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T EL E AT LA T A W E E K L Y' S U N-
THE DAILY SUN.
Saturday Morning......... .Octobeb 28
From the Savannah New*, 26 Oct., 1871.
The King at Work—The Fight
Over the Organizatiou of the
Legislature*
The Uciult.
TOt-
Mr. B. H. Hill’s remarkable letter po
the Legislature true not needed to con
firm the suspicion so generally entertain-
od that a conspiracy was »u foot to ob
tain control of that body for corrupt and
selfish purposes, and that among those
purposes were the protection .of Bullock
from the impeachment which he so rich
ly deserves, and the confirmation of the
fraud by winch the State Road was leased
to the Bing, of which he and -Joe Brown
are members. As the time for the meet
ing of the Legislature approaches, the
parties to the compact arc becoming
alarmed for the success of their scheme.
Distrusting their powers of persuasion,
they are endeavoring to act .upon the
fears of the people’s representatives, in
the hope of thus deterring them from a
faithful discharge of their duty to their
constituents.
Some of Bullock’s subsidised organs
are preaching moderation, harmony, pru
dence and submission, while others,
less circumspect, ore boldly denouncing
all who oppose Badical usurpation, mal
feasance and corruption, holding up in
lerrorum over our people, the lawless re
sentment of the Federal Government.
. As a specimen of the means resorted to
by the Bing, we give the following ex
tract from the Atlanta correspondence of
the Macon Telegraph. Speaking of the
organization of the Legislature,-the wri
fer am:
“The election of most interest at *11115
particular juncture is that of President of
the Senate, for, in a certain contingency,
Jhe Senator elected to that office may be
, called on to fill the Executives Chair, to
“In this connection a rumor is afloat
that a certain portion of the Democratic
party will use all the means and influence
at their control to have aDemocrat of
-.the straight State Eights school elected
.’President of the Senate. Then articles
of impeachment will be preferred in the
House against Governor Bullock and his
impeachment ordered. Pending the im
peachment he will be suspended from
office, and the President of the Senate
will take bis place. The Supreme Court
will be reorganized, and the result of the
whole will be to declare all the legisla
tion which was had by the last Legisla
ture, after the expiration of forty days
from the time of their assembling, illegal
and null and void, and in this manner
get rid of all the obnoxious legislation of
the Badical party.
‘.‘In this way, and in this way only, can
the lease Of the State Boad begot rid of:
As. Jong as the lessees comply with the
terms of the lease, the State cannot take
the road out of their hands, nor can the
Legislature authorize it to be done.
•*111 the lease was obtained by fraudulent
means, the Legislature is not thetribnnal
to try and determine that question. Be-
foro the lessees can be put out ou that
ground they have the right to be lieard,
and .this can be done only in the courts.
The.trial of fraud or no fraud cannot be
had .in the Legislature. It must sneees-
sai’fly be in the courts. But whether
those who wish to attack and .upset the
lease can succeed in the courts is very
doubtful. They mav fail to show fraud,
and failing iu that, their .case would .be
'hopeless. Their only chance -of success
is to declare the legislation authorizing
: the lease illegal, and null and "void.—
They have no hope of doing this before
the present Supreme Court. Hence the
plan above indicated, and its main object
is to defeat the lease of the State Jtoad.
Bat the result of the scheme, if eonsum- •
mated, will be, not only to vacate '.the
lease, but to upset matters generally, and,
to use a .common phrase, to produce
“confusion worse confounded.”
* ‘Will itibe done ? This is an important
question, iand objectiona' le as much of
the legislation of the late Legislature may.
be, it is more tolerable than the wild and
revolutionary project to set it asidein the
way above indicated. This plan Ao va-
cato the lease being the only one which
can accomplish the object, and ■that
being the main object in view, will the
members of the Legislature permit this
wild and revolutionary project to be
carried out ? 4B is hoped not, so far
as the lease of the road is concerned.
The people appear to be satisfied with it,
and are unwiUu^g that it should be dis
turbed, and so far as my information -ex
tends, if it is done, it will be done by
the members from Middle and Lower
Georgia. I have Jiad some means of
knowing the public sentiment north of
the Chattahoochee, and it is almost
unanimously in favor of letting the leased
alone, as it is the best disposition which |
.could bo made of the road. Ihaveheard
.of but one member jiorth of that river
■who is opposed to the lease, and even he
twill doubtless refuse to carry out this
revolutionary project to get rid of it.
“Will Michllegand Southern Georgia
give this scheme auy countenance or sup
port?”
If the conspirators count upon the fears
of the Democratic members from South
ern and Middle Georgia, they count with
out their host. We indorse our cotem-
porary of the Augusta Constitutionalist,
when ho says, commenting upon the
above.buggaboo letter: “The people may
expect .that every effort that ingenuity
can suggest and malice invent will be
made by Bullock and his partizans to
prevent a full investigation of his official
acts. Bat neither bribery, cajolery nor
the threat of martial law will avail/ We
have full confidence that the best men
for presiding officers of both Houses will
be selected, and that legislation will be
uninfluenced by fear or favor.”
Our Tlciut for City Officers.
The following is the result of the
ing for nominations yesterday:
FIRST WARD.
ForMayor—John H. James, 309; Wm.
H. Hulsey, 258; Lather J. Glenn, 196;
M. J. Ivy, 4.
For Councilmen—C. W. Wells, 441;
John P. Mayes, 289; C. P. Oasrin, 279;
W. L. Morris, 155; W. B. Lowe, 133;
Jas. W. Price, 17; W. G. Gramling, 18;
John 4. Doane, (no candidate,) 11.
SECOND WARD.
For Mayor—John H. James 135; Lu
ther J. Glenn, 116; W. H. Halsey, 11;
M. J. Ivy, 2.
For CounchiMEN—C. C. Hammock,
233; E. J. Eoacb, 192; N. A. McLendon,
(not a candidate,) 74; J. S. Stewart, 3:
THIRD WARD.
For Mayor—John H. James, 115;
Luther J. Glenn, 49; W. H. Hulsey, 20.
For Councilmen—L. P. Grant, 107;
T. A. Morris, 86; D. A. Beatie, 51; James
G. Kelley, 49; R. C. Young, 41; G. W.
Terry, 11.
FOURTH WABD.
For Mayor—John H. James, 231; Lu
ther J. Glenn, 116; W. H. Hulsey, 42;
M. J. Ivy, 5.
For Councilmen—H. L. Wilson, 213;
B. M. Farrar, 208; M. Mahoney, 198; G.
W. Simpson, 46.
FIFTH WABD.
For Mayor—John H. James, 246; Lu
ther J. Glenn, 225; W. H. Hulsey, 94;
M. J. Ivy, 7.
For Councilmen—A Leyden, 290; A.
L. Fowler, 264; Ed. Mercer, 166; H. H.
Witt, 110; S. T. Biggers, 101; J. W.
Churchill, 45; Weeman, 9.
MAYOR’S COURT.
Ill* Honor Return*.
SCENES AT THE POLLS.
FIRST WABD.
The polls of the First Ward, yesterday,
were the scene of considerable enthusi
asm and a good deal of boisterous behav
ior. Judging from the shouts one would
have supposed that Col. Hulsey was mo
nopolizing everything. Some one was
arrested, but through the intercession of
friends was released. The polls of the
FIFTH WARD
were, next to the First, the most dis
orderly in the city. Besides the
difficulty in the afternoon between Mr.
Ivy and Capt. Ezzard, at evening, near
the time for closing polls, some zealous
friends of Fowler, Hulsey, Mercer, and
others, no longer able to restrain them
selves, gave vent to their feelings in deaf
ening huzzas for their candidates. The
police could not control them. The be
havior in the
SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH WARDS
was unexceptionable, as far as we
could learn. The best feeling
prevailed, and everything passed off
quietly and pleasantly. Mr. James and
Col. Glenn, met at the Third Ward, and
manifested the best of feeling. Col.
Glenn advised his friends to vote for the
man they believed would makes the best
Mayor. Mr. James advised them to do
the same,, remarking that, in the event,
they would vote for his friend, for he
was a friend of all the candidates. Not
a word of disparagement was uttered
against Mr. James in our hearing during
-the day, .and though many are disappoin-
.ted there is a thorough determination
among all .to rally to the support of all
the Democratic nominees.
We bad a presentment that His Honor
was coming yesterday. There was a tre
mor in "the atmosphere that sounded like
the last reverberations of bis genial
laugh. A.subdued murmur, as of Cul
prit’s trembling voices, pervaded the
room. Spectres of injured innocence
stalked through- the hall, and visions
of “Ten and Costs” loomed upon the
wall, -the terrible omen of a more terrible
fate. At the appearance of His Honor,
all these phenomena vanished, being at
tracted, as if by magic, to their fount and
sonree—His Honor.
THOMAS BROWN
was one of the minstrels. After receiving
an invitation to attend a ball he had the
hardihood and impudence to appear in
thesalon dansanle with his cha&eau on his
head, burdened at the same time with a
debt of $19 to a lady acquaintance, Miss
Lottie Brown, his sister.. Miss Lottie
being in reduced circumstances, demand
ed her dues. Thomas seized her and
very politely and speedily helped her to
a seat on the floor. Thomas was helped
as speedily to a seat in the lock-up, for
which luxury he paid $10 and costs.
HATTIE MATTOX
was one of the demi-monde minstrels.—
She was implicated in an affaire de cceur
with a gallant blue coat, who, in a mo
ment of -ecstatic bliss, so far forgot him
self, and his dulcina’s sensibilities, as to
knock one of her teeth oat. She, for
revenge, declared she did not care for
him “ three skips of a louse.” He re
torted:
“ A lady lias told me, and in her own house,
She cares not for me * three ships of a louse/
I forgive the dear creature for what she has said,
For ladies will talk of what runs in their head.”
That nonplussed her. Unable to meet
such a bitter repartee, sbe went to one of
her paramour’s other friends. Finding
her asleep and unwilling to receive
friends at the unreasonable hour
(midnight), she manifested her compli
ments by rocking the door. For this
amusement, which His Honor was pleas
ed to term devilment, she paid $10 find
costs.
F. M. OWENS
was charged with D. C., Q-, and Y. L.
$10 and costs.
WILHELM OTTO
is not the author of the series of German
and French Grammars, but this does not
invalidate his Germanic descent, neither
does it affect his speech, but too much
beer did. Sein Bruder spreche. /.
Vicli I vos going for to say—
Und I sprecten it blain—
Dat dose nonsense dot bums up
All dcr beeble’s brain
’Bout dat drisky Wilhelm Otto.s actions
Makes me duke up mine ben to comblone.
His actions cost $5.
MR. T. E. SHARPE
was charged with disorderly conduct and
disturbance of citizens. His counsel grid
it was a clear case of assault and battery,
as a frightful gash on Mr. Millar’s head
testified. The case was referred to a
magistrate.
There was so mnch excitement and im
patience about the Democratic nomi
nation that the doxology was forgotten.
St. Paul’s Cliurcli—Rev. G. H. Pattillo
' Pastor.
This new. church edifice, located on
Hunter, near Bell street, will be opened
for .religious services to-morrow at 11
o’clock a. - M. Ber. 0. A. Evans, Pastor
of Trinity Church, will preach a sermon
appropriate to the occasion. At 2£
o’clock p. m. the Sabbath school will
assemble in the grove where it was origi
nally organized, and proceed to the
church, where, at 3 o’clock addresses will
be delivered by Bev.. J. M. Dickey pastor
of Evans’ Chapel; Bev. A. Wright, pastor
of the First Methodist church, and oth
ers. At 7 o’clock f. m. preaching by the
Rev. ,D. D. Cox, pastor of.Paynes’ chapel.
Thanks.
The Borne Commercial of the 25th,
has the following kindly notice of our
traveling Agent and our paper, for which
we return thanks:
personal.—We acknowledge a pleas
ant visit, on yesterday, from Mr. J. W.
Heard, general traveling agent of The
Atlanta Sun. A large number of our
citizens read The Sun, but more ought
to take ii. The Legislature meets soon,
and times at the Capital will be exciting.
Give Mr. Heard a good list of sub
scribers.
We take this occasion to say that we
shall give a careful report of the proceed
ings of the Legislature, and of what will
I be going on here during its session. We
j shall try for keep the people well-informed
on everything affecting their interests,
The Democratic party has signified its aad shaU gireontno uncertain sound,
choice of men as candidates for munici
pal offices in the next election, and we
therefore hoist the flag with their names j
inscribed thereon. These nominations]
31. «T. Atkins & Co.
We are informed that the firm of M. J.
Atkins & Co., of which Col. Hood is a
are equivalent to an election, and we con- P ar fner, are not contractors to work on
ATLANTA MARKETS.
MONEY.
Yesterday there was no change in the
price of gold and silver; the former buy
ing for $110 and selling for $112; the
latter buying at $1 04 and selling at $1 08.
COTTON.
The Receipts for the week ending yes
terday were 936 bales, and shipments 782
bales. The stock on hand is 398 bales.
The receipts yesterday were about 130
bales, and the sales 100 bales.
The market closed dull at 16J. The
dull market this week has somewhat re
tarded delivery. Crop reports generally
point to a short yield in this section.—
The cotton is being gathered rapidly, and
is marketed almost as fast as gathered.
GRAIN.
Choice white corn 99@93 by the car
load; mixed and yellow 88®90j Mixed
oats 65 cents; flack seed 75; white oats
6o@75. Wheat is scarce and in demand,
varying in price from $1 75 to $1 85—ex
tremes. For choice lots of white wheat,
it is possible that more could be had.
No peas in market. They are in demand
and would bring $1 00 per bushel.
meats.
shoulders 8£@8i; clear rib sides 9j@9£;
clear sides 9£@9j; hams—plain $14@
15£; canvassed, 14@18.
Bulk meats are selling, for shoulders
7}; clear rib sides 8|; clear sides 9£.
The meat market is firm with fair de
mand.
COTTON GOODS.
Osnaburgs—8 oz, 16; 6 oz, 12£. 4-4
Sheeting, 12£. 7-8 Drillings, 13. 7-8
Shirting, 11. 3-4 Shirting, 9. Yams,
all numbers, $1 40, Cotton rope 28.
All domestics are in good demand.
Quotations for other articles are un
changed, and will be found in another
column.
Resignation of Col. Lewis!
grntulate the people of this city and the
State upon the prospect of having a
sound Democratic Mayor and Council for
the succeeding year.
Atlanta has always been sternly, inflexi
bly Democratic. Her people cannot be
bought or cajoled by any selfish consider
ations or other influence to sacrifice their
principles. Ours is the only city in the
State, that voted against Bullock, and
that lias all the time presented an un
broken front to the enemy.
the Brunswick & Albany Railroad, but
to famish provisions to the hands on the
road; not to construct the road, but to
famish commissary stores, <£c.
»-»■« ■ .
Perianal.
Capt. B. H. True, of Madison, is in
the city. He has lately purchased an in
terest in the Madison Appeal, and is as
sisting in the conduct of that journal
His name and energy have given it an
impetus which is gratifying.
From a gentleman who come up from
Macon last night, weleam that Col. Dav.
IW. Lewis has resigned the Secretaryship
of the Georgia State Agricultural Society,
and the resignation accepted by the Ex
ecutive Committee.
SUN-STROKES.
jjgy- A double duel has occurred in
Nevada. Unfortunately no one was hurt.
„ “Will oil and water mix ?” asks
the New York Tribune. Wash yourself
and see.
sfL. California wines ont to the extent-
of 8,000,000 gallons, and whines be
cause the crop was not better. Theyuice
yon say.
„ The government, in that Hornet
case, stands a pretty good chance of
arousing a whole nest of hornets—or
Spanish flies.
A devil-fish has been caught in
Galveston bay. - Catacazy says he would,
like to catch that devil, Fish, before he
gets away.
„ The Boston Post says: In New
York they call red hair “Schenectady
color”—Schenectady being, as every one
knows, a little beyond “Auburn.”
gen, A pheasant flew through a win
dow pane into the dining-room of a Min
nesota hotel. It was the nearest the
guests have come to having chicken
this year.
The Badical papers seemingly,
are all going back on Grant, for not one
of them has uttered a single word in
praise of either his Portland or his
Bangon speech. Oh, fye 1 .
SgU The Harrisburg, (Pa.,) Slate
Journal, (Badical), says: “The Democ
racy are the same in the North as in the
South.” Of course it is. Democracy is
the same everywhere—honest, true and
patriotic.
j&SP* The Boston Post says: “To know
that Grant was a stockholder in a tobacco
factory would strike the community with
no peculiar surprise.” Certainly not, as
that is about the only kind of stock which
he has not been accused of holding.
The St. Louis Republican recom
mends “a passive attitude by the Democ
racy in the next Presidential campaign,
Just as a butcher would recommend a
“passive attitude” by an ox he .is about
to behead.
Grant’s Portland speech has but
one equal in the rhetoric of America, and
that equal is found in the speech he de
livered at Bangor, as follows:
“My friends, I had a very pleasant re
ception on my visit to your State and
city six years ago, which I have never
forgotten. I am convinced by the memo
ry of the reception I then received that
I should have an equally pleasant recep
tfon on the present occasion, and I am
not disappointed. I thank you for your
kindness, and hope to meet you again “
It is a regular banger, and must cause
the hones of poor Patrick Henry to wrig
gle in their grave because he never did
anything more brilliant than those
speeches before the Virginia Parliament.
The Washington correspondent
of the Louisville Ledger, astonishes the
natives by divulging a new political
course through which the Kepublicans
purpose taking Georgia. He says: “At
torney General Akerman and a large
batch of Eepublican politicians from
Georgia are now here, and it, is stated
that they propose putting their party, so
far as Georgia is concerned, in an entire
ly new position. First of all, Joshua
Hill is to be ignored, anc^the carpet-bag
influence is to be thoroughly destroyed.
Southern men of known character and
social position are to be pat in nomina
tion for State offices, and are io succeed
to the federal patronage so far as practi
cable. In fact, a new and virtuous era
is to be inaugurated in, as it is supposed,
ample time to capture the electoral votes
of the States at the next Presidential
election.” That is rich. The idea, of
Georgia Bepnblicaus talking about inau
gurating a “virtuous era.” It is like a
decayed,’ snaggle-toothed, foul-breathed
harlot, prating of virtue after she had
become so repulsive that she had ceased
to be a temptation to men, Bah !
Hon. Thomas Ewing, of Ohio,
whose death was announced in the tele
graphic dispatches yesterday morning,
has been prominent in American politics
for many years. He was born in Vir
ginia, in 1789, consequently was in his
82nd year when lie died. By profession,
he was a lawyer, “In 1830” says the
Courier-Journal, “he was chosen to a
seat in the United States Senate from
Ohio, where he remained until 1837.
was a member of President Harrison’s
Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury in
1841. On the acession of President
Taylor to the Presidency, in 1849, he was
invited into the Cabinet, and took charge
of the new Department of the Interior,
and in 1850 he was appointed to a seat in
the United States Senate, where he re
mained until 1851, when he retired from
political life and resumed the practice of
his profession in Ohio. He was a dele
gate to |the ‘Peace Congress’ of 1861,
and also chosen a delegate to the Phila
delphia ‘National Union Convention’ in
1S66, but did not take part in its procee
dings. In 1868 he played a prominent
part in the New York Democratic Con
vention, as well as in the subsequent can
vass. He was a candidate for the guber-
natoril nomination before the recent
Democratic Convention of Ohio, and was
defeated by Gen. Me Cook by only a few
votes.”
STATE MATTERS.
Young’s Hotel, in .Thomasville, was
burned on the morning of the 24th.
The Clayton Tones wants a brass band
organized in Jackson. That’s always the
way. Give a village a newspaper, and
the next thing it wants a brass band, or
a baseball club, or a circus.
The Macon Citizen announces the arri
val of Ex-GOvernor Herschel V. Johnson
in that city.
The Dalton Citizen says: We learn that
a little girl of a Mr.' Weatherly, about
eight years old, living near Bed Clay, in
this county, was so horribly burned on
Friday last, by lier clothes taking fire
from a burning pile of rubbish iu the
yard where she was at play, that she died
almost instantly. She was not discovered
until nearly all her clothes were con
sumed.
Capt. Wm. Hammond died near Dalton
last Friday, aged 80.
The Eaton Press announces the death
of Judge J. T. Bowdoin.
The Eaton Press says: Bev. Cary Cox,
of our county, who died recently, left
seven children, seventy-two grand-chil
dren, one hundred and fifty-two great
grand children, and five great great grand
children. He was himself nearly if not
quite 93 years old.
The Calhoun Times appears with the
latest dog story: Mr. M. L. Mathis has a
large New Foundland dog that will leave
the premises each morning with the fam
ily milch cow, stay with her all day and
drive her up in the evening. When told,
he will go in search of the animal, and
does not rest uptil he has found her and
started her in a homeward direction.
John Brown, of Columbus, “is march
ing on.” Benben Pride shot him some
time ago. Colored.
The Columbus Sun says : From a
note from Dr. Thomas S. Mitchell,
attending physician, we learn that Mr.
George Pearce, of Harris county, is dead.
He attempted to commit suicide on the
18th inst., by “cutting his throat with
an old case knife—making the second
lick—severing almost entirely the trachea,
or wind pipe, and wounding severely the
esopagus, or swallow, producing an ex
tensive, dangerous wound. With the as
sistance of Dr. J. W. Cameron, the
wound was properly dressed and on Tues
day he was doing well, with a fair pros
pect of an early recovery.”
Elder T. 31. Harris,
The Pastor of the Christian Church,
Hunter street, has just returned from
Cincinnati, where he has been attending
the Convention of the National Mission
ary Society of that denomination. He
will resume his labor as Pastor to-mor-
row.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Trie Reign of Terror.
The Yorkville Enquire}' of the 26th is
at hand. This paper is published in one
of the counties that has been victimized
by the imperial ukase of the Grant. We
condense, from its columns, the follow
ing summary of what is being done over
there, under military Government:
ARRESTS OF CITIZENS.
As was not. unexpected, the President’s
proclamation of the 12tb, was followed
five days thereafter by another, suspend
ing the privileges of the writ of habeas
corpus in certain sections in South Caro
lina.
On Thursday last, the military authori
ties at this place commenced making
arrests. Several citizens of the town
were arrested white in pursuit of their
avocations, and many persons from the
country, white in town on business, were
also detained and lodged in prison.
About the same hour that the arrests
commenced in town,
THE MILITARY BEGAN TO MOVE,
squadrons of cavalry marching out in
various directions, for the purpose of ar
resting those in the country against whom
accusations have been made for viola-
A Correction.
We stated yesterday that the corpora
tors of the Georgia Contracting Compa
ny was composed of H. L Kimball, E. N.
Kimball and George Cook. It should
have been J. C. Kimball instead of E. N.
*-• •* —
A fifteen foot rubber raft is being built
in New York city for an ocean trip to
England.
fields unharvested, and on account^/*
general feeling of insecurity, business 1 - 0
nearly at a stand-still, while a largo ^
he * of persons w left ^ °
ratherthan to incur the unpleasant Si
uncertain consequences of arrest 'n
future of our section, we are free to
fess, is now more gloomy than it kasWn
at any time since the close of the war
We have had -~~
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHORITY
to learn to what extent arrests i ’
expected to be made. Colonel .Alerrih
the officer in command, assures Us ,i ’
no improper arrests would be made an 1
that any person who felt himself inu’oeent
of violating the Enforcement act or the
Kuklux act, need entertain no fears of
being molested in any way by the sol
diery or the Marshal. We "trust this
declaration by Colonel Merrill will have
the effect to measurably restore confl.
dencein the minds of many who natural
ly enough are apprehensive at the unus
ual stride made by the chief executive of
the nation to arrest transgressors of the
law; and that if business cannot resume
its wonted channels in our midst, that at
least the entire populace will not become
terror-stricken and dismayed. Let us
hope for the best..
A FALSE RUMOR.
The reported collision between a party
of citizens and the United States soldiers
at a place known as Pea-Bidge near the
line dividing York and Union counties,
is entirely unfounded. No difficulty of
any kind has occurred since’ the military
authorities commenced making arrests. "
From the Boston Post, Oct. 2 .
Tlie War on South Carolina.
That the President’s proclamation of
war upon the population of nine counties
in South Carolina was declared against a
peaceful and unoffending community,
ought to be sufficiently apparent from the
surprise and indignation with which it is
received by all classes of the people
themselves. There is an exfeitement
among them such as has not shown itself
since the outbreak of civil war. The mil
itary order from Washington comes like
a thunder-clap in a clear sky. Made out
in blank, issued during the President’s
pleasuring about the country, and enforc
ed with a rudeness of determination that
shows an autocratic contempt both for
Republican forms and sentiment, what
wonder that after a large portion of
the people have fled beyond the reach
of this iron rule, leaving not many
besides the harmless women and child
ren to be the sufferers, the spirit of
desperation should have seized upon
enough others to make a stand and
successfully defy for the time an arbitra
ry exercise of power that should start the
nation to its feet as one man with indig
nant protestations. Citizens arrested
without specific charge, and crowded into
jails already filled with prisoners of every
eolor; families fleeing by hundreds to the
woods for shelter from a terrorizing sol
diery; idle and dissolute negroes taking
advantage of the panic to stuff them
selves with plunder; a negro Senator pro
testing that there is no call for such pro
ceedings in the county in which he re
sides; a reign of terror setting in through
out the country; such are the fruits of a
deliberate purpose on the part of the
President to trample out local liberty,
break up State governments, precipitate
confusion, and destroy all the guaran
tees of order and peace, in the expectation
of advancing his prospects for a second
term.
The apparent indifference with which
this outrage is received by the country
may, perhaps, after all, be taken for a
a propitious sign of its determination to
put no further faith in the Ku-Klux
pretext and sham whatever. So
that the popular disbelief in the
existence of any such bugaboo may
sooner or later compel the with
drawal of the Federal forces. This
trick has become much too state to be
worked any longer. Everybody knows
tions of the “Kuklux” and “Enforce- \....
On Fridav Sat- 18 what 1S professionally styled a
- _ 1 _. nnf-iin ir/K TTdvo ie on i-inrtnlo.
ment” acts of Congress,
nrday and Sunday, squads of soldiers
were returning at all hours, having in their
custody citizens of the country, embra
cing men in all stations, and occasionally
amongst the number would be found a
negro, of which class five are now under
arrest.
THE TOTAL NUMBER NOW IN JAIL
at this place is 79, of whom two are ne
groes; and confined in the guard-house
at the military camp are also three ne
groes—Thad Archer and Beuben Goins,
of the town, and Samuel Simril, -of the
county.
It may be proper here to state that
very few arrests have been made after
night, the larger number having been
made in the day time, and, so far as we
have been able to learn, no show of re
sistance to authority has been made. As
may well be supposed, the jail is very
much crowded, in consequence of which
the prison accommodations are being in
creased, by fitting the second story of the
building for that purpose. There is no
disposition on the part of officials in
charge to treat the prisoners with undue
harshness, and we have been requested
by some of the prisoners to say that their
treatment has been as kind and as mild
as they could expect.
THESE ARRESTS
have all been made by the military au
thorities, without formal warrants, and
it is expected that a preliminary exami
nation of each prisoner will be had be
fore the United States Commissioner,
when, if in the opinion of the Commis
put-up job. Here is an entire popula
tion put to flight by Federal troops, that
was living yesterday in as quiet and con
tented a fellowship as characterizes any
other community. War has been prac
tically declared against them by* the
Federal Government. Not on account
of any crime on their part do they flee,
but because they are invaded by the
troops of a Government that has noth
ing to do with them if not to protect
them. All this takes place under the
infamous Kuklux law, which was de
nounced at the time of its passage with
such vigor by Senator Scliurz and Trum
bull—a statute claiming its origin in the
Fourteenth Amendment, which is thus
interpreted to mean the overthrow in
stead of the extension of Republican lib
erty. The re-election of Grant will be
taken by him as the indorsement of his
purpose to subvert the Constitution he
has solemnly sworn to protect and de
fend.—Boston Post.
Tlie Chicago Fire.
Chicago correspondents continue to
furnish copious details and incidents of
the great fire, with abundant comment
on the present aspect of the situation ;
One correspondent writes : “A cat h&8
actually been recovered, alive and squall
ing, from the desolate rains of the post-
office and custom-house building. I have
with these orbs beheld that feline sala
mander. She still wears her roval vest
ment of fur, and retains her lung-power
_ and appetite, both marvellously improved.
sioner, the evidence fails to sustain the James M. Hubbard, Esq., Uncle Sam’s
charge, the prisoner will be released. In ma il dispatch officer at this point—to
the examination before the Commission- whom, by the way, considerable credit is
er, the accused will be allowed counsel, due for tlie rapid reconstruction of our
The examination will be public, and con- postal facilities—was hunting in the rain
ducted in the manner of all legal pro- to-day for something he thought might
ceedings before a Commissioner.
ATTORNEY GENERAL AKERMAN,
and D. T. Corbin, District Attorney of
this State are here, and, we are informed,
will remain until the conclusion of the
investigation. No time has yet been
fixed for the examination, so far as we
can learn.
Of the charges or their nature against
any of the accused, we are unable to give
any information. The authorities are
reticent in regard to their movements,
and we can" only publish facts as they
transpire, deeming conjectures and sen
sational paragraphs—such as will flood
many of the papers. at a distance—as
quite superfluous, and in tendency, in
jurious.
A GLOOMY PROSPECT.
The wholesale arrests made by the mil
itary in this county have had a very de
pressing influence on business generally,
and we presume such will be the case
throughout the entire section of the
State embraced in the proclamation of
the President. Crops remain in the
still be preserved. “Meow!” He dis
tinctly heard the familiar melodious v ?ice.
He is a judge of music, and could not be
deceived. He listened. Again rose the
muffled falsetto. “It must be a ghost l”
He stepped lightly over the crumbling
brickbats and helped some women to ex
cavate the ruins in the comer whence
the sound proceeded. Lo l There,
eight feet under ground, at the mouth of
a sewer pipe, upright in a pail of water,
sat grimalkin, with a cold in her head
and cinders in her eyes. Sister of
Shadrack, Meshack & Co., she had
survived the fiery furnace, and
came forth unscathed. It seemed, on ex
amination, that she had exhibited the
presence of mind to stick her legs in the
water and her head in the sewer, whence
she drew air, and probably smelt mice;
and when the building cofiapsed a col
umn fell so as to shelter her. A million
dollars in gold had melted into bullion
within twenty feet of her. Pussy is an
immense favorite in the Pest Office, and
has resumed her place an a regular mem
ber of the staff. How. is that for cat ?.
