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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN.
THE DAILY
Wednesday Morning..
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I Caligula and Galbu !
We have been led into this train of
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its from the
. .November 8
——————) thought by events of a startling and ap
palling character, now transpiring in a
_ remote State of the Union.
Header, have you ever thought by what
~ . a slender tenure you hold your personal
\S o ask the special addition of oar \ liberty? If a reckless and unprincipled
readers to day, to t
columns, entitled resp
in New Hampshire,
Maine. Let no ope h
their perusal by their length. These
are times when men who would preserve
their liberties, must understand. Free
Government can only lie maintained by
the Intelligence, Virtue and Patriotism
of the people. When bad men conspire
against liberty, good men must unite
everywhere in its support, not by vio
lence, but by a resort to those Constitu
tional instrumentalities which cannot
fail of ultimate success, if properly un
derstood and inflexibly applied on every
occasion. We firmly believe that an over
whelming majority of the Peoples of the
United States are devotedly attached to
the Institutions of their ancestors. All
that is needed for a rescue and preserva
tion of those Institutions is, united ac
tion upon the principles on which they
are based. A. H. S.
rticles in our officer, armed with a badge of executive
:tivelv, Politics authority, seizes you in your counting-
room, your field or your bed, and vio-
u * | lently hurries you awayand thrusts you
deterred from •- - * • -—
POLITICS
IN NEW
SHIRE. .
IJAMP-
rrom too Concord Patriot, 20to Oct, 1871.
New Hampshire Democracy.
Wo do not desire to intimate that the
Granite State Democracy have any pecu
liar patent-right political creed to which
the other free and sovereign States of the'
Union have no proper title or claim; but
we do wish to allege, distinctly, that the
worst place in all the broad domain of
the United States, for the introduction
of innovations and pestilent shams, is
the strong, stubborn soil of our Granite
Hills. The very air we breathe begets a
sternness of purpose that is marked and
peculiar; and it would be blind and false
logic that would argue that because some
/things may succeed in other sectiors of
'Oirr common country, they would there-
t fore <be successful in New Hampshire.
.‘No better illustration of the unique and
.heroic firmness of Democratic yeomanry
of our State, is needed than the glori
ous record which they have made, year
after year, through darkness and de
feat, sustained and cheered by
the abiding conviction that Truth
and Bight must in the end prevail.
-■'< iSvcn our political opponents have stood
*- conform' ; ed before the grand spectacle of
Democi:..tic devotion to principle, which,
^through fifteen long, weary years, com
manded the respect of all men, and made
tho Granite Democracy famous. No
man was so prejudiced or so unreflecting
as not to see that their ultimate triumph
was simply a question of time. But no
part of that glorious and enviable repu
tation was gained by sordid and corrupt
conditions with spoils-hunting factions.
The respect, the confidence which that
unswerving and glorious record had
gained for the Democracy was all their
own. It was not, it could not be, divi
ded among the dealers in small “loaves”
and smaller “fishes.” It was the herit
age of the sterling Democracy and of
tho people. And now, if in an evil honr
it shonld be found that the leaders of the
once enviable Democracy have stood si
lently or approvingly and seen miserable
soldiers of fortune, or false professors of
reform, qjevnted to tho highest offices,
let those leaders pause and trem
ble ; for the rank and file of the
/ Granite Democracy are not with them in
this work of fonl demoralization.
No gain, in reputation or in power
can ever come to the Democracy from
coalitions with fragmentary and unprin
cipled factions. Disaster, contamination,
ruin, certainly postponed victory, must
be invariably the sad result in every in
stance of corrupt or selfish amalgama
tion.
That any pretended fragments of dis
content, from the two great political par
ties in this country can ever assume and
maintain a permanent existence, is sim
ply the pretended belief of knaves, or
the sincere conviction of ninnies. No
such faction can ever perform, thank
God! the more than Herculean task of
gobbling up the time-honored Demo
cratic party; nor should any such fac
tions, under the mere delusive cry and
catchwords of “reform,” be permitted to
mislead a single Democrat who values
his honor and his reputation.
If real reforms are ever accomplished,
it will be, we sincerely believe, by the
great Democratic party, purged of its
dead weight and its dross. And this is
the belief of a-large majority of tbe hon
est people of' New Hampshire to-day.—
No surrender of stern principle will ever
bring a single convert to our staudard;
but if f.uch should be attempted, would
repel them in disgust. Honesty, integ
rity, firmness and perseverance, these
are the virtues which the Democracy
must exhibit if they would unite a glori
ous future to a glorious past.
Small schemes, of politic ehieanry will
always justly strike their pompous in
ventors square in the face. And that the
Democracy of New Hampshire may be
saved further the terrible humiliation of
having any part or lot in snch unmanly
and undemocratic proceedings, is the
solemn prayer of Junius.
Politics injgMaine.
From toe (Bangor) Democrat, 2d Nov., 1871.
Whitlicr Are Wo Drifting ?
"Ill fares too land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay."
“ This is too moral of all human talos;
’Xis bnt toe samo rehearsal of the past;
F’irjt freedom, and then glory—when that fails,
Wealth, vice, corruption barbarism at last-,
And history, with all its volumes vast,
Hath bnt one page.”
Are the American People entirely given
•over to the pursuit of wealth ? Has the
low greed of gain become stronger than
all higher and nobler desires ? Hath the
din of the mart, or the ring of the money
changer’s table, so fascinating a sound,
that the crash of the falling pillars of
the Temple of Liberty cannot penetrate
the ear ?
The mad pursuit of wealth, immorali
ty and crime, utter disregard of personal
liberty, vast accumulation of the public
domain in rapacious bauds, whilst usurpa
tion of power advanced unopposed, were
the preludes of tho swift passage
of tho Bomnn Empire from the
calm repose of the Augustan age,
to all the horrible and revolting
scenes—-the conspiracies, the assassina
tions, the massacres, lust, debauchery and
in a dungeon—have you ever considered
by what means you would recover your
liberty? There was a time once, in France,
when such means did not exist. Under
shadow of executive authority, innocent
men, by scores and by hundreds, went
down into tbe dungeons of the Hostile,
and never saw the light of day again.
But at last, after long, weary years of
despotism had rolled away, a means of
deliverance came—a temble means! It
came in the form of the BEVOLUTION 1
—a revolution of blood and of horrors
such as the world had never before, and
has never since, known. The heads of a
King and of a lovely Queen rolled from
the block, and tens of thousands of necks
were brought under the bloody knife of
the guillotine.
In England, too, there was a time once,
when personal liberty had no other se
curity than the caprice of an officer of
the crown. But at last a means of deliv
erance from unjust restraint and unwar
rantable imprisonment came at an earlier
day and in a milder and more enduring
form than in France.
More than seven centuries ago, the
Barons of England assembled on the
green sward of Runnymede, on the banks
of the Thames, with drawn swords in
their hands, compelled their treacherous
King John to sign magna charta, which
contained these words:
“No MAN SHALL BE TAKEN OB IMPRIS
ONED BUT BY THE LAWFUL JUDGMENT OT
HIS PEERS, OB BY THE LAW OP THE LAND.”
It was this clause more than any other
it contained, that gave to magna charta
that grand and high-sounding title—The
Palladium of English Liberty.
Centuries rolled by, and still at inter
vals kings and kingly officers, ever intent
upon the usurpation of power, managed
to evade the clause, and to imprison
without trial and without law. ^Jdagna
Charta had declared the principle that
personal liberty was beyond the caprice
and malice of the executive, but it had
not provided a means for the protection of
the right.
It was not until nearly two hundred
years ago—until the year 1679—that a
statute was enacted which forever placed
the liberty of the person beyond the
power of the King. To that act was
given the name of HABEAS COBPUS.
Header, it is to the principles of this
act, re-enacted in all the States of the
American Union, that you owe the secu
rity of your personal liberty against all
official usurpation, and against all wrong
ful restraint whatever.
And what is this Habeas Corpus which
is so powerful to protect the liberty of
the citizens against all wrongful exercise
of power? ,7/
We will explain by an illustration:
Let us suppose that an officer invades
your home, seizes you, and hurries you
away to the strong jail in Penobscot
county. He delivers you over to the
jailor who thrusts you into a cell. You
protest against the outrage; but the offi
cer is deaf to all your protests. Friends
pass along the corridors of the prison,
and you appeal to them for help; but
they cannot aid you. Whence is relief
to come ? Through Habeas Corpus, and
Habeas Corpus alone!
You have a friend. It may be your
wife. She knows the wrong you are
suffering. She goes to any Judge of the
Supreme Court. She tells him that you
are wrongfully restrained of your liberty.
She demands of him a writ of Habeas
Corpus. He cannot, he dare not refuse
it. The law compels him to grant it.
Now what is this writ of Habeas Cor
pus ? It is a writ directed to the Sheriff
commanding him to bring before the
Judge {tit habeas corpus) your body. This
writ the Sheriff mubt obey. If prison
walls and prison bars stand between him
and yon, he must break them down. The
command of that writ must be executed,
even if tho whole power of the State is
required to enforc". it. You must be
taken out of that cell and brought before
that Judge, to the end that all tho world
may know why you have been restrained
of your liberty. If, upon examination,
the Judge finds that you are wrongfully,
and not lawfully, restrained of your lib
erty, he bids you go free.
Such is this great writ of personal lib
erty, Habeas Corpus. It penetrates
every room, every den, every cavern,
every prison, every cell, every dungeon,
everywhere, in fine, where a citizen, old
or young, may be wrongfully restrained
of his freedom. Is it not a glorious heri
tage ? Is it not worthy of all regard ?
Is not its pre.~>crvation worthy of every
effort and every sacrifice ? Should not
the Constitution of both the Union and
the State guard and protect it ? It is the
citizen's shield against the usurpation of
those whom we are obliged to entrust with
power.
How carefully our Constitutions have
guarded it V Both the Constitution of
the United States and the Constitution
of Maine says
“The privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus shall not be suspended, unless when
in cases of rebellion or invasion the pub
lic safety may require it.”
In cases of rebellion and invasion the
writ maybe suspended. But by whom ?
Not by the President or the Governor ;
for that would be placing the liberty of
the citizen at the mercy of the very exec
utive authority against the wrongful ex
ercise of which it is created as a protec
tion; but by Congress or the Legislature.
Tiey are the sole judges whether the pub
lic safety requires its suspension. It is
a power that they may eSercise, but
they cannot delegate it. In that, the
Kuklux law delegates to the President,
not only the power to suspend habeas
corpus, but to determine Hie necessity
for it, it is a plain and palpable viola
tion of both tbe spirit and letter of the
tion of law. He has given over nearly
two hundred thousand people, men,
women and children, to the unrestrained
license of a brutal soldiery, of thieves,
plunderers and robbers.
Already the telegraph begins to tell the
tale of suffering, misery and distress that
prevail throughout those afflicted coun
ties. Innocent men, by< scores and by
hundreds, have already been seized and
flung into prisons and dungeons and
compelled to herd with loathsome ne
groes imprisoned for murder, rape, rob
bery and theft. All business is suspen
ded; crops are left unharvested; property
is given over to negro and carpetbag pil
lage, and citizens are fleeing into adjoin
ing States by thousands, to escape the
walls of prisons from which there is no
hope of deliverance.
And when and where is this thing to
end ? Is it to stop with nine counties in
South Carolina ? or is it to pursue those
fleeing citizens wherever they have gone,
and the limits within which habeas cor
pus is suspended, shall embrace sixteen
States, and the whole South be once
more declared in insurrection ahd rebel
lion ?
Trying to Keep Tilings Shady.
A heavy and persistent effort has been,
and is being, made by various interested
parties’ to stave off, postpone, smother
up and forever prevent, Investigation
into their official conduct, and connec
tion with schemes, enterprises, rings and
plunderings. They raise raw head and
bloody bones stories, suggest suspicions
and surmises, and try to excite fears.—
They want nothing investigated by honest
and competent men. There are parties
whom the public do not suspect, who are
exerting all their powers, in every way
they deem prudent, to keep down inves
tigation. Some men have been remotely
connected with the rings, on the sly, and
have made money or obtained advan
tages, the particulars of wuich they do
not want to see the light of day, and to
whom public attention has never yet been
directed in connection with such matters.
They are opposed to investigation. They
favor every measure but the one likely to
bring put the whole truth—any thing that
will not likely rip up the whole matter,
root and branch.
THE CAPITOL.
The Senate has passed a bill repealing
the usury laws of the State. The bill
permits the collection of whatever rate of
interest maybe “nominated in the bond,”
and where no rate is . named, the old
seven per cent, prevails. This, if it
shonld find favor with the House and
meet with no unfavorable treatment in
Executive quarters, will make money an
article of merchandise, and give the
money-lender the same opportunity that
the merchant has. A merchant is per
mitted to make and collect by law his
twenty-five, or more, per cent., while he
who has the money to loan takes all the
risks taken by a merchant, and is allowed
to collect by due process of law, not ex
ceeding seven per cent. This seems to
be a discrimination against the money
lender.
It is claimed, however, that the usury
laws are necessary for the protection o
debtors. As a- general thing a man’s
intelligence is his best protector, and if
he agrees to pay ten per cent, for the use
of money, he does so believing that the
money is worth that to hinn If he is
mistaken, it is his own fault, and his mis
take ought not to absolve him from lia
bility for his part of the contract.
Money, like any other article of mer
chandise, will bring what it is worth and
no more. The market will very soon
regulate itself, by the rule of supply and
demand, just as the ba ion or cotton mar
ket does. Therefore we do not see how
the debtor is wronged by the provisions of
this bill. The proposed law does not raise
the rate of interest, in contracts already
made, hence present debtors are not
wronged; and men who, after its enact
ment, may become debtors, do so with a
full knowledge of the risk he assumes,
and ought to be held responsible, just as
the man is who buys a bill of goods on
time, with a perfect understanding that
he is paying twenty-five per cent more
than the goods cost the merchant. There
is some equity to be regarded, even in
the enactment of laws regulating dealers
in money.
Constitution, and unauthoritative, null
and void.
Well, right in the face and eyes of all
this history, and all these facts, Ulysses
S. Grant, President of the United States,
has done what no king, what no queen,
what no regent of England has dared to do
for two hundred years. In violation of the
Constitution, and in violation of all law,
he has suspended the writ of habeas
corpus in nine counties of South Caro
lina, and, by one stroke of his pen, he
has deprived a population larger than in
habits all that great part of the State of
Sbiine which lies east of the Penobscot
river, of all the guaranties and protec-
“Out of TUeir Own Mouths,” &c.
The New Era of yesterday morning
has the following item, credited to the
Savannah News. The matter escaped
our notice in the News:
We are permitted to make the follow
ing extract from a private letter from
Mobley’s Pond, Screven county. The
trouble*occurred in Burke county:
“There is quite a panic above here
among the negroes. The veritable Ku
klux appeared about six miles from this
place, at Oliver’s Mill, and shot five balls
through Bice Heath, a negro, who was
living in adultery with a white woman
named Griffin. They then strapped the
woman across a log and whipped her so
severely that she could not sit up yes
terday. They treated another negro
(George Nessmitb) likewise, and went up
near Ellison’s Landing (lime works),
killed another negro by shooting him,
and took another off, who has not been
heard of since. All this occurred last
Wednesday night. They stopped at
Brigham’s store, bought whisky, and, in
answer to the question by Brigham where
they were from, replied, ‘Hell! and we
must be back before day. ’ Some of them
were not disguised, but were perfect
strangers to Brigham.
Such outrageous conduct as this seems
to us to be ruffianism, pure and simple.
Hardly any provocation can be held up
as an excuse for such flagrant rowdyism,
and we trust (hat the good people of
Burke will lose no time in bringing the
offenders to justice. Besides breeding
local strife and dissension, such outrages
bring punishment and oppression upon
the innocent people in the shape of
Federal satraps and martial law. Law
lessness of this sort is always condemned
by good citizens, and should, under no
circumstances, be tolerated.
We copy the above article at this late
day, for two purposes. One is to rebuke
the sinister manner in which the Era
nses the matter to rebut the declaration
that there is no political disorder in this
State, and the other is to indorse what
the Savannah News says in the last para
graph of the article. There is no doubt
but that the Era meant harm by the
manner in which the item was produced
in its editorial columns. It meant to
create an impression that a state of af
fairs exists, which is lawless and disor
derly, and by no means creditable to the
people of Grorgia. It does not say so,
in so many words, but that is the infer
ence the reader draws.
While we admit that there are cases
of lawlessness in Georgia, as there are in
every other State of the Union, we still
deny that there is any considerable band
of flawless men, organized for polit
ical purposes, anywhere in the State*,
There have been instances in which men
have brutally taken the law into their
own hands, as above cited, and no one
one would rejoice more than we if all
such could be detected and visited with
the severe and just penalty of the law
which they violate. We have no sympa
thy with villains who thus set tho law at
defiance, and would not lift a hand to
save one of them from the punishment
which he merits. On the contrary, we
would be glad if some of the wretches
could be captured and examples made of
them to"deter others from similar acts of
lawlessness.
But the Era knows very well that the
people of Georgia do not sanction the
commission of any of these outrages any
more than the people of Indiana sanction
the attempt made the other day to take
a criminal from the Jeffersonville jail and
hang him without trial; or any more than
the people of Illinois sanction the horri
ble villainy that spread the flames
throughout Chicago. The men who do
these deeds are monsters,* who do not
represent our politics or our society, and
the majority of Georgia Democrats would
be gratified if some of them were caught,
tried, convicted and hanged.
A. few days ago the Memphis Avalanche
said, “That a few Southern Conservative
Journals indorse the proposition for the
Democracy to put forward no candidate
in 1872,” &c. The Sun asked the Ava
lanche to “inform the public whether any
Southern Democratic journals, either
‘half-way’ or wholly indorse the propo
sition.” The Avalanche fails to name
any such papers, but says “The Sun’s
distinctions are too fine.” It then goes
onto say: “but The Sun speaks of a
‘Southern Democracy.’” The‘Sun did
pothiDg of the kind. It spoke of
Southern Democratic journals;” suppo
sing the Avalanche would have intelli
gence enough to know, and honesty
enough to admit that The Sun had ref
erence to those papers- published in the
South which are advocates of democratic
sentiment. The Sun knows but one
Democracy, and repudiates all others.—
It repudiated the “New Departure” be
cause it was spurious and false. The De
mocracy advocated by The Sun is the
same in Maine and in California; the
same in Oregon and Florida; the same
in Massachusetts and South Carolina;
the same in Tennessee and Georgia;
the same in Memphis and Atlanta;
the same in the days of Jeflerson
and in our unfortunate day of the Chris
tian era. There can he no change in it,
because, changed, it would no longer be
Democracy. The “New Departure”
is not Democracy, and it perished.
Democracy cannot be “passive,” so
that movement can never have life. De
mocracy is the bone and sinew of the
theory of ;American Government. It
must be kept active or it will weaken and
the Government will fail. It is not
cramped to the harrow wishes of a lo
cality or a State. It is as broad as the
Union, as true as truth, as spotless aS a
virgin. It is a revelation from which
nothing can be taken and to . which
nothing may be added. It is all suffi
cient. It needs no intrigue to cozzen
people into its support. It meet3 every
want; gratifies every ambition; protects
every right; avenges every wrong; advan
ces every interest; encourages every in
dustry; fosters an enduring patriotism;
teaches a veneration for “the old flag;’
buildsLup and pulls .not down; in shbrt,
makes the Government one that the peo
pie can venerate and npon which they
can rely for protection from'aggressions
from without and oppressions from with
in. This is Democracy—it is “ Southern
Democracy,” if the Avalanche will have
it so—yet it is what we conceive Democ
racy to be in New ’England, in tho West
and all over this broad country.
SUN-STROKES.
Mrs. Fair has been refused a new
trial. The Court probably held that she
has had a Fair trial.
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The New York Tribune gives the
Times the lie eight times in one-fourth of
a column. How delightful it is for
brethren to dwell together in harmony.
“Is freedom only a name ?”. asks
the New York Times. In certain South
Carolina counties the name, even, threat
ens to become extinct.
MAYOR’S COURT.
His Honor examined eyery crevice and
corner of the City Hall yesterday for
some culprit or unfortunate offender out
of which to extort, as the penalty of his
sins, some slight contribution to the city
coffers. But not one was to be found,
and His Honor returned to his pleadings
disconsolate.
True Bills.
The Grand Jury yesterday found true
bills of indictment against J. C. Alexan
der, Joseph Fry, James Mullin and N.
P. Hotchkiss, charged with cheating and
swindling in connection with the State
Boad affair.
What a ridiculous idea, that General
Grant will declare martial law and put
the State of Georgia under a military
Governor, because Bullock has run away
to escape the punishment of his crimes,
and is afraid to face the people of Geor
gia; yet some interested parties are ad
vancing that idea, and act as though
they expected U3> to believe there was
something in it. They had better exer
cise their brains, wind and muscle in pro
curing an honest living for themselves.
NotEnongh.
O&e of the sable Representatives of the
House was overheard yesterday afternoon
to utter an humble protest against the
motion offered some days since to reduce
the per diem of the: legislators. Nine
dollars,, he thought, was barely a suffi
cient compensation for the cares, anxie
ties and momentous responsibilities that
weighed so heavily on the afflicted mem
bers from day to day.
Scooting, Affray Between' two Negroes.
Yesterday evening quite an exciting
affair occurred at Col. Rush Irwin’s brick
yard, near West End. Ife seems that a
negro named Wm. Clark had been 'em
ployed at the yard, and for some reason
was discharged and anothernegro, named
Andrew Bryant, had the situation. Clark
came to the yard about 10 o’clock yester
day in auger and shot at Bryant, the ball
taking effect in the thigh, inflicting a
very painful wound, which, however, is
not considered dangerous- The ball was
taken out by deep "cutting. Clark made
his escape and is at large.
TELEGRAMS.
Savannah, November 7.—The Daily
Republican was sold by the Sheriff to
day, and purchased by W- A. Beid, late
of the Macon Telegraph. The establish
ment will be immediately refitted.
St. Louis, November 7.—A den of
counterfeiters, near Kansas City, have
been captured. A, number, including
Josiah D. Myer r leader of the gabg, were
arrested. Myez escaped while the offi
cers were examining the house. A large
amount of material and machinery were
captured.
A negro who attempted to outrage a
white woman, near Musor, Missouri, was
hanged by the citizens.
Houston, November. 7.—The lower
House of the Legislature has adopted a
resolution, by a vote of 44 to 33, con
demning the action of the Governor in
declaring martial law in Freestone and
Limestone counties, as unnecessary to
the ends of justice, as the courts were
unmolested in their proper jurisdiction.
The Governor is requested and instruct
ed to restore civil rights to said counties
and withdraw armed forces therefrom.
Dunn Campbell Lieutenant-Governor,
is dead.
Boston, November 8.—Frank Wins
low, of the Boston Journal, while waiting
for one train was struck by another and
killed.
It is stated that the Hide and Leather
Insurance Company will pay 50 per cent,
and wind up. Its Chicago losses amount
to $720,000. The New England Insur-
New Orleans, November 8.—The new
and commodious buildings for the Lou
isiana State Fair have been completed
and will be opened for the reception of
articles on the 13th instant. The Fair
will begin on the 18th.
Rockland, November 8.—Two inches
of snow has fallen here—the first of the
season. .
Washington, November 8.—An order
will issue from the War Department,
probably to-morrow, placing the Indians
of Arizona under the direct charge of
Gen. Scofield. Instructions will be giv
en to bring them all in upon the reserva
tion and keep them there, where they
will be fully protected in all their rights
by this government; and if they leave to
go upon the war-path they will be pun
ished. .
For the information of counsel it
should be stated that all cases con tinned
at this term of the Supreme Court after
Monday next will be put at the foot of
the calendar next term, unless otherwise
specially ordered by the Court. This
will put all cases continued over for at
least two years.
Benjamin B. Curtis has not yet accept
ed the associate counselship before the
Geneva arbitration.
The President and Secretary of War
have decided to eject squatters from the
Osage lands, unless they remove in com
pliance with a notice from the Secretary
of War.
General Walker, Commissioner of the
Census, will accept the Indian Commis-
sionership if Congress raises the salary.
John JL. Bell, Esq.
“Acting-Governor Conley” has is
sued a proclamation naming the 30th of
the present month a day of thanksgiving.
Certainly the people of Georgia have
reason for thankfulness.
We had the pleasure of meeting with
this gentleman in our office yesterday—
just from Hillsboro, in Texas, where he
resides and has resided for years. He is
a sterling Democrat of the old faith, who
adheres still to the old Jeffersonian prin
ciples. He was born and brought np in
Northeast Georgia, in what is now Banks
county, and is a brother of Madison
Bell, the Comptroller General.
He gives a bad account of the villain
ous doings of the Radical Governor.of
Texas, whose high-handed usurpations
and lawless conduct have been oppres
sive and tyrannical beyond conception.
< STATE MATTERS.
Miss Lizzie Eldridgo is plavino-
Savannah folks. p ^ ln 2 for
. One hundred and fifty immigrants
nved at Savannah Sunday night
The Savannah Ite of Monday sav*.
The rolling stock of the Brunswick
Albany Railroad has been released. ]>
will be remembered that this stock wo
seized by the employees of the road
account of the money due them undoi-
the management of H. I. Kimball
peinntendent Hrines, of the Atlanticand
Gulf Railroad, has made arrangemonf-
to run trams three times a week to Alp!
bady and Brunswick in connection wini
the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, andlfc S
probable that the arrangement will o!
into operation this week. By the
of the former management to nJet Tfe
obligations, a large number of empb ve f
have been out of work, and hS?2
been paid off for months. Te rele** X
the rolling stock, and tho arrangemen
by which trains may again be ran, will *
no doubt, be a matter of congratulation *
among travelers and business men.
Four hundred men think they will be
able to get the Savannah Fair Grounds
ready m time. U<J3
^'J^ropskire has retired from the
Macon Citizen. Dr. James A. Damonr
is announced as editor. Jno. D. Floyd’s,
name has disappeared. J "
gRSSSj'&l”-
Mrs. Elizabeth Stillwell, of Spaldin"
county, has just entered her ninety-
ninth year. J
The Houston Home Journal says: Wm.
W. Wagnon, Jr., of this county, aged
seventeen years, with the occasionalas-
sistance of a negro boy, produced the
following crop this year, on the common
pine uplands near Byron: 480 bushels
of com, valued at $480; 4,500 pounds of
fodder, valued at $56 25; 100 bushels of
peas, valned at $125; 4 bales of cotton
ualued_ at $315. Total value of crop*
$976 25i In addition to the foregoing’
young Wagnon cultivated a large vege
table garden.
Murder neae Montezuma,—We heard
yesterday the particulars of a most bru
tal and cold blooded murder which oc
curred near Montezuma a few days ago.
A Mr. Scott had been to Moutezumaand
gotten brutally drunk. In the afternoon,
as he was returning home in his wagon,
he met a negro man and woman going to
a field in which they were employed
picking cotton. Without any provoca
tion whatever, he cocked his pistol, which
was already in his hand, and fired it off
toward the negroes. The ball passed
through the bowels of the negro woman,
inflicting a fatal wound from which she
died in a few hours. The negro man
(her husband) cameimroediately to town
and had a warrant taken out for Scott
He was arrested by the Sheriff, and so
great was the feeling of iudignation
among both, white and black, that a guard
had to be placed over him during the
night to prevent his being lynched. A
preliminary trial was had the day follow
ing, and he was committed to jail to
await trial at the Superior Court Scott
avowed an entire ignorance of the oc
currence, of which none who saw him
when he left town had any doubt
The above we find in the Macon Tele
graph of Tuesday. It is a sad occur
rence, and one that all good people
should deplore, both be’eause of the
atrocity of the crime—for which whisky
is no palliation or excuse—and because
of the almost absolute certainty that it
is to be distorted, by the enemies of
Georgia, into another Kuklux outrage.
The people were justy indignant toward
the murderer, but it is well that their
purpose to- execute summary revenge
was restrained. It would have only in
creased the harm likely to grow out of
the affair. Since Scott is in custody, let
him be tried and punished as the law di
rects.
The Cartersville Semi-Weekly Stand
ard and Express comes “jist a-booming.”
Bartow farmers are sowing wheat.
Says the Cartersville Express: A white
man, in a state of intoxication, was run
over and killed by a train of cars on the
Cherokee Railroad, just this side of the
Stilesboro Depot, on Friday last His
name was Lovell.
Robins on toast” is a delicacy pecu
liar to Forsyth.
The Monroe Advertiser says: “A.
chicken was killed by a manumitted citi
zen the other day, and when dressed a
pin was found imbedded in its gizzard.
Pin-feathers are all right, but pin-gizzards
are not exactly the thing. 7
Since it got all of these premiums, the
Monroe Advertiser does not say potatoes
any more, but call ’em “tubers.”
Mr. James Williams, of Monroe coun
ty, died last Sunday, aged 102. “Next.”
The Monroe Advertiser of yesterday
says: A cutting affray occurred Saturday
afternoon in front of Mays’ drug store,
between John Cochran and Berry Dew
berry, the former inflicting a severe and
dangerous wound upon the person of the
latter. The knife entered the left side,
severing an artery. This it was thought
at the time would prove fatal, but we were
£ leased to learn yesterday afternoon that
[r. D. was improving, and in a fair way
to recover. The difficulty grew out of
a business transaction, involving the in
significant sum of seventy-five cents.
Mrs. Catharine Douglas, a beautiful
young widow lady of Walker county, was
drowned one day last week while attemp
ting to cross Duck creek in a buggy. Her
young brother, Wm. C. Howell, barely
escaped.
The Superior Court of Bibb county is
adjourned for the week, to allow Judge
Cole an opportunity to answer a subpena
to appear before the Ku-klux Committee.
Hon. Clifford Ancterson has written a
card declining to allow the use of his
his name sis a candidate for Governor.
Even if he were willing to become a can
didate he is not eligible.
When young Savannah men get drunk
they uraudish pistols and knives about
the streets—which the same is dangerous.
The United States Court will meet at
Savannah next Tuesday. Among t“
cases are those against T. E. Robb, Co*-
lector of Customs, and W. KryzauowsKi,
late Revenue Supervisor.
Harris, of the Savannah News is ablaze
with joy. Robinson’s circus will open m
that city to-day. He has bought a P t
I
mat cuy lo-uii). * -
of extra walking shoes for the purpose o
following the band w’agon arounu.
