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WEEK
DAILY SUN.
Morning November 2
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF GEORGIA.
Bull oclt. Heard From.
A telegraphic dispatch from Washing
ton to the Savannah News, of the 30th
inst., says:
Bollock arrived here early yesterday morning and
had a long interview with Senator Cameron, during
which bullock informed Cameron that he had re-
cigned the position of Governor of Georgia into the
liamirt of Benjamin Conley, the I'rcaideBt of the
Dignified and Intelligent Body,
That’s it! A long interview with Cam
eron ! Trying to carry favor with Grant
and tho Radical Faction, and be sent
back here as Military Governor, so as to
stop investigation into the conduct of him
self and his accomplices in crime. That’s
it.
Bullock and Blodgett once stood high
with Grant and the Radical Faction, bat
somehow the President turned against
them both. Bollock is now, no donbt,
importuning the President and his
friends for a restoration of confidence
and material assistance in this hour of
trial.
We are sorry for Grant—bored and
importuned, as he, no donbt, is, for a re
establishment of friendly relations, and
tho granting of material aid, by two such
men as Bullock and Bard.
Changed Time.
Governor Bullock, in bis letter to John
Scott, Chairman of the Kuklux Commit
tee, denies tho right of the Committee
or of Congress, in the manner proposed,
to “interfere with or inquire into mat
ters which are solely within the control
and subject to the supervision of the
people of this State in General Assembly
met;” that Georgia “stands in the Union
the peer of every other State,” and that
information of her needs, requirements
and condition, will be made known and
presented to Congress by her representa
tives, and denies that there is anything
in the fact of her late insurrectionary
condition, which would authorize Con
gress to order proceedings towards her
which would not apply to all the States,
He also “most positively dissents'
from the “construction” that the late
■amendments have so extended the powers
of Congress, as to give it “ absolute con
irol” over such functions as purely ap
pertain to the States, and that any at
tempt to go beyond certain limits, with
the " hope of obtaining political power,
will meet with a “swift rebuke from an
overwhelming majority of American citi
zens;” and declares emphatically that the
State of Georgia does not “ deny to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.” He gees ou to
quote Mr. Jefferson in flaming capitals,
where that immortal statesman urges
“THE SUPPORT OF THE STATE
GOVERNMENTS IN ATT. THEIR
RIGHTS AS THE MOST COMPETENT
ADMINISTRATION FOR ALL OUR
DOMESTIC CONCERNS AND THE
SUREST BULWARKS AGAINST AN
TI-REPUBLICAN TENDENCIES.’
The present tune is a considerable
change on the part of Rufus.
'William Henry*
Wq noticed in the Senate yesterday
* ! Mr. Henry, of Catoosa, voted promi
nently with the Democrats every time.
>-»-<
Gov. Bullock.
His friends say he will be back here in
a week or ten days. He will come here
when he can go no where else.
Benjamin Conley.
He calls himself Governor. He has
proclaimed and ordered the proclama
tion business to cease—so far as their ex
tensive and useless publication is con
cerned—yet he is not happy.
Inveitigatc H. I. Kimball.
We want a committee of the Legisla
ture to look carefully into Mr. Kimball’s
transactions in selling and hypothecating
the bonds of the State and its indorsed
bonds; also, the whole of his transac
tions in regard to the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad.
— ►-*-«
Judge Cochrane.
We learn that Judge Lochrune has,
for some time past, intended resigning
the Chief Justiceship, but finding that
Bullock had vacated Ms office about the
time his resignition was intended to take
effect, he withdrew his letter requesting
Gov. Bullock to accept the same, lest the
step, at this time, might bo misconstrued,
and has concluded to retain his position
ior the present.
II. I. Kimball's Property Attached.
Sheriff J. O. Harris has, for some days
past, been engaged in attaching the
property of H. L and E. N. Kimball.
The seizure has been made under an at
tachment from Messrs. Hoyt A Jones,
Brokers, for money loaned, amounting to
about §5,000. To satisfy the attachment,
Mr. Harris has taken possession of much
of the’private property of the parties, con
sisting of house and lot, carriage and
horse, household and kitchen furni
ture, etc.
Yesterday was a memorable day in the
history of Georgia—a day teeming with
blessed associations and fond remem
brances. It was a day around which will
ever cluster memories grateful to every
advocate of individual rights and every
lover of geuuine American liberty, an
inviolate birthright inherited by all true
patriots from the immortal heroes of
seventy-six. No startling event marred
its serenity. No tumult, no insurrec
tion, disturbed its tranqillity.
It commemorates no strife, no conten
tion, no revolution, no war. It records
no treachery, no disloyalty, no dark de
signs, no during intrigues, no foul con
spiracies, no Machiavelian plot for the
subversion of kingdoms or the corruption
of kings.
It was a day of promise. It promised
succor to a down-trodden country. It
promised relief to an oppressed and suf
fering people. It was a day of tokens.
It gave token of the return of the white-
winged angel of peace, who, from the
abomination of desolation, had winged
her weary flight to unknown lands. It was
the dawn of a new era in Georgia’s once
spotless career, but recently blemished
and polluted by contact with monsters of
corruption, whose poisonous breath
threatens a plague of vice, perfidy and
infamous misrule among a people whose
honor was once unimpeachable. It was
the dawn of the day and time of peace,
harmony, love, wisdom, justice, and that
boon of earthly hopes, freedom, blessed
freedom !
We were one of the multitude, yester
daj f that assembled in and about the
Capitol to witness the organization
of the Legislature, Remembering the dis
graceful spectacle attending the organiza
tion of the House on last year, we deter
mined to smother our yet living indig
nation by witnessing in that body the
proceedings of
the valiant knight who fought under Wm.
Wallace, but he possessed the candor of
that veteran in pleading guilty to D. 0.
and P. L. §5 and costs.
MISS MATILDA STOKES,
was one of the city minstrels. She was
discovered practicing for tho stage, as
the nightingale of the profession. Not
content with pantonune exercises, she in
dulged in the most violent outbursts of
passion, which the policeman construed
as preliminary steps to D(ucking) C(ats)
in Q(uagmires), and P(eddling) L(ime).
§5 and costs. Oh! the temptations of
the stage for immaculate virtue.
Lowry dispatched two or three other
cases all §5 and costs—with a facility
that was truly astonishing. He is not
much addicted to lecturing, but in de
fault of moral counsel, he mitigates his
fine.
shall have been organized; and they shall
be transmitted by the Senate to the
House of Representatives, Ac. ”
The writer of this article affects to see
in this provision of the Constitution an
insurmountable difficulty in an election
to fill the nnexpired term of Rufus B.
Bullock, resigned. The provision quoted
by this writer, which we have given above,
applies solely to the mode and time of
opening the returns in the regular quad
rennial election of Governor, which is
required by the same section to be held
on the “Tuesday after the first Monday
in November,” and does not apply to
the case under discussion. He seems to
insist that an organization of the two
Houses must be had the day before the open- election, both Houses must effect
ted to the President of the Senate and
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
and transmitted to the Governor, or the
person exercising the duties of Governor
for the time being, who shall, without
opening the said returns, cause the same
to be laid before the Senate, on the day
after the two Houses “shallhave been organ
ized > and [then] they shall be transmit
ted by the Senate to “the House of Rep
resentatives,” Ac. All this must take
place before the members of the Senate
and House can meet in the Hall of the
latter and there open and publish the re
turns of the election. But before the Gen
eral Assembly which convokes this mom-
Mg, can pass any law authorizing a special
ing of the returns, as a condition prece
dent to a valid election. This reasoning
might have some force when applied to
an election to fill an original or new term,
at the regular time, but does not apply
to an election to fill a vacancy caused by
the “death, resignation or disability of
the Governor,” any more than the pro- ^
Ihe Court having become a little sen- vision made by the same section as to the I election, and, on* the’ same day*The elec*
timental at the recital of so much love ofbolcbn S election, viz: on the tion itself must be held aud the returns
"m 1 Tuesday after the first Monday in No- Ul • •• ~ - ^
gamzation. And, by the terms of the
Constitution, just quoted, the returns of
the election must be transmitted to the
Senate the day after this organization I
Upon the supposition that it will take
one entire day to effect an organization
this, of course, gives but one day in
which to pass the law authorizing the
IVTen In whoso soul there burned a love
Of country, right and God,
And in whoso arms was nerve enough
To light and die for them.
The chosen representatives of the State
marched quietly in, and as quietly took
their seats. We scrutinized the face of
every member as they sat upon the floor,
arrayed, as it were; for contest for rights
of which they, by the most foul
treachery, had beeu disinherited.—
Nearly every countenance was serious
with the responsibilities that awaited
them. No anger, no passion, no con
spiracy lurked in the flashing eyes of
those champions of liberty. No revenge
rankled in their hearts, which, burning
with indignation at insults heaped upon
an unoffending people, only yearned to
vindicate their constituents, and restore
to them those lights sacred and precious,
yea. inviolate as life itself.
It was an imposing, -intelligent, patri
otic assembly. As we sat there, gazing
upon tho array of the people’s vindica
tors, we were carried back to the palmy
days of the Republic, when Jefferson,
Henry Clay, "Webster, aud Calhoun, with
cimion voices, clamoured for the rights
of the people. The spirits of those vet
erans, guarded by the white-winged angel
of peace, Hovered about them. Their
‘still small voices” whisper wise counsel
and words of hope to our champions, and
bid them God speed in their efforts to
restore once more in spirit, in truth and
in deed, “Wisdom, Justice, and Modera
tion,” to our oppressed people.
Tile Constitution
Of yesterday, recommends the appoint
ment of “able and honest citizens out
side of the Legislature” to investigate the
official conduct of the absconded Gover
nor. Some few worthy gentlemen made
the same suggestion to us, before Bullock
fled—that of appointing an outside com
mittee; but we are aware that the prime
movers of this idea at first intended to
head off an investigation by that means,
and thus get tho Legislature to avoid the
performance of a plain duty.
To us there is an absurdity about the
suggestion. The Legislature is the
Grand Jury of the State, and the impro
priety of a Grand Jury delegating its
power, authority or duty to any persons
outside of their own number, is manifest.
There could be no objections to the
able and honorable gentlemen whose
names are suggested for tMs service, save
that they are not members of the Legis
lature. We trust the investigation will
be thoroughly made by members of the
General Assembly.
and romance, and having some time to
spore, besought us to repeat some “poul-
tiy. With cheeks suffused with modest
blushes, we mounted the Lowry’s desk
and declaimed:
My Hose.
is coW * the rooon is ringed
Wall hazy prophecy of snow.
And frozen lies the outer world:
But in my heart is summer glow.
The fire bums low, the light Is dim:
I hear late footsteps hurrying by :
Some one doth shout, -The night is cold!*
Unhappy one—not blest as I?
Because—because I feel a Rose
the sunlight of the south,
Bed-petaled, sweet, and velvet-soft,
Yet lingering upon my mouth.
And never solitude or chill
Can enter into humblest room
a PS 88 but comes to touch
And thnll a lifetime with its bloom?’*
a i2l Said ^ "T 1,1 like to W Such
a stimulating rose, but we intimated that
it was private property, when lie with
drew his petition.
Tlie Reign of Terror in South
Carolina.
We publish, to-day, an important let
ter from Mr. James E. Wilson, of York
county, South Carolina, upon the state
of things prevailing there, and
vember.
The power of providing for the exi
gency of a vacancy caused by the
“death, Ac.” of the Governor, is left to
the General Assembly, to be provided
for by a special election, under the 4th
Article and 4th Section of the Constitu
tion, which reads as follows:
“In case of the death, resignation, or disability
of the Governor, the President of the Senate shat
exercise the Executive powers of the Governmen
until such disability be removed, or a successor ist
I elected and qualified; and, iu case of the death,
resignation, or disability of the President of the
u*™ 8 ’ * be ®P ei ^ er of the House of Representatives
shall exercise the Executive powers of the Govern
ment until tho removal of the disability, or the elec
tion and qualification of a Governor. The General
Assembly shall have power to provide bo law for fillina
unexpxred terms by a special election." J 9
thereof made to the Senate ! Of course,
this is impossible ; and before the next
General Assembly shall convene and or
ganize, the unexpired term will have
passed.
These are some of the legal points in
the way of a special election to be had
under and by the authority of the Legis
lative body which assembles ■ this morn-
? r 8" ni2a tion > and, in view of - the
difficulties here presented, we don’t very
well see how a special election can be had
m time to meet the exigencies which de
maud it.
— .
MARTIA L LAW IN SOUTH
CAROLINA.
...Many have left the State fn7~r ~~
illegal arrest, and their of
proof of guUV 1 * “
now in that jail, whose characters omvw
to be above suspicion in anv u 8>»t
These prisoners of war have beS i mUmty
lsed a preliminary hearing at i P - r ° m '
of their captor, when if thlfe lei8Ur °
is not proved to his satisfaction
be made prisoners of the law tk
at Columbia this month be tri0(I
The power to provide for aspecial elec- Important Letter Upon the Kub-
tion is lodged iu the General Assembly, . Sect,
i ^ i *k. e «■“* this power carries with Editors Sun: The lethargy of the
it, by implication, all the powers neces- -American people to the tremendous out-
sary to effectuate the objects and purpos- ra q e against their rights, now being com
es of the grant. It would have been f? 1 ^. South Carolina, is so surprising
supreme stupidity, on the part of the that it must be due to a misapprehension
fiamers of the Constitution, to have com- the case. I, therefore, propose tc
I knitted such a blunder as the writer of § lve you a statement of facts, with refor-
this article in the Era would attribute I ence to one of the counties now under
to them. Having the power to provide ma . r ^ ial law in that State. I have beeu a
by a special election for this emergency, r f si( ient of York county for more than
the time of opening the returns is, by S1 . x y ears » and was for three years nre
holding the election, and is not prescribed I affairs there, and I do so with a confi-
- oinin . BB ad _
From + Ma _ I k J second clause of the Second Sec-1 < ^ 1 eri ^ appeal to all who know me, as to mv
liom this communication, it will be fclon of Article IV, which applies, as has cbara oter for veracity,
seen that Mr. Wilson, a gentleman of ,^ bef ° re state d, solely to the opening L During the summer of last year a
character and position, emnhaticallv do i x- e returns in the regular quadrennial ^eated political campaign was held in the
niesthetenth nf ,Jx. . P . y . de ‘ I ele ^ 10n - I State .» the bitterness A which was aggra-
niesthe truth of the fact* v. \ IT mu T i • ® D T erness which was aggra-
President’a VmT « ’ P whlch the Tbe P° we * to provide by law for filling Y afced » York by the presence aud fcva-
■rresiaent s Proclamation of martial W nnexpired terms bv a menial Aloof.;™ does of three colored militia
President’s Proclamation of martial law, I nnexpired tennatyT“tipedM rieettom I does three colored‘militia'companies
or the suspension of the writ of Habeas ™ eans > ] f lfc means anything, the power a ™® d with Winchester rifles and sup-
Hrdo that which is intended may be P . d ^th ball cartridges. The cam-
clone, i. e., the filling of an unexpired I I Jai Sn terminated in an election which
term, whether that term be long or short t erm s of the State election law*
the only limit as to time being the time ® uab ed managers to retain the ballot
Corpus, was issued.
He denies that there was any organized
resistance to the execution of the laws,
either State or Federal, in the county of I le T^ red b y the General Assembly in
York J » nftrfpp.flnnf fV»r* i ui.i* •
perfecting the necessary legislation for
From Mr. WiWssMement, it clearly I °' ‘ WS P ° W “ “ I
boxes in their possession tea days. The
boxes were so held, and the result de-
veraaRy b T was almost uni-
appears that he means to affirm mos"t I. ^ the difficulty suggested by the Era I tim <3 afterwards two of the militerycom-
positively, that the Sheriff of the country ls lts on ^ reliance for continuing the I P a:nie3 voluntarily gave up their arms’
or the United States Marshal of the Die? P resenfc accidental .incumbent through on ?., r ~. ased to do so, and retained them
trict, could, without the leisl- dfm u u f? x P ire d term of his predecessor, March following. In the months
have executor! nn • i ast difficulty, Ivepubhcan rule in Georgia is virtually January and February last.somefif-
ve executed any judicial process against pver, unless re-established by Federal I f een ’ or perhaps twenty, barns nin-
any alleged offender, that might have """* 0 ™ ’ “ * ■ ■ 6
been put in the hands of either of them.
This is certainly a very grave subject,
and deserves the serious attention-of the
people in every State of the Union. It
is well known that we are for “law and
order” in all things, and counsel, to the
utmost of our ability, against the resort
to violence, in any way, as a remedy
for Governmental wrongs. Our reme
dies consist in the ballot, and the firm
use of tlie instrumentalities of the
Constitution, for the ultimate recti
fication of all abuses of Power. But
the great question in this matter in South
Carolina is, even supposing there were
violations of law committed there, (as
bayonets. If that paper, and its party, |] ouse3 and dwellings were burned or set
plant themselves upou the law, they will dre *° in the county.
«.ii k. «... i._ xtt... .... _ Provoked by this incendiarism, fthich
threatened continuance, unless summa
rily stopped, and by the injuries men
tioned above, certain parties, unknown
to the writer, and probably to all others
except themselves, did execute Ivnoh law
fall , by the law. With all of its astute
malignity, tbe party failed in that pre
science which might have enabled it to
guard the future against the reverses of
fortune. g
Atlanta, November 2d, 1S71.
News from Bulloclk.
The Louisville Ledger of the 1st No-
Y heie is this martial law desnotio
end ■ It already threatens oteer
and it must be checked speedily '
will some day hold the entire co^trv £
its grasp. South Carolina is the ?
mark of Northern Radicalism and tif
scape-goat of Southern reproach 1
both sections are now threatened wffi
more disastrous consequences from ?
wrongs, than they have ever
If°tLv er % r ° r3 - ° r - her so - ca ned wicJe?
If they will unite iu time to redreso iS
canse, which is theirs also, they m?v h l
suppress the gigantic conspiracy^;?,?
American liberty, which is now Sf
mg its coils in South Carolina. lu,0a l-
^ JAMas E. WlLBret
TELE GRAMK,
Board
Koy West infected
thence will be quarantined, d ^ycssels
8th of November. “ d ntl1 after tk e
James Fisk, Jr., was f nn nat
last evening on a suit broughf
phine Mansfield, on a civi aeh’o 7 ? 086 ’
cover $50,000 of Mansfield’s' wffich Fht
used but failed to account for w Fxsk
bail in §35,000. f ° r " He g^e
A letter from Mansfield to Fisknn
braids him for his perfidy to uj
says it is a shame to compell her ’
gi’ew up with him from nothin^’tea!!
now great Erie empress, to vffidieSo
herself in court. She refers
schemes revealed to her four years atro ^
stealing the Erie books, of staying ^
lnm m Jersey City, and how,^ wheThe
was buying the New York I^gMaW
he said R would either result in a K*
palace m New York or a stone palace at
Sing S ng, and requested her if it
the latter, to tuke\ cot
prison. She i» waling to We £ „
tamed by Wn 1 .H.T3vartsrbutS, a 5
Fisks power over the courts is stiff
preme, and Tammany still able to protect
him, the reward, may still be his. "
Register McLaughlin threatened to
whip Mayo r Kalb Flusch in the office of
the latter to-day,, on account of the pub
lication of a slander against female school
m v ft , ? aper caUed The City of
Hi ooklyn, edited by Alexander Delmar
° f th r ? ureau of Statistics
., Yi ashington and said to be an organ of
nf 1 SaI ?f r denied all knowledge
the artic.e. Much indignation is felt
upon the real or supposed perpetrators
of these crimes. Two were hung, one of
them being the captain of the refractory
vember contains the following telegram I “l^XTS^miSemom ' nl
from Waahmfrtnn. tbn Rlafnlr. I ”*■ unsuccessful attempt was made to
from Washington, the 31st ult:
bullock’s resignation.
j capture the county Treasurer, who has
Thomas A. Scott
“Great Scott.”
for President.
“Depart ye accursed.”—McDuf
fie Journal.
“Just aswe anticipated.”—Colum
bus Sun.
Conley is conducting a guberna
torial syndicate.
MAYOR'S COURT.
Five and Costs ” in. tlie Ascendancy.
We are firmly satisfied that the guerilla
warfare, so long waged by His Satanic
Majesty against his disaffected allies in
Atlanta, is on the wane. Ambuscades of
“Ten and Costs,” and “Five and Costs,”
have kept up such murderous cross-fire,
that His Majesty’s hosts, fearfully re
duced, threaten to disband and flee in
tumultuous confusion. May whisky go
with them!
JOHN MTT.T.m
could not speak English worth a cent;
consequently, when he was charged with
disorderly conduct, quarreling, Ac., he
had to employ an interpreter to say,
“guilty.” He contributed §5 for this
introductory lesson in English. Er
spreche Deutsche am besten.
JAMES MAXWELL
did not claim, as one of his ancestors,
they are, unquestionably, in every State peacb “ ent and criminal prosecutions for
nf+boTTnioJ xi ° very t,tate I swindling and embezzlement which are
oi tlie Union) was there any such organ- now pending against this official. It is
lzed band of resistance to the execution
cf legal process by the proper authorities
in the county of York, and the others
named in the Proclamation, which justi
fied the suspension of the writ of Habeas
Corpus, even under the Ku-Klux bill?
This is the point Mr. Wilson makes,
and we submit his statement to the
The Georgia State officials have sent siuce been found to be a defaulter to a
several telegrams to parties in the city I considerable amount. All of these trans-
to-day relative to the late resignation of actions occurred in the months of Febru-
Governor Bullock, which state that this | ary^and March,
resignation is regarded as a piece of
sharp practice, to stop charges of im-
proposed to issue warrants immediately
ior J
bollock’s arrest.
This individual is now supposed to be j others iii tneir
in New York, making arrangements*to | citement quieted
leave the country. It is estimated that
The Governor of the State acknowl
edged that the lawlessness then preva
lent, of course including that in York
was owing to the inefficient manner in
which the laws had been executed. He
promised a more vigorous prosecution
and punishment of crimirals, removed
certain county officials, and appointed
o ■... .. stead. Public
B Hi down,
ceased, and
ex-
incendiarism
xcavc iub cuunrry. At is estimated that oeaseu, ana no more acts of lynch
Bullock has realized about a million dol- law have since occurred, unless two or
lars from his Georgia operations. His th *ee cases of assault and battery which
visit tojlus city was to confer with Sec- " wer e presented by the Grand .Tn«
_ , _ with Sec
retary Delano and Senator Cameron re
eration.
A. H. S.
friends of Constitutional Liberty every lative to the late lease of the State Rail-
where, for their most patriotic, consid-1 ro ™"
The Washington Chronicle of the 31st
says:
Great excitement prevails in Georgia
over the resignation of Governor Bul-
mat ter how the resignation
should be interpreted, it remains that it
will certainly be interpreted in only one
way, and that one unfavorable to Gov
ernor Bollock on account of the recent
charges made against him. But he may
have his say speedily. We would not
prejudge.
Cau there be a Special Election
for Governor 1
Day before yesterday *the New Era had
an editorial article presenting what its
author, no doubt, regarded as an insu
perable difficulty in the way of the Leg
islature providing a successor to Gov.
Bullock, because the Constitution re
quires that the returns of the election for a
Governor shall be handed to the Legisla
ture at its next meeting after such elec
tion, the day after the two Houses shall
have organized, Ac.
The following very clear and satisfac
tory exposition of the Constitution on
this question, shows how stupid the wri
ter of that article in the Era was, who is
so much pleased with it, that it was re
produced as the leading editorial in that
paper yesterday. We lay it before our
readers elsewhere to-day, that they may
judge of its merits after reading the fol
lowing from our correspondent:
Editors of the Atlanta Daily Sun.- You
will please allow space in your paper to
notice an article in yesterday’s Era,
headed “TheVacant Chair of State—
Can There Be a Special Election ?”
which article also please insert with this
reply to it.
The second clause of the second Sec
tion of Article IV of the Constitution of
Georgia provides that “ The returns for
e 7 e J7 1 electl ,°° of Governor, after the first,
shall be sealed up by the managers, sepa
rately from ouher returns, and directed
to Me President of the Senate and
Speaker of the House of Kepresentatives.
and transmitted to His Excellency the
Governor, or the person exercising the
duties of Governor for the time being,
who shah, without opening the said re
turn, cause the same to be laid before the
Senate, on the day after the two Houses
Erom the Atlanta New Era, 2d instant.
Tlae Vacant Chair of State—-Can
there be a Special Election?
The Constitution of the State of Geor
gia provides [Art. IV] that “in case of the
death, resignation, or disability of the
Governor, the President of the Senate
shall exercise the Executive powers of
the Government until such disability be
removed, or a successor is elected and
qualified.” The same article provides
that “the General Assembly shall have
power to provide by law for filling unex
pired terms by a special election. ”
The manner prescribed for the election
of Governor, set forth in the second sec
tion of the IVth Article, is that “After
the first election” [under the New Con
stitution, the election of 1868, for in
stance,] “the Governor shall be elected
quadrennially * * * on the Tues
day after the first Monday in November,
[unless the time is otherwise altered by
law], which election shall be held at the
places of holding general elections in the
several counties of this State, in the same
manner as is prescribed for the election
of members of the General Assembly.”
This is all plain sailing so far. * The
General Assembly can order a "special
election to fill the nnexpired term of
Goy® f aor Bullock. But just here arises
a difficulty that will apply in the present
emergency. We allude to the second
clause of the second section of Article
iy, which provides that: “The returns
of every election of Governor, after the
first, shafl be sealed up by the Managers,
separately from other returns, and dlrec-
were presented by the Grand Jury at the
July term of court may, upon trial,
prove to be such. No sufficient evidence
was before the jury, of the assembling
of armed and masked bands at night!
such as the Kuklux act forbids, although
they spent several days in the investiga
tion of rumors brought to their notice.
Ihe indictments mentioned were found
on evidence produced by Hon. A. S
Wallace, member of Congress for the
district, and Col. Merrill, commandant
of the post at Yorkville. These gentle
men were summoned before the iurv
(composed, of blacks and whites), be
cause they were referred to by Senator
Scott, iu his published letter, his au
thonty for the assertion that numerous
violatiousot the Kukluxacthad occS
m York county since the Congressional
investigating committee had visited
Y^kviUe a lew weeks previous.
uutil Senator Scott published his letter
to? le § ed Senator Scott’s let-
th it > he Pres L ldeufc ’ s Proclamation,
that lesistauce to the constituted author
ing 1S ! ne 01 the rea sons for superseding
the civil power So far as York county
The Sheriff of tlie county has never
failed to arrest any man for whom he had
a warrant, when he was in reach, and he
is able to arrest any one to-day. ’ No ca'-p
of resistance to lawful authority, by two
or more citizens of York county, com?
brned together for that pmpose, is known.
I defy successful contradiction, and refer
to the people of the county, of all colors
or parties, for proof of this assertion
t } ie > C0UUty has beea debarred the
^nt oi habeas corpus, and the personal
libertj of its citizens placed at the dis
posal of an authority unknown to the
Constitution of the United States. Sev-
enty-ou« citizens were, at last accounts,
in the county jail, and more are probably
there now, for every man in the county
is liable to the same treatment, as also is
ted 1 '^ maa ^ ^ 0tber couut i es so situa-
article.
diet, on the ground that he had been in-
dmted over a year without trial. Argu
ment will be heard on tlie 8th.
John Jackson has been convicted of
uttering counterfeit money
The Long Island Sugar Refmeiy is em-
barassed by an excessive stock of molas
ses, purchased at prices higher than are
now current, by one of its officers who is
missing though not suspected of being
a defaulter. The liabilities of tho con
cern are said to be §725,00, and its sup
pression is feared. v
!mmbi!°'‘ lay ' MIl ° S ° ne ““' :l s “ l ‘‘“Sa
Cincinnati, Nov. L—Sidney D. Max
well, for many years connected with the
Gazette, has committed suicide.
, , has resigned as superin-
tendent of the Chamber of Commerce.
a November 1.—Pension
of E lM,00°0 ‘ , '“ Sb “ n b ““ ia sum
City Treasurer Mercer has been ar
rested on the charge of defalcation.
Little Rock, November 1.—Some
movers, entente from Georgia to Texas,
passed through here yesterday, accom
panied by some negroes raised with the
famdy and following them from choice.
About 200 negroes surrounded the wag
ons and took the negroes by force.—
whites mdlgaafcion ia f olt among the
Charleston, November 1.—The new
Reform City Government, elected last
August by a combination of thesubstan-
tial citizens of all classes and parties, was
instituted into office to-day. Mayor
\v agner will at once inaugurate import
ant measures of municipal reform. There
is great rejoicing in the community in
consequence of the change.
• deaths have been reported
in the last 24 hours.
, I^ UN i svri ? K ’ New Jersey, Novem-
j- . The track of the North Hudson
Compan y s Railroad was torn up in
Hoboken, to-day, by the city authorities,
in consequence of a disagreement in re-
£>aril to tiie rights of each.
Washington, November 1.—It was sta-
ea to-day, by a high Executive official,
tiiat it was probable that the Ku-Klux
prisoners, with the exception of some of
the most prominent of them, would be
admitted to bail.
Captain G. A. Magrader, of tlie Uni-
ted States Jiavy, died in Paris.
Omery, who gave way for Stokes, has
been re-appointed Supervisor of Revenue
for Tennessee.
Grant offers his interest in the the
Seneca utone Company for sale.
CoL Robb, collector of customs at Sa
vannah, has gone home, with high as
surances that he will not be disturbed.
BHY- When Judge McKean pronounced
the sentence of the Mormon, Hawkins,
he commenced by saying, “Thomas
Hawkins, I am sorry for you, very sorry;”
but, when he read out the “three years
at hard labor,” Hawkins concluded that
the Judge was not half so sorry as he
pretended to be.
The Mississippi Eilol says “ the
Republicans should have one or two
tried men in each beat on election day.”
ic is oarely possible that if the Republi
cans were tried, most of them would find
their beats, on election day, inside the
walls of some well-regulated penitentiary.
* «-
E2Y. The President has appointed the
30th of this month ad a day of thanks
giving. Several State Governors have
named the same day. The same or some
odier day ought to be nominated for
Georgia—as the people, no doubt, desire
lo make a general demonstration of
thanks for tlieii* relief from Bullock*
