is plain
ly apparent. That Convention will re
veal the strength of the conservative or
dissatisfied Republicans who may be
counted on to oppoae Grant for another
term. Its action, too, will determine tho
question whether a conformable and pow
erful political alliance can be consumma
ted belweou the conservative Republicans
and the Democrats of the country. Its nom
inees and its platform will enable the De
nied ary to act uuderntandingly and wisely.
To that time any general discussion of
questions relating to the Ro-oalled “new
departure," the “passive policy," Ac.,
should be, and we believe will be post
poned. The importance of a conserva
tive triumph in the next Presidential con-
test is immensely too great for us to per
mit it to be lost by hasty or intemperate
action, or by a failure to avail ourselves
of every advantage or opportunity which
the situation allows. Let us wait for the
opening guua on the Ohio.
Uot. Smith's Jadiclal Appoiatmeats.
We hear from Atlanta that Hon. W. \V.
Montgomery, the new Bupreiue Court
Judge, is giving much satisfaction. That
persons who desired the position them
selves, or those who wanted the Judge to
ho taken from some particular section,
should criticise the appointment some
what, is natural ; but eveu these are be
ginning to recoguize the fitness of the
selection.
In the Middle circuit, Judge Twiggs,
already ou the bench, was appointed for
the uucxpired term. Hia sppoiutiueut, it
is auid, wus recommended by every mem
ber of the Legislature from the oircuit.
and by nearly every lawyer. It seems,
too, there was no other applicant for tho
position ; whether because the people are
satisfied with the present incumlxnit, or
the lawyers over there are without ambi-
liuu, we aro not able to decide. Judgo
Twiggs'term will expire this summer or
fall.
Judgo Wright, of tho Tallapoosa circuit,
was already ou the bench likewise, aud
holds over until the re-aaaeutbhug of the
Legislature in July. His nnuie was not
scut into the Senate by Gov. Smith
was the Democratic candidate for Con
gress from this district at the last elec
tion, und wo have heard nothing blit
praise of hia action while subsequently
on the bouch.
It is announced that the Convention of
Liberal Republicans, that was called to
meet at Cincinnati on tbe Cth of Alay, is
po-tpoued until a late day iu June.
1*. S.—Tho N. V. Jit raid gives wbat it
calls au authoritative contradiction to tho
above announcement.
Know 100 Feet Deep. —Later reports
from Dakotuh confirm the statumouts iu
regard to the depth of snow, and terrible
severity of tho weather during December
nnd January. John W. Smith’s wagon
tram left Whetstone Ageney December 11
for Knotted Tail's new reservation on
White Earth river, only 200 miles distant,
and six weeks making tbe trip. They en
countered vast anow drifts, many of them
lot) foot deep, extending a great distance,
through which it was necessary to effect
a passage by shoveling. The weather
was so intensely cold that every watch
stopped, und every man connected with
the train was frozen, some of them se
verely. The suffering was intense, but
no lives lost.
Dakotnh is one of the Territories to be
traversed by the Northern Paoifie Rail
road, which we aro told is to run through
a region much mider aud freer from snow
and cold than the Union Pacific routo!
A Had Shotrlstf-Ktste Aid lilastrated.
The Brunswick Appeal, alluding to the
financial condition of the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad, says: “The general
creditors are so numerous, and the amount
claimed so immense, that if the road was
sold the amount reeeived l»y each, after
paying lawyers' fees and other expenses,
will be but a very small per oeutage of
wretoa of Federal i ,1 *«"‘8' n “ 1 den “ 1 nd ;"
I ibis IS tbe road to which tbe Bullock
The following paragraph, which we cut
from tbe Atlanta Ear Era of Sunday, is
indicative of another
tyrsuny.
We understand that a number of Arrests thounaml dollar* per miU J We stated at
will be mude in this city und iu other sec- I the time that it waa not only a wicked and
lions of the State, wi:hiu the next lew . inf unions swindle, but a shameful waste
days, of persons for hoidiug office in vio- { of the public money : and our Brnnawick
lation ol the Constitution of the United friends charged us with unfriendliness to
IRatoft. Thoraces will come before the themselves und their oity. They can now,
| Legislature of Georgia voted twenty-four
• thouhuml dollar* per mile ! We stated at
United Slates Court, of course.
We have received a pamphlet schedule
of the Oth Grand State Fair of the Me
chanics & Agricultural Fair Association
of Louisiana. This great exhibition will
commence on tho 4tlx of April, iu New
Orleans. It will doubtless be the most
magnificent display of the kind, this
spring, in any part of tho world. Besides
the regular premiums, which Are liberal
since the scheme bos worked out, judge
ns more dispassionately and fairly. Look
at the whole project, from its inception
down to the present day, at Bullock, Hul-
bert, Avery, Conant and Kimball, and say
if every result we predicted baa not come
to pass. And so will it ba with more of
the State aid roads concocted under the
Bullock administration. With the very
best of management, the State will never
get back one-tenth the omouuts for which
she has bee a pledged by a pack of aliens
aud n.igroea, whom the Federal govarn-
end variously distributed, the sum of j ment set np at Atlanta aa tbe Legislatoi
•10,000 has b.eu set apart Wy tb. Associ- ut OoorgU.-AuflnnaA Hfputlican.
at ion for objeots of special intereat not
provided for in the published list.
The Disputed Gkoooia Domini.—The
New York Bulletin, which seems to know
all about it, gives the following, which, it
The “Court of Passage" of Liverpool j says, is a correct statement of the dispa-
haa decided, in a auit bronght by con- : ‘ ed bonds, giving tb. amoonta aold and
... ... I hypothecated by Bullock, and tb* rat* by
aigneea of cotton against the vessel car- | ^ ( , b th(ly w ,„ mirketed .
Tying it, to recovor damages for its bad ; StotB Uiu, 7 per cent, gold,
condition resulting from moisture, “that , marketed at *7 $1,<160,000
the meaning of the words in the bill of . State issue, 7 per cent, gold,
lading, ‘good order and condition,’ can! hypothecated 1,360,000
° Ithued to railroads, t per cent.
" 480,000
gold, hypothecated 1,1(94,000
Brunswick A Albany, indorsed
by State, 0 per cent., mar
keted at 76<gt90..,
2,600,000
not be taken to bo more than prima fa. j ^ m , rketod ut K,
cie, they are externally iu good order und i^u^d to railroads, 7 per cent,
condition, and that it cannot mean there
is any latent defect which the captuin
must look at." In this case there was
proof that an allowance for “wet” had ; Brunswick A Albany, indorsed
been made in Mobile, whence the cotton J by State, 0 percent., hypoth-
was shipped, and this was taken aa proof
that the bales contained within them-
~ ’* 3,000,000
It tins appears that the bondholders
coated..
I Additional indorsed railroad
.elves tba germ, of injury before ship-' j
Ping-
800,000
The Atlanta Constitution of Wednesday ' have taken #7,600,000 six end seven per
contradicts a sensational telegram from ce "J- obligation*
. 4 , , * .. We heve seen this statement from no
IU city reporting thst tber. is * duagree- , nd
meat between Gov. Smith end the laves- which it is given, distinguishing between
tiffatiua Committee. the varions issues end tbe exeot prises at
which they were marketed, prove oonoln-
aively that the Bulletin's crtfotec on Geor
gia oredit are either written in the broker’s
Boron Francis Napier, Governor of the
Madras Presidency, temporarily snooeede
to the Governor-Generalship of India, in
place of the assassinated Earl of Mayo.
office of Henry Ole we ft Co., or inspired
by that firm, and through interested mo-
tivee.— Savannah RepuUle*
Saturday, 17th.—The Senate passed the
Solan, Marion A Memphis Railroad bill
(allowing a State endorsement of its
bauds, secured by first mortgage) with
amendments; also a bill to incorporate
Firo Engine Company N >. 2 of Union
Spriugs. A bill introduced by Mr. Wor
thy, to compel purchasers of guano aud
othor fertilizers to pay for suoh according
to contract, and a bill by Mr. Bromborg,
to enable stockholders of private corpo
rations to dissolve their charters, were
referred to special committees. The Ex
press bill was before the Senate when it
adjourned.
Iu the House, u protest against the --
tension of the session, signed by fourteen
members (.among them Mr. lloury of
llusseli), was read by the Clerk. Iu tho
protest, the signers express the conviction
that no definite action can bo had on the
A. A C. Railroad complication by legisla
tion, and that the House and Senate can
not agree on au Election or Revenue law
that will be fair or acceptable to the peo
ple. They protest against squandering
the money of the people iu further use
less attempts at legislation ou those ques
tions. The special committee reported a
substitute for the Agricultural College bill
(locating the college at Auburn), which
was passed. Mr. Moore, from the Com
mittee on Local-Legislation, reported ad
versely to the bill to require the holders
of troasuiy notes of Russell county, is
sued by the Court of County Commission
ers, to present them for redemption;
concurred in. Tho Souato Mo, mica'
Lien bill was ordered to a third roadiug
to-morrow. Mr. Lewis asked leave to
introduce a bill to relieve the school
teachers and the educational system of
the State; but by the uuuttiutotiH vote of
the colored members that leave wiih re
fused. The Alubama A Chattanooga Rail-
oad bill wuh further considered, und
made the special order for Monday, 11
o'clock. Mr. Lows, from the Committee
on Internul Improvements, reported a
substitute for the bill to provide for the
reduction of tbe liabilities of the State
of Alabama by the substitution of Statu
bonds to the amount of $ 1,000 per mile
in lieu of tho Statu endorsement hereto
fore authorized of the bolide of various
railroad companies entitled thereto. It
wos made tbe special older for 10 o’clock
Tuesday. The House passed tho Boiiato
bill to incorporate Uuiou Springs Fire
Engine Company No. 2. The Speaker
road a communication from Attorney
General Sanford, refusing to receive $800
which had been apportioned to him in
excess of tho sulary affixed to thul office
l»y tho Revised Code ; r» 1erred.
Monday, VM/t.- Tho Semite passed tho
following new lulls : To amend snotioii
12 of the Revenue Law of ISO'S (so as to
except the distillation of fruits, cauci and
grapes from taxation); to cst iblish a
Criiuiuul Court iu tho county of Russell,
with criminal and civil jurisdiction—in
troduced by Mr. Murtiu. Tho Senate
alao passed its substitute for the House
“Express bill”—.yeas 1(5, nnys 6. At th>
night session of tho Senate, after nmol
debato and many amendments, the Hotisi
bill Belling swamp and overflowed lands
to Mobile und N. W. Road was tabled
Consideration 'of Agri ulturid College
consumed time until 11 i\ M., at which
hour the Senate wuh still in session.
Tho House passed ttie following new
bills funder onspension of the ruin ): JJy
Mr. Henry—To establish a Criminal Court
for tho couuty of Russell, with criminal
and civil jurisdiction; to abolish the
County Court of Russell comity ; by Mr.
Asburst—to change tho boundary line be
tween the comities of Lou and Tallapoo
sa. A bill introduced by Mr. Bulger,
amendatory of section 6 of au uct to es
tablish tho county of Lee, was referred
to a spocial committee of one from each
of the counties of which Lee was form-
A bill to regulato the finances of tho St
(authorizing the issue aud salo of $060,-
000 State bonds for the relief of the E 1
uoutional Department) was referred.—
The Honso passed tho “Montgomery
County Railroad bill," by a vote of .'10 to
21. Gov. Lindsay sent to tho House a
veto of the bill “to allow prosecutors to
have counsel in criminal cuhom, who shall
be leading counsel iu such cases." He
objected to it us unconstitutional and
oontrary to tbe customs of civilized coun
tries. The consideration of the message
was postponed until Wednesday. Bill to
amend tbe act to vest in tho Tennessee
and Alabama Central Railroad Company
certain lands grunted by Congress iu
trust to tho Statu of Alabainu to aid in
the construction of tho Tennessee aud
Alabama Railroad—patsod. Tho Senate
bill in reUtiou to mechanics' liens was
lost. Bill to better secure tho payment
of rents of luuda in Alabama— [ asned.
The following bills were also passed : To
authorize Thomas E. Blanchard of Geor
gia to qualify us administrator; to regu
late tbe mode of taking and approving
the official bonda of couuty officers; to
restrain the tax collector of Barbour
county from collecting excessive taxes
from oertain citizens ol Eutanln; to pro
hibit fortune telling in this State; joint
memorial* to Congress iu behalf of tbo
EufaaJa, Abbeville and Gulf Railroad,
and the improvement of Choctaw hatcliie
river. The bill to amend section 2371 of
the Code, so as to authorize married wo
men to mortgage their statutory estates,
was paused.
Tbe Marianna (Fla.) Courier reports
forming operations commenced in its sec
tion with renewed activity, hut says that
labor is scarce, and few planters have
their quota of hands. It expresses fears
that too much attention will be devoted
to cotton, and that corn and other grain
will be sadly neglected. ,
Judgo Bighy, chairman of the Republi
can State Central Committee, has cnllcd
a meeting of tbe Committee to take place
in Atlanta on tbe 14th of March, for the
purpose of calling a State Convention to
nomiiute delegatus to tbo Philadelphia
Convention.
Th* Nsohgbk Crowding to the Cot
ton and Rick Fields.—Says the Mem-
S Appeal: Every train from tbe east
p negroes from the weet and south,
r destination is the low country of
the Miaeissippi and Arkausaa. The col
ored populations curiously gravitate to-
wold the block lands—the cotton, sugar,
and nee fields. They abandon Virginia,
North Osrolinia,Tennessee aud Kentucky,
and hie away to localities iu which their
aaee may be eociolly and politically domi-
Kngltah Nt atrium t of tkr Caw Hr fore tho Or- •
■rva hoanl. ‘
London, Feb. It*.—The case submitted
to the Geneva Board of Arbitration by
tho counsel of Great Britain, in regard to
tho Alabama claims, has been laid before
Parliament, and is published. The docu
ment is divided into ten pails. Part one
remarks that no definite or complete state
ment of the American claims hAs ever
been furnished. The treaty of Washing
ton and previous correspondence will sup
ply, however, a general definition of the
demands made by the United States.
Rule 2, Art. <> of the treaty of Washing
ton is quoted as follows:
“A neutral government is bound not to
permit or suffer either lielligerent tb make
u'ho of its porta or waters as a base of na
val operation* against the other, or for a
purpose of renewal or augmentation of
military supplies or arms, or the recruit
ment of meu."
This rule is interpreted as prohibiting
tbe supply of war waging vessels from
neutral ports, but is not prohibitory of
tho sale of arms or munitions of war iu
tlic ordinary course of commerce.
The tribunal must determine the ques
tion of tho failure of duty. If it decides
that |here has beou suoh a failure, then it
musl award a gross sum for damages or
define a limit of linhility for the guidauco
of the assessors of suid damages.
The circumstances of the sailing of tho
fttoamera Alabama, Florida, Georgia and
Shenandoah were materially dissimilar,
but Great Britain maintains that in respect
to none of them has she failed of her in
ternational obligations or rendered her
self justly liable.
Part 2 pivos a history of the civil w'ar
the 1 nitod States, showing that tho
course of England and the maritime pow
ers was one of vigilant and scrupulous
neutrality.
Part ;i makes a statement of the inter
national rights und duties, of the laws of
Knglaud bearing thereon, and of the
fait tit'ill pertormnnoe and elocution thereof
by Great Britain dnriug the war. It ulso
gives a detailed account of the action of
Minister Adams and Earl Russell to pre
vent the departure of the rebel cruisers.
Part i shows the limits of the powers
possessed by the British Govorniueut to
pruvont suoh departures.
Parts 6, (J, 7 aud 8 respectively present
in detail the facts relative to the steamers
Florida, Alaliunia, Georgia and Kheuun-
doali.
Part t) sets forth that tho ateamors
Georgia aud Shenandoah were never
equipped for war in the British Domin
ions. Her Majesty's Government wus
only informed respecting these vessels
utter their departure. The Alabama aud
Florida even did not receive their arma
ments in the British Dominions. Tho
peculiar cirouniHtances of the Alabama's
escape are recited, aud England's vigilant
endeavors to prevent her sailing, ns well
as America’s failure iu tho attempt to cap
ture her, arc insisted on.
l'urt 10 complains of the disadvantages
under w hich Great Britain labors in meet
ing America's unpiuoedented case. Thu
document couoludea as follows :
“While England regrets the departure
of the rebel cruisers from her ports, she
cannot acknowledge the justice of the
claims nguiust her for pecuniary damages
for their acts. The United States must
solidly OHtublisU the fact of England's
negligence. England is willing to accept
tbe award of tho tribunal of arbitration,
whether favorable or unfavorable. She
desires only thul it shall bo just.”
The Methodist Puduhiiing House
Finn.- The Nashville Union and Ameri
can of Fiiduy says the loss by this fire is
not ko large us ut first supposed. The
Union Hays:
With tho excoptiou of a few half com
pleted plates, stored iu the upper room,
the presses and Htcrootypus, valued at
$100,000, were saved, together with a
large stock of book and stationery. A
good doal of sheet stock in the bindery
whs lost. Tho value of Mr. John iDick
on's property in the bindery wus a little
ovor $16,000, on which ho suffered a loss
of not o\(or $2000, saving most of the
machinery.
The minutes of tho Tennessee Confer
ence from tho time of its organization,
going back to the beginning ol the pres
ent century, us also the minutes of tho
Gt-uorul Conference, dating hack from
1846, tho timo of tho split between the
church North aud South, were deposited
in the room occupied by Dr. Kuiuuiora.
Yesterday morning Rev. Dr. Young and
Rev. Mr. ilrown wont in search of these
precious documents aud fouud them in a
partly charred condition, but with the ex
ception of those of the last Conference,
it is thought they can be transcribed.
Rev. Dr. Summors' library, containing
valuable books and rare manuscripts,
which cannot bo replaced, wus utterly de
stroyed.
The entire loss to the Publishing House
iu estimated at $26,000. On tho whole
building, Rov. Dr. Redford had an insur
ance in various companies of $70,000, of
which sum $6000 in the Iruporial wus on
that part of the building used as a binde
ry liy Mr. Lockcn.
Park Parkin*.
The following shows the packing at tbe
points tiutuad to the latest mail dates ;
To Same timo Total
Date lust season, lust your.
Chicago....1,076,107 812,004 910,240
St. Louis... 360,000 290,733 306,800
Cincinnati. 001,661 447,801 600,000
Milwauki*. 273,000 210,000 241,000
Ho called Kuicliix.—Wa learn that the
following gentlemen were brought yeater-
day from Polk county under tho charge
of being (so-called; Ku-Klux : James
Crocker, John Crocker, Thomas Crocker,
George Mobley, Dr. E. H. Richardson,
Cbarloa Horn, Thomas liavis, Alfred
Waits. The warrant was hired by oue M.
Aired. Owing to the fact that the prose
cutor wan detained,tbe ouse was continued
until to-morrow, when it will probably
come up before Uoiled States Commis
sioner W. B. Kcrnidt. The parties are in
tho custody of the U. H. Marshal.—At
lanta Count ito lion, 18 th.
Tiik South Carolina Ku-Klux.— It
will be remembered that tbe prosecutions
of the Kn-Klux in South Carolina were
suddenly suspended a few weeks ago be
cause of the disagreement of tho Circuit
Judge and the District Judge, aitlina to
gether for tbe trial of theae cases. The
eases were therefore certified up to tho
Supreme Court of the United States.—
The points upon which the Court will bo
required to decide are as follows ; First,
as to whether, under the Enforcement
law of May 31, 1870, persons can bo pun
ished for committing a crime defined un
der tbe laws of the State; and, second,
as to whether the right to bear arms is a
right guaranteed by tbe Constitution, and
to be protected under the Enforcement
act. Tbia will substantially teat the va
lidity of tbe act in question, and deoido
whether criminals shall be punished for
violating this law as those that are pun
ished under the State law. This impor
tant question will be brought np iu a
short time in the Supreme Court. Attor
ney-General Williams end General Bris
tow will appear for the Government, aud
Reverdy Johnson aud lleury Htanbery
for the Ku-Klux.—Avgusta Chronicle.
The New York Expreae calls attention
to the fact that when Martin Van Buren
waa Preeident there waa an extraordinary
[Wn.-JiiiiKton Corr. N. Y. IbraM, Feb. 16th.]
The Marquis do Gbantbrnu is unre
served in explanation ot bis position iu
the matter of the transaction in arms be
tween this country aud France, as devel
oped iu the Senate to-day. liy his own
statement bo is the paid attorney of tlfe
French government and the iustigator of
the resolution of Mr. Buinner. Tue Mar
quis siys that after the first trial and ac
quittal of Victor l’luee, late French Con
sul General in Now York, upon oharges
preferred by Mr. Samuel Remington, of
(inspiring with partiuH in New York to
defraud his Government in the purchase
of anus iu America, Mr. Remington cauie
over from France and reached this city
about tbo 18th of December h.st. Here
he applied to Geueral Dyer, Chief of Ord
nance, for eo; tern statements of the sales
of arms by the United States during the
war in Europe, aud for uu endorsement
of his own oUaraotcr aud that of his firm,
so fur cs their dealings with this Govern
ment had enabled its officers to judge.
Obtaining what he desired, he got upon
Dyer's statement a favorable endorsement
from the Becietary of War and Senator
Conkling. With these documents, aud
othois procured elsewhere, he renewed
his charges against Place und secured his
conviction, with two years' imprisonment
in tbe poniteuiary. Place being thus
got out of the way, Remington aguin at
tempted to bring about with tho French
Government the settlement of its alleged
indebtedness to Lius, ibis settlement
having been trust rated by the results of
Place's tii st trial, the production by Reui-
ingtou ot documents of no important a
cburactcr us these furnished him in Wash
ington excited much astonishment aud in-
digital nm in France, and it became a
question how such papers could have
been allowed to reach the French Gov
ernment, for such use as was nude of
them, through other than the accustomed
official chauuols. On tho 21th of lust
December tho Murquis do Chumbruu
called on Secretary Belkuup, as attorney
of the French Government, chtcily in re
lation to tho docuiueuts iu tho possession
of Mr. Remington. Tho Sucrctury ex
pressed to the Marquis his suiprise and
indignation at the use to which the pupeis
had been applied, and said that bad Mr.
Remington mtimuted to him the purpose
for which his endorsement of General
Dyer's letter was sought, ho (tho Seretury )
would have employed language towards
Mr. Remiiigton ttiut that geiitlcuiHU
would have remembered us long as ho
lived. Tlic Marquis theu replied that if
such wiih the case the matter could very
easily bo arranged, and that the oppor
tunity whs open to tho Secretary to ex-
f iluin tho circiimstancos under which tho
utter was given to Remington by a letter
to tho French Legation, which could bo
transmitted to tho Homo Govoruweul.-
Tho Secretary said that he would bo very
thankful for such an opportunity, and
would both writo tho proposed letter and
furnish to ('hatiibrnu the same statements
that had boon given to Mr. Remington,
Rut, uocording to the Marquis, neither
of these things wus done by Gen. Belknap,
though the Murquis assorts (hut if they
lnid hoeu done as promised they would
liuvo satisfied tho French Government,
and would havo averted the trouble iu
which tho American officials now find
themselves. Tho Secretary's silence iu-
ceused tho adherents ot Victor Plucc,
who had boon made aware of his promises
to Uhumhrun, und confirmed their suspi
cions that tbe Unitod States War Depart
ment wus supporting Remington iu bis
dosigus. 'Jins uctiou of the American
Secretary of War has brought about the
present situation, ho far as tho Freuch
Government or its agents nro concerned.
Tho Marquis iu careful to lnoutiou his
personal belief that thoro is no complicity
on the part of Gen. Belknap or any high
Ameiican official iu the frauds porpetrated
upon tho Frouch Government, lint be
lieves tho Secretary bus unwittingly boon
used to cover the irregularities of some
of his subordinates. Goucorniug tho in
dignation of the United States Govern
ment over tho publication of the Secreta
ry of War's letter ol tho 19th January, to
tiio State Department, iu relation to tho
sales of anus to Thomas Richardson, tho
Marquis says that the letter was shown to
him und to othor persons iu hia presence
before it vrus sent to tho Secretary of
State, and that upon tho day ufter it was
shown to him ho culled npou the Secretary
of War and spoko to him with reference
to tho letter. At that interview General
Belknap declared, in presence of several
persona theu iu tho room, including u
member of Congress from Kentucky, that
there wns nothing confidential iu tho let
ter, and tlint ho was quite willing that it
should bo published to tho country. This
is held by tho Marquis to ba a complete
jiiNlillcatiou of the appeurnneo of the let
ter in Mr. Sunnier* resolution. Tho
Marquis also explains that tho position of
the French Government haa been misun
derstood. That Government is directing
its inquiries solely towurds the transac
tions of the Gambotta Government with
the ReiuiugtonH, and its desire is very far
from bringing any imputations or aunoy-
unce upon tho Administration at Washing
ton. Any such disagreeable consequences
—if they follow—ure rendered unavoid
able by tbe indirect connection of tho
Americun Government with the matter,
through its sales to the Remiogtous and
their agents.
Tho Geneva tribunal of arbitration is
composed of the following members:
Arbitrator on the part of the United
States—Charles Francis Adams ; of Great
Britain—the Right Honorable Sir Alexan
der Cockburn, Barouot, Lord Chief Justice
Startling news reached the city yester
day afternoon, to the effect that Henry
Berry Lowrey and hisgaugof outlaws had
of Lum
entered the town
Lumbetton, aome-
igitetion end threat* of impeachment over
the report that somebody in Europe pro
posed to make him a present. Had the
f irfteent been made he would have been
mpeaohed. Since that day wa have had
several yean of Republican rale, and now
the Preeident receives presents of hones,
farms, bonda and pnpe, and any person
who suggests there la an “ '
called maloyal. What a
anything wrong is
time during Fiiday night, and committed
the boldest and oue of the inovt success
ful robberies ever know*n in this State.
To our correspondent “Poster," in Lum-
berton, are we indebted for the following
particulars:
The gang, it seems, first broke into Mr.
Newberry's carriage manufactory, where
they supplied themselves with such tools
as they noeded. They then visited the
stables of Mr. A. W. Fuller, where they
secured a horso und dray, and thus pre
pared, proceeded to the store of Mr. A. II.
McLeod, from wlieuco a heuvy irou safe
wiih taken and placed on the dray. They
next visited the aberiff'w office in the
Court house, from whence his iron safe
was also taken, and placed with the other.
They theu started from the town -with
their plunder, but as tha sheriff 's safe was
found yesterday morning lying iu the
street, about 160 yards from his office, it
is supposed thut it dropped oil* aud was
abandoned.
Early yesterday morning, oh soon as
the loss was discovered, the Sheriff being
absent, his deputy, Mr. Alex. McMillan,
summoned s posse of meu and started iu
pursuit. At u point three miles from the
town they came up with the gnng, but
being too weak to effect their oapture, a
messenger was sent back for reinforce
ments. A large number of meu immedi
ately volunteered, aud proceeded at ouce
to tlin scone, but tho robbers had effected
their retreat, currying off with them the
money, but leuving (lie nafe aud u portion
of the pupers behind. These, with the
horse and dray, were taken back to tho
tow u, when it was discovered that the sufe
had been forced open with sledge hum
mers and cold chisels, with which the gang
had provided themselves at Mr. Newber
ry’s cstublishuient. The loss is very
heavy and consists of $22,(KM) in inouey,
taken from Mr. McLeod's safe, a lot of
gouds and a number of vuluuble private
papers from the sheriff’s office,w hich were
destroyed. Nearly all of the money sto
lon was of deposits, which, us there is no
bank in Lunibertoii, hud been placed in
tbe safe, by different parties, for safe
keeping. Besides some $1,000 worth of
merchandise was taken from the store,
noue of which was recovered. Tbe books
und papers contained in the safe aro all
secure.— Wilmington Journal, 18f/i.
The Brunswick and Albany Railroad.
We find in the Brunswick Appeal the re
port of John 1). Rutnph, Master in Chan
cery, about tho Brunswick and Albany
Railroad. This iu tho substance of the
report:
Number of claims filed, 491; aggregate
amount of clainis filed, $3,383,226 18;
amount of claims adjudged satisfactorily
established, $123,239 28; amount of liens
and other claims in execution, with costs,
ai charged, included, #107,277.10; amount
of lien and other claims iu execution ad
judged satisfactorily established, with
legal costs established, $'.18,281.34; amount
of labor liens, othor tliuu liens, judgments,
etc., adjudged legally and justly due,
$12,141 19; amount of lien and other
chiiiim in execution, with cost ah charged,
and other lulmr claims as presented,
$122,849 4 7: amount of approved liens
and other clnimH iu execution with esti
mated legal costs, with other labor claims
approved $111,622 73.
The Bullock County Murder.—We
are informed by Mr. G. W. Townsend,
prosecuting counsel in the matter, that
Mr. Jasper Gilmore, the man who killed
Miss Emily E. Gilmore, nine miles north
of Union Springs Hoveral works ago, and
who mndo his escape, was captured by
Wade II. Thomas, KNq., on lust Sunday
week in tho Northern portion of Arkan
sas. Mr. Thomas passed through this
city on the 18th with the prisoner nnd de
livered him over to Mr. Znck Cowi.n,
Sheriff of Bullock. He will stand his
preliminary trial at an early day.
The Govornor had offerod a largo re
ward for his capture. The citizens of tho
immediate community where the horrori-
ble deed was perpetrated also raised a
considerable sum for tbe purpose of
bringing the accused to the bar of jus
tice.—Montgomery Arrerti*er, 2\*t.
Suicide of a Clergyman.—A Kings
ton, W. 1.,dispatch, dated the (ith instant,
says:
Tho Rev. Mr. Rosonfehlt, a convert
from Judaism, who was sunt out here by
a society for the propagation of Chris
tian knowledge among the Jews, commit
ted suicide in his lodgings. He left a
lettor a 'dressed to the Bishop of Kiugs-
tou, declaring that ho had been driven to
the act because certain persons were con
spiring against him, and tbAt he died iu
the full belief of the truth of Cbriatuni
ty. After mnkiug provision for his wife,
who is in Germany, ho left the remainder
of biH estate to bo used in aid of tho con
version uf the Jews. The death'of this
gentleii*An produced a profonnd sensation
in Kingston, particularly among the Jews,
who were of the opiuiou, before Mr.
Roseufeldt's letter was read, that he had
renounced Christianity.
Of tbe rocent proposed leAse of tho At
lantic aud Gulf Railroad to Morria Ketrh-
uni, Esq., of New York, the Bavaunah
News, ot Saturday, says:
It will be gratifying to the stockholders
to know that the prime mover of tbe
aforementioned proposition ia a well
known Georgia Railroad man, who, since
tho war has used his administrative and
From Hi
Tlie Folk taunt) ka-Llux.
of Engluud ; of Italy—His Excolleucv financial abilities to Much good purpose
Senator Count Kolopis ; of Switzerland— to accumulate a fortune in the railroad
Mr. Jacob Stampffi ; of Brazil—Burou business. Eujoying the confidence of the
dltnjuha. Agent ou tho part of the ! rnpitallots of this city aud alao of New
United States—-J. C. Bancroft Davis ; of j York, with ample mesns at his disposal,
Great Britain—Right Honorable Lord there is no doubt of his ability to faith-
Tenterdon ; Counsel for the United States i fully carry out the requirements of his
—Caleb Cushing, William M. Evarts. aud !t! — — 1 **-‘ l * L - *
Morrisou R. Waite; CouunoI for Great
Britain—Sir Roundoff Fulmer; Solicitor
for United State*—Charles C. Bauman, jr.
The Job 3laal|»al»tor.
In a speech iu tbo United State* Senate
last Friday, Senator Tipton, Republican,
used the following language:
Mr. Tipton aaid the tactics of the Pres- : could obtain
ideut's friends and adviser* in Congress were forced to leave and aeok it else-
had destroyed the harmouy of the Repub- • where.^ Wo^alao talked with several
licau party, and quoted au article from “ 1 *~ "* **■
he stockholder*.
An Exodu*.—We are reliably informed
that ou Saturday last one of the New York
steamers onrried as steerage passengers
from this city a gang of sixty mechanics,
comprising carpenters, mason* and screw-
men. The cause assigned is that they
work, aud in consequence
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journal published in hia own State, which
described the three leading championa of
tbe President in the Senate, as single-bar
relled demagogues. # He referred to the
deposition ot Mr. Sumner front the bead
of the Committee ou Foroigu Relations,
and aaid that in caucua Mr. Sumner's
friends wore only in a minority of six, so
that they could have triumphed in the
Senate with the aid of the Democrats had
not the “read you out of party tactics"
been resorted to. The *umu plan hud
been to ward off tho investigation of
abuse in New York, but it had failed and
it would fail henceforth, because tbe peo
ple were aroused. Investigati u had al
ready gone far ouough to show (he Presi
dent us a many handed manipulator of
job* and it must go ou until corruption
should be everywKere exposed and pun
ished.
The cause of the remark* was Mr. Mor
ton's defonae of Grant and partioularly
an effort to exculpate him in the matter
of the aalo of arm* to France and the
alleged deficit of $2,000,000.
The Savannah Advertiser baa seen a
sample “of semi-bituninous coal, of ex
cellent quality, aa part of tbe produot of
a large vein in Walker county, upon
Lookout Mountain. The vein, or prop
erty, is owned or controlled by eix or
wore prowinant reeidtiits of Savannah."
men who informed ua there are a number
of men w ho are anxious to abip on uouie
vessels, but can find none in need of
them. -Sarannah Ncum, 19fA,
Senator Wilson, of Muasachnsotta, lias
defined hia position on tbe Vice Presi
dency question iu a letter dated the 13th
instsut, which has been published. lie
says his name was bronght forward at a
time when Mr. Colfax hiul |K>sitivelj de
clined rouoiuiuation. That gentleman's
reconsideration of hia position was a sur
prise to Mr. Wilson. At first lie thought
to withdraw, but “by tbe advice of some
of the best Republican* of all seotions'' he
leaves the question to personal sod politi
cal friends.
A projected Peruvian railway will cross
the Audoe at au elevatiou of 14,009 feet
above the level of the sea, or 7,000 feet
higher than the highest point oruosed by
tbe Central Paoiflo railroad, and within
1,000 feet of perpetual auow.
Judge David Davis, who ia spokan of
in connection with the Presidency, is
said to be fifty-seven yean old, weighs
three hundred pounds,ia worth $3,000,000,
has broad shoulders, a maaaive form, a
large no«e, olosely-out brown bair plenti
fully sprinkled with gray, mild blue eyes,
a oloaaly trimmed gray beard, and no
mustache.
Yesterday morning the preliminary ex
amination of JameH Crocker, William
Crocker, Thomas Davis, Ueorgo Mobley,
Dr. E. 11. Ricbtmlsou, Charles Bunn,
John Crocker, 'lbourns Crocker and Al-
frod Watts, of Polk county, came up for
homing before United Staten CommiKHiuu-
or W. U. Smith.
Johu L. Conley appeared for the gov
ernment aud Colonel L. E. Bleckely,
George Hillyer, J. \\. II.. Uuderwood, J.
D. Waddell nud General W. Phillips tor
* e accused.
The first witness wns a man named
Murtiu Aired, who testified that on tho
night of June 22d, 1871, he was taken
from hiw house and whipped by a party of
meu. He lestltied that lie recognized
James Crocker when his wife came out of
tho hou.se with a big light. Alrcd’s son-
in-law, 'ihomuH Rogers,testified tiiat eight
hit Aired three licks n-pioce; that
they charged Aired with pulling out
sheeps eyes, and with stealing for fifteen
years. Two or three of the men find no
diNgniscH on. Aired iiid under - the bed.—
There was no light outside ol tho house
to see by. He did not hcu any of the de
fendants that night. Sarah Aired, wife
of tbe prosecutor, testified that Rlie saw
Jim Crocker, George Mobley, Thin Davis
aud William Crucser that night iu her
housn. Tom Davis wus mil dmguiNed;
Jim Crocker, W. Crocker and George
Mobley had pasteboard Imts, paper on
their laces aud blue Sicks on. WitnnsH,
ah hoou ns the door was bioko down, rais
ed n big light ami looked ut the meu.—
She recognized those named, but did uot
recoguizi) tbo others. She didn't go out
in the yard with the light.
The men said they came to see Aired
nhout whipping sheep und pulling their
oyns out.
Witness only used her oyos in tho light.
Bho wuh silent for fiileun minutes or
more, ia remarkable woman.;
The Alicd* and Crockers had not been
on friendly terms for a long time.
Thomas Daniel said that Jim Crocker
told him he laid reported Aired to tho
friends of the Ku-Klux ; subsequently In*
said be was afraid the Ku-Klux would
whip Aired, and the laltcr would blame
him wuh it.
Crocker said ho know nothing of the
whipping utid hud uothing to do with it.
Aired lias u Imd character and hG oath is
not entitled to credit. Witness haa heard
of Alred's stealing hogs, and he now is in
dicted for perjury.
Americas lingers, daughter of ,\lrcd,
testified that her father was charged with
gougiug out. William Crocker's sheep’s
eyes. His recognized Home of tho i
but couldn't describe how tho paper
fastened ou Jim Crocker’s nose,
inotln v went into the ymd with u light
after all were gone.
The defence offerod Thomas Davis ns
the first wiimss. Ho staid at Jim Crock
er's. On tho nights of June 22d and 23d,
ho and Crocker were at homo all night.
William Crocker and Thomas Crocker
slept in tho same room. Aired got out
warrants against some of the accused, and
they wore tried on Monday. Witness wus
not lionised then.
William Crocker testified that lie was
cutting tints near by und did uot go home,
but staid all night at Jim Crocker’s.
When usked if lie over was iu u den, suid
that lw lived m a alauity.
Thomas Crocker corroborates Davis’
And William Crocker.
Col. J. D. Waddell testified that when
ho left Polk comity three years ago, Al
red's reputation was laul, und ins oath was
not entitled to credit.
J. W. H. Uuderwood corroborated Col.
Waddell, lie defended Aired once and
acquitted him on u technicality.
Mr. Thompson, Col. K. N. Broyles, J.
A. Peck, W. M. Hutchins, J. <>. Waddell
and Dr. Borders, all testified to Alred’s
bad character und the want of credit for
his oath.
Aired hud been indicted by the Crock
ers several times.
Miss Ellen Crocker, daughter of James
Crocker, testified that on that night she
weut to her uncle William's. John W.
Crocker wus there, sick with tooth nolle.
They hcuril a noise about midnight in the
direction of Alrcd’s utul went to the door.
Johu W. (’rocker corroborates Ellen's
testimony.
Juiues Crocker tts'ificd that he bud not
been to Alred's house since the close of
the war.
J. T. Carter, son-in-law of Aired, testi
fied thut he heard u conversation between
George Mobley and Aired, Mobley de
nied being at the whipping, but said lie
wanted the lawing stopped, us it had cost
him $26, and that tho Crockers hud got
him in tho same scrapo. Heard Mobley
say he was not present at tho whipping.
Mobley was drinking at tho time, uud fell
down that day.
George Mobley, sou-in-law of James
Crocker, testified that he was at home th.it
night. That he did not. reuolb. ct telling
Carter that the case hud toM li.iu #6.»;
thut he had only punl out t >, that he was
not at Alred’s Lom-e th <i m K n*.
This is a brici : ■, n«m*is of the evidence.
The counsel to
for the Uuu'hnigu
sou, Chi.rh-» ia
Thomas Croi-kui «
was grunted.
Argument will he hoard this morning in
tho cuhoh of James Crocker, William
Crocker, Thomas l>Avis and George Mob
ley.
The folk Count) ku-klux.
Kroiu tin* Atlanta Coiuiinuion, 21H.J
Yesterday inorniug United Stales Com
missioner W. B. Smith heard the argu
ment iu the cases ol •laiucs Crocker, \V iu.
Crocker, Thomas Davis and George Mob
ley, charged with being Ku-klux.
John L. Conley opened the argument
for the government by reciting the sets
of Congress Mating to the charge. Muj.
George Hillyer, iu u cleur, suociuot uud
terse effort, defended the accused. He
characterized the prosecution as unjust
and iniquitous, and contended that the
United htutea Courts had no right to us-
aniuu jurisdiction over mere local offen
ses. Tbia was simply a ease of assuult
nod battery. There waa no politics iu it.
Aired wuh whipped for sheep and hog
stealing, and hud not been denied a fair
trial. To constitute a violation of the
Ku-klux act, it must be shown that the
whippiug was done to preveut the party
from exerohiug, or for exercising, his po
litical rights.
The men charged iu the warrant by Ai
red were witnesses against him in a perju
ry case to be tried next week. Aired rn-
stituted this prosecution to shield himself
from his crimes. Ilis affidavit was a tis
ane of falshoods. ft was u grow outrage,
that a man known to be a hog stealer and
a common scoundiel, should bo able to
have tivo reputable uiuu handcuffed and
jailed when there was not the shadow of
evidonco against them* It deserved a
strong rebuke at tbe hands of the court.
John. L. Conley concluded in a pointed
speech, contending that there was proba
ble cause for binding the parties over.
United Flutes ('omuiiaaiouer Smith re-
muikcd that the court did not wish to try
politics or religion. Tho point us to ju
risdiction wns not raised before emmnenc-
iug the investigation. Having begun tho
case and heard tho ovideucu, he would
dispose of the matter. The testimony of
tbe prosecutor, Aired, had beeu success,
folly impeached, llo felt sorry for him
and his family.
The court felt persuaded that Aired had
bean whippod, aud the question waa who
i*h» o.» ton moved
h. it. Richard-
Lu W. Crocker,
«d Waits, which
whipped i
No avid
iux't
evidence hud been introduced that
there was any Kn Klnx organization in
Polk county. It had a respectable court.
The testimony of several unimpeaohod
respectable citiaeu* was that the parties
charged were at home tha night tha whip
ping took place. Tbe avidenco waa not
sufficient to warrant the binding over the
parties, and ho would therefore order
their discharge and tho warrant dismissed.
This was applauded by the spectators.
Pursonal.—Col. Herbert Fielder ar
rived in the city yesterday from Washing
ton, where bo went as a delegate from
Georgia to a National Agricultural Con
vention, called by the Commissioner of
Agriculture, for tho purpose of getting
up a system of direct communication
between tho varions colleges and institu
tions of learning in tbe United States and
the Department of Agriculture.
Col. Fielder, Dr. Lawton, Mr. Barnett,
and J. Noretoss, and several others, were
present from Georgia. About twenty-five
States were represented.
Col. F. tells us that a resolution vu
passed requesting Congress to relieve
Georgia from tho penalty of forfeiture of
the Land Scrip which Benjamin Conley
pretended to sell for a mere Rong, and
which ho thinks Congress will certainly
give hoed to.
Col. F. was made one of the Vice Pres
idents of the Convention, and filled the
position with credit to himself and the
StatoAtlanta Sun, 21 ut.
Conscience Money.—A letter writer
writing from Atlanta to an interior paper,
says that it is rnmoied that one of our
citizens paid tho Ktute Road Investigating
Committee #1,000 conscience money.—•
Upon iuqnirv. we learn that. Mr. J. H.
Porter, General Ticket Agent, has paid
over #l,ooo without any demand being
mado on him, not ns conscience money,
but from a belief that tho Htate was prob
ably entitled to it. Mr. Porter has done
what he believed waa right.—Atlanta
CoMtitulion.
Tuf. Lowry Gang.—Near Rcufflotown,
in Robeson county, North Carolina, is a
swamp, tho ahidiug place of Henry Berry
Lowry's freebooters. Lowry is a mulatto,
and his followers fit adherents of this
modern Nat Turner. They are well armed
and skilled in tho use of rifles. For four
years past they have robbed and murdered
ad libitum. They mako forays into the
country uud villages of their districts,
and levy contributions at will upon tho
frightened population. Having supported
Holden aud Poolo in all political contests,
they havo novel - beou assailed by Federal
or State forces. Their victims have been
uniformly the partisan cueinics of the
Administration, and of course the Ku
Klnx law was uot designed to he euforccd
against this bandit aud freebooter Lowry.
The people, unaided, have sought in vaiu
to exterminate this lawless hand, but have
ever found pursuit, difficult nnd capture
impossible.—Luc.
Florida—Itceil riaiins to !••• (nucruor—Utile*
field Taken in Hand.
From tiio Savannah Hepulilieun.:
Tallahassee, Feb. 19, 1872.—Tho Le
gislature) adjourned nine die ut 12 o'clock
to-day, nnd tho members arc now on
their way homo.
There is some talk of nn extra session
to try Governor Rood, but when it will
ho called, if ut all, nobody koouis to
know.
Some curious questions havo grown up
under tho present stato of the case.--
Reed's counsel maintain that ho is still
the lawful Governor of Florida, that tho
adjournment of the High Court of Im
peachment without appointing a day to
meet, is tantamount to a dismissal of the
proceedings against him. Tho question
lias been raised, nnd will bo submitted to
tho Nupronie Court, of the Slate to-mor
row, as that body is now in session.
Beforo the adjournment to-day a reso
lution authorizing the acting Governor to
offer fivo thousand dollars reward for
Gon. M. S. Littlefield, and that wheu ap
prehended tho suid Littlefield bo turned
over to tho authorities of North Carolina,
came within a lew votes of passing tho
Assembly.
“I remember no instance in nil histo
ry," says Cassius M. Clay, “where tho
servile race has beeu set to rule over tho
former masters, nor do I believe that now
Kttch attempt will bear any other fruit
than discord or ruin to one or both par
ties. Thirty-throe years ago, when Abo
litionists were petitioning for the dissolu
tion of the Union, Henry Clay said : T
am, Mr. President, no frieud of slavery.
Thu Searcher of all hearts knows that ev
ery pulsation of mine heats high aud
strong iu the causo of civil liberty.—
Wherever it is Hafo und practicable, I de
sire to see ovory portion of tho human
family in the enjoyment of it. But I
prefer the liborty of my own country to
that of any other people, and the liberty
of my own race to that of any other
race.’ ”
The Negro Ku-Klux.— 1 Tho Circuit
Court which convened in Yorkvillo, S. 0.,
on Monday of lust week adjourned ou Fri
day. The negro Ku-Klux. Major Joo Car
ter aud his gang, who committed such
gross outrages last Winter, were tried and
convicted. Tho notroious “Major” was
sentenced to fivo years' imprisonment in
the penitentiary; the “Captain" to three
years, and othors of the gung to terms of
imprisonment varying from u few months
to one year. Snidor, tho policeman who
shot Tom Johnson in Yorkvillo last year,
acquitted. Peter Culp, indicted for
the murder of his w-ifo, was convioted,
nnd sentenced to be hanged on tho second
F riday in March.—Augusta Chronicle.
Sumner * attempt to call up bis resolu
tion iu the Senate iu regurd to the sale of
government urms und the pocketing of
most of tbe proceeds by Gruut'a military
rrug is thus spoken of by tho World:
Tho Administration is shaken and stag
gered, aud will fight off tho investigation
so long as they see any chauce of succors.
They are “between tho devil and the deep
sea/’ They dare not encounter the expo
sure and yet if they choke it off the pub
lic will regard their action as confession
of rottenness. But tho country is enti
tled to know what becamo of the four
million dollars which tho French Govern
ment paid but the National Treasury nev-
or received. In whose hand did it stick ?
A Srore of Heath* by I'recstn*—Itrsathlaff
Throuih Six laches (if Ice.
Chicago, Feb. 17.—A Sioux City special
says a lettor received from Col. U. 8. Por
ter, aud old, respectable citizen of Pane*,
Dixon county, Nebraska, says that ten
men, in addition to the two reported last
night, were frozen to death, and are miss
ing in Dixon county, and ou the Winne
bago Indian Agoncy. Home of tho bodies
are not recovered, but all are nudoubtedly
dead. People living near the head of
Logan uud South creeks obtain fire-wood
on the Winnebago Agency, and on Mon
day morning, the woather being very
pleasant, a largo party engaged in outting
a supply to last the balance of the winter,
when a storm suddenly cauie upon them.
Of the party thus engaged, 7 are dead and
missing. A man named Austin, bis sou,
and a boy named Collins, were overtaken
by the atorm near Paucu, and all three
were frozen to doath. Several othor
deaths aro reported, but no particulars
have yet been obtained. The suddenness
and severity of this storm ia unparalleled
in this country, aud it was rendered more
sovere by reason of tho snow being damp
when the atorm commenced, und after
ward* frae&ing^ Several nu n out in the
storm say the buow nnd ice was positively
six inches in thickuess all over their heads,
and that it waa with «reat difflenlty they
oonld Veep an opening through which to
bcaatha. The lose in etock ut this part of
the Stnto h»» l.een very heavy,. and wilt
prolmblv reacli several hnudreil beail. «
is feared that the worst is uot yet known,
and that more deaths have occurred.
New Yobk, PablTl.—Colton quiet.—
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