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WASHINGTON.
The Maryland Democratic Con
tention—The views of a late
Member of Congress, who has
left the Radical Camp—The
Savannah Defalcation;
[Special Correspondence of the Atlanta Daily Sun.]
■Washington-, )
July 21,1871. ]
The brief proceedings the day be-
! fore yesterday of the Maryland State
THE DAILY SUN
Tuesday Mobnino Judy 25.
JAMES ALLEN SMITH is our duly author
ized Agent for East Tennessee. His receipts wil
be respected by this Office.
To Lawyers.
We publish in full the decisions of
the Supreme Court. These decisions
are rendered every Tuesday, and will
appear in our paper every Wednesday
morning.
We also publish daily the order of Democratic Convention are remarka-
bnsiness and the daily proceeding of I (people at a distance may very
the court. Every lawyer who wishes P ro P er Jy think) for jhe omission to
to be fully posted about the Supreme ^ ie nominated upon any
„ , i , , K , sort of a political platform. Having
Court, can be accommodated by been on t£e spot at the time, Ia£
taking The Sun - . i enabled to say that the failure to re
literate the true Jeffersonian doctrine
The Savannah Morning News. I dl l d n( f originate in any apprehension
of embarrassment from the extraordi-
This sterling Democratic paper, I nary “Departures” proposed in other
in its issue of the 82d insfc, famishes The nominations made are
abundant evidence of its very wide X^forms ot Island
circulation. We were highly gratified would have been on whateveitplatform
at the unquestionable proofs adduced might have been adopted; indeed,
of its great popularity. The News I there is not one democrat in a thousand
well deserves the patronage it re- the low-
, , * Ti. • • enng of the Conservative standard a
ceives, and more, too. It is, m every s^gie j ncb<
respect—in appearance, in mechanical Doubtless the silence of the Con-
execution, as well as in matter—a 1 vention may be attributed in part at
model paper in our State. I bsast, to an almost universal desire to
One of the proprietors of The Be. S-talSSt
commenced his business intercourse I odeum of a too plainly expressed an
with the world as a salesboy of the tagonism to their heresies. It is ne-
Savannah News. Many changes have vertheless regardedhere by thoughful
taken placesince then. We are,how- me ? ^ a i l u ^ der; mor 1 e
. . , , „ emboldened to say that the better pol-
ever, rejoiced to see, amidst all of I icy would have been to have “spoken
them, that this old organ of the De-1 out,” (even if “in meeting,”) than to
inocracy is not only prosperous, but have remained mum at so critical a
remains true as steel to the old Jef- P er ioJ> inasmuch as I happen to be
fersonian creed. May its days be
long and its shadow never be less. | se ntatives in Convention assembled,
——— I unhesitatingly condemn. In the
. jnommees I have the fullest confi-
wap IS a sign 0 f J® nce > personally and poEtimUy. But
r 6 the public must be approached in the
deal liberally with their negro popula
tion. Atleast, intelligence and prop
erty should lie fairly represented. It
is to the unconstitutional mode by
which negro suffrage is enforced by
Federal authority and Federal bayo
nets, that objection is chiefly made—
not at all to the rights which should
be accorded by the proper authority
to the different classes of our popula
tion.”
I confess that the views of this
former opponent of Democratic prin
ciples are such as to entitle him to be
received with outstretched arms by,
the Democratic Conservative party.
For the admission of such men the
K tes to the inner temple should be
pi wide open. I know a plenty of
so-called Democrats to whom, were I
the janitor, I should close them upon
the first look, or the hearing of the
first whining apology. :
His view that the Supreme Court
cannot take up the question of the
validity of the amendments of the
Constitution and pronounce judg
ment upon them seems to me to be
correct. They can only decide par
oles, His eloquence, the flashing em
phasis of His eye, the splendor of His
life—were unsubordinated to the con
sciousness that He was the Son of
God. Of all men, He was the only
one that ever made His own con
sciousness the standard of His ideas
of judgment in reverence and fear.—
The peculiar feature of Jesus’ life
was that, He insisted that His own
consciousness of the Godhead ought
to dictate faith to the world. There
are three or four characteristics of
this consciousness.
1. Its earliness. It was not the pro
duct of experience. Neither His
mother, nor brethren, nor education
gave it to Him. It was His own ;
and it was strong in His boyhood,
even in His eleventh year. A boy’s
consciousness is of to-morrow’s play
and of present joys. That of Christ
■ffas His immortal divinity.
_ 2. It was constant. It had no va
riation. Though put to the test, it
was constant and uppermost in all
conditions and moods of his mind.
It was the same when sleeping on his
mother’s heart; the same when wan-
ticular cases under them, as they may. i dering amid the solitude of Galilee;
arise. [the same when worldly friends tried
As to matters here of interest to i to mislead him, the same when ac-
yonr State I observe that an inves-; cepted or rejected,
tigation has just been made by j 3. Its endurance. It was the same
Treasury officials into the affairs of tin trials and tribulations as in peace
the Collector of the Customs at Sa- > and rest, and the same amid the scoffs
vannah, Georgia, by which it is re-! of the populace as the tranquillity of
vealed that Mr. Robb, the Collector, i the solitudes. It was everlasting.
is entirely innocent, while a defalca
tion of about $8,000 is traceable to
Wellman, the Deputy Collector, and
several subordinates. Cato.
HZOn, Greeley says
civilization;” yet he persistently refuses |
to “hang out his sign.’
JBtay* YVm.Manning is suing for aChicago
divorce. Mrs. M. does not admire the
proposed un-Manning of her.
dessperate struggle ahead in plain
English. We must lay aside all
squeemishness, and even sensitive
ness as to others if an impres
sion upon the masses be really in
tended^ A spade must be called a
spade—a thief a thief—a tyrant a ty
rant, and a trickster a “Bill Nve.”
The other evening I was fairly put
to the blush by one who had formerly
been a Radical, and even a represen
tative in Congress, from the State of
Illinois: “Wiiy, oir,’? ooid to, “your
new party attitude gives me no
‘chance’ at all. I am convinced by
5 years’ experience that a centralizing
Republic is a thing that never did am
never can exist. It is nondescript—
a monster; centralism means despot
ism.” I felt ashamed of myself for
the tame manner in which I had em
_ ... . „ . . .deavored, on different occasions, to
The citizens of Bennington, Yer-1 express the same sentiment. “If” he
mont, are Stark mad about celebrating I continued, “your party shall ignore
the anniversary of the battle of Benning-1 this great issue, I cannot act with it.
ton, which occurs on the 16th. The leaders of your party seem dis-
M . . posed to pursue a line of policy
The Courier-Journal complains mus t keep honest Republicans
that the “Bourbons ” will get in its way. I 0 ut of your ranks, ex necessitate. Be
No reference is had, however, to Bour-1 sure that the principle of distribm
The Richmond Dispatch says
“Greeley is nothing but Greely.” Yet,
the impression is abroad that Greeley is
a very great farmer.
Dr. Bliss, of Washington; is fre
quently asked if cundurango can cure
cancer. His answer invariably is, “c
durango can, sir! ”
The Louisville Courier-Journal has
an article headed “Let there be light.’
No journal is more in need of “light’
than the C-J.
bon whisky.
tive powers between the States and
the General Government has now
| four million of voters.”
Upon the other issues which the
World newspaper of New York, and
The Courier-Journal takes occa
sion to intimate.that it does not “agree
precisely with the Radicals.” Then why
don't it allow its editorials to illustrate I the Patrxot of this city, (both owned
the fact ? bodily by the Tweed and Belmont
1 clique), desire to put in the very
83L>A writer in the Washington Capi- front, my intelligent interviewer put
iol says Mrs. Fair closely resembles Lydia I himself upon the record as follows:
Thompson. That man had better look “Look at the thing yourself with
out, or, when Lydia returns from Europe I one eye half open, and you must see
that old, old storey will be told again. that reform in the civil service is a
^ meaningless platitude—that the
Aneurism of the abdominal aorta,” I “tariff” can no more be made a polit-
says an exchange, “is decimating the M test in the Northwest than the
A,,. ™ Christian religion. The Radicals in
’ .. . . , that quarter go far ahead of the Dem-
Chicago people are ah applying for divor-1 Qcrat J in Pei fwIvania, or even those
in the Mineral Districts of Maryland,
tt • -v »■«. ,in favor of free trade! I dare not tell
B^The Christian ZW inclines to the ^ that tMg ig ob .
opinion that there is more than onedeviL | i nm-hr TUifa
ces.
jectfontothe dominant party. This
It is a little hard to understand how one whole matter has been discussed by
devil can carry on all the mischief that is master minds, including Calhoun,
abroad in the world, and at the same time McDuffie, and Hayne on the one side,
pay as much attention as he does to the and the immortal Webster on the
Christian Union. I other, and not a voter was controled
by it. The ‘judicious tariff, with in-
It turns out to be a mistake that I cidental protection’ dodge of Gen.
Nickell, of Butler county, Ohio, has quit Jackson, put in the shade the whole
the Democratic party. He refused to | of such misterly arguments.
follow the “New Departurists” into the
Radical camp; hence the announcement |
was made that he had quit the Democrats.
Nickell is a Democrat of the old genuine
metal, and “good as gold.”
Tlie New Poet.
Utterly astonished to hear from
such a source, such sensible and liber
al expressions of sentiment, I begged
to be informed as to the modus ope-
randi he thought ayailable, by which
the conservative party, which utterly
repudiates all resort to disorder, muen
less military force, could avoid diffi-
. culty in bringing back and limiting
The real name of the new Califor-1 the Federal Government tp its legiti-
niapoet, “Joaquin Miller,” is Cin- mate functions m view of what are
cinnatus Hiner Miller, and his father’s I called the 14m and loth Amend-
home is Empire City, Oregon. The ments. to the Constitution. I must
poet has been successively a Califor- here give his ideas m his own words
nia miner, proprietor of a “pony ex- ‘*1 regard these amendments as void
press” over the mountains, editor of a P ir .°\ P owe ^
Democratic paper in Eugene City, Judicial Department of the Govern-
attomey-at-law in Canyon City, and ment so to declare them: but Constitu-
county judge of Grant county. He tional provisions axe inoperative until
married, about 1863, a young lady I Legislative authority, by specific laws,
named Minnie Myrtle, who had ac-1 shall grre them vitality. Take, for
quired reputation as a writer of ver- example, (said he) the act to enforce
ses. In 1870 he separated from his pgr® suffrage. Even by the pro^s-
wife, leaving her with two children ions of the Fffceenth Amendment the;
provided for in Oregon, and set out I act in transferring tiie junsdiction for
via New York, for London, where he offences _ against it to the Federal
has since resided. He is represented Courts, instead of the State tribunals;
to be as impulsive and reckless as would doubtless, upon the success of
Byron, and predicted in some fare- j the Democratic party, be declared void
well lines addressed to his wife, and I by the Federal Judiciary. The whole
published in the Oregon State Jour- question, then, of suffrage must needs
nal, that he would have “a name I be left to the State Legislatures. No
among the princely few.”
man can doubt that the States would
[Reported Specially for the Atlanta Daily Sun.]
MARIETTA FEMALE COL
LEGE.
I further propose to show that the
Redeemer placed Himself in such a
position that he might be judged
aright. Feeling,.to be intense, must
be circumscribed; and the reason
that faith in the 19th century has
weakened, is because the world is
larger in thought and civilization,
ana therefore the difficulty of believ
ing anything intensely. The Savior
foresaw this and determined—
1. To refuse all worldly entangle
ments, the touching family ties and
the sweet endearments of home. He
rejected them all or put them in
abeyance. How dared He do it ? Are
they not divine ?—the tears of chil
dren, the love of friends from whom
I catch the glow of inspiration that
nerves me in the hour of conflict ?
Yet Jesus dispensed with them all,—
abnegated their connections, divorced
His heart from all these ties. Were
He only a man, He would have had no
right to take this course; but being a
God, He was just, and did it. He did
His duty alone; did it in his own
consciousness—in His own transcen
dent glory as the image of the hidden
God.
2. To make no appeal to the imagi
nation and as little as possible to the
senses of His countrymen. Notice
the difficulty in getting St. Peter to
throw off the senses and accept the
living faith. While He was a Christ
to their senses He could not be a
Christ to their faith.
A man must die to be appreciated.
Our dearest friend must depart before
we know how dear he was. So of to
day when the morrow has come; so
of my childhood, as I see it in the far
off wake of memory. We must
retire to the quiet and sanctity of iso
lated solitudes to realize the true
power of the orator. Therefore our
Savior said: “ It is expedient for you
that I go away.”
We of the 19th century can get a
better idea of Him than those of His
own day. I would rather have these
four histories than to have seen Him
walking the midnight sea. I would
rather see my children filled with the
love and worship of His holy name
than to see them lying on His breast
hushed to sleep with His divine cares
ses.
The great aim of the Savior was to
separate Himself from the imagina
tion and senses of men, because He
knew He was a most fruitful theme
of the fancies of men, and nothing
is so fatal as the imagination where
the affections are engaged. Then ob
serve. Bom in a manger; reared in
the stormy hills of Galilee, without
any connection with the metropolitan
splendor of Jerusalem; torn from all
romance; “ despised and rejected of
men;” a man of sorrow and ac
quainted with grief.” Poor! not
Lazarus as poor as poor as He. Be-
1 1 ' He did not say,
Commencement Sermon i>y Dr.
A. A. Lipscomb.
Mabietta, Ga., )
July 23,1871. J
Editors Sunt : The Commence
ment Exercises of the Marietta Fe
male College were inaugurated this
morning with a masterly sermon by
that truly wonderful man, Dr. A. A.
Lipscomb, Chancellor of the State
University. His reputation as an el
oquent divine had preceded him, for
the Presbyterian Church was filled to
overflowing at an early hour. For
the last three years we have been a
rapt hearer of his many lectures on
the “Life and character of Christ,”
and many sermons beside, and
must say that these, together with the
sermon of to-day, compel us to pro
nounce him unsurpassed as a Chris
tian Philosopher and Bible Commen
tator ; and in eloquence, we find his
compeer only in the mighty Paul of
Tarsus.
Theological questions too profound
for the wisdom of connoisseurs he
often toys with as if it were an im
agery i 111 fields unknown and barren
to the genius of Clarke, he wanders
only to gather a thousand gems cf
thought, and sometimes while pro
claiming the gracious goodness of his
Lord his heart and soul are kindled
with an inspiration that makes his
face radiant with the joy within, and
sustains him in flights of eloquence
where none but Spurgeon ever dared
to soar.
The following very imperfect syn
opsis we hope may serve to convey an
idea of his profound research in
Scriptural lore, and his acquaintance 1
with Christ ‘ and his teachings, that
almost approaches familiarity.
Text: And because I tell you the
truth ye believe me not.—John, viii,
45.
No child ever asked why it should
speak the truth. No man ever de
bated in his consciousness wheth
er the obligations of truth or the- in
terests of falsehood were the same
And this is not surprising—truth is
instinctive. I speak not of animal
instincts, but of intellectual instincts
which are variable, and are amenable
to age, circumstances and culture.
The highest forms of intelleci;n: l
truths are to be found in the exer- low human poverty,
cise of self-denial. There is nothing ■ “ I am as poor as Lazarus, but “ The
so heroic as manly, straightforward j foxes have holes, the birds of the air
truthfulness when the feelings are in j have nests, but the Son of Man hath
the ascendency. If you desire to not where to lay His head;”—thus
test a human mind, you must tempt
the love of a dog than the admira
tion of an Archangel. I do not wish
them to serve me as Christ the pro
phet, the raiser of the dead, the bene
factor. I intend to be the Christ of
their hearts and faiths. Therefore I
must go away. I will become the
Christ of the sinner’s sorrow and the
sinners guilt. So long as I was your
physician and benefactor, ye believed
me; but when I tell you I am the Son
of God, because I tell you the truth
ye believe me not. (All! saddest of
all words!) I am the Christ of your
wretchedness, sin and sorrow. You
believed me before. Now when I tell
you the final truth, yet will not be
lieve me.”
As four years ago I stood before
St. Peters at Rome, I noted the vast
corridors surrounding this stately
pile, shutting it out from the world.
Why this waste of outside gorgeons-
ness ? I knew that there were the
Alban hills in their terraced beauty,
that yonder was the waving Cam-
pagna, and here the rolling Tiber.
Why were not these the outward orna
ments of this pile of an excavated
Alp ? But no! Angelo had de
termined that we should see St. Pe
ters and nothing else. “My work
alone ! Pll bind you to St. Peters /”
So did Jesus. Dropping this; re
tiring from that; weaning Himself
even from Mary’s tenderness, from
home and friends; asking no more
an audience in the temple; seeking
no more the multitudes on the
mountains, he commenced talking,
conversing. He was too great to be
an orator, too sublime to be eloquent.
He must talk. Take His conversations
and addresses, and the wonder is He
could talk to them as if the universe
had been present. The orator needs the
multitude and their aromatic praise
to inspire him. The single heart of
the woman of Samaria was to Jesus a
myriad of hearers.
Oh! the infant Savior, the Re
deemer, the Savior of sinners, the
child of Mary, the Son of God! Can
I not believe in Him, my Lord and
my God.”
And thus closed this grand ser
mon. The great leading thought
and doctrine advanced was, that in
our religion there is nothing abso
lutely but Christ. Dr. Lovick Pierce
preaches to-night. The examination
of the Sophomore class takes place
to-morrow, and Sophomore reading in
the evening. More Anon.
its feelings. There are many men
who would rather die than violate
the truth, but who, in moments of
excitement, of prejudices, of pas
sions wild as romance, pay no regard
to the highest type of truths—the
truths of feeling.
Our Lord recognized this. The
great barrier in the way of his recog
nition as the Son of God, was not the
want of evidence—of token—of his
divinity, but because the light was so
bright they closed their eyes against
it. Blinded, they dreaded Hin, and
commenced to oppose Him, until op
position became hostility, and these
found their consummation in. the
spears of Roman centurions and the
agonizing nails of the Cross.
I purpose to discuss the method
adopted by our Redeemer to unfold
shim": : •' . r: . •
to His countrymen His Divine Son-
Let us look at the condition under
which the dootrines were announced
to His countrymen. We shquld know
the light under which it was pub
lished; for the light in which a pic
ture is viewed is often as important
as the pieeure itself.
First among these conditions is :
The personal intensity of His own
consciousness that He was the Son of
God. I believe that His many mira-
stripping himself of everything that
we might behold the bare subnmity
of His Godliness. The summer pomp
and summer foliage conceal the splen
dor of the mighty oak. Its ribbed
might, its “heart of centuries,” are
seen only in the bare, bleak anatomy
of winter. So with Jesus; the effer
vescence was removed that we might
see the naked sublimity of His di
vinity.
If a census of the crimes, the pov
erty, the outcasts, lepers, widows,
Marys and Marthas, had been taken
at His birth, and another at His
death, what a change it would have
shown! Jesus the benefactor, the
friend, the philanthropist, the reform
er—as a preparation for Jesus the
Redeemer. And the change did come.
The Transfiguration on the cross was
scarcely, greater than that on earth.
There was not a mother that could
not sing a diviner lullaby over her
sleeping child; not a Mend that could
not go to a grave with a sweeter joy;-
not a household that had not caught
His inspiration. But this was only
the dim morning before the noon-day
splendor of his everlasting mercy.
. He said in substance: “I see my
countrymen misunderstood me. They
would make me a king because they
admired me. I do not wish to be ad
mired. Any man would rather have
with Senators and °^ ess ’
who declared that his view oi t j .® ase wa3
what was -intended when thfc w was -
passed. % . ,
The amount involved is said to b*. aoout
five million dollars, and all railroad, bank
ing Insurance and other large Corpora
tions are interested in the result.
One of the parties who came here from
Savannah for the purpose of testifying
against Collector Robb in the Custom -
House case, soon after his arrival, boasted
publicly that he could take “ten thousand
dollars and hold his peace.”
The presumption is that ho took less
than five hundred dollars and held his
peace. He is said to be a “Colonel,” the
date of whose commission and the record
of service cannot be found.
Dispatches sent hence last night rela
tive to the termination of theRobb-Well-
man defalcation in the Savannah Custom
House, were inspired if not dictated by
Robb himself, and were based entirely
upon the statements contained in WieU
man’s last affidavit, which it is understood
was made in consideration of Robb’s
agreeing to pay the eight thousand dol- r
lars due the government, and use his in
fluence to prevent Wellman being prose
cuted for the frand. On this affidavit
Boutwell assumed to exonerate Robb from
all complicity in the matter, and retain
him in office for the present. Wellman’s
first affidavit is said to be a different affair,
altogether, and was accompanied by two
other affidavits, which place the matter in
a far different light from what is shown by
the affidavits quoted in last night’s dis
patches. It is asserted that these last ~
mentioned affidavits have not been shown
to the Secretary, or if he has seen them,
he has ignored them altogether, as well
as other important testimony in the case.
Secretary Boutwell this afternoon ex
pressed himself as not altogether satis
fied with the investigation conducted
here on yesterday and the day before;
and will undoubtedly order the case to
be fully ventilated, which will result in
a change of the collectorship at an early
day.
Governor Bollock’s letter in reply to
a circular from the Eu Klux Committee
has occasioned some comment in politi
cal circles. It is regarded as evidence
that he contemplates a departure from
the Republican party, for the purpose
of making himself the leader of the “New
Departure’ faction in Georgia.
[■5; Angus.
TELEGRAPH NEWS
[Special Correspondence of the Atlanta Daily Sun.]
IMPORTANT THINGS IN
WASHINGTON.
Statistics of Immigration-Five
Millions at Stake—Tlie Banks,
Railroads and Large Corpora
tions in a Dilemma—-Blunders
and Injustice of High Govern
ment Officials.
MORE OF THE SAVANNAH
CUSTOM HOUSE.
Something that Looks Like Bribery—
Robb Tampering with the Dispatches
—Two Ways of Swearing, «Sfc—Jlul-
loek’s hate Better.
Washington, D. C., July 22, 1871.
Official retnms received at the Bureau
of Statistics, show that daring the quar
ter ending Jane 30th, 1871, the total num
ber of passengers arrived at the port of
New York from foreign countries, was
107,114, of whom 64,213 were males,
and 42,901 females. Of the total num
ber arrived 101,015 were actual en
grants—males 60,082 ; females 40,933.
Under fifteen years of age 19,812—fif
teen and under forty 71,056 ; forty and
upwards 10,147. The deaths on the voy
age were 92, of whom 54 were males and
38 females.
The principal Nationalities of the im
migrants were as follows :
Sweeden, ..
Norway, ...,
Denmark,...
Switzerland.
17,845
Ireland
.26,149
4,613
Gr’tBritain (locality
399
unknown.
. 6,672
30,814
Spain
. 104
1,983
Italy
5,727
Holland
. 409
1,286
Belgium...
. 78
1,143
Russia
. 295
849
Poland....
1,305
Cuba
Bermuda..
. 77
Several representatives of large bank
ing houses, in New York, have been here
within the past few days, and it is un
derstood that their business was to se
cure a stay of proceedings in the collec
tion of the 2} per cent tax on incomes
accrued during the last five months of
1S70.
-It will be remembered that General
Pleasonton some time since issued in
strnctions to Internal Revenue officers,
declaring that, under the act of July
1870, incomes for the time mentioned,
were not taxable. Thereupon the banks
paid their customers, their interest cou
pons without deducting this tax. Sec
retary Boutwell, not desiring to relin
quish this tax, referred the Commission
ers’s decision to Attorney General Aker-
man, who gave an opinion overruling the
Commissioner’s instructions. The Com
missioner then issued instructions in ac
cordance with the Attorney. General’s
views, directing, the assessment and col
lection of the tax. The banks now say
that they acted in good faith upon the
Commissioner’s decision, and paid their
interest Without deducting the tax, and
if assessed now, as directed by the Sec
retary, the amount will have to be paid
out of their own pockets, as it is im
possible to hunt up the holders
of the coupons thus paid. They (the
bankers) claim that the act of the Com
missioner is binding upon the Govern
ment: It is probable that the Secretary
will take this view of the case and that con
sequently the Commissioner’s original in
structions wiil be carried out
General Pleasanton states that his de
cision, declaring that the tax "was not col
lectable, was made after consultations
By the New York Associated Press.
Col. JToIm B. Christy before the Km Klux Com
mittee.
"Washington, July 24.—J. H. Christy,
of Athens Georgia, was examined to-day
by the Ku Klux Committee. He testi
fied, in 'substance, that ho knew of no
Ku Klux organization in his district, or
in any part of the State. In answer to
the question as to what facilities he
had for knowing anything about it, he
stated he had been twice elected to Con
gress from that District and lie usually
attended the Courts of the Western Cir
cuit as well as those of the Northern Cir
cuit.
In response to a question he said he
believed he was personally acquainted
with the people generally. No more
crime is committed now than before the
war in his section of the State. He had
admitted that there had been some vio
lations of law by disguised parties for the
perpose of punishing persons for living
together in adultery and fornication, al
so for theft, &c. He stated that it was
the general opinion in the community
that people took the law in their own
hands because so many criminals had
been pardoned.
Another circumstance which gives rise
to many exagerations, in reference to the
so-called Ku-Klnx, was the fact that mis
chievous young men, for the purpose of
amusement, sometimes wrapped them-
elves in sheets, and scared the supersti
tious negroes, some of whom affected to
believe that they were the ghosts of de
ceased Confederate soldiers.
These negroes had disguised them
selves and whipped a white man in Clarke
county and there had been but little said
abont it. Another party of disguised
negroes who had tried to mnrder a man
in Hancock, had been tried and sen
tenced, bnt were subsequently pardoned
by the Governor.
The witness expressed the opinion that
Alf. Richardson had not been attacked on
political grounds, and that no negroes
had been intimidated from voting the
Republican ticket, bnt some had proba
bly been prevented by threats from vot
ing the Democratic ticket.
The whole tenor of his testimony was
to the effect that he believed there was
no regular Ku-Klux organization in
Georgia, for the purpose of violating the
laws.
The examination was long and tedious,
but the above are the leading facts elici
ted.
U'eather Probabilities.
The easterly winds will probable con
tinue at the Atlantic Coast till Tuesday
morning, and the area of Southerly
winds, with threatening weather, extends
to New York by Tuesday night. Brisk
winds.from the South are probable for
to-night on lakes Michigan and Superior.
Local rains are probable from Northern
Illinois to Mississippi.
ENGLAND.
Matters In Bag-land and Ireland.
In the House of Commons to-day Geo.
Dixon, a member from Bermingham,
wished to know if the reduction of the
civil list was possible. Gladstone replied
he believed the question arose from mis
apprehension of the character of the list
which he said was a solemn compact
made between the sovereign and the peo
ple, at the beginning of each reign. Any
economical advantages which resulted
were to be credited to the Crown and not
to the country.
It would be well for Parliament to
maintain this view of civil list, as it would
contribute to encourage the Queen’s ser
vants to fulfill their duties.
The Prince of Wales goes, on Monday
next, to Dnblin, with Prince Arthur, the
Duke of Cambridge, the Princess Louise,
and the Marquis of Lome. Brilliant
fetes and balls, closing with a grand re
view, are projected during the stay of the
Royal visitors in Ireland.
Russia has given in her adhesion to the
International Telegrapn Convention of
Vienna, this being Russian lines to Am-*
yor and Dead Sea under operation terms
of that Convention.
The best fruit on the tree is that which
the birds nave been pecking at. So, in
human life, it is the best people who arq
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