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ATLANTA, GA-. APRIL 4, 1X71
—T«:. Cnsmmiin thanks Mr.
W -.ua- for a very koimw volume,
1 - Tin Life an 1 Times of Rol>rrt—E.
..h, a S-athem Journalist."
am -u. contribution to Tuf.
i»2 fr«m ihr V4 rat la to Come.
’t l her hu-band, cx*
i! '.«•! X. C\. in Washington,
whether in* will r»tnrn lo North
- *• th lanre numl»cr of suits
• iagainst him for arrests,
::t f*f ImiHwiimnU have cle-
This is right neatly put up. These periods
flow glibly. It is a clever job of cool un
grounded calumny. A mere tiat&nic, and
at the same time, ornate fabrication could
not have been ground out.
The tiling recalls the melancholy days of
Georgia travail under the obstetrical m&nipu
lations of our worthy Governor. It is not
forgotten how this artistic Forney con
tributed forty-cent-a-line editorials to this
sacred cause of the Imperial Rufus.
Forney has hist none of his slander-mill
skill by a short rest. The potent alchemy of
that collectors!) ip has evoked a masterly ex
hibition of his power. Forney’s fancy is
beautiful. He sits in his sanctum and from
his wealth of imagination he concocts his
lovely periods and infernal calumnies, and
• issues them for genuine, with the inimitable
j assurance of a professional counterfeiter,
j Irrall seriousness, what arc we coming to
j in this l nion, w hen such despicable pirates as
this vile fellow And favor with our rulers,
and receive delilierate orders for a price from
l"w”.i:i l*re- j the country’s Executive to hatch out such
shameless, brutal and incendiary slanders
of millions of people, for the purpose of
subverting popular liberty, and continuing
t:«o domination of a faction whose crimes
arc alniut to drive it, an execrated thing, into
the deserved doom of oliscurity ?
And what is the duty of our beautiful,
peaceful J-Joutli thus slandered ?
^ hy, to remember .at the ballot-box the
1 trt*., its leaders and tools, when the day of
reckoning comes at the hour of election.
I h ive it in my
•nt. This is th
big hghly
'%t country.
fr*»m a let-1
* Hon I. N. j
v 20,
ie ineontro-
ulkated his
rcr lias pre-
. with
. i i«inu>
and
!. He :,!-
proved of
:i»»r in ihc
T!it* Fifth AftMnmination.
Learning that Attorney-General Farrow
had returned to the city from Oglethorpe, 31 a-
con county, where he has been spending some
time recently, conducting the investigation as
to the a> as. ination of Hon. George W. Fish,
of j Judge of the Thirteenth Senatorial District
ur j Court, w<* took upon ourselves yesterday,
:f " I the trouble to ascertain directly from him
su li facts as the public are permitted to
know.
A few days after the assassination, tlic
Governor sent the Attorney-General to Ogle
thorpe. w ith instructions to use every possible
< \ rtlon, and incur all necessary expenses to
detect and punish the assassins. The Attor-
y G* ucral carried with him two detectives,
Mr. Ed. Murphy and Captain Rarbury. Upon
arriving there, he found several prisoners in
jail, and turned them all at liberty except
om—a negro. He remained several days,
and returned home, leaving the detectives
tiu-re witli full knowledge of his theory of
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fails ti
it. Tlu
w Mt this
ig indiea-
next po-
Sumner,
p>t usiir-
can and
l» and
■ time
that it is
icstioned
■vir.ir.er has one
ukv, cliallengrs
v.uik. He dares
n he aided in
>r>s usurpations,
i the splitting of
in, such as it is,
ited value of the
osition may lie
I profit gleaned
iVordk
I'r:
Collector
ec for his
ii:attrition. He car-
11. The main idea of
if.t lure a disordered
'<» ith, upon which to
itcrference with the
ill enable him to con-
eti.ni in 1872.
e Philadelphia PresS,
* perform as a slander
does it scientifically,
nee his. But he turns
Mi-curdling a spec imen
v as the devil liiimclf
About ten days afterwards, John R. noi
se n back, a Radical bailiff of that Militia Dis
trict, w as arrested and a day fixed for a court
of inquiry. The Attorney-General, in the
meanwhile, returns to Oglethorpe and ap-
p* ars at the court of inquiry, determined to
>!•! man Lloyd, tie- father of Thomas
yd, Solicitor-General of that Judicial
Circ uit, but di In’t wish to arrest him until
night. During the day the jail was cleaned
out and placard in a more decent and com
fortable condition. Among other things
wlijeli were done for the comfort and cleanli
ness of the prisoners, a dry goods box was
placed in the room as a dressing table, and a
gia.v-, comb, etc., provided and placed on it.
| Also, another box of like kind, upon which
! was placed the water bucket and wash pan.
Tin detectives in the meanwhile had an
j eve to the size of the boxes. Alx>ut two
S ■ /dock that night, old man Lloyd, who
j on applicant for the Judgeship, to which
; Fish bad. recently been appointed, was ar-
| rested and brought to the Court-house, and
j the prisoner, Ilolseohack, was brought from
! jaii to the Court-house. While Ilolscnback
j was at the Court-house the detectives were
j r reted in the two lx»xcs in the prison.
i After some discussion (!) it was concluded
j riot to enter into the investigation until
| in< .ruing, and Holsenhaek was returned to
| !iis Inti in jail, and Mr. Lloyd with bine.
They su.-pec-ted that detectives were about
;h jail, hut bad no suspicion they were in
th.- room with them. They talked in a low
vine, so that they could not have been heard
by any one, even at the inner door. But one
of the detectives was within four feet of
:lu ni, and the other within ten feet of them,
an l both the detectives heard all that was
said betwet n them.
The conversation continued for ihreehotirs,
and tin- detectives, after hearing all that was
said, disclosed their presence—being unable
■ » continue longer in their cramped condition
in the Nixes. The conversation overheard
by the detectives, discloses every material
fact connected with the assassination.
JJol nback and Lloyd are equally guilty,
and under the direct evidence thus obtained,
and other evidence in possession of the At-
J rney-Gi nenal, cannot escape conviction.
Tin Attorney-General assures us he will Ik*
able to convict both of them. Ilolsenback
waived further investigation before the court
i»i inquiry, anil went to jail to await his trial
in May. Lloyd had no counsel, as he had
jot been arrested, and the court adjourned
t » Tuesday next, when he w ill have a hearing
before a court of inquiry.
The Court w as embarrassed as to how it
should proceed against Mr. Lloyd, as his son,
rhomas P. Lloyd, is*lhe Solicitor-General of
that Judicial Circuit, and insisted on con
ducting the prosecution. An issue arose be
tween Attorney General Farrow and the So
licitor-General, in which the latter became
enraged and hostile, anil which resulted
the arrest and imprisonment of the Solicitor-
General.
The A Homey-General will return there to
morrow, and will probably be there all the
week. Considering all the circumstances at
tending the assassination, it is a remarkable
case, and we will furnish our readers a full
report of the facts as they are disclosed be
fore the court. Mr. Ilolsenback is a Radi
cal office-holder. Mr. Lloyd is a Radical
and was a competitor for the office with
Judge Fish, anil the Solicitor-General is the
if the prisoner Lloyd, which certainly
relieves the so-called Ku-Klux Democracy in
this case.
Tin
hi "to
fa d-w.i n \ < .if a of unpunished crime—
■ d cowardice—murders by every
i.i,! h i\ on—the burning of school-
:m,| driving out with insult and blow
.‘masters and mistn-asea—have at
uhniuati *1 in organized insurgency,
- ;ii«- country at large reads
n:. • i-mi-nt from the President
: - of a State in insurrec-
i . m rs- the bayonets of the army
ting toward the South.
ration has evolved organized
i, it i.i i-;. It was but a question
and the time has come quickly
:back to the days of proclama
d ordt-rs and hurrying troops. Again
K-nt rears its bruised head, and, with
: j- in i glittering copper crest,
l- issue of force.
; it ion in the South ie dismal and
in extreme, and the evil is worse
.... more darkly hopeless that the
: th.- trouble are not merely political,
v deeiwr and more radical—social and
d The Northern and Southern sec-
f our country, it would sometimes
j. , iu :iri* not merely two nations in feeling
:,ud ambition i:i aims, but they are nations
living in different o utline.-.
In everything that makes a people, the
Smith is full a century behind the
North, th* favored “ foremost in the files of
time.” It is essentially ignorant, and un
co i. si, with all the curses of the want of
civilli*..t : .n. Tin- barbarism of slavery has
b :i ••!, . ially done away with, but the
slaverv of barbarism yet holds in dreadful
thru: ;< :.i evi ry man, woman and child who
live* in a Southern State.
There has lieen largely the mistake of re-
< >n-truction—in not appreciating this funda-
i i lit d fact. The legislation that would be
filling for Boston will not do for the savage
who fought with knives and called themsclve
c mlcmi n. We have given a kiss where a
only could lie felt. We have preached a
g i iif love and Iiojh? to a people who have
tw ‘*h only in a gosjiel of fear. No men who
b.. Iiiually t;v llt with masks on, or band to-
g« tiirrto WO nien, are fit for any govern
j'•' ! *b ’’ l! i»»e government of force. They
ur* outlaws th jfart., y and murt be UgixUtlcd for
Irgiuluti for tlu inmate* of our peniten
und workhPUHt,
U
*'Wliat Ail»” Carolina.
lion. C. G. Memminger, who was invited
consult with Governor Scott as to the best
mode of restoring order to the State and
could not attend, addressed a letter to that
functionary, in which he sets forth the fol
lowing grounds of existing dissatisfaction
ad trouble:
1. The conviction that the existing govern
ment of the State is utterly corrupt.
2. That it has failed in all the duties which
were required at its hands.
3. That there is no adequate security for
life or property on the part of the vital popu
lation of the Slate.
4. That the taxes laid by the Legislature
are so enormous and uncalled for that they
can have but one result, and that is in the
irtual confiscation of the entire income of
the citizens.
it was stated, had left home, because he had
shota negro preacher. Mr. G. writing to the
Telegraph, says the preacher, Gamble, is a
notorious Radical, who was trying to get a
colored man to leave his employ. He had
ordered him, if he did so again, or spoke to
him, he (Grouby) would shoot him. Gamble
repeated the offense three times and he shot
him. Grouby said he left to avoid arrest, as
owing to certain influences, he could not get
justice in the county.
Mr. J. H. Anderson retires from The Con
stitution. Mr. Anderson was one of the
founders of that journal, and by his zeal and
business energy contributed to place it in the
van of successful journalism.—Augusta Con
stitutionalist.
The Augusta Constitutionalist says a cave
has been discovered in Columbia county with
many relics of an age and people long passed
away.
Platfori
The Rhode Island Democrats, at their
State Convention in Providence, on Thurs
day, adopted the following platform by a
unanimous vote
Resolved, That the principles of the Dem
ocratic party, as annunc iated by Jefferson, and
the National Convention of the Democracy,
are as essential to the welfare of the nation
now as at any time in history, and as applicable
to the present condition of the American
I>eopie as they have ever been; that
affirm our belief in them, and our confidence
that they will again be indorsed by the peo
ple, and become once more, as they have
been in times past, their guard and the sup
port of their national and political progress.
Resolved, That we hail with admiration
the result of the efforts of our brethren in
New Hampshire, and congratulate them on
the glorious victory they have won by an
earnest and persistent devotion to the theory'
and practice of Democratic doctrines.
Resolved, Tiuit Congress, by its contempt
uous disregard for the interests of the people;
by its unjust anil unequal taxation,- its spe
cial legislation; its uniform encouragement
of huge swindling monopolies; its robbing
the people of the public lands and giving it
to grasping speculators: its unjust burdening
of trade by enormous and prohibitory duties ;
its unconcern for the poor man, and its lieap
ing of individual undeserved advantages upon
the rich, has forfeited the respect of the coun
try, and faiicd in its duty to the citizens.
Resolved, That the usurpations of Congress
in placing the ballot-box at the mercy of the
bayonet is in keeping with its indifference to
the rights of the people, and evidence of the
unworthiness of its spirit and disloyalty lo
republican institutions.
Resolved, That every citizen, naturalized
or native born, is entitled to equal political
rights with every other citizen, and that the
constitution of the State so ought to be
amended as that the unjust discrimination
now made between naturalized and native-
born citizens should be al>olisht*d.
Resolved, That, planting ourselves, hereto
fore, on the Constitution of the United States
:ts the bulwark of our liberties, we will never
cease our labors until it is once more made in
fact, as in law, the supreme law of the land.
We have been studying witii*agood deal of
closeness the temper of the Northern people
in connection with the late political events,
and if our examinations reveal anything at
all they show a steadily growing disgust and
alarm among all parties at the strides that
centralism is making, and at the pernicious
tills of the practical enforcement of that
great heresy r . Even the Republicans arc
shocked. The new Ohio departure is an ex
emplification in point.
But the course of the Democracy especially
shows a lively awakening to the overwhelm
ing importance of constitutional, legal and
peaceful resistance to the accumulating usur
pations of the Radical party. The New
Hampshire Democracy made the fight on
square issues of difference between Demo
cratic and Radical theory.
The above resolutions of the Rhode Island
Democracy show no inincing of language.
The arraignment of Radicalism, and the
enunciation of Democratic doctrine, are made
with a bold, ringing emphasis.
Many of our contemporaries have depre
cated any* expression of .Southern view, and
have urged that the construction of a plat
form be left to the Northern Democrats.
Certainly the Northern Democrats appear to
be takjpg a decided stand iu favor of that
policy which the more pronounced Southern
Democrats favor. The leaven is working.
The New York World, whose leanings to
the submissive policy have been very decided,
in its later issues, has manifested a great
change of tone iu its unqualified opposition
to and denunciation of the Ku-Klux meas
ures.
There is a great revolution of political sen
timent going on North. The poison is work-
Let us not, at the South, timidly yield
essential and undying principles, or in this
>f propitious change, debauch Demo
cratic policy, when its pure spirit is revolu
tionizing the North.
Another Speech A^alnnt Grant.
Senator Schurz has followed up Sumner’s
great attack upon Grant’s San Domingo
scheme with a powerful speech. It is said
to have even surpassed Sumner’s in its effect.
He tore Baez to pieces, exposed the false
statements of Secretary Robeson. The fol
lowing points bit home:
It was time now to dispel that confusion
of ideas which could m t dLtrmuLli l*ciwcen
the authority <>f the United States and the
person of the President, and arrest that usur
pation of power which gradually, and with
cat-like steps, is creeping upon this country.
Congress has lx*en railed to conflict with a
stronger attempt at personal government.
Wc were reminded of Louis XIV., with his
riding boots, whip in hand, entering the
Paris Parliament, and proclaiming “ I am the
State.” lie referred to a number of instances
in which great military men proved miserable
failures in civil offices.
The Senator from Wisconsin had likened
the Senator from Massachusetts to Brutus.
The Senator would remember that the world
had agreed to call Brutus the noblest Roman
of them all. [Applause.]
Senator Harlan endeavored to fling mud
upon Schurz’s motives, but the latter hurled
back liis dirty insinuations with stinging scorn
and withering rebuke. He added bitingly:
Senator Harlan’s respect for human nature
must be very meagre, when lie believed that
a man holding the honored and responsible
position of a Senator of the United States
>uld be influenced in bis official course by
motives so miserable. [Murmurs of approval
in the galleries.]
Schurz is an antagonist to be feared. Gran’t
may well tremble under the antagonism of
ich men, who if they fail to carry' a corrupt
Senate, make up a record for the country
that will tell terribly.
that he might sell his country; has dealt a
blow at the independence of the black Repub
lic of Hayti, which, besides being a wrong to
that Republic, was, in the irate language of
the exasperated negropholists, an insuit to tho
African race. And all this has been done by
Executive usurpation.
Sumner appeals to Grant to make peace
between Hayti and Domingo.
In this connection, Sumner uses two ex
pressions that are a little remarkable, in fact,
we may truthfully say, are very remarkable
indeed, and which rebound on Sumner so
hard, which rip the very hide off of him so
thoroughly, which contain a rebuke to him
self for his past course towards the South, so
scathing, that we wonder he never choked as
they fell from his lips.
In the opening of his speech, among the
reasons that he gives for looking into this
heinous case, he says it is for u the sake of
Republican institutions, which suffer «6hen the
great Republic makes itself a pattern of cio-
lence.”
Ah, tliou hypocrite! It never occurred to
this Apostle of Africa, to heed the voice of
humanity when the great Republic made it
self a pattern of ^jolence to the subdued
South. No more venemous partisan has
voted consistently and unwearyingly for vio
lence to the South, than this same pleader for
kindness to a strange island of semi-barba
rians.
But tue ne*t remarkable expression is the
following appeal to Grant:
He that ruleth his spirit, is greater than he
that taketh a city, and so the President, ruling
his spirit in subjection to the humane princi
ples of international law and the Constitu
tion of his country, will be greater than if he
had taken all the islands of the $ea.
It is late in the day for this acrid cham
pion of a revolutionary and unconstitutional,
a barbarous and inhumane reconstruction, to
be recalling the President to the benign in
fluence of law and the Constitution, when he
has been one of the most relentless and sav
age adyocates of numberless acts of deviltry
to the South outside of all law, humanity,
constitutional principle and justice.
Verily, Chawies had better swallow bis
own medicine in sack-cloth and ashes.
The speech of Senator Thurman, which
we reproduce,in reference to Foster Blod
gett’s right to a scat in the United States Sen
ate a$, Senator from Georgia, is one of the
clearest, most logical and conclusive speci
mens of legal argument that we have ever
read. It presents the whole matter in an in
telligible light, and with unanswerable power.
Senator Conkling endeavored to trip him,
but only established his own ignorance and
thorough want of comprehension of the sub
ject, and vindicated Mr. Thurman’s view.
The latter gentleman, it seems, has examined
every precedent in Senatorial history bearing
upon the matter, and his argument was a
masterly application of fundamental prin
ciples sustained by an unbroken line of par
liamentary precedent
The discussion ill have a peculiar inter
est for our readers at this time. And whether
Blodgett be admitted or not, the argument
stands irrefutably against him, and if he is
admitted, a9 i9 probable under the partisan
necessities, and brazen defiance of propriety
and law evinced in such cases by the Radical
faction, the case will form but another of
those Hazing outrages for which popular
wrath is gathering at the ballot-box, when
the day of political judgment comes and a
virtuous ami informed people give an un
trammelled verdict.
It may not be amiss to give, in a nut-shell,
Mr. Thurman’s chief point.
When a man presents credentials in the
United States Senate, and it appears that he
was elected by a legislature competent to elect,
that the legislature by which he was elected
was a legal legislature, and was the proper
legislature to elect a Senator, then he makes
a prima facie case, and if there is any ground
of objection lo his taking his seat, that must
be the subject of investigation afterwards;
but he must be in the first place admitted to
his sent. But when it appears to the Senate
that the legislature by which he whs elected
had no jurisdiction to elect him at all, the Sen
ate have nothing to inquire about, and to ad
mit is to perpetrate a wrong.
This suits Blodgett’s case exactly. The
legislature that elected him had no right to
elect him and was, therefore, not competent
o elect him. lie, therefore, fails to make
out a prima facie case, and the Senate would
violate law and precedent, and do Georgia an
justice to admit him until it first looks into
the merits of the case, and determines whether
} was elected by a competent legislature.
Mr. Thurman’s argument 19 admirable, and
e commend it to our readers.
Georgia VIattorn.
A writer in the Savannah Republican says
if Bullock’s view' is correct that the old is the
real Legislature until the new one meets, then
the appointment and qualification of Simms
and O’Neal, as District Judges, while mem
bers of the Legislature is a violation of the
Constitution which forbids holding their du
plicate offices.
Wc acknowledge .he courtesy of a visit
from 3Ir. Dell, the representative of that
sterling Democratic journal, The Atlanta
Constitution.—Sacannah Republican.
An engine and eight cars ran off and
smashed up at No. 5, Central Railroad.
The Gwinnett Atlas says little corn has
been planted yet. As much cotton as last
year, and a large quantity of guano used.
The Gwinnett farmers always make grain to
spare, and raise their own meat. Wheat and
oats largely planted, and looks well.
Col. Amos D. Starnes, formerly of the Ob
server here, will start a paper shortly, we
learn, at Fairbum.— West Point Shield.
The Chattahoochee Factory, at West Point,
took lire the 24th. Loss $1,000.
The Citizen says the prospects for fruit
about Dalton are fine.
I learn to-day that my old and highly es
teemed friend, Col. II. ll Jones, formerly of
the Cuthbert Appeal, has purchased one-third
interest (Col. Reid’s) in the Telegraph and
Messenger, and that the change will take place
immediately.—Editorial cor. Albany Netes.
E. H. Grouby, of the Early County News,
GEORGIA AFFAIRS.
Sumner’s Speech.
We have read Sumner’s ten column speech
on the San Domingo matter, and it is a strong
It riddles the policy of the President.
It seenrs to have drawn together one of the
largest audiences ever assembled in the Sen
ate Chamber. The pressure was so great that
the ladies were admitted to the Senate lob
bies. The sympathy 'of the immense mass
of hearers was with the Great Caned. The
Vice President had to repress the applause.
And the power of the huge speech has been
testified to in the unusual fact of its expen
sive transmission over the country entire by
telegraph.
The points made by Sumner, are ably sus
tained by copious quotations from high au
thorities of international law, while 6tate
ments of facts are supported conclusively by
official documents.
Mr. Sumner shows that Grant ordered our
navy to San Domingo and maintained Baez,
the President of that republic, in his revolt
from the government of Hayti—San Domin
go and Hayti being at war. Sumner claims
that Baez is a usurper, and that Grant’s navy
was a standing menace to Hayti, in favor of
Baez, in violation of international law. He
quotes the instruction to Rear Admiral Poor
to threaten Hayti with war, if it made any
interference with San Domingo. Baez wished
to sell San Domingo to the United States, and
he, though a usurper, was upheld in this pro
ject by our navy, while the neighbor Repub
lic of Hayti was menaced with war if she
interfered.
Sumner therefore charges the Grant Admin
istration, witli having violated the equality of
nations and perpetrated belligerent interven
tion in utter infraction of binding international
law. He further charges that Grant, in thus
using the war-power without authority of the
act of Congress, has been guilty of usurpa
tion himself.
To sum up, the interminable, but argumen
tative and, in this case, correct, Charles, puts
the case strongly, by saying that our republic
has forcibly maintained a usurper in power
The Covington Enterprise says the South*
n Masonic Female College is rapidly in
creasing in popular favor.
The LaGrangc Reporter says Meriwether
county will plant more grain than heretofore.
Also Heard county. Boykin’s mill burned.
Loss, $2,000. Incendiary work. Little
daughter of Anderson Crenshaw burned to
sitli.
The CarteTsville Standard says that the
contributions to the new churches come in
fast. Five thousand dollars to the Metho
dist already, and $2,000 to the People’s
Chapel.
The Madison Appeal reports the sudden
death of Mrs. Wm G. Smith
Mr. James IT. Pettigrew, of Butts county,
a few days since exhibited to our people one
>f the most remarkable freaks of nature we
over witnessed. It consisted of a corn-cob
which was as perfect, a hand as was ever
noulded in beauty form."—Griffin Georgian.
The Thomasville Enterprise says Colonel
Strong’s barns are burned. Incendiary
work.
The Rome Courier tells of the burning of F.
C. Rixey’s gin-house. Loss $3,000
The Dawson Journal says corn has been
planted greatly in excess of last year. Good
stands. Heavy rains will rot some of the
corn.
The Dawson people don’t believe in help
ing the Marshal arrest drunken men with
drawn bowie knives, resisting arrest. One
has been fined $10 for so refusing to hell.
Unkoersity of Georgia—Society Elections.
The elections by the literary societies of the
University at Athens took place on the 25tli
instant. The Phi Kappa made choice of J.
L. Hand, of Sumter county, as President
and W. T. Armistead, of Oglethorpe county
as commencement orator. Joel Hurt, of
Alabama, was chosen President of the De
mosthenian Society, and Edgar S. Simmons,
of Macon, commencement orator.
Shameful!—Governor Bullock has issued a
proclamation offering a reward of $500 for
the apprehension of a man charged with
simple larceny and another $500 for his
conviction. Is there to be no end to this
shameful waste of the public money and
prostitution of the Executive office?—Savan
nah Republican.
Not until we get an honest Governor.
The Railroad Convention in Savannah was
a big thing; 50,000 miles of railroad repre
sented. George A. Dadmun, of Philadelphia,
Willmington aDd Baltimore Railroad, elected
President; E. R. Dorsey, of Charlotte, Co
lumbia and Augusta Railroad, elected Vice-
President. The party will take the trip to
Florida.
Macon has organized a fishing club to be
know n as the Dixie Club. Their camp-chest
will be modeled after the chest used by Pres
ident Davis, which is now in the possession
of Colonel John B. Weems. The officers of
the club are: General Wm. M. Browne, Pres
ident ; L. P. Askew, Secretary and Treasurer;
Ed. T. Taylor, Quartermaster; John Valen
tine, Commissary.
The Augusta Chronicle says that a com
pany, headed by Henry T. Peake, propose to
complete the Port Royal Railroad. General
Toombs is to lecture on Magna Ckarta in
Augusta in May.
A sharp fellow, in the Columbus Enquirer,
thus sensibly talks about Columbus subscrib
ing to the North and South Railroad:
These are raising the old cry of too much
taxation. But, Mr. Editor, the people of Co
lumbus have heard this wail too long already.
We have sat idly by, with folded hands, and
seen Montgomery, by her enterprise and pub
lic spirit, double herself since the war—inva
ding our very thresholds and carrying trade
Let every man put his shoulder to the
wheel, go to the polls to-morrow and vote for
the ratification of the subscription, and turn
his back on the false prophet who advises
him to vote against this measure; for he is
either rich himself or the tool of some rich
man, who wpuld grow richer while he keeps
you poor. Mechanic.
It is said that Hon. Fernando Wood, of
New York, has prepared a series of proposi
tions, setting forth the views and policy of
the National Democratic party, and that he
intends, on the first favorable occasion, to
present them to Congress. It consists of four
teen sections, in which it is declared to be the
duty of Congress:
First—To provide for the immediate re
daction of direct taxation and of import du
ties to a strictly revenue standard.
Second—To provide for the immediate re
duction of public expenditures in all the de
partments of the Government
Third—To abolish all sinecure offices and
the system of collecting the revenue by secret
informers and spies.
Fourth—To restore to the people of the
States and their local governments, the rights
originally possessed by them under the Con
stitution.
Fifth—To abolish governmental paper
money and to restore the only constitutional
currency—gold and silver.
bixth—To reduce the army to a peace foot
ing, and abolish a system recently established
of employing military officers in the discharge
of civil duties.
Seventh—To provide against accummula-
tion and retention of large sums of money iu
the public treasury, by which the interests of
the people are subordinated to government
influence and made dependent upon the cap
rice and personal view's of the head of that
department
Eighth—To prevent the purchase and sale
of the public credit by the Secretary of the
Treasury, at his own option, with no other
control than his individual and personal
will.
Ninth—To brim* the President and his
cabinet advisers under the authority of law.
making them obedient to its provisions and
alike with others subject to its penalties.
Tenth—To restore to the Southern States
and people, peace, prosperity and content
ment, which can only be accomplished by a
cessation of vindictive legislation and milita
ry interference, and a recognition of their
equal rights, including self-government and
political equality with the other States and
peoples of the Union.
Eleventh—To revive American commerce.
Twelfth—To restore American credit.
Thirteenth—To reinaugurate American re
publican simplicity in the administration of
public affairs, and
Fourteenth—To aid, by proper, legal and
constitutional authority in the full develop
ment of the agricultural, mineral and com
mercial resources of the country.
Some Sen»lbl6 Word*.
The New York Sun is hard-headed and
practical enough on some questions. Its last
two issues contain some strong words about
Grant’s last effort to kick up disorders in the
South for the political benefit of himself and
the Radical party.
From the first article entitled Grant’s Re
bellion, we take the following, that has the
merit of truth and good sense:
When an evil is to be removed, wise men
inquire into its cause. What tl cn is the
prime source of these Southern disorders?
Many minor springs contribute to swell the
current; but the main fountain lathe charac
ter and conduct of the carpet-bag adminis
trations which rule and rob the reconstructed
States. At the close of the war, adventurers
from the North, drawing to their support
nearly the entire negro vote, got control of
those administrations; and hy the aid of Con
gress and General Grant, these adventurers
have contrived to keep in power in nearly all
these States down to the present hour.
Throughout these six years, the former
ruling elements of the South, excluded by the
Fourteenth Amendment from participation
in the Government of their States, are natur
ally incensed against the domination of men
of little character and substance, who do not
really reside in the country which they rule,
who treat it as vultures treat their prey, who
are ready to leave it as soon as they have glut
ted their greed, and who, in furtherance of
their schemes of plunder, are piling up moun
tains of debt that are sinking those States
into hopeless bankruptcy.
Coercive acts of Congress, and the bayo
nets of the United States army, can never
cure these evils. The first step toward Reform
is to remove all civil disabilities from all
class©**, and concede all right to everybody,
and then compel these carpet-bag adminis
trations to pass the ordeal of ballot-boxes
whjch are open to all citizens, and which arc
allowed to confer office upon their favorites
without restriction. When this is done, the
President may with a good grace insist that
the Southern States obey the laws.
Of one thing the Republican party may
be assured. They cannot maintain their su
premacy in the South by political disabilities,
coercive legislation, and the sword of the
Executive. The mere suspicion that they are
attempting to uphold their power in that sec
tion of the Union by such means will recoil
upon them with resistless effect in the North
and East.
In the second article entitled, “ The Great
Question in the South,” the same subject is
further elaborated.
The writer winds up with the following
practical deduction?, which undoubtedly re
flect the views of the great mass of moderate
Republicans North.
But this exceptional state of things is end
ed, and iu every State now a member of tb s
Union we shall be obliged to go back to the
sway of public opinion. This maybe in some
instances temporarily rude, rough, violent,
and unjust. But no State Jean long afford to
be unjust to any portion of its own people,
when it has lost the power to enslave them or
control their movements. Still less can the
Republican party of the nation afford to en
gage in an exceptional and doubtful course of
military coercion in the South for the mere
purposes of insuring to Gen. Grant, the dele
gates from those States in the approaching
National Convention of the party.
Women of tit© New Testa
ment.
No, 8—Lois and Eunice.
The history of Timothy is proof, incontro
vertible to every reflecting mind, that a child’s
soul may from infancy be so imbued witli the
grace of God that its whole life may be so
influenced and guided as to be entirely sub
missive to His holy will, and its feet tread no
other path save the narrow way' marked out
by the Saviour as the one of virtue and
peace.
And oh! what an unspeakable comfort
most the knowledge be to every Christian
mother’s heart, that her offspring may be
purified by religion, even from its birth.
And now, those of my readers who believe
there can no grace enter the soul until there
has been a violent repentance, a great strug
gle and a mighty deliverance from the thral
dom of sin, do not take issue with this asser
tion until you have deliberately and
thoroughly—aye, and also prayerfully con
sidered the matter.
’Tis true, that since the fall all are by na
ture sinners, and to obtain forgiveness of sins
repentance is necessary. We do not pretend
to dispute this fact; but no infant is held re
sponsible or accountable for sin until it 1ms
attained sufficient age to know right from
wrong; therefore, all who die in infancy are
saved. And further, no gro\M-up person,
after conversion—not even the best Christian
imaginable—is perfect, nor do they ever at
tain to a state; w'hile mortal,* when there is
not liability to err or to fall into sin again.
Now, if it be possible for an innocent
child to be, by nature, a sinner, is it not also
possible for it to be regenerated in infancy ?
Y’es, the Christian life may commence thus
early, and the young child’s course be fash
ioned and governed by grace and love, even
though it be, as it grows older, through a
constant warfare to which tlic Christian life
has been likened ; an l this Christian course,
whether begun curly or late, is chequered for
all by very nearly the same experience, only
differing in minor details, according to the
varying temperaments of different individ
uals.
St. Paul says in his second epistle to Tim
othy : “ When I call to remembrance the un
feigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first
in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother
Eunice: and I am persuaded that in thee
also.” * * * “For God hath not given us the
spirit of fear, hut of power and of love, and
of a sound mind.” * * * “Who hath saved
us, and called us with a holy calling, not ac
cording to our works, but according to liis
own purpose and grace, which was given to
us in Christ Jesus before the world began.”
Now, if grace was provided for us before
the world began, there is nothing unreason
able in supposing that we may come into pos
session of our inheritance at our birth ; even
though wo be not capable at the time of usiDg
it, still it is none the less ours.
If Christian parents, in sincerity and earn
estness, dedicate a child to God from its
birth, making an unreserved offering, as did
Abraham of Isaac, and then faithfully and
unwearledly sow good seed of instruction in
the fruitful soil of its youthful heart, mean
while teaching hy example as well as pre
cept, they need have fear but, like Timo
thy', that child will testify, when grown up.
that the same grace of which they have been
partakers dwells in him also.
What is a more lovely scene to behold than
that of a well-ordered Christian household ?
To sec children walking in the footsteps of
their parents and grand-parents, the whole
family dwelling together in harmony and
love? Even a skeptic cannot fail to be
touched on coming in contact with anything
so near a perfect state of existence.
And why is it that there are mny-a.days,
so few Timothys? Alas! alas! it is because
there are so few grandmothers and mothers
like LoU and Eunice. The parents of the
present generation throw back upon the
Almighty tho work which He has placed in
their hands, and expects them to do. They
sit supinely down (loving God though they
may) and enjoy the grace which is vouchsafed
to them, leaving their children to be wrought
upon hy the Holy Spirit when they come to
years of maturity, ;md think it will bo time
enough then for them to be lodged in tlic ark
of safety', as was, perhaps their own case.
How will those pious mothers feel should
thejr children drift further and further from
God, and never be saved at ell, and in the
great day of Eternity it be revealed to them
that, had they but striven or even sought to
implant within their infant hearts the seeds
of grace, all might have been different—the
outcasts saved, the fanijly circle unbroken in
Heaven; whereas, in consequence of their
neglect, the ruptured links can never more be
drawn together and unitod.
Ah! the terrible sadness of the
^ “ Mi&ht hare been /”
Christian mothers of this heaven-ble3t land,
with so many helps, so many encourage
ments, work while it is day, for the night
comcth—the night of death—when no one
can atone for any error of the past.
Now, to-day', ere it he too late, set y'our-
selves diligently to follow' the noble exam
ple of Lois and Eunice, anil when the even-,
ingof life is closing about you, and you fed
the night, indeed, approaching, your Tim
othy's wiil be by your sides to gently' sustain
your feeble footsteps, and whisper words
of love and comfort as you enter the
valley of the shadow of your mor
tality, and will in their turns direct
your cyca to the bright and glowing
[hereafter, where they will tell you they
are following hard after you, and you will
thus calmly sink to rest “jus one who draws
the drapery of his couch about him and lies
down to pleasant dreams.” And oh! what
is better still, you will arise exultant on the
resurrection morn, knowing that when the
Redeemer sets his starry crown, your jewel-
will be there, shining brightly, and will
gather fresh lustre through all tlic succeeding
ages of a blissful eternity'.
[N. B.—This closes the present series of
sketches of New Testament Women. 8 ]
Foster Blodgett.
SENATOR TnCRXIAN’8 ADMIRABLE ARGUMENT
AGAINST IIIS ADMISSION A8 UNITED STATES
SENATOR FROM GEORGIA.
from our doors. Our life-blood is being sap
ped, and if we would regain our past thrift,
now is the time.
The Railroad Excursion.
A LETTER BEHIND TIME—ON THE WAT—
HON. B. H. HILL—HAILROADS—SAVANNAH
—THE FEDERAL COURT.
Savannah. March 29,1871.
Editors Constitution: I write to-day from
the Pulaski House, famous in the past glories
of the beautiful Forest city, under the man
agement of Mr. Wiltberger, its present pro
prietor.
The special train, with three magnificent
sleeping cars—the “ State of Georgia,” “ City'
of Galveston,” and “City of Memphis”—
attached, arrived here at 11:30, a. m.
The incidents of the trip were not many,
nor, perhaps, very interesting. The Hon. B.
U. Hill was on the train as far as Macon, en
route to his farms in Southwest Georgia. He
seemed reticent about politics, and somewhat
sombre and a little gray perhaps, like the
Roman Senators of the Augustan age of the
Empire, or like Philosopher Greeley of the
Grant age of the American Empire, he was
thinking of what he “ knew about farming.”
He thought President Conley’s term of office
was clearly for two years only; Sumner an
impracticable bigot, about whom too much
fuss was being made; free negro labor twice
as dear as slave labor, and that this labor
would eventually be superceded by that of
other peasantry; and that cotton tit twelve
cents this year would pay. Although lie said
at the Bullock banquet that he never was a
Democrat, he confessed to having The
Evening Constitution, in which was Frank
Blair’s excellent letter.
However, I left the “ philosopher ” to his
meditations in the smoking car, and mingling
with the general ticket agents, I was intr(£
duccd to many of them from the South and
West by the affable Mr. B. W. Wrenn, of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, and Major
John B. Peck, of the Selma, Rome and Dal
ton Railroad. Among them was Mr. Barnes,
of Memphis, President of the ^Ticket
Agents’ Convention; Mr. S. P. Du
Shane, General Ticket Agent of the North
Louisiana and Texas and Southern Pacific
Railroads; Mr. Keary, of the Alabama and
Charleston Railroad, and others. Mr. E. N.
Kimball, the sleeping car genius, and his
wife, and the families of many of the ticket
agents, consisting of many charming sisters
and daughters were on board, and their
presence lent a charm and facination to the
otherwise prosey flat woods scenery along
the Macon and Brunswick route.
Away sped the beautiful train, and soon
the city and its spires and the grand Sa
vannah and the shipping on its bosom rose
full into view.
Yes! After the intervention of many
years since I first, as a boy, beheld it witli awe,
I am again here; and though the awe is gone,
and I look upon it with the sober eyes of a
man, there is still much of interest in it for
me.
I found the United States District Court in
full blast—Judge Erskine presiding with his
usual dignity and Lord Eldon-like precision,
while Judge Pope, the District Attorney, was
attempting to condemn some refined whisky,
despite the efforts of Hon. R. X. Lester, op
posing counsel.
I saw, too, a suspicious-looking kink on
the head of one of the jurors, while hard-by
was* colored bailiff.
I dined to-day with Forney’s “ Press” cor
respondent He is surprhied, he says, to find
no Ku-Klux deviltry going on.
More anon. Bidnbt.
PERSONAL.
The Czar and Czarovitcli arc at sword’s
points.
Mrs. Norton is writing the lives of the
poets laureate.
Ruskin is the champion American hater in
England.
Le Yerrier is heartbroken at the misfor
tunes of France.
Some New York church is anxious to make
Jim Fisk a vestryman.
It is said that Emile de Girardin proposes
to make his home in this country.
Jeremiah Lord, of Templeton, Mass., died
on the farm on which he had lived for'76
years.
Louis Napoleon has purchased the houge
in Corsica in which the “uncle of his
nephew ” was Lorn.
Salvini, the eminent Italian tragedian, fa
mous in Shakespearian characters, is pro
nounced hy Charlotte Cushman and Robert
Browning, the greatest of living actors.
The king of Portugal has congratulated
king Amadeus and Ills queen, uj on their
peaceable accession to the throne, and con
ferred various Portugese orders upon their
majesties.
Rossi, the Italian actor, according to a cor
respondent, drinks a pint of black coffee after
every act of his performance, and never goes
to bed until 0 a. m. lie has kept up this habit
for years.
The -Dr. Walker who is to accompany Cap
tain Hall on his Polar expedition, is not the
medical Major Mary' W., but smother man,
who was with Captain McClintock in the
search for Sir John Franklin.
ty Horace Greeley wrote a letter to Mr.
and Mr9. Ansel Warren, of Quincy, Illinois,
on the celebration of their golden wedding,
in which he says: “ I am poor, but it is my
own fault; because I indorsed other folk
notes. One was brought me to-day’ for $5,000.
which I must find a way to pav within a few
days. I have fooled away at least $150,000
trying to help others, and it has done no good.
Now Iguess my foot is down that I will not
indorse another note. -So you see the sta
bles all get locked after the horses are
stolen. Let me hope that you and Mrs. War-
ren are well.”
ty Thould the French indemnity to Ger
many be paid all at one time in gold, a train
of freight cars one and three-fourths English
miles long would ce required to carry it home,
and a train of twenty-9ix English miles, if
paid in silver. If distributed in gold each
one of the German soldiers in France would
receive five pounds, and sixty-one pounds if
distributed in silver. If paid in five hundred
franc notes, two freight cars, carrying 10,000
pounds each, would Be required to carry the
indemnify to Germany.
IST Mrs. Fernando Wood, at a recent re
ception in Washington, wore a dress of which
a correspondent writes: “ Take up your finest
collar, my lady reader—‘old point,’ by the
way. Now, imagine a whole dress with any
quantity of ferns and palms running over it
—waist, sleeves, skirt, all complete—with
pink silk underneath. Could anything be
more exquisite ? It looks, at this distance, as
if Mrs. Wood rolled herself up, regardless of
expense, in one of her own parlor window
curtains.
Which is Correct?—The St. Domingo
Commissioners say that the people of Do
minica are almost unanimous for annexation,
and yet Ben Wade, in his private letter, says
that if annexation does not take place at once
Baez will be ousted by the revolutionists. If
the former statement is correct, how can the
latter be true ?—Herald.
Mr. Blaine says he believes now that
Mr. Logaii will be the next nominee of the
Republicans for President.
THE CASE IN A NUT-SHELL.
Mr. Thurman—Mr. President, it is not my
purpose to go into the full argument of these
cases now, but only r to state them so clearly,
I hope, that they may be understood by the
Senate, and 11 make a very few observations
upon them, reserving the right hereafter to
consider them more at large should that be
come necessary. My principal object now is
to point out the distinction between the two
cases.
Contrary’ to any practice that has ever pre
vailed, without a single precedent for it, as
far as I am aware, the Committee on Privi
leges and Elections has embraced the case of
a Senator elect from Alabama, and a Senator
elect, or claiming to be elect, from Georgia,
in the same resolution, and that compels us
to consider both those cases. The recommen
dation of the committee is that they' be al
lowed to take their seats, and that the inves
tigation of the grounds on which their right
to seats is contested shall be a subject of fu
ture action. Now, in respect to that proposi
tion, I have this to say: that where a mem
ber of this body is elected by a Legislature
competent to e‘lcct him, and presents to the
body proper credentials of his election, it is
right, and such has been the uniform usage of
the Senate, to admit him to his seat, and if
there be ground of contest, to consider that
afterward; anil that upon these plain grounds:
that his credentials are prima facte evidence
of his right to a scat, and euiitle him to take
it and to hold it until that prima facie case is
overthrown hy testimony; and', secondly,
that any other course would deprive the State
of representation until an investigation could
tie had.
Now, sir, I do not know one single in
stance in which that rule has been departed
from. I have read every contested-election
case that has happened in the Senate from
the organization of the Government down to
this day; within the hist two weeks I have
read them all; and 1 find not ono single de
cision to the contrary. The only case that
might be supposed to be to the"contrary is
that of Mr. Thomas,of Maryland ; but upon
an investigation it will be found that that is
no exception to the rule. There Mr. Thomas
was not allowed to take his scat; but the rea
son why he was not allowed to take it was
that the Committee on the Judiciary found,
and so did the Senate, that lie could not take
the oath of office without tlic commission of
pcijury. That was the opinion of a majority
of the Senate. I may say in passing, that
in my judgment it was "a very’ erroneous
opinion indeed; one that did great
injustice to him and great injustice to the
Suite of Mary land ; hut that is jpo Ty v y^- un
der consjdejqtjQu, He was only prevented
from taking his scat because he could not
qualify ; so that the rule that when a Senator
elected by a body’ competent to elect pro
duces here the proper evidence of his election
he is entitled to take his seat, and to hold it
until ousted upon sufficient evidence, has no
single exception in the prac tice or usages of
the Senate. It is perfectly clear that these
two gentlemen arc entitled to take their seats
if they have the proper credentials of elec
tion, and if they were elected by’ bodies com
petent to elect them.
Now, in respect to Mr. Goh\ihwalle there
is no question that he was elected by’ a body
competent to elect a Senator; and' nobody
denies that there was a legal Legislature in
the State of Alabama. Nobody questions
that; nobody denies that that was the proper
Legislature to elect the Senator, so that the
objection to Mr. Goldthwaite does not go
upon the ground that the body that elected
him had no jurisdiction to elect or that it was
not a legal Legislature; and hi- case there
fore comes fairly and fully within the prece
dent set by llie tSpnate from the very organi
zation of the Government down to this time.
He was elected by a legal Legislature; it was
the Legislature chosen next before the vacan
cy occurred, ami he presents Jmrr the Dfopcr
credentials of his Section. lie, therefore, is
plainly entitled to take his seat; and if there
he anything in the grounds upon which his
right is contested, that is a subject of future
investigation.
But the case of Mr. Blodgett is wholly dif
ferent. The question is, do- s he ;; present pri-
tm facie case ? I say he docs not present a
prana fide case* beoqapa qot only must a
man have 4 commission iu order to make a
prima facie case, btU he must havi? been elect
ed by a body competent to elect him. You
might as well say that if a person claiming to
he a Senator here should present the commis
sion of a Governor, ami we had the evidence
before us that he was elected hy a town meet
ing instead of by ji Legialature, that would
make a prima facie case. It makes no prima
facie case. \ou have no investigation of
facts to ascertain; everything necessary to
the decision of Mr. Blodgett’s c.ise is Indore
the Senate and must be before the Senate.
Let us see.
The objection to liis taking his sent is that
he was chosen by a legislature that had no
jurisdiction to elect him, that he was chosen
in plain violation of the act of Congress upon
the subject of the election of Senators; that
lie was not chosen by the legislature elected
next before the happening of the vacancy.
Are these facts before the Senate? They are
before the Senate, because the Senate sitting
in this case, like every other court, is bound
to take notice of the history of the country ;
it is bound to take notice of the 1 iws of the
country*, it takes notice of the laws of the
ountiy; it takes notice of the constitutions
if the States; it takes notice of the laws of
he States in regard to the election of mem
bers of this body.
What, then, is the law ? Here is your own
statute which declares, in as plain language
an he used, that the Senator hall be elec
ted by' the Legislature chosen next hi fora the
happening of the vacancy. No language can
be plainer than that. That, of course, you
take notice of. In tlie next place, you take
notice of the Constitution of the State of
ia, which, nt the time this man was
lecteil or said to l>e elected to the Senate,
provided for the election of another Legisla
ture before the vacancy would occur.
Mr. Blodgett was elected in February, 1870,
by’ a Legislature chosen in April, 1808. By
the Constitution of Georgia, which this Sen
ate is bound to take notice of, which it has
taken notice of by declaring that it is a Con
stitution, republican in form, declaring that
in an act of Congress—by that Constitution,
as it existed at the time Mr. Blodgett was
lee ted, a Legislature was to lie chosen in No
vember, 1870. Now, we know, as a matter
of history, that ji Legislature was ac
tually elected, the time of election
being postponed by Jin act of the Legisla
ture from November until December;
hat on the 20lh, the 21st and the 22d days of
ast December the people of Georgia elected
a Legislature for that thutc. 1 hat Legisla-
iosen last December, is the Legisla
ture chosen next before the happening of the
aeancy which occurred on the 4th day of
this present month. So that you have before
you everything necessary to a decision of
this cjise, squarely and fairly before you, un-
indeed you are prepared to say that the
act of Congress upon this subject is not
worth the paper upon which it is printed.
Now, then, is here a prima facie case?
There is no primn fade case for M r. Blodgett
He was not elected by a constituency author
ized to elect him, but, on the contrary, in
plain defiance of the act of Congress, h<
sought to be elected hy’ a Legislature that had
no more jurisdiction to elect him a Senator
from the tjiate of Georgia than had the Lcj
islatureof the State of Ohio or of the Sta:
of New York. That is the plain case ; and
therefore his credentials make no prima fat
se for him at all.
Mr Conkling—To test that point, let me
put a question once more. Suppose, in place
of the protest which was presented by the
Senator from Ohio, I beflevr, another claim
ant had appeared and presented what he
sis toil was evidence of the fact that he 1
in truth elected by this »ame Legislature
terward, the preceding claimant, as he alleged,
not having been legally elected, would that
make a prima fade case in the instance of
the first man ?
Mr. Thurman—Yes, sir; and I will give the
gentleman plenty of authority’ for it. That
very’ thing happened in the case of Potter v:
Robbins. The credentials of Asher Bobbin:
as Senator from the State of Rhode Island
were presented to the Senate, and also at the
_ une time came before the Senate the ere
dentials of Potter, elected for the very same
term, each of them credentials in proper form
signed by’ the Governor of the State of Rhode
Island, and both before the Senate at the same
instant of time, on the 4th day of March,
when Senators were called to be sworn.
What did the Senate do ? They said th:\t
the man who had the credentials that were
prior in time, which showed his election be
fore the election of the other, was prima
facie entitled to the seat.
Mr. Conkling—Was this question made;
was not objection made to his being sworn ?
Mr. Thurman—Certainly it was made and
argued here for days. It is the most volu
minously reported case of all our contested
elections in either branch of Congress. It
was* argued by as able men as ever sat in this
body. There were the two credentials, Mr.
Bobbin’s credentials, showing him to have
been elected in May, and Mr. Potter’s cre
dentials, showing him to have been elected in
October. What did the Senate do? They
said Mr. Bobbin's election having been first
iu point of time, and he having the prior
credentials, he prima facie hail a right to the
seat, and they'admitted him to his seat, al
lowed him to be sworn in on a vote of the
Senate after two days’ debate, and then re
ferred the matter to a select committee, and
that committee, about two months afterward,
after a full consideration of the whole sub
ject, reported upon the case.
But, sir, that is not all. My friend has not
forgotten the celebrated New Jersey case in
the oth<;r House, which looked as if it would
almost produce a disorganization of the Gov
ernment. There the members of the House
of Representatives from the State of New
Jersey, who had received a minority of the
votes of the people of that State, (that State
the House of ifcpreSft. t *,“J' es rl f.7 xienUa ^ of
their election, signed 01 ?? veni ? r
nington, of that 8U«ft “g
great seal of the Staift The Clerk of
the House of Repreawtot*'refused
to call their names, and il ft happened
that there could not be a majority on either
side to decide that question. The members
from that State, parties were so nearly bal
anced, made the majority the one way or the
other. Their scats were contested on the
ground, if I recollect aright now, that the
votes of a county had not lieen counted be
cause not received technically, I believe, with
in the time, and there was laid before the
House of Represeutatives a complete certified
abstract of the votes of the State of New
Jersy, showing that the Democratic claimants
were entitled to the seats.
The Whig candidates had received the cer
tificate of Governor Pennington that they
were entitled. Now, what did the House of
Representatives do? After a week, if my
recollection is right, after about one weak of
anarchy in that House, the Clerk refusing to
call the names of the persons who had the
certificates from Governor Pennington—we
all know how Mr. John (Juujcy Adams rose
in his seat and demanded that the business of
that House should not be stopped by the act
of a mere ministerial officer of the House,
and made a speech which produced SO much
effect that a Democrat rose In hit place
and moved that Mr. Adams take the
chair, and it was carried; and Mr. Adams
took the chair and ordered the names of the
persons holding the ercdeutials of Governor
Pennington to be called, and they were called
and they were sworn and took their seats;
and afterward, upon an investigation of the
subject, if I ant not mistaken, hy the unani
mous report of the committee they were oust
ed of tboir seat, and the seats given to the
contestants.
So that you see how the precedents are.
aUchibW^ !S many •wfWara. b«t nearly
you like!
A prove a most
most curious feature
efficient not act. The
of Pa; is life is
Wherever there is a constituent body compe
tent to elect, and that body elects at the proper
time, and the person elected presents his cre
dentials, that makes U )o-i7*o facie case, and
entities him to take his seat and to hold it
until ousted upon a contest or upon a scru
tiny.
OUUFKENCU l.KTTKK.
MONTMARTRE AND TUB INSURGENTS—THE
REPUBLICS OF 1848 AND 1871—THE GARI
BALDIS FLOCRENS THIERS FRANCE
NEEDS REPOSE—THE HATRED TO PRUS
SIANS—THE NEWSPAPER*—THE THEATKR-
PRUSSIAN MISSILES FOR SALK—THE ENB
viruns reported to—macmahon—gohjlp.
Special Foreign Correspondence of The Constitution.]
PaJtjs, Match 18,1871.
Montmartre ooutinnes still tube more than
a uouree of uneasiness every day that it holds
out, increases the difficulty of reducing the
hot-headed patriots by rational means. The
authorities hesitate to proceed to extremities,
and their soothing system of treatment is con
strued as the consequence of fear. Blood
must flow, nnd the sooner the three days’
work is over the better for France. The Fa
bian tactics of the Government are not so
impolitic perhaps, afteralU They have freed
the city from the disarmed troops, and have
been bringing in thousands of regular sol
diers and trains of artillery. The “ pscyco-
logical moment ” is therefore at hand. Gen
erals Vinoy and Paladine are ready to clear
the famous hill. Will the soldiers do their
duty—.he conservative portions of the Na
tional Guards theirs? That is the question.
If the Government should lie lx-aten in the
tight—what next, and next ? Flourcns and
Blanqui at the head of affairs, with all the
Ministers chosen from the Reds of Belleville
and Montmartre. Vet, such would lie the
issue fer a time.
There is a real parallelism between
THE KEEVBUCS OF 1848 AST) 1871,
except that now, the national work
shops of Lcdru Rollin, or “Lcdru,” as
he is contemptuously called by the Social
ists, are replaced by the civic force,
preferring the government thirty sous a
day lo their ordinary work. Then, as now,
the National Guard of iKW.OOOmen is divided
into two hostile camps—the bourgeois, li!>-
eral and conservative—the proletariat, social
and revolutionary—between which the gov
ernment oscillates like a pendulum. Mont
martre is resolved “ to defend the breech,” till
a new Assembly he elected to vote definitely
the Republic. The latter, as in 1848, is claimed
to he above discussion—superior to universal
suffrage, 'rite lflth of May is Iteing rehearsed
as tlie prclu le to the terrible days of June.
Greater vigilance is being displayed around
Montmartre, its 220 cannon and 50 mitrail
leuses. Women now mount guard. In the
day time, the works can be visited without
great difficulty. A. powder mill has been
established ; the caves in the hill have a mil
lion off hall cartridges. Everything is ready
to
llLOW PAIIIS INTO TIIE AIK,
ritlier than surrender. Men belonging to the
National Guards who sympathize with this
stronghold return to private life to find work,
and ascertaining wages have fallen 50 per
cent by the war, resume the r.ke of warrior.
Piano-makers, masons and painters largely
compose the insurrection.:.u. There are 40,-
000 shells in the depot, and last evening the
cannons fired a salute and signal lights were
burned in honor of the conclusions of a mon
ster meeting, which deposed Generals Vinoy
and Paladine, and elected Garibaldi and his
soil Mcnotli, commanders in their stead.
Iu any case, the mutineers decline to
obey any but superior officers elected
hy their body. Titsir organisation is
very cemph to. There is a « Head Center,”
to .(dogates from the twenty wards of
the city repair to deliberate, and concert
Ltchwor is. This committee has issued an
tppeal to the military, not to obey any orders
given to fire upon the sovereign people. They
iiave resolved to adopt Lafayette's flag—the
tli-color—instead of the pure red.
KLOURENS AND BI.ANqCI,
having been tried in their absence an' 1 con
demned to death, for their endeavors to ex
cite revolution during the siege, have replied,
doubtless from their hiding place in Mont
martre, to tlic government sentence. Flourcns
is ready to die, if his blood will wash away
“ the assassins of the country, and the mur
derers of January last"—meaning Favre,
Trochu and Picard. These placards arc
printed on “ red ” paper as a matter of course,
and postfcd in the districts they are intended
to influence. To tear one down, or almost to
take a copy, would be visited hy immediate
death. The passers-by 6top, read them by
candle light, approve, sigh or laugh, accord
ing to their sympathies.
Pressure is"being put on the government to
surround Montmarire by line troops—stop Gie
pay of the disaffected men—disband the bat
talions to which they belong—but to do some
thing. Ridicule, which generally kills in
France, ha9 failed at Montmartre. It must
lie something like a desperate remedy, that a
philanthropic astronomer recommends the
seeeders, to study “ the brilliant appearance
of Jupiter, 8irius, and Mars,” during their
night watches, and so induce a rational state
f mind. It will be some lime I fear, before
the spiders wiil weave their webs in the
kepis of the Montmart rains, as they did in
the helmets of Pindar’s heroes after war.
TIIIERS
is the real “ medicine man* for Franoe, and
if he, and the Assembly, now about npenihg
again at Versailles, pull well together—give
and take mutually—the work of reconstruc
tion will advance rapidly. First, enter must
be established in Paris. Agents arrive daily
with orders from the Stntes and England for
goods, but have to proceed to Belgiuiv
have them executed. There is plenty of
work, and plenty of money to pay for it, but
the hands decline to undertake it. The
typhus of revolution is abroad—spreading,
raging. Louis XIV. said, C etat r ent md ;
the Jacobins of 1S71 parody tlie saw by as
serting le pcuple, e'eet mai. France has had
faineant kings, may she be delivered from a
faineant people! The party of order is the
strongest, but timid—hence the force of rear
tion. It is time to extinguish the fire.
Paris is expected to be relieved from the
state of siege she lias lived under since Sep
tendht last, so that the suspension of the
journals lately decreed by General Vinoy—
a measure which has increased, not allayed,
the general irritation—will cease.
THE NATION WANTS REPOSE.
There is the Prussian bill to pay, and hon
ored it will be, if France will have to part
with her pound of flesh. A national loan
will he issued, and will he taken up without
interest. If necessary, jewels will be sold
or pawned, but the Prussian must he got rid
of. 11c will not he forgotten. The French
are not a vindictive people; their bark is
often worse than their bite; but they are
united to have their revenge on an implacable
euemy, who made war wiUiout chivalry, and
concluded it without generosity. No more
sentimental wars far France—u"o more wars
for an idea. The enemica of Prussia arc
henceforth the fondled friends of France.
THERE IS THE ANTI-rRCSSlAN LEAGUE,
to never allow a German to work in France.
In Paris, as in the Provinces, the Tueton
who returns is tracked, denounced and
hunted. Prussia menaced reprisals, but the
balance is against her. ller tourists threaten
not to visit France, they are prudent, and
avoid the trouble of being turned back. The
French have launched their excommunica
tion. Of foreign educations, hardly any meet
with attention. The London conference is
viewed as the undoing of the 1856 treaty,
the natural consequence of the defeat of
France. England has secured the plutonic
salve, that henceforth a power having once
signed a protocol cannot disown it till the
occasion arrives for doing so. France has
forgotten Pio Nino, and the only cognizance
she has of the new King of Spain is, that he
has contributed 200 francs to the fund for her
wounded.
Among the many persons and things ar
riving in Paris are the rogues expelled at the
commencement ef the 6iege. Thby have a
fair field just now, as the police force is ex-
THE NEWSPAPERS.
that appear for’the'fim ^Jla^l’.‘ ,,ose
the printers, paper ^ l,me ' Wher e
a mystciy that Sue could ! 7 , coniL ' fr °ht is
public censor, like Homer J™,®," 1 *. J he
of late, as the market iJ h u , n °ddiug
photographs and prints » " ‘^ filthy
arc generally old me,, dehnluo h ° T n ' cllas era
dejoie are frewned Jha filles
verity; they were the irZ L n t,pamn «-
great sins of the defunct KmmL a,no ,".? the
patriotically reprobated i;., :illd hence
sumed such proportions on S"i S ! md as ~
that it was requisite to suppress « , " ,uIt '™ rds ’
rather ” carpets,” by preSLuaU* “V or
another vice bequeathed to us w’u, U w,u
•pf society. Some of the newspaper
mg announce their intention
mourning till the last lightning w
helmet disappears from tlie ooumry ° r
TITE theaters
arc struggling to keep open, but only that of
the Palais National pays its expenses The
new pieces will not lie brought out till the
town “fills,” and then we will see the Pru«
sians pointing a moral and adorning a talc
Paris has had no carnival ibis year, and the
fete of micurOmo was prohibited,as tlie wearing
of masks or the holding of the usual public
balls might lead to a breach of tlie peace
Besides, what need of other masquerades
than that of Montmartre ?
The journals arc commencing lo pick up a
few advertisements, hut one seeks in vain for
such from busincsss houses. Money-lenders
come out strong, nnd premise “ everv facilitv
for payment.” ' There are the usua'l crowd
of announcements from professors of Eng
lish—which tell their ow n tale. None has
yet appeared offering lessons in German
Then there are lo he met with, in by-places
and on the rain-spouts, those familiar notices
in manuscripts, where real poverty makes
kDown its wants. The museums are gradu
ally reopening, and tlie galleries of the
Louvre have no longer guardians in imperial
livery of gold and greeii, bqt are dressed in
neat suits of black. 1 think
THE GUNSMITH’S SUM’S
are more attractive than any museum—they
display collections of Prussian missils of
every fashion aud size. A shell of two hun
dred weight, that was picked up at AutcceU,
is the lion of Paris lions now.
It would he au insult lo ask how are we off
for food. There is no stint of anything—to
be hypercritical, all that I can observe to Ik;
wanting is line table salt Only coarse, pick
ling material can be had for love or money!
Tee supply of water still is taken from the
beinc—not unpalatable when filtered—pend
ing that the aqueduct at Onrcv be freed from
the Prussian dead. Horses are yet scarce a
cab is an affair to be arranged alter the man
ner of a solemn treaty—but six francs an hour
generally concludes the bargain, and ensures
a happy state of mind in cabbv.
The environs of the city continue to be
the object of a visit hy thousands. First tho
battle fields are visited, and laurels, crow ns
and bouquets deposited on French graves, or
to state the exact truth, “ pits.” I visited
SL Clouo on Sunday last, being the first
holiday, the citizens were free to go there
without a pass. There were not less than
50,000 persons mopir.g in sadness and in
silence among the blackened ruins. The
destruction of this village will he the acme
of German shame forever. The French de
sire not to rebuild the town, but leave it for
young France to ponder over, and remind
them what they have to do. The ruins of
the palace promise to he carried away in the
form of souvenirs.
MARSHAL MACMAUCN
has arrived with his family. He is truiv a
changed man, and looks as if his military
life has closed. He hobbles on a stick like a
crutch, the twitches of pain being too evi
dent in his emaciated features. Trochu is
not coming to Paris, and lie is right; but lie
is preparing a book—'“ The History of the
Siege.” He was recently reported to have
gone mad. To perpetuate his break down
will confirm the rumor.
At Lyons resided two sisters, for safety.
After the peace, one of them set out for
Switzerland, lo bring back her brother, a
prisioner of war, and an invalid. Oil the day
fixed for the arrival, the other sister had pre
pared something like a family banquet. The
sister duly arrived, and when asked where
was her brother, replied, •• Below, in his
coffin.”
“ We have lost a great many men in this
war,” observed a Frenchman to a friend.”
Alas! yes, but all my creditors had volun
teered for the front, and ’—. “ Well, they
have all come back.”
A SCA.VDAL,
GOVERNOR POSEY, OF INDIANA, SAID TO I1E A
NATURAL SON OF THE FATHER OF IIIS
COUNTRY.
Apropos of a picture iu the Indiana State
House, a correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial says:
Your inquiry will Ik- answered 1>y T the in
formation that it is the portrait of Colonel
Posey, the first Territorial Governor of Indi
ana, and that the portrait was painted from
a miniature likeness done on ivory when he
was quite vounjr, nnd which was the only
likeness of him extant. There your informa
tion would probably cease, and you would
leave the building without conceiving the idea
that you had gazed upon the “ counterfeit
resemblance ” of a veritable soil of the “ Fa
ther of his Country;” yet the story of his
birth aud paternity is often canvassed among
the older and more prominent citizens of the
State, and, perhaps, outside of it; and none
who are acquainted with the evidence upon
which it rests doubt the assertion that Col.
Posey was the son of George Washington.
The history of the matter succinctly stated
runs alxrnt in this wise : The Posey family,
consisting of husband and wife, were tenants
on the Mount Vernon estate. The then Col.
George Washington was married to Mrs.
Custis, in 1758. About 1754, Mrs. Posey was
left a widow by the death of her husband.
Washington, then a young man, frequently
hunted and fished on the estate, and some
times, when belated, accepted or sought the
hospitalities of Mrs. Posey's house, who is
represented as a lady of very considerable at
tractions. At wlmt time or how it came
about that the relations between the two as
sumed a more intimate character than those
of hostess and guest is, of course, unknown,
but it is certain that some two years after the
death of her husband—she in the interim
having remained feme v>ic—a son was born
to her, who ^rew up to be that same youth
whose portrait adonis the wall of the Gov
ernor’s room in Indianaimlift.
It is also certain that Washington (greatly
to hi9 credit as a just and equitable man, if
our theory be correct) always to the day of
his death manifested a warm and friendly’
interest in the fortunes of this young man.
He charged himself with bis maintenance
and education, and wlwn he arrived at a
proper age, he was for a time a member of
the military family of the General in the
field, and subsequently, bv his influence, wa-
made the Governor of the Territory of In
diana. These circumstances of themselves
would make a strong ease in support of the
truth of our assertion, hut there arc other
items of evidence of even greater weight
of authority than these. The family of Uol.
Posey' were in jiossession of four or
live likenesses of Washington, taken at dif
ferent periods of his life, given to him as
souvenirs of an intimate regard. Washing
ton kept up a correspondence with him of
the most confidential character, sometimes
addressing him as “My Dear iSon.” These
letters are or were very recently in existence,
and in the possession of a gentleman of this
fitite.
The Posey family arc now extinct. Gov
ernor Posey married, and left surviving him,
as his only issue, one sou. The son lived
and died a bachelor, without any known
hfcue. He inherited as heirlooms the minia
tures of Washington, and also the papers of
his father, including these letters. W lien he
died, the gentleman I refer, to above became
his literary executor, and came into posses
sion of the Washington letters.
HT Cabral was elected President of San
Domingo iu 1865. It was the first and last
popular election in that island. Bv the Con
stitution of that country, he is still the W*1
President. But Baez ousted him through a
conspiracy, and Baez and Grant arc partners.
BT The prolific novelist, who writes tin
der the r.om dr jitume. of Louisa Mcthlbark is
so inharmonious with her husband—savs a
Berlin correspondent—that they are about to
separate on terms ol the profoundest mutual
JAtisfaction.
A Kansas politician, writing a letter
of condoienoe to the widow of a “country
member," who had been his friend, savs: “I
ant pained to hear that has gone to
heaven. We were bosom friends, but now
we shall never meet again.”
Products ou the Dairy.—The annual
yield of the 9.000,000 cows of the United
otates, including 800,000,000 pounds «,f
cheese, 576,000,000 pounds of butter, 160,000.-
000 gallons of milk sold and ct usuuied, is
estimated in value at $515,000,000.
Ivf Ground has been broken for the Cen
tral Park Hotel, New York. It will be on
Fifth Avenue, facing the park, and will cost
$1,600,000, three times the cost of tlie 8t.
Nicholas.
Mr. John Wesley Witherspoon, a mer
chant of Columbia, is a great-great-grand-sotx
of John Witherspoon, one of the siguers ot
tho Declaration of Independence.
ty Mr. Wade pronounces the removal of
Mi\ |Sumner from his Committee, an act of
5® w Will rebound upon the men who
aid IV